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301 [lbo-talk] thoughts on CPI? -- rank: 243

On Jan 20, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > ...The CPI may understate inflation by a point or so, and almost > all the revisions and suggested revisions have been in the > direction of lowering reported inflation, but it's far from > "bogus."... "A point or so" each year doesn ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun Jan 20 14:08:22 PST 2008

302 [lbo-talk] Why Not Just Walk Away from a Home? -- rank: 243

Why Not Just Walk Away from a Home? by Eric Weiner NPR.org, February 13, 2008 The Web site for You ...

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Mon Feb 18 22:49:22 PST 2008

303 [lbo-talk] Americans pissed, sez Greenberg -- rank: 243

Carl Remick wrote: >...polls show that Americans think their private lives are just >ducky, but they also think the wheels are coming off the nation as a >whole. > >If that isn't proof positive that Americans are dumber than shit, I >don't know what would qualify.... This statement combines two ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Oct 30 14:10:50 PDT 2007

304 [lbo-talk] The Dems have their own radio network! -- rank: 243

[too bad it's going to be duller than Fox] Begin forwarded message: NEW OWNERSHIP "RELAUNCHES" AIR AMERICA RADIO WITH NEW WEBSITE, LINEUP, LOOK & SLOGAN Network begins "I'm an Air American!" campaign with Paul Newman ad. AAR Hosts interview 30+ Headliners for Official ReLaunch on May 21-22, including ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 17 11:49:52 PDT 2007

305 [lbo-talk] Monbiot on 9/11 "Truth" Theories -- rank: 243

You too, Shane? Very sad. You have an excessively high opinion of the CIA, Mossad, etc. They are government bureaucracies. They don't work like Mission Impossible, with cutting edge technology and split second timing bringing about astounding results with the precision of high tech machinery. That's for-the-movies ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Feb 21 21:09:41 PST 2007

306 [lbo-talk] Monbiot on 9/11 "Truth" Theories -- rank: 243

Monbiot: "...you must believe that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their pals are all-knowing...You must believe that the impression of cackhandedness and incompetence they have managed to project since taking office is a front.." Nonsense, like all the "BinLaden did it" lone-nut conspiracytheorists propound. All you have to believe ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Feb 21 20:15:29 PST 2007

307 [lbo-talk] Vista -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Feb 1 11:59:58 PST 2007

308 [lbo-talk] Krugman -- rank: 243

>Doug Henwood wrote: >On Dec 23, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > >> I have nothing against clarity, but I think you will find a large >> number of papers >> spinning their wheels in an attempt to define unproductive labor. >> Even so, Fred >> Moseley has used unproductive labor data to ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Dec 25 19:41:34 PST 2007

309 [lbo-talk] Teaching in the Horowitz Era (Was Whoa!) -- rank: 243

... out of proportion to anything they have actually done. Jon Weiner has made the point that while the threat is real ...

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Author:	Stephen Philion
Date:	Sun Aug 26 12:13:48 PDT 2007

310 [lbo-talk] Teaching in the Horowitz Era (Was Whoa!) -- rank: 243

Ismail Lagardien wrote: > With regard to teaching in the US... One of the problems I have is, quite frankly, that I am intimidated by the Horowitz movement against academic freedom. There are times, for instance, when I want to teach, or refer to Marx's prescient remarks about globalization, and the ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Sun Aug 26 12:58:10 PDT 2007

311 [lbo-talk] NYC mayor richest guy in town -- rank: 243

... City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. and Representative Anthony D. Weiner — are participating in a conference today on “The American Dream ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Mon Apr 2 13:30:01 PDT 2007

312 [lbo-talk] Ex-Trotskyist gets his "Mission Accomplished" hard-onand phot... -- rank: 243

... at aol.com > >I also have never heard that Savage (Weiner) was ever a Trotskyist. > >mjs > >In a message dated 9 ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Sep 21 06:25:41 PDT 2006

313 [lbo-talk] Ex-Trotskyist gets his "Mission Accomplished" hard-on and phot... -- rank: 243

I also have never heard that Savage (Weiner) was ever a Trotskyist. mjs In a message dated 9 ...

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Author:	Stannard67 at aol.com
Date:	Thu Sep 21 05:39:02 PDT 2006

314 [lbo-talk] anti-Kinky (Friedman, not sex) -- rank: 243

Regarding the candidates for Texas governor, Strayhorn (the McClellan boys' mom), was initially a Democrat, flipped to the GOP a la Connally, and is now running as an independent after Perry's machine made it evident she would not win the GOP primary. Her early pre-campaign efforts did attract big ...

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Author:	ThatRogersWoman
Date:	Thu Sep 7 16:36:40 PDT 2006

315 [lbo-talk] Mo oil, mo oil, mo oil ... -- rank: 243

... are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Sep 5 15:33:16 PDT 2006