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6646 [lbo-talk] another modest proposal -- rank: 1000

<http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7533&IBLOCK_ID=35> Moscow Babylon November 13, 2004 Gas Middle America THE EXILE'S BLUE STATE SOLUTION By Mark Ames I've been tracking the Left's reaction to Bush's horrifying election romp, and what's clear to me is that nothing has been learned. Nothing has been learned because no one on the Left is being honest. Their reactions range from bitching about the elections allegedly being stolen -- well duh! what'd you idiots expect ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 4 08:52:39 PDT 2008

6647 [lbo-talk] Obama, Carter, Israel -- rank: 1000

On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Shane Mage quoted: >> www.votenader.org >> >> >> Obama is such a man of principle. >> >> Take Israel/Palestine as an example. What's with all these one-sentence paragraphs? Short attention span? Perception of punchiness? Not Ralph's style really. Someone told me that it's probably Mokhiber. I do miss the Polly Wants A Cracker phase though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 4 07:06:02 PDT 2008

6648 [lbo-talk] Palin's privacy versus her public stance -- rank: 1000

On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The "right" is no barrier at all to building a left, > since it is not among rightists that left sympathies appear, and a > left > must be buil out of those who already are sympathetic to left goals. Well no kidding. But this is not the most promising soil for such a movement. The common sense of much of the American population, at least the white Protestant portion, is deeply individualistic and hostile to collective actio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 4 06:40:45 PDT 2008

6649 [lbo-talk] Palin's privacy versus her public stance -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2008, at 9:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The cotinual fuss on this list about the conservatives is really > pretty > absurd. They are not the problem; they are merely part of the terrain > that we opeate on. > > The point is to build an effective leftist core to respond to crises > that energize a larger part of our passive base. That isn't done by > this > pompous superiority to the likes of Palin. Grow up and begin to think > politically. You don't think th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 21:13:13 PDT 2008

6650 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2008, at 9:03 PM, shag wrote: > At 06:58 PM 9/3/2008, Doug Henwood wrote: >> I read somewhere that she "smells like salmon all summer." That is >> not >> a characteristic I'd welcome in a friend, lover, spouse, or seatmate >> on a bus. >> >> Doug > > > hum. i just ate salmon. > > *covers mouth and looks for altoids* Hey, I love salmon. I cooked it for dinner last night. One should just not smell like it all summer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 18:11:31 PDT 2008

6651 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2008, at 9:03 PM, shag wrote: > At 06:58 PM 9/3/2008, Doug Henwood wrote: >> I read somewhere that she "smells like salmon all summer." That is >> not >> a characteristic I'd welcome in a friend, lover, spouse, or seatmate >> on a bus. >> >> Doug > > > hum. i just ate salmon. > > *covers mouth and looks for altoids* Hey, I love salmon. I cooked it for dinner last night. One should just not smell like it all summer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 18:11:31 PDT 2008

6652 [lbo-talk] didn't McCain insult her sister? -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/screenshots/2008/09/spears-to-palin.html> Spears to Palin: 'Hang in There!, XXOO' September 03, 2008 2:59 PM Jamie Lynn Spears is showing some love to the latest-most-famous teen mom-to-be: Bristol Palin. The 17-year-old Zoey 101 star and new mom sent a gift of $60 pink burp cloths to the pregnant, unwed, 17-year-old daughter of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin -- and along with it, a message of teen mom solidarity. A spokesperson for Petit Tresor, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 17:44:37 PDT 2008

6653 [lbo-talk] RIP NY Sun? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-future-of-the-sun/85129/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 16:53:01 PDT 2008

6654 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:50 PM, shag wrote: > what exactly is the problem? who is making who look bad? we're > expecting the democrats who read demunderground and kos to represent > whosit with class and flair now? hmmm. the best i can figure is > catron is pissed because someone was called a redneck or something. > or someone's pissing all over palin because they think her husband's > white trash? I read somewhere that she "smells like salmon all summer." That is not a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 15:58:39 PDT 2008

6655 [lbo-talk] Palin's privacy versus her public stance -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > --- On Wed, 9/3/08, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >> In the end the ruling class will probably fear a nut-bag >> like Palin more >> than a centrist like Obama so look for media coverage to >> heavily favor >> Obama from this point forward. >> This has already been portrayed as a hasty, ill-advised >> choice by the >> NYT's and the WaPost. >> The rest of th ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 3 13:04:41 PDT 2008

6656 [lbo-talk] more on Palin -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:55 PM, boddi satva wrote: > roblem is she's not by any stretch of the imagination an anti- > governmentista. > > 1) She's Alaskan, and they all live on the government teat. So what? The states that are net takers of Federal funds are mostly Republican and the states that are net contributors are mostly Democrat. The South and much of the West would be backwaters without Federal subsidies. But that doesn't stop them from complaining about the gummint. > I k ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 12:08:53 PDT 2008

6657 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Charles Brown wrote: >>>> "boddi satva" > > . Do you even know > anything about the Alaska Republican party? > > ^^^^^ > CB: Yea, I think they are supporting Georgia in its conflict with > Russia. How about Georgia in its conflict with the Union? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 10:18:20 PDT 2008

6658 [lbo-talk] the last word on American politics -- rank: 1000

[from The Note - not sure why this didn't come out in the way he intended though] McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, in a quote that didn't come out the way he intended: "This election is not about issues," Davis said in a chat with Washington Post reporters and editors. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 08:30:41 PDT 2008

6659 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2008, at 9:51 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I return to my prior point about the idiocy of feigning shock when the > behavior of children doesn't reflect their parents' ideals. That's just the point about abstinence education. It doesn't work because kids are going to fuck. So it's best to make policy on that assumption instead of assuming they will act like good Christian angels. And this is a good example. >> I take it you never step (slightly) outside the circular leftis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 3 08:08:44 PDT 2008

6660 [lbo-talk] bondage lovers "normal," maybe even happier -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Are you telling me that liberal bloggers are happy? Nah, they don't understand the conditions of their own bondage.

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 13:20:55 PDT 2008