Posted on 06/14/2004 4:17:01 AM PDT by The Mayor
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THE WEEKEND THREAD
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I don't think we will make the 60 this year, only about 5 of us do anything and 1 is down recovering from a stroke.
My son Chris has 5 job interviews today and I would like to ask all to keep him in prayer that he will get one of them. He's been looking hard for about 3 weeks now with no luck, plenty of interviews but no offer. He's limited in what he applies for as he did a real, real dumb thing and quit school when he turned 18. We couldn't convince him to finish. Now he's paying the price.
So THAT'S where all our rain has gone! Ship it on down 'cause we are in the middle of a mini-drought. I *really* don't like having to water all my flowers every day. With the rain we got yesterday maybe I will get a respite from that for at least two days. Ha!
Mornin', everybody ! Happy Monday !
Thank you ! You have a great week, too. :^D
If I could direct the rain clouds your wat, I surely would!
wat = way
LadyX's letter thief is attacking me now, I told her to keep it to herself.
The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'. |
Thanks for coming by....
Hi Mayor. Happy Flag Day back at you. Nice pledge today too! Need to get back to work but wanted to say hi and thanks for posting this every monday. God bless our military men and women.
Thanks Dutchess, I enjoy it and Happy Flag Day
Good news, the Supreme court has just ruled the Pledge stays as it is. I will find the story and post it.
Mornin'. Great flag for flag day.
Quite appropriate that the USSC would rule as they did on Flag Day.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5416303
Supreme Court Decides Pledge Case on Technicality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that California atheist Michael Newdow lacked the right to bring a constitutional challenge to the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, avoiding a decision on the key church-state issue.
By an 8-0 vote, the justices overturned a controversial decision by a U.S. appeals court in California that reciting the phrase amounted to a violation of church-state separation.
The ruling by the justices was based on the technicality that Newdow could not bring the case before the court because he did not have legal control over his daughter, on whose behalf he was arguing.
The ruling came down on the 50th anniversary of the addition of the words "under God" to the pledge. The U.S. Congress adopted the June 14, 1954, law in an effort to distinguish America's religious values and heritage from those of communism, which is atheistic.
Three court members -- Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Clarence Thomas -- disagreed with the ruling that Newdow could not bring the case. They said they would have ruled that the words "under God" do not violate the Constitution.
excerpted, click on link for the rest of the story..
I have to go for a while, see ya's later on..
" I'm working on getting better at some regular attendance back in here, lol! : )"
Yes, young woman - - it is time to shape up.. |:>(
**LadyX exits, laughing**
Glad you, too, perceive just how insidious and relentless The Letter Thief is!
(Isn't it nice to know what to do when you can't "Blame it on The Bossa Nova" !! ,,, |:>))
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