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11416 [lbo-talk] U.S. opinion on immigrants sours -- rank: 1000

<http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28132> July 13, 2007 Americans Have Become More Negative on Impact of Immigrants Hispanics remain much more positive than whites or blacks by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans have become more negative about the impact of immigrants on various dimensions of life in the United States than was the case in the earlier years of this decade. Americans continue to believe that immigrants to the United States have improved food, ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 13 13:00:34 PDT 2007

11417 [lbo-talk] an interesting definition of trivial -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/caught-on-tape-.html> Caught on Tape: Clinton to Edwards 'Our Guys Should Talk' Share July 12, 2007 3:10 PM ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Democratic rivals Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., were caught on tape Thursday privately conferring and agreeing to have their campaigns collaborate. "Our guys should talk," Clinton said to Edwards. The former first lady's remarks were p ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 13 07:24:47 PDT 2007

11418 [lbo-talk] dividends -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak just sent me this, one of his old sig lines, back when he did sig lines: > "Some one has observed that Providence is always on the side of the > big dividends," remarked Reginald. > > The Duchess ate her anchovy in a shocked manner, she was > sufficiently old-fashioned to dislike irreverence towards dividends. 'Reginald at the Carlton', by Saki (1904)

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 18:19:51 PDT 2007

11419 [lbo-talk] Liberal Intellectuals and the Coordinator Class -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > I've cleaned women's stalls that had popcorn and stray chips on > the tile. <http://jezebel.com/gossip/public-enemy-number-one%27-and-two%27/the- office-annoyance-no-one-really-talks-about-272963.php> public enemy number one. and two. The Office Annoyance No One Really Talks About Forbes has a piece up today about the office habits of the clueless and the obnoxious, and the story started off with an anecdote about a young Wisconsi ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 18:17:17 PDT 2007

11420 [lbo-talk] Liberal Intellectuals and the Coordinator Class -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:41 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > judging by what happened to the break area where we get coffee, > water, the > refrigerator, etc. when the admin. assistant on our floor was away for > vacation, i'm kinda thinking that 90% of the guys there (there > about 50 > employees in two quandrants, 20% of whom are women) and 75% of the > women > would wallow in shit up to their eyeballs before they'd lift a finger. Jezebel's been writing about the dism ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 15:48:32 PDT 2007

11421 [lbo-talk] politics of Iraq -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] With Democratic leaders insisting on a timeline for withdrawal, the stalled negotiations raise an intriguing political question: What if Democrats privately want this to linger? Senate Majority Leader Harry "Reid's steadfastness prompted questions by many senators as to whether the Senate leadership actually wants legislation that could garner the necessary 60 votes -- or whether Reid would prefer to keep Republicans on the defensive, for political reasons," write ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 12:26:33 PDT 2007

11422 [lbo-talk] online poll -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/we.re-all-gonna-die/are-you-cowering-in-fear- about-terror-yet-277739.php> Are you worried about a terrorist attack this summer? Well? Are ya? Yes. It is a dangerous place out there, filled with people who wish to do us harm for no particular reason except that whole alienating the entire Muslim world thing. Yes. I am not very good at critical thinking and am easily manipulated by attempts to gin up my fear level to distract me from the ongoing disaster that is ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 12:01:05 PDT 2007

11423 [lbo-talk] something to look forward to... -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/510/fathers-day> "On average, dog and cat owners feel closer to their pets than adult children feel to their fathers."

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 11:39:52 PDT 2007

11424 [lbo-talk] more grist for the opting-out debate... -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/536/working-women> Fewer Mothers Prefer Full-time Work From 1997 to 2007 July 12, 2007 In the span of the past decade, full-time work outside the home has lost some of its appeal to mothers. This trend holds both for mothers who have such jobs and those who don't. Among working mothers with minor children (ages 17 and under), just one-in-five (21%) say full-time work is the ideal situation for them, down from the 32% who said this back in 1997, according to ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 11:35:07 PDT 2007

11425 [lbo-talk] Rudy the fabrication -- rank: 1000

[Wow, these people don't like Rudy.] <http://rudy-urbanlegend.com/> "Rudy has used the horrible events of September 11 to create a persona that is an elaborate fabrication," says IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger. "He is nothing more than a shameless self-promoter."

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 11:03:13 PDT 2007

11426 [lbo-talk] Fwd: The slow death of Social Democracy? The "ideological ruins" of Europe in which the centre-left must now survive -- rank: 1000

TLS - July 11, 2007 Holiday reading for Gordon Brown Vernon Bogdanor Sheri Berman THE PRIMACY OF POLITICS Social democracy and the making of Europe's twentieth century 218pp. Cambridge University Press. £40; paperback £14.99 (US $65; paperback, $23.99). 978 0 521 81799 8 Gordon Brown has moved into Ten Downing Street after ten years of Labour government, the longest and most successful period of social- democratic rule in Britain's history. Yet he finds himself heir, not to a living and viabl ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 10:30:26 PDT 2007

11427 [lbo-talk] Liberal Intellectuals and the Coordinator Class -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2007, at 10:27 AM, ulisse mangialaio wrote: > "Dolce far niente", not "dolce fa' niente". The apostrophe takes the place of the missing "r." I thought that's the way it was pronounced in Perugia, which is where I learned the phrase, and thus the spelling. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 12 07:41:41 PDT 2007

11428 [lbo-talk] Liberal Intellectuals and the Coordinator Class -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > Definitely. Most definitely. You would too if you weren't so > thoroughly indoctrinated with the Protestant work ethic. Not me. I'm a lapsed Catholic. Love that dolce fa' niente thing, too. Work doesn't have to mean overwork. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 17:51:51 PDT 2007

11429 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Some posters are rather egregiously violating the daily limit of 3. Please exercise some impulse control.

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 17:33:35 PDT 2007

11430 [lbo-talk] Incentive to work (Was Re: Liberal Intellectuals and the Coordinator Class) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > I dont know why I used "incentive to work" at all. It's not like the free rider problem would go away anytime soon. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 11 17:11:50 PDT 2007