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2008-09-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Time magazine has an interesting article on the reaction in Alaska to this story, referenced yesterday by both lotp and Frank G. The key sentence, the second sentence of the second paragraph on page two (coincidence can be so elegant, sometimes) reads as follows:

Sarah Palin is a longterm member of a group called Feminists for Life, which is not opposed to birth control.

Now can we please move on to more edifying issues? Yes, O Visitor from Europe, Canada or the Democratic side of the blogosphere, this does mean you.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-02 00:22|| 2008-09-02 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I posted this late yesterday in comments but it remains required reading on this topic.

Posted by AzCat 2008-09-02 00:31|| 2008-09-02 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks AzCat. I didn't see it then. Beldar makes a great point. Palins sound like a very tight family.

Posted by Steve White 2008-09-02 00:40|| 2008-09-02 00:40|| Front Page Top

#4 You can teach your children and set an example in your lives. Many times the lessons stick, and sometimes they don't. So you work through it and you move on. This has been going on for thousands of years.

Now it is time to move on to Germain issues, like energy, security, the economy, fiscal responsibility, and the gross corruption of Congress.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-09-02 01:54|| 2008-09-02 01:54|| Front Page Top

#5 [ArisK.atsaris has been pooplisted.]

Posted by ArisK.atsaris">ArisK.atsaris 2008-09-02 05:47|| http://katsaris.livejournal.com]">[http://katsaris.livejournal.com] 2008-09-02 05:47|| Front Page Top

#6 [ArisKa.tsaris has been pooplisted.]

Posted by ArisKa.tsaris">ArisKa.tsaris 2008-09-02 05:47|| http://katsaris.livejournal.com]">[http://katsaris.livejournal.com] 2008-09-02 05:47|| Front Page Top

#7 nobody CARES if you have or don't have a problem, you Greek geek.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-02 06:51|| 2008-09-02 06:51|| Front Page Top

#8 [ArisKa.tsaris has been pooplisted.]

Posted by ArisKa.tsaris">ArisKa.tsaris 2008-09-02 07:03|| http://katsaris.livejournal.com]">[http://katsaris.livejournal.com] 2008-09-02 07:03|| Front Page Top

#9 I also don't troll websites that have clearly, repeatedly, and pointedly said: "get out". You are unwanted here, yet you don't have the class or intelligence to stay away. Loser

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-02 07:20|| 2008-09-02 07:20|| Front Page Top

#10 And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen.

Posted by badanov 2008-09-02 07:33|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-09-02 07:33|| Front Page Top

#11 [ArisKa.tsaris has been pooplisted.]

Posted by ArisKa.tsaris">ArisKa.tsaris 2008-09-02 07:41|| http://katsaris.livejournal.com]">[http://katsaris.livejournal.com] 2008-09-02 07:41|| Front Page Top

#12 The Dems are going to dig up anything they can find to tar Sarah Palin.

They are scared to death of her.

Seems to be a normal middle America story. High School sweethearts.....pregnancy.....early marriage.

The only question is how well the hockey playing dad will respond to the media and the noteriety of being married to the VEEP's daughter.

I think McCain can start getting fitted for his inaugural ball tux myself.

Posted by James Carville 2008-09-02 09:26|| 2008-09-02 09:26|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm sure it would never happen but I would love to see the Palin & Johnston parents give their kids the following advice.

"Kids, what you do is absolutely no one else's business. SO if any reporter or pol. asks you anything at all, feel free to answer in the most satirical, whimsical, insulting fashion you can."

"Ask one of them if they can explain how this pregnancy thing happens since you were nowhere near a cabbage patch and there hasn't been a stork seen in years."

Quick teenage snark and put-downs that's the ticket.

Posted by AlanC 2008-09-02 11:55|| 2008-09-02 11:55|| Front Page Top

#14 During my senior year in high school the girls were dropping like flies. Some of them were the most prim and proper. In those days they were expelled from school for being pregnant. One girl went around in a trench coat trying to hide her belly so she could stay in school but they finally found out and then she was gone. Really sad.

Nowadays there are some schools that provide day care for the babies of high school students so I guess we've made some advances. Not that we should encourage that kind of thing but life does happen.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-09-02 12:16|| 2008-09-02 12:16|| Front Page Top

#15 When it's born maybe they can sell the pictures to People for a coupla mil?

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-02 12:21|| 2008-09-02 12:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Not that we should encourage that kind of thing

Well letting them stay in school or providing infant care at school does not discourage it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-02 13:07|| 2008-09-02 13:07|| Front Page Top

#17 A lot of districts in California have one school that Pregnant or new mothers end up being transfered too. This makes sense on a number of levels because you don't promote the pregnancy deal and the bulk of schools don't have to deal with the special needs.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-02 14:07|| 2008-09-02 14:07|| Front Page Top

#18 Yup. But you need a large population of unwed mothers to support that solution. Tough problem.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-02 14:26|| 2008-09-02 14:26|| Front Page Top

#19 Not if it is a rather small building. The curriculum may not exactly be college prep/AP at such a school either.

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-09-02 16:29|| 2008-09-02 16:29|| Front Page Top

#20 at our son's school (grad class approx 250) there are 40+ infants in day care on school grounds while the mom's finish up.

almost every girl that feels lonely is wanting to have one so she 'can be loved'

sad

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-09-02 17:08|| 2008-09-02 17:08|| Front Page Top

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