Many are writing off Premier Campbell Newman's chances of keeping his seat while winning government in the Jan 31st election in Queensland. Newman is in what is naturally an ALP seat. However, Newman's resolve and loyalty are true ALP values, the best of the ALP and should be rewarded by that electorate. Sadly, the ALP hope to take that community for granted. Newman is their one hope for an honest and effective representative.
AGW alarmists are haunted by extinction. Peter Hannam wishes skeptics were extinct. Ben Cubby suggests an amnesty without saying what the amnesty would entail. If Skeptics of AGW were to stop pointing to the facts of global warming being a myth, what would Ben do for us? Would he make us extinct? A giant clam found in South China seas is analysed to show it was warmer in the Middle Ages than today. AGW extremists would describe that as confirmation bias, because skeptics were looking for that evidence.
Refugee Council lauds an elderly woman in Sydney who placed a banner outside her place, expressing shame that Australia is no longer drowning refugees. The council considers placing the banner brave. In such terms, turning off an alarm and going back to sleep is also brave.
Amnesty International tries to explain why they supported a thief who became a wife killing terrorist. They aren't going to say they hated the then Howard government and wanted to cause problems for it, but that is probably closest to the truth. Instead they claim tat under current processes they would not do that today. If so, they need to explain how Monis was different to David Hicks in terms of today's policy.
Lebanese porn star answers her critics well by pointing out there are more pressing issues in the Middle East.
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The New York Times has described them as 'Warmists' since 1989. One can look at the greenhouse gasses in Earth's atmosphere, and correctly deduce Carbon Dioxide is only responsible for feeding plants. Maybe the technology will exist one day to remove water vapour from the atmosphere, but if that time comes, let us hope there is sufficient wisdom to not do that. US is enduring a cold snap. Summer is so cold in Australia that a research vessel is locked in ice. But Warmists stoically endure. Evil endures too. Like that of those german women who followed through with the holocaust. One has to shudder at what the daily atrocity in Middle East is doing to the children there. Obama has isolated the only state capable of stability and peace, Israel. Evil endures as those who collect money for the poor, divert it. Tim Costello and World Vision need to explain themselves.
Some were surprised at the sentence of a thug. It is ok, he wasn't going to kill a shark. An eight year old girl is wearing a suicide vest in Afghanistan, proving Obama has indeed won the war.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1325, Alfonso IV became King of Portugal. 1558, France took Calais, the last continental possession of England. 1566, Pope Pius V was elected. 1608, Fire destroyed Jamestown, Virginia. 1610, Galileo Galilei made his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the last two until the following day. 1782, the first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opened. 1785, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travelled from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. 1797, the modern Italian flag was first used. 1835, HMS Beagle dropped anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. 1894, William Kennedy Dickson received a patent for motion picture film.
In 1904, the distress signal "CQD" was established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". 1919, Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebelled against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but failed. 1920, the New York State Assembly refused to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen. 1922, Dáil Éireann ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote. 1927, the first transatlantic telephone service was established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom. 1931, Guy Menzies flew the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast. 1935, Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval signed the Franco-Italian Agreement. 1940, Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stopped and completely destroyed the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road. 1942, World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula began. 1945, World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery held a press conference in which he claimed credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. 1948, Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashed while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
In 1954, Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, was held in New York at the head office of IBM. 1955, contralto Marian Anderson became the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. 1959, the United States recognised the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. 1960, the Polaris missile was test launched. 1968, Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifted off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral. 1970, the Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 came into effect. 1973, Mark Essex fatally shot ten people and wounded 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers. 1979, Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh fell to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
In 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorised legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. 1984, Brunei became the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). 1985, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. 1989, Prince Akihito was sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito 1990, the interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa was closed to the public for safety reasons. 1991, Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempted a coup d'état, which ended in his arrest. 1993, the Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President. Also 1993, Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executed a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica. 1999, the Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton began. 2005, the St Lawrence Lime was blown over in high winds. 2010, Muslim gunmen in Egypt opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander. 2012, a hot air balloon crashed near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
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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.
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.
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" This is a tragedy for Jews and for the USA and Canada that these things are happening on the University Campus.
"Free speech" does not include the right to preach hate unopposed. "Free speech" does not mean using Government - taxpayer Funds"- to hire College instructors on FBI terrorist watch lists to push their views on students. "Free speech" does not include violence by Muslims and Arabs against Jewish and Christian students on Campus.
What can be done? Foreign Students on student visas that forbid political activity should have their education terminated and should be deported. Campuses that allow intimidation of students should lose their funding -- whether taxpayer funding or contributions. " - Roger Froikin
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If you eschew cultural assets like family names, work, kindness, religion, but espouse drug use, alcoholic abuse and irresponsible behaviour then lots of things become difficult. - ed
“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.” ~ Carl Jung
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Applicants will be screened by the Queensland Police Service to ensure theyare suitable to work in the tattoo industry and have no links to criminal motorcycle gangs.
Further details on how to apply for a licence or permit can be found atwww.qld.gov.au/tattoolicensing
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A great video by DVB released today highlighting that many prisoners detained under criminal charges have been released, yet many activists remain behind bars.
It must be understood that international demands for the release of all political prisoners have not been met by Thein Sein. State-run media and Thein Sein's press office would like the world to believe that all political prisoners have been released as promised. Releasing criminals to make this claim is a slap in the face for the thousands of Rohingya, hundreds of Kachin, and many activists and farmers who remain behind bars for trumped up charges under Draconian laws.
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Holiness doesn’t mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. - Pope Francis
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We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The Labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
- Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell Foundation
Drugs aren't the answer - ed
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A thank you to the Embassies of the US, Turkey, and Switzerland, and the Delegation of the EU, for calling on Burma to address the dire humanitarian crisis of the IDP camp in Myebon Township, Rakhine State, where over 700 Rohingya families have languished since 2012.
"Development assistance and inward investment to Rakhine State, for the benefit of all communities, will only come when situations like that in Myebon are adequately addressed."
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Kerry's demand that Israel release Israeli Arab citizens who committed acts of terrorism shows the long-term cost of prisoner release, and demonstrates once again why Israel must abandon the talks.
http://carolineglick.com/kerry-and-the-long-term-cost-of-releasing-terrorists/
“Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.” - 1 Peter 1:13
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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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August https://www.createspace.com/4124406 or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4
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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 David Dixon and Andrew Phung and all those born on this day, along with
- 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
- 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
- 1827 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
- 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897)
- 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
- 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899)
- 1876 – William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906)
- 1922 – Eric Jupp, English-Australian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician
- 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer, and director
- 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Dorothy Little Happy)
- 1558 – Francis, Duke of Guise (pictured), retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
- 1610 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galileimade his first observation of the four Galilean moons through his telescope: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he was not able to distinguish the latter two until the following day.
- 1797 – The first official Italian tricolour was adopted by the government of the Cispadane Republic.
- 1979 – The Vietnam People's Army captured the Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh, deposing Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which marked the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
- 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as its president.
Matches
- 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
- 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
- 1566 – Pope Pius V is elected.
- 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
- 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
- 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
- 1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
- 1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
- 1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- 1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
- 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.
- 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
- 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
- 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
- 1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
- 1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
- 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
- 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
- 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
- 1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
- 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- 1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
- 1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
- 1970 – The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
- 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
- 1979 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Potand the Khmer Rouge.
- 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
- 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probeto be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
- 1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
- 1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
- 1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
- 1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
- 1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
- 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
- 2005 – The St Lawrence Lime is blown over in high winds.
- 2010 – Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
- 2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
Hatches
- 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (d. 1397)
- 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
- 1634 – Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666)
- 1647 – William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- 1685 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (d. 1761)
- 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
- 1713 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian director (d. 1785)
- 1718 – Israel Putnam, American general (d. 1790)
- 1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral (d. 1823)
- 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, Italian brother of Napoleon (d. 1844)
- 1786 – John Catron, American jurist (d. 1865)
- 1796 – Princess Charlotte of Wales (d. 1817)
- 1800 – Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
- 1827 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
- 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897)
- 1832 – James Munro, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
- 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
- 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899)
- 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (d. 1879)
- 1845 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
- 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer (d. 1922)
- 1860 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
- 1864 – Seo Jae-pil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (d. 1951)
- 1870 – Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, English judge and politician, 7th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1943)
- 1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
- 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet (d. 1914)
- 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976)
- 1875 – Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
- 1875 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963)
- 1876 – William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906)
- 1877 – William Clarence Matthews, American athlete and lawyer (d. 1928)
- 1879 – John Bissinger, American gymnast (d. 1941)
- 1880 – Jerome Steever, American water polo player (d. 1957)
- 1885 – Edwin Swatek, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1953)
- 1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian-American dancer (d. 1982)
- 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and author (d. 1960)
- 1895 – Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (d. 1974)
- 1895 – Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960)
- 1896 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (d. 1984)
- 1898 – Robert LeGendre, American athlete (d. 1931)
- 1899 – Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (d. 1941)
- 1899 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
- 1900 – John Brownlee, Australian opera singer (d. 1969)
- 1900 – Robert Le Vigan, French actor (d. 1972)
- 1903 – Ioannis Despotopoulos, Greek architect (d. 1992)
- 1903 – Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
- 1906 – Bobbi Trout, American pilot (d. 2003)
- 1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harp player (d. 1993)
- 1908 – Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967)
- 1910 – Orval Faubus, American politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
- 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor and composer (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1916 – W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (d. 1989)
- 1916 – Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995)
- 1921 – Chester Kallman, American poet (d. 1975)
- 1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
- 1922 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Eric Jupp, English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000)
- 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor
- 1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1966)
- 1924 – Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1973)
- 1925 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist, and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995)
- 1926 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea
- 1928 – William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter
- 1929 – Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Terry Moore, American actress
- 1930 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Joe Berinson, Australian politician
- 1933 – Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Phil Mulkey, American decathlete
- 1934 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
- 1934 – Charles Jenkins Sr., American sprinter
- 1934 – Joseph Naso, American serial killer
- 1934 – Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
- 1935 – Kenny Davern, American clarinet player (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Tommy Johnson, American tuba player (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Ducky Schofield, American baseball player
- 1936 – G. Robert Blakey, American lawyer
- 1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian hunter and photographer
- 1936 – Hunter Davies, Scottish author and journalist
- 1936 – Ian La Frenais, English screenwriter
- 1938 – Lou Graham, American golfer
- 1938 – Lena Granhagen, Swedish actress
- 1938 – Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, and actor (d. 1997)
- 1938 – Fred Whitfield, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Tom Kiernan, Irish rugby player and coach
- 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark
- 1940 – Anton Norris, Barbadian high jumper
- 1941 – Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Frederick D. Gregory, American astronaut
- 1941 – Manfred Schellscheidt, German-American soccer player and coach
- 1941 – John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (d. 2011)
- 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager
- 1942 – Danny Steinmann, American director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005)
- 1943 – Richard Armstrong, English conductor
- 1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (d. 1955)
- 1944 – Arne Scheie, Norwegian sportscaster
- 1944 – Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist
- 1944 – Tony Whitlam, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician
- 1945 – Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1945 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1945 – Dick Marty, Swiss politician
- 1945 – Raila Odinga, Kenyan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya
- 1946 – Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist and author
- 1946 – Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone
- 1946 – Mike Wilds, English race car driver
- 1947 – Shobhaa De, Indian journalist and author
- 1947 – Tony Elliott, English publisher
- 1947 – Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Iranian setar player (d. 2014)
- 1948 – Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter (Loggins and Messina)
- 1948 – Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (JAM Project)
- 1949 – Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 – Chavo Guerrero, Sr., Mexican-American wrestler
- 1949 – Anne Schedeen, American actress
- 1949 – Steven Williams, American actor
- 1950 – Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
- 1950 – Erin Gray, American actress
- 1950 – Ross Grimsley, American baseball player
- 1950 – Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer
- 1951 – Massimo Sigala, Italian race car driver
- 1951 – Helen Worth, English actress
- 1951 – Judith Belushi-Pisano, American actress, producer and writer
- 1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
- 1953 – Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach
- 1954 – Jodi Long, American actress
- 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban pianist and composer
- 1956 – David Caruso, American actor and producer
- 1956 – Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer
- 1956 – Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach
- 1957 – Nicholson Baker, American author
- 1957 – Katie Couric, American journalist and author
- 1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress
- 1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1958 – Donna Rice Hughes, American actress and activist
- 1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress
- 1959 – Jon Larsen, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (Hot Club de Norvège)
- 1959 – Ross Norman, New Zealand squash player
- 1959 – Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English politician
- 1959 – Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter (The Go-Go's)
- 1960 – David Marciano, American actor
- 1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician
- 1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
- 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian politician
- 1961 – John Thune, American politician
- 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian sociologist
- 1962 – Hallie Todd, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
- 1963 – Clint Mansell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pop Will Eat Itself)
- 1963 – Rand Paul, American politician
- 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer, and director
- 1965 – Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter
- 1965 – Alessandro Lambruschini, Italian steeplechase runner
- 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)
- 1966 – Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (d. 2012)
- 1966 – Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer-songwriter
- 1967 – Nick Clegg, English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1967 – Tim Donaghy, American basketball player and referee
- 1967 – Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player
- 1967 – Mark Lamarr, English radio and television host
- 1969 – David Yost, American actor and producer
- 1970 – Andy Burnham, English politician
- 1970 – Todd Day, American basketball player
- 1970 – Doug E. Doug, American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
- 1970 – Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer
- 1971 – C. W. Anderson, American wrestler
- 1971 – David Longoria, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer
- 1971 – Jeremy Renner, American actor
- 1972 – Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player
- 1972 – Vladimir Dubrovshchik, Belarusian discus thrower
- 1973 – Baiba Broka, Latvian actress
- 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer-songwriter
- 1974 – Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter
- 1974 – Svetlana Metkina, Russian actress
- 1974 – John Rich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Big & Rich)
- 1975 – Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian-Canadian blogger
- 1975 – Shawn Phelan, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1976 – Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
- 1976 – Tomas Ražanauskas, Lithuanian footballer
- 1976 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
- 1976 – Kierston Wareing, English actress
- 1976 – Harish Raghavendra, Indian playback singer
- 1977 – Michelle Behennah, Singaporean-English model
- 1977 – Dustin Diamond, American actor
- 1977 – John Gidding, American architect and television host
- 1977 – Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author
- 1977 – Marco Storari, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005)
- 1978 – Kevin Mench, American baseball player
- 1978 – Emilio Palma, Argentinian citizen, first person to be born on Antarctica
- 1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
- 1979 – Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian race car driver
- 1979 – Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model
- 1980 – Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand rugby player
- 1980 – Zöe Salmon, Irish model and television host, Miss Northern Ireland 1999
- 1980 – Merritt Wever, American actress
- 1981 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 – Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
- 1981 – Jinxx, American guitarist (Black Veil Brides, The Dreaming, and Amen)
- 1982 – Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1982 – Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
- 1982 – Priit Viks, Estonian biathlete
- 1982 – Ianina Zanazzi, Argentinian race car driver
- 1983 – Marc Burns, Trinidadian sprinter
- 1983 – Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
- 1983 – Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
- 1983 – Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian volleyball player
- 1983 – Robert Ri'chard, American actor
- 1984 – Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Jon Lester, American baseball player
- 1984 – Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Lewis Hamilton, English race car driver
- 1985 – Wayne Routledge, English footballer
- 1986 – Grant Leadbitter, English footballer
- 1987 – Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
- 1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
- 1987 – Jimmy Smith, English footballer
- 1988 – Hardwell, Dutch DJ and producer
- 1988 – Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
- 1988 – Sergei Mošnikov, Estonian footballer
- 1988 – Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
- 1988 – Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
- 1989 – Emiliano Insúa, Argentinian footballer
- 1990 – Liam Aiken, American actor
- 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
- 1990 – Camryn Grimes, American actress
- 1990 – Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
- 1991 – Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
- 1991 – Max Morrow, Canadian actor
- 1991 – Caster Semenya, South African middle-distance runner
- 1993 – Varunya Wongteanchai, Thai tennis player
- 1997 – Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Dorothy Little Happy)
Despatches
- 312 – Lucian of Antioch, Turkish martyr, saint, and theologian (b. 240)
- 672 – Tenji, Japanese emperor (b. 626)
- 1285 – Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
- 1325 – Denis of Portugal (b. 1261)
- 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
- 1451 – Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
- 1536 – Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485)
- 1566 – Louis de Blois, Flemish monk (b. 1506)
- 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. 1547)
- 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. 1560)
- 1655 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
- 1658 – Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician (b. 1590)
- 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. 1618)
- 1700 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian scholar and author (b. 1618)
- 1715 – François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651)
- 1758 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
- 1767 – Thomas Clap, American academic (b. 1703)
- 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
- 1783 – William Tans'ur, English composer (b. 1700)
- 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and mineralogist (b. 1715)
- 1812 – Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (b. 1768)
- 1830 – John Thomas Campbell, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
- 1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
- 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
- 1876 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
- 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
- 1892 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1852)
- 1893 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
- 1904 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and author (b. 1836)
- 1913 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
- 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
- 1920 – Edmund Barton, Australian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
- 1927 – Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
- 1931 – Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856)
- 1932 – André Maginot, French soldier and politician (b. 1877)
- 1936 – Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
- 1941 – Charles Finger, British author (b. 1869)
- 1942 – Alfred Asikainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1888)
- 1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)
- 1944 – Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1874)
- 1944 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
- 1946 – Adamo Didur, Polish opera singer (b. 1874)
- 1951 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
- 1953 – Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
- 1958 – Jalmari Eskola, Finnish runner (b. 1886)
- 1960 – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player (b. 1878)
- 1963 – Arthur Edward Moore, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
- 1964 – Cyril Davies, English singer and harmonica player (Blues Incorporated) (b. 1932)
- 1964 – Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager (b. 1911)
- 1966 – Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
- 1967 – David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- 1967 – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
- 1968 – J.L.B. Smith, South African chemist (b. 1897)
- 1968 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
- 1972 – John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
- 1972 – Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek songwriter (b. 1893)
- 1980 – Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1935)
- 1981 – Alvar Lidell, English journalist (b. 1908)
- 1981 – Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
- 1983 – Eliza Amy Hodgson, New Zealand botanist (b. 1888)
- 1984 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1985 – Mary Hardy, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1931)
- 1986 – P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
- 1986 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (b. 1917)
- 1988 – Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Trevor Howard,English actor (b. 1913)
- 1989 – Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
- 1990 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Horace Stoneham, American businessman (b. 1903)
- 1992 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)
- 1994 – Llewellyn Rees, English actor (b. 1901)
- 1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
- 1996 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
- 1996 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
- 1998 – Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2000 – Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
- 2001 – James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
- 2002 – Jon Lee, English drummer (Feeder, The Darling Buds, and Raindancer) (b. 1968)
- 2002 – Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
- 2007 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish journalist (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Alwyn Schlebusch, South African politician, Vice State President of South Africa (b. 1917)
- 2011 – Derek Gardner, English engineer (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Tony Blankley, English-American journalist and actor (b. 1948)
- 2012 – Milburn E. Calhoun, American physician, philanthropist, and publisher (b. 1930)
- 2012 – George Livingston, American politician (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Hideaki Nitani, Japanese actor (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Herbert Wilf, American mathematician and academic (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Carl Berner, German-American super-centenarian (b. 1902)
- 2013 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Jim Cosman, American baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Richard Ben Cramer, American journalist and author (b. 1950)
- 2013 – David R. Ellis, American director, actor, and stuntman (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Huell Howser, American television host (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Ada Louise Huxtable, American curator and critic (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (b. 1931)
- 2013 – Louise Laurin, Canadian educator and activist (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Harvey Shapiro, American poet and journalist (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Fred L. Turner, American businessman (b. 1933)
- 2014 – Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Croatian director and cinematographer (b. 1947)
- 2014 – Paul Goggins, English politician (b. 1953)
- 2014 – Sunshine Forever, American race horse (b. 1985)
- 2014 – Thomas V. Jones, American businessman (b. 1920)
- 2014 – Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (b. 1907)
- 2014 – Roy Warhurst, English footballer (b. 1926)
2015
- Christian Feast Day:
- Canute Lavard
- Charles of Sezze
- St. André Bessette (Canada)
- Lucian of Antioch
- Raymond of Peñafort
- January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian Calendar)
- Distaff Day (medieval Europe)
- Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku (Japan)
- Pioneer's Day (Liberia (controversial))
- Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian Calendar)
- Tricolour day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy)
- Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia)
" This is a tragedy for Jews and for the USA and Canada that these things are happening on the University Campus.
"Free speech" does not include the right to preach hate unopposed. "Free speech" does not mean using Government - taxpayer Funds"- to hire College instructors on FBI terrorist watch lists to push their views on students. "Free speech" does not include violence by Muslims and Arabs against Jewish and Christian students on Campus.
What can be done? Foreign Students on student visas that forbid political activity should have their education terminated and should be deported. Campuses that allow intimidation of students should lose their funding -- whether taxpayer funding or contributions. " - Roger Froikin
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Federal government to provide $46 million in grants for young scientists to join the frontline ag... http://t.co/8QTlA3JNew via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Bali Nine drug runner Myuran Sukumaran loses final clemency bid and awaits the firing squad http://t.co/XRFXQHhyk0 via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Prince Andrew allegedly spent time with girls, Woody Allen at home of convicted paedophile Jeffre... http://t.co/Nmt5NCYPO0 via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Hottest year ever? Giant clam reveals Middle Ages were warmer than today http://t.co/SmbSmvfOsV via @wattsupwiththat
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Photo: … I’d like to share this picture I took about eight years ago. It was early dawn around 5am outside... http://t.co/2K2Fg2pDtP
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Maximum Choppage: sneak peek: http://t.co/LZjJJUM2cO via @YouTube
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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The ALP electorate should respect loyalty and guts .. Punters seal Premier’s fate http://t.co/VCEN1sZpO5
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Gillian Triggs backs Indonesian wife-killer detainee http://t.co/70JdvfZUWu
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Invalid scratch card becomes a nightmare for would-be winner http://t.co/Ls123QIm6J via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Amnesty was ‘conned’ by Lindt cafe killer http://t.co/gn8tsPIpwY via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Fight Socialism Shirt – Conservative Stuff http://t.co/q2isKoFUAZ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Bristol-based stockbroker Rayhan Qadar sacked, ridiculed for tweet about hitting a cyclist http://t.co/v62rZEwkf2 via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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The Mormon women married to gay men http://t.co/HSjxfc2UIX via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Pregnant at 13 .. Teen mum fighting for life after axe-wielding boyfriend chops off her tongue http://t.co/njMJcNeeQE via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Lebanese porn star Mia Khalifa dividing her home country http://t.co/2f9dW9QXyl via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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Father arrested for daughter’s cannabis ‘cure’ http://t.co/0jduE0Xrso via @newscomauHQ
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 7, 2015
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VIDEO: Young boys asked to slap little girl in social experiment http://t.co/psfxbwvuQo via @6abc
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 6, 2015
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Photo: Al Gore and the terrifying glacier anecdote http://t.co/S4P8LIwK6R
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 6, 2015
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Affirmative action divides .. Make movies showing Asian heroes .. bigger difference Asian-Americans in the Argument http://t.co/R6vYueik1N
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) January 6, 2015
=== Posts from last year ===
WORD ACCEPTED
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (1:34pm)
The New York Times, 1989:
Among climatologists, global warming is just one scenario for the unusual atmospheric changes that have been observed throughout the world. Those who accept the global-warming theory are said to take the warmist position.
Your move, Stephen.
(Via reader iberlin)
PHONING IT IN
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (5:13am)
Our World Vision kid – we’ve been sponsoring him for ten years or so – isn’t exactly meeting his KPIs:
World Vision sends us a drawing from the boy every Christmas. Sadly, there is never any sign of improvement. In fact, lately he seems to be regressing.
World Vision sends us a drawing from the boy every Christmas. Sadly, there is never any sign of improvement. In fact, lately he seems to be regressing.
He’s now 17 years old. The above image is his most recent illustration.
UPDATE. In 2008, an ABC correspondent went to Ethiopia to meet his World Vision sponsor child – who didn’t know she was sponsored:
Andrew Geoghegan has sponsored Tsehaynesh for a decade and yet she claims she was unaware, until recently, that she had a sponsor and says the only benefit she has ever received directly from World Vision is a pen and the denim jacket she wore on the day of filming.
(Via DB)
STOMPER STOMPED
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (4:59am)
As a guide to the absolute lameness of NSW courts, consider that Russell Packer’s lawyer was surprised when his thug client actually received a jail sentence:
The lawyer of NRL player Russell Packer has challenged a magistrate’s decision to imprison him for two years, claiming he had “no idea” a punishment so severe was being considered by the court.
The lawyer never saw it coming. Kind of like Packer’s victim:
The court heard Packer became involved in an argument with another man over two cigarettes, before striking him to the head with a closed fist.According to facts tendered to the court, Packer continued to strike the victim while he was lying motionless on the ground, before stomping on his head.The victim, a 22-year-old man, sustained a fractured eye socket as a result of the attack.Packer’s lawyer claimed his client had no previous criminal record and had the correct support network at the Newcastle Knights to be completely rehabilitated.
Magistrate Greg Grogin wasn’t swayed:
“Your behaviour on that night was nothing short of disgraceful,” he told Packer in court.“It is deplorable ... you should be ashamed.“The community is sick and tired of the behaviour you exhibited that night.”
Packer “seemed confused” by the sentence, which is understandable considering how violent idiots are frequently treated lightly by NSW courts. Further on the case here.
NO NO CATS
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (4:17am)
By now, we’re all familiar with the media ritual that follows your standard Islamic bombing, massacre, shooting or beheading.
Continue reading 'NO NO CATS'INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (3:20am)
The ABC is thrilled because a solitary American has joined a Western Australian shark-saving campaign:
Western Australia’s new shark killing policy is gaining international attention with an American environmentalist taking her opposition to the plan to the streets of Texas …Thousands of people joined a protest against the plan at Cottesloe Beach on the weekend.Now the protest has gone international with Texan Carey Barlow-Heyden circulating information and a petition against the plan in her local area – the city of New Braunfels in Texas.“What mainly concerns me is they would take such a drastic [action] to kill these animals,” she said …“I think it’s something we should definitely care about.”
Given that New Braunfels is only three hours or so from the ocean, you can understand why shark care is such a crucial issue for local residents. Interestingly, Carey Barlow-Heyden is apparently an Etsy girl who makes her own jewellery. Among her favourite materials:
Shark teeth, Arrowheads, Anything fun, colorful and unique
(Via J.F. Beck)
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Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 07, 2014 (2:02am)
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If you eschew cultural assets like family names, work, kindness, religion, but espouse drug use, alcoholic abuse and irresponsible behaviour then lots of things become difficult. - ed
“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.” ~ Carl Jung
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I challenge Robertson to detail a single event where a counsellor would have effected change. Assuming that Robertson's claim is not some cynical exercise motivating union opposition to good administration. I can recall a 2008 incident at a poor Met South West school where a child was seen with a large knife showing off to other kids, and then. a week later same student ran to kick a bus that hadn't picked him up off route. School Counsellor was not involved in either incident. Neither was student counselled over either incident. - ed===
Campbell Newman
To stop tattoo parlours from being used as a front for criminal organisations, all tattoo parlour operators and tattoo artists will require a licence from July 1.Applicants will be screened by the Queensland Police Service to ensure theyare suitable to work in the tattoo industry and have no links to criminal motorcycle gangs.
Further details on how to apply for a licence or permit can be found atwww.qld.gov.au/tattoolicensing
www.fairtrading.qld.gov.au
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A great video by DVB released today highlighting that many prisoners detained under criminal charges have been released, yet many activists remain behind bars.
It must be understood that international demands for the release of all political prisoners have not been met by Thein Sein. State-run media and Thein Sein's press office would like the world to believe that all political prisoners have been released as promised. Releasing criminals to make this claim is a slap in the face for the thousands of Rohingya, hundreds of Kachin, and many activists and farmers who remain behind bars for trumped up charges under Draconian laws.
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Holiness doesn’t mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. - Pope Francis
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We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The Labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
- Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell Foundation
Drugs aren't the answer - ed
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A thank you to the Embassies of the US, Turkey, and Switzerland, and the Delegation of the EU, for calling on Burma to address the dire humanitarian crisis of the IDP camp in Myebon Township, Rakhine State, where over 700 Rohingya families have languished since 2012.
"Development assistance and inward investment to Rakhine State, for the benefit of all communities, will only come when situations like that in Myebon are adequately addressed."
uscampaignforburma.org
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Kerry's demand that Israel release Israeli Arab citizens who committed acts of terrorism shows the long-term cost of prisoner release, and demonstrates once again why Israel must abandon the talks.
http://carolineglick.com/kerry-and-the-long-term-cost-of-releasing-terrorists/
carolineglick.com
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 6: Morning
"Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." - 1 Peter 5:7
It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel--"HE careth for me." Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight which your Father would not feel. What seems to you a crushing burden, would be to him but as the small dust of the balance. Nothing is so sweet as to
"Lie passive in God's hands,
And know no will but his."
O child of suffering, be thou patient; God has not passed thee over in his providence. He who is the feeder of sparrows, will also furnish you with what you need. Sit not down in despair; hope on, hope ever. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble, and your opposition shall yet end your distresses. There is One who careth for you. His eye is fixed on you, his heart beats with pity for your woe, and his hand omnipotent shall yet bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom shall give place to the morning. He, if thou art one of his family, will bind up thy wounds, and heal thy broken heart. Doubt not his grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of providence! With a little oil in the cruse, and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah outlived the famine, and you will do the same. If God cares for you, why need you care too? Can you trust him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens, he has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul! have done with fretful care, and leave all thy concerns in the hand of a gracious God.
"Lie passive in God's hands,
And know no will but his."
O child of suffering, be thou patient; God has not passed thee over in his providence. He who is the feeder of sparrows, will also furnish you with what you need. Sit not down in despair; hope on, hope ever. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble, and your opposition shall yet end your distresses. There is One who careth for you. His eye is fixed on you, his heart beats with pity for your woe, and his hand omnipotent shall yet bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom shall give place to the morning. He, if thou art one of his family, will bind up thy wounds, and heal thy broken heart. Doubt not his grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of providence! With a little oil in the cruse, and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah outlived the famine, and you will do the same. If God cares for you, why need you care too? Can you trust him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens, he has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul! have done with fretful care, and leave all thy concerns in the hand of a gracious God.
Evening
"Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening." -Ezekiel 33:22
In the way of judgment this may be the case, and, if so, be it mine to consider the reason of such a visitation, and bear the rod and him that hath appointed it. I am not the only one who is chastened in the night season; let me cheerfully submit to the affliction, and carefully endeavour to be profited thereby. But the hand of the Lord may also be felt in another manner, strengthening the soul and lifting the spirit upward towards eternal things. O that I may in this sense feel the Lord dealing with me! A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. At such times we are full to the brim with spiritual joy, and forget the cares and sorrows of earth; the invisible is near, and the visible loses its power over us; servant-body waits at the foot of the hill, and the master-spirit worships upon the summit in the presence of the Lord. O that a hallowed season of divine communion may be vouchsafed to me this evening! The Lord knows that I need it very greatly. My graces languish, my corruptions rage, my faith is weak, my devotion is cold; all these are reasons why his healing hand should be laid upon me. His hand can cool the heat of my burning brow, and stay the tumult of my palpitating heart. That glorious right hand which moulded the world can new-create my mind; the unwearied hand which bears the earth's huge pillars up can sustain my spirit; the loving hand which incloses all the saints can cherish me; and the mighty hand which breaketh in pieces the enemy can subdue my sins. Why should I not feel that hand touching me this evening? Come, my soul, address thy God with the potent plea, that Jesus' hands were pierced for thy redemption, and thou shalt surely feel that same hand upon thee which once touched Daniel and set him upon his knees that he might see visions of God.
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Meshullam
[Mēshŭl'lam] - associate or a friend.
1. An ancestor of Shaphan, the scribe of King Josiah's time (2 Kings 22:3).
2. A son of Zerubbabel and descendant of Jeconiah, son of King Jehoiakim (1 Chron. 3:19).
3. A leading man among the Gadites in the reign of Jothan (1 Chron. 5:13).
4. A Benjamite, descended from Shaharaim through Elpaal (1 Chron. 8:17).
5. A Benjamite, father of Sallu, who dwelt in Jerusalem (1 Chron. 9:7; Neh. 11:7).
6. Another Benjamite, son of Shephathiah, also of Jerusalem (1 Chron. 9:8).
7. A priest, son of Zadok and father of the high priest, Hilkiah, who lived in Josiah's reign (1 Chron. 9:11; Neh. 11:11).
8. A priest, son of Mishilemith of the house of Immer (1 Chron. 9:12).
9. A Kohathite Levite who, with others, superintended the repair of the Temple in Josiah's time (2 Chron. 34:12).
10. A chief man who, with others, returned from exile with Ezra (Ezra 8:16).
11. One who assisted in the numbering of those who had married foreign wives (Ezra 10:15).
12. A son of Bani who had married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:29).
13. A son of Berechiah who helped to repair two portions of the wall (Neh. 3:4, 30; 6:18).
14. The son of Besodeiah who also repaired a part of the city wall (Neh. 3:6).
15. A prince or priest who stood beside Ezra as he read and explained the Law (Neh. 8:4).
16. A priest who, on behalf of his father's house, signed the covenant with Nehemiah (Neh. 10:7).
17. A chief of the people who also signed the covenant (Neh. 10:20).
18. A priest of the family of Ezra who assisted at the dedication of the wall (Neh. 12:13, 33).
19. Another priest, head of his father Ginnethon's house, in the days of Joiakim the priest (Neh. 12:16).
20. A Levite, and sanctuary porter after the exile (Neh. 12:25)
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Today's reading: Genesis 16-17, Matthew 5:27-48 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 16-17
Hagar and Ishmael
1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her."
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.4 He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 5:27-48
Adultery
27 "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
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