Saturday, April 10, 2021

Sat 10th April 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Sat 10th April 2021 The Magnificent Life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Philip was a son of the Danish and Greek royal families. Educated in France, Germany and UK, he dedicated his life to public service. He first met his future wife in 1934, when he was 13 years old. In 1939, age 18, he fought for UK in the navy. A member of the Greatest Generation, he had been among the cream at the top.

As Prince consort, Philip modernised the royal family. As an acolyte of educator Kurt Hahn, Philip established the Duke of Edinburgh awards promoting healthy lifestyle for generations of children. 

Recently, in Australia, former PM Tony Abbott engaged process awarding a knighthood to Philip for service. It was deserved, but an ambitious but incompetent Malcolm Turnbull successfully led a campaign upending it. It was an insult from Malcolm Turnbull, who went on to fail badly as a conservative leader. However, Philip was a giver, and only retired from public service at age 96. My commiserations to his family for their loss, I applaud the magnificent life Prince Philip.


Editorial Fri 9th April 2021 Current Affairs
In 2015, today a policeman, Michael Slager, Police for North Charlestone, stopped Walter Scott for a non functioning brake light. Moments afterwards, Slager shot and killed Scott as Scott was running away. Video allegedly contradicted Slager's statement regarding the incident. The racial overtones blew up into a national inquiry and Slager was subsequently charged with murder, but pled to civil rights violations, and is now in jail following a 20 year federal sentence. 

On January 6th, 2021, policeman Brian Sicknick died during a Pro Dem incursion to a GOP rally in the Capitol. Today, no cause of death was given Sicknick while four others who died at the event have had their cause of deaths released. Is it because the media narrative regarding Jan 6th rally does not fit the fact of the officer's death? Has Slager's imprisonment been a result of blind lady justice, or political expediency? Isn't it worth asking about due process while the Floyd George case is operative?  

Of the cause of deaths for Jan 6th that were revealed, press expose reported immediately following and in the weeks after had been substantially wrong. The press narrative of events seems very wrong. About as wrong as giving a free pass to a Vice President who organised a sting involving a civilian airliner being shot down in Ukraine so as to blame Russia?

Editorial for Easter Sunday

Miracles happen, unexpected, during times of great evil. And some miracles are underpinned by ordinary things. Jesus' resurrection was no ordinary thing. His killing was unwarranted, but carried out by the complicit world. Yet that very terrible, evil act, was the basis of God's victory over the Devil. 

In a more modern context, great evil has been perpetrated on the US peoples with the 2020 election fraud. A complicit technocracy has facilitated worse to come. NYY's manager, Boon, has praised MLB for moving their all star game from Georgia as Georgia moved to protect voting rights for their constituents, so voter fraud like 2020 does not happen again. Thank you Mr Boon, we know where you stand on freedom and racism. Former President, Trump, has called for there to be a ban on MLB from MAGA supporters. I will watch and follow, but contribute nothing to MLB. Just as I despised the NYY team I follow last year when their star player, Judge, proudly announced he would take the knee in support of racism. NYY finished the year on their knees. 

In Hollywood attacks on conservatives predate the invention of motion pictures. STAN, the streaming business in Australia, has two series worth comparing, Blue Bloods and City on a Hill. Blue Bloods harks back to the Giuliani years where a police force was effective and committed. The Reagan family and their nightly dinners show decent people fighting the good fight. City on a Hill is a name with religious overtones, suggestive of the light USA shines around the world to maintain freedom. It is narrated around the so called Boston Miracle where authorities limited young kids from killing each other with guns. 0.03% of people usually account for over half of all crime. The New York experience suggests only GOP will reduce crime. City on a Hill begins with race baiting and lying about what police are like, and how responsible adults behave. In their world, it is a free thinker that despises God, and has a hard bitten attitude to sex, drugs and crime. STAN, in Australia has shadow banned the clean cut Blue Bloods and promoted City on a Hill. 

But, now for the ordinary miracle. Some will get upset and Ban MLB, or STAN. The majority of States will implement improvements to voting regulation. Disenchantment with Dem politics and antics will see GOP crush them in '22 and reverse the damage done. Hidden by the fraud, is the observation that those who supported Trump in '20, but not '16, some twelve million voters, were traditional Democrat supporters who liked Trump policy. Democrat support base is imploding, held up only by fraud where, were every voter who supported them to hold up two hands, they would not reach 82 million. 
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Joe Biden is either really dopey, or he’s an unrepentant liar. In this episode, I break down the lies behind his outrageous gun confiscation proposals, pitched during his Rose Garden speech.

News Picks:

=== Bongino Headlines ===
Psaki Confronted About Biden’s Hypocrisy on Court Packing

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Pay Tribute to Prince Philip

Hunter Biden: I Did Nothing Wrong… But I Wouldn’t Do It Again

Biden Proposes Holding DHS Budget Flat Amid Historic Surge at Border

Two U.S. Warships to Deploy Near Ukraine Until May

The SCOTUS’ Barrier to Biden’s Gun Control Agenda

Capitol Hill
Trump Endorses Marco Rubio for 2022 Re-Election
Arizona AG: Kamala Hasn’t Responded to Invites to Tour the Border
Biden Proposes $715 Billion for Pentagon in First Budget Outline (vs. Trump’s Proposed $722B)
Arizona Governor Signs Bill Making State a Second Amendment Sanctuary
Ted Cruz: Republican Senators Oppose Biden Funding to Palestinians As a Violation of Anti-Terror Law
Trump Endorses Ron Johnson – “Run, Ron, Run!”
Ilhan Omar Very Upset Border Wall Construction May Resume
Psaki Won’t Answer if She Thinks Biden’s Background Check Legislation Will Actually Pass
The Many Falsehoods of Biden’s Gun Control Speech
Don Jr. Points Out Gun Control Laws Broken by Hunter Biden as Joe Pushes New Laws
Mark Meadows Says “Better Than 50-50” Odds Trump Runs Again

Culture War
Cuomo and de Blasio “Dumb and Dumber” Billboard Erected in New York City
Chicago Teachers Union Blocks Schools From Reopening (Again)
CNN Op-Ed Argues Certain Fonts Can Perpetuate Anti-Asian Racism – Cites Two Examples From Past 144 Years
CDC: Racism a “Serious Public Health Threat”
Tucker Carlson: They’re Not Trying to Control Guns, They’re Trying to Control You
Several NY Times Staff Previously Worked for China State Propaganda Outlet “China Daily”
Flashback: In 2009, Climate Envoy John Kerry Predicted the Arctic’s First Ice-Free Summer in Five Years
YouTube Censors Video of FL Gov DeSantis’ Coronavirus Roundtable Challenging the Lockdown Consensus
Black Student Identified as “White Supremacist” Behind Racist Campus Graffiti Incidents
National Archives Won’t Be Allowed to Restore Trump’s Tweets on Platform

Economy
Alabama Amazon Warehouse Workers Reject Forming Union
How Americans’ Views of the Economy Have Changed Throughout the Pandemic
Japanese Investors Dumped $5.6 Billion of U.S. Debt in February
A Quarter of the Unemployed Have Been Jobless for Over a Year
“Appraisal Gap” Complicates Real Estate Deals
Bloomberg Analysts Are Bullish on Bitcoin
Remote Workers Don’t Want to Go Back to the Office
More of New York’s Wealthiest Residents Prepare to Flee
Florida Sues CDC to Resume U.S. Cruise Sailings
California Moves to Ban Fracking
New York Creates $2 Billion Relief Fund for Illegals

Swamp Watch
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Buys $1.4 Million Home in Town That’s 1.4% Black
Images of Abandoned Children Magnify Sense of Crisis at Southern Border
BLM Activists Force Their Way Into Iowa State Capitol
Biden’s Border Crisis Is the Worst Since 2006, Blowing Trump’s Out of the Water
Hunter Biden’s Autobiography Conveniently Leaves Out the Sordid Details Found on His Laptop
Mayorkas to Visit the Southern Border Rather Than Biden or Harris
TX Gov Abbott Opens Investigation Into Reports of Sexual Assault, Abuse at San Antonio Migrant Shelter for Minors
Mueller Investigator Assisting NY Prosecutors in Trump Organization Case
CNN’s Jake Tapper Touts MLB’s Georgia Departure, Defends CNN’s Atlanta HQ
=== Newsmax headlines ===
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-supreme-court-commission-expansion/2021/04/09/id/1016993/?oRef=mixi

Biden Presidency
7 Takeaways From Biden's Budget Proposal: Defense, Immigration, Climate
Fred Keller to Newsmax TV: Biden ‘Broke’ Border System |
White House Urges Private Investment to Help Stem Migrant Surge
Brian Babin to Newsmax TV: Biden, Harris ‘Do Not Want to See’ the Border |
Iran Atomic Talks Progress Could Set Stage for Blinken and Zarif
Zionist Organization Of America 'Strongly Opposes' Removing Iran Sanctions
US May Send Warships to Russia Over 'Concern' of Presence in Ukraine
Florida Sues Biden Admin Over Cruise Ban

Newsfront
Gaetz Set for 'Women for America First Summit' Speech Amid Allegations
In the midst of a firestorm of unsubstantiated accusations aimed at him, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is pressing on with a high-profile Friday evening speech at the Women for America First Summit held at Trump National Doral in Miami. The allegations threatening to ensnare...... [Full Story]

Related Stories
Gaetz Taps Trump Defense Lawyer; House Panel Opens Inquiry

Britain's Prince Philip Dies at 99
Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth who played a leading [Full Story]
Related
Prince Harry Expected to Return to UK Following Prince Philip's Death
Donald Trump on Prince Philip: He 'Defined British Dignity and Grace'
Despite Loss of Husband, Little Sign Queen Elizabeth Will Abdicate
World Reacts to Death of Britain's Prince Philip
UK PM Boris Johnson Pays Tribute to Prince Philip
Ex-PM Tony Blair Praises Work of Prince Philip
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Here is a video I made Envoy

Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 -- 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893. Francis Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote three books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907.
https://rumble.com/vbhnwh-envoy-by-oddball.html

=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Australia is still a great Liberal Democracy even though progressives have neutered free speech. Israel Folau is a young athlete who has strong religious convictions. I'm not allowed to quibble with his convictions, although I could, respectfully without bitter acrimony. And Folau is adult and competent and he could argue his position. Except he can't. Folau twittered about God not accepting Gays. And in Christian theology the battle lines on the statement are old. Sin is opposition to God and the penalty is death. Homosexuality, it may be argued, is sinful. But then so is heterosexuality. We aren't supposed to be looking at everyone as bedmates. That kind of lifestyle does not bring glory to God. Does not serve God. It is not the accepted way of multiplying. Folau need not worry about that. Folau has offended Qantas CEO Joyce, although Folau probably did not intend to. So Folau's contract with Qantas has been torn up because Joyce is offended. How dare Joyce be offended! Joyce is allowed under 18c. Folau is not. Australia's democracy still exists, but is care worn, and shaky, without the needed underpinning of freedom of speech. I'm offended by that. 
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Almost a year ago I was given Hobson's choice by Dandenong Courts to accept a mediation agreement with a pedophile ice addict who had terrorised me and taken my ID. I had been assured by the court mediation officer that I could rescind it at any time within the year and get a permanent order. Today I faced the duty clerk and was asked to provide an example of a transgression. I am not aware of any, and so the voluntary protection order will lapse and I have no recourse should my ID be exploited by the contacts the pedophile ice user has. That is an illustration of what is wrong with Dan Andrews' Victoria. The police know who he is, and where he is, but they can do nothing. And the papers can report the statistics which won't include my issue because Dan Andrews has hidden it. And Dan Andrews will have done that for a lot of ice using pedophiles. 
=== from 2016 ===
An inner city Green in Sydney denounces police sniffer dogs being used to find drugs in the broader community, including rave parties where they have been effective in preventing deaths. The media are happy to carry her memes to the wider public. Some ADL type scum take it upon themselves not to argue with the idiot Green, but abuse them on social media. Helen Dale, wife of SMH editor David Dale gets information that these ADL types include police. So Helen Dale, including the acronym ACAB (All Cops Are Bad), has said she wishes to expose the 'police corruption.' Interestingly, Dale says she would not employ 18c as it is a federal statute for what she feels is a state issue. She also says that 18c is not good at some things, and provides, among a few examples, "Does the Jewish lobby in Australia or elsewhere milk the historical fact of the Holocaust to leverage political advantage for Israel? If so, is this morally legitimate?"

Apparently Dale does not respect Jews, or like it that sniffer dogs prevent teen deaths. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility. 
=== from 2015 ===
It is ok to die old and blessed, and Richie Benaud achieved it. But then he had often achieved much in the world of competitive, team sports. His father had once taken all ten wickets in a first grade match. Taken to the SCG to watch Don Bradman bat, Richie saw Clarrie Grimmet claim 7 wickets in an innings and became enamoured with spin bowling. Richie was often selected in his younger days as a specialist bat who could bowl, he finished as a world class leg spin bowler who could bat. But at the age of 34, in 1964, Benaud retired. He had a shoulder which had worn over the years and medicine wasn't up to keeping him playing. But the imaginative, aggressive captain turned to the BBC and journalism. Showing the dedication, flair and hard work which underpinned his playing career, Richie became the voice of cricket. Early in his test career, Richie hit the third fastest test century to the date (in terms of time, not balls faced). He captained Australia against Frank Worrell's West Indies in the first ever tied test. He finished his career with Australia's then record highest test tally of 248 wickets. He loved cricket.

But from blessing to tragedy in Leeton, NSW, where a popular high school teacher who had left work for another teacher, relieving them of duty, as she prepared for her wedding, was instead murdered by what seems to be a school cleaner. The wedding was scheduled for tomorrow, but last Sunday she disappeared after 1pm at the school. The cleaner apparently has a photo on his phone of her dead body. Also it is said he had the keys issued to her to open the classroom at the school on a Sunday. The cleaner has been arrested. Nothing is known of his past history suggestive of this tragedy. Her car is missing. And if it is ok to die old and blessed, the enormity of tearing away life from a young person is a higher measure.

A US cop is still being pursued mercilessly by a racist crowd convinced he should be convicted of murder. No evidence yet shows why. He shot a man 8 times as they were running from him. That isn't proper behaviour of a policeman. But we don't yet know why or what happened. There was nothing in his past suggesting he would. And so it could be in the line of duty. What is clear is that it is dangerous to resist arrest. If it is the case the deceased had resisted arrest and proven a threat, then the policeman needs to be exonerated.  
From 2014
It was a throw away line from me during class but it really offended a few students who insisted on getting their opinion out there. One trenchant Islamic apologist had made comments like "The US is collapsing like Rome did," "Australia is terrible with her treatment of refugees," and "America is chasing oil money engaging in war in Iraq." It was 2002, and President Bush had remarked how it was strange that when the world had clear examples of the triumph of Capitalism over Communism, yet still socialist advocates denied reality and embraced fascism. So I pointed to the example of Vietnam and said she was a great people with a despicable government and that the government would not last forever, but their people would prosper. Not a Mathematics related topic, but my kids did well enough in that, so that it would not be productive of me to push that harder, but hearing balanced debate on current issues wouldn't harm. One Chinese ethnic girl said "What about China? Those people are great too." I replied "Yes, but Chinese bureaucracy is a different thing altogether. A great people, but as Tiananmen Square has illustrated progress would be slower than Vietnam."

The US certainly resembles the last days of Rome under Obama, but that is temporary. Soon, he will be a lame duck President. Then there will be rebuilding. Australia was generous with refugees under Howard, and the Pacific Solution is clearly fairer than the ALP alternative. The US clearly did not pursue Iraq for oil, but those that hate America will continue to make the claim. They have claimed the US should not have toppled Hussein. When it comes to that debate I know the side of reason. But a tragedy happened on this day in 2010 which illustrates the greatness and resilience of a people long subjugated by communism. Margaret Thatcher died yesterday last year, but the tragedy of the death of Lech Aleksander Kaczyński and company will be long felt. He was President of Poland, and many serving people from the administration died alongside him in the crash at Smolensk in Russia. Kaczyński was a conservative and he had left a vision of a free and fair Poland that has not been forgotten. They have worked hard to address the endemic corruption which was part of the Soviet era. They make stupid mistakes at times, like the one where they opposed male circumcision, but it is a dumb mistake that is their own, not imposed by a foreign dictator bent on socialism. Conservatives don't agree on everything everywhere, that is something the left try to do. But Conservatives tend to those vital areas which foster freedom and bolster cultural assets. The king dies, but the kingdom goes on. And a great people will not be denied. It is my hope that the great people of Poland will not forget their Jewish peoples. They cannot raise the dead, but they must allow all their people to prosper, not merely a few. 
Historical perspective on this day
In 428, Nestorius became Patriarch of Constantinople. 837, Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). 879, Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks. 1407, the lama Deshin Shekpa visited the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He was awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma". 1500, Ludovico Sforza was captured by Swiss troops at Novaraand was handed over to the French. 1606, the Virginia Company of London was established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. 1710, the Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, came into force in Great Britain. 1741, War of the Austrian Succession (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843): defeat for Austria at Mollwitzon this date.

In 1809, Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began when forces of the Austrian Empire invaded Bavaria. 1815, the Mount Tambora volcano began a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately killed 71,000 people and affected Earth's climate for the next two years. 1816, the Federal government of the United Statesapproved the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. 1821, Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople was hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body was thrown into the Bosphorus. 1826, the 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi began leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survived. 1856, the Theta Chi fraternity was founded at Norwich Universityin Vermont. 1858, after the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it was recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry. 1864, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg was proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico. 1865, American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addressed his troops for the last time. 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York City by Henry Bergh. 1868, at Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeated an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians were killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops died. 1872, the first Arbor Day was celebrated in Nebraska. 1887, on Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIIIauthorised the establishment of The Catholic University of America.

In 1904, British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribed the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law. 1912, RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage. 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) was created in New York City. 1919, Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. 1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1941, World War II: The Axis powersin Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from the Birkenau death camp. 1953, Warner Bros. premiered the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. 1957, the Suez Canal was reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. 1959, Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, married Michiko. 1963, one hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sank at sea. 1968, New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine foundered and sank at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.

In 1970, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. 1971, Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosted the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit. 1972, twenty days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro was murdered by communist guerrillas. Also 1972, Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, were accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. Also 1972, Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly began bombing North Vietnam. Also 1972, seventy-four nations signed the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons. 1973, a British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashed in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people. 1979, Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado landed in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.

In 1988, the Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabadas a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast. 1991, Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collided with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. Also 1991, A raretropical storm developed in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. 1998, Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement). 2009, President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced he would suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. 2010, Polish Air ForceTu-154M crashed near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials 2014, Kathleen Sebelius resigned as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in light of fallout from the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov.

=== Bible Reading ===

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Today's reading: 1 Samuel 13-14, Luke 10:1-24 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Samuel 13-14

Samuel Rebukes Saul
1 Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
2 Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.
3 Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul had the trumpet blown throughout the land and said, "Let the Hebrews hear!" 4 So all Israel heard the news: "Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel has become obnoxious to the Philistines." And the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal....

Today's New Testament reading: Luke 10:1-24

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two
1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.2 He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. 3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.
5 "When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' 6If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. 7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house....

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"And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him."
Luke 23:27
Amid the rabble rout which hounded the Redeemer to his doom, there were some gracious souls whose bitter anguish sought vent in wailing and lamentations--fit music to accompany that march of woe. When my soul can, in imagination, see the Saviour bearing his cross to Calvary, she joins the godly women and weeps with them; for, indeed, there is true cause for grief--cause lying deeper than those mourning women thought. They bewailed innocence maltreated, goodness persecuted, love bleeding, meekness about to die; but my heart has a deeper and more bitter cause to mourn. My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried "Crucify him! crucify him!" and laid the cross upon his gracious shoulders. His being led forth to die is sorrow enough for one eternity: but my having been his murderer, is more, infinitely more, grief than one poor fountain of tears can express.
Why those women loved and wept it were not hard to guess: but they could not have had greater reasons for love and grief than my heart has. Nain's widow saw her son restored--but I myself have been raised to newness of life. Peter's wife's mother was cured of the fever--but I of the greater plague of sin. Out of Magdalene seven devils were cast--but a whole legion out of me. Mary and Martha were favoured with visits--but he dwells with me. His mother bare his body--but he is formed in me the hope of glory. In nothing behind the holy women in debt, let me not be behind them in gratitude or sorrow.
"Love and grief my heart dividing,
With my tears his feet I'll lave--
Constant still in heart abiding,
Weep for him who died to save."

Evening

"thy gentleness hath made me great."
Psalm 18:35

The words are capable of being translated, "thy goodness hath made me great." David gratefully ascribed all his greatness not to his own goodness, but the goodness of God. "Thy providence," is another reading; and providence is nothing more than goodness in action. Goodness is the bud of which providence is the flower, or goodness is the seed of which providence is the harvest. Some render it, "thy help," which is but another word for providence; providence being the firm ally of the saints, aiding them in the service of their Lord. Or again, "thy humility hath made me great." "Thy condescension" may, perhaps, serve as a comprehensive reading, combining the ideas mentioned, including that of humility. It is God's making himself little which is the cause of our being made great. We are so little, that if God should manifest his greatness without condescension, we should be trampled under his feet; but God, who must stoop to view the skies, and bow to see what angels do, turns his eye yet lower, and looks to the lowly and contrite, and makes them great. There are yet other readings, as for instance, the Septuagint, which reads, "thy discipline"--thy fatherly correction--"hath made me great;" while the Chaldee paraphrase reads, "thy word hath increased me." Still the idea is the same. David ascribes all his own greatness to the condescending goodness of his Father in heaven. May this sentiment be echoed in our hearts this evening while we cast our crowns at Jesus' feet, and cry, "thy gentleness hath made me great." How marvellous has been our experience of God's gentleness! How gentle have been his corrections! How gentle his forbearance! How gentle his teachings! How gentle his drawings! Meditate upon this theme, O believer. Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened ere thou fallest asleep tonight.

=== Bible Quote ===

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“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” - Hebrews 1:3
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Via Wikipedia
"Those to whom Hebrews is written seem to have begun to doubt whether Jesus could really be the Messiah for whom they were waiting, because they believed the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures was to come as a militant king and destroy the enemies of his people. Jesus, however, came as a mere man who was arrested by the Jewish leaders and who suffered and was crucified by the Romans. And although he was seen resurrected, he still left the earth and his people, who now face persecution rather than victory. The Book of Hebrews solves this problem by arguing that the Hebrew Scriptures also foretold that the Messiah would be a priest (although of a different sort than the traditional Levitical priests) and Jesus came to fulfill this role, as a sacrificial offering to God, to atone for sins. His role of a king is yet to come, and so those who follow him should be patient and not be surprised that they suffer for now."

Authorship of the Epistle is argued as being from a woman of high standing within the church, Priscilla. "Because of its anonymity, it had some trouble being accepted as part of the Christian canon, being classed with the Antilegomena. Eventually it was accepted as scripture because of its sound theology, eloquent presentation, and other intrinsic factors. In antiquity, certain circles began to ascribe it to Paul in an attempt to provide the anonymous work an explicit apostolic pedigree.

The original King James Version of the Bible titled the work "The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews". However, the KJV's attribution to Paul was only a guess, and is currently disputed by recent research. Its vastly different style, different theological focus, different spiritual experience, different Greek vocabulary – all are believed to make Paul's authorship of Hebrews increasingly indefensible. At present, neither modern scholarship nor church teaching ascribes Hebrews to Paul.
A.J. Gordon ascribes the authorship of Hebrews to Priscilla, writing that "It is evident that the Holy Spirit made this woman Priscilla a teacher of teachers". Originally proposed by Adolf von Harnack in 1900, Harnack’s reasoning won the support of prominent Bible scholars of the early twentieth century. Harnack believes the letter was written in Rome – not to the Church, but to the inner circle. In setting forth his evidence for Priscillan authorship, he finds it amazing that the name of the author was blotted out by the earliest tradition. Citing Chapter 13, he says it was written by a person of "high standing and apostolic teacher of equal rank with Timothy". If Luke, Clemens, Barnabas, or Apollos had written it, Harnack believes their names would not have been obliterated.
Donald Guthrie’s commentary The Letter to the Hebrews (1983) mentions Priscilla by name as a suggested author.
Believing the author to have been Priscilla, Ruth Hoppin posits that the name was omitted either to suppress its female authorship, or to protect the letter itself from suppression.Also convinced that Priscilla was the author of Hebrews, Gilbert Bilezikian, professor of biblical studies at Wheaton College, remarks on "the conspiracy of anonymity in the ancient church," and reasons: "The lack of any firm data concerning the identity of the author in the extant writings of the church suggests a deliberate blackout more than a case of collective loss of memory." "
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This particular verse is the supreme revelation of God and the gift of salvation given us through the name of Jesus

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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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