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17161 [lbo-talk] Query: Renewable Power Fund -- rank: 1000

sharif islam wrote: >Is anyone on this list familiar with this investment firm? I would >appreciate some information. >http://renewablepowerfund.com/ Elsewhere on the site: >Who we are >We are a group of experienced investment bankers, most of who happen >to be bilingual in English and French. >We have working relationships with several of the largest pension >funds in the United States and abroad, as well as with several of >the most respected and experienced experts ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 12:06:35 PDT 2005

17162 [lbo-talk] Harriet Miers -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >lower-middle-class whites--those making between $30,000 and >$50,000 Huh? Median income in 2004 was $44,389. $30,000 is 68% of the median, and $50,000 is 113%. How is that "lower-middle class"? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 12:02:43 PDT 2005

17163 [lbo-talk] new Yale feminist mag -- rank: 1000

[this is from the Yale Alumni for Social Justice listserv] Dear YASJ members: Yale has a terrific new feminist publication that needs your support! In the spring, the premiere issue of MANIFESTA was published. Sarah Stillman, now a Yale senior, is the Editor-in-Chief; Jessica Gusberg, now a Yale senior, is the Executive Editor. Both are active in Yale's Social Justice Network. MANIFESTA's inaugural issue focuses on Women and War. It includes an interview with feminist playwright Eve Ensler, a le ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 11:51:13 PDT 2005

17164 [lbo-talk] re: ART FORUM ACCIDENT! -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: His 11th post of the day. The limit is 3. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 11:40:21 PDT 2005

17165 [lbo-talk] KPFA CAB -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: > > Sane attendees desperately needed, from what I hear. >> > >I dont think I qualify as "sane" You do in this context. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 11:39:23 PDT 2005

17166 [lbo-talk] Miers looks seriously reactionary -- rank: 1000

<http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/10/miers_against_m.html> MIERS AGAINST MAKING GAY SEX LEGAL, AND AGAINST LEGAL ABORTION, IN 1989 From a dispatch from the Associated Press that moved late yesterday afternoon but that only a handful of major dailies have bothered to run, we learned that Harriet Miers (left)-- the corporate pitbull lawyer and presidential lapdog Bush appointed to fill Sandra Day O'connor's seat on the Supreme Court -- opposed repeal of Texas' so-called sodomy law i ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 11:34:19 PDT 2005

17167 [lbo-talk] Credit Card Loan Delinquencies Reach Record High -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >For every credit card company? At the same time? Call me paranoid, >but this has to be collusion, right? No, it's from the regulators. By the way, according to Goldman Sachs, about 5% of credit card holders make minimum payments only. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 11:27:22 PDT 2005

17168 [lbo-talk] the Rangel-Cheney beef -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >fwiw: may be incorrect about this, but i believe miers appt is first >instance of prez appointing his personal attorney to sc... michael hoover Didn't Johnson nominate Abe Fortas, who was his lawyer? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 11:26:54 PDT 2005

17169 [lbo-talk] writing Lil' Kim -- rank: 1000

For interested correspondents, Gawker helpfully provides Lil' Kim's address: >Kimberly Jones / 56198-054 >FDC PHILADELPHIA >FEDERAL DETENTION CENTER >P.O. BOX 562 >PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 08:28:59 PDT 2005

17170 [lbo-talk] Gallup on news junkies -- rank: 1000

October 04, 2005 The Group Better Known as "News Junkies" Attentive elite skews older, more partisan by Lydia Saad, Senior Gallup Poll Editor When events such as the indictment of Republican leader Tom DeLay occur, it's tempting to look for evidence of a ripple effect in the broader political environment -- in this case, a possible decline of public trust in the Republican Party or even President George W. Bush. While trust may or may not erode in time, it is helpful to remember that m ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 08:17:59 PDT 2005

17171 [lbo-talk] the Rangel-Cheney beef -- rank: 1000

Newsday - October 4, 2005 A healthy debate for Cheney, Rangel WASHINGTON -- To hear Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) and Vice President Dick Cheney tell it, neither is fit for office. In a heated exchange through the news media, each has cast doubt on the other's physical ability to fulfill his public duties. Rangel, 74, landed the first blow in an interview on NY1 Friday. Asked if Cheney should step down from the vice presidency, Rangel said, "He should never have stepped up in the first pla ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 08:15:35 PDT 2005

17172 [lbo-talk] re: ART FORUM ACCIDENT! -- rank: 1000

paul childs wrote: >About 10 years ago an artist in Toronto gorged himself on blueberies >and a bunch of other blue food, went into the Art Gallery of >Ontario, jammed a finger down his throat and hurled all over a >painting (a Mondrian I think) that was dominated by the color blue. >He claimed it was a comment on the effect that art (literally) had >on him. And don't forget the inspiring example of Tony Shafrazi, who spray-painted the phrase "Kill Lies All" on Picass ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 08:09:20 PDT 2005

17173 [lbo-talk] hiding from the archives... -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >some of you may be interested to know that AFAICT lbo-talk seems to >honour the "X-Archive:" header. Honored (or honoured, should your culture prefer that spelling) by omission, not by intention. I want this to be an open, public forum, and the archives are an integral part of it. Lots of people read the archives. So if you've got privacy concerns, use a pseudonym. Jordan's going to turn it off. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 07:59:03 PDT 2005

17174 [lbo-talk] Wow! -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> Yeah, thinking more about Bartels' remarks, I'm wondering if he meant >> that a low approval rating meant a higher risk of popular resistance. >> America's in a bad mood, and I can't believe that that's good for >> political stability. > >Popular resistance to what? Bush? He will be out in three years anyway. >The colonization of the country, its culture and its soul by business >interests? Have you seen any pigs fl ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 07:44:13 PDT 2005

17175 [lbo-talk] More on Harriet Miers -- rank: 1000

[from another list] Message to the e-mail distribution list of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Caucus of the American Political Science Association: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I circulate here a message posted in a recent conversation on the listserv ConLawProf. Dan Pinello "Pentecostal" is not a good description of Valley View Christian Church (http://www.vvcc.org/) in Dallas, of which, as I understand it, Ms. Miers is a member. Ins ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 4 07:34:05 PDT 2005