Carrol wrote:
When a national coalition to replace the DP-Pimps at UFPJ ==
When something somewhere entirely unexpected and unpredictable now
occurs [e.g., Walmart employees emulate the Fisher Body Sit Down Strike)
--
When 50,000 white, black, asian marchers come out to a pro-illegal
(This appeared in my home town newspaper in upstate NY.)
Middletown Times Herald-Record, February 10, 2008
More and more maxed out and defaulting
Counties report slew of credit-card judgments
By Steve Israel
How can the parents of a 2-year-old pay their minimum credit-card
bill of $70 when
On Feb 10, 2008 6:28 AM, Julio Huato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carrol wrote:
When a national coalition to replace the DP-Pimps at UFPJ ==
When something somewhere entirely unexpected and unpredictable now
occurs [e.g., Walmart employees emulate the Fisher Body Sit Down Strike)
--
[these guys have never heard of something called borrowing or the
fact that such activity incurs something called debt upon which
something called interest must be paid if something called
bankruptcy or foreclosure is to be avoided.]
The New York Times / February 10, 2008
Op-Ed Contributors
You
I think it's more general. It's the floating, meaningless reference point.
You thought X was bad because it had a level of some number Y.
But you should really redefine X as something else, and the latter
has a level less than Y, so X is really not as bad as you thought,
hence not so bad in
On Feb 10, 2008 8:19 AM, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[these guys have never heard of something called borrowing or the
fact that such activity incurs something called debt upon which
something called interest must be paid if something called
bankruptcy or foreclosure is to be avoided.]
Carrol wrote:
When a national coalition to replace the DP-Pimps at UFPJ ==
When something somewhere entirely unexpected and unpredictable now
occurs [e.g., Walmart employees emulate the Fisher Body Sit Down Strike)
--
When 50,000 white, black, asian marchers come out to a
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Anyway, Cox was going on about how much better
off we are these days because we have innovations like many varieties
of bottled water, even though the stuff coming out of the tap is
periodically found to have uncomfortable levels of doo-doo.
but haven't other studies
Jim Devine wrote:
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Anyway, Cox was going on about how much better
off we are these days because we have innovations like many varieties
of bottled water, even though the stuff coming out of the tap is
periodically found to have uncomfortable levels of doo-doo.
but haven't
Michael Perelman wrote:
I wonder how Dr. Cox would feel however if
groggy firefighters who are supposed to save his house were already exhausted
from
their other job.
he may live in an area where fire services are privatized, where the
fire-fighters simply drive past burning houses whose
On Feb 10, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Anyway, Cox was going on about how much better
off we are these days because we have innovations like many varieties
of bottled water, even though the stuff coming out of the tap is
periodically found to have uncomfortable
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 10, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
even though the stuff coming out of the tap is
periodically found to have uncomfortable levels of doo-doo.
Doyle;
My friend Ellen is a water quality engineer with a local water
district. She says you are wrong. Give an
On Feb 10, 2008 9:11 AM, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a couple of paragraphs about Cox in The Confiscation of American
Prosperity:
Dr. Cox pontificated: I think it's great ... It gives
you portfolio diversification in your income (Scott 2006).
As I said in the initial
On Feb 10, 2008 9:40 AM, Doyle Saylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 10, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
even though the stuff coming out of the tap is
periodically found to have uncomfortable levels of doo-doo.
Doyle;
My friend Ellen is a water quality
Sorry... forgot to put my tongue in cheek before I posted.
I was being sarcastadonic.
On Feb 10, 2008 10:18 AM, Doyle Saylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 10, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Leigh Meyers wrote:
Just add more chlorine.
Doyle;
Adding agricultural runoff, or
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 10, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
do we really grow rice in California?
Doyle;
http://www.calrice.org/
Oh Yes Indeedy.
Doyle
Looks to me like Hillary and Obama
Have in common
A lack of attack on
George Bush,
His lies,
His failures
His Patriot Act,
His soiling of the judiciary,
His unconstitutional signing statements,
His funneling of funds to his friends
And his father's companies,
His ignoring of international law,
do we really grow rice in California? (I may have reported this, but
I'm not convinced it's true.)
Doyle Saylor wrote:
Why grow rice in California?
--
Jim Devine / Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
Jim Devine wrote:
Carrol wrote:
[clip] Then it will make sense to talk of HOPE.
Julio Huato wrote:
In other words, you are HOPELESS.
I know it's a cliché, but whatever happened to optimism of the will,
pessimism of the intellect?
That is what was echoing through my mind as I typed.
According to the article the The top fifth of American households
earned an average of $149,963 a year in 2006 they spent $69,863 on
food, clothing, shelter, utilities, transportation, health care and
other categories of consumption. The rest of their income went largely
to taxes and
Jim Devine wrote:
do we really grow rice in California? (I may have reported this, but
I'm not convinced it's true.)
Yep. I've seen two or three articles over the years describing
rice-growing in California, irrigating with government-subsidized water.
Quite a racket.
Carrol
Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 10, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Leigh Meyers wrote:
I was being sarcastadonic.
I was playing the opportunistic raptor consumer of the lumbering
sarcastadonic. Yummy tender free range sarcastdonics. How satisfying
to kill them, grind them up and spread their remains back
(This was posted to the Introduction to Marxism mailing list, an
online class. For more information go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/marxism_class/.)
Over the next couple of days, I am going to be posting excerpts from
Marx's Capital Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value
with
On Feb 10, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
do we really grow rice in California? (I may have reported this, but
I'm not convinced it's true.)
Those of us who live in the Sierra foothills suffer the smoke from the
burning of the rice fields in the Sacramento Valley every summer.
The
Jim Devine wrote:
I know it's a cliché, but whatever happened to optimism of the will,
pessimism of the intellect?
How is voting for Hillary, McCain, Huckabee, Paul, Gravel, Nader, the
SWP, etc. -- or not voting! -- a manifestation of this optimism of
the will?
My comment onsite:
This memo seems to be a bold admission that the U.S. government is
attempting to engineer an Iraq in it's own image with little regard to
the interests of Iraqis, their society, and culture:
Miranda: I support the President's policy that ignores the historic
stereotypes(?) of
me:
I know it's a cliché, but whatever happened to optimism of the will,
pessimism of the intellect?
Julio Huato wrote:
How is voting for Hillary, McCain, Huckabee, Paul, Gravel, Nader, the
SWP, etc. -- or not voting! -- a manifestation of this optimism of
the will?
I interpret optimism
On Sunday 10 February 2008 14:52:00 Julio Huato wrote:
How is voting for Hillary, McCain, Huckabee, Paul, Gravel, Nader, the
SWP, etc. -- or not voting! -- a manifestation of this optimism of
the will?
I've never understood that slogan. Can somebody tell me what it means?
Carrol wrote:
It seems to me that to put one's hopes in either
Obama or Clinton is to express utter despair.
And putting your hopes in Nader is a sign of cheerfulness? (It's odd
to have the words cheerfulness and Nader in the same sentence.)
Max wrote:
I think it's more general. It's the floating, meaningless reference point.
You thought X was bad because it had a level of some number Y.
But you should really redefine X as something else, and the latter
has a level less than Y, so X is really not as bad as you thought,
hence not so
Rice is the biggest crop in Butte County. Much of the soil is a lava cap with
almost
no topsoil. It was only used for grazing until Japanese immigrants realized it
was
good for rice. They lost the land while they were interned. When I first came
here,
the rice burning was such that there
Untangling Cox and Alm takes more energy than I have.
EPI has done work on this.
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/briefingpapers_inequality_inequality
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_viewpoints_econ_oppty_and_poverty
Stephen E Philion wrote:
Max wrote:
I think it's more general.
Max sayeth:
Anyway, Cox was going on about how much better
off we are these days because we have innovations like
many varieties
of bottled water, even though the stuff coming out of
the tap is
periodically found to have uncomfortable levels of
doo-doo.
Surely there are standards for tap
Speaking of parties,, the Obama Girl, the pin-up 'idealism girl', was
too busy partying to vote.
Tipped by Stan Goff, Feral Scholar
http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2008/02/10/chicken-doves/
...with a warning:
WARNING: This important story is once again tainted by left-macho
Doyle Saylor wrote:
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 10, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
even though the stuff coming out of the tap is
periodically found to have uncomfortable levels of doo-doo.
Doyle;
My friend Ellen is a water quality engineer with a local water
district. She says
On Feb 10, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Bill Lear wrote:
On Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 19:48:49 (-0500) Max B. Sawicky
writes:
...
Don't read this until after dinner.
http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/cen514/info/NYC/WaterSupply.html
New York City’s water, in the past, has won many awards for it’s
http://www.swans.com
February 11, 2008
In this issue:
Note from the Editors: We begin this edition in recognition of the centenary
of Simone de Beauvoir's birth -- a remarkable woman, philosopher, writer, and
feminist who had a profound impact on so many people in myriad ways. Karen
Moller
On Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 19:48:49 (-0500) Max B. Sawicky writes:
...
Don't read this until after dinner.
http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/cen514/info/NYC/WaterSupply.html
New York City?s water, in the past, has won many awards for it?s taste,
and has long been toasted as the champagne of
On Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 20:04:42 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
On Feb 10, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Bill Lear wrote:
On Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 19:48:49 (-0500) Max B. Sawicky
writes:
...
Don't read this until after dinner.
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 10, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Don't read this until after dinner.
Doyle;
:-)
I grew up in Texas where fluoride was a perennial question mark about
safe to drink water. You found one reference which is a dandy,
questioning New York drinking water,
I think the essence of the Cox and Alm article is that income inequality
doesn't matter that much because income doesn't matter that much. As
evidence they make the argument that consumption is a lot more equal
than income and it is really consumption that matters.
If this is really true then I
Yes, after savage neoliberal attacks on public infrastructure designed
to achieve just such an outcome, one should not be surprised.
Bill
Which was my point, in the first place.
Idiots celebrate bottled water that ascends on the back of
disinvestment in public amenities.
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