Growing Up In Commerce Georgia

This is the Luke Davis business on North Broad St. Commerce, also the O'Rear house. I was told photo taken in the 1920's

The small town that I grew up in has a group page on Facebook that let's everyone who grew up in Commerce stay connected with our friends that we grew up with there. I always enjoy the older pictures posted by my friends that take me back down "Memory Lane."

Made In America

I Am the Democratic, Republican Liberal-Progressive's Worst Nightmare. I am a White, Conservative, Tax-Paying, American Gun Owning Biker. That's me I work hard and long hours with my hands to earn a living.
I believe in God and the freedom of religion, but I don't push it on others.
I ride Motorcycles, and drive American-made cars.
I believe in American products and buy them whenever I can.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and not some liberal governmental functionary, Democratic or Republican, that wants to share it with others who don't work!
I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer; it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac or any other item, you should do it in English.
I believe there should be no other language option.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
My heroes are Malcolm Forbes, Bill Gates, John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G. Davidson, who makes the awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.
I've never owned a slave, nor was I a slave. I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks, and neither have you!
I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country!
This is America. We like it the way it is and more so the way it was, so stop trying to change it to look like Russia or China, or some other socialist country!
If you were born here and don't like it, you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you. I believe it is time to really clean house, starting with the White House, the seat of our biggest problems.
I want to know which church is it, exactly, where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution? Can I get an Amen on that one?
I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are, but not just because you happen to ride a bike.
And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my driver's license. I think it's good.
And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money.
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause. Get a job and do your part to support yourself and your family!
I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents.
I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers think!
I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in America! If this makes me a bad American, then yes, I'm a bad American. If you are a bad American too, please forward this to everyone you know.
We want our country back!
My Country, I hope this offends all illegal aliens.
My great, great, great, great grandfather watched and bled as his friends died in the Revolution & the War of 1812.
My great, great, great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Mexican American War.
My great, great grandfather watched as his friends & brothers died in the Civil War.
My great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Spanish-American War.
My grandfather watched as his friends died in WW I.
My father watched as his friends died in WW II.
I watched as my friends died in Vietnam, Panama & Desert Storm.
My son watched & bled as his friends died in Afghanistan and Iraq.
None of them died for the Mexican Flag.
Everyone died for the American flag.
Texas high school students raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole, other students took it down. Guess who was expelled. the students who took it down.
California high school students were sent home on Cinco de Mayo, because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.
Enough is enough
This message needs to be viewed by every American; and every American needs to stand up for America.
We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough.
I'm taking a stand.
I'm standing up because of the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country, and for the American flag.
If you agree, stand up with me.
And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.
American, stop giving away your rights! Let me make this clear! This is our country!
This statement does not mean I'm against immigration!
You are welcome here in my country, welcome to come legally:
1. Get a sponsor
2. Learn the language, English, as immigrants have in the past!
3. Live by our rules!
4. Get a job!
5. Pay your Taxes!
6. No Social Security until you have earned it and Paid for it!
7. Now find a place to lay your head!
If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone, then you're part of the problem!
We've gone so far the other way, bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
Only Americans seems to care when American Citizens are being offended!
Wake up America!
If you do not Pass this on, may your fingers cramp!
Made in the U.S.A. & Proud of it!

Author Unknown

Starting Junior High

America, Why I Love Her

You ask me Why I Love Her?
 Well, give me time and I'll explain.
Have you seen a Kansas sunset
 Or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou
Down Louisiana way?
Have you watched a cold fog drifting
Over San Francisco Bay?
Have you heard a bobwhite calling
In the Carolina pines,

Or heard the bellow of a diesel
 At the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you
When you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder
 At her Massachusetts shore,
Where men who braved a hard new world
First stepped on Plymouth's rock?
And do you think of them when you stroll
 Along a New York City dock?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting
 In the Rockies, way up high?

Have you seen the sun come blazing down
 From a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia
As she rushes to the sea,
Or bow your head at Gettysburg
 At our struggle to be free?
Have you seen the mighty Tetons?
Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi
Roll along Missouri's shore?

Have you felt a chill at Michigan
 When on a winter's day
Her waters rage along the shore
 In thunderous display?
Does the word "Aloha" make you warm?
Do you stare in disbelief
When you see the surf
 Come roaring in at Waimea Reef?
From Alaska's cold to the Everglades,

 From the Rio Grande to Maine,
My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast
At the might of her domain.
You ask me Why I Love Her?
I've a million reasons why:
My Beautiful America,
Beneath God's wide, wide sky.

~ John Mitchum ~   

 

Playing Hide N Seek

Wise Words by George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)
was an American stand-up comedian. He was also an actor and author,
 and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.

A Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings
but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families,
more conveniences, but less time. 

We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge,
but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems,
more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly,
laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late,
get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
 We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often..

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.
We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way
to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street
to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space
but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things..

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom,
but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush,
but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information,
to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion,
big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships.
These are the days of two incomes but more divorce,
fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips,
disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands,
overweight bodies, and pills that do
everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.

 It is a time when there is much in the showroom window 
and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can 
bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either 
to share this insight, or to just hit delete... 

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, 
because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, |
because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. 

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, 
because that is the only treasure you can give with your 
heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, ' I love you ' to your partner and your loved ones,
but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt
when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for \
someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak!
And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.

Source: mamarocks.com

The Way You Look

When people see you, they see much more
Than the clothing that you wear
Your eyes are the window to your soul
You can't hide what's lurking there.

So if you find yourself below
I hope it's something that is good
But if it's not then it's not too late
To change things if you should.

Love Looks Happy

Sorry Looks Back

Satisfied Looks Content

Unhappy Looks Down

Happy Looks Glowing

Guilt Looks Troubled

Worried Looks Around

Faith Looks Up