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346 [lbo-talk] SEIU's sleazy anti-Nader campaign -- rank: 243

I guess Andy Stern is doing penance for his momentary lack of prostration before the Democrats. I guess this is what giving up on organizing campaigns for electoral campaigns leads to. Welcome to the new AFL-CIO, same as the old AFL-CIO: http://www.counterpunch.com/donnelly09102004.html Judge Lipscomb ...

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Author:	Lance Murdoch
Date:	Sun Sep 12 10:09:56 PDT 2004

347 [lbo-talk] Democrats v. Democracy -- rank: 243

September 10, 2004 Democrats v. Democracy Oregon Judge Puts Nader on Ballot By MICHAEL DONNELLY In a year devoid of victories for Democracy, indeed a year where Democracy has taken quite a few body blows to say the least, a county judge in Oregon has stepped up and blown away months ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Sat Sep 11 15:44:20 PDT 2004

348 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 243

And heh to my surprise Alex Cockburn actually did some research on that megabucks Iranian-American fundraiser for Kerry. http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR26301.shtml [13] Cited in Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy, New York 2002, p. 342. The top contributing sectors, professions and industries to Kerry in 2004 thus far ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Oct 11 14:34:14 PDT 2004

349 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Oct 9 19:25:05 PDT 2004

350 [lbo-talk] Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards -- rank: 243

How can so many people manage to fume about Ubu's "majority" of "votes" without ever mentioning the word DIEBOLD? This really, really stupid election was even phonier than the 2000 farce. To the loss and regret of all of us, Those Who Decide chose not to dump UbuPOTUS. Why? Are ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Nov 4 10:01:32 PST 2004

351 [lbo-talk] text of OBL's speech: Bush like the naughty she-goat... -- rank: 243

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Full transcript of his speech: > ><http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F. >htm> > The website is overloaded - I got several "too busy" messages. So here's the transcript, as a public service. Doug ---- Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech Monday 01 November 2004 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 11:49:50 PST 2004

352 Lawyers Should be Indicted (Re: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood profile -- rank: 243

Nathan Newman wrote: >...the original issue...is...how to handle lawyers who are involved in >ongoing advice to clients who are still involved in the alleged illegal >activity.... But, but, the sheik, her client, was charged with conspiring to blow up the World Trade Center, and the alleged criminal activity she ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri May 28 20:30:12 PDT 2004

353 [lbo-talk] more nonvoters -- rank: 243

Doug wrote: > >>But if they *did* vote then they would, by definition, no longer be >>"passive and disengaged," and so even by the pollsters' theory >>they would be expected to vote in accordance with their >>socio-economic/racial profile! > >People often don't vote (or think) the way their demographic group ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun May 23 17:04:54 PDT 2004

354 [lbo-talk] more nonvoters -- rank: 243

Doug wrote: >Michael Pollak wrote: > >>If that's all they've got, I'm afraid they've got nothing. If their >>results contradict all their basic theories and assumptions, then we have >>to assume there's something wrong with their methods -- unless they can >>explain what's wrong with the theories ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat May 22 15:49:24 PDT 2004

355 [lbo-talk] AAPOR on "push polls" -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat May 22 15:19:38 PDT 2004

356 [lbo-talk] More on Rapture Christians and the WH -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri May 21 15:43:54 PDT 2004

357 [lbo-talk] Bush as the lesser imperialist evil -- rank: 243

Doug Henwood wrote: >Joseph Wanzala wrote: > >>As dangerous as it is, Bush's re-election may be a lesser evil > >So I guess neither you nor Kolko ever hoped to organize a union, or >anticipated any need for Medicare. It's all about foreign policy, >isn't it? and Dwayne Monroe ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed May 12 19:34:46 PDT 2004

358 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 243

I too thought this op-ed by Bruce Ackerman put forth a great idea. On the face of it, the Naderites should love it because it allows more people to vote for Nader without worrying that they are helping to elect Bush,and the Kerryites should jump at the chance to ...

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Author:	Liza Featherstone
Date:	Wed May 5 14:06:01 PDT 2004

359 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 243

Today's NYTimes had an op-ed column by a Yale professor that puts a decisive challenge to both Nader and the ABB anti-Naderites. The idea is seemingly very simple: since the return of Ubu and his Bushits is generally agreed to be the worst possible outcome, let the two ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed May 5 13:47:38 PDT 2004

360 [lbo-talk] Re: naderphobia -- rank: 243

Doug Henwood wrote: >...No one's assassinating Nader's character... That's odd, I recall more than a few uses of the word "egomaniac" and variations thereof, plus a healthy measure of guilt-by-association references to Republicon (but not Dumbocrat) figures that he supposedly had lunch with sometime. >...he's ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Mar 30 13:22:47 PST 2004