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32371 the tears of W -- rank: 1000

[damn, she has a gift for producing crap] Wall Street Journal - January 22, 2001 The Return of Civility By Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor at the Journal. Her column appears every Friday on OpinionJournal.com. WASHINGTON -- President Bush's inaugural address had a specific weight. Some speeches just float away because they're light and full of air, but this one had weight and stayed and settled. It was a speech that declared the new president's thinking as he assumes the presidency. This is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 22 06:42:53 PST 2001

32372 Max demonstrates -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> Subject: Buck Fush Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:10:17 -0500 I missed the big action at 14th and K. Started at Dupont Circle, which the rain had turned into a bowl of mud. Marched south towards PA ave, uneventfully. At one point a young women started yelling to people to disperse, since there was no permit to march and any gathering of 25 plus was subject to mass arrest. This sounded like good advice ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 21 08:39:00 PST 2001

32373 On the important French Fry Question -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >On another note, what the hell are you people doing >patronizing McD's? I suppose you shop at WalMart too? Hmm, so where's it stop? The computer I'm typing on was made a giant multinational and assembled in Mexico. There's a stereo next to me made by Sony in China. The coffee I'm drinking came from Kenya, a country filled with poor and hungry people, and the beans were grown and picked under god knows what exploitative conditions. You don't really believe that individ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 21 08:33:20 PST 2001

32374 it's all image, citizens! -- rank: 1000

R.W. "Johnny" Apple explains the performative theory of presidential authority on the front page of the New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/21/politics/21ASSE.html>: >Arguments about the legitimacy of the Texas governor's victory have >persisted even as the country accepted the fact that he had won. >Thousands of the doubtful and disenchanted took to the streets of >Washington today in angry protest. > >But the debate is likely to grow softer as the n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 21 07:39:50 PST 2001

32375 MSNBC on J20 -- rank: 1000

Bush protesters line parade route Thousands descend on capital, clash with police MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - Police and thousands of demonstrators faced off Saturday as protesters lined President George W. Bush's inaugural parade route, booing loudly and holding signs that said "Bush lost" and "Hail to the thief." As the motorcade reached the most strident stretch of the route, Bush's limousine sped up, with Secret Service agents running alongside. DE ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 17:32:39 PST 2001

32376 Fwd: ballad of the shrub -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:57:25 +1100 To: dhenwood at panix.com From: Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 at cornell.edu> Doug, I propose to send this to LBO if it hasn't already appeared there. ~J ------------ The Kennebunkport Hillbilly (sung to the tune of The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song) Come and listen to my story 'bout a boy name Bush. His IQ was zero and his head was up his tush. He drank like a fish while he drove all about. But that didn't matter 'cuz his daddy bailed him out. DUI, that is. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 13:03:30 PST 2001

32377 under arrest -- rank: 1000

KAISER DAILY REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH REPORT A free service of kaisernetwork.org http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_repro.cfm Thursday, January 18, 2001 Wisconsin Woman Cited for Not Stopping Son from Having Sex A Baraboo, Wis., woman could face up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine because prosecutors say that the fact that she bought her 13-year-old son condoms after learning he was having sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend constituted a failure to "prevent her child from be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 12:21:51 PST 2001

32378 On the important French Fry Question -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >i was readinc an article in some mag at the orthopaedist surgeons >on the food flavor factories of new jersey -- it seems their success >in imitating the flavor & smell of beef tallow is the secret of >mac's french fry flavor Bless 'em. McD's used to fry their fries in beef fat, but the new health fascism put an end to that. Scent chemists make an "unscented" scent, to cover the smell of the chemicals, say, in Liquid Tide. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 12:03:46 PST 2001

32379 On the important French Fry Question -- rank: 1000

Maureen Anderson wrote: >Though I'm with Charles: Burger King's burgers are better and this >can be a dilemma. Hmm, I'm a McD's loyalist there too. Even though LBO has published some anti-McD's pieces (<http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/McDonalds.html> and <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/McDonalds2.html>), I still like the stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 09:26:20 PST 2001

32380 video feeds? -- rank: 1000

Maureen Anderson wrote: >Anyone know of web sites that might have video clips of the >anti-coronation activities? Try <http://dc.indymedia.org>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 09:21:11 PST 2001

32381 another kind of musical interlude -- rank: 1000

Snippet from a Bush campaign ditty, as sung by Hank Williams [presumaby Jr, or has he dropped the Jr now?], quoted in today's Financial Times: "This is Bush country cause we've got our pride Yes the sons and the daughters on America's side Our hair is not orange we don't wear chains and spikes But we know how to have fun and we know wrong from right."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 08:49:51 PST 2001

32382 AOL worldview -- rank: 1000

A little teaser appearing on AOL, meant to lure people into their chatrooms: >CHANGING OF THE GUARD >How do you feel about our new prez? About the new reality shows? Welcome to Temptation Island! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 07:44:24 PST 2001

32383 Fwd: Jazz -- rank: 1000

[John Mage's young relative writes...] X-From_: thedepths at earthlink.net Sat Jan 20 08:08:14 2001 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 05:19:17 -0800 From: JEREMY MAGE <thedepths at earthlink.net> Reply-To: thedepths at earthlink.net X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Jazz [Hi Doug! Hope you're well. John Mage drew my attention to the Jazz discussion on your list and suggested I might have two cents worth...] I am making my living playing piano in the SF Bay Ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 07:36:32 PST 2001

32384 Hack the Planet (defaced-commentary) -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >>The information and commentary is Copyright 2001, by the individual author. >>Permission is granted to quote, reprint or redistribute provided >>the text is not >>altered, and the author and attrition.org is credited. The opinions expressed >>in this mail are not necessarily the opinion of all Attrition staff members. > > >tsk tsk, i forgot to note that this was forward from Attition.org: >To: defaced-commentary at attrition.org >From: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 20 07:17:06 PST 2001

32385 Whorf Lives (re: Whorf Hoax, etc -- rank: 1000

[this had the same text duplicated in html tacked on at the end] Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:47:41 -0600 From: Maureen Anderson <maureen at uchicago.edu> Buena'Dias, Rob, [Rob paraphrasing Chomsky:] >'the whole issue of whether there's a physical basis for mental structures >is a rather empty issue,' because, in the development of modern science, >'the concept "physical" has been extended step by step to cover anything we >understand', so that 'when we ultimately begin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 19 17:54:54 PST 2001