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11566 [lbo-talk] Why Japan's Left Never Wins -- rank: 1000

On May 20, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Chris asks: > >>> "zainichi" >> >> What's that? > > My next program will be to look for simple questions that get posted > here and refer the poster to Google or Wikipedia. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainichi_Korean It's a courtesy when a writer defines an obscure term so that people don't have to go looking things up. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 20 19:17:37 PDT 2007

11567 [lbo-talk] buried in a matchbox -- rank: 1000

Missed this the first time around. Hitchens to Hannity: "If you gave Falwell and enema you could have buried him in a matchbox."

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Date:	Sun May 20 19:11:27 PDT 2007

11568 [lbo-talk] Japan schools to teach patriotism -- rank: 1000

On May 20, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007 07:48, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > >> Opposition members of parliament protested against the bill, >> warning that >> it could spread nationalism. > > Au contraire. The surest way to discourage something is to get the > schools > pushing it. In the early 20th century, our elite decided they could assimilate all the troublesome offspring of the immigrants into the American way through the ...

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Date:	Sun May 20 06:05:14 PDT 2007

11569 [lbo-talk] counts -- rank: 1000

Jordan wrote up a nice little script that counts posts by the day. Here's today's list of quota violators. I don't mind the occasional overage, but chronics will be kneecapped. 5 Tayssir John Gabbour 5 Wojtek Sokolowski 5 Charles Brown 4 Dennis Claxton

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Date:	Fri May 18 15:00:14 PDT 2007

11570 [lbo-talk] GOP's crisis of faith -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 18, 2007 The GOP's Crisis of Faith By E. J. Dionne Jr. It isn't always easy to notice, but this year's Republican presidential campaign has become the occasion for the collapse of conservative orthodoxy. In Tuesday's Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, every leading candidate declared independence from some piece of dogma or another -- even as all of them clung for dear life to the word "conservative." They sounded like religious doubters who co ...

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Date:	Fri May 18 11:04:54 PDT 2007

11571 [lbo-talk] Wolfie out -- rank: 1000

On May 18, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > Why, throughout this whole soap opera, was W's mistress *never* > referred to as such, but always as his "girlfriend" or "companion?" Because he's not married, right? And unless she has him collared and bound, that would make mistress (or Mistress) inappropriate. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 18 09:52:57 PDT 2007

11572 [lbo-talk] never believe anything until it's been officially denied -- rank: 1000

[weird the Post would give space to all these allegations, which they circulate by denying - and most readers will believe them, no?] New York Post [Page Six] - May 18, 2007 Lies & Smears Aimed At Post JARED Paul Stern - a rogue former freelancer for Page Six who was accused last year of trying to shake down billionaire Ron Burkle - is now threatening to sue the New York Post. The disgraced journalist, who was investigated for alleged extortion by the U.S. Attorney's Office but never cha ...

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Date:	Fri May 18 06:02:07 PDT 2007

11573 [lbo-talk] How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your OnlineCommunity -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Bob Morris wrote: > Big blogs like crooksandliars have several people that moderate > comments. > There's no other way to do it but moderation that I know of. Gawker invites people to be commenters, or confers commenter status if you submit something witty or interesting. And every week they fire about 4 or 5 commenters - they used to be called ritual executions, and be illustrated with a photo of a guillotine, but after the Va Tech massacre, they rename ...

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Date:	Thu May 17 16:02:02 PDT 2007

11574 [lbo-talk] Wolfie out -- rank: 1000

[so who's going to be his successor? will this weaken the US hold over the office? very interesting...] FT.com - Published: May 17 2007 23:12 | Last updated: May 17 2007 23:12 Wolfowitz bows to pressure and quits World Bank By Krishna Guha and Eoin Callan in Washington Paul Wolfowitz announced his resignation as president of the World Bank shortly after 6pm on Thursday, bringing to an end a turbulent two-year tenure as chief of the world s leading development institution. His decision came af ...

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Date:	Thu May 17 15:52:48 PDT 2007

11575 [lbo-talk] NYPD docs -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Chuck wrote: > I'm going to post my thoughts on the docs to the NYC Anarchists > lists. I > can post something similar here if anybody is interested. Of course.

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Date:	Thu May 17 15:41:38 PDT 2007

11576 [lbo-talk] NYPD docs -- rank: 1000

The NYT website has the files on NYPD surveillance of groups planning for demos during the 2004 Republican convention: <http:// www.nytimes.com/ref/nyregion/RNC_intel_digests.html>.

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Date:	Thu May 17 12:28:46 PDT 2007

11577 [lbo-talk] The Dems have their own radio network! -- rank: 1000

[too bad it's going to be duller than Fox] Begin forwarded message: NEW OWNERSHIP "RELAUNCHES" AIR AMERICA RADIO WITH NEW WEBSITE, LINEUP, LOOK & SLOGAN Network begins "I'm an Air American!" campaign with Paul Newman ad. AAR Hosts interview 30+ Headliners for Official ReLaunch on May 21-22, including: Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Richardson -- as well as Steinem, Sorensen, Newman, Nader, Stephanopoulos, Spitzer, Bloomberg, Waxman. Nancy Scola hired as chief blogger. NEW Y ...

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Date:	Thu May 17 11:49:52 PDT 2007

11578 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Saying Muscovites are priviliged > beings is like saying the sun is a giant ball of > fusing hydrogen. Duh. But you keep talking about how prosperous Moscow is, as if it were representative of Russia. I could talk about all the snazzy boutiques in Soho, too, but that wouldn't be very representative of life in the USA either. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 17 08:47:22 PDT 2007

11579 [lbo-talk] Remembering Jerry Falwell -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2007, at 1:37 AM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Soulforce cofounder Mel White knew two Jerry Falwells: the evangelical > preacher who spewed hate from the pulpit and the family man who > wasn't so > bad once you got to know him. So what? He could have been the nicest guy in the world in private, but his public role was entirely toxic. Ann Coulter is reported to be pretty nice too. It works the other way around, as well: Marx was a prick in private, but who cares?

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Date:	Thu May 17 08:45:45 PDT 2007

11580 [lbo-talk] Running Mixed Economy (was Junkyard dog hits Motown) -- rank: 1000

On May 17, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > But instead of those, the topic that is > most worth discussing may be how to run and develop mixed economy > while creating socialist culture, since mixed economy is what you'll > run in the interim even if you are actually aiming for socialist > economy in the end. I'm afraid you're right. Which means spending intellectual energy on keeping the tech and management slots filled with people who are both competent and politi ...

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Date:	Thu May 17 08:30:39 PDT 2007