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Our Daily Thread 7-30-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1619 the first representative assembly in America convened in Jamestown, VA.

In 1729 the city of Baltimore was founded in Maryland.

In 1932 Walt Disney’s “Flowers and Trees” premiered. It was the first Academy Award winning cartoon.

In 1942 the WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. Only 316 out of 1,196 men aboard survived the attack.

In 1956 the phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto.

In 1965 President Johnson signed into law the Social Security Act that established Medicare and Medicaid.

And in 1974 the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon for blocking the Watergate investigation and for abuse of power.

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Quotes of the Day

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago, and a racist today.

Thomas Sowell

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Here’s “Flowers and Trees” to start off.

This singer made his professional debut today in 1954, in Memphis. I couldn’t find that, but I did find a live performance from 1954.

This song was recorded by Brenda Lee today in 1956.

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Anyone have a QoD?

39 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 7-30-13”

  3. JO’s winding up her day. Some of us are drinking our first cup of coffee.
    It’s a chilly 58 degrees in Hendersonville this next to the last day of July.
    It has been a cool, rainy summer so far.

    I saw a picture of a sign on a theater marquis. It said:
    Hank Snow,
    The Carter Sisters
    Elvis Presley
    It appears that Elvis once toured with Hank Snow. I don’t know how to prove that. I do know Elvis had a country background.

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  5. Stay up to consider this, Jo. It’s world shaking!
    I see on page two of the front section of the Times-News
    “Angelina Jolie: Speaks out against rapes in war zones”.
    She’s speaking to a Japanese audience.

    Now the great-grandfathers of some of her audience may have been guilty of that. The Japanese soldiers were cruel. Maybe Jolie has studied some WW II history.
    It just seems an odd subject-audience construct.

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  6. Good Morning everyone. I will not subject you the original Hank Williams version of Jambalaya or the version I think is one of the better ones by Fats Domino. You are smart people, you can look it up on Youtube just like I can.

    My uncle’s funeral will be on Wednesday at 5pm. They will have some sort of wake with him all dressed up and not looking like himself, the service, and then later he will be cremated and his ashes placed at The Memory Garden (of ashes). I really am not looking forward to that. I saw my father the morning he died, but he was just so comfortable looking in bed. This will be in a casket and open and all that. It will be hard and I just know that Auntie V will make me walk up and look at him because “it is what I should do”.

    Let it be known amongst you that if I should die we are not having that open casket thing. While I am perfectly happy for someone else to do my hair and make up while I am alive to critique and correct their mistakes I won’t have that control if I am not alive. I can’t go outta here not looking good! (everyone laugh at me now)

    I am off to show property in Orange Beach today. Wish me well. We are in the 200 to 279K range. That would pay for a lot of kibble for Amos.

    I hope everyone has a great day. Remember, Life is Good. It isn’t always Great, but it is always Good. Also, if you can find just one reason to laugh today you can make it.

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  7. Good luck Kim, I’ll mention you to the Lord.
    Both Elvera and I have decided on closed casket when the time comes. No one’s going to have to go down and look at me again.

    Does anyone know how to get a list of the emoticons? I had one somewhere, but it ain’t there no more.

    A puzzle for me. None of you care. But when I thought of it yesterday, it bugs me outta my mind. To wit:
    I know the value of Pi to seven places, i.e. 3.1415926.
    Now? How do I know that? I must have used it at work, but I can’t recall. There is some reason that it is stuck in my mind and I can’t recall it. 😦

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  8. Good morning, all. Today is Becca’s second day of tennis camp. They play tennis from 9-11, eat lunch and then swim and do crafts from 12-2. She’s going with a friend of hers and yesterday they had a lot of fun. I plan on working on putting books on the new bookshelves in the study. They look lonely with nothing on them and Hubby’s anxious for me to get it done. Older daughter is attending a development conference at church this week. It’s usually just for the high school students, but this year they opened it up to the 8th graders. I’m glad she wants to go as they are studying about healthy relationships, and making God central to one’s life. It gives me great joy to see her growing in the faith.

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  11. Anon is JaniceG today. I will fix that.

    To make you feel better Chas, this morning before leaving for work I went upstairs to get something I wanted to take with me. Along the way I decided I would like to spray on a little perfume. So in doing the perfume, I perfectly forgot the first reason I went upstairs. So I walked downstairs and remembered I had left a bottle of water upstairs. So I went back upstairs and got it. That is the good thing about when memory fails a person. It gives them needed exercise. 🙂

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  12. Chas: Or you can try this ➡ WordPress Smilies.

    As for our house- the Credit Union turned down the loan ap of our buyer, telling her to come back in a month or so. I guess her rating is borderline so they want to see if she can pay her current bills. Our realtor is hopeful, since the lady was honest enough to call right away instead of making us wait to hear bad news.

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  13. We’re in an interesting situation. After ten weeks of wailing and whining about our inabilityto find a house–I apologize–we made an offer on a gorgeous house yesterday, right after someone called and offered us their house on a pre-empt.

    House # 1 is gorgeous and not really where I want to live. House #2 will require a lot of work and is close to where I want to live.

    This morning, house #3 showed up–humble, where I want to live and FINALLY with the views I crave. It’s a short sale and priced between #1 and #2.

    Oh, so interesting. What could God be up to?

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  15. Don’t short sales take a really long time? But what’s the rush. You’ve waited this long already. 😉

    Smilies: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies

    Chas, Jolie is directing the Zamerpini movie which is just now being cast. I’ve interviewed the producer & Louie & family and they’ve all said she’s been deep into the whole subject matter for a year now, actually flew to a deserted island to read a book about WWII Japanese warfare that Louie had given to her at one of their early meetings. So it’s a subject she’s apparently been steeped in for some time (and will be for some time to come as filming starts). She’s also been quoted as saying she wants the film to be an inspiration to her own sons.

    The Zamperini film is slated to open, by the way, on Christmas Day 2014.

    Got a call from my vet, Annie the cat apparently had a narrow escape and is now perky and doing well. I have to pick her up later today and then hold her captive for 3 weeks with a cone on her head. Delightful. But I am glad she’s OK, still don’t know what happened to her to cause such a wound. I think maybe she fell off the gate while going over, at least that seems the most likely theory to me. But who knows.

    The vet said she is acting like she is ready to come home but I won’t be able to pick her up until later in the day. I have to turn a story in by noon and it’ll take pretty much all that time for me to finish.

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  16. 😡 Sometimes I clink on a post that’s a page long.
    Sometimes it takes 45 seconds for two lines to go up. I watched the clock after the first fifteen seconds. It took almost a minute.
    I don’t know why.
    ❓

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  17. oh, I agree, you need the view, but only God really knows the neighborhood. Sounds like time to pray.
    I grew up with a lovely view of the sun rising over the Sierras. A view is just part of who I am. This place has a view out of every window and cost less than 8 thousand! There are some wonderful bargains here! 🙂

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  18. The tummy gash missed hitting any serious internal stuff, but only barely. And she’ll be coming home partially shaved & all stapled up so the staples will probably have to be removed at a later appointment.

    I’m sure it’ll cost a pretty penny. 😦

    So does the administration offer veterinarian Bocare yet? 😉

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  20. Michelle – Great news! Now are you going to agonize over which is “the right one”? (That’s probably what I would do.)

    AnnMSW – I’m doing the opposite here! For our temporary situation of moving the living room into the dining room (which the girls have been working on today), I’ve been packing up my books & putting them in the basement. 😦

    If there’s room in the new living room after everything is settled, I may be able to fit in one bookcase.

    So looking forward to when the girls can move upstairs.

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  27. MiM- I didn’t read your article, but I remember back in the late 70s reading a book by Francis Shaffer and C. Everett Koop concerning how one thing leads to another, that abortion would lead to euthanasia and infanticide. No surprise that someone has suggested infanticide.

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  32. Kim, If I had taken a minute to think about it, I would have known that, judging by the hair styles, all those people are in their late sixties-seventies by now.

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  36. I used to give my dog the pea pods when I was shelling peas. Today he learned to pick the pea pods himself. Cute but not so good for the plants 🙂

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  37. Just got home from taking oldest daughter to see Wicked. She loved it! I am not fond of super high female voices, so some of the songs tended to grate on my nerves. But, I’m grateful we had the opportunity to do something fun together and that my almost fourteen year old still likes hanging out with her mom. It was just the two of us–thank goodness for Navigation–I’d be perpetually lost without it!

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  38. Peter, I remember attending a conference with Francis Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop in Oakland. They showed the video series, spoke, and answered questions. You’re right, what they predicted has come to pass.

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