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3631 [lbo-talk] don't text money to Yele! -- rank: 1000

http://gawker.com/5449478/more-on-why-donating-to-wyclef-jeans-charity-might-not-be-the-best-way-to-help-haitians-right-now

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 15 18:10:01 PST 2010

3632 [lbo-talk] Brooks on Haiti -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > The guy is usually just a sort of Mad Libs Oakenshott social > engineering > wisdom of experience organic systems spontaneous order human nature > guy, but > whew, propose transforming an island of savages into dull Babbits, > and he's > Jeffery Sachs. That's not fair to Sachs.

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Date:	Fri Jan 15 16:56:58 PST 2010

3633 [lbo-talk] Brooks on Haiti -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Chuck Grimes quoted David Brooks: > It s time to take that approach abroad, too. It s time to find > self-confident local leaders who will create No Excuses > countercultures > in places like Haiti, surrounding people maybe just in a > neighborhood > or a school with middle-class assumptions, an achievement ethos and > tough, measurable demands....'' Brooks is usually just something of a chucklehead. Now's he ascended to the level of toxic p ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 15 14:57:26 PST 2010

3634 [lbo-talk] Texas -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > This is funny in the extreme. The mechanisms of the alleged > takeover--an increase in measuring student achievement by test scores > and in tying teacher pay to student performance--are mechanisms that > Perry not only supports but that are pretty much the extent of his > education policy. And wasn't his predecessor responsible for introducing all that crap, first as gov then as pres?

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Date:	Fri Jan 15 14:47:55 PST 2010

3635 [lbo-talk] Texas -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2010/01/things-for-which-texas-will-and-will-not-take-federal-money > Things For Which Texas Will And Will Not Take Federal Money "El Paso City Council did the right thing Tuesday when it approved spending $773,000 in federal stimulus money to buy 1,145 M-4 rifles," opined the El Paso Times editorial board this week. "Police have to be ready for anything these days, from a Columbine-like school shooting to a terrorist attack." "Texas won' ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 15 11:27:26 PST 2010

3636 [lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Do any of us really believe that it's possible to be non-racist > within a certain social relationship, or racist outside of it? Bingo. But extracting some abstract, essentialist state of mind from those social relations is the essence of the whole "anti-racist" POV. Then, having reified it, you fight it. How you fight it, though, is never really clear. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 15 06:32:20 PST 2010

3637 [lbo-talk] end times expert available for commentary -- rank: 1000

[this is from the crackpot PR shop, A. Larry Ross Communications] FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Jodi Phillip 469.438.3729 jodi at alarryross.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THEOLOGICAL EXPERT AVAILABLE TO DISCUSS THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK: Author, Pastor Can Speak to Historical, Current Events Linked to the Ticking of the Clock BIO Adobe PDF document www.ArmageddonNowBook.com online newsroom WHAT: Scientists today moved back the hands of the Doomsday Clock, a metaphorical timepiece created ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 14 11:46:30 PST 2010

3638 [lbo-talk] MMPI -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Such tests never have been benign when those giving them were in any > position of power, such as a prospective emplofyer. I remember now > from > long ago there was a chapter in a book called "The Organiztion Man" > that > gave duggestions on how to cheat on them. As I recall from a friend of mine when I was in grad school who gave me the MMPI and some other stuff for practice - she was in a psych PhD program - the ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 18:19:40 PST 2010

3639 [lbo-talk] Thomas Geoghegen: Modern Filibusters are Unconstitutional -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > [Nice article, and yet in my case led to even more despair about > fixing it, because it made me actually go back and read the revised > Rule 22, whose awfulness is much more fundamentally ingrained then > I'd thought.] Recorded an interview with him today for tomorrow's radio show. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 17:45:51 PST 2010

3640 [lbo-talk] queer the Census -- rank: 1000

[To sign, visit http://www.queerthecensus.org] Dear Doug, The U.S. Census: it happens only once every ten years, and this year it s our turn to make sure the Census Bureau knows that everyone deserves to be counted. You ve already signed our petition to the Census Bureau thank you! Now will you go one step further and ask your friends and family to sign and support our efforts to queer the census? The census is not just a numbers game. The director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Robert Groves ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 11:55:28 PST 2010

3641 [lbo-talk] Pat Robertson outdoes himself -- rank: 1000

[video at original - his delivery makes the words even more vile] <http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Robertson_Haiti_cursed_since_Satanic_pact.html > The Rev. Pat Robertson, on his CBN broadcast today, offered his own explanation of the earthquake in Haiti: "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said. "They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 11:31:24 PST 2010

3642 [lbo-talk] kids more freaked today than in 1930s -- rank: 1000

<http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-01-12-students-depression-anxiety_N.htm > Study: Students more stressed now than during Depression? CHICAGO (AP) A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era. The findings, culled from responses to a popular psychological questionnaire used as far back as 1938, confirm what counselo ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 10:46:26 PST 2010

3643 [lbo-talk] cell phone hell -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> Also I had a boy. If I imagine a daughter now I would probably feel >> a lot >> different. > > > I don't know. I think girls drink less on average and alcohol > causes a world of trouble. Yup. And fights, with fists and weapons. Not far from where I sit in Brooklyn a few weeks ago some teenage boys shot each other at a chicken wing promotion that got out of hand. Girls don't do that sort of thing, for whateve ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 10:31:15 PST 2010

3644 [lbo-talk] Evo Morales loves Avatar... -- rank: 1000

...for its anti-capitalist message: http://notas.guanabee.com/2010/01/evo-morales-avatar/

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 09:34:19 PST 2010

3645 [lbo-talk] interview with an Iranian trade unionist -- rank: 1000

[It's all quite interesting. An excerpt relevant to the ancient fight with a former list member...] <http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/23610> Against the status quo: An Interview with Iranian trade unionist Homayoun Pourzad January 12, 2010By Ian Morrison and Homayoun Pourzad ... IM: But do you think Mousavi stands for workers' rights at all? He seems to have a checkered political history. HP: We do not know what his stance is. He seems generally favorable to workers' rig ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 08:40:38 PST 2010