Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 9, the 40th day of 2014 and there are 325 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the work for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
If we want to leave an indelible mark on the world, there is no more powerful way to do it than by joining in God’s purposes through prayer. Our prayers can go where we can not. While many things may seem impossible from a human standpoint, in the realm of prayers, there are no impossibilities!
It came on my heart (very) early in the morning this morning that as we get up and get ‘gussie’d up’ to go celebrate our Lord today, to ask everyone to give a special prayer for the children around the world. In so many instances during my military career, I witnessed the horrendous effects that war, conflict, persecution and tyranny have on all the innocent children. There are so very many children living under unimaginable conditions that make a hardened warrior cringe, all over the world and I ask everyone to offer a special prayer for them today.
So, What Happened Today In 1950 ?
United States Senator McCarthy accuses State Department of communist infiltration
Joseph Raymond McCarthy, a relatively obscure Republican senator from Wisconsin, announces during a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, that he has in his hand a list of 205 communists who have infiltrated the U.S. State Department. The unsubstantiated declaration, which was little more than a publicity stunt, suddenly thrust Senator McCarthy into the national spotlight.
Asked to reveal the names on the list, the reckless and opportunistic senator named officials he determined guilty by association, such as Owen Lattimore, an expert on Chinese culture and affairs who had advised the State Department. McCarthy described Lattimore as the “top Russian spy” in America.
These and other equally shocking accusations prompted the Senate to form a special committee, headed by Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland, to investigate the matter. The committee found little to substantiate McCarthy’s charges, but McCarthy nevertheless touched a nerve in the American public, and during the next two years he made increasingly sensational charges, even attacking President Harry S. Truman’s respected former secretary of state, George C. Marshall.
In 1953, a newly Republican Congress appointed McCarthy chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of Governmental Operations, and “McCarthyism” reached a fever pitch. In widely publicized hearings, McCarthy bullied defendants under cross-examination with unlawful and damaging accusations, destroying the reputations of hundreds of innocent citizens and officials.
In the early months of 1954, McCarthy, who had already lost the support of much of his party because of his bullying tactics, finally overreached himself when he took on the U.S. Army. Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower pushed for an investigation of McCarthy’s conduct, and the televised hearings exposed the senator as a reckless and excessive tyrant who never produced proper documentation for any of his charges. In December, the Senate voted to condemn him for misconduct. By the time of his death from alcoholism in 1957, the influence of Senator Joseph McCarthy in Congress was negligible.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 9 In History:
1773 – Future President William Henry Harrison is born on the Berkeley Plantation in Virginia. Harrison went on to serve as the ninth U.S. president for a brief 32 days in 1841, the shortest term ever served. Harrison is also credited with the record for the longest inaugural address in history. Delivered on a bitterly cold March morning, it clocked in at one hour and 45 minutes. He was also the last president to be born an English subject;
1799 – The USS Constellation captures the French frigate Insurgente off the West Indies;
1825 – As no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the United States. Adams was the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States. With little popular support, Adams’ time in the White House was for the most part ineffectual, and the so-called Corrupt Bargain continued to haunt his administration. In 1828, he was defeated in his reelection bid by Andrew Jackson, who received more than twice as many electoral votes than Adams;
1861 – Tennessee votes against secession from the Union;
1863 – The ‘Fire Extinguisher’ is patented by Alanson Crane;
1864 – Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon in Monroe, Michigan, while the young cavalry officer is on leave. “Libbie,” as she was known to her family, was a tireless defender of her husband’s reputation after his death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana in 1876, and her work helped establish him as an American hero;
1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th US state;
1870 – The United States Weather Bureau is established under the Secretary of War;
1918 – United States Army Chaplain school organizes at Fort Monroe in Virginia;
1926 – The teaching of the theory of evolution is forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools;
1942 – Congress pushes ahead standard time for the United States by one hour in each time zone, imposing daylight saving time–called at the time “war-time.” Daylight saving time, suggested by President Roosevelt, was imposed to conserve fuel, and could be traced back to World War I, when Congress imposed one standard time on the United States to enable the country to better utilize resources, following the European model. The World War II legislation imposed daylight saving time for the entire nation for the entire year. It was repealed Sept. 30, 1945, when individual states once again imposed their own “standard” time. It was not until 1966 that Congress passed legislation setting a standard time that permanently superceded local habits;
1942 – The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II;
1942 – During World War II, the Normandie, the most elegant ocean liner ever built, burns and sinks in New York Harbor during its conversion to an Allied trip transport ship. The first major liner to cross the Atlantic in less than four days, its masterful engineering was only surpassed by its design excellence. After the American entrance into World War II, it was seized by the U.S. Navy for the Allied war effort and renamed the U.S.S. Lafayette. However, just days before it was to be completed for trooping, a welder accidentally set fire to a pile of flammable life preservers with his torch, and by early the next morning the ship lay capsized in the harbor, a gutted wreck. It was later towed south to New Jersey and scrapped;
1953 – The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam;
1953 – The “Adventures of Superman” TV series premieres in syndication;
1959 – The Coaster’s “Charlie Brown” peaks in the charts at #2 … Listen Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UnPzp2lmNk;
1960 – Adolph Coors disappears while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home. The grandson of the Coors’ founder and chairman of the Golden, Colorado, brewery was kidnapped and held for ransom before being shot to death;
1965 – In the Vietnamese War, a U.S. Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion is deployed to Da Nang. President Johnson had ordered this deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase there. This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam and there was considerable reaction around the world to the new stage of U.S. involvement in the war. Predictably, both communist China and the Soviet Union threatened to intervene if the United States continued to apply its military might on behalf of the South Vietnamese. In Moscow, some 2,000 demonstrators, led by Vietnamese and Chinese students and clearly supported by the authorities, attacked the U.S. Embassy. Britain and Australia supported the U.S. action, but France called for negotiations;
1971 – Baseball pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. In August of that year, Paige, a pitching legend known for his fastball, showmanship and the longevity of his playing career, which spanned five decades, was inducted. Joe DiMaggio once called Paige “the best and fastest pitcher I’ve ever faced.”;
1972 – During the Vietnam War, the aircraft carrier USS Constellation joins aircraft carriers USS Coral Sea and USS Hancock off the coast of Vietnam. From 1964 to 1975, there were usually three U.S. carriers stationed in the water near Vietnam at any given time. Carrier aircraft participated in the bombing of North Vietnam and also provided close air support for U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam. In 1972, the number of U.S. carriers off Vietnam increased to seven as part of the U.S. reaction to the North Vietnamese Eastertide Offensive that was launched on March 30–carrier aircraft played a major role in the air operations that helped the South Vietnamese defeat the communist invasion;
1986 – Tomb of Tutanchamon’s treasurer Maya found in Egypt;
2001 – A United States Navy submarine strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School, a Japanese fishing boat, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing four students and five other people. The USS Greenville was hosting a cruise for VIPs at the time, some of whom were actually at the controls of the sub when the collision occurred;
2012 – The U.S. Department of Defense produces new guidelines that remove restrictions on the use of women in combat. By December 2013 major issues concerning physical fitness standards, among other problems, were arising placing the program in jeopardy which remains under review;
2013 – It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !!!
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
– Samuel Adams
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Video:
SKIES SO BEAUTIFUL – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sgojf-LzM&feature=player_embedded
Today’s ‘It’s Just An Observation’:
There isn’t a wall high enough to stop illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border when the reward waiting on the other side is free health care, jobs, driver’s licenses and college tuition subsidized by American taxpayers.
Today’s Quote For The Day:
“All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.”
– Gaius Julius Caesar
Today’s Picture Taken With Impeccable Timing:
Today’s ‘Really?’ Product Warning Label:
On packaging for a Rowenta Iron – Do not iron clothes on body.
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try to find oil? You’re crazy.”
– Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
Today’s ‘I Fixed It Honey’ Picture:
Today’s Internet Proverb:
Home is where you hang your @.
Today’s Lexophile Word Play:
Police were called to a Day Care Center where a 3-year-old was resisting a rest.
Today’s Funny Picture:
Today’s Joke Of The Day:
‘BATS IN THE BELFRY’
Three Pastors in the south were having lunch in a diner together.
One of them said, “You know, since summer started I’ve been having trouble with them flying bats in my loft and attic at the church.
I’ve tried everything; but nothing seems to scare them off.”
Another pastor said, “Yes, me too, I’ve got hundreds living in my belfry and in the narthex attic.
I’ve even had the place fumigated, and they won’t go away!”
The third pastor said, “I baptized all mine, made them members of the church, and they haven’t been seen since!”
Today’s ‘I Love You’ Picture:
Today’s Inspirational Video:
If this doesn’t cheer you up – YOU CAN’T BE CHEERED UP ! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAwc2d7o6Cs&feature=player_embedded
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Anyway – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6uLtyzRgmyI
Today’s Inspirational Thought:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Dear brothers and sisters, we can’t help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing.
– 2 Thessalonians 1:3
Holy Father God, may your love so fill me so that I can fully share love with those that I meet each day. May this love grow and increase so that others may readily see its benefits and recognize that it is a direct response to the lavish love you have shared with me. Through the power of your Spirit, help my love increase! In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Today’s Inspirational Quote:
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
– Helen Keller
And Now, It’s Time For Today’s Nap:
So, Until Tomorrow – America, BLESS GOD !!!
