At the battle of Lechfield in 955 Hungarians claimed to be Europeans, Germans disputed it, and won. In 991 at the Battle of Maldon, in Essex, Vikings faced Aethelred the Unready and won 3,300 Kg of silver. In 1270 Yekuno Amlak took the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum. In 1316, the second battle of Athenry between Irish forces resulted in an Irish loss. No survivors wrote an account. Many lost their heads. In 1512, at the Battle of Saint-Mathieu, England's Henry VIII had a naval victory, but both the flagships blew up. Possibly the first engagement using port cannon. In 1519 Magellan set off on a round the world trip. He died en-route. His birthplace is disputed as to changeovers between Spain and Portugal. He might have been Palestinian. In 1628, Sweden built the magnificent Vasa, which sank twenty mites into her maiden voyage. In 1675, desperate to know the correct time, the cornerstone to Royal Greenwich Observatory was laid. In 1776, the Declaration of independence reached London. In 1792 in the French Revolution Louis XVI was arrested and his entire bodyguard killed. The next year, the Musée du Louvre was opened. In 1846, the Smithsonian was chartered by the US Congress. In 1904 the Russians and Japanese faced off at the Battle of Yellow Sea and had a draw. In 1932, a meteorite weighing 5.1kg landed in Missouri. In 1948, Candid Camera made a tv debut a year after Candid Microphone began on Radio. In 1969, A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. In 1977, David Berkowitz was arrested, he was called the Son of Sam, and he had killed people at random. In 1981, the head of Adam Walsh was found. Adam was six years old and his death prompted his dad to start America's Most Wanted. In 1988, Reagan began paying compensation to living Japanese Americans detained in WW2 by signing the Civil Liberties act of 1988. In 1990, the Magellan space probe reached Venus, four hundred and seventy one years after Magellan set forth on a circumnavigation. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholls were indicted for the Oklahoma Bombing. In 2003, the highest temperature ever recorded in the UK, 38.5 degrees centigrade was reached. It has been cooler ever since. On the same day, a couple married in space, but there is no evidence they were gay.
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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.
===1270 – Yekuno Amlak deposed the last Zagwe king and seized the imperial throne of Ethiopia, beginning the reign of the Solomonic dynasty that would last for more than 700 years.
1793 – The Louvre officially opened in Paris with an exhibition of 537 paintings.
1861 – American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.
1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central modern-day Vietnam.
1988 – Japanese American internment: The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing US$20,000 in reparations to each surviving internee. Forget Zagwe .. yesteryear. The Louvre opened despite the depredations of revolution. It isn't our battles which define us before God, but our choices.
Matches
- 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
- 991 – Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikingsnear Maldon, Essex.
- 1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum.
- 1316 – The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.
- 1512 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
- 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second in commandJuan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
- 1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
- 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
- 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
- 1680 – The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
- 1755 – Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
- 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
- 1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
- 1813 – Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera. It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means "Work conquers all things".
- 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
- 1899 – the Norwegian football club Viking FK was founded.
- 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
- 1913 – Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
- 1932 – A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
- 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
- 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
- 1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
- 1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
- 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
- 1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
- 1978 – Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
- 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found. This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted.
- 1988 – Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
- 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
- 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
- 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).
- 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
Hatches
- 941 – Lê Hoàn, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1005)
- 1267 – James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
- 1560 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German organist and composer (d. 1629)
- 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
- 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English organist and composer (d. 1802)
- 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour (d. 1754)
- 1814 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (d. 1890)
- 1821 – Jay Cooke, American financier, founded Jay Cooke & Company (d. 1905)
- 1845 – Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet, composer, and philosopher (d. 1904)
- 1856 – William Willett, English builder, founded British Summer Time (d. 1915)
- 1865 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1936)
- 1874 – Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
- 1889 – Charles Darrow, American game designer, created Monopoly (d. 1967)
- 1898 – Jack Haley, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
- 1909 – Leo Fender, American businessman, founded Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (d. 1991)
- 1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- 1928 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman, founded the Jimmy Dean Food Company (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Gus Mercurio, American-Australian actor (d. 2010)
- 1940 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (The Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
- 1943 – Ronnie Spector, American singer-songwriter (The Ronettes)
- 1947 – Ian Anderson, Scottish singer-songwriter, flautist and guitarist (Jethro Tull)
- 1959 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress, director, and producer
- 1960 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor, singer, and producer
- 1965 – Claudia Christian, American actress and singer
- 1972 – Jake Adam York, American poet and educator (d. 2012)
- 1978 – Claire Yiu, Hong Kong model and actress
- 1981 – Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, Morning Musume Sakuragumi, Def.Diva, and Nochiura Natsumi)
- 1992 – Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
- 1993 – Yuto Nakajima, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor (Hey! Say! JUMP)
- 1998 – Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess player
Despatches
- 258 – Lawrence of Rome, Spanish-Italian deacon and saint (b. 225)
- 1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
- 1862 – Honinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
- 1932 – Rin Tin Tin, American acting dog (b. 1918)
- 1976 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
- 2008 – Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (b. 1942)
Labor, Greens prove themselves to be slaves to terrorists
Piers Akerman – Sunday, August 10, 2014 (6:51am)
LABOR, Greens and what passes for leadership in Australia’s Muslim community are united in opposition to a new suite of anti-terrorism laws proposed by the federal government to deal with the threat posed by jihadists returning from foreign conflicts.
The Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammed has called on “all fair-minded Australians” to support a Muslim-driven campaign against the draft laws.
The ubiquitous Keysar Trad from the Sydney-based Lebanese Muslim Association has called the federal government’s plans to beef up terror laws "deplorable" and “divisive”.
The Greens and Labor, which are both also trying to curry favour with the Muslim community and woo their inner-urban constituents, have expressed their opposition to the suggested changes. The Greens could never be relied upon to put matters of national security foremost.
Labor, however, has supporters in mainstream Australia who would be dismayed to learn their party’s leadership has now committed itself to the elitist view that national security is part of a conservative conspiracy, and that the party’s political interests are better served pandering to minority ethnic communities.
Moreover, the proposed changes — particularly those relating to the retention of metadata records — are not dissimilar to plans circulated by the former Labor attorney-general Nicola Roxon two years ago.
\On Friday, the director-general of ASIO David Irvine and the deputy commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Andrew Colvin tried to address some of the misinformation the ABC and Fairfax media have been promulgating.
The principal points Irvine made was that though the current terrorism threat level is “medium”, that is, a terrorist attack is likely and could occur, there is increased concern that there could be multiple attacks in “a dozen different places”.
With as many as 150 Australian-born jihadists fighting in Syria and elsewhere with murderous terrorist organisations, he did not need to expand on the nature of the threat.
Both men stressed that the changes they sought from the government were necessary, in line with international security requirements, and essential to meet the changing communications technologies.
They were, said Irvine, an “absolutely crucial tool to protect Australia and Australians”.
Colvin used the identification and capture of ABC staffer Jill Meagher’s killer as an example of the use of metadata to illustrate the need to access stored communications information. Without accessing the metadata, he said police “would not have solved the crime as quickly as we did”.
With evil braggarts including convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elo-mar, who was pictured holding the severed heads of Syrian government soldiers, threatening to enact the same sort of horrific crimes in Australia, the need to give the security authorities the assistance they seek is obvious.
But they both also stressed that such material was also valuable in eliminating suspects from suspicion.
Which leaves the civil liberty argument and the discrimination argument mounted by the Muslims, Labor and the Greens looking pathetic.
The proposals do not represent an expansion of powers, rather they are designed to ensure that the data currently available remains available.
With evil braggarts including convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elo-mar, who was pictured holding the severed heads of Syrian government soldiers, threatening to enact the same sort of horrific crimes in Australia, the need to give the security authorities the assistance they seek is obvious.
Labor and the Greens can suffer whatever electoral backlash occurs when one of the nut jobs breaches the security barrier, and there have been a number of horrendous attacks thwarted through good intelligence and policing.
The Muslim community, which is by no means homogeneous, must at some time confront the core differences between Islamic philosophy and Western culture.
Those who support a global caliphate, the goal of many of the jihadists, have no place in Australia. Their ideology is obviously at odds with the goals of a liberal democracy.
For too long our liberalism has meant that we have been excessively tolerant of the intolerant.
Nor should the ongoing Gaza situation influence Australian Muslims.
Hamas is a terrorist organisation, it is proscribed by our laws, its supporters are just as opposed to the values of our nation as they are dedicated to the murder of every Jew and the extinction of Israel.
As the Hamas constitution, or charter — never rescinded nor amended since it was first published in 1988 — says: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
Hamas defines its struggle as “against the Jews,” who are “smitten with vileness wheresoever they are found”.
If our security agencies need the tools to deal with those who foster such sentiment and support terrorism, they should have them.
The Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammed has called on “all fair-minded Australians” to support a Muslim-driven campaign against the draft laws.
The ubiquitous Keysar Trad from the Sydney-based Lebanese Muslim Association has called the federal government’s plans to beef up terror laws "deplorable" and “divisive”.
The Greens and Labor, which are both also trying to curry favour with the Muslim community and woo their inner-urban constituents, have expressed their opposition to the suggested changes. The Greens could never be relied upon to put matters of national security foremost.
Labor, however, has supporters in mainstream Australia who would be dismayed to learn their party’s leadership has now committed itself to the elitist view that national security is part of a conservative conspiracy, and that the party’s political interests are better served pandering to minority ethnic communities.
Moreover, the proposed changes — particularly those relating to the retention of metadata records — are not dissimilar to plans circulated by the former Labor attorney-general Nicola Roxon two years ago.
\On Friday, the director-general of ASIO David Irvine and the deputy commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Andrew Colvin tried to address some of the misinformation the ABC and Fairfax media have been promulgating.
The principal points Irvine made was that though the current terrorism threat level is “medium”, that is, a terrorist attack is likely and could occur, there is increased concern that there could be multiple attacks in “a dozen different places”.
With as many as 150 Australian-born jihadists fighting in Syria and elsewhere with murderous terrorist organisations, he did not need to expand on the nature of the threat.
Both men stressed that the changes they sought from the government were necessary, in line with international security requirements, and essential to meet the changing communications technologies.
They were, said Irvine, an “absolutely crucial tool to protect Australia and Australians”.
Colvin used the identification and capture of ABC staffer Jill Meagher’s killer as an example of the use of metadata to illustrate the need to access stored communications information. Without accessing the metadata, he said police “would not have solved the crime as quickly as we did”.
With evil braggarts including convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elo-mar, who was pictured holding the severed heads of Syrian government soldiers, threatening to enact the same sort of horrific crimes in Australia, the need to give the security authorities the assistance they seek is obvious.
But they both also stressed that such material was also valuable in eliminating suspects from suspicion.
Which leaves the civil liberty argument and the discrimination argument mounted by the Muslims, Labor and the Greens looking pathetic.
The proposals do not represent an expansion of powers, rather they are designed to ensure that the data currently available remains available.
With evil braggarts including convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elo-mar, who was pictured holding the severed heads of Syrian government soldiers, threatening to enact the same sort of horrific crimes in Australia, the need to give the security authorities the assistance they seek is obvious.
Labor and the Greens can suffer whatever electoral backlash occurs when one of the nut jobs breaches the security barrier, and there have been a number of horrendous attacks thwarted through good intelligence and policing.
The Muslim community, which is by no means homogeneous, must at some time confront the core differences between Islamic philosophy and Western culture.
Those who support a global caliphate, the goal of many of the jihadists, have no place in Australia. Their ideology is obviously at odds with the goals of a liberal democracy.
For too long our liberalism has meant that we have been excessively tolerant of the intolerant.
Nor should the ongoing Gaza situation influence Australian Muslims.
Hamas is a terrorist organisation, it is proscribed by our laws, its supporters are just as opposed to the values of our nation as they are dedicated to the murder of every Jew and the extinction of Israel.
As the Hamas constitution, or charter — never rescinded nor amended since it was first published in 1988 — says: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
Hamas defines its struggle as “against the Jews,” who are “smitten with vileness wheresoever they are found”.
If our security agencies need the tools to deal with those who foster such sentiment and support terrorism, they should have them.
Unholy alliance fighting Australian terror laws
Miranda Devine – Sunday, August 10, 2014 (11:26am)
IT IS now a fact of life in Sydney that armed guards have to escort Jewish children to school. Much as we would wish it otherwise, the war drums of ancient Middle East conflicts have already come to Australia.
And none is so lethal as the threat of jihadists radicalised by the barbaric slaughter in Iraq and Syria.
Why, then, would any sane, loyal Australian oppose the government’s proposed modest modifications to anti-terrorism laws.
And none is so lethal as the threat of jihadists radicalised by the barbaric slaughter in Iraq and Syria.
Why, then, would any sane, loyal Australian oppose the government’s proposed modest modifications to anti-terrorism laws.
Continue reading 'Unholy alliance fighting Australian terror laws'RACER HIT
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 10, 2014 (5:14pm)
This is horrifying:
(UPDATE. I’ve taken down the video following news of the driver’s death. Those who wish to see it may hit the above link.)
Kevin Ward Jr is the struck driver. NASCAR’s Tony Stewart is behind the wheel of the sprintcar that hit him. ESPNreports:
(UPDATE. I’ve taken down the video following news of the driver’s death. Those who wish to see it may hit the above link.)
Kevin Ward Jr is the struck driver. NASCAR’s Tony Stewart is behind the wheel of the sprintcar that hit him. ESPNreports:
Authorities say they are investigating the crash at Canandaigua Motorsports Park …Michael Messerly, a fan who witnessed the crash, said it appeared Stewart – racing there on the eve of a race at Watkins Glen – hit a driver who was walking on the dimly lit track after they had collided on the previous lap.He said Stewart struck the driver, who was wearing a dark racing suit, as he tried to “speed past” him.“I didn’t see (the other driver) anymore,” he said. “It just seemed like he was suddenly gone.”Messerly said the crash appeared to be the result of “a number of bad decisions” and not “any intent on Tony Stewart’s part.”
Ward’s injuries are said to be life-threatening. Further news here.
UPDATE. Charlotte Observer reporter Jim Utter:
Driver Kevin Ward Jr. was dead on arrival at the hospital.
Jalopnik’s Matt Hardigree:
Stewart appears to me to have clearly gunned the engine (with what intention we don’t know) near the driver, knocking him down and fatally injuring him.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF WRONG
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 10, 2014 (11:46am)
Imagine how many more prizes he’ll pick up if he ever gets something right:
The oldest custodian of science in Australia has chosen Tim Flannery as the first recipient of its lifetime achievement award from its rebadged research institute.Australian Museum director Kim McKay said the nation’s scientists needed to be celebrated, and the work of former musuem employee Dr Flannery, an internationally acclaimed researcher, explorer and conservationist, was an obvious first choice to honour.“I think our scientists are fearless,” Ms McKay said. “It’s really important to give scientists a sense their work is collectively held in esteem and has a purpose.”
Fearless, you say?
WE ARE ALL 18C CASES NOW
Tim Blair – Sunday, August 10, 2014 (4:33am)
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The Bolt Report today, August 10
Andrew Bolt August 10 2014 (7:58am)
On Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm…
Editorial: We’re muzzled, yet hate-preachers rant
My guest: Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles
The panel: Peter Costello and Michael Costa
NewsWatch: The Australian’s Sharri Markson.
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
The speech I referred to on today’s show - the most powerful I’ve seen in a long, long time, and one that may have helped save thousands of lives:
Continue reading 'The Bolt Report today, August 10'
===Editorial: We’re muzzled, yet hate-preachers rant
My guest: Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles
The panel: Peter Costello and Michael Costa
NewsWatch: The Australian’s Sharri Markson.
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
The speech I referred to on today’s show - the most powerful I’ve seen in a long, long time, and one that may have helped save thousands of lives:
UPDATE
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD MARLES
ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: The Abbott Government this week unveiled new anti-terrorism proposals. TONY ABBOTT, PRIME MINISTER: And we are also going to tighten the law to make it easier to charge and to successfully prosecute and jail Australians who do get involved in terrorist activities overseas. ANDREW BOLT: But Muslim groups say it is unfair to have laws asking people to explain why they were in war zones in, say, Syria. RANDA KATTAN, ARAB COUNCIL AUSTRALIA: Here we go again, the Arab community, the Muslim community, has been singled out and it’s Islamophobia and it’s Arabphobia. SILMA IHRAM, MUSLIM WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION: It puts everybody on edge because we’re being suspected of something before we’ve done anything and we have to prove that we’re not going to do something. ANDREW BOLT: Joining me is Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles. Thanks for joining me.
RICHARD MARLES, LABOR IMMIGRATION SPOKESMAN: Thanks Andrew.
ANDREW BOLT: Are these laws unfair, these proposed laws?
RICHARD MARLES: Well, we’ll get a briefing from the Government and have a good look at them. Our disposition, of course, is to support the Government in relation to national security matters. I’d have to say that if the Government puts forward a set of laws which it can’t find itself able to explain in terms of the capture of metadata, then, I think it needs to have a good look at itself in terms of getting the support of the Australian people in relation to that.
ANDREW BOLT: But these are laws not about - I’m talking now about the laws where, if you go to a jihadist war zone, you have got to explain to the police when you come back what exactly you were doing there.
RICHARD MARLES: I understand that. The collection of metadata was part of all of that, but we will have a good look at all those laws. We will talk with the Government and, obviously, amongst ourselves in considering it. As I say, our disposition has always been to have a bipartisan view when it comes to national security matters, but the Government is responsible for trying to explain these laws to the Australian people, and when you look at the performance of George Brandis in relation to the metadata component of it, he has patently failed.
ANDREW BOLT: Look…
RICHARD MARLES: And if you can’t get the Australia people on board…
ANDREW BOLT: Richard, I’ll get on to that later in the show. Don’t you worry about that. But this specific bit - explain what you were doing in a war zone. We hear now Muslim groups saying “this is unfair”. Is it unfair? It doesn’t strike me as unfair in principle.
RICHARD MARLES: Well, we will have…
ANDREW BOLT: Why can’t you say so?
RICHARD MARLES: We’ll have a good look at all of that. I’ve made the point, we are disposed to have a bipartisan view, when it comes to the national security, but we want to go through all that detail, and talk through that detail with the Government.
ANDREW BOLT: Peter Leahy, an academic and former head of the Army, says, yesterday, that we face a 100-year battle against radical Islam, not just overseas, but on our streets. Now, if that’s so, how should we adjust our immigration intake to make it safer?
Continue reading 'The Bolt Report today, August 10'Obama can’t just lift one finger to stop the Islamic State
Andrew Bolt August 10 2014 (5:47am)
Barack Obama pulled out of Iraq too soon, three years ago, and threw away the victory.
Obama then did not intervene in Syria, allowing the jihadists to grow in strength. (Indeed, what support he gave was to the rebel side.)
Obama then did almost nothing as jihadists from Syria swept into northern Iraq, beheading and shooting civilians.
Obama now belatedly does something but very, very little.
David Brooks:
===Obama then did not intervene in Syria, allowing the jihadists to grow in strength. (Indeed, what support he gave was to the rebel side.)
Obama then did almost nothing as jihadists from Syria swept into northern Iraq, beheading and shooting civilians.
Obama now belatedly does something but very, very little.
David Brooks:
The president wants ... to stay out of Iraq for probably and also certainly for political reasons. He also wants to defeat ISIS and he wants to do both. And the problem is, if you try to do both, you are going to do both mediocrely. And that’s basically what has happened.Perhaps Obama will do it:
I just don’t think you can do both. ISIS is a pretty impressive organization and they have taken over. And for us to say we’re going to leave it to the Iraqis to take care of ISIS strikes me as probably not an option that’s going to be on the table. In the first place, getting the Iraqi government is an iffy proposition. Expecting the Iraqis to be able to beat ISIS on their own is so far unprecedented historically… Even if they do get a government, even if they are resolved to beat ISIS, it is going to be weeks and months. And ISIS is a pretty strong organization. They can do a lot of damage in the next weeks and months.
And so I think this split-the-different policy the president has adopted of trying to be in and out at the same time is probably not going to be tenable. And I suspect he’s going to have to go in a little further…
ISIS has become a threat, not only to the region, but to the United States. There are lots of Westerners in ISIS who ... want to launch terror attacks in Western Europe and the United States. ISIS is really a barbaric organization, as barbaric an organization as it’s possible to imagine on the face of the earth.
They are a threat obviously to Syria, to Jordan. The Saudis are beginning to wake up. Even the Turks, who have somewhat manipulated them, are going to beginning to wake up to the threat they pose. If you can’t build an international coalition to oppose ISIS, who can you build an international coalition for? And that seems to me what is necessary.
Laying the groundwork for an extended airstrike campaign against Sunni militants in Iraq, President Obama said Saturday that the strikes that began the day before could continue for months as the Iraqis build a new government.But does he have the time to dawdle?
Sunni militants in northern Iraq ordered engineers to return to work on the Mosul Dam, the country’s largest, suggesting that the extremists who captured the dam last week after fierce battles with Kurdish forces will use it, at least for now, to provide water and electricity to the areas they control, and not as a weapon… Its control over the dam, however, also gives the group the ability to create a civilian catastrophe: A break in the fragile dam could unleash a tidal wave over the city of Mosul and cause flooding and countless deaths along the Tigris River south to Baghdad and beyond, experts have said.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Want peace? Tell it to Hamas
Andrew Bolt August 10 2014 (5:42am)
The Sydney Morning Herald’s report on a pro-Palestinian “peace” protest yesterday should have mentioned why the war had actually resumed, instead of implying both sides were equally to blame.
===The protest, the fifth in Sydney in as many weeks, followed the collapse of the three-day truce on Friday that dealt a blow to ongoing efforts to secure a lasting ceasefire… Nabil Omari, a pallbearer at the head of the protest, said it was ‘‘very bad’’ that hostilities had resumed.Hostilities had resumed because, as with the previous four ceasefires, Hamas started firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
Shut up, grow up
Andrew Bolt August 10 2014 (5:28am)
These kids should clean up their act:
===Young Liberals at one the country’s most elite universities have posted racist, crude and misogynist comments on social media, describing women as ‘’sluts’’, Muslims as ‘’degenerates’’ and saying all feminists are ugly.The adults at the Sydney Morning Herald, though, would have more credibility in criticising this savagery if some of their own weren’t barbarians themselves.
Socialists protest, you pay
Andrew Bolt August 10 2014 (5:19am)
What is it about socialists that they can’t protest without police having to protect property and people?
Oh, wait.
===The FOI numbers reveal that officers have worked 4852 shifts at East West Link protest sites in Melbourne’s inner north since September 30 last year, at a cost of more than $1.6 million.Imagine a society led by people so sure that their might should prevail over your rights.
Oh, wait.
When Labor went to clean up sport and destroyed justice
Andrew Bolt August 10 2014 (5:13am)
Sinclair Davidson looks
at the astonishing evidence of political interference by the Gillard
Government in the Essendon (alleged) doping scandal and the
behind-the-scenes deal-making:
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It was a railroading.
Fairfax, shocked by Mike Carlton’s potty mouth, replace him with a sewer
Andrew Bolt August 10 2014 (4:59am)
Why are so many Fairfax columnists so foul-mouthed? And why are so many Fairfax chiefs so selectively deaf and blind?
Tim Blair:
Odd, isn’t it, that such barbarians seriously claim they represent a higher morality.
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Veteran Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton resigned this week rather than face suspension for his abusive and obscene online comments. The SMH is reportedly considering replacing Carlton with John Birmingham, who lives in the remote northern Sydney suburb of Brisbane, Queensland.Read on. But warning: NSFW.
But is Birmingham any less abusive or obscene? Let’s see how Carlton’s possible replacement conducts himself online:
Odd, isn’t it, that such barbarians seriously claim they represent a higher morality.
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LABOR/GREENS CAN STOP THE BOATS
There are six States and two Territories in Australia. (Let’s leave the ACT out of this because it has always had blind Labor allegiance supporting half of Australia’s union membership.)
Of the six States only two are dire basket cases and those two are Labor States. The remaining four States are burdened with repairing the economic damage of Labor, after a period of all six States having endured Labor/Green annihilation.
Gillard governed in "coalition" with the Greens, yet there is just one Green member (Adam Bandt) in a House of 150 members, so to suggest the Greens are an over represented rabble is a gross understatement!
Lara Giddings, Labor Premier of Tasmania, rules with 23% of the vote compared to the Liberals 30%. But with the Greens’ vote at 20% (twice the national average) Giddings can comfortably govern with their assistance.
Jay Weatherill, Labor Premier of South Australia and ex-partner of Penny Wong, (say no more) rules the State of South Australia in his own right with a very influential Greens’ representation of 14% of the vote. (National polling is currently diminishing at 9%.)
Both Labor States have successfully fought off the Conservatives and proceeded to economically raze the landscape under the influence of gangrenous Greens.
As is usual, they have driven up unprecedented debt and unemployment with crazy feel-good policies that have failed miserably. They aim to destroy mineral mining, the coal industry and Israel. They want an egalitarian socialised society financed with borrowed funds.
The parlous economic failings of both South Australia and Tasmania is mirrored almost exactly in Canberra under Rudd/Gillard/Rudd/Greens.
So, where am I going with this?
Okay, so why did Rudd need to pay billions to Nauru and PNG in exchange for internationally advertising their countries as backward shitboxes?
Why couldn’t he have said, “Anyone arriving by boat from now on will be confined to one of two Labor/Green States”?
Now, anyone wanting to build a new life, get a job or start a new business would be devastated at that prospect?
Surely that would have sent a message to those pesky, enterprising, illegal immigrants? And in the process saved us billions?
Or he could wait until September 8!
If he wins Office then the whole country will become a backward shitbox!
Boat problem solved!
Larry Pickering
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Why this Christian Supports Israel By: Gary Bauer
The people of Israel love what we Americans love and honor what we Americans honor. Israel is built on the rule of law. Its Declaration of Independence is modeled after ours. We are joined at the heart. The only memorial in the Middle East to honor the three thousand innocent Americans brutally murdered on the morning of 9/11 is in Israel. As crowds in the West Bank and Gaza rushed into the streets to celebrate the murderous attack on America, Israelis mourned with us, lowered their flag as we lowered ours, and wept with us. If you want to pay your respects at a memorial to John F. Kennedy, you can do it in Arlington National Cemetery – or you can go to the JFK memorial outside of Jerusalem. You can go to Philadelphia to see the Liberty Bell – or you can visit not one but two replicas of it in Israel. You can honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Martin Luther King Day in January here in the U.S. – and you can honor him in Israel, the only country outside the U.S. that officially commemorates Martin Luther King Day, by visiting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Forest in the Southern Galilee region. (Israel also has a Coretta Scott King Forest). Christians who support Israel are walking a trail blazed by great American heroes who also supported Israel. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin wanted the symbol of our new republic to be Moses leading the Jewish people to the Promised Land. The founders of our great country, to a man, were restorationists; they wanted Jews around the world to be restored to their ancient homeland. Abraham Lincoln told his friends he wanted to visit the home of the Jews after he left the presidency, but an assassin’s bullet ended his life before he could. Closer to our own time, Harry Truman told the State Department to go to hell and recognized modern Israel almost immediately after its rebirth as a modern nation. Ronald Reagan said we had no greater ally. Bobby Kennedy defended Israel and was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist, Sirhan Sirhan. From Israel came the patriarchs, including Abraham, who saw God in a burning furnace. Israel gave us Moses, who chose suffering with his own people over the riches of Pharaoh’s house; Moses, who led his people across the Red Sea to the land promised them by God. I choose Israel because I want to stand with Gideon, Samson, David, Samuel and the prophets who conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, survived the mouths of lions, felled giants, and put foreign armies to flight. I stand with Israel because of the biblical General Barak, who defeated the Canaanite oppressors and united the tribes, and because of Gideon, who did not seek self-glorification but rather the glorification of God. I choose Israel because I remember the millions who perished at Auschwitz and Buchenwald and some fifteen thousand other Nazi labor, death and concentration camps. I stand with Israel because the Jews who live there are surrounded by millions of fanatics who lust for their blood and want a second Holocaust. I support Israel because I don’t want murderous Islamists dancing on the Via Delarosa. I don’t want to see Jewish graves desecrated, the Western Wall defiled and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher turned into a garbage dump. Israel guarantees religious freedom, the Palestinian extremists do not. Why do I support Israel? You may as well ask me why I choose good over evil. On one side of the divide are Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic jihad, al Qaeda, the Taliban, and mothers who strap bombs on their innocent children and send them to kill Jews. There is intolerance, injustice, sharia law, and crowds chanting death to America. There are Holocaust deniers and Hitler wannabes, UN bureaucrats and EU appeasers. Their culture worships death, where women are treated like cattle and terrorists are heroes. On the other side is the only Jewish nation in the world – the apple of God’s eye; one of the pillars of Judeo-Christian civilization; our most reliable ally in the Middle East; a people who tell their children to love life, not death; the land where the patriarchs lived; a country that believes in freedom and tolerance, whose people have turned a desert into an oasis of progress and achievement. It may be a tough call for the UN and for State Department bureaucrats, for Jimmy Carter and for the religious left, and for the legions of the ignorant and confused, but it is not a tough call for me. I choose Israel – yesterday, today and tomorrow
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This week, after a three-and-a-half-year delay, US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was finally placed on trial for massacring 13 and wounding 32 at Ft. Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009.
Hasan was a self-identified jihadist. His paper and electronic trail provided mountains of evidence that he committed the massacre to advance the cause of Islamic supremacy. Islamic supremacists like Hasan, and his early mentor al-Qaida operations chief Anwar al-Awlaki, view as enemies all people who oppose totalitarian Islam's quest for global domination.
Before, during and following his assault, Hasan made his jihadist motives obvious to the point of caricature in his statements about the US, the US military and the duties of pious Muslims. But rather than believe Hasan, and so do justice to his victims, the Obama administration, with the active collusion of senior US military commanders went to great lengths to cover up Hasan's ideological motivations and hence the nature of his crime.
On the day of the attack, Lt.-Gen. Robert Cone, then commander of III Corps at Ft. Hood, said preliminary evidence didn't suggest that the shooting was terrorism. Cone said this even though it was immediately known that before he began shooting Hasan called out "Allahu akhbar." He called himself a "Soldier of Allah" on his business cards.
In an interview with CNN three days after the attack, US Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said, "Our diversity, not only in our army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."
The intensity of the Obama administration's participation in this cover-up became clear in May 2012. At that time, Congress had placed a clause inside the Defense Appropriations Act requiring the Pentagon to award Purple Hearts to Ft. Hood's victims. Rather than accept this eminently reasonable demand, which simply required the administration to acknowledge reality, Obama's emissaries announced he would veto the appropriations bill and so leave the Pentagon without a budget unless the clause was removed.
Rather than define Hasan's attack as an enemy attack or a terrorist act, the administration has defined it as a case of "workplace violence." Following this determination, those wounded in the attack, as well as the families of the murdered, are denied the support conferred on soldiers killed or wounded by enemy fire.
At the first day of Hasan's trial this week, he admitted that he perpetrated the murderous attack because he is a jihadist who "switched sides" in the war. That is, he told the court that he conducted the attack as an act of war against the United States to advance the goals of the global jihad.
Hasan's statement made clear, once again, that in its efforts to describe his actions as "workplace violence," the administration is engaging in a cover-up. Its purpose is to deny the American people the truth about the nature of the jihadist threat to their country.
Outside the conservative media, and certain circles of the Republican Party, there has been no public outcry over the government's decision to cover up the nature of Hasan's actions. The public's passivity in the face of the government's mendacious, unjust behavior owes to the fact that the mainstream media have not castigated the administration for its decision to hide that Hasan was not a garden variety disgruntled employee but a traitor who acted in the service of declared enemies of the United States. In the absence of a media-induced public outcry, the administration has no reason to change its behavior. It has no impetus to acknowledge the truth and act accordingly.
THE SAME is the case with regards to the September 11, 2012, attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. Already on the day of the attack, it was apparent that the US mission and the CIA annex had been targeted in a premeditated, preplanned attack. Footage of the attack broadcast in real time showed armed men attacking the consulate with rocket-propelled grenades. It was not an act of savage mob violence. Mobs do not carry RPGs or act in a coordinated manner. That is, already at the time of the attack it was apparent that it was not a spontaneous protest in response to an anti-Islamic video on YouTube.
And yet, from the outset, the administration covered up what happened. And the media colluded. Fox News was the only major network that pursued the story. A US ambassador was raped and murdered on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. US personnel were under multi-pronged attack for hours. Their desperate pleas for assistance were denied by the administration. And the US media went along with the fiction that the attack was a spontaneous outburst of rage over a YouTube video no one had ever seen.
The media's collusion was so great that CNN anchor Candy Crowley threw a US presidential debate when she defended Barack Obama's handling of the attack by inserting false information in the middle of the debate that she was moderating.
The Benghazi story keeps getting more and more outrageous. Last week we learned that some two dozen CIA personnel were on the ground during the attack. The administration has reportedly scattered these operatives throughout the US and forced them to adopt new identities. They have reportedly been prohibited from speaking to the media or congressional investigators, and subjected to monthly polygraph tests.
US personnel wounded in the attack have been hidden from investigators since the attack took place.
This behavior is scandalous, and unprecedented. Yet, outside of the "usual suspects" in the conservative media and the Republican Party, there is no outrage. The media coverage of this shocking revelation is nearly nonexistent, and where it exists, the reportage is laconic, indifferent.
Here, too, the administration feels comfortable perpetuating its cover-up. As in the case of Ft. Hood, why come clean if there is no price to pay for lying and covering up?
Speaking of the frequent US failures in understanding events in faraway lands, Winston Churchill famously quipped, "We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
But what if the other possibilities are never exhausted? The media's collusion with the Obama administration's false portrayal of jihadist attacks on US targets gives foreign leaders concerned about the US's lackadaisical attitude toward jihadist threats no reason for confidence. In the absence of public pressure, the Obama administration has no reason to change course when its policies fail.
IN ISRAEL'S case, the first place where the lesson of this state of affairs needs to be internalized is in regards to Iran's nuclear weapons program. Since taking office, Obama has repeatedly claimed that he will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. But in practice, his actions have enabled Iran to vastly expand its nuclear weapons program. Due to his malfeasance, today Iran has arrived at the cusp of a nuclear arsenal. More than his words, Obama's actions have made clear that he has no intention whatsoever of conducting military strikes against Iran's nuclear installations to prevent the regime from developing nuclear weapons.
Obama's latest ploy for running the clock down is his embrace of the fiction that Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, is a moderate interested, (and perforce empowered), to cut a nuclear deal with the US that would see Iran voluntarily and credibly end its uranium enrichment activities.
Speaking of Rouhani this week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu referred to him as "a wolf in sheep's clothing," and warned US and European officials not to be taken in by his act. Netanyahu also noted that Iran has expanded its nuclear activities since Rouhani was elected two months ago.
But he might as well save his breath.
Rouhani's act - like that of his supposedly moderate predecessors Mohammad Khatami and Ahkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - is so thin that it can only work on people who will be taken in by anyone. And indeed, the Obama administration was taken in by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For five years Obama insisted on conducting self-evidently futile negotiations with Iran while Ahmadinejad - the anti-moderate - was serving as president.
The US and Europe are not taken in by Iran because Iran is good at hiding its true intentions. They are taken in by Iran because they want to be taken in. They want to believe that they don't have to attack Iran and overthrow the regime to prevent it from becoming a nuclear power. They want to believe they can appease Iran by pretending it isn't a danger, just as they believe they can end the threat of terror by jihadists in the US military and Benghazi by pretending they don't exist.
They want to believe these threats can be ignored, or appeased away. And just as Obama and his followers are willing to pretend away Hasan's actions to protect "diversity," and to pretend away the September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi to protect the myth of the Arab Spring, so they are willing to permit Iran to go nuclear to protect the sanctity of appeasement.
The only thing they are willing to put their foot down about is the prospect of an Israeli strike. And they have put their foot down on this issue for the past decade. It isn't that the US is deliberately enabling Iran to acquire a nuclear arsenal. It is just that the US elite in government and the media care more about protecting their faith in diversity and appeasement than they do about preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
They have convinced themselves that the prospect of appeasing Iran will evaporate if Israel attacks Iran's nuclear installations. And so we have seen a parade of senior US defense officials descending on Israel every time it appears that Israel is planning to attack Iran. We have seen a parade of former Israeli military and security chiefs with close ties to the US defense establishment declaring before every available microphone that Israel must not strike Iran and that we can count on Obama to protect us.
But we mustn't believe their assurances or succumb to their pressure. Obama will not change course. He doesn't have to. So long as he maintains faith with the god of appeasement, the US media will protect him. And so long as they protect him, he will pay no price for his failures. So he will repeat them.
Israel cannot countenance a nuclear Iran. So Israel needs to attack Iran's nuclear installations.
No more needs to be said.
Originally published in the Jerusalem Post.
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This new infographic from the National Shooting Sports Foundation seemingly debunks one of the most crucial anti-gun claims. Details:http://bit.ly/16ExDuX
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Quick Pix: Lucille Ball w/Video
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Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, model, film and television actress and studio executive. She was star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy and Life with Lucy, and was one of the most popular and influential stars in the United States during her lifetime. Ball had one of Hollywood’s longest careers, especially on television.
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Believe it or not… Many people actually believe that Israel is trying to exterminate the Palestinians!
So please SHARE this excellent article:
ARE JEWS THE MOST INCOMPETENT “ETHNIC CLEANSERS” IN THE WORLD?
The Palestinian population in the West Bank increased from 462,000 in 1949 to more than 2.5 million today. In Gaza, the population increased from 82,000 in 1949 to 1.7 million today.
Additionally, to add further context: The number of Arabs killed (since 1920) in Arab-Israeli wars is less than the number of Arabs killed by Arabs in Syria alone since 2011.
As a point of reference, the Jewish population of Gaza and Palestinian controlled West Bank is practically zero (save a few pro-Palestinian “journalists” who reside there), while the Jewish population in the entire Arab Middle East has decreased from over 850,000 in 1949 to less than 5,000 today.
The broad charge that Jews are ethnically cleansing Arabs (Palestinians or otherwise) in the Middle East, based on the numbers, represents the opposite of the truth. In the territory where Jews rule or have ruled in some manner since 1948 the Arab population has increased dramatically, while territories in the region where Arabs rule (representing over 99% of the total land) have slowly become either nearly or completely Judenrein.
http://cifwatch.com/2013/
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When Failure Carries No Cost August 9, 2013, 8:35 AM by Caroline Glick
Rather than define Hasan's attack as an enemy attack or a terrorist act, the administration has defined it as a case of "workplace violence." THE SAME is the case with regards to the September 11, 2012, attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. N ISRAEL'S case, the first place where the lesson of this state of affairs needs to be internalized is in regards to Iran's nuclear weapons program. Obama's latest ploy for running the clock down is his embrace of the fiction that Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, is a moderate interested, (and perforce empowered), to cut a nuclear deal with the US that would see Iran voluntarily and credibly end its uranium enrichment activities.
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Putin prospers by isolation? Fry makes a very well put point. What will Olympic committee do? - ed
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"If you stay pure and live with integrity, God will rise up and restore you. Though you started with little, you'll end with much." Job 8:6-7
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The Bible plainly shows that righteous people don't get problem-free lives, but in reality, are usually refined by intense firey trials.
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When you feel like giving up, remember WHY you started. The WHY always determines HOW LONG you stick with anything.
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Pastor Rick Warren
When you feel like giving up, remember #why you started. WHY always determines how long you do anything.
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The reason we can trust God completely is that he worthy of it. He is good, loving, and flawless.
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Satan wants you to question God’s goodness, love,and His Word. In the first step of temptation he whispers “Did God REALLY say...?”
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In you're future are many uncertainties, but God’s love for you isn't one of them.
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Obedience rendered without delight in rendering it is only half obedience.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Peter Beattie on Kevin Rudd……………
"For me, Rudd's lack of political judgment was demonstrated in the introduction of the mining tax without proper consultation, the backflip on timing of the emissions trading scheme and the bungled home insulation program.
"His failure to listen to a broad range of advice particularly on issues in which he had little expertise also demonstrated poor judgement. Sadly, Kevin self-destructed.''
"If you did make a return to the prime ministership by removing Julia it would be akin to Napoleon's 100 glory days after his return from exile, when he was defeated at Waterloo by Wellington.''
"Napoleon's return was short-lived but his exile to St Helena in the South Atlantic was permanent, and he finally died at the hands of a trusted lieutenant through arsenic poisoning.''
http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/kevin-rudd-admits-to-8216odd-stoush8217-with-forde-candidate-peter-beattie/story-fnho52ip-1226693837430#ixzz2bXpKxk97
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THE PRICE OF MORAL-VANITY: A CATALOGUE OF GREEN ECONOMIC DISASTERS UNFOLDS ACROSS EUROPE.
Oped by Jo Nova ………(and this is exactly where Labor wants to take Australia)
"The real cost of moral-vanity, of name-calling, poor reasoning, selecting one’s evidence, and the triumph of doing things because they “feel-good” rather than because of the cold hard numbers, is measured in the trillions.
This disaster was entirely foreseeable, totally predictable, and completely unnecessary.
Europe is beginning to realise that its green energy strategy is dying on the vine. Green dreams are giving way to hard economic realities.
Slowly but gradually, Europe is awakening to a green energy crisis, an economic and political debacle that is entirely self-inflicted.
The flagrantly wasted resources are simply obscene:
EU members states have spent about €600 billion ($882bn) on renewable energy projects since 2005, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Germany’s green energy transition alone may cost consumers up to €1 trillion by 2030, the German government recently warned.
That this kind of waste and mismanagement should have occurred under Western Governments when the financial nonsense of it was obvious long before the money was spent, stands as an argument against Big-Government and a warning of where gullible Green economics leads.
Real people have toiled fruitlessly across Europe to pay for these ridiculous schemes.
Their quality of life reduced by the failure of big-government, of mentally weak, ethically bankrupt academics, of poorly trained overconfident poseur journalists.
It’s a case of lose-lose all around, everyone — taxpayers, investors, renewables companies, gas companies — all lost.
Waste and stupidity on a colossal scale.
None of this even counts the flow-on effects of expensive energy — how much was lost from European manufacturing which could not compete? Investors are “pouring money into the US, where energy prices have fallen to one-third of those in the EU, thanks to the shale gas revolution.”
This is burning money on a scale that only Big-Government can manage, misdirected malinvestment so “successful” that we can only guess how many people have lost jobs, lost years of work, and in the case of homes without electricity, lost lives.
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/08/the-price-of-moral-vanity-a-catalogue-of-green-economic-disaster-unfolds-across-europe/
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- 955 – Forces under Otto I were victorious at theBattle of Lechfeld near present-day Augsburg, Germany, holding off the incursions of theMagyars into Central Europe.
- 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa (salvaged wreck pictured)sank after sailing less than a nautical mile into her maiden voyage from Stockholm on her way to fight in the Thirty Years' War.
- 1755 – The first wave of the Expulsion of the Acadians from the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces by the British began with the Bay of Fundy Campaign at Chignecto.
- 1901 – The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers organized an ultimately unsuccessful strike to reverse its declining fortunes and organize large numbers of new members.
- 1990 – NASA's Magellan space probe reached Venus on a mission to map its surface, fifteen months after its launch.
Events[edit]
- 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
- 991 – Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikingsnear Maldon, Essex.
- 1270 – Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagweinterregnum.
- 1316 – The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.
- 1512 – The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent.
- 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second in commandJuan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
- 1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
- 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
- 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
- 1680 – The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
- 1755 – Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
- 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
- 1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
- 1809 – Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
- 1813 – Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot José Miguel Carrera. It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means "Work conquers all things".
- 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
- 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek – the war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
- 1864 – After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
- 1899 – the Norwegian football club Viking FK is founded.
- 1901 – The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
- 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
- 1913 – Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
- 1920 – World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
- 1932 – A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
- 1944 – World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German–Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.
- 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
- 1949 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.
- 1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
- 1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
- 1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
- 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
- 1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
- 1978 – Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
- 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found. This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted.
- 1988 – Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
- 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
- 1990 – More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
- 1993 – An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
- 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
- 1998 – HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
- 2001 – 2001 Angola train attack, 252 deaths.
- 2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom – 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).
- 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
- 2009 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
- 2012 – The Marikana miners' strike begins near Rustenburg, South Africa.
- 2013 – The World Championships in Athletics takes place in Moscow, Russia.
Births[edit]
- 941 – Lê Hoàn, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1005)
- 1267 – James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
- 1296 – John of Bohemia (d. 1346)
- 1360 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian cardinal (d. 1417)
- 1397 – Albert II of Germany (d. 1439)
- 1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German politician (d. 1553)
- 1520 – Madeleine of Valois (d. 1537)
- 1560 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German organist and composer (d. 1629)
- 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
- 1645 – Eusebio Kino, Italian priest and missionary (d. 1711)
- 1737 – Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
- 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English organist and composer (d. 1802)
- 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour (d. 1754)
- 1805 – Ferenc Toldy, German-Hungarian critic (d. 1875)
- 1809 – John Kirk Townsend, American ornithologist (d. 1851)
- 1810 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Italian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1861)
- 1814 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (d. 1890)
- 1821 – Jay Cooke, American financier, founded Jay Cooke & Company (d. 1905)
- 1823 – Hugh Stowell Brown, English minister (d. 1886)
- 1827 – Lovro Toman, Slovenian lawyer and politician (d. 1870)
- 1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1896)
- 1845 – Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet, composer, and philosopher (d. 1904)
- 1856 – William Willett, English builder, founded British Summer Time (d. 1915)
- 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer (d. 1936)
- 1865 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1936)
- 1868 – Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman (d. 1954)
- 1869 – Laurence Binyon, English poet, playwright, and scholar (d. 1943)
- 1872 – Bill Johnson, American bassist (d. 1972)
- 1874 – Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
- 1877 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
- 1878 – Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author (d. 1957)
- 1880 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1964)
- 1884 – Panait Istrati, Romanian author (d. 1935)
- 1888 – Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (d. 1940)
- 1889 – Charles Darrow, American game designer, created Monopoly (d. 1967)
- 1891 – Henry O'Neill, American actor and singer (d. 1961)
- 1890 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1954)
- 1894 – V. V. Giri, Indian politician, 4th President of India (d. 1980)
- 1895 – Hammy Love, Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
- 1897 – John W. Galbreath, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Darby Dan Farm (d. 1988)
- 1898 – Jack Haley, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
- 1900 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1994)
- 1902 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1983)
- 1902 – Curt Siodmak, German-English author and screenwriter (d. 2000)
- 1902 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- 1903 – Ward Moore, American author (d. 1978)
- 1905 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
- 1907 – Su Yu, Chinese general and politician (d. 1984)
- 1908 – Rica Erickson, Australian botanist, historian, and author (d. 2009)
- 1908 – Billy Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
- 1909 – Leo Fender, American businessman, founded Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (d. 1991)
- 1911 – Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2011)
- 1911 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and author (d. 1993)
- 1912 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian author (d. 2001)
- 1913 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (d. 1983)
- 1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
- 1914 – Jeff Corey, American actor and director (d. 2002)
- 1914 – Carlos Menditeguy, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1973)
- 1918 – Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (d. 2013)
- 1919 – Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Red Holzman, American basketball player and coach (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Rhonda Fleming, American actress and singer
- 1923 – Fred Ridgway, English cricketer and footballer
- 1923 – SM Sultan, Bangladeshi painter (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Nancy Buckingham, English author
- 1924 – Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1925 – George Cooper, British Army officer
- 1926 – Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and educator (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Eivind Eckbo, Norwegian lawyer and politician
- 1927 – Jimmy Martin, American singer and guitarist (d. 2005)
- 1927 – Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
- 1927 – Jean Guichet, French racing driver
- 1928 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman, founded the Jimmy Dean Food Company (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Gus Mercurio, American-Australian actor (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Barry Unsworth, English author (d. 2012)
- 1931 – Dolores Alexander, American women's rights activist
- 1931 – Tom Laughlin, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Alexander Goehr, British composer
- 1932 – Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal
- 1933 – Doyle Brunson, American poker player
- 1933 – Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, British judge
- 1933 – Rocky Colavito, American baseball player
- 1933 – Keith Duckworth, English engineer, founded Cosworth (d. 2005)
- 1935 – Ian Stewart, British politician
- 1935 – Ad van Luyn, Dutch bishop
- 1936 – P. R. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan politician
- 1937 – Anatoly Sobchak, Russian scholar and politician, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (d. 2000)
- 1938 – Tony Ross, English illustrator of children's books
- 1939 – Kate O'Mara, English actress (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Charlie Rose, American politician (d. 2012)
- 1940 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (The Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
- 1940 – Sid Waddell, English sportscaster (d. 2012)
- 1941 – Anita Lonsbrough, British swimmer
- 1941 – Kees van Kooten, Dutch comedian, actor, and author
- 1941 – Susan Dorothea White, Australian painter and sculptor
- 1942 – Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer
- 1942 – Michael Pepper, British physicist
- 1943 – Louise Forestier, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1943 – Jimmy Griffin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bread, Black Tie, and The Remingtons) (d. 2005)
- 1943 – Michael Mantler, American trumpet player and composer (Jazz Composer's Orchestra)
- 1943 – Shafqat Rana, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
- 1943 – Ronnie Spector, American singer-songwriter (The Ronettes)
- 1945 – Harriet Miers, American lawyer, 31st White House Counsel
- 1945 – Laura Spurr, American nurse and tribal leader (d. 2010)
- 1947 – Ian Anderson, Scottish singer-songwriter, flautist and guitarist (Jethro Tull)
- 1947 – Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- 1947 – Alan Ward, English cricketer
- 1950 – Patti Austin, American singer-songwriter
- 1950 – Rémy Girard, Canadian actor
- 1951 – Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian politician, 59th President of Colombia
- 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
- 1952 – Gill Langley, British scientist
- 1952 – Diane Venora, American actress
- 1953 – Mark Doty, American poet and author
- 1954 – Peter Endrulat, German footballer
- 1955 – Jim Mees, American set designer (d. 2013)
- 1955 – Mel Tiangco, Filipino journalist
- 1956 – José Luis Montes, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
- 1956 – Fred Ottman, American wrestler
- 1956 – Charlie Peacock, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1956 – Peter Robbins, American actor
- 1956 – Perween Warsi, British businesswoman
- 1957 – Fred Ho, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2014)
- 1957 – Andres Põime, Estonian architect
- 1958 – Michael Dokes, American boxer (d. 2012)
- 1958 – Jack Richards, English cricketer, coach, and manager
- 1958 – Rosie Winterton, British politician
- 1959 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress, director, and producer
- 1959 – Albert Owen, Welsh politician
- 1959 – Mark Price, English drummer (All About Eve and Del Amitri)
- 1959 – Florent Vollant, Canadian singer-songwriter (Kashtin)
- 1960 – Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor, singer, and producer
- 1960 – Annely Ojastu, Estonian athlete
- 1960 – Kenny Perry, American golfer
- 1961 – Jon Farriss, Australian drummer (INXS)
- 1962 – Suzanne Collins, American screenwriter and author
- 1962 – Julia Fordham, English singer-songwriter
- 1962 – Alan Muraoka, American actor and director
- 1963 – Phoolan Devi, Indian politician (d. 2001)
- 1963 – Anton Janssen, Dutch footballer and coach
- 1963 – Andrew Sullivan, English-American journalist
- 1964 – Aaron Hall, American singer-songwriter (Guy)
- 1965 – Claudia Christian, American actress and singer
- 1965 – Toumani Diabaté, Malian kora player
- 1965 – Mike E. Smith, American jockey
- 1965 – John Starks, American basketball player and coach
- 1966 – Charlie Dimmock, English gardener and television host
- 1966 – Hansi Kürsch, German singer-songwriter and bass player (Blind Guardian and Demons and Wizards)
- 1967 – Philippe Albert, Belgian footballer
- 1967 – Riddick Bowe, American boxer
- 1967 – Gus Johnson, American sportscaster
- 1967 – Lorraine Pearson, English singer and author (Five Star)
- 1967 – Mart Sander, Estonian actor, singer, director, and author
- 1967 – Reinout Scholte, Dutch cricketer
- 1968 – Michael Bivins, American singer, producer, and actor (New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe)
- 1968 – Pete Docter, American director, screenwriter, and voice actor
- 1968 – Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh
- 1969 – Emily Symons, Australian actress
- 1970 – Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1970 – Brendon Julian, New Zealand-Australian cricketer and journalist
- 1970 – Steve Mautone, Australian footballer and coach
- 1971 – Sal Fasano, American baseball player and coach
- 1971 – Stephan Groth, Danish singer-songwriter (Apoptygma Berzerk and Bruderschaft)
- 1971 – Roy Keane, Irish footballer and manager
- 1971 – Mario Kindelán, Cuban boxer
- 1971 – Paul Newlove, English rugby football player
- 1971 – Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist
- 1971 – Justin Theroux, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Dilana, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1972 – Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby player and sportscaster
- 1972 – Angie Harmon, American model and actress
- 1972 – Christofer Johnsson, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Therion, Carbonized, Messiah, and Demonoid)
- 1972 – Jake Adam York, American poet and educator (d. 2012)
- 1973 – Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
- 1973 – Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
- 1974 – Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer and manager
- 1974 – Rachel Simmons, American scholar and author
- 1974 – David Sommeil, French footballer
- 1975 – İlhan Mansız, Turkish footballer
- 1976 – Ian Murray, Scottish politician
- 1976 – Roadkill, American wrestler
- 1977 – Danny Griffin, Irish footballer
- 1977 – Aaron Kamin, American guitarist and songwriter (The Calling)
- 1977 – Matt Morgan, English comedian, actor, and radio host
- 1978 – Danny Allsopp, Australian footballer
- 1978 – Marcus Fizer, American basketball player
- 1978 – Chris Read, English cricketer
- 1978 – Claire Yiu, Hong Kong model and actress
- 1979 – Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1979 – Joanna García, American actress
- 1979 – Ted Geoghegan, American author, screenwriter, and producer
- 1979 – Brandon Lyon, American baseball player
- 1979 – Rémy Martin, French rugby player
- 1979 – Yannick Schroeder, French race car driver
- 1980 – Wade Barrett, English boxer, wrestler, and actor
- 1980 – Pua Magasiva, Samoan-New Zealand actor
- 1980 – Roxanne McKee, Canadian-English model and actress
- 1981 – Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, Morning Musume Sakuragumi, Def.Diva, and Nochiura Natsumi)
- 1981 – Katherine Boecher, American actress
- 1981 – Guillaume Elmont, Dutch martial artist
- 1981 – Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
- 1981 – Yaani King, American actress
- 1981 – Manila Luzon, American drag queen and performer
- 1981 – Malek Mouath, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1981 – Jon Prescott, American actor
- 1982 – John Alvbåge, Swedish footballer
- 1982 – Josh Anderson, American baseball player
- 1982 – Devon Aoki, American model and actress
- 1982 – Katrina Begin, American actress
- 1982 – Nicole O'Brian, American model, Miss Texas USA 2003
- 1982 – Shaun Murphy, English snooker player
- 1983 – Mark Bautista, Filipino singer and actor
- 1983 – Chrisna Bootha, South African netball player
- 1983 – Kyle Brown, American soccer player
- 1983 – CB Dollaway, American mixed martial artist
- 1983 – Héctor Faubel, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1983 – Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Spencer Redford, American actress
- 1983 – Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 – Ryan Eggold, American actor
- 1984 – Mokomichi Hayami, Japanese actor
- 1984 – Manila Luzon, American drag queen performer
- 1984 – Mariel Rodriguez, Filipino television host and actress
- 1985 – Melissa Barrera, American television host
- 1985 – Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Julia Matojan, Estonian tennis player
- 1985 – Julia Melim, Brazilian-American actress
- 1985 – Jared Nathan, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1985 – Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
- 1986 – Andrea Hlaváčková, Czech tennis player
- 1987 – Jim Bakkum, Dutch singer and actor
- 1987 – Ari Boyland, New Zealand actor
- 1988 – Francesco Acerbi, Italian footballer
- 1989 – Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
- 1989 – Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor
- 1990 – Lucas Till, American actor and producer
- 1991 – Marcus Foligno, Canadian-American professional ice hockey player
- 1992 – Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
- 1992 – Chanel Simmonds, South African tennis player
- 1993 – Yuto Nakajima, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor (Hey! Say! JUMP)
- 1993 – Andre Drummond, American basketball player
- 1996 – Jacob Latimore, American singer, actor, and dancer
- 1997 – Kylie Jenner, American model and television personality
- 1998 – Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess player
Deaths[edit]
- 258 – Lawrence of Rome, Spanish-Italian deacon and saint (b. 225)
- 1535 – Ippolito de' Medici, Florence ruler (b. 1509)
- 1653 – Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
- 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1572)
- 1723 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician (b. 1656)
- 1759 – Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
- 1784 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
- 1802 – Franz Aepinus, German-Russian philosopher (b. 1724)
- 1806 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
- 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician (b. 1758)
- 1862 – Honinbo Shusaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
- 1875 – Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
- 1889 – Arthur Böttcher, German pathologist and anatomist (b. 1831)
- 1896 – Otto Lilienthal, German engineer (b. 1848)
- 1904 – Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French politician, 68th Prime Minister of France (b. 1846)
- 1915 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
- 1918 – Erich Löwenhardt, German pilot (b. 1897)
- 1920 – Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician (b. 1835)
- 1928 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
- 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1878)
- 1929 – Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician (b. 1854)
- 1932 – Rin Tin Tin, American acting dog (b. 1918)
- 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist (b. 1882)
- 1948 – Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1873)
- 1948 – Andrew Brown, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1870)
- 1948 – Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (b. 1880)
- 1958 – Frank Demaree, American baseball player (b. 1910)
- 1961 – Julia Peterkin, American author (b. 1880)
- 1963 – Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903)
- 1963 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss jurist (b. 1877)
- 1966 – Albert Üksip, Estonian actor, botanist and translator (b. 1886)
- 1969 – János Kodolányi, Hungarian author (b. 1899)
- 1976 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
- 1979 – Dick Foran, American actor and singer (b. 1910)
- 1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
- 1980 – Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
- 1982 – Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian author and poet (b. 1962)
- 1985 – Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (b. 1906)
- 1986 – Alan Rouse, English mountaineer (b. 1951)
- 1987 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
- 1991 – Luu Trong Lu Vietnamese poet and playwright (b. 1912)
- 1993 – Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
- 1997 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1953)
- 1997 – Conlon Nancarrow, American-Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1912)
- 1999 – Jennifer Paterson, English chef (b. 1928)
- 1999 – Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian historian, scholar, and critic (b. 1899)
- 2000 – Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer (b. 1925)
- 2001 – Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
- 2002 – Michael Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Widespread Panic and brute.) (b. 1962)
- 2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (b. 1926)
- 2003 – Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1944)
- 2007 – Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American pilot and lieutenant (b. 1925)
- 2007 – James E. Faust, American religious leader and lawyer (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Tony Wilson, English journalist (b. 1950)
- 2008 – Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (b. 1942)
- 2010 – Markus Liebherr, German-Swiss businessman (b. 1948)
- 2010 – Adam Stansfield, English footballer (b. 1978)
- 2010 – David L. Wolper, American producer (b. 1928)
- 2011 – Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
- 2012 – James Lloyd Abbot, Jr., American admiral (b. 1918)
- 2012 – Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver (b. 1963)
- 2012 – Suresh Dalal, Indian poet and writer (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Ioan Dicezare, Romanian general and pilot (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Joe Douse, American baseball player (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Irving Fein, American producer and manager (b. 1911)
- 2012 – William W. Momyer, American general (b. 1916)
- 2012 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (b. 1925)
- 2013 – William P. Clark, Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1931)
- 2013 – László Csatáry, Hungarian police officer (b. 1915)
- 2013 – Jonathan Dawson, Australian historian and academic (b. 1941)
- 2013 – Eydie Gormé, American singer (b. 1928)
- 2013 – David C. Jones, American general (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Somdet Kiaw, Thai monk (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Calvin Ledbetter, Jr., American politician and academic (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Jody Payne, American singer and guitarist (Family) (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Amy Wallace, American author (b. 1955)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence from Spain on August 10, 1809. Independence finally occurred on May 24, 1822 at theBattle of Pichincha. (Ecuador)
- International Biodiesel Day (international)
“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” Luke 12:6-7 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"The city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it."
Revelation 21:23
Revelation 21:23
Yonder in the better world, the inhabitants are independent of all creature comforts. They have no need of raiment; their white robes never wear out, neither shall they ever be defiled. They need no medicine to heal diseases, "for the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick." They need no sleep to recruit their frames--they rest not day nor night, but unweariedly praise him in his temple. They need no social relationship to minister comfort, and whatever happiness they may derive from association with their fellows is not essential to their bliss, for their Lord's society is enough for their largest desires. They need no teachers there; they doubtless commune with one another concerning the things of God, but they do not require this by way of instruction; they shall all be taught of the Lord. Ours are the alms at the king's gate, but they feast at the table itself. Here we lean upon the friendly arm, but there they lean upon their Beloved and upon him alone. Here we must have the help of our companions, but there they find all they want in Christ Jesus. Here we look to the meat which perisheth, and to the raiment which decays before the moth, but there they find everything in God. We use the bucket to fetch us water from the well, but there they drink from the fountain head, and put their lips down to the living water. Here the angels bring us blessings, but we shall want no messengers from heaven then. They shall need no Gabriels there to bring their love-notes from God, for there they shall see him face to face. Oh! what a blessed time shall that be when we shall have mounted above every second cause and shall rest upon the bare arm of God! What a glorious hour when God, and not his creatures; the Lord, and not his works, shall be our daily joy! Our souls shall then have attained the perfection of bliss.
Evening
"He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils."
Mark 16:9
Mark 16:9
Mary of Magdala was the victim of a fearful evil. She was possessed by not one devil only, but seven. These dreadful inmates caused much pain and pollution to the poor frame in which they had found a lodging. Hers was a hopeless, horrible case. She could not help herself, neither could any human succour avail. But Jesus passed that way, and unsought, and probably even resisted by the poor demoniac, he uttered the word of power, and Mary of Magdala became a trophy of the healing power of Jesus. All the seven demons left her, left her never to return, forcibly ejected by the Lord of all. What a blessed deliverance! What a happy change! From delirium to delight, from despair to peace, from hell to heaven! Straightway she became a constant follower of Jesus, catching his every word, following his devious steps, sharing his toilsome life; and withal she became his generous helper, first among that band of healed and grateful women who ministered unto him of their substance. When Jesus was lifted up in crucifixion, Mary remained the sharer of his shame: we find her first beholding from afar, and then drawing near to the foot of the cross. She could not die on the cross with Jesus, but she stood as near it as she could, and when his blessed body was taken down, she watched to see how and where it was laid. She was the faithful and watchful believer, last at the sepulchre where Jesus slept, first at the grave whence he arose. Her holy fidelity made her a favoured beholder of her beloved Rabboni, who deigned to call her by her name, and to make her his messenger of good news to the trembling disciples and Peter. Thus grace found her a maniac and made her a minister, cast out devils and gave her to behold angels, delivered her from Satan, and united her forever to the Lord Jesus. May I also be such a miracle of grace!
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Today's reading: Psalm 77-78, Romans 10 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 77-78
1 I cried out to God for help;
I cried out to God to hear me.
2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;
at night I stretched out untiring hands,
and I would not be comforted.
I cried out to God to hear me.
2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;
at night I stretched out untiring hands,
and I would not be comforted.
3 I remembered you, God, and I groaned;
I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.
4 You kept my eyes from closing;
I was too troubled to speak.
5 I thought about the former days,
the years of long ago;
6 I remembered my songs in the night.
My heart meditated and my spirit asked:
7 "Will the Lord reject forever?I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.
4 You kept my eyes from closing;
I was too troubled to speak.
5 I thought about the former days,
the years of long ago;
6 I remembered my songs in the night.
My heart meditated and my spirit asked:
Will he never show his favor again?
Today's New Testament reading: Romans 10
1 Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: "The person who does these things will live by them." 6But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 "or 'Who will descend into the deep?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, "Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile-the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
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Terah, Tarah, Thara
[Tē'rah,Tā'ra, Thā'ră] - wild goat orturning, wandering. A son of Nahorand father of Abraham and ancestor of Christ (Gen. 11:24-32; Josh. 24:2; 1 Chron. 1:26; Luke 3:34). SeeNumbers 33:27, 28.
[Tē'rah,Tā'ra, Thā'ră] - wild goat orturning, wandering. A son of Nahorand father of Abraham and ancestor of Christ (Gen. 11:24-32; Josh. 24:2; 1 Chron. 1:26; Luke 3:34). SeeNumbers 33:27, 28.
The Man Who Died Half Way
Along with his three sons, Abraham, Nahor and Haran, Terah migrated from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran, where he died. The reference to him serving other gods led some of the Jewish Fathers to think of Terah as a maker of idols (Josh. 24:2). Why did Terah die at Haran? Was it not his intention to go to Canaan (Gen. 11:31, 32)?
It was God's purpose to separate Abraham from his kindred (Gen. 12:1 ), but Terah and Lot left with him, an exodus, perhaps, Abraham could not prevent. Lot, although he reached Canaan, was a constant grief to his uncle. The death of Terah seems to suggest that complete separation unto God often means the severance of some of earth's dearest ties. Terah is also a type of many who step out for Christ but whose hopes of discipleship die half way. Beginning in the Spirit they end in the flesh. Halfway converts never make wholehearted saints. Are you at Haran, or is yours the joy of living in Canaan?
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