Re: FW: Things you don't want to know

2004-02-25 Thread joanna bujes
God, this is SO American! Life is dirty. Enjoy! Joanna

Re: Greenspan on Social Security

2004-02-25 Thread joanna bujes
Get a grip Jurriaan, not everything has to do with whoring. Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Seems like it. Greenspan said the USA can't afford the retirement benefits promised to baby boomers and urged Congress to trim them. This is a cohort theory of perpetuating capitalism, according to which

Re: demo fervor

2004-02-25 Thread joanna bujes
Sabri Oncu wrote: What is the rationale behind forcing these Structural Adjustment Programs down the throats of countries like mine based on such a highly dubious model? Making sure the investors make their profits? Joanna

[Fwd: Join me in supporting marriage equality!]

2004-02-24 Thread joanna bujes
Original Message Subject: Join me in supporting marriage equality! Date: 24 Feb 2004 23:41:38 - From: Jill Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Friend, I believe that ALL Americans, including gays and lesbians, deserve the rights, responsibilities, and

Re: Matt Gonzalez: Until When?

2004-02-24 Thread joanna bujes
I don't think most people know that. Joanna Devine, James wrote: In 2000, Nader/Greens did relatively well among Arab-Americans does it help that Nader is Arab-American? Jim D.

Re: a miracle?

2004-02-23 Thread joanna bujes
That's eminently sane of them. Joanna Shane Mage wrote: An op-ed in the NY [TIMES] argues that since Israel's security barrier goes deep into the West Bank it's a less than ideal security barrier: What this wall is really doing is taking Palestinian lands. That's not an original argument but

Re: a miracle?

2004-02-23 Thread joanna bujes
No, it's significant even though it's only op-ed. This is an intra-bourgeois sign. Joanna dmschanoes wrote: Wait a minute-- this wasn't the NYT taking an editorial and reporting position. This was an op-ed piece by Chomsky which does not express the view of the editors. So why make more of it

Re: if you're a teacher and in the NEA, you're a terrorist......

2004-02-23 Thread joanna bujes
Yeah, absolutely. This would be the party who cried wolf...just too many goddamn times. McCarthy made the same mistake. Joanna Devine, James wrote: This is a Spartacus moment. I am a terrorist! Jim Devine -Original Message- From: Eubulides [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Import-led development as a source of economic growth ?

2004-02-23 Thread joanna bujes
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Ultimately, theoretically, I consider prostitution as the core problem of the whole feminist problematic, and I cannot very well get along with feminist moralists who spout drivel about this, and vent all sorts of confusing abstractions, rather than making a specific,

Re: Brilliant analysis from a soft rock icon

2004-02-21 Thread joanna bujes
Ah hah! I'd forgotten about Viagra! Thanks Doug. Another occupation deskilled. Oh, well. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: joanna bujes wrote: That surprises me, I would assume that getting an erection on demand requires some skill -- but maybe not for the 20 to 30 crowd. It does - that was one

Re: dems, etc

2004-02-20 Thread joanna bujes
Louis Proyect wrote: I was thinking about this stuff this morning. It occurs to me that one of the worst things about the anybody but Bush line of thinking, especially from self-described Marxists, is that it amounts to a Great Man theory of history. You have national elections every four years

Re: Brilliant analysis from a soft rock icon

2004-02-20 Thread joanna bujes
That surprises me, I would assume that getting an erection on demand requires some skill -- but maybe not for the 20 to 30 crowd. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: David B. Shemano wrote: You have to expand your idea of what a libertarian is. Irving Kristol said a liberal is one who says it's all

Re: dems, etc

2004-02-20 Thread joanna bujes
Good point. Here's another question my little sister asked me the other day: If the popular vote doesn't mean anything, why do we vote? Joanna Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: joanna bujes wrote: I gag at the thought of voting for Kerry, but I will because I think Bush and his gang are not merely

Re: US infant mortality increasing ? from 12 Feb

2004-02-20 Thread joanna bujes
Hari, I think you should add another factor to your list: women are not only giving birth later, but having children in a fairly stressed state (because of working full time until the last minute)...and having to return to work sometimes days after delivery. Surely that doesn't help. Joanna Hari

Re: Prison statistics and empirical ethics

2004-02-19 Thread joanna bujes
It's scarier to keep the prisons in the U.S. It's like having beggars on the street; of course we can afford to feed them and shelter them...but then we'd lose that deterrent quality. The point about prisons is that they make prisoners of both the people inside and the people outside. Joanna

Re: A Tango concert

2004-02-15 Thread joanna bujes
As a dedicated tango dancer -- of some five years -- I can't resist adding to this. As the waltz characterized the 19th century, the tango will surely get the honors for the 20th. Born in the slums of Buenos Aires (and made respectable in Paris in the 1920's), tango is danced all over the world. I

Re: Brenner: New Boom or New Bubble?

2004-02-14 Thread joanna bujes
It was clearly written, but there were no surprises. I was a little disppointed; I had hoped that he would contribute some new slant. In effect, the article could have been written by a smart libertarian. Joanna Sabri Oncu wrote: Dear All, For those of you who have not seen it yet, Brenner has

Re: The economy - a new era?

2004-02-11 Thread joanna bujes
The other reason is that more concentration make it easier to organize labor...they're all in one or a few places. I remember reading somewhere famous that the mammoth factories of early 20th century Russia made it easier to organize the workers. Today, I guess it would make strikes more

Re: Airline deregulation

2004-02-11 Thread joanna bujes
David B. Shemano wrote: Abstractly, why does this bother you? Why do you want people to get in an airplane to go 90 miles? Well, energy wise, which is more costly -- 100 people in an airplane or 100 people in 100 cars? Of course, there's trains too. Now, there's an idea! Joanna

Re: an old list member (offlist)

2004-02-10 Thread joanna bujes
A couple of years ago, I was in touch with a PEN-L list member whose first name was Cristobal. I have lost his email address due to Sun server problems, and I wonder if you could find him and tell me who he is. We had agreed that if I make it up to Manhattan, we'd get together for lunch. I am

Re: Psychoanalysis Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-09 Thread joanna bujes
Doug Henwood wrote: Or, if you want to take it further, there's Judith Butler's argument - rooted in that silly doctrine called psychoanalysis - that subjects are formed in subjection (through deference to authority figures, like parents, and their successors, like language and law), and that

Re: Psychoanalysis Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-09 Thread joanna bujes
Louis Proyect wrote: You mean the neurotic is not adjusted to one of the most maladjusted societies since the dawn of civilization? Much of the time I feel like Alan Bates in The King of Hearts anyhow. No. I never said anything about adjustment. I was speaking about one's ability to be present:

Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
Ill temper aside, I agree with Carrol about the quality of the happiness piece. The unfortunate thing is not the overblown freshman comp style, but the notion that in order to speak to the people one must write like this. Not true. Orwell is an excellent counter example: a man who could write

Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
It never was. The censors did not like happiness is a warm cunt (the original) and made them change it. Gun seems to have been OK. Joanna Michael Hoover wrote: does this mean that happiness isn't a warm gun... michael hoover

Re: G-7: no nonlinearities please...

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
The statement, released after a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven nations, marked a shift in G-7 policy and a victory for European officials. The Europeans have complained vociferously in recent weeks that the strength of the euro, which is trading at a

Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
Freud does not constitute the alpha and omega of psychoanalysis, just one of its more conservative currents. For more forward looking work, look to Otto Fenichel, Thomas Szasz, Reich, Laing, etc. Joanna Mike Ballard wrote: Psychoanalysis has changed its function in the culture of our time, in

Re: song lyrics and poetry

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
Awww...Michaeldon't banish art! Joanna Michael Perelman wrote: Do people find such contributions useful? Just asking. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: Psychoanalysis Re: happiness is a transitory state

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
Carrol Cox wrote: There are two questions about psychoanalysis. The first one has been answered pretty decisively. The second one has not been answered yet and needs to be explored much more than it has been. 1. What validity does psychoanalysis have? Answer: [P]sychonalysis [is] a mistake that

Re: benign neglect

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
So what happens if we get into a situation of competitive currency devaluations? Joanna

Re: song lyrics and poetry

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
Actually, I would love to discuss economics, only a little less theoretically. The thing that's driving me crazy right now is that I seem to have to study investing in order to manage my retirement $. I am so deeply resentful of this, that my eyes cross whenever I do try to find out anything. But

Re: song lyrics and poetry

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
well, since you asked: not if its the beatles. ;-) we (and by 'we' i mean me and at least 5 friends of mine) relatively younger people tend to dismiss them (the beatles) as a bit of wishful thinking on the part of the previous generation, dressing up the pop of their generation as some sort of

Re: song lyrics and poetry

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
Eubulides wrote: Yesterday, the New York Times went back to the theme about how Wal-Mart is a major force in China and is also pushing wages down there... Pushing down wages in China? To what? The workers have to pay Wal Mart to let them work? This reminds me of that great Monty Python sketch

Re: benign neglect

2004-02-08 Thread joanna bujes
They're on a knife-edge now, imo. It could get quite ugly. Ian OK. So how would that play out? Being ignorant about economics, I'd just like to understand why it wouldn't sort of equal itself out? Joanna

Re: Prison statistics and empirical ethics

2004-02-04 Thread joanna bujes
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: All the same, the number of prisoners in the US just keeps rising. All you can really conclude is that Americans love to meet out punishment, even although behavioural and criminological research shows that punishment is a strategy that is less likely to cause behavioural

Re: recent Monthly Review

2004-02-02 Thread joanna bujes
MICHAEL YATES wrote: We will take turgid academic prose and make it sparkle!! Bless you. That's a job worth doing. Joanna

Re: CA

2004-02-01 Thread joanna bujes
There's no relationship between two mothers and a sperm donor and the problem of sterility in men. I think the point is that non-traditional families are not that unusual in California. I'd say that's true of the big cities; especially LA, Bay areaI'm not so sure about anywhere else in Calif.

The ad CBS refused to run

2004-01-31 Thread joanna bujes
This is the ad that CBS refused to run: http://www.moveon.org/cbs/ad/ Go to the page and just click somewhere on the page.

Re: agree

2004-01-27 Thread joanna bujes
...and get a load of the health plans that they all broadcast today. It's a joke. Joanna Dan Scanlan wrote: my impression is that Kerry voted against the Gulf War but not Dubya's splendid little war because on the latter he was scared to go against a Prez made popular by 911. This is just one

Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report

2004-01-26 Thread joanna bujes
So, do you think they're rejecting it out of fear it may encourage democracy and third-party candidates? Joanna ravi wrote: Grant Lee wrote: Online voting is fundamentally insecure due to the architecture of the Internet, according to leading cyber-security experts. without even having to

Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report

2004-01-26 Thread joanna bujes
ravi wrote: i do think online voting WILL encourage democracy AND third-party candidates. i think it might also have negative effects: wasn't there a recent finding that more right-wing conservative types are wired than poor or left-leaning folks? online voting would thus make it even easier to

Defeating Homeland Security

2004-01-24 Thread joanna bujes
Actually, wecould defeat this Homeland Security stuff without firing a shot. If a sizeable proportion of people would change their name to something Middle Eastern... I call this the I am Spartacus strategy...for those who have seen the movie. Joanna

Re: Defeating Homeland Security

2004-01-24 Thread joanna bujes
True, very true; but the show of solidarity would still stand and put into question the equation arab=terrorist. Joanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be fun, but I think those currently in the panoptic driving seat would just re-tool their biometric algorithms to find better Principal

Re: Defeating Homeland Security

2004-01-24 Thread joanna bujes
That doesn't make much sense. First, it's really hard to convert to Judaism; it's not at all a proselytizing religion. Second, it would only create another bunch of self-hating jews that no Zionist would listen to. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: joanna bujes wrote: Actually, wecould defeat

Re: pop quiz Friday

2004-01-23 Thread joanna bujes
Good one Michael Dawson wrote: Q: How many mainstream economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Doesn't matter: They all just sit around in the dark waiting for the Invisible Hand to do it.

Re: Interesting Wall Street Journal stories

2004-01-23 Thread joanna bujes
I don't actually think women mind the fact that their lovers/husbands find other women attractiveso long as they're, ummm, satisfied. Joanna Sabri Oncu wrote: Ian: The two economists in the third paragraph seem to be Larry Summers and Joe Stiglitz or Laura D'Andrea Tyson Hey! I know

Re: Dean and the Iowa primary

2004-01-22 Thread joanna bujes
Yoshie went a long ways to replying to the question it is obviously OK to be angry at welfare mothers, immigrants, and terrorists; it is not OK to be angry at thieving plutocrats, polluters, gulag builders etc. It may be worthwhile for progressives to have a better understanding of the

Re: Nixon and Labor

2004-01-18 Thread joanna bujes
Eugene Coyle wrote: If a Nixon can figure out how to reach out effectively, why can't we be equally creative??? Short answer: because in the last thirty years we've been mired in identity politics...rather than class politics. Joanna

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-18 Thread joanna bujes
It seems, really, that there are two issues here: 1) whether to vote DP in 2004 2) whether it's important to organize something like a labor party The answer to both seems to be yes, though I fear 2) won't really happen until after the economic collapse. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: Carrol Cox

Investment question?

2004-01-17 Thread joanna bujes
Why is it that financial pundits are saying that fixed income funds are a bad idea going forward? If the current decade 2000-2010 is similar to the 1970-1980 decade, which it seems to me it kind of is, why wouldn't a fixed income fund do well? Joanna

Fabulous dance show

2004-01-16 Thread joanna bujes
San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival auditions ...is the best dance show in the bay area. Basically for four days, dance troupes representing dance styles from all over the world come to audition at SF State (for the festival in June). Nearly all the dancers are superb. Theya re all in costume and

Re: housing bubble

2004-01-16 Thread joanna bujes
But Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has said there is no housing bubble. And stock strategists are also generally sanguine on the market's outlook. Furthermore, the Fed has made it clear it will keep interest rates low until the economy is growing briskly and the risk of deflation has been banished.

Anti-bush contest winners

2004-01-14 Thread joanna bujes
Tuesday, January 13, 2004 (SF Chronicle) Anti-Bush ad contest proves popular online/Winner out of 1,500 entries to be shown on TV in key states Mark Simon, Chronicle Political Writer The leaders of the grassroots, Internet-based political phenomenon MoveOn.org were surprised when their national

Re: USS Liberty inquiry--the cover-up continues

2004-01-13 Thread joanna bujes
Thanks Jim. Especially interesting is that this is being published in the Financial Times. Joanna Craven, Jim wrote: Tempers flare over US spy-ship inquiry By Guy Dinmore in Washington Financial Times: January 13 2004 Survivors of one of the most hotly disputed incidents in American military

SUV's

2004-01-08 Thread joanna bujes
Great article on SUV's... (http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?040112on_onlineonly01), Joanna

productivity

2004-01-02 Thread joanna bujes
In a recent SF Chron article on productivity, the author wrote: Such fast-growing productivity is a tremendous boon for society, economists stress. While jobs might disappear in the short run, higher output per worker spurs growth that in the long run creates more opportunity. Higher productivity

Re: MONSANTO STUMBLING

2003-12-29 Thread joanna bujes
good one Mike, thanks. Joanna Mike Ballard wrote: Monsanto, the creator of PCBs and Agent Orange and the world's largest purveyor of genetically engineered seeds, has temporarily bowed out of the biopharm industry (genetically engineering plants to grow pharmaceutical drugs). The company says

Re: Query

2003-12-27 Thread joanna bujes
Not that bizarre. I'm a moron at research, but the very large company I work for (Sun is shining...Weather is sweet...Makes me want to move...) has about seven layers of management on top of the grunts (me). Lots of managers. Joanna Carrol Cox wrote: There was an odd little news bit in the

Reconstruction...

2003-12-26 Thread joanna bujes
Excellent article on the reconstruction/Joanna http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL25Ak05.html

Re: global imbalances

2003-12-23 Thread joanna bujes
A friend asked me to forward the below. Joanna For what it s worth, I think this debate overlooks a critical consideration: Europe and Japan are wealthy countries that have dragged their feet endlessly on reforms, whereas China is still a very poor

Re: Fidel Castro on unequal exchange

2003-12-21 Thread joanna bujes
Why does there have to be a suffering contest? What is worst than child abuse? Why? Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: There are forms of abuse that are a lot worse than child abuse. J.

Re: Fidel Castro on unequal exchange

2003-12-21 Thread joanna bujes
And what was your point? Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Why does there have to be a suffering contest? What is worst than child abuse? Why? Proves my point really. J.

cell phone info

2003-12-21 Thread joanna bujes
My ex and I are thinking of getting my son a cell-phone for xmas...and we don't have the slightest idea what to look at when looking at the various plans, cell phones, services etc. His pattern of use would probably be weekends/evenings and totally local to the bay area. If you can give some

[Fwd: Lbo-talk digest, Vol 1 #2013 - 9 msgs]

2003-12-19 Thread joanna bujes
I got an e-mail this morning from a parishioner about an online poll being taken by the American Family Assn. about homosexual marriage, the results of which they are going to submit to Congress. The parishioner hoped that if enough people responded in favor, the whole thing might

Re: Fidel Castro on unequal exchange

2003-12-19 Thread joanna bujes
Mike Ballard quoted What we found in examining diaries, letters, autobiographies, pediatric and pedagogical literature back to antiquity was that good parenting appears to be something only historically achieved, and that the further one goes back into the past the more likely one would be to

Re: Fidel Castro on unequal exchange

2003-12-19 Thread joanna bujes
What's the continuum concept? Joanna Brian McKenna wrote: I agree with Joanna. . .if you want to get a sense of how kids were treated in prehistory, take a look at pre-capitalist societies today -- the Maasi, the Kung San and others - pretty good . . . .check out The Continuum Concept Brian

Re: domestic violence

2003-12-19 Thread joanna bujes
Mike Ballard wrote: This is probably not the forum to be discussing these issues. I wonder why not, wife beating is a very economic issue: in those cultures where women can support themselves, wife beating becomes less and less of an issue because women can walk away. In cultures where women

Re: capitalist dismantlement of the state?

2003-12-18 Thread joanna bujes
Because by tolerantly absorbing all discontent and adjusting the system to take it into account, the system becomes more, not less, stable. Does it really? Or does it just give you another form to fill out? It is also the contradictory paradox that capitalism produces an ever more complex social

Re: Saddam in luxury

2003-12-17 Thread joanna bujes
Chris Burford wrote: At least Rumsfeld has had to accept Hussein should have de-facto prisoner of war status and that the Pentagon is not competent to interrogate him. A small victory against the hegemonist psy-ops war. I keep thinking that Hussein's capture and trial may actually prove to be a

Re: Unsubscribing---thanks...

2003-12-17 Thread joanna bujes
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Well, I'm sad that you're unsubscribing. We might spar over particular issues, but I don't forget whose side you're on. You accuse me of being an FBI agent and then you say that you don't forget whose side I'm on??? You confuse me. I like your postings; I learn a lot from

Re: what knowledge economy?

2003-12-17 Thread joanna bujes
Eqbal Ahmed wrote some marvellous essays linking economic and political decline with educational decline. I am fascinated by the process of the capitalist dismantlement of the state. They do not seem to realize that they are dismantling those very institutions that lend them legitimacy. Finally,

Re: Unsubscribing---thanks...

2003-12-17 Thread joanna bujes
No, no. I think I'm just getting thin-skinned and need a break. Thanks for the kind words. Best, Joanna Julio Huato wrote: Joanna, Hope I didn't make things worse with my silly posting on Monday. I read PEN-L mail on the archives, from new to old. That's not good -- I know. I replied to

Re: Americana

2003-12-17 Thread joanna bujes
Are you saying there's no honor amongst thieves? Yeah, I think I've seen a Soprano's episode about that. Joanna k hanly wrote: It is more like a Mafia leader catching one of his former hired thugs and arranging for some of the Mafias associates to excecute him.. Cheers, Ken Hanly -

Unsubscribing---thanks...

2003-12-16 Thread joanna bujes
Dear Michael, Please unsubscribe me. Take care everyone, Joanna

Re: Question re basics

2003-12-15 Thread joanna bujes
I don't think the argument is that we need to stop thinking. I think the argument is that since thought is a form of calculation (the equal, the more, the less) based entirely upon memory, we should be very aware of what we apply it to and whether we are applying it appropriately. Using thought to

Re: Question re basics

2003-12-14 Thread joanna bujes
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Personally, I never stop thinking, although the brain seizes up sometimes. It's one of the most interesting things you can do with your own brain, really. What's tougher than that is to be able to stop thinking while remaining conscious and highly sensitive. (not

Re: Correction

2003-12-14 Thread joanna bujes
Castro has a great sense of humor and gives great interviews. In one of the interviews you mention, he is asked whether there could be a socialist revolution in the U.S. He denies the possibility citing the undermining power of advertising on Americans' ability to desire something (for example,

Re: the evolving exchange value of the human body

2003-12-14 Thread joanna bujes
Gil Skillman wrote: From foot-binding to leg-lengthening. Progress of a sort, I suppose Not at all, I think. The article just made me muse about the medieval horrors raised up in my mind's eye by the description of this procedure ...and how these tortures are now self-imposed. So long as we

Re: Estimating the surplus\Doug's question

2003-12-13 Thread joanna bujes
Are there other numbers to tell us how much of this is comsumption to physically survive? Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: Mike Ballard wrote: --- Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MPC was something like 104% measured over the whole cycle. It's been something like 99% since the early-2001

Re: Estimating the surplus\Doug's question

2003-12-13 Thread joanna bujes
Oh, I wasn't being puritannical and Lear was just another big male baby who failed to see that we must endure our going forth, even as our coming hither. -- brutal but true... Joanna Carrol Cox wrote: Doug Henwood wrote: joanna bujes wrote: Are there other numbers to tell us how much

Re: Beyond Pussyfooting: a story to end all stories ?

2003-12-12 Thread joanna bujes
We need a philosopher to invent some adequate concept for the below...somehow, fetishism doesn't quite cover it. Perhaps, it is just that academics are finally getting around to prostituting entities more appropriate to prostitution. Who knows. I become nostalgic for those days when we worried

Re: A conversation overheard

2003-12-11 Thread joanna bujes
I fear to think of what it will take to wake this country up...or what will happen if they choose not to. Joanna Eugene Coyle wrote: Stopped at an I-Hop for lunch on the road today. Three women, dressed as office workers, perhaps 25 - 35 years old, took the next table. They chatted, then one

Re: Al-Gebra

2003-12-09 Thread joanna bujes
Speaking of which...did you know that math books in Israel do not use the + sign? Apparently, they did not want any form of the cross in their math books. They use something like an inverted T. (Israel, a ghetto in search of an empire.) Truth is often stranger than fiction. Joanna Michael

US/Russia

2003-12-06 Thread joanna bujes
Washington Profile News Agency www.washprofile.org The US is ruining its relationship with Russia. An interview with Stephen Cohen December 4, 2003 Stephen Cohen is a Professor of Russian studies at New York University, Professor Emeritus of Russian politics at Princeton University, and the author

Re: mileage

2003-12-04 Thread joanna bujes
How is it better than Netscape 7.0? Not arguingjust want to know... Joanna good time for me to once again pitch mozilla, the open source browser: http://www.mozilla.org/ version 1.5 is now out and is pretty stable. has many useful features (tabbed browsing, cookie management, junk mail

Re: USA humbled

2003-12-04 Thread joanna bujes
Looks like defeat to me. The local rags arent' giving it much spin or headlines...except to offer the consolation that the tarriffs were there to offer the steel industry time to retool and reinvent themselves...that this work was largely doneso now US steel is newly competitive and tarriffs

Re: mileage aka my irrelevant post for the day

2003-12-04 Thread joanna bujes
what's bottom quoting? joanna

Re: college students again and a question

2003-12-02 Thread joanna bujes
What happened at American universities in the 60's was 1) anyone who didn't want to be drafted headed for a graduate program -- and many of these folks were radicalized by the war. 2) the universities had to hire and give tenure because teachers were in short supply when universities were trying

signs of change

2003-12-01 Thread joanna bujes
[3] Avnery on signs of change Incident in Lisbon by Uri Avnery A few days ago I had a collision with Miguel Angel Moratinos, the astute Spanish diplomat who for several years acted as the emissary of the European Union in our region.

Re: Winners and losers

2003-11-30 Thread joanna bujes
And yet, giving up creativity for fear that our ideas might be stolen or perverted would be like giving up love for fear of being wounded. The good cannot be destroyed. Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: My problem is that I was born in 1959. There's a difference between imaginative politicians and

Name this war

2003-11-29 Thread joanna bujes
Kristof ran a name this war contest in NYT. See, http://nytimes.com/2003/11/29/opinion/29KRIS.html The five winners, each of whom gets a 250-dinar note left over from my last Iraq trip, are: Brad Corsello of New York for Dubya Dubya III; Richard Sanders for Rolling Blunder; John Fell of

U.S. Retracts Report of G.I.#146;s Being Mutilated]

2003-11-24 Thread joanna bujes
/ U.S. Retracts Report of G.I. s Being Mutilated November 24, 2003 By DEXTER FILKINS The two soldiers that had died Sunday had gunshot wounds to the head and their bodies were been pulled by Iraqis from their car and robbed of their personal belongings.

How to insult a millionaire

2003-11-24 Thread joanna bujes
OK. Alternative reality show: How to Insult a Millionaire! Contestants compete for the best letter (250 words or less) telling upper management exactly what they think of them.Winner HAS to make public the name of the company and walks away with 1/2 a mill. Three left-wing Siskel and Eberts

Re: Advertising

2003-11-22 Thread joanna bujes
: joanna bujes wrote: I dont' want ANY messages, healthy or not, being broadcast about. I was never exposed to any form of advertisement until I emigrated to Paris in 63...and then to the US in 64. My immediate reaction to it was that I felt manipulated and insulted. I still feel that way

Re: the next wedge issue

2003-11-21 Thread joanna bujes
Doyle Saylor wrote: My only answer to that is the whole working class is the whole working class. We cannot build a socialist society that does not acknowledge all the different elements that build a society and builds a whole society. Thanks, Doyle Well put. Joanna

Re: the next wedge issue

2003-11-21 Thread joanna bujes
Carrol Cox wrote: As Lou says, a revolutinary party that did not expel Melvin would not be a revolutionary party. Well, if a specific revolutionary party sought human liberation irrespective of wether that human was straight or gay, I assume Melvin would not join this party. Solidarity is

Re: Nitzan on oil

2003-11-21 Thread joanna bujes
Haven't read Nizan yet, but maybe the Iraq campaign was more of a Goldfinger move. Remember Goldfinger? He wanted to render all the gold in Fort Knox radioactive so that _his_ gold would be worth more. One view of the war holds that it was over control of oil. This translates in a lot of people's

Re: the next wedge issue

2003-11-21 Thread joanna bujes
ravi wrote: what is the working class, in terms of unique characteristics or use characteristics that help lend it definition? i am truly puzzled: i go to work each day. i am part of the yuppie privileged class. there's a guy wearing a union t-shirt who installs furniture in my building. am i in

Re: Fiction: Rich and poor

2003-11-21 Thread joanna bujes
Maybe you mean domesday book [TR Introduction] The first approach to a modern assessment roll or cataster is the well known Domesday Book. The existing literature on this remarkable memorial is so extensive, that it has not appeared advisable to quote largely from it. Our first quotation contains

bombings in Turkey

2003-11-21 Thread joanna bujes
From: Sebnem Oguz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Middle East Socialists Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,Discussions on the Socialist Register and its articles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MESN] Fw: Terror blasts in Istanbul :atrocities aid Bush's war on terror Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:40:04 -0500

Re: the next wedge issue

2003-11-20 Thread joanna bujes
Melvin wrote: Personally, I abhor homosexuality and feel no compulsion whatsoever to explain why I think a man penis should be place in a women and not another man. I am not required to explain my ideology. Actually, there is no such thing as a man's penis, right? I mean there's your penis, which

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