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Our Daily Thread 6-27-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1787 Edward Gibbon completed “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”  It was published the following May.

In 1847 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.

In 1885 Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone.

In 1893 the New York stock market crashed.  By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.

In 1918 two German pilots were saved by parachutes for the first time.

In 1929 scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York revealed a system for transmitting television pictures.

In 1942 the FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York’s Long Island.

In 1967 the world’s first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.  The device was invented by John Sheppard-Barron.  The machine operated on a voucher system and the maximum withdrawal was $28.

And in 1967 two hundred people were arrested during a race riot in Buffalo, NY.

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Quote of the Day

“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.”

H. Ross  Perot

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It’s Brian Johnston’s birthday.

And on this day in 1964 this song was released.

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Anyone have a QoD?

72 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-27-13”

  2. Good evening. It is so hard to join in the conversation here when you all seem to get up at the wrong time. However I can begin and end it! 🙂

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  3. And on this day, in 19??, Cheryl was born. 🙂
    “The arrogance of public officials should be controlled”. about at likely as the other parts of the quote.
    The Lions annual end of the year banquet is tonight. Prime Ribs.
    Nope, too late. You have to have been a member law week.

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  4. It is back to real life today and back pounding the phones. I have been asked to teach a class locally. I think it would be a nice thing for me to do. I will have to see if it works out for me to do it.

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  8. Good morning all. Happy Birthday Cheryl.

    I am quite tan and tired, but seeing the Kingdom of God among us with 1300 kids and 600 volunteers has got to be the highlight of this summer!

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  9. Happy Birthday Cheryl.

    Well, I picked up the trailer today to haul all the stuff back from Ohio to Oklahoma. I will be leaving early Tuesday morning. The move is bittersweet though. The sweetness is that my bride will be finally with me. The sadness is that this will probably be the last time I will ever see our adopted girl, Ericka. She is pregnant with their 1st child. She does not like to travel a whole lot and with a baby, priorities will definitely be different. I know it was with me when I was a young father. Thank goodness for e-mail, text messages and digital photography. We can still at least stay in touch. Sarah will be in Ohio in August. She has been accepted to the doctoral program at Kent State for Audiology with the Cleveland Clinic. Sarah will be staying at the home for the next 5 years. Maybe we will be able to sell the home there or here in Oklahoma when I retire. At any rate, I thought I should share this with my friends here at Wandering Views.

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  10. Happy birthday Cheryl! Enjoy your day!

    I can’t believe I’m having to check the road reports every day. We now have washouts to the north and the south of us. Thankfully I can still head west before heading east to get to town. Taking an overnight bag today, just in case.

    JoeB, glad you will have your bride with you again. Safe travels.

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  12. Yes Chas. Sarah is the youngest daughter. Ericka is about 6 months older than Helen. Sarah lives in Virginia Beach. She will probably move back after her dissertation at the Cleveland Clinic. Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters is saving a position as a Dr. of Audiology when she is done. Helen lives in Minneapolis, MN.

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  14. Happy Birthday again Cheryl, have a great day.

    I’m in a rush today, have a phone interview set up and I need to get in before that to settle in a bit first. I’m eating a carrot for breakfast along with a glass of OJ and Diet 7-Up (I only had a little bit of OJ left so mixed it with the soda to make it stretch. Actually not too bad!)

    Happy travels Joe. And enjoy that prime rib, Chas. I haven’t had prime rib in years.

    Kim, is that a class related to work?

    Good night Jo.

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  15. This quote from Antonin Scalia on the two latest “decisions” bears repeating – note especially the last three sentences.

    “But to defend traditional marriage is not to condemn, demean, or humiliate those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate other constitutions. To hurl such accusations so casually demeans this institution. In the majority’s judgment, any resistance to its holding is beyond the pale of reasoned disagreement. To question its high-handed invalidation of a presumptively valid statute is to act (the majority is sure) with the purpose to “disparage,” “injure,” “degrade,” “demean,” and “humiliate” our fellow human beings, our fellow citizens, who are homosexual. All that, simply for supporting an Act that did no more than codify an aspect of marriage that had been unquestioned in our society for most of its existence— indeed, had been unquestioned in virtually all societies for virtually all of human history. It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race.”

    -Antonin Scalia

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  16. I have no longer been reading this thread each day. So I have not seen if anybody has been defending or mourning DOMA. Will God’s wrath strike America because my daughter and her sweetie got married last year? In a week, I will lead a neighborhood meeting to discuss how we can work together if a “neighborhood emergency” occurs in our area, where everybody is very shy and private, and some of us go to church and some of us don’t. I go to church, but not to pray and not for a service, but I am weird.

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  18. Today is the funeral for the lady in church who I mentioned was dying a couple of weeks ago. Her family continues here. Her granddaughter will be married on Saturday. She would have liked to stayed but she was ready to go. Her family misses her.

    Some of the children are down setting up for the potluck afterwards. Husband and some other children are at the clinic. Two children are to get innoculations, one is to see a doctor for his apparent asthma (that would be the seven year old in glasses, he had an asthma attack while we were at my brothers and again the next night. He should have his own prescribed inhaler so we will be ready next time. We had to use standby inhalers during the attacks) and one daughter is going in for a private consultation. Busy busy busy. I am here with the uncooperative eleven year old as he continues to pretend to do his schoolwork. Quiet day but can’t get out and do things as I am inside babysitting. I suppose I could clean my house……..

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  24. Good morning/afternoon/evening/night! (That should cover everybody here.) 🙂 Hope you’re all having a great summer so far! Jo, I enjoy seeing your posts at the beginnings and endings of the daily threads. If I suffer from insomnia sometime again like I have in the past, I might just come and strike up a conversation with you here. 🙂

    However, I’ve been sleeping quite well and feeling really great this week since I started an exercise program outlined in an e-book entitled 42 Days to Fit. Three days per week of running (or another aerobic activity), alternating with two or three days of stretching/weight training. I took the pretest Saturday to find my present fitness level, took a day off, then began Day 1 of the program Monday. Today is the first day I don’t have muscle soreness, and by yesterday, only the third day of the program, I was beginning to feel absolutely fabulous! I’ve gotten a lot of informal, sporadic exercise over the years chasing after kids and carrying around babies and toddlers, but being intentional about consistent exercise again has really brought great blessing!

    I am also reading a book entitled The Unwired Mom, which is a real blessing and encouragement to me as I struggle with internet addiction. I’d like to be able to use it in moderation, and not have to go on these complete internet fasts to detox from excessive use that I tend to slide toward when I let my guard down. The book has a two-week challenge that is not, as the author puts it, a stay-off-the-computer directive, but a tool to help move toward the goal of using the internet wisely and with intentionality. So I’m on Day 4 of the exercise program and Day 1 of the unwired challenge, and both feel so good! (And, yes, I have my doctor’s approval, for those who may be concerned!) 😉

    That’s all for now. Oh, and Happy Birthday, Cheryl! 🙂

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  26. Thanks for the birthday wishes! I’ve gotten calls from my parents-in-law and two siblings, we went out to lunch for Chinese (not my husband’s favorite, but mine), and I got gifts and a cake. One would think, based on my gifts from my husband, that I had some artistic talent. 🙂 I will have great fun using them! (A photography book and a parchment craft book, some pastel colored pencils, and a tiny watercolor set–I asked for a water brush and he got me a whole miniature set of paints.)

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  27. Cheryl, those are some very nice and thoughtful gifts. I am glad you had a chance to have Chinese. Do you have a favorite Chinese dish? We usually get Garlic Chicken, Mongolian Beef and Snow White Chicken (our family of three). I also like Mu Shu Pork and Moo Goo Gai Pan (sp?) I have not had any lately so it is making me hungry for it! Sizzling Rice Soup is great, too.

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  28. 6 Arrows, I am glad you are feeling good and doing making positive improvements to your life. Are you having to do catch-up on homeschooling during the summer as I use to have to do with my son? We always did some math in the summer, but I felt that was a good thing so he did not lose what he had previously learned.

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  31. Yes, the title (in my link) is a bit harsh, but the point she’s raising — the difference between freedom of ‘religion’ and the president’s habit of altering that in his comments and speeches to freedom of ‘worship’ I think bears careful watching.

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  36. Janice, my favorite Chinese dish, and the one I always order if I haven’t eaten it for a while (like today) is mixed fried rice (chicken, shrimp, beef, and pork, or sometimes it’s just three of those). If they don’t have mixed, I’m torn, because I like chicken and I like shrimp. Secondary favorites include beef and broccoli and cashew chicken. Really what I like best is to order several items for several people and take a bit of something from all of it. But I don’t really like Chinese buffets as well–you don’t get to take home leftovers but it usually costs more, and they don’t ever have any fried rice except vegetable (which is not “really” fried rice in my opinion).

    When we were courting, I told him he is always free to take me for Chinese, but I won’t request that since I know it isn’t his favorite. A few times when he has asked where I want to eat, I’ve told him, “Well, I’m always in the mood for Chinese, but — sounds good too.” He has never taken me up on the Chinese part of it. (Though twice I’ve suggested sending the-kid-who-drives-and-who-lovees-Chinese out to get takeout, and both times he has said yes, though he has also eaten something else instead.) Anyway, when he asked where I wanted to go for my birthday, I said, “Well, my first choice wouldn’t be your first choice,” but he was open to it, since after all it is my birthday (and he also knows the girls enjoy it). And we tried a new local place that has gotten high reviews, and I think we all liked it (though I doubt he’d go out of his way to eat there again), so now we have a closer place from which to get takeout.

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  37. Cheyl, your husband might enjoy lemon chicken. It has been a number of years since I had it, but as I recall, it had some lightly fried chicken filets with a lemon sauce over rice. I like that, too, but I now go with what the others like. When we eat Thai my husband always gets the fried rice (with chicken I think) and I get cashew chicken. I love their spring rolls.

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  38. With all the talk about gay rights this passages comes to mind for today.

    1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

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  39. Thanks, Janice. We’ve been homeschooling year-round for some years now — I don’t remember exactly when we started that, maybe 5 or 6 years ago — so we don’t have a long break at any point. We do rotate in and out of subjects to some degree, not doing all of the required subjects all year long. Plus we do some other things besides the state-required academic areas. We’ve adopted more of a lifestyle of learning where we integrate life skills with academic skills according to the needs of each of our children and our general family situation. Kind of hard to explain, but I don’t worry too much about getting behind. We just live life as it comes, frequently evaluating our current needs and how best to meet them. 😉

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  40. 6 Arrows, we used to use a book to record the schoolwork and it seems it was a lifestyle learning book put out by the Notgrass Company. Do you use that? It sounds like your style is similar to what we did. It changed as our son got older and he took some classes with other homeschoolers. Those classes followed more of the typical school schedule.

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  41. I’ve met the president of my university, does that count?

    I haven’t met a US President, though. But I have met John Ashcroft (while he was governor of Missouri, before he was Senator or US Attorney General). I also have met three others of our US Senators in Missouri, along with some US Congressmen and other state officials.

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  42. Happy Birthday, Cheryl!

    We enjoy Chinese food in our family, but I’ve noticed that it has become less enjoyable for me as I get older. 😦 Oh well, that leaves more for the rest of the family. Pizza is my food-drug of choice. 🙂

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  43. As a kid, I met Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan before they ever were presidents. I covered a speech of Reagan’s when he was president and visited the port, but I was like 3 miles away from him.

    I also met Jeb Bush so if he ever becomes president I can maybe add him to the list. 🙂

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  44. My younger brother worked on a Habitat for Humanity house alongside President George W. Bush. They had to get background checks and security clearances, but they didn’t know why until Bush showed up at the site one day. (Yes, he was president at the time, I believe.) My brother was tickled to get to chat with him a little bit, but also amused that he wasn’t actually very good with a hammer. (But who would expect him to be?!)

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  45. Janice, I’ve heard of the Notgrass Company, but have not used anything by them (yet). A friend of mine just got a great deal on some curriculum from them at a recent homeschool convention she attended, integrating biblical history with several other subjects. She’s very excited to use it with her 13-year-old daughter. In fact, we might team up and have my 12-year-old daughter (4th Arrow) do some joint activities with my friend’s daughter. I haven’t seen the curriculum yet, but it sounds like a very good one.

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  46. Report from Arrowland for anyone interested 😉

    Sixth Arrow pleased me the other night by telling me she wanted to do all the dishes by herself — washing, rinsing, drying, and putting away. She lined up four chairs side-by-side, to the left of the sink, the washing side, the rinsing side, and to the right of the sink. She’d walk from chair to chair (she’s 5 years old and can’t reach to do most of the job without standing on something), and with the exception of washing the crock from the slow cooker and taking care of the cast iron skillet (3rd Arrow helped her with those), she did the whole job by herself. 🙂

    That was after she wanted to clean something in every room of the house, which she also did.

    I am one blessed mama. 🙂

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  50. 6 arrows- Do not discourage a child who wants to help. Even if it means going back after she is in bed and redoing anything she may have missed.

    And this is post # 50!

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  51. Oh wait, I think I may have met Jimmy Carter when I covered one of our local Habitat projects (long after he was president, of course). Weird because I know he was here but now I don’t have a real clear memory of meeting him; but there were photos of him in our local restaurants, etc.

    I did interview the founder of Habitat, during that same period.

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  52. Peter, I agree with you. It’s really a blessing when they want to help, and we don’t want to discourage that. That desire to help goes away quickly when they don’t have the opportunity to joyfully serve.

    And what’s the obsession with #50 lately? 😉

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  55. Donna, when we would fly from California to Texas to visit grandma, my kids favorite beverage on the planes was always orange juice and 7-up. I’m sure it made a great breakfast.

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  56. Had a helicopter land outside my hotel room in Madang, PNG once. We saw someone get out, it was the governor general, I think or the Queen’s representative in the government. Later he came here to Ukarumpa to congratulate us on our 50th anniversary of working here.

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  61. Good morning, Jo! Oops, I guess it’s not morning there. Yes, you beat me to June 28th. 🙂 I’m trying to remember what you said — are you 14 hours ahead of the East Coast? Is it almost 9 p.m. for you right now?

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  66. That would break my personal three-post rule, so I won’t. (I think it’s cheating to post more than three in a row to claim a given number, because more than that and it’s obvious you don’t have any competition.)

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