Who's Country Is This Anyway?

     This picture was taken not in Mexico City, but downtown Reno, Nevada.  Not only is it a direct slap in the face of all United States citizens, its illegal to fly any flag above the stars and stripes in this country.  But this is what is happening.  It's the frog in the simmering pot of warming water. If we don't do something, we will all awake one day speaking Spanish and under the domination of our neighbors to the South.  

     I know it's not the politically correct view to have and many see it as downright intolerant, but I maintain the view that if you are in this country, you should learn how to speak the language of this country. Those in Congress who continue to be unwilling to make English the "official" language of the United States are in my view nothing more than willing accomplices  to the takeover of the United States of America.  Abraham Lincoln said it correctly over 125 years ago.  If this country ever falls, it will fall from within.  That is exactly what is happening.

     By the way, a veteran courageously took down both flags with a knife, walked away with the stars and stripes and then left the Mexican flag on the sidewalk.  The shop owners who presumably put up the flags stood by outside as he did it.  When a reporter asked for their reaction, they walked back in their shop and shut the door, saying nothing.  Who knows ... maybe they didn't speak English!!!

     Let's talk about it on the radio tonight at six on WOND 1400 AM, Atlantic City, NJ and streaming LIVE worldwide. 

Bob Beckel Asks Stupid Question and More

Ever since this issue erupted with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Fox News Contributor Bob Beckel keeps asking the same stupid question which ironically he thinks is so clever..... and he did it again tonight on Hannity and Colmes. He asked should every child who attends Wrights church be denied a right to run for President of The United States? He asks the question with a real
"gotcha" kind of tone in his voice as if to say... Ah, see...what do you say to that, huh, huh? The answer is simple Bob. Of course a child attending Wrights church has a right to run for President. The big difference is Barrack Obama is an ADULT sitting under the hateful, incendiary speech of this man; an adult Bob! He needs to be held accountable for his judgement as an ADULT who wants to be Commander In Chief... not a CHILD who may or may not have a choice as to where he or she attends worship services. Please Bob, p-l-e-a-s-e find a new "gotcha" question to ask. You can do a lot better.
Side-note: Obama said today in a speech that he finds it hard to understand how the media and others keep taking a few comments and repeating them and not looking at the three sermons Rev. Wright preached every week for 20 years. That still doesn't discount what he did say. I don't care what else he said in the 20 years. Amazing to me how now many in the media are doing nothing but praising Barrack Obama for his speech last week addressing race as the man who dares to take on the issue and attempt to move this country forward. How does a man who sat under hate, race baiting and anti-American, anti-Christian speech suddenly become the "champion" of moving us forward. Sick logic that makes no sense to me. How about you.

When Words Define (Out of the Mouth...)

We had a discussion at lunch this week. By we, I mean a group of guys who pretty much all hold the same standards with regards to morals and things spiritual. The discussion somehow turned to music and in particular secular rap music. I don't know if my age is showing, but one of the younger guys at the table (who by the way agreed that much of what we hear in rap and much of the rock music these days is objectionable) seemed to be less phased by it all. Is it that as our society changes, we become more DE-sensitized? I say yes.

Now, I'm really no prude but it really gets to me when all around I have to not only subject my own ears, but the ears of my children to filthy, profane, sexually explicit language and even violent rap "lyrics" coming from idling cars in parking lots, mouths of teens hanging out in shopping malls and even parents scolding their kids in public.

To be sure every culture has its "profane" language and my goal in writing this is not to become the speech police by any means. My observation however is that even in my lifetime and most certainly in the time of my parents and grandparents, the language an increasing amount of people use "in public" without a second thought is more profane than ever. It used to be heard mostly by men and always in the company of ONLY MEN, rarely around women and NEVER around children. Now, even the "children" use the language. The words we use to communicate thoughts, ideas, frustrations, any emotion for that matter says volumes about us as a people. We have children, many of whom can't even conjugate a verb or properly punctuate a sentence communicating with each other in a vulgar sub-language that not only demeans others, but dumbs down our society all together.

It should be easy to see that our everyday language only reflects our cultural erosion. Just today, Fox News reported on a recent survey conducted by researchers at University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K. They say a leadership study found the use of "taboo language" made the workplace more tolerable? Great, now we're being told it's not only OK to use foul language, it's healthy!

Who is to blame? What's to blame? Dr. Bill Cosby recently spoke about the lions share of the responsibility falling on parents. The entertainer has been at the center of a racially charged controversy since he ridiculed the poor grammar of some blacks. "I can't even talk the way these people talk, 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk," Cosby said in Washington, D.C. at an event marking the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling. Dr. Cosby went on to say: "The more you invest in your child, the more you are not going to let some CD tell your child how to curse and how to say the word 'n---r.' This is an accepted word. You are so hip with 'n---r,' but you can't even spell it," But this is not an problem exclusive to the black community. All of us need to take heed. Our children hear how we speak, they listen and simply repeat. Parents need to set the standards in the home.

My fear is that it will only get worse. When I hear young children curse and parents laugh it off. When teenagers, with no regard to anyone around them talk trash with each other; what words will their children and grandchildren use to communicate?

Someone much wiser put it this way: "Out of the abundance of the heart we speak" (Matthew 12:34). Jesus Christ said this over 2000 years ago. He spoke in terms of a vessel filling up with whatever has been poured into it and in turn overflowing. Laws of nature tell us that at some point what is in the vessel as it fills, will eventually overflow and it just so happens most of the time the outlet is our mouth.

Our words reflect our hearts. Guard your heart and that of your children?

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