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16381 [lbo-talk] The Christian War on Yuppies -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>You're in Jersey, no? My old part of Jersey has blue laws, and most >>stores are shut on Sundays. > >Wasn't that blown open in our youth by Two Guys? I think it's now >just custom. All the big stores are closed, and I have a hard time believing they'd do it if they didn't have to. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 17 06:57:27 PDT 2006

16382 Fwd: Re: [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

[Dean Baker responds...] well, this is an argument, but I don't think that david Card would like his views to be described this way. Dean Doug Henwood wrote: >Alex quoted Dean Baker: > >>Those of us who believe that the minimum wage has relatively little >>impact on employment, have a difficult time explaining how a large >>increase in >>labor supply will have little impact on wages. > > >Curiously, the same economist, David Card, has done work arguing for ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 17 06:44:27 PDT 2006

16383 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Alex quoted Dean Baker: >Those of us who believe that the minimum wage has relatively little >impact on employment, have a difficult time explaining how a large increase in >labor supply will have little impact on wages. Curiously, the same economist, David Card, has done work arguing for both. His studies of the minimum wage - which in part compared jurisdictions that were demographically and economically similar except for the presence or absence of a minimum wage law (or just after a ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 17 06:18:45 PDT 2006

16384 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On the theoretical side, the best response is Doug Henwood on immigration. >He had a three minute bit on it in passing on his most recent show: > >http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060406 > >around minute 5:30. Below are the key bits: Thanks for the plug. I also said in this segment that it would be very difficult to mount a principled argument for closing the borders. One argument from principle would be a desire to preserve some notion of ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 17 06:24:32 PDT 2006

16385 [lbo-talk] The Christian War on Yuppies -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Roundabout 2pm I pulled the Volvo around and we tooled on over to The >Grove, but blimey, the Banana Republic was closed!! J. Crew? Same! No, >not the GAP!!!! But yes, the Gap too had been filled shut. > >All I want to know is, when did Christianity overtake Consumerism as the >dominant religion of the nation? You're in Jersey, no? My old part of Jersey has blue laws, and most stores are shut on Sundays. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 16 20:25:53 PDT 2006

16386 [lbo-talk] Re: [Fwd: [bluegreenearth] Fan Who Called Dylan 'Judas'Breaks 33 Years of Silence -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >http://home.nyc.rr.com/jkn/nysonglines/prince.htm Which, by the way, is done by Extra! (as in FAIR) editor Jim Naureckas. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 16 16:36:30 PDT 2006

16387 [lbo-talk] Re: [Fwd: [bluegreenearth] Fan Who Called Dylan 'Judas'Breaks 33 Years of Silence -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Oy vey, Dylan's garbage, >http://acidtrip.com/garbage1.gif > Little Red Schoolhouse, eh! Damn, I think Prince Station, where Bob had his PO Box, is now the Apple Store. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 16 15:08:07 PDT 2006

16388 [lbo-talk] Hitchens bitch slaps the left!!!!! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >>> >>joanna wrote: >> >>>If I hear one more drunk Hitchens joke, I don't know what I'm going to do. >> >>As much as I like the old Suck motto - "a fish, a barrel, a smoking >>gun" - it seems way too easy, and well below Carl's talents. > >Ahem, having toiled in the vinyards of corporate communications for >decades, I can assure you that there is no depth ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 16 14:17:49 PDT 2006

16389 [lbo-talk] The Gospel of Judas - Wrong Version? -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >"A born again christian once tole me a unitarian joke: > >"'A unitarian is some one who believes in at most one god.'" > >Joanna > >I have a soft spot for Unitarians. I don't get why they need a "church" as a container for such squishy doctrines. Why not just be humanists, or liberals, or social democrats, or hippies? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 16 13:15:03 PDT 2006

16390 [lbo-talk] Jesus: his death & resurrection - how they poll -- rank: 1000

Easter Poll: Majority Of Canadians (73%) And Americans (78%) Believe In The Resurrection But Many (17% In Canada & 13% In The U.S.) Think Jesus' Crucifixion Was Faked April 16, 2006 Toronto, ON - While perhaps billions of Christians around the world will celebrate the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ on this Good Friday, a new Ipsos Reid survey undertaken on behalf of CanWest News Service and Global News in both the United States and Canada reveals an underlying belief among many in both countrie ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 16 13:12:22 PDT 2006

16391 [lbo-talk] The Gospel of Judas - Wrong Version? -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >A born again christian once tole me a unitarian joke: > >"A unitarian is some one who believes in at most one god." Michael Pollak once neatly summed up my view of religion: there's only one (Catholicism) and it isn't true. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 16 13:09:24 PDT 2006

16392 [lbo-talk] Hitchens bitch slaps the left!!!!! -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Hitch staggers out of the bar wasted out of his wits as is the norm. Actually not. The man can drink enormous quantities and still remain sharp. Don't know how he does it. Doug

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16393 [lbo-talk] The not so discreet charm of Italian elections ... -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >>Who sponsored the rally/feed? > >Beats me! :-) > >I guess it was these guys: > >http://www.alleanzanazionale.it/english/ Yikes. Florence is so lovely that it's easy to forget that it was a hotbed of fascism back in the day. But if you drive out to Fiesole, you get to ride on the via Gramsci. Doug

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16394 [lbo-talk] NYC counter-recruitment guide -- rank: 1000

[As the guide's publicist just wrote me: "It's designed and illustrated by New York artists, emerging or emerged, most notably Paul Chan (currently in the whitney biennial), the same group that put out the 2004 'people's guide to the republican national convention.'" Copies of the guide available at locations in Manhattan & Brooklyn - see website for listings - and also for download at the site.] <http://www.counterrecruitmentguide.org/> The New Yorkers' Guide to Military Rec ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 15:04:31 PDT 2006

16395 [lbo-talk] The not so discreet charm of Italian elections ... -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I was over in Italy during the lead up to the elections last >weekend, and one night in Florence I noticed a crowd assembling in >Piazza della Repubblica and what sounded like a political rally >starting up. Turns out that not only were there speeches and music, >but there was free food [a whole pig, sausages, beans, traditional >Tuscan stuff] and drink [vino rosso]. Lots of it. And good! The >place was swinging. > >http://infothecary.org/jorda ...

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