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34141 Pleasures -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I think the fact that Doug lives in NYC and I live in Chicagoland >may give us a jaundiced view about the interity of US elections. You >know the motto here: "Vote early, Vote often!" Well, the Dallas Morning News article made Arkansas sound like a stinkpot, and the stuff about the fraudulent stadium plebiscite in SF makes SF sound like a stinkpot, and I'll bet you could find this all over the country - a mix of incompetence and fraud. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 13 08:31:31 PST 2000

34142 the political economy of golf -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 13, 2000 NSIDE TRACK: The coldest swingers in town: The fairway, like the boardroom, rewards men who have a ruthless streak [by Lucy Kellaway] What has running a blue-chip company got to do with hitting a little white ball with a metal stick? Strange though it may seem, the answer is a lot. If a chief executive is terrific at golf, there is every chance he is terrific at his job too. This link was established a couple of years ago in a nifty piece of research by Golf D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 13 08:12:50 PST 2000

34143 Summary of Nader analysis -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >I see that you have learned Mr Henwood's repulsion for rational >rebuttal. One can only infer from this kind of response to a serious >set of concerns that you want the full discrediting of the EPI >(epinet) and LBO (lbo-talk). The issue is serious enough for me to >once again travel through this intellectually parched cyberland to >reveal the utter bankruptcy of left leaders today. The flippancy >with which you have responded to my post which I assure yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 13 08:18:36 PST 2000

34144 Summary of Nader analysis -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >It is truly pathetic to hear self justifications for the infantile >voting behavior of several people on this list, culminating in Mr >Henwood telling me to take a chill pill, i.e., drug myself out so I >won't be sensitive to the consequences of his, Ms Ehrenreich's, Mr >Sawicky's, and Mr Marable's destructive behavior. > >With the same warm greetings, Jan Welcome back! Missed you terribly. Gosh, to have counseled a pharmaceutical approach to a problem - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 13 08:16:07 PST 2000

34145 Stratfor worries -- rank: 1000

[Blows against the empire!] U.S. Election Results in Foreign Policy Concerns By George Friedman A statistical improbability has placed the United States on the edge of a constitutional crisis at worst and a leadership crisis at best. The real danger the American election poses is that it calls into question the legitimacy of the presidency. Since the president is the chief agent of U.S. foreign policy, this could destabilize the international system. The consequences are not trivial.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 12 21:37:51 PST 2000

34146 Alterman: Left in Shambles -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Question: Is Eric Alterman the most reprehensible human ever? Well, there's David Horowitz. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 12 19:31:26 PST 2000

34147 TweedleX -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >Nader's policy of 'no difference' will indeed be put to the test, >as much it can be. Actually, somewhat less than that, since Bush >will face a major gridlock. Historian Robert Dallek, quoted in today's NYT: "What operates is the sense that this is a middle-class, middle-ground sort of government and society, and the winner-take-all is not so dramatic or extreme, because it's not as if you're going from a fascist to a socialist. You're really going betw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 12 07:55:12 PST 2000

34148 Must-See Movies for the Black and/or "Feminist" Talented Tenth -- rank: 1000

Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin wrote: >Disagree about "G.I. Jane" though -- unless you include it as kitsch. But Demi looks great, and when she screams "suck my dick!" at her instructor, to the applause of her comrades, well, that's just a great cinematic moment, don't you agree? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 12 07:24:01 PST 2000

34149 economic stats (as if people mattered) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >You are probably right, and for this reason I think that leftists >should lay off on gun control at the very least. I think that liberals get exercised by gun control for reasons not dissimilar to their obsession with the Supreme Court: they're scared of the masses. Bigoted yahoos who can't be trusted. So disarm them - and leave the important decisions to judges and other experts (you know, getting all the smart people together on the Vineyard...). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 12 07:33:40 PST 2000

34150 world prison pop -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Eisenscher] The British Home Office has published a 2nd edition of Roy Walmsley's World Prison Population List. The publication is No. 116 of the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Research Findings. The full-text, in pdf format, is available at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/rfpubs1.html [Note: You will need to scroll down the page to No. 116 in the list on this page.] The World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 12 07:29:51 PST 2000

34151 Nathan and Florida -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >If fraud, >intimidation of minority voters, and gross incompetence that >disenfrachises voters have become a basic part of our electoral system >-- this is a great opportunity to fight on the issue. Certainly. But I see a lot of Dems - excluding Nathan, who is a serious and honorable guy - all exercised about this not on the basis of principle, but because their guy lost according to the current counts. I'd love to see a serious extended investigation of vote fraud ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 12 07:11:37 PST 2000

34152 Arkansas elections -- rank: 1000

Dallas Morning News - November 11, 2000 Arkansas governor defends 'banana republic' comments Huckabee cites voter-fraud complaints since election; Democrats say remark crosses line By Suzi Parker / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday that he stood behind his remark earlier this week that Arkansas is a voter-fraud-prone "banana republic" in the hands of Democrats who want to control voting. And, the Republican said ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 11 14:42:18 PST 2000

34153 Pleasures -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The fact that you named a black liberal politician to compare to the racist >intimidation charged in Florida is reactionary. > >Black students in Florida are holding mass sitdowns to protest their denial >of the right to vote and you are sitting there comparing it to the opression >of a bunch of white lefties who didn't like the stadium vote in San >Francisco? In a time when black mass organizations are mobilizing on this >issue, you continue to spo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 11 13:58:07 PST 2000

34154 economic stats (as if people mattered) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Yes, but since the labor market is highly segmented by race, gender, >education, etc., what happens to poor black women does not >necessarily directly affect poor black men economically. Right, but I was trying to bring women into the picture of black household/family incomes, which are up strongly. I agree with almost everything else you said, but I won't quote it, to avoid annoying the quote kvetcher(s). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 11 13:03:56 PST 2000

34155 Pleasures -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug, so you think white Oregonians, Wisconsins and Iowans suffer similar >voter intimidation as Black, Haitians and Hispanics in Florida? > >Your partisanship against the Democrats is making you make ugly, reactionary >arguments. Oh, and I almost forgot the spectacular fraud committed by Stanley Hill's crowd of DC 37 in New York - not a public election, admittedly, but a union election that sustained the rule of a leadership that had looted the treasury and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 11 12:43:41 PST 2000