Good Morning & God Bless To Everyone !!!
Today is January 7, the 7th day of 2014 and there are 358 days left this year were it is a blessed day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
It is another beautiful day here in Albuquerque where it is presently around 20 degrees but there is absolutely no wind, thus no wind chill factor, and we’re expecting highs in the mid to upper 40’s under wonderful skies full of God’s precious sunshine today. Almost makes me feel guilty as I watch the weather dropping into almost historic lows across much of the country. We urge everyone out there to please be careful in these very hazardous conditions and plan any travel carefully. I’m seeing many reports of flights being cancelled or delayed.
It is with great pleasure this morning to announce that Pastor Dewey’s wonderful young pup Reno is progressing well in his recovery from his surgery. He obviously still has a lot of recovery yet to do but all signs are good. Reno is just so very full of love to share with anyone who wants it! His surgery wounds are healing well & his energy is starting to pick up now. I’m ready to shift my prayers for him from the recovery mode into the wishes for good health & good follow-up doctors appointment reports myself although the Pastor, understandably, is still in the ‘I’m worried about my boy’ mode. We’ll get him there but when I talked to him late yesterday all signs were good and I thank Everyone for their prayers.
So, What Happened Today In 1789:
America’s First Presidential Election Is Completed
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| Nominee | George Washington |
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| Party | Nonpartisan |
| Home state | Virginia |
| Electoral vote | 69 |
| States carried | 10 |
| Popular vote | 38,818 |
| Percentage | 100% |
America’s first presidential election is held. Voters cast ballots to choose state electors; only white men who owned property were allowed to vote. As expected, George Washington won the election and was sworn into office on April 30, 1789.
As it did in 1789, the United States still uses the Electoral College system, established by the U.S. Constitution, which today gives all American citizens over the age of 18 the right to vote for electors, who in turn vote for the president. The president & vice president are the only elected federal officials chosen by the Electoral College instead of by direct popular vote.
Today political parties usually nominate their slate of electors at their state conventions or by a vote of the party’s central state committee, with party loyalists often being picked for the job. Members of the U.S. Congress, though, can’t be electors. Each state is allowed to choose as many electors as it has senators & representatives in Congress. The District of Columbia has 3 electors. During a presidential election year, on Election Day (the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November), the electors from the party that gets the most popular votes are elected in a winner-take-all-system, with the exception of Maine & Nebraska, which allocate electors proportionally. In order to win the presidency, a candidate needs a majority of 270 electoral votes out of a possible 538.
On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December of a presidential election year, each state’s electors meet, usually in their state capitol, & simultaneously cast their ballots nationwide. This is largely ceremonial: Because electors nearly always vote with their party, presidential elections are essentially decided on Election Day. Although electors aren’t constitutionally mandated to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their state, it is demanded by tradition & required by law in 26 states & the District of Columbia (in some states, violating this rule is punishable by $1,000 fine). Historically, over 99 percent of all electors have cast their ballots in line with the voters. On January 6, as a formality, the electoral votes are counted before Congress & on January 20, the commander-in-chief is sworn into office.
Critics of the Electoral College argue that the winner-take-all system makes it possible for a candidate to be elected president even if he gets fewer popular votes than his opponent. This happened in the elections of 1876, 1888 & 2000. However, supporters contend that if the Electoral College were done away with, heavily populated states such as California & Texas might decide every election & issues important to voters in smaller states would be ignored.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On January 7 In History:
1327 – King Edward II of England is deposed;
1558 – The French, under the Duke of Guise, take the French port of Calais from the English. It was the last English possession in France;
1776 – From Philadelphia, Samuel Adams writes to his friend Colonel James Warren that the idea of a confederation, or loose political union, among the colonies “is not dead, but sleepeth.” To those who believed they would see the confederation completed long ago Adams wrote, “I do not despair of it — since our Enemies themselves are hastening it”;
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard & American John Jeffries travel from Dover England to Calais France in a gas balloon becoming the 1st to cross the English Channel by air;
1807 – Responding to Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempted blockade of the British Isles, the British blockade Continental Europe;
1830 – 1st railroad station in the United States opens in Baltimore Maryland;
1859 – Just six days after the fall of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba, U.S. officials recognize the new provisional government of the island nation. Despite fears that Fidel Castro, whose rebel army helped to overthrow Batista, might have communist leanings, the U.S. government believed that it could work with the new regime & protect American interests in Cuba. Less than two years later, the United States severed diplomatic relations, & in April 1961, unleashed a disastrous–& ineffectual–attack by Cuban exile forces against the Castro government (the Bay of Pigs invasion);
1864 – Former Secretary of Interior in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet, Caleb Blood Smith, dies in Indianapolis Indiana;
1865 – In retaliation for the Sand Creek massacre, Cheyenne & Sioux warriors attack Julesburg Colorado;
1890 – W B Purvis patents the fountain pen;
1892 – A massive mine explosion leaves nearly 100 dead in Krebs Oklahoma. The disaster, the worst mining catastrophe in Oklahoma’s history, was mainly due to the owner’s emphasis on profit over safety;
1901 – The confessed Colorado cannibal Alfred Packer is released from prison on parole after serving 18 years;
1927 – Commercial trans-Atlantic telephone service is inaugurated between New York & London;
1934 – Six thousand Pastors in Berlin Germany defy the Nazis insisting that they will not be silenced;
1942 – Japanese siege of Bataan begins in the Philippines during WWII. The fall of Bataan 3 months later is followed by the notorious Bataan Death March;
1945 – British Gen. Bernard Montgomery gives a press conference in which he all but claims complete credit for saving the Allied cause in the Battle of the Bulge. He was almost removed from his command because of the resulting American outcry. Montgomery had already earned the ire of many American officers because of his cautiousness in the field, arrogance off the field, & willingness to disparage his American counterparts. The last straw was Montgomery’s whitewashing of the Battle of the Bulge facts to assembled reporters in his battlefield headquarters—he made his performance in the Ardennes sound not only more heroic but decisive, which necessarily underplayed the Americans’ performance. Since the loss of American life in the battle was tremendous & the surrender of 7,500 members of the 106th Infantry humiliating, Gen. Omar Bradley complained loudly to Dwight D Eisenhower, who passed the complaints on to Churchill. On January 18, Churchill addressed Parliament & announced in no uncertain terms that the “Bulge” was an American battle an American victory;
1947 – “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts;
1952 – French forces in Indochina launch Operation Violette in an effort to push Viet Minh forces away from the town of Ba Vi;
1953 – In his final State of the Union address before Congress, President Harry S Truman tells the world that the United States has developed and deployed a hydrogen bomb;
1955 – Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African-American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House;
1965 – General Nguyen Khanh & the newly formed Armed Forces Council, (the General’s who had participated in the coup on December 19, 1964), restore civilian control of the South Vietnamese government;
1979 – Vietnamese troops seize the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh toppling the brutal regime of Pol Pot & his Khmer Rouge;
1989 – Showa Tenno Hirohito, the 124th Japanese monarch in an imperial line dating back to 660 B.C., dies after serving six decades as the emperor of Japan. He was the longest-serving monarch in Japanese history. Following WWII, Under U.S. occupation & postwar reconstruction, Hirohito was formally stripped of his powers & forced to renounce his alleged divinity, but he remained his country’s official figurehead until his death in 1989. He was succeeded as emperor by his only son, Akihit;
1998 – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton;
1999 – The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton who is formally charged with lying under oath & obstructing justice begins in the Senate;
2009 – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin endorses Russia’s decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine;
2013 – It was one year ago today!
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff:
Today’s I’m Just Too Cute Face:
Today’s Founder’s Quote:
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson (1781)
Today’s Word Of The Day:
ObamaCare – to insure the uninsured are insured by making the insured uninsured which will then make them pay more to be insured again so the original uninsured can be insured for free.
Today’s Christian Inspirational Music Video:
The Prayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YPiCVuSOzmI
Today’s Computer Law:
When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
Today’s Definition Of Friendship:
Today’s Work Sign:
At an Optometrist’s Office: “If you don’t see what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place.”
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Arizona – Hunting camels is prohibited.
Today’s Silly ?:
On those DIY TV shows, why does everyone shopping for toilets at the hardware store open the lid to see what’s inside? Won’t they be getting the one in the box anyway?
Today’s Sign Of The Times:
Do You Remember This Guy?
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
Today’s Silly Sign:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. – Ephesians 5:12
Abba Father, I will never fully understand how you could love me so much that you would allow your son to die for me, as my sacrifice. Please help me love others sacrificially. I know the power to do this is not within me, so please pour your love into my heart so that I may share that love with others. Through Jesus, my brother and my sacrifice, I pray. Amen.
Today’s Christian Thought:
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – GOD BLESS To Everyone !!!