Month: July 2015
News/Politics 7-28-15
What’s interesting in the news today?
Open Thread
Our Daily Thread 7-27-15
Good Morning!
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On this day in 1663 the British Parliament passed a second Navigation Act, which required all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
In 1775 Benjamin Rush began his service as the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.
In 1804 the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.
In 1909 Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight. He was testing the first Army airplane and kept it in the air for 1 hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
And in 1940 Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare.”
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Quote of the Day
“Eh, what’s up, doc?”
Bugs Bunny
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“A Wild Hare”
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Anyone have a QoD?
Prayer Requests 7-27-15
Anyone have something they’d like to share?
Psalm 53
¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
News/Politics 7-27-15
What’s interesting in the news today?
Open Thread
Our Daily Thread 7-25-15
Good Morning!
Welcome to the weekend!
Here’s another of it screeching loudly at a smaller bird who was trying to chase it away.
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On this day in 1759 British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
In 1850 gold was discovered in the Rogue River in OR.
In 1941 the U.S. government froze all Japanese and Chinese assets.
In 1946 the U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.
And in 1952 Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
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Quote of the Day
“The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.”
Maxfield Parrish
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Let’s have reader’s choice for the music selections this weekend.
So what’ll it be?
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Prayer Requests 7-25-15
Anyone have a request or praise to share?
Psalm 52
¹Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
2 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
Rants! and Raves! 7-25-15
It’s Saturday, so you know what that means….
Rants! 😦
and
Raves! 🙂
News/Politics 7-25-15
What’s interesting in the news this weekend?
Open Thread
Our Daily Thread 7-24-15
Good Morning!
It’s Friday!!!
The fuzzball and the flowers are from Janice. 🙂
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On this day in 1849 Georgetown University in Washington, DC, presented its first Doctor of Music Degree. It was given to Professor Henry Dielman.
In 1866 Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
In 1974 the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
And in 1978 Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team.
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Quote of the Day
“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
Oswald Chambers
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Today is Ernest Bloch’s birthday. From The Violin Channel
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Wandering Views 