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5371 [lbo-talk] Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush -- rank: 1000

"Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush" <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23510.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 9 04:58:31 PDT 2009

5372 [lbo-talk] another DH loves BHO in Cairo -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2009, at 7:37 PM, SA wrote: > Carrol Cox wrote: > >> "Spectacular terrorist attacks." Well, there was the fire-bombing of >> Tokyo. There was the thousand-plane raid on Hamburg that dropped >> most of >> their bombs on residential neighborhoods. There was the levelling of >> every building in NOrth Korea and then more bombing of the rubble. >> There >> was the the subversion of the government of Mossedgh, which was the >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 7 18:05:36 PDT 2009

5373 [lbo-talk] munchers -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Obviously, I'm a fan. I can understand why others might not like > him. But frankly, I don't think it says anything good about them. Yes. There are things I disagree with Noam about, but I admire the guy enormously, and I've always found him incredibly generous with his time. And from what I get from linguists, he's a real giant. Someone once told me that people at MIT find his politics a little odd, but they view having him on the fac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 7 10:33:19 PDT 2009

5374 [lbo-talk] another DH loves BHO in Cairo -- rank: 1000

[via Marxmail - delusional liberals are defending this speech as somehow brave, or taking on a new "tone," or some such nonsense] http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/05/obama_horowitz/print.html Fellow conservatives, admit it: Obama gave a great speech In front of the whole Muslim world, he defended Israel and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. What's not to like? By David Horowitz Jun. 05, 2009 | Yes, he rewrote history, particularly the history of Muslim and Arab rapacity and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 6 04:46:06 PDT 2009

5375 [lbo-talk] Sarah Palin in Seneca Falls -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23411.html> Palin takes low-key return to the road By: Ben Smith June 5, 2009 05:46 PM EST SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Governor Sarah Palin paused Friday afternoon in front of a monument bearing the Declaration of Sentiments, an early feminist touchstone. We anticipate no small amount of ridicule, she read, and remarked: Some things never change. America s most famous Republican elected official quietly took a commercial flight into sleepy Central ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 5 18:00:27 PDT 2009

5376 [lbo-talk] WBAI turnaround? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Bill Quimby wrote: > Thanks for the personal attack - refreshing. I simply asked you what > you find objectionable, and repeating "drooling idiocies" is not the > response > I would have expected. Again, what I was hoping to find out > was - just what are, and from whence come, those "drooling idiocies"? > Are they ideologically derived? Are you saying that the station has > been > dominated by people with really low IQ's? M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 5 17:22:56 PDT 2009

5377 [lbo-talk] WBAI turnaround? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Bill Quimby wrote: > So (and don't blame me for asking- you're the one who posts on this > list > about WBAI!) just what is it about the the "old gang of idiots" that > you > found objectionable? Did you ever listen to the station? Have you been exposed to the drooling idiocies that have permeated its air for the last many years? Or do you just like the idea of "alternative" radio? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 5 14:42:41 PDT 2009

5378 [lbo-talk] WBAI turnaround? -- rank: 1000

[This is the best news on the money front from WBAI in years, and with the old gang of idiots out, things are looking up. Not to get prematurely optimistic or irrationally exuberant or anything, but morale is certainly up among the staff.] June 4, 2009 Dear WBAI Management & Staff, Pacifica National Board, etc., According to LaVarn Williams, interim CFO of Pacifica and acting General Manager of WBAI, the WBAI fund drive that just concluded on Saturday, May 30th raised over $839,000! The g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 5 09:52:41 PDT 2009

5379 [lbo-talk] Surrealists and homosexuality -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I would link this with the _generally_ rightist tendency in so much of > modernism -- consider the number of the great modernists who were > overtly sympathetic to fascism Not just fascism - Eliot and Stevens were both very reactionary, though they stopped short of being brownshirts.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 5 07:42:15 PDT 2009

5380 [lbo-talk] Surrealists and homosexuality -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > He thought things like homosexuality were disorders to be cured, > didn't he? Not really. He thought we're all to some degree queer, and that heterosexuality is not "natural," but something that needs to be explained. This letter, written to a woman who expressed anguish to him that her son was gay, is a pretty remarkable document for someone of his time: <http://ctrloptcmd.com/archives/564/freud-on-homosexuality/> I gathe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 5 06:31:32 PDT 2009

5381 [lbo-talk] Surrealists and homosexuality -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > rather conventional petty bourgeois. (Like their hero, Freud.) Freud "conventional petty bourgeois"? In life, maybe, but thought? The bourgeoisie was sure scandalized. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 5 06:03:54 PDT 2009

5382 [lbo-talk] men: fat, dumb, drunk losers -- rank: 1000

[via Gawker] Wall Street Journal - June 3, 2009 <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124386767941072379.html> Guys Left Behind (GLBs) By MARK PENN With E. Kinney Zalesne Guys are simply falling behind these days. We may not yet have the first woman president, but a look at what is happening with the next generation shows that women are succeeding in an ever-widening range of areas, while there is a statistically significant and growing group of guys who are just not going to make it. Sure, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 4 19:00:05 PDT 2009

5383 [lbo-talk] the Fed is so far out to lunch... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:38:54 -0400 > >>> There's a CP? Where? >> >> In the nosebleed seats, cheering for the Dems. > > Oh, *them*. I thought they all ended up in the King > David Manor in Long Beach, years ago. Lord bless > 'em if they've still got breath enough to cheer for > anybody, no matter who. The idiots accused my wife of being a right-winger because she dared say that card check is dead. Lese ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 2 18:36:43 PDT 2009

5384 [lbo-talk] the Fed is so far out to lunch... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > There's a CP? Where? In the nosebleed seats, cheering for the Dems. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 2 15:38:54 PDT 2009

5385 [lbo-talk] UC Davis signs on with the IDF -- rank: 1000

[posted to MLG list by Geoffrey Wildanger] Dear All, I apologize for cross posting. UC Davis recently became the first UC to institute a summer abroad program in Israel. This program will ostensibly teach the "Israel-Palestine" conflict--but will do so only without any visits to the occupied territories. Students will also be accompanied by fully armed IDF soldiers at all times. This petition was written by a student coalition which is campaigning to have the program structurally chang ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 1 18:23:48 PDT 2009