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Back in the 80s it was very different. Team either played in municipal stadiums or shared a stadium with the local baseball team. The Colts had somewhere to go. ETA: During this same time frame - the Raiders bailed for LA and played in the Coliseum. The Cardinals bailed from St. Louis to Arizona and played in Arizona State's Stadium until their stadium was built. W The push for dedicated single sport stadiums with sky boxes and party zones, etc really didn't start until mid to late 90s and only got real momentum in the early 00s. that's why it so different for the Oakland As, they know how long it takes to build a purpose built stadium nowdays. Back then, you went with what was available and tried for better later.

and that is such a low bar the kids really have no chance in life. Because right now Philip working at Wendy's is outshining his parents.

Oh my post was on the presumption that JB and Michelle have mutual Wills -- first one to go, the other gets everything. (and anything titled with rights of survivorship passes OUTSIDE the estate, same with life insurance/IRA, goes to beneficiary). Then they have provisions in their Wills for what happens after both are gone. So JB goes first, Michelle gets everything , then it passes to how they decided it should be distributed to the kids, and vice versa. Of course, nothing prevents the survivor from changing their Will after the first one goes.

Depends on what the Will says. I would not put it past JB to give it all to the Felon as the "eldest son" and the rest of the kids get nothing.

Well Jim Bob and Michelle have a nice retirement all set up I see. The money to originally buy the land came from exploiting their kids but they will never see a dime of profit.

Bingo. I have been trying to figure out the advantage to Jill (because that's the only reason she would do it). Of course, if a couple kids graduate together she only gets one outfit. Then might have to skip a year or two of new clothes. Narcissism. They literally don't think about their kids outlivng them. Because their kids do not exist independent of them. They cannot conceive that their kids might be around when they aren't (yes logically that is most likely to happen but you can't reason with unreasonable people). So it does not enter their thinking to have their kids prepared to live without them because that just won't happen in their minds.

I highly doubt the kids just happen to have the answer key to the test. These kids don't cough without permission from Mahmo. My money is on Jill giving them the answers so 1) it wouldn't show how little she actually homeschools and 2) she can brag about how smart her kids are. But Satan was out to get her as usual and tipped off the proctor to what was going on. I don't think we have even seen the pile of alleged schoolbooks this year. And I am sorry, almost 7 year old Janessa is JUST starting kindegarten? That child is going to be so delayed because Jill can't accept her baby having days are over. Even Michelle wasn't this bad after it was finally clear the baby factory was shut down for good.

1. Jill never investigates anything or plans long term any of her business ventures. She just does "what god tells her to do" i.e. lurches from one venture to another with no thought or plan. 2. Part of the failure to investigate is that she has no intellectual curiosity at all. She knows what she knows, period. She is uninterested in learning more, even if she were taught critical thinking skills. 3. Even if she did have the capacity to read it (and I think she is probably only slightly above functionally literate) she wouldn't believe it. Because it doesn't fit her preconceived notions (see 2). In other words, everyone in the world could tell Jill she is going to lose money on MLM schemes and she will just keep trying.

Russell Wilson to the Giants hahahahahahahaahahaa. Oh my, its so nice to know there is a team more screwed up than the Cowboys. As for Shadeur Sanders to the Browns, have fun with his dad. He's not good enough to put up with the circus that comes with him.

Since David has the "printing ministry" rather than a preaching ministry, I guess the smiley tracts get ordered through the clearinghouse? Then the clearinghouse sends them the money and the 1099, or if taxes are withheld, another tax form each year? Rather than each church having to send a form? The grift tour is separate from what they get from the clearinghouse. Those are "love offerings" and people are giving knowing they won't get a tax letter. But seeing how many pews are occupied while David is talking then the whole gang is screeching, I am thinking that barely covers gas for these trips. Good thing the churches feed them otherwise the kids wouldn't eat at all on these trips.

she's not moving to Florida. if she did there would be no excuse to travel there for a month every winter. It has to be somewhere she is 1) not known and 2) gives her the perfect excuse to travel elsewhere all the time. Oh and 3 - somewhere someone is willing to hand over a house to them -- with enough room for the "print shop."

Thank you everyone for liking the phrase "delusions of big fishness." As for Jill, @BradandJanet Meleuca will turn out like everything else. Like her idea of shooting to stardom ala 19Kids, surely if THEY got a show, she is deserving of one, then tying one of her kids to Anna Keller Duggar's brother (boy howdee did that crash and burn badly), the cd, the magazine, Plexus, the Ivory Creamy Boutique, the Etsy store, and on and on and on. All Jill chasing $$$ and fame. Which she will never get because 1) she's not that wonderful, uneducated, small minded, screechy, etc. and 2) she is not pleasant to work with so that someone would be willing to work with her to turn her into the star she believes she deserves to be. Even the low level grift tour of churches is slowing down. I notice no one jumped at the chance to give them an RV. Her usual begging just isn't hitting because she's begged too much (while also posting incessantly from all her vacations).

I partly blame Jill's parents as to why she is not a deep thinker. She was never taught to think. She was raised in the fundy life, which means rote knowledge of the bible and following rigid made up rules with no wriggle room. Plus she was not well educated. I mean I don't think self-centered Jill would be given to deep thinking anyway, but they didn't even give her the tools to try. Jill must be very frustrated right now. Plexus didn't give her the wealth and fame she thinks she deserves as her right. Nor does the new church think she is the greatest, most dogliest woman ever. I think with both she expected to move up from big fish in a small pond to big fish in a bigger pond, then found out she is really a small fish with delusions of big fishness. For a narcissist that is just devastating. I don't think they can move on from this church either. Unless they flat out move from the area. They have pretty much gone through all the local churches. Everyone is sick of them. Which again, has to wear on her. A lower turnout at the retreat might be the last straw for Jill in her attention seeking. Goodness knows how she will react.

Most likely. She can't keep posting about her fabulous life without people noticing that for someone with no real job who needs money all the time she has a lot of stuff and takes more than one vacation a year. Or she was so focused on getting the cruise she didn't promote the ladies retreat as much this year. I can see Jill wanting to brag so badly that she screwed up her own major source of income. (see also paragraph above along those lines).

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