This will be brief, but we want to get you all on the same page.
We were told today that the Left is making the rounds on various sites like HuffPo, Daily Kos, etc. (all the usual suspects), talking about how great it would be for people to go to Sarah Palin’s book signings and throw eggs, tomatoes, rocks, etc. at her and her family. Our first impulse at this is to say, “Sarah, declare yourself a 2012 candidate already and get Secret Service protection NOW. Dr. Utopia got it earlier than anyone in history, so you should get it early too.”
Then, we hear news that the sickos on the Left are hoping people hit Trig Palin with whatever they are throwing.
**** Deep breathes needed here ****
There are not words in English to relate how angry that makes us. We’d have to use Klingon to convey what we’d want to do to those sickos for even thinking about hurting Trig Palin. You want to see a bunch of laid-back, snarky, low-key gay guys in Chicago morph into the best badass impression of take-no-prisoners Marines, you mess with Trig Palin…or anyone with special needs. It just BOILS OUR BLOOD.
Here in Boystown, we’ve taken some punches for standing up for the Palins. We never look for a fight, but if we’re in a bar or walking down the street and here people saying vile things about the Palins, we will stand up and correct them. We will not let that garbage be said without challenging it. 99% of the time, the people spouting it are just repeating whatever Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann just said on MSNBC, so they whither and back down right quick. But, on two occasions we’ve run into the most hateful Leftists who think it’s funny to make sick David Letterman-grade jokes about an infant with Downs Syndrome.
There’s something our grandmothers used to say that runs through our heads in moments like that: NOT ON OUR WATCH. You will not say such evil things in our presence. You will not spout such hate unanswered. You will not be so cruel to a child without challenge. NOT ON OUR WATCH.
Hell. To. The. No.
Like it or not folks, this is our watch. This is your watch. Our grandmothers had their time, and kicked some Nazi and Communist butt in their day. We, it seems, are tasked with doing the same to Islamofascists and Liberals. We are in the position where everything good about this country is under attack from the Left, and we need to do our part to stop that.
We need to be a vanguard of deceny and American principles. We need to push back against the Daily Kos and HuffPo crowd. We need to hit the David Lettermans, the Chris Matthews, the Keith Olbermanns, and their ilk where it hurts (their advertisers) whenever these sick puppies spit their venom at the Palin children, in particular.
If the Palins or their friends ever read this, you have a bunch of extended big brothers for little Trig here in Chicago. We’ll be field organizers for you in Iowa, too, when the campaign comes to that. We will gladly spend months in the cold gearing up for that Caucus for the Palin family.
Because every attack the Left launches connects us more emotionally to the Palins…we, too, have been under constant attack from the Left since 2007. The DNC has no idea the damage the Left has done to the Democrat Party. Daily Kos and HuffPo are now the face of things, and what an ugly hateful face it is. We honestly can’t relate to these people anymore — not people who think it’s funny or fair game to hope a little baby gets hit by some of the things they are trying to throw at his mother.
BOILS OUR BLOOD.
“Not on our watch” needs to be the collective motto of everyone out there who doesn’t like what the Left is doing to this country under Dr. Utopia. Our grandparents’ generation fought fascists and tyrants. Our parents’ generation stood up to inequality and prejudice. And now we need to stand up to the worst threat we think this country has ever faced.
It’s going to be a hard fight. These loons will not surrender power willingly or without a battle. They are going to use every Alinsky trick in the book. As of next month, we have just two years until the Iowa Caucus.
Dr. Utopia will not get a second term under our watch.
December 9, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Amen, men. And women. Not on our watch. This viciousness has got to stop.
December 9, 2009 at 2:39 pm
So pledged.
Don’t know whether you are religious or not, but Billy Graham recently met with Sarah Palin. (I am sure others here read that as well. It was widely reported.) He said a special prayer for her and her family. He asked God to put a “hedge of protection” around them. Sounds like Trig and Mama Sarah will need it.
Now so prayed.
December 10, 2009 at 12:05 am
Every day
December 9, 2009 at 2:41 pm
This kind of behavior makes me ashamed I was ever a member of the democratic party.
Thank you Hillboys. You guys prove everyday that good, decent, compassionate people are still left in my old party.
December 9, 2009 at 2:41 pm
There has already been a tomato throwing incident at one of Palin’s book signings: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/08/man-tosses-tomato-at-palin-hits-cop/
I read some comments at HuffPo after the story broke and was disgusted (as usual). This is what people see as the face of the Democratic Party. Despite the nasty things said about conservatives I have never seen them behave as badly as liberals.
Here’s a link to an article which is a good analysis of the treatment Palin has received: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_wilding_of_sarah_palin.html
And then there’s that maniac Andrew Sullivan who is obsessed with Palin and Trig. It’s reached a point of truly sick.
December 9, 2009 at 3:25 pm
OT, but important re: Obamamcare
http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/12/09/senate-minority-leader-defends-himself-on-the-dennis-prager-show/#more-31472
December 9, 2009 at 2:45 pm
This makes me so mad I can barely see straight.
December 9, 2009 at 2:46 pm
You’ll notice how Dr. U’s daughters are treated with reverence by the MSM and loons on the left. The trashing of Sarah P’s family last summer was so beyond the bounds of ANYTHING I had ever seen that I couldn’t believe this was happening in my country. All I can say is that these people have hit a new low and if the DNC does not disavow any connection with them they will deserve all the damage that will deservedly come their way.
This the most upsetting thing I have ever heard.
December 9, 2009 at 2:50 pm
This has hit a nerve with me. The idea that people who claim to care about the weak, the sick, the defenseless, would suggest harming a helplesss 20 month old is the most disgusting display of hatred I’ve heard in a long time.
December 9, 2009 at 5:25 pm
And gives the lie to all the nobility of spirit they claim for themselves.
December 9, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I havent commented before but I had to today, your passion for what is right is refreshing and heartening. They cant attack Sarah for where she stands on issues but only on her family, its sickening. You guys keep up the good works and you have a follower in this old southern lady.
December 9, 2009 at 2:57 pm
I Pledge ~ Not On My Watch!
December 9, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Bear something in mind: such things are designed, deliberately, to provoke violence at Palin booksignings to make Sarah’s people look like a bunch of reactionary stormtroopers. The Axis crowd knows exactly what it is doing.
Remember, you can’t be stupid when dealing with the Left. You must be relentless, focused, and on the attack, and never, ever stupid. Understand that such things are thought out by these people in such as way as to make the Palins look bad.
December 9, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I believe that all the people at Sarah’s book signings will do what is neccessary when provoked. And I say too bad what the media says, as it will just show that we will not take their crap any longer.
December 11, 2009 at 12:29 am
I agree that many are trying to deliberately provoke violence. The “right wing violence” narrative continues despite not a shred of evidence. We need to commit to never ever back down and to never be physically violent. It worked for Ghandi, anyway…
December 9, 2009 at 3:00 pm
NOT ON MY WATCH..ever
December 9, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Trust me. Hillary isn’t done by a mile. Reagan was 72 when he took office. Though I am a Republican and a Palin loyalist, I understand and respect Hillary: as Peggy Noonan said of her-”she’s a tough little tank”.
December 9, 2009 at 3:03 pm
What kind of sick person would try to harm a down syndrom baby?
I agree, not on my watch.
December 9, 2009 at 3:15 pm
What kind of sick person would try to harm any baby?
Sadly, many, it seems.
December 9, 2009 at 7:56 pm
As far as the Left is concerned, Trig should have been aborted.
These people are SICK
December 9, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Tamara sums it up. Trig has Downs, a genetic condition, that a lot on the left consider worthy of the death penalty.
You can’t sentence a mass murderer to death, but a kid with an extra chromosome? Lethal injection, stat. They’re almost at their goal; 90% of children diagnosed with Downs prenatally are aborted.
People with Downs are some of the sweetest, most loving people on the planet. They just happen to be different. They need a little extra love and care in return, that’s all.
And I think that’s the problem. For a lot of people on the left – as much as they like to talk about “social justice” and doing for one another – they are all about themselves. Anything and everything that in any way inhibits their personal freedoms or requires self-sacrifice needs to be destroyed.
Including Downs children.
December 10, 2009 at 8:25 am
I hadn’t really thought about it until Sarah and Trig came into the spotlight, but I am drawn to DS children and adults. There’s something about their joy that just pulls me too them, and makes me want to interact.
These people must really hate themselves to be this way. Shameful.
December 9, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Mom and Dad work at a plant in Charleston, Illinois, that employs developmentally disabled people. Dad drives a school bus to pick up the “consumers,” as they are called (don’t know why). And then he works along side them throughout the day, overseeing them, helping them eat, use the restroom, etc. Mom does the same thing, except she doesn’t drive the bus.
This work gives the consumers dignity and purpose. And Mom and Dad have grown to love these very special people, even the ones whose frequent “behaviors” would give Supernanny a run for her money. Mom and Dad treat them as equals; just because the consumers are different from them does not diminish how special the consumers are in God’s sight.
When the Left talks about hurting or disrespecting Trig Palin, he’s hurting all the scores of special people Mom and Dad work with. After reading Sarah Palin’s book, I realize such talk really hurts and disrespects all of us.
We must stop the Left.
December 9, 2009 at 3:10 pm
“We need to be a vanguard of decency and American principles.” You got it brother. Across America on her book tour a lot of people took the time to tell her, “We pray for your protection.” Palin knows people are praying for her and her family, every night. Fifty seven homes were trashed during the campaign of 2008 in Northern Virginia for daring to have McCain-Palin signs on them, ad infinitum. Don’t underestimate these Demopants and their ilk the SEIU. These people are nasty and mean the Palins harm and embarassment. Surround her with your prayers, and if you don’t have good wishes at least wish them no harm. It’s our country folks, not there’s. And that’s right about “On Our Watch”. The Greatest Generation gave their all in a time of great peril to the free world. We are their progeny. What say you? Let’s kick some a$$backwards, you betcha!
December 9, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Count me in. At 61, I’m not much of a badass anymore. But I grew up in Chicago and have a little kick left in me. Not on my watch either!
December 9, 2009 at 3:14 pm
The democraps never disappoint. When you think they have hit bottom, they succeed in sinking even lower. What a collection of losers. But then again, it probably is “progressive” to wish ill on a Down Syndrome baby.
I am actually surprised that we are surprised. The very fact that these people read HuffPo and Kos tells us that they are vile.
Pure and simple.
December 9, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Attacking a Down Syndrome baby is a HATE CRIME in my book.
Why do they hate this little boy so much? Who could possess such a cold black heart?
December 9, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I remember a line from “Shogun” Black-Hearted and Three Faced; i.e. leftist Dems. Many Dem friends are appaled at this Admin. and Congress. Cue handwriting and wall!
December 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Because that beautiful little boy is a constant reminder of the millions of lives that their unconditional support for abortion has destroyed. Also because Sarah Palin not only decided to keep this baby at the cost of great sacrifices to her and her family but also is showing that life is not about “me me me” all the time, again a concept completely foreign to “progressives” who believe that everything in life is owed to them. Because Sarah Palin represents what hard work, family values and dedication can achieve without the constant crutch of unions and the power of the many on the few.
Why are we even remotely surprised that “progressive” people would attack a Down Syndrome little child? Have we learned nothing about these heartless fascists?
December 9, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Exactly! A Down’s baby is a bad thing (should have been aborted).
THAT is how low these folks are.
December 9, 2009 at 3:22 pm
NOT ON MY WATCH!
Not even if it comes from my friends or family members at a holiday dinner.
I am prepared to defend Trig!
(Such B.S. that I have to even THINK like this. But there it is.)
December 9, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Thank you so much for making this stand. I have an amazing 22 yr.old son who has Down Syndrome. We have encountered lots of prejudice in his life (one of the worst was when he was 6 mos. old & a stranger looked at his little angel face & then asked why I hadn’t had an abortion)& I would sure like to see Trig spared from some of that. Isn’t it interesting how the left pretends to care for those w. special needs but when push meets shove, they are shown to be the black hearted liberals they really are.
Also, I appreciate the stand you guys make every day. Thanks for doing what you do.
December 9, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I grew up in a neighbourhood in Melbourne Australia where there was a Downs Syndrome young woman. I loved Patty to bits. In the end she was about 41 when she passed away as a result of some genetic condition.
Patty used to stutter a lot in trying to get out what she wanted to say. Patty had a heart of gold, and everyone in that neighbourhood looked after her.
Patty went to a sheltered workshop. Sometimes she had friends come and stay with her. One of them was named Lyndel. She was another one, who was so very gentle.
These people hate anything that is not perfect. That is why they despise Trig. I remember almost immediately after Sarah became the VP candidate for McCain that the attacks about her son, Trig with Downs Syndrome started. These attacks even came from doctors who were incensed because she refused to have an abortion.
Shame on them because they just do not know the love that these children give to others.
December 9, 2009 at 6:01 pm
“These people hate anything that is not perfect.”
That’s what is so scary about these folks and why the health care debate freaks me out. Who will be the arbiters of those who matter and those who don’t? What group of people do they favor and protect? Only those who are useful?
Years ago I lived in England in a small ‘bed sit’ in a large house. The owners had several children, and one was a 14 yr old boy with Downs. They tried to hide him from me. It was impossible because David was a darling, friendly boy who took a liking to me. He would come home from his school and visit with me in the afternoons. We talked about books, and he showed me his work.
His mother was always apologetic, but I welcomed his company. They were precious moments with a lovely child.
Sarah has principles, and what she’s doing for children (and their parents) with Downs Syndrome is important.
December 9, 2009 at 8:00 pm
But Trig and Patty and Lyndel ARE perfect.
They’re just a different kind of perfect.
And God bless you and your neighbors for looking after those perfect people.
December 9, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Dear Lord, Lori! I can’t believe someone actually asked you that? How did you keep from killing them?
December 9, 2009 at 8:43 pm
KJ, I told her that he was made in God’s image & he was more of a person than she would ever be! Then I decked her! (Just kidding!)
December 9, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I was going to put this under Snow Queen’s comment below, but I thought it just as appropriate here. Like Snow Queen I worked in health care, in my case as a psychiatric nurse. I was in charge of wards with people with Downs Syndrome and they are a joy. That was the feeling of everyone on the ward, not just me. They have so much love to give, and you cannot help but reciprocate. They really are very special people.
December 9, 2009 at 7:11 pm
It is behavior like this (‘you should have aborted’) that causes me to refuse the label ‘pro-choice’ for these people.
IMHO, where human rights are concerned, there should never be any ‘right to privacy’ choices. What two consenting adults do in their bedroom is noone else’s business. But what a big person does to a small person, what a powerful person does to a weak person … these are everyone’s business.
And as you say … NOT on my watch!
The basis of the ‘pro-choice’ position is ‘Might Makes Right’ and that is WRONG wherever it happens. Slavery is wrong. Domestic violence is wrong. Etc. etc … name your ‘hate crime’ … they’re wrong. Yet I heard a 3-abortion veteran tell an interviewer, ‘I don’t care if my abortions were right or wrong. They were legal.’ Who cares if killing an unborn human being … your OWN CHILD … is WRONG? What is the matter with people like this?
How do Leftists absolutely defend the right of convicted death-penalty felons to taxpayer-funded representation and a lengthy appeals process yet deny any representation whatsoever to the unborn? And why is it that convicted criminals must be put to death painlessly when the unborn are literally ripped apart without so much as an anesthetic?
If these people are so pro-CHOICE, then where are they when the rights of a woman to NOT abort are at stake? I have been following this movement since Roe v. Wade passed and I can assure you … pro-’CHOICERS’ are NOT the ones defending women who have been permanently damaged or murdered by sloppy legal abortionists.
If Leftists are so concerned for ‘women’s rights’, then why are they NOT the ones representing women who have been raped and sodomized by abortionists DURING their abortions? Why are the NOT the ones crying foul about gender selection abortions that almost exclusively target females.
Pro-life lawyers do all this work. And it’s an uphill battle all the way.
When abortionist George Tiller was shot to death, pro-’choicers’ went ballistic. A few months later, when Jim Poullion — a long-time, peaceful, pro-life protester — was shot to death, these same pro-’choice’ defenders of free speech and diversity totally ignored it.
Within hours of Tiller’s murder, Obama expressed his deep outrage; he never said a word about Jim.
The media made a big deal about how Tiller was shot outside his own church. They barely reported on Jim’s death, certainly not making any point of the fact that the shooter put three bullet holes through the big sign Jim was holding … a photo of a beautiful little baby and the word LIFE.
And the few media that did report Jim’s death chose to illustrate the story with a photo of him arguing with someone who had gotten in his face for defending the rights of the unborn. The photo had been taken from below so, in it, Jim looks like a big, bad fanatic verbally assaulting a small, righteous defender of women’s rights.
The media did not use any of the photos of Jim sitting quietly in his lawn chair while tethered to his oxygen tank.
Jim was both disabled and a senior citizen. He scrupulously obeyed the laws about public protesting and was known by his family, friends and colleagues in the movement as a very peaceful, loving man. He was well-known in the community as ‘the sign guy’ and the local police said he never gave them any trouble.
After Tiller’s murder, Obama sent U.S. Marshalls out to protect abortion clinics from all the ‘violent’ pro-lifers who ‘choicers’ were sure would be emboldened by Tiller’s murder to run out and gun down a baby killer. We didn’t cuz … you know … we’re pro-LIFE.
Lefties ignored the fact that the guy who shot Tiller had a history of violence and mental illness but NO history of activity with any organized pro-life group.
And they will never admit that the pro-life movement is the most peaceful civil rights movement in HISTORY. I personally checked the ‘homicides in U.S. workplaces’ statistics. According to the FBI, it is more dangerous to be an architect than it is to be an abortionist.
And who exactly are ‘choicers’ worried would do the supposedly lethal (and mythical) ‘coat hanger’ abortions if abortion were out-lawed? Not pro-lifers. We don’t DO abortions. Duh.
Pro-aborts threw around huge numbers (25,000 per year is a common one) of women who were supposedly slaughtered in “back alley” abortions, but it’s all a lie. The last year abortion was illegal, the CDC reports that fewer than 300 women died in the whole country from complications following an illegal abortion.
The fact is that the only really safe abortion (for the mother … none of them are safe for the baby) is an ILLEGAL one. When abortion was a felony, the doctors … and they were DOCTORS … who did abortions were excruciatingly CAREFUL lest they maim or kill a patient and get their butts tossed in jail.
Now? They have oodles of money and political protection, so they can maim and slaughter as they please. Pro-lifers have a really uphill battle even getting a D.A. to accept a case that would make an abortionist look bad. Getting a conviction is another uphill battle.
Last year, Tiller was tried on 19 counts of violating Kansas abortion laws regarding late term abortions. He’d done it. They proved he’d done it. But the jury went for Tiller’s “victim” defense — i.e., “Poor me, I have to put up with whackos carrying signs every day as I drive to and from work that has made me filthy rich” — and acquitted him.
Tiller’s specialty was ultra-late-term abortions. Never mind the hundreds of VIABLE, HEALTHY babies he slaughtered. He killed women too. But he never came to trial, because Kathleen Sebelius is a personal friend and used her power as Governor to personally protect him.
Doesn’t it give you a warm fuzzy feeling to know that, if ObamaCare passes, Sebelius will be the person deciding who amongst us is deserving of how much and what kind of health care?
There is a case now where a woman changed her mind about the abortion after she was on the table. Rather than lose the income, the doctor had his assistants forcibly hold the screaming woman down while he ripped her unborn child from her womb. Is the ACLU defending her? Nope. Pro-lifers are helping her sue.
The pro-life organization Life Dynamics has PROOF that Planned Parenthood actively protects pedophiles, but Life Dynamics can’t even get anyone to LOOK at their evidence. Where’s the public outrage? Why is it that only pro-lifers care?
My niece once told me, ‘Who cares if abortion is legal? People will do it anyway.’ With that mentality, why prosecute rapists? Why get upset about gangs beating up defenseless individuals because they don’t like their color or age or politics or weight or dress or religion or sexual orientation or whatEVER ELSE they manage to come up with to be hateful about?
If might makes right, then why have any laws at all? Just let the law of the jungle rule. Survival of the fittest. If you can’t defend yourself, good riddance.
For a born person, heartbeat and brain waves are used as legal signs of life and the loss of them are legal signs of death. Fingerprints and DNA are legal, proof-positive identifiers of not just humanity, but also individuality. Inflicting pain on terrorists is morally repugnant and executing people who have committed heinous crimes must be done as painlessly as possible. Yet we allow unique, living human beings to be brutally and painfully executed simply for being inconvenient and young.
An unborn human being has all the DNA it will ever have from the moment of conception. Since pregnancy is counted from the date of the first missed period, the number of weeks since conception is always two weeks more than the number of weeks pregnant. A woman isn’t late enough to be tested for pregnancy until a week after her missed period by which time that little human inside her is three weeks old.
By the time she is just four weeks pregnant — only one month past her first missed period — her unborn child will have a beating heart and detectable brain waves.
By the tenth week of pregnancy (twelve weeks after conception), her unborn baby will have grown its own, unique and complete set of functioning body systems. He or she will have unique fingerprints. He or she will be able to squint, swallow, kick, make a fist and suck a thumb and be sensitive to heat, touch, light and noise.
How exactly is it that progressives can be in high dudgeon over hate crimes against black and gay human beings while defending hate crimes against unborn human beings?
For that matter, if you defend ANY hate crime against ANY segment of the human population, on what basis do you defend the concept of human rights at all?
In the entire history of the civil rights movement in America, abortion is the ONLY case where an entire segment of our population was DEPRIVED of legal rights that it had previously enjoyed.
Before the ‘great civil rights achievement’ of Roe v. Wade, unborn Americans were defined as “persons” under the law and enjoyed all the protections that blacks and women had fought so hard to gain. Now, they are defined as property.
And the Left calls this progress.
December 10, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Chrissy, that was beautiful. I know you said this yesterday and I’m just reading it now, but nonetheless it inspired me. Thank you for your insight.
December 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm
The left can not have had any experience with down syndrome folks. I worked in health care for 38 years and met quite a few. They are gentle souls. Most of them would greet me with a smile and hug me before they left. (This was in dental offices!!) The extreme lefties who wish to do harm to Trig are truly displaying their extreme ignorance and lack of humanity. I think so many of the down syndrome children have been aborted that many people have no experience with them. One vile act leads to more vile acts.
I too pray a hedge of protecion for the Palins and God help us all.
December 9, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Thank-you guys for putting this message out. I agree with 100% on this. God bless.
December 9, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I seem to recall a tv show about 20 years ago with a Down’s teenager. Patti Lupone played the mother. Was their supposed tolerance a fad? Guess so.
I would like to hear from that boy today. He would be about 30 today.
December 10, 2009 at 7:08 pm
His name is Chris Burke – wonderful young man. The name of the show was “Life Goes On”.
December 9, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Papa J – the Hillboyz are only in their early 30s. Give them time.
December 9, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Panda is like 36. We love to note that. He claims Gaysians don’t age past 29 though, but he also claims there are raccoons in his walls plotting against him and eating his roommates Lucerne yogurt.
December 9, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Oh yeah!! They have picked up the torch from those like us (70 tmorw 12/10) and are shining the good light!!
December 9, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Was reply to Calif. Granny
December 9, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Happy Birthday, you feisty Sagittarian!
Wishing you all your heart’s desires…and many more birthdays. Remember: seventy is the new sixty! :)
December 9, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Have a wonderful Birthday PapaJoe!
December 9, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Grazie, a tutti! My B-Day wish; 2012 Palin POTUS, Bachmann Speaker.
December 10, 2009 at 12:01 am
We will try are hardest to make it happen for you PapaJoe. Happy Birthday
December 10, 2009 at 1:14 am
“2012 Palin POTUS, Bachmann Speaker”
YES!
Happy Birthday, PapaJoe.
December 9, 2009 at 3:39 pm
No way, no how will any of the Palins be attacked in my presense! Especially not Trig.
December 9, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I agree with the above sentiments, and just wanted to provide you a link to an example of the ridiculousness out there: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/08/joy-behar-andrew-sullivan-trig-really-sarah-palins-baby
I cannot fathom how this is anything but hateful and hurtful though people like Joy Behar and Andrew Sullivan people claim to be enlightened and sensitive. As for Andrew Sullivan – he’s never been pregnant and never had a baby, so what does he know about being in labor? I have friends who have been in labor with contractions for DAYS, going to the hospital multiple times before the doctors finally delivered the baby. One woman I know was in labor for multiple WEEKS. It’s possible. Just because you don’t think it makes sense, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t have happened, and MAYBE when you talk about the media doing research and investigating, the first thing you should do is do research on childbirth and labor. A woman who has safely delivered 4 children should not be questioned about how she delivered the 5th, when he comes out healthy and fine. Trig’s down syndrome has nothing to do with how he was delivered (um, a little thing called science has taught us that).
December 9, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I find Sullivan mystifying. Maybe someone can enlighten me. He has such a hate on for Palin that it is not only shocking, it’s degrading for him.
With all that gays have endured one would think that it would engender compassion rather than this sort of vitriol toward a woman and her child. Palin has every right, like any American, to be out there voicing her opinions. Sullivan can’t grasp that.
He’s like the ~~real~~ birther nut. And Palin actually has a BC to produce! lol
Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
December 9, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Yes, with my second son, I slept on it for a week…. and then went to hospital via public transport… no kidding… I was put into hospital during the clinic visit because the professor examined me that day and he felt the contraction…. never say no to having students in the room… it is enlightening.
You are right though, Downs Syndrome is due to a male chromosome thing. I have known that for in excess of 40 years.
December 9, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I would really love to know how much Andrew Sullivan paid for the crack he is obviously smoking! If you take out the name “Palin” in most of his interview and insert “Obama” it actually makes sense, but otherwise it is totally incoherent. Since when did the media not investigate Sarah Palin? They were going through her garbage and harrassing everyone she ever breathed near in Alaska before the election (and since). And the only person that was put on a national ticket without being fully vetted is currently sitting in the oval office.
His assertions that “no one behaves that way” regarding her larbor/delivery is assainine. Until he grows a uterus he needs to shut his pie hole. Just because the flight attendents didn’t realize she was pregnant doesn’t mean she wasn’t. She’s naturally very slim and if she was dressing in a way that didn’t advertise her pregnancy they probably didn’t even notice.
It just astounds me that he thinks THIS is what is the most important issue that should have been raised regarding the candidates during the election. Making sure that the guy running for president on the Democrat ticket was an actual citizen, or that he had actual qualifications or that he wasn’t in bed with half the criminal element in Chicago that all pales in comparison I guess. What a complete tool this guys is.
December 9, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Grrrrrr, mama bear is not OK with this information. I pity the fool that tries that on my watch!!!!!
I lurk on the Daily Kos regularly although I have pretty much decided that if you have to have a passport and shots to visit there so that you don’t catch God knows what, it isn’t worth it.
December 9, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I think of them as the Daily Kooks.
December 9, 2009 at 4:06 pm
When our Hillbuzz Boyz get their picture taken with Sarah (and hopefully the rest of the Palin brood), they better post it here so I can copy it and hang it on my family room wall.
It’s very disturbing that now not only are women, homosexuals, blacks and hispanics who aren’t liberal are considered “fair game” for heinous liberal attacks, but now the disabled are as well.
Why do I have this feeling that if George HW Bush was in the political arena now, these less-than-human people would be slandering their daughter that died and casting blame on George and Barbara.
December 9, 2009 at 4:09 pm
KJA -
We never thought of that, but they probably would. Or they would claim that Barbara is really Poppy’s mother and that they were committing incest. These Liberals are so deranged. Have never seen anything like it.
December 9, 2009 at 5:31 pm
They did use slander, but against the parents – saying that Barbara was cold to her less than perfect, dying daughter.
But given the observable behavior of these raving maniacs – I’d say that accusing others of being hateful is a case of the defense mechanism of projecting their own disowned and unclaimed personal flaws upon others.
December 9, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Guys-How much lower can you go than to pick on a baby, do these lunatics support child abuse also? and “throw eggs, tomatoes, rocks, etc. at her and her family.” you don’t throw anything at anybody, why-because you might hurt them-in some cases badly-to hope it connects to a poor defenseless baby-the worst of the worst. I’m a registered Democrat-also a Hillary supporter, this fringe element of the Democratic party are Nazis and very very sick people who may take the DNC places it has never been before like out of business I hope and pray. Maybe we should report these nit-wits to Eunice Kennedy Shrivers Special Olympics people so that they can see the monsters are out and on the loose again.
December 9, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Can we pass the links for these sick posts to, e.g., Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter (if she’s e-mailable), Greta, etc.? We really need to expose these libturds to the world.
December 9, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Not. On. My. Watch.
December 9, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Please, dear Lord, tell me this is just an unsubstantiated rumor, or people blathering on about nothing and not really meaning it. What horrible, horrible things to say about anyone, even more so about the very decent Palins.
I absolutely cannot understand this kind of hatred and viciousness.
December 9, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Disgusting. Repugnant. Repulsive. No way. Hope! Change! Compassion! Uh-huh.
-mom to a special needs child
December 9, 2009 at 4:38 pm
If they throw things at sweet, little Trig Palin, does that count as a hate crime? Can these animals be sent to Guantanamo?
December 9, 2009 at 4:41 pm
If they’ll go after Trig now because he and his mom are inconvenient, they’ll come after me some day because I am gay and am not a Lib.
Hillbuzz is right. We have to stand in the gap.
December 9, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Exactly. There will always be a reason for them to come after whoever they want to destroy next.
December 9, 2009 at 4:47 pm
On any particular site are these hateful suggestions verifiable? I’m so far unable to find a site specifically calling for such vicious behavior … apparently I don’t know where to look. You’d think that suggesting such antics might get you a lot of unwanted attention from law enforcement.
December 9, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Count me in!
Not on my watch
December 9, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I pray every night for Sarah and her families safety. If they hurt ONE hair on Sarah or her children’s heads, I will personally kick their ass. I may be short but I am a force to be reckoned with(especially when I have my baseball bat) I will smash their damn brains in if they do ANYTHING to Sarah or her children. These people, they are NOT people, they are empty headed braindead morons. Absolutely disgusting
December 9, 2009 at 5:28 pm
God Bless you guys. I’m a nobody, living in the midwest. Of my five, two are considered special. They are fantastic, as are the rest. Whether people agree with or disagree with the Palins, they seem to be very decent people. I applaud you, and your sense of decency. Others pay lip service to it, you have acted on it.
December 9, 2009 at 5:35 pm
SCREEN CAPTURE IT..someone please go there and screen capture the threat to Trig and Sarah so that this can be sent to the FBI, there should be criminal charges filed. Do this before its removed from their site
December 9, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Yes guys – we’ve got to defend what’s good and innocent.
So then – For Truth, Justice and the American Way.
December 9, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Have I fallen down the rabbit hole? Today, the left wing champions the terrorists at Gitmo, and demands that they be treated with cashmere gloves. Yet, in the same breath, they delight in the idea of stoning a helpless baby, because the mother is a Conservative who believes in freedom. The Barbarians are not just at the Gate—-they have been living inside the country all along, like a vile mold, hiding behind walls.
December 9, 2009 at 8:33 pm
“vile mold, hiding behind walls”
What an apt description!
December 9, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Not on my watch either.
There is no greater fury than a mother’s when a child is threatened. Even if it’s not her own.
December 9, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Somehow, this doesn’t surprise me. DK and HuffPo are cesspools. I remember reading a post on DK in the week before the PA primary. One of the posters wrote that he hoped someone would kidnap Hillary, slash her throat and throw her body off a bridge into the Allegheny River. I never, ever went back to DK again.
The liberal left is FULL of haters. They hate Republicans, conservatives, women, poor people (except for poor blacks – they vote Dem), senior citizens, gays, stay-at-home moms, middle class Mid-America (Fly-Over Country), NRA members, the military, the police, Christians, Mormons, Jews (but the Jews don’t realize this…), scientists who do REAL research, NASCAR fans (rednecks), people who attend state colleges (also rednecks), pro-life people (Bible-thumping rednecks), anybody who doesn’t contribute to PBS and/or NPR (Uncultured rednecks), the handicapped (they want their parking spaces…), anyone who eats meat, anyone who wears leather, anyone who doesn’t drive a Prius, plumbers, carpenters and other tradesmen, and teachers. Did I forget anyone?
December 9, 2009 at 6:36 pm
LOL! I actually posted a similar list on FB (a group of us did as a game about Intolerant Libs) some AHole had the nerve to post “I you loved the troops, you wouldn’t lie about your fellow Americans like that”.
Liberals are the uber haters.
December 9, 2009 at 8:34 pm
You forgot PUMAS and people who are prone to make sacrifices for others.
When uber-Lib so-called progressives see goodhearted people, it reminds them of what selfish hypocritical scum they themselves are. Thus, the hatred.
December 9, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I remember in October 2008 when Trig was an elephant for his first Halloween, and hateful Palin-bashers were saying things like “they dressed the retard baby like Dumbo.” I truly think that these are the sort of people who end up in hell. To be so absolutely vicious about someone’s mentally retarded baby makes you lower than dirt.
I’m very sensitive about leftist disdain for people they consider “mentally defective,” because while I’m not mentally retarded and neither is anyone in my family, I’ve had depression for over half of my relatively short life and know that they’d probably be equally cruel about people with mental illness if they thought they could get away with it. Trig is their equal in the eyes of God and the eyes of the principles this country was founded on.
December 9, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I’ve also suffered bouts of depression throughout my life, so my heart goes out to you. It has nothing to do with mental illness and everything to do with chemical imbalances, often caused by a series of emotionally traumatic experiences (illness/death of a loved one, divorce, etc.). I hope you’ve found the methods that work to restore your balance.
About the hypocrites on the uber-Left: depression is acceptable to them only if they can stick some idiotic romantic veneer on it, a la Sylvia Plath.
Stupid bastards, every one of them.
December 9, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Anyone who would even joke about this is pond scum in my eyes. The whole Trig drama/debacle is unethical and morally bereft.
I’ve never stood by and watched any vulnerable person be verbally victimized, and I’m not going to start now.
December 9, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Makes you just want to vomit. Attacking a poor defenseless child with a disability.
Take a long minute, I mean really think about what I am about to write. There is a pattern:
1) Stripping Medicare=Old and disable people won’t get the care they earned and deserved. That is taking from the old and infirmed.
2) Stimulus spending that puts are children into such financial debt, they can’t be free, and will be at risk. That is taking from children.
So, what the liberals and Obama stand for is attacking the Old, Infirmed, and the Children. Where does the money they steal go…….You guessed it right into their political cronies back pockets….because it is really a “spending bill”.
Taking from the children, the elderly, the infirmed to pay off your friends and political allies. Can anybody identify who the criminals are yet?
December 10, 2009 at 1:08 am
Pete, you nailed it. The liberal platform is compassion for the “victim”; however, all they offer is the ILLUSION of compassion while they steal our wealth and freedoms.
December 10, 2009 at 10:59 pm
TXMom,
THX for the support, your are very correct. This is about “IllUSION of compassion”, not real compassion. The author’s of this blog have real integrity and compassion. Hero’s go were others fear to tread.
December 9, 2009 at 6:58 pm
in 1967, ronald reagan signed the THERAPEUTIC ABORTION act that legalized abortions for the first time in modern western history. well before roe/wade. A REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE made possible lethal and legal assaults on many “undesireable pregnancies”.
trig is innocent and should be protected.
but PALIN IS JUST ANOTHER POLITICIAN
December 10, 2009 at 2:57 am
You are absolutely right. President Ronald Reagan did sign the Therapeutic Abortion Act in 1967.
Thank you for reminding us what a courageous leader he was. After he recognized the consequences of what he had done, he announced that he was pro-life. He maintained that position throughout his career and wrote extensively about abortion.
It takes a strong, principled man to consider both sides, recognize his errors, admit it and change.
http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/adamantly_pro_choice_ronald_reagan_and_abortion_in_19
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2RmNWRlYmIwMDc5ZjkzZTViMzBiYjc3ZDYyZTc4YTg=
December 9, 2009 at 7:20 pm
The tomato-throwing incident happened here in my home state of Minnesota and it made me sick. I apolgize on behalf of my state. I hope the SOB who did it–and instead hit a police officer–is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
December 9, 2009 at 7:25 pm
NOT.ON.MY.WATCH. NO.WAY NO.HOW. Pray for her and her family everyday.
OT, but speaking of Sarah….her op-ed on Climate-Gate ran in WaPo this a.m. Al Gore dismissed her by saying she was denier. She responded back on her Facebook. Alfonse was Cuda’d.
“The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a “denier” and informs us that climate change is “a principle in physics. It’s like gravity. It exists.”
Perhaps he’s right. Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.
However, he’s wrong in calling me a “denier.” As I noted in my op-ed above and in my original Facebook post on Climategate, I have never denied the existence of climate change. I just don’t think we can primarily blame man’s activities for the earth’s cyclical weather changes.
Former Vice President Gore also claimed today that the scientific community has worked on this issue for 20 years, and therefore it is settled science. Well, the Climategate scandal involves the leading experts in this field, and if Climategate is proof of the larger method used over the past 20 years, then Vice President Gore seriously needs to consider that their findings are flawed, falsified, or inconclusive.”
December 9, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Andrew Sullivan is a self loathing twit. I have known many Down Syndrome people in my years and they are to the tee, wonderful and truly inspiring. Anyone that picks on the weak is in my mind evil and only exposes themselves as such.
Good on you guys for running such a great site.
December 9, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I took a look see over at HuffPo…my, my, my. The mods must have been working overtime.
On the Palin ‘Tomato’ thread the comments are down to the 50s now…with regular posters lamenting the difficulties (due to zots) that they are having posting. Somebody got busy and spent the afternoon hitting ‘delete.’ Did anyone get a screen capture?
I think, as noted on the Bush Library thread (where the Boyz had the screen cap…before it got scrubbed of the ‘white people’ comment) we all need to brush up on ‘how to’ do a capture so we can document this.
This isn’t politics or a differing of opinions. Its a cultural warfare against everything good and innocent in the name of some zealots hyped up on their idolitry of all things ‘left.’
On the plus side…if they are this unwrapped, unwound, (and apparently unmedicated) this far from the 2012 elections by a woman who hasn’t even declared her candidacy…well, Gov. Palin must be scaring the crap out of them.
December 9, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I hope someone did screen capture it because it is a crime to instigate others to commit a crime
December 10, 2009 at 4:17 am
Mary,
To capture a screen shot, press Ctrl & Print screen. Open Windows word, Right click then click Paste. Save the word document with whatever name you want. There you have it.
December 10, 2009 at 12:25 pm
If you have Adobe Acrobat, you can save it in PDF form, which might be preferable. Do the same Ctrl + Print Screen, then go to Acrobat, click File > Create PDF > From Clipboard Image.
December 10, 2009 at 10:01 am
Screen Capture tools for Windows..
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturefree/Free_Screen_Capture_Tools_for_Windows.htm
Screen Capture for Mac..
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscreenshot.htm
Go forth and capture….
December 9, 2009 at 7:55 pm
I love your blog and I have sent you a donation. Keep up the good work (and words).
December 9, 2009 at 8:49 pm
this is disgusting!
I am embarassed to call myself even a EX-DEMOCRAT now! I am so glad I have left that party this year.
these radical america-hating lunatics are now the face of the Undemocratic party!
To go after an innocent little baby like Trig Palin?? I have no words for the disgust I feel towards these democrats!
December 9, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I’m in, NOT ON MY WATCH. What kind of person in their right mind can say that this is acceptable behavior? Throwing eggs, tomatoes and rocks? This is the party of tolerance and acceptance? They don’t seem to tolerate or accept anything that disagrees with their sick minds. I wish I would run into one of these thugs, I would seriously beat the snot out of them! Rock on HillBuzz!
December 9, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I gotta a question. Was the Undemocratic Party always like this? Maybe b/c I didn’t like Bush before, I never saw party as this rabid lunatic radical bunch?
or maybe its that they have now taken over the party and pushing out all the moderate and conservative and centerists out of the party??
December 9, 2009 at 11:22 pm
I do not think the Democrat party was always like this…….when I was growing up – my dad was Democrat – this would be from 50′s thru 70′s. It was not like this. But now — as I noted – I am extremely sorry I ever voted Democrat and with how women have been treated by this so called party anyway—– no thanks.
December 9, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Happy Birthday PapaJoe (a day earlier).
December 9, 2009 at 9:22 pm
for these people to threaten a child – that is a hate crime that deserves its own category and maximum jail time. un be lieva ble…………………I am ashamed that I have EVER voted for a DEMOCRAT.
December 10, 2009 at 1:06 am
Didn’t the Lord say what you do to a child,You do on to me.
December 9, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Happy B-Day PapaJoe!!!
You don’t post a day over 39!!!
;) MQ-C
December 9, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Thank goodness for your web site. It is a joy to read your intelligent insight to what is happening in our country. Hillary would have been a greater president that what we now have, and many people now see that President Bush is missed. You have a talent for writing clearly what so many of the silent majority are feeling.
Not On My Watch is so compelling! Please keep up the good work. Go Sarah, RUN
December 9, 2009 at 10:12 pm
As a special needs baby myself (born with Severe Tourette’s Syndrome which is now mild to moderate thanks to heavy medication), you’ve got me on the team. Anyone on EITHER side who smears that defenseless little baby is going to get a verbal fist right to the sternum.
December 10, 2009 at 1:02 am
You have my word. No one will ever insult that baby [or anyone with special needs] in my presence and get away with it. No, sir.
December 10, 2009 at 1:06 am
Happy birthday, PapaJoe :]
December 10, 2009 at 1:36 am
I’m in for sticking up for Trig Palin.
I’ve noted in a post or two at my place, and in a comment last year at Camille Paglia’s column, that Down syndrome embryos are the boogey fetuses that pro-choice advocates use to scare women into supporting abortion and donating money. It’s their most effective fundraising tool. So they really are seeing their empires come crashing down and their income stream drying up when Sarah Palin takes the fear out of raising a Down syndrome child.
I am pro-choice but the right argument in favor of choice is that women who cannot abort a child they don’t want will be turned into baby-making property by churches or tyrants and let’s work together to make abortion safe and rare.
December 10, 2009 at 10:06 am
There is such a thing as birth control. Women who “don’t want” a child have plenty of ways to prevent getting pregnant.
Abortion is the taking of human life without due process or consent.
December 10, 2009 at 10:43 am
The right argument is that if you have parts that can make a baby, you take responsibility ENTIRELY for your body to keep that from happening if you don’t want children. To make childbearing YOUR choice. You take sex seriously with regards to it’s original intent.
People’s bodies in youth are absolutely primed to make babies. Survival of the species is paramount, physiologically speaking. Regardless of what the intellect of the person attached to that body wants, the body is not governed by the head unless the head makes concious choices in that regard.
Our children need to be taught that they are completely in control of this. That their bodies will make babies and to stand in the way of that until such time they are ready to be parents.
I’m for ‘cut the crap, sex education’. Cut out the fantasy. Cut out the ‘it’s beyond your control’ BS. Cut out ‘they’re gonna do it anyway’. Just plain cut the crap.
It is absolutely positively possible to quantify the risks of sexual activity in such a way that someone gets a REALISTIC view as to their odds.
Birth control, the best that you can swing, every time. But also the knowledge that you’re a baby making machine, statistically and that if you do it, you can be a parent. And to not do it, unless you can assume the inherent risks.
You do not depend upon your partner to do the right thing. You depend upon you. If you cannot assume any risk at all, then don’t have sex.
The laws of physics, biology, physiology and reproduction are not subject to democratic mandate. They is what they is.
And to quote Dr Phil, if ya can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch (gah, I hate that but he’s right). If you’re not ready to assume the risk, don’t engage in risky behavior.
The time to close the barn door is before it’s stolen.
So to me, the whole ‘religious tyrant’ thing is just propaganda. I’m not religious, and the above is my view.
You want rare abortion, here’s the solution. Total and complete assumption of responsibility by those in the sack.
‘Oh it’s hard.’ (So what.)
Oh it takes forethought. (Most things that are successful do.)
Oh it ruins the spontaneity. (I don’t care.)
I was drunk. (Don’t make big decisions drunk.)
I was tired. (Cry me a river.)
I can’t afford it. (Budget better. Besides there are plenty of organizations that provide free BC for low income folks.)
Shall I go on? Naw.
December 10, 2009 at 10:52 am
I’ve worked 30 years in Healthcare, most of it in low income, NFP etc jobs, some government (as in WIC, Health Department etc).
I can count on one hand the number of females I’ve met who either
a. Didn’t know how getting pregnant worked (just one very very sheltered, naive girl).
b. Didn’t have control over how they got pregnant (rape-incest-molestation-abusive relationship) ALL of those chose to bring the child to term (ironic ain’t it?)
Most of the females we cared for, counseled and
yes, most of the ones I worked with who were single moms, KNEW what they were doing. KNEW how they got pregnant, knew when it was happening “This isn’t a good idea.”
BC is cheap if not free. Personal responsibility is rare and priceless.
December 10, 2009 at 11:09 am
One more thing..
“let’s work together to make abortion safe and rare.”
Safe for whom, exactly?
December 10, 2009 at 2:48 am
When the tomato-throwing incident was reported, my first thought was ‘OMG, they could have hit Trig or one of other children!’ I will admit that my immediate fury was replaced with smug satisfaction when I found out that he missed and hit a police officer instead.
I hope that anyone who attempts such evil is rewarded in the same manner. It’s pretty apparent to me that all those prayers are paying off. Can’t you just see Trig and Sarah’s Guardian Angel batting that tomato into the face of the police office?
December 10, 2009 at 10:46 am
I hate to admit it but I was laughing when I found out that the idiot hit a police officer and was being charged with assault.
Totally poetic.
Hit that kid and my brain is going to explode. Hate that woman’s politics? Fine. But chucking something that could hit a kid, or actually discussing the idea that it’s okay to hit a kid (let alone anyone else) and that makes you pond scum.
December 10, 2009 at 3:05 am
Attacking a baby and his mother because the baby is “different” due to Downs? Yeah, that’s a special kind of sick.
BTW, researchers are studying people with Downs Syndrome because they don’t get most kinds of cancer. Huh. Imagine that. And here we are living in a culture where it’s considered wrong to “allow” these “defective” humans to live. So babies with Downs are snuffed out because they are simply a “burden on society” and can’t possibly have any “quality” of life and are “defective.” yet all along their genes have held the key to inhibiting cancers for all the rest of us.
And we’re killing them off.
Seems like there’s some real poetic justice in that, no?
December 10, 2009 at 7:25 pm
They have also known for decades that the brains of people with DS have the plaques and tangles that are almost identical to those of people with Alzheimer’s. That is why it takes them so long to learn things – their brains have to keep making new pathways because their synapses keep getting shut off.
They are also finding out that people with DS have a 1-in-8 chance of developing Celiac Disease in their lifetime (for “normal” people, it is 1-in-133). One of the conditions seen in higher frequency in people with undiagnosed Celiac Disease? Alzheimer’s Disease…..
Our local DS support group recommends that ALL people with DS get tested for CD on a semi-annual basis, because the effects of gluten (CD is caused by gluten intolerance) are cumulative. The current national recommendation is a test at 3 years of age, and no other testing unless they show symptoms – and most people with CD DON’T show symptoms!
Yes, people with DS are an invaluable source for medical research. I always tell people that a kid with Down syndrome saved my life, because if it hadn’t been for our youngest daughter, I never would have known that I, too, have Celiac Disease, and have probably had it most of my life.
Incidentally, our daughter’s cognitive abilities have greatly improved since going on a gluten-free diet 18 months ago; we think that it has helped slow the progress of plaque and tangle development!
December 10, 2009 at 10:25 am
I’m not into design but what about a T-shirt:
Front: Not.On.My.Watch
Back: Trig’s Mama 2012
December 10, 2009 at 10:26 am
I LIKE that!
December 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Ron Paul as VP?
2012 Palin POTUS, Bachmann Speaker”
YES!
December 10, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I wish I designed T-shirts…..this would be a money-maker:
Front: Not.On.MY.Watch
Back: Trig’s Mama 2012
December 10, 2009 at 3:17 pm
CafePress honey.
December 10, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Thanks for Posting this, guys! Very Important to get the word out on this. I have tweeted and commented it around. I’m from Chicago too…thanks for standing up the the Innocents. The left becomes more vile every single day. God Bless America, You, and Sarah and Her Family. NOT ON OUR WATCH, indeed. Take Care.
December 10, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Hi Boyz -
I have been reading your blog for awhile & enjoying it immensely.Thank you for taking a strong stand against this evil. Something Jesus said about a millstone comes to mind…
I am amazed at Sarah’s strength & resiliency. I’ve been praying for protection for all the Palins for awhile now. God bless you all as you fight for what is right. I believe America will prevail!
Susan
December 10, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Papa Joe, yer jest a baby. I’ll be 72 on December 27.
Welcome to the Septuagenarian Club.
I’ll be keepin’ the Palin’s in my prayers, too.
December 10, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Happy Birthday, Papa Joe!
Boyz, as the parent of a child with Down syndrome, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for your lovely post.
I’ve always told my kids that you stand up for what is right (“Always speak the truth, even if your voice is shaking”) – those who are doing wrong will ALWAYS back down eventually. When right is on your side, it is much easier to stare down someone who is doing wrong.
I am sure that I have embarassed my kids in the past, but they have since grown up, and they actually admire what I did “way back when” – and believe me, they always told their friends, “You don’t wanna mess with our momma!”. I never had to get physical with anyone, because I just wouldn’t let them get away with doing something that was wrong (the “momma stare” has always been VERY effective!).
Sometimes, all it takes is just STANDING there – if people know they aren’t supposed to be doing something, they will generally just walk away and go somewhere else where no one will call them on their behavior.
That’s what is needed here – I am convinced that there are a LOT of people who are willing to stand up and say “Not on my watch” – and Sarah is the person at the head of that group.
That’s why the Far Left is so scared of her – she sees them for what they really are, and because of her fearlessness, more and more people are feeling comfortable expressing what they have always felt.
Shine a light on the cockroaches, and they will always scurry back into the cracks and crevices they came from…..
December 10, 2009 at 7:47 pm
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December 10, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I so enjoy your blog….Is it time for another donation?…..Hope all your fans are helping you with a nice Christmas present.
Thanks for standing for Trig.
December 10, 2009 at 8:43 pm
God, I love you guys. Thank you.
Not on my watch.
December 10, 2009 at 9:59 pm
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