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The fire-and-brimstone priest at the Latin Mass of my childhood made accountability feel tangible. Every action had weight, spiritually and in daily life.

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Own your choices. And when you stumble, don’t fear it; seek help and rise again. Godspeed to all.
We have an Indian friend who wanted to show us his country, so we spent 17 days traveling with him - and he covered everything: airfare, accommodations, food, all of it. We flew into Delhi, went up into the mountains, saw wild tigers and monkeys, visited the Taj Mahal, the whole thing.

And honestly? Never again.
The photos make it look incredibly exotic - staying at the same ashram George Harrison once visited, seeing the Ganges, wandering through beautiful temples. But the reality was overwhelming. There are so many people, and the environment is extremely chaotic. Even in the mountains, the pollution hangs in the air like fog.
Lip tuck? I have no idea what you mean, but whatever it is, it’s the most subservient and cringeworthy comment I’ve seen here.
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Last car I shopped for was a truck. 2011.


Same. Bought my Chevy Camaro (let the jokes rain down) after my 2002 Trans AM (more jokes, forthcoming) was stolen at JazzFest in 2010. We just bought an ECM, but it didn't pan out.

If I have to buy....

Looking at classics (mechanical v. electronic)
Newer - Mid-engine Corvette (but I am not an 80 yo guy)
Lotus (all older)
A defunct laundrymat off Goodwood, I think. Mom was pretty back then (she is dead now). I was on her hip. The Dad who raised me and
met her that day changed my life for the better. :bow:

re: Cremation or Burial?

Posted by liz18lsu on 8/13/26 at 6:22 pm to
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Why would this be a church law? It's certainly not in the Bible. I say this as a Christian, not someone trying to knock the Catholic church. Just seems like an unnecessary made up rule by the church. There is no specific Bible command for burial or cremation. There are Bible accounts of burials and essentially cremation.

Gen. 3:19 "For dust you are and dust you will return." You are quite literally returning to dust with cremation, the same thing that would happen to you in a casket, just faster.



Jewish people believe in burial within 24 hours and the body should be intact. Meaning, if a person was killed in an explosion, they attempt to gather all of the body, even sopping up as much blood as possible. This makes the World War cremation of Jews a direct offense to their deeply held beliefs regarding burial. They do not embalm the dead. They do not view the body, and they keep shiva (a 7 day mourning period) after, while covering mirrors in the home.
Lee County - Not Hit For Years, Until I moved In

Don't click, it's an awful pay-to-play infectious "news" site.

When I got here in 2014 - "We don't get hurricanes, they go North & South". Irma & Ian said "Hi!". I am not worried, I didn't leave for either. But, why did we become a #1 hit when everyone assured me that "hurricanes don't hit SWFL"?
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frick that ill gladly take my chances every summer here in South Louisiana with hurricanes.


Coming here to say the same.
The money isn't in the cure, it's the "treatment". RIP Mom - Stomach cancer, 2/2025.
Almost every dish we make. Gumbos, soups, tacos, etc. It's a slow heat, not an overwhelming taste.
$1.3M median home value in Sammamich, WA. I bet it's nice!
Only related because of foreign country and lightning, but this is really neat.

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Imagine a storm that rages for 10 hours a day, 300 nights a year! Welcome to the Catatumbo Lightning—the lightning capital of the world. Watch to see the mind-blowing science behind Earth's eternal, silent light show.


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Catatumbo lightning is a unique natural weather event over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. It flashes up to 300 nights a year, for up to 10 hours a night, with rates reaching over 28 flashes per minute.


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Catatumbo Lightning
We have none. Land of the billionaires doesn't tolerate that.
Feminism (nothing feminine about it) turned men off to women. It's one of the worst things that has happened to modern sociecty. Voting for women was tied, hand-in-hand with prohibition. Meddling women. Trying to "make things better".

Women, today, have every advantage, if not more, than men (because of feminism and fear). The feminists, of today, who did nothing to earn the advantages they have, whine, complain, get fat and blame men for everything. They are shameless, lonely and angry. The very thing they laud is the very thing that makes them miserable.
Abortion is an abomination, a moral wound that society keeps pretending isn’t there. If you don’t want the consequences of creating life, then take responsibility before life begins. We live in a world where the law recognizes a pregnant woman as carrying two lives, yet some will defend ending one of them as if it’s nothing.

These same people would be outraged if a pregnant animal were stomped to death, crying over the unborn puppies or kittens, yet they applaud the dismembering or poisoning of a voiceless human child. How can anyone look at that and not feel horror? How can anyone deny that it is a human life?

If someone can’t see the humanity in the unborn, if they can celebrate the destruction of innocence, then they have lost their moral compass entirely. That kind of blindness doesn’t just need correction, it needs awakening.

re: Corporate meeting pet peeves…

Posted by liz18lsu on 7/31/26 at 2:35 pm to
Let's put that in the parking lot and table it for later. :banghead:
...And selling the videos online...

Sentenced to 12 Years

They should be put in a cardboard compactor. :angry:
What was the date and jurisdiction? Inside or outside city limits? 7/1 is a typical date for increases. Add annexation, etc. & you have no idea how complex transactional taxes can be.
Seeing the girl on the beach when the Blue Angels flew over, with no tattoos, was so refreshing.

I bought my first home in 2005, 0% down, at 23. It was $80K. When I moved to Florida in 2014 and saw "normal" houses going for $400K+ I thought, "There is NO WAY". Almost paid off on the Florida home. :cheers:

re: Blue Bayou Experience?

Posted by liz18lsu on 7/19/26 at 7:48 am to
Went every Thursday, in the summer, when I was 16, 1995. Loved the diving boards, which they did away with. The "lifegaurds" were about 14-17 yo. It wasn't a cesspool of NBR at that time. That's all I have.