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Our Daily Thread 11-5-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1605 The “Gunpowder Plot” attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament.

In 1844 a grizzly bear underwent a successful cataract operation at the Zoological Garden in California.

In 1872 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.

In 1935 the game “Monopoly” was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.

In 1940 President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office.

And in 1959 the American Football League was formed.

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Quote of the Day

“That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it, and Christ shall appear in infinite glory, admired of angels, blessed of saints, crowned of God, comforting his-elect, “Come, O, come, ye blessed;” then you shall think this separation something.”

Thomas Shepard

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Today is Jeff Deyo’s birthday.

It’s also Jay Weaver’s.

And it’s Bryan Adams’ too.

And last one, Roy Rogers’.

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Anyone have a Question of the Day?

32 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-5-13”

  1. Morning all. It is getting late here. You won’t see me first very often at this time. Saying goodbye to friends tonight who are going ‘finish’ (not coming back to Ukarumpa). They will be dearly missed. Donna, they are moving back to Huntington Beach.

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  2. Good evening Jo. We’ll see you in a few hours.
    The third term election of Roosevele is on the list of the bad things that happened to Americs. He was already a sick man.
    However, Republicans didn’t have much to offer in Windell Wilkie.
    But Churchill and Stalin handled Roosevelt as easy as the Brotherhood is handling Obama.

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  4. Mornin’ Jo and Chas & all.

    My church is doing a series our pastor put together called “Forty Days of Service.” We are each venturing into trying out some areas of service we have not done before. I have been trying out singing with an older group for fun and tutoring refugee children. When was the last time you did something new to you as a way of serving through your church?

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  6. I was wandering around on Drudge to see what was happening. I happened upon this link about the ten most dangerous airports in the world. I happened upon Narsaurauq (I wouldn‘t have spelled it that way, it’s a Danish word.). I didn’t know it was there, but I had decided that, in any case, I would mention Bluie West Eight. That’s what we called Narsauraqu (pronounced by us as “Narsarrak” )What the article doesn’t say is that the single runway has a grade, about ten degrees. You land uphill, takeoff down. Only one way, on the other end is a mountain.

    We flew C-54’s into BW-8 on the way to Thule, when they were building the base in 1951. It was called “Project Blue Jay” and was classified, but you could hear it discussed in the bars in downtown Holyoke, Mass. The Soviets, of course, knew what we were doing. BW-8 is about half way up the west side of Greenland. C-54’s couldn’t fly all the way from Goose Bay, Labrador to Thule without refueling. We either had to land at BW-8 or Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island.

    Greenland’s Narsarauq Airport is a traveler’s nightmare. Planes approach the runway through a fjord and need to make a 90-degree turn to line up on the runway. With the seemingly constant turbulence, making a plane turn 90 degrees is no easy task. It’s extremely difficult to judge how gusts of wind might direct the plane. Even though a pilot might need to make some last-minute adjustments to avoid being pushed into one of the valley walls, overcorrecting methods could backfire. Not to mention, there’s also the risk of icebergs drifting into the airplane’s path.

    http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/at-these-10-thrilling-airports–landing-is-a-big-part-of-the-adventure-232036749.html

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  9. Well another shooting in New Jersey. People are NUTS. I am no conspiracy theorists but I am beginning to think the government is behind this to make people like me cross over to gun control, but I am not there yet.

    I am still confused about who to vote for today.

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  13. I had a picture book with drawings of Dale & Roy when I was a kid. I remember one picture showing Dale in her cute cowgirl boots and fringe skirt rescuing a calf from a hillside.

    The NJ thing was strange, I was watching some of the coverage live last night on CNN and this morning I read that the suspect, a 20-year-old drug abuser, shot himself. But he didn’t shoot anyone else, thankfully. The shots he fired were toward the ceiling, an escalator, etc. Someone surely could have still gotten hit, but he apparently didn’t aim at anyone — he had ample opportunity to shoot people point blank and didn’t, according to witnesses. So give him that. And I feel for his parents.

    Very sad — and, like Kim, it makes me wonder if the wheels are just coming off everything right now, from our political dysfunction reaching a dangerous level to these lone shooters popping up so frequently. Is this the beginning of the end of our country? Well, not the beginning exactly, things have been unraveling for decades. But it does seem to be reaching a point of no return quickly in these last several years.

    I’m feeling rather cynical this morning. 😉

    No voting taking place where I am, but a lot of the beach cities we cover are having elections so I’ll probably have to stay up late tonight following the returns of one of them for the paper. At least I can do it from home.

    Jo, Huntington Beach has the premiere local dog beach around these parts. 🙂 Surf city.

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  18. I think it’s spelled Leonard Slye, at least that’s what I wrote down. I could be wrong too. Either way Roy Rogers sounds more like a cowboy name than Leonard Slye. 🙂

    Donna,

    I found it strange too. It sounds like suicide by cop may have been the plan, but then he did it himself. He had plenty of opportunities to shoot others and didn’t. It doesn’t seem like he intended to kill anyone but himself.

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  19. That mouse video Donna posted last night was great. But it reminds me of something I learned a week or so ago: Mice can get into a car. We had a package of peanut butter crackers left over from a hike, and my husband said, “Just leave it in the car; I’m sure one of us will want it sometime.” So I did.

    A couple days later, Sunday, I was surprised to see some cracker crumbs on the armrest, under the package of crackers. I figured the crackers must have been open, so I picked up the package. The top sandwich had been chewed all the way around it, a complete circle. We knew we had mice in the garage, but it simply never occurred to me it was possible for them to enter a car that had its doors closed and its windows up! We tossed our crackers (yes, that was deliberate) but we fed the mice something different instead. . . .

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  21. We had a lovely nest of momma and her baby mice in our Jeep heater/ac fan unit. It was quite disgusting. Now we have a cat. No more mouse problems in the vehicle! Just dead, half-chewed ones lying around the property.

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  23. If you are interested in free or deeply discounted ebooks, I have gotten on a subscription list, ebookfetcher.com. I am getting some good books there. For those who are interested, thought I would share the bounty. 🙂

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  26. Wow, thanks drives guy! “Here I come to save the day!” 😀

    I’m home but have to stay up late working from home tonight — following returns from one of our city elections. There’s a 10 p.m. deadline to turn the story in but then they expect us to keep monitoring it until the bitter end when they have 100% of the votes counted — then we’ll file our final story that can be posted to the web.

    And I suppose I should also be tweeting it as the votes are counted.

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  27. Good evening, Jo, if you’re around. Good morning (very early, for some of us), everyone else.

    Hubby just got to bed less than a half hour ago. We had a slow, steady rain almost all day yesterday, and it has not stopped yet. Last night water started seeping into our attached garage on the bottom step, and hubby had to vacuum every 15 minutes to keep it from coming into our basement. It has slowed down some now, and hubby has gone to bed, and I’ve taken over the vacuuming now, and am doing some household cleaning in between vacuumings.

    The rain is supposed to continue all morning, it sounds like, but should clear up by afternoon. We’ll see.

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  28. Well, hello there 6 arrows. I didn’t expect to see anyone on at this time. I am getting sleepy and not sure if I will stay up. Vacuuming every 15 minutes sounds like a bit of a chore. But at least you have a way to keep the water out. Keep on keeping on. Praying for an end to the rain.

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  29. Hi, Jo. I didn’t expect to be on at this time, either. The vacuum woke me up a couple hours ago. That’s okay, though. I got my Bible reading done for the day already — the book of Lamentations. I’m getting a cluttered desk cleared off now. I’ve only had to vacuum once since hubby went to bed, so maybe it will be done coming in now.

    Thanks for the prayers. Hope you have a restful sleep tonight, Jo. See you tomorrow. 😉

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  30. So glad that the rain is slowing down.
    Aj, I’m sure that the time change is hard on you, so if you would like to post at 6am instead of 7, that would be fine with me!!!
    We know that Chas is probably up and at em already.

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