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Our Daily Thread 2-19-13

Good Morning!

What should we talk about today?

Quotes of the Day

2 today, because I’d hate to miss either on their birthday.

“I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.”

Robert E.  Lee

“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.”

Edgar Allan Poe

And since someone else famous shares a birthday today, we’ll cover her with some music.

No, not Janis Joplin, but it is her’s too.

Who has a QOD?

49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-19-13”

  5. From The Times-News this morning:
    “A member of a polygamist cult is pleading guilty in her role in the North Carolina shooting deaths of a 4-year old boy who offended the groups leader and a woman who sought to leave………..
    ……………..
    Moses shot Jadon in the head after the boy made a gesture toward another child that Moses thought indicated Jadon was gay. ”

    The kid was four, idiot! To him, “gay” means a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
    She is sentenced to between 23 & 30 years. She should never get out. She could shoot someone for jaywalking. Or appearing to cross at a red light.

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  6. According to the Times-News 40% of the people in Henderson County have at least a college degree and 37% have some college.
    The poll is skewed because the population from which it is taken is Times-News readers.

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  7. Good morning all. I am running on about four hours sleep and have planned my wardrobe around boots. I get to hear Dave Ramsey speak in about an hour. Please pray for a coworker. She got a call yesterday that her daughter was in a wreck and told the police she had whatever the drug is that helps get off heroin on her. My friend is a basket case. She was able to get a 7 am flight this morning. We were sharing a room so we talked for a lo.g time last night. Then she got up at 4.

    Then it is a good thing I am three states away from home because ex husband has landed himself on the list of men what might need killing ‘ He started on me about taking BG to live with him and has contacted his HR Department to drop child support. I just had to tell him last night “I cannot have this conversation with you at this time”.

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  8. Music? I have all sorts. How about Dolly and some Hard Candy Christmas? Or the Famines I wanna br sedated? How is that for multiple personality disorder?

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  10. KBells

    Try MOG — keeps the music online and accessible.No mussing with ipods and such unless you wish to download something and can be used on your smart phone.

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  11. I have dozens of CD of 40’s, 50’s etc. country music. The one I have most of is Chuck Wagon Gang. but I have lots of Eddy Arnold, Hank Snow, Chet Atkins. etc.
    Much of it was made from LP’s that I still have. Some from tapes. Lots from music I downloaded from iTunes at $0 .99/copy. What disappoints me most is that I can’t get Anita Carter. Not even the songs she sings with Hank Snow. Very little by Anita.
    I also have some old Bing Crosby, Andrews Sisters, Boots Randolph, etc.
    I don’t have anything that you carry around like CB is talking about.
    Elvera collects Gather music, but I don’t care for them.
    I never liked Sinatra.

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  13. I was reading a book yesterday called The Bible as History. In talking about Megiddo, Keller, the author, says:
    “On the 16th April 1799 there was a battle here between the Turks and the French. With only 1,500 men Kelber, the French general, held 25,000 of the enemy at bay. The French fought like heroes from sunrise till noon. Then over the ridge charged a troop of 600 mounted men. The officer at their head was called Napoleon Bonaparte.”
    600 it said, not 6000 men. I read it again. But there were only 25,000 Turks. That made it a fair fight? Lord Allenby destroyed the Turks for the British in 1918. No wonder the Ottoman Empire fell.

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  14. I like a good variety of music and all that we have reflects that. We also have a lot of cds by local artists we know, since it is good to support those people. We have a lot of old country, bluegrass and gospel. I also have Lorie Line piano music, some classical albums, fiddle, some praise music. We have LPs, some old 45’s, cassettes, and Cds. I would imagine Chas and some of you have all of those, too. We never got into the old 8 track recorders, so were spared that phase. 😉

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  15. The kind of music I like depends on what I’m doing. I like pop and rock for driving. Contemporary Christian for house cleaning, Light classical and movie soundtrack for writing, country if I’m watching the videos and sappy love songs when I’m sleepy.

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  16. Kathaleena, I missed the 8-track era, too, it must have been pretty brief. I did buy cassettes mostly to listen in the car (they all have been shipped off, tossed, or otherwise gotten rid of). I have a fair # of CDs I also could probably pitch, though I still have a CD player (that has no ipod dock) in the living room.

    Only LPs I’d have are in the garage, some of my favorite Beatle albums that I couldn’t bear to part with — and an autographed 1st album cover from Sonny & Cher. 🙂

    Love Sinatra, swing, classic rock, some of the old church chants, psalms, scottish hymns, Anonymous 4, some classical & jazz.

    Never could catch the fever for country music, however, so I have none of that.

    Back to work, we get trained on a new operating system today. I still am trying to master the telephones, cut one poor man off twice yesterday when I tried to transfer him. 😦 He thought something was amiss with our weekend crossword puzzles, but I think he was wrong.

    Yesterday’s story was on a baby sea lion who was found hobbling on all 4s on the streets of a neighboring city. She apparently had come up one of the channels and is now in rehab for malnutrition, probably can be released to the ocean (oh, that’s what she was looking for!) in a month or two.

    See Kim? Didn’t I say, What could possibly go wrong with you gone? Hope you get it straightened out quickly. Good thing you weren’t going to be gone much longer, no telling what those guys would end up doing with your life.

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  18. Well Klasko,

    Normally I would take advantage of such a question and destroy the eardrums of all who visit. But since restraint is the better part of valor, I’ll not do so. But I will tell you I love guitar. The heavier, the better. Don’t worry, it’ll just be this one.

    Guitar like this. From the master.

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  19. So did anyone else notice the change on last years W-2’s?

    Box 12 now has a number included that wasn’t there before. I checked the last 2 years and it wasn’t, but this year it is. When I did my taxes I discovered that this new number is the amount your company is paying for your health insurance. It also made it obvious why some employers are opting for the $2,000 fine instead of paying for coverage. The coverage was for 3, and it was more than 7 times what the fine would be for not insuring the 3 of us. When you figure the company employs and insures 12,000+ people, and insures their families as well, the savings would be huge. They only pay the penalty for the employee, not dependents. It makes sense that some companies would abandon providing coverage. Stupid govt. strikes again.

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  20. OK AJ I suppose I asked for that. I am a sambora fan myself, and have been known to enjoy a little Hendrix now and then.

    I posed the question because I have discovered that I have very ecclectic tastes in music. Based on the pieces you put up for our enjoyment, it appears that you do too. I like and have just about everything and I like to play my ipod on shuffle. My husband says you could pull something and hurt yourself jumping from one genre and style like that.

    I have hymns, Jummy Buffett, Carman, Big Band, movie soundtracks, celtic and “world” music, classical, contemporary classic, pop from the 70s-the 00s, country from Cash and Hank williams, to Hank Jr, the other AJ, Dolly, Brad Paisley (He’s played his guitar once or twice – Vince Gill – did you know he auditioned for Dire Straits?.Michael card, Mercy Me, 4-Him, 50s and 60s rock, 70s hard rock, and soft rock, Manilow, Denver, Chapin, Zepplin, the Who, Clapton, doo Wop (Who put the bop?),New age, Keith Green, Mahalia Jackson, Santana (old and new), Neil Diamond, Sinatra, Twyla Paris, Mark Schultz, A Capella, Renaissance Faire music. Pops. Boots Randolph. I’m sure I missed a lot.

    There are a few notab;le guitar players in there for you AJ.

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  22. Klasko,

    Alot of those will work. Clapton, Page, Mr. Santana, all meet my requirements.

    And Barry Manilow is who Michael Bolton wants to be when he grows up. I love the guy. Always have. 🙂

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  23. My daughter met Dolly Parton in the studio. She told us she was very nice. I’ve always liked that song and my daughter used to sing it. I think many can relate to it in both the position of the mother striving to clothe her child and in the child’s being made fun of by her peers.

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  25. Turns out the wood under our kitchen floor is spruce. Has anyone here ever seen spruce hardwood floors (yes, I know, spruce is a soft wood) 🙂 We’re planning on just a clear finish – no staining.

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  26. Have to say I still love the Who & Zeppelin. 🙂 And celtic and world music, too. And Big Band. And movie soundtracks.

    So here’s a refrigerator question. You all know how much I have loved my new GE refrigerator since I bought it in August. It’s worked perfectly. But this morning I noticed ice crystals on the frozen food … and then I noticed the temp read out on the bottom freezer portion was 19 degrees, not 0 as it’s supposed to be. I tried resetting it, but it just pops back to 19.

    I didn’t have time to fool with it anymore as I had to get to work, but has anyone had this happen??

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  28. Thanks Rick, but this is the one I was thinking about.

    I have the song by Ernest Tubb and I have an album of Anita’s called “Songbird”. But it doesn’t have her best songs on it. I have “Wildwood Flower” by the Carter Family. I may get this one.
    Don’t tell Elvera, but I’m still in love with Anita Carter. You may not like her. But I do.

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  30. I got an e-mail saying that the Marines had to remove the bolts from their rifles during the inaugural parade. The rifles were already empty. There was a picture, but I couldn’t tell anything.

    Thanks Ricky. I wouldn’t want it to get out.

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  31. We had an (as usual unconvincing) discussion about polygamy yesterday. Today Chas tosses out A member of a polygamist cult is pleading guilty in her role in the North Carolina shooting deaths of a 4-year old boy who offended the groups leader and a woman who sought to leave………...

    I am not sure what the point is. God doesn’t like polygamy? At least not any more. New Covenant and all. . . [God changes his mind every millenium or so. First, he likes the Jews — God know why (being a Jew myself and all)]. Then he wants to steal all the other believers from all the other Gods, (being a kind of jealous type of God, don’t you know) so he starts with this Christian bit (mostly invented by this guy named Paul who had a hallucination while traveling in what we now call the “Middle East”).

    Anyway, in my opinion all cults are not good, not just polygamist cults. In fact, pondering this question put a question into my demented mind, a couple of questions . . .

    1. How many religions are there in the world at the present time?

    2. How many religions have there been throughout history?

    Anybody know? Have an estimate? Maybe only . . .

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  32. Using a very unreliable source of information (even more unreliable than making it up myself and even more unreliable than using the sources that made up Christianity), I can up with …

    [estimates of] 4,200 religious groups currently existing on Earth.

    Using the ratio of current population to the total number of people who have ever lived, we get an estimate of 63,000 religious groups throughout human history.

    Now besides pointing out that the above estimates are not very scientific (given that I am talking to a group of people who have the highest respect for science in the world, I should be respectful of scientific accuracy), I can’t help wondering . . .

    IF there were 62,999 false religions throughout human history, where did they come from?

    Did we wicked humans make them all up by our little old lonesome selves? Or did that wicked little feller Satan make them all up by himself? While God was busy tailoring STDs (should I provide a list?), Satan was inventing false religions? Idle hands and all.

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  38. A music QoD! Y’all know I have to pop in for that one!

    Classical is my big thing. When Klasko asked “What’s in your music library?”, my initial thought was, oh, about 100 classical piano books (that’s a conservative estimate), lots and lots of sheet music, and assorted other books for viola, organ, voice, ukelele…

    Ah, but you mean recorded music 😉

    Well, then, more classical 🙂 (I do like several other musical genres, too, classic rock, folk, celtic, and the like, I just don’t buy it much.)

    Eight-track tapes: Am I the only one who had these? My parents bought an eight-track player for our family when I was growing up. I don’t remember what year we got it, but we would buy blank tapes (I don’t remember having any pre-recorded ones) and my brother would record songs off the radio. One song I remember being on one of the tapes was The Long and Winding Road from 1970, so we must have gotten the player for Christmas 1970 or later (probably much later, as I would have been 8 years old that Christmas, and I’m quite sure I was a good deal older than that).

    Birthdays of famous people: This composer’s name may not be as well-known as Mozart or Beethoven, but when you hear the music on the video I’m going to try to post here 😉 you’ll probably recognize the melody.

    Happy 270th Birthday, Luigi Boccherini! The “Celebrated” Minuet.

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  40. My one memory of an 8-track tape was going out with a guy in college who had one (which mostly played Elton John & James Taylor) in his older model car.

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  42. We had an old Firebird with an 8 track – we had only 2 tapes – Paul Macartney & Wings and Diana Ross. Whenever I hear any of the songs from those 2 tapes, I remember good times while hubby was in college and the friends we hung out with. 🙂

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  43. Donna is hitting some of us pretty close to home talking about a guy who had an 8-track player in an “older model car”. I thought I was the Fonz with my self recorded 8 track tapes blaring from the speakers of my 1964 GTO.

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  44. 8-tracks: I was about seventeen years old, babysitting for the first time for some folk. They said I could listen to the music. They had a huge library of 8-tracks and a huge system. I popped in a John Denver and enjoyed listening. And listening. And listening. I could not figure out how to change or stop or even turn down the music. After several hours of it, the people returned. I did not ask.

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  45. I remember when eight tracks came out. Mom heard that records and tapes were going to become obsolete, so she spent quite a bit of time recording our records onto eight tracks. Unfortunately, by the second or third time you played a tape (at least in Arizona), the tracks would kind of “bleed” together, rather like being on a party telephone line with all the neighbors talking in the background while they listened in on your call. I don’t know if she finished her project before they became obsolete, or not.

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  46. AJ- If you like guitar, how about Phil Keaggy? A Christian guitarist who is master artist with six strings, for sure. Back in the 70s some compared him to Jimi Hendrix. Here he is playing one of his best: “What a Day” (Sorry, there is a two minute ad first.)

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  48. Not heavy enough for you? Try Rejoice. Both were done on the “How the West Was One” concert tour with the 2nd Chapter of Acts. On that album, the Acts perform “Yahweh” with Phil doing the guitar. That is the best “heavy Metal” Christian performance, IMHO.

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  49. I am glad that various people have had prayers answered. I would not pray that your prayers fail.

    Basic evangelism tactics:

    1. Pascal’s Proof. (Basically gambling; and thoroughly debunked and deconstructed for decades if not centuries.)
    2. Heads I win tails you lose. For example, when God answers my prayer, it demonstrates that prayer works. When God does not answer my prayer; well God knows everything and certainly knows better than I. So I can’t lose.

    Really when I contemplate how cunningly the psychology of belief is constructed, what is amazing is not how many people believe, but that anyone fails to believe. (One would think that the tendency of religious believers to “quibble” over slight differences in doctrine to the point of dreadfully murdering each other would have cramped their style until Roger Williams and to be honest a few other people, but he is first in my heart because I imprinted on his perceptiveness though not his silly Calvinist delusions at the age of 10 so I will remain true to him until my death.

    I was just thinking about Roger today. His life and experiences are so fascinating and dramatic and positive. I was envisioning some great filmmaker dramatizing his life in a mini-series. Maybe the great Chinese film maker, Ang Li (Life of Pi).

    I think the scenes of Roger Williams “hooking up” with the Native Americans (platonically speaking, of course, he was a very faithful married man) could be magnificent if scripted and filmed by a man of great skill and imagination.

    Willie Shakespeare, where are you these days? Your pen is needed! Your directing ability. Your acting ability. Don’t give me this dead for hundreds of years nonsense!

    Now isn’t this a nice, positive post?

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