243. Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! (Croak and Crow's 6th Dr. Seuss book choice)
Channel: Croak and Crow
Date: 21/01/2022

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The Holy Spirit guides us and the Holy Spirit guides people to us.
#drseuss #SpencerCartier #CroakAndCrow
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.


Woodsy Owl – Give a Hoot , Don’t pollute
US Forest Service – 1970 mascot
In 1974, the U.S. Congress passed the Woodsy Owl Act (Public Law 93-318) to protect the character making it a federal crime to reproduce his image or original slogan. This was reversed by Division O of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
The United States Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands. The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of land. Wikipedia
Founded: February 1, 1905 reduces public access to public land.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

James Edward Amos (January 29, 1879 – December 15, 1953) was a bodyguard and attendant to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and later became the longest serving African American Federal Bureau of Investigation agent in the pre-modern FBI. He paved the way for future African American FBI agents in a time when not many worked for the federal government. 

"In God we trust" could be traced to some renderings of Psalm 56:11.
 in God I trust and am not afraid.
    What can man do to me? Psalm 56:11

In 1785, an American publisher, Joel Barlow translated Psalm 115: 9-11 with the words “In God we Trust.”
  All you Israelites, trust in the LORD—
    he is their help and shield.
10 House of Aaron, trust in the LORD—
    he is their help and shield.
11 You who fear him, trust in the LORD—
    he is their help and shield.
It also appeared in 1845, when D.S. Whitney published an anti-slavery hymn. 

President Abraham Lincoln's Treasury Secretary, a lifelong evangelical Episcopalian who was known for his public shows of piety, acted swiftly on the proposal to include a motto referring to God and directed the then-Philadelphia Director of the Mint and member of the National Reform Association to begin drawing up possible designs that would include the religious phrase.  He then decided on the final version of the new motto, "In God We Trust," in December 1863. The different opinions on its inclusion eventually grew into a dispute between secularists and faith congregations. 
In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt sought to beautify American coinage and decided to give the task to his friend he specifically instructed him not to include "In God We Trust" on the coins, as the President feared that these coins would be used to further ungodly activities, such as gambling, and facilitate crime. 
A scandal immediately erupted over the lack of "In God We Trust" on the coins. Theodore Roosevelt insisted that while he was in favor of placing the motto on public buildings and monuments, doing so for money (or postage stamps and advertisements) would be "dangerously close to sacrilege":
"My own feeling in the matter is due to my very firm conviction that to put such a motto on coins, or to use it in any kindred manner, not only does no good, but does positive harm, and is in effect irreverence, which comes dangerously close to sacrilege. ...  Any use which tends to cheapen it, and, above all, any use which tends to secure its being treated in a spirit of levity, is from every standpoint profoundly to be regretted. ... it seems to me eminently unwise to cheapen such a motto by use on coins ...  In all my life I have never heard any human being speak reverently of this motto on the coins or show any signs of its having appealed to any high emotion in him, but I have literally, hundreds of times, heard it used as an occasion of and incitement to ... sneering ...  
— President Theodore Roosevelt, 13 November 1907
Press response was largely negative. Most news outlets affiliated with Christian organisations, as well as The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Press and other newspapers were critical of the decision, with accusations amounting to the President being guilty of premeditated assault on religion and disregard for Americans' religious sentiments. 
  Roosevelt Boulevard, officially named the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Boulevard 
Historically, Roosevelt Boulevard is a part of the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America.