Honor is gone

I recently read an op/ed piece by Gerd Schroeder entitled "Whatever Happened to Duty, Honor, Country?" It was very interesting. I have felt the same for years.
I was raised in a very patriotic household. My father was in the Air Force and fought in Vietnam. My grandfather was a Marine and fought in WWII. We were taught to believe in our country. To fight for our country if need be. I had every intention to do just that until I made other decisions. I still get disgusted by the lack of respect most people have for our country, our flag, our president. It makes me physically ill. I would like to believe that after 9/11 something changed in our country for just a little while. Unfortunately, we reverted to the same self righteous greedy Americans we were before the fall. Isn't that just sad? And I also agree with Mr. Schroeder: How can we believe that we can succeed in anything if the people that we look to for advice and guidance are tearing us down instead with their words of betrayal and hurt?
I don't know what the world is coming to, but I don't think I like the look of it. Stand up and be patriotic. It's okay. Maybe it's time we start to look at changing things. We can if we do it together. Kick the illegals out. Stop letting folks come in just to use up our resources and leave. It's time we make a stand!

No time like the present

So I'm at work. I haven't blogged in awhile and I have so much to say....
Have you been following the Don Imus issue? Well, I have my own things to say about it. Who doesn't? Seems like everyone has an opinion...First some background: I am a semi-white female. I am darker because of my Cherokee descent, but I may as well be white. I have not had to deal with "racism" as it is traditionally set out. Don Imus is a racist, let's be fair. We all know this. He knows this. So he made a comment (albeit a nasty one), but completely in a joking context. He has done this his whole career (since the 70's..hello). Nasty comments on the radio and elsewhere flourish. Why is it such a big deal now? Well, I can certainly understand some of the outrage. These young women did not deserve to have this thing said about them. They are hard-working, dedicated young ball players. But they have moved on. Yet he gets fired? What?! Suspension, I can see that. I bet you that if Chris Rock had been on ANY radio show and called the same girls the same name, no one would have even blinked an eye. After all, it's a comedian's job to shock....but isn't it a shock jock's job to do the same? Howard Stern ring a bell people? Ding, ding, ding! Get a clue! This has been blown way out of proportion by none other than that self righteous ignorant son of a snake Al Sharpton. What a lousy racist! Yeah, that's right, I called him a racist! He is. Any white folk even think to step out of line and he is right there with his big mouth and his hatred. Why can't he turn all that righteous indignation to cleaning up the mouths of all those rappers? Have you heard some of the shit they put on the RADIO? I haven't heard nigga so much since Richard Pryor! And even he got smart and stopped spewing that bull shit! It's a word people. You give it power over you! It cannot hurt you unless you let it. Not to mention the demoralization of women in just about every damn rap song out there. He "gonna smack that" and that's okay? WTF????? Oh wait a minute! I forgot, it's okay for the black man to say dat shit. Just you crazy white folk keep yo mouth shut and move over. We takin over....
Okay so it pisses me off a little. If you can't be passionate about things, what the f*** are we doing here? It's time to stop race baiting. It's time to be one people. All colors, all religions, all socio-economic status. Get over yourselves. Don't you realize that we are all living on this earth together? It's not us and them. It's just US!