Bill McNeal wrote:Got a pool table, having it delivered right now. I loved playing pool back in my early 20's, can't wait to have my own table now. Thinking I might get a kegorator next, we've got a good sized finished basement, and basically had nothing down there since we moved in. Now I've got couches, pool table, dart board, home theater (plus video games) and still have more space.

mickbayne wrote:I couldn't fit my pool table in the new place

Phred wrote:

mickbayne wrote:I couldn't fit my pool table in the new place

I couldn't get my pool table out of my old house.

WilliamC wrote:Did Vox and MrsVox just get sick of everyone?

Bucky wrote:i've seen this dude on my fb feed but i have no clue who he is. should i care?

Now it’s true that Josh Duggar did eventually speak to the authorities about what he’d done, but that’s the thing: it happened eventually. According to the 2006 felony investigation report, Jim Bob claims he first learned about what Josh was doing when one of the little girls involved came to him and said that she’d been molested several times. That was in March of 2002. By July of 2002, Josh had apparently confessed to Jim Bob, but everything seems to have been kept within the family. Josh was “disciplined,” the report reads. Jim Bob told investigators that about nine months later, however, there was “another incident” involving several minors. Rather than go to the police immediately, Jim Bob spoke with the family’s church elders and they decided to discipline the teen by way of a “program (that) consisted of hard physical work and counseling.” That program, however, turned out to be nothing more than a home remodeling business run by a friend. There was no counseling at all involved.
Jim Bob finally brought Josh to the authorities when the latter returned from his “Christian program,” in July of 2003, and even then he was taken only to a personal friend of Jim Bob’s, an Arkansas State Trooper named Jim Hutchens. Hutchens did nothing more than give Josh a “very stern talk” and wouldn’t pursue a case beyond that. Interestingly, Hutchens is now serving a 56-year prison sentence on child pornography charges.

The 2006 investigation went nowhere because the statute of limitations had expired, but the stink from this is undeniable. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, Josh Duggar, and really the entire Duggar family have known about this for years and throughout their rise to fame and fortune as America’s biggest and most squeaky-clean family of crusaders for Christ they said nothing. They kept it a complete secret. This wouldn’t necessarily be a problem were it not for two things. One is that it’s not hard to imagine Jim Bob and Michelle burying this precisely because it would tarnish their reputation and therefore bring the gravy train that’s made them very rich, very famous people to a grinding halt. Two is that the Duggars aren’t the live-and-let-live types, which makes any effort to cover-up the child molester in their family an act of grotesque hypocrisy. Just last year, Michelle Duggar lent her voice to a robocall asking residents of Fayetteville, Arkansas to protest an upcoming anti-discrimination bill aimed at protecting transgender citizens. “I doubt that Fayetteville parents would stand for a law that would endanger their daughters or allow them to be traumatized by a man joining them in their private space,” Michelle says in the recording. “We should never place the preference of an adult over the safety and innocence of a child.”