"To demonstrate the 'squeeze' of inflation and supply chain issues on everyday Americans, CNN's 'New Day' featured the Stotlers, a Texas couple looking after nine children – two of whom are their biological kids, while they've adopted six more and have one foster child.
Krista Stotler said she started seeing prices rising this summer and it was costing them an extra $100 a week on groceries.... 'A gallon of milk was $1.99. Now it's $2.79. When you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, that's a lot of money,' she said.... '12 gallons of milk a week may sound like a lot, but they've actually had to cut out their milk baths on alternate days,' snarked New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait.
The New York Times account on crossword puzzles also got into the act, tweeting – and deleting –, 'sorry, i can't do today's crossword. i'm too busy carrying my 12 gallons of milk home.'"
The mockery is based on the gut reaction that 12 gallons of milk a week is absurd. But with 11 people in the family, it's an average of two and a half cups — 20 ounces — of milk per person per day.
One of the mockers — a sports editor at the Orlando Sentinel — tweets "Having to buy 12 gallons a week means you have an issue with contraception… not the price of milk." But as you can see above, only 2 of the children are the natural offspring of the parents. The Stotlers have opened their home to 7 more children. And he's sneering at them!
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I take it the Stotlers are white.
"let them drink Chardenet!"
Althouse writes, "The mockery is based on the gut reaction that 12 gallons of milk a week is absurd. But with 11 people in the family, it's an average of two and a half cups — 20 ounces — of milk per person per day."
Speaking on behalf of CNN viewers everywhere, math is racist!
Do any of the snarkers have children?
Link appears to be broken.
Campaign ad writes itself: Just show these losers sneering, then praising the Democrat and sneering at the Republican.
They're being mocked because they are fat, homely, obviously "Deplorable" Texans with a lot of kids. But mainly because they are just nowhere near as "sophisticated" as these East Coast Lefty assholes who are doing the mocking.
"But as you can see above, only 2 of the children are the natural offspring of the parents. The Stotlers have opened their home to 7 more children. And he's sneering at them!"
Well of course. Those other seven children should have been aborted. Overpopulation, don'cha know. /sarc
Every single one of those awful people would be deeply moved if the protagonists were a government-funded residential program facing budget challenges. Which of course would be buying 12 cases of Coke instead of 12 gallons of milk.
I got blocked on Twitter by a former Omaha World-Herald sportswriter; a shitty one at that. He's to the left of Bernie.
Fuck those childless rich people.
I'm telling you that food inflation is here to stay. Or at least hang around for some time.
About the only useful thing I learned in undergrad Econ is that prices are sticky downwards.
Well being a loud mouthed ignoramous is almost a job requirement for a slot as sports editor on a big city newspaper. The current braying buffoon on the sports pages of the Los Angeles Times (there's more than one, but Bill Plaschke is the worst offender) is a loud mouth for the ages.
And yeah==$50 extra a month for milk is just part of the several hundred dollar increase in the family's food budget. Big families have big appetites. That's particularly true if there are several growing boys at the table.
And he's sneering at them!
Where have you been the last fifty years? The Left has been sneering at the Right since at least President Nixon.
What do you think the bitter clingers and Deplorables remarks have been about?
Once again Althouse discovers what the Left have been doing for decades.
I grew up in a household of eleven, six boys, and milk was no small issue. Democrats used to care about little people. We mixed our milk with the powdered milk the USDA gave out in those days, to make it go further, and sometimes bought day-old bread from the loading dock at the bakery. I am sure that such déclassé tastes would draw howls of laughter from the wealthy Democrats of today. The main good that the Democrats now provide to their voters is a sense of superiority over the benighted poor.
Sneering at loving parents has become part of the job description of today’s “journalists.” Then they wonder why we hold them in contempt.
Progressives are, far too often, garbage people.
It is difficult for me to understand the mocking from the left. Is it an attempt to deflect yet one more horrible political failure of the Biden administration by mocking those harmed by inflation?
That's really evil...
As one of the youngest children, I have very mixed feelings about this talk about "contraception," I don't really need some privileged Democrat twat telling me that I should not exist.
Milk is a loss leader in grocery stores, so not an actual market price.
Leftist comments like these are revealing. They are not nice people. Period.
"One of the mockers — a sports editor at the Orlando Sentinel — tweets "Having to buy 12 gallons a week means you have an issue with contraception… not the price of milk." But as you can see above, only 2 of the children are the natural offspring of the parents. The Stotlers have opened their home to 7 more children. And he's sneering at them!"
What an absolutely perfect example of the liberal/left mindset.
Perfect.
And that guy wasn't the only one mocking that family, even AFTER the mockers found out about all the adoptions!
My 90-year-old parents still drink more than a gallon of milk every week. I'm surprised by that, because I can't finish a half-gallon of milk before it sours in my fridge. People are creatures of habit.
Liberals have a habit of arrogance and condescension. And they act surprised when people hate them for that.
I hope these broadcasters choke on their Chianti.
Yeah, there is a lot of sneering from the privileged but meritless members of the press.
When the revolution comes, they are going on the tumbrils first...after they have all signed confessions to counter-revolutionary wrecking, looting and sabotage.
No one will miss them.
And Democrats will crow about how tolerant they are. What they really mean is "Shut up and do as I say." Just like a good fascist. Fascism is all about mandated unity. As Benito Mussolini described fascism: "All in the state, none out of the state, all for the state." To make that work requires the power of the state to enforce it against all of those who disagree.
Whoa.
"The Stotlers have opened their home to 7 more children. And he's sneering at them!"
Of course he is. I would expect nothing else from the Enemies of the People.
I'm sure Howard will be along later to sneer as well.
"Liberals"--the suckiest people on the planet.
The left gave up on children years ago. Ever heard of the "Roe effect?" Now we read about young women having their tubes tied to avoid parenthood. Actually, that is probably a good thing since I have an example in my own family of terrible parenting by a leftist DIL. My older son, also a leftist, is trying to get custody of his two daughters. The mother is a lefty nut case. The Bay Area private school they attend called Child Protective Services as they saw evidence of neglect.
The comments in this post sound just like the left.
“ Link appears to be broken”
Fox behaves like that sometimes. Don’t know how to override it other that to tell you to google some of the text
Actually, that is probably a good thing since I have an example in my own family of terrible parenting by a leftist DIL. My older son, also a leftist, is trying to get custody of his two daughters. The mother is a lefty nut case.
Don't you ever reflect that your children, who you complain about often and were raised in privilege, must have had some pretty shitty parents? Or did you have a series of undocumented maids you can blame their upbringing on?
"lots of very embarrassing tweets"
Embarrassing to whom? Progressives despise the actual people, and are happy to say so. They revel in it, as you could tell.
Sure, they may calculate that when condescension backfires they should take it down a notch, for strategic reasons--sometimes you need a few deplorables or nice liberal women who don't like mean things beings said--but embarrassment has nothing to do with it.
People like the Stotlers who take care of kids that others can't or won't take care of are true American heroes.
People who sneer at at them are abysmal shits.
Or the media, which is pretty much the same thing. Though if I had to choose between media and shit, I think I would choose shit.
John Henry
Just try to imagine how differently the mockers would treat a similar story with an African American family at the center of it.
By the way, if the link isn't working for some reason, just go to foxnews.com and search for "cost of milk." The article will be at the top of the results.
We only have 3 in our household but one is my 18 yr old son. I don't keep close track of how much I buy but I pick up 3 or 4 gallons of whole milk nearly every trip I go to the store which seems like every 2 or 3 days.
Embarrassing to whom? Progressives despise the actual people, and are happy to say so. They revel in it, as you could tell.
This coming after the Greta Thunberg post just a couple days ago demonstrates that you all lack the merest iota of self awareness.
Old liberal/lefty/democratical/NeverTrump Hotness: Stupid racist Conservatives only care about children before they are born and never after!
New liberal/lefty/democratical/NeverTrump Hotness: Stupid racist Conservatives are spending too much money on milk to feed their family full of adopted children!
Field Marshall Freder: "Don't you ever reflect that your children, who you complain about often and were raised in privilege, must have had some pretty shitty parents?"
It's Hillary Clinton's parent's fault for why Hillary created a massive hoax to weaponize the federal government and take down a duly elected President?
Wow.
Those terrible people.
Hillary's the victim in all this, naturally.
Just try to imagine how differently the mockers would treat a similar story with an African American family at the center of it.
By the way, if the link isn't working for some reason, just go to foxnews.com and search for "cost of milk." The article will be at the top of the results.
They never learn. This attitude is what turned Virginia Red.
Screw them
It's Hillary Clinton's parent's fault for why Hillary created a massive hoax to weaponize the federal government and take down a duly elected President?
Wow drago, thats the best you got? That is pretty weak.
That they amuse themselves over the challenges faced by larger families is simply disgusting but nothing new. Let those children fight each other in the arena to provoke even more boisterous laughter.
I don't drink milk myself, now, but remember childhood when I would occasionally be sent to the store to buy a gallon; for cold cereal, probably. 69 or 79 cents.
With 2 kids in the house it was a gallon a day. As they got older and drank less milk but we added more kids it was 3 gallons every 2 days.
I used to drink a gallon every 2-3 days but then the official advice was drink skim and drink less for your health. Based on science of course. Turned out to be voodoo science. I drink a gallon of good whole milk every 5 days now. Don’t burn off calories like I used to….
But it only takes a few dedicated milk drinkers to bring the consumption way up.
This coming after the Greta Thunberg post just a couple days ago demonstrates that you all lack the merest iota of self awareness.
Clearly there's no difference between a snarling teenager - who thrust herself into the public eye by lecturing us on climate change - and a simple family trying to put food on their table.
Just as there's no difference between people commenting on a blog and sneering 'journalists' using their platforms to make fun of said family.
It's you who's lacking, boy.
Those people mocking the family are pretty much douche-bags and/or assholes.
David Begley- sportswriters are the wokest of the woke.
And- I’d gladly pay more for food if it meant Americans would be working in Midwestern food production facilities. I probably don’t have to tell you how immigration has profoundly changed much of the small town midwest.
Connie Morella was a moderate Republican elected to Congress from a Maryland district so left-leaning that Marx himself might have been regarded as a conservative by the residents. In one of the elections her opponent tried to make an issue out of her nine children, only to discover that three were hers and the other six were adopted by her and her husband Tony when their mother -- Connie's sister -- died of cancer.
Connie won that election pretty easily.
David Begley- sportswriters are the wokest of the woke.
And- I’d gladly pay more for food if it meant Americans would be working in Midwestern food production facilities. I probably don’t have to tell you how immigration has profoundly changed much of the small town midwest.
David Begley- sportswriters are the wokest of the woke.
And- I’d gladly pay more for food if it meant Americans would be working in Midwestern food production facilities. I probably don’t have to tell you how immigration has profoundly changed much of the small town midwest.
Link appears to be broken
Fox seems to do something to prevent spamming DOS attacks by blocking links from blogs. The simplest thing to do is to right click on the link, copy the link, and then paste it into a new tab.
Inflation, as with CRT, doesn't exist. My betters on the tube told me so.
Let's give the libs the benefit of the doubt on this one. /s
One of the mockers — a sports editor at the Orlando Sentinel — tweets "Having to buy 12 gallons a week means you have an issue with contraception… not the price of milk." But as you can see above, only 2 of the children are the natural offspring of the parents. The Stotlers have opened their home to 7 more children. And he's sneering at them!
Are you just now figuring out that those on the Left are generally horrible people?
If we had no Journalists! we'd have no example of hideous thinking or behavior. Consider them our reminder of how not to be.
The mockers are missing the nuance of milk.
Remember when Dems were outraged that George HW Bush didn't know the price of milk?
Now they're sneering at people like the Stotlers who are seriously affected by rising prices and tell them they need to lower their expectations.
It helps to include political affiliations:
Jonathan Chait (D-Asshole)
Orlando Sentinel sports editor (D-Asshole)
Never link to Fox News- the links fail more than any site I have ever come across. If you must, link a Google Search for the story.
When I was growing up, my mother regularly bought 4 gallons of milk/week. We were a family of 6, and my sisters didn't actually drink all that much outside of the times they were eating cereal.
"Liberals"--the suckiest people on the planet."
I am a fan of anagrams. My favorite for the word liberals:
Air Bells
Let them drink almond milk.
Is there a special school where you can learn how to commit social suicide by snarking? Because these cheap shots are unbelievably stupid and vicious in a way that disgraces the author while leaving the target untouched; even enhanced, protected.
Gotta think Twitter is right up there with fentanyl.
I don't think they thought their comments through. They probably weren't listening very closely to the CNN report. Can you blame them? Isn't it enough that they turned on CNN? Do they actually have to listen to the show and take note of what's being said. Reporters don't pay much attention to the reports of other reporters. They just sort of sniff each other's tail, like friendly dogs.
These snarkers are undoubtedly Bradford/Kamala voters who have thereby demonstrated their stupidity and/or I’ll will toward America. Why would we expect decency or good judgment from them?
There is also the fact that people who adopt this many children contravene a common argument put forth by the baby killers.
Bari Weiss is right. The world has gone mad. This American family get's mocked while the White House considers giving illegal aliens half a million dollars per family.
What the heck did we do to cows that makes milk keep in the fridge for 8 weeks?
These Twitter twits are not people of good will.
Field Marshall Freder: "Wow drago, thats the best you got? That is pretty weak."
No, its not.
Its spot on.
Hence your inevitable flummoxed-ness.
But hang in there. After all, you were once a government contractor! So you like, know stuff.
My parents did not allow soda pop in the house. We could drink milk, water or juice.
I drank a helluva lot of milk as a growing teenager. It was probably 3 or more gallons per week.
Don't you ever reflect that your children, who you complain about often and were raised in privilege, must have had some pretty shitty parents? Or did you have a series of undocumented maids you can blame their upbringing on?
First I don't complain about my children. Several are leftists and have goofy opinions, like you do, but we all get along. The problem is one parent that is weird and is doing a lousy job with her daughters. I will grant that I paid for education and they had a pretty good life compared to some. This is pretty much true of most leftists. The two that are lawyers are lefties but that is not rare. Your opinion is so whackey on most topics that I will ignore it on this.
CNN and their viewers are pond scum... Prove me wrong
The care, feeding, protection and education of children is best left to the professionals in government. That is the message of progressives and many Democrats. I'm concerned that our institutions have become engorged with childless, self-indulgent bureaucrats.
Haven't bought or drank cow milk for several months.
It is a subsidized food so if the price is going up drastically there are some very serious structural problems.
There isn't going to be much sympathy for the leftists when the hammer falls. I suppose that the aristocracy feels like it will be able to move in after we stomp out their pawns.
I don't think they understand how exposed they are with tools like twitter allowing them to put their faces and names out there like this.
Why are so many comments focusing on milk when this was just one example of rising prices?
Actually, JUST walked in the door, with my groceries
(just One Gallon of Delicious WHOLE Milk, because i live alone... and go shopping OFTEN)
Jim Gust said...
My 90-year-old parents still drink more than a gallon of milk every week. I'm surprised by that, because I can't finish a half-gallon of milk before it sours in my fridge
I'm going out on a (short, and sturdy) limb here; and presuppose that you're buying 2%
(or, GOD help skimmed milk)
The part of the milk (THE Part of the milk) that makes it Delicious is the butter fat
Skimming off ANY of the Delicious butter fat gives you whey
Try buying Delicious Whole Milk, and you'll find that
A) it IS DELICIOUS!
B) Delicious Whole Milk has a MUCH (MUCH!) longer shelf life
Steve Schainost said...
Why are so many comments focusing on milk when this was just one example of rising prices?
The obvious stagflation occurring right now is a common topic in these threads.
This is a pretty standard phenomena on this blog to stay fairly focused on the topic Ann posts. It is something of an unspoken rule.
She gets testy when you start wandering off.
At this point there really isn't much to discuss. The Illegitimate Junta in and their demented diaper filling sock puppet are running the country into the ground and destroying any legitimacy the democrat party has for a generation.
I believe it is part of their plan to have Republicans like McCarthy and McConnell in place to make sure the plan moves forward after they are removed from power.
I don't think they are ready for what is coming and the backlash that is forming.
Field Marshall Freder: "This coming after the Greta Thunberg post just a couple days ago demonstrates that you all lack the merest iota of self awareness."
Yes.
A lefty wrote that.
Just now.
Without irony!
Greta Thunberg is the latest in a long line of "she cannot be criticized" figure heads launched by the lefties in order to demand all of society be reordered at the whims of modern day Lysenkoists and Maoists.
Another pathetic offering by our resident Field Marshall.
Steve Schainost said...
Why are so many comments focusing on milk when this was just one example of rising prices.
It’s a like focusing on the “delayed treadmills.”
It’s meant to deride the concern.
My parents lived through the Dirty 30's Great Depression when work and food were hard to come by and they certainly found a way to avoid drinking 3 glasses of milk per day each.
2021 and most of the 1930's were beaten down by drought. You cannot raise live cattle without food and water for the animals. Fact of the matter in 2021, dairy farms west of the Mississippi parted with 25% of their cows and spoiled shoppers have long lived off dairy loss leaders at retail supermarkets. There are no more bargains because of thin margins at the farm and reduced sales volume is putting large dairies out of business.
Making fun of the family allows them to ignore the inflation part of the story. It's called a diversion.
Kennedy Saint RFK had eleven kids.
Times change.
I guess now he's a pathetic conservative who deserved what he got.
I am Laslo.
Milk=cows=methane.
Biden just signed on to reduce US methane emissions including an agricultural section based on alt manure management. The BS reduction plan is: First, fire Jen Psaki; second, reduce the White House Press corps to 1945 levels; third, cut back the number of lobbyists to 1945 levels. Well, no. That isn't the plan. In fact, I suppose milk drinking is now to be discredited because Biden's going to reduce the number of dairy cows. And so the press lurches into motion and attacks a large family and their milk drinking. Let's go Brandon.
Inflation ain't over folks... won't be long till gas is over $8 in east and west coast and a hamburger is $15.... and those that voted for Biden.. or didn't vote at all... you own this!
Lots of luck seeing your savings to ... poof!
Just want to say may God bless this family.
Also- the price of milk, from the udder side- is not going up per gallon, or cwt, which is how we’re paid. And the structure has become controlled in such a way that if u wanted to start farming, todsy- u couldn’t.
I spelled today wrong- ooops.
We’re blessed here b/c we get our milk fresh and whole from the bulk tank and we’re organic. My kids were all spoiled from the get go as to plastic jugs or cardboard. Groceries are definitely going up, though.
My three brothers and I drank a lot of milk*, and I still put it on cereal and fruit every morning. Most nights I'll also have some with a sweet snack. (My A1c was 6 yesterday at my physician's, so though I'm diabetic I indulge in some goodies and have avoided insulin so far.)
I go through about 2 gallons every few days, so spoilage isn't much of an issue; my wife uses whole milk for her coffee and tea and her half-gallons have to be watched even if I help out by drinking some.
Cold milk^, ice water, and hot black coffee--lots of hot black coffee--make up 99.99% of my liquid consumption, and only ice water costs about the same as it did a few months ago.
*Crispy cold 1% now. Skim is too watery by far.
Achilles,
Drunk, not drank.
Subsidies for dairy farmers amount to nothing. The price of milk is market based. It has been more or less the same for decades, and it is a highly competitive business, with producers failing on a regular basis.
I forget, are the people at CNN the smug ones or the pathetics?
Gilbar, I only drink whole milk. However, I don't drink it often, I use it more in cooking. My parents also drink only whole milk, my mother had to milk the cows every morning as a girl growing up on a farm.
Blogger Freder Frederson said... (in response to Michael K)
Don't you ever reflect that your children, who you complain about often and were raised in privilege, must have had some pretty shitty parents? Or did you have a series of undocumented maids you can blame their upbringing on?
I'm quite certain that Michael K can defend his own corner, but I would like to say this: that is a really crappy thing to say to another person. It's also a bit stupid. My experience with parenting is that it has much less effect on the children than we might hope. Or in my case, I'm delighted that my shitty parenting was such a small part of what made my sons who they are. I was a crap father, and my wife was in jail most of the time. My two boys are an absolute delight! Smart, decent, polite... . Well, I could go on, but I won't.
Genetics and all the uncertainty that goes with it has a FAR larger influence on children than the child rearing strategy of the parents. Live long enough, and perhaps you will discover this. You might also become a nicer person. Who can say?
My 90-year-old parents still drink more than a gallon of milk every week. I'm surprised by that, because I can't finish a half-gallon of milk before it sours in my fridge. People are creatures of habit.
I'm 72 and drink about a half a gallon of milk per day — it's the principal part of my diet (together with a multi-vitamin pill). On such a food regimen I've been gradually losing weight for quite a number of years — by now I'm down below 190 lb. (I'm 5' 11").
Such a milk food regimen is also pretty cheap (if you don't have a huge family!). A half-gallon of milk where I live (in far-northern California) costs (checking my latest receipt…) $3.29 each (I don't buy gallons 'cause multiple gal. purchased at a time don't fit well in my refrigerator) — thus at 1/2 gallon times 30 days a month, at present (even buying expensive half-gallons as I do) that's only $98.70 for practically my entire principal monthly food expense. And I think it's a delicious diet! Far better than those yucky protein drink mixtures you can buy.
Such economy leaves lots of caloric as well as monetary margin for treating myself to a steak or other relatively expensive and luxurious meal once or twice a week. I don't feel deprived at all — nor do I get particularly hungry, beyond what a half a glass of milk will promptly cure.
The Stotlers are good people. The ones ignorantly criticizing them are not.
Goldenpause said...
Sneering at loving parents has become part of the job description of today’s “journalists.” Then they wonder why we hold them in contempt.
“Contempt” doesn’t scratch the surface of what I feel for the media types. “Venomous hatred” is getting there, but still rather lacking.
Sportswriters can be the worst of the bunch, too. Jock-sniffers who never suited up. Their lives are devoted to getting revenge for the time they were stuffed into a locker back in seventh grade.
My wife and I had 5 children, and I can guarantee you that 2 gallons per day was normal for years. Those who ridicule real people should be horsewhipped.
Phil asked whether snarkers have children.
Hope not.
Well I can tell you one reason for the mockery. We have a huge homeless situation across the U.S. This is a family that can’t afford a few hundred dollars more a month in expenses, yet is expected to raise 9 children, mostly of their own choice. How will the children have any hope of going to college? Only one is foster, but it’s known that many, if not most foster kids end up homeless after the age of 18. Because they have no real family or safety net. This concerns me a lot!
I hate hearing about stories like this, people that make crap decisions, particularly with children, and want to blame everyone else for it.
Also, 2.5 cups of milk a day per person? That seems excessive to me. There are alternatives to milk, like water!
The left routinely mocks pro lifers by demanding to know who will take care of unwanted babies. The answer is families like the Stotlers. At least until the same left drives up the price of food so much that it becomes impossible to afford to support a large family.
The Stotlers need to take in one of those migrant kids who are about to be $450000 richer. Milk for everybody!
gilbar said...
The part of the milk (THE Part of the milk) that makes it Delicious is the butter fat
Skimming off ANY of the Delicious butter fat gives you whey
Whey, my friend, results from the souring and curdling of milk in the manufacture of cheese or casein. You might be surprised to discover how many foods that you eat contain whey powder.
2% Milk is made by first separating fluid milk into cream and skim milk which largely contains milk protein, then recombining these products back together with butterfat as two percent of the milk by weight.
BTW, all milk is separated and pasteurized and whole milk is exactly 3.5% butterfat by weight in the dairy case.
Cream is the dirge on the dairy industry - too much supply from farmers milking high-butterfat cows and too little demand for high-butterfat milk products that include butter, whipping cream, coffee cream and ice cream. Now if we could only outlaw vegetable oils, butter demand would soar but so would prices.
"'Embarrassing to whom? Progressives despise the actual people, and are happy to say so. They revel in it, as you could tell.' This coming after the Greta Thunberg post just a couple days ago demonstrates that you all lack the merest iota of self awareness."
YOU lack self awareness. You must be assuming that I insulted GT. Go back and reread. Then come back here and admit that you were wrong and you're sorry for attacking me. Wow. Just wow. You don't get who the target of that post is. Ha. I sneer at YOU!
And click on my "Greta Thunberg" post while you're at it. Read all my posts about her. Spend some time thinking about what I've been saying. You are making assumptions about me based on an idiotic political template that doesn't apply to me. Do better. A lot better!
The New Democratic Party in a nutshell. That's why they lost 54% of the Hispanic vote in VA. They are completely out of touch with "Joe Six Pack," and even "José Six Pack," and I don't know if Mary's post is parody or not, but if it is, it's "fake but accurate."
If they keep losing majorities of Hispanic voters the way they did in Virginia, look for Democrats to build the wall, same as they shut off access to the US for Cubans fleeing Castro. I don't think the idea of giving 450K per head to illegals is going to make the Democrats real popular with the hard working Hispanics in the US legally.
The Stotlers have opened their home to 7 more children. And he's sneering at them!
Althouse is sneering at the guy with the column deadline who isn't paying full attention.
I'd have mentioned the who knows how many abortions.
YOU lack self awareness. You must be assuming that I insulted GT.
My comment was not directed at you, but rather the comments to that post. I apologize if you thought my sneers were directed at you.
The ink-stained wretches are awful people. But to be fair, hardly anybody adopts six children by accident.
"YOU lack self awareness. You must be assuming that I insulted GT. Go back and reread. Then come back here and admit that you were wrong and you're sorry for attacking me. Wow. Just wow. You don't get who the target of that post is. Ha. I sneer at YOU!"
Snicker. I read his comment as a response to another commenter, the one he quoted, not to the hostess. I could be wrong.
Mary said... @ 11:26 PM
Wow Mary - I guess I can consider you to be in the crowd of sneering mockers of this family, maybe one small step better because you tried to couch your disdain in terms of 'concern'.
This is a family that can’t afford a few hundred dollars more a month in expenses, yet is expected to raise 9 children, mostly of their own choice.
This is a family who has taken into their love and care some unfortunate children that people like you want to sound all concerned about, but mock them for not having the financial wherewithal to absorb a rapid 40% increase in the cost of their basic needs to support these children.
How will the children have any hope of going to college?
Crikey! This is your big concern - that they might not be able to give their kids free rides to college? Really? First off - college is not the end-all for living a fulfilling and meaningful life; one could argue that today's college experience is a detriment to such a life. Second, if some of the children grow up and desire to go to college, then maybe they could earn some money themselves to pay for it! Novel, I know, but it might be possible! Or maybe they could excel at something and get a scholarship (do they still give scholarships for excellence?).
Only one is foster, but it’s known that many, if not most foster kids end up homeless after the age of 18. Because they have no real family or safety net. This concerns me a lot!
And while you are implying that they will dump their foster child into the gutter when he turns 18, are you actually familiar with this particular family that you know what their intentions are? I can tell that you are really concerned - just let them grow up in an institution instead of being part of this icky family, am I right?
I hate hearing about stories like this, people that make crap decisions, particularly with children, and want to blame everyone else for it.
They aren't blaming anyone for their decisions on having a large family, including adopted/foster children. They are expressing concern about the way that inflation is impacting their ability to raise children.
Also, 2.5 cups of milk a day per person? That seems excessive to me. There are alternatives to milk, like water!
Or how about cake? Water's good too... nothing like water to build those strong bones in kids these days!
Seriously, if your previous comments were all sarcasm and I just missed it, I apologize and admit I was duped. Otherwise, I'm just left shaking my head.
"Snicker. I read his comment as a response to another commenter, the one he quoted, not to the hostess. I could be wrong."
I don't think you are. It seems obvious (to me) that his infantile snark was actually aimed at the posters he disagrees with. The tell is the phrase "you all". He was addressing us the commenters, not the hostess of this blog.
Field Marshall Freder: "I apologize if you thought my sneers were directed at you."
That's not really an apology, technically speaking.
In addition to milk prices increasing, I note that meat prices have really gone up in the past year. Try finding pork for less than $2.99/pound on sale. A couple years ago, it was routinely at $1.99/pound.
I feel like those people tweeting about this story never go grocery shopping. They just order delivery from Whole Foods and can't be bothered to know why the prices are increasing.
Mary @1126 PM, yes, Let them drink water!!
"That's not really an apology, technically speaking."
He didn't really owe her one, technically speaking. Again, it was obvious in reading his post that the snark was directly aimed at the poster he was quoting and indirectly aimed (again, "you all) at the rest of us. Nothing in the post was directed at our hostess.
"That's not really an apology, technically speaking."
He didn't really owe her one, technically speaking. Again, it was obvious in reading his post that the snark was directly aimed at the poster he was quoting and indirectly aimed (again, "you all) at the rest of us. Nothing in the post was directed at our hostess.
Chris Lopes: "He didn't really owe her one, technically speaking."
Irrelevant to whether or not what he offered was technically an apology or not. If he didn't think he owed her one he is perfectly capable, I assume, of making that argument.
@tim in Vermont – I recall my mom mixing powdered milk in as well. We weren’t as large a family, but we were a one-income household at the time and my Dad wasn’t making a lot. And even with raising much of our own food, the budget was tight.
These folks are amazing. Their commitment to these children will be the one thing that sets them on a decent path to adulthood. It’s a sure sin to mock that which is true and good – a real example of charity.
I just went to the grocery store this morning and was appalled at the prices. Iceberg lettuce went from $1.89 to $2.49 a head. I know that may not seem like a jump, but when the lettuce literally comes to us from down the road in the Salinas Valley it’s just crazy. Meat prices have also jumped, and the choices are less abundant. The store was doing a BOGO promo so I stocked up for the freezer.
"How will the children have any hope of going to college?"
I wouldn't suggest it to anyone today, but I got my undergraduate degrees in the 1980s by going to night school in the Navy.
In the Seventies, the assumption was that inflation was hurting everybody. Apparently we were still one country back then and few people were so attached to any politician or party that they'd relish the difficulties their fellow citizens were going through. You could hate Nixon but not have to love and defend Carter. How much America has changed since then!
So after the Tuesday elections showed that messing with people's children gets a reaction from even the mildest mannered people, the Left and media (BIRM) decide to attack a family that has a lot of children.
Sounds like a plan to me - a terrible, awful, idiotic, suicidal plan - but hey there Left, Democrats, and media (BIRM) - you do you and YOLO.
"If he didn't think he owed her one he is perfectly capable, I assume, of making that argument."
When you put it that way, the "apology" does come off as a bit Eddie Haskellish.
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