Alexander Hamilton

I'm in a starbucks while my daughter is at dance class, but here's what I dug up. Abortions per year in the United States (AGI) (CDC) 1973 744,600 615,831 1974 898,600 763,476 1975 1,034,200 854,853 1976 1,179,300 988,267 1977 1,316,700 1,079,430 1978 1,409,600 1,157,776 1979 1,497,700 1,251,921 1980 1,553,900 1,297,606 1981 1,577,300 1,300,760 1982 1,573,900 1,303,980 1983 1,575,000 1,268,987 1984 1,577,200 1,333,521 1985 1,588,600 1,328,570 1986 1,574,000 1,328,112 1987 1,559,100 1,353,671 1988 1,590,800 1,371,285 1989 1,566,900 1,396,658 (I think the way the book calculated--this was the cut-off for estimate of the number of potential criminals, since most of the abortions that follow would still be pretty young for a criminal.) 1990 1,608,600 1,429,577 1991 1,556,500 1,388,937 1992 1,528,900 1.359,145 1993 1,500,000 1,330,414 1994 1,431,000 1,267,415 1995 1,363,690 1,210,883 1996 1,365,730 1,221,585 1997 1,365,730 (NRLC estimate) 1998 1,365,730 (NRLC estimate.) 1999 1,365,730 (CIRTL estimate.) total 38,269,010 39,417,080 with AGI 3% undercounting factor 40,565,151 with AGI 6% undercounting factor source The source page obviously has an agenda, but their source is allegedly the CDC. Maybe my recollection of 15 million was low, because these numbers are obviously much higher than 15 million. From Roe to 1990, this is about 18 million abortions (my rough guess). So there are the numbers.

I think the author concludes that there would be about 15,000,000 more adults --of those, a lot of them would be in the high risk as criminal mold. Again, not an argument for abortion, but that's some side effect.

Anyone read Freakonomics? The economist author makes the argument--well-supported--that legalizing abortions has had more to do with the reduction in crime over the last 15 years than any other factor. He examines all the factors (changes in how crime is reported, underreprorting, gun control laws, death penalty, etc.) and concludes that the only three that have a real consequence are more prisons (keeps criminals off the streets), more cops, and lots of abortions (which he argues is the biggest factor). Without backing this up with his facts (read the book if you want them), the reason for arguing that more abortions cuts crime is this. The women who have abortions often fall into one or more of the following stereotypes: (1) single, (2) poor, (3) drug-user, (4) young, and (5) don't want the child. It's been shown that children of mothers who fall into these categories are more likely to be criminals. Since about a million women have abortions a year (horrifying), that's a lot of potential criminals off the streets. BTW, that's not my personal argument for abortion. Just a tidbit, and my contribution to a thread hijack.

We're not up to half a trillion yet, but we should be by 2007.

Fascinating.

That was a different enemy. When the US faced down the USSR, we knew where to find them and what to blow up. We've clearly sent the same message to AQ, but finding them and blowing them up is not as easy. Oh, and don't forget: invading every country that pisses the US off is not as easy as writing it in your post.

It looks like Eko's plane Mr. Sharon.

I like the wall segregation--props to the powers that be for pulling it off. I can go to the football wall, see what's going on, and not have to read about non-football posts. Sure, there are some things posted on the main wall that are not interesting, but so what? I don't read them. When all the football posts were mixed in with [insert non-football topics here], I pretty much avoided the main wall.

I have little insight into the overall story, but the one with traction for me is that they are in some kind of group therapy session. IT explains why each of them keeps getting intense visits from their past. On that kind of note, a common thread between the characters is that they all have massive "daddy" issues. Jack Kate Shannon Locke Sun Jin Walt Aaron (the baby) Not sure if any of the other chartacter had allusions to their Daddy-induced problems, but these ones definitely do.

Reading comprehension alert. His teammates are calling him 81. It's not self-proclaimed.

Couple things came up in these threads. First, Sawyer chose the name of the guy who conned his family and screwed up his life. Second, Zeke called out to "Alex" to deliver Kate from the darkness. Alex was Rousseau's son that the Others took.

Mike Mamula was a top-flight athelete.

That's a good sentence.

I think the best of the early Dem candidates is Joe Biden. I've always liked his appearances on Meet the Press. He's got the plagarism thing in his background, but that was pretty bogus (not that it will stop the Right from bringing it up). Wiki on Biden

Nice Avatar.

Alvin Harper.

No. Everyone else got to focus on you jizzing about the unsubstantiated story. That was the low-hanging fruit. I went for a different angle. And I could do it again.

With Kevin Faulk and David Givens as his RB and WR, any QB could succeed in NE.

If it's true that Marv wants character guys, Moulds is gone.

So? "might of" is grotesque

"Of" is not a verb.

Think of the money the Bills save in having their Coach/GM already in the fold.

Kind of a normal show, which is nice. A little language. A lot of sex talk with their new announcer George Takei (Mr. Sulu). And the revelations.

Good call.

See the "Onward Muslim Brothers" thread.