Good Morning!
It’s Friday!!!
Today’s photos are from Janice.
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On this day in 1679 the British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.
In 1821 U.S. troops took possession of Florida. The territory was sold by Spain.
In 1919 The Treaty of Versailles was hand delivered to the U.S. Senate by President Wilson.
And in 1989 Mel Blanc, the “man of a thousand voices,” died at age 81. He was known for such cartoon characters as Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.
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Quote of the Day
“No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.”
John Calvin
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Today is Carl Orff’s birthday.
And it’s Friday, so why not something loud? How about “Smoke on the Water” with Deep Purple, The London Symphony Orchestra, and Ronnie James Dio, whose birthday is today. What can I say… I like odd combinations. 🙂
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Wandering Views 
Good Morning. Life is chugging along here in the Sunny South. Snuggle-Pup and I are drinking coffee, having breakfast, and checking in.
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Does it get better than that, Kim?
I was listening to The Statlers on the way home from the Y this morning. They were singing “The Class of ’57 Had it’s Dreams”.
We were married in ’57 and some of you were born that year. It was a big year.
But the most significant line in the song is:’
“But life gets complicated when you get past sixteen.”
Astute observation. Life does get complicated abut that time.
And Mumsee might say it gets complicated for some before then. But we all agree that life shouldn’t be complicated much before sixteen.
Is it Friday yet?
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You don’t associate statements like that to Calvin.
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No Chas,, it doesn’t get much better than that. We are all settling in to our routines and life with BG.
The song, The Class of 57 always makes me think of my dad and uncle. Uncle purposely failed a year of school so he and his brother would graduate together. They were the Class of 57. My dad used to tell me that such and such happened before I was ever a gleam in his eye. They had it rough. My grandfather wasn’t a good man.
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Here is the weekly link to the Friday funnies. Or, as WORLD calls it: “The news … illustrated.”
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I concur that 1957 was a big year. Or were you meaning another century’s 57th year?
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Good morning! Woke to coyotes howling this morning. Not a sound I like to hear.
My oldest granddaughter is playing in the state softball tournament . She plays 2nd base. I am very proud of her.
Glad to hear the good report from Kim on life with BG.
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I was too young ro remember the jother ’57.
I thought the Shopping Obama legacy was the most appropriate cartoon. If there is a history book in America fifty years from now, it will not be kind to Obama. We may soon add ISIS and Iranian nukes to the list.
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Bosley!
Coyotes!
AJ, I sent you a few photos a while back including one of Linda and me), did you ever get them?I have a few email addresses so maybe I used one your computer didn’t recognize.
I’m drinking coffee on the left coast where we are under a very heavy marine layer that’s been keeping us cool and overcast for several days now.
Some of our church members spent part of their Fourth of July on one of our more popular beach piers sharing the gospel. Yep, Calvinists, every one. 🙂 Call on the name of the Lord and you will be saved.
Big staff meeting today. We’ve had more layoffs and apparently the word is we’ll hire no one else for now, so vacant positions will just (as usual) go unfilled and remain vacant. Once our 2 college interns leave in August, there will be only a few of us rattling around in the newsroom again, our editor still with no assistant.
There is some good news — a “profit sharing” deal they started last year (trying to make up for giving no raises for so long) will yield us each about an extra week’s pay this fall. And there may be small raises available in 2016 — the first in more than 7 years during which time we’ve been hit with pay cuts, furloughs, loss of vacation time, etc. Of course, medical insurance is expected to go up (again) in 2016 so depending on how much the raises are it could be a wash if we’re lucky.
Meanwhile, some of us were surprised to learn this week that the hedge fund that owns us may be making as much as a 20% profit right now. Who knew? Not us, obviously. Really, we were under the impression they made next to nothing on us and were sort of doing us a favor by keeping us going. Apparently not so. And the more they cut, the more profit they make, so … there may be more cuts to come for all the papers (we think our paper is as small as it can go — and still be breathing).
Good journalism? Serving local communities? Doesn’t seem to be much of a priority for hedge funds, it’s just not what they do.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/newsonomics-do-newspaper-companies-have-a-strategy-beyond-milking-papers-for-profit/
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Donna,
Yep, I got them. You’ll see a bunch tomorrow. 🙂
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Didn’t mean to nag. 🙂 You can just do a ‘donna dump’ of all of them 🙂
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I found someone at church who needs my bookcase and some kirchen things! Two of the college age in the family are moving to apartments. One was a friend to my son so I am happy about this.
The weather has been hot and sticky lately. Blah! Makes me want to stay inside. Also mosquitos are getting bad.
Last night when I got up to use the bathroom around 4 a.m. when I got back to bed, as usual, Miss Bosley had taken my spot on the bed. I surprised her by going over to her little spot at the corner of one end of the bed and pretending to take over her spot. She did not seem to be amused. Last night while watching tv when husband got up, Miss Bosley took his chair. She is such a greedy gal.
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Chas, this one is for you . . . and anyone who likes pop music. This group wouldn’t make it in America, but in a culture where age is respected, it’s kinda cool. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/11730532/Japans-97-year-old-pop-star.html
Well, our coneflowers on the plant nearest the window finally have mature blossoms. Yesterday a male and female goldfinch checked them out (I don’t know if they found anything to eat, or if they simply remembered how good the seeds tasted last fall and they didn’t realize they won’t be ripe for a few more more months), and today we got our first butterflies on them (a great spangled fritillary and a red admiral). And on the way back from town, my husband and I saw a mother deer and her fawn peering at us from the side of the road. I didn’t get any great photos, but he let me out of the car and they watched for a moment and then took off, leaping through the cornfield, which was quite fun to watch. (I did get one photo of them peering at me through the shrubbery and then a couple of the mother leaping, but I had my camera on the wrong setting and didn’t get good action shots. Oh well.)
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In World, Janie B, Cheaney wrote what I have been thinking…
“…Jeremiah might have something to say to us from way back in sixth-century B.C. There was a roller coaster of a life: called against his inclination to prophesy, scorned in the marketplace, mocked by other prophets, thrown in a cistern, kidnapped and dragged off to Egypt, finally released to end his days in a demoralized Jerusalem, shadowed by the ruins of Solomon’s once-glorious temple. The best of the city’s sons and daughters had been carried off to Babylon, and rumors of their despair reached his ears: “By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion” (Psalm 137:1).
“But Jeremiah had it on good authority that destruction and exile were God’s will until judgment ran its course. The prophet called for parchment and ink and wrote to the exiles with instructions from the Lord: Settle down, plant gardens, build houses, get married. “[M]ultiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare” (Jeremiah 29:6-7).
“Today, Babylon has come to us. “Our country,” as we fondly imagined it, has been hijacked by foreigners—or at least, their way of thinking is foreign and makes no sense to us. But it was always inevitable that “we the people” would evolve into something other than our 18th-century forefathers. The last 20 years—actually much longer—have been a tug-of-war between progressive and traditional worldviews, and the balance may well have tipped. We (meaning the American evangelicals who form the bulk of this magazine’s readership) are facing exile from the public square.”
http://www.worldmag.com/2015/06/our_exile_in_babylon
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Donna, that ain’t for me. That guy was twelve years old when I was born and likely in WW II.
Trying to kill us. Besides, I didn’t understand none of that.
😆
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Chas, do you mean me and not Donna? It’s old women, not old men.
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:blush:
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It’s OK, Chas. I just doubt these old women fought in WWII. Their average age is 84, and apparently they’re a real hit in Japan.
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Okinawans were forced to fight. They went from three million to sixteen thousand. It was not their idea. They were being used as the last line of defense. The Okinawans we knew loved Americans and hated the Japanese.
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Mumsee, same for the Koreans, I understand.
They need to get over that. A united Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Philippines needs to stand up to China.
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But Japanese tend to think of the others as second class citizens and the others never want to go through that again. But, on a better day, they would work together. On an ideal day, we would all work together.
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