against the sale of illegal products.

Irony FTW?

Don’t have that? Then STFU, because you don’t know anything and the photos you’ve searched on the web, rumors you’ve heard about the daughter’s absence from school, notions of how babies should be delivered, etc. amount to a big, steaming pile of nothing.

Ye Olde Wikipedia (Wikipedia is never wrong, the wiki page on Wikipedia says so!) says a few things to take into account regarding kid, materinity of.

Mono has a gestation week of 4-6 weeks, yours free +shipping and handling. After that, the infection symptoms usually last 1-2 months. If she was out of school for 5 months for mono, she would have been spending most of that time in a hospital, because that would be the most vicious cause of mono in the universe, certainly the most intensive outbreak in a modernized country. Mono is theoretically fatal.

Secondly, the age of the mother does seem to have some correlation to the probability of a downs syndrome baby; however the likely-hood is never 0.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs_syndrome#Incidence
Unlikely != Impossible.

Amateur medical junkie, AWAAAAY!!

My two cents regarding it: oh, I 100% believe it’s Palin’s daughter’s baby*. Is it actually her daughter’s? I dunno. But I’d believe it. Seriously, ask your grandparents (if you still have them. Hell, I bet your parents could tell you a few stories, if you’re old enough) about how often young women back in the day would “get sick” with a contagious-but-not-really-dangerous disease for, say, 4-5 months at a time. Or have to go to a hospital in another town “for treatment”. This is old-school cover-uppery.

Personally, I think it’s sad for the teenager and the baby to have to live that, but don’t much care. I knew Palin was a rightwing nutjob the first pic I saw of her, (NO! WIRE! HANGERS!!) so it’s not like she’s going to lose ground with me if this turns out to be true.

*a possessive suffix trifecta! WOOOO!!

1. Announcing her pregnancy at 7 months to a surprised staff and state, without obviously showing, right up to the birth.

2. Daughter allegedly disappears from school for 5+ months at this time.

Just these two pseudo-facts alone are damn suspicious.

The heroic planeride to Texas story is the crux. WIth it, the VP nom is shown to be a self-aggrandizing liar if the rumor is proven true.

Go and yell yourself hoarse in some march and get raided without warrants and all that shit. The executive is blatantly commiting crimes, don’t tell me to get chewed up by a profoundly broken system… and for what, demonstrating? Get real, like that works for shit.

Because I’ve been there. Actually, I was out of town on business when when my water broke at 7 and 1/2 months.

At best, she’s a liar. Her story that, “My Dr. told me to put my feet up and fly back home,” is complete bullshit. When I was in this situation, my Dr. wouldn’t let me leave the hospital unless I was on an ambulatory flight. Basically a tricked-out Cessna that takes you from ambulance to stretcher to tarmac to plane and vice versa, with complete ambulance care on the plane

I don’t know if her daughter is really the mother, but if she is not, then this woman acted incredibly recklessly and irresponsibly. She has no business being VEEP. And I for one think this lapse in judgment should be a campaign issue.

The only thing that will stop them is for the people to find a way to indicate that these behaviors are unacceptable. During Vietnam, the draft meant you were going to die. It kind of sharpened the focus, y’know?

If you’re really pissed,if you really want to make a difference, if you want this bullshit like we saw in MN today end, you need to go out in the streets. And not by yourself. Hell, they’ll just laugh at you. As soon as we can find a way to mobilize people, make them care enought to bleed and hurt and sniff up some gas and fight a riot cop and MAKE somebody pay attention then all we’re doing is masturbation.

Schedule a demonstration. I’ll be there by your side…

mikey

If it takes this daughter some shame due to HER participation in a lie, and what wins in exchange is our Constitution? I’m sorry, I’ll fucking take it. I have never hated what Bush has done to this country as much as when I saw the blithe warrantless preemptive raids in Minneapolis today.

It’s a fucked-up game Palin is playing, either way. I do think it’s got merit and should be examined. The question is, to ratfuck or see if the increasingly tabloidy MSM will do anything with it? Keep in mind, they’ve gotten their juiciest leads lately from the National Enquirer.

And ittdgy: STEP AWAY FROM THE CRAZY WOMEN PLACE!!1!! NOW!!111!!!

Not to mention Pauly Walnuts.

Er, David that isn’t “cool.” It’s bloody dangerous.

Sheesh….I mentioned this a couple of days ago and got treated to a shitstorm.

As to the notion that young women don’t give birth to Down’s Syndrome babies, my wife was 25 when she gave birth to ours. I should also say that the mother’s age isn’t the only factor that statistics are built on, but also the age of the father (there’s a very creepy thought lurking here, though I’m not gonna be the one to broach it).

Palin’s “birth tale” simply makes no sense. Someone who constantly rails about “the sanctity of life” wouldn’t endanger a Down’s Syndrome fetus that was arriving a month prematurely by disobeying her doctor’s orders regarding the speech, then getting on a plane to fly 3000 miles and then drive nearly an hour to an obcure mini-clinic that somehow failed to record the birth. No one who’d already had 4 kids would be ignorant of the infection risks (and potential complications), not to mention the fact that a 5th child arrives faster, not slower….what, the crotch of her pantsuit was keeping the baby from slipping out during all of this?

Either this woman is psychotically irresponsible (if her story is even close to true) or the baby belongs to her daughter. If it’s the latter, this entire ruse is about Palin protecting her political career, not protecting her daughter. Guys, as much as you may not want to talk about this, it needs to be brought to the fore BEFORE the election, not after. If she’s forced to resign after taking office, there is no election of the replacement, just an announcement. For all we know, McInsane would name Cheney as VP again (“Hey, he’s got experience!”) and we really would have “four more years”.