eitek1

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I always maintain that violence is never the answer

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Violence isn't always the answer, but when it is the answer, it is the ONLY answer.

I read a study recently where they gave an insane amount to a woman that was pretty much catatonic from alzheimers.

After sweating and shaking for a while, she "woke" up and was normal for some period of time before the symptoms showed back up.

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It's a town just one town down from the famous Cinque Terra towns and its got a completely different feel.

It's pretty awesome

Anyone that thinks words are "violence", never really experienced violence. Once you do, you know words don't hurt at all, violence on the other hand...

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Yes, I am bitter. I've seen and experienced too much not to be. All the theological and nontheological explanations leave me unmoved. I keep coming back to the idea of a God, if he exists all, just not giving a shite.

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I can understand how you could feel this way. Faith is a tough thing some times.

I was thinking about all of these things today. I can't pretend or perceive the logic of things, I just believe that things will work out and continue to have faith. It helps get me through.

My wife was diagnosed with ALS in December. She is pretty amazing and completely giving and she is everyone's favorite person.

I could choose to be bitter because I've got a front row seat to witness to complete annihilation of the physical body of one of the humans I love most convenient this planet.

Instead, I choose joy. First, my wife needs that from me, second... being bitter does no one any good.

That said, I hope your burden gets lighter as the days go on.

They are never going to deal in good faith. This is and has always been a tactic.

I've beat one of these. Let me tell you why...

BTW IANAL and this isn't legal advice.

I got flagged doing the actual speed limit, 70mph on the interstate around Bluebonnet in Baton Rouge years ago. I had driven through there the day before and there was no construction zone. It was put up that night.

The law I was ticketed for was 32:63:A

If DOTD finds, through engineering and traffic studies, that any posted maximum speed in the state is greater or less than reasonable or safe under existing conditions, it may declare a new, reasonable and safe maximum speed limit. This limit becomes effective when appropriate signs are posted, either continuously or at specific times as DOTD determines.

I went looking for the traffic study that authorized the change. It didn't exist. I traced it all the way back to the DOTD sign shop for the authorization to put the signs out.

The Dept of Transportation didn't put the signs out, the construction company did.

Bottom line, a private company, without DOTD authorization changed the speed limit and then cops immediately started writing tickets.

I beat the state police in court.

Here's a little secret. NO ONE EVER READS THE RULES. Everyone will shake a rule book at you but 99.9% of the time they have no idea what's in it. Beat them at their own game.

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Rod Stewart is awful. Looks like a bloated corpse but people are still paying to see him.

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I saw him at Jazzfest a few years ago and he put on a great show. I was actually surprised because of his age.

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Sounds like bullshite and nothing online.

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My wife told me this story… A group from her school went to Dollywood. She said on one of the rides (I don’t recall which one, it was the one with all the water in a building) a student was bit by a snake.

I was like “Yeah, right”. Years later we went to Dollywood. We walked past that ride as they were wheeling a guy out on a stretcher and he was saying “did y’all find the snake that bit me?” I personally witnessed that and I thought she was full of it.

My wife went to high school in the Appalachian mountains. Two football players get into a fight. One pulls a .25 caliber pistol and shoots the other one in the head. After the shooting, the shot football player maintains consciousness and goes to his football coaches house because he lived really close.

They take the kid to the hospital and find that the bullet is lodged in a previously unknown cancerous tumor. They do surgery, remove the tumor and the bullet and because it ultimately saved his life, they let the shooter off.

This would have been around 1987.