[PEN-L:3332] FW: BLS Daily Report

1996-03-13 Thread Richardson_D
What I get from the information below is that the number was right (OK, perhaps there was a positive disturbance since it was so large) but that the Wall Street interpretation was wrong. Dave Richardson -- BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1996 USA Today on page 1B, "Economists

[PEN-L:3333] The Torrent from Mr. Torrent

1996-03-13 Thread ZAHNISER STEVEN SCOTT
Youch! The coffee machine at the Public Utilities Commission must be broken. Steven Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Mar 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Jackson a.k.a Rauf is a hypocritical asshole. of course by standing he is not condoning anything. he can sertainly say he is

[PEN-L:3334] A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

1996-03-13 Thread Mike Meeropol
Dear Doug: I'm reviewing a Principles Textbook. The author is Robert Sexton --- he seems like a right-wing Public CHoice type. I'm having fun bashing his one-sidedness. My pleasure is that he won't listen to anything I say, he won't take any of my advice, his book won't be any better and he

[PEN-L:3335] What's up

1996-03-13 Thread Mike Meeropol
I haven't received anything for a couple of days. Is the computer down? -- Mike Meeropol Economics Department Cultures Past and Present Program Western New England College Springfield, Massachusetts "Don't blame us, we voted for George McGovern!" Unrepentent Leftist!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [if at

[PEN-L:3336] Re: Anti-Religious Play by NBA

1996-03-13 Thread patrick l mason
The NBA has a web site: http:\\www.nba.com. I suppose it is possible to forward a protest through their e-mail address and the web site.

[PEN-L:3337] CHRIS JACKSON

1996-03-13 Thread CI-TORRENT, GARY
Of course all of my earlier comments concerning Chris Jackson are mine and do not reflect the views of the PUCT. Thank you.

[PEN-L:3338] Ralph McGehee - For My Protection

1996-03-13 Thread James Michael Craven
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date sent: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:35:16 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Parapolitices List) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Gonsalves) Subject:Ralph McGehee - For My Protection 11 March 1996 President Clinton The White

[PEN-L:3340] Re: CHRIS JACKSON

1996-03-13 Thread Hugo Radice
So this basketball player who won't salute the flag or whatever is a "limo-rad". Does this justify the sort of typical low-grade anti-Moslem crap that "Ci-Torrent, Gary" chucks around? Thus: " I would suggest he go live in one of his beloved Moslem countries where the daily horrors might

[PEN-L:3339] 1996-03-12 President Remarks on Signing Helms-Burton Bill

1996-03-13 Thread Doug Henwood
Vile toxins emitted by the chief executive of the world bourgeoisie Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications Precedence: Bulk To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:06-0500 From: The White House [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1996-03-12

[PEN-L:3341] Re: A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

1996-03-13 Thread Hugo Radice
Mike M, The latest business week has some nice figures in the 'Economic Trends' section on the US distribution of stockholdings by wealth percentiles. My copy is at home - I'll post the figures when I'm next in. But as I recall the bottom 80% of wealthholders own 2% of stocks... Hugo

[PEN-L:3342] Re: A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

1996-03-13 Thread Gilbert Skillman
Mike M. is right to single out the following passage as a particularly egregious attempt on the part of a right-wing textbook writer to misrepresent reality. However, I came accross this particularly ridiculous statement in one of the chapters I'm reading: "The median income of all

[PEN-L:3343] Re: CHRIS JACKSON

1996-03-13 Thread Michael Perelman
This sort of comment has no place on pen-l. I do not see how trashing muslims does anything to further progressive values in any way. I assume that other lists would find sort of comment more compelling. Chris Jackson a.k.a Rauf is a hypocritical asshole. of course by standing he is not

[PEN-L:3344] Re: 1996-03-12 President Remarks on Signing Helms-

1996-03-13 Thread Terrence Mc Donough
Doug writes: Vile toxins emitted by the chief executive of the world bourgeoisie I can't help thinking that Clinton reveals his true colors in actions like this. But in order to start some discussion - I have been bothered for some time now by the following thought: Since the

[PEN-L:3345] Re: 1996-03-12 President Remarks on Signing Hel

1996-03-13 Thread GC-ETCHISON, MICHAEL
Terrence McDonough writes 3/13 that "the establishment and legalization of the dollar economy in Cuba . . . has threatened to escape the control of the socialist state. To the extent that it does so, socialism is undermined in Cuba." George Selgin and Larry White couldn't

[PEN-L:3346] RESPONSE

1996-03-13 Thread CI-TORRENT, GARY
Here were my comments: Chris Jackson a.k.a Rauf is a hypocritical asshole. of course by standing he is not condoning anything. he can certainly say he is standing out of respect for his teammates and fans who may have differing views on certain issues. I would suggest he go

[PEN-L:3347] Re: Bercuson

1996-03-13 Thread HANLY
Recently Paul Phillips wrote: Ken Hanley posted a negative review of David Bercuson's work yesterday on the net. I would like to qualify somewhat this view. Bercuson did some quite excellent work early in his career. He worked with Kenneth McNaught,a well respected social democratic

[PEN-L:3348] Re: A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

1996-03-13 Thread Doug Henwood
However, I came accross this particularly ridiculous statement in one of the chapters I'm reading: "The median income of all individual stockholders is not dramatically higher than the median income of all American families." Median household income was $28,906 in 1989; according to the NYSE's

[PEN-L:3349] Re: A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

1996-03-13 Thread GC-ETCHISON, MICHAEL
The activist/ideologue mind at work: "If it isn't phony, I need to know that too because I don't want to say things in my class that can be proven wrong later." -- Meeropol Not "If it isn't phony, I need to know that too because I don't want to say things in my class that

[PEN-L:3350] Re: low-grade Anti-Moslem crap

1996-03-13 Thread GC-ETCHISON, MICHAEL
Hugo Radice writes, indignantly, Does this justify the sort of typical low-grade anti-Moslem crap that "Ci-Torrent, Gary" chucks around? As I recall, some months back one of your comrades jumped all over RP Burns for his affiliation with the abominable Church. I don't recall

[PEN-L:3351] Re: A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

1996-03-13 Thread Mike Meeropol
GC-ETCHISON, MICHAEL wrote: The activist/ideologue mind at work: "If it isn't phony, I need to know that too because I don't want to say things in my class that can be proven wrong later." -- Meeropol Not "If it isn't phony, I need to know that too because I don't want to

[PEN-L:3352] Re: A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

1996-03-13 Thread C.N.Gomersall
Snipped from a post by Mike Meeropol: President Gerald Ford said on national TV that there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. I heard the broadacast, and understood him to mean either that the USSR had no de jure rights in Eastern Europe, or perhaps that they hadn't been able to

[PEN-L:3354] Re: RESPONSE

1996-03-13 Thread ROSSERJB
To gmt: Your comments are probably not worth responding to, but... 1) Some of us have tenure, but if you have been following this list recently you will realize that tenure is under a general assault right now, and is no guarantee of a job anyway, not on my campus at least. 2) Why do you

[PEN-L:3355] tax comparisons (fwd)

1996-03-13 Thread Richard Ira Lavine
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:51:25 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tax comparisons Has anayone come up with a good way to make the case that the

[PEN-L:3356] Re: A particularly virulent right-wing assertion

1996-03-13 Thread Dan Epstein
... But any such suggestion is horsecrap. The richest 1% of families in the US holds 49% (!) of all publicly held stock; the richest 10% hold 85% of all stocks. And in 1992 only 14% of individuals over 15 received dividends. [Data are from the CPE's New Field Guide to the US