Levi Johnston quits oil field job

[spindrifter]

By WESLEY LOY
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Published: January 5th, 2009 06:13 PM
Last Modified: January 5th, 2009 06:14 PM

Levi Johnston, the Wasilla teenager planning to marry Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to participate in an electrical apprenticeship program, Johnston's father said today.

Johnston this fall began working at the Milne Point oil field through the ASRC Energy Services apprenticeship program.

However, radio talk show commentator Dan Fagan, in a newspaper column published Sunday, questioned how Johnston could take part in the apprenticeship program without the required high school education.

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Keith Johnston also said the governor had nothing to do with getting Levi Johnston the oil field job. Keith Johnston said his own position as an ASRC construction engineer accounts for any help his son received in landing work.

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http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/643519.html

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. So it was just good old fashioned nepotism that landed him the job. nt

[4 t 4]

8. Sorry but I don't feel bad because this

is all happening because of her and I'll never forget that radio interview I heard with her (can't remember what show but I can find it if I must) where she said her and Todd had so bad times too with health care it wasn't until they both landed some good union jobs that they were both ok. Well isn't her party way against unions ? Do as I say not as I do I hate, hate hate a hypocrite-enough said.

[Maru Kitteh]

27. I'm so proud of the way DU is so hungry to punish teenaged parents for the sins of their dumb parent

We all made the FINEST of decisions as 18 year olds, and so we are able to sit in judgement. Oh and it's perfectly just to dump on the newborn babies as well.

[Obamanaut]

33. Dumping on newborns - like gifts from around the world or a fee for

photos of $300,000? Somehow I can't work up even a mote of sympathy.

[Ian David]

2. He wants to spend more time dealing drugs with his family? n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. LOL!

:rofl:

[DJ13]

3. It may not have been Sarah's doing (directly)

But Todd worked in those same field up to a couple of years ago, didnt he?

[Marie26]

4. I see a brilliant political career for Levi

Didn't Shrub quit his first oil field job at about the same age?

[Fearless]

12. No, but he did buy the Texas Rangers... which is just about equivalent.

:rofl:

[tblue]

16. and trade Sammy Sosa!

[Duckhunter935]

5. Caught

[SoCalDem]

6. and as he left, he was overheard to say......

"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS"

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[Stinky The Clown]

17. Ha.Ha.Ha

[Ilsa]

7. W.* liked cutting in line for special jobs, too, like that pilot slot in TANG. nt

[Cleita]

9. I feel bad for these eighteen year old kids. Yes, they are adults in a sense,

but they are still totally being manipulated by the not-so-bright adults in their lives. Let's add the media spotlight that is focusing on their shortcomings and I wonder how many eighteen year olds come out of this without some bitterness.

[rvablue]

22. I felt bad for them right up to the moment they hawked pics of their baby for $300,000

Now, they are fair game.

They were allowed their privacy. It wasn't their choice to be in the spotlight.

They have NOW made their choice to face any and all criticism.

[Cleita]

28. Somebody gave them the advice to do that or at least didn't advise

them not to do that. Hmmm.... I wonder who that might be, Governor grandma or drug dealing grandma? They are still too young for a lot of common sense. I'm sorry they are kids whom seem to have not much guidance from those who are supposed to be guiding them.

[rvablue]

30. So...after having a child, what is the age limit for taking responsibility for the welfare

of said child?

They penned the deal.

And they may be young and I can sympathize with that. What I can't sympathize with is having this family plastering puff pieces all over the media and not having to face any criticism.

Sorry, they've anted in and after what they went through this summer should have had enough sense if they wanted to be more private....with advice from grandma S or grandma O.

[Cleita]

31. They are still kids. Think back when you were eighteen. You still were

probably dependent on the grown ups, if not for money, for identity and unless you were a very smart kid, you didn't have a clue about politics or religion except what you were told.

[Obamanaut]

34. They are not kids any more. They are eligible to vote. They are

eligible to join the military and get blown up. They can enter into contracts. They can procreate. They are adults.

[Cleita]

36. They are new adults with practically no experience in life as adults to draw on.

The reason the military likes eighteen years old is because they don't have minds of their own and can be brainwashed into killing without conscience. They can procreate from the time they are thirteen in most cases. That doesn't make them adults. As far as the contracts and voting, most eighteen year olds will vote like their parents. I know I would have and that would have been Republican. In my day though I had to be twenty-one, enough time to go to college and go to work so that I had some experience to make a different decision and vote as a Democrat. As far as contracts you can be sure there is a mature adult hovering around, even if it's a lawyer or parent influencing them.

[Obamanaut]

37. Call the 'young adults' then. They lived at home during their

formative years, the time when the adults in the home should have been preparing them for the time when they left the nest, but apparently did not.

Now we have the same adults setting examples of grifters, drug dealers, proponents of nepotism.

Your post presents a jaundiced view of the military. I graduated from high school at age 17. My senior year I worked 33 hours a week. I went to basic training four days after graduation, became an aircraft electrician, and retired 28 years later. I took many college classes during my career, and even more after retiring. I don't feel brainwashed.

This may be a shock, but most of the people in the military are regular people. They are parents, sometimes grandparents, children. Most are just trying to earn a living to feed their families. Some are rebublican, some democrat, others libertarian. There are christians and non christians. Gosh, it looks like the military is (approximately) a 2 million member segment of society as a whole. And just as in society as a whole, there are scumbags.

But not all of us were brainwashed. Do you recall the guy Grainer, of the Abu Ghraib debacle? As a civilian, he was a prison guard, with charges of abuse on his record. Not all prison guards are abusive (refer to preceding paragraph for description of most prison guards - similar to military.)

The two young people in question are adults. Whether or not they were prepared for adulthood is a separate thing.

[Cleita]

38. I had three cousins in the military back when there was a draft and I lived

in a base town while growing up. Most of the families whose kids I played with were the children of military or of the civilian employees of the base. I joined the USO for a while when I was eighteen. Don't tell me I have no idea about the military. Basic training is all about getting you fit to go to war and kill. They don't tell you that but they make sure you will follow orders and that's the brain washing. The order will be to kill in war. Make no mistake about it.

Yes, the parents are poor role models for those kids. All the more reason to cut them some slack until they do grow up in a couple of years. Their last life experience was high school, for chrissakes! And, didn't Sarah Palin have to convince her eldest to join the military because she could no longer control him? He's in Irag the last I heard. No training to kill there, according to you, but I guess Sarah already taught him to kill animals. It's a short jump to people I suppose.

[Obamanaut]

39. Well then, I can only surmise that you have the mindset of "love

the country but loathe the military." Google that phrase if it doesn't ring a bell.

I guess I'll go now and hone my killing skills by shooting a squirrel or two. Maybe a couple of birds in the back yard feeder. Don't want to lose my edge. No need to respond, I won't see it. Goodbye.

[Cleita]

40. I will respond for those others who read this. I don't care if you see it.

No one ever spoke of "love the country but loathe the military". Talk about even thinking you even know what I'm thinking and that is not it. That's very, very presumptious of you. I have a great respect for the military before Bush came into office. I don't have so much respect now for the people who run it, the brass, but that can be fixed in the future. I do respect every soldier who has to go to war, whether they thought it was a just war or not, because they had to follow orders.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. LOL!!! The oil field is just a series of tubes

That called out this hypocrisy or as his god father said


"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday . Why? Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially."


<...> They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."


Now............. About Deuteronomy and 22:3 and your mother's church's stance on the infallibility of the bible?
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/dt/23.html

[Fleshdancer]

11. It sucks that this is even reported

An unexpected pregnancy, a mom busted for drugs, and now this...all because the mom of the girl he dated was a hail mary choice for VP from a man who, in hindsight, had no chance in hell winning the White House regardless of which Democrat won the primary.

I feel for him. His life might go back to normal if the fundies weren't so fixated on Sarah Palin. I don't see this happening any time soon though.

[tblue]

19. I guess when you bang the gov's daughter, you're literally gambling with your future.

Sorry to be so crude, but that's what did the poor guy in. He was just a gun-totin' teenage kid and now he's exposed as a directionless loser forced to marry the daughter of a Christofascist Rapture-bound ego-maniac who was hell bent on running the world.

Don 't worry too much about old Levi. He'll get rich writing a book and being famous for being famous a la J the P.

[Fleshdancer]

20. Looks like it

Oddly enough, out of all the states in the union, banging the daughter of the Gov of Alaska probably would have had the least impact before 2008. Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

[alarimer]

24. He's a loser who managed to ruin three lives.

I don't see much of a future there, unless they plan on living off Mom's ill-gotten gains (whatever those might be). Next time the jackass should use a condom.

[originalpckelly]

29. "No thanks, I like my hot dog without anything on it!"

Putz. Grr! It's these fundie values. It's not wrong to have sex, so long as you can have a kid from it.

[rvablue]

23. OHHH...and...maybe it has something to do with their 300,000 payday for selling

pictures of their newborn.

And his life could have "gone back to normal" if he had decided not to cash in on his innocent child.

[Fleshdancer]

32. lol, I'm sure he has a lot of decision power in THAT family

:rofl:

[dweller]

13. Back to changing diapers, and grooming his political career...

face it, he's realized any dorkus can be elected by repuglicans, why not him?

go for the gold Levi, run for the Wasilla mayorship, i wish you the best. }(
dp

[Somawas]

14. Also, Levi's getting the job had nothing to do with

throbbing horizontal teenage desire.

[IDemo]

15. "Wildcat" would be a great Palin baby name

[Canuckistanian]

21. How about "Derrick"?

I slay me.

[Monk06]

25. More time for fishin', hangin' out with the guys and kickin' ass. Oh and fuckin'

[XOKCowboy]

26. Dan Fagan is a conservative columnist also...

Sarah is a bipartisan pariah. Gotta love it

[Blue Diadem]

35. "He has to do everything by the book now"

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As for the requirement of a high school diploma to be in the apprenticeship program, Keith Johnston said, "It's just something that slipped through the cracks." He said the lack of a diploma wasn't something that managers at ASRC caught and neither he nor Levi gave it much thought.

But now, Levi figures it's best to leave the job and pursue his education, Keith Johnston said. Levi's not eligible for the apprenticeship program without the diploma, he said.

"You guys are watching him so tightly," Johnston said, referring to the media. "He's being treated different than an average 18-year-old kid. He has to do everything by the book now."
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Oh really Mr. Johnston? How many average 18 yr olds without a diploma have made it into the apprentice program?

[WI_DEM]

41. Why do we care about these people?

[ogneopasno]

42. ASRC is double-breasted. I'm assuming he was in the scabby-ass program, yes?

Just curious.