Albanyguy

Perhaps the Lord, who parted the waters of the Red Sea for the Israelites, also parted the dead branches of the Rodrigues driveway so that they could fulfill His plan for them to preach and sing in West Virginia.

And I think at least a few of them actually believe that they’ll back on TV again one day and that they have to stay prepared. Of course, there’s not a snowball’s chance, but hope stings eternal.

And none of this crap was blown away or damaged in the SEVERE storm they endured?

I think what they really mean is that fame gave Jim Bob the freedom to be who he really was all along.

This picture looks staged to me. The “damage” is awfully neat and tidy. Not saying they didn’t have a storm go through, but I suspect she needed to find a way to make herself the center of the drama.

Wasn't Gabriel the name Jessa had originally picked out for Spurgeon? I can see her being pissed if Jill "steals" it.

If Ivy managed to turn on a burner and was in danger of starting a fire, Jessa's first instinct wouldn't be to pull her away, it would be to grab her phone and start filming.

Unfortunately, a lot of pastors really aren't.

Maybe Jim Bob just liked to foster the illusion that his daughters had loads of suitors and that he had a wide selection of young men to pick and choose from. It would only help the family image to present the girls as sought-after princesses, the creme de la creme of young Fundie womanhood.

Well, she IS a Duggar and you can't go too far wrong by assuming that anything a Duggar says is a gross exaggeration (or an outright lie).

Jill herself will make sure that this won’t happen. The boys can’t marry without her permission and she’ll only pick girls who are quiet, timid and easy to bully.

I’m glad to see that, too, but it could simply be because nobody’s made him an offer. I’d imagine that anybody connected to the Duggars would be persona non grata with the FRC, FoF or any other national lobbying group these days.

I think Jim Bob hated his father and demeaning the helpless old man like this was his nasty little way of getting even for whatever grudges he was holding onto.

And all their houses are either so full of junk that they look like the inside of a dollar store or so empty and sterile that they look like the lobby of an Econo Lodge.

Or, better yet, she'll help him escape and they'll go on the lam together until they go out in a blaze of glory, dying side by side in a hail of bullets.

70 has looked better.

IIRC, they only came up with the "Lolli/Pops" nonsense a few years ago, rather than back when their first grandchildren were born. It was basically "I know you've called me something else all your life, but from now on, I want you to call me Lolli." No wonder it didn't stick. That was right around the same time that Anna and a few of the other daughters/daughters-in-law suddenly started referring to their children as "kiddos". It was "kiddos" this and "kiddos" that for a while, but it quickly died out when posters began making fun of them and speculating that they were trying to copy Joanna Gaines.

God forgive me, but I really want to see the smirks wiped off those ugly faces.

Just when you think these people can't possibly get any weirder... I wouldn't be surprised if this was the one and only time in their marriage that Ben put his foot down and demanded his own way, leaving Jessa stunned and shocked at having him defy her. She gave in, but I'll bet she found a way to make him suffer for it later.

I'll bet that before Jill hit the road, she deputized a few "sweet friends" to drop by unexpectedly to try to catch the boys doing something sinful and tattle on them.

I think he's probably fairly comfortable right now in jail, but will be in for a rude shock when he gets to the Federal pen, where the conditions will be much harsher.

Josh had the bad luck to marry a girl who would come to share his mother's obsession with marathon childbearing. The only difference between the two is that, to her credit, Anna feels some responsibility towards raising the babies she pops out.

If his lawyers are smart, they’ll make him keep his mouth shut. Nothing he can possibly say will help him, since an honest admission of his guilt and a sincere show of remorse is never going to happen.

I have the terrible feeling that no matter what Anna's children read or hear about their father's crimes someday, they won't believe a word of it. By then, the idea that "your daddy is an innocent man who was persecuted by our enemies for his Christian faith" will have been so thoroughly pounded into their heads by their mother and grandparents that they will never be able to accept the truth. The Duggars will make sure of that by keeping them even more isolated and dependent on their family (and more frightened and distrustful of "outsiders") than any of their cousins.

According to John Bloom and Jim Atkinson, Candy’s second affair was with a married man they identified only as “Richard”. He was not part of the church crowd, but was someone she met at a neighborhood party. It was hot and heavy at first (he was described as being a whole lot better in bed than Allan), but fizzled out shortly before the murder. I loved how when Candy was refusing to give the name of her second lover, all the church ladies in the courtroom were throwing suspicious glances at their husbands.