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Why can’t we just ignore Dan Savage?

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Answer 1: Actually, we can. He’s a low-life, intellectually dishonest, hypocrite.

Answer 2: We can’t because unfortunately he’s part of a growing strata of our society who are becoming highly aggressive, highly violent, and believe they can force their morality (or lack of) on other people (in this case children).

Case Study

Watch this video. (but not with children in the room)


Dan Savage beats up high schoolers

So what is going on here?  Why would this man come out so strong on this issue choosing a audience of impressionable teens? My primary answer is “ratings”.  Nobody cares if he says this stuff in front of adults. They wouldn’t give him the time of day, or call him on his errors. But get a captive audience of children, then tape yourself intentionally beating them up verbally…  now that will get you the front page. I believe that’s why he did this. No question.

But, to get back to the original question, let’s take the first answer first.  “Actually we can [ignore him], He’s a low-life, intellectually dishonest, hypocrite.” 

This is so very true. His ‘biblical arguments’ in the video above are obvious proof text segments from the Bible that don’t even make sense out of context. Read correctly, they simply don’t apply to anyone for various reasons. Christians aren’t ignoring them, they simply no longer apply. Any intelligent adult can refute his claims with one brain tied behind their back. So, he either knows his error very well, and therefore is being extremely intellectually dishonest (lying), or he really and truly doesn’t know what he’s talking about at all and therefore shouldn’t be setting himself up as an authority on the subject. Personally, I believe the first case. But either way, he shouldn’t be allowed to be around children.

In short, I think that Dan Savage actually knows his actions are very dishonest and was using this as an intimidation tactic to gain a national press presence. Therefore, his arguments, and his career for that matter, should and will be discredited and disregarded by any and all truly intellectual free thinkers.

Okay, on to the second answer: “We can’t [ignore him] because unfortunately he’s part of a growing strata of our society who are becoming highly aggressive, highly violent, and believe they can force their lack of morality on other people (in this case children).”

Well, time for the bad news. As far as I can see, this type of thing is only going to get worse.  As society continues to cave to the bullying pressure of the violent segment of the homosexual movement, it will continue to get stronger.

I will reiterate what many have said before me… These people fain ‘tolerance’, but themselves are some of the most intolerant people on the planet.   They cry foul and demand legislation when someone looks at them sideways, but then openly assault defenseless unsuspecting children for their political gain. It’s just hypocritical.

Don’t worry about him though. Dan will fare very well from this, be confident of that.  He’s likely already receiving many checks in the mail from this media frenzy. And I don’t think this is the last time we’ll hear from Dan. I’m sure he has many more stunts like this up his sleeve.

 

 

Google Streetview Car at Winco

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

googlecar1Well,  I guess even Google employees have to have a lunch break. 

While at Winco today I parked near this Google car so I thought I would snap a picture.  For those who don’t know, these are the Google cars that drive around and take pictures of every street in America so that people can view them on Google Maps.

A little side note here… they are also collecting other data from people, like personal wireless (WIFI) signals and anything else they can get for free. See article here. So be careful.  Remember… there are no secrets anymore.

googlecar2Ironically, the guy sitting in the car didn’t like me taking his picture.  If I had been thinking more quickly I would have set my razr phone to “Movie mode” and put forth a focused effort to really make him nervous. But then again, I’m not really the harassing type (these days).

I’m just wondering when one of the following inevitable events will happen with Google Street View:

  •  Street View Becomes a Paid Service – You know good and well that when enough people get hooked on the service, they will decide to make it subscription based. (can anyone say “HULU” or “Netflix”?)
  • Street View Gets Sold to the Government – Oh wait, they wouldn’t sell themselves to themselves would they? (You already know my feelings about this one: Article 1 | Article 2)
  • Google Street View Decides to Record Infra Red Signals – As long as they’re capturing your car license plates, kids playing in the front yard, house numbers, etc., they might as well record other sensitive data too. How about, how many people are in your house and what activities you’re engaged in when the car passes by. 

111[1]I use Google. In fact I have an Android tablet arriving at my house today. But I also have a healthy distrust of any organization that can gather so much information about me without my permission.

Oh, and yes. I still use a Razr phone.  So what!

Have you ever seen a Google Street View car in person?  If so, what were your thoughts about it?

Police Officers: Really… To Protect and Serve

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

police_officer-13035 I have to say, I have a list of things that immediately come to mind upon seeing a police officer stopped along side the road.

  • Why is he harassing those poor innocent drivers like that?
  • Doesn’t he have anything better to do…  like CATCH BAD GUYS.
  • We need MORE police in this state? Why, to catch more speeders late for work? Really?
  • Does it really take FOUR police cars to stop that guy in a Ford Focus who forgot to signal his turn?  Come on.
  • Do they really need to issue a ticket for 4 miles over the speed limit?
  • Do they have to stop right in the middle of the driving lane?
  • etc, etc, etc.

Until today I have never had what I’ve considered to be a pleasant encounter with a police officer. Officers are usually thought of (by me) as scary, self absorbed, bossy, arrogant, power tripping, ‘wanting any excuse to shoot you’, people in blue who simply want me to pay their salary by fining me for something stupid and irrelevant.

HOWEVER, I need to give credit where it is due.  This morning on my way to work I looked over in the oncoming lanes to see a policeman stopped, lights on, helping a woman bolt her spare tire onto her car.  The lady was just standing there and the policeman was working the tire iron.  She had obviously got a flat and couldn’t change it herself.

I was amazed. Here, right in front of me, was the very definition of “To protect and server” being acted out for the world to see.  Not a PR promotion or marketing campaign on the evening news. An actual live, act of kindness and service by a paid public servant.

For a few minutes I was actually proud of our police force. I was shocked as my cynicism over the general abuse of power we live under on a daily basis was lifted and for a brief moment in time I felt that the Tigard Police were actually on my side.   That is until I realized that in my 37 years of life to this point, this is the one and only time I can remember ever seeing this type of service from our “public servants”.

Cynicism aside. Whoever that officer was, Oregon state police, Tigard police, I don’t know, my hat is off to you. I’m proud of what you did and I wish this type of service was considered the norm.  

To be fair, maybe officers do this type of thing all the time and I just don’t see it. I hope that is the case.

Do you have any stories about POSITIVE dealings with the police, where they actually impressed you with their service level?  If so, I would love to hear them. Comment below and tell your story.