Good Morning!
On this day in 1586 English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.
In 1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.
In 1911, in Pennsylvania, the first motion-picture censorship board was established.
In 1934 the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration was established.
And in 1958, in Washington, DC, nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee’s questions on communism.
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Quote of the Day
“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I’m lucky.
When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift—that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies—that’s something.
When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter—that’s something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body—it’s a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed—that’s the finest I know.
So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for. Thank you.”
—Lou Gehrig at Yankee Stadium, July 4, 1939
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I thought I’d play a favorite of mine this morning, from a whole bunch of people.
And of course, Lou Gehrig’s farewell. From Historic Films Stock Footage Archive
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Wandering Views 
Happy Birthday Joanne/Ajisuun! 🙂
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Happy Birthday!
I didn’t know Joanne and Ajisuun had birthdays today.
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oh, we need a celebration for Joanne!! Let’s have a party! Oh, wait, some of you can celebrate in person very soon. Give Ajisuun hugs from the blog.
Wonderful quote from Lou, what a hero and someone who can look on the bright side. What an example to us all.
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Another afternoon with the quints. Each has their own personality. Mom left for a while, then returned with 4 other friends, three of them children. I think at one point there were 16 of us in the house.
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Jo, everyday with the quints will feel like a party!
Beautiful butterfly! Tiger Swallowtail?
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(Psst, Chas, aji suun and Joanne are the same person. Joanne is her real name; aji suun what her native friends call her, if I remember correctly.)
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You know something Cheryl?
I knew that.
I knew that Ajisuun is really JoAnne.
You expect my mind to be working at 7:00 a.m.
That’s where you went wrong.
😉
But It never would have occurred to me if you hadn’t mentioned it.
Though I did think it was odd that two people on the same blog have the same BD.
But statistically, it is not at all unusual for, out of a class of 30 people, that there will be at least two with the same BD.
We tested that in a statistics class once.
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Did he ever return? No he never returned and his fate is still unlearned. He may fly forever in the air over Texas, he’s the man who never returned…..
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Different brain tester to begin my day. I had to put together a new locking gas can. Yesterday I asked husband to get a gas can at the hardware store two blocks from the office. I wanted one like our plain one gallon one that had sprung a leak. It was 5:30 and I figured they were open until 6:00. But no, they must have closed at 5:00. So husband drove some miles to Walmart and then to Home Depot and finally to Advance Auto Parts where he found this two gallon locking one with attached spout that had to be assembled. All that driving to save about one third gallon of the leftover gas in the leaking can. And this new-fangled one took a lot of figuring out on how it works. I wrote out instructions and taped them to the can. My husband would never get gas out of it otherwise. It is nice because it is kid proof. But for the mechanically challenged it is adult proof, too.
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Oh, Mumsee, so sorry. Will he still be able to come home?
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Good Morning Everyone. I haven’t whined in a while about my housing situation so I thought I would give you an update. They had the home inspection done on Monday. When I heard the name of the home inspector I groaned. He will blow a deal EVERY time. Agents, no matter which side of the transaction cringe when they hear his name. As so as the people got his report they sent a text to their agent they wanted out of the deal. The two agents tried to hold it together. It fell apart last night. I would have been a good situation for us as the buyers are military and won’t be retiring for 3 years. Oh well….
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I also did more trimming out in our rainforest portion of the front yard. That is an effective way to get morning exercise. When I came inside the house it felt warmer than it was outside.
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Looking forward to Tiger Lily and other blooming flowers soon. 🙂
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One of my agents lived his dream of playing pro ball for the Baltimore Orioles for 7 years back in the 90’s. He had a shoulder injury that sent him home to Alabama/Mississippi. He posts the most amazing and upbeat things on FB. He said sometimes people will find out about the shoulder injury killing his career and will say they are sorry things didn’t turn out for him. His reply is that things turned out great for him. He is married to a wonderful woman and has two children he adores. His wife is in graduate school so in addition to being a great agent he is Mr. Mom to their two children.
Even when things turn out badly for me, I try to remind myself that things are happening just the way they are supposed to. I saw a great saying once about is the glass half empty or half full. Technically the glass is completely full. Half air, half water.
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The other day husband and I were driving home from work. He told me he has another light to complain about since they fixed the timing on our light that he use to complain about. So I reminded him we don’t always know why, but there is a reason for it. As we were riding down our street a few moments later there were two police cars parked on the street which was unusual. I told husband if we had gotten there earlier we might have gotten into gunfire or something. It was a few blocks from our house. I never heard what happened.
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Kim, every inspector thinks it’s his job to find something wrong.
I think I told you about the inspection of the house in Annandale.
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Kare, I don’t know, we have not heard from him since yesterday early afternoon saying it looked like the option of flying through Texas was not going to work either.
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If only they protected our southern border as well as they protect our northern border. Those pesky Canadians trying to sneak in.
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Sorry about the mess-up mumsee. 😦 That’s got to be frustrating.
Happy birthday Ajisuun! Jo, the quints sound like a fun handful. 🙂
And yes, what a gorgeous butterfly! I’m seeing a lot of the orange butterflies in my front yard lately, I have a bush that blooms this time of year that draws them. I love seeing them fluttering around out there.
Someone, I think it was michelle, last week had mentioned the Puritan book by William Gurnall called The Christian in Complete Armour. It reminded me that I’d bought a devotional with daily readings from it a while back (“Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare” is the subtitle), so I got it off the bookshelf and started reading it again. It is truly good stuff. And having it broken down into daily readings helps as it is pretty deep (I think the original work is available only in 3 volumes).
We had our local Kings parade yesterday through the beach towns — very fun to see the Stanley Cup & hockey players in their beach shorts and flip-flops (topped with their jerseys — most of them live here anyway) riding along in the procession at the beach strand with the ocean as the backdrop. I didn’t cover it, but we had a couple photographers out there and our beach cities reporter and they got some great copy & photos.
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Praying Mike gets home soon Mumsee….I just read an article about stranded passengers becoming irate yesterday in Pueblo….they had been “held hostage” on their planes for over 4 hours due to bad weather somewhere….when they were let off the planes, there were no accommodations for them….the police were called in…frustrating situations to be certain
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Here’s the link again, though my friend tells me the updated version is easier to read: http://www.ccel.org/g/gurnall/armour/gurnal01a.pdf
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I was interviewed on the radio today; most of you know these stories. I’m the first one up for the first half-hour: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rrradio/2014/06/19/gate-beautiful-radio-show-thursday-june-19th-2014
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Interesting interview Michells.
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Please pray for God to lift this fog. Many are waiting. No flights in or out. Two planes overnighted elsewhere and can’t return.
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No one responded to this yet, so I’ll give it a try:
Karen O | June 18, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Seen on Facebook:
“In the 1950s & 1960s when the top tax rate was 70 – 92%, we laid the interstate system, built the internet, put a man on the moon, defeated Communism, our education system was the envy of the world, our middle class thriving, our economy unparalleled.
“You want that back?
“Raise taxes on the rich.”
Anyone here have a good response to that?
Karen- Whoever posted that needs to study the history a little closer. We didn’t build the Internet or defeat communism until the late 80s, after Reagan had lowered the upper tax rates to 38%. Part of the economic boom of the 60s was Kennedy’s economic policies, which were similar to Reagan’s and would make modern Democrats denounce him. Also, Tell them that when the rates were that high, few rich people paid those rates since they had tax deferred investments and other ways of getting around paying them. The 90% was on income, not investments and many rich people get that way because of investments.
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Flights are flying again. Now if the sun would just come through those clouds. It is looking lighter out. Sun to heat the water is such a blessing. Not sure if the two delayed from yesterday made it yet. Wait, I think I hear a plane now. Pray for safe landings.
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Good evening. I’m not sure I am up to racing tonight, but I do want to RSVP to Linda for the picnic on the 5th. I will need address maybe phone #. Two in our party. Barely teen daughter and myself. I can be reached at srwilburdg@live.com. Or on here probably. Since we are local, we want to help with bringing some food.
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Peter – Thanks for your input. Some of those points were made, except for the part about income vs. investments. I’ll mention that.
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For those following the Bill Gothard situation:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2014/june/results-bill-gothard-harassment-investigation-released-iblp.html?utm_source=ctdirect-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=9474712&utm_content=280012071&utm_campaign=2013
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Karen- I guess I should have clarified: the tax rate is on earned income (i.e. salary or wages), not interest or dividend income (stocks, bonds, investments).
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AJ- I see from yesterday’s thread that there was a picture of a peacock after the ducks were up. I missed it. Can you post it on the sidebar?
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Good evening Jo.
Everyone is still sacked out. I’m just waiting around.
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