Question, really

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Is this a good, Christian attitude? I mean, we keep hearing about how McCain, and especially Palin are the good, conservative Christian candidates. So it falls that odds are, their supporters are going to be Christian. Like this guy at a Palin rally in Pennsylvania, perhaps?



And what ever happened to Thou shalt not lie? CBS video here.

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Why am I not surprised

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The next crisis no one is talking about

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Older children being abandoned under the Safe Haven laws

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Officials have called the abandonments a misuse of a new law that was mainly intended to prevent so-called Dumpster babies — the abandonment of newborns by young, terrified mothers — but instead has been used to hand off out-of-control teenagers or, in the case of the father of 10, to escape financial and personal despair.

The spate of abandonments has prompted an outcry about parental irresponsibility and pledges to change the state law, which allows care givers to drop off children without fear of prosecution. But it has also cast a spotlight on the hidden extent of family turmoil in the country and what many experts say is a shortage of respite care, counseling and especially psychiatric services to help parents in dire need.

Some who work with troubled children add that economic conditions, like stagnant low-end wages and the epidemic of foreclosures, may make the situation worse, adding layers of worry and conflict.

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Read more at the NY Times

I promise you, we're not hearing about a third of these. Hospital personnel and CPS can't discuss it. But it wouldn't surprise me in the least to have this become the next great crisis. Granted, so far this is only affecting Nebraska, which offers Safe Haven for children up to 19, but odds are it will be happening in other states soon. Perhaps not in hospitals, but I foresee children just not being picked up at the end of the school day. Simply because their parents believe they would have a better life away from them.

Welcome everyone

I don't remember where I got this picture. It's vintage, I know that much.

If you're coming over from Fighting Liberals, curious about the whole fundy pregnancy thing, let me save you some time digging through the archives

This says something
Another good Christian
Here we go again
Here we go again, part 2
Here we go again, part 3
The sum of the hypocrisy
Things to think about
And finally, just so you know how far the fringe has gone
Why Patriocentrics scare me

A rare cross post

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The Great Law-Breaking Holiday by Sara Robinson

Awwww, an Autumn wedding

Cake picture from The Cook Duke

From the UK Sunday Times

In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election.

Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”

The Conservative Christian base would shut down watching, from what I have learned from my readings around the housefrou blogosphere. Mostly from fond memories of their God-ordained weddings. The rest of us would just be cringing, either from watching two young people forced to give up their futures and educations so young (yes, they could carry them on, we were just raised to see it this way) or from the sight of to kids getting rewarded for getting knocked up with a big, state wedding. And more than likely an apartment, money to live on, and a job for Levi. Then they will wonder why we see them as being rewarded.

And they accuse gays of ruining the institution. $5 says Bristol wears white.

This is just more proof, Christians reward sex, at any age and for any reason, as long as no birth control is used. That way it's in the service of God, so he can bring new life into the world.

Besides, education makes you an elitist snob anyway.

And why didn't someone else do this?

I'm no graphic artist. I'm sure someone can come up with a better one, or clean up this one.

And how about one for Homemakers for Obama? Any ideas?

Yes, I have to go there

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Now normally I wouldn't use the National Enquirer for litterbox liner, for fear one of my cats would catch the clap. But, as Jonah Goldburg points out:

Whatever the merits of the whole Edwards love child story, are we really supposed to believe that one of America's most famous trial lawyers wouldn't sue a publication that printed defamatory and slanderous lies about him?

Also, it's worth pointing out that while the Enquirer may or may not be scrupulous in its choice of stories — that's in the eye of the beholder — it is pretty scrupulous about its facts. They win lawsuits. They've broken a host of stories the MSM guys couldn't.

They did get Edwards right. They got OJ on the shoes. And is it really all the much worse that the Drudge Report and Bill Clinton?

Yea, I have to go there.

In a world exclusive The NATIONAL ENQUIRER names GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin's secret lover!

No less than three members of the man’s family including one by sworn affidavit have claimed that Sarah Palin engaged in an extramarital affair with hus­band Todd’s former business partner, Brad Hanson.

These sources have named Hanson as Palin’s secret love, and say their affair nearly wrecked both their marriages.

So, it's looking like St. Sarah may be about as "holy" as the rest of us. Go read the rest here. I am an admitted muckraker, at least on this blog at times, but even I suggest taking this with a grain of salt until it's confirmed by another source.