James 5:14,15 – “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”
I’m standing on this promise, and holding God to His Word about it.
Our HOA president has repeatedly harassed us about parking on the street in front of our own house. I need to summarize how we got here, because there’s a definite pattern.
First, she told me that I couldn’t park on the street because we lived in an HOA, as though that, in and of itself, precluded it. I told her my copy of the covenants said nothing about parking passenger cars on the street.
Second, she implied that I didn’t have the latest copy of the bylaws, but wouldn’t supply me with a copy that she deemed current. So I went to the recorders office and confirmed that my copy is, in fact, the latest legal instrument that applies to my lot.
Third, she told me that the city didn’t allow it. I called the police department, and they said, if there were no signs, there were no restrictions.
Fourth, she told me that the garbage collectors don’t like it. I called the city garage, and they said they didn’t care.
Fifth, she said that emergency vehicles can’t get through if there are cars parked on the street, and says the fire department “reviewed” her rule. I called the fire marshal, and he confirmed that fire trucks were no bigger than school busses, which go through the neighborhood with cars parked on the street, every school day. He also said that if the streets were too narrow for emergency vehicles, the city would ban parking on one side or the other.
Now she claims that, as the president of the association, she has the authority to unilaterally make up rules, under a general safety clause in the by-laws, and that the association’s attorney said this was legal. She hasn’t faithfully represented the positions of any other cited sources, so she’ll have to forgive me if I cannot trust what she says any more. Given the history on this topic thus far, I believe she is either misconstruing what he said, or distorting what he said for effect in the process of relaying it to me.
So I called my attorney. He feels — and I wholeheartedly agree — that any change to the covenants would need to follow the change procedure outlined in the covenants themselves, especially changes to rules that are already covered.
I was ready to dive into all of this when I finally realized…
Arguing with a narcissist is like wrestling with a pig in the mud. You just get tired, and the pig loves it.
A staggering 40% of the country’s tax revenue is now going to service our national debt. At this rate, with current inflation, it won’t be long until EVERY dollar we print will be used to service the debt, and the entire world’s economy will crater. But, sure, let’s continue to fund other countries’ wars.
I was making a snarky comment on a post about how hackers should break into banks’ IT systems, and delete everyone’s loan information, and this happened.
The account has me blocked now. Surprise, surprise.
This is so well done, I don’t even care that it was an ad.
The CIA & NSA are running the media, “social” especially. Like the Allies cracking Enigma, and carefully choosing what pieces of intel to act upon, lest they give the game away, the deep state is very careful about what posts to amplify or remove.
I’m just going to say it: I miss getting a slice of Garcia’s pizza after a night of drinking in West Lafayette when I was going to Purdue. If they were still there, I’d drive up to taste it again. There was no pizza like it.
By Duran Duran, 1981
So soon just after you’ve gone
My senses sharpen
But it always takes so damn long
Before I feel how much my eyes have darkenedFear hangs in a plane of gun smoke
Drifting in our room
So easy to disturb, with a thought, with a whisper
With a careless memory, with a careless memoryOn the table, signs of love lies scattered
And the walls break, with a crashing within
It’s not as though, as though you really mattered
But being close, how could I let you go
Without some feeling, some precious sympathy followingFear hangs in a plane of gun smoke
Drifting in our room
So easy to disturb with a thought, with a whisper
With a careless memory, with a careless memory
With a careless memory, with a careless memoryOh, I walk out into the sun, I try to find a new day
But the whole place just screams in my eyes
Where are you now ’cause I don’t want to meet you
I think I’d die, I think I’d laugh at you
I know I’d cry, what am I supposed to do, follow you?Outside the thoughts coming flooding back now
I just try to forget youSo easy to disturb with a thought with a whisper
With a careless memory, with a careless memory
With a careless memory, look out
With a careless memory
With a careless memory
Look out, look out, look out, look out