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13921 [lbo-talk] Bush's speech: a troglodyte comments -- rank: 1000
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051601608_pf.html> Activists who take a harder line toward illegal immigration also said that the border security measures issued by the administration do little more than shift the focus away from the issue of removing the millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States. At the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which calls for stronger enforcement, Executive Director Mark Krikorian called Bush's ...
Document Size: 5728
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 17 09:22:51 PDT 2006
13922 [lbo-talk] ain't easy to get an immigration bill -- rank: 1000
Wall Street Journal - May 17, 2006 Immigration Bill Is Put to the Test With Early Vote Senate Defeat of a Proposal Seems to Suggest Coalition For Change Is Still Holding By SARAH LUECK WASHINGTON -- The Senate resumed debate over immigration, and early action on the bill suggests that a bipartisan coalition supporting broad changes in immigration laws is holding together. Senators voted 55-40 against a proposal to require tightening of border security before allowing undocumented workers to beco ...
Document Size: 9136
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 17 09:20:07 PDT 2006
13923 [lbo-talk] kicked out of Netherlands, finding refuge at AEI -- rank: 1000
Colin Brace wrote: >Contrary to Doug's creativity with the subject line, she is not >being "kicked out" of Holland. Wasn't the immig minister threatening to revoke her citizenship? Doug
Document Size: 4948
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 17 09:05:55 PDT 2006
13924 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
Well, they settled just as the trial was about to start. So I'm back in full force... Doug
Document Size: 4425
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 17 08:51:18 PDT 2006
13925 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
Chuck Grimes wrote: >I answered the questions as truthfully as I could. When the judge read >my name, both sides leaped out of their seats to get to her first for >a confab which the three carried on for several moments. When the >attorneys returned to their seats, the judge announced I was >excused. In NY, at least in civil cases, there's no judge at the voir dire - just the two lawyers. Doug
Document Size: 4813
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 17 08:49:42 PDT 2006
13926 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
andie nachgeborenen wrote: >The bourgeoisie would >> never go for a jury >> >system if it were designing things today. >> > >The jury system was developed at a time when things >were a lot less democratic than they are now. . . . Yup, but what is elite opinion about the jury system? Doug
Document Size: 4746
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 17 08:48:28 PDT 2006
13927 [lbo-talk] depends on what your meaning of provide is -- rank: 1000
Telcos careful with words on NSA spy program By Jeremy Pelofsky Tue May 16, 9:48 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp., facing consumer lawsuits seeking massive damages, have issued carefully worded denials of a report that they turned over millions of customers' calling records to a U.S. spy agency. USA Today reported last week that the National Security Agency has had access to records of billions of domestic calls and collected tens of millions of teleph ...
Document Size: 8486
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 17 05:16:33 PDT 2006
13928 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
info at pulpculture.org wrote: >At 11:43 PM 5/16/2006, Doug Henwood wrote: >>jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >> >>>I agree with Doug in his last sentence that the jury system idea >>>is great but far too many citizens are fear >>>filled racists for me to call it great in practice. >> >>Again that's the society's problem, not the jury system's. The US >>constitution, for example, is full of fear of the masses' judgment; >>everythi ...
Document Size: 5568
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed May 17 04:53:29 PDT 2006
13929 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >I agree with Doug in his last sentence that the jury system idea is >great but far too many citizens are fear >filled racists for me to call it great in practice. Again that's the society's problem, not the jury system's. The US constitution, for example, is full of fear of the masses' judgment; everything has to be checked & balanced. The jury system is conceptually high on the masses' judgment. The bourgeoisie would never go for a jury system if i ...
Document Size: 4987
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 16 20:43:39 PDT 2006
13930 [lbo-talk] Venez tour -- rank: 1000
A friend writes to say that a proposed Global Exchange tour of Venezuela has been cancelled for lack of interest - they couldn't meet the minimum of 10 participants. Interesting, eh? Are the affluent crunchies put off by Hugo and his icky oil? In any case, if you're interested in going, write me OFFLIST. Doug
Document Size: 4766
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 16 20:15:51 PDT 2006
13931 [lbo-talk] Doomed: Letters from Third-World Leaders -- rank: 1000
andie nachgeborenen wrote: >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Dennis Redmond wrote: >> >> >the EU and East Asia would >> >pull the current account trigger on the US >> >> Really? 1) What else will they do with their cash? > >What anyone would do, spend it on fast cars, cheap >booze, and loose women. Do central bankers have it in them? Doug
Document Size: 5257
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 16 17:21:16 PDT 2006
13932 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
Are juries mainly an Anglo-American thing, or are they in wide use elsewhere? Doug
Document Size: 4416
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 16 17:18:57 PDT 2006
13933 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
Steven L. Robinson wrote: >Probably criminal. If it were civil, the jury consultant would have >spotted Doug right away and he would have been bounced on a >peremptory.. One doesn't usually see jury consultants in criminal >cases. >BTW- The easiest way to get off of jury duty is wear a FIJA ["Fully >Informed Jury Association"] button to the first day of jury duty.... No, civil. And I don't want to get bumped - it's one of the few things I feel a civic duty about. Th ...
Document Size: 5654
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 16 16:22:23 PDT 2006
13934 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >You didn't get tossed for being a "known leftist radical"? >I assume civil rather than criminal? Anything interesting? >I've never served myself. I always get eliminated. I'd like to do it >at least once but I doubt that will happen. Civil. Forbidden to speak about the case. And no, didn't get tossed. They didn't ask much about what I did, but last time I served, in 1997, they did. I told them, and one of the lawyers said, "Is that lik ...
Document Size: 5252
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 16 15:51:07 PDT 2006
13935 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000
I'm on jury duty this week. Got selected, trial begins tomorrow. So I may be a little inattentive until it's all over. Doug
Document Size: 4486
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue May 16 15:10:03 PDT 2006
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