"exactly. there are just not enough affluent white people breeding with reckless abandon. except for those wacky Spears sisters, that is." - (dot)lizard kelly
"oh i just posted a link to that in a reply to you! i think Obama handled it quite perfectly. as to the abstinence only approach, i have nothing but terrible anger and frustration knowing that there are parents condoning teaching their children (among other unrealistic things) that *condoms are ineffective*. yes! that's what they tell them! they tell them condoms aren't any good, like that's going to prevent them having sex. all it's going to do is discourage them from using protection, when it could quite literally save their lives. and even in these hopeful days when advances in "drug cocktails" have enabled some HIV and AIDS sufferers to survive in the long-term, for the uninsured, under-insured, or those without tens or hundreds of thousands of thousands of dollars a year to pay for these advanced therapies, it's still a death sentence. and let's not even get into the thought of teenage girls giving birth to HIV positive babies. to tell a child that condoms are ineffective is..." - (dot)lizard kelly
"Janet, that is some excellent picture-finding. that's extremely compelling. and now poor Bristol is pregnant *again*, does Mom realize this is a really bad thing? two babies by age 18? that's a simply horrible thing to inflict on your kids by denying them access to birth control and sex education. I'm not going to say her life is "ruined" but it's certainly indicative of the terrible damage that this mindset can do." - (dot)lizard kelly
"i used to like McCain - at least, the McCain who was a crazy upstart maverick, the one who was beaten in the 2000 primaries by the Rove/Bush machine, the one who went on Jon Stewart and seemed like a decent sort, that McCain. but that McCain was the one who chose to get all Roved-up himself as soon as he had the chance, which is to be expected, but no less sickening. and his choice of VP and his timing could not have been more Rovian, a blatant move to pander to the undecideds and disaffected Clintonistas, no matter how ridiculous it is to put someone with no qualifications for the job of President, one heartbeat away from it. and while i considered the notion that dragging her daughter into this was out of line, i dismissed it with the same logic you did, that when Ma Palin accepted the nomination, she effectively sacrificed any expectation of privacy for all of her children. though i feel sympathy for Bristol, who at the very minimum has just been called "fat" by a bunch of..." - (dot)lizard kelly
"no i absolutely agree with you. it's an important issue, one that (if true) is a very damning indictment of her character, not to mention of the whole religious right hypocrisy over abstinence-only not working an whatnot. and if (has anyone looked up a birth certificate?) there is falsification of identification documents, that could be a federal crime on the part of all who participated. so it's important! it just scares me, the whole backfiring thing. sadly, it's the bloggers and private citizens who must get their hands dirty in such situations, thus exposing themselves to all manner of anger and backlash, and the officials must (like Mission Impossible) "disavow any knowledge of your mission". after the initial fuss on Daily Kos, there were some diaries that were pulled and replaced with apologies. one of the comments, though, had such a good point: what if this was Michelle? do you think Fox and the rightie pundits wouldn't be alllll over this like white on rice? would Hannity..." - (dot)lizard kelly
"my biggest worry on all this speculation, is that it could backfire horribly. i mean, we know this has all the signs of a classic teen pregnancy cover-up, but with only this circumstantial evidence, it's a huge risk. if the embattled Mrs. Palin were to come forward with medical records refuting these allegations, the backlash would be severe, and a terrible public relations disaster. the sympathy that would be afforded Mrs. Palin and Bristol could easily sway a significant portion of the undecideds. i would hope that, as this story spreads across the internet, the Obama/Biden camp should step forward and issue a strongly worded statement condemning those making the allegations. i'm not saying you, or the diarist at Daily Kos, or any of the other hundreds of bloggers out there digging into this deserve condemnation, just that the campaign must make sure to steer clear of any connection. if it is true, then there were a good number of people involved in the coverup, and chances are..." - (dot)lizard kelly
"i could not agree more without spraining something. and it's not just her views on denying women their reproductive rights, supporting oil, and being pro-war -- it's the thought of someone with NO foreign policy experience WHATSOEVER, not even a little bit, being a heartbeat away from having to lead this country and keep us out of World War Three, which you can't tell me isn't looming right here in front of us. North Korea? Russia? Iraq/Iran? Israel/Palestine? And the corruption allegations that have already surfaced in her brief tenure as Governor are very worrisome, as they speak to the kind of cronyism and old-boy networking that has been so disastrous with the current administration. and when you consider the oily company she keeps, i don't even want to think about the back-room deals that would be struck. if McCain would be Bush, continued, McCain/Palin would be Bush squared. the only hope would be that her lack of experience at high-level corruption would prevent her doing too..." - (dot)lizard kelly
apologies for submitting my own lyrics database, especially the main page. however i have just passed the milestone of 800 song lyrics painstakingly collected by me, a few friends, and some friendly strangers, with (where possible) cover art and detailed information (and now, i'm going through adding video!). this is a hand-coded, hand-populated database near & dear to my heart, so i hope it's ok to send this out there to the Stumble world at large ... - (dot)lizard kelly