76 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 9-10-16”

  4. Third
    Someone in Idaho will come up with 57.

    Good morning everyone but Jo and Tychicus.
    Hi guys. Not much going on. I have a weird post on the NCAA thread.

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  8. Yes, Michelle, that does look like a great study. It’s just the right length for a recouperation period after heart surgery 🙂 It may be too expensive, but I can at least check into it. It would be good to place in a church media center as a donation.

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  9. It’s a noisy morning in my neighborhood. Hammering, lawn mowing, neighbors talking, cars passing, in addition to all the background sounds of a major road not far away, cicadas, crickets, birds, airplanes overhead, and now a train is passing. A major symphony of sorts, LOL. My brother noticed all the sounds which are louder today than when he was here. It is much quieter in his neighborhood where cows graze in pastures nearby. Cows don’t make a lot of racket when they chew their cud.

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  10. I am thankful that lawn mowing noise today is not from me! I think perhaps the hammering could be from fixing the neighbor’s fence. I need to offer reimbursement for cost of supplies.

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  12. I’m thinking of sneaking back into bed — I was up early to get the trash out and the foundation people are coming in 2 hours. But worked late last night, didn’t get home until 8:30 p.m., and I sure could use some more sleep right now.

    I have a week off to try to resolve this bathroom plan. I hope to have everything picked out, at least, if not ordered by the end of the week. It would also be good to find someone to do the work, of course, A couple guys have looked but I received no bids from them. So ??? I guess I start over with some cold calls. I’m tempted just to ask real estate guy what roofers would want to do the job, if they can. He says they’re “generalists” but I think that’s enough to handle something like this.

    Another problem in that bathroom is there’s a stead drip from the tub faucet (which can’t be really dealt with because the fixtures are so ancient & to get to them requires getting in behind that liner, again. And I’m told they’d probably just break.

    So I keep a little pail under the faucet and it’s half full by the next day — I toss it onto the front plants.

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  15. Yesterday was very busy, I filed 3 stories — on aquaculture, a boat show & PAC money violation charges in one of our hotly contested county races. The latter came to me via a 5 p.m. call from one of the campaigns.

    5 p.m.? On a Friday? Argh.

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  17. It is quieter in the country, but you would be amazed how noisy cows can be. When they are first separated from their calves, their cries are terrible. Also, we hear the wolves and crickets, birds like crows, etc. I’ll take the country, although, sometimes the city would be nice for being close to more places.

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  18. This from Drudge:

    WASHINGTON — Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner seemed to be hurtling toward Washington. Penney, one of the first two combat pilots in the air that morning, was told to stop it.
    The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft.
    Except her own plane. So that was the plan.
    Because the surprise attacks were unfolding, in that innocent age, faster than they could arm war planes, Penney and her commanding officer went up to fly their jets straight into a Boeing 757.
    “We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day.

    My comment: It didn’t have to be a suicide mission. She could have clipped the tail off the UL plane and ejected.

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  23. Country life: every once in a while, husband takes me into the town or city or hamlet and I thank him for reminding me how grateful I am that he and God put me right here. A couple of days ago, it was Lewiston and Moscow. And I thanked him. Yesterday it was the hamlet of Craigmont (pop about five hundred), and I thanked him. Every Sunday it is our town of two hundred, and I thank him. He laughed. Not to worry, I have lived and driven in cities. Frankfurt, Okinawa, Athens, Torino, New York, Wash DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Kansas City, Boise. Plenty of experience there and opportunity. I enjoyed the time there, just incredibly grateful to be here now.

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  24. Mumsee, I enjoy living in the country more than I ever thought I would . . . but I’d still go back to Nashville (as long as I could take my husband) in a heartbeat. To me Nashville was the “best of both worlds.” The big housing lots, creeks winding through town, tree-lined streets, and so forth made it a very convenient city with a lovely natural essence. Owls visited my backyard, great blue herons flew overhead, and a creek flowed a block away. But I could walk to the post office, Taco Bell and several other fast-food places, shopping, or a park. In summer when the trees were in leaf, I could sit at my computer and look out my front window and not see another house; in winter I could see the houses that were hidden behind the summer trees, but in trade I could see the sunsets.

    We have more bees and butterflies here, and from our window I can often see deer or turkey or other large wildlife, because of the farm field behind us. But the reality is I could have found a home with a better “view” in Nashville, and in Nashville I had greater convenience and much less snow. Overall, I’m still a city girl at heart–but a city girl who wants nature accessible, not the sort of city girl who can thrive in a city like Chicago that has all but eliminated backyard trees and wide open spaces.

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  25. Bees and butterflies, but no Taco Bell 😦 😦 Sad.

    Foundation inspector finally got here and is under the house, said it should take about an hour, maybe less. At least something’s getting done on the house. Someday I’ll get back to the original plan of just painting the place.

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  28. This may seem silly, but it’s a serious question for someone who knows.
    You see young women on TV who have hair styles where their hair is in front of their eyes.
    Question.
    Does this not affect their vision and get in the way?
    I can’t stand an eyelash misplaced. I can’t imagine hair covering an eye.

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  29. It is an ongoing battle here, but especially was a few years ago with a girl wanting to be an anime star. We don’t allow it. The school does not allow it. I can’t stand my hair in my eyes. Yes, it gets in the way of your vision.

    How is Phos doing with the adjustment?

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  30. I sat next to a girl in my high school typing class who wore her hair parted on the side, with one side over her one eye (very long blond hair and she was gorgeous).

    Our typing teacher, an older man who was hilarious, used to always tease her about it (calling her “Miss” and by her last name) — compared her to some actress from his day who wore her hair over one eye.

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  32. Yep

    “During World War II, Lake changed her trademark peek-a-boo hairstyle at the urging of the government to encourage women working in war industry factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles.[19] Although the change helped to decrease accidents involving women getting their hair caught in machinery, doing so may have damaged Lake’s career.[20][21] She also became a popular pin-up girl for soldiers during World War II and traveled throughout the United States to raise money for war bonds.[21]”

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  33. Today I attended the commissioning of the USS Montgomery (LCS8). I have attended a Coast Guard Commissioning in the past but this was my first Navy one. I was the guest of a retired Commander who now works for the shipbuilder on the LCS. ships. At the end the crew was signaled to board to Anchors Aweigh. It was something to see all those Navy people in dress white running to board the ship. It’s a good think I have giant sunglasses. Something got in my eye and it took a moment to catch my breath. We had a more rousing rendition but here ya go

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  38. Late Happy Birthday to 6Arrows!

    So sorry to hear about your fall, Cheryl.

    I can supply all of the spider pictures you need, AJ. Webs also. They are my fly control at the pens. We live in harmony. 😉 😉

    My oldest daughter had an emergency appendectomy last night. She had stayed home on Thursday because she felt so bad. She decided to go to work on Friday,(that crazy work ethic I taught her). Her coworkers made her go to the urgent care, who immediately sent her to the hospital. If she had stayed home another day, it would have burst. She is home and doing well today.

    We are celebrating my granddaughter, Emily’s 9th birthday today. She is such a blessing to all.

    Hair in the eyes is one of my pet peeves. That’s why they invented barrettes.

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  40. Well, I see there was a 4 earthquake in British Columbia this morning, and a 5.7 in Tanzania about three hours ago, but no mention of yours, Jo. Are you sure you are not experiencing manmade global shaking?

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  47. Fine here. Just enjoying the rolling. These homes are built on stilts so easy to rock and roll. I was up, but not dressed so wondering if I might need to go outside.
    I think that I need an earthquake bag that I can just quickly pick up if I should have to leave the house.

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  49. A small sticker weed that has thorns that resemble goat heads. They pierce the sole of your shoe, bike tires, and feet. Not fun to step on one that has been, inadvertently, brought inside. Each plant has many of the stickers on it.

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  51. Babysat Little Guy today from 6:30am to about 4pm. There were a couple times during the day when he just wanted to cuddle for a while. Considering he saves his cuddling for his mommy, I felt very privileged. 🙂

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  52. Kim inspired me to send one of my Fleet Week photos to AJ — along with a very city-type photo form downtown. No spiders in either.

    My dad was in the Navy in WWII and I tear up every time I hear Anchors Aweigh

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  54. Fifteen years ago we discovered that we were at war. We had been at war for a long time, but never realized it.
    Some (like Whatshiisname, the Libertarian candidate) talk of ending the war.
    It will not end for a long time yet.

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  56. Aw. There’s a statue of that onboard the Iowa.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/10/us/greta-friedman-iconic-kissing-vj-day-photo-obit-irpt/index.html

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    (CNN) Greta Friedman, the woman kissed by a sailor in the iconic picture taken in Times Square on V-J Day in 1945, has died, according to her son Joshua Friedman.

    Friedman told CNN that his mother died at an assisted living home in Richmond, Virginia. She was 92.

    The black-and-white photograph of Friedman, dressed in a white uniform, being embraced and kissed by a sailor to celebrate the end of World War II became an enduring image.

    “My mom had so many stories and so many experiences; this was just one of many,” Friedman said about the iconic photo.

    Friedman, then 21 and a dental assistant, was in Times Square when the news of Japan’s surrender to the United States was announced on a billboard, marking the end of the war.

    “Suddenly, I was grabbed by a sailor,” she told Veterans History Project in 2005. “It wasn’t that much of a kiss. It was more of a jubilant act that he didn’t have to go back.”

    The photo, taken by legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life magazine a few weeks later. But the identities of the two people were a mystery.

    It wasn’t until 1980 when both Friedman and George Mendonsa, the sailor in the photo, were determined to be the couple in the photo. …
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  57. I have a question that is not merely for my own curiosity, but because it affects my friend Renee, & she asked me about it. (I have three friends named Renee – my pastor’s wife, a local friend, & this Renee, who lives in Minnesota. We keep in touch via email, & are quite close.)

    Renee is the kind of Catholic who loves Jesus & has a relationship with Him, & takes the Bible seriously.

    From her latest email:

    “Something related that bothers me. Many times, I can tell what people are thinking, or what their next move will be. I predict things that will happen in the world. Sometimes I will give a short dissertation (can’t think of better description) to Bob of a political or other situation, only to hear a newscaster use my very words a few minutes later.

    “I have many, many such gifts(?) I tried, when a teenager, to rid myself of them because they scared me. We had party-line phone service, and I would sometimes answer the phone before it rang. My entire life, I have known when a cop car is in the vicinity. That’s how I got away with the crazed driving. Do you think that ESP and such things come from the devil?”

    Recently, on a Facebook comment to another of her friends, she had written about a time she & a friend went to see the Amazing Kreskin in person. (For those who aren’t familiar with him, he claimed to have psychic powers, & used them as entertainment. He used to be on the late night talk shows pretty often.)

    Apparently, Kreskin would arrange with the venue for them to hide his contract, & if he didn’t find it, they didn’t have to pay him. As he began to try to search for it (via his ESP), Renee kept “saying” in her mind, “It’s in my purse. It’s in my purse.” Kreskin began to look confused, & he approached her, & picked up her purse. (It wasn’t in her purse, she was just trying to “psych him out”.)

    What do you all think about this? Is it possible that some Christians can have that kind of a “gift”? I know I’ve heard others mention having something similar, & have always wondered. Now this dear friend asks, & I want to give her a thoughtful answer. Any help any of you give me would be greatly appreciated.

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  58. Karen, I can’t tell if your friend has a Spiritual gift from God. I know that God gives Spiritual gifts, but i can’t imagine He would give a trivial gift. However, like I said…..
    I do know this.
    Satan does not have the power to give gifts. Satan, according to Isaiah, is a rebellious angel who was cast out of heaven. Temptation is his business, he doesn’t have power to make anyone do anything nor give gifts too people. Satan may have unusual power of perception and see incidents in the making. That is not foreknowledge, nor, if he had it, could he give it to someone else.
    No gift nor natural event is caused by Satan.

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  59. I am referring to Isaiah 14:3f in my statement above. Specifically 14:12f. Some say v. 3-11 refer to the actual king of Babylon. But i don’t read it that way.

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  60. Chas, I don’t think we can say “No natural event is caused by Satan.” The book of Job says otherwise.

    Satan does have supernatural knowledge. I don’t know that we have any indication in Scripture that he can read thoughts, but he can have at least reasonable conjectures about the future and he knows much we don’t know. I would not be inclined to think this gift, or curse, is from God.

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  61. It seems Renee was enamored with psychics enough to go see Kreskin. so she may very well have opened herself up to demonic spirits. I don’t know, but I do know one can do that. We are warned to have nothing to do with fortune telling etc. for a reason. I found out, to my dismay, that such things can bring unwanted demonic activity in one’s life. (in my case a Ouija board)

    We do not know all the possibilities of our brains. Women tend to have more ‘intuition’ than men, for example. Sometimes, that is just a bigger awareness of details, according to studies of men and women’s brains. We could possibly find a physical reason for such things, I suppose.

    The Holy Spirit may reveal something about the future for our or someone else’s good. However, if this consistently happens and is only something that puffs up the person, I would have my doubts about that source.

    If I were Renee, I would renounce any and all activities and pursuits that are unbiblical. That would be any dabbling in psychics, fortune telling, witchcraft, sorcery etc. We cannot dabble in things that are specifically forbidden in scriptures and expect any good to come from it.

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  62. Our pastor made a brief reference before the sermon today to the fact that this was 9/11 and suggested that while threats to nations and people often come from without, most come from within — and that it’s more often the “clay toes” from within that lead to a country’s crumbling & downfall. Referring to our upcoming election choices, he said “It would seem we’ve got some serious clay toes going on.”

    Difficult times.

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  63. Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, but it’s only just being announced today. Rest and downtime ahead. That’s a problem in the middle of a presidential campaign.

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  66. Thanks for the replies to my question. If anyone else has anything to add, please do. And please pray for discernment for Renee to know how she should handle this.

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  67. Kizzie. My mother had the dubious gift of knowing something before it happened. Twice in my life I have “inagined” what my reaction would be when I was told of a loved ones death. Both times my reaction has be “Please, dear God;no.” My grandfather and my father died within months of these thoughts. I don’t want this. I have tried praying it away. Now I pray for the safety of those I love.
    I have reconciled it to God preparing me for a loss. It terrifies me.

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  71. Kim, unless your loved ones died suddenly, that might well come from an unexplained “sense” that something was wrong. The last time I saw my brother-in-law, a couple months before he died, when none of us knew we wouldn’t see each other again, as we were leaving he suddenly hugged me. My sister suspected from something he said a week or so before he died that he had an unspoken hunch he was going to die, and when she said that, I thought of his suddenly hugging me, that somehow he suspected he wouldn’t see me again. Though they had decided a couple of years before that men should not hug women to whom they aren’t biologically related and he didn’t hug me on my wedding day a year before, on that day he had a sudden sense that was goodbye and he hugged me as we were walking out the door. It could have played on me as to why he hugged me and left me wondering if he was dying, but it didn’t, because he was about to turn 46 and healthy (he died of some unexpected side effects from surgery a few months prior, a blood clot; he may well have had some physical sense that his body was not doing what it should).

    The night after my mom died (that is, the night we found out she had died), I had the police checking on her, and I knelt to pray for her and then just “knew” she was gone. So much so that when my sister and I were on the phone and she answered a call on the other line and came back crying to say our brother was calling to say Mom was dead, my surprise wasn’t that Mom was dead; I asked, “How did he know?” The police had my number and my sister’s number, and I was shocked that our brother found out before we did, not that Mom was dead. I already knew that (though I didn’t tell my sister while she was speculating aloud about how to get Mom to be better about staying in touch with us). But I have no idea how I knew, just that my surprise would have been greater had I found out she was actually still alive. But whatever I knew or sensed, God does not give us the authority to seek such knowledge.

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  72. Peter, thank you for pointing out that I got 57 yesterday. My big sister has been trying to teach me by her good example not to be concerned about such things, so I really didn’t notice.

    (BTW, I do not think that word means what you think it means.)

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