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2836 [lbo-talk] Query BLS replacement data series -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:10 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > I made extensive use of series: CEU0500000049 non-supervisory workers > average hourly wage in real dollars. Historical through current. That > database is discontinued. However the data is still maintain, because > the report to the President has that same data from the 60's through > 2009 for private industry. Anyone know the series Id that replaced it? > Or another way to find it. The standard BLS query screens I found > p ...

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2837 [lbo-talk] delusional -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:21 PM, SA wrote: > On 11/15/2010 8:44 PM, Doug Henwood quoted: > >> >> In 2008, Obama won 69.5 million votes. So about 29 million Obama voters did not show up in 2010. >> > > First of all, comparing turnout in a midterm election with turnout in a presidential election makes no damn sense at all. > > Compare 2006 with 2010. In 2006, 18-29 year olds were 12% of voters; in 2010 they were 11%. In 2006, self-described liberals were 20% of vote ...

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2838 [lbo-talk] delusional -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2010, at 7:54 PM, SA wrote: > So are you really so certain Obama and the Dems are wrong (from their narrow, politician's POV) to take the positions they're taking on the tax issue? http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2010/11/obamas-no-shows-29-million.html [Gary Langer] Obama's No-Shows: 29 Million November 03, 2010 4:32 PM One way to look at yesterday s election is to say that about 29 million Obama voters from 2008 simply didn t show up this time around. Here s how: Current estim ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 15 17:44:07 PST 2010

2839 [lbo-talk] James Blunt prevented WW3 -- rank: 1000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050 Singer James Blunt 'prevented World War III' Singer James Blunt has told the BBC how he refused an order to attack Russian troops when he was a British soldier in Kosovo.Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial by rejecting the order from a US General. But he was backed by British Gen Sir Mike Jackson, who said: "I'm not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III." Blunt was ordered to seize an airfield, b ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 15 17:40:55 PST 2010

2840 [lbo-talk] everything sucks and is getting worse (cont.) -- rank: 1000

http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/oh-mark-zuckerberg-who-gives-a-crap-what-illiterate-children-want Monday, November 15th, 2010 TECHNOIDIOCRACY Oh Mark Zuckerberg, Who Gives a Crap What Illiterate Children Want? by Choire Sicha on November 15th, 2010 "Zuckerberg tells an anecdote about his girlfriend's sister a high-schooler. Conversations with high-schoolers 'make me feel old.' High-schoolers say 'we don't use email. It's too slow.'" So goes this morning's press conference and so now ther ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 15 17:32:26 PST 2010

2841 [lbo-talk] delusional -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2010, at 7:54 PM, SA wrote: > This is what I mean when I say the conservatives have escalation dominance. They have more weapons and more forces and in a confrontation they are much more likely to win. Maybe. But when in the last 30 years have they even tried? Well, there was the early Clinton tax increase and that was a success. I don't think it's electoral calculation. It's fear of their funders. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 15 17:20:58 PST 2010

2842 [lbo-talk] Huffington sued -- rank: 1000

"The most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus," as she was nicknamed in London back in the 1970s, is being sued! http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45168.html ... Two Democratic consultants are accusing Arianna Huffington and her business partner of stealing their idea for the powerhouse liberal website Huffington Post. Peter Daou and James Boyce charge that Huffington and partner Ken Lerer designed the website from a plan they had presented them, and in doing so, violated a hand ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 15 16:24:20 PST 2010

2843 [lbo-talk] Gary Null, AIDS denialist, back on WBAI -- rank: 1000

Pacifica death watch (cont.): Gary Null edition http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/15/pacifica-death-watch-cont-gary-null-edition/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 12:55:36 PST 2010

2844 [lbo-talk] buy a truck, get a free AK-47 -- rank: 1000

via Gawker: http://www.nationstrucks.com/index.htm

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Date:	Mon Nov 15 10:43:55 PST 2010

2845 [lbo-talk] delusional -- rank: 1000

On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > My point, I'm afraid, also involves some guessing at hidden intentions -- > but that merely puts the two hypotheses (delusional or "crazy like a fox") > on an even keel. Does this notion of rationality including losing the 2012 election? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 09:35:11 PST 2010

2846 [lbo-talk] delusional -- rank: 1000

This man is delusional. From The Note: > After a 10-day trip to Asia, President Obama returned the focus to domestic issues on Sunday vowing that while there would be plenty of time for "philosophical debates" in the new year, for now, Americans want to see Democrats and Republicans "engage constructively" and get a thing or two done during the lame duck session of Congress.

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Date:	Mon Nov 15 08:30:25 PST 2010

2847 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > I saw Paul Jay interviewing her at PERI, are there any > videos/transcripts of the proceedings themselves? No. Jay & Co. were up there, but the lighting didn't work. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 14 08:23:51 PST 2010

2848 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > What did you/do you think of Yves Smith? She's good. I interviewed her when her book came out (the audio quality sucked for some reason I can't figure out): http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S100729. The excellent Rob Weissman is also on that show. I was just on a panel with her up at UMass a week ago, too. Her point about how the end of the partnership structure on Wall Street contributed to recklessness is important, and not mad ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 14 06:00:58 PST 2010

2849 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> Note: this show no longer originates at WBAI. For an explanation, see the links on the radio archive page, below. -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive (and apologies for the delay) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: November 13, 2010 Le ...

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2850 [lbo-talk] Query -- rank: 1000

lbo83235: > > Collected Works, vol 31, discussion of Kommunismus. Fourth paragraph here: > > http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jun/12.htm "Is it permissible to disregard and to gloss over the experience of the Bolsheviks, who, in April and May 1917, pursued what was in fact a policy of compromise, when they declared that the Provisional Government (Lvov, Milyukov, Kerensky and the rest) could not be overthrown at once, since in the Soviets, they still had the back ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 13:26:38 PST 2010