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8716 [lbo-talk] big daddio virgin fuckers in the sky was Re: ABORTION -- rank: 1000

This isn't a fruitful topic for listserv debate. Flames take over, and no one is going to change a mind. Let's talk about something less controversial, like Islamism. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 4 07:33:43 PST 2008

8717 [lbo-talk] top fifty atheist bumper snickers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > There is no doubt any longer; anti-Arab racism has become a major > ideolgoical support of u.s. imperialism, and opposing that form of > racism a central task of the u.s. left. This reminds me of a > conversation with a student years ago. I had debuning the concept of > biolgoical race; his retreat: well, there's a different black culture. > This also begins to throw some light on the hounding of Yoshie off > this > list. I ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 4 07:28:03 PST 2008

8718 [lbo-talk] Save the Doodle! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > No, I can't imagine fighting for the Yankee Doodle. But I have > participated > in related struggles on the upper West Side of Manhattan, sometimes > successfully, e.g. fighting to keep an excellent neighborhood > pharmacy going > against rent increases. But I keep telling my comrades in such > struggles > that we will fight this again and again, up and down Broadway, > unless the > struggle is politicized around se ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 3 18:45:14 PST 2008

8719 [lbo-talk] job at QEJ (NYC) -- rank: 1000

Queers for Economic Justice is looking to hire a part-time (with benefits) Office Administrator. See below for details. - Joseph DeFilippis Executive Director ____________________________________________________________________ OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Job Description Queers for Economic Justice is a progressive multi-racial, multi- classed, non-profit organization that works on poverty, class and economic justice issues in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. We are seeking t ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 3 18:38:43 PST 2008

8720 [lbo-talk] WTF: Jim Cramer Rails Against 'Laissez Faire Policies' and 'Predator Capitalists' -- rank: 1000

Jesus - didn't this guy want to privatize Social Security and turn it all over to the stock market? Was that an act for TV too? I thought he wrote that in The New Republic. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 3 18:17:09 PST 2008

8721 [lbo-talk] Grateful <yawn> Dead reunite in festival of over-rated -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2008, at 12:41 PM, J T. Ramsay wrote: > Now playing: this new Vampire Weekend album I should hate but don't. Ha. I've only heard a couple of songs from it, but I'm surprised how much I like them. In how many songs does "Wellfleet" appear, anyway? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 3 18:14:25 PST 2008

8722 [lbo-talk] Grateful <yawn> Dead reunite in festival of over-rated -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] The remaining GRATEFUL DEAD will reunite tomorrow for the first time in four years to rally support for Senator OBAMA the day before Super Tuesday, per Reuters. Band leader Jerry Garcia died in 1995. The last time the other surviving members played together was 2004.

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Date:	Sun Feb 3 06:09:36 PST 2008

8723 [lbo-talk] Obama's posturing on nuclear power -- rank: 1000

New York Times - February 3, 2008 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html> Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate By MIKE McINTIRE When residents in Illinois voiced outrage two years ago upon learning that the Exelon Corporation had not disclosed radioactive leaks at one of its nuclear plants, the state s freshman senator, Barack Obama, took up their cause. Mr. Obama scolded Exelon and federal regulators for inaction and introduced a bill to require all ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 3 05:50:54 PST 2008

8724 [lbo-talk] Save the Doodle! -- rank: 1000

Anyone who went to Yale in the last 50 years knows the Yankee Doodle, a coffee shop near the campus that's just been put out of business by rising rents. For some reason, the NY Times thought this worthy of a story, and a Facebook group to save the Doodle has 2,551 members (not me though). <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10468322171> Amazing. Aren't there other things to get mobilized about?

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Date:	Sat Feb 2 12:20:16 PST 2008

8725 [lbo-talk] reinventing (a carbon-netural) "24" -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 2, 2008 Reinventing '24' Jack Bauer's newest nemesis isn't a terrorist -- it's public opinion. By REBECCA DANA During its first five years on television, the terror-thriller "24" built a huge fan base by creating the first true superhero of the post-Sept. 11 era: special agent Jack Bauer. Ruggedly handsome and righteously defiant, Jack was willing to do anything to defend his country. That "anything" has always included torture. Jack has sni ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 2 11:57:13 PST 2008

8726 [lbo-talk] Obama on subprime -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Michael Perelman wrote: > >> How much of the subprime mess is due to income inequality? >> Solving that >> disgrace would not turn things around immediately, but it would be a >> great start. > > Funny you should mention. That was Obama's prime theme in a hour long > interview with the NYT this weekend: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/us/politics/02obama.html > > I f ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 2 10:11:52 PST 2008

8727 [lbo-talk] the latest from Ralph -- rank: 1000

NADER www.naderexplore08.org It s been a great week. On Wednesday, we launched the Presidential exploratory web site. On Thursday, Ralph Nader was on Democracy Now with our good friend Amy Goodman. You can watch the video of the interview here. On Friday, Ralph did radio around the country. And this Sunday February 3, 2008, Ralph will be on CNN s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer (11 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST.) Hope you get a chance to watch. We had a huge response to the launch. And next week, on Super ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 2 09:55:53 PST 2008

8728 [lbo-talk] Barack & Bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Ford said that Obama not only voted for the draconian bankruptcy > bill (a > marker of being conservative/corporate even for a Democrat), but > also for > tort reform (which almost no Democrats supported). > > But in this week's Nation Magazine, the cover-story article by > Christopher > Hayes on how Obama's the one says he voted against it. And that's not the only source that says that (and I'm too lazy to look up t ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 2 06:04:48 PST 2008

8729 [lbo-talk] Obama on subprime -- rank: 1000

The Nation - February 11, 2008 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080211/fraser> Subprime Obama by MAX FRASER Last year, forty-three states reported increased home foreclosure rates. Nevada led the way for eleven consecutive months; in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, nearly one in twenty homes is in foreclosure. Whole blocks have been foreclosed in Chicago. Nationwide, rates are nearing Depression-era highs--ravaging working- and middle-class neighborhoods that fell prey to the s ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 2 05:27:08 PST 2008

8730 [lbo-talk] U2 manager: ISPs should crack down on music thieves -- rank: 1000

U2 manager takes Internet providers to task Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:19pm GMT By Ray Bennett CANNES, France (Hollywood Reporter) - Paul McGuinness, long-time manager of rock band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce disconnection policies to end illegal music downloads and urged governments to make sure they do. In a passionate keynote speech delivered Monday during the International Managers Summit at the MIDEM music conference, McGuinness said it was time for ar ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 1 20:28:36 PST 2008