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36211 Fwd: Congress to Kill Micro Radio -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:11:58 -0500 From: Eileen Sutton <efsutton at earthlink.net> TRAGICALLY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS (NAB) AND PUBLIC RADIO (NPR) HAVE SUCCEEDED IN KILLING LEGALIZED LOW POWER RADIO by Peter Franck The National Lawyers Guild Center on Democratic Communications ("CDC") has just learned that Congress intends to pass an Omnibus Budget Act containing a rider which will gut the FCC's new Low Power FM (LPFM) service. It now appears that President Cl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 16 11:14:50 PST 2000

36212 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3742 (Quote Kvetching) -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >I count as quotes >any quoted material from another post, >or any web-accessible post. It's not easy for everyone to double-click on a link and get a website. So I tend to forward the full text of stuff that's short (roughly 8k or less), or if longer, important. Also, a lot of periodical links don't last, especially daily papers, so if people are a bit behind, or if they're cruising through the archives then the link might not work. As for quoting other posts, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 16 11:12:45 PST 2000

36213 O Happy Day -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Three times in the last 24hrs I've seen some horrid member of the >govt here waxing lyrical about great GWB will be for Australia. Why: >something about trade, of course. The event was uniformly described >as 'the election of a conservative government in the United States' >-- so I thought you'd like to know that some people could see a >difference. It's kind of surreal. Clinton gets NAFTA and the WTO through Congress, which a Republican president mig ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 16 10:47:35 PST 2000

36214 O Happy Day -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >yeah man, I was really bummed out when original Iron Butterfly lineup >broke up, been downhill ever since... Michael Hoover Inna Gada Da Vida, bay-bee. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 16 10:27:15 PST 2000

36215 The Two Larry's -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >... "sheeney." What do you think it means? > > Given the surprising number of New Yorkers on this list who hadn't > heard the word before, is it possible that Lehman was unaware that > it was a term of vulgar abuse for Jews? Doubtful. He's got a long history of antisemitic slurs, and he didn't deny it in his offlist note to me. Besides, the context of the remark makes an ignorance plea p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 12:56:29 PST 2000

36216 From Insult to Manual Labor -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >I have to admit that I, also, had no idea what the >term Sheeney meant. I just asked my office mate, a Jew who's spent most of her life in New York, if she'd heard it, and she never had either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 11:42:08 PST 2000

36217 O Happy Day -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >God, this dumb guy should have seen how happy I was driving across the >jobsite after we'd got done staking all this curb just three hours ago! He was talking about sweeping a "slushy crossing for eight hours on a day when the east wind is blowing." A bit different from your context. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 11:25:58 PST 2000

36218 O Happy Day -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: >Socialists used to think this way, before they went to >college, got tenure. I went to college, to grad school even, but never came close even to tenure track, much less tenure. These distinctions between effete intellectuals and the horny-handed real folk are pretty tedious. I've often found that the people who make them most vigorously are trying to establish their own credibility more than anything else. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 11:30:13 PST 2000

36219 O Happy Day -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >I bet I don't get many more laughs out of GWB You may be right. A period of national healing and bipartisan purposefulness has begun. Further evidence that Nathan's great movement to democratize the franchise has been put on hold appeared in today's New York Times: >"Bipartisanship isn't an option any more," Mr. Daschle said. "It's a >requirement." The Rev. Jesse Jackson was one of those who called the >governor to wish him well. Ms. Hug ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 15 11:23:48 PST 2000

36220 O Happy Day -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: >Ah, Doug. Don't be such a Yalie. Digging ditches is honest, vibrant work. I'm not totally innocent of manual labor. Spent three summers working in the merchant marine; I've also washed dishes, unloaded trucks, and worked in a warehouse. I never found any of it "vibrant." As for "honest," there's plenty of honest work in the world that doesn't involve heavy physical work. I like to think that much of what I do now is in the service of hones ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 11:18:24 PST 2000

36221 The Two Larry's -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >You have to know the problem is not w/'bastard', >but "sheeney." What do you think it means? Lehman's gone, never to return. I never heard this word before - where's it come from? Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 15 11:02:10 PST 2000

36222 Silverstein on Dees -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >This is a reason to run a campaign against Dees? Silverstein and >Cockburn are full of shit. Dees does good work shutting down the >Klan. Justin, did you actually read Ken's words? Let me recount some highlights in case you missed them the first time through. >"He's the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement," >renowned anti-death-penalty lawyer Millard Farmer says of Dees, his >former associate, "though I don't mean to mal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 10:57:02 PST 2000

36223 WP: Fed unlikely to cut rates soon -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 15, 2000 Fed Unlikely To Cut Rates By John M. Berry Washington Post Staff Writer Faced with slowing economic growth and a highly uncertain short-term economic outlook, a number of Federal Reserve officials have concluded that the risk of serious weakness in the economy is as great as the risk that inflation will get worse, according to interviews in recent weeks. The officials, who will meet Tuesday as the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank's top policymak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 10:41:49 PST 2000

36224 two Larry's? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >. . . I want to be able to point to Summers, Rubin, >Barshefsky and the rest of those sheeney bastards who set it all up. >Tom Lehman > > >You've got a big problem. I've tried to >look away from it, but you've made it >impossible to do so. You seem to care >about trade unionism, but this sort of >talk is poison to the labor movement. > >Either clean it up or get the hell out >of here. > >Max Sawicky >(another sheeney bastard) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 10:43:11 PST 2000

36225 two Larry's? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >. . . I want to be able to point to Summers, Rubin, >Barshefsky and the rest of those sheeney bastards who set it all up. >Tom Lehman > > >You've got a big problem. I've tried to >look away from it, but you've made it >impossible to do so. You seem to care >about trade unionism, but this sort of >talk is poison to the labor movement. > >Either clean it up or get the hell out >of here. > >Max Sawicky >(another sheeney bastard) ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 15 10:44:42 PST 2000