Fundy Alert! The Duggar Family of 19 will be on the Today Show with an announcement?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

Is she pregnant with her 18th????

Edited...I missed a kid!



http://www.duggarfamily.com/photos.html

[bluestateguy]

1. I respect their lifestyle choice

but do we need to have it thrown in our faces everywhere?

(Gee, where have we heard that argument before?)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. If I remember, I will try to keep a running count of how many times they mention God

and bless (in all forms).

[orleans]

126. back in the good old days with only 14 kids

[proud2BlibKansan]

154. That is about the funniest picture I have ever seen

:rofl:

[orleans]

169. i know, right? funny and creepy as hell. AND TRUE! n/t

[rfranklin]

5. It's being "shoved down our throats!"

They always prefer to use images of forced sodomy.

[undeterred]

25. The only place I've heard about them is on DU.

Not watching the Today Show is my lifestyle choice.

[Iris]

39. You know some people enjoy the show so much they want to eat the same food as the Duggars!

Really! Some people enjoy eating like they are in a small army, so you can go to the TLC website and get some of their favorite family recipes!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

42. Their recipes are also available at their site!

http://www.duggarfamily.com/recipes.html

[Iris]

44. mmmmm.....Tater Tot Casserole!

think I'll make some tonight if I'm not out of velveeta

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

47. lol! If you have Velveeta, you can make their broccoli caserole! My arteries are getting hard just

reading these recipes.

[Iris]

51. Maybe a trip to Sam's Club is in order.

I'll bet you can get a ginormous hunk of that cheese-food there!

Don't know what to tell you about your arteries.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

48. If you're not out of velveeta you can make their broccoli caserole. My areteries are getting hard by

just reading their recipes.

[El Pinko]

97. I don't.

18 kids in a world with 6 billion people and extremely strained resources is unconscionable.

Have these scumbags never heard of adoption?

What assholes.

[Hissyspit]

105. Adoption, anyone?

[proud2BlibKansan]

121. Sterilization, anyone?

[fascisthunter]

124. Not Me.

[minerva50]

144. I Don't, I think it's Child Abuse

I grew up as one of eight children, and much as I love and respect my parents, I would never do that to children of mine.

[Snarkturian Clone]

2. Which on will grow up to be a porn star? NT

[melody]

3. There's a clocktower in one of them youngin's futures n/t

[Vinca]

6. I'm sorry, but planet-wise, this is irresponsible. nt

[bean fidhleir]

17. +1 on that!

People like that are why voluntary population control would never work.

[rurallib]

63. I often wonder how much we (as taxpayers, fellow citizens)

will end up paying for their choices?

[bean fidhleir]

71. A *very* pertinent question

Maybe it'll cost us our lives.

[hyphenate]

73. On that score

I might put in that they're not poor. Both Jim Bob and the wife are real estate brokers and developers.

Oooops--I forgot. Right about now, maybe they are poor with real estate in the cellar.

[proud2BlibKansan]

120. I think it is irresponsible to their kids

No way can they give each child the love and attention they need.

[Duppers]

140. truly

I said the same in another thread.

[KharmaTrain]

7. There Was An Old Lady...

...who lived in a shoe...she had so many children her utereus fell out.

<rimshot>

Ah for the juvenile humor of Andrew Dice Clay to add to this interview.

:rofl:

[coriolis]

52. Or "...lived in a shoe ... had so many children she didn't know what to do,

apparently."

:D

[Canuckistanian]

8. ...

[Freedomofspeech]

16. OMG...

that is hilarious. I just spewed coffee all over my keyboard. Thanks.

[lazyriver]

45. That's the funniest thing I've seen in weeks.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

49. lol! It's been updated!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3261980&mesg_id=3262100

[JNelson6563]

62. lol!

:rofl:

[samplegirl]

86. Hilarious

:rofl:

[tekisui]

9. Who are the endorsing?!??

[Maddy McCall]

10. If I heard correctly, they already have 17...and have "some news to share."

I would guess that, yes, she's gonna pop out the 18th soon.

Disgusting.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. According to their site, there are only 16. Check the link of my first post but barf

alert for the pics.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. Lol! You're right! 17 kids! Guess they didn't have the time to update their website after the last!

:rofl:

[Maddy McCall]

18. Who has time to update a website when you're breeding like rabbits?

I just find this family extraordinarily selfish.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

127. ...

[jmowreader]

162. There was a miscarriage. Some people count that as a child.

Go to http://www.labelledame.com/memorials/guestbook.php...and prepare to go "whoa."

Apparently, JimBob and Michelle got pregnant, had a miscarriage, then visited a "Christian medical practitioner" (that sounds like a witch doctor to me, but what do I know?) who told them the miscarriage was God's punishment for their having used birth control. And not, as it turns out, the end state of between fifteen and thirty percent of all pregnancies. Anyway! The Duggars immediately decided to let God control their fertility, which means that in five more kids and ten more years they'll be able to use standard NFL formations at their touch-football games. Because God, in His infinite wisdom, is using the Duggars to show the rest of us that when He invented the condom He intended for it to be used.

[soothsayer]

12. They need a new hobby.

[Ian David]

13. They must have the carbon footrprint of a waste processing plant. n/t

[peace frog]

15. The Duggars' 15 minutes were over years ago

For the sake of all that is right and holy, tie a knot in it!

[HughBeaumont]

19. I hope it's to say she's closing shop.

I say "she" because, you know, far be it from the semen firehose himself to make a date with a scalpel. Don't want the boys down at the Megachurch to be makin' "less than a man" jokes, and all. :eyes:

Come ON, how many kids does one NEED before it's a glorified LDS sect?

[hlthe2b]

20. Oy my....from their own website:

About The Duggar Family

Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar married July 21st, 1984. At that time, they chose to use the birth control pill. They thought, “We don’t want children right now. We can’t afford them. We want children in our timing, when we’re ready.” Four years later they decided to have their first child. Then, Michelle went back on the pill, but she conceived and had a miscarriage. At that point they talked with a Christian medical doctor and read the fine print in the contraceptives package. They found that while taking the pill you can get pregnant and then miscarry. They were grieved! They were Christians! They were pro-life! They realized that their selfish actions had taken the life of their child. They prayed and asked God to forgive them, and to teach them to love children like He loves children. They asked God to bless them with as many children as He saw fit in His timing. Right after that Michelle got pregnant with twins! To date they have been blessed with 16 children, (10 boys and 6 girls) Joshua, Jana & John-David (twins), Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, Jedidiah & Jeremiah (twins), Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah (& Jennifer due July 28, 2007).


Now, my question...How the hell do they support themselves and all these kids?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

21. My question is

when they found out the pill was dangerous, why didn't Mr. Duggar use a condom? That's how MY family kept down the number of kids they had for at least a couple generations back.

[hlthe2b]

22. well, i f they think life starts at conception, I imagine they view

loss of sperm similarly as killing life!

Good heavens.... I want to be tolerant, but as some have pointed out, we are way on our way to destroying the earth with the numbers of humans we have now, so I am very uncomfortable with a family breeding to this extent in this day and age....But, I imagine that they don't care what I think...

[undeterred]

26. I doubt anyone thinks that sperm is life.

And this whole post is intolerant.

[hlthe2b]

40. It is not intolerant to discuss and try to understand their views

Quite the opposite, actually.

[undeterred]

70. Trying to understand their views?

I don't see a lot of that going on.

[hlthe2b]

135. Well, I for one am interested in understanding those

who view reproduction related issues so differently than do I. But I would only criticize if they are not self-supporting of all these kids (and it clearly appears that they are fully capable of providing for them)or from the more standpoint of exceeded global carrying capacity. That overpopulation on a global level is causing great sustained harm to the earth and its people-- both current and future-- does call into question whether this is irresponsible to have so many kids--from a societal level... But, this is criticism based on the far wider effects of their reproductive choices, not intolerance, at least in my views.

On the other hand, the far RW IS trying to define life at the conception level (and for some possible even at the egg and spermatozoa level). THIS is dangerous if it informs birth control and other policy and I do not think it intolerant to denounce their views on this issue.

[undeterred]

147. Do you denounce people of all faiths or just Christianity?

BTW, I believe that life begins at conception, and I am pro-choice and on the far left. You make many wrong assumptions.

[hlthe2b]

166. I happen to be Christian myself. You make many wrong assumptions.

I have no problem with your or anyone else's views on life beginning at conception as long as you don't try to enforce a ban on birth control, women's choice over their own reproductive issues, or other policy that stems from this belief on others. It is You who has made many wrong assumptions, it seems. I have denounced NO ONE.

[Indenturedebtor]

94. Actually I'm pretty intolerant of these people

They have had WAY too many kids. There are too many people in this world already. They are irresponsible. And frankly I don't think that having so many rabbits you can't remember all their names is all that great for the children either.

These people disgust me.

[ret5hd]

160. tell that to THESE people:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9002085385040727366

[Kookaburra]

36. Because "Every Sperm is Sacred..."

Every sperm is great. When a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate."

:7

[Kookaburra]

37. Oh Crap -- started my own Ear Worm

Dammit!

[awoke_in_2003]

76. and to make sure

it stays firmly attached there:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8

[Bigmack]

158. You should be sold for....

medical experimentation...

I got the ear worm from you....

[Mad_Dem_X]

41. Reminds me of a bumper sticker:

"Not Every Ejaculation Needs A Name."

[ret5hd]

161. gmta...i just posted the video!

[Javaman]

89. Because that means that the man, mr. duggar, would have to take

responsibility for his actions.

and you know as well as I, in ultra fundy families, the man is never wrong.

:banghead:

[uppityperson]

137. If God had wanted MrDuggar to use a condom, God would have put one on his penis every time he

whipped it out and in. It is what God wanted.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

155. ....

:rofl:

[Evoman]

87. My question: Why not get tubes tied? That way, no more worry about life and god or whatever stupid

people like this worry about.

[Javaman]

91. refer to my post #89. nt

[PatSeg]

117. Oh Good Grief!

All their names start with "J"!!! Now that is REALLY cute!

I had in-laws who had 19 children, but it was more ignorance on the parents' part. The children were pretty close as a rule, but sadly the mother died in her forties.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

170. I'm curious. Did the father remarry and if he did, how quickly?

[Iris]

130. If they are responsible for the death of a baby, shouldn't they be in jail?

"their selfish actions had taken the life of their child."

[Generic Other]

172. Maybe she will quit when she exhausts all the "J" names?

She is down to Jehosaphat, Jezebel, and Jerk-off.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. Still no news of the "big" announcement. I've decided that the Duggars are a fundy side show act,

unabashedly promoting themselves on national teevee..

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

27. Number 18 is in the oven. The kids first told right now on national teevee!!!!

[coriolis]

56. Daddy should be the one in the oven.

:grr:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

24. Up next.

[annabanana]

28. yup.. 18th due... dear lord. . . . . . . n/t

[annabanana]

29. Apparently it's God's fault. . . . .n/t

[Maddy McCall]

30. Disgusting. 18 is on the way.

I really really really despise these people.

Socially, environmentally irresponsible.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

31. And I think that there is something inherently wrong about their parading themselves they way they

do. It is all so creepy to me. There is even a television special about them tonight on Discovery Health channel. It has to be an old one. They only had 16 kids in it.

[Maddy McCall]

34. Might as well capitalize on the clown car.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

35. lol!!!! You work fast!!!!!

:rofl:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

164. .....

[BigDaddy44]

32. Despise is an awful harsh word

They're obviously....odd. They make me scratch my head more than anything else.

[Maddy McCall]

33. Not to those of us who are socially responsible.

It's not harsh at all. I could think of harsher words, but I certainly won't put them in print on DU.

[Freddie Stubbs]

43. Why is a woman's right ot choose ok only if she chooses what you want?

:shrug:

[Dreamer Tatum]

55. Something about happy families REALLY pisses certain people off

Something tells me that if all 18 or whatever of them showed up on
TV, half wearing "FUCK GOD" and the other half wearing "FUCK BUSH" t-shirts,
they'd catch an even break here. Maybe.

Geez, they're goofy and sort of creepy, and at at least a few of those kids
will probably have issues later in life, but I can point to MANY 5-, 6-, or 7-person
families that are the same way.

[coriolis]

57. a 6 person famile is a FUCK of a long way from one of 18

so to speak

:grr:

[Dreamer Tatum]

59. So why the flaming angry face?

Yes, 18 > 6. What about that specifically merits a :grr:?

I'm just saying, why be anything other than neutral? Their lifestyle would kill me (and probably most of us) in about 4 seconds, but
that's their problem.

[coriolis]

85. Because any couple that spits out that kind of human litter is an affront to

the ecosystem we all depend on. It's a shame somebody didn't Bobbitize that goddamn fucker years ago.

[Dreamer Tatum]

96. Children are human litter? All of them, or just the ones you decide?

I find it stunning that you're calling someone's children "human litter."

Tell us, Chairman, how many children are we allowed?

[coriolis]

99. Yes it is a fucking LITTER. I can't believe you are defending these ASSHOLES.

Human filth is also an apt description.

[Dreamer Tatum]

102. I'm not defending them at all

Just asking why you're calling them "human filth." Seriously - so they have a lot of kids, and they have odd
beliefs. There is quite a bit of distance between "defending them," and calling them "human filth." Which child
would have flipped your switch: one? two? three? six? Was the first child just sort of sub-human, and successive
ones were even less worthy of simple human (and Democratic) decency, or were the first two OK, and then became
human filth when numbers 3-17 came around?

[coriolis]

108. Right at the point when they declared their homestead a "church" and stopped all tax liability.

Make it subhuman filth.

[Dreamer Tatum]

112. Aha - there we have it

Do something slimy to avoid paying taxes, and you're not just a weasel - you're subhuman filth.
Even the kids. Got it.

[coriolis]

114. I wasn't referring to the kids, kiddo. Marx wouldn't make that silly inference.

...

[Dreamer Tatum]

115. Go back and read your syntax carefully

You failed to distinguish between "litter" and "a litter." The invective you've hurled around makes it difficult
to detect a difference, or to provide the benefit of the doubt. Yes, they've created A litter of children. I
would not regard children AS litter, until they prove themselves to be as such through their actions.

And don't call me "kiddo," Skippy.

[coriolis]

116. "...kind of human litter" isn't poor syntax, it's just ambiguous out of context.

I'm not responsible for heteronyms, I just use them occasionally. Kiddo.

[AngryAmish]

107. Would useless eaters also be apt??

[coriolis]

110. Of course.

...

[Iris]

131. That's all well and good, but why is it necessary for them to have TV show and announce each

pregnancy on morning news shows?

[uppityperson]

139. It would be more newsworthy to announce they are NOT pregnant. eom

[Iris]

152. you said it uppity!

[Harry Monroe]

175. For the money, always for the money

My wife likes that show on TLC "Jon and Kate Plus Eight". The woman had 2 children then sextuplets. I suspect that the real reason these people let cameras in the house is really for the extra money it brings. I sure don't know how I'd pay for 8 kids in this day and age with my job!! I've got one, who's now a 15 year old. We've often thought of having a 2nd, but my wife doesn't work since she's practically disabled with rheumatoid arthritis. I barely make it just providing for my one son.

Putting them on TV and getting paid for it is the modern media equivalent to selling tickets at a circus sideshow to see the freaks.

I'm one of 7; I don't know how my Mom and Dad did it!! And of course, Mom didn't work. Growing up in a large family made me realize that I did not ever want a large family myself. I grew up Catholic; I believe they took the pope's edict on the rhythm method as the only approved form of birth control seriously. I've always said that you could tell the success of the rhythm method by the size of Catholic families!!

[undeterred]

72. DING DING DING

All women have the intellectual capacity to make moral choices for themselves. ALL WOMEN.

[hyphenate]

I disagree with you on that

however much it is your opinion. I have seen many, many women who don't have the ability to make their own choices. Many of these women are highly intelligent, but the fact is, many women will become embroiled in co-dependent relationships on an emotional level that has no bearing on their intelligence at all. They somehow have put on blinders to the dubious nature of the men in their lives, and will make wrong decisions on that emotional level, and not on a more cerebral level.

Whether Ms. Duggar is an "emancipated" women or not, I doubt if she has the knowledge necessary and the conscience available to really see how much continued pregnancies are not only not in her best interests, but are also raising the level of risk of physical harm to herself.

I know the Duggars are strict in their beliefs, and belong to organizations that are purely part of the religious right, and while they have the resources available to take care of their children, they are also pretty ignorant of some major child welfare considerations. In their family, the older children take care of the younger ones, and that mostly only the male children are home-schooled in the militant religious right fashion. How much the older children have lives of their own is a question in my mind, and the system set up to treat all the female children as nothing but wet-nurses is disturbing. The girls are taught only the "old-fashioned" and "traditional" housewife skills, and are not allowed to gain much of an education beyond that.

Is that right? I don't feel it is. Shit, when I was growing up, I learned how to cook and sew, and other such "home" jobs, but I also learned science, math, english, reading and so much more. I excelled in school and still learn even today to whatever degree I can. I consider it abuse that these kids aren't learning a whole helluva lot being under that roof--the parents are stifling the girls, and keeping up the tradition of male domination and female subservience.

What it boils down to is that this family is just "wrong" and are an abomination of all that families should stand for. Whether they had 7, 10, 14 or 18 children isn't the problem. Making out that the mother is nothing but a baby machine and the father is the Lord God of their household IS the problem. I've seen even larger families in the news through the years, where the parents have become foster or adoptive families, and I see nothing wrong with a family that shows both parents in a positive light. With the Duggars, to me, it's just plain disgusting how fucked up those girl children are going to be, in perpetuating the stereotypical roles of the hypocritical religious right.

We can try to make changes in the way women are being treated right now and in the future, but when girls are treated from birth to be nothing other than brood mares, it's disillusioning at best.

[undeterred]

122. She has the same legal right to CHOICE that you and I have.

"this family is just "wrong" and are an abomination of all that families should stand for"

That is monstrous arrogance. Do you also judge millions of Catholics around the world who object to the use of birth control on a religious basis?

Millions of people grew up in families of 10 or more- whether you approve of it or not.

She's a "brood mare" to you. For some strange reason you think she should exchange her values for yours.

To me she is a woman choosing what kind of family she wants to have. I have to right to judge her.

[hyphenate]

149. Evidently you only gleaned a modicum

of what I wrote.

Quality, not quantity. Children are being abused in the family on very obvious standards. Being homeschooled by people who are members of the radical religious right. The girls never getting any kind of real education. The girls being unwittingly brought up to be ignorant of the world in general. The older girls being raised to take care of their younger siblings. The boys getting away with all kinds of shit.

Male dominance, and female slavery. Is that what you consider a "choice"? These kids are in the same category as the FLDS women, except for the fact that they will never be "rescued." We don't KNOW that their father has not been screwing them, but who cares? The girls are never going to get any knowledge outside of their own family, and you can learn to be a perfect little mother without ever knowing anything about the world.

Arrogance? No, anger. Shock. That while this family is filled with enough shit to sink a battleship, it's difficult to understand why they've never been looked at with enough gravity to have someone suggest they put a stop to their procreating.

But then, I guess McDonald's will still always need employees, and this family could certainly provide them for years to come.

[undeterred]

151. What gives you the right to judge this family?

I am astonished at the bigotry exhibited by people who supposedly believe in 'tolerance'.

[hyphenate]

153. What gives me the right

is the same right that everyone has--the 1st amendment. Point your outrage somewhere else. :nuke:

That's all, folks!

[Name removed]

163. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

168. undeterred, please elaborate. What, exactly, did hyphenate say that makes her a bigot?

Other than being against your worldview?

Oh, and I agree with what she said. Does that make me a bigot too?

(Edited after acquiring knowledge of hyphenate's gender)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

156. Congratulations. You win the "Oh Poor Persecuted Me" award for the month. -nt

[undeterred]

165. Congratulations! You don't even understand the argument.

[BeHereNow]

174. Zero population growth?

The planet can not sustain the numbers as it is.
Who the fuck entitled these people to take up
more resources than are available to the existing
population?

Fuck them and their selfish reproducing.

BHN

[PVnRT]

141. You really think this woman has a "choice"?

[Gormy Cuss]

95. Who said she can't choose?

The Duggars have the right to have as many children as they can cram in before she loses her fertility, they have the right to raise them in their homebred version of Christianity, they have the right to home school their children with that doctrine and they have the right to parade their family like a sideshow act in order to fund all of the above choices.

That said, since they are holding themselves out as a public example they also should expect to hear criticism of some of those choices, the biggest one being that having two quiverfuls of children is not a sustainable model for the planet.

[Dreamer Tatum]

103. Thank you

Exactly my point, to the letter.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

38. I just found this very lively debate on them on a message board at the Arkansas Times.

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2006/04/the_duggar_plan.aspx

One interesting comment



Jim Bob was reported, by Doug Thompson for the Arkasnsas News Bureau, as claiming to be "...one of those parents who are paying thousands of dollars in property taxes while we teach our children at home, and I'm paying double for my children's education." Compare J.B.'s self-pitying claim to the facts found by clicking on the link to Arkansas property tax records provided by anonymous in his/her post of May 5, 2006. That's at least one lie we've caught J.B. in.

So many people seem to be enamored of the Duggar's supposedly self-sufficient lifestyle. They've turned their home into a church to avoid paying property taxes. They've probably also found loopholes to avoid paying income taxes or making payments to Social Security and will teach their offspring to do likewise. There goes the argument that all these kids are going to help support the system when they become adults. The Duggar's seem to be living off of church charity and fees for posing for photographs and doing interviews after their latest baby is born. They don't have a vegetable patch or fruit orchard or livestock. They produce nothing except more mouths to feed and have whooping monthly food bills. Their food appears to be mostly the cheapest available, which means commercially canned food full of sodium, sugar and corn syrup and sickeningly sweet junk like ice cream bars and chocolate syrup. All in all, I would have to say their lifestyle is hardly a healthy one--either for J.B.'s conscious or their physical health.

[RB TexLa]

46. I want to thank them for helping people to understand that we childfree are not selfish.

[Breeze54]

50. The Today Show said it was Baby TWENTY on the way!!

Mr & Mrs Baby Machine... ugh!

[Jennicut]

53. I don't know how that woman does it. I only have a 3 and 4 year old.

She is utterly crazy. Not to mention I was chastised by my doctor for having a baby so soon after the second one, developed gestational diabetes with my second daughter and eventually ended up with flew blown type 2 diabetes six months later. (It was an accident, we did birth control, its not 100% fullproof). Anyways, that woman is slowly killing herself not to mention she has been pregnant like every year for 18 years. Not a good idea. Plus, very irresponisble in today's world with climate change and food shortages and all that.

[momster]

75. She apparently 'does it'

by handing off her latest sprog to an older child as soon as it is weaned. The older girls do most of the actual child-rearing while the boys do whatever it is boys do in such a family. This frees Mama to have another kid as soon as she can.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

81. Exactly! They had a little video showing the family in action and the older ones were taking

care of the younger ones. They also showed a schedule where each child had their own booking/appointment with their mother for alone time.

[PatGund]

84. Oh, that's easy

The older girls take care of the babies, (it's supposed to be training for when they're sold off to other dominionists to hatch broods of their own)

The boys get away with anything they want to.

[ikojo]

177. I watched a slide show of photos...the pics

showed the boys playing chess, playing soccer (a girl was in the picture but I'm not sure she was participating in the game, considering she was wearing a long skirt). Pictures featuring the girls showed one ironing, one making grilled cheese sandwiches, one getting something to drink from the buffet line. The girls are also shown holding the most recently born Duggar.

[DS1]

54. That's fucking sick!

cut that assholes balls off.

[John Kerry VonErich]

58. Here we go again

:eyes:

As soon as the Duggers are in the news again, war on them has been declared here.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

61. The Duggars put themselves in the news. They even chose the Today Show to announce not only to the

world but to their children, that she was expecting again. They are attention whores.

[Dreamer Tatum]

67. You mean anyone can just walk on to the Today show?

Come on - entertainment outlets love wacky families: dwarves, sextuplets, enormous families, even shows about poledancing skanks who have Bruce Jenner for a stepfather. There is always the OFF switch.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

79. Hmmmmm... obviously someone contacted the Today Show to notify them that the Duggars were pregnant

again. They just found out about it on Monday and hadn't even told their kids yet.

[Dreamer Tatum]

90. And the Today Show didn't exactly hang up on them, did they nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

92. Of course not! Why would they? The Duggars are as I said earlier, attention whores, and the

Today Show is supplying a venue for the Duggar Family Side Show.

[Dreamer Tatum]

98. At least be fair..the Today Show is a venue for ALL SORTS of attention whores

not just the vacant-eyed Duggars.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

100. Of course it is.

[Dreamer Tatum]

104. To be honest, the Duggars creep me out

but it takes a willing partner to give them airtime.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

109. They don't have just a willing partner with the GE/TodayShow but an eager one.

[AlCzervik]

64. wrong, The Duggers could go about living their lives without publicizing it, but they

choose not.

[AlCzervik]

60. how has her uterus not fallen out yet? And why is having 18 children being celebrated

by the media?

[spinbaby]

69. It hurts to think about

I'll bet her uterus is somewhere near her knees.

[awoke_in_2003]

78. reminds me of the joke

about the husband in the delivery room asking the doc if he can put in an extra stitch. Wander how many you would need in this case :puke:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

65. It is another case

of these people making me want to slam my head against a wall...:banghead:

[ThatsMyBarack]

66. They're breeding REPUKELICAN NAZIS!

That's why I can't stand them. :scared:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

68. They're just phoning it in now.

[samplegirl]

74. Hannity should have a special hour long

just for them!!!

[Tinksrival]

77. It's official......They are a circus act!

[flvegan]

80. You know they got one HELL of a stimulus check.

[BurtWorm]

82. Someone should check whatever stimulus is in their package.

:rimshot:

[DS1]

83. I think at this point her kids probably just softshoe right out of the birth canal with some

jazz hands and a flourish.

/stolen from fark

[Javaman]

88. Here's the big announcement...

"Due to the rise in inflation and the rise in the price of food, the Duggar family are going to start eating the kids that aren't pulling their weight.

Because their family is so large, they will start with the older children. They will fill more mouths."

:rofl:

[El Pinko]

93. Who are these idiots and why am I supposed to know who they are?

nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

106. They are wrongwing fundies who spit out a baby about once a year. They also parade themselves

in front of morning teevee at least once a year, to show off their ever increasing brood.

[AzDar]

101. "Havin' My Bay-beh... What a Wonderful Way To Say I Love,

Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love Youuuuuu".

Mmmmmmm, Duggar Love....Aaaarrrlllgghhhh.

(I seriously need to lay off the Red Bull in the a.m.)
:rofl:

[snooper2]

111. What's the chance...with that many kids...

that a brother and sister develop "feelings" for each other :rofl:

[Stinky The Clown]

113. A carbon footprint as big as Montana

I call this selfish

[dger11]

118. demography is destiny, unfortunately. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

119. Absolutely out of their minds

I watched every episode of their reality show. Something is seriously wrong with these people. The mother sounds like she has an IQ of under 60 and the kids talk like zombies, as if they are on drugs or something.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

128. I had no idea that they had a reality show. I do know that there is a special on tonight about

them when they were up to 16 kids. It will be on Discovery Health. I don't think I have the stomach to watch.

[proud2BlibKansan]

129. It lasted about a season

And it was interesting just because they are so strange. She dresses all the kids alike, the girls all wear dresses or skirts (and really bizarre hairstyles) and all the kids talk like robots. If it's possible to imagine people with no personalities, that's this family.

[Iris]

132. Now there's John and Kate Plus 8 - bunch of psychos

Kate is a total bitch and before someone goes all nuts on me for saying that about a mother of 6 kids - I fully believe she was a bitch before she even had her first child.

Plus, she treats her children horribly.

[proud2BlibKansan]

134. Oh I love that show

I think Kate is a good mom. She just runs a tight ship, and with 8 kids, you would have to run a tight ship.

[Iris]

150. well, every time I've seen it, she's mean and antagonizes her children

then she gets all over her older daughter for exhibiting the same behavior.

Psycho.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

133. It sounds like there's a bit of brainwashing going on there.

[blondeatlast]

146. I posted in another thread that I watched it once and about 90 seconds into

it my jaw hit the floor and even the ads didn't dislodge it--diapers, cleaning products, manufactured eats.

My jaw stayed on the floor for about 59 minutes. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing and that it wasn't a joke.

[seemslikeadream]

123. My dad was the youngest of 19

but that's alright cause they were Irish Catholics :eyes:

[hyphenate]

167. I don't know how old your dad is

but my dad was one of a large family. In his day, though (the 1920s), families had large families because many children never lived beyond childhood. My dad's dad, in fact, died when my dad was about 6 from tuberculosis. Technology and medicine hadn't developed much in the way of antibiotics when my dad was born, hence, many families had a lot more kids in those days just to make sure some of them lived longer.

My mom had triplets in between my two brothers, in 1958, but they all died--if the science and medicine we have now had been around then, they most likely would have survived.

[truebrit71]

125. Good grief women how about you close your legs once?

...this is beyond stupid...

[Duppers]

136. oh crap, OmmmSweetOmmm. I missed your thread.

Damn. I wouldn't have started the one I did had I known of this one. I blame google...honest, I did google for Duggar.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

143. No problem here! At least we've kept it to a responsible 2 threads and aren't overpopulating DU!

:hi:

[Duppers]

138. yooouuu whoooo, MODS. Can ya combine these last 2 threads

on this topic? Please, uh?

I like this one better than the one I began.

[Snarkturian Clone]

142. I'm replying to this one again.

Just to say that Papa Duggar must have balls the size of kasaba melons and that in 100 years everyone in the world is going to know someone named "Duggar".

[Union Label]

145. I read they were home schoolers too

they're just another GAWD and GUNS fundie group, I would say they can go fuck themselves but with 18 kids they have already.

[Uncle Joe]

148. The record is 69 children birthed by one woman. n/t

[Strelnikov_]

157. Those who are about to starve to death . . .

salute you.


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[LisaL]

159. Yep, she is preggo again.

[a kennedy]

171. With this announcement I wonder how much money they'll rake in.,...

:puke:

[Bluebear]

173. I think she has grown a reserve uterus so she can have #20 at the ready.

[cynatnite]

176. .