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the compass rose february 2020 skip to main skip to sidebar the compass rose ruminations on literature art politics music photography design architecture and landscape wine and spirits c wednesday february 19 2020 back in 2013 i wrote about the boy scouts of america s decision to allow gay boys to enter its ranks as i said then i was never a boy scout and i have no stake one way or the other about its reputation or continued existence but i questioned the advisability of in effect asking very young boys to consider and declare their sexuality at an age when such questions should be regarded as premature at best and potentially corrupting at worst my argument then was about the jeopardy of participants of a public organization devoted to moral integrity and conduct being forced to facilitate an agenda whose mandate was directly opposed its founding principles the illustration from my may 24th 2013 post today the media is a flurry with reports of a new wave of negative publicity and court filings against the scouts centered around the revelation in court of internal scout documents detailing over twelve thousand victims of abuse by some 8000 scout leaders dating back to 1944 which the organization has managed to keep from public knowledge and view the scouts apparently kept a so called perversion file of deposed leaders which it didn t release either the wave of 300 court cases representing some 3000 abuse clients has now prompted the boy scouts to declare bankruptcy in an effort to shield itself from the anticipated court judgments against it like the roman catholic church which evaded responsibility for the sexual abuse of boys by priests over the decades the boy scouts now finds its very continued existence threatened founded in 1910 over the years the boy scouts of america has expanded to include up to 2 3 million youth girls as well as boys and is coordinated with the assistance of 900 000 adult volunteers the scouts were originally founded to teach patriotism courage self reliance and kindred values to boys however changes have been made to the scouts starting with a new name scouts bsa and its values and guidelines have been altered in the ensuing decades in 2013 it lifted restriction on sexual orientation and in 2015 lifted its ban on allowing gay scoutmasters despite the organization s history of sexual abuse involuntarily via litigation the corrupting influences on this venerable old boys club are like a bad dream come true one can only imagine the sort of sex talks that might take place in today s scouting world of gay or lesbian scoutmasters informing young boys that all sexual behavior is morally neutral and that expressing or believing in homophobic attitudes is wrong would this also mean that homosexual behavior by boys while in scouting ventures would be condoned or that sexual contact between homosexual scoutmasters and willing boy partners would be tolerated even encouraged 20 years ago who would have been able to predict such eventualities or to imagine that society would be persuaded to adopt them posted by curtis faville at 9 43 am 2 comments saturday february 15 2020 wait until next year the prospects for the san francisco giants in the coming year 2020 appear dismal general manager farhan zaidi hired prior to the 2019 season after stints with the dodgers 4 years and the oakland a s 2 years appears not to have a coherent plan to turn our ailing franchise around after five years of frustration following the three championship years 2010 2012 and 2014 there are various theories about how to build a competitive ball club before free agency teams had much more control of their destinies since players couldn t move freely among teams weighing competing offers and situations with abandon nowadays general managers have to juggle and improvise each season moving players around filling holes placing bets on free agents while breeding new talent from the minors there are basically only three ways to acquire new or proven talent through the farm system developing players usually hired out of college through free agent signings or through trades the giants once had one of the best farm systems in the majors but over the years it has had its ups and downs the giants system produced buster posey brandon crawford madison bumgarner pablo sandoval tim lincecum sergio romo matt cain brian wilson brandon belt and joe panik all these players contributed to the giants three championship runs but that was six years ago in the years since the giants haven t produced a single star player from their own farm system in the last 10 years however they ve signed a number of free agents many of whom have made excellent contributions aubrey huff freddy sanchez juan uribe andres torres edgar renteria cody ross jeremy affeldt javier lopez ryan volgelsong hunter pence gregor blanco marco scutaro angel pagan tim hudson johnny cueto eduardo nunez denard span jeff samardzija evan longoria will smith kevin pillar stephen vogt alex dickerson there s always a risk in paying big cash for high profile free agents that they may have a career turn become injured or fail to fit into the team s chemistry certainly in retrospect the giants investment in free agents was the key to their five year run of success the failure of the giants farm system to produce more talent in the last five years suggests that trying to engineer a new contending team from the inside is probably not prudent what is zaidi s strategy to return the club to contention he let kevin pillar their best hitting outfielder will smith their all star closer stephen vogt their excellent hitting 2nd string catcher and madison bumgarner their ace starter depart through free agency refusing to offer competing offers for any of them ordinarily this would suggest that he has a longer term strategy that there are players waiting in the wings from the minors ready to move up and take the places of the departed or declining veterans but the giants recent rookie arrivistes haven t convinced anyone that there is a secret pool of young talent to draw upon the giants signed pence and sandoval two players from the glory years both now without much argument past their prime and useful only as platoon players or pinch hitters the addition of wilmer flores much touted in the media this week seems a pathetic gesture towards the fan base the dodgers meanwhile went out and acquired mookie betts whose hot bat power and speed is sure to pump up la s already potent line up the passive reaction to the departure of bumgarner seems the most troubling in previous posts i ve predicted great things for the big raw boned deep south lefty whose two years of injury plagued performance have not dimmed my enthusiasm for his potentials in an earlier era he would certainly have followed a pattern similar to warren spahn s whose durability produced hall of fame numbers it s hard to imagine a more counter productive and short sighted decision than to have let him go given his likely future it will turn out to be one of the great tragic bad transactions in history i predict madbum will win 100 games for the diamondbacks this week mlb com posted an article about the top 100 players in major league baseball not one of this 100 was a giant not posey not anyone 30 teams 100 players an average of 3 players per team would bumgarner have qualified if he hadn t signed with arizona zaidi s big moves in the offseason hunter pence pablo sandoval zack cozart will wilson and wilmer flores but perhaps the biggest move was forcing bruce bochy out the same manager who engineered the team s three world championships presumably zaidi had something in mind there but what do the giants presently have any player who could conceivably qualify for the all star team this season their rotation will be led by jeff samardzija jeff samardzija the jeff samardzija who has one one winning season in 14 who led the league in losses in 2017 with 15 johnny cueto will returning from tommy john surgery this year so he ll be in the mix but who knows whether he ll ever completely recover he s nothing but a question mark now the giants power vacuum which has persisted every year since bonds retired is as much a concern as ever so bad in fact that the team finally decided to move the right field wall in several feet year after year the team fails to find a right handed power hitter evan longoria was presumably brought in to do that but he s only a shadow of the slugger he once was posey belt crawford longoria each seems to have settled into the journeyman s mediocrity just good enough to start but not to win this team looks to be in trouble and management seems to be without answers if zaidi s planning to build from the farm system he might have to start with the farm system itself which hasn t produced a star pitcher or hitter in a decade aside from late comer mike yastrzemski there hasn t been a new bright light on this team for several years zaidi s tenure as giants gm is beginning to look very peculiar almost as if those funky rumors about his being a spy for the dodgers might actually be true in the age of homers and strike outs the giants are regressing looking very much like a team which is trying to save money by fielding a cheap product could a team actually end up last in homers runs scored rbi s stolen bases and era in the same year this team might very well do it posted by curtis faville at 9 33 am no comments wednesday february 12 2020 an opportune reflection the complete text of the you have meddled with the primal forces of nature speech from the movie network 1976 was there ever a more pertinent summary of the world economy than this one you have meddled with the primal forces of nature mr beale and i won t have it is that clear do you think you ve merely stopped a business deal that is not the case the arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country and now they must put it back it is ebb and flow tidal gravity it is ecological balance you are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples there are no nations there are no peoples there are no russians there are no arabs there are no third worlds there is no west there is only one holistic system of systems one vast and immane interwoven interacting multi variate multi national dominion of dollars petro dollars electro dollars multi dollars reichmarks rins rubles pounds and shekels it is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet that is the natural order of things today that is the atomic and sub atomic and galactic structure of things today and you have meddled with the primal forces of nature and you will atone am i getting through to you mr beale you get up on your little twenty one inch screen and howl about america and democracy there is no america there is no democracy there is only ibm and itt and at t and dupont dow union carbide and exxon those are the nations of the world today what do you think the russians talk about in their councils of state karl marx they get out their linear programming charts statistical decision theories minimax solutions and compute the price cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do we no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies mr beale the world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable by laws of business the world is a business mr beale it has been since man crawled out of the slime and our children will live mr beale to see that perfect world in which there s no war or famine oppression or brutality one vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit in which all men will hold a share of stock all necessities provided all anxieties tranquilized all boredom amused and i have chosen you mr beale to preach this evangel beale why me because you re on television dummy sixty million people watch you every night of the week monday through friday beale i have seen the face of god you just might be right mr beale posted by curtis faville at 8 32 am 1 comment newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom archives may 1 october 1 march 1 february 1 december 2 october 1 august 1 july 4 june 1 may 3 april 1 march 3 february 3 january 1 december 3 november 1 september 1 august 1 july 1 may 2 march 1 january 1 december 1 november 2 october 1 september 1 july 2 june 2 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 2 january 5 december 1 november 4 october 2 september 3 july 3 june 1 may 3 march 4 february 1 january 5 december 4 november 2 october 2 september 3 august 4 july 3 june 4 may 1 april 2 march 6 february 2 january 3 december 3 november 2 october 2 september 3 august 2 july 3 june 5 may 2 april 3 march 5 february 1 january 4 december 3 november 3 october 6 september 4 august 3 july 7 june 6 may 7 april 6 march 8 february 4 january 5 december 9 november 7 october 6 september 6 august 11 july 11 june 11 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