George Washington's birthday is today but somewhere along the line they began to call it President's Day taking the focus off the Father of our nation.
I hate him being used for commercials. How long to you have to be deceased before you are subject to disrespect?
This portrait of him in his younger days shows his hand in coat signifing he is a Mason as were many of our presidents.
Within actual minutes of Reagan's election, the hostages were freed.
I always liked Canadian figure skater Elizabeth Manley. Wonderfully talented skater.
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| George Washington |
We usually see him with white hair so I really like this portait of him by Charles Wilson Peale.
Washington was famous for warning us not to have foreign entanglements just as God warned the nation of Israel not to make alliances with nor depend on the nations around them for anything. Washington saw nothing but trouble from European involvement.
Washington's farewell address was given in
Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street, New York City and it is still a tavern today that you can visit when in NYC.
It was President James Monroe who made the Monroe Doctrine in which the United States declared the entire lands of North and South America off limits to further colonization as we are all Americans from Canada down to Chile. It's goal was to prevent European interference most notably England and France who tried again and again to undermne the US as in 1812 when the British burned down the capital and the Civil War where they determined to break up the union to make us easier pickings.
By the way it was Russia under Tzar Alexander II, whose Baltic and Pacific fleets came to guard New York City and San Francisco from bombardment by the south. Our relations with Russia at the time were solid! At the time Russia's navy was one of the most powerful in the world and their weapons, made in Tennessee, were the top of the line. They threated to wipe out the south if they fired and frankly they could have.
NYC gave the Russian navy a "ticker tape" style parade down 5th Avenue and welcomed them with open arms. They helped save the USA from being dismantled.
But, if we are going to say Presidents Day.... I will take the time to also honor President James Earl Carter, Jr., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his great humanitarian acts. A man who brokered the Camp David Accords , the Panama Canal treaty, advancements in Civil rights but who found he was stymied in his attempts to free American hostages in Iran because of the great evil in Swampington D.C. Republicans backing Reagan worked hand in glove with the Ayatollah Khomeini, who despised the deeply Christian Carter to hinder recovery of the hostages and to give Carter a black eye. (to their eternal shame),
A man of deep principles and faith, he was faithrul to one woman all his married life while so many of our presidents were serial divocees or adulterers. Jimmy took his vows seriously and he and Rosalyn had a long happy life together.
His Nobel Peace Prize came as a result of hands on humanitarianism,
He was down in the trenches building homes for the poor himself, it was not just talk \
He never used foul language nor mocked his political rivals as some do in an unmanly and blatant way.
While many of our presidents in these latter years admit they've never read the bible, Jimmy read it daily and was a Baptist Sunday School teacher and never failed to attend church during his life time and during his presidency
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| Inside Fraunces Tavern from their Website |
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TUESDAY 4Welcome to Tuesday 4 friends! I am always so happy to have people come and take part. The Olympics are taking place and we just had the Super Bowl for American football so perhaps we can talk about sports a bit. Thank you to Diana of Doodles and Daydreams fir suggesting sports as a subject for this week!  1. Do you enjoy any of the sports from the Olympics either Summer or Winter? Would you tell us about it? I am really not a fan of the Olympics anymore but I enjoyed figure skating myself. My Dad taught me to skate on the lake behind our home at 3 and I got pretty decent but no where near Olympic good. 2. What sports have you taken part in and what good did you get out of participating? If not, was there one you wish you had taken part in? Did sports help you in life? I played girls field hockey, baseball and track in school. Sports helped keep me in shape and teach team spirit. In non team sports I participated in horse riding and ice skating and archery and in university I did figure skating. 3. Is there a sport you still engage in or one you enjoy watching a lot? I am 96% disabled so no. The last time I skated I found my gait would not allow me to go forward so I skated backwards the whole day. I was with my good friend Laura and her kids and my own kids and it worked out as I could teach my daughter and talk to my friend at the same time. That was when my walking was getting worse and worse. 4. Have you any favorite teams you cheer on? Or perhaps a favorite sports figure? How about both?? |
What's the most memorable comeback or turnaround you've ever seen in a sports game, and what made it so special?
In 1980 a very young US hockey team beat the Soviet Union Team in Lake Placid by one amazing point. It was called the "Miracle on Ice" and was just breathtaking to watch them come out on top of this game against the Soviet world champions! It was a huge pick me up for the USA at the time.
The Soviet players were all professional athletes while the US team was made up of college students.
Lake Placid is one of my all time favorite places in the US... Its gorgeous there.
Here is the Miracle on Ice!
