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Peter T. Chattaway | 1 Apr 2006 01:21
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Re: they're growing ...

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, david white wrote:
> I apologize for the obscenely delayed responses...  After I sent out
> the email I realized that I got Waylon's birth weight wrong, it was
> actually 4lbs 13oz; one ounce more than Elizabeth.

Heh.  Elizabeth may have been 4 lbs 12 oz when she was born eight weeks
ago (well, it will be eight weeks *tomorrow*, at any rate), but as of
today, when the community nurse weighed her, she is 8 lbs 11 oz.

Meanwhile, Thomas, who was 5 lbs 2 oz at birth, is 9 lbs 10 oz now.

> His full name is Waylon Osgood White.  We didn't find out that my wife
> was pregnant until she was already 19 weeks along.  Also, based on
> sonograms we thought he was a girl up until the last month of the
> pregnancy.  His initials are oh so appropriate. ;)

[ groan ]  Was that deliberate?  :)

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James Ladan | 1 Apr 2006 04:42
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Re: Prayer doesn't affect heart patients

On 3/31/06, nezmik@...
<nezmik@...> wrote:
>  >So the question just has to be asked...what 3 groups?  :/
>
> Aparently the three God does not listen to.  :)

Or maybe God just didn't feel like being put to the test for this study...

James.

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James Ladan | 1 Apr 2006 05:03
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Re: Western Standard sued for publishing cartoons

I thought it was unnecessary and inconsiderate for the Western
Standard to publish the cartoons, but this is just stupid.

James.

On 3/29/06, Peter T. Chattaway <petert@...> wrote:
> http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2006/03/western_standar.html
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> Wednesday, March 29, 2006
>
> Earlier this month, the Western Standard was sued in human rights court
> for publishing the Danish cartoons. It's been ten years since I've
> graduated from law school, and I've never seen a more frivolous,
> vexatious, infantile suit than this.
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Peter T. Chattaway | 1 Apr 2006 05:11
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Re: Harry Browne, RIP

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Lance McLain wrote:
> Here are some quotes of Harry Browne:
> "I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution."

But hasn't the Constitution been expanded to help government fit?  (E.g.
Prohibition.)

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Peter T. Chattaway | 1 Apr 2006 05:23
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eisenstein (was: Blood on the red carpet)

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Lance McLain wrote:
> BTW, have you guys ever seen Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible?

Years ago, I caught a double-bill of Parts I and II.  Don't remember it
very well, though.

> I know he wasn't portrayed as mentally ill, and this is a bit off
> topic, but I was curious about your impressions of Eisenstein.  Don't
> think we've ever talked about him here.

He's interesting, but not one of the filmmakers I've internalized -- he's
one of those directors where I have to check my notes before joining a
discussion about him.  :)  FWIW, I wrote about Alexander Nevsky here:

http://artsandfaith.com//index.php?showtopic=1980

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James Ladan | 1 Apr 2006 05:23
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Re: Harry Browne, RIP

> "Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech,
> freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come
> looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch."

Generally the impression that I get is that immigrants are harder
working than people born here in Canada.  I can't see why that'd be
different in the US.

James.

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Peter T. Chattaway | 1 Apr 2006 05:49
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Re: Why Mommy is a Democrat

> http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/moe/index.php?ntid=66201&ntpid=2

> "Democrats make sure we are always safe, just like Mommy does."

A complete crock, of course, but what strikes me about this quote is that
"safe" is not always a good thing, and sometimes children need to take
risks, to be pushed out on a limb, to face danger -- something that
traditionally has been more of a Daddy's job.

Which leads me to wonder if maybe someone, somewhere, would write a
children's book in which Democrats and Republicans work together for the
common good, just like Mommy and Daddy do.

Um, well, assuming Mommy isn't a single lesbian who conceived through
in-vitro fertilization, that is.

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Peter T. Chattaway | 1 Apr 2006 06:04
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Re: Western Standard sued for publishing cartoons

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, James Ladan wrote:
> I thought it was unnecessary and inconsiderate for the Western
> Standard to publish the cartoons . . .

Unnecessary?  It's news!  I'd say it was *necessary*, if anything.

> . . . but this is just stupid.

Yup.

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Peter T. Chattaway | 1 Apr 2006 07:48
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Re: Children, the Littlest Politicians

> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/weekinreview/19leon.html

> Today, though, the gender gap -- that men lean right and women lean
> left -- has become a political truism, and a series of new studies
> suggests that gender plays an even bigger role in politics than many
> believed. Having a son tends to make parents more conservative, it
> appears, while a daughter makes them more liberal. The parental has
> become the political.

Hmmm, wonder how this may or may not be reflected in the presidencies --
listed here, with the age of their children at the beginnings of their
first terms (and please correct me if I'm missing anything):

   2001-     -- Bush II      -- 2 daughters, aged 19
   1993-2001 -- Clinton      -- 1 daughter, aged 12
   1989-1993 -- Bush I       -- 4 sons, aged 42 to 32
                                (1 daughter, died at age 3 in 1953)
   1981-1989 -- Reagan       -- 2 daughters, aged 39 to 28
                                2 sons, aged 35 to 22
                                (1 daughter, died at age 0 in 1947)
   1977-1981 -- Carter       -- 1 daughter, aged 9
                                3 sons, aged 29 to 24
   1974-1977 -- Ford         -- 1 daughter, aged 16
                                3 sons, aged 23 to 17
   1969-1974 -- Nixon        -- 2 daughters, aged 22 to 20
   1963-1969 -- Johnson II   -- 2 daughters, aged 18 to 15
   1961-1963 -- Kennedy      -- 1 daughter, aged 3
                                1 son, aged 0
   1953-1961 -- Eisenhower   -- 1 son, aged 29
                                (1 son, died at age 3 in 1921)
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Peter T. Chattaway | 1 Apr 2006 07:50
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Re: Good Night, and Good Luck

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Lance McLain wrote:

> > Then again, you guys did have Prohibition, and you still put the legal
> > drinking age all the way up at 21.  So who knows.
>
> Heh...not only did we have prohibition...but we passed a constitutional
> amendment to achieve it.  That is just amazing when I think of the
> public support that must have been necessary to accomplish that.

And then you had another constitutional amendment *repealing* prohibition
only 14 years later!  Those must have been, um, interesting times, to
produce such a whiplash-inducing change of public opinion.

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