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301 [lbo-talk] ghetto/fabulous -- rank: 234

... kelley "We're in a fucking stagmire." --Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'

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302 [lbo-talk] Why do people vote against their interests? P.J. O'Rourke explains -- rank: 234

At 12:19 PM 6/11/2004, Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Although he's a Republican partisan, though a cleverer and more >gentlemanly one than many of his co-religionists, he acknowledged that >people's problem is with government power ­ regardless of the party >wielding it. The GOP seems to be about ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 10:35:13 PDT 2004

303 [lbo-talk] Canada (was Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan) -- rank: 234

At 10:42 AM 6/12/2004, dano wrote: >I realize that this meme may sound to some (many?) like some sort of >apocalyptic thought pattern, but we in California have had to think about >cataclysms before (earthquakes) so thinking about means and methods of >evacuation due to dramatic circumstances is ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 09:57:48 PDT 2004

304 [lbo-talk] Canada (was Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan -- Killer, Coward, Conman -- rank: 234

At 06:27 PM 6/10/2004, Jon Johanning wrote: >On Thursday, June 10, 2004, at 11:03 AM, snit snat wrote: > >>Please, please, please pretty please huh huh huh?! Canadians. >>Australians. Please tell us how we can get the fuck outta dodge. I see >>Shrub winning this fall. Around here ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 09:30:14 PDT 2004

305 [lbo-talk] Re: Reagan's conservatism -- rank: 234

man. i love reading you and dwayne. don't always agree with you, but you sure know how to turn a phrase. smoochiez! At 11:23 PM 6/8/2004, Chuck Grimes wrote: >``..he catalyzed serious changes in the policies and ideologies >dominating the U.S... We didn't. It's ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 12 08:29:15 PDT 2004

306 [lbo-talk] re: grist for the culture angst mill -- rank: 234

At 04:30 PM 6/11/2004, Michael Pollak wrote: >On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, snit snat wrote: > > > I think the problem is this: he's saying it's not an epidemic. You know > > what an epidemic is--everyone is catching it. He's saying that the > > numbers suggest that the ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 14:34:01 PDT 2004

307 [lbo-talk] re: grist for the culture angst mill -- rank: 234

... Kelley "We're in a fucking stagmire." --Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 13:25:24 PDT 2004

308 [lbo-talk] Bitch sub drive -- rank: 234

yeah. budge no onan gave me a sub last year. (thanks again j!) it's a great mag. subscribe today! At 08:57 AM 6/11/2004, Doug Henwood wrote: >The excellent Bitch magazine - "feminist responses to pop culture" - is on >a subscription drive. If you don't you should. Info ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 11 06:24:20 PDT 2004

309 [lbo-talk] grist for the cultural angst mill -- rank: 234

At 11:53 AM 6/10/2004, Doug Henwood wrote: >snit snat wrote: > >>Instead, he says, the statistics demonstrate clearly that >>while THE VERY FAT ARE GETTING FATTER, THINNER PEOPLE HAVE >>REMAINED PRETTY MUCH THE SAME." >> >>He's saying that the explanation for the problem is not that a large >>proportion ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 09:59:18 PDT 2004

310 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 234

At 11:57 AM 6/10/2004, Doug Henwood wrote: >Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > >> >>On Thursday, June 10, 2004, at 10:44 AM, snit snat wrote: >> >>>The question is: will Scowcroft, Baker, and the rest actually _do_ >>>something so the Republican party will lose this fall? They may not have >>>any commitment ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 09:31:13 PDT 2004

311 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 234

At 11:52 AM 6/10/2004, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >they may not torpedo him, but they may not lift their fingers to help him. >i'll be interested to watch this dynamic play itself out. i agree. but that's the problem: things are entrenched. it's a stand off ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 09:13:28 PDT 2004

312 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 234

At 10:49 AM 6/10/2004, dano wrote: >At 10:21 AM -0400 6/10/04, Doug Henwood wrote: >>Carl Remick wrote: >> >>>Above all, Reagan's death lures the troublesome paleo-conservatives back >>>into the Big Tent. >> >>Not necessarily. Reagan's political genius was in part about finessing >>all these ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 08:44:58 PDT 2004

313 [lbo-talk] Canada (was Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan -- Killer, Coward, Conman -- rank: 234

At 09:39 AM 6/9/2004, Doug Henwood wrote: >Seymour Hersh said this in a talk at the University of Chicago last night: >"If we get him for four more years, we deserve what we get....I haven't >bought land in Canada yet, but I'm looking." > >Doug Please ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 08:03:42 PDT 2004

314 [lbo-talk] grist for the cultural angst mill -- rank: 234

At 09:28 PM 6/9/2004, Jacob Conrad wrote: >----------------------- > >Just ask anyone who works at a hospital if the fat have been getting fatter. "But Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, an obesity researcher at Rockefeller University, argues that contrary to popular opinion, NATIONAL DATA DO NOT SHOW AMERICANS GROWING >>>>UNIFORMLY<<<<< FATTER. Instead ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:57:45 PDT 2004

315 [lbo-talk] grist for the cultural angst mill -- rank: 234

At 12:53 PM 6/9/2004, Christian Gregory wrote: > >So, how does this invalidate the researcher's claims? > >You have to have a pretty cock-eyed view of the world to think that a >fairly large change in the skewness of the weight distribution isn't >significant. And, yes, it ...

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