Today it is the deaths of two martyrs in 1540 which highlights world policy today. Robert Barnes and Thomas Abell were on opposite sides of the religious divide. But they were both executed by Henry VIII keen to be even handed so as to not let his enemies unite. Barnes was a reformer, some might call him a Protestant. He had met Martin Luther and, after having delivered what is now called the first sermon of the English reformation, and having written treatise on religious thought, he was recognised by Wolsey and became an adviser. His advise for Henry to marry Anne of Cleves did not work out well for him. Barnes had made political enemies and after Cleves marriage went south, no one could defend him. And so he was executed. Abell was a committed catholic who applied his faith to support Henry VIII first marriage. He had printed his thoughts in a foreign country under a fake name, but his actions were considered treason, and so he was hung, drawn and quartered. Henry's decision was not based on religion, but was political. But both men had made a stance on faith, and died for it. Today, we see what happens when the foolish take sides and are not even handed. Obama might be sincere in his support for Hamas, and an unrepresentative and murderous Ukraine. But political perceptions change.
Also on this day, in 1419, Prague experienced a series of defenestrations of her local councillors. A young woman once asked me if I wished to be defenestrated by her. I had to admit I didn't know. Turns out it means being pushed out of a window. In 1502, Columbus' fourth voyage placed him on an island off Honduras. In 1608 Samuel De Champlain shot and killed two Indian chiefs setting back French relations for a hundred years. In 1619, in Jamestown, the first representative assembly was held in Americas. In 1676, the delightfully named Nathanial Bacon made a declaration that the assembly was not being representative. Later that year he died from dysentery. If only they had listened. In 1733, the first Masonic Grand Lodge opened in the US. In 1866 in New Orleans, the Democrats assaulted an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 and injuring 150. In 1930, in Montevideo, Uruguay won the first world cup. In 1932, Walt Disney did the first animation in Technicolor. In 1956, Eisenhower approved the monetary motto "In God We Trust" which today still confuses Democrats. In 1971, Apollo 15 use the first moon rover. In 1975. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared for good.
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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
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; 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.
===762 – Al-Mansur, the Caliph of Islam, founded the city of Baghdad to be the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids.
1865 – Off the coast of Crescent City, California, US, the steamship Brother Jonathan, carrying a large shipment of gold coins that would not be retrieved until 1996, struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people.
1916 – German agents caused a major explosion when they sabotaged American ammunition supplies to prevent the materiel from being used by the Allies of World War I.
1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the first Football World Cup.
2012 – The largest power outage in history occurred across 22 Indian states, affecting over 620 million people, or about 9% of the world's population. Come out of the dark. Stand proudly with Uruguay. Take care not to antagonise German insurgents. Steam home. Hold that bag for dad. You remind me of Reinhardt Sosin with that band name .. he was part of Rasta Wookie ..
Matches
- 634 – Battle of Ajnadayn: Byzantine forces under Theodore are defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate near Beit Shemesh (modernIsrael).
- 762 – Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
- 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
- 1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
- 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
- 1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
- 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
- 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.
- 1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
- 1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
- 1866 – New Orleans, Louisiana's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
- 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
- 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
- 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
- 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
- 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
- 1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God we trust as the U.S. national motto.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders.
- 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
- 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
- 1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
- 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
- 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
Hatches
- 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574)
- 1549 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
- 1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
- 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (d. 1829)
- 1818 – Emily Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1848)
- 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German businessman (d. 1919)
- 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English minister and humanitarian, founded Lunn Poly (d. 1939)
- 1863 – Henry Ford, American businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (d. 1947)
- 1913 – Lou Darvas, American cartoonist (d. 1987)
- 1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American banker and businessman, co-founded H&R Block
- 1928 – Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
- 1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian-American puppeteer and producer
- 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1940 – Clive Sinclair, English businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research
- 1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1950 – Frank Stallone, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1958 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
- 1970 – Christopher Nolan, English-American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress and producer
- 1979 – Show Luo, Taiwanese actor, singer, and dancer
- 1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
- 1993 – Miho Miyazaki, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
- 2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal
Despatches
- 578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Greek bishop
- 734 – Tatwine, English archbishop
- 1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest and martyr (b. 1497)
- 1540 – Robert Barnes, English martyr and reformer (b. 1495)
- 1718 – William Penn, English businessman and philosopher, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- 1898 – Otto von Bismarck, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1815)
- 1975 – James Blish, American author and critic (b. 1921)
- 1983 – Lynn Fontanne, English-American actress (b. 1887)
- 1997 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1913)
The Left blind to slaughter of Christians
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, July 29, 2014 (7:11pm)
IN the ancient Christian city of Mosul in Iraq the terrorist group Islamic State (formerly ISIL) has painted the Arabic letter “N” on doors of houses to signify that a Christian family lives inside and is in store for special treatment.
Continue reading 'The Left blind to slaughter of Christians'Making highs legal will be followed by health lows
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, July 29, 2014 (7:10pm)
THE campaign for medical marijuana has been astonishingly effective.
It’s presented as a humanitarian slam dunk, complete with telegenic cancer victims condemned to a life of pain by cruel anti-drug advocates.
Premier Mike Baird and his aptly named deputy Andrew Stoner have given provisional support for legalising the drug for medicinal use, albeit with concerns about safe supply and regulation.
The Greens are behind the push, as is energetic drug liberaliser Dr Alex Wodak, who lurks at the back of press conferences at state parliament.
But no one mentions that the active ingredient of marijuana, THC, is already available on prescription in pill form, Dronabinol, as is the oral whole-leaf cannabis extract, Sativex.
It’s not hard to conclude that the drug lobby is using medical marijuana to play on public sympathy as the first step to decriminalisation of recreational marijuana use.
We are being urged to copy the situation in the United States, where medical marijuana has been legalised in 21 states.
But the Journal of the American Medical Association sounded a warning last month.
Yale University researchers cited “evidence that marijuana exposure is associated with an increased risk of psychotic disorders in vulnerable individuals”, structural brain changes, a decline in IQ, respiratory problems and immune suppression.
They also warn marijuana use will increase, especially among adolescents, as the public assumes the drug is safe because it’s legal.
Marijuana “should be subjected to the same evidence-based review and regulatory oversight as other medications”, not simply approved by opinion polls or politicians, they conclude. Otherwise, we are effectively legalising recreational marijuana use but forcing doctors to act as “gatekeepers”.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore is living in cloud cuckoo land
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, July 29, 2014 (7:08pm)
CLOVER Moore lives in a fantasy world where people spend their time sitting around cafes drinking chai or riding pushbikes.
Continue reading 'Lord Mayor Clover Moore is living in cloud cuckoo land'FROM KARL MARX TO KIRSTIE ALLEY: AN ACADEMIC’S JOURNEY
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 30, 2014 (7:09pm)
“The row can be traced back to 2008 when [Martin] Hirst posted a photo of himself at Karl Marx’s grave at Highgate cemetery in London,” reports the Guardian, “which he later used as a profile picture on his personal Twitter account.
“In April 2014 Daily Telegraph columnist Tim Blair posted the photo on his blog, describing the photo as ‘the finest leftie selfie ever taken’.”
“In April 2014 Daily Telegraph columnist Tim Blair posted the photo on his blog, describing the photo as ‘the finest leftie selfie ever taken’.”
And that’s when the fun began. Please do read on.
SYDNEY’S ART LOAD
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 30, 2014 (5:09am)
For most people, finding $9.3 million to fund a bunch of ridiculous artists and their absurd and indulgent creationswould be something of a challenge.
Not for Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Sydney City Council, however, who have access to all of that cash thanks to inner-city ratepayers – many of whom might be wondering now why they didn’t make a greater effort to vote Moore out when they last had the chance.
Clover Moore and some ribbony crap yesterday
Here’s a tougher challenge for Moore and her crew. Beginning in 2017, when Space Noodle, Big Milk Crate and Stupid Bronze Birds are scheduled to be installed, find someone – anyone – who will honestly say that their visit to Sydney was inspired by these examples of alleged art.
Clover Moore and some ribbony crap yesterday
Here’s a tougher challenge for Moore and her crew. Beginning in 2017, when Space Noodle, Big Milk Crate and Stupid Bronze Birds are scheduled to be installed, find someone – anyone – who will honestly say that their visit to Sydney was inspired by these examples of alleged art.
Continue reading 'SYDNEY’S ART LOAD'MINE NOW
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 30, 2014 (5:05am)
Former AFP correspondent Amy Coopes joins my unholy legion of the night:
At this rate I’ll soon be the next Papa Lazarou.
At this rate I’ll soon be the next Papa Lazarou.
HE COULDN’T RESIST
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 30, 2014 (4:23am)
Labor’s Greg Combet alerts his colleagues to a terrible menace:
The former front bencher who quit following Ms Gillard’s loss to Kevin Rudd in the leadership ballot sounded a clear warning about the role of the Greens in any future carbon pricing debate.“Don’t be seduced by the Greens,” Mr Combet warned …“They voted with Abbott in 2009 to defeat an ETS. We’ve got to stop being seduced by them ...”
Good advice. But if Combet was already aware of the Greens’ idiot allure in 2009, why did he allow himself to be seduced in 2011?
AYATOLLAH’S CANADIAN COMEBACK
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 30, 2014 (4:08am)
Mark Steyn: “This is Toronto on a summer weekend in 2014.”
CAR AIMED
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 30, 2014 (4:02am)
AGE OF CHAOS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 30, 2014 (2:26am)
===I “smear” an academic by publishing his vile abuse. His colleagues protest
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (6:48pm)
Both laughable and utterly depressing for anyone who looks to universities to pass on the gift of reason:
Fact is, Hirst was not suspended for merely using the word “f..k”. Here are the Hirst tweets I first posted:
Because, I suspect, it wanted to make this a story about the wicked Bolt oppressing an almost blameless academic:
First, I did not “smear” Hirst. I merely repeated exactly the tweets he himself had published. The sin was his, not mine.
Second, to claim Hirst was merely “indulging in the same vile language that [frolls] employed against him” robs him of moral agency, reducing him to a kind of child who should not be blamed if they copy whatever foul example is set by other children. Aren’t academics supposed to lead thought, not follow?
Third, I do not have any “control over Deakin university’s hiring and firing policies”. Deakin University reacted not to what I wrote but what Hirst himself wrote. It made its own judgment as to how well he’d fulfilled his duties and set its own punishment without any suggestion from me.
I still wonder what value Hirst could offer journalism students. Reading the letter of support by his Deakin colleagues, I wonder what they could offer students, too, in any field requiring logic, factual accuracy, leadership and personal responsibility.
This letter is a disgrace.
===A university journalism professor will keep his job after spending three months suspended without pay for describing his alleged Twitter trolls as “stupid as f..k”.The Guardian reporter who wrote those lines has already vastly minimised Hirst’s offence - I suspect in order to invent my own to an audience as far-Left as Hirst himself. Hey, she even falsely claims I am “right-wing”.
Martin Hirst was accused of bringing Deakin university into disrepute after right-wing press columnist, Andrew Bolt, posted a series of the tweets on his blog in the Herald Sun.
Fact is, Hirst was not suspended for merely using the word “f..k”. Here are the Hirst tweets I first posted:
These tweets are astonishingly abusive. They are certainly childish and betray a strident Leftism that would make conservative students reluctant to divulge their own political leanings. In all they shame the university. The next day I posted more Hirst tweets, asking how Hirst was fulfilling the Deakin mission of “driving the digital frontier to enable globally connected education for the jobs of the future and research that makes a difference to the benefit of our students, our staff and the communities we serve”:
How could the Guardian possibly sum up the offence here as a mere use of “f..k”?
Because, I suspect, it wanted to make this a story about the wicked Bolt oppressing an almost blameless academic:
But after a letter to the university authorities signed by 150 academics and PhD students, the case was settled on Wednesday and Hirst reinstated.I am astonished that so many academics and PhD students could be so deceptive and so paranoid.
The row can be traced back to 2008 when Hirst posted a photo of himself at Karl Marx’s grave at Highgate cemetery in London, which he later used as a profile picture on his personal Twitter account.
In April 2014 Daily Telegraph columnist Tim Blair posted the photo on his blog, describing the photo as “the finest leftie selfie ever taken”.
A Twitter user began mocking Hirst for the photo, and a back-and-forth between the troll and Hirst ensued, prompting other people to join in.
In his final response to his alleged Twitter trolls, Hirst adopted a tweet by US actress Kirstie Alley: “… dear stupid as # people who just like to be stupid, go be stupid with other stupid people. #stupidfuckcity”
Bolt then intervened, posting the comments along with a quote from university vice chancellor, Jane den Hollander, which described Deakin as: “A premier university in driving the digital frontier to enable globally connected education for the jobs of the future and research that makes a difference to the benefit of our students, our staff and the communities we serve.”
The university suspended Hirst without pay for serious misconduct, amid claims he had brought the university into disrepute…
But the case was settled after the supporting letter was sent to den Hollander on Tuesday.
“We can understand your concern at Dr Hirst’s actions and the unwelcome attention that Mr Bolt’s blog posts brought to Deakin University,” the letter said. “...We are assured that Dr Hirst has recognised his mistake in engaging with the offensive and anonymous trolls and indulging in the same vile language that they employed against him. We are also pleased to know that Dr Hirst apologised for his actions immediately that Mr Bolt’s attempt to smear him and the University was brought to his attention.”
An email also circulated among staff calling on them to sign the letter in support of Hirst, saying; “It is scandalous that Andrew Bolt and the Murdoch press should have such control over Deakin university’s hiring and firing policies.”
First, I did not “smear” Hirst. I merely repeated exactly the tweets he himself had published. The sin was his, not mine.
Second, to claim Hirst was merely “indulging in the same vile language that [frolls] employed against him” robs him of moral agency, reducing him to a kind of child who should not be blamed if they copy whatever foul example is set by other children. Aren’t academics supposed to lead thought, not follow?
Third, I do not have any “control over Deakin university’s hiring and firing policies”. Deakin University reacted not to what I wrote but what Hirst himself wrote. It made its own judgment as to how well he’d fulfilled his duties and set its own punishment without any suggestion from me.
I still wonder what value Hirst could offer journalism students. Reading the letter of support by his Deakin colleagues, I wonder what they could offer students, too, in any field requiring logic, factual accuracy, leadership and personal responsibility.
This letter is a disgrace.
Jackson paid husband $50,000 of once-union money
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (5:41pm)
Extremely ugly:
===WHISTLEBLOWER Kathy Jackson has accused the royal commission into union corruption of “ambushing” her after it was revealed that she paid her former husband $50,000 from union members’ money that she had transferred to a personal bank account she controlled…
Earlier, the counsel assisting the royal commission, Jeremy Stoljar SC, revealed that an investigation of accounts showed Ms Jackson shifted $50,000 from her union’s accounts in 2009 to a Commonwealth Bank account she controlled, and 24 hours later made a withdrawal of the same amount and gave it to her former husband, Jeff Jackson, as a $50,000 bank cheque.
Ms Jackson, whose current partner is Fair Work Commission deputy president Michael Lawler, claimed that the $50,000 sum and funds totalling $284,000 that she transferred to the account between 2004 and 2010 were no longer union members’ money once the money arrived in her bank account. She said she had a general authorisation from her union’s branch committee of management to use the funds at her discretion.
Ms Jackson said her former husband, Jeff Jackson, who continued as secretary of another HSU Victorian branch when the couple separated in 2008, was involved in a union battle with a fellow unionist in 2009, and she believed the money was used for this purpose.
During evidence to the commission last month, Ms Jackson could not remember the purpose of the $50,000 withdrawal — but she guessed then that it could have had something to do with Mr Jackson’s HSU No. 1 branch.
Why Germany had to be beaten in World War 1
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (5:20pm)
Merv Bendle on German guilt for World War 1 - and a culture which had to be beaten:
===Too many historians have sought to “normalise” Wilhelmine Germany, ignoring the ideological and cultural pathologies an earlier generation were prepared to confront. Today—July 28, the 100th anniversary of the Great War’s eruption—that combination of pious duty and conscienceless brutality should be kept very much in mind…
Regrettably, more recent discussions of the Great War have tended to ignore the central role played by this ideology and the earlier scholarship that explored it. They overlook the powerful grip it had on the German people and the continuity that existed between it and Nazi ideology, and they avoid facing the dreadful implications for the world if a Germany possessed by that ideology had prevailed in the war. Instead, such histories have tended towards anachronism, projecting backwards into the past an image of the Second Reich not illuminated by the barbarism of the Third Reich, but one informed by the apparent stability and moderation of contemporary Germany. They tend to view the war on the Western Front as a conflict between comparable regimes, and not an epoch-defining struggle between political systems and underlying cultures that were fundamentally divergent and incompatible…
By ignoring the Germanic Ideology and the hold it had on the German people, recent histories of the Great War gloss over the ideological causes of the war and the passions that surrounded its outbreak. They also imply that Hitler and the Nazis were a sui generis product of the war, conjured up out of an historical and cultural vacuum, and not an expression of extremely powerful ideological and cultural forces within German society, which presumably, according to Niall Ferguson’s scenario, would have just evaporated if the Germans had been allowed to win the war and get it all out of their system. And they discount the alternative view, that the Great War was the first explosive martial expression of the Germanic Ideology, and that Hitler, the Nazis, and the Third Reich were manifestations of its resurgence less than a generation later.
Considered in this fashion, the resilience and power of the Germanic Ideology testify to its deep, almost unquenchable roots in German history, whilst also confirming its capacity—first demonstrated in the Great War—to mobilise the German people on a massive scale, later revealing in the Holocaust and the monstrosities in Eastern Europe the absolute extremity of its aims and methods as it raced towards its ultimate Götterdämmerung.
But the union isn’t the Catholic church, so don’t worry
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (9:04am)
Just as well the union wasn’t led by a Catholic bishop or the ABC would be right onto this:
===Union pressure led to the reinstatement of a suspended South Australian government worker who later was charged with molesting at least seven preschoolers in his care…(Thanks to reader Baden.)
[T]he carer, suspended by Families SA last year after a complaint about his interaction with a female toddler, was reinstated to his role and given a pay rise after the state’s influential Public Service Association lobbied the Child Development Department.
Why do journalists treat Hanson-Young seriously?
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (8:56am)
The Australian describes the child-Senator well:
(Thanks to reader John.)
===GREENS senator Sarah Hanson-Young is to border policy what Eddie the Eagle was to ski jumping — failure doesn’t stop her.Perhaps it wouldn’t matter so much if this stupidity weren’t so lethal. The destruction of the Howard Government’s border laws by Labor, with the Greens cheering it on, resulted in 1200 boat people being lured to their deaths at sea.
It is extraordinary, however, that someone so rash, wrong and irresponsible on asylum-seeker issues is the go-to person for many in the media…
India is the world’s largest democracy seeking to overcome poverty and extremism through the rule of law, economic liberalism and multicultural tolerance… Yet this senator suggests that sending Indian asylum-seekers back to India is akin to returning Iraqis to the sectarian bloodlust of the Islamic State-controlled badlands.
That this is an insult to India is obvious. That it belittles the horrors in Iraq and Syria is also clear. But it is so obviously ill-informed, immature and unhelpful that it is remarkable media organisations take it seriously. Editors are paid to make judgments and ensure their journalists provide context. To assign merit to these views is to mislead the public — more sensible to highlight their silliness, lest audiences think the media is as unhinged as the senator.
(Thanks to reader John.)
Essential poll: Labor leads just 51 to 49.
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (8:51am)
I said this week’s Newspoll seemed to overstate Labor’s lead at 54 to 46 (2PP).
I suspect that even more strongly now, given the latest Essential Poll shows Labor ahead just 51 to 49.
I suspect the truth is around the middle.
(Thanks to reader Mike of NQ.)
===I suspect that even more strongly now, given the latest Essential Poll shows Labor ahead just 51 to 49.
I suspect the truth is around the middle.
(Thanks to reader Mike of NQ.)
Hamas stops Jews protesting for peace
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (8:40am)
Irony alert:
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
===Several thousand left-wing activists gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday evening, calling for an end to bloodshed in the Gaza Strip and a return to negotiations with the Palestinians.The whole story right there.
Slogans chanted by the protesters included “Stop the war,” “Bring the soldiers back home” and “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies,” Channel 2 reported…
The demonstrations were cut short when Hamas unilaterally ended a humanitarian truce with Israel and resumed rocket-fire from Gaza.
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
I wish alarmism was threatened with extinction instead
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (8:14am)
Does anyone seriously believe this kind of alarmism any more?
Hold that alarm.
This stuff is now published by news.com.au?
(Thanks to many readers, including Leigh and Staggering.)
===EARTH’S sixth great extinction event has already begun. Now science is calling for urgent action to prevent life as we know it going the way of the dinosaurs…In this same story about a “great extinction event” that “has already begun”, these details:
One third of all life on Earth is now threatened or endangered.
The journal Science reports more than 320 animal and bird species alone have vanished since the 1500s. Most other animal populations from among the more than five million species on our planet have declined by an average 28 per cent.’’So 0.0064 per cent of species have vanished (counting animals and birds only) in the past 600 years. And that’s when colonisers were introducing foxes, cats, rats and other introduced species to new lands.
Hold that alarm.
This stuff is now published by news.com.au?
(Thanks to many readers, including Leigh and Staggering.)
Muslim immigrants make France no longer safe for Jews
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (7:40am)
Mass immigration from
the Middle East has turned some streets of France into another Middle
Eastern war zone, with Jewish shops torched and police attacked:
UPDATE
In Canada:
===Jews count the damage of a violent anti-Semitism imported to France - as it has been throughout much of the West:
That the Left has helped to incite and legitimise this new Jew-hatred makes it only more frightening. I fear for the future.
UPDATE
In Canada:
“Go back to Germany where they can kill you again.”
Why didn’t the Left get this upset about the 1200 it lured to their deaths?
Andrew Bolt July 30 2014 (7:04am)
Why was the Australian Left near silent on one of these death tolls? Why hysterical about the other?
Gaza:
===Gaza:
More than 1,200 Palestinians have died since the latest escalation in tensions erupted earlier this month.Australia:
Under Labor’s watch we saw about 1200 men, women and children die at sea, drown in un-seaworthy boats coming to Australia.Contrast:
INDONESIAN police are investigating whether an asylum boat that sank 75km off the coast of Java, sending about 200 asylum-seekers to their deaths, was dispatched by an associate of the recently arrested people-smuggling kingpin Sayed Abbas…
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young yesterday stood by her party’s policies. Pressed on whether the Greens accepted responsibility for the tragedy, Senator Hanson-Young said: “Of course not. Tragedies happen, accidents happen.”
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Lower backpain has always stopped me from training harder and running longer distances (I had a bad back injury in 2006 from over-training and it's never quite been the same) It started getting much worse lately which made me realise just how much I couldn't let it hold me back, I simply refuse to let it restrict me. Luckily I came across Rocktape recently and it's helped me train harder without feeling like my spine is gonna pop right out of my damn back. I still can't rely on it though, it only does a bit extra so the rest is still up to me to maintain a strong back and core through conditioning. Special thanks goes to my Mum for taping me up everytime! I learn more and more each day just how powerful the mind is, the only thing truly stopping us are our excuses.
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9 NEWS NOW CHATROOM | It looks like science is confirming what everyone has always known: shame doesn't inspire anyone to lose weight.
A research team in the United States has actually found that overweight people who are discriminated against are two to three times more likely to become obese.
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John Wayne 1974 BBC Interview
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“Well, at the time, it seemed rather serious, and they (Communists in Hollywood) were getting themselves into a position where they could control who did the writing.” John Wayne
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This is what a water bottle looks like before it's expanded using compressed air.
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AUNTY IS A CLOSED, LEFT-WING WORKSHOP
Don’t worry about Fairfax, that irrelevant organisation is slowly pulling its own plug. But the ABC is government-funded and its charter is to cater for a range of views.
If the ABC was a private enterprise venture it would be insolvent within a week. It has no interest in ratings (as ratings clearly show) but its programming has been excellent and many, butnot enough, enjoy its non-commercial basis.
Those who wish to see the abolition of “Aunty” will be disappointed. Those who wish to see its reformation have reason to be hopeful because it has clearly overstepped the mark of late.
There is no doubting its proclivity for Left-wing bias, but that’s not unusual, all developed nations have their “government” media outlets and all are bereft of a conservative view.
Commercial stations are forced, via advertising, to cater for a broad audience.
The ABC’s annual budget of $1.2 billion in taxpayer funds should rightly be used to appeal to a cross section of its paying supporters.
Of course the ABC doesn’t even aspire to that, and the reason is that it simply doesn’t have to.
SBS’s charter was to cater for the ethnic viewer and that seems to have got lost along the way, except for its addiction to soccer.
SBS has a modicum of commercials and many see the answer to the ABC’s far Left self-indulgence is to convert it to a commercial licence or combine it with SBS. This won’t happen.
As daily newspapers rapidly disintegrate into on-line news services, so too will free-to-air channels eventually succumb to pay TV.
It would be intolerable to further split diminishing advertising dollars available to the free-to-air channels by creating more commercial licences.
So, how can the people’s ABC be reformed? It clearly can’t be allowed to continue as it has been.
It can only be reformed from the top.
Jim Spigelman, the current ABC Chairman, is an ALP appointment and a former Senior Advisor and Principal Private Secretary to Gough Whitlam. He is of the Left.
These sort of blatantly political appointments from either side of politics are damaging Aunty in the long run.
When Abbott is elected he will no doubt make some changes but the effects will be generational as the acolyte appointees of Spigelman are already firmly ensconced in a middle management system that has employed those who choose what we see and those who present it to us.
The ABC is in dire need of jolting back to the centre and if Abbott could he would take the knife to middle management too. But he can't do that.
So, we will need to endure the rabid Left until those changes take effect.
Unfortunately, by the time the ABC behemoth is restored to a political centre it will be time to vote in another Labor Government.
It's time to rid government from our government station.
Don’t worry about Fairfax, that irrelevant organisation is slowly pulling its own plug. But the ABC is government-funded and its charter is to cater for a range of views.
If the ABC was a private enterprise venture it would be insolvent within a week. It has no interest in ratings (as ratings clearly show) but its programming has been excellent and many, butnot enough, enjoy its non-commercial basis.
Those who wish to see the abolition of “Aunty” will be disappointed. Those who wish to see its reformation have reason to be hopeful because it has clearly overstepped the mark of late.
There is no doubting its proclivity for Left-wing bias, but that’s not unusual, all developed nations have their “government” media outlets and all are bereft of a conservative view.
Commercial stations are forced, via advertising, to cater for a broad audience.
The ABC’s annual budget of $1.2 billion in taxpayer funds should rightly be used to appeal to a cross section of its paying supporters.
Of course the ABC doesn’t even aspire to that, and the reason is that it simply doesn’t have to.
SBS’s charter was to cater for the ethnic viewer and that seems to have got lost along the way, except for its addiction to soccer.
SBS has a modicum of commercials and many see the answer to the ABC’s far Left self-indulgence is to convert it to a commercial licence or combine it with SBS. This won’t happen.
As daily newspapers rapidly disintegrate into on-line news services, so too will free-to-air channels eventually succumb to pay TV.
It would be intolerable to further split diminishing advertising dollars available to the free-to-air channels by creating more commercial licences.
So, how can the people’s ABC be reformed? It clearly can’t be allowed to continue as it has been.
It can only be reformed from the top.
Jim Spigelman, the current ABC Chairman, is an ALP appointment and a former Senior Advisor and Principal Private Secretary to Gough Whitlam. He is of the Left.
These sort of blatantly political appointments from either side of politics are damaging Aunty in the long run.
When Abbott is elected he will no doubt make some changes but the effects will be generational as the acolyte appointees of Spigelman are already firmly ensconced in a middle management system that has employed those who choose what we see and those who present it to us.
The ABC is in dire need of jolting back to the centre and if Abbott could he would take the knife to middle management too. But he can't do that.
So, we will need to endure the rabid Left until those changes take effect.
Unfortunately, by the time the ABC behemoth is restored to a political centre it will be time to vote in another Labor Government.
It's time to rid government from our government station.
Tony Abbott
Earlier today I committed the Coalition to providing for the fair indexation of military superannuation pensions.
The Coalition will keep faith with the 57,000 recipients of military superannuation pensions by providing fair indexation.
You can read our policy here: http://lbr.al/defsup
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Caroline Glick
Bibi - Shame on you!
Below is a link to an oped written by Adi Moses, a victim of terror. Her pregnant mother and little brother were murdered. She was critically wounded. And to make Obama and Kerry happy, Bibi decided to release their murderers, along with another 103 murderers. Just to make Obama and Kerry happy.
You think they'll bomb Iran now?
Bibi, you are a disgrace to your people, and to the memory of your brother. Shame on you.
I'm following this post, not 'liking' it. I am reminded of how JFK was paired with a 'partner in peace' with Khrushchev. Khrushchev negotiated with JFK and backed down over the Cuban Missile crisis. Thing was, Khrushchev also negotiated missiles out of Turkey. Not being able to discuss about Turkey, Khrushchev looked weak and was rolled by the monster Breshnev. I don't know why Netanyahu has done what he has done, it cannot have a good excuse. But I know it is Obama's fault and there is none to replace Netanyahu that is better for Israel atm. - ed
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Institute of Public Affairs
IPA like to excuse their historical preference for the ALP with such empty rhetoric. The fact is that policy influences industry profoundly, and can, as the ALP have demonstrated time and again, wreck a lot. - ed
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Australia should be competitive .. with the qualifiers .. - ed
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This is what a Russian Caucasian Mountain Dog looks like
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You can tell the size of our God by looking at the size of our worry list. The longer our list, the smaller our God
===Pastor Rick Warren
When life doesn't make sense, an explanation doesn't ease your pain; the presence of God does.
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I would hope next time Pope Francis offers to meet with the press, they would take to heart his message about fearless service and report to their readers what he actually said, rather than what they wish they had heard.
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Essentially, nobody likes being lectured about how racist they are. That quaint notion of national sovereignty, however unfashionable among the inner-city set, still holds sway in many parts of the country.>
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Desert Shadows. This is one of the very first images I ever took with a DSLR back on June 30th, 2006. My brother Randy let me borrow his girlfriends' Canon and get a feel. I was too broke to afford one of my own at the time, and it was absolute torture waiting for the day when I would finally be able to give up the point and click camera I had been using and abusing. I was hooked, but without a quick fix to be seen in the near future. This picture was taken as a desert monsoon storm was forming above us. Soon there would be lightning and high winds. I was in heaven! I continue with my obsession of the DSLR and desert storms to this day. I also get to teach others how to shoot these darned contraptions, which is pretty cool.
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AT&T Offers $250,000 Reward for Fiber Vandalism 17 Apr 2013
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/
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Terrorism has led to sad and inglorious appeasement. And because the Palestinian leadership has always used terrorism as the tactic of first resort, their cause has received worldwide recognition.
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G Dan Mitchell
In reply to (yet another) example of asking the false question about so-called post-processing, I wrote:
"It is time to stop being defensive about so-called "processing" of photographs. It is simply a bizarre and unsupportable myth that great photographs reflect reality (in fact, every photograph lies!) or are produced simply by making brilliant decisions about what to point that camera at and when. To suggest that great photography comes only from careful capture - without denying the importance of that part of the process - is akin to suggesting that great cooking is purely the result of great farming."
===Iron oxide isn't rare either - ed
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- 634 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Byzantine forces under Theodore were defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate near Beit Shemesh in modern Israel.
- 1676 – Virginia colonist Nathaniel Bacon and his makeshift army issued a Declaration of the People of Virginia, instigating a rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (pictured), an early leader of theMexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish authorities.
- 1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the first Football World Cup.
- 2012 – The largest power outage in history occurred across 22Indian states, affecting over 620 million people, or about 9% of the world's population.
Events[edit]
- 634 – Battle of Ajnadayn: Byzantine forces under Theodore are defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate near Beit Shemesh (modernIsrael).
- 762 – Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
- 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
- 1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
- 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
- 1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
- 1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
- 1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
- 1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- 1729 – Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
- 1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
- 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
- 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.
- 1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
- 1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
- 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
- 1866 – New Orleans, Louisiana's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
- 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
- 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
- 1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
- 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
- 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
- 1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God we trust as the U.S. national motto.
- 1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
- 1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders.
- 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
- 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
- 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
- 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
- 1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
- 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
- 1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
- 1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to "get dirt" onDave Winfield.
- 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
- 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
Births[edit]
- 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574)
- 1549 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
- 1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
- 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (d. 1829)
- 1763 – Samuel Rogers, English poet (d. 1855)
- 1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Canadian priest (d. 1899)
- 1818 – Emily Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1848)
- 1818 – Jan Heemskerk, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
- 1825 – Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian engineer and author (d. 1893)
- 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German businessman (d. 1919)
- 1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (d. 1929)
- 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English minister and humanitarian, founded Lunn Poly (d. 1939)
- 1863 – Henry Ford, American businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (d. 1947)
- 1864 – Dirk Boest Gips, Dutch target shooter (d. 1920)
- 1872 – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
- 1881 – Smedley Butler, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1940)
- 1885 – Russell van Horn, American boxer (d. 1970)
- 1887 – Marquard Schwarz, American swimmer (d. 1968)
- 1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (d. 1975)
- 1893 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (d. 1967)
- 1895 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
- 1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
- 1899 – Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
- 1901 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
- 1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974)
- 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (d. 2003)
- 1913 – Lou Darvas, American cartoonist (d. 1987)
- 1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999)
- 1916 – Dick Wilson, English-American actor (d. 2007)
- 1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle, American author
- 1921 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
- 1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American banker and businessman, co-founded H&R Block
- 1924 – George Savitsky, American football player (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian-French actor
- 1925 – Stan Stennett, Welsh actor (d. 2013)
- 1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish author (d. 1984)
- 1927 – Richard Johnson, English actor
- 1927 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1928 – Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
- 1928 – Laurence Martin, British public servant
- 1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian-American puppeteer and producer
- 1931 – Dominique Lapierre, French author
- 1933 – Edd Byrnes, American actor and singer
- 1933 – Ben Piazza, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1934 – Bud Selig, American businessman
- 1936 – Buddy Guy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1936 – Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz
- 1936 – Ralph Taeger, American actor
- 1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France
- 1938 – Terry O'Neill, English photographer
- 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1939 – Eleanor Smeal, American activist, founded the Feminist Majority Foundation
- 1940 – Patricia Schroeder, American politician
- 1940 – Clive Sinclair, English businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research
- 1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1942 – Pollyanna Pickering, English wildlife artist
- 1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Canadian physicist and politician
- 1944 – Gerry Birrell, Scottish racing driver (d. 1973)
- 1944 – Peter Bottomley, English politician
- 1944 – Frances de la Tour, English actress
- 1945 – Patrick Modiano, French author
- 1945 – David Sanborn, American saxophonist and composer
- 1946 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
- 1947 – William Atherton, American actor
- 1947 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1947 – Jonathan Mann, American physician (d. 1998)
- 1947 – Philip Mawer, English civil servant
- 1947 – Anna Panayiotopoulou, Greek actress and writer
- 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California
- 1948 – Billy Paultz, American basketball player
- 1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan actor
- 1948 – Otis Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1948 – Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 2010)
- 1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist
- 1949 – Sonia Proudman, English high court judge
- 1950 – Harriet Harman, English politician
- 1950 – Frank Stallone, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1950 – Simón Trinidad, Colombian guerrilla leader
- 1951 – Alan Kourie, South African cricketer
- 1951 – Gerry Judah, British artist and designer
- 1952 – Stephen Blackmore, British botanist
- 1954 – Ken Olin, American actor, director, and producer
- 1955 – Rat Scabies, English drummer and producer (The Damned and Vicious White Kids)
- 1955 – Christopher Warren-Green, English violinist
- 1956 – Delta Burke, American actress, singer, and producer
- 1956 – Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 – Anita Hill, American lawyer and academic
- 1956 – Soraida Martinez, American painter
- 1957 – Bill Cartwright, American basketball player and coach
- 1957 – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
- 1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1957 – Leon Wesley Walls, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist
- 1958 – Richard Burgi, American actor
- 1958 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1958 – Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter
- 1958 – Daley Thompson, English decathlete
- 1960 – Jennifer Barnes, American musicologist
- 1960 – Richard Linklater, American director and screenwriter
- 1960 – Jeff Rudom, American basketball player and actor (d. 2011)
- 1961 – El Brazo, Mexican wrestler (d. 2013)
- 1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor and producer
- 1962 – Alton Brown, American chef, author, and producer
- 1962 – Jay Feaster, American ice hockey player and manager
- 1963 – Peter Bowler, English cricketer
- 1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
- 1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player and manager
- 1964 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress and producer
- 1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
- 1964 – Laine Randjärv, Estonian politician
- 1964 – Ron Block, American bluegrass and alternative country musician
- 1965 – Tim Munton, England cricketer
- 1966 – Kerry Fox, New Zealand actress
- 1966 – Allan Langer, Australian rugby player
- 1966 – Craig Gannon, English guitarist
- 1968 – Terry Crews, American football player and actor
- 1968 – Sofie Gråbøl, Danish actress
- 1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker
- 1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
- 1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor, director, and producer
- 1969 – Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer
- 1970 – Alun Cairns, Welsh politician
- 1970 – Dean Edwards, American comedian and actor
- 1970 – Christopher Nolan, English-American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1971 – Elvis Crespo, American-Puerto Rican singer (Grupo Manía)
- 1971 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian, actor, and rapper
- 1971 – Sagi Kalev, Israeli-American bodybuilder and model
- 1971 – Christine Taylor, American actress
- 1972 – Jim McIlvaine, American basketball player
- 1973 – Kenton Cool, English mountaineer
- 1973 – Anastasios Katsabis, Greek footballer
- 1973 – Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
- 1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer and actor
- 1974 – Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer and manager
- 1974 – Ando Meritee, Estonian renju player
- 1974 – Jason Robinson, English rugby player and coach
- 1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress and producer
- 1975 – Graham Nicholls, English author and activist
- 1975 – Cherie Priest, American author and blogger
- 1977 – Diana Bolocco, Chilean model and journalist Miss Universe 1987
- 1977 – Misty May-Treanor, American volleyball player and coach
- 1977 – Jaime Pressly, American actress
- 1977 – Bootsy Thornton, American basketball player
- 1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer-songwriter (Lostprophets and Public Disturbance)
- 1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player and singer
- 1979 – Show Luo, Taiwanese actor, singer, and dancer
- 1979 – Graeme McDowell, Irish golfer
- 1979 – Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist (d. 2012)
- 1980 – Diam's, Cypriot-French rapper
- 1980 – Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
- 1980 – Justin Rose, English golfer
- 1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
- 1981 – Juan Smith, South African rugby player
- 1981 – Indrek Turi, Estonian decathlete
- 1982 – Khaliah Adams, American actress
- 1982 – Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer
- 1982 – James Anderson, English cricketer
- 1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
- 1983 – Nathan Carter, Canadian actor
- 1983 – Seán Dillon, Irish footballer
- 1984 – Marko Asmer, Estonian racing driver
- 1984 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress and singer
- 1984 – Ryōhei Kimura, Japanese voice actor
- 1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
- 1985 – Aml Ameen, English actor
- 1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
- 1986 – Tiago Alencar, Brazilian footballer
- 1987 – Anton Fink, German footballer
- 1987 – Sam Saunders, American golfer
- 1988 – Lara Jean Marshall, English-Australian actress, singer, and dancer
- 1989 – Aleix Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1989 – Wayne Parnell, South African cricketer
- 1990 – I Blame Coco, Italian-English singer-songwriter
- 1990 – Martin Stosch, German singer
- 1991 – Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1992 – Hannah Cockroft, English wheelchair racer
- 1993 – Katie Cecil, American singer, guitarist, and actress (KSM)
- 1993 – Miho Miyazaki, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
- 1993 – Margarida Moura, Portuguese tennis player
- 1996 – Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player
- 1998 – Johnny Bennett, English-Irish actor
- 1999 – Joey King, American actress
- 2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal
Deaths[edit]
- 578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Greek bishop
- 579 – Pope Benedict I
- 734 – Tatwine, English archbishop
- 1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest and martyr (b. 1497)
- 1540 – Robert Barnes, English martyr and reformer (b. 1495)
- 1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
- 1652 – Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (b. 1624)
- 1680 – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, Irish admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1634)
- 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain (b. 1638)
- 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German scholar (b. 1639)
- 1718 – William Penn, English businessman and philosopher, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- 1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar (b. 1716)
- 1789 – Giovanna Bonanno, Italian criminal (b. 1713)
- 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and soldier (b. 1753)
- 1875 – George Pickett, American general (b. 1825)
- 1889 – Charlie Absolom, England cricketer (b. 1846)
- 1898 – Otto von Bismarck, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1815)
- 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
- 1912 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (b. 1852)
- 1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
- 1920 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848)
- 1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
- 1938 – John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
- 1947 – Joseph Cook, Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- 1965 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
- 1970 – Walter Murdoch, Australian academic (b. 1874)
- 1970 – George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1897)
- 1972 – K. S. Arulnandhy, Ceylonese academic (b. 1899)
- 1975 – James Blish, American author and critic (b. 1921)
- 1977 – Emory Holloway, American author (b. 1885)
- 1983 – Howard Dietz, American songwriter and publicist (b. 1896)
- 1983 – Lynn Fontanne, English-American actress (b. 1887)
- 1985 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1989 – Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
- 1992 – Brenda Marshall, Filipino-American actress and singer (b. 1915)
- 1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
- 1994 – Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer-songwriter (Dżem) (b. 1956)
- 1996 – Claudette Colbert, French-American actress and singer (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Magda Schneider, German actress and singer (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1913)
- 1998 – Jorge Russek, Mexican actor (b. 1932)
- 1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (b. 1917)
- 2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
- 2005 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
- 2005 – John Garang, Sudanese politician, 11th Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
- 2006 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Murray Bookchin, American philosopher and author (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordion player and composer (b. 1904)
- 2006 – Akbar Mohammadi, Iranian activist (b. 1972)
- 2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Teoctist Arăpașu, Romanian patriarch (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Bill Walsh, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
- 2008 – Anne Armstrong, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Peter Zadek, German director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Bob Peterson, American basketball player (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Bill Doss, American singer and guitarist (The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, and The Sunshine Fix) (b. 1968)
- 2012 – Stig Ossian Ericson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Les Green, English footballer and manager (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Jonathan Hardy, New Zealand-Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Bill Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
- 2012 – Mary Louise Rasmuson, American colonel (b. 1911)
- 2012 – Héctor Tizón, Argentinian journalist, lawyer, and diplomat (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Cecil Alexander, American architect, designed the State of Georgia Building (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Berthold Beitz, German businessman (b. 1913)
- 2013 – Robert Neelly Bellah, American sociologist (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician (b. 1914)
- 2013 – Ron Dias, American animator (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Alvarez Guedes, Cuban actor (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Belal Muhammad, Bangladeshi activist (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Colm Murray, Irish journalist (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Lawrence Nowlan, American sculptor (b. 1965)
- 2013 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Ossie Schectman, American basketball player (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Benjamin Walker, Indian-English author (b. 1913)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Feast of the Throne (Morocco)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Vanuatu from the United Kingdom and France in 1980.
“I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.” Psalm 119:93 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Nevertheless I am continually with thee."Psalm 73:23
"Nevertheless,"--As if, notwithstanding all the foolishness and ignorance which David had just been confessing to God, not one atom the less was it true and certain that David was saved and accepted, and that the blessing of being constantly in God's presence was undoubtedly his. Fully conscious of his own lost estate, and of the deceitfulness and vileness of his nature, yet, by a glorious outburst of faith, he sings "nevertheless I am continually with thee." Believer, you are forced to enter into Asaph's confession and acknowledgment, endeavour in like spirit to say "nevertheless, since I belong to Christ I am continually with God!" By this is meant continually upon his mind, he is always thinking of me for my good. Continually before his eye;--the eye of the Lord never sleepeth, but is perpetually watching over my welfare. Continually in his hand, so that none shall be able to pluck me thence. Continually on his heart, worn there as a memorial, even as the high priest bore the names of the twelve tribes upon his heart forever. Thou always thinkest of me, O God. The bowels of thy love continually yearn towards me. Thou art always making providence work for my good. Thou hast set me as a signet upon thine arm; thy love is strong as death, many waters cannot quench it; neither can the floods drown it. Surprising grace! Thou seest me in Christ, and though in myself abhorred, thou beholdest me as wearing Christ's garments, and washed in his blood, and thus I stand accepted in thy presence. I am thus continually in thy favour--"continually with thee." Here is comfort for the tried and afflicted soul; vexed with the tempest within--look at the calm without. "Nevertheless"--O say it in thy heart, and take the peace it gives. "Nevertheless I am continually with thee."
Evening
"All that the Father giveth me shall come to me."John 6:37
This declaration involves the doctrine of election: there are some whom the Father gave to Christ. It involves the doctrine of effectual calling: these who are given must and shall come; however stoutly they may set themselves against it, yet they shall be brought out of darkness into God's marvellous light. It teaches us the indispensable necessity of faith; for even those who are given to Christ are not saved except they come to Jesus. Even they must come, for there is no other way to heaven but by the door, Christ Jesus. All that the Father gives to our Redeemer must come to him, therefore none can come to heaven except they come to Christ.
Oh! the power and majesty which rest in the words "shall come." He does not say they have power to come, nor they may come if they will, but they "shall come." The Lord Jesus doth by his messengers, his word, and his Spirit, sweetly and graciously compel men to come in that they may eat of his marriage supper; and this he does, not by any violation of the free agency of man, but by the power of his grace. I may exercise power over another man's will, and yet that other man's will may be perfectly free, because the constraint is exercised in a manner accordant with the laws of the human mind. Jehovah Jesus knows how, by irresistible arguments addressed to the understanding, by mighty reasons appealing to the affections, and by the mysterious influence of his Holy Spirit operating upon all the powers and passions of the soul, so to subdue the whole man, that whereas he was once rebellious, he yields cheerfully to his government, subdued by sovereign love. But how shall those be known whom God hath chosen? By this result: that they do willingly and joyfully accept Christ, and come to him with simple and unfeigned faith, resting upon him as all their salvation and all their desire. Reader, have you thus come to Jesus?
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Today's reading: Psalm 49-50, Romans 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 49-50
For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.
1 Hear this, all you peoples;
listen, all who live in this world,
2 both low and high,
rich and poor alike:
3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom;
the meditation of my heart will give you understanding.
4 I will turn my ear to a proverb;
with the harp I will expound my riddle:
5 Why should I fear when evil days come,listen, all who live in this world,
2 both low and high,
rich and poor alike:
3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom;
the meditation of my heart will give you understanding.
4 I will turn my ear to a proverb;
with the harp I will expound my riddle:
when wicked deceivers surround me--
6 those who trust in their wealth
and boast of their great riches?
Today's New Testament reading: Romans 1
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God-- 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name's sake. 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ....
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Esau
[Ē'sôu] - hairy. The eldest son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob by Rebekah. His name is associated with his appearance at birth (Gen. 25:25).
[Ē'sôu] - hairy. The eldest son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob by Rebekah. His name is associated with his appearance at birth (Gen. 25:25).
The Man Who Bartered His Birthright
This cunning hunter and man of the field (Gen. 25:27 ) supplies us with one of the tragic biographies among the men of the Bible. He is prominent in God's portrait gallery as the man rejected of God because he had sold his birthright. Let us briefly sketch what Scripture records of "Esau, who is Edom." Had he retained his birthright we might have read "Esau, who is Israel." The wrong act, however, left a black mark upon his future history.
He was a profane person. What a terrible epitome! It is like a label fastened to Esau as he disappears from Bible history (Heb. 12:16 ). The work "profane" does not mean that he delighted in profanity, but that he was a man of the earth who lived for worldly things and nothing else. With many good qualities, Esau was of the earth, earthy.
He sold his birthright . As the elder son of his father, even although he came from the womb only a half-hour before his twin brother, Jacob, he was entitled by law and custom to receive twice as much as a younger son's portion, and to be regarded in due time as the head of the family. But we all know the story of how, for a mess of pottage, he bartered away his spiritual and temporal rights. The record says that Esau sold his birthright because he "despised" it. How easily some men part with the rich blessings they are heirs to!
His was a fruitless repentance . Esau lifted up his voice and cried, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!" But his repentant prayer was directed, not to God, but to Isaac. In the whole of Genesis Esau does not mention the name of God. Had Esau's repentance been Godward, what a different story we would have had! Esau only repented of his bargain, not ofhis sin. Such a bargain turned out to be a bad one, and he was sorry for it. Further, all Esau sought was restitution, not pardon. He had lost one blessing, and sought another.
Under grace the penitent sinner who has wasted his substance has a Saviour to turn to, and repenting of his sin, finds mercy. Esau, even with his tears, found no mercy. God was not in his thoughts, and he had therefore to abide by the consequences of what he had brought upon himself. Yet he learned his lesson, for Esau called his firstborn Eliphaz, "strength of God," and his second son Reuel, "joy of God."
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