Who’s the Bigot Now?

Bigot – a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

Having clearly defined the term to mean something other than someone who disagrees with a leftist, we can proceed with today’s topic. Recently there has been a great deal of hullabaloo around Chick-fil-a president and COO Dan Cathy and his recent comments regarding marriage and family. Anything I have read from a source that can be considered to the left politically has been grossly distorted and not accurate to anything Cathy said. My favorite, hugely-distorted headlines and trumped up outrage has come from Gawker sites. Let’s go to them to get our first piece of what Cathy said:

Chick-fil-A’s Delicious Chicken Sandwiches Are Deep Fried in Hate

The head of Chick-fil-A confirmed yesterday what liberal worrywarts have been warning oblivious sandwich eaters about for years: he really can’t stand the homos. That’s bad news, if you’re a Chick-fil-A connoisseur — the delicious deep fried poultry treat you’ve been putting in your face all these years is not only bad for your cardiovascular system, it’s bad for your soul. It’s bad for society!

Chick-fil-A’s President Dan Cathy made the announcement that it’s actually been Dick-fil-A all along in an interview with the Baptist Press that was posted earlier this week. In it, the multimillionaire restaurant owner ah-hyucked his way through an explanation of why his chain of restaurants gives so much money to anti-gay groups. It’s not that they don’t like gays, it’s that they think gay people are, um, an abomination. “Guilty as charged!” he said.

Oh my goodness!!! This Cathy sounds like a horrible human being who hates anyone who is not like him. Let’s get the pitchforks and burn him and his family to death!!!

Only, oops, the “guilty as charged” quote was not in reference to hating gay people and wishing ill will upon them. It was in reference to donating to and supporting groups that are looking to strengthen families and marriage. Does strengthening families and marriage equate to hating anyone? No it does not. The group that Cathy was specifically talking about supporting has a website at Winshape.com. I decided to go to this site and see how much they are an insane “anti-gay” group that wants to destroy fluffy happiness. I could not find anything that was “anti-gay”. I then did a site specific Google search for the term “gay” which came up empty. Then I tried “homosexual” to no avail. Seeing as they are “anti-gay” right wing nut jobs, I decided to search for more offensive terms which I would no doubt find on this crafty bastian of hatred. “Fag”, “faggot”, “homo” and “queer” all returned nothing. From what I could see this really was some kind of site for christian marriage and family strengthening and counseling. They must have made a separate site to promote their true agenda and not given anyone the link.

Giving up on that search I decided to go find out how many gay people had been denied service at Chick-fil-a because they were gay. Dagnabit I could find nothing. Surely I would next be able to find the count of which Chick-fil-a eateries had gay water fountains and straight water fountains. I found the count and it was 0. I just chalk that up to them not even wanting gay people to be around or to their eventual goal of a gay holocaust.

Cathy cannot possibly have just been talking about his support for strengthening families and marriages when he said, “Guilty as charged”. That has been made clear by the many reports I have seen.

I decided to go to the original interview for the frothing hatred in it’s purest form. When I read through it sure did appear that Cathy was one of those icky christians who go spreading hatred throughout the land by supporting strengthening families and marriages. He did use the phrase “biblical definition” for family units and we all know that this phrase is the smoking gun in regards to his true anti-gay nature. It seems he was a clever one though by disguising his burning rage as support for things he believes in making stronger. Well, we can’t have that, people believing in things and supporting them, ewwwww gross!!!

This brings me back to the definition of the word bigot:

a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

No way, it cannot be. It would appear that Cathy was voicing his creed, belief or opinion regarding marriage and family and is now under attack by those who are utterly intolerant of it, thus making those who are so vocal in their venom towards him bigoty, bigotted, bigots. Cathy was not utterly intolerant of anyone else’s views in this interview, he merely voiced his own opinion on a topic and is now facing that repressive tolerance that we all know and love.

I did some more reading and found that Cathy had previously said on a radio show:

“we’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage. And I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude that thinks we have the audacity to redefine what marriage is all about.”

What a hateful thing to say that he prays that God has mercy on those who, in his beliefs are going against God. We all know that no one actually believes in God and that such a God would never grant mercy and kindness, so this statement must mean that he hates gay people, especially when you consider that he also said:

”while my family and I believe in the Biblical definition of marriage, we love and respect anyone who disagrees.”

And the company released this statement:

The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect – regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender. We will continue this tradition in the over 1,600 Restaurants run by independent Owner/Operators. Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.

What a disgusting and demonic bigot and his minions of hatred. Oh wait what was the definition of bigot again? :

a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

Hmmm, well back to the old drawing board. Come on fellow bigots let’s prevent anyone from voicing an opinion we don’t like in public again. Let’s destroy this company and make an example to all who disagree with us.


Swiss Miss Debbie

So if you haven’t been watching the idiocy that is the Obama 2012 campaign you may not have heard that …dun…dun…dun… Mitt Romney has a Swiss bank account and what he does with his own money and property is everyone else’s business. What a dastardly thing to do with his own property. Well, in true moron fashion Debbie Wasserman-Schultz chimes in on this bank account non-issue and well, well, well it turns out she is a hypocrite. Shocking, I know.

Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. This revelation comes mere days after the Democratic chair attacked presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for holding money in Swiss bank accounts in the past.

Well there you go. It’s getting pretty old.


The Life of Julia

The world of propaganda is most times quite sickening. Today we have seen one of the dumbest examples ever given to mankind through Barack Obama’s Life of Julia. It is the heart-warming tale of a young girl who has a dictator leading her country for what appears to be the entirety of her lifespan. In Barack’s version Julia seems to love dear leader and participate in every program the dictator can dream up. I have made my own version:

Well there you have it the true story of the life of Julia. It could have been a lot worse if she had spoken out against Big Brother.


UPDATE: As I was making these images by messing around with the html I found this section of comment art:

Even the code is all about “The One”.


Copyrights Gone Wild

Anybody else out there think that copyright laws should be more like patent laws or perhaps even more unrestricted? Have you ever heard of the Mickey Mouse Curve? Do you know what Fair Use is and have you ever tried to actually make something under a Fair Use exception? Even if you have expertise in all of these I recommend this video:

Even as the owner of several copyrights I sure do wish things would turn public domain after only 14 years. It would be awesome all around. Crony capitalism sees to it that this cannot be the case. As a real fans of true free market capitalism we should all be sick.


New Man Crush

Who has a mustache like Tom Seleck and a brain like Thomas Sowell? My latest man crush does and he is none other than, John Stossel. He spreads forth uncommon wisdom across the land and asks people many tough questions. While my man crush has limits, there is very little that I do not agree with Stossel on. And I very much enjoy how he can get people to think about things they have never thought about before. Check this lengthy vid:

And seriously if you can sport a stache like that and make sense you deserve my respect.

Ashby

Well today’s the day. The album has been released. Before you start to listen to any of it go ahead and set aside an hour. It ain’t easy being an album person in a single teeny-bop world. I made the album to be enjoyed as a whole and it does have a theme and a cohesive story. If anyone is curious about any of the songs meanings or inspirations I would be ecstatic to explain. Have a listen:

Now spread the joyous news. There should be a physical CD for sale within the next week that has the rest of my original artwork.

I just have to take a minute to clarify what an accomplishment this is for me and why, although I know it’s not perfect, I am very proud of this. I taught myself to play the guitar when I was 17 and have been writing songs since a couple of weeks after I got my first crappy guitar that made my fingers bleed on a regular basis. The first song I ever wrote, “Orchard”, is actually on this album. The second full song I wrote is “Breakthrough” and it is also in this collection. I played with a few incarnations of pretty much the same band until that fizzled out and went away in 2005. After that I have just kept playing on my own and writing new stuff on a fairly regular basis. I got tired of just playing that way and it felt like I was kinda just wasting time. I feel that music, by it’s nature, is meant for other people to hear it and enjoy it. I was not able to spread any of the music to others and it bugged me. I had done some recording before with the band and I had mixed it, but to be honest it was a horrible mixing job and it never felt great (I will remaster those in the future). I decided to teach myself how to actually record decently and how to play the drums so I could do all the parts I would need. Then I set a deadline for myself (today) and went for it. I learned quite a bit in the process and had some good fun doing it even though it wasn’t just a super easy cakewalk. Then I researched distributors and physical CD options until I found who I liked. Then I made all the artwork for the physical CD. All this learning and work may just be so I can have the only copy of my own CD that is out in the world and that would bother me, but I will live. It doesn’t keep me up at night to think of what people think of me at all, but I do care a little what they think about what I create. I hope just a few people will enjoy what I have put my time into. And maybe somebody out there might be as excited as I am about the next one I am going to make.