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9391 [lbo-talk] more from Debate: Khomeini on Sodomy -- rank: 1000

From: twood at uwc.ac.za Subject: Re: [DEBATE] : Khomeini on Sodomy Date: September 28, 2007 5:00:08 AM EDT To: debate at lists.kabissa.org [Yoshie:] >> In any case, the original laws of the Islamic Republic themselves, >> especially their political and economic aspects, were the results >> of what you call radical revisionism to begin with, very different >> from the previous norms of Shi'ism; and many aspects of personal >> laws, such as ones concerning women's ri ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 28 04:52:48 PDT 2007

9392 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

On Sep 28, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Many people considered it to be effectively bankrupt under Walter's > rule. Yes. It was a ward of the state for several years. It recovered, and it's now very big. Meanwhle, the loans extended to Latin America during the Wriston years were the lever for structural adjustment. It was a win for the capitalists in the long run. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 28 04:44:12 PDT 2007

9393 [lbo-talk] post analytical Marxist era/ post liberal era -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:21 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > I also think that > leaving aside the ideological language, the notion > that there is a trade off between unemployment and > inflation is not crazy, and there may be an > unemployment point below which inflation increases at > a disturbing rate -- leaving other anti-inflation > devices aside. It's not just Friedman - it's Kalecki. Check out the excerpts from his essay "Political Aspects of Full Employment" ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 20:53:10 PDT 2007

9394 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Walter Wriston? Yeah, Wriston was real Mensa material and in a great > position to judge. Wriston's most famous observation, speaking in > favor of sovereign-debt lending, was: "Countries don't go out of > business." As has duly noted, countries can't go bankrupt, but those > who lend to them can, Yeah, poor Citibank. It used to be such a big bank. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 20:33:21 PDT 2007

9395 [lbo-talk] attitudes towards religion -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Matt wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:42:01PM -0400, Doug Henwood quoted: > >> favorable opinion of >> >> Jews 76% >> Catholics 76 >> Evangelical Christians 60 >> Mormons 53 >> Muslim Americans 53 >> Muslims 43 >> atheists 35 > > Odd than traditional Protestants aren't included. Yeah - it's like the ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 12:10:23 PDT 2007

9396 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > Reagan was even stupider than Bush, > verbally, and he accomplished far more for the right > than Bush has. I'm not so sure of that. Reagan's diaries aren't exactly Minima Moralia, but what I've seen aren't moronic either. He really impressed people like Walter Wriston, who were skeptical at first. > Bush is merely finishing off the job > Reagan started. Depends on what you mean by finish. You could also read Bush as the de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 27 12:09:02 PDT 2007

9397 [lbo-talk] attitudes towards religion -- rank: 1000

Ok, Americans don't think too highly of Moslems or Mormons. But they think even less highly of atheists! <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/602/public-expresses-mixed-views-of- islam-mormonism> Scroll down to table at bottom for a full view; here are the highlights: favorable opinion of Jews 76% Catholics 76 Evangelical Christians 60 Mormons 53 Muslim Americans 53 Muslims 43 atheists 35

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 11:42:01 PDT 2007

9398 [lbo-talk] stupid press release of the day -- rank: 1000

Doug, Wanted to see if you might be interested in a digital trends segment tied to the recent news of several leading high end brands setting up shop in virtual worlds. Yesterday, Second Life saw famed fashion designer Giorgo Armani open a virtual shop modeled after the designer's flagship retail location in Milan. Additionally, Stardoll announced that DKNY and Sephora were the first real-world brands to sell their virtual wares in Stardoll s virtual shopping galleria the starplaza. St ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 10:48:10 PDT 2007

9399 [lbo-talk] UAW/GM agreement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:48 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > This came to me via Diane Feeley. Michael Yates > > "What amazed me in looking at yesterday's Detroit Free Press, > Detroit News > and Wall Street Journal was how much GM met most of its objectives! It > didn't only get VEBA, but the contract holds down wages, seems to > divert > COLA to health care costs and gains more labor "flexibility." (I've > sent > this out to the SOS list, so apologize for d ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 10:19:55 PDT 2007

9400 [lbo-talk] letter to eric asimov -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:40 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Our dinner at Hurley's told us something important about Portland, > and about the United States itself. An abiding inequality haunts > this city and every city in the country. It strikes you like a > hammer. In a city with one of the nation's highest unemployment > rates, with homeless children on every street corner, with adult > beggars at every highway entrance ramp, diners were packed cheek by > jowl in a restaurant w ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 10:17:24 PDT 2007

9401 [lbo-talk] Anti-"Appeasement" Rhetoric: From Communism to a Caliphate (was Pat Buchanan on Ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The argument that Buchanan used in 1977 against "appeasement" of > Communists is precisely the type of argument that many -- on the Left, > Right, and Center! -- use today against "appeasement" of Iran in > particular and political Islam in general: don't be fooled by the > rhetoric of anti-imperialism advanced by Islamists, pro-Islamists, > "Western-haters" -- Islamists are pursuing an imperi ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 09:04:59 PDT 2007

9402 [lbo-talk] help -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Eric wrote: > This, I think, is the single most horrible thing about this deal. Not > only did the UAW abandon any sort of class solidarity by caving on > the health care issue -- thus helping to ensure that 50 million > people stay uninsured and more underinsured -- but by insisting on a > self-managed fund, GM got the union to start thinking like a > portfolio manager. So now the union's primary metric for success will > be GM's stock price. L ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 08:47:20 PDT 2007

9403 [lbo-talk] factchecking Joseph Massad -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Lou Proyect for pointing to this] <http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/index.cfm? newsid=18814930&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568864&rfi=8> Distorting Desire By: BRIAN WHITAKER 09/13/2007 DESIRING ARABS By Joseph Massad University of Chicago Press 444 pp., $35 Joseph Massad, associate professor of modern Arab politics at Columbia University, is a controversial figure. As a protégé of the late Edward Said, who is also of Palestinian-Christian descent, his views on Zio ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 08:41:35 PDT 2007

9404 [lbo-talk] Jena 6 -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Charles Brown wrote: >>>> "Joseph Catron" > >> CB: You do realize you are evincing serious ignorance of the history > of >> the United States of America ? > > How so? Please explain. > > ^^^^^ > > CB: Before I do that, I need a call from the ref. I don't know whether > he ended the whole thread or just the personal dispute. The politics of Jena is an excellent subject, but the personal dispute isn't.

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 07:29:44 PDT 2007

9405 [lbo-talk] music criticism -- rank: 1000

[via Popbitch] "I'm sort of hip to the younger stuff. You know, like Beyonce's 'Crazy in Love.' That's a good song to dance to." - Barack Obama

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 06:36:02 PDT 2007