A Guide to Etiquette and Grammar for Facebook/Twitter Users (and other electronic media users)

It's not rocket science. Matter of fact, it's the language you speak every day and butcher constantly on your tweets, status updates and other media outings. You're starting to get on my nerves. Yes I am ranting but did EVERYONE sleep through 4th grade English class?

Here are my list of hates in the web-o-sphere:

You're is you+ are not possessive as in "your car".

You don't have to put quotes around "everything". See, it's annoying.

It's is for it+ is, not for possessive use as in "the dog picked up its bone".

If you are too tired, it is spelled t-o-o. Not t-o. If it is more than one and less than three it is t-w-o.

LOL was for chat rooms and was stupid then. Now it is what you say when you are all out of anything worthwhile to say.

I'm done with ASCII smilies and just kidding abbreviations. It's what is used when you want to be truthful and/or hurtful but don't want the person to feel bad you halitosis laden troll. :-P j/k

Three times is plenty for ha ha ha. Past that and you're just being annoying. Santa only uses ho three times so if it's good enough for Santa, it's plenty good for you.

No matter how proud you are, you are not your child. I don't remember your kid from high school so chances are if a three year old named John Smith requests to be my friend, he's getting ignored.

Ladies, it is NOT a competition to see if your ex-boyfriend's new girl is uglier than you are. Chances are, she's not so quit going through all of his photos online to look for flaws.

Guys, posing in pictures with you flexing your muscles without a shirt tells all of us you are a giant ego maniacal twit. And, you're probably not very comfortable in your own skin.

Guys, backwards hats are for catchers, umpires, photographers and guys under 30. If not one of those, flip it around playah and get back to keeping it real. You sir are past your prime.

Ladies, enough of the cell phone driving pics. There must be a better time to take pictures of yourself but please, dear God in Heaven, don't take a picture in a bathroom mirror so you can see it.

There is different than their and they're. I won't explain it because you should already know it.

I get it. You and the rest of the world hates the new Facebook. Everyone does. But they will keep changing it and you will keep using it so can everyone just shut it about Facebook.

And lastly, I hate rants from people who act like know it alls. Don't you?

Thanks.

Terrorism: Is It Only Jihad?

I'll warn you ahead of time, this post is a bit of a rant. It may even garner attention from the US Government or CIA, which is fine. I want to bring something to the forefront that has been a bit forgotten.

Terrorism.

And this is the part where you think I am admittable to Arkham Asylum. "How can he think we have forgotten about terrorism? It's on the news every day!"

Terrorism is more than wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and falling towers and plane crashes. Terrorism is more than a subset of extreme Islam. I would even question if most Muslims consider these terrorists to be followers of Islam at all. Do Christians consider KKK and Arian Nation members Christians? I can tell you the members of those groups do. How does that sit with you?

When Big Country (Texas) congressional hopeful Canyon Clowdus says he wants to ban Muslim immigration all together, I think we have a problem. For sure I think he does. Xenophobia anyone?

I think we haven't remembered enough history. Timothy McVeigh was a catholic. He killed 168 people, injured over 450 and 19 of the deaths were children in a day care. Three months after he died of lethal injection, three planes dove into targets that shifted our focus from global and domestic terrorism to one of Middle Eastern Islamic Jihad.

While domestic terrorism is considered uncommon, it is important to know and remember that it happens. Here are some of the incidents known to be done by American citizens:

Bombing of Los Angeles Times building October 1, 1910 (21 casualties)

Wall Street bombing September 16, 1920 (38 casualties, 400 injured)

Unabomber attacks 1978-1995 (3 casualties, 25 injured)

Oklahoma City bombing April 19,1995 (168 casualties, 450 injured)

Centennial Olympic Park bombing July 27, 1996 (2 casualties, 111 injured)

2001 anthrax attacks Sept. 18, 2001 and following (5 casualties, 17 injured)

Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting June 10, 2009 (1 casualty)

I pray we will never see domestic terrorism again. I do, but I also realize the number of people out there who are in an almost cult-like group who feel the world is at ruin and they must destroy it. The KKK has an estimated 5,000-8,000 members over 179 chapters. It's not only sad, it's scary. My hope is that focus will not be so near sighted when searching for threats to our homeland but peripheral in view to keep us all safe from further harm.

Before we deport those without the same religious views as ourselves who are law abiding citizens, let's try to get a handle on our own extremists who claim Christian religious views who are not.