I just said a prayer for Jody McLeod of Raone County High School in Tennessee ... Thank you, Nita E!

At a Tennessee Football Game---not a joke

Christianity is now the target of persecution... I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CAN SEE THE PROBLEM, BUT OUR SOCIETY CANNOT. Tennessee Football This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School , Kingston , Tennessee, by school principal, Jody McLeod "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country." Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it "an alternate life style," and, if someone is offended, that's OK. I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended, that's OK. I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a "viable" means of birth control." If someone is offended, no problem... I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess, "Mother Earth", and call it "ecology.." I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple minded" and "ignorant" and call it "enlightenment.." However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is violated. This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD and HIS Commandments. Nevertheless , as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst, hypocritical. I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression. For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's," and refrain from praying at this time. " However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask HIM, in the name of JESUS, to bless this event, please feel free to do so.. B As far as I know, that's not against the law--yet." One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands with one another and began to pray. They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed at the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box! The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United States of America- the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under GOD." Somehow, Kingston , Tennessee , remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion Praise GOD that HIS remnant remains! JESUS said, "If you are ashamed of ME before men, then I will be ashamed of you before MY FATHER.." If you are not ashamed, pass this on . I'm not one bit ashamed to pass this on, are you? THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS! GOD BLESS EVERYONE WHO READS THIS AND PASSES IT ON.

From a lady immigrant who is an American ... Thanks Ramey H!

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR SCHOOLS AND THIS GREAT COUNTRY, WATCH THIS!! I will not send any other emails this weekend because I want everyone to look at this. Sure hope this goes viral.

 

 Information      about our universities and school systems that will blow you      away!

  This woman should be heard by every American.

This is a brutal Eye Opener.   She is not reading from a teleprompter either.

Please watch and listen. Very frightening, infuriating, and informative.

Click here:      TaboolaArticle

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We are Americans! ... Thanks good friend, Sonny H! I fully believe!

Enjoy this video.

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE | A Soldier'S Pledge : Video Clips From The Coolest Oneskegley.blogspot.com

What has America become? ... Thanks John< Yvette and friend!

John & Yvette Massey
1988 Marblecliff Crossing Court, Columbus, Ohio 43204-4966.
Telephone: 614-486-7102; E-mail: .

Subject: Excellent article!!!

Excellent article!!!

Is this getting nationwide attention? Where is Tawas City, MI ? Actually, it is on Lake Huron and has a population of just over 2,000!! Go figure. A Small MICHIGAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL.....Short and to the point!!!!!

Only in america ... thanks Judi C.!

Only in America---Top Ten

1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President,a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black. 12% of the population is black.

3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

4) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

5) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.

6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."

7) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

8) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

10) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

Thanks Australia ... To Kill and American Thanks ron W.!

And thank you Ron w.!

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Subject: Fw: THANKS AUSTRALIA - THIS IS AWESOME

WORTH A REPEAT!!!!! We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are always there for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you. THANKS AUSTRALIA THIS IS AWESOME Written by an Australian Dentist To Kill an American You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!) 'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan. An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans. An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than inAfghanistan . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses. An American is also free to believe in no religion.. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God. An American lives in the most prosperous land inthe history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness. An American is generous.. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return. When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country! As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan ... The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists. So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American. Please keep this going! Pass this around the World . Then pass it around again. It says it all, for all of us. Please do not just delete. Pass it on first. Thanks!

America ... thanks Ron!

America is never entirely entirely, Ron.  There is much truth here, but still, God blesses any parents who adopt any children in my humble opinion.

Thanks Ron!

Sam

We read all the jokes and forward the good ones but I just wonder who will pass this one on. How about you sending it on and back to me if you got the guts to do so. I am and just wonder how many I will get back? AND very happy to be of the 1%. Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!! Both Republicans & Democrats We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,??????????? In the last years we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , Pakistan, Lybia , Egypt and Turkey, And Japan Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!! Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries! We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans. AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds,and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc. YET....................... They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies. Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries. Sad isn't it? 99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did

Made in America ... thanks Lyle!

Subject: Made in America

MADE IN AMERICA-----------A REMINDER FOR 2012

I DIDN'T KNOW HALLMARK CARDS WERE MADE IN CHINA !

That is also why I don't buy cards at Hallmark anymore, They are made

in China and are more expensive! I buy them at Dollar Tree - 50 cents

each and made in USA.

I have been looking at the blenders available on the Internet. Kitchen
Aid is MADE IN the US. Top of my list already...

Yesterday I was in Wal Mart looking for a wastebasket. I found some
made in China for $6.99. I didn't want to pay that much so I asked the
lady if they had any others. She took me to another department and they
had some at $2.50 made in USA. They are just as good.

Same as a kitchen rug I needed. I had to look, but I found some made in
the USA - what a concept! - and they were $3.00 cheaper.

We are being brainwashed to believe that everything that comes from
China and Mexico is cheaper. Not so.

One Light Bulb at a Time...

I was in Lowe's the other day and just out of curiosity, I looked at
the hose attachments. They were all made in China .

The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I
checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA .

Start looking, people.....In our current economic situation, every
little thing we buy or do affects someone else - most often, their job.

My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is now
marked "made in Mexico ."I don't buy it anymore.

My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico ... now I have
switched to Crest.

You have to read the labels on everything.

This past weekend I was at Kroger...I needed 60W light bulbs and
Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to

the GE brand I normally buy -- was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday

Value.” I picked up both types of bulbs and compared them: they were

the same except for the price...the GE bulbs cost more than the Everyday

Value brand, but the thing that surprised me the most was that that GE was

made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - you guessed

it - the USA at a company in Cleveland, Ohio.

It's Way past time to start finding and buying products you use every
day that are made right here.

So, on to the next aisle: Bounce Dryer Sheets...yep, you guessed it,
Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada. The Everyday Value

brand cost less, and was MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday

and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using

for years, at almost half the price.

My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for
everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA -

the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address
book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time!

Stop buying from overseas companies - you're sending the jobs there.
(We should have awakened a decade ago....)

Let's get with the program and help our fellow Americans keep their
jobs and create more jobs here in the USA. I passed this on.....will you???

... Hear a pin drop ... Thanks Ron Walters!

Pin drop ... ping!  A great recycle ... Thanks Ron walters!

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This does NOT represent any political party relationship on my part:

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At a time when many people tend to apologize for our country's prior actions, here's a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country.

JFK’s Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when Charles DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. He said he wanted all U.S. military out of France as soon as possible.

Rusk responded. “Does that include those who are buried here?”

DeGaulle did not respond.

You could have heard a pin drop.

When in England at a fairly large international conference Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of American empire building.

Powell replied, “Over the years the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those who did not return.”

You could have heard a pin drop.

There was a conference in France in which a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into to room and said, “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt by the Americans? They are sending an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What do they intend to do, bomb them?”

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly, “Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias onboard that can feed 3,000 people three meals a day; they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day; and, they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from the flight deck. We have eleven such ships. How many does France have?”

You could have heard a pin drop.

An admiral of the U.S. navy was attending a naval conference that included admirals from English, Canadian, Australian and French navies.

That evening, at a cocktail party, he found himself standing with several officers from those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks. Suddenly, a French admiral complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages Americans learn only English.

He then asked, “Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?”

Without hesitating the Admiral replied. “Maybe it’s because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you would not have to speak German.”

You could have heard a pin drop.

And,

Robert Whiting, an 83-year-old American, flew into Paris. At French Customs he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry-on bag.

“You have been to France before, Monsieur?”, the customs officer asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting replied that he had been to France previously.

“Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.”

The American said, “The last time I was here I didn’t have to show it.”

“Impossible,” the customs officer said. “Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France.”

The elderly American gave the customs officer a long hard look, and then quietly said, “Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D Day in 1944 to help liberate this country I couldn’t find a single Frenchman to show my passport to.”

You could have heard a pin drop.

So I think I would like to say:

We are not perfect, we Americans. We have many faults, as individuals and as a nation. Yet, when people need help they come to us. Sometimes it means financial aid, or food, water, medical, engineering, teaching.

And sometimes it means dying.

Silk Roads and Siamese Smiles ... Dawood Kahn

This post by my friend priompted my foregoing response:

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bin Laden, Bush, Cambodia, FDR, Japan, Laos, Nixon, Pearl Harbor, Pinochet, Remember the Alamo





Did BushCo allow bin Laden to Succeed?

In Afghanistan, Middle East, Politics, Quotes, thinking out loud, Useful Information, Vietnam, War on October 29, 2011 at 7:52 am







Recently, a question was asked: “Do you really believe what you are saying or do you think FDR and Bush were begging and pleading for Japan and Bin Laden to attack us so we could enter a war? Seriously?”



On the question of Japan, undoubtedly FDR was courting an attack as justification for entering the War in Europa. Anyone who has read the history of the build up to World War II knows that FDR was looking for a way to get the American people on a war footing. Embargoes are a mother!



As for bin Laden. BushCo were strangely oblivious of bin Laden prior to 9-11. I do not put it past the Gov’t and especially one guided by the likes of Cheney and Rummy to allow an attack to occur so as to “lead” the nation to war.



Why did we NEED to go to Iraq? The answer is that we DID NOT. Yet, 9-11 and the GWOT were used as an excuse to take us into that war. They definitely “shaded the truth” to get the war that they wanted.



The Spanish American War was yet another contrived war as was the Mexican War and the Vietnam War. When one looks at the Korean War, it is a war into which we either secretly goaded North Korea or into which Truman simply blundered like a blind fool.



American spheres of influence were stated loudly to the World. South Korea lay JUUUUUUUSSSSSST outside of the line. Leading NK, China and the USSR to believe that we’d stand by and do nothing.



From the internet:



In June 1950, after Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared Korea to be outside of America’s sphere of influence, the North Koreans invaded South Korea and attempted to reunify the country under communist rule. President Truman immediately declared Korea a “global police action” and attempted to drive the North Koreans out of South Korea. In fact, the United States secret larger goal in the Korean war was to defeat North Korean communism and create a unified Korea under American domination and control. Korea was supposed to be the first major effort to rollback global communism. However, communist China, feeling threatened that aggressive American actions against North Korea would be followed by American attempts to undermine Chinese communism, entered the Korean war against the United States and its South Korean ally. The Korea war quickly proved to be a deadly stalemate between the United States and communist China. Only in 1953, after President Eisenhower secretly threatened to drop atomic bombs on China, did the Chinese agree to an end to the war, leaving North and South Korea divided just as they were at the beginning of the war.



The Korean war, as many American leader later said, seem to justify America’s global crusade against Soviet communism. It convinced many Americans of the truth of the United States governments warning that the Soviet were plotting to take over the world and impose communist domination over the free world. The Korean war would further justify American creation of the “nuclear umbrella” to shield the free world from Soviet expansion. As described by Secretary of State Dean Acheson in 1949, the nuclear umbrella was the American threat to wage nuclear war against the Soviet Union if the communists threatened any country in the free world. An attack on any member of the free world, thus, would be treated as an attack against the United States, which would lead America to wage nuclear war against the aggressor.



Also, Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman: mission and power in American foreign policy By Anne Rice Pierce PG 248 (Google Books)



As well as the following:





After World War II, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. divided Korea into spheres of influence—the Soviets backed Communist-ruled North Korea and the U.S. backed the South Korean dictatorship. Both Koreas had threatened to invade the other. When U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared that South Korea was no longer part of the U.S. defense perimeter in Asia, the North invaded the South.



Do I think that a US President and/or the US Political and Military Leadership are capable of allowing an attack or incident to happen so as to lead us into war? Definitely. It’s been done several times.



REMEMBER THE ALAMO!



REMEMBER THE MAINE!



REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!



9-11! NEVER AGAIN!



THE LUSITAINE!



FORT SUMTER! (As Lincoln stated; “The North must not be seen as the aggressor.)



The Tonkin Gulf Incident



Leaving the Koreas outside of our “sphere of influence.”



What did Madame Ambassador say to Saddam Hussein when he asked how the US would view aggression against Kuwait?



Known faulty intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in ’03.



The War of 1812 and lust for Canada.



Hawaii, the US Marines and Dole Fruit



Gautamala and United Fruit



Nicaragua/Panama ~ We needed a Canal passage.



Pinochet ~ Nixon and Henry Kissinger



Nixon, Cambodia and Laos



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Response to my good American friend in Afghanistan

Dave Kaelin aka Dawood Kahn is my good friend in Afghanistan.  He is a civilian for the US Army and is teaching Afghanistans ways of maintaining civil law. He has called himsel a "Blue Heretic" as a fellow Kentucky fan.  A heretic would proclaim no one religious belief and might search among the many.  I believe he still has awe for our Almighty God, in spite of his own strong opinions which he might declare otherwise.  His recent piece in his blog led me to this response ansd I will present it afterwards for any of my readers perspective who care to read:

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Cannot disagree with you more, good friend!




The progressives or leftists have been goading America toward dictatorship/socialism throughout the twentieth century and into this twenty-first century. Yours is a distorted presentation in this instance.



The world has not known a successful endeavor such as the American Republic before. But it has been written that no democracy succeeds more than a couple of hundred years. When the politicians discover that they can keep shoving dollars into their pockets here and there without full public scrutiny, you bet the selfish such will. As such this country is thought to be ripe for picking by the islamic terrorists, or at least they think so. Our supposed representatives are representing themselves to the extent that the American citizen has been forgotten. These are rich Cats. Now George Soros and his ilk, of which I hope my good friend Dawood Kahn doesn’t become a lackey, would like to destroy capitalism.



Most of this nation believes in a higher being, but not one who encourages “killing the infidels”. In fact even our liberal media polings show that eighty-six per cent of our citizens are God believers. The ACLU and strong mafia-connected union leaders (selfish power seekers) sought more and more for themselves and have not a thing to make us proud.



Come on Dave! You have a rich history of life in seeing how the Middle East operates. Is it a haven for anything?



Leading leftist reps all agreed that Hussein had WMD and supported the Iraqui invasion until they made it Bush’s war.



This United States of America has many faults. Roosevelt did not care for the checks and balances of the American government and he wanted to stack the supreme court with more numbers, kind of like gerry-mandering a branch with appointees he could control.

I was just a kid during WW II. I, my family and friends considered him a hero because he was so excellent a fireside orator. I do credit him with being a war leader along with Winston Churchill in keeping our families from learning the goose-step or working rice for the Japanese Emperor.



Hitler thought his Germany, with all of its genious and his own misguided control could take the whole world. The Japanese thought they could put a lot of rice paddies between the Pacific and the Mississippi River and we were looking weak militarily. I was a witness to great strides of patriotism for this country. Factories converted quickly to war goods from civilian goods to help our troops. Moms went to work to replace the soldiers who left the factories. We had a united and greater cause and we quickly debveloped superior fighting forces with the English and other allies who undrstood the causes.



Dave, I am a Tea Party guy, as in the Boston Harbor when the British were overtaxing and otherwise attempting to make us part of their empire, Americans said no! The Revolutionary War led to our independence and we exceeded even the economic imperialism of Britain.



You and I know too many hard working and loyal citizens of this country who will literally fight to defend the good that is here. You are far too mentally sharp to be duped.



Please don’t give me that speil. I have never bought into your claim of being a heretic and I certainly do not believe in the current group of progressives who would let us become a dictatorship under thes current “orator only”. He moves his mouth smoothly but doesn’t say a thing of value except to his leftist ilk, which is hardly good American creed. America is far from perfect, but it is still worhty of fitting Ronald Reagan’s “Ctiy on a Hill” description.



God, please bless my good friend, Dave Kaelin.



Sam Kegley … aka SamKat



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