Obviously, the Broadstreet people people are concerned with hits, thus these sorts of posts. Likewise, the Republican party uses the same topics, abortion and gay people and so on, to accrue hits. However, it all feels like a way to avoid the bigger issues, which I think are:

1. Profligate military spending.

2. Obesity.

3. Insufficient savings.

Consider obesity, which is the larger scheme, will squash us. Off the record, the bigshots of the big healthcare providers have told me that our healthcare system is going to collapse and that the cure is losing weight, since those people with distended bellies and squishy thighs that we all see, everyday, are grinding their joint cartilage and layering plaque in their circulatory systems and fostering diabetes. However, who wants to talk about fat since so many of us are fat? Now, I'm not and I don't think you are, Diable4, but it's way comfier to talk about Mr. Bono "mutilating" his body than to talk about the multiation that you can see at every fast food restaurant and in every grocery store. And mutilation by fat is something that I'm required to subsidize. When laurel962 reaches the care of Medicare, I'll be expected to pay for the mutiliation by food that she's done to her body. And I will pay, in part, because as a nation, we've wasted time on withholding compassion and equity for LGBT people when we should have spent our energy being kind to our bodies by eating small portions and exercising.

Insufficient savings is also huge. The white supremacist who just killed the guard at the Holocaust museum was living a desperate life on SS. Now, why did he count on SS to care for him? That's lunacy, yet many people do it. When I calculate my coming retirement, I don't even add SS into the formula and even then, I'll be far richer in retirement than I've ever been in my life, but I'm just not the exception. I'm the financial freak. How many people will BECOME wealthy when they retire? And how many will BECOME poor when they retire? The latter is normal by numbers and just never you mind that it's insane and might drive you insane, as it might have done to the museum shooter.

And nobody wants to talk about the military overspending and especially the fundies, who would rather NOT turn the other cheek and build more bombs to kill rather than be rushed to Jesus.

"But, hey, there's Mr. Bono, that freak, and yeah, supersize my order."

P.S. - Diable4, I'm glad you live a great life. Living well is the best revenge. Laurel962 likes to provoke. Don't give her pleasure. She'll print what you wrote, take it to her bed, and get off on it, figuratively speaking.

Bitch, let me be absolutely clear this time:

You know, the whole world doesn't revolve around what you thinks is "normal" and appropriate. You're just a common garden-variety bigot, and if you were only smarter, I'd still dislike you intensely, but I'd at least had a little admiration for you, but I've yet to see any argument from you that even comes close to reason. It's like listening to the scorned woman on a Lifetime television movie. It just annoys the fuck out of everyone.

You see, the world is made up of all kinds of people who really don't need your approval. In fact, they don't even care. If they met you, I'm sure THEY would not approve of you. The mental picture I have in my head of you, based upon your drivel on here, is not very pretty. In fact, it's a bit sexist, which is sad, but you are a series of cliches.....you trot out one, then another, then another. We get it-you've not been out and about in this world and your fucking terrified and disapproving of anything that isn't familiar to you. well, I'm not familiar with people who are so insecure, so wracked with feelings of inadequacy that they see a threat from anyone or anything not "just like them." Sad, Laurel, sad. What a horrible way to go through life. The rest of the world is not like that.

You see, yes, I did grow up in Ohio. It's not all bad, but it has a LONG way to go. I'm not dumping on Ohio per se-I'm dumping on YOU. Big difference. Again, one of the subleties that you can't seem to understand.

Where I live now, yes, we do see people who are transgendered. Doesn't bother me in the least. I'm not transgendered and am happy with being a man, but I find that someone else being transgendered doesn't threaten me in the least. Why are you so bothered with it? It's not you, not your person? You see, here-we all get along. Not perfectly, but we all live together. Hell, depending on the time of year, when I walk down the street to catch the Muni at Castro station, I can pass a father and his daughter with a table set up, selling Girl Scout cookies. Yes, at the corner of Castro and Market, Gay Central of the universe. And you know what, neither one of them feels threatened. In fact, it's their neighborhood, too.

You see, Laurel, it all boils down to this: You see people who are not like you as aliens. I see people who are not like me as simply other people. I am able to cope. You are not. I know that the world changes and am able to adapt. You can't. You are a dinosaur. I think you know that as well.

And as for me, well, let me tell you a little bit about myself: 42 years old, raised in Ohio, ivy-league college education, now living in San Francisco, used to work for a tech company, then about 5 years ago started my own private gym and personal training service, which is still thriving in this economic downtown. I'm very physically fit and make a lot of money, but more importantly, I have a lot of wonderful people in my life, and a lot of them would certainly not be acceptable to you, to which I say go fuck yourself.

Now.....care to tell me how sad and empty my life is? Go ahead. LMAO @ YOU.