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23491 [lbo-talk] Canadian opinion on SSM -- rank: 1000
Canadians And Same Sex Marriage As The Supreme Court Of Canada Makes Its Ruling: 71% Support Concept, 27% Don't Toronto, ON, December 9, 2004 - As the Supreme Court of Canada issues its opinion on the federal government's legislation to legalize same-sex marriage today, a poll of Canadians finds that a full majority (71%) support the concept of same sex marriage. However, these Canadians are split in how they would like the union recognized: four in ten (39%) believe same-sex marriage should be ...
Document Size: 5494
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 9 12:10:28 PST 2004
23492 [lbo-talk] Why Jews Hate Republicans, Part XVIV -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >O'Reilly and Company would not be saying this and similar things if it did >not resonate with the majority (or at least a big part) of the US >population. These guys are selling a product and would not say anything >that alienates their customers. Remember, 1) O'R & Fox have a righter-than-average audience, and 2) O'R's ratings are significantly lower than SpongeBob SquarePants'. Doug
Document Size: 5092
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 9 11:39:11 PST 2004
23493 [lbo-talk] homeless Iraq vets -- rank: 1000
[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] IRAQ VETS SHOWING UP AT HOMELESS SHELTERS http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041207-121848-6449r.htm UPI - U.S. veterans from the war in Iraq are beginning to show up at homeless shelters around the country, and advocates fear they are the leading edge of a new generation of homeless vets not seen since the Vietnam era. "When we already have people from Iraq on the streets, my God," said Linda Boone, executive director of the National Coaliti ...
Document Size: 5318
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 9 07:13:30 PST 2004
23494 [lbo-talk] Re: Anti-intellectualism [Was Thunderbird} -- rank: 1000
T Fast wrote: >Somewhat incoherent but does capture nicely the persistent strain of >populist anti-intellectual leftist here and elsewhere. The Oranges? Heavens no, they were a plague. They spewed jargon of the most ludicrous sort, and apparently their theory was that the working class was finished as an agent of revolution, and the real action now is in the academy. As I recall, Kelley had first-hand experience of these loons in Syracuse. Doug
Document Size: 5152
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 15:47:17 PST 2004
23495 [lbo-talk] All the complaints to the FCC come from one group! -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >And BTW, in terms of lesser evilism, WFP pushed it to the hilt. In >exchange for promises by the GOP State Senate Leader to pass the minimum >wage, the WFP agreed to endorse a number of Republicans in close races. >This isn't the kind of independent politics that most leftists advocate >electorally, but it definitely seems to have been effective. I've come around on the WFP. I even voted on their line on Nov 2. Doug
Document Size: 5297
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 15:09:20 PST 2004
23496 [lbo-talk] Re: Sachs... -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Chris Doss wrote: >>BTW does/did Sachs endorse the Gaidar strategy of >>freeing prices before breaking up the monopolies 9n >>1992? That was pretty fucking stupid. If the ensuing >>hyperinflation had not wiped out people's savings, >>amiddle class might have started forming in Russia in >>the early 1990s instead of the early 2000 ...
Document Size: 7112
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 14:43:01 PST 2004
23497 [lbo-talk] Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese quoted "Brian Ganter": >After the earthquake of Red Critique this is the very historical >"alliance" that the Coxs, the Proyects, the Henwoods and their >supporters do not want to hear read back to them. Ah, this takes me back. Was it only seven years ago? Doug
Document Size: 4943
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 13:47:22 PST 2004
23498 [lbo-talk] boss gets complaints from the help -- rank: 1000
U.S. Troops Fire Complaints at Rumsfeld By Tabassum Zakaria CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under friendly fire Wednesday from troops who took up his invitation to ask tough questions about Iraq (news - web sites). Hundreds of soldiers applauded a comrade who complained to Rumsfeld that U.S. troops were being forced to dig up scrap metal to protect their vehicles in Iraq because of a shortage of armored transport. "Why do we soldiers have to dig thro ...
Document Size: 8579
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 12:01:48 PST 2004
23499 [lbo-talk] Keep the war in Iraq naivete -- rank: 1000
Charles Brown wrote: >protect our country from the >terrorists. -Karen Beecher, Yates Center, Kan. Oh yes, Yates Center <http://tinyurl.com/44xgm> is in Al Qaeda's crosshairs right now! Doug
Document Size: 4777
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 10:41:59 PST 2004
23500 [lbo-talk] All the complaints to the FCC come from one group! -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Do not forget that the US and its institutions are a street with the right >turns only. No left turns are permitted. In the last week or so in New York State, thanks largely to organizing by the Working Families Party, the legislature (one of the worst in the country, by general agreement): 1) overrode the governor's veto of a $2 increase in the state minimum wage, and 2) significantly reduced the draconian drug sentences dating from the Rockefeller yaers, which ...
Document Size: 5482
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 09:28:41 PST 2004
23501 [lbo-talk] Re: Sachs... -- rank: 1000
Chris Doss wrote: >BTW does/did Sachs endorse the Gaidar strategy of >freeing prices before breaking up the monopolies 9n >1992? That was pretty fucking stupid. If the ensuing >hyperinflation had not wiped out people's savings, >amiddle class might have started forming in Russia in >the early 1990s instead of the early 2000s. People have claimed he privately welcomed the inflation and the destruction of savings, as part of the ground-clearing; he denies this furiously. Doug
Document Size: 4949
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 08:55:35 PST 2004
23502 [lbo-talk] advances in feline capital -- rank: 1000
Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - December 8, 2004 Online University Hears the Cat's Meow in Consumer-Fraud Lawsuit Over Bogus Degrees By DANIEL ENGBER A jet-black cat with short hair received an M.B.A. from an online university a few months ago, on the basis of its several semesters of course work and an impressive 3.5 grade-point average. Now the cat's owner -- Kathryn H. Silcox, of the Pennsylvania attorney general's office -- has organized a civil lawsuit against the university, al ...
Document Size: 7959
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 8 06:42:53 PST 2004
23503 [lbo-talk] Roach brightens -- rank: 1000
Dec 06, 2004 Global: Global Rebalancing at Work Stephen Roach (New York) The world economy is finally getting on with the heavy lifting of global rebalancing -- albeit grudgingly and not without a new set of tensions. Currency realignments are leading the way, triggering a long overdue shift in a lopsided world's relative price structure. But a weaker dollar can't do it alone. Adjustments in real interest rates, a narrowing of saving and consumption disparities, and the imperatives of fiscal dis ...
Document Size: 14885
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Dec 7 21:13:08 PST 2004
23504 [lbo-talk] changing the world by taking power -- rank: 1000
Thanks to Michael Pug for pointing out this fine interview with Tariq Ali: <http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1223>. An excerpt: >Do you see the US Empire absorbing this energy by trying to propose >a softer version of neoliberalism? > >I don't think they are, at the moment, prepared to do that. They >will only do that if they feel threatened. And they don't feel >threatened at the moment. And one reason-I have to be very blunt >here-they don't feel th ...
Document Size: 6550
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Dec 7 19:55:55 PST 2004
23505 [lbo-talk] a less heated view of the dollar -- rank: 1000
DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 12/07/04 Goldman Sachs Economics * Some observers have been critical of the Bush administration's apparent policy to let the dollar depreciate further. The criticism is that, by driving up import prices, this policy will make US households poorer. The critique also argues that the underlying problem is a shortfall of US saving and it is that problem that should be addressed. * Although we agree that a chronic saving shortfall is the proximate cause of the large US ...
Document Size: 10011
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Dec 7 19:50:12 PST 2004
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