Climate fear mongering by AGW alarmists is still fed with public money. It will take them a long time to fully exhaust the $trillions of dollars they took from the worlds' poorest peoples (they claimed it came from the rich, but when rich don't spend, it is the poor who suffer).
Also suffering are fans of Bridget Jones' Diary. In a post modernist twist, the fans lose interest in the sequel. Which is a salient warning to the ALP who don't seem to be able to pick a leader who in story terms is a good person.
Today is a special anniversary. Czech students in the velvet revolution begin demonstrating for freedom in 1989, fifty six years after FDR recognised Soviet Union.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns John Bailey and Ray Lam. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 9 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. 79)
- 1503 – Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1572)
- 1749 – Nicolas Appert, French chef, inventor of canning (d. 1841)
- 1790 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
- 1896 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
- 1906 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (d. 1991)
- 1925 – Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1937 – Peter Cook, English comedian and actor (d. 1995)
- 1938 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1940 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer and banjo player (The Dubliners) (d. 1984)
- 1942 – Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
- 1944 – Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer
- 1958 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer
- 1966 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (d. 1997)
- 1966 – Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress
- 1994 – Raquel Castro, American actress and singer
Matches
- 474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of 10 months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 794 – Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto.
- 1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sisterElizabeth I of England.
- 1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
- 1810 – Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
- 1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
- 1919 – King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested byEdward George Honey.
- 1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union.
- 1939 – Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. Since this event,International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
- 1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
- 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
- 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre(The police then kill the assailants).
Despatches
- 344 – Emperor Kang of Jin (b. 322)
- 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
Rudd really was a crying shame
Miranda Devine – Saturday, November 16, 2013 (11:05pm)
YOU’D have to be heartless not to feel sympathy for Kevin Rudd, tearstained and forlorn, announcing his resignation from politics.
It’s also only human to feel exasperation at his self-indulgence and emotional flaccidity.
Overseas visitors who watched Wednesday night’s performance could scarcely believe the behaviour of a grown man, a former prime minister, in parliament with streaming tears, sniffily nose and the demeanour of a child who has just spent an hour in his bedroom bawling his eyes out.
Get a grip, Kevin. People in the Philippines have something to cry about.
The contrast could not have been more stark between a blubbering Rudd capping off his spectacular career with another spectacle and Tony Abbott just 10 minutes earlier giving the interview of his life on ABC’s 7.30, as he tried to fix his predecessor’s biggest mess.
There was the Prime Minister bluntly stating that it was not in the national interest to engage in the sort of soap opera politics Rudd had perfected.
The 24-7 West Wing pantomime was the hallmark of Rudd’s time in office, always providing diversions and entertainment for a voracious media. It became a drug for journalists, not just those in the “love media” of the ABC and Fairfax. Laurie Oakes has been carrying on like an addict deprived of his fix since Rudd lost the election.
But Abbott is one cold turkey.
“I’m not interested in providing sport for journalists,” he told 7.30. “I’m not interested in starting a fight or provoking an argument; I’m interested in stopping the boats.
“And why I’m interested in stopping the boats is because this is a humanitarian disaster as well as an affront to Australian sovereignty.”
The spurned luvvies of the media, along with Labor, the Greens and compassionistas, are demanding “transparency” in the government’s boat-stopping operations, as if they are high-minded idealists preserving democracy.
But it was just such cartoon morality that got us into the mess in the first place, persuading Rudd he could dismantle the Howard government’s border protections and be hailed as a hero.
It worked for those years after Rudd created the people-smuggling boom, as the love media and so-called human rights lawyers and refugee activists studiously ignored the boats they are now so excited about.
But finally reality overwhelmed spin. It’s hard to ignore dead bodies floating in the sea.
“I want to stop the boats for Australia’s sake and for the sake of common humanity,” Abbott said.
“Surely all Australians, including the media, should want to stop the boats, not to provoke an argument.”
Abbott’s construction is correct. Those calling for blow-by-blow details of “on-water” operations are only providing marketing material for people-smugglers and causing trouble with Indonesia. Why should the government help them?
This was the rabbit Rudd pulled out of the hat and could never fit back in. For him it was always about the optics of government, not the actions that so often were botched.
Rudd played at prime minister as though it was a role in a movie. It was about showing off to visitors at Kirribilli House that he had the US President on the phone, being photographed visiting a movie star in hospital, and putting his name to impenetrable essays on economics.
It was about hobnobbing with world leaders at global summits and being made a fuss of in Seat 1A by Qantas. It was more about the trappings than the business of government.
Rudd’s ended his political career the way he lived it, bitter, vengeful, wallowing in self pity, dragging out the limelight, complaining about petty slights, grandiosely boasting, and railing at colleagues who wouldn’t be there if he hadn’t “saved the furniture”.
He hijacked the first business day of the 44th Parliament and ambushed new Labor leader Bill Shorten, who was given just 10 minutes’ notice of Rudd’s bombshell.
In the end, Rudd was a broken man, hunched and angry, flinching from Shorten’s hand on his shoulder, neither man able to look at the other.
Again, how different it was to John Howard’s behaviour when he lost office in humiliating circumstances in the Ruddslide of 2007, losing his own seat of Bennelong to Maxine McKew by 2434 votes.
Howard was gracious in defeat, even turning up at the official declaration of the poll when he didn’t have to, smiling and shaking hands with the victor, and having a cup of tea with the voters who had rejected him.
“This is a wonderful exercise in democracy and it is a privilege to be part of that process,” he said at the time.
John Howard was a class act. History will treat Rudd less kindly.
SOLUTION TO ALL THE HOT AIR ON CLIMATE
IT was a world first on Thursday night when the Rational Optimist and the Skeptical Environmentalist shared stage in Melbourne.
British science writer Matt Ridley and Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg also shared a scathing disdain for the scare tactics of the green movement over the latest typhoon to hit the Philippines.
“Do you really think cutting off carbon emissions is going to help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan,” asked Lomborg, who shot to fame with his 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist, which holds that no environmental problem is so bad it can’t be fixed by human progress.
Viscount Ridley’s 2010 bestseller The Rational Optimist also dismisses the case for catastrophic climate change.
“Humanity is the solution, not the problem. Centralised government is the problem not the solution,” he told the Institute of Public Affairs.
“Our species will always find innovative ways to surmount obstacles.”
Lomborg, a vegetarian environmentalist, blasted those who are trying to capitalise on the Philippines tragedy.
“Yes, there are ferocious cyclones in the world, as there always have been. But … claiming that CO2 cuts is the way to tackle cyclone damages is simply immoral.”
Even if the world was to drastically cut carbon dioxide emissions any impact would only occur in 50-100 years.
The real way to help typhoon victims is to build them better houses.
A BRIDGET TOO FAR
A BRIDGET TOO FAR
IT’S a complete foot-stamping outrage that the latest instalment of Bridget Jones’ Diary has killed off Darcy and turned Bridget into a 51-year old cougar.
What a let-down for all the women around the world who believed in the happy ending.
We willed silly Bridget to come to her senses and snap up the treasure in front of her eyes: Darcy. Swoon!
And what an insult to Jane Austen, whose Pride and Prejudice formed the basis for Helen Fielding’s 1996 chick-lit classic.
Bad enough that Austen’s spirited Elizabeth Bennet was transformed into a 20th century dumpling who wears granny undies, drinks too much and obsesses about her looks. But at least Mr Darcy was worthy of his literary predecessor. He was the patient prize at the end of Bridget’s tizz.
Bumping him off is just wrong.
GREAT WHITE CHARC
Tim Blair – Sunday, November 17, 2013 (6:49pm)
Guardian envirosook Alexander White claims:
Tony Abbott is turning Australia into a reckless charco-state
Well, let’s hope so. A charco-state sounds like a wonderful place to live. All hail the charco-state!
WORST AND WORSTER
Tim Blair – Saturday, November 16, 2013 (10:17pm)
Malcolm Mackerras thinks Kevin Rudd was worse than Julia Gillard. Terry McCrann calls it a tie. Let’s put it to the vote:
Thank you, we have already counted your vote.
Total Votes: 2,834
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Oh, wonderful
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (1:54pm)
My God. I’m cooking right now to this (the studio version). Why didn’t anyone tell me about this?
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Reader old cynic:
Reader johanna:
Reader Aussie Boy:
Reader Monarchist:
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Reader old cynic:
Andrew, so you’re cooking to great music. The main question: what are you drinking? No-one should cook without a good red at hand, especially on Sunday!Well, you’ll think me horribly lucky, but someone long ago left some Grange at my home. I’ve never dared to drink it. Sp I’ve finally asked friends around to dinner and this is the day. Which means nothing before hand to took off the edge - except for a nice sherry.
Reader johanna:
Andrew watch the ifilm “Farinelli”, It’s about richardo Brosci, worth while your time. Story is about young boys being castrated to keep their pure singing voices...This film won something in Cannes in 1985 it was I believe. Beautiful voices, you will enjoy it.greetings JohannaKrabbe is actually not a bad painter, either. He did a great little show on TV going through the Riksmuseum. Farinelli was the composer's brother.
PS Jeroen Krabbe plays Handel in this film.
Reader Aussie Boy:
Andrew if you like to cook I can recommend a couple of recipes one is chestnut crumbed chicken with spinach, prosciutto, mushroom and cream sauce and one I made up myself with fresh asparagus and oyster mushrooms pan fried in smoked butter sprinkled with shredded prosciutto and sliced medjool dates.Sounds great. But I’m doing my tomato sauce with home-made pasta for entree, a moussaka and morroccan meatballs and Greek salad for mains.
Reader Monarchist:
Sorry! Would have if I thought you might be interested. A friend of mine in Sydney is a great fan of Simone Kermes, and was instrumental in organising her tour here in September (I had to miss my booked concert: Canberra-Sydney travel glitches on the day). She is fantastic and frankly spectacular in much more than this particular aria.Thanks. I was listening to an album of hers. Astonishing. This clip isn’t actually typical of the rest apart from two things: the artistry and the beauty.
She is certainly worth a general lookup in YouTube, trust me. She can be a bit of a wild child, as you will see from some of the clips
Happy cooking.
The Bolt Report today
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (11:16am)
On The Bolt Report on Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm.
The twitter feed.
The place the videos appear.
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INTERVIEW WITH MATT RIDLEY
ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last week and killed perhaps 4,000 people. The Greens couldn’t wait to exploit it like they exploited last month’s fires, and even accused Tony Abbott.
ADAM BANDT: He can be expected to be referred to as ‘Typhoon Tony’. // Many people are saying this is the worst typhoon that they’ve ever seen. // This is what we’re in store for, unless we get global warming under control.
ANDREW BOLT: Matt Ridley is a member of Britain’s House of Lords and a science writer, whose latest bestseller is ‘The Rational Optimist’. He’s here on a speaking tour for the IPA. Matt Ridley, thank you for joining me.
MATT RIDLEY: Thank you for having me on the show.
ANDREW BOLT: The typhoon in the Philippines – what do you make of the attempts to make that evidence of the great global warming catastrophe awaiting us?
MATT RIDLEY: Well, this is ridiculous. I mean, storms and weather events happen. They’ve always happened. There’ve been much stronger typhoons in the past. This isn’t the strongest one that’s ever recorded or anything like that. They’re gonna happen, whatever. And to blame this on climate change is a bit like shamanism. It’s witchdoctory. It’s going back 10,000 years to try and blame every weather event on mankind. And we don’t have to just know this from basic data. If you look at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They say there’s been no trend in increasing frequency of typhoons or cyclones or hurricanes. In fact, this year’s been an unusually quiet one globally. And even in that part of the Pacific it’s been quiet. So the idea that you can stop typhoons happening by cutting carbon dioxide emissions is just absurd. We’ve got to tackle typhoons as an issue, whatever happens to the climate.
ANDREW BOLT: What do we have to worry about, if global warming continues? I know there’s been a pause in atmospheric temperature rises for 15 years. But should it continue, what have we got to fear?
MATT RIDLEY: Well, I personally think that we are seeing benefits from climate change. Sorry – that’s not my personal view, that’s what the data says. We’re seeing benefits from climate change at the moment – slightly greener vegetation in the world, slightly fewer winter deaths, things like that – longer growing seasons. And that’s likely to continue for another six or seven decades. After that, if the projections of climate change are right – and on the whole, they have been too warm for the last 30 years, so they may not be right – but if they’re right, we will then start to see net harm. And the one harm that will would hurt civilisation would be rapidly rising sea levels. Fortunately, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that sea levels are not rising – are not gonna rise that fast in this century – not much faster than
they did in the last century. Greenland’s losing ice at the rate of 2 billion tonnes a year, which sounds a lot, but it’s actually 0.5% per century. So the collapse of ice sheets, that sort of thing, has now largely been ruled out by the IPCC as a risk. But we are – you know, we do have to get our act together to be ready to deal with some disasters, if they happen towards the end of this century, the beginning of the next.
ANDREW BOLT: Well, when you say “get our act together to be ready”, where – obviously the world is spending trillions of dollars on various ways to so-called stop global warming. Is that a sensible use of our resources?
Continue reading 'The Bolt Report today'Labor success. “Rich” slugged, and now costs rise
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (7:04am)
I’d
say this bungle was an unforseen consequence, but the fact is Labor was
warned that precisely this would happen if it pursued its politics of
envy:
(Thanks to reader Correllio.)
===NEARLY one million Australians downgraded their private health cover after the previous Labor government cut or reduced the 30 per cent rebate…Premiums up. Contributions to hospitals down. Burden on public health increased.
The fallout also increased pressure on the public system, with the number of privately insured people going public up 13 per cent in the past 12 months.
(Thanks to reader Correllio.)
Anti-Semitism and weaseling at the UN interpreted
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (6:59am)
A interpreter translates what hundreds of diplomats are actually doing but won’t confess to:
===On Thursday a United Nations interpreter, unaware that her microphone was on, uttered words of truth in reaction to the General Assembly’s adoption of nine politically-motivated resolutions condemning Israel, and zero resolutions on the rest of the world.(Thanks to reader David.)
Under the mistaken impression that she was speaking only to colleagues, the interpreter uttered the following words into the headphones of every UN delegate, and before a live webcast audience worldwide:“I think when you have… like a total of ten resolutions on Israel and Palestine, there’s gotta be something, c’est un peu trop, non? [It’s a bit much, no?] I mean I know… There’s other really bad shit happening, but no one says anything about the other stuff.”
ABC suddenly very interested in boats now Liberals are in charge
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (6:45am)
Under Labor, 50,000 boat people arrived and not once did the ABC feel the need to keep track of each boat.
But now, with the Coalition in power and boats down to three a month, the ABC creates a site to track and publicise every single one.
And note: nowhere in the ABC’s dedicated site does it show or refer to boat arrivals under Labor to put the latest arrivals in context.
The ABC is out of control. How much longer can the Coalition ignore the partisanship of a publicly-funded broadcaster in breach of its charter duty to remain even-handed?
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
Burnside claims I dodged debating him. The truth is exactly the opposite
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (6:08am)
I am prepared to believe Julian Burnside is simply forgetful, and not a liar, if he corrects this false claim:
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I took part in Burnside’s ludicrous hypothetical to raise funds for asylum seekers, and debated on stage the absurdity of the propositions he was putting to me.Fact two:
I have debated Burnside on my MTR radio show.Fact three:
I have repeatedly invited him onto The Bolt Report to debate. He has refused.
Victimhood is the last refuge of a liar of the Left
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (5:43am)
In Australia:
===Julia Gillard lies to the voters, telling them she won’t impose a carbon tax.In the US:
She breaks her promise. Once popular, her support falls through the floor.
Gillard supporters claim she’s the victim of sexism.
Barack Obama lies to the voters, telling them he won’t impose a health care system that strips away their insurance plan.
He breaks his promise. Once popular, his support falls through the floor.
Obama supporters claim he’s the victim of racism:
Oprah Winfrey has been a prominent supporter of Barack Obama. She thinks that both he and the Office of President have been treated with contempt because of the colour of his skin.
“There’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he’s African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.”
Your money; their statues to Paul Keating
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (5:28am)
John Roskam on the veneration of the much-loathed Paul Keating by taxpayer-funded institutions. Example one:
Example two is worse:
===This week the ABC started broadcasting its interview series with Keating. Why the public broadcaster should provide Keating the privilege of talking about himself for four hours in prime time is a question the new Coalition government will probably be too afraid to ask.As even the Left’s Guy Rundle notes:
Perhaps Kerry was trying to tease out said particularities, but there were moments when the birth and growth of young PJK sounded like the North Korean propaganda ministry had got to it, having him hatched from a swan’s mouth during a thunderstorm. “You joined the ALP at 14?!!” “You listened to classical music as a teenager!!?” and so on. The goggling implication seemed to be that Keating was not so much a self-made man as a man-made self, an alien creature among the fibro, fabricated from an entirely different material. That is nonsense of course.I, too, listened to classic music as a very young teenager. The difference with Keating is that I didn’t think that my doing so I’d plucked classical music from obscurity.
Example two is worse:
On Monday, Keating delivered the Remembrance Day commemorative address in Canberra at the War Memorial. In it he gave the classic leftist interpretation of Australia’s history, which is of our past as the march towards an inevitable social democracy....
After the address, a bronze plaque at the entrance to the Hall of Memory was unveiled. On the plaque is inscribed the text of the Remembrance Day speech Keating delivered at the War Memorial in 1993. Also unveiled was a new inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - “He is one of them, and he is all of us” - words taken from Keating’s speech 20 years ago.
The decision of the Council of the War Memorial to venerate Keating in such a way is more than inappropriate. It besmirches the memory of those the memorial commemorates…
There’s no justification for the reverence given to Keating’s 1993 speech.
Parts of it are moving and noble, but other politicians have also made moving and noble Remembrance Day speeches. John Howard in 1997 talked of those Australians “whose lives were lived in deeds, not years, in sacrifice, not heartbeats in service...”.
Prime Misogynist
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (12:21am)
I’m sure Labor collectively agreed that even standing - unwittingly - next to a sign saying “bitch” was evidence of misogyny.
But that apparently applied only to Liberal politicians:
===But that apparently applied only to Liberal politicians:
Rudd and Gillard were each angry and bitter at the other. After she tore him down, Rudd had trouble even speaking her name. His standard epithet for Gillard in private was “the bitch”.(Thanks to reader Peter, via Tim Blair.)
From tourist foreign minister to one who means business
Andrew Bolt November 17 2013 (12:04am)
Michael Smith compares the modest demands Foreign Minister Julie Bishop makes on diplomatic posts
when she comes visiting to the far more regal demands of Bob Carr, who
liked lots of free time, visits to tourist sites and no early starts.
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Are you going through a tough time today? Are you sitting on the sidelines of life? God is saying, “Arise and get back in the game.” If a friend betrayed you, don’t go through life lonely. Go out and find some new friends. The right people are in your future. If you lost your job, don’t sit around complaining. Go out and find another job. When one door closes, God will always open another door. If you’re facing a health issue, fighting that sickness, don’t give up on life and start planning your funeral. Arise from that discouragement.
The Scripture says,“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.”(Isaiah 60:1, NIV) God bless you.
The Scripture says,“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.”(Isaiah 60:1, NIV) God bless you.
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How those who don't know you judge you isn't important. What IS important is that you always respond in love. #ItsATest
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Obama needs former QLD Premier Beatty? - edJason FoNg Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. It's deny, deny and deny and if caught out, lie. My law professor Ms Gillard taught me that.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/one-million-families-downgraded-private-health-cover-after-labor-cut-rebate/story-fni0cx12-1226761691526
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I heard a story of injustice by Stephen Fry on QI recently. In the dark ages of England, a peasant looked like a pig .. straggly hair,, obese .. one eye .. ears raised .. worse, there was a pig with the same one eye. He was accused of unnatural acts with the pig's sow-mum. He denied it. Finally the accusers said "We could show you mercy if you only admitted it." He'd been tortured and confessed. Whereupon he was told that the mercy would be shown by G-d. To execute him, they required two witnesses. His confession meant he was one witness. The pig was considered the other. The pig was executed too. I would like to show Obama mercy .. ed===
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Why Europeans Will Never Forgive The Jews For Auschwitz
"My point here is that many Europeans behaved with incredible cowardice and indecency. No matter what they pretended later, they pretty much knew what Hitler had in store for a bunch of innocent men, women and children whose only crime was that they were Jews, and they only thing they cared about was looking out for number one and dividing up any spoils that were left over."
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I am seeing pictures of grieving Israeli Jewish families pouring their hearts out over the coffins of their loved ones before burial.
These emotive scenes should not be photographed and published to fullfil the blood lust of news thirsty media.
It encourages future murderers and gives their supporters satisfaction.
The father of the young cowardly Arab boy who stabbed to death an innocent sleeping young Israeli soldier last week in a bus has praised his son for the murder.
You can not reason with such disgraceful people. Diplomacy has failed and will continue to fail.
Indeed all decent people are under attack, Muslim or non Muslim.
Either the jihadist scum are hunted down like dogs and killed or be prepared to be killed by them.
These barbarian douche bags are the people the apostate Muslim anti POTUS Barry Soetoro wants Israel to have a two state solution with.
It takes only one filthy lying douche bag like Obama's support of these Arabs to promote more murders in the future.
It's time Israel cuts their umbilical chord from the USA and stands alone because they will be standing alone anyway as we saw in the past and we now see in the future with increasing anti Semitism while countries are infiltrated by Islamist invaders spreading their poison with the left wing socialist alliance.
History has shown what happens to those nations that attack their Jews and we are now witnessing the self destruction of the American empire filled with dumb downed ferals who re elected the most treacherous evil POTUS undermining the USA and it's constitution by allowing the Muslim Brotherhood a voice.
One can only unbelievably admire the efforts of the Egyptian army for recognising and eliminating the same problem that the USA now protects and supports.
Benghazi was not an omen. It was an attack on the USA and Obama and his goons did nothing.
... Just another bribe making the corrupt Phallistinean Authority richer in the West Bank.
How many millions of Americans now live below the poverty line while their money is being given away to people who hate them ?
And how can a country that is close to USD$18 trillion in debt keep giving away money ?
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- 1970 – American inventor Douglas Engelbart received the patent for the first computer mouse (pictured).
- 1993 – General Sani Abacha ousted Ernest Shonekan to become chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria.
- 2005 – "Il Canto degli Italiani" officially became thenational anthem of Italy almost sixty years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the Italian Republic.
Events[edit]
- 474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of 10 months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 794 – Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto.
- 1183 – The Battle of Mizushima.
- 1292 – John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
- 1511 – Spain and England ally against France.
- 1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sisterElizabeth I of England.
- 1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
- 1659 – The Treaty of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
- 1777 – Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole – French forces defeat theAustrians in Italy.
- 1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C..
- 1810 – Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
- 1811 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
- 1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
- 1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.
- 1839 – Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.
- 1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- 1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
- 1858 – Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee, under siege.
- 1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
- 1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
- 1878 – First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante. Armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
- 1896 – The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players,began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
- 1903 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks(Russian for "minority").
- 1911 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
- 1919 – King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested byEdward George Honey.
- 1922 – Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
- 1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union.
- 1939 – Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. Since this event,International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
- 1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- 1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
- 1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
- 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- 1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach toCopenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
- 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
- 1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos.
- 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
- 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
- 1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
- 1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
- 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
- 1979 – Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
- 1982 – Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
- 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
- 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
- 1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
- 1993 – United States House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement after greater authority in trade negotiations was granted to President George Bush in 1991.
- 1993 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
- 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre(The police then kill the assailants).
- 2000 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
- 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- 2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.
Births[edit]
- 9 – Vespasian, Roman emperor (d. 79)
- 1503 – Agnolo Bronzino, Italian painter (d. 1572)
- 1576 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
- 1587 – Joost van den Vondel, Dutch playwright (d. 1679)
- 1612 – Dorgon, Manchu son of Nurhaci (d. 1650)
- 1681 – Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (d. 1776)
- 1685 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian military officer and explorer (d. 1749)
- 1729 – Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (d. 1785)
- 1749 – Nicolas Appert, French chef, inventor of canning (d. 1841)
- 1753 – Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815)
- 1755 – Louis XVIII of France (d. 1824)
- 1765 – Jacques MacDonald, French marshal (d. 1840)
- 1790 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
- 1793 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter (d. 1865)
- 1816 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer (d. 1876)
- 1827 – Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian poet (d. 1895)
- 1835 – Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (d. 1915)
- 1854 – Hubert Lyautey, French general (d. 1934)
- 1857 – Joseph Babiński, French neurologist (d. 1932)
- 1866 – Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist (d. 1912)
- 1868 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (d. 1918)
- 1877 – Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman (d. 1943)
- 1878 – Grace Abbott, American social worker (d. 1939)
- 1878 – Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1963)
- 1886 – Walter Terence Stace, English philosopher (d. 1967)
- 1887 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English army officer (d. 1976)
- 1895 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (d. 1975)
- 1895 – Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet (d. 1966)
- 1896 – Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
- 1897 – Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
- 1899 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer (d. 1971)
- 1901 – Walter Hallstein, German politician and diplomat, 1st President of the European Commission (d. 1982)
- 1901 – Lee Strasberg, Austrian director (d. 1982)
- 1902 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1904 – Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor (d. 1988)
- 1905 – Mischa Auer, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1905 – Astrid of Sweden (d. 1935)
- 1906 – Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- 1907 – Israel Regardie, English occultist and author (d. 1985)
- 1911 – Christian Fouchet, French politician (d. 1974)
- 1916 – Shelby Foote, American historian and author (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Gemini Ganesan, Indian film actor (Tamil Nadu) (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter
- 1922 – Stanley Cohen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 – Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish bishop (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Mike Garcia, American baseball player (d. 1986)
- 1923 – Aristides Pereira, Portuguese-Cape Verdean politician, 1st President of Cape Verde (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2001)
- 1924 – Leonid Kogan, Russian violinist (d. 1982)
- 1925 – Jean Faut, American baseball player
- 1925 – Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1925 – Charles Mackerras,American-Australian conductor (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Robert Brown, American actor
- 1927 – Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer
- 1927 – Fenella Fielding, English actress
- 1928 – Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Rance Howard, American actor
- 1929 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete, actor, and politician (d. 2006)
- 1932 – Jeremy Black, English Royal Navy admiral
- 1933 – Orlando Peña, Cuban baseball player
- 1934 – Jim Inhofe, American politician, 32nd Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma
- 1934 – Anthony King, Canadian born professor of government
- 1935 – Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
- 1935 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
- 1936 – Crispian Hollis, English former Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth
- 1936 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
- 1937 – Peter Cook, English comedian and actor (d. 1995)
- 1938 – Charles Guthrie, Scottish army officer
- 1938 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1939 – Auberon Waugh, English author (d. 2001)
- 1940 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer and banjo player (The Dubliners) (d. 1984)
- 1940 – Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, Turkish composer, author, and poet (d. 2002)
- 1942 – Partha Dasgupta, Bangladeshi economist
- 1942 – Bob Gaudio, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Four Seasons)
- 1942 – Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian criminal
- 1942 – Lesley Rees, English endocrinologist
- 1942 – István Rosztóczy, Hungarian microbiologist
- 1942 – Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
- 1943 – Lauren Hutton, American actress
- 1944 – Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and coach
- 1944 – Malcolm Bruce, Scottish politician
- 1944 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (The Byrds, The New Christy Minstrels, and Dillard & Clark) (d. 1991)
- 1944 – Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer
- 1944 – Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect, designed the Seattle Central Library
- 1944 – Lorne Michaels, Israeli-American television producer, created Saturday Night Live
- 1944 – Tom Seaver, American baseball player
- 1945 – Lesley Abdela, English journalist and broadcaster
- 1945 – Jeremy Hanley, English politician
- 1945 – Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
- 1945 – Roland Joffé, English-French director
- 1946 – Martin Barre, English guitarist and songwriter (Jethro Tull)
- 1946 – Terry Branstad, American politician, 39th Governor of Iowa
- 1947 – Robert "Stewkey" Antoni, American singer and keyboard player (Nazz and Fuse)
- 1947 – Steven E. de Souza, American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1947 – Inky Mark, Canadian politician
- 1948 – Howard Dean, American physician and politician, 79th Governor of Vermont
- 1948 – East Bay Ray, American guitarist (Dead Kennedys)
- 1949 – John Boehner, American politician
- 1949 – Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of Vietnam
- 1950 – Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver (d. 2010)
- 1951 – Butch Davis, American football coach
- 1951 – Werner Hoyer, German politician and economist
- 1951 – Dean Paul Martin, American singer, actor, and tennis player (Dino, Desi & Billy) (d. 1987)
- 1951 – Stephen Root, American actor
- 1951 – Jack Vettriano, Scottish painter
- 1952 – David Emanuel, Welsh, fashion designer
- 1952 – Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
- 1952 – Cyril Ramaphosa, South African politician and businessman
- 1953 – Babis Tennes, Greek football manager
- 1954 – Chopper Read, Australian author
- 1955 – Yolanda King, American daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2007)
- 1955 – Dennis Maruk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955 – Dan Schnurrenberger, American canoe racer
- 1956 – Graham Jones, English psychologist and author
- 1956 – Jim McGovern, Scottish politician
- 1957 – Debbie Thrower, English journalist
- 1958 – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer
- 1959 – Terry Fenwick, English footballer
- 1959 – William R. Moses, American actor
- 1960 – RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer
- 1960 – Michael Hertwig, German footballer
- 1960 – Jonathan Ross, English broadcaster
- 1960 – Mandy Yachad, South African cricketer
- 1961 – Robert Stethem, American navy diver (d. 1985)
- 1961 – Pat Toomey, American politician
- 1962 – Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Les Colocs) (d. 2000)
- 1963 – Randy Black, Canadian drummer (Annihilator and Primal Fear)
- 1963 – Daniel Scott, American writer
- 1964 – Ralph Garman, American actor and radio host
- 1964 – Susan Rice, American diplomat, 27th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1964 – Mitch Williams, American baseball player
- 1965 – Amanda Brown, Australian violinist and composer (The Go-Betweens)
- 1966 – Ben Allison, American bassist and composer
- 1966 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (d. 1997)
- 1966 – Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1966 – Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses and Love Spit Love)
- 1966 – Daisy Fuentes, Cuban model and actress
- 1966 – Sophie Marceau, French actress
- 1967 – Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1968 – Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach
- 1969 – Ryōtarō Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
- 1969 – Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
- 1969 – Rebecca Walker, American author
- 1970 – Wendy Piatt, English Director General of the Russell Group
- 1970 – Paul Allender, English guitarist and songwriter (Cradle of Filth and The Blood Divine)
- 1972 – Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moldy Peaches)
- 1972 – Joanne Goode, English badminton player
- 1972 – Lorraine Pascale, English cook and former model
- 1972 – Leonard Roberts, American actor
- 1973 – Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (Vintersorg, Borknagar, Cronian, Fission, Waterclime, and Otyg)
- 1973 – Eli Marrero, American baseball player
- 1973 – Bernd Schneider, German footballer
- 1973 – Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater
- 1973 – Leslie Bibb, American actress
- 1974 – Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper
- 1974 – Berto Romero, Spanish comedian and actor
- 1975 – Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer
- 1975 – Roland de Marigny, South African-Italian rugby player
- 1975 – Lord Infamous, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia)
- 1975 – Jerome James, American basketball player
- 1976 – Jacqueline Aguilera, Venezuelan model, Miss World 1995
- 1976 – Brandon Call, American actor
- 1976 – Diane Neal, American actress
- 1977 – Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
- 1977 – Paul Shepherd, English footballer
- 1978 – Glen Air, Australian rugby player
- 1978 – Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress and stuntwoman
- 1978 – Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
- 1978 – Reggie Wayne, American football player
- 1979 – Matthew Spring, English footballer
- 1980 – Brad Bradley, American wrestler
- 1980 – Isaac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hanson)
- 1980 – Israel Idonije, Nigerian-Canadian football player
- 1980 – Mercedes Martinez, American wrestler
- 1981 – Sarah Harding, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Girls Aloud)
- 1982 – Lucy Durack, Australian actress and singer
- 1982 – Katie Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player
- 1982 – Otacílio Mariano Neto, Brazilian footballer
- 1982 – Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
- 1982 – Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1983 – Yiannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
- 1983 – Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
- 1983 – Ryan Braun, American baseball player
- 1983 – Trevor Crowe, American baseball player
- 1983 – Harry Lloyd, English actor
- 1983 – Nick Markakis, American baseball player
- 1983 – Scott Moore, American baseball player
- 1983 – Christopher Paolini, American author
- 1984 – Amanda Evora, American figure skater
- 1984 – Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
- 1985 – Panbanisha, American chimpanzee (d. 2012)
- 1985 – Sékou Camara, Malian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1986 – Nani, Portuguese footballer
- 1986 – Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer
- 1986 – Fabio Concas, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Greg Rutherford, English athlete
- 1987 – Craig Noone, English footballer
- 1987 – Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer
- 1989 – Ryan Griffin, American football player
- 1990 – Shanica Knowles, American actress and singer
- 1992 – Darian Weiss, American actor
- 1994 – Raquel Castro, American actress and singer
Deaths[edit]
- 344 – Emperor Kang of Jin (b. 322)
- 375 – Valentinian I, Roman emperor (b. 321)
- 474 – Leo II, Byzantine emperor (b. 467)
- 594 – Gregory of Tours, Gallo-Roman bishop
- 641 – Emperor Jomei of Japan (b. 593)
- 885 – Liutgard of Saxony (b. 845)
- 1104 – Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (b. 1045)
- 1231 – Elizabeth of Hungary (b. 1207)
- 1326 – Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)
- 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
- 1494 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
- 1558 – Mary I of England (b. 1516)
- 1558 – Reginald Pole, English archbishop (b. 1500)
- 1562 – Antoine of Navarre (b. 1518)
- 1592 – John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
- 1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese navy commander (b. 1542)
- 1632 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (b. 1594)
- 1643 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French marshal (b. 1602)
- 1648 – Thomas Ford, English composer (b. 1580)
- 1665 – John Earle, English bishop (b. 1601)
- 1668 – Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author (b. 1634)
- 1690 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier and politician (b. 1610)
- 1708 – Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1631)
- 1713 – Abraham van Riebeeck, South African politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1653)
- 1720 – Calico Jack, English pirate (b. 1682)
- 1747 – Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668)
- 1768 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1693)
- 1776 – James Ferguson, English astronomer (b. 1710)
- 1780 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter (b. 1720)
- 1794 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (b. 1738)
- 1796 – Catherine the Great, Russian wife of Peter III of Russia (b. 1729)
- 1808 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (b. 1721)
- 1818 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1744)
- 1835 – Carle Vernet, French painter (b. 1758)
- 1849 – Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1794)
- 1858 – Robert Owen, Welsh activist (b. 1771)
- 1865 – James McCune Smith, American physician and author (b. 1813)
- 1897 – George Hendric Houghton, American clergyman (b. 1820)
- 1902 – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian (b. 1847)
- 1905 – Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
- 1910 – Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
- 1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (b. 1840)
- 1922 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician (b. 1847)
- 1924 – Gregory VII, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1850)
- 1928 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)
- 1929 – Herman Hollerith, American businessman (b. 1860)
- 1932 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American author (b. 1858)
- 1936 – Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian singer (b. 1861)
- 1937 – Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
- 1938 – Ante Trumbić, Croatian politician, 20th Mayor of Split (b. 1864)
- 1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor (b. 1882)
- 1940 – Robert Lane, Canadian soccer player (b. 1882)
- 1940 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
- 1947 – Victor Serge, Russian author and historian (b. 1890)
- 1954 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899)
- 1955 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (b. 1894)
- 1958 – Mort Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1959 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- 1961 – Michael Rockefeller, American explorer (b. 1938)
- 1968 – Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1911)
- 1971 – Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and writer (b. 1898)
- 1973 – Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878)
- 1976 – Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1880)
- 1979 – John Glascock, English singer and bass player (Jethro Tull, The Gods, Toe Fat, Carmen, and Chicken Shack) (b. 1951)
- 1982 – Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer (b. 1959)
- 1982 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (b. 1905)
- 1986 – Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927)
- 1987 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906)
- 1988 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American columnist (b. 1904)
- 1989 – Costabile Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
- 1989 – Mary Giatra Lemou, Greek actress (b. 1915)
- 1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 1992 – Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American author, poet, and activist (b. 1934)
- 1993 – Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian politician (b. 1926)
- 1995 – Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lindisfarne) (b. 1945)
- 1998 – Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903)
- 1998 – Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2000 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 2001 – Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (Can) (b. 1948)
- 2001 – Harrison A. Williams, N.J. Democrat convicted in Abscam (b. 1919)
- 2002 – Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician, 1st Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations (b. 1915)
- 2002 – Frank McCarthy, American painter (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (b. 1962)
- 2003 – Arthur Conley, American singer (b. 1946)
- 2003 – Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
- 2004 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1970)
- 2004 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
- 2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (b. 1942)
- 2006 – Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (b. 1924)
- 2008 – George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Pete Newell, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
- 2011 – Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Lea Gottlieb, Israeli fashion designer (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Arnaud Maggs, Canadian photographer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
- 2012 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Margaret Yorke, English author (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest day on which National Survivors of Suicide Day can fall, while November 23 is the latest; celebrated on Saturday beforeThanksgiving. (United States)
- International Students' Day (International)
- Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
“Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.” Psalm 119:18NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"The Lord is my portion, saith my soul."
Lamentations 3:24
Lamentations 3:24
It is not "The Lord is partly my portion," nor "The Lord is in my portion"; but he himself makes up the sum total of my soul's inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not his grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. He has chosen us for his portion, and we have chosen him for ours. It is true that the Lord must first choose our inheritance for us, or else we shall never choose it for ourselves; but if we are really called according to the purpose of electing love, we can sing--
"Lov'd of my God for him again
With love intense I burn;
Chosen of him ere time began,
I choose him in return."
The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills himself; and if God is all-sufficient in himself, he must be all- sufficient for us. It is not easy to satisfy man's desires. When he dreams that he is satisfied, anon he wakes to the perception that there is somewhat yet beyond, and straightway the horse-leech in his heart cries, "Give, give." But all that we can wish for is to be found in our divine portion, so that we ask, "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee." Well may we "delight ourselves in the Lord" who makes us to drink of the river of his pleasures. Our faith stretches her wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love as to her proper dwelling-place. "The lines have fallen to us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage." Let us rejoice in the Lord always; let us show to the world that we are a happy and a blessed people, and thus induce them to exclaim, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."
Evening
"Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty."
Isaiah 33:17
Isaiah 33:17
The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of him; and the more deeply you study his transactions in the eternal covenant, his engagements on your behalf as the eternal Surety, and the fulness of his grace which shines in all his offices, the more truly will you see the King in his beauty. Be much in such outlooks. Long more and more to see Jesus. Meditation and contemplation are often like windows of agate, and gates of carbuncle, through which we behold the Redeemer. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen him if we had lived in the days of his flesh. Would that our conversation were more in heaven, and that we were more taken up with the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord. More meditation, and the beauty of the King would flash upon us with more resplendence. Beloved, it is very probable that we shall have such a sight of our glorious King as we never had before, when we come to die. Many saints in dying have looked up from amidst the stormy waters, and have seen Jesus walking on the waves of the sea, and heard him say, "It is I, be not afraid." Ah, yes! when the tenement begins to shake, and the clay falls away, we see Christ through the rifts, and between the rafters the sunlight of heaven comes streaming in. But if we want to see face to face the "King in his beauty" we must go to heaven for the sight, or the King must come here in person. O that he would come on the wings of the wind! He is our Husband, and we are widowed by his absence; he is our Brother dear and fair, and we are lonely without him. Thick veils and clouds hang between our souls and their true life: when shall the day break and the shadows flee away? Oh, long-expected day, begin!
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Today's reading: Ezekiel 3-4, Hebrews 11:20-40 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezekiel 3-4
1 And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel.” 2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
3 Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
4 He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them. 5 You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and strange language, but to the people of Israel— 6 not to many peoples of obscure speech and strange language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7 But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate. 8 But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are. 9 I will make your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people....”
Today's New Testament reading: Hebrews 11:20-40
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.
23 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25 He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel....
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Demas
[Dē'mas] - popular or ruler of people.A companion of Paul during his first Roman imprisonment (Col. 4:14; Philem. 24).
[Dē'mas] - popular or ruler of people.A companion of Paul during his first Roman imprisonment (Col. 4:14; Philem. 24).
The Man Who Forsook His Friend
This seems to be an indication that this native of Thessalonica was not fully trusted even when he was near to Paul (Phil. 2:20). Scripture has this against him, that he forsook Paul for this present world ( 2 Tim. 4:10). It is amazing how a student of Comparative Anatomy can build up a whole unknown structure from one or two known bones. In the same way we can sketch the character of Demas from the few references to him in the Bible's portrait gallery.
Before he met Paul we can picture him as an agreeable young man with no particular vice. The material of his character had no rent in it. It was only shoddy throughout. Under the strong influence of Paul's personality, Demas was like a piece of soft iron, temporarily magnetized by the presence of a magnet. Becoming a disciple, he was carried away by the enthusiasm of sacrifice. He wanted to live with Paul and die with him, and have a throne and a halo among the martyred saints.
But when Demas came up to the great capital of the then known world in company with the Lord's prisoners, Paul and Epaphras, it was a different story. He was not a prisoner, and gradually the contrast between the cell and the outer world became intolerable to him. He saw the magnificent halls of the Caesars, the gorgeous homes of the rich and the glitter of a world of music, venal loves, jest and wine. Such a gay world cast its glamor over Demas, and he yielded to its charms. The prison where his friends were languishing seemed wretched alongside the music-haunted, scented, dazzling halls of Rome. Thus Paul had to write one of the most heartbreaking lines in his letters:
"Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world." This man of wavering impulse who surrendered the passion of sacrifice and sank in the swirling waters of the world, is a true reflection of the thought that where our love is, there we finally are.
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