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22786 [lbo-talk] "Stupid Gay Men on the Left" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Not exactly. In Gallup's latest poll, taken June 21-23, Nader's at >>3%. In late June/early July 2000, he was at 5-6%. >> >>Doug > >That's just one poll among many, though. I see 3-7% support for >Nader at various polls at <http://pollingreport.com/wh04gen.htm>. It's not kosher to compare different pollsters across time. Different pollsters use different wording, sampling techniques, weighting, etc. The kosher thing to do would be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 2 15:05:00 PDT 2004

22787 [lbo-talk] Bush mobilizing the faithful -- rank: 1000

Bush Seeks to Mobilize Religious Conservatives Thu Jul 1, 8:04 PM ET By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites), seeking to mobilize religious conservatives for his reelection campaign, has asked church-going volunteers to turn over church membership directories, campaign officials said on Thursday. In a move sharply criticized both by religious leaders and civil libertarians, the Bush-Cheney campaign has issued a guide listing about two-dozen "duties" and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 2 14:22:23 PDT 2004

22788 [lbo-talk] "Stupid Gay Men on the Left" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It is remarkable that Nader is still polling better than in 2000 Not exactly. In Gallup's latest poll, taken June 21-23, Nader's at 3%. In late June/early July 2000, he was at 5-6%. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 2 13:47:51 PDT 2004

22789 [lbo-talk] political art -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 1, 2004 DEMON ART A SHOCKING image of a blood-spattered President Bush devouring a headless child is causing an uproar. The drawing by sculptor Richard Serra, based on a painting by Goya, is being used to promote pleasevote.com, billed as "a call to vote the Bush administration out of office." It appears on the back cover of The Nation's July 5 issue. Ironically, Serra, a past recipient of NEA grants, was once praised by First Lady Laura Bush in a White ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 2 12:34:32 PDT 2004

22790 [lbo-talk] "Stupid Gay Men on the Left" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>[lbo-talk] Re: naderphobia (psychopathology of?) >>Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Fri Jul 2 06:13:52 PDT 2004 >> >>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>>Don't believe every farfetched thing that US leftists who are >>>stricken with Naderphobia have to say about Nader. I have heard >>>Nader complain of "corporate pornography and violence beamed to >>>children at a very impressionable age" (e.g., &g ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 2 11:58:36 PDT 2004

22791 [lbo-talk] Why do they hate Moore? -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Wasn't there something nasty said about him by Nader recently? <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8713-2004Jun26.html> Washington Post - June 27, 2004 Unsolicited Advice From the Far Left By Dana Milbank Tempers are hot in the capital over Michael Moore's anti-Bush production, "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- and not just in the White House. Now one of the filmmaker's old friends on the far left is accusing Moore of being . . . fat? On Thursday, Moore was th ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 2 11:29:07 PDT 2004

22792 [lbo-talk] Nader people give up on Ariz -- rank: 1000

Nader Backers Abandon Bid for Spot on Ariz. Ballot Democrats Questioned Validity of Signatures on Petition By Paul Davenport The Associated Press Friday, July 2, 2004; 1:35 PM PHOENIX -- Supporters of Ralph Nader on Friday abandoned their effort to get the independent candidate on the presidential ballot in Arizona after Democrats challenged the validity of thousands of signatures. Nader's campaign had submitted more than 22,000 signatures to Arizona election officials June 9 -- far more than th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 2 11:21:16 PDT 2004

22793 [lbo-talk] Why do they hate Moore? -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Can someone explain to me why lefties hate Moore so much? I've never >paid much attention to any of it, because it struck me as upper >Manhattan gossip among left glitterati. Who hates him exactly? He's my neighbor on the Upper West Side, and I don't hate him. This list overwhelmingly likes him. I think Alexander Cockburn had it out for him, but he's far from upper Manhattan. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 2 08:38:39 PDT 2004

22794 [lbo-talk] employment -- rank: 1000

oops, missent that - well, enjoy, gang

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Date:	Fri Jul 2 08:07:20 PDT 2004

22795 [lbo-talk] comments on June employment -- rank: 1000

The June employment report was fairly disappointing, with the details offering few positives to offset the weakness in the headline number. While a single month's disappointment certainly doesn't undo the improvements in the three previous months, it does suggest that this U.S. economy is in no danger of overheating, and that the Fed's patient-cum-measured approach is looking wise. * June's headline gain of 112,000 was composed mainly of small gains in a number of sectors, with none really stand ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 2 07:58:20 PDT 2004

22796 [lbo-talk] Re: naderphobia (psychopathology of?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Don't believe every farfetched thing that US leftists who are >stricken with Naderphobia have to say about Nader. I have heard >Nader complain of "corporate pornography and violence beamed to >children at a very impressionable age" (e.g., ><http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/23/elec04.prez.nader/>), but >I haven't heard him say anything about preferring domestic porn to >foreign porn (!), and Christian can't produce any evidence ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 2 06:13:52 PDT 2004

22797 [lbo-talk] Re: Blind, or a coward / antisemitism? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: eight posts so far today. The limit is three.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 1 17:43:24 PDT 2004

22798 [lbo-talk] Re: naderphobia (psychopathology of?) -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >His clear uncomfortableness with body/sexual >issues is problematic. Fits in with his paranoia, which, as every Freudian schoolchild knows, is frequently a defense against unwanted homosexual desires. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 1 15:34:46 PDT 2004

22799 [lbo-talk] Voters' views: Iraq -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Jesus boots huh?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 1 13:12:57 PDT 2004

22800 [lbo-talk] Japan recovery threatened: S&P -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: > > Japan's defense spending was 5 trillion Yen in 2002. > >That's the equivalent of $45 billion -- miniscule in relation to its GDP >of around $4.5 trillion. The stats: > >http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp Enough to put thmm fourth in the world, not all that far behind China & Russia, a hair ahead of the UK, and well ahead of France, Germany, and Italy. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 1 13:11:41 PDT 2004