Mark Davis

He won reelection last week as well. Woodfin isn't nearly as bad as some of the recent mayors. Policy wise I don't agree with him on almost anything. But he's not had the corruption issues that have plagued the city and he's a younger guy, not part of the old establishment.

I thought you proposed them coming to "red" Birmingham. You got me to agree. What's the issue?

Well, there was a Republican mayor pretty recently. What were you doing in 1975?

I'm all for them coming to "red" Birmingham. Crime is bad in the city and is a problem. Those of us around not committing crime would see improvement from that. Although, Mayor Siebels went out of office in 1975 when I was 1 year old, he has one hell of a reach from the grave to keep the city red.

You're equating our National Guard to the Gestapo?

It's not a lot more difficult than XX and XY chromosomes. I know you passed biology at some point and understood basic genetics. If you don't accept that anymore as factual then it's a fruitless conversation. Your analogy to gay marriage is off to me because I don't think the opposition to gay marriage in large came from people believing gay people were mentally ill. There were a vocal minority of that opposition who thought that. But growing up in a conservative town, I knew very few people who thought that. It had more to do with religious views about marriage. I look at the trans issue no differently than the poor soul I saw riding a bicycle in the wrong direction along one of the busiest highways in our state yesterday. He was out there at dusk with people slamming on their brakes to keep from hitting and killing him. The guy was talking to himself as I passed. I didn't hate the man, I felt pity and hope he finds help. I don't hate someone who thinks they are a woman if they are a man, but I do think they need help. I do think it's harmful for us to hide from what has always been basic biology and genetics because an ideology tells you to do so. If you allow someone to keep believing in fantasies and delusions, depression is bound to follow because they aren't living in reality and eventually reality always slaps you in the face.

There is a larger gun violence problem, it sometimes overlaps with mental health issues. So sometimes it's appropriate to discuss that overlap.

If you're fine with admitting that trans people need mental help then I'm ok with voting for funding it. My belief on it doesn't have anything to do with Donald Trump.

I simply am not shocked when a mentally ill person commits an act that it would take a level of mental illness to take. Who are you wanting euthanized? Are you ok or do you need help?

The gun control argument is fair to debate, but I know what a man is and what a woman is. It's like that old saying not all fingers are thumbs but all thumbs are fingers. Not every person with mental illness is trans, but every trans person has some sort of mental issue. Choose not to believe it if you want to, and I know you won't because ideologically the left can't admit there's a problem. But it's a large part of why the Dems are losing elections in recent years. If they do retake the House, which they should, they may mistakenly believe that they can keep up this kooky ideological stuff. But the trend is going away from this nonsense. These people need help, they need people telling them the sky isn't purple, it's blue. When you allow delusions to continue, you're aiding and abetting the problem.

The first step in getting help is admitting there is a problem

The best solution is treating mental illness. The problem is we can't agree that a man who thinks he is a woman has a mental problem to begin with.

It's why you'll never hear a quantitative or numerical answer of the "How much is enough?" when you ask those who complain about what the rich should be paying to support these programs. The numbers never add up. If they give you numbers and what levels to apply it to, they never make up for the social program side of it. They can only take more and more and unless they are checked, inflation will spiral to insane levels. Never mind that those who would be saddled with the rates needed to pay for this stuff will leave en masse. On a macro level inflating constantly is the only way to keep it going.

4 wheeler wreck when I was in the summer after 7th grade. I was riding on the back of it on an old county dirt road heading back from swimming. Me and the guy driving didn’t realize the brakes were bad and his little brother goofing around cut us off and when the brakes failed he had to avoid him and swerved off the road into a peach orchard. We cleared the first row but hit the second row. Threw my buddy driving over the branches and threw me cheek first into a thick one. I came down and landed on the four wheeler Cracked my kneecap and landed on the engine and burned the inside of my knee and right leg as well. When I was on my back as soon as I came around from the concussion I could see my fractured left cheekbone out in front of my face. Of all that the burn was the most painful initially. The kneecap was a though getting over.

I feel that way about ours. On poker nights a lot of times I’ll just swing by and get chicken tenders there to carry with me. The Zaxbys in the same shopping center isn’t even in consideration.