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All missing the point again. Bennett is not addicted to gambling, he is addicted to having his a$$ kissed. The high rollers do it because they are treated like royalty, not because they like to throw money away. Bennett needs to spend a little time on the farm (a decade or two should do it) before he can speak with any authority about morality.

I need help on the farm.

Topping tobacco would be good therapy for him.

I take it you have reached the level of exaltedness that you know who and who can not speak with moral authority?

I heard the testimony of a recovered alcohaulic who had been a successful business man who nearly lost his family and home because of drink. He got into a drunken religious arguement with another drunk. He described the other drunk as suddenly standing up and delivering a Salvation message that would put Billy Graham to shame. The encounter left him sober and he gave his heart to Jesus Christ and lost all desire for drink. He was so completely changed that his wife came back to him and he was able to recover his former financial status. He has offered much to the Kingdom since.

As for the other sermonizing drunk, the amazing thing is he had remained a drunkard the last time the the recovered alcoholic had checked.

My point is Bennett is speaking age old truths about virtues that no one on the left likes to hear, or that matter conservatives who don't like their own petty vices punctured. It is a fallacy that an imperfect man nullifies truth when he speaks it.

When a "conservative" emperor (of virtue) is suddenly confronted with the notion that he has no clothes and has become a laughing stock for his vanity, his first act is to acknowledge his foolishness and to put his clothes back on...that is if he has any hope of recovering any sense of authority and respect in the eyes of the populace.

A "liberal" emperor when confronted with his nakedness will brazenly command by force that all shall be as naked as him under penalty of fines under his PC hate law anti discrimination against naked people inititiatives.! Since it was a child that saw thru the nakedness in the first place, the child will be forceably re-educated by the "caring" councilors at the NAMBLA Camp for Wrong thinking and Wrongly taught Children. His parents will be executed.

Bennett will have to undergo some slings and arrows but he will be stronger than ever for it. God will sometimes publically humiliate his own children to do corrective spiritual surgery on some trouble-some aspect of their natures...then he sets them upright again..stronger than ever! But God will hold us responsible for the truths Bennett espouses despite his "gambling" issue.

Truth and Virtue are ideas larger than the men espousing them, even if the men espousing them sometimes fall short of their moral influences. They are after all road-maps away from immorality and a guide to that which is perfect...and thru-out our lives we know that as long as we live...we never quite "get there yet", as I suspect Bennett has him-self discovered!

All missing the point again. Bennett is not addicted to gambling, he is addicted to having his a$$ kissed.

No way. He's addicted to gambling. 8 million dollars. If he was just addicted to getting his but kissed, he could do that on a lot less than 8 million bucks.

"Bennett needs to spend a little time on the farm (a decade or two should do it) before he can speak with any authority about morality",p>Unless you forget, gambling is LEGAL. Nough said, Bennett's credential are such that his credability will NEVER be underminded.

He did NOTHING illegal. He just blew a wad. That is his right.