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19426 [lbo-talk] Fitch on unions & health insurance: Tax the rich ! -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >how much health care would the war on Iraq >buy About a year and a half's. Or it could fund 3-4 years of universal child care. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 22:44:14 PST 2005

19427 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 ************************************************************************ * N O W P O D C A S T I N G (new links) * * * * subscribe to hi-fi version (64kbps): * * <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> * * subscribe to ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 14:33:50 PST 2005

19428 [lbo-talk] Claus Joins the Global Struggle -- rank: 1000

Bitch | Lab wrote: >At 04:33 PM 12/30/2005, Doug Henwood wrote: >>The Financial Times had a funny story back during the run-up to the >>first Gulf War on how Sylvester Stallone was afraid to fly because >>of hijacking risks. >> >>Doug > >Aren't you confusing his characters with him? Not at all. I suppose there's a connection between the performance of toughness and its absence in the real person, whoever that is. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 13:59:01 PST 2005

19429 [lbo-talk] Claus Joins the Global Struggle -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am >generally not a violent person - I do not even use >mouse traps - but in this particular case I would >really love to put these people on a plane and drop >them with their guns in the real "gun world" like for >example Somalia or Peshawar - and then watching what >happens next. I'd bet money that they would not >survive a day there - their sheer self-righteous >gringo arrogance would offer an irresistable target. >These poo ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 13:33:15 PST 2005

19430 [lbo-talk] horse sex wins popularity contest -- rank: 1000

[original story follows] <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002711400_danny30.html> Seattle Times - December 30, 2005 Horse sex story was online hit By Danny Westneat Seattle Times staff columnist As I look back at the year in news, it's clear I should have focused more on people having sex with horses. That's the conclusion I reach after reviewing a new list of the year's top local news stories. Only this list is not the usual tedious recounting by news editors or pundits w ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 13:23:42 PST 2005

19431 [lbo-talk] Mortgages taking smaller bite out of income -- rank: 1000

jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com wrote: >"it's different this time" :-) That's what they always say. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 10:03:08 PST 2005

19432 [lbo-talk] absence of failure -- rank: 1000

Today's WSJ notes that 2005 is the first year since 1962 without a bank failure in the U.S.

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 08:23:11 PST 2005

19433 [lbo-talk] NEET NEET NEET! -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Naoshiro Ogawa says that the Japanese have developed a unique >lifestyle of being sexually active without marrying or cohabiting or >having children: Then there's this trend (though it does seem like the actual numbers are smaller than the headline)... Wall Street Journal - December 29, 2005 Generation Gap In Aging Japan, Young Slackers Stir Up Concerns Changing Attitudes Prompt People to Quit Job Search; A Demographic Time Bomb Mr. Isozaki's Lack of Urgency By ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 08:05:45 PST 2005

19434 [lbo-talk] Mortgages taking smaller bite out of income -- rank: 1000

Hank wrote: >Twenty Years Later, Buying a House Is Less of a Bite What a funny article. In 1985, mortgage rates averaged 12.4%, and mortgage debt service (according to the Fed) took up 9.3% of a homeowner's after-tax income. In 2005, interest rates have averaged 5.8%, and the debt service bite, 10.5%. So interest rates have fallen by more than half, yet the servicing burden has risen. Interest rates better stay low or some people will be in trouble. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 07:54:19 PST 2005

19435 [lbo-talk] nearly 1/4 of Americans remain invincibly ignorant -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - December 29, 2005 THE HARRIS POLL Many Americans Still Believe Hussein Had Links to al Qaeda Sizeable minorities of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein had "strong links to al Qaeda," a Harris Interactive poll shows, though the number has fallen substantially this year. About 22% of U.S. adults believe Mr. Hussein helped plan 9/11, the poll shows, and 26% believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded. Another 24% believe several of the 9/11 hijackers w ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 30 07:12:05 PST 2005

19436 [lbo-talk] the idle rich amuse themselves -- rank: 1000

<http://www.yeeeah.com/weblog/2005/12/the_always_clas.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 29 15:14:20 PST 2005

19437 [lbo-talk] radio files - and a call for tech help -- rank: 1000

hmm the 16 scipt isn't picking up the new files

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 29 13:20:22 PST 2005

19438 [lbo-talk] radio files - and a call for tech help -- rank: 1000

jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com wrote: > > For some reason, the podcasting script has >> stopped being able to read the MP3 tags properly. > >Well, you've started writing the tags in a weird way. You should >figure that out one of these days ... Not by intent. They're what are supposed to be standard ID3v2.4 tags, in the comment field. iTunes says they are, and so does a freestanding tag editor (MP3 ID3X). I tried converting them to 2.2 and 1.1, and doing all the translations ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 29 13:08:19 PST 2005

19439 [lbo-talk] Clinton started renditions -- rank: 1000

<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1539284.htm> December 29, 2005. 12:35pm (AEDT) CIA renditions began under Clinton: agent The US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) controversial "rendition" program was launched under US president Bill Clinton, a former US counter-terrorism agent has told a German newspaper. Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who resigned from the agency in 2004, has told Die Zeit that the US administration had been looking in the mid-1990 ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 29 12:51:36 PST 2005

19440 [lbo-talk] Fitch on unions & health insurance -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Also, isn't Fitch the same guy who wrote that pretty clueless >article about SEIU and homecare a while back? I don't know much >about him, but I'm not getting the impression that he's worth >reading. Bob's a friend of mine, and even though I don't always agree with him, he's got a 30-year history of producing stuff that's worth reading. I'm looking forward to getting a copy of his book. Lots of times people don't want to hear what he has to say though. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 29 07:18:00 PST 2005