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Monday, September 1, 2008 12:33 PM

@ cdevlin

Here's what you wrote. Your words. What you said: "Please. In those photos, Palin's daughter looks like a million other teenage girls just her age. I see them every day, and they're not pregnant either. They're teenage girls. I looked a lot like that myself when I was her age. It wasn't til I was well into my late 20s that I even started to lose what to me was embarrassing baby fat. A lot of girls are built just like her.

Again, the "proof" is apparently the photos of Palin's daughter wearing tightly-fitting clothes that indicate her "pregnant" belly (Sarah Palin, by the way, is standing right there with those bulky jackets and long scarves, and her face is tellingly plump, as opposed to her more naturally defined features).

Okay, here's a question. If this was such an elaborate plot to hide the daughter's pregnancy, then why in the world would they allow their photos to be taken and published in such public ways, with the daughter very blatantly standing there for public photos with her little baby-fat belly if they were trying to hide the pregnancy?"

And then cdevlin wrote: "I did say I didn't believe she was pregnant with the Down baby."

Are you a liar, deluded, or lack memory?

Don't answer that. Just leave. You don't care about getting it right. You just want to win. Go. Shoo. Go find a bridge and hunker under that under you hear the tritty-trat-trat of goat hooves.

Monday, September 1, 2008 06:21 PM

I agree with Karenn22.

This distracts from the shrunken dollar, the wars, the debt, inflation, Constitutional corrosion, etc.

Monday, September 1, 2008 08:22 PM

Inside the convention, the Republicans wrap themselves in the flag, while outside,

their agents shit on what the flag represents, such as freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 06:51 AM

The daughter might have been running with "the wrong crowd."

So, the parents packed her bags, hoping that a change in latitude would produce a change in attitude. The pregnancy suggests failure, if this was the scenario, as young women often act out via promiscuity.

I think the story is relevant in that it speaks to the parents' inadequacies. She might have quit on her daughter by sending her away, after failing to raise a kid who recognizes that early pregnancy is not best for mother or child.

And how can the Gov. Palin ask for privacy? She CHOSE to join the anti-privacy party, which spies on us and legislates our private lives. Such a party member can ask for no quarter, especially considering that they would, if they could, draw and quarter captives in their offshore prisons.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 06:56 AM

@ inedal

I wish Gov. Palin wanting to waste secular classroom time on religion would get a little more traction, especially in a global economic context. There are so many classroom minutes and students in other countries aren't having their instructional minutes replaced by mythology. Gov. Palin's politicking for the insertion of her particular religion's mythology into public schools isn't good for America.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 07:20 AM

@ J. Roberts

Not having an abortion and hating gay citizens is all one needs to be a good Republican. They'd hate Jews too, if they could, but Jews were already claimed as a scapegoat.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 08:46 AM
Original article: He shoots, he scores

@ Taritac

It's relevant because the mother and possible VP of the United States wants her daughter to marry this thug...for appearance's sake. If you'll foresake your daughter, you have no values.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 08:51 AM
Original article: The other 49

@ mateostgo

I'm a fiscal conservative too, which is why I can't vote Republican, since they expand and expand government, but won't pay for it, thus devaluing the dollar by profligate borrowing, which increases inflation, which works as a tax increase, albeit an unfair one, for it disproportionately affects the poor. So, vote for McCain, who voted with Bush 95% of the time this past year. You'll get more of the same: more borrowing, more debt, more inflation, more big government.

Monday, September 8, 2008 01:45 PM
Original article: "Ugh" of the day

The stories of God are silly.

According to Christianists, God wrote the Bible. If so, God's self-esteem sucks, for God portrays himself as vainglorious (Worship me, me, me!), clueless (Satan was his best bud.), and sadistic (Hey, Isaac, slay your son if you love me. And then you guys over there can torture and kill my son! Whee! Such superfluous drama for an allegedly all-knowing deity.).

If I were going to write my autobiography, I'd do what most auto-bio-ers do, which is to grind off my many rough edges and lay some pretty veneer on my shit. But not God. Oh, no, this cat is frank about being an old crank.

The stories of the Bible, which some allege are wonderful lit, implode via their lode of inconsistencies, such as God is all-loving, but can't forgive our sins and God is all-knowing, but can't foresee if Isaac's scare quotes-love-close square quotes is sufficient to murder his son. The God of the Bible is a sick sumbitch, which is why Christianists tend to be equally sick, trying to scare experimenting girls with fairy tales of eternal burning. The pastor of that church apes God well. The pastor should now start asking his parishoners to raise a knife over their sons chests and be fully prepared to plunge, 'cause an all-knowing God needs to know!

Monday, September 8, 2008 01:51 PM

Just ban?

Republicans aspire to burning books.

Monday, September 8, 2008 02:12 PM
Original article: "Ugh" of the day

@ dreadpiraterobert

Don't even kid about kissing Republicans! That won't send you to Hell. That is Hell.

Even Laura admitted that the greatest Republican of all time, Fighter-Jet George*, isn't Mr. Excitement in her boudoir: "I am married to the president of the United States, and here's our typical evening: Nine o'clock, Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep, and I'm watching Desperate Housewives— with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife. I mean, if those women on that show think they're desperate, they oughta be with George."

* Whom his military superiors couldn't recall being at the base.

Monday, September 8, 2008 06:28 PM
Original article: "Ugh" of the day

@ firefly82

So, educate me. Who wrote the Bible, according to Christianists? I hope you're not prepared to parse, to assert that Luke and lot, but not Lot, wrote the Bible. The myth is that God dictated to those guys.

Or do you just hit and run?

Monday, September 8, 2008 08:43 PM

@ 7amosprop

Palin would torture Jesus. She is, after all, a member of the Torture Party.

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