But that isn't all the ALP care about. They care about women. Not too much .. they don't want to reward women for work. The ALP want tokens. Of the four leaders of the ALP federally, none are women. The Liberal Party's deputy leader, Julie Bishop, is a woman, and more capable as minister than any of the ALP four, but that isn't the point. It is a shame there aren't more like Bishop. Give the ALP time, and they will find another issue that will define their opposition to an Abbott government. The ACT seem to think they have found another issue; Gay Marriage. Personally, I don't like government defining marriage. Government don't do much very well. I shudder to think what complying with gay marriage law would entail for the average citizen. At what time would federal police be able to turn on their flashlights and say, loudly "That sirs, is not legal!"Leave it to the churches to be wowsers. But let the churches make their own regulation. Then let the federal police scratch their heads and try to see if the practice is Catholic or Protestant ..
In the US there are guns. There are guns in Australia too, but there are regulations that are effective. Obama has tried ineffective regulation, and it hasn't worked. Today there is discussion of a man, who might have been a son of Obama, killed lots of people with an assault rifle. He had taken it to the workplace when some would argue it was better off at his home. Because the Democrats get votes by being the goto party for gun control, it is not in their interests to do anything effective about the issue.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Charles the Simple (879), Stephen Hales (1677), Jonathan Alder (1773), Ira Davenport (1839), Walter Murdoch (1874), Francis Chichester (1901), Bea Miles (1902), Hank Williams (1923), Roddy McDowall (1928), Stirling Moss (1929), Anne Bancroft (1931), Shelby Flint (1939), Rita Rudner (1953), Mandawuy Yunupingu (1956), Dustin Nguyen (1962) and Justyna Jegiołka (1991). On your day, Constitution Day in the United States
1859 – Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton.
1914 – Andrew Fisher became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time, beginning a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s.
1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on that country from the west.
1978 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.
2011 – Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street. Emperor Norton is gone. Andrew Fisher has reformed. Poland is back. Twelve days of talks end with talk. Occupy Wall street is vacant. Enjoy your day.
1859 – Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton.
1914 – Andrew Fisher became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time, beginning a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s.
1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on that country from the west.
1978 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.
2011 – Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street. Emperor Norton is gone. Andrew Fisher has reformed. Poland is back. Twelve days of talks end with talk. Occupy Wall street is vacant. Enjoy your day.
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Now Palmer sees army officers under the beds
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (4:26pm)
Buffoon Clive Palmer has already accused the Greens of being funded by the CIA and Rupert Murdoch’s estranged wife of being a Chinese spy.
Now he implies ex-military officers are rigging our elections:
Money talks. But in this case it talks rubbish, at high volume.
UPDATE
Reader Buffoon Fighter - The Blue Knight corrects the buffoon’s conspiracy theory:
There is a fix - and it’s from the Palmer United Party itself, which dished up a Dorothy Dixer to Clive Palmer on Q&A last night:
Good news from the latest counting in Fairfax, where Palmer once led by 3000 votes:
Palmer’s lead is now just 64,
(Thanks to readers Jeff and Baldrick.)
Now he implies ex-military officers are rigging our elections:
BILLIONAIRE businessman and political hopeful Clive Palmer has taken a swipe at ex-military personnel as part of his suspicions involving the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)…I find it astonishing - depressing - that a significant minority of Australians think this man deserved their vote.
“One of the things I’m concerned about in Australia is all our divisional returning officers are ex-military officers of the Australian armed forces,” Mr Palmer said on ABC TV.
“I think the military shouldn’t be involved in a democracy.”
Money talks. But in this case it talks rubbish, at high volume.
UPDATE
Reader Buffoon Fighter - The Blue Knight corrects the buffoon’s conspiracy theory:
Why was Clive Palmer raising conspiracy theories, when the AEC had already explained that the error that had occurred was a mere misallocation of votes between two booths in the Fairfax electorate - that of Buderim and Coolum Beach. In effect someone in the AEC recorded the votes under the wrong booth, but as both are within the seat of Fairfax it makes no difference whatsoever. And now that they corrected the error after it was brought into their attention all is fine.UPDATE
Except we had a panel full of lefties again at Q&A; as well as the fact checking unit of the ABC and all of its researchers not being aware of the NEWS report from the Courier-Mail posted at just after 4pm carrying the full explanation.
There is a fix - and it’s from the Palmer United Party itself, which dished up a Dorothy Dixer to Clive Palmer on Q&A last night:
Mr Palmer used the ABC’s QandA show to criticise the AEC accusing it of everything from being out of date to suggesting there could be a military conspiracy secretly pulling the strings.UPDATE
But he has come under criticism on social media after fielding a question from Palmer United 2013 election candidate Tim Kelly without disclosing his relationship.
“Clive made a point earlier, why are we in 2013 still using pencils and in America they at least have a computer system and other countries,” Mr Kelly asked.
“What is the go with the pencil and paper?”
Good news from the latest counting in Fairfax, where Palmer once led by 3000 votes:
UPDATE
Palmer’s lead is now just 64,
(Thanks to readers Jeff and Baldrick.)
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How the racism game washes away pesky crime stats
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (2:43pm)
The Age and academics agree that Sudanese and Somali-born immigrants are five times more likely to figure in crime stats because the police are racist.
So I guess this is one more police officer probably just being a racist with all that profiling.
I guess people complaining about being mugged or bashed are probably just racist, too.
Simple, this game.
So I guess this is one more police officer probably just being a racist with all that profiling.
I guess people complaining about being mugged or bashed are probably just racist, too.
Simple, this game.
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Buttrose’s attack on Bishop is sexist
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (2:18pm)
The true sexist is Ita
Buttrose, who sees a successful woman (a managing partner of a law firm,
now deputy Liberal Party leader) and concludes she’s just some man’s
“token woman”:
UPDATE
Buttrose’s slur suggests Bronwyn Bishop is right - that some people are so habituated to affirmative action appointments that they see a token woman even when staring right at a woman who’s risen entirely on her merits:
Reader Alan RM Jones:
Annabel Crabb:
I’m sure Julie Bishop is accustomed to being the token woman throughout her career, and here she is being the token woman again.Disgraceful. We’re back to where we were under John Howard, where the critics of the government seem slightly unhinged. And seem, dare I say it, to be projecting more than describing.
UPDATE
Buttrose’s slur suggests Bronwyn Bishop is right - that some people are so habituated to affirmative action appointments that they see a token woman even when staring right at a woman who’s risen entirely on her merits:
Likely Speaker Bronwyn Bishop says she never wants to see the Liberal Party embrace affirmative action as it would entrench women as ‘’permanent second-class citizens’’.UPDATE
Reader Alan RM Jones:
Some woman leaders are so awesome, a cabinet only needs one.
UPDATE
Annabel Crabb:
BRW publisher Amanda Gome went further: “Poor Julie Bishop. She should have taken a lesson from the trail blazing business women who broke into corporate boardrooms a few decades ago. Never be the token woman in the boardroom because suddenly your gender is the issue that defines who you are and how you are perceived”....(Thanks to readers Gab and Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Poor Julie Bishop, my arse. Julie Bishop is not a ‘token woman’…
Julie Bishop is a woman who has never, as far as I can recall, had a concession made to her on account of her gender. In fact, I cannot even recall any instances of chivalry towards her displayed by her male colleagues, many of whom have cheerfully undermined and white-anted her just as viciously as they would any man whose job they wanted, which is what happened to her when she was shadow treasurer.
She has played political games with the best of them.
She has pursued a political career with relentless determination, and endured setbacks and humiliations along the way while never succumbing to self-doubt or self-pity… Lonely she might be in Tony Abbott’s Cabinet, yes, but let’s not insult her by dismissing her considerable achievements. ..
Something weird always creeps in to this debate about women’s representation in politics. And that is that some proponents of equal participation find it necessary to endorse only the participation of women they personally admire.
Hands up anyone who, in the past week, has whined about the under-representation of women in the Abbott Cabinet, but rejoiced at the probable loss of Sophie Mirabella from the political landscape?
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The Left buries Mirabella, then complains she’s not there
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (12:27pm)
First the Left threw everything into defeating Sophie Mirabella, one of two women in Tony Abbott’s shadow cabinet.
Now, with Mirabella gone, the Left complains Tony Abbott does not have enough women in his Cabinet.
Now, with Mirabella gone, the Left complains Tony Abbott does not have enough women in his Cabinet.
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When will warmists say “oops”?
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (9:03am)
Professor Bjorn Lomborg says man is warming the planet, but the evidence now shows global warming theorists have vastly exaggerated the problem. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report will grudgingly dial down the alarm:
The new report’s ... June draft shows “similar” temperature rises to the earlier reports, at about 1.0-3.7oCelsius by the end of the century. For sea-level rise, the IPCC now includes modeling of glacier responses of 3-20 centimeters, leading to a higher total estimate of 40-62 cm by century’s end – much lower than the exaggerated and scary figure of 1-2 meters of sea-level rise that many environmental activists, and even some media outlets, bandy about.UPDATE
Similarly, the IPCC has allowed for lower temperature rises by reducing the lower end of its estimate of so-called climate sensitivity. It is also less certain now that humans have caused hurricane and drought events since 1950. In the 2007 report, it was more than 50% certain that they have; now it is less than 21% certain…
The bigger problem for the IPCC is that global temperature has risen little or not at all in the last 10-20 years… To its credit, the IPCC admits that “models do not generally reproduce the observed reduction in the surface warming trend over the last 10–15 years.” ...
Compared to the actual temperature rise since 1980, the average of 32 top climate models (the so-called CMIP5) overestimates it by 71-159% (see graph). A new Nature Climate Change study shows that the prevailing climate models produced estimates that overshot the temperature rise over the last 15 years by more than 300%.
Gerard Henderson is right - and will be even more right if the warming pause continues until the next election:
Labor appears to be in a state of delusion in attempting to rationalise the devastating loss on September 7 as primarily due to internal divisions and leadership changes. This has led leadership contenders Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten, along with acting opposition leader Chris Bowen, to confirm support for a carbon tax or an emissions trading scheme (ETS).
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What song would you put in these grants-gobblers’ iPod?
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (8:52am)
We pay for grants
recipients to play. The Australian Research Council-funded Centre for
the History of Emotions sends out this press release:
(Thanks to reader Enough is Enough.)
My Life As A PlaylistPhilippa Martyr notes:
A song for every significant moment of your life
Is there a particular song that reminds you of a significant moment in your life? What do you feel when you hear that song? What songs would you choose for your wedding, your birthday, your funeral?
The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) launched My Life As A Playlist, a major cross-platform project produced by ABC Arts on Monday, 16 September 2013.
Presented by ABC Radio National’s The Inside Sleeve host Robbie Buck, My Life As A Playlist is an interactive website where you can curate a personal soundtrack to your life.
You know, just last week a nice philosopher chap took people like me to task for criticising the ARC’s funding of projects like this, because it’s wrong to have governments looking too closely at the ARC. Apparently people like me are spearheading a covert campaign to destroy the humanities…And the ABC and ARC grant recipients are the first to scream at the prospects of cuts to government funding.
Guess what? People like me don’t need to engage in a campaign to destroy the humanities. The humanities in academia have done that all by themselves, by precisely this kind of project. My Life As A Playlist is just the world’s most expensive iPod, but it’s being sold to us as some kind of discovery along the lines of penicillin. From the press release:
Robbie Buck said: “I love the way music can act as chapter headlines for our past. Looking back at the highlights – and lowlights –in our own lives, there’s always a soundtrack attached to it. Music possesses that wonderful capacity to boost our spirits in celebration and bolster our moods in commiseration. And there’s nothing quite like the emotional rush of hearing a piece of music that’s closely attached to a major point in your life, even many years later. It’s this aspect of My Life As A Playlist that’s so exciting, along with its ability to share those experiences with the rest of the nation.”Robbie Buck is someone who earns his living working as a DJ on the ABC, so we can understand why he is so excited about this. It will keep him in work for a bit longer and ensure that his place in the ideological echo chamber – ABC, ARC, Triple J, Abbott666 – is not cast into doubt by any independent thought along the lines of, ‘Hey, exactly why are Australian taxpayers funding this again?’
(Thanks to reader Enough is Enough.)
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ABC blames the audience it chose for making it so vicious
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (7:50am)
Here is the ABC’s official defence to showing a doctored picture of an ABC critic having sex with a dog, with the caption “Chris “Dog F...er” Kenny” spelled out:
To that the ABC has two defences which are simply preposterous. Weak. Evasive. Amoral at best.
First, “the segment was consistent with the humour from the Chaser Team”.
This is just the ABC dodging its responsibility - or, in fact, hiding it. If the ABC had instead hired Nazi comedians who told “jokes” about Jews, would it really get away with that defence - that “the segment was consistent with the humour from the Goebbels Admiration Society”? If this Dog F...er “joke” was “consistent with” the humor the ABC expected when it hired The Chaser, should it not explain why it knowingly handed over time on the publicly funded ABC to tell just such “jokes”?
Second, the ABC says the “joke” was “in line with the target audience of The Hamster Decides”.
More dodging of responsibility. If the ABC had instead hired bikies to tell “jokes” about people they’d like to kill, would it really get away with that defence - that such “jokes” were “in line with the target audience of The Bikie Hate Hour”? Should it not have to explain why it handed over time on the publicly funded ABC to entertain and validate this particular audience with these values?
Yes, I’ve used extreme examples (reductio ad absurdum) to illustrate the absurdity and moral vacuity of the ABC’s response.
But the ABC needs to be exposed for washing its hands of responsibility. It chose the audience it wanted to entertain. It accepted the viciousness, vulgarity and abuse which that entertainment included.
Those decisions are precisely what the ABC should be condemned for. By noting it deliberately chose this group to tell such jokes to amuse the very people who’d laugh at such vilification, the ABC has not defended itself but condemned.
UPDATE
The late Kerry Packer showed the leadership that ABC managing director Mark Scott dodges:
While strong in nature, the segment was consistent with the humour from the Chaser Team and in line with the target audience of The Hamster Decides. The graphic was clearly fake and absurd.Yes, the graphic was clearly fake and absurd. That’s not the issue. The issue is that it was offensive, obscene, abusive and possibly defamatory.
— Jennifer Collins, Head of Entertainment, ABC Television, Response to Media Watch questions, 16th September, 2013
To that the ABC has two defences which are simply preposterous. Weak. Evasive. Amoral at best.
First, “the segment was consistent with the humour from the Chaser Team”.
This is just the ABC dodging its responsibility - or, in fact, hiding it. If the ABC had instead hired Nazi comedians who told “jokes” about Jews, would it really get away with that defence - that “the segment was consistent with the humour from the Goebbels Admiration Society”? If this Dog F...er “joke” was “consistent with” the humor the ABC expected when it hired The Chaser, should it not explain why it knowingly handed over time on the publicly funded ABC to tell just such “jokes”?
Second, the ABC says the “joke” was “in line with the target audience of The Hamster Decides”.
More dodging of responsibility. If the ABC had instead hired bikies to tell “jokes” about people they’d like to kill, would it really get away with that defence - that such “jokes” were “in line with the target audience of The Bikie Hate Hour”? Should it not have to explain why it handed over time on the publicly funded ABC to entertain and validate this particular audience with these values?
Yes, I’ve used extreme examples (reductio ad absurdum) to illustrate the absurdity and moral vacuity of the ABC’s response.
But the ABC needs to be exposed for washing its hands of responsibility. It chose the audience it wanted to entertain. It accepted the viciousness, vulgarity and abuse which that entertainment included.
Those decisions are precisely what the ABC should be condemned for. By noting it deliberately chose this group to tell such jokes to amuse the very people who’d laugh at such vilification, the ABC has not defended itself but condemned.
UPDATE
The late Kerry Packer showed the leadership that ABC managing director Mark Scott dodges:
On September 4, 1992, Doug Mulray fronted Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos. Being a 90 minute special spun off from Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show, you’d expect that its entire season would have been played out. However, after only 35 minutes of animal rutting and scantily clad humans, legend has it that Kerry Packer dialled the studio direct and ordered the staff to ‘get that shit off the air’.Here’s how that show abruptly ended:
(Thanks to reader Ken.)
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Selling shampoo from Gillard’s car
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (6:50am)
A certain sense of entitlement - again - that sure jars:
JULIA Gillard wrote a personal cheque for $4243 to the Department of Finance because her partner, Tim Mathieson, had misused her taxpayer-funded car to drive around Victoria selling shampoo and other haircare products in breach of parliamentary rules.
Documents released to The Australian under Freedom of Information laws yesterday show that Ms Gillard made the payment on March 9, 2007, as deputy leader of the opposition because of concern over a breach of rules forbidding the use of the car for commercial purposes. The documents were provided yesterday after a 10-month battle by the former prime minister and her office to prevent the Department of Finance from following through on its decision to release the material.
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But not one of Labor’s four leaders is a woman
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (6:44am)
Labor complains there
are almost no women in Tony Abbott’s cabinet. But there is not a single
woman among Labor’s four leaders (Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, acting
leader Chris Bowen and leadership rivals Anthony Albanese and Bill
Shorten).
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Actually, I hope I’m wrong about climate change
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (6:05am)
Another criticism of Abbott’s ministerial arrangements from those obsessed by the politics of seeming:
Complaining you’ve been snubbed if your interest is not name-checked in a Minister’s title is absurd. Or, rather, it leads to absurdly long-winded titles in governments that care more for how they seem than about what they do. For instance, here is the title Julia Gillard gave Craig Emerson:
All that said, am I allowed to hope that I’m actually wrong? Please let it be true that omitting the words “Climate Change” from the title of Environment Minister Greg Hunt really does signal a dialing back of this great scare that has destroyed our reason and hoovered our wallets.
The portfolios had noticeably shorter titles, sparking criticism that Mr Abbott had either overlooked key responsibilities such as science, aged care and climate change, or was making a political statement that these were no longer worthy of separate mention under his administration.
Complaining you’ve been snubbed if your interest is not name-checked in a Minister’s title is absurd. Or, rather, it leads to absurdly long-winded titles in governments that care more for how they seem than about what they do. For instance, here is the title Julia Gillard gave Craig Emerson:
Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Asian Century Policy.Again, we need to return from Labor’s Age of Seeming to a new Age of Doing. Let Ministers be judged not by the size of their business cards, the shout-outs in their titles or even their gender, race or sexual preferences. Let them be judged on performance. So the new Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, doesn’t actually have “science” in his title. Let’s see what he actually does for science before damning, shall we?
All that said, am I allowed to hope that I’m actually wrong? Please let it be true that omitting the words “Climate Change” from the title of Environment Minister Greg Hunt really does signal a dialing back of this great scare that has destroyed our reason and hoovered our wallets.
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Abbott lacks women; his critics lack context
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (5:10am)
Tony Abbott’s naming of a Cabinet with just one woman - Julie Bishop - is a gift to Leftists with no sense of context.
Take Fairfax writer Clementine Ford, who sells t-shirts with the slogan ”F… Abbott”:
Overall, I’d rate Abbott’s Cabinet, person for person, as potentially better than any we’ve had over the past six years. If this team delivers, it will already be more admirable than any that boasted even a Wong. I don’t care how a Minister seems; I care what he or she does.
UPDATE
Is someone saying a woman of this poor judgment should have been promoted?
Peter van Onselen, at least, names one woman - and one only - he feels should have been made a minister (but not Cabinet minister) - the young Kelly O’Dwyer. He blames Abbott more for not giving more women a chance to prove themselves over the past four years, preferring instead to radiate “stability” with the team he started out with.
But let’s not forget, radiating stability did help him win the election.
UPDATE
More context from reader watty:
Take Fairfax writer Clementine Ford, who sells t-shirts with the slogan ”F… Abbott”:
When Kevin Rudd re-assumed the prime ministership in late June, his cabinet reshuffle resulted in the promotion of three more women to his ministry. His decision distinguished it as the most gender equitable cabinet in Australian political history so far, with a balance of 14 men to six women.Context overlooked:
Rudd appointed more women not because he’s a gender warrior but because so many men refused to serve with the snake after he’d killed off the first female Prime Minister:Ford again:
Within an hour of Rudd’s victory, Gillard, Swan, Garrett, Emerson, Greg Combet and Joe Ludwig had resigned from the ministry.
For a brief time, we had talented women [in Labor Cabinets].... Penny Wong, an openly gay Asian-Australian whose sexual orientation and ethnicity were a welcome challenge to a political cast of characters unrepresentative of Australia’s diversity...Context overlooked:
Wong might have the “sexual orientation and ethnicity” that Ford prefers in a politician, but she was, frankly, one of our worst Finance Ministers, helping to preside over an explosion of spending that produced huge deficits. As Climate Change Minister she proved dangerously gullible to the global warming scare, falsely blaming the Murray-Darling Basin drought on global warming, sliming leading scientists who correctly warned against the warming hype, and funding and touting a string of dud green schemes. As a performer rather than a presenter of identity politics, Wong was a dud.Ford again:
But the Liberals ... refer to the furphy of ‘’merit’’ when it comes to their elected officials and their promotions. Indeed, Abbott himself said that he was ‘’disappointed’’ there weren’t more women in cabinet - as if he isn’t directly responsible for their absence...Context missing:
Ford neglects to name a single woman who Abbott should, on merit, have appointed to Cabinet. Reason? She can’t. And if she can’t, how can Abbott be “directly responsible for their absence”?Kenny again:
Fairfax writer Mark Kenny also fails to name a single woman of merit Abbott overlooked, which makes his criticism just a rant:
By its own admission, the Coalition is so bereft of competent women, that it can find just one considered up to the task of making a contribution at the top table.As I said on 2GB last night, yes, it is a worry that Abbott has just one woman in Cabinet. The problem is that he had no other obvious candidates other than Sophie Mirabella (who will probably lose her seat and so couldn’t be considered) and Brownyn Bishop (who was made Speaker instead).
But let’s be fair to the prime minister-elect.
The whole ministry, pretty much from top to toe, is subject to a multiplicity of competing considerations that routinely bump the merit principle, to a distant last.
I don’t blame Abbott personally. I ask instead whether the Liberal organisation is doing enough to recruit talented women, and whether it is turning its back on a potential source of future Cabinet ministers. Abbott should lead this inquiry.
So which woman of merit should Abbott have put in Cabinet, Mark? Which had the nous and - most critical - experience? I can think of some who will get there relatively soon, I hope, but I cannot think of one that should be there right now.
The gender imbalance brought a stinging rebuke from acting opposition leader Chris Bowen, who noted that war-torn Afghanistan had more women in its cabinet.Context overlooked:
Afghanistan’s cabinet in fact includes all government ministers - which we would call “the ministry” - and numbers 25, including the president. Three are women. Abbott’s ministry numbers 30, of whom five are women. Comparing like with like, the claim that Afghanistan’s cabinet (actually ministry) has more women than Abbott’s ministry is false both in number and proportion. Anyone repeating it is either ignorant or deceptive.But here is the bottom line: What we should demand most from Cabinet ministers is not that they wear skirts, look diverse or have a range of exotic backgrounds and sexual preferences. Performance should be what counts as we roll back this Age of Seeming and restore an Age of Doing.
Overall, I’d rate Abbott’s Cabinet, person for person, as potentially better than any we’ve had over the past six years. If this team delivers, it will already be more admirable than any that boasted even a Wong. I don’t care how a Minister seems; I care what he or she does.
UPDATE
Is someone saying a woman of this poor judgment should have been promoted?
The only woman named a parliamentary secretary was the out-of-favour Concetta Fierravanti-Wells. The NSW right-wing senator was demoted after her role in sponsoring the failed Greenway candidate Jaymes Diaz, against Mr Abbott’s express wishes.UPDATE
Peter van Onselen, at least, names one woman - and one only - he feels should have been made a minister (but not Cabinet minister) - the young Kelly O’Dwyer. He blames Abbott more for not giving more women a chance to prove themselves over the past four years, preferring instead to radiate “stability” with the team he started out with.
But let’s not forget, radiating stability did help him win the election.
UPDATE
More context from reader watty:
Whitlam’s First Cabinet with not a woman in sight.
Hawke’s First Cabinet - one woman, Susan Ryan.
Keating’s First Cabinet- one woman, Ros Kelly.
As a Coalition supporter I suggest that the above three Cabinets performed at a higher level and much better than any of the Kirner/Gillard/Emily’s List hodge podge of elected Cabinets of latter years. Too late for Bowen and company but the quota system doesn’t work in politics or private enterprise but genuine talent does.
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The business of snaffling grants
Andrew Bolt September 17 2013 (4:54am)
Nick Cater on our grants industry, which I’m astonished to learn has a trade magazine to suggest novel ways to snatch your money:
The grant-seeker’s trade magazine, Third Sector, publishes tips. Not-for-profit consultant Frank Spranger recommends assigning a manager “to routinely review federal and state government websites for new grants and tenders that could be relevant to your organisation”.Naturally, when a spendthrift and authoritarian government is handing out free money there are plenty of people up to the challenge of trousering it:
Peggy Hailstone, who describes herself as a professional grant writer, writes about grant-seeking trends in the April edition, advising that “capacity-building” is particularly big this year: “2013 offers an excellent opportunity to progress your grant-seeking,” she writes. “Will you take up the challenge or let it slide past?”
Thanks to Labor, we now have the Australian National Preventive Health Agency, a body set up to help its citizens keep their smoking, drinking and eating at appropriate levels. The country needed “national infrastructure to help drive the way we behave”, Roxon told the parliament in 2010…
The first achievement of ANPHA was to create 38 public-service jobs in Canberra. Its second was to encourage a gaggle of grant-seeking bodies to devise ridiculous ways of encouraging responsible drinking.
Incolink, the union-dominated body that manages redundancy payments for construction workers, scored $300,000 for its Drink Safe Mate project, which will help young workers learn to handle the grog using “a capacity-building approach”. The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health in Victoria also went for capacity-building, intending to use its cheque for $492,267 to “improve the capacity of young people from immigrant and refugee backgrounds to reduce their risk of alcohol-related harm"…
When it comes to dishing out public money in the cause of preventive health, no multifaceted early intervention approach or awareness-raising initiative is too questionable to dismiss.
The Gwabba Yorga-Gabba Warra project received $500,000 to organise netball competitions; Shire Wide Youth Service has $500,000 for its Be A Smarty When You Party project; Mushroom Marketing landed a half million for its Live Solution - Have a Better Time With Live Music project.
The list goes on and on: 26 dubious micro-grants totalling $10 million were allocated last year by Roxon’s quasi-autonomous faculty for projects that look as if they have been invented for no other purpose than squeezing money out of the public purse.
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Recently UN Secretary General admitted to a group of Israeli students that Israel faces bias and discrimination at the United Nations.
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(Note: media reports claimed that Moon retracted this comment, but UN official Robert Serry later denied this and reaffirmed the statement -http://news.yahoo.com/
Will he do anything about it? If not, wait for the Obama announcement "I did what I wanted" - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Piers Morgan was kind, sensitive, and allowed Kay and me to share honestly and freely without interruption about suicide, mental illness, guns, grief, GOD, and our family's journey. He graciously came to our office to tape this interview. It will air on CNN Tuesday at 6pm PST. Please share this with others and pray many lives will be saved. Thank you dear friends for helping get the word out.
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Pastor Rick Warren
Nothing happens without God's permission BUT NOT everything is God's will. God doesn't do evil nor tempt evil.(James 1:13)
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
When darkness overtakes the godly, light will come bursting in.(Psalm 112:4, NIV)
Anytime you are going through difficult, dark times, know that God already has a plan to bring you through to victory.I believe it means that suddenly, you’re going to get well. Suddenly, you will meet the right person. Suddenly, you’re able to pay your house off. Our attitude should be, “My child may be off course, making poor decisions, but I’m expecting a flood of God’s mercy to bring him back.” Or, “My house has been on the market for a year and still hasn’t sold, but I’m expecting a flood of favor to cause it to stand out and sell"
In the midst of that difficulty, don’t get discouraged. You’re in a prime position to see a flood of God’s goodness. Keep praising Him. Keep thanking Him and stay in faith because His light will break through the darkness,in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Anytime you are going through difficult, dark times, know that God already has a plan to bring you through to victory.I believe it means that suddenly, you’re going to get well. Suddenly, you will meet the right person. Suddenly, you’re able to pay your house off. Our attitude should be, “My child may be off course, making poor decisions, but I’m expecting a flood of God’s mercy to bring him back.” Or, “My house has been on the market for a year and still hasn’t sold, but I’m expecting a flood of favor to cause it to stand out and sell"
In the midst of that difficulty, don’t get discouraged. You’re in a prime position to see a flood of God’s goodness. Keep praising Him. Keep thanking Him and stay in faith because His light will break through the darkness,in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Prayer for those struggling with sexual sin.
Father,I thank you for the most valuable gift, Salvation through the cross of your son Jesus Christ. Lord I am weak, pathetic man, I am fallible, I am a chief sinner, but glory to You, that you are merciful and mighty. I confess that I have sinned with the lust of my eyes, I have committed adultery within my heart time and time again, with pornography and almost any way possible. Father I acknowledge that I will increasingly need you for the rest of the days that you have given me. Lord have mercy on me. Father let this prayer that you hear,not be one of pride, examine my heart and help me like you always do,thank you Father.Amen.
Father,I thank you for the most valuable gift, Salvation through the cross of your son Jesus Christ. Lord I am weak, pathetic man, I am fallible, I am a chief sinner, but glory to You, that you are merciful and mighty. I confess that I have sinned with the lust of my eyes, I have committed adultery within my heart time and time again, with pornography and almost any way possible. Father I acknowledge that I will increasingly need you for the rest of the days that you have given me. Lord have mercy on me. Father let this prayer that you hear,not be one of pride, examine my heart and help me like you always do,thank you Father.Amen.
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September 17: Constitution Day in the United States
- 1859 – Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton.
- 1914 – Andrew Fisher became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time, beginning a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s.
- 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on that country from the west.
- 1978 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime MinisterMenachem Begin (both pictured with Jimmy Carter) signed the Camp David Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.
- 2011 – Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park inNew York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street.
Events
- 456 – Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged with a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.
- 1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
- 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
- 1462 – The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
- 1577 – The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
- 1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
- 1631 – Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
- 1716 – Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine Regiment at the age of 17, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
- 1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
- 1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
- 1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
- 1809 – Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
- 1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
- 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
- 1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.
- 1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
- 1894 – The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
- 1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- 1924 – The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
- 1924 – The Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian is formed.
- 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
- 1939 – World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
- 1939 – Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
- 1940 – World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.
- 1941 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued.
- 1943 – World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans.
- 1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
- 1948 – The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations andIsrael.
- 1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
- 1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
- 1957 – Malaysia joins the United Nations.
- 1961 – The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.
- 1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
- 1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
- 1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
- 1980 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
- 1980 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
- 1987 – Pope John Paul II embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting San Francisco.
- 1991 – Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
- 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- 1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
- 2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
- 2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
- 2006 – An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Partyhad lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
- 2007 – AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters fromDulles, Virginia to New York City
- 2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
Births
- 879 – Charles the Simple, French king (d. 929)
- 1192 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
- 1550 – Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
- 1605 – Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer (d. 1650)
- 1630 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
- 1639 – Hans Herr, Swiss bishop (d. 1725)
- 1674 – Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (d. 1728)
- 1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist, invented Forceps (d. 1761)
- 1687 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
- 1688 – Maria Luisa of Savoy (d. 1714)
- 1730 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
- 1739 – John Rutledge, American politician, 31st Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)
- 1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
- 1771 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
- 1773 – Jonathan Alder, American farmer, first settler in Madison County, Ohio (d. 1849)
- 1819 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (d. 1901)
- 1820 – Émile Augier, French playwright (d. 1889)
- 1826 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
- 1839 – Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911)
- 1850 – Guerra Junqueiro, Portuguese lawyer, journalist, author, and poet (d. 1923)
- 1854 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick Motor Company (d. 1929)
- 1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist (d. 1935)
- 1859 – Frank Dawson Adams, Canadian geologist (d. 1942)
- 1862 – Jean de Madre, French polo player (d. 1934)
- 1868 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
- 1869 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian, educator, and scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938)
- 1874 – Walter Murdoch, Australian academic and author (d. 1970)
- 1878 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950)
- 1878 – Antoine Védrenne, French rower (d. 1937)
- 1879 – Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager, and executive (d. 1930)
- 1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian businessman, politician, and activist (d. 1973)
- 1881 – Alfred Carpenter, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)
- 1883 – William Carlos Williams, American pediatrician and poet (d. 1963)
- 1884 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
- 1890 – Gabriel Heatter, American journalist (d. 1972)
- 1892 – Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1981)
- 1897 – Earl Webb, American baseball player (d. 1965)
- 1900 – Hughie Critz, American baseball player (d. 1980)
- 1900 – J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985)
- 1901 – Francis Chichester, English aviator and sailor (d. 1972)
- 1902 – Bea Miles, Australian writer (d. 1973)
- 1903 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
- 1903 – Frank O'Connor, Irish-American author (d. 1966)
- 1903 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971)
- 1904 – Frederick Ashton, Ecuadorian-English dancer and choreographer (d. 1988)
- 1904 – Jerry Colonna, American singer-songwriter and comedian (d. 1986)
- 1904 – Edgar G. Ulmer, Austrian-American director (d. 1972)
- 1906 – Junius Richard Jayewardene, Sri Lankan politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996)
- 1906 – Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist (d. 2010)
- 1907 – Warren E. Burger, American politician and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
- 1908 – John Creasey, English author (d. 1973)
- 1908 – Rafael Israelyan, Armenian architect (d. 1973)
- 1909 – Elizabeth Enright, American children's author and illustrator (d. 1968)
- 1912 – Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian (d. 2011)
- 1913 – M. Srikantha, Ceylon Tamil civil servant (d. 1982)
- 1914 – Thomas J. Bata, Canadian businessman (d. 2008)
- 1914 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1996)
- 1915 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (d. 2011)
- 1916 – Mary Stewart, English author
- 1917 – William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (d. 2012)
- 1917 – Isang Yun, Korean-German composer (d. 1995)
- 1918 – Lea Gottlieb, Israeli fashion designer (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Chaim Herzog, Israeli politician, 6th President of Israel (d. 1997)
- 1920 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979)
- 1923 – Ralph Sharon, American pianist
- 1923 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Drifting Cowboys) (d. 1953)
- 1925 – John List, American murderer (d. 2008)
- 1926 – Bill Black, American bass player (The Blue Moon Boys) (d. 1965)
- 1926 – Curtis Harrington, American director (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Hovie Lister, American pianist (The Statesmen Quartet and Masters V) (d. 2001)
- 1926 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Jack McDuff, American organist (d. 2001)
- 1926 – Klaus Schütz, German politician (d. 2012)
- 1927 – George Blanda, American football player (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
- 1929 – Sil Austin, American saxophonist (d. 2001)
- 1929 – Pat Crowley, American actress
- 1929 – Stirling Moss, English race car driver
- 1930 – David Huddleston, American actor
- 1930 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer
- 1930 – Theo Loevendie, Dutch composer and clarinet player
- 1930 – Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
- 1930 – Jim Rohn, American philosopher (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Thomas Patten Stafford, American general and astronaut
- 1931 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1931 – Jean-Claude Carrière, French actor and screenwriter
- 1932 – Robert B. Parker, American author (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Chuck Grassley, American politician
- 1933 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1933 – Claude Provost, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
- 1934 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
- 1935 – Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
- 1936 – Michael Hennagin, American composer and educator (d. 1993)
- 1937 – Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1938 – Perry Robinson, American clarinet player and composer
- 1938 – Bobby Wine, American baseball player and coach
- 1939 – Carl Dennis, American poet
- 1939 – Shelby Flint, American singer
- 1939 – David Souter, American jurist
- 1940 – Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat, 60th President of the United Nations General Assembly
- 1940 – Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (d. 2007)
- 1940 – Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1972)
- 1941 – Stavros Damianides, Greek bouzouki player (d. 2001)
- 1941 – Bob Matsui, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1942 – Robert Graysmith, American author
- 1942 – Des Lynam, Irish-English journalist
- 1942 – Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Les Emmerson, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Five Man Electrical Band)
- 1944 – Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer
- 1945 – David Emerson, Canadian politician
- 1945 – Phil Jackson, American basketball player and coach
- 1945 – Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
- 1945 – Bhakti Charu Swami, Indian spiritual leader
- 1946 – Billy Bonds, English footballer
- 1947 – Tessa Jowell, English politician
- 1947 – Gail Carson Levine, American young adult author
- 1947 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1948 – Karl Alber, German footballer
- 1948 – Raphy Leavitt, Puerto Rican composer
- 1948 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1950 – Narendra Modi, Indian politician
- 1950 – Fee Waybill, American singer-songwriter (The Tubes)
- 1951 – Piet Kleine, Dutch speed skater
- 1951 – Cassandra Peterson, American actress
- 1953 – Tamasin Day-Lewis, English chef
- 1953 – Altaf Hussain, Pakistani founder and leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
- 1953 – Rita Rudner, American comedian and actress
- 1953 – Steve Williams, Welsh drummer and songwriter (Budgie)
- 1954 – Joël-François Durand, French composer
- 1955 – Koralia Karanti, Greek actress
- 1955 – Charles Martinet, American actor
- 1955 – Scott Simpson, American golfer
- 1956 – Brian Andreas, American sculptor, painter and publisher
- 1956 – Thad Bosley. American baseball player
- 1956 – Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Yothu Yindi) (d. 2013)
- 1957 – Steve Bryles, American politician (d. 2012)
- 1958 – Janez Janša, Slovenian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Slovenia
- 1958 – Tom Waddell, Scottish baseball player
- 1959 – Charles Lawson, Irish actor
- 1960 – John Bottomley, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1960 – Kevin Clash, American voice actor and puppeteer
- 1960 – John Franco, American baseball player
- 1960 – Damon Hill, English race car driver
- 1961 – Jim Cornette, American wrestling manager and promoter
- 1961 – Nives Meroi, Italian mountaineer
- 1961 – Ty Tabor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (King's X, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam)
- 1962 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director
- 1962 – Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese-American actor
- 1962 – Hesham Qandil, Egyptian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Egypt
- 1962 – BeBe Winans, American singer-songwriter and producer (BeBe & CeCe Winans)
- 1963 – Masahiro Chono, Japanese wrestler
- 1963 – Wendy Northcutt, American author
- 1963 – Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
- 1963 – William Shockley, American actor
- 1963 – James Urbaniak, American actor
- 1965 – Kyle Chandler, American actor
- 1965 – Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer and designer
- 1965 – Guy Picciotto, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Happy Go Licky, and One Last Wish)
- 1965 – Bryan Singer, American director
- 1966 – Doug E. Fresh, American rapper and producer
- 1966 – Stéphane Rousseau, Canadian actor
- 1967 – Koen Wauters, Flemish singer-songwriter and actor (Clouseau)
- 1967 – Malik Yoba, American actor
- 1968 – Akhenaton French rapper and producer
- 1968 – Anastacia, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1968 – Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
- 1968 – Lord Jamar American rapper and actor (Brand Nubian)
- 1968 – Jonn Penney English singer (Ned's Atomic Dustbin)
- 1969 – Steady B, American rapper
- 1969 – Adam Devlin, English guitarist and songwriter (The Bluetones)
- 1969 – Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
- 1969 – Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter (The Prodigy and Flint)
- 1969 – Greg King, New Zealand lawyer (d. 2012)
- 1969 – Matthew Settle, American actor
- 1970 – Mark Brunell, American football player
- 1970 – Jim Conroy, American voice actor
- 1971 – Nate Berkus, American interior designer and television host
- 1971 – Mike Catt, English rugby player
- 1971 – Adriana Karembeu, Slovak model and actress
- 1971 – Mauro Milanese, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Ian Whyte, Welsh basketball player and actor
- 1972 – Brian Henry, American poet and critic
- 1972 – Bobby Lee, American comedian and actor
- 1973 – Diego Albanese, Argentinian rugby player
- 1973 – Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
- 1973 – Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
- 1974 – Mirah, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Microphones)
- 1974 – Tormod Granheim, Norwegian skier
- 1974 – Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- 1975 – Jade Esteban Estrada, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1975 – Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
- 1975 – Constantine Maroulis, American singer-songwriter and actor (Pray for the Soul of Betty)
- 1975 – Austin St. John, American actor and martial artist
- 1975 – Wilko de Vogt, Dutch footballer
- 1976 – Peja, Polish rapper, songwriter, and producer
- 1976 – Daniella Rush, Czech porn actress
- 1977 – Genaro García, Mexican boxer (d. 2013)
- 1977 – Simone Perrotta, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer
- 1979 – Akin Ayodele, American football player
- 1979 – Chuck Comeau, Canadian drummer (Simple Plan and Reset)
- 1979 – Billy Miller, American actor
- 1980 – Dan Haren, American baseball player
- 1980 – Oliver Risser, Namibian footballer
- 1981 – Casey Janssen, American baseball player
- 1981 – Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer
- 1981 – Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter
- 1982 – Hope Larson, American illustrator
- 1982 – Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Wade Robson, Australian dancer and choreographer
- 1983 – Jennifer Peña, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1983 – Sanaya Irani, Indian actress
- 1984 – Domenico Citro, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Mary Descenza, American swimmer
- 1984 – De La Ghetto, Puerto Rican rapper and songwriter (Arcángel & De La Ghetto)
- 1984 – John Kucera, Canadian skier
- 1984 – Patrick van Luijk, Dutch sprinter
- 1984 – Eugenia Volodina, Russian model
- 1985 – Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player
- 1985 – Brendan Clarke, Irish footballer
- 1985 – José Gonçalves, Portuguese footballer
- 1985 – Alexander Ovechkin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Mason Raymond, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala of Tonga
- 1985 – Jon Walker, American singer-songwriter and musician (Panic! at the Disco and The Young Veins)
- 1986 – Paolo De Ceglie, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Japanese voice actor
- 1986 – Yussef Sleman, Syrian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1987 – Paul Huntington, English footballer
- 1989 – Kate Deines, American soccer player
- 1990 – Minako Kotobuki, Japanese voice actress and singer (Sphere)
- 1990 – Sean Scannell, Irish footballer
- 1991 – Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
- 1991 – Justyna Jegiołka, Polish tennis player
Deaths
- 454 – Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria
- 456 – Remistus, Roman general
- 1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German saint, philosopher, and composer (b. 1098)
- 1322 – Robert III, Count of Flanders (b. 1249)
- 1422 – Constantine II of Bulgaria (b. 1370)
- 1563 – Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526)
- 1574 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and explorer, founded St. Augustine, Florida (b. 1519)
- 1575 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer and theologian (b. 1504)
- 1621 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (b. 1542)
- 1630 – Thomas Lake, English politician (b. 1567)
- 1665 – Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
- 1676 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi (b. 1626)
- 1679 – John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
- 1727 – Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman and writer (b. 1647)
- 1762 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687)
- 1771 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
- 1803 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
- 1808 – Benjamin Bourne, American jurist and politician (b. 1755)
- 1836 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
- 1858 – Dred Scott, American slave who sued for freedom in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case (b. 1795)
- 1863 – Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
- 1864 – Walter Savage Landor, English poet (b. 1775)
- 1877 – Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800)
- 1878 – Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (b. 1825)
- 1879 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and theorist (b. 1814)
- 1894 – Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
- 1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842)
- 1904 – Kartini, Indonesian activist (b. 1879)
- 1907 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
- 1908 – Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1852)
- 1908 – Thomas Selfridge, American lieutenant (b. 1882)
- 1909 – Thomas Bent, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1838)
- 1923 – Stefanos Dragoumis, Greek politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1842)
- 1925 – Carl Eytel, German-American painter (b. 1862)
- 1933 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary (b. 1877)
- 1936 – Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist and author (b. 1877)
- 1938 – Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
- 1944 – Eugen Habermann, Estonian architect (b. 1884)
- 1946 – Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1948 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (b. 1887)
- 1948 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (b. 1895)
- 1953 – David Munson, American runner (b. 1884)
- 1965 – Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1903)
- 1951 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
- 1966 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
- 1971 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military leader (b. 1937)
- 1972 – Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
- 1973 – Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader and composer (b. 1909)
- 1980 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
- 1982 – Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
- 1984 – Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1985 – Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (b. 1925)
- 1987 – Harry Locke, English actor (b. 1913)
- 1988 – Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (b. 1917)
- 1991 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
- 1992 – Roger Wagner, American conductor and educator (b. 1914)
- 1993 – Christian Nyby, American director (b. 1913)
- 1994 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
- 1994 – Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher (b. 1902)
- 1995 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
- 1996 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
- 1997 – Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
- 1998 – Ted Binion, American businessman (b. 1943)
- 1998 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian (b. 1922)
- 1998 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Frankie Vaughan, English singer (b. 1928)
- 2000 – Paula Yates, Welsh television host and author (b. 1959)
- 2003 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
- 2005 – Jacques Lacarrière, French journalist and critic (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American traveler and writer (b. 1924)
- 2009 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1968)
- 2011 – Colin Madigan, Australian architect and author (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Bafo Biyela, South African footballer (b. 1981)
- 2012 – Melvin Charney, Canadian artist and architect (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Lou Kenton, English soldier and potter (b. 1908)
- 2012 – Nikodimos of Ierissos, Greek bishop (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Tedi Thurman, American model and actress (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Russell E. Train, American civil servant (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Ferenc Polikárp Zakar, Hungarian monk (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast Day:
- Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day. (United States)
- Heroes' Day (Angola)
- Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day. (Netherlands)
- Pompéia founding day (1928, State of São Paulo, Brazil)
"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.” James 3:13 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Partakers of the divine nature."
2 Peter 1:4
2 Peter 1:4
To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be. The essence of Deity is not to be participated in by the creature. Between the creature and the Creator there must ever be a gulf fixed in respect of essence; but as the first man Adam was made in the image of God, so we, by the renewal of the Holy Spirit, are in a yet diviner sense made in the image of the Most High, and are partakers of the divine nature. We are, by grace, made like God. "God is love"; we become love--"He that loveth is born of God." God is truth; we become true, and we love that which is true: God is good, and he makes us good by his grace, so that we become the pure in heart who shall see God. Moreover, we become partakers of the divine nature in even a higher sense than this--in fact, in as lofty a sense as can be conceived, short of our being absolutely divine. Do we not become members of the body of the divine person of Christ? Yes, the same blood which flows in the head flows in the hand: and the same life which quickens Christ quickens his people, for "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Nay, as if this were not enough, we are married unto Christ. He hath betrothed us unto himself in righteousness and in faithfulness, and he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Oh! marvellous mystery! we look into it, but who shall understand it? One with Jesus--so one with him that the branch is not more one with the vine than we are a part of the Lord, our Saviour, and our Redeemer! While we rejoice in this, let us remember that those who are made partakers of the divine nature will manifest their high and holy relationship in their intercourse with others, and make it evident by their daily walk and conversation that they have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. O for more divine holiness of life!
Evening
"Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?"
Job 7:12
Job 7:12
This was a strange question for Job to ask of the Lord. He felt himself to be too insignificant to be so strictly watched and chastened, and he hoped that he was not so unruly as to need to be so restrained. The enquiry was natural from one surrounded with such insupportable miseries, but after all, it is capable of a very humbling answer. It is true man is not the sea, but he is even more troublesome and unruly. The sea obediently respects its boundary, and though it be but a belt of sand, it does not overleap the limit. Mighty as it is, it hears the divine hitherto, and when most raging with tempest it respects the word; but self-willed man defies heaven and oppresses earth, neither is there any end to this rebellious rage. The sea, obedient to the moon, ebbs and flows with ceaseless regularity, and thus renders an active as well as a passive obedience; but man, restless beyond his sphere, sleeps within the lines of duty, indolent where he should be active. He will neither come nor go at the divine command, but sullenly prefers to do what he should not, and to leave undone that which is required of him. Every drop in the ocean, every beaded bubble, and every yeasty foam-flake, every shell and pebble, feel the power of law, and yield or move at once. O that our nature were but one thousandth part as much conformed to the will of God! We call the sea fickle and false, but how constant it is! Since our fathers' days, and the old time before them, the sea is where it was, beating on the same cliffs to the same tune; we know where to find it, it forsakes not its bed, and changes not in its ceaseless boom; but where is man-vain, fickle man? Can the wise man guess by what folly he will next be seduced from his obedience? We need more watching than the billowy sea, and are far more rebellious. Lord, rule us for thine own glory. Amen.
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Today's reading: Proverbs 25-26, 2 Corinthians 9 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Proverbs 25-26
More Proverbs of Solomon
1 These are more proverbs of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:
2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;
to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
3 As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,
so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
3 As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,
so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
4 Remove the dross from the silver,
and a silversmith can produce a vessel;
5 remove wicked officials from the king's presence,
and his throne will be established through righteousness.
and a silversmith can produce a vessel;
5 remove wicked officials from the king's presence,
and his throne will be established through righteousness.
6 Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence,
and do not claim a place among his great men;
7 it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here,"
than for him to humiliate you before his nobles....
and do not claim a place among his great men;
7 it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here,"
than for him to humiliate you before his nobles....
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 9
1 There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the Lord's people. 2 For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. 3 But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be. 4 For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we-not to say anything about you-would be ashamed of having been so confident. 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given....
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Ananias
[Ănanī'as] - jehovah is gracious. This name is the Greek form of Hananiah, meaning, "Jehovah hath been gracious" from the Aramaic, meaning, "beautiful."
[Ănanī'as] - jehovah is gracious. This name is the Greek form of Hananiah, meaning, "Jehovah hath been gracious" from the Aramaic, meaning, "beautiful."
1. The disciple who conspired with his wife to deceive the apostles in regard to the value obtained for their property (Acts 5:1-6).
The Man Who Kept Back Part of the Price
How opposite Aquila and Priscilla are Ananias and Sapphira, both of whom agreed to a dishonest transaction! They were not compelled to sell their property but because of a recognized custom among the early Christian fraternity of having one common fund to draw upon, these two disciples wanted to maintain the appearance of self-denying liberality. There was no harm in keeping back part of the price - they might have kept back all. Their evil consisted in pretending to give all. Their lying was combined with hypocrisy. A certain part was retained, likely the greater part which would look more like the whole.
Peter, supernaturally endowed to detect and expose the fraud of Ananias and Sapphira, was their instrument of sudden death. Punishment was:
I. Prompt - it followed immediately the committal of sin.
II. Decisive - it marked the magnitude of sin.
III. Conspicuous - it was before many witnesses.
IV. Divine - it was not an act of Peter who simply reproved the two who, united in crime, were not separated in death (Ps. 19:13). It was God who punished them.
2. A godly disciple of Damascus to whom was made known the conversion of Saul of Tarsus ( Acts 9:10-17; 22:12), and who baptized Saul.
3. The high priest anointed by Herod (Acts 23:2; 24:1).
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