...I was initially only mildly unsettled by the Coca-Cola promotion featuring “America the Beautiful” crooned in a farrago of foreign languages. After the Coke feature screened, one of the ladies watching in the room with me — a soft-spoken, rather un-political personality — quietly murmured, “Hmm. I didn’t like that.” Otherwise, not a lot of immediate, vocal reaction from the football enthusiasts surrounding me, but I did passingly pick-up on her remark.
The more I’ve pondered the beverage behemoth’s blurb, however, the more objectionable it is becoming to me. Radio talker Laura Ingraham put it well this AM: ” ‘America the Beautiful’ is meant to be sung in English.”
Her observation should be obvious, shouldn’t have to be articulated, right? I mean, that’s rather the entire point, isn’t it?
Yet, Coke’s Super Bowl spot reminds us that contemporary pop culture disgracefully dictates America can’t be unvarnishedly celebrated as America, any longer: English-speaking, Judeo-Christian- based, Constitutional-Republic-endorsing America, period.
No, that’s bad form, we’re scolded. Grubby parochialism. Jingoism.
How much more effectively would Coca-Cola’s attempted blast of lyrical patriotism have landed had it shown a panoply of newly christened U.S. citizens, decked out in their native clothing, rendering that glorious hymn in their unique, heavily-accented English? It would have premiered as that singularly American ideal of the “melting-pot” incarnated in a colorful, hummable package. Instead, the feature quietly showcases a corrosive societal dynamic which, ultimately, might pan-out as the nation’s undoing.
Beaming, freshly sworn-in Americans reverently belting out Katherine Lee Bates’ 1895 composition? That would have been an exhilarating home-run – or, more appropriately, touch-down – for Coke. In its place, we were subject to the musical equivalent of the Bronco’s game-time performance.
Thud.
It was an incongruously saddening moment in the midst of the evening’s otherwise enjoyable festivities.
I was initially only mildly unsettled by the Coca-Cola promotion featuring “America the Beautiful” crooned in a farrago of foreign languages. After the Coke feature screened, one of the ladies watching in the room with me — a soft-spoken, rather un-political personality — quietly murmured, “Hmm. I didn’t like that.” Otherwise, not a lot of immediate, vocal reaction from the football enthusiasts surrounding me, but I did passingly pick-up on her remark.
The more I’ve pondered the beverage behemoth’s blurb, however, the more objectionable it is becoming to me. Radio talker Laura Ingraham put it well this AM: ” ‘America the Beautiful’ is meant to be sung in English.”
Her observation should be obvious, shouldn’t have to be articulated, right? I mean, that’s rather the entire point, isn’t it?
Yet, Coke’s Super Bowl spot reminds us that contemporary pop culture disgracefully dictates America can’t be unvarnishedly celebrated as America, any longer: English-speaking, Judeo-Christian- based, Constitutional-Republic-endorsing America, period.
No, that’s bad form, we’re scolded. Grubby parochialism. Jingoism.
How much more effectively would Coca-Cola’s attempted blast of lyrical patriotism have landed had it shown a panoply of newly christened U.S. citizens, decked out in their native clothing, rendering that glorious hymn in their unique, heavily-accented English? It would have premiered as that singularly American ideal of the “melting-pot” incarnated in a colorful, hummable package. Instead, the feature quietly showcases a corrosive societal dynamic which, ultimately, might pan-out as the nation’s undoing.
Beaming, freshly sworn-in Americans reverently belting out Katherine Lee Bates’ 1895 composition? That would have been an exhilarating home-run – or, more appropriately, touch-down – for Coke. In its place, we were subject to the musical equivalent of the Bronco’s game-time performance.
Thud.
It was an incongruously saddening moment in the midst of the evening’s otherwise enjoyable festivities.
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Last year, in the wake of the shootings in Newtown, Conn., Barack Obama gave a State of the Union performance that was filled with theatrical pandering. Seeking to capitalize on that tragedy by exploiting the understandably intense emotions that followed in its wake, the President reiterated his support for increased background checks and bans on common semi-automatic firearms and their magazines, which he referred to as "weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines."
As usual, Obama's remarks were short on evidence to support the efficacy of his proposals. That's because evidence was (and still is) sorely lacking--and experts at Obama's own Justice Department acknowledged that fact, even if the President will not.
In April, the U.S. Senate soundly rejected Obama's gun control agenda, which prompted one political commentator to call the action the "biggest loss" of Obama's presidency.
This year, Obama's State of the Union gun control rhetoric was toned down substantially but was no less disturbing, with the president pledging that he will continue to promote his anti-gun agenda "with or without Congress."
As reported by Reuters.com, Obama said, "I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools."
What the president is saying, of course, is that he intends to continue flouting the Constitution to force his anti-gun agenda. The president's solution for preventing shootings by deranged perpetrators--a number of whom passed the very background checks he sought to expand last year--is to leverage the full weight of the Oval Office to harass and harry anybody who is associated with firearms through regulations, appointments, international treaties and accords, and by acting through his adoring proxies in the media, academia, and entertainment industry. Perhaps the president feels he's showing strong leadership by threatening to bypass Congress. We suspect that most Americans won't think so.
A new Gallup poll shows that the country's overall dissatisfaction with U.S. gun laws and policies has increased to 55 percent this year (up from 51 percent last year) but the increase came largely from Americans who say that gun laws are too strict. As reported by the National Journal, this percentage jumped to 16 percent this year, a rate that more than triples the five percent recorded by Gallup last year. Meanwhile, the article reports that the percentage of Americans favoring stricter gun laws fell seven points in 2014, from 38 to 31 percent.
As the Gallup poll concludes, "Americans have become more dissatisfied with gun laws over the past year, but this is attributable to a greater percentage who say gun laws are too strict, rather than not being strict enough. Americans' changing views could set the course for future gun law debates and legislation" (emphasis added).
Thus, the President's single-minded pursuit of gun control may well continue not only "without" Congress but against the express will of a growing segment of the American people.
Another craven capitulation and surrender to sharia adherence. And Christian institutions self-enforcing the sharia under the guise of global harmony are particularly galling. Lest we forget, it was the Crusaders who saved Europe from the bloody and gruesome jihad that Muslims were waging across Europe.
Executive vice president Matt Davis said "Our main concern has been with stereotypical and racist team mascots or school nicknames." Really? Shouldn't one of the main concerns of a Christian college be educating and activating for their Christian brothers and sisters who are being oppressed, subjugated and slaughtered in Muslim lands under the sharia? And someone ought to tell dhimmi Davis that Islam is not a race.
Of course, Ibrahim Hooper of Hamas-CAIR is rubbing his hooves together in glee. It's perfectly fine for millions of Muslims to be waging bloody jihad across the world, but for an American college to use the name of those who successfully beat back the jihad onslaught of the Middle Ages — that's the problem.
The word Crusades – defined by Merriam-Webster as 'any of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries to win the Holy Land from the Muslims' – to some speaks of heroics, but for others – namely Muslims – it speaks of bloody murder.
'Times change and we understand that context changes,' Davis told Fox News. 'Our world has changed since 9/11 and we've become a more global society with the Internet.'
The Obama family's legacy – although most today would not even consider saying it – will one day be etched in history books under the heading, "How a family of terrorists fooled America." They have promoted Wahhabist interests in Saudi Arabia and were the greatest supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
And now more damning evidence reveals the Hamas financing connections of President Obama's brother, Malik Obama, adding further to what we previously disclosed. The Islamic Dawa Organization (IDO) Malik Obama helps lead as Executive Director, is a member organization of "The Union of Good" (UG), which the U.S. Treasury designated as "Terrorist."
The official website for UG still shows the IDO of Malik and his boss Suar al-Dhahab as being an official member organization in the coalition. UG is an umbrella organization that represents over 50 Islamic fundraising groups worldwide and was designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a terrorist entity under Executive Order 13224.
The Islamic Village Project is a multi-million dollar project that will foster great change in the Muslim community of Dallas. It will house a senior center, Youth center, Social Services department, residential quarters, play area for the children, retail center, clinic, and a separate building for IQA and Suffa Islamic Seminary classes.
Is a mini Mecca being built in Dallas, Texas? Of all the frightening propositions, this is happening right now. The Lone Star State is morphing into an Islamic hotspot. How could this happen in a state that revels in its guns and Bibles? By slow, deliberate integration and patience. The Islamic Association of North Texas (IANT) did not come to prominence overnight, but flew under the radar. Thus, the Islamic community has expanded and prospered. With the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) set to train 200 Imans in February of this year in Dallas, Sharia is coming to Texas. The subject of this conference will be “Islamic Home Finance in the West." This is instructing Imans on Sharia Finance and implementing sharia by force. At this point, there couldn't be a better place to set up a vast Islamic community than Sharia compliant north Dallas. It is not a matter of if, but when.
Dallas, Texas is one of the last places one would expect to encounter Sharia law, much less a thriving Islamic community. However, the Devil works while people aren't paying attention, and when political correctness overrides ationale. The Islamic Association of North Texas has been active for thirty years in the Dallas area, making inroads and growing. With this, the IANT has come and conquered. The IANT's website is eye opening and something every American should look at to get a feel for what an Islamic invasion looks like. This is happening in our own backyards.
