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406 [lbo-talk] Noam goes with Barry ? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: > But Chomsky has also pointed out that Ron Paul's critique of Obama's war policy is "uncontroversial[ly]" correct: Well yeah, but Noam would find the rest of Paul's agenda pretty loopy, wouldn't he? Because it is? Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 11 09:59:11 PDT 2012

407 [lbo-talk] Daylight Slaving Time -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:06 PM, // ravi wrote: > First time since 1975 that the words AT&T and better technology have been used in the same sentence :-). Ha, yes. But better than Sprint, man. You can't get that shit anywhere, and apparently it can't tell time either.

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408 [lbo-talk] Daylight Slaving Time -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Interestingly, the Sprint network cannot set its time right, so my > mobile phone shows an incorrect time as I write it. According to my > Google search it is a common problem. Likewise, radio controlled > clocks use a fair weather technology > http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/radioclocks.cfm that does not > work most of the time due to a high noise/signal ratio. What a ruse! > > This idiocy is enough to turn one int ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 11 08:12:24 PDT 2012

409 [lbo-talk] Private losses again socialized in Greek default -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:14 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I couldn't quite follow Roubini. Can't say I did either.

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410 [lbo-talk] Private losses again socialized in Greek default -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:15 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > On Mar 10, 2012, at 4:26 PM, Tony Rolfe wrote: > >> I just got a finance newsletter saying it's time to go to work on >> Portugal. Then Italy, then France. For hedge funds with the money to >> do these deals, it's beginning to look like a frothy decade ahead. > > That sorta shit works until it stops working. > ___________________________________ > > And how ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 10 20:26:11 PST 2012

411 [lbo-talk] Private losses again socialized in Greek default -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2012, at 4:26 PM, Tony Rolfe wrote: > I just got a finance newsletter saying it's time to go to work on > Portugal. Then Italy, then France. For hedge funds with the money to > do these deals, it's beginning to look like a frothy decade ahead. That sorta shit works until it stops working.

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Date:	Sat Mar 10 13:31:18 PST 2012

412 [lbo-talk] Cleandraws.com infected? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 10, 2012, at 12:55 PM, // ravi wrote: > I had pointed this out privately to Shag a few days ago. I don t think it s any Java thing (you might have killed some random innocent process via Activity Monitor :-)). It had a very similar name, though - something .nu.

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Date:	Sat Mar 10 10:08:35 PST 2012

413 [lbo-talk] Cleandraws.com infected? -- rank: 1000

In the course of visiting "Shag"'s delightful blog the other day, the first attempt redirected me to mystreamvideo.rr.nu/11f. It just happened again on a revisit. It looks like it installed some Java thing, which I force-quit through the Mac Activity Monitor. I'd been complacently running without any security software - but this incident prompted me to install some. It finds nothing funny, but one does want strange Java things going on. So, surfer beware. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 10 09:44:40 PST 2012

414 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] The Saviour of the World Bank Jeffrey Sachs -- rank: 1000

On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:43 PM, ken hanly wrote: > http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/20123495258390513.html > > This article seems like an unabashed ad promoting Sachs. I suppose he is better than Larry Summers > but his past is not even mentioned in the article except in glowing terms. Maybe Naomi Klein should write an article on his candidacy! This, though it predates Sachs's candidacy, is a much better piece than that nonexistent one: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.c ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 9 09:48:48 PST 2012

415 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Tony Rolfe wrote: > This is probably OT, but I will credit Doug's interview with Robin > giving me enough insight to almost convince my buddy the bond trader > that lowering taxes for the rich may not stimulate growth. But the Dynamic Duo says that's all bullshit, and they have to be right, because they're so righteous, right?

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416 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Those with their focus on changing the world are always annoying to those > whose focus is having comfortable opinions. The chutzpah here is breathtaking. What have you done for years except file dyspeptic posts to listservs? You make righteous, revolutionary statements of this sort without any effects on the world or consequences on your reputation. They must make you feel good, like you're the commissar of the cornfields or something, but t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 11:45:10 PST 2012

417 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature -- rank: 1000

On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Those with their focus on changing the world are always annoying to those > whose focus is having comfortable opinions. Oh please. Fuck you too. Doug

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418 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2012, at 8:29 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > BTW, his last couple of paragraphs are what always make me cringe about his approach to argument on his blog. he knows that he shouldn't imply that they are hypocrites. So, he tells us that "we" aren't implying they are hypocrits, even after he does point and laugh at Sanchez, implying he's a hypocrit, with the phrase, "It never seems to dawn on Sanchez...." This is just another way of saying, what a hypocrit. Robin imp ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 8 10:56:10 PST 2012

419 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug says Robin is a professor: does he aim his work at the utility of other > professors teaching seminars. When you were a professor, teaching poems by an early bourgeois (Milton) and an actual fascist (Pound), what did you do to foment revolution? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 7 18:38:59 PST 2012

420 [lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2012, at 8:29 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > As it is, all Robin wants to do is go after low hanging fruit. But, hey, it's a blog and he's a journalist. He's a professor of political science, not a journalist. Not having read the book, and not knowing the first thing about him, seems not to inhibit you from critical commentary. But, hey, it's just a listserv and you're in the business sector. Doug

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