Work At Home Dad - Ty Tribble

Lucky Number 17 for Duggars - Michelle Ready for More

Jennifer Danielle Duggar (or #17) was born at 10:01AM Arkansas time today. The Work At Home Dad's coverage of the Duggar's started at #15 when I jokingly made a special note to Michelle Duggar, "Stop!".

That post went top 10 on Google and spawned (heh - pun intended) dozens of comments and a debate that covered global population, Christian values and home schooling.

So now, whenever the Duggar's have another kid, (usually about every 18 months) this blog gets hammered with traffic. Should be fun.

Here is a snip from the press coverage of Jennifer:

An Arkansas couple had a baby daughter Thursday — their 17th child and seventh girl — and the pair say they're still not ready to give it a rest.

Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at a hospital in Rogers, Arkansas, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said in an interview.

"We'd love to have more," Michelle said, referring to baby girls. "We love the ruffles and lace."

Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in a 7,000-square-foot (650-square-meter) home in Tontitown. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are taught at home.

The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.

Today's 30-something Men Earn Less

This snip from a recent article talks about how men in their 30's are earning less than their fathers did in their 30's.

How do we solve this problem?

Start a business of your own and then teach everything you know about the business to your son. Let's make sure that this trend stops with us.

From the Seattle Times:

American men in their 30s today are worse off than their fathers' generation, a reversal from a decade ago, when sons generally were better off than their fathers, a new study finds.

The study also says the typical American family's income has lagged far behind productivity growth since 2000, a departure from most of the post-World War II period.

The findings suggest "the up escalator that has historically ensured that each generation would do better than the last may not be working very well," says the study, released Friday.

Mary Kay LeTourneau and Vili Fualaau on NBC

The Today show doesn’t like to judge. In the past, they have used the HBO series Big Love as a pretext to describe polygamy as the "next civil rights battle."  They also had a serious piece on an "artist" who was promoting female public nudity. And now we have the lighter side of child rape. The May 26 edition of NBC’s Today featured an interview with Mary Kay LeTourneau. You may remember her as the women who was convicted in 1997 for having sex with her then 12-year-old student. She has since served a seven year prison sentence and is now married to the former victim, Vili Fualaau, 21.

Here’s how Matt Lauer introduced the piece at 7:32AM EDT:    Lauer: "Most skeptics thought it could never last. Theirs was truly a love against all odds. He was a sixth grader in suburban Seattle. She was a star teacher and a married mother of four. What began as a mentorship quickly developed into a sexual affair."

NBC’s ‘Today’ Describes Statutory Rape Case as ‘A Love Against All Odds' | NewsBusters.org

 

 

Steve Vaught - Fat Man Walking

Fat Man Walking:

My Name is Steve Vaught, (born Stephen James Liller in Youngstown, Ohio). I am a 39 year old, happily married father of two great kids and I have a pretty good life here in Southern California. You would think that I would be happy because of these things, but I am not. I am not happy because I am fat and being fat makes every day unhappy.

I did not make this website to complain about it however, instead I am doing something about  it and this site was made to chronicle my story.

I am going to walk across the United states from San Diego to NYC to lose weight and regain my life!

The rest of the story is that I have not always been fat. I have been many things in my life from a lanky teenager to a muscular Marine and now I am fat. This latest incarnation is without a doubt the worst.

Being fat is physically and emotionally painful.  It diminishes the quality of the good things in life and it will ultimately bring about an early demise. So being overweight darkens every good thing that you achieve in your life and even prevents some things from happening at all.

Supermax Prison in Colorado

23 hours a day to sit in a cell and think about how much he hates Americans.

wcbs:

A defiant Zacarias Moussaoui has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in a cell with no one to talk to at the Supermax -- a prison known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."

Moussaoui was sentenced Thursday to life in prison after scolding Americans for missing a chance to learn from him why they are hated by al-Qaida terrorists. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema sentenced the unrepentant 37-year-old Frenchman to six life sentences and told him he would "die with a whimper," isolated from the world and not in the glory of martyrdom.

Paris Hilton and Stavros Niarchos Split

I think I know why this kind of thing makes people happy.

Paris will never have trouble making her car payment, but in relationships, she is now relatable with the rest of the world.

China Daily:

Paris Hilton and her boyfriend, Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, have split, Hilton's publicist Lori Glass, tells PEOPLE.

"I confirm that she's split with him. They are no longer a couple. I don't know the exact day they split."

Hilton, 25, and Niarchos, 21, began dating last year.

As for rumors of a possible relationship with newly drafted Arizona Cardinal Matt Leinart, "She knows Matt, she likes Matt. They are friends," Elliot Mintz, another publicist for Hilton, tells PEOPLE. "I don't want to go any further than that. They have known each other a while."

Anna Nicole Smith wins right to sue

Ahhhh, such a winding and sorrowful road leading to the end of this tale of young love...

Accckkkkk - cough - spit.

detnews:

The Supreme Court revived former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's pursuit of her late husband's oil fortune, ruling Monday that the one-time stripper deserves another day in court.

Smith won the votes of all nine justices in her feud over the estate of J. Howard Marshall II, the colorful Texas tycoon who died in 1995 at age 90.

The case has had twists and turns. Smith won a $474 million judgment, which was cut to about $89 million and eventually reduced to zero.

Although Monday's ruling reinstates her claim, there is no guarantee she will collect any money.

Justices said only that federal courts in California could deal with her case despite a Texas state court ruling that Marshall's youngest son was the sole heir to the estate.

The Real Life Forrest Gump

"I just felt like Runnigg, Jenny"

Too bad Jenny wasn't present to give the little guy some water before he collapsed.

Yahoo News:

A five-year-old child stunned onlookers when he ran a distance of 65 kilometres (40.3 miles) in seven hours in eastern India.

Watched over by his coach, paramilitary forces and TV crews, and trailed by army doctors and an ambulance, Budhia Singh ran between the holy town of Puri in the eastern state of Orissa and its capital Bhubaneswar.

Budhia, almost a real life version of the fictitious Forrest Gump, began the race from a temple in Puri at 4.00 am local time but collapsed two kilometres short of the designated finish line -- the headquarters of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Bhubaneswar -- at 11.02 am, television reports said.

Marine who rescued Aviator Howard Hughes

Star-Telegram:

William Durkin, the Marine who pulled Howard Hughes from the wreckage of a plane he had been test-piloting over Beverly Hills, died Saturday. He would have turned 90 on Sunday.

On July 7, 1946, Mr. Durkin saw the fiery wreckage of Hughes' XF-11 reconnaissance plane and rescued the eccentric billionaire. Hughes was burned on 78 percent of his body and mangled from his forehead to below his knees. He hovered near death days later, but rallied to fly again.

The crash was the centerpiece of Martin Scorsese's acclaimed 2004 film The Aviator, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Hughes.

Can you tell George Bush from Steve Bridges?

Could you tell them apart from 20 feet away?