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33031 Flash ! an Offlist message from Michael Pugliese -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: >HEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I needed a laugh! I'm going to assume this was posted to the list in error, a private message gone astray. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 15:25:45 PDT 2001

33032 Flash ! an Offlist message from Michael Pugliese -- rank: 1000

Look, guys, if this continues for one more post I'm throwing both of you off. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 13:13:09 PDT 2001

33033 Fidel and Khomeini's Grandson -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > >How would you know , Herr Goebbels ? >> >>CB > > And for a more polite response than the offlist one! >http://www.tiac.net/users/hcunn/rus/insults-vysh.html >The "Fragrant Flowers" of Prosecutor A. YA Vyshinsky's ... >... for bullying and sometimes-quite-witty insults to defendants. (Cowed by >torture ... here. >...memorable phrases by Vyshinsky, and some directly inspired by him ... >"...liars and buffoons, ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 13:10:36 PDT 2001

33034 The Non-Vanishing Budget Surplus -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:33:04 -0400 Current estimates by the Congressional Budget Office of the 10-year budget surplus, after netting out the tax cut, are $3.968 trillion. If you want to try and hoodwink the public and subtract Social Security Trust Fund surpluses, it's $1.484 trillion. If you want to try even harder and subtract Medicare surpluses, it's $1.087 trillion. These are after allowing for the automatic growt ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 13:02:15 PDT 2001

33035 Hamilton -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Perhaps a belief that short life expectancy and high infant >mortality are bad things? Oh, but what's that, next to community, rootedness, closeness to the soil, singing around the fire it took an hour to light, etc. etc.? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 09:56:12 PDT 2001

33036 Virginia and Jefferson (United Mine Workers of America) -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: > > CB: >> The proletariat are an urban people , but we aim to end the antagonism >between city and >country. Workers and peasants of Brooklyn unite ! The >metropolis is exciting , but get >your thrills another way. > >I didn't know Brooklyn had any peasants. Backyard gardeners and rooftop pigeon-breeders, you know. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 09:46:40 PDT 2001

33037 Fidel and Khomeini's Grandson -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >How would you know , Herr Goebbels ? > >CB > >>>> debsian at pacbell.net 08/21/01 06:01PM >>> > Charles, your comrade is indulging here, >http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg07160.html , > >"The Saturday, August 4, 2001 edition of PWW contains a photo of Fidel >Castro and Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the late Ayatollah, celebrating >the Cuban Revolution together in Havanna. The apparent incongruity of a >Marxist R ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 07:57:25 PDT 2001

33038 Pa Greens -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - August 22, 2001 Inside Politics Greg Pierce Green growth "Inspired by Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign, the Green Party is on the rise in Pennsylvania," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. "It has won state recognition as an official party, and is fielding 30 candidates in local elections this November for offices ranging from school board to mayor. The Greens are drawing new support from many liberal Democrats who believe their party has drifted rightwar ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 07:52:36 PDT 2001

33039 right-wing campus watchers -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - August 22, 2001 Religious-Freedom Center Set Up to Focus on Discrimination on Campuses By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which has quickly built a reputation for defending students and professors who feel they've been wronged by their colleges, is establishing a new center that focuses on charges of religious discrimination on campuses. Officials at the nonprofit foundation in Philadelphia, which was established ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 07:36:01 PDT 2001

33040 Hamilton -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment - by the way, my pal Dan Lazare, Marxist critic of the U.S. constitutional system, is a Hamilton fan who hates Jefferson] Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:30:33 -0700 (PDT) From: James Baird <jlbaird3 at yahoo.com> > Hamilton, the man who created dirigisme out of > mercantilism, lover of > protectionism, not a big fan of civil liberties or > democracy...That > Hamilton? > Yep, that's the one. Oh, I'll grant that the man was no friend of democr ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 22 07:28:21 PDT 2001

33041 United Mine Workers of America -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Wait a minute...I grew up in West Virginia, but >did go to school at University of Virginia. >Certainly there were LOTs of people on our side >in West Virginia...and when I was in the Communist >Workers Party in the late 70s early 80s there was >communist work being done both in the Tidewater region >of Virginia as well as in the mine regions of >southwestern Virginia. No doubt, but I spent 3 years in Virginia, in lovely Charlottesville, and it was one ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 21 14:48:54 PDT 2001

33042 United Mine Workers of America -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Have we had anybody in Virginia close to our side since Thomas Jefferson ? The anti-urban slaveholder/individualist? How, except in the fevered fantasies of the CPUSA, is he on "our" side? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 21 13:20:18 PDT 2001

33043 Fed goes for 25, surprising no one.... -- rank: 1000

[...though they left the door open for more cuts in the future] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/general/2001/20010821/default.htm> Release Date: August 21, 2001 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting today decided to lower its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3-1/2 percent. In a related action, the Board of Governors approved a 25 basis point reduction in the discount rate to 3 percent. Today's action by the FOMC brings ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 21 11:42:33 PDT 2001

33044 the great debate -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] LITTLE COMMON GROUND FOR GLOBALIZATION DEBATE. The proposed debate next month, between four anti-globalization non-governmental organizations on one side and the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on the other, may struggle even to find a common basis for discussion, writes Alan Beattie in the Financial Times (p.14). Mutual suspicion remains over sincerity of motives. While the financial institutions have an established relationship and ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 21 07:57:12 PDT 2001

33045 art news -- rank: 1000

[reported last June...full text at <http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/35/36/lead.html>] [...] Another local talent from the school of "better out than in" is Keith Boadwee. Boadwee became something of a name with shock jocks across the country for his enema paintings, which are a backhanded homage to Jackson Pollock - rather as Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes are a catty swipe at Donald Judd's huge and weighty sculptures. For the enema paintings Boadwee would lay on his back and squirt paint ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 20 20:37:47 PDT 2001