From 2014
Success, they say, has many fathers. One event, said to have raised the spirit of Renaissance, happened on this day in 1336 when Petrarch claimed he climbed Mont Ventoux with his brother. The claim was made in a six thousand word letter he wrote almost fifteen years after the event, claiming he had composed the letter as he went on his journey. At the peak, he opened Augustine and read "People are moved to wonder by mountain peaks, by vast waves of the sea, by broad waterfalls on rivers, by the all-embracing extent of the ocean, by the revolutions of the stars. But in themselves they are uninterested." Regardless of the voracity of the claim, the renaissance is real. People nowadays climb mountains just for the view.
Today is the birthday of Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Marie de Medici, Wittgenstein, Jessica Lynch and Jet Li. Today is the date that includes the last moments of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Count Basie and Lucille Ball. Today is the day the White House announced the G7 agreed to move swiftly in applying sanctions to Russia over claims by Ukraine that Russia wants a world war. It will be a long time before the truth of the situation is known, but prima facie, Putin did a deal with Obama allowing Russia to seize part of Ukraine. It looks like Ukraine secret agents are killing people so as to smear Russia in retaliation. For world peace, it would be good for Obama to step aside. Because, after climbing Mont Ventoux, one goes down.
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School children being the pawns of activists is not new. The sixties peace marches featured children vs tear gas as Soviet Russia exploited the peace movement for political gain. Marxists are still doing that. BLM leaders can afford mansions as they advocate activists facing dire consequences for actions. The truth is not on the side of those seeking to defund police. But as the trial of Derek Chauvin shows, the law is on the side of drug dealers and users against the thin blue line.
As a policeman, Chauvin sought to protect and serve. As a congress woman, Waters seeks to exploit and divide. And in Lindfield, Sydney, NSW, Australia, we have a modern school where children post poster lies about police. Activists claim police hunt black people. The truth is black people are safer from rare events of police killing citizens than white people. However, mainstream news promotes lies told by radical left politicians.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Gaza and Israel Exchange Fire as Jerusalem Tensions IntensifyPutin Boosts Effort to Crush Opposition Led by Alexei Navalny
AOC Says Biden Has “Definitely Exceeded Expectations” of the Far-Left
BLM Co-Founder Calls for Abolishing Criminal Justice System
Bill Maher to the Young Far-Left: Your Views Are Stupid
Portland Mayor Finally Turns on Antifa – Asks Public to Identify Them
Capitol Hill
Ilhan Omar Wants to Create New Federal Board to Investigate Alleged Police Misconduct
New Photos Reveal Bill Clinton Welcomed Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as White House Guests in 1993
Pompeo Warns House GOP to Keep Lookout for Chinese Espionage
FDA Poised to Crack Down on Big Tobacco
“Progressive” Corporations Continue Lobbying Against Bill That Would Prohibit U.S. Firms From Using Slave Labor in China
Gov. DeSantis to Speak in Pennsylvania Amid Mounting Speculation of 2024 Run
Dems Threaten Retaliation Over Effort to Censure Maxine Waters
Trump Demands Arizona Gov Send Police or National Guard to Protect 2020 Election Audit
Biden Formally Recognizes Armenian Genocide
Culture War
Trump to Spend Summer in New Jersey
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Met With CCP Think-Tank Linked To “Favorable Coverage” Junkets
The Media’s Disregard for Facts and Truth
Rush Limbaugh Show’s Bo Snerdley to Launch Podcast
Yale Study: Racial Hysteria Is Hurting Dems
Sixth Circuit Court Sides With Pro-Lifers in Abortion Waiting Period Case
Last Week in Campus Insanity
Biden Admin Authorizes Flying LGBT Pride Flag at U.S. Embassies
State Legislatures Seek to Preempt Biden Gun Control Measures
Chauvin Sentencing Date Set as Judge Orders Juror Information Sealed Indefinitely
Economy
UK Cyber Spy Chief Warns China Could Rule World’s Technology
Chinese Firms Are Listing in the U.S. at a Record Pace Under Biden
Study Finds Most Economic News Reporting Suffers From Bias Favoring Richest Americans
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Warns of Railroad Industry Consolidation
Inside the NFT Bubble
How Meme Stocks Changed Wall Street
Consumer Prices Are Rising
Newsom Wants to End California Fracking by 2024, and All Oil Extraction by 2045
The Democrats’ Unemployment Bonuses Are Causing a Disastrous Labor Shortage
Swamp Watch
New Federal Regulations Threaten Cryptocurrencies
Black Business Owners Speak Out – George Floyd Square is a Crime-Ridden Disaster
Hundreds of U.S. Scientists Accused of Chinese Industrial Espionage
John Kerry Mocked as His Virtue Signaling Effort Collides With Reality
LA County DA George Gascon Dismantles Hardcore Gang Unit in Favor of a “New Public Health Approach”
Under Green New Deal, Climate Change Advisor to Reeducate Energy Workers
George W. Bush Leads Secret Push for Amnesty
Former Coca-Cola Employee Convicted of Stealing $120 Million Worth of Trade Secrets to Sell in China
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Biden Faces Decision on Guantanamo As US Troops Leave Afghanistan
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Horatius Cocles, "Horatius the one-eyed", was a Roman hero who defended the Pons Sublicius, the bridge that led across the Tiber to Rome, against the Etruscans in the second battle of the Naevian Meadow. Horatius was rewarded with as much land as he could plough around in a single day and a statue of him was erected in the temple of Vulcan. It is not known to what extent the story is based on real events.
Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay
http://conservativeweasel.blogspot.com/2011/12/horatius.html
http://www.bartleby.com/360/7/158.html
David Ball5 years ago
@buddy85442 The basis of modern jurisprudence seems to have been captured in your question. Well done.
Hitting conservatives is a popular game for the press. Angela Merkel is denounced as inviting millions of refugees into Europe. It is perfectly understandable that people would blame the sole conservative national chief for what happened. However, the truth is Greece, then Italy under socialist governments created the humanitarian crisis which presented Merkel with Hobson's choice. Imagine had Merkel declined? Press had already flooded railway and camps that had been filled with largely economic refugees. Merkel's government was a grand coalition which was dominated by conservatives, but hardly conservative.
Bill Cosby has been found guilty of a sex crime. Cosby lost it as the possibility of bail was discussed saying he does not own a plane. Or a conscience, apparently. CRISPR gene editing to bring back Tasmanian Tiger after eighty years. Very hard to achieve as the marsupial species was unique, and the closest sister species is pretty wide of the mark. Victoria, under Dan Andrews has achieved five of the lowest ten postcodes for average incomes. Last year Queensland had had seven of them. ALP pursue policy that promote poverty. Australian Tax Office gave a pizza joint an inflated tax bill to bankrupt them? If the ATO were corrupt, would they behave any differently?
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Here is a video I made Horatius Poem
Horatius Cocles, "Horatius the one-eyed", was a Roman hero who defended the Pons Sublicius, the bridge that led across the Tiber to Rome, against the Etruscans in the second battle of the Naevian Meadow. Horatius was rewarded with as much land as he could plough around in a single day and a statue of him was erected in the temple of Vulcan. It is not known to what extent the story is based on real events.
Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay
http://conservativeweasel.blogspot.com/2011/12/horatius.html
http://www.bartleby.com/360/7/158.html
David Ball5 years ago
@buddy85442 The basis of modern jurisprudence seems to have been captured in your question. Well done.
David Ball5 years ago
@buddy85442 You are missing the heroism for the ugly faults. Constantine's conversion was a death bed thing. But the greatness of Rome, IMHO, is that the criticism was possible and individualism praised. They branded and spread Christianity in a way the early church fathers did not anticipate but desired.
@buddy85442 You are missing the heroism for the ugly faults. Constantine's conversion was a death bed thing. But the greatness of Rome, IMHO, is that the criticism was possible and individualism praised. They branded and spread Christianity in a way the early church fathers did not anticipate but desired.
David Ball5 years ago
@buddy85442 That was considered, so I understand. Apparently one writer of the times considered the entire Roman Army cowardly except for Horatius. Even the officers who were with him but ran away at the last. It seems absurd he wasn't made into a pin cushion .. were the enemy really trying?
@buddy85442 That was considered, so I understand. Apparently one writer of the times considered the entire Roman Army cowardly except for Horatius. Even the officers who were with him but ran away at the last. It seems absurd he wasn't made into a pin cushion .. were the enemy really trying?
David Ball5 years ago
@buddy85442 Now that is something I can look for .. I was thinking of doing the Kipling "just so" stories ..
@buddy85442 Now that is something I can look for .. I was thinking of doing the Kipling "just so" stories ..
David Ball5 years ago
@buddy85442 Matthew Quigley is a fictional character from Quigley Down Under and I understand it is not based on reality. No licenses were ever issued to hunt Aborigines and although some documented murders took place no one turned a blind eye ala Jim Crow laws. I can't find Mudgin-Gal except for a women's shelter ?
@buddy85442 Matthew Quigley is a fictional character from Quigley Down Under and I understand it is not based on reality. No licenses were ever issued to hunt Aborigines and although some documented murders took place no one turned a blind eye ala Jim Crow laws. I can't find Mudgin-Gal except for a women's shelter ?
David Ball5 years ago
@buddy85442 Horatius was a historical figure, but the actual detail is in question. Heroic and warlike .. Romans loved him before they fell apart. I was reading the poem and I leave a link to a link of the poem lyric .. ;) Now I am off to look for those ones you suggest
https://rumble.com/vbka9p-horatius-poem.html@buddy85442 Horatius was a historical figure, but the actual detail is in question. Heroic and warlike .. Romans loved him before they fell apart. I was reading the poem and I leave a link to a link of the poem lyric .. ;) Now I am off to look for those ones you suggest
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Trump can achieve peace in Korea and press, who said he would start a nuclear war after Kim would nuke a US city are now saying Trump has been booted off a Fox TV show and Trump 'admitted' his lawyer, Cohen, paid off Daniels. The peace overtures are real, after Trump's bilateral activity has paid off after failed Clinton/Obama bullying multilateral efforts failed. Obama shrugged after student Warmbier was monstor-ed by NK to death. Trump has not admitted anything re Daniels. It is expected Cohen would have dealt with a pest, that is what lawyers do. Mueller is trying to be sacked because if he does something competent it will hurt Democrats. Hitting conservatives is a popular game for the press. Angela Merkel is denounced as inviting millions of refugees into Europe. It is perfectly understandable that people would blame the sole conservative national chief for what happened. However, the truth is Greece, then Italy under socialist governments created the humanitarian crisis which presented Merkel with Hobson's choice. Imagine had Merkel declined? Press had already flooded railway and camps that had been filled with largely economic refugees. Merkel's government was a grand coalition which was dominated by conservatives, but hardly conservative.
Bill Cosby has been found guilty of a sex crime. Cosby lost it as the possibility of bail was discussed saying he does not own a plane. Or a conscience, apparently. CRISPR gene editing to bring back Tasmanian Tiger after eighty years. Very hard to achieve as the marsupial species was unique, and the closest sister species is pretty wide of the mark. Victoria, under Dan Andrews has achieved five of the lowest ten postcodes for average incomes. Last year Queensland had had seven of them. ALP pursue policy that promote poverty. Australian Tax Office gave a pizza joint an inflated tax bill to bankrupt them? If the ATO were corrupt, would they behave any differently?
=== from 2017 ===
IPA Review April 2017 has an article on Free to Flourish by Daniel Wild, a research fellow at IPA. Aristotle had the word Eudaemonia to describe how people feel good at achieving well using their skill sets. It is kind of how an unemployed person who would like an income but subsists on welfare does not feel. It describes the success of capitalism in freeing people from poverty, compared to communism which tethers people to hopelessness. I love the IPA because these Libertarians get the culture war which needs to be fought. We need freedom of speech. We need a strong, independent press. We need real science, not alarmism. We need our ideas to be praised on merit. We need to excel.
Some things should not happen, but they do. Went to Dandenong Hospital to review blood test results and a urine sample. I had taken Thursday off last week to get the samples, but because of the urine sample being different to what normally happens, which is blood tests, I had to return to pathology the following day. My schedule is tight, and the aggravation of not completing an activity I've set time aside for is very irritating. It meant other activities had to be hurried. Only one can't hurry working with school kids. They have their own pace. The blood results were good, a mid 7 for blood sugar, which is in the healthy range. The urine sample results were missing. I'd taken two days from work to get make sure I had done everything I could to have results for the hospital when I showed. It doesn't matter it isn't paid work. I'm conscientious. How is it that my privacy prevents my doctor from seeing my results? That is FUBAR. My doctor congratulated me on my excellent blood results and suggested I have my stomach sectioned to eat less food. I declined. They also suggested I take medication which gives diarrhoea. I declined that too. I wonder who has my urine sample? Fosters?
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
Some things should not happen, but they do. Went to Dandenong Hospital to review blood test results and a urine sample. I had taken Thursday off last week to get the samples, but because of the urine sample being different to what normally happens, which is blood tests, I had to return to pathology the following day. My schedule is tight, and the aggravation of not completing an activity I've set time aside for is very irritating. It meant other activities had to be hurried. Only one can't hurry working with school kids. They have their own pace. The blood results were good, a mid 7 for blood sugar, which is in the healthy range. The urine sample results were missing. I'd taken two days from work to get make sure I had done everything I could to have results for the hospital when I showed. It doesn't matter it isn't paid work. I'm conscientious. How is it that my privacy prevents my doctor from seeing my results? That is FUBAR. My doctor congratulated me on my excellent blood results and suggested I have my stomach sectioned to eat less food. I declined. They also suggested I take medication which gives diarrhoea. I declined that too. I wonder who has my urine sample? Fosters?
=== from 2016 ===
Changes to negative gearing will not benefit Australia or the budget. Any change is likely to force a market correction where the average home owner will lose $20k. Any losses are likely to be felt most by renters. Yet a desperate political class are seriously entertaining the bad idea, because the Senate Cross bench are as irresponsible as the ALP and Greens. If changes are made and the market corrects, no one will be able to change it back and capture the lost money. It will be gone. The idea of taxing to prosperity is bad. The best way to achieve prosperity is to cut spending and remove trade restrictions that are counterproductive. Some will point at politicians and say they should cut their salaries by $20k. But a good politician is worth much more, and any bad politician will be too expensive if they are paid a dollar a year. The important thing is to vote wisely. Vote for a conservative. Sadly, there may not be a conservative in some seats. National Party gets my support. I want the Liberals to win government. But I don't like the Liberal Leader at the moment.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Many thousands of years of recorded history, and one expects to be able to find somewhere what works and what doesn't for any of many things. Compass, on ABC channel 2 puts forward a labyrinth as a healing sculpture. All one need do is toddle from beginning to middle to end. It is different to a maze, gushes the voice over. A maze might not end, but have traps and dead ends. Others have religion, but the secular ABC has a labyrinth. One wants to give hope for the terminally ill. Finding God can do that. Following a labyrinth may be comforting, like waiting in a dole queue, only not as rewarding. Petrarch's great achievement on this day was to climb a mountain. But he had another achievement, which was to platonically love a virtuous woman, Laura. Thought to be Laura de Noves, Petrarch first saw her when she was 17 and he was 23. She died age 38, and he was grief stricken. He wrote poetry about her, not persuasive, so as to succumb to him, but exalting. And the renaissance began when a religious man fell in love. And he didn't get lost in the labyrinth of unrequited love. And the renaissance possibly ended in an ABC Labyrinth.
Nepal has needs, and has been struck by an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. People are missing, buildings damaged, but there are remarkably many who are safe. Even so, at least 1900 have known to have died. The mountain has tragedy and inspiration, even today after Petrarch first noted it in 1336. Petrarch noted a mountain in Europe, not Nepal, but the great height and achievement remain. Give generously to Nepal. ABC Insiders presents three journalists none of which understand the conservative position on any policy. They accept, without question the most specious statements made by the opposition shadow health minister. There is no need to give public money to the ABC. They need to earn it by setting a good standard.
On this day in 1478, The Pazzi, a banking family, attack Lorenzo De Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass. Banking was serious back then too. Shakespeare was baptised on this day. It might mean he was born six days earlier. In 1802, Napoleon allowed former nobles to return to France. It was to help him secure his imperial crown. In 1803, thousands of meteor fragments fell in France, convincing scientists that meteors exist. No one knows what it will take to convince the religious regarding AGW hysteria. In 1865, Union soldiers found John Wilkes Booth in a warehouse and killed him there. In 1923, The Duke of York, and future king, married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen's Mother. In 1937, the German Luftwaffe bombed Guernica in Spain. In 1942, the Benxihu colliery accident killed 1549 Chinese miners. In 1944, a heroic operation resulted in the capture of German General Kreipe in Crete. In 1945, some US and Filipino troops were liberated. They used their freedom to fight Japanese forces under General Yamashita. In 1956, the first successful container ship, SS Ideal X, sailed from NJ to Texas. In 1963, the Libyan constitution allowed women to vote. In 1965, a Rolling Stones concert shut down after 15 mins due to rioting. In 1981, the world's first open fetal surgery was performed. In 1982, an utterly selfish police officer in South Korea killed 56 people, including himself. He had been worried by what people thought about him. In 1986, the worst ever nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl. Nuclear power stations today are far safer.
Nepal has needs, and has been struck by an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. People are missing, buildings damaged, but there are remarkably many who are safe. Even so, at least 1900 have known to have died. The mountain has tragedy and inspiration, even today after Petrarch first noted it in 1336. Petrarch noted a mountain in Europe, not Nepal, but the great height and achievement remain. Give generously to Nepal. ABC Insiders presents three journalists none of which understand the conservative position on any policy. They accept, without question the most specious statements made by the opposition shadow health minister. There is no need to give public money to the ABC. They need to earn it by setting a good standard.
On this day in 1478, The Pazzi, a banking family, attack Lorenzo De Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass. Banking was serious back then too. Shakespeare was baptised on this day. It might mean he was born six days earlier. In 1802, Napoleon allowed former nobles to return to France. It was to help him secure his imperial crown. In 1803, thousands of meteor fragments fell in France, convincing scientists that meteors exist. No one knows what it will take to convince the religious regarding AGW hysteria. In 1865, Union soldiers found John Wilkes Booth in a warehouse and killed him there. In 1923, The Duke of York, and future king, married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen's Mother. In 1937, the German Luftwaffe bombed Guernica in Spain. In 1942, the Benxihu colliery accident killed 1549 Chinese miners. In 1944, a heroic operation resulted in the capture of German General Kreipe in Crete. In 1945, some US and Filipino troops were liberated. They used their freedom to fight Japanese forces under General Yamashita. In 1956, the first successful container ship, SS Ideal X, sailed from NJ to Texas. In 1963, the Libyan constitution allowed women to vote. In 1965, a Rolling Stones concert shut down after 15 mins due to rioting. In 1981, the world's first open fetal surgery was performed. In 1982, an utterly selfish police officer in South Korea killed 56 people, including himself. He had been worried by what people thought about him. In 1986, the worst ever nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl. Nuclear power stations today are far safer.
From 2014
Success, they say, has many fathers. One event, said to have raised the spirit of Renaissance, happened on this day in 1336 when Petrarch claimed he climbed Mont Ventoux with his brother. The claim was made in a six thousand word letter he wrote almost fifteen years after the event, claiming he had composed the letter as he went on his journey. At the peak, he opened Augustine and read "People are moved to wonder by mountain peaks, by vast waves of the sea, by broad waterfalls on rivers, by the all-embracing extent of the ocean, by the revolutions of the stars. But in themselves they are uninterested." Regardless of the voracity of the claim, the renaissance is real. People nowadays climb mountains just for the view.
Today is the birthday of Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Marie de Medici, Wittgenstein, Jessica Lynch and Jet Li. Today is the date that includes the last moments of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Count Basie and Lucille Ball. Today is the day the White House announced the G7 agreed to move swiftly in applying sanctions to Russia over claims by Ukraine that Russia wants a world war. It will be a long time before the truth of the situation is known, but prima facie, Putin did a deal with Obama allowing Russia to seize part of Ukraine. It looks like Ukraine secret agents are killing people so as to smear Russia in retaliation. For world peace, it would be good for Obama to step aside. Because, after climbing Mont Ventoux, one goes down.
Today is the birthday of Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Marie de Medici, Wittgenstein, Jessica Lynch and Jet Li. Today is the date that includes the last moments of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Count Basie and Lucille Ball. Today is the day the White House announced the G7 agreed to move swiftly in applying sanctions to Russia over claims by Ukraine that Russia wants a world war. It will be a long time before the truth of the situation is known, but prima facie, Putin did a deal with Obama allowing Russia to seize part of Ukraine. It looks like Ukraine secret agents are killing people so as to smear Russia in retaliation. For world peace, it would be good for Obama to step aside. Because, after climbing Mont Ventoux, one goes down.
Historical perspective on this day
In 1336, Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascended Mont Ventoux. 1478, the Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. 1564, Playwright William Shakespeare was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown). 1607, English colonists made landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. 1721, a massive earthquake devastated the Iranian city of Tabriz.
In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte signed a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule. 1803, thousands of meteor fragments fell from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist. 1805, First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. 1865, American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states. Also 1865, Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
In 1903, Atlético Madrid Association football club was founded 1923, The Duke of Yorkwedded Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. 1925, Paul von Hindenburgdefeated Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. 1933, the Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established. 1937, Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. 1942, Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo left 1549 Chinese miners dead. 1943, the Easter Riots broke out in Uppsala, Sweden. 1944, Georgios Papandreou became head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. Also 1944, Heinrich Kreipe was captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. 1945, World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. Also 1945, World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army were liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
In 1954, the Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, began. 1956, SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. 1958, final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. 1960, forced out by the April Revolution, President of South KoreaSyngman Rhee resigned after twelve years of dictatorial rule. 1962, NASA's Ranger 4spacecraft crashed into the Moon. 1963, in Libya, amendments to the constitution transformed Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allowed for female participation in elections. 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. 1965, a Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario was shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. 1966, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroyed Tashkent. also 1966, a new government was formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organizationentered into force.
In 1981, Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performed the world's first human open fetal surgery. 1982, fifty-seven people were killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 1989, the deadliest tornado in world history struck Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. Also 1989, People's Daily published the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflamed the nascent Tiananmen Square protests 1991, seventy tornadoes broke out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). 1994, China Airlines Flight 140 crashed at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. 2002, Robert Steinhäuser infiltrated and killed 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasiumin Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. 2005, under international pressure, Syria withdrew the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte signed a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule. 1803, thousands of meteor fragments fell from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist. 1805, First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. 1865, American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states. Also 1865, Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
In 1903, Atlético Madrid Association football club was founded 1923, The Duke of Yorkwedded Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. 1925, Paul von Hindenburgdefeated Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. 1933, the Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established. 1937, Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. 1942, Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo left 1549 Chinese miners dead. 1943, the Easter Riots broke out in Uppsala, Sweden. 1944, Georgios Papandreou became head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. Also 1944, Heinrich Kreipe was captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. 1945, World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. Also 1945, World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army were liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
In 1954, the Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, began. 1956, SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. 1958, final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. 1960, forced out by the April Revolution, President of South KoreaSyngman Rhee resigned after twelve years of dictatorial rule. 1962, NASA's Ranger 4spacecraft crashed into the Moon. 1963, in Libya, amendments to the constitution transformed Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allowed for female participation in elections. 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. 1965, a Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario was shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. 1966, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroyed Tashkent. also 1966, a new government was formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organizationentered into force.
In 1981, Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performed the world's first human open fetal surgery. 1982, fifty-seven people were killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 1989, the deadliest tornado in world history struck Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. Also 1989, People's Daily published the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflamed the nascent Tiananmen Square protests 1991, seventy tornadoes broke out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). 1994, China Airlines Flight 140 crashed at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. 2002, Robert Steinhäuser infiltrated and killed 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasiumin Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. 2005, under international pressure, Syria withdrew the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
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Today's reading: 2 Samuel 21-22, Luke 18:24-43 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: 2 Samuel 21-22
The Gibeonites Avenged
1 During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, "It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death."
2 The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.) 3 David asked the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? How shall I make atonement so that you will bless the LORD's inheritance?"
4 The Gibeonites answered him, "We have no right to demand silver or gold from Saul or his family, nor do we have the right to put anyone in Israel to death..."
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 18:24-43
24 Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
26 Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?"
27 Jesus replied, "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
28 Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!"
29 "Truly I tell you," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life...."
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Morning
Lo, I hear the voice of my Beloved! He speaks to me! Fair weather is smiling upon the face of the earth, and he would not have me spiritually asleep while nature is all around me awaking from her winter's rest. He bids me "Rise up," and well he may; for I have long enough been lying among the pots of worldliness. He is risen, I am risen in him, why then should I cleave unto the dust? From lower loves, desires, pursuits, and aspirations, I would rise towards him. He calls me by the sweet title of "My love," and counts me fair; this is a good argument for my rising. If he has thus exalted me, and thinks me thus comely, how can I linger in the tents of Kedar and find congenial associates among the sons of men? He bids me "Come away." Further and further from everything selfish, grovelling, worldly, sinful, he calls me; yea, from the outwardly religious world which knows him not, and has no sympathy with the mystery of the higher life, he calls me. "Come away" has no harsh sound in it to my ear, for what is there to hold me in this wilderness of vanity and sin? O my Lord, would that I could come away, but I am taken among the thorns, and cannot escape from them as I would. I would, if it were possible, have neither eyes, nor ears, nor heart for sin. Thou callest me to thyself by saying "Come away," and this is a melodious call indeed. To come to thee is to come home from exile, to come to land out of the raging storm, to come to rest after long labour, to come to the goal of my desires and the summit of my wishes. But Lord, how can a stone rise, how can a lump of clay come away from the horrible pit? O raise me, draw me. Thy grace can do it. Send forth thy Holy Spirit to kindle sacred flames of love in my heart, and I will continue to rise until I leave life and time behind me, and indeed come away.
Evening
What is your desire this evening? Is it set upon heavenly things? Do you long to enjoy the high doctrine of eternal love? Do you desire liberty in very close communion with God? Do you aspire to know the heights, and depths, and lengths, and breadths? Then you must draw near to Jesus; you must get a clear sight of him in his preciousness and completeness; you must view him in his work, in his offices, in his person. He who understands Christ, receives an anointing from the Holy One, by which he knows all things. Christ is the great master-key of all the chambers of God; there is no treasure-house of God which will not open and yield up all its wealth to the soul that lives near to Jesus. Are you saying, "O that he would dwell in my bosom"? "Would that he would make my heart his dwelling-place forever"? Open the door, beloved, and he will come into your souls. He has long been knocking, and all with this object, that he may sup with you, and you with him. He sups with you because you find the house or the heart, and you with him because he brings the provision. He could not sup with you if it were not in your heart, you finding the house; nor could you sup with him, for you have a bare cupboard, if he did not bring provision with him. Fling wide, then, the portals of your soul. He will come with that love which you long to feel; he will come with that joy into which you cannot work your poor depressed spirit; he will bring the peace which now you have not; he will come with his flagons of wine and sweet apples of love, and cheer you till you have no other sickness but that of "love o'erpowering, love divine." Only open the door to him, drive out his enemies, give him the keys of your heart, and he will dwell there forever. Oh, wondrous love, that brings such a guest to dwell in such a heart!
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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.
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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 (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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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.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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