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23446 [lbo-talk] "pale male" ... question to new yorkers... -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >i am probably going to regret bringing this up, but is anyone else >irritated with this pale male business? Yeah. The damned thing was dropping bloody carcasses on the sidewalk. I'd be bummed and want it evicted too. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 15:41:39 PST 2004

23447 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, the US working class...... -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Also, does anyone know the numbers of desire for small business ownership? I got it from Reeve Vanneman and Lynn Weber Cannon's The American Perception of Class (e.g., pp. 86-87). They argue that the petty bourgeois aspirations (their phrase, not mine) of the U.S. working class don't necessarily reflect a lack of class consciousness - they're aware of getting screwed by the boss - but "self-employment - however remote a possibility - seems to offer a more realistic chan ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 09:38:47 PST 2004

23448 [lbo-talk] Re: meanwhile, the US working class...... -- rank: 1000

Julio Huato wrote: >I don't know if this has been empirically tested. But my impression >is that, among the rich countries, the U.S. has more inequality but >also more social mobility. The latter is the "material basis" for >the fantasy (with or without quotation marks). I think of the U.S. >society like a casino where you don't have to pay cover, >significantly bigger prizes, but also a larger probability of losing >the shirt. I've read a few papers comparing m ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 19 09:24:54 PST 2004

23449 [lbo-talk] Re: meanwhile, the US working class...... -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: > >>the only hope for escape from the pressures of working class life >>is by becoming a business owner. >> >>Doug >> >Easier said then done. Absolutely, but the fantasy to the contrary plays a big part in producing working class consent.

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Date:	Sat Dec 18 16:20:54 PST 2004

23450 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, the US working class...... -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >In spite of all this Cobbs goal is own her own Temp Service so she >can help hundreds of people have an even more marginal existence >than hers while she profits from it? This is warped. She wants to >make a $350 a month car payment and pay $400 for health-insurance >and she aspires to pay someone maybe $800 to $1000 a month while >hiring them out to a company for maybe one and a half times that and >pocket the difference. Something is seriously wrong w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 18 14:18:49 PST 2004

23451 [lbo-talk] challanges -- rank: 1000

<http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5864.shtml> By Staff and Wire Reports Dec 17, 2004, 05:33 The White House went all out to showcase the advantages of President Bush's ambitious financial agenda this week, but in the end the "challenges" proved too much. The word "challenges" -- a main theme of a two-day White House economic conference that ended on Thursday -- was misspelled on a large television monitor that stood in front of Bush during a panel ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 17 16:27:27 PST 2004

23452 [lbo-talk] First Day of Fare Strike Descends on Chicago -- rank: 1000

Years ago, I heard Ernest Mandel suggest that instead of going on strike, transit workers should just let the public ride for free - they'd win allies among the masses rather than making enemies. It seemed like such a good idea I wonder why it hasn't been tried. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 17 09:48:38 PST 2004

23453 [lbo-talk] Re: lavender slavery? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"Was Abraham Lincoln a gay American?" > >so? this would mean something to gossip mongers and possibly the most >idiotic republicans, but what does it matter, really? So it wouldn't matter at all if it turned out that our most revered president was a member of a widely despised sexual minority? And what's wrong with gossip, anyway? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 12:49:34 PST 2004

23454 [lbo-talk] Christians from Hell -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >I think Carrol asks an important question: is christian >fundemenatlism an ideological resource ready to hand that >conservatives gravitate towards to legitimate their conservatism or >populist reactions? Or rather, is christian fundementalism that >which produces conservatism and populist reaction? The former makes >one want to ask the further question about why people come to hold >conservative values and employ reactionary populism. The latter >termina ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 12:41:27 PST 2004

23455 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Bill Hicks turns 43 today. -- rank: 1000

From: publicity at softskull.com Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:33:56 -0800 (PST) 43 candles in the birthday cake. Is Bill Hicks still relevant? Let's ponder a factoid that came out last week and then look at one of Bill's quotes that can be found in his new book, LOVE ALL THE PEOPLE <http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-65-4> "In 2004, 99.9% of complaints about TV, other than the Super Bowl, came from one source"--Mediaweek December, 2004 "The truth is, the ma ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 11:59:16 PST 2004

23456 [lbo-talk] Christians from Hell -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >How are we to control for all these variables? Isn't this maternal >medication and homsexuality all over again? Uh, not really. Are you trying to argue that conservative Protestantism isn't all that important an ideological force in the U.S., but just one of scores or hundreds of variables? If you think that, I have to wonder once again where you've been all these years. But I'll cut you some slack and ask instead. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 09:42:04 PST 2004

23457 [lbo-talk] has female labor force participation peaked? -- rank: 1000

>DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 12/13/04 Goldman Sachs Economics > >*The female labor force participation rate had increased for a >half-century before leveling off in the late 1990s. It >reached its peak in March 2001, coinciding with the peak of >the economic cycle, before declining over the last several >years. While most other demographic groups have experienced an >increase in their participation rates in 2004 with the >improvement in the labor market, women have ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 07:19:14 PST 2004

23458 [lbo-talk] Ayn Rand Institute: Xmas Should Be More Commercial -- rank: 1000

Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial By Leonard Peikoff Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as "materialistic"; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) that no one takes seriously. In fact, Christmas as we celebrate it today is a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and prosperity ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 07:13:07 PST 2004

23459 [lbo-talk] Greenspan wooed for Treasury -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 16, 2004 Greenspan 'rejected' offer to become US Treasury chief By Andrew Balls in Washington Published: December 16 2004 04:57 Last updated: December 16 2004 14:51 Senior Republicans sounded out Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, about taking over from John Snow as US Treasury secretary, the Financial Times has learnt. The informal approach, which would have put the most respected economic leader in the US in charge of President George W. Bush's ambitiou ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 16 07:09:57 PST 2004

23460 [lbo-talk] dreamscapes -- rank: 1000

Sydney Morning Herald - December 16, 2004 A man testifying in the case of an alleged terrorist today admitted to lying about his experiences in Pakistan, where he attended training camps run by banned terrorist organisation, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Hamdi, who has been jailed in the US on terrorism-related charges was giving evidence in the committal hearing of Sydney architect Faheem Khalid Lodhi. The court has previously been told Lodhi, 34, acted as an official at an LeT camp i ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 15 21:12:10 PST 2004