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17686 [lbo-talk] Galloway to Senate: FOAD -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Galloway, right on the war, incredible orator, but, I suspect in >the end we'll have confirmed he was in the receipt of Saddammist $. Yeah. The USSR was the center of evil, too. Too bad the State Department doesn't have any more socialists, Michael. You would have been an ideal candidate. Doug

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17687 [lbo-talk] please contribute! -- rank: 1000

My thoroughly wonderful research assistant, Laura Starecheski, is running in the NYC Triathalon this summer, and is soliciting contributions to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to make all the training socially worthwhile. If you're so inclined, please contribute: <http://www.active.com/donations/fundraise_public.cfm?key=tntnycLStarecheski>. Doug

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17688 [lbo-talk] Galloway to Senate: FOAD -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >You have to use the NYT's site-search to find Judith Miller's article If you read the paper edition, it jumps out at you just a few pages in. Meanwhile, it's the lead story in the US edition of the Financial Times, with a big pic of Galloway next to it. As someone in a position to know once told me, the FT is produced by reporters and editors who combine a left disdain for the US with an upper-class Brit disdain for the US (a contrast with The Economist's America-love). Do ...

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17689 [lbo-talk] me on Fox -- rank: 1000

I'm supposed to be on the Fox News Channel at 4:20 this afternoon, NYC time, bashing Alan Greenspan on the Neil Cavuto show. They bounced me once before for breaking news, so this isn't a sure thing. But I'll don my suit anyway. Doug

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17690 [lbo-talk] Making beautiful stuff -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >Because, those of us who do the production work know that none of >that money is accruing to us, the people who actually make it. When >you hear or read people focus on the money aspect, you're not giving >anyone a chance to say anything else. It's automatically assumed >that they are opposed to fashion, style, design, etc. And yet, the >very people to whom you've made these accusations are, themselves, >artists and craftsman. John T, for instance, is an art ...

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17691 [lbo-talk] Making beautiful stuff -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >you're not giving anyone a chance to say anything Coulda fooled me. Doug

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17692 [lbo-talk] Galloway to Senate: FOAD -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >And it seems you're not supposed to *repeat* these things if they >have been said. I have been impressed by the extent to which the US >media have quashed this story -- I've seen minimal coverage on TV >and in print. E.g., check Slate's "summary of what's in the major >U.S. newspapers" today -- not a word about Galloway's Senate >testimony: <http://slate.msn.com/id/2119050/> There's a longish article in the NYT, but Judith Miller, of all p ...

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17693 [lbo-talk] WSJ edit page: forget about that p. 1 story! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I mentioned the NY Times feature on class to one of the older >anarchists here in Kansas City and he started going off about how >"we disproved that class mobility stuff back in the 1960s." He >expressed dismay that more work by radicals in the academy were >being ignored in favor of discredited social science. It's so much a part of bedrock American identity that it's not going to go away easily. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 18 07:40:05 PDT 2005

17694 [lbo-talk] Bush to Greenspan: stick around -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 18, 2005 Administration Considers Delaying Fed Chief's Exit An Extra Few Months Would Give Greenspan the Longest Tenure By Nell Henderson Washington Post Staff Writer Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan frequently urges Americans to postpone retirement and stay on the job longer. He may soon get the chance to do so himself. Bush administration officials are mulling whether to encourage Greenspan, 79, to continue as Fed chairman for at least a few months beyond the Jan. ...

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Date:	Wed May 18 07:38:49 PDT 2005

17695 [lbo-talk] Civilizing vs commercializing ( was REV BILLY) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >If we assume that D&G and Gucci represent civilized fulfillment of extended >needs and consumption, what would be examples of commodities produced today >that are justifiably condemned as commercialization and dehumanization of >consumption by capitalism ? Specifically in this case, I'd say the high pricetag is the commercialization part, and the taste for beautiful shoes part of the civilized extension of needs. Doug

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17696 [lbo-talk] stoner greeting cards -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >http://coolgov.com/index.php?p=132 > > >apparently, this is sponsored by the .gov. just thought it was funny >in light of recent comments about stoners and junkies. The site claims: "Oh well, at least you know that the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has the coolest ringtones ever!" Groovy! I think I'll stick with my "Blitzkrieg Bop." Doug

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17697 [lbo-talk] Housing bubble? Sure! -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Funny thing that housing bubble. Went for a walk around the block >today. I live in a kind of gray area of Oakland According to ESRI's zip profiler <http://www.esribis.com/>, your zip code has an average income of $37,839, making a $499,000 pretty steep! Doug

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17698 [lbo-talk] Making beautiful stuff -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >but since you are in Soho, go the corner of Broadway and Prince to >the Prada Store I've been there. Also very very beautiful store and merch. Of course the pricetags are ridiculous, but I don't get why so many people can focus on that and not the sensual pleasures. This is a new take on the old maxim about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing! By the way, Miuccia Prada is some kind of pinko. This is from a profile of her in the June 21, 20 ...

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17699 [lbo-talk] Fwd: REVEREND BILLY -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Beautiful visually...but there is a certain stink to them. What >do I mean by that? Simply this--if you or I were to make shoes >of identical visual beauty and sell them at a price reflecting their >cost the Gucci people would--successfully--move heaven and earth >to have us locked up for the "crime" of stealing intellectual property. Exact copies with a forged Gucci label, yes, but knockoffs are universal in the fashion world. Doug

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17700 [lbo-talk] Galloway xscript -- rank: 1000

<http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0517-35.htm> Galloway vs. The US Senate: Transcript of Statement George Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, delivered this statement to US Senators today who have accused him of corruption "Senator, I am not now, nor have I ever been, an oil trader, and neither has anyone on my behalf. I have never seen a barrel of oil, owned one, bought one, sold one -- and neither has anyone on my behalf. "Now I know that standards have slipped i ...

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