From the Associated Press, May 9:

It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman - she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join 7 sisters and 10 brothers. There are 2 sets of twins. "We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.

The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.

The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest AR in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children - whose names start with the letter J - are home-schooled.

Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores - or "jurisdictions" - are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a "jurisdiction swap," where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.

"The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass," she said. "The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms," among other chores.

Duggar said she's 6 weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they'll keep having children as long as God wills it.

"The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated," Jim Bob Duggar said. "Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

View the Duggars' webpage here. View their Discovery Channel info here.

[HT: proofreader Angela; top photo courtesy of the AP; 2nd photo courtesy of Anvari.org, where other photos are available showing the Duggar home, etc.]

The new poll question is up:

The Alliance Defense Fund plans a Sept. pastor revolt to defy a 1954 IRS tax amendment stripping churches and pastors of the right to discuss politics and candidates. ADF hopes this will spark a court battle ultimately finding it unconstitutional. Should pastors and churches be free to discuss politics?

49.4% got last week's poll question right...

So what do you think?

In his public message to Gov. Sebelius, KS Archbishop Joseph Naumann wrote, in part...

I am a brand new board member of Pregnancy Aid South Suburbs, a network of 3
pregnancy care centers and 1 maternity home located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.

Tomorrow is PASS's annual Hike for Life, 1 of 2 annual fundraisers that is very important to PASS's financial stability....

On May 1 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Student Government Association Senator Roderick King was caught on tape vandalizing a pro-life display of crosses commemorating children killed by abortion.

UWSP administration had given Pointers for Life authorization to display the exhibit. This didn't deter King from destroying it, nor did knock-kneed campus police....

From the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society website:

On Saturday, May 3, over 300 mourners gathered at St. Gerald's Church in Farmington, MI, for the funeral Mass to pay their respects to 23 victims of abortion killed at the Woman Care abortion clinics in Lathrup Village and Sterling Heights - owned and operated by abortionist Alberto Hodari....

(See more photos on page 2.)

A press release yesterday from the Indian Hindu reform group Navya Shastra called on Hindus to "allow daughters to impart final rites at the funerals of their parents."

A NS rep explained, "One religious reason why boys are favored among Hindus is because of the anachronistic belief that only a son can formally conduct this ceremony, so a girl is totally worthless in this regard."

I found this information fascinating. According to Webhealing.com...

by JivinJ

Here's an article on what California's Proposition 71 will be funding:

The center will be a highly visible symbol of the region's commitment to stem cell research, and a place where the taxpayers footing the bill can see what progress their money has fueled, said Dr. Edward Holmes, the consortium's president and formerly head of UCSD's medical school.

If I was a CA taxpayer, I'd be thinking: We were promised cures but all we got for our $6 billion dollars was a bunch of fancy buildings....

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Expelled vs. Yoko and flat earth descendants

First, according to Box Office Mojo, Expelled is already ranked the #12th top grossing documentary after only 3 weeks out:

Expelled should break the top 10, although Moore fans can rest easy it will never beat any of his his top 3 atrocities. (Did not know Roger and Me was a Moore film until corrected by a reader Bystander.)

The highlighting was Mojos, indicating films currently out. So Expelled is beating the Rolling Stones, and I see another rock icon, John Lennon, at #21.

Speaking of, Yoko is suing Expelled's makers for using 15 seconds of John's song Imagine without permission....

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Eduardo on Today

I got a little misty eyed at the end. I think all mothers will. From The Today Show, May 6...

According to an email from Bella's promoters, Bella was the #1 selling dvd in Amazon's love/romance category yesterday and #5 on the entire Amazon site. That's great.

Promoters are encouraging store buyers to get Bella at Walmart because it's the largest dvd retailer in the world.

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