AMERICA: A House Divided Will FALL.

The original pledge of allegiance penned in 1892 read, “I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” From 1892 to 1923 a single word was added to the pledge: “I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” From 1923 to 1924 five more words were added: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” From 1924 to 1954 two more words were added “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”  In 1954 the final product read: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

 A Portion of the Declaration of Independence reads:

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…

The First Amendment, of the Bill of Rights reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

It appears to me, from the small sampling of these documents and the pledge of allegiance, that the founding fathers of the United States were interested in having a nation founded upon freedoms and rights that were indelibly linked to a Creator God; this is America’s National Heritage, to be One Nation under God, indivisible… America became a great nation because of the way in which the founding fathers honored God. America has never been a perfect nation, but because God was honored from the very beginning by the Puritans and other Christian believers, it became a blessed nation.

Any potential student, who wanted to enter any of the Ivy League Universities, had to name the name of Christ to enter in. In fact, the entire education system was founded upon the wisdom and righteousness of the Word of God. Well, look at our schools now…explicit sex education is taught. Condoms are being handed out, in a certain school system, to First Graders. Students are having sex in school with other students. Teachers are having sex with students and selling drugs to students. Murder. We spend  hundreds of thousand of dollars to teach Johnny, and he still can’t read. Our educational system at best is inferior to other countries.  Why? Because our educational system no longer has a foundation built upon the wisdom and righteousness of God’s Word. Morality, prayer and Christ were put out of the school and now you see what has taken root in its place, immorality.

Our nation is divided, and Racism has become much more OVERT. Congressman Joe Wilson publicly called Obama a “liar.” Our president has been referred to as “an alien in the White House;” an African Witch Doctor, a socialist; the Obama’s have been referred to as “monkeys in the White House.” and the president’s every move is being criticized.  Are these not tactics to stir up fear and further polarize the people of our nation? We have a black man in the highest office in the land, racism is offended. Because racism says blacks are genetically inferior, racism says blacks need to stay in the place that white society has relegated them to, racism says blacks are not qualified to lead white people, and certainly not the “old white boy network.” When the fore-fathers penned…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; they didn’t mean the captured Africans that they enslaved, because the slaves were considered less than fully human. But the fathers declared that all men are created equal, God agreed, and the North won the Civil War. Even Thomas Jefferson, who was a slave owner, knew that a price would be paid for enslaving human beings that God alone created to be free.

The Republicans and Democrats are divided, and don’t seem to be collectively invested in pulling this nation out of its crisis. The election of 2012 seems more important, because the spirit of racism says we’ve got to get that Negro out of Office. The Left is against the Right and Conservatives against Liberals, the immigration problem, the BP oil spill, gay rights, Arabs and Israelites. In the midst of this, a Russian spy ring has been discovered; since the recent Times Square terrorist bomb that failed to blow-up, and there has been an additional threat conspiring to detonate explosives in the New York subway system. Muslims are donating great sums of money to American Universities so that they (Muslims) can establish Islamic departments and teach their propaganda to angry, disgruntled, disillusioned impressionable, students, and produce more home grown Islamic terrorists, and Muslim followers. But WE proclaimed/pledged that America is ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. Even our $ proclaims in God We Trust. And so the pledge and declarations are pulling us forward to our National Heritage that is ONLY found in our Creator God. There is only ONE MAN that can bring RIGHTEOUSNESS to our Nation and World, The Lord Jesus Christ. So while the nation is high on drugs, blacked out on booze, drunk on high fat foods; and our leaders, who should be defending and protecting our nation and its people, are jockeying for government thrones by making promises they don’t keep; while we continue to practice covert and overt racism,  frightening our country along racial lines; and while we continue to kill one another; and while we become consumed by our lust for sex, lies, and video tapes, wealth and greed; our enemies are infiltrating our communities  to further the destruction of our Country that we Americans began. We cannot commit the atrocities that America has committed throughout history including the on-going abortion rate of 3,700 abortions a day and 1.37 million babies aborted yearly, (http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html) and not expect to reap a harvest of destruction within our own borders. A house divided will come stumbling down.

Some Facts about Our Beloved America:

The US has the highest homicide rate per capita.       11,877,218 

The US has the highest divorce rate.       0.495 per 1000 people

The US is in the top 3 of countries with lone parent families.   9%

Money may not be the most important value, but it is a useful measure to help grasp the size of alcohol problems (see Berry and Boland, 1977; Cook, 1984; Fein, 1984; Grant and Ritson, 1983). We complain about the high cost of life’s necessities, yet we Americans spend $71.9 billion (more than $197 million a day, $8.2 million an hour) on taxable alcoholic beverages, plus an untold amount on bootleg liquor (about 24 million gallons) and home brew. And $60 billion more goes to pick up the pieces: health care, motor vehicle accident losses, fire losses, losses caused by violent crime, social programs responding to the problems created by alcoholism, and loss to business and industry. Total losses to the nation from alcohol problems and alcoholism were estimated at $116.7 billion in 1982 by Research Triangle Institute, $120 billion in 1983 by the U.S. General Accounting Office, $142 billion in 1986 by the University of California at Berkeley School of Health, 136 billion in 1990 by NIAAA, and $148 billion in 1993 by MADD.

http://www.enotalone.com/article/5540.html = SOURCE

 The United States is the eighth richest country, with 46,400 international dollars per capita.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-richest-country-in-the-world.htm =SOURCE

 Teenage pregnancy rate in the US is the highest at 494,357 births / 1,671.63 births per 1 million people

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_tee_pre_percap-health-teenage-pregnancy-per-capita

 The United States is also the most drugged-out country according to:

http://www.mainstreet.com/slideshow/lifestyle/most-drugged-out-countries

Fort Worth Makes Record Breaking $2,000,000 Settlement Offer In The Taser Death of Michael Jacobs

Michael Jacobs (24) was a human being with mental health issues, schizophrenia, and on April 19, 2009, he had not taken his medication. Michael’s family called the police to HELP THEM get Michael under control. Instead, these parents witnessed the death of their son on their front lawn. Here is what happened…the family called for help, a FIRE crew, EMS unit, and POLICE showed up on the premises, the cops sent the FIRE and EMS unit away.  It was at that point that officer Stephanie A. Phillips felt that Michael was threatening to run away. That is when she tasered Michael with 50,000 volts of electricity; the first time was for 49 seconds and the second time for 5 seconds, with a 1-second interval between the shocks.

 The officer reported that when Jacobs “continued to struggle,” Phillips warned him again that if he did not “cease fighting and comply with officers’ requests, she would shock him again. When [Jacobs] failed to cooperate, Phillips shocked him a second time,” according to the report. That stun gun’s electric shock ran through Michael Jacobs’ body for 54 seconds.  After he fell to the ground, and had stopped breathing, the cops handcuffed him and called the ambulance to return. The three cops did nothing except call the ambulance to return.  They did not even try to resuscitate this young black man, they only chose to handcuff  a dead man.

Fifteen minutes later, the EMS techs arrived to find the young man dead.  Handcuffed, lifeless, laying on the ground. Two investigations were begun, but with no results…four months passed and nothing. 

This victim had no weapon and the only threat was that he might run. Charlotte Jacobs, Michael’s mother, told relatives that her son was writhing on the ground and foaming at the mouth while he was being stunned, and she begged for the officers to stop.  Michael Patrick Jacobs died on this day, and the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office ruled the death a homicide and Jacob’s family sued, alleging his civil rights had been violated.

A little over a year later, May 18, 2009, the Forth Worth City Council has unanimously approved a settlement, the biggest settlement ever from the City of Fort Worth, 2 Mil. This settlement was the result of a civil rights/wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael’s parents. The Fort Worth Police Dept. cleared the police officers after their internal investigation, and the Tarrant County Grand Jury did not issue an indictment against the officers.   THIS IS PRESENT-DAY LYNCHING.

Resources: ElectronicVillage.blogspot.com;  DallasJustice.com (Michael Lowe)

http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/04/fort-worth-police-taser-michael-jacobs.html

http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/fort-worth-makes-record-breaking-2000000-settlement-offer-in-cop-taser-killing-of-michael-jacobs

Booty-Poppin Eight and Nine-Year-Old Dancers-Is It Just Me?

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7441805 I don’t  understand why the  Parents of these little girls are dismissing this dancing as normal. The way these girls are dressed and the way they are gyrating, booty-popping, and crotch thrusting is too much right?  Is America becoming addicted to sex. You know the kind of addiction that Tiger said he suffered from, and Jesse James went into treatment for, and America judged them.  The  Miss America franchise used skimpy sexy wear and sexy posing to get attention for its pagent this year. Men are being caught left and right in extramarital sex-capades. What is happening to the American culture, for parents to parade their children in these outfits and allow them to dance like this? Why is it okay to sell sex, sexiness, and sensuality and its not okay to buy it? 

 

The Righteous Choice to LIFE pt2

The little girl in the photo to the right is the sister of Derrion Albert.  Derrion was a 16-year-old Fenger High School, honor roll student formerly of the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Derrion was killed in a gang related beating on September 24, 2009. The reason that this incident became national news, is because the beating was televised. Derrion was “a good boy.” So I look at these pictures and wonder, how much pain can a people stand. And what do you say to the kids who are left, and are also “good kids?” How do you maintain hope in the face of such despair?

The Righteous Choice to THINK AMERICA!

I am not politically savvy at all, but I do listen to and watch what politicians say and do. So, as I think about the past and present scandals that are embedded in our political history, I realize that I must become much more involved in the process. Our politicians have been caught in sex scandals, bribery stings, misappropriation of funds. Our government, in the past,  has been accused of assassination plots, cover-ups, the murder and torture of the guilty, and innocent. And law abiding citizens of our country cannot forget that. Politicians, at best, leave a bad taste in my mouth. Generally speaking, I don’t believe that our political and business sectors really care about our country.  There are too many self-centered and self-rewarding decisions being made, and there is far too much corruption in our political system.

Nevertheless, in contrast, Obama, is a man whose life has been nurtured for compassionate service.  He wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he knows first hand what it means to be poor, and without health care, to be middle class, and a minority. I truly believe, that he cares about the American Citizen.  But, I am still watching him closely, because he is after all, a politician. When elected, he immediately began to assemble his skilled, multiracial cabinet, and other multiracial appointees-Sonia Sotomayor. He and his cabinet are working to correct the causes of our financial collapse, He wants health care for all Americans, and I don’t understand why certain members of our governing bodies want to fight against corrective measures, unless of course, money is at the root of this evil. We need to THINK  AMERICA, concretely and objectively, not emotionally. We need people in office who care about the well-being of Americans, and who can be trusted with the task of performing their office. And the only way that we will know that a politician is trustworthy, is by his or her character and actions.

Sarah Palin’s actions are questionable, in my opinion,  she is a politician’s politician. She knows how to capitalize on her looks,  the right catch phrases, her children, and the emotions of the American people.  I don’t feel good about her leaving Alaska amid rumors of scandal. I don’t feel good about her divisive manner. I just don’t see what good can come from a Sarah Palin.

Obama has been in office now for more than 200 days, and I believe he is making decisions based on what is in his heart, what he heard from average Joe Americans, and the advice of his advisers. I don’t think it is wise for Americans to ever be divisive again.  Not only that, but he is doing his job in the face of increased death threats. Remember we rise and fall together as a Nation.

             

Seeing Myself Through The Eyes of Others!!

I am writing this after some introspection, people tend to form an opinion of themselves based on what they hear from other people, loved ones in particular. People tend to grow up motivated or debilitated by what others have put in their spirits by word or deed. As a result, some of us grow up with healthy self-esteem and the rest of us don’t.  And those of us who don’t have the healthy self image have to spend sometimes a lifetime trying to get a grip, or trying to “get over it.” What I have found out, is that not everyone judges you harshly based on your outer appearance.  Everyone has their own physical preferences when it comes to potential partners, but every aspect of daily life is not about sexual preferences. Do we as humans conduct all business out of the bedroom?