Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is March 12, the 71st day of 2014 and there are 294 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the pleasure of our service for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
Did you know: A recent Harvard study concluded that the earth was warmer during the Middle Ages than today. It’s impossible to blame that on coal plants that did not exist 1,000 years ago. A few hundred years ago, Europe and North America suffered through the “Little Ice Age,” and there is evidence suggesting we may be entering another dramatic cooling period. Maybe that’s why we now label it “Climate Change” instead of “Global Warming”; or could there be other more political reasons for the name change?
So, What Happened Today In 1933?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first “Fireside Chat”
Eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address or “fireside chat,” broadcast directly from the White House.
Roosevelt began that first address simply: “I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.” He went on to explain his recent decision to close the nation’s banks in order to stop a surge in mass withdrawals by panicked investors worried about possible bank failures. The banks would be reopening the next day, Roosevelt said, and he thanked the public for their “fortitude and good temper” during the “banking holiday.”
At the time, the U.S. was at the lowest point of the Great Depression, with between 25 and 33 percent of the work force unemployed. The nation was worried, and Roosevelt’s address was designed to ease fears and to inspire confidence in his leadership. Roosevelt went on to deliver 30 more of these broadcasts between March 1933 and June 1944. They reached an astonishing number of American households, 90 percent of which owned a radio at the time.
Journalist Robert Trout coined the phrase “fireside chat” to describe Roosevelt’s radio addresses, invoking an image of the president sitting by a fire in a living room, speaking earnestly to the American people about his hopes and dreams for the nation. In fact, Roosevelt took great care to make sure each address was accessible and understandable to ordinary Americans, regardless of their level of education. He used simple vocabulary and relied on folksy anecdotes or analogies to explain the often complex issues facing the country.
Over the course of his historic 12-year presidency, Roosevelt used the chats to build popular support for his groundbreaking ‘New Deal’ policies, in the face of stiff opposition from big business and other groups. After World War II began, he used them to explain his administration’s wartime policies to the American people. The success of Roosevelt’s chats was evident not only in his three re-elections, but also in the millions of letters that flooded the White House. Farmers, business owners, men, women, rich, poor–most of them expressed the feeling that the president had entered their home and spoken directly to them. In an era when presidents had previously communicated with their citizens almost exclusively through spokespeople and journalists, it was an unprecedented step.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On March 12 In History:
1496 – All Jews are expelled from Syria;
1609 – The Bermuda Islands become an English colony;
1664 – New Jersey becomes a British colony;
1776 – During the American Revolution, in Baltimore, Maryland, a public notice appears in local papers recognizing the sacrifice of women to the cause of the revolution. The notice urged others to recognize women’s contributions and announced, “The necessity of taking all imaginable care of those who may happen to be wounded in the country’s cause, urges us to address our humane ladies, to lend us their kind assistance in furnishing us with linen rags and old sheeting, for bandages.”;
1789 – The United States Post Office is established;
1864 – One of the biggest military fiascos of the Civil War begins as a combined Union force of infantry and riverboats starts moving up the Red River in Louisiana. The month-long campaign was poorly managed and achieved none of the objectives set forth by Union commanders. The campaign was deemed a failure–it drew Union strength away from other parts of the South and the expedition never reached Texas;
1888 – Agreeing to cooperate with a policy unilaterally adopted by Congress six years earlier, China approves a treaty forbidding Chinese laborers to enter the United States for 20 years. In 1943, only when China became a valuable ally in the war against Japan, did the U.S. finally abandon this blatantly racist policy;
1894 – In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time;
1903 – The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land;
1912 – The Girl Scouts of the USA had its beginnings as Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Ga., founded the first American troop of the Girl Guides;
1914 – American inventor George Westinghouse died in New York at age 67;
1917 – During World War I, after being called out to quell workers’ demonstrations on the streets of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), regiment after regiment of soldiers in the city’s army garrison defect to join the rebels on March 12, forcing the resignation of the imperial government and heralding the triumph of the February Revolution in Russia;
1930 – Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. India’s independence was finally granted in August 1947. Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist less than six months later;
1933 – President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side;
1938 – German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. Hitler accompanied German troops into Austria, where enthusiastic crowds met them. Hitler appointed a new Nazi government, and on March 13 the Anschluss was proclaimed. Austria existed as a federal state of Germany until the end of World War II, when the Allied powers declared the Anschluss void and reestablished an independent Austria. Schuschnigg, who had been imprisoned soon after resigning, was released in 1945;
1945 – Diarist Anne Frank dies of typhus in a German concentration camp;
1947 – In a dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. Historians have often cited Truman’s address, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the (first) Cold War. The Truman Doctrine successfully convinced many that the United States was locked in a life-or-death struggle with the Soviet Union, and it set the guidelines for over 40 years of U.S.-Soviet relations;
1951 – “Dennis the Menace,” created by cartoonist Hank Ketcham, made its syndicated debut in 16 newspapers;
1959 – The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii;
1972 – In the Vietnam War, the last remnants of the First Australian Task Force withdraw from Vietnam. The Australian government had first sent troops to Vietnam in 1964. Australia began to withdraw its troops in 1970, following the lead of the United States as it drastically reduced its troop commitment to South Vietnam;
1989 – Some 2,500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American flag placed on the floor as part of a student’s exhibit;
1993 – Following her confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Janet Reno is sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States;
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first 33 women priests;
2003 – Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who’d vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, who are serving prison terms for kidnapping her;
2004 – Marcus Wesson, the domineering patriarch of a cultlike clan he’d bred through incest, surrendered to police who found the bodies of nine of his offspring, all but one minors, at their home in Fresno, Calif. Wesson was later convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death;
2009 – Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in New York to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history;
2013 – Google agrees to settle a privacy lawsuit, paying a $7 million fine over its handling of wireless data from early 2008 until the spring of 2010;
2013 – Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that cardinals had failed on their first vote of the papal conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church;
2013 – It was one year ago Today!
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff!!!
Today’s ‘Impeccable Timing’ Picture:
Today’s Patriotic Quote For The Day:
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– President John Quincy Adams
Today’s Founders Quote:
“Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.”
– Samuel Adams, A State of the Rights of the Colonists, 1772
Today’s ‘Try Not To Smile’ Picture:
Today’s ‘It’s Just An Observation’:
When Gary Cohen, who will soon be leaving his job as the director of the main implementation office at the Health and Human Services Department, showed up at an insurance conference last Thursday, he touted the administration’s updated enrollment figures of 4 million enrollees. Unfortunately for him he was asked a critical question: how many of the people who signed up for ObamaCare were previously uninsured? ‘That’s not a data point that we are really collecting in any sort of systematic way,’ he responded. … 4.7 million Americans had their ‘bad apple’ insurance plans cancelled. How many of them the administration is now promoting as new healthcare enrollees is not only impossible to determine, but as Gary Cohen reminds us, of no importance. In other words, we have a healthcare plan sold to Americans based entirely on the premise of reducing the number of uninsured — by an administration that now professes to have no interest whatsoever in knowing whether or not they achieved their objective.
Today’s Thought For The Day:
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Today’s ‘Funny’ Picture:
Today’s Word For The Day:
Lucid (lu·cid) adj. 1. Easily understood; intelligible. 2. Mentally sound; sane or rational. “A lucid conversation.” 3. Translucent or transparent.
Today’s Political Comedy:
Comedian Conan O’Brien: “Because of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, President Obama is threatening them with economic sanctions. Obama said if Russia doesn’t pull out of Kiev we’re not going to let them borrow any of the money that we borrowed from China.”
Today’s Positive Quote:
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today’s ‘Least We Forget’ Music Video:
Some Gave All – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oL_K8G6jdHA
Today’s ‘I Luv U’ Picture:
Today’s Funny Animal Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxa0mnDj0bs
Today’s Trivia:
“Jack” is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
Today’s ‘Awe Of God’ Picture:
Today’s Motivating Thought:
Take an interest in what you’re doing, in where you are, and in every part of life you touch. There is new treasure to be discovered everywhere, so find as much as you can.
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Love Comes Down – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yGk3JHiflWA
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
– 1 Peter 1:4
Almighty God, thank you for giving me your great promises. I long to know you more fully and be able to see your face today just as I believe I will one day. Please protect me and my heart from corruption. In all love and appreciation I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Until Tomorrow – America, Bless GOD!!!