The following political posts will be the simple musings of this Not So Common man ( an oxymoron in that I firmly believe we are all more common than we would all like to believe). I invite all to post their comments as I'm sure I have mush to learn from everyone out there.
First, who am I: I was raised in a family with little monetary means. My youth was spent in the back woods of Salem, Alabama and in Lawton, Oklahoma. What I know of my family we are a mishmash of just about everything: patriotic, conservative, liberal, druggies, hippies, flower child, smokers, non-smokers, drinkers, non-drinkers, deep thinkers and not-so-deep thinkers, agnostics and what some might call religious fanatics. And that's just my four brothers and one sister. So you can see I come from a not-so-stilted rearing. A microcosm of American life and thought. And through it all I would say our family has done quite well as far as families go in the wild and crazy time in which we live.
How I came to be who I am I credit much to the writings of Sterling W. Sill. His compendium on character taught me much of what I know about the word as I don't believe I was raised with much of one - except to cause mischief in my wake. And to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints of which I was an active member much of my adult life.
As to how well I turned out I leave to those who know me best.
Who did I turn out to be - a conservative with a libertarian bent. Now that can mean many things to many people but I can only define it in my own manner and through the many future posting I will be making. Suffice it now to mean these two things: Live by the Golden Rule and Government, stay out of my private life.
And from the above I shall begin....................
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