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13606 [lbo-talk] "Poland" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._presidential_faux- > pas,_gaffes,_and_unfortunate_incidents Link at that article has LBJ ordering pants - demanding they be loose "down where your nuts hang" and that give him some space "around the bunghole": <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/ LBJ_ordering_pants.ogg>. Doug

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13607 [lbo-talk] Judith Regan explains why she's publishing OJ's "confession" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Hey, I couldn't keep going through more than a third of the wretched >> prose but it got me curious. Could someone condense this garbage >> to its >> point? > > I was bored and read it all. Near as I can tell, she's saying: OJ > is just like a guy who used to abuse me and now he has Parkinsons. A turn of events she's not taking pleasure in, but she does want to get revenge on all the abusers who were found in ...

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13608 [lbo-talk] dang, I missed it -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2006, at 12:00 PM, bitch wrote: > I doubt very many folks remember the incident but R noticed > something I hadn't, buried as I've been in other things. Sandy > Harris posted [1] a review of the LBO list from someone's brief > stay here. His handle was Szechuan Death [2] and he writes of the > list: > [...] > > http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/death/death1.html I love this bit: > I selected the "lightest" one--lbo-talk, a general-purpose leftist & ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 17 10:05:00 PST 2006

13609 [lbo-talk] Uncle Miltie, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > Money is important in economics. Wow, what a revelation. To mainstream economists, it isn't actually. Money is a "veil," "insignificant." Some Marxists (like Anwar Shaikh) pretty much agree. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 17 09:55:59 PST 2006

13610 [lbo-talk] Hoyer beats Murtha... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > On 11/17/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > >> > Do we care? >> No. >> Should we? >> No. >> >> Carrol > > This absolutist, sectarian stand would see no difference between > George McGovern and John Stennis. Or recognize the existence back then > of anti-war Republicans like Mark Hatfield. Radical left Jesuit Blase > Bonpane in L.A., with personal experience in G ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 17 09:54:25 PST 2006

13611 [lbo-talk] Hill's guy in pro-life push -- rank: 1000

New York Post - November 17, 2006 HILL'S GUY IN PRO-LIFE PUSH AP ALBANY - A key adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told abortion- rights supporters yesterday that the Democratic Party "has to be big enough to accommodate a wide range of views on this issue." "I think the Democrats are going to have to be a party of broad views," said Howard Wolfson at an appearance before the annual meeting of the Family Planning Advocates of New York State. Wolfson said yesterday that ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 17 07:18:39 PST 2006

13612 [lbo-talk] another $127-160b for war -- rank: 1000

[approaching $600b - and Larry Lindsey got fired for saying $100-200b] USA Today - November 17, 2006 Military may ask $127B for wars Total cost likely to top Vietnam War By Richard Wolf USA TODAY WASHINGTON The Bush administration is preparing its largest spending request yet for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a proposal that could make the conflict the most expensive since World War II. The Pentagon is considering $127 billion to $160 billion in requests from the armed services for the ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 17 07:17:09 PST 2006

13613 [lbo-talk] Judith Regan explains why she's publishing OJ's "confession" -- rank: 1000

[a multimedia triumph for the Murdoch interests!] New York Post - November 17, 2006 WHY I DID IT JUDITH REGAN EXPLAINS PUBLISHING O.J.'S NEW BOOK By JUDITH REGAN I WAS sitting with Howard Stern, of all people, when the verdict came down. Many of you probably remember where you were at that moment. It was a moment I, like so many others, was dreading. Because I knew that the "killer," as Kim Goldman so eloquently named him, would be acquitted. I knew it from my own experience. Convic ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 17 07:08:22 PST 2006

13614 [lbo-talk] Uncle Miltie, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Nov 16, 2006, at 10:23 PM, boddi satva wrote: > I know, Doug, that you are so against Monetarism that you might not > even agree that there IS a thing called the money supply, but let's > face it: > > A) There is. There are four, five, many money supplies! MZM, M1, M2, M3, L (until the Fed stopped publishing the last two). Here's a correlation matrix for the annual growth in Mn since 1960: M1 M2 M3 M1 1.000 M2 0.278 1.000 M3 0.077 0.851 1.000 So t ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 16 19:40:42 PST 2006

13615 [lbo-talk] Uncle Miltie, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Nov 16, 2006, at 3:54 PM, bitch quoted Jerry: >> Doug Wrote: >> To quote >> Miss Kittin on Frank Sinatra, "He's dead. Hehehehe. Dead." >> >> JM: Now that is going too far! I am shocked, shocked! One of the >> great artists of the 20th century and no matter what the >> degeneration of his politics we should regret his loss in the same >> way I regretted the deaths of Louis Armstrong and Jean-Paul >> Sartre, long after their times ...

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13616 [lbo-talk] Uncle Miltie, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Nov 16, 2006, at 3:29 PM, boddi satva wrote: > I think Friedman rightly focused on the importance of money and the > role of money as a medium of economic relationships. But he was wrong about the economic influence of the money supply. And if you want to talk about the social role of money, give me Marx anyday. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 16 12:42:30 PST 2006

13617 [lbo-talk] Uncle Miltie, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Nov 16, 2006, at 2:31 PM, boddi satva wrote: > Friedman was wrong about a lot of things, right about a lot of things > and certainly added positively to the debate about economics. Eh? Monetarism is a worthless joke, and the permanent income hypothesis of dubious status. He was a tireless salesman for reaction within his profession and with the broader public. Fuck him. To quote Miss Kittin on Frank Sinatra, "He's dead. Hehehehe. Dead." Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 16 12:03:28 PST 2006

13618 [lbo-talk] PlayStations for Cuba! -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - November 16, 2006 Dissidents blew American 'aid' millions on luxuries for Cuba by Richard Luscombe Cuban dissidents who were given millions of dollars by the US government to support democracy in their homeland instead blew money on computer games, cashmere sweaters, crabmeat and chocolates, which were then sent to the island. A scathing congressional audit of democracy assistance programmes found "questionable expenditure" by several groups funded by Washingto ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 16 10:37:44 PST 2006

13619 [lbo-talk] Uncle Miltie, he dead -- rank: 1000

[At the risk of inflaming Jesse again, bye Miltie. None too soon.] From: MarketWatch Alerts <alerts at marketwatchmail.com> Date: November 16, 2006 12:52:44 PM EST Breaking News Bulletin: Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman has died http://marketwatch.com/r.asp? g=7EBCE76459364A0BA3228BEC91CEFA31&d=bnb

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Date:	Thu Nov 16 09:59:49 PST 2006

13620 [lbo-talk] Hoyer beats Murtha... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 16, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > ... for House majority leader. Does this mean anything at all? > Did Pelosi really go all-out for Murtha, or was it a token effort? > Do we care? Should we? It's all just "sandbox politics," or whatever Cde Cox likes to call it. All right-thinking thinkers think it doesn't matter, right? In any case, pundits said she was putting a lot on the line by endorsing Murtha, She lost her first high-profile battle - and with he ...

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