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11086 [lbo-talk] Fun with search engines: Write more lyrics -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Am I the only person who things the Horst Wessel Lied > is actually a really nice piece of music? You mean aside from members of a neo-Nazi party?

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11087 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Go F*ck Yourself Mr. Cheney SING ALONG event???? -- rank: 1000

From: "clone9" <clone9 at bellsouth.net> Date: June 30, 2007 2:03:52 AM EDT Subject: Go F*ck Yourself Mr. Cheney SING ALONG event???? Hello, My name is Ben Marble, M.D. I am the er physician who became somewhat infamous after Katrina when I said "Go F*ck Yourself Mr. Cheney" to the vice president during his lame photo op in my post-Katrina neighborhood in Gulfport, Ms. I later wrote a song about the encounter called "Go F*ck Yourself Mr. Cheney" which yo ...

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11088 [lbo-talk] Nietzsche -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2007, at 10:20 AM, james daly wrote: > I'd much rather read Keynes than > some defunct Bolshie. > > J D -- To understand the world I'd rather read Marx than either. Well yeah but Keynes illuminated the financial and fiscal realms better than Marx did, or could have. Doug

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11089 [lbo-talk] Nietzsche -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:23 AM, james daly wrote: > I would go further and say Marxism is not only not economics: > it is in fact not even political economy but a *critique* of political > economy -- of fetishism, of the Trinity Formula etc. -- as his > original > subtitle shows. Yeah the point is to change the world. But sometimes understanding the world is pretty important too. I'd much rather read Keynes than some defunct Bolshie. Doug

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11090 [lbo-talk] more SEIU -- rank: 1000

[yeah, I know, it bears the taint of Labor Notes, those weenies] <http://labornotes.org/node/989> Service Employees End California Nursing Home Partnership Mark Brenner Following months of criticism and sharp internal debate, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ended its controversial partnership agreement with a group of California nursing homes on May 31. The four-and-a-half-year-old deal was a quid pro quo arrangement that brought over 3,000 workers into SEIU after the ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 29 14:51:15 PDT 2007

11091 [lbo-talk] Nietzsche -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Marxism already had a notion of a socially constructed self. So, on > that > point, N. is not an advance beyond Marxism in psychology. Charles, do you think that Marxists are just better than everyone else? Is Preobrazhensky a greater economist than Keynes? Doug

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11092 [lbo-talk] MM reacts -- rank: 1000

[this is from the Rush & Molloy gossip col in the NY Daily News] Michael Moore brought his "Sicko" publicity tour to L.A. Tuesday night and had some words for critics who've been harping on the taxes involved in the universal health-care programs glorified in his film. "If you add up what people are paying now in medical bills, day care, college education that equals up to a lot more than what they're paying over there [in England and France]," he told us. "Th ...

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11093 [lbo-talk] Nietzsche -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I mean, what _IS_ sexier than a > male US expat living in Russia? Hot 16 year old Russian models living in New York?

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11094 [lbo-talk] Nietzsche -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I'll come back to this sometime in the next year (I hope), but let > state without much defense or explanation now a tentative response: A > class analysis which incorporates psychology can only lead to identity > politics in their most useless form; it transforms class from a social > relation to a mechanical and static conditon which shapes individual > psychologies. This won't do -- but I think it is a place to start > fro ...

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11095 [lbo-talk] Paris beats presidential debates; only OBL could beat her -- rank: 1000

<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967852.html?categoryid=14&cs=1> Paris spikes King ratings Numbers beat previous presidential debates By MICHAEL LEARMONTH CNN's "hard news" rep took a hit, but Paris Hilton brought in the viewers, as her exclusive tell-all with Larry King drew 3.2 million viewers -- more than triple King's regular average. Ratings for the Paris edition of "Larry King Live" exceeded those for CNN's last two presidential debates. CNN drew 2.78 ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 29 12:16:53 PDT 2007

11096 [lbo-talk] Measuring values in an iPod -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > A new study <http://pcic.merage.uci.edu/papers/2007/AppleiPod.pdf>

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Date:	Fri Jun 29 09:04:06 PDT 2007

11097 [lbo-talk] BX -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote: > I would be surprised if it were not! Surely those behind the > BX IPO were loathe to leave much money on the table. For sure, but this is not what was expected a few weeks ago. KKR and Carlyle were talking about going public. I'm guessing those plans are being reconsidered.

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Date:	Thu Jun 28 12:08:37 PDT 2007

11098 [lbo-talk] FOMC -- rank: 1000

[on the hawkish side - they're not going to ease up until the unemployment rate starts rising or there's a serious financial crisis] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2007/20070628/ default.htm> June 28, 2007 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 5-1/4 percent. Economic growth appears to have been moderate during the first half of this year, despite the ongoing adjustment in the housin ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 28 11:51:22 PDT 2007

11099 [lbo-talk] Sicko -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > His main criticism was that Moore > wasted a lot of footage to show what is already known - that other > countries > have public health care systems. Known by whom? You and lbo-talk members, yes. Never underestimate the ignorance of the American masses. And besides, it's not health policy wankery, I mean wonkery. It's very high quality agitprop. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 28 11:19:46 PDT 2007

11100 [lbo-talk] Florida real estate -- rank: 1000

A friend involved in the real estate biz in South Florida writes: "The soft landing has transmogrified as ice forms on the wings, the altimeter looks like a roulette wheel and the pilot has locked himself in the cockpit with a flight attendant and the drink cart."

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