Mom has been helping me memorize the order of the Presidents and I'm up to 45, but I have always, except for once had some coaching.
Let's see if I can do it now with no help or if I should keep practicing.
1. George Washington
Mom guessed it right; he has no middle name.
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James A. Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G. Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight David Eisenhower
I wish I had instant spell check
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson
37. Richard Milhouse Nixon
38. Gerald R. Ford
39. James Earl Carter
Six James in the list
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan
41. George Herbert Walker Bush
42. William Jefferson Clinton
43. George Walker Bush
44. Barack Husein Obama
45. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Griffin Sermon
Mom always had a thing between Griffin and Griffith; trying to remember which was which.
Today the sermon was about one story; two miracles, one interrupting the other, as told by Luke.
Doctor Luke relates the story of Jairus who comes to the Rabbai because his daughter is sick. It's his only daughter and he is probably a bigwig and rich and so forth but when his daughter is sick none of this matters to him and he wants to run for help and he wants Jesus to run to his house and help his daughter.
It's probably one of those times when desperation makes it so that nothing else matters.
My daughter is sick.
You can help her.
Let's go.
Well, Jesus is the Healer and He starts walking. What a relief it must have been for the Dad to see that help is on the way. But that's not all that is on the way.
In a huge crowd of people; each in need of a miracle or two I'm sure- thanks for pointing that out, a woman knows that if she just touches the hem of His garment she will be healed. Of course she has been through many things before. She has had sickness for 12 years and her life-giving blood hasn't oozed out once or month or stayed in to circulate within her- it's flowed constantly, bringing her to the point where she has spent a fortune on doctors and has nothing else to do. She's desperate also, and like Jairus, she has one thing on her mind, too.
Jairus has a daughter who is about 12. This woman has bled for 12 years.
The one who made life is about to heal both of them. But the healing can't come fast enough.
Jesus asks who touched Him. He says He felt the power surge out of him as the woman was healed and He could feel it. I don't think He was asking who touched Him because He didn't know. I think He was asking who touched Him so that she would say it. She had been healed in the crowd while Jesus was brushing up against so many people; and she knew she would be. Jairus probably saw everyone along the way as an obstacle to his own miracle, but Jesus did two.
Today the sermon was about one story; two miracles, one interrupting the other, as told by Luke.
Doctor Luke relates the story of Jairus who comes to the Rabbai because his daughter is sick. It's his only daughter and he is probably a bigwig and rich and so forth but when his daughter is sick none of this matters to him and he wants to run for help and he wants Jesus to run to his house and help his daughter.
It's probably one of those times when desperation makes it so that nothing else matters.
My daughter is sick.
You can help her.
Let's go.
Well, Jesus is the Healer and He starts walking. What a relief it must have been for the Dad to see that help is on the way. But that's not all that is on the way.
In a huge crowd of people; each in need of a miracle or two I'm sure- thanks for pointing that out, a woman knows that if she just touches the hem of His garment she will be healed. Of course she has been through many things before. She has had sickness for 12 years and her life-giving blood hasn't oozed out once or month or stayed in to circulate within her- it's flowed constantly, bringing her to the point where she has spent a fortune on doctors and has nothing else to do. She's desperate also, and like Jairus, she has one thing on her mind, too.
Jairus has a daughter who is about 12. This woman has bled for 12 years.
The one who made life is about to heal both of them. But the healing can't come fast enough.
Jesus asks who touched Him. He says He felt the power surge out of him as the woman was healed and He could feel it. I don't think He was asking who touched Him because He didn't know. I think He was asking who touched Him so that she would say it. She had been healed in the crowd while Jesus was brushing up against so many people; and she knew she would be. Jairus probably saw everyone along the way as an obstacle to his own miracle, but Jesus did two.
Friday, October 14, 2016
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Last Day
So Google tells me it's the last day to register to vote in Georgia.
Since you know; Google, where I am, if I'm registered to vote and who I'd vote for, I wonder why you let me know this. Perhaps you think it's quaint; the idea that you don't already know more about me than I know myself and you're promulgating that idea to make me feel comfortable and search for more things so you'll know more about me.
It does come down to money doesn't it? Or is it control?
I guess Google means it's the last day to register to vote in Georgia if one wishes to choose between the ogre and the undercover witch but maybe it's the last day registration will ever take place there. It is about time for the Indians to take it back over again after those criminals stepped in and ran things for awhile.
Since you know; Google, where I am, if I'm registered to vote and who I'd vote for, I wonder why you let me know this. Perhaps you think it's quaint; the idea that you don't already know more about me than I know myself and you're promulgating that idea to make me feel comfortable and search for more things so you'll know more about me.
It does come down to money doesn't it? Or is it control?
I guess Google means it's the last day to register to vote in Georgia if one wishes to choose between the ogre and the undercover witch but maybe it's the last day registration will ever take place there. It is about time for the Indians to take it back over again after those criminals stepped in and ran things for awhile.
Monday, October 10, 2016
Columbus Day
Apparently that's what today is. So who was this guy and why did so many people care and why has he gone out of favor?
I'm starting to think that everything is political. If you want to see Europeans as superior to AmerIndians than you tout the explorers. If you want to see whiter people as wonderful than those Mediterranean types than you talk about Erik the Red and his son Leif.
Everybody picks somebody they relate to and that's who they remember.
It still bugs me that two continents are named America for Ameriggo who doesn't sound much like it and is some guy who never left the old world. There are lots of things named for Columbus but he doesn't have even one continent.
I'm starting to think that everything is political. If you want to see Europeans as superior to AmerIndians than you tout the explorers. If you want to see whiter people as wonderful than those Mediterranean types than you talk about Erik the Red and his son Leif.
Everybody picks somebody they relate to and that's who they remember.
It still bugs me that two continents are named America for Ameriggo who doesn't sound much like it and is some guy who never left the old world. There are lots of things named for Columbus but he doesn't have even one continent.
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Matthew's Gone
In a stunning bunch of nothing, Hurricane Matthew came and went, and might come back. Once Castro accused the United States of making a hurricane cross Cuba three times. This one might cross Florida twice. We watched cowboy movies and ate French Silk ice cream and had bacon and eggs.
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