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Odds and Ends 2

   
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 THIS IS PAGE TWO OF ODDS AND ENDS, YOU SHOULD VISIT ODDS AND ENDS FIRST......
 
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Birthday Reminder!    This week we celebrate a special birthday.
 
Monica Lewinsky turns 44, can you believe it?
It seems like only yesterday, she was crawling around the White House on her hands and knees and putting everything in her mouth.
They grow up so fast, don't they...?
 
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Let's all mourn the death of common sense in this country: November 19, 2009 on the news today. No need to check it out on Snopes.com
 
 
 
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Steve Tepper contributed this on November 16, 2009....take a look at this guy who copies 140 wpm
 
 
 
 
 
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SENT IN BY MIKE BAKER ON 11-9-09:
 
 
 
 1.  Why Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? 

2.  Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 

4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 

5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? 

6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? 

7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing? 

8. Why do "tug" boats push their barges? 

9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?

10. Why are they called " stands" when they are made for sitting? 

11. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"? 

12. Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected? 

13. Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites? 

14. Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things? 

15. Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds? 

16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it? 

17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? 

18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? 

19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right? 

20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?

21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead? 

22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase? 

23. How come abbreviated is such a long word? 

24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them? 

25. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? 

26. Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one? 

27. Christmas - What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?

28.  Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ?

29.  Why is toilet paper tiny squares and tissues big squares ?  ?

 
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We don't think about it much, if at all, but a lot of this country was underwater at one time, covered by vast inland seas, home to many kinds of marine reptiles, for millions of years.  see  www.oceansofkansas.com for a massive explanation of all this wildlife.
 (The Western Interior Waterway was the official name for it)
 
 
 
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THIS CARTOON WAS FARFETCHED BACK IN 1948 BUT NOT TOO FARFETCHED THESE DAYS, IS IT?
NINE MINUTES LONG BUT WORTH THE TIME.
 
 
 
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              Ghost from Iwo Jima
                   Lon Woodrum
    Leatherneck Magazine Gyrene Gyngles
                 October of 1968



The living warrior never said
The things that burned within his head:
The word was uttered by the broken dead.


I died at dawn, bent toward a thunder island,
Wallowing upon gun-gutted sand

I could not sleep in that strange land;
I have returned to New York towers,
New England hills and Kansas plains;
To gentle towns with quiet hours
And temples singing in the sun...
I have returned with one desire:
To see what you have done
With what I bought upon that strip of fire.

Red ran my blood
Upon a beach whose name I scarcely knew:
So men could speak aloud their dreams
  and hopes before a crowd,
Or pray their prayers to God,
And not be stood before a firing squad.

And it was not alone for Yanks I fell;
It was for Britons, French, Chinese,
Israelis, Africans and Poles;
For all the disinherited, tormented souls
In all the agonizing earth and sea
Scarred by the boots of tyranny.

And all the clever tongues have lied
Who said it was for Less than this I died.

The little people of the world looked
And watched me running where the red beach shook;
The little broken, beaten brothers;
The homeless children and their mothers;
The noble men reduced to less than tramps
Who rotted in the concentration camps;
The keepers of the truth...they stood that dawn
And shouted silently, "Go on! Go on!"

For they all knew, oh, they knew why
I had to run across that beach and die.

I could not sleep in that far land;
I have returned to where your cities stand,
Unwounded; to your churches on the sleepy street,
And golden miles of unhurt wheat.
I have returned to hear the laughter in
your children's throats
And watch the little people cast their votes.

I have come back to see what you who live
Have done with what I died to give.

The living warrior had not said
The things that burned within his head:
The word was uttered by the broken dead
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Video----Marines vs Taliban======
 
 Turn up the sound.
 
 
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This group of disgruntled, unpaid soldiers were going to march on Congress, fully armed, until the last few sentences of George Washington's speech here. Read it all the way to the end to see how he moved the troops to tears, destroying their plans to possibly undo all they had done for the new country.
 
 
http://www.doublegv.com/ggv/battles/Contl.html   FOR THE SUFFERINGS OF A CONTINENTAL SOLDIER.......... 
 
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 A Saturday Night Live "short" making fun of rap songs, this is about loving the movie "The Chronicles of Narnia" and cupcakes.
Very well done. Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg of SNL
 
 
 
 
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This author was recommended to me by Nolde, and the author, Michael McGarrity is great, comparable to Michael Connelly and John D. MacDonald.
 
 
 
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For an underwater webcam off the coast of Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean, see www.breathebonaire.com but scroll down and change the elapsed time to TWO seconds. This is a sister site to the Nova Scotia lighthouse site I mentioned in the first Odds and Ends.
 
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http://www.dugout-memories.com/creprint.html    OLD BASEBALL CARDS, PHOTOS OF=======
 
 CLICK ON THE YEAR, ETC, E.G. 1958 Topps, 1959 Topps, to see photos of all cards in the set, not just the listings. Very interesting and brought back a lot of baseball memories.
 
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webcam across the street from Wrigley Field, at Cub World, a big souvenir place.
 
 
 
 
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www.usdebtclock.org is very interesting. 
 
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In keeping with the "anything goes" nature of this page, and the Odds and Ends page, this is a genre of writing, all non-fiction, called Indian Capitivity Narratives, and there are a lot of them, like the later slave narratives. This one is the most famous, the narrative of Mary Rowlandson, the events of which took place in eastern Massachusetts. No one can say that indian captivity narratives are boring, that's for sure.
 
 
http://www.hannahdustin.com/maryrolandson.htm   IS THE SAME TEXT BUT A LITTLE EASIER TO READ.
 
 
 
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http://www.coverbrowser.com/  THIS IS A SITE THAT SHOWS COMIC BOOK COVERS FROM THE 1950S AND LATER, FOR THE NOSTALGIA MINDED LIKE ME.
 
 
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/1959.shtml  YOU CAN VIEW BOX SCORES FROM OLD BASEBALL GAMES HERE, SHOWING ALL THE PLAYERS IN THAT PARTICULAR GAME, THUS REFRESHING YOUR MEMORY OF YOUR FAVORITE PLAYERS OF WHATEVER YEAR. WHEN WE GOT TO PR IT HAD NOT BEEN BUT 5 OR SO YEARS SINCE WE WERE COLLECTING BASEBALL CARDS, MUCH AS SOME OF US WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT WE WERE NEVER KIDS, BUT ARRIVED IN THE WORLD ALL GROWN UP. THERE ARE A LOT OF ADULTS LIKE THAT, WHO WANT TO FORGET WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO HAVE BEEN A KID, BUT I, LIKE MANY, WANT TO REMEMBER THOSE TIMES. SITES LIKE THESE HELP IN RECREATING SOME OF THE MEMORIES, LIKE THE BALLPLAYERS WE WATCHED OR KNEW ABOUT.
 
 
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 WATCH THIS WOMAN SEND CODE.....BAKER SENT THIS AROUND TO ALL OF US ON 7-26-09. THANKS, MIKE.
 
 
"Video of 'DA', also known as Denice Stoops, the first female telegrapher who worked at KPH until the end of commercial morse operations and closure of the station in 1998.

Denice is seen here sending the closing transmissions of the MRHS (see them at www.radiomarine.org ) Night of Nights 10. Each year (in this case exactly 10 years) to the minute, that commercial morse operations ceased in the United States, former RCA shore station KPH comes alive to pay tribute to those who came before us to honor their skill and talents. Many other maritime shore stations and vessels join in, and thousands of people all over the world tune in each year to pay tribute, and copy the CW 'music' once again commanding the airwaves.

This video was shot in the control room at the KPH, KSM, KFS transmitter site and brought to a close Night of Nights X. The KPH 'wheel' is being sent in the beginning of the video before transmitter supervisor Steve Hawes 'pulls the plug' and connects DA's chrome Vibroplex bug to the panel to key all the transmitters at once. The whole building is electrified by the transmitters and the spirit of the men (and women) that were the only connection between those at sea and the world. It is an emotional experience to be part of such an event."
 
 
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 NOW, SCROLL DOWN ON THIS SITE AND CLICK ON THE VARIOUS CODE SPEEDS THAT THEY HAVE ON HERE FOR PRACTICE, THE OFFICIAL ARRL SITE FOR HAM RADIO OPERATORS.
 
 
 
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                                                PUNS
 
The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He got that way from too much pi.
I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
No matter how much you push the envelope, it will still be stationery.
A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall and the police are looking into it.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Two hats were hangin on a hat rack in a hallway, one said to the other, You stay here, I'll go on a head.
I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said Keep Off The Grass.
A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to the hospital, his grandmother called the nurse later and she said No Change Yet.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
A backward poet writes inverse.
In democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism it's your count that votes.
When cannibals ate a missionary they got a taste of religion.
Don't join dangerous cults; Practice safe sects.
 
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                                                 AFRICA WILDLIFE WEBCAMS PLUS ONE IN ECUADOR:
 
 
This is a man-made watering hole called Pete's Pond, in a game reserve in Botswana. Turn up the sound.
 
 Press either of the buttons marked NKORHO PAN or ELEPHANT PLAINS. These cams are at game lodges half a mile from the famous Kruger National Park, South Africa. Turn up the sound.
 
Southeastern Africa, probably South Africa near Mozambique, but it is operable only in the daytime.
 
These four on one page are in Kruger Natl Pk but refresh every thirty seconds or so, so are not "live".
 
There is now sound with this one, and the bird activity is amazing. It is deep in a forest in Ecuador, South America.  Once in awhile you will see a coati mundi climbing on the platform behind the feeder, to get a banana or two that the park personnel put there for them. 
 
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A French Foreign Legion general was inspecting the troops at a remote fort in Algeria. The Colonel showed him around and the general eventually asked what the troops did for fun on their time off.
The Colonel said well, we have this one camel we keep tied up out back, and the troops usually use her, when they have some time off.
The next morning the Colonel could not find the general so he wandered out back of the fort and, sure enough, there the general was, with the camel. The Colonel screamed at him, general general, WHAT are you doing? The general said well you told me the boys use this camel for fun, didn't you? The Colonel said yes, but they use him to ride into town to see their girlfriends!

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An old man sat in a beach chair and watched a kid that looked to be eight or nine years old making trip after trip from the beach to the ocean, back and forth. He was picking up stranded starfish and returning them to their element before they died. You could see starfish all up and down the beach, and the kid had this little ol pail that held some water and maybe a few starfish, tops.
The old man smiled to himself and said, that kid doesn't get it, just doesn't understand, does not understand how futile a task he set for himself. Imagine all those starfish! Why, there are hundreds, maybe thousands, as far as I can see in every direction. He's fighting a losing battle, poor kid.
On one of his trips back from the shore to the water, the little boy passed a little closer to the old man, and the old man called out to him, hey son, what have you got in the bucket? And the little boy replied, well, starfish, sir, I'm taken' em back to where they belong, before they all die. The old man smiled a kindly smile and slowly shook his head and said, son, do you realize there are so many that you could never in a week or two save them all?
It's such a WASTE OF TIME! the old man said, not unkindly.
The little boy looked down at his pail and the few starfish in it, slowly looked back up, caught the old man's eyes, and said, yes, sir, maybe you're right, maybe it is just a waste of time.
But the ones I've already saved don't think so.
 
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Years ago I tracked down Ralph McCreary, one of our two admin guys, and he was staying at his daughter's house in Richmond, Virginia and at the very moment I called him, he was on a portable phone up on a ladder, painting the ceiling. He was glad to hear that a lot of the guys are in touch etc and thanked me for contacting him and told me, well, wait, I don't have anything to write with to take down your number, and I said well, Ralph, you are up on a ladder and painting the ceiling, so just paint my number ON the ceiling now as we speak and copy it later. There was a moment of silence and he said hey great idea and I could hear him painting etc and I asked him if anyone was watching him do this and he said yes, my daughter is sitting here wondering what is going on and whether I have lost my mind, all of a sudden painting numbers on her ceiling!
 
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I was out copying code on my posit one day when my man went down at the regularly scheduled time, and I sat there for a minute or two relaxing and up he comes again, off schedule, so I began to copy, but it was in English and I was not paying attention to what I was listening to, because you remember that we often looked around the room while we were copying and talked to other people etc and only after a couple of minutes did I look down at the paper and I read in plain English, "I am a dumb ass for doing this" over and over again, and it was Joe Hundley who had secreted himself a row away across from my posit and plugged in a code key and was sending the message over and over again and everyone started laughing. I was "reeled in like a fish", as we used to say.
 
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The remainder of this page speaks about Christianity. It is important to state at the outset that no unbeliever has ever been convinced by evidence, no matter how massive or credible. There is never enough evidence. The only thing that will make an unbeliever into a believer is a miracle of God. This does in fact go on day in and day out.
 
But first, for skeptics and atheists and unbelievers, let me ask the reader how it is that he or she came by the knowledge that there is no hereafter, when alive a mere 60 or 65 or 75 years. And the universe is billions of years old. But the skeptic or atheist or unbeliever supposed he or she has acquired knowledge in this area, that is, that there is no God. Or that there is no hereafter.  From whence comes that knowledge? And how secure in that knowledge are you, having lived only a few decades? But to proceed.
 
 
We go to California for a two week trip and there is no end to our planning it out in detail.  We don't run into an airport and buy a ticket and get on the plane without suitcases.
When it comes to eternity, we know for a fact that we, and everyone we ever met, and everyone who was ever born or will ever be born---will die.
What will happen then? This would seem to be something we should find out about.
 
Many years ago, I read an ad in a local newspaper where a reserve police officer in a small town west of Boston was looking for a Boston Police badge for his collection. We had a lot in common. For example, we were both unlikely members of Sons of Confederate Veterans, www.scv.org even though both of us were at least half-Yankee (my dad was from Oklahoma), and I had a couple of brand new Boston PD badges straight from the manufacturer, so I told him he could have one, just pick it up at my office, free of charge. 
He moved away to become a cop in western Colorado, and he and his wife wrote to me now and then but he used to include small religious tracts with his letters. I found these annoying and irritating and wished he would not send them with every letter, but never said anything. He kept it up and I just threw them away. But the anger was mounting.
Well, about that time, my sister called me up from Missouri and she was talking about this and that and all of a sudden told me about her new church and then asked me point-blank, "Are you saved?" and I said "From WHAT?" and she said "Oh, Boy!"
The combination of those two people talking to me about Christianity caused me to look into it. It was not that I was not receptive to it or did not believe in God, it just was not something that ever crossed my mind, pro or con. Just like in Sabana Seca, it never crossed my mind to go to church, not even once. Again, I never gave it a thought either way, just went on day by day.
After I got out of the Marine Corps and went to college and law school, same thing. Never occurred to me to look into Christianity. I was never exposed to it, no one talked to me about it, and I went day by day, just living my life. I could not be termed a unbeliever, or an atheist or a skeptic,  but it was something I never thought of.
With the contact with this police officer and my sister, that changed, and made me conscious of more than my daily life. So I looked into it, found the evidences massive indeed.
 
I have tried to think of a question that is more important than where we will spend eternity, but nothing comes to mind.
Why would we not care where we are going to spend all of eternity, when we plan a two week trip to California in great detail?
   
Nature. Complex. What made it come into existence? What keeps it in existence?  Does it keep going all by itself by some unknown internal mechanism? How would it work? Is it a self-sustaining universe? Look at your own body; everything has to be just right, 24 hrs a day. Everything has to be finely tuned, and is. Through what force? How can something finely tune itself?
 
Jesus Christ (and by the way, "Christ" is not a last name, it means "the annointed one") offers/is offering salvation.
If you want to accept it, it is there, free.
Very few people ever accept it. God never forces anyone to accept salvation.
Salvation--- from what? From the consequences of sin, i.e. death.
He took your place, died in your place, for your sins.
It is not enough to believe in God. Even the demons believe in God. Satan believes in God. There is more to it than just an intellectual assent.
 
How could the universe have created itself??
 
 
See three massive sites by a former atheist, www.allaboutGod.com  www.gotquestions.org and a third site that may predate these two, www.allaboutthejourney.org
 
For a plain explanation of what salvation is, see www.menorah.org/eetract.html  
 
What to do about this?
 
  
 
To see what is important and what isn't, www.deathisnotdying.com and watch the video. This woman died July 2009.
 
 
 
 
Someone sent me the below list, and it belies the nonsensical notion nowadays that a complete and unbreachable gulf was meant to be installed between the state and religion. We "moderns" have basically talked ourselves into becoming our own gods, so this widespread and fashionable notion of no God is something relatively new. It is a trend, a fad, because we are way too advanced to believe in God. That was for the poor helpless ancients who looked up at the sky and wondered and had no answers at the time. But we have the answers now. We are modern.

Alabama   1901, Preamble
We  the people of the State of   Alabama ,  invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,  do ordain and establish the following  Constitution..
Alaska   1956, Preamble We,  the people of   Alaska , grateful to God and  to those who founded our nation and pioneered this  great land.
Arizona   1911, Preamble We,  the people of the State of   Arizona ,  grateful to Almighty God for our liberties, do  ordain this Constitution...
Arkansas   1874, Preamble We,  the people of the State of   Arkansas ,  grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of  choosing our own form of  government...
California   1879, Preamble We,  the People of the State of   California ,  grateful to Almighty God for our  freedom...
Colorado   1876, Preamble We,  the people of   Colorado , with profound  reverence for the Supreme Ruler of  Universe...
Connecticut   1818, Preamble. The  People of Connecticut , acknowledging with  gratitude the good Providence of God in   permitting them to enjoy.
Delaware   1897, Preamble Through  Divine Goodness all men have, by nature, the  rights of worshipping and serving their Creator  according to the dictates of their  consciences.
Florida   1885, Preamble We,  the people of the State of   Florida ,  grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional  liberty, establish this  Constitution...
Georgia 1777,  Preamble We,  the people of   Georgia , relying upon  protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain  and establish this  Constitution...
Hawaii   1959, Preamble We  , the people of   Hawaii , Grateful for Divine  Guidance .... Establish this  Constitution.
Idaho   1889, Preamble We,  the people of the State of   Idaho , grateful  to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its  blessings.
Illinois  1870, Preamble We,  the people of the State of Illinois, grateful to  Almighty God for the civil , political and  religious liberty which He hath so long permitted  us to enjoy and looking to Him for a blessing on  our endeavors.
Indiana 1851,  Preamble We,  the People of the State of   Indiana ,  grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of  the right to choose our form of  government.
Iowa   1857, Preamble We,  the People of the St ate of  Iowa , grateful  to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto  enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a  continuation of these blessings, establish this  Constitution.
Kansas   1859, Preamble We,  the people of   Kansas , grateful to Almighty  God for our civil and religious privileges  establish this Constitution.
Kentucky   1891, Preamble.. We,  the people of the Commonwealth are grateful to  Almighty God for the civil, political and  religious liberties..
Louisiana  1921, Preamble We,  the people of the State of Louisiana , grateful to  Almighty God for the civil, political and  religious liberties we enjoy.
Maine  1820, Preamble We  the People of Maine acknowledging with grateful  hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the  Universe in affording us an opportunity .. And  imploring His aid and direction.
Maryland  1776, Preamble We,  the people of the state of Maryland , grateful to  Almighty God for our civil and religious  liberty...
Massachusetts  1780, Preamble We...the  people of Massachusetts, acknowledging with  grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great  Legislator of the Universe In the course of His  Providence, an opportunity and devoutly imploring  His direction  
Michigan 1908,  Preamble.    We, the people of the State of    Michigan , grateful to Almighty God for the  blessings of freedom, establish this  Constitution.
Minnesota,  1857, Preamble We,  the people of the State of Minnesota, grateful to  God for our civil and religious liberty, and  desiring to perpetuate its  blessings:
Mississippi  1890, Preamble We,  the people of Mississippi in convention assembled,  grateful to Almighty God, and invoking His  blessing on our work.
Missouri  1845, Preamble We,  the people of Missouri , with profound reverence  for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and  grateful for His goodness . Establish this  Constitution...
Montana   1889, Preamble. We,  the people of   Montana , grateful to Almighty  God for the blessings  of liberty establish this Constitution  ..
Nebraska  1875, Preamble We,  the people, grateful to Almighty God for our  freedom . Establish this  Constitution.
Nevada  1864, Preamble We  the people of the State of Nevada , grateful to  Almighty God for our freedom, establish this  Constitution...
New  Hampshire  1792,  Part   I.   Art. I. Sec. V Every  individual has a natural and unalienable right to  worship God according to the dictates of his own  conscience.
New  Jersey 1844, Preamble We,  the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to  Almighty God for civil and religious liberty which  He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking  to Him for a blessing on our  endeavors.
New  Mexico 1911, Preamble We,  the People of New Mexico, grateful to Almighty God  for the blessings of liberty..
New  York 1846, Preamble We,  the people of the State of New York , grateful to  Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure  its  blessings.
   North  Carolina 1868, Preamble We  the people of the State of North Carolina,  grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of  Nations, for our civil, political, and religious  liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon  Him for the continuance of  those...
North  Dakota 1889, Preamble We  , the people of   North Dakota , grateful to  Almighty God for the blessings of civil and  religious liberty, do ordain...
Ohio  1852, Preamble We  the people of the state of Ohio , grateful to  Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its  blessings and to promote our  common.
Oklahoma  1907, Preamble Invoking  the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure  and perpetuate the blessings of liberty, establish  this
Oregon  1857, Bill of Rights, Article I Section  2. All  men shall be secure in the Natural right, to  worship Almighty God according to the dictates of  their consciences
Pennsylvania  1776, Preamble We,  the people of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty  God for the blessings of civil and religious  liberty, and humbly invoking His  guidance....
Rhode  Island  1842, Preamble. We  the People of the State of Rhode Island grateful  to Almighty God for the civil and religious  liberty which He hath so long permitted us to  enjoy, and looking to Him for a  blessing...
South  Carolina , 1778, Preamble We,  the people of he State of South Carolina grateful  to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish  this Constitution.
South  Dakota 1889, Preamble We,  the people of South Dakota , grateful to Almighty  God for our civil and religious liberties  .
Tennessee   1796, Art. XI..III. That  all men have a natural and indefeasible right to  worship Almighty God according to the dictates of  their conscience...
Texas   1845, Preamble We  the People of the   Republic  of    Texas , acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace  and beneficence of God.
Utah   1896, Preamble Grateful  to Almighty God for life and liberty, we establish  this Constitution.
Vermont   1777, Preamble Whereas  all government ought to enable the individuals who  compose it to enjoy their natural rights, and  other blessings which the Author of Existence has  bestowed on man .
Virginia  1776, Bill of Rights, XVI Religion,  or the Duty which we owe our Creator can be  directed only by Reason and that it is the mutual  duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance,  Love and Charity towards each  other
Washington  1889, Preamble We  the People of the State of Washington, grateful to  the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our  liberties, do ordain this  Constitution
West  Virginia 1872, Preamble Since  through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings  of civil, political and religious liberty, we, the  people of West Virginia reaffirm our faith in and  constant reliance upon God ...
Wisconsin  1848, Preamble We,  the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God  for our freedom, domestic  tranquility...
Wyoming   1890, Preamble We,  the people of the State of  Wyoming ,  grateful to God for our civil, political, and  religious liberties, establish this  Constitution...
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