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9271 [lbo-talk] more populist nuance -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Eric quoted: > And that is where this depression gets scarier than any we have > survived so far, in America's comparatively short history. Jesus H. Christ. What was the Civil War? The various panics and crises of the 1870s-1890s? The 1930s Depression? WW2? This is lunacy.

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 12:23:43 PDT 2008

9272 [lbo-talk] discreet charms of transportation apartheid -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:06 PM, BklynMagus wrote: >> there are poor people who will be hurt by this indiscriminate >> pricing scheme. > > Then it needs to be adjusted so it does not hurt the poor, The final version, on which Shelly Silver never permitted a vote, would have rebated the charge completely to all drivers eligible for the EITC. In fact, this is largely a canard, since poor people mostly take the subway. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 12:19:19 PDT 2008

9273 [lbo-talk] feminist porn awards! -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 10:59:43 PDT 2008

9274 [lbo-talk] premiere party in LA -- rank: 1000

B. posted something about Eon McKai's alt.pr0n movie The Doll Underground the other day. There's a premiere party tonight in LA! Someone go & file a report, please. <http://vividalt.com/home.php>

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 10:58:14 PDT 2008

9275 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:17 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > A sense of proportion helps in transport discussions. In 2005 US > passenger > miles by transit were 49,680 million; by highway 4,884,557 million, > about > one hundred times as many. Even if transit were to double in size > that would > only reduce highway passenger miles by one per cent. 1% here, 1% there, and pretty soon you're talking real reductions.

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 08:42:35 PDT 2008

9276 [lbo-talk] Obama organizer: get me more white people! -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] This morning's nomination for new Obama campaign slogan -- as overheard at a Michelle Obama rally at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh: "Get me more white people, we need more white people," one event organizer said, per the school newspaper, The Tartan. To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, "We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though."

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 08:01:05 PDT 2008

9277 [lbo-talk] discreet charms of transportation apartheid (was: NY blocks mayor's congestion plan) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Congestion pricing will likely not work as expected, I has reduced traffic where it's been tried, no? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 07:54:48 PDT 2008

9278 [lbo-talk] Eyes on the Prize -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I think Capitalism (capital C) functions in Carrol's > private religion as Satan in a fallen world. It's a > very calvinist worldview he's got: the fallenness; > evil present everywhere, all with one source; > redemption will arrive mysteriously from some place in > the future and we can't really affect its coming, but > we have to work hard anyway so we can be saved. Damn, > it is a form of secularized calvinism, it really ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 07:53:29 PDT 2008

9279 [lbo-talk] Obama ingeniously wiggling out of public finance pledge -- rank: 1000

[from The Note - you can understand why he's doing it, but the justification is almost Clintonian in its ingenuity - those folks who pledged $100 on the web? I'm sure Barry will be taking their calls] The Wall Street Journal's Mary Jacoby and T.W. Farnam provide some perspective on the $15 million McCain raised last month: "Sen. McCain's March total compares with the $11.6 million he raised in February and $11.8 million in January, reflecting the time he has spent at high-dollar fund- ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 06:46:32 PDT 2008

9280 [lbo-talk] Eyes on the Prize -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > That's not the point. The point is that you, W, & other victims of > grass-is-greener-elsewhere syndrome refuse to acknowledge the > tautology > Capitalism is Capitalism. So Sweden is the same as Brazil? A society with a gini in the .20s is the same as one with a gini in the .50s? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 06:27:10 PDT 2008

9281 [lbo-talk] Bible the most popular book in Amerika -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/lf_nm_life/reading_survey_dc > > [WS:] Disgusting, but not surprising. Back in the late 1970s when I taught a couple of sections of English at UVa, I was amazed at how little the students knew of the Bible. I knew more of it than they did. They say they love and read the Good Book, but, aside from a hard core, I'm not sure they really do. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 05:42:53 PDT 2008

9282 [lbo-talk] five years ago -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:09 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I will never understand why editorials and op-eds, > regardless of the dearth of intelligence of their > content, are so poorly written. "true Ozymandias > moment"? Because they're written quickly by hacks to conform totally to conventional thought? Can't separate form and content really, can you? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 05:23:08 PDT 2008

9283 [lbo-talk] five years ago -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen, from William Shawcross' WSJ op-ed five years ago today celebrating the "liberation" of Bagdad] 'Liberation Day! What a wonderful, magnificent, emotional occasion - one that will live in legend like the fall of the Bastille, V-E Day or the fall of the Berlin Wall. Watching the tearing down of Saddam Hussein's towering statue in Baghdad was a true Ozymandias moment. It slowly tumbled and, with perfect symbolism, just two rusty pipes were left sticking up from the b ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 9 04:46:16 PDT 2008

9284 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2008, at 5:57 PM, shag wrote: > The filth in NYC subway system Eh? I'm on it every day and I bear no traces of filth that I can notice. I'm wearing a clean pressed blue shirt at the moment too. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 8 15:06:19 PDT 2008

9285 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2008, at 5:51 PM, shag wrote: > well, then why not? Jordan's saying that the people who support a > use tax > are doing so because they *also* want to punish people in order to > change > their behavior. Behavior undertaken in no small part because the costs of driving are not fully internalized. That's part of the rationale of a carbon tax - to make the actual cost of driving reflect its actual social and environmental costs. But even a carbon tax wouldn't fully capt ...

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