Someone is always watching!

Dear Carole Anne

 My husband and I recently had a set of twins and my babies are the most beautiful two girls in the world. I watch TLC all the time and I have seen how well Jon & Kate have done putting their children on television. I also love the show about the little beauty contests. I hope to enter my girls in beauty contest some day too. Do you think this could do my girls any damage if we try to persue a career for them?

Signed

An Enamored Mother

 Dear Enamored Mother

I can see why any mother would want to show off her her much loved children. We all have done it. However, when it comes to selling them out and putting them on display that is another thing entirely. If you watch Tori & Dean Home Sweet Hollywood, though she does have her children on TV she severely limits their exposure. Jon & Kate created an entire show around their children until their train wreck marriage took it over. As for TLC’s Toddler’s & Tiaras is a nice idea but have you seen some of these families? The entire family’s existence is centered around the pageant and the child’s performance. Any other children began to feel left out and second best. Hardly worth it really in my opinion. If you have twins which would you root for? What if one wins and one does not? How would you handle the sibling riverly? I say keep your children normal and away from lights and a camera crew. Look what it did to the Gosselins, that one twin is the biggest brat I have ever seen! Her parents are divorced now and cheated like crazy before the end came and the sextuplets look as if they are shell-shocked! This is one family that will get more press for bad behavior in a few years then the Lohans! If your baby girls are as beautiful as you say, and I have no doubt that they are, let them grown up in a normal childhood and they can always go into TV and beauty contest when they are older if they choose. This way you will save a fortune in therapy bills and bail money.

Now that Ted Kennedy has died those with long held grudges are speaking out. Take one of the jurors from the 40 year old Mary Jo Kopechne case. Now Teddy may have been fooling himself, but he, and the Kennedy Clan, have never really fooled the public about his guilt in this incident. Case in point, when he was running for president one of the funniest thing I ever saw was on a car one day in traffic. I pulled up behind a van with a bumper sticker that read “A Blond In Every Pond…..Vote Kennedy!”. Needless to say, I sat all alone in my car laughing my ass off. To anyone around me who may not have seen the sticker must have thought I had lost my mind. But admit it, sometimes funny things catch you off guard in public and you just loose it.  Now back to the juror, he has come out to say the jury was tainted. They were harassed and told how to vote on the case. The judge and district attorney told them how to vote. They also received death threats if they voted guilty that they and their family would be killed. Man, that’s harsh, but when the judge tells the jury that if they vote guilty he will charge them with contempt of court and throw them in jail. Wow, that takes taint to a whole new low! Dont’ get me wrong, I know the Kennedy Family has done a lot of good for this country but they have also done their share of damage too. In this climate today of ramped corruption this almost seems petty, however, the death of a young woman is never petty…..and the man who used his influence to escape justice for it is not petty. When powerful people pass away it is common for their detractors and their abused to come forward and air their dirty laundry. See Mackenzie Phillips if you need a newer example. The dead cannot contradict your charges. However in the Kopechne case we know this to be true. Or at least we, the people, have always suspected Kennedy got away with more than we would have if it have been us who that night who walked away from the Chappaquiddick and failed to report the accident for so long and a pretty young woman died as a result. But then, we are not Kennedys. Which may be a good thing because since I have not died yet, I am not sure when he went after death, nor where I will go. But I sincerely hope it will not be the same place. After spending some earthly years in the same country with him was enough I can not fathom spending eternity in the same eternal realm.

Holy Crap! I just read where the Duggar family is happy to announce they are having their 19th child. 19th child!!!!! WTF??? First there was Kate plus 8, then Ocotomom and her 14, now the Duggars are way ahead with 19. Is there a contest I haven’t heard of? Let me tell you, I had one child and it damn near killed me, so how can this woman have 19 and be happy to announce it. Frankly, if it were me, I would have stopped it around child number two. How? Loreena Bobbit him! I may have been brought up on legal charges of preforming a medical procedure without a license but there would not have been a child 3-19. Can you just imagine the logistical nightmare of caring for that many children? I know she says the older kids help with the younger ones, but in that case you are not raising them the other kids are and life in the Duggar house must be more like a commune than a family. If I were the older kids in the family I would be pissed that MOM keeps having babies that we have to raise them for her. Cooking and cleaning for that troop would have to make you feel like you have been conscripted.

How much time in a mother’s day can she devote to giving love and attention to 19 children? Not much. So needless to say the odds one of them will grow up to be the next Jeffrey Dahmer are pretty high (he claimed he didn’t get any love as a child either). You just know one of those kids will go crazy and kill someone for having to grow up in that army.

Of course, on the other hand, the parents have a good shot one of the kids will take them in a care for them in their old age. They have a 19 shots at it, whereas most of us only have one or two at best. Screw that one shot up and we are nursing home bound. But the Duggars can keep moving on down the line until one takes them in. Pretty good odds they will not be nursing home bound.

Last year I forgot my anniversary date. Can you imagine remembering all the dates 19 children will generate? It begins with their birthdays and continues with anniversaries, grandchildren’s birthdays, etc.  No way would  I would be able to keep up. Ms. Duggars only hope will be to fake short term memory loss. But that’s the price for having so many children.

This reminds me of the Groucho Marx Show and the man being interviewed said he had seven children. When Groucho asked how he accounted for having so many children the man replied “I love my wife.” To which Groucho remarked, “I love my cigar too but I take it out once in awhile!”