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22516 [lbo-talk] Sharpton -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Was just watching Al Sharpton give a pretty interesting speech at >the DNC and am awed at the amount of hostility he generated >immediately from MSNBC commentators Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman >and Doris Kearns "Steal this Book" Goodwin, all of whom are appalled >that Sharpton is not "sticking to the script" of toothless >banalities ordered up by Kerry. I am surprised by the MSNBC crew's >undisguised, visceral dislike of Sharpton. ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 18:23:19 PDT 2004

22517 [lbo-talk] Choosing our Terrain, was Re: O'Reilly v. Moore - 2 -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Forgive my provincialism -- Canada, you know -- but what is/are Spongebob >SquarePants? A sea sponge who lives in a pineapple with his pet snail. For more, see the official web page at: <http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/display_show.jhtml?show_id=spo>

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 17:24:35 PDT 2004

22518 [lbo-talk] Choosing our Terrain, was Re: O'Reilly v. Moore - 2 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >(And incidentally, >how many well-spoken leftists is Fox News going to put on the air? One >more? Ten more? How many repetitions would it take to have an impact of >any kind on any significant number of people? TV belongs to the enemy! >Efforts to reach our constituency through it are going to be as wildly >successful as a fund drive to build a new Jewish Temple in Munich in >1936 would have been.) Nonsense. My one appearance on the Moyers show raised me t ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 15:28:20 PDT 2004

22519 [lbo-talk] Choosing our Terrain, was Re: O'Reilly v. Moore - 2 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I really don't know how large the audience is for Fox News. Last I looked, O'Reilly had a smaller audience than Sponge Bob Square Pants. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 15:25:46 PDT 2004

22520 [lbo-talk] Productivity Paralysis in Europe? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But is it the case that some hours actually worked simply not reported - >especially in white collar occupations? I understand that BLS's >"work-horse" - the quarterly census of employment and wages (ES-202) >does not collect information on hours worked (just monthly employment >and wages) - and that information is collected via various surveys done >by state Labor Market Information agencies. I also understand that not >all employees ma ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 14:38:33 PDT 2004

22521 [lbo-talk] listmembers in the news -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 27, 2004 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Sunnis do not rule all Arab nations By Michael Pollack [sic - DH] Financial Times; Jul 27, 2004 From Mr Michael Pollak. Sir, Schlomo Avineri writes: "If the Sunnis lose monopoly of power . . . this will be a novelty in the Arab world: an Arab country not ruled exclusively by Sunnis." ("The brutal logic that underlies the chaos in Iraq", July 20.) Note to Prof Avineri: Syria, Israel's next door neighbour, has been ruled by ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 13:45:16 PDT 2004

22522 [lbo-talk] Productivity Paralysis in Europe? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Is not the "productivity" measure really an indicator of the value of >the output per worker, rather than unit of labor (ie. hour or FTE >worker)? With that in mind - longer ours worked will show as "higher >productivity" even though the actual productivity per unit of labor is >the same or lower. Mind that the US is the only industrialized country >that does not have any legally mandated vacation time, and paid vacation >is ab ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 12:20:53 PDT 2004

22523 [lbo-talk] Zizek watch: final installment -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - July 30, 2004 Zizek Watch Last in a series tracking a seemingly ubiquitous thinker. By SCOTT McLEMEE After six months of tracking Slovenia's psychoanalytic sphinx, we here at Zizek Watch have entered a terminal crisis of moral and epistemic reflexivity. (And yes, that's just as painful as it sounds.) The question has become unavoidable: Why do we watch Slavoj Zizek? Sure, it's fun to see him torment the Kantian neo-liberals. He knows a lot of dirty jokes. And he c ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 12:13:54 PDT 2004

22524 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart vs. Costco: Choose Your Model For America -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001116.html#1116 The latest LBO, already sent to electronic subscribers and on its way to print subscribers, takes issue with this argument. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 10:00:46 PDT 2004

22525 [lbo-talk] Kerry's "girlie pitch" -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 28, 2004 BEN GOES TO BAT FOR KERRY BEN Affleck has come out swinging in defense of John Kerry's awkward pitch at Fenway Park. Kerry's "girlie pitch," as some are calling it, bounced in the dirt in front of home plate before the Red Sox-Yankees game Sunday, making thousands of Democrats wince. Bill Clinton once spent a whole afternoon practicing for his pitch at Baltimore's Camden Yards, and George W. Bush perfected his hurling skills as owner of the Texa ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 09:34:27 PDT 2004

22526 [lbo-talk] Future of Demo Party? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Isn't Soros a follower of Karl Popper who wrote critically of Hegel ? Yup. >That would make the quasi-Hegelese a twist. It's a pretentious load of crap, is what it is. The prose is ludicrous. > I guess S is an eclectic, >OPENminded. Is he a "contrarian" or is that different ? Contrariness is >sort of Hegelly too. Seems his finance theory has been verified , not >falsified. Oh, it has - betting against extremes of sentiment can be a way to & ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 09:30:58 PDT 2004

22527 [lbo-talk] Belief in hell boosts economic growth -- rank: 1000

DeborahSRogers wrote: >"In countries where where large percentages of the population believe >in hell, there seems to be less corruption and a higher standard of >living," the St. Louis Fed said in its July quarterly review. My god. Back when I was a right-winger, we used to revere the St Louis Fed as the leading respectable institution that believed in monetarism and the free market. The rest of the Fed was hopelessly corrupted by Keynesianism. Good to see they're keeping up ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 06:39:40 PDT 2004

22528 [lbo-talk] Future of Demo Party? -- rank: 1000

Sean Sullivan wrote: >Can someone point me in the right direction to find out how exactly >Soros made his billions? "Financier" just isn't specific enough. >I've been told he had a major part in the late nineties asian >financial crisis...true? Soros was one of the pioneers of the hedge fund - pools of speculative capital that move quickly, in & out of everything. I'm sure he had a hand in Asia, but I don't know what he does. His most famous trade was taking a position ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 17:49:54 PDT 2004

22529 [lbo-talk] Gallup on U.S. opinion on Iraq -- rank: 1000

American Public Opinion About the Situation in Iraq Tuesday, July 27, 2004 by Joseph Carroll Basic Support for the War A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds a slight decrease in the percentage of Americans saying it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq. The July 19-21 poll shows that 50% of Americans say it was a mistake, while 47% say it was not. Two previous polls conducted in mid-June and early July each found 54% of Americans saying it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq in view of the r ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 17:35:55 PDT 2004

22530 [lbo-talk] North Korea goes online -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:51 AM, Gary? wrote: > >>haven't you ever read a Japaneses appliance manual ? > >The manuals are fine. The problem was that the companies got >incompetent translators to put them into English -- probably a >company employee who claimed to know a little English. I used to know a guy who did translations for Matsushita in the 80s. He'd render the manuals in perfect English, but his bosses would insist on "correcting" his ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 17:06:31 PDT 2004