Re: Four Days in September

First, I want to make it clear that I generally enjoyed "Four Days in September". [I will say I have also recently seen 2 other better South American "political" movies (the amazing low-budget allegory "Moebius" from Argentina and "The Shipwrecked" from Chile) but this is not a film review

[PEN-L:12284] *The Millionaire Next Door* / Sykes on Hitchens on Theresa

raid of things they don't understand-- like "holiness". . . . Nobody could be a saint if you judged them by the money they get from sinners." His Holiness, Jim Westrich "Only the poor break laws; the rich evade them." --T-Bone Slim

[PEN-L:12105] Re: work

At 01:21 PM 9/2/97 -0700, you wrote: Does anyone have more info on this (from the BLS Daily Report)? I don't have a USA Today anywhere nearby, and I'm drawing a blank on tracking down PSRA: Despite the best economic conditions in a generation, more than two-thirds of U.S. workers say

[PEN-L:11356] Addicted to Money

around ..14 to 10 micrograms per bill) and most of the $1 bills were found to be positive. For a control Prof. Negrusz had the Federal Reserve ship him a bag of bills (I wonder if they will ship me a bag) and none of these bills had any cocaine. Peace, Jim Jim Westrich Institute on Disability

[PEN-L:11245] Montgomery Ward bounces severence checks

Montgomery Ward sent the following letter on July 9th to 400 former employees fired on June 25th: Letter to employees From the corporate office ATTENTION: As you probably heard,

[PEN-L:10504] Re: Labor films

e shread of integrity to any corporate bidder). I could say a lot more but why listen to me, the film speaks for itself--it is well worth the effort to find it and watch it. Peace, Jim Westrich "Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is nece

[PEN-L:10494] Re: Labor films

in a more subtely powerful way than *Roger Me*) , class divides, faceless "corporate" forces that result in hopeless/pointless/heroic struggles, etc. Widgetly, Jim Westrich "How was I to know that gravity and rhythm were linked?" --Dickie Diamond

[PEN-L:10411] Re: The Farmer in the Dell/ Mag Plug

nfo: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/SpecPub/FundJstc.htm The cheese stands alone, Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinoist at Chicago "You know, we're living in a world of greed and hate" -- Merle Travis

[PEN-L:8727] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

t Interest15.3% Other 15.9% Peace, Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago "'Things are so wonderful' said the White Man to the Right Man, And that's why I cry. We deserve it." --Allison Statton

[PEN-L:8406] President's Economic Plan (U.S)

ic) categories would be education. I have no problem with free educations for everyone including the rich but I could not help but notice who gets a disproportionate share of the benefit for writing off elite educations. Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois a

[PEN-L:8358] Re: The Pack Is Back

on field successes wane. I personally think that cities are normally better off funding public education campaigns on participatory sports and explaining why spectator sports don't really matter than giving (or is that being extorted for) money and breaks to sports teams but its a rich man's world. P

[PEN-L:8071] Re: Juggling Big Brother's Books

This is well said and I certainly agree but as a criticism of statistics it is like criticizing the color "blue" for its use in a particularly ugly painting. Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago __ . . Be

[PEN-L:7912] Toilet Seats

quite possible that the sit down variety is a "step up"; but isn't the western sit down toilet one of the more inefficient of possible designs. I seem to recall that the seat should be slanted one way or the other to aid alimentary efficiency. Peace, Jim Westrich Institute on Disabi

[PEN-L:7506] Re: Ctr for Democ Values

e. I agree that his "stuffed armchair" activism was a tad soft, but overall I think that I would want to give the Center for Democratic Values the benefit of the doubt. They could quite possibly produce important and useful materials for the "community potluck" activist

[PEN-L:7290] U. S. Presidential Election Returns 1996 (corrected)

[Tow that last post to the trash] The nearly complete election returns in order (now with party names): x-Bill Clinton, Dem (i) 45,238,951 - 49 percent Bob Dole, GOP 37,607,011 - 41 percent Ross Perot, Reform Party 7,807,588 - 8 percent Ralph Nader, Green 575,985 - 1 percent Harry Browne,

[PEN-L:7288] U. S. Election Returns 1996

The nearly complete election returns in order: x-Bill Clinton, Dem (i) 45,238,951 - 49 percent Bob Dole, GOP 37,607,011 - 41 percent Ross Perot, Reform Party 7,807,588 - 8 percent Ralph Nader, Green 575,985 - 1 percent Harry Browne, Libertarian 464,076 - 1 percent Howard Phillips, US

[PEN-L:7072] Re: White collar/unproductive worker?

) but inadequate pay and little possibility for advancement. Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated? . . . Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. -- Oscar Wilde (1887 1891).

[PEN-L:6868] Satanism and Capitalism

uot; From "Halloween: The Making of a Mercantile Event" By Sam Howe Verhovek *NY Times*, October 23, 1996. Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago "Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs." --Guy Debor

[PEN-L:6591] Re: Republican cite needed

help. I highly recommend the latest issue (and no I do not know where Chairman Thar is). Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago "Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them." Edward

[PEN-L:6337] U. S. State Income Distribution

. Thank you, Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago "He's one years old but he committed a crime; he may be cute but he's not above the law." --- Dan Leone

[PEN-L:6347] Re: U. S. State Income Distribution

some richer index that would use distribution some way as well; but none of my colleagues thought my idea was too great today). Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago

[PEN-L:6096] Future Nobel laureate

ve effects, says Morris Kleiner, a University of Minnesota professor, including one that compared test scores of children in unionized and nonunionized districts. Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago "Rags, old iron; all he was buying we

[PEN-L:6044] RE: Higher Ed. $$$ Class

a college education abstracting from financial aid and state subsidies are increasing faster than inflation. Very true. Jim Westrich University of Illinois at Chicago Institute on Disability and Human Development "... are you living in some kind of Disney where thinking is

[PEN-L:5984] Re:Universities

, and demand factors. Hope this helps, Jim Westrich University of Illinois at Chicago Institute on Disability and Human Development "How was I to know that gravity and rhythm were linked?" --Dickie Diamond

[PEN-L:5970] Re: voter turnout

its just not as large as some optimistically project. Jim Westrich University of Illinois at Chicago Institute on Disability and Human Development "Have you seen the Democrats around town? They look like such nice people. They have these nice red, white, and blue badges. But if you bend

[PEN-L:5736] Re: Keeping welfare attack stats

At 07:56 AM 8/19/96 -0700, you wrote: The Center for Popular Economics has just put out a book which does exactly this. I ordered it from a flier I've since thrown away, and I forget the title, but it's published by the New Press in NYC. Gil *War on the Poor* and it is quite good. Jim

[PEN-L:4340] Fwd: Kevorkian Just Keeps on Going......

Thought some people might be interested in this, I find the testimony compelling.I'll say this for Kevorkian, he is a genius at misspecifying an issue to suit his interests. - Forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justice-For-All Moderator) Sender:[EMAIL

[PEN-L:4197] Re: Balanced Budget ARguments

itutions are both bad care and expensive). These savings are only waved at or vaguely hinted at by those waving the punitive budget ax. The Congressional Budget Office has all the projections used by Congress for their budget gyrations (I'm sure that Concord Coalition folks are just as likely to coo

[PEN-L:3441] Re: Mad Cows and Englishmen

y all over the globe due to the commercial pressures to raise animals in "unhealthy" ways (with increased use of hormones and antibiotics in animals). It will be fodder for newstainment and farming "backlash" for quite some time (as well as hyperbole on all sides). Jim

[PEN-L:3221] In Other Words

uot; or "unassigned." At the opposite extreme is a blunt expression attributed to the Canadian newspaper magnate Conrad Black: His executives know just what he means by "drowning the kittens."=20 (Sources: Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk; &qu

[PEN-L:3025] Intnl Budget Deficits Data Request

. Ethereally, Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago " . . . they never told him the cost of bringing home his weekly pay and when the courts decide how much they owe him how will he spend his money as he lies i

[PEN-L:2926] Re: manufacturing vs. services (John Doe)

be a slightly bigger draw as a musician (John Doe Thing or X). Yes, I could not resist. Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago "The works of women are symbolical. . . . . This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid The worth o

[PEN-L:2713] Re: Olasky or Malthus

], etc. =20 The non-deserving poor were also in fact separated into "dangerous" and "harmless". The "dangerous" thrown into the "madhouses." See *The Trade in Lunacy*, [by] William L. Parry-Jones. London, Routledge and K. Paul, 1972. [which is the book

[PEN-L:2704] U.S. Health Care Spending 1995

health care, and implications for health.I have some ideas about this but they wander in many and varied directions so I will likely followup if anyone else has some thoghts. Jim Westrich Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois at Chicago --- "Now that

[PEN-L:1727] RE: Cuts?

I know what you were getting at--the difference from the baseline grows steeply over time and hence the burden is "back-loaded"). Jim Westrich University of Illinois--Chicago Institute on Disability and Human Development (M/C 626) Applied Research Unit 1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. Chicago, IL 60608 Phone: (312) 413-7862 Fax: (312) 413-1326

[PEN-L:1693] Re: Cuts?

an, Coughlin, et al. which you can get by calling the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid (1-800-656-4533). I can summarize myself but why not get it directly. Jim Westrich University of Illinois--Chicago Institute on Disability and Human Development (M/C 626) Applied Research Unit 1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. Chicago, IL 60608 Phone: (312) 413-7862 Fax: (312) 413-1326

[PEN-L:1412] Medicaid Note [Re: Wattenberg and Values]

0-2) [22%] and increased paymnents to providers [9%] are also important factors. The most important factors right now are increased use of Medicaid for Medigap coverage and shift to Medicaid/HMOs. Nothing is being said about quality and meeting the health needs of people. Jim Westrich Unive

[PEN-L:1114] Re: AFL-CIO's New Era (cont.) (fwd)

sney would but that's a different matter) Would they sue Barron's? Left Business Observer? LaborNet? Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value. Jim Westrich Applied Research Unit Institute on Disability and Human Development University of Illinois--Chicago Phone: (312) 413-7862 Fax: (312) 413-1326 [EMAIL PROTECTED]