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Posted on 02/17/2013 5:04:15 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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I’m so happy FR is back online. I wanted to rearrange my sock drawer, but did that during the head DUmbo’s sad state of the un union speech,
“Fedora” is pretty much forgotten today, much like “La Wally”.
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was launched in 1977, is on the outer edge of our solar system more than 10 billion miles away. In February 1990, when Voyager 1 was almost 4 billion miles from us, scientists turned its camera toward Earth and took some pictures that revealed our planet as an almost imperceptible blue dot on a vast sea of empty space.
In the immense reaches of our universe, Earth is just a minuscule speck. On this seemingly insignificant pebble in the ocean of galactic objects live more than seven billion people.
If this makes you feel insignificant, God has some good news. Tucked into one of David’s psalms is a rhetorical question that can allow you to step out into the night air, look up at the sky, and rejoice. Psalm 8:3-5 tells us that we are superstars in God’s eyes: “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, . . . what is man that You are mindful of him? . . . You have crowned him with glory and honor.” Soak that in! God—who spoke into existence a universe so vast that the Hubble telescope hasn’t found the end of it—created you, and He cares deeply for you. He cared enough to ask Jesus to leave heaven to die for you.
Look up in wonder at God’s creation and praise Him that He crowned you with glory through His Son Jesus.
Read: Psalm 8
h !!Thanks, unique, for the cheering guys!
Arrowhead.....#50!!
Mac.....#100!!
You ate my chocolate?? Dang, gal! Can’t leave you alone for a minute!
Good thing Kathy has back-up stashes! :)
I feel your pain, Arrowhead. There was just nothing to do, except clean and dust and shovel snow. I’m hoping for somw news posts by the time I get home. I tried Drudge, but tired of that really quickly.
Are you speaking ill of classical music?
Good thinkin’! I’m just glad to be posting anywhere! :)
I spent so much time refreshing to see if it was back that I got nothing done. LOL!
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LOVE that Aircraft Carrier Picture!
Hi Everybody!
((((HUGS))))
I’m passing the trash can around. EVERYONE SPIT OUT THE GREEN M&MS!
No eating the green ones. She’s too precious to eat!
((HUGS))
Good to be back. Here's what I did while FR was away.
The beautiful Soprano Aria from “La Wally” was the theme of the movie “Diva”. It got a wee surge in popularity at the time.
Nom nom nom....they’re the BEST!!! Greeen=vitamins...right?
If only the rest of the opera was as good as that aria. The plot is strange.
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Arthur Wermuth didn't look like a U.S. Army officer. Sporting a mustache and Vandyke beard, the former football star from South Dakota endured his baptism of combat in the last week of 1941 and into first week of 1942. Departing Manila on the day after Christmas with the 150 men of Company D, 57th Infantry (Philippine Scouts), he had been ordered by Colonel George Clark to put his small force in the lines on Northern Luzon and "Dig in and hold!. 
ferocious attacks against the Abucay Line, Company A of the 57th Infantry (Philippine Scouts) held positions near Kalaguiman, which was north of the Abucay Line and the main force of defenders. The Filipino soldiers and their American officers were battle-weary and demoralized in the face of continuing, and seemingly futile resistance. To bolster moral, Captain Wermuth, whose Company D had been nearly annihilated, was sent to to join them. Three days earlier Wermuth had demonstrated his uncanny combat abilities by proceeding alone past thousands of Japanese troops to reach an outpost isolated behind enemy lines. It had been the beginning of an incredible series of actions that would make the imposing figure of a man, who went into combat with a Thompson sub-machine gun slung over his shoulder and two .45 caliber pistols holstered like a western gunfighter, one of the first American heroes of World War II. 