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21841 [lbo-talk] 'shillin' with Al Franken -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The proper alternative to rightwing talk radio is good talk radio, >not Al Franken making jokes that only a member of Move On could >enjoy. The difference between the great leftists humorists of the >past - Mort Sahl, Lennie Bruce and the like - and the Franken types >of today is that the former were (a) funny, (b) not shills for the >Democratic Party. - SAM SMITH www.prorev.com Though Sahl did write jokes for JFK's campaign speeches <http://www.pbs.or ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 14:47:16 PST 2004

21842 [lbo-talk] 'shillin' with Al Franken -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Good for Sam Smith. See Tom Gorman, "Al Franken and Al-Shifa" ><www.counterpunch.org/gorman10182003.html>, where Franken is quoted as >referring to himself as a "DLC Democrat" Years ago I saw Franken in NYC's Riverside Park wearing a Bruce Babbitt in '88 t-shirt. It looked rather old & well-worn. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 14:19:23 PST 2004

21843 [lbo-talk] more on China trade -- rank: 1000

Apropos Nathan's argument that a surge of cheap imports from China might not be properly measured by expressing them as a percent of nominal GDP, I looked at whether there was any surge in real imports, which are corrected for price changes to capture pure volume effects. If the same goods as before were being imported at cheaper prices, the nominal volume would decline but the real volume would remain unchanged. Here are real imports expressed as a percent of real GDp for the last several years ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 11:19:07 PST 2004

21844 [lbo-talk] putting the Jesus in J-school -- rank: 1000

<http://www.laobserved.com/archive/001643.html> Training journos for Christ L.A. Times feature writer Roy Rivenburg's involvement with the World Journalism Institute, whose mission is "training a cadre of Christian journalists to enter the mainstream newsrooms," has become a conversation point on the Web and at the paper. It seems partly tied to the debate over discredited USA Today fabricator Jack Kelley, who also was active with the institute, and to Rivenburg's March 12 story ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 09:50:54 PST 2004

21845 [lbo-talk] Bush's stand-up routine bombs -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - March 26, 2004 The Prez's Iraq humor bombs Kin of slain G.I.s aren't laughing By DEREK ROSE and KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - President Bush got some laughs at a Washington dinner when he spoofed the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but some family members of dead G.I.s said yesterday there was nothing funny about it. "Those weapons of mass destruction have to be here somewhere," Bush joshed as he narrated a slide ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 08:52:57 PST 2004

21846 [lbo-talk] Rifkin worries -- rank: 1000

[Seeing Rifkin pick up this line is almost enough to turn me bullish.] Guardian (London) - March 24, 2004 The Perfect Storm That's About to Hit Rising Oil Prices and a Weak Dollar Could Shatter the Global Economy by Jeremy Rifkin Th e average nationwide price of a gallon of gasoline in America reached a record high of $1.77 this month. The steady spike in prices has left analysts wondering if this is a harbinger of even more dramatic increases as motorists head into the spring and summer months. ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 07:29:40 PST 2004

21847 [lbo-talk] von Mises guy on 9/11 commish -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1479> Counterterrorism (by Government) is Impossible by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [Posted March 26, 2004] At last the topic of 9-11 has shifted onto productive ground. Thanks to the efforts of former counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, some thought is being put into the government failures behind the attacks. "Your government failed you," he says. Precisely, and in many more ways than he or anyone else at these hearings is willin ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 26 07:26:41 PST 2004

21848 [lbo-talk] Re: U.S. leniency towards prohibited weapons -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >even more lenient than towards that teeny, weeny little nuclear weapons >owning nation, which has groups representing only 1-2% of our population >exercising no control over the world's most powerful empire, on its >behalf ?? So I take it from this "response" that you really think that Israel & the Zionist lobby has hijacked U.S. policy. That sort of thing really reeks. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 15:46:46 PST 2004

21849 [lbo-talk] Re: U.S. leniency towards prohibited weapons -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >even more lenient than towards that teeny, weeny little nuclear weapons >owning nation, which has groups representing only 1-2% of our population >exercising no control over the world's most powerful empire, on its >behalf ?? > >for the irony challenged, not monaco... So that hint was a bit of self-help, right? >further, i was deeply, biblically, passionately, devoutly serious about >the anti-semitisim of those who hate nader.... Then that's horseshit ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 15:42:35 PST 2004

21850 [lbo-talk] Noam's Blog Spammed -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >>Lance Murdoch wrote: >> >>>"ZOT! ZOT! ZOT!" >> >>Huh? > >http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.freerepublic.com+zot Wow, freerepublic.com has disappeared from namespace! When I click on any of the links that turn up, I'm told the server can't be found. Someone hacking them? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 15:38:52 PST 2004

21851 [lbo-talk] IRA & ETA? -- rank: 1000

Kerry Keane wrote: >Liza Featherstone wrote: > >> Sorry you can't read! I wasn't comparing the actual politics or content of >> the Irish nationalist struggle to the right-wing Hindus and Zionists, just >> the similar remove of the comfortable American suburbanites helping to >> fund it, and the fact that they didn't have to live with the consequences. > > >I'm Irish-American (grandparents). The only time I've heard of any of this >was from British ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 15:27:52 PST 2004

21852 [lbo-talk] IRA & ETA? -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >How dare someone compare 800 years of a British military presence in Ireland ...so it's ok to blow up people in pubs and train stations? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 13:06:40 PST 2004

21853 [lbo-talk] Noam's Blog Spammed -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >"ZOT! ZOT! ZOT!" Huh?

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 12:22:06 PST 2004

21854 [lbo-talk] Does Trade With China Matter? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > > and retail is going >>through a structural shakeout, partly due to Wal-Mart, > >-Wal-Mart opens stores like crazy and employs vast numbers of people. > >Does it employ more people than the stores it displaces? It makes its money >because it moves more volume of goods per dollar spent than competing >stores. The wave of bankruptcies in retail sure means a lot of retail >employees have lost their jobs. Retail employment grew an average ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 12:18:24 PST 2004

21855 [lbo-talk] IRA & ETA? -- rank: 1000

Someone just posted this to my Yale class of '75 listserv. Anyone know more about this? >PS-- Just one sidelight on Spain: ETA was trained & often provided >armaments by the IRA. This has been an open secret for decades. >Spanish resentment at our recent accusations of appeasement & >cowardice has been further enflamed by the fact that the US >historically turned a blind eye to financial and material support >for the IRA originating from our shores. Such incomprehensib ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 25 11:48:37 PST 2004