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scorp17yh

scorp17yh

Brookings, OR
November 2004

AUG 03, 2007 08:30 AM

Oh good lord, not another one.

By JILL ZEMAN, Associated Press Writer
29 minutes ago



It's a girl _ again _ for the Duggars. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, and seventh daughter, into the world Thursday.

Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rogers, Ark., the Duggars said in an interview. Jennifer weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and arrived five days after Michelle's due date.

Less than 30 minutes after giving birth, the Duggars already were talking of having more.

"We'd love to have more," Michelle said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. "We love the ruffles and lace."

Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in Tontitown in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children _ whose names start with the letter J _ are home-schooled.

The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.

"We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said Jim Bob Duggar, 42, a former state representative. "We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well."

Jennifer joins siblings Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_fe_st/17_kids&printer=1;_ylt=ApqK51Civh8TYDfmnNwcb70uQE4F

http://www.duggarfamily.com

http://www.duggarfamily.com

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

AUG 03, 2007 08:35 AM

Jinger?



The dad's name is Jim Bob?

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

AUG 03, 2007 08:43 AM



(/hattip SuicidePuppies)

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

AUG 03, 2007 08:45 AM

What is so freakin' holy about the letter J?

scorp17yh

scorp17yh

Brookings, OR
November 2004

AUG 03, 2007 08:49 AM

_Poptard_ said:
What is so freakin' holy about the letter J?




Jebus I'm a guessin'

Couldn't they possibly oh I don't know ADOPT

Gringo

Gringo

Spokane, WA
May 2006

AUG 03, 2007 08:49 AM

So are they positive a baby came out and not her uterus?

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

AUG 03, 2007 09:00 AM

scorp17yh said:

_Poptard_ said:
What is so freakin' holy about the letter J?




Jebus I'm a guessin'

Couldn't they possibly oh I don't know ADOPT



I would have guessed the letter J in Jehovah. Remember, in latin the letter J is the lengthened letter I, and the letter I is really the letter Y in Hebrew, which is the first letter of god's name, see YHWH.

DhD_No_Pants

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX
May 2006

AUG 03, 2007 09:38 AM

My vagina cringes just thinking about it.

Darke

Darke

Columbia, MO
June 2005

AUG 03, 2007 09:41 AM

She had to have a Caesarian?!? you'd think after 17 units the woman would be like a log flume....

seriously, we need to assemble a drive-by sterilization team, STAT!

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

AUG 03, 2007 09:45 AM

_Poptard_ said:

scorp17yh said:

_Poptard_ said:
What is so freakin' holy about the letter J?




Jebus I'm a guessin'

Couldn't they possibly oh I don't know ADOPT


I would have guessed the letter J in Jehovah. Remember, in latin the letter J is the lengthened letter I, and the letter I is really the letter Y in Hebrew, which is the first letter of god's name, see YHWH.


Not to mention that in Qabbala, of course, the yod signifies the primordial energy that initiates the Sheveirat ha-Keilim, or the cataclysm of creation.

But you're assuming they're educated enough to know stuff like that. I hate to say it, but scorp17yh is probably . . . right.

I feel dirty now.

Otoki

Otoki

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

AUG 03, 2007 09:50 AM

Proof of why our average intelligence is declining... They're breeding.

Kundalini

Kundalini

Kalamazoo, MI
June 2004

AUG 03, 2007 10:06 AM

Have you seen these fuckos on the Discovery Channel? There have been a few specials about them.
She's prime breeding stock.
Vacant look in the eyes, and to me she looks like always about to explode from keeping something inside.
He's a jeebus lovin' fool.
It's god's will that they keep having kids until her uterus is cold and dead and they can hang it on the wall as a symbol of their devotion to Christ.

I feel sorry for their kids -damn near living in poverty due to the size of the family.
I feel sorry for her, being used for her uterus, losing her value as anything but a child care giver and birthing unit. I guess I'd call her sex slave, but I can't imagine that either of them takes any joy in it, given that to enjoy sex would be a sin.
I feel sorry for him. He just doesn't fucking get it. No clue at all as to why what he's doing is morally and socially reprehensible. It's the word of God y'all. puke

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

AUG 03, 2007 10:07 AM

Otoki said:
Proof of why our average intelligence is declining... They're breeding.


Here's some lovely information on their religion, which apparently demands female subordination for breeding purposes (and is critical of hospital births, so they obviously don't follow it to the letter), and on their http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gothardcult leader, who apparently once "protested against the Cabbage Patch Kids because Cabbage Patch Kids or Treasure Trolls could lead to difficulties in conceiving or giving birth to a child."

And Jim Bob Duggar is a former representative in the Arkansas legislature, and a failed candidate for the US Senate.

meatpieboy

meatpieboy

Korea, D.P.R.
June 2004

AUG 03, 2007 11:19 AM

The record for a woman is over 60 children. They have a long way to go.

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

AUG 03, 2007 11:26 AM


OH GOURD IT'S THOSE PEOPLE!

Seriously...not much frightens me. You really wish and hope that some of the kids would get into pot or porn.

-TM

scorp17yh

scorp17yh

Brookings, OR
November 2004

AUG 03, 2007 12:06 PM

I knew this story soundedfamiliar;


God Does Not Want 16 Kids
Arkansas mom gives birth to a whole freakin' baseball team. How deeply should you cringe?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, October 19, 2005


Who are you to judge? Who are you to say that the more than slightly creepy 39-year-old woman from Arkansas who just gave birth to her 16th child yes that's right 16 kids and try not to cringe in phantom vaginal pain when you say it, who are you to say Michelle Duggar is not more than a little unhinged and sad and lost?

And furthermore, who are you to suggest that her equally troubling husband -- whose name is, of course, Jim Bob and he's hankerin' to be a Republican senator and try not to wince in sociopolitical pain when you say that -- isn't more than a little numb to the real world, and that bringing 16 hungry mewling attention-deprived kids (and she wants more! Yay!) into this exhausted world zips right by "touching" and races right past "disturbing" and lurches its way, heaving and gasping and sweating from the karmic armpits, straight into "Oh my God, what the hell is wrong with you people?"

But that would be, you know, mean. Mean and callous to suggest that this might be the most disquieting photo you see all year, this bizarre Duggar family of 18 spotless white hyperreligious interchangeable people with alarmingly bad hair, the kids ranging in ages from 1 to 17, worse than those nuked Smurfs in that UNICEF commercial and worse than all the horrific rubble in Pakistan and worse than the cluster-bomb nightmare that is Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise having a child as they suck the skin from each other's Scientological faces and even worse than that huge 13-foot python which ate that six-foot alligator and then exploded.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/10/19/notes101905.DTL

Keri

Keri

SUICIDEGIRL

Virginia, USA

AUG 03, 2007 01:13 PM

wait...how is it creepy to have a bunch of children?
just because theyre religious people doesn't mean that everyone should call them "morally and socially reprehensible" because they have a big family.
i agree that it is foolish to have this many children when you're bordering poverty, but if they're comfortable with their living standards who the hell are we to judge? and don't use the excuse "the world has too many people in it as we speak...we dont need any more!!!" it may have some truth to it, but that's really close minded. my grandmother had 10 children (not because she was a religious nutso but because she and my grandfather liked having a big family)

spamtwo

spamtwo

United Kingdom
April 2006

AUG 03, 2007 01:19 PM

when do they get the money to feed and look after 17 kids?

Gringo

Gringo

Spokane, WA
May 2006

AUG 03, 2007 01:21 PM

rabidrabbit said:
when do they get the money to feed and look after 17 kids?


All of the children can sew, fortunately.

Keri

Keri

SUICIDEGIRL

Virginia, USA

AUG 03, 2007 01:32 PM

as i said before, my grandmother had 10 kids and my mother and her brothers and sisters all had to help my grandmother make their own clothes. they also had a garden that they used for about 80% of their food. people can actually live off of their own land and make their own clothing.

DhD_No_Pants

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX
May 2006

AUG 03, 2007 01:46 PM

I don't personally see it as creepy. My great grandmother had 12 kids, but they also put the kids to work as fieldhands pretty much as soon as they could carry a cotton sack.

If you can feed and clothe and most importantly LOVE that many kids, go for it.

My vagina will still cringe in pain, though.

MessyJessy

MessyJessy

Fort Myers, FL
August 2005

AUG 03, 2007 01:51 PM

Somewhere the ghost of Thomas Malthus is crying...

apesamongus

apesamongus

Atlanta, GA
July 2002

AUG 03, 2007 02:01 PM

There might be more to the story, but from what I see here, I have no clue what problem people have with them.

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

AUG 03, 2007 02:06 PM

_Poptard_ said:
I would have guessed the letter J in Jehovah.





But in the Latin alphabet......Jehova begins with an "I"........oh dear

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

AUG 03, 2007 02:08 PM

apesamongus said:
There might be more to the story, but from what I see here, I have no clue what problem people have with them.



I'd venture a guess that because the family is apparently very religious...they are a target for ridicule...on this message board anyway.

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