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8941 [lbo-talk] blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Chris Doss wrote: His 8th post of the day. Yesterday, it was 7. The limit is 3. Listmom

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 13:08:58 PST 2008

8942 [lbo-talk] Damon Silvers: The signal theory of labor law -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > The pinkie counts as a finger, right? What are the terms of the bet? > I'm envisioning a splash screen to > http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ comprised of a picture of you in > a purple SEIU t-shirt holding up a sign which reads "I heart Andy > Stern." I'll provide the t-shirt. Ha. Funny. I do have a 32B-J shirt, which I wear to the gym.

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 11:40:28 PST 2008

8943 [lbo-talk] Republican woody generator -- rank: 1000

[she's got a gun over her shoulder on the cover!] The Sarah Palin 2009 Wall Calendar A personal look at Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin went from virtual obscurity to huge popularity as Presidential Candidate John McCain's running mate. Since then she has re-energized the Conservative base of the Republican Party. As a front runner in the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, she is showing America that she is willing to reform her own party and politics as usual. Now you can have your ver ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 10:37:09 PST 2008

8944 [lbo-talk] Damon Silvers: The signal theory of labor law -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > This was tongue in cheek, of course. We and the rest of labor are busy > sending out (real) clips of Obama stating his support of EFCA. That and $2.00 - soon $2.50!, though you can save money with a 7- or 30-day unlimited ride card - will get you on the subway. Betcha he doesn't lift a finger to promote EFCA. Ok, one finger. But not two. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 10:09:29 PST 2008

8945 [lbo-talk] Obama, 1996 model -- rank: 1000

[I posted this back in Feb. Worth re-reading now. Adolph Reed in the Village Voice, 1996] Right now in Chicago, for instance, we're getting a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, is running for a state senate seat with a base entirely in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line is softened by a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 4 10:06:16 PST 2008

8946 [lbo-talk] me & Anwar @ NYU -- rank: 1000

Yeah, I'm going. Gotta be on the panel, you know. On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > i'm not going. are you? > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:41 AM > Subject: [lbo-talk] me & Anwar @ NYU > > >> THE DEEPENING ECONOMIC DISASTER: >> CAUSES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE >> A p ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 09:10:51 PST 2008

8947 [lbo-talk] me & Anwar @ NYU -- rank: 1000

THE DEEPENING ECONOMIC DISASTER: CAUSES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE A panel and public discussion featuring: Doug Henwood: Editor of Left Business Observer and host of WBAI's Behind The News. Anwar Shaikh: Professor of Economics, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research. When: Thursday, December 4, 7:00 PM Where: NYU. 19 University Place, Room 102 * What is the crisis? Are its main features similar to or different from past economic crises? * In ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 07:41:34 PST 2008

8948 [lbo-talk] Iraq and "reality" -- rank: 1000

[Ah, "reality."] <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20080331/006227.html > [when withdrawal doesn't really mean withdrawal...] New York Sun - April 4, 2008 <http://nysun.com/politics/obama-adviser-calls-troops-stay-iraq- through-2010 > Obama Adviser Calls for Troops To Stay in Iraq Through 2010 By ELI LAKE, STAFF REPORTER OF THE SUN WASHINGTON A key adviser to Senator Obama's campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep bet ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 4 07:34:42 PST 2008

8949 [lbo-talk] Moe moves on... -- rank: 1000

[Gawker/Jezebel alumna Moe Tkacik moves on to better things...let's hope she can pay her rent.] <http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/a_crash_course_in_crisis_economics/ > A Crash Course in Crisis Economics**Starring (to the Extent, for Good or for Ill, That Any of This Can Come Down to One Person, Which as We'll See Is Only So Much) Barney Frank By Maureen Tkacik I. A Refresher on Recent Events and a Primer on Important Terminology Inside Barney Frank's district office in Newtonville ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 3 14:46:20 PST 2008

8950 [lbo-talk] Krozner: don't blame CRA -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ's Real Time Economics blog] Fed's Kroszner: Don't Blame CRA Federal Reserve governor Randall Kroszner, a conservative economist on leave from a teaching post at the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, says the Community Reinvestment Act isn t to blame for the subprime mess, despite some accusations to the contrary. First, only a small portion of subprime mortgage originations are related to the CRA. Second, CRA- related loans appear to perform comparably t ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 13:37:12 PST 2008

8951 [lbo-talk] blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2008, at 3:03 PM, SA wrote: > I'm for a compromise formula, where you vote by shooting a ballot > with a gun while shouting revolutionary slogans. It requires precise > marksmanship. Don't forget the ritual denunciations of intellectual wankers who aren't out organizing for SEIU!

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 12:08:48 PST 2008

8952 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker: let house prices fall further -- rank: 1000

[House prices will fall further, but this sounds indifferent to the effects this will have on household finances - and on the lenders. Which is odd for someone who now opposes a financial bailout, after having supported it for a couple of days.] House Prices Must Return to Trend Levels to Stabilize Market GSEs can play positive role in deflating housing bubble. For Immediate Release: December 3, 2008 WASHINGTON, DC- With new data coming out each week lamenting plummeting house prices and som ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 12:08:09 PST 2008

8953 [lbo-talk] blacks about as morally conservative as Republicans -- rank: 1000

[more issue detail at original] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/112807/Blacks-Conservative-Republicans-Some-Moral-Issues.aspx > December 3, 2008 Blacks as Conservative as Republicans on Some Moral Issues One explanation: Black Democrats are much more religious than nonblack Democrats by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ -- Only 31% of black Democrats in America say homosexual relations are morally acceptable, roughly the same as the 30% of Republicans who agree, while very much different from the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 3 10:03:25 PST 2008

8954 [lbo-talk] polling the auto bailout -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2008/12/big-three-bailo.html> The Numbers A Run at the Latest Data from ABC's Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer Big Three Bailout: A Data Drive-Through December 03, 2008 11:39 AM This week s attention on government loans for the Big Three automakers makes a drive-through of available data worthwhile. Buckle up: There are some road hazards. The data point I like best - don t be surprised - is from our own ABC News poll Nov. 23, in which we found 57 perce ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 08:51:19 PST 2008

8955 [lbo-talk] Klein's work (was Re: Jezebel does Naomi Klein) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Shane Taylor wrote: > This reviewer strains to sympathize, but doesn't make a strong sell > for the book: > > <http://www.chrishayes.org/articles/new-road-serfdom/> Where he says: > While Klein calls this the shock doctrine, I prefer a phrase she > quotes from former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, who > called those who imposed free-market shock therapy on Russia in > the early 90s market Bolsheviks. Unfair to the Bolsh ...

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