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To: stockman_scott who wrote (79315)9/17/2006 3:42:26 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 362291
 
Darn. I was thinking it was Condi and Shrub playing around on company time.

14 Points of fascism

In his original article, "Fascism Anyone?", Laurence Britt (interview) compared the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet and identified 14 characteristics common to those fascist regimes. This page is a collection of news articles dating from the start of the Bush presidency divided into topics relating to each of the 14 points of fascism. Further analysis of American Fascism done by the POAC can be read here.
oldamericancentury.org



To: stockman_scott who wrote (79315)9/17/2006 4:59:55 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Respond to of 362291
 
It's going to get a lot sucking worse then: Republicans' fertile future
Through the past three decades, conservatives have been procreating more than liberals

Vicki Haddock, Insight Staff Writer

Sunday, September 17, 2006

If you're a liberal, here's what you can do to make Karl Rove a very happy man: Get yourself a labradoodle. Or any other kind of dog, for that matter. Even a cat will do.

Just don't have children.

[Podcast: Republicans are red-hot breeding machines]

That way you'll maintain a fertility gap that already is invisibly working to guarantee the political right will outnumber the left by an ever-growing margin.

Over the past three decades, conservatives have been procreating more than liberals -- continuing to seed the future with their genes by filling bassinets coast to coast with tiny Future Republicans of America.

Take a randomly selected sample of 100 liberal adults and 100 conservative adults. According to an analysis of the 2004 General Social Survey -- a bible of data for social scientists -- the liberals would have had 147 kids, while the conservatives would have had 208. That's a fertility gap of 41 percent. Even adjusting for other variables like age and income, there is a gap of 19 percent.

Now superimpose this on a map of the United States. The highest fertility rate is found in the most Republican state, Utah, home to the Mormon Church. The lowest fertility belongs to Vermont, a state liberal enough to be the first to sanction gay unions.

www.sfgate.com