Sunday, January 21, 2018

Sat Jan 20th Todays News

Don't give up on hope. One in 5 Californians live in poverty. Wealthy Californians are fleeing the high tax state. Australia will soon owe $770 billion, and she is borrowing more. McLachlan defends himself. He has not been accused of a crime. Jason Wood MP suggests writing letters to Sudanese crime figures. Meanwhile Dan Andrews cannot prevent Dutton from booting four APEX thugs back to Sudan. 

 The result of terrorism, Kenyan Police Officers accused of extra Judicial killings as Amnesty International lists them as the worst in Africa. Because Terrorist killings in terrorist states don't count to Amnesty. As killings go, I won't defend it, or the Philippine response. But both responses relate to terrorism unchecked. 

 Worth looking at an awful opinion article by former whitehouse correspondent Richard Benedetto. Richard compared Obama and Reagan in 2011. Richard held hope for Obama's second term. Another article on JFK fifty years after his inaugural address showed that Democrats have not learned from any of their mistakes, although that writer , did not know it. 
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Yeah, Obama did much for liberty, other than despise it? Meanwhile Hillary wonders what happened. 

 The US senate needs 60 votes, not 51, to keep the US open. That means more Democrat Senators need to be voted out of office this year so America can prosper. 

 Charlie Lynn needs help supporting PNG peoples in Kokoda. Australia has a useless, expensive, environmental aid package. But the aid doesn't go to the people. Maybe Bill spent it? 

 Snow covers solar panels in Germany, making them reliant on burning logs? 
I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.

































































Here is a video I made "Save the Last Dance for Me"

"Save the Last Dance for Me" is the title of a popular song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, first recorded in 1960 by Ben E. King with The Drifters. The Drifters' version of the song spent three non-consecutive weeks at number one on the U.S. pop chart, in addition to logging one week atop the U.S. R&B chart. In the UK, the Drifters' recording reached number two in December 1960. This single was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two noted American music producers who at the time had an apprentice relationship with a then-unknown Phil Spector. Although he was working with Lieber and Stoller at the time, it is unknown whether Spector assisted with the production of this record; however, many Spector fans have noticed similarities between this record and other music he would eventually produce on his own


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Today a drugged up loser claiming to be Islamic drove a car into a crowd of people in Melbourne CBD. He felt entitled to. He is ethnically Greek and feels that Kurdish Islam speaks for him, giving him answers. He has been on bail following serious charges which may involve drugs and assault. He is rumoured to have stabbed his brother in the morning, and then detained a woman "known to him." She has left his car, and possibly while looking for her, he has run into a crowd injuring over twenty people and killing four, including a young child. It is not the police's fault that the Premier Dan Andrews has made their job as hard as he has. Drugged up violent abusers should not be bailed. Andrews is putting innocent people in harms way because of his ideology. 

Meanwhile politics is playing out. Andrews will point to this not being a terrorist attack. It was a domestic involving drugs and mental health and Andrews facilitated it. But the anti Islam lobby will relate it to a sign being taken down, or put up, for Australia Day. Or maybe it is the left celebrating Obama. Or gun control. The answer is simple. Premier Dan Andrews is to blame for the deaths of four following his ideological assault on police and corruption of the courts. 

However, as one person who identified with murderously bad policy gloated, all that need happen is for them to wait until the next election, and sane voices can be silenced. Tonight in America, Trump is being inaugurated President. If the Baird haters have their way, people like Andrews will be elected everywhere. Welcome home to NSW former police minister Mike Gallacher. He did nothing wrong, but a corrupt judiciary forced him out. We need someone in Australia, in Victoria and in NSW to #DrainTheSwamp
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The liars of the mainstream press have not worked out how they are going to announce the untimely death of scientist Bob Carter. Dr Carter was in Townsville when he suffered a heart attack from which he never recovered. He died peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by loved ones. His academic career had begun in NZ, Otago in 1963. At James Cook University, Dr Carter was internationally recognised for excellence in his field of Earth Science. However JCU also vilified and dismissed Dr Carter for his views which, while being right, weren't commensurate with what the university wanted regarding global warming. The billion dollar a day scam that is global warming has lost a critic, a voice of reason. But Dr Carter will be vindicated eventually. Meanwhile mainstream media temporise the announcement of his passing. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility 
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The persecution of Christians Decius unleashed in 250 as emperor of Rome was specific in target. Decius was trying to reinforce the old religion of Rome possibly so as to limit corruption. His instrument was an edict that all in the empire must collect a certificate that they have sacrificed to a God. Christians were the only large group at that time that would not do that. For a Christian, they would prefer death to sacrificing to another God. And lots of Romans were willing to accommodate them to get ahead. There were a number of pogroms where Christians were killed, but as Waleed Aly has said of terrorists, it was merely nuisance value. Pope Fabian was martyred as a result, but the persecutions did lessen within the year, and had to be reinforced in 253 by Emperor Valerian. But following Fabian's death, a plague fell on Rome. And then Decius and his son died in battle. His son was the first Emperor to die in battle. Decius was the second, soon after. 

In 1356, Edward Balliol gave the throne of Scotland to England's King Edward III in exchange for an English pension. They were worth more in those days. In 1649, King Charles I went on trial for treason and high crimes. Ten days later he was beheaded. In 1783, the Kingdom of Great Britain signed for peace to end the US Revolutionary war with Spain and France. In 1785, Siam invaded Vietnam and lost badly. In 1788, Arthur Phillip decided to leave Botany Bay and settle at Port Jackson, in what is now Sydney, Australia.  

In 1941, in Bucharest, the killing of a German officer led to killing 125 jews by the Iron Guard. Ten days later, Iron Guard were betrayed by Hitler and a worse anti semitic body began work under General Ion Atonescu. 1942, at the Wannsee conferene in Germany, senior Nazis discussed the 'final solution' to the 'Jewish question.' In 1969, East Pakistan police killed an activist student, and initiated the war of Liberation for Bangladesh. In 1972, having lost Bangladesh, Pakistan began developing nuclear weapons. In 1981, twenty minutes after 69 yo Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released 52 US embassy hostages. In 1987, Terry Waite, an Anglican envoy was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad, who released him after 1,763 days in 1991. He had been in solitary confinement. In 1999, China News announced restrictions were being placed on the internet aimed at internet cafes. 
From 2014
It is so sad for some that lives are not being lost on boats between Indonesia or Sri Lanka and Australia, that anger is being expressed. Anger at conservative government. Anger at life savers allegedly using tough language. Anger at the world not heating up. But what is illustrative is what hasn't made the well paid agitators angry. Gillard declared she would denounce misogyny wherever she saw it .. went to Dubai and didn't mention it, despite being faced with an audience who placed women in chains. Admire the calmness with which the agitators accept Thomson's latest admission, having kept corrupt administration in government for three years. Or the sanguine nature preserved while Jonathan Pollard is jailed for doing nothing, while killers are freed for peace. 

Admire how radio ABC managed to shine a light of reason so bright, that Japanese soldiers listening in failed for decades to know Japan had lost the war. Was Snowden a useful idiot for Putin? Melbourne city council raises the interesting question of how would a terrorist who killed for sport be sentenced today?

Today is the anniversary of the foundation (1920) of the US Civil Liberties Union. Those bastards are the reason killers were freed before Obama used peace as an excuse. Fear of effective government is a big motivator for some. Some fear nuclear power in India, but praise it in Iran. Today is also another anniversary. Twenty minutes after Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released hostages .. why else would Obama be giving them nuclear weapons? 
Historical perspective on this day
In 250, Emperor Decius began a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian was martyred. 649, king Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowned his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. 1265, the first English parliament to include not only nobles but also representatives of the major towns meets in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament". 1320, duke Wladyslaw Lokietek became king of Poland. 1356, Edward Balliol abdicated as King of Scotland. 1523, Christian II was forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. 1567, Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sádefinitively drove the French out of Rio de Janeiro. 1576, the Mexican city of León was founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.

In 1649, Charles I of England went on trial for treason and other "high crimes". 1783, the Kingdom of Great Britain signed a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence). 1785, invading Siamese forces attempted to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but were ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút. 1788, the third and main part of First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decided that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson. 1839, in the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeated an alliance between Peru and Bolivia. 1841, Hong Kong Island was occupied by the British. 1877, last day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans. 1887, the United States Senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.

In 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union was founded. 1921, the first Constitution of Turkey was adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty. 1929, in Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, was released. 1936, Edward VIII became King of the United Kingdom. 1941, a German officer was murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers. 1942, World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi Germanofficials discussed the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". 1945, World War II: Hungary agreed to an armistice with the Allies. Also 1945, World War II: Germanybegan the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will took nearly two months. 1949, Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.

In 1954, the National Negro Network was established with 40 charter member radio stations. 1959, the first flight of the Vickers Vanguard. 1960, Hendrik Verwoerd announced a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic. 1969, East Pakistani police killed student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage was in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War. 1972, Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program a few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. 1981, twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran released 52 American hostages. 1986, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. 1987, Church of England envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Lebanon.

In 1990, following 7 days of pogroms on local Armenian population of Baku, Azerbaijan the the Red Army entered the city to restore order. 1991, Sudan's government imposed Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christiansouth. 1992, Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashed into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board. A design flaw in the computer mode selection system resulted in the crew selecting the wrong rate of descent. 1999, the China News Service announced new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafés. 2001, Philippine president Joseph Estrada was ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and was succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. 2006, witnesses reported seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913. 2007, a three-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. 2009, a protest movement in Iceland culminated as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start
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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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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January. 

Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?

January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4  The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.

List of available items at Create Space
Happy birthday and many happy returns Saulyn Anthony. Born on the same day, across the years, as
January 20: Martyrs' Day in Azerbaijan (1990)
Simon de Montfort
Welcome to Westminster. You founded the great southern land. You are de facto. You are a people mover. You are the resistance. Let's party. 
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MELBOURNE MALL ATTACK

Pedestrians are reported to have been injured following a vehicle attack in the middle of Melbourne.
20 Jan  

PUNISHMENT FITZ

ESPN’s Doug Adler is suspended for his gorilla comment. We now wait for a response from the Sydney Morning Herald's senior simian correspondent Peter FitzSimons. 
20 Jan  10 comments

BENT EIGHTS BEAT GAIA SPARK BUGGIES

Nobody wants electric cars, but people are desperate for V8s.
20 Jan
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BOB CARTER

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (3:53pm)

Mark Steyn farewells a principled man in a corrupted field, the late climate sanity crusader Professor Bob Carter.
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STUMPY ANWAR

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (2:58pm)

Just a typical evening at a Pakistan mosque. First, a teenager mistakenly put his hand up when a cleric asked if anyone did not love the Prophet Muhammad. The kid simply misheard the question. Then the imam denounced him as a blasphemer, so the boy ran home and cut off his right hand with a scythe. But all’s well that ends well: 
The boy’s family … argues that the cleric did nothing wrong and should not be punished.
“We are lucky that we have this son who loves Prophet Muhammad that much,” Muhammad Ghafoor, Anwar’s father, said in a telephone interview. “We will be rewarded by God for this in the eternal world.”
Anwar, too, declined to make any charge against the mullah. “What I did was for love of the Prophet Muhammad,” he said …
Anwar Ali did not even go to a hospital after his amputation, but had his right arm’s stump bandaged at a village clinic and went home. 
Give that boy a hand. A right one, preferably.
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BURGER FRENZY

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (2:49pm)

They were lining up at 6am in Sydney for In-N-Out Burgers. Fair enough; they’re an excellent burger. But they are as nothing compared to the delights at Whataburger or the truly brilliant Torchy’s.
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FRACTION FRICTION

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (2:38am)

“We are not run by factions,” Mr Turnbull said … 
Malcolm Turnbull’s authority over the Liberal Party is being undermined by factional powerbrokers, who are defying the Prime Minister’s call for stability and pushing ahead with plans to remove sitting members. 
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Ok this is todays article, The AFFF has been around for a bit and the class action is no secret, but this is the first time farmers on SM are asking for financial donations, partially to stick it back to animal rights crowds but also just to clear their names and set a precedent as not to see businesses suffer at the hands of government on this scale again in future, There is a lot of ramifications I could go into, but in a nutshell 3 senators are being targeted for introducing the bill, sadly the current govt will have to pay if any compensation is awarded, but many say that's not what its all about, just a token amount to a few hardest hit and a legal precedent to secure future trade deals as solid, unlike the broken trade agreement with Indonesia. 
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TAX-FUNDED AND TOPICAL

Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (5:16pm)

The big issue at Radio National: 
How do you tell your mum that you’ve signed up for a one-way trip to … 
Syria? Iraq? Nigeria? Click for the correct answer. In other radio news, I’ll be in the studio tonight with 2GB’s Steve Price from 8pm. Tune in for fun and japes.
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HE GOT SHAHADED

Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (1:27pm)

Another Australian idiot for Islam has received his final welfare payment: 
Terrorist Mahmoud Abdullatif is believed to have been killed fighting with Islamic State in Syria.
An Abdullatif supporter posted a tribute earlier this morning to the jihadist who once boasted on his Instagram account that he “just wants to go to heaven and live forever”.
“Brother Abu Abdullatif @riseyamuslim got Shahada insha’allah the day before yesterday, make du’a for Allah. Azza wa Jall to accept him,” the post said.
Abdullatif’s wife Zehra Duman, 21, also posted a message about his death on the weekend, congratulating him for winning the race to heaven. ‘Til we reunite,’ she wrote. 
Abdullatif joins around 20 or so incompetent Australian warriors who have been killed in Syria and Iraq. Of course, this has nothing to do with Islam.
UPDATE. The latest wave of Islamic State savagery: 
ISIS militants have gone on an execution frenzy in Iraq, murdering at least 20 people in a 48-hour period, including two men “found guilty” of being gay.
Photographs of the killings, shocking even by the group’s barbaric standards, have been circulating on social media since last Thursday. 
They include images of two blindfolded men being hauled to the top of a seven or eight story tower before being thrown to their deaths, one at a time, as a large crowd watches from below.
One picture is captioned: “The Muslims come to watch the application of the law.” 
Which is odd, because this again is nothing to do with Islam.
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PROFITS ARE EEEVIL

Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (5:24am)

Labor goes full commie in Queensland:



That key line, one more time: 
The only reason someone buys a business is to make money from it. 
They really do believe this is a bad thing.
(Via MM)
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NAME THOSE IDIOTS

Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (5:20am)

“What should we call Islamic State?” asks academic Amin Saikal. “DAISH or IS?”
A reasonable question. But why limit ourselves to just those two options? Let the BlairPoll decide:
Thank you for voting! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Total Votes: 3,991
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HIZBIEFEST

Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (5:16am)

Seven’s Bryan Seymour, the only journalist permitted to attend Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Lakemba rally on Saturday night, reports: 
“Eventually, we will bounce back and we will reclaim everything that they have taken from us,” Bilal Merhi told the crowd. 
Let’s make a deal, babycakes. You reclaim everything we’ve taken from Islam and in return you guys give back everything you’ve taken from civilisation. It’ll be like George Costanza asking for a pre-nup. 
Around 200 men and another 50 women and children, behind a curtain at the back, attended the public rally held by extremist Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
They were told Australia’s democratic government has to go in favour of an Islamic caliphate ruled by Sharia law. 
On the other hand … no. 
Freedom of speech was top of the agenda as firebrand preacher Bilal Merhi said Australians use freedom of speech to mock Islam.
“We will continue to stand up and oppose your freedom to insult our Messenger! Takbir! Allahu Akbar! Takbir! Allahu Akbar!” 
Oh, go blow it out your Akbar, pal. Meanwhile, in England: 
A trainee lawyer at one of the world’s biggest law firms has posted a 21-minute online rant in which he blames the Paris attacks on non-Muslim “kuffar” who “killed our people and raped and pillaged our resources”.
Aysh Chaudhry, from international law firm Clifford Chance, tried to explain the terrorist atrocities that left 17 people dead and how Muslims should respond.
Mr Chaudhry, who works in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions department, criticised moderate Muslims for allowing their minds to be “colonised” and claimed Islam was “superior” to Western ideology. 
Chaudhry later apologised, claiming he had “no intention other than to encourage intellectual debate.” His softheaded employers did nothing about it: 
A spokeswoman for Clifford Chance said Chaudhry, who is still employed by the firm, was not facing any disciplinary action. She said: “The views expressed in this video are personal and not those of Clifford Chance.” 
(Via Elaine)
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THERE ARE THREE

Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (1:53am)

This is true.
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RIP-OFF REMEDY

Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (1:34pm)

Imagine my excitement when the Greens announced their new “climate champion” campaign: 
Becoming a climate champion means you’ll be the first to know about campaign actions and opportunities in the coming months. We’ll send you a Climate Champion toolkit with everything you need to build awareness and support in your community. 
Naturally, I signed up immediately and then began a letterbox vigil for the arrival of my personal climate champion toolkit. Tension grew as I fantasised over the possible contents. A t-shirt announcing my climate champion status? A secret decoder ring? Actual tools I could use to dismantle coal-fired power plants? 

 Continue reading 'RIP-OFF REMEDY'
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LIVES SAVED, LEFT SEETHES

Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (12:59pm)

The absolute moral perversion of the Australian left is again dramatically apparent. Our leftists are actually more upset that lives are being saved by Tony Abbott’s government than they ever were by the deaths of asylum seekers under the previous Labor government.

 Continue reading 'LIVES SAVED, LEFT SEETHES'
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RADIO DARKNESS

Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (11:47am)

Several museums in Guam feature fine exhibits telling the stories of Japanese soldiers who remained hidden on the island long after the end of the war.
Some didn’t emerge for decades, preferring to skulk through the jungles in the apparent belief that World War II was ongoing.

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NEW MAUNDERING

Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (11:12am)

Solar colding causes scientific enbafflement: 
“I’ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, told the BBC.
“If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive… you’ve got to go back about 100 years,” he said …
Mike Lockwood, professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading, told the BBC there was a significant chance that the Sun could become increasingly quiet.
He compared the current circumstances to the latter half of the 17th Century, when the sun went through an extremely quiet phase referred to as the Maunder Minimum.
That era of solar inactivity coincided with bitterly cold winters to Europe, where the Baltic Sea and London’s River Thames froze over. Conditions were so harsh that some described it as a mini-Ice Age. 
Via Mike, who emails: “Just wondering how this will be pinned on man-made emissions … from a mere 149.6 million kilometres away. A new measure of Tony Abbott’s intergalactic evil, I’ll wager.”
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WORDS WORSE THAN DEATH

Tim Blair – Monday, January 20, 2014 (1:32am)

Under Labor, around one thousand asylum seekers were killed.
Under the current government, a few asylum seekers are spoken to rudely.
Leftists favour a return to Labor’s policies, presumably because dead people can’t hear anything. 
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IT CANNOT BE UNSEEN

Tim Blair – Sunday, January 19, 2014 (6:32pm)

Not that the Greens are an unusual bunch, but here’s their candidate for the Griffith by-election.
UPDATE. In 2007 and 2010, Ebbs ran as a federal Greens candidate in NSW under the name Giovanni (Joe) Ebono. Or, as our new favourite Green puts it, he ”created Giovanni Ebono and ran him twice for federal politics.” The “visionary and pioneer” is now ”working under birth name - Geoff Ebbs.”
UPDATE II. Ebono/Ebbs has also performed in pantomimes.
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No boats for a month. You’d think there would be applause…

Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:58am)

No boat arrivals for a month now. You’d think this was grounds for congratulations. But The Age prefers to retail lurid claims instead:
Two asylum seekers jumped off their boat as the Australian Navy was taking them back to Indonesia around Christmas Day, in what a fellow passenger said was a suicide attempt. 
Sailors from accompanying navy ships pulled them from the water and put them back on board, asylum seeker Rahman Ali said.
Pretty lame “suicide attempt”.  But good enough for The Age to go with
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Were Snowden and his media allies Putin’s useful idiots?

Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:41am)

Who knows, but the possibility puts the role of the pro-Snowden media in an unflattering light:
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers said Sunday that Edward Snowden likely received help from the Russians in leaking NSA data. 
“There’s some security things that he did get around that were clearly above his capabilities. The way he departed and how he ended up in Moscow—now, we still have some questions there,” Rogers, who appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” said.
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Islamists go for gold in terrorism at Sochi

Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:26am)

Muslim terrorists seek to win the gold medal - again - for violence at the world’s greatest sports contest:
A new threat to the upcoming Winter Olympics surfaced Sunday as US lawmakers worried about attacks at the Games to be hosted by Russia. 
In a video posted on a well-known jihadi forum, two men believed to have been suicide bombers in last month’s deadly bombings in Volgograd speak of them—and warned of more.
“We’ve prepared a present for you and all tourists who’ll come over,” the video says in part. ”If you hold the Olympics, you’ll get a present from us for the Muslim blood that’s been spilled.”
What is it about the Muslim faith that makes this threat so utterly predictable? 
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Green against growth

Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (11:14am)

 At least the Greens candidate for Griffiths is honest - he really is against growth.
And this time, at least, he is standing under his real name. 
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Another dangerous fib about our past

Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (10:32am)

Our racial resentment industry really is out of control:
Melbourne City Council will build a memorial to two Aborigines who in 1842 were the first people executed in Melbourne… 
On this day, January 20, in 1842, 5000 Melbourne citizens watched as Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were hanged for the murder of two whale hunters while resisting white settlement. 
Resisting while settlement or simply stealing and killing?
At a time of violence between European settlers and indigenous people, the Protector of Aborigines, George Robinson, brought Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and 14 other native Tasmanian Aborigines to Melbourne in 1839 as intermediaries. 
In 1841 Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner and three indigenous women stole guns, and in a six week, guerilla-style campaign against authorities in the Dandenongs and the Mornington Peninsula, burnt and stole from houses and killed two whalers.
So the settlement they were “resisting” was not even of their own lands. And note the Age’s use of the term “guerilla-style”, freighted with political meaning. By this measure Ned Kelly and every other bushranger ran “guerilla-style” campaigns.
A buoyant Councillor Cathy Oke ...  said Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were ‘’freedom fighters’’ whose crimes should be ‘’taken in context at the time that this occurred. It’s a time in Melbourne when the tensions between whites and the traditional owners, or Aboriginal people, was obviously quite heightened,’’ she said.
Oke is plain foolish and misleading. Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were in no sense “tradtional owners” of these lands. Indeed, if anyone in these events were “traditional owners” of the land on which they operated they are the eight Aboriginal trackers who helped to catch them. Nor is there evidence that Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner were fighting for “freedom”.
And there is this consideration. George Orwell, a Leftist, in writing about conservative Rudyard Kipling, conceded this about the Okes of his own generation:
One reason for Kipling’s power ...  [was] his sense of responsibility, which made it possible for him to have a world-view… He identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality. The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly.
In this case, too, the quality of the Left’s thought has deteriorated for the same reason - the refusal to take responsibility and answer the question “In such and such circumstances, what would you do?”.
We should imagine Oke as the judge presiding in the case of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, faced with two Tasmanian Aborigines in Victoria who’d murdered two civilians, wounded five others and burned down stations. Could she seriously have declared the two Tasmanians “freedom fighters” and acquitted them?  What would have been the consequences, in terms of anarchy and bloodshed?
This is a case of Leftists re-imagining our history without a thought for the real-life choices faced at the time by those who were there. It is lazy and intellectually dishonest. Worse, it feeds the racial resentment industry, leading not to reconciliation but its opposite.
Shame on Lord Mayor Robert Doyle for going along with this destructive and dishonest farce. Power above principle, I guess. 
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Drowning is better than swearing

Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (8:01am)

Tim Blair puts it perfectly:
Under Labor, around one thousand asylum seekers were killed. 
Under the current government, a few asylum seekers are spoken to rudely. Leftists favour a return to Labor’s policies, presumably because dead people can’t hear anything. 
Links at the link. 
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Warmist BBC gets the chills as Sun goes quiet

Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (7:51am)

Global warming - general

Even the warmist BBC warns of possible cold times ahead:
Something is happening to the solar activity on the surface of the sun: it’s declining, fast… The number of sunspots is a fraction of what scientists expected, solar flares are half. Richard Harrison is the head of space physics at the Rutheford-Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. He says the rate at which solar activity is falling mirrors a period in the 17th century where sunspots virtually disappeared. 
Harrison [1:57]: The Maunder Minimum of course was a period of almost no sunspots at all for decades… It was a period where you had a kind of mini ice-age. You had a period where the Thames froze in winters and so on…
BBC science correspondent Rebecca Morelle [2:46]: The Maunder Minimum came at a time when snow cover was longer and more frequent. It wasn’t just the Thames that froze over. The Baltic Sea did too. Crop failures and famines were widespread across Northern Europe. So does a decline in solar activity mean plunging temperatures for decades to come?…
BBC voiceover: Some researchers have gone way further back in time, looked into the ice sheets of particles that were once in the upper atmosphere, particles that show variations in solar activity. Mike Lockwood’s work suggests that this is the fastest rate of solar decline for 10,000 years…
Dr. Lucie Green [5:38]: The world we live in today is very different to the world that was inhabited during the Maunder Minimum. So we have human activity, we have the industrial revolution, all kinds of gases being pumped into the atmosphere, so on the one hand we’ve got perhaps a cooling sun, but on the other hand you’ve got human activity that can counter that and I think it is quite difficult to say actually how these two are going to compete and what the consequences then are for the global climate. BBC: So even if the planet as a whole continues to warm, if we enter a new Maunder Minimum the future for Northern Europe could be cold and frozen winters for decades to come...
As I write this, ABC Radio National is pumping out another global warming scare instead, warning of more droughts. No sceptics are interviewed.
(Thanks to many readers.) 
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A Race-Obsessed Obama Blames Skin Color, Not Policy, For Low Approval Rating - Now The End Begins
www.nowtheendbegins.com
“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazine’s Jan. 27 edition.
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Approved: Bill for One Chief Rabbi in Israel
www.israelnationalnews.com
Ministerial Committee for Legislation approves bill unifying Chief Rabbinate. Bennett: 'This will unite the Jewish people.'
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aval31.free.fr
2/05/2006 Tmes newspaper say : Millions of dollars where given by french, italian and german governement  to terrorist groups for the freedom of some "journalists" kidnaped.
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Jerusalem Post contributing editor Caroline Glick
www.youtube.com
Jerusalem Post contributing editor Caroline Glick says Defense Minister Ya'alon was "spot on" in his comments; adds the Americans want to weaken him.
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Livni: You Are Part Of The Problem
http://www.israellycool.com/2014/01/19/livni-you-are-part-of-the-problem/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Israellycool+%28Israellycool%29
Jews building homes in Judea and Samaria is not “illegal”. People like Livni should be repeating it not silently agreeing to it.
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U.S. chides UNESCO for putting Jewish exhibit on hold
www.reuters.com
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Friday criticized UNESCO, the U.N.'s cultural arm, for postponing an exhibition about Jews and the Holy Land due to complaints from Arab member states.The
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Late US senator honored for supporting Israel
www.jpost.com
Former ambassador to Washington Michael Oren: Daniel Inouye was a hero to whom we owe an historic debt.
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Love of the Land: It all started when Israel fired back…
calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.se
For those who are home, and for those who are on the way. For those who support the historic and just return of the land of Israel to its people, forever loyal to their inheritance, and its restoration.
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Wounded Syrian couple treated in Israel
www.israelhayom.com
Wounded Syrian woman: "We hesitated coming to Israel, because we were taught to hate it. We were taught this is a brutal enemy state, but we learned that reality is different. People here have a conscience. Our enemy is in Syria, not in Israel."
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The Soldier and the Refusenik: A case study in psychopathic self abhorrence
blogs.timesofisrael.com
Maya Wind and Eran Efrati are alleged peace activists who are touring the country and warning university students about......
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Congress is listening
www.israpundit.com
Video of My January 8th Briefing at the Senate Office Building, “What Are Iran’s True Intentions?” January 18th, 2014 by Andrew Bostom I was privileged to join Clare Lopez, Mark Langfan, and Dr. Walid Phares for this panel presentation jointly
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In Gaza, a slow-burning escalation courtesy of a weakened Hamas
www.timesofisrael.com
With pressure mounting from Egypt and Israel, the Islamist terror group may be allowing rocket fire for lack of a better option
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Al Jazeera Host Asks Why Can't Arab Armies Be More Humane, Like Israel? (VIDEO) | Jewish &...
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An Al Jazeera Arabic anchor recently asked his audience why Arab armies, and, in particular, the regime of Bashar al-Assad, in Syria, can’t behave more humanely towards civilians, like the Israeli and French armies do? In a clip uploaded to YouTube this week and flagged by Mideast Media Analyst Tom…
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CNN Holds Sharon Responsible for Massacre
http://honestreporting.com/cnn-holds-sharon-responsible-for-massacre/
In the clip below from January 12, 2014, CNN's anchorwoman interviews Mohammed Jamjoom who is reporting from CNN's Beirut studio on Arab reactions to Ariel Sharon's death. While Jamjoom mentions that Sharon was "held indirectly responsible" for the 1982...
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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Joniversity takes on "two Arab chicks"
elderofziyon.blogspot.com
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Memory of the Camps (1985): The Holocaust Documentary that Traumatized Alfred Hitchcock, and...
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You may have heard the news that the world will soon see 'Alfred Hitchcock's unseen Holocaust documentary.' That intriguing sounding announcement belies a more complicated reality.
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Second Generation Muslims Are Much More Dangerous Than Their Parents | Atlas Shrugs
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Second Generation Muslims Are Much More Dangerous Than Their ParentsGlobal Jihad 201400 CommentsTheir parents came to escape their culturally undistinguished control-ridden native sharia lands and embrace freedom and modernity. Their children, on the other hand, revert to their roots and embrace the...
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Terrorist murderers are "heroes," Abbas said four times in speech - PMW Bulletins
palwatch.org
Palestinian Media Watch is an Israeli research institute that studies Palestinian society from a broad range of perspectives by monitoring and analyzing the Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks. PMW’s major focus is on the messages that the Palestinian leaders, from the Palestinia...
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Love of the Land: The perverse assault on even good sense
calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.se
For those who are home, and for those who are on the way. For those who support the historic and just return of the land of Israel to its people, forever loyal to their inheritance, and its restoration.
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Take Action - UN Watch
www.unwatch.org
UNESCO was supposed to host an exhibit entitled “People, Book, Land: The 3,500-year relationship of the Jewish People with the Holy Land,” which it organized for over two years working together with the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Suddenly, on January 15, 2014, UNESCO chief Irina Bokova announced she w...
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The #1 Movie that Unmasks Obama and his Attitude to Israel (nearly 1/2 mil. views)
www.israelvideonetwork.com
This is a must-see and must-share video on the facts behind the way President Obama has been towards Israel since he has been President. No video highlights this issue as well as this one does.
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“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” - Matthew 7:12

A pastor friend of mine is grieving the loss of his daughter. I gather she was in her twenties and I don’t know what happened to her. But I know she rests in the arms of the Lord. It is the loss of promise. And the whole family is devastated. What would the father ask of the Lord? Nothing less than what he wants for himself. 

The father has been blessed with many children. One of his boys was sick with a bad fever when he was about one years old. They took him to hospital. The child deteriorated and died. He was declared brain dead. The hospital wanted instructions as to the disposal of the body. The father would not give those instructions. He wanted to hold his boy. He held his boy and prayed to God. He lifted up the broken body and declared he knew who God was and he begged for his son to be well. And the boy revived. And twenty years later, the healthy young man lives a full life. 

No doubt the father has prayed similarly for his daughter. 

The verse is from the Sermon on the Mount. It has Jesus who is speaking with authority. But who would deny the truth of that verse for good living? 
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

January 19: Morning
"I sought him, but I found him not." - Song of Solomon 3:1
Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find him. Did you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by the giving up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures? You must find Christ in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb, "Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there." So look for Christ where you lost him, for he has not gone away. But it is hard work to go back for Christ. Bunyan tells us, the pilgrim found the piece of the road back to the Arbour of Ease, where he lost his roll, the hardest he had ever travelled. Twenty miles onward is easier than to go one mile back for the lost evidence.

Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But how is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never have parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How is it that you did not watch him every moment for fear of losing sight of him? Yet, since you have let him go, what a mercy that you are seeking him, even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find him!" Go on seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest--not bound to the tree of life. With thine whole heart seek him, and he will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover him to thy joy and gladness.
Evening
"Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures." - Luke 24:45

He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening the understanding. In the first work he has many fellow-labourers, but in the second he stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord alone can prepare the mind to receive the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers; they reach the ear, but he instructs the heart; they deal with the outward letter, but he imparts an inward taste for the truth, by which we perceive its savour and spirit. The most unlearned of men become ripe scholars in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus by his Holy Spirit unfolds the mysteries of the kingdom to them, and grants the divine anointing by which they are enabled to behold the invisible. Happy are we if we have had our understandings cleared and strengthened by the Master! How many men of profound learning are ignorant of eternal things! They know the killing letter of revelation, but its killing spirit they cannot discern; they have a veil upon their hearts which the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate. Such was our case a little time ago; we who now see were once utterly blind; truth was to us as beauty in the dark, a thing unnoticed and neglected. Had it not been for the love of Jesus we should have remained to this moment in utter ignorance, for without his gracious opening of our understanding, we could no more have attained to spiritual knowledge than an infant can climb the Pyramids, or an ostrich fly up to the stars. Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth can be really learned; other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ's alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in his blessed aid that our dull wits may grow brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.

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Abner, Abiner 
[Ăb'nûr] - father of light.
The son of Ner, cousin of Saul and captain of his army. Because of his relationship to the king and his force of character he exercised great influence during Saul's reign and afterwards (1 Sam. 14:50, 51; 1 Sam. 17:55, 57).
The Man Who Was Destitute of Lofty Ideals
Although Abner was the only capable person on the side of Saul and his family, he had little time for the lofty ideas of morality or religion (2 Sam. 3:8, 16).
As Saul's commander-in-chief, he greatly helped his cousin to maintain his military prowess. After Saul's death, he set Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, on the throne.
As an enemy of Joab, David's general, he fought long and bravely against him, and after a severe defeat, killed Asahel in self-defense (2 Sam. 2).
As a proud man, he resented most bitterly the remonstrance of Ish-bosheth, over the matter of Saul's concubines, and negotiated with David to make him king of Israel (2 Sam. 3:7-22).
As an unprincipled man, he reaped what he sowed. Joab, dreading the loss of his own position, and thirsting for revenge, murdered Abner at Hebron. David gave him a public funeral, and afterwards charged Solomon to avenge Abner's murder (2 Sam. 3:26-37; 1 Kings 2:5, 6).
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Today's reading: Genesis 46-48, Matthew 13:1-30 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: Genesis 46-48

Jacob Goes to Egypt
1 So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2 And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, "Jacob! Jacob!"
"Here I am," he replied.
3 "I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes."
5 Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him. 6 So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. 7 Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters--all his offspring.

Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 13:1-30

The Parable of the Sower
1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop-a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear."

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