Seriously, I have to say, the colder the water, the better the oyster. Prince Edward Island happens to be my favorite location. Gulf coast oysters are far too alkaline for me.

I was in my 20s when I started liking oysters. I’d only ever tried fried gulf oysters and now realize that something about frying makes oysters taste like boiled boogers. Not that I’ve ever eaten boiled boogers or even unboiled boogers, but still. That is not a judgment on fried food because other fried seafood can be…

I live just north of the Florida Panhandle. Apalachicola Bay oysters are commonly $6.95 a dozen here. $2 an oyster would be grounds for an ass whoopin’.

No offense, but I wouldn’t touch a Gulf oyster with a 10 ft pole. I mean I HAVE - they are not my style of oyster,

Reading the language of the IRS code, how on God’s hypocritical green Earth did the Catholic Church not lose their tax exempt status when the evidence of egregiously widespread abuse in their ranks finally came out? They “violate[d] fundamental public policy,” for fuck’s sake.

No religious organization really should be at this point. The potential for corrupt cults, like the aforementioned “faith,” is just too great. And even the organizations that seem to be attached to fairly traditional theologies can/do abuse funds for purposes other than the givers intend.

No place for forgiveness but definitely for endless condemnation. and people line with you. so be it.

I don’t know, definitely not a fan of Scientology in the slightest but their tactics are nothing compared to what other religions have committed against their own and non-followers over the centuries. Other religions have equally silly fairy tales as well, theirs just benefit from the fog of history and generational…

I wonder if this whole thing is a pyramid scheme? I’m gonna go ahead and judge this book by its cover.

All religious institutions and religious employees should be taxed. No exceptions.

Imagine how her husband must feel about it.

Yeah, I mean, i’m a Christian, but I don’t see why churches get to be tax exempt. If they are providing a charity service, which is registered, approved, and independently confirmed to be fulfilling a service like any charity, religious or secular, fine, tax exempt status has a a reason for being there. Prove you…

And yet that is not label or construed as terrorist activities.

They also privately harassed the individual agents assigned to their case. As in, stalked. Showed up at their houses. Sued them personally. That sort of thing.

Infinity stars!

You know what else shouldn’t be tax exempt? Any church!

The church was deemed tax-exempt by the IRS in 1993

In your opinion. 31 yo guy still a victim, she at 53 and already burned once but ripe to jump again on another hapless teenager, yeah right. At this point even mama Faulaau must have come to terms with it but not you. Don’t you believe in forgiveness?

After seeing it recommended while reading stories about the HBO doc, I got and just started reading Jenna Miscavige Hill’s memoir about growing up in Scientology, and I swear to god I have to keep reminding myself that this isn’t YA fiction set in the world of Hunger Games or Divergent, because it really, really feels…

“Collective disapproval of all of society”