At last, at a climate conference, Australia has sent adults who won't let down little Gracie, but responsibly counsel against spending money badly. Salient questions should be put to Gore. It is like adults white washing graffiti. ABC worry about the gap between rich and poor. It would be less if their socialist journalists were paid less. Turnbull is defending them, for now. Indonesia does a dummy spit, but what can be said for the polls in Australia? ALP are a house divided. ALP have compromised national security. ALP have no constructive policy. Yet the polls show they are popular? ALP would have people be slaves like those in London.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Peter Huynh. Born on the same day across the years, as
- 1454 – Catherine Cornaro, Greek wife of James II of Cyprus (d. 1510)
- 1666 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740)
- 1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
- 1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman, founded the Carnegie Steel Company (d. 1919)
- 1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (d. 1929)
- 1880 – John Flynn, Australian minister, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (d. 1951)
- 1881 – Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic (d. 1958)
- 1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001)
- 1960 – Amy Grant, American singer
- 1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress and singer
- 1993 – Danny Kent, English Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
Matches
571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans
- 1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc andCrínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
- 1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
- 1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
- 1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
- 1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2 rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
- 1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
- 1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
- 1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths inArkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
- 1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
- 1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
- 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.
- 1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
- 1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.
- 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money forfamine relief in Ethiopia.
Despatches
- 311 – Pope Peter of Alexandria
- 1748 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (b. 1674)
NOTHING TO LOSE BUT THEIR CHAINS
Tim Blair – Monday, November 25, 2013 (7:07pm)
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Marxism is still holding prisoners:
A couple suspected of holding three women captive for 30 years in a London home were introduced to two of the victims through a Marxist political “collective”.Detectives have revealed that the man arrested last week met the two older victims “through a shared political ideology”.Separate sources said the couple and the two women were members of a Marxist-Communist group that lived together in the capital in the 1970s.
According to one of the women enslaved by the pair:
“These monsters are absolutely evil and racist.”
That’s Marxism for you.
(Via Robert Elliott)
MEATWORKER DIPLOMACY
Tim Blair – Monday, November 25, 2013 (3:08am)
Australian pride is restored.
This is no small accomplishment, considering the depths to which we sank in 2009, when then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered this wince-making speech to that year’s United Nations climate conference in Denmark:
“Before I left Australia, I was presented with a book of handwritten letters from a group of six-year-olds. One of the letters is from Gracie. Gracie is six. ‘Hi,’ she wrote. ‘My name is Gracie. How old are you?’ Gracie continues, ‘I am writing to you because I want you all to be strong in Copenhagen. Please listen to us as it is our future.’ I fear that at this conference, we are on the verge of letting little Gracie down.”
We were a different country back then, outsourcing economic policy to babies and actually admitting it to the world. Happily, things have changed. For this year’s UN climatefest in Warsaw, Poland, Tony Abbott’s government didn’t even bother to send the environment minister, much less the Prime Minister and his pre-teen fan mail.
Continue reading 'MEATWORKER DIPLOMACY'PRIME MINISTERS’ XI
Tim Blair – Monday, November 25, 2013 (2:18am)
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s arrival in office coincides with a revival for our national cricket team. Let’s review the Ashes performances of post-war PMs, beginning with a Labor leader who never suffered an Australian loss to England …
Continue reading 'PRIME MINISTERS’ XI'MIND THE GAP
Tim Blair – Monday, November 25, 2013 (2:10am)
The ABC worries a great deal about the gap between rich and poor. A quick search of the billion-dollar broadcaster’s archives reveals more than 5000 matches for stories on the terrible wealth gap.
Well, here’s a guaranteed way to make that gap even larger: take money off people who earn an average of $70,000 and give it to the wealth-gap worriers at the ABC, many of whom are feasting on six-figure tax-funded incomes.
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Tim Blair – Monday, November 25, 2013 (2:06am)
Even famous Englishman Lord Michael of Carlton is happy with the First Test result. Sunday’s win has catapulted Australia to an accumulated-runs lead in the great double-summer dual-hemisphere 26-match super seriesbetween England and her cultural and athletic superiors. The latest standings:
Australia: Four wins, 4908 runs
England: Six wins, 4610 runs
Three draws
One match abandoned
England: Six wins, 4610 runs
Three draws
One match abandoned
ART IMPROVED
Tim Blair – Monday, November 25, 2013 (1:52am)
Graffiti enthusiasts are upset because a building owner painted over their vandalism.
UPDATE. Iowahawk: “You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh your ass off.”
Questions to Al Gore, who has now jetted off
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (6:15pm)
The Toronto Sun’s Lorrie Goldstein has 10 questions for Al Gore, who refused to take any from the media on a visit to Toronto to spruik renewable power. Here are four of them:
===(1) In 2009, you visited Toronto to praise former premier Dalton McGuinty for his Green Energy Act, describing it as “widely recognized now as the single best green energy program on the North American continent.” What do you have to say in light of the December, 2011 report by the non-partisan Auditor General of Ontario that McGuinty wasted billions of public dollars on renewable energy by rushing into it with no business plan, no auditing of expenditures, and by ignoring the advice of his government’s own energy experts on how to reduce costs?…(Thanks to reader Peter.)
(3) What do you have to say about the Auditor General’s finding that McGuinty’s claim his Green Energy Act would create 50,000 jobs over three years was a myth, and that the province would likely suffer a net job loss because of the higher cost of electricity, resulting from the massive public subsidies given to wind and solar power companies?…
(5) Earlier this year in an interview with the Globe and Mail you described Canada’s development of the oil sands as the equivalent of treating the atmosphere like an “open sewer.” What do you have to say about the findings of Canadian climate scientist and lead UN IPCC author Andrew Weaver, and his colleague Neal Swart, published in the journal Nature, that even if Canada developed all the commercially viable oil in the oilsands, global temperatures would rise by an insignificant 0.03 degrees?…
(10) Specifically on the issue of flying, Mr. Gore, isn’t that according to your view one of worst things you can do to the planet? In that context, how did you get to Toronto today and how will you be leaving it?
Turnbull defends ABC funding. With a but…
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (6:06pm)
Malcolm Turnbull has no intention for now
of cutting a dollar from the ABC while he’s Communications Minister,
even after it released stolen intelligence secrets and breached its
contract to run the $22 million a year Australia Service to advance the
national interest. To voters wanting action, Turnbull responds by
stating an admirable defence of a free media but also a commitment to
maintaining the funding of an overmighty state-owned media. Again, for now:
===In response to your comments regarding the ABC and Guardian Australia reports on intelligence activities in Indonesia it is important to note the internal programming and editorial decisions are the responsibility of the ABC Board and Executive. One of the ABC’s statutory obligations is to be accurate and impartial in its news and current affairs programmes according to the recognised standards of objective journalism.(Thanks to reader Sharon.)
Internal ABC programming decisions are the responsibility of the ABC Board and Executive. One of the ABC’s statutory obligations is to be accurate and impartial in its news and current affairs programmes according to the recognised standards of objective journalism.
While the ABC has editorial independence, it is accountable to the Parliament through annual reports, corporate plans, financial and performance audits, and appearances before Parliamentary Committees. Unlike the former government, the Coalition will not seek to assert control over the media to the extent the previous government did with its perverse attempt at media reform.
The Government has stated its commitment to maintaining the quality, performance and efficiency of the ABC and to ensure that the ABC fulfils its Charter.
The Government has no plans to either privatise or reduce funding to the ABC, however the Government has established a National Commission of Audit (NAOC) to review the scope, efficiency and functions of Government. The Commission has a broad remit to examine all areas of government expenditure, which would include all government funded agencies. The ABC, along with other government agencies, has been invited to make a submission to the NAOC.
Indonesia will pay for this tantrum
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (5:51pm)
John Lee, Michael Hintze fellow at Sydney University’s Centre for International Security Studies, says Indonesia will be the real loser from this stupid confrontation:
===Public displays of government outrage and threats to wind back proposed security and maritime cooperation between the two countries on the basis that past Australian intelligence activity is a national and personal insult to the president is an immature response, and will significantly diminish Indonesia’s economic and political attractiveness in the region…(Thanks to reader Vicki.)
Indonesia is also attempting to lower its export reliance on commodities, and to encourage foreign firms to locate manufacturing plants in the country in order to establish itself as an important part of the regional supply chain, something it has so far largely failed to achieve…
Indonesia ranks poorly on all indices such as ease of doing business, corruption and transparency. But sovereign risk also comes into the equation. In the lead up to the July 2014 elections, Indonesia appears to be retreating back to bouts of economic nationalism including forcing foreign firms to divest majority stakes in mining projects after 10 years and imposing new taxes on these firms, and proposing new foreign ownership limits in key industries such as banking.
This is the backdrop for the current Australia-Indonesia dispute. There are still fears that a democratic government in Indonesia could choose to fan rather than constrain the rise of counterproductive nationalistic emotion…
Already Indonesia’s reputation for sensibleness is in jeopardy in the region. Mr. Yudhoyono was forced to embark on a fence-mending visit to Malaysia four years ago after an innocuous Malaysian tourism advertisement containing a clip of Balinese pendet dancing caused outrage in Indonesia on the basis that this was an intolerable instance of cultural theft. The episode led to demonstrations against the Malaysian Embassy, burning of the Malaysian flag and youth groups symbolically calling for war against Malaysia.
The surveillance allegations against Australia are more serious than a Malaysian tourism ad, to be sure. But again Jakarta’s petulant response raises questions about its ability to conduct itself as a mature regional power. Jakarta could have protested to Canberra robustly but privately. But rather than simply responding to populist outrage, escalation is being led by Mr. Yudhoyono and his government.
Nielsen poll: Labor ahead. UPDATE: No, it’s behind, says Essential
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (3:48pm)
True, the Government’s
media strategy is poor and its media critics simply feral. But I suspect
this poll result is an anomaly - and, with nearly three years to go,
almost completely irrelevant:
Poll Bludger suggests scepticism is warranted:
UPDATE
Even more reason to be sceptical. Reader Gavin H says Peter Lewis of Essential Research has told the ABC that tomorrow’s Essential poll will have the Coalition holding the same 53-47 lead over Labor it’s had for a while.
(Thanks to reader Phil.)
===The first Fairfax Nielsen poll since the September 7 election has charted a rapid recovery for the ALP, with the opposition shooting to a 52-48 per cent lead over the government on the preferences of respondents - the quickest poll lead achieved by any federal opposition after losing an election.UPDATE
It is also the first time Labor has led on the two-party-preferred vote in more than three years.
Poll Bludger suggests scepticism is warranted:
Full tables including state breakdowns ... offer at least some ammunition for those of a mind to be skeptical about the result.... [T]here are approximate two-party preferred swings to Labor of 2% in New South Wales, 4% in Victoria and 1.5% in South Australia, all of which are easy enough to believe. However, in both Queensland and Western Australia the swings are 11%, the former result coming less than two weeks after an 800-sample poll by Galaxy showed no swing at all. It’s tempting to infer that Nielsen struck Labor-heavy samples in these states, and that had it been otherwise the result would have been more like 50-50.
UPDATE
Even more reason to be sceptical. Reader Gavin H says Peter Lewis of Essential Research has told the ABC that tomorrow’s Essential poll will have the Coalition holding the same 53-47 lead over Labor it’s had for a while.
(Thanks to reader Phil.)
But if the victims are white, we can’t say “racism”
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (9:01am)
Why are so many media outlets refusing to mention a racial angle they’d
scream from the mountain-top if the violence went the other way?
===It’s an infuriating example of political correctness: Most of New York City’s media outlets have sanitized the nature of a spate of unprovoked attacks upon hapless pedestrians — all recent victims of the so-called “knockout game.” There have been injuries and several deaths among men, women, and youngsters, as they suffered walloping “sucker punches” by roving black youths in New York City and elsewhere.But there is one sub-set of “whites” that finally makes it permissible to mention the possibility of “hate crimes”
The knockout game involves an unmentionable subject for most in the mainstream media: black-on-white violence. To a lesser extent, Asians and Hispanics have been targeted as well. They’re white enough, it seems, for black youths playing the knockout game.
For those unfamiliar with the knockout game, it’s how some black youths amuse themselves, especially in urban settings. The goal: use a single devastating punch to knock a victim unconscious. And when they succeed, they invariably react with merriment and laughter, as videos capturing the mayhem have revealed. Could racism be motivating these black youths? Nobody in the mainstream media dares suggest that this might be fueling the black mob violence in what President Obama said would be a post-racial era.
In Brooklyn, some recent victims of the knockout game were Jews, which is finally prompting New York City police officials to state that “hate crimes” may have occurred.
Just shut up and eat what Palmer provides
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (8:52am)
Clive Palmer does a Basil Fawlty:
===A FRENCH media executive is in talks with lawyers after a Fawlty Towers-style row with Clive Palmer, who abused the premium guest and evicted him from his Sunshine Coast resort and dinosaur park for complaining about a $40 steak.I suspect Guerin’s lawyers will find Palmer’s response of great interest - on the grounds that it includes statements that are damaging and it seems untrue:
Didier Guerin, who was paying $950 a night to stay in a luxury villa with his wife, was stunned after Mr Palmer confronted him in the Palmer Grill restaurant and said: “You are a f . . kwit.
“Don’t speak to my chefs like that. I own this resort and I want you to f . . k off."…
Immediately after the earbashing four nights ago, Mr Palmer, who was dining at a nearby table, told his staff to take Mr Guerin and his wife, Margaret, to their villa to pack their clothes, pay their bill for their first night of a five-night stay, and be escorted out…
Mr Guerin, a regular visitor with his family at the formerly Hyatt-operated resort since the mid-1990s, opted for the scotch fillet last Thursday but he had a particular preference: he asked that his steak be cooked “blue”, rather than rare or medium…
When Mr Guerin’s steak was brought to the table after a 30-minute wait, however, it was overcooked. When he explained the problem, the steak was taken back to the kitchen. Thirty minutes later, a second steak was served—but this one, Mr Guerin discovered, was cold. It did not appear to have been cooked at all.
Mr Palmer sent a text to The Australian in which he stated: “Untrue. I understand he bullied and assaulted staff and did not pay for his room or meals. Can’t stay for free. He did not pay for the bottles of wine he drank or the food he ate, never paid one cent”.
The ABC still hasn’t said why their damage was worth it
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (8:36am)
Nicely put by Paul Sheehan:
===There’s not much point in calling into question the judgment of the Prime Minister, and his chief pollster, without calling into question the judgment of the people who started this conflagration [with Indonesia], Katharine Viner, the editor The Guardian Australia, and Mark Scott, the managing director of the ABC.Gerard Henderson made the same argument yesterday:
They made their decision to publish in the ‘’public interest’’, in the full knowledge that it would poison the relationship between Indonesia and Australia, damage Australia’s intelligence gathering, humiliate Yudhoyono and his wife, reinvigorate the people-smuggling trade, goad Indonesian nationalists, give fodder to Islamist xenophobia, and compromise Australia’s trade with Indonesia…
The arguments in favour of publishing the spying leaks are obvious: that the truth will prevent government security agencies from excessive zeal, and the public has a right to know what is being done in its name. It is a strong argument, and I respect it.
But the public interest test can be rigorously contested in this case. The truth is something we all navigate every day, so as not to give offence or create enmity. Governments do the same. Yet neither Viner nor Scott has bothered to enunciate how, in the ‘’public interest’’, the positives outweigh the negatives. They have, with Abbott and the spooks, joint ownership of the toxins flowing through the relationship. And neither has come close to justifying their actions.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
You can’t be half-pregnant with this climate action nonsense
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (8:28am)
I have a solution. Why not scrap both and stop the waste completely?
===Tony Abbott’s efforts to repeal Labor’s carbon tax have the backing of voters, with a new poll showing 57 per cent of people want it gone now.
But in a blow to the Prime Minister’s plans, more people like the supposedly ‘’toxic’’ carbon tax than his proposed replacement policy.
Just 12 per cent of voters believe Mr Abbott’s ‘’direct action’’ policy of using taxpayer funds to purchase emissions reductions from polluters, and planting trees, is the answer.
“Look at me!” cries the Governor-General, playing the politician
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (7:50am)
The issue is not that
the Governor-General favors same-sex marriage and the republic. The
issue is that she abuses and diminishes her position to play politics,
as former Liberal Minister Amanda Vanstone points out:
===People like me, who are republicans and sympathetic to gay marriage, have no reason to be pleased with the Governor-General’s outspoken support for these two causes…Vanstone suggests an answer to her own question:
It is not her views with which I take issue. What I find unacceptable is that she chose to express them while holding the highest public office in Australia. That role is meant to be completely non-partisan. In publicly declaring these views, she has brought that high office into a political realm in which it does not belong. Why would the Governor-General take it upon herself to enter political debate while in office?
There was another occasion when we could have been forgiven for thinking that the Governor-General was a tad too focused on herself, and that was during President Barack Obama’s visit to Australia in late 2011.
There is no doubt Ms Bryce is always sartorially elegant. It’s possible the President noticed this elegance at the airport. If he did he would have been a little surprised at the ensuing luncheon to see the G-G in a new outfit. It appears the G-G and her escort had hightailed it from Fairbairn Air Base to Yarralumla so she could change outfits. Then they had to pump a bit more gas and probably get the traffic lights flicked to green so that her excellency would not be late for lunch.
President Obama and then prime minister Julia Gillard had simply gone on in their clothes from the airport to the lunch. Perhaps they both thought that what they did, how they conducted themselves, was more important than their clothes.
If the President did notice the G-G’s change of clothes, it would have told him something about her. Just as it told us. What’s that line from Kath and Kim? ‘’Look at me, look at me.’’
This reckless spending must stop
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (7:39am)
Yes, Labor’s massive
spending spree - with some of the biggest spending promises
unfortunately backed by the Coalition - has left us with the Budget in a
shambles. But the answer is surely cutting spending, not raising taxes:
AUSTRALIA will need to slash $37 billion from spending and tax breaks to restore the nation’s finances, according to a radical blueprint on the budget pressures facing the Abbott government…Just see the size of Labor’s spending blowout, as measured by the Grattan Institute, with the dip at the end yet to be confirmed by final figures:
The Grattan Institute report says the government may have no choice but to cap superannuation tax breaks and extend the GST to fresh food as well as health and education services.
It also adds force to official government advice last week to raise the retirement age to 70, predicting this could save $12bn a year if the same age limit was set for workers to collect their super.
Dear Pino, I drove that bus and never made it
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (7:04am)
Pino Migliorino,
former chairman of the Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of
Australia, seems to have missed the entire argument about the oppressive
laws against free speech that the Abbott Government has promised to
relax:
But Migliorino is absolutely wrong - astonishingly in denial - on the second point. The reason that my name is, however unfortunately, attached to the law is that my case proves the very opposite of what Migliorino claims. You cannot “drive the proverbial truck” through the racial discrimination act. My case suggested to me the very opposite: that a judge had unacceptably wide freedom to determine someone lacked “good faith” in expressing a view against the new racism, on the grounds of “tone” and “errors” which in my opinion could be irrelevant, trivial and in many cases disputed.
UPDATE
Another dangerous attempt to restrict free speech - this time of speech I vigorously oppose:
The one difference in this cause, of course, that Lynch is free to express his opinion (while I am not), and the argument goes more to his actions in using his state-funded position to deny Israeli academics the cooperation of his university.
But this time the Left is suitably outraged…
===I have made standing up for people a key part of my life and I must admit that I have been critical of racial vilification provisions of the act (18C), not because they limited freedom of speech, but because the exemptions contained in the same part of the act (18D) are so broad that you could drive the proverbial truck through them. These exemptions cover artistic, academic and scientific work and public interest publications which are all allowable if they are done in ‘’good faith’’.I agree with Migliorino about one thing: these laws are not “Bolt laws”. They have also been used against a former vice-chancellor of the University of Canberra. More to the point, the real victims of the law aren’t just the individuals forced to shut up on certain issues, but the tens of thousands of Australians who are therefore denied a debate and the freedom to judge such things for themselves.
So why are so many people not aware of the exemptions? Why has the bulk of the debate been framed around one person, Andrew Bolt, to the point that the provisions are erroneously referred to as the ‘’Bolt laws’’? We need to understand both the protections and exemptions relevant to this part of the act. It is only in having the full picture that we understand the ramifications of any watering down of the vilification provisions?
But Migliorino is absolutely wrong - astonishingly in denial - on the second point. The reason that my name is, however unfortunately, attached to the law is that my case proves the very opposite of what Migliorino claims. You cannot “drive the proverbial truck” through the racial discrimination act. My case suggested to me the very opposite: that a judge had unacceptably wide freedom to determine someone lacked “good faith” in expressing a view against the new racism, on the grounds of “tone” and “errors” which in my opinion could be irrelevant, trivial and in many cases disputed.
UPDATE
Another dangerous attempt to restrict free speech - this time of speech I vigorously oppose:
A LANDMARK lawsuit against Sydney academic Jake Lynch over his support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel faces an early challenge, with the defence to argue a key aspect of it is unfair…I actually do believe the BDS campaign is at heart racist, in part because it is so desperately and dangerously one-sided.
The case, which begins with a directions hearing in the Federal Court in Sydney on Wednesday, is regarded as a critical test of Australia’s anti-discrimination laws on one hand and freedom of expression on the other.
The one difference in this cause, of course, that Lynch is free to express his opinion (while I am not), and the argument goes more to his actions in using his state-funded position to deny Israeli academics the cooperation of his university.
But this time the Left is suitably outraged…
the Governor-General should resign after siding with Labor
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (6:55am)
QUENTIN Bryce last
month offered to quit as Governor-General because son-in law Bill
Shorten was about to be Labor’s new leader.
She didn’t want to seem biased, she said piously. Yet on Friday Bryce showed she is indeed biased. Disgracefully so.
She sided with Shorten on same-sex marriage and the republic, and embarrassed Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who’d let her serve out her term.
(Read full article here.)
===She didn’t want to seem biased, she said piously. Yet on Friday Bryce showed she is indeed biased. Disgracefully so.
She sided with Shorten on same-sex marriage and the republic, and embarrassed Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who’d let her serve out her term.
(Read full article here.)
So why doesn’t Abbott apologise to Indonesia for Labor?
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (6:52am)
JULIA Gillard and Bill Shorten last week gave the Prime Minister advice they should hope like hell he won’t take.
Because if Tony Abbott really were the wrecker and thug they claim, then he would indeed say sorry to Indonesia - sorry Labor had been so catastrophically stupid.
He really would promise Indonesia that Australia would never again spy on the phones of its President, his wife and his ministers as the Rudd government authorised our spies to do in 2009.
He would say only people as reckless and paranoid as then prime minister Kevin Rudd and his deputy, Gillard, would bug a president as friendly to us as Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Sorry, he’d tell Yudhoyono. Sorry we once had those crazier in charge. I’m here to fix it.
And with glee, Abbott would bury Labor’s face so deep in this stinking mess with Indonesia that new Opposition Leader Bill Shorten would never surface.
So why doesn’t Abbott do something so clearly to his advantage?
(Read full article here.)
===Because if Tony Abbott really were the wrecker and thug they claim, then he would indeed say sorry to Indonesia - sorry Labor had been so catastrophically stupid.
He really would promise Indonesia that Australia would never again spy on the phones of its President, his wife and his ministers as the Rudd government authorised our spies to do in 2009.
He would say only people as reckless and paranoid as then prime minister Kevin Rudd and his deputy, Gillard, would bug a president as friendly to us as Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Sorry, he’d tell Yudhoyono. Sorry we once had those crazier in charge. I’m here to fix it.
And with glee, Abbott would bury Labor’s face so deep in this stinking mess with Indonesia that new Opposition Leader Bill Shorten would never surface.
So why doesn’t Abbott do something so clearly to his advantage?
(Read full article here.)
America's Conservative Voice
So is Obama's second term all about amping up the failure of his first term? Did they announce this surrender to Iran during the Obamacare debacle just to drive home the point that they are incompetent?
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Father in heaven,I thank You for all Your blessings in my life. I declare today that You are good and thank You for Your mercy.Help me to excel in life. I set my heart and mind on You and ask that You have Your way in me. Help me to love You perfectly and keep me close to You in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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HOW TO EXCEL IN LIFE.
God will help you accomplish your dreams when you put Him first and have faith in Him. Move forward in faith and forget the past because it is like water under the bridge.
There are several things that we should do to better ourselves. First, we must avoid having a prideful attitude. For example, God used the Apostle Paul to write half of the New Testament in the Bible. However, Paul did not become conceited. He realized that he had more to learn and could still grow in his walk with the Lord. We need to remember that we do not know everything and continue to pursue knowledge from others.
Another key to excel is to forget your past and leave it with God. It is human nature to remember our failures and mistakes. Satan wants us to remember all of our mistakes so that we feel like failures in life. However, we must remember that our past cannot hurt us. If we have confessed our sins to God, He has already forgiven us completely.
We must remember that every day is truly a gift from God. Even during our hardships, we must understand that God has a plan for us that He wants us to accomplish. The Apostle Paul was expecting God to bless his future with great opportunities even though he was in a Roman prison at that time. We need to strive to please God in all we do during both joyful times and difficult times.Following God's will for your life will allow you to have a positive outlook on the future.God bless you.
God will help you accomplish your dreams when you put Him first and have faith in Him. Move forward in faith and forget the past because it is like water under the bridge.
There are several things that we should do to better ourselves. First, we must avoid having a prideful attitude. For example, God used the Apostle Paul to write half of the New Testament in the Bible. However, Paul did not become conceited. He realized that he had more to learn and could still grow in his walk with the Lord. We need to remember that we do not know everything and continue to pursue knowledge from others.
Another key to excel is to forget your past and leave it with God. It is human nature to remember our failures and mistakes. Satan wants us to remember all of our mistakes so that we feel like failures in life. However, we must remember that our past cannot hurt us. If we have confessed our sins to God, He has already forgiven us completely.
We must remember that every day is truly a gift from God. Even during our hardships, we must understand that God has a plan for us that He wants us to accomplish. The Apostle Paul was expecting God to bless his future with great opportunities even though he was in a Roman prison at that time. We need to strive to please God in all we do during both joyful times and difficult times.Following God's will for your life will allow you to have a positive outlook on the future.God bless you.
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PRAY ALONG.
Father in heaven,I thank You for loving and accepting me today. I choose to do what is right and honor You with my attitude, words and actions. I choose to stand firm on Your Word. I choose to follow Your commands and believe that I will see Your promises come to pass in my life. Holy Spirit, show me if there is any area that isn’t pleasing to You and help me live as an example of Your goodness all the days of my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Father in heaven,I thank You for loving and accepting me today. I choose to do what is right and honor You with my attitude, words and actions. I choose to stand firm on Your Word. I choose to follow Your commands and believe that I will see Your promises come to pass in my life. Holy Spirit, show me if there is any area that isn’t pleasing to You and help me live as an example of Your goodness all the days of my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right (Acts 10:34–35, NIV)
It doesn’t matter how much money you have or don’t have; God wants you free from everything that would hold you back from your relationship with Him.He wants those who fear Him. In fact, it says in Galatians that in Christ, there is no Jew or Greek or even male or female. That means God’s not judging you based on physical conditions. He’s looking at your heart. He’s looking at the gifts He’s placed inside of you.
Don’t let the enemy lie to you and tell you that God is blessing everyone else but you. Look for the ways He is pouring out blessing in your life. Thank Him for His acceptance, love and freedom. Focus on honoring Him and doing what is right. Receive His favor and blessing because it is a gift that is free for all.God bless you.
It doesn’t matter how much money you have or don’t have; God wants you free from everything that would hold you back from your relationship with Him.He wants those who fear Him. In fact, it says in Galatians that in Christ, there is no Jew or Greek or even male or female. That means God’s not judging you based on physical conditions. He’s looking at your heart. He’s looking at the gifts He’s placed inside of you.
Don’t let the enemy lie to you and tell you that God is blessing everyone else but you. Look for the ways He is pouring out blessing in your life. Thank Him for His acceptance, love and freedom. Focus on honoring Him and doing what is right. Receive His favor and blessing because it is a gift that is free for all.God bless you.
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HE TOUCHED ME.
If we want to meet the real needs of people, then like Jesus, we must touch the untouchable, forgive the unforgivable, and befriend the despicable.
Mark 1:40-42 says, A man with leprosy a came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.
Jesus touched the untouchable.The Mosaic law made it very clear that Lepers could not come near anyone. & If anyone came near them, they were to shout, “Unclean! Unclean!” so people would stay away. Lepers lived outside the towns and villages all by themselves, all alone. They were untouchable, but Jesus dared to touch the untouchable.
As that leper approached Him, perhaps in the early morning half-light, Jesus would have known he was a leper just from the smell. Lepers were not allowed to bathe. & Their appearance was unmistakable.
Even so, Jesus didn’t turn away. When that leper approached our Lord and begged, “If you are willing, you can make me clean,” Jesus didn’t scold him for not shouting, “Unclean!” No. Jesus reached out and touched him. It was probably the first touch this man had had for years. Filled with compassion, Jesus touched the untouchable and cured the incurable. Like Jesus, we must TOUCH THE UNTOUCHABLE. LIKE JESUS, WE MUST REACH OUT TO THOSE NOBODY ELSE WANTS TO TOUCH. LIKE JESUS, WE MUST HAVE THE COMPASSION TO GET CLOSE TO THOSE EVERYBODY ELSE SHUNS.
If we want to meet the real needs of real people, then like Jesus, we must touch the untouchable. More than that, like Jesus, we must FORGIVE THE UNFORGIVABLE. It is my prayer that He will touch you as you touch someones life today.God bless you.
===If we want to meet the real needs of people, then like Jesus, we must touch the untouchable, forgive the unforgivable, and befriend the despicable.
Mark 1:40-42 says, A man with leprosy a came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cured.
Jesus touched the untouchable.The Mosaic law made it very clear that Lepers could not come near anyone. & If anyone came near them, they were to shout, “Unclean! Unclean!” so people would stay away. Lepers lived outside the towns and villages all by themselves, all alone. They were untouchable, but Jesus dared to touch the untouchable.
As that leper approached Him, perhaps in the early morning half-light, Jesus would have known he was a leper just from the smell. Lepers were not allowed to bathe. & Their appearance was unmistakable.
Even so, Jesus didn’t turn away. When that leper approached our Lord and begged, “If you are willing, you can make me clean,” Jesus didn’t scold him for not shouting, “Unclean!” No. Jesus reached out and touched him. It was probably the first touch this man had had for years. Filled with compassion, Jesus touched the untouchable and cured the incurable. Like Jesus, we must TOUCH THE UNTOUCHABLE. LIKE JESUS, WE MUST REACH OUT TO THOSE NOBODY ELSE WANTS TO TOUCH. LIKE JESUS, WE MUST HAVE THE COMPASSION TO GET CLOSE TO THOSE EVERYBODY ELSE SHUNS.
If we want to meet the real needs of real people, then like Jesus, we must touch the untouchable. More than that, like Jesus, we must FORGIVE THE UNFORGIVABLE. It is my prayer that He will touch you as you touch someones life today.God bless you.
Pastor Rick Warren
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- 1795 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last King of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.
- 1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito (examples pictured)and the Martin B-26 Marauder, two of the most successful military aircraft in World War II, both had their first flights.
- 1947 – McCarthyism: Executives from movie studiosagreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- 1970 – Failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishimapublicly committed the ritual suicide seppuku.
Events[edit]
- 571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
- 1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc andCrínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
- 1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
- 1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
- 1343 – A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and theMaritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
- 1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
- 1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
- 1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
- 1755 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
- 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into modern Pittsburgh.
- 1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
- 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
- 1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
- 1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
- 1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2 rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
- 1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grantbreak the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
- 1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
- 1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
- 1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
- 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
- 1917 – German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
- 1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths inArkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
- 1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
- 1940 – World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
- 1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
- 1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
- 1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the "Storm of the Century", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City. This storm also brings blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and Ohio Valley, becoming one of the worst storms of all time. 353 people die in the event.
- 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.
- 1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends as American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
- 1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
- 1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
- 1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
- 1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier GeneralDimitrios Ioannidis.
- 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
- 1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.
- 1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
- 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money forfamine relief in Ethiopia.
- 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
- 1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
- 1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
- 1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
- 1999 – The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic.
- 2000 – The 2000 Baku earthquake takes place, Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaving 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan and becoming the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
- 2008 – Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in 9 decades.
- 2009 – Devastating floods, known as the 2009 Saudi Arabian Floods, following freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. 3,000 cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
Births[edit]
- 1454 – Catherine Cornaro, Greek wife of James II of Cyprus (d. 1510)
- 1562 – Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1635)
- 1577 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (d. 1629)
- 1609 – Henrietta Maria of France (d. 1669)
- 1638 – Catherine of Braganza, consort of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
- 1666 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740)
- 1697 – Maria Karolina Sobieska Polish daughter of Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg (d. 1740)
- 1703 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
- 1752 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer and critic (d. 1814)
- 1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author (d. 1856)
- 1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
- 1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
- 1815 – William Sawyer, Canadian politician (d. 1904)
- 1817 – John Bigelow, American lawyer and politician (d. 1911)
- 1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman, founded the Carnegie Steel Company (d. 1919)
- 1841 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
- 1843 – Henry Ware Eliot American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1919)
- 1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (d. 1929)
- 1845 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese author (d. 1900)
- 1846 – Carrie Nation, American activist (d. 1911)
- 1858 – Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
- 1862 – Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
- 1862 – Gustaf Söderström, Swedish tug of war competitor (d. 1958)
- 1867 – Talaat Harb, Egyptian entrepreneur (d. 1941)
- 1868 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1937)
- 1869 – Ben Lindsey, American judge (d. 1934)
- 1870 – Winthrop Ames, American director, playwright, and producer (d. 1937)
- 1872 – Robert Maysack, American gymnast (d. 1960)
- 1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
- 1876 – Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1936)
- 1880 – John Flynn, Australian minister, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (d. 1951)
- 1880 – Elsie J. Oxenham, English author (d. 1960)
- 1881 – Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic (d. 1958)
- 1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
- 1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (d. 1939)
- 1883 – Percy Marmont, English actor (d. 1977)
- 1883 – Merrill C. Meigs, American publisher (d. 1968)
- 1887 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943)
- 1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English poet (d. 1918)
- 1891 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941)
- 1893 – Joseph Wood Krutch, American writer (d. 1970)
- 1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (d. 1991)
- 1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American poet (d. 1986)
- 1895 – Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
- 1896 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (d. 1989)
- 1896 – Albertus Soegijapranata, Archbishop of Semarang and Vicar Apostolic of Semarang (d. 1963)
- 1898 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and writer (d. 1971)
- 1898 – Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian opera singer and opera director (d. 1989)
- 1900 – Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (d. 1947)
- 1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer (d. 1948)
- 1902 – Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
- 1904 – Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower (d. 1964)
- 1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese author (d. 2005)
- 1904 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2000)
- 1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (d. 1938)
- 1909 – P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
- 1911 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
- 1913 – Lewis Thomas, American physician (d. 1993)
- 1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1914 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (d. 1995)
- 1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (d. 2006)
- 1915 – Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2013)
- 1917 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Norman Tokar, American director, producer, and scriptwriter (d. 1979)
- 1920 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Noel Neill, American actress
- 1920 – Putra of Perlis (d. 2000)
- 1922 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (d. 2000)
- 1922 – Gloria Lasso, Spanish-French singer (d. 2005)
- 1923 – Mauno Koivisto, Finnish politician, 9th President of Finland
- 1924 – Paul Desmond, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
- 1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001)
- 1926 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1926 – Ranganath Misra, Indian jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (d. 2012)
- 1927 – John K. Cooley, American journalist and author (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Judy Crichton, American television producer (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Nat Adderley, American trumpet player (d. 2000)
- 1932 – Takayo Fischer, American actress and singer
- 1933 – Kathryn Grant, American actress and singer
- 1936 – Trisha Brown, American dancer and choreographer
- 1938 – Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009)
- 1939 – Martin Feldstein, American economist
- 1939 – Eleni Karaindrou, Greek composer
- 1940 – Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
- 1940 – Joe Gibbs, American football coach and NASCAR team owner
- 1941 – Rein Jan Hoekstra, Dutch politician
- 1940 – Jan Jongbloed, Dutch footballer
- 1940 – Karl Offmann, Mauritian politician, President of Mauritius
- 1941 – Christos Papanikolaou, Greek pole vaulter
- 1941 – Gerald Seymour, English author
- 1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader and author
- 1941 – Percy Sledge, American singer
- 1942 – Bob Lind, American singer-songwriter
- 1942 – Mimis Papaioannou, Greek footballer
- 1943 – Jerry Portnoy American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
- 1944 – Maarten 't Hart, Dutch biologist and author
- 1944 – Ben Stein, American actor, lawyer, and author
- 1945 – Gail Collins, American journalist
- 1945 – Patrick Nagel, American illustrator (d. 1984)
- 1945 – George D. Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
- 1946 – Marc Brown, American author
- 1946 – Mike Doyle, English footballer (d. 2011)
- 1947 – Jonathan Kaplan, French-American director and producer
- 1947 – John Larroquette, American actor
- 1947 – Tracey Walter, American actor
- 1948 – Jacques Dupuis, Canadian lawyer and politician
- 1948 – Lars Eighner, American author
- 1949 – Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
- 1950 – Chris Claremont, American comic book writer and novelist
- 1950 – Alexis Wright, Australian author
- 1951 – Bucky Dent, American baseball player
- 1951 – Charlaine Harris, American mystery writer
- 1951 – Bill Morrissey, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1951 – Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spanish author and journalist
- 1951 – Johnny Rep, Dutch footballer
- 1952 – Crescent Dragonwagon, American author
- 1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician
- 1952 – John Lynch, American politician, 80th Governor of New Hampshire
- 1953 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player
- 1953 – Mark Frost, American writer
- 1953 – Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman
- 1955 – Kurt Niedermayer, German footballer
- 1955 – Connie Palmen, Dutch author
- 1955 – Bruno Tonioli, Italian dancer and choreographer
- 1956 – Hélène Goudin, Swedish politician
- 1956 – Kalle Randalu, Estonian pianist
- 1957 – Bob Ehrlich, American politician, 60th Governor of Maryland
- 1959 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician
- 1959 – Steve Rothery, English guitarist and songwriter (Marillion and The Wishing Tree)
- 1960 – Amy Grant, American singer
- 1960 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., American journalist, publisher, and lawyer, co-founded George Magazine (d. 1999)
- 1962 – Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese game designer and director, founded Mistwalker
- 1963 – Kevin Chamberlin, American actor
- 1963 – Holly Cole, Canadian singer
- 1963 – Chip Kelly, American football coach
- 1963 – Bernie Kosar, American football player
- 1963 – Ago Silde, Estonian politician
- 1964 – Mark Lanegan, American singer-songwriter (Screaming Trees and The Gutter Twins)
- 1964 – Bert van Vlaanderen, Dutch runner
- 1965 – Cris Carter, American football player
- 1965 – Dougray Scott, Scottish actor
- 1966 – Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rancid, The Transplants, Devils Brigade, Operation Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers)
- 1966 – Billy Burke, American actor
- 1967 – Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
- 1967 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
- 1967 – Rodney Sheppard, American guitarist (Sugar Ray)
- 1967 – Gregg Turkington, Australian-American comedian and singer (Zip Code Rapists and Faxed Head)
- 1968 – Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and journalist
- 1968 – Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
- 1968 – Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
- 1968 – Erick Sermon, American rapper and producer (EPMD)
- 1969 – Dexter Jackson, American bodybuilder
- 1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress and singer
- 1971 – Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1972 – Mark Morton, American guitarist and songwriter (Lamb of God)
- 1973 – Steven de Jongh, Dutch cyclist
- 1973 – Octavio Dotel, Dominican baseball player
- 1973 – Erick Strickland, American basketball player
- 1973 – Eddie Steeples, American actor
- 1974 – Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian actor
- 1975 – Abdelkader Benali, Moroccan-Dutch journalist and author
- 1976 – Clint Mathis, American soccer player
- 1976 – Donovan McNabb, American football player
- 1976 – Olena Vitrychenko, Ukrainian gymnast
- 1977 – Guillermo Cañas, Argentine tennis player
- 1977 – Marcus Marshall, Australian race car driver
- 1978 – Ringo Sheena, Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tokyo Jihen)
- 1979 – Thea Gilmore, English singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Michael Lehan, American football player
- 1980 – Valerie Azlynn, American actress
- 1980 – John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player
- 1980 – Josh Mathews, American wrestler and journalist
- 1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
- 1980 – Murray SawChuck, Canadian-American magician, comedian, and actor
- 1980 – Nick Swisher, American baseball player
- 1980 – Steffen Thier, German rugby player
- 1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Lee Bum-Ho, South Korean baseball player
- 1981 – Barbara Pierce Bush, American daughter of George W. Bush
- 1981 – Jenna Bush Hager, American author and journalist
- 1981 – Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
- 1981 – Maurício Rua, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1981 – Chevon Troutman, American basketball player
- 1983 – Joey Chestnut, American competitive eater
- 1983 – Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
- 1984 – Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer
- 1984 – Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
- 1985 – Dan Carpenter, American football player
- 1985 – Remona Fransen, Dutch pentathlete
- 1986 – Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
- 1986 – Craig Gardner, English footballer
- 1986 – Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, inspired the AMBER Alert System (d. 1996)
- 1987 – Dolla, American rapper (d. 2009)
- 1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
- 1988 – Jay Spearing, English footballer
- 1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter
- 1990 – Rye Rye, American rapper, dancer, and actress
- 1991 – Jamie Grace, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1991 – Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer
- 1991 – Kevin Woo, American-South Korean singer (U-KISS and Xing)
- 1992 – Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player
- 1992 – Martin del Rosario, Filipino actor
- 1992 – Zack Shada, American actor
- 1993 – Danny Kent, English Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
Deaths[edit]
- 311 – Pope Peter of Alexandria
- 1034 – Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 980)
- 1120 – William Adelin, English son of Henry I of England (b. 1104)
- 1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
- 1326 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
- 1374 – Philip II, Prince of Taranto (b. 1329)
- 1456 – Jacques Cœur, French merchant (b. 1395)
- 1517 – Marcus Musurus, Greek scholar and philosopher (b. 1470)
- 1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (b. 1466)
- 1626 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
- 1694 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
- 1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (b. 1643)
- 1748 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (b. 1674)
- 1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (b. 1687)
- 1785 – Richard Glover, English poet and politician (b. 1712)
- 1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (b. 1821)
- 1884 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
- 1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks, American politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
- 1885 – Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
- 1907 – George Sheldon, American diver (b. 1874)
- 1909 – Edward P. Allen, American politician (b. 1839)
- 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American race car driver (b. 1892)
- 1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge (b. 1866)
- 1944 – Kunio Nakagawa, Japanese military officer (b. 1898)
- 1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
- 1948 – Kanbun Uechi, Japanese martial artist (b. 1877)
- 1949 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (b. 1878)
- 1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
- 1955 – Herman Hoogland, Dutch draughts player (b. 1891)
- 1955 – Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
- 1956 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet director (b. 1894)
- 1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869)
- 1959 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
- 1961 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
- 1963 – Alexander Marinesko, Russian navy officer (b. 1913)
- 1965 – Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
- 1968 – Upton Sinclair, American author and politician (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (b. 1908)
- 1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, actor, and director (b. 1925)
- 1972 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (b. 1886)
- 1973 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-English actor (b. 1928)
- 1974 – Nick Drake, Burmese-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
- 1974 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)
- 1978 – Elaine Esposito, American coma victim (b. 1934)
- 1981 – Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1984 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1913)
- 1985 – Geoffrey Grigson, British poet and critic (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Franz Hildebrandt, German-Lutheran pastor and theologian (b. 1909)
- 1985 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 1987 – Harold Washington, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American general (b. 1907)
- 1990 – Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (b. 1930)
- 1991 – Eleanor Audley, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1995 – Alan Nicholls, English footballer (b. 1973)
- 1995 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Hastings Banda, Malawian politician, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898)
- 1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
- 1998 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
- 1999 – Valentín Campa, Mexican union leader and politician (b. 1904)
- 2000 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Harry Devlin, American illustrator (b. 1918)
- 2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech-English director (b. 1926)
- 2005 – George Best, Irish footballer (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)
- 2006 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian illustrator (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1979)
- 2006 – Phyllis Fraser, American actress and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Antonis Vratsanos, Greek army officer (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
- 2007 – Peter Lipton, American philosopher (b. 1954)
- 2010 – Alfred Balk, American journalist (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Peter Christopherson English musician, songwriter, and director (Soisong, Coil, and Throbbing Gristle) (b. 1955)
- 2010 – C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Bernard Matthews, English businessman, founded Bernard Matthews Farms (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (b.1942)
- 2011 – Coco Robicheaux, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Juan Carlos Calderón, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Earl Carroll, American singer (The Cadillacs and The Coasters) (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Dave Sexton, English footballer and manager (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Lary J. Swoboda, American politician (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Jim Temp, American football player (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Simeon ten Holt, Dutch composer (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Carlisle Towery, American basketball player (b. 1920)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Evacuation Day (19th century New York City)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Suriname from the Netherlands in 1975.
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (International)
- National Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Teachers' Day or Hari Guru (Indonesia)
- Vajiravudh Day (Thailand)
“So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.”Colossians 2:6-7 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams."
Isaiah 33:21
Isaiah 33:21
Broad rivers and streams produce fertility, and abundance in the land. Places near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants and their plentiful harvests. God is all this to his Church. Having God she has abundance. What can she ask for that he will not give her? What want can she mention which he will not supply? "In this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things." Want ye the bread of life? It drops like manna from the sky. Want ye refreshing streams? The rock follows you, and that Rock is Christ. If you suffer any want it is your own fault; if you are straitened you are not straitened in him, but in your own bowels. Broad rivers and streams also point to commerce. Our glorious Lord is to us a place of heavenly merchandise. Through our Redeemer we have commerce with the past; the wealth of Calvary, the treasures of the covenant, the riches of the ancient days of election, the stores of eternity, all come to us down the broad stream of our gracious Lord. We have commerce, too, with the future. What galleys, laden to the water's edge, come to us from the millennium! What visions we have of the days of heaven upon earth! Through our glorious Lord we have commerce with angels; communion with the bright spirits washed in blood, who sing before the throne; nay, better still, we have fellowship with the Infinite One. Broad rivers and streams are specially intended to set forth the idea of security. Rivers were of old a defence. Oh! beloved, what a defence is God to his Church! The devil cannot cross this broad river of God. How he wishes he could turn the current, but fear not, for God abideth immutably the same. Satan may worry, but he cannot destroy us; no galley with oars shall invade our river, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Evening
"Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man."
Proverbs 24:33-34
Proverbs 24:33-34
The worst of sluggards only ask for a little slumber; they would be indignant if they were accused of thorough idleness. A little folding of the hands to sleep is all they crave, and they have a crowd of reasons to show that this indulgence is a very proper one. Yet by these littles the day ebbs out, and the time for labour is all gone, and the field is grown over with thorns. It is by little procrastinations that men ruin their souls. They have no intention to delay for years--a few months will bring the more convenient season--to-morrow if you will, they will attend to serious things; but the present hour is so occupied and altogether so unsuitable, that they beg to be excused. Like sands from an hour-glass, time passes, life is wasted by driblets, and seasons of grace lost by little slumbers. Oh, to be wise, to catch the flying hour, to use the moments on the wing! May the Lord teach us this sacred wisdom, for otherwise a poverty of the worst sort awaits us, eternal poverty which shall want even a drop of water, and beg for it in vain. Like a traveller steadily pursuing his journey, poverty overtakes the slothful, and ruin overthrows the undecided: each hour brings the dreaded pursuer nearer; he pauses not by the way, for he is on his master's business and must not tarry. As an armed man enters with authority and power, so shall want come to the idle, and death to the impenitent, and there will be no escape. O that men were wise be-times, and would seek diligently unto the Lord Jesus, or ere the solemn day shall dawn when it will be too late to plough and to sow, too late to repent and believe. In harvest, it is vain to lament that the seed time was neglected. As yet, faith and holy decision are timely. May we obtain them this night.
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Today's reading: Ezekiel 22-23, 1 Peter 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezekiel 22-23
Judgment on Jerusalem’s Sins
1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices 3and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, 4 you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Peter 1
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Praise to God for a Living Hope
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time....
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Rechab [Rē'chăb]—companionship, a horseman or square.
- A son of Rimmon, a Beerothite, captain of the band who slew Ish-bosheth in his bed, and who was put to death by David (2 Sam. 4:2-9).
- Father of Jehonadab and founder of a tribe known as the “Rechabites” ( 2 Kings 10:15,23).
The Man Who Vowed to Be Separate
This particular order had its rise in the religious revival that took place under Elijah and Elisha. The tenets of the followers of Rechab were a reaction and a protest against the luxury and license which under Jezebel and Ahab threatened to destroy the simplicity of the ancient nomadic life of Israel. Accordingly, the Rechabites vowed to drink no wine, nor build houses, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyards, but dwell in tents all their days. They were to remember they were strangers in the land. For 250 years they adhered faithfully to their rules but were driven from their tents when in 607 b.c. Nebuchadnezzar invaded Judah.
Of these noteworthy people, whose high moral example was specially commended by God, Dr. Dinsdale Young elaborates on these points:
I. They honored the memory of the good.
II. They were marked by great simplicity of life.
III. They were worshipers of Jehovah.
IV. They maintained their integrity amid surrounding degeneracy.
V. They had their principles severely tested.
VI. They received special blessing.
May all of us be found among God’s true Rechabites!
3. A descendant of Hemath a Kenite (1 Chron. 2:55).
4. The father of Malchiah, a chief man who, after his return from exile, helped to repair the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:14).
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