Too much PC

2002-12-26 Thread andie nachgeborenen
My last word in this humorless bout of PC. Californians are fairly strange as much of the rest of the country and the World sees it. In fact, as many Californians see it. Nathaniel West, a Communist writer and a Californian by adoption himself whose savagely anti-California book The Day of the

In Defense of Scrooge (not meant as a joke)

2002-12-26 Thread Ellen Frank
Thanks for the post Mat. You couldn't make this stuff up! Ellen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=573titlenum=FS=title=Mont

ASSISTANCE

2002-12-26 Thread stephen umah
FROM: DR STEPHEN UMAH GULF BANK NIG PLC HEAD OFFICE Plot 1212, tijian bello Street, Victoria Island. P.M.B 0090, Lagos www.gulfbank.com DEAR SIR, I know that you must have recieved the first letter I sent to you by post, but if you have not, here comes afollow-up to the letter. First I must

Re: Local Government Rejects Corporate Personhood

2002-12-26 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] You want a justification for corporate personhood? It furthered what you might euphemistically called economic development, and more concretely corporate capitalist expansion. There's no secret that the courts adopt rules

Re: Re: The new economics

2002-12-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Alan Jacobson wrote: stagnant real wages, are we moving into another period of massive wealth polarization a la the 80s? Or is this just a bad bump in the road? Real wages have been growing in the U.S. since 1995, and continued positive through the recession. Still, income distribution became

Re: Re: Re: The new economics

2002-12-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: Alan Jacobson wrote: stagnant real wages, are we moving into another period of massive wealth polarization a la the 80s? Or is this just a bad bump in the road? Real wages have been growing in the U.S. since 1995, and continued positive through the recession.

Re: ocal Government Rejects Corporate Personhood

2002-12-26 Thread Dan Scanlan
Ian, Thanks for this... Except Santa Clara never said that. Thom Hartmann went and looked up the original case. The infamous short note that everyone is taught as the case was the headnote written by the Court reporter, a man who happened to have worked for the railroads. Hartmann's arguments

Re: Re: Re: Re: The new economics

2002-12-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: Is there any way to break that down? For example, have the real wages of fast food employees increased? Have the real wages of workers in non-unionized parts plants increased? Have the real wages of clericals in banks grown? etc. etc. etc. Have the real wages of department

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the humbling?

2002-12-26 Thread Nomiprins
In a message dated 12/24/2002 4:54:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course the DP exists for the sole purpose of preventing such action -- i.e. for the purpose of preventing self-knowledge, in the sense defined above, among the general public. The DP is the chief center

Re: Re: ocal Government Rejects Corporate Personhood

2002-12-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Corporate personhood came the long after corporate charters became relatively easy to get. The advantage of the corporate charter was bankruptcy protection, which did stimulate business. The purpose of personhood was freedom from regulation -- not necessarily require to stimulate business, as

Re: Too much PC

2002-12-26 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, JKS writes, Brecht, another Commie, thought hell must be like Los Angeles. Doyle, Brecht also wrote the 'Three Penny Opera' which used the mass of beggars (mostly disabled people) as a major social factor in the play. As an artist I like Brecht's work. In some limited

Re: Re: Too much PC

2002-12-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Doyle Saylor wrote: 'crazy' or 'nut' issues I've been thinking about this for quite awhile, and I think that you are perhaps approaching it from the wrong end. I of course sympathize with your goal. I have friends who are, really, driven crazy by the word _crazy_: it's a cruel word, and is

Brazil Sends Gasoline at Venezuelan's Request

2002-12-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* New York Times 27 December 2002 Brazil Sends Gasoline at Venezuelan's Request By LARRY ROHTER RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 26 - In a show of support for Venezuela's embattled president, Hugo Chávez, the Brazilian government has sent an emergency shipment of 520,000 barrels of gasoline to

Re: Re: Re: Too much PC

2002-12-26 Thread andie nachgeborenen
It is quite hopeless to fight against the use of terms such as"crazy," "nuts," "loony tunes," even "lunacy" and "lunatic," to apply tointellectual, social, or political characteristics. But your (and my)goal can still be achieved. We must attack the use of any of these termsto apply to people who