"For things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
The magnificent former athlete, now senator Nova Perris has disturbingly done as Gillard and Thomson have done before her and addressed parliament about a tawdry affair. She has not said that the leaked emails which allege corruption are fabrications. She says she has not seen them. But she says they are not consistent with her views then and now, which suggests she has taken a very nuanced legal view. Unlike Thomson and Gillard she suggests a motive for the alleged fabrication and provides a believable account as to what has happened. Any person capable of fabricating emails with that detail must be disturbingly close to her, personally. It is telling that those supporting her have not given similar support to Sydney University poet Barry Spurr, but from the viewpoint of the NT News, their source must have presented them with sufficient verifiable facts to let them proceed over Nova, while Matilda have clearly failed to obtain sufficient facts to impugn Spurr.
Raising Jihadis in Lakemba as a channel 7 recording shows four children aged from six to thirteen parading as soldiers of the caliphate. The children promise to die fighting to end democracy in Australia. The event was organised by the Muslim Youth Project in Lakemba and suggests that that organisation and those involved should answer questions as to why they should be allowed to exist as a corporation, or be free. Senator Leyenjohn on 7:30 report says that the new anti terrorism laws will mean that people can be charged and arrested who might not under current legislation. Which sounds like the point.
An inquiry into a partisan weather bureau account has been called for by a National Party MP. One interesting study would be reporting of forecasts and record of actual temperatures, which rarely is other than cooler than those forecast. A hundred years ago and more, higher temperatures were being recorded. Yet the weather bureau claims that 2013 was the hottest on record without being able to substantiate it. Locally, it wasn't.
A danger Victoria could vote ALP with polls showing ALP will win. It is undeserved, without them ever addressing their apparent corruption or presenting a coherent set of policies. The danger is they could be elected with no agenda other than to be corrupt. Even today, they cost Victorians a lot of money from a desalination plant that was never needed.
Aid worker arrogantly demands to be treated different to public safety needs over Ebola. Many thanks to the aid worker sacrificing their time and money to make a difference in Africa, but they have been quarantined for a reason and should respect that.
"For things to stay as they are, things will have to change." Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who in The Leopard had Count Tancredi say that .. and Malcolm Turnbull brilliantly quotes it in parliament today.
MLB World Series update
Scoring 3 to 2, Giants take the series after San Francisco did what it does best by going against trend. Bumgarner became player of the series by keeping Kansas City Royals shut down on a one run deficit, after winning two other games. It is the third time Giants have won in five years. 2013
Professional activists, calling themselves students, menace conservative politicians to get your money. They throw shoes, eggs, rotten food stuffs, and are abusive in language as well. Naturally, media don't show the organiser's face book exhortations .. and FB doesn't have a problem maintaining it on site. Thing is, left don't argue, they abuse (yes, I'm aware it is a generalisation and there are some of the left who argue without resorting to abuse .. or going into fantasy land). The reason for that is that is what has been modelled. It is what works. Politicians and media elite have been doing that for a long time. There is an account of Horatio Nelson's experience in UK politics where he was a natural conservative but joined the Whigs because he wanted to be heard .. that is in 1800. There is a conservative press, but it is very weak in Australia and tends to suffer from 'balance' in the US where some ideas are accepted without question. Don't believe me? Ask yourself what you feel about historical left wing folly. If it is wrong to bomb civilians, what about the firebombing of German citizens in cities during WW2? What terrible things would the women and children have done to the war effort? Or the twice nuking of Japanese cities .. why not military targets? Why was Idi Amin, Pol Pot or any of many murderous tyrants not incarcerated for their crimes? Why is Al Gore free and lauded for his lies which cost the world $trillions .. how would media characterise a conservative who took $trillions from the world's poorest peoples? How about the prosecution of the Korean War? Vietnam? Historical events won't be changed, but crimes should be condemned. There is little point in overthrowing China or Vietnam by force now. But we can't accept piracy from them either.
Sometimes it seems the only thing a left will willingly bury is decency. Known unto God. Al Jazeera provides details about boat people meant to condemn Liberal policy .. but it backfires. If car manufacturers can't profitably manufacture cars in Australia they shouldn't be here. Same sex marriage can work if the policy doesn't infringe on churches .. they probably should not be state regulated anyway. But gay activists don't seem to care about the issue, so much as pushing an envelope. ALP are still struggling to work out why they lost .. some saying they could have won. Here is a hint, ALP are wrong about conservative policy .. and ALP corruption is disheartening for their supporters. Two wonderful articles follow, one on how the US stimulus failed and the other shows Clive Palmer is a fool.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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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
Or the US President at
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR
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.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Sandy Gourlay, Paul Marji, Kim Martin and Narelle Huffadine. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 39 BC – Julia the Elder, Roman daughter of Augustus (d. 14)
- 1735 – John Adams, American politician, 1st Vice President of the United States and 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1748 – Martha Jefferson, American wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
- 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1882 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (d. 1959)
- 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1892 – Charles Atlas, Italian bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1941 – Otis Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Temptations)
- 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, director, and producer
- 1948 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor
- 1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- 1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman
- 1998 – Meimi Tamura, Japanese singer and actress (S/mileage)
October 30: Mischief Night in some areas of the United States
- 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing they were massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man German garrison at Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight.
- 1863 – Seventeen-year-old Danish Prince Vilhelm arrived in Athens to become George I (pictured), King of Greece.
- 1888 – King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, setting in motion the creation of the British South Africa Company.
- 1961 – The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Ocean as a test.
- 1991 – The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international community to start a peace process through negotiations involving Israel and the Arab countries, convened in Madrid.
Matches
- 637 – Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.
- 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
- 1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
- 1340 – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
- 1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
- 1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts: A banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
- 1534 – English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope.
- 1657 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.
- 1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
- 1817 – The independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar.
- 1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
- 1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
- 1864 – Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussianand Austrian administration.
- 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
- 1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.
- 1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
- 1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
- 1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- 1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
- 1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
- 1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
- 1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
- 1941 – One thousand five hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
- 1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
- 1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
- 1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
- 1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
- 1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communistthreat.
- 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- 1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
- 1961 – Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker instead.
- 1965 – English model Jean Shrimpton causes a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: Close to Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
- 1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes severe floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
- 1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.
- 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
- 1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
- 1974 – As a member of the California Angels, Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan throws the fastest recorded pitch, at 100.9 MPH.
- 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
- 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
- 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
- 1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
- 1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
- 1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
- 1993 – The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary, carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are murdered and thirteen wounded.
- 1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) to remain a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
- 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
Hatches
- 39 BC – Julia the Elder, Roman daughter of Augustus (d. 14)
- 1218 – Emperor Chūkyō of Japan (d. 1234)
- 1513 – Jacques Amyot, French bishop (d. 1593)
- 1624 – Paul Pellisson, French author (d. 1693)
- 1668 – Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (d. 1705)
- 1735 – John Adams, American politician, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- 1748 – Martha Jefferson, American wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
- 1751 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-English poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1816)
- 1762 – André Chénier, Turkish-French poet (d. 1794)
- 1786 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (d. 1871)
- 1799 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (d. 1885)
- 1839 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (d. 1899)
- 1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904)
- 1861 – Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (d. 1929)
- 1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (d. 1949)
- 1871 – Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher (d. 1945)
- 1873 – Francisco I. Madero, Mexican politician, 33rd President of Mexico (d. 1913)
- 1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941)
- 1882 – Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player (d. 1957)
- 1882 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (d. 1959)
- 1882 – Günther von Kluge, Polish-German field marshal (d. 1944)
- 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (d. 1972)
- 1886 – Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1958)
- 1887 – Sukumar Ray, Indian-Bangladeshi author, poet, and playwright (d. 1923)
- 1888 – Louis Menges, American soccer player, soldier, and politician (d. 1969)
- 1888 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek jumper (d. 1913)
- 1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder (d. 1972)
- 1893 – Roland Freisler, German soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 1945)
- 1894 – Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (d. 1977)
- 1894 – Peter Warlock, English composer and critic (d. 1930)
- 1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- 1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1896 – Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1985)
- 1896 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (d. 1928)
- 1896 – Harry Randall Truman, American owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge (d. 1980)
- 1896 – Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (d. 1985)
- 1897 – Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
- 1897 – Agustín Lara, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1970)
- 1898 – Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
- 1900 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Johnny Miles, Canadian runner (d. 2003)
- 1906 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (d. 1966)
- 1906 – Hermann Fegelein, German general (d. 1945)
- 1906 – Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970)
- 1907 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)
- 1908 – Patsy Montana, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
- 1908 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (d. 1963)
- 1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (d. 1966)
- 1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian-Monacan organist and composer (d. 1994)
- 1911 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Hans Berndt, German footballer (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Richard E. Holz, American minister and composer (d. 1986)
- 1914 – Anna Wing, English actress (d. 2013)
- 1914 – Leabua Jonathan, Basotho politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (d. 1987)
- 1915 – Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud, French sculptor (d. 1923)
- 1915 – Fred W. Friendly, American journalist (d. 1998)
- 1915 – Jane Randolph, American-Swiss actress and singer (d. 2009)
- 1916 – Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- 1917 – Bobby Bragan, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1919 – David Werdyger, Polish-American singer (d. 2014)
- 1922 – Jane White, American actress and singer (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Gloria Oden, American poet and academic
- 1925 – Tommy Ridgley, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1926 – Jacques Swaters, Belgian race car driver (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1929 – Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (d. 2012)
- 1930 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish-American director and cinematographer (d. 1992)
- 1930 – Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1956)
- 1930 – Don Meineke, American basketball player (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Vince Callahan, American politician
- 1932 – Barun De, Indian historian and author (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Louis Malle, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
- 1933 – Col Campbell, New Zealand gardener and television host (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch flute player and conductor (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Robert Caro, American journalist and author
- 1935 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian-Swiss author (d. 2011)
- 1935 – Jim Perry, American baseball player
- 1935 – Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Dick Vermeil, American football player and coach
- 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1938 – Morris Lurie, Australian author and playwright (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Jean Chapman, English author
- 1939 – Leland H. Hartwell, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1939 – Eddie Holland, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1939 – Grace Slick, American singer-songwriter and model (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and The Great Society)
- 1940 – Ed Lauter, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Aleksandr Dulichenko, Russian-Estonian linguist and academic
- 1941 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 – Otis Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Temptations)
- 1942 – Sven-David Sandström, Swedish composer and historian
- 1943 – Joanna Shimkus, Canadian actress
- 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor, director, and producer
- 1946 – Robert L. Gibson, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
- 1946 – Anthony Shorrocks, British development economist
- 1946 – Chris Slade, Welsh drummer (Asia, The Firm, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, AC/DC, Uriah Heep, and Michael Schenker Group)
- 1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Eagles and Poco)
- 1947 – Glenn Andreotta, American soldier (d. 1968)
- 1947 – Herschel Weingrod, American screenwriter
- 1948 – Rusty Goffe, English actor
- 1948 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor and screenwriter
- 1951 – Trilok Gurtu, Indian drummer and songwriter (Oregon and Tabla Beat Science)
- 1951 – Harry Hamlin, American actor
- 1951 – Poncho Sanchez, American singer and conga player
- 1953 – Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American politician
- 1953 – Charles Martin Smith, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1954 – Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer
- 1954 – Mario Testino, Peruvian-English photographer
- 1955 – Heidi Heitkamp, American lawyer and politician, 28th Attorney General of North Dakota
- 1956 – Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- 1957 – Kevin Pollak, American actor, producer, and game show host
- 1958 – Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (Bergen Big Band) (d. 2014)
- 1958 – Joe Delaney, American football player (d. 1983)
- 1958 – Stefan Dennis, Australian actor and singer
- 1958 – Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist
- 1959 – Michael Fiedler, German footballer
- 1959 – Vincent Lagaf', French actor, singer, and game show host
- 1960 – Charnele Brown, American actress and singer
- 1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1961 – Scott Garrelts, American baseball player
- 1961 – Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
- 1962 – Courtney Walsh, Jamaican cricketer
- 1963 – Michael Beach, American actor
- 1963 – Rebecca Heineman, American video game designer and programmer
- 1963 – Andrew Solomon, American-English journalist and author
- 1963 – Kristina Wagner, American actress
- 1964 – Adnan Al Talyani, Emirati footballer
- 1964 – Humayun Kabir Dhali, Bangladeshi journalist and author
- 1964 – Howard Lederer, American poker player
- 1965 – Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bush and Institute)
- 1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian terrorist (d. 2006)
- 1966 – Scott Innes, American voice actor and songwriter
- 1967 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – Karim el-Mejjati, Moroccan terrorist (d. 2005)
- 1967 – Leonidas Kavakos, Greek violinist
- 1968 – Emmanuelle Claret, French biathlete (d. 2013)
- 1968 – Jack Plotnick, American actor, director, and producer
- 1968 – Ken Stringfellow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Posies, Big Star, The Disciplines, The Orange Humble Band and White Flag)
- 1969 – Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
- 1969 – Vangelis Vourtzoumis, Greek basketball player
- 1970 – Ben Bailey, American comedian, actor, and game show host
- 1970 – Tory Belleci, American visual affects designer and television host
- 1970 – Christine Bersola-Babao, Filipino journalist and actress
- 1970 – Nia Long, American actress
- 1970 – Maja Tatić, Serbian singer
- 1970 – Ekaterini Voggoli, Greek discus thrower
- 1971 – Fredi Bobic, Slovenian-German footballer and manager
- 1971 – Tzanis Stavrakopoulos, Greek basketball player
- 1971 – Suzan van der Wielen, Dutch field hockey player
- 1973 – Edge, Canadian wrestler and actor
- 1973 – Silvia Corzo, Colombian lawyer and journalist
- 1973 – Michael Oakes, English footballer
- 1975 – Xhavit Bajrami, Albanian-Swiss former kickboxer
- 1975 – Ian D'Sa, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Billy Talent)
- 1975 – Marco Scutaro, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1975 – Maria Thayer, American actress
- 1976 – Stephanie Izard, American chef
- 1976 – Stern John, Trinidadian footballer
- 1976 – Ümit Özat, Turkish footballer and manager
- 1976 – Maurice Taylor, American basketball player
- 1977 – Jason Adelman, American actor
- 1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player
- 1978 – Matthew Morrison, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1978 – Amanda Swafford, American model
- 1978 – Derren Witcombe, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer
- 1979 – Jason Bartlett, American baseball player
- 1979 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress and singer
- 1980 – Sarah Carter, Canadian actress and singer
- 1980 – Jon Foo, English actor and martial artist
- 1980 – Choi Hong-man, South Korean wrestler and mixed martial artist
- 1980 – Kareem Rush, American basketball player
- 1981 – Joshua Jay, American magician and author
- 1981 – Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress
- 1981 – Ayaka Kimura, Japanese singer and actress (Coconuts Musume and Petitmoni)
- 1981 – Shaun Sipos, Canadian actor
- 1981 – Ian Snell, American baseball player
- 1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model and businesswoman
- 1982 – Andy Greene, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Manny Parra, American baseball player
- 1983 – Trent Edwards, American football player
- 1983 – Iain Hume, Scottish-Canadian footballer
- 1983 – Maor Melikson, Israeli footballer
- 1984 – Eva Marcille, American model and actress
- 1984 – Isaac Ross, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984 – Tyson Strachan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Ragnar Klavan, Estonian footballer
- 1986 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
- 1987 – Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer
- 1988 – Janel Parrish, American actress and singer
- 1989 – Seth Adkins, American actor
- 1989 – Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer
- 1989 – Nastia Liukin, Russian-American gymnast
- 1989 – Vanessa White, English singer-songwriter and dancer (The Saturdays)
- 1990 – Suwaibou Sanneh, Gambian sprinter
- 1992 – MC Daleste, Brazilian rapper (d. 2013)
- 1992 – Tequan Richmond, American actor and rapper
- 1992 – Camila Silva, Chilean tennis player
- 1996 – Mizuki Fukumura, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume and Shugo Chara Egg!)
- 1998 – Meimi Tamura, Japanese singer and actress (S/mileage)
Despatches
- 1459 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian scholar (b. 1380)
- 1522 – Jean Mouton, French composer (b. 1459)
- 1553 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German politician (b. 1489)
- 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
- 1611 – Charles IX of Sweden (b. 1550)
- 1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580)
- 1632 – Henri II de Montmorency, French commander and politician (b. 1595)
- 1654 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (b. 1633)
- 1680 – Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic (b. 1616)
- 1685 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician, French Secretary of State for War (b. 1603)
- 1757 – Edward Vernon, English admiral and politician (b. 1684)
- 1809 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 1816 – Frederick I of Württemberg (b. 1754)
- 1842 – Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (b. 1784)
- 1853 – Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (b. 1786)
- 1883 – Dayananda Saraswati, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1824)
- 1883 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
- 1893 – John Abbott, Canadian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1894 – Honoré Mercier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
- 1896 – Carol Benesch, Czech architect, designed Peleș Castle (b. 1822)
- 1899 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1816)
- 1910 – Henry Dunant, Swiss activist, founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
- 1912 – Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean colonel (b. 1840)
- 1912 – James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
- 1915 – Charles Tupper, Canadian physician, lawyer, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1821)
- 1917 – Talbot Mercer Papineau, Canadian lawyer and soldier (b. 1883)
- 1919 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (b. 1850)
- 1923 – Andrew Bonar Law, Canadian-English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858)
- 1933 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (b. 1869)
- 1942 – Walter Buckmaster, English polo player (b. 1872)
- 1957 – Fred Beebe, American baseball player (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1874)
- 1963 – U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian politician (b. 1908)
- 1965 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian and author (b. 1888)
- 1966 – Yiorgos Theotokas, Greek author and playwright (b. 1906)
- 1968 – Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (b. 1899)
- 1968 – Conrad Richter, American author and playwright (b. 1890)
- 1968 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (b. 1886)
- 1973 – Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director (b. 1894)
- 1974 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (b. 1914)
- 1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1979 – Rachele Mussolini, Italian wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
- 1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (b. 1887)
- 1982 – Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (b. 1907)
- 1985 – Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (b. 1904)
- 1988 – T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1911)
- 1990 – V. Shantaram, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1901)
- 1993 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (b. 1911)
- 1996 – John Young, Scottish actor (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- 1999 – Maigonis Valdmanis, Latvian basketball player (b. 1933)
- 2000 – Steve Allen, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
- 2002 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2002 – Aliki Diplarakou, Greek model and actress (b. 1912)
- 2002 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and producer (Run–D.M.C.) (b. 1965)
- 2003 – Steve O'Rourke, English race car driver and manager (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Phyllis Frost, Australian philanthropist (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Peggy Ryan, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Al López, American baseball player and manager (b. 1908)
- 2005 – Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician (b. 1942)
- 2006 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright and scholar (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Washoe, American chimpanzee (b. 1965)
- 2007 – Robert Goulet, American actor and singer (b. 1933)
- 2007 – Linda S. Stein, American businesswoman and manager (b. 1945)
- 2007 – John Woodruff, American runner (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Pedro Pompilio, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
- 2009 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1908)
- 2010 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Franck Biancheri, French politician (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Samina Raja, Pakistani poet and educator (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Leonard Termo, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Trevor West, Irish academic and politician (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Lebbeus Woods, American architect (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Bill Currie, American baseball player (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Pete Haycock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Climax Blues Band and ELO Part II) (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Ray Mielczarek, Welsh footballer (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Michael Palmer, American physician and author (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Ralph Tarrant, English super-centenarian (b. 1903)
- 2013 – Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flute player (New York Jazz Quartet) (b. 1922)
2014
- Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (former Soviet republics, except Ukraine)
- International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
- Mischief Night (United States)
- Thevar Jayanthi (Thevar community)
LIBERATE OUR PIZZAS
Tim Blair – Thursday, October 30, 2014 (5:31am)
Treasurer Joe Hockey encounters Orwellian pizza regulation:
“I took my kids to a little park up the road and there’s a pizza shop there and we met up with another family … [there were] two tables outside [with] three chairs on one table, four on the other,” Mr Hockey said.“I went to put the two tables together and the owner of the pizza shop came out and said ‘I’m sorry Mr Hockey you’re not allowed to do that, the council regulation prevents you putting the two tables together‘.”“There were eight of us, so I went inside to get another chair and they said ‘Sorry Mr Hockey, they’ve said you can only have seven chairs [outside], not eight’.”Mr Hockey said that’s when he “exploded.”“I actually tracked down the mayor, it was 6 o’clock on a Friday night, and I think the whole suburb heard the conversation,” he said.
Good on Joe for making that call. Naturally, a standard Fairfax type believes the treasurer was out of order. Some people just love laws about table separation.
UPDATE. Stand back, everybody. Stephen Koukoulas is trying to be funny.
PROGS ROCKED
Tim Blair – Thursday, October 30, 2014 (5:13am)
A 2000-year-old leftoid ritual continues:
Australians have seen the launch of two new political parties in the last month. Both groups say they are agents for change, and both are laying claim to the title “progressive”.The Australian Progressive Party and the Australian Progressives went public within days of each other. The parties have superficial similarities and they have nearly identical names and website colour themes. They both claim nation-wide interest in a spread of state and federal seats. They want to appeal to a wide voter base by producing policies on a range of issues rather than being a one-issue party of protest. And both rely on grassroots members and donations to stay afloat.But that’s where the similarities end. The parties are deeply divided on policy direction and on the personalities at their helm.
This left-on-left conflict is the solitary accomplishment to date of the March Australia movement. Well done, babies.
CATE MAPES
Tim Blair – Thursday, October 30, 2014 (5:00am)
She’s dyed her hair peroxide blonde and added curls to play newsreader Mary Mapes in the film, which also stars movie legend Robert Redford.The directorial debut of James Vanderbilt, Truth is set in 2004 and is based on Mapes’ memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, The President And The Privilege Of Power.It tells the story of a news story she produced for Dan Rather, alleging then US President George W. Bush had avoided being sent to fight in Vietnam, which ultimately ended her career at CBS.
Remarkably, Blanchett has now connected herself to a fraud even greater than global warming. Do enjoy some background on Mapes and her abysmal reporting, which aimed to corrupt the 2004 US presidential election.
TEXAS TWO STEP
Tim Blair – Thursday, October 30, 2014 (4:57am)
Mere days after moving to Texas, Iowahawk‘s strange powers have already convinced Phil Collins to hand his vast collection of Alamo artifacts over to Texan authorities. The Iowahawk Effect has also destroyed the Texas governorship campaign of Democrat Wendy Davis, who will be defeated on November 4 – by a man named Abbott. Iowahawk is like a one-man enormous conservative fuselage of the Lone Star state.
In praise of Malcolm Turnbull
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (2:25pm)
Nothing Malcolm Turnbull has said in years has so warmed me towards him as what he said in Question Time today.
He quoted the great conservative novelist Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who in The Leopard had Count Tancredi say: “‘For things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
Great aphorism. Great novel. Great film, too.
===He quoted the great conservative novelist Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who in The Leopard had Count Tancredi say: “‘For things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
Great aphorism. Great novel. Great film, too.
School for jihadism
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (1:37pm)
The tiny unrepresentative minority is ensuring the next generation will be less tiny:
A MUSLIM youth group in Lakemba, in Sydney’s southwest, has been accused of indoctrinating young children, after a video emerged of boys as young as six spouting extremist Muslim views and calling for US President Barack Obama to go to hell.And Australia is the enemy:
The video, uncovered by the Seven Network, purportedly shows four boys, aged six to 13, performing as “Soldiers of Khilafa” or soldiers of the caliphate.
The boys chant “You’re never too young to be a soldier for Khilafa” and call for the creation of one Muslim nation without the West. They also say Mr Obama should go to hell and call for the head of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
They are waving an Islamic flag associated with other hard line Islamic groups, including the terrorist group Islamic State.
Their performance took place at an event organised by the Muslim Youth Project in September last year at the KCA function centre in Lakemba.
The children promise to die fighting to end democracy in Australia, replacing it with a Caliphate ruled by Islamic Sharia law.
Nationals MP demands inquiry into temperature fudging
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (8:53am)
An inquiry into temperature records and trends - an inquiry not dominated by warmists - could prove extremely useful:
But few in the media will back an inquiry into temperature data sets they rely on for their eager scares. Jo Nova:
===A Nationals MP has called for an inquiry into the weather bureau accusing it of fudging figures on the impact of climate change.UPDATE
George Christensen says the Bureau Of Meteorology has wiped off early temperature records to justify its claims the weather is getting hotter.
He pointed to records of the drought 118 years ago where temperatures were hitting 50C in Camden, NSW, 44C in Perth and 43C in Geelong, Victoria.
The Queensland MP questioned the bureau’s claims that 2013 was the hottest year on record…
Mr Christensen said the bureau has been involved in a process of “homogenisation” — changing raw data so the past appears cooler than the present.
But few in the media will back an inquiry into temperature data sets they rely on for their eager scares. Jo Nova:
What’s almost as good as an actual record? A could-be-a-record Headline!
“2014 could become the hottest year on record” – said CBS, The Guardian, Time, Washington Post, Discover Magazine, The Japan News, Wired, and 319 other outlets.None of the investigative hardened editors or science reporters knew enough to ask the question, “what do the satellites say?” Which would have been interesting because the satellites say “bollocks”…
Victorian Liberals falling
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (8:43am)
The Victorian Liberals
have prided themselves on not being ideological. As a result it’s hard
to think of a reason to vote for them, other than that it’s saved the
money which Labor will now spend:
===In a sign the government is failing to gain traction just four weeks from the November 29 election, the inaugural Fairfax Ipsos poll shows the Coalition lagging Labor 44 per cent to 56 per cent in two-party-preferred terms.I pay some credit to ABC presenter Jon Faine, who this morning again campaigned vigorously for Labor.
What’s so noble about endangering people back home?
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (8:25am)
The arrogance of the morally superior:
===A nurse who was confined against her will at a New Jersey hospital after returning from West Africa where she treated Ebola patients said she’s prepared to go to court if the state of Maine tries to quarantine her.
Kaci Hickox ... said she has so far abided by the state’s voluntary quarantine. She had no contact with anyone yesterday or today, she said…
“I don’t plan on sticking to the guidelines,” Ms Hickox said on Today. “I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me even though I am in perfectly good health.”
Mates’ rates: Age hides Peris in a cloak of silence
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (8:12am)
Professor Barry Spurr, a
conservative, jokingly uses racist language in private emails. There
is no public interest in them being published, but The Age doesn’t hesitate to report and discuss them:
How pathetic.
With so many of the Left, it is not the principle but the side.
===But then Senator Nova Peris, of the Left, expresses racist views in private emails. There is a public interest in them being public as they show Peris seeming to solicit public funds for a private purpose - flying in a friend for sex. But this time The Age in today’s print edition reports not a single word of this scandal.
How pathetic.
With so many of the Left, it is not the principle but the side.
Nasty tax raises less than government’s useless warming scheme costs
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (8:03am)
IF the Abbott Government had the guts to think for itself, it would not
have had to hike the petrol excise and enrage motorists.
Its decision to sneak in the excise will raise an estimated $2.2 billion over four years.
Funnily enough, that is just under what the Government plans to spend on its “Direct Action” plan to help “stop” global warming.
Be clear: this plan, which Clive Palmer has agreed to help pass, will make no difference to a global warming that, in any case, halted 16 years ago.
So, wow. What a genius move — to anger motorists with a tax that raises less than the price of a useless policy. And it could all have been avoided if the Government dared to question the ludicrous warming propaganda that now passes as news.
Take three examples from this week alone.
(Read full article here.)
===Its decision to sneak in the excise will raise an estimated $2.2 billion over four years.
Funnily enough, that is just under what the Government plans to spend on its “Direct Action” plan to help “stop” global warming.
Be clear: this plan, which Clive Palmer has agreed to help pass, will make no difference to a global warming that, in any case, halted 16 years ago.
So, wow. What a genius move — to anger motorists with a tax that raises less than the price of a useless policy. And it could all have been avoided if the Government dared to question the ludicrous warming propaganda that now passes as news.
Take three examples from this week alone.
(Read full article here.)
Weak Bill Shorten knows his boat policies failed
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (7:54am)
BILL Shorten blew it. The Opposition Leader was too scared to defy the Left and lead Labor out of its deadliest stupidity. Deadly in lives. Deadly in votes.
Shorten this week needed only to say he agreed with his immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, that turning back the boats had worked.
How could anyone with a brain not agree? Under Labor last year dozens of boatloads of illegal immigrants arrived each month, up to three a day. Then came the Abbott Government, which got tough and turned back 12 boats. Result: the people smugglers, already hit by the reopening of detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island, gave up completely. Just one boat has turned up all year.
Marles is no idiot. He knows Labor cannot go to the next election promising to scrap a policy that helped stop the boats. It would be slaughtered. Voters would remember how Labor under Kevin Rudd scrapped the Howard government’s equally successful border policies and promptly lured more than 50,000 boat people.
That colossal blunder cost 1200 people their lives at sea and cost Australian taxpayers billions.
So Marles knew Labor’s policy had to change and he discussed it with Shorten.
(Read full article here.)
Jihad isn’t what it’s cracked up to be in Sydney
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (7:25am)
Mohammad Ali Baryalei looked cocky preaching jihad in Sydney:
===Baryalei looked a lot less cocky doing the actual jihadism:
And now he’s dead. I hope a few misfits here were watching his decline.
A pretend review in exchange for a pretend fix to a pretend problem
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (6:51am)
Follow me closely here. The Abbott Government will pretend to consider introducing an emissions trading scheme in
exchange for Clive Palmer supporting its plan to pretend to tackle what
it pretends is a problem that it pretends can be stopped:
Welcome to the wacky world of global warming:
In April he said there was no way he’d back Direct Action:
Meanwhile, there has been no warming of the atmosphere for some 16 years now.
UPDATE
Incredibly, The Age sees a stick and imagines a house:
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Yes, you read right:
Four months after describing Direct Action as a “token gesture” and a waste of money, Mr Palmer announced he would support the government’s $2.55 billion emissions reduction fund, the centrepiece of the plan....
Mr Hunt explicitly ruled out an ETS or the government purchasing international carbon abatement units.
The government acceded to Mr Palmer’s request to retain the Climate Change Authority, but his demand for an ETS has been watered-down to an 18-month inquiry by the CCA to be headed by former Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser.
GREG HUNT: As a gesture of good faith, we will not be proceeding with the Climate Change Authority Abolition Bill for the life of this Parliament. As a gesture of good faith, the authority will conduct a review examining whether there are emissions trading arrangements in other countries and what form they take.... But our position is clear:… We do support and we will not be proposing a carbon tax or an emissions trading scheme.Still, blame Clive Palmer for insisting on that useless condition as the price for his capricious vote. Really, can this buffoon be taken seriously?
In April he said there was no way he’d back Direct Action:
To me it looks like a big slush fund where you can get companies like Sydney Water and what we’ve seen in ICAC happening, getting contracts, paying consultants, achieving absolutely nothing, but making supporters of the Government very happy.In June, standing alongside warmist guru Al Gore, he promised not to back the government unless it agreed to legislate for an emissions trading scheme:
CLIVE PALMER: In voting against the abolition of the Climate Change Authority, Palmer United senators will move an amendment to establish an emissions trading scheme. This scheme would only become effective once Australia’s main trading partners also take action to establish such a scheme…But now:
AL GORE: I have appreciated the opportunity I have had to meet with Clive Palmer and the discussions that I’ve had with him, and I congratulate him and his party on this outstanding statement that you’ve just heard.
Four months after describing Direct Action as a “token gesture” and a waste of money, Mr Palmer announced he would support the government’s $2.55 billion emissions reduction fund, the centrepiece of the plan. He capitulated on his demand for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme that would be zero rated until major international competitors moved on climate change…No, he hasn’t. He’s kept alive a raft of expensive and useless bureaucracies. That is all.
Mr Palmer said he had won retention of the Climate Change Authority, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. “And today we’ve kept hope alive on the ETS,’’ Mr Palmer said. “We think we’ve kept alive an ETS.’’
Meanwhile, there has been no warming of the atmosphere for some 16 years now.
UPDATE
Incredibly, The Age sees a stick and imagines a house:
Tony Abbott has left open the possibility of a return to emissions trading in a trade-off for the Palmer United Party’s support for his controversial Direct Action climate policy.Bull.
It wasn’t just Labor which failed
Andrew Bolt October 30 2014 (6:45am)
Tom Switzer says Paul Kelly’s Triumph and Demise, an account of the Rudd and Gillard nightmare, is masterly but for a blind spot:
===Kelly is right to recognise Nick Minchin for his indispensable role in defeating not just Malcolm Turnbull’s disastrous leadership but also the Rudd government’s keynote legislation.
But Kelly cannot bring himself to accept that, like most media commentators, he was wrong about the politics of the emissions trading scheme. In late 2009, for instance, he described the emissions trading system sceptics as on a “political suicide mission” who would lead the Liberal Party down “the road to ruin”.
For conservatives, however, opposition to cap and tax on the eve of the Copenhagen debacle was a political godsend. Having been in deepest valley for two years, suddenly the Coalition was on the highest mountain. Labor never really recovered.
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Bill Shorten has second thoughts on terrorism laws that could mean jail for journalists http://t.co/D9l2lwJp8i via @guardian
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A finding without a penalty ICAC finds former uni chancellor corrupt http://t.co/Ufgdo7NZYs via @newscomauHQ
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Why would a son behead his own mother? http://t.co/9mZ29g4xoD via @newscomauHQ
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Like Thomson, Gillard Nova Peris expected to break silence over alleged affair with Ato Boldon http://t.co/SseRyxM3IF via @newscomauHQ
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Child killer Derek Percy murdered Linda Stilwell http://t.co/tMJT01MNZR via @newscomauHQ
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Jihadists execute more than 40 tribesmen http://t.co/F2Eqo1ODXb via @newscomauHQ
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Woman calls 911 and pretends to call for pizza to escape abuse http://t.co/qlyqT3OS1j via @newscomauHQ
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Bigots win battle .. SodaStream finally gives in to critics http://t.co/Ua9JYYXa4x via @newscomauHQ
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Malcolm Turnbull introduces controversial metadata Bill to parliament http://t.co/aETIDpEzem via @newscomauHQ
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Army of 150 heavily armed Iraqi soldiers heads to Kobane to fight IS http://t.co/3XFRGzX5S6 via @newscomauHQ
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Bill Shorten asks Tony Abbott to review national security laws http://t.co/CS9eldc9hK via @newscomauHQ
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Sarah Palin says she's 'hopefully running for office' soon http://t.co/snwnyAwZQ2 via @msnbc
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Jimmy Carr under fire for Reeva Steenkamp jokes during Q Awards http://t.co/x5WxY6I3in via @smh
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Emissions trading scheme 'never coming back in any form' under Coalition, says Greg Hunt http://t.co/dxGOW0ZfUA via @smh
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Activists & politicians in #Shan State's Kengtung Township are petitioning against a Thai-owned coal mine project that would forcibly displace at least 2 villages and result in the confiscation of over 500 acres of farmland. Locals are refusing to sign an agreement giving permission for the project to take place, citing the government's predictable failure to provide details on future relocation, compensation, & employment opportunities.
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GREENS, SPOTTED OWLS AND CROCODILES
Australian Greens are more concerned with stuff like illegal arrivals and gay marriage than they are with endangered species. For the most part they are shunned by international Green groups as far too politically radical.
A desperate Julia Gillard gave them partnership in Government and suddenly media were shoving mikes in their unusual faces demanding commentary... a dream-like promotion based on a rag-tag balance of power in the Senate, and way beyond their political station.
Media still seeks out leader, Christine Milne, for comment despite the Greens having one sole member in the 150 member House and the fact they are about to lose all influence in the Senate.
This miniscule, oddball movement is now in a vacuum deciding what to hate next.
The Greens calling is back to their destructive Green roots protecting the pobblebonk frog and chaining themselves to old growth trees, now that their political commentary is irrelevant.
The spotted owl awaits their assistance. You know, the one that has brought the US north western states of Oregon and Washington to their financial knees?
The prolific whale species haven’t even heard of Milne. And Hanson-Young is still crying over the plight of illegal immigrants while the crown of thorns is busy eating our coral.
The Greens can now return to what they are good at like promoting repopulating the Northern Territory to save the endangered saltwater crocodile from starvation.
Maybe the Barramundi is in need of their further assistance, they did a marvellous job in the eighties. I was there.
The clever Greens had decided, because the Asian buffalos followed each other all over the Territory leaving ruts in the terrain where salt water merged with the fresh water, it was screwing up the Barramundi breeding cycle.
Barramundi are hermaphrodites, they start life as males, reach maturity and become females. (One of my mates went that way.)
Anyway, the Greens decided to shoot all these imported Asian buffalos to save this valuable piscatorial resource. I flew an R22 chopper while a bushie dropped hundreds of the poor buggers every day.
Unfortunately the Greens forgot the now-protected crocodiles had grown to depend on the buffalo for food, they collared them when they came to the rivers. It had become the crocodiles’ valuable food resource.
Crocodile numbers had exploded by virtue of such readily available tucker. With no buffalos to eat, the crocs set about eating all the Barramundi and you couldn’t fish the Mary River without competing with wall to wall 14 ft crocs.
And of course you couldn’t offend these prehistoric reptiles for fear of copping a $10,000 fine.
Yes it will be good to see the Greens back on task protecting endangered species again, 99 per cent of which had already become extinct before we arrived here.
Now if we could train crocs to eat Greens, problem solved!
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Corn casserole:
1 (15 oz) can whole kernel corn, drained
1 (15 oz) can cream-style corn
1 package Jiffy corn muffin mix (8 oz.)
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese or your favorite
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. mix all ingredients, minus the cheese, together and pour into a greased baking dish. After the casserole has baked for 45 minutes, or is set in the middle and golden brown, sprinkle with cheddar and put it back in the oven. Let the cheese melt, take the casserole out and enjoy this ridiculously buttery dish.
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"What can you tell me of the new King?" -Balthazar
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Pastor Rick Warren
Thanks to INSTAGRAM staff who got my account back for me this week, after a hacker deleted it!
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If you're seriously dating someone, I recommend that you get pre-marriage counseling BEFORE getting engaged! It will reveal whether engagement is a wise move for both of you. EITHER way, you'll both grow and be glad you did it. Don't wait until after you've made the commitment. That's backwards!
(Take this from a pastor who's counseling thousands of dating and married couples, and seen the difference it makes.)
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Michelle Malkin
Truth: Those unsophisticated Tea Party rubes had Obamacare figured out from the start while our gullible elites fell for it ==>http://twitchy.com/2013/
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Should I be worried about...Flame Devil?
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Isn't that the last thing they'd do? - ed
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Youth .. without hope - ed
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But .. what about entitlement?
The High Court has ruled in Canberra this morning that the woman was not entitled to compensation from the federal workplace insurer Comcare because the circumstances of her injury were not related to her employment.
Lawyers for Comcare argued throughout the four-year legal saga that the public servant should not get taxpayer-funded compensation as result of a "personal choice" to have sex while on the work trip.>
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/public-servant-loses-sex-injury-compo-claim-20131030-2wf3n.html
.. it is a little like an expenses claim? Only, too much information .. ed===
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.. but .. cigarette cases are reusable .. this cell phone has delivered its last post - ed===
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Fall in Yosemite Valley
Fall colors and snow abounded in the Yosemite Valley with a cold front that passed through in mid October, bringing with it rarely seen combinations of autumn and winter themes combining. — at Half Dome.
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Shocking .. they seemed to share electricity .. ed===
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Last photo for tonight......This Diamond Engagement Ring is something to really dream about....A Perfect Halo Style Pear Shape Diamond Engagement Ring that was handmade to a custom order...... — at Diamond Imports.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Father,I thank You for depositing in me everything that I need for life and godliness. I choose to be faithful with what You have given me. I choose to sharpen my skills. Help me prepare for every opportunity You have for my future in Jesus’ name. Amen.=
When people hear the story of David and Goliath, sometimes they think, “That was all God.” And yes, in a sense, I know it was God. But the truth is that God didn’t sling the stone. God didn’t cause it to hit at just the right spot. It was the skill God gave David that he had developed."A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.”(Proverbs 18:16)
Like David, God has put in you skill that can slay a giant. You have skill that can open new doors, skills that can lead to an abundant life, but the key is that your skill has to be developed. Every day that you spend growing, learning and improving, you’re getting prepared for that new level.
Today, while you’re waiting for that new opportunity, start sharpening your skills. Study your boss. Study your manager. Learn that position. Be able to step into their shoes. When God sees that you are prepared, then He can open new doors. The scripture says, “Your gifts will make room for you.” Keep developing your skills because there is a giant slayer in you.God bless you.
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HE WAS a white man with Nazi tattoos. She was an 18-year-old black girl, protesting a Ku Klux Klan rally in her home town.
The story of how their two lives crossed is an incredibly human tale of kindness, selflessness and the ultimate respect for life.It was 1996. Keshia Thomas had heard the KKK, a prominent white supremacist group that had sprung up in America's deep south over a century earlier, was in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Andy Trieu
Getting my mischief on. Hosting the OBP Halloween Charity event tonight. #halloween#greatcause
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-giant-beach-ball-2649855
It was supposed to illustrate the threat of global warming .. respect the ball .. ed===
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Fall explodes along the banks of the Merced River with Half Dome looming behind the yellow, orange and green foliage a day before the snows will descend into the valley. This was the calm before the storm. It was beautiful. — at Yosemite National Park.
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Doctor Who - Starring You!
You can now get closer to the time vortex than ever before, by putting your name and your face into the #DoctorWho opening titles! Create your own digital invite and send it to you companions to get them to join you for the explosive 50th Anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor.
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“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.” Romans 12:1 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, etc."
Matthew 6:9
Matthew 6:9
This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, "Our Father." There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, "I will arise, and go unto my Father." This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father "in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration, "Hallowed be thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy." There is but a step from rapturous worship to the glowing missionary spirit, which is a sure outgrowth of filial love and reverent adoration--"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Next follows the heartfelt expression of dependence upon God--"Give us this day our daily bread." Being further illuminated by the Spirit, he discovers that he is not only dependent, but sinful, hence he entreats for mercy, "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors:" and being pardoned, having the righteousness of Christ imputed, and knowing his acceptance with God, he humbly supplicates for holy perseverance, "Lead us not into temptation." The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification. "Forgive us our debts," that is justification; "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil," that is sanctification in its negative and positive forms. As the result of all this, there follows a triumphant ascription of praise, "Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, Amen." We rejoice that our King reigns in providence and shall reign in grace, from the river even to the ends of the earth, and of his dominion there shall be no end. Thus from a sense of adoption, up to fellowship with our reigning Lord, this short model of prayer conducts the soul. Lord, teach us thus to pray.
Evening
"But their eyes were holden that they should not know him."
Luke 24:16
Luke 24:16
The disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard his voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover him. Yet is it not so with you also? You have not seen Jesus lately. You have been to his table, and you have not met him there. You are in a dark trouble this evening, and though he plainly says, "It is I, be not afraid," yet you cannot discern him. Alas! our eyes are holden. We know his voice; we have looked into his face; we have leaned our head upon his bosom, and yet, though Christ is very near us, we are saying "O that I knew where I might find him!" We should know Jesus, for we have the Scriptures to reflect his image, and yet how possible it is for us to open that precious book and have no glimpse of the Wellbeloved! Dear child of God, are you in that state? Jesus feedeth among the lilies of the word, and you walk among those lilies, and yet you behold him not. He is accustomed to walk through the glades of Scripture, and to commune with his people, as the Father did with Adam in the cool of the day, and yet you are in the garden of Scripture, but cannot see him, though he is always there. And why do we not see him? It must be ascribed in our case, as in the disciples', to unbelief. They evidently did not expect to see Jesus, and therefore they did not know him. To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus. Make it your prayer, "Lord, open thou mine eyes, that I may see my Saviour present with me." It is a blessed thing to want to see him; but oh! it is better far to gaze upon him. To those who seek him he is kind; but to those who find him, beyond expression is he dear!
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 18-19, 2 Timothy 3 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 18-19
At the Potter’s House
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, 8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
11 “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.’ 12 But they will reply, ‘It’s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.’”
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Timothy 3
1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone....
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