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17386 [lbo-talk] Re: No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I'm with Kel on this: the >abolition of gender as a product of social relations and the >abolition of the capitalist as a product of social relations >are strikingly analogous political goals. I don't mean to be a pedant, but it's not the capitalist but "capital" as a social relation that's more analogous to gender, no? Doug

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17387 [lbo-talk] No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >And then there's the observation that it's only in the >English-speaking world that men name them: Peter, Dick, John Thomas, >etc. Don't forget Johnson, which I always found kinda funny! Doug

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17388 [lbo-talk] No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Guys who have names for their private parts need to grow up and find a hobby. In googling one of the Nation correspondents who took issue with my characterization of U2 as "bombastic," I learned that in college he'd nicknamed his beer belly. Doug

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17389 [lbo-talk] what would avian flu do to stock prices? -- rank: 1000

DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 11/16/05 Goldman Sachs Economics * The evolution of a new strain of 'avian flu' has raised the possibility of a worldwide pandemic. Outbreaks of the H5N1 strain suggest it is extremely virulent and humans have no natural immunity. Epidemiologists suggest that, while the chance of an outbreak in any given year is relatively low, the question is 'when' rather than 'if' a pandemic will occur. * While the biggest cost of such a pandemic would be the human toll, a world ...

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17390 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 - Hang On -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >Again, as the M3 increases get big, I think it's entirely expected >that the supply-side Fed would start to de-emphasize it. I don't think the Fed is supply-side at all. In practice, they're "bastard Keynesians" (to use Joan Robinson's label for Keynesianism drained of all its semi-radical political content) most of the time. They believe that interest rates, not money, matter; that the fiscal balance is a strong influence on the economy; and that finance isn' ...

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17391 [lbo-talk] shake & bake -- rank: 1000

US defends use of white phosphorus By Will Dunham 2 hours, 20 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday acknowledged using incendiary white-phosphorus munitions in a 2004 counterinsurgency offensive in the Iraqi city of Falluja, but defended their use as legal. Army Lt. Col. Barry Venable, a Pentagon spokesman, said the U.S. military had not used the highly flammable weapons against civilians, contrary to an Italian state television report this month which said the weapons wer ...

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17392 [lbo-talk] great moments in statesmanship -- rank: 1000

What wrong, aside from the subliterate syntax, is the sense of entitlement: I'm an American, goddamnit, and it's my birthright to waste shit like crazy! We could have a very fine standard of living while consuming lots less energy than we do. boddi satva wrote: >"if we're going improve (sic) our standard of living, you have to >consume more energy." - > >Seems axiomatic to me (at least in the near term). What's the >problem with this statement? > > >On 11/16/05, ...

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17393 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 - Hang On -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >I used to watch the M's religiously back in the 1970s. Then I >discovered tea leaves. Which tea leaves? Green? Black? Orange pekoe?

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17394 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 - Hang On -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >Hang on, why is M3 useless? The Bank of England publishes an M4 and >M5 don't they? Isn't it a little suspicious that after increasing >the money supply so copiously the Greenspan Fed conveniently retires >the broadest measure of money? What's it telling us? An inflationary boom is imminent? For the year ending October, M1 was up 0.5%, M2, 4.0%, and M3, 7.3%. Which should we listen to? All three Ms were up 7-9% in mid-2003 - what did that mean? In early 2002, they ...

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17395 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> >> >>Doug Henwood wrote: >>> >>> It's not just that - it's the tone of high-minded earnestness. I'd >>> rather watch Brit Hume snarl. >> >>I don't listen to All things considered ... > >Neither do I, so that makes this whole discussion pretty meta. But >judging from occasional NPR interludes that I've endured on long car >trips, I would have to agree with Doug. ...

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17396 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But this objection to "high-minded earnestness" (h-me) is the >objection of an armchair radical. Actually I'm sitting in a desk chair right now. Do I carry the sensibility with me regardless of furniture? Doug

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17397 [lbo-talk] letter to the editor -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>News/public affairs. All Things Considered makes me want to scream. > >What? You don't like their steady stream of "experts" from >right-wing think tanks and the Pentagon? It's not just that - it's the tone of high-minded earnestness. I'd rather watch Brit Hume snarl. Doug

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17398 [lbo-talk] Feminism: equality or vengeance? -- rank: 1000

peacenow at theofficenet.com wrote: >What i find profoundly sad and discouraging is that the term feminism simply >means the strivings by women (& men as well) to attain rights equal to men. Isn't it also about changing men, our ideas of masculinity (and femininity), and how men & women relate to each other? It's not just about making women resemble men, is it? >Women in the military is not equality. It is simply further degradation as so >many female enlistees are raped, ha ...

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17399 [lbo-talk] War on the car-driver -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Heartfield, the accidental satirist, wrote, > >>On British statistics, around 85 per cent of >>all journeys are by car. Around ten per cent by >>train. >>For the train network to reduce car journeys by >>one seventh, it would have to double in >>capacity. >>To halve car journeys, it would have to multiply five times. > >- snip - > >>Public transit is not socialism, whether it is >>the London Underground or th ...

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17400 [lbo-talk] now & then -- rank: 1000

USA Today - November 16, 2005 Poll: American attitudes on Iraq similar to Vietnam era By Susan Page, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - There are enormous differences between the war in Iraq and the one in Vietnam that defined a generation. The current conflict hasn't lasted as long, taken nearly as many American lives or sparked the sort of anti-war movement that marked the '60s and '70s. Flowers are laid at a memorial to the Kent State University shootings, one of the divisive events of 1970. Mark Duncan, ...

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