Zo is now with Pajamas Media exclusively. They do not offer an embedding code for their free videos. Just click on the image (a video promo will appear first for a few seconds) to hear Zo on human rights as they relate to Iran in comparison to the United States.
We Americans really take our freedoms for granted! Zo also takes human rights further with current leadership attitudes toward the unborn and universal healthcare. Zo is so good. He hits the nail on the head every time. Just click on the Zonation image to view the video.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwelln the house of the LORD Forever.
Those who who had accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and died fighting for us, are missed beyond what any words could decribe by hurting family and friends. But praise the Lord, they have passed from death unto life e.g. eternal life with God the Father through Jesus Christ.
The world just lost a remarkable man. A man who felt he had been called to be a physician. Dr. John Pryor a trauma/critical-care surgeon of the University of Pennsylvania’s Hospital (were I was born) in Philadelphia was killed on Christmas day by an enemy mortar round in Iraq. He chose to serve in Iraq as a trauma surgeon and was deployed to the 1st Forward Surgical Team. Dr. Pryor could not continue in the business as usual mode when he knew his medical services could save the lives of innocent Iraqi children. His humanity knew no limits.
When the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York were attacked, Dr. Pryor did not give it a second thought. He hitched a ride with an ambulance to New York and joined the rescue efforts. He along with John Chavanes, another Philly doctor was responsible for saving two Port Authority police officers, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno who had been buried in the rubble of the collapsed towers.
Dr. Pryor had just returned to Iraq on Dec. 6 for a second tour. Condolences go to his wife and 3 children. It is so tragic when such a remarkable man is lost to us. Read more here.
Tony Snow the former White House Press Secretary, speech writer and media pundit died this morning after fighting cancer. I liked this conservative when I identified with liberal Democrats. In those liberal times when I did not like his point of view on many matters, there was something about him that let me know that he was an all around good guy. I pray the good Lord enfolds Mr. Snow’s wife, children and relatives in his consoling arms.
Read another tribute at lashawnbarber.com where you will be linked to his writing about his faith based attitude toward his cancer in Christianity Today. It is stunning that we have lost Mr. Snow and Tim Russert in such a proximity of time.
Pioneering heart surgeon, Dr. Michael DeBakey also has passed away. I remember when his name was in the news often. He invented many devices that made life easier for heart patients. Dr. DeBakey also pioneered heart by pass surgery, which my late father underwent in the early 1980s. My father would have left us back then if it had not been for that surgery.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King. I was a high school junior at the time of his assassination. He had been in Memphis, Tennessee in support of the garbage workers’ strike for better all around working conditions.
I experience raw reaction on the route 26 bus in Philly the next day coming home from school. A bunch of black dudes from my high school riding in the very back of the bus were looking to get into trouble. They zeroed in on white males sitting in the back section of the bus. They managed to get to one by punching him up as he was exiting the bus through the back doors.
To add to this awful behavior, I am certain most of these thuggish dudes did not have a clue back then as to the volume and depth to the work of Dr. King. If you talked to any of them, they could only tell you about the bus boycott and maybe a march or two.
There was also a young white guy who lived in the neighborhood with most of these dudes sitting in the back. They ignored him. One black guy and his sister who lived on the same block with this guy sat by him and let him know that they were prepared not to let anything happen to him.
My father new of a black man on another Philly bus with mostly white passengers, knocked out a white man for boldly announcing with great laughter that Dr. King had died with the garbage.
Dr. King sacrificed so much to fight racial injustices. When people like the late Barry Goldwater (among some agreeing Democrats and Republicans of that day) said blacks wanted their rights too fast and would have to wait. Dr. King responded with a loud NO and proceeded in the fight against racial injustices on the non violent, productive and successful path. Sadly if he were alive today he would not be happy with the high number of high school dropouts, teen age mothers, nasty but prosperous rappers and a lot more.
Many of us today, take for granted being able to sit anywhere on a bus, try clothing on in a store, walk into any eating establishment and be served, use a public restroom, apply for and work a job, vote, and etc. But then, Dr. King led the fight for the right to be able to take the aforementioned for granted today.
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