Search LBO-Talk Archives

16546 [lbo-talk] DeLay indicted! -- rank: 1000

Majority leader DeLay indicted: report 5 minutes ago HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury on Wednesday indicted U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay on a single conspiracy charge related to fund-raising activities by a political action committee he created, CNN reported on Wednesday. DeLay is the second most-powerful House Republican and represents a Houston-area district. He has been under investigation by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle for possible ill ...

Document Size:	5213
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 09:55:36 PDT 2005

16547 [lbo-talk] Wall Street getting worried about climate change -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >Where are the insurance companies in all of this? Given the claims >that they have to pay out for hurricane damage one would think that >they not only would wise up to the danger it poses their bottom line >but - give their exposure - but bankroll lobbying efforts to do >something about it. For now, they'll refuse to write new policies, try to evade paying claims, and look to the government to cover the really big risks. Doug

Document Size:	5168
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 09:50:09 PDT 2005

16548 [lbo-talk] XXXians!! -- rank: 1000

[link at <http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2005/09/jesus_met_the_p.html>] SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 Jesus Met the Porn Star at the Well It was awful. I couldn't stop pawing the keyboard, looking for one more thrill, clicking that depraved trackpad of titillation over and over again. But I made it out, barely intact, to warn you of the perils of the Number #1 Christian Porn Site- Satan help me if I ever fall into their clutches again. I feel guilty giving you the link to this m ...

Document Size:	5311
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 09:40:18 PDT 2005

16549 [lbo-talk] gas squeeze -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >Aren't heating bills this winter expected to follow >the same track as gas? Maybe worse. Natural gas prices have increased far more than crude oil or gasoline. Doug

Document Size:	4596
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 09:37:18 PDT 2005

16550 [lbo-talk] Re: DC -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >seattle was, IIRC, unprepared for >this. if it were NYC, it would've "guiliani time" again for the NYPD, >and that would probably have taken care of things. Yup. At the end of WTO week, I went up to a gaggle of Seattle's finest and said: "I don't get it. I'm from New York, and the NYPD would have surrounded the convention center with 20,000 cops. What happened here?" One of the cops answered, "They know how to do crowd control. We don't." Doug

Document Size:	4953
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 09:36:28 PDT 2005

16551 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Lyndie England is "poor" the way someone might be poor when they >have $500 dollars in their pocket when they need 1000 to make a >payment on the house... I wouldn't want to mince words here, I call >that "strapped", and it's too bad, I empathize, but that's NOT POVERTY. Man, you are an unsympathetic stiff-necked moralist. Is that true of all the Santa Cruz hippies, or are you an outlier? Doug

Document Size:	4895
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 09:16:01 PDT 2005

16552 [lbo-talk] religion bad for society -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>I've often been struck by how Catholics create serious universities >>and important hospitals - what comparable things, aside from Bible >>colleges, do American Protestants create? > >[How about Harvard? It's no Notre Dame, but stilll ...] That was over 300 years ago! Doug

Document Size:	5031
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 07:50:32 PDT 2005

16553 [lbo-talk] Wall Street getting worried about climate change -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=INIY650D9L35#> Bush Faces Wall Street Pressure on Global Warming (Update1) By Kim Chipman Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The deadliest U.S. hurricane season in more than a century has some Wall Street investors sounding like members of the Sierra Club. Firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are telling U.S. clients for the first time that climate change poses financial risks. With damage estimates for H ...

Document Size:	12406
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 07:45:50 PDT 2005

16554 [lbo-talk] grading on a curve -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> WASHINGTON, Sep. 28 NEWS SUMMARY Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) is sort of like Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana), only with courage. (That's a joke intended largely for the two Congressman and their press secretaries.) We refer you to the Honorable Mr. Flake's Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, in which the self-term-limited Member (no Nethercuttian reversal here) decries his party's inability to limit deficit-inducing spending. ...

Document Size:	5869
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 07:39:03 PDT 2005

16555 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >There's a significant difference beteeen Cindy Sheehan and Lyndie >England. Cindy Sheehan takes responsibility for her own actions, and my >guess is, Lyndie England never has at any point in her life... Just another >girl who wanted to be dungeon master but forgot that you aren't supposed >to smile quite that broadly while holding the leash. > >That's what got her convicted, she looked like she was having >"too much fun". She was... > > ...

Document Size:	5539
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 07:35:50 PDT 2005

16556 [lbo-talk] Changing to Win? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 27, 2005 Anna Burger to Head Breakaway Labor Group Coalition hopes to reverse setbacks and organize more women and minorities. By Thomas B. Edsall In 1972, the year Anna Burger started a wildcat strike of Philadelphia social workers, organized labor did not look like a promising career for a liberal, antiwar feminist. The AFL-CIO, under the leadership of George Meany, was tilting rightward, refusing to endorse Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern. Meany ...

Document Size:	10856
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 07:02:01 PDT 2005

16557 [lbo-talk] religion bad for society -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I suspect that the direction of causation may be different >from, if not opposite of what the authors of this >study are reported as claiming. That is that relatively >healthy societies are less likely to be religious since >they have alternative means for promoting community >and social identity as compared to societies like >the US where such means are lacking. I suspect it runs both ways. American Protestantism - white American Protestantism, that is ...

Document Size:	5643
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 06:57:24 PDT 2005

16558 [lbo-talk] DC: Costs of big marches -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >A woman at the Military Families Speak Out tent, where I volunteered for a >while, had a t-shirt with a photo of her son and "George Bush killed >my son" in >big letters around it. While I was there another grieving mother came by. >She hadn't heard of the group, but came to the rally because of the publicity >Cindy Sheehan was getting. I saw other family members of dead troops stop by >the tent, too, bursting into tears from the co ...

Document Size:	5373
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 28 06:49:00 PDT 2005

16559 [lbo-talk] DC -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >the ones ridiculing hippies? But hippies deserve it! Ha ha, just kidding. Doug

Document Size:	4394
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 27 20:55:31 PDT 2005

16560 [lbo-talk] Liberal imperialism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The members of the local anti-war group (except for Jan & me) are all >liberals, not marxists or even socialists particularly; they all support >DP candidates. I have from the beginning periodically made sure they all >know about how the WWP/ANSWER is regarded by people like Nathan. They >all don't give a fuck. They find the topic not only irrelvant but >aggressively boring and a waste of time. By the way, it's wonderful you did this. What an excellent an ...

Document Size:	5057
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 27 17:51:48 PDT 2005