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4531 [lbo-talk] LBO 122 and coffee up my nose -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I'm just getting around to reading LBO 122, and Che Biscayne (nom de > plume?) Yup. > completely cracked me up with this: > >> The party began in earnest in the aftermath of 9/11. Fed Pimpmaster >> General, Alan Greenspan, demonstrating his august judgment with >> respect to these matters, embarked on a plan of making free money >> available to a select few, with the only requirement that the few >> cha ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 14:56:35 PDT 2009

4532 [lbo-talk] separation of state and culture -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Beth Ditto, from Searcy, Arkansas and the greatest female Arkansan > BBW punk singer ever to host a British talk show, says: > > [....] > > "When you see buildings that are so old and so beautiful and they're > preserved, you grow up with an appreciation of art," An old, now dead, friend of mine passed his final days in Eugene, Oregon. He asked a teenager there if he'd ever been east. The teen answered, "Y ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 14:55:45 PDT 2009

4533 [lbo-talk] Joe Lieberman is a turd -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:49 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > Wouldn't this have something to do > with all the insurance companies that > make their home in Connecticut? Could, but what's Dodd doing?

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 12:28:18 PDT 2009

4534 [lbo-talk] Racizlization -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 3:20 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > what an old mentor used to say when analyzing a text: ask what the > author is afraid of. Ok. So what are Michaels' critics afraid of?

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 12:27:51 PDT 2009

4535 [lbo-talk] Racizlization -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Any left won't be worth much that can't incorporate and show respect > for, give a real voice to, the groups of people so labelled and > slandered on this list. I'm sure the shaggy-haired and hygiene-challenged welcome your defense!

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 11:33:40 PDT 2009

4536 [lbo-talk] Joe Lieberman is a turd -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > I'm going to pull a pre-emptive Carrol here and say there's no need > to hold > Lieberman in any particular ire. He's just acting as his (stupid, > regressive) political convictions demand. None of us get angry at > Sarah > Palin, do we? Actually, Lieberman used to be pretty good on domestic issues. This is a turn for the worse on his part.

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4537 [lbo-talk] who? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:00 PM, SA wrote: > There's nothing wrong with giving white activists advice on how to > attract and appeal to non-white activists - on the contrary, that > sounds very useful. But the tone of the piece, at least as I > perceive it, isn't really about just offering up some helpful > advice, it's about blaming and shaming the Seattle organizers for > the composition of the demos. And one gets the feeling that Catalyst > probably does a lot of that, though ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 11:12:05 PDT 2009

4538 [lbo-talk] Joe Lieberman is a turd -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News: ----------------------------------------------------- Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) says he will join a Republican filibuster against the Senate Democrats' health care reform bill unless the public option is removed.

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 10:56:39 PDT 2009

4539 [lbo-talk] who? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:22 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > So the great evil of this 'manifesto' is that it was a level-headed > look at the structural barriers for the involvement of people of > color, namely: A lot of this sort of agitation - this piece, Wise, Catalyst - focuses on racism on the left. It's as if these structural barriers are the fault of the organizers of Seattle and not American society. The emphasis is also always on race. There was a lot of similar anguish around t ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 03:48:49 PDT 2009

4540 [lbo-talk] Internet's downside -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2009, at 3:37 AM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > There's a great moment in one of Raymond Williams books, I think > that it's > the Country and the City, where he looks at the English > preoccupation with > the fantasy of a golden age. He shows how this fantasy is invariably > connected to the England of the author's childhood, and that the > construction invites an infinite regression It is. It's a terrific chapter. Me, from long ago: <http://www.leftbusinessobs ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 27 03:39:35 PDT 2009

4541 [lbo-talk] who? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:22 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > systematic lack of access to computers among low income people of > color compared to low income whites Is that really true? How many low-income whites were there in Seattle, aside from the crusties?

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Date:	Mon Oct 26 18:31:09 PDT 2009

4542 [lbo-talk] WMT luvs the CBC -- rank: 1000

http://www.cbcfinc.org/programs/leadership-development/179.html Session: Spring 2010 Deadline: November 1, 2009 (postmark date) Program Dates: January 11 - May 7, 2009 Mission The goal of the CBCF/Wal-Mart Emerging Leaders Internship Program is to create a corps of trained, young leaders with the skills, outlook and contacts necessary to generate and sustain positive change in Washington, D.C., and their local communities. Alumni will return to their communities knowing what it takes to pass l ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 26 18:29:45 PDT 2009

4543 [lbo-talk] Who? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > His other point is the white middle class is in denial, and that's the > problem. Okay. I've tried to think that one through several maybe ten > years ago. I basically decided denial is just too simple an > explanation. One of the major points that Adolph Reed makes in his piece is that people like Wise focus on the subjectivity of The White Racist and not the material/institutional arrangements that underpin racialized hierarchie ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 26 18:27:28 PDT 2009

4544 [lbo-talk] failing upwards -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it was attached to the digest version, which pushed its length over the limit] From: Joshua Bregman <melodiousthunk at gmail.com> Date: October 26, 2009 12:10:34 PM EDT To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: The possibilities of failing upwards with healthcare > Whereas today at the national level, the Republicans not > only don't support reform, they will spend the next three years > campaigning against it, using every one of its manifold horrors to > ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 26 09:37:03 PDT 2009

4545 [lbo-talk] Obama plays more golf than Bush -- rank: 1000

http://twitter.com/markknoller/status/5154321964 Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24. Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months.

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