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9001 [lbo-talk] SEIU allows employers to exclude workers from unions -- rank: 1000

On Aug 22, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > It seems as if you don't understand this. No rights have been > sacrificed at all. Here's what the article says: <http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/22/seiu> > Secret Deal Promises 'Labor Peace' > > A summary of the "Big 3" agreement, which was provided to Inside > Higher Ed, details how SEIU allowed employers not workers to > dictate where unionization would take place. The agreement, forged > by ...

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9002 [lbo-talk] SEIU allows employers to exclude workers from unions -- rank: 1000

On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Another lovely SEIU union building strategy: allow food service > companies to decide which of their units will be unionized and which > will not. Details at http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/22/seiu > and be sure to look at the "summary of the "Big 3" agreement" in > para 10. I guess it's easy to build unions--if you sacrifice some > workers' rights to unionize! Another charming aspect to the story ...

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9003 [lbo-talk] SEIU -- rank: 1000

On Aug 22, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Doug, did it occur to you that the story you're whining in response > to was announcing that SEIU just got -rid- of Tyrone? Have you so > mentally checked out from the give and take of intellectual debate > when it concerns SEIU, are you so posting on autopilot, that you > didn't even read what this article was reporting? and > Serious question- why do you assert Freeman is a 'Stern protege'? > Look, I just find it hilarious ...

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9004 [lbo-talk] stupid press release of the week -- rank: 1000

From: "Gregg Stebben" <Gregg at eGregg.com> Date: August 22, 2008 7:52:36 AM EDT To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Interview author: HITLER...was FATHER of ISLAMIC TERRORISM?? Hi, Doug -- John Rothmann is a talk-show host for KGO Radio in San Francisco... ...and he is also the author of the new book called ICON OF EVIL. In his new book, John traces the roots of our battle today against Islamofacist terrorism... ...back to World War II, Nazi Germany and Adolph Hitler. Sound far- ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 06:08:54 PDT 2008

9005 [lbo-talk] Putin's Dreams: Torn to Tatars? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 22, 2008, at 5:11 AM, boddi satva wrote: > Putin's Why are you so obsessed with Putin?

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9006 [lbo-talk] What They Teach You at Harvard Business School -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Didn't some of you hear this during the Vietnam era? Weren't there > jackasses who ignored the carpet bombing, the deforestation, the ton > upon ton of metal hurled against the Vietnamese and concluded, > astoundingly, that failure came from our unexampled niceness and 'lack > of will'? Yup. We fought "with one hand behind our back." Just like the liberals were keeping the cops from fighting crime.

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9007 [lbo-talk] McCain unsure how many houses he has -- rank: 1000

But McCain can't be an elitist - he doesn't dine on grilled salmon and brown rice!

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Date:	Thu Aug 21 13:01:22 PDT 2008

9008 [lbo-talk] Head of SEIU ULTCW union steps down in wake of scandal -- rank: 1000

<http://www.reformseiu.org/2008/08/tyrone-freeman-steps-down.html> Tyrone Freeman Steps Down So after a stream of corruption reports - cigar clubs, golf tournaments, nepotism, rigged elections - Local 6434 president Tyrone Freeman resigned Wednesday night. Over the last two weeks, union members and the local community stepped up to say that a union where members are silenced and shut out is not a union at all, and that it is never ok to live like a millionaire by stealing from poor pe ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 21 12:25:27 PDT 2008

9009 [lbo-talk] Manhunt & McCain -- rank: 1000

<http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=&sc3=&id=79182> Crutchley steps down from Manhunt board over McCain contribution by Ethan Jacobs staff reporter Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 Jonathan Crutchley, the Manhunt.net co-founder whose $2300 contribution to John McCain created an uproar in the LGBT blogosphere after it was reported on by the Towleroad blog last week, has stepped down as chair of the company s board after angry Manhunt customers closed their acc ...

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9010 [lbo-talk] What They Teach You at Harvard Business School -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Yesterday, I argued with a guy about the US' response to the > Russia/Georgia conflict. He insisted that the United States needed to > 'get tough' and show that 'we're back'. Huh? But "we" are not "back." The U.S. and NATO are revealed as totally ineffectual to do anything about Russia. On what does this bozo base his notion of backness? Doug

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9011 [lbo-talk] SEIU news -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > In addition to the payments to his relatives' firms, Freeman's > local, the United Long-Term Care Workers, spent nearly $300,000 last > year on a Four Seasons Resort golf tournament, restaurants such as a > Morton's steakhouse, a Beverly Hills cigar club and the William > Morris Agency, the Hollywood talent firm, The Times reported earlier > this month. So this is what density is all about? Having more dues money to spend on ...

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9012 [lbo-talk] taste in capitalist America -- rank: 1000

[interesting that it's not corporate cheapness that opposes real maple syrup, but timorous palates] New York Times - August 20, 2008 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/dining/20applebee.html> A Craving for Riblets and Change at Applebee's By KIM SEVERSON IN the back of a black Mercedes on a ride from the New York Stock Exchange to an IHOP in New Jersey, the woman they call the Velvet Hammer leaned in close. "We own riblets," Julia Stewart confided. "Ninety-five percent of ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 20 13:00:50 PDT 2008

9013 [lbo-talk] sign of the times? -- rank: 1000

TMZ.com in trouble? <http://www.jossip.com/is-harvey-levin-killing-his-tmz-baby-20080820/>

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Date:	Wed Aug 20 12:57:05 PDT 2008

9014 [lbo-talk] The "BRIC" countries as a new "pole" in the global order - A bubble trade? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 20, 2008, at 1:33 AM, boddi satva wrote: > First, I severely question the human rights record of China, Russia > and India - in that order. Have they killed more than a million Iraqis? Do they jail more than 2 million of their own citizens. Mote, meet beam. Doug

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9015 [lbo-talk] Citibank - a bunch of prudes -- rank: 1000

Audacia Ray, whom I interviewed on my radio show last summer about her book Naked on the Internet, reports that Citibank refused her checking account because of the "adult" nature of her business. Fuck 'em. <http://www.wakingvixen.com/blog/2008/08/19/i-meet-the-business-end-of-citibanks-anti-adult-business-policy/ >

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