“A rose by any other name is still a rose.”

Liz is driving me to the 9-12 Westwood Tea Party.  I’m biting my fake fingernails because I’m one of the speakers and I don’t have a speech yet.

Liz: Do you have your speech all ready?

Me: No…I’m kinda nervous.  I mean, where do I start? Should I talk about:

1)  Obama’s last speech where he lied 13 times? Not even little sneaky lies you have to research, but big, bold, blatant lies!  ”My plan will not fund abortions, or insure illegals!”  Lie, lie, lie.

2)  The former Liberally-Biased Mainstream Media that is now a completed, fully-functioning Progressive Propaganda Machine?  Ignoring the Acorn tapes, and the Van Jones story! That’s called the lie of omission!

3)  Or, …hey, you know what I read?  I was flipping around in the Bible and since it’s 9 -12 I just flipped to Psalm 12 and it said the most perfect thing…about lying in the government!

Liz: Really?  Did you see Glenn Beck today?

Me: The protest sign in the Washinton D.C. crowd that said Ephesians 6:12?

Liz: Yeah!

Me: I looked it up!  And, right while I was reading it, Glenn Beck said, kind of apologizing, “I don’t usually do this…ya know, read the Bible on the air…but..

Liz: I know!  He read it!

Me: He read the Bible on the air!

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

Ephesians 6:12
King James Version

Me: I wish I had a Bible.  I should read that Psalm 12 thing in my speech.

Liz: I think I have a Bible in the car…(she looks around and finds one in the glove compartment!)

Me: You do!

She has one!

I flip to Psalm 12 and read it out loud to her and my bored teenager in the back seat.

“Everyone talks in lie language;
Lies slide off their oily lips.
They doubletalk with forked tongues.

I’m tired of hearing, “We can talk anyone into anything!
Our lips manage the world.”

God, keep us safe from their lies,
From the wicked who stalk us with lies,
From the wicked who collect honors
For their wonderful lies.”

Psalm 12
The Message Version

Liz: You definitely have to read that!  It’s perfect!

We get to the Federal Building.  It is a beautiful California day.  Lots of American flags are flapping against the blue sky.  I do a couple handstands on the platform for my handstand photo collection.  I bump into my freedom fighting buddies.  We hug and admire each other’s signs.  I love the one where George Washington has the cartoon bubble over his head that says, “WTF?”

I have Liz’s Bible stuck in the waistband of my jeans because my hands are holding two protest signs.

I start thinking about whether or not to read the Bible in my speech.  Why am I afraid to?

This is not a Liberal crowd.  Liberals would not approve of Bibles being read in public.  They took them out of the schools and are trying to get “In God We Trust” and “One Nation Under God” taken off of our money, and out of the Pledge of Allegiance.  Speaking of The Pledge…What about that YouTube video?

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If that doesn’t reek of Daniel 3:6 and Revelation 13:15 I don’t know what does!

Communists do not allow Bibles.  When I was a child, my Dad was writing a check to an organization that smuggled Bibles into Russia.   I said, “Why do they have to sneak Bibles?”  Dad said, “They’re Communist.”

Atheists do not like Bibles.

All decisions and most political issues all come down to whether you are FOR GOD or AGAINST GOD.

The reason Liberals-Communists-Atheists don’t like Bibles is because they do not want the competition.  “No man can serve two masters…” Matthew 6:24  You cannot worship God and the State.  You must choose one.

Very interesting that Obama has a new web site called serve.gov.  Or, Serve Government.
Reminds me of the Bob Dylan song, “You Gotta Serve Somebody/It might be the devil, and it might be the Lord/but you’re gonna have to serve somebody.”

As I stood in front of the sea of faces, flags, and signs, I opened my mouth and let my heart speak.  I saw myself digging the Bible out of my waistband and holding it up in the air.  I heard my mouth saying, “I always took my freedom for granted.  My freedom to worship.  This is the next thing Obama is going to try to take away from us.  Newly appointed Mark Lloyd and Cass Sunstein’s agenda is to stop conservative/Christian talk radio and TV and Internet….”

At the end of my speech I said, “Psalm 12 says…”  Right then, I was given the “Wrap It Up” sign.  I paused for a second. I mumbled something about hoping in God and not a man.  Then, I left the podium.

I did not read it out loud.  I don’t know why.