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Our Daily Thread 11-24-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1859 Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.”

In 1871 the National Rifle Association was incorporated in the U.S. 

In 1940 Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.  

In 1947 the “Hollywood 10,” were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about alleged Communist influence in their industry.  

And in 1963 Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television. 

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Quote of the Day

“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.”

William F. Buckley, Jr.

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 Today is Rebecca Barlow’s birthday. Maybe it’s too early but…

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Anyone have a QoD?

29 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-24-14”

  1. Good morning!!! I was a hunting widow all weekend…Both girls had friends spend the night Saturday (though Becca’s got homesick around 9:30 and had to be picked up). The little girls put on a fashion show for me for over 45 minutes…they were absolutely adorable…dancing and twirling in their fancy outfits…I oohed and aahed appropriately and they basked in the attention.

    Becca is off all week for Thanksgiving. L. isn’t out until Wednesday. I need to cook today–I’m bringing a couple of pies and the orange sauce for the sweet potatoes.

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  4. Regularly yowling cat out of sync with the chirping smoke detector whose battery was replaced yesterday plus cold=little sleep.

    The engineer, however, slept through it all. The cat is now outdoors possibly tormenting the neighbors . . .

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  5. I just heard Lynn Anderson sing “Rose Garden”. It used to be a very popular song in the country field . It always bugged me that it was just a bunch of cliché’s strung together.
    “You’d better look before you leap.
    Still waters run deep.
    And you don t find roses growing in fields of clover.
    So, you better think it over”.

    Good morning everyone. We had over 3″ of rain. But it’s sunny and 57.4 degrees in Hendersonville. Real balmy after last week.

    Congratulations to Peter: for winning the football pool.
    He gets an “attaboy”

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  8. Good morning all. I am already at work. Lulabelle woke me at 5am. She and Amos both threw up sometime during the night. I woke up and Mr. P was cleaning it up. It looked like he had it handled so I went back to sleep. He’s good like that. Me? I would have been gagging and choking. I don’t know what they got into that made them both sick.
    Lots to get done today. Mr. P paid the electricity bill but two days later they (the utility company) put it back in my account. Now they have sent an overdue notice with a threat to cut it off tomorrow. Got to straighten out that mess…just waiting on them to open. Luckily their office is two blocks from mine. I also have to remember to go to the laundry cleaners to pick up a formal, get my hair “did” and sometime in all of that I have to work…so I best get started.

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  9. I view God as a parent. He always loves us, but sometimes we do stupid things and He punishes us. Sometimes we make Him angry, but he always wants what is best for us. I shy away from the thought of an angry, vengeful God. It takes me back to Fundamental Christian School where I was taught I wasn’t worthy for God to scrape his boot on, but if I was lucky and behaved maybe, just maybe He would take pity on me and let me into heaven. I prefer my view to any other.

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  11. I view God as the Almighty great I AM. He loves us and always will. He allows us to suffer the consequences of our stupid and He blesses us way beyond what He needs to but we rarely see it. Sometimes He actually metes out punishment in an effort to get us back on track or to get others back on track but it is never done maliciously. I view us as being self centered blobs who try to think beyond ourselves but generally don’t succeed.

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  12. Heavy topic for this early in the morning (it’s only 7:20 a.m. on the west coast). God pours out his love and grace — and, when needed for our benefit & his glory, discipline — on us, his children whom he will never forsake. His love for me is not dependent on whether I’ve had a “good” day, obedience-wise, although out of gratitude I now have a desire to obey.

    One of the things about heaven that I look forward to the most is not having this day-in, day-out battle with my own indwelling sin with which to contend.

    Kim, I keep envisioning the street scenes from NCIS NO when you talk about going to your office, visiting the power company two blocks away, etc. Having never been to that part of the U.S. in person, I am at least enjoying watching some of the location shots in that show. And now that’s how I kind of picture where you live. 🙂

    And while I may not follow the plot lines that closely — I usually multitask when the TV is on — all the male stars are pretty good looking.

    We’re getting more dry winds out here this week with cold nights but warmer-than-normal days — I think it’s supposed to hit almost 80 degrees by Wednesday. No sleigh rides to grandmother’s house for us this Thanksgiving. Just bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic with the a/c keeping us cool in our cars.

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  13. Deleted @ 8:43
    I suspect about half an hour. I notices “Politics” usually comes up first. I reckon that takes most of the time. And it gets least reaction. That used to be the only thread HRW would visit for dialogue. I haven’t seen him/her in some time now. I visit that site every time I come here, but unless something catches me, I don’t respond.
    I usually disagreed with HRW but appreciated the different views.
    Ricky Weaver usually visits that thread as well.

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  16. Good Morning! Three more inches of snow yesterday….it is 20 degrees out there and our roads are a mess…twas a scary drive to church yesterday….
    We are supposed to warm up after today and now the high for Thanksgiving is to be 57….the grandkids will be oh so happy to run around in the woods 🙂
    Thankful to AJ for taking the time….hmmm I am guessing an hour or so to set this up every morning….

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  17. 1/2 an hour? 😯

    It’s a little more than that Chas, but you folks are worth it. 🙂

    I’ll start tomorrow’s posts today. I put in about an hour in the afternoon/evening, and then finish them up in a little less than that in the morning and post them.

    A 1/2 hour less on Friday/Sat because the News post is open thread on Sat.

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  19. Kim,

    I can top your puking dogs.

    Yesterday I was woken at 5 AM by my big/old cat yowling. She got her claws in her right front leg caught in the couch cover. She must have jumped off to try and get loose. It didn’t work. But she did dislocate her shoulder. Yeah gross.

    I got her free and she tried to hobble off but limped badly and the angle the leg was at is an angle that legs, even cat legs, don’t go. It was really freakin’ me out. I picked her up, sat down with her and quickly popped it back in. She didn’t even bite me, which she does for no reason usually.

    I put her on the floor, she walked to the kitchen and started eating. After that she went to her nap spot and went to sleep as if nothing had happened.

    No swelling or limping today and the lady at the vet said if it’s back in don’t worry about it but keep an eye on her. If there’s any problems, call and they’ll get her in. They also said they could declaw her if I liked. I’m not gonna do that…. yet, anyway. 😯

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  21. Brave AJ. Good job.

    Regarding the office for NCIS NO, I’ve had the same question about the NCIS LA office, it’s supposedly a closed department of water/power building according to the script, but I was never sure whether it was a real location or just something they put together on a set. It actually looks like a closed Mexican restaurant to me. — but then I saw on a trivia site that it’s at a Marina del Rey Garden Center. Hmmm….

    For more on the NO show: http://www.cbs.com/shows/ncis-new-orleans/news/

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  23. I have a new appreciation for the time AJ spends putting together this blog. I was just thinking of that recently when I started teaching piano again. Every weekend (which has been only two of them so far) I send an email to my piano families, featuring a video of music by a “classical” composer whose birthday will come up in the next week. I have a site bookmarked with a chronological listing of birthdates by month and day of such composers, so I go hunting around YouTube to find a good piece of music by one of them that presents good teaching opportunities to my students at their beginning levels. Sometimes it takes a while before I locate a video that I consider just right, not too long, but exciting and applicable in some way to my students’ present needs. I think I spent an hour or more each of the past two Fridays picking out good music for them and pointing out in my email a few items for them to observe as they watched the videos with their parents.

    That made me think of AJ and the time he spends locating videos to post here. But on top of that is all the other stuff: finding articles for the News thread, deciding what parts he’ll quote from them, and offering his own commentary, as well. And doing the prayer and daily threads, as well. And the header and sometimes other photos. SIX days a week!! And faithfully around the same time each day. Like opening the door every day and issuing a friendly welcome to come on in and chat if we’d like.

    Thank you so much for your dedication, AJ. May we (I) never take your ministry for granted.

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  24. And remember, when World ran this blog (and paid the one who moderated it), we ran off quite a few moderators. We’re a pretty nasty bunch, overall. So to do it for free and keep doing it takes some dedication.

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  26. Here’s a bit of a scary news story. It’s a very sad situation on all counts, but counting this as a DUI is outrageous (as the headline does): http://www.kesq.com/news/elderly-dui-defendant-fails-to-appear-in-court-again/29904240

    At the very end of the article, you find out he had a blood alcohol count of .04, half the low legal limit of .08. Alcohol doesn’t seem to be the factor here, so why treat an 84-year-old man with health issues like a drunkard? He probably shouldn’t be driving (though there may have been no hint of such before the accident), but he wasn’t driving drunk. And the idea that the law can set a standard and then randomly ignore that standard at its convenience is freedom erosion of the worst kind.

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  27. I have Bible study in a bit. I came home a little early today and have been watching CNN. I really think everyone of us needs to pray for Ferguson, St Louis, and the State of Missouri. This is scary.

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  28. Thanks for your hard work, AJ. It would take me countless hours to do what you do and I wouldn’t do it nearly as well.

    It is late November in North Texas and the grass has turned the color of a corn tortilla.
    Dan Jenkins

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  29. We saw that lovely Texas grass. It is a beautiful state. We had our first Thanksgiving dinner with our son on Sunday. It was great to be with him and have a meal as family. Also, it was great to shop at H.E.B. Wow! We also went to a neat little place for breakfast, and also to the Texas Road House. We were tired from the trip and son was getting over a cold virus so we mostly relaxed, cooked, and enjoyed our mini – Thanksgiving meal.

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