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27121 [lbo-talk] Jerry sez... -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Experts have always been involved in carrying >out policy (bigger government means more such >experts). Bigger government maybe means more >complicated policy questions, hence greater >need for experts in that vein too. That's not the problem - it's that whole areas of policy - economic and foreign, to take two - are written out of political discourse and reserved for experts. No one doubts that it requires experts to handle the nuts & bolts, but the bi ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 11 08:21:48 PDT 2003

27122 [lbo-talk] Jerry sez... -- rank: 1000

Jerry Brown, quoted in the August 7 NY Times: >"The elected officials are being diminished," said Mayor Jerry Brown >of Oakland, a former governor of California. "Experts are hired to >raise money, experts are hired to spend money, experts are hired to >carry out policy. In some ways, the politicians are just the >announcers anymore."

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Date:	Mon Aug 11 07:00:48 PDT 2003

27123 [lbo-talk] Fwd: -- rank: 1000

From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> --> If you pass this comment along to others -- periodically but not repeatedly -- please explain that Commentaries are a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet and that to learn more folks can consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org ================================== ZNet Commentary Nothing About Us Without Us: Human Rights and Disability August 09, 2003 By Marta Russell Citizenship can be seen as the realization of certain rights. When states ca ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 10 10:43:36 PDT 2003

27124 [lbo-talk] Penile Invasions (was: Dull) -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > refusal _ever_ to have sexual intercourse is >> probably grounds for divorce in every state. > >I thought this "grounds for divorce" stuff was old-fashioned? I think >you only have you say: this is broken. > >One partner saying it makes it true, no? > >I haven't come across a "list" of things that can (have to?) be invoked >in order to get a divorce. Not in NY State. Cruelty, adultery, "constructive abandonme ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 10 10:11:05 PDT 2003

27125 [lbo-talk] Another Leftist Hawk for Peace -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >Luttwak is a leftist? He described himself to me as a Cold War social democrat, anti-Communist but in favor of domestic redistribution. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 13:55:48 PDT 2003

27126 [lbo-talk] Buggery on Board (was Re: Dull, dull . . .) -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >I suspect things might be different had Moore not attacked lefties >some years ago. Some of us are jealous. We want a $1.7m duplex on the Upper West Side too! Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 12:55:43 PDT 2003

27127 [lbo-talk] Bob Hope in hell! -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Michael Pugliese (of course): <http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/jul2003/Hope_in_Hell_7-30-2003.pdf>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 12:54:01 PDT 2003

27128 [lbo-talk] mobile phones and telemarketers [was: backlash?] -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >As far as recording the Special Information Tone (SIT) on the answering >machine - it is an excellent immediate solution, but it does not tie up >the telemarketers' resources. It only makes their operations more >efficient by automatically purging their calling lists. The point is, >however, to make it less efficient. <http://www.donotcall.gov/>

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 08:56:42 PDT 2003

27129 [lbo-talk] Free trade costs thousands of jobs... -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >How about those nineteenth century lovers of free trade, the USA? Which had a large internal market, chronic labor shortages, and high wages, so domestic demand wasn't much of a problem. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 6 08:07:30 PDT 2003

27130 [lbo-talk] backlash? -- rank: 1000

Cliff Staples wrote: >Cool. Anyone know how they do the sampling for CPS these days? :) <http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/bmethdoc.htm>

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 21:21:09 PDT 2003

27131 [lbo-talk] Listen to your Uncle Joe -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >liberals were dredging up out of _Forbes_ magazine Like what? Nader's dependence on contributions from trial lawyers? All true - though mostly in the past tense. The trial lawyers now hate him because they blame him for Gore's loss - and they love Dems even more than they used to love Ralph. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 15:07:14 PDT 2003

27132 [lbo-talk] mobile phones and telemarketers [was: backlash?] -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Is there any good >reason to have a land line anymore? The sound quality is better, and you don't put yourself at risk of a brain tumor. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 14:53:07 PDT 2003

27133 [lbo-talk] mobile phones and telemarketers [was: backlash?] -- rank: 1000

Wojciech Sokolowski wrote: >That would be very interesting to know. I disconnected my land line >about six months ago due to high volume of telemarketing calls (caller >ID did not prevent being disturbed by continuous ringing, including >attempts to send faxes at 3 AM) and use only a mobile phone. So far I >have not received a single telemarketing call, but I am also using my >old disconnected number forinternet orders, credit cards etc. I >wonder, however, how long this ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 14:17:20 PDT 2003

27134 [lbo-talk] backlash? -- rank: 1000

More on cell phones: the Census Bureau is going to do a special supplement to the Current Population Survey early next year to explore the kinds of phones people have. But we don't really know for sure now. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 13:41:49 PDT 2003

27135 [lbo-talk] lavender & red -- rank: 1000

[no date given, alas] "You people are a ploy for Communist Russia to destroy the United States and you don't even realize it. You'll allow anarchy and immorality to abound, acts of sexual deviancy will flourish. God will destroy us as He has other promiscuous civilizations like Sodom and Gomorrah. Or we'll be in bondage by Communist Russia." -- New York State Moral Majority president Rev. Dan C. Fore.

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Date:	Tue Aug 5 11:13:31 PDT 2003