Former Australian Chief Justice Laurence Street has died aged 91. It is ok to die old and blessed. Streets' own life was distinguished and high achieving having been highly promoted from a young age by successive ALP governments, after going to war in WW2 at a young age. He had five children, divorced his first wife and had another. He once chaired Fairfax and was lieutenant governor of NSW. The press report totally ignores his extraordinary background, being descended from William the Conqueror.
Loss of Charles Krauthammer is profound, as an article from 2012 shows. He understood. Blame for Eurydice murder does not rest on all men, but is partly at the foot of Dan Andrews as well as the perpetrator. Obama administration placed children into the arms of people smugglers. Indonesia sentences terrorist to death. The radical Islamic cleric Abdurrahman had publicly called for terrorist hits in Indonesia. Crying girl on Time Magazine cover had not been separated from mother, parents claim. The award winning hoax photographer hasn't clarified?
“The June 12 photograph of the 2-year-old Honduran girl became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for a reason: Under the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this week, those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in turn resulted in the separation of children and parents," TIME editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said. "Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment.”
Yet, in its story about the photo, TIME included the following correction: "The original version of this story misstated what happened to the girl in the photo after she taken from the scene. The girl was not carried away screaming by U.S. Border Patrol agents; her mother picked her up and the two were taken away together."
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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.
"Ginger Mick was a likeable rogue who, before he answered the call to arms to defend democracy, sold fresh rabbits in the streets of Melbourne. This book by CJ Dennis tells of his tender love for Rose and his experiences at war in North Africa. The verse is full of humour and pathos and truly captures the spirit of the era.
Contents:
INTRODUCTION
I. DUCK AN' FOWL
II. WAR
III. THE CALL OF STOUSH
IV. THE PUSH
V. SARI BAIR
VI. GINGER'S COBBER
VII. THE SINGING SOLDIERS
VIII. IN SPADGER'S LANE
IX. THE STRAIGHT GRIFFIN
X. A LETTER TO THE FRONT
XI. RABBITS
XII. TO THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE COUNT
XIII. THE GAME
XIV. "A GALLANT GENTLEMAN"
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Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Here is a video I made The Push
"Ginger Mick was a likeable rogue who, before he answered the call to arms to defend democracy, sold fresh rabbits in the streets of Melbourne. This book by CJ Dennis tells of his tender love for Rose and his experiences at war in North Africa. The verse is full of humour and pathos and truly captures the spirit of the era.
Contents:
INTRODUCTION
I. DUCK AN' FOWL
II. WAR
III. THE CALL OF STOUSH
IV. THE PUSH
V. SARI BAIR
VI. GINGER'S COBBER
VII. THE SINGING SOLDIERS
VIII. IN SPADGER'S LANE
IX. THE STRAIGHT GRIFFIN
X. A LETTER TO THE FRONT
XI. RABBITS
XII. TO THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE COUNT
XIII. THE GAME
XIV. "A GALLANT GENTLEMAN"
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Australian conservatives were conned into dumping Tony Abbott as PM. Malcolm Turnbull did not cleverly or surgically knife Abbott, but unleashed uncontrollable forces which are now claiming Turnbull too. A year out from elections, robot call polling 250,000 by Catholics in marginal seats for Liberals is painful. The Victorian Liberals had gained a 53:47 lead over the ALP. The Federal Liberals trail the ALP 47:53. At the grass roots, the Liberal Party state and federal are the same. The difference is Malcolm Turnbull. Malcolm is trying to spend more money on ALP areas so as to nullify the advantages the ALP have of claiming anything. But in doing that, he has sacrificed the actual principles of Liberal Government the brand founded by Menzies thrived on. The Libs don't have the rust of the ALP. Once the Libs ditch their heartland it won't come running back. And only Tony Abbott has the skill and proven ability to restore the core values of the Libs. But the enormity of Turnbull's betrayal may yet prevent that.
Turnbull knifed Abbott many ways. One was using the Clinton Foundation using foreign aid money while Bishop was foreign minister under Abbott. The Clinton foundation had many well placed ALP friends. In order to roll Abbott, Turnbull needed polling data. It seems strange that Gillard would use her misogyny speech as she did against Abbott. Because Abbott is a family man with three healthy daughters, a loving wife and working well with a female press secretary. Unless you realise it was part of a concerted campaign against him. Because much has been made about how women distrust Tony Abbott, and yet there is nothing in his background or public life deserving of such a reputation. But the negative campaign fed into polls, and although the polls were real, the campaign to target those polls was specific and damaging. So damaging as to threaten Abbott supporters should he be considered again. But that is what millions of dollars of foreign aid money will buy from the Clinton Foundation. At the same time, Turnbull promised Libertarians he would do things he never did, or apparently even ever intended to do. It is very hard for Libertarians to now know what to do as they naturally don't like conservatives anyway. A lot of good people were duped into supporting Turnbull. And now the lie is being pedalled that Australia cannot go back to Tony Abbott. But the truth is, Tony Abbott is still a capable leader capable of leading the Liberals to victory over the ALP. Malcolm Turnbull is only capable of further humiliating himself in office.
In 217 BC, Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Both kingdoms were Greek cultured, descending from Alexander the Great's campaigns. Both used similar mixes of infantry, cavalry and elephants. African elephants used by Ptolemy panicked and charged their own troops. But overall, Ptolemy had the larger, better infantry and won. It had implications for Jerusalem. 168 BC, Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated Macedonian King Perseus who surrendered after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War. The night before the fight there was a lunar eclipse which spooked the Macedonians. The battle favoured the larger (44000) Macedonian force to the (29000) Roman two legions, but when the legions had an orderly retreat onto uneven ground, and the heavy Macedonian cavalry failed to engage in the retreat, the tide turned and the Macedonian King fled. Rome lost over a thousand men. Macedon lost over twenty five thousand men. 1633, the Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the centre of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
In 1807, in the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate USS Chesapeake. The British had a pretext of searching for deserters, and they captured four men, one of which they hanged. The result was President Jefferson, in impotent fury, resorted to a trade embargo. 1813, War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord set out on a 30 kilometre journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. 1897, British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst were assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who were later caught and hanged. The hate crime was committed to prevent the British from treating the area hit hard by plague.
I am very good and don't deserve 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.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
Turnbull knifed Abbott many ways. One was using the Clinton Foundation using foreign aid money while Bishop was foreign minister under Abbott. The Clinton foundation had many well placed ALP friends. In order to roll Abbott, Turnbull needed polling data. It seems strange that Gillard would use her misogyny speech as she did against Abbott. Because Abbott is a family man with three healthy daughters, a loving wife and working well with a female press secretary. Unless you realise it was part of a concerted campaign against him. Because much has been made about how women distrust Tony Abbott, and yet there is nothing in his background or public life deserving of such a reputation. But the negative campaign fed into polls, and although the polls were real, the campaign to target those polls was specific and damaging. So damaging as to threaten Abbott supporters should he be considered again. But that is what millions of dollars of foreign aid money will buy from the Clinton Foundation. At the same time, Turnbull promised Libertarians he would do things he never did, or apparently even ever intended to do. It is very hard for Libertarians to now know what to do as they naturally don't like conservatives anyway. A lot of good people were duped into supporting Turnbull. And now the lie is being pedalled that Australia cannot go back to Tony Abbott. But the truth is, Tony Abbott is still a capable leader capable of leading the Liberals to victory over the ALP. Malcolm Turnbull is only capable of further humiliating himself in office.
In 217 BC, Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeated Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Both kingdoms were Greek cultured, descending from Alexander the Great's campaigns. Both used similar mixes of infantry, cavalry and elephants. African elephants used by Ptolemy panicked and charged their own troops. But overall, Ptolemy had the larger, better infantry and won. It had implications for Jerusalem. 168 BC, Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated Macedonian King Perseus who surrendered after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War. The night before the fight there was a lunar eclipse which spooked the Macedonians. The battle favoured the larger (44000) Macedonian force to the (29000) Roman two legions, but when the legions had an orderly retreat onto uneven ground, and the heavy Macedonian cavalry failed to engage in the retreat, the tide turned and the Macedonian King fled. Rome lost over a thousand men. Macedon lost over twenty five thousand men. 1633, the Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the centre of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
In 1807, in the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate USS Chesapeake. The British had a pretext of searching for deserters, and they captured four men, one of which they hanged. The result was President Jefferson, in impotent fury, resorted to a trade embargo. 1813, War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord set out on a 30 kilometre journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. 1897, British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst were assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who were later caught and hanged. The hate crime was committed to prevent the British from treating the area hit hard by plague.
I am very good and don't deserve 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.
=== from 2016 ===
Malcolm Turnbull spoke to the cameras and misrepresented the party he represents and the positions he holds. He became PM promising to voice the need for reform. Instead on Medicare he promises never to improve it. Then Shorten spoke to the camera and lied about what he was claiming. According to Shorten, Turnbull is intending to bring in a US style health care system (Obamacare?) but, Shorten claims Turnbull can do this by privatising the collection service of medicare. As if using Australia Post to accept deposits would ruin a health care system that kills hundreds annually from inefficiency. Shorten feels the issue validates his calling pensioners and push polling the idea that the Liberals will privatise Medicare. But what is needed is for Australian health to be run as efficiently as Amazon. Some will claim we must fight to save people whatever the cost. The truth is that we can only ever own what we can afford.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
NSW Government is expected to have a surplus of $2,1 billion tomorrow morning. That will lower overall debt by about a quarter for NSW. NSW have increased spending on important core sectors of health, education, security and infrastructure. Responsible decision making has meant NSW can prosper. She has a conservative government. Responsible decisions have been opposed by the ALP. When the ALP were in government they expanded expenditure but could not balance a budget.
A green discussion paper has been released, leaked, by the public service to embarrass the government. Discussion is important and many ideas are presented in green discussion papers that are not present in white policy papers. ALP does not value discussion, and one joke is that one way green papers are made white papers by the ALP is to photocopy them. But conservative governments need public discussion and one idea on the leaked green paper is that rich people pay for the public schooling of their own children. Many wealthy send their children to private schools, so the change would only be subtle. The policy change would threaten the viability of elite performance public schools. The green paper is federal and has no bearing on state schooling. Meanwhile in South Australia a school is being lauded for middle schooling years 8 to 10. The idea is to remove the year designations and stream kids through individualised programs. It is a complete waste of time which makes tremendous demands on staff and parents for no academic reward. It pretends to address individual need, but in fact children at that age prosper in school and class conformity. If the school is traditionally dysfunctional the problem is not the school structure but possibly staff and community issues which will not be addressed by the highly lauded change.
Reports are coming in that two terrorists who renounced their Australian Citizenship to fight for ISIL have been killed in fighting in Mosul. The papers are calling them Australian. The law says they aren't. Or weren't. The ALP thinks they should be. The Greens feel their comrades are too.
A green discussion paper has been released, leaked, by the public service to embarrass the government. Discussion is important and many ideas are presented in green discussion papers that are not present in white policy papers. ALP does not value discussion, and one joke is that one way green papers are made white papers by the ALP is to photocopy them. But conservative governments need public discussion and one idea on the leaked green paper is that rich people pay for the public schooling of their own children. Many wealthy send their children to private schools, so the change would only be subtle. The policy change would threaten the viability of elite performance public schools. The green paper is federal and has no bearing on state schooling. Meanwhile in South Australia a school is being lauded for middle schooling years 8 to 10. The idea is to remove the year designations and stream kids through individualised programs. It is a complete waste of time which makes tremendous demands on staff and parents for no academic reward. It pretends to address individual need, but in fact children at that age prosper in school and class conformity. If the school is traditionally dysfunctional the problem is not the school structure but possibly staff and community issues which will not be addressed by the highly lauded change.
Reports are coming in that two terrorists who renounced their Australian Citizenship to fight for ISIL have been killed in fighting in Mosul. The papers are calling them Australian. The law says they aren't. Or weren't. The ALP thinks they should be. The Greens feel their comrades are too.
From 2014
There has been substantial loss on this day. Garland (1969), Astaire (1987), McGrath (2008) and as well, CJ Dennis (1938). The great Australian poet who was the first to use Australian vernacular, explained the enormity of WW1 with his Songs of a Sentimental Bloke and Ginger Mick. Almost unreadable for modern children, it would be tragic if Dennis were forgotten. Even now, the school child's struggle with Shakespeare is better described by Dennis than any teacher's description of Hamlet. And his story of love exceeds any offering of tv drama. But his soldiers are real. His pride is real. Forget English, new migrants should be made to answer comprehension questions of CJ Dennis poetry. And I'll stoush anyone who disagrees or cheats by using Dusk. He died on the eve of WW2, of old age. A broken and dishevelled Garland had sung of a land over the rainbow. Dennis brought it to us. It is Australia, mate.
In 1633, Galileo was made to recant his view that the universe travelled around the sun, in favour of the absurd theory that the sun travelled around the Earth. And while Stephen Fry might claim on QI that there was never a time in recorded history that authorities thought the world was flat, it was on this day they came closest to it. In 1783, a poison cloud that was not man made floated from Iceland to France .. but it was natural, not man made, so we didn't need to address it. In 1813, a woman keen to defend Beaver walked 30 km to warn a Fitzgibbon. In 1839, Cherokee John Ridge was assassinated for his signing a document that resulted in the death of a quarter of Cherokee on the trail of tears. In his defence, he had negotiated a bad deal with a Democrat President Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory. 175 years of reform later, Democrat Obama is no better over Iraq.
In 1954 in Christchurch, two heavenly creatures gave rise to a Peter Jackson film when they murdered the mum who they felt threatened their friendship. In 1990, Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin. In 2009, Kodak consigned Paul Simon's Kodachrome song to history by stopping the production of their film.
In 1633, Galileo was made to recant his view that the universe travelled around the sun, in favour of the absurd theory that the sun travelled around the Earth. And while Stephen Fry might claim on QI that there was never a time in recorded history that authorities thought the world was flat, it was on this day they came closest to it. In 1783, a poison cloud that was not man made floated from Iceland to France .. but it was natural, not man made, so we didn't need to address it. In 1813, a woman keen to defend Beaver walked 30 km to warn a Fitzgibbon. In 1839, Cherokee John Ridge was assassinated for his signing a document that resulted in the death of a quarter of Cherokee on the trail of tears. In his defence, he had negotiated a bad deal with a Democrat President Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory. 175 years of reform later, Democrat Obama is no better over Iraq.
In 1954 in Christchurch, two heavenly creatures gave rise to a Peter Jackson film when they murdered the mum who they felt threatened their friendship. In 1990, Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin. In 2009, Kodak consigned Paul Simon's Kodachrome song to history by stopping the production of their film.
Historical perspective on this day
In 217 BC, Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeated Antiochus III the Greatof the Seleucid kingdom. 168 BC, Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullusdefeated Macedonian King Perseus who surrendered after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War. 1527, Fatahillah chased away Portugal from Sunda Kelapa harbour, and peoples celebrated it as birthday of Jakarta, Indonesia. 1593, Battle of Sisak: Allied Christiantroops defeated the Ottomans. 1622, Portuguese forces repelled a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch–Portuguese War. 1633, the Holy Office in Romeforced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the centre of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. 1774, the British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America. 1783, a poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Icelandreached Le Havre in France.
In 1807, in the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate USS Chesapeake. 1813, War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord set out on a 30 kilometre journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. 1825, the British Parliament abolished feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. 1839, Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot were assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears. 1870, US Congress created the United States Department of Justice 1893, the Royal Navy battleshipHMS Camperdown accidentally rammed the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sank taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. 1897, British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst were assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who were later caught and hanged. 1898, Spanish–American War: United States Marines landed in Cuba.
In 1906,the flag of Sweden was adopted. 1907, the London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opened. 1911, George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1918, the Hammond Circus Train Wreck killed 86 and injured 127 near Hammond, Indiana. 1922, Herrin massacre: Nineteen strikebreakers and three union miners were killed in Herrin, Illinois.
In 1940, France was forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany. 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Also 1941, the June Uprising in Lithuania began. 1942, Erwin Rommel was promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk. Also 1942, Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress 1944, Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre. Also 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. 1945, the Battle of Okinawa came to an end.
In 1954, in Christchurch (New Zealand) Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murdered Pauline's mother because they think she is in the way of their close friendship (movie Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson in 1994). See Parker–Hulme murder case. 1957, the Soviet Union launched an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar). 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1978, Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, was discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy. 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways launched with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport. 1986, the controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2-1 and go on to win the world cup.
In 1990, Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin. 2002, an earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw struck a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response. 2009, Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Colour Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. 2009, a Washington D.C Metro train was traveling southbound at the Fort Totten station when it collided into another train sitting in the station. Nine people were killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others were injured. 2012, ParaguayanPresident Fernando Lugo was removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
In 1807, in the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate USS Chesapeake. 1813, War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord set out on a 30 kilometre journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon. 1825, the British Parliament abolished feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. 1839, Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot were assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears. 1870, US Congress created the United States Department of Justice 1893, the Royal Navy battleshipHMS Camperdown accidentally rammed the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sank taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. 1897, British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst were assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who were later caught and hanged. 1898, Spanish–American War: United States Marines landed in Cuba.
In 1906,the flag of Sweden was adopted. 1907, the London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opened. 1911, George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1918, the Hammond Circus Train Wreck killed 86 and injured 127 near Hammond, Indiana. 1922, Herrin massacre: Nineteen strikebreakers and three union miners were killed in Herrin, Illinois.
In 1940, France was forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany. 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Also 1941, the June Uprising in Lithuania began. 1942, Erwin Rommel was promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk. Also 1942, Pledge of Allegiance formally adopted by Congress 1944, Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre. Also 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill. 1945, the Battle of Okinawa came to an end.
In 1954, in Christchurch (New Zealand) Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murdered Pauline's mother because they think she is in the way of their close friendship (movie Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson in 1994). See Parker–Hulme murder case. 1957, the Soviet Union launched an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar). 1969, the Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1978, Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, was discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy. 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways launched with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport. 1986, the controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2-1 and go on to win the world cup.
In 1990, Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin. 2002, an earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw struck a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response. 2009, Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Colour Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. 2009, a Washington D.C Metro train was traveling southbound at the Fort Totten station when it collided into another train sitting in the station. Nine people were killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others were injured. 2012, ParaguayanPresident Fernando Lugo was removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
=== Publishing News ===
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
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
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Kaspar Lundsby. It is Teachers' Day in El Salvador. In 1593, Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak (now in Croatia), triggering the Long War. In 1807, The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake in the belief that the latter had deserters from the Royal Navy. In 1941, World War II: As over 4.5 million Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation and establish a new government. In 2009, Citing declining sales due to the emergence of digital photography, the Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome reversal film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. Your day teaches much to those who would flog pictures that have died. Those who would run away will be soon under foot. Careful of unleashing your millions unwisely. Enjoy your day. You deserve it.
- 662 – Rui Zong, Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 716)
- 1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
- 1713 – Lord John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (d. 1765)
- 1864 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (d. 1909)
- 1897 – Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (d. 1973)
- 1901 – Elias Katz, Finnish runner (d. 1947)
- 1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1910 – Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
- 1932 – June Salter, Australian actress (d. 2001)
- 1932 – Prunella Scales, English actress
- 1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (The Highwaymen)
- 1943 – Brit Hume, American journalist
- 1947 – Howard Kaylan, American singer-songwriter (The Turtles, The Mothers of Invention, and Flo & Eddie)
- 1949 – Alan Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
- 1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Blue Angel)
- 1960 – Erin Brockovich, American lawyer and environmentalist
- 1964 – Dan Brown, American author
- 1965 – Uwe Boll, German director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Barenaked Ladies)
- 1987 – Lee Min Ho, South Korean actor and singer
- 1997 – Tami Grende, Indonesian tennis player
Deaths
- 1276 – Pope Innocent V (b. 1225)
- 1429 – Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
- 1699 – Josiah Child, English merchant, economist, and politician (b. 1630)
- 1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (b. 1849)
- 1938 – C. J. Dennis, Australian poet (b. 1876)
- 1956 – Walter de la Mare, English poet and author (b. 1873)
- 1965 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (b. 1902)
- 1969 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
- 1987 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1899)
- 2008 – Jane McGrath, English-Australian activist, co-founded the McGrath Foundation (b. 1966)
- 1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition, after which, as legend has it, he muttered under his breath, "And yet it moves".
- 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a forthcoming surprise attack, Laura Secord (pictured) set out on a 30 km (19 mi) journey from Queenston, Ontario, Upper Canada, on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1969 – The surface of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, US, caught on fire, helping to spur the environmental movement.
- 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw struck a region of northwestern Iran, killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others, and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
Galileo's view of the sky is looking up. Laura walked 30km to save Beaver by warning FitzGibbon. We have a King and Queen. The river is on fire. The earth moved faster than the administration. Let's party.
No posts from regular blogs 2018
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UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (8:28pm)
Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen’s motivation remains a mystery:
After meeting with prosecutors, first responders and victims of the Orlando terror attack, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the investigation is still ongoing, and a motive has yet to be established.
If only there was a record of Mateen himself offering some hints as to why he murdered 49 people. Alas, we’ll probably never know. Also from the US Attorney General:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted today that the FBI is unaware of the whereabouts of Omar Mateen’s wife, Noor Salman.
(Via Iowahawk.)
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PM’S DODGY CORY STORY
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (7:26pm)
Liberal senator Cory Bernardi accuses the Prime Minister:
By saying he’d had ‘firm discussions’ with ‘a number of colleagues’, Turnbull gave implicit support to the claim that myself and other Coalition MPs are ‘homophobic’ and implied that he’d had a conversation with me about ‘homophobia’. For the record I have never had such a conversation with any of my colleagues because they know that any such claims cannot be backed with facts.
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THESE POOR YOUNG WOMEN CAN’T AFFORD CLOTHING!
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (2:24pm)
Quite by accident, Bill Shorten once or twice blundered into strip clubs:
Interviewed by Kyle and Jackie O on the KIIS Radio Network on Wednesday, the Opposition Leader was asked whether he’d ever been inside a strip club.“I have,” he began, confidently enough, before going to water altogether.“ ... once or twice, way back in the day, uni days.“I left once I realised what it was.”
Sure he did. And then he went looking for a pie.
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WATCH THE BIG MEN CRY
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (1:54pm)
The Australian Football League, a for-profit community change organisation, announces its latest appointment:
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IT ISN’T
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (1:40pm)
This angry person seems to think the Daily Express is a News Corp publication.
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WEDNESDAY NOTICEBOARD
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (4:14am)
Let’s celebrate diversity by shunning anything that may have touched filthy infidel mouths:
Halal caterers brought some crockery in for the Prime Minister’s Kirribilli House Ramadan feast, with devout Muslims preferring not to eat from cookware and plates used by those who do not comply with Islamic requirements.“The meal was prepared and served using equipment, including crockery, supplied by both Kirribilli House and the contracted caterer,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet said.DPMC would not specify some details of the catering arrangements for last Thursday’s garden marquee function at the Prime Minister’s official Sydney residence, but said the halal menu was prepared and served in compliance with requirements for the 75 guests …An Islamic hadith states: “Do not eat from them (vessels of non-Muslims) unless you do not find anything else to eat from. In that case, wash them and eat from them.”
Wouldn’t want to catch Jesus germs.
The Islamic leaders Malcolm Turnbull invited to dinner who variously espouse anti-gay, anti-women, anti-West and even radical views have taken in almost $10 million in government grants in the past year to promote “social cohesion”.
Read on.
UPDATE. Further views on this issue from Imam Afroz Ali, “founding member of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change and an Australian Ambassador for the Charter for Compassion.”
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IT’S COMPLICATED
Tim Blair – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (3:39am)
An Islamic killer murders 49 people at a gay nightclub. NBC’s headline:
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On TV and radio tonight - June 22
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (11:49am)
On The Bolt Report on the highly praised Sky News Live at 7pm tonight:
My editorial from yesterday’s The Bolt Report - one of the most important I think I’ve done. Where’s Waleed? Why is Waleed Aly so silent?:
My guests:On 2GB, 3AW and 4BC with Steve Price from 8pm.
Tony Abbott. Can he persuade conservatives to vote for the Leftist who knifed him?
Former Labor leader Mark Latham on the hysteria and hypocrisy over Eddie McGuire. And ditto with Penny Wong’s argument that the public can’t have a vote on same sex marriage because it will hurt gay families.
On the panel, former Labor campaign guru Bruce Hawker and fearless Herald Sun columnist Rita Panahi.
Podcasts of the show here. Facebook page here.
On Monday Media Watch host Paul Barry repeated a popular falsehood about the size of my show’s audience, once again showing the Left’s curious ambivalence in attacking me - both asserting I have no audience while at the same time having palpitations about my imagined influence and satanic reach.True, the audience for this difficult 7pm to 8pm time slot on pay TV (note: not taxpayer-subsidised free-to-air) was once very tiny. When I took over less than two months ago, it rose to the 20,000 Barry claims.
But since then we’ve grown, with your very welcome support. On at least two days last week, we topped 50,000 viewers. The word is getting out and, clearly, some people appreciate the alternative enough to pay to watch it. If Barry cares to test his own pulling power, I am sure Sky News will offer him a slot, too.
Save us from this election!UPDATE
Listen live here. Talkback: 131 873. Listen to all past shows here.
My editorial from yesterday’s The Bolt Report - one of the most important I think I’ve done. Where’s Waleed? Why is Waleed Aly so silent?:
My editorial from Monday - How much have the climate scaremongers cost us? Why do we people such as Tim Flannery seriously?:
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Mirror missing
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (11:40am)
Without the slightest self-awareness, ABC host Jonathan Green tweets:
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Shock! Anne Summers fails to find a paying public
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (11:29am)
A complete surprise to the Left, no doubt. Anne Summers emails her fans:
I am writing to let you know that I am closing Anne Summers Reports and my Anne Summers Conversations events. Regrettably, my search for a partner has not been successful and we do not have the funds to be able to continue. (In fact, we are in debt.)How could such a venture have failed, given the backing of the country’s most beloved figures and most powerful activists?:
We presented the first interviews with Julia Gillard after she left the Prime Ministership, first at the Sydney Opera House on 30 September 2013 and the following night at Melbourne Town Hall. These became the events of the year, with thousands of people attending and hundreds of thousands more watching live on television.How could there have not been an audience for covers like these?
The National Portrait Gallery acquired Peter Brew-Bevan’s brilliant portrait of former Prime Minister Julia Gillard which appeared on the cover of our July 2013 issue (which featured the last print interview Gillard gave as Prime Minister)
Actor Cate Blanchett generously gave ASR the rare opportunity to do a photo shoot… Our December 2013 cover story on climate change, Countdown to Catastrophe. Happening. Here. Now by John Cook was selected to appear in The Best Australian Science Writing 2014 ...
More evidence that if the Left would be weak if it wasn’t so good at infiltrating activists into our universities and state broadcasters, and at extorting government funding for its ideology.
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Rob Oakeshott could win
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (10:19am)
Amazing. Rob Oakeshott could actually win, such is the disillusionment with both parties:
[Despite] championing a carbon tax and tipping the dysfunctional Gillard government into power in 2010 when he was an independent MP, Mr Oakeshott, who is standing for the seat of Cowper, ... has a real chance of winning.
A ReachTEL poll, commissioned by GetUp, has Mr Oakeshott on a primary vote of 24.8 per cent behind sitting Nationals MP Luke Hartsuyker, who polled 39.4 per cent. Labor candidate Damian Wood is preferencing Mr Oakeshott, saying he is disillusioned with Mr Hartsuyker.
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Where’s Malcolm?
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (10:17am)
Malcolm Turnbull is hiding from scrutiny:
Tony Abbott’s former chief of staff has warned Malcolm Turnbull needs to lift his game in the election campaign…
She says the 12 or 13 interviews he has done during six weeks of campaigning are not credible. “The arguments are great, but the effort from the individual I think has to lift.”
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Eddie worse than beheaders. UPDATE: Collingwood sponsored by airline whose owner jails rape victims
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (9:44am)
The barbarity of a creed and a movement that has tentacles here, too:
Perhaps the Left can tackle two issues in one.
Eddie McGuire’s club is sponsored by Emirates:
Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, prohibits gay sex and even have laws to punish the victims of rape:
Or are matters Islamic a no-go area for the Left?
THE severed head of Canadian citizen Robert Hall, who was executed by Abu Sayyaf rebels on June 13, has been found outside a cathedral in Jolo in the southern part of the Philippines…But Australia’s Left is up in arms about a far more urgent threat:
Hall was abducted along with fellow countryman John Ridsdel, Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad and Filipina Marites Flor in September last year, from a hotel complex in southern Philippines. Of the four hostages, only Sekkingstad and Flor are now alive, as the captors also beheaded Ridsdel on April 25 for non-payment of ransom.
UPDATE
Perhaps the Left can tackle two issues in one.
Eddie McGuire’s club is sponsored by Emirates:
As a Premier Partner of Collingwood, Emirates offer members and their immediate family (when flying with a member) an exclusive 10% online discount ...Emirates is owned by the Government of Dubai.
Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, prohibits gay sex and even have laws to punish the victims of rape:
The UAE Penal Code is ambiguous as to whether homosexuality is punishable by death. The Arabic of article 354 is written in such a way that it could be taken as condemning all male homosexual intercourse to the death penalty or only forced male homosexual intercourse. Amnesty International interprets the article as condemning perpetrators of rape of both men and women to death, but it can also be translated:"Whoever commits rape on a female or sodomy with a male"(ILGA:State Sponsored Homophobia, p 44 footnote 206). Considering that all extra-marital sexual activity is illegal, rape victims may be sentenced too…The result? Rape victims are jailed, as are gay men:
Article 177 of the Dubai Penal Code criminalises consensual sodomy with penalties of imprisonment for up to ten years.
Hundreds of women, some of them pregnant or domestic servants who are victims of rape, are being imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates every year under laws that outlaw consensual sex outside marriage, according to a BBC Arabic investigation.Looking forward now to the Left demanding McGuire prove he’s not homophobic and show he cares for rape victims by ending the Emirates sponsorship.
Secret footage obtained by BBC Arabic show pregnant women shackled in chains walking into a courtrooms where laws prohibiting “Zina” – or sex outside marriage – could mean sentences of months to years in prison and flogging…
In 2010 a British woman who made a rape complaint against a waiter in Dubai was arrested for having illegal sex with her fiancé.
A few years later Norwegian woman Marte Dalelv reported being raped by her colleague, was imprisoned for extra marital sex and was only released after international outcry.
Or are matters Islamic a no-go area for the Left?
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Boat people turned back
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (9:38am)
But whose resolve were the boat people testing? Malcolm Turnbull’s or Bill Shorten’s?
THE NAVY has intercepted an asylum seeker boat off Australian waters in the first serious attempt by people smugglers to test our borders during the election campaign.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal a boat was seized in the Timor Sea, trying to make a run for Australia… It is understood the boat was set on fire and scuttled by the navy after it was deemed unseaworthy.
A senior intelligence source told The Daily Telegraph 20 asylum seekers were taken on board the Australian vessels. They confirmed the operation occurred late last week… The asylum seekers were processed at sea and ... then flown back… The intelligence source said the vessel had originated from Vietnam...
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Bernardi whacks Turnbull for lack of character. UPDATE: And accuses Turnbull of telling untruth
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (9:38am)
Malcolm Turnbull insults Corey Bernardi, who hits back:
And does he know that for many people there is a big difference between homophobia and opposing same-sex marriage?
Bernardi’s response is a taste of what a narrowly elected Prime Minister Turnbull will face over the next three years.
UPDATE
Bernardi is furious, and accuses Turnbull of lying:
Conservative government backbencher Cory Bernardi has challenged Malcolm Turnbull’s strength of character after accusing his leader and the ABC’s Q&A host Tony Jones of allowing “questions built around falsehoods”.I suspect Bernardi is particularly upset by Turnbull not challenging a completely false claim that suggests he is homophobic. From Q&A:
The Prime Minister upset his backbencher on Monday night after being asked on Q&A if past homophobic remarks by sheik Shady Alsuleiman, who was controversially invited to Mr Turnbull’s iftar dinner at Kirribilli House last week, were “any more abhorrent” than comments made by Senator Bernardi and Coalition MP George Christensen about bestiality and the Safe Schools program.
Mr Turnbull, who conceded Sheik Alsuleiman’s dinner attendance was an “oversight”, condemned remarks based on sexuality, religion or ethnicity that “disparage Australians, whoever makes them”.
“The key to our success is mutual respect. That is the foundation of our success as the great, diverse, multicultural nation that we are — the most successful multicultural nation in the world,” he said. Asked if he had also expressed that sentiment to the outspoken Senator Bernardi, Mr Turnbull said: “Yes, I have had firm discussions with a number of colleagues. Yes.”
An infuriated Senator Bernardi took to Twitter to declare: “Why does #QandA allow questions built around falsehoods and why wasn’t it called out for what it was by both host and guest?”
Speaking to The Australian last night, Senator Bernardi strengthened his attack against Mr Turnbull.“It’s easy to throw pejorative slurs in politics but it takes a great deal of character to rebut them. We need more character and less slurs,” he said.
NICK CARR: Prime Minister Turnbull, Sheikh Shady Al-Suleiman has made comments calling homosexuality an evil act which brought evil outcomes. How are these anymore abhorrent than the comments by Senator Cory Bernardi suggesting that homosexuality leads to bestiality...?Bernardi never said homosexuality leads to bestiality. He clumsily suggested the slippery slope argument - that allowing one redefinition of marriage would encourage others to demand more definitions to suit their own agendas:
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, I when - the Sheikh’s comments went beyond the remarks that you made there but I won’t repeat them… [M]utual respect is absolutely critical and so I condemn remarks which disparage Australians, whoever makes them, on the basis of their sexuality or on the basis of their religion or their gender or their ethnic background. It is the key to our success is mutual respect. That is the - that’s the foundation of our success as the great, diverse, multicultural nation that we are. The most successful multicultural nation in the world.
TONY JONES: One word answer. Did you say that to Cory Bernardi?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: I have said - I have said - yes, I’ve had - I’ve had firm discussions with a number of colleagues, yes.
“The next step ... is having three people that love each other be able to enter into a permanent union endorsed by society, or four people,” Senator Bernardi said.Why didn’t Turnbull defend Bernardi from that slur? Does he even know the difference between what Bernardi was accused of and what he actually did?
“There are even some creepy people out there, who say that it’s OK to have consensual sexual relations between humans and animals. Will that be a future step?”
And does he know that for many people there is a big difference between homophobia and opposing same-sex marriage?
Bernardi’s response is a taste of what a narrowly elected Prime Minister Turnbull will face over the next three years.
UPDATE
Bernardi is furious, and accuses Turnbull of lying:
An audience member sought to challenge the ‘homophobia’ within the Coalition, once again without providing any evidence, instead choosing to deliberately misrepresent my previous statements that redefining marriage to include same-sex couples will only lead to further calls for other changes down the track. It’s the lived experience overseas and we’d be foolish to think it wouldn’t happen here too.From a alonger piece to appear on Bernardi’s blog.
However, truth and fact are no barriers to smears on the ABC even when the questions have been pre-screened. It is unfortunate that the sole guest Malcolm Turnbull didn’t correct the record and instead sought to appease the baying crowd when challenged by the left leaning cheerleader and host Tony Jones.
By saying he’d had ‘firm discussions’ with ‘a number of his colleagues’, Turnbull gave implicit support to the claim that myself and other coalition MPs are ‘homophobic’ and implied that he’d had a conversation with me about ‘homophobia’. For the record I have never had such a conversation with any of my colleagues because they know that any such claims cannot be backed with facts…
The demand for tolerance by leftists is nothing more than a thinly veiled insistence that you surrender your views, your values and your beliefs in favour of theirs. If you don’t, the name calling starts. You instantly become a ‘phobe’, a ‘bigot’ or worse. These slurs are designed to shut down any sensible dialogue or meaningful discussion about the subject matter at hand.
Unfortunately the tactic works and it has been embraced at the highest levels in our country. In an attempt to avoid any public criticism from the vocal minority, too many will meekly parrot the latest Orwellian terms to deflect attention from their shallow rhetoric.
The country deserves better. We need political and community leadership that won’t meekly surrender to the voices who shout the loudest.
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The return of Abbott
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (8:21am)
Tony Abbott lost his leadership in part by pushing too hard on unpopular measures he thought necessary - especially spending cuts and needed welfare reforms such as Medicare co-payments.
Since then, I suspect more Australians are softening to Abbott, recognising in him at least a man who stood for something.
The warmth he’s been getting on the campaign trail has been interesting, if largely unremarked. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Michael Koziol, no supporter, was onto this early:
Since then, I suspect more Australians are softening to Abbott, recognising in him at least a man who stood for something.
The warmth he’s been getting on the campaign trail has been interesting, if largely unremarked. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Michael Koziol, no supporter, was onto this early:
The former prime minister was mobbed by supporters, young and old, as he and other Pollie Pedallers downshifted gears into [Orange’s] Robertson Park on Thursday afternoon…But this might be the most powerful - and most grudging - acknowledgement of Abbott’s slow rehabilitation, if only among the base at this stage:
Whether in a small town or large, the reception has been warm and welcoming - the former PM says that’s exactly what he’s used to out on the hustings…
Another town, another band of admirers - and another mini book launch. Mayor of Forbes Phyllis Miller got her copy of Battlelines - as did the kids of Forbes North Public School.... School co-captain Angus Turner ... was excited to see Mr Abbott…
Malcolm Turnbull will formally launch the Liberal Party election campaign in the inner-western Sydney seat of Reid, with his two predecessors, John Howard and Tony Abbott, front and centre to appeal to the “new Liberal heartland"…Tony Abbott is my guest on The Bolt Report tonight - 7pm on Sky News Live.
The Prime Minister’s launch on Sunday will come just six days before polling day on July 2 and will be aimed at cementing key marginal seats in Sydney’s west as well as directing the debate back to economic management.
Like Bill Shorten’s Labor launch last Sunday in Penrith, in Sydney’s west, former prime ministers will feature heavily in the hope of stirring the party faithful’s enthusiasm and helping regain momentum in the final days of the campaign.
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Why did police not say the carjackers were African?
Andrew Bolt June 22 2016 (7:57am)
I have given many examples of Victoria Police hiding the truth about ethnic crime. Here is another.
Yesterday’s Victoria Police media release, curiously failing to include a description of the wanted men in a carjacking in Malvern East:
Yesterday’s Victoria Police media release, curiously failing to include a description of the wanted men in a carjacking in Malvern East:
Investigators have been told the victim was driving his Mercedes in Waverley Road and on approach to the Belgrave Road intersection, was nudged from behind as he slowed for the lights about 3.30am.Only today do police reveal to inquiring journalists:
The car was nudged twice more before the 40-year-old motorist got out of his car to see what was going on.
He was then grabbed by three males who jumped out of a Kia… It is believed he was also attacked from behind to the head and leg with a hammer…
Police have praised the victim who took pictures of those involved as his car was being driven off…
Port Phillip Crime Investigation Unit is investigating and appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
Police revealed that the gang of youth involved in yesterday’s carjacking were of African appearance.They reveal this only after issuing an appeal to help find the suspects in a second carjacking in the very same area - a suspect they this time have no hesitation in describing in their media release:
Investigators have been told the victim was driving his 2015 Audi sedan east on Wattletree Road, approaching the intersection of Glenferrie Road, when his car was nudged from behind as he slowed for traffic lights about 2.15am… As the victim was inspecting the damage to his car a man got out of the BMW’s front passenger seat and joined the victim at the rear of his car demanding that he hand over his car keys…
The offender is perceived to be of Caucasian appearance with a solid build and wearing a dark hoodie.
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THE LOAF IS SETTLED
Tim Blair – Monday, June 22, 2015 (1:45pm)
Frightening evidence from the Sydney Morning Herald:
Also from Fairfax, a list of future temperatures:
Gilgandra, by the way, is just 460km up the road. If Canberrans wish to experience the Climate of the Future, they just have to drive for five hours. And the lamest prediction of them all:
Also from Fairfax, a list of future temperatures:
Gilgandra, by the way, is just 460km up the road. If Canberrans wish to experience the Climate of the Future, they just have to drive for five hours. And the lamest prediction of them all:
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DISUNITY BRINGS UNITY
Tim Blair – Monday, June 22, 2015 (4:09am)
Nostalgic types like to reminisce about the old pre-media fragmentation days, when Australians of all ages would ritually gather around the radio to follow Blue Hills or Dad and Dave.
Apparently those long-running serials bonded us as a nation, providing Australians with shared common interests. Every evening folks tuned in for the latest adventures of Granny Bishop and Meg Macarthur, two heroin-addicted prostitutes whose vicious murder sprees were the highlight of many a Blue Hills broadcast.
Well, I’m guessing there about the plots, having never heard the show, but they probably ran along those lines. They would if Blue Hills was made today, at any rate.
Lately Australians have rediscovered the joys of a nationally-shared drama thanks to the ABC’s The Killing Season, which sadly ends tomorrow night. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard may have been dreadful Prime Ministers, but as soap opera stars they have proved absolutely compelling.
(Continue reading Disunity Brings Unity.)
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THE BEST THEY CAN DO
Tim Blair – Monday, June 22, 2015 (3:59am)
It’s been a few weeks since Ben Eltham, a fan of tax-funded art, delivered this chilling warning to arts minister George Brandis:
The arts are a powerful latent force in Australia’s political landscape … Recent years have seen a flourishing of Australian culture that has become one of the most attractive aspects of our increasingly diverse and creative society.George Brandis and his colleagues would be wise to reflect on this, and whether they can win a war of symbols against some of the most creative and energetic people in our society.
So far, the most creative and energetic people in our society haven’t really delivered. Last week more than 60 arts funding-mentalists turned up at Parliament House to cry and plead over Brandis’s grants changes, only to be creatively ignored by the arts minister.
On Friday, a bunch of Melbourne arts fundies presented The George Brandis Live Art Experience, a fundraiser to fight for more government funding. Next up is this week’s musical protest outside the Sydney Opera House, which according to a media release will feature “a ‘chorus’ of masked participants who represent the ‘ghosts of Australia’s artistic future’.”
Continue reading 'THE BEST THEY CAN DO'
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SLEEPOUT SHOULD BE A SLEEPIN
Tim Blair – Monday, June 22, 2015 (3:38am)
The St Vincent de Paul Society’s CEO Sleepout is a fine event, raising millions every year for the homeless. First held in 2005, the Sleepout calls on business leaders to raise funds through sponsorship of their night sleeping rough.
Many News Corp executives have participated over the years with impressive sponsorship results. This year The Australian‘s CEO Nicholas Gray generated nearly $130,000 – the second highest of any participating NSW business leader.
There are a few slightly worrying signs for the Sleepout, however. The novelty is beginning to wear off after a decade and some corporate supporters are losing interest. In Western Australia, a state not short of either cash or CEOs, the 2015 Sleepout raised just half the money it did in 2014.
St Vincents clearly need a new angle. Here’s an idea: next year, instead of joining the homeless outside, how about our CEOs invite the homeless to spend a nice warm night inside?
Continue reading 'SLEEPOUT SHOULD BE A SLEEPIN'
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Sharrouf and Elomar reported dead
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (8:52pm)
Excellent:
Authorities believe two of Australia’s most wanted terrorists Khaled Sharrouf and Mohammed Elomar have reportedly been killed in fighting in Mosul…The reports are unverified, says the Foreign Minister.
Sharrouf made headlines when he posed with the decapitated head of a slain Syrian soldier.
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Attack on Kabul Parliament
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (5:24pm)
Very troubling, although the security services seem to have fought back well:
The Taliban launched a complex attack on the Afghan parliament Monday, with a suicide car bomber striking at the entrance and gunmen battling police as lawmakers were meeting inside to confirm the appointment of a defense minister, police and witnesses said.Incredible nerves from the speaker as the bomb went off:
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the attack began with a car bomb explosion near the entrance. Gunmen then attempted to storm the compound but were pushed back by security forces and eventually took refuge in a nearby building under construction, he said, adding that police have surrounded the structure. Sediqqi said all the MPs inside parliament were safe. Health Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ismail Kahousi said 18 civilians were wounded, including two women and two children.
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Why is Albo praised for what was wicked in Abbott?
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (4:47pm)
Tony Abbott skols a beer. Terrrible example!
Anthony Albanese skols a beer. Legend! Prime ministerial!
The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education expressed concern that it sent the wrong signal.
Journalist Judith Ireland said Abbott was “supposed to be a vocal advocate against binge drinking”, and that this sort of macho behaviour seemed to go against his claim to be “also the Minister for Women”. Another writer, Andrew P Street, immediately connected this single skol with the binge drinking “scourge that’s destroying Australian society, turning our young men into animals”.
Anthony Albanese skols a beer. Legend! Prime ministerial!
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Fantasy bidding - the Menzies sale (revised)
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (11:13am)
Having now actually seen the paintings going under the hammer at this week’s Menzies sale, I want to change my fantasy bids. I want to add this one to my original list:
If four too greedy? But the Storrier I’m most definitely sticking with. Even better and more haunting in the flesh, so to speak. Those who say he just repeats himself have simply not looked deeply.
For cheap and fun, I’ll take this. For strangely good value, and something that’s stuck with me, I’d grab this Clifton Pugh, and probably this one, too.
UPDATE
I didn’t realise Philip Bacon was holding a Storrier exhibition until I was told it seems Storrier has let go his wonderful Histrionic Wayfarer, after all, even though it’s still listed in the exhibition as not for sale. It’s probably my favourite Storrier work, although I’m also jealous of the person who had the money to buy this beauty, too:
This picture simply does not do the painting justice. The texture and detail is gone. It’s also a work which changes depending on how close you stand to it.
If four too greedy? But the Storrier I’m most definitely sticking with. Even better and more haunting in the flesh, so to speak. Those who say he just repeats himself have simply not looked deeply.
For cheap and fun, I’ll take this. For strangely good value, and something that’s stuck with me, I’d grab this Clifton Pugh, and probably this one, too.
UPDATE
I didn’t realise Philip Bacon was holding a Storrier exhibition until I was told it seems Storrier has let go his wonderful Histrionic Wayfarer, after all, even though it’s still listed in the exhibition as not for sale. It’s probably my favourite Storrier work, although I’m also jealous of the person who had the money to buy this beauty, too:
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Discredited Shorten tempts Government to early election
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (8:57am)
THREE months ago, it seemed Bill Shorten could not lose. Today, it seems the Labor leader cannot win.
So no wonder there’s talk in the Abbott Government of an early election, perhaps in November, after one of the most astonishing turnarounds in modern politics.
It is a turnaround that shows both the inner strength of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the inner vacuum of Shorten. Memo: character counts.
In February, the Government seemed dead, with Newspoll putting it behind Labor 43 per cent to 57.
Labor led by a devastating margin rarely seen in federal politics, as Abbott battled to survive a spill motion from backbenchers fed up with his tin ear, rude staff, bad polls, broken promises and go-it-alone ways.
Even three weeks later, the ABC and Channel 7 news bulletins claimed as fact that rival Malcolm Turnbull had the numbers to replace Abbott the following week.
The next Newspoll, in March, showed the Government still lying in a grave, waiting only for the dirt. Labor was ahead, 45 to 55.
Then, as now, large parts of the media — particularly the ABC — seemed to want Abbott gone and were ready to report anything that might help.
Yet today?
(Read full article here. UPDATE: Sorry for forgetting the link.)
So no wonder there’s talk in the Abbott Government of an early election, perhaps in November, after one of the most astonishing turnarounds in modern politics.
It is a turnaround that shows both the inner strength of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the inner vacuum of Shorten. Memo: character counts.
In February, the Government seemed dead, with Newspoll putting it behind Labor 43 per cent to 57.
Labor led by a devastating margin rarely seen in federal politics, as Abbott battled to survive a spill motion from backbenchers fed up with his tin ear, rude staff, bad polls, broken promises and go-it-alone ways.
Even three weeks later, the ABC and Channel 7 news bulletins claimed as fact that rival Malcolm Turnbull had the numbers to replace Abbott the following week.
The next Newspoll, in March, showed the Government still lying in a grave, waiting only for the dirt. Labor was ahead, 45 to 55.
Then, as now, large parts of the media — particularly the ABC — seemed to want Abbott gone and were ready to report anything that might help.
Yet today?
(Read full article here. UPDATE: Sorry for forgetting the link.)
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If Bill Shorten is against such dodgy donations, let him back the legislation that would ban them
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (8:45am)
Henry Ergas issues Bill Shorten a challenge - one that the Government should underline:
But Paul Sheehan notes Shorten’s problem:
Former Minister Amanda Vanstone is absolutely excoriating:
UPDATE
Anthony Klan has a story that makes it worse and worse for Shorten - and for Labor::
That Cleanevent and the EastLink consortium did very well out of their agreements with the AWU is beyond question.UPDATE
So, one imagines, did the many other employers who donated the more than $1 million in largely unexplained cash that flowed into the union’s Victorian branch between January 2004 and late 2007, when Bill Shorten was either state or federal secretary.
What is striking, however, is how little the AWU sought in return… But even accepting the uncertainties shady accounting creates, it seems Cleanevent donated $25,000 a year to the AWU, ... while Thiess John Holland (which was under contract to build EastLink) gave the AWU some $200,000.
[The AWU’s] side-payments ....seemed more clearly designed to benefit the AWU’s officials, rather than its members… So here’s a challenge for Shorten. He says illicit payments are unacceptable and that unions should be fully accountable. Well, let him support the government’s legislation which would stamp them out.
But Paul Sheehan notes Shorten’s problem:
He cannot depower the unions because union power in the ALP remains key to his survival as leader. When Shorten won the party leadership in October, 2013, he did so despite losing the rank-and-file vote by an almost 60-40 margin, to Anthony Albanese.UPDATE
He prevailed, as usual, by winning the insiders, with 64 per cent of the parliamentary vote.
Former Minister Amanda Vanstone is absolutely excoriating:
If the allegations are true, Shorten and his mates have pretended to be the workers’ champion when in fact they will be seen to have had not the workers’ interest at heart but their own.Read it all.
Climbing over the weak to feather your own nest, while pretending to lift them up, is the work of bad people....
No one in Labor should imagine that we will all think Shorten was the only one. If these allegations turn out to be true, we will all conclude not that this was Shorten’s dirty little secret but that they all knew about it and condoned it.
Kevin Rudd made it almost impossible for federal Labor to change leaders, so they will be stuck with a guy who will be seen as the little weasel that let workers down to build himself up.
UPDATE
Anthony Klan has a story that makes it worse and worse for Shorten - and for Labor::
The former NSW Labor government paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Australian Workers Union while Bill Shorten was its national secretary.(Thanks to readers John and Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
The Australian can also reveal that 12 of the nation’s biggest construction companies collectively paid the NSW branch of the Construction Forestry Mining and Engineering Union $6.37 million between 2006-13, with total payments from the construction industry to the union totalling almost $10m in that period.
While there are several legitimate reasons companies make payments to unions, including the collection of union dues from workers, the payments to the AWU and CFMEU reported to the Australian Electoral Commission are listed simply as “other”....
The former NSW Roads and Traffic Authority made $257,200 worth of payments to the NSW AWU in 2006-07 through fortnightly payments of between $10,500 and $11,800. When alerted to the payments by The Australian, NSW Deputy Premier and Roads Minster Duncan Gay said the government would launch a “full investigation” into the payments… A spokeswoman for Roads and Maritime Services, as the former RTA is now called, said it made “authorised deductions” from employees but was investigating further.
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How is the CFMEU paying for these massive fines?
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (7:54am)
Where is the CFMEU getting all the money from to pay these fines?
In Melbourne:
In Melbourne:
The CFMEU has been forced to pay for the illegal blockade of Melbourne’s Emporium shopping centre site in 2012, agreeing to hand builder Grocon $3.55 million out of its members’ pockets.In Brisbane:
That payout could be dwarfed by a $28 million compensation fee being sought by Boral, while the ACCC also has its sights on the union over claims of restrictive work practices.
THE CFMEU and five of its union officials have been fined a total $545,000 for unlawful coercion at a Brisbane housing project.Also to be paid:
THE fines, imposed by the Federal Court on Friday, relate to “verbal threats” and a week-long hindering of access to the site for Grocon employees and other workers. “Regrettably, the conduct outlined in this case is but day-to-day activity on Australian building and construction sites,” said Nigel Hadgkiss, director of the Australian government’s Fair Work Building and Construction which took the case to court.
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union has sought special leave ... to the High Court to appeal against the judgment of the Victorian Court of Appeal that its criminal contempt conviction stand… The CFMEU was ... hit with a $1.2 million fine over the Grocon contempt proceedings.(Thanks to reader Jackpott.)
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Warmist Sydney Morning Herald is off its loaf
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (7:51am)
How desperate are the warmist scaremongers of the Fairfax media when they now push this kind of stuff?:
UPDATE
Reader Mad Mick:
An utterly bizarre chain of causality is offered on the ABC’s Radio National Breakfast to blame global warming for the Islamic State.
Host James Carleton is interviewing Neil Morisetti, retired admiral and former Climate and Security Envoy for the UK Government:
UPDATE
Reader Bob the Baker casts an expert eye:
Surely if the Sydney Morning Herald wants to link global warming to wheat it should at the very least admit the most obvious connection - that we have been getting record crops, which is brilliant news for the poor and hungry:
Same story with all main grain crops:
Somehow I think the pampered Herald readers won’t miss out on the perfect loaf. More important, surely, is that the world’s poor don’t miss out on a meal.
UPDATE
Reader Mad Mick:
They even glazed the top of the loaf on the right to make it look more appealing.UPDATE
An utterly bizarre chain of causality is offered on the ABC’s Radio National Breakfast to blame global warming for the Islamic State.
Host James Carleton is interviewing Neil Morisetti, retired admiral and former Climate and Security Envoy for the UK Government:
Carleton: You give a real example in your report. There is a once in a century drought in China, that led to a collapse in wheat production, that led to bread shortages and price hikes in Egypt, that led to the mass uprising against Mubarak, that stimulated the Arab Spring to move into Syria, that led to the creation of Islamic State…Pity that the facts completely destroy the theory, showing, for a start, the if global warming affects crops, it’s been all good for Egypt’s:
Morisetti: We now need to make those sorts of links.
In China, too, crops have been increasing, not decreasing, in this age of global warming:
The food riots in Egypt in 2013 were not caused by global warming or crop failure, but overpopulation, a failing economy, political mismanagement and rising food prices as the country ran out of money for imports:
In 2011, the World Food Program (WFP) estimated that 17 per cent of the population were food insecure....That - not global warming in China - helped to end the Morsi Government in 2013. And that in turn has little to do with the rise of the Islamic State in Syria.
There are three fundamental drivers behind the rise in Egypt’s food insecurity: increasing resource scarcity, the corrupt and unsustainable food subsidy system, and the rapidly deteriorating economic environment…
So far in 2013, Egypt has faced plummeting foreign reserves, an economy in meltdown, intermittent fuel crises and ongoing difficulties in maintaining grain stocks. These occurrences mean that it is likely that well over the estimated 17 per cent of the population are currently experiencing, or are vulnerable to, food insecurity.... Population growth is accelerating in Egypt, with the population expected to exceed 100 million by 2030. Ninety-seven per cent of Egypt’s landmass is desert and there is simply not enough arable land to feed the current, let alone the projected, population…
Egypt imports close to 70 per cent of its food needs and requires significant foreign reserves to finance those purchases. Underlying the persistent issues in the Egyptian political sphere, is the fundamental fact that Egypt is running out of money to pay for its food imports....
Since the revolution in 2011, fears about political instability have cut foreign investment inflows and obliterated the tourism industry, Egypt’s major cash-source…
Hastening this decline is the continuation of the government’s fuel and food subsidies, which place an enormous burden on state finances. Egypt’s subsidy system costs roughly US$20 billion each year, close to a third of this for subsidised baladi bread.
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Reader Bob the Baker casts an expert eye:
The one on the left probably did not have enough moisture in the mix, was over kneaded, and was left in the oven too long to dry out. It also looks like it is two days old. The one on the right looks like it was given an extra dollop of yeast to plump it up.
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Rather sleep-in than sleepout
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (7:44am)
I never understood how getting CEOs to sleep outside for a night actually helped the homeless. Surely a trouble shared is a trouble doubled?
Tim Blair has a much better idea, offering real and practical help, with the potential for television spin-offs:
Tim Blair has a much better idea, offering real and practical help, with the potential for television spin-offs:
The St Vincent de Paul Society’s CEO Sleepout is a fine event, raising millions every year for the homeless… There are a few slightly worrying signs for the Sleepout, however. The novelty is beginning to wear off after a decade and some corporate supporters are losing interest. In Western Australia, a state not short of either cash or CEOs, the 2015 Sleepout raised just half the money it did in 2014.I would certainly donate to that fine cause.
St Vincents clearly need a new angle. Here’s an idea: next year, instead of joining the homeless outside, how about our CEOs invite the homeless to spend a nice warm night inside?
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Er, what was the question again?
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (7:21am)
Is it really so hard for Bill Shorten to give a straight yes or no to a pretty basic and important question?
BARRIE CASSIDY: Can you now draw a line in the sand though and say that citizens should not have their citizenship stripped away from them unless they’re convicted of something?
BILL SHORTEN: There is no doubt in my mind that a law which simply says there’s no role for the courts does not stack up constitutionally.
BARRIE CASSIDY: So that’s a yes to that? BILL SHORTEN: How do you have a law which eliminates the role of courts? But again, what Tony Abbott wants us to do, you and me and everyone else, poor, old Malcolm Turnbull, waving the flag, or whatever Liberal ministers still believe in the rule of law in the Government, is he wants us to engage in a shadow fight. I think Tony Abbott is debasing our democracy with his childish, tantrum-like name-calling. Do you know what he said in Parliament during the week? He said because Labor would not simply agree with his legislation, no matter how incompetent or unworkable, that we’re rolling out the red carpet to terrorists. Tony Abbott does not have a monopoly on love of this country or patriotism. Tony Abbott doesn’t have the right to attack his critics as being soft on terrorism merely because we don’t want incompetent laws which don’t stack up which we haven’t seen. The Prime Minister of this country’s in charge of national security. How can we trust him with national security if he’s more interested in playing political games on proposing laws that we haven’t seen which may well, according to all the leaks and debate and the disharmony, the National Security - Independent Security Monitor, the Solicitor-General, Liberal cabinet ministers. Tony Abbott is getting us to have a political fight and take our eyes off the prize, which is prevent terrorists from receiving their full punishment.
If the targets of this proposal say they don’t care, what’s stopping us?:
THE Adelaide-trained doctor now working for Islamic State in Syria has issued a defiant message to supporters via his Facebook page that he will never return to Australia and no longer considers himself an Australian national.
In a six point bulletin addressed to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Dr Tareq Kamleh, who also calls himself Abu Yousef al-Australie, states his intention to stay in Syria and his lack of concern if his Australian passport is cancelled…
“...Do as you please, I no longer consider myself an Australian...”
Then we’re all on the same page, surely?
(Thanks to readers Peter of Bellevue Hill and WaG311.)
BARRIE CASSIDY: Can you now draw a line in the sand though and say that citizens should not have their citizenship stripped away from them unless they’re convicted of something?If the targets of this proposal say they don’t care, what’s stopping us?:
BILL SHORTEN: There is no doubt in my mind that a law which simply says there’s no role for the courts does not stack up constitutionally.
BARRIE CASSIDY: So that’s a yes to that? BILL SHORTEN: How do you have a law which eliminates the role of courts? But again, what Tony Abbott wants us to do, you and me and everyone else, poor, old Malcolm Turnbull, waving the flag, or whatever Liberal ministers still believe in the rule of law in the Government, is he wants us to engage in a shadow fight. I think Tony Abbott is debasing our democracy with his childish, tantrum-like name-calling. Do you know what he said in Parliament during the week? He said because Labor would not simply agree with his legislation, no matter how incompetent or unworkable, that we’re rolling out the red carpet to terrorists. Tony Abbott does not have a monopoly on love of this country or patriotism. Tony Abbott doesn’t have the right to attack his critics as being soft on terrorism merely because we don’t want incompetent laws which don’t stack up which we haven’t seen. The Prime Minister of this country’s in charge of national security. How can we trust him with national security if he’s more interested in playing political games on proposing laws that we haven’t seen which may well, according to all the leaks and debate and the disharmony, the National Security - Independent Security Monitor, the Solicitor-General, Liberal cabinet ministers. Tony Abbott is getting us to have a political fight and take our eyes off the prize, which is prevent terrorists from receiving their full punishment.
THE Adelaide-trained doctor now working for Islamic State in Syria has issued a defiant message to supporters via his Facebook page that he will never return to Australia and no longer considers himself an Australian national.Then we’re all on the same page, surely?
In a six point bulletin addressed to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Dr Tareq Kamleh, who also calls himself Abu Yousef al-Australie, states his intention to stay in Syria and his lack of concern if his Australian passport is cancelled…
“...Do as you please, I no longer consider myself an Australian...”
(Thanks to readers Peter of Bellevue Hill and WaG311.)
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The invasion of Europe
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (7:11am)
Rod Liddle in The Spectator is savage on the transformation of parts of Yorkshire:
A mass brawl in a children’s play centre. Just part of our own rich multicultural stew.
(Thanks to readers Baden, Steve and Stephen.)
Dewsbury in particular is getting a reputation as Detonation Central — the Muslims there seem ready to blow themselves up at the drop of a hat. Ask one of them the time of day — and boom, entrails all over your jacket. Three of the four savages who carried out the July 2005 bombings in London came from the area, as did Britain’s first really young Islamist extremist, Hammad Munshi. And now there’s Talha Asmal who, at 17, has become Britain’s youngest ever suicide bomber.Nicholas Farrell, also in The Spectator, on the invasion of Europe:
Talha blew himself up near an oil refinery in Iraq, and his family are said to be distraught and shocked. ‘He was just a normal Yorkshire lad,’ one family friend commented, a little incongruously — although I suppose he was pretty much par for the course in that particular swath of the county… Meanwhile in Bradford, three sisters and their nine children have gone missing after a pilgrimage to Medina, in Saudi Arabia, and are believed now to be somewhere under the auspices of the Islamic State, in a voluntary capacity....
And then there’s Savile Town, Dewsbury — a little quadrant of hell created by arrogant, deluded, well-meaning white liberals infused with the multicultural ethos… The pubs were closed down, or ransacked by Muslims and then closed down. The local women’s hockey team suffered intimidation when they turned out on the playing fields: the police told them they were a ‘provocation’ to the new local community and to go elsewhere. The local rugby team complained about jagged shards of metal and broken glass implanted in the ground where they touched down. The police told them, nothing we can do — go elsewhere. They went.
A sharia court was set up by Savile Town’s residents, which caused a few headlines nationally — but no matter that this court horribly discriminated against women; the white liberals argued that it was their culture and to oppose it was kinda racist, m’kay? ...
Those playing fields, once a source of both pride and recreation, were sold to the aforementioned extremist Islamic movement, Tablighi Jamaat — an organisation which yearns for all of Britain to be Islamic and rejects the notion of western education and cultural assimilation. Sold to the mosque by the local council for — one pound. It is now a vast edifice and Tablighi’s European headquarters. No more rugby and certainly no more women playing hockey. Virtually no white people, either — the area is now 98 per cent Muslim, largely Indian and Pakistani Muslim.
Italy has been invaded in just this way, by migrants from many nations all coming over here from Libya…UPDATE
In October 2013, Italy’s previous unelected government, which like the current one was left-wing, ordered the Italian navy to search for and rescue all boat people in the Sicilian channel and beyond. This hugely expensive operation — ‘Mare Nostrum’ — ran until October last year and rescued nearly 190,000 people....
The same left-wing Italian government also took the extraordinary step of decriminalising illegal immigration, which means among other things that none of the boat people are arrested once on dry land. Instead, they are taken to ‘Centri di accoglienza’ (welcome centres) for identification and a decision on their destinies. In theory, only those who identify themselves and claim political asylum can remain in Italy until their application is refused — or, if it is accepted, indefinitely. And in theory, under the Dublin Accords, they can only claim political asylum in Italy — the country where they arrived in the EU. In practice, however, only a minority claim political asylum in Italy. Pretty well all of them remain there incognito, or else move on to other EU countries.
Here’s how it works. In the welcome centres, they are given free board and lodging plus mobile phones, €3 a day in pocket money, and lessons — if they can be bothered — in such things as ice-cream-making or driving a car and (I nearly forgot) Italian. Their presence in these welcome centres is voluntary and they are free to come and go, though not to work, and each of them costs those Italians who do pay tax €35 a day (nearly €13,000 a year). Yes, they are supposed to have their photographs and fingerprints taken, but many refuse and the Italian police, it seems, do not insist. As the Italian interior minister, Angelino Alfano, explained to a TV reporter the other day: ‘They don’t want to be identified here — otherwise, under the Dublin Accords, they would have to stay in our country. So when a police officer is in front of an Eritrean who is two metres tall who doesn’t want his fingerprints taken, he can’t break his fingers, but must respect his human rights.’
This year, there is space for just 75,000 migrants in such places. Hotels are filling the breach, including the four-star Kulm hotel perched high above the luxury resort of Portofino on the Ligurian coast. But most of the rescued migrants could not care less about all that jazz and have just disappeared…
It’s worth remembering here that the majority of the boat people are Muslims and reports suggest that a small number are Islamic terrorists… One of those arrested in connection with the Islamic terrorist attack on the Bardo National Museum of Tunis in March had crossed the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy in a migrant boat in February… Recently, Nick Cooke-Priest, captain of the British vessel involved in the rescue mission, HMS Bulwark, told reporters that ‘the indications are that there are 450,000 to 500,000 migrants in Libya who are waiting’ to reach Italy… Fabrice Leggeri, the head of the EU’s border agency Frontex, has put the figure even higher, at ‘between 500,000 and a million’.
A mass brawl in a children’s play centre. Just part of our own rich multicultural stew.
(Thanks to readers Baden, Steve and Stephen.)
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Government considers taxing the children of the rich
Andrew Bolt June 22 2015 (6:49am)
Australians who send their children to private schools save taxpayers around $7000 a year per student on average, because governments give private schools about half the funding per student they give state schools.
One consequence is that wealthy parents who send their children to state schools effectively get twice the taxpayers support for the education of their children than do parents who send their children to private schools.
A discussion paper developed within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet now wonders if that’s fair:
First: more money put into education by wealthier parents taxed more for the education of their children by state schools.
Second: more money put into education by wealthier parents who decide they may as well switch their children to private schools, since they have to pay more anyway, and who must then pay the school fees as well.
So, of course, this boils down to a tax on the children of the rich, when the rich already pays much of our taxes:
One consequence is that wealthy parents who send their children to state schools effectively get twice the taxpayers support for the education of their children than do parents who send their children to private schools.
A discussion paper developed within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet now wonders if that’s fair:
Wealthy parents could be required to pay for their children to attend public schools under a radical federal government proposal that would open the door to means-tested free public education.If adopted we would see two things.
First: more money put into education by wealthier parents taxed more for the education of their children by state schools.
Second: more money put into education by wealthier parents who decide they may as well switch their children to private schools, since they have to pay more anyway, and who must then pay the school fees as well.
So, of course, this boils down to a tax on the children of the rich, when the rich already pays much of our taxes:
Put simply, only the top fifth of households paid any tax. The bottom 6.9 million households, while often incurring income tax liabilities and regularly paying GST, received more in cash welfare and services than they paid in…
Based on income tax returns from the 2010-11 financial year, the top 1 per cent of individual income earners… paid $23.55bn or 17.7 per cent of the total income tax haul…
Meanwhile, the top 10 per cent of taxpayers - with taxable incomes of more than $105,500 - paid 46 per cent… . The bottom third paid less than 5 per cent
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This is not new but also not very effective in practice. Campbelltown PAHS attempted this in the mid90's after buying an advocates research for the transformation. It is an expensive waste of time that puts extreme demands on staff and parents, leaving students to twiddle their thumbs. Junior classes are loaded with low achieving students while pushy parents load high achieving classes with very needy kids lacking maturity and basic skills. OTOH, it can be handled so that little actual change occurs to an otherwise unchanged system.
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Posted by Alon Gabbay on Saturday, 27 December 2014
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NOPE.
Posted by UNILAD on Thursday, 7 August 2014
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Here's a look at special letters from famous fathers, such as John Steinbeck and Albert Eistein, to their children: http://bit.ly/1FFgdNo
Posted by Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing on Saturday, 20 June 2015
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How many parents are ok with their child learning this in school?
Posted by Young Chizz on Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Does it meet Australian standards?
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Unrepresentative circus coming to the Senate
Piers Akerman – Sunday, June 22, 2014 (7:44am)
AT the end of this week, the current moderately sane Senate will sit for the last time.
When next it sits — next month — the Senate will be a circus unmatched in Australian parliamentary history.
Former PM Paul Keating’s oft-quoted observation that it was “unrepresentative swill” will be more than justified.
This situation has been created by the rise of minor and micro parties achieving some success through the clever manipulation of preferences.
Thus we see individuals with little or negligible popular support taking senate seats on the basis of preference deals brokered between parties with no shared values.
While the major parties will usher in a few new senators — some smart, some not so bright — the loud-mouthed Queensland self-promoter Clive Palmer will be welcoming his team of three Palmer United Party senators, led by former rugby league player Glenn Lazarus.
Palmer, who can occasionally be viewed slumped in the Lower House, will call the shots for fellow Queenslander Lazarus, Western Australian Zhenya (Dio) Wang and Tasmanian Jacqui Lambie, and, at the moment, anyway, Motoring Enthusiasts party senator Ricky Muir. Lazarus, whom Palmer nominated as PUP’s leader in the Senate may actually say something of substance when he takes his seat, but so far he has been silent about PUP and its intentions.
Wang has said he agrees with everything Palmer says (much like Opposition leader Bill Shorten rushed to agree with everything Julia Gillard said, even when he didn’t know what she said) and Lambie has said too much already, revealing a profound ignorance of the topics she has tackled.
Veteran broadcaster Mike Willesee needed no tricks to persuade the PUPs to show how ill-equipped they are for parliamentary office when he interviewed them recently.
Ringmaster Palmer has barely been unable to keep his clowns in order to date, and the odds are that whatever instructions he can give while he is recumbent in the House will doubtless be poorly understood by the time they reach his minions in the Senate.
The government has given the Leader of the House Christopher Pyne and Senate Leader Eric Abetz charge of all the cross-benchers but they do not appear at all minded to make special efforts to peel the PUPpies from Clive’s kennel.
The government seems to be prepared to wait until they stray of their own volition — certainly none of the PUPpies has shown the confidence to speak with the government unless Palmer is present.
Lazarus and Wang will probably stay close to Palmer as they have shown no independence of thought so far.
Lambie, a former army corporal who has variously worked for Labor and been a member of the Liberal Party, is at best a loose cannon. She could go anywhere.
Palmer, possibly the least politic individual to self-finance a party into parliament, demonstrated his knuckle-headedness on his arrival in Canberra by demanding (with threats) the government give party status to his lacklustre band and the extra staff that groups which qualify for party status are eligible for, even though PUP did not have sufficient elected members (five) to meet the House rules.
If the extra staff are needed for PUP, and quite obviously, the PUPpies have shown they aren’t up to the task of understanding the processes government without assistance, Palmer might have inveigled Muir into dumping his handful of Motoring Enthusiasts and joining the PUP litter, giving them the critical mass needed to get extra staffers.
Had Palmer not been so brash, it is possible the government may have spoken quietly to independent senator Nick Xenophon and DLP senator John Madigan and brought about some staffing changes.
Having publicly broadcast his demand, Palmer ensured that no party — and certainly not the government — would permit itself to be seen breaching the rules to accommodate his bullying demands in return for some legislative trade-offs.
The government will be able to work more coherently with Family First’s senator-elect Bob Day and incoming independent David Leyon-hjelm as they are patently better equipped intellectually for the demands of office.
The Greens, who hope to win some support from Muir, at least, are still fighting internal battles.
Greens Leader Christine Milne was able to keep the simmering challenge from Melbourne MP Adam Bandt at bay in the aftermath of the lift in support at the disputed WA senate election, but Bandt supporters are now saying that boost was largely a protest vote and not reflective of any personal support for Milne.
Whether any of the PUP senators are capable of meeting the demands of the six-year senate term is another consideration.
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DEATH TO DEMOCRACY
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 22, 2014 (4:35am)
“What about truth?” asks the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Elizabeth Farrelly. “What about climate change?” And then, naturally, she calls for the destruction of democracy:
We can’t wait for governments to make this call. It’s time to act. A people’s revolution is required. Democracy is failing us. So far, smugness and stupidity seem a more likely sinkhole for the democratic experiment than the bloodshed and tyranny that George Washington predicted, but if climate change really gets going it could still come to that. Democratic governments are abject moral cowards.
These youthful climate activists are on your side, Elizabeth:
And here’s another batch of anti-democracy enthusiasts, wearing some form of protective shield against dangerous global warming:
Warmies and other fundamentalists have a long anti-democratic tradition. Meanwhile, everything’s going plumb loco in Age columnist Suzy Freeman-Greene’s garden:
And here’s another batch of anti-democracy enthusiasts, wearing some form of protective shield against dangerous global warming:
Warmies and other fundamentalists have a long anti-democratic tradition. Meanwhile, everything’s going plumb loco in Age columnist Suzy Freeman-Greene’s garden:
It’s June but my backyard plum tree sprouts blossom while wearing a mantle of yet-to-fall leaves. Basil – a summer herb – is only just dying off in the tardy cold. Spring bulbs started coming up in a neighbour’s garden in May.
Why, it’s total anarchy! There are blossoms, people! And BULBS!
The weather’s changing and we monitor it furiously on phones and websites.
Of course you do. You live in Melbourne.
Does this checking of hourly temperatures and rain forecasts offer a semblance of control when so much seems out of our hands?
Suzy must be nearly 50 by now and still hasn’t worked out that the weather is beyond human control.
If we’re unsettled, consider the animals and plants. In southern Queensland, more than 45,000 flying foxes dropped dead on one mega hot day this year. They fell from the sky, little corpses piling up by the thousands.
It’s a well-known fact that bats can’t take the heat. Keep on hyperventilating, Suzy:
In Queensland’s wet tropics, birds and possums are moving higher up the mountains in search of cooler air. Eventually, there’ll be nowhere left to go.
Try Melbourne! There are plenty of bulbs and blossoms to eat, all year round. A final climate horror indicator from Freeman-Greene:
Just last week, it was reported that rising sea levels have dislodged the remains of 26 Japanese World War II soldiers from their graves on the Marshall Islands.
According to a local, the dislodged corpses were due to king tides eroding a mass grave on the beach. Still, for safety’s sake, let’s follow Elizabeth’s advice and ban democracy. Bulbs and bones are a bad combination.
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BAD HAIR DAY
Tim Blair – Sunday, June 22, 2014 (12:52am)
Former first hairdresser Tim Mathieson threatens Victorian Premier Denis Napthine with legal action:
The tirade, obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, was recorded after Mr Mathieson called the Premier’s Warrnambool electorate office after hours and got the answerphone.In a 32-second message, Mr Mathieson complains the Premier, who worked as a veterinarian before entering politics, had mentioned him in Parliament in connection with rogue MP Geoff Shaw’s misuse of his taxpayer-funded car.
“Of course you’re busy – because you’ve been bullshitting all day in Parliament,” Mr Mathieson said. “So, if he mentions the Prime Minister’s partner one more time, one more time, there will be a legal action against Denis The Vet.“You hear me? One more time against the ex-Prime Minister’s partner there will be a lawsuit against him so long – I am not, I am not, anything to do with Geoff Shaw, in any way shape or form. So, if he mentions me one more time, I am telling you right now. OK? That’s it. Bang!”
Some background to this dispute:
Three years ago, Ms Gillard wrote a personal cheque for $4243 to repay the entitlements after Mr Mathieson used the Prime Minister’s taxpayer-funded car to sell shampoo and hair products.
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The Bolt Report today, June 22
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (6:41am)
On Channel 10 at 10am and 4pm…
A video warning from Iraq, where Australian jihadists now fight.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on boats and immigration in the age of terror.
The panel: Janet Albrechtsen and former Labor advisor Bruce Hawker, made a scapegoat by a Labor report on the 2013 election.
NewsWatch: Sharri Markson - on Clinton, Palmer and a reporter who wore a bottle of beer.
The videos of the shows appear here.
A video warning from Iraq, where Australian jihadists now fight.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on boats and immigration in the age of terror.
The panel: Janet Albrechtsen and former Labor advisor Bruce Hawker, made a scapegoat by a Labor report on the 2013 election.
NewsWatch: Sharri Markson - on Clinton, Palmer and a reporter who wore a bottle of beer.
The videos of the shows appear here.
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Gillard whites out black history to claim a first
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (6:33am)
Julia Gillard tells the US audience of the Diane Rehm Show a porky:
And Ken Wyatt, then?
Seems Gillard can’t see Aboriginal politicians if they’re Liberals.
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
UPDATE
Reader Jim (with readers Warwick, Cal J and others):
GILLARD11:40:36 Well, I’m happy to report that there has been some progress on that issue. And I can say one of the things that I did in my time as prime minister was ensure that my political party selected for our Senate an indigenous woman, Nova Peris, who now serves in the Senate. And she’s the first indigenous Australian to be a federal parliamentarian.So what was Senator Neville Bonner? An Eskimo?
And Ken Wyatt, then?
Seems Gillard can’t see Aboriginal politicians if they’re Liberals.
(Thanks to reader Gab.)
UPDATE
Reader Jim (with readers Warwick, Cal J and others):
And what about Aden Ridgeway ?
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Tim Mathieson goes “bang”
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (5:58am)
A threat from the former First Bloke:
So what’s Mathieson’s objection? Is the following false?
Tim Mathieson has threatened Victorian Premier Denis Napthine with legal action in a furious phone message that ends with him saying “Bang!” ...Really, what a classy couple we once had in the Lodge.
In a 32-second message, Mr Mathieson complains the Premier, who worked as a veterinarian before entering politics, had mentioned him in Parliament in connection with rogue MP Geoff Shaw’s misuse of his taxpayer-funded car.
“Of course you’re busy because you’ve been bullshitting all day in Parliament,’’ Mr Mathieson said. “So, if he mentions the Prime Minister’s partner one more time, one more time, there will be a legal action against Denis The Vet. “You hear me? One more time against the ex-Prime Minister’s partner there will be a lawsuit against him so long — I am not, I am not, anything to do with Geoff Shaw, in any way shape or form. So, if he mentions me one more time, I am telling you right now. OK? That’s it. Bang !”
So what’s Mathieson’s objection? Is the following false?
Three years ago, Ms Gillard wrote a personal cheque for $4243 to repay the entitlements after Mr Mathieson used the Prime Minister’s taxpayer-funded car to sell shampoo and hair products.
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New green apocalypse sought
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (5:52am)
What could possibly be worse than the end of humanity on a superheated planet? Or is The Age subtly indicating that its deserting a sinking ship to find a new green crisis?
Something more sinister than climate change stalks the human future – and it is high time we gave it the same attention. Few people have much idea of the scale of the universal chemical deluge to which we are now subject, daily, and of the growing peril which we – and all our descendants – face.Why are greens so addicted to apocalypses?
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Mike Carlton and the fools who know no history
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (5:33am)
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton fancies himself as a bit of an historian:
We saw in Vietnam that democracy cannot be imposed at gunpoint. Wilfully blind to the errors of history, the fools repeat them.Some countries made democratic “at gunpoint”:
Japan after World War II
Germany after World War II
Italy after World War II
South Korea after the Korean War
Grenada after the 1983 US invasion.
Afghanistan after the 2001 US invasion.
Iraq (imperfectly) after the 2003 invasion.
Panama after the 1989 US invasion.
East Timor after the Australian intervention.
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Fairfax columnists demand overthrow of democracy to stop bulbs sprouting
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (5:24am)
One Fairfax columnist panics that global warming is causing the neighbor’s bulbs to rise. Another frets that the crisis is so terrible that “democracy is failing us” and “a people’s revolution is required”.
Both are women, incidentally, which doesn’t help address the stereotype.
Tim Blair does some fisking.
Both are women, incidentally, which doesn’t help address the stereotype.
Tim Blair does some fisking.
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Not the way for Labor to show it can now be trusted to stop the boats
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (5:13am)
Not true, and I wouldn’t trust the assurances of a party with its record of dud predictions:
Really?
Processing asylum seekers who are already in Australia won’t result in a resurgence of people smuggling boat arrivals, the federal opposition says...So potential boat people waiting in Indonesia won’t be encouraged to see those who before be accepted as refugees?
“This decision has no bearing on whether or not we will see asylum seeker vessels coming to Australia,” [Opposition immigration spokesman Richard] Marles told reporters on Saturday. “Whatever you do in relation to the people who are already here can be neither a deterrence or incentive.”
Really?
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Abbott such a subtle sexist that he actually listens more to women
Andrew Bolt June 22 2014 (4:59am)
Nothing subtle, though, about Sue Boyce’s treachery or unfairness:
And damn that cunning Abbott for being so subtle a sexist that he puts out such women-friendly policies:
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is ‘’a sexist’’ and the Coalition has been ‘’dog whistling’’ with its asylum seeker policies, says retiring Liberal senator Sue Boyce in an extraordinary exit interview.But then again:
Reflecting on her career in Parliament - she retires at the end of June - Senator Boyce said she thought Julia Gillard’s famous misogyny speech was ‘’powerful’’ and, for Ms Gillard’s purposes, ‘’a brilliant speech’’. But she thought the former prime minister had used the wrong word to describe Mr Abbott. ‘’I think it would have been more accurate if she had called him a sexist,’’ she said.
‘’But singling [Mr Abbott] out as a sexist was not reasonable either,’’ she added, saying the Prime Minister was one of many ‘’subtle’’ sexists in federal Parliament.And even that can’t be backed up:
Senator Boyce did not offer examples for Mr Abbott’s alleged sexism and conceded she had found the Prime Minister more willing to listen to the views of women than many of her other male colleagues.Yes, Abbott’s sexism is so subtle that Boyce can’t give a single example of it. In fact, it’s so subtle that Abbott actually appears more women-friendly than most.
And damn that cunning Abbott for being so subtle a sexist that he puts out such women-friendly policies:
Sue Boyce really should apologise for this stupid smear.
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What would you do to describe someone who just robbed you? You may describe the size of the person, the color of their skin, their voice, or any other definitive features.
Ok, now what would you do to describe someone who just robbed you while you were wearing a blindfold? “Uhh. Its voice was deeper than your average person, and it’s skin was not that soft?”
Well, that is exactly what the New York City Council is asking the NYPD to do if the world’s most shortsighted bill in recent memory passes. And rest assured, the NYPD Captains union is pissed about it. Duh.
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LABOR’S CUTS TO AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS SERVICE
In addition to dismantling Australia’s border protection, the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments have also systematically dismantled the capabilities of Australia’s Customs Department, by cutting funding in every budget since coming to office – a total $125.5 million and 870 staff cut.
Despite a growing workload - and with guns, illegal drugs and contraband flowing into the county, there are now over 15% less Customs personnel than in 2007 when Labor took office.
And under the Howard Government, 60% of air cargo consignments were inspected, but now, following Labor's cuts, less than 9% of air cargo undergoes inspections.
This opens up holes in the net, with the only result that criminals are more likely to be successful in smuggling guns & drugs into Australia.
Further, these drastic cuts to our nations Customs resources have hindered the agency’s ability to effectively do its job and increased their vulnerability to infiltration from organised crime.
Just another reason, why Labor MUST be voted out office at the coming election - no matter whom Labor put up as leader.
And under the Howard Government, 60% of air cargo consignments were inspected, but now, following Labor's cuts, less than 9% of air cargo undergoes inspections.
This opens up holes in the net, with the only result that criminals are more likely to be successful in smuggling guns & drugs into Australia.
Further, these drastic cuts to our nations Customs resources have hindered the agency’s ability to effectively do its job and increased their vulnerability to infiltration from organised crime.
Just another reason, why Labor MUST be voted out office at the coming election - no matter whom Labor put up as leader.
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Heracleion, a much prosperous and a known city had been engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had also been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian. He had told a wonderful tale of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, who had launched a thousand ships, travelled to Heracleion, then a port of ‘great wealth’, with her glamorous Trojan lover, Paris.
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"A line is a dot that went for a walk."
- Paul Klee
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- 1593 – Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak (now in Croatia), triggering theLong War.
- 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a forthcoming surprise attack, Laura Secord set out on a 30 km (19 mi) journey from Queenston, Ontario,Upper Canada, on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- 1937 – Camille Chautemps became Prime Minister of France for the third time, in the second Popular Front ministry.
- 1986 – Argentine footballer Diego Maradona (pictured) scored both the "Hand of God goal" and the "Goal of the Century" against Englandduring the quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.
- 2009 – Two Metro trains in Washington, D.C., collided, killing nine people and injuring 80 others.
- 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
- 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
- 813 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars led by Krum defeat the Byzantine army near Edirne. Emperor Michael I is forced to abdicate in favor of Leo V the Armenian.
- 910 – The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army near the Rednitz River, killing its leader Gebhard, Duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine).
- 1527 – Fatahillah expels Portuguese forces from Sunda Kelapa, now regarded as the foundation of Jakarta.
- 1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Ottomans.
- 1622 – Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
- 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
- 1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
- 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
- 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- 1825 – The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
- 1870 – The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
- 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagshipHMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
- 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
- 1898 – Spanish–American War: The US Fifth Army Corps lands in Cuba.
- 1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
- 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
- 1940 – World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.
- 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
- 1942 – World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
- 1942 – The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
- 1944 – World War II: Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
- 1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
- 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
- 1948 – The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought the first group of 802 West Indian immigrants to Tilbury, marking the start of modern immigration to the United Kingdom.[1]
- 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- 1978 – Charon, Pluto's first satellite, was discovered at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
- 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Gatwick Airport.
- 1986 – The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.
- 1988 – The Academy Award Winning Film that was a breakthrough in both Animation and Visual Effects; Who Framed Roger Rabbit was released in cinemas today.
- 1990 – Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
- 2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
- 2009 – A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.
- 2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
- 2012 – A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
- 2015 – The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.
- 662 – Rui Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 716)
- 916 – Sayf al-Dawla, founder of the Emirate of Aleppo (d. 967)
- 1000 – Robert I, duke of Normandy (d. 1035)
- 1373 – Elizabeth Bonifacia, heiress of Poland (d. 1399)
- 1427 – Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Italian writer and wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (d. 1482)
- 1450 – Eleanor of Naples, duchess of Ferrara (d. 1493)
- 1477 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English nobleman (d. 1530)
- 1510 – Alessandro de' Medici, duke of Florence (d. 1537)
- 1593 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician and militarian (d. 1671)
- 1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and theologian (d. 1754)
- 1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
- 1704 – John Taylor, English author and scholar (d. 1766)
- 1713 – John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (d. 1765)
- 1738 – Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (d. 1813)
- 1757 – George Vancouver, English lieutenant and explorer (d. 1798)
- 1763 – Étienne Méhul, French pianist and composer (d. 1817)
- 1767 – Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher, academic, and politician, Interior Minister of Prussia (d. 1835)
- 1792 – James Beaumont Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman (d. 1865)
- 1805 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and politician (d. 1872)
- 1820 – James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1909)
- 1834 – William Chester Minor, American surgeon and linguist (d. 1920)
- 1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
- 1837 – Ernst Ziller, German-Greek architect, designed the Presidential Mansion (d. 1923)
- 1844 – Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (d. 1906)
- 1845 – Tom Dula, American soldier (d. 1868)
- 1845 – Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
- 1855 – Samuel Morris, Australian cricketer (d. 1931)
- 1856 – Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist (d. 1925)
- 1861 – Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (d. 1914)
- 1864 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic (d. 1909)
- 1871 – William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath (d. 1938)
- 1873 – Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic (d. 1949)
- 1874 – Walter Friedrich Otto, German philologist and scholar (d. 1958)
- 1876 – Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Mexican archbishop (d. 1936)
- 1879 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962)
- 1880 – Johannes Drost, Dutch swimmer (d. 1954)
- 1884 – James Rector, American sprinter and lawyer (d. 1949)
- 1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
- 1887 – Julian Huxley, English biologist and academic (d. 1975)
- 1888 – Harold Hitz Burton, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Cleveland (d. 1964)
- 1890 – Aleksander Warma, Estonian commander and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1970)
- 1891 – Franz Alexander, Hungarian psychoanalyst and physician (d. 1964)
- 1892 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German general and pilot (d. 1945)
- 1894 – Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and art historian (d. 1988)
- 1896 – Leonard W. Murray, Canadian admiral (d. 1971)
- 1897 – Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (d. 1973)
- 1897 – Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher (d. 1990)
- 1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author (d. 1970)
- 1899 – Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape (d. 1980)
- 1899 – Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic (d. 1970)
- 1900 – Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (d. 1967)
- 1901 – Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach (d. 1947)
- 1902 – Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (d. 1950)
- 1903 – John Dillinger, American criminal (d. 1934)
- 1903 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- 1906 – William Kneale, English logician and philosopher (d. 1990)
- 1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American pilot and author (d. 2001)
- 1906 – Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1907 – Eriks Ādamsons, Latvian writer, poet, and novelist (d. 1946)
- 1909 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2006)
- 1909 – Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Spanish aristocratic (d. 2002)
- 1909 – Mike Todd, American producer and manager (d. 1958)
- 1910 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, Indian-English lieutenant and mountaineer (d. 1998)
- 1910 – Anne Ziegler, English singer (d. 2003)
- 1910 – Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Vernon Kirby, South African tennis player
- 1912 – Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1983)
- 1912 – Raymonde Allain, French model and actress (d. 2008)
- 1913 – Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (d. 1989)
- 1914 – Mei Zhi, Chinese author and essayist (d. 2004)
- 1915 – Dolf van der Linden, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter and coach (d. 2001)
- 1915 – Randolph Hokanson, American pianist
- 1915 – Thomas Quinn Curtiss, American writer, and film and theatre critic (d. 2000)
- 1916 – Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
- 1916 – Richard Eastham, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1916 – Emil Fackenheim, Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (d. 2003)
- 1918 – Cicely Saunders, English Anglican nurse, social worker, physician and writer (d. 2005)
- 1919 – Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)
- 1919 – Henri Tajfel, Polish social psychologist (d. 1982)
- 1919 – Clifton McNeely, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
- 1920 – James H. Pomerene, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2016)
- 1921 – Joseph Papp, American director and producer (d. 1991)
- 1921 – Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Radovan Ivšić, Croatian writer (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Group (d. 2002)
- 1922 – Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (d. 1995)
- 1923 – José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Christopher Booth, English clinician and historian (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2004)
- 1926 – George Englund, American film editor, director, producer and actor (d. 2017)
- 1926 – Rachid Solh, Lebanese politician, 48th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
- 1926 – Doreen Mantle, South African-English actress
- 1927 – Anthony Low, Indian-English historian and academic (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Ralph Waite, American actor and director (d. 2014)
- 1929 – Bruce Kent, English activist and laicised Roman Catholic priest
- 1930 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1998)
- 1930 – Walter Bonatti, Italian journalist and mountaineer (d. 2011)
- 1932 – Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran (d. 2001)
- 1932 – Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
- 1932 – June Salter, Australian actress (d. 2001)
- 1932 – Prunella Scales, English actress
- 1932 – John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, English businessman and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
- 1933 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician
- 1934 – James Bjorken, American physicist, author, and academic
- 1936 – Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1936 – Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer
- 1936 – Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian accordion player and composer
- 1937 – Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
- 1937 – Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Don Matthews, American-Canadian football player and coach (d.2017)
- 1939 – Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter and academic (d. 2004)
- 1940 – Joan Busfield, English sociologist, psychologist, and academic
- 1940 – Hubert Chesshyre, English historian and author
- 1940 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
- 1940 – Esther Rantzen, English journalist
- 1941 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
- 1941 – Terttu Savola, Finnish journalist and politician
- 1943 – Brit Hume, American journalist and author
- 1943 – Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor and director
- 1944 – Peter Asher, English singer, guitarist, and producer
- 1944 – Helmut Dietl, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
- 1945 – Rainer Brüderle, German economist and politician, German Minister of Economics and Technology
- 1946 – Linda Bond, Canadian 19th General of The Salvation Army
- 1946 – Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins, English psychiatrist and academic
- 1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1946 – Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2015)
- 1946 – Stephen Waley-Cohen, English journalist and businessman
- 1947 – Octavia E. Butler, American author (d. 2006)
- 1947 – Howard Kaylan, American pop-rock singer-songwriter and musician (The Turtles; Flo & Eddie)
- 1947 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
- 1947 – Jerry Rawlings, Ghanaian lieutenant and politician, President of Ghana
- 1948 – James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss, Scottish businessman
- 1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1949 – Larry Junstrom, American bass player
- 1949 – Brian Leveson, English lawyer and judge
- 1949 – Alan Osmond, American singer and producer
- 1949 – Meryl Streep, American actress and singer
- 1949 – Luís Filipe Vieira, Portuguese businessman
- 1949 – Lindsay Wagner, American actress
- 1949 – Elizabeth Warren, American academic and politician
- 1950 – Sharon Maughan, English actress
- 1950 – Adrian Năstase, Romanian lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Romania
- 1950 – Greg Oliphant, Australian rugby league player
- 1950 – Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
- 1950 – Tom Alter, Indian actor (d. 2017)
- 1951 – Brian Cookson, British cyclist and sports administrator
- 1951 – Craig Gruber, American bass player (d. 2015)
- 1951 – Humphrey Ocean, English painter and academic
- 1952 – Graham Greene, Canadian actor
- 1952 – Santokh Singh, Malaysian football player
- 1953 – Wim Eijk, Dutch cardinal
- 1953 – Mauro Francaviglia, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
- 1953 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1953 – Bruce McAvaney, Australian journalist and sportscaster
- 1954 – Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
- 1955 – Green Gartside, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1955 – Christine Orengo, British academic and educator
- 1956 – Darryl Brohman, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
- 1956 – Alfons De Wolf, Belgian cyclist
- 1956 – Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani agriculturist and politician, 25th Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1956 – Tim Russ, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1956 – Markus Schatte, German footballer, manager, and coach
- 1956 – Derek Forbes, Scottish bass player and guitarist
- 1957 – Danny Baker, English journalist and screenwriter
- 1957 – Garry Gary Beers, Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer
- 1957 – Kevin Bond, English footballer and manager
- 1957 – Michael Stratton, English geneticist and academic
- 1958 – Bruce Campbell, American actor, director, producer and writer
- 1959 – Michael Kinane, Irish jockey
- 1959 – Nicola Sirkis, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1959 – Daniel Xuereb, French footballer
- 1960 – Erin Brockovich, American lawyer and environmentalist
- 1960 – Margrit Klinger, German runner
- 1960 – Tracy Pollan, American actress
- 1961 – Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter
- 1962 – Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1962 – Clyde Drexler, American basketball player and coach
- 1962 – Gerald Hillringhaus, German footballer
- 1963 – Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 61st Yokozuna
- 1963 – John Tenta, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1964 – Cadillac Anderson, American basketball player
- 1964 – Amy Brenneman, American actress
- 1964 – Dan Brown, American author and academic
- 1964 – Miroslav Kadlec, Czech footballer
- 1965 – Uwe Boll, German director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Ľubomír Moravčík, Czech footballer and manager
- 1966 – Michael Park, English racing driver (d. 2005)
- 1966 – Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
- 1966 – Dean Woods, Australian cyclist
- 1968 – Darrell Armstrong, American basketball player and coach
- 1968 – Miri Yu, Zainichi, Korean novelist
- 1970 – Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese songwriter and producer
- 1970 – Steven Page, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1970 – Jessica Rowe, Australian journalist
- 1971 – Gary Connolly, English rugby player
- 1971 – Mary Lynn Rajskub, American actress and comedian
- 1971 – Kurt Warner, American football player and sportscaster
- 1972 – Wangechi Mutu, Kenyan-American painter and sculptor
- 1972 – Damien Oliver, Australian jockey
- 1973 – Carson Daly, American radio and television host
- 1973 – Marcin Dorociński, Polish film, television and stage actor
- 1974 – Jo Cox, British MP (d. 2016)
- 1974 – Joseph Vijay, Indian film actor
- 1975 – Urmas Reinsalu, Estonian academic and politician, 28th Estonian Minister of Defence
- 1976 – Gordon Moakes, English bass player
- 1977 – Denis Moschitto, German actor
- 1978 – Champ Bailey, American football player
- 1978 – Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (d. 2011)
- 1979 – Joey Cheek, American speed skater
- 1979 – Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist
- 1980 – Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Stephanie Jacobsen, Hong Kong-Australian actress
- 1981 – Sione Lauaki, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 – Aquivaldo Mosquera, Colombian footballer
- 1982 – Andoni Iraola, Spanish footballer
- 1982 – Ian Kinsler, American baseball player
- 1982 – Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
- 1983 – Allar Raja, Estonian rower
- 1984 – Dustin Johnson, American golfer
- 1984 – Rubén Iván Martínez, Spanish footballer
- 1984 – Jerome Taylor, Jamaican cricketer
- 1984 – Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
- 1985 – Thomas Leuluai, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1987 – Lara Bingle, Australian model and television personality
- 1987 – Danny Green, American basketball player
- 1987 – Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian-Australian footballer
- 1987 – Oh Yeon-seo, South Korean actress
- 1988 – Omri Casspi, Israeli basketball player
- 1989 – Cédric Mongongu, Congolese footballer
- 1989 – Jung Yong-hwa, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
- 1990 – Kei Inoo, Japanese idol, actor, model, and singer
- 1990 – Sebastian Jung, German footballer
- 1991 – Hugo Mallo, Spanish footballer
- 1992 – Ura Kazuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1992 – Harry Reid, British actor
- 1993 – Loris Karius, German footballer
- 1994 – Sebastien Haller, French footballer
- 1994 – Carlos Vinícius Santos de Jesus, Brazilian footballer
- 1996 – Mikel Merino, Spanish footballer
- 431 – Paulinus of Nola, Christian bishop and poet (b. 354)
- 910 – Gebhard, Frankish nobleman
- 910 – Gerhard I, Frankish nobleman
- 947 – Qian Hongzuo, king of Wuyue (b. 928)
- 1017 – Leo Passianos, Byzantine general
- 1101 – Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman (b. 1031)
- 1276 – Innocent V, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1225)
- 1343 – Aimone, Count of Savoy (b. 1291)
- 1429 – Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
- 1535 – John Fisher, English bishop and saint (b. 1469)
- 1632 – James Whitelocke, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of Chester (b. 1570)
- 1634 – Johann von Aldringen, Austrian field marshal (b. 1588)
- 1664 – Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet (b. 1631)
- 1699 – Josiah Child, English merchant, economist, and politician (b. 1630)
- 1714 – Matthew Henry, Welsh minister and author (b. 1662)
- 1766 – Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (b. 1696)[2]
- 1868 – Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (b. 1801)
- 1872 – Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentinian general (b. 1792)
- 1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
- 1892 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1819)
- 1894 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop and missionary (b. 1823)
- 1905 – Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1913 – Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet and translator (b. 1875)
- 1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
- 1928 – A. B. Frost, American illustrator and painter (b. 1851)
- 1931 – Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (b. 1841)
- 1933 – Tim Birkin, English racing driver and lieutenant (b. 1896)
- 1935 – Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (b. 1866)
- 1936 – Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1882)
- 1938 – C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author (b. 1876)
- 1940 – Monty Noble, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1873)
- 1942 – August Froehlich, German priest and activist (b. 1891)
- 1945 – Isamu Chō, Japanese general (b. 1895)
- 1945 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887)
- 1956 – Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist (b. 1873)
- 1959 – Hermann Brill, German educator and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (b. 1895)
- 1964 – Havank, Dutch journalist and author (b. 1904)
- 1965 – David O. Selznick, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1902)
- 1966 – Thaddeus Shideler, American hurdler (b. 1883)
- 1969 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
- 1970 – Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese surgeon and author (b. 1942)
- 1974 – Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (b. 1892)
- 1977 – Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
- 1977 – Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu) (b. 1952)
- 1979 – Louis Chiron, Monégasque race car driver (b. 1899)
- 1984 – Joseph Losey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
- 1987 – Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor (b. 1916)
- 1990 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Pat Nixon, American educator, 44th First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
- 1995 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (b. 1931)
- 1995 – Al Hansen, American sculptor and author (b. 1927)
- 1997 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
- 1997 – Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1919)
- 2003 – Vasil Bykaŭ, Belarusian war novelist (b. 1924)
- 2004 – Bob Bemer, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1920)
- 2004 – Mattie Stepanek, American poet and author (b. 1990)
- 2007 – Erik Parlevliet, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1964)
- 2008 – Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist (b. 1924)
- 2008 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (b. 1937)
- 2008 – Dody Goodman, American actress and dancer (b. 1914)
- 2011 – Coşkun Özarı, Turkish footballer and coach (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Juan Luis Galiardo, Spanish actor and producer (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (b. 1978)
- 2014 – Fouad Ajami, Lebanese-American author and academic (b. 1945)
- 2014 – Rama Narayanan, Indian director and producer (b. 1949)
- 2015 – James Horner, American composer and conductor (b. 1953)
- 2017 – Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (b. 1982)
- 2017 – Quett Masire, Botswanan politician (b. 1926)
- Christian feast day:
- Aaron of Aleth
- Alban, first recorded Martyr in Britain (commemoration, Anglicanism)
- Blessed Pope Innocent V
- Eusebius of Samosata (Orthodox Church)
- John Fisher (Catholic Church)
- Nicetas of Remesiana
- Paulinus of Nola
- Thomas More (Catholic Church)
- June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
- Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)
- Father's Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, and Jersey)
- Teachers' Day (El Salvador)
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.”Psalm 91:1 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
The entire person of Jesus is but as one gem, and his life is all along but one impression of the seal. He is altogether complete; not only in his several parts, but as a gracious all-glorious whole. His character is not a mass of fair colours mixed confusedly, nor a heap of precious stones laid carelessly one upon another; he is a picture of beauty and a breastplate of glory. In him, all the "things of good repute" are in their proper places, and assist in adorning each other. Not one feature in his glorious person attracts attention at the expense of others; but he is perfectly and altogether lovely.
Oh, Jesus! thy power, thy grace, thy justice, thy tenderness, thy truth, thy majesty, and thine immutability make up such a man, or rather such a God-man, as neither heaven nor earth hath seen elsewhere. Thy infancy, thy eternity, thy sufferings, thy triumphs, thy death, and thine immortality, are all woven in one gorgeous tapestry, without seam or rent. Thou art music without discord; thou art many, and yet not divided; thou art all things, and yet not diverse. As all the colours blend into one resplendent rainbow, so all the glories of heaven and earth meet in thee, and unite so wondrously, that there is none like thee in all things; nay, if all the virtues of the most excellent were bound in one bundle, they could not rival thee, thou mirror of all perfection. Thou hast been anointed with the holy oil of myrrh and cassia, which thy God hath reserved for thee alone; and as for thy fragrance, it is as the holy perfume, the like of which none other can ever mingle, even with the art of the apothecary; each spice is fragrant, but the compound is divine.
"Oh, sacred symmetry! oh, rare connection
Of many perfects, to make one perfection!
Oh, heavenly music, where all parts do meet
In one sweet strain, to make one perfect sweet!"
Evening
The foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them." The great fact on which genuine faith relies is, that "the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," and that "Christ also hath suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God"; "Who himself bare our sins in his own body on the tree"; "For the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed." In one word, the great pillar of the Christian's hope is substitution. The vicarious sacrifice of Christ for the guilty, Christ being made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, Christ offering up a true and proper expiatory and substitutionary sacrifice in the room, place, and stead of as many as the Father gave him, who are known to God by name, and are recognized in their own hearts by their trusting in Jesus--this is the cardinal fact of the gospel. If this foundation were removed, what could we do? But it standeth firm as the throne of God. We know it; we rest on it; we rejoice in it; and our delight is to hold it, to meditate upon it, and to proclaim it, while we desire to be actuated and moved by gratitude for it in every part of our life and conversation. In these days a direct attack is made upon the doctrine of the atonement. Men cannot bear substitution. They gnash their teeth at the thought of the Lamb of God bearing the sin of man. But we, who know by experience the preciousness of this truth, will proclaim it in defiance of them confidently and unceasingly. We will neither dilute it nor change it, nor fritter it away in any shape or fashion. It shall still be Christ, a positive substitute, bearing human guilt and suffering in the stead of men. We cannot, dare not, give it up, for it is our life, and despite every controversy we feel that "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure."
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Today's reading: Esther 3-5, Acts 5:22-42 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Esther 3-5
Haman's Plot to Destroy the Jews
1 After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles. 2 All the royal officials at the king's gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.
3 Then the royal officials at the king's gate asked Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's command?" 4 Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai's behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew....
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 5:22-42
22 But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they went back and reported, 23 "We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside." 24 On hearing this report, the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests were at a loss, wondering what this might lead to.
25 Then someone came and said, "Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people." 26 At that, the captain went with his officers and brought the apostles. They did not use force, because they feared that the people would stone them....
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Aristarchus
[Ărĭstär'chus] - the best ruler. A Macedonian of Thessalonica and one of Paul's travel-companions. This convert from Judaism is spoken of as Paul's "fellow-prisoner," implying imprisonment for the Gospel's sake (Acts 19:29; 20:4; 27:2; Col. 4:10; Philem. 24).
[Ărĭstär'chus] - the best ruler. A Macedonian of Thessalonica and one of Paul's travel-companions. This convert from Judaism is spoken of as Paul's "fellow-prisoner," implying imprisonment for the Gospel's sake (Acts 19:29; 20:4; 27:2; Col. 4:10; Philem. 24).
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