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17191 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 1000
Michael Hirsch wrote: > >>What's your evidence? Newspapers have lost big libel suits on this >issue, and the Chistian Science Monitor had to retract<< > >Newspapers have lost big libel suits in Britain, where the libel >laws are probably too accomodating to public figures. As to >evidence. What's my evidence that Judith Miller is dirty? I don't >have any. She's dirty. Do you believe no enemies on the left? Gotta >be some, Doug. Nope, don't believe in no enemi ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 3 11:10:04 PDT 2005
17192 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 1000
Michael Hirsch wrote: >Maybe because he's guilty of everything Greg Palast accuses him of. What's your evidence? Newspapers have lost big libel suits on this issue, and the Chistian Science Monitor had to retract. Palast should be careful about this sort of thing. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 3 09:48:27 PDT 2005
17193 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg and City Govt in the US (was Freddy - even his supporters don't like him) -- rank: 1000
Paul wrote: >I can certainly see "Ferrer isn't all that good" [NB he is the >Democrat candidate]. But how can one say "Bloomberg isn't all that >bad"? Aside from same-sex marriage, I doubt a Dem administration would have behaved much differently on your top (or bottom) ten list. And Ferrer holds great potential to be a profound embarrassment - he seems confused, dissembling, and not very bright. A couple of goodies from today's NYT: >For his part, Mr. Ferrer, tak ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 3 09:47:06 PDT 2005
17194 [lbo-talk] a record low approval rating? -- rank: 1000
<http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051003/NEWS01/510030372> Taft's approval rating is 15% Associated Press COLUMBUS - Gov. Bob Taft's already-feeble approval rating among Ohioans has fallen to 15 percent, a new poll indicates. The poll, conducted by the Columbus Dispatch, finds support for Taft lower than the three most unpopular U.S. presidents in the history of polling and possibly the lowest of any Ohio governor. The Republican governor's approval rating is worse th ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 3 09:39:11 PDT 2005
17195 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 1000
Michael Hirsch wrote: >scumbag Galloway Why you say that? I liked his book, and I thought he was very thoughtful and engaging when I interviewed him (to be broadcast Oct 13). Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 3 09:28:00 PDT 2005
17196 [lbo-talk] USMC advertising on Craigslist -- rank: 1000
[Gawker did the work searching for the link: <http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/100014303.html>. Curiously, the listing shows up in Safari's address bar with a peace sign as an icon.] New York Post - October 3, 2005 CRAIGSLIST BOOSTING MARINES' RECRUITING By NEIL GRAVES Local Marines have found a way to recruit tomorrow's warriors and save money - by using craigslist.com. Marines at the Recruiting Station-New York, based in Garden City, L.I., began advertising on the popular site about ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 3 07:31:03 PDT 2005
17197 [lbo-talk] W's nicknames -- rank: 1000
A collection of Bush's nicknames: <http://www.nndb.com/group/750/000091477/>. Looks like a combination of a WASP habit and Bush's personal nastiness.
Document Size: 4676
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 3 06:43:55 PDT 2005
17198 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >But formal regulation is irrelevent if the actual maintenance is being done >in countries where US inspectors don't operate. If the maintenance work can't be properly supervised then the planes shouldn't fly. That's true whether the work is done in the US, Canada, or El Salvador. >Regulation is not some Platonic form-- it's often dependent on workers being >able to blow the whistle on employers violating the law, since the >government has too few inspectors. ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 3 06:40:26 PDT 2005
17199 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Incidentally -- I do agree with you on the substantive issues here. I >just don't think it adds anything, if fact it simply spreads smoke, to >generalize about this or that group in general. All right, compromise formation: it's very unfortunate when labor partisans in the US draw on a long history of racist stereotypes of foreign workers, which happens more than it should. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 2 16:35:56 PDT 2005
17200 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >And you choose to insist that those are references not to those GOVERNMENTS' >poor regulatory and labor relations. The responsibility for regulating the safety of US airlines lies with the US government and no one else really. >But you aren't attacking the trogodytes. You're attacking labor >progressives. Coulda fooled me from their rhetoric. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 2 15:06:01 PDT 2005
17201 [lbo-talk] Bartels -- rank: 1000
Doug Henwood wrote: >Michael Hoover wrote: > >>paper that bartels wrote with achen about electoral implications of >>natural disasters used to be available on line but link no longer >>appears to work... > >It's this one, right? ><http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/PERG.Achen.pdf> Gotta love this, from the conclusion (after the paper demonstrates that voters punish incumbent parties/presidents for droughts and shark attacks that they had nothing to ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 2 14:49:52 PDT 2005
17202 [lbo-talk] Bartels -- rank: 1000
Michael Hoover wrote: >paper that bartels wrote with achen about electoral implications of >natural disasters used to be available on line but link no longer >appears to work... It's this one, right? <http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/PERG.Achen.pdf> Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 2 14:40:55 PDT 2005
17203 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug-- These accusations of racism around trade issues are getting really >ridiculous. No, it's the use of racist stereotypes by labor partisans in trade issues that's getting really ridiculous. I didn't write that ugly passage - Harold Meyerson did. I didn't write about the threat of Chinese takeover of our utilities - Joan Claybrook did. I didn't hold up signs in Seattle worrying about the influx of Mexican truckers - the Teamsters did. Etc. Organized labor in the U ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 2 14:22:53 PDT 2005
17204 [lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >The point is not that a "Latino" can't be trusted to fix a plane, but that a >company that chooses to locate its maintenance in a low-regulation country >like El Salvador can't be trusted to do the maintenance correctly. At 8:40 PM +0000 10/2/05, Mark S wrote: >I thought that article was pretty ignorant and slanderous to El >Salvadoreans. My dad once worked for a small airline that had its >licence revoked on maintenance concerns. Not after an ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 2 14:16:51 PDT 2005
17205 [lbo-talk] Bartels -- rank: 1000
Julio Huato wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Let me put in a special word for my interview with Larry Bartels >> <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansas.pdf>. In that dry, academic >> poli sci way, he argues convincingly that cultural issues are not >> pushing the white working class to the right, and that people are >> more likely to hold both liberal (or conservative) economic and >> social points of view. Really worth a listen. > > ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 2 14:15:48 PDT 2005
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