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646 the smartest fascist? -- rank: 1000

> > >Before forty, I believe. Also wrote for the New Republic. I read that >he was part of John Dewey's circle, but was kicked out for his opposition >to WWI. > >-- Shane > He considered Dewey a sell out as an intellectual. When it got tough to be against war Dewey caved in, at least that is how Bourne felt. marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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647 the smartest fascist? -- rank: 1000

> > "PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the >> government and one's "country"; >> -- from The American Heretic's Dictionary > >Marta Russell wrote: >> Except I would make a third grouping, the state. Government is >> really just the bureaucracy of administering. The STATE is what >> goes to war, hence the dominant agent. The country is the >> collectivity of people who occupy a place. > >War Is the ...

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648 the smartest fascist? -- rank: 1000

> >Joe: > >"PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the >government and one's "country"; >-- from The American Heretic's Dictionary Except I would make a third grouping, the state. Government is really just the bureaucracy of administering. The STATE is what goes to war, hence the dominant agent. The country is the collectivity of people who occupy a place. marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Date:	Wed Sep 4 16:52:40 PDT 2002

649 the smartest fascist? -- rank: 1000

>Joe R. Golowka wrote: > >>If America were Fascist every American on this listerv would be >>dead or in a concentration camp. > >No kidding. Thank you for making this point. > >Doug Here in LA a group is collecting money for placing a no war ad in the LA Times. I admit I got a bit chilled thinking about having my name in print but I went ahead and sent in my donation anyway with permission to use my name. Now it may be that there will be no consequence and it may ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 4 16:43:43 PDT 2002

650 capitalism/neo-liberal capitalism -- rank: 1000

>At 05:22 PM 09/02/2002 -0400, Chuck G. wrote: >>So in my mind this scene captures the difference between capitalism >>and neoliberal capitalism. The school gets smaller and smaller, more >>and more kids are crammed behind rusting fences and surrounded by vast >>stretches of a glittering emptiness and waste, built in a frenzy for >>the new wave of electric capital that never arrived. Meanwhile in the >>foreground a former UCB art major drives (very slowly) ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 2 18:41:10 PDT 2002

651 [ADAPT-CAL] (unknown) -- rank: 1000

September 2, 2002 California Budget Passes With Cuts and, Critics Contend, Smoke and Mirrors By JOHN M. BRODER LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1 - A bitterly divided California legislature ended a 61-day stalemate early this morning, passing a budget intended to address a $24 billion deficit that is growing deeper by the month. Democratic leaders in the State Assembly won the needed four votes from Republicans by promising to slash spending while avoiding any significant tax increases. Gov. Gray Davis praise ...

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652 sorry -- rank: 1000

Was thinking of race horses, work horses, etc. who had to earn their keep. A horse's broken leg can be set like a humans. There are pain killers to help. So it really wasn't rational for horse/pets to be killed either. We don't kill our cats or dogs when they start to limp do we? At least I don't know of anyone who does. Dead horses do translate into horse meat for food -- ie, a commodity. Marta >I thought that the shooting was often predicated on the idea that people >did not know ho ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 2 13:49:32 PDT 2002

653 sorry -- rank: 1000

> >I don't buy that "lame" is a slur in the same way that "retard" or "gimp" >would be, since the latter have a history of use as pejoratives, while >"lame" was traditionally a colloquial alternative to "disabled" and usually >applied not to humans but to hurt animals. When I hear the word "lame", I >think mostly of its use applied to hurt horses. So a lame magazine in >modern slang is a hurt magazine. A lame mag ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 2 13:27:04 PDT 2002

654 sorry -- rank: 1000

> >I don't buy that "lame" is a slur in the same way that "retard" or "gimp" >would be, since the latter have a history of use as pejoratives, while >"lame" was traditionally a colloquial alternative to "disabled" and usually >applied not to humans but to hurt animals. When I hear the word "lame", I >think mostly of its use applied to hurt horses. So a lame magazine in >modern slang is a hurt magazine. A lame mag ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 2 10:49:44 PDT 2002

655 sorry -- rank: 1000

> >I remember affirmative action for the disabled in my childhood >and teenage years, in the form of advertising and perhaps more >substantial forms of persuasion. It was probably an aftereffect >of World War II, when some of the disabled were veterans. But >not all. "Hire the disabled -- it's good business!" When >was that, the benighted fifties? > >-- > >[ the difficulty of being Left ] > >Gordon: I think the gov't has tried to use that phra ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 2 10:13:35 PDT 2002

656 The Social Movement Left OUT -- rank: 1000

My beef: The authors don't go far enough to assert that unemployment is a part of capitalism. They don't challenge who owns the means of production and that owners dictate who are employed and not employed. They aren't radical economists, they are social policy wonks. Some good ideas but restricted to a liberal approach and keeping their tenure at their universities I( would think) knowing these churn out papers every where for every symposium on disability possible. I don't believe that the ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 21:09:09 PDT 2002

657 The Social Movement Left OUT -- rank: 1000

>For Marta, and the list. > >Jenny K came into the shop this afternoon just after I posted on this >thread from work. She is one of DREDF's lawyers. I asked her if she >knew you (Marta), but I don't think you've met. In any event I also >tried to get her to explain what happened to the DREDF international >law project, but couldn't get much of an answer. > >Last year DREDF had a DOJ(?) project to make recommendations on creating >guidelines for international disabil ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 10:34:43 PDT 2002

658 sorry -- rank: 1000

> >One of my disabled friends, who is anything but self-hating, >uses the term _lame_ to deprecate bad art frequently, so the >word may have different auras for different people; they >might not connect it with disability in the political sense. I have noticed an increase in the use of "lame" as of late. It seems to have become one of those trendy words like dude or rad. Another one is "retard" which seems to have proliferated like rabbits. And it is used in ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 10:11:44 PDT 2002

659 Fw: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement -- rank: 1000

David Corn left out that Ben of Ben & Jerry's also spoke at the protest -- for a long time. I'm tired of these people like Corn who make a living off what others do, in this case bashing the ones who take action. What has he done? What IS HE anyway -- another armchair liberal it seems from here. The Cooper-Hitchens-Corn axis. Have any of them ever organized any protest in their lives? Marta >http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/50/news-corn.php >------ > >L.A. Weekly | NOVEMBER 1 - ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 31 22:50:33 PST 2002

660 a death -- rank: 1000

>Sad news: I just got an email saying that long-time listmember Alec >Ramsdell died in Chicago on Oct 18. > >Doug This saddens me terribly. I cried this morning over it. Alec had contacted me off list several times over the years and I found him to be such a billiant light and warm human being. I never knew, however, that he was battling heroin. We need him. We cannot afford to lose people like Alec. It is surely our tragic loss. Marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www. ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 30 16:18:03 PST 2002