Like throwing a shoe down a hallway

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  1. Dorian Gray says:
    December 19, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Does anyone else notice the connection between the strange Christian thing (“Christmas gift from God”) and the obvious mental illness thing (18 children, come on now).

    There I said it. I mean people are free to do whatever they wish, but if it is irrational than I feel obligated to mention it.

  2. Unstable Isotope says:
    December 19, 2008 at 10:09 am

    OK Duggars, you’ve proven yourself. You can stop now.

  3. Joanne Christian says:
    December 19, 2008 at 10:29 am

    There goes that “my body, my decision” logic right out the window again.

  4. Rebecca says:
    December 19, 2008 at 10:53 am

    One night I was channel surfing and came across their TLC show — the family was visiting NYC. Just the logistics of getting cabs to carry 19 people from one place to another in New York were frightening. They loaded bunches of little kids into a cab and sent them off with no parental supervision. They had a lot more faith in New York cabbies than I could ever muster. But I guess with a family that size ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Still, my gut reaction is that there is a lot of self-rearing going on with those kids. And a lot of risks that kids in a normal sized family don’t have to face.

  5. Dorian Gray says:
    December 19, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Joanne – Could you elaborate?

  6. jason330 says:
    December 19, 2008 at 11:02 am

    I get where JC is coming from.

    If you tacitly disapprove of Duggar turning her uterus into a bus station you open the door to charges of hypocrisy when you say abortion is a matter of choice.

    I don’t agree because I think what is being frowned on is the Duggars as parents, but I get it.

  7. Von Cracker says:
    December 19, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Every sperm is sacred.
    Every sperm is great.
    If a sperm is wasted,
    God gets quite irate.

  8. JohnnyX says:
    December 19, 2008 at 11:17 am

    I could care less how many kids they have. So long as they can afford them and take care of them, whatever, that’s their problem, not mine.

    That being said I have seen the show and there are plenty of other reasons they bother me and creep me out beyond the sheer quantity of kids.

    For example, I happened to catch the episode where they took a family trip to the Creationism Museum. Yeah…sure…cave people just hung out side by side with T Rex, it was great, like a happy real life Flintstones…oh yeah and it only happened like a couple thousand years ago too…yeah…

  9. Dorian Gray says:
    December 19, 2008 at 11:46 am

    Well, Jason (and JC I guess), I would equally label a woman who has had 18 abortions mentally ill. Plus I never said she didn’t have the right to have 18 kids (or 18 abortions), I just said it was indicative of psychological instability.

  10. jason330 says:
    December 19, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    DG,

    I agree with all of that. I was just anticipating JC’s response.

    “Creationism Museum”

    makes me laugh. Kooks used to have dignity. They knew that thier kook worldviews disqualified them from taking part in normal society .

    Not anymore.

  11. delawaredem says:
    December 19, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    I agree with Dorian.

    Hell, if every sperm is sacred, then my bed is the location of a holocaust of unfathomable proportions.

  12. JohnnyX says:
    December 19, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    “Hell, if every sperm is sacred, then my bed is the location of a holocaust of unfathomable proportions.”

    I nominate this for comment of the millenium. Just…wow.

  13. Von Cracker says:
    December 19, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    Just keep the black lights out of DD’s bedroom!

    eeeuuuwwww! 😀

  14. Joanne Christian says:
    December 19, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Thanks for covering for me Jason…I was at the office party. You done good.

    Johnny X-Agreed, as long as I’m not supporting them…..

    DG–You’d be surprised maybe to know MANY women have had 8-14 abortions. A rather common finding in Eastern European/Soviet households. Also, found as birth control of choice, by women who couldn’t tolerate the pill (pre-sponge etc. days), and partners who wouldn’t wear a condom.

    DelDem-Wash–no, BURN your sheets!!

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