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9406 [lbo-talk] Khomeini on Sodomy: a response -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Good point. The late Ayatollah's requirement for a prepuce's > worth of penetration is considerably more lenient than > enlightened California's hysterical horror of "contact". When's the last time anyone was prosecuted for sodomy in California? Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 06:02:11 PDT 2007

9407 [lbo-talk] In case you were wondering.... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:32 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Can someone please explain why a material human explanation is > insufficient? Nureyev was very vain and wanted to identify with god!

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 06:01:07 PDT 2007

9408 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Jena Ignites a Movement: Report from Yesterday's Demonstration in Jena, Louisiana] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:56 PM, John Thornton wrote: > I do hope Doug doesn't end this thread before I did already. Stop.

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 06:00:01 PDT 2007

9409 [lbo-talk] Rep. Dingell unveils carbon tax bill -- rank: 1000

From: Charles Komanoff Date: September 26, 2007 10:07:28 PM EDT Subject: Rep. Dingell unveils carbon tax bill Dear friends -- Earlier this evening, Rep. John Dingell, the senior Congressmember and a prime mover of U.S. energy policy, unveiled his draft carbon tax bill. We at the Carbon Tax Center think this is a major development. As we say in our just-posted blog: With a mighty creak of long-rusted hinges, a door is finally opening in Washington. The present Congress will apparently be asked to ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 27 05:59:15 PDT 2007

9410 [lbo-talk] help -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Sorry this is an overpost. Why didn't you contact a union yourself? Procter & Gamble takes a rather different attitude towards people who need soap. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 17:41:34 PDT 2007

9411 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Jena Ignites a Movement: Report from Yesterday's Demonstration in Jena, Louisiana] -- rank: 1000

All right enough of the personal dispute. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 17:38:34 PDT 2007

9412 [lbo-talk] Pat Buchanan on Ahmadinejad -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > C'mon. You really think Buchanan is a closet Nazi? In some sense, yes. I think he's a national chauvinist and a white supremacist. A Catholic, though, which has its own kind of authoritarianism. Doug

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9413 [lbo-talk] UAW/GM/worker militance -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Contrary to their public statements about never cutting a deal with > the employer, C.N.A has recently signed an agreement with Tenet > Healthcare which will let Tenet employees organize more easily under > the CNA banner. Tenet has nurses in the Dallas, Houston and El Paso > markets in TX. See: > > http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/in-the-news/2007/august/ > page.jsp?itemID=31736051 They can't have said they'd never ...

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9414 [lbo-talk] GM-UAW agreement -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >>> Doug, I think you need to get out of New York and talk to some >>> actual >>> working people around the U.S. >> >> This line drives me crazy. There are plenty of working people right >> here in NYC. > > The New York metro area has 22 million people and the Los Angeles > metro area has 13 million (17 if you include the Inland Empire). Ok, here's a comparison of the broad occupational makeu ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 15:41:09 PDT 2007

9415 [lbo-talk] Pat Buchanan on Ahmadinejad -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler's > anti-Semitic > and genocidal tendencies, he was "an individual of > great > courage... > > -- > > Well, he was. The fact that he was a mass murderer of > nigh-unparalleled scale has no bearing on his > courageousness. You chopped off the rest of the quote: "Hitler's success was not based on ...

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9416 [lbo-talk] Pat Buchanan on Ahmadinejad -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Dennis Claxton quoted Patrick Buchanan: > True, as the Washington Times charges, Ahmadinejad invited David > Duke to > Tehran to a conference of Holocaust deniers, and his minions chant > "Death to America" and "Death to Israel." > > But every mob in the Middle East shouts such slogans. This is from a 1996 FAIR report <http://www.fair.org/index.php? page=2553>. ON JEWS: Buchanan referred to Capitol Hill as "Israeli-occ ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 13:13:46 PDT 2007

9417 [lbo-talk] GOP: Gay Ol' Party -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/28207.html> Thoughts On The Larry Craig Scandal by Chuck Baldwin September 26, 2007 12:00 PM EST The recent bathroom sex scandal involving Republican Idaho Senator Larry Craig has become a political hornet's nest. However, to those who are privy to the real-life goings-on among the political elite in Washington, D.C., this comes as no surprise. Extracurricular sexual activity in Washington, D.C., is about as uncommon as thunderstorms in the ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 12:49:50 PDT 2007

9418 [lbo-talk] help -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > How about democratically organized, worker owned businesses/coops? Sure. But workers still have to face big capitalist employers.

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 12:40:13 PDT 2007

9419 [lbo-talk] Dan's 'plaint - followup -- rank: 1000

Wow. Reading through the complaint, you learn (or they claim): * Redstone, a declared Bush supporter, was pissed that CBS News was alienating the Bush admin, and said at a board meeting that Rather & Co. had to go. * CBS tried to bury the Abu Ghraib story that Rather and Mapes broke. * CBS management tried to keep Rather off the National Guard story. * That same highly skeptical management vetted the documents that were later called into question. * CBS origianlly told Rather they'd stand ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 26 12:11:55 PDT 2007

9420 [lbo-talk] Dan's 'plaint -- rank: 1000

By the way, Dan Rather's complaint against CBS is at: <http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/ 20070920_cbs_complaint.pdf>. It's long.

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