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10816 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On 3/29/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Organized labor in the >> USA is not just opposed to socialism -- it's opposed to social >> democracy, not just abroad (through the Solidarity Center), but here >> as well. > > I certainly wouldn't go this far. For instance, thanks to the recent > affiliation of the California Nurses Association, the AFL now supports > sing ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 08:22:14 PDT 2007

10817 [lbo-talk] press release of the day: annex Mexico! -- rank: 1000

SOLUTION TO THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM Renowned political columnist shares key reasons why Mexico should become part of the United States They come by the hundreds of thousands. Mexican immigrants hungry for work and a better life. They make a desperate journey, risking their lives to sneak through America s back door. Each year, the U.S. spends tens of billions dollars on illegal aliens, raising the ire of taxpayers and making immigration one of today s most contentious issues in American ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 29 06:48:46 PDT 2007

10818 [lbo-talk] EU's climate goals will cost euro 1 trillion -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2007, at 7:12 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > EU's climate goals will cost euro 1 trillion I see no estimate of the costs of doing nothing. Doug

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10819 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > He does think the can force the US to adopt a national version of > the mass-ca plan (he's right). And he does think he burnish his > unions reputation for reasonability, getting more companies to cave > in on organizing rights. get it? Why, if he's pushing for the adoption of health care plans proposed by two Republican governors that put the financial burden on low- and middle-income households, is this going to scare the CEO cla ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 28 14:06:33 PDT 2007

10820 [lbo-talk] ArnieCare -- rank: 1000

[Andy Stern: "I think people are now looking at what Governor Schwarzenegger is doing and say hey, it's a real deal."] <http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2007/march/ page.jsp?itemID=29934101> For Immediate Release March 15, 2007 Schwarzenegger s Health Plan Unaffordable for California, Nurses Charge - Healthcare Costs Could Hit $12,320 or 25% of Income on Premiums and Deductible Before Insurers Pay for Any Care - Total Out- of-Pocket Costs Could Exceed 36% ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 28 13:51:10 PDT 2007

10821 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > But it is an intellectual cop out to imagine he pursues these goals > because of stupidity. I challenge you: if he is stupid, and you > and other leftists are smart, than illustrate this to me by > describing an organization of those smart leftists whose results > today speak for themselves. He's clearly not stupid - that's really not the issue. In fact, what's sad about Stern is that he seems thoughtful in interviews, and then e ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 28 13:45:50 PDT 2007

10822 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: [Marxism] Arundhati Roy: An Activist ReturnsTo The Novel] -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I've seen a lot of attention paid to what an obnoxious person Roy is, > but I haven't seen any serious attempt to refute her arguments. That's what I was asking Sujeet for. We all await. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 28 11:01:50 PDT 2007

10823 [lbo-talk] brain teaser -- rank: 1000

I liked it too. I wasn't sure what the point of Ian's comment was; why drop a name that almost no one knows, as if it all is so achingly obvious? Doug On Mar 28, 2007, at 10:34 AM, tfast wrote: > Left me just say that as a lefty I found Woj's post quite > interesting and > will use it in my classes. > > >> Ian: >> >> >> Information theory 101. >> >> Thank you Warren Weaver, >> >> >> [WS:] So fucking what? A great deal of the ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 28 06:40:46 PDT 2007

10824 [lbo-talk] Jim Cramer on manipulating the market -- rank: 1000

Jim Cramer talks about how easy - and how much fun! - it is to manipulate the market in your favor: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTt7IQB9rc0>

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10825 [lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend, (was Development of Political Underdevelopment) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Tim Francis-Wright wrote: > I think that it is not so clear. The BLS tables attempt to gross-up > salaries > to full-time hours, e.g. > <http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes251021.htm> > > 2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean > wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for > those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, > the annual wage ha ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 27 13:47:34 PDT 2007

10826 [lbo-talk] imperfect information -- rank: 1000

[In the econ textbooks, both borrowers and lenders are well, and equally informed...] Study: One-Third of Homeowners Don't Know Loan Type SmartPros Accounting (03/27/07) Based on a survey conducted by BankRate Inc., an estimated 34 percent of homeowners are uncertain what kind of mortgage they carry. The findings also showed that 28 percent of poll respondents fret about how they will manage to make future loan payments, and 36 percent of those holding adjustable-rate mortgages do not know ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 27 11:02:40 PDT 2007

10827 [lbo-talk] 7 years for shoving a hall monitor -- rank: 1000

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/070326paris-letter, 1,327943.story?coll=chi-news-hed> LETTER FROM CYBERSPACE Tribune reporter Howard Witt hasn't seen a reaction to a story quite like the one he got after writing about a controversy in the small Texas town of Paris March 26, 2007, 8:57 PM CDT Sometimes, as a newspaper reporter, you write a story that touches enough readers that a few write you letters or e-mails in response. Less often, but even more gratifying, you write ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 27 10:56:12 PDT 2007

10828 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug writes: > >> the Mass plan *requires* - on the pain of thousands of dollars of >> financial penalties - to buy health insurance. > > Just like you have to have auto liability insurance in CA? > > *cough* In the proposal, the requirement will be enforced through the state income tax system. Doug

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10829 [lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 27, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > viz. the recent Massachusetts > and Schwarzennegger plans, which make great liberal-seeming > headlines, but > can't possibly work economically because they don't make the > savings that > you can only make with single payer, and which will fade out in a > few years > and be forgotten just like their Massachusetts forebear was And the Mass plan *requires* - on the pain of thousands of dollars of financial penalties - ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 27 09:01:25 PDT 2007

10830 [lbo-talk] Billionaires for Bush respond to NYPD spying -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Billionaires For Bush Respond to N.Y.P.D. Spying Report - Billionaires to release own domestic surveillance files as gesture of good faith. - "We guessed he was an undercover officer when he kept asking for stock tips." Meg A Bucks, National Co-Chair. New York, NY, March 27th, 2007 Stunned by a recent New York Times report revealing that Billionaires For Bush were the targets of widespread surveillance by the New York Police Department in 2004, we issue ...

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