facepalm of the day

[GenuineRisk]

I'm sure we are all shocked, shocked, to learn that TLC's cash cow, The Duggars, apparently covered up the fact that one of their sons molested several of his sisters:

http://defamer.gawker.com/josh-dugga...a-t-1706096839

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I'm sure we are all shocked, shocked, to learn that TLC's cash cow, The Duggars, apparently covered up the fact that one of their sons molested several of his sisters:

http://defamer.gawker.com/josh-dugga...a-t-1706096839

i saw that the other day. also read in an article about some other ultra rights who have gotten in trouble due to sexual shenanigans.
sanctimonious people so often get caught out for doing worse than they imagined the sinners they were haranguing could ever have done.
and it all is bs--they said the boy got counseling, but he didn't. he went and stayed with a church friend a few months...oh, and got a stern talking to from a trooper who is, as i type this, in jail for child porn.
they called church elders, not the cops...wtf?! even the other parents whose daughter got molested, why didn't they call the cops?

our number one job as parents is to protect our kids from the evils of this world..yeah, they were worried about protecting themselves--and their money.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i saw that the other day. also read in an article about some other ultra rights who have gotten in trouble due to sexual shenanigans.
sanctimonious people so often get caught out for doing worse than they imagined the sinners they were haranguing could ever have done.
and it all is bs--they said the boy got counseling, but he didn't. he went and stayed with a church friend a few months...oh, and got a stern talking to from a trooper who is, as i type this, in jail for child porn.
they called church elders, not the cops...wtf?! even the other parents whose daughter got molested, why didn't they call the cops?

our number one job as parents is to protect our kids from the evils of this world..yeah, they were worried about protecting themselves--and their money.

If someone is a moral scold, especially a very public one, I tend to wonder what skeletons are hanging out in his or her closet.

Last I read, TLC is thinking about just firing the son from the show, so they can keep the show going. Because apparently, the parents protecting him from legal repercussions isn't disgusting enough to keep them off the air.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

If someone is a moral scold, especially a very public one, I tend to wonder what skeletons are hanging out in his or her closet.

Last I read, TLC is thinking about just firing the son from the show, so they can keep the show going. Because apparently, the parents protecting him from legal repercussions isn't disgusting enough to keep them off the air.

lol
i said exactly that on slate, about skeletons falling out of the closet. yeah, the parents behavior is reprehensible. they knew this was going on, and handled it...poorly. i get that no one wants a son to get 'in trouble', but at his age, counseling would have done wonders, and most likely is all that would have been needed. at that age, they can typically counsel so that the behavior won't continue.

here's link to a story about other fundies getting in trouble:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...cking_the.html

and here's a new offering:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...love_them.html

when the huckster was on the daily show, he dared call out beyonce for how children might view her onstage behavior. stewart brought up him hanging out with the nuge, but didn't really get into why that mattered...ted nugent had a couple actually sign over their daughter to him as guardian--she was 16. they knew the reason why ted wanted to be her 'guardian'...so, huck will hang out with statutory rapists on the one hand, and call out a females on stage behavior...and he sees nothing wrong with that?
it is amazing to me how someone can say one thing, and do another. as tho there's a disconnect between what they see, and what they do.

when i was at a continuing education class not long ago, they showed clips of a documentary, to discuss ethics. the documentary was done by a college in texas (a and m perhaps?) and the subject was jack abramoff. he came and did an interview with them. one thing jumped out at me, and i really think it's a key to these peoples' behavior.
he said (in a nutshell) that he was a very ethical person. over time, he quit really discussing with himself if something was ethical or not...he began to go down the wrong road, but he felt when he thought about it-well, i'm an ethical person, so if i made that choice, it must be ethical'. of course it wasn't...but i really think that's how people end up in the situations they end up in. they stop really thinking about a question, a deed, an offering of a gift, etc, because hey, they're ethical, so their behavior must be.

[Danzig]

'Duggar has this much access in part because he was the executive director, at the precocious age of 27, of the Family Research Council's FRC Action, a Christian-right lobbying group that fights against gay rights, reproductive rights, and even the Violence Against Women Act, calling it a “slush fund.”'

And extremist is the right word for it. While TLC's 19 Kids and Counting show spins them as a kooky but ultimately loving family, the reality is that they're part of a far-right Quiverfull slice of the already far-right cult of Christian patriarchy. A big part of their religion is the belief that a woman should, to be blunt, never exercise a moment of sexual agency in her entire life. Prior to marriage, she is not allowed to have sex or even kiss or hold hands with someone. After marriage, she is not allowed to decline sex if her husband wants it. She is not allowed birth control, even if giving birth will kill her.

wut?!?!
i have never seen the show, had no idea they were so......um, what's the word...
crazy?
loony? kooky?
hello, if we kept going with our population the way we had been, we'd reach critical mass. the earth can only hold so many people.
oh, wait...silly me, that's science and i'm sure holds no place with these idiots.

[dellinger63]

A man from Kenya is reportedly offering a dowry for the hand of President Obama’s 16-year-old daughter Malia — 70 sheep, 50 cows and 30 goats.

Felix Kiprono told The Nairobian newspaper that he has long dreamed to marry Malia, the oldest of the Obamas’ children.

“I got interested in her in 2008,” he said. “As a matter of fact, I haven’t dated anyone since and promise to be faithful to her.”

Hmm interested in her when she was 9? Think Josh Duggar may have found a friend.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...heep-50-cows-/

[jms62]

Maybe it is me but why waste our tax dollars prosecuting a foreign entity in a sport that 90% of the people in this country could give a **** about except 2 months every 4 years. We have plenty of crooked politicians and corporations financing those politicians to go after. Oh wait never mind I forgot for a nano second that those crooked politicians have say in your jobs at the justice department even if they aren't supposed to. God Bless America.. We need it desperately.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/27/footba...ent/index.html