Month: April 2014
Rants! and Raves! 4-26-14
It’s Saturday, so you know what that means…..
Rants! 😦
and
Raves! 🙂
News/Politics 4-26-14
What’s interesting in the news today?
Open Thread Weekend. I’ll be back Monday. 🙂
Our Daily Thread 4-25-14
Good Morning!
On this day in 1684 a patent was granted for the thimble.
In 1792 the guillotine was first used to execute highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier.
In 1862 Union Admiral Farragut occupied New Orleans, LA.
And in 1982, in accordance with Camp David agreements, Israel completed its Sinai withdrawal.
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Quote of the Day
“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”
Edward R. Murrow
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Today is Bjorn Ulvaeus’ birthday. 🙂
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Anyone have a QoD?
Prayer Requests 4-25-14
Who would like to share a request or praise today?
It’s Friday, so please remember the folks at The Nest.
Psalm 85
¹Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
News/Politics 4-25-14
What’s interesting in the news today?
Open Thread.
Our Daily Thread 4-24-14
Good Morning!
Today’s header photo is from Janice.
On this day in 1805 the U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.
In 1889 the Edison General Electric Company was organized.
In 1961 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers struck out 18 batters becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions.
And in 1962 MIT sent a TV signal by satellite for the first time.
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Quote of the Day
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I plan on doing both. 🙂
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Today is Richard Sterban’s birthday.
And it’s Doug Clifford’s. From CCRVEVO
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Anyone have a QoD?
Prayer Requests 4-24-14
Who would like to share a request or praise today?
And it’s Thursday, so don’t forget the folks in PNG.
Psalm 84
¹How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
News/Politics 4-24-14
What’s interesting in the news today?
Open Thread. Here’s a few to start off with.
1. Just keep telling yourself vote fraud is a myth. First we had thousands of voters registered in 2 states that involved South Carolina, now we have thousands more. And there are more.
From WatchDog.org “A crosscheck of voter rolls in Virginia and Maryland turned up 44,000 people registered in both states, a vote-integrity group reported Wednesday. And that’s just the beginning.
“The Virginia Voters Alliance is investigating how to identify voters who are registered and vote in Virginia but live in the states that surround us,” Alliance President Reagan George told the State Board of Elections.
George acknowledged that the number of voters who actually cast multiple ballots is relatively small. In the case of Maryland and Virginia, he revealed that 164 people voted in both states during the 2012 election.
But George said his group will expand their search for duplicate voters in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Georgia.”
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2. And yet another example.
From AL.com “Less than three months before the June primary, four Alabama counties had more voters on their rolls than what the Census Bureau says is their voting age population.
Officials give a number of reasons for that, including under-counting by the census.
Secretary of State Jim Bennett said the discrepancies create opportunity for voting fraud.”
““Every duplicate name and every bad address is just an opportunity for crooks to attempt to manipulate our elections,” Bennett said.”
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3. Time for a special prosecutor. This relationship between the Obama admin and the MB was never in the country’s best interest. They’re a terrorist supporting group, and should be treated as one, not given the special access they’ve gotten.
From TheClarionProject “Newly declassified documents obtained by the Clarion Project show that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) misled members of Congress in 2012 about its involvement with Muslim Brotherhood-linked entities.”
“The story of the deception began when the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified to Congress on February 10, 2011 saying that the Muslim Brotherhood is “a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has described Al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.”
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s denial of any government engagement with U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities is even more shocking considering the history of internal emails sent around the ODNI.”
“The members of Congress – and the American people – have a right to know the truth: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence does have a relationship with domestic organizations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood – and, it is a truth that needs a formal evaluation and investigation.”
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Our Daily Thread 4-23-14
Good Morning!
Today’s header photo is from Cheryl.
On this day in 1635 the Boston Public Latin School was established. It was the first public school building in the United States.
In 1861 Arkansas troops seized Fort Smith.
In 1908 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an act creating the U.S. Army Reserve.
In 1954 Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit his first major-league home run on this day.
And in 1968 the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.
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Quote of the Day
“A pitcher needs two pitches, one they’re looking for and one to cross them up.”
Warren Spahn
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Today is Roy Orbison’s birthday.
From RoyOrbison
Here’s another with some help.
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Wandering Views 