That's part of the reason why this country is so fucked up ~ Fundamentalists in control of the government.

The Fundies insist that they are right when they proclaim that God exists ~ even when there is no absolute proof of his/her existence. Then, when this all-knowing, all-seeing, all-controlling God allows things like babies to be killed, wars and natural disasters to take innocent lives, and Jamie Lynne Spears to get pregnant, they say it wasn't God that did it, it was SATAN!

People that sincerely believe in that foolishness will never understand the rationale of birth control because it doesn't jibe with their inflexible dogma. To admit that birth control might be the right thing to do would be to admit that they were wrong believing otherwise. And once you admit to being wrong there, you're risking opening the Pandora's Box of everything else your stubborn mind has held firm to: racism, bigotry, evolution, and God him/herself.

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This is freakishly accurate and the reality as phrased here is hilarious. I cannot tell you how stupid I've always thought that rationale is, or how many times I've seen people cling to it. Morons...

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Alternet becomes more like the useless MSM every week.

Who gives a rat's ass about Britney Spears freakin sister being pregnant. You should be covering the story that both Britney and her sister are CIA mind controlled sex slaves just like Kathy O'Brian and Arizona Wilder.

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Jesse,
do you actually read what you write? Look at this - "Her family life has been white trash with money."

Change 'white trash' to 'poor blacks' to see how predjudiced your statment is.

What is the point of the article, btw? Your the one obsessed with celebrity if your bringing this up here.

I agree with the previous commenter, alternet isn't too alternative here. This just sounds like PerezHilton.

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That their mother was writing a book on how to raise childrent. Thankfully the publisher stopped that stupidity. She obviously did not know how to raise children.

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Writers' strike has folks trying out for chief Anna Nicole correspondent.

...Brad, it's been 7400 hours since Anna Nicole died, and the question on everyone's minds is, "How is she coping, and has she lost any more weight?

/pass

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It isn't so much about celebrity as the whole sexual sickness in American society. The fact that the kid's famous just catches people's attention. Use what you can if you want to change this sick society.

People from Europe are flabbergasted at how many young people get pregnant when they didn't want to, and abstinence only, like the zero tolerance on drugs, make no sense to people with sense.

Ian

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Because she had sex.

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But the points made are rather obvious by now. They've been obvious to me since moving to Kentucky in college. I suppose what's meant to make it relevant is the celebrity twist. Aside from how tiresome that is (as if we don't get it everywhere), it's also treated with the same judgmentalism all celebrity commentary is: we're all sitting outside their situation, watching them come and go, and somehow we convince ourselves we actually know what's going on and have the right to pronounce judgment on it.

But what would really improve it would be a little attention to writing style. For instance, the author has had "mom's" in the back of an ambulance? "Mom's" what? "Mom's" is posessive, or a contraction, not plural. I realize that not all blog writers have great mastery of the language, but doesn't Alternet have editors? Or can't it choose better blog entries?

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I have lived in Georgia for the last 15 years, and I am constantly amazed by the Southern mentality. They put great effort into providing Southern Hospitality. The Southern Hospitality is only superficial. They will stab you in the back as quick as look at you, if it serves their purposes.

The paradox is most exemplified in New Orleans, A Good Catholic city, with the morals of gutter trash.

The main thing about the Southerns is that they are afraid that someone will think their child is GAY if they dont get married early and start having children. Also the reason fot the very high divorce rate in the Conservative Christian South.

The main thing for Evangelicals is that you have as manny children as possible so that they can be saved. It doesnt matter what their quailty of life is after birth, the Birth is what is important. Seems like they are collecting coupons for home many souls they save. And if they turn out badly, then there is the death pene4alty to deal with that.

Amazing. Anit-abortion., and pro Death Penalty.

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space. This story and all like it. Idiotic, no-talent "celebrities" are a waste of time, money and space.

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As a sophomore undergraduate student in Physics, your homework may
include figuring out when the second coming would be required, assuming
that the bible was 100% true in the year zero. That is, when would the
bible be down to 50% true? The popular and professors' answer in 1965
was the year 500. The true answer: A friend of mine was born and
raised in Budapest, Hungary. As an adult, he came here and stayed.
After 25 years, he visited his home town of Budapest. He was unable to
communicate with his high school classmates because the Hungarian
language had changed so much. The correct answer is less than 25 years.
The first gospel was not written down until 50 years after the alleged
events and then in a different language. The people who told the story
were at about the same level of civilization as "wild Indians", I mean
Native Americans before Columbus got here. We have all played or seen
played the game called "Telephone" in which a story is passed down a line
of re-tellers. By the Sixth re-telling, the story has no resemblance to the
original. The gospel story had to have been re-told at least 6 times before
it was mis-translated the first time. [Note that whoever wrote it down the
first time was free to write whatever he wanted to. The storytellers were
illiterate and unable to check his written text by reading it. Besides that,
he wrote in Greek rather than Aramaic.] Conclusion: There is no truth
anywhere in the bible, and there never was.

ALL of the jurisdictions that were formerly in the jurisdiction of religion
have been taken over by Science. There is no longer a need to debate the
issue. Religion is an unfortunate side effect of a major and ongoing step in
evolution. [Not that evolution has a predetermined direction. We could
devolve, but we have to get over religion or go extinct. "God" will not
save us from the consequences of global warming or an asteroid impact
because there is no such critter as "god.".] Ethics and morality are
instinctive, not derived from religion. Look up "Sociobiology". The
origin of the Universe is the subject of Cosmology which is part of
astronomy which is part of the science of physics.
Religion is a SCAM. ANY religion, there are 10,000 to choose from.
ALL preachers, priests, imams, rabbis, iatolas, etc. belong in jail for "grand
theft bunko".

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Religion is caused by any one or more of about half a dozen mental illnesses.
The truth about religion can be found in these books:

"The Neuropsychological bases of god beliefs" Dr. Michael A. Persinger MD,
psychiatrist 1987 "Religious people are just like my temporal lobe patients"

"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind" Julian
Jaynes Professor, Harvard University 1976 "Religious people are just like
schizophrenic patients"

"The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice" Roger A. MacKinnon, M.D.,
Robert Michels, M.D. W. B. Saunders Co. 1971 "Religiosity is a common
symptom [of] schizophrenic patients"

"The God delusion" by Richard Dawkins. "Religion is caused by a kind of
computer virus that infects the living computer, the human brain."

"The Science of Good and Evil" by Michael Shermer, 2004 "Morality and Ethics
are now in the jurisdiction of Science and greatly improved thereby."

Many books in the new science called "Sociobiology": Morals and ethics are
instinctive and they evolved.

"God: The Failed Hypothesis" byVictor Stenger Scientific proof that god does
not exist.

"The God Part of the Brain" by Matthew Alper 1996. "The USA is anomolusly
religious because many early founder groups were religiously insane and fleeing
prosecution in Europe. Religion is a genetic disorder."

"The Accidental Mind" by David J. Linden, 2007 Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press. Religion is caused by the extreme klugeyness of the "designed"
by evolution brain. In particular, the narrative creation system cannot be turned
off. It generates false narratives that are believed by the generating person. This is
seen in experiments done in the laboratory. This book has the best explanation of
resistance to evolution: "There has also been an assumption that if one accepts the
idea that life developed without divine intervention, it necessarily follows that all
aspects of religious thought must be rejected. Those who take this line of
argument to extremes argue that when religious thought is rejected moral and
social codes will degenerate and "the law of the jungle" will be all that is left. It is
imagined by religious fundamentalists that those who do not share their particular
religious faith are incapable of leading moral lives." These suppositions are not
true many times over. Linden later mentions that the creationists [intelligent
design advocates] are exactly 180 degrees wrong rather than just a little wrong.
Being exactly wrong, they are unable to unlearn their error. See Sociobiology or
Sciobio.

"Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism" edited by Petto &
Godfrey, 2007. The ID and creationist crowd are trying to do away with science.
They see science as a "godless religion." The ID and creationist crowd say
training in science is brainwashing. The creationists are seriously mentally ill. It
is religion that is brainwashing.

"Manufacturing Belief" by Lewis Wolpert
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/05/15/lewis_wolpert/

"Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon", by Daniel Dennett
Let's do scientific research on religion and find out what causes it.

"Origins of the Modern Mind" by Merlin Donald 1991 "So what did you expect
from a brain that is based on the Chimpanzee brain? Furthermore, the 4 Million
years it took to go from chimp brain to "human" brain is much too short for
Nature to get the bugs worked out."

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