Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Tue Sep 11th Todays News

Scott Morrison deserves a chance as PM. Alan Jones has been sued for defamation in Queensland owing to comments made during a flood. The multi million dollar payout appears excessive. Can Dutton sue those who criticise him for making responsible decisions? Has the ALP ever made an immigration decision regarding an au pair? 

 On the anniversary of 911, John Bolton has rejected the ICC's investigation of The War on Terror. Obama restarted the Cold War, and it impinges in lots of ways on global bodies. 

 Sarsour says US Muslims should not humanise Israelis. Should Sarsour demonise them? Is Sarsour afforded free speech when she is demonstrably calling for the deaths of Israelis? What of Australian Cartoonist Knight, who was labelled a racist for caricaturing an event that happened? Is calling for the deaths of innocent peoples free speech? Is drawing an accurate picture racist? Note, it is not all Americans who agree that the Knight cartoon of Williams doing a dummy spit is racist. It might not be many who agree with Sarsour. Does J K Rowling, who tweeted condemnation of Knight after she saw racism, condemn Sarsour? 
From my article on Quora
What kind of idiots in school administrations came up with this zero-tolerance garbage? Zero tolerance means no common sense or compassion.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-zero-tolerance-policies-hurt-kids
Zero Tolerance is a policy which cleaned up New York City under Mayor Giuliani and Police Chief Bratton. It began as an environmental policy in 1973 in New Jersey but was applied, through a ‘Broken Windows’ response in law enforcement, effectively. Because the champions for it were GOP, the Dem axis of press and activists have campaigned against it, misrepresenting it. In recent years it has been applied to the drug culture and contrasted with the failed policy of Harm Minimisation.

Zero Tolerance, as applied to drug use, is to stop the drug use and treat the user. Harm minimisation is to facilitate drug use for the user. Thing is, drug use is no longer contained to a drug using community, but to the whole community, with tragic results. Zero tolerance works, but is confronting. Drug dependent users want drugs. They will do *anything* to get drugs, but that rarely means being good citizens.

The article from the Daily Beast does not describe Zero Tolerance, but overstates issues too. For example, Ahmed Mohamed who brought a clock to a science fair that looked like it could have been an IED (improvised, explosive device). It is reprehensible to overstate a proportionate response to the prank. A former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain bragged that Australian Cricketers should fear the Tamil Tigers when they toured. It was a tacit call for terrorism which should never be endorsed. It does not matter what the name is of the child preforming the prank.

Pointing a gun, even a toy one, at fellow students should have sanctions imposed on the behaviour. Be grateful a child was not gunned down by armed responders. Would Harm Minimisation have treated the behaviour differently?

The issues described in The Daily Beast article are not germane with Zero Tolerance. The final paragraphs are telling, the issue is, instead, failing educational standards despite cost. Obama spent big on education to control it, not improve it. Education was never about the necessities of life, like toilet use, or toy bomb building or toy gun use. It is also not about the fierceness of Halloween costumes or school year pictures. It is about discourse in society, and that should have standards which the Daily Beast article fails to emulate.
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A daily column on what the ALP have as a policy, supported by a local member, and how it has 'helped' the local community. I'll stop if I cannot identify a policy. Feel free to make suggestions. Contact me on FB, not twitter. I have twitter, but never look at it.

Gabrielle Williams was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Carers and Volunteers, working with the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing and the Minister for Families and Children. Williams was given those titles when elected in 2014. It is difficult to find what value she has been to Dandenong, but clearly the ALP see her as the future. I went to a bussing services discussion at Chelsea RSL, Present were Donna Bauer (Liberal for Carrum), Geoff Gledhill (Liberal for Mordialloc), David Davis (Shadow Minister for Public Transport) and Gordon Rich-Phillips (Deputy Liberal Leader in Legislative Council) and interested members of the public. The discussion was frank and open. It is one of the many reasons I believe Liberals will win this years election against ALP in Victoria. Instead of taking people for granted, Liberals are looking for solutions to problems. One problem involving Dan Andrews ALP government is that the population of Melbourne and Victoria is growing quickly, but infrastructure has not kept pace. One result is bussing is falling in patronage in the last year by 4%. Busses are not running on time. They are dirty, dangerous and routes are not always appropriate. So that twenty kids playing basketball late in an evening can enter a bus without paying, be raucous and if a bus driver tries to be assertive, the bus driver gets into trouble. Some bus routes have large busses going inappropriately through small back streets. when large streets are adjacent. If you have issues you would like raised, contact Donna, Geoff, David, Gordon or me. We are here to serve. 

As part of the November 24th Vic election campaign I have a petition I want to bring before the Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. I believe Matthew will be the next premier of Victoria and so I am petitioning him as I raise the issues of Employment, Crime and Education in Dandenong. I am also seeking money for my campaign. I don't have party resources, and so my campaign is on foot, and on the internet. Any money I receive that is not spent on the campaign will go to Grow 4 Life. I am asking questions like "What do you love about Dandenong?" and "If you could change something in Dandenong to make it better, what would it be?" I'm not limiting the questions to state issues. I'm happy to discuss anything, and get things done.
I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.

Here is a video I made Royal Telephone

From the music and lyrics of Frederick Martin Lehman, 1919. This is a tribute to Jimmy Little. The song was his most popular. http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/r/o/ro... http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/an...


=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Hillary Clinton, who relied on 88% support from African American voters, accused Trump of playing the race card. To be fair, Hillary was busy dodging sniper fire, and might not be fully aware of the facts. Bannon declares support for Trump so the CBS headline is that he has declared war on GOP. Trump's early presidency has seen the GDP rise higher than expected, IS is on the run, Stock market is rising, China is cooperating over NK, and yet the press claim the presidency has failed. #FakeNews must be dealt with. The swamp must be drained. 

AGW activists claim that renewables are as cheap as coal. So Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce belled the cat, by suggesting subsidies can now be removed from renewables. Minister for energy, the acclaimed Josh Frydenberg said 'no.' Every cent spent on subsidising renewables is costing the economy double. The distortion to the market makes bad corporate decisions which have resulted in Australia having the most expensive power in the civilised world, and it is unreliable.  I rely on a CPAP machine and I might die in a brown out as a result of government irrational decisions on this issue. I am not alone. Joyce has the voice of reason on this issue. Frydenberg is part of the reason why this government will not be re elected.  





















=== from 2016 === 
Turnbull has lied to Christians about a plebiscite. 
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There never was a Palestine. The name is what the Romans called Jewish administrators. Jordan had a civil war in recent times and the terrorists who failed to overthrow Jordan ran to claim the territory as Palestinians. Palestine never had a king, never had currency, and had no culture. In some ways, it is a bit like those refugees who are really terrorists.
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In Hillary's defence, she is a formidable lawyer and says what she means. But not always what she thinks.
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The 22 year old, is he from an ancient Presbyterian homeland, ethnically?
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Under Turnbull, the Liberals will continue to do worse than when he was a cabinet minister. Turnbull needs to go further than Dastayari.
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New Moon festival at Springvale, in Melbourne. It is good to see happy, excited children. Some playing with balloons. Mainly their faces beam as they prepare for food coma following a big day. But while it may feel like all is right with the world, there are some things that are terribly wrong. 

It is US Patriots Day. Anniversary of the evil 911 attacks that happened as a direct result of Bill Clinton being elected President twice. Bill weakened the CIA in the Middle East as a cost measure. 

In NSW Council elections have ended for places with councils that function. There are many places where councils did not function. The ALP have taken many for granted where they dominate council. It is disappointing Fairfield, despite a split ALP vote, did not change hands after Liberal Party infighting. Dai Le had good support, but it was not enough. 

An ISIL wannabe stabbed a man in Sydney, but ABC refused to mention the motivation for the attack. It is apparently more comforting if the attack is described as random. Meanwhile, an ABC presenter describes the Israeli West Bank as occupied. Their tacit support for terrorists over homeowners is noted. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.  
=== from 2015 ===
 None for 2015 .. because of Melbourne promotional trip
From 2014
It is Patriot Day in USA and time to remember why we are at war with terror. It is also an election year for US Congress. Two years ago, in another election year, Obama was dancing with Beyonce and unable to be contacted when his personal pick for Libyan ambassador was calling for help over a terrorist hit. Sadly Hilary Clinton was on hand to deny aid and give weapons to ISIS forces without interference from special forces. Clinton and Rice blamed an Egyptian Coptic filmmaker, even pointing him out to terrorists, as reason for the attack. The White house had been in election mode and had claimed Al Qaeda was no more as an international force. When Romney referred to it in debate, media mugged him for Obama. A year later, Obama had wanted to bomb Syria in favour of ISIS. Russia said 'no' and so the White house favoured an illegitimate government in Ukraine which forced Moscow to claim their own naval dock yard and brought ethnic tensions to the surface in Ukraine which resulted in MH17. Obama needs to project strength if he is to get a congress that will work to his agenda, but who feels that such a congress would be worthwhile? As Bill Clinton showed, a hostile congress can get good bills past an incompetent President. 

It is Patriot day and worth remembering victims of 9/11. An Australian wife of a victim at the World Trade Centre has opened a door to his room for the first time since that day. Their child is teaching at a high school. It is worse than a life interrupted, there are all the blessings of a life together and the growth together, the nesting, the aims for a future .. and it was all denied forever. It was terror, but many Islamic leaders have claimed it was Islam which which committed the atrocity. In the Middle East people are recorded cheering the atrocity. Saddam Hussein in Iraq paid money to suicide bombers after the event. There was, as then President Bush noted, an Axis of Evil. People claiming that there was a purpose to the evil, twisting a knife into families of victims. And the cause, at the root, is no different from that which Israel has defended herself from her beginning as a modern state. Terror has changed us in the west. But the legacy of what has made the west great is still there. Left wing discourse on the issue is very wide of the mark and looking flaky because of it. 'War for oil' ? We need to be humble. We need to own our mistakes. We need to want to be free. We need to fight for our treasure. The soldiers that fought for America in WW2 are correctly referred to as 'The Greatest Generation.' But what will they call those who in the face of terrorism got confused? For thirteen years since 9/11, activists have failed to explain what happened in their discourse of why things happen. ABC continues to oppose Australia in war. Australia has a proud history in war, but not perfect. The ABC view seems oppositional, one sided, corrosive, misguided and contrary to their charter. Meanwhile opposition leader Shorten has tried to torpedo a $20 billion submarine deal with Japan which might force a bad $40 billion deal with people who cannot produce excellent vehicles with equivalent speed. No doubt Shorten will be excused for any digger that dies as a result of his bad speech. 

The Lin family murders were horrible and so far not fully explained. A relative is facing court in relation to the killings. They had custody of a survivor who had been absent at the time of the killings. The survivor, a young female, is alleging sexual abuse by her subsequent guardian which others feel could be a motive. The child survivor has not done anything wrong and deserves much better than what she has so far been given in life. But many things are unfair. presaging Pistorius verdict, Leigh Sales on ABC 7:30 report calls Pistorius a "Fallen hero." The judge at trial has presaged the verdict by taking on board serious issues raised by the defence. He has been found not guilty of murder. One can still hope for a custodial sentence and disgrace related to his behaviour. ICAC has heard how a $20k check from a banned donor developer did not go directly to the Liberal Party but instead went to what they called a slush fund. So the ICAC does not think slush funds are appropriate? Under what circumstances might they be? Still the ICAC has no evidence of corruption. Injustice has no end. 

Aboriginal children are suffering from racist myths just as 1400 children of Rotherham have. Racism needs to be opposed, but it isn't being opposed rationally by laws that claim to, like 18c. Nobody has proposed a better defence than a free press to safeguard western nations from corruption, but the press have a strong left wing agenda and are weak, not free. And the suppression of free speech has resulted in the abuse detailed in the top end of Australia, and Rotherham, in numbers that would not be tolerated were the news known, and not censored by race. An Australian detective is working to protect children from pedophiles in South East Asia. He has sacrificed everything to do so after being on holiday and approached by a pimp with an offer. In Australia Federal Border Protection and Immigration Minister Morrison has done a brilliant job to date, but deserve to be given access to Temporary Protection Visas to do even better. A child of a newly arrived Afghan couple has died after falling into a creek at a barbecue. Three years old, surviving a harsh journey, only to fall in a tragic accident. 

Frightbats of the media are lying and feeding a false narrative of the world. They trip up on facts, but their fans don't notice, or defend them. One statistic that fails the anti government rhetoric is the unemployment statistic that has over 120k employed recently, but no reason for it. There was a chilling statistic recently suggesting unemployment rose for no reason too. One unexplained fact gets accepted by the anti government rabble, another is rejected from the same source, suggesting it is the narrative that is wrong. There are difficult jobs, like that of cabinet minister for the stool of a King, but what about jobs done for free, unpaid, out of love? Google has such a wonderful permanent frat party aspect for her workers so that some don't bother having homes. A solar storm approaches Australia, but we will survive. Ebola has been reported as not being in Australia after a sick person complained it might be. Self diagnosis is fraught. 
From 2013
We begin tonight and the editorial will finish with Saddam Hussein. Today is 9/11. On the eleventh of September 2001 some terrorists claiming to be Islamic took down four flights of commercial aircraft and killed thousands of people, changing the way democracy works in America. The day was chosen because of the emergency call number in the US. But any excuse could be made. Terrorism has no meaning, and should never be allowed to win, or be seen to win. Pointed look at Obama. 

The left wing dominate the free press, but don't have moral rectitude. Abbott's daughters have been pictured with Mr Abbott on the FB page "Furiously Masturbating to Abbott's Daughters" The page has been reported to FB, which replies it is within the bounds of community standards. In the same vein as having a biased press is useful for conservatives to get votes in a conservative cycle, this kind of page will disgust reasonable people. But it is a sad indictment on the community standard, and as an equivalent involving the left wing would not be tolerated, it is a double standard. Mr Abbott is still a few days from announcing a ministry. Sadly Sophie Mirabella seems to have missed out in her electorate. The media attacks on her have been very dirty. The expected winner of the seat of Indi is a conservative who has the support of Tony Windsor, another so called conservative who supported the ALP as an independent on many occasions over his entire career. So Mr Abbott's government has not begun yet, but the opposition will begin masturbating. 

Fires have claimed a few houses in NSW, and rage in California. The NSW fires have added poignancy, with some having been deliberately lit and with a thief having stolen a laptop from an open window of a damaged house. Another fire burns inside the heart of Obama who really wants to hit Syria with more than pins. One can only imagine what the pricks have done to Whitehouse maps of Syria, Obama wants to use real weapons. Only the world won't let him. Assad is in discussions to surrender chemical weapons. One hopes this happens and the history of those weapons is analysed to see how Saddam did it .. and with which Democrat's support.
Historical perspective on this day
1185 – Isaac II Angelos kills Stephen Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronikos I Komnenos and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacramentoutside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moraydefeat the English.
1390 – Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92): The Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.

1541 – Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco.
1565 – Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1649 – Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentariantroops take the town and execute its garrison.
1697 – Battle of Zenta: a major engagement in the Great Turkish War (1683–1699) and one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history.

1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish Empireceases to be a major power.
1709 – Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
1714 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.

1758 – Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
1775 – Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 – British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Brandywine: The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf Massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
1786 – The beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.

1800 – The Maltese National Congress Battalions are disbanded by British Civil Commissioner Alexander Ball.
1802 – France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1803 – Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia's army under General Louis Bourquin.
1813 – War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C..
1814 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
1826 – Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.
1829 – Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico. This was the consummation of Mexico's campaign for independence.
1830 – Anti-Masonic Party convention; one of the first American political party conventions.
1836 – The Riograndense Republic is proclaimed by rebels after defeating Empire of Brazil's troops in the Battle of Seival, during the Ragamuffin War.

1851 – Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves stand against their former owner in armed resistance in Christiana, Pennsylvania, creating a rallying cry for the abolitionist movement.
1852 – The State of Buenos Aires secedes from the Argentine Federal government, rejoining on September 17, 1861. Several places are named Once de Septiembre after this event.
1857 – The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutesmassacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

1903 – The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1905 – The Ninth Avenue derailment occurs in New York City, killing 13.
1914 – Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
1916 – The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
1919 – United States Marine Corps invades Honduras.
1921 – Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionistplan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
1922 – The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 – The Sun News-Pictorial is founded in Melbourne, Australia.

1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of war
1941 – Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and FDR'sadministration of pressing for war with Germany.
1943 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohijaending the Italian occupation of Corsica.
1943 – World War II: Start of the Nazi liquidation of the Minsk and Lidaghettos.
1944 – World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1945 – World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.

1950 – Korean War: President Harry S. Truman approved military operations north of the 38th parallel.
1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.

1970 – The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1971 – The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.
1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1976 – A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.

1980 – Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of President Pinochet.
1981 – The bombing of La Moneda in Chile by the CIA-backed Junta's Armed Forces.
1982 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.
1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.
1989 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.

1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. A total of 2,996 people are killed.
2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
2008 – A major Channel Tunnel fire broke out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for 6 months.
2012 – A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
2015 – A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
=== 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
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4  The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.

List of available items at Create Space

Happy birthday and many happy returns Dilamma Ann, James Dao and Kathy Yaekel. Born on the same day, across the years, as Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), Carl Zeiss (1816), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Princess Akishino (1966), Harry Connick, Jr. (1967) and Jonathan Adams (1992). On your day, Patriot Day in the United States
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the invasion of Quebec.
1897 – Gaki Sherocho was captured by the forces of Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II, bringing an end to the Kingdom of Kaffa.
1945 – The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang, Sarawak, in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied POWs and civilian internees by four days.
1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: Indian infantry captured the town of Burki near Lahore, Pakistan.
2001 – Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners for a series of suicide attacks against targets in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area. Benedict Arnold invaded Quebec. Ethiopian forces overcame TimTams. Sarawak plans of execution were shelved. Pakistan discovered India got pride. Some terrorists claiming Islamic faith hijacked some planes. Today is a good day to be you, and no one else, except maybe Batman.
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Andrew Bolt
Mark Knight's cartoon

ARE CBS AND JK ROWLING BLIND AS WELL AS DEAF?

CBS is blinded by identity politics: "In Knight's cartoon, Osaka, who has dark, curly hair in real life, appeared small compared to Williams, despite being two inches taller... 'What a disgraceful depiction of both Black women. One to show as a crazed animal the other to show as 'pure as a blond white girl.'" But check the cartoon and the hair dye.
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Gillard forgetting who her friends used to be

Piers Akerman – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (8:02pm)

TICKLISH questions remain swirling around Julia Gillard following her appearance at the royal commission into trade union corruption. Not the least of which is the haste with which she sought to distance herself from the two witnesses who preceded her into the witness box on Wednesday and their remarks about her role in suggesting the establishment of a slush fund similar to the one she assisted former boyfriend Bruce Wilson set up in Western Australia — the Australian Workers Union Workplace Reform Association.
 Continue reading 'Gillard forgetting who her friends used to be'
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THIRTEEN YEARS OF INACTIVISM

Tim Blair – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (4:24am)

On September 11, 2001, 19 middle-class Islamists financed by a multi-millionaire murdered nearly 3000 men, women and children in the United States. Leftists have spent the subsequent 13 years complaining about climate change, Israel, sexism, racism, homophobia and the gap between rich and poor.
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ABC MISSION CONTINUES

Tim Blair – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (3:59am)

The ABC commemorated Anzac Day this year with an attempted demolition of “five common Anzac Day myths”, including the devastating non-revelation that Gallipoli stretcher bearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick may have used “more than one donkey” to rescue injured soldiers.
Now the ABC marks the 100th anniversary of Australia’s first battle of World War I by claiming that Australian troops conducted a mass execution of German and New Guinea prisoners in 1914.
This claim is based on a solitary tape recording made in the 1960s by an alleged witness named Bob.
UPDATE. Even Mike Carlton, who basically has to be waterboarded before agreeing with me or the Telegraph, rejectsthe ABC’s claims: 
Hate to say it, but this RN story is as dodgy as all get out. It “confirms” nothing. 
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FACTS BATTERED

Tim Blair – Thursday, September 11, 2014 (2:51am)

It hasn’t been a great week for frightbat fact-checking. First, Anne Summers declared Mungo MacCallum deaddespite him being very much alive. And now Cankles McBabystopper is exposed as a research retard: 
Fairfax Media recently carried a column by Clementine Ford in which she describes her horror that the death in custody last month of young Aboriginal woman Julieka Dhu did not “cause even the vaguest ripple across mainstream Australian media”.
Admitting she and her editor had not heard about the death until almost a month after it occurred, Ms Ford asserted that the “most comprehensive reporting” of the circumstances of Ms Dhu on August 4 in Western Australia was on two independent websites.
Ms Ford, who found out about the death from a person on Twitter, said “this silence” showed a “shameful indictment” on Australia’s attitudes to Aborigines.
While there is no question that Ms Dhu’s death is tragic and raises serious questions about her treatment by authorities, Ms Ford is wrong to say that the mainstream media ignored the case.
In fact, The Australian and The Weekend Australian has led the investigation into Ms Dhu’s death, an investigation that uncovered her alleged mistreatment and provided the material for the two websites Ms Ford cites. 
The Australian ran pieces about Dhu’s death in Port Hedland on August 23, August 25, August 26, August 30 andSeptember 9. Ford’s reaction is, as usual, lame.
UPDATE. Ford misses a lot of news, which she assumes is because it hasn’t been reported. Here she is in 2013, complaining about the lack of coverage in the case of Johanna “Jazzy-O” Martin’s murder, which Ford mistakenly claimed took place within weeks of the kidnapping and killing of Jill Meagher: 
I did not mention Martin, that other woman whose body was desecrated and discarded without thought. Because I didn’t know. Because the media, which includes me, perhaps doesn’t care enough about the murders, rapes and violations of women not like us to pay it the same kind of attention. 
This is the first response to Ford’s piece: 
Pretty poor research here, Jazzy O was killed in 2011, about a year before Jill Meagher. I remember it clearly because the story was well covered on the news and in the newspapers. 
UPDATE II. Irony: Ford complains about being called a “research retard” but in the same post claims I wrote that she “ignored The Australian‘s reporting on Miss Dhu” – which is not true. The question is, how much does Clementinewant cake?
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A man called Bob

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:25pm)

The ABC notes an important anniversary:
One hundred years ago today, Australians took part in one of the first engagements of World War One, the Battle of Bitapaka in Papua New Guinea. 
And, being the ABC, it marks the occasion with its usual respect for the military and for credible, verifiable sources:
New claims have emerged about the execution of German and Papua New Guinean prisoners by Australian servicemen during Australia’s first WWI battle, which occurred on this day 100 years ago… 
For years, there have been rumours of executions by the Australians after the battle of Bitapaka, and now an old tape recording of a witness appears to confirm them.
The eye witness, an elder in the village of Kabakaul, said he saw the Australians come ashore, and he described the execution of two white men and a number of native police.
‘Then a big man of war said “fire” and they all died,’ said the man identified on the tape as Bob, speaking in the Tok Pisin language. ‘They shot all the men who were lined up on one side. Only one boy was alright, a young boy such as this, he ran away. So they all died and the trench they dug was full with dead bodies.’
The recording was made in the 1960s by a plantation owner Ian Purvis, who was living near Rabaul…In all, six Australians are listed as being killed in the battle of Bitapaka on the 11th of September 1914… Officially, one German soldier and 30 native police are listed as being killed in the battle of Bitapaka.
Great sources.  
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On hearing Glenn Beck

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:20pm)

Tony Thomas goes to two Glenn Beck speech nights and is seriously impressed.
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Has Dan Andrews thrown away the election?

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:14pm)

Does Dan Andrews really want to make Labor seem the party that rips up contracts? That creates sovereign risk? That leaves key arterials clogged?
Go back. Wrong way:
DUMPING the East West Link would force motorists to endure decades of congestion, Premier Denis Napthine says.

Dr Napthine today fired back at Labor’s plan to reject the $6-8 billion road project if it wins the election… 
The Premier said he was “very confident” the government would win a looming Supreme Court case, in which inner Melbourne councils are arguing the planning process surrounding East West Link was unlawful.

Labor is understood to be using that court case as a reason to declare any road contract signed before the election as invalid…
Until today, Mr Andrews had said Labor would build the East West Link if it won the election and contracts were already signed.
This morning, he told 3AW that he had changed his mind… He said it was “not legally safe” for the government to sign a contract while there is a Supreme Court case looming against the project.
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Bush was right, Obama was lethally wrong. Troops go back to Iraq

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (5:20pm)

George W Bush warned in 2007 that pulling out of Iraq would be deadly, and the US would be forced to go back in:
 
It would mean that we would be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.It would mean we allow terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan. It would mean the increasing probability that US troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.
But Obama did pull out all US forces, against the warnings of his generals. He even boasted about it in the presidential debates:
 
No, but what I — what I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.
The slaughter that followed has been ghastly:
And sure enough, as Bush predicted:
US President Barack Obama has authorised air strikes against Islamic State group targets inside Syria for the first time, pledging to destroy its fighters “wherever they exist”. 
In an address to the nation on Wednesday, Obama also announced an expansion of strikes in Iraq, saying he would be dispatching nearly 500 more US troops to the country to assist its besieged security forces. Obama called on Congress to authorise a programme to train and arm rebels in Syria who are fighting both the Islamic State group and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Too little and far too late.
Just a month ago, Obama ridiculed the idea he’s now embraced, a year or two too late, of arming moderate Syrian rebels:

It’s always been a fantasy, this idea that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth. 
John McCain attacks:
 
McCAIN: No, facts are stubborn things, Mr. Carney, and that is [the President’s] entire national security team, including the Secretary of State said he want to arm and train and equip these people and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down. The fact he didn’t a residual force in Iraq, overruled all of his military advisers, is the reason why we’re facing ISIS today. 
So the facts are stubborn things in history and people ought to know them. And now the president is saying basically that we are going to take certain actions, which I would favor, but to say that America is safer, and that the situation is very much like Yemen and Somalia shows me that the president really doesn’t have a grasp for how serious the threat of ISIS is.
CARNEY: Well, again, Senator, we’re going to have to agree to disagree. And I think on the question of the residual force, there was another player in that which was the Iraqi government. A, and B, it was the fulfillment of the previous administration’s withdrawal plan. And it was also the fulfillment of the president’s promise to withdraw from Iraq and not maintain a true presence, in perpetuity, which is pretty consistent with what the American people wanted and believed it was the right approach. McCAIN: Mr. Carney, you are again saying facts that are patently false. The fact is because [Senator] Lindsey Graham, [former Senator] Joe Lieberman and I, we were in Baghdad, they wanted a residual force. The president has never made a statement during that or after that he wanted a residual force left behind. The Iraqis were ready to go. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the number cascaded down to 3,500. That was not sufficient to do anything but to defend themselves. And you in your role as a spokesperson bragged about the fact that the last American combat troop had left Iraq. If we had left a residual force the situation would not be what it is today.  
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Aboriginal children pay for this silence

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:53am)

COULD fear of seeming racist make us shut up about child abuse? Yes, and I have a lawyer’s warning to prove it.
Do not think a Rotherham could not happen here. Something like it has happened already to Aboriginal children.
In Rotherham, in England’s north, 1400 children as young as 11 were raped and trafficked by mainly Pakistani gangs. Just as shocking, as a formal report last month revealed, is that many in authority were too scared to speak out.
“Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to,” the report notes. But here, too, we have a culture of “political correctness” that stops our ears and mouths. We even have laws that stifle the debate we need if children are to be saved.
When I first wrote here about the Rotherham case I wanted to include a single sentence about linking problems in Aboriginal communities to Aboriginal culture. The paper’s lawyers had that sentence taken out, because such “a bare assertion can get us into trouble” under the Racial Discrimination Act, which frowns on such “offensive” statements.
True, we can still discuss these issues if we include lots of detail, without mistakes. Just last weekend The Australian revealed extensive evidence of horrific child sexual abuse in remote South Australian settlements. But the legal danger just helps to stifle one of the most important social questions facing us: is Aboriginal culture hurting too many children and women?
(Read full article here.)   
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Shorten torpedoes our best defence

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:53am)

Greg Sheridan is spot on:
I fear Bill Shorten may just about have demagogued us out of one of the best options we have for providing for the security of this nation. 
Up until this week, Shorten had been a very responsible opposition leader on national security. But to so irresponsibly demonise the possibility that the Abbott government could consider buying submarines from Japan has done real damage to our national interests.
This is the reality that Shorten is ranting against:
Probably we could buy a fleet of subs from Japan for $20 billion whereas we would spend $40bn, or probably quite a bit more, to build the subs ourselves and we would certainly be building subs inferior to those of Japan. 
It is not absolutely clear that there would be that many fewer jobs for Australia with a Japanese sub. We would probably have twice as many subs, or have them in half the time, if we went with the Japanese option.
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Letting some come, after all

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:10am)

The fact is that we’re one of the few muggins prepared to settle boat people, so the choice is between letting those at Manus Island rot in detention or forcing them home.
Or there’s Scott Morrison’s inevitable compromise - which risks sending a signal to the people smugglers:
HUNDREDS of asylum-seekers who arrived in the first six months of the Papua New Guinea resettlement deal, announced in the final days of the Rudd government, could return to Australia to live on temporary protection visas. 
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison ... [said he] remained “confident” of concluding resettlement talks with PNG, despite “difficult and frustrating problems” that have led the country’s cabinet to delay the proposal for months…
In what Labor called a “monumental backflip”, Mr Morrison said asylum-seekers who arrived between July 19 and December 31 last year might be allowed to live in Australia once Howard-era TPVs were reintroduced.
“For us, it is about outlining the space where we can have a discussion with the crossbenchers ... but the bottom line for the government is that TPVs must be restored,” Mr Morrison said. Unlike permanent visas, TPVs expired every three years, allowing the government to reconsider whether the refugees still needed protection.
A further compromise should be possible to secure the votes for the TPVs. It should be possible to agree that after, say, six years here with no possibility of return that a TPV becomes a permanent one. 
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Would you rather the jihadists were here or Syria?

Andrew Bolt September 11 2014 (7:02am)

Many of us might be tempted to agree, were it not for the obligation we have to take them back:
Wissam Haddad, head of the al-Risalah Islamic Centre considered a hub of extremist preaching in Sydney, dismissed the prospect of an imminent terror attack. 
He said if the government was truly concerned about angry, young men attacking Australian targets, it would let Muslims who wanted to fight in Syria go there. “The guys that are there don’t ever want to come back,” Mr Haddad told The Australian. He said many young men in his circle yearned to leave Australia permanently.
And again the implied threat, illustrating how multi-cultural societies risk having foreign conflicts spread to their own streets:
“Look at Australia’s foreign policy in regards to Iraq. You’re going to be angering a lot of people. It’s the government itself that are creating the problem.’’
And indeed:
The Australian has been told that, while authorities are unaware of extremists a bomb, ASIO and the AFP have identified a number of radicals with “settled intentions” to perpetrate terrorist acts in Australia. The plans are considered serious enough to justify raising the terror alert level from medium to high, meaning an attack is likely. 
Among those of concern are alleged Muslim extremists whose hopes of joining Islamic State, the terrorist army that has captured swathes of Syria and northern Iraq, slaughtering thousands, have been thwarted by ASIO, which recommended their passports be cancelled as part of a campaign to ground would-be foreign fighters.
The fact is, as counterterrorism academic Nick O’Brien points out, there are now too-many wanna-be jihadists for ASIO to properly monitor them all:
The reality is that to do a proper monitoring job of a person, you would have to follow them, see what they do and that would require at least two surveillance teams cause you’d have to work round the clock. Now this is absolutely impossible when you’re talking about these amount of numbers. So the only monitoring that they can do will be, I guess, things like social media and phones.  
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The deteriorating situation in Syria is rapidly spiraling out of control and creating a hell for Syrian Christians far worse anything that the mainstream US media is reporting, or our administration is acknowledging. The gangs of terrorists (for that is what they are, not ‘rebels’) are appropriating Christian-owned property by force, beating, torturing, and murdering Christians, and making any normal existence, for those who remain, impossible. Yet the Obama administration continues to support the ‘rebels’.
The Christian woman in the photograph is tied to a pillar in the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood of Aleppo. She is one of the “criminals” arrested for unknown reasons by a new Islamist commission in what they call the “freed regions of Syria”. The paper at her feet says: “Those who don’t spit at this woman have no honor!”
It is a disgrace that our government continues to provide both moral and military support to these terrorists, in contravention of every convention of human rights and the rules of war. This is particularly agregious in light of our knowledge that many of these fighters are aligned with al Qaeda, our openly proclaimed enemy, and one of the organizations on our State Department list of terrorist organizations.
I can't like this, but will share it .. race, religion or ethnicity are of no matter to me .. no one should be treated this way. - ed
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Michelle Malkin
Late breaking news tonight - HUGE NEWS - Total Recall in Colorado. Two historic grass-roots victories against gun-grabbers. Read all about it/share/like/celebrate/replicate! ==>

http://twitchy.com/2013/09/11/total-recall-colorado-second-amendment-activists-celebrate-historic-recall-elections/
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Pastor Rick Warren.
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Today more people die by suicide than by murder or war. Please take 5 minutes to learn the signs to save a life: http://bit.ly/1d3SR7t
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Holly Sarah Nguyen
Just because I walk away when you run your mouth, Doesn't make me weaker than you. It means God seen what I was about to say and puts His hand over my mouth and say's calm my child I have this... Let Go and Let GOD..
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Former federal police boss Mick Keelty says police could consider not investigating the offence to free resources.
"In one policing district the Review team was told that two police officers from a particular station were permanently involved in chasing down petrol drive-offs,'' he found.
"Police were divided on the use of their resources in this way.''
Petrol stations could introduce pre-pay systems for fuel to stop people driving off without paying, he found in his review of Police and Community Safety.
The issues surrounding Hamidur Rahman spring to mind. Federal police said they were interested in antecedent events .. ed
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Charles Krauthammer reacted to President Obama’s national address on Syria tonight on Special Report. Bret Baier asked the syndicated columnist about the added time it will take to wait for a possible Russian proposal.

Read more: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/09/10/charles-krauthammer-dubs-obama-syria-address-oddest-presidential-speech-ever#ixzz2eaJXJBCV
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In Memoriam - September 11 2001
Today we reflect on the horrible and tragic events that unfolded in the heart of America on the 11th of September 2001. 
Today we remember the lives of those lost, and admire the brave, courageous and selfless efforts of all emergency services personnel who put their lives on the line that day to save others. Some of those didn't return home. 
Today, we Honour America's Bravest.
Never Forget...
From Australia, God Bless.
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Caroline Glick
'll be writing about the travesty of Obama's abdication of US power to Russia, and his betrayal of Israel for Friday's paper. In the meantime, my friend Lee Smith got it right. 
Clearly the Sept. 11 attacks had no impact on Obama. He was too busy reading the New York Times profile on his terrorist buddy Bill Ayres, which was published that day, to notice that America was under attack.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/putin-didnt-save-obama-he-beat-him_753730.html
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Ali Kadhim
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September 11: Patriot Day in the United States
Swami Vivekananda
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“Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” Isaiah 46:4NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning

"And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him."
Mark 3:13
Here was sovereignty. Impatient spirits may fret and fume, because they are not called to the highest places in the ministry; but reader be it thine to rejoice that Jesus calleth whom he wills. If he shall leave me to be a doorkeeper in his house, I will cheerfully bless him for his grace in permitting me to do anything in his service. The call of Christ's servants comes from above. Jesus stands on the mountain, evermore above the world in holiness, earnestness, love and power. Those whom he calls must go up the mountain to him, they must seek to rise to his level by living in constant communion with him. They may not be able to mount to classic honours, or attain scholastic eminence, but they must like Moses go up into the mount of God and have familiar intercourse with the unseen God, or they will never be fitted to proclaim the gospel of peace. Jesus went apart to hold high fellowship with the Father, and we must enter into the same divine companionship if we would bless our fellowmen. No wonder that the apostles were clothed with power when they came down fresh from the mountain where Jesus was. This morning we must endeavour to ascend the mount of communion, that there we may be ordained to the lifework for which we are set apart. Let us not see the face of man today till we have seen Jesus. Time spent with him is laid out at blessed interest. We too shall cast out devils and work wonders if we go down into the world girded with that divine energy which Christ alone can give. It is of no use going to the Lord's battle till we are armed with heavenly weapons. We must see Jesus, this is essential. At the mercy-seat we will linger till he shall manifest himself unto us as he doth not unto the world, and until we can truthfully say, "We were with him in the Holy Mount."

Evening

"Evening wolves."
Habakkuk 1:8
While preparing the present volume, this particular expression recurred to me so frequently, that in order to be rid of its constant importunity I determined to give a page to it. The evening wolf, infuriated by a day of hunger, was fiercer and more ravenous than he would have been in the morning. May not the furious creature represent our doubts and fears after a day of distraction of mind, losses in business, and perhaps ungenerous tauntings from our fellow men? How our thoughts howl in our ears, "Where is now thy God?" How voracious and greedy they are, swallowing up all suggestions of comfort, and remaining as hungry as before. Great Shepherd, slay these evening wolves, and bid thy sheep lie down in green pastures, undisturbed by insatiable unbelief. How like are the fiends of hell to evening wolves, for when the flock of Christ are in a cloudy and dark day, and their sun seems going down, they hasten to tear and to devour. They will scarcely attack the Christian in the daylight of faith, but in the gloom of soul conflict they fall upon him. O thou who hast laid down thy life for the sheep, preserve them from the fangs of the wolf.
False teachers who craftily and industriously hunt for the precious life, devouring men by their false-hoods, are as dangerous and detestable as evening wolves. Darkness is their element, deceit is their character, destruction is their end. We are most in danger from them when they wear the sheep's skin. Blessed is he who is kept from them, for thousands are made the prey of grievous wolves that enter within the fold of the church.
What a wonder of grace it is when fierce persecutors are converted, for then the wolf dwells with the lamb, and men of cruel ungovernable dispositions become gentle and teachable. O Lord, convert many such: for such we will pray tonight.
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Today's reading: Proverbs 8-9, 2 Corinthians 3 (NIV)

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Today's Old Testament reading: Proverbs 8-9

Wisdom's Call
1 Does not wisdom call out?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
2 At the highest point along the way,
where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
3 beside the gate leading into the city,
at the entrance, she cries aloud:
4 "To you, O people, I call out;
I raise my voice to all mankind.
5 You who are simple, gain prudence;
you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.
6 Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say;
I open my lips to speak what is right.
7 My mouth speaks what is true,
for my lips detest wickedness.
8 All the words of my mouth are just;
none of them is crooked or perverse.
9 To the discerning all of them are right;
they are upright to those who have found knowledge.
10 Choose my instruction instead of silver,
knowledge rather than choice gold,
11 for wisdom is more precious than rubies,
and nothing you desire can compare with her....

Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 3

1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant-not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life....

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