Swish-e home page Search LBO-Talk Archives


Limit search to: Subject & Body Document Size Subject Author Date
Sort by: Reverse Sort
 Results for doug henwood   26281 to 26295 of 41703 results. Run time: 0.032 seconds | Search time: 0.016 seconds    
 Page:1 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 2781 Previous 15 Next 15
26281 And the Poll SAYS! US biggest threat to peace -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Besides, I do not want to be treated like that German dude who now faces >prosecution for his remark on the listserv. Eh? Doug
Document Size: 4765
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 8 12:05:20 PST 2003
26282 Helen Thomas vs. Ari Fleischer -- rank: 1000
Joe Smith wrote: >I watched Don Rumsfield and some Pentagon press aide stumble badly >-- almost to the point of complete collapse of composure -- on CSPAN >last night. The question that gave them so much trouble was very >simple. Why, a reporter queried, was the US going to war over a >potential threat of WMDs in Iraq while it was only calling for talks >over actually existing WDMs in North Korea? Wow, Brit Hume had the answer to that on Fox News last night - maybe he forgot ...
Document Size: 5328
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 8 11:51:07 PST 2003
26283 GQQ was Re: Introducing the Ex-Zionist 'Zine! -- rank: 1000
Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Sounds like a great magazine....But what is a "Gender Queer >Queer"? Is that a woman who changed into a man that likes >women? Or a woman who became a man who likes men? You're showing too much obsession with category here. Let it flow! Doug
Document Size: 4854
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 8 10:38:06 PST 2003
26284 progress! -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I have to admit that I agree with him. The bible is, after all, a book, >and a ban on studying a book amounts to censorship. They're not planning to study the bible like a book - they're planning to revere it as the revealed word of god, and as such, has no place in a public school. Anyone who seriously studied the bible as a book would be regarded as an agent of Satan. Doug
Document Size: 4664
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 8 10:36:49 PST 2003
26285 Helen Thomas vs. Ari Fleischer -- rank: 1000
[the dean of the Wash press corps uncorks one..] <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030106-1.html> Helen Thomas at Monday press briefing 12:35 P.M. EST MR. FLEISCHER: Good afternoon and happy New Year to everybody. The President began his day with an intelligence briefing, followed by an FBI briefing. Then he had a series of policy briefings. And this afternoon, the President will look forward to a Cabinet meeting where the President will discuss with members o ...
Document Size: 7646
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 8 08:40:53 PST 2003
26286 progress! -- rank: 1000
AFA Action Alert! Colorado school rejects Bible club, but allows Gay/Straight Alliance club "The Bible has been an integral part of our education system for centuries. To study and learn about its teachings and historical significance in our country is not a violation of the Constitution." - Tim Wildmon, AFA president January 8, 2003 School officials at Boulder Valley School District's <http://www.bvsd.k12.co.us/schools_admin/profilepage.asp?numsch=360&level=high> Monarch Hig ...
Document Size: 8020
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 8 06:49:37 PST 2003
26287 Self-determination -- rank: 1000
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >I don't know what is exactly this "race to the bottom" that the Left is >talking about. Is this absolute immiseration of working people thesis? It's a staple of the antiglobalization literature, at least in the U.S. and other high-income countries: nations and regions compete against each other to see who can offer the most attractive deal to hypermobile capital, resulting in markdowns in wages and environmental/social standards. Doug
Document Size: 4809
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 16:00:42 PST 2003
26288 Self-determination -- rank: 1000
Chip Berlet wrote: >Doug, you are so sheltered. > >http://www.wilstar.net/porkrinds/ Aren't those skins and not big gobs of "depot" fat? Doug
Document Size: 4573
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 14:22:49 PST 2003
26289 Economic Determinism? NOT! -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >To avoid misconstrual, and to stick to my metaphor: I think Justin is >attempting to give adult answers to childish questions. And that is >usually a waste of breath. For the most part those who babble of Marx's >(or Marxists') "economic determinism" simply don't know what they are >saying, and are not about to take any answer except simple confirmation >seriously. They will not be able to _see_ or _hear_ any answer which >does not conform to th ...
Document Size: 5233
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 14:10:53 PST 2003
26290 cops busting drinkers for drinking -- rank: 1000
Washington Times - January 7, 2003 Cops hit bars to cite suspected drunks By Matthew Cella Fairfax County police have raided bars in Reston and Herndon to arrest suspected drunks, taking them to jail on charges of public drunkenness. Pub owners say police are harassing sober customers. Lt. Tor Bennett, assistant commander of the Reston District station, said the arrests are part of a "stepped-up effort" run mostly on weekend nights from the first week of December through the first week ...
Document Size: 9030
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 14:01:10 PST 2003
26291 Self-determination -- rank: 1000
ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Ukraine the fount of world civilization Is it true that Ukranians eat deep-fried chunks of pork fat? Doug
Document Size: 4444
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 13:44:29 PST 2003
26292 Self-determination -- rank: 1000
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >Yes, I agree with that. Much depends, I suppose, on the yardsticks one uses >to assess progress. e.g. Average life expectancy has gone up in the >developing world from 25 to 60 in 50 years. By that standard, almost >everyone is better off. What happened to the "race to the bottom" that you read about in almost every left-wing publication around? What, if any, sectors of Indian society are worse off now than 10 years ago? Doug
Document Size: 4829
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 13:03:18 PST 2003
26293 Osama's troubled domestic life -- rank: 1000
New York Post [Page Six] - January 7, 2003 Mystery of Osama's L.A. 'son' AN American author who says she was forced into sexual servitude by Osama bin Laden has pulled her 5-year-old son out of a Los Angeles elementary school after rumors swirled that bin Laden was the child's father. Sudanese-born Kola Boof, 33, says she was held prisoner and forced to have sex with bin Laden in 1996 when she was pursuing an acting career in North Africa. She says bin Laden raped her, then forced her to live wi ...
Document Size: 7227
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 12:50:24 PST 2003
26294 Dividends -- rank: 1000
Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I have an extremely ignorant question--so be nice...but I >often hear claims that the "rich" never really pay taxes to >begin with and that any taxes they do have to pay are >simply added to the cost to the consumer? You could make that argument about corporate taxes, but I doubt the corps would spend all that money on lobbyists if they could pass it all along. The CBO used to assume that corporate taxes were split between capital and labor (i.e., ...
Document Size: 4932
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 12:34:05 PST 2003
26295 Dividends -- rank: 1000
Daniel Davies wrote: > Doug wrote, in re dividend tax reform: > >>>What's so good about it? > >Double taxation of dividends is a subsidy to gearing. So eliminate the deductibility of interest! U.S. corps are generally less leveraged than their European or Japanese counterparts. I don't know anything about foreign corporate tax systems, but I suspect the explanations are more related to financial and governance structures than to the tax codes. Doug
Document Size: 4761
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 7 12:32:20 PST 2003
 Page:1 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 2781 Previous 15 Next 15
Powered by Swish-e swish-e.org

Valid HTML 4.01!