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28216 Fw: Nosedive: The Democrats the Day After -- rank: 1000

s-t-t at juno.com wrote: >So how does this work on the flipside for, say, the fundis? The party >they'd hitched their lot to (those that still pursue electoral means) has >Capital Hill. You've said that the "anti-globo" left could flourish in >the Clinton era because it was clear that's all we're gonna get from the >two-party state. Couldn't the same occur for the theocratic right now >that the Repugs rule? Dunno. My first reaction is to say they get more - there a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 10 15:54:22 PST 2002

28217 how many rodent hairs are acceptable? -- rank: 1000

Spy quoted from this in the 80s, and Harper's did in its October issue, but it always makes good reading: the FDA's Food Defects Action Levels - and the beauty of the web is you can get the whole thing yourself: <http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html>. less than 10mgs of mammalian excreta per pound of cocoa beans, fewer than 30 fly eggs per 100g of tomato paste, fewer then 13 insect heads per 100g of fig paste are of no danger to human health.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 10 15:50:01 PST 2002

28218 Fw: Nosedive: The Democrats the Day After -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >>Of course the Dems are never going to challenge capitalism or >>imperialism - they're an integral part of it. > >Wait, I don't understand. >I thought the Bush war was imperialism. >And new Dem leader Nancy Pelosi is opposing the war. > >But she isn't opposing imperialism? > >This imperialism stuff sure is complicated. Hey, I thought you'd li ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 10 14:25:46 PST 2002

28219 Fw: Nosedive: The Democrats the Day After -- rank: 1000

Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote: >[comment: It's pretty misleading and seems intentionally ambiguous when >Cockburn uses the terms 'radical' and 'progressive' to characterize the >potential of the Democratic Party. The DP is, objectively, a political >vehical for capitalist interests, that is, the top 5-6% economically. Whether >it puts on a "radical" veneer or conservative one to carry out these >objectives is besides the point. --david] Of course the Dems are never goi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 10 14:09:21 PST 2002

28220 more on the reverse Sokal -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> [I love this. After Sokal was revealed as a hoaxter, no one doubted >> his paper was a hoax. With this, no one can really tell! So much for >> the more rigorous truth claims of hard science.] >> > >Aw, come on Doug. This is a caricature. Who speaks of "hard science"? >What do you mean by "the more rigorous truth claims of hard science"? >This is meaningless. As I remember the heat of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 15:44:55 PST 2002

28221 400,000 anti war march in Florence -- rank: 1000

Alessandro Coricelli wrote: >the organizers are claiming one million. >Governmental sources estimate that there were more than 400,000 people. Kopkind's law: actual = average(ClaimOrg/2,ClaimCops*2) sooo.... 650,000! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 14:23:26 PST 2002

28222 more on the reverse Sokal -- rank: 1000

[I love this. After Sokal was revealed as a hoaxter, no one doubted his paper was a hoax. With this, no one can really tell! So much for the more rigorous truth claims of hard science.] New York Times - November 9, 2002 French Physicists' Cosmic Theory Creates a Big Bang of Its Own By DENNIS OVERBYE Everyone who ever wondered whether physicists were just making it all up when they talked about extra dimensions, dark matter and even multiple universes might take comfort in hearing that scientists ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 14:18:25 PST 2002

28223 the waves say -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Yeah, last week's Barron's had one of the founding Elliott wave guys >prediciting DOW 1000. I think that was Prechter, the guiding though now mostly absentee genius of <http://www.elliottwave.com>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 13:44:02 PST 2002

28224 Fwd: cracking Bush's email -- rank: 1000

X-From_: axis-of-evil at gwbush.com Sat Nov 9 16:08:38 2002 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 14:08:38 -0700 (MST) Subject: cracking Bush's email From: axis-of-evil at gwbush.com To: dhenwood at panix.com Hey everyone! Look: I cracked into the White House email! http://gwbush.com I was inspired by the writer from Wired who cracked into Saddam Hussein's email. Um...please keep in mind that GWBush.com is a PARODY. A PARODY. Got that? I know I'll still get a barrage of "Is this real?" emails. Pleas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 13:12:58 PST 2002

28225 majorities -- rank: 1000

Nobidicus wrote: >Apropos of exit polls, has there been any discussion there of >the role exit polls might play in detecting irregularities in the >official vote counting? Not among the AAPOR crowd, for sure. But they all cluster around the political center, with no representation of the ideological tail except me. I took some shit from them a few years ago when I said that Reps in Congress prohibited the professionals in the Census Bureau from using statistical techniques to adjust for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 11:46:19 PST 2002

28226 Fwd: AMBIGUITIES OF INTERVENTION//nov. 22 -- rank: 1000

[As Alex Cockburn once commented on a Washington Post editorial, I love it when liberals try to think constructively.] Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:56:07 -0500 From: Susie Linfield <susie.linfield at nyu.edu> Subject: AMBIGUITIES OF INTERVENTION//nov. 22 friends, colleagues: here is information on a public forum i've co-organized; it should be an interesting evening that will, hopefully, broaden the debate on the iraqi crisis. this is a public event; all are welcome. feel free to circulate thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 11:09:13 PST 2002

28227 the case against the case against "regime change" in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >If there was a strategy to go along with the street, I might buy it, but I >see little that counts for strategy in any sense of having a plan for >succeeding. True strategy evaluates power, identifies allies, identifies >weaknesses is the opposition alliance, and figures out how to get some >section of the opposing alliance to break off and join you. So how do you feel about the Dems' radio address this morning in which they promise bipartisan cooperation? ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 9 11:05:58 PST 2002

28228 Dems promise "cooperation" -- rank: 1000

[good to see they're working on a product-differentiating message!] Democrats Pledge Cooperation After Defeat WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats "suffered a disappointing defeat" in Tuesday's congressional elections and will work with Republicans to get things done, a rookie Democratic representative said on Saturday. However, he criticized President Bush (news - web sites) for underfunding education. "As hard as humanly possible, Democrats will seek bipartisan achievement to get th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 11:04:25 PST 2002

28229 majorities -- rank: 1000

I finally rejoined the American Association for Public Opinion Research after letting my membership lapse for a year or two. This gem was just posted to their listserv by the holder of an endowed chair at a major school of journalism. Commenting on the risks of early release of exit poll data influencing voters who haven't yet cast their ballots, this distinguished professor observed: >If you want to jump on the winner's bandwagon, that's good, >because democracy needs consensus and those ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 9 09:36:43 PST 2002

28230 Fla intangibles tax -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > I'm always amazed when I hear people (left and right) >> touting the virtues of local government. > >And you've never even seen the Berkeley City Council on cable! I saw a member on O'Reilly though, and she was a hoot. Sadly she was trying to defend the antiwar resolution (proposed? passed?) after 9/11, and she was no match for the BlusterMaster. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 8 16:53:54 PST 2002