The following article appeared on the Fox News: Fair & Balanced.  Please read and offer your comments.  This is no joke!  I feel this is the first step in a relatively short journey down the dark hallway of human perversion.  What is your take on it?   http://www.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=38321&content=55545036&pageNum=1

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Otto Schwerdt a Survivor of the Holocaust shows his internment number tattooed on his left forearm,when, as a boy, he was sent to a Nazi death camp.  Stefan Hanke, a brilliant photographer, is recording memories and stories by those few survivors of the Holocaust that are still alive.   This amazing work has not yet been published…you are the first to see it!   If you like and appreciate Stefan’s talent please comment and I will pass it on to him for encouragement in this important work.

Do you ever wonder why our country, with all of it’s vast resources, seems to be in trouble on so many fronts?

Perhaps the ship built and launched by such men as George Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and others has begun to drift without regards to the moral compass.

Case in point: At the special occasion of the signing of the landmark Healthcare Legislation Vice-president Joe Biden after introducing the President, Barack Obama, commented in the Commander-in-Chief’s ear describing the occasion, “This is a big …(f-bomb)…deal” (Youtube link).

Troubling that the second-in-command would casually use that offensive language but even more disturbing was the response of the President of the United States, or rather the lack of response. With a grin, nodding his head he acknowledged the Vice President and went on with the press conference.

…It appears this sort of language is the norm in their conversations.

Getting back to the question: Why is our country with all of its vast resources  in trouble on so many fronts? An insight may be gained from the Father of our country, George Washington in an order given to the Continental Army 3 weeks before the crucial Battle of Long Island.

“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it.”

 The Papers, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 5, June – August 1776, (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1993), 551-52.

With unemployment at 9.2 %, the threat of a double-dip recession and a war abroad if ever we needed the “Blessing of Heaven” we need it now. Maybe it’s time to get back to the basics upon which this country was founded.