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Our Daily Thread 9-22-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1789 Congress authorized the office of Postmaster General. 

In 1862 President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863. 

In 1914 three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were killed.  

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy signed a congressional act that established the Peace Corps. 

And in 1969 Willie Mays hit his 600th career home run. 

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Quote of the Day

“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.”

Phillip Stanhope,

4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Today is Debby Boone’s birthday.

 And today is also Joan Jett’s birthday.

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QoD?

Is this the coolest piece of furniture ever made? I think it might just be. 🙂

49 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-22-14”

  2. I’ll have to check out the furniture when internet is a little cheaper. But, I’m very tempted.
    Please pray for safety, I am fine, but a lot is going on. You know, those thing we never talk about.

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  4. Thanks, Aj. Knowing you folks are praying helps me to sleep easier. Someone knows, someone cares.
    What a stunning header photo. The bird is nice, but the background of the shot gives it such interest and balance.

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  5. I have been AWOL on the prayer thread for a few days. I will be over there lifting, Jo.

    You would not think a weekend trip would set a person behind on so many things, but it did. I am trying to make the deadline for my next writing assignment, but it requires me to interview a personality for a profile. I have yet to decide on a personality to ask for an interview.

    Considering the show I saw last night that had a schizophrenic person, if I were schizophrenic I could just interview one of my own personalities. How many did Eve have in that movie, The Three Faces of Eve? I think it was a lot more than three.

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  6. Miley Cyrus could have been successful had she gone the route Debbie Boone took.
    Debby can also be productive all her life.
    Miley’s act has an expiration date. It will come soon and unexpectedly. I hop[e she’s saving/investing some of that money she’s making.

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  7. This morning, I heard the Andrews Sisters sing “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B”. He played “eight to the bar”. I know that’s eight notes, but what is the “bar”?
    All my life I thought it was Andrew Sisters. the “S” at the end merged with the “S” in Sisters in my mind.

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  8. I have some friends who swear by colloidal silver, & seem to use it to “cure” a lot of things. I also have friends who think it is akin to snake oil. Anyone here have any experience with it or knowledge about it? (I tend to be skeptical about things like that.)

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  11. Nice photo — and awesome cabinet. But I’d loose stuff in there. The cat would like it, though, she’d be triggering all those drawers and other things to open and close. An evening of nonstop fun. 🙂

    Wow, Debbie Boone, now there’s a throwback song to the good old ’70s (and those styles, sort of the transition from the ’70s to the ’80s by then — I kind of liked that dangling spangly-thingy swinging from the back of her head). I always think of God (rather than a beau) with the lyrics of that song after a friend at the time it came out said it reminded him of what it felt like in finding God (or rather in God finding him).

    Ah, but that little line toward the end — “It can’t be wrong when it *feels* so right” — can be a stumbling block, especially as it became something of an enduring theme for our generation.

    Welcome home Janice. We used to have to write long profiles on people in the community at my former newspaper, they ran every Friday and the staff rotated through in doing them. Some were very memorable and easy. Others were, well, a bit of a challenge. 😮

    I’m up early, woke and and couldn’t go back to sleep around 4:30 so i read and prayed through a few of the Psalms and then did some work in the kitchen, I had some dishes I still needed to put away & I had to run the dryer one more time (it’s very old so it takes a few cycles to dry things).

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  12. Donna, for the sake of time I think I will use material from the one article article I wrote that I got paid for awhile back. I can add to it and update it since I will see the person this week. I know there is a percentage an article has to change so it will not be considered a reprint. Do you know the percentage?

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  16. From The Looming Tower, p. 499

    “The agents cloned the laptop computer, which contained al-Qaeda organizational charts and a roster of Jihad members in Europe – “the Rosetta Stone of al-Qaeda” – as Dan Coleman called it. But theCIA refused to turn it over to the FBI”

    “It was a typical, pointless bureaucratic standoff of the sort that had handicapped counterterrorism efforts at both organizations from the start, made worse by personal vindictiveness…. Overvaluing information for its own sake, the agency was a black hole, emitting nthing that was not blasted out of it by a force greater than gravity- and it was recognized that O’Neill was such a force. He woud USE the information – for an indictment, a public trial – and it would no longer be secret, no longer be intelligence; it would be evidence, it would be news, and it would become useless…..”
    This is the same thing Rita Katz said.

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  18. That clock secretary on the video is the most impressive piece of furniture I have ever seen! Must have been made for the man who has everything and needs a place to store it all. Bosley would love to have that as a toy. It might last half a day suffering her bites and bats.

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  22. So, like a good girl, I was up at 5:40 this morning, after only about four & a half hours sleep, to get ready to babysit. It took me quite a while to realize that Emily was not up & about, & that she wasn’t going to work.

    Turns out she hadn’t been able to get to sleep herself until the wee hours this morning, & didn’t think it safe to drive to work (which includes driving from store to store) on what would have been only three hours sleep, plus she has classes tonight until pretty late, so she texted Lee that she couldn’t make it today.

    Unfortunately, she was too tired to think to come downstairs & tell me so I could have gone back to sleep.

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  23. Mumsee- The rules have always been clear- guess all ten game winners.

    AJ- You win the opportunity to pick the tie breaker game. Or you can defer to someone else, as Ricky did last week.

    Chas: I know that’s eight notes, but what is the “bar”? I think the bar refers to the measure in music. 8 notes to a bar means there are 8 notes to each measure. If the time signature is 4:4, then each note would be half of a beat.

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  25. Guess? You people are guessing? Why would you have to guess when Boise is playing? Why would you care to guess about any of the others? Okay, I will attempt to play by your rules, with the hope that you will not continue to change them. Though why anybody would guess about such things is extraordinarily strange.

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  28. 1. Auburn
    2. Oklahoma
    3. South Carolina
    4. Alabama
    5. Wake Forest
    6. Rutgers
    7. Purdue
    8. Boise State
    9. Arizona
    TB: Florida State 23 – Clemson 17 OT

    How did I do?

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  31. Okay, these are what Peter L said were the rules:
    Mumsee- The rules have always been clear- guess all ten game winners.
    By doing precisely that, I have cheated? Explain that to me Mr. Moon mapper, or school teacher or blog runner or somebody.

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  35. (Throwing tomato from my lunch)

    This is interesting:

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/185391#.VCCIOvldXF8

    “The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, together with rabbis of the Derech Emuna organization rabbis of Jerusalem’s Old City, have launched a campaign against a new mass Christian prayer initiative at the southern wall of the Temple Mount.

    “For the first time since the liberation of the Old City in the 1967 Six Day War, the Christian groups are reportedly poised to hold a prayer service for the “return of Jesus” on the morning of Hoshana Raba, the last day of the Sukkot holiday, which falls on October 15 this year. …”

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  36. Well, this seems to be more a case of men and logic not exactly connecting. I followed the directions exactly. Donna says I won. Chas says I won.

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  39. I am not trying to push anybody around or cause any trouble. I was simply trying to participate in a friendly competition. I had no idea people would get so upset over my winning their little game. Don’t worry, I won’t be participating any more. Go Boise.

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  42. Off to school for my last four parent conferences – one with a family whose daughter will be beginning school next term. Then 2 weeks of break.
    This little girl’s mom is from the Philippines and her mom is a little girl in the book “And the Word came With Power” – the Joanne Shetler story. Now she is a translator here in PNG

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  46. Chas- That only applies to the players on the field, not the players of our pigskin picks. When you win (and it will happen sometime), you may taunt away.

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