Happy birthday and many happy returns Jenny Duong. May your day be nestled in comfort and joy. They might be pet names .. Sorry, had to toss that bone.
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One political whopper and various lies on the side
Piers Akerman – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (6:14pm)
ROB Oakeshott needs a new diary - April Fool’s Day is not until Monday. Yet, there he was on Wednesday telling such a whopper he must have thought everyone was already on their Easter break.
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Labor is looking at YOUR super!
Piers Akerman – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (5:15am)
MAKE no mistake – the Gillard government is eyeing your superannuation savings.
Faced with its skyrocketing debt burden and still to pay for its promised Gonski package of school funding and the National Disability Insurance Scheme – super savings are on the table.
Your hard-earned cash is at risk.
Gillard government debt levels are forecast to blow out by 80 per cent to $165 billion in this term alone - that’s a whopping $14,000 for every working Australian.
Analysis of budget documents revealed that, between the 2010 election and federal Treasury’s update in October last year, the 2012-13 net debt estimate rose $54 billion to $144 billion.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has refused to rule out tax increases on super, saying only she wants a sustainable long-term superannuation system.
But sacked former minister Simon Crean has put the question in play, along with his fellow anti-Gillard conspirator Joel Fitzgibbon.
Crean, one of the saner ALP MPs, said on Monday the Government should not be talking about taxing people’s super to achieve a budget surplus.
Before being sacked from cabinet last week he was a member of the Government’s inner circle - the Expenditure Review Committee - weighing up Labor’s budget decisions.
The Gillard Government has already increased the tax rate on super contributions to 30 cents for people earning over $300,000.
Faced with its skyrocketing debt burden and still to pay for its promised Gonski package of school funding and the National Disability Insurance Scheme – super savings are on the table.
Your hard-earned cash is at risk.
Gillard government debt levels are forecast to blow out by 80 per cent to $165 billion in this term alone - that’s a whopping $14,000 for every working Australian.
Analysis of budget documents revealed that, between the 2010 election and federal Treasury’s update in October last year, the 2012-13 net debt estimate rose $54 billion to $144 billion.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has refused to rule out tax increases on super, saying only she wants a sustainable long-term superannuation system.
But sacked former minister Simon Crean has put the question in play, along with his fellow anti-Gillard conspirator Joel Fitzgibbon.
Crean, one of the saner ALP MPs, said on Monday the Government should not be talking about taxing people’s super to achieve a budget surplus.
Before being sacked from cabinet last week he was a member of the Government’s inner circle - the Expenditure Review Committee - weighing up Labor’s budget decisions.
The Gillard Government has already increased the tax rate on super contributions to 30 cents for people earning over $300,000.
Former chief whip Fitzgibbon yesterday called on Gillard not to raid the super of low and middle-income earners in her quest to pay for other promises.
“I welcome any changes but only at the very, very high end,” he said.
“For example coal miners in my electorate earning $120,000, $130,000, $140,000 a year are not wealthy - that’s the sort of money you need these days with property prices, et cetera, as they are.
“In Sydney’s west you can be on a $250,000 family income a year and you’re still struggling - particularly given property prices.
“So I don’t mind us looking at the very top end but I will not support changes that affect ordinary people like my coal miners living in Hunter.”
Gillard’s safari to Western Sydney was a waste of time.
She didn’t meet the battlers, let alone the hard-working savers struggling to make ends meet on $250,000.
Instead, she dined with a handful of selected “mummy bloggers” who reliably gushed over her menu selections in a private dining room as far from Western Sydney residents as she could be.
Pauline Vamos from the Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA) says the industry is getting jittery over “a number of red flags”.
“We are concerned that the current government may make changes to the superannuation system that are about short-term revenue needs rather than long-term retirement incomes policy,” she said.
“I think there has been a number of red flags. There’s no doubt there is a conversation about every single budget line, but we need to remember that superannuation is owned by consumers.”
Opposition leader Tony Abbott has promised not to change super guidelines during the first term of a conservative government.
Gillard has plenty to be jittery about.
The Financial Review reports today that Labor’s support among marginal seat voters has crashed in Queensland and Western Australia to levels similar to NSW, exposing it to the loss of all 24?marginal seats it holds across Australia and risking up to 15 more semi-marginal electorates.
We can only hope.
But the attack on your super savings may be announced in the May Budget to finance more Labor madness.
If Gillard does grab more of your hard-earned cash, today’s marginal seat poll may become the high-water mark for this failed leader.
“I welcome any changes but only at the very, very high end,” he said.
“For example coal miners in my electorate earning $120,000, $130,000, $140,000 a year are not wealthy - that’s the sort of money you need these days with property prices, et cetera, as they are.
“In Sydney’s west you can be on a $250,000 family income a year and you’re still struggling - particularly given property prices.
“So I don’t mind us looking at the very top end but I will not support changes that affect ordinary people like my coal miners living in Hunter.”
Gillard’s safari to Western Sydney was a waste of time.
She didn’t meet the battlers, let alone the hard-working savers struggling to make ends meet on $250,000.
Instead, she dined with a handful of selected “mummy bloggers” who reliably gushed over her menu selections in a private dining room as far from Western Sydney residents as she could be.
Pauline Vamos from the Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA) says the industry is getting jittery over “a number of red flags”.
“We are concerned that the current government may make changes to the superannuation system that are about short-term revenue needs rather than long-term retirement incomes policy,” she said.
“I think there has been a number of red flags. There’s no doubt there is a conversation about every single budget line, but we need to remember that superannuation is owned by consumers.”
Opposition leader Tony Abbott has promised not to change super guidelines during the first term of a conservative government.
Gillard has plenty to be jittery about.
The Financial Review reports today that Labor’s support among marginal seat voters has crashed in Queensland and Western Australia to levels similar to NSW, exposing it to the loss of all 24?marginal seats it holds across Australia and risking up to 15 more semi-marginal electorates.
We can only hope.
But the attack on your super savings may be announced in the May Budget to finance more Labor madness.
If Gillard does grab more of your hard-earned cash, today’s marginal seat poll may become the high-water mark for this failed leader.
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LIL-EEE, LIL-EEE
Tim Blair – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (3:10am)
Her name is Lil K. Lewis. She’s only three years old. And she might be the most gifted Australian cricketer you’ve ever seen:
Check the stance. Her eyes are precisely level. That backlift is perfect. Her first shot is a drive through mid-wicket taken from outside the off-stump in the manner of Viv Richards, who shares Lil’s lower-hand style. The second shot is a lofted straight drive, again featuring that strong right hand. Lil’s third shot is a cover drive so majestic, so technically exquisite, that the little girl freezes in her follow-through so that lesser players might learn how it’s done:
Kim Hughes sometimes did the same. Don Bradman himself can’t teach this girl a thing, even though she’s barely taller than her bat.
Check the stance. Her eyes are precisely level. That backlift is perfect. Her first shot is a drive through mid-wicket taken from outside the off-stump in the manner of Viv Richards, who shares Lil’s lower-hand style. The second shot is a lofted straight drive, again featuring that strong right hand. Lil’s third shot is a cover drive so majestic, so technically exquisite, that the little girl freezes in her follow-through so that lesser players might learn how it’s done:
Kim Hughes sometimes did the same. Don Bradman himself can’t teach this girl a thing, even though she’s barely taller than her bat.
(Via 3AW)
Three-year-old Lil K Lewis is so impressive with the bat, Cricket Australia wants to use her as the face of the upcoming Ashes campaign.
Why not coach?
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STATE OF THE ISSUES
Tim Blair – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (3:02am)
The Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she believes Labor’s crushing election defeat in Western Australia was due to state issues.
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FAIRFAX’S FAVOURITE FEMINIST FELLOW
Tim Blair – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (2:44am)
Among the few male contributors to Fairfax’s Ladypages is Californian fringe academic Hugo Schwyzer, whose latest piece asks:
Is this porn star dangerous?
Beats me. But the porn star is probably less dangerous than Hugo himself, who – as readers may recall – once attempted to kill his girlfriend, possibly while studying power imbalances:
[Schwyzer] said that his sex with students (including four on one school trip he chaperoned) had been “deeply and profoundly wrong,” but added that it made him “keenly sensitive to power imbalances in sexual relationships.”
It’s been a fun time in the Ladypages lately. If you haven’t already, please enjoy PWAF’s dissection of leading Ladypager Alecia Simmonds. For all her faults, at least she’s never tried to murder anybody.
UPDATE. Hugo responds:
The Telegraph’s Tim Blair thinks I’m a “fringe academic” …
Well, I could have described you as a “professor of history and gender studies at Pasadena City College”, but that’s just a longer way of saying the same thing.
THERE ARE LIMITS
Tim Blair – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (1:37am)
Not everyone enjoyed yesterday’s alternative Monthly covers:
how low can the daily telegraph go?
I don’t know, mate. We’d probably drawn the line at, say, inviting Kyle Sandilands over and kissing the egomaniacal female-hating freak.
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TAX-FUNDED FEVER
Tim Blair – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (1:25am)
“It was a feverish time,” writes the ABC’s Jonathan Holmes. “I was on long service leave in Europe.”
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LIB vs LIB
Tim Blair – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (1:09am)
Just a reminder that political dysfunction isn’t entirely confined to the Left.
UPDATE. Labor is so much better at this. We now have Latham vs Fitzgibbon, Queensland Labor vs itself, and former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty vs Gillard vs Rudd:
It is too easy to blame the opposition, the media or Kevin Rudd. The latter may have been an irritant, but in the big picture of recent politics he was a mosquito. The government’s problems do not stem from Rudd’s removal but the means and justification for doing it.The result was that the electorate did not give the ALP the right to govern alone. In the process of forming government, concessions were made that had lasting significance. When a sensible policy of pricing carbon at international levels became a tax, it subverted trust in a government that promised it would not introduce such a tax. When the umbilical cord of trust between the governed and those who govern is broken, it cannot be easily restored.
And we also have Roxon vs Kitching vs Conroy in Victoria:
Roxon joins ALP seat brawl, as Conroy ‘goes nuclear’
He’s going nuclear? This is bound to end in tears.
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SAME QUAKE, DIFFERENT CAUSE
Tim Blair – Thursday, March 28, 2013 (1:02am)
According to Associated Press:
An unusual and widely felt 5.6-magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 was probably caused when oil drilling waste was pushed deep underground, a team of university and federal scientists concluded.That would make it the most powerful quake to be blamed on deep injections of wastewater, according to a study published Tuesday by the journal Geology. The waste was from traditional drilling, not from the hydraulic fracturing technique, or fracking.
A Bloomberg piece in the SMH says otherwise:
Oklahoma’s biggest quake tied to fracking …Scientists have linked Oklahoma’s biggest recorded earthquake to the disposal of wastewater from oil production, adding to evidence that may lead to greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas.
(Via Frederick G.)
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Shorten’s big stack
Andrew BoltMARCH282013(7:44pm)
The crudest and most shameful stacking of an “independent” tribunal, already led by a former ACTU official:
Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten announced the appointments on Thursday afternoon, just ahead of the Easter break and Good Friday.Mr Lawrence, who until a year ago was the ACTU secretary, was made a deputy president. Also appointed as a commissioner was Leigh Johns, who has a long history with Labor, and has been the chief executive of the Fair Work Building and Construction inspectorate.
The changes were among eight appointments announced by Mr Shorten.
They include two new vice presidents, Joe Catanzariti, a partner at law firm Clayton Utz, and Adam Hatcher SC, a former Labor candidate and an industrial relations barrister who has represented major unions.
Shorten should be ashamed of himself. But at least he’s gone so far that the Coalition has an excuse to reform the living daylights out of the joint.
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We’ll pay plenty for those borrowed handouts
Andrew BoltMARCH282013(6:53pm)
MAYBE it’s too late already. But our slackers’ paradise is in strife if we don’t end this Age of Entitlement.
We can measure that strife with figures: by the May Budget, the Gillard Government will have blown another $75 billion of borrowed money.
That’s on top of the $90 billion debt left by the Rudd government.
Or take these figures: more than six million Australians now live off government benefits or salaries, with only another six million Australians working full-time in the private sector to pay for them.
Or measure our entitlement mentality with anecdotes, like those in this week’s Lowy Institute report on the blowout in demand for government help from Australians abroad.
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Does the Trade Minister read the Economist?
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (12:28pm)
Now even the Economist, long a warmist publication, admits what Trade Minister Craig Emerson won’t:
(Thanks to reader Stefan.)
OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar.Can someone tell Emerson?
(Thanks to reader Stefan.)
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Kelty attacks Gillard on exactly the grounds I have
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (12:04pm)
Bill Kelty, the former ACTU secretary and a giant of the union movement, makes the same criticisms of Julia Gillard that I have as a supposedly “Right-wing” commentator.
To put it less diplomatically, Gillard, is disloyal, untrustworthy, incompetent, reckless, divisive, dictatorial, wasteful and lacking in vision:
To put it less diplomatically, Gillard, is disloyal, untrustworthy, incompetent, reckless, divisive, dictatorial, wasteful and lacking in vision:
The government’s problems do not stem from Rudd’s removal but the means and justification for doing it.If that is what one of the great figures of the Left now says about Gillard, perhaps we conservatives deserve an apology for the vilification we received in saying it first.
The result was that the electorate did not give the ALP the right to govern alone. In the process of forming government, concessions were made that had lasting significance. When a sensible policy of pricing carbon at international levels became a tax, it subverted trust in a government that promised it would not introduce such a tax…
When the mining tax was touted as a negotiating coup, somebody forgot to tell us about state royalties. These are errors of judgment and explanation…
The two most recent prime ministers have sought from caucus a special right to select their own ministers, but in both cases, the cabinet process has been allowed to be frittered away. The media reform was moderate, but the process was flawed. A jackboot approach to discussions and timing would not have been permitted if the proper process of cabinet had been followed....
A Labor Party that cultivates division, or taxes superannuation retrospectively, or cannot justify deficits, or makes regional tours presidential visitations, or reinvents class warfare, or steals the rhetoric of Pauline Hanson on migrants, or embraces the Pacific refugee solution of John Howard, or attacks single mothers and narrows its base to a mythical group of blue-collar workers, cannot win an election.
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How could Doug have suspected such a fine MP as Macdonald?
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (11:36am)
Charming people, the faction bosses and union heavies who insisted Ian Macdonald stay in the NSW Parliament. Great judges of character. So concerned with the “public interest”.
Labor MP Luke Foley says he tried to get McDonald dumped, but was overruled by Labor and union figures such as Senator Doug Cameron, then the national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union:
(Thanks to reader Raouf Raouf.)
Labor MP Luke Foley says he tried to get McDonald dumped, but was overruled by Labor and union figures such as Senator Doug Cameron, then the national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union:
In 2006 I sought to strip Ian Macdonald of his pre-selection because I felt he’d abandoned Labor principle and he’d lost his moral compass.Cameron is shocked, shocked, to hear this:
DOUG CAMERON: What Luke Foley said yesterday about a chorus of complaints, about a loss of moral compass, about the abandonment of Labor principles was not put at that meeting… And I have to say to you if then at that meeting people like myself, George Campbell, Anthony Albanese and Paul Bastian did nothing then he should have done something about it…Until then, Cameron thought Macdonald was just the man NSW needed in Parliament:
PETER LLOYD: When did you first get concerned about Mr Macdonald’s conduct?
DOUG CAMERON: Oh not until, actually Luke Foley was sending emails around about Mr Macdonald’s conduct drawing people’s attention to overseas expenditure.
PETER LLOYD: All right but what about his conduct in relation to the granting of mining leases and his association with Eddie Obeid, serious matters of corruption. When did you become aware of those?
DOUG CAMERON: ... I knew nothing about that and it wasn’t until this whole thing blew up in the press that I started to become aware of the relationship…
PETER LLOYD: Can you tell me what is the value proposition in supporting Ian Macdonald when he doesn’t come from a trade background, he’s had a clerical career. Why did the union that you led back a man who had no credentials in that workforce and back him for so many years?A spear carrier for the Left? ‘Nuff said. Stick that man in Parliament, given his great plans for the state:
DOUG CAMERON: Oh look it’s not just about them coming from the workforce. He was a member of the left and he was as I described in evidence before ICAC a spear carrier for the left ...
Mr Cameron told ICAC he believed Mr Macdonald wanted to stay in parliament because he was having “financial difficulties” supporting a daughter’s education and also wanted to go to the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a minister.And another good point in Macdonald’s favor:
Mr Cameron’s lawyer daughter Fiona worked in Mr Macdonald’s office between 2003 and 2010, mainly as a policy adviser.No way that Cameron could be expected to know if Macdonald, the man he kept in Parliament, was a bit iffy. No reason at all to dount that this was a man dedicated to the service of, er, the state.
(Thanks to reader Raouf Raouf.)
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On the other hand, Sir Bob is right
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (11:29am)
On the other hand, sometimes Sir Bob speaks sense:
(Thanks to readers Don and Steve.)
Political activist Bob Geldof has poured scorn on Earth Hour’s claims that it has become a global initiative, telling a Sydney audience that nobody outside of Australia is aware of the event.In fact, Geldof says what almost no politician dares admit - that acting on our own is perfectly useless, even if you do believe warming is a terrible threat:
Earth Hour, the brainchild of Australian agency Leo Burnett Sydney and WWF, began in Australia in 2007. This year’s event took place at the weekend, with the Earth Hour organisation claiming that “more than 7000 cities, towns and municipalities in more than 150 countries and territories” took part…
“We turn off our lights for Earth Day – Earth Hour f...ing hell. Nobody outside of Australia knows about Earth Hour, believe me...”
... it is no use for Australia enacting just by itself ...Wise man. This time.
(Thanks to readers Don and Steve.)
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To Paris, with the warmists’ thanks for your contribution
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (7:10am)
Reader Enough is Enough
sees more of your money being burned at the altar of global warming -
money spent most on bureaucrats enjoying lots of lovely international
travel:
I found this grants list for 2012 from the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. It has a few eye opener grant recipients:
Program: Helping to shape a global climate change solutionThen you have this group named “DO SOMETHING!” - apparently it pitches to the youth:
Recipient: OECD (Organisation of Economic Co-operation & Development)
Value: $100,000.OO GST inclusive
Purpose: Development of data-set and methodology to track private climate finance flows to developing countries
Approval date: 31 October 2012
Grant Term: 9 months
Grant Funding Location: Paris, France
Program: Helping to shape a global climate change solution
Recipient: UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
Value: $578,381.19
Purpose: Contribution to UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol
Approval Date: 8 March 2012
Grant term: 12 months
Grant funding location: Bonn, Germany
Program: Helping to shape a global change solution
Recipient: OECD Climate Change Expert Group
Value: $60,000.00
Purpose: Contribution to IPEEC for new Buildings Energy Efficiency task group
Date of approval: 23 May 2012
Grant term: 12 months
Grant funding location: Frankfurt, Germany
Program: Helping to shape a global change solution
Recipient: Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
Value: $60,000
Purpose: Voluntary contribution to OECD work of the Climate Change Experts Group (CCXG)
Approval date: 17 July 2012
Grant funding location: Paris, France
Program: Helping to shape a global change solution
Recipient: Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change Trust Fund (IPCC Trust Fund)
Value: $120,000 (GST exclusive)
Purpose: IPCC Trust Fund Annual Payment (2012)
Approval date: 23 May 2012
Grant term: Ongoing
Grant funding location: Geneva, Switzerland
Program: Helping to shape a global solution
Recipient: Dr Habiba Gitay
Value: $22,000 (GST exclusive)
Purpose: Support for Australian participation in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report
Approval date: 23/03/2012
Grant term: 27 months
Grant funding location: Vienna, Virginia, USA
Program: Helping to shape a global solution
Recipient: Overseas Environmental Cooperation Centre, Japan
Value: $30,000
Purpose: To support delegates from Pacific Island countries attending the 21st Pacific Seminar on Climate Change
Approval date: 28 August 2012
Grant term: 12 months
Grant funding location: Tokyo, Japan
Program: Energy Efficiency Information GrantsDon’t forget the migrant community groups who are riding the gravy train once again - Auburn Community Development Network $72,121, The Hills Holroyd Parramatta Migrant Resource Centre Inc $1,083,051.20.
Value: $958,639.00 (GST inclusive)
Purpose: Do Something! will disseminate advice and energy efficiency information to over 15,000 community groups and 565 local councils nationwide. This includes developing a web portal, best practice guides, case studies and tip sheets, videos, eBooks, PowerPoint presentations, energy efficiency guides and providing access to an energy cost calculator.
Approval date: 4 September 2012
Grant term: 34 months
Grant funding location: Newtown, NSW
Where are the values of this Government? There is not enough money for health and education but more than enough for this ridiculous climate change agenda.
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Checking Swan’s figures
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (6:56am)
Professor Sinclair Davidson graphs Treasurer Wayne Swan’s deceits:
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Read on to find what these two graphs, combined, produce.
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
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Columnist brachiates again
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (6:49am)
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Elizabeth Farrelly hears the advice but recklessly fails to heed it:
This is a column about whether worship is grounded in biology. I approach it with trepidation since I am frequently scolded, even by those such as Philip Adams, whose opinion I revere, for over-egging. I stuff my columns, they say, like Christmas stockings. I link them too gladly and brachiate too easily from branch to unconnected branch.Alas, more baubles and brachiating:
And although I try to be singular, here I am, again seeking your indulgence for linkages that some say should never be made.
It’s not just perversity or entertainment, though I do have a mind that reaches for coloured baubles.
The Roman or Christian cross, by contrast, comprises two intersecting axes, the X and the Y (again, thank you Descartes). To my mind - and this is a shamelessly personal interpretation, unvalidated by any theologian living or dead - the X is the human world of outreach and compassion. The Y-axis is the rising sap, the entropy-defying stance, the figure on the salt lake, the yearning for truth and justice, the god-stretch.
Vertical and horizontal. Justice and compassion. Head and heart. And the crossing point, the origin, the belly button of the world? That, I think, is love.
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Tell me when Labor’s ready to talk about its dead
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (6:45am)
IT’S always “too soon” to talk about the boat people lured to their deaths by Labor.
Two years ago, when 50 boat people drowned off Christmas Island, I said the Government had “blood on its hands” for having dismantled our tough border laws.
Greens leader Bob Brown was livid: “Andrew Bolt’s call, while bodies were still in the ocean, for Julia Gillard’s resignation ... lacked human decency. He should resign.”
This week, it was again too soon.
(Read full article here.)
UPDATE
Even running out of money to deter boat people:
Two years ago, when 50 boat people drowned off Christmas Island, I said the Government had “blood on its hands” for having dismantled our tough border laws.
Greens leader Bob Brown was livid: “Andrew Bolt’s call, while bodies were still in the ocean, for Julia Gillard’s resignation ... lacked human decency. He should resign.”
This week, it was again too soon.
(Read full article here.)
UPDATE
Even running out of money to deter boat people:
Asylum seeker families could be released into the community on bridging visas to relieve pressure on an overwhelmed budget and a border protection system struggling against an unprecedented surge in arrivals.But money enough to tell boat people this is a land of plenty that’s free, free, free:
A PREGNANT asylum seeker deemed a security risk by ASIO was offered free domestic help and childcare while another detainee has had drooping eyelids fixed by taxpayers.(Thanks to reader CA.)
An array of non urgent medical treatment provided to detainees has been revealed including a suspected war criminal who had his impacted wisdom teeth removed at no cost to him.
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Gillard was right. It’s over
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (6:32am)
”It’s over,” said Julia Gillard last week after crushing a bid to replace her with Kevin Rudd.
Sure is:
Sure is:
Labor’s support among marginal seat voters has crashed in Queensland and Western Australia to levels similar to NSW, exposing it to the loss of all 24 marginal seats it holds across Australia and risking up to 15 more semi-marginal electorates.Add to these losses the seats of “independents” Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott…
The poll by JWS Research ... surveyed 4070 voters across the nation’s 54 marginal seats – those held by margins of 6 per cent or less....
Since the last JWS Research marginal seat poll in January, the two-party-preferred swing against Labor in the 54 marginal seats since the 2010 election has almost doubled, from 4.8 per cent to 9.3 per cent....
[Labor] would lose 10 marginal seats in NSW, seven in Queensland, three each in Victoria and Western Australia and one in the Northern Territory.
If the national average 9.3 per cent swing were extrapolated to Labor seats with margins above 6 per cent, another 15 could fall, leaving Labor with as few as 32 seats in the 150-seat Parliament...
On a two-party preferred basis, the Coalition leads Labor in the marginals by 59.4 per cent to 40.6 per cent.
Revenge:
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd might be the last Labor MP standing in Queensland after the September election, JWS Research polling shows.
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Saving the planet while Labor burns
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (5:50am)
While a mining union
boss is overseas in a loopy attempt to “save” the world from
overheating, his boys back home help set fire to the shop:
A union boss representing coal miners backs a great global warming scare campaign that aims to put his members out of work. And unionist officials backing this campaign against fossil fuel emissions support a new coal mine.
Here’s Maher in full global warmist fervor in 2007, at the height of the scare:
ROGUE mining union officials wrote letters pledging CFMEU support for their former boss John Maitland’s “harebrained scheme” to construct a coalmine in NSW’s Hunter Valley in direct defiance of a directive to steer away from the “corrupt” plan.So many ironies and hypocrisies…
Tony Maher, who succeeded Mr Maitland as president of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, yesterday ... told the inquiry he was “very offended” by one unauthorised letter, signed by CFMEU mining and energy general secretary Peter Murray, that spread “lies” about union support for Mr Maitland’s “training mine”.
“He had absolutely no authority to write it, and it is factually wrong, and it was written . . . in a 10-day period that I was in Copenhagen for United Nations discussions on climate change,” Mr Maher said of the December 2008 letter ...
A union boss representing coal miners backs a great global warming scare campaign that aims to put his members out of work. And unionist officials backing this campaign against fossil fuel emissions support a new coal mine.
Here’s Maher in full global warmist fervor in 2007, at the height of the scare:
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The new working poor: miners on $140,000
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (5:41am)
The Government’s class war talk seems from another age, given what the working class actually looks like today:
Former chief whip Joel Fitzgibbon has joined other Labor MPs concerned about the prospect of taxing the superannuation earnings of the wealthy…Poor old workers, groaning under the boot of greedy rich mining bosses.
‘’In Sydney’s west you can be on a quarter of a million dollars family income a year and you’re still struggling,’’ Mr Fitzgibbon said.
‘’Coal miners in my electorate earning 100, 120, 130, 140 thousand dollars a year are not wealthy.’’
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And this is a party which rules the country?
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (5:27am)
A Labor preselection battle becomes a microcosm of what’s so wrong - and potentially corrupt - with Labor today:
Former attorney-general Nicola Roxon has moved to assert her authority in her seat of Gellibrand, urging local ALP members to back her preferred candidate when she retires at the next election.Yes, Labor today:
The intervention comes amid an increasingly heated preselection row, with the authority of Victorian Right faction powerbroker Stephen Conroy - who is pushing for his own candidate - being challenged by a splinter group linked to the Health Services Union.
Ms Roxon .... has written to her local members urging them to support her former staffer, Katie Hall…
Senator Conroy is backing his own former staffer, Telstra executive Tim Watts, for the seat.
But he has been infuriated by the nomination of Kimberley Kitching, a prominent member of Senator Conroy’s Labor Unity faction who is now running the Health Services Union Victoria No. 1 branch.
It is believed Ms Kitching, who is married to political blogger Andrew Landeryou, is being supported by locals from the Turkish community who have been marshalled against Senator Conroy.
Ministers pushing pet candidates onto a local electorate.But as for local people, local voices, local issues...:
A discredited union offering its own candidate.
Candidates drawn from the same-old ranks of party and union apparatchiks.
An ethnic bloc marshalled in a power play.
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Gillard’s backfire: divide and be conquered
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (5:13am)
Niki Savva on a Prime Minister determined to divide the nation as she has her own party:
Gillard’s problem is that her entire election strategy for at least a year has been to appeal to single-interest groups and the aggrieved by picking fights with their “enemies”. How is she to stop now? What can she replace that with? The real, real, real Julia?
UPDATE
That class-war talk hasn’t exactly mobilised the Labor base as intended. A third of Labor’s Queensland members haven’t bothered to renew their cut-price memberships:
The politics of division sure hasn’t done much for Labor itself. Graham Richardson:
Crean, Martin Ferguson, Bill Kelty and others expressed their repugnance at tactics unworthy of leaders…
On Monday when Gillard was asked about class warfare and the criticisms, she replied: “My focus is on Australian classrooms and what happens in them, and that’s at the centre of Australian political life and the life of our nation.”
How cute was that? How clever to turn class war into classroom. Too cute and too clever, really.
On Tuesday when the ABC’s Sabra Lane asked again about class warfare, Gillard responded by seeking a definition of it, as if she could explain away or excuse what she and the Treasurer had been doing by reducing it to an exercise in semantics.
Those who had been listening knew exactly what they were hearing: an attempt to pit people against one another on the basis of class, or sex, or race as in the case of foreign workers, for base political gain…
The tactics of divide and rule will work about as well in the electorate as they do inside Labor.
Gillard’s problem is that her entire election strategy for at least a year has been to appeal to single-interest groups and the aggrieved by picking fights with their “enemies”. How is she to stop now? What can she replace that with? The real, real, real Julia?
UPDATE
That class-war talk hasn’t exactly mobilised the Labor base as intended. A third of Labor’s Queensland members haven’t bothered to renew their cut-price memberships:
In a leaked internal ALP memo, Queensland state secretary Anthony Chisholm this week pleaded to the “true believers” to lean on 2000 members who have yet to renew their memberships.UPDATE
“We need every single one of these 2000 members in order take the fight to Tony Abbott in September, and to Campbell Newman in 2014,” he said in the memo. “And we can’t do it without you.”
It follows a recruitment drive in September last year with Labor cutting sign-up fees to $5 after membership of the Queensland division fell to around 5000 rank-and-file.
The politics of division sure hasn’t done much for Labor itself. Graham Richardson:
This week’s Newspoll in The Australian was totally in line with everybody’s expectations… The 16-point gap in the two-party-preferred vote was something even most Gillard supporters would have expected to see. It was the price they were prepared to pay to stop the man they despise so much. It is such a tragedy that Rudd is the most hated figure in the caucus. In 40 years of close study, I have never seen a hatred this toxic.
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Wireless could make NBN clueless
Andrew Bolt March 28 2013 (4:54am)
Already running
over-time, over-budget and under-subscribed, the $37 billion NBN gamble
is now even more likely to become our greatest white elephant. And
it’s for the very reason that even the techno-clueless consumers have
said from the start: who wants to be tethered to a wire in the wall?
THE company building the National Broadband Network, already under fire for running late, has admitted it faces rising competition from wireless networks offering improved services and prices.
NBN Co has conceded its own modelling finds that if it increases prices by the maximum it expects to be allowed by regulators, the number of wireless-only premises will rise to 30 per cent by 2039-40 because affordability is such a significant factor for households…
A Labor-commissioned report by corporate advisers Greenhill Caliburn in 2011 warned that the growing popularity of wireless internet could have a “significant” impact on the economics.
Now a senior NBN Co executive has said: “NBN Co faces competition from wireless networks that are increasing in capability over time, subject to significant economies of scale and scope (and therefore, decreasing cost per gigabyte delivered), and are expected to offer a potential substitute for NBN Co’s voice-only and entry-level voice and broadband services.”
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March 28: Maundy Thursday (Western Christianity, 2013); Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic; Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet
- 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman EmperorPertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers(pictured) discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1933 – A passenger aboard the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool set a fire on board, causing it to break apart in mid-air and crash.
- 1999 – Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo Albaniansin the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central Kosovo.
- 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In a friendly fire incident, two members of the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and Royals of theHousehold Cavalry, killing one and injuring five British soldiers.
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Events
- 37 – Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
- 193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sells the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
- 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
- 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
- 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- 1794 – Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
- 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
- 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
- 1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
- 1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
- 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
- 1889 – The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
- 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
- 1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
- 1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
- 1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airline lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
- 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
- 1941 – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italianheavy cruisers and two destroyers.
- 1942 – World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
- 1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
- 1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mao Khe, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
- 1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
- 1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
- 1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
- 1969 – The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
- 1970 – Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260.
- 1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
- 1979 – Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
- 1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election.
- 1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 1994 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
- 1994 – BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
- 1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
- 2000 – Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
- 2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
- 2005 – The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
- 2006 – At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
[edit]Births
- 1472 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
- 1515 – Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and saint (d. 1582)
- 1522 – Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
- 1569 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
- 1592 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
- 1599 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
- 1613 – Empress Xiaozhuangwen of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1688)
- 1621 – Heinrich Schwemmer German music teacher and composer (d. 1696)
- 1652 – Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
- 1725 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
- 1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan nationalist (d. 1816)
- 1760 – Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
- 1773 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
- 1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
- 1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
- 1806 – Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891)
- 1811 – Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop and Roman Catholic saint (d. 1860)
- 1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
- 1818 – Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
- 1819 – Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
- 1836 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company (d. 1904)
- 1840 – Emin Pasha, Egyptian politician (d. 1892)
- 1842 – William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officer (d. 1908)
- 1849 – James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
- 1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
- 1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
- 1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
- 1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
- 1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
- 1873 – John Geiger, American rower (d. 1956)
- 1879 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish nationalist (d. 1920)
- 1881 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-born athlete (d. 1918)
- 1890 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
- 1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish republican, commandant-general in the Western Command of the Irish Republican Army (d. 1993)
- 1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
- 1894 – Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
- 1895 – Christian Herter, American politician, 53rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1966)
- 1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
- 1897 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
- 1897 – Tillie Voss, American football player (d. 1975)
- 1899 – Gussie Busch, American brewer and baseball executive (d. 1989)
- 1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious figure (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
- 1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
- 1902 – Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
- 1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
- 1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
- 1903 – Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
- 1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986)
- 1906 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer and teacher (d. 2002)
- 1907 – Norrey Ford, British writer (d. 1985)
- 1907 – Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
- 1909 – Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
- 1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian (d. 2001)
- 1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
- 1910 – Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
- 1911 – John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher (d. 1960)
- 1912 – A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
- 1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
- 1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
- 1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
- 1914 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
- 1915 – Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
- 1917 – Claude Bertrand, Canadian neurosurgeon
- 1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- 1921 – Sir Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (d. 1960)
- 1921 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian comic book author (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
- 1922 – Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990)
- 1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
- 1923 – Ike Isaacs, American jazz bassist (d. 1981)
- 1923 – Thad Jones, American jazz trumpeter (Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band) (d. 1986)
- 1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
- 1924 – Byrd Baylor, American author
- 1924 – Fred Flanagan, Australian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
- 1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
- 1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist
- 1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, stateless mathematician
- 1929 – Paul England, Australian racing driver
- 1930 – Robert Ashley, American composer
- 1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
- 1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1933 – Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
- 1933 – Frank Murkowski, American politician
- 1934 – Lester Brown, American environmentalist
- 1935 – Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
- 1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author, politician and Nobel laureate
- 1937 – Liz Trotta, American journalist
- 1938 – Hans-Jürgen Bäsler, German footballer (d. 2002)
- 1940 – Tony Barber, Australian game show host
- 1940 – Yves Bérubé, Canadian engineer and politician (d. 1993)
- 1940 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and coach (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Alf Clausen, American composer
- 1941 – Jim Turner, American football player
- 1941 – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, American author
- 1942 – Michel Bissonnet, Canadian politician – President of the National Assembly of Quebec (2003-08)
- 1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
- 1942 – Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna
- 1942 – Neil Kinnock, British politician
- 1942 – Mike Newell, English director
- 1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
- 1942 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
- 1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach
- 1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress
- 1943 – Pierre St.-Jean, Canadian weightlifter
- 1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player
- 1944 – Ken Howard, American actor
- 1945 – Dan Alon, Israeli fencer
- 1945 – Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
- 1946 – Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian politician, President of Peru
- 1946 – Henry Paulson Jr., American economist
- 1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
- 1947 – John Landecker, American disk jockey
- 1947 – Greg Thompson, Canadian politician
- 1948 – Matthew Corbett, English actor
- 1948 – John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
- 1948 – Gerry House, American radio personality
- 1948 – Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist
- 1948 – Dennis Unkovic, American author
- 1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
- 1948 – Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (d. 2006)
- 1950 – Claudio Lolli, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1951 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
- 1951 – Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
- 1952 – Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician
- 1952 – Tony Brise, British racing driver (d. 1975)
- 1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
- 1954 – Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
- 1954 – Donald Brown, American jazz pianist
- 1955 – John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
- 1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
- 1956 – Susan Ershler, American public speaker, author, and climber of Mount Everest
- 1956 – April Margera, American television personality, mother of Bam Margera
- 1957 – Paul Eiding, American voice actor
- 1958 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban composer
- 1958 – Lou Franceschetti, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1958 – Bart Conner, American gymnast
- 1959 – Chris Myers, American sportscaster
- 1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor
- 1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
- 1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
- 1961 – Orla Brady, Irish actress
- 1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
- 1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
- 1962 – Terry Szopinski, American wrestler
- 1963 – Chieko Honda, Japanese voice actress (d. 2013)
- 1963 – Jan Masiel, Polish politician
- 1964 – Pablo Contrisciani, Argentine-born abstract painter
- 1965 – Steve Bull, English footballer
- 1966 – Cheryl James, American rapper and actress (Salt-n-Pepa)
- 1967 – John Ziegler, American radio host
- 1968 – Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
- 1968 – Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
- 1968 – Jon Lee, British drummer (The Darling Buds and Feeder) (d. 2002)
- 1968 – Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
- 1968 – Max Perlich, American actor
- 1969 – Rodney Atkins, American singer-songwriter
- 1969 – Daniel Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Elliot Perry, American basketball player
- 1969 – Brett Ratner, American director
- 1970 – Michelle Gildernew, Irish politician
- 1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
- 1970 – Jennifer Weiner, American author
- 1970 – Aiga Zagorska, Lithuanian track and road cyclist
- 1971 – Mr. Cheeks, American rapper (The Lost Boyz)
- 1971 – Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-American writer and educator
- 1971 – Wesley Person, American basketball player
- 1972 – Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
- 1972 – Eby J. Jose, Indian journalist
- 1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
- 1973 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan wrestler (d. 2009)
- 1973 – Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
- 1973 – Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
- 1973 – Morné van der Merwe, South African rugby player (d. 2013)
- 1974 – Mark King, English snooker player
- 1975 – Kate Gosselin, American TV personality
- 1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
- 1975 – Derek Hill, American racing driver
- 1975 – Richard Kelly, American director
- 1975 – Shanna Moakler, American model and actress
- 1975 – Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper
- 1976 – Dave Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
- 1977 – Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
- 1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American novelist
- 1977 – Annie Wersching, American actress
- 1979 – Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
- 1979 – Crystal Cox, American track and field athlete
- 1980 – Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
- 1980 – Chitrangada Singh, Indian actress
- 1980 – Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer
- 1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player
- 1981 – Lindsay Frimodt, American model
- 1981 – Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
- 1981 – Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
- 1981 – Antonio Rizzo, Italian footballer
- 1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress
- 1982 – Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
- 1982 – Luis Tejada, Panamanian footballer
- 1983 – Ryan Ashington, English footballer
- 1984 – Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
- 1984 – Ol Drake, English guitarist (Evile)
- 1984 – Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer
- 1984 – Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
- 1985 – Stefano Ferrario, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Abuda, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer and songwriter
- 1986 – J-Kwon, American rapper
- 1986 – Yoon Joon-Soo, South Korean footballer
- 1986 – Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, Czech tennis player
- 1987 – Kagney Linn Karter, American pornographic actress
- 1987 – Lee Hea-Kang, South Korean footballer
- 1987 – Yohan Benalouane, Tunisian–French footballer
- 1988 – Patrick Mayer, German footballer
- 1988 – Lacey Turner, British actress
- 1989 – Logan Couture, Canadian hockey player
- 1989 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer
- 1989 – Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
- 1989 – Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
- 1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
- 1990 – Zac Clarke, Australian rules footballer
- 1990 – Luca Marrone, Italian footballer
- 1990 – Dok2, South Korean rapper
- 1990 – Joe Bennett, English footballer
- 1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
- 1991 – Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 – Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
- 1992 – Liam Hess, British actor
[edit]Deaths
- 193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
- 1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
- 1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
- 1285 – Pope Martin IV
- 1552 – Guru Angad Dev Indian Sikh Guru (b.1504)
- 1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
- 1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
- 1677 – Václav Hollar, Czech etcher (b. 1607)
- 1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
- 1794 – Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
- 1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (b. 1755)
- 1850 – Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
- 1866 – Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
- 1868 – James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
- 1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
- 1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
- 1881 – Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
- 1884 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (b. 1853)
- 1908 – Hermann Clemenz, Estonian chess player (d. 1846)
- 1910 – David Josiah Brewer, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
- 1910 – Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
- 1923 – Charles Hubbard, American archer (b. 1849)
- 1927 – Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian Catholic archbishop (b. 1853)
- 1928 – Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (b. 1860)
- 1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian politician (b. 1861)
- 1934 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
- 1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
- 1941 – Marcus Hurley, American cyclist (b. 1883)
- 1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
- 1941 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
- 1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet (b. 1910)
- 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
- 1944 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian teacher, political scientist, and writer (b. 1869)
- 1946 – Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
- 1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
- 1949 – Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
- 1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
- 1958 – W. C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
- 1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
- 1963 – Antonius Bouwens, Dutch sports shooter (b. 1876)
- 1965 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
- 1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
- 1965 – Charles William Train, English Sergeant, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1890)
- 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
- 1969 – Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1885)
- 1971 – Robert Hunter, American golfer (b. 1886)
- 1974 – Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
- 1974 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
- 1974 – Françoise Rosay, French opera singer (b. 1891)
- 1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
- 1977 – Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
- 1978 – Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (b. 1941)
- 1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
- 1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
- 1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
- 1983 – Suzanne Belperron, French jewelry designer (b. 1900)
- 1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
- 1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian painter (b. 1887)
- 1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
- 1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905)
- 1987 – Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
- 1989 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1992 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
- 1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (b. 1909)
- 1995 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
- 1996 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
- 2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian jazz musician (b. 1928)
- 2003 – Rusty Draper, American singer (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (b. 1939)
- 2006 – Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher (b. 1911)
- 2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish fiddler (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
- 2010 – Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
- 2010 – June Havoc, American actress (b. 1913)
- 2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
- 2012 – John Arden, English playwright (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Harry Crews, American writer (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (Flatt and Scruggs) (b. 1924)
[edit]Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Commemoration of Sen no Rikyū (Schools of Japanese tea ceremony)
- Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)
- Teachers' Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
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Yesssssss... they're back! Mark Gatiss talks about the return of the Ice Warriors in 'Cold War' in the May issue of Doctor Who Magazine. More info on doctorwho.tv: http://bit.ly/10bTp3V
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On April 2, you can own all ten epic hours of The Bible Series on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD!
Pre-order here ▸ http://bit.ly/YA8JZC
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3 days and counting... Don't miss the return of the Doctor at 7.30pm on ABC TV Australia this Sunday!
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Craig Kelly
TIM FLANNERY SHOULD BE SACKED.
Tim Flannery is paid a reported $180,000 by the Australian taxpayer.
His comments ridiculing people suffering health effects from wind turbines, by saying their illness may be caused by stress or being "sick with envy" for not getting payment for turbines on their properties – as an absolute disgrace.
His comments ridiculing ill Australians that have been forced to abandon their homes because of ultrasound from wind turbines is disgusting, appalling and demonstrates a complete ignorance – and that he is completely unfit to hold such highly paid taxpayer funded job.
Here's a chance for the PM to show some leadership – she should sack Mr. Flannery, today.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/tim-flannery-derides-wind-farm-sickness/story-e6frg8y6-1226608010097
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Darren Martin from The Hawthorne Pantry in the seat of Griffith, Brisbane has been hit hard by the carbon tax and had some graphics to show me how much his power bills have been increasing. Thanks to all the local businesses and their customers that I met in Hawthorne this morning. I was joined by our Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey and our LNP candidate for Griffith, Dr Bill Glasson.
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Many commuters stopped to congratulate Bronwyn on the great job she does as part of Tony Abbott's Liberal Team. — with Bronwyn Bishop.
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Don't forget God or joy .. - ed
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As the righteousness of God in Christ, choose to live a life that pleases God and be blessed in all things like Abraham!
Check out today's devotional. Be sure to click "like" to help spread the word! Thanks, all! http://bit.ly/ZHbWof
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By just one act of eating from the wrong tree, man fell into sin, which brought forth disease and death. But did you know that by the same act of eating, we can reverse the effects of sin? Discover the power of the Holy Communion in this video excerpt and begin to take this meal with newfound revelation and faith and see every symptom of the curse reversed in your life!
http://josephprince.com/
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Success without stress comes only through depending on God’s unmerited favor, not through your own strength, talents or manipulation.
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What happens if you don’t feel God’s love when you wake up in the morning? Beloved, it doesn’t mean that God loves you any lesser that day. 1Jn 4:16 tells us, “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us…”
Right at the moment when you have a headache, when you feel lousy, when you don’t feel loved, talk to Jesus and say “Lord, because You love me, this headache will go away. I’m going to have a great day just because You love me.” This is how you believe practically God’s love for you! Declare and speak it over your life!http://josephprince.com/
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Dear friends,
Thank you for your tremendous support! The official Joseph Prince Facebook Page has received over 800,000 likes. Be part of the Grace Revolution and help us spread the word on grace! Click "Like" and share this post with all your friends. We have more daily grace inspirations, updates and exciting posts coming up.
To ensure that you see our posts on your Facebook newsfeed regularly, be sure to like, share and comment on our posts. We continue to pray that 2013 will be an amazing year for you as you see God opens doors of blessings, favor and grace in your life.
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When you fill your mouth with praises to God, He will lead you and guide you in all the affairs of your life. Check out today's devotional. Be sure to click "like" to help spread the word! Thanks, all! http://bit.ly/ZHbAxV
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