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JD and Abbie: Captured Before the Rapture


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3 hours ago, Churchhoney said:

As a teacher of mine always said about people like this - "Wherever you go, there you are. "

Your teacher was Buckaroo Banzai?

Also, I hear they have some of...you know, those types of men, in San Fran. Eyes to the ground! Hopefully they buy some pot and use it. Where are they getting the money to travel?

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9 minutes ago, JoanArc said:

Your teacher was Buckaroo Banzai?

Also, I hear they have some of...you know, those types of men, in San Fran. Eyes to the ground! Hopefully they buy some pot and use it. Where are they getting the money to travel?

Maybe their Uber driver will have to take them through the Castro on their way to their next destination. 😂😂

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6 hours ago, JoanArc said:

A friend that lives in SF told me that by local ordinance, nudity is legal there. Not sure if that's true....but I want it to be!

YES! I have a friend who moved there from the Ozarks, and she is not an uptight prude by any means, but the first message I got from her was an amused but bewildered running commentary on all the literal dicks she was seeing in the street. I asked her about it a few months later, and she told me she'd gotten desensitized to it and stopped noticing. LOL 

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7 hours ago, JoanArc said:

A friend that lives in SF told me that by local ordinance, nudity is legal there. Not sure if that's true....but I want it to be!

Yeah, we passed a law a few years ago that the nudists have to bring a towel with them to sit on in public places. But yeah, in certain areas, you'll see a lot of dicks. And it's never the people you'd want to see either.

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John David speaks in the article as though it was all in the past - the first trimester. Which means the title of the article should be "suffered from" not "is suffering from".

Not that complete accuracy ever kept a publication from a good headline.

I had a friend with that. Multiple trips to the ER for IVs. It really sucks. Fortunately, she felt better when she reached her second trimester. And as we've seen Abbie out and about everyone, I'm assuming the same thing happened to her.

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31 minutes ago, Sew Sumi said:

Kate had it for all three pregnancies.

No wonder she has had seemingly no trouble staying skinny.  I feel fortunate that my one pregnancy didn't make me so nauseous that I had to throw up.  I felt queasy, but that was all.  I've had migraines that made me throw up, and that was the worst.

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On 10/4/2019 at 10:02 AM, Churchhoney said:

I do think they'll probably ultimately back away. 

But because of Jim Bob's greed and all the things I've mentioned, I'm still 99 percent convinced that starting such a business is exactly what he's been planning. 

Over the past decade or so tons and tons of fools have started air-ambulance companies -- backed by investors figuring they could make a quick big buck. And surprisingly, many of them have. And continue to. That's exactly the kind of bandwagon somebody like Jim Bob would jump onto, especially because he's enamored of flying vehicles.

Now there are too many, and they're raising their prices sky high to compensate for losing some business to competitors, and states are hoping to do something about it.... So Jim Bob's too late to the trough, I think. ....

However, because the feds alone regulate stuff that flies in the air, this sector has been very much the wild west for some years now and continues to be, despite growing worries about it, and, especially, worries about the high prices they're charging-- as "investors" and cowboys of JIm Bob's ilk have crowded into it. Jim Bob would be all over those high prices.

The states still can't do anything to regulate it.  And in an area of sparse population, the money has been there for the taking.  And as long as people aren't crashing all over the place and are delivering people to hospitals, not nearly as many lawsuits as you'd expect have materialized. The big issue has been -- and is -- that the field is getting very very crowded, which, contrary to the way economics usually operates, has driven price way UP --

This has definitely been on JB"s mind, as it's been on the mind of a lot of other get-rich-quick guys who've started these companies. No other reason why JD and Nathan would  recently have been registering companies with medical and flying words in their names. 

I don't think they'll ultimately go through with it. It's drawing a lot of negative attention right now, and I think they'll ultimately be scared off (as they should be.).

But JIm Bob's not that bright.. He's always on the lookout for a moneymaker -- and this has been sold to a lot of people in recent years as a great one. And we saw with the Bahamas episode, for example, that JD and Nathan Bates, among others, are just as arrogant, dumb and delusional as Jim Bob is. 

They probably figured they wouldn't go after real emergencies in remote areas but they'd offer it to people as a better alternative to regular ambulances.....There's concern that many of the current outfits deliberately target people who are only mildly injured or sick or who are in a perfectly car-accessible place -- i.e., the airlift isn't necessary -- and then they bill the person's insurance and, ultimately, the person if, as often happens, the insurer won't pay....

People are getting away with this because states DO regulate any actual medical care you get from your ambulance service. But states are NOT permitted (by federal law) to regulate the PRICES.....

So if you sell your air-ambulance services to people who dont' need much if any medical care -- just a lift to a hospital -- then you're not likely to run into any regulatory or liability issues, since you provided little or no medical care, and you can fleece insurers and individuals for a lot of cash.....with nobody overseeing that aspect of things....

That's a Jim Bob Duggar dream, I think.....However, now that concerns are being raised, it probably doesn't look as enticing as it did even in 2019. 

Do these operators get away with having the passenger/patient sit upright squeezed in between two fat guys? And no doors? 

This looks pathetic:

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53 minutes ago, JoanArc said:

Oh dear - this local political writer has a picture of JD's wannabe cop constable mobile....that's so sad.


Like a fundie batmobile

Bahaha Her comments are funny and right on--like her, I've never seen another Arkansas constable posture that much. She's also right about the breakdown of them either being legitimate first responder experience types, people on a power trip, or people who ran to keep the power trippers out of office. 

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12 minutes ago, yogi2014L said:

I don't think any of the Duggars are intelligent enough to pass the exams or get through the academy. And even if they did somehow manage to do that, they would absolutely be terrible cops and I can't for the life of me even imagine how they would react to people screaming in their faces, people naked, on drugs ect ect. 

Agree 100%

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36 minutes ago, Tasya said:

I'm sorry but there are some EXTREMELY stupid cops. I have a lot of family who live in small towns; oh the stories I could tell. That said, I don't think he'd go that route because it would require several things: 1) He could end up with a female partner or boss 2) He wouldn't be on call to his family 3) He would be subject to mainstream rules/regulations. So far we haven't seen an adult Duggar willing to pull that far away from the way they grew up. 

Oh, I agree. Could tell some stories about big-city stupid cops. But even the stupid ones managed to get through whatever training was required, and ti cope with the rules and working conditions, including taking the cr*p shifts especially when low on the seniority list. It's the bolded stuff that I think is the crux for the Duggars - they've had their specialness hammered into their heads all their little lives.  It would be a big deal for any of them to cope with mainstream life in any kind of regular workplace - including a police department.

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12 hours ago, galaxygirl76 said:

If he wants to be a cop so badly why not become a freaking cop. You're a grown up now JD, you can do what you want.

I expect Jim Bob also wants him in that job because he hopes JD might be able to hear or overhear some what's-going-on-in-the-county dish that he could share with dad.

Besides JD getting his own ego-and-boyhood-dreams fed a little bit by carrying a gun and a badge, he also has some potential to act as a low-rent spy into goings on in the area. He might get to pick up some useful scuttlebutt before others do by seeing things or chatting with someone or seeing something on some official document he gets access to. JB would want that.

He might even direct JD to casually ask around about this or that or drive here or there in his cop car and watch this or that, to possibly pick up some info JB would like without JB personally being on the scene. 

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46 minutes ago, SunnyBeBe said:

I know that Abbie doesn't likely drink alcohol, but, whenever I see her, she looks like she might have just polished off a couple of glasses of Merlot.  lol  (Sleepy eyes or something.)

If I were part of that family I'd be drinking too. Probably something stronger than Merlot though. 

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4 hours ago, Churchhoney said:

I expect Jim Bob also wants him in that job because he hopes JD might be able to hear or overhear some what's-going-on-in-the-county dish that he could share with dad.

Besides JD getting his own ego-and-boyhood-dreams fed a little bit by carrying a gun and a badge, he also has some potential to act as a low-rent spy into goings on in the area. He might get to pick up some useful scuttlebutt before others do by seeing things or chatting with someone or seeing something on some official document he gets access to. JB would want that.

He might even direct JD to casually ask around about this or that or drive here or there in his cop car and watch this or that, to possibly pick up some info JB would like without JB personally being on the scene. 

That's "cop car" to you. 😁

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