Response to a facebook post about trashy female musicians.

Today I thought I would post a response I wrote to a facebook thread.
The basics of the thread where dailymail.uk had a story up were someone was saying that female music performers have gone to far with the open sexuality blah blah.

The following discussion in the comments was taken up mostly by two views. One was TV is bad, kids need to be protected from all these whore in music who are nothing more than porn and the other side was parents shouldn’t shelter the kids but explain to them how the world works. You can probably figure out which side I took already but here is the response I posted in that thread. I thought it was quite a relevant topic.

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A couple things going on here.
1. Dailymail.uk is trash reading at it’s worst. There is absolutely no reason on earth to subject one’s self to the stupidity of it’s writers and topics.

2. This story is hypocrisy at it’s worst. The story questions EXACTLY what the paper is designed to do. Look at the other topics down the ride sideline. “Hot” this “Spicy” that blah blah sensationalizing sex.
3. None of these women are wearing less than is seen on the average beach. So the clothing means nothing. It’s all about behavior and interpretation.

4. I was raised part of the year around nude hippies and part of the year around uptight Christians who thought everything was “Dirty.” I can tell you right now that the “Dirty” finger pointing crowd were by far the more screwed up individuals. They made things much worse than they really are. The nude hippies were harmless, upfront and reasonable.

5. Sheltering kids is a waste of time. The job of the parent is to teach the kids to be as Independent as possible as soon as possible. Not hide them away in a close and then set them free in a strange new world one day when they hit college. That is a formula for kids who realize Mom and Dad were fulla shit. Which then screws up the opportunity to get them to understand good advice.

6. I turned off the TV when my kids were born. I worked in it all my life. I know it’s garbage. Turning it off was a great thing since the internet already existed and vhs and then dvd’s filled in the blanks for the educational stuff. I applaud anyone who gets rid of a TV.

7. I let my kids listen to any music they liked from day one. I did, however, make sure to explain to them much of what was going on. Admittedly, every so often they had to explain to me what was goin on cuz I got old.

8. Judging some singer today for overt sexuality is no different than judging Elvis. It’s the same thing. It’s stupid. If you look at Europe sexuality is wide open and doesn’t cause nearly the problems it does here. It’s the uptight prudish atmosphere that makes things dirty. Not clothing or music.

9. These musicians are doing what they are told. Be provocative, be controversial, push the limits, get noticed and so forth. They are all taking cues from Elvis, controversy is free publicity. As time goes on though, it gets harder to be controversial so they have to keep trying to one up each other. You would be much more useful to yer kids if you explained that concept than if you try to hide it all from them.

10. You can try to hide all you want from kids but they all have friends and they all want what they can’t have. It’s a losing battle which puts you at odds with your kids as soon as they are old enough to figure out that you are not god. Which if I remember correctly, was about 9 or 10. Unless you are going to completely home school them in a cave (not knocking homeschooling) and not let them know other kids, they are going to have access to the outside world and it’s influences. It’s far more useful to them to teach them how it works.

11. I think the most important point here is the words “slut” and “whore” and “tramp” and so on. When you label people with such names you are doing far more disservice to women than you are helping your kids or anything else. These judgments are simple minded and ridiculous. People have the right to live their lives as they see fit. Some do it better than others.

When you label women with these derogatory names just because they enjoy a free sexuality, you are saying that it’s bad and they are lesser human beings for doing it or trying it out. This is absolutely not true. This is about freedom of choice. Obviously no one is trashing football players for hounding around with multiple women. The double standard is worthless and does more damage to women than being a sheltered prude will ever solve.

When you walk into these things with an open mind and see them for what they are, they are far less glamorous or exciting. Fetishes stem from what is taboo. If nothing is taboo then fetishes loose their steam. Treating women as if the length of their dress is somehow defining their value as a human being is as bad as screaming racial slurs at people walking down the street. It’s counter productive and really only defines the limitations of the person doing the judging.

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So in conclusion, I would ad to the post that sheltering people sets them up to be victims on multiple levels and is simply fear based at best which is just not going to help anyone.

Thanks for reading
ScaryDAve

Westborough Baptist Church vs ScaryDAve

Well it was bound to happen eventually.
I have written a lot about the WBC over the years.
In the beginning I was very first amendment. I pointed out that they had ever right to be doing the stupid shit they do and that the price of freedom is often being able to put up with idiots like the WBC.

Strangely enough, although I am completely against everything they stand for, I still support a 1st amendment which allows Nazis, KKK, White supremacist skinheads, communists and whatever else group to write what they like, say what they like and stage rallies and so on. I don’t like them. I disagree with them but they are a necessary evil to keeping this land free and speech protected.

I have come to feel differently about religious extremists though. I understand the need for people to be able to protest the government, politics, laws and so on. This is a system which keeps everything in check and I would be very disappointed to see it disappear. My Father used to say, “I may not agree with what you have to say but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it.” I wonder today how my Father would feel about my decision to make exception to that rule. There is certainly no lack of conflict within myself over the matter. Perhaps I will change my stance again. I don’t know.

What I can say is that right now, I have had enough of the religious extremism in this country. I have come to see that religions are being used as political devices. They use a “god” to bring in money, which is then tax free, and the wage a political war upon our country under the constitutionally protected blanket of “religion.” In the end, all that is really happening is that notoriety is being parleyed into money. Tax free money.

No where does my opinion of this run quite so strong as The Westborough Baptist Church and Harold Camping. As far as I know they are not related and the missions are somewhat different but the ultimate end seems to be the same. Make money at the expense of others. I have similar feelings about Mormons and Scientology and I just find it shocking that at this time in history anyone would still be foolish enough to fall for these obvious scams let alone support them with donations.

Well, today, I had a displeasure of finding out that the WBC was coming to town to protest a funeral for a dead soldier who went to school with my daughter. The first military man from this area to die in a war since Vietnam. I wasn’t given much notice. Maybe an hour or less. I just knew that I was going. I grabbed cameras, video and digital and my Son and I hit the car and were off. I’ll tell ya now the cameras never got used though. I took a second to mention it on the net and on the phone to some friends. A lot of people stood up and offered to cover my bail money if I ended up in jail. Once again, thank you to those folks for the offers.

So I hauled ass out to the area and parked. I made a quick round to see how everything was situated and to see if any WBC people had shown up yet. So far so good. I was wearing my usual biker gear although I am presently without a bike but was still well received when I made it to the staging grounds of the patriot guard at the church where the funeral was to held. We stayed till the family of the dead soldier arrived and was happy to see that they didn’t have to face any of the WBC tards.

Once that seemed covered I quietly walked back down to the highway. I am not one who values funerals much so I figured I would just clear out and leave the people to do their thing in private. There was talk about the WBC staging somewhere nearby but when I heard that horse trailers had been brought in to lock them up and cover them with horse shit, I figure the person was kidding. Low and behold though, on my way back home, there they were.

As I got out of the car I saw the unmistakable sign. “GOD HATES FAGS” That’s about all it really took and I was movin down the hill at a pretty brisk pace. The crowd of counter protesters was small and somewhat family oriented. All white, middle class (for this area), most likely church folks. They were holding up large American flags to cover the WBC folks from view.

I didn’t really have a plan. I just knew I wanted to be there. I did know that if I were in close proximity with someone from the WBC that not getting into a physical altercation would be pretty difficult to do. Normally I am very anti violence and pro first amendment but the internal dialog goin on in my head over how I was going to deal with this was still an unknown outcome. Although, if I’da taken an internal vote at that time, the ass kickers were certainly going to win. Would I come to my senses once I looked them in the eye? Would I just lose all touch with my humanity and immediately start breaking jaws and arms? It was kind of a strangely serene place. I just kind of trusted that whatever happened it was going to be the right thing.

There were two layers of cops. Some on the edge minding traffic, and another set in near the one Charcoal gray minivan. I moved through the first ring without a word, they saw me, smiled and looked away. How fun was this gonna be? lol It was at this point that I was pretty sure that someone was going to get hurt. So I looked for a healthy male target to start wailing on.

I remember there was a guy in California, a Korean guy named Kim. He ran me down head on while I was sitting still on my chopper. The last thing he did before he hit me was accelerate. I was positive he did it on purpose and due to some bizarre unplanned move of my own I was able to get up and walk again after the shock set in. I was single minded, I was going to kill him for trying to kill me. When he was walking toward me I figured it was time so I started to walk at him and wound up to destroy him. Just before I hit him I could see his eyes, he was obviously sorry and asked me how I was. Apparently I was wrong, he didn’t see me, he didn’t try to kill me. So it turned off as fast as it started and I didn’t attack him. Prolly a good thing for me if he had ever been in the South Korean Army lol

So I knew my capacity for spinning on a dime and really didn’t know where this was going to end up once I looked someone in the eyes. I quickly weaved my way through the crowd and watched the last WBC person retreat back into a minvan as I approached it. Another cop with his back to the van put a hand in my chest and stopped my progress. I smiled at him and we danced a bit. The back windows were tinted and there was a lady in the front so I faced the fact that I wouldn’t be assaulting anyone today. I tried to make out a male face but it was just too bright outside and too dark inside. There was no way to be sure that if I punched out the glass and dragged someone out that it would be a man who was healthy enough to fight back.

So the cop and I danced some more and finally I promised him that I wouldn’t get in trouble and that I knew where the line was and I wouldn’t cross it. I said “just let me get my face up there where they can see it. So he smiled and let me by a bit. I have an exclamation point tattooed on my right middle finger in such a way that it is right side up when I give someone the bird. I pressed it up against the glass in the drivers face and she looked at it and me and started trying to drive away. The usually polite crowd around me got somewhat quite when I did this. I think I stretched their moral judgments a bit with this one. This is normally a very quiet polite town where people are not rude to other people who they don’t like. A bit of a contrast from the city where I was raised in Hollywood lol. The cop started to say something and kinda let out an “aww” and I mumbled “First Amendment this” I don’t know if the cop heard me but he quit talking.

I moved around the back of the car an the cop pretty much left me alone at that point. I pressed two flying fingers up on the back glass and put my shins on the bumper. People were saying “Don’t touch the car! That’s what they want! They will sue you.” Lol Like I care hehe. I tried again to make out a male face but no luck. So I just walked along behind them as the car slowly moved forward through the crowd. It crossed my mind to start smashing the car but I don’t think smashing an object carries as much impact as smashing a face. I really don’t feel like going to jail for vandalism. People kept saying “Don’t touch the car!” I simply replied “I’m just making sure they know they can’t back up and change their mind.” There was a laugh, the car broke through the crowd and I went with it. Soon the car and I were outside the crowd and the WBC hate mongers were driving down the road as I held my fist up high in the air waving goodbye with a two fingered “Up yours!”

So, I found myself relieved and disappointed. Kinda happy and yet sad. I’m still not all together sure how I feel about it. There is a lot of conflict going on inside me for sure. How do you say you are against violence and pro 1st amendment and then go try to beat the shit out of someone who is waging a physically peaceful protest with violent words. I am also a person who is constantly saying that words do not rationalize violence. Yet there I was ready to bash someone for saying something I didn’t like. The word hypocrite comes to mind. Not sure it really bothers me in this particular incident but I’ll be honest and cop to it.

Although I have this conflict, I find myself over the point of being OK with giving religious extremists the right to make money off of baiting people. I am tired of allowing the religious extremists of this country to use the flag as both a shield, a doormat, an income and a tax break. I think it’s time that the reasonable people in this country put an end to this.

The country is splitting down the center between a couple of corrupt teams who like to use religion and other divisive messages to separate the people of this country in such a way that they can be fleeced like sheep. Enough of the allowing the powers that be to divide and conquer. The reasonable people of this country need to come together in such away that we can learn how to accept our differences under a common code of conduct that doesn’t divide along religious boundaries. It is absolutely the only way this country is going to be run by the people again instead of large institutions, corrupt government and money hungry religious fanatics.

What I have come to hate about the WBC is that they are simply a small version of what the political parties of this country are doing. They are completely caught up in divisive rhetoric which isn’t helping anyone but themselves. As do the rich. The targets the WBC attacks are usually as helpless as the poor and the middle class who are completely screwed right now. The poor are getting poorer and the middle class is being strapped with most of the burden and told that it’s the fault of the poor, the immigrants and the ungodly. The WBC blames their evils on a pissed off god. The enemy always has a patsy and their actions are always justified by a file cabinet full of highly detailed and categorized excuses.

To me, the WBC is just another money making scam. They do their best to piss people off, knowing that in any conflict there will be two sides and that with enough publicity, their side will make money. Either in donations or by baiting people into fucking with them so they can fight back with law suits. Something a few other religions have engaged in rather successfully.

A part of me want’s to rally together the people of this country with nothing to lose. The terminally poor who can’t be sued for anything because they don’t have anything. I feel like we should stand up and fight back. People who have things to lose are who these assholes are making their money off of. Those of us who have no money for them to make would seem to be the perfect opposition in a conflict such as this. Broke people can easily become a wall between these profiteers and their income stream. We can take out screwed up status and use it for a good cause which the middle class can actually respect.

Another part of me thinks that’s futile and that a better way to go would be to start an ethics based movement which is geared towards hoping that the sane people of this country outnumber the extremist retards. Am I naive to believe that a movement of reason which defined a clear cut and simple code of ethics could be agreed upon by both the religious, the non religious, the conservative and the non conservatives alike? A part of me truly believes this could be done and that if it were accomplished, the people who are destroying this nation by turning us against each other, would be so vastly outnumbered that putting this country back on the fast track to stability would not be as impossible as it seems to most of us right now.

So yes, I went out to the line today and I was ready to cross it. I was willing to cross that line for the family of a soldier who died in a war I don’t support. Who held their funeral in the house of worship that I don’t believe in. Who probably don’t have much of anything in common with me at all. Yet, it happened INSIDE my country. It happened against a group of people who have been tearing at this country for years. Now I feel that it was well worth the conflict to help myself come to a deeper understanding of what I want for this country. Which is equality and freedom.

Freedom from the ever tightening grip of an increasingly oppressive government which tries to take away our freedoms in order to “protect us” from the people they first armed and then went and pissed off in the first place. Equality with the bottom feeding 1% rich who are every day buying laws and sucking this country dry and calling it a free economy. An economy isn’t free if you have to buy the government to get rid of your competition. Speech isn’t free if you are simply using it to bait people into a lawsuit so you can make money off of them.

I guess in the end, if I am going to be a spent pawn, I want it to be for a cause I believe in and for a side I joined freely. I love my country but right now it’s like watching two brothers trying to kill each other over a woman who isn’t worth either of them let alone both.

I think it’s time the people of this country use the extremist who try to separate us as. I think we should grind them up into the glue which brings us all back together. The religious need to look at this and take note of just how dangerous religion can be when it gets out of hand and the atheists need to look at this and understand how important it is to protect the sanctity of a religious funeral from extremists who would stop it or desecrate it for any agenda. It’s time to put our differences aside and understand that this country is falling apart and it’s time to quit blaming sides. It’s time to start holding the side dividers accountable for their lies and inflammatory rhetoric. Patriotism is not finding excuses to divide a country of basically good people. Those who would divide and conquer our country used to be called traitors and were charged with treason. Face it, during the cold war, the communists never did as much damage to this country as the rich and the religious extremists are doing to it right now.

Meanwhile, I decided to give away another do it yourself shirt stencil :)
It’s rude but I think it’s still acceptable and it’s in direct conflict with the WBC message so I like it :) You can always turn it into fliers or posters to take to counter WBC protests. If you don’t know how to make a shirt with it, simply watch my video on how to make a MFTCOD shirt and the directions are pretty clear and simple. You can also just print it out as an iron on transfer. Enjoy!

Sincerely
ScaryDAve

CLick this link for the shirt art—-> Here YA go!

How to make your own MFTCOD T Shirt!

OK well I said, in the video, that this would be free and I guess I sort of assumed that you would have this stuff just laying around like I do so if you have to actually buy any of this stuff, my apologies. My suggestion is make a few shirts and sell a couple off to recoup your costs. That’s right, I said bootleg my stuff you thieving bastards! hehe Well I guess it ain’t stealin if I told ya to do it but if I told you jump off a bridge would ya do it? What if I just told you to spray paint this on a bridge? Hmm Well I never said it an you can’t prove a thing. >:) Besides, I am a fan of freeway on ramp light poles fliers myself but just cuz I dream about being the next Andre the giant flier fad doesn’t mean I condone it or cross the legal line of liability of asking people to engage in it. After all, I am a comedian and can’t expect anyone to take anything I say seriously >:)

Now get to work and still my picture. Just right click on it and save it for all eternity!

So a few little notes here. Some of you have access to printers that will print out vinyl stickers. If you do this and then stick them on thin cardboard or thick construction paper your stencil might last longer. I didn’t try it so don’t blame me it if goes to crap on ya in the first run. It’s just an idea that ain’t worth much more than ya just paid for it :)

OK so once you download the picture, take photoshop or The Gimp (free) and re-size the image to whatever you like. Right now its good for an average t shirt but you could blow it up to the size of a wall or down to fit on yer back pocket so you can tell everyone yer constantly sittin on my face. It’s all good. IF ya blow it up it’s gonna look like crap but you can fix that when you cut out the stencil. If you blow it up really big yer gonna have to do it in sections and don’t even start askin me how to do that shit.

So now, take yer design and some packing tape and tape it down to something you don’t care about. Like yer little brother or politician. I used a board cus I was trying to make a planking statement about saving forests or some crap like that. Anyway, tape my face to some wood. I suppose try not to get too many wrinkles and bubbles in the tape cuz it makes me look old. Apparently it doesn’t hurt the stencil at all cept maybe you look like yer some kinda slob who doesn’t care about the quality of yer work in which case hey! You could have a rewarding career in politics or religion! :D

Moving on, try to cut out the detailed stuff first. I try also to go from the top down but you can spin the board too. I say the detailed stuff first because it’s the stuff you are most likely to screw up to get it out of the way first and then if you have to start over you saved yerself some time. Put a clean piece of paper wherever yer gonna rest yer hands so the details don’t stick to you and tear off. The edges don’t have to be perfect. The spray paint is going to go around them and soften up all those hard cut lines quite nicely so don’t stress.

Ok so now you have the stencil cut out and it’s time to cut it off the board. You can either cut the straight lines on the edge of the paper or if you like you can carve the edges you look like they are ripped fabric or paper to make it look even more rough around the edges. Whatever ya like.

So then flip that puppy over and hit the back with some cheap spray adhesive. Nothing too horribly strong cuz ya want it easy to come back off as well and you don’t want the shirt covered with little glue boogers when yer done. Give the back of the stencil a couple quick coats and let it sit for a little bit (watch the video it was about 90 degrees and humid) it just be just barely sticky to the finger touch.

Now flip it over and place it on the shirt. Try not to try to get it all just so and perfect and symmetrical and stuff. This is rough graffiti kinda shit so just slap it on all crooked and shit. I like it tilted with the top of the head pointed at the neck hole in the shirt. I want to just take this moment to point out that I know it’s inevitable that some fucker is gonna put this on a pink polo shirt and I just want that bastard to know now that I say “Fuck you.”

Now get out that gray spray paint and shake it up. If ya wanna have fun, hold a video camera in yer hand and everyone will think yer doing art in an earthquake. Now spray that stuff on there. Keep an even distance and keep the can moving. Use short sprays so you don’t build up drips. Unless you like drips in which case, go freakin crazy. Pay attention though cuz sometimes the stencil will peel and curl up as it gets more and more wet and allow paint to go around it. Don’t try to push it back down, just stop spraying there. Be sure to let a bunch slop over the sides onto the shirt so the frame of the stencil shows and give it that “I’m outta control and I do what I want!” Cartman on Springer / 1979 punk rock feel.

Now sing the “I’m a missionary for The Church of DAve” intro. When yer done singing it’s time to pull off the stencil. If you want to do it again sometime then do it carefully. If all you want is this one deal, then rip it off it’s the gift wrapping and yer a Christmas morning kid on crack.

Well that pretty much covers it pal. You put that bad boy on and you are officially tainted. If you wear it to school or work and the teacher or yer boss asks you what MFTCOD means… try to avoid answers like “Mother Fuckin Church Of DAve Beotch!” Other wise, feel free to pimp me out all ya like. If you wanna make a silk screen of this design, go for it. I think it would look best if you did it in such away that still made it looked like it was spray painted. You can even sell them if you like as long as it’s just by hand to yer friends or on beaches an stuff like that. I prefer not to see them on ebay and cafe press type sites.

Well there you have it!
Such a deal!

As an added bonus I decided to put another stencil here as well. Maybe it will look good on the back of yer new shirt! Or other places >:)

How do I fight a traffic or speeding ticket?

Here we have a commonly asked question. How do I fight a traffic ticket? Those pesky speeding citations can really run up the insurance bills and depending on where you get the ticket the fines and added fees themselves can get pretty steep.

This is mainly about the regular every day tickets for speeding 10 or 15 over the limit and things like that. For those of us who find it difficult to squelch the need to pull up next to cops on 150MPH wheel mounted rockets and then give said officer a friendly bird while screaming “Catch me if you can copper!”, this guide is going to be somewhat lacking in describing the kind of defense yer gonna require should you ever get caught. Luckily for me, I have very little experience with such a case since, well, I only ever got caught once :) Oh and it was dismissed >:) That’s another story though.

Or course the tittle is very literal here. This is how “I” do it. I am not a lawyer and I am not qualified to give you legal advice so just put down the malpractice suit ideas right now :) This is about how I have dealt with traffic citations. An I mean LOTS of them hehe. How YOU do it is up to you. Capiche? OK.

The first step in fighting any ticket is, or course, learning how to not get caught, but then that’s not why yer here is it? So the second step is going to be keeping your mouth shut when you get that priceless ticket to the courtroom gala. Resist the temptation to argue with the officer over your not being worthy of such a gift. You may want to also refrain from saying “Thank you” as well cuz if you do, in ten minutes, it’s gonna piss you off something fierce.

Either way, talking now is not going to do any good. The heavily armed hall monitor already made up his mind before you even pulled over. The last thing you want to do now is give him reason to remember you. Recognizing his name and asking him if he has a Daughter about your age is a bad move too. I know. Especially if you have already been giving his wife tennis lessons and you know nothing about tennis.

Trust me on this one. Take the ticket, be polite, don’t start talking to him. If he asks if you know why he pulled you over don’t admit you know. “You mean doing 65 through that school zone back there?” Is not the proper response. “No Sir why is that?” Is all you need to say. From then on it’s “Yes Sir” and “OK Sir”. You can say what you really feel once he is already far enough away to not hear you or make out your hand gestures. This is not the time to exercise your rebellious side. That comes later. Once again, when I say “YOU” I mean me cuz I am not nearly talented enough at BS to be an actual lawyer. I merely pretend to be one on an internet humor site :)

Now, the easiest way to fight a ticket, is always going to be, have it dismissed. What a glorious feeling it can be too! It’s like going to an after school fight where you know you are gonna get your ass handed to you on a platter of blood and then the other guy says, “Take a hike dweeb.” Don’t ask why, just start walking and bask in the glory of all the medical bills you just saved your parents from having to pay.

In certain parts of the country this is fairly easy to accomplish a high percentage of the time. The “YES!” factor which makes it possible is finding out if your courthouse recognizes your right to face your accuser. If the officer who gave you the citation has to be in your presence for your “trial” the odds that you can get it dismissed just fell into your favor. You can now do half the crazy chicken dance cuz the battle is half over. Keep the one leg and one arm still though cuz yer not home free yet. Well now you just look silly and you are actually me so knock that off and quit makin me look silly. OK were was I?

Ah yes, “I object!” No wait….oh. I am from Los Angeles and in much of Los Angeles I have the right to face my accuser. On the other hand places like Glendale, Burbank and some other spots, as I remember it, were not so accommodating. They felt the ticket was my accuser. I tried to cross examine a ticket once and the judge was none too amused though I got some good laughs from the court room audience and the bailiff even waved at me. I thought it was a high five but it turned out to be a “straighten up and fly right or yer spending the afternoon with me.” HE wasn’t my type so I rolled over and ratted myself out. It was not my proudest moment but don’t judge me!

In those places it almost not worth it to fight unless you can come up with some seriously convincing evidence in the way of mechanical, photographic, video or even city records showing the trimming of trees which previously blocked signs and so on. This article will be focusing mainly on courts which do recognize your right to face a human accuser. Mainly because of how hard it is to obtain quality pictures of your male judge dressed in pink lingerie, Hitler makeup and having sex with a sheep.

So in cases where I am treated like a human with rights and am allowed to face my accuser, my next step is to avoid it at all costs! That’s right, nest step, get the ticket continued/postponed. Hopefully it will be 30 -60 days. Quite often I can get the extension over the phone. Every time the court day is within a week call up and ask for an extension. If you can’t get it over the phone go down to the court clerk and ask to see the judge so you can request it in person. Get as long as you can. Be polite. Pretend you actually respect the guy. Brush yer hair and stuff, ya never know what might work on these insensitive monsters! A good excuse is I am waiting to find out if I am going to take a job which may require me to travel, in which case I will just pay the fine. Since I worked in film it was always the truth but simply opening the wanted ads and calling a couple travel jobs for interviews makes it the truth as well. I do not encourage lying in court.

Eventually no one is gonna put up with any more of your…uh … my slacking and it will come time to make an arraignment date. When this time comes, it is best to wear a conservative suit (male or female.) Avoid zoot suits and bright colors cuz judges will freakin judge you an stuff. I try to avoid the ring through the nose as well.

So then the judge will ask me if I am guilty or not guilty. The answer is “Not guilty. ” This will then result in the judge setting a trial date. It’s best to carry a day planner of some sort and consult it to find a suitable date. I don’t encourage lying but I want to look as respectable and busy as possible. Lawyer-ish even. Ask for a specific date about 30 days after the date he offers and he perhaps will counter with another date until you both agree on a date which is as far away as possible. I try to avoid the used car haggling atmosphere as it may induce feelings about me not being trusted. Eventually you guys will settle on a date. 60 days out is preferable. Usually the judge will shoot for 30 days out. Small towns may make continuances harder to acquire. Sometimes it seems better to just leave town and never return to that state cuz it works in moves but even bumkins have computers now so it’s best to just try to keep it all legal an stuff.

When you come to the actual trial date, IF the cop is not there (unlikely he will be) your case will be dismissed. Just say thank you and GTF out of there. Doing the funky chicken victory dance now is still cause for arrest so not yet. Save that stuff for later at the barn dance when you tell you heroic tale of near destruction at the claws of the mighty system and how you successfully evaded the dragon while also making it look like a complete reptard.

If the cop actually shows up I usually just plead “screwed”..er.. “No contest” and lose unless I have some pretty decent evidence that he is wrong. Once again pictures of a dismissible nature….very hard to come by.

When researching how do I fight a traffic or speeding ticket I always find out if I can have no contest plea erased from my record with a traffic school of some sort before I hit the court so I can ask for it. When asking for traffic school after requesting a trial, the judge might complain or ask why did you drag it out so long and I simply respond very politely “I was under the impression that I was going to be able to present evidence that showed that I was not guilty but have been unsuccessful in acquiring such evidence and don’t want to wast the courts time with excuses which I cannot substantiate with evidence. ” This may calm him down and get you the traffic school. Always remember to end such a sentence with a few choice extra words which you never actually say out loud so that it’s easier to keep a pleasant look upon your face :) I like ones like “You son of a…” betcher bottom doller you don’t wanna mess up and say this stuff out loud though.

Also, in California, if you have already been to traffic school within a certain time period you won’t be able to go for some certain length of time cuz the system will simply assume that yer a fool who isn’t paying attention in class. Still, I know there is a code ( I can’t remember the number but it’s easy to look up) which states that the judge can still wave the time limit and let you go again. If this is my case, I then ask “Your honor,(silently interpreted as hey uncle squeeze my nutz) I would like to request traffic school under code 1234 please” In doing this, I just asked to be treated differently from everyone else in the room without telling anyone else in the room that you think your something special. This gives the Judge a little respect nudge and doesn’t put him in a hard place if he decides to let you have it. It also keeps everyone else in the room from stepping up and saying “but you gave it to that guy!” and calling you teachers pet.

If the Judge gets belligerent and asks why I think I should be treated any differently than anyone else, I refrain from lines such as “Has being a white male over 40 come to mean nothing in this country?” and simply respond with “I noticed that the vehicle code cites my right to ask for access to traffic school under such conditions so I am simply following the rules laid out in the code to the best of my ability your honor” (Silently thinking “So who’s the smartypants now huh!?”

Never take a cop or judges bait to be belligerent. They are far better fishermen than you are a fish. I always rise above their childish behaviors and throw darts at their paperwork later, at home. Every so often it can really pay off to play the game better than they do. A little respect, intellect and professional behavior can set you apart from the crowd in a very good way. I have been in situations which just went from bad to worse and then been let off Scott free because of my attitude alone as an example to the rest of the courtroom. Every tool is worth using. Especially if that tool is wearing a big, long black dress and sitting on a high chair like a big baby. All pretending to be superior! Hey Judge! I can walk up steps to the big chair too ya fake! Your no wizard! Your a phony! Yer nothing without your stupid papers and cops and hammer thingy!…

Anyway, having ridden fast motorcycles in LA for decades, I have had many many tickets dismissed, avoided all sorts of insurance increases and kept my license with these very useful methods. I suppose you could too but this is about me so quit butting in.

I know it sounds like a lot of work but then insurance and ticket fees can ad up fast so if the time is available to do this stuff it’s well worth it. Keep in mind parking around court houses is often designed to create more tickets so be careful :) I think my favorite part was always telling everyone else around me how to do it as well. You haven’t lived until you sit in Van Nuys traffic court watching 15 Mexicans in a row ask for a continuance lol

Another thing to point out is some people feel the suit, the language, the courtroom respect is humiliating and they wanna “keep it real.” I submit that trying to use logic with a rabid dog is an ineffective tool. If one isn’t going into the court to win, then one should simple pay the ticket and move on or perhaps take a dump in the isle. Court is not a place for traffic citation protests. Unless you are homeless and hungry and a few nights in jail sounds good in which case screaming things like “NO YOU’RE OUT OF ORDER!!! NO YOU ARE!!! NO YOU ARE!!!” Aughta work out well for you :)

If I am going to contest a citation, I going in to win. Not to just waste my time and that of everyone else stuck in that courtroom by waging a pre destined failure of a defense as an excuse to just complain. If all I wanted to do was complain I’d go be some kinda pissed off , whiny writer on the internet.

As I pointed out in the beginning, any time you get a ticket, be polite an don’t do or say anything which will give the cop reason to remember you. Offering him that handjob is probably not a good idea either. Unless he comes right out and asks you. Then I just suppose you have to weigh your options and look deep within yourself. Before he gets a chance to first. Once again, not being memorable increases the likelihood that he won’t show up in court which, in the right courts, results in that prized dismissal and the funky chicken barn dance bragging rights.

Here is why this works. When a cop writes a ticket, usually he is just being a dick. No wait, usually it’s because he is expected to fulfill an illegal quota which makes he and his superiors criminals so in order to keep the lies and deceitful taxation running smoothly, every citation he writes that day will have all have the same court dates. This way when the court date comes up, he is expected to show up and back up his BS.

Now, the average person who wants to fight it will start mouthing off immediately and perhaps even start throwing poo at the officer in a manor which is quite similar to monkeys at the zoo. Often this is interpreted incorrectly by the officer and results in a spontaneous psychological event known as the Rodney King Syndrome. Should this happen, you are pretty much dead now or at least comatose and crippled for life. Which is why it is illegal in many parts of the country to videotape officers of the law having mental breakdowns on the job.

Once the officer has decided that you do, indeed, need to die, the officer will write notes on the back of his copy to help jog his memory in court. Especially if he decides he doesn’t like you. Because face it, he has been abusing a lot of people and eventually they all kind of blend together. It’s only natural.

When that original court date arrives, everyone from that day, who doesn’t know better, will show up together and he will crucify them one at a time because the court sees him as an expert and you as guilty. This is why it’s called the “Just US” system. Cuz you are on the wrong side of the little wooden shorty wall thing with the little swingy saloon doors for midgets. Which makes you “them” and “them” are guilty. It’s kinda the American way so 9-11! Support the troops love it or leave it you socialist!

My father once beat a cop with math but then my father was a human calculator and the poor cop had no idea his estimations would be taken to task so quickly. The judge was so impressed he thanked my Dad lol I am pretty sure that cop caught an earful after that court session. So we never drove on that road every again and had the car painted a different color. Dad said it was so the pigs wouldn’t recognize the car so I thought I was some kinda city bull fighting thing that was done with hogs and red capes but later I learned he just meant something else.

So your goal is, in locations where you have the right to face your accuser, which, do to complete BS, is not everywhere, to get the cop to forget you AND to get the court date changed so it lands on a date when he doesn’t want to be there. Preferably when there is some sort of sporting event on TV. This way, he already got his illegal quota of criminal behavior, he already showed up for his primary court date of farcical expert testimony and you are just one tiny little fish who got away out of a big bunch of fish he already caught in his dragnet and you won’t cause any scratches his report card when the other officers in the locker room make fun of the puny size of his quotas.

He will also possibly assume you are a law student or in a cop or court family because you were smart enough to pull all this off. In the end you usually will not be important enough to show up for unless it happens to land on a day he is already there which is rare so the odds seem to have always been in my favor if I follow these simple rules. 1. Blend in, shut up and be less than memorable. 2. Demand to face your accuser and then avoid it at all costs! 3. Hope the dice land in your favor.

On a closing note, I must say that a really fast bike, lots of cops and this method of keeping my license resulted in a lot of paperwork lol At one point when I was about 21, I had a small apartment with a tiny bathroom and a toilet paper holder that was mounted in a hard to use place so instead of the TP I skewered a massive stack of legal paperwork from all the tickets I had. It reminded me of a scene in American Graffiti where the lead had a glove compartment filled with tickets. One day a friend came over with another friend who was a probation officer for kids and the guy came out of my bathroom laughing his head off. “Man you got a serious problem with authority don’t you?” Ya think? hehe

I hope this lack of legal advise gave you something to do while the boss was looking the other way.

Facebook crossover conversation. At what age should a child be able to survive?

Below is some text I wrote at the end of a comment thread on my facebook page which you can find here: .

Ferrel children: Article
Talent show spotlighting a kid raised on the street: Video

More Weiner bullshit. Therapy is not the answer to being male.

A recent article at huffingtonpost.com has just taken the bullshit to far. Here is the original article. What a load. article.

What a complete load of absolute malarkey. The article is written by a woman, the first source is another woman selling books to women. Would you seriously want a man telling the world how your female sexuality functions? I assume the “Cooper” person is a male but still selling out to books that women want to buy.

How this baloney still sell is only testament to the fact that women still prefer to buy excuses instead of learn the truth.

Let me just lay out some truth that most men refuse to hand over.

1. Men, of all kinds, want to chase women. We don’t need power or money to want it. It simply makes it easier to do. It’s not the power that makes us do it. It’s not some ridiculous insecurity. If anything, it’s insecurity which keeps us FROM doing it.

2. All men, even gays, understand that once you are in a locker room atmosphere, the “guy code” turns on. The guy code, silly as it may seem has numerous rules like

A. “She can’t handle the truth.” (one that is quite often true)
B. Guys don’t rat out other guys. (Usually true unless it’s done to
catch a woman.
C. What a woman doesn’t know, won’t hurt her.
D. Never admit a thing. (remember the song “It wasn’t me” ?
E. A guy’s gotta do, what a guy’s gotta do.
F. Bros before Hoe’s is a recent addition to the list.

These are just a few of the rule all guys have heard and most won’t admit to women.

3. A large number of men absolutely believe that women are terminally broken and can’t possibly handle the true sexuality of men which is, for the most part, we like to chase women. Period. Go figure, not only do we like to look at boobs, we want to squeeze them as well.

How does the fact that sex sells everything under the sun not compute to women enough for them to understand the truth about men?

4. Men chasing women is NOT a disorder. It’s not needing therapy. It is NOT some sort of anti social behavior. It is pure and simple biology and every single time some woman (or man) says it is wrong or bad or some sort of disorder they are engaging in abusive sexual harassment. Not the kind where they want sex but the kind where they are judging another person on their sexual orientation.

5. Society has obvious come to the point where they understand that gay and lesbian and transgenders folks should not be punished for their orientation. Well guess what ladies? It’s time to wake the fuck up and quit punishing men for having a freaking dick.

It’s not our fault. We didn’t ask for it. It’s not a choice. It’s just the way we are. If you don’t like it, try women. Stop acting like women/ people have the right to tell others what is sexually healthy based on religious ideals from puritans. You don’t have the right. Your judgments are hurtful and ridiculous. Keep your judgments out of our fucking pants.

6. Just cuz some one in the public eye get’s caught being human, doesn’t mean everyone watching the TV get’s to be their fucking therapist. It also doesn’t mean you have a clue what you are talking about.

7. Non famous people cheat. Every fuckin day. Power has nothign to do with it other than it makes it easier. For every 10 guys out there who is cheating, there are 7 women at home swearing that their man would never even LOOK at another women. Some are in denial, some are just hoping for the best and trying to save face in front of their girlfriends (some of which are cheating WITH said hero) and some are just plain freaking clueless. Are there guys who don’t cheat ? Sure but they don’t mean that men are not men.

8. Let me fill you in on some other stuff ladies, not only do men cheat with women but all around the world men have figured out that it is actually SAFER to cheat with other men cuz THEY don’t talk! That’s right. Although it’s rarely discussed in the locker room, there are men all over the world who go to places where there are gay/bi guys and then the straight guys will watch straight porn while the gay/bi guys give them blow jobs. “WHAT!?!?!?!?” You say?

That’s right, every single major city. Almost every truck stop. Lots of places in between. It’s happening every single day. Before work. At lunch. After work. EVERY DAY! Guys complain about frigid wives, wives who complain too much. Too religious. Too prude. They complain about women they can’t even talk to without the woman flying off the handle and having a hissy fit. So it’s just easier to go elsewhere. Every day. It happens every single day in families where the women are absolutely clueless that it could ever be a possibility.

In almost every case, if the women would stop being an MP for the sex police, the guys would be perfectly willing to open right up and discuss everything they love about sex.

9. Ladies, you want to know why men do things? Give up your bullshit, selfish, jacked up sense of entitlement and fucking ask YOUR MAN WHAT HE WANTS AND THEN GIVE IT TO HIM. THAT is the answer to every single book and article ever written about how to please your lover. SHUT THE FUCK UP and GIVE HIM WHAT HE WANTS.

10. Personally I do not agree with lying. I certainly understand it. When people say politicians should be held to a high scale I look at them and wonder how deep the insanity and denial must run. HELLO! McFLY?!?!? Anyone home? These are politicians! They lie for a fucking living! All the money and power they wield. All the legal destruction they wage upon society every day and you are going to be outraged over their DICK!?! Are you serious?

11. People who are going to complain about the “bad” behavior of men who chase women, need to just shut up and go back to beating up fags and slaves. Come back when when ya wanna live in the 21′st century. It’s not a choice. It’s who we are. It’s what we are. The lies are choices yes but ask yourself, should you have to lie about being gay to get a job or be in the military? No. As well, you should not have to lie in order to be a human male. Puritanical, jealous bullshit is just plain stupid. Codependent, ridiculous manipulation and control tactics. Emotional blackmail.

12. Once again, I chose not to lie in my relationships. I understand that deep down, my telling the truth puts most of my partners at ease and ends up affording me relationships which are much stronger and filled with far less grief. I also have zero guilt when I see boobs I like. Even the men who are loyal are constantly filled with grief, shame and guilt do to the thoughts they have have numerous times a day.

Even loyal, non cheating men cheat in their minds every day. Why do you think there are are boobs in commercials? People don’t spend billions of advertising dollars on bullshit. They spend it on what is statistically proven. Men like women.

13. People who want to change that are wrong and are bringing nothing but pain into this world with their self defined, self righteous bullshit definitions of what they WISH men would be. Wish all you like ladies. It only makes it worse. It increases the suffering. It makes the world a worse place to live and it inspires men to treat women with less respect. Every women who engages in this baloney is hurting other women by ignoring the truth and trying to live in fantasy land.

Promoting lies which promote more lies and guilt is in no way whatsoever constructive, loving, healing or anything remotely connected to love. If you love someone enough to die for them, give them a kidney, or change their diapers, then accepting their sexuality should be a no freakin brainer. Get over it. It’s sex. It ain’t that big a deal people.

My Challenge to Harold Camping

Well It’s the day after opening up a facebook group which seeks to submit a challenge to Harold camping who you may know as the guy who predicted that the rapture would occur on May 21st.
What’s the challenge? Glad you asked. You didn’t? Shut up and get outta my mind. I ‘m tryin to make a point here!

So on May 24th, I started a facebook group which challenges Harold Camping to shut down his non profit and donate all assets to a non religious non profit which feeds clothes or houses the poor or abused. The premise is simple. Camping has been wrong twice and has continued to make predictions. So three strikes and yer out Mr Camping.

Now, do I honestly believe that this guy is going to agree to this challenge? Of course not. Camping is going to show himself for the thief which many of us believe him to be. That is actually the goal. To expose him via his own words and actions. We simply want to show that Camping has so little faith in his own predictions that he wouldn’t dream of letting go of his earthly assets. We simply want to show that Harold Camping has no faith in the faith he asks others to have in him.

Some may thing that he is only taking advantage of people who are begging to be taken advantage of. Does this make it right though? If someone asks me to shoot them, should I? What about the proverbial fool and his money? How much of a fool is he allowed to be before we are taking unfair advantage of him? What of people who are in authority positions? We are taught that police, doctors and the clergy are who we are supposed to turn to when life goes bad and we need help. Isn’t it wrong for people like this to take advantage of those who put so much faith in him as a leader?

Not only is this guy apparently a fraud and a con man, he seems to also have absolutely no conscience. He has convinced people around the world that they should give up everything to join his cause. People have given up jobs, homes, families, retirement funds and sunk everything they have into essentially becoming recruiters and advertisers for the Camping bank account. In doing so, giving up everything they have because they were told to by someone they trusted.

Now, having done so, these people are left high and dry while the donations continue to pour in to the Camping coffers. It’s an age old formula which is hard to interpret as much more than “Jesus wants you to give me money so that we can spend it on getting more people to send us money to make Jesus happy”

You can find the facebook group
HERE

The video for the drive is HERE

Although I rarely ask readers or viewers to get involved with or do anything for me, this time I am asking that everyone, who can, simply join the facebook group and invite everyone they can think of to do the same so we can get enough of a movement together to warrant the media attention we need to deliver this challenge to Camping. This is going to require at the very least, hundreds of thousands of members in that group if not millions. So I simply ask that if you want to protest Harold Camping’s actions, a few free clicks is a great way to help us send the message out there that Mr Camping needs to stop engaging in what we all feel is nothing short of fraud.

Thank you for your anticipated support.

Sincerely
DAve

How do you write songs for youtube? A question I get alot.

Usually when I post a song on youtube it’s the result of something influencing me in some way.
Something might annoy me or make me happy. It’s usually an event or a behavior which I am then exposed to which inspires some sort of creative reaction within me.

On this latest song “This Side of Dirt” it was a facebook comment from a woman named Carol who had survived cancer. We were discussing mortality in byte sized facebook comment quips when she wrote “Any day this side of dirt is a good day.” That’s all it took. I know that was a song. From there it was easy.

I don’t really have a formula for how I write. When I fist started, years ago, it was always rhythm first, then lyrics, then melody, then incidentals. That worked great when I wasn’t writing with an instrument. These days though, I write with a guitar. So, I am limited to the chords I know and can play consistently on the guitar.

For this song, I had the lyrical hook in the form of a statement so I then pulled out the guitar and plugged a melody into it. Before long I had the songs payoff. The part I think everyone is gonna like singing.

From there it was about working backwards. Since this song’s hook and pay off were about how great life is, while living, it seemed that the verses should be a list of fucked up shit that would inspire anyone into thinking life just sucked ass. Like a bad country song. Once I had that though, I knew a cliche country song with a dead dog, a broken truck, a mad wife and a shitty job were all mandatory and soon I had most of my first verse worked out. I felt like this would be a great sing-a-long so I repeated everything. Making it easy to remember. A good drinking or campfire song.

To get a mood going I decided to really drag that first part out. When I was a kid, Disneyland had an attraction called the Country Bear jamboree. There was this one old bear who would sing this song, “Blood on the Saddle” I thought the slow, dragged out, tired horse trotting, beat would be a perfect lead in to really make the twist a total kick in the ass when it finally hit. I think it worked out really well.

Since I love dichotomy and Adam Sandler, I have always loved how he would write songs that were completely off base. Start out romantic and soft and end up screaming. So for this one is was to start out depressed and broken and end up ecstatic and joyful. So I wanted to really suck the listeners into thinkin this dead horse of a song was the real thing all the way through. So I added a sweet, minor chord, break which let me really cry out how I was trying not to let the word destroy me. Then right back into the depressing verse again. I loved this setup :)

Of course eventually I crank it up and really kick in the message of the song which if you ain’t dead, yer still doin good. I decided that the message is so strong after that chorous, that I could run it right through those depressing lyrics with an entirely new attitude of “Fuck it! Life is good!” My the end, I wanted a song that just walked all over sadness with big happy boots.

I think that by the end, even though it’s already 5 minutes long, it leaves you wanting more, gives you reason to be happy and has a way of telling life’s little dramas to go fuck themselves. If nothing else this is an anthem of freakin denial lol

Thanks to Carol for inspiring this song with her very wise words :)

WATCH “This side of Dirt” HERE

ScaryDAve

Winner of the Bullshit Award

Recently an article by David Edwards at rawstory.com started getting circulated amongst my facebook friends.

The title of the article states that Republican Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo “Blames 11-year-old victim of alleged gang rape.” It has been reported that during discussion within the House’s K-20 education innovation subcommittee, a bill credited to Rep. Hazelle Rogers (D- Lauderhill) which is referred to as the “sagging pants” bill, Passidomo said “There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gang raped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute,” she said. “And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students.”

A number of writers jumped on this view as what is commonly referred to as fucked up.  One thing which is definitely fucked up here is that a Republican and a Democrat are both agreeing on a bill which is pissing on the freedom of expression and claiming that said freedom is needing to be dissolved for the sake of the children’s safety.  I call bullshit on that one right out out of the gate. Elvis was accused of the same thing and now people worship him like a God. Complete and utter bullshit.

Also, given the fact they are at least agreeing on something, the Republican had to go fuck it up and turn it into another finger pointing festival of blaming shit on the other team.  Not by pointing the finger but by saying something so fucking stupid that she inspired people all over the country to blame her stupidity on being a republican. A game which both sides play far too often and is seriously wearing thin on my patience.

So all this aside, a friend of mine on facebook decided that the  article was unfair. That the title was misleading and was ultimately a bit of a lie.  She claimed that because Passidomo was only quoted as having refered to an article she had seen stating a position that the victem was at least partly culpable due to her atire and makeup. The following is my responce to the person who stated the article was unfair to Passidomo. ===================================================

Although she is quoting the article, if you click on the link within this piece it takes you to another article, describing how she used this statement to forward a dress code which is referred to as the saggy pants bill. Which she supports.

Also, if you search “11 year old girl gang raped in texas” you find plenty of articles and information on the event she is commenting on. An event that is knee deep in a small town filled with racial tension and likely to end up with charges directed at way over 20 guys.Out of a number of articles, I was only able to find one reference stating that people around town think she was “dressed provocatively.”

This woman has an agenda, and she is obviously not a stranger to spin doctor politics. Her agenda is to support a bill making kids dress the way she wants and she made a conscious, premeditated decision to use this argument as evidence that the bill she supports would help stop such things from happening.  Her use of the quote is inflammatory and designed to invoke fear and emotion as apposed to bringing any kind of reason to the table since reason is what is being decidedly ignored.

The bill states that clothing can’t be worn in a way that shows underwear or other vulgar displays of skin. My Mom burned her bra for what? This isn’t some politician innocently quoting an article and then being misquoted herself in order to make her look bad. This is a professional making a calculated move on the tactics board in order to get what she wants. In doing so, she willingly and knowingly quoted an article which she used to SUPPORT her own position.

The implication is very clear here that she is claiming that a dress code would somehow stop such things. In doing so, she is forwarding a long held religious position of bullshit that holds women to a double standard. That somehow men are incapable of controlling themselves when faced with tits. The same position which stated that the bikini would cause similar actions. If, in fact, this were true, bikini’s should have resulted in the rapes of countless women around the world. In fact, if this were true, 75-80% of the women wearing bikini’s would have been raped for doing so. Clothing, or a lack-thereof does not result in women getting raped.

Laws telling people how to dress are stupid. It used to be women were not allowed to wear pants or dresses above the knee. Then they could not wear a bikini. Now kids can’t wear saggy pants. A bill so stupid that out of the world of  evidence and proof that such a bill should be required to provide, the best story this woman could come up with to support the bill for kids pulling up their pants is one that drags in a girl who was gang raped and uses that story to suggest that her clothing led to her getting raped.

Well who dressed her? I am assuming she dressed herself. You can always question the logic of the parents but if the girl dressed herself and the clothing caused the rape then the girl brought it on herself. Right? The quoted woman is obviously blaming the clothing because she brought it up in a dress code discussion. In this case 1 plus 1 is two. She blamed the victim while claiming the bill she supports would stop such things.

I’d seriously like to see the pantsuit that will stop 20 guys from raping someone cuz I could make millions selling that to fashion armor abused women around the world.

Her statement is complete and utter nonsense and it does NOT belong in political debates. It’s opinion. It’s bad opinion. It’s bullshit rhetoric designed to give a bunch of old toads the right to squelch the freedoms of kids. We might as well be in the 1950′s getting pissed off at Elvis again.

So ultimately, do we teach our kids that dark allies are dangerous? Of course. Does it excuse anyone from using a dark alley to commit a crime? Absolutely not. Should politicians use victims of attacks in dark allies as an excuse to install a curfew stating citizens can’t go out after dark? Hell no. Yet that’s what this lady is doing.

Let’s also take into consideration that this is Texas we are talking about and the people who are talking trash about the girl are most likely friends of the accused guys. A bit of a conflict of interest as far as judges go in my opinion. Something a law maker should be well aware of before using as evidence to support her claim in a debate. Now, at some point, someone pissed off at you says you dress like a slut. Doesn’t mean it’s true but it still got said. Now, if you were to get raped and someone reported that girl saying she saw you dressed like a whore, there would be people in this world who would not only believe it but then a few of them would say you got what you asked for and that’s why women should dress like the 1600′s and pray to Jesus that the gyno doesn’t rape them during the exam.

There is a long standing tradition of placing the blame for everything under the sun square on the shoulders of women. Even the story about Eve eating the fruit from the talking penis blames all the world’s shit on one poor naked simpleton cuz she had tits.

Allowing rhetoric like this to slide from a public offical is absolutely unacceptable and hurts women everywhere . The fact that it’s a woman stating it makes her the Uncle Tom of the gender gap which people like my Mom fought to abolish. She is a discgrace to the women’s movement and used a rape victem as an unwilling tool to further a cause which is based in even more intolerant bullshit.

The big picture is, this is bullshit. The lawmaker knew it was bullshit. She knew exactly what she was saying. No one took her out of context. The title of this story is perfectly valid. Sure the article could have spelled it out as well as I did here but who the fuck is gonna read all that ? >:)

ScraryDAve-thechurchofdave

The politics of your comfort zone (revised)

Because of things like facebook and twitter, we get to see a lot about how people think and react to the world around them. If we’re paying attention, we get to see the patterns in their lives being manifested in print. Or at least the parts they are silly enough to let us see.

Here is where my inevitable complaint/advice chimes in. Which you knew it was going to or you wouldn’t be reading this. So no complaining >:) There are those people, you may be one of them, on the one hand they are posting about politics that piss them off or some religious mumbo jumbo belief system they feel we should conform to or what they think is the answer to the worlds woes. Then their next post is about some tragedy they saw on TV.  Not a real tragedy. I’m talkin someone got kicked off a reality TV show or contest and the poster is is livid or heartbroken over the outcome kinda tragedy.

I know it’s gonna be a shocker but anyone who goes from complaining about politics, morality or any other claim to understanding social relevance to complaining about hair and dress styles on joke TV show that even the crew producing it knows is shit, really isn’t going to move me with their self perceived insight into real life.

I am reminded of the times I have lashed out, in text, and slammed celebrity gossip or the hundreds or thousands of hours wasted on stupid TV shows and then get pummeled with defensive complaints and excuses about people needing down time, recreation, mindless relaxation and so on. My favorite ridiculous response to hate on is the perceived “NEED” to witness other people having a worse life and how that somehow makes the life of the voyeur more tolerable to live.  As if the human mind requires hours of witnessing legalized stalking and social torture or brain numbing nonsense in order to psychologically survive the workplace.

Of course this is just complete bullshit. These people just like brain candy and sitting on ass without having to lift so much as their own intellect.  They want someone ELSE to use their mind for them. Then, any kind of input that slips in an fucks up their mellow is cause for caustic verbal retribution.  You start up a conversation or a lawn mower during someone’s Jerry Springer time and in short order you find yourself accused of being,  in the mindless notions of the couch lard you just interrupted, on an equal level with the architects of the holocaust

In my world, before I give anyone enough of my attention span to go off on one of those topics, they have to have enough of their own brain time racked up for me to even consider taking their opinion seriously. I have zero tolerance for TV sheeple. How do you spot TV sheeple? Easy enough. Listen to or read what’s on their mind.  They are like a one channel news feed and all you gotta do is see what sort of pattern is playing on their programming. Discussion topic patterns like (TV…TV….political complaint….TV…..TV…..religious judgment…TV….TV) and I just pull the plug on that feed.  All I hear/read from then on is the “WHAAH WHAAH WHAAH” of Charlie Browns teacher.

Cuz face it, they prolly picked up those religious and political opinions on TV as well. Or worse yet, on the radio. How do we know this? Cuz they already exhibit a pattern of behavior which shows us that they prefer to pipe in pre digested media forms which allow others to do their thinking for them. The most they can do with their lardtardic is attempt, and sometimes fail at, parroting the words written for their favorite radio and TV personalities.

I say “Fuck that!” That shit is contagious. Dumb will drip off a TV educated person and stick to you like a mixture of bubble gum and dogshit. No matter how hard you try to get it off of you, it just spreads. That feces needs to be shoveled into a hole and buried.

An you can’t hardly say it to their faces without being treated like a hieratic. Just try some time. Like “Hey dumb ass, quit quoting television writers who are in business to service advertising executives.”  If their head doesn’t explode, they’ll accuse you of trying to forward some conspiracy theory agenda and try to sell you a tinfoil hat for attempting to think for yourself.  Then they repeat more TV crap as if it’s somehow substantiating the original load of malarkey. Now all you have is two truckloads of bullshit from a person who feels they just delivered the Fort Knox of intellectual insight to yer front door. The part that makes me cry is they seriously believe they hold the key to world peace and that you are just too stupid to see it. They are watching the same stupid shows as millions of others, all written by the same assholes who are trying to make a living keeping marketing executives happy and these pixle sucking tubetards think THEY have insight.

Yeah, never mind trying to explain this shit is taught in text books on marketing and communications or all of a sudden you’re working for the Illuminati and supporting terrorism. Hey numbtard, it’s not a conspiracy, it’s a fucking multi billion dollar industry based on selling you ear deodorant.

So OK, there’s the problem. I think I’ve adequately illuminated the dark comedy of errors. So what could possibly be the solution? I mean it doesn’t do any good to just complain and run. If yer gonna point out a problem, it’s only polite to   TRY to offer a solution or at least, a direction in which to begin the search for one.

Well, my solution is fairly simple to define but difficult to implement. In a nutshell, learn something new and be picky about who you learn it from. That’s right. Turn off the fucking TV, banish the radio announcer from your ear space and learn something new. Preferably something which teaches you how to either make something or speak a new language. Learn how to communicate more effectively. Learn how to learn if need be.

By all means, avoid gurus and political advisers. These assholes are nothing but trouble and have been fucking the world up since the beginning of time. Every one of them claims to have all the answers and not a one of them actually does. They all have  posse of followers who happily offers anecdotal testimonials on how said their spiritual or political hero of choice saved/change/inspired/enlightened/enriched their life and every fucking on of them is fucking wrong. Even if they were right it doesn’t mean it would work for anyone else but rest assured they are just enthusiastically misinformed, intellectually confused and espousing bullshit filled bags of wrongess.

I live in the USA, it’s fairly well understood that the USA seems to be going down the shitter faster than an iron turd over a magnetic sewer. Some reasons are the lack of an educated, skilled work force.  How is this country going to increase manufacturing and high paying skilled labor jobs if there is no skill and no one knows how to fucking manufacture anything any more? If the schools can turn out metal workers and machinists any more then how do you not send those jobs to China? If the average person can’t understand how to make an object and take pride in the quality of their work then how are those tards going to ad up to a country that can get anything done?

Another huge group of solution bottlenecks are the people who are allowing gurus to separate us from each other by claiming they can bring us together. That’s bullshit. The way you come together is learning how to accept each other as being different. You can’t educate everyone at once. You can’t have everyone on the same “spiritual plane.” You can’t expect everyone to grow, learn, understand and agree on all the same things at once. That defeats the purpose of even being alive.  Life is a learning experience. Not a be a nameless embodiment of a guru’s definition of the ideal world citizen.

Gurus fuck shit up. They hand out trash. They trick people into thinking that everyone should be the same or think the same or believe the same things. They definitely have a rigid idea of where everyone should send their fucking money too. Guru agendas are impossible. People are not here to be the same. Telling people to be the same does not bring people together it’s guaranteed to tear them apart. As it has been doing since guru’s opened their big fucking worthless mouths.

There is only one way to bring people together and that is quit giving them excuses to separate. Life does just fine at that already without help from fucking gurus and profitable prophets. People come together by learning how to accept each other as they are and working together. They don’t have to like each other.  They don’t have to hug each other. They just have to learn how to muster up enough respect for each other to quit trying to impose spiritual chains on each other. My advice, the next time you see a guru, spit in his face and tell him to shut the fuck up. Then treat everyone else with some respect and dignity. Especially if you don’t like them or they are still lost and broken.

Sure there are a few assholes who will fuck shit up and steal yer car. It’s the world. Shit happens. Most people are still reasonable and decent if they can pull their head out of the tv and engage with others long enough to understand why being decent pays off. Some decent people just need decent incentive and decent examples to follow.You want to save the world and encourage togetherness? Stop parroting some stupid guru bullshit and teach someone how to make something. You can’t make anything? Go find someone to teach you.  You would rather chant and do yoga and pray that the rest of the world will learn to conform to the ways of your favorite guru? Go stand facing the wind and spit in your own face. Then shut the fuck up. In a world of 6 degrees of separation, yer fuckin up too many degrees.

Meanwhile, if people turned off the TV and learned something new, intelligence over all, would increase. If learning how to make things became a cultural standard, this country would inevitably start inventing and manufacturing on a large scale again. If people learned new languages, THAT would bring people together. Even if the new language only spoke to deaf people. Learning any language brings people together. It increases tolerance and understanding.

Also, if you like to talk about how you live in the greatest country in the world but you haven’t been to at least three or four other countries for more than a flight layover, shut the fuck up. Yer just rooting for the home team and you don’t know fuck all about what yer talking about. I don’t live in the greatest country in the world. I live where I was fucking born. I make the best of it and I try to do my part to make it better but I readily admit the place is fucked up and there are far too many people here who like to make up excuses to go to other countries and fuck shit up that they can’t even get right here.

Gurus, politicians and TV sets all claim to be your saviors. Yet they are all lying. You come together with others by leaving the fucking house and learning how to tolerate people you don’t even like and then you do it long enough to accomplish mutual goals. Team goals. Classes, community projects, whatever. Anything that can put completely different people into the same situation where they have to learn how to work together. Quit watching sitcoms and go join life. It fucking IS a sitcom and you could be one of the stars.

The most important thing is stop flushing your life down the TV toilet. Quit throwing your life away and then having the ridiculous gall to then throw your warped fucking opinion out there. You might as well be the member of a cult yapping on about some crap a guru says. It’s time to de-program. Unplug and spend your life living. It may not have dawned upon you yet but we don’t NEED you to enlighten us as to the agenda of a news writer. We all have TV’s too asshole. Of we wanted to listen to his verbal excrement we could turn on the stupid box just like you. Fuck! You can’t even memorize the guys lines right. We don’t need you as a middle man for stupidity.

About now some are gonna come back with statements about how they unhooked the TV years ago. Well, that’s only half the chore, the other is to learn. The best practice is, once again,  learn how to make something other than a Barbi ensemble that you so brilliantly picked out the pieces for at Walmart. That ain’t gonna cut it. I’m talking a skill. A legitimate manufacturing skill. If yer so patriotic that yer willing to “support” kids going to fucking war to bring you oil, then you should be willing to support this country by helping to improve it’s work force. Too much trouble? Oh well golly I guess that makes you a supporter of terrorism and an economic traitor then doesn’t it? See? Two can play the propaganda bullshit game huh? :)

Face it, if you are good at making something, then you can teach it to someone else. You also have more options in life and making an object from concept to completion trains the mind to grow well past what the average person is wielding on a daily grind comfort zone level. If you are already making things at work, pick a new medium and start learning again. You making metal at work? Then learn to make wood, plastic or clay or even learn to program. Find something you enjoy and learn it. If you are already one of the few lucky souls in this country who are a part of the highly skilled workforce, keep it up! Get better, teach others, talk to kids, inspire others to join you, push apprenticeships. You are the ultimate driving force behind rebuilding a great country. This applies to you if you are in the US or Ireland. If you can’t find something you enjoy making, quit complaining about the world cuz you’re not the solution, yer the problem and we already have to listen to the roar of too many of you drones already.

Politics work against you when you are lazy. TV is a brainwashing box that no one group is even controlling the content of so it’s all haphazard bullshit an who knows what parts are gonna stick? Let alone how useful or destructive they are when combined with all the other fragmented bullshit. In the end, you remember logos and that’s the goal.

Instead, learn how to remember processes, plans, descriptions, blueprints, formulas and useful patterns. Learn how things relate to other things. Quit living in virtual bullshit. Yer better off shoveling real bullshit. Stop complaining and get involved. Make something, show it others. You are sitting at a computer connected to more information than has ever been accessible to any other person in history. The answer to making anything is right at your fingertips. You have no excuses. Quit reading about celebrity bullshit and conspiracy theories and learn how to make an object. start learning a new language. Put down the video game and make objects on a regular basis. Find a problem. Now solve it.

I am sure this has all been said before in various ways.  This is not a new idea. It goes back before this country was even formed. It’s a perfectly valid idea which made great men great and built one of the most advanced countries in the world. So now, it’s your turn. Get out there. Make things. Push your comfort zone aside and do it over and over and over.

You are a human. You are one of the most adaptable creatures on this planet. Your ancestors conquered nature to a large degree and made it possible for you to fuck off a good portion of the time. They worked long hours and died young so you could do this. What are you doing for yourself and the next generations? Blaming others while you sit on yer ass?The average lifespan used to be about 35. You are now living an opportunity to go two or three times that. So what are you doing with that time? TV? Seriously? Arguing over teams? STFU and go make something. Hopefully, doing so, will make something valuable outta you.

Now shut up and go learn something. >:)