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25996 Comcast rejects antiwar ad -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >As I said to Liza, professional "pro-choicers" are only "pro-choice" when >people agree with them about abortion. The "pro-choice" Dem party, during >its '92 convention, wouldn't allow Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey to >address the delegates on the abortion issue because he had the wrong >opinion. And to really stick it to Casey, the Dems invited pro-abortion >Repubs to address the delegates instead. > >What's " ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 08:34:47 PST 2003

25997 Powell's speech: a lotta nothing -- rank: 1000

[from yesterday's WH press briefing] Q Does he give new evidence? Does Powell present new evidence next week? MR. FLEISCHER: Again, I think that he will, in effect, connect the dots about what is known.

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 08:23:58 PST 2003

25998 lbo-talk-digest V1 #7333 -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Oooh goody, an abortion flamewar. Doug, you must be pleased. Delighted. Couldn't be happier. After we settle this one, how about: "Resolved: the gulag is the inevitable outcome of Marxism." Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 08:22:13 PST 2003

25999 Comcast rejects antiwar ad -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >We consider it a crime to kill a new-born child. If so, it can't be right >casually to end the life of the same organism several hours earlier. It >takes some effort to believe, as one watches a child be born, that one is >also watching the conferral of full human rights on something that lacked >them entirely shortly before. Shortly? Who advocates aborting 8-month fetuses? Is every sperm sacred too? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 08:20:39 PST 2003

26000 "dollface" and other bad club turns. -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Dear boy -- I'm using Kel's style of language. She uses those types >of words all the time, so I, in the spirit of shoveling and taking, >simply tossed them back. Nothing malicious intended. Indeed, I'm >rather fond of Kel even when she's not so fond of me. > >I certainly hope not all Brit socialists are as tin-eared (eyed) as >you. Where's Alexei Sayle when you need him? You may think this is about a bunch of hidebound old leftists reacting against you ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 30 08:12:46 PST 2003

26001 in the headlines -- rank: 1000

[from the infoshop news list - gotta say this is an impressive litany of bad news] Subject: The continuing slow-motion collapse Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:50:19 -0500 From: "Tom Wheeler" <twbounds at pop.mail.rcn.net> Economic headlines Consumer Confidence in U.S. Declines to a Nine-Year Low Amid Job Concerns - Bloomberg (1/28/2003 3:26 PM) Goldman's Paulson Sees Dim Outlook for 2003 Recovery, May Cut More Jobs - Bloomberg (1/28/2003 3:26 PM) U.S. pension agency loses $8 billion ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 17:21:13 PST 2003

26002 latest Iraq "evidence" a damp squib -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/30-1-19103-23-51-22.html> The Herald (Glasgow) January 30, 2003 More a damp squib than a smoking gun 'New' evidence in Iraqi weapons may not stand up IAN BRUCE AMERICA'S promised "new" intelligence dossier on Iraqi efforts to hide forbidden chemical and biological weapon stockpiles and missile engines is likely to be more of a damp squib than a smoking gun, according to CIA sources. The dossier, due to be presented to the UN security coun ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 16:25:19 PST 2003

26003 new radio product -- rank: 1000

Now up, after just a little delay, in my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: January 23, 2003 William Pepper, author of An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, on the assasination as a joint venture of the U.S. government and the mafia * listener phonecalls This show joins a panoply of delights: January 9, 2003 Ellen Frank (of Emmanuel College and Dollars & Sense) and Max Sawicky (of EPI and Maxspeak.org) on the Bush tax package * journalist Ti ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 16:00:14 PST 2003

26004 name game -- rank: 1000

[from Sex News Daily] >Annals of the Bizarre >The White Lesbian Name Generator > >We suppose this lesbian name generator isn't for people of color. So >all you people of color . . . be respectful now! Make your own >lesbian name generator and get your lesbian name there. OK, all you >white lesbians -- time to throw off the yolk of your penile >oppressor and the penile slave name he gave you and be reborn into >your new, pure, unsullied, white lesbian name. Oh yeah, and ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 14:38:47 PST 2003

26005 Paygaps -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I remember many years ago, anthropologist, Margaret Mead >making the same point concerning helping professions. >As I recall her favorite example was the veterinary profession >in Great Britain, which suffered a decline in status and >pay levels when women began to enter it in significant >numbers. It's also well-established that professions coded as 'caring' pay less than those that don't, because of the feminine connotations. E.g., GPs and shrinks are am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 29 13:54:01 PST 2003

26006 Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: "Empire as a Way of Life" -- rank: 1000

jimmyjames at softhome.net wrote: >scroll down to the end of the post you forwarded to ted and you >forwarded to the list. the evidence has always been there. i spent >the last hour crying because i'd assumed you'd seen this link and >were actually accusing me off hacking the nuance.dhs.org and >squawk.dhs.org servers. > >it's also because i have what has been described as a photographic >memory but is really just a honed set of cognitive skills: once i >read or write ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 13:38:16 PST 2003

26007 FOMC hangs fire -- rank: 1000

[Sanguine about the forthcoming bloodletting, the Fed does nothing. "Balanced" risks is a bit less friendly than one might like to see.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2003/20030129/> Release Date: January 29, 2003 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1-1/4 percent. Oil price premiums and other aspects of geopolitical risks have reportedly fostered continued restra ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 11:37:45 PST 2003

26008 Comcast rejects antiwar ad -- rank: 1000

Anti-War Ads Rejected During Bush Speech Tue Jan 28, 9:42 PM ET By JOHN CURRAN, Associated Press Writer ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The Comcast cable television company rejected ads that an anti-war group wanted to air during President Bush (news - web sites)'s State of the Union speech, saying they included unsubstantiated claims. Peace Action Education Fund had spent $5,000 to have six 30-second ads aired on CNN by Philadelphia-based Comcast beginning Tuesday night. During his speech, Bush was expec ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 10:49:12 PST 2003

26009 Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: "Empire as a Way of Life" -- rank: 1000

jimmyjames at softhome.net wrote: >he did write it and now I'm thoroughly sickened to think y'all >continue to think i wrote it. Yup. Sorry. I forwarded his comment before I realized the true authorship. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 10:50:23 PST 2003

26010 Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: "Empire as a Way of Life" -- rank: 1000

X-From_: tbyfield at panix.com Wed Jan 29 03:04:20 2003 X-Original-To: dhenwood at panix.com Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 03:04:20 -0500 From: t byfield <tbyfield at panix.com> To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: "Empire as a Way of Life" Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i would you mind passing this on to LBO-talk? -t - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - when doug asked me what was up with this i had no idea what he ...

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