Mr Howard spoke cogently and compellingly, dispelling myths of a war on Islam, falsified chemical weapons and unilateral war in Iraq. No sign Palmer understands it. Palmer would not marry good sense.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Anthea Lai and Phillip Vo. Born on the same day, across the years.
- 630 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
- 1728 – James Cook, English navy officer, explorer, and cartographer (d. 1779)
- 1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American educator and diplomat, co-founded Cornell University (d. 1918)
- 1867 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
- 1918 – Billy Graham, American evangelist
- 1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
- 1942 – Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress
- 1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 – David Petraeus, American military officer, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- 1964 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1996 – Ella Yelich-O'Connor, New Zealand singer-songwriter also known as Lorde
Matches
- 335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing toConstantinople.
- 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the eartharound noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
- 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
- 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
- 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun aConfederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
- 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
- 1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers () away before it can explode.
- 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
- 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
- 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
- 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
Despatches
- 644 – Umar, Islamic caliph (b. 590)
- 1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
7013 SANFL SEASON CANCELLED
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 07, 2013 (4:29pm)
The good news is that, according to this National Geographic image of future Australia, global warming is going to destroy Adelaide:
The bad news is that it’ll take another 5000 years.
The bad news is that it’ll take another 5000 years.
CLUES YOU CAN USE
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 07, 2013 (6:05am)
A crossword tailored to reader interests.
CHILD LABOUR
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 07, 2013 (5:40am)
Tim Flannery calls on kids to hit businesses:
I think that action campaigns that remain within the law, but are still hard hitting towards the offending industries is important, it’s one thing students can do that we can’t do. I can’t do that, but young peoplehave time.
Bernard Keane calls on kids to shut down power plants:
Our youth are entitled to wonder whether, in the absence of genuine political action, they should take some direct action of their own. Action to shut down the loaders and ports that export coal. Action to shut down coal-fired power plants. Actions to shut down the electricity-greedy industries we prop up, like aluminium smelting. Such action will be expensive, and damaging, and inequitable, and dangerous …
Julian Burnside calls on kids to spit at the immigration minister:
With luck, Morrison will be despised by history. I hope little children stop him in the street and spit on his shoes.
Is there anything stopping Australia’s agitated oldtimers from doing these things themselves?
AUSSIES AT PLAY
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 07, 2013 (5:37am)
Many years ago, when I was a copykid, the editor phoned the desk and ordered me to collect him from the Melbourne Cup. I arrived to chaotic scenes. One of the editor’s guests, a sensational blonde, furiously refused to get into the car until I lured her with a bottle of champagne. There was conflict with police during our exit. All in all, a typical Cup day out.
It’s good to see that nothing has changed.
(Via PWAF)
LATE EIGHT
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 07, 2013 (5:36am)
The Holden V8 is set to disappear from showrooms for the first time since 1968.And the new Holden Commodore - if it gets built - will be a front-wheel-drive car with about as much pizzazz as a Toyota Camry.
For those unaware of automotive pizzazz levels, that’s pushing below negative.
ANCIENT AND NEW
Tim Blair – Thursday, November 07, 2013 (5:34am)
From Bulgaria’s former communist headquarters to an Italian power station and a Belgian jail: extraordinary abandoned buildings. And in Australia, spectacular weather images.
Why Kim Carr wants your cash for cars
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (9:31am)
Former Labor leader Mark Latham on Kim Carr, the Opposition’s industry spokesman - a big backer of taxpayer subsidies for car makers:
===As a Victorian powerbroker, Carr relies heavily on the support of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union – the same mob that sponsored the parliamentary career of the corrupt NSW minister Ian Macdonald. Carr’s strategy was to pay huge amounts of public money to industries such as car manufacturing to prop up the union’s membership coverage and consequently, its influence inside the ALP. He created a political cartel: using his caucus numbers to support leadership candidates who gave him the portfolio he needed to feather-bed his sub-factional base.(Thanks to reader Peter.)
And soon it’s time the decisions were made
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (9:24am)
Debate is perfectly
healthy, including within government. And then it must be resolved by a
decision - on which we are now waiting.
David Uren:
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
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THE Abbott government is all over the shop on foreign investment with four senior ministers articulating four quite disparate positions.Not sure those are all in conflict, though.
Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss wants to raise barriers to keep out foreign investment, particularly in the rural sector. Investment Minister Andrew Robb wants to lower barriers, including for the Chinese, to attract more foreign investors. Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane is lobbying to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign investors in the motor industry to keep them here. Joe Hockey ... wants Australia to lift its savings so that it no longer depends on fickle foreign money coming here.
(Thanks to reader Peter.)
Abbott to clean up a mess in Indonesia caused by others
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (9:19am)
Greg Sheridan reminds us that if Indonesia is sick of us, the fault lies not with Tony Abbott:
But note how hard the ABC is pushing this issue.
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Tanya Plibersek has more front than Myers, blaming the Liberals for what Labor destroyed:
(Thanks to readers Baden, Fern and Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===(I)t is apparently US policy to seek out marginalised Walter Mitty figures such as Private, yes Private, Bradley Manning, and Edward Snowden, an outside contractor for the National Security Agency, and ensure they have access to millions of top secret American documents.If there was any Australian spying in Indonesia, it occurred under Labor. But so what? The Indonesians don’t do spying, too?
These they can then give to the most hostile mainstream media they can find to spread almost infinite embarrassment and serious damage to US interests and allies such as Australia. At the moment, Australia has got some diplomatic protest from China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and East Timor because Snowden’s documents have identified our embassies and consulates in those countries as working with the Americans to engage in signals interception - that is, bugging phones and the like - especially of their leaders…
Of all the diplomatic grief coming Australia’s way out of the Snowden affair, the most important emanates from Indonesia. It is qualitatively different from the other countries. It tends to underline what a mess Labor left.
Bob Carr did good work trying to talk up the relationship, but the suspension of live cattle exports to Indonesia, the Oceanic Viking episode in which we berthed a boat of asylum-seekers at an Indonesian port and then wouldn’t force them to disembark, and the constant upheavals in our boatpeople policy, have left several senior Indonesians more or less sick of Australia.
Then there is the need for all the senior Indonesians to demonstrate their nationalist credentials in the lead-up to next year’s parliamentary and presidential elections.
But note how hard the ABC is pushing this issue.
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Tanya Plibersek has more front than Myers, blaming the Liberals for what Labor destroyed:
The opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, says it is now imperative that the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, rebuilds Australia’s ties with Indonesia…What a fraud.
“We handed over a relationship that was in a very good working order and now we’ve got the Australian foreign minister having to fly to Indonesia to explain herself and apologise,” she said. “[The relationship] really has deteriorated to a great extent.”
(Thanks to readers Baden, Fern and Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Two points not made in an ABC report on these record emissions
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (8:53am)
The obvious points are skipped over:
Second, if emissions are increasing at an accelerating rate, then the flat temperatures of the past 15 years suggest even more strongly that emissions have less effect on temperature than long claimed.
===EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: The world’s peak weather agency has issued new figures tonight showing record levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere…First, if the world’s man-made emissions are increasing at an accelerating rate, then claims by the Greens and Labor that Australia is falling behind the rest of the world in global warming action are plainly false. The rest of the world seems to be doing little but talk.
PAUL FRASER, CSIRO: This is not unexpected, but what is of concern is that the rate of growth of these greenhouse gases in the atmosphere seems to be accelerating.
PETER RAYNER, MELBOURNE UNI: The main game is the burning of fossil fuels. They contributed about 80 per cent of the rise and nothing has changed there.
Second, if emissions are increasing at an accelerating rate, then the flat temperatures of the past 15 years suggest even more strongly that emissions have less effect on temperature than long claimed.
Computer says yes, weather says no
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (8:36am)
Paul C. Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels:
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Question: How long will the fantasy that climate models are reliable indicators of the earth’s climate evolution persist in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
Answer: Probably for as long as there is a crusade against fossil fuels.
Without the exaggerated alarm conjured from overly pessimistic climate model projections of climate change from carbon dioxide emissions, fossil fuels—coal, oil, gas—would regain their image as the celebrated agents of prosperity that they are, rather than being labeled as pernicious agents of our destruction.
Just how credible are these climate models?
In two words, “they’re not.”
Everyone has read that over the past 10-15 years, most climate models’ forecasts of the rate of global warming have been wrong. Most predicted a hefty warming of the earth’s average surface temperature to have taken place, while there was no significant change in the real world.
But very few people know that the same situation has persisted for 25, going on 35 years, or that over the past 50-60 years (since the middle of the 20th century), the same models expected about 33 percent more warming to have taken place than was observed.
Oakes now disgusted by what he first praised
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (8:30am)
Gosh, what’s suddenly changed?
Laurie Oakes 14 September 2013:
Terry McCrann, on the other hand, sees a virtue in governing by deeds rather than press release:
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Abbott and his team ignored the hungry media beast’s demands to be fed. Instead, they worked away quietly and methodically behind the scenes, preparing for an orderly and unhurried takeover of the levers of power.Laurie Oakes 6 November 2013:
And the country got on perfectly well without daily announcements and continuous commentary on every issue under the sun from the people who are our new rulers.
They’re busily trying to avoid the media as much as possible and to control the media and so far they’re getting away with it but I don’t think they will get away with it for too long…UPDATE
You can’t thumb your nose at the voters’ right to know and you can’t arrogantly say ‘we’ll let the voters be misinformed and we won’t help journalists get it right’. That’s just a disgusting attitude.
Terry McCrann, on the other hand, sees a virtue in governing by deeds rather than press release:
TREASURER Joe Hockey’s move to clean up outstanding tax announcements is a major - and impressive - exercise in the good functional government that new Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he wants to deliver.One quibble:
First, as an example of the commitment by Abbott to govern, not to engage in the relentless kowtowing by the previous Rudd and Gillard governments to the demands of the 24/7 real-time media spin cycle.
You know, make a grand announcement; then spend the next year, trying to deliver on it, walk back from it, let it quietly sink without trace.
Hockey simply went about quietly addressing this issue of all the announcements on proposed tax changes that had been made, but never actually legislated. He was, in a word, governing…
Secondly, it’s good government, at a more basic level. These are tax changes which, once announced, in many cases, forced people to make their tax decisions as if they had become law, and they hadn’t.
The abandoning of the previous government’s proposal to tax income in super funds above $100,000 is a tricky one. It is very unclear whether that is sustainable in a fiscal sense, but also in a policy sense.(Thanks to reader Baldrick.)
A media con even John Howard couldn’t fight
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (8:18am)
JOHN Howard is called a “conviction politician”. But the media - corrupted by alarmists - got too much even for him.
This week Howard admitted he’d caved in to the global warming hype not because of “the science” but the votes.
“I am unconvinced that catastrophe is around the corner,” Howard said in London, where he told the pro-sceptic Global Warming Policy Foundation he was a warming “agnostic”.
But in his last year as prime minister, Howard could no longer resist the panic pushed by our Leftist media.
(Read full article here.)
The crude now rule
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (8:17am)
IT IS getting harder to cop moral lectures. I mean, have our moral “betters” ever been this savage?
For instance, once you might have thought a “human rights” lawyer just wanted people to be nicer to each other. But then comes Julian Burnside, the best-known of them, urging children to spit on Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.
(Read full article here.)
===For instance, once you might have thought a “human rights” lawyer just wanted people to be nicer to each other. But then comes Julian Burnside, the best-known of them, urging children to spit on Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.
(Read full article here.)
Same sex marriage unfair to hookers and bigamists
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (7:51am)
Marriage is
fundamentally a tradition meant to gently bind parents to their
responsibilities, especially to their children. But many same sex
marriage advocates have redefined it into a mere symbol of recognition -
to be allowed to marry is to be approved of.
This is not at all what marriage is for, and there is no telling what absurdities this yammer will lead to.
Well, actually there is. Now academic Annamarie Jagose claims that gay marriage is bad because it will just further oppress the already marginalised, who will be denied the esteem they deserve, too:
If marriage is just a means of gaining “esteem” then, in our non-judgmental age, either all should be free to marry or none.
And this, of course, is precisely the slippery slope argument some of us have warned of.
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And a reminder of how even Sydney University’s arts faculty is now paddling in intellectual puddles that seemed so radically deep just 20 years ago:
===This is not at all what marriage is for, and there is no telling what absurdities this yammer will lead to.
Well, actually there is. Now academic Annamarie Jagose claims that gay marriage is bad because it will just further oppress the already marginalised, who will be denied the esteem they deserve, too:
Therefore, the recognition of same-sex couples through marriage is not a wholly benign or even a neutral act because, like the historic form of marriage itself, it recognises the worth of some relationships by valuing them more than others.Sigh.
Outside the newly enlarged circle of social approval and privilege afforded by same-sex marriage stand those whose erotic lives are not organised around the values symbolised by marriage: coupledom, monogamy, permanence, domestic cohabitation.
Unmarried mothers, for instance; adulterers; the devotedly promiscuous; sex workers; the divorced; the bigamous and polygamous; those who are not strangers to the august traditions of the dirty weekend or the one-night stand; single people.
Now this ragtag bunch might not seem as worthy of social protection and prestige as the loving, caring, long-term gay and lesbian couples that are the shiny new poster boys and girls for same-sex marriage. But it reminds us to ask something that advocates of same-sex marriage, in their eagerness, forget to ask: why should marriage continue in the 21st century to be a primary mechanism for the distribution of social recognition and privilege?
Important questions of social justice, equity and social belonging cannot get worked out across such an absurdly constrained and increasingly irrelevant category as marriage. Presenting itself as a magical solution while only distracting us from the real and unaddressed conditions of social inequity, marriage is a red herring for the 21st-century pursuit of social justice.
If marriage is just a means of gaining “esteem” then, in our non-judgmental age, either all should be free to marry or none.
And this, of course, is precisely the slippery slope argument some of us have warned of.
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And a reminder of how even Sydney University’s arts faculty is now paddling in intellectual puddles that seemed so radically deep just 20 years ago:
Annamarie Jagose is internationally known as a scholar in feminist studies, lesbian/gay studies and queer theory. She is the author of four monographs, most recently Orgasmology, which takes orgasm as its scholarly object in order to think queerly about questions of politics and pleasure; practice and subjectivity; agency and ethics. She is also an award-winning novelist and short story writer.
Bias, screams The Age. Is it blind?
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (7:24am)
The Age’s website today demonstrates beautifully how blind the Left is to its own bias.
Note the story, circled in red, recycling the Left’s complaint that nasty Murdoch papers were too tough on Labor.
Now note the stories around it, circled in purple, in which Age reporters and columnists attack, mock or question the Abbott government in a pack attack verging on the hysterical:
===Note the story, circled in red, recycling the Left’s complaint that nasty Murdoch papers were too tough on Labor.
Now note the stories around it, circled in purple, in which Age reporters and columnists attack, mock or question the Abbott government in a pack attack verging on the hysterical:
How did we let this gun culture in?
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (6:43am)
We’ve imported a dangerous culture. Have we stopped the inflow?
This is out of control:
===TWO men were blasted by shotguns and three men were arrested less than an hour later while a house was also shot up in Sydney’s west this morning…Since three men have been arrested, I assume police have found them to be of an ethnic background that makes possible a link to the Lebanese Brothers 4 Life.
Police said it was too early to establish whether the shooting had any connections with Monday night’s Brothers 4 Life related shotgun attack at Blacktown.
This is out of control:
There have now been 294 shootings since Premier Barry O’Farrell took office in March 2011.
On Monday night a 13-year-old girl was blasted in the back with a shotgun by three men looking for her brother with alleged Brothers 4 Life links at a house on Sunnyholt Rd, Blacktown.
On Sunday night Brothers 4 Life gang member, Michael Odisho, 27, was shot in the thighs and arms at his Winston Hills home.
On the same night shots were fired into a three-storey townhouse on Blaxell St, Granville.
Early on Monday morning shots were also fired at a house on McGuirk Way, Rouse Hill about 4am.
Last week Mahmoud Hamzy, 25, a cousin of jailed killer Bassam Hamzy, was shot dead by three gunmen inside the garage of his home at Revesby Heights.
Later in the week Raymond Pasnin, 27, was killed after he was shot five times in the back as he walked towards his Subaru Impreza parked in the driveway of his mother’s Pendle Hill home.
Not worth spit
Andrew Bolt November 07 2013 (6:37am)
Why are so many aging Leftists telling children to do their dirty work for them, from spitting to law-breaking?
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Andy Trieu
Monster Launch feat. Tyson Beckford
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Meh, once they automate the acceptance system, they'll claim to be back - ed
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The "Mormon Effect"
During the 2012 presidential campaign, that awesomely deep well of perpetual wisdom, Alec Baldwin, proclaimed that if Barack Obama were not black, his vote total would have been 20 percent higher. ...
I don't feel that someone who is not a minister represents their religion if they don't claim to. But the liberal left wing press are full of bigots. The press has too much power. But that is why Romney got his opportunity off cycle. Because it was felt he had that liability that would harm the GOP on cycle. I am not and won't be Mormon, but I would vote for one to be President .. I would vote against a so called Christian were they like Obama .. but the press confuses many. - ed===
Joanna Page as Queen Elizabeth, with the Tenth Doctor… #SaveTheDay #TheDayoftheDoctor
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Meh, some Christians vote for Obama .. being saved does not mean you are smart. - ed
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Technology -> Opportunity -> Disruption -> Change: "Even Blockbuster's late fees came back to bite the chain in an unlikely way. In 1997, a man named Reed Hastings returned a late copy of "Apollo 13" to his local Blockbuster. He was assessed a $40 fee. Two years later, he founded Netflix."
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4 new images from #TheDayoftheDoctor coming. First up, and we definitely recognise that scarf…#SaveTheDay
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Who is the Clockwork Curandera? What is the Witch Owl Parliament? Be on the lookout for an amazing new project that will steampunk the whole Southwest...===
Liberal Party of Australia
Larry Pickering
FAIRFAX DYING IN AN IDEOLOGICAL DUNNY
Hostile takeover vultures are circling the corpse of Fairfax ensuring there is no sign of life before swooping in to safely digest the entrails of a once proud beast.
Today I thought I’d drop in to see how the carcass was decomposing and it certainly seemed to be in an advanced state.
There were the usual bacterial suspects of pirate FitzSimons, the pasty Pascoe... even the aesthetically challenged Laurie Oakes was flogging a book on why Labor should have won.
Further down was: “Hockey blows a $3b hole in budget”, “News Corp bias against Rudd” and “Abbott thumbs his nose at voters”. Golly, there must be a morsel of objective reporting somewhere in this rag! Couldn’t find one.
There was: “Hockey takes more than he gives”, “Abbott ducks questions on climate”, “Big Lib supporter Murdoch now wants his reward” and “Abbott blunders his way through Indonesia”, oh, and there was some uni bloke they found to proclaim it was Rudd not Abbott who had stopped the boats.
Then it ran out of political guff and predictably turned tabloid with stories about who’s shagging who on the A list, gay life and cats up trees.
Even that Public Service circular, and baby sister The Canberra Times, has politely refused some news feeds.
You would have thought the recent election would have jolted Fairfax back to somewhere near the centre, but nope. This arm of the hopelessly corrupt ALP actually still believes it is right and a thread of indignant bitterness is woven into each story.
The takeover vultures are sniffing the wind for signs of life, but there are none, and now it’s yummy carrion time.
Oh well, I guess we always have the ABC.
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HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES: According to a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, more than one in five Sun-like stars, or roughly 11 billion in the Milky Way galaxy alone, have an Earth-like planet orbiting them. The nearest could be less than a dozen light years away.
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Edie Sundby, a Stage 4 cancer patient, is losing her health insurance plan that helped her survive. She speaks out tonight on The Kelly File at 9p/12a ET.
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James Calore
End of a surprisingly warm, sunny November day...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this morning (Wednesday, 6 November 2013), in Jerusalem, met with US Secretary of State John Kerry and said at the start of their meeting:
"We heard the chants 'Death to America' two days ago again in Tehran, and this is, I believe, the true face of this regime or the person who controls this regime, the so called 'Supreme Leader'. I think such a regime must not have the world's most dangerous weapons.
I believe that as long as they continue their goal to enrich uranium, to get nuclear weapons, the pressure should be maintained and even increased because they're increasing enrichment, and I believe that it's possible with intense pressure because of the sanctions regime led in large part by the United States to get Iran to fully dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
I'd be very worried with any partial deals that enable Iran to maintain those capabilities but begin to reduce sanctions because I think this could undermine the longevity and durability of the sanctions regime.
Photo: Koby Gideon, GPO
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Pastor Rick Warren
My friends Mark and Grace Driscoll invited me to speak at their #Resurgence Conference in Seattle today. It was moving to see pastors on their knees and faces before God after my message to them.
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.. sometimes, when you stand still, they come to you
Allons-y! #SaveTheDay #TheDayoftheDoctor
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Michelle Malkin
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood hilariously mock HealthCare.gov during CMAs [video] ==> http://twitchy.com/2013/11/06/obamacare-by-morning-brad-paisley-and-carrie-underwood-hilariously-mock-healthcare-gov-during-cmas/
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Study this corruption .. media helped get votes for it - ed
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I resigned to speak out .. never got any benefit of doubt from press - ed
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It is like clothing .. bad taste is forever - ed
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Interactive shows world's births and deaths in real time
ridiculous article condemning blessing - ed
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Will magistrates lock them up? - ed
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Aprille Love
Just did a crazy boxing session with Annette Melton. Feeling good.
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The rise of the super-rat. This is the beginning of the end.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/poisonresistant-super-rats-spreading-across-the-uk/story-fnjwkt0b-1226754751124
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Aprille Love
Morning #inspo. #focus #eyeonthegoal
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Matt Granz
A primordial feeling overtakes Yosemite Valley as the fog starts to rise as the sun goes down while drivers make their way under the lumbering sleeping granite giants into the interior of the park. It was a pleasure to meet up with Michael Frye, Josh Cripps, and Gary Hart Photographywhile getting this shot. Hopefully I'll make it back after the next snow. — with Darvin Atkeson atYosemite National Park.
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I don't doubt the truth of it, but feel that ancient knowledge of it is overstated. - ed
New hope for ACL sufferers - ed
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Citizen, is this revolutionary France? Have we a great general seeking to elevate to empire? - ed
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Allyson Christy
Geo-political pandering in the wake of geo-political scrambling, and all under Russia's momentous, waiting and watchful gaze.
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A strange stop during my travels with Yahoo! last summer. I got a few photos in and then the mirror fell out of my camera. Took a day of scurrying to replace the unit while also needing to travel a good ten hours to my next destination. I was pretty disappointed. I really wanted to tear up the town and document it in style. — in Washington, DC, United States.
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Michelle Malkin
Genius screenshot sums up Terry McAuliffe’s victory in Va.==>http://twitchy.com/2013/11/06/
Emma Watson
And we'll never be royals...Lorde
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Larry Pickering
SPYING? ... be discreet about it please
Julie Bishop’s Indonesian counterpart, Mohammad Marty Natalegawa, is in posturing election mode when he says Australia’s spying could impede Indonesia’s current cooperation on people smuggling. Is Marty suggesting an original lack of cooperation? Yes he is! But he didn’t mean to say that.
Discretion was hardly on Marty’s mind last month when he publicly disclosed details of private conversations he had with Julie Bishop. That was very naughty of Marty.
Of course the wily Marty knows international espionage has been alive and well for 200 years, even among friends and allies. To suggest it is an affront to Indonesian sensitivity is an exercise in ambidextrous electioneering.
Embassies world-wide are involved in spying on their hosts and each affords the other diplomatic immunity from otherwise covert illegalities.
Foreign Affairs is the respectable face of Australia’s six separate spy Agencies and our ambassadors, attaches and diplomats are not there just for the cocktail parties.
Even the US compiles information on Australians, just ask Labor’s Mark Arbib, Bill Shorten and even Bob Hawke who were regularly seen slinking the back streets of Yarralumla to confirm or deny US surveillance.
Julie Bishop is about to leave for Jakarta to “patch things up” when there is actually nothing to be patched up.
Machiavellian Marty will greet tyro Julie with a “gotcha” grin, order tea be served, perve on her legs and discuss the weather before Julie flies home to tell us all is well.
Should Australia have no covert political interest in the most populous and corrupt Islamic nation on earth to our near north, a nation that purposefully invades our borders, a nation that will agree to desist only when confronted and then threatens to continue with the trade if we hurt their damned feelings?
Crumbs! Go fly another kite Marty!
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James Calore'
U.S . Government has just passed a new law called: "The Affordable Boat Act"
Every citizen MUST purchase a new boat, by April 2014. These "affordable" boats will cost an average of $54,000-$750,000 each. This does not include taxes, trailers, licensing and registration fees, fuel, docking and storage fees, maintenance or repair costs.
This law has been passed, because until now, typically only wealthy and financially responsible people have been able to purchase boats. This new law ensures that every American can now have an "affordable" boat of their own, because everyone is "entitled" to a new boat.
If you purchase your boat before the end of the year, you will receive 4 "free" life jackets, compliments of President Obama.
In order to make sure everyone purchases an affordable boat, the costs of buying a boat will increase on average of 250-400% per year. This way, wealthy people will pay more, when they trade up.
But to be fair, people who can't afford to buy a boat will be provided one.
Children (under the age of 26) can use their parents boats to party on until they turn 27; then must purchase their own boat.
If you already have a boat, you can keep yours (just kidding; no you can’t). If you don't want or don't need a boat, you are required to buy one anyhow. If you refuse to buy one or can’t afford one, you will be regularly fined $800 until you purchase one or face imprisonment.
Failure to use the boat will also result in fines. People living in the desert; inner cities or areas with no access to navigable waters are not exempt. Age, motion sickness, experience, knowledge nor lack of desire are not acceptable excuses for not using your boat.
Every citizen MUST purchase a new boat, by April 2014. These "affordable" boats will cost an average of $54,000-$750,000 each. This does not include taxes, trailers, licensing and registration fees, fuel, docking and storage fees, maintenance or repair costs.
This law has been passed, because until now, typically only wealthy and financially responsible people have been able to purchase boats. This new law ensures that every American can now have an "affordable" boat of their own, because everyone is "entitled" to a new boat.
If you purchase your boat before the end of the year, you will receive 4 "free" life jackets, compliments of President Obama.
In order to make sure everyone purchases an affordable boat, the costs of buying a boat will increase on average of 250-400% per year. This way, wealthy people will pay more, when they trade up.
But to be fair, people who can't afford to buy a boat will be provided one.
Children (under the age of 26) can use their parents boats to party on until they turn 27; then must purchase their own boat.
If you already have a boat, you can keep yours (just kidding; no you can’t). If you don't want or don't need a boat, you are required to buy one anyhow. If you refuse to buy one or can’t afford one, you will be regularly fined $800 until you purchase one or face imprisonment.
Failure to use the boat will also result in fines. People living in the desert; inner cities or areas with no access to navigable waters are not exempt. Age, motion sickness, experience, knowledge nor lack of desire are not acceptable excuses for not using your boat.
A government review board (that doesn't know the difference between the port, starboard or stern of a boat) will decide everything, including; when, where, how often and for what purposes you can use your boat along with how many people can ride your boat and determine if one is too old or healthy enough to be able to use their boat. They will also decide if your boat has out lived its usefulness or if you must purchase specific accessories,(like a $20,000 nav system) or a newer and more expensive boat. Those that can afford larger yachts above $750,000 will be required to do so...its only fair.
The government will also decide the name for each boat. Failure to comply with these rules will result in fines and possible imprisonment.
Government officials are exempt from this new law. If they want a boat, they and their families can obtain boats free, at the expense of tax payers. Unions, bankers and mega companies with large political affiliations ($$$) are also exempt.
===The government will also decide the name for each boat. Failure to comply with these rules will result in fines and possible imprisonment.
Government officials are exempt from this new law. If they want a boat, they and their families can obtain boats free, at the expense of tax payers. Unions, bankers and mega companies with large political affiliations ($$$) are also exempt.
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While in Vienna suggest you dine & wine plus cigar
at Bacco (Tabacco e Venere)
A-1040 Wein
Splendid Italian food
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Thursday at 10p/1a ET, join Sean Hannity as he honors the incredible life and enduring legacy of Reverend Billy Graham on his 95th birthday.
"I believe he will continue to touch countless lives in the coming years because the words that he preached way back in 1950 still resonate to this day." - Sean Hannity
Read Sean's full commentary:http://tinyurl.com/ntp5smw
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Into the Time Vortex! Thanks to Liz for this time travelling pumpkin.
"Come along, bitey!" It's "Upgrade complete" for this squash Cybermat (thanks to Julie for this one!)
The Eleventh Pumpkin
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The Dr. Phil Foundation has set up a fund to help Cleveland kidnapping victim Michelle Knight. Learn how you can help: http://bit.ly/
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The Ly sending good vibes from shibuya, japan! — with Samantha Ly and John Ly.
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"The Navy SEALs killed bin Laden, not President Obama. Sometimes I think he forgets that." -Pete Hegseth said tonight on The Kelly File
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Sarah Palin
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/
Barnes & Noble: http://
I can't wait to hear from you as we apply this positive message to our everyday living and commit to ignoring the "political correctness" that would lead us to do otherwise!
Sincerely,
Sarah Palin
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There is someone on Facebook who keeps sending me naked pictures of themselves. I have asked them nicely to stop it but they won't so here it is publicly. "Keep sending me pictures and I will be going to the police!" Friends, you may know them so you may want to delete them. This is their profile: https://facebook.com/
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I don't think so. I think they weaken and hurt Israel, which is bad on its own. I similarly don't think Obama will destroy USA .. - ed
My dad's specialty was Education. He started Sesame Street as the educational evaluator. He was editor of the journal of educational psychology for some thirty years. Pro vice Chancellor community affairs at Sydney University and ran the board of studies in Victoria when he set up two Victorian model schools in Dubai. To be straight with you, it is very hard to initiate a culture that prizes intellectuals. To dismantle one to avoid losing some/many seems risky. They will come back to where it is good to raise their children. - ed===
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Father,I thank You for completing what You’ve started in my life. I choose to trust You. I choose to wait on You. I put my faith in You knowing that through faith and patience every promise will come to pass in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.(Philippians 1:6, NIV)
God will always finish what He started.It doesn’t matter how long it’s been or how impossible it looks. Your mind may tell you that it’s too late. You’ve missed too many opportunities. It’s never going to happen. No, God is saying, “It’s not over. I have the final say. I’ve already set the completion date.” So if you will stay in faith and not talk yourself out of it, it will just be a matter of time before it comes to pass.God bless you.
God will always finish what He started.It doesn’t matter how long it’s been or how impossible it looks. Your mind may tell you that it’s too late. You’ve missed too many opportunities. It’s never going to happen. No, God is saying, “It’s not over. I have the final say. I’ve already set the completion date.” So if you will stay in faith and not talk yourself out of it, it will just be a matter of time before it comes to pass.God bless you.
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Father,I thank You for the gifts and talents You’ve given me. Help me to see the areas where I can rise higher. I desire to serve diligently with an attitude of excellence so that I can bring You glory in everything that I do in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Are you focused on developing your gifts in such a way that your company cannot make it without you? Do they notice that things don’t run nearly as smoothly when you’re not there? If you take a week off and nobody misses you, all the work gets done and sales are just as good, unless you’re the owner, it’s time to sound the alarm. If you’re not being missed, then maybe you’re not needed. You need to kick it into a new gear and start producing more than you have been.
The Scripture says,"Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.” (Proverbs 22:29) I want you to get noticed in life.Scripture is clear, when we sharpen our skills, when we work with a spirit of excellence, we will stand before great men. Leaders will take notice. Promotion comes. Like cream rising to the top, you will rise higher as well. Remember that as you keep doing your best, as you stay faithful and keep growing, God will cause you to be noticed and move forward in the life of blessing He has prepared for you.God bless you.
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November 7: October Revolution Day in Belarus and various other regions of the former Soviet Union
- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.
- 1811 – American forces led by Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrisondefeated the forces of Shawnee leader Tecumseh's growing American Indian confederation at the Battle of Tippecanoe near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana.
- 1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" inCraigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1929 – The Museum of Modern Art (pictured), often identified as the most influential museum of modern artin the world, opened to the public.
- 1941 – World War II: German aircraft sank the Soviethospital ship Armenia while she was evacuating civilians and wounded soldiers from Crimea, killing an estimated 5,000 people.
Events[edit]
- 335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing toConstantinople.
- 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
- 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the eartharound noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
- 1619 – Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
- 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
- 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
- 1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana,United States.
- 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun aConfederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
- 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
- 1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway was symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1893 – Women's Suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
- 1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
- 1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
- 1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers () away before it can explode.
- 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
- 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department storeowner Max Moorehouse.
- 1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production ofBeethoven's Fidelio.
- 1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
- 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
- 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
- 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
- 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
- 1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
- 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
- 1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
- 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
- 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
- 1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
- 1944 – A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
- 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
- 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
- 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
- 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
- 1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- 1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
- 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
- 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- 1973 – The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
- 1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
- 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
- 1987 – Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payohstations.
- 1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
- 1989 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City.
- 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
- 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
- 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
- 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
- 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady.
- 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
- 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
- 2001 – SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.
- 2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
- 2004 – War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
- 2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
- 2012 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
Births[edit]
- 630 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
- 994 – Ibn Hazm, Arabian philosopher (d. 1069)
- 1598 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
- 1619 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French author (d. 1692)
- 1650 – John Robinson, English bishop (d. 1723)
- 1683 – Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (d. 1748)
- 1687 – William Stukeley, English antiquarian (d. 1765)
- 1706 – Carlo Cecere, Italian composer (d. 1761)
- 1728 – James Cook, English navy officer, explorer, and cartographer (d. 1779)
- 1750 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
- 1805 – Thomas Brassey, English engineer (d. 1870)
- 1818 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
- 1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American educator and diplomat, co-founded Cornell University (d. 1918)
- 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author (d. 1889)
- 1846 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
- 1851 – Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (d. 1913)
- 1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian activist (d. 1932)
- 1860 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
- 1861 – Jeff Milton, American sheriff (d. 1947)
- 1867 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
- 1872 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (d. 1956)
- 1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
- 1876 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
- 1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
- 1879 – King Baggot, American actor (d. 1948)
- 1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (d. 1940)
- 1886 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player (d. 1935)
- 1888 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1890 – Jan Matulka, American painter (d. 1972)
- 1893 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1893 – Margaret Leech, American author and historian (d. 1974)
- 1896 – Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
- 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, director, and producer (d. 1953)
- 1897 – Armstrong Sperry, American author (d. 1976)
- 1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
- 1899 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
- 1901 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
- 1903 – Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 1964)
- 1903 – Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- 1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1905 – William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
- 1906 – Eugene Carson Blake, American church leader (d. 1985)
- 1908 – Marijac, French illustrator and writer (d. 1994)
- 1909 – Ruby Hurley, American civil rights activist (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Albert Camus, French author, journalist, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- 1913 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek screenwriter and director (d. 1991)
- 1914 – Archie Campbell, American comedian, actor, and singer (d. 1987)
- 1914 – R. A. Lafferty, American science fiction and fantasy author (d. 2002)
- 1915 – Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Titos Vandis, Greek actor (d. 2003)
- 1918 – Paul Aussaresses, French general
- 1918 – Billy Graham, American evangelist
- 1918 – Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese singer (d. 1993)
- 1919 – Ellen Stewart, American director and producer (d. 2011)
- 1920 – Max Kampelman, American diplomat (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Jack Fleck, American golfer
- 1922 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Gene Callahan, American production designer (d. 1990)
- 1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman
- 1927 – Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1928 – Richard G. Scott, American engineer and religious leader
- 1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize laureate
- 1929 – Jesús de Polanco, Spanish businessman(d. 2007)
- 1930 – Rudy Boschwitz, American politician
- 1931 – G. Edward Griffin, American film producer and author
- 1935 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (d. 2009)
- 1936 – Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
- 1936 – Audrey McLaughlin, Canadian politician
- 1937 – Mary Daheim, American author
- 1938 – Dee Clark, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1938 – Jake Gibbs, American baseball player
- 1938 – Jim Kaat, American baseball player
- 1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
- 1940 – Dakin Matthews, American actor
- 1940 – Antonio Skármeta, Chilean author
- 1941 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal
- 1942 – Tom Peters, American author
- 1942 – Johnny Rivers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1942 – Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress
- 1943 – Michael Byrne, English actor
- 1943 – Stephen Greenblatt, American critic
- 1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general
- 1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 – Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943 – Silvia Cartwright, 18th Governor-General of New Zealand
- 1944 – Waljinah, Javanese singer
- 1945 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1944 – Ken Patera, American wrestler
- 1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
- 1945 – Earl Boen, American actor
- 1945 – Bob Englehart, American cartoonist
- 1946 – John Aylward, American actor
- 1947 – Bob Anderson, English darts player
- 1947 – Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player
- 1947 – Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist
- 1947 – Holmes Osborne, American actor
- 1948 – Buck Martinez, American baseball player
- 1948 – Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
- 1949 – Stephen Bruton, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
- 1949 – Steven Stucky, American composer
- 1949 – David S. Ware, American saxophonist (d. 2012)
- 1950 – Lindsay Duncan, Scottish actress
- 1951 – Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist, actor, and producer
- 1951 – John Tamargo, American baseball player
- 1952 – David Petraeus, American military officer, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- 1952 – Modibo Sidibé, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali
- 1952 – Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer and coach
- 1953 – Maire Aunaste, Estonian journalist and TV host
- 1953 – Lucinda Green, English horse rider and journalist
- 1954 – Robin Beck, American singer
- 1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian author
- 1954 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
- 1954 – Gil Junger, American director
- 1955 – Shirley Eikhard, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1955 – Kitty Margolis, American singer and producer
- 1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German martial artist
- 1956 – Denise Jannah, Dutch singer
- 1956 – Jonathan Palmer, English race car driver
- 1956 – Judy Tenuta, American comedian, actress, and accordion player
- 1957 – John Benitez, American musician, songwriter, and producer
- 1957 – King Kong Bundy, American wrestler and actor
- 1957 – Christopher Knight, American actor
- 1957 – Tony Schiavone, American sportscaster
- 1958 – Rissei Ō, Japanese Go player
- 1958 – Lori Saldaña, American politician
- 1959 – Srinivas, Indian singer
- 1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
- 1959 – Alexandre Guimarães, Brazilian-Costa Rican footballer and manager
- 1960 – Tommy Thayer, American guitarist and songwriter (Kiss)
- 1961 – Orlando Mercado, American baseball player
- 1962 – Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
- 1963 – John Barnes, English footballer
- 1963 – Sam Graves, American politician
- 1964 – Troy Beyer, American actress
- 1964 – Sandra Denton, American rapper and actress (Salt-N-Pepa)
- 1964 – Gill Holland, Norwegian-American film producer
- 1964 – Li Nanxing, Singaporean actor
- 1964 – Liam Ó Maonlaí, Irish keyboard player and songwriter (Hothouse Flowers)
- 1964 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1965 – Sigrun Wodars, German runner
- 1966 – Calvin Borel, American jockey
- 1967 – Steve DiGiorgio, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Death, Control Denied, Sadus, and Charred Walls of the Damned)
- 1967 – David Guetta, French DJ and producer
- 1967 – Julie Pinson, American actress
- 1967 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress (Texas)
- 1967 – Careena Collins, American porn actress and director
- 1968 – Greg Tribbett, American guitarist (Mudvayne and Hellyeah)
- 1968 – Mark Preston, Australian engineer
- 1968 – Russ Springer, American baseball player
- 1969 – Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
- 1969 – Michelle Clunie, American actress
- 1969 – Michel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1970 – Neil Hannon, Irish singer-songwriter (The Divine Comedy and The Duckworth Lewis Method)
- 1970 – Andy Houston, American race car driver
- 1970 – Marc Rosset, Swiss tennis player
- 1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
- 1970 – Paul Ware, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1971 – Trivikram Srinivas, Indian Director, and dialogue writer
- 1971 – Jamie Drummond, Scottish-Canadian critic
- 1971 – Robin Finck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nine Inch Nails and Guns N' Roses)
- 1971 – Matthew Ryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Strays Don't Sleep)
- 1972 – Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor
- 1972 – Mike Goldman, Australian radio and television
- 1972 – Danny Grewcock, English rugby player
- 1972 – Jason London, American actor
- 1972 – Jeremy London, American actor
- 1972 – Hasim Rahman, American boxer
- 1972 – Marcus Stewart, English footballer
- 1973 – Catê, Brazilian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
- 1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
- 1974 – Kris Benson, American baseball player
- 1974 – Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican hurdler
- 1974 – Christian Gómez, Argentine footballer
- 1974 – Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
- 1975 – Venkat Prabhu, Indian director
- 1976 – Rob Caggiano, American guitarist and producer (Anthrax, Boiler Room, and The Damned Things)
- 1976 – Melyssa Ford, Canadian model and actress
- 1976 – Chang Hao, Chinese Go player
- 1976 – One Be Lo, American rapper (Binary Star)
- 1976 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
- 1977 – Andres Oper, Estonian footballer
- 1977 – María Sánchez Lorenzo, Spanish tennis player
- 1977 – Anthony Thomas, American football player
- 1978 – Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
- 1978 – Elisabeth Bachman, American volleyball player
- 1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
- 1978 – Tomoya Nagase, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Tokio)
- 1978 – Barry Robson, Scottish footballer
- 1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
- 1979 – Mike Commodore, American ice hockey player
- 1979 – Will Demps, American football player
- 1979 – Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
- 1979 – Barney Harwood, English television host and actor
- 1979 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Joey Ryan, American wrestler
- 1979 – Otep Shamaya, American singer-songwriter and actress (Otep)
- 1980 – Karthik, Indian singer and composer
- 1980 – Sergio Bernardo Almirón, Argentine footballer
- 1980 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
- 1980 – James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
- 1980 – Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
- 1981 – Mark Copani, Jordanian-American wrestler
- 1981 – Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
- 1982 – Pascal Leclaire, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Forrest Kline, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hellogoodbye)
- 1984 – Mihkel Aksalu, Estonian footballer
- 1984 – Jonathan Bornstein, American soccer player
- 1984 – Amelia Vega, Dominican model, Miss Universe 2003
- 1985 – Sebastian Aldén, Swedish motorcycle racer
- 1985 – Lucas Neff, American actor
- 1986 – Andy Hull, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Manchester Orchestra, Bad Books, and Right Away, Great Captain!)
- 1986 – David Nelson, American football player
- 1986 – Doukissa Nomikou, Greek model
- 1986 – Yurizan Beltran, American pornographic actress
- 1987 – Marek Semjan, Slovakian tennis player
- 1988 – Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
- 1988 – Simone Favaro, Italian rugby player
- 1988 – Thomas Schneider, German sprinter
- 1988 – Tinie Tempah, English rapper and producer
- 1989 – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
- 1990 – Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer
- 1990 – Matt Corby, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1990 – David de Gea, Spanish footballer
- 1994 – Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume)
- 1996 – Ella Yelich-O'Connor, New Zealand singer-songwriter also known as Lorde
Deaths[edit]
- 644 – Umar, Islamic caliph (b. 590)
- 1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, German archbishop (b. 1186)
- 1550 – Jón Arason, Icelandic bishop (b. 1484)
- 1574 – Solomon Luria, Polish rabbi (b. 1510)
- 1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar (b. 1505)
- 1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
- 1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor, invented the submarine (b. 1572)
- 1639 – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician (b. 1560)
- 1642 – Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English judge and politician (b. 1563)
- 1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
- 1837 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (b. 1809)
- 1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
- 1881 – John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
- 1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
- 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
- 1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
- 1922 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
- 1923 – Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian Educationist,Freedom Fighter(1856)
- 1930 – Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
- 1933 – Harold Weber, American golfer (b. 1882)
- 1941 – Frank Pick, English businessman (b. 1878)
- 1943 – Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
- 1944 – Hannah Szenes, Hungarian army officer (b. 1921)
- 1947 – K. Natesa Iyer, Ceylon Tamil journalist (b. 1887)
- 1952 – Filippos Karvelas, Greek gymnast (b. 1877)
- 1959 – Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (b. 1883)
- 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician, 34th First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
- 1965 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Pakistani caliph (b. 1889)
- 1966 – Rube Bressler, American baseball player (b. 1894)
- 1967 – John Nance Garner, American politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
- 1968 – Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (b. 1901)
- 1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1974 – Eric Linklater, Welsh-Scottish author (b. 1899)
- 1978 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta,Indian Politician,Gujrat First Chief Minister(b.1887)
- 1978 – Gene Tunney, American boxer (b. 1897)
- 1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
- 1981 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (b. 1885)
- 1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
- 1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian bass player (The Birthday Party and The Saints) (b. 1957)
- 1990 – Lawrence Durrell, expatriate British writer (b. 1912)
- 1991 – Carter Cornelius, American singer (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
- 1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish illustrator (b. 1920)
- 1992 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (b. 1921)
- 1992 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1993 – Adelaide Hall, American jazz singer and entertainer (b. 1901)
- 1994 – Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1924)
- 1995 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist (b. 1942)
- 1996 – Claude Ake, Nigerian academic (b. 1939)
- 1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
- 2000 – Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician (b. 1950)
- 2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
- 2000 – Ingrid of Sweden (b. 1910)
- 2001 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
- 2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Howard Keel, American actor and singer (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Harry Thompson, English scriptwriter, producer, and author (b. 1960)
- 2006 – Bryan Pata, American football player (b. 1984)
- 2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (b. 1932)
- 2007 – George W. George, American film producer (b. 1920)
- 2010 – Smaro Stefanidou, Greek actress (b. 1913)
- 2011 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Carmen Basilio, American boxer (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Aleksandr Berkutov, Russian rower (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Heinz-Jürgen Blome, German footballer (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Ellen Douglas, American author (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., American author (b. 1950)
- 2012 – Sandy Pearson, Australian army officer (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Darrell Royal, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Arthur K. Snyder, American politician (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Elliott Stein, American journalist and historian (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Commemoration Day, the anniversary of Ben Ali's succession. (Tunisia)
- National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees. (Northern Catalonia)
- National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)
- October Revolution Day (the Soviet Union (former, official), modern Russia (unofficial), Belarus, Kyrgyzstan)
“he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.”Ephesians 1:9-10 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"I will pour water upon him that is thirsty."
Isaiah 44:3
Isaiah 44:3
When a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with dark and doleful fears. Such is not the way to rise from the dust, but to continue in it. As well chain the eagle's wing to make it mount, as doubt in order to increase our grace. It is not the law, but the gospel which saves the seeking soul at first; and it is not a legal bondage, but gospel liberty which can restore the fainting believer afterwards. Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus' bosom. Are you this morning thirsting for the living God, and unhappy because you cannot find him to the delight of your heart? Have you lost the joy of religion, and is this your prayer, "Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation"? Are you conscious also that you are barren, like the dry ground; that you are not bringing forth the fruit unto God which he has a right to expect of you; that you are not so useful in the Church, or in the world, as your heart desires to be? Then here is exactly the promise which you need, "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty." You shall receive the grace you so much require, and you shall have it to the utmost reach of your needs. Water refreshes the thirsty: you shall be refreshed; your desires shall be gratified. Water quickens sleeping vegetable life: your life shall be quickened by fresh grace. Water swells the buds and makes the fruits ripen; you shall have fructifying grace: you shall be made fruitful in the ways of God. Whatever good quality there is in divine grace, you shall enjoy it to the full. All the riches of divine grace you shall receive in plenty; you shall be as it were drenched with it: and as sometimes the meadows become flooded by the bursting rivers, and the fields are turned into pools, so shall you be--the thirsty land shall be springs of water.
Evening
"Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you."
Hebrews 9:20
Hebrews 9:20
There is a strange power about the very name of blood, and the sight of it is always affecting. A kind heart cannot bear to see a sparrow bleed, and unless familiarized by use, turns away with horror at the slaughter of a beast. As to the blood of men, it is a consecrated thing: it is murder to shed it in wrath, it is a dreadful crime to squander it in war. Is this solemnity occasioned by the fact that the blood is the life, and the pouring of it forth the token of death? We think so. When we rise to contemplate the blood of the Son of God, our awe is yet more increased, and we shudder as we think of the guilt of sin, and the terrible penalty which the Sin-bearer endured. Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side. The blood of Jesus seals the covenant of grace, and makes it forever sure. Covenants of old were made by sacrifice, and the everlasting covenant was ratified in the same manner. Oh, the delight of being saved upon the sure foundation of divine engagements which cannot be dishonoured! Salvation by the works of the law is a frail and broken vessel whose shipwreck is sure; but the covenant vessel fears no storms, for the blood ensures the whole. The blood of Jesus made his testament valid. Wills are of no power unless the testators die. In this light the soldier's spear is a blessed aid to faith, since it proved our Lord to be really dead. Doubts upon that matter there can be none, and we may boldly appropriate the legacies which he has left for his people. Happy they who see their title to heavenly blessings assured to them by a dying Saviour. But has this blood no voice to us? Does it not bid us sanctify ourselves unto him by whom we have been redeemed? Does it not call us to newness of life, and incite us to entire consecration to the Lord? O that the power of the blood might be known, and felt in us this night!
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 37-39, Hebrews 3 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 37-39
Jeremiah in Prison
1 Zedekiah son of Josiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim. 2 Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
3 King Zedekiah, however, sent Jehukal son of Shelemiah with the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah the prophet with this message: “Please pray to the LORD our God for us.”
4 Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison. 5 Pharaoh’s army had marched out of Egypt, and when the Babylonians who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
6 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:7 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt. 8 Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.’
9 “This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not!10 Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down....”
Today's New Testament reading: Hebrews 3
Jesus Greater Than Moses
1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
Warning Against Unbelief
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear his voice,8 do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your ancestors tested and tried me,
though for forty years they saw what I did.
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”
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