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26206 gaybeer.com! -- rank: 1000

[Today's trad vals emergency, courtesy the American Family Assn] AFA Action Alert! Corporations Boast of Promoting Homosexuality Some day, as corporations that honor marriage and family are hounded out of business or prosecuted, it will be accurate to say: "This was brought to you by the executives of Anheuser-Busch, Kodak, ChevronTexaco, Wells Fargo, Philip Morris Companies Inc., and other corporations that promoted perversity for short-term gain." - Robert Knight, Culture and Family ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 15 08:22:05 PST 2003

26207 The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Just out of curiousity: what's the average annual salary in the 81st >percentile? For total household income in 2001, the upper limit of the fourth quintile was $83,500, and the bottom of the top 5% was $150,499 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h01.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 14 17:27:49 PST 2003

26208 Gallup: Bush favors the wealthy, but so what? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Gallup had Bush sustaining approval in the 70s far latter than other polls. All polls are different, but the advantage of Gallup is they've been asking the same question for 62 years: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way ____ is handling his job as president?" Clearly Bush needs a war badly to goose up his ratings. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 12:40:48 PST 2003

26209 International ANSWER: Spammers -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >BTW, one of my theories about the taboo on masturbation, is that st8 >males are made anxious by the implicitly homosexual desires excited >by jacking off. My late friend John Liscio, who was a real porn connoisseur, theorized that men liked girl-on-girl action because it freed them of the anxiety of having a male on the screen who might experience unwelcome scopophilia. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 14 12:34:36 PST 2003

26210 Jude: vote for Rev Al! -- rank: 1000

For what it's worth, Kerry, Lieberman, and Daschle all have 85% ratings for 2002 from Americans for Democratic Action; Edwards, 70%. Hillary has a 95%! <http://www.adaction.org/SenateVR2002.htm>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 14 12:32:02 PST 2003

26211 Gallup: Bush favors the wealthy, but so what? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yet Bush has seen a dive in his approval rating in the last month or so here are the gallup monthly averages for W: approve disapprove 1/01 66% 32% 2/01 57% 25% 3/01 61% 24% 4/01 61% 30% 5/01 55% 33% 6/01 55% 34% 7/01 55% 34% 8/01 56% 35% 9/01 76% 18% 10/01 88% 9% 11/01 87% 9% 12/01 86% 11% 1/02 84% 13% 2/02 ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 12:06:56 PST 2003

26212 Gallup: Bush favors the wealthy, but so what? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yet Bush has seen a dive in his approval rating in the last month or so Actually it's been edging downward pretty steadily, at least according to Gallup. Doug ---- POLL ANALYSES January 14, 2003 Bush Approval Drops Below 60% for First Time Since 9/11 Foreign policy, economy ratings lower than pre-9/11 levels by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE Send to a Friend Printable Version Message to the Author PRINCETON, NJ -- For the first time since the terrorist attacks on Sep ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 11:52:30 PST 2003

26213 Laura Bush against the war? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 14, 2003 Bianca Jagger: cocktail smarts FIRST gasbag actor Sean Penn went on a "fact-finding mission" to Iraq. Now Bianca Jagger is engaging in her own brand of dilettante diplomacy. Jagger left for Baghdad just hours after attending a Friday night cocktail party on the Upper East Side where the topic du jour was the looming war against Saddam Hussein. Jagger boned up on international affairs by chatting with such chin-stroking media brahmins as histo ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 08:45:58 PST 2003

26214 Gallup: Bush favors the wealthy, but so what? -- rank: 1000

Government & Public Affairs January 14, 2003 Bush's Policies: Fair to All or Fairest for Rich? by Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Poll Managing Editor The debate over an economic stimulus program in Washington, D.C., delineates the policy differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties. While the parties agree on several of the matters being discussed, such as extending unemployment benefits and providing some sort of income tax relief to all Americans, one particular point of contention ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 14 08:32:17 PST 2003

26215 The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Michael Pollak wrote: >> >>>[A conservative explains] >> >>Ooops, sorry, hadn't noticed you'd done that already. >> >>Brooks may be a conservative, but I'm afraid he's mostly right >>about this argument. That Time poll, which has 39% of Americans >>either thinking they're in the top 1% or will be someday, is just >>as revealing as Brooks claims. It uncovers a fundamental fantasy >>about American life. E ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 14 08:27:32 PST 2003

26216 Hitch in WSJ -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >I don't see him as a conservative. He accuses the leftist flacks for Saddam >and Osama as acting conservatively, i.e. cowardly. Who the fuck are these "leftist flacks for Saddam and Osama"? They used to be best friends of the CIA, remember? This sort of slur is cheap, lazy, and stupid. Does it ever embarrass you to shadow Hitch's evolution from socialist to Bush fan? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 14 08:13:56 PST 2003

26217 new LBO website postings -- rank: 1000

The long-neglected LBO website has finally been freshened with some new stuff: Articles -------- Interview with Joseph Stiglitz <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Stiglitz.html>, a highly edited transcript of the radio interview available at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#Stiglitz>. Whose bubble was it? <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Bubble.html> - who was really responsible for the binge? Radio <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. -- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 13 17:01:13 PST 2003

26218 Fat -- rank: 1000

I wrote: >>Did you get around much? Have you seen American urban or rural >>poverty? I don't think there's anything else like it in the northern >>hemisphere. I should have said imperialist world, not northern hemisphere. I'm sure the fSU excels at poverty. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 13 16:39:37 PST 2003

26219 Lazare responds -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman's numbers are themselves ridiculous. Of course, "support for ending the war had a majority in 1968." Who didn't support ending the war by that point? The question was how, i.e. via unilateral withdrawal, an escalation of the bombing to the point where North Vietnam was reduced to little more than a parking lot, or something in between. When you start asking that, then it is clear that true antiwar forces were in a distinct minority right thru to the very end. And how ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 13 16:36:46 PST 2003

26220 Newman, Perrin, Pugliese "Red-Baiting" LLP -- rank: 1000

Could we concentrate on more important things than the ravings of the bitter and marginal? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 13 15:30:12 PST 2003