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17011 [lbo-talk] off -- rank: 1000

Well gang, we're off to Florence for a week. A tough assignment, I know. I'll be checking in now & then, but far less often than usual. Back Tuesday evening the 25th. Don't solve the transformation problem without me! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 18 10:45:07 PDT 2005

17012 [lbo-talk] another evolution poll: 53% of Americans believe Genesis story -- rank: 1000

<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2005-10-10-evolution-debate-centerpiece_x.htm> An important issue How much have you thought about the different explanations for how human beings came to exist on Earth (evolution guided by God, evolution without God's involvement or creation as described in the Bible)? Great deal: 41% Moderate amount: 35% Not much: 17% Not at all: 6% How much does it matter to you which of these theories is correct? Great deal: 40% Moderate amount: 26% Not much: 19% N ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 18 09:13:14 PDT 2005

17013 [lbo-talk] Re: working class? -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Thanks for reminding me of your book. I guess its inexcusable to >take advantage of your hospitality while not having bothered to read >your book. At the moment the link doesn't seem to work though, so >maybe you could summarise the argument relevant to "rentiers". Sorry, the link was missing a "t": <http://www.wallstreetthebook.com/>. And no, I'm not going to summarize the argument of a 400-page book here. Sorry. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 18 08:30:11 PDT 2005

17014 [lbo-talk] Madonna discovers sin -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - October 19, 2005 Denouncing sin? Who is that girl? In her new movie, 'I'm Going to Tell You a Secret,' the many-mansioned Madonna attacks the material world. Once, she told papa not to preach. But now, at 47, Madonna has come down from the mount with a message for you sinners. People "are going to go to hell, if they don't turn from their wicked behavior," the singer proclaims in her new film, "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret." Despite her many homes, the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 18 08:20:52 PDT 2005

17015 [lbo-talk] Cheney a target? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - October 18, 2005 Cheney may be target of probe BY JAMES GORDON MEEK, THOMAS M. DeFRANK and KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - A special prosecutor's intensifying focus into who outed a CIA spy has raised questions whether Vice President Cheney himself is involved, knowledgeable sources confirmed yesterday. At least one source and one reporter who have testified in the probe said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is pursuing Cheney's role in the Vale ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 18 07:32:18 PDT 2005

17016 [lbo-talk] Re: working class? -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >At 8:15 PM -0400 17/10/05, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>There's always dictionary.com, which reports: "A person who lives >>on income from property or investments." > >Whereas of course a capitalist lives on income from capital. Capital directly engaged in production, vs. capital separated from production by several degrees. > The distinction is meaningless, surely you can see that? Uh, no. >> Property income originates ultimately in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 18 07:12:25 PDT 2005

17017 [lbo-talk] Re: working class? -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Define "rentiers". Its a word I sometimes hear Americans use, but I >don't have a Webster's dictionary handy. There's always dictionary.com, which reports: "A person who lives on income from property or investments." Property income originates ultimately in production (where else could it come from? financial assets are instruments of distribution) but the rentier is performing a different social role from the capitalist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 17 17:15:16 PDT 2005

17018 [lbo-talk] Re: working class? -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >The ruling capitalist class need not work and need no exemption. But if they don't work they cease to become capitalists in the strict sense, and become rentiers. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 16:43:02 PDT 2005

17019 [lbo-talk] Keith Boykin on the speech that didn't happen -- rank: 1000

The Speech That Didn't Happen By Keith Boykin October 15, 2005 04:18 PM <http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/001598.html> <http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/cat_sexuality.html> After eight months of discussion, four productive conversations with Minister Farrakhan and a heated exchange with Rev. Willie Wilson, the Millions More Movement March took place today and I was not allowed to speak. Although I believe we have opened the door for historic and positive dialogue with Minister Farrakha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 17 13:58:44 PDT 2005

17020 [lbo-talk] the 50-word story -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Sounds like standard radio news stories. Yup, but this is "print," or the electronic equivalent, which is supposed to offer a bit more room to develop reporting and analysis. If this is the future, it's just gotten a lot dumber. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 13:53:08 PDT 2005

17021 [lbo-talk] the 50-word story -- rank: 1000

[further down on Romenesko's letters - I hate to sound like an old fart, but are we going to end up nostalgic for the days when TV offered real substance?] <http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=10504> The value of "short-form journalism" 10/17/2005 11:12:33 AM From DAN SHANOFF: Subject -- Response to Frank Ahren's WaPo column about Internet writing. As someone who writes a "mainstream" column based around short, chatty, opinion-based news delivery for an online aud ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 17 13:00:15 PDT 2005

17022 [lbo-talk] another reason Judith Miller sucks -- rank: 1000

<http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=10506> Another part of the Miller story 10/17/2005 12:53:09 PM From BARBARA CROSSETTE, New York Times UN bureau chief, 1994-2001: Obscured behind the large issues of weapons of mass destruction and Joseph Wilson's links with the CIA is another story. Over the last year or so, Judith Miller also wrote a series of damaging reports on the "oil for food" scandal at the United Nations -- in particular, personally damaging to Secretary General ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 17 12:58:14 PDT 2005

17023 [lbo-talk] Bill White organizes race riot in Toledo, Ohio -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted some racist scum: >WHITE people of Polish descent >When Americans of Irish, >English, German and other descent (White people) Wow, how quickly they forget! Time was that Hunkies and Micks weren't white. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 09:56:24 PDT 2005

17024 [lbo-talk] Battle Hymn of the Republicans -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Bashing Bush at this point isn't very funny unless Jon Stewart is >doing it. Bush is more than just a wounded duck, his presidency is >toast. Meanwhile, the myopic liberal left, which can't organize it's >way out of a wet paper sack, is focusing all of their venom at Bush, >when the real problem goes beyond Bush to include the Democrats and >the rest of the political establishment. > >I re-state the obvious. I wish it were obvious. I'm afraid it's not. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 09:50:16 PDT 2005

17025 [lbo-talk] so much for that post-Katrina concern with poverty -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - October 17, 2005 House GOP Leaders Set to Cut Spending Leadership Shake-Up Spurred Policy Shift By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer House Republican leaders have moved from balking at big cuts in Medicaid and other programs to embracing them, driven by pent-up anger from fiscal conservatives concerned about runaway spending and the leadership's own weakening hold on power. Beginning this week, the House GOP lawmakers will take steps to cut as much as $50 billion fr ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 07:58:04 PDT 2005