There are a lot of words that become fads/buzzwords to use, and in doing so, the original & intended meaning is lost or watered down so that the word is rendered ineffective.  This is the list that I propose should be either banned completely, or banned by certain people from their usage, or used only when appropriate, which is rarely:

Impact/Impacted — It has become popular starting around 2008 to use “impact” as a verb instead of “affect/affected” or other better synonyms, such as the simplistic “hit”.  I believe this occurred because it sounds more forceful/macho to use “impact/impacted”, and society likes to look & feel tougher than it really is, and “affect” sounds too close to “effect”, which many ignorant people struggle to use properly, and it sounds somewhat like “infect”, and of course, who wants to be infected?

Basically — Basically, we should rarely use the word “basically” unless you keep your explanation truly basic.  Just like I did in the previous sentence.  It’s not a long paragraph starter, but a lot of ignorant people use it as such because it’s the longest word they know besides “mayonnaise”, which is the only “French” word they know as well.  Never say “basically” and then make a statement that’s anything but basic, as the word means you should use a quick basic example rather than a long-form explanation/lesson on the state of something.

Awesome — Everything is not awesome.  “Awesome” things would include a volcano erupting, 2 planes crashing into one another, the Cubs winning the 2016 World Series after 108 years and after being down 3-1 in the series, i.e., things that truly are stupendous & rare at the same time.  It’s not awesome that Kaylee & Tucker are now dating, whoever they are — I just tried to conjure up some crummy white Millennial names to use in the example.

Actually — Actually, you should never use “actually” unless you are comparing something that probably isn’t an actual event, but rather theoretical, or comparing an alternative to what actually occurred — it’s a comparison involved.  For instance, if someone says “Where did you go on vacation?”, you shouldn’t say “We actually went to Cancun” unless they ask “Did you stay at home & watch the movie about Cancun on your vacation time?” or something that invites comparison.  You could say “That medicine should have tasted bad, but I actually liked it”, though you could omit the word there as well . . . actually.

Fer/Fer me — The word is not “fer”; it’s “for”.  It’s not spelled “fer” nor pronounced “fer” — what’s happened is that people are lazy and aren’t pronouncing the word properly.  Laziness, in this case being a linguistic sloth, is not a proper excuse for mangling our language.  I also want to point out another problem — the use of the phrase “fer me” or even “for me”.  It’s incorrect and redundant.  To say, “For me, I prefer a stick up my ass” is pointless — just say “I prefer a stick up my ass”.  The fact that you used the word “I” is enough to point the sentence & its meaning inward at yourself, so there’s no need to modify it further.  It just makes you look dumb & narcissistic.

Kinda/Sorta or Kind of/Sort of — I get it that people write in slang and I do as well at times when it works, so I don’t have a problem with it depending on the circumstances, but I’m upset at why the word or phrase is even used in the first place.  It’s mealy-mouthed, fence-sitting, wimpy, weasel-word language.  Take a position, dammit!  It’s not “kind of” or “sort of” bad when people step on your face, it’s simply bad, no wimpy modifier needed.  People are saying this because they’re too afraid to take a position so people won’t hate them until the world ends for having a “polarizing viewpoint”, i.e., you believe in something different than the other person or you point out the errors in their POV.

Umm & Uhh — This is taking slang writing too far.  For starters, it’s making fun of people who have learning or mental disabilities.  You may as well say “retard” at some point, as you’re conveying that tone in acting like one, though some will argue that it simply is a sarcastic putdown to make someone else feel like they’re stupid, but where do you think this comes from?  Retarded people.

Uh-huh & uh-uh — The fact that someone would use those words as verbal shortcuts for a 1-syllable word like “yes” or “no” shows people have gone to the utmost length to keep from having to use their mouths to form words properly, but to write them out is ridiculous.

Goes — When people use the word “goes” instead of “says” or “said”, they should be dropped from an airplane without a parachute.  Or maybe we could give them a parachute the first time & let them know the next time they do it, they get no parachute.

Creepy — If you are over the age of 12 & you are male, nothing should be creepy anymore as you’re now a teenager, not a mere adolescent child.  If you are female and you’re out of high school, you can no longer use the word “creepy” anymore because you are an adult and nothing should scare you anymore as you know better.  Another problem is calling people “creepy” in many cases is simply a put-down because of a person’s appearance or mannerisms are different than yours, not that they’re actually scary or should elicit fear.

Melty — This is not a real word.  It was invented on Madison Avenue.  Stop using it.  Stop buying food from companies who use it.  Send the corporate PR rep an email telling them to stop.  If enough people tell them to stop, they will.

So — This word should never be used to start a sentence, even when telling a story.  It’s perfectly fine otherwise.

I can think other words that are lower on my radar; may expand this later when I have time.

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been to convenience stores, retail stores, banks, etc, and I see people who don’t know how to line up or are afraid to do so.  I’ve seen places where they had placed velvet rope & posts to show people how & where to line up & even put a sign up that says “Wait here for the next attendant”, and more than once, I’ve walked up to see just 1 person “in line” and they’re standing about 6 feet back from the “wait here” sign.  I’ve also seen where you’d have somebody maybe 3 feet from it & the next person was 6 feet behind them.  It’s as though everybody is afraid to stand next to somebody for some reason I can’t explain.

Just yesterday, I walked into a convenience store & there was a customer at the counter, and then there was a guy standing what had to be 10 feet away & wasn’t paying attention to the cashier, so I figured maybe he was waiting for someone else who might be in the bathroom, so I got in line right behind the lady at the counter appx 2 feet behind her, which is how you line up properly, and while I’m waiting, I turned around and he’s staring at me with a nasty look on his face.  I asked him “I’m sorry, were you waiting to check out next?” and he didn’t say anything, so I said “Well, the line is over here — didn’t they teach you how to line up in school?”  I even offered to let him cut in front of me in the line and he refused.  I then chastised him for standing 10 feet away like a moron & asked him why he was afraid to get in line & he pretended to ignore me, like I’m some oafish brute who doesn’t understand some subtle “issue” that a lot of people seem to have about forming a proper queue.

When I was in school, we were taught how to line up.  It wasn’t like they had a line-forming class or instructional — it’s just that we were simply taught to get in line to go do everything as a class together.  Going to recess meant getting in line; going to the lunch; fire drills; going to school assemblies — you name it & we lined up to do it.  We were all told to get in line & to tighten up the line, i.e., you should be standing appx 18 to 24 inches behind the person in front of you.  18 inches is OK for kids, but 24 inches is proper for adults, or so I’ve found.  You can expand that to 36 inches if the line is just 2 or 3 people or the guy in front of you smells.

I find myself having to constantly get onto people who don’t line up properly.  I got onto the guy at the bank who wasn’t standing at the “wait here” sign and he said it was because he was respecting the privacy of the people at the tellers.  I told him if the bank thought that was an issue, they wouldn’t have put the “wait here” sign where they did.  Besides that, the teller “portals” themselves are closer to each other than the “wait here” sign is to the tellers.  He also gave me the “eat sh*t” look, which is w3hat most children who didn’t mature into adults do when they have no valid point of argument.

The ONLY time you are allowed to not line up is if you take a number.  The only places where “take a number” should be used are places where you have wait a long time in line, such as the motor vehicle dept, or at a bakery or some other retail place where you want to browse while you’re waiting and the line may take a little longer to be processed.

Other than that — get in line, you idiots!

I’ve had conversations with some Gen-X & Millennials who will not entertain a debate or an opposing viewpoint, and worse — they won’t tolerate it.

This is happening because they were raised by Baby Boomers who taught them that everything they thought or did was precious & was the best, so anything that opposes that or competes with that is bad. Ideas not conceived by them, counterpoints, opposing ideology/theology are all their enemies.

You can’t simply offer a counterpoint to them or engage in a debate. What happens is that they summarily dismiss anything you have to say without examining the facts of their own point of view, and they argue simply to argue and win. Logic has no bearing on the argument/debate.

What’s really bad is that they feel that anyone who opposes them is an enemy, and that to offer a different opinionated viewpoint, or to even prove to them that what they’re saying is factually incorrect is akin to a slap in the face and is a personal attack, even though you’re not personally attacking them — you’re simply attacking the point without any ad hominem attacks at all, but to oppose them is taken to be a personal attack on them, not just their viewpoints, as those their opinions & ideas shouldn’t be disputed by anyone, or off with your head.

You would typically find this same viewpoint from a child on the playground. The problem is that a large segment of our population never grew up.

I read a local newspaper article where a crew of firefighters were being praised for saving someone’s life. I’m not saying they don’t deserve praise for this.  There are a number of professions that deserve praise & they are one of them.  It’s a tough job & most people can’t & won’t do it.  What I’m saying this is their everyday job, as they do something like this virtually every day in every city, but to stop & write an article about it when it was not extraordinary or unusual is just plainly ridiculous & illustrates a number of things:

1) It was apparently a slow news day, and instead of being inventive or writing a story that might help cure society’s ills or focus on the local area problems, they picked this story because it’s “patriotic” & would generate mass appeal. Be wary of anyone who’s telling you they’re patriotic & trying to show you how patriotic they are — these are usually the people who are actually the ones that are less patriotic than the average person as they typically want to take away the rights you have now & install their own version of liberty & freedom.

2) Our society has gotten so addicted to praise that we have to be liked by everyone & praised constantly so we feel better. This all started when a generation of kids called Baby Boomers (those arguably born between 1940 & 1964) grew up in an idyllic world with virtually no concerns & suffering, pampered into believing they were special & everything they did was special, and they believed they could change the world with their viewpoint & that the world’s destiny was to be that very same viewpoint they held. The problem is that they lacked self-esteem & were narcissists, and they transferred those traits to their future generations, so we now have the most-pampered, soft & weak generation in the history of the world — Millennials. These are people who were born appx 1980 to 1999 & also include late-term Gen-Xers from the late 70’s.

Let me say that to agree to put on a uniform & do something that may kill you takes a brave person, and every person who does that is a hero, whether they live or die, but we’ve got to stop pandering to the mostly ignorant masses & their baser instincts & their fragile feelings by drumming up patriotic stories that have no connection to the masses other than milking praise & readership/viewership.  The newspapers & TV networks who do this are using you and your feelings just for ratings.

Did you know that the Dept of Defense pays sports teams to do patriotic things like bring on the color guard & do fly-overs?  It’s part of how they recruit people for service.

I’ve been an Alabama Crimson Tide football fan for almost 50 years, beginning with the Johnny Musso era & the year they trounced Auburn 31-7 & then got trounced by Nebraska 38-6. There’s a lot of talk about the number of claimed national championships that Alabama has, and it’s difficult to truly name a champion in any year without a playoff or head-to-head match-up of the 2 consensus best teams.  When that doesn’t happen, you get controversy. It also happens when certain polls in the past have declared a champion before the bowl games were played. I’m not talking about before there were bowl games at all; I mean, there were bowl games scheduled to be played, but the polls in questions named a champion before they were played, as though the bowl games didn’t mean anything. This isn’t a very ancient phenomenon — this actually happened in 1973 when Alabama was declared the champion by UPI, then got beat by Notre Dame in the bowl game.

Being a fan of anything doesn’t give you the right or obligation to ignore known facts or adhere to unproven claims that can’t be verified scientifically — that would only be the case if you were their lawyer, political adviser/chairman, or selling a used car or house, which are all professions where you’re expected to lie.  I see this Chauvinistic trait too many times in all aspects of different subjects, like religion, music, politics, sports, you name it. Many people also choose to believe that their opinion is the fact even when there is no solid objective evidence to support it.

So how many championships does Alabama actually have? The school claims 18.  I say it’s 14, and here’s my proof:

1925: Alabama went 9-0 & defeated Washington 20-19. This is #1

1926; Alabama went 9-0 & played an undefeated Stanford & tied. That year, they would rightfully be a co-champion. Some idiots think little Lafayette College in PA was the national champion or co-champion also with their 9-0 record, but they played teams like Muhlenberg College, Lehigh & Rutgers. That makes them akin to the FCS teams we have now like North Dakota State. Some people claim Navy should be co-champion, and unlike now, Army & Navy were powerhouse teams & the Army/Navy game was like the Iron Bowl and as competitive & important as the National Championship game is now. Because Navy went 9-0-1 with the tie against Army, the best they could be is a co-champion, so it doesn’t stop Alabama from being a co-champion. This is #2

1930: Alabama went undefeated & beat Washington State 24-0 in the Rose Bowl. Alabama only allowed 2 touchdown ALL SEASON & had 8 SHUTOUTS. Notre Dame also went undefeated and beat USC 27-0 to end the season & didn’t play a bowl game. Wash St was undefeated in the regular season & beat USC 7-6. Both Alabama & ND played tough schedules, but you’d either have to call them co-champions or give it to Alabama based on the evidence, so this is #3.

1934: Alabama had 5 shutouts & 3 games where they gave up only 6 points each & they ended 10-0 winning the Rose Bowl vs Stanford 29-13, which played a fairly-weak schedule, but did beat USC & UCLA handily and was 9-0-1. Minnesota (yes, they could play football at one time) had a fairly-weak schedule (remember my North Dakota State reference earlier? They beat them in the season opener) and played no bowl game. Minnesota beat Pitt, who had beaten Notre Dame & Navy & USC, so at the very least, Alabama is a co-champion. This is #4.

1941: Alabama lost 2 games & the SEC was won by Vanderbilt — yes, Vandy could play football at one time. Calling Alabama any kind of champion in 1941 is ridiculous and only 1 poll did that’s not around anymore for good reason.  Alabama should delete this claimed championship first.

1961: Alabama went 11-0 & beat Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl. You might think this team had Joe Namath at QB, but Broadway Joe didn’t arrive until 1962 (along with another fella name Mal Moore at QB, the future Alabama AD) — this year, the QB was Pat Trammell.  Joe Namath never quarterbacked a true national championship team at Alabama in my opinion.  Ohio St had a tie in their opening game against TCU, though they did beat preseason #1 Iowa.  There is no way Alabama could be anything but the undisputed #1 this year, but the little-known upstart FWAA poll gave it to Ohio St while Alabama was named #1 by virtually every other wire service including AP & UPI (which published the Coaches’ Poll, then became published by USA Today & as of 2014 is sponsored by Amway — that sounds like a joke if you ask me; The Amway Coaches Poll — like the Sears Chicago Cubs).  Note that Rutgers went undefeated, but nobody took that seriously — it was like Boise State going undefeated in 2009 by playing nobody with any decent power ranking. So this is #5, and #1 for Bear Bryant at Alabama (#2 overall for him as he won 1 at Kentucky earlier).

1964: Alabama went undefeated in the regular season & lost to Texas in their bowl game. Arkansas (who wasn’t an SEC team at the time) went undefeated & won their bowl game against an unbeaten Nebraska, and Arkansas also beat Texas in the regular season. There’s no way Alabama can be #1 this year by any measurement & this is the 2nd one they should delete.

1965: Joe Namath graduated to play for the NY Jets, so Steve Sloan took the helm & they went 9-1-1. This is normally not the record of a national champion & they were ranked #4, but #1 Michigan State & #2 Arkansas both lost their bowl games, and since this was the 1st year that the AP poll named their champion AFTER the bowl games, #4 Alabama beat #3 Nebraska & was declared the champion despite having lost 18-17 to Georgia in the opener & tied Tennessee 7-7 (the overtime tiebreaker rule didn’t start until 1996). Seeing as how the only team who was a winner at the end was Alabama, they would at least have to be co-champions this year. This was #6, and #2 for Bear Bryant.

1973: This is a total joke. Alabama & Notre Dame were both undefeated & ranked #1 & #2. Notre Dame beats Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, but UPI ranked Alabama #1? That was because this was the last year that UPI held their poll BEFORE the bowl game. Of course, AP ranked Notre Dame #1 rightfully. In no way can anyone claim this as a national championship, and for a university like Alabama to do so is completely ludicrous & academically disingenuous.  This is the 3rd one they should delete.

1978: I don’t get this one either. Alabama lost to USC at home in their 3rd game (Legion Field — close enough), but beat #1 undefeated Penn St in the bowl game, so AP awards the Alabama #1 ranking. The problem with this is that USC was ranked #2 since they lost an upset game to Arizona State, but the Coaches Poll put USC #1, and Penn St didn’t have a tough schedule. There is no way Alabama should be #1 when the only other team with a powerful schedule tied their record & BEAT them heads up.  This is the 4th one they should delete.

1979: No argument here — Alabama went 12-0, nobody else did. This is #7, and the 3rd & last championship for Bear Bryant at Alabama.  He doesn’t have 6; he has 3 legitimate championships (in my opinion) at Alabama + 1 at Kentucky = 4 total legit championships.

1992: No argument here either — Alabama went 13-0, beat undefeated Miami, nobody else was undefeated. This is #8.  One of the greatest plays in the history of football happened in this game & it didn’t count as it was canceled out by a penalty.  Alabama CB Willie Gaston was beaten by Miami WR Lamar Thomas & it looked to be an 89-yd TD in the making, but DB George Teague caught up with Thomas & stripped the ball from him at about the 15-yd line & held onto it & was tackled at 10 after coming back upfield from the end zone.  However, Alabama was called for offside & the play was nullified, but if he hadn’t done that & Miami instead scored, Miami would have declined the penalty, so he stopped the comeback & took all the wind from Miami’s sails & may have saved the game.  Teague also had a 31-yard interception return TD just a minute earlier.

2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 & 2020: The CFP (and the BCS format in some of those years) settled this, and there was little controversy in any year during the BCS crap & none concerning Alabama. These are #9 thru #14, and all 6 under Nick Saban, who is the true winningest National Championship coach in Alabama history.

So it’s actually 14 championships in reality, not 18 as Alabama claims. That’s plenty for anybody to shut up about.

Now let’s discuss this bit of Alabama blas-FEE-me — Bear Bryant only has 3 national championships at Alabama by my count, plus 1 at Kentucky by my count, a total of 4, and Nick Saban has 6 at Bama + 1 at LSU in 2003 = 7 total.  Nick Saban hasn’t won as many games as Bear Bryant did, but Tiger Woods didn’t win as many majors as Jack Nicklaus & he’s still best golf player ever (notice I didn’t say “best golfer” — there’s a difference, and it’s about character both on & off the course).  Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach ever, bar none, and the game win total isn’t everything — that’s just longevity, and in today’s coaching climate, I don’t expect any coach will get to coach for 38 years in the FBS or want to do it with today’s pay like Bryant did.

The very definition of irony would be watching a high school football game in the South where the 2 schools are both named after and in honor of prominent Civil War Southern leaders & even having statues of them near the front door of each school, leaders who represented a society who systematically oppressed, tortured, killed, enslaved & demeaned an entire race of people, yet virtually the entire stadium & student body are black. For comparison purposes, imagine next to that a Jewish school named after Hitler with a statue of him in the front. Jewish people right now are appalled at the very mention of such, yet blacks send their kids to school every day at these schools & whites think it’s preposterous that anybody would entertain the notion of changing the name of their beloved alma mater they attended 30 to 60 years when it was predominantly (if not 100%) white, even though they have nothing to do with the school today (other than reunions of their white classmates) simply because it’s almost 100% black now. Yet nobody has ever made much of a issue of these schools’ names. Now that’s irony.

I read an article that said 71% of doctors thought Hillary Clinton’s recent health problem was serious.   She almost fainted at a 9/11 ceremony on Sept 11, 2016.

My diagnosis is that I smell “toro fecal matter”.

Doctors (especially those in their 40’s & up who are in private practice) are usually very well off financially, which means they typically vote Republican.

Do the math.

Have you noticed lately (as of Aug 2016) that a number of websites give you a link to an article, but you get 1 or 2 lines about it & then you have to click again to read the article? This is happening quite a bit with a lot of sites, and the only logical explanation for it is that these sites are trying to double their traffic quickly & cheaply by getting 1 person to click 2 times into the site.

So why do this? If they can show that their site gets a ton of traffic, they can either get advertisers to spend money with them initially, or get existing advertisers to spend more money, or retain them by showing them heavy traffic to the site & to get advertising & they’ll eventually get results; i.e., that their site is as good as any other site, and if you’re not getting more sales from your ads, then it’s your problem & no other site can help you.

In my opinion, it’s an incredibly blatant fraud. I don’t see any logical reason why there should be 2 separate pages. I understand that some sites will state that it cuts down on their bandwidth usage by giving people a synopsis to see if they’re interested, but in most cases, the blurb is so short that it doesn’t help at all. Knowing people & corporations like I do, they aren’t really interested in helping people out — they’re doing it for money.

Most people (and corporations, which are run by people) won’t do anything unless they get money, sex, or fame/recognition for their “tireless spirit” and “diligence” to the cause, and at the very least, people do things only if it makes THEM happy & makes them believe they’re making a difference whether they are or not. That’s the reason behind these ridiculous “Run For INSERT CAUSE HERE” events you see where people get together & focus the spotlight on themselves instead of the very thing they’re promoting awareness of — what they’re really promoting awareness of is themselves and they’re “tireless efforts” to help out or stamp out whatever. Very few people would do anything that’s productive & helps others unless one of these four factors are in play.

So if these sites tell you that they’re doing this double-click to help you, don’t believe it. I believe they’re simply defrauding their advertisers & the public by fraudulently increasing their traffic.

Here’s how you legally beat a debt collection action.  Note that I’m not not a lawyer, but I’ve acted like one for myself many times in court & my winning percentage is over 90% . . .

Write to the collector via USPS Priority Mail telling them you don’t owe the debt in question (keep it that simple, don’t elaborate) & that the statute of limitations on that particular debt has expired in your state (if it has) & tell them not to contact you further on this debt or you’ll turn it over to the FTC & sue them in the Federal District Court in their jurisdiction for violating the FDCPA. Keep a copy of your letter & their letter & the USPS airbill you use & print out the tracking info when delivered. Quote to them the specific statue below . . .

“Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Section 805:

(c) Ceasing communication
If a consumer notifies a debt collector in writing that the consumer refuses to pay a debt or that the consumer wishes the debt collector to cease further communication with the consumer, the debt collector shall not communicate further with the consumer with respect to such debt, except —

(1) to advise the consumer that the debt collector’s further efforts are being terminated;

(2) to notify the consumer that the debt collector or creditor may invoke specified remedies which are ordinarily invoked by such debt collector or creditor; or

(3) where applicable, to notify the consumer that the debt collector or creditor intends to invoke a specified remedy.

If such notice from the consumer is made by mail, notification shall be complete upon receipt.”

Never agree that you owe anything or that you ever made the debt in the first place & never settle for paying anything regardless of what they say. If they sue you, use the debt statute of limitations in your state. All states have different statutory time limits, and it also depends on the debt involved. If it’s an “open” account, such as a credit card or any debt which doesn’t have a fixed payment & a fixed term, it’s 3 years in my state, and if it’s an “installment” or “contract” debt, one that has a fixed payment and a fixed term, it’s 6 years. the clock starts ticking from the time you made your last payment on it, not from when it was due or when they last billed you or last sold the debt or when they filed a lawsuit. Legally, they have a right to file a lawsuit at any time before the statute runs out, but you have to be legally served a summons for it before the statutory period runs out.

They can sue after that — heck, anybody can sue anybody for anything or make things up, but if you file your response to the court within the time period required & state that you don’t owe the money due to the statute of limitations, they will usually withdraw their case or the judge will throw it out. if you don’t respond, you will lose automatically & then they have a judgment on you & in some states, it’s good forever, and in most states, it’s good for at least 10 years & they can use it to garnish your wages or have your property sold to the highest bidder (which may be a low bid) to settle the debt & it may double or triple after lawyers fees & interest are added.

If the statute hasn’t expired and you have to present a defense, ask the court to demand they produce evidence of the debt, where it shows that you signed an agreement to take on the debt, i.e., proof of indebtedness or a promissory note. Then ask for evidence that you signed the documents in question; i.e., that it was notarized or witnessed and make them provide the witnesses. Then ask them to provide evidence that you received the money.

All of this is enough to make most collections agencies run for the border.

If the debt is on your credit report & it’s been less than 6 yrs & 9 mo, write to Experian, Equifax & Trans Union (the 2 major credit reporting agencies) requesting that they verify the debt by asking the reporting collection agency to provide evidence of the debt to prove its validity, and that they must do so within 30 days of the receipt of your letter per the FCRA.  If it’s been MORE than 6 yrs & 9 mo, simply ask the credit reporting agencies to remove the debt due to age.  If they state that the age is not that old, make them prove it by offering proof of YOUR last activity on the account.

I don’t believe in NOT talking about an incident that’s fresh in the news — in fact, that’s when people SHOULD be talking about it. There is never a bad time to share ideas & discuss the issues which divide us in hopes that we can share common ground on the righteous path.

This is almost like a bad punchline, but when the 50 gay men in Orlando were killed by a radical Muslim on June 11, 2016, who did the Christians support? Neither — many of them say it was brought upon the gay men by God as punishment for their “choices”, as though they can choose to not like men and that doing so is unholy & worthy of a violent death, and that the Muslim killer was simply doing the devil’s work like all other Muslims do by rejecting Christ & killing people in cold blood in the name of Islam. Forget about the Christian abortion doctor killers for a moment like they do — Christians don’t think all life is sacred; only those lives that they care about that don’t speak out against them & their beliefs. If life were truly sacred to them, they wouldn’t support the death penalty, and if “family values” were important to them, they wouldn’t get divorced or commit adultery as so many of them. Not that they’re the only ones doing it, but if you listen to them, they say we (the collective “we”; you know — people who don’t think like they do) are the only ones who do that sort of thing. Funny how every time I hear about some sex scandal is usually always Republicans and/or Christian religious leaders.

I’m not theologian, but from what I’ve read of the alleged Jesus (note that there is no real evidence Jesus exists that you could use in court today; it’s all hearsay from 40 years after the alleged facts occurred — I have a nice blog entry on this already), he threw out the moneychangers from the temple, so he obviously doesn’t like money & wealth. He helped the poor & the sick incessantly, including those such as lepers who were outcast from society due to their sickness, so to think that he wouldn’t be a supporter of Medicaid or free health care or poor people is ludicrous. In other words, Jesus was a radical liberal leftwing nut. I also believe he would have peacefully tolerated & not punished those who didn’t believe in him or his ideals. I also know that he didn’t support the “eye-for-an-eye” death penalty as stated in the Sermon On The Mount in Matthew 5:38-39.