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16636 [lbo-talk] NYC mayor: no WFP endorsement yet -- rank: 1000

[from a mass email to friends of the Working Families Party from party boss (just a joke!) Dan Cantor - v interesting that Ferrer doesn't have a lock on the nomination] The WFP has not yet made a decision whether to make an endorsement in the state's highest profile race, that for Mayor of New York City. Our NYC Coordinating Council - 114 votes in all - tabled the discussion until next week. At the moment, Fernando Ferrer has more than 50% of the vote on the Council, but less than the 2/3 requir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 15:31:37 PDT 2005

16637 [lbo-talk] Fed kicks it up another quarterCarrol -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >True. I wonder if it might be a better sample of "the rich" to run >the same analysis on the Forbes 400 across time. > >At the very least, it would be nice to have both, and the Forbes >data is easily accessible. Forbes does it all the time, and finds considerable turnover (though I can't remember the numbers, and don't have time to look them up). They like that, because it shows America is the endlessly self-renewing land of opp't'y, as they say ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 15:22:14 PDT 2005

16638 [lbo-talk] Fed kicks it up another quarter -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Overposterly here, I'm thinking of the ruling class as 1/2% who get 50% of >GDP or is it own 50%,or whatever that lopsided top group is. 500 who own as >much as 1/2 of the human population. The group not included in the survey. >The secret proprietors and expropriators. They got big turnover ? Let me >guess. It's a big secret who they are so who knows if there's turnover. The very rich aren't the same as the ruling class. There are plenty of arrivistes with l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 13:44:38 PDT 2005

16639 [lbo-talk] Katrina: the libertarian response -- rank: 1000

<http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block53.html> The Answer to Katrina by Walter Block In the last little while I have written twice about hurricanes afflicting New Orleans, and my attempts as a resident of the Big Easy to escape from them; once on Ivan, and more recently on Katrina. The latter column led to more responses from readers than any other piece I have ever published with LewRockwell.com. There was plenty of positive response, but I will not reply to any of that, except to thank ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 12:37:33 PDT 2005

16640 [lbo-talk] rehearsing the coup -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2005/09/today_in_dc_com.html> [William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security] Today in DC: Commandos in the Streets? Today, somewhere in the DC metropolitan area, the military is conducting a highly classified Granite Shadow "demonstration." Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the military's extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 12:28:15 PDT 2005

16641 [lbo-talk] Fed kicks it up another quarterCarrol -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The ruling class doesn't have a big turnover in personnel , surely. Depends on what you mean by "big" and what you mean by the "ruling class." "The rich" aren't the same as the ruling class (and since I'm about to write a book about the ruling class, I'd welcome any related discussion), but you do see considerable turnover in the Forbes 400. The old WASP elite looks largely washed up, too. At less elevated level, there is some downward mobil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 12:19:19 PDT 2005

16642 [lbo-talk] Hey Mr. bitter expat -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >b) europeans (-british) no likey brownie (unlike bush) Really? Worse than the US? (That parenthetical statement is short for "excepting the British," right?) Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 21 12:10:41 PDT 2005

16643 [lbo-talk] Hey Mr. bitter expat -- rank: 1000

Wendy Lyon wrote: >Personally, I don't care what you say about it, but as an expat myself >I do wonder why you choose to remain in a place you loathe so much. I used to know a guy who's spent almost all the time since his 1975 graduation from Carleton College in Japan - he was a friend of my first wife's, and would stay with us for a few days every year or two. One of his visits came just after I'd read Karel van Wolferen's hypercritical book on the country - I wondered throughout why he'd ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 12:08:29 PDT 2005

16644 [lbo-talk] Fed kicks it up another quarter -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: I'm guessing that what separates the bourgeoisie from the petit >bourgeoisie is not losing money on the way down. "A bear market is when money returns to its rightful owners." - Old Wall Street saying

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 10:24:19 PDT 2005

16645 [lbo-talk] the elite at play -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I don't think this material helps settle the question of who's >funnier, men or women. That wasn't the point I was making. I was talking about professional comics and comedy writers. Women are plenty funny otherwise. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 10:10:28 PDT 2005

16646 [lbo-talk] Fed kicks it up another quarter -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What proportion of the "top 1/2 percent" in wealth do much in-and-out >trading on the market? They don't do it personally - they hire people to do it for them. I'm pretty sure that youngish rich people put a portion of their hoard with hedge funds and managed futures accounts. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 10:08:51 PDT 2005

16647 [lbo-talk] Jon Stewart defies the odds -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I don't entirely buy his theory of humor (in part because it's been >obsoleted by changes in society that his theories contributed to >bring about; in part because it's simply too one-dimensional) but >Freud thought jokes were entirely a matter of male sexual aggression >-- expressing the taboo in a distorted form to get it through the >social censor. On this theory, people who are driven to tell lots >of jokes have lots of aggression they want to tak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 09:59:03 PDT 2005

16648 [lbo-talk] the elite at play -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Roasting Rahm Emanuel: Several of Washington's biggest names turned out last night to roast Rep. Rahm Emanuel. The roast was held to benefit CURE, Citizens United to Cure Epilepsy, a non-profit organization headed by Susan Axelrod, the wife of Democratic media consultant David Axelrod. The Googling monkeys held a secret ballot after last night's event, and here, in reverse order, are our picks for the top six barbs of the night: 6. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 08:14:43 PDT 2005

16649 [lbo-talk] Reps freaking over Katrina costs -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 21, 2005 Some Want Bush To Give Details on How U.S. Will Pay By Shailagh Murray and Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writers Congressional Republicans from across the ideological spectrum yesterday rejected the White House's open-wallet approach to rebuilding the Gulf Coast, a sign that the lockstep GOP discipline that George W. Bush has enjoyed for most of his presidency is eroding on Capitol Hill. Trying to allay mounting concerns, White House budget director Josh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 08:10:30 PDT 2005

16650 [lbo-talk] Tancredo, immigrant-hating populist -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=IN5G1I1A1I4H> Tancredo, Bush Foe on Immigration, Poised as Republican Spoiler By Nicholas Johnston and Catherine Dodge Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Right-wing populists have bedeviled American political parties in presidential elections for more than 30 years. These include George Wallace in the 1960s and 70s, Patrick Buchanan in the 90s, and may include another such spoiler in 2008: Republican Tom Tancredo. A U.S. representative f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 21 08:06:20 PDT 2005