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Our Daily Thread 9-10-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1608 John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown, VA colony council. 

In 1846 Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine. 

In 1919 New York City welcomed home 25,000 soldiers and General John J. Pershing who had served in the First Division during World War I. 

Also in 1919 Austria and the Allies signed the Treaty of St.-Germain-en-Laye. Austria recognized the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. 

And in 1939 Canada declared war on Germany. 

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Quote of the Day

“You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.”

Roger Maris

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 Random selection day. From Opry

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Anyone have a QoD?

53 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-10-14”

  3. I hope this works when I post the link. This is supposed to be video of Nicole, the young woman who died from a long battle with cancer yesterday. She knew almost from the beginning that there was not going to be a cure for her. You won’t be able to tell from the video what a beautiful voice she had. Someone posted this on FB last night and I immediately wanted to share it with you.

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  5. Bob Buckles, from yesterday’s political thread.
    There was a time in SC history when winning the Democratic primary was tantamount to election. I never was interested in politics when I was a kid. I thought Roosevelt shouldn’t have run for a third term and was against a fourth. But otherwise, I didn’t care. The Democratic hold on the South was broken by Ike. Eisenhower was a favorite and took lots of votes. I don’t remember SC’s electoral vote, but most liked Ike. I voted for Ike the first time I voted. But it was J. Strom Thurmond that broke the Democratic hold on SC.
    I don’t remember all the things that happened, but there was an open seat. Much loved senator Maybank died and the Democratic machine appointed a man who didn’t have much public approval. He was the Democrat on the ballot. (Which, as I said, was tantamount to election.)
    But Strom Thurmond entered the race as a write in. His campaign was simple. “Write in Strom”. I don’t remember any other ads, commercials, etc. But his campaign had millions of little golf pencils that had “Write in Strom” on them. Everywhere you went, there were those pencils. I don’t know how they got there, but they were everywhere. When Strom Thurmond turned Republican, so did the state.
    The parties have switched positions. “The Solid South” used to be solid Democrat. What it really was, and is, is solid Conservative.

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  7. I was just about to follow up on the Dixiecrats and Democrats vs Republicans in the South.
    The South didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left the South.
    The South is conservative. We don’t care how eccentric you are, we just don’t want you flaunting it in the public square. We realize the heat makes us all a little crazy and we embrace it, we just don’t want to talk about it. We all have “that” relative who provides the color to our lives and we like it just fine…we just don’t want to admit it.

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  9. This is a blah day. I woke up to a thunderclap at around 3:50 this morning, went to the restroom and returned to bed. Then I noticed that the ceiling fan wasn’t circulating air. That’s when I discovered the electricity was off. I did finally get back to sleep but woke up 10 minutes after my alarm would have sounded. I had to take a shower and shave by flashlight and couldn’t make coffee. Besides, I started felling blah yesterday and it seems to have carried over to today. I hope I don’t fall asleep whil…

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  10. Peter!
    You can’t conk out before the Pigskin Picks!
    I’m going to pick the Gamecocks and Boilermakers, regardless.
    Maybe you cans skip this week and save me some embarrassment.
    😆

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  11. Kim, thank you so much for posting that video. It needs to go viral.

    Chas, yesterday I happened to be in a store and saw a memory foam pet bed. I touched it and wished for one for myself. I did not buy it though because I knew Bosley would make it hers.

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  12. North Central Idaho has a lot of Democrats. It also has a lot of Independents. It used to have Republicans. But the Democrats tend to be what their great granddaddy was. Even though the party is not what their great granddaddy voted for.

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  14. It’s cooled off a little here, thankfully, and the humidity has receded.

    The racial integration issues of the 1960s also had much to do with the south turning Republican. While Republicans originally were more progressive on those issues in the 1800s, we have to acknowledge that the party became rather entrenched resisting the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

    The two political parties are always evolving and sometimes outright switching positions with one another. I read an interesting article (I think by Michael Barone) last week that suggested that the Tea Party insurgence in the GOP seems akin to the peace movement insurgence in the Democratic party in the 1960s & ’70s.

    The peace/more-liberal faction became strong enough to turn the Democratic party as a whole in that direction where it remains today (remember when there were hawks who were Democrats?). And, in some ways, the Tea Party — while not necessarily more conservative in my mind, except for in fiscal matters — will probably have a lasting impact and influence on the Republican party of the future.

    Meanwhile, I had a weird dream that Mitt Romney was president of our local Catholic hospital and I had to interview him about a hospital story. He was sitting behind a table, smiling broadly, and had what looked like a Rosary in his hands. There were very bright lights shining on him, guess he was also anticipating the TV crews to show up.

    Then I woke up and realized it was Wednesday and I needed to find a story to write for today …

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  15. Sorry to hear of your sufferings today, Peter. Sometimes I think God allows us to go without for a bit to make us even more thankful for what we are given to make life more comfortable.

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  16. While Republicans originally were more progressive on those issues in the 1800s, we have to acknowledge that the party became rather entrenched resisting the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

    My understanding is that it was the Republicans who got Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act that the Republicans passed. The Democrats get the credit because Johnson was one of them and had the media on their side.

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  17. That’s new to me, Peter. There were some progressive Republicans — Rockefeller, etc. — during that time. But as I recall (I was a teenager in the mid to late 60s so followed politics only hit-and-miss) most of the conservative wing of the GOP were pretty staunchly opposed to much of the civil rights movements. ?

    Wasn’t that a key to Nixon being able to make his comeback and win the precedency in 1968?

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  19. Moore on domestic violence – http://www.russellmoore.com/2014/09/09/the-church-and-violence-against-women/: “We must train up men, through godly mentoring as well as through biblical instruction, who will know that the model of a husband is a man who crucifies his selfish materialism, his libidinal fantasies, and his wrathful temper tantrums in order to care lovingly for a wife. We must also remind these young men that every idle word, and every hateful act, will be laid out in judgment before the eyes of the One to whom we must give an answer.”

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  20. Chas- I will get the pigskin picks to AJ tonight. The list is on my computer at home, and I won’t get there until late. I think it’s time to put the list on the cloud (since my head is often in the clouds lately anyway.)

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  21. It used to be circulated that Martin Luther King was a Republican. I just to search it and found a lot of articles saying that wasn’t so—Revisionist History strikes again!
    Most of the Freedom Riders were Republican. Republicans are the victims of bad press.

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  22. The latest from Elyse Fitzpatrick:

    “The truth is that both radical feminism — lies sold go women in the name of equality — and radical femininity — lies sold to women in the name of Christianity — have harmed women and children. But while Christians have been quick to engage in conversations about the repercussions of misguided feminism, there hasn’t been much acknowledgment of the way women are harmed when they are force-fed rules that go beyond Scripture — rules that are products of a particular culture rather than gospel.”

    http://www.tyndale.com/Good-News-for-Weary-Women/9781414395388#.VBCWrfldXF8

    (It’s cheaper on Amazon, but I knew posting that link would throw this comment into limbo, messing up the race for 100 🙂 )

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  23. I guess my memory of the civil rights era was that the southern Dems joined with conservative republicans in general opposition to the movement. Eventually, many of those southern Dems switched registration and became republicans. But civil rights (along with the Vietnam War) were pivotal issues that began redefining the parties of that era.

    My dad was a staunch “Truman”-style Dem but he finally became a Republican in the late 1960s. He disliked the peace movement and had some racial prejudice issues that I think must have stemmed from his childhood on an Iowa farm (as one of his brothers, my uncle, seemed to have very similar racial prejudices).

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  24. From one of the reviews of the Fitzpatrick book on the Amazon site:

    ” … NEWS FLASH: None of us have it together, and we never will.

    “Like it or not, we simply cannot control our lives. Sure we have responsibility, we have choices to make, but ultimately, it is God, in His Providence, who orchestrates our lives, all for our good and His Glory.

    “So the weeks when you spend hours on the phone trying to fix your unresponsive computer? When you feel like you can never make it through that growing to-do list? When you are sitting in the intensive care waiting room, wondering if your loved one will make it through an eight hour surgery okay? When you are pinching pennies until the scream? When your heart breaks as you watch a loved one lose their memory to Alzheimer’s? When you just don’t know how to be brave and pursue your dreams?

    “That is when we need to remember the Gospel, and like Elyse Fitzpatrick reminds us over and over again in Good News for Weary Women, our justfication through Christ is complete. We don’t have to struggle through the days, wondering if we are doing enough, measuring up, becoming more weary by the moment. We can actually begin to embrace the joy of who God created us to be, to learn to love how He so wisely designed and gifted us, unbound by the endless rules we so often create for ourselves.

    “We can rest in the beautiful fact that our standing before God is not impacted by how many organic, from-scratch meals we fix a day, whether we wear jeans or jumpers, whether we have tattoos or not, whether we listen to a capella hymns or pop music. And when we stop comparing ourselves to others, we can love them for who they are, no matter how different they are from us.

    “We as Christians, particularly Christian women, need to shake off the bad, unbiblical advice we get, whether it is from the church or the world, and fix our eyes on Jesus, who has already justified us by His work on the cross. It is finished. …”

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  25. So, as you all know I have this Master’s in Elementary Education that I don’t use. What you didn’t know if that I have had a student loan that followed me around like bad luggage. Many years ago I had set it up on direct draft from my checking account. I haven’t paid attention to it in a long time. I just knew it drafted the first of the month. Today I was checking my old email account deleting all the junk mail and there was an email from Sallie Mae that said PAID IN FULL. I thought it was a joke. I wondered how some stranger got access to my account to pay off my loan? I had to have them send me my login information. The LAST payment drafted September 4,2014. It is paid in full!
    I made copies and sent them to the mortgage underwriter.

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  26. Yeah, Kim! I know how it feels to be free of student loans! I still have to pinch myself to realize that I don’t have to make that monthly payment.

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  32. Congratulations Kim! I didn’t know you had a student loan. We didn’t have student loans when I was in school.
    Re: Donna’s 2:41. I gave it a try, but gave up on AWANA. I perceived that they didn’t really need me, and I was out of my natural element. I work with adults better than with children.
    Have you ever been to a place where people were nice, helpful and seemed to be trying to find something for you to do?
    That’s how I felt. So I told then that I wouldn’t be back.
    They didn’t express any relief. But probably felt some.

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  34. Chas…Paul and Hannah went back to AWANA’s tonight to give it one more try. Paul has a feeling they have too many volunteers when they are having the kids throw a ball at an old man hopping around like a bunny 🙂

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  36. My parents were always very involved in AWANA but then, all four of their children were enrolled in the program. Funnily enough, though my parents would deny that they were ever pillars of anything in a church, the program fizzled out shortly after they left (and it wasn’t a small church). Come to think of it, they have always been involved in those kind of programs. I have heard them mention working in Sky Force, Pioneer Girls and Christian Service Brigade – does anyone remember those programs?

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  37. I had to cover a community meeting at the end of the day today — federal agencies reporting on a controversial chemical storage tank facility that many want moved far, far away. The meeting was lively, complete with end-of-the-world style sandwich board posters, shouting from the crowd, and at least one person racing out of the room in full meltdown mode followed by several police officers.

    Oh, and a smattering of political candidates handing out their cards …

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  38. Congrats, Kim. I remember paying off the student loan. It was a load off my mind.

    FYI football fans: the list has been sent to AJ. Look for it tomorrow.

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  39. I always find it amazing when they ask whether people read a book (one book) in the last year. And not everyone says, “Yes. Duh.” Of course, when I was in grade school or junior high, there was some sort of list and we were supposed to sign up and read maybe ten books over a year, or maybe it was six. I didn’t even sign up, because the number was such a silly low number. So my name didn’t get listed as having read six books, but I probably read one hundred books that year.

    I always think it would be fun to record all the books I read in a year; I’ve never done that. But my estimate is 50-100. I’ll go through times when I read very little (just magazines, blog posts, books I’m editing), but then I’ll read five books in a week. Some of the books are lengthy, and some won’t get finished within a year. I’m currently slowly reading three books that will take longer than six months each–two of them were put aside when I was courting my husband, one of them just picked up again in the last couple of weeks. (They are (1) CIty of God–just picked up again, and several chapters read, within the last few weeks; (2) The Death of Death–periodically I will read a few pages; (3) The Last Lion–I just started that one this year, and have read about half of the first volume, but it’s thousands of pages in total and rather detailed, so not a weekend read as most biographies are.) But I have also read several complete books in the last month.

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  40. Cheryl, Goodreads makes it easy to keep track of the books in categories of Want to Read, Reading and Read. You can also have friends on Goodreads. Michelle and I are on there. Is anyone else on there from this blog?

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  41. But Michelle hardly ever remembers to update, much less record, the books she reads. Sigh.

    When to Chichen Itza today. Very interesting and had a lot of fun speaking Spanish with the guides.

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  43. Janice, I am on Goodreads. However, I signed up in May I think and I haven’t gone there again…I really should for the very reason you stated. I once had a running list of books that I most enjoyed and I somehow tucked it inside of book that I either loaned out or was donated to the thrift shop…that’s how organized I am 😦 Right now I have at least four books downloaded on my Kindle and I am having a difficult time finding the desire to pick up that Kindle…now if they were in “real” book form, I would have had them devoured by now. Anyone else finding themselves having an aversion towards the Kindle?

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  52. I have at least 350 books on my kindle. I am getting to where I decide if I will ever read a book again, or if it was too boring, and then I delete it. Almost all the books were free or from libraries.

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