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33871 guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime) -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >All the same, I find it hard to believe that you could argue for a >disarming of the populace without reinforcing their dependence upon the >state. Unlike anti-gun lefties, I'm not totally immune to this argument, but the U.S. isn't an inspiring test case. Is there any more depoliticized and alienated populace in the world? Is there any ruling class whose rule is stronger and less challenged? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 09:20:32 PDT 2000

33872 IP -- rank: 1000

God wrote about the woman who appropriated the name of His concubine and surrogate mother: >She has broken the >sabath, used my name in vain, commited adultery, even coveted Sandra >Bernhard. I draw the line at Sandra Bernhard. What's wrong with Sandra? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 17 09:09:41 PDT 2000

33873 IP -- rank: 1000

important news on intellectual property... <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20001016/en/mdf122993.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 16 16:44:31 PDT 2000

33874 Farrakhan -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >I am not sure what the point here is: > >1) Even a really good journalist can roll over and ask superficial >questions. > >or > >2) Even a racist demagogue who thinks he gets transported up to a spaceship >to commune with aliens can sound lucid for one hour. > >or > >3) Wanniski is living in an alternate universe. > >or all three? 3) is irrefutably true. Remember his brief fling with Pat Buchanan? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 15:33:53 PDT 2000

33875 killer air -- rank: 1000

[From Sam Smith's Progressive Review. Awaiting refutation from James H.] ENS: Breathing on the streets of London is more dangerous than piloting a vehicle on them according to a new report, which claims that air pollution kills more people in the UK capital than road accidents. Traffic has slowed to an average speed of 16 kilometers an hour in London. In 1998, 226 people died in road accidents compared to an estimated 380 deaths from transport emissions, said the report. Each year, Londoners los ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 15:07:38 PDT 2000

33876 Farrakhan -- rank: 1000

Having been rebuked for my Wanniski obsession, I'll just point out that the Polyconomics site <http://www.polyconomics.com/> has a long interview with Louis Farrakhan. Here's Jude's headnote: >POLYCONOMICS, INC. > >Memo on the Margin > >October 16-17, 2000 > >Interview with Farrakhan Part III > >Memo To: Sen. Joseph Lieberman >From: Jude Wanniski >Re: Interview concluded > >[This is the quite lengthy conclusion to the March 1998 interview of >Min. ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 13:50:19 PDT 2000

33877 HELP: NEED A PARTICULAR STATISTIC -- rank: 1000

jacdon at earthlink.net wrote: >For a left political event that will happen soon, I need an up-to-date, >accurate statistic on the percentage of wealth (assets, income, etc.) >possessed by the top1% and top 10% of the U.S. population. I've seen >figures for the top 1% ranging from 40% of the wealth to 99% of the >wealth and figures for the top 10% from 70% to 90%. We want to present >a correct set of figures. Can anyone be of help? Thanks. According to Arthur Kennickell, wh ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 12:49:39 PDT 2000

33878 Fwd: 'Do not forget ideas are also weapons' -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- October 2000 WHY DO WE ALL AGREE THE GLOBAL MARKET IS INEVITABLE? 'Do not forget ideas are also weapons' by SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS * The purpose of this text is to fuel the debate between right and leftwing intellectuals. It does not attempt to explain the relation of either with governments or changes in society. I. Pay-per-view global domination The world is not square, or so we learn at school, but on the brink of the t ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 11:43:46 PDT 2000

33879 guns & crime -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >And yet guns still fall into the hands of the psychotic thugs we >call our police force. What do you expect? Cops and the rest of the criminal justice system inhabit the extremes of a polarized and violent society. The NYC police department has trainees reading Audre Lorde and Holly Sklar in an effort to make them sensitive. But all that's not going to change the fact that the job itself makes people thuggishly violent. It's like a distillation of everything that's path ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 10:17:40 PDT 2000

33880 guns & crime -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >NYC is a perfect example of the limited usefulness of gun control >laws: you basically couldn't have stronger gun laws in NYC. And actually NYC has a pretty low crime rate compared to other big cities, and had even during the worst of the crack years. Doug ---- violent crime rates per 100,000 population, 1997 violent crimes murder rape robbery assault District of Columbia 2,023.8 56.9 41.2 850.5 1,075.2 New Orleans, LA 1, ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 10:11:08 PDT 2000

33881 guns & crime -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >(why does it always lead to the personal? I've never had an abortion >nor been a party to a pregnancy that led to one, but I'm firmly >against efforts to limit them further; I've never been Capitally >Punished nor been the victim of a Capital crime, but I'm against >that; why would you presume that if I'm against strict gun control >and registration and support more liberal CCW laws that I own guns >and if I did, would choose to carry?) Because the pers ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 10:13:10 PDT 2000

33882 National Character Counts Week 2000 -- rank: 1000

[celebrate appropriately!] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 14, 2000 NATIONAL CHARACTER COUNTS WEEK, 2000 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The term "character" is derived from an ancient Greek word meaning "to inscribe," reflecting the conviction that character is not innate, but rath ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 09:53:15 PDT 2000

33883 guns & crime -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >You live in NYC! It's downright impossible to do this legally in NYC. >10,000 permit applications are filed each year in NYC; 10 are approved. There are probably a few illegal guns in NYC. The one that used to inhabit my desk was one, I'd guess. >Also: do you know any cops personally? No. Should I? >I'm telling you: it's the company you keep that keeps you from >seeing this issue correctly :-) So were you packing heat when we had lunch in SF? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 09:46:03 PDT 2000

33884 guns & crime -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > >> Everyone I know who carries >> >> So do you all have a secret handshake? > >I guess I get invited to different parties than you do :-) Evidently. I don't know a single person who admits to carrying a gun. The former occupant of this office used to keep one in her desk (which I'm now using), but that's as close as I've gotten. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 09:22:28 PDT 2000

33885 Bear market? -- rank: 1000

Peter van Heusden wrote: >Looking at Yahoo's chart of the Dow from what looks like 1929 onwards (the >axes aren't particularly well labelled), it seems that bear markets are >rather rare things. There is a pronounced one in the mid-1970s, but >otherwise, the graph shows either an upward trend or flat. > >Since flat means no growth in value of investment (and since your book >suggests that making money by beating the market is rather hard), does a >flat market equal a bear ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 16 09:21:25 PDT 2000