Jim Olsson

I HAVE a Paramore album. I've heard of Sam Smith (learned of him a few days ago, but was not impressed by what I heard). Gorillaz I've known about for at least a year.... maybe around then. I don't know anything that they do. I'll throw the earbuds on and give a few of these artists a spin if they've got anything free stuff on YouTube.

Reagan vs. Truman? You meant Jimmy Carter who, as one pundit put it, "...never met a tyrant he didn't love." Jimmy was an appeaser and, for being an ex- naval officer, was an extremely weak-kneed President. Be glad he was a one termer. Televangelists are the phoniest people on the planet. Mega-church pastors are dropping like flies. No sooner does the esteemed Ravi Zacharias die than all his womanizing dirt hits the fan. Christopher Hitchens was right: RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING. But there is a better way. Read Thomas Paine's THE AGE OF REASON. He says: “I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.” and "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxJG2I-uQf0 Vid starts out w/ Ukraine