Inamorato wrote: 
What if you are Jewish or Muslim, or some other religion. Oh, that's right, there is only one true religion.

Offenders in Alabama town can choose jail or church

Associated Press

BAY MINETTE, Ala. - Authorities say non-violent offenders in southern Alabama will have a new choice: Go to jail, or go to church every Sunday for a year. 

WKRG-TV reports that Operation Restore Our Community begins next week.

The city judge in Bay Minette will let misdemeanor offenders choose to work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine; or go to church every Sunday for a year.

If offenders select church, they'll be allowed to pick the place of worship but must check in weekly with the pastor and police.

If the one-year church attendance program is completed, the offender's case will be dismissed.

Bay Minette Police Chief Mike Rowland says the program could change the lives of people heading down the wrong path. So far, 56 churches are participating.

 

Let's see, jail and a fine or a year in the First Baptist Church of Hellishere, Alabama. Better a captive body than an imprisoned soul. 

 buzz wrote: 
Little Paulie must have been pissed....

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
We got caught in that too.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
the mortgage was for $18K. the payment was about $300. I think we re-fi'd for about 12% a few years later. sold it for not much more than we paid. we considered it cheap rent with a tax write-off for the time we were there.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
it took a few years before we were able to refi. never made anything on that house.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
I let the VA have mine back.

 oldslabsides wrote: 


That has a nicer ring to it if you turn it around: God is Google.

Now pass the pancakes.

 bokey wrote: 
yeah, thats the one. and the river did overflow

 buzz wrote: 
holy crap.  how the hell did you ever get out from under that albatross?

 buzz wrote: 
Oh, you mean Denton on the Choptank. I thought you had one up there and had mispelled "me"

 buzz wrote: 

 buzz wrote: 
yeah, there was that too. good thing that house was cheap.

 bokey wrote: 
i was mixin money, god and weather.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
do you remember our 18% mortgage?

 buzz wrote: 
Well, I did understand the thing about interest rates.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
Yep. One day you're retired and then one day it's like , this plan is doomed to fail.

 bokey wrote: 
i was in Denton last night. it felt like God was hatin on MD.

 bokey wrote: 
I remember back in the late 70s/early 80s, I was getting 13% on a 6-month CD.
ahh. the good ol' days.

 buzz wrote: 
Yeah, no  effin S.   I'm getting slaughtered with this BS. CD's under 1%?

 I've got to make 2 big moves around July due to some bonds maturing and there isn't anything out there. Nothing.