Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-09-30 Thread Matthew and Julie Bos
On 9/30/05 10:16 AM, "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today I wrote a letter urging my member of Congress to sign on > to legislation reinstating the wage protections enshrined in the > Davis-Bacon Act. Two hundred representatives and 30 senators > have already signed on. These numbers ar

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-09-30 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:19 PM Friday 9/30/2005, Robert Seeberger wrote: I did this 3 weeks or so ago on the IBEW website. This is pretty important people! I had to reread that to realize that there is a comma missing: originally I parsed it as a somewhat grammatically incorrect statement that IBEW members a

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-09-30 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:16 AM Subject: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims! >I am deeply troubled by the president's decision to suspend the > Davis-Bacon Act in the aftermath of Hurricane Kat

Re: Fight the Future: Fascism: Judge Orders Girl Not To Have Sex

2005-09-30 Thread Dave Land
On Sep 30, 2005, at 8:38 AM, The Fool wrote: Steve Blackburn, a lawyer involved with the Dallas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said conditions that violate someone's constitutional rights are best avoided. With soft-pedaled statements like this, I wonder how it is that the righ

Fight the Future: Fascism: Judge Orders Girl Not To Have Sex

2005-09-30 Thread The Fool
Expect to see more of this from the Fascist judges Bush has been appointing: http://www.wftv.com/news/5040625/detail.html Judge Orders 17-Year-Old Girl Not To Have Sex POSTED: 10:16 am EDT September 30, 2005 SHERMAN, Texas -- No sex. That's part of a sentence imposed on a 17-old-girl by Texas st

Re: SCOUTED: Wonkette: Jurassic Perk: Crichton's Fame Exchanged for Dignity of Senate Panel

2005-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Leonard Matusik wrote: LeonardMatusik [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Darn, they didn't tell me there was a required lab section for PunctuatedEqualibrium101!* And Leonard gets the "Thanks for reminding me why I don't drink at the computer!" award for the morning. :) Julia ___

Re: SCOUTED: Wonkette: Jurassic Perk: Crichton's Fame Exchanged forDignity of Senate Panel

2005-09-30 Thread Robert J. Chassell
According to http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Canons/Invention/TOPICS%20OF%20INVENTION/TOPICS.HTM Aristotle divided the "special" topics of invention into the three branches of oratory: 1. judicial oratory (or "forensic"; oriented to what the accused was said to have done, the past)

Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-09-30 Thread Nick Arnett
I am deeply troubled by the president's decision to suspend the Davis-Bacon Act in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Davis-Bacon Act requires federal contractors to pay workers the average or "prevailing" regional wage for public construction projects. In New Orleans, that wage is just over $

Re: SCOUTED: Wonkette: Jurassic Perk: Crichton's Fame Exchanged for Dignity of Senate Panel

2005-09-30 Thread Leonard Matusik
Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:20:24 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:26:34 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: >> At 05:06 PM Thursday 9/29/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > >>> That is to say, while some will say `cannot do', there will be others >>> with a `can do' spirit, although they may