GG Bryce has again demonstrated why she is not fit for that office. She has in the past protected Queensland ALP from facing justice over their executive decision to commit a crime by destroying evidence of a gang rape of an aboriginal child held in detention. She has campaigned for the ALP in a bid for a UN seat. Her opinion on gay marriage is legitimate of a private citizen, not of a head of state. Her republican views are similarly incommensurate with her office. Should there arise a constitutional crisis, many would feel she is partisan. However, she is clearly trying to push Mr Abbott into a rash act, so a to delegitimise her successor.
Barrie Cassidy occasionally says something right. I don't hear him say it, when he does, as I won't watch ABC news or current affairs .. I don't share their opinions. Riots in Indonesia show that ABC opinions are unbalanced and dangerous. Gillard takes sides, opposing her own government and attacking Mr Abbott. Where is that highly lauded policy dynamo that was credited with Medicare Gold a decade before Obamacare?
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Christopher Vuu and Quoc Viet Nguyen. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
- 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
- 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
- 1859 – Billy the Kid, American criminal (d. 1881)
- 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author
- 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
- 1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Manhattan Transfer)
- 1970 – Zoë Ball, English television and radio host
- 1998 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
Matches
- 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
- 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from theTower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
- 1510 – First campaign of Ottoman Empire against Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack its capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
- 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
- 1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
- 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
- 1924 – Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper.
- 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
- 1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
- 1959 – General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, "from the Atlantic to thermals."
- 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
- 1974 – 60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
- 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination ofLord Mountbatten.
Despatches
- 947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
- 1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh author (b. 1916)
THE NATURE MONSTER MUST BE DESTROYED
Tim Blair – Saturday, November 23, 2013 (6:36am)
Australia hasn’t won a Test match for 321 days. Following Mitchell Johnson’s heroic bowling against the English in Brisbane, surely only Gaia herself can prevent a long-overdue Australian victory. And that is exactly what the evil nature goddess plans, judging by predictions for the next three days:
OWN GOAL
Tim Blair – Friday, November 22, 2013 (5:33pm)
In the immediate wake of this week’s ABC payroll hilarity, blundering ABC boss Mark Scott called News Corp’s David Penberthy instead of ABC CEO David Pendleton. And now it emerges that another ABC blunder revealed the information in the first place:
The office of a former Liberal South Australian state minister has been revealed as the source of the ABC payroll leak.It is understood a freedom of information request made from the office of Robert Brokenshire – now a Family First MP – led to a much larger cache of data than intended being inadvertently sent.
What these geniuses need is more of our money.
Holden just needs to pay normal wages and it won’t need out handouts
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (11:42am)
Grace Collier says there is a way to make Holden profitable that doesn’t involve more massive handouts from taxpayers:
===In the past, Holden has misinformed us on its workers’ salaries, claiming the average worker earns $55,000....(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
While the Modern Award base salaries for vehicle builders are in the modest $37,000-$42,000 range, the base rates in Holden’s agreement are in the $60,000-$80,000 range. Add on to this loadings and penalties and I am comfortable betting that if Holden was compelled by government, as it should be, to produce the group certificates of workers, earnings would show in the $100,000 to $150,000 range.
Putting aside wages, the agreement does not let Holden manage its own business. It cannot even hire a casual for one hour without union permission. You just cannot run a business like that. There is, of course, an easy way to fix all this and save Holden. If the workers want to keep their jobs, they can. If Holden wants to stay in Australia, it can. If the union wants its members to have ongoing work, it can.
If the Holden workers went back on to the award, Holden would be miraculously transformed. Labour costs would drop by somewhere between 50 and 75 per cent. Productivity would skyrocket. No productivity inquiry would be needed. Holden might even make a profit and pay the country a dividend as return on its many years of “co-investment”.
Bryce must resign for taking Shorten’s side
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (11:32am)
It is wrong for a Governor-General to publicly side with the Opposition
Leader on two hotly debated issues - and even more so when that
Opposition Leader is her son in law. Bill Shorten:
PS: Why is that the Left cannot avoid the temptation of misusing their borrowed authority to advance their political ideology - whether as academics, bishops, judges ... or governors-general?
UPDATE
Samuel J at Catallaxy is even stronger on this point:
UPDATE
Just the fact that the Prime Minister is forced to respond to Bryce’s advocacy demonstrates she crossed a line. At least Abbott replied with his customary grace and respect for office:
===THE Queen’s representative in Australia has reignited the republic debate by being the first serving Governor-General to publicly call for an Australian Head of State.Shorten’s own opinion on gay marriage:
Quentin Bryce, who will retire in March, also supported gay marriage in a landmark speech urging greater respect and care for all Australians.
Delivering the ABC Boyer Lecture in Sydney, Ms Bryce said her vision was for a country “where people are free to love and marry whom they choose and where perhaps my friends, one day, one young girl or boy may even grow up to be our nation’s first Head of State”.
A spokeswoman for Mr Shorten said ... “As stated previously, Bill supports a conscience vote on this. He personally supports marriage equality and voted for the legislation in parliament...”Prime Minister Abbott’s view:
I don’t think we should lightly change patterns of behaviour, institutional arrangements, which have stood the test of time. And since time immemorial, as far as I’m aware in all cultures, marriage, or solemnised relationships, have been between a man and a woman. I am disinclined to think that all of that history should be turned on its head just because, at this moment in time, albeit a significant section of the population thinks that we could do things in a way which is in need of something different.Shorten’s view on a republic:
I believe we do need the start laying the groundwork to educate people that moving toward a Republic is a good idea, not a bad idea.Abbott’s view:
I think that our existing constitutional arrangements have worked well in the past. I see no reason whatsoever why they can’t continue to work well in the future.Bryce, whose term ends next year, should resign now. It is grossly improper to intervene so strongly on the side of Labor - and her son-in-law.
PS: Why is that the Left cannot avoid the temptation of misusing their borrowed authority to advance their political ideology - whether as academics, bishops, judges ... or governors-general?
UPDATE
Samuel J at Catallaxy is even stronger on this point:
Bryce’s advocacy of a republic and gay marriage is highly political and unworthy of a Governor General. She acted inappropriately in offering her resignation – rather than merely resigning – after the election when her son-in-law became Leader of the Opposition. She has now compounded that error.I actually thought Bryce was doing a good job after an initial period in office of highly inappropriate political activities, which I criticised at the time. I very much regret she couldn’t wait until she was just a citizen again before once again playing politics.
Bryce has no judgement, no dignity and no gravitas. She is a disgrace to her office.
UPDATE
Just the fact that the Prime Minister is forced to respond to Bryce’s advocacy demonstrates she crossed a line. At least Abbott replied with his customary grace and respect for office:
Mr Abbott, a staunch Catholic and monarchist who doesn’t support gay marriage, said ”it’s more than appropriate for the governor-general approaching the end of her term to express a personal view.”Bryce should resign and in doing so express her regret for her lapse of judgment.
“And as you’d expect of Quentin Bryce, she did it in graceful style,” he told reporters.
When asked whether Ms Bryce’s comments had swayed his view, Mr Abbott offered a vague answer.
“Different people have different views on these subjects. She was expressing her view, others express their views.”
The Bolt Report tomorrow
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (11:32am)
On The Bolt Report tomorrow, 10am and 4.30pm…
Australia betrayed.
Gerard Henderson on an ABC I think is out of control.
The great Niki Savva and former Keating Government Minister Gary Johns. The Governor-General plays politics and Julia Gillard sides with Indonesia.
Australia’s global warming negotiators torment greens in Warsaw.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
===Australia betrayed.
Gerard Henderson on an ABC I think is out of control.
The great Niki Savva and former Keating Government Minister Gary Johns. The Governor-General plays politics and Julia Gillard sides with Indonesia.
Australia’s global warming negotiators torment greens in Warsaw.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
Barrie Cassidy is right about the damage done by the media. Why doesn’t he tell his boss?
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (11:00am)
ABC commentator Barrie Cassidy is worried that the media is damaging our relationship with Indonesia.
So am I, but here’s the difference. I think the media organisation that’s done the most damage is Cassidy’s own ABC, which published damaging stolen secrets. Cassidy, however...
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
UPDATE
Cassidy is stretching things dramatically to put “get stuffed” in quotation marks, given that they were actually an ironic paraphrase of what someone else said.
As far as I know, not a single “shock jock” has told Indonesia to “get stuffed” and Cassidy does not name anyone who did.
Still, it’s nice to be read.
===So am I, but here’s the difference. I think the media organisation that’s done the most damage is Cassidy’s own ABC, which published damaging stolen secrets. Cassidy, however...
The Coalition’s supporters among the shock jocks can shout from the rooftops that Australia should tell the Indonesians to “get stuffed”. But they have to then accept the consequences. If the boats start arriving again in big numbers, or even worse, if an intelligence sharing breakdown leads to a terrorist attack, will they feel better having told the Indonesians to “get stuffed”? If Australian beef producers go to the wall when orders are cancelled, will they feel better because they told the Indonesians to “get stuffed”?All excellent points about the damage done by irresponsible media outlets, but shouldn’t they be directed by Cassidy at Cassidy’s boss?
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
UPDATE
Cassidy is stretching things dramatically to put “get stuffed” in quotation marks, given that they were actually an ironic paraphrase of what someone else said.
As far as I know, not a single “shock jock” has told Indonesia to “get stuffed” and Cassidy does not name anyone who did.
Still, it’s nice to be read.
Riots in Jakarta show the ABC breached its agreement. Maybe even the law
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (10:37am)
ABC boss Mark Scott on why the ABC published stolen intelligence material revealing Australia spied on the Indonesian president:
UPDATE
Christopher Joye in the Financial Review:
The ABC broke its deal and should lose the Australia Network:
===The test we apply is whether releasing material is in the public interest. At times some people talk about ‘the national interest’ rather than talking about ‘the public interest’.In fact, the ABC also runs the Australia Network, beaming into Indonesia, which it got on the basis of fulfilling this requirement from the Federal Government - to act in the national interest:
Yes, I appreciate that the release of some of this material might be embarrassing and that the release of some of this material may cause some difficulties in the Australia-Indonesia relationship in the short term. But I think we would say that that reporting was absolutely in the public interest...and probably in the national interest in the long term.
to specifically address how their operation of the Australia Network service would meet Australia’s national interests ..........for a service that will support Australia’s national interests and meet the Commonwealth Objectives.... required the Australia Network service provider to promote a positive image of Australia.So how is this in the national interest - or, indeed, in the public interest?
Hundreds of members from various hardline Islamic groups clashed with police in front of the Australian embassy on Friday, some calling for blood, in response to the spying scandal which has caused relations between Canberra and Jakarta to sink to their lowest level since the East Timor crisis in 1999.At a minimum the ABC must be stripped of the Australia Network.
An Australian flag and pictures of Prime Minister Tony Abbott were set alight.
The embassy was also pelted with rocks and eggs, and a mock coffin bearing a photo of Mr Abbott was left on the road in front of the compound.
Earlier, a senior member from the extremist organisation Hizbut Tahrir, speaking through a PA system erected on a truck in front of the embassy, told supporters it was regrettable that the bombing of the building in 2004 was not more successful.
“When a bomb exploded here, in front of the embassy, it was only a problem because it didn’t get inside,” he said.
Members of the Islamic Defenders Front shouted: “Burn, burn, Australia, burn Australia from now on.”
UPDATE
Christopher Joye in the Financial Review:
Under the Officials Secrets section 79 of the Crimes Act a person can be imprisoned for up to seven years for communicating or retaining secret government information, particularly if it prejudices the Commonwealth’s security or defence, when they know it has been illegally supplied to them, when they have no right to retain it, and/or if they fail to take reasonable care to ensure that it is not publicly shared.Should Mark Scott and the Guardian Australia’s Katherine Viner not then be charged?
Mark Scott is smoking dope if he thinks the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was acting in the “public interest” when it published the top secret details of Australian foreign intelligence operations, possibly in breach of section 79 of the Crimes Act, which covers “official secrets"…UPDATE
Mr Scott must explain how it is in the Australian public’s interest for the ABC’s disclosure of the details of sensitive yet conventional intelligence exercises to trigger a major crisis in our relations with our most important near neighbour, Indonesia.
How does the Australian public benefit from Indonesia threatening to cease co-operation on people smuggling, counter-terrorism, trans-national crime and decelerate economic trade, to say nothing of recalling its ambassador and suggesting Australia’s envoy could be expelled?
And how can the ABC’s crippling of Australian intelligence agencies’ future capacity to source information on the intentions of Indonesia’s decision-makers be in the best interests of taxpayers?
The ABC broke its deal and should lose the Australia Network:
FORMER ABC board member Keith Windschuttle has backed calls for a review of the ABC’s $233 million Australia Network contract…(Thanks to readers Gab, Peter and Cold-Hands.)
Mr Windschuttle, the editor of Quadrant magazine, was on the ABC board when it prepared its submission for the Australia Network contract, and said he understood its main theme was to “further the process of Australian ‘soft diplomacy’ in the Asia-Pacific”.
“By publicising illegally obtained information that patently works against Australian interests in the region, the ABC appears to have abrogated its claim to be acting in the spirit of its original submission,” he said.
“If the ABC did not have the Australia Network contract, then it could have treated the Snowden leaks like any independent news organisation and publicised them, whether or not this was in Australia’s national interests or the public interest.”
Butt out, lady: Julia Gillard sides with Indonesia against Tony Abbott
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (10:09am)
Julia Gillard, like the Governor-General, forgets her responsibilities.
As a former Prime Minister, only recently out of the job, it is simply
disgraceful that she should now run interference as the new Prime
Minister tries to resolve a dispute with a foreign power.
Even worse is that Gillard actually sides with an Indonesian demand, against what the current Prime Ministers and his advisers judge to be the national interest:
Astonishing.
Worse is that Gillard wants Abbott to promise not to do what was authorised by the very government of which she was Deputy Prime Minister. And she wants him to fix what she as Prime Minister left unfixed
From the Sydney Morning Herald, July 26:
Or just leave the mess for the next guy, and then heckle him from the sidelines?
(Thanks to reader Bob K.)
===Even worse is that Gillard actually sides with an Indonesian demand, against what the current Prime Ministers and his advisers judge to be the national interest:
Former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard says Tony Abbott should promise not to tap the phone of the Indonesian president in the future...Indonesia wants us to promise not to spy on its presidents in future. Abbott cannot start promising foreign leaders any such thing. Gillard now helps Indonesia by backing its demand.
Ms Gillard ... endorsed the way United States president Barack Obama handled similar allegations that the US was spying on the German chancellor Angela Merkel.
“If he (Mr Obama) had been aware he wouldn’t have authorised it, and he could certainly say for the future that it wouldn’t happen again,” she told CNN.
“And I think that that’s an appropriate response from Australia to Indonesia at this very difficult time.”
Astonishing.
Worse is that Gillard wants Abbott to promise not to do what was authorised by the very government of which she was Deputy Prime Minister. And she wants him to fix what she as Prime Minister left unfixed
From the Sydney Morning Herald, July 26:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was the beneficiary of British spying on Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the 2009 G20 summit meeting in London, according to Australian intelligence and foreign affairs sources…And Gillard say what, exactly? Let’s prepare Indonesia for the leak? Apologise in advance? Promise never to do it again?
‘’[Prime Minister] Rudd had a keen appetite for intelligence, especially on the Asia-Pacific leaders - Yudhoyono, [Indian Prime Minister] Manmoham Singh, and [former Chinese president] Hu Jintao,’’ one intelligence source said, speaking on condition of anonymity…
Documents released to Fairfax Media under freedom of information laws show former prime minister Julia Gillard was briefed on last month’s disclosures by US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden that British and American intelligence targeted foreign leaders and officials attending the 2009 G20 meetings in London.
Defence, Intelligence and Information Sharing Division head Richard Sadleir briefed Ms Gillard on June 17, immediately after The Guardian newspaper reported that documents leaked by Mr Snowden had revealed the British signals intelligence agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), had employed ‘’ground-breaking intelligence capabilities’’ to intercept the communications.
GCHQ’s intelligence collection capabilities at the summit included penetrating the security of delegates’ BlackBerry smartphones to monitor emails and phone calls, and setting up internet cafes where an email interception program and key-logging software spied on delegates’ computer use.
Or just leave the mess for the next guy, and then heckle him from the sidelines?
(Thanks to reader Bob K.)
A note to warmists: the party is over. Our wallet is closed
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (9:54am)
Global warming has become the excuse for the greatest gravy train known to man:
Seriously?
===AUSTRALIA has won support from Britain and others to head off demands for compensation payments to countries hit by damage they blame on climate change, sparking anger at a global summit meant to strike a deal this weekend.So warmists want us to hand between $4 billion and $6 billion a year to foreign bureaucrats for “climate change” programs?
Acting on Tony Abbott’s edict to avoid any new financial commitments, Australian negotiators have held out against calls to support the “loss and damage” payments sought by poorer countries…
Developing nations gained support from Australia and others one year ago to put the “loss and damage” idea on the UN agenda as some advocates called for about $100 billion in annual compensation. That would require $2bn or $3bn a year from Australia ...
Separate talks on climate finance, focused on helping developing countries adapt to climate change consequences such as rising sea levels, are meant to lead to about $100bn in contributions from wealthy countries every year by 2020.
Seriously?
Attention ABC: more of those “rare” cyclones
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (9:35am)
Reader Relevance Please
===I’m sick of the uninformed garbage coming out of the ABC. Watching ABC24 this morning and repeated several times was the claim that a tropical low to the North West of Australia was a very rare event for this time of year.From the BOM’s cyclone records for our northwest region:
What was bad enough was they were inferring that the low already counted as a tropical cyclone. What was worse was their claim that this ‘rare event’ had occurred ‘about’ three times since the year 1900.
Well the BOM records show that between Feb 1970 and Feb 2011 there were 25 tropical cyclones in Australia during the month of November. Some earlier.
On my calculations that trend would give around 75 November tropical cyclones since 1900. I would hate to think of the amount of tropical lows that never formed into cyclones.
How do they get away with this deceitful rubbish? Or do they expect their audience are so stupid, rusted on or thick they wouldn’t check the facts for themselves?
Melanie 29 October - 1 November 1996
Tropical cyclone Zelia 8-10 October 1998
Severe tropical cyclone Alison 7-13 November 1998
Tropical Cyclone Alex 26 - 30 October 2001
Tropical Cyclone Bessi 27-30 November 2001
TC Phoebe 2 - 4 September 2004
Severe Tropical Cyclone Bertie 19-24 November 2005
Unnamed Tropical Cyclone 29-30 July 2007
Tropical Cyclone Lee 11-15 November 2007
Jonathan Holmes verbals me and should apologise. Will Media Watch go him?
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (9:04am)
Once again, Fairfax
columnist and former ABC presenter Jonathan Holmes misrepresents me to
criticise me. This time he falsely claims I accused the Guardian of deliberately holding back its story on Australian spying:
Elsewhere I have mentioned that delay, but pointed out - like Holmes - that the Guardian denied it was deliberate.
Holmes, to honor the standards he so noisily demanded of others, should publicly correct and apologise. Media Watch should pick him up on this, too.
Once again, Holmes and The Age let malice interfere with the facts. Which, not coincidentally, is my charge with so much reporting on the spying story.
UPDATE
I have sent The Age a letter - as I have so often had to do following its reports on me - correcting the record. Let’s see if it has the integrity to correct this gross error:
===That morning [Miranda Devine] claimed that The Guardian had ‘’sat on its bombshell allegations … for five months’’. And she knew why:I have nowhere said the Guardian deliberately sat on this story for five months. It is false to say I “agreed” with that proposition. The quote Holmes uses comes from a column in which I do not even mention the delay.
‘’This is the end game for the bleeding heart Left and its media enablers: to prevent the Abbott government from fulfilling its election promise to ‘stop the boats’.’’
Her fellow News stirrer Andrew Bolt agreed: ‘’Hatred of Abbott and his signature boats policy is driving much of this hysterical media coverage and damn the national interest.’’
And so did Fairfax’s Paul Sheehan: ‘’The Guardian had possession of the security leak for months,’’ he wrote on Thursday. ‘’Nothing happened while Labor was in power.’’ Mark Scott’s decision to run with the story ‘’was consistent with, on his watch, the ABC’s institutional hostility to Coalition policies on asylum-seekers … The ABC has got what it wanted.’’
Elsewhere I have mentioned that delay, but pointed out - like Holmes - that the Guardian denied it was deliberate.
Holmes, to honor the standards he so noisily demanded of others, should publicly correct and apologise. Media Watch should pick him up on this, too.
Once again, Holmes and The Age let malice interfere with the facts. Which, not coincidentally, is my charge with so much reporting on the spying story.
UPDATE
I have sent The Age a letter - as I have so often had to do following its reports on me - correcting the record. Let’s see if it has the integrity to correct this gross error:
Once again I’ve been misrepresented by Jonathan Holmes (Opinion, Nov 23).
No, I have never “agreed” with a claim Holmes mocks: that The Guardian deliberately waited for five months to reveal Australia spied on the Indonesian president, just to embarrass Tony Abbott.
Indeed, the quote Holmes uses to frame me comes from a column in which I did not mention that delay at all.
Will Media Watch cover this deceptive reporting by its former host?
If Abbott promises Indonesia no more spying, what does he say to China?
Andrew Bolt November 23 2013 (8:55am)
Another reason Tony Abbott cannot set a precedent of admitting to spying and ruling out more of the same:
Paul Kelly, one of these demanding Abbott offer Indonesia more, concedes he cannot give what his critics demand:
===THE Abbott government is bracing for the possible release of more embarrassing material from leaked US intelligence about Indonesia and other Asian nations, as it aims for a “broader and deeper” security relationship with Jakarta…UPDATE
The US is in “close contact” with the Australian government over the 200,000 secret files leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden as it tries to identify what information has been compromised.
Paul Kelly, one of these demanding Abbott offer Indonesia more, concedes he cannot give what his critics demand:
Offering Yudhoyono an explanation leads to the pivotal issue: does Abbott give assurances of no future intelligence operations against the Indonesian President? This is what Yudhoyono must prefer. It is the promise US President Barack Obama gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel, so a precedent exists.Abbott’s critics in Australia should be much more careful. They badly want to attack Abbott for “bungling” his response, but in doing so they want him to offer what can only hurt Australia - and possibly put Australian lives at risk.
From his remarks, Abbott seems determined to avoid this position. So does Australia’s national security establishment. Given Australia’s intelligence activity across Southeast Asia, any such public pledge would extend the problem, make it regional and provoke demands from other nations - think Malaysia and Papua New Guinea - for the same assurance. It would become farcical.
But isn’t a private apology private? And if it’s not, should Abbott give one?
Andrew Bolt November 22 2013 (4:28pm)
I’m hearing Tony Abbott
being attacked on Sky News - and by many Leftist critics elsewhere -
for not privately apologising to the Indonesian President for our
alleged spying on his phone. (I presume his critics are slowly
accepting that initial demands Abbott apologise publicly were against
the national interest.)
Excuse me, but how do these critics know Abbott hasn’t rung Yudhoyono privately?
And if these critics reply that a private apology would have been leaked, then they are back to where they started: demanding Abbott make what actually is a public apology.
===Excuse me, but how do these critics know Abbott hasn’t rung Yudhoyono privately?
And if these critics reply that a private apology would have been leaked, then they are back to where they started: demanding Abbott make what actually is a public apology.
The Mirror
I was teaching an Aperture Academy Night Owls workshop a few months back, and as we tend to do, we hit the Palace of Fine Arts right at dusk... the Bluie Hour as we like to call it. I was busy teaching our students how to get this type of shot, and took one as an example for them so that they knew what they were trying for. The image here was the result of my quick Long Exposure shot of 30 seconds.
This Saturday afternoon I'm teaching another workshop, but this time down in the beautiful Big Sur coastline region with my good pal Jean Day. I'm greatly looking forward to showing our participants just how fantastic a place this part of California is!
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Lyrics show what it cost to have Democrat policies (ALP policies in Aus). 110th street is not like that now. - ed
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A WOMAN OF VALOR
Chloe' Simone Valdary is a Christian African-American student at the University of New Orleans. She is a staunch pro-Israel advocate, and founded "Allies of Israel" a group which advocates for a strong Israel, and also to fight global anti-Semitism, which is on the upswing and is at the root of the conflict.
The University of New Orleans has nearly 13,000 undergraduate students, about 75 of whom are Jewish. There are no Jewish studies courses, there are no Jewish services available and there is no kosher food available on campus. In contrast to the absence of a Jewish presence on campus, the university has a Muslim Student Association and a General Union of Palestine Students. New Orleans is also a city which had been the scene of many anti-Israel demonstrations.
Thanks to the efforts of Valdary, even students at the University of New Orleans will learn about Israel despite the lack of a strong Jewish presence at the school.
PLEASE LIKE AND READ MORE ABOUT THIS AWESOME YOUNG WOMAN
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I love books. Most of these are not inspiring or worthy of spending much time. How about Watership Down? Diana by Delderfield, or To Serve Them All My Days? James Branch Cabell's Jurgen or Figures of Earth? Edding's Belgariad? Stow's Midnite? Job? Anne Rice's Jesus The Lord? Redeeming Love? - ed
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http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=198048
Three years in the making by a master .. ed===
bridge made for local crab population
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/editorials/pm-puts-the-national-interest-first-in-spy-row/story-e6frg71x-1226766421472
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www.theage.com.au
http://www.theage.com.au/national/your-salaries-uncapped-20131122-2y1be.html===
http://rhondagessner.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/a-killer-in-your-fridge-sweet-poison-a-must-read/
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/tony-abbott-the-unelectable-leader-who-changed-politics/story-e6frg6z6-1226766317701#mm-register
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A 25-year-old seaman from Hainan Island, off the south coast of China, Poon Lim shipped out as a second steward on the British merchant ship Ben Lomond. The ill-fated vessel left Cape Town carrying a crew of 55. It was torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat on Nov. 23, 1942. The ship was sinking rapidly, so Poon Lim leaped over the side. He had tied a life jacket around himself, so he surfaced and swam as quickly as he could away from the freighter and the futile calls for help of his shipmates.
When the ship's boilers exploded the Ben Lomond sank below the surface of the Atlantic. Poon Lim paddled in the water, holding his head as high as he could above each wave in hopes of spotting a life raft. He saw one with several sailors clinging to it, but it drifted away. Those five sailors were the only other survivors of the ship.
Poon Lim's first concern was simply to stay alive. He gulped air when he could and kept his head above the waves. After struggling for two hours, he saw a life raft several hundred feet away. He swam to it and climbed aboard.
His raft was built of timbers and was 8 ft. square. Tied to it were some tins of British biscuits, a large water jug, some flares, and an electric torch. By allowing himself a few swallows of water and two biscuits in the morning and in the evening, he estimated that he should be able to stay alive for at least a month.
On two occasions rescue seemed imminent, once when a freighter passed within close range, and once when a U.S. Navy patrol plane buzzed his raft. But both times his frantic shouting was ignored. These were the loneliest times for Poon Lim, with help so near and yet so far away. He was also spotted by a German U-boat, which chose to leave him to his fate rather than kill him. He soon realized that he couldn't expect help from others and must keep himself alive until he drifted to land.
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Why do these siblings say they can’t stand their brother’s fiancée? http://bit.ly/DrP112213#DrPhil
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Steve Wolf
I'm with The Hon Andrew Robb AO, MP,Speaking now," We inherited a mess"
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Sometimes advice is like running up and kicking a stranger in the butt .. it is just wrong - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Every 14 minutes someone commits suicide in America.
Every 15 minutes, the loved ones have to deal with it.
Nov 23 in the International Survivors of Suicide Day
Tomorrow, Saddleback Church is hosting an encouraging seminar for friends and loved one of those who've committed suicide.
FREE REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST at 8am
At the Refinery, Saddleback Lake Forest.
KAY WARREN WILL SPEAK AT 1 pm
CLICK HERE FOR INFO:
http://saddleback.com/
Every year, survivors of suicide loss gather together in locations around the world to feel a sense of community, to promote healing, and to connect with others who have had similar experiences. This year, join Saddleback and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) for a day-long event on Saturday, November 23, 2013.
Saddleback Church Lake Forest welcomes survivors of suicide loss, and will provide a safe and healing space where everyone can comfortably participate in a way that is meaningful to them. Join with others to listen to a diverse group of survivors discuss their losses, how they coped, and much more.
Come in person to experience the powerful sense of connection and community that is forged between survivors of suicide loss. You are not alone. This day is for you.
- 8:00 am Free Breakfast & Registration
- 9:00 am Opening Ceremony
- 9:30 am Survivors of Suicide Video
- 11:00 am Support Group
- 12:15 pm Dove Release
- 12:30 pm Free Lunch
Suicide Prevention & Awareness (A Webcasted Event)
- 1:00 pm - Kay Warren - A Personal Story
- 1:30 pm - Suicide Prevention Session
- 2:30 - 3:00 pm - Question & Answer
*Please join us for the whole day or a portion of the day.
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Some people worship a God who causes suffering.
I worship the God who bears my suffering.
The Lord and Savior Isaiah 53:3-5 describes:
"He was hated and rejected by people.
He had much pain and suffering.
People would not even look at him.
He was hated, and we didn't even notice him.
But he took our suffering on him
and felt our pain for us.
We saw his suffering
and thought God was punishing him.
But he was wounded for the wrong we did;
he was crushed for the evil we did.
The punishment, which made us well, was given to him,
and we are healed because of his wounds."
Isaiah 53:3-5 (NCV)
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50 years after CS Lewis died (Nov. 22, 1963, the same day as JFK's assassination), they FINALLY put a tribute to him in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner!
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It takes a team to build a dream
But it takes great trust to build a great team!
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Leaders: Your charisma may attract new staff but only your character will keep them loyal for 20 years. Charisma fades but character lasts.
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"Ode to Joy" (German: "Ode an die Freude", first line: "Freude, schöner Götterfunken") is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet, playwright and historian Friedrich Schiller , enthusiastically celebrating the brotherhood and unity of all mankind.
The ode is best known for its musical setting by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final movement of his Ninth Symphony
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JFK
Assassinated 22nd November 1963
Fifty years today.
The last great Democrat.
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New Orleans get together .. get involved - ed
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I wish I could give her back all that he has taken from her. She deserved a long, fruitful life. - ed
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Scientology was recognised ..in '83 .. thank you Bob Hawke .. ed
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Sending selfies crossed a line .. some things friends don't need .. ed
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In this clip from 'An Adventure in Space and Time', BBC Head of Drama Sydney Newman outlines to Verity Lambert his idea for a new television show... http://bbc.in/AAISATclip1
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The Exploding Chocolate Shot. True Pop Art.
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"The lovely ladies of the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and their headmistress, Madame Maxime." - Dumbledore
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Amazing! Moments ago, the 2,000th patient of the #IDFinPhilippines mission walked into our field hospital, making us proud and showing the true face of the #IDF and the State of #Israel
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#TBT Vintage Emma and Rupert!
Emma Watson
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New and old friends gathered in Kansas tonight – including Robert and Shirley Hemenway (see them in the photo) whose son Ron worked for the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon when he was killed on September 11, 2001. Ron graduated from Wasilla High School with Todd and me, and he was a wonderful young man from a proud and selfless Alaskan family. Ron will never be forgotten. It’s remembering 9/11 that makes us appreciate sacrifices made for our freedoms, and should stiffen our spines to defend them.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, including the thoughtful Barnes & Noble staff. It’s inspiring to note in these book events, especially notable tonight in Kansas, the multiple generations of families traveling together to express their concern for America and encouragement to fight for what’s right – as so many people brought their kids and grandkids. Family patriarchs and matriarchs talked about the importance of influencing younger generations so they’d respect, honor, and protect our exceptional nation. It’s in that same spirit we seek to protect the heart of Christmas. Leaning into the strength you provide, good Americans, we will keep the faith!
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Electronic voting is feasible and secure .. if we give up the principle of a secret vote .. I'm for it. - ed
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http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/white-house-israels-all-or-nothing-proposal-on-iran-means-war/2013/11/22/
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===Hamas Looking to Buy More Electricity - From Israel - Israel National News
"The Israel Electric Company already provides over 1/3 of Gaza's electricity - despite numerous terror attacks by Hamas to kill Israeli forces and civilians alike, and despite Hamas's continued public statements threatening genocide against the Israeli and Jewish peoples.
Egyptian politician Imad Hamdi, from the Egyptian Popular Front, has criticized the move, calling Hamas hypocritical…. " - Dalit Halevi, Tova Dvorin
Continue to the link, reading this and more articles at ...….http://paper.li/
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"Of course, journalists are permitted to produce pure poppycock if the media outlet they are associated with has no objection to publishing it, or to leading its readers astray.
So the claptrap that Friedman inflicts on his readers is not really a valid reason for his dismissal by the NYT – which has given ample indication that not only does it have no objection to leading its readers astray, but when it comes to Israel, it has a strong interest in doing so.
With stunning gall, he writes: “Iran has lied and cheated its way to the precipice of building a bomb, and without tough economic sanctions – sanctions that President Obama engineered.... Iran would not be at the negotiating table.”
Sanctions that Obama engineered? Really? One can only wonder whether Friedman is counting on his readers’ total ignorance or total amnesia. Or whether he is suffering from them himself.
In fact the Obama administration was one of the greatest obstacles to the sanctions that brought the Iranians to the table, virtually coerced to do so by pressure from Congress (and even some Europeans)." - Martin Sherman
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- 1733 – African slaves from Akwamu in theDanish West Indies revolted against their owners, one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas.
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody.
- 1924 – Edwin Hubble published evidence in a newspaper that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is actually another galaxy, one of many in the universe.
- 1992 – IBM introduced the Simon (pictured), a handheld, touchscreen mobile phone and PDA that is considered the first smartphone.
- 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, the Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to transfer power to Vice President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Events[edit]
- 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
- 1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
- 1248 – Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
- 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from theTower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
- 1510 – First campaign of Ottoman Empire against Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack its capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
- 1531 – The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
- 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
- 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
- 1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela
- 1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House
- 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins – Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grantreinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
- 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
- 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
- 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.
- 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
- 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- 1924 – Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper.
- 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
- 1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- 1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
- 1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
- 1946 – French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians.
- 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
- 1959 – General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, "from the Atlantic to theUrals."
- 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
- 1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
- 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket.
- 1974 – 60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
- 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
- 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination ofLord Mountbatten.
- 1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.
- 1981 – Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
- 1990 – The first all woman expedition to the South Pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians) sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
- 1992 – The first Smartphone IBM Simon was introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
- 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
- 2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
- 2003 – Rose Revolution: the Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
- 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
- 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
- 2006 – A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
- 2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near theSouth Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
- 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines
- 2010 – The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
- 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
Births[edit]
- 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
- 1221 – Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
- 1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
- 1417 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
- 1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
- 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
- 1632 – Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d. 1707)
- 1641 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (d. 1720)
- 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French composer and violinist (d. 1730)
- 1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
- 1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
- 1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
- 1749 – Edward Rutledge, American politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1800)
- 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (d. 1797)
- 1781 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (d. 1847)
- 1785 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853)
- 1803 – Theodore Dwight Weld, American activist (d. 1895)
- 1804 – Franklin Pierce, American politician, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
- 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
- 1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
- 1838 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928)
- 1859 – Billy the Kid, American criminal (d. 1881)
- 1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Swedish politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
- 1861 – Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- 1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d. 1936)
- 1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
- 1871 – William Watt, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d. 1946)
- 1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian politician (d. 1933)
- 1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
- 1878 – Frank Pick, English businessman (d. 1941)
- 1883 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
- 1886 – Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and theatre director (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish dancer (d. 1943)
- 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
- 1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
- 1888 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1964)
- 1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian sports administrator and journalist (d. 1964)
- 1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941)
- 1892 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990)
- 1896 – Venere Pizzinato, Italian super-centenarian (d. 2011)
- 1896 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960)
- 1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali−English author (d. 1999)
- 1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German SS doctor (d. 1948)
- 1899 – Nelly's, Greek photographer (d. 1998)
- 1899 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist (d. 1974)
- 1902 – Aaron Bank, American army officer (d. 2004)
- 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
- 1905 – K. Alvapillai, Ceylon Tamil civil servant (d. 1979)
- 1906 – Betti Alver, Estonian poet (d. 1989)
- 1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
- 1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American author (d. 2006)
- 1909 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (d. 2000)
- 1912 – George O'Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1914 – Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998)
- 1914 – Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987)
- 1914 – Wilson Tucker, American author (d. 2006)
- 1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Marc Simont, American illustrator (d. 2013)
- 1916 – Michael Gough, English actor (d. 2011)
- 1916 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet (d. 2010)
- 1920 – Paul Celan, Romanian-German poet (d. 1970)
- 1920 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
- 1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
- 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese politician and statesman (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Daniel Brewster, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (d. 1986)
- 1923 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Gloria Whelan, American author
- 1924 – Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress
- 1924 – Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist (d. 1994)
- 1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer
- 1925 – Elaine Horseman, English author (d. 1999)
- 1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 2011)
- 1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
- 1927 – John Cole, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
- 1927 – Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal
- 1928 – Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Kalmer Tennosaar, Estonian singer and journalist (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author
- 1930 – Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager
- 1931 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Michel David-Weill, French banker
- 1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor
- 1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977)
- 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
- 1934 – Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director
- 1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- 1936 – Robert Barnard, English author
- 1936 – Mats Traat, Estonian poet and author
- 1938 – Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
- 1939 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)
- 1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player
- 1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor
- 1942 – Susan Anspach, American actress
- 1943 – Andrew Goodman, American activist (d. 1964)
- 1943 – Sue Nicholls, English actress
- 1943 – David Nolan, American activist and politician (d. 2010)
- 1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer
- 1944 – James Toback, American screenwriter and director
- 1945 – Jim Doyle, American politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
- 1945 – Keith Hampshire, English-Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1945 – Jerry Harris, American sculptor
- 1945 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and comedian (d. 2010)
- 1945 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
- 1945 – Tony Pond, English race car driver (d. 2002)
- 1946 – George Falconer, Scottish footballer (d. 2013)
- 1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
- 1946 – Diana Quick, English actress
- 1946 – Bobby Rush, American politician
- 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host
- 1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American actor and scriptwriter
- 1948 – Frank Worthington, English footballer
- 1949 – Tom Joyner, American radio host
- 1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Manhattan Transfer)
- 1949 – Sandra Stevens, English singer (Brotherhood of Man)
- 1949 – Jerry verDorn, American actor
- 1950 – Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian writer and an Indologist
- 1950 – Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author
- 1950 – Maik Galakos, Greek footballer
- 1950 – Chuck Schumer, American politician
- 1951 – David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990)
- 1952 – Bill Troiano, American tuba player
- 1953 – Rick Bayless, American chef
- 1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1953 – Johan de Meij, Dutch trombone player, conductor, and composer
- 1954 – Ross Brawn, English engineer
- 1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
- 1954 – Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Other Ones)
- 1954 – Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist
- 1955 – Steven Brust, American author
- 1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer
- 1955 – Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer
- 1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician
- 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor
- 1959 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
- 1960 – Robin Roberts, American journalist
- 1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
- 1961 – Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
- 1961 – John Schnatter, American businessman, founded Papa John's Pizza
- 1962 – Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela
- 1962 – Lance King, American heavy metal vocalist specializing in melodic progressive and power metal
- 1963 – Mamoru Takuma, Japanese murderer (d. 2004)
- 1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper
- 1965 – Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
- 1965 – J. T. the Brick, American radio host
- 1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor
- 1966 – Jerry Kelly, American golfer
- 1966 – Russell Watson, English tenor
- 1967 – Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer
- 1967 – Salli Richardson, American actress
- 1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar and lexicographer
- 1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist
- 1969 – Mike Lünsmann, German footballer
- 1969 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor
- 1969 – Üllar Saaremäe, Estonian actor and theatre director
- 1969 – Jonathan Seet, Singaporean-Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1970 – Zoë Ball, English television and radio host
- 1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli actor
- 1970 – Danny Hoch, American actor
- 1970 – Karsten Mueller, German chess player and author
- 1971 – Khalid Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress
- 1971 – Vin Baker, American basketball player
- 1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, and television host
- 1971 – Sajid Khan, Indian film actor and director
- 1972 – Chris Adler, American drummer (Lamb of God and Blotted Science)
- 1972 – Alf-Inge Håland, Norwegian footballer
- 1972 – Veronica Avluv, American pornographic actress
- 1974 – Juventud Guerrera, Mexican wrestler
- 1974 – Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1974 – Malik Rose, American basketball player
- 1974 – Jamie Sharper, American football player
- 1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor
- 1976 – Murat Salar, Turkish footballer
- 1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler
- 1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
- 1977 – Adam Eaton, American baseball player
- 1978 – Ali Güneş, Turkish footballer
- 1978 – Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter (The Kills, The Dead Weather, and Discount)
- 1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor
- 1979 – Kelly Brook, English actress and model
- 1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer
- 1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean-American soldier and author
- 1980 – David Britz, American scientist and engineer
- 1980 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
- 1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1982 – Igor Kuzmin, Estonian rower
- 1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
- 1983 – Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1983 – Thomas Pridgen, American drummer (The Memorials and The Mars Volta)
- 1983 – Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer
- 1984 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
- 1984 – Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress
- 1985 – Viktor Ahn, South Korean speed skater
- 1986 – Maxene Magalona, Filipino actress
- 1986 – Luigi Scaglia, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Snooki, Chilean-American actress and author
- 1987 – Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1987 – Ossi Kanervo, Finnish figure skater
- 1988 – Saab Magalona, Filipino actress
- 1988 – Sebastian Nachreiner, German footballer
- 1990 – Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
- 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1996 – Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
- 1998 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
- 955 – Eadred, English king (b. 923)
- 1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)
- 1457 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440)
- 1499 – Perkin Warbeck, Flemish royal imposter (b. 1474)
- 1503 – Bona of Savoy (b. 1449)
- 1503 – Margaret of York (b. 1446)
- 1572 – Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
- 1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)
- 1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English author (b. 1552)
- 1682 – Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
- 1763 – Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)
- 1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711)
- 1803 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)
- 1804 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715)
- 1804 – Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747)
- 1807 – Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747)
- 1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American politician, 5th Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
- 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French army officer (b. 1762)
- 1890 – William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
- 1899 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman (b. 1837)
- 1905 – John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist (b. 1828)
- 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
- 1923 – Urmuz, Romanian lawyer and author (b. 1883)
- 1927 – Miguel Pro, Mexican priest (b. 1891)
- 1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
- 1937 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
- 1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist (b. 1858)
- 1937 – Miklós Kovács Hungarian-Slovene poet (b. 1857)
- 1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 1956 – William von Wirén, Estonian sailor (b. 1894)
- 1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
- 1958 – Johnston McCulley, American author (b. 1883)
- 1966 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
- 1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
- 1972 – Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889)
- 1974 – Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian politician and army officer (b. 1918)
- 1974 – Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician and Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
- 1974 – Aman Andom, Ethiopian army officer and Chairman of the Derg (b. 1924)
- 1974 – Asrate Medhin Kassa, Ethiopian aristocrat and army officer (b. 1922)
- 1974 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920)
- 1974 – Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician and Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
- 1976 – André Malraux, French author (b. 1901)
- 1979 – Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress (b. 1911)
- 1979 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
- 1982 – Grady Nutt, American comedian and author (b. 1934)
- 1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899)
- 1983 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor (b. 1938)
- 1984 – Leonard Baker, American writer (b. 1931)
- 1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh author (b. 1916)
- 1990 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
- 1991 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (b. 1926)
- 1992 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
- 1994 – Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966)
- 1994 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (b. 1939)
- 1995 – Louis Malle, French director (b. 1932)
- 1995 – Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)
- 1996 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (b. 1943)
- 1996 – Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1961)
- 1998 – Dan Osman, American rock climber (b. 1963)
- 1997 – Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American activist (b. 1939)
- 2000 – Rayner Unwin, English publisher (b. 1925)
- 2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- 2001 – O. C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
- 2001 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)
- 2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Jesus Blancornelas, Mexican journalist (b. 1936)
- 2006 – Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948)
- 2006 – Betty Comden, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
- 2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
- 2007 – Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
- 2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
- 2007 – Robert Vesco, American financier (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936)
- 2009 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Juzefas Jurgelevičius, Lithuanian footballer (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Joyce Howard, English actress (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Ingrid Pitt, Polish-English actress (b. 1937)
- 2010 – James Tyler, American composer and author (b. 1940)
- 2011 – Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Veerapandy S. Arumugam, Indian politician (b. 1937)
- 2012 – José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Lawrence Guyot, American activist (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor and director (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Tadeusz Kwapień, Polish skier (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Go Native, Irish race horse (b. 2003)
- 2012 – Nelson Prudêncio, Brazilian triple jumper (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Hal Trosky, Jr., American baseball player (b. 1936)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest day on which Black Friday can fall, while November 29 is the latest; observed on the day after Thanksgiving. (United States), and its related observances:
- Feast of Qawl (Speech) – The first day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
- Labour Thanksgiving Day (Japan)
- Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia)
- St George's Day or Giorgoba (Georgia)
“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.” Colossians 3:15 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep."
Hosea 12:12
Hosea 12:12
Jacob, while expostulating with Laban, thus describes his own toil, "This twenty years have I been with thee. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee: I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." Even more toilsome than this was the life of our Saviour here below. He watched over all his sheep till he gave in as his last account, "Of all those whom thou hast given me I have lost none." His hair was wet with dew, and his locks with the drops of the night. Sleep departed from his eyes, for all night he was in prayer wrestling for his people. One night Peter must be pleaded for; anon, another claims his tearful intercession. No shepherd sitting beneath the cold skies, looking up to the stars, could ever utter such complaints because of the hardness of his toil as Jesus Christ might have brought, if he had chosen to do so, because of the sternness of his service in order to procure his spouse--
"Cold mountains and the midnight air,
Witnessed the fervour of his prayer;
The desert his temptations knew,
His conflict and his victory too."
It is sweet to dwell upon the spiritual parallel of Laban having required all the sheep at Jacob's hand. If they were torn of beasts, Jacob must make it good; if any of them died, he must stand as surety for the whole. Was not the toil of Jesus for his Church the toil of one who was under suretiship obligations to bring every believing one safe to the hand of him who had committed them to his charge? Look upon toiling Jacob, and you see a representation of him of whom we read, "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd."
Evening
"The power of his resurrection."
Philippians 3:10
Philippians 3:10
The doctrine of a risen Saviour is exceedingly precious. The resurrection is the corner-stone of the entire building of Christianity. It is the key-stone of the arch of our salvation. It would take a volume to set forth all the streams of living water which flow from this one sacred source, the resurrection of our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; but to know that he has risen, and to have fellowship with him as such--communing with the risen Saviour by possessing a risen life--seeing him leave the tomb by leaving the tomb of worldliness ourselves, this is even still more precious. The doctrine is the basis of the experience, but as the flower is more lovely than the root, so is the experience of fellowship with the risen Saviour more lovely than the doctrine itself. I would have you believe that Christ rose from the dead so as to sing of it, and derive all the consolation which it is possible for you to extract from this well-ascertained and well-witnessed fact; but I beseech you, rest not contented even there. Though you cannot, like the disciples, see him visibly, yet I bid you aspire to see Christ Jesus by the eye of faith; and though, like Mary Magdalene, you may not "touch" him, yet may you be privileged to converse with him, and to know that he is risen, you yourselves being risen in him to newness of life. To know a crucified Saviour as having crucified all my sins, is a high degree of knowledge; but to know a risen Saviour as having justified me, and to realize that he has bestowed upon me new life, having given me to be a new creature through his own newness of life, this is a noble style of experience: short of it, none ought to rest satisfied. May you both "know him, and the power of his resurrection." Why should souls who are quickened with Jesus, wear the grave-clothes of worldliness and unbelief? Rise, for the Lord is risen.
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Today's reading: Ezekiel 18-19, James 4 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezekiel 18-19
The One Who Sins Will Die
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:
“‘The parents eat sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
3 “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. 4 For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.
5 “Suppose there is a righteous manwho does what is just and right.
6 He does not eat at the mountain shrines
or look to the idols of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife
or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.
7 He does not oppress anyone,
but returns what he took in pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
but gives his food to the hungry
and provides clothing for the naked....
Today's New Testament reading: James 4
Submit Yourselves to God
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proudbut shows favor to the humble....”
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Boaz, Booz [Bō'ăz,Bō'ŏz]—strengthor fleetness. The wealthy and honorable Bethlehemite, or Judahite, who became the second husband of Ruth the Moabitess, and ancestor of David and of Christ (Ruth 2, 3 , 4;Matt. 1:5).The name of the left pillar of Solomon’s Temple was Boaz, for “in it is strength” (1 Kings 7:21). Boaz was true to his name and comes before us strong in grace, integrity and purpose. As the lord of the harvest, master of servants, redeemer, bridegroom and life-giver, he is a fitting type of Christ.
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GOD’S ATTRIBUTES- HE IS HOLY
Having looked at attributes of God's greatness in recent weeks (see archive), we now turn to attributes of God's goodness. First, his holiness.
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty. The whole earth is full of his glory." Those were the words the prophet Isaiah heard during his vision of God high and exalted, seated on a throne, the train of his robe filling the temple (Isaiah 6:1-4). "Holy" means separate, different, unique, and this is one of the best assurances we have that God is only interested in the good. He is separate from all the evil and malice in the world-not ignorant of it-but neither is he defiled or influenced by it.
God made a bold and clear statement about his holy character long ago in the Old Testament. All those laws, for instance, were God's way of setting aside one tribe in the human race for something different, a sure signal that any of us can be elevated to and experience a different life. The children of Abraham learned over centuries about the holiness of God through the object lessons of the holy temple, holy basins, holy garments, holy days, and holy Sabbath. But they also were learning about love. Why else would God want any of us to learn of his holiness if not because, out of his deep love, he longs for us to know that life can be different.
Relationships can be right. Decisions can be just. All the laws about what the Israelites could eat and wear, and how they should sacrifice, and the holy time they should reserve for God's special purposes-they all pointed toward a single truth: God is unique.
Sometimes we run to God because he is holy and we know that the only hope that we have in this world is a God who is so different from the world that he is our lifeline out of the chaos. But our instincts often cause us to shrink back from the holy God. For some it means a lifetime of avoiding him. Whether we realize how desperately we need him or not, we often consider it too risky to approach a God who is that different. So we may shrink from the holiness of God, but we should also long to live in his holy presence because we all know that we need something and someone truly different from the vulgarities of this world. What other hope do we have that things can be different from what they are?
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