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Our Daily Thread 3×5=15

Good Morning!

On this day in 1623 the first alcohol temperance law in the colonies was enacted in Virginia. 

In 1770 “The Boston Massacre” took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter. 

In 1836 Samuel Colt’s Patent Arms Manufacturing of Paterson, New Jersey, was chartered by the New Jersey legislature. 

And in 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-day bank holiday in order to stop large amounts of money from being withdrawn from banks.  

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Quote of the Day

“Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what’s wrong with it.”

Rex Harrison

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Today is Aurthur William Foote’s birthday.

 Today is also Eugene Fodor’s birthday. From Stephen Redrobe 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chq3QxlknsA&feature=player_detailpage

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Anyone have a QoD?

59 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 3×5=15”

  2. Enjoy the snow Aj, Ours is gone. We have rain now. 🙂
    And it’s 53.6 degrees in Hendersonville. They say the temperature is going down today, but not to 32.

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  3. It is quite foggy here. There is just something that a sunrise or sunset over water does to your soul. With a wink and a nod to Michelle…It is somewhat like taking a direct hit to the solar plexus…LOL

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  4. I was reading the discussion some of the ladies were having last night. I think it was Karen who wondered if she would know her way around in Heaven.

    It reminded me of the last scene in C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters. The guy who was the object of the letter was finally killed in the blitz. Immediately, he saw his angel. He didn’t say, “Who are your?” He said, “Oh, it was you all the time.”
    T have thought of that scene many times and it gives me comfort.
    I was reading Captive in Iran where it tells of a woman who was hanged for her faith in Christ. Not in the story, but I provided my ending of that portion.
    “The woman was taken in, placed on a chair with a rope around her neck. Then they kicked the chair away. There was an instant of pain, and inability to breathe. Suddenly, an angel appeared with a white robe to cover her naked body, and said, “It’s over now, no more pain, no more worry, you’re safe now and forever.”
    Or when this guy in Libya was taken out. “The guard grabbed his head and put a knife to his throat. There was an instant of intense pain as the knife cut into his windpipe and blood arteries. Suddenly a couple of guys in bright robes said, ‘Welcome home. We’ve been waiting for you. Don’t worry about your family, it will be rough for them, but we have everything under control’”

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  5. OK the Southern Belle is making an appearance. Recently in the news there was something about a news person calling some music “jiggaboo” music. Immediately there was piling on demanding she be fired and calling her a racist. Why can’t we see this as progress? She says she didn’t know jiggaboo was a derogatory term. Hallelujah!!!! She is young enough she had never heard the word used to be racist. I admit when I first read the news I was shocked but as I read further I had to laugh about and be thankful for how far we have come.
    Also recently Krispy Kreme donuts started some sort of club and someone in marketing didn’t make the connection on calling it the Krispy Kreme Klub. I imagine it was some young whippersnapper marketing kid who had no context in which to think the KKK was anything but “kute”. If the Ku Klux Klan is so diminished that a young person doesn’t make the connection haven’t we made progress?

    Thoughts? Comments?

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  7. Kim, we need to understand that there are people who exist to be offended.
    If there were n offenses, real or concocted, the would have nothing to do.
    There is always offense. We need to get used to it.

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  8. Agree, Kim. That reminds of a Halloween when we went trick-or-treating and my friend’s white daughter dressed as a Hershey Kisses candy, with a giant cone shape wrapped in foil covering her body. Another girl was with us who was black and I commented how she would have been good for that costume. My son asked, “Why?” I don’t think I answered, but thought, yes, we have come a long ways.

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  9. While I agree with you Mumsee, I do think it is time for the rest of the country to stop punishing the Southeast United States for things that happened before a great portion of us were alive. I recently did a google search and the negative articles far exceeded any positive ones.
    I have experienced people hearing my accent, deducting IQ points and SERIOUSLY asking me if we have electricity and indoor plumbing in Alabama.

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  10. I am doing my little bit to keep “offended” from being profitable.
    Not watching MSNBC for one thing. I patronize Chick-fil-a when convenient. etc.

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  11. Well, Kim, do you have indoor plumbing? Our 1940’s barracks at Ft. Rucker in Dothan, AL (The Peanut Capital of the World.) had indoor plumbing back in 1968. Has it spread to the rest of the state? /Snark

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  13. Re: My 9:02
    I am reading a book called Rise of Isis. I have just started it, but there is this description of a beheading on p. 3. It tells about a portion of a DVD that was captured in a town abandoned by ISIS.
    “One by one, the Iraqis were separated from the group and placed in the middle of a small group of jihadists. The first one was a woman, not more than forty years old. As the camera zoomed in, she had a vacant, hopeless look in her eyes –a look of utter despair.

    The shouts of “Allahu Akhbar” intensified until they all blended into one long, loud cheer like the frenzy after a goal is scored. Then—as the shouting reached its peak and the camera zoomed close–the terrorist beheaded the woman.

    They didn’t do it with a clean chop of a sword like one sees on television or in the movies, but instead by sawing furiously through her neck with knives. It wasn’t over immediately as she choked on her own blood, the jihadists kept sawing and sawing and sawing.
    Finally they pulled her head off, waved it to the camera, shouted in victory, and motioned for the next terrified victim to come forward.”

    What the story doesn’t say. The authors likely didn’t know. There was also an angel there. Taking notes.
    These guys were adding a bit to their wrath account. Romans 2:5. I don’t know why this is not discussed more. The “wrath account”, that is.

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  14. Don’t forget, Kim, I am from Idaho. Home of the ten Aryan nations folk before they got kicked out years ago. Many blacks are scared to come here. Including my daughter in law’s mom.

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  15. I’m trying to wake myself up with coffee, it was a long day yesterday with a 9 a.m. meeting, then a story to write, then a school board meeting at 5 which adjourned into a closed session at 6:30 (with the anticipation of a big announcement to come afterward).

    So I dashed home to feed the dogs and pre-write what I thought the story would be, then got back there at 8 p.m. in time for the board to reappear.

    But they announced nothing.

    The night editor was happy (when I texted her that the board was just getting ready to come out of closed session at 8 p.m. she replied with just a one 4-letter word text; someone wanted to go home already).

    So back to another day today. At least I’ll get a little overtime on the next check.

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  17. I think we need to know how our ancestors treated people, remember it, but not relive it or regret it or resent it. It was, now we are not there and don’t need to keep living it. We do need to remember. Children will make fun of anything different, whether it is skin color, hair style, shoes, whatever. That tends to grow into conflict (gangs) and prejudice. They need to know that what happened was wrong but it happened and is in the past. They also need to know how to respect others, but because that is an expectation of Believers, by God, it probably requires the work of the Holy Spirit to make it complete.

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  18. From Piper on jobs/vocation:

    “Let everyone lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him.” God is sovereign. It is no accident that you are where you are. “A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps” (Proverbs 16:9). “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established” (Proverbs 19:21). “The lot is cast in the lap, but the decision is wholly from the Lord” (Proverbs 16:33).

    http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/your-job-is-gods-assignment

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  19. I had never even heard of the word “jiggaboo”, so I didn’t know it was racist.

    Our snow is soon to melt. We had ice Tuesday, and missed another bog storm yesterday that went south of us. I believe it is what AJ is getting today. We are promised 50° this weekend. I’m from Missouri, show someone will have to show me. I’ve learned that forecasters here put nice weather in extended forecasts just to get us hoping. They know that nice weather will eventually come, so they cannot go wrong saying that in 7 days it will be sunny and 60°.

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  20. Meanwhile, our El Nino has arrived — but it’s “weak, weird and late,” as our headline writer notes.

    In other words, rain but it’s too little, too late to make much of a difference in what is now a 4-year drought.

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  22. I just put a horse blanket over the sheet that was protecting the tv on the floor from Miss Bosley’s manicured nails. She buffs them up to a very fine sharpness. She is an obsessed cat. That makes me be obsessed, too! We did much better raising up a son than a cat. 🙂 😦

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  24. The people who host our bible study have a cat that tends to get into trouble. In the places where he goes that he is not supposed to they have a can of air that is motion triggered. If he tries to play in the fireplace for instance it sprays him with air and make a loud noise….you may want to try that.

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  25. Annie loves the jute throw rugs I have in the living room. But they’re tough and heavy-duty enough that she can’t seem to damage them.

    She also loves her pet-store-bought scratching posts and boards which get lots of use.

    Lucky for me she’s always stayed clear of the upholstered furniture — mine is leather, several years old now but “good” enough to heavily protect (unless company is coming) with layers of furniture covers & throws. She likes the faux sheepskin throws for kneading.

    And the furniture underneath still looks nice.

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  26. Since being a young cat, Bosley fell in love with slick surfaces that she can scratch over and over without getting a hold on them. I guess when I think about it, I am reminded of my son when he was obsessed with climbing up a sliding board backwards. He would get a little ways up and slide back down over and over. It was something about the challenge and persistence that kept him at it. If he could just do it one more time he would make it to the top! If Miss B can just do it one more time, she will get a grip! She has managed to move books that kept the sheet wrapped securely around the tv. Then we hear her paws scratching because she is between the sheet and tv screen. I think the horse blanket is so thick that it will be too heavy for her to manage to get behind. She looked pretty impressed when I put it on there. Just another silly challenge the human thought of!!!

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  28. Janice, that’s funny (and sad!) about the TV scratching post.

    I’ve heard that moving blankets are good to wrap dog beds in when dogs like to unstuff them (which mine do).

    BTW, since you’re on Twitter, do you ever use Tweetdeck? Very handy …

    https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

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  29. You know that y’all just confirm my determination never ever to get a cat, don’t you? (my husband wouldn’t consider getting one anyway, so we’re a “no chance of that, squared” household.

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  32. Cheryl, you may recall, I was no way in the market for a cat, but had no one to give her to, and since it was winter and I have a ♡, well, there you go…she was one lucky cat. Well, she thinks so, at least, because she knows no better.

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  33. http://www.trulia.com/property/3126662228-Daphne-2603-Main-St-Daphne-AL-36526

    I went on a listing appointment last night for this property. We told them where we thought the house and land needed to be priced. Today the current listing agent sent out an email HUGE PRICE REDUCTION! It is still 50K over where it should be, The commission on this baby would have solved some of my Financial Peace issues,…so if any of you are looking for a Bay front remodel or tear down let me know. It could still solve a lot of my problems. 😉

    Yes, I do realize that if wishes were horses beggars would ride….

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  34. I’ve got a cat. We have come to some sort of agreement. Every now and then she hops on the sofa and uses her head to butt my arm. She is 8 or 9, how long do you think she has left?

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  35. Just went to the bank drive-through to cash a check and get my balance. I did not know until driving away that the teller did not put my balance in the envelope so I had to park and go in. I have always had good service from the Indian teller, but this was a black lady. I always hate to assume the worse and think someone does something on purpose. But there are some in my area with an
    “attitude.” I wish I did not feel that way. It’s partly the racial divide that Obama has so fostered. I am so disgusted by having to always guess if I will be treated badly because of the color of my skin. This is not Bush’s fault. Obama gets full credit for it.

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  36. I hear ya Janice. It is sad. I no longer go through the drive through at any bank. I park and go in. That way whichever teller is helping me I can be pleasant to all the others so if they ever help me they know me to be nice.

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  39. I agree with Mumsee. It is important to know the truth, both good and bad, about the past. I love what the essayist, George Santanya, said: “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness… Those who cannot remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.” It is Biblical to repent of what was done in the past. Yesterday, I read a fascinating article on the conquest of India by the British East India Company: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders?CMP=fb_gu. The article was published in the Guardian, and I knew many Indians read that publication, so I read the comments. I was surprised that none of the Indian commenter demanded the blood of the English for what they did, nor even demanded the return of the Koh-I-Noor diamond. They simply wanted acknowledgement that England had done wrong, and they wanted people to learn to do better the next time. As Mumsee pointed out, human nature does not change, so there is a high likelihood that we could repeat the injustices of our ancestors.

    That being said, I also think we should avoid the example of the Pharisees. In these days of self-hatred and public flagellation for the sins of our ancestors, I am often reminded of what Jesus said to that group of hypocrites in Matthew 23. “You build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the graves of the righteous, and say, If we had lived when our ancestors did, we would not have participated with their bloody killings of the prophets. Therefore, you are witnesses to yourselves that you are the true descendants of those who killed the prophets. Fill up the measure of your ancestors.” There was a recent expose of how one province, Alberta, had laws to sterilize the unfit during the 1950s and 60s. Of course, speeches were made condemning such open practice of eugenics, and I heard one speaker who talked about how we still marginalized minorities, etc. – typical PC talk – but no one mentioned anything about how the ‘unfit’ are simply screened and aborted now. They publicly mourned the injustice of the past and completely ignored the present injustice.

    I have been on the receiving end of those who assume that all white people are secretly racist – though that didn’t happen in West Africa, where they were more realistic about the slave trade – so I know how frustrating it can be. I can’t change such people’s assumptions, but I can respond in a gracious, respectful, and loving way and hopefully change their perceptions.

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  40. I check my bank balance online every morning. And balance my “checkbook,” which is actually a spreadsheet every morning, too. We bank at a credit unit and when you go into the branch you see no actual tellers. You walk up to a “station” that works just like the drive-thru – you bank through the tubes and hear a voice through a speaker.

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  41. Oh I just now noticed the date up there 3×5=15 I then noticed the Prayer and News sites were 3-5-15 and became really confused..what in the world could that equal? I thought it certainly must be algebra or something 😛

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  42. Fox finally got it right. Harrison Ford was not in a !! II fighter plane. It is a T-6 trainer. Fighters don’t seat two people. T-6’s used to fly out of Biloxi. They made more noise that a four motor plane. It can glide a long way. He almost made it back.
    I hope he’s ok. I liked him in his movies. Always played a “wise guy” hero.

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  44. Online banking fixes my bad math. 🙂 I am grateful for it.

    Cats are wonderful — I got a cat out of necessity (rodent control) but I was raised with cats and always liked them. Annie is very affectionate, has excellent house manners and also has been effective at rodent control (for the most part — she has brought live singular mice and rats in alive before to play endless games of cat-and-mouse hid ‘n seek with and then I need to just get the old store-bought trap again. Sigh.)

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  50. When I was in HS, we had a cat that came to us. She was part wild. She had a litter of kittens regularly and would go out and come back with a live harmless snake. She wanted to train her brood to hunt and kill. We called her “Sleepy” because she roamed all night and slept all day.

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  51. My cat is 19. We’ve assumed she was on death’s door for the last five years, but she’s still here growling and being irritating. My husband read the other day of the longest lived cat: 39 years. Or, as he said, we may only be half done with her.

    Sobbing . . .

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  53. Kim – Kitty head butts are a sign of affection! You should feel honored. 🙂

    Cheryl – In general, that is indeed why we have pets (pleasure or usefulness). But a pet may often end up with issues that are hard to deal with, & we may decide to put up with those issues out of a sense of taking care of this creature who depends on us.

    You once mentioned not liking short haired dogs because long hair is nicer to pet. Our late dog Kane had quite short hair, but he was the sweetest dog, & petting even his short hair was a pleasure because of that.

    Heidi’s hair is longish & wavy, but it actually feels plusher to pet when it has been cut short.

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  54. Most pets wind up with at least “issues.” 🙂 But they are a responsibility once they’re yours. If they’re easily placed with another owner — and you have no qualms about relinquishing them — then fine. But generally new homes aren’t easy to come by.

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  56. I have actually placed three cats in my life, and you probably remember I tried to place the Boz with my friends who now have the three kittens. If only they had taken the Boz, they would have gotten three-in-one!

    I placed one cat with a young couple, daughter and SIL of a highschool friend who we hired to look in on our cat while we vacationed. They liked the cat and seemed they would give it a good home with a chance to be outdoors. The second cat I found a home for, went to live on a farm. She was an older long hair cat that I did not really bond with after I got her. She became the boss cat who ruled over the dogs at the farm so she had a happy life. The last one was a stray I took in from a friend’s condo complex. A neighbor two doors down loved that wandering tom cat who was a professional beggar based on life in the condo complex. When we had our son, the single lady neighbor asked if she might have Tiger so I said yes, knowing how much she loved him. Miss Bosley is the only cat we’ve ever had that has had the run of the house. We had two other cats, Trouble and Tribble that we raised from kittenhood but they were outside cats. They were wonderful. Trouble was black and white and Tribble was a beautiful blue and peachy cream cat. Those were the cats our son grew up with.

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  57. Donna, I know that new homes aren’t always easy to come by. But I don’t think there’s a moral obligation to continue to care for an animal that is more nuisance than joy. Now, if an animal has lived a long and healthy life and it now has to have extra medical care or TLC, then it might be worth it. But if the animal bites or destroys your possessions extensively or any other “extreme” behavior from day one, I would have no problem with putting it down and replacing it with a real pet. There are plenty of good pets available that don’t have homes; why put up with a useless one? I also have never understood the people who take in some dog that needs $16,000 in medical care and then a doggie wheelchair for the rest of its life, or whatever. For a person, sure. Maybe for a working animal, or a pet you’ve had for five years who has been a great pet and still has many healthy years ahead of it, potentially. But for an animal you don’t know? It really is OK if that dog gets put to sleep, you get a different dog, and you spend the money on something more beneficial.

    I’m probably more “obsessed” with love for animals than most people you know. But I think love for creatures has to be kept in perspective. Part of that–for me–is that a pet that is useless as a pet isn’t worth the money and hassle that come with care of an animal.

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  58. very quiet around here as the little ones are asleep. So appreciate my daughter picking them up at the airport. She has watched them before so they are very close to her. It may be time for me to go to bed, as I know they will be up early.

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  59. I suppose there are pets so horrible that you shouldn’t put up with them, but that’s an extremely rare occurrence — pets in general always require some flexibility but to me they’re worth the effort

    They’ll never be as easy as a house plant though 🙂 or a pet rock for that matter

    People all have different thresholds I guess

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