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17566 [lbo-talk] A Delphi worker on Delphi -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Mass movements tend to be preceded by great "premature" struggles which >end tragically. Hence . . . .???? A mass movement would have to be sparked by something other than the UAW telling the broader working class: "Join the fight to save our high wages, generous pensions, and comprehensive health insurance!" Doesn't trip off the tongue, does it? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 06:42:28 PST 2005

17567 [lbo-talk] A Delphi worker on Delphi -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >if the spirit (of class war) explodes, then money would be found to cool >it down. a scenario - a strike (it might have to be illegal) that shut >down GM before they could spin off GMAC, and that lasted long enough to >exhaust GM's cash hoard, would be a threat to the whole wobbling USer >credit structure. then either the government does a lockheed/chrysler >whatever with public money to buy off the Delphi and GM workers or the >strikers bring down the tem ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 2 06:40:09 PST 2005

17568 [lbo-talk] Scooter's novel -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Hey, except that it was a _former_ VP, that's from life. Remember Nelson >R's assistant who was weariang a black evening [sic] gown while helping >him catalogue his art books on the night he died. Yes, and before the truth was revealed, that he died in the embrace of Megan Marshak, James "Scotty" Reston wrote in a memorial NYT column, "He died as he lived, hard at work late at night..." Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 14:33:32 PST 2005

17569 [lbo-talk] Scooter's novel -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051107ta_talk_collins> New Yorker - November 7, 2005 CLOSE READING DEPT. SCOOTER'S SEX SHOCKER Of all the scribbled sentences that have converged to create the Valerie Plame affair, the most remarkable, in literary terms, may belong to Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's recently deposed chief of staff. "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work-a ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 13:44:45 PST 2005

17570 [lbo-talk] biz loves Alito -- rank: 1000

BusinessWeek.com - November 1, 2005 NEWS ANALYSIS By Lorraine Woellert Why Big Business Likes Alito The President's new Supreme Court nominee has been a staunch proponent of limits on legal liability, employee rights, and federal regulation It took mere minutes for a partisan divide to open over Samuel Alito. Even as President George W. Bush was introducing the Third Circuit Appeals Court judge as his pick to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, political activists on the Ri ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 12:36:56 PST 2005

17571 [lbo-talk] who supports/opposes war on Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Who are the "US'ers" anyhow? White guys with incomes from the 45th to the 75th percentiles? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 12:29:41 PST 2005

17572 [lbo-talk] A Delphi worker on Delphi -- rank: 1000

john taylor wrote: >I like this, a bit more defiant then the defeatism of >the Left on this. I like the spirit, but where's the money supposed to come from? And why isn't the UAW fighting for national health insurance? Was there ever a better time? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 12:03:53 PST 2005

17573 [lbo-talk] Fed hikes it again -- rank: 1000

[more of the same...language in the nut graf identical to last time - bonds rallied on the news] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2005/20051101/default.htm> For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 4 percent. Elevated energy prices and hurricane-related disruptions in economic activity have temporarily depressed output and employment. However, monetary policy accommodati ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 11:39:48 PST 2005

17574 [lbo-talk] Why are the US-ers such assholes? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This thread has piled up more arrant nonsense, and some of it from >really sensible people, than I ever dreamed could be clustered in one >small batch of e-mail posts could possibly contain. > >The lies of the Bush administration pale into insignificance in >comparison to these posts. > >I suggest that each of the posters should be condemned to 10 years in >solitary with four books which they must endlessly reread for 12 hours >out of every day. & ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 11:06:47 PST 2005

17575 [lbo-talk] Why are the US-ers such assholes? -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >You left out what is probably the largest English speaking >population in the world: >Indians. No dearth of opinionated, righteous assholes, here. Just >post something >about Kashmir, Muslims, etc... or better, organize an Internet poll >of some sort >about the greatest actor ever or some such nonsense. The Indians I've run into are argumentative, but usually in a serious and thoughtful way. Have I experienced an unrepresentative sample? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 11:04:39 PST 2005

17576 [lbo-talk] Why are the US-ers such assholes? -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >My mother does as well: it's EXTREMELY strange. The first thing she >does in the morning is turn on the radio to hear the local Limbaugh >clone rail and blither. Then the syndicated shows come on, and in the >afternoon the television is tuned to Fox to catch Hannity, Matthews, or >whomever. Of course, the radio stays on all this time. And so it goes >until she retires for the day. The woman willingly submerges herself in >propaganda every waking min ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 11:03:39 PST 2005

17577 [lbo-talk] The Note: Alito is even more in than yesterday -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: > >> ideological; the left hasn't come up with an overarching strategy to > >What left? In mainstream discourse, that's Democrats, esp of the liberal/activist sort. Actual leftists are beyond their ken. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 10:56:44 PST 2005

17578 [lbo-talk] who supports/opposes war on Iraq? -- rank: 1000

<http://poll.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=10024> Support for the War by Subgroups To more closely examine the nature of support and opposition to the war in Iraq, Gallup combined the results of its past six surveys, from August through the end of October, to provide a large sample of more than 5,000 respondents. Across these six polls, 54% say the war was a mistake, while 45% say that it was not. One of the most striking, albeit predictable, differences follows partisan lines. Only o ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 10:52:34 PST 2005

17579 [lbo-talk] Chavez vs Halloween -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Chavez: Halloween part of U.S. culture of terror > > >CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelan >parents not to dress their children in costumes for Halloween, >calling it a U.S. custom that has no place in the South American >country's cultural traditions. > >Speaking during his weekly radio and television show Sunday, Chavez >called Halloween a "gringa," or North American, custom. "Families go >an ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 10:23:49 PST 2005

17580 [lbo-talk] Scalito -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Sounds like he should have been in the Party of the Right during >your lost year, Doug. Ever remember seeing him at a meeting? Don't remember him at all. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 1 10:13:58 PST 2005