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Comment Re:Have I lost my mind? (Score 5, Interesting) 378

Where do babies get them from? Surely there is no interintestinal transfer from mom to womb.

The child's intestine gets colonized during childbirth. That's been discovered to be one of the problems with Caesarian section, in fact. The baby's large intestine doesn't get the proper bacterial colonization.

Comment Re:Makes USA kind of look like ancient Rome (Score 1) 297

In ancient Rome the children where legally the property of the father until they where old enough.

Actually, according strict traditional Roman law, sons were the legally the property of the father until he died. Daughters were his property until they married, at which point they became the property of their husbands' fathers. It became usual for a father to emancipate his sons when they came of age, but if he didn't, they remained his property.

Comment Re: thank god for mississippi (Score 1) 297

They still have Section 265 in their Constitution so I can't deny God and hold office in the state.

So utterly in contravention of the US Consitution as to be laughable. If it hasn't been struck down, it'll be only because no federal court has heard a challenge to it yet; the first one made will succeed.

Comment Re:Biofuels have Always Been Political (Score 3) 224

Really, it's more the powerful lobbying of Archer Daniels Midland, which does most of the corn processing in this country. The fact the the first caucus (not the first primary--that's in New Hampshire. Iowa's caucus is before New Hampshire's primary, though) is in Iowa doesn't hurt though, I'd imagine.

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