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YouTube - Chaka Khan's Night in Tunisia
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Unbelievable.
I
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YouTube - Chaka Khan's Night in Tunisia
In a message dated 1/18/2011 10:04:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
_cb31450@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
Hear , hear, . . . .
CB
Thanks CB. The intent was a general summary agreeable of the broadest
Marxist framework and divergent views of Lenin's meaning of
Historically, only capitalist countries which have intervened
militarily to
establish settler colonies or to set up puppet regimes to facilitate the
exploitation of these territories by their own corporations and have been
characterized as imperialist by Marxists and others.
In a
There is a general rule about the way society treats criminals: place
responsibility for antisocial acts on the individual, thus absolving society
from blame.
The mismatch between society's attitude toward heroes and criminals rests
in society's claim of credit on heroes and rejection of
Letter to the Left Establishment
Bill Fletcher, Tom Hayden and The Letter
===
1.
Responding to the 'Letter to the Left Establishment' regarding Obama
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
A so-called Letter to the Left Establishment critical of the Obama
administration has been circulating for a
On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:07 PM, c b wrote:
...It is something of a law of history that sooner or later all empires
must collapse. ^ CB: See _Dialectics of Nature_ by Frederick Engels.
_Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. A mobius strip has none of those
aspects. Nothing lasts
In a message dated 12/6/2010 12:58:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Lack of a Soviet Union contributes to this. The SU was more of the
Center-Left's backbone than most of the left realized.
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So very true. Petras time frame is 30
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This is my understanding of the proletarian REVOLUTION.
WL.
Stoop down, baby Let your
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This is the funniest thing I remember you writing.
I'm
The classic
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuvlIgSj0Yfeature=related_
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This is the real shit.
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stj-zPVW_Hk_
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stj-zPVW_Hk)
“Everything for Christmas.”
And “Love comes with Christmas”
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmE_FyVFKAfeature=related_
Lou Rawls Merry Christmas Baby with the historical big band sound is
classic.
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtw3lXjhujk_
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What you haven't done is make any coherent argument that would convince
me that the substance has changed that much during the past 130 years. Of
course there are
In a message dated 11/26/2010 8:20:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
_pegdobb...@gmail.com_ (mailto:pegdobb...@gmail.com) writes:
So am I to hope my children are less bamboozled by SW than we by SV? My
son tells me Netflix is useful to him and has higher earnings(that's SV,
right?) than USS
What did Marx write on the prospect of political and economic transition
between capitalist and communist society?
Quote
The question then arises: What transformation will the state undergo in
communist society? In other words, what social functions will remain in
existence there
In a message dated 11/22/2010 11:29:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
_jann...@gmail.com_ (mailto:jann...@gmail.com) writes:
However, I will point out that a lot of the same things were said about
the main players in 1907-8--that they were mysterious, behind-the-scenes
people only acting out
In a message dated 11/22/2010 9:10:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
Yes, the word predict is a bit crude, but the direction of
capitalism as imperialism = finance capitalism and more and more
concentration of wealth (monopoly) fulfills the trends that Lenin made
I agree that concentration and centralization of productive forces grow out
of the inherent logic of industrial - electro-mechanical, reproduction. In
the Soviet Union concentration and centralization of productive forces
created expanding public wealth without centralization and
Comment
The property aspect of production relations (social relations of production
with the property relations within) have NOT changed or what is the same,
the wage labor form remains the wage labor form. Bourgeois private
property remains bourgeois although this form of wealth is
(The Federal Reserve chart is available at
_www.ny.frb.org/research/staff_reports/sr458.pdf_
(http://www.ny.frb.org/research/staff_reports/sr458.pdf) )
Road map that opens up shadow banking By Gillian Tett Financial Times
November 18 2010
This week, a senior banker friend gave me a
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CB: I think Marx's position is that it is inherent to the logic of the
capitalist mode of production, wage-labor/capital property relations,
regardless of the technological regime. The computerization of production
doesn't
change this tendency to concentration of wealth. It accelerates it,
Marx and Engels predicted cyclical crisis of capital, but never predicted
when its outbreak would take place after their death. Neither did Lenin.
Lenin's been dead for a while and did not predict the financial crisis - of
2008, as it jumped from big financial houses and accelerated
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:27 AM, _waistli...@aol.com_
(mailto:waistli...@aol.com) wrote:
If it was me making the million dollar shot, I would say, lets go to Vegas
and get married.
Or Ohio.
Without a prenuptual agreement ?
Comment
Yep.
A million dollars not what it use to
In a message dated 11/19/2010 9:23:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
Truly ! It is the American working class that has had legitimate gripes
about taxes for a long time. The tax revolt of the 70's , California Howard
Whathisname and
Link to article Bob King and 2011
_http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AG5XO20101117_
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Link to article Bob King and 2011
_http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AG5XO20101117_
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If it was me making the million dollar shot, I would say, lets go to Vegas
and get married.
Or Ohio.
After all, if she invited me on a date, it means their is an interest.
WL.
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full: _http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/articles/v20ed5art5.html_
(http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/articles/v20ed5art5.html)
Small Government, Big State: Southern Program Points the Way
It is conceivable that fascism could proceed as a movement to defend
democracy and a return to the principles of
In a message dated 11/8/2010 1:01:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
_rdum...@autodidactproject.org_ (mailto:rdum...@autodidactproject.org) writes:
The other question in all this is, except for enhancing historical
consciousness, what relevance any interpretation of Lenin has for today, and
In a message dated 11/8/2010 8:20:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: Tea Party Election
Results
Diluted in Highly Populated States By Tom Moroney and Terrence Dopp - Nov 5,
2010
Tea Party supporters boasted of their 28 victories in U.S.
In a message dated 8/9/2010 2:03:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
In that way, they represent an alternative to my book, The Road to Hell
is Not Paved With Good Intentions. I invite the reader/listener to enter the
dialogue and join the
In a message dated 8/10/2010 8:57:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
In 1946, Crockett along with partners Ernest Goodman, Morton Eden, and
Dean A. Robb, co-founded the corporation believed to be the first
racially-integrated law firm in
In a message dated 8/10/2010 10:34:53 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) :
The capitalist economy represents a union of the material-technological
process and its social forms, i.e. the totality of production relations
among people. The concrete
Reform and social revolution: the new narrative
Marxism contains a language, a set of words and terms accepted as short
cuts. Problems arise with words and terms given different meaning. Reform,
concession, social revolution, and reformism are such words. When
these terms are detached
Marxism contains a language, a set of terms accepted as short cuts in
describing society and movement. Problems arise with words and terms that mean
different things to different folks and groups using this language. Reform
and concession is a case in point. When reform - as a logic or
James Allen was one of the better Marxist propagandist and top notch
theoretical on the colonial and national question.
To this day I enjoy his contributions.
WL.
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cb31...@gmail.com writes:
As the comments of Crozier show, commentaries like those appearing in Time
and the Washington Post drop any pretense of making an objective
investigation. They are following the lead of BP and the
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erca...@yahoo.com writes:
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In Marxist theory, those workers (proletarians) in developed countries
who benefit from the superprofits extracted from the impoverished
workers of underdeveloped countries form
In a message dated 7/13/2010 9:23:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
CB: Ok Isn't class antagonism you describe a conflict between the old
division of labor and the new division of labor with the new division of labor
arising based on
In a message dated 7/13/2010 9:23:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
SECTION 5 THE CAPITALISTIC CHARACTER OF MANUFACTURE
(Note: The title is extremely
Antagonism:
Antagonism means the mutual resistance or active opposition of two
opposing forces, physical or mental; active opposition to a force.
Antagonism is a form of change resolution by annihilation and
nullification, rather than harmonious stage by stage sublation. Antagonism as
In a message dated 7/12/2010 10:53:56 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB: Is the BP oil catastrophe the beginning of the conflict and
then antagonism you refer to ?
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No.
The material quoted states:
At a certain stage in their development
In a message dated 7/13/2010 9:23:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB; Doesn't Marx consider that capitalism _emerges_ in the
manufacturing system ?
_http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch14.htm#S5_
Test
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You are missing the point. Marx never wrote about the future communist
society. He wrote about the Paris Commune because it was the inevitable
first step in creating such a society.
People who are accustomed to thinking in terms of the Civil War in France
and
State and Revolution spend
In a message dated 7/5/2010 7:21:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
It even included the Leftist Lounge the biggest People's Party of a
new type ever, at Bert's Marketplace (my yard).
_http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111370_
This is a really good interview that ought to become part of a package of
literature that is a post summary of the Social Forum - Detroit. The scale
of this event was massive. each might of the event a couple of comrades and
new people we met would gather at my home and go over all the
Fletchers summation of the USSF - Detroit, seemed pretty accurate in my
experience as a participant, panelist, distributor of People’s Tribune and
author of a small booklet: Detroit. The hard numbers on participants range
from 15,000 to 20,000 as the result of the computers crashing after
I think that, today, we've come to a turning point in history. People
are re-discovering Marx because he provides reserves of critical thought
that are still pertinent to the problems of our times, but, of course, that is
not enough. The Marxist tradition has not said much on the problems
In a message dated 4/18/2010 12:56:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
jann...@gmail.com writes:
Actually, completely wrong. It came into widespread use after newly
opened farmlands were quickly depleted by monocropping and lack of
crop rotation. For cotton farming it became absolutely essential
In a message dated 4/16/2010 6:38:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
_jann...@gmail.com_ (mailto:jann...@gmail.com) writes:
CIs and the UAW. Careful guys, this thread has a huge potential for
self-humiliation built into it.
Horses enabled the first stages of mechanization of agriculture.
Social relations are closely bound up with productive forces. In acquiring
new productive forces men change their mode of production; and in changing
their mode of production, in changing their way of earning a living, they
change all their social relations. The hand mill gives you
End game
The political battles waged by Marx and Engels to give the First
International an outlook and program independent of all ideology of the
propertied
classes has been outlined and preserved as part of the Soviet Legacy in
Marx and the Trade Unions. Marx and the Trade Unions, by
In a message dated 4/12/2010 5:53:09 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
_editor_revdem@ indiatimes. com_ (_mailto:editor_ (mailto:editor) _
_rev...@indiatime_ (mailto:rev...@indiatime) s.com) writes:
Speech by Mátyás Rákosi, General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party
at the Meeting of
I
CB: The new _quality_ in the productive forces is their greater and greater
socialization of the laborers. Notice Marx refers to The shifts from steam
to oil as a main fuel, or the shift to electricity, or the shift to
computers and new forms of communication and transportation all
test
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Why don't we put up the latest version of this at googledocs and
collaborate, 'wiki-style', on it? Then it could be published as a blog
or wiki.
Might prove after all that has been said that this
In a message dated 3/24/2010 7:58:16 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
Saw Marsha at Bert's and said I bet you know Waistline. She said
definitely.
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Check this out: _http://marshamusic.wordpress.com/_
(http://marshamusic.wordpress.com/)
Marsha is
In a message dated 3/24/2010 8:53:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
Tell 'em Dave Moore was a Marxist-Leninist.
CB
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The Dave Moore interviews in Political Affairs are magnificent. No one has
really told the real story of the organization of Ford. Moore was
Antagonism as a form of resolution means it is not a form of resolution
of contradiction.
It is a form of resolution of property as this property form enters into
contradiction with qualitatively changing productive forces. That is to say
the contradiction is between productive forces
In a message dated 3/24/2010 9:34:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB: Well, a contradiction is sort of ripe to be superceded (sorry
Althusser) when it is an antagonism. So, in this sense it is more _ready_ for
resolution than a non-antagonistic contradiction. But
7.5
Antagonism:
Antagonism is the basis of destruction and a form of transition to a new
mode of production. It is a form of resolution of relations of production
that have entered into collision with qualitatively changing productive
forces. (see productive forces)
In class
In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:03:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB; Strategy deals with the wide, the biggest context, the general.
Strategy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy
Comment
I prefer Stalin's definition and both articles on Strategy and hold he
In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:30:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes:
I'll have to see what else has been written on
negation of negation that is usable. Engels' use
of concept in dialectics of nature is total confusion and nonsense.
I believe that
In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:36:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB; What are more of the specifics of Stalin's approach ?
Reply
Check out his articles in the 1920's on strategy and tactic of Russian
communist and Concerning the question of strategy and
Objective Subjective (object and subject)::
object refers to everything outside the human mind or the subject as human.
Reality, say a tree, an automobile or the sun has an objective existence
outside the human mind or the life of the human mind, not requiring or
owning its existence to
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cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB: Lenin defines materialism as the belief in the existence of
objective reality, objective reality being defined as you do above.
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This mans go.
This glossary is being produced under the
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cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB: My buddy, Bob King.
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Bob's cool and at this point see himself as a one time president. He has
invited all and anyone to come forth with new proposition on what to do in
the fight
In a message dated 3/23/2010 1:44:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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Let us march on til victory is won
Proletarians Unite.
Correction
Let us march on til victory is one!
Proletarians Unite.
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Role of the individual in history:
Individuals have roles in life big and small. The concept of the “role of
the individual” defines the place of the individual within the objective,
material processes going on in the world, a country, their community and
identifies his or her active role
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cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB: Dave Moore: Carry on
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Yep, that the flavor. You know more than you think. We simply have a
different place in a division of labor. The things I cannot do I go on line and
ask for
In a message dated 3/22/2010 8:13:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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Strategy deals with the qualitative turns in the balance of forces that it
is necessary to seek and the class and social forces and political trends
and social movements
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cb31...@gmail.com writes:
5). At a certain stage of their development,
6). the material productive forces of society
7). come into conflict with the existing relations of production or –
(this merely expresses the same
I have not looked at Bottomore's dictionary since giving it away in 2004. I
will run to the bookstore and locate a copy and look at it. Anyone that
publishes a Marxist glossary enters into extreme controversy with every
single segment of the Marxist current. The most difficult aspect of
Antagonism:
Antagonism is the basis of destruction and transformation to a new quality.
(see Dialectics: quantity, quality, the antagonistic element.)
Contradiction:
a conception of development and motion as internally necessary self
movement of conflicting opposites. The unity and
According to Marx, the social contradiction which can only be resolved by
revolution is that between the forces of production and the relations of
production. The most common Marxist interpretation of this assertion is that
forces of production means capital (sometimes our latter day
Quality and Quantity and Contradiction.
Stalin argues that qualitative changes occur not accidentally but as the
natural result of an accumulation of imperceptible and gradual quantitative
changes.11 We should note that this is only one aspect of this category of
dialectical logic. It is
Class antagonism as class struggle: the dialectic : (exposition)
The decay of feudalism and transition to capitalism shows two distinct form
of change: class struggle as contradiction and class struggle as
antagonism.
I. Localized manual labor with the serf working the land for the
Comrade Ralph:
A new Marxist glossary is being prepared. The last Marxist Glossary
receiving large distribution in America was L. Harry Gould’s 1943 Glossary of
Marxist Terms. A larger second edition was published in 1946 called Marxist
Glossary and reprinted in the 1970’s by Proletarian
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cb31...@gmail.com writes:
I. Localized manual labor with the serf working the land for the nobility
provided the economic based for feudalism. The primary form of wealth is
landed property. The political and social structures
In a message dated 3/19/2010 10:20:08 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
Is the difference between antagonism and contradiction that antagonism
is irreconcilable, but contradiction is reconcilable ?
There were some other new classes in the new bourgeois system
In a message dated 3/1/2010 8:20:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
cb31...@gmail.com writes:
CB: This doesn't seem to me to be hating on the CP. You are just
saying some that is a fact. 1949-1955 is a period of most intense
McCarthyism and criminalization of the CP
Reply
CB I try not
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He wasn't really even a little capitalist, he was a wananbe at most. In
reality, he was just another contract programmer, and as such, lacked the
security and
Monday 03/01/10 9 am - CAR CARAVAN TO SOLIDARITY HOUSE from UAW Local 22
has been cancelled. Please go directly to Solidarity House, 8000 E.
Jefferson, Detroit, MI 48214 for 10 am Demonstration for Single Payer Health
Care.
Monday 03/01/10 9 am – MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVE OF UAW
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Until health care is seen as a basic right of citizenship (or residence),
the government can always deny it to this or that part of the population.
These workers will
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cb31...@gmail.com writes:
Not everybody is on same page by: Sam Webb February 18 2010 tags:
communists, strategy and tactics
Let me begin with the obvious: the left (organized and unorganized) has
seldom been of one
I read this guys suicide letter and here is what he wrote in part.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A.
depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn't need the
all
of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they
In a message dated 2/19/2010 1:57:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes:
While other people are just as fucked up in their own ways, white people
of this type have a peculiarly apolitical view of their own victimization.
They can't see their situation as
In a message dated 2/18/2010 12:20:49 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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As the meeting ended, Carolyn L. Whaley, 76, held up her copy of the
Constitution. She carries it everywhere, she explained, and she was
prepared to lay down her life to protect it from the likes of
(speaking of trade unions as a percentage of the employed workers) As Mark
Rickling replied on the LBO list: You'd call 36% 'very small' and
'trivial'?
To which I added:
Right - and it was as much a qualitative as a quantitative issue for the
socialist movement. Marx and Engels and their
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There is remarkable objectivity about the Red Terror, an object of
controversy in the discussion of this entry. Oddly, though, there is less
II.
The first American Revolution of 1776 inaugurated the epoch of wars for
national liberation as a form of history. Following on its heels was the
Haitian Revolution and Bolivar. The wars of national liberation predate the
doctrine of proletarian revolution and as a form of history
V.
I want to try to be clear to avoid misunderstanding about what legal
segregation actually meant.
For 50 years - between 1920 and 1970, Detroit had an extra legal curfew
imposed on the black where they had to be off the streets at sun down or risk
being jailed and shot. It was extra
In a message dated 2/17/2010 11:15:47 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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writes:
Like your presentation, but as usual, I wonder about your projections for
the future:
The destitute proletariat will tackle questions for
III. The Obama Presidency
Real time America on February 16, 2010 is in a profound crisis. 150
million Americans feel stress over layoffs and paying their bills on time.
Over
60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck. A record 20 million
Americans qualified for unemployment
In a message dated 2/16/2010 5:52:44 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes:
When I made corrections in the Coleman Young article, they put back in what
was up before my corrections. When I wrote to the person who seemed to be
one of the
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