December 2003
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December 2003
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Monday December 1 , 2003 A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. Cindy woke up completely out of control, she refused to dress properly (I will leave the definition of "properly" to your imagination, hoping you have a bizarre imagination) for school. Autumn was just as bad, but she is small and I can get control of her without too much difficulty, She was ready to go to school wearing nothing but a pull-up and her new backpack... funny, but exasperating to try to get her to understand...
I picked up my bike, runs strong, expensive repairs though. They had to clean all four carburetors they were so gummed up the floats were sticking wide open, the seals were shot and had to be replaced, they had to drain the oil too because with the carburetors shoving too much fuel into the cylinders gasoline made it past the rings and into the oil... what a mess. I have to run it every other day, at least... that can be a chore in the Winter ... Tuesday December 2 , 2003 A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road. Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887) Mikes IEP today, it went well I guess, we are going to let him go back to Vasquez High School here in Acton. I was going to balk but they assured me that he will be on a short leash and that he has worked hard to get the chance... I hope for his sake that he can focus well enough to do the work and avoid the distractions.
We weren't able to get hold of Dr. D. about Cindy... we will try again tomorrow. She is just not responding well to the new medication. Autumn was awful yesterday, impossible to get dressed, she fought and scratched all the way to Jack in the Box, she started to behave there. Today she was an angel, all day. Wednesday December 3 , 2003 'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.' Mr. Donald Rumsfeld "B" had a bad day. We had some extra time because Cindy refused to get ready for school so I took "B" to McDonalds and bought him a breakfast. He was walking out of the restaurant with his CD Player I said; ""B", don't you want to put that CD Player in the car?" They are against the rules. "B" said "It's OK, I'm going to keep it in my Backpack". Well, today was the day the school had a visit by a drug sniffing dog, all the kids were told to leave their backpacks in their room and wait outside. The dog found three backpacks with drugs, one of them was "B"'s. "B" took Mikes Backpack to school, apparently Mike left a small glassine bag with a tiny bit of residue in it. "B" had a very rough day, not only did he have to answer a lot of questions they confiscated his CD Player. We managed to get hold of Dr. D. Thursday December 4 , 2003 All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) I promised "B" I would take him to the movies and Christy promised to buy him some trousers so I did both, the kids called and I picked them up some food on the way home... "B" wanted to see Bad Santa but they wouldn't let him in, it's rated R. So he went to see The Missing with me... it's a good movie, pretty gritty stuff but it was well done and well acted. It's hard to believe Ron Howard directed it. I bought a copy of Pirates of the Caribbean, I liked it just as much the second time, the only problem is I started to laugh in anticipation and took the edge off for Christy... she enjoyed it anyway. I got another Political/Religious diatribe about separation of church and state, it said that Moses was carved into the Portico of the Supreme Court Building and the Ten Commandments were carved into the doors of the Chambers and written on the wall behind the bench, it Quoted James Madison and Thomas Paine... I don't know about the carvings or the inscriptions but all but one of the quotes are bogus, the James Madison quote was perpetuated by Rush Limbaugh and the Thomas Paine Quote is mentioned in Bartlett's but it's un-attributed, none of Thomas Paine's writings reflected the sentiments in that quote, quite the contrary actually... John Jay's quote is true but not the whole he became The Minister and was Friday December 5 , 2003 The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all. Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate (1862-1949) Cindy is having a hard time this morning, We couldn't even get her out of bed without threatening to take the TV out of her room, that would be hard to do because it's Monica's, but Cindy fell for it. I even got her to school on time. Click here to see a terrific graph comparing the life expectancy of people who retire early as opposed to those who retire late... Packers are playing the Bears on Sunday, I know it's heresy but Favre needs to take a break, it's sad, I wish he would back off on the Iron Man Macho crap and step down for a few games till he gets his hand healed and head on straight... He's the darling of the Dairy State and the only way he doesn't play is if he doesn't want to... too bad. It's not fair to the rest of the team.... Maybe I don't have all the facts but if there is a reason beyond ego why he is still playing I wish they would tell us. Autumn's IEP went very well, I am genuinely impressed with how Autumn is being educated at Meadowlark, they are really trying hard. I have a tendency to be pessimistic about the way Autumn is going to be treated, I have been justified once or twice but for the greater part, the people we have entrusted with her care are giving her the best they know how to give. The new Principal, her Teacher, the Adaptive PE Teacher, the Speech Therapist and both Aides are wonderful. I am trying to think of a way to show our appreciation of all the care and hard work they have put into educating Autumn. Saturday December 6 , 2003 The divorce between church and state ought to be absolute. It ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no church property anywhere, in any state, or in any nation, should be exempt from taxation, for if you exempt the church property of any church organization, to that extent you impose tax upon the whole community. U.S. President James A. Garfield, address to Congress Another (Li)e-mail, this one is about Target Corporation refusing to support Veterans... I won't print it all here but you can read it at Snope's. if you are so inclined. This one is particularly nasty and vindictive... the fella the sent it asked me to look into it, I responded:
I hope some of you got to listen to the The Prairie Home Companion... Randy Newman... Celtic Music... funny skits... I asked the kids to clean the living room that they messed up, my plan was to take them shopping and then to lunch but they didn't budge so we all stayed home. New policy, I don't beg, I don't bribe and I don't yell or threaten, they do what I ask when I ask or they get nada... I am tired of being ignored and discounted... I watched a show on the History Channel called Boys Toys about motorcycles Pretty good, they had some incredible bikes, Jay Leno's rocket propelled bike, a bike with a Viper engine, the ole Road Dog, the thing turned out to be pretty much of a Harley Davidson commercial but it was still good. It gave a pretty good description of why some folks ride and others wouldn't be caught dead on one. Leno said; Explaining what it's like to love to ride is like trying to explain sex to an alien... it can't be done. Sunday December 7 , 2003 The Earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching. Assyrian stone tablet, c. 2800bc Football is more interesting this time of year, the teams are banged up and all comes down to coaching and grit...
I am the very model of a modern cyber-netizen I come in every stripe from the conservative to radical I flame opponents hairless from a dozen different pseudonyms,
I was 29 but I had the same experience and I share the same fears as Mr, Kristof below. I don't see anyone in the Democratic Party that can get enough swing votes to beat Bush. Unless Bush divorces his wife to marry Madonna, kicks his dog live on FOX News and blows his nose on the American Flag he is going to be re-elected. Instead of cutting spending Bush has increased it to WWII levels. Instead of improving education he has cut the education budget to feed his war for oil. Instead of increasing the budget for the VA he has cut it, instead of cleaning up the environment he had repealed laws that protected it and promoted laws that pollute. He has broken treaties, refused to sign treaties and defied treaties to protect the environment, weaken the World Court. He has insulted and demeaned other world powers for not succumbing to his will. He has attacked two sovereign countries with little or no provocation. He has presented conjecture as fact, he has outright lied about his affiliation with corporate leaders who have raped the country. The truth about ENRON, the "Energy Crisis", Global Crossing, Tyco, WorldCom ad-infinitum has yet to come out. We have a manufactured growth spurt in the Economy designed to get Bush re-elected, we are in such a mess fiscally that it may take generations to pay off the debt, he has increased spending in Medicare and farm subsidies but has come up with no way to pay for it. He has cut taxes to the point where the infrastructureDecember 6, 2003There They Go Again
It was 1972, and I was antiwar and infatuated with Senator George McGovern. But as I handed out McGovern leaflets in Yamhill County, Ore., I was greeted as if I were the Antichrist. Soon afterward, Mr. McGovern was defeated in a landslide. As Howard Dean will probably be, if the Democrats nominate him. It is, of course, the Democrats' privilege to stand on principle, embrace the man they admire most and leap off a cliff together. Political parties have a hoary tradition of committing principled suicide, as the G.O.P. did with Barry Goldwater in 1964 and, most masochistically, the Democrats did three times with William Jennings Bryan from 1896 to 1908. Yet my guess is that the Democratic faithful are being not so much high-minded as muddle-headed. Many Democrats so despise President Bush that they don't appreciate what a strong candidate he will be in November, and they don't grasp how poorly Mr. Dean is likely to fare in battleground states. Mr. Bush beat Mr. Dean, 52 percent to 41 percent, in a recent Pew poll. Meanwhile, the economy appears to be strengthening in time for the election. Of the 51 economic forecasters surveyed by Blue Chip Economic Indicators, all but one expect the economy to grow more rapidly in 2004 than it has in the last 33 months. Against the Bush juggernaut, Mr. Dean faces three disadvantages. First, geography. The only Democrats who have won the popular presidential vote since John Kennedy took office (when the Southern boom started) have all been Southerners: Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Swing states are mostly in the South and Midwest, so the key for both parties is to find a candidate who can seduce "Reagan Democrats," like Ohio steelworkers and Tennessee tobacco farmers. Not another Michael Dukakis. Second, style. Angry bluster rouses the party faithful, but it frightens centrists. The last two presidents who were fervently hated, Richard Nixon and Mr. Clinton, both won two terms; today's liberal disgust could do the same for Mr. Bush by leading to a nominee like Mr. Dean, who warms the hearts of the party's core but leaves others cold. Furious liberals already bear some responsibility for the situation because enough of them voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 to sink Al Gore. Moreover, Mr. Dean is smart, but he knows it. America's heartland oozes suspicion of Eastern elitists, and Mr. Dean's cockiness would exacerbate that suspicion. President Clinton oozed charm and was fluent in Southern ("even a blind hog can find an acorn," he'd say scornfully), while Mr. Dean needs a Berlitz course in self-deprecating folksiness. Mr. Dean's recent remarks about Southern men and Confederate flags showed both his awareness of this problem and his ineptitude in addressing it. He also described the episode as a "huge contretemps," and I seriously doubt that anybody who publicly uses the word "contretemps" can ever be elected president. You get the feeling that if Mr. Dean and Mr. Bush were stuck together in a small Missouri town, Mr. Dean would lecture farmers about Thomas Paine's writings, while Mr. Bush would have the cafe crowd in stitches by doing impersonations of Mr. Dean. The third problem is biography. Mr. Dean may be the one Democrat who is even more blue-blooded than Mr. Bush and who has an even lamer excuse for dodging Vietnam. Mr. Dean grew up on Park Avenue in an old aristocratic family, and after getting his medical deferment from the draft, he moved to Aspen to ski. Unlike other politicians, Mr. Dean doesn't even pretend to be particularly religious, and that's a major political weakness in the battleground states. Don't get me wrong. I agree with Mr. Dean on many issues, and I admire his willingness to oppose our Iraq invasion from the beginning. But shiny-eyed teenagers who distribute leaflets for him in places like Yamhill County are going to get very cold stares — and end up heartbroken. If the Democrats are serious about governing, they should remember the words of one of their nominees, Adlai Stevenson. After one of his typically brilliant campaign speeches, someone shouted out to Stevenson from the crowd that he had the votes of all thinking Americans. Stevenson shouted back, saying that wasn't enough: "I need a majority!"
Bush Action on Fiscal Discipline Doesn't Follow RhetoricCongress will be returning to Washington against its own wishes to finish up the budget for fiscal year 2004, which officially started two months ago today. But even as President Bush has maintained that it's imperative to "continue this notion of reminding the investors and consumers alike that we're going to have fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C.,"1 he's done little to promote it himself, with government spending increasing more than 27 percent in the previous two fiscal years.2 In fact, the investor class he's reminding of fiscal discipline in Washington is warning that, "The U.S. budget is out of control," as asserted weeks ago by Wall Street investment firm Goldman Sachs & Co.3The remarkable growth in discretionary funding led Senator John McCain to remark that Bush deserved some of the blame, saying, "The president cannot say, as he has many times, that 'I'm going to tell Congress to enforce some spending discipline' and then not veto bills."4 Former Congressional Budget Office director Robert Reischauer agreed, saying, "Spending restraint and tax increases are unnatural acts on Capitol Hill. It takes some political leadership from White House, some external motivation, to get Congress to focus on the deficit, and there doesn't seem to be any of those forces at work."5 The administration asserted that "The president has said that he would spend what's necessary to win the war on terrorism and protect Americans at home, but outside these items, he has put a serious brake on other spending, which is key to halving these deficits over five years." But even conservatives have taken issue with this. Heritage Foundation scholar Brian Riedl noted recently that only 45 percent of all new federal spending since 2001 has been related to defense and terror attacks, and that federal spending topped $20,000 per household for the first time since World War II.6 Independent budget analysts suggest that beyond presidential statements supporting fiscal discipline, the administration has not prioritized the issue. Stan Collender said, "This is an administration that cannot possibly take up the mantle of fiscal conservatism. It's probably the least fiscally conservative in history."7 Sources:
December 1, 2003 The latest recipient of US-induced `regime change' was not some miscreant Muslim `rogue' state but the mainly Christian mountain nation of Georgia. Eduard Shevardnadze, the 75-year old strongman who has ruled post-Soviet Georgia's 5.1 million citizens since 1991, was overthrown by a bloodless coup that appears to have been partly organized and financed by the Bush Administration. Shevardnadze's sin, in Washington's eyes, was being too chummy with Moscow and obstructing a major US oil pipeline, due to open in 2005, from Central Asia, across Georgia to Turkey. Georgia occupies the heart of the wild, unruly, and very strategic Caucasus region, which I call the Mideast North. In recent months, Shevardnadze had given new drilling and pipeline concessions to Russian firms. He should have recalled the fate of Afghanistan's Taliban regime, which, like Georgia, was a US client and recipient of American aid until it turned down a major pipeline deal with US oil firm Chevron and awarded it to a Latin American consortium. Taliban was immediately put on the outlaw list and marked for `regime change.' Shevardnadze was no democrat. He rigged elections, used goon squads to silence opponents, and ran Georgia like a medieval fief. But he was also a fascinating man, as I found when extensively interviewing him in Moscow in 1989 when he was Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union. `Shevy-Chevy,' as we used to call him, looked like an amiable grandfather, with his wispy white hair and bulging eyes. In fact, he had been the tough, ruthless party and KGB boss of Georgia. Yet this dedicated communist became Mikhail Gorbachev's right hand man in implementing glasnost and perestroika reforms. He played a decisive role in ending the Cold War and breaking up that criminal empire, the Soviet Union. Like Gorbachev, Shevardnadze became a hero in the west, but was reviled at home as a traitor and wrecker. Many Russians believed Gorby was a British agent and Shevardnadze a CIA `asset.' After the USSR's collapse, Shevardnadze returned to Georgia and, backed by US funding, seized power from the fiery post-independence leader, Zviad Ghamsakhurdia, who may have been murdered. Shevardnadze survived two assassination attempts over the past decade. Georgia is wild, turbulent, dirt poor, and very beautiful. I still savor the memory of the majestic, mist-shrouded mountains of Abkhazia, the lovely Black Sea coast that recalls the French Riviera, and Georgia's famed, highly potent yellow wines. Georgia has been a battleground for much of its 2,500-year history. Georgia's knights and warriors, who battled under the banner of St George, waged a heroic struggle against the Persian, Ottoman and Russian Empires. Neighbor Armenia and Georgia are the two oldest existing Christian nations. Georgian, Albanian, and Basque are Europe's oldest living languages. Like all mountain nations, Georgia is deeply divided by topography and fierce clan rivalries. Minorities of Armenians, Azeris, Ossetians (a Christian Turkic tribe), Mingrelians, and Muslim Abkhaz add further volatility. The Caucasus has over 100 feuding ethnic groups, a time bomb waiting to explode. Stalin was an Ossetian or perhaps a Mingrelian (as was henchman Lavrenti Beria) Abkhazia and Ossetia seceded from Georgia after bloody fighting and ethnic cleansing that killed 10,000 and left 250,000 refugees. Today, Russian `peacekeeping' troops keep the two rebellious regions, and a third Muslim enclave, Azharia, independent of Georgian control. Just to the north, the Chechen's ferocious struggle for freedom from Russian rule grinds on, with the bloody struggle spilling into Georgia. Moscow repeatedly accused Georgia of aiding Chechen independence fighters, which is likely true. Neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan have waged a sporadic war for over a decade. Shevardnadze kept Georgia independent by deftly playing off the Americans against the Russians, both of whom had designs on the little nation. But his luck finally ran out. Washington sent high level emissaries, including former Secretary of State James Baker, to warn Shevardnadze not to do anything that threatened the proposed oil corridor, ie deal with the Russians. When he went ahead with Russian oil deals, Washington denounced Georgian elections in early November as rigged - which they were - though it always turns a blind eye to rigged elections in useful allies like oil-rich Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco, etc. Cash and anti-Shevardnadze political operatives from the US poured into Tibilisi to back up the president's American-educated principal rival, Mikhail Saakashvili. The rigged election ignited mass protests by Georgians, fed up with corruption and crushing poverty. Saakashvilli forces stormed parliament a drove out Shevardnasze, who resigned after army and police refused to defend him. What next? Saakashvili appears almost certain to become president in early January. But the three political clans who united to overthrow the ancient regime, and now support him, may, true local tradition, soon be at one another's throats. In hot-blooded Georgia, civil war is never far away. Russia will try to limit US influence in Georgia and extend its own by stirring the pot and finding new Georgian allies. Washington will shore up its man in Tibilisi, Mr Saakashvili, and may send more Special Forces troops under the pretext of the faux war on terrorism. The entire Caucasus is near a boil. Sharply increasing rivalry between the US and Russia for political and economic influence over this vital land bridge between Europe and the oil-rich Caspian Basin promises a lot more intrigue, skullduggery and drama.
Looting the Future
By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: December 5, 2003 One thing you have to say about George W. Bush: he's got a great sense of humor. At a recent fund-raiser, according to The Associated Press, he described eliminating weapons of mass destruction from Iraq and ensuring the solvency of Medicare as some of his administration's accomplishments. Then came the punch line: "I came to this office to solve problems and not pass them on to future presidents and future generations." He must have had them rolling in the aisles. In the early months of the Bush administration, one often heard that "the grown-ups are back in charge." But if being a grown-up means planning for the future — in fact, if it means anything beyond marital fidelity — then this is the least grown-up administration in American history. It governs like there's no tomorrow. Nothing in our national experience prepared us for the spectacle of a government launching a war, increasing farm subsidies and establishing an expensive new Medicare entitlement — and not only failing to come up with a plan to pay for all this spending in the face of budget deficits, but cutting taxes at the same time. Recent good economic news doesn't change the verdict. These aren't temporary measures aimed at getting the economy back on its feet; they're permanent drains on the budget. Serious estimates show a long-term budget gap, even with a recovery, of at least 25 percent of federal spending. That is, the federal government — including Medicare, which Mr. Bush has given new responsibilities without new resources — is nowhere near solvent. Then there's international trade policy. Here's how the steel story looks from Europe: the administration imposed an illegal tariff for domestic political reasons, then changed its mind when threatened with retaliatory tariffs focused on likely swing states. So the U.S. has squandered its credibility: it is now seen as a nation that honors promises only when it's politically convenient. What really makes me wonder whether this republic can be saved, however, is the downward spiral in governance, the hijacking of public policy by private interests. The new Medicare bill is a huge subsidy for drug and insurance companies, coupled with a small benefit for retirees. In comparison, the energy bill — which stalled last month, but will come back — has a sort of purity: it barely even pretends to be anything other than corporate welfare. Did you hear about the subsidy that will help Shreveport get its first Hooters restaurant? And it's not just legislation: hardly a day goes by without an administrative decision that just happens to confer huge benefits on favored corporations, at the public's expense. For example, last month the Internal Revenue Service dropped its efforts to crack down on the synfuel tax break — a famously abused measure that was supposed to encourage the production of alternative fuels, but has ended up giving companies billions in tax credits for spraying coal with a bit of diesel oil. The I.R.S. denies charges by Bill Henck, one of its own lawyers, that it buckled under political pressure. Coincidentally, according to The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Henck has suddenly found himself among the tiny minority of taxpayers facing an I.R.S. audit. Awhile back, George Akerlof, the Nobel laureate in economics, described what's happening to public policy as "a form of looting." Some scoffed at the time, but now even publications like The Economist, which has consistently made excuses for the administration, are sounding the alarm. To be fair, the looting is a partly bipartisan affair. More than a few Democrats threw their support behind the Medicare bill, the energy bill or both. But the Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress are leading the looting party. What are they thinking? The prevailing theory among grown-up Republicans — yes, they still exist — seems to be that Mr. Bush is simply doing whatever it takes to win the next election. After that, he'll put the political operatives in their place, bring in the policy experts and finally get down to the business of running the country. But I think they're in denial. Everything we know suggests that Mr. Bush's people have given as little thought to running America after the election as they gave to running Iraq after the fall of Baghdad. And they will have no idea what to do when things fall apart.
It's a small thing I suppose but what I received back from my sister wasn't formatted the way I sent it. Since her e-mail program is set to some primitive form of "Plain Text it removed all the "space characters" in front of each line so that the chart was turned into a list of names with no context to it at all. I realize that I am sounding like an quibbling California Liberal but it's time that the "Save bandwidth at all costs", "The internet is for transferring data, not effeminate HTML", "e-mail began as Plain Text and should always remain Plain Text... HTML is for wimps!" Hardcore Uber-Nerds backed off. the Internet can handle HTML and e-mail without it is like what Smoke Signals were to the telegraph and what the telegraph was to the telephone. This is what I sent: Relationship ChartMary Daggett is the 4th Great Grand Aunt of Leigh Elaine Daggett
Common Ancestor
* Captain Seth Daggett
(1713-1779) * Elizabeth West (1720-1807) Married Dec 23, 1734 | ------------------------ | | | | * Mary (Polly) * Nathan Daggett Daggett (1760- ) (1750-Abt 1838) Anna Wilkins (1750-1830) Married May 14, 1773 | | * West Daggett (1785-1878) Betsy Thomas (1789-1878) Married Feb 5, 1825 | | * Nathan D. Daggett (1828-1862) Mary Linnell (1837- ) Married 1851 | | * William Talcott Daggett (1859-1935) Harriet Maria Barrett (1863-1946) Married Jun 8, 1879 | | * Cecil Maurice Daggett (1882-1944) Martha Belle Purinton (1882-1955) Married Sep 12, 1905 | | * John Winthrop Daggett (1919-1985) Natalie Eleanor Mooers (1920-1999) Married Dec 30, 1941 | | * Leigh Elaine Daggett (1948- )
This gibberish is what she got:
The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/capital.asp
False. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]
The constitutional propriety of Congressional chaplains has been challenged in an August 2002 lawsuit filed in federal district court by Michael A. Newdow (the California man who won a federal appellate court decision against the use of the phrase "under God" in public school-led recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance). The case is still pending. Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies. The diverse beliefs and religiosity of America's founding fathers is a complex subject, one which cannot be so neatly encapsulated by an (inadequately substantiated) statement such as the one quoted above. (See, for example, this critique of the above-quoted statement and similar material.) Thomas Jefferson worried about that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law...an
oligarchy...the rule of few over many... Yes, Thomas Jefferson was concerned about courts overstepping their authority and making (rather than interpreting) law, as was James Madison, who said: "As the courts are generally the last in making the decision, it results to them, by refusing or not refusing to execute a law, to stamp it with its final character. This makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended, and can never be proper."
John Jay, one of the framers of the Constitution, was appointed by George Washington in 1789 to be the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (a post he later resigned in order to take up a position as minister to England). He wrote, in a private letter (1797) to clergyman Jedidiah Morse:
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atching presidential politics lately, I've been thinking back to when I was 13 years old and had my heart broken for the first time.
