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16996 [lbo-talk] Liza on TV! -- rank: 1000

Liza's too modest to self-promote, so I'll do it: she'll be on CNBC sometime around 2:20 or 2:30 eastern time. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 26 07:11:41 PDT 2005

16997 [lbo-talk] CNN Breaking News -- rank: 1000

paul childs wrote: > >Subject: CNN Breaking News >>-- President Bush to nominate Ben Bernanke, his top economic adviser, to >>succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, CNN confirms. > >I can't remember hearing anything about this guy, is he an economics >version of Harriet Miers? I'm taking the crony status as a given, >but beyond that.....? No, he's more like Roberts - smart, golden credentials, eminently suited for the job from a bourgeois POV. Bernanke be ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 25 16:49:08 PDT 2005

16998 [lbo-talk] Re: Bernanke -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Well, actually, I see his appointment as a sign that they're worried >and that they want someone who knows what they're doing rather than >an ideologist. Wall Street would have creamed them if he'd appointed some hack. Of course, this was predicted by me on the Neil Cavuto show. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 25 16:37:14 PDT 2005

16999 [lbo-talk] Posen & Galbraith on BB -- rank: 1000

<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/july-dec05/bernanke_10-24.html> GWEN IFILL: Economists, businesses, Wall Street brokers and lawmakers have all been eagerly awaiting President Bush's choice to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. If confirmed, the president's nominee, Ben S. Bernanke, would become the first new Fed chairman in nearly two decades. Bernanke, now chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, received his bachelor's degree in economics from Harva ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 25 16:29:09 PDT 2005

17000 [lbo-talk] Galloway defense -- rank: 1000

[this is a press release from The New Press, which pub'd Galloway's book] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, October 25, 2005 GEORGE GALLOWAY CHALLENGES U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE TO CHARGE HIM WITH PERJURY In response to new allegations released by Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) Galloway offers to return to DC to testify The Respect MP George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him with perjury and "I'll see you in court". Galloway said that he ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 25 16:20:35 PDT 2005

17001 [lbo-talk] updates -- rank: 1000

Just back & catching up. This is fairly amazing stuff <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238>: The Note: Lawyers Involved in the Case Out West, Where You Vacation, the Aspens Will Already Be Turning By MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, IMTIYAZ DELAWALA, SARAH BAKER, KELLEY PREMO, and EMILY O'DONNELL 12 hours and 1,759 phone calls and e-mail messages later, no other news organization in America has matched the New York Times' historic lede: "I. Lewis Libby ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 25 16:01:57 PDT 2005

17002 [lbo-talk] DD & Max on Bernanke: (Thank Heavens) He's no Feldstein -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >If you harken back to 1980-81 you can see how wrong things can get. > >The Fed is also supposed to regulate banks, and there are some activist >groups who bird-dog their failure to do so, especially in the fields of >red-lining and lending discrimination. All true, but monetary policy can't solve the fundamental problems of poverty and income distribution. Sadly, a lot of populists seem to think it can. I can understand the appeal of perpetually loose money - t ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 25 15:23:07 PDT 2005

17003 [lbo-talk] Bush as Diversion -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> >But capital, not a particular administration, is our enemy. >> >> What's capital? How do we find it/them? > >Ever hear of Metonymy? > >Yoshie put it nicely: "Some leftists are oddly literal-minded." If some people had used "capital" that way, I'd have read it as metonymy. I use it myself rather frequently. But you're constantly so vague on a ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 23 01:01:31 PDT 2005

17004 [lbo-talk] Bush as Diversion -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But capital, not a particular administration, is our enemy. What's capital? How do we find it/them? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 22 15:35:49 PDT 2005

17005 [lbo-talk] Re: working class? -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >So how is Florence? Absolutely splendid. A friend of ours who teaches at NYU is with their program in Florence this semester, and we're staying with her. NYU-Florence is an estate at the edge of town, consisting of several villas scattered about a huge expanse of rolling hills, with olive trees all over the damn place. Her apartment is in one of the villas - it's huge, with beautiful views, and all the amenities (including ethernet plugs - though the connection can be sl ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 21 07:01:33 PDT 2005

17006 [lbo-talk] Salon's Advice Columnist: No Sob Sister! -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >*Dick Grippon wrote,* > >>crack the prozac in half. > >*Culture Lab wrote, > >*>you had money for an attorney, shrink, and numerous other things, asshole > > >Any posting limit for multiple personalities? For purposes of posting limits, the various tentacles count as a single poster. So far today: Dick Grippon: 7 posts Culture Lab: 1 post --------------------- total 8 posts The limit is 3. I'm fully connected now, and I'm counting. ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 21 06:36:06 PDT 2005

17007 [lbo-talk] Re: working class? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am already overposting, but hey, Doug's away so I hope to get away with >it:). But God is always watching. And He dropped a dime on you. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 21 06:25:39 PDT 2005

17008 [lbo-talk] the 50-word story -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >It's really sad that America has turned into such an >anti-intellectual culture. When wasn't it, really? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 21 03:29:26 PDT 2005

17009 [lbo-talk] the 50-word story -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: > Nobody is "condoning the contempt and disgust of teachers." But >Joanna (and now Andie, it seems) is shifting the focus away from the >real frustrations teachers have with blase students to alleging >bilious attitudes on the part of faculty. The answer to Soviet Era >incompetence was not, as the old joke went, "look at the racism in >the United States." There are burnt-out profs who've given up on >teaching and there are students ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 21 03:28:28 PDT 2005

17010 [lbo-talk] DeLay's Mug -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Here it is folks... > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1020051delay1.html >___________________________________ >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk It's just a headshit, no "HARRIS COUNTY SHERRIFF'S OFFICE 13-250327" ID dammit!

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Date:	Fri Oct 21 03:15:07 PDT 2005