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24721 [lbo-talk] noon exit poll in Calif: govinator it is -- rank: 1000

>Reliable news source gave the following exit polls results as of noon: > >Yes on Recall 57%; No 42% > >Schwarzenegger 47.4%; Bustamante 35.6%; McClintock 11.9%; Camajo 4.1%

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 7 13:41:25 PDT 2003

24722 [lbo-talk] final polls in Ca. compare to final results... -- rank: 1000

A caution: no one knows how to model the "likely voter" in this election. So the polls are issued without a high degree of confidence. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 7 12:09:15 PDT 2003

24723 [lbo-talk] internet infrastructure investment data -- rank: 1000

Kendall Grant Clark wrote: >So, getting to the point, I'm wondering whether folks hereabouts can point >me to solid research about the magnitude of this investment? I'd like to >back up my argument with some solid economic research into the question, >and I'm not really adept at ferreting that sort of thing out from a >library, being a humanities type. That's a pretty hard one to track down. You might try a trade association, some research boutique like Forrester, or one of the ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 7 12:01:01 PDT 2003

24724 [lbo-talk] Stewart: Fox makes me do it -- rank: 1000

USA Today - October 7, 2003 Fans like their dose of 'Daily' news Stewart dishes some seriously funny stuff By Gary Levin NEW YORK -- Let news shows have their pontificating pundits and their what's-it-all-mean blather this election night. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, which prizes its role as a ''fake news'' show, is going a different route. ''We're having a panel discussion with a gentleman who was a body stand-in for Arnold Schwarzenegger; Ronny Cox, who was a villain in Total Recall; and M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 7 11:32:51 PDT 2003

24725 [lbo-talk] frontiers of personal style -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/7483.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 7 11:21:22 PDT 2003

24726 [lbo-talk] workers mauled too -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 7, 2003 INSTANT AX THE producers of Siegfried & Roy didn't wait long to fire their show's 267 cast and crew members, including 58 dancers, once Roy Horn was mauled by one of his tigers. "Don't believe what the Mirage casino execs are saying about finding them jobs," said a Las Vegas source. "They were let go with only about 10 days' severance pay. Then the dancers were given garbage bags and told to clear out their personal effects . . . The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 7 10:52:26 PDT 2003

24727 [lbo-talk] Norquist: estate tax like Holocaust -- rank: 1000

[you can't make this stuff up - from an interview of Grover Norquist, the antitax nut, by Terry Gross on Fresh Air last week - transcript via the DLC, sorry] NORQUIST: The argument that some who play to the politics of hate and envy and class division will say is, "Well, that's only 2 percent -- or, as people get richer, 5 percent, in the near future -- of Americans likely to have to pay [the estate tax]." I mean, that's the morality of the Holocaust: "Oh, it's only a small percen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 7 10:39:46 PDT 2003

24728 [lbo-talk] Money printing -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >My second question was about what could have been accomplished had the >money been spent a different way. But what I was mainly wondering is where >the economy might be *without* all this deficit spending. Doug Henwood says >"in the soup" and I'm sure that's a technical term, but I was hoping for >some ideas about what the actual numbers might be. How could anyone ever guess? I'm sure some whiz with a macro model could say "GDP growth would be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 7 06:37:07 PDT 2003

24729 [lbo-talk] Money printing -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> >> Not this time. It seems most of the 2001 tax cut was saved (or used >> to pay down debt, which economically speaking is the same thing). >> Most of the recent one was probably spent. >> > >On what? Who knows? Retail sales have been strong. Probably on routine expenses plus home improvements and things like that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 15:00:18 PDT 2003

24730 [lbo-talk] D'Costa article -- rank: 1000

Anyone who wants Anthony D'Costa's article on the Indian software industry, contact me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 14:59:37 PDT 2003

24731 [lbo-talk] Money printing -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Unlike gov't spending, which actually results in the >production of tangible goods, hence creates jobs, tax cuts are mainly >used to refinance the existing debt Not this time. It seems most of the 2001 tax cut was saved (or used to pay down debt, which economically speaking is the same thing). Most of the recent one was probably spent. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 13:12:57 PDT 2003

24732 [lbo-talk] the state of the left: not so bad -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - October 6, 2003 For better - or worse The anti-war movement failed to stop the attack on Iraq, but it has already had a decisive impact on politics Gary Younge A fter the 1976 Soweto uprising, in which the apartheid regime murdered about 200 people and left many more injured, Nelson Mandela smuggled a message out of Robben Island prison: "At all levels of our struggle, within and outside the country, much has been achieved and much remains to be done," he wrote. &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 12:49:25 PDT 2003

24733 [lbo-talk] Baffler/Boob Jubilee in NYC -- rank: 1000

[Despite being not-young, I'll be at the events on Wednesday and Thursday...] Dear Friends and Enemies of the Baffler: With great pleasure we announce the arrival of "Boob Jubilee," our second collection of essays and fiction, just published by W.W. Norton. The offerings in this particular volume are gleaned from our pages during the golden years of the New Economy, when we were widely considered to be cranks, calumniators, Enemies of the Future, and otherwise superannuated and annoyin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 12:38:49 PDT 2003

24734 [lbo-talk] dixor -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >I was right: "socially constructed" _is_ an empty, vacuous term, >devised solely for the benefit of merely _seeming_ erudite and >well-reasoned. You use the term, and hope that it makes you look >smart. But when anyone calls you on your bluff, and actually asks >that it be _clarified_, get all huffy and accuse the other person of >being stupid. > >You're a fraud and a poser. Away with you, into the dustbin of tenure. What anti-intellectual cl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 12:18:08 PDT 2003

24735 [lbo-talk] dixor -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 02:11 PM 10/6/03 -0400, Brian Siano wrote: >>Kelley wrote: >> >>>Frankly, when people say that _anything_ is "socially >>>constructed," I suspect that people are simply using >>>quasi-technical terms to look sophisticated. >>> >>>do you have an alternative phrase that would make it more acceptable to you? >> >>Like I said: it'd help to define what it is you're _talking_ about >>before we sta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 6 12:12:00 PDT 2003