Saturday, October 19, 2013

A Little Background

I grew up here at Silver Lake and lived here most of my life.  We had a big, old, ugly gray shingled house here on the street where I live now and my great grandparents lived across the little cross street that bisected mine.  Great Granddad was Reverend Almeron Everett Matthews, a retired Methodist minister. I was raised in the Methodist Church and we went to Sunday school almost every Sunday.
I went to Perry Elementary and Perry Central High School K-12.

Pledged allegiance  to the flag---one nation under God indivisible with Liberty and Justice for ALL.  And we said our school prayer.  I learned about the history of our great country the American Revolutionary War  in which we won our independence from Great Britain, the Declaration of Independence and the development of our constitution and the amendments

For most of most to my adult life, I didn't pay much attention to politics and voted for whoever sounded like he/she would run the country, state, or county who would run the government responsibly.  I never really understood the difference between Republicans and Democrats and Liberals.  Then last year, I happened on Facebook posting of the Mark Levin radio show.  There was a caller claiming there would be death panels to decide who gets treatment and who doesn't.  The caller claimed to be a neurosurgeon.  That was later disproved, but I looked up Mark Levin and started listening to his radio show via podcasts which I downloaded to my MP3 player.  I learned more than enough to know that voting for Barack Obama a second time would be a big mistake. The fundamental changes that he had in mind for this country were not what I thought---that and a lot more.  He does not stand for truth, justice, and the American way.  The Mark Levin Show


This is my favorite place in the whole world.  This is the place where I always used to go when I needed to sort things out in my mind and de-stress.   I don't get down there as often as I like these days, but its the place I go in my mind when I feel the need.  It didn't used to have an American Flag but it's a welcomed addition to the lake shore. Now when I hear The Star Spangled Banner I will think of this place.  Madison Rising's Star Spangled Banner Challenge