Churchhoney

Unfortunately for Duggardom, in order to write something like this you'd need to have at least a smidgen of respect for a human being other than yourself.

And apparently this brings in a million viewers. That's on a list somewhere with other inexplicable but troubling facts about the universe.

Like I said, if you're not a real Duggar, you are NObody. Unfortunately, when you don't know anything, you don't know this, either. Hence their remarkable ability to consider their super-dumb lives as the center and the gold standard of the universe.

Unfortunately he has no role models for this!

Oh, I'd take my car to him in a minute! ha . Thanks. I'd forgotten whether the mechanic was Jason or Justin. But I was including Joe among the potential employees -- since didn't he go to Crown to "study" something to do with his passion for "ministering to young men"? And as I write this thinking of Jer's masturbation sermon -- not to mention the recent Joe and the Twins photo -- it becomes funnier and more annoying at the same time....And maybe that shopping mall anti-sex lecture for suburban boys isn't so far fetched, after all. .... Maybe they could rent an auto bay in the evenings for their preaching cum car fixing.

And Michelle will tell us she loves bling. Which we already knew because, hey, we're familiar with her dress sense.

Good point. That seems like one of the few real possibilities, doesn't it? And I guess if Jeremy figures the Duggars are fairy dust, his church sponsor might be persuaded that they're fairy dust, too. And I suppose, to a certain clientele, they are fairy dust. Wonder if he'd bring all the other would-be preachers and those with preacherlike in the Duggar household on board? Besides Bin and Derick, there's Joe, the preacher-mechanic, and heaven knows how many more. Don't know who else would hire them.

Well, S.O.S. has to pretend it has a mission, and for that it needs people being pseudo missionaries. If S.O.S. doesn't have missionaries of a sort to trot out, then the U.S. missioncationers would have to admit that they're not visiting and helping out in a Danger America mission but that they're only VAcationers. They're paying for a trip that will allow them to feel self-righteous instead of self-indulgent, and unless there are pretend missionaries there for them to pretend to help, then it would only be a week at the beach. Basically, I think Jill and Derick serve the purpose of providing cover for a bunch of U.S. fundies to take beach vacations and for the S.O.S. guy to run a tourist operation while pretending that he's serving God. I wonder whether this is because he's not a "real" Duggar. They don't give much importance to anyone who's not, seems to me.

I'm wondering what shtick they can use to solicit significant funds, though. Derick and Jill are saving the poor heathen Catholics and their pitch relies on the idea that you're supporting these missionaries (and also maybe your tour guides for Danger America in some cases). But Bin seems to be generally dependent on JB and TLC. So what kind of scheme can Jeremy cook up here in the USofA that will bring in serious leghumper cash of the kind a foreign missioncation outfit can, I wonder. Seems as if you need a gimmick. And they're certainly not going to get an actual church aside from the little one he has in Texas. Who would build anything bigger and support it in the early going? I have a hard time believing that he doesn't have some plan in mind, but I don't really see what it could be. Send us money so Jer can go to shopping malls and preach against suburban teenagers' masturbation habits? I can't see that getting anything like the response that a foreign "mission" would.

And it's hilarious. You go, guys. Sometimes desire can fuel initiative. Something has to energize a kid or two to hightail it out of that house and try to make lives for themselves in the real world. And -- take that, Insane Holy Goalie.

I'm pretty sure JB did go either last summer or the summer before. I clearly remember one set of pictures of him with some younger Howlers at the air show. That's because I remember thinking that if the eager and smiling young boys knew how JB's idiotic education and socialization practices were actually depriving them of adult involvement in careers like aerospace one of them might get a clue and punch his fat lights out.

Geno's just opened at the Philly airport. (I connect through there a lot.) That's probably why they were steered to take the photo where they did, since it's a new concession for the airport that I'm sure they want to publicize. .... They probably got money for that picture ... or at least some cheesesteaks. lol.

Makes me wonder how many Duggars actually want him to be in the wedding and the photos. I'm thinking .... Anna, the M kids, and Michelle?

Oh, come on. She's mom and grandma to many kids. That bag is bursting with the things she uses to care for and entertain them all.

Makes sense. Could also have been Deanna, maybe? Maybe she had a completely different relationship with her father than JB did? One line that sticks out to me is the one about Grandpa Dugg "telling funny stories even about himself to make others forget their own problems." Humor at one's own expense is something of which aggressive-and-egocentric-'humor'-only Jizm Bob is completely incapable. If true, it certainly shows one very stark difference between JB and JL and maybe some stark differences were at the root of the resentment? JL -- an open and funny person who may have fallen off the sober and serious wagon a lot, getting into a bit of trouble and thus infuriating and scaring JB, the very uptight, fearful, extremely ego-driven kid? I'd love to know the truth about all of this. (cause believe it or not I would like to understand Jim Bob more ... What is wrong with me? lol)

Aaaaa, she was sitting in the massive east coast heat wave. She can wear any pants she wants. After all, I didn't see any actual Duggar men on the site. They seem to be the ones who are absolutely incapable of controlling themselves. Jeremy's sermonizing to the contrary, of course.

And then there's Jimmy Lee's obit, which has bugged the heck out of me ever since I first saw it. This -- in multiple ways -- is so not the person that JB describes, so what the heck is going on here, and what do the rest of the family make of this discrepancy: "J.L had a unique ability to make others laugh and smile. He delighted in spending time with his family traveling and doing things together. He was a fun Grandpa. Few people enjoyed life as much as he did. "After graduating from Fayetteville High School in 1955, he attended the University of Arkansas, and served in the Army ROTC. He married Mary Duggar in 1960. In 1962, he became a third generation real estate agent in Duggar Realty that his grandfather J.T. Duggar established in 1933. "He loved buying and selling property, cars, and making "big" trades. Among many of his real estate transactions, he sold sites for the Springdale Holiday Inn & Convention Center, McDonald's on U.S. 412, Heritage Funeral Home and the new Tamales Restaurant coming soon on 48th Street. He was an incredible salesman. "He grew up attending Calvary Baptist Church in Fayetteville and was a member First Baptist Church in Springdale for many years. "Grandpa Duggar lived out the verse in Proverbs 17:22 that says, "A joyful heart is like good medicine." He loved cracking jokes in tense situations, telling funny stories even about himself to make others forget their own problems. If he could come back just for five minutes, he would tell us how wonderful Heaven is, and how important it is for the rest of us to make sure we have a relationship with Jesus and to live every day for Him! He would tell us not to get so bogged down with the cares of this world or to worry about anything, but to love God, serve others and make a difference with whatever time and resources we have left. He will be greatly missed." http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33774692

Oh, of course they wouldn't get blowback from their followers. But I'm talking about their many very determined critics and enemies, who are always on the lookout for family-values-related hypocrisy coming out of FRC. There's no way they wouldn't have gotten major blowback from those critics, who are many and determined because they view FRC as a potent political enemy that they must take down. Such a story would have blown up in the press, at least in the Washington political press -- which matters a lot to FRC -- for some of the same reasons the Josh story did -- because it would have been a flashpoint political story that also was an entertainment story, a people story and a story of big-time hypocrisy from a major political player. They would definitely spend some thousands on an extension of insurance coverage to forestall that. And they didn't need to consider it pay to Josh. They would have considered it as both a means to cover FRC's ass and avoid bad press -- a massive consideration in DC -- and a way to help a young pregnant mother and her kids who weren't at fault in the matter. In my opinion, there's no way they'd be so silly and pinchpenny as to cut off that insurance when a simple and really quite cheap six- to eight-month extension of it would buy them protection from eagle-eyed liberal groups and the press jumping up and down on their ass for risking a childbirth healthcare tragedy that they might have prevented.

Perhaps because the real-life Duggars would have absolutely no personal appeal to anyone who isn't a desperate famewhore? I do expect that's the case.

I'm still trying to figure out what collection that skimpy blue engagement shirt was from. So far best guess is the "I Shrank It In the Wash But It Was Ugly Anyway" collection. Although I fear it'd have to be "She Shrank It In the Wash..."

I think Descartes said it best: "I appear on video. Therefore I am."

Well, by Duggar standards I think there are probably small rodents we can classify as educated. So there's that.

I assume Tabby Paine is still on deck for the schooling? I wonder whether she and Jana hang out? I'd think they would.

Yeah, the TLC money definitely determines whether they can get Medicaid. I have no idea what TLC would be paying Anna for this show, though, and do we know that Josh isn't working at all? The kids and Anna when pregnant are fairly likely to be covered, I would think, but who knows? Here are the current Arkansas eligibility criteria for their Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act: "Who is eligible Children from 0-18 with incomes up to 211% of FPL; pregnant women with incomes up to 209% of FPL; parents with incomes up to 133% of FPL; non-elderly adults with household incomes up to 133% of FPL; certain elderly and disabled individuals." If TLC takes them above the Medicaid thresholds, though, they could still get relatively affordable coverage under the Affordable Care Act, if they chose to accept it, since I can't imagine that they're making very much from the network, with Anna being only a bit player. But who knows what Duggars will do? Here are some of the costs in Arkansas for lower-income people: "88 percent of Arkansas consumers who were signed up qualified for an average tax credit of $280 per month through the Marketplace. 58 percent of Arkansas Marketplace enrollees obtained coverage for $100 or less after any applicable tax credits in 2015, and 85 percent had the option of doing so." http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts-and-features/state-by-state/how-aca-is-working-for-arkansas/index.html

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