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21016 [lbo-talk] When to Talk About Socialism -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Look out, Doug--you keep talking about "social lubricants", and Kel's >gonna whip out those fuckme pumps-- I could imagine far worse fates.

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 15:11:31 PST 2004

21017 [lbo-talk] Not Just a Cheezy Movie -- rank: 1000

Joel Wendland wrote: >the increasingly eccentric Nicholas Cage New York Post [Page Six] - November 23, 2004 DECLARE HER A DUNCE! SOMEBODY get Nicolas Cage's new wife, Alice, an American history book - and quick! Spies at the L.A. premiere of "National Treasure" last week said Alice, 20, seemed befuddled when someone talked to her about the Declaration of Independence. "She looked at them and said, 'What is the Declaration of Independence?' " our witness relates - an accoun ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 12:57:29 PST 2004

21018 [lbo-talk] We spend years driving American manufacturing to China, and +this+ is how you pay us back? -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Lassen wrote: >Also, this is only for the 18,000+ retail workers, not the 10 >million + workers in Wal-Mart's subcontracting factories. Still, a >joyful piece of news. Is the FT right? >Independent unions are banned in China, and the federation unions >have traditionally been an instrument for the communist party to >control workers, not a vehicle for agitation and strikes, which are >almost never allowed. If so, how joyful a piece of news is this? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 12:34:49 PST 2004

21019 [lbo-talk] When to Talk About Socialism -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >People are being way too hard on Carrol, which he may sometimes invite by >his use of condescending or charged language, but he's not alone in that That's not unimportant. Thomas Seay asked who'd want to join a movement where people are bummed out all the time; you could also ask who'd want to join one where people are chronically mean to each other. The older I get the more I think all those social lubricants matter. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 12:03:41 PST 2004

21020 [lbo-talk] Americans so thankful -- rank: 1000

<http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2004/11/fox_news_poll_f.html> Fox News Poll Finds Rich, Republicans Most Thankful This Thanksgiving A new Fox News poll has found that Americans are more thankful this Thanksgiving than they were ten years ago, but slightly less thankful than in 2001 and 2002. Among the most thankful this year: Republicans, rich Americans and Southerners. By Cole Walters A new poll conducted by the Opinion Dynamics Corporation for the Fox News channel has found that Ameri ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 11:51:27 PST 2004

21021 [lbo-talk] no brains please, we're a big company -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Companies don't need brainy people...By Lucy Kellaway > >-------- > >Oh, Lucy, Lucy. You're not looking at the big picture, dear. A >society based solely on its business culture and which has devolved >itself into complete obsequity for the sake of its economy, not only >doesn't need brains, it pro-actively destroys them and anything that >even vaguely resembles them. You should share this thought with her: <lucy.kellaway at ft.com>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 11:58:20 PST 2004

21022 [lbo-talk] the private Roach: really scared -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Doug, weren't you once responsible for passing along (or perhaps being the >author of) the quip about the economic Roach motel -- the data check in, >but they don't check out...? Yeah, that was from my late friend John Liscio. He wrote that in his Barron's column around 1990 and got lots of angry phone calls & letters. In 1993 or 1994, John wanted to do an Xmas card featuring a bunch of Wall Street economists - all the ones who'd missed the gathering vigor of ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 09:58:01 PST 2004

21023 [lbo-talk] the private Roach: really scared -- rank: 1000

srobin21 at comcast.net wrote: >Forgive me for my cynicism, exactly what kind of financial product >was Roach selling in that meeting? You're forgiven, but Roach really seems to believe it. It's not good for selling dollar-denominated securities, for sure. Maybe euro-denominated short-term government paper or gold. But I doubt his Morgan Stanley colleagues are entirely happy with his line. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 09:26:12 PST 2004

21024 [lbo-talk] kill 'em all -- rank: 1000

VIDEOTAPED SHOOTING: BLUNDER OR ROUTINE? By Jean-Marc Mojon and Ned Parker Agence France Presse, November 21, 2004 BAGHDAD. "You are killers, not murderers. You are warriors, not war criminals. Don't cross that line." Those were the words of a US officer to his men before they took part in the recent assault on the rebel bastion of Falluja. Just days later, one US marine was in the spotlight, with questions being asked around the world about whether he was a murderer or a war criminal ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 07:48:33 PST 2004

21025 [lbo-talk] BVM in cheese fetches $28k -- rank: 1000

`Virgin Mary' Cheese Sandwich Auctioned for $28,000 (Update1) (Adds other auctions in fifth paragraph.) By Heather Langan Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- A grilled-cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary has been sold for $28,000 in an Ebay Inc. auction, according to the online casino that bought it from a woman in Hollywood, Florida. The Virgin's face appeared to Diana Duyser, 52, after she took one bite of the sandwich, the GoldenPalace.com casino said in a statement on its Web site. ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 07:45:03 PST 2004

21026 [lbo-talk] no brains please, we're a big company -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 22, 2004 Companies don't need brainy people By Lucy Kellaway A few days ago, I had lunch with a man who until recently held one of the biggest jobs in British business. Over the foie gras, we discussed (in ascending order of interest): the view from the executive dining room, the charms of small children, the news judgment of the Financial Times and mid-life crises. Finally, the conversation swung round to the problems of the well known company he used to run. One of t ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 07:32:54 PST 2004

21027 [lbo-talk] the private Roach: really scared -- rank: 1000

Boston Herald - November 23, 2004 On State Street: Economic 'Armageddon' predicted By Brett Arends Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he's saying in private. Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic "armageddon." Press were not allowed into th ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 07:12:37 PST 2004

21028 [lbo-talk] latest Gallup on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[historical charts at <http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/default.aspx?ci=10024>] Americans' Opinions About the Situation in Iraq Tuesday, November 23, 2004 by Joseph Carroll Views on the War in Iraq A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Nov. 19-21, finds Americans still divided about the war in Iraq. Forty-seven percent of Americans say it was a mistake to send troops into Iraq, while 51% say it was not. These results show little change since the end of September. Over the past six p ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 07:09:19 PST 2004

21029 [lbo-talk] When to Talk About Socialism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Revolutionaries, incidentally, never _begin_ revolutions; capital moves >to crush non-revolutionary mass movements, who in self-defense move >towards insurrection. So it is also absurd to paint a scenario for >revolution. Consider the following silliness, which appeared on the list >a year or two ago: > >****I understand, even sympathize with, the blueprint problem, but >you're asking people to sacrifice the familiar and stable and embrace >revolutio ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 07:05:05 PST 2004

21030 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Political Cartography: Sweden -- rank: 1000

<hari.kumar at sympatico.ca> wrote: >Many people in India would & do drool at living standards in the USA. >Tell me, does that make the USA a paradise? Heavens no. Yeah things are relative. A few weeks ago, a former NGO worker in Vietnam told me about screening the movie Hoop Dreams for a local audience. To Americans, the characters would be seen as impoverished ghetto-dwellers; to the Vietnamese, they were unimaginably affluent. An American poverty-line income is at the 98th per ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 23 06:42:44 PST 2004