7-10-08
This is
one of the funniest things I've ran across in some time.
There are billions and billions of reasons to hate McDonald's.
They took the McRib away, for one, and that burns. (Sometimes I almost
wish I'd never loved it at all.) There's at least one good reason
to like McDonald's: They're being boycotted by the American Family
Association.
What did McDonald's do to cross the AFA, its president, Donald Wildmon,
and -- by extension -- Jesus (R-Nz.)? They donated $20,000 to the
National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. McDonald's' revenue
runs about five billion dollars a quarter, so you can see their profound
commitment to destroying the family through sodomy.
The AFA says that by donating one thousandth of one percent of its
2007 earnings,
"McDonald's has chosen not
to remain neutral but to give the full weight of their corporation
to
promoting the homosexual
agenda."
Which seems like a kind of shrill
definition of "full weight," but
maybe it's like the Quarter Pounder®, and it's the weight
before cooking that counts.
It feels a little like the American
Family Association was looking for someone to boycott and
it was just
McDonald's' turn.
They've already boycotted Sears, Kohl's, Kmart, Target, Old Navy
and
IKEA. As a result, they're naked and don't have anywhere to
sit. The McDonald's
boycott follows boycotts of Burger King, Carl's Jr., 7-11,
Proctor & Gamble
and Kraft, which means Donald Wildmon hasn't eaten anything
for sale in America since the late '70s. You'd think he'd be
dead,
but no.
(He's a good guy. I'll bet he loads up on locusts, beetles and grasshoppers,
like it says in Leviticus. The same book that -- there's no getting
around it -- says homosexuality is an abomination, absolutely as
heinous in G*d's eyes as strong drink.)
Does the AFA hate homosexuals?
Absolutely not! It says so, right on their website, under
the heading
and sub-head: "Does
AFA Hate Homosexuals? Absolutely Not!"
Should McDonald's take the boycott seriously? The customer is always
right, I guess. (I think that's from Deuteronomy.) But McDonald's
might want to think about the kind of customers they're losing. They
appear to be lunatics.
Oh look, here are some of their thoughts:
"YOU DID NOT BILD YOUR COMPANY
ON HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE! IT WAS BUILD ON FAMILY VALUES! MAN,WIFE.CHILDREN!MOSTLTY
CHILDREN!
THEY
DON'T COME FROM HOMO PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"What next, Adam & Steve
in the children's happy meals? i WILL not condone the Corp.
of Mc
Donalds to force me to shop
where it is not in lign with my believe in God and HIS scripture..."
"I have stopped at my last
McDonald. If you support homos, that is fine with me. I do
not have to
eat your burgers.
Maybe there are enough homos around to keep your arches open."
"I suppose next the playground
will be open for pedifiles in order to not offend them."
"You have joined God's list
of enemies!"
"What's next? Support for
the Man-Boy Love Association! This shall not stand!"
"The McFaddin Family will
vote with our Money and Feet and take our business elsewhere!
You can
stuff your Happy Gay
Meal
and Happy Gay Agenda where the Sun don't Shine!"
"If the McDonald's heirarchy
thinks we'll buy their burgers and support deranged homosexual
activists
who force their
lifestyle on innocent children in the public schools, they had
better think
again. Their burgers now have a smelly odor to them."
"You advertise straight to
children (Happy Meals). Can anyone say pederasty? This lifestyle'
you
embolden is really
a deathstyle!"
"The only thing you'll be
cooking is yourselves, for eternity."
"the next thing you know
RONALD will be molesting our children. No big macks for this
family."
"Are you also going to support
open activity between man and beast? You are helping to open
the
door to bestiality,
sex with children,
plural homosexual marriages and the list goes on!"
"Dear, McDonald's. Last week
I ate a cheeseburger at your restaurant. If I would've known
it was
created by gay loving
hands, I wouldn't
have purchased it. Don't you guys know gays were behind the
holocaust? First Jews, and now the family. What is next, McDonald's?
Are
you going to help gays eradicate sand? WHAT WILL WE DO WITHOUT
SAND!?!?"
"I recently saw two young
teenagers making out. I figure McDonalds is no longer my
kind of place.
I think the sixteen
year old worked
there."
I just had a thought -- honest to God, I swear this wasn't where
I was heading with this thing; I was just going to make a lot of
snotty remarks about reductio ad absurdum and the McFaddin Family's
feet -- but it occurs to me that McDonald's has done something brilliant:
They've deliberately offended a demographic they don't want.
For just $20,000, they've chased off all the crazy people who hang
around McDonald's sputtering and ranting and making me not want to
eat there.
It's genius.
Now, if they'd just bring back the McRib.
12-18-07
I stumbled upon this five minute video. I find it
highly entertaining, I hope you do as well.
8-20-07
I ran across an interview with the
late Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy",
among many other things. Interesting read.
http://www.americanatheist.org/win98-99/T2/silverman.html
The most noteworthy part of the piece is a very
insightful, enlightening and well articulated breakdown of the
difference between atheists and agnostics.
8-1-07
A couple of noteworthy websites:
http://www.evilbible.com Worth a look, but kind of extreme.
http://www.atheists.org Focuses on the hypocracies of organized
religion, especially within the government.
6-4-07
I met this woman for the first time the other day.
Our conversation was about 20 minutes long.
In this conversation, I learned that she is 37,
never been married, and has no kids. I also learned that she wants
kids, but hasn't found a man yet. She has looked into adoption,
but the costs involved were beyond her means.
As she told me this, the tone of her voice, her
body language and the look in her eyes lead me to believe that
she really wanted a child more than anything else. The despair
in her
demeanor,
the fading of her spirit as our conversation progressed would indicate
that she is aware that time is not on her side with regard to her
desire for children of her own.
Then her voice picked right up. "But, if God doesn't
mean for me to have children, if that's his plan for me, that's
OK. I am fine with that." Her tone was so upbeat in saying this,
it was as if she has relinquished control of her entire life.
I stood there, looked her in the eyes and said absolutely
nothing. I pursed my lips inward in the most consoling yet non-committal
way I could muster. Sometimes I find it difficult to bite my tongue,
but I managed to here.
What has bugged me after the fact, is how completely
at peace her tone was when the dialogue turned to religion. Here
she was with this void in her life that would only be filled with
this one thing she desires, but if God is keeping it from her,
she's ok with that.
Why would anyone worship a God or religion that
didn't want them to be happy? Why would God keep a woman, someone
I believe to be good with kids, from having children of her own?
Where is the logic in this?
The obvious answer is that God doesn't owe them
an explanation. His will is what happens, no one can do anything
to change this, so they just live with it.
About 10 years ago Jesse Ventura, The former governor
of Minnesota, said in an interview with Playboy Magazine that religious
people
are weak minded.
He took a lot of heat for it but never backed down.
And if you think about it, it makes perfect sense. This woman is
a prime example of the fact that people who deal with their life's
shortcomings not by blaming God, but by praising him
are simply not strong enough to deal with their life's issues on
their own.
I would speculate that this woman is probably not
doing absolutely everything within her control to achieve her goals.
If she's meant to have a man and children, it will happen someday.
I guess that's ok, everybody has to cope somehow. I just find it
sad that there are so many people in the world with that frame
of mind.
6-3-07 - First Entry
My 5 1/2 year old daughter attends a preschool/daycare that is of
Christian influence.
Why would I allow a child of mine to attend such an institution
you ask?
There are a lot of reasons actually. The first reason
is the quality of the non-religious curriculum. My daughter has
learned a great
deal of material spanning a variety of subjects, including interaction
with other children and respect for adults, which is going to prepare
her for kindergarten, which will begin in a
few
short
months.
The facility is well staffed with genuinely caring
adults;
She is safe there;
The price is reasonable.
The religious aspect is the only deterrent to an
otherwise excellent program, so I am willing to tolerate it in
light of the other benefits. That, and exposure to such an element
may not be the worst thing for a child whose been faced with a
disproportionate amount of death in her life, as long as it is
presented in the right context (which of course, it isn't).
There have been some trying moments, most notably
when she came home saying that Jews were bad because they killed
Jesus. I had a talk with her teacher over that one.
Another time she came home with a convoluted account
of The Resurrection.
Both instances, among other things, were simply
a misguided and poor choice of language and subject matter. I don't
believe there was any malicious intent on the part of the institution.
So for now, it's ok. I've already told my daughter
a few things in an attempt to thwart the inevitable personality
defects
universally shared by the religiously convicted.
I have told her that her teachers are teaching her
what they believe, but that doesn't necessarily make it right.
I've told her she can believe it if she wants to, but she doesn't
have to, and no one is going to punish her if she chooses not to.
I have told her that she's not allowed to preach
to anyone, especially other children. This is one of the shortcomings
of religion; the implied responsibility of convincing others to
believe what you believe. This is the greatest marketing tool of
all time. She's allowed to tell others what she believes, but she
can't tell them what to believe.
The one thing about religious schools that is troubling
is that the staff assumes that you are Christian, because you've
enrolled your kid there. And as a result, they look at you as if
you've got this universal bond. It's weird.
I was driving to drop my daughter off one morning,
preparing my thoughts for the confrontation I was about to have
with the teacher about something my daughter came home talking
about. I was going to tell the teacher to be cautious of what she
tells these kids, because they think this stuff actually happened.
Then, I had a startling realization. Her teacher
thinks this actually happened too.
This was about a year or so ago, and I think it
was the first time I truly realized that I don't believe in God.
