The “Clown Car” family just added another child to their litter. There has to be something wrong with someone to possess them to have 18 children… and want more.
Michelle Duggar has given birth to her 18th child.
The Arkansas supermom delivered the baby girl by Caesarean section Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers.
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“We both would love to have more,” he (Jim Bob Duggar) said.
I’m sorry, somewhere after a dozen it stops being a family and starts to become communal living. I feel for the children. They will grow up with about as much individual attention as a child gets in the public school system. At least the younger children may not have to face the burden of raising their siblings.
If you were to have 18 cats living in your house, you would have the authorities investigating you for possibly cruelty charges, but evidently the same doesn’t apply to children.
It snowed in Las Vegas yesterday. It must be the global warming…
Tags: Global Warming
I’ve been a fan of Mike Rowe and Dirty Jobs for quite a while now. He has such a unique sense of humor perfectly fitted for hosting such a show. I can’t think of any other personality that would make that program work. Interesting, informative, and above all, entertaining! What I didn’t know until recently is that Mike Rowe got his start on the QVC shopping network back in the early 90’s. Looking at old segments, you can see that the same sense of humor that keeps you watching Dirty Jobs was at work getting you to buy crazy knicknacks.
Check out some more of Mike’s QVC clips.
Tags: Funny, Interesting
This is an interesting video and explains why this recession/depression may end up being prolonged.
Accelerant was found at the scene of the Wasilla Bible Church fire, indicating with almost certainty that it was a case of arson. This is the church home of Sarah Palin and was the target of many liberal jabs during the 2008 election. Wait, you haven’t heard of the fire? That’s probably because most mainstream news sources have relegated this to the back page, if they have covered it at all. You would think a deliberate attack aimed at the church of a state governor and former vice-presidential candidate would be top news.
While the perpetrator and exact cause is still unknown, I think it’s pretty easy to connect the dots. The fact of the matter is that violent acts by liberal activists are on the rise. While I am sure these acts are isolated to small fringe groups, it is a disturbing trend none the less. For a party that pushes tolerance, acceptance, and progressiveness, I see much hate within its ranks. During and after the election, it was not hard to find racial and hate slurs directed at people who do not share the liberal point of view. This fire is just another example of a disturbing trend in America… one that is too easily swept under the rug of mainstream media.
Tags: Sad
I caught a program over the weekend on the History channel that compared our current economic condition to teh Gread Depression. The show made a case for the current government involvement in the economy (bailouts) by referencing the lack of government involvement in the early days of the Depression. I tend to disagree with this assessment. Prior to the Great Depression, there were little rules or regulations that surrounded the stock market or the banking system. When the sock bubble burst, people paniced and withdrew their money from the banks to protect their assets. As a result, many rules, regulations, and safeguards were put into place. The current meltdown was caused by a collapse in sub-prime lending and the creative house of cards that propped up an entire society living on credit. Infusing government money into the system will do nothing more than prolong the pain. As for more rules and regulations, the system we have in place is just fine, however, we have to live my those rules. Sub-prime lending is a bad business practice that was encouraged by the government. This mess should have never happened had good business rules applied.
But with the current political and economic climate, there is lots of talk about a renewed “New Deal” and comparisons being made between the 2008 election and the FDR defeat over Hoover. A recent article seems to dispute this and draws a closer comparison between 2008 and the election of 1976.
“The mood of the country in 1976 also parallels our present situation, with a pervasive sense of disgust at politics as usual and widespread fears of national decline. As if the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate fiasco were not catastrophic enough, foreign-policy disasters in Africa and Asia suggested that the U.S. was losing its hegemony. The oil crisis pointed to a vast transfer of wealth and power to the Middle East, while many pundits predicted environmental catastrophe. The sharp economic downturn resulted in heavy unemployment and rising inflation. A concatenation of scandals tarnished once-trusted institutions: corporations, the military, intelligence agencies, police, and, of course, the politicians.”
Tags: bailout, economy, government
The first web browser for African-Americans, Blackbird, was recently released. As a web developer, the first thing that popped in my mind is: Why? What is the point of this? Are browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer somehow racist?
Unfortunately, the Blackbird web site doesn’t give many answers. It states the browser is “powered by Mozilla, which powers some of the most popular Internet browsers”. Okay. So this is essentially Firefox repackaged. Then why not just use Firefox? I assume because the browser will “add to your web surfing experience with content that you would not otherwise find”. Does this imply that Firefox and other browsers somehow censor content on the internet? If so, I’m sure many people at the Mozilla organization will take objection to that.
This is quite simply silly. A web browser is an software devoid of race and is simply an access tool for the content of the internet. If a user chooses to access information for African-Americans, then great! There is certainly nothing wrong with that. Likewise, there isn’t anything inherently wrong with an African-American “themed” web browser. However, to imply that it somehow works differently or provides different content than other browsers is absurd. Likewise, one would have to question the real need for racially themed web software products.
Before projects like this are launched, people should ask themselves: Does this further racial equality, does it distract from it, or does it contribute further to division and racial tension? Do we really need to continue to identify with communities of race, or should instead strive to identify as a diverse and united community?
Yes, that’s right, for the second time in the last few weeks, we see the headline “New unemployment claims surge unexpectedly“. Could someone please explain to me what is so unexpected about this? The economy is in the toilet and we’re in a recession. I thought this was a given. Everyday we see more headlines about new layoffs, companies folding, and entire industries struggling to survive. Now I am no economist, but after seeing all this, I certainly don’t find a surge in unemployment to be “unexpected”. On the contrary, I would say a surge would be “predictable”. Maybe those industry analysts that find this to be so surprising should be joining the ranks in the unemployment line. I think opening their jobs up for a few economically in-tune average Joes would be a good start in stimulating the economy.
…at least not when it comes to politics.
What more can be said about yesterday’s sensational news of Gov. Blagojevich being arrested on curruption charges? This is the fourth Illinois Governor in recent history to face criminal charges while in office. Yet another chapter in the very big book of Chicago-style political corruption.
Now let’s look at the bigger picture. Obama was raised in the very same political climate and has many ties with questionable figures in the Chicago machine. Shouldn’t this have been outed during the election? Well, some tried, but remember the media free pass that Obama got? Yeah. I wonder if that had an expiration date or if he can still us it.
The big question is what kind of relationship did Obama have with Blagojevich? Obama and his crew would like you to believe that he hardly knew the guy. However, lets look at the short list seems to indicate that he was a campaign advisor to the Governor in 2002. Obama endorsed Blago in 2002 and 2006. They shared fundraisers and campaign strategists. There is even evidence that Obama discussed his replacement with the Govenor. However, Obama said his staff “misspoke” in that regard.
So far, all this seems to be the tip of the iceberg. As Neil Boortz put it, it’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Tags: Blagojevich, Obama
