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9526 [lbo-talk] celebrating the hip-hop elite -- rank: 1000

[pikers next to the Wall Street elite, but similar sensibility] New York Post [Page Six] - September 19, 2007 Fitty Prevails KANYE West's album is outselling 50 Cent's, but Fitty topped Kanye on Forbes' Hip Hop Cash Kings list last month, coming in at No. 2 with $32 million in 2006, far ahead of Kanye. Now he's rubbing it in with "Forbes 1, 2, 3," a remix of his song, "I Get Money." On 50 Cent's MySpace page yesterday, he announced the release of the remix featuring Jay- ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 05:23:16 PDT 2007

9527 [lbo-talk] "Skull, Bones and Electricity" -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > If these are the nation's movers and > shakers, they've been very discreet about their moving/shaking. Yeah, they're mostly corporate/Wall Street/lawyer types. Discretion is what it's all about!

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Date:	Wed Sep 19 05:01:18 PDT 2007

9528 [lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2007, at 10:24 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > How could anyone find Marx's Capital dreary? Keynes had a mental block about Marx. Maybe Ted can explain. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 19:46:23 PDT 2007

9529 [lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran -- rank: 1000

Just noticed this from my Keynes notes. Keynes, CW 28, p. 38: Marx's Capital is "dreary, out-of-date, academic controversializing," like the Koran.

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 18:57:07 PDT 2007

9530 [lbo-talk] "Skull, Bones and Electricity" -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Shane Taylor wrote: > > http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001235 > If the guy had mentioned Skull & Bones, Kerry would have to leave the room. But he is a member. Ah yes, here's the list: <http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Skull-And-Bones1833-1985.htm>. People from my class I know are/were in it (one's dead) are listed. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 18:47:11 PDT 2007

9531 [lbo-talk] Molding the Ideal Islamic Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2007, at 6:50 PM, John Thornton wrote: > we in the U.S would have not only BDSM > clubs but free condoms We have them in New York City! <http://72.32.200.206/flash/>

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 15:04:00 PDT 2007

9532 [lbo-talk] Molding the Ideal Islamic Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > We got Babeland though. Excellent point about an excellent store. I'm guessing they couldn't open a branch in Tehran. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 13:26:30 PDT 2007

9533 [lbo-talk] Molding the Ideal Islamic Citizen -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The secular liberal democratic government of the United States Hahaha that's funny! How long have you been living here? Do you know who's president? This reads like it was filed from another planet. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 13:04:49 PDT 2007

9534 [lbo-talk] Fed cuts by 1/2 point -- rank: 1000

[I'd thought they might be stingy and go for a quarter, but they went for the full half. Now it gets interesting: what effect will this have, and what kind of noises will the Fed make in the coming weeks?] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20070918a.htm> Press Release Release Date: September 18, 2007 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to lower its target for the federal funds rate 50 basis points to 4-3/4 percent. Economic growth ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 11:28:55 PDT 2007

9535 [lbo-talk] leading Reps running away from Christers -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/233319.aspx> The Brody File David Brody CBN News Senior National Correspondent September 18, 2007 Oh my...where do I begin? Let's start with this. This was unlike any debate I've ever seen. This one put the YouTube debate to shame in an Evangelical sort of way. No snowman but it had its moments. It started like this: The Church of God choir sang "Why should God bless America?" Then someone in the choir began reading from The Book of Chronicles and ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 10:20:16 PDT 2007

9536 [lbo-talk] Hillary on Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/09/clinton-obama-r.html> Clinton, Obama Take No Funding Pledge September 17, 2007 6:19 PM ABC News' Teddy Davis, Jonathan Greenberger, and Donna Hunter Report: Seventy-two hours after MoveOn.org threw down the gauntlet, telling ABC News that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., needed to speak out "sooner and more vocally" in opposition to voting for an Iraq funding measure that does not include a timetable for ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 10:14:07 PDT 2007

9537 [lbo-talk] speculation about the coming internet downturn -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > still sorting out how to monetize their > success. Sounds just like 1.0, no? Some 1.0 sites got the eyeballs - they just couldn't make money from them. > Is MySpace profitable? I doubt it, but NWS certainly > is and Rupert apparently sees MySpace as a useful > component of his clanking media machine. He does, but he also got it for next to nothing, and he's got money to burn. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 08:03:14 PDT 2007

9538 [lbo-talk] Pics from the Crossroads Infoshop re-opening in Kansas City -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Chuck wrote: > I'd like to share some pictures taken of the new space for the > infoshop > located here in Kansas City. Congrats, Chuck. So who comes by? A hard core of regulars, or do you get drop-ins? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 07:00:21 PDT 2007

9539 [lbo-talk] speculation about the coming internet downturn -- rank: 1000

Henry Blodget sorta answers my question about YouTube's profitability. Some possibility some years from now. <http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/08/youtubes-video-.html> In short, YouTube's revenue won't likely be material to Google for at least a year or two and possibly more. The impact on the bottom line, moreover, will probably be even less pronounced: Serving a video ad, even for Google, is far more expensive than serving a text link. At a $20 CPM, the gross margin on such ads wi ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 06:55:49 PDT 2007

9540 [lbo-talk] prescience re: Hitchens -- rank: 1000

[Came across this post in the lbo-talk archives from 9/20/01 when searching for that full Cockburn quote about Afghanistan deserving to be raped. Rather prescient, eh? And speaking of Reiff, I met him at a party last Sunday and he's quite the anti-interventionist now.] Dennis Perrin: What "liberal masochism" is Hitch talking about? I've seen precious little of it in the corp press; and those (like the fine sturdy folk of LBO-Talk) who have made the obvious link between US policy a ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 18 06:46:10 PDT 2007