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27091 [lbo-talk] Camejo-Huffington deal? -- rank: 1000
{Someone who worked with Arianna in London in the 1970s said she was called "The most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus."] Los Angeles Times - August 13, 2003 Camejo, Huffington Form Unorthodox Alliance By Lee Romney, Times Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Green Party gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo announced Tuesday that he and nonpartisan Arianna Huffington will jointly campaign for issues in the coming months, then decide together near the end of the race which candidate is better ...
Document Size: 10453
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 13 09:10:46 PDT 2003
27092 [lbo-talk] service coops (was Servant culture) -- rank: 1000
Kelley wrote: >At 09:55 AM 8/13/03 -0400, Wojtek Sokolowski scribbled: > >>Instead, she >>chose to extensively rant about the life styles of people who hire >>domestic servants. > >maybe you could actually quote her extensive rants? But that would interfere with all the fun! These critiques are pretty amazing. Ehrenreich is one of the finest journalists in the U.S. She's smart, original, and thoughtful. Yet people who haven't read her stuff assume that she's some mo ...
Document Size: 5269
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 13 08:49:29 PDT 2003
27093 [lbo-talk] that George is a doll! -- rank: 1000
[pic at <http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/3151.htm>] New York Post - August 13, 2003 DUBYA A REAL DOLL By VINCENT MORRIS WASHINGTON - Meet GI George, a high-flying, helmet-carrying Navy pilot who should be strutting into a toy store near you by September. Blue Box Toys, a Chinese company that also produces "Little Kitty" products, is hoping to sell at least 5,000 of the 12-inch-tall Bush figurines commemorating the president's May 1 landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircr ...
Document Size: 8038
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 13 06:58:17 PDT 2003
27094 [lbo-talk] Servant culture -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Ah, yes, but for the deleterious impact of the feminist movement, >women of the class who hire immigrant nannies and maids from Haiti, >Jamaica, etc. and, say, sit on the boards of big multinational >corporations today would be employing the same immigrant nannies and >maids and organizing charity balls for worthy genteel causes. If it >were not for affirmative action due to the feminist movement, the >civil rights movement, etc., they wouldn't even ...
Document Size: 5539
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 16:40:27 PDT 2003
27095 [lbo-talk] Re:$20 million fire tied to eco-terrorists -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: >Al-Qaeda? Not quite. The above is from a communiqué by Craig >Rosebraugh, former media spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front. >The communiqué, entitled "A Message to the Anti-War Movement," >http://www.pentagonlies.com/antiwarmessage.html >was issued and distributed by Rosebraugh's new organization, Arissa. >http://www.arissa.org/ Wow, which aims to foment a revolutionary consciousness in Americans using high-quality media techniques! < ...
Document Size: 5495
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 16:01:03 PDT 2003
27096 [lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall -- rank: 1000
Eubulides wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Brad DeLong" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> > >> >Governors are about governments, which can't be trusted, since they >> >have their own interests, unlike juries, which dissolve upon >> >delivering a verdict. Ralph doesn't seem to believe that agents can >> >be trusted or that it's possible for principals to discipline them. >> >You could call his POV anarchism, b ...
Document Size: 6497
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 15:55:03 PDT 2003
27097 [lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall -- rank: 1000
Brad DeLong wrote: >Interesting how "elect somebody who will be a good governor" is not >on the list of things that Nader thinks are worth doing. > >What a dork. Governors are about governments, which can't be trusted, since they have their own interests, unlike juries, which dissolve upon delivering a verdict. Ralph doesn't seem to believe that agents can be trusted or that it's possible for principals to discipline them. You could call his POV anarchism, but I suspect the ...
Document Size: 5074
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 14:23:15 PDT 2003
27098 [lbo-talk] Iraq to cost $600b? -- rank: 1000
Jordan Hayes wrote: > > Gas did fall from $1.73 a gallon in March to $1.53 in >> June, but it's back up to $1.58 now - 14 cents higher >> than a year ago and 35 cents higher than Dec 2001. > >How much of that is taxes? Is there a dataset that takes taxes out of >the equation? I wonder if states are raising gas taxes to help the >budget shortfalls? The EIA's series includes taxes, and is an average of all blends in all regions. I don't think taxes have been rais ...
Document Size: 5208
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 14:19:31 PDT 2003
27099 [lbo-talk] Servant culture -- rank: 1000
Charles Brown wrote: >CB ( writing from the real world): I don't think Yoshie is doubting that a >few self-professed Marxist/Feminists or white pwoggies have Black nannies >form other countries.. I think she's asking for evidence to support the >claim that they wouldn't have had nannies if they hadn't been feminists. They might not be employed for pay if it weren't for the feminist movement. Doug
Document Size: 4867
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 13:40:46 PDT 2003
27100 [lbo-talk] nonpartisan elections -- rank: 1000
[One effect of the California recall will probably be to erode further the role of political parties, as personalities like Arnie & Arianna take center stage. Here's an excerpt from an essay by Ken Sherrill of the Hunter College poli sci department that criticizes nonpartisan elections. It's from the Summer 1998 ish of Social Policy.] [...] One recent standard text, State and Local Politics, by Straayer, Winkle, and Polinard (2nd edition, 1998, St. Martin's Press) puts the standard view of n ...
Document Size: 13187
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 13:19:46 PDT 2003
27101 [lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall -- rank: 1000
Los Angeles Times - August 12, 2003 Make the Recall Count Californians have a real chance to snatch opportunity from a potential political debacle By Ralph Nader Ralph Nader ran for president in 2000. The upcoming California gubernatorial recall election (the first ever) has been described as a "circus," a "farce," "wacky" and "show business." More reflective observations have described it as a recall qualified by Republican multimillionaires to set up oth ...
Document Size: 9729
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 13:17:20 PDT 2003
27102 [lbo-talk] Gen Clark to parachute in? -- rank: 1000
Boston Globe - August 12, 2003 Clark seen planning Democratic nomination bid By Bryan Bender, Globe Correspondent WASHINGTON -- In the strongest signal yet that retired US Army General Wesley K. Clark, the former NATO commander, is planning to join the Democratic presidential race, Clark told volunteers last week to step up their efforts and prepare for an announcement on Labor Day. If Clark, 58, does take on the nine announced Democratic candidates, supporters say he would offer a strong voice ...
Document Size: 8784
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 13:13:30 PDT 2003
27103 [lbo-talk] Iraq to cost $600b? -- rank: 1000
Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I know the numbers are still "hazy" at this point >(perhaps deliberately so) but I truly think it's time >for economists to start taking the occupation of Iraq >- along wih all the other hyper militarist actions >underway - into account in their estimations of the >present health and future prospects of the US economy. That's hard to do when you don't know how much it's going to cost. The U.S. could afford a $100b pricetag fairly easily. If it pu ...
Document Size: 5442
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 12:59:24 PDT 2003
27104 [lbo-talk] Gitmo numbers puzzle -- rank: 1000
[Reuters via the NY Post] U.S. ADMITS GITMO NUMBERS PUZZLE August 12, 2003 -- SAN FRANCISCO - The United States said yesterday it had neither an exact count nor all the names of hundreds of people captured in Afghanistan and now detained at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Federal lawyers made the disclosure during a court hearing in a case on behalf of Falen Gherebi, a Libyan national believed to be in custody in Cuba. At the appeals court hearing yesterday, a scheduled discussion over th ...
Document Size: 5864
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 12:34:22 PDT 2003
27105 [lbo-talk] Iraq to cost $600b? -- rank: 1000
USA Today - August 11, 2003 Postwar Iraq likely to cost more than war WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. bill for rebuilding Iraq and maintaining security there is widely expected to exceed the war's price tag, but the Bush administration is offering only hazy details about the multibillion-dollar totals. Private analysts have estimated that the cost of U.S. military and nation-building operations in Iraq could reach $600 billion. But the closest the administration has come to estimating America's postw ...
Document Size: 9286
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 12 12:15:11 PDT 2003
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