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23866 [lbo-talk] ABC/WP poll: tepid bounce for JFK2 -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: POST-CONVENTION - 8/1/04 After his Convention, a Tepid Bump for Kerry John Kerry took a tepid bump in support out of his nominating convention, gaining an advantage over George W. Bush among registered voters - but not so among those most likely to vote. Kerry's gain is smaller than usual for a convention bounce, testament to the unusually polarized race, with many voters committing early to each candidate. Still, it comes at a crucial time for Kerry, countering a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 14:38:15 PDT 2004

23867 [lbo-talk] Re: Sexuality Under Seige, or What Else is New? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I'm all for the left "capturing the flag" of military salutes et al Yuck. Kerry was bragging about his performance in a war he once opposed! Can't you admit the Dems ever do anything wrong? It really undermines your credibility. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 12:08:19 PDT 2004

23868 [lbo-talk] Census plays with the cops -- rank: 1000

[This really sucks.] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/politics/30census.html WASHINGTON, July 29 - The Census Bureau has provided specially tabulated population statistics on Arab-Americans to the Department of Homeland Security, including detailed information on how many people of Arab backgrounds live in certain ZIP codes. The assistance is legal, but civil liberties groups and Arab-American advocacy organizations say it is a dangerous breach of public trust and liken it to the Census Bureau' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 12:06:48 PDT 2004

23869 [lbo-talk] Re: Sexuality Under Seige, or What Else is New? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jon Johanning" <jjohanning at igc.org> > > >On Aug 1, 2004, at 11:07 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Of course, in reality the Dems have never been a peace party - as Bob >> Dole put it, exaggerating only slightly, all the wars of the 20th >> century were Democrat wars - but perception was that it was wussy and >> weak, i.e., feminine. Now it's clear - no girlie-men allowed. > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 09:49:11 PDT 2004

23870 [lbo-talk] An Analysis of the Post-Convention Zogby Poll -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't think it's worthwhile arguing over the accuracy or inaccuracy of >polls, in general or of particular polls. > >What needs analysis is the _meaning_ of polls in general, within a given >perspective. I'm going to be interviewing Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll, on my radio show on Thursday. Suggestions for questions are welcome. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 09:46:42 PDT 2004

23871 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Weinberg on Nader -- rank: 1000

FUCK RALPH NADER by Bill Weinberg Bill is a producer at WBAI, a writer and editor of World War III Report. Excuse me, I would just like to say something. Fuck Ralph Nader. OK? I went to bat for him in '00, interviewing him for a national magazine and promoting him in liberal fora where I took gobs of abuse for not toeing the anyone-but-Bush line. I did so despite my misgivings about his flirtation with Pat Buchanan and the nativist right. And I still don't regret it because I believed it was the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 09:44:40 PDT 2004

23872 [lbo-talk] Sharpen your brain (a bit)... -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/01/nalco01.xml > > >Alcohol sharpens your brain, say researchers Yay. What's the standard advice on drinking during pregnancy outside the U.S.? Here, the standard is not a drop for all nine months. I'm guessing it's not so strict elsewhere. Anyone know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 09:40:57 PDT 2004

23873 [lbo-talk] Re: Sexuality Under Seige, or What Else is New? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I wonder how much interest hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago in (say) >what we now call Indonesia had in hunter-gatherers in what we now call >the Ukraine? And so forth. In what pronouncement handed down from the >heavens does it say that to desire peace one has to "know and care" >about "the rest of the world." Isolationism is, in fact, a synonym for a >true interest in peace -- in leaving others alone and in being left >alone oneself. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 09:14:06 PDT 2004

23874 [lbo-talk] ABB? -- rank: 1000

[this is from Carrie McLaren, who does the excellent zine Stay Free!] hey you all, Just want to show you a goofy little site I've been working on (not quite finished but almost): http://www.AnybodyButBush.org "Why wait until November to vote when you can start voting now? "Americans disgusted with President Bush have promised to vote for 'anybody but Bush.' To which we respond, 'ANYBODY?' To test critics' mettle, we've decided to put the matter to a vote. Thanks to our state-of-the-art ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 07:13:19 PDT 2004

23875 [lbo-talk] "I Had an Abortion" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >A minor point: it's not really a debate, it's a demand. It has been a >long time since I thought that this right is is one that requires the >giving of reasons. As I point out below, I didn't have to give a reason >when I had three polyps removed July 8. Until a woman decides otherwise, >a fetus is a growth, period, no different from a polyp. I know you don't care about this sort of thing, but you don't do the movement any favors by describing a fetus as indisti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 06:56:14 PDT 2004

23876 [lbo-talk] Amy & Norm -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 2, 2004 NO WAITING NORMAN Mailer doesn't like to be kept waiting. The literary lion arrived on two canes at the Provincetown, Mass., Town Hall expecting to take the stage to address the gathered citizenry. But it turned out Amy Goldman's "Democracy Now" diatribe was only about half over. Mailer finally lost his patience. "You told me I was on at 8:45. I have a 9:30 appointment," he told the loquacious Goodman. When she yielded the floor, Mail ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 2 06:44:16 PDT 2004

23877 [lbo-talk] more WWP -- rank: 1000

[posted to another list by a rank & file WWPer - reformatted by me] I will take it upon myself to clarify and summarize a big deal of what happened to cause the split: Politically and Personally. There's one major thing that makes up the man of Brian Becker and the other fallen comrades, which is ego. They believe ANSWER is theirs, and all theirs. I live in Boston, which was unaffected by the split. In Boston, we had no help what-so-ever by the Beckerites and their takeover of national ANSWE ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 21:50:05 PDT 2004

23878 Fwd: Re: [lbo-talk] first bounce: 4 points -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Kelley for pointing this out] But see, Teixeira: <http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/000579.php> July 31, 2004 Before We Pronounce on the Bounce, Let's Measure It Properly Shall We? Newsweek is first out of the box with a poll and story on Kerry's bounce from the convention. There's just one slight problem: the data they report in the story don't really measure Kerry's bounce at all. Check this out. Newsweek's last poll before the convention wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 09:41:20 PDT 2004

23879 [lbo-talk] union loses at Home Depot -- rank: 1000

Home Depot Workers Reject Bid to Unionize Sat Jul 31, 5:39 PM ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - Home Depot Inc. workers at a suburban Detroit store rejected a bid to be represented by a labor union, a National Labor Relations Board official said on Saturday. In a two-day secret ballot election, Home Depot employees in Harper Woods, Michigan, voted 115 to 42 against joining the United Food and Commercial Workers, said Stephen Glasser, regional director of the Detroit office of the NLRB. If the union had won ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 08:30:00 PDT 2004

23880 [lbo-talk] first bounce: 4 points -- rank: 1000

Politics First Poll Shows Hike for Kerry After Convention WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic presidential ticket gained a solid bounce in a new poll following last week's convention but the new nominee, Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), said on Sunday he wasn't paying attention. Kerry, appearing on "Fox News Sunday" with his running mate, Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites), said he remembered far too well the polls last year that showed his presidential bid staggering. "Pol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 08:26:35 PDT 2004