Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !!!
Today Is January 25, the 25th day of 2014 and there are 340 days left this year where it is another Blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
It is yet another beautiful day here in Albuquerque where it is presently 37 degrees at 9:30 a.m. and a light wind is giving us a wind chill of about 30. Mostly cloudy skies here with another summer time high of 57 is being forecast. Tomorrow is to be much the same but slightly warmer with pure sunny skies. Unfortunately, there is still no rain scheduled for us on the books which we desperately need! In fact, forecasts don’t indicate any possibility of ‘wetness’ until the end of the month where we have 4 days in a row listed with a 20% possibility of getting some!
So, What Happened Today In 1869 ?
The man who killed ‘Billy The Kid’, Pat Garrett, leaves Louisiana to head west.
Pat Garrett, both celebrated and despised as the man who killed Billy the Kid, abandons a life of luxury in Louisiana and heads west.
Born into a wealthy southern farming family in 1850, Patrick Floyd Garrett grew up in a world of privilege on a large Louisiana plantation. When his parents died after the Civil War, a bitter estate feud erupted among the children, and Garrett received almost nothing. Like many other rootless post-war Southerners, Garrett decided to try his luck in the promised land of the West, and in 1869, he left Louisiana for Texas, where he worked for several years as a cowboy and buffalo hunter.
After 10 years of drifting around Texas, in 1879 Garrett finally settled in Lincoln County, New Mexico, where he won election as sheriff the following year. A new sheriff could hardly have faced a more difficult time to try keeping the peace. Lincoln County was in the final days of a war between two powerful groups of ranchers and businessmen, both of which had hired former cowboys to become illegal soldiers and assassins. Although the war itself was winding down, some of these hired gunmen continued their crime sprees, including a young killer named Billy the Kid, who became Garrett’s public enemy number one.
Following a failed attempt to ambush the Kid near Fort Sumner in December 1880, Garrett tracked him to a stone cabin near Stinking Springs, New Mexico, where he finally arrested the young gunslinger. A Lincoln County jury quickly found the Kid guilty of murder and sentenced him to hang, but while Garrett was out of town on April 28, 1881, Billy the Kid managed to kill two of his guards and escape.
Garrett renewed the manhunt, and learned that the Kid was still foolishly hanging around Fort Sumner in order to be near his girlfriend. On the night of July 14, Garrett unexpectedly encountered the Kid in a darkened room and shot him dead without warning. When news of Billy the Kid’s death came out, some attacked Garrett for having violated the informal “code of the West,” arguing the sheriff should have given the Kid a fair chance to defend himself. Garrett responded that he had merely done what was necessary to bring a vicious killer to justice, later writing, “I, at no time, contemplated taking any chances [with Billy the Kid] which I could avoid with caution or cunning.”
With Billy the Kid dead and the war all but over, Garrett turned to quieter pursuits. His 1882 ghost-written book, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, was not very authentic but it won Garrett enduring fame and cemented Billy the Kid’s place in the pantheon of legendary western gunslingers. After several more stints as a sheriff and an unsuccessful attempt at horse ranching, Garret was shot to death by a disgruntled business associate in 1908.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 25 In History:
1721 – Czar Peter the Great ends Russian orthodox patriarchy;
1776 – In the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775;
1787 – Small farmers in Springfield, Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays, revolt against tax laws. Federal troops break up the protesters of what becomes known as Shay’s Rebellion;
1863 – In the American Civil War, Union General Ambrose Burnside is removed as commander of the Army of the Potomac. Burnside assumed command of the army after President Abraham Lincoln removed General George B. McClellan from command in November 1862. Lincoln had a difficult relationship with McClellan, who built the army admirably but was a sluggish and overly cautious field commander. After taking command, Burnside drafted a plan to move south towards Richmond, Virginia. The plan was sound, but delays in its execution alerted Lee to the danger. Lincoln had seen enough and General Joseph Hooker took over command of the army from Burnside;
1904 – In Cheswick, Pennsylvania, at the Harwick Mine, some sixteen miles north of Pittsburgh an early morning ignition of built-up methane gas caused an explosion that claimed about 180 lives. Of 175 mine workers underground at the time, the single survivor was the severely burned 16-year-old Adolph Gunia;
1905 – At the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by the mine’s superintendent. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the “Cullinan,” it was the largest diamond ever found;
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service between New York and San Francisco;
1918 – Russia declared a republic of Soviets;
1919 – In World War I, in Paris, delegates to the peace conference formally approve the establishment of a commission on the League of Nations. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson insisted on chairing the commission—for him, the establishment of the League lay squarely at the center of the peace negotiations;
1924 – The first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps;
1942 – During World War II, Thailand, a Japanese puppet state, declares war on the Allies. When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, Thailand declared its neutrality, much to the distress of France and England. Both European nations had colonies surrounding Thailand and hoped Thailand would support the Allied effort and prevent Japanese encroachment on their Pacific territory. But Thailand began moving in the opposite direction, creating a “friendship” with Japan and adding to its school textbooks a futuristic map of Thailand with a “Greater Thailand” encroaching on Chinese territory;
1951 – The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea launches Operation Thunderbolt, a U.N. counter attack to push the Chinese Army north of the Han River;
1955 – United States and Panama sign the canal treaty;
1955 – Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock that is accurate to within one second in 300 years;
1956 – During the ‘Cold War’, in a long interview with visiting American attorney Marshall MacDuffie, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev adopts a friendly attitude toward the United States and indicates that he believes President Dwight Eisenhower is sincere in his desire for peace. The interview was the precursor to Khrushchev’s announcement later that same year that he wanted “peaceful coexistence” between the United States and the Soviet Union;
1961 – President John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to hold a live televised news conference. From a podium in the State Department auditorium, Kennedy read a prepared statement regarding the famine in the Congo, the release of two American aviators from Russian custody and impending negotiations for an atomic test ban treaty. He then opened the floor for questions from reporters;
1968 – The Israeli submarine Dakar, carrying 69 sailors, disappears on this day in 1968 and is never seen again. The exact fate of this vessel remains a mystery to this day;
1969 – During the Vietnam War, the first fully attended meeting of the formal Paris peace talks is held. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, the chief negotiator for the United States, urged an immediate restoration of a genuine DMZ as the first “practical move toward peace.” Lodge also suggested a mutual withdrawal of “external” military forces and an early release of prisoners of war. Tran Buu Kiem and Xuan Thuy, heads of the National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese delegations respectively, refused Lodge’s proposals and condemned American “aggression”;
1971 – In Los Angeles, California, cult leader Charles Manson is convicted, along with followers Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, and Patricia Krenwinkle, of the brutal 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others;
1972 – In the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon, in response to criticism that his administration has not made its best efforts to end the war, reveals that his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger has held 12 secret peace negotiating sessions between August 4, 1969, and August 16, 1971. The negotiations took place in Paris with Le Duc Tho, a member of Hanoi’s Politburo, and/or with Xuan Thuy, Hanoi’s chief delegate to the formal Paris peace talks;
1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia;
1984 – President Reagan endorses the development of the first U.S. permanently manned space station;
1990 – Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred from Panama to a Miami, Florida jail;
1993 – Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years;
1995 – Russia’s early warning defense radar detects an unexpected missile launch near Norway, and Russian military command estimates the missile to be only minutes from impact on Moscow. The nuclear command systems switched to combat mode, and the nuclear suitcases carried by Yeltsin and his top commander were activated for the first time in the history of the Soviet-made weapons system. Five minutes after the launch detection, Russian command determined that the missile’s impact point would be outside Russia’s borders. Three more minutes passed, and Yeltsin was informed that the launching was likely not part of a surprise nuclear strike by Western nuclear submarines;
2005 – A Wichita, Kansas television station receives a postcard from the BTK killer that leads police to discover a Post Toasties cereal box that had been altered to contain the letters BTK. This communication was one in a long line sent by the serial killer who terrorized Wichita for over 30 years, brutally murdering 10 people and taunting law enforcement and the local media. A month later, on February 25, Dennis Lynn Rader, a husband, father of two and compliance officer for Park City, Kansas, was taken into police custody and soon confessed to being the BTK killer;
2011 – Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labor strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s Founder’s Quote:
“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”
– John Adams, 1775
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Multnomah Falls, Oregon
Today’s Patriotic Video:
Sherlock welcomes Staff Sgt. Tyler Bigler home from deployment – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uTdKoXUvYBg
Today’s ‘A Thought From Rick’:
Whenever justice is uncertain with government and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of weakened social units.
Today’s ‘So Long Ago’:
Not so long ago – A cursor used profanity.
Today’s Astute Visionary:
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
– Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
Today’s ‘This Is What Cameras Are Made For’ Picture:
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked.”
– Katherine Anne Porter, American author
Today’s Quote:
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Today’s ‘How The Heck Did That Happen’ Picture:
Today’s Job Issue:
I decided to become a Professional Fisherman, but soon discovered I couldn’t live on my net income.
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Scituate, Rhode Island it is illegal to keep a flock of chickens in your motor-home if you live in a trailer park.
Today’s ‘Moment That Makes You Happy’ Picture:
Today’s Word Of The Day:
Scruple – is the moral or ethical consideration that might inhibit certain actions in men. A politician without scruples, for instance, would be willing to do unethical things to achieve his goals. The adjective is scrupulous.
Today’s Yiddish Word You Should Know:
goy – A non-Jew, a Gentile. As in Hebrew, one Gentile is a goy, many Gentiles are goyim, the non-Jewish world in general is “the goyim.” Goyish is the adjective form. Putting mayonnaise on a pastrami sandwich is goyish. Putting mayonnaise on a pastrami sandwich on white bread is even more goyish.
Today’s ‘Oops Construction Site’ Picture:
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
In Your Hands – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dWdAN-4cqJ8
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
– Philippians 4:8
Holy and Almighty God, thank you for being better than anything my world can offer me. Thank you for calling me to a higher standard than the world accepts. Thank you for giving me the promise of a better future than any human can imagine. Thank you for giving me a high calling to live up to you. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Today’s Funny Silly Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – God Bless To Every One !!!
