Today, in 1035, a supposed descendant of Rollo, reputed brother of the semi mythical Ragnar Lothbrok, became Duke of Normandy. He was also an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II. The French royal line was also founded on this day in 987, with Hugh Capet crowned. For equivalent US royalty, George Washington committed his only surrender in 1754, and took command of the US army in 1775. But it was a royal stuff up by General Lee to order Pickett's charge at Gettysburgh in 1863. Wasting the lives of 50% of his men in a futile charge. Years later, when interviewed about the cause of the defeat, a confederate officer remarked that the Union forces had a lot to do with it. Touchingly, 50 years later, to the day, opposing forces met and held hands at the high point of the charge. And there is the majesty of royalty, that so many die for the state. But it is no explanation for the deaths of four youths in Israel at the hands of terrorists.
Born on this day in 1943 was Judith Durham, a Seeker. Jim Morrison passed through a door on this day in 1971, and the carnival was over.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
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Matches
- 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
- 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
- 1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
- 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
- 1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
- 1819 – The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
- 1844 – The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
- 1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
- 1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
- 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
- 1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- 1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
- 1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).
- 1938 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
- 1940 – World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
- 1969 – The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
- 1970 – The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
- 1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
- 2013 – 2013 Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president.
Hatches
- 1423 – Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
- 1442 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
- 1590 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist, and composer (d. 1662)
- 1789 – Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (d. 1869)
- 1846 – Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
- 1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-German author (d. 1924)
- 1893 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
- 1921 – François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
- 1928 – Evelyn Anthony, British writer
- 1935 – Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (Fania All-Stars) (d. 2014)
- 1937 – Nicholas Maxwell, British philosopher of science
- 1943 – Judith Durham, Australian singer-songwriter (The Seekers)
- 1947 – Top Topham, English guitarist (The Yardbirds)
- 1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
- 1958 – Didier Mouron, Swiss-Canadian painter
- 1960 – Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly, Erasure, and VCMG)
- 1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-American actress
- 1971 – Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
- 1981 – Aoi Tada, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- 1985 – Keisuke Minami, Japanese actor and singer (PureBoys)
- 1991 – Tomomi Itano, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
- 1991 – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
- 1993 – Roy Kim, Korean singer
- 1997 – Mia Mckenna-Bruce, English child actress
Despatches
- 458 – Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople (b. 449)
- 710 – Zhong Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 656)
- 1642 – Marie de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henri IV of France (b. 1575)
- 1863 – Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
- 1888 – Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1822)
- 1969 – Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
- 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (The Doors and Rick & the Ravens) (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian terrorist, planned the Munich massacre (b. 1937)
DARE NOT SPEAK OF HIM
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:50am)
An unusually-shy Vanessa Badham can’t bring herself to mention a certain name:
I discovered that a male blogger from a rival news organisation had turned me into a bat at a most inopportune time.I was in rehearsals for a theatre production in Hobart …
Not a bad intro, but for frightbat bragging points it can’t beat Elizabeth Farrelly’s “I was in Africa …”
I may be no bat, but I am a tough broad. I came of age in Wollongong, where you can learn through direct observation that police separately bag the parts of a dismembered body after an axe-murder, as I did one sunny morning, on the way past the house of the very dead ex-mayor, Frank Arkell. Your perspective on human cruelty somewhat deepens after moments like that.
Firstly, Arkell’s killer used an ashtray and a lamp rather than an axe. Secondly … what the hell?
Everyone on the internet knows not to feed the trolls. What not everyone may realise is just how well the trolls are fed suggested targets by the “frightbat” blogger and his ilk, and how a silent masthead can lend legitimacy to that persecution.
That’s non-mention two.
Everyone who gets into commentary does so with vigorous eagerness for debate. Our role here is to provoke a conversation.
Here are a few examples of Badham’s gently provocative conversational gambits. It’s just eagerness for debate, people!
To attack 10 women with the ancient stereotypes of “shrieking”, “hysterical” woman-hating betrays to me an obviously gendered problem – not merely of the blogger, or his audience.
Non-mention three.
Whether the dogwhistling is deliberate or not, what possibly motivates a news-blogger to publicly denigrate his female colleagues?
Non-mention four, plus a bizarrely collegial plea from Vanessa, who never, never denigrates her journalistic colleagues, be they male or female. Never.
A decade ago, it would’ve been fanciful to imagine a tabloid commentator could name so many feminists …
That’s now five non-mentions. Vanessa clearly believes me to be some kind of reverse Candyman. If you don’t say his name five times, he won’t appear!
What was actually surprising about the “frightbat” poll was the number of feminist commentators who didn’t appear.
I didn’t say their names five times. Worked a charm.
There are dozens more influential Australian media feminists who meet the political criteria of “frightbat” … Where was Eva Cox, Wendy Harmer, Karen Pickering, Stella Young or Amy Gray? Where the hell was Celeste Liddle, Nareen Young, Nakkiah Lui or Kelly Briggs?
Beats me. Making sandwiches, probably.
One name suggests ten more; the sheer size of this community is perhaps the reason why the “frightbat” poll rebounded on its creator so quickly, with the named “frightbats” campaigning for votes, memes created, hashtags trending within a matter of hours.
Don’t forget your frightbat t-shirts, Vanessa. You know, the ethically sourced t-shirts you made with one of the most sexist, misogynist clothing companies out there. Anyway, this is the headline on Van’s non-naming attempted shaming:
When they call us ‘frightbats’, they make us fair game
I might have used a friendlier, more conversational phrase, but “F--KING SELF SERVING S—TTIPEDES”, “ARSEHOLE KNOB GREASER S--TBUCKET C--T FARM C--T C--TS”, “F--KING IDIOTS”, “F--KING ARSEHOLES”, “STUPID PACK OF C--T ARSEHOLE S--TS”, “ MOTHERF--KER DIMB C--T WANK F--K S--TS”, “MAGGOT F--KING LUNATICS” and “DUMB C--TRAGS” were already taken.
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FOR A START, NO BLUE DRESS
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:44am)
Monica Lewinsky reflects on the media attention following her affair with Bill Clinton:
“To be in the vortex of this media maelstrom was quite alarming, and frightening, and confusing.” Lewinsky said.“I think a lot, too, had to do with the fact that I was a woman.”
Well, of course. The media wouldn’t have had any interest in President Clinton’s affair with a man. Where’s the news value in that?
THEY LOVE (CERTAIN) AMERICANS
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:34am)
This site, last month:
Australian leftists … usually dismiss all US authority until they meet any left-leaning American academic. Then they meekly roll over like so many supplicant client states obeying the great hegemon.
And here’s the latest example. A recent Daily Telegraph editorial dealt with interloper Joseph Stiglitz.
NICK FITZED
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:12am)
SCOTUS BOGUS
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:11am)
Twitter people aren’t very smart.
Beware the cries of “racist”. Some seem fake
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (5:10pm)
Some racism exists, and is vicious. It needs to be fought:
===THE woman filmed unleashing a racist tirade at an Asian commuter on a train to the Central Coast has apologised for her behaviour.Other cries of “racism” are far more suspicious, and seem more a tactic to gain advantage:
The clip shows the woman, identified as 55-year-old Sue Wilkins, harassing children and making racist remarks at an Asian woman ... and a man who stood up for her.
“Who is this little jerk off he can only get a gook, he can’t even get a regular girlfriend — it is so sad,” she said.
“Is it really that small that you can’t get an Aussie girl? Poor man. Look at this bogan he has got a gook — look at it. She probably thinks he is rich.”
OWNERS of a Melbourne restaurant are fuming at being branded racist over the treatment of a customer and are considering legal action for defamation.It is not the first time I’ve thought the anti-racism movement is underpinned by racism, from the insistence on racial division and the creation even of Aboriginal courts to the hatred of our Western civilisation and history.
Their legal plans come as the African-Australian woman at the centre of the claims, which were published in The Age, has openly admitted that she hates white people.
The comments made by Tabotu Teklemariam, 21, on social media emerged after she claims she was turned away from Melbourne’s Il Pom restaurant for racial reasons.
“I’m going to bring you whites so down you wouldn’t know what’s coming,” Ms Teklemariam told social media followers on June 22.
“I don’t care if you think I’m being a racist cause (sic) I’ll openly admit it, I hate whites with a passion.”
Ms Teklemariam later apologised for the comments describing them as a single mistake in a “heated” moment, and vowed to continue her fight against racism.
A report published in The Age described Ms Teklemariam’s humiliation at being “attacked for being black” at the restaurant last Friday.
But Il Pom said it was 9.30pm when the woman and her boyfriend sat down and the kitchen was closed…
In a Facebook post last year, referring to an ABC report on DNA evidence about Europeans’ heritage, [Ms Teklemariam] wrote that Africans are “pure” and that “everybody outside of Africa is a mongrel”.
If Palestinians celebrate child-murder, they are not fit for a nation
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (3:18pm)
Bret Stephens says the culture of many Palestinians make them unfit for statehood:
UPDATE
It is too early to claim the Palestinian youth was the victim of Jews:
UPDATE
Police suspect the revenge motive:
===IN March 2004 a Palestinian teenager named Hussam Abdo was spotted by Israeli soldiers behaving suspiciously as he approached the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank. Ordered at gunpoint to raise his sweater, the startled boy exposed a suicide vest loaded with nearly 8kg of explosives and metal scraps, constructed to maximise carnage....An allegation:
“I blame those who gave him the explosive belt,” his mother, Tamam, told The Jerusalem Post, of which I was then the editor. “He’s a small child who can’t even look after himself.”
Yet asked how she would have felt if her son had been a bit older, she added this: “If he was over 18, that would have been possible, and I might have even encouraged him to do it.” ...
I’ve often thought about Mrs Abdo, and I’m thinking about her as I hear on the news that the bodies of three Jewish teenagers, kidnapped on June 12, have been found near the city of Hebron…
What about their killers?… Less innocent was the view offered by Abu Aysha’s mother.
“They’re throwing the guilt on him by accusing him of kidnapping,” she told Israel’s Channel 10 news. “If he did the kidnapping, I’ll be proud of him."…
Here’s my question: What kind of society produces such mothers? Whence come the women who cheer on their boys to blow themselves up or murder the children of their neighbours?…
I just have yet to meet the Israeli mother who wants to raise her boys to become kidnappers and murderers — and who isn’t afraid of saying as much to visiting journalists…
As for the Palestinians and their inveterate sympathisers in the West, perhaps they should note that a culture that too often openly celebrates martyrdom and murder is not fit for statehood, and that making excuses for that culture only makes it more unfit.
Tensions mounted in Jerusalem as a local Palestinian teenager was found dead early Wednesday in what some fear may have been a reprisal attack for the killing of three Jewish Israeli teenagers abducted in the West Bank..Even assuming this is the work of Jews, where is the mother boasting that her son is a murderer? Where is the celebration of the killing? Every society has its killers and misfits. It’s health is measured by how it reacts to them - by denouncing or honouring.
The burned body of the victim, identified by family members and police as 17-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair from the Palestinian neighborhood of Shuafat in north Jerusalem, was found in a forested area west of the city.
Police began searching for the teen after his family reported him missing when he hadn’t come home early Wednesday morning, Israeli media reported. Separately, police received a call from friends who said that the teen was forcefully shoved into a car.
UPDATE
It is too early to claim the Palestinian youth was the victim of Jews:
Though the cause of death remains unknown, Rosenfeld said the boy’s body sustained significant burn marks. The spokesman added that police are also investigating previous kidnap attempts of members of the family to which the victim belonged, stemming from a personal dispute…The ABC, of course, is giving the “revenge” attack angle a lot of play.
Speaking to Arutz Sheva on condition of anonymity, A senior retired police official noted that the family of the murdered 16-year-old was well known to police sources in Jerusalem, adding “it’s a problematic family with internal clashes that have been ongoing for many years. I have no doubt that as time passes it will be clarified that the murder was criminal and nothing more.”
UPDATE
Police suspect the revenge motive:
Israeli police have become increasingly convinced that 16-year-old Jerusalem resident Muhammad Abu Khdeir was murdered Wednesday morning as revenge for the killing of three kidnapped Israeli teens, officials said Wednesday evening.(Thanks to reader David.)
According to the testimony of local residents, Abu Khdeir was seen being forced into a car by three Israelis in East Jerusalem late Tuesday…
Security camera footage from the scene of Abu Khdeir’s kidnapping strengthened investigators’ suspicions that Jewish extremists snatched the teen, Channel 2 reported.
Police are still looking into the possibility of a criminal motive for the attack, or even an honor killing, but sources told Channel 10 that the family has no criminal history.
The sources also said rumors claiming that Abu Khdeir was killed because he was gay, or because he’d had sexual encounters with local girls, are baseless.
Why is Labor cuddling up to a union like the CFMEU?
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (10:29am)
The bruvvers at work:
===A Melbourne developer has accused Victoria’s powerful construction union of demanding he employ union boss John Setka’s brother-in-law and his best friend on $70,000 a year jobs in return for securing industrial peace.Setka and the union deny impropriety.
Fairfax Media obtained CCTV and other recordings, along with an interview with Peter Chiavaroli, a builder and developer of the old Pentridge prison site in Coburg, which provide an insight into the backroom dealings of union officials, figures aligned with Melbourne’s underworld and bikies.
The royal commission into trade union corruption is likely to examine these activities at hearings into the CFMEU in Melbourne next week, including evidence that:
- Victorian Labor Party official and industrial consultant Ken Hardy allegedly told Mr Chiavaroli to work with gangland boss and union fixer Mick Gatto.
- Underworld associate Mario Amenta saying he was dispatched by Mr Setka to “sort out” problems on the old Pentridge prison site.
- Union officials abused non-union workers, employers were pressured to “give a kicking” to non-union members, and Mr Setka describing one as a “f---ing dog, Turkish painting piece of shit”.
- Subcontractors threatening to use Comanchero bikies to collect a disputed debt.
The Pentridge allegations add to previous claims by building companies Boral and Grocon and industry whistleblowers that the CFMEU threatens companies unless they cede to union demands, and will increase pressure on Labor leader Daniel Andrews over Labor’s close ties to the union.
The Liberals should buy their advertising at Woolies
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (10:18am)
How come the TV ad with the best conservative message about the dignity of work is put out by Woolworths and not the Liberals?
===Scott Morrison could be a week away from sealing the deal on his boats triumph
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (9:47am)
The Abbott Government faces a great challenge - but also a great opportunity - with the two boats from India and Sri Lanka:
There is also this difficulty: that the Government probably cannot return to Sri Lanka any of the Tamils who actually left from India, although this admittedly confused reference in reports today suggests some of those on boat the vessel which sailed from Pondicherry may actually have joined it from Sri Lanka:
But…
But activists haven’t heard from the boats since the weekend. That already suggests the boat people have had their phones confiscated by the navy and are being returned, not brought to Christmas Island.
If this is done, the message sent to people smugglers will be powerful. That message: even if you sail from Sri Lanka or India, you will not succeed. Those on board will have risked plenty and spent a lot for zero result.
I’d suggest that some time next week immigration Minister Scott Morison will have a new success to announce that will seal the deal on the government’s boat policy.
===The Australian understands the transfer of as many as 50 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers, intercepted by Australian authorities near Cocos Islands at the weekend, will take place in international waters, though closer to Sri Lanka’s extended economic zone.Returning the passengers will not be easy, given the distance and given, too, that India does not as yet have a history of cooperation on boat returns.
The Sri Lankan navy’s official spokesman, Commodore Kosila, confirmed late on Tuesday that a Sri Lankan asylum boat had been intercepted and would be transferred into Sri Lankan custody, though he would not confirm how, or where, the handover would take place.
But another senior Sri Lankan navy official said yesterday: “They expect to rendezvous tomorrow...”
The whereabouts of as many as 153 asylum-seekers on board a second boat [from India] spotted near Christmas Island last Friday, is unknown.
There is also this difficulty: that the Government probably cannot return to Sri Lanka any of the Tamils who actually left from India, although this admittedly confused reference in reports today suggests some of those on boat the vessel which sailed from Pondicherry may actually have joined it from Sri Lanka:
Indian authorities have confirmed that a fishing trawler containing an estimated 153 Tamil refugees left the Indian union territory of Pondicherry on June 13 bound for Australia.Meanwhile the Left are gearing up for a huge fuss over these boats. It’s their best chance in months to destroy the Abbott Government’s so-far successful policy to stop the boats.
Authorities believe the 25-metre long vessel was being piloted by a former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam naval commander with the expertise necessary to navigate a direct route to Australia, bypassing other countries such as Indonesia.
It is understood that after leaving India, the trawler rendezvoused with a boat from Sri Lanka at which point the remainder of passengers joined the vessel.
But…
But activists haven’t heard from the boats since the weekend. That already suggests the boat people have had their phones confiscated by the navy and are being returned, not brought to Christmas Island.
If this is done, the message sent to people smugglers will be powerful. That message: even if you sail from Sri Lanka or India, you will not succeed. Those on board will have risked plenty and spent a lot for zero result.
I’d suggest that some time next week immigration Minister Scott Morison will have a new success to announce that will seal the deal on the government’s boat policy.
Why Friends of the ABC shouldn’t give a Gonski about Albrechtsen’s appointment
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (8:43am)
Hyperventilation by the Guardian and (Left-wing-Only-Please) Friends of the ABC:
If Gonski, active in political business with Labor and active in commercial business with a Labor leader’s wife, can be trusted to act impartially then so can Albrechtsen and Brown.
Besides, given that overwhelmingly Leftist bias of the ABC, can it seriously be argued that there is no need of a rebalancing?
By the way, note that these appointments are made by Abbott’s department and not Malcolm Turnbull’s.
(Thanks to reader johnthepom.)
===The Abbott government has installed the conservative commentator Janet Albrechtsen and the former Liberal politician Neil Brown to the nomination panel that appoints board members to the ABC and the SBS.Strange that the Friends of the ABC never complained about Labor’s appointment of Gonski to the same panel, given Gonski was chairman of the company owned by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s wife and was appointed by Labor to design Labor’s spend-spend-spend “Gonski reforms”.
Albrechtsen, a columnist for the Australian newspaper and a former member of the ABC board, is a vocal critic of the ABC and recently called for its managing director, Mark Scott, to resign.
Brown has called for the ABC to be privatised and has labelled the ABC’s news and current affairs coverage as having “an endemic lack of objectivity and balance"…
Along with two other panellists, Albrechtsen and Brown will now decide who gets to sit on the public broadcasting boards until June 2017.
A spokeswoman for the Friends of the ABC, Glenys Stradijot, said the decision to appoint the pair had totally undermined the integrity of the ABC board appointment process…
“It appears we are in for a return to the bad old days when the Howard government stacked the ABC’s governing board with its political supporters.”
If Gonski, active in political business with Labor and active in commercial business with a Labor leader’s wife, can be trusted to act impartially then so can Albrechtsen and Brown.
Besides, given that overwhelmingly Leftist bias of the ABC, can it seriously be argued that there is no need of a rebalancing?
By the way, note that these appointments are made by Abbott’s department and not Malcolm Turnbull’s.
(Thanks to reader johnthepom.)
Palmer is tearing down everyone, Abbott included
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (8:35am)
Niki Savva on Tony Abbott, trampled by a Palmersaurus:
===Normally, governments dictate agendas and messages. Not now. This one is hostage to a beast, a Palmersaurus, and when one of the main stories out of the first Liberal federal council meeting post magnificent victory is a public tiff involving two of Tony Abbott’s closest colleagues, George Brandis and Christopher Pyne (ostensibly over party rules, but really over the re-election of Tom Harley as party vice-president, whom the Prime Minister and Education Minister failed to dislodge) it has all got too weird…
Stepping off a plane on Thursday night to be confronted by news footage of a joint appearance by Clive Palmer and Al Gore was like crossing over into the Twilight Zone… Palmer as usual was having a lend of everyone, doing his sick PUPpy act, pretending to support things he believes will never happen…
It must be so liberating for a politician to feel free to treat everyone like mugs. His debasing influence on the body politic is such that no one — not Abbott, not Bill Shorten, not even Christine Milne — is game to criticise him over reports of dubious business practices and erratic behaviour. He has bought political immunity with the votes he controls.
Palmer’s antics suck up political oxygen, so that it matters little what the Prime Minister says or does…
Palmer ... has usurped Shorten as Opposition Leader, although Shorten is benefiting temporarily from the lack of scrutiny, but right now it is Abbott who is suffering the most.
People have a mental picture of prime ministers which Abbott was already struggling to fill. Palmer has made Abbott’s task that much harder by smothering him. Palmer disses Abbott and rubs his nose in his dependence.
These boats are just part of an armada
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (7:41am)
THE Greens this week proved they’ve learned nothing about asylum seekers and the lethal cost of “kindness” to them — particularly children.
Our Navy on the weekend intercepted a boat that left India with 153 Tamils on board.
India, a stable democracy with a free press and the rule of law, should not be a source of a single refugee. Any Tamils there, including those who left Sri Lanka, are safe and do not need to flee to Australia.
So this boatload of alleged “asylum seekers” actually seems part of a vast movement of people travelling from poor countries to rich ones in the West in search of wealth, and the Abbott Government is right to try to negotiate their instant return.
The Government is even more correct to be militant in stopping boats. Around the world, Western countries are finding their borders under siege from poor immigrants like never before — well, not since the cataclysmic migration of German tribes into the Roman Empire.
The US now has more than 25,000 Latinos illegally crossing over every month, twice the rate of last year. It already has around 11 million undocumented or illegal immigrants, mostly Latinos likely to form another underclass.
(Read full article here.)
See no jihadists, speak of no jihadists
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (7:38am)
GOOD news. Six imams on Wednesday told the federal Attorney-General they would help stop Muslims joining terror groups.
But just six?
Finding apologists of Islamist extremism is easier, and they aren’t all Muslim. Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, for instance, invited a Muslim radical to give a lecture titled “Honour killings are morally justified”.
And 3AW broadcaster Neil Mitchell was last week asked by a caller why he didn’t mention Islam in discussing Iraq.
(Read full article here.)
===But just six?
Finding apologists of Islamist extremism is easier, and they aren’t all Muslim. Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, for instance, invited a Muslim radical to give a lecture titled “Honour killings are morally justified”.
And 3AW broadcaster Neil Mitchell was last week asked by a caller why he didn’t mention Islam in discussing Iraq.
(Read full article here.)
The madness of the warmist Age
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (6:02am)
Terry McCrann on the madness of The Age
- captured in a single sentence - when it finally figured Clive
Palmer’s plan for an emissions trading scheme came with impossible
conditions:
===.... its lament was that such a scheme would have no effect because there’d be no price on carbon until Australia’s major trading partners implemented their own schemes.
Then the sentence: “That might occur next year, next decade, or never.”
A rational sentient human being would have then said; exactly, and thank you Clive. For there is absolutely no point in Australia going down the aggressive ETS path, cutting our emissions of carbon dioxide, unless precisely our major trading partners were doing the same.
To argue otherwise is to argue for Australia to unilaterally hurt both its industries and its citizens, to send industries and jobs to ‘our major trading partners,’ for absolutely no point. Our pain would have not the slightest effect on the global or even the local climate.
That lamenting sentence is so revealing; that to The Age rationality has absolutely nothing to do with the issue. It is all about religious fervour.
Quite irrespective of what the world does, quite irrespective of whether our CO2 cuts would achieve anything at all, we have to cut; we have to flagellate like a 12th century penitent, to exculpate our sins, to pay penance to Gaia.
The sentence is deeply revealing on another level. For The Age is also admitting that in its collective hearts of hearts, it really knows that the operative word in that sentence is “never”.
Could Sulayman just fight Cerantonio in a cage match?
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (12:10am)
The only good thing about these crazies is that they’re no longer living here - and are now more interested in killing each other:
===AN Australian spiritual leader of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organisation in Syria has slammed fellow Sunni group the Islamic State, denouncing it for “breaching Islam” in its claim to have established a caliphate.
Sheik Abu Sulayman, a 30-year-old from southwest Sydney who now serves as a senior sharia official for the al-Qa’ida group, said the “proclamation” of a caliphate — an Islamic state — may be used by to justify killing other Sunnis.
The warning comes as another influential Australian cleric, self-described Islamic State “soldier” Musa Cerantonio, said he was about to enter the war zone.
Both Sheik Sulayman — whose real name is Mostafa Mahamed — and Mr Cerantonio, 29, were prominent speakers in Australia and were regulars at Sydney’s al-Risalah Islamic centre.
Sheik Sulayman accused Islamic State — formerly known as ISIS — of “stealing the right” of senior Islamic figures to be consulted on the establishment of a caliphate in Syria… “Only difference I see is there is a stronger ‘Islamic’ justification for them to kill Muslims. Stealing the right of the scholars … (and) the leaders to be consulted is a clear breach of Islam!”
Ricky Muir’s new minder
Andrew Bolt July 02 2014 (9:05pm)
Ricky Muir has a
strange choice of staffer - a man I saw today actually pushing his
“boss” in the back to get him to the doors of Parliament:
===Peter Breen, ... a human rights and media defamation lawyer, entered the NSW upper house in 1999, representing the Reform the Legal System party before joining Labor from the crossbench in 2006.
Just 74 days later, then premier Morris Iemma dumped him from Labor after a media storm erupted over comments Mr Breen had made in a book he was writing about feeling a compassionate ‘’form of love’’ for one of the three killers convicted of the rape and murder of Cronulla bank teller Janine Balding.
Mr Breen has fought for years to overturn the life without parole sentences for the killers - one as young as 14 years old - who were locked up in 1990 and remain behind bars.
During his time in Parliament, Mr Breen also protested the innocence of Phuong Ngo, the man convicted of murdering state MP John Newman.
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God can use a crisis or a time of confusion to result in a blessing! What the enemy meant for bad, God can turn it around for good!
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Three years ago today, the faceless men installed Julia Gillard as PM. That decision exposed the deep division and dysfunction in Labor, as well as the chaos and division that existed under Kevin Rudd.
But it does not have to be this way.
The Coalition’s Real Solutions plan will deliver a strong, prosperous economy and a safe secure Australia. You can read Our Plan here:http://lbr.al/hro - and please share with your friends.
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===Don Kramer's status.
- 324 – Roman emperor Constantine the Greatdefeated former colleague Licinius in the Battle of Adrianople.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washingtonsurrendered Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania, the only military surrender in his entire career.
- 1844 – The last known pair of great auks, the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, were killed in Eldey, off the coast of Iceland.
- 1940 – Second World War: The British Navy attacked the French fleet(French destroyer Mogador pictured), fearing that the ships would fall into German hands after the armistice between those two nations.
- 1970 – The Troubles: The British Army imposed the Falls Curfew onBelfast, Northern Ireland, which only resulted in greater Irish republican resistance.
Events[edit]
- 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
- 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
- 1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
- 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
- 1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
- 1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
- 1819 – The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
- 1839 – The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
- 1844 – The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
- 1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
- 1849 – The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
- 1852 – Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
- 1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
- 1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
- 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
- 1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- 1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
- 1898 – Spanish–American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
- 1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
- 1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).
- 1938 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
- 1940 – World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
- 1944 – World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
- 1952 – The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.
- 1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
- 1969 – The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
- 1970 – The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
- 1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
- 1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over theBosphorus.
- 1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
- 2013 – 2013 Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president.
Births[edit]
- 1423 – Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
- 1442 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
- 1518 – Li Shizhen, Chinese physician (d. 1593)
- 1530 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
- 1590 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist, and composer (d. 1662)
- 1676 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1747)
- 1685 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal (d. 1768)
- 1728 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect, designed Culzean Castle (d. 1792)
- 1738 – John Singleton Copley, American-English painter (d. 1815)
- 1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (d. 1813)
- 1789 – Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (d. 1869)
- 1846 – Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
- 1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
- 1860 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (d. 1935)
- 1866 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1906)
- 1869 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (d. 1933)
- 1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
- 1874 – Jean Collas, French rugby player (d. 1928)
- 1875 – Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
- 1876 – Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (d. 1957)
- 1878 – George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1942)
- 1879 – Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
- 1880 – Carl Schuricht, Polish-German conductor (d. 1967)
- 1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-German author (d. 1924)
- 1886 – Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (d. 1969)
- 1888 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
- 1893 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
- 1896 – Doris Lloyd, English actress (d. 1968)
- 1900 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
- 1901 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (d. 1953)
- 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1992)
- 1906 – Jack Earle, American actor (d. 1952)
- 1906 – George Sanders, Russian-English actor and singer (d. 1972)
- 1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American author (d. 1992)
- 1908 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1954)
- 1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist (d. 1965)
- 1916 – John Kundla, American basketball player and coach
- 1917 – João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, coach, manager, and journalist (d. 1990)
- 1918 – S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1974)
- 1919 – Gerald W. Thomas, American academic (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (d. 1978)
- 1921 – Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
- 1921 – François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
- 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter (d. 2010)
- 1924 – S. R. Nathan, Singaporean politician, 6th president of Singapore
- 1926 – Johnny Coles, American trumpet player (d. 1997)
- 1927 – Ken Russell, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2011)
- 1928 – Evelyn Anthony, British writer
- 1928 – Roger Horchow, American producer and publisher
- 1929 – Clément Perron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1929 – Béatrice Picard, Canadian actress
- 1930 – Pete Fountain, American clarinet player
- 1930 – Carlos Kleiber, German-Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Tommy Tedesco, American guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1931 – Frits Helmuth, Danish actor (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman
- 1933 – Edward Brandt, Jr., American physician and mathematician (d. 2007)
- 1935 – Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (Fania All-Stars) (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American geologist, astronaut, and politician
- 1936 – Anthony Lester, British barrister and politician
- 1936 – Baard Owe, Norwegian-Danish actor
- 1937 – Nicholas Maxwell, British philosopher of science
- 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-English playwright and screenwriter
- 1938 – Jean Aitchison, British linguist
- 1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German soprano and director
- 1939 – László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Hungary
- 1939 – Coco Laboy, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1940 – Lamar Alexander, American politician, 5th United States Secretary of Education
- 1940 – Fontella Bass, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
- 1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Polish engineer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Poland
- 1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1941 – Gloria Allred, American lawyer
- 1942 – Eddy Mitchell, French singer-songwriter and actor (Les Chaussettes Noires)
- 1942 – Paco Stanley, Mexican actor (d. 1999)
- 1943 – Judith Durham, Australian singer-songwriter (The Seekers)
- 1943 – Kurtwood Smith, American actor
- 1944 – Michel Polnareff, French singer-songwriter
- 1944 – Paul Young, Scottish actor
- 1945 – Michael Cole, American actor
- 1945 – Robert Crawford, British historian
- 1945 – Iain MacDonald-Smith, British sailor
- 1945 – Michael Martin, Scottish politician
- 1945 – Saharon Shelah, Israeli mathematician
- 1946 – Johnny Lee, American singer and guitarist
- 1946 – Leszek Miller, Polish politician, 10th Prime Minister of Poland
- 1946 – Michael Shea, American author (d. 2014)
- 1946 – Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
- 1947 – Dave Barry, American journalist and author
- 1947 – Adrian Bird, English geneticist
- 1947 – Betty Buckley, American actress and singer
- 1947 – Top Topham, English guitarist (The Yardbirds)
- 1948 – Paul Barrere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Little Feat)
- 1948 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish author and illustrator
- 1948 – Stephen Pound, English politician
- 1949 – Jan Smithers, American actress
- 1949 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
- 1949 – Susan Penhaligon, British actress
- 1949 – Bo Xilai, Chinese politician
- 1949 – John Verity, English guitarist with Argent
- 1950 – Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer
- 1950 – James Hahn, American politician and judge, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
- 1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti
- 1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
- 1952 – Andy Fraser, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Free, Sharks, and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
- 1952 – Amit Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and director
- 1952 – Rohinton Mistry, Indian-Canadian author
- 1954 – Franny Billingsley, American author
- 1955 – Barry Purves, English director, animator, and screenwriter
- 1955 – Claude Rajotte, Canadian radio and television host
- 1955 – Amy Wallace, American author (d. 2013)
- 1956 – Vincent Margera, American television personality
- 1956 – Montel Williams, American actor and talk show host
- 1957 – Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2004)
- 1957 – Ken Ober, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2009)
- 1958 – Lisa De Leeuw, American porn actress (d. 1993)
- 1958 – Matthew Fraser, Canadian-English journalist and academic
- 1958 – Charlie Higson, English actor, singer, and author (The Higsons)
- 1958 – Siân Lloyd, Welsh journalist
- 1958 – Didier Mouron, Swiss-Canadian painter
- 1958 – Aaron Tippin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1959 – Julie Burchill, English journalist and author
- 1959 – Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer
- 1959 – Stephen Pearcy, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Ratt, Arcade, Vertex, and Vicious Delite)
- 1959 – David Shore, Canadian screenwriter and producer
- 1959 – Graham Roberts, English footballer
- 1960 – Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly, Erasure, and VCMG)
- 1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
- 1961 – Tim Smith, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer (Cardiacs, The Sea Nymphs, Spratleys Japs, and Panixphere)
- 1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor and producer
- 1962 – Thomas Gibson, American actor
- 1962 – Hugh Page, South African cricketer
- 1962 – Hunter Tylo, American actress
- 1963 – Tracey Emin, English painter and photographer
- 1964 – Joanne Harris, English author
- 1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-American actress
- 1965 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
- 1965 – Connie Nielsen, Danish-American actress
- 1965 – Komsan Pohkong, Thai lawyer and a member of Thai Constitution Drafting Committee 2007
- 1966 – Moisés Alou, Dominican-American baseball player
- 1967 – Brian Cashman, American businessman
- 1967 – Katy Clark, Scottish politician
- 1967 – Spiros Marangos, Greek footballer
- 1968 – Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo-Albanian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo
- 1968 – Aku Louhimies, Finnish director and screenwriter
- 1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian singer and keyboard player (Barenaked Ladies, Rheostatics, and Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle)
- 1970 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
- 1970 – Audra McDonald, American actress and singer
- 1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish-American ice hockey player
- 1970 – Shawnee Smith, American actress and singer (Smith & Pyle)
- 1971 – Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
- 1972 – Warren Furman, English-American actor
- 1972 – Tõnu Samuel, Estonian computer programmer
- 1973 – Emma Cunniffe, English actress
- 1973 – Ólafur Stefánsson, Icelandic handball player
- 1973 – Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1973 – Patrick Wilson, American actor and singer
- 1976 – Andrea Barber, American actress
- 1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1976 – Shane Lynch, Irish singer-songwriter and actor (Boyzone)
- 1976 – Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1976 – Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1976 – Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean-South African rugby player
- 1977 – David Bowens, American football player
- 1978 – Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese runner
- 1979 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
- 1980 – Mazharul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2013)
- 1980 – Jenny Jones, English snowboarder
- 1980 – Olivia Munn, American actress
- 1980 – Boštjan Nachbar, Slovenian basketball player
- 1980 – Roland Schoeman, South African swimmer
- 1980 – Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
- 1980 – Kid Sister, American rapper
- 1980 – Giorgos Theodoridis, Greek footballer
- 1981 – Aoi Tada, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- 1981 – Justin Torkildsen, American actor
- 1982 – Kanika, Indian actress and singer
- 1983 – Steph Jones, American singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Matt Papa, American singer-songwriter
- 1983 – Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
- 1984 – Satomi Hanamura, Japanese actress
- 1984 – Manny Lawson, American football player
- 1984 – Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1984 – Nicolas Roche, Irish cyclist
- 1984 – Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
- 1985 – Dean Cook, English actor
- 1985 – Keisuke Minami, Japanese actor and singer (PureBoys)
- 1986 – Marco Antônio de Mattos Filho, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Greg Paulus, American basketball and football player
- 1987 – Chad Broskey, American actor
- 1987 – Chris Hunter, American actor
- 1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German race car driver
- 1988 – Winston Reid, New Zealand-Danish footballer
- 1988 – Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater
- 1988 – James Troisi, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Godfrey Walusimbi, Ugandan footballer
- 1990 – Nathan Gardner, Australian rugby player
- 1990 – Bobby Hopkinson, English footballer
- 1990 – Lucas Mendes, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 – Tomomi Itano, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
- 1991 – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
- 1991 – Grant Rosenmeyer, American actor
- 1992 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress and singer
- 1992 – Molly Sandén, Swedish singer and voice actress
- 1992 – Maasa Sudo, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo)
- 1993 – Roy Kim, Korean singer
- 1997 – Mia Mckenna-Bruce, English child actress
Deaths[edit]
- 458 – Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople (b. 449)
- 710 – Zhong Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 656)
- 1570 – Aonio Paleario, Italian reformer (b. 1500)
- 1642 – Marie de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henri IV of France (b. 1575)
- 1672 – Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (b. 1635)
- 1749 – William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
- 1778 – Anna Maria Mozart, Austrian mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
- 1790 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist (b. 1736)
- 1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French scholar (b. 1714)
- 1795 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, explorer, author, and astronomer, 1st Colonial Governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
- 1809 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
- 1863 – George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
- 1863 – Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
- 1888 – Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1822)
- 1904 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist (b. 1860)
- 1904 – Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
- 1908 – Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)
- 1916 – Hetty Green, American financier (b. 1834)
- 1918 – Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1844)
- 1921 – James Mitchel, Irish-American weight thrower (b. 1864)
- 1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian educator and politician, 19th President of Argentina (b. 1852)
- 1935 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded the Citroën Company (b. 1878)
- 1937 – Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (b. 1877)
- 1940 – Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan politician, Mayor of Chișinău (b. 1882)
- 1941 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician, Head of State of Estonia (b. 1871)
- 1943 – Walter Thijssen, Dutch rower (b. 1877)
- 1954 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
- 1957 – Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
- 1960 – Noël Bas, French gymnast (b. 1877)
- 1965 – Trigger, American horse (b. 1932)
- 1966 – Leonie Taylor, American acting archer (b. 1870)
- 1969 – Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
- 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (The Doors and Rick & the Ravens) (b. 1943)
- 1974 – John Crowe Ransom, American poet (b. 1888)
- 1977 – Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1891)
- 1978 – James Daly, Polish-American actor (b. 1918)
- 1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
- 1981 – Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)
- 1985 – Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1893)
- 1986 – Rudy Vallée, American singer, saxophonist, and actor (b. 1901)
- 1989 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician (b. 1918)
- 1993 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1936)
- 1994 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
- 1995 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
- 1996 – Raaj Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
- 1997 – Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Mexican drug lord (b. 1956)
- 1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer (b. 1949)
- 1999 – Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Morphine and Treat Her Right) (b. 1952)
- 2000 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
- 2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
- 2001 – Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
- 2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, Italian archbishop (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1929)
- 2005 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Pierre Michelot, French bassist (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Gaylord Nelson, American politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language (b. 1941)
- 2006 – Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
- 2007 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Ernie Cooksey, English footballer (b. 1980)
- 2008 – Larry Harmon, American clown (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Clive Hornby, English actor (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler, composer, and producer (b. 1956)
- 2009 – John Keel, American journalist and author (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian terrorist, planned the Munich massacre (b. 1937)
- 2011 – Ali Bahar, Bahraini singer and guitarist (Al Ekhwa) (b. 1960)
- 2012 – Nguyen Huu Co, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Hugó Gruber, Hungarian actor (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Yvonne B. Miller, American politician (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer and politician (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Hollie Stevens, American porn actress (b. 1982)
- 2012 – Richard Alvin Tonry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Roman Bengez, Slovenian footballer and manager (b. 1964)
- 2013 – Ryan Davis, American journalist (b. 1979)
- 2013 – Azelio Manzetti, Italian chaplain (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Maria Pasquinelli, Italian murderer (b. 1913)
- 2013 – Francis Ray, American author (b. 1944)
- 2013 – PJ Torokvei, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Radu Vasile, Romanian politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Bernard Vitet, French trumpet player (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1948)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Germanus of Man
- Latest day on which Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary can fall, while May 30 is the earliest; celebrated 20 days after Pentecost. (Catholic Church)
- Heliodorus of Altino
- Mucian
- Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople
- Pope Leo II
- Thomas (Apostle) (Catholic and others), one of four days in the year on which Quarter Sessions sat, although the Anglican Communion and others celebrate Thomas on December 21.
- July 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
- Independence Day, celebrates the liberation of Minsk from Nazi occupation by Soviet troops in 1944. (Belarus)
- The start of the Dog Days according to The Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures.
- Women's Day (Myanmar)
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”” Jeremiah 17:9-10 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Our heart shall rejoice in Him."
Psalm 33:21
Psalm 33:21
Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God's countenance; they have a buoyancy about them which keeps their head always above the water, and helps them to sing amid the tempest, "God is with me still." To whom shall the glory be given? Oh! to Jesus--it is all by Jesus. Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with it to the believer, but the presence of the Son of God in the fiery furnace with him fills his heart with joy. He is sick and suffering, but Jesus visits him and makes his bed for him. He is dying, and the cold chilly waters of Jordan are gathering about him up to the neck, but Jesus puts His arms around him, and cries, "Fear not, beloved; to die is to be blessed; the waters of death have their fountain-head in heaven; they are not bitter, they are sweet as nectar, for they flow from the throne of God." As the departing saint wades through the stream, and the billows gather around him, and heart and flesh fail him, the same voice sounds in his ears, "Fear not; I am with thee; be not dismayed; I am thy God." As he nears the borders of the infinite unknown, and is almost affrighted to enter the realm of shades, Jesus says, "Fear not, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Thus strengthened and consoled, the believer is not afraid to die; nay, he is even willing to depart, for since he has seen Jesus as the morning star, he longs to gaze upon Him as the sun in his strength. Truly, the presence of Jesus is all the heaven we desire. He is at once
"The glory of our brightest days;
The comfort of our nights."
Evening
"Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit."
Psalm 28:1
Psalm 28:1
A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and his ability to aid, we shall see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but our Rock attends to our cries.
"Be not silent to me." Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will--they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little of God's silence. God's voice is often so terrible that it shakes the wilderness; but his silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant. When God seems to close his ear, we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief, he will not long deny us a hearing. What a dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become forever silent to our prayers? "Lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit." Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our agitated minds, for he never can find it in his heart to permit his own elect to perish.
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Today's reading: Job 22-24, Acts 11 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Job 22-23
Eliphaz
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 "Can a man be of benefit to God?
Can even a wise person benefit him?
3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?
What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
4 "Is it for your piety that he rebukes youCan even a wise person benefit him?
3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?
What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
and brings charges against you?
5 Is not your wickedness great?
Are not your sins endless?
6 You demanded security from your relatives for no reason;
you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
7 You gave no water to the weary
and you withheld food from the hungry,
8 though you were a powerful man, owning land--
an honored man, living on it.
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 11
Peter Explains His Actions
1 The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, "You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them."
4 Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: 5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. 7 Then I heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'
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