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This is a photo of Michelle Duggar and her family. She’s 41-year old and she is currently pregnant with her 18th child.

That’s right. She has given birth to 17 children and that is not enough. She must have at least one more. I read the whole article over on Yahoo, but I didn’t really need to. As soon as I heard there was a woman pregnant with her 18th child, I already assumed certain facts to be true. These facts include:

• She lives in Arkansas.
• She and her husband have named every child with a name starting with the letter “J”. To be honest, I wasn’t certain what the actual letter was, but I knew the names all started with the same letter.
• All of the children are home schooled.
• They are Republicans.
• They plan on continuing to have children as long as “God wills it”.
• They are supporters of former Republican Presidential nominee Mike Huckabee.

To put this into context, I know people who haven’t even had sex 18 times.

I can’t imagine the pain someone must feel that desperately wants to have a child, but for whatever reason, cannot become pregnant. It must be very similar to what someone who is starving to death feels when they have to watch someone at an all-you-can-eat Chinese food buffet go up and get 18 plates of snow crab legs.

And of course they have a reality TV show. I don’t watch reality TV shows that revolve around a single family unless that family includes midgets.

Little People, Big World rocks!

Tags: Arkansas, Home Schooling, Little People Big World, Michelle Duggar, Mike Huckabee, Reality TV, Republicans, Will of God

Mike Huckabee last month in a post-debate interview:

I’m as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I’m stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It’s a theocratic war. And I don’t know if anybody fully understands that. I’m the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well.”

Mike Huckabee after being outed as a liar by the conservative blog Powerline:

I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master’s degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters — three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion.

I’m not surprised that Huckabee was only lying when he claimed to have a theology degree. I remember when he said it and I remember thinking that it was an interesting aspect of Huckabee that set him apart from any other candidate. Most politicians are former lawyers. I was reminded of the fact that Huckabee held a theology degree when he made the derogatory comment about the Mormon faith. I thought it was strange that someone with a theology degree would be so ignorant about a major American religion.

Huckabee’s ignorance now makes more sense. He was lying about the theology degree.

Tags: Mike Huckabee, Powerline, Southwestern Baptist Theology Seminary

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has once again gone out of his way to say something incredibly stupid. This time it’s about the Mormon faith. In an upcoming article to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Huckabee reportedly asks the question to the reporter interviewing him for the magazine. They had been discussing fellow presidential hopeful Mitt Romney who is Mormon.

Huckabee is pretending is was a simple question about something he didn’t understand taken totally out of context. I’m not buying it. Mike Huckabee should know a thing or two about the Mormon religion. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister. He received a B.A. in theology from Ouachita Baptist University in 1975 and an M.A. in theology from Southwestern Baptist Theology Seminary in 1980. If there is one thing this man should know, it’s about religion.

The Mormon faith is a major religion in this county. Wikipedia says that there are over 6.7 million Mormons in this county. How can a man that holds two degrees in religion pretend to be so dense about another religion that he could pose such a crass and ridiculous question? He needs to treat Mormonism with as much respect as he would like others to show his own particular faith. I would think a theologian would know that.

Mike Huckabee is an idiot.

Tags: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Mormons, New York Times Magazine, Ouachita Baptist University, Southwestern Baptist Theology Seminary

Evidently Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has a hard time telling the difference between AIDS and a highly contagious and scary disease from the middle ages. Back in 1992 when he was trying to become a U.S. senator, he answered 229 questions submitted to him by The Associated Press. I have to think somebody at the AP kept Huckabee’s answers in a special file. The file was probably entitled, “WHACK JOB”.

Among the things advocated by Huckabee:

• He wrote that, “If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.”
• He suggested that Hollywood celebrities fund AIDS research from their own pockets, rather than federal health agencies.
• He wrote that, “It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.”

In case you don’t remember, by 1992 we already knew that you couldn’t catch HIV or AIDS from casual contact with those that were infected. As far as infectious diseases go, it’s fairly difficult to contract. You don’t get it from shaking hands with someone or sitting next to them on a bus. Unless you are exchanging bodily fluids with someone who is either HIV positive or has AIDS, you have nothing to worry about.

Even back in 1992, people knew the idea of putting people with AIDS in special camps was a dumb idea. Everyone except Mike Huckabee.

Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, GOP, HIV, Mike Huckabee, Politics, Republicans