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There are twin debates going on at the moment that have some overlap:-
1. The bill to “Reform” the NHS
2. The cost to us all of drunk drinkers
The first is based on keeping down the costs of the NHS and the 2nd is based on
…keeping down the costs of the NHS.

As a worker within the health & Social Care system I have some views on the NHS bill that I won’t go into – but as a contributor to the money that funds the NHS and an occasional user of its services, I am appalled at the way the drinking public ignore the issue of how their irresponsible behaviour is, costing us all money that could “save the NHS”, and my NHS colleagues benevolence-fatigue and genuine physical harm.

Twice I have had the misfortune to have to attend A&E units on a Saturday night, and witnessed first hand what is almost a repeat of that town’s nightclub queues but in a post war state of a mixture of blooded unconsciousness and occasional violent aggression.
I sat and listened to nurse after nurse asking semi-comatose young people,
“Hello… Hello?.. Francis… have you taken anything else besides the alcohol..?”

On one occasion the jam up in A&E meant my hemorrhaging nose had to carry on bleeding unattended for 4 hours (since I was capable of holding a bowl and tissues whilst staying upright in a wheelchair) while they attended to these largely self inflicted injuries.
There are no easy solutions to this problem. Members of parliament drink, the vast majority of people enjoy a drink, we have no collective desire to become Islamic over this issue. (Muslims though, must take an awful lot of encouragement for their extreme views on the subject when they witness this weekly ritual of waste, violence and abuse).

I have a solution.
Yes, unlike many other folk sitting on their hands and moaning, I have a workable (if complex to implement) answer to this problem.

The government propose to make alcohol more expensive to purchase, as is planned for Scotland. This has some merit based on research that shows that drinking levels increase with the affordability of alcohol.
The NHS reform bill proposes to introduce competition in a manner that has people very upset that we will attempt to save money by introducing privatised health services through the back door. I agree this is a bad idea.

My proposal will undoubtedly not please those who think no one should ever pay money for NHS services – without realising that this is exactly what we already do – through our taxes, but not only through out taxes, through our motor insurance policies.
Road Traffic Accidents can lead to ambulance trips and the negligent party has to pay

What I am seeking is a way to increase the costs to negligent drinkers (who clearly have money to burn) and at the same time prevent and repay costs to the NHS accident and emergency services.

The nature of repeated drunkenness means that people take for granted that the NHS will pick up the pieces and, mostly, the worst this leads to (apart from the regular deaths) is a lot of “joking” at work the next week, “Man! he was so out of it!, covered in puke and blood, hahahahaaa”.

Of course you can be in A&E at blood alcohol levels double those allowed for driving and it not be your fault at all you fell/ got in a fight/ got hit by a car jaywalking. This is why my proposal for the “negligent party pays” includes a 3 strikes element.

1st time in A&E with double legal driving limit of blood alcohol – a written notice explaining scheme and signature of understanding

2nd time – a compulsory alcohol awareness course in lieu of £60 fine (as per speeding drivers option)

3rd time – you are now liable as a negligent abuser of the NHS for all costs of your incident (ambulance, doctors, nurses, medication, orderlies, overheads, everything, for all three visits).

There will be issues, including those who are broke and alcoholic – sorry to be ruthless but that might mean community service for non payment of fine.
The way this is designed to work includes, as its dominant purpose, to become a severe deterrent to “being drunk and abusing doctors and nurses” being an habitual fun occupation.
I commend this proposal to parliamentary committee…

A great voice, another great voice, gone at a young age. But its not just the famous who fall victim to destructive lifestyles.

“Propelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States, a Times analysis of government data has found.
Drugs exceeded motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death in 2009, killing at least 37,485 people nationwide, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Fueling the surge in deaths are prescription pain and anxiety drugs that are potent, highly addictive and especially dangerous when combined with one another or with other drugs or alcohol. Among the most commonly abused are OxyContin, Vicodin, Xanax and Soma.
Such drugs now cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.”

Whatever Whitney died of she had no chance of being seen as an innocent victim of an accidental disease.
At the time of writing no one actually knows what caused her death at age 48, but the jokes are already flying because her previous years of cocaine addiction seem to point automatically to problems associated with that as most likely cause.
What is it that seems to make jokes more acceptable about star deaths if they have been drug abusers?

I pulled up short when Amy Winehouse died as most were immediately assuming the same old cause. Mariella Frostrup declaring immediately that “Drugs never looked less glamorous” …a host of celebrities on twitter and other sites hastily paid similar backhanded tributes.
It’s not as if drug deaths were a celebrity issue – we choose not to look at the many tens of thousands whose deaths from one form of drug abuse or another cause personal and economic mayhem in our lives and wider society.

The fact that it turned out to be alcohol, everyone’s (including Mariella) drug of choice, tended to be ignored when it came to making grand statements about the nature of society. The fact that alcohol can kill you other than by driving drunk is not generally felt as a conscious fear among the British public. Even more significantly we look to prescribed drugs, over here almost as much as America these days, seeking alleviation of pain. without ever clocking the sheer weight of numbers of those who find death is the price of such pursuit.

But everyone loves a star – and just as we use drugs, we want to use them for their own purposes.
No matter how close to home that star’s faults may be for the person attaching their own meaning. Perhaps its the closeness of the dead person’s failings to their own that prompts this type of reaction as a defense mechanism, to make sure we do not all look more studiously at death and what it means to us.
I remember when River Phoenix died, I was incredulous that he was a drug user – I had just assumed him to be a clean living actor, and with Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson I was equally shocked, drugs being by prescription makes no difference to dying.

Let’s see if Whitney’s cause of death turns out to be drug abuse – and how different the reactions will be if it turns out to be prescribed drugs or illegal ones… or something else altogether.

I use twitter extensively now
- its like an addictive drug for making little asides that are basically for entertaining myself, hopefully a couple of others, but also I’m there to read and interact with, or just be be amused by so many short sharp tweeters.
There are some very sweet tweeters out there, plus of course there are angry assholes, but the beauty of twitter is you can just block those you don’t want to see and select the ones you want to read on a daily feed basis…

There has long been an amusing site that picks up on the tweets that are made with a knowing self deprecation, and yet mention something pertinent as a reminder of the tweeter’s fame:- the twitter account called “@humblebrag”.

Apparently I made a bit of a mistake in forwarding the self deprecating Dara O’Briain to @humblebrag, and want to use the example to illustrate a number of things. It started with me NOT seeing this tweet in my ‘timeline’, the collection of tweets I see from the 150 odd people I follow
1. @daraobrian 1. Well, well, well. Could be a co-incidence? RT @SKeoghDesigns: found this inside your book in a shop today http://bit.ly/xSQSP7

First point to this example, things are not always what they seem, and likewise people’s moods or rationales for doing anything.
Secondly, when people make a professional shout-out about how self deprecating they are, don’t expect them to like anyone hinting that it might not be the absolute rule of their public life.

For those not schooled in twitter, some of these lessons are a little like those that can come from rushing out emails without thinking about the wording. Mood cannot be contained well in short text. You also have to remember that people are not necessarily reading things in order – or all of what you say…

What I did see was this:

2. @daraobriain So, upside: my book was airline reading for the Irish Taoiseach, possibly. Downside: He then gave it to a charity shop…

3. @smileoftdecade (me, not having seen 1.)
@Humblebrag RT @daraobriain So, upside: my book was airline reading for the Irish Taoiseach. Downside: He then gave it to a charity shop… (I had to trim a word to fit 140 character limit. For those who didn’t spot it – the name on the boarding pass in the pic is that of the Taoseach)

4. @daraobriain> @liencam Pointless passing that on to Humblebrag if you don’t include the previous tweet…..
(should have been sent to me, note different wording, “pointless” as opposed to “rude”, which if sent to me would have had a big difference in mood conveyance…)

5. @daraobriain> @liencam Apologies that was meant for someone else…
(liencam obviously then asked what Humblebrag is all about.)

6. @daraobriain> @liencam It’s a site that started funny but anytime I’m self-deprecating now some douche forwards my tweets there. Worth a look though..

7. @daraobriain> @smileoftdecade Bit rude to send that to Humblebrag if you aren’t going to include the preceding tweet it was about as well.

8. me to @daraobriain sorry, I don’t get to read every timeline tweet, (do you?) sure she follows so, judgment will not be fatal..

8(a). me to @daraobriain &…you can always send those if you feel so strongly about it. The fact this urked you enough to respond says what?

9. me to @daraobriain Humblebrag is the judge of whether that happens – of all responses do you only respond to these? and as I said.. on hootsuite..

10. me to @daraobriain …t’was the only visible tweet, that is how twitter works a lot of the time, each tweet standing alone, not paragraphs in a book

11. @daraobriain> @smileoftdecade So what it “says” is that I don’t like people taking my words out of context to sneer at. Fairly normal response, I think

12. interuption by @MikeTonge > @daraobriain @smileoftdecade Block each other or get a room.

13. me to @MikeTonge @daraobriain (hope) this is just discussion on nature of twitter – I don’t sense hostility – except perhaps from you..?
(at this point I do what anyone can do, as long as its not blocked – and check out someone else’s profile> timeline, Dara Obriain’s)

14. @daraobriana> @smileoftdecade I was self-deprecating about something that happened 2 seconds earlier, and you sent it off to be sneered at, out of context

15. (having now checked DB’s timeline), me to @daraobriain @liencam and when people are rude (douche) – they can get ruder once they’ve sent the tweet to the wrong person…

16. @daraobriain> @smileoftdecade Ah, it’s twitter fault. Or Humblebrag’s. Just not yours for sending something off to be sneered at. Good for you!

17. @daraobriain> @smileoftdecade Listen, I get caught out doing the sneer all the time. At least man up about it.

18. me to @daraobriain “man up” “Listen” “sneer”, “douche”, these are not my words – what I see in the mirror is not a problem here…

19. @daraobriain> @smileoftdecade Well, you did the sneery RT, you got called on it, now you’re acting like it wasn’t you. A bit craven, but… Whatever…

20. me to @daraobriain RT a tweet to humblebrag was a bit craven? wow, “man up” about it? did you miss the “sorry” 1st reply then? #notselfdeprecating

and there the conversation ended… because he blocked me. Obviously I represent a major threat.
Looking back at it I can see where I wrote something that he possibly didn’t read and jumped to a conclusion about my intent, and noticed that I could have written better. The fact is I quite like the guy’s humour and the self deprecating habit – had even complimented him on it a week or two before… so being accused of being rude, effectively for not seeing a tweet that was hidden to me as the “context”, was a little upsetting but only a very little.
It wasn’t 2 seconds earlier, more like 2 minutes, or it wouldn’t have been at least twenty tweets down my timeline, thus out of sight – a fact concerning my following other people that a large ego would not think about – and incidentally his book tweet didn’t really help his argument.

ReTweeting how your book was taken on a plane by, possibly, the leader of the nation, but then dropped in a charity shop is not self deprecating, and I think Dara knew it, hence his taking me to task. How different it would have been for me though, mood-wise, if he hadn’t changed his comment to “rude” from “pointless” which was his first instinctive response, that he sent to the wrong person… I would have still sent his Tweet to @humblebrag though, because I have a pet hate about the self promotion of the already famous on twitter, the whole site is full of it, if you want to seek it out. I much prefer the subtle and brilliant humour of those who have discovered the joy of the 140 character joke, the puns, the hashtag games – but don’t see themselves as a professional ego to be boosted,
and…
if you want to know who these wonder-folk are – look for @mooseallain, @pundamentalism, @sixthformpoet, @jacques_aih, @_L_M_C_, @NickMotown, @stephencgrant & across the pond @meganamram, @kellyoxford, @bazecraze, @uncledynamite and @badbanana These folk are creating a funny world that can get you laughing when more established comics are too busy pimping their latest gig or book to bother trying to actually be funny.

The best exception when it comes to fame and not just pushing the gigs is the great tweeter @robdelaney – (It’s his speedo-clad twitter icon at the top of this piece) – whose rude, sarcastic and prolific twitter humour will often confuse the small minded, whilst producing smiles at least, loud roars at best, from the cognoscenti. What is more, his serious articles demonstrate the kind of intelligence that makes me want to forgive America for dropping the Tea party on an innocent world.

All in all, Twitter is great, and the great people on it are very rarely the famous.

@BBCwomanshour this morning debated two oft debated topics,
1) the subject of rape, which has yet to see them join the top lawyers common sense campaign against the rape law
2) why women are under-represented on the BBC, particularly looking at radio.

The latter debate was prompted by the possibility that the next DG of the BBC may be the first woman to get the job, but the debate was more about presenters equal rights than generic equal opportunities. It included mention of the newly formed group “sound women” designed to lobby for the interests of women as presenters in the radio and audio world. They mentioned, yet again, that 52% of our population are women, as if that was relevant to the potential work force…

As an ex “sound man” I feel it worth pointing out one element that escaped their oft repeated and somewhat shallow debate on “Why?” there are not more women presenters. It’s not a radical point either, just one that requires people to look beyond correlation to cause and effect.
There are many fewer women on the radio than men – that’s a fact
This is clearly due to sexism operating at the level of selection – that’s not the case.
There are very few men or women with high pitched voices on our radio stations
This is due to the fact that people find deeper voices more assuring and sexy – research says.

Could it be that there are fewer women with deep voices than there are men? do you think?
You need to be careful before deciding that there ‘should’ be more male midwives or more women miners. All the research shows the most gender equal countries in the world (again research says) have no greater proportion of women wanting to be engineers or men wanting to be midwives than much lower ranked UK. the research tends to suggest that when true equal opportunity is enacted, people are freer to go for the roles that may well be conditioned to their genetic or hormonally influenced imperative.

So, do women want to be radio presenters?
and if we were the most equal country in the world, would we get any more?
I suspect not. We would then all be free to relax into choosing people for roles that they both wanted and were suited to, and when it comes to what the listening public wants, mens voices tend to win out, with both women and men.

TV news presenters on the other hand…
(there is a case to answer there)

I was growing up in the middle of “Beatlemania”, and even in the midst of it, as an 11 year old, I could see that there was:-
1) The music (which was quite good)
and
2) The fans, (a herd of sheep on crystal meth).

Today we have moved on in so many ways, we have money madness, we have a global media, and we have techno-whizz phones that make Star Trek’s predictions of clam shell communicators seem pathetic.
We have also seen a generation growing up with access to the internet… and parents, I have to tell you, this may be a mistake…

@OhSwifty ηαтαℓια ♥
We did it Swifties, Taylor Is Our Fearless Queen is #1 in TT’s, Taylor must be proud of us. <3

@MyWinner_Bieber Stratford Star ♔
No more criticism. No more be judged cause we love Justin. No more hate. No more envy. Rip Bieber Haters

@Trendeh paulie ♕
OmG OnE DiReCtIoN R HaViNg OnE FrEe CoNcErT AnD I PrObAblY WoNt B AbLe To Go mY LifE Is **OvEr**

These are just a tiny sample of the psychopathic pre-teen garblings that litter social network sites and can only promote and maintain the crystal meth supply to all these bouncy little lambs. Mostly of course I am just annoyed that I ever get to even hear about the latest feeding frenzy, as its traces scrawl across the Twittersphere and interrupt the occasional news or general interest web site.
The worrying thing though is that these lambikins are online without supervision – surely no sane parent would allow these pre-teens to shout about “Justin is God” on a forum armed with a hundred bullying trolls? and are not these worst trolls the exemplar of what happens to teens who get lost online just when the hormones kick in?

We need to place a few metaphorical light-bulbs near them, as often as possible, in order to promote growth to adulthood and away from these destructive addictions.
Let the young people know that boys and girls who were once almost as lost in space as they are, are now in their 60s. Yes! they went almost as crazy and imbecilic as you, but over The Beatles, Elvis Presley or even PJ Proby
- “Who?” I hear you ask..
Ahhh – PJ Proby was like Justin Bieber, only with balls and a voice, …and similarly, not enough talent to last.
Fact:- fans grow up. (thank Dawkins)
I trust and hope that the average age of a “Belieber” is under 13 – it certainly looks that way from their animated gif icons on twitter, because once your balls drop or your breasts arrive, you really need to start to understand that music is a fine thing. Music can be a great accompaniment to sex, that’s music, as made by adults who also know what music and sex actually are…
The one thing that all the vapid subjects of this adoration seem to have in common is being sexless, white, and inhumanly poster-pretty.
The light-bulb near these fans needs to be there, ready to point out that they will not feel this way once they have discovered what life is actually about,
and, so they know they should GET THE FUCK OFF TWITTER
…clogging up the server is a genuine disservice to the world and really pisses me off.

“Bankers have to be paid well to ensure that the talent is retained in this country”,
“Bonus levels are decided by the boards who have the customers best interests at heart”,
“The Free market has to be allowed to rule for these free market experts to work”.
Such are the answers given by City types when bankers bonuses are called into question.

If you actually talk to bankers about why they appear to desire these bonuses that could save a hundred thousands starving children’s lives or buy them a fleet of small yachts, you can reach the core truth about what the annual bonus round is all about…
It’s about this:-

They don’t need the money, they don’t really even “Want” the money, they already have so much that they don’t know what to do with it. No, the bonus amounts being made “public” (within the banking fraternity) is important, because that is the point, the publicity battles between their little elite group. This group of men who every now and then need to gather around a board room table, unzip their tailored suit trousers and place their dicks on the table so they can measure up against the next man, mentally each licking each other’s.
In this metaphorical version, the biggest bonus and wage earners have the biggest dicks and all the others have to know it and know they have been beaten. It’s no more complicated than Premiership managers measuring their success with League championships and European cups.

So, if we all agree that this is not going to be stopped by the competing dicks themselves, or the politicians making some simple but market interfering rule, how can we end this farce that spits spunk in the face of the starving?

My suggestion is that we need to publicise the working month of every one of these bankers, the often called for transparency, but with a twist. We need to see what decisions they make, what time they spend sorting out any problem, when they go to the toilet, how many Lattes they get through, what great skills they learned in the exclusive world of banking, what level of experience of same is necessary in order to make banks the slightly less than average failures they have all been over the past five years…everything!

Then, when we have acquired all this knowledge, we train up the unemployed graduates, from the various thousands that are out there, with these skills. Let them compete and pass a test based on tricky challenges brought from real life examples where bankers made good and bad decisions – then, just like Eddie Murphy in Trading Places – allow these young graduates to take the places of all the bankers who flee the country due to bonuses becoming exactly what the word suggests – only paid out for exceptionally good performance.
Are they gone yet?

They do keep threatening to leave, so I say, give them the bus fare, and publicise exactly what that bus fare is, just like they do with the bonuses. “Bye bye and thanks for wasting all our fish”.
The graduates can all be trained within a 3 year post graduate course that includes key placements in the banks, and the net cost of doing this with a big enough bunch to change the world may reach as much as half the lowest bonus paid to a bank C.E.O. this past year.

What’s wrong with this picture?
The bankers have such unique talents you say? Really?
They are the ones who know how to manage things in a crisis, Really?
…and what have we just been/are we now, going through?
I used to think that all the adults running the country, when I was in my twenties, kind of knew what they were doing, had things under control…
Bitter experience of life has meant that the enlightenment I went through in my mid forties was that, “OH SHIT!” moment, the one when I realised that, not just a few but 90% of the people “running” the world, were no more competent than I was.
Man, that was frightening.
We need not be frightened as much as that however. There are a few with calm heads that do, by muddling through, keep the world from blowing itself up… but they are not the major banks’ CEOs – these guys’ bluffs need to be called.

The next season when its time to lay their dicks on the table, they need to see the size of a literal chopper that says, “This boy’s room game is over! From now on bankers, just like other people, get paid for what they do.”

I commend this proposal to the house.

I followed a link to see why Mr 2nd-home-switcher-fraud Gove might have something to say re Louise Mensch, turned out to be the Daily Mail report on his move to make it easier to sack teachers.

I just wondered why the Mail would choose this story to show a picture of Mr Gove with an unhappy looking, sickly pale, blond child (obviously badly failed by a teacher) and him making extravagant hand gestures to a teacher who is obviously a Muslim…

No obvious implications there at all, oh no.
or perhaps he’s asking if she’s learned to count using her fingers yet…

Distorted eyes, cracked appearance, weird political neutrality,
they have so much in common…

The difficulty for Ed, is no matter what you do with editing his looks or his voice, he still looks and sounds pathetic. Whereas even at 65, Bowie looks and sounds convincing, no matter how you mess with his voice or face…

Hard to believe that Romney, the barely sane and oft described as moderate GOP front runner for presidential candidate, due to his money and lack of foam at the mouth or skeletons in the closet…
was nearly beaten by Rick Insanetorum, the sort of rabid anti-gay foaming at the mouth evangelical who is doomed to be found weeping and with his dirty pants down in the toilet of some cheap motel, having failed to pay a rent boy his due…

Rupert Murdoch, not a great reader, more of a megalomaniacal lay preacher, recently taken to giving out his sermons for the powerful and the masses on twitter, gave the Rick monster his backing as “the only candidate with a vision for America”

Now I am disappointed with both Cameron and Obama as leaders, but with the level of alternative leadership available these two are facing, is there really an alternative?

…an option that the western world could look in the eye, other than those two?
The choice in the UK is at least one between an ineffectual opportunist with no vision but an ability to react to the powers that be – and an ineffectual bug eyed nasal presenter of dull vision-less middle of the road soft leftism…
In America it seems to be between a great election master who has been annoyingly indecisive as president and overly hampered by the corrupt politicians around him – versus one of the collection of creatures from the insane lagoon…

I love tornadoes, almost as much as God does, and these past two years have been crackers…

“The tornadoes that swept across much of the South on April 27 2011 destroyed four United Methodist church buildings in Alabama and one in Georgia.”

“Boone’s Chapel Baptist Church in Prattville, Ala., was heavily damaged by a tornado that struck the community Friday April 15th. The original brick structure, which was used as a chapel and the children’s education area, was a total loss, pastor Mike Johnson told The Alabama Baptist. The newer multipurpose section of Boone’s Chapel was damaged but should be reparable.
A father and his two adult children were killed in their homes on the edge of the Boone’s Chapel property. The church’s student minister lived in a home between the church and the two homes where the family members were killed, and his home was damaged by the tornado. ”

Catholic Church destroyed by Tornado in Joplin, MO May 2011 -”You might say a prayer for the priest and parishioners as they rebuild. Sometimes a set back like this can result in a blessing. Brick by brick.”

“Walmart was destroyed by tornado in Tushka, Oklahoma. Looks like it followed highway 75 if it hit the Church and school in Tushka, and the Walmart in Atoka.”

“26 Apr 2010 Tornado destroys Hillcrest Baptist church, in Yazoo City”

“2 May 2011 – Three members of the Ownbey Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church in North dead, Church was destroyed”

“16 April 2011 BONNEAU, S.C.- Fire officials say a tornado has collapsed a church with six people inside near the town of Bonneau. There was no immediate word on injuries.
Melinda Wadford with the St. Stephen Fire Department auxiliary said Saturday she did not know whether anyone inside the church was harmed when the building collapsed.”

“Little Rock, AR Church destroyed in Jerusalem – After the tornado touched down in Appleton, it continued about five miles east to Jerusalem, destroying several homes, chicken coops, and a church.”

“Mississippi church destroyed twice, once by fire and once by tornado, celebrates rebuilding”

in 1995 – “CONGREGATION REMEMBERS 20 LIVES LOST IN TORNADO CHURCH’S ROOF COLLAPSED LAST PALM SUNDAY”

I could list more.
Not to mention the apparent earthquake peril after calling a town “Christchurch”…

These are my favourite things that insurance companies call “Acts of God”
I am sure that no sane person really believes they are Capricious Jesus in action. The fact that many of those killed as these horrific natural phenomena destroy churches, over and over again, do believe in the notion of divine intervention and a judgemental God, is not relevant to the strange coincidence of them deciding to build, and rebuild, their places of worship to this wrath-filled almighty in the Southern states…

Someone on an American Christian forum dared to ask the question, “Why?” and got these answers: Insanity abounds
My wonder at all these, in many ways “glorious”, events is that many of my friends would pay good money to be in the tornado chasing fraternity – many of whom have spent year after year trying to see one of these amazing forces of nature on the massive open farmlands of the southern United States. The fact is that it is still damn hard to find one…
They touch down on farm land mainly, because the area is so undeveloped that the chance of tornadoes hitting urban conurbations, or near a suitable roadside viewing point, is actually quite small.

But if,
just if… there was the remotest, possible, chance that an interventionist God did actually decide to take on the insurance industry –
IF that happened -
My wish is that instead of doing this piecemeal, confirmation-bias denial-corrected, destruction of just a few southern Christian churches – he should wipe every so called “Holy building” – every temple, church, synagogue, mosque, or other form of cemented sky-daddy praising place (yes, that means some lovely architecture gone, *sigh* the price of human progress)
off the face of the planet, all inside the space of 1 hour.
Every single one.

The cognitive bias crowd from atheist and faithful crowds would be joined by the Agnostics – since we would have marvellous proof that not only DOES God exist – but that he/it is really, bloody, pissed off at just how wrong every religious nut on the planet has been to date.

But knowing the religious type – they would surely manage to find a way to deny that it actually happened, reinterpret the “holy scriptures” and rebuild the hierarchical Sanity Clause denial shrines all over again…