Dr. Laura's advice to questioning Mo Mom

[helemon]

Apparently Dr. Laura advised a caller today who said she was begining to think her church "had some weird doctrines" and was thinking of leaving it but wasn't sure of pulling her kids out of church. She is a mother of six kids. Seems likely that she is a Mormon. Dr. Laura told her to just grin and bear it for the kids sake.
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You can listen to the broadcast on her website, but you will have to pay to listen to it. :Puking
http://www.drlaura.com/listen/

[cactus jack]

You got a heck of a choice there, I think. You can either pay a few bucks to listen to it on the internet or you can pay with your soul to live it like Doc L.... :(

[peter_mary]

Dr. Laura told her to just grin and bear it for the kids sake.
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I've never cared for Dr. Laura, and this is a stark reminder of why...she hasn't got a friggin' clue.

I wanna puke, too... :Puking :Puking

Peter_Mary

[dogzilla]

I've never cared for Dr. Laura, and this is a stark reminder of why...she hasn't got a friggin' clue.

I wanna puke, too... :Puking :Puking

Peter_Mary

Well, yes, of course I agree, but.

What kind of idiot calls a stupid radio show for advice on how to live one's life? If the caller listens to Dr. L and does what she advises, then.... I think she deserves whatever consequences befall her.

Or she can just stop drinking the Kool Aid.

:duh

[peter_mary]

What kind of idiot calls a stupid radio show for advice on how to live one's life? If the caller listens to Dr. L and does what she advises, then.... I think she deserves whatever consequences befall her.



EXACTLY!!! Who ARE these people, and how did they find our planet?

:D

Peter_Mary

[dogzilla]

EXACTLY!!! Who ARE these people, and how did they find our planet?

:D

Peter_Mary

Actually, they serve quite a useful purpose: They give me an excuse to be self-righteous and consider myself superior.


:D

[Fredl]

Actually, there was a time that I kinda liked Dr. Laura. Then, at a point in time....can't recall when.....she got into her current persons of self-righteous know-it-all and I, too, found myself totally turned off by her.

Does anybody else remember her from a few years ago or is this just one more pleasant fiction I have created for myself in order to think the world is a better place than it really is?

Fred

[peter_mary]

Actually, there was a time that I kinda liked Dr. Laura. Then, at a point in time....can't recall when.....she got into her current persons of self-righteous know-it-all and I, too, found myself totally turned off by her.

Does anybody else remember her from a few years ago or is this just one more pleasant fiction I have created for myself in order to think the world is a better place than it really is?

Fred

You may be right...these pompous radio personalities often start out with a "kinder/gentler" approach to life.

Hell, I remember a LONG time ago (like, a REALLY long time ago) kind of getting a kick out of Rush Limbaugh. He was funny, he was irreverant, and sure, he was consvative, but he was mostly like the Tonight Show with a slightly newsy bent.

Then he started to flex his political muscles, and he turned into a butt-head. We turned him off 15 years ago, even though we didn't make our currently liberal political swing until about 5 or 6 years ago.

So yeah...could be the same deal with Dr. Laura.

Peter_Mary

[dogzilla]

Then again, it could be that you both just stopped drinking the Kool Aid.

(Okay, that was my third Kool Aid reference in three different posts/threads, today. What's up with that? :slap: )

[peter_mary]

(Okay, that was my third Kool Aid reference in three different posts/threads, today. What's up with that? :slap: )

Hmmm...must be all the Kool Aid?

Actually, and I'm just sure this must be the case, you are HEAVILY invested in Kool Aid, and trying to provide these subliminal references to Kool Aid so that all the PostMos (who have shown a propensity to being gullible anyway, given our lengthy association with Mormonism...bada-bing!) would feel this insatiable urge to stop by the grocery store on their way home from work and procure a year's supply of Kool Aid.

The good thing about Kool Aid is that isn't given a shelf-life...it's given a half-life. It's the perfect food-storage food-stuff (or anti-food-stuff as the case may be) because it tastes the same 30 years later as it did the day you bought it.

So...do you have any buddies named, say, Jim Jones? Just wondering...

Peter_Mary

[helemon]

Then again, it could be that you both just stopped drinking the Kool Aid.

(Okay, that was my third Kool Aid reference in three different posts/threads, today. What's up with that? :slap: )

Hey, I like Kool Aid. Especially black cherry flavor! :)

[helemon]

The good thing about Kool Aid is that isn't given a shelf-life...it's given a half-life. It's the perfect food-storage food-stuff (or anti-food-stuff as the case may be) because it tastes the same 30 years later as it did the day you bought it.


Not quite true. I have had Kool Aid go bad. It gets all clumpy and doesn't mix well. I swear it was only 4-5 years old! :D

[dogzilla]

It's a good hurricane supply as well.

(Makes mental note to pick up Kool Aid on way home, since Big Freaking Storm #423 is on its way. Again. Crap.)

[peter_mary]

Not quite true. I have had Kool Aid go bad. It gets all clumpy and doesn't mix well. I swear it was only 4-5 years old! :D

Hang on just a sec...

::checks food storage in pantry::

Ooops! My mistake. It's Cheez Whiz that has a half-life rather than a shelf life. It's Kool Aid that won't support life! That's what I meant.

Carry on...

Peter_Mary

[silverfox]

Apparently Dr. Laura advised a caller today who said she was begining to think her church "had some weird doctrines" and was thinking of leaving it but wasn't sure of pulling her kids out of church. She is a mother of six kids. Seems likely that she is a Mormon. Dr. Laura told her to just grin and bear it for the kids sake.
:Puking :Puking

You can listen to the broadcast on her website, but you will have to pay to listen to it. :Puking
http://www.drlaura.com/listen/

I remember a show in which Dr. Laura was adament about making kids religiously obligated based on PARENTAL beliefs. She is like that with her kids. She stated that are certain religious obligations that kids need to be responsible for. It is on HER personal agenda so she expects it to be on everyone elses I guess. I find that very unprofessional. Each family situation is unique and different.

That was the first and last show I ever watched of hers.

[elder_nomo]

Some interesting tidbits from wikipedia...

Schlessinger is not a licensed medical doctor (she does not have an M.D. degree). Schlessinger's Ph.D. is in physiology, not psychology, and her critics have characterized the show's name as deceptive.

The fact that Schlessinger is herself divorced has often led to allegations that she does not practice the same high moral standards she preaches. Other old incidents, such as some long-ago nude pictures of her being posted on the Internet by a former lover, did not help this reputation, but were dismissed by supporters as happening before Schlessinger had adopted — and begun speaking about — her later moral views.

In December 2002, Schlessinger's mother Yolanda was found dead in her condominium, her corpse having been there for months. Controversy arose because of Schlessinger's previous advice to callers telling them to "honor thy father and mother" was viewed by some as contrasting with her not knowing her own mother had died months ago. Some felt Schlessinger handled the situation poorly, making statements that disrespected her mother after her death. Schlessinger often said that her not speaking to her mother was her mother's choice.

Schlessinger has often observed that a hypocrite says "Do what I say, not what I do" rather than, as she says, "Do what I say, not what I did." Critics then found that despite her claims to be an Orthodox Jew, she was entering sailboat races on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath. Schlessinger soon after announced she was leaving Orthodoxy July, 2003.

For more.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Schlessinger

[noodle]

It's a good hurricane supply as well.

(Makes mental note to pick up Kool Aid on way home, since Big Freaking Storm #423 is on its way. Again. Crap.)

Hey Dogzilla - been thinking about you and Katrina (is that the hurricane's name)? Anyway, I'm reading Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat. Did you know that WalMart has its own meteorologists, and when a hurricane is brewing, the "targeted" area WalMarts stock up on beer and Pop Tarts??
Mmmmm, beer :) Pop Tarts? Hope that they aren't consumed together. :Puking