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1426 Wenn ich Kultur hoere (was Re: Invention of the white race //Rakeshon eugenics) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > > > > Charles Brown > > >>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 05/31 12:51 PM >>> > Charles Brown wrote: > > >The evident crappiness of the latest racist pseudo-biology is an > >indication of the desparation and decadence of the bourgeoisie > > Decadence, maybe, but desperation? What is desperate about the bourgeoisie? > Everything is going their way. They've crushed their rival of 75 years, > social ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 3 00:46:37 PDT 1998

1427 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

I'm really looking forward to this Butler discussion - only I can't spare the time right now to do a chapter. This is making me feel guilty and I'm not even Catholic. Marta Russell Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: > On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > > OK, Doug. Put me down for chapter one. ugh. That will give us more > time to get people to volunteer to do later chapters (ahem--Kelley). > > frances > > > > Here's the ToC, if that helps: > > > > ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 28 14:23:30 PST 1998

1428 Mr. Cranky savages "You've got mail" -- rank: 1000

oops another button pushed too quickly before checking my "TO" thingy. Marta Marta Russell wrote: > > Lyle, > > You may already know about this one, but if not ... get a load. > > Marta Russell > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Mr. Cranky savages "You've Got Mail" > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Mr. Cranky's other new movie reviews this week ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 26 22:29:42 PST 1998

1429 Mr. Cranky savages "You've got mail" -- rank: 1000

> Lyle, You may already know about this one, but if not ... get a load. Marta Russell > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Mr. Cranky savages "You've Got Mail" > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Mr. Cranky's other new movie reviews this week include: > The Prince of Egypt........................(2 bombs) > A Simple Plan..............................(1 bomb) > > Mr. Cranky's new rental rev ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Dec 26 22:15:33 PST 1998

1430 Nazi Relationship to Capitalism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > With David Duke back in the news, since he is a likely successor to > Congressman Livingston's House seat, I was checking out his web site. Will Duke run on the Republican or independent ticket? If he runs on the GOP ticket, this is great news. After ignoring the will of the majority about Clinton (not that I support the murderer or the Dems) all the GOP needs now is to have David Duke sit on the Republican side of the aisle. Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Dec 20 23:18:32 PST 1998

1431 culture and illness -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: > ---Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at primenet.com> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > Alec Ramsdell writes: > > Marta, do you think the medical model of addiction, with all its > > trappings of the essentialized disease model, and with its possible > > subsuming of other conditions, is in step with the way disability as a > > category is kept flexible for the sake of economic and political > > interests, as you write abo ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Dec 18 11:36:26 PST 1998

1432 Showalter, Psychoanalysis, and Individualism (was Illness and culture) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie, You stated this brilliantly. I agree. Marta Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Frances says we must first read Elaine Showalter's book _Hystories_ in > order to discuss it. I haven't read the whole thing, but aren't her project > and where it fits in our contemporary ideology rather painfully obvious? > Isn't her basic idea that stupid people (unlike Prof. Showalter) invent all > kinds of imaginary entities--aliens, incestuous fathers, satan worshippers, > germs, diseases, etc. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Dec 17 10:26:09 PST 1998

1433 offlist -- rank: 1000

OOps this was supposed to go to Cathy, personally. My mistake. Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Dec 17 10:00:07 PST 1998

1434 offlist -- rank: 1000

Cathy, Thank you for your wonderful posts on CFS. I just wanted to tell you that I felt so much empathy for what you went (are going) through. The social ramifications of having a chronic disability are so unnecessarily disastrous. When my unknown fibro hit me I had a four year old daughter and was married. My husband kept pressing me to have more children in the midst of all my pain and confusion about what was happening to me!! We divorced mnainly because of that. I also had a hard time ge ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 16 21:44:28 PST 1998

1435 CFS (reprint) -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: > I think people who criticize "Western" medicine on the grounds > that it is not open to new therapies, and new maladies on which to use > those therapies, are misguided. The history of medicine clearly shows that > it has always been open to excessive treatment of dubious merit, pure > flim-flams and snake oil from the first. I would agree that this has been true in the past because to treat (and get paid for it) requires a diagnosis and a st ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Dec 16 12:13:01 PST 1998

1436 Illness and culture (Re: We need grammar help!! (Re: Women behaving badly) -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, cathy wrote: > > Also, if you want to 'sacrifice' a disease to challenge the status quo, CFS > > won't do it. You'll just confirm everyone's suspicions. Why not pick a > > disease like cancer? Gasp, but it would be so cruel to say that cancer is > > cultural. > > Actuall, this is one of the things I came up against yesterday thinking > about illness and culture. I sat at my desk listing illnesses, trying to &g ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Dec 16 11:51:17 PST 1998

1437 Women behaving badly -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Marta Russell wrote: > > > > Showalter seems to be doing the same to women. I have not read her, only the > > posts here. Has she attacked fibro? Given her attitude and know it all > > attitude, I can't understand why she hasn't. Now here's a cure for > > ignorance. If Showalter and few more laypersons who speak about what they > > don't know could develope one of these illnesses, that would cure you ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 14 18:54:02 PST 1998

1438 Women behaving badly -- rank: 1000

Frances wrote in response to Mary Sdhweitzer: I read Schweitzer's post and kept thinking about the now-discredited repressed memory syndrome and multiple personality disorder. I look forward to seeing what is said about CFS in a few years. Frances, You remind me of the too multitudinous medical professionals who think they know what they don't know. It took me over ten years of going to "doctors" to discover that I had fibromyalgia - on top of my birth disability. Fibromyalgia is anot ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 14 11:36:50 PST 1998

1439 A question for Marta -- rank: 1000

Hi Tom, The Presidents Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities has a website on employment, reasonable accomodations, etc. I don't have their website but I'm sure it can easily be retrieved under government from a search engine. There is the traditional department of rehabilitation which generally sucks but its entire job is to see that disabled people get training (though not careers) and a job. This is a site that was passed on to me that I have been meaning to try: http://ww ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 8 12:35:24 PST 1998

1440 Figuring 1998 dollars in terms of 1988/89 dollars -- rank: 1000

John, I'm in California. We've been stuck at minimum wage since the inception of the In Home Support Services program here. To get to $7.85 would be a hefty increase. The result of such poor wages is that attendants are becoming harder and in some cases impossible to find. There are some illegal immigrants who will work for that but if they get paid by the state, they have to have a valid SS no. Its is shame but some disabled people here have to get on advanced pay - the money comes to them ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 20:23:08 PST 1998