The intent of this blog is to promote human equality, human progress, human peace and justice, and optimism. To accomplish this, to encourage the discussion of ideas after identifying and discovering problems, and then creating positive solutions for "we the people," in order to provide for the "general welfare" and "domestic tranquility" of America now and its "posterity" into the future. To encourage an emphasis on separation of religion and state for all, no matter if this is for those "of faith" in a Maker / Creator (Deists, God-loving people, Christians, various people of spirituality) and atheists or agnostics.

Archive for July, 2011

23 July 2011

Blog 0708

 

In an advertisement for Charles Schwab, we are led to believe Mr. Schwab made the following statement:  “I make money the old-fashioned way – I earn it.”

 

I challenge Americans to find someone who lives up to this.  Not to brag, but the abrasiveness I feel in today’s society might possibly be due to my attempt to live up to this core value which is lost to Ayn Rand horse shit of greed and selfishness.

 

Americans today look for the easy way out rather than considering how to earn money.  Our society of Ayn Rand worshipers creates this environment and encourages it to perpetuate it.  I think it is deplorable, it stinks, and it makes for a lousy life in America today.  There are better solutions for ridding us of this, but no one is willing to listen.  Why?  Because everyone has become so “me, me, me…”  … thinking only about how solutions will help each individual.  Rick Scott only thinks about himself.  The career politicians in Tallahassee and Washington only think about each self, not about our society.  Fuck them all because they are leading America astray.  They use propaganda in the media to encourage bad solutions which benefit only a few people.  And meanwhile those of us here at the bottom are at each other’s throats when we should all be working together as a team of Americans, not individually.  That sucks and I am stating my disgust over it in hopes SOMEONE will recognize how much it sucks and DO SOMETHING about it – change this fucking environment which I have come to despise.

 

I should be afraid of Rick Scott and other cowards who don’t know how to lead – just know how to invoke their stupid laws to bring down hard-working Floridians and NOT create new opportunities so we can EARN our keep, not go for handouts – as Rick Scott did with his corrupt practices in Medicare.  I should be afraid of these cowards we have as leaders because I speak out and cowards would rather seek vengeance on a little guy like me – even use others who are around me in order to invoke fear, intimidation, and take away my ability to EARN rather than to seek a handout.  Fuck Rick Scott and other cowards with money.  THEY ARE NOT LEADERS, BUT THEY ARE COWARDS, so FUCK THEM.  They don’t know what it means with regard to Charles Schwab’s alleged statement.  In fact, my bet is that the company with Charles Schwab’s name on it conforms to the Ayn Rand rules of individualistic greed and selfishness – take from others before they take from you.  YOU BASTARDS.  YOU make human beings into animals rather than the higher order humans we are supposed to be.

 

These guys react this way because they are racists and bigots who disliked the Martin Luther King, Jr., movement to protect the rights of GROUPS of people, rather than the rights of individuals.  The rights of individuals leads to anarchy and humans becoming a bunch of fucking beasts – animals – and I despise this and the leaders who do this.  May they go to hell.  I seek positive HUMAN solutions rather than those which lead us to anarchy.

 

As I have said, my hero is Teddy Roosevelt.  He almost pulled off a third-party presidential win a century ago.  ALMOST.  There were several factors which I have discussed in this blog.  Another factor was an assassin’s bullet.  While giving a speech, an anarchist shot at TR.  Fortunate for TR, he had protection in his pocket which did not allow the bullet to penetrate very far.  But the ANARCHIST’S BULLET curtailed TR’s campaigning in 1912.  Fuck anarchists – and Rick Scott, Scott Walker, Allen West, and others are anarchists.  The Koch brothers are anarchists.  Anyone who believes in Ayn Rand is an anarchist, so fuck you.  GO to hell and the sooner the better.

 

Anarchists and fucking violence in America.  Yet these bastards HATE the non-violent stuff of MLK, Jr.  Fuck you, all of you, in your power to bring us all to being animals and at each other’s throats – you bastards.

 

Does this sound positive?  No.  But positive solutions are being brushed aside.  Due to the cowards and anarchists in the Republican Party, those of us who have worked, tried to save, been responsible with our money, and attempted to make LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS are being screwed – in favor of the anarchists and the pervasive attitude in America to take from one another – and as Rick Scott did – TAKE FROM THE FUNDS WE AS AMERICANS HAVE INVESTED.  I am angry at a man who took from the money I INVESTED IN MEDICARE.  YOU BASTARD WHO NOW LEADS ME AND COULD SCREW ME BIG TIME. YOU BASTARD.  WHY WOULD I NOT BE ANGRY AT SUCH A BASTARD.  THAT IS MY MONEY, YOU FUCKING COWARD AND BASTARD.

 

Now, to solve the problem, stupid ignorant career politicians and a wimp in the  White House, chooses to put Medicare and Social Security at risk so that many of us who have invested big time in it will not have the money WE INVESTED. YOU BASTARDS.  WHY AM I ANGRY AT THIS?

 

Furthermore, these bastards support big insurance.  Big insurance interferes with the patient-doctor relationship, not Medicare.  Yet, my deduction for Medicare is LESS THAN THE DEDUCTION TO BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD FOR MY SON WHO HAS FAR LESS MEDICAL NEEDS THAN PEOPLE MY AGE.  YOU GREEDY SOBs and BASTARDS.  You refuse to implement regulations regarding CASH VALUE EARNED… EARNED… EARNED – you SOBs…..   over time… EARNED … when we don’t make claims on auto, home, or whatever.

 

You cowards mock capitalism by CLAIMING no government interference, then you interfere on the side of the SUPPLY SIDE – the big greedy bastards who head the corporations.  YOU BASTARDS.  YOU COWARDS.  YOU SOBs.

 

You pick on the little guys in unions and what not – the guys who work hard.  Yet, I know many hard-working union guys all over this land.  YOU COWARDS who call yourselves leaders.

 

Rather than get at the roots of problems, you deny hard-working Americans the ability to EARN and INVEST.  You don’t do something about the waste in the FRS DROP program from those who double-dip.  Instead, you deny the rest of us the ability to EARN money in the DROP system.   YOU BASTARDS AND COWARDS.  You refuse to look at those who take unemployment due to layoffs in seasonal jobs (in the North, in particular), while a union man in the North stood up and spoke out AGAINST such practices of waste in unemployment.  You brush that little guy off – and one has to wonder why.  The Mafia which encourages such horse shit?  BTW.  Teachers have seasonal jobs and NEVER have such an opportunity.  But NON-UNION roofers are able to do this?  YOU BASTARD COWARDS WHO CALL YOURSELVES LEADERS.

 

And much of this also begins with catering to immigrants who come here and take the money WE HAVE INVESTED LONG TERM IN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE.  FUCK THE LEADERS WHO WON’T DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM AND CATER TO A FUCKING MAFIA AND THEIR “GIVE ME YOUR TIRED YOUR POOR…” So, as Mafia from Europe and the Roman Catholic Church has done – SCREW AMERICANS, particularly WASPs.  Americans, finding nothing, just participate in these charades which create handouts and slavery.  Fuck this idea because this is NOT America, the beautiful.  My AMERICA.

22 July 2011

Blog 0707

(Getting ahead of myself!)

I am disgusted with the fascist line of the Republican Party.  I am disgusted with the wimpish reaction of President Obama and the Democrats to the fascist line of the Republican Party.

We don’t need tax cuts for the wealthy and an austerity budget in America today.  This will only lead to disaster.  Use your heads, America.  It was the same type of Republican stonewalling that dug us deeper into the Great Depression.

Americans need a lesson in determining the difference between “a cup of vanilla ice cream and a cup of horse shit.”  (borrowed from Lee Iacocca’s 2007 book, Where Have All the Leaders Gone?)

We have a bunch of career politician / lawyers in Congress who “don’t know their asses from a hole in the ground” (borrowed from my outspoken, now deceased, Republican mother).  They live in a fantasy world of writing legislation.  George Bush was an expert about beer kegs.  It showed.  Our current president is an apparent expert on compromising, compromising, compromising – until the ultra-conservatives WIN!  It shows!  Sad what the Ivy League is teaching people (Georgie at Yale and Obama at Harvard) these days.

21 July 2011

Blog 0706

 

We don’t need tax cuts for the wealthy and an austerity budget.

 

Ronald Reagan said, “facts are stupid.”  Ronald Reagan was a stupid ass.

 

Facts:  Bill Clinton balanced the Federal budget with higher taxes on the wealthy and tax deductions for the Middle Class.  The Middle Class spent the money that the wealthy are NOT spending today.  The Middle Class invests in America, but the wealthy class invests in horse shit.  Thus, the Federal budget was balanced by the time George Bush (wrongfully) inherited it (the budget should have been Al Gore’s to manage, but thanks to unethical behavior by Scalia, we got Bush).

 

Facts:  there were 10 times more jobs created when Clinton was president than when George Bush was president.

 

“Seek wisdom, not certainty.”  (Laura Butler Bass in Christianity for the Rest of Us)

18 July 2011

Blog 0705

 

Recently, I spoke with a young man who had a good reasoning mind, but lacked wisdom.  Yet, he stubbornly clings to his ideas and is unwilling to discuss matters which would allow him to gain some wisdom.  This attitude is pervasive today, especially among those who have “found” the tea party as their “salvation.”  They are wrong.

 

This man used philosophy to validate why our government should ban abortions.  He used a philosophical approach to reason why it’s okay to send young men and women who have made it out of the womb off to get killed in war.  I don’t buy it.

 

But the real kicker was his insistence that our federal government is here to oppose “evil.”  He and I never got the chance to discuss this matter – only he mouthed his words and I never got a word in edgewise.

 

Here is his premise.  To support his argument, this young man (lacking wisdom) quoted George Washington with a statement our first president made about our government.  The young man claimed George Washington said the role of our government is to “fight evil.”

 

(Sounds to me like this man has watched too many cartoons and read too many super hero comic strips – and is living in a fantasy world).

 

Had this man given me a chance to speak (which I was not given that chance), I would have mentioned several things.  First of all, “evil” is subjective.  Sort of like:  one man’s junk is another man’s treasure.

 

With that in mind, let me address the issue of “evil.”  Today, John Edwards (whom I am told studied at the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina – a group with whom I also studied), Tim Mahoney, and several other good men who could have been destined for leadership in this nation have been eliminated from that path because they are considered “evil.”  These men maintained mistresses, so therefore are considered “evil.”  Emotional female logic (an oxymoron) has determined that these guys are “evil.”

 

Wait a minute.  Due to Martha’s inability to have children, George Washington regularly visited a mistress.  In fact, there are those who claim descent from the sperm of George Washington meeting the egg of his mistress.  (This is one of those little secrets maintained within the genealogical community?)  In fact, a little newspaper in upstate New York, The Sun-Bulletin of Binghamton, NY (before corporate conglomerate Gannett purchased it and merged it with The Evening Press), ran a story about one such descendant.

 

So this young “whippersnapper” (as I remember being called when I was this guy’s age) is validating our government taking a “moral” stand and is basing this on a man who would be considered “immoral” by self-righteous and judgmental people today!

 

My grandmother repeatedly said, “judge not lest ye be judged.”  In her younger age, she, too, was an emotional female jerk, supporting the “morality” stand of government by advocating in favor of Prohibition – along with other “ladies” in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.  By the time she reached her 70s, she recognized the fault in that movement – from the wisdom she gained over many years.

 

The leader of MADD, out of emotional distress over the loss of a child to a young drunk driver has used her emotions, not her wisdom, to impose upon our society a stupid drinking age – like an emotional witch.  Yet, I recall growing up in a dry town in upstate NY and watching the carnage of drunken OLDER PEOPLE as they killed younger people while driving home – because stupid ignorant idiots refused to allow drinking in my home town.

 

But the wisdom I learned from my grandmother and the wisdom I have gained from my own experiences is being ignored – brushed aside.

 

My stand against fascist values may be considered, by some, to be negative.  It is not – because it is a stand in favor of positive progressive ideas while defending myself in the process.  Fascist ultra-conservatives are bullies.  They insist on making their positions “normal” for society and therefore forcing many of us to conform to those ideas.  If, through fear and intimidation, these bullies can make their ideas pervasive in society, then where will those of us more positive ones who lack hatred be able to point out the wisdom which is lacking in society today?  If I seem negative because I take a defensive stand against those who would remove the peace and tranquility which could be a part of my life, then so be it.

 

Give millions of Americans like me the chance to seek “life, liberty, and happiness.”  In New Hampshire, they say, “live free or die.”  In colonial Virginia, Patrick Henry said, “give me liberty or give me death.”  Self-righteous judgmental moralists are attempting to remove my liberty and freedom, so I am going to lash out.  As it is positive in New Hampshire and it WAS positive in Virginia, what I say are positive things, not negative things.

 

“Judge not lest ye be judged.”

20 July 2011

Fascist Michelle and Her Buddies

No one forces Michelle Bachman or others to have same-sex relationships.  But people like the Bachmans disturb and deny people their rights to the pursuit of “life, liberty, and happiness” by judging and claiming they can “convert” and “change” gay people.

The only “choice” a gay person has is to remain in the closet or come out of it.  When people like the Bachmans and the religious right use fear and intimidation – claiming their “love” for fellow human beings – they remove that choice from many people who just want to live in a free society and not bother other people.  BTW.  Holding hands and showing affection, as with heterosexual relationships, should not bother other people.  No one forces those others to show such affections.  In fact the only forcefulness for heterosexuals to feel compelled to show affection is to demonstrate, “we are not gay.”  That is stupid and ignorant – of people who are stupid and ignorant and are unable to come to grips with themselves.

My life was one of being subliminally forced into heterosexual relationships – because that was what society of the 1960s and 1970s dictated.  In reality, I may have had the ABILITY to choose, but societal pressures, such as those Bachman (the bitch) and others wish to impose on people in our society are sick.  It is Bachman and others who are perverted and have perverted all sense of reasoning by trying to force people to return to those days when society “spoke softly but carried a big stick” when homosexuals got out of line and actually THOUGHT about something different than a heterosexual relationship.

It is ironic I would use the statement of my hero, Teddy Roosevelt, to make a point here.  But the religious right have taken TR’s statement about carrying a big stick to high levels of negativity – to validate their position.  In reality, TR was all about civil rights.  He was booed in Georgia when he proposed the equality of white and black people.  He was instrumental in creating some of the first child labor laws.  He did positive things about human rights by “speaking softly and carrying a big stick.”  The fascists today (which includes Bachman and most Republicans today) use TR’s statements in a negative way – against a mere 10% of the population.  What a bunch of bullies and cowards.

Democracy is NOT about imposing the will of the majority in a negative manner upon a minority.  TR recognized this, but today’s ignorant Americans refuse to recognize this.  The GLBT community makes up about 10% of the population.  Just because there might be a simple majority which wishes to remove the “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness from this small group,” does not make the measures of such fascists who mis-lead the population as being correct.

TR, with his native Georgian wife, tried to stop the woes of Jim Crow Laws in the South, but was booed.   The GLBT community today stands up for its rights to have a life which allows these people to NOT conform to the closeted promiscuity, but rather to marry and to have children.   But negative people such as Bachman, in their false judgmental attitudes, rally up ignorant Americans to follow her negative ways – along with other similar candidates.  They mock the original roots of the Republican Party – as do the other Tea Party people.  TR, too, saw this mockery and split the party in two pieces exactly 100 years ago.

The ones who REALLY need to be ashamed are the black folks who support such hatred and figure this is some kind of “personal opinion.”  It was not an opinion when people imposed Jim Crow Laws on black people, no more than it is an opinion to impose fascist ideas against the GLBT community.  Shame on any black American who supports this horse shit because they forget those white people like TR who attempted to remove the chains from the black folks in the early 20th century.

19 July 2011

Fascist Hypocrites

To those people who believe it is “unfair” to be paying for Medicare which also pays for abortions and Planned Parenthood, I say:  get a life.

Here are a few of the things which I find “unfair,” yet I am forced to pay for these things anyway:

  • Roman Catholic church channel on cable television
  • Fundamentalist church channels on cable television
  • Fox “Propaganda” News
  • All sports on cable television rather than a “pay-as-you-go” system which was around in the 1970s when I could CHOOSE to attend a Syracuse Orangemen football game in Archbold Stadium rather than paying all of the NCAA, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and what not – through my cable television bill
  • Censorship on television I watch
  • Making the American Dad look stupid in sitcoms on cable television
  • Stupid political advertisements which make derogatory statements about the people and issues I choose to support – hoping I will conform because I pay for this shit on cable television – so “if you can’t beat them, join them!”
  • Stupid political advertisements about how wealthy people are more intelligent than the common folk (yes, indeed, I have viewed such a heinous ad)
  • Thrillers, Suspense movies – the stuff with blood and guts all over the cable television screen
  • Violence on cable television
  • War and the murder of innocent people
  • Lawyers fees paid through higher insurance premiums
  • Paper-pushing non-productive jobs in insurance companies (particularly in healthcare)
  • Accountant and lawyer fees due to the myriad loopholes and deductions in a very stupid income tax system
  • Supplies for my education classroom
  • Increased homeowners’ insurance premiums, even after paying thousands of dollars over 40 some years
  • Increased health insurance premiums for my son
  • Increased insurance premiums paid after never receiving a DIME after investing in the premiums for some 40 years
  • Decreased FICA in Jan. 2011 due to a wimpy president and the stupidity of ideological jerks in the Republican Party – which threatens my INVESTMENTS I have made over 40 some years – INVESTMENTS which stupid ideological bastards in the Republican Party call, “entitlements.”  I am entitled all right – to the MONEY I INVESTED in the hopes of reaping a RETURN ON INVESTMENT OVER THE LONG TERM
  • CEOs who receive bonuses they don’t deserve and a pay rate differential from the common American from what it was in the 1970s
  • My tax dollars to banks which refuse to help those of us who have paid our bills responsibly over 40 years and find the unresponsible Americans currying more favor than we receive
  • The 13% interest I paid on my mortgages in the 1980s after Ronald Reagan promised to reduce interest rates – in order to defeat Jimmy Carter for the presidency
  • Increased prices on the NEEDS of the consumer (the demand-side) due to the EXCESSIVE GREED of the supply side who look at the continuing DEMAND for NECESSITIES like housing (rent, too), food, healthcare, energy heating and cooling human needs, and education as a reason for jacking up prices – because the demand will always be there – and re-creating the mercantilist / feudal landlord system of the Middle Ages – DESPITE evidence that society was better without such horse shit economics
  • Monetary support of regimes in Pakistan and the Middle East – especially those who funded Osama Bin Laden; in fact, any foreign funding while America’s infrastructure crumbles and we have nothing left to deal with crisis situations
  • Money paid to immigrants which is derived from MY government investments into Medicare and Social Security (oh, yeah, many are Roman Catholic who will support the Roman Catholic takeover of our government – the conformity which will create utopia and which I do not support)
  • Monetary support for the anti-competitive pro-monopolistic measures of big business which contain people who are cowards to compete with Fidel Castro and Chavez head on – and prefer to remove competition rather than meet it head on
  • Monetary support for drilling oil in this nation rather than keep our oil as a “savings” account and invest in non-oil energy products and make such products more competitive
  • Monetary support for continued monopolistic ventures in electricity rather than truly opening up the field of energy to competition which will help drive down prices – competition between electric and propane gas, natural gas, and other sources which will provide the necessary cooling and heating for basic human needs

Is this list long enough?  Oh, it’s not?  Well there are more items to add to this list.

16 July 2011

Fascist Republicans

Congressman Tom Rooney speaks the Republican line, which is out of touch with reality.  I have witnessed Medicare (the “government”) when it does NOT interfere with the doctor-patient relationship.  I have witnessed Big fat greedy pig private insurance when it DOES interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, insists on having it’s own way – even when procedures are more expensive – and THEN has the nerve to ask my employer for an increase in health insurance premiums.

The reaction to what I say?  My bet is – let’s see how to screw this loudmouth (like me) – rather than taking to heart what is being said.  The truth hurts, Mr. Rooney.  The truth is you wield a big loudmouth stick of conformity, impressing fear upon Americans to believe the Republican-Party ideology – and it hurts when confronted with the truth about situations.

The communists said utopia is gained when everyone thinks the same.  Hitler and Mussolini said utopia is gained when everyone thinks the same.  The Roman Catholic church and numerous right-wing religious groups say, utopia is gained when everyone thinks the same.  The Republicans say there is utopia when everyone thinks the same.  In order to get everyone to think the same, we reduce funding for education, claiming there is not enough money.  Then we spend money on frivolous paper-pushing and ambulance-chasing lawyers who overcharge.  Not enough money for teachers, but enough money to support more lawyers per capita in this nation than there are in other Western nations where healthcare is less costly.  Yet, no jobs for teachers, but … for the lazy unproductive jobs to push papers in accounting and law – plenty of GOOD-PAYING jobs!

Mr. Tom Rooney, you should wake up to what is happening out there.  It’s the economy, stupid.  And a single-payer health insurance plan underwritten by private insurance truly competing with one another – rather than paying big executive bonuses.

Healthcare is a right.  Nixon and Haldeman set up the health environment we have today.  Prior to that, doctors and dentists actually treated patients in order to HEAL them, not to make money – as the number one priority.  The excessive greed can only be ended in one way – rid us entirely of “Tricky Dicky Care” and give us a single-payer universal medicine plan.  Period.

Stop the lawyer fascination of prioritizing the “writing” of legislation and provide something meaningful.

And to lawyers like Rooney, you work for us – the people of your district, not for the Republican Party and the lobbyists.  You also do not work exclusively for the Palm Beach Gardens wealthy pigs or the Fort Myers wealthy pigs or for your church.  You work for ALL of us.

If the members of Congress put their heads together to solve our problems – the way scientists (not lawyers, thank GOD no lawyers!) did in order to return Apollo 13 to this earth – then we might actually see solutions.  Instead, we see a bunch of ideological pigs paid off by big corporations wishing to invoke what is best for – ME, ME, ME – the ones with money.  We need solutions for society, not the ideology of fat pigs like the Koch brothers.

17 July 2011

Michelle Bachman, the Homophobe

It’s been a long time!

“Judge not lest ye be judged.”  My grandmother often said this to me.  It seemed irritating as a kid to be lectured with some quote presumably from the Bible.  But in actuality, it has stuck.

Michelle Bachman needs to learn about this quote.  She may claim she has a “loving” way to “convert” gay people, but the fact she refuses to acknowledge people are gay tells me she is being judgmental.  So right back to Michelle Bachman:  by judging others, you are blaspheming our Creator.

John 1:1 speaks about the “Word” sent to the earth.  John 3:16-17 says, “For God so love the world he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.  God sent his Son to the world not to condemn the world but to save the world.”  The Word – Son of God – sent to the earth with a message about God and his love – not hatred – for humans of all kinds.

My grandmother also told me, “actions speak louder than words.”  The message of the “Word” was in His actions which speak louder than the words which came from His mouth.  Jesus Christ never condemned abortion or homosexuality.  Jesus Christ was very angry over deceptive greedy people ripping off the common folk while they were attempting to be true to God with their sacrifices.

“Now stop right there,” you say.  “Jesus spoke about fornicators and adulterers.”  Yes, indeed, He did.  But what is the root of the problem regarding fornication?  Is it sex or is it greed and selfishness?  Furthermore, if people like Michelle Bachman are going to point fingers at homosexuals, they are wrong.  There are more heterosexual fornicators in the workplaces of America than there are homosexual fornicators.  Homosexuals make up only 10% of the population, so by mere statistics, there are more heterosexual fornicators than there are homosexual ones.  So, why do the dimwitted Bible-thumping proof-texters point fingers at homosexuals?  Get over it.

JESUS NEVER CONDEMNED HOMOSEXUALITY!  (He never condemned abortion, either – another issue).  He DID condemn, with his actions, people like the American corporate CEOs – the ones which Charles Rangel wished to tax heavily on their bonuses (due to their extreme greed and deception).

But alas! Charles Rangel, like Jesus Christ, was figuratively “crucified!”  And that is the fear of people like Michelle Bachman and others as to why they will take a stand against a minority of people in this nation who don’t have as much money as the greedy CEOs.  She preaches her version of morality, but ignores the morality of greedy heterosexual fornicators and CEOs – and those who caused the problems – and continue to cause them – for this economy.  The important issues should be about the economy and providing jobs and opportunities.  These issues are not important to Michelle Bachman.  But get her in the White House so she can appoint new Supreme Court justices who will condemn abortionists and homosexuals.  That is her true desire, along with numerous other Republicans.

“Judge not lest ye be judged.”  “Jesus did not come into this world to condemn the world but to SAVE the world.”  I will not judge Michelle Bachman.  But Jesus Christ DID say it was okay to act in self-defense.  We may have to “turn the other cheek at first,” but Jesus Christ did not endorse the idea of sitting around like a bunch of wimps constantly being screwed.

Many people may believe what Bachman says, but the road to hell is wide and spacious and many will be on it.