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11701 [lbo-talk] Park Ave Peerage unmasked: it's a kid in Illinois!! -- rank: 1000

<http://parkavenuepeerage.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/disclaimer/> Disclaimer May 8, 2007 Posted by 68thandpark in Articles. trackback The witch hunt is over. The founders of Socialite Rank were exposed and their joint secret is out of the bag. Unlike the website they authored, Park Avenue Peerage is a not a den of mud-slinging. This isn t a place to post accusations to destroy reputations. Society can and should stand for something much greater the active pursuits of beauty, grace, an ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 13:56:02 PDT 2007

11702 [lbo-talk] Kvetching, was Sarkozy, France etc -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2007, at 4:27 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Here is Goerge Monbiot arguing that London's successful Olympic bid > and the > government's commitment to use the Olympics to promote regeneration > is a > problem: The history of Olympic cities is on Monbiot's side. The "regeneration" usually consists of displacement and gentrification. Just a week or two ago you were making fun of me for swallowing bourgeois propaganda about climate change. You're swallowing the ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 13:45:39 PDT 2007

11703 [lbo-talk] help wanted -- rank: 1000

Dear Sex-Pos Friends - Cleis Press has just created a new position for a Marketing Coordinator/eMarketing Specialist whose mandate will be to relentlessly promote Cleis books and authors on the web. No doubt you may know some very talented person who would get fired up about marketing progressive sex guides and erorica collections online. If you know someone who would be be appropriate for this position, would you pass the info along? Thanks so much. Best wishes, Felice Newman Marketing Coordin ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 12:42:38 PDT 2007

11704 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > You are mistaken, my friend. I do not piss on those people - I just > do not give a flying fuck about them. If they are in jail, it is > their > problem, not mine. Man, that's cold. The U.S. incarcerates a bigger share of its population than any other country in the world. We criminalize things that shouldn't be criminalized. Yeah, sure, there are real scumbags in prison who belong there. But there are a whole lot of people ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 12:39:18 PDT 2007

11705 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > But aside that, all that bickering about imperialism, racism, > neoliberalism, > capitalism, the IMF, the police, the middle class, and white people in > general, shedding crocodile tears over rogue elements of society, > inmates > and criminals etc. is nothing but hot air that appeals only to > losers and > blasé intellectuals, but has zero chance of attracting any popular > support. So Sarko's adoption of Le Pen ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 12:20:50 PDT 2007

11706 [lbo-talk] Free Paris -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > "Free Paris Hilton!" Petition Begs Meanwhile, Page Six reports: > Heiress Fatigue > > PARIS Hilton can't be sent to jail fast enough for some folks. > Before the heirhead was sentenced to 45 days for driving repeatedly > with a suspended license, a group called Citizens for a Better > America had started an online petition drive, recorded a song "Go > Away Paris," and was selling T-shirts, baseball ca ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 12:19:08 PDT 2007

11707 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > permanent misery, kvetching and struggle > glorified by lefty intellectuals Just who are these lefty intelletuals who glorify misery? You have anyone in mind, or is this just another one of your feelings? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 8 08:23:41 PDT 2007

11708 [lbo-talk] CEOs unite for health care -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/3877.html> CEOs unite for health care By: Chris Frates May 7, 2007 10:40 PM EST Health care reformers scored a victory Monday when 35 chief executives announced a major lobbying coalition designed to push for universal coverage in a market-based system. The Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform was launched as a way for business leaders to influence the debate on the state and federal levels. The group is advocating for a market-based solutio ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 07:57:49 PDT 2007

11709 [lbo-talk] more on France -- rank: 1000

The NYT has a sidebar on the Ipsos poll in France, which I can't find on their website. But the age breakdown is more mixed than some reports have made it out to be. Sarkozy Royal spread 18-24 42 58 -16 25-34 57 43 +14 35-44 50 50 0 45-59 45 55 -10 60-69 61 39 +22 70+ 68 32 +26

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Date:	Tue May 8 06:24:41 PDT 2007

11710 [lbo-talk] Social Liberal Origin of "Islamofascism" -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2007, at 3:42 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > There is thus no significant ideological brake inside the North on the > so-called War on Terror. Except exhaustion with war, perhaps? I'm never sure what your point is in these denunciations of "social liberals" and "secular elitists." We should embrace social conservatives? They're a hell of a lot more likely to support the GWOT than are your current targets. If you're going to play political etymology, the ter ...

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Date:	Tue May 8 06:03:15 PDT 2007

11711 [lbo-talk] the star of the show was money -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2007/05/03/the-72-million-party/> The $72 Million Party A week after being pilloried for their billion-dollar salaries, hedge funders came out in droves last night to try to shore up their reputations as philanthropists. More than 4,000 people attended the annual fundraising bash for the Robin Hood Foundation, the charity founded by Tudor Investment Corp. founder Paul Tudor Jones II. The bash was held in the cavernous Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan not ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 16:06:25 PDT 2007

11712 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 5:39 PM, joanna wrote: > What I didn't get was S's support in the working class AND immigrant > population. hey, it's all those *other* workers & immigrants who are causing the problem, and they need to be repressed

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11713 [lbo-talk] France looks to new Sarkozy era -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 4:21 PM, tfast wrote: > Problem is the Anglos may just be well into sewers by then > and we may all get to watch the spectacle of the French and German's > performing a rearguard defence of neoliberalism. Fortress America > versus > Liberal Europe. Get the popcorn. By the way, this view appears to be spreading on Wall Street - Euroland is finally taking off, and perhaps sustainably, reaping the benefits of the single currency and liberalization, as the U.S. ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 13:30:12 PDT 2007

11714 [lbo-talk] the cultural elitists view of Flyover Land -- rank: 1000

<http://www.prosebeforehos.com/word-of-the-day/05/06/thoughts-of-the- average-american-2/> Thoughts of the Average American Written by Word Of The Day on May 6th, 2007 | Trackback URI | "The violent deaths of untold thousands of anonymous brown people disturbs me, but I have a televised sing and dance competition to watch." "The role of ideologically-driven shadow groups dictating public policy does not bother me" "That non-threatening colored person running for ...

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11715 [lbo-talk] the back benches are restless -- rank: 1000

[from the revamped Note, now minus the wiseguy style of Mark Halperin] They're starting as whispers, throwaway lines that are easy to miss amid broad promises of party unity. But at the very moment that both the White House and congressional Democrats need members of their parties to fall in line, the rank-and-file is growing restless. There was House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) yesterday, pleading for patience with the "troop surge" but then setting a deadline of his ow ...

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Date:	Mon May 7 13:02:41 PDT 2007