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26101 dissonance (was nicotne pollution) -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I cut my academic teeth in grad school on the cog diss literature. A friend of mine wanted to write his psychology diss about self-deception, but gave up because it was just too hard and he wanted to graduate, so he picked something geeky & easier. That was 20 years ago - anyone done anything on that since? It sounds like such a tempting topic. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 16:40:27 PST 2003

26102 Raimondo on Ritter -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >Personally, I don't think of a 16 year old as a 'child'. Yeah, that was a weird outburst from jks. According to the age of consent chart at <http://www.ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm>, most jurisdictions around the world - including, it seems, most U.S. states - have an age of consent of 16. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 16:19:53 PST 2003

26103 nicotne pollution -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >Doesn't too much cognitive dissonance eventually make your >head explode? Not if you're rich. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 16:04:29 PST 2003

26104 subject change -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > PA TV incitement of young teenagers to undertake martyrdom operations. What the hell are you up to? Spreading DSA Zionism? Do we really need this crap here? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 16:05:50 PST 2003

26105 new Pew poll -- rank: 1000

Date: 23 Jan 2003 22:19:36 -0000 From: mailprc at people-press.org As President Bush prepares for his Jan. 28 State of the Union address, Americans are growing more pessimistic about the economy and more critical of the president's handling of it. Just three-in-ten expect economic conditions to improve over the next year, a significant decline from last January when 44% expressed economic optimism. Positive ratings of Bush's job performance on the economy have fallen to 47%, from 60% last Januar ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 16:01:33 PST 2003

26106 even Australia is dragging its feet -- rank: 1000

The Age (Melbourne) - January 24, 2003 Give UN more time: Howard plea to Bush By Mark Forbes Defence Correspondent Canberra Prime Minister John Howard has told President George Bush that he believes United Nations weapons inspectors need more time to complete their mission in Iraq. Mr Howard revealed his conversation with Mr Bush yesterday as he farewelled the first contingent of 350 sailors and troops to depart for the Middle East in preparation for a possible war. Mr Howard said the deployment ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 13:03:11 PST 2003

26107 yet another database -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,57354,00.html> More Checks on U.S. Travelers By Ryan Singel 02:00 AM Jan. 23, 2003 PT Connecting the dots is usually child's play. But privacy advocates say that a government plan to apply sophisticated computer algorithms and "fuzzy logic" to unconnected databases to sniff out terrorists violates the privacy of American travelers. Transportation Department officials counter that it's just another way they're using technology to rout ter ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 12:29:17 PST 2003

26108 Hollow ANSWER? -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard wrote: >Yeah, somehow the IAC/WWP are able to employ people full time to organize >and write for their paper. Most of the sects require members to tithe or more, don't they? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 11:27:44 PST 2003

26109 Bush: fuck 'em, we'll go in alone! -- rank: 1000

U.S. Dismisses Growing Opposition to Iraq War By Steve Holland and Hassan Hafidh WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Washington shrugged off growing vocal opposition to a possible war on Iraq as big powers lined up to reject military action. China and Russia, as well as Canada, joined France and Germany Thursday in opposing any rush to war. They said U.N. weapons inspectors should be allowed to continue efforts to disarm Iraq by peaceful means. Washington dismissed the objections, saying it would fin ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 11:11:22 PST 2003

26110 Bush appoints homophobe to AIDS panel -- rank: 1000

[via Ken Sherrill of the Hunter College poli sci dept] >Forwarded by Request > >Please Post Widely > > >--------------------- > >1. BUSH AIDE: GAYS HAVE "HOMOSEXUAL DEATHSTYLE" >President Bush's newest appointee to the Presidential Commission on AID, >Jerry Thacker, thinks that gays have a "deathstyle" (instead of a >"lifestyle") and that AIDS is a "gay plague." He also has compared being >gay to incest and bestiality. ...

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26111 subject change -- rank: 1000

billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote: >At 10:40 PM -0500 22/1/03, Dennis Perrin wrote: > >>Genocide? When they start herding Palestinians into gas chambers by the >>millions, then we'll talk. > >Hang on there. We didn't herd the Tasmanian Aborigines into gas >chambers, rather we herded them into isolated enclaves where, devoid >of any economy, they had to rely on charity to survive. They didn't >survive, they died of disease etc. The official UN definition of genoci ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 08:36:19 PST 2003

26112 subject change -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >well gee, at this point if we want to end mass murder in the Middle East, how >about, say ending the sanctions against Iraq???? Hey, that's different. That's mass murder committed by the U.S.! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 08:27:33 PST 2003

26113 gruesome pix -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] BEFORE WE STRIKE IRAQ AGAIN, LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME In Gulf War I most journalists let the Pentagon tell them what they could see and photograph. One exception was Peter Turnley. <http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt02.html>

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Date:	Thu Jan 23 08:15:58 PST 2003

26114 Zogby -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > For all you polling geeks out there, there's a good dissection in The >> American Prospet of the surveys done by Rush Limbaugh's favorite >> pollster, Zogby: <http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/2/mooney-c.html>. >> >> Doug > >You really do read the _American Prospect_ too much ;o) Ha. Actually I lifted the reference off the public opinion list. Only way to avoid growing tedium on my palms! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 14:57:52 PST 2003

26115 more more polls -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - January 22, 2003 The dangers of plumbing public view on Iraq war By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, 1/22/2003 It wasn't hard last weekend to find prominent media coverage of the protesters who had gathered in Washington to voice opposition to a war against Iraq. And on any given day, understandable attention is paid to the pronouncements of Bush administration officials who insist that Iraq must disarm or else. But as the clock counts down to what many citizens now see as an inevitab ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 22 14:31:41 PST 2003