what is the probability that a religious organisation is used for money laundering?
for example, large amounts of money are raised by the organization as a donation and then legally introduced into the financial system.
is there any chance that jw.org is used for this kind of purpose?
What a relief! And here I've been looking over my shoulder every time I pulled a soggy bill out of the washer that had been left in a pocket!
Next you'll be telling me that I don't need to close the shades and turn off the lights when I cut tags off of mattresses!
since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".
twice, morning and afternoon..
I grew up in a south central Pennsylvania circuit which included Lancaster County (big Amish country) and there were several Lancaster city congregations (north, south, east, west) that brothers from other areas would butcher the pronunciations when referring to.
They would say LAN-CAST-er, but it is actually pronounced LANKA-stir.
Yes, it was a big rural circuit, but come on people. I didn't live in Lancaster County, but I knew how to pronounce it correctly!
since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".
twice, morning and afternoon..
"Try Worcestershire sauce." - Punk
We've got a Worcester County in Maryland. Pronounced "WOOS ter" using the same vowel sound as the words look and book. *It does not rhyme with rooster!
I think the "R" gets dropped though in Worcestershire. So it would be pronounced "WOOSta sher."
(You could also think of the word "wuss" when used as a mild slur. Eg. - "He was such a wuss that he wouldn't even look my way." That's the same sound in my accent - "WUSS ter.")
How'd I do, Punky?
since it is my turn (wife) to have the assembly streamed they start with the music.. i have never in 70 years heard it called a "pree-lood".
twice, morning and afternoon..
I'm always impressed when people manage to mispronounce "pronunciation" as "proNOUNCiation.'
this stupid little autistic twit is a no talent hack.
she can not dance, sing or even talk well.
the liberal idiots follow this little idiot like she is the oracle of delphi.
Not sure, Dio, but in the US kids leave high school with the accumulated grades from all the classes for their entire high school career. There's no big final exam like GCSEs at the end of high school. Each class you've taken for four years has a final exam and those go on your high school transcript. Depending on the school set up of daily number of classes, students can leave with 28 or so credits/grades for classes. Some high schools have 6 classes a day, some have 7, and some complete their classes in half a year with 4 classes in Fall and 4 classes in Spring for a total of 8 subjects per year. As long as you pass each of those classes, you get the high school diploma.
It's interesting, the different secondary education systems around the world.
this stupid little autistic twit is a no talent hack.
she can not dance, sing or even talk well.
the liberal idiots follow this little idiot like she is the oracle of delphi.
And yet, Mick, she managed to get under your skin from halfway around the world.
Nice trick there.
i just heard this story from one of my relatives.
i'm leaving a lot of things out.. a jw couple had three kids and raised them in the religion.
the oldest one got disfellowshipped at 18 years of age because he committed fornication with a jw girl.
I'm not really sure that half truths are much better than lies.
Half truths have the disadvantage of making it look like you're hiding something.
no one can steal your thunder when you are the fucking storm!
It is better to say nothing and have people think you're stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
in 1923 i almost died.
__________in 1923 i almost died.. allow me to explain .... on the day of my parole from seagoville federal correctional institution, i walked out of the entrance of the prison and my grandfather was waiting for me at the gate.. the last time i’d seen him was in 1967. today was 1969.. he looked older and i must have looked much skinnier.. i opened the door and climbed into the front passenger side.. there were no seat belts back then.. jack avery hybarger was a private man, very shy about looking into anyone’s eyes.. he bottled up his emotions.
we weren’t a family that hugs or says “i love you.”.
Loved it. Absolutely loved it. One of your best!
so we all know california is one shit hole idiot state.
now gov.
asshat has banned gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers.
It is a valid question to ask how the electricity is produced that charges electric vehicles / small engines.
How is your locality doing it?
My electric supplier has greatly reduced oil and no longer uses coal. We still have nuclear power which helps, but the greatest growing category is renewables.
We saw a boom and bust of windmills. Now it's solar farms where fields are planted with solar panels. This is a way for some families to keep the family farm as corporate farming had taken over and economies of scale make single farmers uncompetitive.
We also have offshore wind farming approved but not yet constructed in Maryland.
The biggest issue with all of these is of course storage. Batteries are still very inefficient.
You can put solar panels on your roof, but battery storage isn't efficient. You can sell it back to the grid, but you only get paid when the sun is out, and you must pull from the grid during nighttime or bad weather.
Thankfully Maryland has not been one of the states to prevent resale back to the grid.
My hope is that battery storage becomes more efficient because I would rather store the electricity I make than deal with metering.
