Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 3, the 34th day of 2014 and there are 331 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
Following what they say was ‘The Super(?) Bowl last night, I take note that obviously, Seattle fans are pleased and Denver fans are disappointed, (a lot! – LOL), the game seemed kind of a let down if you wanted a head-to-head football game. But never fear – the game goes on – as I turn my TV on the following a.m., one of the first reports I hear about is that atheists are upset because a number of the players actually went out, joined together, and held a prayer prior to the football game! I’m sure we’ll start hearing all the court and lawsuit news about it shortly. While I don’t attend many sporting events at my age and condition, I encourage everyone who does to start a movement in which EVERY Christian fan in attendance gather together prior to ANY sporting event and have A PRAYER TOGETHER! I recently posted an article concerning Christianity and this years SuperBowl which you can read here: https://fggam.org/is-it-the-superbowl-the-potbowl-or-could-it-be-the-christian-bowl/
So, What Happened Today In 2005 ?
Alberto Gonzales becomes first hispanic United States Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales won Senate confirmation as the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general despite protests over his record on torture.
The Senate approved his nomination on a largely party-line vote of 60-36, reflecting a split between Republicans and Democrats over whether the administration’s counterterrorism policies had led to the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere. Shortly after the Senate vote, Vice President Dick Cheney swore in Gonzales as attorney general in a small ceremony in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. President Bush, who was traveling, called to congratulate him.
Gonzales was born in 1955 in San Antonio, Texas, the son of migrant workers and grew up in a small, crowded home in Houston without hot water or a telephone. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1973 after graduating high school. Following a few years of service, Gonzales attended the U.S. Air Force Academy.
After leaving the military, Gonzales attended Rice University and Harvard Law School before Bush, then governor of Texas, picked him in 1995 to serve as his general counsel in Austin and in 2001 brought him to Washington as his White House counsel. In this new role, Gonzales championed an extension of the USA Patriot Act.
After Gonzales became attorney general, he faced scrutiny regarding some of his actions, most notably the firing of several U.S. attorneys and his defense of Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program. The firings became the subject of a Senate Judiciary Committee in 2007. Concerns about the veracity of some of his statements as well as his general competency also began to surface.
Democrats began calling for his resignation and for more investigations, but President Bush defended his appointee, saying that Gonzales was “an honest, honorable man in whom I have confidence,” according to an Associated Press report from April.
A few months later, however, Gonzales decided to step down.
On August 27, he gave a brief statement announcing his resignation (effective September 17), stating that “It has been one of my greatest privileges to lead the Department of Justice.” He gave no explanation for his departure. In his resignation letter, Gonzales simply said that “. . . this is the right time for my family and I to begin a new chapter in our lives.”
Gonzales and his wife Rebecca have three sons.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 3 In History:
1014 – Sweyn I, the king of Denmark, Norway and England, died in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, just over a month after being declared ruler of the English;
1160 – Emperor Frederick Barbarossa hurtles prisoners, including children, at the Italian city of Crema, forcing its surrender;
1238 – The Mongols take over Vladimir, Russia;
1690 – The first paper money in America is issued in the Massachusetts Bay Colony;
1743 – Philadelphia establishes a “pesthouse” to quarantine immigrants;
1780 – In one of the most famous crimes of post-Revolution America, Barnett Davenport commits an awful mass murder in rural Connecticut. Caleb Mallory, his wife, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren were killed in their home by their boarder, Davenport;
1781 – In the American Revolutionary War, American General Nathanael Greene and his troops successfully cross the Yadkin River to evade General Charles Cornwallis. The crossing followed consecutive Patriot losses at the Catawba River and at Tarrant’s Tavern, as well as heavy rainfall on February 1, which Greene feared would soon make the river impassable. Greene’s timing was impeccable as Cornwallis was unable to ford the quickly rising Yadkin behind him. Instead, Cornwallis was forced to march his men to the aptly named Shallow Ford and did not finish crossing the Yadkin until the morning of the February 7, by which time Greene and the Southern Army had a two-day lead in the race towards the Dan River and safety in Patriot-held Virginia;
1783 – Spain recognizes United States independence;
1865 – During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln meets with a delegation of Confederate officials at Hampton Roads, Virginia, to discuss a possible peace agreement. Lincoln refused to grant the delegation any concessions, however, and the meeting ended after less than five hours. The war continued for more than two months;
1876 – With only $800, Albert Spalding starts a sporting goods company, manufacturing the first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football;
1889 – In the Old West, the outlaw Belle Starr is killed when an unknown assailant fatally wounds the famous “Bandit Queen” with two shotgun blasts from behind;
1912 – New U.S. football rules are set: field shortened to 100 yds.; touchdown counts six points instead of five; four downs are allowed instead of three; and the kickoff is moved from midfield to the 40 yd. line;
1913 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified granting the power to apply a federal income tax, was ratified;
1924 – Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States dies in Washington, D.C. at the age of 67;
1930 – The Vietnamese Communist Party forms;
1941 – Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, setting minimum wages & maximum working hours;
1944 – In World War II, American forces invade and take control of the Marshall Islands, long occupied by the Japanese and used by them as a base for military operations. The Marshalls, east of the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, had been in Japanese hands since World War I. Repeated carrier and land-based air raids destroyed every Japanese airplane on the Marshalls. By February 3, U.S. infantry overran Roi and Namur atolls. The Marshalls were then effectively in American hands with the loss of only 400 American lives;
1950 – During the Cold War, Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British scientist who helped developed the atomic bomb, is arrested in Great Britain for passing top-secret information about the bomb to the Soviet Union. The arrest of Fuchs led authorities to several other individuals involved in a spy ring, culminating with the arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and their subsequent execution at Sing Sing Prison in June 1953;
1955 – After months of prodding by U.S. advisors, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem introduces the first in a series of agrarian reform measures. This first measure was a decree governing levels of rent for farmland. The communists capitalized on unresolved peasant unrest throughout Diem’s regime. Discontent towards Diem reached its height when dissident South Vietnamese officers murdered him during a coup in November 1963;
1959 – Rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa;
1966 – The Soviet Union accomplishes the first controlled landing on the moon, when the unmanned spacecraft Lunik 9 touches down on the Ocean of Storms. After its soft landing, the circular capsule opened like a flower, deploying its antennas, and began transmitting photographs and television images back to Earth;
1969 – The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of Palestinian Liberation Organization;
1970 – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings on the conduct of the war by the Nixon administration. Senator Charles Goodell (R-New York) said that Vietnamization (President Richard Nixon’s program to transfer war responsibility to the South Vietnamese) had been a “great public relations success.” Taking exception with Senator Goodell’s assessment, Senators Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), Thomas Eagleton (D-Missouri), and Alan Cranston (D-California) testified in support of a Senate resolution calling for the termination of the American commitment to South Vietnam unless the Saigon government took steps to broaden its cabinet, stop press censorship, and release political prisoners;
1994 – Nearly two decades after the fall of Saigon, U.S. President Bill Clinton announces the lifting of the 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam, citing the cooperation of Vietnam’s communist government in helping the United States locate the 2,238 Americans still listed as missing in the Vietnam War;
1998 – A U.S. Marine EA-6B Prowler jet flying low over the town of Cavalese in the Italian Alps severs a ski-lift cable, sending a tram crashing to the ground and killing 20 people;
1998 – Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, 38, for the pickax killings of two people in 1983; she was the first woman executed in the United States since 1984;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !
Today’s Patriotic Quote/Thought For The Day:
“It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.”
– Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome to get where he is.”
– Booker T. Washington
Today’s ‘A Thought From Rick’:
A true Friend – Will argue with you, but only when they feel it is necessary!
Today’s ‘Dog Thought’:
Today’s Lexophile Word Play:
The batteries were given out free of charge.
Today’s Word For The Day:
Peripatetic – noun, is a person who walks or travels about. It can be used as an adjective as well, with the same meaning. The word makes allusion to Aristotle, who used to teach his philosophy while walking in the Lyceum.
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Today’s Astute Visionary:
“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”
– Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
Today’s ‘So Long Ago’:
Not So Long Ago – backups occurred in you bathroom and happened to your commode!
Today’s ‘Let’s Be Friends’ Picture:
Today’s Funny Animal Video”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-kApVH1Jj6Q
Today’s Proverb:
Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather.
Today’s ‘A Sign For Every Profession’:
On the back of a Septic Tank Truck – “CAUTION – This Truck Is Full Of Political Promises!”
Today’s ‘Nap Time In Teddy Bear Day Care’:
Today’s Crazy Law:
In Florida – it is illegal to fish while driving across a bridge.
Today’s Crazy ?/Thought:
Why do they call it a RUNNING BACK when he is running forward?
Today’s ‘This Is What Cameras Were Made For’ Picture:
Today’s Motivational Quote:
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
– Booker T. Washington
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Beautiful Day – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uPy0ctqMwE0
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
– 1 Chronicles 16:10
You have blessed me in so many ways, Father. How can I ever begin to thank you properly? I confess that I sometimes seek notoriety and glory for myself even though I know it is fleeting and often it is only the false flattery of those who want something from me. But deep in my heart, dear God, I know that my true glory is found in the adoption covenant you signed with your grace. Thank you! Words cannot capture my appreciation, but please know that I look forward to being eternally grateful for all that you have done. May the glory be yours in heaven and throughout the earth, both now and forevermore. In the name of Jesus I praise you. Amen.
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – America, Bless GOD !!!
