Glenn Beck Say Americans Should Follow the Example of the Japanese People

The honor of the Japanese people can be seen through their noble example. Unlike Americans, the Japanese people don't act like barbarians when a malicious opportunity presents itself. There is one thing Americans don't understand; it's the Asian culture. In Japan, the ultimate honor is to give respect and to get respect. The Japanese people puts country first before themselves. It is called Nationalism. It is something many Americans lack.

Japan's nationalism is taught at a very early age in every city, town, and province. In fact, there is no unions in Japan. The workers respect their employers and the employers respect their workers. It is why the Japanese worker never complain working a 14 hour day. The employers are very demanding, but understanding the employees' need. It is a sense of honor that they are able to produce great products. It is a sense of pride that they are able to contribute and help their fellow man. It is a sense of humility to work hard to understand the meaning of an accomplishment. However, most Americans are out for "number one," complain about long hours, not understanding to live humble, and never satisfied with life.

I am not bashing on Americans, but we lost our exceptional zeal around the world. In reality, we live in an entitled state, and we are stubborn to realize it. The mentality shared by all is "getting more by doing less." Unfortunately, the government is responsible in creating an entitled privileged society. Therefore, it is not unusual for other countries to see us as self-center, selfish, and self-serving. To see what the looters did during Hurricane Katrina or the riots during the NBA final in Los Angeles, it is embarrassing to see Americans acting like idiots as they take things that don't belong to them. We will never learn as a society. It is too late for us. We are part of a complex matrix; impossible to escape. I hope our children have a better chance to break the matrix. In order to make a difference, our children must learn disciple, restraint, honor, love for our country, and to learn respect.

(Glen Beck Show) When crises and national disasters have happened across the world and in the United States, there are usually reports of violence and looting as people scramble to survive or even just take advantage of the situation for personal gain. Remember the images from Katrina when people were stealing TV’s and other electronics? For some reason, Japan has proven to be an exception.

“Let’s talk about something positive,” Glenn said. “The amazing story of the Japanese people. As the darkness grows, so does the light. And the Japanese people, there’s still no looting.”

“ There’s always going to some element of, you know, human nature that takes over for some people and that stuff happens. Not, seemingly not so far in Japan, though,” Stu said.

As the radio guys point out, the stories across the Internet focus on the unusual phenomena of no looting, as if chaos and looting should be the norm in this situation.

“You know one of the reasons why they say? Because it hasn’t been Balkanized yet. It’s still a nation. It hasn’t been turned in against itself yet. It’s still a nation,” Glenn said. “Businesses respect the workers, the workers respect the businesses. They haven’t been turned against each other. And so they are all working with each other.”

As forces in our own country are working to find ways to divide us (look at union leaders in Wisconsin), Glenn said that the people in Japan are all uniting together. “I’m starting to sound like the guy who was just like, can’t we just try peace and love? And it is really the only answer. It is the only answer,” Glenn said.

Glenn said, “One of the most amazing stories I’ve heard is a guy in Japan was going, he had no water. He goes into a store and there’s only ten bottles of water and he grabs all ten. He gets a couple of steps away and stops and he puts the water back. He takes two bottles because he realizes if he takes all ten, nobody else will have any.”

Glenn said that people in America need to wake up and start preparing for this kind of disaster by storing food, as past disasters have shown the peaceful actions of the Japanese are the exception to the rule.

Obama and Mubarak have Severed Diplomatic Ties

America can thank on the community organizer's stupidity on foreign policy. Obama is alienating his allies and embracing the enemy. Obama has made a total mess of things and needs to step down as president before creating another world war.

(WSJ) WASHINGTON—The defiant tone taken by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak—and widespread confusion about the meaning of his speech—had White House officials stumbling for their next step in a crisis that was spinning out of their control.

Egyptian officials said Mr. Mubarak gave the Obama administration much of what it wanted: the delegation of presidential powers to the vice president, Omar Suleiman.

They said Mr. Mubarak had all but been rendered a figurehead leader, precisely the formulation set out by U.S. officials over the weekend.

But Mr. Mubarak's language and refusal to yield to what he called the intervention of foreigners left protesters furious, the scene in Cairo precarious and the White House seemingly unable to influence events.

All day, as rumors swirled Mr. Mubarak would step down, administration officials struggled to understand what was happening, and even U.S. intelligence officials appeared baffled at one point. At a Capitol Hill hearing, Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told lawmakers there was "a strong likelihood that Mubarak may step down this evening."

After Mr. Mubarak's speech, the White House was consumed with a sense of "disbelief," one U.S. official said.

The White House is now squeezed between Arab and Israeli allies, who have complained that Mr. Obama was pushing Mr. Mubarak too hard to step down, and lawmakers who accuse the White House of not pushing hard enough. Now, the White House finds itself largely a bystander.

In the White House, frustration is giving way to a sense of powerlessness.

Arab and Israeli diplomats said Mr. Obama's decision to throw his full support behind the opposition after eight days of protests has likely broken ties with Mr. Mubarak beyond repair.

Secretary James Baker: Reagan Made Us All Proud As Americans

Click Video Secretary James Baker: Reagan Made Us All Proud As Americans

In my generation, Reagan epitomizes patriotism and love for this country. While George W. Bush demonstrated his patriotism after 9/11, it was Reagan who made us proud to be an American. By making this country strong and patriotic emboldens us to do great things.

Students Set Own Agenda at School and U.S. Teens Lags as China Soars on Education

The problem with the education system in America stems from finding the right gimmick, instead of teaching our kids. It is a no-brainer. The reason America continues to fall behind other countries in education is because teachers don't know how to teach and parents opting to put their kids on Ritalin and mood enhancement drugs.

(Sun Sentinel) As public schools adopt tougher standards and emphasize standardized tests, alternative schools have become more popular.

"The regular public school system and even some private schools tend to operate under the paradigm that kids are lazy and need to be forced to learn,'' said Jerry Mintz, director of the New York-based Alternative Education Resource Organization. "We take a diametrically different approach that starts with the assumption that kids are natural learners.''

Mintz said in the past two decades, the number of home-schoolers nationwide has grown from about 20,000 to about 2 million. He said there are about 12,000 alternative schools, including charter and public alternatives and Montessoris.

Of those, about 200 are "democratic schools," in which students play a big role in decision-making, he said.

There has been a lot of debate, however, about the concept. While some experts say it is needed to keep children motivated and feed their innate curiosity, others have argued that kids who lack motivation can flounder.

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(Bloomberg) Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. ranked 25th among peers from 34 countries on a math test and scored in the middle in science and reading, while China’s Shanghai topped the charts, raising concern that the U.S. isn’t prepared to succeed in the global economy.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, which represents 34 countries, today released the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment. For the first time, the test broke out the performance of China’s Shanghai region, which topped every country in all academic categories. The U.S. government considers the test one of the most comprehensive measures of international achievement.

If America Accepts Sharia Law Expect the Mob Rule Called Democracy to Prevail

If this country ever accepts Sharia law into the court system, it will cause a serve backlash against Muslims nothing seen before the civil rights movement. It will be the "straw that breaks the camels back" and I fear the safety of every Muslim living in America. Sharia law is base on a religious law that contradicts the US Constitution. There is no greater law that surpasses the Constitution. It is what the founding father created and is the foundation of this country. This is not the Middle East or an Islamic nation. Muslims did not have a contribution to the creation of this democracy. No matter what the courts say, every Muslim organization propagating this intrusive law will see the mob rule that we call Democracy.

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