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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Friday, March 18, 2011

A Prinipal of principles... Thanks Sarah, Keith, and Pat!

----- Forwarded Message ----

From: Keith & Pat Brooker

To: Undisclosed-Recipient@yahoo.com

Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 3:41:09 PM

Subject: A California Principal's Opening Speech













A CALIFORNIA PRINCIPAL'S OPENING

MESSAGE TO STUDENTS











From: Dennis Prager, principal at a high school in Redding, California, on the first day of classes in 2010:





To the students and faculty of our high school: I am your new principal, and honored to be so.

There is no greater calling than to teach young people.







I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school.



I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers, against your parents, and against our country.





Therefore:

First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow, or white.

I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian, or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower

or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school,

and American public schools were created to make better Americans.



If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial, or religious identity through your school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity-, race- and non-American-nationality-based celebrations... They undermine the motto of America , one of its three central values --

E Pluribus Unum -- "from many, one."



And this school will be guided by America 's values. That includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation, or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness. Your clubs will be based on interests and passions -- not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So, we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already

speak, math, carpentry, and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interested in are those based on ethnic or

racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.



Second, I am not interested in whether or not English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America 's citizens for more than 200 years,

and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country.

And if you leave this school without excellent English-language skills, I will have been remiss in my duty to ensure that you are prepared to compete successfully in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English. But if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.



Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for a meal at a nice restaurant than they do for church or school. Those people have their priorities backwards. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code

at this school.



Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events.

If you can't speak without using the "F-word," you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission plus epithets such as the "N-word," even when used by one black student to address another, or "bitch,"

even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few of your age

to distinguish instinctively between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.



Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until

the state of California decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence of this is that there will be only one class valedictorian, not eight.



Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom-wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual, or not Christian. We will have failed,

if any one of you graduates from this school and does not consider himself or herself inordinately lucky -- to be alive and to

be an American.



Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America . As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.



I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND THIS TO ALL IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, PERHAPS SOME THING COULD

COME OF THIS................

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