Re: Curiouser and curiouser--was Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <462f14h0bufv9c7tusclcc0on4puf4jl29@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:13:26 -0700, David Friedman
> <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >In article <5ume14tmqdoo0p2r5sjbeku504maodq13t@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:08:56 +0000 (UTC), nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul
> >> Ciszek) wrote:
> >> 
> >> >
> >> >In article <ddfr-0839F3.23183328042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >> >David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> >>I recently made several posts in which I mentioned that only two of
the 
> >> >>14-17 year old girls being held were pregnant, basing that on the
CNN 
> >> >>story. When I later went back to check the details, that detail was

> >> >>missing. I thought perhaps I had misread the story, and even put a 
> >> >>correction? addition on my blog post.
> >> >
> >> >As I understand it, you think 2 is too low a number given the
> >> >number of girls who have had children.
> >> >
> >> >Could 2 be the number of girls who are *obviously* pregnant, and if
they
> >> >forcibly tested each and every one they might get a higher number?
> >> 
> >> 31 of 53 are listed as pregnant or having already had babies.
> >
> >Of whom, according to the Time Magazine web site (and the original, but

> >not the later, version of the CNN story) only two are pregnant. Those 
> >numbers don't fit each other very well, do they?
> >
> >Which might explain why it is the sum that the CPS is pu****ng.
> 
> I believt that the number i quoted is the mre recent - i'd have to
> Google all over again; it came from a Salt Lake City paper.

Your number is the same as mine. 31 are claimed to either be pregnant or 
have had babies. Some, but not all, stories add that of that total two 
are pregnant--which suggests that CPS is pu****ng the combined number and 
doing its best to downplay the actual pregnancy figure.

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