I agree: as I've said
before, people such as Castro and Noriega
are dismissed as "crazy"
by establishmentarian figures.
As someone who deals
with the community of parents of kids on the autistic
spectrum,
I'm always fighting the
urge (not just by others) to diagnose various people as
Greetings Economists,
It is but a small step from what CC writes:
As a friend of mine in the local Depressive Support Group once observed,
Just because you're crazy doesn't mean you're not also a jerk! There is
no difficulty in demonstrating that Bush and his friends are one large
bunch of thugs
Brian McKenna wrote:
Hi all,
I disagree strongly with this view. . .
The rest of this post is so incoherent that I am baffled by how to
respond to its actual arguments (since every argument the post advances
it also attacks as far as I can see: hence it refutes itself pretty
conclusively).
Hi all,
I disagree strongly with this view. . .
Mental health tags are continually used to discredit whistleblowers, Marxists, and others who challenge orthodoxy. This reproduces the dominant view that mental health questions only pertain to individuals, particularly those individuals who are
Counterpunch, August 5, 2004
The Dem Plot Against Nader
Florida Comes to California
By TODD CHRETIEN
Having spent the last month helping organize the petition drive to get
Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo on the ballot in California, I'd like to
make two observations and some comments.
1. There are an
Take a simple example of Japan and the US. Say the market exchange rate
is 110 Yens = One US$. Now take an equivalent basket--in quantity and
quality--that contains a burger with fries and a drink. It costs 450
Yens in Tokyo and US$ 2.50 in New York. The PPP exchange rate is then
180 Yens = One
Boston Globe op-ed
SCOTT RITTER
Challenging Kerry on his Iraq vote
By Scott Ritter | August 5, 2004
WITH THE release last month of the report by the Senate Select Committee
on intelligence and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, John Kerry was
handed a gift that rarely occurs in a major political
A Low Profile For the Big Issue
Kerry Treads Lightly on War in Iraq
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 5, 2004; Page A06
In the early days of the general-election campaign, Democrat John F.
Kerry has mounted a strong effort to erode President Bush's advantage on
Mallard Q. Duck wrote:
Scary. Any examples of this? Online New York Times archives or whatever?
Here's something fairly typical.
NY Times, July 22, 1923
The Swashbuckling Mussolini
by Anne O'Hare McCormick
(clip)
The miracle is a miracle of conversion. Here at last is a Government
that has
Devine, James wrote:
Todd Chretien writes:
The Democrats do nothing to challenge the indifference of the poorest
people and youth in the United States to the outcomes of elections,
because they benefit from it. The biggest threat to the Democratic
Party's status as an alternating ruling
CC writes: I would
prefer to speak of different sectors of one working class in formation, since
most of those "yuppies" would be -- or since the 2000 crash are already -- in
great trouble if their paychecks cease for a few months.
especially if the housing bubble pops...
And those
Devine, James wrote:
This suggests that, for clarity's sake, future discussions of the DP
and ABB should make it clear whether we're talking about
(1) working within the DP; or
(2) voting for Kerry.
as for me, I agree that working within the DP is absolutely the wrong
way to go. What
Title: Nostradamus predicts...
(Rediscovered Quatrain)
Les Gracchus du
sud surgiront triomphales
Au grand dépit des sbires imperiales
Bougrelas Ubu remplacera
Mais wirtschaft polnische restera
Michèl de Nôtre-Dame
(p.c.c. le petit poete)
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In 2005, the Center for Working-Class Studies will celebrate the 10th
anniversary of its
In a message dated 8/5/04 11:41:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I take any attack on anyone on the basis of mental illness as a personal attack. I.e., as far as I am concerned Brian's post boils down to the proposition that "Cox is a
shithead."
there is a slippery slope
Defrauding Women of Abortion (an anti-abortion fraudster preyed on
working-class women by promising them discount abortions and then
cancelling appointments repeatedly, until it became too late for them
to have abortions -- the fraud enabled by an anti-abortion myth that
women who want abortions
Mussolinis Fascist State Italy is passing through a period of political
and social change. Single events, however important in themselves, can
hardly give the significance of this change or its direction. The
following summary of the accomplishments of the last parliamentary
session is
Of course, there are also the reports that Bush has or had a drinking
problem , and we know he has declared that he is a born again Christian. I
wonder if , oddly, this means he has more of a conscience and sensitivity
than your average president, and he is depressed because he feels guilty
about
Speaking of autism, read -- if you haven't already -- Mark
Haddon's The Serious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, an outstanding first
novel by a British writer with a background in working with autistic kids. Very
funny and empathetic, about one such terrifically engaging 15 year
old.
Sorry. The title is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time.
- Original Message -
From:
Devine, James
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:04
PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The rise of an
emotion based left was Bush using drugs
I
I'd like our broker colleague -- and others -- to consider the following.
In Peter Millard's (Dow Jones) article Venezuela 's PdVSA Ramps Up
Publicity Ahead Of Recall (July 30), the second-to-last paragraph reads:
The government claims the new PdVSA has brought oil production back to
the 3.1
[Tariq's position on Bush's defeat will annoy some, but it's splendid
stuff - he gives some of the best radio around.]
Just added to my radio archive
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html:
August 5, 2004 Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup and author of
Polling Matters, on the public
yes. it's an excellent book. It's even good if you're not
interested in the autism spectrum.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
[was: RE: [PEN-L] The rise of an emotion based left was Bush using drugs]
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list on behalf of
from msnbc.
A new 'Bushism': We're gonna get us
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:24 p.m. ET Aug. 5, 2004
WASHINGTON - President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of
Bushisms on Thursday, declaring that his administration will never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and
[from
SLATE]
hey, wait a minute
California's SUV Ban
The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on
many of its roads but doesn't seem to know it.
By Andy Bowers
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004, at 11:42
AM PT
Unless you drive one of the largest SUVs,
such as the Chevy Suburban, the Cadillac
More land for the military than for Hawaiians
Two-part series by Winona LaDuke in Indian Country Today:
Part One
http://www.indiancountry.com/?1090938578style=printablestyle=printable
Part Two
http://www.indiancountry.com/?1091536055style=printablestyle=printable
Title: nader to lobbyist
Nader Tells Toby
Moffett: "Stop making false statements concerning allegations of
Republican support."
Rebuts False Allegations of Republican Support
Describes Moffett As a "Corporate Lobbyist," Not a Nader's
Raider
Moffett is Part of the Problem of Corporate Control of
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