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20341 [lbo-talk] URLs (was: Kaiser HealthPoll Report on public attitudes) -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On the subject of URLs, what I find most useful (and what I try to >provide when I cite a URL) is a brief summary of what the clicker >will find there, so that the potential clicker can decide whether or >not it is worth clicking. A subject line saying "This is >interesting" or the like, and a message consisting only of the URL, >doesn't usually tempt me to click. Yup, agreed. Listmom

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 12:25:01 PDT 2004

20342 [lbo-talk] Fed raises rates -- rank: 1000

[this is neutral to slightly hawkish - they mention "traction," though modify it with "some," the improvement in the labor market, though "modest"- and also keep the word "measured," which suggests no hurry, and leave the door open for changing their mind] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2004/20040921/default.htm> For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds ra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 12:23:36 PDT 2004

20343 [lbo-talk] the petro-thusians have their moment -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >"By 2030, predicts the Paris-based International Energy Agency, global oil >consumption will jump to 120 million barrels a day from 82 million barrels a >day now." > >Regardless of a supply peak, isn't this impending 50 percent jump in >combustion a recipe for eco-disaster through global warming/ice cap melt? >If that isn't already coming, won't this geometric boost bring it on? That's my argument - the greater danger is burning what we have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 12:08:16 PDT 2004

20344 [lbo-talk] US Campaign| Defend Academic Freedom -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >When Muslims say "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most >Merciful" in letters and the like, my brain automatically translates >it into "Greetings and Salutations!" >-- >Yoshie > >...confirming your botness. You can disagree with Yoshie without repeatedly calling her a bot. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 10:40:00 PDT 2004

20345 [lbo-talk] US Campaign| Defend Academic Freedom -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >When Muslims say "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most >Merciful" in letters and the like, my brain automatically translates >it into "Greetings and Salutations!" Do you do the same for Christians and their ritual speech? Wiccans, when they say "blessed be"? This statement would be a lot more effective if it weren't seen as Muslim, but just a nondenominal statement in support of academic freedom. I don't need to go all so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 10:34:51 PDT 2004

20346 [lbo-talk] US Campaign| Defend Academic Freedom -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The US Campaign encourages member organizations and individuals to >sign the petition as well, which can be found at: >http://www.petitiononline.com/MSANatl/petition.html I'd like to sign, but I have a hard time doing so in the name of "God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 08:59:32 PDT 2004

20347 [lbo-talk] Re: Sexual self-expression -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The somewhat abrasive tone of this post This is rich coming from you. Speck, beam, and all that.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 08:55:16 PDT 2004

20348 [lbo-talk] Brit diplomat: Bush is Al Qaeda's best recruiting sergeant -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 21, 2004 Bush is al-Qaeda's 'best recruiting sergeant', declares ambassador By Christopher Adams, Political Correspondent The British ambassador to Rome yesterday heaped embarrassment on Downing Street and his diplomatic superiors when he reportedly described George W. Bush, the US president, as al-Qaeda's "best recruiting sergeant". Sir Ivor Roberts, a man with long experience overseas and one of the Foreign Office's most distinguished diplomats, was quoted ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 08:44:44 PDT 2004

20349 [lbo-talk] what's the WSJ? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - September 21, 2004 Daily Dish Paris not into Journal-ism Luckily for us, it seems that Paris Hilton has time to read only newspapers that have big pictures. When Paris and Merle Ginsberg, her co-author on her autobiography, "Confessions of an Heiress," ran into each other at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills on Friday, Ginsberg congratulated the party princess on reaching No. 5 on The Wall Street Journal's best-seller list. "What's The Wall Street Journal? Is that go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 07:23:29 PDT 2004

20350 [lbo-talk] anniversary -- rank: 1000

[not a bad day to have as your wedding anniversary...] >The Pridelets Files for September 21 > On this day in 1955, hosting three other couples in their home, Phyllis >Lyon and Del Martin, found the Daughters of Bilitis, to create "a home for >the Lesbian. She can come here to find help, friendship, acceptance and >support. She can help others understand themselves, and can go out into the >world to help the public understand her better."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 07:03:06 PDT 2004

20351 [lbo-talk] the petro-thusians have their moment -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 21, 2004 Dire Prophesy As Prices Soar, Doomsayers Provoke Debate on Oil's Future In a 1970s Echo, Dr. Campbell Warns Supply Is Drying Up, But Industry Isn't Worried Charges of 'Malthusian Bias' By JEFFREY BALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 21, 2004; Page A1 BALLYDEHOB, Ireland -- As he sat last month in his book-lined study, Colin Campbell got a phone call that made him shriek with joy. "Holy Mother!" he yelped after he put down the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 06:35:28 PDT 2004

20352 [lbo-talk] it's a boom! just look at the new highs list! -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 21, 2004 The 'W' Boom By JAMES J. CRAMER Imagine the difficulty John Kerry faces in explaining what's wrong with the economy. He wants to talk about President Bush's reckless deficit spending, but how reckless can that spending be if the market's willing to lend the government money at a measly 4%, lower than when President Clinton turned deficits to surplus? He wants to portray the economy as weak and getting weaker, but how weak is an economy that finds Federal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 06:36:46 PDT 2004

20353 [lbo-talk] Sexual self-expression -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >So necrophilia is OK If the corpse consents, why not? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 06:19:28 PDT 2004

20354 [lbo-talk] Pew: Bush lead gone, pres race "dead even" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Question: Stiglitz recently won the [not the] Nobel Prize in >Economics for his work saying that any reckoning of costs had to >include the economics of obtaining information. Has anyone ever >attempted to extend his work towards an explanation of the regular >occurrence of bubbles (which in standard economic theory aren't >supposed to happen)? The rational economics that keep information >bubbles inflated (esp. as media become more integrated and &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 06:11:43 PDT 2004

20355 [lbo-talk] Re: light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Mike Ferro wrote: >Often therapists will consult with their clients >as to how they want to be described Yup. I'm dysthymic, doncha know!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 20 11:01:31 PDT 2004