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Our Daily Thread 4-25-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1831 the New York and Harlem Railway was incorporated in New York City.

In 1859 work began on the Suez Canal in Egypt.

In 1898 the U.S. declared war on Spain. Spain had declared war on the U.S. the day before.

In 1901 New York became the first state to require license plates for cars. The fee was $1.

In 1928 a seeing eye dog was used for the first time.

In 1953 U.S. Senator Wayne Morse ended the longest speech in U.S. Senate history after 22 hours and 26 minutes.

In 1967 Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the U.S.

And on this day in 1980 in Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems. While evacuating, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded, killing 8 U.S. servicemen. The mission was to free American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.

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Quote of the Day

“Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.”

Dinesh D’Souza

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Today’s music is from Jerry Leiber. I know, who’s he right? Well he’s a songwriter, not a singer. But you’ve heard his work…

But he and his writing partner were not fans of Presley’s version of their song. Despite this, they wrote several more songs for him, including this one…

His other work included this classic….

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Who has a QoD for us today?

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45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 4-25-13”

  3. You’ve all heard about the phony tweet about a bomb at the White House, and the president injured. And that it caused a $134 billion drop in the stock market.
    I see in today’s Times-News that it wasn’t caused by traders. It was caused by computers selling on autopilot without human intervention.
    This makes me wonder what would happen if some cyber bandits were to infect the program with malware. They could shortsell the market, then cause a selloff.
    Somebody ought to worry about that.
    But not me.

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  5. Ricky posted last night that the army is blocking the SBC website.
    DoD: How can they block access to a website?
    ie. if I enter SBC.com, what prohibits mee from getting it?

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  6. I heard about that, Kim. The line that struck me was,
    “Kind of thought maybe my neighbors were getting into a fight with someone”
    Oddly, not a surprising thing to say in Alabama.

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  8. A couple of people on my facebook are saying that the Boston bombing was planned by the government and one used the term “call to arms”. Of course these two people (distant relative, ex coworker) both have a history of being a little screwy, but they have friends who agree with them and they feed each other.

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  9. I read about the ship explosions on Yahoo. Says the explosions were thought to be accidental. Makes sense. But I wonder how two barges could explode simultaneously unless they were moored together.
    It didn’t say.

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  10. KBells, …and only in the South did no one immediately think terrorists. We are used to hearing sonic booms and bad weather. We had storms yesterday afternoon. One friend didn’t feel the blast but thought it was lightning again. Several others felt it but just kind of shrugged and posted on FB asking if anyone else felt it.
    I talked to a friend this morning who used to do a lot of legal work for several of the shipbuilding firms. He said there is a hobo community who live nearby. Hopefully none of them are injured. The firefighters decided to let it burn off. The barges were empty–just the gas fumes set off these explosions.

    I have been shocked at the people I know who are buying into the Government Conspiracy Theory on the Boston bombings. Smart people, not your average Joe.

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  11. KBells, I saw one conspiracy theorist on the news saying, “I knew the minute the bomb went off . . . ” Knew what? That he would create a conspiracy theory? And you are right, they feed each other. How long will we have to wait for the explosions in Alabama to have its own theory?

    Adios

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  12. KBells,

    They scare me, and I am a conspiracy nut. 😯

    I think Alex Jones went off his meds about a week ago judging from his website. He had pictures of the possible bombers. A couple were actually the right guys. But now he insists that the other photos are co-conspirators the govt won’t tell us about. And that the whole thing is a false flag by the govt.

    And somewhere in America, a box of Coco-Puffs is missing it’s cuckoo. 🙂

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  13. Chas,

    It’s easy to do that. The DoD controls the servers that provide the internet service on post. They just block it from there. If you try to access it you get a Webpage not available, you cannot access that site message. They do that for tons of websites all over corporate America as well. Schools do it too. Peter L. can’t watch videos at school because they’re blocked. You can block certain content and keywords as well. It’s actually quite easy. You can even do it at home to keep your kids from going to sites they shouldn’t.

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  14. I have a conspiracy theory for consideration. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are acting together as One to be in control of the world. 🙂 Anyone else agree on that one?

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  16. AJ, 9:43 I didn’t know that! I’ve had no reason to be concerned about it.
    It doesn’t seem a serious problem that any site, including SBC, might be blocked from an official computer. They can go home and access the SBC, freecell, and any other site they want.
    If I owned a business, I would block lots of sites.

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  18. Chas,

    The worst part is their supposed reason for blocking it.

    “The site you have requested has been blocked by Team CONUS (C-TNOSC/RCERT-CONUS) due to hostile content,” the message read. 🙄

    http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/military-blocks-access-to-southern-baptist-website.html

    “The U.S. Military has blocked access to the Southern Baptist Convention’s website on an unknown number of military bases because it contains “hostile content” — just weeks after an Army briefing labeled Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics as examples of religious extremism, Fox News has learned.”

    Welcome to Obama’s Army, where PC stupidity and hostile behavior towards any one on the right is the order of the day. Mostly thought up by clowns who never served a day in the military. It’s all one big social experiment now.

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  20. Libertarians have pretty much always scared me. 😉

    Kim, I read about those explosions (natural gas — only 3 injuries though?) in Mobile last night. We have LPG tanks in our community that are the target of activists who are trying to get them moved, so I’m sure I’ll get an email from them saying “See!?” this morning. 🙂 Not that it’s not potentially dangerous, it is. But we live at the port, there’s lots of dangerous stuff all around us, potentially speaking.

    I haven’t seen much about the conspiracy theories, but no doubt they’re out there. Sigh.

    But I’m writing about some more mundane things today. After the big barricade standoff yesterday, I’m trying to check out the city of LA’s new bike lanes that have caused several of our streets to be re-striped. A car lane was lost and the markings are highly confusing to many motorists.

    One woman told me she’d probably never leave her condominium complex again, she just can’t figure out where she’s supposed to be driving on the road anymore with all the broken lines, solid lines, boxed-off areas … 🙂

    Weird part is that there simply aren’t a lot of bicyclists on those streets. But there are a lot of cars and they’re backing up something awful now (with no bikes in sight) during heavy traffic hours. 😉

    Go figure. Your city at work. They mean well, though.

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  21. AJ, that does make a difference. Especially so if other sites are permitted.

    Donna, you have to keep California green. If people of means keep moving out, all the green will be gone.

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  23. Like the triune conspiracy. It reminds of when four women from our local pregnancy counseling center when to Tahiti to train women for the same ministry there.

    (Maybe it was Fiji? Some south seas island country)

    Anyway, these four mild-mannered middle-aged women arrive in the country and the army is interrogating anyone looking like a possible terrorist. They waved these women through without a second glance.

    I’ve always laughed at the image. It was the power of the Holy Spirit moving mightily–perhaps the most dangerous group who’d entered the country in days!

    🙂

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  24. Donna, my town is a designated biking town. They have street parking, bike lanes, and motorist lanes. They have it such that two cars (I drive an Xterra) can’t pass each other on certain streets. Then you add in the beautification and flower beds and it really is an obstacle course. 🙂

    We don’t do conspiracy theories in the South. We just figure some Redneck Bubba said, “Hey ya’ll. Watch this.” and blew something up on his way to winning the Darwin Award.

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  25. In 1901 New York became the first state to require license plates for cars. The fee was $1.

    The United States’ first automobile accident occurred in 1891. . James William Lambert was involved in the first automobile accident in American history. The accident occurred in Ohio City, Ohio. Lambert’s vehicle — the first single-cylinder gasoline automobile, which was carrying Lambert and James Swoveland, hit a tree root, causing the car to careen out of control and smash into a hitching post.

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  26. I couldn’t find the first arrest for drunk driving in the United States, but in 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becames the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pled guilty and was fined 25 shillings.

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  30. Ah, seems they’re to designate spaces for bicyclists to weave into when a person parking a car at the curb open the door. But everyone’s quite confused by what it all means, they keep asking “What are the little boxes for??”

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  32. This morning I slept until almost 9:00! 😯 Boy, did that ever feel good. I need that once in a while.

    Tomorrow I’ll be getting up early and going with hubby to visit 2nd Arrow. Looking forward to seeing her. Last time we saw her was Sunday when she was in the hospital. So glad she’s out of there and improving.

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  33. Cheryl, I don’t believe those babies were really doing that.
    I haven’t believed much on TV since I saw Fred Astaire dancing with a vacuum cleaner.

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  34. Dancing with a vacuum. 🙂 And if you want to go dancing the Jailhouse Rock, and you “can’t find a partner, use a wooden chair.” 😉

    One of the many Elvis records my mom had.

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  35. There’s a class on dancing with your dog. But I’ve never taken it — actually they’ve re-branded it to “tricks with music.” Maybe dancing with your dog sounded too creepy for most people. 🙂

    Glad 2nd Arrow is doing better. And my friend’s mom was a huge Elvis fan when we were kids, we thought she was kind of nutty. She made her husband take her to all the Elvis movies in the 1960s.

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  36. My Mom loved Elvis too.

    He’s finally growing on me. I was fine with him growing up, but then had a traumatic Elvis experience in my 20’s. One night my downstairs neighbor named Charlie got drunk and passed out on his couch with Blue Christmas blaring. On repeat. For 6 hours thru the night. People were banging on the door yelling, while he slept in full view thru the locked door’s window. He kept 6 apartments up all night. After that I didn’t like any Elvis for years. Now I kinda like him, but never Blue Christmas. Ever.

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  37. Elivis…no I won’t go there, oh sure I will. There is a real estate agent in my area that does Elvis impersonations. I just cannot imagine walking around looking like I was stuck in 1976. At least Marily Monroe had style.

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  38. Seems like Elvis was cool in his early years, late 50s early 60s? Our era was the Beatles, the Who, Rolling Stones & all the British groups — Elvis was for “older” people. Like my friend’s mom.

    Then in the ’70s he really became, well, not so cool at all. But looking at the earlier clips from his movies, I can see how he would have been captivating.

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  39. News flash. Tonight started the NFL draft. I cannot imagine how I have lived this long without this information. Mr. P is watching on the living room TV and is keeping up with comments on his iPad. He knows all this stuff.
    I, on the other hand, am headed to bed. Good night.

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  40. Well, I guess we’re going to see 2nd Arrow Saturday instead of tomorrow. Hubby has to work pretty late tonight (they’re short one guy tonight), and it will be hard to get an early start tomorrow so we can have adequate visiting time with daughter before hubby has to be back to work tomorrow afternoon. Saturday will work much better.

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  41. Ken Burn’s Civil War is on tv. Husband and son are watching and I was, too, until the sadness of it all got to me so here I am. We are all in the same room so I still hear it, but it is not the same as hearing and seeing it all together.

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  42. For those here who suffer from headaches, I just read that cutting a lime in half and rubbing it on one’s forehead helps. I’d never heard that before. Have any of you tried that?

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  43. Kim,

    Since your hubby seems to know his stuff, perhaps you could ask him why the Giants took a tackle that was a 2nd round prediction with the 19th pick overall. It makes no sense to me. 😦 Maybe there’s some genius to it that I’m not seeing….

    Perhaps a nuetral non-Giants fan will see what I ain’t.

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