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18676 [lbo-talk] States pull the plug on electricity deregulation -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > Hey, Enron did for a little while. > >(Did they actually, or did they just SAY they did?) I think they had some cash coming in because of the crisis. When the crisis ended so did they. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 17:54:33 PDT 2005

18677 [lbo-talk] States pull the plug on electricity deregulation -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >"Nobody's benefited from deregulation â*“ period, end >of story," said Charles Acquard, executive director of >the National Association of State Utility Consumer >Advocates.... Hey, Enron did for a little while. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 17:11:11 PDT 2005

18678 Fwd: [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 21 17:03:18 PDT 2005

18679 [lbo-talk] How London brought terror on itself -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala quoted some conspiratorial claptrap: >To start with, it's noteworthy that an ex-Mossad chief, writing on >the same day of the bombings, seemed to know more than everyone >else. Look at the first sentence from this Jerusalem Post article. Oooh, sounds like the Mossad did it, eh? Especially if you don't follow the link and read the sentence in question <http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1120702711778&p=1074657885918>: ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 16:15:53 PDT 2005

18680 [lbo-talk] detachable peni (cont.) -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/bill-keller/index.php#bill-kellers-genital-fixation-113637> Bill Keller's Genital Fixation Bill Keller's comment about new Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet's hiring techniques seemed vaguely familiar to us. So we took a quick walk down Nexis lane, where found an Observer article from July 30, 2000, when Baquet left our Times for the other one: [Baquet, and John Caroll, the editor he's now replacing] hit it off. A trip to Los Angeles over a long weekend with ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 16:00:11 PDT 2005

18681 [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Roberts a decent guy" -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Nathan Newman asks: > >> And how pray tell, can the Democrats exercise "party discipline" >> on Senators who choose to defy them? The Republicans who >> control executive and legislative power can discipline their >> caucus by threatening to deny them pork for their districts or >> otherwise threaten their reelection > >Stop, Nathan! You are engaging in "the concrete analysis of concrete >conditions," and t ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 15:49:26 PDT 2005

18682 [lbo-talk] China's growth -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Why is it flowing into China and not (where I want in >to flow) into Russia? Because China's growing like crazy, and has been for 20 years; wages are low but workers are productive; and the infrastructure is good (I hear India's jealous). What's Russia got besides oil, rocks, and trees? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 15:47:49 PDT 2005

18683 [lbo-talk] more say Iraq war increases terrorism risk - but stay the course anyway -- rank: 1000

PEW RESEARCH CENTER FOR THE PEOPLE & THE PRESS More Say Iraq War Hurts Fight Against Terrorism Support for Keeping Troops in Iraq Stabilizes A growing number of Americans believe that the war in Iraq has undermined the U.S. struggle against terrorism. Nearly half (47%) say the war in Iraq has hurt the war on terrorism, the highest percentage expressing that view since the war began in March 2003. Nonetheless, public support for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq, which had risen ste ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 13:24:13 PDT 2005

18684 [lbo-talk] What's my name, fool? -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >On the commentary, Angelo Dundee says that's how you get someone >down, a shot right to the temple. Wow, that sounds like a great selling point for boxing! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 12:23:29 PDT 2005

18685 [lbo-talk] three-car garages wave of the future, builders say -- rank: 1000

[Blake said the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <http://www.nahb.org> THREE-CAR GARAGES THE TREND OF THE FUTURE WASHINGTON, July 21-Back in the 1950s, the one-car garage was standard in the 41 percent of homes that had any garage at all. More than half a century later, almost two-thirds of all new homes have two-car garages and on a nationwide basis, 19 percent have three-car or more garages. "The home building industry is definitely seeing a gro ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 11:05:07 PDT 2005

18686 [lbo-talk] The Note on AFL-CIO news -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> House of Labor: In advance of the AFL-CIO convention next week in Chicago, here is our analysis, based on numerous interviews with key players and labor officials. On the surface, the nation's umbrella federation for labor unions, the AFL-CIO, heads into its annual convention next week torn asunder on the most basic of questions: how do they regrow their ranks and leverage their political power to benefit American workers? Behind-the ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 11:01:09 PDT 2005

18687 [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Roberts a decent guy" -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >It is interesting how we are always lectured - as we were by the ABBers in >2004- that we have to vote Democrat "because of the Supreme Court" and "Roe >v. Wade hangs by a single vote," yet the very same Democrats for whom we are >told to vote do not put any substantive fight. If all Democrats in the >Senate united against Roberts the way they did against Bush's social >security 'reform' and stood firm, they could stop the nominat ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 10:41:56 PDT 2005

18688 [lbo-talk] NY water makes your penis fall off -- rank: 1000

[from Howard Kurtz's column in today's WaPo on NY Times alum Dean Bacquet's ascension to editorship of the LA Times - I guess Keller doesn't think women are recruiting targets, or maybe he only knows women with securely fastened strap-ons] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002348.html> New York Times editor Bill Keller said: "Dean's a prince -- a world-class investigator, an inspiring editor and a barrel of fun." But Keller said he hoped Ba ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 10:38:23 PDT 2005

18689 [lbo-talk] Merrill on China -- rank: 1000

Cause & FX SPECIAL EDITION-China Moves, Chapter I Merrill Lynch Foreign Exchange Strategy Team Bottom Line: After months of intermittent speculation, China has engaged in its first major currency regime change in years. While widely expected at some time in the future, the move today comes as a market surprise. As the upfront revaluation implied is limited, we believe that after some initial volatility and confusing market action, the market will start aggressively pricing a further move. T ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 10:31:30 PDT 2005

18690 [lbo-talk] China's growth -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >At one point in the film Smith visits an auction where factory equipment >previously owned by the departed, once mighty American firm, Rubbermaid, was >being sold. The auctioneer tells him that a particularly large, complex and >expensive piece of machinery -- designed to turn resin into finished rubber >products -- was purchased by a Chinese firm who were disassembling it for >shipment back to China. > >The Chinese firm was going to pick up where R ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 21 10:23:08 PDT 2005