It is now apparent Rudd may not hold his own seat. His unpopularity is not because he is unpopular, but because he has no policy of substance. He is running a negative campaign, accusing his opponent of responsible cuts .. something Rudd's party would never do. But Rudd has suspended the campaign to dither over the use of chemical weapons in Syria along with Obama.
Meanwhile Egypt fragments. Palestinian/Jordanians gloat that they won't come to an agreement with Israel, but have exacted concessions with Obama's patronage. Some are calling for Obama to be impeached, but the charge remains unclear.
1857 – The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severe recession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail.
1892 – Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds, opened.
1941 – Adolf Hitler ordered the official termination of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of the war.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union redefined the term "planet", reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet since it has not "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit. English hold the fort. Life insurance is not FREE money. The ground is ready. The order has been rescinded and all that is left is a dwarf planet. Sometimes you just gotta take stock.
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Labor’s PNG “solution” falls apart
Miranda Devine – Saturday, August 24, 2013 (1:21pm)
PAPUA New Guinea has suspended discussions with Australia on the resettlement of refugees, as its most senior immigration official complains of a “lack of consultation”, “confusion” and “disharmony”.
Read the letter from PNG’s chief migration officer Mataio Rabura:
Read the letter from PNG’s chief migration officer Mataio Rabura:
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KEVNI CONCERNED
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 24, 2013 (4:06pm)
Nothing that Kevin Rudd says or does about Syria will make the slightest difference, but it’s a good excuse for a self-importance break (and injury repair):
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will take a break in his election campaigning to return to Canberra for a briefing on the crisis in Syria.He said he had “grave concerns” about the crisis in Syria and will go to Canberra today to be briefed with national security officials.“I will work with officials on any possible and appropriate Australian response, depending on the nature of the brief concerned,” Mr Rudd said.“We are still establishing the facts. We have, together with the United States, grave concerns.“The government has been watching carefully, including with our allied United States.“We have noted carefully what President Obama has said.”
Stay on the case, Kevni. The world is counting on you. Meanwhile, the PM survives a local conflict:
Note the Prime Ministerial claw.
Note the Prime Ministerial claw.
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HASAN CHOPPED
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 24, 2013 (4:02pm)
Timid media outlets did their best to defend Fort Hood jihadist Major Nidal Hasan, but a jury is less forgiving:
The US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 comrades at a Texas Army base in 2009 has been convicted of all charges.Maj Nidal Hasan faces the death penalty after being found guilty of 13 counts of pre-meditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder …The 13-member panel must come to a unanimous agreement in order to recommend that the judge sentence Maj Hasan to death. If they do not agree, he will face a life prison sentence …Soldiers and civilians testified that they heard a man wearing Army camouflage scream an Islamic benediction before opening fire with two handguns.
Summary from Eric Golub:
Hasan was the triggerman, but he had political enablers. If leftists want to stop being accused of coddling Islamists, then they should stop coddling Islamists. Refusing to honestly label events is making excuses.A guilty verdict is not a victory for the system. Victory was gone the moment these murders happened.If the left truly wants to make a difference, they should start by acknowledging that radical Islam was the direct cause of the Fort Hood murders. After admitting that radical Islam exists, the military should be allowed to treat future Hasans as terrorists, not criminals. This is not a law enforcement matter.In other words, the left will have to change everything they believe on this issue, because what they believe on this issue has been thoroughly discredited.
Quite so.
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DECADES REMOVED
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 24, 2013 (3:55pm)
As we’ve already seen, running as a Labor candidate takes years off your appearance. The latest to dip into the ALP’s fountain of youth is Wentworth’s Di Smith, shown at left during a recent candidates’ forum, and at right in her campaign poster:
(Via Nic P)
(Via Nic P)
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SWAMPIES SOD OFF
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 24, 2013 (2:24pm)
British anti-progress demonstrators flee their woodland base:
There were fewer than 100 protesters left tonight at a potential fracking site as they finally admitted defeat to the police.More than 1,200 activists had brought exploratory shale gas drilling to a halt on the edge of the village of Balcombe, West Sussex, at the weekend.But after officers from more than 10 police forces pushed back campaigners from the site’s entrance allowing lorries to enter on Monday, they left in their droves …Some people who had set up camping areas on footpaths around the drill were evicted by police officers without a fuss. Their only resistance was walking slowly in front of a lorry while chanting.
Pity the driver. Imagine being stuck behind a slow-moving wall of forest-seasoned swampies. Talk about your dangerous fumes ...
UPDATE. A related rural development.
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CAMPAIGN ADVICE
Tim Blair – Friday, August 23, 2013 (6:55pm)
If you don’t like being compared to people wearing World War II military costumes, it’s probably a good idea not to pose before a wall covered with images of Hitler, Mussolini and Rommel.
UPDATE. Rudd’s blunder wins attention in the UK:
The posters of dictators and other Second World War leaders were part of the school’s project on war history but were evidently not spotted in time by Mr Rudd’s advance campaign team.“Don’t mention ze poster,” declared the headline at news.com.au, while the Sydney Morning Herald said: “It was the sort of disastrous photo opportunity that political advance parties are supposed to do everything to avoid”.The somewhat ominous backdrop came at an unfortunate time for Mr Rudd, who has long faced concerns about his own dictatorial leadership style and fiery temper.
(Via CL and the Nigerian Daily News)
UPDATE III. Kevin Rudd and his staff seem to have communication problems.
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How to make old Labor seem new again
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (4:12pm)
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Cut it out
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (1:38pm)
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Tony Abbott on The Bolt Report tomorrow
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (9:24am)
On The Bolt Report on Channel 10:
Tony Abbott reflects - on his journey to become what the polls tip to be our next Prime Minister, and what he hopes will be his legacy.
Former Treasurer Peter Costello and former Labor MP Belinda Neal.
Plus the most stupid thing yet said in the election campaign.
On Sunday at 10am and 4pm.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
Tony Abbott reflects - on his journey to become what the polls tip to be our next Prime Minister, and what he hopes will be his legacy.
Former Treasurer Peter Costello and former Labor MP Belinda Neal.
Plus the most stupid thing yet said in the election campaign.
On Sunday at 10am and 4pm.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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Abbott will be PM. Second poll agrees Rudd could lose seat
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (9:23am)
The only question now is how bad Labor’s loss will be, with Kevin Rudd such damaged good that even he could now lose his seat:
Liberal strategists had trouble believing a Lonergan poll this week showing Kevin Rudd trailing 48 to 52 per cent in his own seat. Now a Newspoll confirms it:
Queensland has turned against not just Rudd but his captain’s pick, Peter Beattie, and Labor looks unable to pick up a single seat in a state where it needed half a dozen:
UPDATE
Labor could lose four more seats in Tasmania:
But there are still two weeks to go ... for Rudd to make it even worse.
UPDATE
If Rudd and his supporters had kept a level head - realising his job was simply to minimise losses, not win the election - there would be less stress and disillusion. There would probably be fewer stories of backbiting, too:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
With only a fortnight to go in the five-week election campaign, the latest Fairfax-Nielsen poll shows Mr Abbott’s Liberal-Nationals Coalition extending its lead over Labor, to be 53-47 on a two-party-preferred basis…UPDATE
On the question of preferred prime minister, Mr Rudd’s commanding 14-point lead of 55-41 in July has been reduced to a statistically insignificant 3 points on 48-45.
Liberal strategists had trouble believing a Lonergan poll this week showing Kevin Rudd trailing 48 to 52 per cent in his own seat. Now a Newspoll confirms it:
The Liberals are considering a plan to now swamp Griffith with volunteers to makes sure Rudd is gone:
The Coalition candidate in the Prime Minister’s seat, Bill Glasson, has also had a huge lift in primary vote support - up 12 percentage points since the election in 2010 - and leads Mr Rudd on a two-party-preferred basis by 52 per cent to 48 per cent.
LNP workers would be sent into Griffith, where ophthalmologist and former AMA head Bill Glasson is the party’s candidate, from safer seats such as Moncrieff, McPherson, Fadden, Ryan and Groom.UPDATE
“Our people hate Kevin Rudd - in the same way Labor hated John Howard,’’ one senior Liberal said.
“And everyone wants a little bit of Kevin’s death.’’…
Kevin Rudd now holds the seat by more than 8 per cent. If that falls to 3 per cent, it will be considered “in play’’…
Inside LNP headquarters, the plan has been developing over the past 10 days… Behind closed doors, a marginal seat campaign was being drawn up “to play with Rudd’s head’’, and by Thursday polling was under way.
Today or tomorrow, a decision will be made on how much the political assault is worth.
Queensland has turned against not just Rudd but his captain’s pick, Peter Beattie, and Labor looks unable to pick up a single seat in a state where it needed half a dozen:
According to the Newspoll survey of marginal Coalition seats in Queensland, Labor’s primary vote has dropped from 36.5 per cent at the 2010 election under Julia Gillard to 32 per cent…With margins like that, Labor could actually lose seats in Queensland.
On a two-party-preferred basis, using preference flows at the 2010 election, the Coalition leads Labor 60 per cent to 40 per cent across the group of Brisbane, Forde, Longman, Herbert, Dawson, Bonner, Flynn and the now independent-held Fisher…
Former Labor premier Peter Beattie was brought out of political retirement to try to win Forde… LNP MP Bert Van Manen ... (leads) Labor’s star recruit, Peter Beattie, 54 per cent to 46 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis...
UPDATE
Labor could lose four more seats in Tasmania:
ReachTel polling for the Hobart Mercury newspaper on Thursday shows all Tasmanian Labor MPs could lose their seats with swings of up to 18 per cent.Labor is now dangerously close to losing so badly it would be down to 55 seats against 94 for the Coalition (with Independent Andrew Wilkie keeping Denison). Rudd’s return would have saved perhaps between five and 10 Labor MPs.
The polling suggests Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie will hold his seat of Denison, but the only Labor MP with a chance of holding on is Julie Collins, in Franklin, where she trails Liberal candidate Bernadette Black by 49.4 per cent to 50.6 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis. In Lyons, Bass and Braddon, Labor MPs are behind on second preferences by 12-16 percentage points.
But there are still two weeks to go ... for Rudd to make it even worse.
UPDATE
If Rudd and his supporters had kept a level head - realising his job was simply to minimise losses, not win the election - there would be less stress and disillusion. There would probably be fewer stories of backbiting, too:
LABOR MPs are losing hope that Kevin Rudd can deliver them victory at the September 7 election and are digging in to fortify their own seats in face of opinion polls showing the campaign is going against the government.But that was all that Rudd was brought back to do. As I said on Channel 10 Brisbane yesterday, by this measure you cannot say Rudd has failed. Yet.
One MP told The Weekend Australian that the Prime Minister on the hustings was “not Kevin07”.
“He’s been off the paddock for too long and he’s not match fit,” the MP said.
There is also anger being directed at Mr Rudd’s election strategist Bruce Hawker over the direction of the campaign… There is a sense among some MPs that things are being made up “on the run” on the plane…
(A)n MP said the fall in Mr Rudd’s approval ratings and the rise in Mr Abbott’s approval ratings since the election was called was a direct result of voters judging Mr Rudd’s underperformance in the first two weeks of the campaign.
But despite an avalanche of poor opinion-poll results, MPs said they were polling better than when Julia Gillard was prime minister.
“The only saving grace (is) he will save the furniture. We’ll be within striking distance to win the next election,” one MP said.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
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No, Laurie, that’s not a turning point but another dead end
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (9:09am)
Laurie Oakes has hailed so many turning points and circuit breakers in Labor’s fading fortunes, with no luck.
Now he detects yet another:
As for the parental leave scheme, Oakes is right to say lots of people think it a dog. I sure do.
But it is no way is a deal breaker - and not just because it’s been put off until 2015. Those of us worried about unaffordable government spending are hardly likely to vote Labor instead. Moreover, Labor’s attack on a free-spending Abbott jars with its claim that Abbott will cut, cut, cut.
UPDATE
The ABC’s Latika Bourke is “worrying” that Labor’s “persuasive” argument for re-election is not being heard:
This attitude is rooted in the arrogant self-delusion of so many of the Left - that voters are largely stupid people who would voted Labor if only rotten people didn’t stop the message getting through to them. Rotten people like Murdoch, Rudd, “shock jocks”, me, Big Carbon, Big Tobacco, Big Mining, Gina Rinehart…
A lot of people in Labor need to get over themselves and treat voters with respect.
(Thanks to reader Ian.)
Now he detects yet another:
THERE’S been plenty of worrying news for Kevin Rudd from public opinion polls in recent days, but one bright spot has emerged from the Labor Party’s own internal research.Small problem. There is no sign that this “biting” campaign has done anything but accelerate Labor’s fall. Yes, some people worry about the cuts we actually must make - but the scare campaign comes at the cost of making Labor seem bankrupt of any positive vision. It also reminds us who got us into this financial mess in the first place with its mad spending.
It indicates that Labor is getting some traction from the scare campaign alleging that a Coalition government would engage in massive spending cuts to pay for its policies.
It suggests even more strongly that attacks on Tony Abbott’s gold-plated paid parental leave scheme - six months on full pay to women earning up to $150,000 a year - are biting. Hard.
As for the parental leave scheme, Oakes is right to say lots of people think it a dog. I sure do.
But it is no way is a deal breaker - and not just because it’s been put off until 2015. Those of us worried about unaffordable government spending are hardly likely to vote Labor instead. Moreover, Labor’s attack on a free-spending Abbott jars with its claim that Abbott will cut, cut, cut.
UPDATE
The ABC’s Latika Bourke is “worrying” that Labor’s “persuasive” argument for re-election is not being heard:
Kevin Rudd probably has just a few days left to save his election campaign, but there are worrying signs his strategy lacks what is needed to resurrect Labor’s chances…It’s not remarkable at all, of course, that ABC journalists prefer Labor to Liberal. But when will they and Labor accept that Labor’s problem isn’t that voters can’t hear its message but they reject it? Didn’t we go through this farce with Gillard, with journalists agreeing her real problem was just that she wasn’t getting “clear air” to sell whatever garbage she was selling?
After the past six years, the question for voters is why this Government deserves another chance. Labor thus far has failed to provide a persuasive answer, even though it has one.
This attitude is rooted in the arrogant self-delusion of so many of the Left - that voters are largely stupid people who would voted Labor if only rotten people didn’t stop the message getting through to them. Rotten people like Murdoch, Rudd, “shock jocks”, me, Big Carbon, Big Tobacco, Big Mining, Gina Rinehart…
A lot of people in Labor need to get over themselves and treat voters with respect.
(Thanks to reader Ian.)
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Labor has own disability: reckless spending on logos
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (9:05am)
Labor’s spending on mere spin has been a scandal:
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
THE logo for the national disability insurance scheme’s rebranded name - DisabilityCare Australia - cost taxpayers $130,000...We can’t be sure at all that such waste wouldn’t also occur under a Liberal Government. But surely the Liberals couldn’t be this bad.
The government quietly announced the name change in March, burying it in a press statement about playgroups… The government spent $22 million on an advertising campaign for DisabilityCare ahead of the opening of launch sites last month.
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
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Warmer winters save lives. Bring on global warming
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (8:59am)
If only the world would warm again, more lives would be saved:
(Thanks to reader Mick.)
Undertakers are blaming an unseasonably mild winter for a major slump in business.Truth is, the global warming scare is more likely to kill people than is global warming itself.
Morticians have reported a significant drop in the number of funerals, with fewer people dying from seasonal diseases such as influenza.
Warwick Hansen, a former New South Wales president of the Australian Funeral Directors’ Association, says it has been a tough few months for the industry…
“It’s widespread, it’s not just a matter that it’s Sydney only or Perth or Brisbane. It’s across the country.
“The other good thing is influenza hasn’t been such an issue this year.”
(Thanks to reader Mick.)
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Downfall: Rudd’s campaign has disaster day, starting with epic spray
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (8:50am)
A second poll confirms Kevin Rudd could lose his own seat as Labor heads for a landslide defeat.
But you didn’t need polls yesterday to show Rudd’s campaign was in freefall. He yesterday had a day from campaigning hell, starting with an epic spray from a worker when he visited the Sydney Markets:
UPDATE
Jason Morrison interviews the student Rudd brushed off.
UPDATE
The TV news reports were devastating.
(Thanks to readers Doh, Wokka and John.)
But you didn’t need polls yesterday to show Rudd’s campaign was in freefall. He yesterday had a day from campaigning hell, starting with an epic spray from a worker when he visited the Sydney Markets:
All in all, a day of campaigning disaster:
He was heckled at the Sydney Markets at Flemington at dawn, abused when he sat down for morning coffee in Toongabbie and lectured in a Penrith shopping centre about wasting money.
The smell of death.
The Prime Minister was touring a school in Sydney’s west when he was invited into a classroom to chat to legal studies students, oblivious that the wall behind him was plastered with large posters of dictators including Hitler and Benito Mussolini…
Earlier, ... a university student who attempted to ask the PM says she was “very offended” when Mr Rudd instead asked for questions from “working journalists”.
(Listen to Rudd’s brush-off here.)
Katrina, who declined to give her last name, said Mr Rudd’s staff had ... encouraged her to ask a question about university funding cuts and campus strikes…
Mr Rudd began his western Sydney tour with a 5am visit to Sydney’s Flemington Markets in the Labor-held seat of Reid.
While one worker offered the prime minister free produce, others yelled for him to “get out” or simply ignored his presence as they scrambled to unpack their produce ahead of the morning sales…
The streets of Toongabbie in the electorate of Greenway were deserted when Mr Rudd later turned up at 8am, except for a handful of people at a small cafe and former NSW premier Nathan Rees....
At the press conference, Mr Rudd stumbled to respond to a question over why he had a bandaid on his knuckle.
“No, I wasn’t involved in any fisticuffs,” he said…
His political director Bruce Hawker claimed the injury was as a result of “hundreds of handshakes”, while one of his advisers declined to comment.
UPDATE
Jason Morrison interviews the student Rudd brushed off.
UPDATE
The TV news reports were devastating.
(Thanks to readers Doh, Wokka and John.)
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PNG suspends talks on Rudd’s boat people “fix”
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (7:48am)
Kevin Rudd’s new plan
to stop boat people - claiming he’d send them all to Papua New Guinea -
was already being swamped. Just 382 of the 2883 boat people have since
been sent to Manus Island, making Rudd’s “fix” only 13 per cent
successful.
And now it could flop completely:
Rudd says the correspondence is a week old and the issues have since been sorted out.
And now it could flop completely:
PAPUA New Guinea has suspended discussions with Australia on the resettlement of refugees, as its most senior immigration official warned that serious breaches of the asylum-seeker undertakings could “jeopardise implementation” of Kevin Rudd’s offshore solution…UPDATE
The PNG government has also warned the Australian government of new opposition to the reopening of the Manus Island regional processing centre, serious concerns from PNG companies and a lack of consultation that could threaten progress with the extension of the centre to house 3000 asylum-seekers.
In a confidential letter obtained by The Weekend Australian, PNG’s chief migration officer Mataio Rabura told Australia’s Department of Immigration and Customs that Australian access to the building site at Manus and discussions on resettlement had been suspended. Mr Rabura complained about Australian officials not consulting him; tenders for work only being advertised in Australia, effectively delivering a snub to the PNG Defence Force that “can put up tents”; PNG companies not receiving the business suggested by Mr Rudd and PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill; and hasty decision-making.
He described the situation as one that could “jeopardise implementation of the agreement reached by our two prime ministers”.
Rudd says the correspondence is a week old and the issues have since been sorted out.
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Abbott is right: Gillard trashed debate with hate. UPDATE: And here comes Keating, on cue
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (7:38am)
I couldn’t agree with Abbott more on this point - although I would not accuse Rudd of demeaning debate as Gillard did:
But this election campaign, like the last week, exposes the weakness of Labor’s strategy of demonising Abbott. Suddenly the spotlight goes on Abbott himself, and not just the Government’s caricature of him, and he can speak for himself. That’s when voters can see that the monster they were told about is actually a pretty decent man.
UPDATE
Right on cue, cloth-eared Bill Shorten drags out a former Prime Hater to show how to thrill the haters on your side while making enemies of everyone else:
That might work in war, but politics is actually the art of seduction. Keating is luring Labor to its own destruction with the one passion that seems to animate his shriveled heart.
UPDATE
Paul Kelly on the Prime Minister we will get:
PS:
Abbott, the leader of a party with “no heart”, has for years served as a volunteer in his rural fire service, as well as helping out as a life-saver and teacher in Aboriginal communities. What voluntary work has Keating ever done for others?
If you were in strife and needed help or just comfort, who would you turn to: Keating or Abbott?
UPDATE
Leading the polls, Abbott can now afford to switch to nice:
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has accused former prime minister Julia Gillard of undermining political standards ...As I argued this week, Labor and many journalists let themselves get flushed down the social media sewer. They thought hate - the currency of Twitter - sells.
While both sides of politics had used aggressive tactics during the three years of minority government, both Ms Gillard and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd were primarily to blame for ‘’demeaning’’ the conduct of national politics, he said.
‘’The problem with the Parliament at the moment is that almost nothing is ever said which isn’t basically crude political head-banging,’’ he said… ‘’Both sides are guilty but I think that as prime minister Gillard was particularly bad at it.’’…
‘’I don’t want to be too sanctimonious about this given the pressure she was under, but it is demeaning to our polity and dispiriting to our people when there is no assumption of good faith, no benefit of the doubt given...’’
The assault on his character launched with a speech in Parliament last October in which Ms Gillard branded him a misogynist was ‘’completely invalid and unfair’’, he said. ‘’You go into this business and you’ve got to take your lumps, but I certainly thought the then prime minister went right over the top. It may may have been a coup de theatre … I didn’t think it was and none of the news reports that night thought it was, but subsequently it was said to have been one because it allegedly went viral overseas. I don’t study the internet enough to know whether it did. But that certainly, I thought, was unfair and over the top.’’
But this election campaign, like the last week, exposes the weakness of Labor’s strategy of demonising Abbott. Suddenly the spotlight goes on Abbott himself, and not just the Government’s caricature of him, and he can speak for himself. That’s when voters can see that the monster they were told about is actually a pretty decent man.
UPDATE
Right on cue, cloth-eared Bill Shorten drags out a former Prime Hater to show how to thrill the haters on your side while making enemies of everyone else:
FORMER prime minister Paul Keating has accused the Liberals of being “mean little people’’ ... [while] launching the campaign of Labor minister Bill Shorten in his Melbourne seat of Maribyrnong on Friday, to rousing applause from party faithful…Yes, this kind of hate-mongering thrills the tribe. But it inspires everyone outside that tribe not to join but fight back against something that has announced it is their enemy.
“The others [Liberals] never do these things. They’re always mean. Mean little people… No imagination, no bigness and no heart...”
That might work in war, but politics is actually the art of seduction. Keating is luring Labor to its own destruction with the one passion that seems to animate his shriveled heart.
UPDATE
Paul Kelly on the Prime Minister we will get:
Abbott’s guiding stars in office are as follows: a determination to keep election commitments and shun initiatives where he lacks a mandate (the carbon tax and Work Choices lesson); an operating approach based on consultation, dialogue and consensus; a reliance upon major inquiries into spending, tax, federalism, industrial relations and competition policy to establish the policy and political pathway for reform; an approach that seeks, at each point, to link any economic reform with its social dividend, the main evidence being his focus on greater workforce participation as the desirable end from his family, indigenous and welfare policies; a pragmatic, non-ideological approach to budget and fiscal policy that will shun austerity; and an emphasis on stability, consistency and reliability in office.
Abbott’s economic team now looks along these lines: Joe Hockey as treasurer, Andrew Robb as trade and investment minister, Arthur Sinodinos likely to be finance minister. It is a stronger team than in opposition.
PS:
Abbott, the leader of a party with “no heart”, has for years served as a volunteer in his rural fire service, as well as helping out as a life-saver and teacher in Aboriginal communities. What voluntary work has Keating ever done for others?
If you were in strife and needed help or just comfort, who would you turn to: Keating or Abbott?
UPDATE
Leading the polls, Abbott can now afford to switch to nice:
TONY Abbott will urge an “end to the division” in politics and offer a sense of unity and reconciliation at tomorrow’s Liberal Party campaign launch as part of the final strategic shift from “Dr No”.I’ve long believed Australians are hungry for this message. Rudd on his return briefly tried to push it but then panicked and hit the negative button.
The Liberals intend to use the Opposition Leader’s Brisbane speech to build momentum in the final two weeks of campaigning and back it with a blitz of mostly positive advertising.
Mr Abbott is expected to appeal to mainstream Australia, calling for unity and an end to divisions that the Liberals claim Labor has set up between workers and employers, the rich and the poor, foreign workers and Australians, and between the eastern seaboard states and Western Australia.
Returning to themes from earlier in the election campaign, Mr Abbott will appeal to Australia to “harness” the benefits of having a diverse multicultural society and commit to lifting the living standards of indigenous Australia.
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Gerard’s dog barks
Andrew Bolt August 24 2013 (5:13am)
Lots of good reading in Gerard Henderson’s latest Media Watch Dog, including:
- a brisk reminder to the head of the Anything But Conservative that non-ABC journalists and even non-journalists can ask excellent questions at leaders’ debates, and there is a perfectly good reason why conservative politicians think they are wasting their time coming on some ABC shows.
- an entertaining read of a dustup with David Marr over some important errors involving a wall.
- a note on the political home now of Malcolm Fraser, and the polical skew of writers festival tribalists:
- a brisk reminder to the head of the Anything But Conservative that non-ABC journalists and even non-journalists can ask excellent questions at leaders’ debates, and there is a perfectly good reason why conservative politicians think they are wasting their time coming on some ABC shows.
- an entertaining read of a dustup with David Marr over some important errors involving a wall.
- a note on the political home now of Malcolm Fraser, and the polical skew of writers festival tribalists:
So there you have it. According to opinion polls, the Greens will record a primary vote of around 10 per cent at the election on 7 September. Yet, according to Jane Sullivan, a clear majority of the audience which heard Malcolm Fraser at Bendigo were Greens voters with the many of the rest undecided.
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Nielsen poll: Labor down, 47 to 53
Andrew Bolt August 23 2013 (6:15pm)
Tomorrow’s Nielsen poll has Labor slipping, too - to 47 per cent to 53 after preferences.
Channel 9’s news report tonight was devastating, showing people heckling a clearly stressed Kevin Rudd while a cheery Tony Abbott exercised with soldiers and announced a new assault on people smugglers. The report even flashed to a wall next to Rudd showing posters of Hitler and Stalin and wondering if here was one more leader facing his downfall.
This could get really ugly.
Channel 9’s news report tonight was devastating, showing people heckling a clearly stressed Kevin Rudd while a cheery Tony Abbott exercised with soldiers and announced a new assault on people smugglers. The report even flashed to a wall next to Rudd showing posters of Hitler and Stalin and wondering if here was one more leader facing his downfall.
This could get really ugly.
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Pastor Rick Warren
You have 3 choices when bad things happen to you: You can let it destroy you, you can let it define you, or you can let it develop you.
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Pastor Rick Warren
Adversity can build your character. Prosperity can destroy it. The effect of either is due to how you handle it.
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Pastor Rick Warren
Faith is learned in the moments you're unable to see where you're headed. http://bit.ly/HnE6ib
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
If God is for us, who can be against us?(Romans 8:31, NIV)
Don't let your heredity stop your destiny. Don't let the way somebody treated you, or what they did or didn't give you keep you from pressing forward and becoming all that God has created you to be. The people who raised you may have had addictions, but that doesn't have to be your future. You can be the one to break that negative cycle. Your parents may have had anger issues or never amounted to much, but you don't have to keep letting that curse be passed from generation to generation. You can be the one to say, No more. This is a new day.I may have had an unfair past, but I'm not going to have an unfair future. I know that God will put a blessing on me before anybody could put a curse, and I'm not going to let my heredity stop my destiny.
When you choose to put Him first place in your life, then nothing can stop your destiny. Seek Him with a humble heart and break free from the bondages of the past.God bless you.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust.(Psalm 91:2)
Your words have tremendous power. No matter what you may be facing today, the words of your mouth can help set the course for your victory or set the course for defeat. You decide by what you say. When you wake up with an attitude of faith and expectancy and declare God’s Word, you will be strengthened and empowered by His Spirit. But at the same time, if you go around talking about your problems or talking about defeat, it drains your faith and sets your focus in the wrong direction.
Today,Declare His Word. Declare that He is for you. Keep the weeds out of your heart by letting go of bitterness and choosing to forgive. Stay in step with God with your words and actions and receive His strength and power to be all that He has called you to be.God bless you.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Father,I thank You for Your Word which is refreshing water to my soul. I choose today to say what You say. I choose to meditate on Your Word. Keep me close to You always in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Korean engineers invented an all-electric car that can fold itself in half. The researchers based the design of the car on the armadillo, a South American mammal with an armour shell that rolls up into a ball when it senses danger. The car, known as Armadillo-T, tucks its rear body away, shrinking its original size of 2.8 metres to 1.65 metres, and it could be the perfect solution for city dwellers who need to park in small spaces.
Read more and watch a video:http://bit.ly/1d9F2Xy via Phys.org
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Positive Mind Flow II Life Coaching with Aprille Lim
Life is wonderful when you let it be! Had such a great day! Met all our fams from Sailor Moon, will be filming a new show in a few months, got a job as a lawyer and the sun has come out to play! When you love life! Life will love you back! Hope everyone has an amazing weekend! Xxx
Aprille Lim
Thank you so much to all our Sailor Moon DMC fans! It was so much fun chatting to all of you during the livestream today! Stay tuned! PART 2 IS EPIC!!! Xxxxx
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Is it really a No Win Scenario? Find out here:http://bit.ly/14MlK2d
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Six-layer rainbow M&M'S cake. Who'd like a slice?
Incredible baking skills, Shayne.
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Su Blu
Tonight. 8:40PM. Me. On stage. Playings songs. Again. At the Town Hall Hotel Newtown. Come!
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Gamers Akihabara and Animate to hold Hyperdimension Neptunia museum -http://bit.ly/15fzTZ8
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Guilty of being Jewish? - ed
Clutching the bars of the defendant’s cage, Ilya Farber assumes the posture of a crucifix as he proclaims his innocence and pleads for freedom with characteristic thespian flare.
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While throwing Molotov cocktails at passing Israeli cars driving on the Nachliel road, near the Arab village of Dir Nizzam, Arab terrorists ignited a forest fire near Neve Tsuf, in Israel’s Benyamin region. Volunteers quickly arrived on the scene and began to extinguish the blaze, amid fears that the flames would spread to nearby homes. The volunteers were soon joined by firefighters. No injuries were reported, but significant damage was caused to the area’s greenery.
Security forces searched for the attackers and found remnants of more Molotov cocktails, but no arrests were made.
A spokesperson for the Benyamin region Fire Department told Tazpit News Agency that three teams were required to gain full control of the fire.
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<Even Fairfax journalists are now asking: "will this guy ever shut up!
Judith Ireland writes: "In trying to dominate the nightly news bulletins, the Prime Minister is talking for longer than the news itself.">
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Eat the pie, before it eats your soul. Cthulhu pie:http://j.mp/140yYXT
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The World Jewish Congress urges Ukrainian clergy to refrain from attending neo-Nazi events...
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We are out in force in marginal electorates across WA today. Join the team at http://
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TONIGHT on Fox Files: Oliver North travels to Afghanistan to interview General Joseph Dunford, the man tasked with ending the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan. He also interviews Dunford's wife, Ellyn, about their family’s long tradition of service to our nation. Watch tonight at 9p ET and Sunday at 9p ET.
Check out a preview of the other stories on Fox Files tonight: http://tinyurl.com/kuo4f29
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You can slip on your way up, at the top, or coming off a high point. "Look carefully then, at how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise." Eph. 5:15 (ESV)
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Roger Franklin was interviewed by that excellent young commentator Michael McLaren on radio station 2GB and over the Macquarie Network. Michael is one of the very smart up-and-coming voices in the media for well worth paying attention to. Here's the interview>
http://www.2gb.com/article/lies-damn-lies-and-labor-advertising#.UhgBodZ-85s
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2013/08/labor-casts-a-misleading-ad-campaign
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Do you have your Wirra sign up yet??? Can you find a Wirra banner somewhere? Take a photo and send it through!!!! #voteWirra #teamWirra
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The Greens supported the means testing of the private health insurance rebate, driving many young Australians out of private health and increasing the costs for millions of others. Help stop the Greens http://ow.ly/nCMYg
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Pastor Rick Warren
She's the mother of a family of spiritual redwoods. Amazing faith. Boundless compassion. Brilliant communicator. I am still hopelessly in love with her.
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<Is it time for states to call for a Constitutional Convention to limit the Federal Government?
One Senator thinks that time has come...>
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Pastor Rick Warren
My #LifeCalling is Ezekiel 34:16
"I will search for the lost, bring back those who stray, bandage the hurting, and make the weak strong"
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This from Rudd, currently making Defence Personnel drag dead
bodies out of the ocean because of his failed policies. His troops are right now
risking their lives on the front line in Afghanistan.
I served like many others for more than 20 years, in fact 24 years, and
whilst serving I was proud of the job we did. Possibly the best years of
my life were given to the cause. I now feel very guilty for what I made
my family endure.
Because of my career and postings my wife and family were dragged for more
than 21 years from not only all over Australia but also overseas. My
eldest daughter was forced to attended 10 different schools during her
education. My wife, forced to change employment 9 times again because of
my career and at one point was not allowed to work for 4 years because of
an overseas posting.
I spent more than 11 years of my career at sea away and out of touch from
my family. This we endured as it was what I had signed up for. The one
shining light (or carrot ) that was always held out to us was that our
military super would compensate for the hardships.
On retirement a lot of members find it difficult to find employment as
there is not a lot of calling for, in my case a Weapons Engineer or at
worse if you are an infantry man or bosuns mate.
For me, I had a very supportive wife and we were able to make a career for
ourselves after the Navy in our own business that led to a lucrative
contract as a Team Manager of a large V8 Supercar team. I was certainly
was one of the lucky ones. Not all have been as fortunate and many are
struggling to keep their head above water (and that isn't a pun).
One young widow I recently had contact with is now forced to make do on
only 62% of her partners pension to raise her young daughter.. If she was
Tim Matherson she would be entitled to 89% of a much larger pension that
neither he nor Gillard contributed 1 cent to. We on the other hand were
forced to pay more than 6% of our gross salaries into government revenue
and pay tax on it. Then pay tax on our pension entitlement. The government
Double dipping.
Now that I have retired that super payment has now diminished to less than
the Age pension. This for all the hardships hardly seems fair. Whilst the
history of military super is long and clouded because of smears that both
sides of politics have tried to perpetuate let me just say that those who
served in the Military have been dudded and betrayed. Current members on
the new MSBS scheme are also being conned in the same way and no side of
politics is doing any thing to address it.
Enough is enough. Someone has to stand up for the Military members both
current and retired. Unfortunately our numbers are too small to carry
weight or favour and whilst serving you are gagged.
Just as a side issue to highlight my feelings. My home was broken into a
while back and my medals, including the Conspicuous Service Medal I was
awarded in 1993 were stolen. The Police attended, however they were never
recovered. My kids have been at me to have them replaced. I just don't
have the feeling inside anymore for their worth considering how I, like
many have been treated. I know this may seem strange to some, however as I
said above the feeling of guilt toward my family is real. Maybe in years
to come I may change that attitude.
Thank you Michael for your work,
Regards
Garry
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<Recently a Member of the NSW Legislative Council spoke against the recognition of the Assyrian Genocide. Unfortunately his speech was based on information by professor Jennifer Lawless. A simple Google Search reveals that she leads tours across Gallipoli and that her research is in part funded by the Turkish Government. Similar to what is said in this article:
Professor Colin Tatz is director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
He says most historians agree that genocide did occur.
"It's about 99 to 1. The non-Turkish scholars that she is talking about need to be qualified. Every single one of them have actually been funded by the Turkish government and predictably they have produced a pro-Turkish line. There isn't a single respectable scholar who is accepted in the general profession of history who says it didn't happen.">
Professor Colin Tatz is director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
He says most historians agree that genocide did occur.
"It's about 99 to 1. The non-Turkish scholars that she is talking about need to be qualified. Every single one of them have actually been funded by the Turkish government and predictably they have produced a pro-Turkish line. There isn't a single respectable scholar who is accepted in the general profession of history who says it didn't happen.">
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<On the knifing of Julia Gillard. Reads like a Shakespearean tragedy - except they're all villains.>
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Ram in the Valley of Fire.
This was one of three rams that were grazing towards the end of the day along the rocks. I had just barely started shooting pics of them when two guys showed up in their red convertible and started taking shots with their iPhones, all the while yelling back and forth. Yeah, this critter didn't stick around once all that started... but I got this memento. — at Valley Of Fire Nevada.
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The people are speaking .. traditional ALP supporters have been taken for granted by the ALP - ed
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Aprille Love
Life is wonderful when you let it be! Had such a great day! Met all our fans from Sailor Moon, got confirmation that I will be filming a new show in a few months, got a job as a lawyer and the sun has come out to play! When you love life! Life will love you back! Hope everyone has an amazing weekend! Xxx
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
There's no safety outside of God.
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Below is the final episode of the Tribal Update, Latma's flagship satirical newscast. We launched the show 4 years ago. During this period, we produced more than 200 shows. It is a production record without peer in Israeli television history.
Over the past three years, we have been in on again, off again negotiations with Israel public television Channel 1 to produce the show as the station's prime time satire show. Over the past year, those negotiations intensified and the leaders of the station made me believe that the production contract was on its way. In anticipation of moving to a half hour television format, we expanded our internet crew, This raised our costs tremendously. Based on what I was told by the Channel 1 executives, I told our wonderful donors that it would just be a matter of months until Channel 1 picked up the reins and funded the show.
But then everything fell apart. Netanyahu's appointed Chairman of Israel Broadcasting Authority Amir Gilat decided he didn't want us on television after all. He wanted to produce a historical documentary, and wanted the money earmarked for Latma. So after making groundless accusations against us in the media he convened the content committee of Channel 1 and cancelled the contract - which I never received anyway and transferred the money to his pet production.
Latma cannot afford to maintain The Tribal Update in its current form. We will use our remaining funds to rebuild our core capacities on our website, expanding our commentaries and producing much less expensive short satirical pieces. We will also begin organizing on a financial model of funding through micro-funding and crowd-funding to give ourselves financial stability. This process will take a few months.
Yes, we were lied to, repeatedly. But then again, the treatment we received at the hands of Channel 1 just proves our point. The Israeli media is impossibly post-Zionist. The Tribal Update is without a doubt the best satire show ever produced in this country. And the fact that we cannot get a television contract for our show -- which by all accounts would receive massive rating -- shows the inherent and all-encompassing bias and hatred driving the media elites in this country -- and the cowardice and fecklessness of Likud apparatchiks in the face of this situation.
I will have more to say about our experience once the dust clears, and our plans are set.
In the meantime, enjoy our final show. I will post the show as a separate item when we post it on You Tube.
Below, as always, you can find the link to donate to Latma. Like I said, we are reorganizing. But your financial support for our endeavors remains as vital as it has always been. And I can't tell you how much we appreciate it.
Latma is funded by donations from private individuals who believe that the voice of Zionism must be heard, loud and clear, in Israel and throughout the world. We need your help in order to stay open and continue sounding our voices.
If you are in the United States, Latma is funded by donations to the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Israel Security Project which I direct. If you would like to contribute to our work, which is funded entirely by viewer contributions, please go to this link.
For donations outside the US, here is a link to the donations page for our Israeli non-profit, the Zionist Incubator. You can make credit card donations to Latma by contributing to our non-profit.
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Column One: Resetting US foreign policy
By CAROLINE GLICK
22/08/2013
Never since America’s establishment has the US appeared so untrustworthy, destructive, irrelevant and impotent.http://
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Senior figures in jihadist groups that identify with al-Qaeda are hiding out in the Gaza Strip under the auspices of Hamas, Egyptian sources confirmed to The Times of Israel in a phone call Thursday, noting that their presence in the Palestinian territory was the source of current tensions between Egypt and Hamas.
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Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors, in a facility in the Acre area, came very close to being hit by one of the four Katyusha rockets fired into Israel from southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon.
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There’s supposed to be a news blackout from the reconvened Middle East peace talks going on this week. The Palestinians insisted on that lest their reluctant negotiators be branded as doing something that smacked of legitimizing the Jewish state. But one of their team broke their silence this week in order to complain about the fact that they have been called upon to actually talk one on one with their Israeli counterparts:
“We had an agreement on three-way negotiations. The Americans from the beginning were supposed to be there. I don’t see why the Israelis don’t want the Americans there, as witnesses,” Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, told The Times of Israel. “These are not two-way negotiations,” she added.This would seem to be violation of their undertaking to keep quiet about the talks but Ashrawi had an explanation:“I’m not discussing the details or the facts,” she said. “I’m just telling you it’s the Israelis who don’t want the Americans, even though the Americans are totally biased in favor of Israel.”Asked why she believed the Israelis would request the removal of a party favorable to them, Ashrawi said “they feel they can exploit their power over the Palestinians.”
In saying this, Ashrawi couldn’t have told us more about the negotiations had she produced a transcript. Nor could she have given us a better indication of just how dim the chances of success for this effort are. The Palestinian fear of being trapped in a room with the people they are supposed to be crafting a deal with has nothing to do with fear of Israeli power. It’s all about the fact that the last thing they want is to actually reach an agreement they’d have to justify to a Palestinian people that is still not ready to accept a Jewish state no matter its borders are drawn.
In one sense, Ashrawi’s desire to keep U.S. envoy Martin Indyk in the room is understandable. Contrary to her claim, far from being inclined to bolster the positions of the Netanyahu government, his clear bias is one that that leads him to push for Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians.
But that’s not the real explanation.
It’s not exactly a secret that the ardent desire of Tzipi Livni, the head of the Israeli delegation, is to entice the Palestinians to embrace peace after three times rejecting offers of statehood that would include a share of Jerusalem and almost all of the West Bank. Supposedly that’s exactly what the Palestinians want, although they insist they will never compromise on forcing every Jew out of not only every settlement but the parts of Jerusalem that were illegally occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967. But the continuing stream of invective about Jews and Israel pouring out of the official Palestinian media and the so-called moderates of Fatah makes it hard to believe they are finally ready to take yes for an answer. Since PA leader Mahmoud Abbas seems no more capable or willing to accept the peace that he rejected in 2008 when he fled negotiations with Ehud Olmert convened by then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, his primary fear is not the Israeli intransigence the Jewish state’s critics bewail but that Livni will give him what he says he wants.
The Palestinians never wanted to come back to the table after four years’ absence. But with the U.S. prepared to put the screws to Israel to gratify Secretary of State John Kerry’s desire for the talks, it was impossible for them to say no once the Americans gave them the preconditions they demanded. But that doesn’t mean Abbas wants a happy ending to this negotiation. Not only do the Palestinians want the Americans to do their negotiating for them, but their primary objective is to avoid being trapped in a room with someone like Livni who is obviously desperate to agree to any deal.
While there is no telling for certain what will happen in the upcoming months, this is yet one more indication that the main Palestinian objective in the negotiations is to never be maneuvered into a position where they would have to either say yes to peace or reject it and take the blame. Stay tuned for months of pre-emptive Palestinian efforts to deflect the blame for the futile nature of this fool’s errand that Kerry has embarked upon.
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Egypt today is a zero-sum game. We’d have preferred there be a democratic alternative. Unfortunately, there is none. The choice is binary: the country will be ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood or by the military.
Perhaps it didn’t have to be this way. Perhaps the military should have waited three years for the intensely unpopular Mohamed Morsi to be voted out of office. But Gen.Abdel Fatah al-Sissi seems to have calculated that he didn’t have three years, that by then there would be no elections — as in Gaza, where the Palestinian wing of the Brotherhood, Hamas, elected in 2006, established a one-man-one-vote-one-time dictatorship.
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While Syria took part in three invasions to kill all the jews in israel for the last 60 years, isreal from it's behalf just want to exist in security and even sets up 'field hospital' to treat injured Syrians who come for help as they run away from the massacre. Israel has no interest involving in the syrian civil war yet it does what it always did: Help those who seek help even if they want us all dead and we are proud of doing it.
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...Insidious propaganda had raised this animosity to the status of an obliging sacred duty, a testament to personal/communal integrity, patriotism and spiritual fidelity. The more the Jewish state is reviled, the higher castigator’s reputation rises. Anti-Israel fervor is money in the political bank.
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August 9, 2013 – An Arizona congressman wants the U.S. to triple its funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense program and hopes to see some of the manufacturing occur in Arizona.
U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., is part of a congressional delegation currently in Israel. Barber serves on the House Armed Services Committee.
Barber said in a telephone interview with the Phoenix Business Journal that he would like to see annual U.S. funding for Iron Dome systems go from its current $70 million level up to $220 million. The Pentagon also favors the spending increase, which is being considered by Congress.
Israeli Defense Forces deploy Iron Dome batteries to shoot down rockets and missiles launched by Palestinian insurgents.
The anti-missile defense system is manufactured by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., an arm of the IDF.
Barber hopes increased U.S. financial backing of the Iron Dome will bring about co-manufacturing of the system between the two countries. That could bring some production and contracts to the U.S., including Arizona. Raytheon Co. has its missile division and 10,000 workers in Tucson. Barber’s district includes parts of Tucson as well as Sierra Vista, which is home to the U.S. Army’s Fort Huachuca.
The IDF deployed anti-rocket defenses during last November’s fight with Palestinian insurgents in Gaza. Barber said more battalions could be needed. “We really need to ramp it up,” Barber said.
Barber has been in Israel and the West Bank this week as part of a congressional trip. That has included meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PresidentShimon Peres, as well as Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.
The lawmaker also met with Israeli businesses and technology executives to talk about potential research and development partnerships with the University of Arizona. “We have some ideal facilities,” said Barber. He said Arizona and Israel both have arid climates and grapple with water issues.
Arizona companies exported $133 million worth of goods to Israel last year and $63 million for the first half of 2013, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.
U.S. foreign aid to Israel totals $3.1 billion in the current federal budget, up from $2.6 billion in 2009, according to the U.S. State Department. Most of those funds are related to defense and security. Israel is the top beneficiary of U.S. foreign aid.
This is Barber’s first trip to Israel and he said it has made him more appreciative of the security situation and peace processes. He noted that Israeli children near the border with Gaza play in a fortified indoor playground built to withstand rocket attacks. He also was surprised by the metropolitan, modern and commercial nature of Ramallah.
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Rules when going to a birthday party- do not play in rooms with closed doors, do not accept food/drink from ppl other than host & parents, always make sure you can see mum/dad at all times, touch base with them every 5 mins to make sure mum/dad know EXACTLY where you are, do not under any circumstances leave the party venue, do not eat or drink anything until mum/dad ok it, do not play games that involve pushing/hitting/spitting, take the first item of food you touch, do not be alone with a grown up you don't know/just met, do not go near swimming pools/pets, do not play in grown up bedrooms, do not touch anything that doesn't belong to you, do not play with knives, do not run with sticks, do not leave anyone out of games and remember to HAVE FUN! - the grilling i put my kids through before going to any birthday party
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<Love it how those invented "misogyny" and #sexappeal furores about Abbott and left-wing smirks and backslapping have all blown up in their faces. Wonderful.>
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C. H. Spurgeon
When husbands and wives are well yoked, how light their load becomes.
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Rotation.
Shot in the Canyonlands of Utah along with my cousin Tyler. Getting to this place by 4x4 was half the fun. — at Peek-a-boo campsite, Utah.
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Dean Hamstead
I'm not sure if "Be all you can be" normally means: leak national secrets, get 35 years, change gender...
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One afternoon, I was waiting in line at a grocery store buying meat to cook dinner for my wife and kids. There was an old lady behind me buying a ton food. When i got to the cashier to pay I realized the money wasn't in my pocket. I sat my stuff down and search for the money in panic. I rushed through the grocery store to look for it. I rushed back through the same line and told the cashier to give me time to find it at the same time praying to God for me to see it. The old lady saw me in tears like i was crying, she asked me what's wrong and i explained as if my wife is going to kill me cause i let her down many times before with my old bad habits and this time she won't believe that i actually lost the money for real and that she's hungry at home cause of breastfeeding our baby. So the old lady paid for my groceries. I didn't want her to but she kept saying it's alright and if I needed to get some more. I thanked her with a hug full of emotions. Then drove back home and shared this story to my wife and i started to cry again and she just laughed. lol. Thank You Lord for answer my prayer.
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There are two weeks to go until the most important election in a generation.
With the Coalition, Australians know what they'll get if we are elected.
We'll build a stronger, diversified economy so that everyone can get ahead.
We'll scrap the carbon tax and get the Budget back under control.
We’ll cut Labor’s waste with practical measures such as:
- Ending Labor’s failed border security policies that have resulted in $11 billion in Budget blowouts
- Scrapping wasteful government advertising – Labor spent $57 million on advertising during July alone
- Cutting waste, such as the $185,000 on ergonomic assessments of the Department of Human Services chairs for its staff
We will generate 2 million new jobs over the next decade as we unleash Australia’s real economic potential.
We'll stop the boats again with proven policies that work.
We will also build the roads of the 21st century – and reduce traffic congestion and increase productivity.
Tomorrow morning I am formally launching our campaign at 11:30am. I hope you will tune in to the launch and hear for yourself the Coalition’s positive plan to build a stronger Australia – and a better future for all Australians.
Regards,
Tony Abbott
We'll stop the boats again with proven policies that work.
We will also build the roads of the 21st century – and reduce traffic congestion and increase productivity.
Tomorrow morning I am formally launching our campaign at 11:30am. I hope you will tune in to the launch and hear for yourself the Coalition’s positive plan to build a stronger Australia – and a better future for all Australians.
Regards,
Tony Abbott
PS If you haven’t already done so – please join our campaign – and make a donation today.
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- 1482 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: The border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its castle werecaptured by English forces.
- 1857 – The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severe recession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail.
- 1892 – Goodison Park (pictured) in Liverpool, England, one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds, opened.
- 1941 – Adolf Hitler ordered the official termination of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of the war.
- 2006 – The International Astronomical Union redefined the term "planet", reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet since it has not "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit.
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Events
- 49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by theNumidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
- 79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
- 410 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
- 455 – The Vandals, led by king Genseric, begin to plunder Rome. Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. He agrees and the gates of Rome are opened. However, the Vandals loot a great amount of treasure.
- 1185 – Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
- 1200 – King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
- 1215 – Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
- 1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
- 1391 – Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
- 1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
- 1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army
- 1516 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
- 1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
- 1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
- 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
- 1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
- 1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 theCalcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
- 1812 – Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
- 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House is set ablaze, though not burned to the ground; as well as several other buildings.
- 1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
- 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1820 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
- 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
- 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
- 1870 – The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
- 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
- 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
- 1898 – Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
- 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- 1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
- 1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- 1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
- 1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
- 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- 1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
- 1933 – The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
- 1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
- 1937 – In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
- 1941 – Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.
- 1944 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
- 1949 – The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
- 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
- 1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
- 1954 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the US Embassy in Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
- 1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
- 1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
- 1989 – Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
- 1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
- 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
- 1994 – Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
- 1998 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
- 2001 – Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
- 2004 – Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
- 2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
- 2010 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.
Births
- 1113 – Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (d. 1151)
- 1198 – Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
- 1358 – John I of Castile (d. 1390)
- 1393 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
- 1552 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
- 1578 – John Taylor, English poet (d. 1653)
- 1591 – Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674)
- 1635 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
- 1669 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
- 1707 – Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English religious leader (d. 1791)
- 1750 – Letizia Ramolino, French mother of Napoleon (d. 1836)
- 1758 – Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1794)
- 1759 – William Wilberforce, English politician and philanthropist (d. 1833)
- 1772 – William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
- 1787 – James Weddell, British sailor and explorer (d. 1834)
- 1824 – Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891)
- 1837 – Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924)
- 1845 – James Calhoun, American soldier (d. 1876)
- 1851 – Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer (d. 1924)
- 1860 – David Bowman, Australian politician (d. 1916)
- 1863 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
- 1865 – Ferdinand of Romania (d. 1927)
- 1872 – Max Beerbohm, English writer and painter (d. 1956)
- 1880 – Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation (d. 1965)
- 1884 – Earl Derr Biggers, American author (d. 1933)
- 1887 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (d. 1974)
- 1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer and surfer (d. 1968)
- 1890 – Jean Rhys, Dominican author (d. 1979)
- 1893 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1978)
- 1895 – Richard Cushing, American archbishop (d. 1970)
- 1897 – Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher (d. 1954)
- 1898 – Malcolm Cowley, American critic (d. 1989)
- 1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
- 1899 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
- 1899 – Gaylord DuBois, American author (d. 1993)
- 1901 – Preston Foster, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1902 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (d. 1985)
- 1902 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mobster (d. 1976)
- 1903 – Karl Hanke, German nazi official (d. 1945)
- 1904 – Mary Burchell, British activist and author (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Alice White, American actress (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
- 1905 – Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
- 1907 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect, designed the Hallenstadion (d. 2012)
- 1908 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
- 1909 – Ronald Grieveson, South African cricketer (d. 1998)
- 1911 – Viktor Barna, Hungarian table tennis player (d. 1972)
- 1911 – Lofty England, English engineer and race team manager (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Durward Kirby, American television host and announcer (d. 2000)
- 1911 – Michel Pablo, Greek Trotskyist leader (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Charles Snead Houston, American mountaineer (d. 2009)
- 1914 – Ivar Iversen, Norwegian canoe racer (d. 2012)
- 1915 – James Tiptree, Jr., American writer (d. 1987)
- 1916 – Ruy de Freitas, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2012)
- 1916 – Léo Ferré, French singer, composer, and poet (d. 1993)
- 1916 – Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Dennis James, American game show host (d. 1997)
- 1918 – Sikander Bakht, Indian politician (d. 2004)
- 1919 – Enrique Llanes, Mexican wrestler (d. 2004)
- 1920 – Alex Colville, Canadian painter
- 1921 – Sam Tingle, Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2008)
- 1922 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
- 1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian and activist (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Arthur Jensen, American psychologist
- 1924 – Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor (d. 1990)
- 1924 – Jimmy Gardner, English actor (d. 2010)
- 1927 – David Ireland, Australian author
- 1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1929 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Betty Dodson, American sex educator and author
- 1930 – Roger McCluskey, American race car driver (d. 1993)
- 1932 – Robert D. Hales, American religious leader, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
- 1932 – W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor
- 1934 – Kenny Baker, English actor
- 1936 – A. S. Byatt, English novelist
- 1936 – Kenny Guinn, American politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (d. 2010)
- 1936 – Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist (d. 2001)
- 1937 – Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
- 1937 – Susan Sheehan, American writer
- 1938 – Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
- 1938 – David Freiberg, American singer and bass player (Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson Starship)
- 1938 – Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
- 1940 – Francine Lalonde, Canadian politician
- 1942 – Max Cleland, American politician
- 1943 – John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Dinosaurs, and Man) (d. 1989)
- 1943 – Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
- 1944 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
- 1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1944 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian wrestler
- 1945 – Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1945 – Malcolm Duncan, Scottish saxophonist (Average White Band)
- 1945 – Ken Hensley, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Uriah Heep, The Gods, and Toe Fat)
- 1945 – Vince McMahon, American wrestler, promoter, producer, and actor
- 1947 – Anne Archer, American actress
- 1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author
- 1947 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
- 1947 – Joe Manchin, American politician, 34th Governor of West Virginia
- 1947 – Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
- 1948 – Jean Michel Jarre, French pianist, composer, and producer
- 1948 – Kim Sung-Il, Korean pilot
- 1948 – Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish author
- 1948 – Sauli Niinistö, Finnish politician, 12th President of Finland
- 1949 – Pia Degermark, Swedish actress
- 1949 – Joe Regalbuto, American actor
- 1949 – Charles Rocket, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1950 – John Banaszak, American football player and coach
- 1950 – Tim D. White, American paleoanthropologist
- 1951 – Orson Scott Card, American author and critic
- 1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author
- 1952 – Marion Bloem, Dutch author, director, and painter
- 1952 – Bob Corker, American politician
- 1952 – John Cowan, American singer and bass player (New Grass Revival, The Sky Kings, and The Doobie Brothers)
- 1952 – Carlo Curley, American organist (d. 2012)
- 1952 – Holly Hallstrom American model
- 1952 – Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican poet
- 1952 – Mike Shanahan, American football coach
- 1952 – Peter Vogel, German footballer
- 1953 – Ron Holloway, American saxophonist
- 1954 – Philippe Cataldo, French singer and composer
- 1954 – Alain Daigle, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – Heini Otto, Dutch footballer
- 1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
- 1956 – John Culberson, American lawyer and politician
- 1956 – Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter, composer, and playwright
- 1957 – Jeffrey Daniel, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Shalamar)
- 1957 – Stephen Fry, British comedian, actor, journalist, and author
- 1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
- 1958 – Tracy Harris, American artist
- 1958 – Chris Offutt, American author
- 1959 – Adrian Kuiper, South African cricketer
- 1960 – Kim Christofte, Danish footballer
- 1960 – Takashi Miike, Japanese director, producer, writer, and actor
- 1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
- 1961 – Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian judoka
- 1961 – Jared Harris, English actor
- 1962 – Major Garrett, American journalist
- 1962 – Craig Kilborn, American actor and talk show host
- 1962 – David Koechner, American actor
- 1962 – Emile Roemer, Dutch politician
- 1963 – John Bush, American singer-songwriter (Anthrax and Armored Saint)
- 1963 – Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director and producer
- 1964 – Éric Bernard, French race car driver
- 1964 – Dana Gould, American comedian, actor, and writer
- 1964 – Salizhan Sharipov, Russian astronaut
- 1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
- 1965 – Reggie Miller, American basketball player
- 1965 – Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1967 – Michael Thomas, English footballer
- 1968 – Benoît Brunet, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 – Shoichi Funaki, Japanese-American wrestler
- 1968 – Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura)
- 1968 – Tim Salmon, American baseball player
- 1968 – James Toney, American boxer
- 1969 – Jans Koerts, Dutch cyclist
- 1970 – David Gregory, American journalist
- 1970 – Dan Henderson, American mixed martial artist
- 1970 – Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer
- 1971 – Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
- 1972 – Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian skier
- 1973 – Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 – Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1973 – Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
- 1973 – Grey DeLisle, American voice actress and singer
- 1973 – Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor and singer
- 1974 – Órla Fallon, Irish singer-songwriter (Celtic Woman)
- 1974 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
- 1975 – Roberto Colombo, Italian footballer
- 1975 – Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
- 1976 – Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
- 1976 – Nordin Wooter, Dutch footballer
- 1977 – Denílson de Oliveira Araújo, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 – Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009)
- 1977 – Per Gade, Danish footballer
- 1977 – John Green, American author
- 1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
- 1977 – Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
- 1978 – Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Beth Riesgraf, American actress
- 1978 – Darren Robinson, American singer and guitarist (Phantom Planet)
- 1978 – Beth Riesgraf, American actress
- 1979 – Vahur Afanasjev, Estonian writer
- 1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer
- 1979 – Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
- 1979 – Kaki King, American guitarist and composer
- 1979 – Michael Redd, American basketball player
- 1979 – Markus Walger, German rugby player
- 1980 – Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress
- 1981 – Chad Michael Murray, American actor
- 1981 – Jiro Wang, Taiwanese singer and actor (Fahrenheit and Dong Cheng Wei)
- 1982 – José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
- 1982 – Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
- 1983 – Brett Gardner, American baseball player
- 1983 – Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
- 1983 – Christopher Parker, English actor
- 1983 – Maher Abu Remeleh, Palestinian judoka
- 1984 – Yesung, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior)
- 1984 – Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
- 1986 – Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (d. 2009)
- 1986 – Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer
- 1986 – Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Indian actor
- 1986 – Arian Foster, American football player
- 1986 – Fabiano Santacroce, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
- 1988 – Rupert Grint, English actor
- 1988 – Helga Krapf, Filipino actress
- 1988 – Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer
- 1989 – Rocío Igarzábal, Argentine actress and singer (Teen Angels)
- 1990 – Sarah Heinke, American voice actress
- 1990 – Juan Pedro Lanzani, Argentine actor and singer (Teen Angels)
- 1990 – Jeffrey Vinokur, American dancer
- 1991 – Anett Schutting, Estonian tennis player
- 1991 – Lucy Mecklenburgh, English actress, businesswoman and model
- 1994 – Aqib Khan, English actor
- 1994 – Rafid Topan Sucipto, Indonesian motorcycle racer
- 1995 – Wenwen Han, Chinese actress and dancer
- 1996 – Camila Giangreco Campiz, Paraguayan tennis player
- 2003 – Alexandre Coste, French son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Deaths
- 79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and philosopher (b. 23)
- 1042 – Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor (b. 1015)
- 1103 – Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
- 1217 – Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (b. 1170)
- 1540 – Parmigianino, Italian painter (b. 1503)
- 1542 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
- 1572 – Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
- Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral and Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
- Petrus Ramus, French academic and writer (b. 1515)
- Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1535)
- 1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
- 1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
- 1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. 1610)
- 1679 – Jean François Paul de Gondi, French cardinal and writer (b. 1614)
- 1680 – Thomas Blood, Irish criminal (b. 1618)
- 1680 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter (b. 1616)
- 1683 – John Owen, English theologian (b. 1616)
- 1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
- 1779 – Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek monk (b. 1714)
- 1798 – Thomas Alcock, English clergyman and author (b. 1709)
- 1818 – James Carr, American politician (b. 1777)
- 1831 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
- 1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
- 1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
- 1841 – John Ordronaux, French-American privateer (b. 1778)
- 1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
- 1895 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
- 1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
- 1923 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author (b. 1856)
- 1930 – Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
- 1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
- 1943 – Antonio Alice, Argentine painter (b. 1886)
- 1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
- 1945 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (b. 1909)
- 1946 – James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge (b. 1862)
- 1954 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian politician, 17th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
- 1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director (b. 1898)
- 1958 – Paul Henry, Irish painter (b. 1876)
- 1961 – Günter Litfin, German victim, first person to be shot at the Berlin Wall (b. 1937)
- 1967 – Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (b. 1930)
- 1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)
- 1974 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviator, author, and inventor, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)
- 1977 – Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
- 1978 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, actor, and bandleader (b. 1910)
- 1979 – Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (b. 1912)
- 1979 – Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (b. 1898)
- 1980 – Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
- 1982 – Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)
- 1983 – Scott Nearing, American writer, educator, and activist (b. 1883)
- 1985 – Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
- 1987 – Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
- 1990 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
- 1990 – Gailli AbedElrhman, Sudanese writer (b. 1931)
- 1991 – Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor (b. 1904)
- 1992 – André Donner, Dutch judge (b. 1918)
- 1995 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer journalist (b. 1898)
- 1997 – Werner Abrolat, German actor (b. 1924)
- 1998 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1999 – Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian guitarist (b. 1929)
- 2000 – Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1964)
- 2001 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2002 – Nikolay Guryanov Russian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
- 2003 – Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer and writer (b. 1910)
- 2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
- 2005 – Hal Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins) (b. 1934)
- 2006 – Leonard Levy, American author (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Cristian Nemescu, Romanian director (b. 1979)
- 2006 – Rocco Petrone, American engineer (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
- 2007 – Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Aaron Russo, American director and producer (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese director (b. 1963)
- 2011 – Mike Flanagan, American baseball player (b. 1951)
- 2012 – Dadullah, Pakistani Taliban leader (b. 1965)
- 2012 – Lijon Eknilang, Marshallese activist (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Steve Franken, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Zygmunt Kiszkurno, Polish target shooter (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Claire Malis, American actress (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Dale Sommers, American radio host (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Maureen Toal, Irish actress (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Krum Yanev, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1929)
Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest date on which Notting Hill Carnival can fall, while August 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in August and the day before. (Notting Hill)
- Independence Day of Ukraine or Den' Nezalezhnosti, celebrates the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.
- One of the three Mundus patet, a harvest feast involving the dead. (Roman Empire)
- Nostalgia Night in Uruguay.
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“When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, LORD, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.” Psalm 94:18-19 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"The voice of weeping shall be no more heard."
Isaiah 65:19
Isaiah 65:19
The glorified weep no more, for all outward causes of grief are gone. There are no broken friendships, nor blighted prospects in heaven. Poverty, famine, peril, persecution, and slander, are unknown there. No pain distresses, no thought of death or bereavement saddens. They weep no more, for they are perfectly sanctified. No "evil heart of unbelief" prompts them to depart from the living God; they are without fault before his throne, and are fully conformed to his image. Well may they cease to mourn who have ceased to sin. They weep no more, because all fear of change is past. They know that they are eternally secure. Sin is shut out, and they are shut in. They dwell within a city which shall never be stormed; they bask in a sun which shall never set; they drink of a river which shall never dry; they pluck fruit from a tree which shall never wither. Countless cycles may revolve, but eternity shall not be exhausted, and while eternity endures, their immortality and blessedness shall co-exist with it. They are forever with the Lord. They weep no more, because every desire is fulfilled. They cannot wish for anything which they have not in possession. Eye and ear, heart and hand, judgment, imagination, hope, desire, will, all the faculties, are completely satisfied; and imperfect as our present ideas are of the things which God hath prepared for them that love him, yet we know enough, by the revelation of the Spirit, that the saints above are supremely blessed. The joy of Christ, which is an infinite fulness of delight, is in them. They bathe themselves in the bottomless, shoreless sea of infinite beatitude. That same joyful rest remains for us. It may not be far distant. Ere long the weeping willow shall be exchanged for the palm-branch of victory, and sorrow's dewdrops will be transformed into the pearls of everlasting bliss. "Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
Evening
"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith."
Ephesians 3:17
Ephesians 3:17
Beyond measure it is desirable that we, as believers, should have the person of Jesus constantly before us, to inflame our love towards him, and to increase our knowledge of him. I would to God that my readers were all entered as diligent scholars in Jesus' college, students of Corpus Christi, or the body of Christ, resolved to attain unto a good degree in the learning of the cross. But to have Jesus ever near, the heart must be full of him, welling up with his love, even to overrunning; hence the apostle prays "that Christ may dwell in your hearts." See how near he would have Jesus to be! You cannot get a subject closer to you than to have it in the heart itself. "That he may dwell;" not that he may call upon you sometimes, as a casual visitor enters into a house and tarries for a night, but that he may dwell; that Jesus may become the Lord and Tenant of your inmost being, never more to go out.
Observe the words--that he may dwell in your heart, that best room of the house of manhood; not in your thoughts alone, but in your affections; not merely in the mind's meditations, but in the heart's emotions. We should pant after love to Christ of a most abiding character, not a love that flames up and then dies out into the darkness of a few embers, but a constant flame, fed by sacred fuel, like the fire upon the altar which never went out. This cannot be accomplished except by faith. Faith must be strong, or love will not be fervent; the root of the flower must be healthy, or we cannot expect the bloom to be sweet. Faith is the lily's root, and love is the lily's bloom. Now, reader, Jesus cannot be in your heart's love except you have a firm hold of him by your heart's faith; and, therefore, pray that you may always trust Christ in order that you may always love him. If love be cold, be sure that faith is drooping.
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Today's reading: Psalm 113-115, 1 Corinthians 6 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 113-115
Praise the LORD, you his servants;
praise the name of the LORD.
2 Let the name of the LORD be praised,
both now and forevermore.
3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,
the name of the LORD is to be praised.
praise the name of the LORD.
2 Let the name of the LORD be praised,
both now and forevermore.
3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,
the name of the LORD is to be praised.
4 The LORD is exalted over all the nations,
his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like the LORD our God,
the One who sits enthroned on high,
6 who stoops down to look
on the heavens and the earth?
his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like the LORD our God,
the One who sits enthroned on high,
6 who stoops down to look
on the heavens and the earth?
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 6
Lawsuits Among Believers
1 If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord's people? 2 Or do you not know that the Lord's people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!4Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? 5 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? 6 But instead, one brother takes another to court-and this in front of unbelievers!
7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God....
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Gamaliel
[GaË•mā'lĭel] - god is recompenser orthe gift or reward of god.
[GaË•mā'lĭel] - god is recompenser orthe gift or reward of god.
- A chief of Manasseh chosen to aid in taking the census in the wilderness (Num. 1:10; 2:20; 7:54, 59; 10:23).
- The renowned Doctor of Jewish law (Acts 5:34), and instructor of the apostle Paul (Acts 22:3 ). It may be that Paul's instruction in the Law began when he was about the age of twelve (Luke 2:42). Like his Master, Paul, as Saul of Tarsus, sat in the midst of the doctors, hearing and asking questions. These learned men sat in a high chair, and the scholars on the floor and were thus literally at their masters'feet (see Deut. 33:3).
The Man Who Was Tolerant
Ellicott speaks of Gamaliel as one of the heroes of rabbinical history. His dramatic speech before the Council on Peter's behalf, and the part he played in the instruction of Paul mark him out a man worthy of note. Gamaliel was the son of Simeon, perhaps of Luke 2:25, and the grandson of the great Hillel, the representative of the best school of Pharisaism, the tolerant and largehearted rival of the narrow and fanatic Shammai. Through the weight of years and authority Gamaliel rose to eminence and counseled with moderation.
Being of the house and lineage of David, this cultured teacher had full sympathy with the claims of Christ, who was welcomed as the Son of David. Perhaps he was influenced to a decision for Christ through contact with a brother-teacher like Nicodemus (John 3:1, 2; 7:50, 51) and can therefore be included among the many chief rulers who secretly believed in Christ (John 12:42, 43).
Digging beneath Gamaliel's able and successful performance before the Council at Jerusalem, Alexander Whyte feels that he was only a "fluent and applauded opportunist" and warns young men against his presentation. "He was a politician, but he was not a true churchman or statesman. He was held in repute by the people; but the people were blind, and they loved to be led by blind leaders, and Gamaliel was one of them." With all his insight and lawyerlike ability, Gamaliel turned all things completely upsidedown when he sat in judgment, and gave his carefully balanced caution concerning the Son of God, comments Dr. Whyte.
Perhaps the renowned author of Bible Characters is right when he suggests that Gamaliel made the tremendous and irreparable mistake of approaching Jesus Christ and His cause on the side of policy, handling Him as a matter open to argument and debate. But Christ is an Ambassador of Reconciliation, and we are not permitted to sit in judgment on God, and on His message of mercy to us. Without apology Dr. Whyte pronounces Gamaliel as "a liberal long before his time. He was all for toleration, and for a free church in a free state, in an intolerant and persecuting day."
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WITH EVERY BREATH
When I finished college I took a third-shift job working as a nursing assistant in a nursing home. My wife, who was training as a social worker, suggested that one of the best ways I could prepare to be a pastor was to take care of people at their most vulnerable time in life. And she was right. In the months that I spent from 11 pm to 7 am, through the dark and unquiet hours of the night watching over a ward of elderly patients, I learned so much about our physical frailty, the unexpected cry in the middle of the night, and the endurance of the soul.
One night the head nurse told me that a ninety-year-old lady who had bumped her head and whose vital signs were very unsteady would probably not make it through the night. There was no family nearby, and so would I be willing to sit with her during her final hours?
 In the darkened room all I could focus on was the unevenness of her breaths. Short, panting, long, stopped. A couple of times she stopped breathing, and when I stood to my feet she started again. It was almost as if the sound of my shuffling feet stirred her back. But finally, when the last erratic breaths came and when there was one, long exhale, there was total silence and total peace. It was almost as if her breath was her living soul, and when it left the room, it was like a person walking right out the door.
When he breathed his last breath, Jesus said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” The Hebrew and the Greek words for “breath” can also be translated as “spirit” or “wind.” So breath is the most obvious symbol of life itself, and especially that inner animating principle the Bible calls soul. It all began in Genesis: God formed the man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Amazing. Incredible.
So, if you are reading this, it means your last breath has not come, and your spirit or soul is still animating your body. The pieces of personhood are still together, and you have an extraordinary opportunity to glorify God with what you do in heart, soul, strength, mind, and body in the days you still have. Every day should count. Every breath does count. But you have to believe that these pieces of your life–body and soul, thought and emotion and will, creativity and morality–all hold together, making you a member of the most complex and sophisticated race God ever made. The pieces of what makes you, you, may seem like a puzzle sometime, but they all come together into a picture that God has held in his mind long before you were ever born.
Excerpt from Putting the Pieces Back Together: How Real Life and Real Faith Connect. Complimentary DVDavailable now.
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