August 30 2018 – Click here to listen
I wrote yesterday that maybe common sense has died. Check this out:
Conor Daly is a NASCAR driver who recently lost one of his big sponsors. You might ask why? It turns out Conor’s father, Derek Daly who was also a race car driver, on Thursday admitted he had used a racial slur in a live radio interview in the early 1980s. His son Conor Daly was born in 1991. So almost a decade before Conor Daly was born, 35 YEARS AGO, his father used the “N” word.
Oh my Gosh I cannot bear to think of it.
Last Friday Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company, pulled its sponsorship decals from Conor Daly’s No. 6 NASCAR ride. Conor’s father said about the 1980’s statement: “I was a foreign driver now in America, driving for an American team, with an American crew, and with an American sponsor – and that if things did not go well, the only ‘”n” in the wood pile’ would be me,” Derek Daly went on to say that the expression was common in his native Ireland and didn’t carry the same racist connotation. Adding that he was “mortified” after he was informed of the derogatory nature of the word and has not used the word since. It was too little too late. Someone had to be punished.
So, a foreigner used the “N” word 35 years ago and Eli Lilly punishes his racecar driver son for the sins of his father. Did your father or grandfather ever use that word? Will it affect your livelihood?
I wonder if these Eli Lilly snowflake speech police might have graduated from Delaware University. They have launched an effort to create a “safe space,” for all their students by banning snowball fights and water pistol duels. Yep you heard right Delaware State University is banning snowball fights during the winter months over fear of “potential harm to others.” The university said violating students could be punished by warnings, reprimands, community service, fines, or disciplinary probation. In addition to banning snowballs, the university prohibits water guns and super soakers on the university premises or during university activities.
Need a safe place for your kids? Now you know where they can obtain a safe place far removed from those nasty snowballs and squirt guns.
Hmmm . . . Eli Lilly ensures that we the public will hear no evil; the University of Delaware will ensure we feel no evil. What about see no evil?
Well that one is tougher maybe we should head to Mexico to get away from all this evil. Oops! That might not be a good idea either, at least if you plan to go to Guadalajara Mexico, a city of 1.5 million people. They have just approved a law change that allows sexual intercourse and exhibitionism in public, providing no one complains about it. The city council last week pushed through the reform, which now states: “Having sexual relations or committing acts of exhibitionism of a sexual nature in public places, vacant lots, inside vehicles or in private locations in public view will be permitted.
The whole world has gone cuckoo.
Psalm 32:9
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
Thanks for the prayers again. My operation went smoothly. I’m hoping for 20/20 today when I go for my checkup.