Friday, August 05, 2005

I Agree

In Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points story at Fox News yesterday titled Far Left Crisis?, he writes about the collapse of one more left-wing organization. Inspite of the $20 million George Soros has poured into an organization called America Coming Together, run by close Clinton confidante Harold Ickes, it is folding. A centerpiece of Soros' strategy of financing and promoting liberal candidates and attacking conservatives, using internet mud-sling sites and allies in the media, America Coming Together has run out of money and is disintegrating.

Going the same route to oblivion is Air America, a rather dubiously funded radio network that could not support itself due to low ratings and pay back almost $900,000 it owes a certain youth organization.

We share Mr. O'Reilly's take on these developments:
"Talking Points" is thrilled these enterprises are imploding because they're full of character assassins who destroy decent discourse. Karma is a wonderful thing. But we do need responsible voices on the left in this country. -- America is great because legitimate debate sharpens thought and leads to better problemsolving.
We maintain as we have in the past in The LORD My Dad that, as checks and balances are essential in our system of government, the very fabric of our social system in the U.S. of A. relies upon the stability achieved by the healthy tension created by opposing views. The key word is "healthy." Character assasination, dishonesty and deceit, unfairness and one-sidedness must have no place in this system if our society is to thrive.

As Mr. O'Reilly very well puts it:
The quicker George Soros and his stooges leave the stage, the better. But once again, honest liberal thought is vital to a strong democracy. I'd be worried if there's nothing left but the right.
We cannot agree more.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Women’s Favorite E-mail Of The Year

“THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST EMAIL OF THE YEAR !!!!!”

Oh, well, that’s my famous thoughtful friend’s opener for her electronic message to me this morning. I don’t know what occasion or establishment made the declaration, whether or not it should belong among stuff we list as “urban legends,” but my thoughtful friend says what follows below was Voted Women’s Favorite Email of the Year:
A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed home. He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed:

"Dear Lord: I go to work every day and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home. I want her to know what I go through, so please allow her body to switch with mine for a day. Amen.”

God, in his infinite wisdom, granted the man's wish. The next morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a woman. He arose, cooked breakfast for his mate, awakened the kids, set out their school clothes, fed them breakfast, packed their lunches, drove them to school, came home and picked up the dry cleaning, took it to the cleaners and stopped at the bank to make a deposit, went grocery shopping, then drove home to put away the groceries, paid the bills and balanced the checkbook. He cleaned the cat's litter box and bathed the dog. Then it was already 1 P.M. and he hurried to make the beds, do the laundry, vacuum, dust, and sweep and mop the kitchen floor. Ran to the school to pick up the kids and got into an argument with them on the way home. Set out milk and cookies and got the kids organized to do their homework, then set up the ironing board and watched TV while he did the ironing.

At 4:30 he began peeling potatoes and washing vegetables for salad, breaded the pork chops and snapped fresh beans for supper. After supper, he cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, folded laundry, bathed the kids, and put them to bed. At 9 P.M. he was exhausted and, though his daily chores weren't finished, he went to bed where he was
expected to make love, which he managed to get through without complaint.

The next morning, he awoke and immediately knelt by the bed and said,

”Lord, I don't know what I was thinking. I was so wrong to envy my wife's being able to stay home all day. Please, oh please, let us trade back."

The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, replied,

"My son, I feel you have learned your lesson and I will be happy to change things back to the way they were. You'll just have to wait nine months, though. You got pregnant last night."
God bless you all.


Photo courtesy of Ponz Roque

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

My Hilarious Dad—This Week

Bedtime Suggestion

I'd had a pretty hectic day with my four-year-old. When bed- time finally came, I laid down the law: "We're putting on your p.j.s, brushing your teeth, and reading ONE book. Then it's lights out!"

Her arms went around my neck in a gentle embrace, and she said, "We learned in Sunday school about little boys and girls who don't have mommies and daddies."

Even after I'd been such a grouch, I thought, she was still grateful to have me. I felt tears begin to well up in my eyes, and then she whispered, "Maybe you could go be THEIR mom?"

Source:
The Cybersalt Digest
A Ministry of Pastor Tim and Cybersalt Communications
http://www.cybersalt.org/cleanlaugh


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A Boot Funny

The teacher was helping one of her kindergarten students put on his cowboy boots. He asked for help and she could see why. Even with her pulling and him pushing, the little boots still didn't want to go on. Finally, when the second boot was on, she had worked up a sweat. She almost cried when the little boy said, "Teacher, they're on the wrong feet."

She looked and sure enough, they were. It wasn't any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the boots back on, this time on the right feet.

He then announced, "These aren't my boots."

She bit her tongue rather than get right in his face and scream, "Why didn't you say so?" like she wanted to. And once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off his little feet.

No sooner than they got the boots off he said, "They're my brother's boots. My Mom made me wear 'em."

Now she didn't know if she should laugh or cry, but she mustered up the grace and courage she had left to wrestle the boots on his feet again.

Helping him into his coat, she asked, "Now, where are your mittens?"

He said, "I stuffed 'em in the toes of my boots."

[forwarded by Lynn Shough]

Source:
http://www.mikeysFunnies.com
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First Man

A Sunday School teacher asked little Willie who the first man in the Bible was.

"Hoss." said Willie.

"Wrong," said the teacher. "It was Adam."

"Aw, shucks!" Willie replied. "I knew it was one of those Cartwrights."

Source:
Thomas S. Ellsworth
tellswor@slonet.org
http://www.slonet.org/~tellswor

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Remember Lot's Wife?

The Sunday School teacher was describing how Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt, when little Jimmy interrupted.

"My Mommy looked back once while she was DRIVING," he announced triumphantly, "and she turned into a telephone pole!"


Truth about Children

- A baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning.

- A child will not spill on a dirty floor.

- A young child is a noise with dirt on it.

- A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have nothing to do with tires.

- An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

- Be nice to your kids, for it is they who will choose your nursing home.

- Celibacy is not hereditary.

- Familiarity breeds children.

- For adult education, nothing beats children.

- Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

- Having children will turn you into your parents.

- If you have trouble getting your children's attention, just sit down and look comfortable.

- Ill-bred children always display their pest manners.

Source:
The Funnies by Dave Anderson
andychaps_the-funnies@yahoogroups.com


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(It is our practice in The LORD My Dad on Wednesdays to lighten up and post humor or inspiration. We do so to call attention also to the humorous facet of the LORD's character.--SDO)

Monday, August 01, 2005

Awesome And Sobering: August’s First Week In Remembering

Both inspiring and chilling, the first week in August grips the imagination looking back down memory lane! Read on and judge for yourself:

1-- MONDAY

LAST ENTRY IN THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK: Anniversary (1944).
To escape deportation to concentration camps, the Jewish family of Otto Frank hid for two years in the warehouse of his food products business in Amsterdam. Gentile friends smuggled in food and other supplies during their confinement. Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank, who kept a journal during the time of their hiding, penned her last entry in the diary August 1, 1944:
“I keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be, if ... there weren't any other people living in the world.”
Three days later (August 4, 1944) Grune Polizei raided the 'Secret Annex' where the Frank family was hidden. Anne and her sister were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where Anne died at age 15, two months before the liberation of Holland. Young Anne's diary, later found in the family's hiding place, has been translated into 30 languages and has become a symbol of the indomitable strength of the human spirit.

EMANCIPATION OF 500: Anniversary (1791).
Virginia planter Robert Carter, III, confounded his family and friends by filing a deed of emancipation for his 500 slaves. One of the wealthiest men in the state, Carter owned 60,000 acres over 18 plantations. The deed included the following words: "I have for some time past been convinced that to retain them in Slavery is contrary to the true principles of Religion and Justice and therefore it is my duty to manumit them." The document established a schedule by which 15 slaves would be freed each Jan 1, over a 21-year period, plus slave children would be freed at age 18 for females and 21 for males. It is believed this was the largest act of emancipation in US history and predated the Emancipation Proclamation by 70 years.

WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK (August 1-7).
Commemoration of signing of Innocenti Declaration. includes a World Walk for Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding advocates, healthcare professionals and social service agencies focus attention on the importance and benefits of breastfeeding.

THE WORLD WIDE WEB: 15TH Anniversary (1990).
The creation of what would become the World Wide Web was suggested this month in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics at Switzerland. By October, they had designed a prototype Web browser. They also introduced HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and the URL (Universal Resource Locator). Mosaic, the first graphical Web browser, was designed by Marc Andreessen and released in 1993. By early 1993, there were 50 Web servers worldwide. It has been said this is as revolutionary for the human race as the invention of the steam engine ... a hallmark of the industrial revolution.
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2 -- TUESDAY

JAMES BALDWIN: 80th Birth Anniversary (1924).
Black American author noted for descriptions of black life and relations between the races in the US. Born at New York, NY, his best-known work, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, was published in 1953. James Baldwin died at Saint Paul-de-Vence, France on November 30, 1987.
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3 -- WEDNESDAY

ARMY NURSES PAY RAISE: Anniversary (1861).
Although it had been known from the time the Second Continental Congress authorized the Continental Army (June 14, 1775) that " ... the sick suffered much for want of good female nurses ..." (General Washington had asked the Congress to authorize a matron and nurses), progress was slow. The pay of a nurse, originally $2 per month and one ration per day, was increased to $8 per month and one ration per day on April 7, 1777. Congress, 84 years later, authorized the Surgeon General to employ women as nurses for army hospitals at a salary of $12 per month plus one ration per day.

JOHN T. SCOPES: Birth Anniversary (1900).
Central figure in a cause celebre (the "Scopes Trial" or the "Monkey Trial"), John Thomas Scopes was born at Paucah, KY. An obscure 24-year-old schoolteacher at the Dayton TN, high school in 1925, he became the focus of world attention. Scopes never uttered a word at his trial, which was a contest between two of America's best-known lawyers, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. The trial, July 10-21, 1925, resulted in Scope's conviction. He was fined $100 "for teaching evolution" in Tennessee. The verdict was upset on a technicality and the statute he was accused of breaching was repealed in 1967. Scopes died at Shreveport, LA, October 21, 1970.
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4 -- THURSDAY

CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS FOUND SLAIN: Anniversary (1964).
After disappearing on June 21, three civil rights workers were found murdered and buried in an earthen dam outside Philadelphia, MS. The three young men were workers on the Mississippi Summer Project organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to increase black voter registration. Prior to their disappearance, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were detained by Neshoba County police on charges of speeding. When their car was found, burned, on June 23, President Johnson ordered an FBI search for the men.

NELSON MANDELA: Arrest Anniversary (1962).
Charismatic black South African leader, was born in 1918, the son of the Tembu tribal chief, at Umtata, Transkei territory of South Africa. A lawyer and political activist, Mandela, who in 1952 established the first black law partnership in South Africa, had been in conflict much of his life over policies and practices resulting from apartheid maintained by an exclusively white government. Acquitted of a treason charge after a trial that lasted from 1956 to 1961, he was apprehended again by security police August 4, 1962. The subsequent trial, widely viewed as an indictment of white domination, resulted in Mandela's being sentenced to five years in prison. In 1963 he was taken from the Pretoria prison to face a new trial -- for sabotage, high treason and conspiracy to overthrow the government -- and in June 1964 he was sentenced to life in prison. His most internationally-known champion was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu who continues to promote understanding, compassion, and equal human rights around the world.
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5 -- FRIDAY

JOHN ELIOT: Birth Anniversary (1604).
American "Apostle to the Indians," translator of the Bible into an Indian tongue (the first Bible to be printed in America), was born at Hertfordshire, England. He died at Roxbury, MA, May 21, 1690.
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6 -- SATURDAY

ELECTROCUTION FIRST USED FOR DEATH PENALTY: Anniversary (1890).
At Auburn Prison, Auburn, NY, William Kemmler of Buffalo, NY, became the first man to be executed by electrocution. He had been convicted of the hatchet murder of his common-law wife, Matilde Ziegler, on March 28, 1889. This first attempt at using electrocution to carry out the death penalty was a botched affair. As reported by George Westinghouse, Jr, "It has been a brutal affair. They could have done better with an axe."

HIROSHIMA DAY---ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA: 60TH Anniversary (1945).
At 8:15 a.m., local time, an American B-29 bomber, the ENOLA GAY, dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" over the center of the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb exploded about 1,800 feet above the ground, killing more than 105,000 civilians and destroying the city. It is estimated that another 100,000 persons were injured and died subsequently as a direct result of the bomb and the radiation it produced. This was the first time in history that such a devastating weapon had been used by any nation.

FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
The story recorded in the New Testament's first three gospels (Mark 9:2-13, etc.) according to which Jesus took his disciples Peter, James, and John to a mountain where he took on a glorious appearance alongside Moses and Elijah. The Feast of the Transfiguration on August 6 has been observed in the Eastern Orthodox Communion since before 1000 CE, and in the West since 1456, especially by Anglicans(Episcopalians), Lutherans, and Roman Catholics whose following Sunday services focus on the event.

ALEXANDER FLEMING: Birth Anniversary (1881).
Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist, discoverer of PENICILLIN (1928)--first antibiotic successfully to treat bacterial infections in humans--and 1954 Nobel Prize recipient, was born at Lochfield, Scotland. He died at London, England, March 11, 1955.

VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 SIGNED: 40TH Anniversary.
Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to thwart attempts to discriminate against minorities at the polls. The act suspended literacy and other disqualifying tests, authorized appointment of federal voting examiners and provided for judicial relief on the federal level to bar discriminatory poll taxes. Congress voted to extend the Act in 1975, 1984 and 1991.
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7 -- SUNDAY
RALPH JOHNSON BUNCHE: Birth Anniversary (1904).
American statesman, UN official, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (first black to win the award), born at Detroit, MI. Died December 9, 1971, at New York, NY.

FIRST PICTURE OF EARTH FROM SPACE: Anniversary (1959).
US satellite EXPLORER VI transmitted the first picture of Earth from space. For the first time we had a likeness of our home planet based on more than projections and conjectures.

God bless you all.