Sarah Palin will be a grandmother after all. Yeah, so what?
Bristol Palin, the eldest daughter of Republican Vice Presidential choice, Sarah Palin, has been reported to be the actual mother of Trig, the youngest of the Palin brood. Now it has been reported that Bristol is indeed pregnant, and to marry the father of her child. The father of said baby is yet unknown.…
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26 - troll
Clavos...I'm working on an engine that runs on clarified human fat...(a renewable resource) - care to invest - ?
27 - Dave Nalle
TALK ABOUT A CONSPIRACY THEORY!!!! Consider this: Sarah Palin "delivered" Trig 4/18/08. She was back at work on 4/21/08 (UNHEARD OF - USUALLY)
Actually, increasingly standard in deliveries without complications.
Dave - are those stats national or international or galactic - ?
National. I haven't been able to find stats broken down by state yet.
a link in this case would have been helpful as you don't give much info about the figs
They're in a PDF which you can download from the CDC.
Dave
28 - troll
gracias
29 - Roschelle
at home in 2 days..yes. But back at work???????
30 - troll
(...or not as your linked report doesn't seem to contain those stats)
31 - Condor
"at home in 2 days..yes. But back at work???????" - Roschelle
That's an Alaskan for you, gotta feed the pack.
Anyone here spent any appreciable time in Alaska? Different world, different set of values, different ratio of women to men.... just different. I was there for a year, saw probably a dozen women total. I did my contracted time and left, only to return on short term contracts (i.e. a few weeks). It was different.
I wonder if in a place where the ratio of men to women is high, if men aren't just marking their territory by getting the women pregnant and thus... you get the picture.
We all postulate on our civility, but there is a lot of innateness to our being.
I like talking about oil better. All the psycho-babble... I hated it in college and still do... in fact my world crashed hard when taking an Organizational Behavior class and I suddenly realized it was PYSCHOLOGY... yeeeeech.
32 - Lisa Solod Warren
Dave, the average age for first marriage for women in this country is 25. There is no way that 78 percent of American women have been married for the first time by age 15.
33 - Joanne Huspek
Well, I see what happens when a person decides to throw a live one out on BC during a holiday.
A couple of points: I was married at 18. (No pregnancy, just stupidity.) Then I moved across the globe, no mother, no in-laws. It CAN be done, even with children.
Two, my own mother gave birth to my youngest sister, and went back to work (not a cushy desk job, but a rather strenuous, stress-filled one) within the week. I couldn't do it, but that's the kind of woman she was.
That Trig is 5 months old and Bristol is five months pregnant sort of nixes the idea that she's the mother.
I personally don't know what I would do in the same situation. Like I said in the article, I have a teenage daughter, and have been considering what I would do if she called me from college with the same news. After getting my breath back, I'm sure I would support her, but I doubt if she's want me hovering around her.
34 - Lee Richards
Dave,
Your stats in #18 would be amazing, if they were true. I can find no corroboration of them at CDC or anywhere else.
I do find that the Census Bureau's Community Study says the average median age for first marriages for women is about 25.
Some corroborating evidence or further explanation, please.
35 - Lee Richards
Re: #18
And I must say, Dave, that I find your assertion that a 17-year old, unmarried and pregnant, whose mother is now running for vice-president of the US is "absolutely in harmony with the overwhelming majority of women her age" to be really odd.
I'm not commenting at all on the young woman, just your characterization of her and the situation.
36 - Dr Dreadful
Re comment # 18 and subsequently comments #s 21, 27, 30, 32, 34, 35:
What's that smell? So familiar... Ah yes!
Can we all say 'satire'?
(good catch, troll)
37 - troll
(Dreadful - one must keep in mind always that Vox is first and foremost an international personage of intrigue...an agent provocateur as it were
as a heuristic it works for me)
38 - Dr Dreadful
That of course would explain why he elected to take the CDC's official marriage statistics for Yipyipyeehawtwangabanjo County, Tennessee and spin them as national.
39 - troll
...truly diabolical
40 - Clavos
Yipyipyeehawtwangabanjo County is in Mississsippi, Doc.
It used to be in Tennessee, but found it too progressive, so they seceded and petitioned Mississippi for citizenship and passports, which were granted with alacrity (but no grits).
41 - Dr Dreadful
I knew there had to be a logical explanation for the boundary change, Clav. There's nothing to be gained by gerrymandering when none of the county's inhabitants can read the names on the ballot.
42 - Jet
A young man from Tennessee married his highschool sweatheart, and they lived together for five years. He found a better job in Mississippi but after they moved down there, the couple found that they weren't as in love as they thought and got a divorce.
Of course afterward the judge had a hard time determining if they were still brother and sister.
43 - Joanne Huspek
I wasn't coming back here, but that last comment warrants an "ewww..."
44 - Dr Dreadful
Good to see that you've somewhat relaxed your 'no stereotypes' policy, Jet...
;-)
45 - Lisa Solod Warren
Gosh, Dave, you're always so darned serious. I had no idea you could tell a, sort of, I guess it was, a joke? How droll.
Could you let us know next time? Perhaps a change of typeface or use a new color instead of black? That would help.
Thanks a lot.
Best, L.
46 - Condor
"I'd say her family needs her more than the country does. It'll be interesting to see what she says." Lee
I just gotta ask... isn't that a bit of a double standard. Has anyone asked Obama if he could be president and a father of 2. Did anyone ask JFK a similar question. What about families in which the woman is the breadwinner and the father is the stay at home, or the close to home parent (i.e. Married to military spouses, male or female)
Or, is this just a question for a woman? With upwards of 50% of the workforce women; is that really a fair/balanced/equal question to ask?
Is there a suggestion that perhaps a female candidate with children isn't up to the task? Does that same suggestion hold for a male candidate?
What about Mr. Palin? Isn't he engaged in family rearing? After all Mrs. Palin is a governor, I would think that Mr. Palin is taking care of what ever needs she cannot be there for.
18 million cracks in the glass ceiling and the question still comes up. Wouldn't that be an affront to the career minded individual?
Just asking....
47 - Lee Richards
As far as I know Obama doesn't have an unmarried pregnant teenage daughter and a handicapped newborn.
Nothing to do with double standards.
Let me ask you: who needs this particular woman at this particular time more--her family facing serious challenges or a political party facing an election?
What would a conservative christian, family-values answer be? Maybe there's your double standard.
48 - Cannonshop
(Figuring probable career path for Bristol's boyfriend...)
Okay, he knocked up the Governor's daughter, so there will be a shotgun wedding, probably before the birth so the kid isn't born a bastard.
He'll need a job, and the Palins (likely) own a fishing boat.
So...
He falls off the boat during filming for "The Most Dangerous Catch" and is lost at sea. (this assumes that we have President Obama in office, and Palin gets to go home to Alaska instead of enduring the sleazy corruption of the lower 48 states), the reason he's lost at sea, is that there weren't enough Carbon Credits for the boats to turn around and get him, nor enough for the Coast Guard to look for him. He won't get a job as a roughneck, because a country governed by the Environmentalists won't be needing guys to drill for oil, or work in those icky refineries-there will still be crabbing, however, because California Liberals and Chicago Dems like to eat crab with their tofu and beansprouts.
If McCain/Palin is elected:
"Junior" gets a job drilling for oil, but is eaten by a polar bear. The young widow gets his death benefits and some sympathy from the press.
(alternate version- "junior dude" tries to leave his bride and child, is found in the ice near the pole some forty years after Daddy Palin buries his irresponsible ass in it.)