The Pope, radio and bumper stickers

Does anyone listen to music on the radio anymore? I use to, but the pop channels really only play the same 10 songs by the same artists (the big names who can afford to pay radio executives to play their music). I now favor NPR, sometimes the Christian channel (hey occasionally those sermons are universal) or my own CD's. Does radio even play any role, in these days, in making hit music makers? I think this industry is going to have to innovate if it wants to remain relevant.

I am sensing that the current Pope is not going to be remembered as fondly as the previous Pope (John Paul II). Every time I turn around Pope Benedict is involved in some scandal. First it was that he was in the Nazi Youth, than his derogatory comments on Islam's most prominent figure, the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and now the German Priests abuse and sex scandal (including the Pope's own brother).

I clipped this from the UK newspaper, The Independent on further gaffes by the current Pope:
"Many such blunders followed. He went to Africa and said that condoms were not the solution to the AIDS epidemic but could make matters worse. He stood in Istanbul's Blue Mosque, praying shoulder to shoulder with its Imam, then denied the possibility of inter-religious dialogue. He refused to sign a UN declaration on the rights of homosexuals and the disabled. He went to Brazil and denied that the indigenous people had had the alien religion forced on them, but said rather that they had unconsciously desired it. He welcomed the schismatics of the Society of St Pius X back into the Church – only discovering afterwards that one of the society's illegally created bishops, Richard Williamson, denied the truth of the Holocaust. "
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/faith/the-dark-side-of-the-pope-1921323.html


Finally, I had to comment on another stupid bummer sticker I saw here in Arizona (home of many proud dumb Republicans), it had a picture of President Obama and the saying was "Hitler gave great speeches too." Ummm what?! So you are equating the current President of the United States of America who is trying to ensure that all Americans have health care so they might not die because they can't afford to see a doctor, with a Fascist, Egomaniac Dictator who killed 6 million Jews? I think you should spend less time sticking bumper stickers on your truck and more time on learning to read.