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9226 [lbo-talk] Why is the US so cheap?, was Re: Comparative Mcdonaldsology -- rank: 1000

Retailing in Europe is tightly regulated, both by law and custom, and wages are significantly higher than in the U.S. When I was in Amsterdam a few years ago, I needed a band-aid and some batteries. In New York, that retail task would require a walk of no more than a few blocks to the nearest drugstore, supermarket, or deli. For the batteries, a newsstand even. (It'd be longer in parts of Brooklyn, but I was in the heart of Amsterdam, so Manhattan would be a more valid comparison.) In A'da ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 09:22:06 PDT 2008

9227 [lbo-talk] Problems Facing Our Socialism -- rank: 1000

A long-lost paper by Barack Obama's father resurfaces on Politico: <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9610.html>

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 09:16:51 PDT 2008

9228 [lbo-talk] the mighty Sweeney weighs in -- rank: 1000

[and not the T.S. Eliot character...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For information: 202/637-5018 ` Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney On Developments in the SEIU-CNA Dispute April 15, 2008 For several weeks I have been working to bring the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and the California Nurses Association/NNOC (CNA) together to resolve their escalating dispute over representation of nurses. Unfortunately, the deplorable events of the weekend set back the progress we hoped to ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 09:15:19 PDT 2008

9229 [lbo-talk] Ken Paff on the SEIU @ LN -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > I am an organizer with SEIU 1199 Does SEIU have any videos of disgruntled CNA/NNOC members like this one of disgruntled SEIU nurses? <http://www.calnurses.org/seiu-watch/>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 08:34:29 PDT 2008

9230 [lbo-talk] Ken Paff on the SEIU @ LN -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > I am an organizer with SEIU Is there any testimony supporting SEIU's side of this available from anyone who doesn't draw a paycheck from the organization? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 08:27:10 PDT 2008

9231 [lbo-talk] support for "free market" eroding -- rank: 1000

<http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/471.php? lb=hmpg1&pnt=471&nid=&id=> Erosion of Support for Free Market System: Global Poll Supporters of Free Market Look for Strong Government Regulation Majorities in most countries continue to support the free market system, but over the last two years support has eroded in 10 of 18 countries regularly polled by GlobeScan. In several countries this drop in support has been quite sharp. The latest polling was compl ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 07:54:33 PDT 2008

9232 [lbo-talk] ABC/Post Poll: Bush Defeats Truman -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Seriously? > > You really think that Doug (or anyone else here, for that matter) not > only "hates" Obama but hates him more than the pirates, crime bosses > and mass murderers you listed? Aside from Charles's weird repetition compulsion on this, I'm really stunned how BHO has made so many otherwise smart and sophisticated people say such dumb things. It's a remarkable phenomenon. It's like the guy makes people shed ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 07:28:36 PDT 2008

9233 [lbo-talk] ABC/Post Poll: Bush Defeats Truman -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > Yea, but don't you hate Obama more than Truman, Bush, McCain , > Clinton ,Clinton or any of 'em ? He's such an elitist, and they're all > so down to earth. You're really not making any sense. But Obama seems to do that to people. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 06:56:03 PDT 2008

9234 [lbo-talk] ABC/Post Poll: Bush Defeats Truman -- rank: 1000

Bush Defeats Truman At 39 months in the doghouse, George W. Bush has surpassed Harry Truman's record as the postwar president to linger longest without majority public approval. Bush hasn't received majority approval for his work in office in ABC News/Washington Post polls since Jan. 16, 2005 three years and three months ago. The previous record was Truman's during his last 38 months in office. See the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll at http:// www.abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/story?id ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 15 03:41:28 PDT 2008

9235 [lbo-talk] the CNA/NNOC side of the Ohio story -- rank: 1000

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN OHIO REGARDING CATHOLIC HEALTH PARTNERS, SEIU, AND NATIONAL NURSES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE/CALIFORNIA NURSES ORGANIZATION by a Registered Nurse Who Was There <http://www.kclabor.org/what_really_happened_in_ohio.htm> Marilyn Albert, RN Cleveland, Ohio NNOC Ohio member and organizer 30 year member of 1199 in New York City Submitted by the author to LaborPortside "...legitimate questions have been raised about the top-down nature of some specific SEIU neutrality ag ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 17:29:37 PDT 2008

9236 [lbo-talk] Ken Paff on the SEIU @ LN -- rank: 1000

[Ken Paff is one of those Berkeley academic pussies who went on to organize Teamsters for a Democratic Union.] From: Ken Paff <kenapp [at] gmail [dot] com> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 8:45 AM Subject: SEIU break-in A few people have asked for the real deal on the disruption at the Labor Notes conference by a group of SEIU officials and members. Here it is, for those interested SEIU Officials Have a Blast It was a weird scene: busloads of SEIU officials and members trying to bust into ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 16:52:30 PDT 2008

9237 [lbo-talk] Obama gains another endorsement -- rank: 1000

<http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/obama-one-of-brodys- bros.php> Bros before Hills: In important election news, Hills dude and Kardashian clan member Brody Jenner has announced his support of Barack Obama. "I think people would take us more seriously with Iraq and everything ... I just think he's cool," said Brody.

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 12:03:03 PDT 2008

9238 [lbo-talk] today's the day! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cakeandcunnilingus.com/> April 14 is Cake and Cunnilingus Day! Why? Well, as some enterprising men have declared March 14 to be "Steak and Blowjob Day", we women thought we'd get in on the act as well, a month later.

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 11:43:15 PDT 2008

9239 [lbo-talk] Speaking of banks... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2008, at 1:50 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > For anybody who is tracking this, which are the safer banks? Wells > Fargo? ... Citi! It's got a blank check from the USG and half of OPEC.

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 10:59:09 PDT 2008

9240 [lbo-talk] the price of arugula in Iowa -- rank: 1000

[wow, this elitist thing goes way back! - from a report on rural issues forum that BHO convened in Adel, Iowa, in July 2007] <http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/obamas-down-on-the-farm/> Again, the crowd applauded and laughed. One line that landed a little flat, though, was when Mr. Obama sympathetically noted that farmers have not seen an increase in prices for their crops, despite a rise in prices at the supermarket. Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they c ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 14 08:58:17 PDT 2008