People said the Australian economy was being destroyed by the left. In fact, it was being badly damaged. Good policy can address it, but the lost opportunity for all of Australia is difficult to accurately describe .. a Bradfield scheme could have been funded several times over permanently lowering the temperature on very hot days and watering the central Australian desert with fresh water. But instead we have corruption issues we have to negotiate. The federal pedophile investigation began in NSW, without the inquiry looking into Education at this time .. what has schooling to do with young people?
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Marco Polo (1254), William Howard Taft (1857), Joseph Lyons (1879), Agatha Christie (1890), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Prince Harry of Wales (1984), Heidi Montag (1986) and Jake Cherry (1996). Born on the same day, across the years. On your day, International Day of Democracy; Independence Day in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua (1821); Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom
1440 – French knight Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, was taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1831 – The John Bull, the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1916 – Tanks, the "secret weapons" of the British Army during the First World War, were first used in combat at the Battle of the Somme in Somme, Picardy, France, leading to strategic Allied victory.
1944 – American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai, starting the Battle of Morotai.
1963 – A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, US, killing four children and injuring at least 22 others. My brother, fishing often caught fish by gills. And he is quite fit and determined, as John Ball should be. Tanks are great for tropical fish. The battle has begun. Remember to despise the KKK and all such bigots. Show compassion for their victims.
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How Greens and Labor destroy economies
Piers Akerman – Sunday, September 15, 2013 (5:00am)
DESPITE the determined efforts of the nation’s largest media organisation, Our ABC, and the rapidly diminishing Fairfax Group, to promote the electoral fortunes of the skulking leaker Julian Assange and the economy-destroying Greens, voters spectacularly rejected the blatant propagandising.
Assange, still evading Swedish warrants from his hide-out in Ecuador’s London embassy, appears to have attracted 0.08 per cent of the quota needed to win a Senate seat despite the support he received from Radio National, Q & A and other taxpayer-funded programs.
If the ABC is providing the programming its audience demands, the Assange result says a lot about the ABC audience.
Similarly with the Greens. Nationally, the whingers’ party saw its vote fall by nearly 3.5 per cent to 8.34 per cent.
To best illustrate the Green disease and to partially explain the electorate’s disenchantment with Labor, look the example of the Apple Isle.
In Tasmania, the State in which the Greens have had more engagement with taxpayers than in any other region except the Peoples’ Republic of Canberra, the Green vote was spectacularly halved, down by 8.75 per cent to just 8.07 per cent.
Labor’s vote in Tasmania was also smashed with dramatic swings against sitting Labor MPs which reflected not only the national disgust with the ALP but also the abhorrence Tasmanians feel for the State branch which, in true Labor form, broke its 2010 election promise not to form a minority government with the Greens and has suffered for its dishonesty ever since.
Before the poll, Labor’s David Bartlett promised not to do a deal with the Greens to stay in power, saying it was “a deal with the devil”.
Cutely, he reversed that call and plighted his troth to Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim after a trust-building bike ride up Mount Wellington.
McKim is now Minister for Sustainable Transport (that must ?mean? bike riding) as well as Corrections and Education Minister in the minority government.
Yesterday, Tasmania achieved a rare double. It not only recorded the highest unemployment level (8.6 per cent) in the nation, it was also found to rank highest in terms of the number of people with key risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
Since Labor and the Greens formed the minority government they promised not to in 2010, 10,000 full-time jobs have been lost. They have managed to wreck the State budget, with this year’s forecast to be the worst budget deficit on record ($400 million).
They have devastated Tasmania’s forestry industry through an infamous “peace deal” which did not actually deliver peace (protests are continuing), and the promised pulp mill is a pipe dream.
Tens of thousands of Tasmanians remain unemployed.
Meanwhile the Greens enjoy the patronage of well-heeled, well-intentioned elite sponsors like Greens donor Graeme Wood, founder of Wotif, whose $1.6 million donation to the Greens is the largest given by an individual in Australian political history.
Labor is supported by Jan Cameron, founder of the Kathmandu chain and owner of the now-bankrupt Chickenfeed shops, who gave Labor a $45,000 cheque. Together, they bought the Triabunna woodchip mill in 2011 and shut it down to pressure the forest industry into signing up to the notorious “peace” deal.
The Greens and their deep-pocketed sponsors promised those thrown out of work would all be retrained to work in eco-friendly industries. It didn’t happen.
The Greens are also responsible for destroying the once proud Tasmanian company Gunns and scaring away potential white-knight investor Chandler.
Last weekend, Tasmanians showed how they felt about federal Labor and its Green ally. In Bass, the swing against Labor was 11 per cent, in Braddon it was 10 per cent, in Lyons it was 13.7 per cent and in Denison (held by Independent Andrew Wilkie who was doublecrossed by former Prime Minister Julia Gillard) it was 14.4 per cent.
The loss of the federal seats of Bass, Braddon and Lyons was Labor’s worst result in Tasmania since 1990. In Triabunna, home of the now defunct woodchip mill, the swing to the Liberals was 26.7 per cent. The State election, due next March, should be worth watching.
But till then, look to Canberra to see whether federal Labor or the federal Greens have learnt anything from the route suffered in Tasmania or whether they both continue their giddy rush to irrelevancy.
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Cue sneering
Miranda Devine – Sunday, September 15, 2013 (7:06am)
THE only news organisation paid for by the sweat and toil of the average taxpayer does a fine line in sneering derision.
Take the ABC’s treatment of new minor party Senate candidates, such as the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party’s Ricky Muir, shamed for not owning a suit, and once flinging kangaroo poo on a home video.
The Commodore-loving unemployed sawmill worker and father of five is described by a former boss as a “good, loyal, honest bloke.” His aim is, “to be the voice for everyday Australians”.
Good for him. He should wear the latte set’s scorn as a badge of honour.
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It’s all Abbott’s fault
Miranda Devine – Sunday, September 15, 2013 (7:05am)
BUSHFIRES have started, and so has a rearguard action to beat up the role of climate change. So absurd are the climate zealots and so bitter their politics that they even blame Tony Abbott, seeing he opposed the carbon tax.
The letters pages of the Fairfax press were full of it: “Bushfires with loss of property and injuries in the second week of spring and Tony Abbott thinks he has a mandate to stop the emissions trading scheme and close down the Climate Commission,” wrote Averil Drummond of Pennant Hills.
Twitter was worse: “Would you like a carbon tax with your bushfires, Sydney?… I nominate [Abbott’s] electorate of Warringah to burn down first,’’ tweeted Darryl Snow, who happens to be former president of the Fire Brigade Employees Union, a self-described “thug” who “Fights Tories”.
Might be more useful to don a pair of overalls and actually fight a fire.
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Bullying Jaymes
Miranda Devine – Sunday, September 15, 2013 (7:02am)
THE bullying of failed Liberal candidate Jaymes Diaz continues apace, as he submits himself to ridicule by the Chaser crowd.
His campaign media performances were unimpressive but in 2010 he came within a few hundred votes of victory, making Greenway NSW’s most marginal seat.
This time, the viciousness of Labor and GetUp was something to behold. Scare posters appeared, for instance, painted in dripping bloody red saying “Diaz is a joke” or “What is Jaymes Diaz hiding?” in giant block letters.
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Justice for Zoe threatened by ideology
Miranda Devine – Sunday, September 15, 2013 (7:01am)
BRODIE Donegan was eight months pregnant when she was mowed down by a drug-addled driver, high on methadone and valium, near her Ourimbah home. Her unborn child died.
The baby girl, Zoe, was stillborn because the placenta that sustained her with oxygen was ruptured by the force of the impact which pinned her mother against a tree for three hours on Christmas Day 2009.
Zoe’s heart was still beating when Brodie arrived at hospital, but by the time doctors performed a caesarean section, she was dead.
Brodie, partner Nick Ball, and their two year old daughter Ashlee were left to hold their two kilogram baby girl, perfect except for a cut on her lip from resuscitation attempts.
“She was still warm and she looked and felt and smelt like any other newborn, “ Brodie wrote in a victim impact statement to the court 15 months later. “She just was not breathing.”
The driver served just nine months in jail for the grievous bodily harm to Brodie, whose spine, pelvis, hips and foot were fractured.
But there existed no criminal charge for police to apply over the death of the 32-week foetus Zoe.
Under criminal law, Zoe had never existed, except as an appendage of her mother’s body.
“You just get to list the baby with the injuries,” says Brodie, 33, who has tried valiantly for almost four years to achieve legal recognition that her daughter’s life mattered.
Zoe’s Law, due before NSW Parliament on Thursday, would “recognise the existence of the foetus of a pregnant woman that is of at least 20 weeks gestation” and allow an offender to be charged with grievous bodily harm to the foetus, not just to the pregnant women, which is the current law in NSW.
The private member’s bill, authored by Brodie’s local Liberal MP on the Central Coast, Chris Spence, specifically exempts “anything done in the course of a medical procedure,” such as abortion, or anything done “with the consent of the pregnant woman”.
But it has become the latest battleground in the abortion wars, as trigger-happy activists itch for a fight in a new conservative era.
They believe Zoe’s Law is a “slippery slope” towards restricting abortion. They are terrified it represents a “conceptual change” which would see the foetus regarded as a person in its own right.
To their consternation, Brodie is unreservedly pro-choice, and wants nothing to do with the abortion debate.
But she and Nick knew their daughter existed because they held her and grieve for her to this day.
They were also obliged under state and federal laws to give Zoe a name, apply for a birth certificate and death certificate, and hold a funeral; they were eligible for the baby bonus and parental leave, as is every parent of a foetus which dies from 20 weeks gestation.
“It’s strange to plan a funeral for a baby [whose death] no one is going to be charged for,” says Brodie.
Brodie never wanted to be dragged into the abortion debate when Christian Democrats leader Fred Nile took it on himself to introduce a form of Zoe’s Law, without her permission.
“We didn’t want our daughter’s name on something that had to do with abortion.”
So she asked Spence to craft a bill to override Nile’s attempt.
Spence’s argument is logical, dispassionate and persuasive. His bill is morally neutral on abortion.
Yet the opposition has been so ferocious he was forced last week to delay the bill and Brodie has found herself pitted against the full might of the feminist lobby, with NSW MPs and organisations such as the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Family Planning NSW and Destroy the Joint, combining to defeat the law.
“We are so hesitant to go near this because of the [feminist] lobby,” says Spence. “They’ve built this nucleus to protect a woman’s right to choose and then they’ve put a 100km exclusion zone around it. Anything that breaches the exclusion zone will be shot down.”
The abortion lobby needs to find a new way of framing their argument rather than just shutting down the debate. And it doesn’t get much lower than denying a grieving mother justice for her child.
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TOO BUSY FOR SYDNEY
Tim Blair – Saturday, September 14, 2013 (7:32pm)
According to experts, this week’s Sydney fires were something to do with global warming and moves to abandon the carbon tax. But now we have the actual causes:
Arson, hazard reduction, and downed power lines sparked the damaging bushfires that tore through Sydney’s west earlier this week.Rural Fire Service and police chiefs on Friday released investigations into the blazes that destroyed property and threatened homes in Sydney’s west and the Blue Mountains on Tuesday.
Global warming was otherwise occupied by fomenting conflict in Syria, reducing Swedish glaciers and eating brains.
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ALL NON-GREEK TO THEM
Tim Blair – Saturday, September 14, 2013 (7:27pm)
The Age thinks that Sophie Mirabella is Italian:
(Via several readers who are aware of Mirabella’s Greek heritage)
(Via several readers who are aware of Mirabella’s Greek heritage)
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GOOD OLD DAYS
Tim Blair – Saturday, September 14, 2013 (7:25pm)
Antony Loewenstein despairs:
The global financial crisis in 2008 should have been a golden age for the left …
They can’t win even when the right is losing.
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12 of 26
Tim Blair – Saturday, September 14, 2013 (7:02pm)
Tonight’s 50-over match is the 12th game in a double-summer, multi-format struggle for cricket supremacy. On the overall results table, Australia currently trails “draws” but maintains a handy one-win break over “matches abandoned”:
England: Five wins, 3815 runs
Three draws
Australia: Two wins, 3687 runs
One match abandoned
Three draws
Australia: Two wins, 3687 runs
One match abandoned
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The Bolt Report today
Andrew Bolt September 15 2013 (9:30am)
On The Bolt Report at 10am and 4pm: Labor’s Richard Marles, plus Michael Kroger and John McTernan.
And quote of the week - from a buffoon who seems to have trouble sorting fact from fiction.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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Professor Judith Sloan is upset:
Reader Frances:
And quote of the week - from a buffoon who seems to have trouble sorting fact from fiction.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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Professor Judith Sloan is upset:
Gosh, I nearly choked on my muesli when I heard the proposition that Bill Shorten is a pro-business candidate. I think it was McTernan spouting this nonsense on The Bolt Report. (Bill is more pro-Jools than Albo, I guess).UPDATE
Pro-business – my arse.
He was one of the worst Workplace Relations Minister we have ever had. He bent over backwards to pile up pro-union provisions and enacted them. He picked the ‘eyes’ from the post-implementation report on the Fair Work Act which the government commissioned using a panel of reliable friendlies.
The only change left unaccomplished was the return to compulsory arbitration – on the unions’ wishlist – and he was have enacted this if he had the time.
And some of the new inclusions in the FWA are completely unworkable tosh – eg. the anti-bullying provisions.
His stacking of the Fair Work Commission is nothing short of a national disgrace – lobbing in pro-union, pro-Labor candidates to outrank appointees made by the Howard government.
Reader Frances:
Michael Kroger’s comment re four current leaders of the ALP is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week!
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IPCC now cooling on warming
Andrew Bolt September 15 2013 (6:08am)
Matt Ridley says the new IPCC report will still exaggerate the likely warming - but its estimates are now falling:
I refer to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) “fifth assessment report,” part of which will be published on Sept. 27…
I have had a glimpse of the key prediction at the heart of the document. The big news is that, for the first time since these reports started coming out in 1990, the new one dials back the alarm. It states that the temperature rise we can expect as a result of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide is lower than the IPPC thought in 2007.
Admittedly, the change is small, and because of changing definitions, it is not easy to compare the two reports, but retreat it is. It is significant because it points to the very real possibility that, over the next several generations, the overall effect of climate change will be positive for humankind and the planet.
Specifically, the draft report says that “equilibrium climate sensitivity” (ECS)—eventual warming induced by a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which takes hundreds of years to occur—is “extremely likely” to be above 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), “likely” to be above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and “very likely” to be below 6 degrees Celsius (10.8 Fahrenheit). In 2007, the IPPC said it was “likely” to be above 2 degrees Celsius and “very likely” to be above 1.5 degrees, with no upper limit. Since “extremely” and “very” have specific and different statistical meanings here, comparison is difficult.
Still, the downward movement since 2007 is clear…
A more immediately relevant measure of likely warming has also come down: “transient climate response” (TCR)—the actual temperature change expected from a doubling of carbon dioxide about 70 years from now, without the delayed effects that come in the next century. The new report will say that this change is “likely” to be 1 to 2.5 degrees Celsius and “extremely unlikely” to be greater than 3 degrees. This again is lower than when last estimated in 2007 ("very likely” warming of 1 to 3 degrees Celsius, based on models, or 1 to 3.5 degrees, based on observational studies).
Most experts believe that warming of less than 2 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels will result in no net economic and ecological damage. Therefore, the new report is effectively saying (based on the middle of the range of the IPCC’s emissions scenarios) that there is a better than 50-50 chance that by 2083, the benefits of climate change will still outweigh the harm.
Warming of up to 1.2 degrees Celsius over the next 70 years (0.8 degrees have already occurred), most of which is predicted to happen in cold areas in winter and at night, would extend the range of farming further north, improve crop yields, slightly increase rainfall (especially in arid areas), enhance forest growth and cut winter deaths (which far exceed summer deaths in most places).
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So Gillard, at least, noticed - even if she did not understand
Andrew Bolt September 15 2013 (5:55am)
Professor Sinclair Davidson says this is the most telling sentence in Julia Gillard’s long essay on how she one the great political arguments:
The circus in Copenhagen and “climategate” fed scepticism.Remember how Climategate was largely ignored or dismissed by the mainstream media, especially on the Left?
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New PM dosses down with the police
Andrew Bolt September 15 2013 (5:33am)
Not just good politics, but a good sign:
TONY Abbott has decided to bunk with Australian Federal Police recruits in a $120-a-night flat while renovations are conducted at the possum-infested prime ministerial residence The Lodge…UPDATE
Perhaps most importantly for the fitness fanatic, the student quarters also include an impressive gym…
Mr Abbott rejected the other options on offer: a $3,000 a week dress circle rental in the nation’s capital. Mr Abbott currently stays at the five-star Hotel Realm.
Providing proper security to the Prime Minister was the biggest problem in finding a temporary new abode, with many options requiring significant security upgrades if AFP officers were to properly protect the PM. For that reason, staying a hotel was swiftly discounted as an option.
Julie Bishop also rejects the high-living ways of the previous Labor government - the party of the working class:
Incoming foreign minister Julie Bishop has already clashed with her department over luxury hotel accommodation on an upcoming trip to New York.
The minister-elect told Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade bureaucrats to slash the cost of the trip after they planned to book $1850-a-night rooms at a swish Manhattan hotel for an entourage of dozens…
It is understood departmental bosses want to take a delegation of 23 public servants to the United Nations leaders’ summit on September 19-20 along with two ministers and three of their staff with the travelling party staying at the four-star Westin Midtown Hotel. The department planned to put Ms Bishop and her colleagues in a suite at the Westin as part of an accommodation package worth $132,048.
But the incoming minister, who has yet to be sworn in, told her department she wanted to stay in an ordinary room and that they should ditch the idea of the suite and that, for future reference they should not book her in first-class on international flights.
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Father,I thank You for looking beyond the surface and seeing the real me. Thank You for placing Your potential on the inside of me. Help me to know You more and see You more clearly so I can follow Your ways all the days of my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
He Looks Beyond the Surface.
The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.(1 Samuel 16:7, NIV)
Your Creator can see things in you that other people cannot see. Sometimes people will try to push you down or make you feel insignificant. Sometimes our own thoughts will try to convince us that we don’t measure up. But God looks beyond the surface, beyond the mistakes you’ve made, beyond what somebody said about you and sees your incredible value.
You may think, “You have messed up. I have blown it. I have failed. I’m all washed up.” No, God still sees more in you. God doesn’t just see what you are; He sees what you can become. You may have made some mistakes, but God still sees victory on the inside of you. People may have tried to push you down, but God sees you rising higher.Start believing that you are redeemed, restored, talented and valuable. Even if you have made mistakes, believe that there is more in store. God’s not finished with you. He looks beyond the surface and sees your potential. God bless you.
The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.(1 Samuel 16:7, NIV)
Your Creator can see things in you that other people cannot see. Sometimes people will try to push you down or make you feel insignificant. Sometimes our own thoughts will try to convince us that we don’t measure up. But God looks beyond the surface, beyond the mistakes you’ve made, beyond what somebody said about you and sees your incredible value.
You may think, “You have messed up. I have blown it. I have failed. I’m all washed up.” No, God still sees more in you. God doesn’t just see what you are; He sees what you can become. You may have made some mistakes, but God still sees victory on the inside of you. People may have tried to push you down, but God sees you rising higher.Start believing that you are redeemed, restored, talented and valuable. Even if you have made mistakes, believe that there is more in store. God’s not finished with you. He looks beyond the surface and sees your potential. God bless you.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
HOW IS YOUR HEART?
The word "heart" can be found often in the Scriptures. Rightly so. And, when it does, it seldom simply means the organ, the muscle in our chest that pumps and pumps.Interestingly, the Bible also speaks about God having a heart. It does that in Hosea 11. One of our passages read earlier, Ezekiel, prophesies about that wonderful forward looking truth, "A new heart and a new spirit in you..." We’re to receive a heart of "flesh" and not a "stone" one.
Jesus speaks about the seed of the gospel and its life-changing ability falling on the fertile ground of a "noble and good heart" with the resulting fruit and life change. Well, we want to ask, what kind of heart is that heart of flesh that Ezekiel promised that God would be giving us? What kind of heart is "the pure of heart" that Jesus talks about in the beatitudes in Matthew 5’s Sermon on the Mount? Let’s take a look on the Scriptures so that we can test our own. Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV) says, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" So,how is your heart? I urge you to Love God with all Your Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength.God bless you.
The word "heart" can be found often in the Scriptures. Rightly so. And, when it does, it seldom simply means the organ, the muscle in our chest that pumps and pumps.Interestingly, the Bible also speaks about God having a heart. It does that in Hosea 11. One of our passages read earlier, Ezekiel, prophesies about that wonderful forward looking truth, "A new heart and a new spirit in you..." We’re to receive a heart of "flesh" and not a "stone" one.
Jesus speaks about the seed of the gospel and its life-changing ability falling on the fertile ground of a "noble and good heart" with the resulting fruit and life change. Well, we want to ask, what kind of heart is that heart of flesh that Ezekiel promised that God would be giving us? What kind of heart is "the pure of heart" that Jesus talks about in the beatitudes in Matthew 5’s Sermon on the Mount? Let’s take a look on the Scriptures so that we can test our own. Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV) says, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" So,how is your heart? I urge you to Love God with all Your Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength.God bless you.
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Pastor Rick Warren
All weekend, I'm teaching NEVER WASTE YOUR PAIN! How to use it for God's 5 purposes in your life. http://bit.ly/ZvjGI9
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POLICE in the US trying to subdue an emotionally disturbed man accidentally shot two female bystanders outside New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal Saturday night.
Police shot one woman in her leg as she hobbled with her four-wheeled walker; a second woman was grazed in the buttocks, police told the New York Post.
The officers may have opened fire - pulling off three shots, according to witnesses - in the mistaken belief that the deranged man was armed after a pedestrian shouted, "He's got a gun!"
A bullet to the leg sent the first unidentified woman sprawling to the sidewalk grate, still clutching her walker.
She was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was heading last night to speak to her, police said.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world-news/new-york-police-accidentally-shoot-two-bystanders-while-trying-to-subdue-man/story-fndir2ev-1226719572178#ixzz2exdkFuDW
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"Saturday's incident is the latest in a string of cross-border rocket attacks that have escalated as Hezbollah's involvement in Syria's brutal conflict has increased.
Initially Hezbollah said it wanted only to defend 13 Syrian villages along the border where Lebanese Shiites live, and the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine near Damascus, which is revered by Shiites around the world."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171900#.UjUjsBaXtSU
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Ah, my love it is spring! I am wondering, praying .. where is that on switch for that radar you mentioned? I think it has been turned off. Is it a software switch? I must find out about that operating system .. ed
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Dai Le
Finally with my DAWN and my boss Andrew Rohan MP for Smithfield as well with Fairfield Youth Committee.
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William Cooper: a great aboriginal
http://m.theage.com.au/
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Dr Dennis Jensen MP has been the member for Tangney in the the House of Representatives since 2004. A PhD in Materials Science and Physics and former research scientist, he has the highest scientific qualifications of all MPs and Senators. He has made major contributions in the areas of defence and science and would make an excellent science minister.
But columnist Peter van Onselen abused him in the Sunday Telegraph on 15September, 2013, as a "star twit'' for daring to aspire to this role. You see, he doesn't accept without reservation the theory that global warming is principally caused by carbon dioxide emissions from human activities. Presumably he should believe the Australian government can change this by imposing a job exporting tax on CO2, including one tied to a shonky CO2 market manipulated by Brussels-based bureaucrats and politicians. But didn't the Australian people reject this in the election?
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Instead of working to improve the economy, Congress is wasting time passing these 25 ridiculous bills.
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Heroic rescue: A man saves a mother and daughter trapped on the roof of their car as deadly floods continue to sweep through Colorado.http://tinyurl.com/khhrxlz
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Pastor Rick Warren'
This weekend we add NEW SERVICES and NEW TIMES at ALL Saddleback campuses. Here's the list: http://bit.ly/191Iblw Saturday services at Lake Forest are now 4:00 and 6:00 pm, (30 minutes earlier now)
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Garage door motor finally fixed. Found the motor mounting bolts dug into the steel roller shaft, unable to hold the motor locked in the place. The mounting bolts would have been in that location for over 10 years.
Nods sagely. ed
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The Bible Series
"Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth." -Jesus
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James Calore
I may have made the greatest discovery since sliced bread: popcorn cooked in bacon fat. Unbelievable goodness!
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Larry Pickering
JULIA DUMPS HER 'BLOKE'... for Greener pastures
Left wing on-line rag ‘The Guardian’ yesterday was told by a shattered Julia Gillard that, “Labor unambiguously sent a very clear message that it cared about nothing other than the prospects of survival of its members of parliament at the polls."
Now there’s a bit more Julia woolly thinking for you because if your MPs don’t survive you may as well go fishing or knitting, or even lecturing at Adelaide Uni!
Scathing criticism of her former colleagues was peppered with her own feelings: “It brought forth a pain that hits you like a fist, pain so strong you feel it in your guts, your nerve endings... I watched the election results by myself.”
Well, according to an insider, not exactly by yourself Julia.
The estate agency handling the sale of the house with a $2 mil price tag had initially surveyed residents in the immediate area asking if Julia would be welcome in the up-market South Brighton beachside suburb.
“Not only did no-one object”, Pickering Post was told, “but there was a good level of excitement about having the famous redhead as a neighbour.”
One resident in the same street suggested her house value might even appreciate. Really?
Oh well, things must usually be boring in South Brighton because the whole suburb is now abuzz with Gillard goss.
Apparently Tim hasn’t made the Xmas card list, much less the lady’s boudoir list.
Julia’s new companion is a “lady friend” who moved in prior to Julia’s arrival.
I cannot identify the “lady friend” from various descriptions but it certainly isn’t her sister... and it appears her mum has also taken up residence.
But poor little red Reuben is nowhere to be seen.
Honestly, I couldn’t give a stuff about Julia’s preferences, good luck to her, but it seems the concocted farce of the Timmy dalliance was no less of a political PR stunt than the Rudd PR stunt Julia now complains of!
Actually, Julia has been quite open about promoting switch-hitting from her Uni student days and Adelaide (along with sister city Hobart) is a comfy nest for gay commos and loony Green activists... the sort of CV that will get you on the short list for a ‘lecturing’ job at the local Uni.
But I tend to link the word “Julia” to the word “disingenuous” because her Adelaide Uni professorial pals recently claimed, “Australia’s southern States will be inundated from alarming southern pole ice-melt. People in SA wetlands will need to relocate”, they warned.
Perhaps Julia doesn’t believe in global warming after all, or she would never have chosen a beachside suburb like the “soon to be inundated” South Brighton.
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Pastor Rick Warren
You can now watch our service online ANY HOUR of your day! It repeats 168 times a wk, every hour, from ANYWHERE in the world!
Join me: http://www.saddleback.com/onlinecampus
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Happy Sunday everyone!
Quote of the day: you gotta live to be truly alive
big score for vampire diaries - ed
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It says Liar .. -ed
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President Vladimir Putin had the audacity to tell America that it is not exceptional and then after arming Israel's enemies to the tee, tried to show his false concern for Israel's existence. What a liar!!!
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13833#.UjVocRYlUsw
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"Clinton's State told Benghazi was a 'terrorist attack' minutes after it began" The Examiner, September 3, 2013 (thanks to Lynn)Just minutes after 35 jihadists crashed through the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, nearly one year ago, the facility got word to the State Department, FBI and Pentagon that terrorists were attacking, according to a forthcoming book that provides the fullest review of the assault to date.
In “Under Fire, the Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi,” it is revealed that an unidentified security official in the Benghazi compound protecting Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens messaged the U.S. embassy in Tripoli: “Benghazi under fire, terrorist attack.” Stevens and three others died that night. according to authors Fred Burton, a former State Diplomatic Security agent and Samuel Katz, an author and expert on international special operations and counterterrorism.
In Clinton's defence it was an election time and Obama was dancing with Beyonce. So hard to know what is the right thing to do in the moment. But looking back, it might not seem popular. ed
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The Arab Spring has recalibrated the regional system by ushering in a tri-axial Middle East.
Turkish-Iranian posturing on Syria, with Ankara arguing for more than limited strikes against the regime and Tehran saying that whoever strikes President Bashar al-Assad must bear the consequences, serves as a harbinger for the birth of a new Middle East order.
Just as World War 1 transformed the Middle East by ending the Ottoman rule and creating contemporary nation states, so the Arab Spring has recalibrated this regional system by ushering in a tri-axial Middle East composed of: a Turkey-Kurdish-Muslim Brotherhood (MB) axis; an Iran-Shiite axis; and a Saudi Arabia-pro-status quo monarchies axis.
In this fluid re-alignment, nation states will technically not disappear, but borders will increasingly be transcended by these axes as they contest regimes across the region in pursuit of installing their respective allies.
Forces representing Iran's aggrandizing foreign policy, Turkey's pro-MB alignment and the Saudis' desire to keep the region's remaining regimes in place will grind against each other, cutting across existing borders and churning tensions, stoking sectarianism in the name of achieving their realist motivations.
The novelty is not in the competition, but in the way this rivalry is playing out.
In the pre-Arab Spring period, dominant Muslim nations of the region -- Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia -- challenged each other by standing for different models of statecraft and often promoting opposing values. Nevertheless, this competition did not usually turn acutely violent, with the exceptions of Lebanon, a weak state that was always exposed to regional and sectarian rivalries, and Iraq, where the Saudis and Iranians took advantage of the post-2003 vacuum to back warring Sunni and Shiite militia.
The tumult of the Arab Spring, however, has been a game-changer in expanding the scale and scope of these regional rivalries. Firstly, the uprisings weakened the authoritarian states in the region, thus providing new venues for them to play out. The Syrian civil war is a case in point.
Secondly, Egypt's paralysis has taken it out of the four-way regional game. Violent political polarization has transformed Egypt from "the anchor of the Arab world" into yet another theater for regional competition among the three remaining Muslim powers: Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Turkey, too, has changed. Under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, Ankara has abandoned its Kemalist world view. Once shunned as a hardline Islamist party but recently rehabilitated, the AKP sees itself as a model forward for the MB and has engaged regional MB parties to this end. Ataturk's Turkey used to look at the Middle East from the West. The new Turkey has embraced a new stance towards the region, looking at it from the AKP's pro-MB vantage point.
The AKP elites believe that if they could moderate and come to power through democratic elections in Ankara, like-minded Egyptian and Syrian MBs should be able to do the same in Cairo and Damascus. Hence, Turkey's dream: a region ruled by MB parties, looking to Turkey for guidance. This explains why Ankara is aghast at Washington's response to the ouster of the government of Mohamed Morsy, issuing a very rare public rebuke of Washington that harshly blamed the U.S. and the West for the bloodshed in Egypt.
While Washington has accepted the MB's ouster in Egypt, pro-status quo forces in the region, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates have actually supported military intervention against the MB. These monarchies abhor the tumult of the Arab Spring. The Saudis dislike the idea of an Islamic democracy led by the MB, because they still see it as tumultuous and destabilizing.
Iran meanwhile has taken advantage of the Arab Spring to mobilize a contemporary Shiite "mythomoteur." Tehran has cast the pro-democracy uprising against the Assad regime in Syria as a Sunni uprising against minority Alawites, an outlier sect of Shiism, and then used this to play to the persecution syndrome of the region's Shiites, mobilizing them from Iraq to Lebanon into Syria to rally behind the cause of propping up the Assad regime. Iran also supports the minority Shiite rebels in Yemen, who oppose a Saudi-backed government there. At the same time, the Saudis have cracked down on a pro-democracy uprising by Bahrain's majority Shiites.
These moves have helped trigger sectarian chasms in the region, especially in the northern Fertile Crescent. This arch being home to three weak states, namely Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, is accordingly the prime theater for regional rivalries, whose borders are increasingly bleeding together. The Shiites of the northern Fertile Crescent are coalescing with each other and with Iran in ways not seen before in living memory.
Turkey, whose regime change policy in Syria has been undermined by Iran, has entered the Fertile Crescent competition, throwing its support behind the Syrian and Iraqi MB parties. This move has cast Ankara and Damascus as enemies, and also cooled ties between Ankara and Baghdad, where the government is run by Shiites that Turkey considers Iran's peons.
The Iraqi Kurds, wary of the emerging central government rule in Baghdad, have taken advantage of the situation and edged closer towards Ankara, building on the nascent energy corridor already being developed between them. The Syrian Kurds, too, are seeking Turkey's protection. Turkey's recent peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which holds sway among not just Turkish Kurds but also Syrian Kurds, will help this rapprochement.
At the same time though, Turkey's MB policy has been, for the time being, upended. The Brotherhood has fallen from government in Egypt, failed to elect its candidate to lead the Syrian opposition, and has been sidelined in Libya. Qatar, which had hitherto allied itself with Ankara to fund MB style parties, appears to be changing its heart after an unexpected change in leadership in Doha.
The tri-axial Middle East includes tactical alliances. In Syria, for instance, although Turkey and the Saudis support different camps in the opposition, they are, nevertheless, united against Iran. At the same time, Ankara and Riyadh challenge each other in Egypt where Turkey stands with Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood party and the Saudis with General Sisi's government.
This leaves a tri-axial Middle East, in which Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia oppose each other in shifting alliances, vying to set a new regional order. Moving forward, it is unclear whether Riyadh will continue to use its financial and political leverage amongst Sunni regimes, particularly monarchies, to sustain its status quo posture.
For Iran, Syria is the linchpin of its effort to extend beyond Shia-governed Iraq, and will determine whether it can be a broader strategic hegemon or remain relatively contained. And non-Arab Turkey, by standing for just the MB anywhere in the region, will see its influence wax and wane as each national revolution unfolds, though Ankara's clout among the Kurds may be more permanent.
The U.S. has squandered the Arab Spring by not siding with liberal democracy, an agenda promoted by none of the three regional powers. Citizens across the region have once again returned to chanting anti-U.S. slogans to explain their tumult and plight. Moving forward, Washington must navigate the new Middle East. Otherwise, the region's political and ideological map will be redrawn by more influential anchor states.
Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. Parag Khanna is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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September 12th, 2013 | Posted by WorldTribune.com
Out of Lebanon: UN faces imminent pullout of EU peacekeepers
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It isn't a policy .. it is a lifestyle ed
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"Left-wing donors have directed their funding more towards frameworks that articulate/ propagate political agendas, such as the New Israel Fund, J Street and Peace Now.
Right-wing donors by contrast have focused funding on the far-more tangible: purchasing buildings from Arab owners, acquiring land, preserving and protecting sites of significance for Jewish heritage and so on. These of course are all worthy causes, but they will have little lasting value if the Left continues to control the discourse.
A plausible case can be made that disproportionate emphasis on enterprises such has these has allowed the Left to hijack the agenda and control the discourse, while leaving the major strategic front unattended – or at least, under-attended." - Martin Sherman
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Over the past week, President Barack Obama and his senior advisers have told us that the US is poised to go to war against Syria. In the next few days, the US intends to use its air power and guided missiles to attack Syria in response to the regime's use of chemical weapons in the outskirts of Damascus last week.
The questions that ought to have been answered before any statements were made by the likes of Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel have barely been raised in the public arena. The most important of those questions are: What US interests are at stake in Syria? How should the US go about advancing them? What does Syria's use of chemical weapons means for the US's position in the region? How would the planned US military action in Syria impact US deterrent strength, national interests and credibility regionally and worldwide? Syria is not an easy case. Thirty months into the war there, it is clear that the good guys, such as they are, are not in a position to win.
Syria is controlled by Iran and its war is being directed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and by Hezbollah. And arrayed against them are rebel forces dominated by al-Qaida.
As US Sen. Ted Cruz explained this week, "Of nine rebel groups [fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad], seven of them may well have some significant ties to al-Qaida."
With no good horse to bet on, the US and its allies have three core interests relating to the war. First, they have an interest in preventing Syria's chemical, biological and ballistic missile arsenals from being used against them either directly by the regime, through its terror proxies or by a successor regime.
Second, the US and its allies have an interest in containing the war as much as possible to Syria itself.
Finally, the US and its allies share an interest in preventing Iran, Moscow or al-Qaida from winning the war or making any strategic gains from their involvement in the war.
For the past two-and-a-half years, Israel has been doing an exemplary job of securing the first interest. According to media reports, the IDF has conducted numerous strikes inside Syria to prevent the transfer of advanced weaponry, including missiles from Syria to Hezbollah.
Rather than assist Israel in its efforts that are also vital to US strategic interests, the US has been endangering these Israeli operations. US officials have repeatedly leaked details of Israel's operations to the media. These leaks have provoked several senior Israeli officials to express acute concern that in providing the media with information regarding these Israeli strikes, the Obama administration is behaving as if it is interested in provoking a war between Israel and Syria. The concerns are rooted in a profound distrust of US intentions, unprecedented in the 50-year history of US-Israeli strategic relations.
The second US interest threatened by the war in Syria is the prospect that the war will not be contained in Syria. Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan specifically are threatened by the carnage. To date, this threat has been checked in Jordan and Lebanon. In Jordan, US forces along the border have doubtlessly had a deterrent impact in preventing the infiltration of the kingdom by Syrian forces.
In Lebanon, given the huge potential for spillover, the consequences of the war in Syria have been much smaller than could have been reasonably expected. Hezbollah has taken a significant political hit for its involvement in the war in Syria. On the ground, the spillover violence has mainly involved Shi'ite and Shi'ite jihadists targeting one another.
Iraq is the main regional victim of the war in Syria. The war there reignited the war between Sunnis and Shi'ites in Iraq. Violence has reached levels unseen since the US force surge in 2007. The renewed internecine warfare in Iraq redounds directly to President Barack Obama's decision not to leave a residual US force in the country. In the absence US forces, there is no actor on the ground capable of strengthening the Iraqi government's ability to withstand Iranian penetration or the resurgence of al-Qaida.
The third interest of the US and its allies that is threatened by the war in Syria is to prevent Iran, Russia or al-Qaida from securing a victory or a tangible benefit from their involvement in the war.
It is important to note that despite the moral depravity of the regime's use of chemical weapons, none of America's vital interests is impacted by their use within Syria. Obama's pledge last year to view the use of chemical weapons as a tripwire that would automatically cause the US to intervene militarily in the war in Syria was made without relation to any specific US interest.
Read more: Family Security Matters http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamas-bread-and-circuses?f=syria#ixzz2expVYUxS
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Ditherer in Chief failed to address basic questions before declaring intent for war - ed
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Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite. For too long, scholars have ignored Columbus’ grand passion: the quest to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims.
During Columbus’ lifetime, Jews became the target of fanatical religious persecution. On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella proclaimed that all Jews were to be expelled from Spain. The edict especially targeted the 800,000 Jews who had never converted, and gave them four months to pack up and get out.
The Jews who were forced to renounce Judaism and embrace Catholicism were known as “Conversos,” or converts. There were also those who feigned conversion, practicing Catholicism outwardly while covertly practicing Judaism, the so-called “Marranos,” or swine.
Tens of thousands of Marranos were tortured by the Spanish Inquisition. They were pressured to offer names of friends and family members, who were ultimately paraded in front of crowds, tied to stakes and burned alive. Their land and personal possessions were then divvied up by the church and crown.
Recently, a number of Spanish scholars, such as Jose Erugo, Celso Garcia de la Riega, Otero Sanchez and Nicholas Dias Perez, have concluded that Columbus was a Marrano, whose survival depended upon the suppression of all evidence of his Jewish background in face of the brutal, systematic ethnic cleansing.
Columbus, who was known in Spain as Cristóbal Colón and didn’t speak Italian, signed his last will and testament on May 19, 1506, and made five curious — and revealing — provisions.
Two of his wishes — tithe one-tenth of his income to the poor and provide an anonymous dowry for poor girls — are part of Jewish customs. He also decreed to give money to a Jew who lived at the entrance of the Lisbon Jewish Quarter.
On those documents, Columbus used a triangular signature of dots and letters that resembled inscriptions found on gravestones of Jewish cemeteries in Spain. He ordered his heirs to use the signature in perpetuity.
According to British historian Cecil Roth’s “The History of the Marranos,” the anagram was a cryptic substitute for the Kaddish, a prayer recited in the synagogue by mourners after the death of a close relative. Thus, Columbus’ subterfuge allowed his sons to say
Kaddish for their crypto-Jewish father when he died. Finally, Columbus left money to support the crusade he hoped his successors would take up to liberate the Holy Land.
Kaddish for their crypto-Jewish father when he died. Finally, Columbus left money to support the crusade he hoped his successors would take up to liberate the Holy Land.
Estelle Irizarry, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, has analyzed the language and syntax of hundreds of handwritten letters, diaries and documents of Columbus and concluded that the explorer’s primary written and spoken language was Castilian Spanish. Irizarry explains that 15th-century Castilian Spanish was the
“Yiddish” of Spanish Jewry, known as “Ladino.” At the top left-hand corner of all but one of the 13 letters written by Columbus to his son Diego contained the handwritten Hebrew letters bet-hei, meaning b’ezrat Hashem (with God’s help). Observant Jews have for centuries customarily added this blessing to their letters. No letters to
outsiders bear this mark, and the one letter to Diego in which this was omitted was one meant for King Ferdinand.
“Yiddish” of Spanish Jewry, known as “Ladino.” At the top left-hand corner of all but one of the 13 letters written by Columbus to his son Diego contained the handwritten Hebrew letters bet-hei, meaning b’ezrat Hashem (with God’s help). Observant Jews have for centuries customarily added this blessing to their letters. No letters to
outsiders bear this mark, and the one letter to Diego in which this was omitted was one meant for King Ferdinand.
In Simon Weisenthal’s book, “Sails of Hope,” he argues that Columbus’ voyage was motivated by a desire to find a safe haven for the Jews in light of their expulsion from Spain. Likewise, Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia
to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews’ holy Temple.
to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews’ holy Temple.
In Columbus’ day, Jews widely believed that Jerusalem had to be liberated and the Temple rebuilt for the Messiah to come.
Scholars point to the date on which Columbus set sail as further evidence of his true motives. He was originally going to sail on August 2, 1492, a day that happened to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av, marking the destruction of the First and
Second Holy Temples of Jerusalem. Columbus postponed this original sail date by one day to avoid embarking on the holiday, which would have been considered by Jews to be an unlucky day to set sail. (Coincidentally or significantly, the day he set forth was the very day that Jews were, by law, given the choice of converting, leaving
Spain, or being killed.)
Second Holy Temples of Jerusalem. Columbus postponed this original sail date by one day to avoid embarking on the holiday, which would have been considered by Jews to be an unlucky day to set sail. (Coincidentally or significantly, the day he set forth was the very day that Jews were, by law, given the choice of converting, leaving
Spain, or being killed.)
Columbus’ voyage was not, as is commonly believed, funded by the deep pockets of Queen Isabella, but rather by two Jewish Conversos and another prominent Jew. Louis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez advanced an interest free loan of 17,000 ducats from their own pockets to help pay for the voyage, as did Don Isaac Abrabanel, rabbi
and Jewish statesman.
and Jewish statesman.
Indeed, the first two letters Columbus sent back from his journey were not to Ferdinand and Isabella, but to Santangel and Sanchez, thanking them for their support and telling them what he had found.
The evidence seem to bear out a far more complicated picture of the man for whom our nation now celebrates a national holiday and has named its capital.
As we witness bloodshed the world over in the name of religious freedom, it is valuable to take another look at the man who sailed the seas in search of such freedoms — landing in a place that would eventually come to hold such an ideal at its very core.
A new light on a great man - ed
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A good dog shows affection .. ed
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Is that legal without a plastic bag and scoop? ed
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Oh how the sanctimonious Left bemoaned the slightest criticism of Julia Gillard. Egged on by Gillard’s own rants, and abetted by heavy-hitting propagandists such as David Marr and Robert Manne, the leftist blogosphere and Twitterverse manufactured a strange demonology, wherein Tony Abbott and his supporters were transformed into a misogynistic army of haters.
Such character assassination remains the most overused technique from the Left’s current playbook: A deliberate reverse ad hominem manoeuvre whereby genuine political disagreements from opponents are spun to appear as personal hate-motivated slurs. Media attack dogs for the Obama administration overuse this tactic so often it borders on the comical. You don’t want Obamacare? You’re a racist! Want to keep your guns? How racist! Think tax rates are too high? Racist! You’re a Republican? RACIST!
While Gillard once complained of her internet detractors being ‘misogynists and nutjobs’, the recent federal election demonstrated, more than ever, on just what side of the political fence most of the web’s crazies reside. Andrew Bolt has already commented on the rapid appearance of hate-filled Facebook pages that sprang up post-election.
Including: ‘Tony Abbott should be assassinated’ and ‘Tony Abbott should just die’. A reader of Bolt’s blog was able to track the location of the Facebook user who created the assassinate Abbott page: a trade union hall. No real surprises there. One suspects Bolt was also aware of, but too much of a gentleman to even mention, other disgraceful Facebook hate pages such as ‘Furiously Masturbating To Tony Abbott’s daughters’, or the more innocuous sounding, but equally disgusting page titled ‘Tony Abbott’s Daughters.’ Both are filled with the vilest of sexual descriptions, including incest and bestiality, depraved fantasies that seem to resonate in the souls of too many sickos on the Left.
Like millions across this great land, I watched the election results on Saturday 7 September. One eye on the TV — as my friend Carlos surfed between the various channels’ coverages — the other on Facebook and Twitter. As heartening as the results coming through the TV may have been, the reactions from lefty netizens were beyond disturbing. I don’t exaggerate when I say much of what I read was unpublishable. A slew of deviant comments similar to those on the Facebook pages mentioned above filled my screen. Rage at how the majority of their fellow Australians had voted. Crass sexualised commentary aimed at Abbott’s wife and daughters. Even threats of rape and violence. Just despicable. A smattering of some of the more moderate tweets in this vein follows. In keeping with the Left’s relentless assertion of Abbott’s misogyny, it seems fitting to focus on those of a misogynist bent:
‘I don’t know much about art but I think you’re way, way ahead of your time’
@MusicMelbMary: ‘What would Tony Abbott do if one of his daughter’s became a prostitute?’ @AndyDwyerSays: ‘Tony Abbott’s daughters now snorting lines off toilets at Lib HQ #ausvotes’. @MichelleBlogna: ‘Can’t wait for a leaked sex tape of the @TonyAbbottMHR daughters #ElectionProject’. @mffyrg ‘Shower @TonyAbbottMHR’s repulsive daughters with rotten fruit and veg at every opportunity. The Whores of @LiberalAus.’ @vila900 ‘Tony Abbot’s [sic] daughters look like men. Ugly. #TonyAbbott’. @JcliffordSmith: ‘Tony Abbott’s daughters look like trannies 2nite #ausvotes’. @bernietb: ‘Tony Abbott groping his daughters live on national TV’. @dailydoseofjess: ‘Tony Abbott’s daughters glad they can finally stop playfully stroking their dad’s chest.’ @JazzyAds: ‘Tony Abbott lusts after his daughters. Margie looks like a man, no wonder perv Tony can’t keep his hands off them. #tonyabbott #pervtony’.
Again, as disgraceful as the above tweets may be, they pale in comparison to much of the abject filth that appeared on Twitter and Facebook attacking Abbott and his female family members. But don’t expect outrage from lefty moralists anytime soon. Any more than they ever criticised the treatment of Sophie Mirabella, who was a regular victim of internet abuse. (Indeed, when she looked set to lose her seat, multiple tweeters and Facebookers exclaimed in malicious delight: ‘The Witch Is Dead!’)
And what about the late, great, Margaret Thatcher, whose actual death was celebrated by glee-filled and hate-riddled leftists both on the web and on British streets? How about the relentless vilification of Pauline Hanson? Or the despicable belittlement of Sarah Palin? Hello progressive defenders of the sisterhood? Are you there? Any accusations of misogyny? Of course not. Any woman right of centre — or, as our most recent federal election as proven, even the female family of a centre-right politician — is grist for the Left’s vindictive mill.
When the practice of demonising your opposition is encouraged by Labor’s leadership and intellectual vanguard, it should come as no surprise that their goose-stepping followers start reaching for torches, pitchforks and nooses. Contra the wailing and finger-pointing of the Left, it’s not News Limited, Alan Jones, or even their great Satan — Tony Abbott — who are responsible for the ugly divisiveness in modern Australia.
The paranoid strain in Australian political thought originates from the Left’s own propaganda machine, long geared to portraying the ‘unelectable’ Liberal leader as a misogynistic, homophobic, racist monster. Thank God that most of Australia didn’t fall for their lies. But a seething minority of true believers and fellow travellers, their own souls overflowing with the hatred they project onto others, are still drunk on the poisonous propaganda they have long consumed. It is almost a case study demonstrating why the Left are always so ready to accuse others of the politics of hate. Because they know exactly what it looks like. And if they ever have to check, verification is always just a mirror away.
This article first appeared in the print edition of The Spectator magazine, dated 14 September 2013 Aus
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Barack Obama has been running around the country taking credit for an “economic recovery”, but the truth is that things have not gotten better under Obama. Compared to when he first took office, a smaller percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely shredded. If we are really in the middle of an “economic recovery”, why is the homeownership rate the lowest that it has been in 18 years? Why has the number of Americans on food stamps increased by nearly 50 percent while Obama has been in the White House? Why has the national debt gotten more than 6 trillion dollars larger during the Obama era? Obama should not be “taking credit” for anything when it comes to the economy. In fact, he should be deeply apologizing to the American people.
And of course Obama is being delusional if he thinks that he is actually “running the economy”. The Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy and the U.S. financial system than he does. But the mainstream media loves to fixate on the presidency, so presidents always get far too much credit or far too much blame for economic conditions.
But if you do want to focus on “the change” that has taken place since Barack Obama entered the White House, there is no way in the world that you can claim that things have actually gotten better during that time frame. The cold, hard reality of the matter is that the U.S. economy has been steadily declining for over a decade, and this decline has continued while Obama has been living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
It is getting very tiring listening to Obama supporters try to claim that Obama has improved the economy. That is a false claim that is not even remotely close to reality. The following are 33 shocking facts which show how badly the U.S. economy has tanked since Obama became president…
#1 When Barack Obama entered the White House, 60.6 percent of working age Americans had a job. Today, only 58.7 percent of working age Americans have a job.
#2 Since Obama has been president, seven out of every eight jobsthat have been “created” in the U.S. economy have been part-time jobs.
#3 The number of full-time workers in the United States is still nearly 6 million below the old record that was set back in 2007.
#4 It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53 percent of all American workers now make less than $30,000 a year.
#5 40 percent of all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968.
#6 When the Obama era began, the average duration of unemployment in this country was 19.8 weeks. Today, it is 36.6 weeks.
#7 During the first four years of Obama, the number of Americans “not in the labor force” soared by an astounding 8,332,000. That far exceeds any previous four year total.
#8 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the middle class is taking home a smaller share of the overall income pie than has ever been recorded before.
#9 When Obama was elected, the homeownership rate in the United States was 67.5 percent. Today, it is 65.0 percent. That is the lowest that it has been in 18 years.
#10 When Obama entered the White House, the mortgage delinquency rate was 7.85 percent. Today, it is 9.72 percent.
#11 In 2008, the U.S. trade deficit with China was 268 billion dollars. Last year, it was 315 billion dollars.
#12 When Obama first became president, 12.5 million Americans had manufacturing jobs. Today, only 11.9 million Americans have manufacturing jobs.
#13 Median household income in America has fallen for four consecutive years. Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span.
#14 The poverty rate has shot up to 16.1 percent. That is actually higher than when the War on Poverty began in 1965.
#15 During Obama’s first term, the number of Americans on food stamps increased by an average of about 11,000 per day.
#16 When Barack Obama entered the White House, there were about 32 million Americans on food stamps. Today, there are more than 47 million Americans on food stamps.
#17 At this point, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless. This is the first time that has ever happened in our history. That number has risen by 57 percent since the 2006-2007 school year.
#18 When Barack Obama took office, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $1.85. Today, it is $3.53.
#19 Electricity bills in the United States have risen faster than the overall rate of inflation for five years in a row.
#20 Health insurance costs have risen by 29 percent since Barack Obama became president, and Obamacare is going to make things far worse.
#21 The United States has fallen in the global economic competitiveness rankings compiled by the World Economic Forum for four years in a row.
#22 According to economist Tim Kane, the following is how the number of startup jobs per 1000 Americans breaks down by presidential administration…
Bush Sr.: 11.3
Clinton: 11.2
Bush Jr.: 10.8
Obama: 7.8
#23 In 2008, that total amount of student loan debt in this country was 440 billion dollars. At this point, it has shot up to about a trillion dollars.
#24 According to one recent survey, 76 percent of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
#25 During Obama’s first term, the number of Americans collecting federal disability insurance rose by more than 18 percent.
#26 The total amount of money that the federal government gives directly to the American people has grown by 32 percent since Barack Obama became president.
#27 According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation conducted by the U.S. Census, well over 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one welfare program run by the federal government.
#28 As I wrote about the other day, American households are now receiving more money directly from the federal government than they are paying to the government in taxes.
#29 Under Barack Obama, the velocity of money (a very important indicator of economic health) has plunged to a post-World War II low.
#30 At the end of 2008, the Federal Reserve held $475.9 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds. Today, Fed holdings of U.S. Treasury bondshave skyrocketed past the 2 trillion dollar mark.
#31 When Barack Obama was first elected, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent. Today, it is up to 101 percent.
#32 During Obama’s first term, the federal government accumulated more new debt than it did under the first 42 U.S presidents combined.
#33 When you break it down, the amount of new debt accumulated by the U.S. government during Obama’s first term comes to approximately$50,521 for every single household in the United States. Are you able to pay your share?
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If you place 32 metronomes on a static object and set them rocking out of phase with one another, they will remain that way indefinitely. Place them on a moveable surface, however, and something very interesting (and very mesmerizing) happens.
The metronomes in this video fall into the latter camp. Energy from the motion of one ticking metronome can affect the motion of every metronome around it, while the motion of every other metronome affects the motion of our original metronome right back. All this inter-metranome "communication" is facilitated by the board, which serves as an energetic intermediary between all the metronomes that rest upon its surface. The metronomes in this video (which are really just pendulums, or, if you want to get really technical, oscillators) are said to be "coupled."
The math and physics surrounding coupled oscillators are actually relevant to a variety of scientific phenomena, including the transfer of sound and thermal conductivity. For a much more detailed explanation of how this works, and how to try it for yourself, check out this excellent video by condensed matter physicist Adam Milcovich.
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He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.
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September 15: International Day of Democracy; Independence Day inCosta Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua (1821); Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom
- 1440 – French knight Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, was taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by theBishop of Nantes.
- 1831 – The John Bull (pictured), the oldest operablesteam locomotive in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1916 – Tanks, the "secret weapons" of the British Army during the First World War, were first used in combat at the Battle of the Somme inSomme, Picardy, France, leading to strategic Allied victory.
- 1944 – American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai, starting the Battle of Morotai.
- 1963 – A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist church inBirmingham, Alabama, US, killing four children and injuring at least 22 others.
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Events
- 668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
- 921 – At Tetin Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law.
- 994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
- 1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
- 1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
- 1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
- 1762 – Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
- 1789 – The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the "Department of Foreign Affairs").
- 1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
- 1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
- 1816 – HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
- 1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
- 1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
- 1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
- 1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
- 1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
- 1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
- 1935 – India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded.
- 1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
- 1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
- 1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
- 1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
- 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
- 1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
- 1945 – A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
- 1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
- 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
- 1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
- 1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
- 1952 – United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
- 1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
- 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
- 1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
- 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun controllegislation.
- 1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
- 1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
- 1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
- 1975 – The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
- 1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
- 1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- 1987 – United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
- 1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
- 1993 – Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
- 1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
- 2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
- 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
- 2013 - Christina and Katherine did not go to the concert.
Births
- 786 – Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph (d. 833)
- 1254 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
- 1533 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1572)
- 1580 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
- 1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French author (d. 1680)
- 1649 – Titus Oates, English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot (d. 1705)
- 1666 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
- 1690 – Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and educator (d. 1748)
- 1715 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general (d. 1789)
- 1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer (d. 1793)
- 1759 – Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinean military officer and statesman (d. 1829)
- 1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general (d. 1824)
- 1765 – Bocage, Portuguese poet (d. 1805)
- 1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)
- 1815 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (d. 1868)
- 1819 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1902)
- 1828 – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
- 1830 – Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (d. 1915)
- 1852 – Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
- 1857 – William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
- 1858 – Charles de Foucauld, French priest (d. 1916)
- 1858 – Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
- 1860 – Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar, and statesman, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom (d. 1962)
- 1863 – Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
- 1864 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1866)
- 1867 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (d. 1920)
- 1870 – Rose Sutro, American pianist (d. 1957)
- 1876 – Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
- 1876 – Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
- 1877 – Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian zionist (d. 1938)
- 1879 – Joseph Lyons, Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
- 1880 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese physician (d. 1940)
- 1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti (d. 1947)
- 1881 – Julian Schmitz, American gymnast
- 1883 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
- 1887 – Carlos Dávila, Chilean politician, President of Chile (d. 1955)
- 1888 – Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1925)
- 1889 – Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
- 1889 – Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and author (d. 1948)
- 1890 – Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer (d. 1979)
- 1890 – Agatha Christie, English author (d. 1976)
- 1890 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974)
- 1892 – Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
- 1894 – Jean Renoir, French director (d. 1979)
- 1894 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
- 1895 – Magda Lupescu, Romanian wife of Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
- 1895 – Chic Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
- 1897 – Merle Curti, American historian and author (d. 1997)
- 1898 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936)
- 1901 – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge (d. 1985)
- 1903 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
- 1904 – Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
- 1904 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American columnist (d. 1988)
- 1906 – Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (d. 1960)
- 1906 – Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter (d. 1973)
- 1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author (d. 1968)
- 1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Kid Sheik, American trumpet player (Preservation Hall Jazz Band) (d. 1996)
- 1908 – Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1909 – C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician (d. 1969)
- 1909 – Phil Arnold, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1910 – Betty Neels, English novelist (d. 2001)
- 1911 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (d. 2000)
- 1911 – Luther Terry, American physician, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985)
- 1913 – Henry Brant, Canadian-American composer (d. 2008)
- 1913 – Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harp player (d. 1991)
- 1913 – John N. Mitchell, American lawyer, 67th United States Attorney General (d. 1988)
- 1913 – Johannes Steinhoff, German pilot (d. 1994)
- 1914 – Creighton Abrams, American general (d. 1974)
- 1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine journalist and writer (d. 1999)
- 1914 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (d. 1970)
- 1914 – Robert McCloskey, American children's author and illustrator (d. 2003)
- 1915 – Fawn M. Brodie, American biographer and historian (d. 1981)
- 1915 – Al Casey, American guitarist (d. 2005)
- 1915 – José Nicomedes Grossi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2009)
- 1915 – Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, Taiwanese bishop (d. 2012)
- 1915 – Albert Whitlock, English painter (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
- 1916 – Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
- 1916 – Frederick C. Weyand, American general (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (d. 1988)
- 1918 – Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., American business historian (d. 2007)
- 1918 – Phil Lamason, New Zealand pilot (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1919 – Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (d. 1960)
- 1919 – Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1919 – Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech writer and translator (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Kym Bonython, Australian broadcaster and musician (d. 2011)
- 1921 – Richard Gordon, English author
- 1921 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Snooky Pryor, American harmonica player (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Gene Roland, American composer and musician (d. 1982)
- 1922 – Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Bob Anderson, English fencer and choreographer (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (d. 2001)
- 1923 – Anton Heiller, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)
- 1924 – Lucebert, Dutch poet and painter (d. 1994)
- 1924 – György Lázár, Hungarian politician
- 1924 – Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Stanley Chapman, English architect, designer, and author (d. 2009)
- 1925 – Forrest Compton, American actor
- 1925 – Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
- 1927 – Norm Crosby, American comedian
- 1927 – Erika Köth, German soprano (d. 1981)
- 1927 – David Stove, Australian philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
- 1929 – Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army
- 1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 – Brian Henderson, Australian journalist
- 1932 – Neil Bartlett, English chemist (d. 2008)
- 1933 – Henry Darrow, American actor
- 1933 – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer
- 1933 – Monica Maughan, Australian actress (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator
- 1934 – Fred Nile, Australian politician
- 1936 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
- 1936 – Sara Henderson, Australian author (d. 2005)
- 1937 – Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 – Pino Puglisi, Italian priest (d. 1993)
- 1937 – Fernando de la Rúa, Argentine politician, 51st President of Argentina
- 1938 – Gaylord Perry, American baseball player
- 1939 – Subramanian Swamy, Indian politician,economist,Ex-Harvard Professor
- 1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
- 1940 – Norman Spinrad, American author
- 1941 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (Jefferson Airplane and KBC Band)
- 1941 – Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish astronaut
- 1941 – Yuriy Norshteyn, Russian animator
- 1941 – Viktor Zubkov, Russian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Russia
- 1942 – Lee Dorman, American bass player (Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond) (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
- 1944 – Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal
- 1945 – Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
- 1945 – Jessye Norman, American opera singer
- 1945 – Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician, 23rd President of the European Parliament
- 1945 – Ron Shelton, American director
- 1946 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish drummer (d. 2008)
- 1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor and director
- 1946 – Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach, and referee
- 1946 – Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1946 – Howard Waldrop, American author
- 1947 – Theodore Long, American wrestling referee and manager
- 1947 – Charles "Bobo" Shaw, American drummer (Black Artists Group and Human Arts Ensemble)
- 1947 – Larry Sparks, American singer and guitarist
- 1949 – Joe Barton, American politician
- 1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad, 5th Caliph and Head of Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- 1951 – Pete Carroll, American football coach
- 1951 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
- 1952 – Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1952 – Paula Duncan, Australian actress
- 1952 – Ratnajeevan Hoole, Sri Lankan Tamil engineer and academic
- 1952 – Kelly Keagy, American singer and drummer (Night Ranger)
- 1953 – Paul Piché, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1954 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (d. 2007)
- 1955 – Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
- 1955 – Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor and singer
- 1955 – Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing
- 1956 – Jaki Graham, English singer
- 1956 – Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer-songwriter (Cado Belle)
- 1956 – Ned Rothenberg, American musician and composer
- 1958 – Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains)
- 1958 – Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1959 – Mark Kirk, American politician
- 1960 – Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
- 1960 – Ed Solomon, American screenwriter, director, and producer
- 1961 – Terry Lamb, Australian rugby player
- 1961 – Dan Marino, American football player
- 1962 – Dina Lohan, American dancer, actress, and manager
- 1962 – Scott McNeil, Australian-Canadian actor
- 1963 – Pete Myers, American basketball player
- 1964 – Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American guitarist and songwriter (The Misfits and Kryst the Conqueror)
- 1965 – Dyan Castillejo, Filipino tennis player
- 1965 – Robert Fico, Slovak politician, 14th Prime Minister of Slovakia
- 1966 – Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
- 1967 – Paul Abbott, American baseball player
- 1967 – Huw Bunford, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (Super Furry Animals)
- 1967 – Sari Kaasinen, Finnish singer (Värttinä)
- 1968 – Danny Nucci, American actor
- 1968 – Vicky Entwistle, English actress
- 1969 – Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer
- 1970 – Carsten Klee, German footballer
- 1971 – Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer
- 1971 – Josh Charles, American actor
- 1971 – Ben Wallers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Country Teasers)
- 1972 – Jimmy Carr, English-Irish comedian
- 1972 – Kit Chan, Singaporean singer and actor
- 1972 – Letizia, Princess of Asturias
- 1973 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
- 1975 – Tom Dolan, American swimmer
- 1975 – Martina Krupičková, Czech painter
- 1976 – Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand, Correcto, and The Yummy Fur)
- 1976 – Matt Thornton, American baseball player
- 1977 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Sophie Dahl, English model and author
- 1977 – Tom Hardy, English actor
- 1977 – Leander Jordan, American football player
- 1977 – Marisa Ramirez, American actress
- 1977 – Jason Terry, American basketball player
- 1978 – Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
- 1979 – Dave Annable, American actor
- 1979 – Amy Davidson, American actress
- 1979 – Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
- 1980 – Tammie Brown, American drag queen
- 1980 – David Diehl, American football player
- 1980 – Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
- 1980 – Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer, actress, and dancer
- 1983 – Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
- 1984 – Prince Harry of Wales, Prince of Wales
- 1985 – François-Olivier Roberge, Canadian speed skater
- 1985 – Kayden Kross, American pornographic actress and writer
- 1986 – Heidi Montag, American model and singer
- 1986 – Peter Wilson, English target shooter
- 1986 – Poppy Delevingne, British model
- 1987 – Aly Cissokho, French footballer
- 1987 – Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Chelsea Kane, American actress and singer
- 1989 – Kris Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand drummer
- 1990 – Oliver Gill, English footballer
- 1990 – Matt Shively, American actor
- 1991 – Phil Ofosu-Ayeh, German-Ghanaian footballer
- 1991 – Lee Jung Shin, South Korean rapper, bass player, and actor (CN Blue)
- 1996 – Jake Cherry, American actor
Deaths
- 585 – Bidatsu, emperor of Japan (b. 538)
- 668 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
- 921 – Ludmila of Bohemia, Bohemian martyr and saint (b. 860)
- 1231 – Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
- 1326 – Dmitry of Tver (b. 1299)
- 1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
- 1500 – John Morton, English archbishop (b. 1420)
- 1596 – Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535)
- 1613 – Thomas Overbury, English poet (b. 1581)
- 1643 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
- 1649 – John Floyd, English preacher (b. 1572)
- 1700 – André Le Nôtre, French gardener (b. 1613)
- 1701 – Edmé Boursault, French playwright (b. 1638)
- 1707 – George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
- 1712 – Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician (b. 1645)
- 1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
- 1794 – Abraham Clark, American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
- 1803 – Gian Francesco Albani, Italian cardinal (b. 1719)
- 1805 – Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and politician (b. 1724)
- 1830 – François Baillairgé, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1759)
- 1830 – William Huskisson, English politician (b. 1770)
- 1835 – Sarah Knox Taylor, American wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
- 1841 – Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)
- 1842 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
- 1842 – Francisco Morazán, Guatemalan lawyer and politician (b. 1792)
- 1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (b. 1806)
- 1864 – John Hanning Speke, English army officer and explorer (b. 1827)
- 1883 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
- 1885 – Jumbo, African elephant (b. 1861)
- 1893 – Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
- 1915 – Ernest Gagnon, Canadian composer and organist (b. 1834)
- 1921 – Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russian general (b. 1886)
- 1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
- 1930 – Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
- 1938 – Thomas Wolfe, American author (b. 1900)
- 1940 – William B. Bankhead, American politician (b. 1874)
- 1944 – Walter Middelberg, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
- 1945 – André Tardieu, French politician, 102nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
- 1945 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
- 1945 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and biographer (b. 1881)
- 1965 – Steve Brown, American bassist (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1890)
- 1972 – Geoffrey Fisher, English archbishop (b. 1887)
- 1973 – Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
- 1978 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
- 1978 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (b. 1898)
- 1979 – Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
- 1980 – Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (b. 1929)
- 1981 – Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
- 1981 – Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpet player (b. 1906)
- 1983 – Prince Far I, Jamaican DJ and producer (b. 1944)
- 1985 – Cootie Williams, American trumpet player (b. 1910)
- 1989 – Jan DeGaetani, American soprano (b. 1933)
- 1989 – Olga Erteszek, American fashion designer (b. 1916)
- 1989 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet, author, and critic (b. 1905)
- 1991 – John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1993 – Pino Puglisi, Italian priest (b. 1937)
- 1995 – Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
- 1995 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish football player (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, 3rd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1908)
- 2001 – June Salter, Australian actress (b. 1932)
- 2001 – Balbir Singh Sodhi, Indian murder victim (b. 1949)
- 2003 – Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Jack Brymer, English clarinet player (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
- 2004 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist and songwriter (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
- 2004 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)
- 2005 – Guy Green, English cinematographer and director (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Sidney Luft, American director (b. 1915)
- 2006 – Raymond Baxter, English television host (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
- 2007 – Colin McRae, Scottish race car driver (b. 1968)
- 2007 – Jeremy Moore, English military commander (b. 1928)
- 2007 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928)
- 2007 – Brett Somers, Canadian-American actress (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Stavros Paravas, Greek actor (b. 1935)
- 2008 – Richard Wright, English keyboard player and songwriter (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
- 2009 – Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish screenwriter (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Arrow, Caribbean singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
- 2010 – Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, Welsh politician (b. 1935)
- 2011 – Frances Bay, Canadian actress (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Tibor Antalpéter, Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Fred Bodsworth, Canadian journalist (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Predrag Brzaković, Serbian footballer (b. 1964)
- 2012 – James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Olga Ferri, Argentine dancer and choreographer (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Jean-Louis Heinrich, French footballer (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Arthur Magugu, Kenyan politician (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Paul Okesene, Samoan rugby player (b. 1968)
- 2012 – Stephen Paul, American physicist (b. 1953)
- 2012 – Nevin Spence, Irish rugby player (b. 1990)
- 2012 – K. S. Sudarshan, Indian nationalist (b. 1931)
Holidays and observances
- Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
- Christian Feast Day:
- "Cry of Dolores" or Grito de Dolores, celebrated on the eve of the Independence Day (Mexico).
- Earliest day on which German-American Steuben Parade can fall, while September 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Saturday in September. (United States, especially New York City)
- Earliest day on which POW/MIA Recognition Day can fall, while September 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Friday in September. (United States)
- Earliest day on which Prinsjesdag can fall, while September 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Tuesday in September. (Netherlands)
- Earliest day on which Respect for the Aged Day can fall, while September 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in September. (Japan)
- Engineer's Day (India)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guatemala (a Patriotic Day), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica from Spain in 1821.
- International Day of Democracy (International)
- Knowledge Day (Azerbaijan)
- Restoration of Primorska to the Motherland Day (Slovenia)
- Silpa Bhirasri Day (Thailand).
- The beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated until October 15 (United States)
- World Lymphoma Awareness Day (International)
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"Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.” Philippians 2:1-2 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"There were also with him other little ships."
Mark 4:36
Mark 4:36
Jesus was the Lord High Admiral of the sea that night, and his presence preserved the whole convoy. It is well to sail with Jesus, even though it be in a little ship. When we sail in Christ's company, we may not make sure of fair weather, for great storms may toss the vessel which carries the Lord himself, and we must not expect to find the sea less boisterous around our little boat. If we go with Jesus we must be content to fare as he fares; and when the waves are rough to him, they will be rough to us. It is by tempest and tossing that we shall come to land, as he did before us.
When the storm swept over Galilee's dark lake all faces gathered blackness, and all hearts dreaded shipwreck. When all creature help was useless, the slumbering Saviour arose, and with a word, transformed the riot of the tempest into the deep quiet of a calm; then were the little vessels at rest as well as that which carried the Lord. Jesus is the star of the sea; and though there be sorrow upon the sea, when Jesus is on it there is joy too. May our hearts make Jesus their anchor, their rudder, their lighthouse, their life-boat, and their harbour. His Church is the Admiral's flagship, let us attend her movements, and cheer her officers with our presence. He himself is the great attraction; let us follow ever in his wake, mark his signals, steer by his chart, and never fear while he is within hail. Not one ship in the convoy shall suffer wreck; the great Commodore will steer every barque in safety to the desired haven. By faith we will slip our cable for another day's cruise, and sail forth with Jesus into a sea of tribulation. Winds and waves will not spare us, but they all obey him; and, therefore, whatever squalls may occur without, faith shall feel a blessed calm within. He is ever in the centre of the weather-beaten company: let us rejoice in him. His vessel has reached the haven, and so shall ours.
Evening
"I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin."
Psalm 32:5
Psalm 32:5
David's grief for sin was bitter. Its effects were visible upon his outward frame: "his bones waxed old"; "his moisture was turned into the drought of summer." No remedy could he find, until he made a full confession before the throne of the heavenly grace. He tells us that for a time he kept silence, and his heart became more and more filled with grief: like a mountain tarn whose outlet is blocked up, his soul was swollen with torrents of sorrow. He fashioned excuses; he endeavoured to divert his thoughts, but it was all to no purpose; like a festering sore his anguish gathered, and as he would not use the lancet of confession, his spirit was full of torment, and knew no rest. At last it came to this, that he must return unto his God in humble penitence, or die outright; so he hastened to the mercy-seat, and there unrolled the volume of his iniquities before the all-seeing One, acknowledging all the evil of his ways in language such as you read in the fifty-first and other penitential Psalms. Having done this, a work so simple and yet so difficult to pride, he received at once the token of divine forgiveness; the bones which had been broken were made to rejoice, and he came forth from his closet to sing the blessedness of the man whose transgression is forgiven. See the value of a grace-wrought confession of sin! It is to be prized above all price, for in every case where there is a genuine, gracious confession, mercy is freely given, not because the repentance and confession deserve mercy, but for Christ's sake. Blessed be God, there is always healing for the broken heart; the fountain is ever flowing to cleanse us from our sins. Truly, O Lord, thou art a God "ready to pardon!" Therefore will we acknowledge our iniquities.
===Today's reading: Proverbs 19-21, 2 Corinthians 7 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Proverbs 19-21
1 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
than a fool whose lips are perverse.
than a fool whose lips are perverse.
2 Desire without knowledge is not good—
how much more will hasty feet miss the way!
how much more will hasty feet miss the way!
3 A person’s own folly leads to their ruin,
yet their heart rages against the LORD.
yet their heart rages against the LORD.
4 Wealth attracts many friends,
but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.
but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.
5 A false witness will not go unpunished,
and whoever pours out lies will not go free.
and whoever pours out lies will not go free.
6 Many curry favor with a ruler,
and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts....
and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts....
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 7
1 Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
Paul’s Joy Over the Church’s Repentance
2 Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. 3 I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you. 4 I have spoken to you with great frankness; I take great pride in you. I am greatly encouraged; in all our troubles my joy knows no bounds.
5 For when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn—conflicts on the outside, fears within. 6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, 7 and not only by his coming but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us about your longing for me, your deep sorrow, your ardent concern for me, so that my joy was greater than ever....
Elkanah
[Ĕl'kănah] - god hath created or is jealous, possessing.
[Ĕl'kănah] - god hath created or is jealous, possessing.
- A Levite of the family of Kohath and brother of Assir and Abiasaph (Exod. 6:24; 1 Chron. 6:23).
- The father of the prophet Samuel, and a descendant of No. 1 in the fifth generation (1 Sam. 1:1-23; 2:11, 20; 1 Chron. 6:27, 34).
- A descendant of Levi through Kohath ( 1 Chron. 6:25, 36).
- A descendant of Kohath (1 Chron. 6:26, 35). Perhaps the same person as No. 3.
- An ancestor of Netophathite villagers (1 Chron. 9:16).
- A Korhite who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chron. 12:6).
- A Levite, doorkeeper of the Ark (1 Chron. 15:23). Perhaps the same as No. 6.
- An officer in king Ahaz'household and second only to the king, who was slain when Pekah invaded Judah (2 Chron. 28:7).
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