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26071 Badly drafted law? Was Re: Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote, responding to egregious overposter jks: >-That would bar all stings. I don't think that is a >-good idea. Btw, another sting thing you hear about is >-cops posing as killers for hire to catch people who >-want to hace hits done. There, of course, hit men >-don't advertise. jks > >As I said, it's not completely clearcut, but there are lines of aggressive >solitication in a sting versus just creating opportunities. Take the online >issue-- if an und ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 15:06:03 PST 2003

26072 Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I'd like to propose an LBO corollary to Godwin's law: invoking Freud, >Lacan, and/or psychoanalysis in an LBO thread is a reliable indicator >that the thread's content to noise ratio is approaching zero. That's your occupational symptom. You're some kind of empirical psychologist, right? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 14:39:01 PST 2003

26073 Hollow ANSWER? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Surely, liberal NGOs, churches, unions, etc. can pitch in and hire >far more than two dozen paid organizers if they wish. Why can they >not out-organize ANSWER? Tepid politics, fear, lack of imagination? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 14:03:58 PST 2003

26074 Now Kristol's Cracking -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >I can't even follow the logic here. Is this the best >the chickenhawks can do? You expect logic? The whole rationale for war is a cross between "because we can" and "because we want to." Inspectors can't find anything? That *proves* SH is hiding stuff! But if SH really were hiding dastardly stuff, they probably wouldn't want to start a war. They only pick on people they know they can crush. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 13:42:34 PST 2003

26075 David Brooks fulminates -- rank: 1000

[hey James Heartfield, you ghosting for Brooks to earn some extra coin?] <http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002940> ON THE ROAD The Scarlet SUV Who's against sport-utility vehicles? A bunch of geeks. BY DAVID BROOKS Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:01 a.m. I don't own an SUV, but now that they've been identified as the locus of evil, I'm thinking of getting one. And if I do, I figure I might as well let the inner wolf out for a rampage and get the most obnoxious SUV I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 13:20:48 PST 2003

26076 Badly drafted law? Was Re: Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > I >don't want to see people our age preying on MY >DAUGHTER. I understand that, but she might not see it as preying. You never know. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 12:39:47 PST 2003

26077 quiz -- rank: 1000

Do you know your arse (sic) from your elbow? <http://www.assotron.com/arse-or-elbow/#>

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 12:37:07 PST 2003

26078 Geert's book -- rank: 1000

[I normally don't forward publicity pieces, but Geert's a good guy and this is a good book, and I keep meaning to have him on the radio. Soon.] I thought readers of the Left Business Observer Talk List might be interested in this book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262122510 Uncanny Networks Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia Geert Lovink For Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global, networked discourses not only among different ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 24 12:10:34 PST 2003

26079 Hollow ANSWER? -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >CEO of "Kim Il >Sung Bus Company" This is a slur! You make it sound as if they're living in the past. It's the Kim Jong Il Bus Co.! By the way, Dan Lazare told me he had a long chat with Deirdre Griswold, editor of the WWP paper, who assured him that North Korea has a "vibrant political culture." Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 12:05:28 PST 2003

26080 Monetary policy & the Economy -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >The US Dollar continues its decline as foreigners continue to loose >confidence.... Yup. Front page above the fold story on the US$ in today's FT. Even the central banks seem to be diversifying out of greenbacks. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 11:45:04 PST 2003

26081 Ritter talks -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >is that last line yours or just a wild coincidence? [...] >Additional reporting by Fredric U. Dicker and Ken Lovett in Albany Wish I were so clever, but that's for real. Wonder if the posties got a good laugh out of it. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 11:43:53 PST 2003

26082 Hollow ANSWER? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug, your math looks odd. > >$15 times 2000 hours per year= $30,000 per working cadre >200 working cadre * $30,000 = $6 million per year of total cadre income $15/hr * 2000 hours * 300 workers = $9 million $9m * .10 = $900,000 nothing fuzzy about that math >Assume that 20% is tithed I just used the literal definition of "tithe": >tithe > >1. >a. A tenth part of one's annual income contributed voluntarily >or due as a tax, especially ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 11:42:53 PST 2003

26083 Badly drafted law? Was Re: Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Ritter was lucky. He could have been prosecuted in >state court on federal charges. But my point was just >that the charged conduct is in fact illegal, contrary >to what Doug said Sorry, I didn't mean to offer a legal opinion. It may be illegal, for all I know. But it's seriously ridiculous if it is. By age 16 it's none of the state's damned business. And how come these ruses don't count as entrapment? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 11:28:30 PST 2003

26084 Japanese edition of "Empire" has just published -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Excellent news! -Thomas Oh no! A whole generation of Japanese left youth are going to trash their dog-eared copies of Lenin's Imperialism and go astray!!!! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 11:26:37 PST 2003

26085 Rolling Stone story on bug chasing a fake? -- rank: 1000

At 12:00 PM -0500 1/24/03, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >IS ROLLING STONE'S HIV STORY WILDLY EXAGGERATED? >Sources in a controversial article say their quotes were made-up. >"Is Rolling Stone that desperate for sales?" asks Andrew Sullivan. >http://www.msnbc.com/news/863259.asp

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 11:22:01 PST 2003