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Greetings all,

I am writing to let everyone know that we've just launched the Pagan
Voting Project: http://www.fullcircleevents.org/pvp.

This is a non-partisan, non-profit project to help get out the Pagan
vote in 2004.

GRAB A BANNER!: Pagans can go to our website and register to vote
on-line or by mail. You can also pick up a "Goddess of Liberty"
banner to put on your own site. Please help encourage the Earthwise
community to vote this year by posting a Lady Liberty banner - you
have more than 10 styles to choose from, and each has a different
saying

While you are on the website, check out the Bat cadtoon from Rubber
Chicken
And you can read about Lady Liberty and the occult symbolism
associated with this icon.

We list (non-partisan) information on voting, the candidates and the
issues and we help Pagan groups who want to set up voter registration
tables at their events. You can also read our page titled "13 Reasons
Why Pagans Should Vote".

The PVP is on the cover of The Witches' Voice this week:
http://www.witchvoc.com . A national ad campaign begins in October.

Please write to FCE if you have any questions, suggestions, or
concerns about this project - you can reach us at
info@fullcircleevents.org

Thank you all for your time.

Blessed Be the Vote!

Sia
Full Circle
http://www.fullcircleevents.org
Honor the Past, Celebrate the Present, Create the Future

jesus is my co-pilot

voting in what country?

martin willett

alt. I presume.

Americans think alt is America and the World Series is something the
world can compete for.

--
Martin Willett

http://mwillett.org/

PS org isn't America either.

searles odubhain

Maybe you're the one that is confused. Making blanket statements about
Americans based on a small sampling is rooted in the potential for
making such mistakes. Which Americans are you referencing anyway:
Central Americans, North Americans, South Americans, or all Americans?
Which World Series are you referencing as well (there are many)?
Finally, I fail to see how "org" has been claimed as being (whichever)
"America" as you've stated, or even ("American"). "Org" can be anything
based on its geographical, political and/or cultural affiliations. It
can certainly be "American"or anything else of that basis. Saying a
thing is associated with anything doesn't necessarily mean that it is
exclusively any of these things though often some things can be
peculiarly claimed by such labels.

Searles

jesus is my co-pilot

the world series of football? Didn't Portugaul just win that? Or are you
talking about the current World Series of Ice Hockey?

martin willett

American adj. & n.
adj.
1 of, relating to, or characteristic of the United States or its
inhabitants.
2 (usu. in comb.) of or relating to the continents of America (Latin
American).
n.
1 a native or citizen of the United States.
2 (usu. in comb.) a native or inhabitant of the continents of America
(North Americans).
3 the English language as it is used in the United States.
[modern Latin Americanus from America, from the Latinized form of the
name of Amerigo Vespucci, Italian navigator (d. 1512), who made
several voyages to the New World]

Adjectives cannot be plural, therefore I must have been using the word
Americans as a noun, the primary meaning given for the noun American
is "a native or citizen of the United States". Are you being
deliberately obtuse here?

I have plenty of experience of Americans on the internet. They seem to
be constantly assuming that I am American and that only Americans can
read what they post on Usenet.

I just entered the phrase "in this country" into Google Groups and
came up with 1,370,000 hits, which only dropped to 882,000 when I
added in "alt". Looking through the hits it is obvious most are
assuming this country is the USA. One hell of a lot of people assume
alt = "this country" = USA.

Alt is alternative.

To call something a World Series when only teams from the USA and
Canada compete is a little strange. But then again all American sports
seem to be largely confined to the USA, in Britain the nearest
equivalent to most American male sports are games played by
**********s. Whether that says more about American men or British
**********s I don't know. The only sports that America and Europe seem
to agree on are golf and tennis.
--
Martin Willett

http://mwillett.org/

odubhain

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Do the **********s in Britain play football? I'd like to watch a game.

I think that soccer, vollyball and basketball seem to also be sports
where people in America and Europe have a common interest and
agreement.

Due primarily to the internet and satellite television, the world is
no longer a mine or yours proposition. I think you're beating a dead
horse.

Searles

kevin jones

news:<2re99cF18kr6kU1@uni-berlin.de>...


As in soccer? Some do - women's soccer is becoming more popular.

I think he's referring to rounders, which is the nearest indigenous sport to
baseball. It's also played by kids. Lots of differences though


Having visited the US on several occasions, I'd have to agree. Additionally
commercial areas like Purley Way are modelled on American malls - there a
fair number of American influences in British culture (e.g. rap). In fact
some people seem to want to become imitation Americans. There are however
oddities - our lightswitches work upside down compared to yours, and the
grid system is almost non-existent (with the exception of Milton Keynes).
And, as her indoors remarks (she being American), Brits are ruder, at least
round London. I might well concede that point - but maybe it's because I'm
not a Londoner.

Kevin

martin willett

game.

You don't play football. You play a cross between handball,
synchronized gymnastics and wrestling that you call football, but
nobody else takes it seriously. I turned up to watch a match once in
Britain, in Britain's top domestic league for gridiron football, and I
was offered a trial on the basis of my size, my ability to walk and my
attendance at a single game. I don't think that would have happened if
I'd turned up to watch the Packers, do you?

Rubbish. In Europe soccer is a game played and watched by men in huge
numbers, far more than all the religions put together. In the USA it
is played by women and children and the men's game gets onto a
minority sports channel from time to time. In Europe everybody follows
football (soccer is English public school slang used to distinguish
association football from Rugby football, outside the public schools
football is football. And of course the public schools are actually
private schools.) Football is the most important sport in most
countries, certainly all across Europe, when the national team does
well the birth rate goes up, when it does badly the suicide rate goes
up. This is true even in countries which don't have much of a league
of their own, such as Ireland.

In Europe basketball is a minority sport, I couldn't name any European
basketball teams. Volleyball? It's a game for nudists. Most people in
Europe wouldn't know the rules or the names of any teams, players,
leagues or plays.

Only tennis and golf are regarded with near equal fascination from
each side of the Atlantic. Otherwise the sports that are big in Europe
are small in America and vice versa.

--
Martin Willett

http://mwillett.org/

c. leigh nic fhionghaile

I lament that the equestrian sports are not held in higher regard in the
United States. I usually have to flip to the CBC to get any good coverage.
The Canadians obviously like to watch the jumping, but here in the U.S., we
only get to watch our equestrian team on the Olympic Games highlights...a
brief few moments. :-(

Leigh