ChiCricket

I tried to get into The Talk, but the PTV boards on it are so dead I gave up on it. Most of the fun of watching tv shows for me is to read the PTV forum snark and discussion for them. If nobody is commenting on shows, it goes off of my DVR. Guess I'm addicted to these forums more than tv. To keep it OT, love it or hate it, you can't say The View doesn't generate conversation.

My Marine son and his family just got transferred to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina..should I worry? How close it that to the ocean?

Well, I learned two new things today from this post. I had to Google Habsburg jaw and the definition of Machiavellian. Who says TV isn't educational? (Well, at least these PTV boards are.)

I've heard they're located in Oakbrook (here in Illinois.) If that's true, that is very pricey real estate. So either the rent is getting too be too high to handle now, or they own the property, and need to sell because they need the money.

My slightly older brother called me Cricket when we were young , and everyone else started doing it too. Nobody ever knew why he decided to call me that, as it's nowhere close to my given name. The Chi part is because I'm from the Chicago area.

Yes! The one sibling who didn't start going to this evangelical church is now a Jehovah's Witness.

It's not just on paper. I'm married to a Puerto Rican, and almost every single one of his eleven brothers and sisters got "saved" in recent years and are now all in an evangelical fundy type church in their Chicago Humbolt Park neighborhood (lots and lots of Puerto Ricans live there.) At first I was happy they got away from drugs and gangs (a few were into that, not all of them), but it seems they just traded that in for a cult type church..which seems to take a nice big cut of all their pay, and 'encourages' them to donate things like property and vehicles to them. My husband is the only diehard Catholic left in his family now, and they try SO hard to convert him! That's why what Jill and Derrick are doing pisses me off. They take advantage of people down and out, get THEM hooked, and then little by little suck in the rest of their families. Which is why, even though I'm agnostic now,I still encourage my husband to go to Mass. I know what the Catholic church is..And it's not a pyramid scheme like this place is. (sorry this was so long, but the whole thing really gets my goat)

I have a 25 year old nephew that isn't religious at all, but who my whole family has blocked on Facebook because of his right wing rants about gun owners rights, welfare cheats, illegal immigrants, etc. This is my sister's son, and I know for a fact he didn't grow up with this stuff being drilled into his head. Seems like once he joined the Marines he started all this..and the weird thing is, he seems to love us all and treats us so nicely when we see him in person, even though none of us agree with anything he posts (and have told him so.) It makes me wonder if being online, it's easier for people like Jessa (and my nephew) to rant and rave, but in real life they turn it way down? I wonder if Jessa acts differently to someone's face. And yes,my nephew and Jessa seem to me to be the "get off my lawn" type people.(at least online)

I found the following on two different places on the web..makes you wonder if Josh grew up in a different family how differently he might have turned out.(OT, As one of seven siblings, birth order studies have always interested me) "Adler went on to suggest that eldest children are most likely to suffer from neuroticism and feelings of excessive responsibility – and that the melancholy they feel from a very early age never really leaves them. Eldest children, Adler said, are more likely than later-borns to grow up to become alcoholics and substance abusers, and even criminals." But on the other hand: "Some studies have looked at U.S. presidents, Nobel Laureates or NASA astronauts to see whether they are mostly first-born children or later born children. U.S. presidents and science Nobel Laureates were found to be overwhelmingly first-borns, as were 21 of the first 23 NASA astronauts." Makes you wonder how much more these traits are exacerbated by having SO many siblings, as Josh did (and a checked out mother.)

I already posted something like this this in regard to Anna, but maybe it can work for Jinger too. Maybe all of us that care about Jinger can get our resources together and do a mass airdrop of informational letters for her....about ALL the people willing to help her......ALL over the Duggar compound! THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF THEM...She's bound to see ONE of them, right?" This was after I thought about how they finally got Harry's invite to Hogwarts to him via magical owls (anyone here own a magical owl?)

My first thought when I saw their commercials was that how much it must stink to actually be a real person named Ashley Madison. But I'd still take that over having the name Josh J Duggar nowadays.

I've been reading so much about this latest scandal, that I had insomnia last night (I tend to obsess when something like this happens.) As I was in bed trying to clear my head of all things Duggar, this popped into my head: " Hey! Maybe all of us that care about Anna can get our resources together and do a mass airdrop of information for Anna of choices she has besides staying with Josh......ALL over the Duggar compound! THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF THEM...She's bound to see ONE of them, right?" This was after I thought about how they finally got Harry's invite to Hogwarts to him via magical owls (anyone here own a magical owl?)

I was just watching The Soup and it made me laugh when the host said this: "After his account was found on Ashley Madison, Josh Duggar posted an apology online for all his recent behavior. However, it was revealed the apology was taken down and edited several times to take out specific references that were originally there. Unfortunately Josh, the Internet is like an under age sibling. Once you put something personal of yours on it, it doesn't forget." Hee

¡Felíz Cumpleaños,HFC! (I thought I'd be different and say it in Spanish, for no reason whatsoever) :)

Maybe they're blind and don't need to use lights? (I wonder weird thoughts about some of my neighbors too sometimes)

Those bangs on Ben remind me of Jim Carey in dumb and dumber. ick

The culture shock I remember from when I moved to Florida from Illinois..was everyone calling what I called 'pop' soda. I got teased at my job because I said pop. Then after nine HOT humid years we moved back to Illinois and I had to relearn calling it pop again. I still get it mixed up sometimes.

LOL since I have five kids (and twelve grandkids) I guess Gothard was wrong about that (what a shocker)

I pay for our cable so I block Fox News on all our TV's...because my husband believes everything they report, and I...don't. (we argue much less now)

Yeah, The diary of Anne Frank scared the crap out of me. I read some books way too young because I was so bored with the ones meant for my age. Also got really scared at the Nazi scenes in the Sound of Music when I was young. Ironically, one of my daughters converted to Judaism when she got married....And then I heard first hand how many of her husband's family died in the holocaust. :(

This is so true. I recently had a month long headache (ended up being a sinus infection) and while I had it, everything was SO loud to me. Clocks ticking, my dog's toenails clicking on my hardwood floor, and EVERYTHING my husband said or did! Poor guy,I even asked him to please STOP CHEWING HIS OATMEAL SO LOUDLY. I can't even imagine going through that as a baby. The only thing that kept me sane during this time was wearing my husband's old airport worker's headphones. That's how loud everything sounded to me..like the equivalent of a roaring jet engine.

I looked these up to see what they are about, and I can see why (in their minds) they thought it was good to show you "Thief in the night" (A woman (Patty Dunning) has a religious awakening after discovering that her husband and millions more have vanished overnight.) But why in the world did they show you "The Sound of thunder?" (In the year 2055, greedy entrepreneur Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley) makes a fortune with his company, Time Safari Inc., which allows millionaires to travel back to the prehistoric era to hunt dinosaurs. Strict regulations are in place so that the present is not altered. But, during one time-travel safari, a hunter steps on a butterfly and unleashes a drastic ripple effect through time. Now researcher Dr. Travis Ryer (Edward Burns) must travel back to prevent the source of the disruption.) Do I have the wrong movie? That's the only one I could find with that title. BTW, to be fair, adults make dumb mistakes (we're human after all) but kids can't UN-see stuff like movies. I'll never stop hearing from my daughter how scared she got from me taking her to see JAWS when she was nine. To this day she won't put a toe in the ocean, and she's in her forties now. I was so clueless as a very young mom sometimes, which is why I don't think this cult's "marry really young stance" is a good thing.

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/billy.grahams.grandson.on.josh.duggar.and.karen.hinkley.churches.must.protect.victims.not.offenders/55221.htm (Written by Billy Graham's grandson) "Tchividjian branded it a "tragic reminder to all of us about the necessity of immediately reporting sexual abuse to the proper authorities, regardless of the age of the offender or whether or not the crime occurred inside or outside of the home."

I felt conflicted hearing this..not from a religious standpoint of redemption (I'm agnostic), but from the conviction that most people deserve a second chance (after serving whatever punishment for whatever they did, however.) Then I remembered reading that sex offenders re-offend all the time (even after therapy). So I guess being on a sex-registry is a necessary evil, even for minors. Because how can we warn and protect children from the boogeyman, if we don't even know who the boogeyman IS?

Fox Duggar interview: