Search LBO-Talk Archives

16771 [lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!" -- rank: 1000

Lionel Mandrake wrote: >Gosh, imagine what the radical right could have >accomplished had they set out with "questions that >could not be answered in advance." I was a very junior member of the radical right 35 years ago. Believe me, we were marginal. We fantastized about undoing the Great Society and the New Deal and restoring Manchester liberalism to its rightful place in human affairs. We thought it was a doomed pursuit, but we kept the dream alive. We had no idea that our ...

Document Size:	5284
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 18:53:47 PDT 2005

16772 [lbo-talk] more Parenti on NO -- rank: 1000

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/parentiweb New Orleans: Raze or Rebuild? by CHRISTIAN PARENTI [posted online on September 12, 2005] The water in the lower Ninth Ward is thickening into a glassy, fetid slick as the gasoline, oil, solvents and sewage from thousands of submerged vehicles and homes leaches out. Some rescue crews can stay out on their boats for only an hour before getting light-headed. The water's blue-black sheen casts back an almost mocking mirror image of the horrible devast ...

Document Size:	17615
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 15:06:21 PDT 2005

16773 [lbo-talk] racial divide -- rank: 1000

The breakdowns by race in that ABC/WP poll were presented in a graphic, so I didn't include it in the text. It's worth looking at though. What planet do 3/4 of white Americans live on? Yes No Did race & poverty affect hurricane protection? white 28% 69% black 71 27 Did race & poverty affect speed of response? white 24 73 black ...

Document Size:	5398
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 14:45:21 PDT 2005

16774 [lbo-talk] ABC/WP poll: Bush takes a big hit -- rank: 1000

[big deterioration from the first early ABC/WP poll...] ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: KATRINA'S AFTERMATH - 9/11/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, 2005 Bush Hits a Career Low in Approval As Katrina Response Ratings Worsen Public views of the federal government's hurricane response have grown sharply more critical in the last week, pushing George W. Bush's leadership and performance ratings to career lows. A record 57 percent of Americans now disapprove of his work overall. ...

Document Size:	15009
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 14:36:24 PDT 2005

16775 [lbo-talk] while Bush slept -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >Well, Bush was never really in the city of San Diego. He flew into the >North Island Naval Air Station, which occupies one half of an island in >the middle of San Diego Bay, and he stayed there the entire time. Which >seems odd. Does this man never show himself to the public outside of a >military base? I mean, look at his itinerary today: He flies onto an >aircraft carrier and deigns to visit NO itself now that it an armed >camp. San Diego is as re ...

Document Size:	5518
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 13:31:49 PDT 2005

16776 [lbo-talk] The Donald writes a letter -- rank: 1000

<http://nytimes.com/2005/09/11/books/review/11letters.html> 'Character Studies' To the Editor: I can remember when Tina Brown was in charge of The New Yorker and a writer named Mark Singer interviewed me for a profile. He was depressed. I was thinking, O.K., expect the worst. Not only was Tina Brown dragging The New Yorker to a new low, this writer was drowning in his own misery, which could only put me in a skeptical mood regarding the outcome of their combined interest in me. Misery bege ...

Document Size:	7024
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 12:51:51 PDT 2005

16777 [lbo-talk] while Bush slept -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/site/newsweek/> Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a motherly but steely figure known by the nickname Queen Bee, knew that she needed help. But she wasn't quite sure what. At about 8 p.m., she spoke to Bush. "Mr. President," she said, "we need your help. We need everything you've got." Bush, the governor later recalled, was reassuring. But the conversation was all a little vague. Blanco did not specifically ask for a massive interventio ...

Document Size:	5635
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 12:44:29 PDT 2005

16778 [lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Tom Walker wrote: >> >> >Nothing -- short of sustained, mass civil disobedience -- will >> >alter this political equation. >> >> Disobedience of what laws, by whom, where, when? >> > >These are precisely the questions that cannot be answered in advance. >Tom rightly cites Sheehan's Camp Casey -- which isn't quite illegal. And >his reference to consumption decisions is _truly_ no ...

Document Size:	5919
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 12:18:01 PDT 2005

16779 [lbo-talk] No more Fallujahs -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: > How are they going to invade Iran without a draft? > >http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1776250,00.html With, you know, shock & awe - and maybe the radioactive kind this time. But they're not that insane, are they? Doug

Document Size:	4824
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 12:15:21 PDT 2005

16780 [lbo-talk] The Vietnamese on the Gulf Coast: Like deja Vu all over again -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: > "I'm back to where I started, only this time I have $1 million of debt." > > U.S. storm turns Vietnamese into refugees once more Look on the bright side - this clears the coast for luxury waterfront developments! From today's NYT: > Brent Warr, who has been the mayor of Gulfport for two months, >has no doubt that his city will bounce back from Hurricane Katrina. > "Property values are going to skyrocket here," Mr. Warr said in an ...

Document Size:	5617
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 11:28:31 PDT 2005

16781 [lbo-talk] when cutting wages, be sure to call it "flexibility" -- rank: 1000

COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <mailto:rmorrison at cei.org?subject=news%20release> Labor Regs Suspended to Aid Hurricane Recovery Advantages of Free Labor Market Highlighted Washington, D.C., September 12, 2005-Last week President Bush, in order to speed the hurricane recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast, suspended labor regulations that control wages for workers employed by federal contractors. The additional flexibility will help create new jobs a ...

Document Size:	7614
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 11:05:31 PDT 2005

16782 [lbo-talk] "Move the goalposts, wingnuts!" -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Nothing -- short of sustained, mass civil disobedience -- will >alter this political equation. Disobedience of what laws, by whom, where, when? Doug

Document Size:	4791
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 10:43:09 PDT 2005

16783 [lbo-talk] Bush's bubble -- rank: 1000

Time - September 11, 2005 Living Too Much in the Bubble? A bungled initial response to Katrina exposed the perils of a rigid, insular White House. Inside Bush's plan to show he isn't isolated By MIKE ALLEN / WASHINGTON President Bush was seated in the White House Situation Room, watching military and disaster officials beaming in from the Gulf Coast on the giant screen of his secure video- teleconferencing system. It had been nearly a week since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, ripping ...

Document Size:	20844
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 09:36:08 PDT 2005

16784 [lbo-talk] Minutemen draw more foes than friends -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson quoted Newsday: >"The Minutemen are the equivalent of a terrorist organization and they're >really going unchecked by the government right now," said demonstrator David >Castillo, 22, of Wantagh, of the Workplace Project, a nonprofit immigrant >rights group. Yay. You can hear my interview with the excellent founder of the Workplace Project, Jennifer Gordon, at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#050825>. Doug

Document Size:	5189
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 09:24:11 PDT 2005

16785 [lbo-talk] Bill Maher to George Bush: take a hike -- rank: 1000

quicktime http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Real-Time-George-Must-Go.mov other options http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/10.html#a4892 Bill Maher's closing--an open message to George Bush: "Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you also used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. Th ...

Document Size:	6756
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 12 09:20:39 PDT 2005