God Bless America

God bless America
Land that I love
Stand beside her
And guide her
Through the night with the light from above

From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans
White with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home

From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans
White with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home
God bless America
My home sweet home

Songwriter: Irving Berlin

Remember to come out to Terrace tonight for the Terrace Mill Foundation's annual Family Fun Picnic night! The picnic begins at 5 p.m., and the old-fashioned games, including turtle races if people bring turtles, will start at 6:30 p.m. Bring your own picnic. Coffee, lemonade and prizes will be provided. Turtle races, egg toss, gunny sack races, three-legged races and other old-fashioned, family-friendly games will be held.

And THANK YOU America for all your freedoms you bestow on us!

Here's a little rant...mostly directed at the members of the public frothing at the mouth over President Trump and his administration: 
The problem I see is the (roughly) half of the nation who is willing to do anything they can to not participate in our representative democracy. They literally will allow either party to rule over them while not having any say in the matter. If the nation wants to in November, they can all but put a complete halt to anything the president wants to accomplish. And if they are successful enough, if the Democrats picked up 11 senate seats (I think that's accurate) to get to 60, they would make the president 99% irrelevant. Right now the balance of power in the U.S. Senate hangs by a thread. But every year, more and more people know less and less about the basic operations of our representative democracy and the three branches of government. It gets more and more absurd. Ask 100 people who are 18 to 30 years old what the whole point of the Fourth of July is, I wonder how many know? You could even give them the hint of "Independence Day" - and some will still not have any idea what it means. It's fine to point out what's wrong with the country, but too many people don't know why. They don't know the origins. They don't know basic history. That disturbs me. But I'm a bookworm, a theater geek, a lover of history since about age 10...so what do I know?

Plato, Socrates, Aristotle - how many kids learn anything substantial about those three?




Here's a good read, hopefully you recognize what this is! If not...well, then I can't help you.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."