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23476 [lbo-talk] family values -- rank: 1000

[from another list - the first link is gone] Bush family values: YESTERDAY: <http://www.grassleyworks.com/grassley/wrapper.jsp?PID=4090-69&CID=4090-100604A> Bush introduced Mike and Sharla Hintz, a couple from Clive, whom he said benefited from his tax plan. Mike Hintz, a First Assembly of God youth pastor, said the tax cuts also gave him additional money to use for health care. He said he supports Bush's values. TODAY: <http://www.theiowachannel.com/news/3976822/detail.html> A D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 07:57:19 PST 2004

23477 [lbo-talk] too many ballots in Ohio? -- rank: 1000

<http://democrats.com/ohio-absentee> More Votes than Voters in Ohio: Absentee Vote Inflated, Certified Vote in Doubt by Dr. Werner Lange December 12, 2004 A careful review of the absentee vote in one Ohio county revealed that many more absentee votes were cast than there were absentee voters identified... The 106 precincts of these five Ohio communities, about 39% of all precincts in Trumbull County, netted a total of 580 absentee votes for which there were no absentee voters identified in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 07:14:20 PST 2004

23478 [lbo-talk] a mysterious suicide... -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Webb was a fine journalist. I talked with him back in 1992, when I was going after Jerry Brown. Webb had covered him in Sacramento, and didn't like the gov, and put me on to other people who didn't like Brown either. Webb seemed completely sane and serious and not the nutjob he was later presented as. Sad story. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 06:53:01 PST 2004

23479 [lbo-talk] a mysterious suicide... -- rank: 1000

[Joseph Wanzala, what's the conspiracist explanation?] San Jose Mercury News - December 12, 2004 Gary Webb, 49, former MN reporter, author INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST WROTE CONTROVERSIAL SERIES By Jessica Portner Gary Webb, a former Mercury News investigative reporter, author and legislative staffer who ignited a firestorm with his controversial stories, died Friday in an apparent suicide in his suburban Sacramento home. He was 49. The Sacramento County coroner's office said that when A Better Movi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 12 19:25:52 PST 2004

23480 [lbo-talk] Old News Item -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Ah yes, Anybody but Bush. > >A dime's worth of difference? <yawn>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 12 07:26:22 PST 2004

23481 [lbo-talk] events in Columbus -- rank: 1000

Yoshie, you haven't commented on the shooting of Dimebag in Columbus! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 11 11:34:38 PST 2004

23482 [lbo-talk] Re: Diet Pills = Gay Babies -- rank: 1000

Brian Charles Dauth wrote: >Miles writes: > >>This is wild extrapolation from correlational data! > >And this is holiday homophbia as only Miles can serve. Brian! Miles's point is a good one, and there's nothing homophobic about it. I can't say I recall Miles having a history of homophobic remarks, either. What's this about? I'd be really wary of any biological explanations of sexual preference - or biological explanations of almost anything. Though Butler goes a bit far when ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 11 11:22:11 PST 2004

23483 [lbo-talk] Fallujah: the homecoming -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - December 11, 2004 Fallujah: The homecoming and the homeless By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad and Kim Sengupta The Black Watch arrives back in Britain this morning - home in time for Christmas as Tony Blair had promised. The regiment's five-week mission - the toughest British troops have faced since the invasion of Iraq 21 months ago - made possible the US assault on Fallujah, which now lies in ruins. Five Black Watch soldiers died, and no one doubts the dedication they broug ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 11 09:43:28 PST 2004

23484 [lbo-talk] 'Pervert Studies': the erotic in all its dispositional variations -- rank: 1000

[via cultstud-l] Please circulate widely..... Call for papers: 'PERVERT STUDIES': CONSIDERATIONS OF THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SEX, PLEASURE & THE EROTIC ===================================================================== Session Organizers: Jamie Paquin & Katherine Osterlund (York University) A session of the 2005 Canadian Anthropology and Sociology Association (CSAA) Annual Meetings, London, Ontario, Canada; May 31st - June 3rd 2005 You are invited to submit an abstract of a paper for oral p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 21:26:41 PST 2004

23485 [lbo-talk] boss gets complaints from the help -- rank: 1000

Joel Wendland wrote: >>A Guardsman asks, 'where the hell's our decent gear'? Our bargain >>basement Augustus replies: "I'm told that the army is breaking its >>neck to see that there is not a differentiation" in the quality of >>equipment..." >> >>"I'm told", he says, "I'm told". When someone whose job it is to >>know these things (maybe I'm wrong but you'd think it'd be part of >>the Sec of Defense job descrip ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 13:43:46 PST 2004

23486 [lbo-talk] Bush simulator -- rank: 1000

<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16112> iBush artificial oval office occupant simulator Product Description: Makes political statements much like a certain Mr. G. W. Bush might do. Passes the Turing test every single time you click the button. Actual quotes make up over 90 percent of the statements generated by the application, the other 10 percent being filler material. What's new in this version: * Tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about Ohio * ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 13:32:03 PST 2004

23487 [lbo-talk] guns save lives! -- rank: 1000

[This is from a right-wing publicist.] CONTACT: To schedule an interview, contact: Special Guests/Jerry McGlothlin, 630-848-0750, jerry at specialguests.com or Jean Meyer, 321-768-0157, jean at specialguests.com GUN SAVED MANY LIVES AT OHIO NIGHTCLUB Gun Owners of America Communications Director Erich Pratt is conducting talk show interviews, lauding the brave officer who entered an Ohio nightclub on Wednesday night after receiving a call that a shooting was in progress. Patrol officer James D. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 12:06:41 PST 2004

23488 [lbo-talk] DADT -- rank: 1000

This just in from my friend Ken Sherrill, chair of the Hunter College poli sci department... Interesting pattern in "Don't Ask Don't Tell" discharges of same-sexers from the military: up during the Clinton years, down during Bush's. Guess they need the queers as cannon fodder. 1994 617 1995 772 1996 870 1997 1,007 1998 1,163 1999 1,046 2000 1,241 2001 1,273 2002 906 2003 787

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 9 17:54:12 PST 2004

23489 [lbo-talk] dig a hole & dump 'em in it -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - December 9, 2004 'We have to protect people' President Bush wants 'pro-homosexual' drama banned. Gary Taylor meets the politician in charge of making it happen What should we do with US classics like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or The Color Purple? "Dig a hole," Gerald Allen recommends, "and dump them in it." Don't laugh. Gerald Allen's book-burying opinions are not a joke. Earlier this week, Allen got a call from Washington. He will be meeting with President Bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 9 16:27:11 PST 2004

23490 [lbo-talk] Why Jews Hate Republicans, Part XVIV -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >A very small part of the u.s. public ever watches Fox news. So it doesn't matter? I still don't get why you bother with politics.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 9 12:36:42 PST 2004