Dead Reckoning Radio
Show Notes, August 29, 2017

Jay's Introduction

Quick Takes

Eclipse 2017! - Since our last show, a total solar eclipse captivated the country. Tell us about your experience.

Hurricane Harvey - Following that delightful natural phenomenon came a disastrous natural phenomenon. Over the weekend Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, made landfall in Texas. What makes Harvey notable is the rain. Rain of Genesis proportions. By storm's end, some areas will have received 50 inches of rain. There is not enough drainage, and so Houston is essentially swamped, with thousands of people being rescued by civil authorities and entire navies of private citizens with boats. At least 10 people have died, and it is difficult to conceive how awful the displacement and destruction in the region is.

Pardon me, Don... - President Donald Trump made good on a hinted-at "promise" to pardon beleaguered Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Federal contempt of court charges. This was a controversial decision. What do you guys think?

Mercy Me! - Just when Christian films were started to show glimmers of interesting, a new film starring Dennis Quaid tells the story behind how a Contemporary Christian Music artist wrote a song. Okay, well, maybe it is interesting. How does it strike you?

SPLC ain't the SPCA - Finally, somebody has said, "Enough!" D. James Kennedy Ministries has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center for their arbitrary labeling as "hate groups" people with whom they have political disagreements. Media outlets routinely "report" various groups as "hate groups" for the mere reason that SPLC says they are. Finally, somebody is going to dig into just why anybody should take their word for it.




Segment One: Charlottesville

It is starting to feel like... 1968. War protests and racial strife marked that year with violent riots, and 2017 has now witnessed similar ugliness. It began when a hodgepodge group of white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. This they did. They also carried tiki torches and Nazi flags, and chanted nasty things about Jews and blacks. So maybe, just maybe, it wasn't the statue that was the issue.

Counter-protestors arrived, some of whom were associated with the left-wing activist group "Antifa" and things were tense. There was violence, and in the end a white nationalist took a cue from ISIS and rammed his car through a crowd of people, killing a young woman and injuring others.

Tensions were not eased when President Trump insisted, repeatedly, that there was a kind of moral equivalence between the two groups, saying that there were "some very fine people" involved in the white nationalist march.

Lots to talk about:

What about that moral equivalence? Isn't it true that Antifa is violent?
What about the Confederate statues? Should they be removed?
What do we make of the emergence of these two fringe groups in the first place?
What do we make of "white nationalism"?
What do we make of "anti-fascism?"
How should we respond as Christians?


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Segment Two: Malware Malevolence

And now for some sad news. Anonymous, mysterious hackers have thoroughly corrupted the Dead Reckoning website, rendering it completely useless. We've taken the site down, and it cannot be repaired without hours and hours of volunteer efforts by, well, us. Hours we frankly don't have. So we're going to take this opportunity to say a few things.

Jay: Vent away...
Brian: Talk about the immorality of it all...
Hadley: Tell hackers that Jesus loves them, too. ;)

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Segment Three: Dead Reckoning Recommends (Jay)