[saveliberty]

Happy Friday! Here’s your daily Tony Snow Show ping :-)

[Bahbah]

Good morning, again, saveliberty. Looks like a good program (why am I not surprised). Tom Coburn is becoming a conservative hero and a Senate pariah; now what does that tell us. I am so disgusted with Kit "that is not the way we do things around here" Bond.

[RasterMaster]

Morning! Governor Nuge...I like the sound of that!

[del4hope]

Morning SL! Hope you will be able to be with us this morning.

[maggief]

Good morning!

[luvie]

...what the world needs now....

Hi!

[Just A Nobody]

Thanks for the ping sl.

Good morning all.

[Mo1]

[ordi]

Just making sure ya'll see that Sen Grassley came thru! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506451/posts#comment?q=1 In the Senate tonight, a major development in the struggle to make public the final report of Independent Counsel David Barrett, the man whose investigation of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros began in 1995. The Senate voted to cut off funds to Barrett's office -- he has spent about $20 million on the investigation -- but more importantly, lawmakers required that Barrett's report be released to the public within 60 days of final passage of the law. The report has been finished since late last year, and its release has been delayed by lawyers for Clinton-era figures named in the report. The document is said to go far beyond the Cisneros matter. "Media reports are giving very credible commentary that the independent counsel report discusses problems at the office of criminal investigation at the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice," Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said on the Senate floor tonight. "These matters do not involve Mr. Cisneros but raise extremely important questions about the administration of the tax code." The Senate bill calls for the release of the report, "except for any such portions that contain information of a personal nature that the division of the court determines the disclosure of which would cause a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy that outweighs the public interest in a full accounting of this investigation," according to the text of the bill. The Senate bill still has to be reconciled with one passed by the House. If the measures are finally passed, Barrett will be required to go out of business within 45 days after the report is released.

[radioproducer]

Good morning everybody!

[sono]

Happy Friday!

[The Mayor]

October 21, 2005

Perfect Hatred

Read:
Psalm 97

You who love the Lord, hate evil! —Psalm 97:10

Bible In One Year: Matthew 23-25

Tell me what you hate and I can tell you a great deal about yourself. Hatred can be the strong side of righteousness, but it needs a sign written on it with large red letters: Handle With Care.

Olive Moore, the 19th-century English writer, put words to this warning: "Be careful with hatred. . . . Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use."

We tend to waste our hatred on insignificant slights and differences. Comments made by a political opponent may draw our venom. Angry letters written to the editor often raise trivia to the level of significance because of the pathology of our misdirected hatred. Churches fracture and split when hatred is directed at people and not at the forces around us that destroy life and hope.

The old Methodist circuit riders were described as men who hated nothing but sin. They took seriously the admonitions of the psalmist, "You who love the Lord, hate evil!" (Psalm 97:10), and of the prophet Amos who urged his hearers to "hate evil, love good" (Amos 5:15). —Haddon Robinson

Dear Father, help us to handle hatred
with utmost care. Help us to direct our hatred
only at the things You despise. Teach us
what it means to hate the sin and love the sinner. Amen.

If you can't hate what is evil, you can't love what is good.

FOR FURTHER STUDY
Right And Wrong: The Case For Moral Absolutes

[meema]

Morning, save, All! Thanks for the ping.