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Happy birthday USA
Happy birthday and many happy returns Kevin Misan. Born on US independence day. On your day in 414, Aelia Pulcheria proclaimed herself regent over her brother Theodosius II and made herself Augusta and Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire. In 1054, Chinese astronomers recorded the sudden appearance of a "guest star", which was in actuality the supernova that created the Crab Nebula. In 1610, Polish–Muscovite War: The outnumbered forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth defeated the Russians at the Battle of Klushino. In 1945, The Brazilian cruiser Bahia was accidentally sunk by one of its own crewmen, killing more than 300 and stranding the survivors in shark-infested waters. In 1951, William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. You have travelled far in search of a warmer climate. Proclaiming much, following stars. Outnumbered, you succeed, but even so, the water has sharks. And now those transistors sing! Cheers.
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Stop trying to bully us, Kevin, just call an election

Piers Akerman – Thursday, July 04, 2013 (6:35am)

THE notion of Kevin Rudd as the glasses-wearing, library-locked school nerd is beyond ludicrous.

Yet that’s the way he wants Australia to think of him as he struggles to come to grips with Opposition leader Tony Abbott.

He might have got the nerd part right, but Rudd is a thug who has white-anted his way back into the prime ministership.

It is Rudd who reduced menial staff to tears, it is Rudd who has a problem with self-control.

It is Rudd who is the abject failure.

Yet YOUR ABC gave him a platform last night to proclaim himself the bookish nerd up against the school jock and make absurd claims which went unchallenged.

Rudd said it seemed Mr Abbott was all talk but lacked heart when it came to a fight.

“‘Mr Abbott, I think it’s time you demonstrated to the country you had a bit of ticker on this. I mean, he’s the boxing Blue, I’m the, you know, the glasses-wearing kid in the library - come on,” he told the ABC’s 7.30.

That must be what passes for intellectual discussion in the Rudd household.

He argued that Abbott had some sort of “head start” because he, Rudd, had been in the job for less than a week, he said it was time for a series of open policy debates.

“‘What I’d say to Mr Abbott, is, ‘you’ve been doing this for a long time’,” he said. “It’s time we had a properly moderated debate, by the National Press Club, and that it should be on Mr Abbott’s chosen subjects.

“‘He can have one on debt and deficit, and can have one after that on boats. He can have one after that if he likes on the carbon price.

“‘I’m prepared, on each of these things, to take him on directly, because his whole program for government rests on a house of cards … the lie that we have a debt and deficit crisis, the lie that he can turn the boats back to Indonesia, and, frankly, there’s another lie as well, that Mr Abbott has suddenly become a policy moderate.”

What I would say to the spooky recycled Labor loser is: “You are responsible for the policies which have failed the nation.

“You outline your solutions.

“Your government is a house of cards.

“Further, it is based on a pack of lies that you have done nothing to dispel.

“And it is in your power to call an election – do so now and spare us the ongoing agony.”

Rudd may have got away with much the first time around, he must not be allowed to get away with more this time.

Go to the polls, Kevin, not the media.

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FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE PROPERTY DEVELOPERS

Tim Blair – Thursday, July 04, 2013 (5:36am)

Kevni takes on the opposition – specifically, the NSW opposition:

Kevin Rudd has secured agreement to suspend the NSW Labor Party and place it under the administration of the party’s national executive under dramatic reforms to stamp out corruption and slash union power in the scandal-plagued branch.

Among Kev’s big reform ideas:

Property developers will also be banned from seeking preselection to become Labor candidates at both the federal and state level.

The next step: ban property owners. Rudd yesterday posed as a baseball pitcher, while it turns out his enemies reallyclassed up the joint on the night of their removal.

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BAD CALL

Tim Blair – Thursday, July 04, 2013 (5:26am)

“In 2010 I did a story on two gay dads,” writes the ABC’s Ginger Gorham. “Those two men turned out to bepedophiles of the worst kind.”

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SHOT NOT CHOPPED

Tim Blair – Thursday, July 04, 2013 (5:21am)

What with so many Islamic beheadings these days, there’s bound to be the occasional mix-up:

A Catholic priest was not among three men graphically filmed being beheaded in Syria last week a friar overseeing the Franciscans in the Middle East has told CNN.

Father Francois Mourad, a Syrian originally named as victim of a merciless mob, was instead shot eight times on June 23 when a group of rebels stormed his monastery …

Glad we’ve cleared that up.

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SCRAP THE TAX, KEEP THE CASH

Tim Blair – Thursday, July 04, 2013 (5:05am)

“Not every politician is a sucker for the Global Warming Swindle,” points out NSW Liberal Peter Phelps. “Some of us even fight back with that most dangerous of all weapons – scientific evidence. “ Quite so. Click and scroll to 10.33am. Meanwhile, global warming activists are suddenly fine with ditching the carbon tax:

Climate advocates are open to the idea of “dumping” the carbon tax by bringing forward a floating carbon pricing scheme, but they have some important provisos.

The main proviso being … well, you’ll never guess:

Australian Conservation Foundation executive director Don Henry said if funding for bodies like the Australian Renewable Energy Agency was not cut to make up for the potential budget losses from the move then “it would not necessarily cause a problem.”

Correction: if funding was cut, it wouldn’t be a problem.

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GET IT RIGHT

Tim Blair – Thursday, July 04, 2013 (4:36am)

Professor Bunyip notes curious developments at Fairfax, which seems to have adopted new terminology:

Mr Harris said it was possible that the appointment signalled an attempt to improve relationships with the conservative press …

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s communications director, John McTernan, was reported to have made overtures to the conservative media.

Please. Even babies know that we’re the “hate media”.

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EGYPT ATTACKS

Tim Blair – Thursday, July 04, 2013 (4:14am)

As a possible military coup threatens Egypt, protesters revert to previous viciousness:

A Dutch journalist has been raped by a group of five men in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square as millions of protesters take to the streets to demand the removal of President Mohammed Mursi …

Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment said it had recorded 44 cases of sexual assaults and harassment against women on Sunday night alone, the highest number it had encountered since the group was formed in November 2012.

Women aren’t Egypt’s only targets. The so-called Arab Spring isn’t turning out as many hoped.

UPDATE. Coup underway.

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Rudd tip: election in November?

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (8:28pm)

Bernie Slattery picks up an election tip from Kevin Rudd himself:

If Krudd can be taken at his word – and that’s a stretch – we could have him around for a while yet. This is part of what he told Leigh Sales last night:

As we get close to the election at the end of the year, the bottom line is pretty transparent to us all.
Given that they’ve been speculating all week on when he’d go to the polls, I’m surprised the mainstream media didn’t swoop on it like spring magpies.

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Coroner slams Rudd’s home insulation disaster

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (6:49pm)

Who rushed through that dud program?

A CORONER has attacked both the federal and Queensland governments as he referred three deaths linked to the controversial home insulation scheme to prosecutors.
Queensland state coroner Michael Barnes ... said the federal Labor government rushed through the scheme in 2009 to create jobs stimulus during the global financial crisis, causing it to overlook safety concerns....
Rueben Barnes, 16, Matthew James Fuller, 25 and Mitchell Scott Sweeney [above], 22, died in 2009 and 2010 while installing roof insulation under the now discontinued economic stimulus program.

UPDATE

The Federal Opposition’s environment spokesman, Greg Hunt, has demanded the Prime Minister release all documents relating to the home insulation program.
”Now is the moment for Mr Rudd to finally release all of the warnings and all of the correspondence which he personally received and which his department received,” he said.
“We know that there were 10 personal warnings to Mr Rudd including four letters directly from then Minister [Peter] Garrett.”

From the Coroner’s findings:

Matthew Fuller:

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What’s offensive is that she’s a Minister

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (6:31pm)

When I first heard of this I thought the Liberals had lost their marbles:

A LIBERAL Party advertisement ridiculing new Kevin Rudd minister Julie Collins is “offensive” to stutterers, a sufferer of the condition has said.

The short video, posted on YouTube, shows Ms Collins stumbling over her words at a press conference and then she is mocked for being “one of the most senior” Labor ministers.
The advertisement has provoked outrage from those who say it’s unfair to depict stuttering as a sign for incompetence.

But then I realised this was just a beat-up from the wanting-to-take-offence brigade:

Ms Collins, who was promoted to Housing and Status of Women Minister this week, does not have a stutter.

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Hope those 33,600 households enjoy our billions

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (5:43pm)

All those billions being spent on the National Broadband Network, and for so few:

THE NBN Co has hit its politically crucial June 30 rollout target, passing more than 207,000 homes and businesses.... But of those passed by the fibre footprint only 33,600 homes and businesses, or 16 per cent of premises, have signed up to a service.
In addition to the low take-up rate, the NBN Co’s rollout figures also contain as many as 55,000 premises called “service class zero” which although contained in the fibre footprint, are not considered serviceable for another 12-18 months.
These typically include apartments, town houses and shopping centres...

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Rudd distances himself from rotten Labor

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (1:51pm)

Kevin Rudd puts distance between him and that thing called Labor:

A FEDERAL takeover of the ALP’s NSW branch will be the first stage in a broader Labor Party reform agenda, Kevin Rudd has announced.
The Prime Minister’s move to intervene in Labor’s NSW branch ... aims to stamp out corruption and further limit the influence of wealthy property developers on the party.
Labor’s national executive will take over the running of the NSW branch and draft new rules, which will include a zero tolerance of corruption and the ability to remove members being investigated for wrongdoing.
Mr Rudd has given the NSW ALP 30 days to implement the reforms.

Did NSW Labor once have laws allowing some tolerance of corruption?

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No to that $90 million referendum. No to Canberra control of councils

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (11:31am)

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Rudd promises no more spending, but hints at plenty

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (9:46am)

Can Kevin Rudd restrain his big-spending self?

RESERVE Bank governor Glenn Stevens has warned both major parties not to deviate from their commitment to return the budget to surplus and stressed the importance of “principled and consistent” policy-making to help revive business and consumer confidence…

Mr Stevens said slower economic growth was likely to be the norm and highlighted the mounting challenge of bringing the budget to surplus and paying for Labor’s multi-billion-dollar school funding and disability insurance programs.

“The importance of a strong commitment to fiscal responsibility will, if anything, be heightened in the future, given that significant challenges exist over the medium term in funding government initiatives that the community appears to want,” Mr Stevens said…

“Confidence-enhancing policy involves having well-established and understood frameworks, and acting consistently with those frameworks over time,” he said.

But Rudd seems caught between promising no more spending at the same time that he’s talking of big new spending, and between promising no “austerity” cuts at the same time that he’s warning of a fall in our exports to China:

As the new cabinet considers a range of policy changes that could cost billions, the Prime Minister has suggested the government might need to spend extra to protect the economy from a downturn.

But Treasurer Chris Bowen has said any new spending will have to be offset by savings elsewhere in the budget…

Mr Rudd, by contrast, announced his bid for the Labor leadership last week by declaring that the China boom was over and that “this is a massive new challenge"…

The expectations already raised by Mr Rudd and his ministers would cost the budget close to $5 billion per year. Mr Rudd has talked about moving swiftly from the $24.15 per tonne carbon price to the floating European price, at present $6.50 per tonne. That would cost the budget $3 billion to $4 billion per year.

Lifting the Newstart unemployment benefit by $50 per week would cost $1 billion per year. Restoring lost university funding would cost $750 million.

(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)

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Red Cross uses donations to scare children over global warming

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (9:35am)

Reader Gab:

Ever wonder if your donations to the Red Cross reach the intended people that need help? Wonder no more. The Red Cross is using donations for climate alarmism propaganda.
Is this their idea of climate “science”? And why is the Red Cross getting involved in climate alarmism?
After many, many years of donating to the Red Cross they won’t be getting any more donations from me. I refuse to donate money when it gets used to peddle climate alarmism.

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Lucky Rudd. Gillard may swear, but holds her tongue

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (9:10am)

Classy attitude, if not language, at Julia Gillard’s farewell bash at the Lodge:

News Limited can reveal Ms Gillard had not a single bad word for Kevin Rudd and urged up to 100 MPs and staff - who descended on the official Prime Minister’s residence - not to forget their Labor ideals and get behind the new leader.
Dressed in a casual, striped shirt with a wine in hand, Ms Gillard addressed partygoers, including former and current ministers Peter Garrett, Greg Combet, Craig Emerson, Stephen Smith and Jenny Macklin, and said: “Don’t let this disillusion you - sh*t happens.”

Kevin Rudd is very lucky if Gillard refuses to do to his campaign what he did to hers.

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New Kevin can win this. Old Kevin can’t

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (9:05am)

Politics - federal

HIS first week back will make Kevin Rudd think he can talk his way to an amazing election win. And he’s right. Only time could beat him now.
So far, the reborn Prime Minister has talked the right game. He looks sunny. He got a warm welcome from the media and the Opposition is firing blanks.
Rudd has even succeeded in selling the “new” Kevin - less the Kevin 747 and more the Considerate, Consultative Kevin.
Mind you, it’s a strain and old Kevin occasionally peeks through.

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Commissars force Myer to take free speech off its shelves

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (8:53am)

Free speech, The new morality

THE Human Rights Commission has become a threat to our freedom. Geeing up activists to punish Myer is the last straw.
It was bad enough that the commission backed Labor’s attempt to ban political free speech that might “offend” people at work. We pay this mob $27 million a year to help Big Government muzzle us?
But now the commission has gone further - punishing Myer because its CEO, Bernie Brookes, legally expressed his opinion on a political matter.

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Egypt’s military back in charge. Now to find some food…

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (8:51am)

The first democratically elected government in Egypt lasts just one year before the army takes over again:

Egypt’s military has deposed the country’s first democratically-elected President, Mohammed Morsi. It says an interim government will be put in place and the constitution suspended.

Remarkably few dead:

At least five people were killed when opponents and supporters of Egypt’s deposed president, Mohamed Mursi, clashed after the army announced his removal on Wednesday, state media and officials said.
Gunfire broke out as rocks and bricks flew in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, witnesses said.

David Goldman says this could be as good as it gets for a country unable to feed its own people:

Two years after the collapse of Egypt’s sixty years of military rule, the largest Arab country has come full circle. The population has had enough. Beans (not to mention animal protein) have been priced out of the budget of the poorer half of Egypt’s citizens for weeks, and the country is nearly out of fuel — which means, in the middle of the wheat harvest, nearly out of bread…
Nearly a fifth of Egyptians were suffering from malnutrition when the World Health Organization surveyed the country in 2011. WFP estimates that two of five Egyptian adults are mentally and physically “stunted” by inadequate diet. The slow starvation of Egyptians under successive military regimes is gradually turning into actual hunger.
Sadly, military government probably is the best case scenario… Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states (besides tiny Qatar) might decide to provide funding for a military regime that suppressed the Muslim Brotherhood, which the Saudi regime rightly fears as a competitor to its medieval form of monarchy....
Egypt needs about $20 billion a year in external subsidies; a smaller amount would forestall the worst effects of the economic crisis. With $630 billion in foreign exchange reserves, Saudi Arabia is the only Arab country with the resources to give Egypt help on the scale it requires.

But censorship begins:

The Muslim Brotherhood-owned television channel Misr 25 went off air along with several other Islamist-run channels, including the controversial Hafez and Al-Nas, shortly after the military statement announcing the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi.

UPDATE
This really is about Egyptian culture and what it produces:

Egyptian anti-sexual harassment groups confirmed that mobs sexually assaulted and in some cases raped at least 91 women in Tahrir Square, over four days of protests beginning on June 30, 2013, amid a climate of impunity.

UPDATE
It seems Obama’s help for Morsi hasn’t won the US the respect of the Eygptian people:

(Thanks to reader David.)

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Rudd wants debates on policies he does not have

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (7:57am)

Kevin Rudd is desperate to turn this into a popularity contest:

Kevin Rudd has dramatically ramped up his fight against Tony Abbott, questioning the Opposition Leader’s courage for raising fears about asylum seekers and budget management while refusing to debate these issues before the people.
Casting himself as a bookish nerd up against the bullying athletic school jock, Mr Rudd said it seemed Mr Abbott was all talk and lacked heart when it came to a fight.
‘’Mr Abbott, I think it’s time you demonstrated to the country you had a bit of ticker on this. I mean, he’s the boxing Blue; I’m the, you know, the glasses-wearing kid in the library. Come on,’’ he told the ABC’s 7.30 program…
‘’What I’d say to Mr Abbott is, ‘You’ve been doing this for a long time,’’’ he said. ‘’It’s time we had a properly moderated debate, by the National Press Club, and that it should be on Mr Abbott’s chosen subjects. He can have one on debt and deficit, and can have one after that on boats, he can have one after that if he likes on the carbon price.”

But what is Rudd’s policy on asylum seekers?
What is his policy on the Budget parameters?
What is his policy on the carbon tax?
What is to discuss?
UPDATE
Indeed, I am wondering whether Abbott shouldn’t take up this chance. High risk, but he comes off low expectations and will engage with a man with no policies. If he is authoritative enough, this could prove a decisive contest.

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Rudd gives fake excuses for his boat people disaster

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (7:54am)

Boat people policy

Kevin Rudd and new Immigration Tony Burke can’t quite admit that they were utterly wrong in 2008 to scrap the tough border laws that had kept the boats to just three a year. Rudd offers a deceitful excuse for a catastrophic error of judgement:

LEIGH SALES: Do you now accept that you were wrong when you were elected to dismantle the Howard Government’s Pacific Solution?
KEVIN RUDD: Well what I said before was that we took a policy to the ‘07 election. We were returned on the basis of that policy. I said we’d implement the policies we took to the people. When we got to 2009-’10, what happened was that you suddenly had, as I said before, a war in Sri Lanka; you also had new people movements out of countries such as Afghanistan and elsewhere ...
LEIGH SALES: OK. I’m sorry to interrupt, but it’s a pretty clear question: were you wrong to dismantle it?
KEVIN RUDD: We honoured our pre-election commitment and ...
LEIGH SALES: And was that pre-election commitment the wrong way to go?
KEVIN RUDD: Well, what I’m saying is we honoured our pre-election commitment. If we’ve made a mistake, Leigh - let me just say this - it was in perhaps not being quick enough to respond to the new change in external circumstances with an outflow from Sri Lanka from a civil war in 2009-’10.

Burke today offers a version of the same excuse - it was right to scrap the laws, but wrong not to bring them back to deal with new circumstances. Labor’s “buggest mistake” was to think it could “freeze immigration settings for all time”.
But let’s check the time line.
In 2007 as Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd actually promises to turn back the boats:

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In 2008 he does the opposite, scrapping the Pacific Solution and easing other parts of John Howard’s border laws, against advice this would send out the very message that it did - as I wrote in 2009:

RUDD was warned, of course. The Australian Federal Police won’t deny that it told the Government: “Reporting indicates that people smugglers will market recent changes to Australia’s immigration policy to entice potential illegal immigrants. This may cause a rise in the number of attempted arrivals.”
The International Organisation for Migration’s Indonesian chief last year confirmed that fact: “People smugglers have clearly noted that there has been a change in policy ... over the last year there’s been a considerable kick-up.”
The boat people themselves say they heard Rudd. In April, Iraqis who’d spent years in Indonesia told the ABC they would try sailing to Australia now that Rudd had softened our laws. “Kevin Rudd - he’s changed everything about refugee. If I go to Australia now, different,” one told the ABC.
Early this month Afghans in Indonesia told The Australian the same: Rudd’s changes had prompted them to leave their homes in Iran and Pakistan and catch a boat to Australia.
Said one: “I know Kevin Rudd is the new PM ... he has tried to get more immigrants. I have heard that if someone arrives it is easy.”
Even the 255 Sri Lankans now held by Indonesia cite Rudd. Said their spokesman, Alex: “First of all I would like to say thank you to Mr Kevin Rudd because he has accepted many refugees in the past. We came until the last point believing that Australia will accept us into their country.”

Rudd now says the boat people were not lured by his softer laws, but pushed out by “suddenly ... a war in Sri Lanka”.
In fact, there was nothing “sudden” about Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009:

After more than 25 years of violence the conflict ended in May 2009, when government forces seized the last area controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels.

Tamils fleeing could have chosen nearby India’s Tamil Nadu, with a large Tamil population. Rudd made Australia a more attractive alternative for economic refugees as well.
Rudd’s other excuse of “new people movements out of countries such as Afghanistan” is even weaker.
Afghanistan was liberated from Taliban rule in 2001. Since then the overall movement of refugees has been back to Afghanistan, not away from:

More than 5.7 million refugees have voluntarily repatriated to Afghanistan in the last 10 years, of whom more than 4.6 million were assisted to do so by UNHCR.

Rudd cannot bear to admit to a terrible mistake, but the facts are clear. He changed the laws and sent a signal that was received by people smugglers and their passengers. The cost has been horrific - more than 1000 dead, more than 10,000 in detention, more than 40,000 arrived and more than $5 billion lost.

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Rudd courts the media Gillard sought to muzzle and her apologists damn

Andrew Bolt July 04 2013 (7:42am)

Kevin Rudd reaches out to the newspaper group Julia Gillard tried to monster with an inquiry into the ”hate media”:

Fiona Sugden will serve as Mr Rudd’s communications director.
Ms Sugden had worked with senior press secretary Lachlan Harris in the first Rudd government. But more attention has been given to his choice of press secretary.
Until he took a redundancy last year, Matthew Franklin was the chief political correspondent for The Australian newspaper, a News Limited publication.

Rudd is courting the media that the paranoid Gillard camp stupidly regarded as evil, preferring to believe any media criticism was just an act of war by the wicked - a self-deluding fantasy of people unable to concede their manifold errors. .
Journalist Kerry-Anne Walshe demonstrates the Gillard pathology perfectly. She uses a fabricated quote to defend Julia Gillard from the charge of lying, and in her book - The Stalking of Julia Gillard - goes feral at all the journalists who ever dared point out that Gillard wasn’t actually very good:

STEELY-FACED Gillard marches in parliament ... The Australian has a number of attack dogs in its stable committed to highlighting every real, imagined and invented flaw of Australia’s first female prime minister ... a shabby contribution from acrid reactionary commentator Janet Albrechtsen ... The Australian has added Chris Kenny ... rising loudmouth in the political commentariat and determined to wreak his own particular brand of havoc on the Labor government ... The opposition’s negativism has taken hold in the minds of the scared and suspicious electorate, which is unnerved daily by the ferocious anti-Gillard hotheads in radioland ... the Right’s maven and spear-carrier at News Ltd’s Herald Sun Andrew Bolt ... the angry tabloid commentators and Sydney’s graceless pissed-off old men of radio. It’s a connected circle of venom and the arc is wide and spreading ... Rudd’s main man at Fairfax, Peter Hartcher ... doesn’t believe in erring on the side of balance or keeping his ornate descriptors down to a bellow ... Richo ... he’s already strung Gillard up ... he doesn’t disappoint his News Ltd paymasters ... News Ltd’s columnist and fiercely anti-Gillard ranter Piers Akerman follows the general thrust of Richo’s line ... down in Herald-Sun land, Steve Price continues the rants ... The Daily Telegraph is nothing if not determined to stick the course in hunting down leadership mischief ... with a splash by fly-in, fly-out Canberra sessional journalist Simon Benson ... Saturdays just aren’t Saturdays without a dose of Hartcher to sell Kev II ... Rudd’s is a cynical, corrosive ambition that is eating the life out of the government, rocking the wheels off parliament ... an angry little Vegemite cloaked in the guise of a sarcastic little Vegemite ... Now it’s over to our man in the right-wing NSW bunker - sorry, the Daily Telegraph’s Simon Benson ... The only one with any credibility is Troy Bramston ... it doesn’t matter where Gillard turns, Rudd and his team are there: watching, planning, whispering ... Rudd’s man in the Fairfax foxhole did his bit for the cause together with ... . the queen bee of the press gallery, Michelle Grattan, who turned positively feral ... Peter van Onselen ... Dennis Shanahan ... Chris Kenny ... Phillip Hudson ... Peter Hartcher ... Richo of course weighed in with another prediction that Gillard wouldn’t last a month ... the Rudd engine hurtled down the line, Captain Kevin cheerily yelling “Choo-choo!”

That is sure a vomit of hate. Walshe’s abuse is worse than what she damns in others. Give that woman a mirror.

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Rudd desperate to talk about Abbott. But where are his own policies?

Andrew Bolt July 03 2013 (8:59pm)

Rudd is desperate to make this a popularity contest - or at least make Abbott look weak. Abbott’s reply should be forceful: there is not yet a single Kevin Rudd policy out there to discuss.
What is Rudd’s policy on boats?
On debt?
On the carbon tax?
First the policies, then the debate.

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Holly Sarah Nguyen

God does not judge you, people who think they are God do.

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Bad meme .. it isn't true. The cause of bee colony collapse syndrome is known and treatment has been effective in some 80% of colonies .. but why let that get in the way of a scare? - ed
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Holly Sarah Nguyen

People might give up on you, but God never will! Once again don't give up on God because he will NEVER give up on you

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Allyson Christy
"President Barack Obama said the United States is "deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian Armed Forces to remove President Morsy and suspend the Egyptian constitution."

Arrest warrants were issued for 300 members of the Muslim Brotherhood after Morsy’s ouster, according to the state-run Ahram newspaper website, which cited an unnamed security source.

Egyptian security forces arrested the Muslim Brotherhood's political party leader and a deputy, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported, citing an unnamed military source.

Security forces also raided the offices of Al Jazeera's Egypt service during a live broadcast and arrested "the presenter, guests and producers," the network said on its English-language website." -CNN Breaking News
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James Calore You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish. .. wisdom that cannot be argued with or denied .. *nods*
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin

You Have The Power In You.

And Jesus answered them, Truly I say to you, if you have faith (a firm relying trust) and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea, it will be done.”
(Matthew 21:21, AMP) So,speak to your mountains.

Remember that even if you don’t see how things could ever work out, God does. You’ve got to speak to those mountains in your life and declare favor over those situations. Instead of talking to God about how big your problems are, talk to your problems about how big your God is. As you speak to your mountains, they will be moved, and you will move forward into the victory God has prepared for you.God bless you.

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Photo credit: John W. Pope Civitas Institute

Hi everyone! Here's the MichelleMalkin.com newsletter for July 3rd. Enjoy!

I will be in Salt Lake City this week for Glenn Beck's Man in the Moon event and related speaking events. See here for tickets and details!

Commentary: Delay can't avert Obamacare crackup

Hot Air: Lerner’s attorney demands immunity for testimony

The Daily Caller: VICE founder, famous for truth telling, has history of lies

Twitchy: ‘Dipity dipity derp’: Hilarious flashback to Nancy Pelosi’s #Obamacareinthreewords

Twitchy: #HailSatan: Sum up pro-aborts with one hashtag; ‘At last Wendy Davis has a catchy slogan’

Let the haters hate. To the rest of you, have a wonderful Independence Day!

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July 4: Republic Day in the Philippines (1946); Independence Dayin the United States (1776)

414 – Aelia Pulcheria proclaimed herself regent over her brother Theodosius II and made herself Augusta and Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1054 – Chinese astronomers recorded the sudden appearance of a "guest star", which was in actuality the supernova that created the Crab Nebula(pictured).
1610 – Polish–Muscovite War: The outnumbered forces of thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth defeated the Russians at theBattle of Klushino.
1945 – The Brazilian cruiser Bahia was accidentally sunk by one of its own crewmen, killing more than 300 and stranding the survivors in shark-infested waters.
1951 – William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Events[edit]

362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yielded power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
836 – Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, was signed.
993 – Saint Ulrich of Augsburg was canonized.
1054 – A supernova was seen by Chinese, Arab and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remained bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
1120 – Jordan II of Capua was anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin – Saladin defeated Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeated Guy of Dampierre.
1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrendered to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1456 – The Siege of Nándorfeqhérvár (Belgrade) began. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
1534 – Christian III was elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1569 – The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus, signed the document of union between Poland and Lithuania, creating a new state called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1610 – The Battle of Klushino was fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières was founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
1636 – Providence, Rhode Island was founded.
1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed inLancaster, Pennsylvania.
1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
1774 – Orangetown Resolutions were adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

The United States declared its independence in 1776.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark captured Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opened.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase was announced to the American people.
1810 – The French began occupying Amsterdam.
1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal began.
1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, died the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1827 – Slavery was abolished in New York State.
1831 – Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opened between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1838 – The Iowa Territory was organized.
1855 – In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, was published.
1862 – Lewis Carroll told Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army was repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdrew from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
1865 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published.
1878 – Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty ran a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi was captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opened.
1886 – The people of France offered the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrived in Port Moody, British Columbia.
1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joined Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1892 – Western Samoa changed the International Date Line, so that year it 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii was proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
1903 – Philippine–American War officially ended.
1903 – Dorothy Levitt was reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocked out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
1911 – A massive heat wave struck the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addressed American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie took place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
1918 – Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne.
1918 – Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
1927 – The Lockheed Vega first flew.
1934 – Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, told a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announced his retirement from major league baseball.
1941 – Nazi troops massacred Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, began in Prokhorovka village.
1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attained full independence from the United States.
1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" was presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the partition of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries – India and Pakistan.
1950 – Radio Free Europe first broadcast.
1951 – A court in Czechoslovakia sentenced American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.
1951 – William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor.
1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuted inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
1969 – The Zodiac Killer attacked two teens (one male, one female) at Blue Rock Springs in California. They were his second known victims. The female died.
1976 – Israeli commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
1977 – The George Jackson Brigade planted a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
1982 – Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats were kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
1993 – Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama exploded, killing one worker and injuring three others.
1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe landed on the surface of Mars.
1998 – Japan launched the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower was laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
2005 – The Deep Impact collider hit the comet Tempel 1.
2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopened to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
2009 – The first of four days of bombings began on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider was announced at CERN.

Births[edit]

68 – Salonina Matidia, Roman daughter of Ulpia Marciana (d. 119)
1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 – Murad III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1595)
1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)
1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
1790 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and geographer (d. 1866)
1799 – Oscar I of Sweden (d. 1859)
1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and politician (d. 1882)
1816 – Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian club whiskey (d. 1899)
1826 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
1845 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist and humanitarian (d. 1905)
1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus ringmaster (d. 1906)
1854 – Victor Babeș, Romanian physician and biologist (d. 1926)
1854 – Bill Tilghman, American police officer (d. 1924)
1867 – Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and industrialist (d. 1930)
1868 – Johannes van Dijk, Dutch rower (d. 1938)
1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
1872 – Calvin Coolidge, American politician, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
1874 – John McPhee, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)
1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
1882 – Louis B. Mayer, Canadian-American film producer (d. 1957)
1883 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
1888 – Henry Armetta, Italian-born American character actor (d. 1945)
1895 – Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer (d. 1996)
1896 – Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
1897 – Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1924)
1898 – Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
1898 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (d. 1952)
1902 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-American gangster (d. 1983)
1902 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (d. 1992)
1903 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher (d. 1986)
1904 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
1905 – Irving Johnson, American sailor and author (d. 1991)
1905 – Lionel Trilling, American critic, author, and teacher (d.1975)
1907 – Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1907 – Howard Taubman, American critic (d. 1996)
1910 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
1911 – Mitch Miller, American singer, musician, and producer (d. 2010)
1912 – Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
1916 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American-Japanese typist and broadcaster (d. 2006)
1916 – Fernand Leduc, Canadian abstract expressionnist painter
1917 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
1918 – Ann Landers, American columnist (d. 2002)
1918 – Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1918 – Pauline Phillips, American columnist and radio host, created Dear Abby (d. 2013)
1918 – Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (d. 2006)
1920 – Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
1920 – Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (d. 2007)
1920 – Fritz Wilde, German footballer (d. 1977)
1921 – Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1921 – Philip Rose, American Broadway producer (d. 2011)
1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)
1923 – Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss politician and lawyer
1924 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress
1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright
1928 – Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer
1928 – Chuck Tanner, American baseball player (d. 2011)
1929 – Peter Angelos, American businessman and politician
1929 – Al Davis, American football executive (d. 2011)
1929 – Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1930 – Mher Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (d. 1993)
1930 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (d. 2010)
1930 – Yuri Tyukalov, Russian rower
1931 – Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (d. 1977)
1931 – Lawrie Dring, British scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (d. 2012)
1931 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian runner
1934 – Peter Behn, American voice actor
1934 – Yvonne B. Miller, American politician (d. 2012)
1934 – Colin Welland, British actor
1935 – Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician
1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish soprano
1937 – Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
1937 – Queen Sonja of Norway
1937 – Richard Rhodes, American journalist and historian
1938 – Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter and musician
1938 – John Sterling, American sportscaster
1940 – Karolyn Grimes, American actress
1940 – Dave Rowberry, English pianist and organist
1940 – Pat Stapleton, Canadian professional ice hockey player
1941 – Sam Farr, American politician
1941 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (d. 2012)
1941 – Pavel Sedláček, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Brian Willson, American lawyer and activist
1942 – Hal Lanier, American baseball player
1942 – Floyd Little, American football player
1942 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)
1942 – Prince Michael of Kent
1942 – Peter Rowan, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (Earth Opera and Old and in the Way)
1943 – Conny Bauer, German trombonist
1943 – Emerson Boozer, American football player
1943 – Milan Máčala, Czech football coach
1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American lawyer, journalist, and author
1943 – Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician (Canned Heat) (d. 1970)
1944 – Joe Berardo, Portuguese businessman
1944 – Jaimy Gordon, American writer
1944 – Ray Meagher, Australian actor
1945 – Bruce French, American actor
1945 – Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (d. 1972)
1946 – Margaret Delisle, Canadian politician
1946 – Tish Howard, American model
1946 – Ron Kovic, American activist
1946 – Michael Milken, American businessman, financier, and philanthropist
1946 – Ed O'Ross, American actor
1948 – Ed Armbrister, Bahamian baseball player
1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver
1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
1948 – Jeremy Spencer, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1948 – Phil Wheatley, British civil servant
1950 – Philip Craven, former British international wheelchair basketball player
1950 – David Jensen, Canadian-English disk jockey
1950 – Tonio K, American singer-songwriter
1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
1951 – Vladimir Tismăneanu, Romanian-American political scientist
1952 – Álvaro Uribe, Colombian politician, 39th President of Colombia
1952 – John Waite, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Babys and Bad English)
1954 – Morganna, American model and dancer
1954 – Jim Beattie, American baseball player
1956 – Mark Belling, American radio host
1957 – Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat
1957 – Chulabhorn Walailak Thai princess
1958 – Steve Hartman, American sportscaster
1958 – Kirk Pengilly, Australian singer and musician (INXS)
1958 – Carl Valentine, English-Canadian footballer
1959 – Victoria Abril, Spanish actress
1960 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (d. 1994)
1960 – Mark Steel, British columnist and comedian
1960 – Sid Vicious, American wrestler
1960 – Barry Windham, American wrestler
1961 – Richard Garriott, British video game designer
1962 – Neil Morrissey, English actor
1962 – Pam Shriver, American tennis player
1963 – Henri Leconte, French tennis player
1963 – Laureano Márquez, Venezuelan humorist and politologist
1963 – José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player
1963 – William Ramallo, Bolivian footballer
1963 – Michael Sweet, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Stryper and Boston)
1964 – Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
1964 – Elie Saab, Lebanese fashion designer
1964 – Mark Slaughter, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Slaughter and Vinnie Vincent Invasion)
1964 – Mark Whiting, American director, writer, and actor
1965 – Harvey Grant, American basketball player
1965 – Horace Grant, American basketball player
1965 – Jo Whiley, English radio host
1966 – Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer
1966 – Lee Reherman, American actor
1967 – Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player
1967 – Andy Walker, Canadian journalist
1967 – Rick Wilkins, American baseball player
1968 – Ronni Ancona, Scottish actress
1968 – Jack Frost, American guitarist (Seven Witches and The Bronx Casket Co.)
1969 – Todd Marinovich, American football player
1969 – Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean footballer
1970 – Christian Giesler, American bassist (Kreator)
1970 – Tony Vidmar, Australian footballer
1971 – Koko, American sign language gorilla
1971 – Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies and The Brothers Creeggan)
1971 – Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
1971 – Ned Zelić, Australian footballer
1972 – Nina Badrić, Croatian singer-songwriter
1972 – Stephen Giles, Canadian canoer
1972 – William Goldsmith, American drummer (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters, and The Fire Theft)
1972 – Mike Knuble, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Vladimir Kozlov, Ukrainian-American wrestler
1973 – Gackt, Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Malice Mizer and Skin)
1973 – Keiko Ihara, Japanese race car driver
1973 – Michael Johnson, Jamaican footballer
1973 – Jan Magnussen, Danish race car driver
1973 – Tony Popovic, Australian footballer
1973 – Elton Williams, Montserratian footballer
1974 – La'Roi Glover, American football player
1974 – Adrian Griffin, American basketball player
1974 – Vince Spadea, American tennis player
1975 – Tania Davis, English-Australian violist (Bond)
1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1976 – Yevgeniya Medvedeva, Russian skier
1977 – Orri Páll Dýrason, Icelandic musician (Sigur Rós)
1977 – Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish singer, musician, and producer (Scar Symmetry, Centinex, Raubtier, and Carnal Forge)
1977 – Zoe Naylor, Australian actress, journalist, and producer
1978 – Andrea Gabriel, American actress
1978 – Vicky Kaya, Greek model and actress
1978 – Stephen McNally, English singer-songwriter (BBMak)
1978 – Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
1978 – Becki Newton, American actress
1978 – Katia Zygouli, Greek model and actress
1979 – Dumas, Canadian singer
1979 – Kevin Thoms, American actor
1979 – Mark Twitchell, Canadian murderer
1979 – Renny Vega, Venezuelan footballer
1980 – Max Elliott Slade, American actor
1980 – Kwame Steede, Bermudan footballer
1981 – Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Adérito Waldemar Alves Carvalho, Angolan footballer
1981 – Tahar Rahim, French actor
1981 – Will Smith, American football player
1982 – Hannah Harper, English porn actress and director
1982 – The Situation, American model and author
1983 – Melanie Fiona, Canadian singer
1983 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model
1983 – Ben Jorgensen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Armor for Sleep)
1983 – Amantle Montsho, Botswana sprinter
1983 – Andrew Mrotek, American singer and drummer (The Academy Is...)
1983 – Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer
1983 – Miguel Pinto, Chilean footballer
1983 – Mattia Serafini, Italian footballer
1984 – Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (KAT-TUN and Lands)
1984 – Gina Glocksen, American singer
1984 – Miguel Santos Soares, Timorese footballer
1985 – Kane Tenace, Australian footballer
1986 – Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer and actor (NEWS and Tegomass)
1986 – Nguyen Ngoc Duy, Vietnamese footballer
1986 – Mía Taveras, Dominican model and actress
1986 – Fanny Valette, French actress
1986 – Holly Wellin, English porn actress and model
1987 – Guram Kashia, Georgian footballer
1988 – Angelique Boyer, French-Mexican actress, model and singer
1989 – Yoon Doo-joon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Beast)
1989 – Rodgers Kola, Zambian footballer
1989 – Benjamin Büchel, Liechtensteiner footballer
1990 – Backer Aloenouvo, Togolese footballer
1990 – Kelsi Crain, American model, Miss Louisiana 2010
1990 – Rishadi Fauzi, Indonesian footballer
1990 – Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player
1990 – David Kross, German actor
1990 – Alyssa Miller, American model
1990 – Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer
1990 – Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
1990 – Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer
1991 – Ak Hafiy Tajuddin Rositi, Bruneian runner
1992 – Basim, Danish singer-songwriter
1992 – Nick Hissom, British model and singer
1993 – Thomas Barkhuizen, English footballer

Deaths[edit]

907 – Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 – Taejo of Goryeo (b. 877)
965 – Pope Benedict V
973 – Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
1187 – Raynald of Châtillon, French knight (b. 1125)
1541 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Greek-Turkish navy officer (b. 1478)
1551 – Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (b. 1514)
1603 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
1623 – William Byrd, English composer (b. 1540)
1641 – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
1648 – Antoine Daniel, French missionary (b. 1601)
1742 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
1761 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (b. 1712)
1787 – Charles, Prince of Soubise (b. 1715)
1821 – Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
1826 – John Adams, American politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
1826 – Thomas Jefferson American politician,3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
1831 – James Monroe, American politician, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer (b. 1768)
1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (b. 1781)
1857 – William L. Marcy, American politician, 21st United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and statesman (b. 1806)
1882 – Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
1901 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
1902 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk (b. 1863)
1905 – Élisée Reclus, French geographer, writer, and anarchist (b. 1830)
1910 – Melville Weston Fuller, American jurist (b. 1833)
1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
1916 – Alan Seeger, American poet (b. 1888)
1918 – Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868)
1922 – Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (b. 1901)
1931 – Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (b. 1869)
1931 – Buddie Petit, American cornettist (b. 1895)
1934 – Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1867)
1938 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (b. 1881)
1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
1941 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
1946 – Gerda Steinhoff, German concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
1948 – Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
1949 – François Brandt, Dutch rower (b. 1874)
1963 – Bernard Freyberg, New Zealander soldier and statesman (b. 1889)
1964 – Gaby Morlay, French actress (b. 1893)
1964 – Henry (Hank) Sylvern, American organist (b. 1908)
1969 – Henri Decoin, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1890)
1970 – Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American industrialist (b. 1884)
1971 – August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
1971 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral (b. 1877)
1975 – Georgette Heyer, British author (b. 1902)
1974 – Haj Amin al-Husseini, Palestinian Muslim nationalist (b. 1895 or 1897)
1976 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier and commander (b. 1946)
1976 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1977 – Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1979 – Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1980 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
1982 – Terry Higgins, British AIDS victim (b. 1945)
1984 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1949)
1986 – Flor Peeters, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1903)
1986 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
1988 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
1989 – Jack Haig, British actor (b. 1913)
1990 – Olive Ann Burns, American author (b. 1924)
1991 – Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
1991 – Art Sansom, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
1992 – Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b. 1921)
1993 – Bona Arsenault, French-Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
1994 – Joey Marella, American wrestling referee (b. 1964)
1995 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
1995 – Bob Ross, American painter (b. 1942)
1997 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (b. 1934)
1997 – John Zachary Young, British zoologist (b. 1907)
1999 – Leo Garel, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
2000 – Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish writer (b. 1919)
2001 – Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (b. 1974)
2002 – Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1919)
2002 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American Air Force general (b. 1912)
2002 – Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2002 – Winnifred Quick, American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
2003 – André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
2003 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1944)
2003 – Larry Burkett, American author and radio host (b. 1939)
2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
2004 – Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), English street entertainer (b. 1932)
2005 – Cliff Goupille, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1915)
2005 – Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1979)
2007 – Bill Pinkney, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1925)
2008 – Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
2008 – Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
2008 – Terrence Kiel, American football player (b. 1980)
2008 – Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
2009 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
2009 – Allen Klein, American businessman and talent agent (b. 1931)
2009 – Drake Levin, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders) (b. 1946)
2009 – Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
2009 – Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
2009 – Jim Chapin, American drummer (b. 1919)
2010 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (b. 1927)
2010 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
2011 – Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-Hungarian prince (b. 1912)
2012 – Scamper, American rodeo horse (b. 1977)
2012 – Peter Bennett, Australian footballer (b. 1926)
2012 – Hiren Bhattacharyya, Indian poet (b. 1932)
2012 – Jimmy Bivins, American boxer (b. 1919)
2012 – Vinzenz Guggenberger, German bishop (b. 1929)
2012 – Jeong Min-Hyeong, South Korean footballer (b. 1987)
2012 – Eric Sykes, English actor, writer, and director (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances[edit]

Christian Feast Day:
- Andrew of Crete
- Bertha of Artois
- Blessed Catherine Jarrige
- Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
- Elizabeth of Portugal, patron saint of Coimbra (city holiday), known there as Rainha Santa Isabela.
- Oda of Canterbury
- Ulrich of Augsburg
- July 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Independence Day, celebrates the Declaration of Independence of the United States from Great Britain in 1776. (United States and its dependencies)
Liberation Day (Rwanda)
Liberation Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
Republic Day (Philippines)

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