Comments on: Mike Huckabee, Dan Quayle, marriage, and Natalie Portman as the new Murphy Brown https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Barbara dessin https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-232088 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:46:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-232088 My niece wanted to have her children first so they could be in the wedding pictures. She got married when they were 3(best man) , and nine months, carried down the aisle fast asleep by maid of honor.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231498 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:44:12 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231498 First wedding I went to was a Catholic High Mass.
I got the impression that this was a Really Big Deal and the ceremony was, in part, to emphasize that a lot of things were not going to be as they had been and society accepted and required the new regime.
Casually living together isn’t the same, not at all.

]]> By: Valjean https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231491 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:36:11 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231491 Neo,

You make great points (and ask good questions), but based on your responses to comments, I suspect you already know your answers: the brilliant Miss Portman (and she *is* brilliant) may make fawned speeches about “gifts” but ultimately all she cares about is Number One. Children are a modern accessory — especially to celebs — to be shown off and handed off to nannies. The reason she won’t marry is an extension of why her “fiancé” won’t marry *her*: what’s the point? She’s already knocked up and there’s no point. From his perspective anything else is superfluous; she’s already said as much.

]]> By: Mr. Frank https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231462 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:02:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231462 When looking at test score performance of schools, one of the best predictors of good scores is a high percentage of children who have two parents at home.

]]> By: Foxfier https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231343 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:48:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231343 Parker-
we’d have to check how the married vs unmarried act; I’d say there’s also a major difference between “two become one” marriage and “you’re one of many commodities I can afford” marriage.

]]> By: Foxfier https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231342 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:46:03 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231342 Denise Says:
March 4th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
I live in a community where the overwhelming majority of children are born out of wedlock. Dads are pretty much non-existent here. Crime and other anti-social behavior are constants.

Something to make you stay up at nights:
I went to a school with a lot of higher class folks; out of 400 in the jr/sr high, there were six whose genetic parents were married when all the children were born, and who didn’t have half siblings. (no widows/widowers, either)
Three of those kids were my family, two were another family– that has since separated– and I didn’t know the other kid well enough to keep up with what happened there in the last ten years. Let’s assume they stayed together.

Two fully intact families, total, in a school largely populated by those with enough money to leave the city when they wanted to raise their kids.

Marriage is the foundation of family, family is the foundation of culture; we’re in trouble, and it’s even worse than the out-of-wedlock birth rate suggests.

]]> By: Parker https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231341 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:39:26 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231341 “The simple fact is that marriage civilizes men.”

In general this is true, but it doesn’t seem to be less effective in some societies. Like places where there are wall to wall mosques and nary a naked feminine ankle in sight.

]]> By: newton https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231333 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:05:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231333 “And if you really are engaged, why not speed up the wedding and have it performed before the birth? Is is simply a matter of the perfect caterer being all booked?”

neo,

Vera Wang gowns are expensive.

Besides, think about the magazine photo exclusives!

Natalie will have to hit the Bridal Boot Camp as soon as she’s out of the hospital… The poor baby will be watched by nannies in the meantime…

]]> By: nolanimrod https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231315 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:21:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231315 Being married does make it just a little easier when the time comes when nothing will do but scooping up a black African infant.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231310 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:57:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-dan-quayle-marriage-and-natalie-portman-as-the-new-murphy-brown/#comment-231310 Miss Portman desperately needs a grandmother like i had. Mine gave me the most dissapointing and shame inducing looks that i’ll never forget upon finding out i merely moved in with a girl at 19.

We need more parents and grandparents with the ability to just roll their eyes at the young and dumb, instantly letting them know just how ignorant they really are about the world and life in general.

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