What Has America Become?

In Public Schools, Easter Eggs are now “Spring Spheres”

I am not a big fan of Easter egg hunts unless you take the time to tell the children what Easter is all about, and why it should be important to us as Christians. However, I am appalled at the way I see Easter eggs, Christmas trees, etc. being removed from every aspect of public life for fear of offending certain segments of society. This article that I found on Floyd Reports really caught my attention.

In a fit of political correctness, a Seattle school now has renamed Easter eggs as “Spring Spheres.” Candy canes sporting the red color of Christ’s blood and the green of the Christian Christmas tress have all but been banned from our schools. As I stood to hear the Palm Sunday sermon in church last week — an account of Our Lord’s Passion and death on the Cross — I grew increasingly angry and hurt. How dare they? How dare they take away our Christmas and Easter holidays?

The world could not fathom the fact that this 75-year-old was allowed to sing Christmas carols in my grade school. Just this week, my daughter called and after two very long phone calls from her in one week, she said at the end, “Mom, I’m afraid.” She and her husband are rearing four boys at home and have another away at the Illinois university I attended.

How dare our Liberal-in-Chief order Georgetown, a putatively Roman Catholic university, to cover its crucifix before he would deign to speak for them? How dare his pastor of 20 years call out from his own pulpit to damn America in the most blasphemous of oaths? How dare Michelle Obama tell a campaign audience she had never been proud of America until Barack was about to be nominated for president?

Just think of how they insulted our veterans, let alone us! Think of our Revolutionary War fighters, American patriots that my English class could not even identify because their public school teachers had never told them about the sacrifices these Yankees made. It is now doubtful those students could tell us anything about our Civil War vets, Korean vets, Vietnam vets, Gulf War Iraq War vets. They won’t know the first thing about the dangers our soldiers are being put in as they work to lend a hand at crippled and compromised Japanese nuclear plants.

What about the top military doctor Terry Lakin languishing in a military brig because he is uncertain about his deployment orders? Just what is going on, America?

After I came home on Palm Sunday, I thought of all of the school children being tossed about in the liberal hell of public schools who are taught to see America as evil, who aren’t being taught our country’s triumphs and greatness. And I say, How dare they? How dare they, these power-driven Democratic liberals who are hellbent on removing the name of God the Father and Jesus Christ from America, and forcing the Ten Commandments out of our halls justice? How dare this man say “America is not a Christian Nation!”

It’s Eastertide, Americans — a time of regeneration and renewal. Will you wake up?

This article originally appeared on CoachIsRight.com

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Important Questions...

Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?

Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

Why do "tug" boats push their barges?

Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?

Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?

Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?

Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things?

Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds?

Can a cross-eyed dyslexic read correctly?

Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?

Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?

Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?

Why is abbreviated such a long word?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?

If you are traveling at the speed of light and turn your headlights on, would it do any good?

THIEVING CARPENTER

A man with a nagging secret couldn't keep it any longer. In the confessional he admitted that for years he had been stealing building supplies from the lumber yard where he worked.

"How much material did you take?" his priest asked.

"Enough to build my own house, and enough for my son's house, and houses for our two daughters and our cottage at the lake."

"This is very serious," the priest said. "I shall have to think of a far-reaching penance. Have you ever done a retreat?"

"No, Father, I haven't," the man replied, "But if you can get the plans, I can get the lumber."

Because The Tomb Is Empty, My Life Can Be Full...

This is the empty garden tomb in Israel:

And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. -Mark 16:6

Happy Easter!!!

Chuckle For The Day

Tired of constantly being broke & stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife with himself as the beneficiary, and then arranging to have her killed.

A ‘friend of a friend’ put him in touch with a nefarious dark-side underworld figure who went by the name of ‘Artie.’

Artie then explained to the husband that his going price for snuffing out a spouse was $5,000.

The husband said he was willing to pay that amount, but that he wouldn’t have any cash on hand until he could collect his wife’s insurance money.

Artie insisted on being paid at least something up front, so the man opened his wallet, displaying the single dollar bill that rested inside. Artie sighed, rolled his eyes, & reluctantly agreed to accept the dollar as down payment for the dirty deed.

A few days later, Artie followed the man’s wife to the local Super Wal-Mart store. There, he surprised her in the produce department & proceeded to strangle her with his gloved hands & as the poor unsuspecting woman drew her last breath & slumped

to the floor……..

The manager of the produce department stumbled unexpectedly onto the murder scene. Unwilling t o leave any living witnesses behind, ol’ Artie had no choice but to strangle the produce manager as well.

However, unknown to Artie, the entire proceedings were captured by the hidden security cameras & observed by the store’s security guard, who immediately called the police. Artie was caught & arrested before he could even leave the store.

Under intense questioning at the police station, Artie revealed the whole sordid plan, including his unusual financial arrangements with the hapless husband who was also quickly arrested.

The next day in the newspaper, the headline declared …

‘ARTIE CHOKES 2 for $1.00 AT WAL-MART!’