A Man's Word is His Bond

I like one of the definitions in Webster's Dictionary for the word "bond."  It states that "bond" is a "duty or obligation imposed by a contract, promise, etc."  I have faint memory of when a man's word was his commitment and promise and was worthy of honor.  Today, words are cheap!  Men use words today in business, politics, and the biased media to manipulate the thinking of others to accomplish their agendas.

Here is a quote by a well known leader: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."  It's presidential election time and political candidates all subscribe to this philosophy.  This, by the way, is a quote by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Master of Propaganda!

President Obama and his "spin doctors" are re-making the promises of 2008, few of which have been kept.  Gov. Romney is making promises, many of which he will be unable to keep.  As a nation, we need to ask ourselves what has happened to denigrate the value of a man's word?  Can we ever return to a time when a man's word is his bond?  Post a comment and tell us what you think!

Where have all the ethical leaders gone?

Following is a quote from an article written by Rick Joiner entitled "Signs of A Great Awakening"  in The Oak Initiative September 4, 2012 issue:

 "As the Eagle Flies

An eagle must have a left and right wing to fly, and so must America. Over the last four years we have been pulled hard to the left, and the country is going to swing back to the right now. This is shaping up to be the most brutal U.S. election in a century, but who would have thought one of the defining moments would be centered around a fast food restaurant chain owner?

Dan Cathy declared that he was not for same-sex marriage and the outrage from the left was immediate, loud, and threatening. He did not back down or compromise his convictions as so many other corporations have done. So the Gay Agenda threatened his restaurant chain, Chick-fil-A, with the biggest kiss-in demonstration in history, resolving to drive Cathy into the ground. Cathy stood his ground. The kiss-in was not only the biggest fizzle of a demonstration in recent memory, but on the day of the threatened “kiss-in,” Chick-fil-A broke all sales records. It seemed that the entire nation rose up in Cathy’s support and voted with their feet by going to Chick-fil-A.

Now it’s been weeks since that day and the crowds seem to have hardly diminished at Chick-fil-A. No amount of advertising could have brought out the kind of crowds that are still pouring into Chick-fil-A restaurants. This is another demonstration of how America is responding to bold, courageous leadership, wherever it comes from."

President Obama certainly didn't take a stand for Mr. Cathy's right to free speech and, unfortunately, neither did Mitt Romney.  Chicago Mayor Rom Emanuel took his bully pulpit and threatened not to approve any additional stores because Mr. Cathy exercised his First Amendment rights.  If one has a different opinion or belief system, denigration, hatred and persecution has become the normal response from corporations, politicians and the leftist media.   

Men and women alike saw true, ethical leadership from Mr. Cathy and responded with power.   Let's do this every time we purchase a product!  Let's do this every time we watch a biased news show! Let's do this every time we vote!

When We Thought It Couldn't Get Worse....

Changing Direction

If you've read any of my blogs in the past, you know it's been some time since I've posted, over a year in fact.  For business, government, politics, and even religion, it seemed integrity and honesty was becoming something we just talked about but did not practice in the real world.  The possibility of my contributions in this blog changing the direction of our society seemed slim to none.  So, I stopped writing.

Today I received a comment from a person that read one of my previous blogs and acknowledged the benefit of the principle it communicated.  The story of a small boy on a beach came to my mind.  A storm surge had pushed tens of thousands of starfish high on the beach.  The young boy was scurrying around picking up starfish and throwing them back into the water.  An adult stood watching him for a few minutes and finally said to him, "Son, there are too many of them.  You'll never make a difference."  The boy stopped for a moment and then replied, "Mister, it will make a difference for those I throw back!"


So, I'm back, but I'm back with a difference.   In the past, I endeavored not to mention the names of persons demonstrating weak character and lack of integrity.  Today our nation, along with the rest of the world, hangs in the balance of going the way set by our forefathers or literally collapsing into a cesspool of unrighteousness and lack of integrity. For the immediate future at least, this blog will speak to the declining ethical state of our nation, even to those perpetrating it.  While my focus will still be on the value of ethics in achieving success, I'll illustrate the lack of such ethics by focusing on current actions by leaders in government, business and religion.

My purpose is less to criticize than it is to call for accountability.  The Holy Bible, both the Old and New Testaments instructs mankind to abhor evil and to hold onto what is good.  I plan to speak against evil. I don't plan, however,  to look at the speck in others' eyes and disregard the plank in mine.  However, I'm human and I may.  So I'm asking readers to share comments to these blogs in the way I intend to write them, as honestly as possible.  If you are like me, I'm tired of differences of opinion and beliefs generating responses of hatred and division.  I'm after dialog that can produce positive change, even if it's one starfish at a time!  Join me won't you!