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17296 [lbo-talk] Gallup on gun ownership -- rank: 1000

gun ownership by demographic group other house- personally hold mem- owns ber owns total overall 30 12 42 gender men 47 5 52 women 13 18 31 region east 22 9 31 midwest 34 13 47 south 36 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 10:17:10 PST 2005

17297 [lbo-talk] Re: No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >If you like Butler, you'd love cricket. No I won't. Sorry. Bad analogy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 10:07:19 PST 2005

17298 [lbo-talk] No Business As Usual-National Day of Absence -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >December 1 has been designated as a National Day of Absence against >war, racism and economic injustice to commemorate the 50th >anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on the bus. > >Students, workers and all activists are being encouraged to stop >working, skip school, stop shopping or in other ways participate in >the system, and instead to join activities to protest the wars in >Iraq and Afganistan and their impact on the growing p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 09:57:17 PST 2005

17299 [lbo-talk] Thing Doug asked me -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Chukotka Autonomous Region 20,139.7 > >Tyuman Oblast 19,005.1 > >Moscow City 12,964.4 > >Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) 12,806.6 > >Republic of Komi 11,293.5 > >Moscow Region 9047.1 > >Primorskii Krai 8734.6 > >Leningrad (St. Peterburg) Region 8171.6 Leningrad? Does anyone still call it that? I don't see any stats for Leningrad city, which would be the proper point of comparison with Moscow city. Is it available? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 09:52:22 PST 2005

17300 [lbo-talk] Iraq oil ripoff -- rank: 1000

[from the Institute for Public Accuracy] Tuesday, November 22, 2005 "Crude Designs": New Report Charges Big Oil "Rip-Off" of Iraq Interviews Available GREG MUTTITT, 011-44-20-7403-3738, mobile: 011-44-797-058-9611, greg.muttitt at pobox.com, http://www.CrudeDesigns.org The British group PLATFORM has just released a report: "Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth." Among the group's findings: * "Current Iraqi oil policy will allocate the development of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 09:47:05 PST 2005

17301 [lbo-talk] Blair talked Bush out of bombing al-Jazeera: report -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: > Blair talked Bush out of bombing al-Jazeera Best thing I ever heard about Blair, not that there's much competition. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 05:45:09 PST 2005

17302 [lbo-talk] Huge cuts may not be enough, some fear -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Huge cuts may not be enough, some fear Yup, that's the consensus. So what should the union do? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 05:40:35 PST 2005

17303 [lbo-talk] MoD Poll of Iraqis -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >* 82 per cent are "strongly opposed" to the presence of coalition troops; That seals it, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 21 21:14:28 PST 2005

17304 [lbo-talk] Animal Porn Fridays -- rank: 1000

Rotating Bitch wrote: >And doug? Cat? Joe? The rest of the Bad Subjects crowd? We must have >been living in some little haven of feminist thought then, because >cognizance of these issues seems to be wholly lacking in this >debate. I don't remember retreading the ground feminists had already >tread. The dildo and porn wars had taken place in the 80s, by the >90s, we were aware of them and could reference them in our >discussions. Today, it's as if none of that was every disc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 21 14:54:43 PST 2005

17305 [lbo-talk] Re: Instinct -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: > > Or listen to QBoy and The Need? > >Of course. But if you cannot quote GYPSY at >those crucial moments in your life, then we will >have failed. I'm beginning to suggest you have a certain un-interrogated hegemonic notion of Gay, which may be too homogenous, and just not Queer enough! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 21 14:53:12 PST 2005

17306 [lbo-talk] Re: Instinct -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>BklynMagus wrote: >> >>>The camp would pleasant and not oppressive: there would >>>be Streisand Sundays and Midler Mondays and Ross >>>Thursdays. >> >>Yikes. Never have I felt so un-gay. >> >>Doug > >Yeah, couldn't we watch some Gus Van Sant movies or >something? Or listen to QBoy and The Need? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 21 12:37:39 PST 2005

17307 [lbo-talk] why support for Iraq war fell so fast -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] Christian Science Monitor - November 21, 2005 edition Why Iraq war support fell so fast US public support has dropped faster than during the Vietnam and Korean wars, polls show. By Linda Feldmann Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON - The three most significant US wars since 1945 - Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq - share an important trait: As casualties mounted, American public support declined. In the two Asian wars, that decline proved irreversible. W ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 21 12:35:08 PST 2005

17308 [lbo-talk] Re: Instinct -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >The camp would pleasant and not oppressive: there would >be Streisand Sundays and Midler Mondays and Ross >Thursdays. Yikes. Never have I felt so un-gay. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 21 12:09:47 PST 2005

17309 [lbo-talk] Fwd: URGENT ACTION ALERT: CONTACT MCDONALDS TODAY! -- rank: 1000

http://www.ciw-online.org/ Please circulate this alert widely. Ask McDonald's to work with the CIW to change conditions in the fields! http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/mcdonalds/ For months, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and allies across the country have called on McDonald's to do the right thing: Follow Taco Bell's lead and work with the CIW to establish fair wages and working conditions for the farmworkers who pick its tomatoes. In March of this year, Taco Bell agreed to take res ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 21 11:20:22 PST 2005

17310 [lbo-talk] Nathan, meet Joe Klein -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Is this Joe Klein the same Joe KLein who wrote a biography of Guthrie? I doubt it. Joe Klein is more famous for being Anonymous (not a woman in this case). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 21 09:24:02 PST 2005