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3271 [lbo-talk] have a brush with fame -- rank: 1000

The Jersey Shore house is available for daily rentals! Only $1,800!! http://www.seaside-realty.com/jersey-shore-house-rental.htm

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Date:	Sun Mar 7 08:37:44 PST 2010

3272 [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > How the hell are you going to get rid of suffering? Get rid of nerve > endings? Those things evolved for a reason and serve a purpose. Were you naked when you posted this?

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 10:57:37 PST 2010

3273 [lbo-talk] March 4 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I bvelieve I've been saying that for 10 years -- b3fore I had ever > heard > of Obama. He is a Democrat. What more needs to be said? He's a particularly sinister Dem, because he's so well disguised. Many people who should know better, don't. Though they're starting to come around. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 09:01:06 PST 2010

3274 [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Andy wrote: > Worst. Thread. Ever. Seems to be unanimous. I had a lot of deadlines and wasn't paying much attention. Let's put this one to rest even before the server goes down. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 05:13:25 PST 2010

3275 [lbo-talk] Petite Bourgeoisie... Meet Deflation. -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:10 PM, Vincent Clarke wrote: 17 posts yesterday. That's enough for 6 days. Chill. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 05:12:20 PST 2010

3276 [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I'll tell you what. You give me a good detailed crtique of the > relationship between Paradise Lost and The Cantos, focusing on their > shared epic features, & perhaps I'll browse through this bozo a bit. > No > one on this list seems interested in Pound, but I would hardly dream > of > whining about it, let alone epressing annoyance. Hey, I'm interested in Pound. A consideration of the relationship between PL & The Ca ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 05:11:21 PST 2010

3277 [lbo-talk] Petite Bourgeoisie... Meet Deflation. -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:09 PM, Vincent Clarke wrote: > I dunno the Newspeak word for > this, so lets go with "raw materials". Supply chain.

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 05:09:24 PST 2010

3278 [lbo-talk] Cockburn on the SPLC -- rank: 1000

Gotta love this graf: <http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05152009.html> The SPLC s latest Year in Hate report claims that in 2008 the number of hate groups rose to 926, up 4 per cent from 2007, and 54 per cent since 2000. The SPLC doesn t measure the number of members in the groups, meaning they probably missed me. Change that total to 927. I m a hate group, meaning in Dees-speak, one with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, starting with Dic ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 5 08:57:58 PST 2010

3279 [lbo-talk] amazing, if true -- rank: 1000

On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> No source given. From Popbitch: >> >> "In USA there is more than one death per day from auto-erotic >> asphyixiation." >> ___________________________________ >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk >> > Hey, it's a big country. A Wikipedia article on the topic mentions 117 cases in Alberta & Ontario alone over the course of 13 years. That's alm ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 10:41:13 PST 2010

3280 [lbo-talk] Student protests in the U.S. starting to escalate -- rank: 1000

On Mar 4, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > This subscriber did -- enjoy it, that is. Glad to hear it! > Question, though: You have a graph of various funding sources > -- state & local, federal, personal aka tuition etc. -- as > percentages of college budgets. Which is quite interesting. > But I would have liked to see the absolute numbers. Have > college budgets per student stayed relatively constant? > Or not? If not, where's the money going? (I'm sure you're & ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 10:37:55 PST 2010

3281 [lbo-talk] amazing, if true -- rank: 1000

No source given. From Popbitch: "In USA there is more than one death per day from auto-erotic asphyixiation."

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 09:44:28 PST 2010

3282 [lbo-talk] Student protests in the U.S. starting to escalate -- rank: 1000

On Mar 4, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Arianna Huffington, on her web site (the Huffington Post) has been > coming up with various initiatives to kick off grassroots movements. > One prompts people to boycott the big banks and switch their accounts > to credit unions, etc. Doug Henwood criticized this one. While I > agree in principle with the limitations of such a movement as argued > by Doug, I think one thing is to assess its plausibility to address > the ult ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 09:37:17 PST 2010

3283 [lbo-talk] Edwards indictment imminent, sez peerless source -- rank: 1000

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/grand_jury_indictment_john_edwards_hunter_coverup/celebrity/68250

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 4 08:29:13 PST 2010

3284 [lbo-talk] Reps propose to make money off fear of socialism -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33866.html> Exclusive: RNC document mocks donors, plays on 'fear' By: Ben Smith March 3, 2010 04:23 PM EST The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on fear of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism." The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising presentation, obtained by POLITICO, which als ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 20:43:07 PST 2010

3285 [lbo-talk] Lerner bleats -- rank: 1000

Michael Lerner is such a jackass. This is the opening of his latest sermon: > Why I Disagree with Hedges and Nader on Obama > By Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor of Tikkun and Chair of the Network > of Spiritual Progressives > > Many of the specific failures highlighted by the article I sent out > yesterday by Chris Hedges criticizing the performance of the Obama > Administration are legitimate points. But the way Hedges's > positions are stated, and the conclusions drawn f ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 16:00:53 PST 2010