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I think you might be misunderstanding what observing Lent is about, and that may be why you aren’t seeing the value of it.

Lent is observed in solidarity with Christ’s 40 days in the desert. It is not now, nor has it ever been, intended to be a public display of observation.

One is instructed to search our souls to find something that we may choose to fast from or acts that we might do each day that would involve a sacrifice of self - quietly.

The point is that in so doing, we are made mindful in a physical way of Christ’s sacrifice for us, and hopefully be drawn closer to him day by day over the long 40 day slog, emerging on Easter weekend with a deeper understanding and closer relationship to our beloved Savior.

It requires thought, action, and trust me on this one, prayer.

It is essentially at its heart, a very spiritual exercise.

As such, it is a very personal decision whether or not to choose that particular journey throughout the Lenten season, and if you’re doing it right, none but maybe your immediate family should even be aware of what sacrifice you are making, whether it be fasting, community service, extra prayers, daily church services, abstaining from something we are too fond of, etc.

After many decades of doing so, at first with a child’s rudimentary understanding but as I matured, with a more spiritual one, I can tell you from experience that it does change you, it does actually strengthen you, and it does draw you into a closer relationship to God for at least as much time as it takes after Easter for the cares of the world to capture your attention again, though the determination to put God above all else increases with each Lenten season observed with true intention.

I can’t find any negative in entering into such a transformative season.

Blessings!

If pages about such subjects need to be “restored”, they can include new content - such as statements that the USA now only recognizes two genders, and that they are immutable, that is against US law to offer gender change drugs or surgeries to minors, studies about the dangers of giving such drugs and explanations of how the practice has been outlawed in many European countries because of it, etc.

Bookmarking. Thank you, this looks very helpful!

Not a lawyer so this may be a dumb question, but isn’t the conviction predicated on bootstrapping a misdemeanor that was outside the statute of limitations to an unspecified “federal crime” of the jurors’ personal choosing? In which case, could President Trump not pardon himself of all potential federal crimes which are alleged to have occurred in the time spanning 2015 through 1/20/25? And in doing so, would he not preclude any and all possibilities of Bragg continuing his persecution, as there would no longer be anything to bootstrap the expired misdemeanors to?

And just for a bit of extra justice, have Gaetz explore charges of election interference, abuse of power, and wrongful persecution against Bragg, who absolutely deserves them?

Let the hunted become the hunters.

No Rinos! No to Tim Scott!

He needs to pick a VP whom the deep state loathes as much as they do Trump - as close to a red meat MAGA Republican as he can find, or at least a solid conservative who has remained a “ride or die” the past 8 years. A consigliere.

I can’t think of one who perfectly fits the bill, but some solid choices as far as loyalty and strong conservatism I can think of might be General Flynn, Ted Cruz, Rick Grenell, Kari Lake, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Devin Nunes. Other decent choices I can think of (at least as far as I know of them) could be Lee Zeldin, Gov. Youngkin (might help swing VA), Rick Scott maybe? Andy Biggs?

You’re welcome! Enjoy your kombucha exploration adventures! I hope you find some favorites too. BTW, I’m drinking yet another can of that delicious Humm lemon one again. Can’t seem to stay away, haha!

I’ve just started experimenting with drinking it myself actually. So far I’ve tasted one in a glass bottle that didn’t have sugar listed as an ingredient, and that was way too tart. Another in a glass bottle was Pink Lady Apple flavored (got great reviews, got it at Target), and it was tasty, very much like a fizzy tart apple cider. I found both of those at Sprouts. But by far, so far, my two favorites are available at Publix, and come in cans. My favorite is by a company called Mortal Kombucha and the flavor is peach, and tastes like a very lightly sweet peach soda and has less than 50 calories. My second favorite is by a company called Hummmm and the only flavor (of the many of theirs) that ive tried (and keep buying) is a lemon one with a unicorn on it, that tastes almost like a lemon cupcake but fizzy and again, very faintly sweet. And again, about 40 calories. They’re good ones to start with, I think, because they’re milder than the others I’ve tried, and then depending on how you like them, get as adventurous as you wish for the purer less sweetened ones. They really are readily available though.

Desantis disgusts me more with every day, and at this point I can’t even look at or listen to him anymore - and I used to daydream about a Trump/Desantis ticket. Not anymore.

“ The killing of the babies seems to be the driving force behind the descriptions how attroches this invasion has been, We are saying how terrible the killing and beheading of “100” babies by Hamas is, but each day in the US 4300 babies are treated in an even worse way. heads are penetrated and the brains scrambled.”

That is true, and it is unfathomably evil. However, those babies have not become a beloved child, a cherished member of a family, because their mothers chose not to give them that chance. But to do the same horrors or worse to someone else’s precious child/grandchild/sibling/niece or nephew, and especially to force them to watch it happen or to kill the parents in front of the child first, and to film it all for further gloating and enjoyment, is beyond all comprehension. I submit that these acts of evil potentially surpass even the level of evil inflicted on humanity by Hitler and the Nazis. In fact, these terrorist agencies essentially are Nazis, just middle eastern Muslim ones.

I homeschooled my two through high school. They have both graduated from university now so it’s been a little while, but for us, we set goals as a framework and then went with the flow, because if you aren’t flexible, there’s a lot of stress and tears some days! We set weekly goals, and they attended a hybrid school two days a week, plus extra math or music classes at times. Some days, they were enthusiastic and got lots done in just a few hours, possibly finishing a weeks worth of their favorite subjects in a day. Other days, they were exhausted, burnt out, goofy, or whatever - so after a while I’d have mercy on them and let them have the rest of the day off.
That being said, flexibility also meant that they did lessons on beaches, in hotel rooms, or wherever we wanted to be as a family because we had the freedom to travel when the crowds were thinner, which was awesome. Also, I kept them doing light math practice and reading books all summer, to keep their skills sharp - so they schooled all year, just sometimes with fewer hours and subjects.
When they got to high school, they were pretty independent at getting their work done, which helped them greatly in college because they were already used to managing their time and work.
We kept binders with grades and samples of their work throughout, and also administered standardized grade level tests every year to ensure that they stayed at or above grade level, as well. When they got to high school, they were allowed to choose what sciences, languages, and electives they wanted to study as long as they met the state’s graduation requirements. For instance, my daughter chose forensics for senior year science.
I wouldn’t have missed homeschooling them for the world, best thing I ever did besides marrying their dad!

Cancel culture is literally trying to “cancel” (i.e. eliminate) a person, product, business, viewpoint, group, organization, etc. The goal is to completely ruin the target so that it no longer exists for anyone, anywhere.

Boycotts just mean a consumer is choosing to spend their time and/or dollars elsewhere - it’s a personal decision to support, or not support, the target entity, regardless of whether or not it continues to exist and be enjoyed by other people.

Example: MAGA has largely boycotted FOX because of their various bad decisions since 2020. We now get our news from more trustworthy outlets, and FOX is a non issue to us (aside from a lot of schadenfreude).
The left, on the other hand, has openly called for years for FOX to be removed from the air altogether, because they have dared to allow non-leftist points of view to be publicly presented, and allowed leftist positions to be picked apart and proven wrong on air.

Not the same - at all!

If you have comcast, it is 1115, at least here in Georgia. Not sure about any other provider though!

And Trump’s announcement was watched live by over 12 million. Not even close.

If they do that, I will give them the same treatment I’m giving FOX after dumping Tucker - Never Again.

I will never bother to waste my time voting for the RNC-approved candidate again, including the 2024 presidential election. I won’t vote federal at all, just local, and I’m not kidding or blowing smoke. Uni party is uni party and we would get the same BS we’re getting now but we’d be blamed for it, (if they even “let” us have a win, which is doubtful at this point).

I’m this close to being completely done with politics at all at this point, because it is becoming increasingly clear that our “votes” are not real, they’re an illusion, just busy work they give us to distract us and keep us placid by making us *think* we have a representative republic. We apparently do not. We have a mullet country - “Land of the Free” on the outside, Marxist oligarchy on the inside. Like China but with lipstick. #OnlyTrump2024

Now if they really want to do math, she can now subtract the amount of money paid to black people by the government for welfare and entitlements and EBT cards, free college tuitions for black students, free abortions (mostly black mothers), prisons/jails/housing/food/personnel for the black people who have committed the vast majority of crimes over the decades, repair and monetary losses of capital due to rioting and looting over the decades by black people, etc.

Deduct all of that which has already been paid into the black population over the past 150 years, then whatever is left, find the ancestors of the handful of people (relative to the general population) who actually owned slaves, and divvy the reparations debt among them, because the vast majority of American citizens came here within the past two generations from other countries and had nothing to do with any of it, so that’s just a non-starter right there.

Bunch of rabblerousing greedy grifters with no damn common sense, we have in congress.

If we follow his line of reasoning, the vast majority of DC democrats need to leave office immediately and be disallowed from being on any ballots, for their constant declarations about the 2016 election being “illegitimate” because of “Russian interference”, especially since that claim has actually been verified to be false (after we paid 40 million dollars for a multi-year fishing expedition). These people are unbearable hypocrites and don’t care how obvious they are about it.

Haven’t been there in a few years but our absolute favorite place in that area is an experience as well as a meal! Loads of fun, even the kids have never stopped talking about it and we all would love to return someday. It’s called Lamberts Throwed Rolls, and the food is delicious and generous, but the best fun is the waitstaff and their unique ways of serving up hospitality. As you might have guessed, you need to get your paws in the air to catch your large and delicious dinner rolls, as the staff hauls them to you, for example! Great atmosphere and people. Sometimes quite a wait to get in though, fair warning!

Here’s the link:
https://throwedrolls.com/lamberts-cafe-iii/

Thank you! Bookmarking.

Another recommendation for DuoLingo from me! I studied Spanish for 6 years in HS and college plus have Spanish speaking family members so I grew up with it (but we rarely speak it). I am also Italian (grandfather) but he never taught us Italian because he said we’re American now, but I always wanted to learn. I have spent the past 1 3/4 years learning it with Duolingo. I can now read and write it, can speak it, albeit slowly, and can understand it also when spoken clearly and relatively slowly - but even with all of my Spanish education and real life experience, I’d rate my speak/understand Spanish pretty much equally with my Italian which is much newer! I do use the premium feature.

I’ve completed the Italian course and have moved on to reading books in Italian and listening to Italian radio (Duolingo has links).And I’m now about 10 chapters into learning French! Oh and BTW, the more I practice the Italian, the more I think in both languages, but less so if I slack off for a few days. It’s the lilt of a true Italian native that is the most difficult to catch on to because the app speaks very precisely but that’s not real life! Working on that now.

You are aware that you can click the link to the online newspaper where the article was published and see actual bodycam footage, right? And see the staff of the newspaper? (I.e. not a “spam blog”). Georgia, and it appears multiple other swing states, were manipulated to show Biden “winning” when in fact Trump won, BIGLY.

The people who rioted at the Capitol may have gone overboard (although I believe most of the violence was initiated by hired government thugs/Antifa/FBI), but every angry Trump supporter in the entire country is and has been entirely justified in their anger and frustration - and even more do now that the usurper and his “administration “ have taken a wrecking ball to not only our own beloved country but to multiple other nations as well.

Any intellectually honest human on earth knows the basement dummy did not get “the most votes in all of history”, or lose 17 out of 18 bellwethers plus FL and OH and still “won”. That’s as insane as “wet market bat flu”, “Epstein killed himself”, “Hunters laptop is Russian information “, “pee tapes”, and “the vaccines keep you from getting COVID”. Every single one of those is straight up gaslighting and we’re fed up with it.