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11596 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 16, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > But if you want out of > the box thinking - why did not the union buy the share of the > damned thing? > It was sold cheaply. Yup, but I'm not sure if they could get the financing. Anyone with money to invest would assume that wages and benefits have to be slashed, and who'd trust a union to do that? A union might do that, but financiers don't know that. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 16 08:08:40 PDT 2007

11597 [lbo-talk] Falwell: not loved -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3178394&page=1> Measuring Falwell's Popularity Over His Lifetime For All the Attention Paid to Him, Falwell Was Never Very Popular, Polls Show Analysis By GARY LANGER Popularity with most Americans was not among the Rev. Jerry Falwell's achievements. Indeed, while some public figures describe intricate paths in their personal ratings -- arcs and twists following the course of events and their own actions -- Falwell's ratings, across his care ...

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Date:	Wed May 16 08:03:50 PDT 2007

11598 [lbo-talk] vote for Ron Paul! -- rank: 1000

Ron Paul came in #2!!!! Solidly ahead of Rudy, too. <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272493,00.html> Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who ignited controversy at the debate with remarks that U.S. policy had invited the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, came in second with 25 percent. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who strongly admonished Paul for his comments, came in third place with 19 percent. Arizona Sen. John McCain, who is the frontrunner in South Carolina polls, came in sixt ...

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Date:	Wed May 16 06:31:07 PDT 2007

11599 [lbo-talk] more Falwell gems -- rank: 1000

<http://chrisafer.com/2007_05_01_blog_archive.html#3485565525033340941> Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them. AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. "I think [Desmond Tutu]'s a phony, period, as far as representing the black people of South Africa." The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic ...

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Date:	Wed May 16 06:13:37 PDT 2007

11600 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 16, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Russell Grinker wrote: > Could it be because they failed to invest sufficiently to redesign and > retool and stay abreast of the hungrier foreign competition, > producing only > what someone once called "40 foot behemoths with kiddie-car breaks and > rubber- band suspension"? Isn't this sort of thing your area Doug? > Why did > they fail to innovate? Yeah, the first part of what you say is true, but why did they fail so badly? I don't ...

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Date:	Wed May 16 06:01:39 PDT 2007

11601 [lbo-talk] Celebrating the Death of Jerry Falwell -- rank: 1000

On May 16, 2007, at 6:46 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr., August 11, 1933 May 15, 2007: RIP. History > will judge you, as it will the rest of us. May God have mercy on us > all. <http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10806.html> I have to admit, writing about Falwell s death poses an awkward challenge for me. When I worked at Americans United for Separation of Church and State for several years, I read Falwell s materials, I listened to his speeche ...

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Date:	Wed May 16 05:33:05 PDT 2007

11602 [lbo-talk] Celebrating the Death of Jerry Falwell -- rank: 1000

On May 16, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > The comments I've read from anti-Falwell types have been disgusting > and heartless. Celebrate the death of a man because you disagreed with > some of his opinions and political activism? How humane. The most > passionate anti-Falwell types hated him because he did not support > homosexual behavior and because he was anti-abortion. This alone makes > someone a hateful, worthless bigot according to the hard left. But > let's ...

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Date:	Wed May 16 04:57:39 PDT 2007

11603 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 16, 2007, at 6:56 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > My point was, it isn't an isolated or exceptional case. I'm not > sure what the > reasons for it are. I suspect early domination of the field, more > even than > monopoly. The US auto industry has been subject to strong competition from abroad for more than 30 years, yet still they just kept falling behind. They got a break during the era of low gas prices, when people bought high-profit SUVs, but now that gas is $3, they're ...

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Date:	Wed May 16 04:42:57 PDT 2007

11604 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 15, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 18:08, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Well yeah, but why can't they? Why are the Big Three so bad at >> designing cars? I don't get it. > > Why is Microsoft so bad at writing software? Because they're a monopoly? I don't get your point. Because they're big? Toyota makes great cars. Because they're American? Other Americans write great software. So what are you saying? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 15 19:58:19 PDT 2007

11605 [lbo-talk] vote for Ron Paul! -- rank: 1000

In the Fox "who won?" poll that is. Though otherwise a complete wacko, Ron Paul delivered a spirited denunciation of imperial war at the GOP debate, and was roundly denounced by Fox hounds and Rudy G. Text "R7" to 36988.

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Date:	Tue May 15 19:53:40 PDT 2007

11606 [lbo-talk] Bush admin wants to criminalize "attempted" copyright infringement -- rank: 1000

<http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html> Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement Posted by Declan McCullagh Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual-property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including "attempts" to commit piracy. "To meet the global challenges of IP crime, our criminal laws must be kept updated," Gonzales said during a spee ...

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Date:	Tue May 15 15:53:43 PDT 2007

11607 [lbo-talk] McCain panders to dead Falwell -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/> Falwell Fallout Lingers for McCain May 15, 2007 2:44 PM ABC News' Teddy Davis and Bret Hovell Report: Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., reacted to Tuesday's death of the Rev. Jerry Falwell by remembering him as a "man of distinguished accomplishment who devoted his life to serving his faith and country." The relationship between McCain and Falwell has not always been a close one. During his first bid for the White House in 2000, McCain call ...

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Date:	Tue May 15 15:12:38 PDT 2007

11608 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 15, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > I know technically, Wallstreet > has nothing to do with Chrysler's problems It's interesting that all those years under the control of famously patient, long-term, not-stock-price-obsessed German management did nothing for Chrysler.

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Date:	Tue May 15 15:10:17 PDT 2007

11609 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 15, 2007, at 5:53 PM, tfast wrote: > Make cars people want. Well yeah, but why can't they? Why are the Big Three so bad at designing cars? I don't get it. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 15 15:08:21 PDT 2007

11610 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 15, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: March on Wallstreet ? What would that do? Would it pay the bills for the retirees? Would it make more people want to buy Chrysler's vehicles? I'd really love to hear some ideas about how the U.S. auto industry could be turned around, but not much comes immediately to mind. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 15 14:37:25 PDT 2007