The Catspiracy in Outer Space
In order to return to the Moon in the 20’s NASA will need approximately a $3 billion a year increase in their budget (roughly 3% of the money given to bailout banks who made really bad investments).
If NASA doesn’t continue to push space development this will give the Tigger an advantage in her quest to rule the world.
It is well known that cats are practicing how to work in zero-gee, that’s what all the acrobatic leaps are for.
Soon they will develop their own space program.
Catronaut
Without strong competition from NASA these Catronauts, (As well as China and India) will continue to advance in space exploration and set up a base on the Moon before NASA can.
The Moon has abundant supplies of He3 to power fusion reactors, believed to be the key element in the next energy revolution.
With the Catronauts controlling the supply of He3 (Along with China and India) the US will be dependent on them for its future energy needs.
In the next half of the century who ever controls the He3 deposits on the Moon will control the Earth.
It is in the US national security interests to make sure NASA gets back to the Moon before the Catronauts. (or China or India)
The Catspiracy and Solar Power
Whenever the sun is out you can find cats soaking in the Solar Rays. It’s clear that part of the cat’s evil plan is to have us convert a large portion of our energy use to Solar Power.
These evil cats would have us spend a fraction of what we use to kill people in the Middle East to secure a continued supply of oil, and have us spend it on Solar Power instead.
Other Solar Power advocates are pointing that for the cost of just one of the supplemental spending bills (the oops we need more money than we expected requests) in the war in Iraq, we could power the cities of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago by solar power.
Imagine the evil of having our three biggest cities run by clean renewable power instead of using that money to kill and bomb people.
In order to squash this evil plan I hide from the cats in the shower, knowing they hate hot water. Unfortunately it is too expensive for me to use the hot water heater to escape, so I had to build and Solar Hot Water heater to get free hot water.
With my homebuilt Solar Hot Water Heater I can foil Tigger’s evil plan of making us use Solar power to have our nation be energy independent.
Save the world and fight the Catspiracy at the same time.
I started doing that a while ago to defeat the Catspiracy.
At night when you’re asleep Tigger’s evil minions sneak onto your desk and use your computer.
I discovered this plot when a cat spy that I thought I had caught in my elaborate cat trap woke me up in the middle of the night by watching Sandra Bullock movies at full volume. (I didn’t know I had that many Sandra Bullock movies before that.)
In searching to see what else the evil minion did with me computer I found out that she got onto message boards that I had favorited and typed out messages pretending to be me. Here is a sample of one of the messages she wrote:
“klsdfhaljdfg kajkf;e ajgka’g;a jg”
As you can imagine the grammar checkers on the board were all upset over that.
But according to this article it could have been worse:
Man Blames Cat For Jail Time
One of the Weapons of the Catspiracy
I found out a major weapon in Tigger’s evil plan to have cats take over the world is a method to force humans to rub their bellies.
This website, Kitty Bellies, shows how they can force humans to rub their bellies by being so damn cute.
The only the liberal squirrel army are immune to this belly rubbing ploy.
Once they force you to rub their bellies they can quickly enslave you and force you put them on your lap and rub their ears. This can leave you powerless for hours on end in a trance-like happy state.
The Catspiracy plans on Healthcare
According to this shocking report having a cat in your home can seriously reduce your chances of a heart attack.
This is obviously part of Tigger’s evil plan to rule the world.
If you’ve been listening to the Republican positions on healthcare it is obvious that anything that puts more emphasis on prevention of illness and decreases costs is evil.
Tigger’s plan of having cute and adorable kittens invade peoples homes and lower their stress levels, leading to better health is an obvious attack on the insurance companies.
Soon cats will take over the entire healthcare system and will judge if people get treatment based on how comfy their laps are.
An Ally in my crusade against the Catspiracy
In my attempts to foil Tigger’s evil plan to take over the world,I have found a new ally. The American Humane Society, they round up Tigger’s cat spies, Spay or Neuter them to keep them from breeding and then place them under house arrest with humans that can keep an eye on them.
If you are concerned about the Catspiracy, you can contact them to help them out on the front lines.
Make a Difference
Peter Clothier at The Buddha Diaries has come up with a simple yet effective way for people who support the Public Option in Healthcare, but are actually still working and have lives, to join in on the March on Washington.
So many topics, So little time
Healthcare:
The candid blogger has painstakingly broken down a lot of the myths and lies about healthcare reform. You can read the entire series here.The Catspiracy:
Amy Oops has shocking videos of cats training to use our technology and practicing synchronizing their movements, and even practicing how to infiltrate Kleenex boxes.Watch this horrifying video here.
Follow-up the Dongtastic news.
One the Dongtastic stories I covered was Barney Frank responding to a lady who said he supported Nazi policies by saying, “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it."That had me wondering what sort of logic is going through peoples heads when they call Jews Nazis. Then I had an illuminating look at the logic of Bigotry. It basically started with a post on Eye of Polyphemus where the author launched a rather weird Ad Homien attack on the fact that I’m a Unitarian implying that Unitarians and Sex Ed are somehow contradictory. He then went on to imply that somehow Unitarians were “Anti-Christians”. I asked him about this weird logic.
He responded he doesn’t consider Unitarians Christians; fair enough, a billion Catholics don’t consider him a Christian either as he doesn’t belong to the one true religion in the church founded by Jesus Christ.
(The big difference is all the Catholics I know believe in a god that has greater judgment then men, so the final call is his. So they treat everyone, even heretics and heathens, the same as they would a Catholic on this Earth, just in case God’s final call isn’t exactly what they thought.)
I went on to ask him how that made me “Anti-Christian” as opposed to just Non-Christian and he just responded that he didn’t consider Unitarians Christians.
This showed me the great logic of bigotry, basically if your not with us your against us. There doesn’t have to be any more steps involved. This is the circular logic of a Bigot, you’re not like me, therefore you’re against me, and therefore anything I do against you is a defensive move, because you are against me, because you’re not like me.
So if you think Nazis were evil, and a Jew doesn’t share your views; that obviously means the Jew is a Nazi.
So to answer Barney Franks question as to what Planet the lady spent most of her time on? It would be the Planet of Bigotry that is located in Intolerance System.
An awesome sight
Check out this video of Io’s shadow covering Ganymede over at Bad Astronomy.
Two Moons Circling.
Even if you’re not that into Astronomy, you got to admit it’s pretty cool.
Two Moons Circling.
Even if you’re not that into Astronomy, you got to admit it’s pretty cool.
The Catmunication Network
This site shows how they are using Twitter communicate in their attempt to take over the world.
It even has training posters to detail how to enslave a human through cuteness.
Cuteness Mind control.
Don’t look to long or the cuteness will break down your defenses.
With this cuteness assault they can unleash their evil mind control rays that can even penetrate tin foil hats.
The horror.
That’s Dongtastic Part I
The Daily Show has pointed out how the MSM is injecting teenage slang into their broadcasts in order to be “hip”. Things like CNN’s “I’m just saying” and MSNBC’s “What the…?” segments.
I guess the idea is nothing shows off the seriousness of your topic better than using slang you’ll hear in middle schools across the country.
Here at Project Savior I strive to be on the tail end of any fad so I decided to inject “hip” new slang into my news reports. The problem is I don’t know what the new “hip” slang is. I decided to investigate.
Hanging out at the local middle school and listening in on the whispered conversations I found out the new slang phrases are “Like, is that a friend of your Dad’s?” something about a “Pedophile” and “We should probably call the cops”.
Learning these “hip” new phrases was interesting and I looked forward to learning how to put them into context, I had to cut my research short when the police showed up. I figured the presence of the Police would damper the girls talking in slang.
I thought I could just use the slang from my high school days and tested out the reactions on message boards to the old phrases like, “Bag your Face” and “Gag me with a spoon”.
The reactions I got were “Hey, aren’t you a friend of my Dad’s” and “the 80’s called, they want their lingo back.”.
I figured that wouldn’t work either so I hit the two “hippest” web sites I know, “NeuroQuantology” and “Cracked”.
Unfortunately, as hip as it is, NeuroQuantology doesn’t use a lot of slang in their discussions Quantum Physics in relationship to brain functions. So that left “Cracked”.
Cracked is a website where people can put up their high school research papers, if your high school research papers were list based and had a lot of dick jokes. Since that’s how I formatted my high school research papers and teachers indicated that they were cool by putting a big “C” on the front of them. I knew this was the place to get my new slang. (BTW: It was a great shock to me that Universities don’t use “Dick Jokes per Page” as a criteria for accepting students).
So I scoured their articles looking for hip new slang phrases and came across this article and got a hip new slang word to add to my news articles, “Dongtastic” adding this phrase to my posts will make it look like I work for CNN. So here is a quick round up of the most “Dongtastic” new items of the week.
Nancy Pelosi grew a set of balls, after Republican Senators said the Public Option in healthcare is dead, and reminded everyone that the Congress has two chambers and the house bill will contain a Public Option.
Republicans countered saying, “You’re a Nazi!” to which she replied, “You said that already.” And they replied, “You’re a Doo-Doo-head Nazi!” to which she replied, “You’ve run out of things to call me, haven’t you?” which made them stare at the ground sheepishly. (This conversation has yet to be confirmed.)
Pelosi actually acting like a house leader is Dongtastic.
Max Baucus has told everyone that he is more afraid of people, “with YouTubes” Than the people with guns. I guess the pen is mightier than the sword and the camera phone is mightier than the AK-47. That’s Dongtastic.
Barney Frank confronted a lunatic at one of his town hall meetings:
..."My question to you is, why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?" the woman asked Frank.
"On what planet do you spend most of your time?," an incredulous Frank rhetorically replied, indignantly adding "You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis....Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it."
Huffpost
That’s Dongtastic.
ActBlue has raised over $174,500 to support Democratic Congressmen who pledge to only vote for healthcare reform if it contains the public option.
That’s Dongtastic.
There I’ve put in some news stories worth reading about and did it with CNN’s hard-hitting style of adding hip slang to the stories. That should show how that I’m a credible source.
I guess the idea is nothing shows off the seriousness of your topic better than using slang you’ll hear in middle schools across the country.
Here at Project Savior I strive to be on the tail end of any fad so I decided to inject “hip” new slang into my news reports. The problem is I don’t know what the new “hip” slang is. I decided to investigate.
Hanging out at the local middle school and listening in on the whispered conversations I found out the new slang phrases are “Like, is that a friend of your Dad’s?” something about a “Pedophile” and “We should probably call the cops”.
Learning these “hip” new phrases was interesting and I looked forward to learning how to put them into context, I had to cut my research short when the police showed up. I figured the presence of the Police would damper the girls talking in slang.
I thought I could just use the slang from my high school days and tested out the reactions on message boards to the old phrases like, “Bag your Face” and “Gag me with a spoon”.
The reactions I got were “Hey, aren’t you a friend of my Dad’s” and “the 80’s called, they want their lingo back.”.
I figured that wouldn’t work either so I hit the two “hippest” web sites I know, “NeuroQuantology” and “Cracked”.
Unfortunately, as hip as it is, NeuroQuantology doesn’t use a lot of slang in their discussions Quantum Physics in relationship to brain functions. So that left “Cracked”.
Cracked is a website where people can put up their high school research papers, if your high school research papers were list based and had a lot of dick jokes. Since that’s how I formatted my high school research papers and teachers indicated that they were cool by putting a big “C” on the front of them. I knew this was the place to get my new slang. (BTW: It was a great shock to me that Universities don’t use “Dick Jokes per Page” as a criteria for accepting students).
So I scoured their articles looking for hip new slang phrases and came across this article and got a hip new slang word to add to my news articles, “Dongtastic” adding this phrase to my posts will make it look like I work for CNN. So here is a quick round up of the most “Dongtastic” new items of the week.
Nancy Pelosi grew a set of balls, after Republican Senators said the Public Option in healthcare is dead, and reminded everyone that the Congress has two chambers and the house bill will contain a Public Option.
Republicans countered saying, “You’re a Nazi!” to which she replied, “You said that already.” And they replied, “You’re a Doo-Doo-head Nazi!” to which she replied, “You’ve run out of things to call me, haven’t you?” which made them stare at the ground sheepishly. (This conversation has yet to be confirmed.)
Pelosi actually acting like a house leader is Dongtastic.
Max Baucus has told everyone that he is more afraid of people, “with YouTubes” Than the people with guns. I guess the pen is mightier than the sword and the camera phone is mightier than the AK-47. That’s Dongtastic.
Barney Frank confronted a lunatic at one of his town hall meetings:
..."My question to you is, why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?" the woman asked Frank.
"On what planet do you spend most of your time?," an incredulous Frank rhetorically replied, indignantly adding "You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis....Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it."
Huffpost
That’s Dongtastic.
ActBlue has raised over $174,500 to support Democratic Congressmen who pledge to only vote for healthcare reform if it contains the public option.
That’s Dongtastic.
There I’ve put in some news stories worth reading about and did it with CNN’s hard-hitting style of adding hip slang to the stories. That should show how that I’m a credible source.
Who's not your mama?
(Note - this post has been updated twice ... scroll to the bottom.)
If a picture is worth a thousand words then this graphic is worth ten thousand.
If a picture is worth a thousand words then this graphic is worth ten thousand.
Amidst all the discussion over who Trig's mother may be, some of our readers have stepped forward to gently remind us that a crucial message may be lost in the debate - the one message upon which this blog was founded. That message: Given the evidence, it is highly, highly suspect that Sarah Palin gave birth to the Trig Palin.
So to prove that we are still on message, we would like to halt the debate over who Trig's mother is and observe a moment of silence as we reflect upon who is not. The debate, we are sure, will resume. And that is fine just so long as we don't lose sight of the original message.
A special thanks to long-time reader and contributor Way of Peace for this awesome graphic.
Update: In response to many requests, Way of Peace has provided an alternate graphic. Let us know what you think. (Remember, click on them to make them bigger.)
Second update: In response to many MORE requests, we've also prepared one with the "Nail in the Coffin" photo. (Also, I re-read my post on this photo just this morning. If you are new to the blog and have never seen it, you should read it. If you are not new, but have not looked at this in awhile, you need to read this post again - if I do say so myself.
A candidate to the second highest office in the United States lied about being pregnant. I strongly suspect she must have had help in maintaining the deception. The MSM's failure to pick up this story in December, after the discovery of this photo, is nothing short of a criminal failure to the American people.)
Update: In response to many requests, Way of Peace has provided an alternate graphic. Let us know what you think. (Remember, click on them to make them bigger.)
Second update: In response to many MORE requests, we've also prepared one with the "Nail in the Coffin" photo. (Also, I re-read my post on this photo just this morning. If you are new to the blog and have never seen it, you should read it. If you are not new, but have not looked at this in awhile, you need to read this post again - if I do say so myself.
A candidate to the second highest office in the United States lied about being pregnant. I strongly suspect she must have had help in maintaining the deception. The MSM's failure to pick up this story in December, after the discovery of this photo, is nothing short of a criminal failure to the American people.)
Killing Grandma while eating Fetuses with Hitler II
In my post Killing Grandma while eating Fetuses with Hitler I asked the question, “Is there any group out there that the Republican’s aren’t trying to offend?”
I guess some tea-bagger out there thought this was a challenge and shouted out “Heil Hitler” to an Israeli doctor who was discussing the Israeli state run healthcare system. See video
What a way to build up sympathy for your cause, compare Jews to Hitler.
For all the people out there who are equating Government Healthcare to Nazis, I want to say this:
My Grandfather died fighting the Nazis, he volunteered to serve. He fought to stop a madman who was determined to spread his vile hatred of “others” across the globe.
When you start comparing Government Healthcare (a program designed to help people) with Nazism (Vile Hatred that slaughtered millions of innocents) you demean the legacy of all those brave men and women who fought against it.
My grandfather didn’t die trying stop people from having access to healthcare, he died keeping the world safe from the mindless hatred of a madman that committed genocide of anyone that didn’t think like him.
Implying something else demeans his legacy and the legacy of all those that fought and died trying to stop him.
I guess some tea-bagger out there thought this was a challenge and shouted out “Heil Hitler” to an Israeli doctor who was discussing the Israeli state run healthcare system. See video
What a way to build up sympathy for your cause, compare Jews to Hitler.
For all the people out there who are equating Government Healthcare to Nazis, I want to say this:
My Grandfather died fighting the Nazis, he volunteered to serve. He fought to stop a madman who was determined to spread his vile hatred of “others” across the globe.
When you start comparing Government Healthcare (a program designed to help people) with Nazism (Vile Hatred that slaughtered millions of innocents) you demean the legacy of all those brave men and women who fought against it.
My grandfather didn’t die trying stop people from having access to healthcare, he died keeping the world safe from the mindless hatred of a madman that committed genocide of anyone that didn’t think like him.
Implying something else demeans his legacy and the legacy of all those that fought and died trying to stop him.
The Catspiracy
I have discovered that a cat that goes by the evil name of Molly is forcing a human to work at making her knitted blankets in her Cat owned sweatshop.
In this sweatshop disguised as a lovely home, Molly makes her human toil to produce some really nice and skillful knitted blankets and potholders. Which Molly uses for her nefarious plan to have a comfy place to sleep.
When will this tyranny end?
Killing Grandma while eating fetuses with Hitler
Is there any group out there that the Republican’s aren’t trying to offend?
The wild accusations are crazy, letting an individual have the power over end of life care decisions is turned into Government wants to kill Grandma. That really shows you care about Grandma don’t let her be in control of important decisions about her life.
Holocaust Deniers are comparing Obama to Hitler. A great way to honor the vets who fought against tyranny, claim they fought and died so that people could be denied healthcare.
Anti-Vaxers are upping their claim from the totally debunked link between Vaccines and Autism to Vaccines will contain Nano-probes so the government can track all citizens movements. Great way to gain sympathy, try to block access so babies will die horrible deaths from easily treatable diseases.
The birthers, people who claim that Obama isn’t a citizen, are against the treatment for mental illness. Fill in your own joke.
Its easy to understand their fear, the main thing Obama is shooting for is more individual options in healthcare choices for them having to make their own decisions means putting those decisions in the hands of the most stupid and incompetent person they know, themselves.
Tigger’s Evil Minions are sending out cute cards now.
Photo Courtesy of Dustypenny.
It’s obvious that the cats are using these cute cards to get humans used to smiling at cute things, weakening people’s defenses for when the evil cats launch their cute offensive.
In this weakened state people will be powerless to avoid giving the cats great big hugs. The horror.
Gallery - Amy Diaz , Miss Earth United States 2009
| Birth name: | Amy Diaz |
| Birthdate: | August 6, 1984 (age 25 at year 2009) |
| Birth location: | New York, United States |
| Title(s): | Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 2001 Miss Rhode Island USA 2008 Miss Earth United States 2009 |
| Major Competition(s): | Miss Teen USA 2001 Miss USA 2008 (Top 15) Miss Earth 2009 |
Update on the Evil Cat Plot to Rule the World.
Pod Cats.
Picture from Adventures in Catnip.
It appears that the Cats are using the same the same technique as the podpeople did in “Invasion of The Body Snatchers”.
This new development means Cats are well on their way to take over the world.
The only known means of incapacitating these “Pod Cats” is to scratch their chins. The tortured sounds they make that sound like, “Purr” will tell you if they are incapacitated.
The Cornerstone - Questions and Answers
One question that has come up repeatedly in comments is the idea that Bristol was breastfeeding and some sort of forced weaning could have accounted for that amount of enormous breast change she evinced OR she was padded so heavily to hide any leakage.
Here's my read on that. This is something I feel very confident discussing since I worked as a lactation consultant for fifteen years and also nursed four children of my own.
Considering the number of bottles you see around Trig (there seems to be one in virtually every photograph) I doubt very much if he was breastfeeding as of August 2008. Someone, however, may have been pumping breast milk and bottle feeding it to him. This is not uncommon for Down Syndrome babies, who typically have a very hard time learning to nurse, and often seem to "forget how" between feedings.
Could that lactating mom have been Bristol? Possibly but more importantly, could that account for the enormous bust we see on the night of September 3, 2008? Here's my answer: I doubt it. When mothers who are nursing stop abruptly, breasts do swell and leak, but most importantly become very sore and tender.
I foolishly once separated myself from my 2 1/2 year old nursing toddler for about 40 hours. I should have known better since I was already a Lactation Consultant, but you know what they say about shoemaker's kids. I had to go to a funeral, it was two flights each way, then driving in cars, then mom is crying, and the idea of doing all that with a 2 1/2 year old was daunting. He'll be fine, I reassured myself. And he's not nursing that much. No problem.
Well, HE was fine. I, however, was not. By the time I got back home, about 40 hours after I left, I ached so badly that I could barely lift my arms to drive the car. The least jounce of the country road was excruciating. I had tried to express milk, most notably in an airport restroom stall (didn't want to shock anyone by trying to do it into a sink) but with limited success. (And this was all the more ludicrous since I rented electric breast pumps in conjunction with my LC practice so I had any equipment I could have desired to take with me already in my house.)
Contrast again these pictures, this one of Bristol taken on (or around) August 24,
Then this one, taken around September 1,
with this one taken on September 3rd.
There is no way that weaning, no matter how forced or abrupt could account for a change in breast size of this magnitude. Furthermore, I have watched every video I can find of this night. Bristol moves easily and naturally, waves at people, hands Trig to her mother then takes him back again with ease. She seems happy and comfortable. There is NO sign of any extreme discomfort. Believe me if your breasts had suddenly turned into hot tender rocks, you wouldn't be waving to the crowd with a smile on your face.
What about padding? Your typical breast pad, worn by most new mothers to prevent leaking, is about three inches across and is made of very absorbent material. They are small, discrete and effective. It's called "leaking," not "rupture." Unless they padded her with bath towels, there is no plausible way to account for this amount of sheer "mass."
The question of the dates.
Numerous people have suggested that Bristol was padded or enhanced in some way to make her look MORE pregnant. Here's the problem with that line of thinking.
Bristol Palin appeared in public on Sunday February 8th, 2009. While she definitely looked as if she might have had a baby "recently," it's hard to imagine her being less than ten days "post partum." So let's assume just for the sake of conversation, that Bristol Palin had actually given birth to Tripp on January 30th.
Why lie about this being her due date? January 30th was still too close to April 18th to allow Bristol to be the mother of both children. If this was her real actual due date there would have been no reason to lie about it.
According to one medical text I consulted, the shortest recorded time between birth and ovulation is 27 days. The mean time is 70 days (so more than two months) for non nursing women and 190 days (more than six months) for nursing moms. However, most texts I looked at agreed anything less than six weeks for a non nursing mom is pretty rare. Just for discussion, let's assume that a baby was born on April 18th, and then the mom ovulated 42 days later. That would have given a due date of Feb 21st. (Yes, there are reports of babies being born much closer than that... but in those cases, the second baby is premature.)
But we know for a fact that Bristol was not pregnant on Feb 7th, and was out and about in public. Furthermore, journalist John Ziegler states he saw Bristol in the Palin home on January 7th and states she was post partum. I believe he would know the difference between "post partum" and nine months pregnant and ready to pop. I also believe that while some journalists have shown themselves willing to not see things or just not ask the right questions, I find it difficult to believe that Ziegler would actually lie about something like that. The consequences of blatantly putting forth an untruth for a journalist would be career-ending. So therefore I tend to believe that John Ziegler did see Bristol on Janaury 7th, and to his eye she was not pregnant at that point.
So, I believe it's implausible that they padded Bristol to make her look MORE pregnant, just as it was unnecessary that they lie about the second birth date. If she was due to deliver any time before Feb 1, they did not need to. Why take the risk, either risk? Any birth before about the 15th of February would have "proved" that Bristol could not be the mother of both children.
One other comment mentioned these three additional shots of Bristol, all from during the campaign. I left them out of the first post primarily because of length but will add them here.
They are:
This was taken when Sarah visited a Wal-Mart on October 14th.
This was taken the following Saturday, October 18th.
This was taken the morning of the election, November 4th.
Again, I don't feel that they show a very solid "progression" of pregnancy, but that is my opinion alone, and I will be the first to concede that this proves nothing.
I don't know what to tell people about this mystery. I think I've made it clear that my jury is out on this whole issue. I am NOT saying that Bristol Palin's pregnancy in late 2008 was faked. I am NOT saying even that it was not exactly as reported.
I am saying that photographic evidence shows a pregnancy that does not appear to progress normally. Photographic evidence shows unequivocally that her bustline was padded at an event where there would be no plausible or rationale reason to do so. Common sense screams that something is wrong with the whole way the birth was presented.
It all makes my head hurt.
Here's my read on that. This is something I feel very confident discussing since I worked as a lactation consultant for fifteen years and also nursed four children of my own.
Considering the number of bottles you see around Trig (there seems to be one in virtually every photograph) I doubt very much if he was breastfeeding as of August 2008. Someone, however, may have been pumping breast milk and bottle feeding it to him. This is not uncommon for Down Syndrome babies, who typically have a very hard time learning to nurse, and often seem to "forget how" between feedings.
Could that lactating mom have been Bristol? Possibly but more importantly, could that account for the enormous bust we see on the night of September 3, 2008? Here's my answer: I doubt it. When mothers who are nursing stop abruptly, breasts do swell and leak, but most importantly become very sore and tender.
I foolishly once separated myself from my 2 1/2 year old nursing toddler for about 40 hours. I should have known better since I was already a Lactation Consultant, but you know what they say about shoemaker's kids. I had to go to a funeral, it was two flights each way, then driving in cars, then mom is crying, and the idea of doing all that with a 2 1/2 year old was daunting. He'll be fine, I reassured myself. And he's not nursing that much. No problem.
Well, HE was fine. I, however, was not. By the time I got back home, about 40 hours after I left, I ached so badly that I could barely lift my arms to drive the car. The least jounce of the country road was excruciating. I had tried to express milk, most notably in an airport restroom stall (didn't want to shock anyone by trying to do it into a sink) but with limited success. (And this was all the more ludicrous since I rented electric breast pumps in conjunction with my LC practice so I had any equipment I could have desired to take with me already in my house.)
Contrast again these pictures, this one of Bristol taken on (or around) August 24,
Then this one, taken around September 1,
with this one taken on September 3rd.
There is no way that weaning, no matter how forced or abrupt could account for a change in breast size of this magnitude. Furthermore, I have watched every video I can find of this night. Bristol moves easily and naturally, waves at people, hands Trig to her mother then takes him back again with ease. She seems happy and comfortable. There is NO sign of any extreme discomfort. Believe me if your breasts had suddenly turned into hot tender rocks, you wouldn't be waving to the crowd with a smile on your face.
What about padding? Your typical breast pad, worn by most new mothers to prevent leaking, is about three inches across and is made of very absorbent material. They are small, discrete and effective. It's called "leaking," not "rupture." Unless they padded her with bath towels, there is no plausible way to account for this amount of sheer "mass."
The question of the dates.
Numerous people have suggested that Bristol was padded or enhanced in some way to make her look MORE pregnant. Here's the problem with that line of thinking.
Bristol Palin appeared in public on Sunday February 8th, 2009. While she definitely looked as if she might have had a baby "recently," it's hard to imagine her being less than ten days "post partum." So let's assume just for the sake of conversation, that Bristol Palin had actually given birth to Tripp on January 30th.
Why lie about this being her due date? January 30th was still too close to April 18th to allow Bristol to be the mother of both children. If this was her real actual due date there would have been no reason to lie about it.
According to one medical text I consulted, the shortest recorded time between birth and ovulation is 27 days. The mean time is 70 days (so more than two months) for non nursing women and 190 days (more than six months) for nursing moms. However, most texts I looked at agreed anything less than six weeks for a non nursing mom is pretty rare. Just for discussion, let's assume that a baby was born on April 18th, and then the mom ovulated 42 days later. That would have given a due date of Feb 21st. (Yes, there are reports of babies being born much closer than that... but in those cases, the second baby is premature.)
But we know for a fact that Bristol was not pregnant on Feb 7th, and was out and about in public. Furthermore, journalist John Ziegler states he saw Bristol in the Palin home on January 7th and states she was post partum. I believe he would know the difference between "post partum" and nine months pregnant and ready to pop. I also believe that while some journalists have shown themselves willing to not see things or just not ask the right questions, I find it difficult to believe that Ziegler would actually lie about something like that. The consequences of blatantly putting forth an untruth for a journalist would be career-ending. So therefore I tend to believe that John Ziegler did see Bristol on Janaury 7th, and to his eye she was not pregnant at that point.
So, I believe it's implausible that they padded Bristol to make her look MORE pregnant, just as it was unnecessary that they lie about the second birth date. If she was due to deliver any time before Feb 1, they did not need to. Why take the risk, either risk? Any birth before about the 15th of February would have "proved" that Bristol could not be the mother of both children.
One other comment mentioned these three additional shots of Bristol, all from during the campaign. I left them out of the first post primarily because of length but will add them here.
They are:
This was taken when Sarah visited a Wal-Mart on October 14th.
This was taken the following Saturday, October 18th.
This was taken the morning of the election, November 4th.
Again, I don't feel that they show a very solid "progression" of pregnancy, but that is my opinion alone, and I will be the first to concede that this proves nothing.
I don't know what to tell people about this mystery. I think I've made it clear that my jury is out on this whole issue. I am NOT saying that Bristol Palin's pregnancy in late 2008 was faked. I am NOT saying even that it was not exactly as reported.
I am saying that photographic evidence shows a pregnancy that does not appear to progress normally. Photographic evidence shows unequivocally that her bustline was padded at an event where there would be no plausible or rationale reason to do so. Common sense screams that something is wrong with the whole way the birth was presented.
It all makes my head hurt.
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