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Gay mafias exposed as world-class rule benders
Piers Akerman – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (7:35pm)
THE hand-flapping hysteria generated by the planned removal of the rainbow-coloured Taylor Square crosswalk is symptomatic of a politically correct push by the noisy end of the homosexual lobby to inflict its narrow agenda on the broader community.
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Climate scaremonger Flannery faces extinction
Piers Akerman – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (6:05am)
THE climate is changing for weather scaremonger Tim Flannery.
Under a Coalition government, Flannery, palaeontologist and former Australian of the Year, is likely to be out of a job.
Talking to 2GB’s Ray Hadley yesterday, Opposition leader Tony Abbott said he would dump the Climate Commission which Flannery heads along with four other federal bureaucracies set up by Labor to comfort warm and fuzzy Green and Labor voters.
Abbott has pledged to abolish Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, which had its genesis in the greatest lie of her political career and which is in turn has been justified by some of the most fraudulent, manipulated scientific data seen in modern times.
‘’When the carbon tax goes, all of those bureaucracies will go and I suspect we might find that the particular position you refer to goes with them,’’ Abbott told Hadley on Wednesday.
‘’It does sound like an unnecessary position given that the gentleman in question gives us the benefit of his views without needing taxpayer funding.’’
Flannery is a serial scaremonger. He predicted a prolonged drought for Australia before it received record rains, he predicted the Arctic would be ice-free two years ago.
Now he says that ignoring or “shooting the messenger will not reduce the threat of climate change, it will just mean that Australia is less prepared”.
Flannery lives in another universe – albeit on the taxpayers’ account.
Abbott lives in the real world and understands that with the carbon tax gone there will be no need for four huge bureaucracies to support it.
“When the carbon tax goes all of those bureaucracies will go and I think you’ll find that particular position you’re referring to will go with them,” Abbott said.
Abbott is considering dumping the Howard government’s renewable energy target, which he says is “significantly increasing the cost of power”.
Speaking to Sky News last night, he equivocated on his previous support for the scheme, which aims to ensure 20 per cent of electricity comes from renewable sources by 2020.
“There is going to be a serious review of this, should there be a change of government,” he said. “We’ll wait for the review before deciding what we do, but I take your point that renewable energy is increasing the price of power.”
No-one should be sorry to see the hysterical Flannery and his hysterical alarmist predictions go the way of the extinct animals he studies.
No-one should be sorry to see the hugely expensive, taxpayer-subsidised green energy made extinct.
Under a Coalition government, Flannery, palaeontologist and former Australian of the Year, is likely to be out of a job.
Talking to 2GB’s Ray Hadley yesterday, Opposition leader Tony Abbott said he would dump the Climate Commission which Flannery heads along with four other federal bureaucracies set up by Labor to comfort warm and fuzzy Green and Labor voters.
Abbott has pledged to abolish Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax, which had its genesis in the greatest lie of her political career and which is in turn has been justified by some of the most fraudulent, manipulated scientific data seen in modern times.
‘’When the carbon tax goes, all of those bureaucracies will go and I suspect we might find that the particular position you refer to goes with them,’’ Abbott told Hadley on Wednesday.
‘’It does sound like an unnecessary position given that the gentleman in question gives us the benefit of his views without needing taxpayer funding.’’
Flannery is a serial scaremonger. He predicted a prolonged drought for Australia before it received record rains, he predicted the Arctic would be ice-free two years ago.
Now he says that ignoring or “shooting the messenger will not reduce the threat of climate change, it will just mean that Australia is less prepared”.
Flannery lives in another universe – albeit on the taxpayers’ account.
Abbott lives in the real world and understands that with the carbon tax gone there will be no need for four huge bureaucracies to support it.
“When the carbon tax goes all of those bureaucracies will go and I think you’ll find that particular position you’re referring to will go with them,” Abbott said.
Abbott is considering dumping the Howard government’s renewable energy target, which he says is “significantly increasing the cost of power”.
Speaking to Sky News last night, he equivocated on his previous support for the scheme, which aims to ensure 20 per cent of electricity comes from renewable sources by 2020.
“There is going to be a serious review of this, should there be a change of government,” he said. “We’ll wait for the review before deciding what we do, but I take your point that renewable energy is increasing the price of power.”
No-one should be sorry to see the hysterical Flannery and his hysterical alarmist predictions go the way of the extinct animals he studies.
No-one should be sorry to see the hugely expensive, taxpayer-subsidised green energy made extinct.
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BACK TO 2007
Tim Blair – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (3:46pm)
Julia Gillard is now fighting the Howard government. Tactical genius!
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RADIO YOU CAN RELY ON
Tim Blair – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (2:05pm)
Finally fed up with forgetful Andrew Bolt, 2GB has asked me to take over on tonight’s show with Steve Price at 8.00pm.
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WE WERE NOT INFORMED
Tim Blair – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (5:43am)
Schools Education Minister Peter Garrett has exaggerated low literacy levels among Australian students by claiming 30 per cent of pupils entering high school “can’t read or write properly” …Mr Garrett’s spokeswoman said the statistics, provided to the minister by the department, were based on the Literacy Standards in Australia report, released in 1997.When asked if it was misleading to use the old report, Mr Garrett’s spokeswoman said “we were not informed it was outdated”.
Surviving Midnight Oil fans say the same thing.
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LADYPAGE KITCHEN RAGE
Tim Blair – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (5:39am)
Why do feminists hate cooking?
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MESSENGER SHOT
Tim Blair – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (5:33am)
Tim Flannery reacts to news of his impending removal as Chief Climate Crybaby:
‘’Ignoring it or shooting the messenger will not reduce the threat of climate change, it will just mean that Australia is less prepared,’’ he said. ‘’We’d be living in the past to think that Australia did not need to prepare for a changing climate.’’
Flannery’s messages do a pretty good job of shooting themselves. That report was from Fairfax’s Ben Cubby, lately demonstrating his usual consistency.
UPDATE. Screaming petticoat Graham Readfearn is a dead-set Doof:
The Australian publishes James Delingpole’s call for climate “alarmists” to face court with power to issue death sentence
No, he didn’t. Delingpole wrote:
The climate alarmist industry has some very tough questions to answer: preferably in the defendant’s dock in a court of law, before a judge wearing a black cap.
Weren’t we knuckle-dragging, literal-minded right-wing types meant to be the ones who struggle with language? By the way, recall that Readfearn was among the few even on his own hand-flapping side who supported this:
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AN OFFER THEY CAN’T RENEW
Tim Blair – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (5:29am)
Sicilian renewable energy activist Vito Nicastri loses some assets:
The seizure of a record 1.5 billion euros from a Sicilian businessman known as “Lord of the Wind” has put the spotlight on Mafia money-laundering through renewable energy ventures …The haul included no fewer than 43 wind and solar energy companies and around 100 properties including swank villas with swimming pools in Sicily’s western Trapani region, along with cars, a catamaran and bank accounts, the interior ministry said …Opposition Senator Giuseppe Lumia lamented: “The Cosa Nostra has managed to infiltrate the wind energy sector in the past few years by taking advantage of bad policies and bad bureaucracies.”
The case dates back to 2010. According to Arturo de Felice, head of Italy’s anti-Mafia agency: “This is a sector in which money can easily be laundered."
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WHERE DEMOCRACY COMES LAST
Tim Blair – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (5:14am)
Greens may be old, but anti-democratic movements elsewhere have youth on their side:
A larger number of young Pakistanis believe the country should be governed by Islamic law rather than by democracy, a British survey shows.The survey, issued on Wednesday by the British Council, found 38 per cent of Pakistanis between the ages of 18 and 29 thought Shariah law was the best political system for Pakistan.Thirty-two per cent chose military rule, and democracy came in last with 29 per cent.
Democracy in Pakistan is almost as popular as Labor is in Australia. Happier news from Afghanistan, where villagers are sticking it to Shariah sandbots:
An uprising against the Taliban that began last month in this southern Afghan village has now spread through dozens of others, according to residents and Afghan and American officials, in the most significant popular turning against the Islamist insurgents in recent years …Isolated uprisings against the Taliban have been reported in several different parts of Afghanistan over the past 18 months. But the revolt in Panjwai is considered significant because it is the first in southern Afghanistan, in the spiritual heartland of the Taliban movement, where the group’s influence had endured despite repeated operations by American and NATO forces.
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CHAV OR ELITE
Tim Blair – Thursday, April 04, 2013 (1:47am)
What type of British person are you?
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Will Gillard destroy Labor, too?
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (12:43pm)
Is Julia Gillard doing to Labor what she did to the Australian Union of Students?
From her official site:
A different take, from the Green Left Weekly:
From her official site:
In 1983 she was elected national Education Vice-President of the Australian Union of Students (AUS) and moved to Melbourne to complete her degree at Melbourne University. Later that year, she was elected President of the AUS.What happened next:
The AUS was then totally dominated by the extreme left. In 1983 — the year she was elected AUS president — an AUS annual council defeated heavily a call to oppose “all acts of terrorism and political violence” (AUS Annual Council 1983: motion N28).
Furthermore, the AUS annual council declined to recognise the rights of religious clubs and societies at universities to “express their views on campus” or to have access to campus facilities (AUS Annual Council 1983: motion N34).
The AUS declared 1983 to be the International Year of the Lesbian.
It also adopted a policy on prostitution which said, in part: “Prostitution takes many forms and is not only the exchange of money for sex. … Prostitution in marriage is the transaction of sex in return for love, security and house-keeping.” (Quoted by Helen Trinca, The Australian, April 6, 1984, p.7).
This bizarre statement made headlines across Australia. Anti-AUS student activists produced posters with the slogan: “AUS says your mother is a prostitute!”
By early 1984, not only Liberals, but moderate Labor and Jewish students, were campaigning vigorously to abolish the AUS. While Julia Gillard and her left-wing colleagues were defending the union, campus after campus was seceding from it, depriving it of funds and bringing about its rapid collapse.
A different take, from the Green Left Weekly:
In 1977-78, AUS’s travel service, AUS Travel, was caught up on a technicality relating to rules governing the institution of travel companies. Hundreds of AUS travellers were stranded in different countries because airlines wouldn’t honour their tickets. This debacle was organised by the government because of the success of the TEAS campaign.
AUS died soon after because it thought it couldn’t do without its services arm. Instead of cutting its losses, it bankrupted itself trying to bail out the travel company…
The ALP let AUS go down because it was gearing up for a term in federal office and didn’t want a left-controlled union which would present any block to the massive economic restructuring it planned to carry out in the interests of capital.
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Morgan poll: Labor 41 per cent to 59
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (10:55am)
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A union of hypocrites
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (10:07am)
Fine for unions but not for bosses:
A SECOND major union has admitted employing overseas workers on 457 visas, with the Maritime Union of Australia revealing last night that foreign workers had been engaged from “time to time” by the union.
Employers and the Coalition yesterday accused Transport Workers Union leader Tony Sheldon of “rank hypocrisy” after The Australian revealed he had recruited overseas workers to fill three key positions in his union…
The MUA ... said given the “international responsibilities” of Paddy Crumlin, the union’s national secretary and president of the International Transport Workers Federation, “there are occasions from time to time where international expertise is needed to support the secretary’s work"…
But the union would not say how many overseas workers had been employed on 457 visas and whether they were still working for the union.
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Three Oppositions, no real PM
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (10:02am)
AUSTRALIA now has three strong opposition leaders trying to replace one truly disastrous Prime Minister.
The opposition leader threatening Julia Gillard most immediately is, of course, the one campaigning against her divisive “class war” talk.
He’s the one attacking her mad plan to loot people’s super for more spending money, accusing her of “scaring people about their earnings” with a scheme “tantamount to taxing people’s retirement surpluses”.
I’m referring, of course, to opposition leader Simon Crean, until two weeks ago one of Gillard’s strongest defenders in Cabinet.
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Flannery’s warnings aren’t really worth hearing
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (8:58am)
Tim Flannery contemplates Liberal plans to scrap his Climate Commission and dump him with it:
Flannery in 2007 warned us to prepare for a permanent drought:
In 2007, Flannery warned us to prepare for cities running out of water:
In 2007, Flannery warned Australia to prepare for global warming by investing in geothermal power, such a ”relatively straightforward” technology that he himself had invested in a geothermal firm, Geodynamics:
UPDATE
Murry Salby, professor of climate at Macquarie University, trashes Flannery latest wild claims - that we’ve had an “Angry Summer” caused by global warming:
Another messenger is shot in Sicily after helpfully preparing the locals reduce the threat of climate change:
Ignoring it or shooting the messenger will not reduce the threat of climate change, it will just mean that Australia is less prepared.Actually, shooting this messanger (metaphorically) might leave Australia less prepared for what doesn’t actually happen anyway.
Flannery in 2007 warned us to prepare for a permanent drought:
So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems, and that’s a real worry for the people in the bush.Australia prepared for drought, but got floods.
In 2007, Flannery warned us to prepare for cities running out of water:
Over the past 50 years southern Australia has lost about 20 per cent of its rainfall, and one cause is almost certainly global warming. Similar losses have been experienced in eastern Australia, and although the science is less certain it is probable that global warming is behind these losses too. But by far the most dangerous trend is the decline in the flow of Australian rivers: it has fallen by around 70 per cent in recent decades, so dams no longer fill even when it does rain ...So Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane - plus Melbourne, too - prepared by urgently building those desalination plants, only to see the rains return and fill our dams and rivers systems. Three of those plants are now mothballed and the other will be as soon as the warranty period ends.
In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months.
In 2007, Flannery warned Australia to prepare for global warming by investing in geothermal power, such a ”relatively straightforward” technology that he himself had invested in a geothermal firm, Geodynamics:
The social licence of coal to operate is rapidly being withdrawn globally… There are hot rocks in South Australia that potentially have enough embedded energy in them to run Australia’s economy for the best part of a century. They are not being fully exploited yet but the technology to extract that energy and turn it into electricity is relatively straightforward.The Rudd Government heeded the message and in November 2009 prepared for coal’s banning by giving Geodynamics $90 million of your money.
Geodynamics is pleased to announce the award by the Federal Government of $90 million in funding under the Renewable Energy Demonstration Program.But Geodynamics, plagued by technical problems and floods, saw its share price just kept sliding from the time that grant was announced (green dot):
Frankly, I don’t think we can afford this messenger’s warnings.
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Murry Salby, professor of climate at Macquarie University, trashes Flannery latest wild claims - that we’ve had an “Angry Summer” caused by global warming:
UPDATE
The Climate Commission bases its claims on a selection of temperatures from the latest reincarnation of the record of surface thermometers, recently regenerated by the government-funded Bureau of Meteorology.
The surface record ... Is certainly not robust. The bureau’s record is routinely readjusted… And if the adjustments are understood, it is by few, if any, outside the bureau…
Even exclusive of uncertainties surrounding its adjustment, the surface record suffers from two intrinsic limitations:
- ...Operational thermometers historically have been installed in association with human settlement. Station measurements are therefore biased through the so-called urban heat island effect…
- Owing to Australia’s sparse population, historical records of temperature are concentrated in a small fraction of the continent.
One record averts these limitations: satellite measurements from microwave sounding units and advanced microwave sounding units provide continuous coverage of Australia, with uniform sampling of the continent…
Figure 1 displays the record of Australia mean temperature during January (blue) in its anomalous value (the departure from the long-term average January temperature). Last January was warmer than recent Januaries, but hardly unprecedented… And even during the relatively short satellite era, two Januaries were warmer. Superimposed is anomalous summertime temperature (red). It is even less remarkable. Near the three-decade average, it is no more significant than in preceding years. Neither record evidences a sustained shift in the continental baseline.
Figure 2 displays the record of anomalous temperature for all months. It places the summer of 2012-13 into perspective. Anomalous temperature (red solid circles) lies well within the envelope of other warm anomalies during the preceding three decades. Cold anomalies are just as numerous. If anything, they are even stronger.
For many on Australia’s eastern seaboard, this summer was not anomalously hot but, rather, anomalously cool and wet.
Another messenger is shot in Sicily after helpfully preparing the locals reduce the threat of climate change:
Italian police say they have confiscated mafia assets $1.7 billion - the biggest seizure of its kind in history.(Thanks to readers Peter, turtle and James.)
The multi billion-dollar haul included the seizure of 43 wind and solar energy companies, 98 properties and 66 bank accounts belonging to Vito Nicastri, a businessman described by authorities as a frontman for the Sicilian Mafia.
Nicastri, 57, was once dubbed ‘Lord of the Wind’ for his holdings in wind farms which prosecutors say were funded by extortion, drug sales and other illicit activities.
Three years ago, investigators found the mafia was engaged in a massive eco-scam, claiming generous grants for investment in wind-power and environmentally- friendly businesses.
“This is a sector in which money can easily be laundered,” Arturo de Felice, head of Italy’s anti-mafia agency, told local media.
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Lots, little, whatever: it’s too much for Fairfax
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (8:44am)
When the facts, change do you change your opinion?
Not if you are Fairfax economics commentator:
Not if you are Fairfax economics commentator:
Fairfax economics correspondent Peter Martin, in the print editions yesterday:One paragraph that didn’t change in the original version or the corrected one:
THINK about an executive on $1 million a year. Not quite one of Joel Fitzgibbon’s “battlers”, but someone several rungs above. His or her company pays a legislated $90,000 a year into a super fund of their choice, the payment is taxed at just 15 per cent. So instead of paying $41,850 in tax, the executive pays just $13,500. The gift from the tax system is $28,350.Spot the difference. Fairfax online yesterday:
THINK about an executive on $1 million a year. Not quite one of Joel Fitzgibbon’s “battlers”, but someone several rungs above. His or her firm pays a legislated maximum of $17,190 per year into a super fund of his or her choice; the payment has until now been taxed at just 15 per cent. So instead of paying $7993 the executive pays just $2578. The gift from the tax system is $5415.From the original article:
IN the last budget the government promised to boost the tax rate for very high earners to 30 per cent, cutting the size of the gift to a still substantial $14,850.Online:
IN the last budget the government promised to boost the tax rate for very high earners to 30 per cent, cutting the size of the gift to a still substantial $2836.In the online version:
CORRECTED: The original version of this article said $90,000 of the million-dollar earner’s salary could be paid in super. The maximum super contribution base means the maximum an employer can contribute is $17,190 a year. The calculations have been adjusted to reflect this.
That it took Labor so long to at least recognise the need to more properly tax millionaires is an outrage. That didn’t go further is a disgrace.Fairfax readers aren’t impressed:
Reader Seamus O’Connor, of Potts Point, comments:
AMAZING how ridiculous this article read before the correction. I was so confused I thought maybe the rain this morning had addled my brain. How can someone write you receive $90,000 in super as a compulsory contribution when they’re supposed to be an economics correspondent. This is something you can’t write off as a simple mistake. Nevertheless, surely the rest of the argument is totally hollow when you have to adjust your “gift” from $28,000 to $2836. You can’t make a correction of this magnitude and not have it totally invalidate the . . . argument. However, the writer has changed nothing in the article except the value of the “gift”. How is that possible? The effective core fact that gave rise to the article is demonstrably wrong, yet the argument it spawned is still valid? I think not.Reader Terry comments:
SOMEONE on $300k pays about $113k a year income (little or no govt benefits) tax yet someone on $50k a year pays about $7700 income tax (plus govt benefits). The person on $300k pays 14 times more tax for six times the wage than the person on $50k. Look at the whole tax paid by a person before using class warfare to tax high income earners more.
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Blowing billions, dying for millions
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (8:23am)
Treasurer Wayne Swan
says his planned raid of people’s super savings - a plan now causing
Labor such pain - wouldn’t actually raise much money:
Julia Gillard seems unable to learn from her disasters:
The fact is that we have a substantial savings task in this Budget and whatever changes are made in super will not be making a significant contribution to that savings task.All political pain, little financial gain:
Mr Swan would not confirm the likely targets ... in the wake of reports that changes would affect only the top 1-2 per cent of workers, earning about $240,000 or more…This from a Government trying to plug a deficit this year tipped to be anything up to $20 billion.
The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling estimates there are about 190,000 people in the top 2 per cent earning incomes of more than $240,000 a year…
The government last year said it would raise $946.5 million over three years by raising the contributions tax from 15 to 30 per cent for those earning more than $300,000 a year, but could adjust the pending legislation to extend that to others.
Industry experts told The Australian yesterday that widening the change to those earning $240,000 or more would raise an additional $250m each year.
Another option would be to apply a higher tax on super fund earnings for those in the top 2 per cent, but experts said this would raise only a modest amount because those with the highest incomes do not necessarily have the biggest account balances.
Julia Gillard seems unable to learn from her disasters:
By preparing to change, yet again, the rules for taxing superannuation, the federal government is setting itself up for its third tax disaster. Like the carbon tax and the resources tax, the changes in the super tax regime are likely to be both politically costly, despite government claims that the changes will be targeted at the wealthy, and yield very little revenue.
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Is this about child abuse, or a church?
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (8:19am)
THERE’S a smell of burning Christian. And the royal commission into child sexual abuse in institutions is stoking a hot fire.
The commission opened yesterday with ominous warnings that suggest the Catholic Church will be under serious ideological attack.
The commission opened yesterday with ominous warnings that suggest the Catholic Church will be under serious ideological attack.
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Crean’s Opposition steps up attack on Prime Minister
Andrew Bolt April 04 2013 (7:59am)
Opposition Leader Simon Crean has already attacked the Gillard Government’s plans to raid superannuation and its class war talk.
Opposition frontbencher Ed Husic has attacked the Prime Minister for giving $20 million to Disney producers to make a film here.
Now another frontbencher of the Crean Opposition attacks the Government:
Opposition frontbencher Ed Husic has attacked the Prime Minister for giving $20 million to Disney producers to make a film here.
Now another frontbencher of the Crean Opposition attacks the Government:
FORMER human services minister Kim Carr has declared Labor’s controversial cuts forcing single mothers on to the dole a mistake, saying efforts to save $700 million had triggered a debate about the inadequacy of Newstart that could potentially cost the budget billions…(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Mr Crean, another Rudd supporter, told The Australian Labor should lead in this area, and that cutting single mothers off their pensions without the support to get them into jobs had been a policy mistake.
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Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”
Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.
Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.
When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.”
- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof
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Marilyn Monroe....the worlds biggest icon! Her tummy isn't tightly toned, her thighs touch, her arms aren't skinny, she has stretch marks and her boobs aren't perky. She is known as one of the MOST BEAUTIFUL women in history.
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People try to pin me down as to what kind of photographer I am… one who does night time photography, or light painter… perhaps a landscape, or maybe seascape… city scape, rural, urban, or storm chasing photographer. A portrait artist or a sometimes residential, and/or wedding photographer… sometimes instructor...
Here's what I am… a hummingbird photographer!
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The National Bird Of India
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All kidding about Gerald the Giraffe aside,
It was great to be able to speak with the owners and staff at East Hills Child Care Centre yesterday about the issues they are currently experiencing under this Labor Government.
The huge increase in paperwork that has been dumped on the staff is actually taking staff away from the task of looking after the kids.
It was good to be able to give them the hope that a Coalition Government plans to ask the productivity commission to complete an urgent inquiry into the industry and we will work with the industry to deliver affordable and flexible childcare for every family in Hughes and across Australia.
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NEVER MIND THE FACTS - Cyclones are not increasing.
The pro-carbon tax alarmists have been out in force again this week, claiming “extreme weather events are become more frequent and severe”.
The only problem is that the empirical evidence on cyclones does not support this.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's own website rebutts the alarmist statements of Mr. Flannery's Climate Commission:
“Trends in tropical cyclone activity in the Australian region (south of equator; 105 - 160°E) show that the total number of cyclones has DECREASED in recent decades. However, the number of stronger cyclones (minimum central pressure less than 970 hPa) has NOT declined. " [nor have the increased].
The Bureau then produce the attached chart, which mysteriously finishes in 2005.
If this chart included the cyclone data for 2006 to 2011, it would show that Australia has been very fortunate in that we’ve had LESS serve cyclones in recent years (2 in 2010, 4 in 2009, 3 in 2008 and 3 in 2007) - a fact that doesn't fit with the alarmist mantra.
Australia will experience serve cyclones again, like Cyclone Tracy that destroyed Darwin in 1974 - and the even more devasting Cyclone Mahia that hit northern Qld in 1899 that caused a tsunami estimated at 14.6m that swept 5km inland and killed over 400 people.
So should we spend tens of billions of dollars, and wreck the economy, hoping delay any global warming by a few days - or should we instead spend that money preparing to deal with the inevitable cyclones that our history tells us will strike again ?
And can we have this debate with misleading and alarmist falsehoods.
Links of Interest;
Tropical Cyclone Trends
http://www.bom.gov.au/
Cyclone Mahina 1899
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Decline in Hurricanes in US
http://www.forbes.com/
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Miss Doris Day
Pillow Talk (1959)
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Israel Bashing Fiction Creator of the week, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spends so much time demonising Israel and defaming the only Jewish State in the world by false allegations of Apartheid, that he forgets to minister to those Palestinian Christians who have been persecuted by Hamas , other Islamists and to those Christians continually persecuted in the Arab worlds such as Saudi Arabia.
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lol, "corrected by good men with rifles"
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North Star last night over Flagler Beach, FL.
126 stacked exposures
f/6.3
25 seconds (52 min total)
ISO 2000
Better...
http://500px.com/photo/
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April 2, 2013 - Photo of the Day - A fantastic day of chasing yesterday in the Texas panhandle. This is one of my favorite shots of the chase from just southeast of Quanah, Texas. This storm had 2" hail and tried a few times to produce a tornado, but could never quite get it together. See it bigger: http://tinyurl.com/d8teuts
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I took a ton of photos here. This is just a quick preview. — at Big Sur California.
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A return to the bridge called Bixby. Last time I was there, it was a moonlit night… tonight it was fog and darkness. I was only able to get this one picture. The rest turned out close to black at the same exact settings. — at Bixby Bridge - Big Sur.
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TRUE LOVE ..(A Doctor's note) Must Read n share :)
It was approximately 8.30 a.m. on a busy morning when an elderly gentleman in his eighties arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9.00 a.m.
I took his vital signs and had him take a seat. I knew it would take more than an hour before someone would to able to attend to him. I saw him check his watch anxi...ously for the time and decided to evaluate his wound since I was not busy with another patient.
On examination, the wound was well healed. Hence, I talked to one of the doctors to get the supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.
We began to engage in a conversation while I was taking care of his wound. I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment later as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no and said that he needed to go to the nursing home to have breakfast with his wife.
I inquired about her health. He told me that she had been in the nursing home for a while as she was a victim of Alzheimer's disease. I probed further and asked if she would be upset if he was slightly late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was and she had not been able to recognize him since five years ago.
I asked him in surprise, "And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?"
He smiled as he patted my hand and said, "She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is."
I had to hold back my tears as he left.
I had goose bumps on my arm, and I thought, "That is the kind of love I want in my life."
True love is neither physical nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.
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Dear Patriot,
If we are going to save our country we have to be able to TAKE ON and DEFEATfree-spending establishment politicians in primary and general elections.
The Republican sell-outs who just voted to raise our taxes and increase spending will never take Tea Party Americans seriously until we are ready, willing, and able to defeat them at the ballot box. It’s time for you and I to take a stand.
 My name is Jenny Beth Martin, and I am proud to announce the formation of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, our new political action committee.
And I need your help.
My goal is to recruit our first 5,000 donors in just one week and show the Republican sell-outs that we mean business.
Since the Tea Party movement was founded in 2009 Republicans have made it clear that they simply don’t care about the grassroots. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU OR ME.
However, they do care about getting reelected. So now we are going to “fight fire with fire!”
Our message to Washington is that if you side with President Obama and vote to raise taxes, increase spending and undermine our economy, YOU WILL PAY!
We are going to support good, pro-liberty candidates who will win and then go to Washington and help fix our fiscal mess.
And we are going to go after “Republicans” who vote like liberal Democrats with massive ad campaigns that blanket their districts or states.
We are going to develop a ground game of Tea Party supporters around the country who can go toe to toe with both moderate “Republicans” and Obama’s liberal Democrats.
This truly is a battle for the future of America. It is a battle that we must win.
This is a grassroots PAC like no other. We are going to harness the incredible energy of millions of Tea Party Americans and hold both Republican and Democrat politicians accountable.
However, it won’t be easy.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the group that endorsed now-Democrat Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio for senate in 2010, has pledged to spendmillions helping tax-and-spend Republicans win nomination fights next year.
Then, in the pages of The Hill newspaper, a former top GOP aide in the House called for the purge of Tea Party Members of Congress from the Republican Party!
And then, an anonymous senior Republican declared to the Politico news website that their plan was to “marginalize the cranks, haters and bigots — there’s a lot of underbrush that has to be cleaned out.”
The Republican Political Establishment hates the Tea Party and doesn’t want us holding them to account. Its members won’t give up their power or perks easily.
That’s why we’ve created this special PAC. To fight back, and fight back hard.
We need to recruit 5000 donors in the next week!
I’m counting on you. Thank you in advance for your help!
Sincerely,
Jenny Beth Martin
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April 4: Children's Day in Taiwan and Hong Kong
- 1287 – Wareru created the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in today'sLower Burma and declared himself king following the collapse of the Pagan Empire.
- 1873 – The Kennel Club, the oldest kennel club in the world, was founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creatingNATO, an organization that constitutes a system of collective defensewhereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
- 1973 – The World Trade Center (pictured) in New York City was officially dedicated, about a year after the second of the building complex's twin towers was completed.
- 1988 – Governor of Arizona Evan Mecham was removed from office after being convicted in his impeachment trial.
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Events
- 1147 – First historical record of Moscow.
- 1287 – King Wareru founds Kingdom of Ramannadesa, and proclaims independence from Pagan Empire
- 1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- 1660 – Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
- 1721 – Sir Robert Walpole takes office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
- 1812 – U.S. President James Madison enacts a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
- 1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
- 1818 – The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
- 1841 – William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served.
- 1850 – The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
- 1850 – Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
- 1859 – Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
- 1865 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
- 1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Kiev.
- 1873 – The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
- 1887 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
- 1905 – In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
- 1913 – The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
- 1930 – The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
- 1933 – U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
- 1939 – Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
- 1944 – World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
- 1945 – World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
- 1945 – World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
- 1949 – Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- 1958 – The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
- 1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- 1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
- 1965 – The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
- 1967 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
- 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
- 1968 – AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
- 1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
- 1973 – The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
- 1973 – A C-141, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, made its last flight of Operation Homecoming.
- 1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans – 172 die.
- 1976 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
- 1979 – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- 1979 – The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
- 1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
- 1984 – President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- 1988 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
- 1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
- 1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
- 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
- 2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
- 2002 – In what are known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2007 – 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
[edit]Births
- 188 – Caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217)
- 1492 – Ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564)
- 1572 – William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)
- 1593 – Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
- 1640 – Gaspar Sanz, Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest (d. 1710)
- 1646 – Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)
- 1648 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch woodcarver (d. 1721)
- 1676 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1760)
- 1688 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)
- 1718 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and scholar (d. 1783)
- 1752 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (d. 1837)
- 1762 – Stephen Storace, English composer (d. 1796)
- 1772 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810)
- 1785 – Bettina von Arnim, German writer (d. 1859)
- 1802 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
- 1818 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
- 1819 – Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
- 1821 – Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1868)
- 1826 – Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
- 1835 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
- 1842 – Édouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
- 1843 – William Henry Jackson, American photographer (d. 1942)
- 1846 – Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
- 1853 – Tad Lincoln, American son of president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)
- 1858 – Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915)
- 1869 – Mary Jane Colter, American architect (d. 1958)
- 1875 – Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
- 1876 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (d. 1958)
- 1879 – Gustav Goßler, German rower (d. 1940)
- 1884 – Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (d. 1971)
- 1884 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander (d. 1943)
- 1888 – Tris Speaker, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1888 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975)
- 1889 – Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian Hindi Poet(d.1968)
- 1895 – Arthur Murray, American dance teacher (d. 1991)
- 1896 – Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (d. 1955)
- 1897 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (d. 1975)
- 1897 – Dina Manfredini, Italian-American super-centenarian (d. 2012)
- 1898 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
- 1899 – Hillel Oppenheimer, German-Israeli botanist (d. 1971)
- 1902 – Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French writer (d. 1969)
- 1902 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (d. 1935)
- 1905 – Eugene Bozza, French composer (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1906 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Robert Askin, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (d. 2006)
- 1910 – Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese physician (d. 1967)
- 1911 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992)
- 1913 – Frances Langford, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Jules Léger, Canadian diplomat and Governor general of Canada (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Muddy Waters, American Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader (d. 1983)
- 1914 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996)
- 1915 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003)
- 1916 – Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslav general, Serbian communist politician (d. 2005)
- 1916 – Mickey Owen, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1916 – David White, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1918 – George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Ignatius IV of Antioch, Syrian patriarch (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Éric Rohmer, French director (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
- 1923 – Peter Vaughan, English actor
- 1924 – Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
- 1925 – Gene Reynolds, American actor
- 1925 – Claude Wagner, French-Canadian politician and judge (d. 1979)
- 1925 – Emmett Williams, American poet (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Joe Orlando, Italian-American comics writer, artist and editor (d. 1998)
- 1928 – Maya Angelou, American writer
- 1928 – Estelle Harris, American actress
- 1931 – Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director
- 1932 – Clive Davis, American record producer
- 1932 – Richard Lugar, American politician
- 1932 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet-Russian director (d. 1986)
- 1933 – Bill France, Jr., American motorsports executive (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist (d. 1996)
- 1935 – Geoff Braybrooke, New Zealand politician (d. 2013)
- 1938 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American university president and Commissioner of Baseball (d. 1989)
- 1939 – JoAnne Carner, American golfer
- 1939 – Major Lance, American singer (d. 1994)
- 1939 – Hugh Masekela, South African singer, musician, and composer
- 1939 – Ernie Terrell, American singer, producer, and boxer
- 1940 – Richard Attwood, British race car driver
- 1940 – Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1942 – Jim Fregosi, American baseball player and manager
- 1942 – Kitty Kelley, American writer
- 1942 – Elizabeth Levy, American author
- 1944 – Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
- 1944 – Craig T. Nelson, American actor
- 1945 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French political activist
- 1945 – Caroline McWilliams, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1945 – Konrad von Finckenstein, Canadian public servant, chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
- 1946 – Colin Coates, Australian speed skater
- 1946 – Dave Hill, English guitarist (Slade)
- 1946 – Katsuaki Sato, Japanese martial artist
- 1946 – György Spiró, Hungarian novelist and playwright
- 1947 – Ray Fosse, American baseball player and broadcaster
- 1947 – Luke Halpin, American actor
- 1947 – Wiranto, Indonesian general
- 1948 – Michael Blassie, American military officer (d. 1972)
- 1948 – Abdullah Öcalan, Turkish activist, founded the Kurdistan Workers' Party
- 1948 – Berry Oakley, American bassist (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 1972)
- 1948 – Werner Roth, American soccer player
- 1948 – Dan Simmons, American writer
- 1948 – Derek Thompson, Irish actor
- 1948 – Pick Withers, British drummer (Dire Straits and Magna Carta)
- 1949 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican singer (The Wailers) (d. 1999)
- 1949 – Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese mathematician
- 1950 – Christine Lahti, American actress
- 1951 – John Hannah, American football player
- 1951 – Hun Sen, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia
- 1952 – Rosemarie Ackermann, German athlete
- 1952 – Pat Burns, Canadian hockey coach (d. 2010)
- 1952 – Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and car racer (d. 1995)
- 1952 – Karen Magnussen, Canadian figure skater
- 1952 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Skid Row, and Bruce-Baker-Moore) (d. 2011)
- 1952 – Villy Søvndal, Danish politician
- 1953 – Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
- 1953 – Henry Fotheringham, South African cricketer
- 1953 – Simcha Jacobovici, Canadian director, producer, journalist, and writer
- 1953 – Sammy Wilson, Northern Irish politician
- 1953 – Chen Yi, Chinese composer and violinist
- 1954 – Julie Carmen, American actress
- 1955 – Casey Biggs, American actor
- 1956 – Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina
- 1956 – Tom Herr, American baseball player
- 1956 – David E. Kelley, American writer and producer
- 1957 – Ali El Haggar, Egyptian singer and actor
- 1957 – Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director
- 1957 – Graeme Kelling, Scottish musician (Deacon Blue) (d. 2004)
- 1957 – Kelso, American race horse (d. 1983)
- 1957 – Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese musician (Rats & Star)
- 1958 – Cazuza, Brazilian singer and composer (d. 1990)
- 1958 – Mary-Margaret Humes, American actress
- 1959 – Phil Morris, American actor
- 1960 – Jane Eaglin, English soprano
- 1960 – Hugo Weaving, English-Australian actor
- 1961 – Tom Byron, American porn actor and director
- 1961 – Hildi Santo-Tomas, American interior decorator
- 1962 – Craig Adams, English musician (The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, The Alarm, Spear of Destiny, and Theatre of Hate)
- 1962 – Ava Fabian, American model and actress
- 1962 – Marco Giovannetti, Italian cyclist
- 1963 – A. Michael Baldwin, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1963 – Jack Del Rio, American football coach
- 1963 – Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian hockey player
- 1963 – Jane McDonald, British singer, actress and broadcaster
- 1963 – Graham Norton, Irish actor, comedian, and talk show host
- 1964 – Branco, Brazilian footballer and coach
- 1964 – Dr. Chud, American drummer and singer (Misfits, Graves, Kryst the Conqueror, and Dr. Chud's X-Ward)
- 1964 – Anthony Clark, American actor and comedian
- 1964 – David Cross, American actor and comedian
- 1964 – Sertab Erener, Turkish singer-songwriter
- 1964 – Laurie Hibberd, Canadian reporter
- 1964 – Riduan Isamuddin, Indonesian terrorist
- 1964 – Robbie Rist, American actor
- 1964 – Dang Than, Vietnamese poet and writer
- 1965 – Robert Downey, Jr., American actor
- 1965 – Sean Wilson, English actor,
- 1966 – Riduan Isamuddin, Indonesian terrorist
- 1966 – Nancy McKeon, American actor
- 1966 – Mike Starr, American musician (Alice In Chains, Sun Red Sun, and Days of the New) (d. 2011)
- 1966 – Christos Tsekos Greek basketball player
- 1967 – George Mavrotas, Greek water polo player
- 1968 – Jesús Rollán, Spanish water polo player (d. 2006)
- 1969 – Karren Brady, British sports executive and broadcaster
- 1970 – Georgios Amanatidis, Greek footballer
- 1970 – Anthony Green, British actor
- 1970 – Greg Garcia, American television director, producer, and writer
- 1970 – Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
- 1971 – Mark Chapman, English sports presenter and DJ
- 1971 – Yanic Perreault, Canadian hockey player
- 1971 – Tatia Rosenthal, Israeli-American animator and director
- 1971 – Josh Todd, American singer (Buckcherry)
- 1971 – Malik Yusef, American actor, musician, producer, and poet
- 1971 – John Zandig, American wrestler
- 1972 – Lisa Ray, Canadian actress
- 1972 – Jill Scott, American singer, songwriter, and actress
- 1972 – Xenia Seeberg, German actress
- 1972 – Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
- 1973 – David Blaine, American illusionist
- 1973 – Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer
- 1973 – Peter Hoekstra, Dutch footballer
- 1973 – Chris McCormack, Australian athlete
- 1973 – Kelly Price, American singer
- 1974 – Dave Mirra, American BMX athlete
- 1975 – Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman
- 1975 – Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish cross-country skier
- 1975 – Joyce Giraud, Puerto Rican actress and model
- 1975 – Roy Padrick, American journalist
- 1975 – Pamela Ribon, American author and actress
- 1975 – Miranda Lee Richards, American singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Scott Rolen, American baseball player
- 1975 – Kevin Weekes, Canadian hockey player
- 1976 – Emerson, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (d. 1997)
- 1976 – James Roday, American actor
- 1977 – Stephan Bonnar, American mixed martial artist
- 1977 – Keith Bulluck, American football player and agent
- 1977 – Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist and producer (Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Aftershock, and Times of Grace)
- 1977 – Stephen Mulhern, British magician
- 1977 – Omarr Smith, American football player
- 1978 – Jason Ellison, American baseball player
- 1978 – Lemar, English singer
- 1978 – Alan Mahon, Irish footballer
- 1978 – Sam Moran, Australian actor and musician (The Wiggles)
- 1978 – Irene Skliva, Greek model, Miss World 1996
- 1978 – Aska Yang, Taiwanese singer
- 1979 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
- 1979 – Roberto Luongo, Canadian hockey player
- 1979 – Natasha Lyonne, American actress
- 1979 – Andy McKee, American guitarist
- 1979 – Jessica Napier, New Zealand actress
- 1980 – Johnny Borrell, English guitarist and singer (Razorlight and The Libertines)
- 1980 – Trevor Moore, American comedian
- 1980 – Eric Steinbach, American football player
- 1980 – Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
- 1981 – Curren$y, American rapper (504 Boyz)
- 1981 – Casey Daigle, American baseball player
- 1981 – Eduardo Luís Carloto, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 – Ned Vizzini American author
- 1982 – Magnus Lindgren, Swedish chef (d. 2012)
- 1982 – Kett Turton, Canadian-American actor
- 1983 – Evgeny Artyukhin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Fabian Geiser, Swiss footballer
- 1983 – Ben Gordon, American basketball player
- 1983 – Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Natalie Pike, British model
- 1983 – Amanda Righetti, American actress and producer
- 1983 – Angelle Tymon, American journalist and game-show host
- 1984 – Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer
- 1985 – Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player
- 1985 – Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Eunhyuk, Korean singer (Super Junior)
- 1986 – Cameron Barker, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Aiden McGeady, Irish footballer
- 1986 – Alexander Tettey, Norwegian footballer
- 1987 – Devon Anderson, English actor
- 1987 – Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
- 1987 – Sami Khedira, German footballer
- 1987 – McDonald Mariga, Kenyan footballer
- 1987 – Cameron Maybin, American baseball player
- 1987 – Lauri Pedaja, Estonian actor and hairdresser
- 1987 – Markos Vellidis, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Frank Fielding, English footballer
- 1989 – Vurnon Anita, Dutch footballer
- 1989 – Chris Herd, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Spencer Scott, American model
- 1989 – Steven Finn, Middlesex and England cricketer
- 1991 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer
- 1992 – Lucy May Barker, British actress
- 1992 – Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer
- 1992 – Alexa Nikolas, American actress
- 1993 – Samir Carruthers, Irish footballer
- 1994 – Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo, Guardians 4, and v-u-den)
- 1996 – Austin Mahone, American singer
[edit]Deaths
- 397 – St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (b. c. 338)
- 636 – Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560)
- 814 – Plato of Sakkoudion, Byzantine monk and saint (b. ca. 735)
- 896 – Pope Formosus (b. 816)
- 1284 – Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
- 1292 – Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
- 1305 – Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. 1273)
- 1536 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
- 1588 – Frederick II of Denmark (b. 1534)
- 1609 – Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
- 1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
- 1643 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (b. 1583)
- 1661 – Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. c. 1580)
- 1701 – Joseph Haines, English entertainer and author
- 1743 – Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678)
- 1761 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
- 1766 – John Taylor, English scholar (b. 1704)
- 1774 – Oliver Goldsmith, English writer (b. 1728)
- 1792 – James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
- 1807 – Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, French astronomer (b. 1732)
- 1817 – André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling and Marshal of France (b. 1758)
- 1841 – William Henry Harrison, American politician, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
- 1846 – Solomon Sibley, American senator (b. 1769)
- 1861 – John McLean, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1785)
- 1863 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
- 1864 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
- 1870 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
- 1874 – Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
- 1878 – Richard M. Brewer, American outlaw and cowboy (b. 1850)
- 1879 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
- 1883 – Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791)
- 1890 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian politician (b. 1820)
- 1890 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist (b. 1812)
- 1912 – Charles Brantley Aycock, American politician, 50th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (b. 1859)
- 1912 – Isaac Kaufmann Funk, American lexicographer, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls (b. 1839)
- 1919 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
- 1923 – John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
- 1929 – Karl Benz, German engine designer, inventor, and engineer (b. 1844)
- 1931 – André Michelin, French industrialist (b. 1853)
- 1932 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- 1940 – Gustav Goßler, German rower (b. 1879)
- 1947 – William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?)
- 1951 – Al Christie, Canadian director and producer (b. 1881)
- 1951 – George Albert Smith, American religious leader, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
- 1953 – Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
- 1957 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
- 1958 – Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (b. 1925)
- 1961 – Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
- 1962 – James Hanratty, British rapist and murderer (b. 1936)
- 1967 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
- 1967 – Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
- 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
- 1970 – Byron Foulger, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1972 – Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician (b. 1908)
- 1972 – Stefan Wolpe, German composer (b. 1902)
- 1976 – Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to information theory (b. 1889)
- 1977 – Andrey Dikiy, Russian American writer, historian, emigre politician and journalist (b.1893)
- 1979 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician, 4th President of Pakistan and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1928)
- 1979 – Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1980 – Red Sovine, American singer (b. 1917)
- 1983 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1984 – Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer, founder of Antonov ASTC, (b. 1906)
- 1985 – Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (b. 1891)
- 1987 – C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist meditation master (b. 1939)
- 1987 – Sachchidananda Vatsyayan. Indian Hindi Writer(b. 1911)
- 1988 – Zlatko Grgić, Croatian animator (b. 1931)
- 1991 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
- 1991 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
- 1991 – H. John Heinz III, American senator (b. 1938)
- 1991 – Graham Ingels, American illustrator (b. 1915)
- 1991 – Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
- 1992 – Yvette Brind'Amour, French-Canadian actress and director (b. 1918)
- 1992 – Jack Hamilton, Australian football player (b. 1928)
- 1992 – Arthur Russell, American cellist (b. 1951)
- 1993 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and inventor of Scrabble (b. 1899)
- 1993 – Douglas Leopold, television and radio personality in Quebec (b. 1947)
- 1995 – Kenny Everett, British radio DJ and television entertainer (b. 1944)
- 1995 – Priscilla Lane, American singer and actress (b. 1915)
- 1996 – Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
- 1996 – Boone Guyton, American test pilot (b. 1913)
- 1996 – Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (b. 1913)
- 1997 – Leo Picard, Israeli geologist (b. 1900)
- 1999 – Faith Domergue, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1999 – Early Wynn, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 1999 – Bob Peck, British actor (b. 1945)
- 2001 – Ed Roth, American artist and car designer (b. 1932)
- 2001 – Maury Van Vliet, American-Canadian educator (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Anthony Caruso, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Resortes, Mexican comedian (b. 1916)
- 2004 – Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Bob Clark, American director (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (b. 1927)
- 2008 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Gonzalo Olave, Chilean actor (b. 1983)
- 2011 – Scott Columbus, American drummer (Manowar) (b. 1956)
- 2011 – Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and political activist (b. 1958)
- 2012 – Claude Miller, French director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Dubravko Pavličić, Croatian footballer (b. 1967)
[edit]Holidays and observances
- Children's Day (Republic of China and Hong Kong)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Ambrose, Doctor and Poet, Bishop of Milan, 397 CE (commemoration, Anglicanism)
- Independence Day (Senegal)
- International Day for Landmine Awareness and Assistance (International)
- Peace Day (Angola)
- Megalesia (Roman Empire)
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