Tad's passing was not the end of the Lincoln line. The last recorded Lincoln was Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith who died in 1985. There is a disputed son of Robert's but it is a mistake to link mere property and progeny as being Lincoln's heritage. It is Liberty. The freedom of anyone to prosper regardless of colour, or creed. And it is not linked solely to the US, but to all lands aligned with her. And so on this day a young man trying to be good went to be with his family. But today, we have the liberty to be with our living ones.
John Ball was executed on this day. He was hung, drawn and quartered. As an itinerant preacher, Ball, inspired by the work of Wycliffe, had preached of egalitarian values during a time of high taxation. The then King Richard II was about fourteen years old and ruling with the aid of advisers who were infighting for political power. Richard II's grandfather had England fighting an expensive war with France. Much credit is given the young king for facing his rebellious subjects. However, John's preaching was inconsistent with what England could accept, he called for an end to serfdom. Serfdom would end in England, but it needed the civil war to end the old world. In some ways, the execution of John was the beginning of the English Civil War known as the War of the Roses.
The Rosetta Stone was found on this day, 1799 by French soldiers of Napoleon. It had been made circa 200 BC during the reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes. It is a decree, the same decree, in three different languages. Two thousand years after it was made, no one knew how to read Egyptian hieroglyphs anymore. However, two of the languages were known, and because it was the same text, it became the key to understanding how Egyptian was written. And so now all the writing in Egypt is available for the world to learn about what life was like back then.
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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
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
Happy birthday and many happy returns Jason J-Fo, Dominic Philibert, Ivan Ly, Michael Ta and Krista Tamba. Born on the same day, across the years. A day on which in 1240, A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeated the Swedes on the Neva River near Ust-Izhora, present-day Russia. 1799, French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone in Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid. 1815, Aboard HMS Bellerophon, Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland to finally end the Napoleonic Wars. 1959, Five hundred thousand American steelworkers went on strike, closing nearly every steel mill in the country. 1983, Armenian extremist organization ASALA bombed the Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian Genocide. Who doesn't enjoy the taste of Swedes? Unlocking the code of hidden languages may seem adventurous, but nothing like the rush of accepting Napoleonic surrender. Those metalworkers didn't give up and neither should the Armenians. Cheers for the day.
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Singer Toni Braxton: ‘Today I am embarrassed to be an American.’ ==> http://twitchy.com/2013/
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Artist Peter Cook sculpted this natural chair by controlling how the tree grew its branches.
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we don't know which these cupcakes appeal to more, our sweet tooth or our green thumb, but we do know that we're keen to dig in, prickles and all.
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The Rosetta Stone was found on this day, 1799 by French soldiers of Napoleon. It had been made circa 200 BC during the reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes. It is a decree, the same decree, in three different languages. Two thousand years after it was made, no one knew how to read Egyptian hieroglyphs anymore. However, two of the languages were known, and because it was the same text, it became the key to understanding how Egyptian was written. And so now all the writing in Egypt is available for the world to learn about what life was like back then.
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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
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
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- 1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
- 1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
- 1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
- 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
- 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
- 1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
- 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
- 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
- 1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
- 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
- 1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years of terror.
- 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
- 1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and theNorthwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
- 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
- 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
- 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
- 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
- 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called malaise speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise.
- 1983 – Orly Airport attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
- 1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
- 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
- 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day
- 2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.
- 1273 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk (d. 1352)
- 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (d. 1652)
- 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (d. 1669)
- 1638 – Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
- 1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American author, poet, and educator (d. 1863)
- 1850 – Francesca S. Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (d. 1917)
- 1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist (d. 1928)
- 1864 – Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
- 1865 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Irish-English publisher, founded the Amalgamated Press (d. 1922)
- 1871 – Kunikida Doppo, Japanese author (d. 1908)
- 1905 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1974)
- 1918 – Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist
- 1919 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-English philosopher and author (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
- 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Stone Poneys and Free Creek)
- 1947 – Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (Yes, The Syn, and Flash) (d. 2013)
- 1949 – Trevor Horn, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Buggles, Art of Noise, and Producers)
- 1950 – Colin Barnett, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
- 1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American author and journalist, founded The Huffington Post
- 1951 – Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota
- 1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor, director, and producer
- 1976 – Gabriel Iglesias, American comedian and actor
- 1976 – Diane Kruger, German-American actress and model
- 1991 – Yuki Kashiwagi, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48 and French Kiss)
- 1993 – Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
- 1274 – Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
- 1381 – John Ball, English priest (b. 1338)
- 1871 – Tad Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1853)
- 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian physician and author (b. 1860)
- 1958 – Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
- 1977 – Donald Mackay, Australian activist (b. 1933)
MARGO’S GREATEST HITS
Tim Blair – Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (5:58am)
In celebration of Margo Kingston’s narrow lead in the continuing great frightbat election, here’s a poll to decide her finest contribution to journalism, politics and Kafkaesque surrealist comedy:
FUNDING OR DEATH
Tim Blair – Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (5:28am)
According to Fairfax, there is a direct link between reduced government funding for awards nights and Aboriginal suicide:
The Aboriginal founder of the Deadly Awards, the annual celebration of indigenous achievement, was shattered last month when he learnt that he would lose federal funding worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.Gavin Jones, 47, was found dead on his farm at Goulburn on Saturday. While his family did not want to discuss the nature of his death, they and his friends were aware of his devastation at the loss of funding affecting his ventures, which had spawned radio and television productions, the national Deadly Vibe magazine, the annual Deadly Awards, sport, dance and hip-hop events, and much more.
Jones’s death is tragic, but connecting it to budget decisions about prizes is obscene.
DUCK RABBOTT DUCK
Tim Blair – Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (4:11am)
Outrage! A hateful conservative issues a threat to Julia Gillard:
Do I have a message for Julia Gillard? Yep. Duck.
Wait! Relax, everybody. It’s just tax-funded official state millionaire comedian Andrew Denton, and his threat was actually directed towards Tony Abbott instead of Gillard. So it doesn’t matter.
FOUR HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES OF JAUNTY
Tim Blair – Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (4:06am)
Here’s a jaunty tune to start your day.
SO MUCH STUPID
Tim Blair – Tuesday, July 15, 2014 (4:03am)
A quick list of things we can expect from global warming.
(Via Nos Lapre)
There will be a carbon tax again under a government Shorten leads
Andrew Bolt July 15 2014 (9:22am)
Bill Shorten’s vow: there will be a kind of carbon tax under a government I lead:
Let’s fact check just some of the many claims made yesterday by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten:
Claim: “We were right to listen to the scientific world.”
In fact: Labor is not listening at all to the scientists who say the world’s temperature has stayed flat for some 16 years. Even the IPCC now implicitly concedes its models may have overestimated climate sensitivity. This means our gases may not be warming the planet as much as many once believed.
Claim: “We are not skeptics.”
In fact, that is not a virtue. Absolute, unquestioning belief belongs to religion, not science.
Claim: “Only one party in Australia has a serious, substantial and credible climate change policy – the Australian Labor party.”
In fact, Labor’s policy is not serious, substantial of credible. It commits to making Australians spend many billions of dollars a year to make no practical difference to the climate. Even the most generous assessment of the effect of Lanbor’s policy, by IPCC scientist Professor Roger Jones, admit that at best Labor’s policy would at best cut the world’s expected temperature in 2100 by just 0.0038 degrees. And if, as now seems clear, the planet is even less sensitive to our emissions, the difference would be even less.
Claim: “There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising – or that humankind is the cause.”
In fact, the planet has not warmed for around 16 years. Even the IPCC says humankind is not “the” cause of the warming last century but just one of the causes, and admits there is some doubt it is the biggest cause.
Claim: “Each of the last three decades has been warmer on average than any other in modern times and 13 of the 14 hottest years on record have occurred in the 21st Century.”
In fact, Shorten is largely correct, but deliberately omits the most important fact about those temperatures - that there has been no further warming over the past 16 years or so, despite a vast increase in emissions. This is contrary to global warming theory and predictions:
Claim: “Sea levels have risen by about 20cm on average over the past century – and the rate of increase has been much greater in recent decades. There is no evidence to refute any of this ...”
In fact, Shorten is exaggerating the acceleration and the certainty. As the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says, “records and research show that sea level has been steadily rising at a rate of 0.04 to 0.1 inches per year since 1900. This rate may be increasing. Since 1992, new methods of satellite altimetry (the measurement of elevation or altitude) indicate a rate of rise of 0.12 inches per year.” Moreover, a recent study concludes the rate of rise has actually dropped, from a rise of 3.4 mm per year during the 1990s, to 2.4 mm per year from 2003-2011, or a slowdown of about 30 per cent.
Claim: “And if we do not act, the consequences will be severe.”
In fact, the consequences will be virtually identical whether we act or not. Labor’s policies will make no identifiable difference to our climate.
Claim: “It is predicted we will endure more droughts, more bushfires and more floods, more storms – more extremes.”
In fact, “it is predicted” are weasel words. Anything can be predicted and has been. But the latest IPCC report denies much of what Shorten claims. It said it had “not enough evidence” to have anything more than “low confidence” there had been more droughts, “low confidence” there had been more hail or thunderstorms, “low confidence” there had been more floods and “low confidence for a clear trend in storminess”. In fact, “evidence suggests slight decreases in the frequency of tropical cyclones making landfall in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific”. Shorten is just scare-mongering, and ignoring the science.
Claim: “Indeed we are already seeing more extreme weather events, influenced by the warming experienced thus far.”
In fact, that is bull, unsupported by evidence. See above.
Claim: “Since we put a price on pollution two years ago, emissions in the energy sector – the main industry covered by the carbon tax – have dropped by 10.4 per cent”
In fact, this is cause largely by the relative collapse of manufacturing in Australia.
Claim: “[Renewable energy agency] ARENA grants are also supporting Australian researchers investigating new and more efficient energy sources: Tidal Energy in Portland… Geothermal energy in the Cooper Basin.”
In fact, wave generators subsidised by ARENA have sunk. The geothermal project in the Cooper Basin subsidised by Labor has flopped.
(Thanks to readers Peter of Bellevue Hill, red breast and PaulC.)
===TONY Abbott and Bill Shorten have set battlelines for another election campaign on carbon pricing, with Labor vowing to fight for “a serious, credible climate change policy’’ and the Prime Minister warning that the carbon tax will return under Labor.If Labor now now questions the savings, why did it make the very same claims a year ago?
The carbon tax repeal bills passed the House of Representatives with Clive Palmer’s support last night and are set to pass the Senate this week, leaving Labor and the Greens as the only opposition to axing the carbon tax.
The Opposition Leader said Labor supported a “flexible and viable’’ emissions trading scheme…
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Mr Abbott’s claim of a $550 gain from total abolition of the carbon tax is based on Treasury modelling used by Labor in government to support its carbon tax scheme. Kevin Rudd cited the same modelling to promise axing the carbon tax and moving to an ETS would see families $380 better off as the carbon price fell from $25.40 to $6.
Let’s fact check just some of the many claims made yesterday by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten:
Claim: “We were right to listen to the scientific world.”
In fact: Labor is not listening at all to the scientists who say the world’s temperature has stayed flat for some 16 years. Even the IPCC now implicitly concedes its models may have overestimated climate sensitivity. This means our gases may not be warming the planet as much as many once believed.
Claim: “We are not skeptics.”
In fact, that is not a virtue. Absolute, unquestioning belief belongs to religion, not science.
Claim: “Only one party in Australia has a serious, substantial and credible climate change policy – the Australian Labor party.”
In fact, Labor’s policy is not serious, substantial of credible. It commits to making Australians spend many billions of dollars a year to make no practical difference to the climate. Even the most generous assessment of the effect of Lanbor’s policy, by IPCC scientist Professor Roger Jones, admit that at best Labor’s policy would at best cut the world’s expected temperature in 2100 by just 0.0038 degrees. And if, as now seems clear, the planet is even less sensitive to our emissions, the difference would be even less.
Claim: “There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising – or that humankind is the cause.”
In fact, the planet has not warmed for around 16 years. Even the IPCC says humankind is not “the” cause of the warming last century but just one of the causes, and admits there is some doubt it is the biggest cause.
Claim: “Each of the last three decades has been warmer on average than any other in modern times and 13 of the 14 hottest years on record have occurred in the 21st Century.”
In fact, Shorten is largely correct, but deliberately omits the most important fact about those temperatures - that there has been no further warming over the past 16 years or so, despite a vast increase in emissions. This is contrary to global warming theory and predictions:
Claim: “Sea levels have risen by about 20cm on average over the past century – and the rate of increase has been much greater in recent decades. There is no evidence to refute any of this ...”
In fact, Shorten is exaggerating the acceleration and the certainty. As the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says, “records and research show that sea level has been steadily rising at a rate of 0.04 to 0.1 inches per year since 1900. This rate may be increasing. Since 1992, new methods of satellite altimetry (the measurement of elevation or altitude) indicate a rate of rise of 0.12 inches per year.” Moreover, a recent study concludes the rate of rise has actually dropped, from a rise of 3.4 mm per year during the 1990s, to 2.4 mm per year from 2003-2011, or a slowdown of about 30 per cent.
Claim: “And if we do not act, the consequences will be severe.”
In fact, the consequences will be virtually identical whether we act or not. Labor’s policies will make no identifiable difference to our climate.
Claim: “It is predicted we will endure more droughts, more bushfires and more floods, more storms – more extremes.”
In fact, “it is predicted” are weasel words. Anything can be predicted and has been. But the latest IPCC report denies much of what Shorten claims. It said it had “not enough evidence” to have anything more than “low confidence” there had been more droughts, “low confidence” there had been more hail or thunderstorms, “low confidence” there had been more floods and “low confidence for a clear trend in storminess”. In fact, “evidence suggests slight decreases in the frequency of tropical cyclones making landfall in the North Atlantic and the South Pacific”. Shorten is just scare-mongering, and ignoring the science.
Claim: “Indeed we are already seeing more extreme weather events, influenced by the warming experienced thus far.”
In fact, that is bull, unsupported by evidence. See above.
Claim: “Since we put a price on pollution two years ago, emissions in the energy sector – the main industry covered by the carbon tax – have dropped by 10.4 per cent”
In fact, this is cause largely by the relative collapse of manufacturing in Australia.
Claim: “[Renewable energy agency] ARENA grants are also supporting Australian researchers investigating new and more efficient energy sources: Tidal Energy in Portland… Geothermal energy in the Cooper Basin.”
In fact, wave generators subsidised by ARENA have sunk. The geothermal project in the Cooper Basin subsidised by Labor has flopped.
(Thanks to readers Peter of Bellevue Hill, red breast and PaulC.)
Importing hatred: warning of a Bali-style bombing
Andrew Bolt July 15 2014 (9:14am)
Why did we import this danger and vilify those who tried to warn against it?
===A SENIOR member of parliament’s high-powered intelligence and security committee has warned a Bali-style terrorist attack is inevitable on Australian soil and the risk of an incident is “accelerating"…
Labor MP Anthony Byrne raised the alarm in parliament yesterday, revealing the view of the intelligence community was that an attack on home soil of the magnitude of the 2002 Bali bombing — which claimed the lives of 202 people including 88 Australians — was not only possible but now probable…
The Daily Telegraph revealed last month Mr Brandis was planning to adopt up to 41 of 43 recommendations from a bipartisan report last year of the JPCIS that called for greater surveillance powers for ASIO… Spy chiefs are concerned the government is moving too slowly at a time when there were heightened warnings about domestic terrorist events and links to Australians fighting with jihadists in Iraq and Syria.
Reith: who could trust Palmer?
Andrew Bolt July 15 2014 (8:09am)
Former Minister Peter Reith:
===The idea that Clive Palmer and his PUPs would be a positive force for good policy has taken a beating. The other senators are worth talking to and negotiating with but I have grave doubts about the government dealing with Palmer. He constantly contradicts himself, revels in creating uncertainty and lives for personal aggrandisement and opposition to the Coalition.Who could trust a word this man says?:
No-one ... should forget that only as recently as November, Palmer said “he would be abstaining from voting in the House of Representatives on the carbon tax repeal legislation to avoid a potential conflict of interest”. He then said, “I’m applying company standards and stepping out of this debate as there’s currently a potential conflict of interest"… Sunday’s press reported Palmer’s office saying that although the amendments agreed over the weekend looked fine “it would be up to Mr Palmer to approve them”.
Mr Palmer owes an explanation to the Parliament and to the people… But he is not just breaching basic standards.
Last week Palmer concocted a series of nonsense excuses for opposing the repeal of the carbon tax. And when Palmer refused to answer questions about his integrity, attacked fiscal reform and promoted new red tape it seemed obvious it’s unlikely he can be trusted on anything.
Bringing the Middle East and its hatreds to Sydney
Andrew Bolt July 15 2014 (7:43am)
Scenes from an anti-Israel protest - or Jew-hating festival - in Sydney on Sunday:
Mass immigration has brought with it a virulent anti-semitism and a minority that shows a dangerous allegiance to groups which preach and practice extreme violence.
UPDATE
This racism, in our midst, is not remarked upon by the ABC.
The racism of Hamas, the rulers of Gaza, is also not remarked upon by the ABC, although it’s screamed out in not just its deeds but its charter, in black and white:
More of the same from the ABC, which puts Israel under a scrutiny that Hamas terrorists are excused:
Reader Gaucho:
The Jews of Australia - and anyone who prizes civilisation - should know the Greens are their enemy. From the speech to the anti-Israel rally by Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, ignoring the jihadist flags flying in front of her:
(Thanks to readers Daniel and CA.)
===As you see, this protest featured the yellow flag of the Hezbollah terrorist group, the black flag of the Taliban and jihadism, signs likening Israel to Nazi Germany and signs claiming the Jews are actually descended from the Turkic Khazar empire, and therefore have no historic connection with the land of Israel.
Mass immigration has brought with it a virulent anti-semitism and a minority that shows a dangerous allegiance to groups which preach and practice extreme violence.
UPDATE
This racism, in our midst, is not remarked upon by the ABC.
The racism of Hamas, the rulers of Gaza, is also not remarked upon by the ABC, although it’s screamed out in not just its deeds but its charter, in black and white:
For our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave… The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:But the ABC was last night red hot on the alleged racism of Israel - a racism it assumes as fact - after the murder of a Palestinian teenager:
“The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: 0 Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree.” (cited by al-Bukhari and Muslim)…When Islam will retake possession of [the means to] guide the life [of the Muslims], it will wipe out those organizations which are the enemy of humanity and Islam…
With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others… They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests…
...they were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate… They were behind World War II… It was they who instigated the replacement of the League of Nations with the United Nations and the Security Council to enable them to rule the world through them. There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it…
The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion… It is behind the drug trade and alcoholism… There is no way out except pooling together all the forces and energies to face this despicable Nazi-Tatar invasion.
SARAH FERGUSON: At the same time though, a number of leading Israeli writers, including Chemi Shalev, said it wasn’t a response to the killing of the young settlers, for example, but something bigger in Israel, an unchecked racism. Does Netanyahu at the same time take responsibility for allowing that racism to continue unchecked?And it apparently assumes the poverty and militancy of Arab extremists is due simply to “inequality” - and one due not to Muslim Arab culture, moreover, but Jewish oppression:
SARAH FERGUSON: It’s not just writers talking about this. The former head of your own internal security service, the Shin Bet, Yuval Diskin, issued a scathing attack on your government just a couple of days ago for failing to deal with these issues, for failing to deal with Arab inequality in Israel, for allowing more settlement building. He knows what’s going on inside your country, doesn’t he?Then comes a barrage of questions implying that Israel is the aggressor, careless with Palestinian lives and needing to negotiate with a terrorist group whose charter in fact insists the only solution is the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews:
MARK REGEV: He’s of course entitled to his opinion and he’s got a very clear political position in opposition to my Prime Minister and that’s his right in our democracy… Our Declaration of Independence promises equality for all our citizens and we are determined to get there, to make sure that all Israelis have an equal chance…
SARAH FERGUSON: The reality on the ground is obviously not that and this is what Yuval Diskin is saying, that the - whatever is the result of this bombing campaign - and we’ll come to it in just a second - that the enormous pressures in the West Bank and inside Israel will remain whatever happens as a result…
SARAH FERGUSON: Let’s just talk about the rocket attacks. Why would Israeli bomb a home for the disabled in Gaza?… There was a rocket attack on the home of the Gaza police chief. He has known sympathies to Hamas. At the same time, a number of children were killed in that attack. Do you take enough care to avoid those casualties, ‘cause it appears the answer is no?… You’re now talking about a potential ground offensive. The question I think that everybody is asking outside Israel and outside Gaza, Mark Regev, on behalf of your government is: where does this end?… You’re going to have to sit down with Hamas in order to secure that solution. Do you accept that?UPDATE
More of the same from the ABC, which puts Israel under a scrutiny that Hamas terrorists are excused:
Gosh, anyone would think Israel started firing rockets first. Hayden Cooper, the ABC’s Lateline, July 10:UPDATE
ISRAEL launched the operation Protective Edge on Tuesday and its army said it had hit more than 300 targets overnight, raising the total number of strikes so far to 750. Hamas has launched its own rockets across Israel, which have triggered sirens in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, but there have been no Israeli deaths so far.Lateline guest tweeter Sarah Joseph, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, July 10:
750 strikes on Gaza from Israel. Unsure how many rockets from Gaza.The facts. Israeli Defence Force spokesperson tweets during Lateline:
PALESTINIAN terrorists in Gaza have fired 96 rockets at Israel today, and 442 in the past three days.
Reader Gaucho:
The big difference between Israel and Hamas is, Israel uses its missiles to protect its people Hamas uses its people to protect its missiles.UPDATE
The Jews of Australia - and anyone who prizes civilisation - should know the Greens are their enemy. From the speech to the anti-Israel rally by Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, ignoring the jihadist flags flying in front of her:
The root causes of the conflict are the decades-long illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza....Bloody scary, this apologia for a terrorist group’s tactics.
Israel is targeting the civilians of Gaza in these bombings and that is why it’s shameful and they are the war crime we condemn ...
I don’t want to see rockets going into Israel but what we know is that this is a war of an oppressor Israel, against the oppressed the Palestinians. This is not a war of equal players and that is why we are united here in condemning Israel’s actions.
(Thanks to readers Daniel and CA.)
Why do refugee activists tell such untruths?
Andrew Bolt July 15 2014 (7:17am)
“Refugee” activists
claim to be more moral. Then why all these false claims and
exaggerations? Do moral people feel they don’t need to tell the truth -
or say sorry?
Nick Cater:
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By world standards Sri Lanka is not a particularly oppressive place… Nevertheless, the myth refuses to die. The return of the refugees was like sending Jews back to Nazi Germany, Malcolm Fraser unhelpfully suggested…
Operation Sovereign Borders? More like “Operation Slaughter”, says ABC presenter Waleed Aly who writes: “By sending asylum-seekers into the arms of the Sri Lankan navy we’re returning them to their torturers.”
Yet even Aly admits — in the last paragraph when he thinks we’ve stopped reading — that “it’s entirely possible these people are economic migrant (sic) and not refugees"…
Compassion is not an ideology; it’s a form of piety, an expression of an uncommon moral sensitivity that separates the righteous from the herd… Compassion requires victims, vulnerable people worthy of our benevolence, or at least our benevolent thoughts…
Hence the eagerness of the intelligentsia to believe that a “suicide wave” was sweeping Christmas Island, despite authoritative accounts to the contrary…
It began on Tuesday with a press release from Ian Rintoul of the Refugee Action Coalition claiming: “Up to 10 mothers in the family camp have attempted suicide in the last two days on Christmas Island.”
That evening, [president Gillian] Triggs put the authority of the Human Rights Commission behind the story, telling ABC viewers: “We’ve had reports that have been confirmed during the day that 10 women have attempted suicide.”
On Wednesday, The Age couldn’t resist beating up the story further: “A wave of attempted suicides has swept Christmas Island as 12 mothers tried to kill themselves in the belief their then-orphaned children would have to be settled in Australia.”
From then the story started to collapse… There had been only one suicide attempt from a woman who had survived, and she wasn’t a mother.
Fairfax’s sick headline: ‘Deadly Awards founder Gavin Jones dies after funding cut’
Andrew Bolt July 15 2014 (6:19am)
The Sydney Morning Herald blames Tony Abbott and his government for the death of an Aboriginal activist:
UPDATE
So proud of the smear that they highlight it on the home page:
===The Aboriginal founder of the Deadly Awards, the annual celebration of indigenous achievement, was shattered last month when he learnt that he would lose federal funding worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.Jones’ death is tragic. Blaming his death on losing government grants is despicable.
Gavin Jones, 47, was found dead on his farm at Goulburn on Saturday. While his family did not want to discuss the nature of his death, they and his friends were aware of his devastation at the loss of funding affecting his ventures, which had spawned radio and television productions, the national Deadly Vibe magazine, the annual Deadly Awards, sport, dance and hip-hop events, and much more…
Vibe Australia said it had been informed in June that funds for the Vibe Project would be redirected to federal government programs that deliver “frontline” services from July 1.
UPDATE
So proud of the smear that they highlight it on the home page:
(Via Tim Blair.)
If Leyonhjelm is a true libertarian, why not allow polygamy, too?
Andrew Bolt July 15 2014 (12:59am)
Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm wants same-sex marriage legalised, arguing marriage is a private matter:
Truth is that marriage - the institution, tradition and ceremony - are indeed all public matters. Marriage is a social, not private, construct to bind men to women for the sake of their children, so that the next generations are properly socialised to the benefit of all.
Then there is this problem with Leyonhjelm’s argument: if your choice of partner is entirely a private matter, and state intrusion on that choice silly and petty, then why have any state definition of marriage at all?
Why not allow polygamy and incestuous marriage as well? Isn’t that the true libertarian position?
===Another important lesson, this time from Roman law, is that marriage is a private matter (it’s part of private law, not public law, in civilian countries). The state simply provides a legal framework, particularly in the event of divorce or intestacy. It is difficult to resist the argument that defining the gender of people getting married is intrusive as well as silly and petty.If marriage is a private matter then why ask the state or church to bless it? Just choose your partner and, if you must, draw up a legal document to formalise it. Indeed, gays can already register relationships. But why then demand the rest of us acknowledge your partnership as a marriage?
Truth is that marriage - the institution, tradition and ceremony - are indeed all public matters. Marriage is a social, not private, construct to bind men to women for the sake of their children, so that the next generations are properly socialised to the benefit of all.
Then there is this problem with Leyonhjelm’s argument: if your choice of partner is entirely a private matter, and state intrusion on that choice silly and petty, then why have any state definition of marriage at all?
Why not allow polygamy and incestuous marriage as well? Isn’t that the true libertarian position?
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The easy way to pray!!!!
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July 15: Seventeenth of Tammuz (Judaism, 2014); Festino of Saint Rosalia in Palermo, Italy; Chūgen/Bon Festival in Japan
- 1410 – The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Grunwald, the decisive engagement of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
- 1799 – French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone(pictured) in Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city ofRashid.
- 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
- 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam beganOperation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of theVietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
- 1997 – American spree killer Andrew Cunanan gunned down fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami, Florida.
Events[edit]
- 1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
- 1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
- 1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
- 1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
- 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
- 1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuaniadefeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
- 1482 – Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
- 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
- 1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
- 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
- 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
- 1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
- 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
- 1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
- 1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
- 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
- 1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- 1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
- 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
- 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
- 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
- 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
- 1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
- 1922 – Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
- 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
- 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
- 1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
- 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
- 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriotpresident.
- 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
- 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called malaise speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise.
- 1980 – A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing US$160 million in damage.
- 1983 – Orly Airport attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
- 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
- 1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
- 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
- 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day
- 2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.
Births[edit]
- 1273 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk (d. 1352)
- 1353 – Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
- 1471 – Eskender, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1494)
- 1553 – Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
- 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (d. 1652)
- 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (d. 1669)
- 1631 – Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
- 1638 – Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
- 1704 – August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop (d. 1792)
- 1737 – Princess Louise of France (d. 1787)
- 1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American author, poet, and educator (d. 1863)
- 1796 – Thomas Bulfinch, American banker and author (d. 1867)
- 1799 – Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (d. 1882)
- 1800 – Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (d. 1878)
- 1808 – Henry Edward Manning, English archbishop (d. 1892)
- 1812 – James Hope-Scott, English lawyer (d. 1873)
- 1817 – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (d. 1898)
- 1837 – Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 1859)
- 1848 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
- 1850 – Francesca S. Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (d. 1917)
- 1851 – Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
- 1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist (d. 1928)
- 1864 – Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
- 1865 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Irish-English publisher, founded the Amalgamated Press (d. 1922)
- 1865 – Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
- 1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (d. 1936)
- 1871 – Kunikida Doppo, Japanese author (d. 1908)
- 1892 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (d. 1940)
- 1893 – Enid Bennett, Australian actress (d. 1969)
- 1893 – Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (d. 1970)
- 1894 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (d. 1989)
- 1899 – Seán Lemass, Irish politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)
- 1902 – Jean Rey, Belgian politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
- 1903 – Walter D. Edmonds, American author (d. 1998)
- 1903 – K. Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
- 1904 – Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author (d. 2007)
- 1904 – Mogubai Kurdikar, Indian classical vocalist (d. 2001)
- 1905 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1974)
- 1906 – R. S. Mugali, Indian Professor & writer (d. 1993)
- 1906 – Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (d. 1992)
- 1910 – Ken Lynch, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1911 – Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, English geographer and politician (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
- 1913 – Hammond Innes, English author (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani activist (d. 1999)
- 1914 – Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
- 1915 – Albert Ghiorso, American scientist (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Robert Conquest, Anglo-American historian
- 1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- 1918 – Doris Lussier, Canadian actor (d. 1993)
- 1918 – Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist
- 1918 – Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician (d. 1979)
- 1919 – Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-English philosopher and author (d. 1999)
- 1921 – Jack Beeson, American composer (d. 2010)
- 1920 – D. V. Narasa Raju, South Indian film director and playwright (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1924 – Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
- 1925 – Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Gloria Pall, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1927 – Joe Turkel, American actor
- 1927 – Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Charles Anthony, American tenor (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (d. 2001)
- 1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Richard Garneau, Canadian journalist (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician
- 1931 – Clive Cussler, American author
- 1931 – Joanna Merlin, American actress
- 1931 – Jacques-Yvan Morin, Canadian politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
- 1932 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
- 1932 – Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinet player and saxophonist (d. 2010)
- 1933 – James Ball, British economist
- 1933 – Julian Bream, English guitarist
- 1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (d. 2003)
- 1933 – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author
- 1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
- 1934 – Risto Jarva, Finnish director and producer (d. 1977)
- 1935 – Thilakan, Indian actor (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Donn Clendenon, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1935 – Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Ken Kercheval, American actor
- 1935 – Campbell Lane, Canadian actor (d. 2014)
- 1935 – William G Stewart, English television director, producer and presenter
- 1936 – George Voinovich, American politician, 65th Governor of Ohio
- 1937 – Ann Jellicoe, English playwright, theatre director and actress
- 1937 – Prabhash Joshi, Indian Journalist
- 1938 – Ernie Barnes, American football player, actor, and painter (d. 2009)
- 1938 – Carmen Callil, Australian publisher, Virago
- 1938 – Barry Goldwater, Jr., American lawyer and politician
- 1939 – Calixte Duguay, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
- 1939 – Patrick Wayne, American actor
- 1940 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and murderer (d. 1990)
- 1940 – Robert Winston, English surgeon, television presenter and politician
- 1941 – Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer
- 1942 – Vivian Malone Jones, American activist (d. 2005)
- 1942 – Mil Máscaras, Mexican wrestler and actor
- 1943 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
- 1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer-songwriter
- 1944 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor
- 1945 – Fay Maschler, British food critic
- 1945 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 2003)
- 1946 – Hassanal Bolkiah, Bruneian sultan
- 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Stone Poneys and Free Creek)
- 1947 – Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (Yes, The Syn, and Flash) (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Lydia Davis, American author
- 1947 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The 13th Floor Elevators)
- 1948 – Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek anthropologist and critic
- 1948 – Artimus Pyle, American drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1949 – Trevor Horn, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Buggles, Art of Noise, and Producers)
- 1949 – Richard Russo, American author
- 1950 – Colin Barnett, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
- 1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American author and journalist, founded The Huffington Post
- 1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
- 1951 – Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota
- 1952 – Celia Imrie, English actress
- 1952 – Terry O'Quinn, American actor
- 1952 – Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers) (d. 1991)
- 1953 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian priest and politician and 49th President of Haiti
- 1953 – Alicia Bridges, American singer-songwriter
- 1953 – John Denham, English politician
- 1954 – Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer
- 1954 – Jeff Jarvis, American journalist and blogger
- 1954 – Giorgos Kaminis, American-Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Mayor of Athens
- 1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1955 – Margaret Snowling, British psychologist and academic
- 1956 – Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
- 1956 – Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1956 – Marky Ramone, American drummer and songwriter (Ramones, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and Misfits)
- 1956 – Joe Satriani, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chickenfoot and The Greg Kihn Band)
- 1956 – Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver
- 1958 – Ardo Hansson, Estonian economist
- 1958 – Gary Heale, English footballer
- 1958 – Mac Thornberry, American lawyer and politician
- 1959 – Vincent Lindon, French actor
- 1960 – Willie Aames, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1960 – Kim Alexis, American model and actress
- 1960 – Crispin Blunt, British politician
- 1961 – Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
- 1961 – Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
- 1961 – Scott Ritter, American weapons inspector
- 1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor, director, and producer
- 1962 – Steve Brown, American darts player
- 1962 – Nikos Filippou, Greek basketball player and manager
- 1963 – Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-American model, actress, and singer
- 1963 – Steve Thomas, English-Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 – Alistair Carmichael, Scottish politician
- 1965 – Eleftherios Fotiadis, Greek footballer
- 1965 – David Miliband, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- 1966 – Jason Bonham, English singer-songwriter and drummer (Bonham, Damnocracy, and Black Country Communion)
- 1966 – Irène Jacob, French-Swiss actress
- 1967 – Adam Savage, American actor and special effects designer
- 1967 – Gareth Thomas, English politician
- 1968 – Eddie Griffin, American comedian and actor
- 1968 – Stan Kirsch, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1968 – Shirley Robertson, Scottish sailor
- 1970 – Chi Cheng, American bass player (Deftones) (d. 2013)
- 1970 – Jim Rash, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1971 – Danijela Martinović, Croatian singer
- 1972 – Yao Defen, Chinese giant (d. 2012)
- 1972 – Scott Foley, American actor
- 1972 – Beth Ostrosky Stern, American model and actress
- 1973 – Buju Banton, Jamaican singer
- 1973 – John Dolmayan, Lebanese-American drummer and songwriter (System of a Down and Scars on Broadway)
- 1973 – Brian Austin Green, American actor and producer
- 1974 – Marilita Lambropoulou, Greek actress
- 1974 – Chris Taylor, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1975 – Cherry, American wrestler and manager
- 1975 – Heather Nedohin, Canadian curler
- 1975 – Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
- 1976 – Steve Cunningham, American boxer
- 1976 – Gabriel Iglesias, American comedian and actor
- 1976 – Jim Jones, American rapper and actor (The Diplomats)
- 1976 – Diane Kruger, German-American actress and model
- 1977 – Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
- 1977 – Kitana Baker, American model and actress
- 1977 – André Nel, South African cricketer
- 1977 – Lana Parrilla, American actress
- 1977 – John St. Clair, American football player
- 1977 – Ray Toro, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance)
- 1978 – Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
- 1979 – Laura Benanti, American actress and singer
- 1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
- 1979 – Renata Kučerová, Czech tennis player
- 1980 – Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
- 1980 – Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Kelli Martin, American fashion designer
- 1980 – Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and producer
- 1980 – Rivo Vesik, Estonian beach volleyball player
- 1980 – Mike Zambidis, Greek kick-boxer
- 1981 – Alou Diarra, French footballer
- 1981 – Petros Klampanis, Greek musician and composer
- 1981 – Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
- 1982 – Alan Pérez, Spanish cyclist
- 1982 – Neemia Tialata, New Zealand rugby player
- 1983 – Nelson Merlo, Brazilian race car driver
- 1983 – Heath Slater, American wrestler
- 1984 – Alex Boyd, German-Scottish photographer
- 1984 – Vice Cooler, American singer-songwriter (Hawnay Troof and XBXRX)
- 1984 – Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, Slovak skier
- 1985 – Chris Tiu, Filipino basketball player and television host
- 1985 – Burak Yılmaz, Turkish footballer
- 1986 – Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Steven Jahn, German footballer
- 1989 – Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
- 1989 – Tristan Wilds, American actor
- 1989 – Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
- 1990 – Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
- 1990 – J. B. Gaynor, American actor
- 1991 – Derrick Favors, American basketball player
- 1992 – Tobias Harris American basketball player
- 1991 – Yuki Kashiwagi, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48 and French Kiss)
- 1992 – Porter Robinson, American DJ and producer
- 1993 – Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
Deaths[edit]
- 1274 – Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
- 1291 – Rudolph I of Germany (b. 1218)
- 1381 – John Ball, English priest (b. 1338)
- 1406 – William, Duke of Austria (b. 1370)
- 1410 – Ulrich von Jungingen, German knight (b. 1360)
- 1544 – René of Châlon (b. 1519)
- 1571 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1514)
- 1609 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
- 1614 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French soldier, historian, and author (b. 1540)
- 1655 – Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
- 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Dutch-English general (b. 1649)
- 1750 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian politician (b. 1686)
- 1765 – Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
- 1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
- 1789 – Jacques Duphly, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1715)
- 1828 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
- 1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (b. 1802)
- 1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772)
- 1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791)
- 1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
- 1871 – Tad Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1853)
- 1885 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
- 1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss poet (b. 1819)
- 1898 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (d. 1825)
- 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian physician and author (b. 1860)
- 1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
- 1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
- 1930 – Rudolph Schildkraut, Turkish-American actor (b. 1862)
- 1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist (b. 1868)
- 1931 – Eduardo Camet, Argentinian fencer (b. 1876)
- 1932 – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician (b. 1873)
- 1933 – Irving Babbitt, American academic and critic (b. 1865)
- 1933 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
- 1940 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
- 1940 – Donald Calthrop, English actor (b. 1888)
- 1940 – Robert Wadlow, American giant (b. 1918)
- 1942 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
- 1944 – Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist (b. 1885)
- 1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1947 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
- 1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
- 1953 – Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (b. 1882)
- 1957 – James M. Cox, American politician, 46th Governor of Ohio (b. 1870)
- 1957 – Vasily Maklakov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1869)
- 1958 – Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
- 1959 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer (b. 1880)
- 1959 – Vance Palmer, Australian author and critic (b. 1885)
- 1960 – Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
- 1960 – Lawrence Tibbett, American singer and actor (b. 1896)
- 1961 – John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (b. 1884)
- 1964 – Thomas Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1885)
- 1965 – Francis Cherry, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1908)
- 1974 – Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (b. 1944)
- 1976 – Paul Gallico, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
- 1977 – Donald Mackay, Australian activist (b. 1933)
- 1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
- 1981 – Frédéric Dorion, Canadian politician (b. 1898)
- 1982 – Bill Justis, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1926)
- 1986 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (b. 1923)
- 1988 – Eleanor Estes, American author (b. 1906)
- 1989 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
- 1990 – Margaret Lockwood, English actress (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (b. 1933)
- 1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan politician, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)
- 1992 – Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
- 1993 – David Brian, American actor and dancer (b. 1914)
- 1993 – Bobby Kent, American murder victim (b. 1973)
- 1996 – Dana Hill, American actress and singer (b. 1964)
- 1997 – Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1924)
- 1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (b. 1946)
- 1998 – S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1960)
- 2000 – Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer (b. 1925)
- 2001 – C. Balasingham, Ceylon civil servant (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean author and poet (b. 1953)
- 2003 – Tex Schramm, American businessman (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
- 2006 – Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founded of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (b. 1937)
- 2006 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist (b. 1942)
- 2008 – György Kolonics, Hungarian canoe racer (b. 1972)
- 2008 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (b. 1970)
- 2009 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1958)
- 2010 – James E. Akins, American politician (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Googie Withers, Indian-English actress (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Boris Cebotari, Moldovan footballer (b. 1975)
- 2012 – Tsilla Chelton, French actress (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Grant Feasel, American football player (b. 1960)
- 2012 – Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga, Spanish bishop (b. 1930)
- 2012 – David Fraser, English general (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Yoichi Takabayashi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Ninos Aho, Syrian poet (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Aldo Calderón van Dyke, Honduran journalist (b. 1968)
- 2013 – Tom Greenwell, American judge (b. 1956)
- 2013 – Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Noël Lee, American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986)
- 2013 – John T. Riedl, American computer scientist (b. 1962)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Earliest day on which Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Puerto Rico)
- Fast of Tammuz (Jewish Festival)
- Earliest day on which Galla Bayramy can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Sunday of July. (Turkmenistan)
- Earliest day on which Marine Day can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Japan)
- Earliest day on which President's Day can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Botswana)
- Elderly Men Day (Kiribati)
- Festival of Santa Rosalia (Palermo, Sicily)
- Sultan's Birthday (Brunei Darussalam)
“If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” John 15:10 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it."
Exodus 20:25
Exodus 20:25
God's altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel, and not the truth of God at all. All alterations and amendments of the Lord's own Word are defilements and pollutions. The proud heart of man is very anxious to have a hand in the justification of the soul before God; preparations for Christ are dreamed of, humblings and repentings are trusted in, good works are cried up, natural ability is much vaunted, and by all means the attempt is made to lift up human tools upon the divine altar. It were well if sinners would remember that so far from perfecting the Saviour's work, their carnal confidences only pollute and dishonour it. The Lord alone must be exalted in the work of atonement, and not a single mark of man's chisel or hammer will be endured. There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished, or to improve that in which the Lord Jehovah finds perfect satisfaction. Trembling sinner, away with thy tools, and fall upon thy knees in humble supplication; and accept the Lord Jesus to be the altar of thine atonement, and rest in him alone.
Many professors may take warning from this morning's text as to the doctrines which they believe. There is among Christians far too much inclination to square and reconcile the truths of revelation; this is a form of irreverence and unbelief, let us strive against it, and receive truth as we find it; rejoicing that the doctrines of the Word are unhewn stones, and so are all the more fit to build an altar for the Lord.
Evening
"As it began to dawn, came Magdalene, to see the sepulchre."
Matthew 28:1
Matthew 28:1
Let us learn from Mary Magdalene how to obtain fellowship with the Lord Jesus. Notice how she sought. She sought the Saviour very early in the morning. If thou canst wait for Christ, and be patient in the hope of having fellowship with him at some distant season, thou wilt never have fellowship at all; for the heart that is fitted for communion is a hungering and a thirsting heart. She sought him also with very great boldness. Other disciples fled from the sepulchre, for they trembled and were amazed; but Mary, it is said, "stood" at the sepulchre. If you would have Christ with you, seek him boldly. Let nothing hold you back. Defy the world. Press on where others flee. She sought Christ faithfully--she stood at the sepulchre. Some find it hard to stand by a living Saviour, but she stood by a dead one. Let us seek Christ after this mode, cleaving to the very least thing that has to do with him, remaining faithful though all others should forsake him. Note further, she sought Jesus earnestly--she stood "weeping". Those tear-droppings were as spells that led the Saviour captive, and made him come forth and show himself to her. If you desire Jesus' presence, weep after it! If you cannot be happy unless he come and say to you, "Thou art my beloved," you will soon hear his voice. Lastly, she sought the Saviour only. What cared she for angels, she turned herself back from them; her search was only for her Lord. If Christ be your one and only love, if your heart has cast out all rivals, you will not long lack the comfort of his presence. Mary Magdalene sought thus because she loved much. Let us arouse ourselves to the same intensity of affection; let our heart, like Mary's, be full of Christ, and our love, like hers, will be satisfied with nothing short of himself. O Lord, reveal thyself to us this evening!
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Today's reading: Psalm 10-12, Acts 19:1-20 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 10-12
1 Why, LORD, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts about the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5 His ways are always prosperous;
your laws are rejected by him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, "Nothing will ever shake me."
He swears, "No one will ever do me harm."
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts about the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5 His ways are always prosperous;
your laws are rejected by him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, "Nothing will ever shake me."
He swears, "No one will ever do me harm."
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 19:1-20
Paul in Ephesus
1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples 2 and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?"
They answered, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."
3 So Paul asked, "Then what baptism did you receive?"
"John's baptism," they replied....
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Noah, Noe
[Nō'ah] - rest.
[Nō'ah] - rest.
1. The son of Lamech of the posterity of Seth - the tenth from Adam. He died at the age of 950 years (Gen. 5:29, 30, 32; 6:8). The LXX version says that the name is a play on the statement, "This same shall give us rest."
The Man Who Built the Ark
Nothing is known of the early life of Noah, who first appeared on the scene when he was five hundred years old. Evidently his father, Lamech, was a religious man and gave his son a fitting name, meaning rest . This much we do know about Noah, he lived in a time when men were universally corrupt, so much so that God said He would destroy the human race (Gen. 6:1-7).
In the midst of an age of moral darkness, Noah was perfect in his generation. He walked with God and had a life radiant with righteousness. Intimate with God, he learned of His purpose to destroy mankind (Heb. 11:7), and was given the strange and almost impossible task of building a vessel large enough to shelter his family and a pair of all the birds and the beasts of that time.
Noah set about the tremendous work of the Ark's construction. Daily he had to endure the ridicule of the godless. At last the waters of judgment covered the earth, but all within the Ark were safe and saved. What a striking illustration the Ark affords of Christ, who preserves us from the flood of divine judgment. Here is an outline for the pastor to extend:
I. Noah walked with God in spite of surrounding iniquity (Gen. 6:8-12). There were saints in Caesar's household.
II. Noah was obedient when appointed to a difficult task (Gen. 6:14-21; 7:5).
III. Noah was remembered by God and delivered from death (Gen. 8:1). Romans 8:1 tells where we rest.
IV. Noah, by faith, worked out his salvation (Heb. 11:7). SeePhilippians 2:12.
V. Noah warned his neighbors of impending judgment. (2 Peter 2:5). See Ezekiel 33:1-20.
VI. Noah built the first recorded altar ( Gen. 8:20). See Hebrews 13:10.
VII. Noah was honored by God with an everlasting covenant (Gen. 9:12-17). See Hebrews 9:15.
2. Also the name of a daughter of Zelophehad, the grandson of Gilead (Num. 26:33).
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