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Our Daily Thread 10-22-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1746 – The College of New Jersey was officially chartered. It later became known as Princeton University.

 In 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet.

In 1836 Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas. 

In 1907 The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks.

In 1939 the first televised pro football game was telecast from New York. Brooklyn defeated Philadelphia 23-14.

And in 1962 President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba.

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Quote of the Day

“Well, being as there’s no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.”

Curly Howard

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Today is composer Franz Liszt’s birthday. So you know what that means…

Bugs Bunny!

Ha! Just kidding, here’s something more fitting.

And it’s TobyMac’s too.

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Anyone have a QoD?

Or try this one. I have a theory that nothing good ever happens on a Tuesday. Prove me wrong. Tell me why should I change my mind?

28 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-22-13”

  2. Jo,

    The rest of the story is…..

    That his parachute sounds like a balloon.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9-Jacques_Garnerin

    “Garnerin began experiments with early parachutes based on umbrella-shaped devices and carried out the first parachute descent (in the gondola) with a silk parachute on 22 October 1797 at Parc Monceau, Paris (1st Brumaire, Year VI of the Republican calendar). Garnerin’s first parachute resembled a closed umbrella before he ascended, with a pole running down its center and a rope running through a tube in the pole, which connected it to the balloon. Garnerin rode in a basket attached to the bottom of the parachute; at a height of approximately 3,000 feet (1,000 m) he severed the rope that connected his parachute to the balloon. The balloon continued skyward while Garnerin, with his basket and parachute, fell. The basket swung violently during descent,[Note 2] then bumped and scraped when it landed, but Garnerin emerged uninjured. The white canvas[citation needed] parachute was umbrella-shaped and approximately 23 feet (7 m) in diameter.”

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  3. Thanks Aj, that’s awfully brave or foolish? for 1797
    Will have to think about Tuesday. But surely Christmas and birthdays have occurred on Tuesdays.

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  4. On Tuesday, Chas gets to sleep in. Tuesday and Saturday are the only days that he doesn’t have to get up at a certain time for some reason.
    I don’t know who Curley Howard was, but it’s apparent that he lived in Washington
    since that’s the place where something is always going on, but there’s nothing there.
    And they send lots of trash into the hinterland, but it doesn’t affect them.

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  7. I am not for gun control. I want the right to bear arms and I don’t want the government taking them away from lawful citizens but I want to know what in the blue blazes is WRONG with people?????

    On another note, Jon Stewart really did a great piece on Obamacare last night.

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  8. God made Tuesdays and He made them to be good. Adam & Eve messed them up so you can blame them for that. If you don’t like blaming them you can always blame Bush!

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  9. Now I remember Curley. We had to stop Chuck from watching the “Three Stooges” because he thought it was funny to bang people on the head.

    I read Donna’s link of a speech by Mohler on yesterday’s thread. The pertinent statement, in my opinion was this:

    “Peter Berger, one of the founding fathers of the modern theory of secularization, has suggested that secularization should be better understood as pluralization: the presence of plural worldviews in proximity offering an array of intellectual and theological options. But the result is nearly the same. The world might be, as he says, “furiously religious,” but the modern world is not controlled by any coherent supernatural worldview.”

    Without a supernatural worldview, the society falls apart. CHAIOS
    It doesn’t have to be Christianity. But it must be a supernatural worldview.
    Every society, everywhere has had one. Mankind is a spiritual species. A supernatural worldview will replace whatever disappears from ours.
    I am reading The Brotherhood. It’s about the Muslim Brotherhood and how they intend to replace Christianity destroy Judaism, and eventually replace all other religions, with Islam. They can do it if we maintain our present course.

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  10. Hey AJ, it is a Tuesday and so far the early regulars have posted showing that they woke up this morning topside of the dirt.

    There was a thing that went around FB a while back about whether the glass was half full or half empty. Even with less fluid in it there is air so technically the glass is never empty.

    Growing up, I never thought I was all that optimistic until I looked around me one day and was surrounded by a bunch of pessimists and thought, Oh Dear Lord, they are all a bunch of doom and gloom somebody around here needs to be positive! I looked around and no one else was stepping forward so by default I became the optimist. There have been times it hasn’t been my most comfortable role.

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  11. Kim: Unfortunately, I’m not much of an optimist. I always go to the worst case scenario in my head. I’m working on it, but it’s not my natural state of being.

    I’m letting Becca stay home from school again today. She is just so miserable there, it’s hard for me to make her attend. She is scheduled for testing at Step by Step on Friday. If everything goes well, hopefully she’ll be able to start there next week. I’m not too worried about the testing, as she’s a great reader and is making straight “A’s.” I think she’ll be a little behind–but hopefully not too much. Prayers for her at 1:00pm CST Friday would be much appreciated!

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  13. Good morning! I think Curly’s quote came from The Department of Redundancy Department. 😉

    Thanks for the Liszt, AJ. The Bugs Bunny video cracks me up every time! The second video makes me miss hearing 1st Arrow play the piano. He’s gotten too busy with school and work to play much, but he got quite accomplished the years he was studying piano. He never played that particular piece, but his tone and style was quite like the pianist featured above. I closed my eyes for part of the video, and it sounded like 1st Arrow.

    QoD: Well, today is my sister’s birthday, so Tuesday is good for that reason. 🙂

    For some reason, Tuesday is usually my lowest-energy day. That might be because I usually get up earlier on Sunday mornings than I do other days, and it takes about 2 days before my body feels tired from less sleep. Or possibly because Monday feels like the start of the week, and I’m almost always eager to start the week well, but then I sometimes overdo it on Monday, and am tired from that on Tuesday.

    Or maybe it’s a combination of both those things. In any case, Tuesday is probably my least favorite day of the week. I can sympathize with you, AJ. 🙂

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  14. Good morning…it’s Tuesday….GratiTuesday!! For what are you grateful? And hey….I was born on a Tuesday….. 🙂
    Grateful that I awoke this morning….to a bright sunshiny day, the air is crisp and I have much to accomplish….
    Have a blessed day everyone….and I will be praying for Becca this morning….may our Lord give to her peace and calm in the knowing He has a new direction on the path He has laid out before her and it will be one of new adventure and blessing!!

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  18. Happy Tuesday!

    I have a busy day ahead capped off by a night meeting so I’m going in a little later. I’d planned to sign up for dog training again tonight, but I’ll have to join the class late next week if I decide to do that again. It’s really important to get Tess out and around other dogs to keep her from getting more isolated and snippy. So even though we’ve taken the class several times before, it’s always a good review (and the trainers are good about weaving new tasks in each session).

    Re Obamacare, I can’t remember if i posted this here late last night or not (I know I posted it on fb). Courtesy of The Onion (and first posted by our friend Tammy). Too funny.

    http://youngcons.com/the-onion-new-improved-obamacare-program-released-on-35-floppy-disks/

    “Responding to widespread criticism regarding its health care website, the federal government today unveiled its new, improved Obamacare program, which allows Americans to purchase health insurance after installing a software bundle contained on 35 floppy disks. … Obama added that the federal government hopes to have a six–CD-ROM version of the program available by 2016.”

    😀

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  21. Driving into work I was at the connector by the airport and there was a tremendous cloud of dark smoke so I was concerned. Especially since I was on my way to the office to make some airline reservations. I found out the Atlanta fire department was doing a drill so they had set a plane on fire for their practice fire fighting. I was informed that the public had been notified on the radio this morning but since I was listening to a Christian CD while driving to work I did not know what was going on.

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  22. There’s never been a snowball’s chance in hell that any one of US were able to “save” you Random.
    Only the love of God could do that.

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  23. I’m fully cognizant that I’m not a good guy. I’m selfish to the core. I even justify that selfishness. Even my motivations for doing something nice for someone else are suspect.

    But guess what? God’s love for me isn’t based on my performance. If it was, that effort would have been doomed from the start. God’s love is based on who he is, and what he’s done.

    But I finally realized something the other day. Chapter thirteen of 1 Corinthians is a perfect example of how GOD loves me. For most of my life, I have only applied it to myself, and how I was to treat others.
    God’s love is patient, and kind. It believes in me. It wants the best for me.

    His love will never fail, never give up, never run out.

    It’s waiting there for you too Random.

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  24. I just feel sorry for you, Random. I won’t argue with you or try to convince you of anything, but when I think of the difference between you and my father who truly is in hospice waiting to die, I just pity you.

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  26. “Though I did create a panic at a hospice (don’t ask) even though my intentions were good.”

    Okay, Random, I’m asking…What on earth did you do to create a panic at the hospice?

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  27. (1_Snowball in Hell? Suppose the snowball had been saved? Actually, I am sure it’s a sin to tease Christians, though I suspect it would have been equally sinful to tease a Zen hospice doctor.

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  28. Long night covering a meeting that went longer than it was supposed to — had to rush home and write a story only to be told there was very little space.

    Actually, that made things rather simple. I put a period on the sentence I’d just written, gave the rest of it a once-over, and turned it in. Most of my notes didn’t make it into the story at all.

    And I missed NCIS. 😦

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