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“Ron & Jen’s Great Escape” – 2-2-2022 – Ron St. Pierre & Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre & Jen Brien, commentary
GOOD WITHOUT GOD?
The other day I came across a book titled “Good without God”. I couldn’t believe someone could write something like that, let alone put their name on it. I thought “well, to each his own”. God even said as he was murdered on Calvary, “forgive them father, for they know not what they do”.
I’m beginning to see a real troubling pattern out there. Drug use up, suicides up, alcoholism through the roof, murder rates up, mental illness numbers off the charts, empty churches and other places of worship attendance declining. Homelessness blowing up, anger and aggressiveness at crazy levels, discord and pandemic exhaustion hitting most of us. BUT why worry – we are ” Good without God”. Seems to me – that ain’t the case. What we do when left to our own devices is destroy each other, distort reality, and ravage this planet. I thought I was “Good without God” for a very long time, until I nearly died and lost everything. I ask you to think about this today and take a good look around. At the world – and your own life. Are we really “Good without God”? Let me know how that’s working out for ya.
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BLURRY VIEW
Whoopi Goldberg caused quite the uproar on THE VIEW when she said the Holocaust “wasn’t about race.” Discussing a Tennessee school district’s decision to ban the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, MAUS, about a Holocaust survivor, Goldberg said “the Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it isn’t about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.” Oh, my. If ignorance is bliss, that’s one happy camper on that dais. The group StopAntisemitism tweeted Newsflash@WhoopiGoldberg 6 million of us were gassed, starved and massacred because we were deemed an inferior race by Nazis. How dare you minimize our trauma and suffering!” As the co-hosts continued to argue, Goldberg abruptly ended the conversation by turning to the camera, saying it was time to go to a commercial break. It’s time for a break, alright, a permanent break from Whoopi’s ignorance.
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BRING BACK THE ASTERISK
When Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth’s single season home run record in 1961, he had to live with as asterisk next to his mark for 31 years before MLB finally removed it. The reason it was put there in the first place is because Maris had 8 more games in a season than Ruth did when baseball expanded that year going from 154 games to 162. Maris hit his record breaking homer in game 162. The Commissioner at the time, Ford Frick, said the asterisk was to preserve the integrity of the game. Maybe it’s time the little star returns to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Steroid use (or alleged use) was once again at play as Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens got the call to the hall snub-a-roo again. Bonds, as the game’s all-time home run king, and Clemens with 354 wins, which is 9th best in the history of the game, BOTH should be in the Hall for no other reason than to tell both sides of the steroid story. Their records stand, don’t they?
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TOO COLD FOR FIDO
As dog lovers, we worry about it being too cold to walk Molly and Hazel. Pet insurance company, FETCH BY THE DODO, says large breeds get a bit uncomfortable between 40 and 20 degrees. At 15 degrees, it gets dangerous. Medium size breeds, 30 degrees is dangerous, and small breeds have little tolerance for the cold with an unsafe temp of 45.
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You can read all of Ron & Jen’s Great Escape commentaries, here: https://rinewstoday.com/ron-st-pierre-jen-brien/
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Ron St. Pierre is a veteran broadcaster whose career has spanned over four decades. Ron has programmed, performed on and managed WHJJ, WPRO, WWRX, 790 The Score in Providence, as well as WBZT and WKGR in West Palm Beach and WABC in New York City. Ron also anchored sports on WPRI Ch 12 in Providence. He is a member of both the Rhode Island Radio and Television and the City of Pawtucket Halls of Fame. He was born and raised in Pawtucket.
Jen Brien has over 20 years of radio broadcast experience having hosted shows on WPRO and WHJJ with Ron as well as her own shows on WRKO and WBZ in Boston, WXTK on Cape Cod and WHAM in Rochester, New York. Jen was born and raised in Woonsocket and served six years in the Army MP Canine Unit.
Hazel, Ron’s dog, makes regular appearances.
“Ron and Jen’s Great Escape” podcast, a more lighthearted reaction to the events happening around us, can be found on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts, with new episodes premiering Mondays and Wednesdays.