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5416 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > The point is that the roots of "opportunism" and "betrayal" are > institutional, not moral. Only a political innocent would see today's > liberal leaders of mass organizations as simply "pricks" > enthusiastically > serving the ruling class who consciously started out with that in > mind. But of course Cde Cox never makes judgements of morals or intentions.

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5417 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And > for all the sneering at Bush he seems to have done pretty welll in > carrying out goals earlier DP & RP presidents had failed to achieve. Huh? Bush did more to damage the U.S. empire than a generation of anti- imperialists could manage. Obama is now busily repairing that damage. And Bush wrecked the finances of the U.S. government and laid the groundwork for a deep and nasty recession. It's one thing to say the Dems aren't wh ...

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5418 [lbo-talk] right-wing bonkerism -- rank: 1000

[This isn't from Human Events itself - just one of their advertisers. But it's a measure of how nutty the right has gotten in the Obama months.] PATRIOT UPDATE EXCLUSIVE: The Ten Commandments According to Obama © 2009 The Patriot Update. Feel free to circulate this article, but please give credit and link to The Patriot Update! Click here for the Online Version. After observing Obama on the campaign trail and during his first six months in office, we have concluded that our President lives ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 23 10:24:12 PDT 2009

5419 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 1000

Blue Dog Democrats Cashing in Their Clout Coalition s PAC is attracting new money from across the spectrum WASHINGTON, D.C., July 23, 2009 Whether the subject is health care reform, climate change, or pay-as-you-go budgeting rules, almost everyone, it seems, suddenly wants to talk with the Blue Dogs. The fiscally conservative Democrats have deftly turned themselves into a key voting bloc at the nexus of power. And as their clout has expanded, fundraising has grown too, not just from tradi ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 23 09:01:12 PDT 2009

5420 [lbo-talk] official Iranian press agency lauds MRZine -- rank: 1000

[posted to Marxmail by Lou Proyect - a comment on <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/iran210709.html > - Wilayto's article is at <http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/wilayto080709.html >] Monthly Review Reported: Collaboration of Iranian capitalists, Americans, and Zionists against Ahamadinejad. This the headline of today s front page of the Islamic Republic News Agency s website that is the voice of Ahmadinejad government. What follows is the Farsi translation of a long excerpt of ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 22 18:11:03 PDT 2009

5421 [lbo-talk] duh, DeLong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But in the short term, i.e., this Great Recession, there has been a > couple of records set as far as "people working part-time for > economic reasons," no? Which I think it what a lot of people > intuitively mean by the causalization of work even if it's not > technically temporary work. Oh, absolutely - though that's not what people really mean by the casualization. They talk as if it's a long-term trend starting s ...

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5422 [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard -- rank: 1000

This is your fifth post of the day. Moderation time. Doug On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I know that. But Time is inherently experienced as cyclic and > measurable, and activity as determined by that cyclicity, whether by > length of shadow, position of sun in sky (or absence thereof), or > numbers flashing on a screen. > > If you want to point at an invention that really revolutionized how > people organize time (and work), it would be the light bulb. > ...

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5423 [lbo-talk] duh, DeLong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > Does "temporary and flexible" neccessarily mean part-time or temp? The > number of careers and jobs an American has over her lifetime has > increased, > for instance. That's not all that clear either. Here's the history on job tenure. Note that the median number of years on the job for men in 2008 was about a year below what it was in 1966, but that's offset by an increase for women, leaving the overall figure unchang ...

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5424 [lbo-talk] duh, DeLong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > It involves, well, a shift away from fixed full-time > employment and toward a labor force retained on temporary and flexible > terms: a labor force whose stability, strength, and magnitude continue > to wane in ratio to the increase in constant capital This is widely believed, but not really borne out by the U.S. economic stats. Part-time employment was 12% of the total in 1960, 14% in 1970, 17% in 1980, 17% in 1990, and 16% in 2000. ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 22 11:28:20 PDT 2009

5425 [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Chris Doss wrote: His 4th post of the day. Those follow 5 yesterday, and 17 the day before. The limit is 3. Doug

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5426 [lbo-talk] What is culture? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Analysis of culture must start with and be dominated by this > organization of human activity by the clock. You've obviously never dealt with a retail establishment in Brooklyn. I *wish* they'd be more attentive to the clock. Doug

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5427 [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug is worse. People interact and create a fresh culture! > That trivializes culture; if that is culture, then the concept is > useless. Oh yeah? Tell it to Mike Davis, who wrote some nice stuff on the culture created at the U.S.-Mexico border. But you just wanted to say, "Doug is worse," didn't you? Doug

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5428 [lbo-talk] ObamaCare failing -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/121814/More-Disapprove-Than-Approve-Obama-Healthcare.aspx > More Disapprove Than Approve of Obama on Healthcare President is rated higher on international than on domestic issues by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies, the latest USA Today/Gallup poll finds that more Americans disapprove (50%) than approve (44%) of the way U.S. President Barack Obama is handling healthcare policy. There is a tremendous partisan g ...

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5429 [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Five hundred languages, each spoken only by one > sub-section of the ppulation, simply gives you the equivalent of 500 > midwestern villages all gathered on the same ground. No it doesn't. People living next to each other have to interact and create fresh cultures. Where do you get off, issuing know-nothing proclamations from the middle of a cornfield? Doug

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5430 [lbo-talk] Triple Your (Big) Lizard (in My Backyard) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 20, 2009, at 6:36 PM, John Gulick wrote: >> [lbo-talk] Triple Your (Big) Lizard (in My Backyard)crap, I forgot >> that she bought a tricked out Escalade for cruzin' Paramus... > > Yeah, and "Donna" is too ethno-religiously specific... Jersey Look > II is multi-culti and even borrows/incorporates aspects of SoCal > Asian-American after-market muffler/bad boyz/street racing culture. I spend all too much time in NJ lately, but still I'm impressed by how muc ...

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