On this day in 295 BC, the first temple of Venus was dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. The Samnite wars were fights for the Italian peninsular and involved Rome, Samnites, Etruscans and Gauls. At the Battle of Sentinum, Rome faced all three foes. Rome had forty thousand, and the coalition had eighty thousand troops. So, Mus, the Roman leader, sent a raiding party into Etruscan and Gaulish lands causing thirty thousand coalition troops to withdraw. Then Mus agreed to fight. Mus was a cavalry officer and his division did well until it met Gallic chariots. Mus sacrificed himself, which rallied his men and Rome won the day. Rome lost eight thousand men. The coalition lost over twenty five thousand dead. Over the next five years, Rome would secure her legacy unchallenged until Pyrrhus invaded. Meanwhile Gurges, as Consul of Rome, fined noble women living dissolute lives and used the proceeds to build the temple.
A year after the assassination of Julius Caeser, in 43BC, Octavian compelled the Roman senate to elect him consul. In 1153, Baldwin III of Jerusalem took control of Jerusalem from his mother, Melisende. He was some 23 years old and ten years later would be dead and childless, leaving the throne to his brother, Amalric. She was six days old when her father died, five years old when she went to France, but on this day in 1561, the eighteen year old Mary Queen of Scots returned to Scotland from France, a year after the Scottish Reformation Parliament had declared Scotland was protestant. She was widow to the 16 year old King Francis II of France. In 1612, the Samlesbury Witch Trial resulted in three women, accused by a fourteen year old Sowerbutts, being found innocent. Grace Sowerbutts was a granddaughter to one of the accused and had claimed they could transform themselves into dogs. Later it turned out Grace had been coached by a priest. Another accuser, peddler John Law had said one of the women had asked him for a pin. He refused, and then she gave him a stroke. In 1666, English Admiral Robert Holmes attacked 140 trading vessels, burning them down. It was later called Holmes' Bonfire.The Salem Witch Trials mainly had women being executed, but on this day in 1692, four men, including a clergyman, and one woman, were hanged. Some say the Salem case is related to ergot poisoning. In 1812 two ships faced off, USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere. They had a long dogfight in which the Constitution won out, and would later be nicknamed "Old Ironsides." At the end of the conflict, the Constitution sent a raft to the other ship to ask if the captain surrendered. He replied "Well, Sir, I don't know. Our mizzen mast is gone, our fore and main masts are gone - I think on the whole you might say we have struck our flag." In 1839, the French government declared the Daguerre photographic process was a gift "free to the world." In 1848, news of the Gold Rush reached New York. In 1895, John Wesley Hardin, a serial killer gunman, was approached by John Selman Sr while Hardin was drinking at a bar. Selman approached Hardin from behind, and shot him in the head, then fired three more shots into the corpse. Hardin had earlier argued with Selman over the arrest of his prostitute friend who had been handling a gun in public. In 1909, Indianapolis had her first motor car race.
In 1934, 89.9% of Germany voted in favour of the new position of Fuhrer for Hitler. In 1942, Canadians, experimenting with amphibious landings for Normandy, attempted to land a brigade at Dieppe, failing with many killed and captured. In 1944, Paris rose against her Nazi oppressors with the help of allied forces. In 1960, downed US U2 pilot, Gary Powers, was sentneced to ten years prison by the Soviet Union. Also in 1960, the Soviet Union launched Korabl-Sputnik 2 with dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. The capsule returned safely. In 1981 two Libyan Sukhoi-Su-22 fighter jets fired on two US F-14 Tomcats and the Tomcats won. In 1989 the Polish President appointed Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to the position of PM, the first non communist leader of Poland in 42 years. In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was on holiday when he was placed under house arrest during a coup. Meanwhile in NYC Black activist groups targeted Hasidic Jews after a road accident. In 1999, in Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbs rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. In 2003, an Iran backed terrorist group car bombed the UN headquarters in Iraq killing 22. Also an Iran backed Hamas executed a suicide attack on a bus in Israel, killing 23. In 2010, US withdrew from Iraq.
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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.
===295 BC – The oldest known temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated.
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands to begin the Second Jacobite Rising.
1942 – Second World War: Allied forces suffered over 3,000 casualties when they unsuccessfully raided the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France.
1981 – Two American F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan Su-22 Fitters while the U.S. Navy conducted military exercises in the Gulf of Sidra.
2003 – A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded over 130 others on a crowded public bus in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in Jerusalem. Your temple is dedicated. You have raised the standard. You can avoid suffering by not participating in the munchy raid. Stay clear of tomcats too .. or terrorists .. don't ask me why .. just avoid them ;)
Matches
- 295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
- 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
- 1153 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
- 1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
- 1561 – 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
- 1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
- 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
- 1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including aclergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
- 1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan – the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
- 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
- 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the Britishcommander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
- 1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
- 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
- 1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
- 1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
- 1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
- 1862 – American Indian Wars: during an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
- 1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
- 1909 – The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
- 1914 – The Ottoman-Bulgarian alliance is signed in Sofia.
- 1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1927 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
- 1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
- 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
- 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
- 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
- 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
- 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
- 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
- 1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2 – the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
- 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
- 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
- 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
- 1987 – Hungerford massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
- 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
- 1989 – Radio Caroline, the offshore pirate station in the North Sea, is raided by British and Dutch governments.
- 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
- 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town ofForos, Ukraine.
- 1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
- 1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
- 2002 – A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
- 2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
- 2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
- 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
- 2005 – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Torontoand its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed the "Toronto Supercell".
- 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
- 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
- 2012 – A plane crash kills 32 people in Sudan.
- 2013 – A train accident in India kills at least 37 people and injures over a dozen.
Hatches
- 232 – Marcus Aurelius Probus, Roman emperor (d. 282)
- 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet and politician (d. 1458)
- 1570 – Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1630)
- 1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
- 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1793)
- 1777 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
- 1835 – Tom Wills, Australian cricketer and umpire, co-founded Australian rules football (d. 1880)
- 1843 – C. I. Scofield, American minister and theologian (d. 1921)
- 1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
- 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (d. 1894)
- 1870 – Bernard Baruch, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1965)
- 1871 – Orville Wright, American pilot, inventor, and businessman, co-founded the Wright Company (d. 1948)
- 1881 – George Enescu, Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1955)
- 1883 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company (d. 1971)
- 1889 – Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist (d. 1966)
- 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962)
- 1900 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher (d. 1976)
- 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet and author (d. 1971)
- 1904 – Maurice Wilks, English automotive and aeronautical engineer, and was chairman of the Rover Company (d. 1963)
- 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor (d. 1971)
- 1907 – Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Indian historian, author, and scholar (d. 1979)
- 1913 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (d. 1955)
- 1918 – Jimmy Rowles, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1996)
- 1919 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
- 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)
- 1930 – Frank McCourt, American author and educator (d. 2009)
- 1939 – Ginger Baker, English drummer and songwriter (Cream, Blind Faith, Blues Incorporated, and Atomic Rooster)
- 1940 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1942 – Fred Thompson, American actor, lawyer, and politician
- 1944 – Eddy Raven, American singer-songwriter
- 1944 – Charles Wang, Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded CA Technologies
- 1945 – Ian Gillan, English singer-songwriter (Deep Purple, Episode Six, Gillan, and WhoCares)
- 1946 – Bill Clinton, American politician, 42nd President of the United States
- 1951 – John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter (Queen)
- 1951 – Lillian Müller, Norwegian model and actress
- 1956 – Adam Arkin, American actor, director, and producer
- 1958 – Brendan Nelson, Australian physician and politician, 47th Minister for Defence for Australia
- 1962 – Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
- 1965 – Kyra Sedgwick, American actress and producer
- 1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player
- 1972 – Sammi Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1972 – Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Takahiro Yamada, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
- 1980 – Jun Jin, South Korean singer and actor (Shinhwa)
- 1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1983 – Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013)
- 1983 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress and singer
- 1996 – Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player
- 1998 – Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
- 1999 – Tristan Lake Leabu, American actor
Despatches
- 14 – Augustus, Roman emperor (b. 63 BC)
- 1662 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
- 1680 – Jean Eudes, French priest, founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (b. 1601)
- 1822 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
- 1937 – Joe Lydon, American boxer (b. 1878)
- 1959 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1901)
- 1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1890)
- 1980 – Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman (b. 1889)
- 2001 – Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
ALL BOOKSTORES ARE EQUAL
Tim Blair – Tuesday, August 19, 2014 (4:51am)
Labor member for Lakemba Robert Furolo takes issue with yesterday’s column:
Last time I checked, nearly every suburb in Sydney has bookstores, yet we don’t define the residents of those suburbs by what the authors of those books say or think. That would be just absurd.
Mate, a store in your electorate sells books that praise Hitler and condemn women to hell. Have you ever visited that store? Are you proud that this is happening under your watch?
DIG UP
Tim Blair – Tuesday, August 19, 2014 (4:08am)
A quick review of the latest Labor memoir:
In the prologue to his new book, Wayne Swan writes he joined the Labor Party “in 1974, under Gough Whitlam, while working part-time as a manure shoveller”.The former treasurer is still shovelling it 40 years later.
ALLAH OVER AUSTRALIA
Tim Blair – Tuesday, August 19, 2014 (3:53am)
Nothing to see here:
A senior leader of radical Sydney-based Islamic organisation al-Risalah has denounced the Australian flag, as the group’s supporters posted Facebook messages about beheading “non-believers”.Wissam Haddad, the head of the al-Risalah Islamic Centre in Sydney’s southwest, yesterday told The Daily Telegraph he followed the “flag of Allah” rather than the flag of Australia.The flag, called the Shahada, is the same as the one used by Islamic State terrorists who have been spreading death and terror across the Middle East.
Maybe they just prefer that colour scheme.
THEY’RE FIRING EAR PLUGS
Tim Blair – Monday, August 18, 2014 (11:40pm)
There is no such thing as a stupid question. Except this one.
(Via Dave T.)
STUMP CAM
Tim Blair – Monday, August 18, 2014 (10:08pm)
Poor Ian Botham.
No doubt Plibersek will say thanks…
Andrew Bolt August 19 2014 (9:53am)
Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop have fixed what Labor broke with its spying:
===THE Australian and Indonesian governments have concluded an agreement to patch up differences over allegations of Australian spying on Indonesia and could formally sign the text as early as this week.
Your family is paying $260 a year on useless green power
Andrew Bolt August 19 2014 (9:40am)
The green energy
industry has not just wasted a grotesque amount of the public’s money.
It has done this without making the slightest difference to the climate:
Alan Moran on the renewable energy target, which forces us to use wind and solar power:
UPDATE
Senator Matt Canavan on the great green rort:
===Alan Moran on the renewable energy target, which forces us to use wind and solar power:
[T]wo studies of the RET have independently placed its net present value cost at $29-$37 billion. Even if it were closed today its costs would be $6-$16 depending on the assumptions…That is $260 a year paid by the average family to keep green carpetbaggers in business with no benefit at all to the environment.
In terms of the direct impact on electricity consumers, the burden of renewable requirements this year is estimated by the energy regulator to add 12 per cent to the average household’s electricity costs. That’s about $260 per year.
UPDATE
Senator Matt Canavan on the great green rort:
Last week, the nation was gripped by the spectacle of a “regressive” fuel tax that would cost the average consumer $20 a year. The same people who pillory the Treasurer for indexing fuel excise argue for a RET more than twice as costly. At least fuel excise will help build roads, whereas the RET doesn’t make electricity more reliable or powerful, it just makes pensioners and the poor go without heating or airconditioning to subsidise the lucky few with the resources to invest in the latest fad: renewables.
The RET is an extremely expensive form of emission reductions, between double and six times the cost of the carbon tax.
And it doesn’t stop there. The big losers from the RET are those industries that use lots of energy, such as aluminium and fertiliser producers. Some economic modelling finds that the RET will lead to 5000 fewer jobs.
Clive Palmer calls partners “Chinese bastards” and “mongrels”. Wong silent
Andrew Bolt August 19 2014 (9:26am)
Clive Palmer plays the race card as Labor’s Penny Wong, herself ethnically Chinese, sits by without a single protest or mention of 18C:
The real issue:
Palmer once said the exact opposite about the Chinese - but that was when he was making money from them. From 2009:
What does Palmer think of his Chinese-born Senator Dio Wang taking a seat in our Parliament with the alleged help of Chinese money, spent on the party’s advertising? What does Wang in turn think of Palmer’s tirade against Chinese businessmen?
(Note: Palmer denies claims by his partner CITIC Pacific that he improperly took $12 million of its money, some of which went to a company working on Palmer’s election campaign.)
UPDATE
If Lambie really thinks our military should double in size she should finally nominate some savings to pay for it:
(Thanks to readers Gab and Lambie.)
===In a broad spray the maverick MP accused the “communist Chinese government” of trying to take over Australia’s ports to steal the nation’s natural resources. “I don’t mind standing up against the Chinese bastards and stopping them from doing it,” he said on Q&A....The Chinese “bastards” Palmer refers to are in this case his own Chinese partners. The take-over of this country he denounces is the investment he himself sold them.
He said ... he’d keep up the fight against the “Chinese mongrels”.
“I’m saying that because they’re communist, because they shoot their own people, they haven’t got a justice system and they want to take over this country,” he said.
The real issue:
Mr Palmer is currently fighting two court cases against Chinese firm Citic Pacific, who claim $12 million in royalty payments were improperly siphoned off to pay for Mr Palmer’s election campaign.Clive Palmer makes Pauline Hanson look perfectly reasonable:
FORMER One Nation leader Pauline Hanson ... criticised Mr Palmer for his tirade against Australia’s biggest trading partner.UPDATE
Palmer once said the exact opposite about the Chinese - but that was when he was making money from them. From 2009:
THE nation’s fifth-richest man, Clive Palmer, has denounced the federal government’s foreign investment rules as racist, claiming they are weighted against Chinese companies seeking to buy into Australian resource projects.UPDATE
What does Palmer think of his Chinese-born Senator Dio Wang taking a seat in our Parliament with the alleged help of Chinese money, spent on the party’s advertising? What does Wang in turn think of Palmer’s tirade against Chinese businessmen?
(Note: Palmer denies claims by his partner CITIC Pacific that he improperly took $12 million of its money, some of which went to a company working on Palmer’s election campaign.)
UPDATE
If Lambie really thinks our military should double in size she should finally nominate some savings to pay for it:
ONE of Clive Palmer’s senators says Australia must double the size of its military to counter the threat of a Chinese invasion.Marvellous how these clowns are destroying our relationship with China to further Palmer’s business vendetta.
A DAY after Mr Palmer stoked controversy by describing the Chinese as “bastards” and “mongrels” who shoot their own people, Jacqui Lambie has weighed in.
The outspoken Palmer United Party senator for Tasmania says she strongly supports her leader’s comments about “China’s military capacity and threat to Australia”.
“If anybody thinks that we should have a national security and defence policy which ignores the threat of a Chinese communist invasion - you’re delusional and got rocks in your head,” she said in a statement on Tuesday.
(Thanks to readers Gab and Lambie.)
Muslim leaders play the victim, boycott anti-terrorism discussion
Andrew Bolt August 19 2014 (8:59am)
We have a problem and Tony Abbott reaches out to Muslim leaders to help avert what would be a disaster for the Muslim community:
Example 1: The Islamic Council of Victoria has boycotted today’s meeting with Abbott, accusing him of being divisive and inflammatory.
Example 2: Sydney Muslim leaders yesterday gave Abbott more criticism than help:
Example 3: Sydney Muslim leaders also played the victim card and released a statement hinting that their cooperation might have a price - the abandonment of Israel:
Example 5: The Grand Mufti boycotted an end-of-Ramadan dinner hosted by the Australian Federal Police to signal his opposition to the new anti-terrorism plans.
I am left with the clear impression that many of our Islamic leaders have more interest in preaching victimhood than in fighting terrorism. They are feeding what they should be fighting.
UPDATE
Those Muslim leaders should spend less time attacking Tony Abbott for his allegedly divisive statements and more time combating truly divisive and dangerous statements by their own:
===Mr Abbott [met Sydney Muslim leaders yesterday] to build support for reforms that would allow police to arrest Australians who may have joined foreign conflicts.But how serious and responsible are these leaders really? How quick are they to play the victim card and make non-Muslim Australians seem the real problem?
Mr Abbott will meet Islamic leaders in Melbourne today and Attorney-General George Brandis will hold a meeting in Sydney on Wednesday to discuss the new laws.
Example 1: The Islamic Council of Victoria has boycotted today’s meeting with Abbott, accusing him of being divisive and inflammatory.
Example 2: Sydney Muslim leaders yesterday gave Abbott more criticism than help:
ISLAMIC leaders have urged Tony Abbott to safeguard the presumption of innocence in the government’s new counter-terrorism laws as the Prime Minister insists on the need for stronger powers to avoid a “mass-casualty terrorist event” on Australian soil…
The Grand Mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, told the Prime Minister of the importance of legal freedoms, while others warned against the powers going too far to deal with a “handful of lunatics” who embraced terrorism. Islamic Friendship Association spokesman Keysar Trad said after the meeting: “The reversal of the presumption of innocence, of course, was a very, very important issue. The mufti stressed in there the importance of freedoms. This is why we love Australia. We don’t want these freedoms to be threatened."…
The Australian was told yesterday that leaders also aired concerns about divisive language that could isolate Muslims rather than turn the fight against terrorism into an issue for all parts of the community.
Example 3: Sydney Muslim leaders also played the victim card and released a statement hinting that their cooperation might have a price - the abandonment of Israel:
Attendees stressed the need for appropriate risk assessment of any measures proposed in order to ensure that they do not result in the further marginalisation or victimisation of any members of the Muslim community…Example 4: The Sydney attendees included Keysar Trad, whose past associations include a pro-jihadist publication and a pro-Hezbollah Mufti.
It was highlighted that Australia needs to maintain its ethical and moral leadership in tackling global issues and devise sound foreign policies that uphold human rights, are balanced and do not negatively impact on any section of the Australian community.
Example 5: The Grand Mufti boycotted an end-of-Ramadan dinner hosted by the Australian Federal Police to signal his opposition to the new anti-terrorism plans.
I am left with the clear impression that many of our Islamic leaders have more interest in preaching victimhood than in fighting terrorism. They are feeding what they should be fighting.
UPDATE
Those Muslim leaders should spend less time attacking Tony Abbott for his allegedly divisive statements and more time combating truly divisive and dangerous statements by their own:
A senior leader of radical Sydney-based Islamic organisation al-Risalah has denounced the Australian flag, as the group’s supporters posted Facebook messages about beheading “non-believers”.
Wissam Haddad, the head of the al-Risalah Islamic Centre in Sydney’s southwest, yesterday told The Daily Telegraph he followed the “flag of Allah” rather than the flag of Australia.
The flag, called the Shahada, is the same as the one used by Islamic State terrorists who have been spreading death and terror across the Middle East.
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THIS DAY IN HOLOCAUST HISTORY, 1943: The process of destroying the evidence of mass murder that took place at Babi Yar, a suburb of Kiev in the Soviet Ukraine, began. Jewish and Soviet prisoners were set to work, unearthing thousands of bodies and burning them in huge pyres. The Jewish prisoners attended to the horrible task knowing that they too would be shot and burned at the end they tried an escape. During attempt to hide the evidence of genocide, 311 out of 325 Jewish and Soviet prisoners would be killed in their break-out attempt.
Babi Yar: Jews (including babies) were rounded up and shot before being pushed into the ravine, Their dignity stripped from them..
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MAN RULES
AT LAST A GUY HAS TAKEN THE TIME TO WRITE THIS ALL DOWN
FINALLY, the guys' side of the story. ( I MUST ADMIT, IT'S PRETTY GOOD.)
WE ALWAYS HEAR 'THE RULES' FROM THE FEMALE SIDE
NOW HERE ARE THE RULES FROM THE MALE SIDE
THESE ARE OUR RULES!
PLEASE NOTE. THESE ARE ALL NUMBERED #1 ON PURPOSE!
1. MEN ARE NOT MIND READERS.
1. LEARN TO WORK THE TOILET SEAT. YOU'RE A BIG GIRL. IF IT'S UP, PUT IT DOWN. WE NEED IT UP, YOU NEED IT DOWN. YOU DON'T HEAR US COMPLAINING ABOUT YOU LEAVING IT DOWN.
1. CRYING IS BLACKMAIL.
1. ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT. LET US BE CLEAR ON THIS ONE:
SUBTLE HINTS DO NOT WORK!
STRONG HINTS DO NOT WORK!
OBVIOUS HINTS DO NOT WORK!
JUST SAY IT!
1. YES AND NO ARE PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS TO ALMOST EVERY QUESTION.
1.. COME TO US WITH A PROBLEM ONLY IF YOU WANT HELP SOLVING IT. THAT'S WHAT WE DO. SYMPATHY IS WHAT YOUR GIRLFRIENDS ARE FOR.
1. ANYTHING WE SAID 6 MONTHS AGO IS INADMISSIBLE IN AN ARGUMENT. IN FACT, ALL COMMENTS BECOME NULL AND VOID AFTER 7 DAYS.
1. IF YOU THINK YOU'RE FAT, YOU PROBABLY ARE. DON'T ASK US.
1. IF SOMETHING WE SAID CAN BE INTERPRETED TWO WAYS AND ONE OF THE WAYS MAKES YOU SAD OR ANGRY, WE MEANT THE OTHER ONE.
1. YOU CAN EITHER ASK US TO DO SOMETHING OR TELL US HOW YOU WANT IT DONE. NOT BOTH.
IF YOU ALREADY KNOW BEST HOW TO DO IT, JUST DO IT YOURSELF.
1. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, PLEASE SAY WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO SAY DURING COMMERCIALS.
1. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DID NOT NEED DIRECTIONS AND NEITHER DO WE...
1. ALL MEN SEE IN ONLY 16 COLORS, LIKE WINDOWS DEFAULT SETTINGS..
PEACH, FOR EXAMPLE, IS A FRUIT, NOT A COLOR. PUMPKIN IS ALSO A FRUIT. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MAUVE IS.
1. IF WE ASK WHAT IS WRONG AND YOU SAY 'NOTHING,' WE WILL ACT LIKE NOTHING'S WRONG. WE KNOW YOU ARE LYING, BUT IT IS JUST NOT WORTH THE HASSLE.
1. IF YOU ASK A QUESTION YOU DON'T WANT AN ANSWER TO, EXPECT AN ANSWER YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR..
1. WHEN WE HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING YOU WEAR IS FINE...REALLY.
1.. DON'T ASK US WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO DISCUSS SUCH TOPICS AS FOOTBALL OR MOTOR SPORTS.
1. YOU HAVE ENOUGH CLOTHES.
1 .. YOU HAVE TOO MANY SHOES.
1. I AM IN SHAPE. ROUND IS A SHAPE!
1.. THANK YOU FOR READING THIS. YES, I KNOW, I HAVE TO SLEEP ON THE COUCH TONIGHT.. BUT DID YOU KNOW MEN REALLY DON'T MIND THAT? IT'S LIKE CAMPING...
PASS THIS TO AS MANY MEN AS YOU CAN - TO GIVE THEM A LAUGH...
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On the phone to the ATO- 'if you are enquiring about natural disasters, please press 5'. Wtf?
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What is more outrageous than releasing one murderer?
26 “prisoners” went home to a hero’s welcome and official greetings over night, in case you missed the list of “political prisoners”
Warning: reading the following should be upsetting, very upsetting.
But at the end, as comfort my friends, see a new video produced by a young man who spent time in Israel.
Guess that is what we do, keep on creating and making music in spite of what seems impossible to comprehend.
Fayez Khur: Aged 51, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On May 10, 1983, he murdered Menahem Dadon in the Gaza Strip, and was involved in the murder of Salomon Abukasis in the Gaza Strip on February 14, 1983. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Salah Mugdad: Aged 47, a Fatah activist from Kfar Bracha in Samaria in the West Bank. On June 14, 1993, he murdered Israel Tenenbaum, a guard at the Sirens Hotel in Netanya. Sentenced to life imprisonment, which was then commuted to a 32-year sentence.
Samir Na’neesh: Aged 46, a Fatah activist from Nablus in the West Bank. On February 14, 1989 he murdered a soldier, Binyamin Meisner, by throwing a building block at him in the Kasbah in Nablus. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Yusef Irshaid: Aged 45, a Fatah activist from Jenin in the West Bank. On June 15, 1992, he took part in the murder of a Druze Israeli citizen, Mufid Cana’an. In the years 1991-92 he took part in the murder of three Palestinians suspected of collaboration with Israel. He also planned a car bomb attack in Afula and made attempts to kidnap a soldier. Sentenced to five life imprisonments.
Mustafa al-Haj: Aged 45, a Fatah activist from Brukin in the West Bank. On June 17, 1989, he stabbed Steven Frederick Rosenfeld to death with a knife close to Ariel. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Salameh Musleh: Aged 44, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On May 20, 1991, he took part in the murder of Reuven David in Petach Tikva, when he and his accomplice beat him to death. Sentenced to life imprisonment, which was then commuted to a 30-year sentence.
Atiyeh abu Musa: Aged 42, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On March 29, 1993, he murdered Isaac Rotenberg with an axe on a building site in Bat Yam. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Salah Mukled: Aged 40, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On March 29, 1993, he stabbed Yeshayahu Deutsch to death with a knife in the hothouses of Kfar Yam. In that same year, he also carried out shooting attacks. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mohemed Sawalha: Aged 40, a Fatah activist from the village of Azmut in West Bank. On December 2, 1990, he took part in a stabbing on a bus in Ramat Gan, in which Baruch Heisler was murdered and three other passengers were injured. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Atef Sha’ath: Aged 49, a Popular Front activist from the Gaza Strip. He collaborated in the murder of Simcha Levy on March 12, 1993. Sentenced to 29 years imprisonment.
Yusef Abed al-Al: Aged 42, a Popular Front activist from the Gaza Strip. On April 18, 1993, he took part in the murder of Ian Feinberg in the Gaza Strip. On July 3, 1993, he murdered a Palestinian who was suspected of collaboration. Sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.
Midhat Barbakh: Aged 38, a Popular Front and Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On January 21, 1994, he stabbed his employer, Moshe Beker, a citrus grower from Rishon Letzion, killing him. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ali Rai: Aged 56, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On January 21, 1994, he murdered Morris Eizenstat in Kfar Saba. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mohamed Nashbat: Aged 52, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On September 20, 1990, he took part in the stoning and lynch of a soldier, Amnon Pomerantz, in al Burej in the Gaza Strip. Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment.
Samir Murtaji: Aged 42, a Hamas activist from the Gaza Strip. In the years 1993-94, he murdered four Palestinians who were suspected of collaboration. He was also involved in kidnapping other Palestinians suspected of collaboration. Sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
Hosni Sawalha: Aged 39, a Fatah activist from Azmut, a village in the West Bank. He took part in a stabbing on a bus in Ramat Gan on December 2, 1990, in which Baruch Heisler was murdered and three other passengers were injured. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Faraj Rimahi: Aged 48, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. Murdered Avraham Kinsler on June 6, 1992 and planned to murder more Israeli citizens. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ala Eddin Abu Sitteh: Aged 43, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On December 31, 1993, he took part in the murder of Haim Weizman and David Dadi in Ramle. After stabbing them both to death with knives, the murderers desecrated their victims’ bodies. Sentenced to two life imprisonments.
Ayman Abu Sitteh: Aged 42, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On December 31, 1993, he took part in the murder of Haim Weizman and David Dadi in Ramle. After stabbing them both to death with knives, the murderers desecrated their victims’ bodies. Sentenced to two life imprisonments.
Esmat Mansour: Aged 36, a Democratic Front activist from Deir Jarir, a village in the West Bank. On October 29, 1993, he aided the terrorist cell that murdered Haim Mizrahi in a chicken farm in Beit El. He led the murderers to a hiding place behind the chicken coops, brought rope to tie up the victim and helped them load the dead body into the trunk of the car. Sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.
Khaled Asakreh: Aged 41, a Fatah activist from Rafida, a village in the West Bank. On April 29, 1991, he murdered Annie Ley, a French tourist in Bethlehem. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
Nihad Jundiyeh: Aged 40, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On July 14 1989, he took part in the murder of Zalman Shlein in Gan Yavne. During questioning, he admitted to planning two more attacks that were not carried out: a stabbing in Gan Yavne and forcing a bus off a cliff. Sentenced to 25.5 years imprisonment.
Mohamed Hamdiyeh: Aged 41, a Fatah activist from the Gaza Strip. On July 14, 1989 he took part in the murder of Zalman Shlein in Gan Yavne. Sentenced to 25.5 years imprisonment.
Jamil Abed al-Nabi: Aged 50, a Hamas activist from the Hebron area in the West Bank. He was involved in planning and carrying out the shooting in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron that occurred on October 25, 1992. In the attack, an IDF soldier, Shmuel Gersh, was killed and another soldier wounded. Sentenced to 21 years imprisonment.
Taher Zaboud: an Islamic Jihad activist from Silat al Harithiya, a village in the West Bank. He took part in a shooting that occurred on September 22, 1992 near the settlement Gadish. He was also involved in an unsuccessful attempt to murder a police officer in Umm al-Fahm. Sentenced to 21 years imprisonment.
Borhan Sabiah: Aged 42, a Fatah activist from Rai, a village in the West Bank. He was convicted of murdering six suspected collaborators. Sentenced to six life imprisonments.
Now, Comfort My Friend
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Hope is looking up - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
You're on the road to healing when you can thank God for what you're learning from a painful experience.
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ObamaCare is so awful that you can get punished just for getting married.
Check out how here: http://bit.ly/19CpsTW
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Our friend Parnelli Jones celebrated his birthday and the 50th anniversary celebration of his epic Indy 500 win. And he graciously shared his celebration (and cake) in little ol' Wasilla with Trig after a caribou hunt earlier that day! We had such a fun time with this amazing American whose accomplishments are ingrained in our memories and even our hopes for tomorrow. We were honored to share this day with him. Fellow motorheads and productive capitalists know what I mean. His work ethic must be emulated. Bless Parnelli Jones and the Greatest Generation.
- Sarah Palin
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No hope .. but more money! - ed
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Allyson Christy.
US concern? How hypocritical. Perhaps the US ought offer an explanation of that hypocrisy to the many other terror victims' families who painfully watched the killers of their loved ones recently released amid US pressure to appease the PA.
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Rioting surf fans rampaged through Huntington Beach on July 29 and tore the place apart.
Hundreds brawled, looted shops, trashed property and clashed with police. Several officers and people received minor injuries.
Last week, after scouring video of the disturbance, the Huntington Beach Police Department posted photos of 25 suspects on Facebook and asked for the public's help identifying them.
Two days after the photos were posted, a friend of Luis Enrique Rodriguez, 18, of Anaheim tagged him in the comments of one photo, LAist reports.
Rodriguez responded by liking the post and sharing it on Facebook.
"Mr. Rodriguez, apparently proud of his actions, "liked" the Huntington Beach Police Department's picture #15 and shared it with his friends, which was noticed by numerous fans of our Facebook page and a series of tips leading to his identification," the police posted.
They say that made it pretty easy to track him down.
Anaheim Police Department have now arrested Rodriguez and charged him with vandalism.
He's accused of writing "**** the pigs" on police squad cars.
There's another photo of him on his Facebook profile that features him sitting on top of a squad car that same day.
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On Saturday August 17th, the Palestine Action Group held a protest against Max Brenner at Parramatta.
According to Shirlee, there was a whole lot of fail on display, but the most priceless fail was undoubtedly this:
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new lights on bay bridge span looks pretty good
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My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. Psalm 121
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August 19: Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar);Independence Day in Afghanistan (1919); 2000th anniversary of the death of Roman emperor Augustus
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- 1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobitestandard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlandsto begin the Second Jacobite Rising.
- 1895 – American outlaw and folk hero John Wesley Hardin was shot dead by an off-duty lawman in El Paso, Texas.
- 1953 – The intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States orchestrated a coup d'état of Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh (pictured) and restored theabsolute monarchy of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 1960 – Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka began to orbit the Earth aboard the Korabl-Sputnik-2 spacecraft.
- 2005 – Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” Philippians 1:21 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house."
Jeremiah 51:51
Jeremiah 51:51
In this account the faces of the Lord's people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. Everywhere about us we see like cause for sorrow. How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population is nominally comprehended in a National Church! How fearful it is that ordinances should be pressed upon the unconverted, and that among the more enlightened churches of our land there should be such laxity of discipline. If the thousands who will read this portion shall all take this matter before the Lord Jesus this day, he will interfere and avert the evil which else will come upon his Church. To adulterate the Church is to pollute a well, to pour water upon fire, to sow a fertile field with stones. May we all have grace to maintain in our own proper way the purity of the Church, as being an assembly of believers, and not a nation, an unsaved community of unconverted men.
Our zeal must, however, begin at home. Let us examine ourselves as to our right to eat at the Lord's table. Let us see to it that we have on our wedding garment, lest we ourselves be intruders in the Lord's sanctuaries. Many are called, but few are chosen; the way is narrow, and the gate is strait. O for grace to come to Jesus aright, with the faith of God's elect. He who smote Uzzah for touching the ark is very jealous of his two ordinances; as a true believer I may approach them freely, as an alien I must not touch them lest I die. Heart searching is the duty of all who are baptized or come to the Lord's table. "Search me, O God, and know my way, try me and know my heart."
Evening
"And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not."
Mark 15:23
Mark 15:23
A golden truth is couched in the fact that the Saviour put the myrrhed wine-cup from his lips. On the heights of heaven the Son of God stood of old, and as he looked down upon our globe he measured the long descent to the utmost depths of human misery; he cast up the sum total of all the agonies which expiation would require, and abated not a jot. He solemnly determined that to offer a sufficient atoning sacrifice he must go the whole way, from the highest to the lowest, from the throne of highest glory to the cross of deepest woe. This myrrhed cup, with its soporific influence, would have stayed him within a little of the utmost limit of misery, therefore he refused it. He would not stop short of all he had undertaken to suffer for his people. Ah, how many of us have pined after reliefs to our grief which would have been injurious to us! Reader, did you never pray for a discharge from hard service or suffering with a petulant and wilful eagerness? Providence has taken from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke. Say, Christian, if it had been said, "If you so desire it, that loved one of yours shall live, but God will be dishonoured," could you have put away the temptation, and said, "Thy will be done"? Oh, it is sweet to be able to say, "My Lord, if for other reasons I need not suffer, yet if I can honour thee more by suffering, and if the loss of my earthly all will bring thee glory, then so let it be. I refuse the comfort, if it comes in the way of thine honour." O that we thus walked more in the footsteps of our Lord, cheerfully enduring trial for his sake, promptly and willingly putting away the thought of self and comfort when it would interfere with our finishing the work which he has given us to do. Great grace is needed, but great grace is provided.
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Today's reading: Psalm 100-102, 1 Corinthians 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 100-102
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations....
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 1
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ-their Lord and ours:
3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving
4 I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. 5 For in him you have been enriched in every way-with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge- 6God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. 7Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. 8 He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord...
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Ishmael
[Ĭsh'mael] - god heareth.
[Ĭsh'mael] - god heareth.
1. The son of Abraham, by Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian maid. Ishmael was born when Abraham was eighty-six years of age, and was circumcised when he was thirteen years of age, along with his father and his servants. He received the divine promise that he would beget twelve princes and become a great nation. He died at the age of 137 (Gen. 16:11-16; 17:18-26; 25:9-17; 28:9; 36:3). Ishmael was the founder of the tribal family called Ishmaelites, sometimes referred to as Midianites ( Gen. 37:25-28).
The Man Who Became an Outcast
Ishmael, who was some fourteen years older than Isaac, was not his father's heir and did not share his father's property. Abraham was tenderly attached to Ishmael (Gen. 17:18), and the casting out of the boy and his mother by Sarah was a great grief to Abraham. Such a hard transaction was necessary to keep the inheritance unbroken for Isaac's possession. "To thee will I give it" (Gal. 3:16; 4:30 ). Ishmael's name is a monument of God's goodness in answering prayer. "God shall hear." What did He hear? He heard the moaning of Hagar's broken heart. God said concerning Ishmael: "I will make him a great nation" (Gen. 21:18).
The names of Ishmael's twelve sons have been preserved but there is no record of any good they achieved (Gen. 25:13-16).
Paul tells us that the record of Hagar and Ishmael is an allegory (Gal. 4:24 ). Hagar and Sarah represent two covenants - Jewish and Christian. Hagar represents the law, and Ishmael, because he was born of the bond woman, typifies those who are under the law. Isaac, because of his super-natural birth, represents those born anew by the Spirit of God.
The casting out of Ishmael has been productive of bitter fruit, surviving in the religion of Mohammed. The wild hearts beat on in the bosoms of those who form the Arab world. Little did Sarah know, when she persuaded Abraham to take Hagar that she was originating a rivalry which has run in the keenest strife through the ages, and which oceans of blood have not stopped.
The Moslem Arabs claim descent from Ishmael. Ishmael's mother and wife were Egyptian, which differentiates them from pure Hebrew. Arabian tribes springing from Ishmael are scattered throughout the Arabian peninsula. When Ishmael received his name, the Lord said that he would be "a wild man," or "a wild-ass man" as the Hebrew expresses it.
2. An ancestor of Zebadiah who was one of Jehoshaphat's judicial officers (2 Chron. 19:11).
3. A Son of Azer and a descendant of Saul through Jonathan (1 Chron. 8:38; 9:44).
4. A son of Jehohanan and one of the military officers associated with Jehoiada in the revolution to raise Joash to the throne (2 Chron. 23:1).
5. A son of Pashbur and one of the priests persuaded by Ezra to put away his foreign wife (Ezra 10:22).
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