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15451 [lbo-talk] sub to BC! -- rank: 1000

I think the Black Commentator is pretty terrific. They're looking for paid subscriptions to keep going, and it's hard to name a publication that deserves the support more. $50 for a year, and contributions welcome: <https://www.blackcommentator.com/signup.php>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 11:33:05 PST 2006

15452 [lbo-talk] Glen Ford on WMT -- rank: 1000

[the conclusion of a longer piece <http://www.blackcommentator.com/171/171_cover_wal_mart.html> - quite relevant to the Maryland play-or-pay issue] Towards a Movement for Democratic Development [by BC Editor-in-Chief Glen Ford] Almost two years ago, I was invited to Chicago to speak to the Wal-Mart issue. The question for me was, How do we create the conditions in which citizens can effectively determine who can do what in their city? - a larger subject than just Wal-Mart's attempt to inva ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 16 11:24:06 PST 2006

15453 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >The less educated group -- not to be confused with the lower income >group, with whom it very imperfectly correlates Very imperfectly indeed. Among voters, 40% of white non-college-grads had incomes of $60,000 or more. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 11:08:56 PST 2006

15454 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore wants tales of medical woe -- rank: 1000

Request from Michael Moore 2/3/06 Friends, How would you like to be in my next movie? I know you've probably heard I'm making a documentary about the health care industry (but the HMOs don't know this, so don't tell them -- they think I'm making a romantic comedy). If you've followed my work over the years, you know that I keep a pretty low profile while I'm making my movies. I don't give interviews, I don't go on TV and I don't defrost my refrigerator. I do keep my website updated on a daily ba ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 11:00:33 PST 2006

15455 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >It's not the criticism, it's the continued rhetoric about unions >collectively being corrupt, self-interested institutions. > >If they are as bad as you make them out to be, then is the rightwing correct >in their arguments over many decades that unions made unorganized workers >lives worse off? How does your conclusion follow from the critique? The result of corruption and narrow self-interest is exactly what we see: density heading towards 0%, and a publ ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 10:58:55 PST 2006

15456 [lbo-talk] more Abu Ghraib pix -- rank: 1000

At 12:06 PM -0500 2/16/06, Poynter Institute wrote: >Salon gets 1,000 Abu Ghraib pics ><http://salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/16/abu_ghraib/> >From military source. >(Salon)

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 10:45:44 PST 2006

15457 [lbo-talk] What is you know what ? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Doug, do you extend its usage to Apartheid South Africa, or would that >cause it to lose all its meaning ? That's pretty close, except that it didn't fit the paradigm of originating from a mobilized middle class, since apartheid involved rule by a small minority of the pop. But there are very strong affinities between apartheid & fascism, for sure. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 10:37:53 PST 2006

15458 [lbo-talk] Fitch @ Coliseum -- rank: 1000

<http://www.coliseumbooks.com/events/022006event.htm> Monday, February 20 at 6:30 pm Robert Fitch Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise Reading * Q&A * Signing The recent New York City transit strike and this fall's breakup of the AFL-CIO into warring factions mean that the time is ripe for change in the American labor movement. While the goals of unions - better working conditions and benefits for even the lowest workers, job ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 10:35:49 PST 2006

15459 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Jesus Christ, how many anti-union talking points can you repeat it in a >week, Doug. As many as circumstances warrant. >This kind of "left wing" union bashing does make me ill after a while. You love that word "bashing." One can't criticize organized labor because one wants a more powerful and successful union movement. No, one is merely parrotting right-wing talking points, giving aid & comfort to the enemy, blowing things way out of propor ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 10:16:20 PST 2006

15460 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >I still think Frank >is essentially right when he says that the Democrats could do a lot better >among the U.S. working class if they weren't Republicans light on economic >issues. According to Bartels, white voters without college degrees rate themselves closer to the Reps on economic issues, and closer to the Dems on abortion and gender issues. There is not a huge reservoir of untapped economic populism out there, at least among white voters (and, as B ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 09:57:07 PST 2006

15461 [lbo-talk] WSJ on play-or-pay -- rank: 1000

[This is laced with the usual lunacy of the WSJ editpage, but they've also got a few points amidst the ranting, like this sort of law might not survive judicial challenge - and given its narrowness, may not exactly inspire the masses.] Wall Street Journal - February 16, 2006 Retail Rumble America's retailers announced last week that they aren't especially keen to follow the steel, airline and perhaps the auto industries into bankruptcy court. If Big Labor really wants a fight over mandated healt ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 09:54:04 PST 2006

15462 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >However, there is also something to be learned from it, namely how to >successfully implement a government program - by coupling it with the >interests of a broad segments of the population so they see themselves as >beneficiaries - even if that is largely illusory. The problem with most >left-sponsored programs (except social security!) is that they are >ostensibly designed to help only the "less fortunate" or other narrowly >defined in ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 09:48:41 PST 2006

15463 [lbo-talk] What is you know what ? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What is fascism ? Will saying the word provoke its coming about ? Is using >the term "crying wolf ?" Wild eyed radicalism ? Maoism ? ultra-Revolutionary >irresponsibilism ? Foolish ? Stupid ? Naïve ? Childish ? Unscholarly ? Charles, you expand the use of the word "fascism" so far across time & space that it loses all its meaning. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 09:45:33 PST 2006

15464 [lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan: bye-bye Dick -- rank: 1000

[The Note says this is BS.] <http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007972> PEGGY NOONAN Hit Refresh? Why Bush may be thinking about replacing Cheney. The Dick Cheney shooting incident will, in a way, go away. And, in a way, not--ever. Some things stick. Gerry Ford had physically stumbled only once or twice in public when he became, officially, The Stumbler. Mr. Ford's stumbles seemed to underscore a certain lack of sure-footedness in his early policies and other decisions ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 07:11:21 PST 2006

15465 [lbo-talk] And speaking of fascism, Jonah Goldberg wants to tell you a scarrry story, kids! -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Jonah Goldberg Son of Linda Tripp's good friend Lucianne Goldberg - grew up around the corner from me (and across the street from Michael Moore!) at 255 W 84th St, NYC 10024. Listed in the phone book, if anyone wants to say hi. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 16:32:02 PST 2006