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17146 [lbo-talk] disabled find work harder to get -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 5, 2005 Disabled Face Scarcer Jobs, Data Show By KRIS MAHER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Outsourcing and the growth of low-paying service positions are likely to make it tougher for disabled workers in the U.S. to find jobs, despite advances in technology and more favorable attitudes among employers, experts say. According to a report to be released today by Cornell University, based on Census Bureau data, the employment rate for Americans age 21 to 64 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 11:35:26 PDT 2005

17147 [lbo-talk] Rivera to Shachtman to Wohlstetter to Wolfowitz? -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Now if any of these characters had even gone to a cocktail party >that was also attended by a low-ranking functionary in a Stalinist >front group, that would be another story! Wolfowitz is a pal of Hitchens, a former member of the International Socialists. Does that count for anything? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 11:09:00 PDT 2005

17148 [lbo-talk] KPFA (was MALIK RAHIM: Yesterday's Radicals Devolve....) -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >People should of course be aware that Doug Henwood as a WBAI >programmer has a stake in what happens at KPFA (since both stations >are partof the Pacifica network and whose fates are linked since the >local board informs policy decisons at the national level) and is an >indirect participant in the ongoing drama at KPFA. He is a >confederate of 'Against the Grain' producer/host Sasha Lilley who >herself is one of the key dramatis personae and is a regul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 11:08:13 PDT 2005

17149 [lbo-talk] Middle Class (was Harriet Miers) -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >The >real indicators of class are whether or not the >collective entity owns the means of production, >distribution, and exchange. "Real" to whom? To the Marxist catechist? Or to actual people living in the world? What's the relation between those two things? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 10:32:06 PDT 2005

17150 [lbo-talk] Middle Class (was Harriet Miers) -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >Funny. He seemed to be less "mystified" a month and a half ago when >he wrote on 7/26: > >"You're just wrong to say there's no >demographically significant middle class in the U.S. It's about a >third of the working population and probably half the electorate." > >and then again on the same day: > >"The professional-managerial class is not small - a bit over a third >of the workforce, and probably half the current ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 09:34:57 PDT 2005

17151 [lbo-talk] fair & balanced? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News [Rush & Molloy] - October 5, 2005 Rice is urged to be 'Friends' (or more?) with Fox anchor An interview with Condoleezza Rice turned bizarre last week, when Fox News correspondent James Rosen appeared to try to fix her up with "Fox & Friends" anchor Lauren Green. The former Miss Minnesota is "single" and "beautiful," Rosen said, encouraging the secretary of state to get in touch. The Sept. 27 interview from Port au Prince, Haiti, started ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 08:53:37 PDT 2005

17152 [lbo-talk] one George W hammers another -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - October 5, 2005 Can This Nomination Be Justified? By George F. Will Senators beginning what ought to be a protracted and exacting scrutiny of Harriet Miers should be guided by three rules. First, it is not important that she be confirmed. Second, it might be very important that she not be. Third, the presumption -- perhaps rebuttable but certainly in need of rebutting -- should be that her nomination is not a defensible exercise of presidential discretion to which senatorial de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 08:49:46 PDT 2005

17153 [lbo-talk] DN! - Inequality in the Wake of Katrina: -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly quoted Heritage hack Dan Mitchell: >Do you want to make America more like France I could imagine worse things. >with double-digit unemployment and economic stagnation? French unemployment is high, yes. But growth isn't bad, and neither is daily life. A poll reported in today's FT shows that nearly three-quarters of the French approve of the union-led protests yesterday, warning against the neoliberal agenda. I don't see any mass movement in France to invite Mitchell over for a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 08:33:56 PDT 2005

17154 [lbo-talk] Responses to various threads -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >One can argue - albeit I ma not sure how convincingly, given Bush jr. - that >in the first term popular dissatisfaction may hold presidential power in >check due to re-election - bun in the second term? They can pretty much do >what they want, or rather whatever is possible given the balance of power >among other interest groups. That is why the presidential approval rating >that Doug and others diligently cite never cease to amuse me - they carry &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 5 08:10:27 PDT 2005

17155 [lbo-talk] MALIK RAHIM: Yesterday's Radicals Devolve.... -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: > One of you crossposts some rant from Indymedia or another list, >which is alrady taking it out of context, and that piece of verbiage >is even more removed from some actual incident. We have Joseph Wanzala to thank for the original post. Joseph is deeply involved with the KPFA local board. Yet another reason for sane people to go to that meeting he posted about earlier: At 7:10 PM -0700 10/3/05, Joseph Wanzala wrote: >A meeting of the KPFA Community Advisory Board wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 4 21:00:03 PDT 2005

17156 [lbo-talk] documentation -- rank: 1000

"Scooter"'s revolting letter to "Judy" and other delights: <http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/nat_MILLER_051001.pdf>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 4 15:27:29 PDT 2005

17157 [lbo-talk] Wow! -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >number of presidential scholars have maintained that even as >presidents lose influence over time, they become better at their >jobs, therefore, they more effectively spend their 'political >capital' - phenomenon is referred to as 'cycle of increasing >effectiveness'... So maybe Bush will have a "good" 2006 - for him, not us. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 4 15:14:54 PDT 2005

17158 [lbo-talk] US public opinion on abortion -- rank: 1000

[some useful tables in the original] <http://people-press.org/commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=119> Abortion, the Court and the Public A Pew Research Center Analysis Released: October 3, 2005 The confirmation hearings for Harriet Miers to become a justice of the Supreme Court will once again highlight a complex web of issues related to abortion, on which she may become the swing vote. While activists on both sides describe abortion as an issue on which there is no middle ground, decades ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 4 14:24:26 PDT 2005

17159 [lbo-talk] Middle Class (was Harriet Miers) -- rank: 1000

Keith Nybakke wrote: >>>lower-middle-class whites--those making between $30,000 and >>>$50,000 >> >>Huh? Median income in 2004 was $44,389. $30,000 is 68% of the >>median, and $50,000 is 113%. How is that "lower-middle class"? > >Damn good question. > >How is middle class defined? Depends. There's a "sociological" definition, that depends on one's occupation. Professionals, the self-employed, small businesspersons, etc. There's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 4 14:08:31 PDT 2005

17160 [lbo-talk] Re: Miers looks seriously reactionary -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >are people surprised that he is picking his own kind? > >did anyone think he was going to appoint a lesbian feminist? > >hmmm...she is single... You're so smart, Frank. We're so dumb. I keep forgetting. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 4 14:01:34 PDT 2005