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196 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2006, at 11:54 AM, ravi wrote: > > Marta, > > your reasoning, and your choice of words, are disturbing. For > instance, > why the gratuitous addition of "non-English speaking"? And your > reference even to legal immigrants? Are you of the opinion that > they too > should be dealt with in some way? And as for your reasoning, it seems > immediately obvious to me that it can be recursively applied to > disabled > people and further on to othe ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 17 13:39:15 PDT 2006

197 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > Marta Russell wrote: > > >> Not in my neighborhood. They are middle age people. "On balance >> in contributing to the fisc" doesn't really mean anything to me. >> I see the consequences of an overburdened system all around here. >> The emergency rooms are overrun with non english speaking legals >> or illegals. The public health care system is shutting down in >> LA. Emergency rooms are ...

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198 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > Marta Russell wrote: > > >> The moral ground I see is that so many who come here wind up >> getting on government benefits. >> > > Actually they don't. Immigrants are young, and use few government > services. They pay taxes - including Social Security taxes, often > into phony accounts that are very unlikely ever to draw benefits. > Their use of Medicaid is surprisingly small - a few hundred million > ...

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199 [lbo-talk] The Gospel of Judas - Wrong Version? -- rank: 1000

I did not realize there was such a thing as secular Jewish entity. I'd be interested in knowing how to contact them. What part of LA, for instance, are they located? The Unitarians get out a ramp so that I can access the speaker/ minister/whoever happens to be conducting service platform. There is going to be an animal day ceremony and since I always take my service dog Sam I have been asked to light the chalice. They will have the ramps up so that Sam and I can get on the platform. Mar ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 17 10:24:36 PDT 2006

200 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2006, at 6:24 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > I also said in this segment that it would be very difficult to > mount a principled argument for closing the borders. One argument > from principle would be a desire to preserve some notion of > cultural purity - an odious principle, but still a principle. The > "dean of feminist economists," Barbara Bergmann, has argued for > putting up a fence around the first world because the teeming > hordes threaten femi ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 17 10:07:17 PDT 2006

201 [lbo-talk] The Gospel of Judas - Wrong Version? -- rank: 1000

I go to the one in Studio City in LA> The reason is mainly because they are free of dogma and they are some very decent people to have as an extended family. This is impossible to find in LA in any other form. Marta On Apr 16, 2006, at 3:45 PM, joanna wrote: > The ones I've met in the bay area are pretty cool. > > Joanna > > Dennis Perrin wrote: >> "A born again christian once tole me a unitarian joke: >> >> "'A unitarian is some one who believ ...

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202 [lbo-talk] Re: [Fwd: [bluegreenearth] Fan Who Called Dylan 'Judas'Breaks 33 Years of Silence -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > Michael Pugliese wrote: > > >> Oy vey, Dylan's garbage, >> http://acidtrip.com/garbage1.gif >> Little Red Schoolhouse, eh! >> > > Damn, I think Prince Station, where Bob had his PO Box, is now the > Apple Store. > > Doug I think Dylan owns part of a temple in Santa Monica, with a restaurant next to it. I've been meaning to find out more and go there. Anybody heard this? Marta ------------ ...

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203 [lbo-talk] WANTED Alfonso Jackson -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release: March 22, 2006 contact: Bob Kafka 512-431-4085 Janine Bertram 503-504-9787 http://www.adapt.org/ ADAPT Launches Campaign for Accessible, Affordable, Integrated Housing Targets Alfonso Jackson, Secretary of HUD Nashville- Over 400 ADAPT members ended a day of non-violent civil disobedience at the Nashville Office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Protesters blocked the entrance of the building chanting and expected a long stay after requesting a meetin ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 11 18:36:44 PDT 2006

204 [lbo-talk] happiness pays? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2006, at 7:09 PM, John Adams wrote: > On Apr 1, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Marta Russell wrote: > > >> That surprises the hell out of me. >> > > As well it should--I was indulging myself in an April Fool's lie. > (I'm pretty sure it's really Patrick Henry or Thomas Paine or one > of those guys--probably Paine.) It just sort of reminded me, in the > start, of Goldwater's "Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no > vice" (my slogan being "Vic ...

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205 [lbo-talk] happiness pays? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2006, at 6:10 PM, John Adams wrote: > > >>> "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty\u2014power is ever >>> stealing >>> from the many to the few... . The hand entrusted with power becomes >>> ... the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight >>> can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a >>> despot: >>> only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently >& ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 1 18:15:53 PST 2006

206 [lbo-talk] happiness pays? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Josh Narins wrote: > "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty\u2014power is ever stealing > from the many to the few... . The hand entrusted with power becomes > ... the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight > can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: > only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently > awake > to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prospe ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 1 17:33:48 PST 2006

207 [lbo-talk] Cindy Sheehan Arrested at White House -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:29 PM, joanna wrote: > Ohhh. Bad idea. I mean, their arresting her. > > Joanna > It made the LA Times today: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-na- antiwar27sep27,1,5948056.story Sheehan, Activists Arrested at White House By Ryan G. Murphy and Emma Vaughn Times Staff Writers September 27, 2005 WASHINGTON Cindy Sheehan, the Vacaville, Calif., woman whose protest this summer outside President Bush's Texas ranch became a focal point of the ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 27 15:48:13 PDT 2005

208 [lbo-talk] Cindy Sheehan Arrested at White House -- rank: 1000

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092605Y.shtml Cindy Sheehan Arrested at White House By TO Staff t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 26 September 2005 Cindy Sheehan, along with several well-known figures, has been arrested at the front gates of the White House in Washington DC. Sheehan had attempted once again to gain an audience with George W. Bush; again she was refused. Sheehan and her supporters then proceeded to sit down and pray at a restricted point in front of the White House. She ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 13:04:05 PDT 2005

209 [lbo-talk] Being Disabled and Poor in New Orleans -- rank: 1000

================================== ZNet Commentary Being Disabled and Poor in New Orleans September 25, 2005 By Marta Russell If you are disabled and rich or somewhat well-off and lived in New Orleans you probably got out of the city before the levees broke and flooded some 60% of the parishes. If you are rich and use a wheelchair you probably had a van with a ramp or car of your own with gas money to get you to safety. If you are blind you likely had a driver with a car to take you to the h ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 25 12:56:33 PDT 2005

210 [lbo-talk] Krugman Not the New Deal -- rank: 1000

September 16, 2005 Not the New Deal By PAUL KRUGMAN Now it begins: America's biggest relief and recovery program since the New Deal. And the omens aren't good. It's a given that the Bush administration, which tried to turn Iraq into a laboratory for conservative economic policies, will try the same thing on the Gulf Coast. The Heritage Foundation, which has surely been helping Karl Rove develop the administration's recovery plan, has already published a manifesto on post-Katrina policy. It ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 17 10:43:55 PDT 2005