Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Doug Pensinger

Ronn! wrote:


At 08:31 PM Saturday 1/21/2006, Doug Pensinger wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:08 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask
on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents.



Au contrarie mon ami. I was not all spared this event.


I'll confess to being one of the guilty parents.  Except that I didn't 
wait until they got married.




Which leads to the operative question, "Did they?"


Yes.  Actually their original plan was to wait for a few years...

--
Doug
best laid plans maru
8^)
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RE: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Ritu

Julia wrote:

> >> In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >>
> >>> You must have been spared the cliche of your parents 
> starting to ask 
> >>> on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become 
> >>> grandparents.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Au contrarie mon ami. I was not all spared this event.
> > 
> > 
> > I'll confess to being one of the guilty parents.  Except 
> that I didn't
> > wait until they got married.
> 
> We waited until it had been a few years since we were hassled 
> about it.  ;)

We were never hassled about that. But some 15 months after we got
married, Mom announced that I was pregnant. I laughed, made fun of her,
told her she was acting like a cliche...she kept on insisting that I get
myself checked out. And she turned out to be right. She still laughs at
me...

Ritu

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Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Julia Thompson

Doug Pensinger wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:08 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask
on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents.




Au contrarie mon ami. I was not all spared this event.



I'll confess to being one of the guilty parents.  Except that I didn't 
wait until they got married.


We waited until it had been a few years since we were hassled about it.  ;)

Julia


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Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Ronn!Blankenship

At 08:31 PM Saturday 1/21/2006, Doug Pensinger wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:08 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask
on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents.



Au contrarie mon ami. I was not all spared this event.


I'll confess to being one of the guilty parents.  Except that I 
didn't wait until they got married.




Which leads to the operative question, "Did they?"



Ten-Pound Preemies Maru


--Ronn!  :)

"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country 
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER 
GOD.  Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that 
would be eliminated from schools too?"

   -- Red Skelton

(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)




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Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Doug Pensinger

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:08 EST, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask
on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents.




Au contrarie mon ami. I was not all spared this event.


I'll confess to being one of the guilty parents.  Except that I didn't 
wait until they got married.


--
Doug
who got his wish maru
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Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask 
> on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents.
> 
> 

Au contrarie mon ami. I was not all spared this event. 
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2006-01-21 Thread jonmann
Real Hardball
by John Kerry

Fri Jan 20, 2006 on Daily Kos Blog

There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin 
Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game 
of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden.

That's reason to be outraged - but even more outrageous is the fact that in a 
flurry of sound bites what was lost was a real discussion of the fact that more 
than four years after the devastating attacks of 9/11, more than four years 
after George Bush boasted we wanted Osama "dead or alive," more than a year 
after Osama Bin Laden showed his hateful face in yet another video, this 
barbarian is still very much alive and boasting of additional attacks against 
the United States.

John Kerry's diary :: ::
Here's what I'd like to see debated on Hardball.  

President Bush's mouthpiece Scott McClellan can claim this administration puts 
terrorists out of business, but yesterday's tape reminds us that instead of 
being out of business, Osama is still out there.

If this administration had followed through on the opportunity to capture Osama 
Bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001, the world would be a better place with Osama 
Bin Laden brought to justice -- and we wouldn't be having this discussion 
today.  

And here's what the media should insist we discuss.

President Bush and his defenders continue to claim that Osama Bin Laden didn't 
escape at Tora Bora. But Gary Bernstein's book Jawbreaker documents what I said 
early in 2002 and during my debates with George Bush: that because Donald 
Rumsfeld's Pentagon didn't use American troops to do the job and instead 
outsourced the job of killing the world's #1 terrorist to Afghan warlords, this 
cold blooded killer got away.  

So what's the truth? There's a question that the full force of cable television 
should demand be answered. Press accounts over the last month have raised new 
concerns about the reliance on Afghan forces at Tora Bora in 2001. One account 
cited a Department of Defense document said to summarize the case against a 
suspected al Qaeda militant.  The militant was believed to have helped Osama 
bin Laden escape from Tora Bora. More recently, August Hanning, the head of 
German intelligence, has said bin Laden bribed Afghan forces at Tora Bora to 
make his escape.

The evidence keeps mounting:

http://www.csmonitor.com/...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Among the people who say Osama Bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora:

Gary Schroen, former senior CIA agent, Author of First In:  How seven CIA 
officers opened the war on terrorism in Afghanistan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Gary Berntsen, former CIA operative in Afghanistan, requested additional U.S. 
troops for the assault on Tora Bora, author of Jawbreaker.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Peter Bergen, terrorism analyst and author of The Osama bin Laden I Know

http://www.vanityfair.com/...

U.S. DOD, in a legal brief summarizing evidence against a suspect in U.S. 
custody at GTMO

http://www.cnn.com/...

https://select.nytimes.com/commerce/jsp/signin.jsp?url=/commerce/jsp/register.jsp

Still - the Administration toes their party line. In 2004 they even dispatched 
their surrogate General Tommy Franks to dismiss all those who say otherwise.  

Isn't it time we had the truth? Yes or no, did Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora 
Bora in 2001?

Here's a subject suited for true hard ball, on Hardball:  four years of failure 
- enough is enough - why hasn't Osama Bin Laden been captured or killed, and 
how will he be destroyed before he next appears on tape to spread his 
disgusting message?

That discussion -- rather than criticizing American citizens who exercise their 
right to free speech and express dissenting opinions - is the discussion that 
America needs. That would be the kind of debate on Hardball to which we should 
all tune in.

John Kerry

P.S. I want you all to know that I’m reading your many comments. My wife Teresa 
reads blogs passionately, and I follow blogs too, and I’m glad I can be a part 
of this – and frankly I’m not worried about taking some slings and arrows along 
the way. I’ve faced worse! So keep the comments coming -- good, bad, hopefully 
not indifferent.

Tags: Hardball, John Kerry, Recommended, Osama bin Laden, Tora Bora, Chris 
Matthews, Michael Moore (all tags)
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