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Our Daily Thread 8-6-13

Good Morning! 🙂

On this day in 1787 sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1862, during American Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

In 1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

And in 1988 the Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.

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Quote of the Day

“Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

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Today is Lucille Ball’s birthday, and since we’re fans around my house….

Not many birthdays to choose from, but this guy performed this song on TV (American Bandstand) for the first time on this day in 1960. I couldn’t find that one, but I did find one from 2 days later on Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Show.

And this one is just because I like it. 🙂

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QoD

Anyone have any requests? Songs or artists, what would you like to hear?

45 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 8-6-13”

  5. Arrg … just spilled my tea on my keyboard – my wonderful favorite clicky ole IBM mainframe keyboard that was rewired with a USB plug so I could use it with my laptop. It seems to have died so now I have to work all day using my laptop keyboard, which I hate. I sure hope it dries out.

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  6. my youngest daughter is still visiting her sister and she has an iphone so I was able to facetime on my itouch and see Ginger up close. So sweet to see those little movements of her face and arms. I’d forgotten how sweet a newborn can be.

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  8. Re: Kim’s attack on left brain people last night.
    Left brain people’s biggest problem is right brain people.
    But a professor once told me I was too left brain, that I needed to loosen up.
    Left brain people always get into trouble when they loosen up.

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  9. When a left brain person loosens up they just become scatterbrained. I need to read Kim’s post about the brain so I can understand. A fried once told me that when a lady has a C-section that they remove part of the brain. I think that explains a lot. I think they took out the left side and now I am trying to get by using the right side!

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  12. The links and video in that fox article don’t seem to work (though the link I supplied should), so here’s a video of some pet foxes that seem to be from that experiment. They act a lot more like dogs than one would expect from a fox, and their coloration is different too (as noted in the article): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1G2yZMUNUQ

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  15. Good morning, all. I’m sleepy this morning as I’ve been struggling with insomnia for about a week now. When I do sleep, I’m having vivid nightmares that seem so real at the time. I’m so much tougher and braver in my dreams than I am in real life!

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  16. Good Morning everyone…
    Ann….boy…ain’t that the truth!! My toughness turns to jello when push comes to shove!
    Kim…those videos have me laughing out loud…she is a hoot!
    A little James Taylor music please AJ! 🙂 I do love Lucy…what a gifted lady she was….and Ethel was the perfect “straight man”…..
    It is a beautiful day in the Forest….I’m going to get out there and pull some weeds! The deer have been hanging out on our property and there are two baby fawns….we watched them nurse yesterday and they didn’t budge when I walked past them on my way down the drive to take my morning walk….how I love our Lord’s creation of all things… 🙂

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  18. Elvera always makes brownies.
    She never lets me go to the store with her. She complains that I shop from the end of the aisle. Makes perfect sense to me. They tell you what’s on the aisle and If I don’t need beans, there’s no need walking up there.
    She also tells about the first can of black pepper I bought when we went to the store together when we first married. Fortunately pepper doesn’t spoil.
    We used the can to place half dollars in to pay for Chuck when we discovered she was pregnant.

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  19. Lots of good links here to read, but I’m racing today. There are foxes along the coast where I live but I’ve never personally seen one. I have read that coyotes cannot be domesticated. A man in our neighborhood used to walk one on a leash, but the coyote always struck me as very unfriendly. 😉

    I was awakened in the middle of the night when my cell phone — which I charge every night on a stand next to my bed — starts making this horrific noise, like a siren, and flashing so much the room was lighting up.

    Turns out if was an “Amber Alert” for a kidnapped/missing kid in California, but I don’t recall it ever doing that before. I’ll have to check the settings to see if I can calm that one down a bit.

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  23. They take out some of your brain with every C-section!? I had three. I won’t tell anyone about the brain thing, if you won’t. 😉

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  24. My new phone has a weather alert which was a big surprise the one time I heard it go off. There are so many features of the phone I have not yet used. Since the phone can do so many things, I can see how it is economical to have the Smart Phone instead of a bunch of other devices. I can use it as a mini computer, a Kindle, a camera, an alarm clock, radio, music player, tv, video camera, recorder, and game board, etc. I don’t know all it can do. It is also a GPS, and a store. It is scary to think of children having access to smart phones.

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  25. Eldest daughter is now engaged. I no longer have to introduce her young man as “the guy who I could introduce as my son in law but he has not asked her yet”. I am happy for her. She is amazed that they had to get on the internet to meet, though they only live five minutes apart.

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  37. Phos, I enjoyed that music video. The clothing is so bright and happy, the dancing seems joyful and the sonv pleasant. Can you tell us what the words are in English?

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  39. Janice – I am only at the point where I understand the meanings of individual words, but putting them all together is a bit beyond me. I can tell you what the title means – The Child – and that it is a song telling the singer’s child what he wants for her (the opening line says something like: ‘my child, I want so much for you’); but that’s as far as my language ability goes.

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  40. All of the computer connections I know about have been successful, so far.
    They sort out lots of things we had to discouver haphazardly on the old days.
    I told you about my first notice of Elvera: She was joining FBC Columbia.
    Doesn’t tell you a lot, but it tells you something important.

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  41. Mumsee, the singer in the video is West Africa’s most famous musician, so your Ethiopian may have heard of him. Most of his songs are in Wolof. but he also sings in other regional languages. Incidentally, he played the former slave Equiana in the William Wilberforce movie, ‘Amazing Grace’. This is one of his better known songs and I believe the language sung is Serer (which is also spoken where we are), though there is at least one phrase that would be understood in Wolof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ug8zrlPhfk

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