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11956 [lbo-talk] Lee & Andy's uniquely American scheme, whatever it is -- rank: 1000

[WSJ.com] - February 7, 2007 -- 4:43 p.m. EST THE EVENING WRAP (IN FULL) Strange Bedfellows By TIM ANNETT When unions and managers start agreeing, that often can have workers and shareholders squeezing harder on their wallets. But after slugging it out over medical costs for ages, labor and business hope to use their collective muscle to make health care cheaper for everyone. Wal-Mart Chief Executive H. Lee Scott and Service Employees International Union boss Andy Stern would probably seem m ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 14:22:31 PST 2007

11957 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart and SEIU Unite -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > I'm not trying to be fatalist, but one of the frustrating things > about PNHP and other single-payer organizations is that they seem > to think moral and statistical suasion will eventually do the > trick, and I don't see much strategic discussion among them about > how to make one of the two points above actually happen. Oh, I realize there's not going to be an outbreak of sweet reasonableness in this land we love - which is w ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 14:16:32 PST 2007

11958 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart and SEIU Unite -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > But I agree; our program on healthcare seems less and less to me > like a carefully rolled out strategy that gradually bruises its way > to one win after another (like our organizing program); and more > and more like the flailing of an organization desperate to try to > steer a runaway train wreck. > <http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/uploaded_files/ 061606_brookings_transcript.pdf> "I m here to also say I don t ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 13:44:22 PST 2007

11959 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart and SEIU Unite -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > What do you think of Jacob Hacker's (and others') plan, which is to > gradually expand Medicare in increments to include successive > classes of people (starting, I guess, with children)? Given the > political landscape and entrenchment of the private benefits > system, I'm not sure how viable single-payer is, and this may be > the most realizable for now... That's pretty much the Conyers bill, no? We're never going to get a ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 13:38:11 PST 2007

11960 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart and SEIU Unite -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > Can anyone explain what exactly Stern's position is? Here's what he said in the July 2006 op-ed in the WSJ <http:// mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-July/013675.html>: > A new national policy framework is the easy part. There seems to be > broad consensus that we need a universal system that provides > affordable coverage, choice of doctors and insurance plans, core > benefits, and shared financing among employers, employees ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 12:23:48 PST 2007

11961 [lbo-talk] MySQL to go public -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:31 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > And Doug, really, is this all because of Web 2.0? Is it also the > exuberance > associated with all those huge Wall St. bonuses, spurring > investment and > business expansion? It's hard to see an investment boom in the national income accounts; as a share of GDP, equipment and software investment is at early-1990s levels, before the mid-decade investment and productivity takeoff. (The standard explanation of the pro ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 12:00:26 PST 2007

11962 [lbo-talk] CFR scholar: time to "disengage" from Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cfr.org/publication/12577/ report_calls_for_military_disengagement_from_iraq.html?breadcrumb=% 2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fnews_release%3Fid%3D351> Report Calls for Military Disengagement From Iraq February 7, 2007 Council on Foreign Relations Council Scholar Recommends Policy Shift to Containing Conflict [full report: <http://www.cfr.org/publication/12172/ after_the_surge.html>] "The United States should...make clear now to the Iraqi government that, as the results o ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 11:36:22 PST 2007

11963 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart and SEIU Unite -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Wal-Mart and a Union Unite, at Least on Health Policy Call me a dinosaur, but I doubt anything good can come of this. Who's the senior, and who's the junior, partner in this duo? What does this do to the idea of Wal-Mart as the symbol of modern capitalism, which was one of organized labor's prime images? Why does SEIU shun any attempt to build popular organizations for single- payer? Why does Stern dismiss single-payer as "a Canadian ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 11:29:53 PST 2007

11964 [lbo-talk] Stan Goff, Windbag -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > In the future the world (if there still is one) will debate the "Good > Americans" of this period as back in the '40s we debated the > question of > the "Good Germans." Angelus Novus is right - there's something grandiose and narcissistic about this sort of thing. Is there some emotional satisfaction involved in going on about how you're living in the midst of the Fourth Reich? The world is full of exploitation, m ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 11:21:07 PST 2007

11965 [lbo-talk] (white) Americans more willing to vote for black candidate, less likely to lie about it -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/408/can-you-trust-what-polls-say-about- obamas-electoral-prospects> Can You Trust What Polls Say about Obama's Electoral Prospects? Two Important Trends Suggest Americans May Now Be Ready to Elect an African American President by Scott Keeter and Nilanthi Samaranayake February 7, 2007 The strong showing of Democrat Barack Obama in early trial heat polls for the 2008 presidential election raises anew the question of whether the American public is ready to sup ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 10:54:02 PST 2007

11966 [lbo-talk] Stan Goff, Windbag -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > > I think Goff has always been given more credit than he > deserves an account of his background. > > --- mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Is it just me, or has this guy gone completely off >> his >> rocker? >> > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/an-appeal-to-people- > outsi_b_40598.html Wow, from reading that you'd think the imperial system has only one member. Boy ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 09:18:02 PST 2007

11967 [lbo-talk] Jobs: dump DRM -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > What the letter really does, in typical Jobsian > fashion, is frame the debate. It does this in two > respects. First, it sets up a choice between two > alternatives: stay the course, or get rid of DRM > entirely. Second, it points the finger at the major > record companies as the ones making the choice. > > This is both a clever PR move and a proactive defense > against European antitrust scrutiny. Jobs is the Einste ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 09:15:25 PST 2007

11968 [lbo-talk] Chomsky disappoints -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > My brief take -- > > <http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2007/02/stop-noam.html> The last couple of times I interviewed him for the radio, he sounded like he needed a rest. I had to edit out long pauses in his speech - the old fluency is fading. That's not visible in his writing - he can write an eloquent, incisive email response inside an hour. But you're right, Dennis; he should chill out some. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 09:10:57 PST 2007

11969 [lbo-talk] Hillary unbeatable? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Don't Republicans always pretend that they are most afraid of the > candidate who is > likely to be weakest? Could it be like the Democrats saying that > they could be > anybody except Duncan Hunter? Politico is an operation staffed by veteran reporters, and ex-WPer Jim VandeHei has been around the block many times. They're aware of all the tricks. I think it's undeniable that at this point, the Republican party is a serio ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 09:06:41 PST 2007

11970 [lbo-talk] Rudy = pollution -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] The Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody reports that Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, ripped Giuliani in a Tuesday interview. Asked about Giuliani's status as the frontrunner, Perkins said, "He's the front runner but it's kind of like here in DC, you drive over the Potomac at night and it looks beautiful but if you get down near it you certainly wouldn't want to take anything out of it and eat it. It's polluted. It's got problems.&qu ...

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