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15226 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax -- rank: 1000

jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com wrote: > > Higher gas taxes, however, could be rebated through an >> income tax credit for the lower brackets. > >Are you a big fan of taking with the right and giving back with the left? By the way, I was reflecting on the fact that the fancy shopping bags used by the splendid fancy NYC food market Citarella <http://www.citarella.com/> are made in China. We usually throw them away, try as we do to find secondary uses. The fact that disposable ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 10:02:41 PST 2006

15227 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax -- rank: 1000

jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com wrote: > > Higher gas taxes, however, could be rebated through an >> income tax credit for the lower brackets. > >Are you a big fan of taking with the right and giving back with the left? No, but the idea is to use price to change behavior. I realize we've got a chicken and egg problem, but you've got to start somewhere. With a fat gas tax that largely spared the bottom 50%, the economics and politics of transportation would change a lot. I realize ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 10:00:13 PST 2006

15228 [lbo-talk] Diabetes and Individual Choice -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >I don't get it either. It's gotten incredibly insane, to the point >that I'm burning to get out of the suburbs and go live in the city. >I live in one of the "safest" burbs in Kansas City, yet my sister >won't let me leave ground floor windows open overnight during warm >weather. > >WTF? Your fam watches Fox a lot, right? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 09:38:42 PST 2006

15229 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: > it seems to >me, on two shaky pillars: > >One, only (or mostly) people with disposable income >will feel the pinch and use their middle and upper >middle class political clout to force change. > >A good example of this thinking is found right in >Yoshie's post: > >from - > ><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20060109/028770.html> > ><quote> > >The cost of higher gasoline taxes will be ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 09:37:49 PST 2006

15230 [lbo-talk] Diabetes and Individual Choice -- rank: 1000

jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com wrote: > > O'Reilly is obsessed with child rapers (whom he oddly >> refers to as child rapists, as if predatory little tykes >> were roaming the landscape) - he's got a segment almost >> every night. > >It's what makes Steven Colbert's deal about BEARS so funny. We haven't yet found the charms of Colbert's show, so we turn to Fox for the second half of the O'Reilly rerun. Are we missing sometehing? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 09:09:23 PST 2006

15231 [lbo-talk] Diabetes and Individual Choice -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That may be true for some people or not true for >other, but for most there is a more immediate cause - >lack of transportation. But that hasn't changed. When I was growing up, we were outside on our own all day, from a fairly young age - and my mother was far stricter than average (the term of art is "hypervigilance of paranoia"). 40 years later, it's lockdown suburbia. It was all cars then and now. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 08:22:21 PST 2006

15232 [lbo-talk] Diabetes and Individual Choice -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Yeah, all of those things Doug mentioned are true, and >the culture of fear created by the media in which any >harm done to a child gets broadcast instantly and >repetitively around the country and made to seem like >an epidemic. A lot of people think there are child >molesters at every turn. And boy does Fox promote that stuff. O'Reilly is obsessed with child rapers (whom he oddly refers to as child rapists, as if predatory little tykes were roaming the la ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 08:20:38 PST 2006

15233 [lbo-talk] Susie & JT -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >I'm really intrigued by this. So, basically, Laura >Albert, a 40 yr old failed rock musician, created this >fictional entity, "JT LeRoy," which was played at >public appearances by her step sister, so that she >could get a career in film and publishing? "JT LeRoy" >is now an associate producer and has written for >Deadwood, etc., novel contracts, scripts, etc. Weird. >http://www.jtleroy.com/ Evidently. But I was also wondering if there was a ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 07:42:36 PST 2006

15234 [lbo-talk] Chilean pensions: the model runs into trouble -- rank: 1000

New York Times - January 10, 2006 Chile's Candidates Agree to Agree on Pension Woes By LARRY ROHTER SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 9 - Michelle Bachelet is a pediatrician and a Socialist, while Sebastián Piñera is a billionaire businessman and a conservative. They may agree on little as the opposing candidates in Chile's election for president, but they concur on one important point: the country's much vaunted and much copied privatized pension system needs immediate repair. The Chilean system of persona ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 10 07:36:30 PST 2006

15235 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: Four or six posts on too many recent days. I haven't been paying attention because Ivan is very compelling, but the limit is three, remember? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 21:31:50 PST 2006

15236 [lbo-talk] Diabetes and Individual Choice -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >--making the streets safe for kids to play in There was a piece in yesterday's NYT about how suburban parents keep their kids under lockdown because they're afraid of dangers lurking outside. Additionally, no one knows any neighbors, so there are no naturally occurring friendships among kids who live near each other. Plus, play is a distraction from the work of preparing the kids for hypercompetitive worklives. Only organized playdates, and lots of educational events. If this i ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 15:47:38 PST 2006

15237 [lbo-talk] Susie & JT -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/01/my_name_is_susi.html> [...] Welcome to the first meeting of JT Anonymous. I published JT. I defended him in public, performed for him, responded to every editorial and hook-me-up request. I took Twilight Zone phone calls and tendered his frightening tantrums. I'm embarrassed to tell you all the nutty things I did. Every time he was mean, or screwed up, I always told myself to stay steady and kind. Why did I make the effort? I'm ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 15:28:30 PST 2006

15238 [lbo-talk] anonymous flaming now a federal crime -- rank: 1000

<http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance%2C+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html?part=rss&tag=6022491&subj=news> Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail By Declan McCullagh Published: January 9, 2006, 4:00 AM PST Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. In other words, it's OK ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 11:25:15 PST 2006

15239 [lbo-talk] Dangerous Work Done Dirt Cheap -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Hippie moralism? Perhaps, undergirded with good ol' fashioned protestantism. There are commonalities, no? Heavy doses of self-reliant individualism, personal choice, puritanism, a rigid code, and the tendency to pass judgment on the behavior of others. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 11:17:27 PST 2006

15240 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly: gay marriage will lead to interspeciesmarriage -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >My guess is O'Reilly is a cynical con man; Robertson is genuine lunatic; >and their respective audiences are composed primarily of gullible >boneheads with racist and xenophobic tendencies. Dunno about Robertson - his father was a Senator, he's not some rube from the backwoods. He looks like a total phony when he's got his eyes closed in prayer - too exaggerated to be believable. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 09:48:48 PST 2006