America: A cord of many strands!

On Wednesday evening, the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, President Barack Obama will outline to the nation his administration's plans for fighting the Islamic State of Iraq. For the present (and future) sake of America, whatever he chooses to communicate needs to originate from his heart, nurtured by pensive thought and prayer. He needs to sound presidential, not like a talking head grasping at random thoughts while reciting a pre-written speech. He needs to ooze confidence, boldness, authority and resolve. The President must use his sworn authority and power granted him to defend and protect the citizens of America. The world will be watching and Americans need to know they have a competent leader who is “all in”. Words must be chosen strategically and voiced authoritatively. Consequently he should not engage in any amount of waffling, indecisiveness, campaigning, blame games, moral ambiguity or hesitation. He needs to look boldly into the camera and demonstrate he means business. 

This speech has the potential to be a defining, memorable one. Most importantly, it could serve to rally all political parties and ideologies to a single cause, defeating evil. Evil does not negotiate, it relentlessly conquers. We must move the line in the sand back to its place. As in the days of 9/11, Americans would do well to spend an abundance of time on their knees, praying that The Lord grants a hedge of protection around our great nation, His nation.

Folks, it’s time to act as though we are one nation under God, indivisible with the collective goal of liberty and justice for all. In seasons like these we must be one. For a cord of many strands is not easily broken. The alternative is to simply do nothing and allow evil to pursue and destroy that which remains of all we consider virtuous.

Media fixated on Robin Williams....not Iraq!

Recently a caller asked Rush Limbaugh a great question:

CALLER: Yeah. My pleasure. You know, I don't want to sound insensitive, and Robin Williams was absolutely a wonderful talent. But, you know, it used to be that the media would sort of downplay celebrity suicide, which I think was actually a good and right thing. I just feel like they're making a huge deal about this when there's so much other news like Iraq, Israel, Missouri, et cetera, that they should be focusing on. My question is, what do you think the political reason for their doing this is?

RUSH: Well, interesting question. You know, I'm the guy that says there's politics in everything and you've gotta be able to spot it, and you're right, there is here. This really is an example of the dedication the media has to pop culture events and how important it is in the eyes of their audience. Whereas in Washington, the media thinks the world is on fire because of what's happening in the Middle East, your average TMZ viewer thinks the world doesn't make any sense anymore because Robin Williams committed suicide. The thing I worry about, I really do, they're making such heroism out of this that I hope it doesn't inspire a lot of copycats by people seeking the same kind of fame. And that's been one of my big concerns with social media from the get-go. I saw all these people just giving up every bit of information about themselves, just this desire to have everybody know everything about them, and we know that one of the allures of pop culture media is this desire to be famous and have pop culture media talk about you. And this is one way to do it, obviously. To kill yourself is one way to get the media to spend a lot of time talking about you, if you want to be talked about. I hope it doesn't spawn a bunch of copycats. Source