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2851 [lbo-talk] NYC's new school's chief: "no education babble"! -- rank: 1000
[no, instead corporate babble!] <http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/black_fearless_straight_shooter_uW94Yn3sbt8Xvuyr21x0cN#ixzz156GufAPy> Black a 'fearless' straight-shooter: friends By CHUCK BENNETT Last Updated: 10:09 AM, November 11, 2010 There'll be no education babble coming from the city's new schools chief. Cathie Black, the chairwoman of the Hearst publishing empire tapped by Mayor Bloomberg to become schools chancellor, is a straight shooter who demands accountability from her tea ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 12 21:34:36 PST 2010
2852 [lbo-talk] that compromise thing -- rank: 1000
[from The Note] THE GOP TO-DO LIST. House Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner pledged on Capitol Hill yesterday "to fix the Congress so that the Congress can focus in on Americans' priorities," adding that "their priorities are pretty straightforward." But a new poll out today indicates that the public's priorities may not be quite as "straightforward" as he and his fellow Republicans would like. On the issue of repealing the health care reform law, for example, the Ame ...
Document Size: 5324
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 11 06:29:04 PST 2010
2853 [lbo-talk] any irish lbo-talkers out there? -- rank: 1000
On Nov 11, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Mark Samborski: Then costs could possibly be officially shared over a larger > population base and economy. > > Over a period of a decade or two several million deaths are probably hidden > in that little word "costs." I really don't think that Mark Samborski was talking about that sort of thing. Doug
Document Size: 5025
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 11 06:28:00 PST 2010
2854 [lbo-talk] Why Obama doesn't suck -- rank: 1000
SA, questions at that level of abstraction - do you like compromise? - tap into "common sense" and inherited ideology. As that awful Alan Wolfe book showed long ago, the default instinct of the American middle class is to avoid conflict and split the difference (the popularity of Fox to the contrary). Still, the party that opposes compromise won a pretty big victory - mostly because it was the other choice, not because of any great support for their agenda. If you ask specific question ...
Document Size: 5219
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 11 04:28:09 PST 2010
2855 [lbo-talk] Why Obama doesn't suck -- rank: 1000
On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:43 PM, SA wrote: > Yes, but they're always open to compromise! Meaning giving into the Reps, who never compromise on anything. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 10 20:17:55 PST 2010
2856 [lbo-talk] Debt Commission Targets Social Security, Medicare -- rank: 1000
This thing's DOA. Too much to hate for too many people.
Document Size: 4785
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 10 14:10:19 PST 2010
2857 [lbo-talk] deficit commission recommendations -- rank: 1000
http://documents.nytimes.com/draft-proposal-from-the-national-commission-on-fiscal-responsibility-and-reform?ref=politics#p=1
Document Size: 4804
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 10 11:13:19 PST 2010
2858 [lbo-talk] London calling -- rank: 1000
A hedge fund friend reports that CNBC is obsessively reporting on these demos. To them, the class struggle is front of mind. Doug
Document Size: 4582
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 10 09:15:55 PST 2010
2859 [lbo-talk] Bush: I'd have endorsed Obama if they'd asked me -- rank: 1000
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/11/bush-i-probably-wont-even-vote-for-mccain/ Back to Westminster Blog: The latest on UK politics homepage Bush: I probably won t even vote for McCain November 9, 2010 3:51pm by Alex Barker | Share George W. Bush s bombastic return to the world stage has reminded me of my favourite Bush anecdote, which for various reasons we couldn t publish at the time. Some of the witnesses still dine out on it. The venue was the Oval Office. A group of British dignitaries ...
Document Size: 6818
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 10 08:22:46 PST 2010
2860 [lbo-talk] Zizek: all communists are bourgeois snobs -- rank: 1000
[via Lou Proyect] <http://www.observer.com/2010/slavoj-zizek-bourgeois-snob> "Beneath every Communist," said Mr. Zizek, "there is a secret bourgeois snob. At least I admit to it."
Document Size: 4889
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 10 08:15:20 PST 2010
2861 [lbo-talk] The Democrats and the Bush tax cuts -- rank: 1000
On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > If the Obama administration is true to form, it won't take a stand. If the liberal wing of the party is true to form, it will criticize the administration for missing another opportunity to pass good policy and to portray the Republicans as the party of the rich. If Carrol is true to form, he will say it's "silly" to concern ourselves with an irrelevant issue which has nothing to do with the more important task of building a revolut ...
Document Size: 5544
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Nov 10 08:05:32 PST 2010
2862 [lbo-talk] Imperial Chickens Come Home to Roost -- rank: 1000
On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:08 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > On Tue, November 9, 2010 3:01 pm, Max Sawicky wrote: > >> The Chinese move seems political to me, in re: the QE2 palaver. > > Dagong isn't some Astroturf group cooked up to make headlines. Judging by > its mandate, stated methodology and research reports, it's clearly meant > to be a sovereign ratings agency, design to help cash-rich Chinese > institutions make informed decisions about foreign investments around ...
Document Size: 5672
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Nov 9 18:18:20 PST 2010
2863 [lbo-talk] anatomy lesson -- rank: 1000
http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/report-asses-expanding BOTTOM FEEDING Report: Asses Expanding by Alex Balk on November 9th, 2010 Good morning. An investigation of 18,000 British asses has revealed some shocking new details that are absolutely rocking the field of Female Ass Studies: Evolution has resulted in a "plumper, rounder and [more] squishy to the touch" ass in almost half of the asses surveyed. These enhanced asses known in the technical jargon as "tomatoes," due to thei ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Nov 9 18:07:24 PST 2010
2864 [lbo-talk] "We have already sacrificed our youth! Can we do more?" -- rank: 1000
I recently looked at the Irish stats - their fiscal retrenchment has produced no deficit reduction and a relentless rise in bond rates.
Document Size: 5023
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Nov 9 15:27:46 PST 2010
2865 [lbo-talk] schools in NYC: just another media biz -- rank: 1000
<http://gawker.com/5685754/joel-klein-to-news-corp-cathie-black-to-head-nyc-schools> Joel Klein, who's been the head of the New York City school system since 2002, is stepping down to take a job at News Corp. One insane job to another! His replacement: Hearst chairman Cathie Black. Most media-y school system trade ever! Klein will become an executive vice president at News Corp, where he'll no doubt be advising Rupert Murdoch on how to hit it big in the for-profit educational marketplace. ...
Document Size: 5533
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Nov 9 13:35:50 PST 2010
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