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4771 [lbo-talk] SEIU hates the Boy Scouts -- rank: 1000

Republican National Lawyers Association PO Box 18965, Washington, DC 20036 · (703) 719-6335 tel · www.rnla.org For Immediate Release Monday, November 23, 2009 Contact: Michael Thielen (703) 719-6335 SEIU Stoops to Historic Low ACORN Partner & Obama Benefactor Attacks Boy Scouts Washington, D.C. Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) Chairman David A. Norcross today released the following statement in response to news reports that a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 23 08:45:17 PST 2009

4772 [lbo-talk] wake-up call -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] While she's in town: "Sarah Palin, the hottest name in the Republican Party, took a detour from her book-signing tour Sunday to dine with Billy Graham at his mountaintop home in Montreat," Tim Funk reports in the Charlotte Observer. Says Franklin Graham: "Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 23 08:04:13 PST 2009

4773 [lbo-talk] one of the more remarkable sites on the entire web -- rank: 1000

http://guesshermuff.blogspot.com

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 22 19:03:52 PST 2009

4774 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Max's response was good I think: > > >> In college I wrote exactly this sort of essay (w/fewer 50-cent >> words). Now I (and many others, no doubt) marvel, not without some >> envy, at the good fortune of those who can attend Berkeley and the >> foolishness and political lunacy of these critiques. Well, there's also the fact that students are demonstrating and occupying offices to reverse the tuition increases ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 22 13:34:37 PST 2009

4775 [lbo-talk] The Necrosocial -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > But what percentage of people in the developed world, and even in the > developing world, have credit cards? Not to mention auto loans, home > loans, and the like. Plus more and more people have to make > entrepreneurial-type choices about consumption versus savings, etc. > Isn't it true that debt structures more peoples' lives than ever > before? Yes, it's true. I think someone or other coined a term "secondary exploitatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 22 11:27:59 PST 2009

4776 [lbo-talk] the fantasy of being outside ideology -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> PS: I'm starting to find this list an exasperating waste of time. > > As in, you're seriously contemplating giving it up As in, yeah.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 22 10:12:20 PST 2009

4777 [lbo-talk] the fantasy of being outside ideology -- rank: 1000

PS: I'm starting to find this list an exasperating waste of time. On Nov 22, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The test of an honest rather than an illiterate or hostile question is > that the person asking the question is prepared to give his/her own > positon on the topic, as well as respond to the question. > > For several years I just thought he was unconsciously repeating his > professional conduct (as a radio interviewer) on this list. And he may > well be too bus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 22 08:29:36 PST 2009

4778 [lbo-talk] the fantasy of being outside ideology -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The test of an honest rather than an illiterate or hostile question is > that the person asking the question is prepared to give his/her own > positon on the topic, as well as respond to the question. > > For several years I just thought he was unconsciously repeating his > professional conduct (as a radio interviewer) on this list. And he may > well be too busy to explore some of these topics on his own. > nevertheless, I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 22 08:26:16 PST 2009

4779 [lbo-talk] music snobs weigh in -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > Indeed. It's a good thing for the "detainees" > that nobody ever thought of Vivaldi. Or Holst's "The Planets."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 22 06:37:54 PST 2009

4780 [lbo-talk] The Neoliberalization Of Higher Education: What s Race Got To Do With It? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:23 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > More people getting more formal education does not solve the > problem; if Obama had his fondest wish granted and all U. S. adults > earned a college degree, we'd just have lots of low-paid janitors, > security guards, and restaurant workers with college degrees. And maybe a lot more pissed-off people? Isn't that part of what brought down the Soviet Union and its EE clones? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 21 18:27:41 PST 2009

4781 [lbo-talk] the fantasy of being outside ideology -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:16 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > At 08:22 PM 11/21/2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Nov 21, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> >>> anti-racist activity >> >> Which is what, exactly? One of the points of Adolph Reed's LBO >> article >> is that it's hard to imagine an actual material practice that >> corresponds to this phrase. It does, however, frequently lead to >> sermonizing. >> >> Doug > & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 21 18:23:03 PST 2009

4782 [lbo-talk] music snobs weigh in -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nations_music_snobs_protest> Nation's Music Snobs Protest Predictable Use Of Metallica, Pantera To Torture Prisoners NOVEMBER 21, 2009 | ISSUE 45 47 WASHINGTON Amid continued reports detailing the CIA's use of loud music to torture detainees at Guantánamo Bay, pop-culture elitists from across the country gathered in the nation's capital Monday to protest the uninspired song selections employed in the brutal treatment of inmates. "To remain si ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 21 18:19:53 PST 2009

4783 [lbo-talk] the fantasy of being outside ideology -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > anti-racist activity Which is what, exactly? One of the points of Adolph Reed's LBO article is that it's hard to imagine an actual material practice that corresponds to this phrase. It does, however, frequently lead to sermonizing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 21 17:22:41 PST 2009

4784 [lbo-talk] the fantasy of being outside ideology -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > that brings us back to my initial poing My favorite typo of the month.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 21 16:16:28 PST 2009

4785 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1052, Issue 2 -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2009, at 3:24 PM, brad bauerly wrote: >> Now it is quite possible that the organizers will fail to ignite >> such a >> movement, but the great majority of such efforts over the last two >> centuries have failed, but a few have succeeded ONLY because so many >> have been attempted. Surely, the most important political act of the >> last two centuries was the Paris Commune -- a miserable failure that >> never had a chance. >> >> The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 21 12:50:55 PST 2009