Re: scam?

Re: Friendly advice from the government??? to the list

At 11:12 AM 6/19/03 -0400, ravi wrote: > from: "Chilman, Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Chilman, Walter" wrote: > >>Dear Michael... >> >>one notices, does not one, how the internet is getting loaded up with what >>should really be considered idle scraps of thought generally unconnected >>with any

Re: Friendly advice from the government??? to the list

l address (or if Walter goes egosurfing often) then perhaps they'll come across his note, archived for all to smell! I normally, snip stuff like this, but I'll leave it so it'll get archived a second time. heh. kelley "Chilman, Walter" wrote: > Dear Michael... > &

Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"

annual income of about $120,000 or financial assets of about $1 million (each figure is the median estimate). These figures, as well as the percentage who expect to get rich, all vary considerably by gender, age, and income." http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030311.asp Kelley

Re: RE: Re: Clash of Currencies and the Iraq War

i don't know what to make of this explanation. thoughts? Look at it this way: the ownership of Iraq's oil reserves is about to dramatically change hands. This will be one of the largest financial transactions in history. Of course world oil production will remain relatively constant, and the pri

Re: Re: open-source teaching?

ings plenty of results to peruse. http://opensourceschools.org/index.php?topic=books http://opensourceschools.org/index.php?topic=apps There's an education and technology list that Iused to sub to that would probably be helpful for answering questions about collaboration, open source, etc. kelley

OUCH! California Power Lies

OUCH! California Power Lies Public Campaign February 6, 2001 - The direction California's 1996 electricity deregulation law was supposed to make consumers' costs go: Down. - Expected hike in residential electricity bills because of a temporary emergency rate increase approved by California's Pu

Re: Question for Penners

always check out urban legends.com -- they're great for this crap! Claim: Members of Congress receive lavish pensions but are not required to contribute to the Social Security fund. Status: False. Origins: Before we launch into this latest piece of moral outrage, let's synchronize our glo

Re: The Problem -- faith vetted by Bushevik central committee

At 08:20 PM 1/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >Kelley wrote, > > >i say, take > >their money. and if they have the..ahem..bush to go after people for > >distributing political literature, then we have grounds to fight the > >distribution of anti-abortion literature, etc.

Re: Factoid query

At 06:14 PM 1/16/01 +, you wrote: >Pen-l, > >I'm writing a commentary on the overproduction crisis and need a current >factoid on the gap between the richest and poorest U.S. households. Any >suggestions? > >With advance thanks, >Seth Sandronsky http://www.inequality.org/ The ratio of top

Re: RE: The Problem (You say Olasky, I say Alinsky. . . let's call the whole thing off)

dition, by the way, is based on the Piltdown Scrolls, >discovered in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1905 by the National Association of >Manufacturers. heh. all i could think of when i saw the ref to the pancake breakfast was working as a waitress years ago. every monday, they came to the restaurant for a Christian Business Leader Prayer Breakfast. kelley

Re: Re: The Problem

to quickly raid the hardware store in hopes that they still stocked them. At any rate, i think the political point is clear: don't let them define the terms of discourse. if they want to pass out anti-abortion literature, why can't we work with churches that will pass out anti-capitalist literature. kelley

: Welfare Reform, from the Horse's Mouth

ficates for you and dependents proof that you are eligible for food stamps in the first place or the proof that you have applied for assistance. Kelley Researcher Interpact Inc. www.interpactinc.com

class

y. the convo is still preserved, in part, tho the original comments were excised leaving only a discussion between sam pawlett and me. perhaps lou has the original comment? http://www.marxmail.org/archives/january99/prostitution.htm kelley

Re: Energy deregulation

just for you came off of Declan McCullagh's Politics and Technology List, http://reason.com/ml/ml010401.html

Re: RE: Harry Braverman (was Re: Labor: Menial vs. Noble )

nary opposition between mental and manual labor is that it is a nice little myth that leads people (white working class men in particular) to reinscribe their own oppression, if i can get all labor process theory on ya. kelley

Re: Re: Re: Damn it all

in C++, do let me know since my fiance is thousands of miles away and it would be real swell if we could put that technology to more, shall we say, productive ends. kelley

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Damn it all

ordan, then certainly you'd have no compunctions about trying calling his "boss." and, the reasons why it makes sense that you'd take it beyond the internet is quite clear from your closing: >It's either that or lose some teeth. carry on. kelley

Re: Re: Re: Have You Read All These Books?

as to where to search in the archives. thanks, kelley

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bachelor Machines, Commodity Fetish, Cyborgfuck & the Flaneur

LNP3.exe writes: >Maybe they are prejudiced in favor of capital letters. maybe some of us have carpal tunnel and tendonitis. H.A.N.D. kelley >Louis Proyect >Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/

Re: Re: Re: Bachelor Machines, Commodity Fetish, Cyborgfuck & the Flaneur

27;t say that i'm unhappy that events went the way they did more common than i'd thought, i guess. kelley

Re: Re: New Quiz for Kelley

o manipulate tools, do so more quickly than others (which might merely me some of us, me, spend our work day in front of a 'fuser trying hard not to work), and know what to use to search most efficiently. p.s. google.com tells you how long it takes to search for the results, too. kelley

Re: The End: was Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re:weber)

dynamics that i either wish to engage or not. kelley

Re: New Quiz for Kelley

Matthew takes a nibble at the worm on my hook *grin*: >Ok, Kelley. Here's your new quiz. Again, guess the author. ok, Matthew, no more demonstrations of my amazing *hack* research skills until i know if it's in my self-interest to do so. particularly, since somebody owes me a $

Re: RE: Quiz

quiz, damn it! washing machine indeed. at least i could get a lousy wagon wheel pin, the production of which smith wrote about. sheesh! kelley

Re: Quiz

At 03:33 PM 12/7/00 -0800, Jeff Thompson wrote: >Adam Smith? Book I, Chapter 8 in WoN At 06:21 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote: >>Who said it? mbs

Re: Re: Re: Re: Weber and rationality

> >Tend to agree with you on Weber, Kelley, but then I'm not sure Ricardo >disagrees. And Ricardo's name is, I believe, Ricardo. But then, I believe >yours is Kelley. Typos both? > >Yours still not reading that information services report, >Rob. thanks. no,

Re: RE: Re: GOP vs Dem Behavior (e.g., voting)

correct me if i'm wrong, but if memory serves, there wasn't an option for a statewide manual recount, at first. there was an option for a statewide machine recount. and there was the possibility of challenging the result in particular counties. borehead's team (and shrubya's) already knew th

Re: Re: Weber and rationality

needed to be lectured on the uses of rationality in weber's work. this would be no more of a personal attack than your felt need to correct what you believed was my misuse of weber's concept of rationality. kelley kelley

Re: Re: Weber and rationality

ural/institutional. when i say that rationality in terms of rationalized capitalism is composed of characteristics that reveal it to be standardized, etc i'm not speaking of individual level motivations. kelley >.

Re: RE: Re: RE: Why I am here

o the members of the >vast right-wing conspiracy. > > >David Shemano that's what we're most afraid of. kelley

Re: Re: Weber's Genteel Racism

b (youagain habermas, as i call him). true, you can't get hab without getting weber. you can't get hab w/o getting a lot of other thinkers, too. but i suspect, for your purposes, weber is the one to focus on. kelley

Re: Techie Question

ubstantially in January? Sales >predictions are already shrinking with the recent Gateway news. i'm banking on the fact that they'll glut and crash, from what i heard on the news tonight. however, i also wonder how much of it was an attempt to whip up a frenzy of such buying... kelley

Re: RE: Re: Re: meme

ave, somehow, escaped that fate. Gouldner was pointing out the "hypocrisy" -- it is, essentially, the same one found in *all* social theories that argue that the common perception of the social world is awry, that the social theorist and the theory(ies) s/he's peddling are superior to that common perception. kelley

Re: Re: CounterCoup

to me that it is about gore for the folks protesting or who are upset. kelley

Re: Re: meme

are unfathomable. leftish sociology and marxism are, of course, out of the question so, like rightwingers and conspiracy theories, they turn to meme theory to explain why things just don't go their way. pathetic, really. kelley

meme

iously! what is the powerful hold this concept has over everyone. i've read a bit about it and it has all the analytical subtlety of a sledgehammer. thanks, kelley

Re: President Gore

mory and i've not bothered to look it up and check. pinellas co: the republic north part of the county apparently double counted the votes there. that was the latest local news. what abt the Harris glitch in Valousia Co? kelley

Velousia stats on line

with the ballot punching system or fraud. You can download it as at .doc at http://home1.get.net/kwalker2/Vote2000/stats.html oh and, for fun, this cracked me up. but then, i'm a little punchy right now! :) http://www.tvdance.com/bush-gore/ kelley Kelley Walker Researcher/Writer Int

Origin of 5%

when was the 5% eligibility rule enacted? i looked around for a while but quickly got weary of all the sites about third parties, etc. none of them seemed to have a discussion of the date/origin of the rule. curiously and too lazy to look it up myself, kell

Re: Re: Stop the name calling

> >The person whom I've called "incompetent" most often during the past week >has been Al Gore. I presume you have no objection to me calling him >"incompetent"? That it all depends on to whom the names are applied? > >As for Nader... You somehow think that the left in America is stronger >tod

Re: Re: The Green Machine

At 11:57 AM 11/6/00 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >Max Sawicky wrote: > >>4. The Greens don't have many blacks, but I predict that will >>change. > >The NYT/CBS poll in today's paper has Nader's black support at 4%, right >in line with the national average. (This is a "likely voter" poll.) Men >ar

Re: Re: voting for Nader

At 08:48 AM 11/5/00 -0800, martin schiller wrote: >kelley said on 11/5/00 7:43 A > > >poor wording on my part. i got the impression that someone was laboring > >under the notion that overturning roe v wade would mean outlawing abortion. > >that's not what it wou

Re: Re: Re: Re: voting for Nader

have been making it a states rights issue, but abortion won't then be/c magically illegal. the politics will have to turn to state level. and that won't necessarily alienate that many people. in fact, it's a pleasant goal for the GOP since their national political races won't be mired in the politics of abortion. kelley

Re: Re: voting for Nader

At 04:34 PM 11/4/00 -0800, martin schiller wrote: >kelley said on 11/4/00 5:08 P > > >i wasn't answering your question. i was providing you with some numbers in > >order for you to rethink your assumption that it would significantly hurt > >the GOP if they alie

Re: Re: voting for Nader

At 03:48 PM 11/4/00 -0800, martin schiller wrote: >kelley said on 11/4/00 4:40 P > > >they'll make it a state's rights issue, if they can. unlikely. OR, > >they'll uphold rulings that will steadily eke away at the right to abortion > >on demand. we don&

Re: Re: voting for Nader

of the anti-abortionists' legal strategy in terms of an assault on the Supreme Court. but, i'm sure if you check around, you'll find that kind of information. that will likely tell you more about how such an eventually might come about. kelley

Phony figures, Marriage Penalty Hype & EITC

The Biggest Marriage Tax Is the Hardest One to Solve Though not as often discussed, the biggest "marriage penalty" of all clearly stems from the "earned-income tax credit." This tax rebate for lower income working families is computed and phased down exactly the same for single parents as for

Re: marriage penalty

the earned income tax credit getting married is a penalty -- which is the irony since they supposedly want to encourage the heathen poor to shack up legally. kelley

Re: Gramsci again on the state

>Well, okay. I am coming over to marxism-thaxis to discuss that with you. >Look for me. I am about 6 feet tall, very muscular, and have blond hair >down to my shoulders. > Now see, Carrol, this is a supAfine moment to draw on freudian deconstruction of fantasy kelley

Re: Re: poverty and child abuse

ot; yuppie couples, but because we need to use caution and examine the cultural biases encoded in this research. it feeds ever so easily into the cultural pathology thesis kelley -- p u l p c u l t u r e a list for the discussion of media/culture/politics http://www.flash.net/~oudies/pulp_culture.htm ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.

Wilson

calls such as this lead to the 1997 Uniform Child Custory Jurisdiction Act [see below] which made my life a whole lot easier after my ex slapped me with a child custody battle. and lately, he's decided not to pay, even though [since i still have all our old bank acct info] he's packing away 100

re: oppression

since i've been censored on lbo and since doug, yoshie and charles are s***ed here i shall take the liberty of doing a yoshie. i do not intend to address this issue further, but i am incensed to have been censored, particularly since this post is not in any way whatsoever inflammatory. to think

request on teaching

At 04:54 PM 8/31/1999 -0400, you wrote: >When in public debates, people try to promote "entrepreneurship" , urging only it as the best economc career for people to follow, I say but everybody can't be the boss. Somebody has to be the workers. In fact, most people must be workers. So entrepreneurs

[PEN-L:10411] query

rwise, he should write to Dept of Philosophy Hall of Languages Syracuse University Syr. NY 13244-1090 kelley

political practice [was ebonics; was anecdotage]

carrol wrote=20 >Kelley focuses on activities which are officially academic." gee whiz, wasn't the original thread about a hiring and academic politics? i write about academia b/c that was the subj matter.=20 furthermore, you write [below] as if it these things have nothing to do w

[PEN-L:10269] RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Ideology/consciousnessandmaterial/social

chaz writes: >Sorry, I meant to say " I be a vulgar Marxist, motherfucker." chaz! it's muthafuckah. look you have to hang out on the b=ball courts with the kids more often audi5000 snitgrrRl p.s., ajit, my use of "chaz" is long standing and a term of affection.