File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9906, message 538


Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 23:51:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: DK Sanders-Weatherford <dksander-AT-comp.uark.edu>
Subject: THIS is TRUE for 20 June (fwd)



sorry to those who already get this, but all of the articles have
political, police, and/or status quo stuff in them, so i determined that
it was ok for me to post it.  and i hardly ever post anything anyway...

darla kay

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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:20:03 -0700
From: This is True <this-is-true-admin-AT-lyris.net>
Reply-To: Randy Cassingham <arcie-AT-thisistrue.com>
To: dksander-AT-comp.uark.edu
Subject: THIS is TRUE for 20 June

Dispatched this week to 150,000+ readers in 170 countries AND the Video
  Products Group at Bally Gaming, Inc., in Las Vegas, Nevada, it's...

THIS is TRUE for 20 June 1999          Copyright 1999 by Randy Cassingham
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IMPRUDENT: Texas Gov. George W. Bush is miffed that a parody Internet web
  site is getting more hits than his Presidential Exploratory Committee's
  official site. Zack Exley, 29, of Somerville, Mass., says his
  www.gwbush.com spoof of the governor's campaign site got 6.5 million
  hits in May. The official www.georgewbush.com site only got 30,000 hits
  that month. "We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage
  man," Bush whined at a press conference. "There ought to be limits to
  freedom," he said. (AP) ...Now there's a campaign slogan people can get
  behind.

RAT-A-TAT TENEMENTS: The District of Columbia police force has shut down
  one of its firing ranges after a "training mishap" resulted in 12
  houses and three cars being riddled with stray bullets. The special
  training had officers lying on their backs and shooting up at targets
  with sub-machine guns at a range designed for shotgun training. The
  outdoor range, at the Lorton Correctional Facility in Lorton, Va., was
  a mile from the peppered houses. Chief Charles Ramsey closed the range
  permanently after determining that "Open-air live-fire ranges and
  populated residential areas simply do not mix." (AP) ...Local residents
  likely could have explained that even before their houses were shot up.

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WANTED: KINDER, GENTLER KILLING MACHINES: Just as the too-skinny-yet-way-
  busty Barbie doll is an "unrealistic body image" for young girls,
  "action figure" toys may be too masculine for small boys, says Harvard
  psychiatrist Dr. Harrison Pope. If expanded to life size, for instance,
  the G.I. Joe Extreme doll would have 26-inch biceps, Pope says, while
  the original 1960s version was more normal-sized. Pope thinks the trend
  toward more-muscular action figures may be because of "the emergence of
  women" in traditional male roles. "Women can now fly F-16s and join
  what were male organizations," he said. "Men's bodies, particularly
  their muscles, are the only thing that can't be taken away from them by
  the courts and other organizations." (AP) ...That doesn't mean they're
  not willing to try.

UP IN SMOKE: In 1990, New Zealand passed its Smokefree Environments Act.
  Advertisements which use words or images to "promote smoking behavior"
  are banned. So how is it working? Cigarette sales increased by 2.1
  percent last year, and the percentage of people who smoke is a steady
  26 percent. "Whenever a government tells people that something is not
  good for them, they often rebel," says magazine editor Bill Ralston. He
  has reason to be concerned: the government thinks stronger oppression
  is in order, so it is now punishing magazines and newspapers that dare
  to publish "pro-tobacco words," and he was forced to stop publishing
  his years-old column on cigar smoking. It also took action against The
  New Zealand Listener, which ran a factual article about how tobacco
  farmers are faring under the new law. (Christian Science Monitor)
  ...Time for publishers to stop writing about tobacco and start writing
  about recall elections.

IT'S OFFICIAL -- HE SUCKS: "Newt Gingrich Named Hoover Fellow" -- AP
  headline

LOVED THE ACCENTS: Last week I was the on-air guest on a radio station in
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  continent!

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