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KEY WEST -- The little girl's eyes look directly at you, making an instant connection. She's standing in a cotton field, wearing an ankle-length dress with a burlap bag draped over her shoulder.
Four other black folks stand next to her, also looking directly at you, while a faceless white man oversees the backbreaking work in the far corner of the nearly life-size painting. But it's difficult not to focus on the little girl.
"She is saying with her eyes: What in the hell am I doing here? I should be in school, but this is my plight," said the artist, Avis Collins Robinson.
The little girl is Avis at 6, when she was growing up in a roach- and rat-infested house built on logs by slaves in the former slave settlement of Good Hope in Maryland.
Collins Robinson, a Harvard graduate and former high-ranking economist for the Environmental Protection Agency, knows that picking cotton in servitude also could have been her plight if she had been born in 1853. But she arrived in 1953 — albeit during a civil rights struggle she didn't fully understand when she and her siblings integrated an elementary school and Catholic high school in Maryland.
"All I hope is this painting humanizes slavery and humanizes the human condition," she said. "But I never thought anybody would see this."
That changed last summer when she took a $15 art class to paint a nude model at The Studios of Key West. She casually showed staff some images of her art that she kept on her laptop.
Deputy director Elena Devers said everyone at The Studios was blown away. They talked Collins Robinson into letting them host her first major exhibit: Color & Cloth: African American Quilts & Portraits.
"I guess she has just been flying under the radar quietly, doing her own work for the sake of the work," Devers said. "I think now she will start to get so much attention. It would be a tragedy if people didn't get to see this."
All of Collins Robinson's paintings, as well as her colorful quilts, are deeply personal. They express the emotion that began pouring out of her 5½ years ago, following the death of her mother, during the historical 2008 presidential campaign and as a result of her realization that she should not ignore the reality that slaves picked cotton.
With faces in purples and oranges, in scraps of fabric and with lots of glitter, she showcases her deep appreciation and respect for her people — from nameless sharecroppers and maids to abolitionists Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass to Michael Jackson and Barack Obama.
As staff hung her large quilts and portraits in the 2,000-square-foot exhibit hall before the opening, a few people strolled inside to get a sneak peek. It was a weird feeling for Collins Robinson to have strangers look at the pieces.
"This is my historical record of my people," she said. "This is me — my heart and my soul, and this makes me very uncomfortable to show it."
Only one of her pieces is permanently on display, a commissioned portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It hangs in the lobby of Ford's Theatre in Washington. And just twice before has she shown her work outside her Arlington, Va., home: Five quilts were shown on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, and three were displayed at the Nelson Gallery at the University of California, Davis, where her "Sharecropper's Masterpiece" was selected as one of the top 10 contemporary designs of 2009.
"Other than that, I've avoided doing this [big exhibition] like the plague," she said. "But it's time."
She got advice from her husband, Pulitzer-Prize-winning syndicated columnist Eugene Robinson: "Gene said, 'Don't resist it'."
Robinson said his longtime wife would prefer to be out of the limelight, "but when she is, she is perfectly at ease, totally natural and really a powerful speaker."
That was evident as Collins Robinson, dressed in bright yellow and orange that matched the vibrancy of her art, animatedly talked about her exhibit.
She began with her childhood, when she unknowingly lived two lives. "One life was in all-white schools competing with white students and kicking their butts," she said. "And then I would come home to my poor black community, where I had a horse, 10 acres of farmland and had to know how to sew because we couldn't go to places to buy clothes."
While her mother had a good job at the National Institutes of Health, the family was not allowed to live in the nearby white neighborhoods. Avis and her siblings were among the first black kids in Montgomery County to attend Coleville Elementary and Holy Cross Academy. "We were the only raisins in the rice bowl," Collins Robinson said.
It was at the Catholic school, where the cardinal had to approve the attendance of black children, that Collins Robinson learned about sketching with dark and light shades from the nuns. She won awards for her art, but at college she found art materials too pricey and did not paint for decades.
In the 1970s, while working at the EPA, she began creating the tops of quilts. But with limited time, she sent them to "poor black women down in Alabama" who could stitch the tops, batting and backs together for her.
Collins Robinson ended up learning a lot from them about dying fabrics and using secondary colors — oranges, greens and purples. One of the quilters, Mensie Pettway, taught her that it was OK to "forget the patterns" and "just go ahead and go for it, girl."
In 2002, those women became well known as the Gee's Bend Quilters. Most were descendants of slaves, who first made quilts out of necessity, gathering scraps of fabric to sew together to make bed covers.
During this time, the Robinsons also had been amassing a large collection of slavery and civil rights items and documents coveted by museums, including the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture, scheduled for completion in 2015.
Their collection includes many items from their own ancestors, as well as an Eli Whitney cotton gin from 1790, an iron slave collar with bells, and documents and hand-written testimony from the murder trial of James deWolf, a wealthy boat captain who threw a girl slave with typhoid fever overboard while she was gagged and tied to a chair.
The country's dark history comes to life on the quilt she painted of a large black man in silhouette swinging an axe while wearing a puffy white shirt. "This is just totally political," she said. "It's titled, 'He built America.' "
Portraits of the president, Michelle Obama and Jackson feature backgrounds of bright glitter. "Why not be silly?" she said. "Kids make the most amazing art and it's something that I would have done in fifth grade. The whole time I'm doing art, I'm trying to be free."
Collins Robinson has one more small exhibit planned for April 26 at Washington Lee High School. It will feature a portrait of Vivian Malone, who was one of two black women who integrated the University of Alabama despite the opposition of Gov. George Wallace.
"It's to educate students that this incident happened, and to show how you can document history through art," Collins Robinson said. "Then that's it. I need to go back into my cave and do work."


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Holten Richmond Middle School eighth-grader Jordan Henderson's poster won first place in Essex County, and Ethan McGrath, a seventh-grader at the same school, had his entry come in second in the county.
The two students and their art teacher, Siobhan McDonald, were honored at a selectmen's meeting Sept. 3.
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• Session V at 10 a.m.
Everyone who survives to day three is an All American (top eight in their weight). Session V wrestles out the consolation bracket and resolves places 3-8.
• Session VI at 7 p.m.
The finals, where champions are made.
Video Coverage
ESPN3.com will provide live streams of sessions I-V. The first four sessions are contested on eight mats, the ESPN coverage will film four, which is pretty nice. Sessions III-V will also be aired on ESPNU. Lastly, ESPN, the mothership, will broadcast the finals on your television.
Tournament Format
The NCAA championships feature ten weights, each with a 32 man bracket. The Tournament is double elimination, those who lose drop from the championship bracket to the consolation bracket. Those in the consolation bracket wrestle to the consolation finals, for third and fourth place. All those who lose in the consolation semifinals will wrestle for fifth and sixth place, and those who lose in the consolation quarter finals will wrestle for seventh and eighth place. If a wrestler loses twice before the consolation quarters, he is then eliminated.
I will not go into details about how team points are awarded, but each wrestler earns a certain number of team points based by winning, advancing, pinning, tech falling (winning by 15 or more match points), or majoring (winning by eight or more match points).
Matches consist of three periods, the first is three minutes, the second two are two minutes. Two points for a take down or reversal, one point for escape, 2-3 points at a time for prolonged back exposure (nearfall). Pins and technical falls end the match. Tied matches go to overtime and then ride-out tie breakers. I'm not going to discuss the tie breaker procedures for brevity's sake.
Penn State wrestling club has some sort of numbers whiz among them who runs a nifty little service which tracks the team scores in the tournament, determines the maximum possible team points for a team throughout the tournament, and determines whether a team had been mathematically eliminated from championship contention. This is awesome and can be found here. This site also provides live brackets as well as calculations of team points accrued by each individual wrestler. In short, it is a statistical dream.
Scores and matches will also be tracked in real time on Trackwrestling here. Use this to figure out which wrestler will be coming up on each mat.
Old fashioned, boring brackets in PDF form can be found here.
Weight Classes
This year, due to the anticipated finals match between Kyle Dake and David Taylor, the NCAA has seen fit to hold the 165 pound last in this finals. The finals will start at 174, run through heavyweight, resume at 125, and then hopefully end at 165 in a climactic clash of wrestling titans.
174-Wide open weight where anything can happen.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: Oklahoma State's Chris Perry and Penn States Matt Brown will almost certainly wrestle a nail biter of the match with lots of head clubbing and little shooting.
Keep an eye on: Minnesota's Logan Storley looked like he would be the 1st seed until he was derailed by a bad day at the Big Ten tournament. He's dropped to the 6th seed, but has pinned both top seeds this season, he's dangerous.
184- A weight where the winner is a foregone conclusion.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: Penn State's Ed Ruth will lay a comfortable beating on Central Michigan's Ben Bennett.
Keep an eye on: I'm really impressed with Maryland's 7th seeded Jimmy Sheptock, he's damn good, and built like a brick shithouse.
197- Two national champions on a collision course.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: One of the greatest stylistic match ups ever. My favorite wrestler maybe ever, Penn State's Quinten Wright will bring his enormous bag of zany moves to bear against Dustin Kilgore. Kilgore, Unfortunately for Wright, is a monster and will probably prove too much even for Wright's ingenuity. Both these guys were previously national champs.
Keep an eye on: Wyoming's Alfonso Hernandez, he is the only wrestler to threaten Kilgore this year and will probably see him in the semis.
285- Oh please let there be a little bit of offense.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: Not much. Minnesota's Tony Nelson and Missouri's Dom Bradley will probably hold a glorified staring contest.
Keep an eye on: Exciting , fun to watch heavyweights like Northwestern's Mike McMullan and Oklahoma State's Alan Gelogaev.
125- Don't blink, these kids are fast.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: Missouri's Alan Waters and Illinois Jesse Delgado will do plenty of shooting, but little scoring. Expect lots of dogfights from a head inside low lift and scrambling a plenty.
Keep an eye on: 2 time champ and and 3 time finalist Matt McDonough of Iowa has taken some tough losses this season, but he is still a champion and he lurks as the third seed. In an odd series of coincidences, he was mentioned twice on Deadspin in the last week. I know, weird...right?
133- Two wrestlers stand head and shoulders above the pack.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: High levels of respect between Ohio State's Logan Stieber and Iowa's Tony Ramos. Expect Stieber to earn national title number two by hitting the deciding take down a bit earlier than he did in their Big Ten finals match, which ended in overtime.
Keep an eye on: Central Michigan's Scotti Sentes, he hasn't looked amazing this year, but he placed high two years ago and is capable of serious bracket busting.
141- One thing is for certain at this weight, a new champion will be crowned.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: Expect some incredible, majestic wrestling from Oklahoma's Kendrick Maple and Ohio State's Hunter Stieber. Both wrestle with offense and grace.
Keep an eye on: The Citadel's Ugi Khishignyam, the Mongolian sensation looking to become his school's second All American.
149- Looks like an old champion will retake his throne.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: Pure, clean, and clinical wrestling from Oklahoma State's Jordan Oliver. He's one of the most fun wrestlers to watch in the nation and he'll get a good go from the very classy Jason Chamberlain of Boise State.
Keep an eye on: Another Minnesota Golden Gopher who is under-seeded. Big Ten champ Dylan Ness looks to do some damage from the sixth seed.
157- Another weight where anything could happen.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: Lots of fingers to the face from Iowa's Dan St, John, with neither he nor Northwestern's Jason Welch doing much until late in the match.
Keep an eye on: Penn State's Dylan Alton hasn't had a banner year, but he found a nice spot in the bracket to make a run from.
165- Featuring possibly the most meaningful match in college wrestling history.
What we'll see if the two top seeds meet: Not much scoring, but the greatest achievement in college wrestling history as Cornell's Kyle Dake edges Penn State's David Taylor to become the first to win four national championships without a red shirt, and the first to do it in four weight classes.
Keep an eye on: not much else to see here.
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This has been rumored before -- and the NYI is the one entry at Icethetics that they don't have much detail/speculation on -- but it does sound like the Isles might be one of the teams getting a new 3rd. Icethetics rips the old orange one; I wasn't a big fan but I know a lot of people are. Any thoughts, guesses, wishes?
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It will still be a "third jersey" this year, but in a year's time, the Islanders retro vintage blue jersey should be in use full-time.
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Richard "Rick" B. White of Brookfield Township passed away unexpectedly at 1:48 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, in his residence. He was 56.
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Rick worked as a registered nurse for UPMC Horizon, Farrell, from 1974 to 1999.
He graduated in 1974 from Hickory High School, Hermitage, then in 1985 from Youngstown State University as a registered nurse.
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Salting was the form of fish preservation for eons.
But small scale ice-making for the Gloucester fishing fleet was underway long before Nathaniel Webster constructed an earthen dam to form Webster's Pond in 1848, and that marked the real start of fish ice manufacturing, according to a presentation by Scott Memhard at the Cape Ann Historical Museum last October.
His research was abetted by his wife, Martha Oaks, curator of the museum. Indeed, Memhard met Oaks while doing research into the field that he and his father Dick Memhard had bought into in 1983.
Webster and his son were visionaries, perceiving that ice would be the essential bedding for the great fishing industry growing in Gloucester
The second great ice family of Gloucester were brothers William and Francis Homans, who in 1878 and at great risk, invested more than $75,000 to create an artificial, 32-acre lake in West Gloucester, named Fernwood, that had a capacity of producing 38,000 tons of cut ice.
Other ice makers were threatened by the size and scope of Homans' great innovation, and the lake was sabotaged immediately, and other ice houses, on Cape Pond, Day's Pond and Niles' Pond were burned. But Fernwood Lake and Cape Pond Ice Co., which cut from the pond in Rockport to the east of Route 127 today, where the commuter rail tracks come close to the highway, persevered.
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Navigating anti-abortion online strategy
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 at 11:53 am
Online for Life is another media group that uses a similar technique. The website is run by the Texas-based Media Revolution Ministries, which was founded by CEO Brian Fisher in 2009. Fisher would not return our request for comment, but he explains Online for Life's general strategy in a video uploaded to YouTube in April 2011:
There are over 6 million Internet searches each and every month in the United States alone for the word "abortion" and other related keywords. This is a problem of epidemic proportions, and Online for Life is here to meet that need. We intercept them when they're searching for abortion information, and instead we direct them to pro-life pregnancy centers in their area where they're counseled for life.
Ashley Lopez, writing at our sister site The Florida Independent, reported last fall that at a Care Net conference in Orlando, Fla., Care Net President Melinda Delahoyde praised online interception as a way to appeal to "abortion-minded" women. Delahoyde claimed that the busiest CPCs were only seeing about 5 percent of "abortion-minded" women.
Care Net would not respond to requests for comment and would not confirm whether it currently is advertising on Google using abortion-related keywords; however, there is evidence that Care Net has employed Google ads.
A 2008 job application ad for an administrative assistant (PDF) lists as one of the job duties "maintain and manage Google AdWords account." And a Care Net affiliate in the Chicago area published a "Google Ads Budget Report" in August 2011, which reveals that between Feb. 15 and May 10, 2011, the affiliate's Google ads received 2,583 clicks at a total cost of about $12,350, compared with 1,367 between Nov. 23, 2010, and Feb. 14, 2011, at a total cost of $5,774.65.
Examples of keywords used by the affiliate, according to the report, include:
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- abortion
- abortions
- abortion facts
- abortion pill
- abortion clinics
- get abortion
- abortion help
- terminate pregnancy
- get an abortion
- want an abortion
One thing that was noticeable in TAI's searches was how our Google map results changed after the Siri scandal broke.
In early December, just a few days after the Abortioneers bloggers discovered Siri's proclivity for CPCs over abortion clinics, a Google search using the word "abortion" produced seven Google Map results for locations related to my word search. Three of them were anti-abortion pregnancy centers in Maryland. The following month, the same "abortion" search from the same location pulled up just one anti-abortion map search, and it wasn't to a CPC, but to the website for the anti-abortion rights group Priests for Life.
A Google spokesperson, who did not want to be named for this story, would not directly respond to questions about the sudden change in our searches or about anti-abortion search strategies in general, but did note that Google takes action when websites are found to be violating its policies. Google has a general policing policy when it comes to websites that use devious practices to manipulate searches and can, with little notice, demote a site's page rankings, as happened last year with J.C. Penney, after it was caught by The New York Times using search optimization methods that violate Google's policy.
The spokesperson also said that search ad results vary depending on a person's location (TAI offices are based in Washington, D.C.) and on who is winning the ad-bidding war that month.
"In search advertising, marketers bid on key words in a continuous, dynamic auction," the spokesperson wrote in an email statement. "When a consumer searches for any of the words, the marketer's ad appears on the search results page, depending on the amount the company bids and the ad's relevancy to a particular search."
Google actually has specific ad policies on the word "abortion": It prohibits ads with violent language or gruesome imagery. And in some countries, the company will not even allow ads for abortions or related services.
"When we find ads which violate our policies, we investigate and remove them if appropriate," the spokesperson said. "Google is constantly updating its ads policies to comply with local law."
NARAL vs. the CPCs
America's leading abortion-rights policy group, NARAL Pro-Choice America, has for years tried to expose what it believes to be unethical tactics of crisis pregnancy centers. NARAL has produced about 10 state-based reports detailing specific examples of coercion and deception, and part of that deception is online strategy.
"When we talk about women's access to abortion, this is one of the top priorities," NARAL communications director Ted Miller told TAI.
Last year, NARAL sent a letter signed by more than 66,000 people to the chief executives of Superpages.com and Yellowpages.com calling on these sites to enforce their policies against misleading advertisements. As a result, YellowPages.com "re-categorized or removed" 96 percent of the problematic anti-abortion sites, said NARAL assistant communications director Samantha Gordon.
For the past five years NARAL has lobbied for federal and state legislation to prevent CPCs from advertising – online and off – for services they don't provide and as a way to lure women wanting abortions inside their doors.
One such bill on NARAL's wish list is the federal "Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Service Act," first introduced In 2007 by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). The measure, which has been reintroduced to Congress every year since, would authorize the Federal Trade Commission to penalize organizations that falsely advertise as resources for abortion services when they do not offer such services. To date, the bill has 39 co-sponsors in the House and three in the Senate.
Miller said he believes the Siri scandal helped educate the public on the some of the practices CPCs employ, and he hopes the increased awareness will result in an increase in sponsorship on the Stop Deceptive Advertising bill. After NARAL President Nancy Keenan posted an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on NARAL's website, traffic to NARAL's traffic increased 600 percent, he said.
As Miller puts it, the anti-abortion deception strategy poses two main problems: 1) advertising for services they don't provide, i.e., violating the "truth in advertising" code American businesses are supposed to abide by and 2) misleading the public by manipulating information searches. He told TAI that NARAL is working on new strategy to deal specifically with how CPCs advertise and strategize on the web, though he would not be specific about plans.
Allyson Kapin — a founding partner of the Rad Campaign, a D.C.-based online strategy firm — told TAI that even if a federal bill were passed demanding truth in advertising from CPCs, it will still be a few years before our legal system learns how to deal with false advertising on the Internet.
"It's really tricky with Internet law," Kapin said. "Judges are still relying on old laws and applying [telephone loopholes to Internet cases]."
As an example, she noted a legal case last December in which a harassment charge was thrown out on free speech grounds because the stalking and harassment was happening via Twitter.
"In the next few* years, hopefully Internet laws will be more clearly defined to benefit people rather than corporations," she said.
*Correction: Allyson Kapin's quote was corrected to say "few," not "10."
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An identity theft service that sold Social Security and drivers license numbers — as well as bank account and credit card data on millions of Americans — purchased much of its data from Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus, according to a lengthy investigation by KrebsOnSecurity.The article is lengthy, so for those who might have written it off as "TLDR", following are the highlights (or lowlights).
"Experian acquired Court Ventures in March, 2012 because of its national public records database. After the acquisition, the US Secret Service notified Experian that Court Ventures had been and was continuing to resell data from US Info Search to a third party possibly engaged in illegal activity. Following notice by the US Secret Service, Experian discontinued reselling US Info Search data and worked closely and in full cooperation with law enforcement to bring Vietnamese national Hieu Minh Ngo, the alleged perpetrator, to justice.6. The owners of the fraudster-friendly site, who are based in Vietnam, gained access to Experian's databases by posing as a U.S.-based private investigator. Apparently while doing their due diligence related to the purchase of Court Ventures, the fact that monthly data access charges using wire transfers sent from Singapore didn't set off any alarms for Experian.


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A Courtland teen was arrested for allegedly making threats to R.A. Hubbard School.
Lawrence County officials said school resource officers reported Corinthian Carnell Gilchrist, 18, made comments that he was going to harm students and teachers at the school.
Gilchrist is a student at the school.
Officials said no acts of violence were committed, but they took the threat serious enough to take as a credible danger.
The SRO arrested Gilchrist Tuesday and charged him with making a terrorist threat, which is a Class C felony.
Sheriff Gene Mitchell said that in light recent events, his officers are not taking any threats lightly.
The school did not go into lockdown since he was removed from campus immediately.
Gilchrist told police he was only asking questions, not making statements. Superintendent Heath Grimes said making a threat of any kind will result in disciplinary action.
"These types of things cannot be tolerated. You cannot say them in any matter because we as officials have a duty to protect our students, so anything will be taken seriously," said Grimes.
Gilchrist is in the Lawrence County Jail with no bond set at this time.
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Thoughts On Thanksgiving
Since Thanksgiving is this week, this past Sunday I sat quietly for a couple of hours on my farm in Virginia and tried to think of all the things I was deeply grateful for over the past year.
I thought of my family and friends. I thought of my business partners at Foxhall Capital
and our wonderful, hard working employees who make me look far better than I am—to them I am most grateful.
I also thought of my many friends who are financial professionals, many of whom I have developed deep friendships with over the past few years. I treasure the many evenings I have spent with them over the past year as we talked incessantly on how best to protect our clients from the results of this unprecedented economic crisis.
I am also so grateful for our Foxhall Capital clients and I am so happy that we were able to move their investment portfolios 100% to bond funds and money market funds several months ago so they have not been negatively affected by the stock market crash over the past few months. There are few things more satisfying than helping to protect our client's retirement savings during a bear market recession.
Ultimately I Turned To The Many Problems Facing Our Country
With the elections over, I just couldn't help feeling a profound sadness and disappointment over many of the things that have happened to my country over the past few years.
I see the culture of our country drifting off in a direction I find deeply troubling. There is something extremely dysfunctional, bordering on irresponsible in the fractious way our political and business leaders are behaving.
Are they Clueless? Wall Street executive are giving themselves multi-million dollar bonuses after being bailed out to the tune of billions of dollars by the tax payers. Detroit auto executives fly down in their private jets asking for even more billions in taxpayer bailouts and they didn't even have the decency to bring with them a plan as to how they were going to turnaround their companies. It was just business as usual—only at taxpayer expense!
Our business and political leaders seem so removed from us—removed from the life we live each day.
Unfortunately, investors haven't been fooled. They have started to price bank and auto stocks at Great Depression levels—not just recession levels. With $5 you can now buy one share of General Motors and have money left over for three McDonald's Double Cheeseburgers on their Value Menu.
Maybe Americans Have Forgotten Their Mission
As I give speeches around the country, I am struck by a mood that is marked by the sense that our great institutions are faltering, that they've forgotten their mission. The old American values that many of us were raised on seem to be receding and I can't get a feel for what is taking its place. Our business and political leaders seem to have just drifted astray.
I'm not talking only about the recent Wall Street scandals or even the recent elections. I'm talking about everything!
In her recent book, "Patriotic Grace," Wall Street Journal writer and former Reagan speech writer, Peggy Noonan, summed it up this way. "Genocide, epidemics, nut countries like North Korea, Iran and Pakistan with nukes, crumbling U.S. infrastructure, a sense of unreality in our courts. The fear of parents that their children will wind up disturbed, and their souls actually imperiled, by the "popular culture" in which we are raising them. Senators and congressmen, who seem owned, actually owned, by a special interest group, union or financial entity. Great churches that have lost a sense of mission, and of authority. Do you have confidence in the CIA? The FBI? I didn't think so."
I personally feel the same way; our national debate has just become "coarser."
Noonan goes on to suggest that, "What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace—a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative.
That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.
It is not the threats and challenges we face, but how we face them that define us as a nation.
Americans are tired of the old divisions and the campaign and public relations tricks that seek to widen and exploit them.
We long for leaders who can summon us to greatness and unity, as they did in the long struggles against fascism and communism.
Forgiveness And Grace, Maturity And Wisdom
But we are Americans, and mean to make it better. We long to put the past few years behind us, move on, and write something good on the page we sense turning.
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom.
That's what I think people want. It's what I want.
Great cultures can always afford darkness when everything is safe, secure, and rich. They need something more nourishing when things are not.
We need more adults who are actually serious about the business of the nation.
We have much to do. And it all starts with a greater civility, a greater respect, both a higher—and deeper—tone to our political conversation and our U.S. corporate ethics."
We Are America
Noonan goes on by offering this note of hope. "I should end by noting the obvious. We'll get through it, whatever happens. We are America. There's a lot of ruin in a nation, as Adam Smith said. Great countries can take a lot of punishment; recover from a lot of loss. There's a vast amount of ruin in us.
We are a great nation populated by a gifted and still-gritty people. We have deep spiritual resources, great natural resources, a sturdy system of laws, enduring traditions of generosity and support, and military and technological prowess and might.
But we can make things better now, so that we can more readily endure into the next good time.
For that too is coming.
We just have to get there."
Yes, we just have to get there! Maybe there is something more to be really thankful for this Thanksgiving. For all our faults—We are Americans!
The medieval theologian, Meister Eckhart, said, "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is, thank you, it will be enough."
On this Thanksgiving Day, I will be remembering all of you—my friends—with great gratitude.
Thank You!
Until next time…
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