[PEN-L:1156] From the diary of Gregor Zamza

1998-08-23 Thread valis
I came in from a fine day, with some trepidation logged on, peeked with one eye, then carefully with both. There it was: It! Will someone other than Boddhi - whose word would be self-invalidating - please explain just what Louis is on about? What have I done / not done? Class, I'll call on any

[PEN-L:1157] a relevant dance tune

1998-08-23 Thread James Devine
Do the Clinton (a waltz, I believe) Come on everybody, get into the spin Now that he's been in for however long it's been Grin a good-ol' grin, tuck in your second chin And everybody do the Clinton. CHORUS: Come on and slide over to the middle Straighten up and step light. Lean it to the left

[PEN-L:1155] Re: Re: marketing marches onward!

1998-08-23 Thread James Devine
I _wish_ I had made this up! it's on page 3 (or whatever's on the back of page 4) with a big picture of the pink doll ("Doll shown smaller than actual size of approximately 8 1/2 " (21.59 cm) seated.") Maybe there are different editions of PARADE in different areas, with LA obviously having a lar

[PEN-L:1154] Re: marketing marches onward!

1998-08-23 Thread Frances Bolton (PHI)
I just looked in my Parade magazine and ther's no fully posable Harley Doll. I think you're making this up. In my issue, the Franklin mint has a Harley pocketwatch, with "Black pouch, chain, and custom designed stand." frances On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, James Devine wrote: > >From today's PARADE mag

[PEN-L:1153] marketing marches onward!

1998-08-23 Thread James Devine
>From today's PARADE magazine: >"Bobby": The Little Biker Baby. >Hand-painted fully poseable porcelain doll. Complete with leather vest, bandana, and keys. >Available only from The Franklin Mint. Officially Licensed by Harley Davidson. >He's Mommy and Daddy's little daredevil in diapers. Born

[PEN-L:1152] Re: Re: Dredging... II

1998-08-23 Thread Louis Proyect
Valis: >Louis, there is an intrinsic silliness to this flap that, fortunately, >is quite absent from both our direct and on-list discussions in general. >I just can't get serious about this massive gap in basic understanding >that you seem to have discovered cursing my efforts to connect with >the

[PEN-L:1151] http://www.wsws.org/workers/1998/aug1998/lab-a22.shtml#Turkish strikers at US air bases resist intimidation

1998-08-23 Thread Frank Durgin
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[PEN-L:1148] Re: Dredging for the cause

1998-08-23 Thread Louis Proyect
Valis: >Stage whisper: at political comedy either!> >Yes, that must be it, Louis. I'm a victim of bad Nixonian plumbing >and now have the same staph problems as the Democrats. But there was a serious side to my post, which you do not address. The notion that Marx and Engels were fans of capita

[PEN-L:1150] Re: Dredging... II

1998-08-23 Thread valis
Quoth Louis: > But there was a serious side to my post, which you do not address. The > notion that Marx and Engels were fans of capitalism is based on a total > misunderstanding of his overall theory and the work of people following in > his tradition. Sometimes I get the impression that everybod

[PEN-L:1149] Dredging further

1998-08-23 Thread valis
(I always wanted to use this trademark empty space of yours, Boddhi.) Incaution is, I fear, the fate of keyboard revolutionaries everywhere sooner or later. First I failed to analyze your particular ideological goulash down to its concrete ingredients either before or after imbibing, then I preci

[PEN-L:1147] Dredging for the cause

1998-08-23 Thread valis
> Valis, I think I might know what the problem is. You might be one of the > unfortunate recipients of a copy of the Communist Manifesto that was the > target of a Cointelpro operation in the 1970s. FBI agents broke into the > offices of publishers of the Communist Manifesto and deleted everything

[PEN-L:1146] Re: Re: Re: Speakers wanted III

1998-08-23 Thread boddhisatva
C. Valis, Yes, by all means, consult The Book and pay no attention to that argument behind the curtain. peace

[PEN-L:1145] Re: Fw: honesty in russia?

1998-08-23 Thread boddhisatva
C. Frank, A properly positioned currency trader would have hedged for the sudden downward spike and simply increased his short ruble position. It also happened with the Japanese yen earlier this year. Intervention was simply met by more buyers for the other side of t

[PEN-L:1144] Re: Speakers wanted II

1998-08-23 Thread boddhisatva
Valis, dammit, How could you be so incautious as to group C. Proyect and me together. You've forced him to reveal me as a "capitalist apologist" trying to worm my way into the pure, Red hearts of Marxists with my neo-anarcho-syndicalist, anti-primitivist/utopian rhe

[PEN-L:1143] Re: Global economic crisis

1998-08-23 Thread boddhisatva
To whom..., Russia down, Japan down, Wall Street Down, China under three feet of water. Collapse. Panic. The glory of it all! It reminds me of the line from that poem about a world war one gas attack where the narrator describes the soldiers going for t

[PEN-L:1142] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This list has some great kidders

1998-08-23 Thread boddhisatva
C. Rob, Inflation is bad for bond-holders, but that does not necessarily mean it's good for bond-issuers, especially if they must, as governments must, continually re-finance their operations. It is a theoretical plus to be a bond issuer in an inflationary market, but

[PEN-L:1122] Re: Media Ownershp

1998-08-23 Thread Bill Rosenberg
As usual I'm late in on this discussion - time and time zones wait for no man. I'm sorry Mark Miller's gone, and hope he'll be back. It's not that I necessarily side with him (I didn't know him from a bar of soap before this I'm afraid!) but it has been a very interesting discussion and useful to

[PEN-L:1141] Russia: Latest from Fred Weir

1998-08-23 Thread Gregory Schwartz
Folks, Here is the latest from (comrade in keypad) Weir in Moscow. I shall abstain from any synthesis and allow the lines of his article reveal the shaky situation in Russia. Only one thought has occupied my mind in the past few day: this so called 'financial crisis' in Russia was anticipated by