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19651 [lbo-talk] US workforce -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >In fact, the US has one of the best statistical data >systems in the world, almost as good as Canada which >is regarded the top notch in this respect. And unlike Statistics Canada, which charges a pretty penny for its data (at least they did a year or two ago - they wanted C$40 for a history of auto employment), all the US data is free. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 09:47:52 PST 2005

19652 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >If you were >to call him a democrat people would look at you with >slack-jawed amazement. Alas, I've missed Grover's performances at the MLG summer conferences where he's laid out this argument, but slack-jawed amazement was among the reactions that were reported to me. That, and screaming disagreement. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 3 15:43:09 PST 2005

19653 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 1000

A two-part contribution from the Marxist Literary Group's resident Stalinist, Grover Furr: >Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform, Part Two > >http://eserver.org/clogic/2005/furr2.html > >Part One: http://eserver.org/clogic/2005/furr.html

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19654 [lbo-talk] US workforce -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >20+ million managers does seem far-fetched, unless it includes >everyone who has someone reporting to them in some capacity for one >reason or another, and even then it boggles the mind. Why this huge >discrepancy? Are there different definitions of manager employed by >the various BLS surveys, and Epstein is relying on (and perhaps >further stretching) the most elastic one? No doubt - that's Epstein's style. The other week he really mangled an analysis o ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 3 14:15:59 PST 2005

19655 [lbo-talk] US workforce -- rank: 1000

Maybe that would matter to Epstein's count, but not to the one I've cited. Michael Perelman wrote: >How much were companies reclassifying workers as managers to get >around overtime >laws? > >On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:33:52AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >Let's look at the numbers as they stood in the third quarter of 2005, the >> >most recent period for which data are available, compared with a fairly >> >tough base period -- 2000, the pea ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 3 11:58:22 PST 2005

19656 [lbo-talk] Gallup on evangelicals -- rank: 1000

December 02, 2005 Another Look at Evangelicals in America Today About 3 in 10 white, non-Catholic Christians describe themselves as "evangelical" by Frank Newport and Joseph Carroll GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A great deal of attention has been placed on the special group of individuals within the American religious framework referred to as evangelicals. The term has been used for decades, but in more recent years has come to define a group of people who have become increasing ...

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19657 [lbo-talk] Re: Instinct -- rank: 1000

I think this thread has played itself out. Doug

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19658 [lbo-talk] US workforce -- rank: 1000

Jim wrote: >With all the distortions coming out the W.H. on Iraq >and the environment can its economic stats be trusted? Yes. Like the other statistical agencies, the BLS is a highly professional operation insulated from political pressure, much to the annoyance of the administration. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 3 08:37:02 PST 2005

19659 [lbo-talk] US workforce -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall quoted Barron's Gene Epstein: You've got to be careful with Epstein - he's very sloppy with data, citation, and argument. >But before we elaborate further, it's worth looking at the November >employment report, released Friday, to see what it can tell us about the >bigger-picture trend in jobs. By showing a rise in payroll employment of >215,000 and an unchanged unemployment rate of 5%, the report lent further >confirmation to the trends that first appeared in early ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 3 08:33:52 PST 2005

19660 [lbo-talk] Question re: Religion vs "spirituality" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Theologian, Poet Donald Rumsfeld >http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/ >The Unknown >As we know, >There are known knowns. >There are things we know we know. >We also know >There are known unknowns. >That is to say >We know there are some things >We do not know. >But there are also unknown unknowns, >The ones we don't know >We don't know. Commenting on this, Slavoj Zizek said something like: there's a fourth option, the things we ...

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19661 [lbo-talk] Re: Instinct -- rank: 1000

Ylle wrote: >I dont experience it like that, from where I'm sitting right now. >To me this society is an ongoing unorganized irrational bubble-gum >and baling wire project that gets weirder every day. But most people are so well-behaved, no? We just do our stuff, day after day. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 2 20:23:52 PST 2005

19662 [lbo-talk] tradeoffs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Do you mean it could have funded all of those or that it could have >funded any one of those programs? Any one of those. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 2 15:16:24 PST 2005

19663 [lbo-talk] tradeoffs -- rank: 1000

According to the Cost of War website <http://costofwar.com/>, for what the US has spent on wrecking Iraq, we could have: * fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 9 years * fully funded global anti-AIDS programs for 22 years * assured that every child in the world was given basic immunizations for the next 74 years * paid for 29.6 million children to attend Head Start * built 2 million public housing units They don't say this, but it could also have funded a universal child care progra ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 2 13:51:16 PST 2005

19664 [lbo-talk] Al in the Family: Sharpton sitcom? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cynopsis.com/view_cynopsis_text.cfm?ID=1750> CBS is looking at a new project from Paramount Network Television that would feature the Reverend Al Sharpton in his own sitcom. That's right, a sitcom. According to Variety, it's called Al in the Family and will be written by Peter Ackerman with Jamie Widdoes set to direct and exec produce.

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19665 [lbo-talk] Re: Instinct -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Arash: writes: > >> But it's quite unlikely that exclusive homosexuality is >entirely the result of social pressure. > >For gay men it is because girls have cooties. Doesn't >everybody know that? So all grade school boys are gay? Does the American Family Association know about this? Doug

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