The federal government of Australia is nearing a year old. The LNP had a strong election victory, but as with 2010, some independent conservatives are not behaving as they promised voters, and so important legislation is not being passed. In opposition, LNP passed 80% of legislation. In opposition, the ALP oppose all legislation. Media analysis is weak. An inappropriate application of balance produces a substantial distortion, and obscures the public from the transparency they want. The old senate has passed and the new senate has proven seamlessly hostile. But the LNP are not without ways and means. They cannot walk a straight line, but they can finesse results. So that there is no chance if the LNP introduce legislation opposing 18c, but there is every chance an independent can. Last year, as the election neared and it looked certain they would lose, the media raised the issue of gay marriage. Let Shorten show his leadership credentials with that.
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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.
===1873 – The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened.
1929 – Palestine riots: Arabs began attacking Jews in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, killing over sixty people in two days.
1943 – World War II: The decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.
1989 – Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined hands to form an over 600 km (370 mi) long human chain across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics to demonstrate their respective desires for independence.
2010 – A former Philippine National Police officer hijacked a tourist bus in Manila and held its occupants hostage for nearly 11 hours before being killed by police. Your day is worth rejoicing in. Cross the bridge. Use the mandate for peace. Victory at Kursk does not make a submarine seaworthy. My singing is revolting, but heart felt. Stay off the buses ;)
Matches
- 30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Marc Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Caesar and Cleopatra.
- 20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used byAugustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standardsthat had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.
- 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
- 406 – Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 "barbarians" are incorporated into the Roman army or sold asslaves.
- 476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
- 634 – Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
- 1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
- 1268 – Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
- 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
- 1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
- 1382 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
- 1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
- 1521 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
- 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
- 1572 – French Wars of Religion Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
- 1592 – Japanese invasions of Korea: The Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division led by Itō Suketaka.
- 1595 – Long War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreniand achieves a tactical victory.
- 1600 – Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal toToyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
- 1614 – Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
- 1614 – The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic.
- 1628 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
- 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
- 1655 – Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1765 – Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
- 1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
- 1799 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
- 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
- 1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
- 1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
- 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
- 1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
- 1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
- 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made inPugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
- 1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
- 1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
- 1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
- 1914 – World War I: Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal.
- 1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humberestuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
- 1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
- 1927 – Italian Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
- 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in theBritish Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
- 1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during aTest match against Australia.
- 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
- 1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1943 – World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
- 1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
- 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
- 1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school inFreckleton, England killing 61 people.
- 1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanoverand Schleswig-Holstein.
- 1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
- 1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
- 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
- 1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
- 1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
- 1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
- 1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
- 1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
- 1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
- 1987 – The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games inIndianapolis. The final score was 120–115 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
- 1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinnroad, holding hands (Baltic Way).
- 1989 – One thousand six hundred forty-five Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
- 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
- 1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
- 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users.
- 1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
- 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenantin the United States Air Force.
- 1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
- 2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
- 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.
- 2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
- 2010 – Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed.
- 2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD.
- 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
- 2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, kills 31 people.
Hatches
- 1486 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
- 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer (d. 1590)
- 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian (d. 1675)
- 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer (d. 1788)
- 1754 – Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
- 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775)
- 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist (d. 1832)
- 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852)
- 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (d. 1819)
- 1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (d. 1920)
- 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
- 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet and critic (d. 1903)
- 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian (d. 1883)
- 1854 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1925)
- 1875 – William Eccles, English physicist (d. 1966)
- 1875 – Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1946)
- 1877 – István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect (d. 1959)
- 1880 – Alexander Grin, Russian author (d. 1932)
- 1890 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (d. 1971)
- 1912 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
- 1917 – Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985)
- 1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician (d. 1984)
- 1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (d. 2005)
- 1931 – Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
- 1938 – Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary (d. 2014)
- 1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Who and Plastic Ono Band) (d. 1978)
- 1949 – Shelley Long, American actress and producer
- 1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Zoot)
- 1950 – Alan Tam, Hong Kong singer and actor (The Wynners)
- 1953 – Bobby G, English singer (Bucks Fizz)
- 1963 – Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1964 – Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor, founded the City Harvest Church
- 1970 – KK, Indian singer-songwriter
- 1970 – River Phoenix, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
- 1974 – Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist
- 1995 – Eliza Pineda, Filipino actress and singer
- 2001 – Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor
Despatches
- 30 BC– Marcus Antonius Antyllus, Roman soldier (b. 47 BC)
- 30 BC – Caesarion, Egyptian king (b. 47 BC)
- 93 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (b. 40)
- 406 – Radagaisus, Gothic king
- 634 – Abu Bakr, Arabian caliph (b. 573)
- 818 – Ali ar-Ridha, Islamic 8th of the Twelve Imams (b. 765)
- 1106 – Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
- 1176 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164)
- 1305 – William Wallace, Scottish commander (b. 1272)
- 1507 – Jean Molinet, French poet and composer (b. 1435)
- 1591 – Luis de León, Spanish poet and academic (b. 1527)
- 1628 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1592)
- 1652 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English politician (b. 1600)
- 1706 – Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
- 1723 – Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
- 1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (b. 1736)
- 1813 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
- 1819 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785)
- 1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (b. 1895)
- 1927 – Nicola Sacco, Italian murderer (b. 1891)
- 1927 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian murderer (b. 1888)
- 1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
SCIENTISTS HAVE FEELINGS
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 23, 2014 (4:21pm)
“Science communicator” Joe Duggan:
Climate change is a complex and intimidating threat. You can’t see it when you look out your bedroom window.
That’s not what Barbara Boxer says. Or Graeme Pearman. Anyway, Joe has recently been in touch with a bunch of Australian panic academics to ask them how they’re feeling. Their answers are beyond fantastic. Here’s University of Queensland climate change ecologist Anthony J. Richardson:
I feel a maelstrom of emotions. I am exasperated … I am frustrated … I am anxious … I am perplexed … I am dumbfounded … I am distressed … I am upset … I am annoyed … I am angry … I am infuriated … But most of all I am apprehensive.
So am I, my friend. So am I. Monash University’s Dr Ailie Gallant is similarly tormented:
I feel nervous. I get worried and anxious, but also a little curious. The curiosity is a strange, paradoxical feeling that I sometimes feel guilty about. After all, this is the future of the people I love.I get frustrated a lot; by the knowns, the unknowns, and the lack of action. I get angry at the invalid opinions that are all-pervasive in this age of indiscriminant information, where evidence seems to play second fiddle to whomever can shout the loudest. I often feel like shouting.
Someone needs to be electro-calmed. Melbourne University’s Kevin Walsh:
If climate change were not real, we would not have to be concerned about it. We wouldn’t have to worry about the future of our water resources, already strained by over population.
Water storage levels in Australia’s largest city currently stand at 82.8 per cent. The University of NSW’s Dr Sarah Perkins:
For some time now I’ve been terribly worried. I wish I didn’t have to acknowledge it, but everything I have feared is happening. I used to think I was paranoid, but it’s true.She’s slipping away from us. She’s been showing signs of acute illness for quite a while, but no one has really done anything. Her increased erratic behaviour is something I’ve especially noticed. Certain behaviours that were only rare occurrences are starting to occur more often, and with heightened anger.
Is Perkins talking about climate or frightbats? Also from the University of NSW, Dr Alex Sen Gupta:
That scientists who have spent years or decades dedicated to understanding how it all works are given the same credibility as poleticians, media commentators and industry spokespeople with obvious vested interests and whose only credential is their ability to read discredited blogs.
Very well expressed, Mr PhD. ANU’s Emeritus Professor Tony McMichael:
It seems so silly to go on behaving like this …
You said it, pal. Associate Professor Katrin Meissner, yet another terrified climate academic from the University of NSW:
Knowing how much is at stake, knowing that I am one of the few people who understand the magnitude of the consequences and then realizing that most of the people around me are oblivious. Some of the people are not only oblivious, they also do not want to understand. They have made up their mind, maybe based on the opinion of someone they trust, someone in their family, or a friend, maybe based on a political conviction, but certainly not based on facts.It makes me feel sick.
Don’t trust your family or friends! Trust Katrin the wonderteen, who continues:
It makes me feel sad. And it scares me. It scares me more than anything else. I see a group of people sitting in a boat, happily waving, taking pictures on the way, not knowing that this boat is floating right into a powerful and deadly waterfall. It is still time to pull out of the stream. We might lose some boat equipment but we might be able to save the people in the boat. But no one acts.Time is running out.
This might be the first time anyone at the University of NSW has demanded we stop the boats. Good for her.
(Via HillsHoist)
HISSY FIST
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 23, 2014 (4:18pm)
Angry Sydney youngster Jeremy Elphick:
tim blair takes a look at my fist
This appears to be my twig-limbed nemesis. Scary.
SQUIRMINGHAM
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 23, 2014 (1:20pm)
Timid John Birmingham reviews Monday’s column, but declines to mention the books. Even at a remove of nearly 1000km, the Brisbane-based Sydney columnist clearly doesn’t wish to offend. And he used to be so fearless …
UPDATE. A few days prior to James Foley’s murder, Seven’s Bryan Seymour uncovered Islamic State fundraising in western Sydney. John might know more about these things if he actually lived here.
RELIGION DISCUSSED
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 23, 2014 (12:47pm)
Islamic State terror goon Khaled Sharrouf isn’t so tough when the guns are pointed at him:
An underworld clash between Khaled Sharrouf and other crime figures over attempts to collect a disputed $9 million debt precipitated Sharrouf’s departure to the Middle East to join murderous extremist group, the Islamic State.Sharrouf, who recently gained global infamy after pictures were posted on social media of his young son holding a severed head, was attempting to recover the debt in the months before his departure for Iraq.Sharrouf was muscle for hire in the Sydney underbelly, working closely with bikies, drug dealers and underworld identities before leaving Australia on his brother’s passport.Senior law enforcement officials suspect that his concern for his safety influenced his decision to leave, as did the federal government’s crackdown on local jihadists heading overseas to fight in Iraq and Syria.
According to the Age‘s investigation, Sharrouf was in close contact with fellow head-holder Mohamad Elomar prior to their arrival in the Middle East:
It is believed Sharrouf and Elomar would engage in lengthy discussions about religion, while simultaneously mixing with some of Sydney’s most dangerous criminals.
Any religion in particular?
MISSING GLADYS
Tim Blair – Saturday, August 23, 2014 (12:03pm)
The saddest six seconds ever recorded.
(Yes, I know this might be all fake or whatever. I don’t care. Besides, if bees can comprehend human grievance rituals, why not dogs?)
On the Bolt Report tomorrow, August 24
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (11:42am)
On Channel 10 tomorrow at 10am and 4pm…
Editorial: Tony Abbott, kick that clown Palmer off the stage.
My guest: the literally indestructible Education Minister Chris Pyne.
The panel: Michael Kroger and former Labor Minister Gary Johns.
NewsWatch: Daily Telegraph columnist Piers Akerman. Did the media protect Bill Shorten too much? Why the media ban on showing the beheading video? And a dial-a-quote discussed.
Among the topics: should Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs sack herself after her astonishing heckling? And some the craziest look-away evasions of the Left.
The videos of the shows appear here.
===Editorial: Tony Abbott, kick that clown Palmer off the stage.
My guest: the literally indestructible Education Minister Chris Pyne.
The panel: Michael Kroger and former Labor Minister Gary Johns.
NewsWatch: Daily Telegraph columnist Piers Akerman. Did the media protect Bill Shorten too much? Why the media ban on showing the beheading video? And a dial-a-quote discussed.
Among the topics: should Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs sack herself after her astonishing heckling? And some the craziest look-away evasions of the Left.
The videos of the shows appear here.
How much of this warming is real? How much was created back in the office?
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (11:32am)
How much can we rely on data adjustments by people convinced the evidence should show a warming?
===THE Bureau of Meteorology has been accused of manipulating historic temperature records to fit a predetermined view of global warming.Same accusation in the US:
Researcher Jennifer Marohasy ... has analysed the raw data from dozens of locations across Australia and matched it against the new data used by BOM showing that temperatures were progressively warming.
In many cases, Dr Marohasy said, temperature trends had changed from slight cooling to dramatic warming over 100 years.
BOM has rejected Dr Marohasy’s claims and said the agency had used world’s best practice and a peer reviewed process to modify the physical temperature records that had been recorded at weather stations across the country.
It said data from a selection of weather stations underwent a process known as “homogenisation” to correct for anomalies.
US measured temperature data (blue below) shows that we have been cooling for nearly a century. But the temperatures reported by NCDC (red below) show the opposite, that the US is warming…(Thanks to readers mem and Konrad.)
They accomplish this transition by an impressive 1.6 degrees of data tampering, which cools the past and warms the present.
Here’s why we really do need to show what the Islamic State does
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (11:12am)
Luke Darcy on Triple M on the Catholic Church not wanting to hand over all Vatican documents relating to pedophile priests:
However some priests of the Catholic Church have betrayed their trust, to liken their church to the Islamic State shows a staggering lack of proportion.
UPDATE
Chris Kenny notes more of the same:
===This is as evil as anything ISIS has got. I promise you.Hyperbole alert:
In some circles it is a sign of virtue to vilify the wrong faith.
However some priests of the Catholic Church have betrayed their trust, to liken their church to the Islamic State shows a staggering lack of proportion.
UPDATE
Chris Kenny notes more of the same:
The liberal Left in the Western world are the “useful idiots” of the Islamist extremists, encouraging us to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil…(Thanks to reader Koze.)
When US journalist James Foley was decapitated in a subhuman act of depravity, the usefuls railed against pictures showing the last moments of his life because they conveyed a sense of the horror to come. “So today The Daily Telegraph becomes an ISIS propagandist, nice work,” tweeted ABC opinion leader Jonathan Green, after the paper published a photo on its front page…
On Radio National the issue du jour was how to deal with the "images" rather than how to prevent more of these acts, let alone how we tackle the global and home-grown Islamist extremism driving these atrocities.
On ABC TV’s Insiders David Marr downplayed the threat embodied by “depraved clown” Khaled Sharrouf and surmised Australians were “not at risk because of this”. Never mind his 150 fellow citizens fighting with the Islamic State, or the hundreds from Indonesia, Britain and Europe. According to Marr, “there is a tide of fear and hatred pulsing out” not from Syria or Iraq but from our media.
Gillard: Rudd too mentally damaged to fight election
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (10:58am)
Yet Labor still brought back as leader a man they thought had been not quite right in the head:
===JULIA Gillard has revealed her belief that Kevin Rudd in office was so deeply damaged in a mental sense that the Labor Party could not risk backing him to the 2010 election as prime minister.
Ms Gillard had decided by early 2010 at a critical Rudd-Gillard meeting on the veranda at Kirribilli House that Mr Rudd “was not in the zone to fight an election campaign”, concluding he was “miserable” and “depressed"…
In an extraordinary description of Mr Rudd before her challenge, Ms Gillard said: “He was miserable. His demeanour in those last few weeks was that everything about the job annoyed him, from the women who put a cup of tea in front of him. He was depressed… I think he had been in pretty bad shape for a long time. Copenhagen really knocked him around… I actually think it was emotionally scarring for him.”
It was an astonishing situation, surely without precedent in our political history. The deputy prime minister had decided the prime minister was not mentally or psychologically equipped to fight Tony Abbott at an election.
The Palmer Family’s Party. No one else gets a say
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (10:53am)
Hedley Thomas describes not a political party but a family business:
===(T)he Palmer United Party ... constitution makes it plain that this is a political party with a unique base. Its rules — and the identities of the family appointees who run its committees — highlight the PUP as an entity owned and ruled by the patriarch with the support of relatives…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
The foundation members are ... Clive Frederick Palmer, Clive Theodore Mensink (nephew), Blair Brewster (nephew), Martin Brewster (nephew), Michael Palmer (son) and Anna Palmer (wife). It takes a majority of the foundation members to expel a member; four could do it over a family dinner.
Power within PUP can be traced to the party’s “Interim Executive Committee’’, which is, perhaps unsurprisingly in a family business, made up of the same six relatives who are the foundation members.
The chairman is Palmer, the national treasurer is his wife Anna; his son Michael makes do with the title of president.
But as rule W3 says, “the chairman is fully authorised to exercise all powers of the Interim Executive Committee and a declaration signed by the Chairman shall be conclusive proof of the subject matter of anything to which it relates”.
It means that if Palmer wants the PUP to do something, he can go ahead and execute without a nod from the family members who comprise the interim executive committee.
He can also “at any time wind up the Party"…
In addition to their other roles, Anna Palmer is also “President of the Palmer United Party Women”, and Michael Palmer is “President of the Young Palmer United Party”.
Gillian Triggs must resign from this witch-hunt
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (10:47am)
Gillian Triggs, president of the Australian Human Rights Commission,
purports to conduct a kind of judicial inquiry into children in
detention.
Her conduct, however, is disgraceful, more akin to holding a kangaroo court. Witnesses are badgered and verballed, false and emotive statements are made from the bench, and Triggs then discusses the evidence and criticises the witnesses in TV interviews outside the on-going hearing.
Triggs should step down. There is no way that her conduct could be deemed fair or impartial. It appears to me beyond serious question that Triggs is holding this inquiry merely to help justify or advertise a conclusion she’s already reached. Her conduct seems to me totally unbefitting someone in charge of an inquiry with the power to compel witnesses to appear and to produce documents under threat of imprisonment.
Roger Franklin:
===Her conduct, however, is disgraceful, more akin to holding a kangaroo court. Witnesses are badgered and verballed, false and emotive statements are made from the bench, and Triggs then discusses the evidence and criticises the witnesses in TV interviews outside the on-going hearing.
Triggs should step down. There is no way that her conduct could be deemed fair or impartial. It appears to me beyond serious question that Triggs is holding this inquiry merely to help justify or advertise a conclusion she’s already reached. Her conduct seems to me totally unbefitting someone in charge of an inquiry with the power to compel witnesses to appear and to produce documents under threat of imprisonment.
Roger Franklin:
The venue for Ms Triggs’ comeuppance was a hearing room where she was attempting to equate the Christmas Island internment centre, where illegal aliens are held while awaiting processing, with prisons where convicted criminals pay their debts to society. Had she been performing for her normal audience, no problem. But this time it was Immigration Scott Morrison, a man of blunt words, and his Departmental Secretary who ruffled the Offence-Taker in Chief…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
The video of their encounter ... [shows] what happens when emotive assertion runs headlong into fact…
Christmas Island and Long Bay Jail are interchangeable, except they aren’t…
(A)nd what about Ms Triggs’ insistence that the landing strip at Christmas island is somehow, you know, an offence against humanity because the tarmac is short-ish and, therefore, using it to ferry internees to mainland medical care jeopardises their human rights! Perhaps, in addition to “casual racism”, we can expect Ms Triggs’ next crusade to oppose “aeronautic racism"…
Just don’t ask her about the 1000-plus men, women and children who perished en route to Christmas Island while the Labor government that appointed her was in office. She never seems to mention that appalling loss of human life. No doubt she finds it deeply and personally offensive.
Hamas praises ‘heroic’ murder of three Jewish hitchhikers. And there’s the difference
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (10:14am)
Here is an illustration of a critical difference between Israel and Hamas - between the rule of law and the rule of terrorists.
When Israeli Jews allegedy killed a Palestinian youth they were publicly damned by Israeli leaders, quickly arrested and charged. If found guilty they face long prison sentences.
When Hamas terrorists and sympathisers earlier killed three Jewish hitchhikers they were publicly praised by Hamas spokesmen and hidden. See, this was an organised Hamas operation, as has now been admitted::
NOTE ALSO:
The video report also talks of Hamas executing so-called collaborators. No wonder journalists embedded in Gaza tend to file stories so helpful to the Hamas war effort.
And the difference between Hamas and the Islamic State?
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How can we trust reports from territory controlled by terrorists?
===When Israeli Jews allegedy killed a Palestinian youth they were publicly damned by Israeli leaders, quickly arrested and charged. If found guilty they face long prison sentences.
When Hamas terrorists and sympathisers earlier killed three Jewish hitchhikers they were publicly praised by Hamas spokesmen and hidden. See, this was an organised Hamas operation, as has now been admitted::
A senior Hamas leader has said the group carried out the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June — the first time anyone from the Islamic militant group has said it was behind an attack that helped spark the current war in the Gaza Strip.Let Hamas apologists here explain this difference.
Saleh Arouri told a conference in Turkey on Wednesday that Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, carried out what he described as a “heroic operation” with the broader goal of sparking a new Palestinian uprising.
“It was an operation by your brothers from the al-Qassam Brigades,” he said, saying Hamas hoped to exchange the youths for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Hamas has repeatedly praised the kidnappings, but Arouri, the group’s exiled West Bank leader, is the first member to claim responsibility. Israel has accused Hamas of orchestrating the kidnappings and identified two operatives as the chief suspects. The two men remain on the loose.
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The video report also talks of Hamas executing so-called collaborators. No wonder journalists embedded in Gaza tend to file stories so helpful to the Hamas war effort.
And the difference between Hamas and the Islamic State?
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How can we trust reports from territory controlled by terrorists?
Journalism ethics professors and historians take note: You are bearing witness, with few exceptions, to some of the most abysmal overseas reporting since Hearst’s New York Journal in 1898 got us into the Spanish-American War and Walter Duranty of the New York Times was ignoring Stalin’s crimes in the 1930s. “We’re not just talking bad journalism,” says Weiss. “We’re talking about journalism that functions as a tool of a terrorist organization, Hamas: breathlessly pushing its narrative, whether cowed by its threats, sympathetic to its cause, or simply ignorant.”(Thanks to readers Allan, Correllio and Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
The Age praises ignorance as bliss if Abbott is dissed
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (9:23am)
Children can be cute, but The Age is plain stupid to treat this 18-year-old as a heroine for badgering Tony Abbott:
So why didn’t The Age in its long piece valorising Veares and mocking Abbott point this out?
Instead, writer Michael Gordon suggests Abbott needs exactly this kind of guru to guide him:
===And the third question? “I wanted to know why most of the budget was being funded by the poorest 20 per cent of the country,” said Veares, who has been living independently from her separated parents for more than two years, and knows more than most Australians about adversity.The poorest 20 per cent don’t fund the Budget at all. They are the biggest takers, not givers. They pay no net tax, but get 42 per cent of the cash benefits.
So why didn’t The Age in its long piece valorising Veares and mocking Abbott point this out?
Instead, writer Michael Gordon suggests Abbott needs exactly this kind of guru to guide him:
If he needs assistance, I can pass on Maddie Veares’s mobile number.Sigh.
What more will it take for Muslim “leaders” to stop pretending there’s no threat?
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (8:33am)
Denialism:
Gerard Henderson discusses one of the fast emerging apologists for extremists - a joint signatory with the radical Sheik Omran and Hizb ut Tahrir of a letter damning the Abbott Government’s attempts to stop terrorism:
===Muslim leaders across Australia have denounced as unjust, unjustified and hypocritical proposed new counter-terrorism laws and they have refused to “rubber-stamp” them for the government…Does this count?:
”There is no solid evidence to substantiate this threat...” the statement reads.
Does this count?
the U.S. government on Friday issued a security bulletin to all U.S. law enforcement in light of the overall threat posed by Islamic State, commonly known as ISIS or ISIL.
The ominous post on Twitter, purportedly from somebody connected with Islamic State, shows a photo of the Old Republic Building, 307 N. Michigan Ave., in Chicago and the White House.
Police and security services are trying to identify a suspected British jihadist who appeared in footage of the killing of a US journalist [James Foley]…Does this, from May, count?
Unconfirmed reports suggest the man in the video - who had an English accent - is from London or south-east England and may have guarded IS captives…
The Guardian said the man was thought to be the leader of a group of British fighters based in Syria. The paper said he called himself “John” and was believed to be from London… BBC world affairs correspondent Rob Watson said sources had confirmed IS had been using three British jihadists to guard foreign prisoners.
A French former jihadist volunteer in Syria has been arrested over last week’s deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.Does this count?
MOHAMED Elomar, one of several Australian jihadists wanted by police for terrorism offences in Syria, appears to have rebooted his online presence, exhorting followers to “get an AK47’’ and mow down supporters of Israel, and promising would-be jihadists access to explosives…Does this count?
Elomar offers to source weapons-grade explosives for Sydney-based extremists. “Anyone in Sydney who is after explosives (dynamite sticks, C4 sticks, orica mine sticks, grenades) lots more. If interested DM (direct message) me.’’
A London woman who travelled to Syria to marry an Islamist militant has said she wants to be the first female jihadist to kill a British or American captive.Does this count?
Glorying in the beheading of James Foley on Twitter, Khadijah Dare asked for links to footage of the brutal murder.
Writing under the name of Muhajirah fi Sham, which means “immigrant in Syria”, she said: “Any links 4 da execution of da journalist plz. Allahu Akbar. UK must b shaking up ha ha. I wna b da 1st UK woman 2 kill a UK or US terorrist!(sic)”.
Dare, who is believed to be around 22 and from Lewisham in south-east London, has a photo of her young son holding an AK47 as her Twitter profile picture.
Does this count?
Farah Mohamed Shirdon, a Calgarian in his early 20s, is fighting overseas with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria…
Before burning his Canadian passport, Shirdon, in full view of the camera lens, issues a threat to Canada, the U.S. and “all oppressors.”
“We are coming and we will destroy you by the will of God,” Shirdon says on the video…
In February, Canadian Security Intelligence Service director Michel Coulombe testified before the Senate national security and defence committee hearing that an estimated 130 Canadians had gone abroad to join terror groups in Syria, Yemen, Somalia and north Africa. Coulombe estimated that some 30 alone had left for the Syria-Iraq area.
Coulombe also announced in late March that CSIS was tracking up to 80 Canadians suspected of having participated in terror activities abroad before returning to Canada.
Does this count?
In a video-clip posted on the Internet on May 17, 2014, a Jihadist from Kosovo, fighting with ISIS in Iraq, brandishes his sword and proclaims: “We shall cleanse the Arabian Peninsula of you, you filth. We shall conquer Jerusalem from you, oh Jews. We shall conquer Rome and Andalusia [Spain], Allah willing.”
About 30 Australians went to fight in Afghanistan, of whom 19 were suspected of involvement in terrorism when they returned home and eight were convicted.Does this count?
All 19 of the 9/11 hijackers, as well as the operatives in the Cole attacks and the African Embassy bombing attended Afghan training camps…UPDATE
The atmosphere of the camps encourged recruits to develop creative ways to create mass murder. The curriculum was based on the ideology that Israel and the United States were evil. Martyrdom was the most highly achieved state which encourged many recruits to volunteer to go on suicide missions.
Gerard Henderson discusses one of the fast emerging apologists for extremists - a joint signatory with the radical Sheik Omran and Hizb ut Tahrir of a letter damning the Abbott Government’s attempts to stop terrorism:
This is what Silma Ihram (nee Anne Beaumont) tweeted at 7.02pm on Wednesday – about 24 hours before her appearance on Paul Murray Live...:
Silma Ihram @Silma_Ihram: JamesFoley – Another terrible tragedy in countries destroyed by US/West intervention. My sad condolences to his family.Now here are some facts. James Foley was murdered by Islamic State Islamists in Syria. The West, including the United States, has not intervened in – or destroyed – Syria. Currently about 170,000 individuals have been killed in the appalling Syrian Civil War – which is essentially a war between Shi’a Muslims supporting the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus and Sunni Muslims attempting to overthrow the al-Assad regime. The so-called Islamic State is a Sunni Islamist organisation.
The Sunni Islamists attempting to establish an Islamic State have been busy murdering Shi’a Muslims, Christians and other religious minorities. They have also murdered some Sunni Muslims who declined to accept their version of the Koran.
As a convert to Islam who has studied the religion, Silma Ihram should know that disputes between Sunni Islam and the minority Shi’a Muslims have gone on for centuries. So have disputes between Islam and Christianity.
Ms Ihram’s tweet is just tosh. James Foley was captured while reporting the civil war between Shi’a and the Sunni. Yet Silma Ihram made no reference to the fact in her tweet or her ... interview on Paul Murray Live.
Abbott sets a standard that Labor now praises
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (8:24am)
Tony Abbott is indeed a
gentleman. I wish I could be confident that the Labor party under
previous leaders would have acted as well had Abbott been the man
accused of rape:
===Senator Conroy said the Coalition had been “very, very reasonable in not outing Bill’s name”.I understand that Labor under this leadership team is very alive to its own obligation to live up to these standards. So maybe some good will come out of this nasty business.
This can’t go on. But Labor, the Greens and Palmer say it must
Andrew Bolt August 23 2014 (6:49am)
Cut the Budget spending now. Demand Labor and Clive Palmer stop being wreckers:
===AUSTRALIANS need to lower their demands for generous government payments if the nation is to bring its finances under control, the Parliamentary Budget Office has warned…
Ringing the alarm on the budget challenge, the independent agency predicts that the cost of major programs — such as childcare, schools and aged care — will keep growing faster than the economy unless parliament votes to curb the outlays.
The report sheds new light on the cost of the Senate impasse on budget reform by predicting that the commonwealth would save $116.6 billion over the coming decade if the government could legislate all its changes…
Federal spending rose by 3.8 per cent a year over the past decade to outpace the 3 per cent growth in the overall economy. This could be brought under control over the next 10 years — with spending growth of 2.4 per cent compared with economic growth of 3 per cent — but only if the budget reforms are passed.
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The God imagined by Atheists is absurd .. and a reminder for the faithful to be humble .. not weak, but humble. Making absurd claims about God is not serving Him well. The Theory of Evolution does not disprove the God of the Bible, but thoroughly illustrates the absurdity of that God Atheists despise. But it illustrates how to approach Islamofascism too .. Evolution does not disprove Islam, unless Islam is what the terrorists claim .. Evolution theory skewers that. - ed
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A LAWYER who lectures at Sydney's College of Law is pretending to be a health worker in a negative Labor TV ad, claiming Tony Abbott will sack her work colleagues.
Eileen Camilleri, who has been involved in legal education for 20 years, appears in medical scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck in a Queensland TV ad designed to scare viewers about cuts to the health system under an Abbott government.
Ms Camilleri tells viewers that Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has cut 14,000 jobs "including people I work with''.
"The local clinic now has reduced hours and the local nursing home has closed down. But to pay for his promises Tony Abbott will make even more cuts,'' she says.
Ms Camilleri lives in Sydney with her husband Marco Piazza, who also is employed at the College of Law.
She has also worked as an actor, appearing in the TV medical drama All Saints in 2004.
A Tony Abbott campaign spokesperson Jamie Briggs said Kevin Rudd was "so fake he's even using fake Queenslanders to repeat his lies".
Queensland Nurses Union assistant secretary Des Elder admitted it would be more effective if the people appearing in Labor's attack ads were real people rather than actors.
"But many people in the medical system would not be comfortable appearing in an ad like this for fear of being intimidated or losing their job,'' he said.
College of Law chief executive Neville Carter said it was important the college was "unequivocally apolitical". "But as long as our organisation is not compromised, we would regard this as a staff member's private arrangement,'' he said.
Ms Camilleri could not be contacted yesterday, but Mr Piazza said his wife "fully supports everything in the ad".
A Labor spokesman said it was "entirely appropriate to use actors in advertising, as has been done by both parties for a very long time".
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The latest flashpoint is a Facebook page set up in Canberra to support an embattled officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The department says the site has threatened and defamed its staff, as well as Labor politicians Bob Carr, Craig Emerson and Richard Marles.
The public servant at the centre of the row, Darrell Morris, was suspended in February and accused of being involved in the Facebook page called ‘‘The Anti-Bullying and Discrimination League of Australia’’.
He is now likely to to lose his job.
But Mr Morris’s father says Darrell was not involved with the page, and denies its comments were threatening or defamatory.
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I have to say thank you to everyone fore the magnificent birthday wishes today! Every time I came by my page there would be a BAZILLION messages wishing me the best. I'm so thankful for such excellent people both in my life and following what I do. Lets hope this next trip around the sun will be a good one for all of us. Thank you everyone, I am humbled.
So, in response, here is a photo I took at sunset that I call Big Sky Arizona. I hope you all enjoy it.
Cheers!
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uh? Al Gore compares global warming skeptics to an ‘alcoholic father’
After a brief hiatus, Al Gore is back on his global warming warpath. After giving a laudatory keynote address at the 2013 Tahoe Summit, the victory lap continued with a lovey-dovey interview the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein.
The former vice president told Klein climate change deniers are like “an alcoholic father who flies into a rage every time a subject is mentioned” and believes his climate ‘science’ has taken a little while to catch on because it is on par with movements such as abolition, civil rights and gay rights, which all gained acceptance over time.
“This is very important. We have to apologize in no uncertain terms to Mister – and do I even dare call him Mister? It’s so beneath him. Sir, even though he’s not been knighted, I think he should be,” Glenn said on radio this morning. “Sir Albert Gore. Boy, was he right. He is now taking credit for how right he is.”
“And you know what,” Pat asked. “We may have been among those mocking him when he said it and yet, I’m ashamed.”
“We are ashamed. We should be ashamed,” Glenn agreed. “Anyway, I don’t know exactly how that works, but it’s really bad, and he has made some predictions. And should we go with the predictions or should we go with him taking the victory lap?”
You can watch Gore’s full remarks from the Tahoe Summit below:
For those of you who don’t have 34 minutes to spend watching Gore recycle his old global warming speeches, one of the themes he attempted to convey was that the models presented in his documentary An Inconvenient Truth have come true years ahead of schedule.
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Frustration hurts. Forgiveness heals. Let it go. Now
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Both the University of Virginia and UPS told their employees recently they are no longer offering spousal coverage to those able to obtain insurance elsewhere.
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Rereading To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout's teacher, heh:
Miss Caroline caught me writing and told me to tell my father to stop teaching me. "Besides," she said. "We don't write in the first grade, we print. You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade."
David Daniel Ball One of the best testaments to Western individualism is the existence of that great book. In the East, if a warlord overthrew an emperor, they would destroy everything that suggested the warlord was ever not chief. But the west keeps records .. if a general took over from a king, they would take and keep the wealth .. providing continuity. In the civil war, General Lee's principled stance in fighting for the south didn't mean he was executed with his family, although his garden was turned into a graveyard. It meant his grand daughter could write that book.
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An open letter to the parents of Chris Lane and citizens of Australia.
Read this heartfelt piece that really tells how Americans feel about Chris Lane's murder...
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This spud is ready for action! The Eleventh Doctor Mr. Potato Head (AKA Mash Smith) is now available. Get your hands on the one and only 'Potato Who' here (Remember it's FREE Delivery Australia Wide!) http://bit.ly/PotatoWho
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Please help support Egyptian Christians. Add an #IamCoptic Twibbon to your profile picture on Facebook and Twitter to spread awareness about the horrible attacks on Christians in Egypt the media isn't reporting.http://twb.ly/1d5f1cY
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Actual happening today in Russia. Landing craft practicing beaching while sunbathers scramble.
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לפני זמן קצר נורו רקטות משטחה של לבנון לגליל המערבי. אנחנו פועלים בכל החזיתות – בצפון ובדרום, כדי להגן על אזרחי ישראל מפני ההתקפות הללו. אנחנו מפעילים אמצעים מגוונים, גם של הגנה וגם של סיכול, ואנחנו פועלים באחריות. המדיניות שלנו ברורה: גם להגן וגם לסכל.
יידע כל מי שפוגע בנו - שאנחנו נפגע בו.
A short time ago rockets were fired from Lebanese territory to the Western Galilee. We are working on all fronts – in the North and the South in order to defend Israeli citizens against these attacks.
We are putting diverse measures both defensive as well as preventive into operation and we are acting responsibly. Our policy is clear: To defend and interdict. Let anyone who harms us and anyone who attempts to harm us know full well that we are going to strike him.
הדיווחים על שימוש אפשרי בנשק כימי בסוריה, מעוררים אפשרות של ביצוע פשע חמור ביותר של המשטר הסורי באזרחיו. המעשה הזה התווסף לפשעים החמורים שהמשטר הסורי מבצע בסיוע איראן וחיזבאללה באזרחי סוריה.
זה אבסורד שחוקרי האו"ם, שנמצאים עכשיו בדמשק, כדי לחקור אפשרות של שימוש בנשק כימי, מנועים על ידי המשטר הסורי מלהגיע לאזורים המוכים. צריך להבין שסוריה היא מגרש הניסויים של איראן.
איראן עוקבת היטב כיצד העולם מגיב לפעולות הנפשעות של סוריה ושל חיזבאללה, הזרוע הקדמית שלה. האירועים האחרונים רק מוכיחים פעם נוספת שאסור שלמשטרים המסוכנים ביותר בעולם, יהיה הנשק המסוכן ביותר בעולם.
The reported use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians is terribly disturbing. If verified, it will be a horrible addition to the roster of tragic crimes committed by the Syrian regime against the people of Syria.
It is absurd that the UN investigators, who are right now in Damascus to verify use of chemical weapons, are prevented from reaching the afflicted areas by the Syrian regime.
Syria has become Iran's testing ground, and Iran is closely watching whether and how the world responds to the atrocities committed by Iran's client state Syria and by Iran's proxy Hezbollah against innocent civilians in Syria. These events prove yet again that we simply cannot allow the world's most dangerous regimes to acquire the world's most dangerous weapons
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO
יידע כל מי שפוגע בנו - שאנחנו נפגע בו.
A short time ago rockets were fired from Lebanese territory to the Western Galilee. We are working on all fronts – in the North and the South in order to defend Israeli citizens against these attacks.
We are putting diverse measures both defensive as well as preventive into operation and we are acting responsibly. Our policy is clear: To defend and interdict. Let anyone who harms us and anyone who attempts to harm us know full well that we are going to strike him.
הדיווחים על שימוש אפשרי בנשק כימי בסוריה, מעוררים אפשרות של ביצוע פשע חמור ביותר של המשטר הסורי באזרחיו. המעשה הזה התווסף לפשעים החמורים שהמשטר הסורי מבצע בסיוע איראן וחיזבאללה באזרחי סוריה.
זה אבסורד שחוקרי האו"ם, שנמצאים עכשיו בדמשק, כדי לחקור אפשרות של שימוש בנשק כימי, מנועים על ידי המשטר הסורי מלהגיע לאזורים המוכים. צריך להבין שסוריה היא מגרש הניסויים של איראן.
איראן עוקבת היטב כיצד העולם מגיב לפעולות הנפשעות של סוריה ושל חיזבאללה, הזרוע הקדמית שלה. האירועים האחרונים רק מוכיחים פעם נוספת שאסור שלמשטרים המסוכנים ביותר בעולם, יהיה הנשק המסוכן ביותר בעולם.
The reported use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians is terribly disturbing. If verified, it will be a horrible addition to the roster of tragic crimes committed by the Syrian regime against the people of Syria.
It is absurd that the UN investigators, who are right now in Damascus to verify use of chemical weapons, are prevented from reaching the afflicted areas by the Syrian regime.
Syria has become Iran's testing ground, and Iran is closely watching whether and how the world responds to the atrocities committed by Iran's client state Syria and by Iran's proxy Hezbollah against innocent civilians in Syria. These events prove yet again that we simply cannot allow the world's most dangerous regimes to acquire the world's most dangerous weapons
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO
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PEDOPHILIA, INCEST, AND GRAPHIC SEX: EXCERPTS FROM A COMMON CORE READING LIST BOOK FOR 11TH-GRADERS THAT WILL MAKE YOU BLUSH
Editor’s note: The following story contains graphic language. Discretion is advised.
Common Core, the controversial set of education standards being pushed by many state governors and education leaders, is coming under fire for its selection of a book that’s on the suggested reading list for 11th graders (i.e. 16- and 17-year-olds). The book — a past selection of Oprah’s Book Club — has graphic sex scenes and descriptions that are likely to make you blush.
The work in question comes from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Listed on a Common Core reading list linked on the website, “The Bluest Eye” carries this description from the curriculum’s preferred bookseller: An Eleven-Year-Old African-American Girl In Ohio, In The Early 1940s, Prays For Her Eyes To Turn Blue So That She Will Be Beautiful.
That description sounds tame and appears to be a solid lesson about the problems of desiring beauty over anything else. And if you read the Common Core website, here’s an excerpt from the 11th grade exemplar text:
One winter Pauline discovered she was pregnant. When she told Cholly, he surprised her by being pleased. He began to drink less and come home more often. They eased back into a relationship more like the early days of their marriage, when he asked if she were tired or wanted him to bring her something from the store. In this state of ease, Pauline stopped doing day work and returned to her own housekeeping. But the loneliness in those two rooms had not gone away. When the winter sun hit the peeling green paint of the kitchen chairs, when the smoked hocks were boiling in the pot, when all she could hear was the truck delivering furniture downstairs, she thought about back home, about how she had been all alone most of the time then too, but that this lonesomeness was different. Then she stopped staring at the green chairs, at the delivery truck; she went to the movies instead. There in the dark her memory was refreshed, and she succumbed to her earlier dreams. Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another—physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion. In equating physical beauty with virtue, she stripped her mind, bound it, and collected self-contempt by the heap. She forgot lust and simple caring for. She regarded love as possessive mating, and romance as the goal of the spirit. It would be for her a well-spring from which she would draw the most destructive emotions, deceiving the lover and seeking to imprison the beloved, curtailing freedom in every way.
Keep in mind, that is an excerpt, selected by Common Core. And when they publish these online, they are accompanied by this statement: (emphasis added)
When excerpts appear, they serve only as stand-ins for the full text. The Standards require that students engage with appropriately complex literary and informational works; such complexity is best found in whole texts rather than passages from such texts.
Again, when you read the selected passage, a couple of things stand out — Morrison’s powerful command of the written word cannot be denied and the story appears to teach that over-the-top devotion to physical beauty is “one of the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.” But the snippet posted above is just the excerpt presented online for teachers and interested parents to peruse and doesn’t mention what else is between the pages.
What else is in there? Simply: The the entire book has numerous questionable sexual sections that may not be appropriate for minors.
Macey France, a writer for the online site Politichicks, actually combed the entire text of “The Bluest Eye” and catalogued some of the more offensive and questionable parts. And they are graphic:
Pages 84-85: “He must enter her surreptitiously, lifting the hem of her nightgown only to her navel. He must rest his weight on his elbows when they make love, to avoid hurting her breasts…When she senses some spasm about to grip him, she will make rapid movements with her hips, press her fingernails into his back, suck in her breath, and pretend she is having an orgasm. She might wonder again, for the six hundredth time, what it would be like to have that feeling while her husband’s penis is inside her.”Pages 130-131: “Then he will lean his head down and bite my t** . . . I want him to put his hand between my legs, I want him to open them for me. . . I stretch my legs open, and he is on top of me…He would die rather than take his thing out of me. Of me. I take my fingers out of his and put my hands on his behind…”Pages 148-149: “With a violence born of total helplessness, he pulled her dress up, lowered his trousers and underwear. ‘I said get on wid it. An’make it good, n*****, Come on c***. Faster. You ain’t doing nothing for her.’ He almost wished he could do it—hard, long, and painfully, he hated her so much.”
Pages 162-163: “A bolt of desire ran down his genitals…and softening the lips of his anus. . . . He wanted to f*** her—tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her vagina was more than he could bear. His soul seemed to slip down his guts and fly out into her, and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made. Removing himself from her was so painful to him he cut it short and snatched his genitals out of the dry harbor of her vagina. She appeared to have fainted.”Page 174: “He further limited his interests to little girls. They were usually manageable . . . His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness.” And later, this same pedophile notes, “I work only through the Lord. He sometimes uses me to help people.”Page 181: “The little girls are the only things I’ll miss. Do you know that when I touched their sturdy little t*** and bit them—just a little—I felt I was being friendly?—If I’d been hurting them, would they have come back? . . . they’d eat ice cream with their legs open while I played with them. It was like a party.”
Those six graphic excerpts cover incest, rape and pedophilia. In her research on the book in question, Macey France also exposes some pretty shocking support for those topics, from the author herself:
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.
The presence of the book on Common Core’s list, combined with Morrison’s descriptions of incest, rape, and pedophilia as “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender” have sparked outrage in some communities. Parents in one Colorado school district are petitioning for the removal of “developmentally inappropriate and graphical content from the instructional reading list.” They are not asking for the book to be banned or even removed from the library, just taken off the suggested reading list.
Ms. France also cites a 2011 Harris poll on the banning of books and limiting of certain types of books in school libraries. In that poll, Harris showed:
- 83% say children should be able to get The Holy Bible
- 76% support access to books that discuss evolution from school libraries
- 62% say books with explicit language should not be available to children in school libraries.
With an overwhelming majority of parents supporting restricting – but not banning – young student’s access to books with explicit or questionable content, should Common Core pull this book from it’s list of exemplars? We invite you to participate in our Blaze Poll and comment below.
Follow Mike Opelka on Twitter – @stuntbrain
A young white male was walking to his car on a city street late at night on August 12 when he was confronted by a trio of black individuals. They shot him dead. Police have arrested three people and charged them with first degree murder. But some in the victim’s family can’t understand why the shooting is being called a failed robbery when they say the evidence suggests something possibly more sinister: a hate crime.
David Santucci, 27, had just started his new job as a nurse. According to his family, “he was an awesome guy…he wanted to be a missionary…he wanted to help people.”
The murder happened in Memphis, TN less than two weeks ago. Santucci was killed by a single 9mm shot through his heart. To its credit, the Memphis police department apprehended the suspects in less than fifteen minutes. Various reports say that all three suspects made statements that implicated them in Santucci’s murder. And they’re calling it a robbery gone wrong.
Miguel De Diago is one family member who doubts this killing was a failed robbery. He’s the the brother-in-law of David Santucci and told TheBlaze some stuff just doesn’t add up.
The first and foremost question in De Diago’s mind: If this was a robbery, why did his brother-in-law still have his wallet, car keys, and cell phone? Nothing was taken from him. And witnesses confirm that.
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With the Chinese boom slowing and resources companies being lured to invest in other countries, this could be one of the Greens’ most irresponsible policies.
You can’t tax a nation into prosperity. Join my fight against the Greens todayhttp://ow.ly/nCMYg
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Diogo Morgado and Roma Downey bond during a break from filming 'The Bible' in Morocco.
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Wait - What? Chris Matthews Says Republicans Call Obama 'Obama' To 'Delegitimize' Him===
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US Campaign for Burma.
Check out this profile on currently jailed Kachin activist Bawk Jar from The Freedom Collection.
"As an ethnic minority woman working for human rights in a community dominated by traditional Kachin leaders and a country dominated by the military, Bawk Jar’s activism has always stood apart."
"How Bawk Jar’s case is resolved will be an important test of whether Burma’s government is really changing its ways. Likewise, how the international community responds to her arrest will say a lot about the standards by which it is judging Burma’s unfinished transition."
"How Bawk Jar’s case is resolved will be an important test of whether Burma’s government is really changing its ways. Likewise, how the international community responds to her arrest will say a lot about the standards by which it is judging Burma’s unfinished transition."
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Thanks to Obamacare, a number of businesses across the country have drastically reduced their employees’ hours to avoid the steep costs of the employer mandate. Last night I spoke to Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren about the dangerous shift to a part-time economy.
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#BDS claim a victory in stopping #SalifKeita from appearing in Israel. The claims are of joining the cultural boycott against Israel, however the Salif Keita foundation published a statement exposing BDS's true colours.
#BDSFail #BDSLies #Violence
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Politics 101. Remember to always double-check your backdrop when posing for selfies.
*Credits: A. Ellinghausen, Fairfax
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The strange death of the British middle class - The Spectator
"The great stabilising force in our society is disappearing fast" - Ed West and Fraser Nelson
http://paper.li/allysonchristy/1375928094
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The average American household is making less now than at the end of the Great Recession four years ago.
That's the President's idea of improving the economy?
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שבת שלום
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Don Kramer 2008: Caitlin Hill, Natalie Tran of course (communitychannel) and I think Molly who later became known for her work on the vlog Rocketboom.
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Eighteen vulvas. All belong to women of Sydney Uni. Why are they on the cover of Honi Soit?
We are tired of society giving us a myriad of things to feel about our own bodies. We are tired of having to attach anxiety to our vaginas. We are tired of vaginas being either artificially sexualised (see: porn) or stigmatised (see: censorship and airbrushing). We are tired of being pressured to be sexual, and then being shamed for being sexual.
The vaginas on the cover are not sexual. We are not always sexual. The vagina should and can be depicted in a non-sexual way – it’s just another body part. “Look at your hand, then look at your vagina,” said one participant in the project. “Can we really be so naïve to believe our vaginas the dirtiest, sexiest parts of our body?”
We refuse to manipulate our bodies to conform to your expectations of beauty. How often do you see an ungroomed vulva in an advertisement, a sex scene, or in a porno? Depictions of female genitalia in culture provide unrealistic images that most women are unable to live up to. “Beautiful vaginas are depicted as soft, hairless, and white. The reality is that my vagina is dark and hairy, and when it isn’t it is pinkish and prickly,” said one of the participants in the project. We believe that the fact that more than 1200 Australian women a year get labioplasty is a symptom of a serious problem. How can society both refuse to look at our body part, call it offensive, and then demand it look a certain way?
We want to feel normal; we don’t want to feel fearful when we have a first sexual counter with a partner who may judge us because of our vaginas. That fear was replicated during our photo shoot. “Just before getting the picture taken the little voice in my head was doing the whole ‘why didn’t you landscape?’ thing,” said one woman. This sentiment was shared by most people in the project – we felt a pressure to present our vaginas to the world in a way that the audience would be ‘comfortable’ with. But this cover is intended to reassure other women. Take comfort form the fact that everyone’s vagina is different, and that everyone’s is normal.
There was a selfish element to this cover. The participants have benefited from a sense of liberation. “It was a big ‘fuck you’ to all of the ideals, all of the shame, all of the hurtful lies that we are told about ourselves day in and day out,” summarised one woman.
All the women on the cover have been unified through their experience, but so is every other person that is able to defeat any negative feelings they have towards their own or another vagina. As one participant put it: “When it comes down to it, my vagina is just another part of my body, which can be viewed in a number of different ways, but the majority of the time is completely neutral, just like my mouth or my hands. It is not something to be ashamed of; it is not my dirty secret.”
It’s telling that the women who participated in the creation of this cover found the experience to be liberating. It’s because we need liberation. Just before we went to print, we were told that our cover was illegal, possibly criminal. But why? According to the SRC’s legal advice, this publication might be “obscene” or “indecent”, likely to cause offence to a “reasonable adult”. But what is offensive or obscene about a body part that over half of the Australian population have? Why can’t we talk about it – why can’t we see it? Why is that penises are scrawled in graffiti all around the world, but we can’t bear to look at vaginas?
Art exhibitions over the last few decades have attempted to break down the stigma attached to the vagina by bringing its realistic depiction into the public sphere, most recently in Redfern. But the audience must first choose to go to the exhibition. By distributing this cover about the University, we have given our audience no choice. Either accept vaginas as normal, non-threatening, and not disgusting, or explain why you can’t.
Here they are, flaps and all. Don’t you dare tell me my body offends you.
We acknowledge that the notion of vaginas pertaining exclusively to women is a very cisgendered conception of anatomy and identity. While vaginas often belong to cisgender women, this is not always the case. What we are discussing here is the experience of having a vagina, in an ungendered way. This experience is different for everyone. The term “cisgender” refers to the gender identity of individuals whose birth-assigned gender is in alignment with their current gender identity.
Lily was one of 18 young women who agreed to have their vaginas photographed and published on the cover of a student newspaper at the University of Sydney.
Four thousand copies of the Honi Soit paper were confiscated by the university's Student Representative Council after an edition was distributed featuring uncensored vaginas on the front cover.
The cover was supposed to make women feel better about their own bodies by showing them what normal vaginas look like.
"We are tired of society giving us a myriad of things to feel about our own bodies," the editors of Honi Soit said on Facebook. "We are tired of having to attach anxiety to our vaginas."
Social media was soon set alight under the hashtag #vaginasoit, drawing both praise and condemnation.
Lily, an 18-year-old student at the university, has no regrets. In fact, she's proud of her contribution to the controversial campaign.
"I'm proud to be a part of the project because I've already had women come up to me and thank me for helping them in the process of coming to terms with their own bodies, and how in some ways they don't fit the porn-standardised lie, but are still normal and still beautiful," Lily told news.com.au .
"To me the cover was honest. Every woman involved in the project and quoted in the article was speaking from their heart," she said.
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August 23: Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism/Black Ribbon Day in Canada, the European Union and the United States
- 1514 – Ottoman forces defeated the Safavidsat the Battle of Chaldiran, gaining control of eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq.
- 1873 – The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened.
- 1914 – In their first major action of the First World War, theBritish Expeditionary Force defeated German troops in Mons, Belgium.
- 1944 – King Michael dismissed the pro-Axis government of General Ion Antonescu, putting Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of World War II.
- 1989 – Singing Revolution: Approximately two million peoplejoined hands (pictured) to form an over 600 km (370 mi) longhuman chain across the Estonian, Latvian and LithuanianSoviet republics to demonstrate their respective desires for independence.
“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” Romans 8:32 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love."
Song of Solomon 5:8
Song of Solomon 5:8
Such is the language of the believer panting after present fellowship with Jesus, he is sick for his Lord. Gracious souls are never perfectly at ease except they are in a state of nearness to Christ; for when they are away from him they lose their peace. The nearer to him, the nearer to the perfect calm of heaven; the nearer to him, the fuller the heart is, not only of peace, but of life, and vigour, and joy, for these all depend on constant intercourse with Jesus. What the sun is to the day, what the moon is to the night, what the dew is to the flower, such is Jesus Christ to us. What bread is to the hungry, clothing to the naked, the shadow of a great rock to the traveller in a weary land, such is Jesus Christ to us; and, therefore, if we are not consciously one with him, little marvel if our spirit cries in the words of the Song, "I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, tell him that I am sick of love." This earnest longing after Jesus has a blessing attending it: "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness"; and therefore, supremely blessed are they who thirst after the Righteous One. Blessed is that hunger, since it comes from God: if I may not have the full-blown blessedness of being filled, I would seek the same blessedness in its sweet bud-pining in emptiness and eagerness till I am filled with Christ. If I may not feed on Jesus, it shall be next door to heaven to hunger and thirst after him. There is a hallowedness about that hunger, since it sparkles among the beatitudes of our Lord. But the blessing involves a promise. Such hungry ones "shall be filled" with what they are desiring. If Christ thus causes us to long after himself, he will certainly satisfy those longings; and when he does come to us, as come he will, oh, how sweet it will be!
Evening
"The unsearchable riches of Christ."
Ephesians 3:8
Ephesians 3:8
My Master has riches beyond the count of arithmetic, the measurement of reason, the dream of imagination, or the eloquence of words. They are unsearchable! You may look, and study, and weigh, but Jesus is a greater Saviour than you think him to be when your thoughts are at the greatest. My Lord is more ready to pardon than you to sin, more able to forgive than you to transgress. My Master is more willing to supply your wants than you are to confess them. Never tolerate low thoughts of my Lord Jesus. When you put the crown on his head, you will only crown him with silver when he deserves gold. My Master has riches of happiness to bestow upon you now. He can make you to lie down in green pastures, and lead you beside still waters. There is no music like the music of his pipe, when he is the Shepherd and you are the sheep, and you lie down at his feet. There is no love like his, neither earth nor heaven can match it. To know Christ and to be found in him--oh! this is life, this is joy, this is marrow and fatness, wine on the lees well refined. My Master does not treat his servants churlishly; he gives to them as a king giveth to a king; he gives them two heavens--a heaven below in serving him here, and a heaven above in delighting in him forever. His unsearchable riches will be best known in eternity. He will give you on the way to heaven all you need; your place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks, your bread shall be given you, and your waters shall be sure; but it is there, there, where you shall hear the song of them that triumph, the shout of them that feast, and shall have a face-to-face view of the glorious and beloved One. The unsearchable riches of Christ! This is the tune for the minstrels of earth, and the song for the harpers of heaven. Lord, teach us more and more of Jesus, and we will tell out the good news to others.
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Today's reading: Psalm 110-112, 1 Corinthians 5 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 110-112
1 The LORD says to my lord:
"Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet."
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet."
2 The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
"Rule in the midst of your enemies!"
3 Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning's womb.
"Rule in the midst of your enemies!"
3 Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning's womb.
4 The LORD has sworn
and will not change his mind:
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
and will not change his mind:
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 5
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father's wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord....
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Jemima
Scripture Reference - Job 42:14
Name Meaning - A little dove
Several commentators refer to Job's three daughters as those who were born to him after the return to his prosperity. The same is said of the seven sons born to him following his restoration to peace after severe trials, but are not the three daughters, "the three sisters" (1:4) who are assumed to have been destroyed when a hurricane destroyed their home? Although the sons and daughters were eating and drinking together before the storm struck (1:18), when it did fall upon the house we read that it "fell upon the young men , and they are dead" (1:19). There is no mention, however, of their "sisters" being killed with these young men. Are we justified in affirming that "the young men" who perished, were Job's sons? Then, seeing 1:2 is identical with 42:13 are we not right in affirming that the more Job had at his latter end refers only to the material blessings of sheep, camels, oxen and asses (42:12), and not to added children? If children were included in the statement "The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before" (42:10), and his original seven sons and three daughters (1:2) were all killed by the hurricane that destroyed his house, livestock and servants, then we should read after his restoration to health and prosperity when his latter end was blessed more than his beginning - "He had also fourteen sons and six daughters." But the verse said, "He had (past tense) seven sons and three daughters." If all these whom the Lord gave were taken away, then it would be a most remarkable coincidence indeed if He gave Job at the end of his trials exactly the same number of children again. Certainly Job was blessed in this area also seeing he lived to love four generations springing from his original seven sons and three daughters. The writer adds to the original mention of three daughters, their names and facts about their beauty and inheritance. The sons' names are not mentioned.
Jemima, the name of the eldest daughter, is reckoned to have an Arabic association meaning "a little dove." Says Wilkinson, "the name, like those of her two sisters, is apparently due to some trivial occurrence, or experience, connected with early infancy...." The Septuagint renders Jemima as derived from the Hebrew word for "day," so that her name could mean "bright or beautiful as day." The three daughters were unsurpassed in their beauty in all the land (42:15). Jemama, a central province of Arabia, was so named by the Arabs, tradition says, in honor of Job's first daughter.
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Eutychus
[Eū'ty̆chŭs] - happy or fortunate. A young man of Troas who fell asleep during Paul's long sermon, fell off his window seat, broke his neck and was taken up as dead. Paul, however, revived him (Acts 20:7-12). Dr. Alexander Whyte speaks of Eutychus as "the father of all such as fall asleep under sermons."
[Eū'ty̆chŭs] - happy or fortunate. A young man of Troas who fell asleep during Paul's long sermon, fell off his window seat, broke his neck and was taken up as dead. Paul, however, revived him (Acts 20:7-12). Dr. Alexander Whyte speaks of Eutychus as "the father of all such as fall asleep under sermons."
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