Re: Building a Movement That Outlasts the Occupation

What's new is that somebody seems to care. Somehow, this seems to be turning out to be the final straw. It was about time. So, I understand that it is not really new as does most of the left, but this is an inadequate response. If the media is actually willing to report this story, what good does i

Re: Forget Al Jazeera. Don't read Fox News says Pentagon

Yeah, right, I thought the Tugabe report made the rounds a week ago. Joanna k hanly wrote: Saturday, May. 08, 2004 -Original Message- From: Dunn, Daniel, CTR, OSD-POLICY Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:11 PM To: MLA POL ALL POLICY Subject: FW: URGENT IT BULLETIN: Tugabe Report (FOUO) Imp

Re: Another reason to hate dittoheads

Carrol Cox wrote: The following post on lbo-talk seems relevant to the current discussion on pen-l. John Gulick wrote: Is any self-respecting US leftist truly _shocked and dismayed_ by the casual violence visited upon Iraqi prisoners ? Inquiring minds want to know. Just asking. Isn't it entirely

Re: Iraq Communist Party statement on Atrocities at Abu Ghraib

good./joanna soula avramidis wrote: There is now an effort from many communist parties to denounce the Iraqi communist party for collaborating with the US in the invasion. It seems that their collaboration purposely or not with the US and the CIA goes back to their vehement fight against the pan A

Re: Diversion

soula avramidis wrote: The talk about torture is diverting opinion from occupation.. typical Israeli tactic create new facts on the grounds to make old ones go away.. western public opinion is mesmerized by torture because essentially western working classes are benefiting to varying degrees from t

Re: The new Iraqi Flag

Very true, I needed reminding./Joanna Carrol Cox wrote: joanna bujes wrote: Possibly (and very funny), but the thing is, the profits still go to the US. This is a common shorthand, but it is probably best to avoid it. The "US" is not a profit center, and hence no profits go to "

Re: The new Iraqi Flag

Possibly (and very funny), but the thing is, the profits still go to the US. ravi wrote: Devine, James wrote: given that the US does even worse, how can I boycott US goods? you cannot. US goods are all made elsewhere. ;-) --ravi .

Re: The Empire Falls Back - Niall Ferguson

There are no contradictions between the statements below.It's not saying only the U.S. can do this. /Joanna Chris Doss wrote: The United States has the capability to inflict appalling destruction while sustaining only minimal damage to itself. There is no regime it could not terminate if it wanted

Re: The Jesus Factor

Yes, in the Confessions. Joanna Carrol Cox wrote: Doesn't Augustine say somewhere something like, "Oh Lord, make me chaste, but not too soon"? Carrol

Re: The Jesus Factor

Well, he was no Caligula, but he was a womanizer, drinker, partier...Bush was no Caligula either. Course, when Augustine grew up, he did take part in massacring the Manicheans (if memory serves) and Bush is toting up some massacres of his own. Joanna Chris Doss wrote: I have always thought that the

Re: The Jesus Factor

Like Balzac put it: "Young whores make old nuns." Though I do loathe it's representation of women, I do believe the theory applies to Bush. Did for Augustine anyway. Joanna Louis Proyect wrote: Do people really believe the story about the devout Bush? Some of the incidents reported coincide with h

Re: Is this Stalingrad?

The "coalition" forces seem to be a mix: there are grunts working for nothing and there are mercenaries working for $1000/day. Or that's the figure I heard. When the fragging starts, it should be interesting. Joanna Devine, James wrote: Chris, you talked about Stalingrad in Iraq a little more than

Re: Python goes to war

"Here words such as "strategy" and "policy" are daily applied to the kneejerk reactions of politicians and military commanders who think that brute force is the only way to resolve difficult problems in a delicate situation." Terry's losing it, "dealing with inferior races" is what he meant to say,

Re: The new Iraqi Flag

Sabri Oncu wrote: The flag's designer said that he received a call a few months ago from his brother, asking him to submit a proposal. The only guidelines, he said, were to present Iraq as a Western country and to include references to the past. He said his inspiration was simple flags like those o

Re: Iraqis Offer Bounty for US Officials

What's good for the goose Welcome to the age of the warlords. Joanna Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: "Iraqis Offer Bounty for US Officials": . -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: * Bring Them Ho

Re: Article on Iraq

They amply demonstrate what happens when you mix equal amounts of incompetence, greed, and arrogance. It is too much of a compliment to call it evil. Joanna Devine, James wrote: Pentti Sadeniemi writes: >The everyday tactical mistakes in the occupation are more than matched by equally clumsy strat

Re: Graduate School leads to poverty

Thanks for the article Louis, but the author gets a lot of things wrong: 1. This situation goes back at least a good twenty years, not ten. 2. The immiseration and temping of academic jobs is not the just the result of budget pressures: tuition goes up, the "stars" are paid more than ever, and the

Re: Intelligentsia and Empire - in Iraq and the world

Chris Burford wrote: Now in relation to Iraq the strategic dream of the Neo-Cons - themselves defined as a group of the US intelligentsia by an unusual and 'interesting' intellectual trajectory - was that within a new century policed by overwhelming US hegemonic power, a whole Middle East in which

Re: New Business Model

ld be unique? Would they compete with Oracle, EDS ??? On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:31:43PM -0700, joanna bujes wrote: So here's a snippet that caught my eye from the company-wide mailer from the CEO of the company which employs me. "So there is a step-by-step process we are going to get throu

New Business Model

So here's a snippet that caught my eye from the company-wide mailer from the CEO of the company which employs me. "So there is a step-by-step process we are going to get through -- using reference architectures, systems that connect to Sun by default, managed services, customer-ready systems and ca

Re: Employee sacked for photographing coffins

So what was the reason for sacking her husband? Collective punishment? Joanna k hanly wrote: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/22/1082616268111.html?from=storyrhs Last Sunday a newspaper in Seattle, Washington, published a rare photograph of soldiers' coffins, each of them containing the b

Big Science

Dear Mitchel, Thanks for forwarding your article: "Big Science, the Fragmenting of Work & the LEft's Curious Notion of Progress." Since you say 70 other people also showed an interest, I thought it might be worthwhile to reply to the list as a whole. There wasn't much in your article that I disag

Dignity, Freedom, & other atavisms...

http ://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/opinion/20COLE.html April 20, 2004 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR America's Prisoners, American Rights By DAVID COLE WASHINGTON Today the Supreme C

Re: capitalism = progressive?

There's a short story by Chekhov called "Peasants" -- which will give you an idea of what they did the rest of the time. Like nearly everything Chekhov writes, it is an exceptionally good story. Joanna Chris Doss wrote: Oh yeah. But there is little question as far as I know that the Russian peasa

Re: mixed economic signals

So let me get this straight...all these people that have been buying 1/2 million $$ condos/bungalows in the Bay area lately, have mortgages based on variable rates? They expected interest rates to stay low forever? Was it not possible to get a low fixed-rate mortgage? Or was it just about refinanci

Re: Growing Afghanistans Economy

Sabri, You must go see a movie called "Schindler's List." It's a piece of crap. It purports to be about the "Holocaust", which, as everyone knows, only affected Jews. What it's really about is the contemporary world as "globalized" for capital, and it's main message is "You're lucky to have a job.

unsubscribing...

Unsubcribing for a week while in NYC. Michael? Can you please do that? I don't know how. Thanks, Joanna

Re: Valentin

This sounds great. Thanks for the review. Joanna Louis Proyect wrote: When I received an announcement from a Miramax publicist that started as follows, "In a world of adults who don’t quite seem to know what they’re doing, eight year-old Valentin (Rodrigo Noya) sets out on a series of extraordin

Opening the gates of helll

Some actual facts in here about the sequence of events in Falluja. Joanna Link to this Story : Opening The Gates Of Hell In Iraq, these gates are y

Sunni-Shiite Cooperation Grows, Worrying U.S. Officials

Sunni-Shiite Cooperation Grows, Worrying U.S. Officials April 8, 2004 By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN According to several militia members, many Shiite fighters are streaming into Falluja to help Sunni insurgents defend their city against a punishing Marine assault. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/inter

Re: Costco vs. Wal-Mart

It's interesting, establishment economics dismisses the labor theory of value, but talk openly about taking away from the workers in order to give to investors. Joanna Devine, James wrote: there's also an article in BUSINESS WEEK on this subject, with a useful chart. If I can get the time, I'll

Re: From Your Friends at Dissent

Yeah, well I think the underlying complaint is that Zinn sold too many books. I can understand that a "scholar" would be frustrated at the fame/$$/independence that this book earned Zinn. But the scholar should also understand that in educating and motivating people different kinds of books are req

Re: Mercenary Boom in Iraq Creates Tension at Home and Abroad (2nd try)

Layoff day tomorrow, wish me luck. Joanna Mike Ballard wrote: It's nice to see the commodification of patriotism making headway. Cheers, Mike B) = The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. former I.W.W. member, Helen Kel

Olive oil

I ordered four tins. Olive oil is good. Helping Palestinians is good. Joanna Sending you a tin can of olive oil from Jayyous to your door step anywhere in the United States or Europe takes less than 4 weeks. By buying from the farmers of Jayyous, the first to suf

Re: Under every lie - Chalabi!

Michael Pollak wrote: "Mr Powell told the world on 5 February last year the administration had "firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails" capable of producing enough anthrax or botulinum toxin to kill "thousands upon thousands of people". He showed "highly de

Re: Milan Rai on UN occupation of Iraq

Chris, I think you won. Joanna Louis Proyect wrote: Chris Doss wrote: I say: It is unreliable because the country is lawless. Now, why would the country be lawless. I wonder if it might have something to do with bands of Islamoid gunmen running around invading adjoining areas of Russia and kidna

Million worker march

(It's happening Reg, it's happening!!!) Joanna From: "dmacdonald94591" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:42:41 - Subject: million worker march Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please Join Us in a Million Worker March The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10, recently

Re: Another classroom exercise

Zizek has a life-long sinecure and subminimal teaching duties. If the story is true, there is no excuse. On the other hand, if such is his character, perhaps it is best that students get to know him through his books rather than in person. Joanna paul phillips wrote: While Michael is undoubtedly

Re: Job flight

ravi wrote: come on now. its not about your job against my job, and i am not trying to defend "indian programmers" or some such identity group. if i do go back, i hope i will be more empowered to participate in the real world, rather than have to sit in a cube and write uninspiring software. No, n

Re: Job flight

. Maybe you can hire me to teach your kids. Joanna ravi wrote: joanna bujes wrote: The truth is they don't have a clue on how to manage intellectual labor. joanna, my friend, why is this not an elitist attitude? what is so intellectual about programming? it could be, but it doesn&#x

Re: Job flight

ravi wrote: i am not an expert on the matter, so this is just my opinion: i believe the above effect is temporary. programming is not difficult and it is well suited for outsourcing. those going through outsourcing disaster will learn from their mistakes... already, i know of many fellow indians i

Re: Another classroom exercise

Certainly, I believe every word you say. His reaction to my misunderstanding however spoke volumes too. Joanna MICHAEL YATES wrote: I visited Jim Craven's classes (huge classes, and he has to teach a lot of them to make ends meet) last December. The students were curious and asked me good questi

Re: Another classroom exercise

My apologies, I thought you did not tell the students that some of the lectures were bullshit. Joanna Craven, Jim wrote: That's fucked. You have all the power and you're using it to humiliate your students. Great. Joanna Response: I can see from your previous comments ( So you're punishing your

Re: Another classroom exercise

That's fucked. You have all the power and you're using it to humiliate your students. Great. Joanna Craven, Jim wrote: Tomorrow, when I go back to the classroom, as I have done on other occasions, each of my classes will be told that during the course of the term, there will be four key lectures

Re: classroom exercise

So you're punishing your students because most economic text books are biased? If I were your student, I'd be pissed at you. Joanna Craven, Jim wrote: I ask my students what "Omission is often the greatest lie" means. I ask them if they are just picking up a book for the first time, written by

Re: Job flight

Doug Henwood wrote: Compared to what? It's hard to argue with its capacity to grow, innovate, and produce cheaper commodities over the centuries - at a high social and ecological cost, for sure, but I don't think you can win the "efficiency" argument from the left. It has to be on other grounds. I

Re: Job flight

pitalist model is more myth than fact. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: joanna bujes wrote: More interesting is the thesis that outsourcing is profitable for hi-tech companies. I wonder how they figure out that profit. The very large hi tech company I work for has outsourced a number of projects to

Re: Job flight

Some experts see benefits being derived from outsourcing. Exporting routinized jobs such as programming can lower costs for companies and give them the cash to invest in higher-skilled, more innovative jobs in the United States. _ This is such a joke. I won't even comment about how

Re: Computer outsourcing to Russia.

C'mon Chris, it's you who taught me that Moscow isn't Russia. Different living standards, different access to technology, etc. Joanna Chris Doss wrote: 1) I don't know how the hell Tahoo is going to compete with Yandex.ru and Rambler.ru, which are entrenched in the Russian market and giant. 2) I

Fisk on Yassin

Chilling Implications Of This State Killing Something went wrong with the narrative of the news story - and something infinitely more dangerous, another sinister precedent - was set for our brave new world. Robert Fisk IT DOESN'T take an awful lot of courage to murder a paraplegic in a wheelchai

Release versions of the Iraq war

War Rationale: Version 10.0 http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10143 Here then, in Silicon Valley terms, is a review of the Bush administration's year in Iraq: Saddam Hussein poses an 'imminent threat' to the American people. * Version 1.0 - Saddam Hussein is an imminent threat * Versio

Re: Shifting genres in media/"pop culture" and the shifting SSA of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism

Craven, Jim wrote: In the case of the "Reality shows", they are relatively cheap to produce, focus on trappings of wealth (temporary) like being set in exotic locales and big mansions, and of course utilize, celebrate, preach, reward and reinforce: rat-race individualism, greed, selfishness, intri

Great essay on the Yasin assassination...

The Living, about the Dead /by B. Michael, The Israeli Daily Yedioth Achronot Translated from the Hebrew by Victoria Buch/ The whole nation is huddled up in the corner, like a little dog that urinated on the carpet, waiting meekly for the cruel strike that will come. Nobody has any doubt that it w

Re: Yassin assassination

Devine, James wrote: Jews have also played roles that were banned by the dominant religion (as with money-lending in medieval Europe), which is not exactly the same thing as being agents of the ruling class. (Jewish money-lenders weren't all like the Fuggers; they lent to the working classes, t

Re: Yassin assassination

where the staright jacket imperialism does not dare to venture. the gentile in an empire are allowed a role and space only when they imperial goals.. it is the tables turn they are the first to go.. some people never learn.. joanna bujes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: soula avramidis wrote

Re: Yassin assassination

soula avramidis wrote: Zionist colonialism represents the ugliest face of modern imperialism, far worse than apartheid south Africa. but in all it remains part and parcel of the broader imperial agenda and its principal agent in the middle east. killing yassin has two implications.. I got to the p

privatizing pension funds

Concerns Raised Over Consultants to Pension Funds March 21, 2004 By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an inquiry into the practices of pension consultants, who serve as gatekeepers for thousands of money managers. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/business/21PE

Coke double hitter

Things get worse with Coke Bottled tap water withdrawn after cancer scare Felicity Lawrence, consumer affairs correspondent Friday March 19 2004 The Guardian First, Coca-Cola's new brand of "pure" bottled water, Dasani, was revealed earlier this month to be tap water taken from the mains. Then it e

Re: quote queries

I remember Gore Vidal saying on some talk show, "What we have in this country is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor." This was bout 20 years ago. Joanna Devine, James wrote: who first referred to "socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor" and what is the actual quot

Re: Camejo Takes the Lead/Green Party Likes Nader

Right before the 2000 election, I went to hear Nader speak at the Kaiser auditorium in Oakland. The convention hall was packed with folks; I'd say most of them under 40. There were roughly 5,000 people. Cornell West introduced, Patty Smith sang (beautifully), and Nader spoke for over an hour. He sp

Re: the future of social security/medicare

The main danger to SS is that they want to loot it. It's such a nice pile of $$; why should the worker yahoos get it? In fact, they've been looting it for years. Joanna Devine, James wrote: the main danger to Social Security is not demographic. It's people like Greenspan and Bush. As Doug discov

Re: Observations on the Socialist Scholars Conference

Yeah, I know. This wouldn't be an individual project -- more like a peace corps of the left. j. andie nachgeborenen wrote: I tried that, lost my job, now I am a lawyer. --- joanna bujes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> Suppose that you are really

Re: Observations on the Socialist Scholars Conference

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> Suppose that you are really interested in the subject of > > revolutionary socialism. What questions about it do you think would > be worth asking in the United States today, when no one -- the least > of all, revolutionary socialists -- envisions any revolution > happe

Re: corporations/More Side Issue

OK. That's hillarious. Joanna ravi wrote: Sabri Oncu wrote: Of course, it is unsual for you westerners who forgot the closeness touching one another brings out but I don't blame you. It is just sad that you don't know how to touch and kiss each other except when you have sex. the westerners

Re: What is this thing called love?

Btw he does have a song called: It's A Chemical Reaction, That's All Yes, the divine Cyd Charisse sings it in terrific movie called "Silk Stockings." The movie itself is a remake of "Ninotchka" --which proved Garbo can't do comedy. Anyway, the only remake I can think of that's better than the ori

Re: Derivatives

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Don't worry about that. Sabri is really talking about something different. Sabri is a good guy anyhow. Sometimes he just overemphasises his need to be Turkish, that is all. That's because he is in exile. Joanna

Re: The emotional economy in Holland

There's an old Sufi saying: "The Devil is a pretty shoe." ...and yes, I'd say we are in Hell. On the other hand, poor teenager. When girls come into their womanhood, they are all thumbs about expressing their new-found sexual selves/feelings etc. They tend to exaggerate everything: the sexy walk, t

Re: What is this thing called love?

Tom Walker wrote: Joanna: Why not simply say that human relationships are bound by love. After all, contracts are always conditional, whereas love is not. "Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres elles aiment l'amour." -- François, duc de La Rochefoucau

Re: corporations/More Side Issue

Sabri Oncu wrote: After all, every human relation is based on some sort of a contract whether it is our relationship with our lovers, children, parents, siblings, friends and the like. Just that most these (unsigned) contracts are enforceable not by law but by love and we can always opt out prov

Re: Government aid for US mortgages

The chief govt support in the US for mortgages (that I know of) is that interest paid is tax deductible. joanna Chris Burford wrote: Gordon Brown and the British government have been looking enviably at the US mortgage market where long term fixed mortgages play a part in a mixed economy. Mortag

Re: Russia-China: Putin's next term

Say what you will, Putin is a smart guy. Joanna Eubulides wrote: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FC12Ag01.html Putin to expand strategic partnership with China By Sergei Blagov Mar 12, 2004

Re: Corporations

David B. Shemano wrote: You see a bogeyman called a "corporation." You are fetishing the corporation. I see tens, hundreds, thousands of contracts between real people intended to actualize a real end. So, when I, avoiding immiseration, get a job to work in a corporation, I am entering in a contr

GM crop contamination...

2/3 of US crops contaminated: GM contamination rampant in US

Re: Third Time is the Charm

The fact that DMS was asked to leave, or left, other lists is not relevant. The only thing that is relevant is his behavior on this list. The only thing I noticed was that he was clear and interesting and argued in a civil way. Joanna Louis Proyect wrote: Eugene Coyle wrote: I'm very disappointe

Re: Third Time is the Charm

I agree with Eugene. I didn't even pick up on the "sharp" tone. He was argumentative, but his arguments were clear and straightforward, free of obscenities and innuendo, and interesting. I'm beginning to be very confused about who "belongs" on this list. I'm grateful to Michael for trying to keep

Re: oil crises.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the argument that higher prices are the result of overaccumulation. What happens to supply/demand idea? This is not a rhetorical "I don't understand." Please explain, Thanks, Joanna dmschanoes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Crisis at the peak

Why not just let them have it out every once in a while? This is like a catfight that never actually happens. I mean, maybe if they called each other every name in the book for a while, it would help. Just an idea. Joanna MICHAEL YATES wrote: I have been on this mailing list, on and off, for abo

Re: Warren Buffett on class warfare

Anybody know which currencies he invested in? Some other article said he was out of $$ and into five other currencies Joanna Eubulides wrote: Buffett: Bush Tax Cuts Favor Corporations, Wealthy By Joe Ruff Associated Press Writer Saturday, March 6, 2004; 3:36 PM OMAHA, Neb. -- Billionaire inve

Re: after the knowledge economy

Eubulides wrote: But some economists point to those same federal forecasts to poke holes in the argument that the key to job creation is more sophisticated education and knowledge. Yes, the greatest increase is expected to be for registered nurses (an increase of 623,000 jobs) and college and univ

Re: Ceaucescu and Romanian transition

Sabri Oncu wrote: Even if they stayed, most of the white-collar "workers" are not needed. Ain't that the truth! Joanna

Re: Ceaucescu and Romanian transition

Carrol Cox wrote: Most of them (unfortunately for us) are pretty damn competent, thoughit's because of their connections that they get to exercise that competence. If this is the case, I have not seen it in thirty years in ANY place I have worked. What I have seen is that the grunts do the work and

Re: Ceaucescu and Romanian transition

Agreed. Joanna dmschanoes wrote: Really? I don't think so. I think it has nothing at all to do with experience and/or capability, and everything to do with connections and representing specific class interests. Revolutions, and reactions, have little enough trouble creating "leaders" without

Re: Ceaucescu and Romanian transition

Although I have not read any helpful articles about the "revolution" in Romania -- I can relate anecdotal evidence from Romanians both in and out of the country that what James says below is absolutely true. (I was born and raised in Romania and I am still fluent.) I tried reading Romanian newspap

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Dr Seuss]]

That was wonderful. Thanks. Joanna paul phillips wrote: Enjoy For the 100th anniversity of Dr. Seuss The Whos down in Whoville liked people a lot, But the Grinch in the White House most certainly did not. He didn't arrive there by the will of the Whos, But stole the election that he reall

sorry about that...

Chai message was obviously meant to go to ravi. J.

Chai

Hey Ravi, Do you or Dyvia know how to make "masala" chai? The blends they sell are really expensive and my guess would be that it's basically black tea + spices. But which spices? and how much? Thanks, Joanna

Cui bono?

Al Jazeera poll, numbers to date: Al Jazeera poll, to date: Who stands to benefit from civil unrest in Iraq? Neighbouring Arab country : 13% Neighbouring non-Arab country : 3% Israel and the US : 40% Internal Iraqi groups : 19% Combination of the above : 12% Unsure : 13% Number of pollers : 1511

Israel jails foreign workers

quite a scam... http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DA011746-AA4C-4804-81BF-009553BC.htm Joanna

Re: Whale Rider

Yeah, these innocent Disney flicks will do it every time. I loathed Lion King. Joanna Max B. Sawicky wrote: I was in front of my PC with my daughter in the next room watching Bambi. At one point she started screaming, "Kill Bambi kill!!" mbs Just recently I sat with my ten year old and watched

Re: Krugman on Greenspan

It's funny how a rational centrist (Krugman) can sound like a raving socialist these days. Joanna Michael Pollak wrote: URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/opinion/02KRUG.html New York Times March 2, 2004 Maestro of Chutzpah By PAUL KRUGMAN T he traditional definition of chutzpah says i

Re: any comments?

Be vewy, vewy quietwe're hunting wabbits j. Michael Perelman wrote: The funds are in a lock box -- at an undisclosed location -- where Cheney and Scalia are hunting. relax. The adults are in charge. On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:43:10PM -0500, Peter Hollings wrote: OK, here's a comment:

Re: any comments?

Good one! Justin ??? Joanna Peter Hollings wrote: OK, here's a comment: Since the trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund are personally liable for the savings of the beneficiaries and Greenspan has now put us on notice that further lending of trust funds to the US Government is in jeopardy

Re: any comments?

Mike Ballard wrote: President Bush and Republican lawmakers distanced themselves as well, saying that much of the problem could be averted by setting up private savings accounts. A ridiculous proposal which plays to the ignorance of the working class about who actually produces the wealth and wh

Re: the poverty of pundits

He wrote a pretty funny "radical chic" type book on the meritocracy: "Bobos in Paradise." I'm actually surprised he's devolved into this. Joanna paul phillips wrote: Jim, any idea who this Brooks is? Paul Devine, James wrote: I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed pa

Re: the poverty of pundits

Well, gosh darn it, he's right! The rich need more money and the poor need more work and or work skills. If you disagree, I've got a bumpersticker for you: black/red/white. It says JOBS for the RICH MONEY for the POOR I made it up eight years ago as a non-so-subtle attempt at counter propaganda. I

Re: Whale Rider

Max B. Sawicky wrote: . . . Evidently there is some psych lit that says that seeing a story with an infant/mother death would have a bad effect on the younger child. I have no idea if this is so. You see worse stuff every night on the news, so I'm skeptical. I am too. I think children are much

Re: aristide kidnapped

According to something I heard today on the radio, France is complicit in ousting Aristide because it made the Haitians pay back 21 billion for the fact that France had to wage war against their liberation efforts a hundred years ago. Aristide was trying to get France to pay that money back. Joanna

Criminal editing of the Enemy

Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of Criminal Editing of the Enemy February 28, 2004 By ADAM LIPTAK Writers often grumble about the criminal things editors do to their prose. The federal government has recently weighed in on the same issue - literally. It has warned publisher

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Rather than sitting in on moral judgement about me, why don't you explainthen how it is that the shit is able to rise to the top. What do you know about Greenspan ? The shit rises to the top because the game is not about innovation or creativity or productivity...but about c

Re: Greenspan and the use of time to commit fiscal crime

Juriaan wrote "..I cannot assess the depth or profundity of AG's economic thinking, but the odds are that the ruling classes do not permit a shallow thinker to become chairman." unless he works hard to meet their needs. Frankly Juriaan, you surprise me. You, of all people, are perfectly aw

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