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Thank you for the correction that there are a couple more episodes. I was curious awhile back and looked at a couple sites and they had listings only up until this episode. I've rarely been this glad to be wrong, because the show is finally picking up some steam. I regret spreading wrong information so, again, thanks to all who noted my error and corrected it!

We're sittin' here wondering and discussing why Robyn and Kody had the stressful adult conversation in front of Robyn's kids. The answer is that it was done so they could show the dramatic footage of The Hero carrying The Damsel to the safety of her quarters in the upper reaches of the castle. Talking about her delicate and precarious state is one thing but actually showing it was intended to be finale ratings gold. It was all about filming a suitable ending. There is very little they won't set up for the benefit of their egos and their bank account(s). It's all about the long con. We been had. (Side note: My tablet's AutoCorrect kept changing Kody to Jody and I had to fight with it. Jody was the generic name American troops in Nam used for the guy they suspected or discovered was doin' their wife/their old lady back in the world. I don't think I've heard that name since the 60s).

Plus, "god" (who is widely renowned for a sense of humor) is saying one thing to Robyn and something else to Kody. Is she not overstepping her bounds? Because Kody is the godhead of the family, the one to whom the spirit speaks, amirite? There are so many little asides with her where she is sittin' there being snippy and irritable and demanding. "Mrs Brown," indeed. The love fest when she and Meri were sittin' there hamming it up was gag worthy.

This is so true. We are ready to think about the health aspect but much less ready to think about the social aspect. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/us-isnt-ready-whats-about-happen/607636/

Among the comments about articles on the trial(s), someone posted about driving past some of the Kingston hovels every day during their commute and wondering about porches full of neglected-looking kids. The Kingstons believe their bloodline is divinely blessed yet most of their families live in horrible conditions. And Utah turns a blind eye. The exploitation and the criminal lifestyle are commonly acknowledged yet are allowed. There aren't any widely known gentile "counterfeiting families" or "bootlegging families" or "auto theft families" or "insurance fraud families." Those wouldn't be allowed to exist. But hey, if you're a polygamous criminal enterprise, come on down, no questions asked.

Shtruggle. Frushtrated. Gah. Maybe "god" will provide some diction lessons.

FFS, the egotism is off-putting. Insisting that "god" is telling you that there will be a suitable rental. Insisting that "god" is overseeing and coordinating your housing needs, which are the result of your poor decisions. I cannot begin to comprehend how someone comes to have such a self-centered mindset.

Given the giddy, phony, over-the-top, attention seeking behavior displayed for many years by Robyn's two older daughters (and because this episode is the season finale), I see the "breakdown" tonight as more of the same.

"A source," FWIW. A lot of sites are promoting this today but I didn't want to link them. https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a31274077/kylie-jenner-travis-scott-back-together/

JFC, what a pathetic bunch to be proud of on IWD.

If we could give a post two votes I'd go with Sad and Laugh for that one.

re the bold, I catch myself thinking of it that way and then wonder how accurate it is. If the money is split 3 ways then where does Kody get his money? Do each of the wives give him an allowance out of their third? Or, if they do split the pot 4 ways why the hell is he entitled to a quarter of the money when "he" has zero kids in "'his" household? But I guess that would be the same as Meri getting the same for one kid as the other moms get for 6 kids. I don't think the money has ever been explained in a satisfactory way and that, IMO, is owed to the viewers. They waffled on explaining the sex lineup as well. Suck it up, buttercups, you owe facts to the audience as part of displaying your "culture" on TV for $$$. Boo freakin' hoo that you prefer not to answer. That never should have been allowed.

This case has been going on for 5 years and has been interesting to follow. The Kingstons are a polygamous crime family. I'm posting the links in reverse chronological order and there are so many paragraphs that it's easier to use italics instead of quote boxes. The second link explains how Jacob Kingston's crimes (involving half a billion dollars) resulted in his testimony in Lev Dermen's trial. Overall, there are more questions than answers about who protects polygamy in Utah, and why. (Plymouth is a bum fuck town in Northern Utah, population 500, about 10 miles below Idaho's southern border). Published: 9 hours ago (March 8, 2020) Updated: 7 hours ago (March 8, 2020) The Washakie trial — featuring polygamy, fraud, corruption and all-star lawyers — is one of the strangest Utah has seen. Has the most surreal moment of the Lev Aslan Dermen trial been the Utah polygamist who was on the witness stand for a week, the texts with the Belize government minister who resigned midtrial, or when a man who owed $32 million walked into the Salt Lake City courtroom? U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor Leslie Goemaat asked Parrish to limit the questions defense attorney Mark Geragos could ask about the polygamous Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group or The Order. Geragos and the defense team — Dermen has had at least four lawyers in the courtroom at all times; so has the prosecution — have been arguing the conspiracy to defraud the government of biofuel tax credits and launder the proceeds was conceived and driven by The Order, particularly Jacob Kingston — Dermen’s former business partner. Kingston has pleaded guilty to a slew of charges and agreed to testify against Dermen in exchange for a prison sentence of no more than 30 years. Kingston spent six days on the witness stand in February. Geragos’ cross-examination included questions about Kingstons’ gigantic family, including his 100-plus siblings and his three wives. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/03/08/polygamy-fraud-corruption/ Published: July 19, 2019 Updated: July 30, 2019 The owners of Washakie Renewable Energy pleaded guilty to charges Thursday in what the government has called a $511 million biofuel fraud, and the pleas could have repercussions for the polygamous sect to which they belong. Jacob O. Kingston, the company’s CEO, pleaded guilty Thursday to 41 charges including money laundering, fraud, conspiracy and witness tampering and obstruction of justice, according to a court docket. His brother and the chief financial officer, Isaiah E. Kingston, pleaded guilty to 17 counts. Their mother, Rachel Ann Kingston, 64, also pleaded guilty to five counts. Jacob Kingston’s legal wife, Sally, pleaded guilty to two counts. Before a 2016 federal raid on Washakie Renewable Energy offices and other businesses associated with the Kingston Group, the energy company was one of the highest-profile businesses in Utah. It advertised on television during Utah Jazz games, in movie theaters and gave engineering scholarships to University of Utah students. Jacob and Sally Kingston, 42, also gave money to Utah politicians, including Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. After that 2016 raid, his campaign put $50,985 from the company or people associated with it in escrow, pending the outcome of the federal investigation and any criminal charges. Washakie Renewable Energy was supposed to be making biofuel from used cooking grease, agricultural products and other biological products at its plant in Plymouth, not far from the Utah-Idaho state line. The IRS paid the company 50 cents or $1 per gallon, depending on the quality of the fuel. Prosecutors have alleged the company didn’t manufacture much fuel and say instead the company was buying and selling biofuel and passing the commodities off as their own product. The federal government paid Washakie $511 million, according to court documents. In court, prosecutors have accused Jacob Kingston of sending some of the money to his church and using other proceeds to buy homes, sports cars and sending $134 million to Turkey for properties and business ventures. Jacob Kingston also has been accused of using money to buy political influence in that country, and prosecutors resisted efforts to have him released pending trial for fear he would flee there. Isaiah Kingston was the chief financial officer at Washakie and is accused of wiring funds from the fraud. Rachel and Sally Kingston, who were officers at the company, were accused of helping forge documents or launder money, too. Dermen, also known as Levon Termendzhyan, is not a member of the Kingston Group. He has been accused of leading a California criminal organization that had business dealings with Jacob and Isaiah Kingston. And he’s been accused of assisting in moving money to Turkey and threatening witnesses. Two of the written plea agreements added some intrigue. Besides admitting to a variety of frauds, Jacob Kingston said he agreed to share proceeds with Dermen in exchange for protection from his “umbrella” of federal law enforcement contacts. Rachel Kingston, in her plea agreement, admitted to being tipped off about the 2016 raid. There was no indication in the documents of the true identities of those with the pseudonyms. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/07/19/feds-move-seize-homes/ February 12, 2016 11:49 am Federal agents on Wednesday raided Utah offices of businesses associated with the Kingston Group, the polygamous family known for its fundamentalist Mormon beliefs and forced marriages. There were no arrests reported. Federal agencies who participated Wednesday, including the IRS, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, did not offer comment. Law enforcement apparently did not raid the Washakie plant itself, located in Plymouth, 100 miles north of Salt Lake City. Box Elder County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Dale Ward said that office had been told search warrants would be served, then received a call Tuesday saying the warrants had fallen through. Kingston sons Jacob and Isaiah built the Washakie plant in 2008 to turn oilseed such as canola and soy into biodiesel. Washakie has become a frequent advertiser during Utah Jazz broadcasts and before movies shown at Megaplex Theatres. But according to court records, the plant did not reliably produce. Apparently it was more successful at collecting federal subsidies intended to promote production of alternative fuels, even when it wasn't producing these products. Between January and October 2010, a period when the plant failed to produce any biofuels, it reaped $2 million in credits based on 7.2 million gallons that someone else produced, according to a notice of violation filed by federal regulators in 2011. https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3523346&itype=CMSID

I had dogs for the first 35 years of my life and cats for the last 35 years, with a little bit of overlap. Convention says that dogs have the intelligence of a 6-year-old child and cats have the intelligence of a 2-year-old so I never "expected" much from my cats. After I retired I had a lot more time to spend with them and I was surprised to learn how smart they are. I've realized that it comes down to the time you spend and the enrichment you provide. When I look back on all the missed opportunity ... sigh. Have you noticed that you can get your cat's attention, or even wake them up, by sending thought waves? Send them a silent version of your croon and watch what happens. My Isabel is 16-years-old and both of her housemates lived to be 16. I have observed more about her and interacted more than I did with any of the others. I used to get a kick out of taking MoMo to PetSmart where he would sneer at the dogs in obedience class. As if. He was wicked smart but this little gal, wowzer. She goes bye-bye enough to know that when she gets in the car she's going to surf a luggage cart down a hotel hallway or she's going to see the fish and birds and reptiles at PetSmart ... or someone's going to stick a thermometer in her butt. She picks up a lot from Animal Planet and PetSmart and she goes along when we feed apples to horses. She enjoys the movie Black Hawk Down, we watched it today. She likes the helicopters, the gunfire, the closeups of the men's faces, the running, the yelling, the music, the whole experience. She's also a big Walking Dead fan, somehow she "gets" the zombie-killing scenes and (my hand to Universe) Rick and Daryl are her favorites. But she also watches ET and Love It Or List It all the way through and those are light years away from Black Hawk or TWD. Go figure. Her vocabulary includes: good, nice, kisses, hungry, treats, water (for splashing), warm water (which she prefers to drink), rain water (endlessly fascinating), bye-bye, birds, fish (we had an aquarium), dogs, bugs, kids, outside, jump, and hotel. She recognizes what each of those is about. When I say "rain water," even if she's asleep, she gets up and stretches and heads for the screen door. She's not Einstein, so bugs also includes lizards and butterflies and dogs includes horses, giraffes and rhinos. But there's no denying that she gets the basic concepts. My dad died 6 years ago and he lived with us for the last 2 years of his life. She still recognizes his scent on his wallet and his face and voice on his vacation in Finland DVD. When I say "Where is Dad?" she looks down the hallway. I got a baby monitor because his room was downstairs. He used an oxygen concentrator at night and that sound is very distinctive and she cracked me up the first few nights I used the monitor. We were upstairs but could hear the concentrator loud and clear and she knew it was downstairs, and we could hear his voice when he talked to himself or sang and she knew he was downstairs. I could practically hear the gears turning in her head and the look on her little face was "How this happens?"

I've been on a Prince and vintage Madonna kick lately to make housecleaning more enjoyable. I blast 1999, Let's Go Crazy, Like A Prayer and Vogue and before I know it most of my daily chores are done. My 16-year-old calico Isabella Monkita stays glued to the TV for all four songs, she is a little tripper. Yesterday I was wishing I had two new girl kitties and I decided I would name them Wendy and Lisa.

I wasn't clear on whether or not the apprehension factor was valid because I wondered why "a super flu" was such a threat, and then I learned more than I wanted to know from this article. The particulars of what it does to the body are gruesome. I can now see why the elderly and those with compromised health are at high risk and why people die so quickly. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-what-coronavirus-does-to-the-body/

I don't feel the slightest bit of sympathy for ML. She had an inappropriate history and major emotional issues before she landed in DC. Hell, that's part of why she relocated across the country (from Cali). She chased after BC and, among other behaviors at work, lifted the hem of her suit jacket so she could flick the waistband of her thong at him. Her interest in him and her acting out were so obvious that she was transferred to a different position to minimize her opportunities for stalking, not that it did any good. I'm not defending him, not in the least, he was the mature adult (cough) in a powerful position. But there's no way he chased her or defiled her or took advantage of her. No freakin' way. His other indiscretions aside, he wasn't looking for another notch on his belt - but she was.

You can use the link in your post, blue letters that start with instagram.com/p ... Use the side arrows to see Bebop's note and the mag cover with YUK scrawled across it. I see nothing wrong with the hairstyle in the photo. Bebop is a piece of work! She reminds me of the cranky old Finns in my tree. This sheds some light on why Scoop is who she is.

I saw this recipe at the bottom of a page where it was reported that Chrissy Tiegen tweeted about Girl Scout cookies being no good. Bless her heart. "Don't wait for Girl Scout cookie season to have your favorite cookie. This Samoa dessert lasagna recreates the cookie in four perfect layers." https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a30766289/samoa-dessert-lasagna-recipe/

I hope Zelda was outside only for a photo session and then went back indoors. My hell, they live in a National Forest at 7000'. A coyote bit a human on the east side of Flag a year ago and foxes and skunks tested positive for rabies at the same time. They also have cougars (AKA mountain lions, pumas, North American panthers) and bobcats. A couple weeks after I moved to St George in 2016 I was smoking on my patio about 3am, nice summer night, and started getting the distinct feeling I wasn't alone. The feeling wouldn't go away so I figured someone was lurking and just as I decided to go inside I saw eyes reflecting in the light coming from the doorway - a bobcat was drilling me with his Manson lamps, I just hadn't been looking in that direction. About 8-10 feet away, and also looking at my cats inside the screen door. I am so glad I didn't have them outside with me! He had a nice build, muscle-y, probably 30 pounds, a couple feet long, a real beauty. I figured I should drop my gaze and after that he walked past me out of the yard, not the least bit in a hurry. Didn't hug the fence, just strolled the path like he owned the place. My house was about 6 blocks from the edge of town, open desert beyond that, a short jaunt for a critter. I never saw him again but I was always on guard.

I read a 3-paragraph article today which, in itself, was odd. Meaning, how brief it was considering the topic. It sounds like the US is woefully short of test kits (and has sent much of what it does have to one location, the cruise ship in quarantine off the Cali coast). I think the issues we're going to be facing are the long incubation period without symptoms (thus enhancing the spread) and the lack of test kits. It could be that cuts in the federal health sciences budget will turn out to be shortsighted and a grave mistake. The peril might not be the severity of the illness but rather that we are allowing it to gain a large head start. (If, indeed, that is happening). FWIW, I've picked up along the way that children are under-represented in the infection rate as are females in general - and the reasons for that are still unknown. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-us-does-not-have-coronavirus-tests-to-meet-anticipated-demand/ar-BB10NQxP?li=BBnb7Kz "We don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate the demand going forward," Pence said during a visit to a 3M Co plant in Minnesota. "We're focused very much on a cruise ship just off the California coast today. The Coast Guard delivered a sufficient number of tests for the passengers on that ship."

What a bunch of ass kissers. "She wore a full black leather look with a button-down shirt knotted to show a slice of midriff." No. That's not a shirt, it's a leather jacket that is 10 sizes too big, allowing her to tie it in a knot. (Look at the shoulder seams and the sleeve length). Ugly is as ugly does. SMH.

So our dear Sloth is a Kiwi, eh?!

She's a bottomless pit of need.

IA, it is excellent. It presents the history and the facts in order and it's easy to follow. I can think of only two things that weren't mentioned but I will save those for further discussion (if there is any). If anyone wants to watch it, it's called Mormons.