In Australia, the polls, which favoured the LNP yesterday 53 to 47, favour the LNP today 54 to 46. At that rate, the actual poll on Saturday will be 59 to 41. This raises the question of why it is that 41% of the nation don't understand how to vote. Rudd is dithering over flying out to the G20 for the last two days and giving the ALP a possible lift in the polls through his absence. It would be Rudd's last junket. Many of his supporters might be feeling he has earned it, and hope he goes soon.
Maybe by repeating the name "Abbott" Rudd will hit upon a magic formula suggesting the Australian voting population should vote for Rudd. It hasn't happened yet. It didn't work for Gillard, but keep trying Kev. Rudd could copy Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's attempt to acquire office. But it hasn't worked for the incompetent penis either. Sending Rudd to the G20, is like sending Rudd to get a mosquito candle, muses Therese. Tim Blair shows Rudd channeling Nixon badly. Rudd has had some good policies lately .. they involve rejecting previous ALP policies he made. There are many hyper critical commentators taking Abbott to task for calling terrorists bad people. Unlike Rudd, who called people, who spoke Chinese Mandarin, Ratfuckers.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Deborah Appanna, Jonathan Leeand Pru Goward. Born on the same day, across the years, along with Georg Böhm (1661), Lucretia Hale (1820), Albert Spalding (1850), Graeme Langlands (1941), Christa McAuliffe (1948), Jimmy Connors (1952), Salma Hayek (1966) and Nikki Taylor Melton (1997). On your day, Paryushana begins (Svetambar Jains, 2013); Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2013); National Day in Vietnam (1945)
47 BC – Caesarion, possibly the son of Julius Caesar, became the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, ruling jointly with his mother Cleopatra.
1649 – Forces loyal to Pope Innocent X destroyed the ancient Italian city of Castro, ending the Wars of Castro.
1807 – The British Royal Navy began their bombardment of Copenhagen to capture the Dano-Norwegian navy.
1945 – On the deck of the United States Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and several Allied Powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II.
1998 – Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board. Now that the son is co-king, and innocent forces have won. Now the Navy has asserted herself, and the mighty have been brought to heel. Now, when things are up in the air .. now is the time to have fun. Enjoy the day.
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60 mentions of the man who would be king
Miranda Devine – Sunday, September 01, 2013 (10:44pm)
IN keeping with the “Me Factor” theme of his campaign, Labor’s low-key launch in Brisbane was supposed to be all about Kevin Rudd, showcasing his “great depth of character”, as one campaign operative put it. But it really was all about Tony Abbott.
The Opposition leader was “small”,"dull", “lazy, “mired in pessimism and stuck in the past”, is “no John Howard”, wants to impose “massive cuts” which would “tear the future to ribbons” and “doesn’t like the public”.
In contrast, Rudd’s wife Therese Rein and deputy Anthony Albanese introduced the PM by emphasising his “steady” temperament and their long knowledge of him, to reassure voters about the character of the man dubbed Captain Chaos.
“My best friend, the love of my life, my companion for over 35 years,” said Rein in a soft voice.
It was a sweet speech, although it’s not clear what to make of a husband who, “when sent to Bunnings for a mozzie candle, comes back with Roman flares, Blue Tac, an extension cord, potting mix, a step ladder, secateurs-but no mozzie candle.”
On time, and without fanfare, at 12.05 pm, a grinning Rudd strode into the Plaza Ballroom at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, pausing to shake hands with Labor icons Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
He stood alone at a dais surrounded by 500 subdued Labor faithful to pitch himself as the “comeback kid” in the fight of his life, and to question the “temperament” of Tony Abbott. He named the Opposition Leader adversely 25 times, while Albanese attacked harder, with 35 mentions.
“To those who say that Mr Abbott has already won this election I say this - never, ever, ever underestimate my fighting spirit as your Prime Minister. I have been in tougher spots before and come back from behind… I believe we can and will prevail”.
He avoided being pegged a copycat after the Abbott girls’ starring role last week, leaving daughter Jessica to a non-speaking part at the end, when she joined him on stage with husband Albert, baby Josephine, brothers Nicholas and Marcus, and Therese.
The ghost of Julia Gillard made a brief appearance, when Rudd praised her on the NDIS and someone whistled in appreciation.
The launch capped off “a week from hell” for Rudd’s campaign, when broken-down buses, malfunctioning air conditioning, dimmed lights, falling microphones and fainting girls made it seem as if the gods were conspiring against him.
While Rudd’s performance was no game-changer, it was plucky, punctual, and coherently stated a choice, without a mention of Rupert Murdoch.
It seemed to satisfy the Labor faithful as they filed out quietly past the signs to Circus Quirkus, a show downstairs that bore no resemblance to Labor, yesterday, at least.
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ALL IN GOOD TIME
Tim Blair – Monday, September 02, 2013 (5:19am)
Five days remain, but right now Tony Abbott is walking it home:
Tony Abbott has overtaken Kevin Rudd as the nation’s preferred prime minister for the first time in their four-year rivalry as support for Labor fell to its lowest since Julia Gillard was removed.Going into the last week of the election campaign, Labor’s primary vote support has slumped to 33 per cent – the lowest ever under Mr Rudd as Prime Minister – after Treasury and Finance repudiated the government’s claims on the cost of Coalition promises.On a two-party-preferred basis, Labor is facing a swing against it of four percentage points since the 2010 election and now trails the Coalition 46 per cent to 54 per cent.
All the big hitting is done. Singles and safe calls until Saturday.
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WIKIWRECKS
Tim Blair – Monday, September 02, 2013 (5:03am)
Besides putting their hands out for your taxes, there is nothing that left-wing organisations enjoy more than ripping themselves apart.
This destructive pathology is more intense relative to the size of the group. It’s an inverse deal. The smaller the group, the greater the hate. Labor, Australia’s largest left-leaning assembly, copes with its tendency towards self-harm by arranging members into various formal factions. That way, internal rivalries can at least be sorted out by vote, or the occasional beating.
But move down the order to some of our leftist micro-collectives and the divisions become more extreme at every step.
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CAN’T STOP SKEETERS, CAN’T STOP BOATS, CAN’T STOP LOSING
Tim Blair – Monday, September 02, 2013 (4:25am)
Focus, Kevin, focus:
In her heartfelt and humanising speech introducing her husband, Therese Rein told the story of the day she sent her husband to the hardware store to buy a mosquito candle. He came home with a visionary swag of home improvements items – everything from secateurs to a stepladder, Blu Tack and Roman flares. And no mozzie candle.
A cynic might say this wee tale was an unintentional insight into Kevin the Visionary. You task him with something simple like buying a mozzie candle, and he comes back with equipment and plans for a modern working family that is striving to meet the challenges of a clean energy future. You can’t say he doesn’t think big. It’s just that sometimes, all you really want is a mozzie candle.
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TRICKY KEVNI
Tim Blair – Monday, September 02, 2013 (4:10am)
Richard Nixon’s television meltdown during a 1960 debate with John F. Kennedy is generally cited as the reason for Nixon’s narrow loss in that year’s US election.
Democrat corruption may have helped a little, but let’s go with history’s verdict. Time magazine described the difference between the two candidates: “Nixon, pale and underweight from a recent hospitalization, appeared sickly and sweaty, while Kennedy appeared calm and confident.”
On the debate topics, Nixon was impressively clear and sharp. But he crucially decided against wearing makeup, which left Nixon sweating like a meth addict beneath the hot studio lighting.
Until Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Friday press conference in Perth, Nixon’s effort set the benchmark for sweating politicians. Rudd has now pushed things to a new level. The man literally went to water.
Rudd’s dripping face may become a metaphor for his fail-soaked campaign, but, like Nixon, he doesn’t deserve all the criticism. For once, Rudd might correctly call out a staffer for booking that superheated venue.
Or he could blame a makeup lady.
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LABOR AGAINST LABOR
Tim Blair – Monday, September 02, 2013 (3:51am)
Labor protects us from a molten planet, and Labor exposes us to a molten planet:
Rather than defend the carbon tax as a crucial step towards an emissions trading scheme that will be more effective than Abbott’s ‘’direct action’’, Labor has been silent on the issue. One ALP flyer even cites the ‘’abolition’’ of the carbon tax as a Labor achievement.
Historically, most of Labor’s achievements involve the removal of Labor’s previous policies.
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DAVID FROST
Tim Blair – Monday, September 02, 2013 (3:32am)
Presidential and deranged hippie interviewer David Frost has died at 74. He’ll mostly be remembered for his post-Watergate discussions with Richard Nixon:
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MIRACLE SOCKS OF PODSMEAD, GLOUCESTER
Tim Blair – Sunday, September 01, 2013 (10:15pm)
This is the greatest story ever told.
UPDATE. The actual socks.
UPDATE II. It’s all happening in Gloucester.
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Rudd gives grooming tips to female candidate
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (4:42pm)
Hypocrite:
How Kevin likes it:
How Kevin doesn’t like it:
KEVIN Rudd has been caught out giving grooming advice to a female Labor candidate, despite denying he would ever do so…
Four Corners reporter Janine Cohen said ... “What we wanted to ask him was one, what do you think of Mr Abbott’s sex appeal comment and of course he was very appalled by that.
“But then we asked him would he ever give grooming tips or suggest how his candidates wear their hair and he said that he would never do that, that how his candidates dress and appear is entirely their own business…
“This contradicts an earlier interview I have done with a Brisbane Labor candidate Fiona McNamara,” Ms Cohen says.
“In fact she says that he does give her tips on how to wear her hair. That sometimes she wears her hair how Kevin likes it and sometimes she wears her hair how she likes it…
“We say ‘how does Kevin like it?’ and she says he likes me to pull it up a bit so people can see my face and she goes into quite a bit of detail.”
Ms Cohen says Ms McNamara goes on to explain the fashion advice only came after she had asked Mr Rudd for his opinion on her appearance.
How Kevin likes it:
How Kevin doesn’t like it:
Yet again, if Abbott did that…
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Newspoll: Labor sinks in a Ruddbath
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (4:37pm)
Rudd is falling like a stone:
A rather abrupt correction in Essential Media’s figures:
TONY Abbott has overtaken Kevin Rudd as the nation’s preferred prime minister for the first time in their four-year rivalry as support for Labor fell to its lowest since Julia Gillard was removed…Dennis Shanahan:
Labor’s primary vote support has slumped to 33 per cent - the lowest ever under Mr Rudd as Prime Minister - after Treasury and Finance repudiated the government’s claims on the cost of Coalition promises.
On a two-party-preferred basis, Labor ... now trails the Coalition 46 per cent to 54 per cent.
LABOR won power in 2007 on a Ruddslide, but looks like losing power in 2013 in a Ruddbath.Henry Ergas:
ACCORDING to Kevin Rudd, we mustn’t put all our eggs in the one basket. Come Saturday, the Australian people will at last have a chance to tell him un oeuf is enough.Paul Sheehan:
Never in the previous 113 years of Australian federation has a Prime Minister created such a gap between soaring rhetoric, sweeping promises and national interventions and meagre or failed results of so many grandiose plans.UPDATE
A rather abrupt correction in Essential Media’s figures:
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Have fun with Rowan Dean tonight
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (4:32pm)
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Is it smart to act as al Qaeda’s air force?
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (7:48am)
ONLY now - more than two years into Syria’s civil war - have the United States and some allies decided to Do Something.
Strangely, we didn’t have to Do Something while 100,000 Syrians were blown up, shot, beheaded or raped to death.
But we apparently do now that 1500 more have been killed in a chemical weapons attack blamed on the Syrian Government.
US President Barack Obama now wants to kill a few Syrians himself to send a message that killing people with gas is bad.
Strangely, we didn’t have to Do Something while 100,000 Syrians were blown up, shot, beheaded or raped to death.
But we apparently do now that 1500 more have been killed in a chemical weapons attack blamed on the Syrian Government.
US President Barack Obama now wants to kill a few Syrians himself to send a message that killing people with gas is bad.
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AWU scandal gets to court again
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (7:40am)
The AWU scandal that so many journalists refused to believe was a story is again in the courts:
EIGHTEEN years after his union accused him of fraud in the AWU slush fund scandal, Julia Gillard’s former boyfriend and client will be represented in court today as he lodges a protest over the seizure of key documents by police.
The documents relate directly to Bruce Wilson’s actions as an Australian Workers Union secretary and the legal advice he received from Slater & Gordon, where Ms Gillard worked at the time.
Victoria Police took the documents from the firm under a search warrant earlier this year as part of the ongoing probe into the slush fund affair which entangled Ms Gillard’s prime ministership last year.
Fraud squad detective Ross Mitchell is investigating allegations of corruption surrounding Mr Wilson and former union official Ralph Blewitt, who has admitted to his involvement in union fraud and a slush fund.
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Another stupid Labor attack
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (7:31am)
The party led by a man who called the Chinese “ratf....ers” claims calling mass-murderers and al-Qaeda-liked extremists “baddies” shows Tony Abbott is not fit to lead:
Reader Gab thinks this counter-attack is the Coalition’s best ad yet:
How obsessed is Labor with Tony Abbott? It doubles down on a character assassination that simply hasn’t worked:
ABC1’s Insiders, yesterday:UPDATE
AFP yesterday:
TONY Abbott: We’ve got a civil war going on in that benighted country between two pretty unsavoury sides. It’s not goodies versus baddies, it’s baddies versus baddies. And that is why it is very important that we don’t make a very difficult situation worse.
“CAN you imagine him at the G20? ‘Barack, it’s baddies versus baddies’,” said Labor senator Penny Wong. “I’ve yet to see a leader of a federal political party wanting to be PM who would be this embarrassing when it comes to foreign policy.” The Labor campaign said it “speaks volumes about Mr Abbott’s foreign policy capacity” and “summed up in a sentence why he is not fit to represent Australia in any international forum"…US President Barack Obama, June 7:
THAT’S not to suggest that, you know, you just say, “trust me, we’re doing the right thing, we know who the bad guys are”.The Andrew Marr Show, BBC TV, July 21:
ANDREW Marr: Bluntly, this is a war in which the bad guys are winning and the good guys, from your perspective, are losing, and there’s no sign of that changing?
David Cameron: Well I think where you’re right is that there are, as it were, you know, you’ve got a lot of bad guys in Syria.
Reader Gab thinks this counter-attack is the Coalition’s best ad yet:
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How obsessed is Labor with Tony Abbott? It doubles down on a character assassination that simply hasn’t worked:
IN keeping with the “Me Factor” theme of his campaign, Labor’s low-key launch in Brisbane was supposed to be all about Kevin Rudd, showcasing his “great depth of character”, as one campaign operative put it. But it really was all about Tony Abbott....
(Rudd) named the Opposition Leader adversely 25 times, while Albanese attacked harder, with 35 mentions.
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Rudd can’t be trusted even to buy a mozzie candle
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (7:31am)
THERESE Rein meant her speech at the Labor launch to show us a human side of her husband.
Sweet, but the Kevin Rudd she described yesterday sounded just like the Prime Minister who’s blown billions of our money on trash.
Rein told the sad crowd: “I want to introduce a husband who was sent to Bunnings for a mozzie candle - one mozzie candle.
“He comes back with Roman flares, Blu-Tack, an extension cord, potting mix, a step ladder, secateurs, but no mozzie candle.”
How we laughed.
Not.
Remember how we sent this same bloke out in 2007 to end “this kind of reckless spending”, only to have him come back with school halls we didn’t need, roof insulation we didn’t ask for, a thousand Indonesian boats we didn’t invite - and not one mozzie candle?
Sure, Rudd yesterday admitted he might have mucked up some of the national handyman jobs we’d set him.
Sweet, but the Kevin Rudd she described yesterday sounded just like the Prime Minister who’s blown billions of our money on trash.
Rein told the sad crowd: “I want to introduce a husband who was sent to Bunnings for a mozzie candle - one mozzie candle.
“He comes back with Roman flares, Blu-Tack, an extension cord, potting mix, a step ladder, secateurs, but no mozzie candle.”
How we laughed.
Not.
Remember how we sent this same bloke out in 2007 to end “this kind of reckless spending”, only to have him come back with school halls we didn’t need, roof insulation we didn’t ask for, a thousand Indonesian boats we didn’t invite - and not one mozzie candle?
Sure, Rudd yesterday admitted he might have mucked up some of the national handyman jobs we’d set him.
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Why was this refugee allowed to stay?
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (7:22am)
Our refugee program should not import danger - to say the bleeding obvious:
A REFUGEE who was jailed for sexually assaulting two women, raped a Melbourne woman after being given a visa to stay here.Astonishing. I want Burke to explain why Australian women must risk rape to “save” a refugee. Why was Pirimapun not thrown out?
Federal Immigration Minister Tony Burke has refused to be drawn on why Alfons Pirimapun’s visa was not cancelled after he was convicted of the earlier offending.
[The] West Papuan refugee ... was jailed for three years in 2009 for sexually assaulting two women in far north Queensland.
It is believed that after serving an 18-month jail term, Pirimapun was released on parole, granted a visa and relocated to Victoria.
He struck here, shortly after completing his parole, raping a woman in almost identical circumstances to his earlier sexual assaults.
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Bolt Report yesterday
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (7:00am)
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Big success: “only” 1500 boat people a month
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (6:28am)
The Rudd Government claims its boat policies work because “only” 1500 people now come in a month:
The Rudd government is claiming victory over the people smugglers with its hardline policy to stop the boats, following the lowest number of boat arrivals in six months.
‘’I have absolutely no doubt now that the policy is having the impact that we hoped,’’ Immigration Minister Tony Burke has said…
After 4236 asylum seekers arrived on 48 boats in July, the number for August dropped to 1585 on 25 boats. The number of arrivals in the last week of August was 71, the lowest weekly figure since February, according to a department official.
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Obama decides not to decide on Syria, after all
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (5:59am)
President Barack Obama could have shown strong leadership by announcing he would punish Syria.
That seemed his first instinct last week:
Charles Krauthammer says Obama has made it seem he’s boxed himself into a corner and is looking for a way out:
Kevin Rudd is left on his own, says reader Baldrick:
That seemed his first instinct last week:
President Barack Obama said in an afternoon statement Friday that he is considering a “limited, narrow act” of military response in Syria, and said that its government’s chemical-weapons attack is a “challenge to the world”....Or Obama could have shown a desire for consensus by asking Congress to decide a move with such profound consequences. That would have been weaker but principled - and now seems to be his second thought:
“We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale,” Obama said.
President Barack Obama said Saturday he will ask Congress to approve military strikes against Syria’s government, a risky step likely to delay action for at least 10 days that could signal broad popular support but also could end in rejection by the legislative branch…But Obama cannot do both - first say he’s made a decision to strike, and then ask Congress if he’s allowed to. That just looks indecisive:
“I’m also mindful that I’m the President of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy.”
President Obama’s decision to seek Congressional approval for a military strike in response to reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria drew a range of reactions from Syrians on Sunday, with rebel leaders expressing disappointment and goverment leaders questioning Mr. Obama’s leadership.UPDATE
Charles Krauthammer says Obama has made it seem he’s boxed himself into a corner and is looking for a way out:
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Kevin Rudd is left on his own, says reader Baldrick:
Last week Kevin Rudd interrupted his election campaign and said, regarding Syria: “I, like the president of the United States, (am) driven by a core imperative here, which is not allowing a message to be conveyed to the international community that the use of chemical weapons against anybody in the year 2013 is acceptable under any circumstances,” and urged for ‘strong and swift action’.
Unfortunately for Mr. I (Rudd), Obama has chosen to wait on a decision from the U.S. Congress on September 9, before taking any action. So much for Rudd’s grandstanding and ‘strong and swift action’.
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Rudd gives good speech, if you hate Liberals and believe lies
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (5:41am)
Former Rudd speechwriter Troy Bramston, like many commentators, say Kevin Rudd’s campaign launch speech was his best:
It’s a good speech only if, as Judith Sloan notes, you overlook what Labor has actually done with those jobs it says it will protect:
It’s a great speech only if you ignore that some of what Rudd claims will increase jobs could actually kill them:
Rudd wrote most of the speech himself… The overarching theme of the speech was to set up a choice between Labor’s plans to create and protect jobs and the Coalition’s plans to slash jobs and cut spending on health and education services. Rudd wants voters to see Labor as the builders and the Coalition as the wreckers.But it’s a good speech only if, for instance, you really think people are dumb enough to believe the Liberals’ great purpose in office is to smash things and put people out of work - rather than to make the economy stronger so more people have jobs.
It’s a good speech only if, as Judith Sloan notes, you overlook what Labor has actually done with those jobs it says it will protect:
KEVIN Rudd’s big pitch is that “the core of Labor’s vision for the Australia of the 21st century is one where every Australian should have the right to a job"…It’s a great speech only of you ignore that it’s built on another lie about the Opposition, as Paul Kelly notes:
What he doesn’t mention is that ... unemployment has gone from 4 per cent when Labor assumed office to 5.6 per cent now… On the government’s own economic statement released just over a month ago, the rate of unemployment is assumed to rise to 6.25 per cent by mid-2014.
While the $70 billion Coalition “black hole” figure is known by everybody to be false, Rudd used it to allege that Abbott’s “massive cuts risk throwing the entire economy into recession”.
Recycling Keating from an earlier campaign, Rudd said: “If you don’t understand how Mr Abbott’s $70bn of cuts will affect your job, your school, your hospital - then don’t vote for him.”
It’s a great speech only if you ignore that some of what Rudd claims will increase jobs could actually kill them:
The launch initiatives - a grab bag of sensible policy, electoral fixes and futile slide to economic nationalism - were tied to jobs and training…
For big business, Rudd ... would extend Gillard’s laws by lowering from $500m to $300m the threshold above which it is mandatory for projects to give Australian business improved access to supply contracts.
This will further entrench government intervention in business decisions… The plans will be administered by the new Australian Industry Participation Authority.
The documents say this regulatory incursion will increase the work going to Australian industry by something in the range of $156m-$624m every year.
There is nothing on how much damage it will cause. Enough said.
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Labor boasts it rid us of Labor policies
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (5:15am)
Michael Gordon:
Rather than defend the carbon tax as a crucial step towards an emissions trading scheme that will be more effective than Abbott’s ‘’direct action’’, Labor has been silent on the issue. One ALP flyer even cites the ‘’abolition’’ of the carbon tax as a Labor achievement.Tim Blair:
Historically, most of Labor’s achievements involve the removal of Labor’s previous policies.
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Fairfax joins the wicked Murdoch conspiracy
Andrew Bolt September 02 2013 (5:12am)
Labor thought Murdoch
editors must be part of a conspiracy to conclude Labor was unfit to
lead. Are the editors of Fairfax’s Sunday Sun-Herald and Sunday Age part of that conspiracy, too - or are the facts of Labor failure too obvious even for them?
When Murdoch papers wisely dump Kevin Rudd in 2013, that is a conspiracy and Labor complains.
When even Fairfax papers dump Kevin Rudd in 2013, that is ... what?
Melbourne and Sydney’s Sunday newspapers are united in their calls for voters to throw Kevin Rudd’s Labor government out of office for the Coalition.When Murdoch papers foolishly backed Kevin Rudd in 2007, that wasn’t a conspiracy and Labor didn’t complain.
Melbourne’s Fairfax-owned The Sunday Age did so reluctantly.... “Therefore, it is with little enthusiasm that we say the Coalition deserves to win.’’
Melbourne’s News Corporation Australia-owned Sunday Herald Sun was less equivocal.
‘’Australia cannot afford to keep the most dysfunctional and inept government in its history,’’ the paper editorialised…
In Sydney, the Fairfax-owned The Sun-Herald’s editorial ... described federal Labor as ‘’negative, incoherent, incohesive and – the worst of all – uninspiring’’…
And who could miss the News Corp-owned Sunday Telegraph?… It pointed out, like the Sunday Herald Sun did, that it had backed Labor in the 2007 election.
But no more.
When Murdoch papers wisely dump Kevin Rudd in 2013, that is a conspiracy and Labor complains.
When even Fairfax papers dump Kevin Rudd in 2013, that is ... what?
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Josh For President! My son waves to everyone at the National Stadium in Rwanda where I'm speaking. He has the wave!
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Incredible pencil portrait drawn by a fan!
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An Iranian filmmaker, Bahram Sadeghi, uploaded a video Thursday of himself calling the National Security Agency (NSA) hotline in a sarcastic attempt to retrieve an email he told the operator he accidentally deleted.
“A couple of days ago I received an email and by mistake I deleted it, the email… permanently,” Sadeghi can be seen explaining to an NSA employee over the phone.
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"Curtis Sinclair, Co-Chairman of the Ashraf Campaign (ASHCAM) condemned the Iraqi government for caving under Iranian pressure to commit an "obscene abuse of power."
"We’re hearing details of unarmed refugees being bound, gagged and machine-gunned at close quarters; of anti-tank weapons being used on people’s homes; of a massacre supervised by police chiefs and army commanders," claimed Sinclair.
"Not since the days of Saddam [Hussein] have we seen this kind of blatant and obscene abuse of power by an Iraqi leader. Last night’s attack just goes to show the lengths to which [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-]Maliki will go to assist... [Iranian Supreme Leader] Ali Khameini in [his] quest to stamp out the presence of Iranian dissidents in Iraq."
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What make/model car is this? Oldsmobile? Mercedes Benz?
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"Egyptian officials announced their intention to create a buffer zone around Gaza, 500 meters wide and ten kilometers long. The buffer zone is designed to keep Gazan Arabs, many of whom are sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood, out of the Sinai Peninsula, as the Egyptian Army continues its military campaign to root-out Islamist terrorist groups who have taken refuge there, mounting sporadic deadly attacks against security forces and civilians.
On Sunday, the army evicted residents of the 13 homes and demolished them. Egyptian officials said that smuggling tunnels were found under the homes."
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VIDEO: Louisiana Senator, Elbert Guillory asks his fellow black Americans to follow him into the GOP and to leave the "government plantation" of the Democratic Party.
Watch The Senator! ---> http://bit.ly/18wkIsw
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Warren Truss
The Katter Party is preferencing Labor ahead of the LNP in Wide Bay and also in other seats.
A vote for Katter is a vote for Labor, a vote for new and increased taxes, a vote for further increases to the cost of living, and a vote for three more years of chaos and dysfunction.
A vote for the Liberal & National Parties is a vote for Real Change for a stronger Australia and a better future for Wide Bay.
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While Israel has said repeatedly it’s not a party to the Syria conflict, Israeli lawmakers and analysts are voicing concern that President Barack Obama’s hesitation in making a decision about a military strike and sticking with it is sending a loud and “dangerous” message to Iran.
Politicians from the right and left in Israel are questioning Obama’s decision-making one day after the president announced that he was deferring to Congress on the question of use of force.
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NFL quarterback Tim Tebow said on Saturday he prays “for nothing but the best” for the Patriots after the team released him early Saturday.
“I would like to thank Mr. Kraft, Coach Belichick, Coach McDaniels and the entire Patriots organization for giving me the opportunity…to be a part of such a classy organization,” Tebow tweeted.
“I pray for nothing but the best for you all. I will remain in relentless pursuit… of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback,” he added.
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Egyptian forces on Saturday arrested the commander of an Al-Qaeda-linked group in the Sinai peninsula, officials told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency.
A senior Egyptian official said that Muhammad Ibrahim, 40, was appointed as the leader of Al-Qaeda in Sinai after escaping from prison following the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Ibrahim, also known as Adel Habbara, was driving a truck from Rafiah to El-Arish when he was ambushed by Egyptian security forces, according toMa’an.
"He tried to reach for two grenades in his pocket, but an officer jumped at him and bowled him over before other officers controlled him and grabbed the grenades," the official said.
Ibrahim was traveling with two other gunmen at the time of his arrest.
Egyptian authorities accuse Ibrahim of masterminding the 2005 attack on the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, which killed some 88 people.
He is also accused of planning the August 2012 attack which killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in Rafiah, and is believed to have personally executed soldiers in an attack earlier this month in which 25 soldiers were killed.
The Sinai has become increasingly lawless since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, and the terror attacks have only increased since the removal of Muslim Brotherhood PresidentMohammed Morsi in July. Egypt's army is currently engaged in an offensive in Sinai to curtail the surge in violence.
Since Morsi was ousted, Muslim Brotherhood-linked Gaza terrorists have been infiltrating the Sinai to attack Egyptian army outposts.
The army has been sealing the smuggling tunnels which are used to transfer goods, weapons and terrorists between the Sinai and Gaza. Hundreds of tunnels, however, remain open and active under the border between Egypt and Gaza.
On Sunday, Egyptian forces destroyed 13 homes next to the border with Gaza, in order to prevent the use of the houses as cover for smugglers into and out of the region.
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Jon Stewart’s classic crushing of President Obama and his “red line” gaffe is definitely worth checking out.
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"You are far too valuable to sell yourself so cheaply." –Kim Keller wrote in a letter to her daughter.
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A lenticular sunset near Mount Diablo tonight. This image doesn't do it the justice of what was seen... all the mini lenticular cloud formations got eaten up by the wide angle lens, but the color came through.
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Pastor Rick Warren
Teaching 6,000 Next Generation young leaders of Rwanda how to be purpose-driven leaders!
Co-sponsored by the government and PEACE Plan churches in Rwanda, this was also broadcast nationally. 4000 churches in Rwanda have adopted the PEACE plan in the past 9 years. — inKigali, Rwanda.
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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) criticized President Obama’s decision to let Congress vote on using military action in Syria. On Fox News Sunday, he stated that under the Constitution, that the president is authorized to use military force without Congress’s approval.
Read more: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/09/01/rep-peter-king-clear-failure-leadership-obama-ask-congress-authorize-military-action#ixzz2djSYwvBy
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We should never forget how the totalitarian Greens want to restrict our time-honoured freedoms. Make your voice heardhttp://ow.ly/nCMYg
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The next five days are critical. We need to redouble our efforts to stop the Greenshttp://ow.ly/nCMYg
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‘Selfless service’: Patriot and actor Gary Sinise named honorary US Marine ==>http://twitchy.com/2013/
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I feel the criticism of Abbott hyper. He called terrorists 'bad.' By way of contrast, Rudd called Chinese Ratfuckers for their language. I know which I feel is more diplomatic. ed
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Month Of September: Be fruitful, Multiply, Replenish, Subdue And Dominate.
Genesis 1: 28. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” NKJV
The new month has just started,May your tomorrow be brighter, May this new month be more successful, It is my wish that this month brings more inspiration and love in your life.No weapon formed or fashioned against you will prosper. Wish you happy New Month.God bless you.
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"We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light."
I was thrown back on my heels when I came across this quote from the 11th Century Christian Saint, Hildegard of Bingen.
Her warning is timely.
Many of us overly rely on pastors, seminary professors, or our favorite authors to interpret the world for us.
This isn’t an age specific mistake, but I attend too many conferences at which young people, in particular, appear to uncritically accept everything they hear from celebrity speakers on the stage.
Just once I’d like to hear a presenter finish a message saying, “But don’t take my word for it, these are my opinions. Take what I’ve said, wrestle with it, then come to your own conclusions.”
Just once I’d like to hear a presenter say, “But don’t take my word for it, these are my opinions. Take what I’ve said, then come to your own conclusions.”
Here are three suggestions for those who want to think more critically about their faith.
1. Trust the Spirit of Truth
Respect the insights of gifted teachers but take responsibility to engage in conversation with scripture, tradition, reason and experience and determine for yourself, what you ultimately believe. Trust the Spirit, “he will guide into all truth.”
2. Accept You Might Not Get It Right
Truth unfolds. You will inevitably look back and decide that your initial beliefs about a faith-related issue weren't right. Accept that what you believe today may not necessarily be what you believe tomorrow. Don't worry, as far as God is concerned it's the right intentioned search for truth that matters.
3. Embrace the Terror
It’s terrifying “to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light." It’s much easier to blindly buy into what "Professional Christians" say we should believe about the world, the Bible, or the way we live.
Don't outsource your faith!
Embrace the terror that comes with taking responsibility for your own walk with God and the way you choose to interpret the world.
Then again, don’t take my word for it; this is only my opinion.
Ian Morgan Cron is the bestselling author "Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me…A Memoir…of Sorts
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." His latest release is "Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale."Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/01/three-ways-to-take-charge-your-faith/?intcmp=HPBucket#ixzz2djVMHbWZ
Embrace the terror .. my marriage counsellor couldn't have said it better ed
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Thérèse Rein, once again Australia's first lady, is facing questions - both in Australia and in Britain - about her company.
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Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win – rather than topunish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one's morality.
Bashar al-Assad, strongman of Syria.
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It will also entail real dangers. Bashar al-Assad's notorious incompetence means his response cannot be anticipated. Western strikes could, among other possibilities, inadvertently lead to increased regime attacks on civilians, violence against Israel, an activation of sleeper cells in Western countries, or heightened dependence on Tehran. Surviving the strikes also permits Assad to boast that he defeated the United States.
In other words, the imminent attack entails few potential benefits but many potential drawbacks. As such, it neatly encapsulates the Obama administration's failed foreign policy. (August 28, 2013)
August 29, 2013 update: A satiric piece by Andy Borowitz in the New Yorker, "Obama Promises Syria Strike Will Have No Objective," nicely captures the absurdity of what's being proposed against the Assad government.
Attempting to quell criticism of his proposal for a limited military mission in Syria, President Obama floated a more modest strategy today, saying that any U.S. action in Syria would have "no objective whatsoever." "Let me be clear," he said in an interview on CNN. "Our goal will not be to effect régime change, or alter the balance of power in Syria, or bring the civil war there to an end. We will simply do something random there for one or two days and then leave."
When U.S. allies responded with howls of protest, saying that two days was too open-ended, White House spokesman Jay Carney responded with assurances
that the President was willing to scale down the U.S. mission to "twenty-four hours, thirty-six tops." "It may take twenty-four hours, but it could also take twelve," Mr. Carney said. "Maybe we get in there, take a look around, and get out right away. But however long it takes, one thing will not change: this mission will have no point. The President is resolute about that."
It is difficult to know how to be proportionate when Obama has turned a blind eye previously ed
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SHE tried to run onto the field during a football game, was hauled off to jail and gave an incredibly high blood-alcohol reading. Then she tweeted about her experience.
Samantha Goudie is potentially - "allegedly" - the drunkest girl on the planet. And judging by her Twitter timeline, possibly the funniest.
According to Deadspin , who labelled Goudie an "Idiot on the Field", the 22-year-old student tried to run onto the field during a game between her college, the University of Iowa, and Northern Illinois.
Goudie was "unsteady on her feet" (reads: blind) and taken to jail. Which, as you're about to learn, is an experience she seemed to enjoy.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/world8217s-drunkest-uni-student-blows-341/story-e6frfrnr-1226709012378#ixzz2djXVOPKe
34.1% of her blood stream was alcohol? ed
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Zaya Toma
Im surprised the Christian Democrats are giving their second preference to Labor, the same as the Greens. The Christian Democrats want three more years of the Labor-Greens aliance?
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Israeli authorities said Sunday they broke up an alleged Hamas plot to launch terrorist attacks inside Israel, including bombing a popular shopping mall.
Two West Bank residents were indicted by the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office on charges that included recruiting maintenance workers at the Mamilla open-air mall to smuggle in a bomb during the busy Jewish High Holidays shopping season.
"During questioning, members of the terror cell mentioned other initial plans to carry out additional attacks, including harming IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) soldiers by booby trapping homes in Ramallah, manufacturing and firing rockets at Israeli communities near Ramallah, and attempts to get hold of handguns to fire on IDF soldiers at the Hezma roadblock, northeast of Jerusalem," the Israeli security service Shin Bet said in a written statement.
The two men who were indicted were allegedly led by another Ramallah resident, Hamdi Romana, 22, who was expected to be indicted separately. The timing of the charges was not indicated, the Jerusalem Post said.
Romana was and the other suspects were arrested in August. A search of his home by Israeli agents turned up bomb-making materials and instructions plus evidence Romana had been in communication with a reputed Hamas explosives expert.
The bomb plot was described as being near its final phases. The goal was to detonate the bomb during the period that includes Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Shin Bet said Romana recruited two Arab residents of Jerusalem who worked at the Mamilla mall and carried Israeli identification cards, which Israeli broadcaster Arutz Shiva said would presumably allow them freer movement around town.
The bomb was to be wrapped like a present and stashed in one of the maintenance workers' lockers until the holidays were in full swing. It would then be planted in a restaurant or some other area where large numbers of shoppers would be present.
Shin Bet added that the arrests showed Hamas was still anxious to launch attacks inside Israel and was keen to recruit Arab residents of Israel to help them carry out their plots.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/09/01/Israel-thwarts-Hamas-plot-to-bomb-Jerusalem-mall/UPI-75861378044421/#ixzz2djYWn7VL
Part of the Peace Process? ed
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September 2: Paryushana begins (Svetambar Jains, 2013);Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2013); National Day in Vietnam (1945)
- 47 BC – Caesarion (bust pictured), possibly the son of Julius Caesar, became the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, ruling jointly with his mother Cleopatra.
- 1649 – Forces loyal to Pope Innocent Xdestroyed the ancient Italian city of Castro, ending the Wars of Castro.
- 1807 – The British Royal Navy began their bombardment ofCopenhagen to capture the Dano-Norwegian navy.
- 1945 – On the deck of the United States Navy battleshipMissouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and several Allied Powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II.
- 1998 – Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City toGeneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board.
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Events
- 47 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
- 31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octaviandefeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
- 421 – Galla Placidia, wife of the Emperor Constantius III, becomes a widow for the second time when he dies suddenly of an illness.
- 1519 – Hernan Cortes defeats a Tlaxcalan force under Xicotencatl on his march to Tenochtitlan.
- 1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
- 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
- 1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
- 1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
- 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
- 1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
- 1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
- 1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
- 1833 – Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
- 1856 – The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
- 1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
- 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
- 1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
- 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
- 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
- 1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
- 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
- 1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
- 1939 – World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed byNazi Germany.
- 1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
- 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
- 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
- 1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
- 1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting asigint mission. All crew members are killed.
- 1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
- 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
- 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
- 1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
- 1992 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
- 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
- 1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
Births
- 1661 – Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (d. 1733)
- 1675 – William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
- 1753 – Marie Joséphine of Savoy (d. 1810)
- 1778 – Louis Bonaparte, French-Dutch king (d. 1846)
- 1805 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
- 1810 – Lysander Button, American machinist and inventor of the Button Steamer Fire Engine (d. 1898)
- 1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
- 1820 – Lucretia Hale, American journalist and author (d. 1900)
- 1830 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
- 1838 – Liliuokalani of Hawaii (d. 1917)
- 1839 – Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
- 1847 – Roger Wolcott, American politician, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
- 1850 – Eugene Field American writer and poet (d. 1895)
- 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company (d. 1915)
- 1850 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
- 1852 – Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
- 1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Russian-German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
- 1854 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and activist (d. 1910)
- 1857 – Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
- 1862 – Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
- 1865 – Simeón Ola, Filipino general (d. 1952)
- 1866 – Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1877 – Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
- 1878 – Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer, and revolutionary (d. 1920)
- 1878 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946)
- 1879 – An Jung-geun, Korean activist, assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
- 1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (d. 1963)
- 1884 – Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (d. 1970)
- 1886 – Warren Brittingham, American soccer player (d. 1962)
- 1894 – Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
- 1901 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet (d. 1975)
- 1901 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (d. 1977)
- 1911 – Romare Bearden, American painter and writer (d. 1988)
- 1912 – Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
- 1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
- 1913 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1981)
- 1914 – Tom Glazer, American singer-songwriter and composer (d. 2003)
- 1915 – Benjamin Aaron, American attorney and scholar (d. 2007)
- 1915 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1995)
- 1917 – Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1997)
- 1918 – Allen Drury, American novelist (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Marge Champion, American actress and dancer
- 1923 – René Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
- 1924 – Daniel arap Moi, Kenyan politician, 2nd President of Kenya
- 1925 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
- 1927 – Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster
- 1928 – Jim Jordan, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Horace Silver, American pianist and composer
- 1929 – Hal Ashby, American director (d. 1988)
- 1929 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor (d. 2012)
- 1931 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1993)
- 1932 – Arnold Greenberg, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (d. 2012)
- 1932 – Walter Davis, Jr., American hard bop pianist (d. 1990)
- 1933 – Ed Conlin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
- 1934 – Chuck McCann, American actor
- 1934 – Grady Nutt, American comedian, minister, and author (d. 1982)
- 1935 – D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
- 1936 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer, and author
- 1936 – Károly Krajczár, Hungarian-Slovene educator and writer
- 1937 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
- 1937 – Derek Fowlds, English actor
- 1937 – Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive
- 1938 – Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
- 1938 – Clarence Felder, American actor
- 1938 – Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor
- 1940 – Jimmy Clanton, American singer
- 1941 – David Bale, South African–American pilot and activist (d. 2003)
- 1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby player
- 1941 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish economist, politician, and game show host (d. 2003)
- 1941 – John Thompson, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1943 – Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
- 1943 – Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
- 1943 – Joe Simon, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1944 – Janet Simpson, British sprinter (d. 2010)
- 1946 – Luis Ávalos, Cuban actor
- 1946 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2006)
- 1946 – Walt Simonson, American illustrator and writer
- 1946 – Dan White, American politician, assassin of George Moscone and Harvey Milk (d. 1985)
- 1946 – Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer and actor (Flower Travellin' Band and The Wailers Band) (d. 2011)
- 1947 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer (Caravan and The Wilde Flowers)
- 1947 – Louis Michel, Belgian politician
- 1947 – Jim Richards, New Zealand race car driver
- 1948 – Nate Archibald, American basketball player
- 1948 – Terry Bradshaw, American football player
- 1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1949 – Moira Stuart, British journalist
- 1950 – Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
- 1950 – Michael Rother, German musician and composer (Neu!, Kraftwerk, and Harmonia)
- 1950 – Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
- 1951 – Jim DeMint, American politician
- 1951 – Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
- 1951 – Michael Gray, American actor
- 1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor
- 1951 – Mik Kaminski, English violinist (Electric Light Orchestra, Violinski, and ELO Part II)
- 1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
- 1953 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander (d. 2001)
- 1953 – John Zorn, American saxophonist, producer, and composer (Naked City, Masada, and Painkiller)
- 1956 – Angelo Fusco, Irish army officer
- 1956 – Mario Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1957 – Tony Alva, American skateboarder
- 1958 – Olivier Grouillard, French race car driver
- 1959 – Guy Laliberté, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and poker player, founder of Cirque du Soleil
- 1960 – Eric Dickerson, American football player
- 1960 – John S. Hall, American poet
- 1960 – Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
- 1960 – Rex Hudler, American baseball player
- 1961 – Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
- 1962 – Jon Berkeley, Irish author and illustrator
- 1962 – Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor
- 1962 – Alonso Lujambio, Mexican politician (d. 2012)
- 1962 – Prachya Pinkaew, Thai director
- 1963 – Sam Mitchell, American basketball player and coach
- 1964 – Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor
- 1965 – Lennox Lewis, British-Canadian boxer
- 1965 – Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian director and screenwriter
- 1966 – Dino Cazares, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Fear Factory, Asesino, and Divine Heresy)
- 1966 – Massimo Cuttitta, Italian rugby player and coach
- 1966 – Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress, director, and producer
- 1966 – Olivier Panis, French race car driver
- 1966 – Tuc Watkins, American actor
- 1967 – Frank Fontsere, American drummer (Fozzy and Stuck Mojo)
- 1967 – Andreas Möller, German footballer
- 1968 – Kristen Cloke, American actress
- 1968 – Cynthia Watros, American actress
- 1969 – Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer (K-Ci & JoJo)
- 1969 – Stéphane Matteau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1971 – Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
- 1971 – Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
- 1971 – Tommy Maddox, American football player
- 1971 – César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
- 1971 – Shauna Sand, American model and actress
- 1971 – Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist
- 1972 – Robert Coles, English golfer
- 1972 – Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer
- 1973 – Jason Blake, American ice hockey player
- 1973 – Indika de Saram, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1973 – Katt Williams, American comedian, actor, and rapper
- 1974 – Steven Johnson, Australian race car driver
- 1974 – Inari Vachs, American porn actress
- 1975 – MC Chris, American rapper, actor, and writer
- 1976 – Phil Lipscomb, American bass player (Taproot)
- 1976 – Erin Hershey Presley, American actress
- 1976 – Aziz Zakari, Ghanaian sprinter
- 1977 – Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
- 1977 – Amanda Marcotte, American blogger
- 1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
- 1979 – Alex Chu, South Korean-Canadian singer and actor (Clazziquai)
- 1979 – Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
- 1979 – Brian Westbrook, American football player
- 1980 – Dany Sabourin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Danny Shittu, Nigerian Footballer
- 1980 – Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese race car driver
- 1981 – Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian director and producer
- 1981 – Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
- 1981 – Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
- 1982 – Joey Barton, English footballer
- 1982 – Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
- 1982 – Jason Hammel, American baseball player
- 1983 – Rich Boy, American rapper and producer
- 1983 – Mark Foster, English rugby player
- 1984 – Jack Peñate, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1984 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese model, actor, and singer
- 1986 – Gelson Fernandes, Swiss footballer
- 1986 – Kyle Hines, American basketball player
- 1986 – Rob Ramsay, Canadian actor
- 1987 – Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer
- 1987 – Spencer Smith, American drummer (Panic! at the Disco)
- 1988 – Javi Martínez, Spanish footballer
- 1988 – Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer
- 1988 – Ishmeet Singh, Indian singer (d. 2008)
- 1989 – Joel Goonan, English actor
- 1989 – William Hanson, British etiquette consultant
- 1989 – Marcus Morris, American basketball player
- 1989 – Markieff Morris, American basketball player
- 1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
- 1990 – Marcus Ericsson, Swedish race car driver
- 1990 – Shayla Worley, American gymnast
- 1992 – Xenia Knoll, Swiss tennis player
- 1992 – Alberto Masi, Italian footballer
- 1993 – Montana Cox, Australian model
- 1996 – Lilla Barzó, Hungarian tennis player
- 1996 – Sungha Jung, South Korean guitarist
- 1997 – Nikki Taylor Melton, American actress
Deaths
- 421 – Constantius III, Roman Emperor
- 459 – Simeon Stylites, Turkish saint (b. 390)
- 595 – John IV, patriarch of Constantinople
- 1031 – Saint Emeric of Hungary (b. 1007)
- 1274 – Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
- 1397 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer, organist, singer, and poet (b. 1335)
- 1540 – Dawit II of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
- 1680 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
- 1688 – Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1631)
- 1690 – Philip William, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
- 1764 – Nathaniel Bliss, British astronomer royal (b. 1700)
- 1765 – Henry Bouquet, British army officer (b. 1719)
- 1768 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
- 1790 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
- 1813 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (b. 1763)
- 1820 – Jiaqing Emperor of China (b. 1760)
- 1832 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
- 1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757)
- 1865 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
- 1872 – Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
- 1877 – Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1793)
- 1896 – Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
- 1898 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
- 1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
- 1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
- 1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American businessman (b. 1855)
- 1927 – Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (b. 1878)
- 1934 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1860)
- 1934 – Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist, and actor (b. 1908)
- 1934 – Alcide Nunez, American clarinet player (b. 1884)
- 1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French educator and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
- 1941 – Lloyd Seay, American race car driver (b. 1919)
- 1942 – James Juvenal, American rower (b. 1874)
- 1942 – Tom Williams, Irish soldier (b. 1924)
- 1944 – Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-American model and author (b. 1895)
- 1945 – Mason Phelps, American golfer (b. 1885)
- 1948 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
- 1953 – Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
- 1953 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general (b. 1883)
- 1955 – Amarnath Jha,Indian Educationist (1897)
- 1962 – William Wilkerson, American businessman, founder of The Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel (b. 1890)
- 1964 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
- 1964 – Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
- 1965 – Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and writer (b. 1917)
- 1969 – Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnamese politician, President of North Vietnam (b. 1890)
- 1971 – Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
- 1973 – Carl Dudley, American director (b. 1910)
- 1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist, writer, and poet (b. 1892)
- 1975 – Mabel Vernon, American suffragist (b. 1883)
- 1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1934)
- 1978 – Fred G. Meyer, American businessman, founder of Fred Meyer (b. 1886)
- 1979 – Otto P. Weyland, American general (b. 1903)
- 1984 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
- 1985 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
- 1985 – Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
- 1991 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 1992 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1993 – Russel B. Nye, American author (b. 1913)
- 1994 – Roy Castle, English actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)
- 1996 – Paddy Clift, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1953)
- 1997 – Rudolf Bing, Austrian manager (b. 1902)
- 1997 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
- 1998 – Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
- 1998 – Allen Drury, American novelist (b. 1918)
- 2000 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
- 2000 – Curt Siodmak, German-American screenwriter (b. 1907)
- 2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (b. 1922)
- 2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2002 – Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Joan Oró, Catalan chemist (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2006 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete and politician (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
- 2007 – Rajae Belmlih, Moroccan singer (b. 1962)
- 2007 – Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer, created TransAmerica (b. 1957)
- 2007 – Esther Hoffe, Israeli mistress of Max Brod
- 2007 – Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator, director, producer, and voice actor (b. 1916)
- 2009 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1949)
- 2011 – Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)
- 2011 – Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean TV host (b. 1966)
- 2012 – Mark Abrahamian, American guitarist (Starship) (b. 1966)
- 2012 – Jack Boucher, American photographer (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Emmanuel Nunes, Portuguese composer (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Blas Riquelme, Paraguayan politician and businessman (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Bert Worner, Australian footballer (b. 1929)
Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Democracy Day (Tibet)
- Independence day (Transnistria, unrecognized)
- Independence day (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, unrecognized)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Vietnam from Japan and France in 1945.
- Sedantag (German Empire)
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“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory."
Psalm 73:24
Psalm 73:24
The Psalmist felt his need of divine guidance. He had just been discovering the foolishness of his own heart, and lest he should be constantly led astray by it, he resolved that God's counsel should henceforth guide him. A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord. The blind man leans on his friend's arm and reaches home in safety, and so would we give ourselves up implicitly to divine guidance, nothing doubting; assured that though we cannot see, it is always safe to trust the all-seeing God. "Thou shalt," is a blessed expression of confidence. He was sure that the Lord would not decline the condescending task. There is a word for thee, O believer; rest thou in it. Be assured that thy God will be thy counsellor and friend; he shall guide thee; he will direct all thy ways. In his written Word thou hast this assurance in part fulfilled, for holy Scripture is his counsel to thee. Happy are we to have God's Word always to guide us! What were the mariner without his compass? And what were the Christian without the Bible? This is the unerring chart, the map in which every shoal is described, and all the channels from the quicksands of destruction to the haven of salvation mapped and marked by one who knows all the way. Blessed be thou, O God, that we may trust thee to guide us now, and guide us even to the end! After this guidance through life, the Psalmist anticipates a divine reception at last--"and afterward receive me to glory." What a thought for thee, believer! God himself will receive thee to glory--thee! Wandering, erring, straying, yet he will bring thee safe at last to glory! This is thy portion; live on it this day, and if perplexities should surround thee, go in the strength of this text straight to the throne.
Evening
"Trust in him at all times."
Psalm 62:8
Psalm 62:8
Faith is as much the rule of temporal as of spiritual life; we ought to have faith in God for our earthly affairs as well as for our heavenly business. It is only as we learn to trust in God for the supply of all our daily need that we shall live above the world. We are not to be idle, that would show we did not trust in God, who worketh hitherto, but in the devil, who is the father of idleness. We are not to be imprudent or rash; that were to trust chance, and not the living God, who is a God of economy and order. Acting in all prudence and uprightness, we are to rely simply and entirely upon the Lord at all times.
Let me commend to you a life of trust in God in temporal things. Trusting in God, you will not be compelled to mourn because you have used sinful means to grow rich. Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. Trusting God, you will not be guilty of self-contradiction. He who trusts in craft, sails this way today, and that way the next, like a vessel tossed about by the fickle wind; but he that trusteth in the Lord is like a vessel propelled by steam, she cuts through the waves, defies the wind, and makes one bright silvery straightforward track to her destined haven. Be you a man with living principles within; never bow to the varying customs of worldly wisdom. Walk in your path of integrity with steadfast steps, and show that you are invincibly strong in the strength which confidence in God alone can confer. Thus you will be delivered from anxious care, you will not be troubled with evil tidings, your heart will be fixed, trusting in the Lord. How pleasant to float along the stream of providence! There is no more blessed way of living than a life of dependence upon a covenant-keeping God. We have no care, for he careth for us; we have no troubles, because we cast our burdens upon the Lord.
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Today's reading: Psalm 135-136, 1 Corinthians 12 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 125-136
Praise the name of the LORD;
praise him, you servants of the LORD,
2 you who minister in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God.
praise him, you servants of the LORD,
2 you who minister in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God.
3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob to be his own,
Israel to be his treasured possession.
sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob to be his own,
Israel to be his treasured possession.
5 I know that the LORD is great,
that our Lord is greater than all gods.
6 The LORD does whatever pleases him,
in the heavens and on the earth,
in the seas and all their depths.
7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
he sends lightning with the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
that our Lord is greater than all gods.
6 The LORD does whatever pleases him,
in the heavens and on the earth,
in the seas and all their depths.
7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
he sends lightning with the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 12
Concerning Spiritual Gifts
1 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work....
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Og
[ÅŽg] - long-necked or bread baked in ashes. The giant king of Bashan. This man of huge stature, the last of the Rephaim, was slain at Edrei. The only big things of any note about this massive man, whose conquests lingered long in the imagination of the people (Ps. 135:11; 136:20), were his big body and his big bed (Num. 21:33; 32:33; Deut. 3:1-13).
[ÅŽg] - long-necked or bread baked in ashes. The giant king of Bashan. This man of huge stature, the last of the Rephaim, was slain at Edrei. The only big things of any note about this massive man, whose conquests lingered long in the imagination of the people (Ps. 135:11; 136:20), were his big body and his big bed (Num. 21:33; 32:33; Deut. 3:1-13).
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