Todd Palin's former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Oh

[seemslikeadream]

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/here-we-go.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. Wasn't Demobabe on this last night? Good stuff.

[seemslikeadream]

5. I missed it do you have a link?

[TwilightGardener]

6. No, just remember reading it. Can't remember the title.

[cobalt1999]

2. A little bit more smoke

I'm not sure if there is a fire yet, but that is interesting.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Palin Is A Perpetual Christmas

Yet another gift.

[malaise]

4. Is he serious

Someone must have this info already :rofl:

[speedoo]

7. Motion to seal has been denied......

09/04/2008 Order Denying Motion Case Motion #3: Motion to Make Case File Confidential 0.00 0.00
09/03/2008 Motion to Make Case File Confidential Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Scott Alan Richter (Petitioner); Case Motion #3 0.00 0.00
09/03/2008 Motion for Expedited Consideration of: Motion to Make Case File Confidential Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Case Motion #2 0.00 0.00

(several other threads on this ... see Greatest Page)

[notadmblnd]

8. wonder what he's got to hide?

could it be another lie for Sarah?

[alfredo]

9. Oooh. I love the smell of a Republican sex scandal in the morning. It

smells like victory!!

[TahitiNut]

10. Interesting. Is Sarah a co-respondent? Is Alaska a no-fault divorce state?

If not, do the grounds include adultery? The people have a "right to know" of course. :rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

33. We are a no-fault divorce state.

That's not to say that there couldn't be some interesting affidavits in the file.

[TahitiNut]

34. Community property or "equitable distribution"? Is custody affected by adulterous behavior?

It seems the issue has to do with custody and visitation at this point.

[Blue_In_AK]

35. Equitable distribution

Here's a link I found to kind of an overview of Alaska's dissolution laws. It's pretty easy to get a divorce up here -- you can do it yourself if the issues are worked out ahead of time.

http://www.divorcesource.com/info/divorcelaws/alaska.shtml

Alaska Statutes 25.24.10, et seq, covers divorces and dissolutions

http://touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title25/Chapter24.htm

[seemslikeadream]

11. Is the amorous “business partner” Scott Richter? Who knows but the Alaskans who seem to know all the

http://achanceforachange.com/?p=966

[tuckessee]

12. The way it's going the Enquirer is going to need a special Palin edition.

This lady is treasure trove scandal. Major, minor, business, personal, moral.......

She's got everything but the missing blonde.

[bobthedrummer]

13. K&R#5, seemslikeadream...

:hi:

[seemslikeadream]

14. check your pm's

:hi:

[1776Forever]

15. National Enquirer says Sarah Palin had an affair with husband's business partner............

http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/Mark%20Nickolas/blog/&blogId=3540

[Javaman]

26. when the national enquirer becomes the voice of truth, we have truly entered the looking glass! nt

[ThomWV]

39. Stranger things have happened, look at Larry Flint.

[seemslikeadream]

16. Rumor has it that Mr. Brad Hanson, the man that has spilled the beans

Rumor has it that Mr. Brad Hanson, the man that has spilled the beans on his affair with Sarah Palin to The Enquirer is now a member of the Palmer City Council. He was married at the time when he was alleged to be with Palin.

His is a city council member in Palmer.

This page was live as of this posting. I copied the page so it does not disppear like so many other things have
http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/jnail/blog/&blogId=3623

[seemslikeadream]

17. Brad Hanson

http://www.cityofpalmer.org/index.asp?Type=B_DIR&SEC={467D2DA7-5BC1-44A4-8BBC-D44F17946B90}&DE={AA16AA9B-7CBC-44A7-BAF8-3AF9F322B64F}

[Javaman]

25. He looks like the uncle in Napoleon Dynamite!!! LOLOLOL nt

[crazylikafox]

19. Hmmm... He looks like her husband with longer hair

[notadmblnd]

18. Rumor has it that...

Mr. Brad Hanson, the man that has spilled the beans on his affair with Sarah Palin to The Enquirer is now a member of the Palmer City Council. He was married at the time when he was alleged to be with Palin.

His is a city council member in Palmer.

http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/jnail/

[seemslikeadream]

20. The mono story is crap, since Bristol is around the baby??

http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/jnail/

Jnail -- please post or send me a PM with your email contact info. I can't seem to send you a PM directly and I want to talk to you.

I, too, was very excited by these pictures. it seems to negate much of the story told by the Palins regarding her relationship with Levi. However, these pictures and, particularly, the captions do tend to help those who claim that Sarah Palin is the mother. The reference to "my little brother" would only be true if Sarah was, in fact, the mother of the child. It would be kind of like a "brother-in-law", sort of, but more accurately perhaps the brother of her planned or current sister-in-law.

Again, the photos have probative value, but the assertions that the infant is, in fact, her "brother" could result from one or more of the following:

1) She believes that Sarah Palin is the baby's mother.
2) She knows Sarah Palin is not the mother, but is maintaining the ruse.
3) She knows affirmatively that Sarah Palin is the mother.

The problem with result 3 is that you have to also then accept at face value that Levi and Bristol are already married, which contradicts the public statements of her parents that they are going to be married. She could testify to what she knew at the time, but would then be subject to cross-examination. If she was not, then her entire testimony is worthless. It could coached or offered to serve her own interests.

I would proffer that I interpret these pictures/captions to reach the following possible conclusions:

1) Everyone considers everyone close family. She could, therefore, be in on the secret.
2) .The mono story is crap, since Bristol is around the baby
3) Everyone considers everyone close family so the birth of Trig by Sarah Palin would be a joyous occasion worthy of pictures and posting.
4) Everyone considers everyone close family so the birth of Trig by Bristol Palin would be a joyous occasion worthy of pictures and posting.
5) You have to be REAL close family to post pictures of your future potential sister-in-law's new baby brother.
6) Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston were, at minimum, engaged as early as the end of April or early May, based on the size of the infant.
7) Bristol Palin could not have known that she was pregnant then if she is 5 months pregnant now, based on the likely date of the pictures (based on the infant's size), since not enough time could have passed.
8) If Bristol and Levi were already married, then there would have been no need to cover up the pregnancy, but the Palin's public statements don't make sense.

I find a couple of strongly supported suppositions:

A) Levi and Bristol were already engaged at the time of these photos. They were probably not married yet based on the other circumstances.
B) They intended to get married with or without Sarah Palin's nomination to VP.

Now things get muddled real fast.

C) Combining the fact of Bristol leaving school where Levi remained, it seems unlikely that they would be engaged if the baby was Bristol's but Levi was not the father. This is inconclusive, however.
D) If Bristol is the mother and Levi is the father, that would explain the closeness obvious in the pictures and that the families seemed to be joined already. If so, it seems likely that they would keep the secret.
E) If Bristol was the mother and Levi the father, it seems HIGHLY unlikely that they would not tell that to Levi.
F) That there were no posted pictures of Levi with the baby cuts both ways. If they were covering it up publicly, they probably wouldn't show him with the baby. If he weren't the father, they probably wouldn't show him. But this is the sister's web page, so this is as best inconclusive.
G) Everyone is VERY close even though Bristol left school. This is consistent with, but hardly proof of, the central assertion of Bristol being the mother of Trig.
H) If everyone is so close, why is there all the secrecy about her being pregnant?

Pictures are worth a lot in the court of public opinion, because critical reasoning is not a skill common to many in the general public. The press has it but ignores it for a story.

I am wildly speculating here and do not suggest this course of action, but if one were to post these pictures without the captions, the public would interpret them this way:

1) This family is so close that it must be Bristol's child, not Sarah's.
2) A new arrival of your best-friend-brother's child (your nephew) by your future sister-in-law (who you already considered married) would cause you to take and post these pictures, not necessarily the birth of your future sister-in-law's baby brother.
3) Gov. Palin's posture in the picture is not consistent with her being the mother.

With these pictures, with our without captions, they would have a lot of explaining to do.

[Wilber_Stool]

21. The server at Sullivan's link

is down.

[torbird]

22. Cautious

The cautious read on this would be simply that the man never imagined anyone would WANT to see his divorce papers, and now that his partner's wife is a huge celebrity he's nervous that people will learn some unsavory things about him (and him alone) by looking at the papers.

Or, it could be a huge scandal. Who knows. I'm just saying...

[2008]

23. k&r

[Festivito]

24. Could not make this stuff up. /nt

[The Stranger]

27. Can someone please get and post copies of the divorce papers?

Sheesh. Let's move move move MOVE MOVE MOVE, PEOPLE!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

28. My sis works works at a lwa firm...

she is working on it. :evilgrin: The servers are uber busy because of all the press interest.

[libnnc]

29. Scooby Doo ear perk...

"Huh?"

:popcorn:

[seemslikeadream]

30. Scooby Doo

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. So who is her lover? Hanson or Richter or Both??? Remember the old novel & tv show Peyton Place?

:rofl:

[Bozita]

37. Scorecards, scorecards, can't tell the players without a scorecard!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

38. lol! Maybe that's why the RNC played "Centerfield" by John Fogarty last night?

BTW...I doubt that they had his permission to use it.

[Bluebear]

32. EMERGENCY yet!

[Bozita]

36. Sounds like McCain may have selected a home-wrecking adulteress as his running mate.

Keep your eyes on her, Cindy.

But then, you know what to watch for, don't you?