What Comes Around Goes Around

Here's a perfect example of why you shouldn't steal digital media:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/26/two_new_trojan_horses_threaten_mac_software_pirates.html

Sorry, maybe I'm just heartless...but I don't feel bad for those people one bit.  All they had to do was buy a legitmate copy of the software and this never would have happened! Haha, idiots.  They deserve everything bad that happens to their computers.

Sunshine

So I'm pretty sure that I've seen more direct sunshine in the last day, than I did for the whole week I was in Michigan. Just saying.

Jesus & Football

This is one of the better stories I've seen in awhile. I mean how awesome are these people? Jesus seemed to talk about loving people a lot; it's nice to see someone actually doing it. Most people would judge those kids, not cheer for them.

It's also nice that I came across this article on the front page of ESPN.com.

One small note...no disrespect to the author, but the last word of the story should be "Love", or better yet, "Jesus". That's exactly what those people gave them.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3789373

Go Cats!

Emily is happy. Arizona knocked off BYU to win it's first bowl game in ten years! Whoo hoo!! Las Vegas Bowl champs of 2008...Go Cats!

The Government Can Not Save Us

I realize the election is old news by now, but I've come across a couple of good links to articles that pretty much sum up exactly why I don't like politics for the most part.

In general, I've never understood how people get so worked up over politics.  Or in their words, why they are passionate about politics.  Call it what you want, but it's never made much sense to me.  I mean sure, I have my opinions, and I vote, but I think you all know what I'm talking about. The people you can't even mention a topic without it turing into a political debate. Just look at those talking heads you always see on the news channels.  Everything, to them, is done for a political reason.

It drives me crazy sometimes how people talk about one candidate or another.  Or about how this candidate will make the USA good again and save us all; or how that same candidate will be a disgrace to everyone.  As if the government or democrats or republicans can change us all for the better? That'll be the day.

As a Christian, I've always found it hard to "endorse" any candidate. For me I always seem to pick the lesser of two evils.  Until Jesus decides to run for president, I don't think I could ever truly endorse anyone.

Anyways...here are the articles. They're both pretty short.  You should read them.

In God We Do Not Trust

Religious Right R.I.P

eharmony.com

I was having lunch today and saw on the news another ridiculous abuse of the American legal system.

A couple of years ago some guy decided to sue eharmony.com, a couples matching website, because they didn't cater to gays and lesbians. You could only get matches for people of the opposite sex, and according to the lawsuit this was "discrimination".

Fast forward to today...

To make a long story short, eharmony finally settled with the New Jersey attorney general's civil rights division, by establishing a gay and lesbian site. Not only that, but they have to pay $50,000 in court fees, and $5,000 to the guy that sued them!

Ridiculous.

eharmony is a private business/website. They have the choice to cater to whatever demographic they want to, and whatever demographic they feel will be the most profitable. Forcing them to cater to gays and lesbians would be like forcing a vegetarian restaurant to cater to meat eaters, by making them serve steaks and burgers. The most ridiculous part is that eharmony established a separate website to handle their gay and lesbian customers, called "Compatible Partners".

Unbelievable.

If you're suing for equal rights, shouldn't it be part of the existing website and not separate?

I Googled "gay dating", and on the first page I had no less then eight gay and lesbian dating websites.  Why is this guy wasting his time forcing eharmony to cater to gays?  If this guy wants to date other gay people online then he should take his business to someone else!  That's the best part of being an American consumer; if I don't like what a business offers, I am free to take my money to the next business that offers what I am looking for.

I have no idea how the judge and court system even let this go through. I'm going to start suing every one of those gay specific websites because they don't cater to my heterosexual desires. (Sounds absurd, doesn't it?)

Here's a link to the story:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335035,00.asp

Engaged

So this is probably old news to most people by now, but Emily and I got engaged this last Saturday!

Afternoon at the park, frisbee golf, proposal, and dinner. Not a bad way to spend a day!

Star Wars Tribute

10 Free Songs

Unfortunately you have to download them one at a time.  But hey, they're free.

They are bands I've never heard of, but they seem alright.  Here's the link:

10 Free Songs

Go Vote

I voted today (see I VOTED TODAY sticker as evidence), and hopefully you will too!