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19351 [lbo-talk] shooting people is fun! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug, that was a cheap shot. Oh, c'mon - if you took state power, aren't there a few people you'd want to line up against a wall? I'm not saying that that would be a wise or just policy - but as an emotional urge? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 16:34:00 PST 2005

19352 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

louis kontos wrote: >thanks for info. i sent an email to the chancellor and suggest >others do the same. Yup, I did too. Fill his inbox with emails. Doug ---- >http://www.colorado.edu/chancellor/ > Contact >Interim Chancellor DiStefano >Send email > >Phone: >303-492-8908 > >17 UCB >Regent 301 >Boulder, CO >80309

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 16:23:03 PST 2005

19353 [lbo-talk] One of Saddam`s Men Speaks Out -- rank: 1000

[via Jude Wanniski, of all people] The fully formatted report may be found at <http://polyconomics.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=4150> -------------------------------------------------------- One of Saddam`s Men Speaks Out Feb 4 2005 Memo To: Website Fans, Browsers, Clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: An Interview with Muhammad al-Duri It`s almost two years since the invasion of Iraq and the world has not been able to hear from any of the members of Saddam Hussein`s regime, because of course t ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 16:04:44 PST 2005

19354 [lbo-talk] AWOL soldier refuses to fight -- rank: 1000

Hi International Progressive Publications, My name is Carl Webb and I'm a soldier protesting illegal orders(Stop Loss Program) to serve in Iraq beyond the length of my contract which ended in August 2004. I refused to report for training with the Texas National Guard at Fort Hood and left Austin, Texas back in August with the intent of eventually turning myself over to the military authorities. Right now I'm creating a website at carlwebb.net where people can find more information. Click on the ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 15:25:44 PST 2005

19355 [lbo-talk] definitive evidence on the housing bubble -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >Somehow, the Left has to tap into and reclaim that energy, channel it into >a different direction. Yup. We gotta direct the hate better. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 15:21:02 PST 2005

19356 [lbo-talk] birthdays -- rank: 1000

Alice Cooper is 57 today; John Maynard Keynes would be 122. I never thought I'd use those two names in the same sentence. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 15:17:39 PST 2005

19357 [lbo-talk] floating rates -- rank: 1000

An addendum to the adjustable interest rate thread of last week. I was just reminded of this remark of Alan Greenspan's last November, a rare instance of his threatening to take away the punchbowl: >Rising interest rates have been advertised for so long and in so >many places that anyone who has not appropriately hedged this >position by now obviously is desirous of losing money. U.S. households are mostly not listening. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 14:29:17 PST 2005

19358 [lbo-talk] Alan "What Me Worry?" G on home equity withdrawal -- rank: 1000

[from a speech on the U.S. current account deficit delivered this morning by Alan Greenspan, the first Fed chair to spike the punch bowl when the party was really getting going] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2005/20050204/default.htm> An increase in household saving should also act to diminish borrowing from abroad. The growth of home mortgage debt has been the major contributor, at least in an accounting sense, to the decline in the personal saving rate in the United S ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 14:20:07 PST 2005

19359 [lbo-talk] interest rates are low because investment opportunities are few -- rank: 1000

[this one's going out to Patrick Bond] Financial Times - February 3, 2005 Why long-term bond yields are low By Samuel Brittan The behaviour of bond prices is puzzling the financial markets. The US Federal Reserve has for some time been gradually raising the Federal Funds rate from the 1 per cent of a year ago towards what it regards as a more normal level, reaching 2.5 per cent this week. Yet, paradoxically, long term bond yields have continued to fall. In the US, they reached a high of 4.7 per ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 14:14:39 PST 2005

19360 [lbo-talk] devilish details -- rank: 1000

[this may be getting too complicated for the U.S. political system to deal with - Weisman's a good reporter, and if he can't get this straight, can your average Congressperson?] Washington Post - February 3, 2005 Participants Would Lose Some Profits From Accounts By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer Under the White House Social Security plan, workers who opt to divert some of their payroll taxes into individual accounts would ultimately earn benefits more than those under the traditi ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 13:33:17 PST 2005

19361 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> Good question. I thought that essay was a horrid piece of crap, but >> the guy should be allowed to speak in public and shouldn't get fired. > >Why? If, say, a bus driver drives his bus recklessly, or if a doctor >performs a crappy procedure in a reckless manner - most people would agree >that these workers should face a disciplinary or even legal action for their >miscounduct. Why are the symbol manipulating professions differ ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 13:16:33 PST 2005

19362 [lbo-talk] future stock -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: >What happens to the stock market if the dollar keeps lossing value? >If it crumbles, will it fuck over people whose company puts some of >their workers money into a savings account - via stock portfolio - >like Enron did to their workers? Sure could. But like I've said before, it's a great mystery why U.S. stocks and bonds haven't been hit by the dollar's decline - in other words, what dollar-denominated assets were being sold to drive down the value of the curren ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 13:11:33 PST 2005

19363 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >IMHO, one has to wonder if he's always been an FBI agent. That sort of thing is absolutely forbidden here. You didn't really mean to say that, did you? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 13:07:45 PST 2005

19364 [lbo-talk] Romenesko: George Herbert Walker Bush is Deep Throat -- rank: 1000

It's working now - it wasn't this morning - but there's no more there than this paragraph. - Doug Leigh Meyers wrote: >~ > >Can't get at the page with the story, yet... >I suspect bandwidth issues, or.....? >http://poynter.org/forum/?id=letters <= missing id # > >~ >From: Romenesko at poynter.org > > >FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2005 >Posted at 11:25:45 AM > >"George Herbert Walker Bush is Deep Throat," says author > >Romenesko Letters > & ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 12:27:02 PST 2005

19365 [lbo-talk] was 41 Deep Throat? -- rank: 1000

>"George Herbert Walker Bush is Deep Throat," says author ><http://poynter.org/forum/?id=letters> > >Romenesko Letters >"Deep Truth" author Adrian Havill explains in a Romenesko letter why >George H.W. Bush would have it out for Richard Nixon. "When I >presented this theory to Len Garment, a former Nixon aide he >demurred, saying that Bush wasn't the type of daredevil to skulk >around in underground garages," says Havill. "Perha ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 09:13:01 PST 2005