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Our Daily Thread 10-24-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1632 scientist Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Holland. He created the first microscope lenses that were powerful enough to observe single-celled animals.

In 1788 poet Sarah Joseph Hale was born. She wrote the poem “Mary Had A Little Lamb.”

In 1830 Belva Lockwood was born. She was the first woman formally nominated for the U.S. Presidency.

In 1901 daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old. And crazy if you ask me. 😯

In 1929 investors dumped more than 13 million shares on the stock market. The day is known as “Black Thursday.”

And in 1939 nylon stockings were sold to the public for the first time in Wilmington, DE.

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Quote of the Day

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

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Today is composer Luciano Berio’s birthday. So here’s a piece of his, performed by the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra.

It’s also composer George Crumb’s birthday. Here’s Sonata for Solo Cello, performed by a very talented young man named Austin Huntington.

This one is just because it’s fun.

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Anyone have a QoD?

35 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-24-13”

  1. Morning all. Aj, I just can’t believe that you have the time to post all of this. Reading the news thread, I can’t even imagine where you find all of the information.

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  2. Good morning. Thank you all for the kind thoughts and prayers for me and for my family. God is good. The funeral will be Friday at 1 pm in Sparta, TN. i think the family is going to try it videotape it for me and Ruth will bring it when she come on Nov. 6.

    Thanks to those who are also FB friends for keeping the gang here updated. Poor Phos didn’t know he had died until she read it here. I had texted her, but sometimes our cell phone network is as unreliable as our internet. :/

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  5. Jo,

    I don’t sleep much, or watch much TV, except sports. So once the girls go to bed, I surf the web to kill time, and for relaxation.

    Plus, I’m a news junkie, so I have a lot of sites I go to for news. It’s what I do for fun. 🙂

    Ajisuun,

    You’re welcome. I sent you an email to let you know we’re praying and thinking of you. I hope you received it.

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  7. Henry Ford said:
    “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

    Not entirely true. So far, that’s what Obama has done.
    If you reflect back on the last five years, he has done exactly nothing.
    Obama Care?
    Pelosi and Reid did that. Reid, by “deeming the health care bill passed”.

    All Obama has done is extend the recession by using the wrong approach (money to his friends. aka “crony capitalism) to solve the problem.
    Historians are realizing that’s what Roosevelt did. He extenedt the depression by using the wrong solutions so that he could get his social agenda through.

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  8. Obama has made it easior for members of the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate out government. Just as Roosevelt let communists get into the innards of our govenment.
    Everyone rants against McCarthy. But McCarthy was right.
    He was proving it, so they had to destroy him.

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  9. Good evening, Jo. Good morning, all. Today at 1:00pm we have a meeting with the doctors who did Becca’s eye evaluation for a visual processing disorder. We will learn more about her condition and their recommendations for treatment. Usually, the therapy is twice a week at their facility, plus daily exercises at home. I’m looking forward to understanding more fully what is going on with her and ways to help her, as I’d never even heard of a visual processing disorder a couple of months ago.

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  10. POOR MR P.
    My friend D came over yesterday afternoon. She helped me put things away in the new kitchen and is coming back Saturday to help me clean some more and do a few more things. She can’t help me next week because she is having surgery on Tuesday.
    After we finished for the afternoon we sat out on the patio talking about Thanksgiving and that we would have it at “my” house this year, especially now since she will still be recovering–hehehe a way to shift things my way.
    We are up to 14 people so far. Mr P asked where I was going to put everyone. I can seat 8 at the dining room table and 4 at the kitchen table and 4 more at the wrought iron table on the patio. He shook his head and said he didn’t understand. I made a joke about inviting people and not stopping, I just keep on inviting. This drove my dad crazy because he was always afraid I wasn’t going to have enough food for everyone. (Mr P was thinking along the same lines because he didn’t realize my Aunt V is doing the turkey, D is doing stuffing and corn pudding and the list goes on… I am sure he was also seeing dollar signs in my shopping expedition).
    I also told him he better be careful… I have 8 place settings of my mother’s china, 8 place settings of his mother’s china, 8 place settings of Christmas china, and 12 place settings of my everyday china. My friend D told him if we ran out of dishes we could use paper plates.
    I don’t think he thought we were as funny as we (D and me) thought we were!

    So, who around here is going to be in South Alabama the end of November and need a place to eat?

    In other news Middle Son sent a series of text messages asking about coming home for Christmas. As is typical with children he finally got around to asking his dad to pay for his ticket home. He was told to find a ticket and it would be his Christmas present. While I realize it will cost us, I am still excited that he has asked. He hasn’t seen his dad in over two years. He has been told time and again the door is always open.

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  11. Good Morning Chas, AJ and ladies. It is chilly here in Oklahoma City. It is down to 45 degrees and supposed to get a bit colder. But no rain or snow in the forecast. I am really looking forward to starting my new position. It is going to be a lot of fun.

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  12. It’s 37 degrees in Hendersonville. Elvera says there was ice in the birdbath this morning.

    This came from Drudge:
    From The Telegraph Doesn’t say which city:
    By Lucy Kinder
    11:13AM BST 24 Oct 2013
    University students in America have been told not to wear “offensive” halloween costumes including cowboys, indians and anything involving a sombrero.
    Students at the University of Colorado Boulder have also been told to avoid “white trash” costumes and anything that portrays a particular culture as “over-sexualised”- which the university says includes dressing up as a geisha or a “squaw” (indigenous woman).
    They are also asked not to host parties with offensive themes including those with “ghetto” or “hillbilly” themes or those associated with “crime or sex work.”

    Everyone should dress as a bunny rabbit.

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  14. Now that the administration has shot themselves in the foot with their botched implementation of the (misnamed) Affordable Care Act, they are willing to postpone the individual mandate for six weeks. They look like utter fools not to have negotiated with the Republicans. I’m enjoying a certain amount of schadenfreude….

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  16. AJ, yes, I did get your email. It was very encouraging to me.

    Chas, Phos and I live on the same missionary compound, but I didn’t walk around telling everyone personally and she hadn’t emerged from her house to hear it from the other missionaries. So, yes, it is possible to live within a hundred yards of someone and still have to find out what’s going on by getting on the internet. Sad, but true.

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  17. Chas, and like Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, right? 😉

    Ajisuun, my prayers are with you, how hard not to be away from family. But technology certainly does help on that score, we can communicate so much more easily now with our written words, photos, Skype and video.

    We’ve had plenty of fog nights and mornings here, which has cooled things down on the coast considerably. I’m going to one of our local hotels in a couple hours to look for sailors … My weekend story is on a few WWII vets gathering here for their reunion (could be their last) so I was told a good time to get some sit-down interview time would probably be after breakfast today.

    Since I filed yesterday’s story from home late in the day, it gave me a rare opportunity (2nd time this week) to scoot Cowboy over to the dog park before it got dark. It’s cold enough there now that our surfer guys, while still wearing their uniform 3/4 length baggy pants, have now added flannel shirts and brightly colored knit caps. 🙂

    As we were leaving the park last night, I walked out with the real estate guy (also somewhat conservative politically, we’re in a distinct minority) and I was giving him the business for earlier walking away and leaving me stranded with 2 of the park liberals just as they started talking about how awful Fox News and all the Republicans were. Oy.

    Reading AJ’s blurb about microscope lenses reminded me of a quote I posted the other day on fb that brought a smile to my face (and reminded me of how important our daily perspective and focus is to nurturing and sustaining our faith): “The world is filled with God’s glory. You can’t turn without bumping into it.” —R.C. Sproul

    Lord give us eyes to see.

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  20. Terrible story out here about a 13 year old boy shot to death while carrying an air soft gun down the street. Police saw what looked like an adult carrying an assault weapon not far from an elementary school.

    They called for backup, came up behind the kid and from behind the door asked him to put down his weapon.

    Boy turned and aimed it at police car. AK, whatever, will shoot through bullet proof vests and car doors.

    Police shot several times over his head, told him for his own good to set down the weapon and when he did not do so, they shot him. Dead.

    People are understandably up in arms, FB is enraged, local paper carried pictures all over the front page. Marchers against police and so forth. Inside the paper was a photograph of the toy assault gun and a real assault gun. I couldn’t tell the difference and I could see which was which.

    Very sad day. When did the toy manufacturers stop making “play” toys in bubblegum colors so you could tell the difference?

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  22. What a bald faced lie. The White House has extended the deadline for the individual mandate, but not because of The Glitch (all 101 problems).

    Excerpt from a WA PO article on the Affordable Care Act hearing:

    “…the administration said Wednesday night that it would give people an extra six weeks — until March 31 — to obtain coverage before they incur a penalty. Officials denied that the extended deadline is related to the many technical problems with HealthCare.gov, saying instead that it is intended to clear up a timing confusion about the 2010 health-care law.”

    And then Pallone has the unmitigated gall to tell Republicans that they are just trying to scare people by saying the site is not secure enough. If Healthcare.gov is so broken that you can’t even sign up, then how does this bonehead know it’s secure? Tell you what Pallone, YOU FIRST. You sign up first and put all your sensitive information out there, and then repeat what you said…

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  23. Air Soft guns were big with my son and his buddies a few years ago when they were 10-12. But all the ones I ever saw were pretty clearly toys. I didn’t know they make them looking so real.

    One thing I don’t understand about this story is why the boy — or anyone else — wouldn’t set down the weapon when the police ordered him to and fired over his head. I’m not trying to blame the victim, I just don’t get it.

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  25. MIM, that’s not a lie at all. The timing confusion in the law was known before the failures of the web site became evident, and it really does make sense that they clarified it the way they did.

    It originally sounded like the law required people to have coverage on March 31. Since coverage is for the calendar month, that means they have to have it by March 1. Which means the deadline to sign up is really February 15.

    What they’ve done now is clarified that the deadline to sign up is March 31, and nobody will be penalized for not having coverage yet if they sign up by then. This makes perfect sense to me.

    If they want to delay the deadline because of the web site glitches, they probably will have to delay it longer.

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  26. Kevin,

    Do you really believe that’s all it is, and that this isn’t just a convenient excuse? Call me skeptical.

    And once again, like the other 5 times he’s ignored the law Dems themselves wrote, any changes must be approved by Congress. They wrote that in to keep an R president from throwing it out. You’d need all 3 branches to change it or throw it out. These dictates that repeatedly change the law from the WH are called illegal by the law itself. Yet they ignore laws they don’t like. There’s a whole list besides ObamaCare, but they’ve done it repeatedly here.

    I don’t buy it for a second.

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  27. Donna, you have to admit that I’ve done as much to promote world peace as Obama.

    All this questioning about Obama obeying the law is useless.
    He can do anything he wants to do as long as nobody stops him.
    He owns the Annorney General and the Senate.
    Who’s going to stop him?

    Re Nobel. Obama got his for a nuclear free world.
    It was Carter who gave us world peace.
    He got Israel to withdraw from the Sinai, from which the Muslems can launch rockets.

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  28. At the LA airport for a few minutes before catching a connecting flight. Hey, Donna! Waved hey to lots of you from the air. Beautiful day to see our country from the sky.

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  29. Ok… let’s give Kevin’s explanation the benefit of the doubt. Let’s say that is the reason they extended the individual mandate’s deadline (while steadfastly refusing to delay it for the Republicans).

    How many people are going to actually believe it, as this administration’s credibility leaks away like air from a punctured balloon?

    I’m still skeptical.

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  30. Friday morning here. I’ve been to market where there was a whole new group of folks. Those that usually sell can’t come now due to the turmoil. A friend told me of a pastor and some women who took supplies and went to pray with each group. Encouraging.

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  33. Chas, dress as a bunny rabbit? That’s offensive on at least two levels, if dressing as a prostitute is offensive. First, bunnies have kinda, well, a reputation. Second there’s the Playboy bunny.

    Try again. 🙂 See if you can come up with something that wouldn’t offend anyone.

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  34. Good evening. Hubby and I got back this evening from a short (four days, three nights) anniversary getaway. Our teen daughter has two friends in overnight, so I get to experience a different side of parenting. (But they’re past the giggly-girl age, and now we mostly “hear” quiet from her room–some giggling too.)

    He seemed to enjoy the books, said not many wives would make such a thing, or would know “how” to. He reread several pages of our early correspondence, marvelling at how much of it he had forgotten. (His first comment on opening the package was a joke: “There had better not be an ISBN number on these.” In other words, these had better be one-of-a-kind, not for sale.)

    We went to one state park and one “state recreation area,” and thoroughly enjoyed both. We saw some natural beauty (rock formations, creeks and rivers, autumn color), some manmade beauty (covered bridges and more), and many, many birds. In terms of birds, my dream for this trip, in order of preference, was (1) to see and photograph bald eagles; (2) to get a photo of a great blue heron in flight (this has been a long-term dream); (3) to photograph a pileated woodpecker (mostly because my husband has fallen head over heels in love with the species).

    Amazingly, I “sort of” managed all three! None of them are magazine-cover-image quality photos, but I got three “identifiable” photos of bald eagles in flight (too distant to be great photos, but you can identify the species), a great blue pushing off from the ground to fly and then flying, and a really poor photo of a pileated woodpecker on the ground. (They’re known for being really high in the trees, but I thought the bird that landed on the ground was a pileated, and the photo proves that it was–the bird is identifiable in it, so even though it’s a really poor photo I did get a photo of one.) I also got good-to-great photos of bluebirds, bathing chipping sparrows, and goldfinches. We also saw (but didn’t get to photograph) a kingfisher and multiple other birds, and I got pictures of a few species.

    We also ate at two really good restaurants (twice each), and overall truly enjoyed our time away. We are both exhausted, though.

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  35. Welcome back, Cheryl, sounds like you had a nice time.

    Hey Janice !

    Another very busy, long day for me with another one tomorrow. This has been one of the busiest weeks I’ve had in a while — and I still have an election story I need to do before Nov. ?, although I’m due to call in for possible jury duty beginning Monday. Oy. Our company only pays for 5 days and we now have that serve one day and you’re free system (if you’re not on a panel or jury), so I’m hoping I’ll be in and out of there in one day.

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