HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: HF.GTD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Gabrielle Daniels)
Subject: Bush and drugs
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:29:33 GMT

Those of you, like Wanda McCrae, who wanted further proof that
President Bush is on drugs:
.
This just in from the Los Angeles Times, printed in the S.F.
Chronicle Friday, August 14, 1992:

DOCTOR REPORTS ON PRESIDENT'S HEALTH

President Bush's personal physician yesterday dismissed increasingly
pointed reports questionning the state of Bush's health, but he said
the president has his "ups and downs on the job like anyone else"...
.
The immediate cause of their remarks was news stories in the Wall
Street Journal and Time magazine in recent days...
.
[Dr. Burton] Lee said his overall health is good. And he added that
the president still occasionally uses the powerful and controversial
 sleep inducing drug Halcion when he is on long, arduous trips...
.
.
Dr. Lee also says he "play[s] around with the drug dosage" to
control Bush's thyroid. Remember, he reportedly takes 5 other meds.
 I suggest you folks sniff out the WSJ and Time for just those
articles.
.
As I said before in previous posts, Halcion's side effects include
amnesia, confusion, anxiety, hostility, hallucinations, agitation
and violence.  If it had been announced that he was officially off
Halcion in February, why he is suddenly on them "occasionally"?
Sounds like abuse to me.  They could find something else less
hypnotic and less addictive and less dangerous.
.
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson said it best in Spy magazine, "Anyone who
thinks the war in Iraq grew out of Bush's drug use is crazy."
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: frankli@seq.uncwil.edu (william carter franklin)
Subject: Re: William Franklin Controversy
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:00:49 GMT

FKR@dum.pus.edu writes:


>Why are folx wasting so much time with Franklin?  It appears he's in a class
>w/ other ppl that have beendissed by the net before.  Ppl like Arthur Hu,
>Glenn Cooley, etc.

>I mean I think we can spend our time more constructively than giving idiots
>like him and those "others" out any of our precious time.  If they want to
>get slammed for writing stupid stuff, fine.  But let's not waste too much
>time on them.  We make them "feel" important.  Let's use our on on more
>issues.
>*
>*This space reserved for the following dumbass.
>Fred Spewingbladder*
>FKR@pus.pus.edu*


Look here dead fred, you waited an awful long time to decide that
I should evaporate just because my opinions aren't as elementary as
yours. If I had wanted to hear from an asshole I would have farted.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: Amy Young Leith <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: This FRANKLIN person
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 15:51:13 -0500

In article <92224.073027KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu> <KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>  There has been this William Carter Franklin person postin here for a while
>on the subject of what country is best for Blacks to live in.  I just want
>to warn, and ask everyone who is responding to him to please question his
>dubious statistics.  For instance he stated that 75% of the violent crimes
>comitted in this nation are committed by Blacks.  Well, when I asked for a
>citation on this, he informed me that this was for the DC area, an area which
>is predominately Black to begin with.  He said he got his statistics from the
>Associated Press, what article, what paper, where they got their statistics is
>still a mystery.  Please question his statistics and ask for exact citations.


For anyone to assume that this statistic, even if it WAS true, is
immediate reason to assume that black=criminal shows a severe
ignorance in said person. 

Remember kiddies, correlation does not equal causation... say it all
together now... 

There are TONS of other facts to be looked at when addressing this
situation: 

If a percentage of crimes in an area are commited by blacks, what is
the general population makeup?  More blacks/whites would immediately
lead to an increase in crimes by blacks/white. 

What are the percentages for economic status of these criminals?  In
general you find more crime in lower ecominic status areas and
populations.  Seeing as how in this country, there are also more
blacks in lower economic status, you are going to have an increase in
black criminals.  BUT THE CAUSE IS NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK.  

Also, what TYPES of crimes are we speaking of.  I find the crimes of
possession of marijuana and first degree murder to be WAY different...
"Crime" as a single definition is pretty useless as to harmful impact
upon society.  

amy
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: mmoore@epx.cis.umn.edu (Malcolm La Dildo Moore)
Subject: Re: Clinton's Disrespect For Jessee Jackson
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:13:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.180436.11629@seq.uncwil.edu> frankli@seq.uncwil.edu (william carter franklin - simpleton extraordinaire) writes:
$alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu (Amy Young Leith) writes:
$
$>WHERE - DID - YOU - GET - YOUR - STATISTICS???  PLEASE GIVE US A
$
$I gave the references with all of these stats. You just don't
$want to accept the stats because:
$
$1.  You are lopsided.
$2.	You listen to the soc.blah.blah.blah hype
$3.  You cannot accept the truth about the stats.

No, you never really gave us the sources of these stats you've spewed on here.
You just don't want to accept the fact that your stats are bogus because:

1. You're an ambiguous dumb shit.
2. Your stats are probably much farther off than you would ever hope
   to have us believe.
3. Since you can not or will not give us specific sources, I can only assume
   that your stats aren't truthful after all.

$Have a nice day.

You too, Jimmy.
-- 
Malcolm Diallo Moore, Honeywell/CIS-Univ. of Minn.     mmoore@epx.cis.umn.edu
				            Moore_Malcolm+@ssdc.honeywell.com	
	"Arresk the Presidink!"
				-- Popeye the Intelligent Hoodlum
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
From: wattsww@ntmtv.UUCP (Warren Watts)
Subject: Re: Clinton's Disrespect For Jessee Jackson
Reply-To: wattsww@ntmtv.UUCP (Warren Watts)
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:32:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.181516.12100@seq.uncwil.edu>
frankli@seq.uncwil.edu (william carter franklin) writes:
>
>I am a liberal Democrat (who just doesn't listen to all of your lopsided
>reasoning "whaa whaaa blame blame")
>
If you would shut your mouth for a minute, you might hear something
besides blame.  If you would desist with your own strategy of blaming
the victim maybe you would hear the African American leaders who are
telling their people to do for themselves because the Government
is not likely to do anything for them.  Maybe you have heard of 
Jesse Jackson's Operation Push? The Nation of Islam?  

Shut up and LISTEN!!!

>
>I have nothing to prove to closed minded anti-white bigots like yourself
>so you need not consider my motives behind my disagreement with the LAPD

The only bigot here is you.  I have seen the people on this net who
you refer to as bigots, treating white people who aren't spewing
nonsense with a respect that you seem unable to give to anyone.
The problem is you are an unconscious, "am not" racist who likes to
stir up hatred just to here himself speak.  Your mission to educate
the people on rec.soc.a.a about their bigotry is so incredibly
paternalistic and racist that its sickening.  As a wise man once said
"Pull the telephone pole out of your own eye before you go digging the
splinter out of someone elses." 
>
>Remember what I said earlier guys.. "It's easy to lower yourself into
>the well of FAILURE when you use the bucket of BLAME as your elevator."

I guess your in the bottom of that well now, because you have been
blaming other people and african americans in general on the net for
quite some time with out taking any personal responsibility for race
relations.  Maybe this big bucket of blame that you carry around for
blacks is causing your abject failure to further race relations on
this net ( Unless you count all the different colors you've brought
together in their hatred of you).

Allow me to offer a different metaphor for the situation, You take the
gun called slavery and shoot a man in both legs with it.  You ignore
his suffering for a while and then you give him a bandage and half an
apology.  You still have a box of bandages left and when he asks for
some more, you scream about how unfair that it is because you have
some scratches on your legs.  "Damn it, I already gave you a bandaid,
if you would stop blaming me for all you problems you would be walking
by now."  This is the basic William Carter Franklin attitude.

Peace to everyone who has to put up with his B.S.,

		Warren Watts
From: jthomp@mainz-emh2.army.mil (JEFFREY THOMPSON)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re:  Jacksons' New Biographical Movie
Date: 17 Aug 1992 10:42:13 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

What's the big deal about having a white five year old act out the role of
Michael Jackson at that age? I don't remember anyone making such fuss over
Shakespeare's Othello being act out by white actors. I mean acting is 
portraying characters not colors. You're all overacting a bit on this one.

A more important person (to most people that is) Jesus christ is blue eyed
and blond hair and you worship him. I don't remember any of you at any time 
or other making a big deal out of this. And don't argue that Jesus can be
any color you want him to because that's just the point. Michael can have
any actor he feels to PORTRAY him if he feels he does a good enough job.

How many of you have idles that are not black and would portray them if you could? Many of us macho types won't admit this but you'll be surprised at how
ridiculous and hypocritical we can get at times.

Food for thought. Jeff Thompson [trying to keep an open mind].
From: barnhart@netcom.com (Aaron Barnhart)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Elvis as metaphor
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:57:02 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

wgr@rti.rti.org writes:


>From what I've heard (and gathering info on Elvis is NOT one of my hobbies),
>he mainly abused legal drugs.  Would you feel the same way if Elvis had been
>a heavy smoker and had died of lung cancer?

Where do _you_ live, Raleigh-Durham?  Because the rest of the country
has about had it wit smokers in public.  Remember that Andy Rooney
obituary for Harry Reasoner where, instead of ending it talkin about
what a wonderful old rascal that Harry had been, god I'll miss him, no,
Rooney looks into the camera and backstabs his old pal for always
smoking.  Not that stabbing would do old dead Harry Reasoner any harm,
but it's socially significant that he'd do that instead of eulogize.

And of course let's not forget about all the fun we had wit Kitty Dukakis,
Betty Ford, and all the women forced to be good little first ladies and
squeeze into this perfect little mold we got in our minds for them.  Then
we turned right around and kicked em for doin what anybody might at least
*think* to do to deal wit their hangups when nobody was there to help em.

-- 
Aaron (Barnhart@netcom.com)    |     "It is probable that, after economic
Evanston, Illinois             |    stability, the greatest single desire
                               |    in this country is for a reduction in
Jeremiah 6:14                  |    paranoia."          -- Stanley Crouch
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: barnhart@netcom.com (Aaron Barnhart)
Subject: IPS:NIGERIA: ''BARCELONA HEROES'' WELCO
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 05:22:33 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Reply-To: barnhart@netcom.com

Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Area: Africa, southern
Title: NIGERIA: ''BARCELONA HEROES'' WELCOMED IN STYLE


lagos, aug 14 (ips/remi oyo) -- the nigerian government is
attempting to capture some of the reflective glory of the
olympic team back from barcelona, which is still being feted
around the country.

with four medals, three silver and one bronze, nigeria put up
its best performance since its first appearance at the helsinki,
finland games in 1952.

since then and until barcelona, spain, nigeria had won just
one silver and three bronze medals. bacelona produced two silver
medals in the heavyweight and super heavyweight boxing
catergories, one silver medal in the men's 100 metres relay and
the bronze in the women's 100 metres relay.

the performance of the 62-member team was watched live
everyday on national television by more than 30 million
viewers and with each day, hopes of laurels were dashed and
raised.

''the medals from barcelona set the nigerian camp alight.
officials including representatives of the government who were
on the verge of taking the next flight out when the going was
wrong cancelled their flights when our chances brightened'',
says vincent obi who covered the olympics for the news agency of
nigeria.

the elaborate reception for the team at the murtala muhamed
international airport late tuesday -- involving drummers,
singers, and a member of the armed forces ruling council --
demonstrated the enthusiasm of the government and people,
rekindling a nationalism that only sports seems able to command.

the government is now throwing a weeklong reception which
will culminate in an official presentation of medals by
president ibrahim babangida, a public relations coup that the
out-going president will not fail to miss.

if tradition is anything to go by, babangida will at the
ceremony announce substancial awards. gifts of houses, cars and
cash have in the past been doled out to excelling sportsmen and
women.

just as government officials and ordinary nigerians are
basking in the however limited success of the nigerian team,
dissenting voices say they are not impressed.

human rights activist gani fawehinmi, and all-time critic of
the government, declared in a statement: ''i am ashamed that the
most populated black nation on earth and one of the most
naturally endowed countries in the world could descend so
disgustingly low as to acclaim a failure to win a single gold
medal and applaud unashamedly mere three silver and one
bronze''. (end/ips/ro/oa/92)

-- 
Aaron (Barnhart@netcom.com) -- posting from Evanston, Illinois
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: bakc@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR KR COMAN)
Newsgroups: apc.reg.safrica,soc.culture.african,sanet.talk.politics
Subject: Re: CRAP FROM UNIV. CAPE TOWN
Date: 21 Aug 92 06:26:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: giraffe.bakc.102.714378407
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

(Knock on from Fermi's rejoinder to Keith Coman........)

Fermi writes:

>Well, no apologies for having offended you with my "vulgar personal
>remarks". I reserve the right to express my opinions about certain
>individuals on the net.

No offence taken, Sunshine  -- adolescent "toilet-wall" vulgarity 
offends only the character, moral fibre and self-worth of its originator.   

>any  non-white S. Africans or non-white Africans for that matter now
>post to this newsgroup? 

For your edification the term "non-white" is a racist expression -- at 
least in South Africa. 
(Oh sorry, that's you reserving your right to express your opinions, etc.)

>I couldn't care less about my credibility with a bunch of privileged,
>diehard apartheid stooges. 

So making obnoxious personal remarks builds your credibility amongst other
groups of intimates??   Weird!!!

Fermi old son, at the currently evinced state of your social maturity you 
would probably be more comfortable finding some soulmates in the newsgroup 
Alt.Tasteless -- the dudes there are really hot on freedom of expression 
as it relates recto-cranial inversion threads.   By the same token, once 
your level of political maturity has demonstrably advanced beyond lurid wall-
posters and asinine slogans on grubby T-shirts, your contributions might be 
welcomed by those who have a sincere interest in creating (and living the 
rest of their lives in) a better South Africa.  In the interim, however, I 
regret to say that you just made my F7 file.

Over and out,

Keith	 
Newsgroups: apc.reg.safrica,soc.culture.african,sanet.talk.politics
From: femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony)
Subject: Re: CRAP FROM UNIV. CAPE TOWN
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:57:44 GMT

In article <pieter.714200237@ford> pieter@ford.ee.up.ac.za (Pieter Vermeulen) writes:
>femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony) writes:
>
>>All unbiased and unbigoted readers of this net should have realized by now
>>that Gavan and his cohorts are a subgroup within this newsgroup. They
>>have "redneck" conversations between themselves and it is best to leave
>>them in their world of fantasy where white domination will continue
>>forever. They are in fact, members of the same "broederbond"; to use the
>>language of the oppressor. 
>Hey, there is no way we would have allowed Gavan into the Broederbond!
>The guy speaks english. He doesn't know what a koeksister is. He most
>probably does not even own a safari suit. Get real man!
>
>
>>P.S. Just when will you join the AWB, Gavan, or are you already a member?
>And he is not blond either.

Really? Then God knows what the true Afrikaaners are like, those who are
members of the broederbond. No wonder S. Africa is the one remaining
country in the world to have a racist constitution up to the modern-day
1990's. They must be unique among human beings. 

Femi.

 



























Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: femibyte@athena.mit.edu (Olufemi G Anthony)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS-SOMALIA
Date: 21 Aug 92 01:43:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Aug21.014315.26216
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <18300.2a93e24c@ecs.umass.edu> amsalu@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>It is surprising that the Islamic world news is trying to analyze the 
>causes of the non-sensical war that has ravaged & still continue to
>devastate Somalia while failing to mention how the Islamic world has
>ignored the plight of the  Somali people.How does Mr Bangash compare
>the reaction of the Islamic world towards Bosnia,where arms (& troops)
>are being sent to with that of Somalia,whose food need is completely
>ignored? Noting that both Somalia & Bosnia are Muslims,how do you explain
>the difference of response given to the two crises? One can clearly see
>from these inequalties that the Islmaic World  IS NOT COLOR-BLIND!!
>As a Somali I am outraged by the negative& nonsense commentary of clan
>politics reported by the Islamic World News.Our starving people are not
>to be served by such inflamatory articles.Rather if the Islamic World
>News & Mr Bangash has a grain of common sense & humanity left they 
>should join hands with the people trying to help us out of this trajedy.
>At least keep your mouth shut from further silly,divisive remarks.
>
>Mohamed Ismail
>

Hear hear. I agree with you 100%. This is a diss to all the arabs who
would want to force Islam down the throats of Black Africans e.g. in the
Sudan.

Femi.
From: hps@castle.ed.ac.uk (H P Shanahan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Faxes for Somalia -- EC numbers
Keywords: Somalia, Famine , Fax
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:47:37 GMT
Distribution: soc
Organization: Edinburgh University

For those of you who are European and feel their FAX (see replies to 
"faxing to Somalia" on alt.actvism if you haven't seen anything about this.)
would be more useful if they contacted the powers that be at Brussels, then
this will be of some use to you.


#######################################################################
Message from Berhard Helander follows :
######################################################################
Dorothy Morse of Peacenet has sent me the following faxnumbers said to
lead to an office for Humanitarian assistance to the third world. The person 
in charge is a Mr Molinier.

        Mr_Molinier@f0093222992876.fax.sunet.se
        Mr_Molinier@f0093222992877.fax.sunet.se

In addition I have these numbers but I have no idea where they lead except 
that they all belong to Directorate 8 that handles development

        Development_Section@f0093222992872.fax.sunet.se
        Development_Section@f0093222992875.fax.sunet.se
	Development_Section@f0093222992875.fax.sunet.se

###########################################################################

If anybody has equivalent numbers for individual European countries,
please post it.


Hugh Shanahan
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: sargeant@cae.wisc.edu (Winslow Sargeant)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: IPS:News
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:00:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Aug13.160034.23712
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering


	I will be gone temporarily.  I will not be able to continue
to post News from IPS (via Peacenet). It is my hope that someone will
be able to subscribe to Peacenet to carry on what I have started. 
	Good luck to the person(s) that takes on that responsibility.



******************************************************************
                        Remember,  Always "Do The Right Thing"
                                           Peace
                                      Winslow of Madison
        Quote: "All people of African descent whether they live in
		north or south america or any other part of the
		world are AFRICAN and belong to the AFRICAN NATION."
		Kwame Nkrumah (GHANA)
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
From: barnhart@netcom.com (Aaron Barnhart)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: IPS will continue if you answer this post
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:54:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom (coming to you from Evanston, Ill.)

I happen to have a Peacenet account and can continue the IPS
African news transmissions so faithfully maintained for us
by Winslow Sargeant.  But I need your help.

(1)  First, send me your messages of moral support!  Tell me
     you want to see this service continued.

(2)  Tell me where W.S. left off so I can find my place amongst
      the zillions of IPS news stories in the lib.  It appears
      the last post was from an IPS story dateline nyakack, kenya,
      jul 31, and Written 12:04 am Aug 3, 1992 by newsdesk, headline
      KENYA: COMMUNITY TAKES CHARGE OF HEALTH SERVICES.

I have a vested interest in that I and three friends now read these
stories as Winslow posts them and I download and print them.  I would
continue to do so, but sporadically, if I were just doing it for these
three.  Tell me you want to see them regularly and you'll get them.

And yes, for those of you saving these via kill files, I will continue
to support Winslow's subject header syntax of IPS: <subject>..


-- 
Aaron (Barnhart@netcom.com)    |     "It is probable that, after economic
Evanston, Illinois             |    stability, the greatest single desire
                               |    in this country is for a reduction in
Jeremiah 6:14                  |    paranoia."          -- Stanley Crouch
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african