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19381 [lbo-talk] God's humor [was RE: Bulletin: Nothing in thosesquare pants!] -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>While RWE himself was a laugh a minute! This bit cracks me up every time! >> >>>Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a >>>clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of >>>special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.I am >>>glad to the brink of fear. > >I think your receiver needs tuning, Doug. AFAIC, that passage is >one of *the* most lyrical statements of the basi ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 07:40:42 PST 2005

19382 [lbo-talk] getting ready for the Super Bowl... -- rank: 1000

>Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the >Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first >time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker >may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing >truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than >any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one >resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and >we will bury ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 07:11:03 PST 2005

19383 [lbo-talk] Need help finding statistics -- rank: 1000

Lou Johnson wrote: >I'm putting together a presentation and having trouble >finding historical stats on productivity increases and >GNP increases approximately 1920's - present (and/or >graphs of same). > >And general info along the lines of "in 1920 the >average american worker produced $ amount in goods and >services; in 2005 average worker produces $ amount of >goods & services." In 1996 dollars, GDP per worker: 1925 $23,055 2004 77,991 chg +238%

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 06:25:19 PST 2005

19384 [lbo-talk] definitive evidence on the housing bubble -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >zzy thinking about credit is very widespread. No kidding. Teresa Sullivan, a bankruptcy scholar at the University of Texas, told me years ago that she'd done some experimental work with UT undergrads showing that they didn't understand the first thing about interest rates and the mystical power of compounding. They thought that as long as you paid the minimum on the credit card bill, you were ok - not understanding that it would take about 35 years to pay off the balanc ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 3 06:06:37 PST 2005

19385 [lbo-talk] God's humor [was RE: Bulletin: Nothing in those square pants!] -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >OTOH, my primary care guru Ralph Waldo Emerson, too, finds the >Bible's alpha-to-omega solemnity tiresome. While RWE himself was a laugh a minute! This bit cracks me up every time! >Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a >clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special >good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.I am glad to the >brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the >snake ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 21:34:06 PST 2005

19386 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Sure, they were aware that the attacks were a possibility, but being >the racist, arrogant pricks that many Americans are, they thought >that nothing on the level of 9-11 could ever happen to the U.S. And what was the title of that intelligence briefing the Bush admin ignored? Something like "Al Qaeda determined to attack U.S."? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 21:26:15 PST 2005

19387 [lbo-talk] re: health care -- rank: 1000

Lou Johnson wrote: >Well, thank you for the explanation, which makes >sense, but apparently oil co's aren't the only ones, >here's the first page of a google for "record >profits": Well, "record profits" aren't that unusual, since the trend in most economic variables is up up up. Profitability - measured as a percentage of assets, or as a percentage of GDP - does bob around a lot, and it looks like it's peaked for this cycle. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 18:23:17 PST 2005

19388 [lbo-talk] Re: remaking health insurance -- rank: 1000

Lou Johnson wrote: ><<in general, when oil companies are >doing well, the rest of the world is generally doing >less well.>> > >Why? Oil companies do well when oil prices are high and/or rising. But high and/or rising oil means rising inflation and slowing economic growth. So employment is weaker than it would otherwise be, and real wages are also weaker. High oil really hits airlines, and to a lesser extent carmakers, but most of the nonoil economy loses. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 18:01:14 PST 2005

19389 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >the actual article By the way, a quick google search using just "little Eichmanns" and "Churchill" doesn't turn up the original in the first screen or two. You've got to be much more specific - like adding "dark night pockets resistance tiffany". Proyect used to have it up on Marxmail, and the version at <http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/WC091201.txt> cites the original source as being <http://www.marxmail.org/ward_churchill.ht ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 17:53:24 PST 2005

19390 [lbo-talk] Re: remaking health insurance -- rank: 1000

Lou Johnson wrote: >More cuts coming. Unemployment here about 7-8%. > >The same week, I read the oil companies are showing >historical record profits. > >Something is really messed up. Something is really messed up, but in general, when oil companies are doing well, the rest of the world is generally doing less well. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 17:44:45 PST 2005

19391 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >I will defend Churchill's right to say what he wants to say I almost said needless to say, so do I, but it's probably not needless to say that. Hamilton's cancellation of his talk was cowardly, and O'Reilly's orchestration of an email campaign against him was typically sleazy and hateful. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 17:27:18 PST 2005

19392 [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: Ward Churchill's Press Release: January 31, 2005 In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What I actually said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself, and I hope the following facts will be reported at least to the same extent th ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 16:21:56 PST 2005

19393 [lbo-talk] remaking health insurance -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] BUSH READIES MAJOR ATTACK ON HEALTH CARE http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0131-06.htm LA TIMES - Emboldened by their success at the polls, the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress believe they have a new opportunity to move the nation away from the system of employer-provided health insurance that has covered most working Americans for the last half-century. In its place, they want to erect a system in which ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 15:55:11 PST 2005

19394 [lbo-talk] Any comments/links re Iraq elections? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > Mother may I go out to swim, > Yes my darling daughter, > Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, > But don't go near the water. So mom's urging her daughter to become a stripper? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 15:53:19 PST 2005

19395 [lbo-talk] Re: Vinyl -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >MTV That example works against you, since all the MTVs outside the U.S. are localized to prevailing taste. MTV in Europe is completely different from MTV in Latin America - which are both completely different from MTV US. Doug

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