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10306 [lbo-talk] black class gap -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:30 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Dennis Perrin has a point, though. Extended unemployment/ > underemployment > really and truly does awful things to the body and brain, even for > those > of us who have advanced degrees. Well yes they do. Should Ehrenreich subjected herself to that just for authenticity's sake? It amazes me. A smart, stylish, and funny writer with good politics scores a popular success with a book that explains to millions how the work ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 16 04:46:25 PST 2007

10307 [lbo-talk] behind the "We Hate Muslims" posters at GWU -- rank: 1000

GW Hatchet - November 15, 2007 <http://tinyurl.com/2l58d8> Students get probation for posters by Eric Roper Metro News Editor The University punished students involved in a controversial poster campaign with disciplinary probation and a $25 fine each, according to documents given to The Hatchet. A University Police Department report also revealed its officers stopped and subsequently released students while they were hanging the posters. Student Judicial Services charged nine students ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 18:23:52 PST 2007

10308 [lbo-talk] home of $25,000 dessert also home to roaches; shut down -- rank: 1000

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071115/ap_on_fe_st/ odd_serendipity_rodents> Popular NYC eatery shut down for rodents Thu Nov 15, 3:17 PM ET NEW YORK - While serendipity may be the art of finding pleasant things by chance, what health inspectors found at celebrated eatery Serendipity 3 was not very agreeable. Officials closed the restaurant Wednesday night after it failed its second inspection in a month. An inspector spotted a live mouse and mouse droppings, fruit flies, house flies and ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 17:59:42 PST 2007

10309 [lbo-talk] would you give up your right to vote for an iPod? -- rank: 1000

[the rational choice theorists will have a field day with this!] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6892.html> Most at NYU say their vote has a price By: Lily Quateman - Washington Square News Nov 14, 2007 06:23 PM EST Two-thirds say they'll do it for a year's tuition. And for a few, even an iPod touch will do. That's what NYU students said they'd take in exchange for their right to vote in the next presidential election, a recent survey by an NYU journalism class found. Only 20 ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 17:40:45 PST 2007

10310 [lbo-talk] the whatever thread -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2007, at 7:07 PM, ravi wrote: > If he can be > influenced to throw some US weight and aid towards some of these > problems, then why not? Because he won't, and because he's the enemy. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 17:29:20 PST 2007

10311 [lbo-talk] Goldman on the economic risk of mortgage defaults -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs US Economic Research US Daily: Leveraged Losses: Why Mortgage Defaults Matter (Hatzius) November 15, 2007 * Estimates of the likely credit losses on outstanding mortgages have grown sharply in recent months. A back-of-the-envelope calculation using past default experience in different home price environments now suggests losses of around $400 billion. * Even a $400 billion loss does not look all that large compared to the vast size of the US financial markets, and one sometimes ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 15:59:08 PST 2007

10312 [lbo-talk] the whatever thread -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:15 PM, ravi wrote: > But lets not let reality prevent us from spreading right-wing smear. Bono's the dude who buddied up to Jesse Helms & George Bush. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 15:42:15 PST 2007

10313 [lbo-talk] black class gap -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2007, at 3:13 PM, ravi wrote: > To quote Dennis Claxton, "whatever" ;-P. I am sure Doug will accuse me > again of faux populism, but I dare admit that I enjoy U2's music > immensely. Nah, that's not populism, faux or non-faux. It's middlebrow bombast! > Also Tears for Fears, Gladys Knight and The Pips, > JethroTull, Sting, hell, even Enya (at times)! Who am I to talk? I'm about to play the new Bloc Party on the radio in a couple of hours. I'm getting old & ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 12:31:25 PST 2007

10314 [lbo-talk] black class gap -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:27 PM, John Thornton wrote: > ravi wrote: >> but just humorous: its a dig at Ehrenreich since I can't stand >> Ehrenreich any more than Doug can Bono, but I do believe both of them >> (Ehrenreich and Bono, and for that matter A. Roy) are on the right >> side of the divide (and have all done more for humanity than I have, >> thus far). >> >> >> --ravi > > > Are you saying that if you were a multi-millionaire pop st ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 10:49:43 PST 2007

10315 [lbo-talk] Is the Anti-War movement in decline? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > (Tahir) > "I do know that that accounts for a very large > part of the killing that's going on there, far more > than the killing of US soldiers." > > (Doug) > "Do we really know that? That's a real question." > > Sounds like a quibble, Doug. Who else could be > killing Iraqi civilians in large numbers? Did it sound as if I was s ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 09:28:37 PST 2007

10316 [lbo-talk] headhunter sez tats & piercings here to stay -- rank: 1000

For Release Upon Receipt Skill Shortages Prompt Change In Tradition CHALLENGER: TATTOOS ARE HERE TO STAY; EMBRACE THEM OR RISK TALENT DRAIN CHICAGO Even as a slowdown in the economy threatens to curtail hiring, recruiters across the country still face difficulty finding the right people with the right skills to fill job openings. With skilled labor shortages worsening as baby boomers leave the workforce, employers will be left with no choice: they will have to welcome the growing number o ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 09:20:37 PST 2007

10317 [lbo-talk] Reed on the Dems -- rank: 1000

[an excerpt from Adolph Reed's column in The Progressive's November ish] <http://www.progressive.org/mag_reed1107> Unfortunately, like the Democrats, our side fails to learn from experience. Despite a mountain range of evidence to the contrary, we the labor, anti-war, women's, environmental, and racial justice movements all continue to craft political strategy based on the assumption that the problem is that the Democrats simply don't understand what we want and how important those th ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 07:02:30 PST 2007

10318 [lbo-talk] Is the Anti-War movement in decline? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Tahir Wood wrote: > I don't know what the Iraqi "resistance" refers to, whether it > includes > death squads who kill other Iraqis because they have the wrong ID or > whatever, but I do know that that accounts for a very large part of > the > killing that's going on there, far more than the killing of US > soldiers. Do we really know that? That's a real question. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 06:54:09 PST 2007

10319 [lbo-talk] Is the Anti-War movement in decline? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > We don't have to pretend anything. We need to say nothing whatever > about > the Iraqi existence except that it is an Iraqi resistance, and that > any > resistance whatever to a foreign invasion is legitimate. The invasion, > on the other hand, is criminal. > > This urge to expound on what we don't have to discuss at all seems > to me > merely self-indulgence, a sort of lust for personal moral purity. And this sort o ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 15 06:52:02 PST 2007

10320 [lbo-talk] Behind The Drums Of War With Iran: Weapons of Compound Interest -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > But there's a big, big, big problem with shielding finance capital > from > criticism and investigation with claims of anti-semitism. No one talked about shielding it from criticism; the objection is to singling it out for special criticism. Why was J.P. Morgan any worse than Andrew Carnegie?

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Date:	Wed Nov 14 12:21:35 PST 2007