Where in the World Is Doug Philips (Who Is a Tool)? Part 6: With the Gyrating Flesh

[Corntree]

There was a time when I'm sure Doug would've been the one officiating at his son's wedding. Now we're wondering if he'll even be there. I think he will, but still, times have changed.

[Marian the Librarian]

The Tool has posted again on his Vimeo site (vimeo.com/scenesfromabeautifulwrld) - this one's called "New York Stories With Eva." Eva is, in reality, his daughter Faith Evangeline. Up to your old name-changing tricks again, eh, Dougie?

Faith has some mad sewing skills: instagram.com/sewingtreble.

Would that they would be enough to ensure her escape.

[Laila]

3 hours ago, Marian the Librarian said:

The Tool has posted again on his Vimeo site (vimeo.com/scenesfromabeautifulwrld) - this one's called "New York Stories With Eva." Eva is, in reality, his daughter Faith Evangeline. Up to your old name-changing tricks again, eh, Dougie?

Faith has some mad sewing skills: instagram.com/sewingtreble.

Would that they would be enough to ensure her escape.

That girl has serious game, sewing and singing, wow.

So, not for the first time, Dougie plays favorites to a seriously embarrassing level.  Of course cute-thin-fashionable-talented-sings-like-an-angel Faith is all over his social media while Liberty's birthday gets begging bowl treatment from her other parent and seems to be ignored by Doug.  It was the same way when J.Titus was clear-skinned and cute, he was everywhere while pimply Justice was more or less under the carpet, at least till he got more photogenic.  And chubby awkward-aged Liberty was nowhere while elven Virginia was pimped out whenever possible.  And chubby Honor appears to have been passed over while the cuter "boy in the red boots" Providence has a staring role in the hilariously overacted by Doug Iceland adventure.

I guess it doesn't need to be said after the whole Nanny scandal, but Doug, this fatherhood thing, you're doing it all wrong.

 

[DomWackTroll]

7 hours ago, Marian the Librarian said:

The Tool has posted again on his Vimeo site (vimeo.com/scenesfromabeautifulwrld) - this one's called "New York Stories With Eva." 

Doug: "Walk me through your ensemble."  

[MamaJunebug]

25 minutes ago, DomWackTroll said:

Doug: "Walk me through your ensemble."  

"Walk me thru your ensemble"??!!

And we still don't think he's gay?

3 hours ago, Laila said:

Liberty's birthday gets begging bowl treatment from her other parent and seems to be ignored by Doug..:  And chubby awkward-aged Liberty was nowhere while elven Virginia was pimped out ...

Free Liberty ? 

Too repetitiously redundant?

[MamaJunebug]

Oh, the African American lass chatting w Little Eva? If that twosome doesn't speak volumes about the glamorous good ole days that Phil Douglas Phillips wants to return to?! 

Little Eva has the picture-brim hat, marcelled hair and troweled-on makeup. AA Lady has a kerchief on her head, dull-colored garments and nearly sans fards - as was the case for decades. In Doug Phil Douglas Phillips' most pwecious era,  cosmetics companies gave little thought to dark complexions.

AA Lady? Keep Phil Douglas Doug Phillips at two arms' length if you wanna keep your vintage clothing stain-free. We have it on impeccable authority that he likes himself some dusky maidens....

[Palimpsest]

On 9/2/2017 at 7:03 PM, seraaa said:

One thing I don't get about this position is that people who are often very pro personal charity can object to their tax money going to fund universal programmes. Pool resources, spread the wealth. Society is a collective endeavour, we all benefit from the work of other people in direct and indirect ways every day. 

(I know it's something to do with small government and personal responsibility, but helping people are promoting self-sufficiency needn't be mutually exclusive idk)

I think that is an excuse.  I suspect it is more to do with these people wanting to decide exactly who gets their charitable donations.  It is not for the greater good (perish the thought).  Their donations should only be used for Deserving Poor who are the Right Kind of Christian.

18 hours ago, bea said:

They made off with a bundle from VF - someone else was paying the bills for the house, right? And DPIAT still got a salary. That retail arm made money, too. And you know that when he knew Lourdes would take him to court, he would have cashed out of every VF arm before it flopped.

I suspect Doug squirreled away a huge amount from VFM over the years.  He was said to be "very bad at managing money."   Or perhaps he was very good at channeling it into off shore bank accounts for his own use.  There was very little left when VFM was liquidated by the BoD. 

VFI (the retail arm) was also apparently on the point of going bust when Doug had his fire sale.

I presume any settlement to Lourdes was paid by insurance so nothing came out of Doug's personal pockets.

[Quinquagenarian]

18 hours ago, bea said:

They made off with a bundle from VF - someone else was paying the bills for the house, right? And DPIAT still got a salary. That retail arm made money, too. And you know that when he knew Lourdes would take him to court, he would have cashed out of every VF arm before it flopped.

Bea is right on the money here.  All his ease right now, came from folks without ease for years. Shameful.

 

37 minutes ago, MamaJunebug said:

African American lass chatting w Little Eva

The irony of this. AA and  "Little Eva"....

Um. Was the word "Vibe" allowed in the VF Days of Shaving Parties?

[Christwriter]

On 9/2/2017 at 0:27 PM, hoipolloi said:

The "pastoring" may not have been very lucrative for James & Stacy but it did bring power, which is like crack cocaine to all of these fundies. The power over people (e.g., the "pastors"), the power derived from adoring followers (e.g., YLCF)  -- no matter the source, it's addictive and paramount for these folks. Jesus is a distant second.

James & Stacy McDonald reportedly skedaddled out of TX, just a few rest stops ahead of their creditors, after the collapse of Home Schooling Today. Not surprisingly, James & Stacy disputed this assertion. Whatever the case, they apparently left TX with enough $$ to acquire their IL property though one wonders if the local church provided any funds at the time, as is not uncommonly done for a ministerial residence. Also, while their  oily income may be funding the various perks they love showing off on FB & elsewhere, IIRC, someone said that they were also the beneficiaries of a generous bequest from a deceased relative -- hence the new kitchen & other renovations.

And @bea - a completely righteous rant!

I created an account here just to say that I worked for the McDonalds at the tea room/bookstore during the time period of the Homeschooling Today sale and while I can't confirm the inner circle details of that blog I can confirm the majority of the circumstantial stuff. Like it was common knowledge among the tea room staff that they had shafted their printer. I also remember A car accident while I was there, not sure if it's the one the blog mentions. And while I never met the German Family, my mother, who ALSO worked there (long, long, long story) did. She was told explicitly that they would be buying the entire thing, magazine, tea room and bookstore, and she felt INCREDIBLY sorry for them because they had no clue what they were getting into. 

They also pressured my mother into getting back with my dad (they were separated at the time) because of how much God Hates Divorce. Surprise, surprise, this is their second marriage and half the kids are from the previous one--when part of the Story in the tea room was how Poor Little Stacy with Spina Bifida had TEN BLESSED CHILDREN when she was told she'd never have even one. 

The McDonalds were liars and tea room was weird. 

[Howl]

Welcome aboard @Christwriter and thanks for sharing your first-person experience!  

[DomWackTroll]

2 hours ago, Quinquagenarian said:

The irony of this. AA and  "Little Eva"....

How much do you want to bet that "Eva" will try to make it in the Big Apple with a name as fake as her father's? She has the talent. She has the looks. It's just a matter of that pesky name...

[Palimpsest]

1 hour ago, Christwriter said:

The McDonalds were liars and tea room was weird. 

That might be the understatement of the year and thanks for the information.

7 hours ago, Laila said:

So, not for the first time, Dougie plays favorites to a seriously embarrassing level. 

There may actually be advantages to flying under Doug's radar and not being the center of his attention, whether it is due to being pimply, at an awkward stage of adolescence, or even slightly chubby.

I always pitied Joshua, the poster boy, Faith, and Virginia.  Faith even more so after Doug's downright creepy performance singing with her.

I'm now going to try to be gentle here because I think Faith is still a minor, and I do not snark on minors, but those Little Eva videos are annoying.  Doug directing his children to posture for the camera like that is distasteful.  I wish he'd leave her alone.   She has singing talent but doesn't seem to be going anywhere with it.  She is a good dressmaker, but again - what is she doing with it and where is she going with it.

I'm still hoping Justice has fled the fold.  Jubilee is also seldom mentioned so perhaps she is trying to escape too.

And I'm now going to say something nice for a change.  

I rather deplore the Meatballers' obsession with glorifying WWII.  It used to seem that they did nothing but cosplay (and Faith belt out old songs) at veterans' events, but Liberty just wrote two very thoughtful posts on Operation Meatball.

Liberty and Beall apparently visited another reunion in San Diego in August, possibly when Little Eva was cavorting around New York in costume with Daddy Dearest.  If nothing else, Liberty seems to be a receptive listener as the veterans talk to her, share their stories, and weep in her presence.  She is documenting some valuable social history in those posts, and very possibly assisting some of these men in the process of life review.

It is a crying shame that Liberty is not in a college history or perhaps psychology program somewhere.  She has the ability and the interest to take this a long way further but lacks the context and balance a college degree would give her.  http://www.operationmeatball.com/new-girlblog/

[DomWackTroll]

Is Faith really still a minor, @Palimpsest? Yikes, better be careful with my words. She really does look so much older, though. 

[Maxwell]

3 hours ago, Palimpsest said:

I think that is an excuse.  I suspect it is more to do with these people wanting to decide exactly who gets their charitable donations.  It is not for the greater good (perish the thought).  Their donations should only be used for Deserving Poor who are the Right Kind of Christian.

Well, yes... which is as it should be.  My donations should go to people that I think are worthy of help... and your donations should go to people that you think are deserving of support.  You'd be pretty upset if your donations were going to "gay therapy" just as a conservative Christian is pretty upset when their donations go to help Planned Parenthood.  Instead of the government collecting taxes and then deciding who is worthy & who is not, shouldn't you & I decide where our money (and how much) goes?  I don't see anything inherently wrong with that.

Back in the day FDR talked about the "Forgotten Man".  What he said was that the poor/needy were the "Forgotten Man" but the meaning of that phrase was the direct opposite (from the Wiki):
 

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Yale University professor William Graham Sumner appears to be the first to use the phrase "the forgotten man" in his 1876 essay. His algebraic definition of the forgotten man was "C", who is coerced into helping the man at the economic bottom "X", by "A" and "B" who demand charity for "X".[4]

As soon as A observes something which seems to him wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or, in better case, what A, B, and C shall do for X... What I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. he is the man who never is thought of.... I call him the forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays..."

 

 

[Palimpsest]

Just now, DomWackTroll said:

She really does look so much older, though. 

I think Beall mentioned Faith's 17th birthday last year and I was shocked.  She may be 18 by now.  She looks in her twenties in most photos I've seen.  As with the Boyer brats, that red lipstick adds years to her age, and so do the Victory Roll hair style, hats and vintage clothing.  Teenage girls in the 1940s did not dress like that.  Street walkers did!

[hoipolloi]

17 minutes ago, Palimpsest said:

 She has singing talent but doesn't seem to be going anywhere with it.

Unlike her aunt, Alessandra Rossi-Filippi (née Alexandra Phillips, DPIART's sister), who studied voice at the Eastman School of Music as well as UT-Knoxville & Tanglewood.

Talent is great but it isn't everything. Training is crucial if Faith really wants to go somewhere with her talents. 

3 minutes ago, Palimpsest said:

Teenage girls in the 1940s did not dress like that.  Street walkers did!

Correct. Looking at a 1942 HS yearbook of a family member, and NONE of the senior girls look like Faith. They might, at most, have a bit of lipstick & maybe a powdered nose but it's not obvious which is kind of the point of makeup when you're not a clown or on stage.

[Palimpsest]

6 minutes ago, hoipolloi said:

Correct. Looking at a 1942 HS yearbook of a family member, and NONE of the senior girls look like Faith. They might, at most, have a bit of lipstick & maybe a powdered nose but it's not obvious which is kind of the point of makeup when you're not a clown or on stage.

A little lipstick and a dash of powder is correct! Also emphasis on the eyebrows, although eyebrow pencils were also used to draw lines down the back of the legs to fake stockings in the UK.

The Phillips girls (and the Boyer sisters) are using high fashion patterns for their 40s looks.  The way they dress, and definitely their make-up, are what my mother (born 1915) would have called "very vampy."  

In the 1940s, many women were in uniform, or employed in other war work (industry, munitions, as land girls, and so on.)  Also, in the UK, most people were wearing Utility clothing towards the end of the war.  Everyone looked a bit scruffy although many women made valiant attempts to look nice.  

One of my aunts was 18 in 1940.  She is photographed wearing her "best" clothes: a tweed skirt, hand knitted twinset and ... ankle socks!  Stockings were for grown-ups.

Sorry, I should step off my soap box.  WWII social history is one of my hobby areas.  This is one of the books I have read recently.  Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War by Julie Summers. 

[hoipolloi]

Thank you, @Christwriter -- your insight may not be a big surprise but it's greatly appreciated!

Gotta love FJ. Eventually, people who knew these fundies way back when WILL come here to share.

[Palimpsest]

39 minutes ago, Maxwell said:

Well, yes... which is as it should be.  My donations should go to people that I think are worthy of help... and your donations should go to people that you think are deserving of support.  You'd be pretty upset if your donations were going to "gay therapy" just as a conservative Christian is pretty upset when their donations go to help Planned Parenthood. 

Nope.  I disagree.  I believe my tax dollars should provide a safety net for those who need it, whether they are "deserving" or not.  I'm practically a socialist.  And I am not American although I am a tax paying (documented thanksverymuch) Resident Alien.  

I have no problem with my tax money being spent to maintain the infrastructure, and on social welfare programs.  I have no problem with my money being spent on Universal Healthcare.  In fact I think it should be spent on all of the above, especially Universal Healthcare, because I think it benefits us all.

I'll indeed be very upset if the US government decided to spend my tax dollars on unproven, unscientific, religious snake oil like "gay therapy."  Canada - here I come!

I am very picky about how and where my voluntary charitable donations are spent.  But that is a different subject.

[bea]

I realized the Phillips girls remind me of Dita Von Teese, not actual women from that era. They look like vintage-themed models. Or strippers.

 

 

[Quinquagenarian]

18 hours ago, bea said:

I realized the Phillips girls remind me of Dita Von Teese, not actual women from that era.

I did not know who Dita was--but you are spot on with the comparison. And yes their perverted father has perverted the 1940s with this glammed up caricature of the time.  It's all so warped.  Feigning patriotism and affection for veterans of the day, yet his daughters dress up not as soldier's girls or wives but some kind of garish USO characters.  I'll defer to you who say that Eva has a good voice. I reckon. But the "cuteness" or put-on over the top persona with it kind of sickens me. Especially if she's 17 or 18.  And for her father to be urging it on.  It's all a squirm-worthy to me.

Why don't they put on some 2010's clothes and go pull some people out of the hurricanes. 

20 hours ago, Palimpsest said:

I'm still hoping Justice has fled the fold.  Jubilee is also seldom mentioned so perhaps she is trying to escape too.

Me too. I think that is likely with Justice. I think he chafes with the comparisons etc to Josh.   And Jubilee is the most like the "Old" Beall (Pre-DPIART)-- spunkier. Liberty is somewhat like that too but not as much as Jubilee. Always felt like Jubilee stood the greatest chance of fleeing.

[Marian the Librarian]

Beall has updated her IG: https://www.instagram.com/count.down.to.50/

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People talk about the clarity that comes with mid life - understanding better who you are and where you're going. Boy has this been true for me. The junk that I have discarded, the treasures that I will hold onto – so many things are just clearer than they ever have been. And some things are a whole lot harder than they ever have been. But that's OK too. Because I know what I want to fight for. 

Then, she compares herself to a cheese:

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Liberty and I tried this cheese a few weeks ago. It was "melt in your mouth" amazing. I had snapped a photo so that we would remember the name… I just read the description. It could almost be describing me at 50!

 

[Howl]

On 9/5/2017 at 10:44 AM, Christwriter said:

The McDonalds were liars and tea room was weird. 

@Christwriter, if you see this, would you mind sharing (if you feel comfortable doing so) how the tearoom was weird? 

[Jasmar]

She clearly has discarded the wrong junk. Or at least part of it.

[DomWackTroll]

Just imagine the shaming a young woman would have gotten had she walked into a Vision Forum conference wearing THIS: 

...but now it's "adorable."