Birthday greetings to the Marines today
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Posted on 11/02/2005 10:46:59 PM PST by snippy_about_it
Birthday greetings to the Marines today
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alfa6 ;>}
| November 10, 2005
Golden Gods
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God had seized the attention of Pharaoh and the Egyptians with a series of plagues. Now they were dying to be rid of their Hebrew slaves. But God didn't want the Israelites to leave Egypt empty-handed. After all, they had 400 years of wages due them. So they asked their former masters for articles of silver, gold, and clothing, and they got them. Exodus 12:36 says that the Israelites "plundered the Egyptians."
It wasn't long, however, until God's people fell into idolatry. They used their gold to make a golden calf, which they worshiped while Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving God's law (32:1-4).
This tragic experience highlights the tension that Christians are required to maintain regarding their possessions. There is much in our society that we enjoy, but material things also pose grave dangers when we use them thoughtlessly. Os Guinness says that we are "free to utilize" but "forbidden to idolize." We are "strangers and pilgrims on the earth" (Hebrews 11:13), and we must not become so enamored with "the riches of Egypt" that we grow complacent and forget our true calling.
Are we using our material blessings to serve the Lord? Or have we become slaves to them? —Haddon Robinson
Gold can be a helpful servant but a cruel master.
Thank you, I love that song!
WOO HOO, alfa!! Love the plane.
You're very welcome.
DUCK!!
Hi miss Feather
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on November 10:
1483 Martin Luther Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism
1668 Francois Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1683 George II king of England (1727-60)
1730 Oliver Goldsmith Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer)
1759 Frederich von Schiller Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy)
1793 Jared Kirtland US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1834 Jos‚ Hernandez Argentina screenwriter (Martin Fierro)
1834 Wager Swayne Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1861 Robert TA Innes Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1879 Vachel Lindsay Springfield IL, poet (Johnny Appleseed)
1880 Sir Jacob Epstein sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1882 Frances Perkins 1st woman Cabinet member (Secretary of Labor 1933-45)
1889 Claude Rains London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca)
1895 John Knudsen Northrop aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
1919 Clyde (Bulldog) Turner NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 George Fenneman TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1919 Moise Tshombe President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1925 Richard Burton South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
1930 Clarence M Pendleton Jr chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1935 Ronald E Evans St Francis KS, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 Roy Scheider Orange NJ, actor (All That Jazz, Jaws)
1937 Albert Hall Boothton Alabama, actor (Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4)
1944 Dave Loggins singer (Please come to Boston)
1945 Donna Fargo NC, country singer (Happiest Girl in Whole USA)
1946 David Stockman Reagan's ex-budget director
1948 Greg Lake rock guitarist (Emerson, Lake & Palmer-Tarkus)
1949 Ann Reinking Seattle, dancer/actress (All the Jazz, Micki & Maude)
1950 Jack Scalia Brooklyn NY, actor (Berrengers, Hollywood Beat)
1955 Jack Clark Pennsylvania, all star outfielder (Giants, Cards, Yanks, Padres)
1956 Sinbad comedian/actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
1959 MacKenzie Phillips Alexandria VA, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time)
1961 Junior [Norman Giscombe], R&B singer (Mama used to Say)
1970 TheBigB was not (repeat NOT) born on this day. Because IF he were that would mean he would be THIRITYFIVE YEARS OLD and this is not possible, there is no way he could be this OLD...enfeebled....antediluvian... primordial...doddering....superannuated.
Therefore as a duly authorized represenative of THEM we declare this as BigB's UNbirthday
"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left." ~Jerry M. Wright
PE, WOO HOO, what's Bittygirl up to these days??
OOh. A musical flag-o-gram. Good song. Thanks PE.
"At 8:00 a.m. on January 17, 1977, the volunteer firing squad got into place. Four of the five weapons were loaded and one would fire a blank. That way, each man would have some idea that perhaps he was not the one who had ended another man's life. They placed the barrels of their rifles through small square holes in a wall as Gilmore was strapped into a chair. He gave his watch to Vern to give to Nicole; he'd broken it at his estimated time of execution. A paper target was placed over his heart and a black corduroy hood over his head. He was strapped into the chair. The least movement could make the bullets miss their mark."
I had forgotten that just 18yrs. ago a state could do it this way.
I was still active duty at the time. I watched it on the teevee and was totally stunned. No beeber was involved.
She discovered whipped cream last night.
Need I say she liked it?
Howdy ma'am
All over her face too, I bet.
050809-M-5900L-087 Mariam Range, Djibouti (Aug. 9, 2005) - U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Mathew G. Schultz assists Lance Cpl. Hakeem L. Pinkston, with firing a M-240G medium machine gun at the Mariam Range in Djibouti. Marines of the 26th MEU (SOC) are assisting the Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa, by providing humanitarian aid and training to the people susceptible to transnational terrorist influence. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Lowndes (RELEASED)
050719-N-3799S-005 Beaufort, S.C. (July 19, 2005) – An F/A-18C Hornet, assigned to the “Marauders” of Strike Fighter Squadron Eight Two (VFA-82), climbs in altitude after departing Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, S.C., on a routine training mission. VFA-82 recently unveiled a new commemorative paintjob which was featured on the squadron’s aircraft during their first deployment in 1968 to Southeast Asia flying the A-7 Corsair II. VFA-82 is stationed on board MCAS Beaufort, S.C., and will be decommissioned on Sept. 30, 2005. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Perry Solomon (RELEASED)
050305-N-2984R-001 Persian Gulf (Mar. 5, 2005) - The pilot of an F/A-18A+ Hornet, assigned to the "Silver Eagles" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron One One Five (VMFA-115), conducts a check of his speed break prior to launch aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) is embarked aboard Truman and is providing close air support and conducting intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance over Iraq. The Truman Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman Ricardo J. Reyes (RELEASED)
050628-N-8772M-003 Kauai, Hawaii (June 28, 2005) - A U.S. Marine assigned to 3rd Assault Amphibious Battalion, 1st Marine Division, fires his M-16 rifle as he simulates a hostile combatant on the beaches of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. The 3rd Assault Amphibious Battalion, 1st Marine Division, is currently embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5). U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 2nd Class Johnny Michael (RELEASED)
Thanks EMB.
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