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4756 [lbo-talk] Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't -- rank: 1000

> At 12:08 PM 11/25/2009, Shane Mage wrote: > >> > And what, pray tell, was the Oswald assassination? God save us. No JFK conspiracy talk here. Streng verboten. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 25 12:23:12 PST 2009

4757 [lbo-talk] Bush lives -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News: ----------------------------------------------------- President Barack Obama will deliver Tuesday's address on Afghanistan policy from the United States Military Academy at West Point, the White House said. The setting allows the commander-in-chief to talk directly to future officers as he announces a troop buildup in the eight-year war.

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Date:	Wed Nov 25 07:28:00 PST 2009

4758 [lbo-talk] what climate change? -- rank: 1000

Conservatives, Republicans Move Away From Belief that the Earth is Warming The number of Americans who believe global warming is occurring has declined to its lowest since 1997, though at 72 percent it s still a broad majority. The drop has steepened in the last year and a half almost exclusively among conservatives and Republicans. This ABC News/Washington Post poll also finds that support for government action to address the issue, while still a majority, likewise is down from its level ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 24 14:02:42 PST 2009

4759 [lbo-talk] wineheads, soldiers, loud mouths, and riffraff -- rank: 1000

As the Brooklyn kids say, this shit's gotten old. Let's drop it.

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Date:	Tue Nov 24 14:01:40 PST 2009

4760 [lbo-talk] Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't -- rank: 1000

On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Sean Andrews wrote: > >>> The poll asked this question: "Do you think that Barack Obama >>> legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you >>> think that ACORN stole it for him?" The overall top-line is >>> legitimately won 62%, ACORN stole it 26%. >> >> Stat folks on the list... Is it just that it makes me feel icky or >> am I right to ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 24 06:23:41 PST 2009

4761 [lbo-talk] wineheads, soldiers, loud mouths, and riffraff -- rank: 1000

On Nov 24, 2009, at 7:29 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Which would be another reason why we might not want to flush culture > and history down the toilet as WBM want to do. On the advice of my mental health consultants, I'm going to retire from this battle, so this will be my last word. Perhaps, in your zeal to find the bad quotes in The Trouble With Diversity - and I don't like Michaels' stuff about Wal-Mart, for obvious reasons - you missed the fact that the first chapter begins with ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 24 06:22:02 PST 2009

4762 [lbo-talk] wineheads, soldiers, loud mouths, and riffraff -- rank: 1000

On Nov 24, 2009, at 7:29 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Which would be another reason why we might not want to flush culture > and history down the toilet as WBM want to do. Pretty curious thing to say about a guy who's a literary historian.

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Date:	Tue Nov 24 04:40:39 PST 2009

4763 [lbo-talk] usage notes -- rank: 1000

It's not actionable to call someone a douche: http://cityfile.com/dailyfile/7986

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Date:	Mon Nov 23 18:23:08 PST 2009

4764 [lbo-talk] No Country for Exasperated Men -- rank: 1000

On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Catherine Driscoll wrote: > Do you have to ingore them, Doug? You could collect them, I hear > they make a neat hall display and you know there's always a new one > being released on a regular basis. It's important to have hobbies. Good point. Kind of like that Bad Subjects guy, Stephen Sherreffs (sp??), who had a very impressive lizard collection.

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Date:	Mon Nov 23 15:06:32 PST 2009

4765 [lbo-talk] No Country for Exasperated Men -- rank: 1000

On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Since I'm stuck living in this decaying meat suit till I die, that's > clearly not possible. So, exasperations and all, I embrace my > annoying, messy humanity. > > Which is another way of saying...in truth, we're all a bunch of > wankers but who else have we got in this crazy world? There's that existential consideration, which can be easily reinforced by the determination to ignore cranky provocateurs. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 23 13:35:24 PST 2009

4766 [lbo-talk] the internet's downside -- rank: 1000

On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:02 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Hey, I'm English. That Americans are lard-arses is one of our > fundamental beliefs... > > ...along with the belief that you are all slave-owning Baptists, > with sun-glasses, cameras and white podgy legs sticking out of your > shorts, that your cars are too big, and you don't believe in > anything, except free market economics and hanging people, > especially ay-rabs. > > Subbing to LBO I always hope that I wil ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 23 13:27:16 PST 2009

4767 [lbo-talk] postracial pres finds common ground between pilgrims & Indians -- rank: 1000

[Guess he forgot the part about killing the Indians and stealing their land.] <http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-thanksgiving-day > The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 23, 2009 Presidential Proclamation -- Thanksgiving Day A PROCLAMATION What began as a harvest celebration between European settlers and indigenous communities nearly four centuries ago has become our cherished tradition of Thanksgiving. This day's ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 23 13:25:33 PST 2009

4768 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 23, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Dennis Claxton wrote: >> >> >> True. I was agreeing with Max about the 50 cent words. > > No. That won't work. You don't know the audience. You haven't done > your > homework, and have not identified the genre. Perhaps that genre and > that audience called for 50 cent words, perhaps not. But no one on > this > list is in a positon to make a judgment of the prose style or word > choice. My mental healt ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 23 12:29:13 PST 2009

4769 [lbo-talk] Internet's downside -- rank: 1000

On Nov 23, 2009, at 1:42 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Myself, I can't help but think that the problem is mostly > overstated. Sure, some kids are a bit tubbier than we were, but when > I went to school, children were all super skinny, and hungry all the > time. James, you must really spend a little more time in the USA. <http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/index.html> Obesity is a serious health concern for children and adolescents. Data from NHANES surveys (1976 1980 and 20 ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 23 10:58:55 PST 2009

4770 [lbo-talk] Yale rakes it in -- rank: 1000

[To put this in perspective, the amount Yale has raised so far in this campaign is larger than all but 25 U.S. university/college endowments at the end of 2008. It's about the size of Brown's, and is larger than Johns Hopkins, NYU's, UNC-Chapel Hill, Rockefeller University, Case Western Reserve...] <http://www.yaletomorrow.yale.edu/report/CAR_financial_pg1.html> Donors Sustain Campain Ahead of Projections Giving in the third public year of the Yale Tomorrow campaign stands as testimon ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 23 10:18:06 PST 2009