[extropy-chat] Fwd: Mandatory draft for your child?

[Mike Lorrey]

There are 32 people in the average american family?

--- Walter_Chen at compal.com wrote:

> Should we use a better formula (maybe Bayesian inference) to estimate
> the
> probability of a US parent having 
> (at least) one child serving in Iraq?
> An easier and more accurate estimate is counting first how many
> parents we
> have in US.
> I guess there should be less than 290 million divided by 4 (assume
> the
> average family members are 4).
> Then Congress is roughly the same as 'its fair share'.
> (Note: I have no special preference to M. Moore.)
> 
> Thanks.
>  
> Walter.
> ---------
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Lorrey
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 2:32 AM
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> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Fwd: Mandatory draft for your child?
> 
> 
> 
> --- Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote: 
> > > Fox, meet henhouse....
> > 
> > Henhouse, meet fox ...
> > 
> > "...of 535 members of Congress, only one has a child serving with
> the
> > military in Iraq.":
> > 
> >
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002058054_pitts10.html
> > 
> Since my original post on the bbs apparently isn't copying to the
> list...
> 
> It is rather telling, Olga, when a newspaper uses Michael Moore as a
> 'reliable source'. According to this article:
>
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040913-9999-1m13duncan.html
> 
> There are as many as eight members of Congress with children who have
> served, are serving, or are on their way to, Iraq, including Joe
> Biden,
> D-NJ. One has three kids in the military, and another has a child on
> active duty and another at the Naval Academy.
> 
> While this is still less than 2% of the entire congress, it is above
> average for the general population, where the US population is
> currently 290 million and the entire US military is 1.336 million,
> less
> than 1/2 of 1% are currently serving in the military in some
> capacity.
> As there are now 120,000 US military personnel in Iraq, the per
> capita
> military people in Iraq is 0.0005. Even if only one member of
> congress
> had a child serving in Iraq, that would still be 0.0020, or four
> times
> greater than the US population's per capita committment as a whole.
> This analysis shows why agitprop radicals like Michael Moore are such
> lying bastards. Congress is doing more than 'its fair share'.
> 
> It is also rather telling that you believe a newspaper that uses a
> nasty, lying SOB like Michael Moore as a reliable source. 
> 
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
> Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
>                                       -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
> Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism
> 
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=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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