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346 [lbo-talk] Basement tapes redux -- rank: 1000

For those in the LA area who may be interested, my X, John Scheele, travelled with the Band and Dylan during the Basement Tapes era and this gathering will feature some of his photographs of the group: http://hollywoodreporter.com/thr/columns/music_reporter_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000816379 marta --

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 13:35:17 PST 2005

347 [lbo-talk] Poor, white and pissed II -- rank: 1000

>>Jim wrote: > >Just so were clear here. Marta was talking about housing supports in the >community and you are lamenting the loss of human warehouses. The point is NOT >that state institutions are good but that a varied range of community options >are not available now and will be getting worse with Bush's cuts. > Thanks for bringing this point up Jim. Today's irony is that Bush purports to be for community choice in his Freedom Initiative and other proclamations but i ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 13:27:16 PST 2005

348 [lbo-talk] Poor, white and pissed II -- rank: 1000

>Marta wrote: >February 22, 2005 >Bush Budget Proposes Halt in Housing Aid for Disabled >By DAVID W. CHEN > > With little fanfare, the Bush administration is proposing to stop >financing the construction of new housing for the mentally ill and >physically handicapped as part of a 50 percent cut in its housing >budget for people with disabilities. > > > >^^^^^^^^ >CB: Reaganism is social fascism. In Michigan, Engler , the social fascist, >murdered an ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 10:56:07 PST 2005

349 [lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash" -- rank: 1000

>--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > >> Incidentally -- the sociology of the subject line must be all >> wrong. >> Probably more believers in the Rapture fit the stereotype "yuppie" >> than >> the stereotype "white trash"????? > DSR wrote: >Yes. I also grew up in the rural south (Mississippi) and your experience is completely the opposite of mine. I guess alot of it depends upon what you call "middle class&q ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 10:45:39 PST 2005

350 [lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash" -- rank: 1000

>Incidentally -- the sociology of the subject line must be all wrong. >Probably more believers in the Rapture fit the stereotype "yuppie" than >the stereotype "white trash"????? > >Carrol > That is not my experience. the yuppies go to protestant churches, like Methodist, Episcopalian, etc., they are not Pentacostal or evangelicals. Marta --

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 10:35:35 PST 2005

351 [lbo-talk] Poor, white and pissed II -- rank: 1000

>Chuck wrote: >But the left isn't going to do this, because it is still wedded to >the pro-government, pro-capitalist Democratic Party. It hasn't been >able to beat the right wing by aping the pro-government neo-cons and >we all know that the liberals will never adopt any anti-government >stance. People don't like government interference in their lives. >They also know about the history of authoritarian leftism (i.e. the >Soviet Union and China) and they want no part of t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Feb 23 15:42:42 PST 2005

352 [lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash" -- rank: 1000

How can any liberal or radical weed through this bull with the "white trash" who live in the faith-based realm? Marta Published on Friday, February 11, 2005 by San Francisco Chronicle Fasten Your Seatbelts The Rapture Index by Jon Carroll Let us consider the Rapture Index. This is a real thing prepared by serious people. If it makes you laugh, you have not gotten the memo. You probably have not read any of the 12 volumes of the "Left Behind" series, the best-selling books in ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Feb 23 14:13:35 PST 2005

353 [lbo-talk] Kerry proposes 40,000 more troops -- rank: 1000

That idiot Kerry - this really gets under my skin. I have called both Boxer and Feinstein's office. Here is a new toll free number 888 818-6641 Marta "In September 2003, 115 House Democrats voted against the supplemental military funding bill. This year that number could fall to a handful." <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/kerr-f19.shtml>http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/kerr-f19.shtml Kerry proposes 40,000 more troops, as Democrats back Bush war spending By P ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 22 11:10:30 PST 2005

354 [lbo-talk] Epstein on the march -- rank: 1000

Is Your Stuff Yours? The Answer Isn't So Simple Seeking to limit government seizures, conservatives take the issue to court. By Martin Garbus Martin Garbus is a trial lawyer in the law firm of Davis & Gilbert in New York. February 21, 2005 On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will be faced with the following question: Under what conditions, if any, can the government take property from you or your business for the public good? Although the question sounds straightforward enough, its answer wil ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 21 14:46:09 PST 2005

355 [lbo-talk] Hunter Thompson kills himself -- rank: 1000

>DRR wrote: >Dreadful news. Thompson was one of the greats - sparkling, >styling prose, and though he slowed down in his later years, >he still managed to deliver the occasional thunderbolt against >(usually deserving) miscreants. He was a canny reader of >mass-cultural trends, and maybe he had an inkling of the >horrors the oiligarchy is unleashing. Possibly that's what >drove him over the edge. > Not that I don't agree that thinking about the future and the present i ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 21 14:13:47 PST 2005

356 [lbo-talk] Greenspan a hack -- rank: 1000

It's encouraging to see Greenspan referred to as a "hack" in the NYT. Marta New York Times February 18, 2005 OP-ED COLUMNIST Three-Card Maestro By PAUL KRUGMAN lan Greenspan just did it again. Four years ago, the Fed chairman lent crucial political support to the Bush tax cuts. He didn't specifically endorse the administration's plan, and if you read his testimony carefully, it contained caveats and cautions. But that didn't matter; the headlines trumpeted Mr. Greenspan's support, and ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Feb 19 14:09:21 PST 2005

357 [lbo-talk] Churchill's complaint -- rank: 1000

>There are days I feel like putting a map of the US on my website with a big >X on Crawford Texas to direct any terrorists away from New York City. No >one in the Homeland Security department sure as hell cares about actually >helping New York; they're defunding mass transit, one of the key vulnerable >targets in the City and giving more money proportionately to Wyoming for >security than to NYC. The Gropenator here in CA is going to Washington to try to get more federal doll ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Feb 15 15:52:54 PST 2005

358 [lbo-talk] another $87b for war -- rank: 1000

Doug wrote: >Washington Post - February 15, 2005 >President Requests More War Funding >Money for Iraqi Forces Rises Sharply > >By Jonathan Weisman >Washington Post Staff Writer > >President Bush asked Congress yesterday for $82 billion in emergency >spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the Indian >Ocean tsunami, making good on a pledge to dramatically scale up >efforts to train and equip Iraqi security forces ahead of an >eventual U.S. withdra ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Feb 15 14:09:06 PST 2005

359 [lbo-talk] Allure of the Maple Leaf -- rank: 1000

Carl wrote: >[More and more Americans agree, that giant sucking sound is the USA itself.] > >February 8, 2005 >Some Bush Foes Vote Yet Again, With Their Feet: Canada or Bust >By RICK LYMAN > >VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 4 - Christopher Key knows exactly >what he would be giving up if he left Bellingham, Wash. "It's the >sort of place Norman Rockwell would paint, where everyone watches >out for everyone else and we have block parties every year," said ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Feb 8 18:27:49 PST 2005

360 [lbo-talk] the Enron Tapes -- rank: 1000

LATimes Tapes Reveal Enron's Power Plant Rigging Transcripts detail how electricity traders conspired to shut down smooth-running generating facilities during the energy crisis. By Jonathan Peterson Times Staff Writer February 4, 2005 Enron Corp. traders conspired to shut down a healthy power plant as blackouts rolled across California in early 2001, according to documents released Thursday. http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-enron4feb04,1,1819268.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-busin ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Feb 4 15:27:05 PST 2005