91 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-12-13”

  2. George Washington
    Abraham Lincoln
    Ronald Reagan
    The qod in the Times-News>/i> was “Did you watch the Grammy Awards?”
    Surprisingly, only 13% said “yes”. I thought I was the only person in the world who didn’t watch them. I didn’t know who a single person in those awards is.
    The QoD for today is, “Will you watch the President’s speech?” I seldom vote in those queries, but I went to vote “No”. 70% in Hendersonville agree with me, so far.
    Only 377 had voted so far, they usually have 600-700 votes.

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  3. 🙂 I had waffles and real bacon for breakfast this morning.
    While fixing breakfast, Elvera was singing “Ol’ Black Joe”. It occurred to me that she’s probably the only person left in the world who knows that song.
    My QoD. Do any of you know any Stephen Foster songs? Did you learn them in school, as I did?

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  4. I think the three iconic presidents would be Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan.
    Washington was the first president and as such set the standard for all that followed.
    Lincoln held us all together when we didn’t want to be held together. That took some strength of character.
    Reagan? Reagan was our first president who really communicated with us. Yes, I know that television help John Kennedy win in the 60’s (that and the votes Papa Kennedy bought) but Reagan really USED the medium to get us through times of crisis. Just recently we read the Psalm that was in the speech he gave when the space shuttle blew up. As a child Reagan made me feel safe.

    I also find it interesting that two fathers were well respected enough that their sons were able to follow them into the presidency. I think history will be very kind to George H. W. Bush. I also think history ill be much kinder than deserved to Clinton. Like him or hate him when he communicated you really did think he cared.

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  5. In answer to Chas’ QoD. Yes I know Stephen Foster songs and I did learn them in school. I was writing out my answer to the presidents while Chas was posting. I am glad we liked the same three. Makes me feel like I might not be so dumb after all.

    Today is Mardi Gras Day. It is the end of the festivities. Last night we went over to friends, ate jambalaya. The kids walked uptown for the parade. It was raining so the sane adults stayed behind. One couple were actually going to the ball so we watched videos on Youtube and tried to tie a real bow tie. Gentlemen were white tie to a ball with full tails. It’s a lot harder to tie a bow tie than you think!

    I am working today so I will not be partaking in the last hurrah before Lent starts tomorrow. That might be another QofD:

    WHAT IF ANYTHING ARE YOU GIVING UP FOR LENT?

    I am still wresting with this question. I don’t know yest.

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  6. So many QODs today.

    Presidents – George washington – he was a true ststesman. John Adams – He was overshadowed always by Washington and Jefferson, but a good leader and president in his own right. And a toss up between Lincoln and Reagan.

    Stephen Foster – Many of us probably know some Stephen foster songs and just don’t know that he’s the composer who wrote them. Camptown Races, My Old Kentucky Home, Beautiful Dreamer, (I Dream of) Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair, Oh Susanna, Old folks at Home are the most familiar to me. We sang them in elementary school when I was a kid in the 60s. (I’m dating myself).

    Lent – I have been working my way into giving up sweets and desserts. I am trying to cut my sugar intake drastically. This will be hard for me because I love my sweets.

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  8. Questions, Questions, Questions! It is hard to pick just three presidents. Washingtion and Lincoln narrow the answer immediately. And Kasko is very right about John Adams. Reagan of course–love him or hate him–was a leader of leaders. Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman are hard to pass over.

    Stephen Foster–Yes learned his songs from my grandmother and at school. We had sing-alongs every Friday at my elementary school to end the day and the week. We all loved it. My kids know Foster songs and my granddaughter loves O Susanna.

    Lent–Red meat. Though I may have a hamburger to celebrate Fat Tuesday

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  9. Kim, a southerner likes Lincoln? How’d you keep that Southern Belle card?

    When I was younger, I’d have said Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan, but Lincoln has moved to the “worst presidents” list and I haven’t yet thought of who replaces him.

    Continuing our discussion from the other day, when I was going into the big city and didn’t tell my husband about every “stop” I was making since I was getting him something for Valentine’s Day at one . . . when he came into the living room after his shower, I noticed he had his wallet, which he didn’t need for taking out the trash. As he left, he said, “I have to go out–I don’t mean just to take out the trash,” and that was it, no hint of errands he needs to run, no question whether I want to come with him.

    I suppose if I were smart, I’d use this time to finish making his Valentine card! I think I shall do that.

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  10. I didn’t know Lincoln had fallen so far out of favor. ? Or is that a southern thing?

    Frankly, they all had feet of clay. But I would say we have one of our worst presidents right now. 😦

    I also think ‘w’ will be judged well, I never could understand the fierce hatred of him on the left. His second term sure could have been better. And I do think Iraq was, well, probably not the best move at the time. But hindsight is 20/20.

    And with all the talk on immigration, no one mentions that so much of what is being discussed (and finally accepted among conservatives) was a ‘w’ position all along (and one with which I agreed at the time).

    Another staff departure announced yesterday, I’m telling you it’s like rats jumping off a ship at this point.

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  11. Cheryl, go back and read where I said “iconic”. Why do you put Lincoln in the worst column? (that isn’t a confrontational question, it is an educational question).

    Adios is giving up red meat for Lent???? I can’t give that up. I for some unknown reason have not eaten enough red meat lately TO give it up!!! I don’t eat enough chocolate or sweets to give that up either. so I will take this time to remind you that you can take something on for Lent as well as give something up. We all pray for Gambia on Wednesdays. Someone could make the decision to pray for Gambia every day for the forty days of Lent.

    Valentines???? My hubbykins told me that we needed to be low key for this one. I leave for Dallas on Saturday. He had tentatively scheduled back surgery for Friday! I have been telling him for two months that I was going to Dallas the 16-20th for work. He said he had been through surgery before while he was single and he had friends who could bring him home from the hospital! I asked him what he thought I should do, swing by the hospital and tell him good luck, catch you later on my way to the airport? He has wisely decided to ask the doctor if they can schedule the surgery for the 21st or 22nd.
    Last night he was telling everyone that he didn’t expect me to hang out in the hospital with him. He would be drugged up and it would be boring for me. My friend Bob who used to be a medical malpractice defense attorney spoke up and told him it would probably be good for someone NOT on drugs to be around to make decisions and keep an eye on the care he was receiving. Men!!!! You can’t do nothin’ with ‘en ‘cept make a man out of ’em. You just can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

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  12. Lincon’s assasination was one of the worst things to happen to the South since Fort Sumter. One of the worst things about the Civil War was Radical Reconstruction. You don’t hear much about that. It delayed the progresson the South for decades. Lincoln wanted to bring us back together.
    Adams and others were good presidents, but greatness has to do with challenges they faced. Reagan’s greathness was due to his steadfast convictions in the face of everything the media and others could throw at him.
    Harry Truman belongs up near the top, but not in the top three.
    FDR was not a great president. He was a great politicain, but he stayed too long.
    Yet, I fear what might have happened if we had gotten Windell Wilkie. You don’t remember him, he was a real “One Worlder”.
    Roosevelt created the Cold War by agreeing to everything Stalin wanted.

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  15. I recently watched Viva Zapata on TCM. It confirmed how Washington was The Indispensible Man. Reagan extended the life of the country for 30 years. Lincoln was never the president of my country, but he was a tough opponent.

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  16. Apparently I do know Stephen Foster songs – they were in the beginning piano books way back when. Didn’t really hear them anywhere else 🙂

    No answer to the presidents QoD here.

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  17. About Lincoln, how many other presidents could have ended their first term with the half the country devastated, hundreds of thousand of dead soldiers and millions of new citizens shoved unprepared into a hostile environment and still be called a great president.

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  18. Kim, brief answer to why Lincoln was a bad president:

    It was well established that states had a right to secede, that the union was voluntary. When states seceded and became a new nation, they were no longer under Lincoln’s jurisdiction. The Emancipation Proclamation was a farce–it dealt with states in a different nation. Rather like the U.S. outlawing abortion in Canada–it’s meaningless. He didn’t free any slaves within the U.S.A., just within the C.S.A. (Confederate States of America), of which he was not the president. (Jefferson Davis was.)

    He shed much blood, men who were his countrymen and men in the sovereign nation to the south. And he took many illegal actions along the way, including suspending the writ of habeus corpus. The North was brutal to the South, during the war and after it. It was an illegal war, and a cruel one.

    And yes, part of the purpose of the war was to end slavery . . . but would Canada be justified in invading us to end abortion and to force us to be one nation with them? It wasn’t so cut-and-dried as “the war was to end slavery,” anyway. The war was to reunite us into one nation, after several states had legally left the voluntary union. There were financial reasons that the South no longer wanted to be part of the U.S.A., and they didn’t want to be part of the nation of which Lincoln was president–history has proven they were wise in that preference.

    I’ve heard many say that if Lincoln hadn’t been assassinated:
    (1) Reconstruction wouldn’t have been so horrible.
    (2) Lincoln wouldn’t have gone down in history as a “matryr,” but as a brutal dictator.

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  20. The reason I asked about Stephen Foster songs is that I suspected that the racial aspect, though benign, would offend lots of people.
    We lose lots of our cultural history if we lose Stephen Foster.

    Lincoln’t goal was to save the Union. That’s all. That’s what he did in the face of opposing armies and opposing politicians.
    A true southerner, I am. Yet, if the South had won, we would have had continuous wars about who gets what in the west. The south would have been an agrarian nation with no substance. And America would have not been a leader in the world.
    It worked out for the best. But Andrew Johnson and U.S. Grant were disasters as leaders.

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  21. That’s one of my favorite quotes about keeping silent–and one I frequently violate, sigh.

    Giving up chocolate for the 27th straight year. It’s easier now.

    I am, of course, eating up all the chocolate in the house today! 🙂

    Lincoln did not hate the South. One of his favorite songs was Dixie. He would not have allowed Reconstruction to be so nasty. Remember, he sent the CSA soldiers home with their horses–and guns, too, I believe.

    Those were not the actions of a man determined to punish.

    I’ve always liked Teddy Roosevelt as a man.

    And yes, even in California, some of us know Stephen Foster music, though probably not much after my generation.

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  22. QOD: Washington, Lincoln, FDR — most of you are likely to dislike his social security legacy, but lend-lease and keeping the USG in there at the beginning of WWII was critical to the UK lasting long enough for us to finally enter the war. Without that legacy, the latter half of the 20th century looks quite different. His imprint on US domestic and foreign policy lingers to this day as does the legacy of Washington and Lincoln.

    If I had to name more, I’d include Jefferson for the LA purchase and Reagan.

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  23. Having looked at the history from several different perspectives – Raised as a Yankee in upstate NY, where we learned about the “Civil War” , and in some college courses while living in Germany: the more neutral “War between the States”, and from the Southern perspective while living here in Virginia for the last 20 years: “War of Northern Aggression.” The Victors of any war are by and large the ones who write the history books, and the text books. It was more complicated than ending slavery as we have been indoctrinated to believe in public schools. As with most wars, there were more economic reasons, but the abolition argument made it a “moral” war for the North, and an easier sell to those who could not conscience it any other way. Personally, I’m with the South on this one. I favor the preservation of States’ Rights, now more than ever. I also think the national lie is part of the cause of today’s racism because today’s mindset cannot divorce the south from slavery.

    On Lincoln, I am neutral. I think he was a good man trying to navigate through some very untenable situations. But he was a man with clay feet. His martyrdom made him a “superstar’ president, and the face of a moral hobbyhorse for the North and now the United States. But I don’t think he would have been rememberd as such a great president (not in the top 3) had he not been assassinated. History would not have been as kind to him.

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  24. Chas what you said about Stephen foster songs can also be sais about Mark Twain’s writing. We are so far removed from the era that we are prone to judging it by today’s standards. We like to do that.

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  25. Chas, I think it is quite likely if the war had not been fought that the two nations would have settled their differents and rejoined, and we would not have lost our Constitution in the process. Maybe it wouldn’t have happened that way, but we really can only conjecture, and that’s my hunch.

    But Obama is only the last in a string of presidents strangling the Constitution, and it definitely seems to have been Lincoln who started it.

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  26. Good morning! I am wandering back in to Wandering Views before my February Fast is done…blowing my diet, I guess you could say. 😉

    Kim’s QoD got me thinking: Would I be able to give up the internet completely for Lent? I don’t think I can, and I’m not sure it would be a good idea, anyway, but the thought crossed my mind. I’d be tempted to spend all kinds of time reading everything I missed here and other places once I came back online, I’m afraid. I’d rather just try keeping it in moderation, continuing to read but giving up commenting for Lent. So…after today and my great commenting feast (hey, I already blew my fast, so I might as well have fun while I can!), THEN I’ll be back to lurking until Easter. What a great day to burst forth, huh? 🙂

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  27. BTW, Kim, I also like the idea of adding something for Lent, and praying for The Gambia every day is a great idea.

    Do we have enough QoDs yet? How about one more 😉
    Share one idea for something you could (or already did in the past) add for Lent.

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  28. Presidents: George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan.

    I’ve shared this before, but one of my favorite quotes is this one from T. Roosevelt (may not be exact, but it’s close): Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

    Stephen Foster songs: Chas, I have the music for three Stephen Foster songs in a piano book I studied out of in probably junior high: Swanee River; Kentucky Home; and Old Black Joe. They are piano arrangements only, with no lyrics, but I know I’ve heard the words to Old Black Joe somewhere, just don’t remember where. (Maybe learned them back when I attended a one-room country school from Kindergarten through 3rd grade — that really dates me, doesn’t it? 🙂 )

    Ricky — loved the video of My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night. Thank you.

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  30. And now that I’m dominating the thread, and since we don’t have enough QoDs yet today… 🙂 …here’s one more. You can give this one to your kids, if you like, and call it math 😉

    Last week was 5th Arrow’s birthday. Tomorrow is my hubby’s birthday, and on that day his age will be 6 times that of 5th Arrow’s. If you take the age hubby will be tomorrow and reverse the digits, it will equal the difference between his age tomorrow and 5th Arrow’s current age. How old will hubby and 5th Arrow be tomorrow?

    Extra credit: State their ages in months.

    Bonus question (with a little history thrown in): How old was hubby when the Titanic sank? 😛 (One of his coworkers had asked him that, in all seriousness.) 😉

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  34. Kim, that’s really sweet of you to say. I really do enjoy bantering with all of you here, too. It’s just that my internet usage has sometimes gotten out of balance, especially when times have been stressful, and has taken me away too much from my family obligations. So I try to “fast” now and then, to make sure internet is not becoming my god.

    I’ve always wondered if there is an “addiction” gene. My grandfather was an alcoholic, and while I didn’t see any other signs of addiction in any of the rest of my family, I’ve often wondered if my strong attraction to the internet, now that I’ve had it at home for the past two years, is something like my grandfather’s addiction to alcohol was. I use this for stress relief too often; it becomes an escape from challenges. To the extent that I have online friends that point me to Christ, I think it’s a good thing, and that’s why I keep reading here. But I could spend all day sometimes, to the exclusion of many other good and necessary things, and I don’t want it to get to a point where I can’t hold it in its rightful place, using it as the blessing it is, but not overdoing it.

    In short, I don’t want to give up commenting altogether, but I do want to make sure I’m keeping the main thing the main thing 😉

    I don’t know if that makes sense, but I really appreciate your thoughts, Kim.

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  37. So I asked the President question of one of my more highbrow, intellectually type friends and this was her answer:

    this is something I would love to answer…but not today….I am still working on coffee and haven’t found the shower yet…..give me a few days…..I won’t answer who I thinks has done a great job though…..bc LBJ left so many great tapes of his conversations that listening to them can have me rolling in the floor laughing…then there is Clinton with his definition of sex…..yes…I will have to think about this for a while….Jefferson loving a black woman…..T. Roosevelt with goats in the white house……

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  39. 6 Arrows: I believe there is an addiction gene, and I definitely have it! Alcoholism runs rampant in my family on both sides. Dad’s father, Mom’s father, Mom, two brothers and lots of extended family are all alcoholics or recovered alcoholics. I abstain, but am easily “addicted” to things. My husband, otoh, doesn’t have an addictive nature at all. Right now I’m addicted to Pepperidge Farm’s Double Chocolate Milano Cookies. Perhaps I should give them up for lent!

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  41. Ree and Chas – that made for some interesting reading. I also personally believe that Islam is the Dreadful Terrible Beast of Daniel’s prophecy, heretofore missed by many scholars from previous generations. As the day draws nearer, the understanding becomes clearer. Daniel sealed the book as he was bidden. I believe that some of the seals have begun to be broken. ( I believe that 3 of the 7 seals are broken at this time.) And the so-called “Revived Roman Empire is less about who is in charge than the real estate they are holding. Soon, Islam will claim all the territory occupied by the Roman Empire and be ruling over it. Islam is not like the other beasts described in Daniel. And through terrorism is treading down all the rest. Just some food for thought. I’m interested to hear what other have to say on the topic.

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  45. CB, I agree with you on Jefferson (for the same reason) and Reagan. I also agree with you about Roosevelt’s foreign policy. He had the US totally committed to war production before Hitler made that same adjustment. That is one of the reasons that we won that war.

    It has always been a common belief that Reconstruction would have been milder and smoother had Lincoln survived. I am not so sure. Integration of the slaves into society as free people was always going to be very hard.

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  46. Good afternoon. Although I am definitely a 5 point Calvinist, I do dearly love some of the music produced by some of my Pentecostal Brothers and Sisters. I thought this being Lincoln’s birthday this song would be appropriate:

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  47. Wow, I love the range of topics today.

    AJ, when you attributed the “Better to remain silent” quote to Lincoln I was surprised because I always thought it was Mark Twain. I did a little googling and learned that the quote is widely attributed to both of them, and that the evidence that it came from either of them is pretty thin.

    Top three presidents? For a long time I would have said Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan. I might disproportionately consider Reagan because he was president in my clear memory and I think he was the right man for the time. I’ve only recently been moved to reconsider Lincoln, largely for reasons Cheryl cited, though his Second Inaugural Address always moves me.

    Stephen Foster songs, definitely big in school at least as late as the 60’s. Camptown Races, I Dream of Jeannie, Oh Susanna, Old Folks at Home (which I always thought was called Swanee River) are all quite familiar.

    Gotta get back to work.

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  48. Well, Donna, thanks for your spoiler on yesterday’s thread on the herding group winner . . . I did just watch it. BTW, is there any way to watch the judging of a specific breed? Last year I tried to track down rough collies and just couldn’t find it. But I’d love to see that particular breed judged.

    Interesting that the winner of herding is a dog that wouldn’t have been allowed last year, since they just let non-champions in. I think that was a mistake, personally. Let it be a prestigious show for dogs that have already proved themselves. Oh well. The hoopla is overdone as it is, so I guess the details of it aren’t important. Fun to watch, though.

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  49. Top three presidents? Let’s see, with tongue planted firmly in cheek, I say William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Why? Because no one ever mentions them for much because they didn’t do much. Which means we cannot blame them for the problems we face today, especially Harrison. What could a man do while in bed suffering from pneumonia (or whatever it was that killed him)?

    Otherwise, I’d say Washington, Reagan and rookie to be named later (since I really cannot think of one). Though, I would say Hoover since he tried to follow the Constitution after the economic crash rather than rewriting it like FDR did.

    And I don’t do Lent, since I gave up the liturgical calendar when I left Roman Catholicism behind.

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  50. Chas- I never watch any of the awards shows. I think the Grammys should be on MTV or some other music channel, the Tonys should be on a Broadway stage with CC TV elsewhere for those who even care, and the Daytime TV awards should be on in the daytime. The only one that needs to be on in prime time are the Emmys, since they deal with prime time shows.

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  52. Annms @ 12:50:20 — My husband doesn’t have an addictive nature, either, unless his form of working hard is workaholism. He has a strong work ethic, but he has such a difficult time relaxing until “the work is done”, but it’s never all done, and he laments that fact and can’t always enjoy the times he does set it aside for later.

    And his dad — virtually the same thing for most of his adult years, from what I’ve heard. So there’s definitely some heredity there with that!

    Klasko @ 13:15:43 — Thank you. Yes, the prayer thread has been such a blessing to me (and was again last Friday when I posted there after a hard week). I do intend to bring any burdens I want to share there at any time (whether I’m on some sort of “internet fast” or not). 😉

    AJ — Speaking of the prayer thread, now is a good time to thank you again for that thread, and not only that, but the whole blog. This place is such a blessing to me.

    And BTW, AJ (12:20:13), did you win? Um…with that answer at 11:33:45?…how can I break this gently?…

    YOU’RE WAY OFF! 😯

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  53. Ricky

    I agree on reconstruction — but it is hard to imagine how Johnson and Grant could have done it much more poorly. Lincoln wanted conciliation — even at the beginning when he said he would free the slaves if that meant union or keep the slaves enslaved if that meant saving the union.

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  55. 🙂

    Wait a minute 6 Arrows,

    I still finished second in your contest. I understand that Kim won the Grand Prize. But shouldn’t I at least get a plaque, or a participation certificate or something? You know, like they do for sports.

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  57. AJ, Don’t worry. You probably tried to use Algebra to get the answer. You know solving for X if Papa Arrow was 6X the age of Y (Fifth Arrow). I can’t do that. I can look at the problem and tell you the answer but I can’t solve for it.
    In this case I figured that Papa Arrow was somewhere in his 50’s and 63 turned backwards would have made him 36 when the Arrow was born and being as he was the fifth and I know Sixth is rather young I decided on 54 for Papa’s age and 54 turned around would be 45 and that would make 6th arrow 9 and 9×6 is 54.

    I drove my algebra and calculas teachers crazzy because I could tell them the answer but I couldn’t tell them how I got it and they assumed I was cheating. It is the slippery slope to why I can’t do higher level math and didn’t become an engineer. I am a failure at Math.

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  59. President/General Zachary Taylor was a beast! Harrison only lasted a month–but that’s because he was pig headed and long winded and his inaugural address was over two hours long in frigid weather!

    I know nothing about Millard Fillmore.

    Klasko wrote a delightful story about meeting her husband on my valentine’s blog post today. 🙂

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  60. Some crazy live coverage going on right now of that ex-cop Dorner — literally a gunbattle going on, reporters seem to be right in the middle of it. CBS.

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  62. Michelle – I went back to your blog to tell you something I left out – If I had arrived at DLI when I was originally supposed to get there, I would have missed meeting him by a month. 🙂

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  63. 6Arrows..so good to see you 🙂 ! Wow Donna…that is some scary action going on in your neck of the woods…praying for safety for all in harms way.
    Favorite Presidents…Washington of course…and Ronald Reagan…and I must say Dwight D Eisenhower….because he was my Daddy’s hero…

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  65. I read Klasko’s story. Maybe Michelle can turn it into a book. I didn’t post how I met my new Valentine. Everyone already knows.
    I captured College Boyfriend by sitting down on the sofa next to him, yawning, putting my head on his shoulder and falling asleep.
    I met ex-husband because a friend thought he was really hot and kept dragging me to the yacht club to look at him. Think Charlie Sheen without the hot mess he is.
    Mr. P? I almost tossed him back but I didn’t have anything else to do that Saturday so I went to the beach with him and talked, and talked, and talked, and talked. It turned into dinner and then he kept me busy enough I didn’ t have time for anyone other guy.

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  66. I have to sympathize with those reporters who have to keep talking after they’ve run out of something to say.
    I told you about the time in Virginia, after John Jr. and his wife were lost in a plane flight to R. I. It happened Saturday.
    Sunday morning, they had some guy on TV talking while a camera was fixed on a ship in the ocean. Nothing was moving, just a man talking.
    At 7:00, I turned the TV off and turned in WAMU to listen to Red Shipley’s program, “Stained Glass Bluegrass”.
    Red came on and said something like, “You all know that John Jr. and his wife were lost in a flight to R.I. The Coast Guard has been searching for them all night, but haven’t found anything. If anything happens, we’ll let you know.”
    I told Elvera, “That’s it! Red Shipley has just told us everything there is to know about this”.
    In the first five minutes, I learned all about this Dorner guy being holed up in a cabin in California.
    I wonder if they’ll keep this going through the President’s speech. It is more exciting.

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  69. This is a major news day, that’s for sure. Shoot out in the mountains, State of the Union speech, a nuclear threat from NKorea … and … the big finale of the Westminster Dog Show.

    I suspect this standoff now could go on a while. It will probably eclipse the speech. Our eds were asking for staff volunteers to gather at one of our newsrooms in the area to plan coverage, but they’re not letting anyone else up that mountain at this point. We have had reporters & photogs up there through the weekend, but I’m not sure anyone was still up there today.

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  73. AJ @ 15:48:37

    Plaque? See your dentist 😉

    Participation certificate, like they do for sports? You expect me to know what that is? When have you EVER seen me make a comment about sports?! Sorry, not in my vocabulary 😉

    Go Boise.

    Oops.

    🙂

    Okay, then, I’ll try to come up with something…

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  74. Hi, NancyJill 🙂 It feels good to be “back” today!

    AJ, I like the sounds of the QoD for Thursday. It’ll be fun to read all the stories…and I think I shall have to drop a comment on that one, too 😉

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  75. I agree that Lincoln would have done Reconstruction better. He had no qualms with the average Southerner or else he would not have let the soldiers go home and would not have let Davis or Lee off so easily. I understand Johnson hated the Confederacy and made things harder on them.

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  77. I just noticed something that I never did before: Instead of a black line like what appears under each comment, AJ’s posts are underlined in red.

    Why did I never see that before?

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  78. Lincoln did not let Davis and Lee off easy. Grant cut the deal with Lee. Later when Stanton tried to reneg, Grant went to Lee’s defense. Davis was imprisoned for two years at Fort Monroe, much of the time blindfolded, but all of that happened after Lincoln’s death. Davis was not captured until after Lincoln’s death.

    The tough questions for Reconstruction were 1) Were all black males going to be allowed to vote? 2) Were ex-Confederates going to be allowed to vote? 3) What limits was the federal government going to put on the rights of Southern states to enact their own laws? One hundred years after the War, the federal government was still struggling with two of those questions. Even today, the Voting Rights Act deals with Question 3.

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  79. Fox News is showing the cabin where Dorner was supposed to be holed up in flames. Ammunition is exploding and the Fire Dept had to stand down because of explosions. They went in hard on him.

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  80. Somebody posted this on FB so you just know I had to share it with you,. Classic Lewis Grizzard who is famous for saying “We’ve always had sushi in the South. We just called it cut bait” A little language warning at the end but funny and worth listening to….

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  84. I’m missing the dog show. And I missed the “dog and pony show” earlier, too. 😉

    But we got the the birthday pies baked for hubby’s birthday tomorrow. He loves pumpkin pie, so birthday pie, rather than cake, it is. 🙂

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  85. Does the Irish Wolfhound win? Because I never watch it if the Irish Wolfhound does not win. That could explain why I am not watching it. Besides the lack of a television.

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  90. For some reason the show airs late on the West Coast — so there’s always this lag between when the results are in and when we’re getting to watch it. I think the first night of the show they aired it early (live) here and then showed it again beginning at 8 p.m. PST. But last night’s they didn’t, we all had to wait until 8 p.m. our time (when it was already over with in NYC) to watch it out here. 😦

    That’s OK. I was tired so it gave me an excuse to just go to bed early (plus Wednesday is my early-early day). I’ll check in and watch some of the highlights online maybe.

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  91. Well, Donna, since you gave away the herding breeds yesterday (my favorite category) before I had watched it, it’s fair enough that you got the ending given away. 😉

    I wasn’t rooting for Banana Joe, but my husband was, so I was happy he won.I was rooting for either the OES or the foxhound. If the springer had won its group, I’d have rooted for it.

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