Over on the article, The Dangers of Transgenderism The Amazing Jonathan said (first quoting me, which is a nice change of pace from the usual attack on things I never said):
“CSI. When the cops arrive at the scene of a grizzly double homicide and find the DNA of the killer, which is XY, they know their suspect is MALE”
I see this as implying you have no idea what DNA is and how forensic analysis are done and for what purpose At the heart of DNA ( Deoxyribonucleic acid ) evidence is the biological molecule itself…
Editor’s Note: At this point, he essentially copies and pastes the entire Wikipedia article on what DNA is. I’m not sure why, as it not only doesn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know, but none of it matters to the point he is making. I see this as implying he has no idea what DNA is… but I digress. He continues:
In reply to an article I wrote about how touch screens and cat robots are replacing low level employees as the minimum wage is increased by “well meaning” politicians who know nothing about economics (Pizza Robots Are Taking Over The World), Dude Spewed said:
WOW! I think you got every single point wrong in this article. Is that a first? Impressive.
The Hennepin County medical examiner’s office ruled Floyd’s death was a homicide caused by “cardiopulmonary arrest” complicated by “restraint, and neck compression” while he was being subdued by police.
McDonald’s did not proclaim they are “replacing all cashiers” with “robots” (or any other form of non-human technology) by the end of 2021. CEO Steve Easterbrook said the company planned to add self-order kiosks to 1,000 stores each quarter for the next eight or nine quarters, an effort which would (if fully implemented) place kiosks in eight or nine thousand U.S. McDonald’s locations by the end of 2021.
From the cotton gin to the Ford assembly line to the ATM, automation is always happening. It’s disingenuous to suggest that employers aren’t always seeking ways to streamline their businesses, no matter what wage they’re paying. there’s no correlation between the adoption of automation and the minimum wage.
Published in 2019, the single most far-reaching study on the minimum wage examined “138 prominent state-level minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States,” only to find that “the overall number of low-wage jobs remained essentially unchanged over the five years following the increase.”
In other words, the gold-standard study, using 40 years of data from around the United States, found that basically no jobs were lost when the minimum wage went up.
And I replied thusly:
Hey Dudapottamus, Starting out with another cheap, grade school insult? I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. Does it make you feel better about yourself? Does it make you feel SMART? Or do you just want people to think you’re a jerk? Like, does that do something for you?
Hey, great. You do you. Anyway- let’s hit some of your points here:
It’s true- I am into vinyl. So now I also have a long beard and wear sunglasses indoors.
My wife and I talked for years about getting a record player and it always came down to the same thing: Where are we going to put it? We have a small house. No basement. And they cost like $200, and we don’t need it… so we never got one.
But then a friend of mine moved and she gave me some of her antiques to sell, including some records. One of those records was a 78, made of shellack that was more than a hundred years old. The rest were a collection of the best symphonies from the best composers, and I thought… well, someone needs to listen to these.
So I did a little research, and thanks to the inexplicable growth of the popularity of vinyl records, record players are being made again and I got one for $50. Christmas came a few months early this year! And of course, now that we have a record player, we need records to play.
Here’s my philosophy: Some music was recorded and mastered to be put on vinyl records. Other music was recorded to be put on CD. If I’m going to buy records, it should be the music that was MEANT to be on vinyl. Also, if you know where to look (Goodwill) you can get a record for $2. I now have too many records. And the urge to go to Goodwill. I went to a Michigan Goodwill while I was on vacation, and that was after we went to a record store near the lake. We’re not addicted, but we’re a little beyond reasonable. But I digress.
On the article Why Atheism and Parenting Conflict Tony Stark said: Do you actually believe the moronic drivel that comes out of your mouth?
To which I replied: What? No, of course not. I can’t imagine ANYONE believing this nonsense.
On the same article, Atheist Jr. said, America was NOT founded as a Christian nation. It was founded as a secular nation.
‘MERICA!
And amazingly this was his entire comment. I say “amazingly,” not because it’s a surprise, as a thousand atheists before Jr here have done the exact same thing, but because I am always amazed that they bother. I mean, he tosses off this drive-by comment where in he asserts something to the contrary of my stated position, and then POOF he’s gone. He makes no attempt to defend his position with any facts or reason. So, either he thinks that I am SO ASTOUNDINGLY stupid that I will read an unsubstantiated blanket assertion like this and say, “Oh no! I’m wrong!” or he thinks that I am completely unaware that there are other opinions in the world, and he just wanted to drive by and toss his out the window at me without slowing down.
Atheist friends, listen closely- I ALREADY KNOW. You can stop leaving me comments that merely state a contrary position as if I have never heard them. I have heard them. Thank you.
But Jr here had a little learning to do, so I decided this was a PERFECT opportunity to take a deep dive into REAL AMERICAN HISTORY! A topic so important than I am forced to write it in all caps.
I said:I can tell by your clever self applied screen name that you are a person of reason. (That was sarcasm) So let me hit you with a few facts that you maybe forgot to learn in school:
“In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The Declaration of Independence
Do you see the two references to God in the opening of the Declaration of Independence? Not Secular, is it?
The Constitution was intentionally left without reference to the church or the Christian faith because the men who wrote it wanted to give the government NO ability to pretend that the church was under the authority of the government, as was the case in England. To a person, the Founders were committed to protecting religious liberty. This conviction was usually based upon the theological principle that humans have a duty to worship God as their consciences dictate. A good illustration of this is George Mason’s 1776 draft of Article XVI of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights. It reads:
“That as Religion, or the Duty which we owe to our divine and omnipotent Creator, and the Manner of discharging it, can be governed only by Reason and Conviction, not by Force or Violence; and therefore that all Men shou’d enjoy the fullest Toleration in the Exercise of Religion, according to the Dictates of Conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the Magistrate….”
Virginia’s Declaration of Rights
In 1802, Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in which he famously suggested that the First Amendment created a “wall of separation between Church & State.” While stupid people on the internet have tried to twist this to mean that the government is supposed to be free from involvement from the Christian faith, the exact opposite is true. The Baptists didn’t want a government like in England which gave itself authority over the church, and Jefferson was assuring them that the laws were designed to protect the church from the government, NOT the other way around.
Finally, From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Reva Sevander (also known as the Third Sister) is an Imperial Inquisitor who appears in the Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobi (on Disney Plus). She is played by Moses Ingram, and according to Wookipedia, her character is one of only two humans to be Inquisitors. In case you haven’t followed the Star Wars post-Clone Wars/Pre-Rebellion lore, the Inquisitors were servants of the Empire who hunted Jedi after the rise of the Empire.
If you need to ask what Jedi are, you might as well stop reading this article. In fact, you might as well just unsubscribe, because a LOT of things I say won’t make ANY sense to you. I always say that you can’t teach anything without referencing Star Wars or Batman. And that is how I do.
Moses! Let my Jedi GO!
So there was a lot of mixed hype about this series, but the drama started when the promotional material made it look like Obi Wan was going to be a side character in his own show, second banana to The Third Sister, played by a black woman. Apparently the drama got so intense that some people started to send hateful comments to Moses Ingram on social media, including RACIST comments.
HATE? On the INTERNET?!?!
According to Newsweek, Moses Ingram shared screenshots of the messages she’s received in her Instagram inbox since joining the franchise. Some of the hateful comments included: “You’re days are numbered [sic]” and “You suck loser. You’re a diversity hire and you won’t be loved or remembered for this acting role.”
The article goes on to report that Ingram said, “Long story short, there are hundreds of those, hundreds.”
According to CNN, Ingram posted multiple examples of racist messages and comments on Instagram, noting that she has received hundreds of messages, some of which included the N-word. CNN doesn’t say what the N stands for, but apparently it’s very naughty. Maybe it’s “naughty”? I’ll Google it later.
Reva Sevander (also known as the Third Sister) is an Imperial Inquisitor who appears in the Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobi (on Disney Plus). She is played by Moses Ingram, and there was a lot of mixed hype about this series, but the drama started when the promotional material made it look like Obi Wan was going to be a side character in his own show, second banana to The Third Sister, played by a black woman. Apparently the drama got so intense that some people started to send hateful comments to Moses Ingram on social media, including RACIST comments. Today we look into this media frenzy about Ingram receiving HATE… on the INTERNET?!?!
Moses! Let my Jedi GO!
Examples (for once) Are Hard To Find
I’ve not been able to find any examples of any of the hundreds of these hateful, racist comments online, so all I have to go on is those two examples given by Newsweek. According to Newsweek, Moses Ingram shared screenshots of the messages she’s received in her Instagram inbox since joining the franchise. Some of the hateful comments included: “You’re days are numbered [sic]” and “You suck loser. You’re a diversity hire and you won’t be loved or remembered for this acting role.” Neither of those are ACTUALLY racist, but, if you take them both the right way, they certainly are… not very nice. Which is sort of like racism in the way Adam Sandler movies are sort of like funny.
The article goes on to report that Ingram said this about the issue, “Long story short, there are hundreds of those, hundreds. And I also see those of you out there who put on a cape for me and that really does mean the world to me, because there’s nothing anybody can do about this.”
Remember that she said “There’s nothing that anybody can do about this,” because in just a moment I’m going to show you how all kinds of people decided that this was somehow Disney’s Fault.
Very interesting. Be more interesting if you got your facts straight. No one ‘decides’ to change genders. A fully functional man–or woman–does not suddenly one day ‘decide’ to become the opposite sex and viola, there they are. Most if not all of them feel otherly challenged even as children, and depending on their family ‘standards’ they either shut up about it or tell someone, i.e., “mamma, I don’t feel like a girl. I feel like a boy’. It’s got nothing to do with wanting to wear blue or pink, or playing with ‘girl toys’ or ‘boy toys” but an internal feeling that must be agonizing for them and for everyone around them.
I think you’ve confused cross dressing with gender issues. Not the same thing at all.
I suspect you are also of the persuasion that a gay can be ‘converted’ to straight, if they just try harder.
I was thinking about the debate over Evolutionism recently, and I was reminded how a lot of Evolutionists seem to think that ANY change is evolution, to the extent that more than one has told me that, the fact that he is not genetically IDENTICAL to his mother IS EVOLUTION. Of course this is nonsense, but I have had difficulties in the past getting them to understand why.
But then it hit me; I just need to simplify it down to the lowest genetic level. Get out your pencils kids! It’s time for 6th grade science, and learning to see the forest for the genes.
A gene is a piece of DNA that codes for a protein. I’m simplifying a bit, but when it comes to the cause and effect relationships of DNA information and parts of the cell, a protein is coded for in a gene. Lots of proteins connect together into organelles, and a bunch of organelles that work together in a single living unit makes a cell. All of those proteins are coded for in the DNA carried in the cell. You should be writing this stuff down. It MIGHT be on the test…
So, imagine a gene. Let’s call it Gary. Gary is the information to make the protein Garatin.
Our intrepid reporter is on location to interview the one she has been told is the Great Physician. A beautiful restaurant is full of people from all walks of life, enjoying a meal and drinks in a grand hall. The restaurant is owned by Dr. Calvin, and he is telling his story to the reporter who has joined the event to record the goings on- to get to know the one she has heard about.
“I am the Great Physician you have heard and read about,” he says.
“Who are all of these men and women, Dr Calvin?” she asks.
The Doctor looks over the grand hall and says, “This room is full of smokers- 100 smokers to be exact- each with lung cancer because of their smoking.”
“My goodness!” the reporter exclaims. She looks through the mist of cigarette smoke at the men and women filling the tables all across the ornate room. “Are these your patients? Are you treating them for their cancer?”
“No,” says the Doctor. “They are too addicted to their smoking. They know that coming to me would mean I would make them stop smoking, so none of them would ever come to me. In fact, they cannot come to me, so great is the slavery of their addiction.”
“If they are not your patients, then why are they all here?”
“I invited them to my restaurant for lunch because I have a surprise for them,” Dr Calvin tells her. “I have created a substance I call “Grace,” which is the cure that not only heals them of their cancer,” he explains, “but begins to remove from them the desire to smoke, breaking their addiction. I can change their lives! Cured and made new! It won’t cost them anything, and they can’t do anything to help make it work. It’s 100% effective all by itself.”
“Oh my goodness!” the reporter exclaims. “They will be cured of their cancer?”
“Entirely.”
“And they will no longer want to smoke?”
“Well,” he replies, “I’m not saying none of them will EVER light up again, but those who are cured will grow to see more and more the disgusting habit for what it is, and come to hate the thing that causes their former disease. Someday the cigarette they light will be their very last, whereas if I merely left them as they are, they would smoke to their final breath.”
“How do they get this cure from you?” the reporter asked. “Will there be an auction? Is that why they are gathered here?”
“No, of course not!” the Doctor laughed. “I do not have a limited supply that it needs to be fought over. I can make enough Grace for as many as I wish.”
“And you’re simply giving it away?” asks the reporter, dumbfounded.
“In fact, I already have,” the Doctor says with a smile.
“My goodness!” the reporter says with delight. “You are truly generous and merciful!”
“As they lunch,” the Doctor explains, “I have walked among them, filling their drinks. I’ve slipped this cure into the drinks of ten of those people, who I chose for reasons of my own. It will cost them nothing and it does for them what nothing else could. At each table, someone I have chosen will find that, by the time dessert has been served, they are healthy and new, and they may find that they are the only person at their table not reaching for an after lunch cigarette.”
“Wait,” the reporter begins hesitantly, “did you say ten of them?”
“Yes, ten of these sick and dying smokers have been given the gift of Grace and will find they have already been cured before they are done with their entrées!”
“Like, you’re only giving it to ten of them NOW?” The reporter is confused as she attempts to grasp the plan at work. “But you’re giving it to the rest of them later? Like, in the after dessert coffee? Or as a gift basket for them to choose to take when they get home?”
“No, it’s not something they can choose. It’s something I have to give them. They can’t give it to themselves.”
“But they can come to you later and ask for it,” the reporter says. “Because when they see how this Grace has affected the others, they will want it too, right?”
“No,” he says. “They are too addicted to their smoking. They cannot and will not come to me for Grace, even after they see it’s effects and are told the testimonies of those I have helped.”
“But the other ninety people- you are giving it to them too, aren’t you?”
“No, I’m only giving it to ten of them,” explains the doctor. “Just the ten I chose.”
“Why aren’t you putting it in all of their drinks?” she asks. “You could cure all of them by dessert.”
“I’ve only made enough for ten of them,” the doctor answers.
“But if you invited one hundred of them, why would you only make enough for ten of them?”
“Because,” the Doctor replies, becoming frustrated with this reporter’s apparent unwillingness to understand, “I have only chosen ten people to give it to. Why would I make more Grace if it was going to sit around unused? That would be wasteful. I don’t do things that way.”
“No,” she stutters, “what I mean is… Why not cure all of them? Why didn’t you make enough for one hundred of them and give it to all one hundred of them?”
“What do I owe any of them?” Doctor Calvin replies. “It’s because of their decision to smoke that they have cancer. Each of them is suffering the wages of their own decisions. I don’t owe a single one of them a cure, but ten of them are receiving it none the less. My actions prove I am generous and merciful.”
“But, you COULD cure them all?”
“Yes, of course I could,” he explains, “but letting some of them die shows how horrible smoking is, which helps people see how kind I am to cure some of them who I’ve chosen to help.”
“How can you let most of them die when you have the ability to save them?” the reporter despairs. “Are they just nameless strangers to you? Don’t you know they have families?”
“Of course I know that,” the Doctor tells her. “I’ve known their families for generations. I love all of these people and I know them by name. I can tell you the name of the great great great grandmother they had in common. They all come from families of smokers, which is why they are smokers.”
“But why are these people all smokers if you’ve known their families? Haven’t you told them not to smoke?”
“Of course I told them not to smoke!” Dr Calvin laughs. “They are smokers because, despite my warnings, their greatest of grandparents chose to smoke. Then I got their mothers hooked on cigarettes before they were born so they would all be born addicted to cigarettes.”
“These people were all…” The reporter paused and looked around the crowded room. “They were BORN addicted to cigarettes?”
“That’s right. They were born smokers, born into smoking families.”
“But, they were born smokers because…?”
“Because I determined that they would be smokers. It was my plan from the beginning.”
“You… gave these people cancer?” the reporter shouts in a whisper.
“Don’t be absurd,” replies Dr Calvin indignantly. “I never gave anyone cancer. The cigarettes they chose to smoke gave them cancer.”
“But you chose to make sure they were born addicted to smoking!”
“But I also warned them that smoking would cause cancer and kill them,” the Doctor reminds her. “And now, I have generously given ten of them a completely effective and completely free cure so they can live.”
“You said you love all of these people!”
“Yes, in a sense.”
“But what of the ninety people who are still going to die? Don’t you love them?”
“Yes, in a sense. But, then in another,” he explains, “I hate those people. I’ll be glad to see them die.”
“How can you say that!” the reporter shouts, this time not in a whisper.
“Who are you to question me? Are you a great doctor? Are YOU the Great Physician? Have you made a cure for cancer? CAN you do such a great thing?”
“No,” she admits quietly. “But I still don’t see how you can hate people enough to let them die when you can help them.”
“I don’t expect you to understand my complex nature. In a general sense, I love all of these people, but some of them… well, they’re SMOKERS. It’s a disgusting, filthy habit that causes cancer! And I have told them over and over not to smoke and they continue to ignore me and do it anyway. They are only getting what they deserve.”
“I don’t understand how you, a doctor…”
“Look, it’s very simple,” he explains. “These people are, all of them, slaves to their desire to smoke, addicted from birth. Because of that, they are incapable of coming to me to give them help, because they will always choose cigarettes over health- over coming to me. Therefore, the only way to help them is to choose some of them to cure, and give them the gift of Grace without their help or consent. I chose some of them for my own reasons, not because they earned it in any way, and they will be cured and shortly afterwards will understand what I’ve done for them.
“I made a limited supply of Grace,” he continues, “and I have given it to those I have chosen. I won’t waste it by making it for people who I’m not giving it to, so I have made just enough to help those people I have chosen to help. And once they have been helped, they will be cancer free and lose the desire to smoke until they become totally smoke free. Am I not generous and merciful?”
“I’m not sure what I think,” she says, looking around the room. “To those being cured, you are generous and merciful, but when the number you hate is so much higher than the number of those you help, I’m not entirely sure I believe that you’re a doctor.”
The article she went on to write was greeted by a lot of overly confident men in beards telling her that she doesn’t understand Dr Calvin, and that she is merely misrepresenting him. Some accused her of worshipping at the alter of free health care. A growing number of people, however, think that the man she was introduced to was not the real Doctor at all.
I encourage my readers to see the four biographies which were written by the Great Physician’s friends and see if the man you find in those books is the same man she spoke to, or if perhaps she was introduced to an imposter.
In what is sure to be the reason I get kicked off of social media, I explain the debate over gay marriage, and why letting Pandas eat giraffes isn’t the loving thing to do.
I explain how the American church has swung the reaction pendulum to both extremes of the LGBTQ debate. Both of which are wrong.
I explain how the Transgender movement has failed so badly that I am Transgender (according to Google anyway). I’m old enough to remember when words had meanings. But I digress.
And we take a lengthy dive into the many ways a “LGBTQ affirming” church tries to use the Bible to teach things the Bible clearly does not teach. It’s a great lesson on how to start a cult.
But the whole point is, whatever our sins, Jesus loves us. That’s the good news the Bible has for all of us, even when we’ve taken a few bites out of the giraffes.
A Bit of Orange 