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19831 [lbo-talk] FT on Bush's work ethic and ours -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >John Lacny wrote: > >>Did anyone see the story on US working hours in today's Financial >>Times? It points out that El Salvador, Indonesia, and Mongolia have >>more mandatory paid leave time than the US. The front-page lead-in >>to the story says: >> >>"No rest for Americans -- Though the president holidays like a Frenchman." >> >>Priceless! > >If we had a labor movement in the USA, that would be on a ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 22 13:17:22 PDT 2005

19832 [lbo-talk] AC on The Real Peace Ticket! -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Probably because Paul has been a consistent opponent of the >war, if from a paleo-con/libertarian position -- which has >been the source of more principled criticism of the war than >what passes for liberalism in this country. Sure. Libertarians are good on civil liberties too. But they're hell on the working class - and Paul is some kind of retro-patriarch too. But Ace doesn't care about stuff like that much. Sanders is hardly prowar - his pullout stance soun ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 22 13:16:30 PDT 2005

19833 [lbo-talk] Defining Conservatism Down -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >The answer is yes, that would make more sense, but the huge voting >base of the Christian Right in alliance with the Neocons and >militarists is trumping Wall Street right now. The Rockefeller >Republicans are eclipsed. According to the WSJ story I posted earlier, Mark Lanier, the lawyer who beat the pants off Merck, has political ambitions. He's a conservative Republican and Baptist preacher - and an ace litigator who's an enemy of the tort reform crowd. He could ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 22 13:04:20 PDT 2005

19834 [lbo-talk] Lanier v Merck: masterful lawyering -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 22, 2005 Side Effects Merck Loss Jolts Drug Giant, Industry In Landmark Vioxx Case, Jury Tuned Out Science, Explored Coverup Angle 'Shadow' Panel at McDonald's By HEATHER WON TESORIERO, ILAN BRAT, GARY MCWILLIAMS and BARBARA MARTINEZ Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ANGLETON, Texas -- In an ominous sign for Merck & Co., it took just an hour for a jury here to blow through the company's principal line of defense: that its painkiller Vioxx couldn't have c ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 22 10:32:06 PDT 2005

19835 [lbo-talk] Tasini on Northwest -- rank: 1000

<http://workinglife.typepad.com/daily_blog/2005/08/the_northwest_s.html> AUGUST 22, 2005 The Northwest Strike: Another (Bad) Watershed Moment It's never easy to do crystal-ball stuff, but, heck, they can't sue you, can they? Looking at this Northwest strike, all I can think is: it's the 1981 air-traffic controllers strike all over again. But, it's even uglier and potentially more far-reaching, if that's possible. And there are a few lessons here about the whole state of play in labor. It's ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 22 10:15:08 PDT 2005

19836 [lbo-talk] Quebec separatism -- rank: 1000

Mark S wrote: >I was in Montreal yesterday and I was impressed by the diversity >relative to other parts of Canada. I must have been spoiled by repeated exposure to Toronto, though that's practically the world record holder for diversity, no? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 22 10:07:54 PDT 2005

19837 [lbo-talk] AC on The Real Peace Ticket! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >"C. G. Estabrook" wrote: >> >> As a judgment on the Democratic party's general position in >> favor of continuing (and expanding) the war, that sounds >> pretty good. --CGE >> > >Read in context it's a gem. Do you have any idea who Ron Paul is? A wacko fundamentalist libertarian and goldbug. How can Cockburn go on about how awful Bernie Sanders is yet always find a moment to praise Ron Paul? Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 22 07:41:40 PDT 2005

19838 [lbo-talk] Defining Conservatism Down -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:08:29 -0600 Michael Pugliese ><michael.098762001 at gmail.com> writes: >> > >> >> >> http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_08_29/cover.html >> Defining Conservatism Down >> >> As the Right’s popularity has grown, its intellectual >> challenge >> to the Left has diminished. >> by Austin Bramwell > >A not uninteresting piece. Certainly, American conservatism >w ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 22 06:42:15 PDT 2005

19839 [lbo-talk] Quebec separatism -- rank: 1000

tfast at yorku.ca wrote: >Montreal is a fairly diverse city with old Jewish, Irish, Greek and Italian >communities and more recently home to different ethnic groups from across the >the francaphonie. For someone from New York, it was striking how white service personnel were, however - hotel workers, cabdrivers, restaurants & bars. A friend who just moved to Montreal from NYC told us that a friend of hers, a musician, said, "I like Montreal. But I couldn't live here - I'm black ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 21 19:00:07 PDT 2005

19840 [lbo-talk] AC on The Real Peace Ticket! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050829&s=cockburn> The Nation - August 29, 2005 Beat The Devil Alexander Cockburn ...Hagel and Ron Paul as the peace ticket in 2008! Who needs Democrats?

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Date:	Sun Aug 21 18:51:21 PDT 2005

19841 [lbo-talk] Quebec separatism -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >She will make a fine representative of Her Majesty. The Canadian >left has developed a new attachment to the monarchy since the >announcement. The controversy over whether they were closet separatists arose while we were visiting Quebec. What's happened since? So what about Quebec separatism in general? We were struck by the way signs and plaques referred to the "national" capital of Quebec City (and the dueling historical markers - vaguely pro-English s ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 21 08:11:33 PDT 2005

19842 [lbo-talk] Re: Yobs in uniform -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >The thin blue line is the only thing that >separates queers - or for that matter cranks of various stripes, such as >myself - from mob violence. Can you acknowledge that the TBL sometimes acts as a violent mob itself? Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 21 07:55:22 PDT 2005

19843 [lbo-talk] Wirenius v Newman: on the Nitke decision & the CDA -- rank: 1000

[Reviving an old controversy from several weeks ago... I forwarded Nathan's comments on the Nitke vs. Ashcroft decision to a friend who knows John Wirenius, Nitke's lawyer. Here's his response. Nathan's original remarks are at the end.] I've been directed to the comment on your blog that the Court's decision in NITKE v. GONZALES is merely a finding that no evidence was introduced to show that Ms. Nitke--and any other artists--were at more than a speculative risk of prosecution. The commenter c ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 21 07:47:48 PDT 2005

19844 [lbo-talk] crossing picket lines -- rank: 1000

Speaking of airlines.... Coming back from vacation and trying to figure out what happened while we were gone, I've been wondering - why haven't the other unions observed the Northwest machinists' picket lines? Is it just a lost cause? Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 21 07:26:53 PDT 2005

19845 [lbo-talk] Re:jews and zionism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Incidentally, those on the left who accuse the DP of cowardice, >stupidity, etc. are contributing to the power of the right. The DP >leadership are neither opportunistic nor cowardly, they are principled >and courageous in their political positions. The _believe_ in >imperialism abroad and repression at home, and would far rather lose >elections than in any way endanger these policies. I know you're not big on agency, but why would people devote themselves to ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 20 13:45:07 PDT 2005