I just listened to Sean Hannity of Fox News coming down hard on Bush for two federal funding compromises he's made, one for stem-cell research and the other for allowing racial preferences. I don't know about the latter, but the former that he announced to the nation in his Aug.9 explanation speech seemed sensible to me. Hannity is a radio talk show host and they usually look for things to rant about just for audience appeal. I've heard a lot of the different ones as I drive my route each day. Of course there's Rush Limbaugh on Ardmore and OKC stations plus probably Ada. And for a while I tuned in both Neil Bortz and Ollie North at 1400KREF, Norman. Also like to hear Dr.Laura on KTOK. Also I'm geting Michael Savage and Roy Masters on KREF, where I get Bruce Prescott's "Religious Talk" starting at noon each Sunday. I even phoned in once myself, though I had to get out of my car and go inside to use the phone. I's a good thing I don't have a cell phone or I'd be spouting off more than listening. The Lord gave us each two ears and just one mouth, so we really should take the hint to heart and listen twice as much as we talk. Still, I heard Roy Masters let a lady sound off about how terrible America treated Japan, until he interrupted and took up for US. I'm glad he didn't let her rave any longer after she'd made her vile charges against this nation in which she's also a citizen. I feel there's never been more freedom of speech than now. Even though some things may be politically incorrect. we're still able to say them.
Firestone's having a lot of bad things said about them as another damage suit is in the works down in Texas, this time for a billion instead of the millions previously paid. They've tried blaming Ford for faulty vehicles. But maybe they should hire media professionals to tell what noble things Firestone does, just as Philip Morris Cigarettes advertises. If you believe PM's stuff, you'll confuse tobacco addiction with the witness for Christ of the Apostle with that same name back in New Testament times. What deadly deception is used on the public by those financial interests seeking to whitewash their past. I'm guessing PM is out of smoking here in the U.S. but not abroad. Seems that today "the leopard can indeed change it's spots" after all, in these days of image alteration by the media. But Philip Morris, if such a person existed, was only an apostle of world-wide smoking and lung cancer. All the accolades they publicly award themselves can't offset that ugly reality. Too, the liquor industry is offering classes on "how to drink responsibly." Wow, that's great isn't it. One word could cover it all, "abstain." But you can be sure that's not in their course. A comparable move in the beer industry (which likes to pose as the drink of moderation) is this BADD that's taking up the case of MADD (mothers against drunk driving). So now it's "bars against drunk driving." What a wholesome idea! I'm quite sure they'll all close down because of their genuine concern!!! Beer in the Bible is called "strong drink" rather than moderate. Liquor wasn't invented. until the 18th century. Thus the warning of Scripture: "Wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging. Whoever is deceived thereby is not wise" Prov.20:1. We were studying the vision in Isaiah 6 at LARC's prison service and came to verse five: "Woe is me...I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips." We cocluded that Jerusalem's air was so full of lies that beholding the holy One in His temple overwhelmed Isaiah with repentance. Oh for such a theophany in America amid our culture of cheating, chicanery, deception, dishonesty, double dealing, dupery, duplicity, fraud, flim flam, fakery, hanky-panky, subterfuge, trickery, imposture, counterfeit, hoax, gyp, humbug, spin, sham, spoof, swindle & Philip Morris.
How sad the whole nation has been over the young intern who vanished in our capitol city. But the sadness should be even deeper over any sense of shame that's also vanished. As I listened to "Open Mike Live" on 1000am this afternoon, the host asked a female reporter if she'd seen "American Pie II," another R show. When she said "Yes," he asked her opinion. "Well it was real funny but had a lot that would make folks with hangups uncomfortable. My parents went to see it and laughed even though there was plenty to jar them I know." She seemed to admire her parents for laughing their way to hell and obviously proud of her own lack of shame for enjoying such shows. People with scruples are seen more and more as the sick ones in this entertainment culture where any Godless thing can be funny. And our moral life's become terminally ill. So prepare to meet thy GOD Oh America.