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Can I Venmo my tithe?if it’s good enough for OnlyFans it’s good enough for Jesus

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Both Jones Creek and Bluebonnet have been renovated already.

I wish the ones saying there is no need for them would actually go visit and see exactly what they offer.

In the last few months I’ve been to 5 different organization meeting in Bluebonnet and Jones Creek in the evening and they are full of people of all ages doing all kinds of activities. I regularly go to the Goodwood branch. It’s really a great community gathering and use space which in this day and age we need more than ever. Isolation and iPhones are a face track to mental health issues.

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My comments have nothing to do with the election. It’s the fact that they can not act for the good of the whole. They won’t ever say they have more tax dollars than they need. They will spend as much as they can justify and bank the rest. It took pressure from the outside to get them agree to the “compromise”. And the voters really had no say so. It was either renew the current millages, or not fund the libraries. What kind of choice is that? If the Library Board was really looking out for the taxpayers, they would have lowered their requests and reduced the millages and funded a more lean system.

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Your criticism assumes the Library Board has the authority to unilaterally “lower their requests” or redesign the millage. They do not. A dedicated millage is set by the voters and can only be changed through the statutory process — not by a board deciding to rewrite what the public approved.

The board’s job is not to guess what level of taxation voters might prefer; it is to administer the revenue exactly as the voters designated and maintain the system the millage was created to support. The idea that they should simply surrender portions of a restricted tax to unrelated government functions isn’t “good of the whole” — it’s a violation of the purpose of dedicated funding.

The pressure to accept the “compromise” did not come from taxpayers. It came from elected officials seeking to redirect library revenue to the general fund — something the library is not allowed to do without violating its statutory mandate. Protecting restricted funds from political repurposing is not self-interest; it’s stewardship.

Banking funds is also not evidence of excess. It’s how public entities responsibly save for capital projects, major repairs, technology upgrades, land acquisition, and future branch construction without taking on debt or raising taxes. Those reserves keep the system stable and prevent emergency tax hikes.

And the complaints regarding the building of these-say the downtown library-all of these branches were picked and decided on by the public in public meetings. Not the library board just deciding to build a new unneeded building. That building was built because the public voted to build that building whether you wanted it or not.

A “lean system” sounds appealing in theory, but gutting the primary source of funding doesn’t create efficiency — it creates decline. The Library Board preserved what voters intended and prevented a long-term degradation of services parish-wide.

The real question isn’t why the Library protected its dedicated revenue.
It’s why other officials attempted to take it in the first place.

And no one knows what or why “the Jews did it” but hey gotta blame someone eh?

It’s a great book. It will also give you good perspective as to why the Ukrainians are fighting Russia now.

And it will give you perspective as to why Poland has gotten as strong as they are now and why they are adamantly supporting Ukraine.

If there is any military in Eastern Europe that could and would destroy Russia in its current form it is Poland.

Another good book, although a bit dated, it George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years.

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People need to read about this

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Most people have never even heard of it and I know I was not taught it in school until late undergraduate history classes.

Bloodlands is an incredible book as is Red Famine.

If no one wants to read about it Mr. Jones is a good movie on Netflix about Gareth Jones and his exposure of the famine in Ukraine.

And you are absolutely correct. People need to read and know about this.

Some of these events would enlighten many people’s mind and understanding of our history and why we don’t want to repeat it.

As I said before in this thread most people that say they “hate Jews” have no understanding as to why they hate. They have some general stereotype and peers who do know anymore than they do which is never accurate.

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Genrikh Yagoda

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Architect of the purge. Head of the KGB or what is was called prior-I don’t remember the name?

As usual Stalin purged him.

Two great books: Stalin: Waiting for Hitler and Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder.

The Holodomor was the predecessor to the Holocaust and both show you the value man can put on man and that animals can live in all of us.

Bedroom is ten foot and the clock sits on a nightstand which is what 22” or so high?

But you can only see it if the room is dark.

I thought he was still alive. Good to hear. I always enjoyed him. Hey Sport.

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I didn't. I said the Jewish LOBBY. Your example of why that "doesn't make sense" is nonsensical itself.

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Calling it ‘the Jewish lobby’ is what people do when they can’t distinguish between a political organization and an entire ethnic group. It’s not that your point is deep - it’s that it’s imprecise to the point of being intellectually lazy.

You are using it like a toddler uses “the monster under the bed.” For you it’s more of a talking point rather than an actual thought.

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