My mother's state-funded housekeeper for a couple years there -- who eventually got herself fired by slacking off and then making baseless accusations toward my mom -- used to listen to conservative talk radio a lot. One of the ones I often got the pleausre (cough, cough) of hearing was Neal Boortz. The guy would go on endlessly talking about people's mistakes. Not society's mistakes, not a mistake that some celebrity was making that nobody wanted to admit was indeed a mistake, but just mistakes of random people. He talked about some student who attends some no-name college who was demanding something or other from the dean of the college. This was information he was apparently using to draw a parallel to the Occupy movement that eventually dissolved because they had absolutely no strategy for accomplishing whatever it was they wanted, which was for life to be peachy, apparently.
Even his little sidekick lady was confounded by that one. She even said "Where do you find these people?" Some guy called into the show criticizing Neal Boortz for being too negative. Neal then countered that by saying how he's always talking about positive things -- getting Obama out of office and getting a Republican back in! The guy was kind of stumped by that and he simply said "That's your opinion". Neal basically responded saying "Yeah, well it's my show". Which is entirely the point. If you don't like the show, don't listen to it. My question is mainly why do people like the show? What do people really gain out of it? I ask because I've known at least two people -- out of a very small group of people I've ever spent a significant amount of time with outside of school -- who seem rather grumpy much of the time. Their sense of humor is intact, but often snide. 1) My mom's former housekeeper 2) A guy I knew several years back during my high school years. He listened to conservative talk radio for like 3 hours of the day at least, and it really seemed like was just bitter. He acted like he was justified in that because of the mistreatment he suffered from his ex-wife and the existence of Democrats. He'd probably deny all of that, saying he told me about his ex-wife because I somehow indicated that I wanted to know, and I don't have a problem with people sharing their sob stories. I have a problem with people holding grudges and taking them out on other people. He told me that he knows some people who are ready to make Michael Carneal, a semi-local loner who had come to the end of his rope and opened fire at school, wish he was back in prison if he ever got out. His argument for the death penalty was that Murderers Are Evil. I don't think the story of Cain & Able was put in The Bible so that mankind could piss on the grave of mankind's first murderer. If it were, God would have struck down Cain. The Bible is a source of wisdom, but you have to take the time to understand it. He said The Bible supported zealously denouncing homosexuality. The Bible supports preaching The Good News. It supports getting people to understand why The Good News is important and encouraging them to keep on the righteous path once they discover The Good News and all of its splendor. The Bible says we should rebuke each other for our sins, but do so in love, and that when Christians are persecuted, we will be a witness to God to the people who are persecuting us. Ex-communication is a last resort and something The Bible encourages. You can't ex-communicate someone who has never experienced the Word of God -- unless that person is a church goer -- someone who has been going to church for a while -- and has made it clear they have no intention of heeding to The Holy Spirit's will. That is what The Bible refers to as a Hypocrite --- we are instructed to not share meals with them.
Anyway...not only is Neal Boortz a pipeline of negativity, but he obstructs the truth to justify his opinions. He said rich people pay more taxes than anybody else --- he proved this by reading a half page's worth of information from some IRS document, either something he found online or, whatever. If that half page worth of information is the whole truth, why does anybody ever use H&R Block? If it's so simple, why not do it yourself the same way you stamp and address outgoing mail? George W. Bush said in a campaign rally during his re-election bid that the shortest tax form takes 9 hours to complete. This is a rather telling statement. The guy either is unaware that poor people exist or he has no regard for them as human beings. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and go with the former.
I'm still half asleep it seems. I've forgotten if there was anything else I wanted to say. Either that or I've said everything I intend to say and have no witty way of wrapping it up. TTFN
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