If irresponsible kids in your area are throwing a party, it could be a global warming panic party. ABC and Fairfax may have written and spoken about it, but it is unlikely you heard or read it from them .. not many people do. Plain packaging seems to be working to expand the black market. We don't know who they are, inheriting the Al Capone riches, but my bet is they are ALP.
New York is better for having cleaned up. Australia is worse off for those wind mills. I didn't watch it, but apparently Q and A was abysmal. One bite from what I have seen .. after the fighting is over. When the dead drape the scenery in their struggle over oppression and adversity. When the cost is clear in the wasteland of what was once homes to many with dreams of a better future. The post modernist will ask "Who gets to define success? Who gets to say what is right or wrong" Something worth pondering as you survey those tyrannies which killed millions of people and were supported by communists and socialists.
Guardian article claiming Bush family funded Hitler. Meh, over stated on the Bush connection .. Bush's grandad stopped when it became apparent what Hitler was doing. Unions seemed to like what the Nazis had done, and what the Japanese had done. There is a western concept socialists don't get. It is the idea that a man is responsible for their own actions. Not their families. So at the end of the civil war, General Lee was allowed to live his life. His family was unmolested. His garden was made a graveyard .. Arlington. But, Lee's grand daughter, Harper Lee, wrote "To Kill a Mocking Bird" .. vindicating those who stopped short of eliminating the family, behind the deaths of millions, and in favour of slavery.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns to those born on this day, across the years
- 1271 – Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- 1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
- 1715 – John Brown, English author (d. 1766)
- 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
- 1885 – Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
- 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (d. 1961)
- 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist (d. 1964)
- 1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (Sons of the Pioneers) (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967)
- 1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Kings of Rhythm and Ike & Tina Turner) (d. 2007)
- 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
- 1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
- 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
- 1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
- 1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
- 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
- 1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
- 1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- 1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
- 1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
- 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
- 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.
- 2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 29 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation.
- 1370 – Casimir III the Great, Polish king (b. 1310)
WARMY PARTY PEOPLE
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 05, 2013 (1:40pm)
Yay! The GetUp kids are throwing some climate panic parties, and they want everyone else to pay:
We’ve come up with an ambitious plan to hold huge national rallies in dozens of locations simultaneously, in just a month’s time. But it has a budget to match: $263,000 (and that’s the cheap option).If you’ve ever run events you have an idea of what this covers. It includes: paid coordinators, stages, PA systems for the bands and speakers, liability insurance, banners and signs, huge cherry-pickers …
St John’s ambulance on hand to provide first aid, promotions in newspapers, online and on the street, security, permits from councils, electricity generators, marquees, video crews to capture footage, face-paint for kids, sunscreen for adults, and a myriad of little details that make our rallies fun, family-friendly events.
Too bad about the colossal carbon footprint. You know, it sometimes seems as though GetUp’s stunts are more about GetUp than they are about any actual cause.
(Via Waxing Gibberish)
LOW AND LOWER
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 05, 2013 (1:36pm)
Sad numbers for Fairfax and the ABC:
Fairfax Radio Network’s troubled talk station 2UE has become the lowest rating commercial station in Sydney, new numbers released today by Nielsen show …The only stations in Sydney to fare worse the 2UE were from the ABC including Radio National and ABC News Radio.
Additionally, the ABC is now issuing health warnings about its own coverage:
ABC report could cause death, says ABC health specialist
PREACHING IGNORANCE
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 05, 2013 (12:51pm)
Gosford’s Anglican Church is apparently unaware of Australia’s immigration history:
Perhaps tomorrow our churchy la femme pals could list all of these races we’ve “stopped”.
Perhaps tomorrow our churchy la femme pals could list all of these races we’ve “stopped”.
CIGS UP
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 05, 2013 (12:31pm)
Nanny Roxon’s ugly pictures haven’t worked:
Illegal tobacco is booming across Australia, funding international criminal gangs, and costing taxpayers more than $1 billion each year.And the introduction of plain packaging for legal cigarettes has failed, according to a report ...That report states that tobacco consumption in Australia will rise this year for the first time since 2003.Demand for cheap counterfeit and contraband cigarettes is accelerating, driven by excise increases on legitimate tobacco.
Via CL, who emails: “After all, it’s not as though there’s a culturally, historically famous case study of prohibition leading to the massive, uncontrollable importation of a much wanted, theretofore legal product … to the extent that the ban became utterly useless, except to the ‘criminals’ supplying it. Nobody could have predicted that.”
ART TRAINEES
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 05, 2013 (12:17pm)
There was a slight graffiti problem in New York during the 1980s.
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Scrap this green energy target. Remove these blights
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (10:20am)
It’s a hell of an expensive way to wreck our views. So why hasn’t the Abbott Government already scrapped the scheme that foists these follies on us?:
AUSTRALIA’S mining giants are demanding the Coalition abandon the renewable energy target, warning the scheme is slugging electricity consumers $1.6 billion a year.And the difference the renewable energy target - with all its wind farms and solar power - will make to our climate?
In a rare united submission obtained by The Australian, groups including the Minerals Council of Australia and Australian Uranium Association have said that repealing the carbon tax is just the first step in reforming climate change policies and that the repeal does not address “other overlapping areas where policy is out of sync with broader economic imperatives, such as the expensive subsidies for certain technologies under the renewable energy target”.
Under the RET, 20 per cent of electricity will be sourced from renewable energy by 2020.
“The RET is a costly and inefficient infant industry scheme which should be repealed,” the submission to the Environment Department says.
Zero.
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How is that greens, usually the first to protest when development spoils the scenery, cheer the wanton vandalising of our coastline by wind farm developers?
How is it that most greens, the first to demand a stop to global warming, fight the one technology most likely to slash our emissions? True, there are some exceptions:
Four of the best-known scientists espousing the belief that humanity’s carbon emissions are an immediate and deadly threat have issued a statement begging their fellow greens to support nuclear power.(Thanks to readers Diogenes and Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Doctors James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel and Tom Wigley co-signed an open letter over the weekend in which they address “those influencing environmental policy, but opposed to nuclear power”. The four scientists write that “continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity’s ability to avoid dangerous climate change ... there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power”.
More tips for today
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (10:11am)
Reader Jacks helps fellow blog readers with a tip or four for the Cup:
===Best Melbourne Cup in a long time. Can make a case for almost every runner. A true sweeps race.
Been on Hawkspur all long, so will stick with him. Doubt over the 3200m but he has a devestating burst of speed if he can do it.
But Dunaden has been racing the best horses in the world. He will take some beating even with that weight. He is under weight for age for the first time in a year. Just that others come in much better handicapped. Voluese De Cours is one example. She won the Irish St Leger by 6 lengths carrying 61kgs and drops to 51kgs.
However, if Dear Demi can run the 3200m as well as she runs 2400, I think she can beat these International mares.
Q&A: this time the audience is even crazier than the guests
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (10:03am)
2011 - Reader billygee remembers:
===Never a truer prophecy by Peter Hitchens in 2011:2013 - Reader Turtle describes the ABC’s Q&A last night:
“People like me – though still allowed to speak – are allowed on to mainstream national broadcasting only under strict conditions: that we are ‘balanced’ by at least three other people who disagree with us so that our views, actually held by millions, are made to look like an eccentric minority opinion.”
Q&A was at it’s extreme worst tonight. One conservative, Peter Hitchens, Christian conservative and brother of the late Christopher. The rest of the panel - an American feminist who wrote a book called ‘The End of Men’, a gay guy, and Germaine Greer. So of course the three lefties took turns bullying, insulting, talking over, interrupting and laughing at the conservative. The gay spokesman on the panel, Dan Savage, offered this idea: make abortion mandatory for all women for the next 30 years. This was offered as a way to save the planet. Club of Rome style.Reader I Seymour says the audience also clapped Hitchens, but only because he’d fooled them:
They clapped him. There were people in the audience who supported this ...
Peter Hitchens says Jesus Christ most dangerous idea ever created. Audience claps.Reader Ellen says the audience fooled itself:
Tony Jones asks Hitchens to explain why. Hitchens gave his reason: because it gives hope and justice for mankind. Audience does not clap.
The audience were clapping whole-heartedly for gay marriage whenever it was mentioned, however when Germaine Greer stated “marriage is a terrible system” people clapped.Reader James fact-checks one of the guests:
Huh??
Q&A tonight just became a bash and trash Abbott forum which was remarkable given a lot of the trash talk came from ill-informed overseas guests.
One claimed Abbott had said “Women are not physiologically suited to leadership” which got a huge applause and which Tony Jones failed to correct.
Here is what Tony Abbott actually said in a wide ranging discussion about why there was such a huge discrepancy between the number of men and women in very senior positions:
1998: Tony Abbott, at round table that included Michael Costa, then a minister from New South Wales.Abbott was basically positing that the numerical difference is not necessarily because of overt discrimination, but because men tend to chase those positions more than women because women have different priorities and tend to prefer a more balanced life and so on. I know feminists would still not be happy with that, but it is a long way from saying that (and the guest used quote fingers) women are not physiologically suited to leadership.
Tony Abbott: “If it’s true, Stavros, that men have more power, generally speaking, than women, is that a bad thing?”
Costa: “Clearly it’s a bad thing.”
Abbott: “Why is that, Michael?”
Costa: “I want my daughter to have as much opportunity as my son.”
Abbott: “Yeah, I completely agree, but what if men are by physiology or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue commands?”
Costa: “Well see, I don’t believe that. What I do think is that we should never be in a situation where women have got to define their notions of success and self worth by negating a traditional role. But in terms of the power structure I think it’s very hard to deny that there is an under-representation of women.”
Abbott: “But now there’s an assumption that that is a bad thing.”
A history of union bastardry
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (9:45am)
Miranda Devine on some history of the Left too rarely remembered:
===AS the Abbott government begins to take on union power and corruption, a timely new book reveals the union movement’s role in one of the most shameful periods of Australian history…
Perth lawyer Hal Colebatch has done the nation a service with his groundbreaking book, Australia’s Secret War, telling the untold story of union bastardry during World War 2…
One of the most obscene acts occurred in October, 1945, at the end of the war, after Australian soldiers were released from Japanese prison camps. They were half dead, starving and desperate for home. But when the British aircraft-carrier HMS Speaker brought them into Sydney Harbour, the wharfies went on strike. For 36 hours, the soldiers were forced to remain on-board, tantalisingly close to home. This final act of cruelty from their countrymen was their thanks for all the sacrifice.
Colebatch coolly recounts outrage after outrage. There were the radio valves pilfered by waterside workers in Townsville which prevented a new radar station at Green Island from operating.
So when American dive bombers returning from a raid on a Japanese base were caught in an electrical storm and lost their bearings, there was no radio station to guide them to safety. Lost, they ran out of fuel and crashed, killing all 32 airmen…
Almost every major Australian warship was targeted throughout the war, with little intervention from an enfeebled Prime Minister Curtin. There was the deliberate destruction by wharfies of vehicles and equipment, theft of food being loaded for soldiers, snap strikes, go-slows, demands for “danger money” for loading biscuits.
Then there were the coal strikes which pushed down coal production between 1942 and 1945 despite the war emergency…
This is a tale of the worst of Australia amid the best, the valour and courage of our soldiers in New Guinea providing our last line of defence against Japanese, only to be forced onto starvation rations and to “go easy on the ammo” because strikes by the wharfies back home prevented supplies from reaching them…
In Adelaide, American soldiers fired sub-machine guns at wharfies deliberately destroying their aircraft engines by dropping them from great heights…
Colebatch offers various explanations for the treasonous behaviour of the unions. Many of the leaders were Communists obsessed with class warfare. Fervent “identity politics” led them to believe they were victims, and that servicemen and women were “puppets of capitalism whose lives were of no consequence”.
How stupid were we to import this tribal culture?
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (9:35am)
One of the more
disastrous mistakes by those in charge of our immigration intake now
manifests itself almost weekly in Sydney’s west:
===A 13-year-old girl has been shot in the back with a shotgun at their home in Sydney’s west in what police believe was a targeted attack intended for her brother.
The girl was unconscious and bleeding heavily when police and paramedics arrived at the house in Sunnyholt Road in Blacktown on Monday night…
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas ... said detectives were investigating whether the shooting was linked to gang activity in Sydney, including the group Brothers 4 Life.
Last week, Mahmoud Hamzy, the cousin of Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy, was shot dead in Sydney’s south-west, and police at the time were bracing for the possibility of tit-for-tat shootings.
Bacon should resign from this centre of “journalism”
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (7:46am)
Last night I said Wendy Bacon should resign from teaching journalists at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Listen here.
My reasons:
This is promoting not journalism but propaganda.
Bacon’s response on being told of my comments on air?
It is true that Bacon resigned a year ago from formal teaching duties at the university’s Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, something I did not know. But she remains a Professorial Fellow there, and led a group of researchers - including students and budding journalists - in conducting this report on how the media covers global warming:
Reader A adds:
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And note Bacon’s ideological leanings - towards the most authoritarian political party in Parliament:
At least Marr asked journalists to be “sceptical of authority”. Bacon asks them to bow to authority - provided that authority is a warmist scientist.
Some other extracts from Bacon’s pre-election manifesto help explain her hostility to sceptics and the Murdoch papers which refuse to ban them:
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My reasons:
Her new report on media coverage of global warming notes with approval what she describes as a ban by Fairfax newspapers on articles by people sceptical of the so-called “consensus” position on catastrophic man-made warming.Bacon is advocating not reporting but a shutting down of debate. A closing of the mind.
Bacon is critical of News Corp editors for letting me write articles critical of the consensus position.
Bacon’s report devotes pages to criticising my writing on global warming issues without once identifying a mistake. The implication is that my error lies simply having a bad opinion - one that many (but very far from all) climate scientists don’t share.
This is promoting not journalism but propaganda.
Bacon’s response on being told of my comments on air?
This is disingenuous.
It is true that Bacon resigned a year ago from formal teaching duties at the university’s Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, something I did not know. But she remains a Professorial Fellow there, and led a group of researchers - including students and budding journalists - in conducting this report on how the media covers global warming:
Report Author & Director of Project:That gave Bacon a teaching role.
Professor Wendy Bacon (Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, University of Technology, Sydney)…
Researchers:
Nicole Gooch, Katherine Cuttriss, Matthew Johnson, Rachel Sibley, Katerina Lebedev, Joel Rosenveig Holland, Federica Gasparini, Sophia Adams, Marcus Synott, Julia Wylie, Simon Phan & Emma Bacon
Reader A adds:
Reader Anthony adds:Also, listed under teaching areas at UTS for Professor Wendy Bacon:UTS probably need to update their staff listing if they are unaware that Ms Bacon no longer teaches.
Postgraduate and undergraduate media law, journalism studies and investigative journalism;
Supervision Higher degree students;
Supervision Postgraduate Videos.
From the UTS staff record:I don’t think Bacon, teacher of journalists, accurately reports even her own cv.
She produces large group investigations with UTS undergraduate and postgraduate students including Spinning the Media (opens an external site), a study of the extent to which Australian news is driven by public relations.
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And note Bacon’s ideological leanings - towards the most authoritarian political party in Parliament:
I’m voting Green in this election because I’m a journalist.Someone who has been a Professor of Journalism and is still a Professorial Fellow with a journalism faculty believes the natural culture of journalism is a Greens’ one? Where have we heard that kind of arrogant assumption before? Ah, yes, from former ABC Media Watch host David Marr:
The natural culture of journalism is kind of vaguely soft-Left inquiry sceptical of authority. I mean, that’s just the world out of which journalists come. If they don’t come out of that world, they really can’t be reporters. I mean, if you’re not sceptical of authority, find another job. You know, just find another job. And that is kind of a soft-leftie kind of culture.
At least Marr asked journalists to be “sceptical of authority”. Bacon asks them to bow to authority - provided that authority is a warmist scientist.
Some other extracts from Bacon’s pre-election manifesto help explain her hostility to sceptics and the Murdoch papers which refuse to ban them:
I’m voting Green because I disagree with News Corp. At this turning point in our history, we desperately need a voice for progressive policies…
And then there are my other reasons. At the forefront is climate change. It is indeed ‘the moral challenge’ for our generation.
The biggest issue is Palmer’s credibility
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (7:30am)
Clive Palmer last year:
===In one company document last year, he stated: “Under the leadership of Professor Palmer, the Queensland Nickel Group of Companies has been transformed into a profitable and nimble business with a keen eye for growth and diversification opportunities to enhance the Group’s business portfolio. The Queensland Nickel Group is growing and becoming increasingly diversified, with interests in nickel-refining, coal-exploration, tourism and leisure.”Clive Palmer in June:
TONY JONES: Hedley Thomas, ‘The Australian’s reporter, has said he’s raised questions over the financial viability of two of your key companies, the nickel refinery in Townsville is one of them and of course your resort hotel in Coolum. Are they both making big losses as is claimed?Clive Palmer last week:
CLIVE PALMER: No, they’re on track at the moment with the investment we’ve got, that I’m putting in of my money and the results are better than projected.
LEIGH SALES: Is the nickel refinery that you own in North Queensland operating at a profit or loss?Hedley Thomas on Palmer’s nickel business today:
CLIVE PALMER: Profit.
LEIGH SALES: And what is that profit?
CLIVE PALMER: Well we’ll discuss that when we release our accounts, you know. It’s certainly at a profit today and that’s the most important thing.
CLIVE Palmer has pulled his Sunshine Coast tourism resort and dinosaur park from the corporate ownership structure of his failing Queensland nickel refinery, which has been racking up increasingly heavy losses of tens of millions of dollars a year.
The Australian’s searches of documents filed with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission show the ownership changes were made three weeks before the September 7 federal election…
As a result of the changes, the Coolum resort, where Mr Palmer has a house in his federal seat of Fairfax and a venue for his prized dinosaurs and vintage cars, is now legally distanced from the financial woes of the refinery in Townsville. The resort and its adjoining championship golf course, a potentially valuable land-bank near the beach, would not be available to a liquidator or creditors if the refinery collapsed.
The resort’s ongoing losses are a small fraction of those of the refinery, which lost almost $60 million in the financial year to June 30, 2012 - a period when the nickel price was higher than it had been for the past 16 months.
Obama’s poll ratings in search of health care
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (7:22am)
And now US voters get to repent at leisure:
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Why is a dying business giving pay rises with our subsidies?
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (7:17am)
We actually subsidise this golden trough? The Abbott Government is actually contemplating tipping in more?
===HOLDEN workers will receive cash bonuses and annual pay rises worth almost $5 million during the next two months as the carmaker seeks extra taxpayer assistance from the federal government to stave off closure.
The struggling car company, which has received $2.7 billion in subsidies over the past 12 years, including a $275m co-investment package from state and federal governments last year, will have to walk away from a wage freeze it had negotiated with unions in August in an attempt to keep down costs…
An expected delay in Holden’s investment decision whether to remain in Australia will cause an agreed wage freeze to lapse, meaning workers at the company’s South Australian manufacturing plant will receive a 3 per cent pay rise on November 15 ahead of a $1000 cash bonus next month…
Holden managing director Mike Devereux ... has described Australia as being “among the most expensive places to build cars anywhere on the planet”, with $2000 of the $3750 additional cost of building a Holden in Australia attributed to labour costs.
Romney vs Christie continues
Andrew Bolt November 05 2013 (6:59am)
Members of Mitt Romney’s team have paid back Chris Christie by releasing to the authors of Double Down the details of their vetting of him as Romney’s potential running mate:
===The vetters were stunned by the garish controversies lurking in the shadows of his record. There was a 2010 Department of Justice inspector general’s investigation of Christie’s spending patterns in his job prior to the governorship, which criticized him for being “the U.S. attorney who most often exceeded the government [travel expense] rate without adequate justification” and for offering “insufficient, inaccurate, or no justification” for stays at swank hotels like the Four Seasons. There was the fact that Christie worked as a lobbyist on behalf of the Securities Industry Association at a time when Bernie Madoff was a senior SIA official—and sought an exemption from New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act. There was Christie’s decision to steer hefty government contracts to donors and political allies like former Attorney General John Ashcroft, which sparked a congressional hearing. There was a defamation lawsuit brought against Christie arising out of his successful 1994 run to oust an incumbent in a local Garden State race. Then there was Todd Christie, the Governor’s brother, who in 2008 agreed to a settlement of civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission in which he acknowledged making “hundreds of trades in which customers had been systematically overcharged.” (Todd also oversaw a family foundation whose activities and purpose raised eyebrows among the vetters.) And all that was on top of a litany of glaring matters that sparked concern on Myers’ team: Christie’s other lobbying clients, his investments overseas, the YouTube clips that helped make him a star but might call into doubt his presidential temperament, and the status of his health.Not sure that’s a killer to a presidential tilt, actually.
Ted Newton, managing Project Goldfish under Myers, had come into the vet liking Christie for his brashness and straight talk. Now, surveying the sum and substance of what the team was finding, Newton told his colleagues, If Christie had been in the nomination fight against us, we would have destroyed him—he wouldn’t be able to run for governor again. When you look below the surface, Newton said, it’s not pretty.
Why don’t Marxists care about those millions of dead?
Andrew Bolt November 04 2013 (7:26pm)
Glenn Reynolds on the the great forgetting of Marxism’s victims:
===Adherents of Marx at some level must like the mass killings. Perhaps they make them feel powerful.
The worst dribble isn’t the horse’s. We pay a legal service for this
Andrew Bolt November 04 2013 (6:58pm)
First question: why do so many protests involving socialists turn out violent?
Second question: why should we give one dollar more to legal aid services?:
The centre is using money meant to help the very poor:
===Second question: why should we give one dollar more to legal aid services?:
A TAXPAYER-funded law service has been labelled a “disgrace” for launching legal action against a police officer on behalf of a protester who was dribbled on by a police horse and left with a swollen foot at a socialist demonstration.One protester (not necessarily Forbes) tangles with a horse at the protest from 7:05:
Police are outraged at the use of taxpayers’ money and have called the action by the publicly funded Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre - which is also against the State of Victoria - an “outrageous use of taxpayer money”.
A police horse was punched and spooked by a protester as the 100-strong demonstration at the Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre boiled over on May 29, 2011.
Protester Alexander Forbes attended the event, which was organised by Refugee Action Collective Victoria and supported by Socialist Alliance Victoria.
In a writ filed at the County Court of Victoria, Mr Forbes claims he was “salivated” on by a police horse, causing his clothing to become wet.
Mr Forbes was also upset that two people commented on the amount of horse saliva on his clothes following the drooling incident and that the horse stepped on his foot.
The 20-year-old is suing the state, along with fellow protester Mark Ryan.
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The centre is using money meant to help the very poor:
The Chief executive of the legal centre, Anthony Kelly, says ... there is really no safe way to use police horses in a crowd…
Mr Kelly says the legal action is essentially a test case in relation to the use of police horses at demonstrations…
”They’ve being [sic] used as weapons of war...”
Meh, over stated on the Bush connection .. Bush's grandad stopped when it became apparent what Hitler was doing. Unions seemed to like what the Nazis had done, and what the Japanese had done. There is a western concept socialists don't get. It is the idea that a man is responsible for their own actions. Not their families. So at the end of the civil war, General Lee was allowed to live his life. His family was unmolested. His garden was made a graveyard .. Arlington. But, Lee's grand daughter, Harper Lee, wrote "To Kill a Mocking Bird" .. vindicating those who stopped short of eliminating the family behind the deaths of millions in favour of slavery. - ed
What law was broken? Why should it be regulated? Why should police be involved? - ed
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Would you try the Twinkie Burger? Hear from the owner of the Philadelphia restaurant who created it: http://tinyurl.com/mk2nsdo
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So here's my "small" contribution to the Cakenweenie Project...
Meet General Bonesapart...a dwarf Napoleon-inspired skeleton from Corpse Bride. Having never watched the movie before this project, I chose him simply because I thought he would be a challenge to create...plus I really loved his ornate uniform and feathered hat!
He is a cake topper, all hand modelled from fondant. He has wires inside his legs and neck for support and the grey and black shadows were dusted and painted with edible colours for added depth and dimension. The gold piping around his coat and hat was hand piped with royal icing and later painted with edible gold lustre. He stands about 7 inches tall from his teeny tiny feet to his beautiful gold feathered hat!
He really was a challenge to create (his oversized hat gave me so much grief to dry in position!!) but I enjoyed every minute of it! I am so proud and honoured to be a part of this project with so many wonderful cake artists from across the world!
Please visit www.cakenweenie.com to view all 100 edible pieces!! You will be blown away!!
AND please don't feel left out...if you have an edible creation inspired by Tim Burton to share, please submit your photos through the website atwww.cakenweenie.com and your creation could be featured also!! #TimBurton #Cakenweenie
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She did not come here to argue and bicker while her people fought and died for their freedom - ed
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Good Day Sunshine... — at The Golden Gate Bridge.
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In my dream, it is River Tam, Slash and Bender .. ed
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Caroline Glick.
One of the as yet unremarked aspects of Obama's second term foreign policy is that all of his goals are antithetical to Israel's interests.I consider this and related issues in my column in tomorrow's Jerusalem Post, which was just posted online.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Its-time-to-reassess-Israels-strategic-assumptions-330602
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The California Endowment, a private foundation, recently provided a $500,000 grant to ensure TV writers and producers have information about the Affordable Care Act that can be stitched into plot lines watched by millions.
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This is my Melbourne Cup effort for this year.
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Godspeed
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It’s Time to Reassess Israel’s Strategic Assumptions
By CAROLINE B. GLICK “All of Obama’s second term foreign policy goals are harmful to Israel. Everything that is good for Obama is necessarily bad for Israel”
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- 1838 – The collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America began with Nicaragua seceding from the union.
- 1916 – An armed confrontation inEverett, Washington, US, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World resulted in seven deaths.
- 1950 – Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese break-through at Pakchon in the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1983 – Five workers on the Byford Dolphin semi-submersible oil rig (pictured) were killed in an explosive decompression while drilling in the Frigg gas field in theNorth Sea.
- 2003 – American serial killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of first degree murder.
Events[edit]
- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
- 1530 – The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
- 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
- 1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
- 1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
- 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
- 1838 – The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
- 1854 – Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
- 1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
- 1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
- 1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
- 1914 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- 1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
- 1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
- 1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
- 1943 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
- 1945 – Colombia joins the United Nations.
- 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
- 1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
- 1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- 1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
- 1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
- 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
- 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
- 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves theNational Assembly of Pakistan.
- 2003 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.
- 2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
- 2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 29 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation.
Births[edit]
- 1271 – Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- 1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
- 1549 – Philippe de Mornay, French author (d. 1623)
- 1592 – Charles Chauncy, English-American clergyman and educator (d. 1672)
- 1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
- 1615 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1648)
- 1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer (d. 1729)
- 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
- 1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
- 1705 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French composer and violinist (d. 1770)
- 1715 – John Brown, English author (d. 1766)
- 1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English politician (d. 1798)
- 1739 – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish politician and composer (d. 1819)
- 1742 – Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
- 1818 – Benjamin Franklin Butler, American politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
- 1835 – Moritz Szeps, Austrian journalist (d. 1902)
- 1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
- 1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Charles Dupuy, French politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
- 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
- 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
- 1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American politician (d. 1926)
- 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)
- 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player (d. 1935)
- 1878 – Max Ammermann, German rower
- 1879 – Otto Wahle, Austrian swimmer (d. 1963)
- 1881 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1961)
- 1884 – James Elroy Flecker, English author and playwright (d. 1915)
- 1885 – Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
- 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (d. 1961)
- 1889 – Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (d. 1994)
- 1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter (d. 1977)
- 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist (d. 1964)
- 1893 – Raymond Loewy, American industrial designer (d. 1986)
- 1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and author (d. 1960)
- 1895 – Walter Gieseking, French pianist (d. 1956)
- 1895 – Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956)
- 1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
- 1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and revolutionary (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944)
- 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1910 – John Hackett, Australian-English soldier and author (d. 1997)
- 1911 – Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (Sons of the Pioneers) (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967)
- 1913 – John McGiver, American actor (d. 1975)
- 1914 – Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian politician (d. 2007)
- 1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher (d. 1978)
- 1919 – Myron Floren, American accordion player (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Cecil H. Underwood, American politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German journalist (d. 2002)
- 1926 – John Berger, English artist and writer
- 1928 – Donald Madden, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Kings of Rhythm and Ike & Tina Turner) (d. 2007)
- 1932 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
- 1934 – Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Lester Piggott, English jockey
- 1935 – Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and author
- 1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American academic (d. 2001)
- 1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer
- 1937 – Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean jurist, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
- 1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor
- 1938 – Joe Dassin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
- 1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
- 1938 – Jim Steranko, American illustrator and writer
- 1939 – Lobsang Tenzin, Singaporean religious leader, 5th Samdhong Rinpoche
- 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
- 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
- 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
- 1942 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef (d. 2007)
- 1943 – Sam Shepard, American actor and playwright
- 1944 – Carole Nelson Douglas, American author
- 1945 – Peter Pace, American general
- 1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
- 1945 – Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Soviet fencer and coach
- 1946 – Herman Brood, Dutch singer, actor, and painter (d. 2001)
- 1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and International Submarine Band) (d. 1973)
- 1946 – Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player (Help Yourself, Ducks Deluxe, and Man) (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Quint Davis, American director and producer
- 1947 – Rubén Juárez, Argentine singer-songwriter and bandoneón player (d. 2010)
- 1947 – Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Herman's Hermits)
- 1948 – Bob Barr, American politician
- 1948 – Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Van der Graaf Generator)
- 1948 – Hridayananda Dasa Goswami, American guru
- 1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
- 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
- 1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
- 1950 – Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway
- 1950 – James Kennedy, American psychologist
- 1952 – Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
- 1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian physicist
- 1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1953 – Florentino Floro, Filipino judge
- 1953 – Joyce Maynard, American author
- 1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
- 1955 – Kris Jenner, American businesswoman
- 1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist
- 1955 – Nestor Serrano, American actor
- 1957 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American model and actor (d. 1984)
- 1957 – Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and musician (A Flock of Seagulls)
- 1958 – Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Spirits Burning)
- 1958 – Mo Gaffney, American actress and comedian
- 1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor
- 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1959 – Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
- 1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer
- 1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
- 1961 – Entesar Al-Sharah, Kuwaiti actress
- 1961 – Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1961 – Alan G. Poindexter, American naval officer and astronaut (d. 2012)
- 1962 – Abédi Pelé, Ghanaian footballer
- 1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist
- 1963 – Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer
- 1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
- 1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
- 1963 – Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter (Tesla)
- 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer
- 1964 – Helga van Niekerk, South African radio host
- 1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
- 1965 – Kubrat, Prince of Panagyurishte
- 1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer
- 1966 – James Allen, English journalist
- 1966 – Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
- 1966 – Urmas Kirs, Estonian football player and manager
- 1967 – Marcelo D2, Brazilian rapper (Planet Hemp)
- 1967 – Judy Reyes, American actress
- 1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor
- 1968 – Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish actress
- 1969 – Pat Kilbane, American actor and comedian
- 1970 – Javy López, baseball player
- 1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress
- 1971 – Chris Addison, English comedian and actor
- 1971 – Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Jonny Greenwood, English musician, songwriter, and composer (Radiohead)
- 1971 – Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
- 1971 – Rob Jones, English footballer
- 1971 – Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Big Four)
- 1971 – Corin Nemec, American actor
- 1971 – Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
- 1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player
- 1973 – Peter Emmerich, American illustrator
- 1973 – Malcolm Naden, Australian criminal
- 1973 – Danniella Westbrook, English actress
- 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Whiskeytown, The Finger, and Ryan Adams and the Cardinals)
- 1974 – Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter (Arch Enemy)
- 1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
- 1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
- 1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter (Steps)
- 1976 – Sebastian Arcelus, American actor
- 1976 – Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist
- 1976 – Jeff Klein, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (My Jerusalem, The Twilight Singers, and The Gutter Twins)
- 1976 – Samuel Page, American actor
- 1977 – Brittney Skye, American porn actress
- 1977 – Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
- 1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer
- 1979 – Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
- 1979 – Colin Grzanna, German rugby player
- 1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
- 1979 – Keith McLeod, American basketball player
- 1979 – David Suazo, Honduran footballer
- 1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian race car driver
- 1980 – Eva González, Spanish model, Miss Spain 2003
- 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
- 1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
- 1982 – Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Pendulum and Knife Party)
- 1982 – Bryan LaHair, American baseball player
- 1983 – Alexa Chung, English model and television host
- 1983 – Juan Morillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
- 1983 – David Pipe, Welsh footballer
- 1983 – Andrew Hayden-Smith, English actor
- 1984 – Baruto, Estonian sumo wrestler
- 1984 – Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
- 1984 – Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1984 – Nick Folk, American football player
- 1984 – Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- 1984 – Nick Tandy, English racing driver
- 1985 – Michel Butter, Dutch runner
- 1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter (Young Divas)
- 1985 – Alo Dupikov, Estonian footballer
- 1985 – Rimo Hunt, Estonian footballer
- 1986 – Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
- 1986 – BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
- 1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
- 1986 – Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
- 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American singer, guitarist, and actor (Jonas Brothers)
- 1987 – O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
- 1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
- 1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
Deaths[edit]
- 1370 – Casimir III the Great, Polish king (b. 1310)
- 1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
- 1559 – Kano Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476)
- 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary (b. 1591)
- 1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (b. 1599)
- 1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English soldier and politician (b. 1659)
- 1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
- 1752 – Carl Andreas Duker, German jurist and scholar (b. 1670)
- 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian missionary (b. 1686)
- 1828 – Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) (b. 1759)
- 1836 – Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
- 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
- 1923 – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)
- 1928 – Arnold Rothstein, American businessman and gambler (b. 1882)
- 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- 1931 – Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (b. 1866)
- 1933 – Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1884)
- 1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (b. 1856)
- 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
- 1942 – George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, playwright, and composer (b. 1878)
- 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1951 – Reggie Walker, South African runner (b. 1889)
- 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Art Tatum, American pianist (b. 1909)
- 1960 – Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1960 – August Gailit, Estonian author (b. 1891)
- 1960 – Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
- 1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian director and producer (b. 1880)
- 1964 – Buddy Cole, American pianist and orchestra leader (b. 1916)
- 1964 – Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (b. 1893)
- 1968 – Christina Kalogerikou, Greek actress (b. 1885)
- 1971 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 1974 – Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1975 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
- 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
- 1975 – Lionel Trilling, American author and critic (b. 1905)
- 1977 – René Goscinny, French writer and illustrator (b. 1926)
- 1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
- 1981 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual figure (b. 1924)
- 1982 – E. H. Carr, English historian and theorist (b. 1892)
- 1985 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
- 1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
- 1986 – Claude Jutra, [Canadian actor and director (b. 1930)
- 1986 – Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters and The Robins) (b. 1925)
- 1987 – Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)
- 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Czech-English politician (b. 1923)
- 1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 1997 – James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1946)
- 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian historian (b. 1909)
- 1999 – James Goldstone, American film and television director (b. 1931)
- 2000 – Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1899)
- 2000 – Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924)
- 2000 – Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b. 1926)
- 2001 – Roy Boulting, English director and producer (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Milton William Cooper, American broadcaster, author, and activist (b. 1943)
- 2001 – Barry Horne, English activist (b. 1952)
- 2002 – Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936)
- 2003 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor and dancer (b. 1932)
- 2005 – John Fowles, English author (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (b. 1912)
- 2005 – John Rice, American actor (b. 1951)
- 2005 – Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Michael Crichton, American author (b. 1942)
- 2009 – Félix Luna, Argentine historian (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
- 2010 – Henriette van Lynden-Leijten, Dutch diplomat (b. 1950)
- 2010 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano (b. 1931)
- 2010 – Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, Mexican drug lord, co-leader (Gulf Cartel) (b. 1962)
- 2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Joseph Oliver Bowers, Dominican bishop (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Charles V. Bush, American air force officer (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
- 2012 – Stalking Cat, American body modifier (b. 1958)
- 2012 – Leonardo Favio, Argentine actor, singer, director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Bob Kaplan, Canadian politician (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Sikandar Sanam, Pakistani actor and singer (b. 1960)
- 2012 – Jimmy Stephen, Scottish footballer (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Glen Morgan Williams, American judge (b. 1920)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador), and its related observances:
- Kanakadasa Jayanthi (Karnataka)
“He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” 2 Corinthians 3:6NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"For my strength is made perfect in weakness."
2 Corinthians 12:9
2 Corinthians 12:9
A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God's warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, "I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory," defeat is not far distant. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength. He who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned wrongly, for "it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." They who go forth to fight, boasting of their prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and their armour stained with disgrace. Those who serve God must serve him in his own way, and in his strength, or he will never accept their service. That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth he casteth away; he will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love. God will empty out all that thou hast before he will put his own into thee; he will first clean out thy granaries before he will fill them with the finest of the wheat. The river of God is full of water; but not one drop of it flows from earthly springs. God will have no strength used in his battles but the strength which he himself imparts. Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give thee victory. Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
"When I am weak then am I strong,
Grace is my shield and Christ my song."
Evening
"In thy light shall we see light."
Psalm 36:9
Psalm 36:9
No lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart till Jesus himself shall speak within. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Immanuel reveals himself within, the soul sees him not. If you would see the sun, would you gather together the common means of illumination, and seek in that way to behold the orb of day? No, the wise man knoweth that the sun must reveal itself, and only by its own blaze can that mighty lamp be seen. It is so with Christ. "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona:" said he to Peter, "for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee." Purify flesh and blood by any educational process you may select, elevate mental faculties to the highest degree of intellectual power, yet none of these can reveal Christ. The Spirit of God must come with power, and overshadow the man with his wings, and then in that mystic holy of holies the Lord Jesus must display himself to the sanctified eye, as he doth not unto the purblind sons of men. Christ must be his own mirror. The great mass of this blear-eyed world can see nothing of the ineffable glories of Immanuel. He stands before them without form or comeliness, a root out of a dry ground, rejected by the vain and despised by the proud. Only where the Spirit has touched the eye with eye-salve, quickened the heart with divine life, and educated the soul to a heavenly taste, only there is he understood. "To you that believe he is precious;" to you he is the chief corner-stone, the Rock of your salvation, your all in all; but to others he is "a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence." Happy are those to whom our Lord manifests himself, for his promise to such is that he will make his abode with them. O Jesus, our Lord, our heart is open, come in, and go out no more forever. Show thyself to us now! Favour us with a glimpse of thine all-conquering charms.
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 32-33, Hebrews 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 32-33
Jeremiah Buys a Field
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.
3 Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. 4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the Babylonians but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes. 5 He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not succeed.’”
6 Jeremiah said, “The word of the LORD came to me: 7Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative it is your right and duty to buy it.’
8 “Then, just as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself....’
Today's New Testament reading: Hebrews 1
God’s Final Word: His Son
1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
The Son Superior to Angels
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son;
today I have become your Father”?
today I have become your Father”?
Or again,
“I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son”?
and he will be my Son”?
6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.”
7 In speaking of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels spirits,
and his servants flames of fire....”
and his servants flames of fire....”
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Sacar
[Sā'cär] - hired or merchandise.
[Sā'cär] - hired or merchandise.
- Father of Ahiham, one of David's heroes (1 Chron. 11:35). Called Sharar in 2 Samuel 23:33.
- A son of Obed-edom, a Tabernacle gatekeeper in David's time (1 Chron. 26:4).
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