Bairnsdale Conservative: Sun 18th April 2021 Current Affairs

Editorial Movie makers vs humanity

It is clear Hollywood hates USA and conservatives. Following are three Prime (Amazon) offerings for subscribers.

The Mauritanian, Waiting for the Barbarians and, The Big Short. Each movie focuses an unbalanced view on history and reality.

The Mauritanian is ostensibly about an abuse of power that had an innocent tortured and detained in Gitmo. In fact, the movie is a polemic against torture. The obvious reality is it is ok for terrorists to engage as they wish, but the US is held to a higher standard by which it is wrong to demand terrorist supporters are held to account. It is, apparently, wrong for US intelligence to try to find out how deep the connections are between close family of terrorists. In the movie we have a brother in law of Osama Bin Laden's spiritual adviser detained and questioned over his knowledge of attacks on USA. So unlawful was the treatment the US did not kill him or his USA hating family. They do not even point out the spiritual advice is wrong. We know the 'victim' was present at places with people involved in 9/11. There are ambit claims that the 'victim' made that they were (convenient and unverifiable) absent from salient discussions at the times they took place. Just like Sirhan Sirhan being Palestinian but not Muslim?

Waiting for the Barbarians has an administrator of a distant imperial (European) outpost trying to survive insane bureaucracy as home politics forces local military engagements against friendly peoples. The result is a destructive storm brought against the empire outpost. And the allegory is clearly drawn against US foreign politics of the Cold War era that Obama has foisted on USA after GOP stopped their first effort.

The Big Short is an anti capitalist film about greed, glossing over the appalling Dem policy which wrought the Global Financial Crisis. Why not question Carter/Clinton policy?

Why would anyone trust Hollywood to produce a picture without political bias? Why can't Hollywood explore real issues?

=== Bongino Headlines ===

Prince Philip Laid to Rest

Biden Admin to Release 400 Migrant Families per Day Into U.S.

FBI Drops the Ball Again? Agency Says it Questioned FedEx Shooter Last Year

Americans Now Say Illegal Immigration a Bigger Problem Than Coronavirus

Biden Reverses Course After Dems Criticize Plan to Keep Trump Limits on Overseas Refugees

“America First Caucus” to Be Formed

Capitol Hill
The Great (Re)-awakening Of “America First”
Biden Demands More Gun Control
Sen. Cotton: Court Packing “Illegitimate Attack on the Foundational Principles of this Country”
AOC: Democrats’ SALT Tax Relief “a Gift to the Billionaires”
State Department Nominee Wasn’t Asked a Single Question About Her Dissemination of Steele Misinformation
Biden Continues to Botch Border Crisis He Created
How Deregulation Can Solve America’s Housing Shortage
House to Vote on DC Statehood Tuesday
Heavy Metal Guitarist the First to Plead Guilty in Connection With January 6 Capitol Incident

Culture War
Minneapolis to Close All Public Schools In Anticipation of Chauvin Verdict
San Antonio Police Officer Shot During Traffic Stop Returns Fire, Killing 2 Suspects
Activist Reporters Push Gun Control at White House Press Conferences
Oregon Newspaper Deletes Tweet Saying Police Shooting Victim Was White After Uproar
Cities Brace For Chauvin Verdict
Lawyers Threaten Activist Calling For Audit Of BLM Co-Founder
Amazon Removes Another Book Questioning Transgender Ideology
Chelsea Clinton Suggests Facebook Should Ban Tucker Carlson for Asking Questions About the Vaccine
Gov. Abbott: It’s Time to Declare Drug Cartels as Terrorist Organizations
Project Veritas Confronts CNN’s Brian Stelter

Economy
Cryptocurrency Founder on Dogecoin Surge: “Let’s Be Very Clear. This Is a Bubble.”
Musk’s SpaceX Wins Lunar Lander Contract, Beating Out Bezos’ Blue Origin
Fed Governor Says Economy Set to Take Off, But Won’t Slow Down Stimulus
RINO Romney Looks to Raise Minimum Wage
Gold Notches Best Week of 2021
Fed Study: Pandemic Destroyed Fewer Businesses Than Feared
Housing Starts Near 15-Year High
Coinbase Fuels Bitcoin ETF Race
Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Are Making It Harder for Firms to Hire
U.S. Housing Market Nearly 4 Million Homes Short of Demand

Swamp Watch
Roger Stone Says DOJ Lawsuit Against His Family for Unpaid Taxes Is Politically Motivated
Bloomberg Editor Says Absence of American Jobs a “Good Thing”
Group Awarded $87M Contract to House Migrants Now Wants Donations Too
Virginia Teacher Speaks Out Against Critical Race Theory
CBS News Leaves Out Key Frame in Body Cam Footage of Adam Toledo Holding Firearm
Press Asks Gov. Cuomo No Questions About His Scandals At News Conference
Liz Cheney Spread Now-Debunked Russian Bounties Story, Undermining Trump
Hunter Biden’s Book Doesn’t Even Make the Top 10 Despite Media Publicity
Psaki Defends CCP Talking Points About “Racist America”
DOJ Urges SCOTUS Not to Accept Legal Challenge to All-Male Military Draft

=== Newsmax Headlines ===

https://www.newsmax.com/headline/princephilip-funeral-queenelizabeth/2021/04/17/id/1017989/?oRef=mixi

Remembering Prince Philip

Biden Presidency

Newsfront
Conservative House GOP to Form 'America First' Caucus, Release Trump-Inspired Platform
Conservative House of Representatives Republicans plan to form an "America First" caucus to promote the policies of ex-President Donald Trump and said on Friday the group would soon release a policy platform. The platform promotes "a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon...... [Full Story]
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Civil War Soldier and Wife Reunite After 28 Years
Posted on April 15, 2021 by Jenny Ashcraft

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Here is a video I made For two friends

This is for a young couple. This is part of a vision of Pat's. A translated version may be available. It comes from an old file I did, a few years ago.
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Poetry from Lem's Cyberiad

Klapaucius thought, and thought some more. Finally he nodded and said:
"Very well. Let's have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit."
"Love and tensor algebra? Have you taken leave of your senses?" Trurl began, but stopped, for his electronic bard was already declaiming

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!!

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

I'll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love;
And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.

For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?

Cancel me not---for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
The product of our scalars is defined! 
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind 
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.

I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos(2 phi)!

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The video is a gift for a newly engaged couple
https://rumble.com/vaur9j-cyberiad-engagement.html

=== From 2018 ===

Don't give up on hope. Japan has discovered a world sufficient supply of rare earth elements needed for high tech industries. Previously, China has monopolised it and restricted it. Japan can exploit this. Former FBI chief Comey has gone on 20/20 and shown his hand is empty. He seems to show personal enmity with Trump and extensive family ties to Hillary. Barbara Bush has died aged 92. It is ok to die old and blessed. She had many children and grandchildren. Married for 73 years. She lost a child over six decades ago to leukaemia, but her life was magnificent. Typical of the awful left, a tenured professor has said she is "happy that (President George W Bush) is sad." Tygrrrr Express has posted "Prof who attacked Barbara Bush has Karl Marx’s ideology, Yasir Arafat’s heritage, Hillary Clinton’s rage, Liz Warren’s sex appeal."

An Indian politician is channeling Al Gore with the claim India had invented the internet in Ancient times. They forgot that Egypt invented worshipping cats and writing on walls. A Sydney University staff member was discovered filming up a woman's skirt with a mobile phone. Israel has released images of Iranian army bases in Syria. Is there a transfer of WMD through these bases?

Modern Israel has turned 70. Happy independence day. Ancient Israel is about 3500 years old. It is good to celebrate such milestones. The more birthdays you have, the longer you live.

=== from 2017 ===

Some things should not happen, but they do. Some people in Australia have to pay to see a doctor. Medicare does not cover everything, nor should it. But the exposure of Medicare often does not support the poorest and it greatly inconveniences those who have paid well for service. So that a person who contributes much does not get some services without securing much more at inopportune times. And people who are very poor are asked to contribute at critical times too. As when a disability pensioner needs to get a certificate of incapacity monthly, and that must come from a doctor at a cost of $70 a month, for which they are reimbursed $58. At least the cost is affordable. However, it is the case that everyone should pay a price signal to see a doctor, not just the incapacitated who cannot earn. But there are many areas where people do pay, and those areas are not fairly allocated.

Centrelink provides an awful service. Job agent Maleficent thought she wold twist a knife in me and said she felt I'd been referred to incapacity in 2014 for obesity. But she was wrong. In 2012, I risked losing everything, and corruption was preventing me from working, and poverty was preventing me from leading a good life. I had wanted to lead a family life, but I'd never dated, was over forty years old and was losing my home. I felt suicidal and told Centrelink. They respected my privacy and did nothing worthwhile to address the corruption I faced. Their ridiculous program ended in 2014. Maleficent could see that, but could not see why it was there. And so she guessed. And I am obese. So I lodged a complaint with Centrelink. And documented everything. Centrelink finally told me that I would never know the result of my complaint.

=== from 2016 ===

I got a letter today from my local state member, Luke Donnellan, who is also a Minister in Victoria and a member of the ALP. He offers me help with Centrelink Payments, Community Grants, Consumer Affairs, Police and many other matters besides. He wants me to call him if he can assist. I have been in Hallam almost a month and a half and I now have to move for my safety because of Luke's enlightened view on drugs. My life is not worth anything to Luke, so long as an Ice addict is free to go on rages. The addict is homeless, but at least his harm has been minimised. An intervention safety order could give me some peace, but police seem unwilling to serve the papers. My child is not biological, or a teenager, and so there is no need to protect them. I don't know where Stiffler lives, but I know his car and his phone number. Police have no excuse not to serve the papers. I understand he is a registered sex offender. I don't wish to move and have him discover my new address through court papers. Stiffler has stolen ID documents from me. He is not bright enough to use them, but his drug dealer probably knows someone. I won't call Luke. He has already failed to help with the bad choices he has made representing me in parliament.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.

=== from 2015 ===

Hilary Clinton lies badly and often. Possibly because it helps her flow to disconnect verisimilitude from her words. Articles follow.

Left praising jihadis .. Melbourne raids. There is a connection between terror and jihadis, but often the left wing play down that role and blame others, including victims. Articles follow.

ESPN reporter lords it over low paid workers. On video. Now suspended.

Teaching sex education to children, or promoting child sex? One outraged tweeter mother has gone to the classroom of her child and heard the teacher discuss abstinence. The parent is outraged, claiming that children cannot abstain from sex and needed to be taught about other things, like family planning involving condoms etc. Perhaps the grandmother at age thirty is at a loss as to how to raise the issue of abstinence with her children, but that does not mean children cannot abstain from sex. Kids are aware of much detail these days, but sadly abstinence is not something they see modelled in popular tv or advertising. Many children will not have sex before becoming adult, and it doesn't hurt them to have abstained. Further, everything is a choice. But in making a choice, like having sex, children find their lives proscribed by that choice in deleterious ways. One shudders to think if the child wants to suicide if the mum takes a Kevorkian view. Children have had sex without their lives being ruined. That is not a good argument for promoting it. The outraged mother is wrong to not accept abstinence as being a good choice in the lives of children.

On this day in 1521, the second day of the trial of Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms.

On 17 April, the Imperial Herald Sturm and Pappenheim came for Luther. Pappenheim reminded Luther that he should speak only in answer to direct questions from the presiding officer, Johann von Eck. Eck asked if a collection of books was Luther’s and if he was ready to revoke their heresies. Dr. Schurff said, "Please have the titles read." There were 25 of them, probably including The 95 Theses, Resolutions Concerning the 95 Theses, On the Papacy at Rome, Address to the Christian Nobility, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, and On the Freedom of a Christian, all of which had been written prior to the Diet of Worms. Luther requested more time for a proper answer, so he was given until the next day at 4 p.m.
On 18 April, Luther, stating he'd prayed for long hours, consulted with friends and mediators, and presented himself before the Diet. When the counselor put the same questions to him, Luther first apologized that he lacked the etiquette of the court. Then he answered, "They are all mine, but as for the second question, they are not all of one sort." Luther went on to place the writings into three categories: (1) Works which were well received by even his enemies: those he would not reject. (2) Books which attacked the abuses, lies and desolation of the Christian world and the papacy: those, Luther believed, could not safely be rejected without encouraging abuses to continue. To retract them would be to open the door to further oppression.^[1] "If I now recant these, then, I would be doing nothing but strengthening tyranny".^[1] (3) Attacks on individuals: he apologized for the harsh tone of these writings but did not reject the substance of what he taught in them; if he could be shown from the Scriptures that he was in error, Luther continued, he would reject them. Luther concluded by saying
Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.^[2]According to tradition, Luther is said to have declared, "Here I stand, I can do no other," before concluding with "God help me. Amen."^[3] However, there is no indication in the transcripts of the Diet or in eyewitness accounts that he ever said this, and most scholars now doubt these words were spoken.
Eck informed Luther that he was acting like a heretic:
"'Martin,' said he, 'there is no one of the heresies which have torn the bosom of the church, which has not derived its origin from the various interpretation of the Scripture. The Bible itself is the arsenal whence each innovator has drawn his deceptive arguments. It was with biblical texts that Pelagius and Arius maintained their doctrines. Arius, for instance, found the negation of the eternity of the Word—an eternity which you admit, in this verse of the New Testament—Joseph knew not his wife till she had brought forth her first-born son; and he said, in the same way that you say, that this passage enchained him. When the fathers of the council of Constance condemned this proposition of John Huss— The church of Jesus Christ is only the community of the elect, they condemned an error; for the church, like a good mother, embraces within her arms all who bear the name of Christian, all who are called to enjoy the celestial beatitude.'" Private conferences were held to determine Luther's fate. Before a decision was reached, Luther fled. During his return to Wittenberg, he disappeared.

From Wikipedia. Note, Eck had said to Luther that the heresies had been derived from the Word, and so dangerously suggests orthodoxy trumps the scriptures.

In 1689, Bostonians rebelled against Edmund Andros who was a fan of the Anglican Church while the Pilgrims were puritans. In 1775 Paul Revere rode to warn of attack by sea by the British. In 1915, French pilot Roland Garros was shot down and landed behind German lines. He failed to destroy his plane and so Germany got vital technology from it. Three years later Roland escaped and flew against Germans again, but was killed in action three days after returning to action. And a month before the war ended. In 1942, the Doolittle Raid hit targets on Japanese mainland. In 1949, the keel of a US Navy ship had been laid, but the project cancelled. US Admirals revolted against President Truman's plans to weaken the navy in favour of nuclear bombs. Truman won. Ezra Pound was a great poet and friend to many writers. However, his view of WW2 blamed the war on commercialism. So he became a fascist and supported Mussolini in WW2. Afterwards incarcerated, he was freed on this day in 1958, by the Federal Court. In 1981, a Saturday, the longest ever professional game of Baseball was played, going into 4am then next morning in the 32nd innings. It was interrupted and finally played for the final inning on the following Tuesday. The crowd at 4am had numbered 19 and they received season or lifetime passes to McCoy Stadium. Played on Rhode Island between Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings. The losing pitcher had joined Rochester in the interim. One batter had been congratulated by his dad for his four hits had then explained he had had twelve at bats. The score was 3-2. One of the players was Cal Ripken Jr.

From 2014

It is Good Friday and so appropriate to look at what that means to others. To Anglican bishops around Australia it means they raise their voice demanding that Mr Abbott pursue an ALP policy of drowning people desperate to come to Australia and facilitating the activity of pirates. According to these people who care a lot about such things, Mr Abbott should listen to them because of his religion. But it calls into question their faith. About 1500 known drownings since 2008, the policy of the ALP was by far their most deadly, but not their most expensive. So in some ways, maybe, we see the Anglican Church's call as fiscally prudent as any of Judas'. By way of contrast, Hillsong, Orthodox and Catholics are focusing on the event known as the Crucifixion of Jesus and its' meaning to Christians. When asked about the day's meaning, the Anglican Archbishop replied it was about children behind razor wire. Maybe he felt it was better they were crucified? Note, 2014, Easter falls on the same dates for Western and Orthodox churches. Rumour has it Seventh Day Adventist Churches begin their observance on a Saturday (my apologies for the bad humour, Seventh Day Adventists are correct to have the Sabbath celebrated on Saturday, but Christians worship on Sunday due to Easter).

Bolesław Chrobry became King of Poland on this day in 1025. He was not uniquely named, also having the title Boleslav IV, Duke of Bohemia. Born on this day, 1480, Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI. The observant might note this answers the chicken and egg question. 1518, Bona Sforza was crowned as queen consort of Poland. She is important for a recently discovered Leonardo portrait. 1521, Trial of Martin Luther began its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refused to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. In 1740 was the birthday of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker. 1775, American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warned the countryside of the troop movements. 1857, "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec was published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France, note the book, like the recent movie Noah, is based on the Bible. In 1909, Joan of Arc was beatified in Rome, thus correcting what might have been an embarrassing mistake were it noticed.

Historical perspective on this day

In 796, King Æthelred I of Northumbria was murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald was placed on the throne, but was within 27 days abdicated. 1025, Bolesław Chrobry was crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. 1506, the cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica was laid. 1518, Bona Sforza was crowned as queen consort of Poland. 1521, trial of Martin Lutherbegan its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refused to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. 1689, Bostonians rose up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.

In 1738, Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") was founded in Madrid. 1775, American Revolution: The British advancement by sea began; Paul Revere and other riders warned the countryside of the troop movements. 1797, the Battle of Neuwied: Frenchvictory against the Austrians. 1807, the Harwich ferry disaster occurred near the North Sea port of Harwich on the Essex coast (England) in which 60-90 people drowned during the capsizing of a small ferry boat. 1831, the University of Alabama was founded. 1848, American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opened the way for invasion of Mexico. 1857, "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec was published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France. 1864, Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeated Denmark and gained control of Schleswig. Denmark surrendered the province in the following peace settlement. 1880, an F4 tornado struck Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100. 1881, Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. 1897, the Greco-Turkish War was declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. 1899, the St. Andrew's Ambulance Association was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.

In 1902, Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, was destroyed by an earthquake. 1906, an earthquake and fire destroyed much of San Francisco, California. 1909, Joan of Arc was beatified in Rome. 1912, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brought 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. 1915, French pilot Roland Garros was shot down and glided to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. 1923, Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opened. 1924, Simon & Schusterpublished the first crossword puzzle book. 1930, BBC reported there was no news, then played out with piano music. 1936, the first Champions Day was celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.

In 1942, World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya were bombed. Also 1942, Pierre Laval became Prime Minister of Vichy France. 1943, World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed when his aircraft was shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. 1945, Over 1,000 bombers attacked the small island of Heligoland, Germany. 1946, the International Court of Justice held its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. 1949, the keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States was laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction was canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals. 1954, Gamal Abdal Nasser seized power in Egypt. 1955, twenty-nine nations met at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference. 1958, a United States federal court ruled that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum. 1961, the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, was adopted. Also 1961, CONCP was founded in Casablancaas a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule. 1974, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurated Lahore's dry port.

In 1980, the Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) came into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaced the Rhodesian Dollaras the official currency. 1981, the longest professional baseball game was begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game was suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23. 1983, a suicide bomber destroyed the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people. 1988, the United States launched Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. 1992, General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolted against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allied with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul. 1996, in Lebanon, at least 106 civilians were killed when the Israel Defense Forces shelled the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge. 2007, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5–4 decision. Also 2007, a series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occurred in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251. 2013, a suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe killed 27 people and injured another 65. 2014, Sixteen people were killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest.

=== Bible Reading ===

Today's reading: 2 Samuel 1-2, Luke 14:1-24 (NIV)

View today's reading on Bible Gateway

Today's Old Testament reading: 2 Samuel 1-2

David Hears of Saul's Death

¹After the death of Saul, David returned from striking down the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days. ² On the third day a man arrived from Saul's camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor.

³ "Where have you come from?" David asked him.

He answered, "I have escaped from the Israelite camp."

⁴ "What happened?" David asked. "Tell me."

"The men fled from the battle," he replied. "Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead...."

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

Today's New Testament reading: Luke 14:1-24

Jesus at a Pharisee's House

¹ One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. ² There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. ³ Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?" ⁴ But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.

⁵Then he asked them, "If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?" ⁶ And they had nothing to say....

...read the rest on Bible Gateway

=== Morning and Evening ===

Morning

"Ye are come to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."
Hebrews 12:24

Reader, have you come to the blood of sprinkling? The question is not whether you have come to a knowledge of doctrine, or an observance of ceremonies, or to a certain form of experience, but have you come to the blood of Jesus? The blood of Jesus is the life of all vital godliness. If you have truly come to Jesus, we know how you came--the Holy Spirit sweetly brought you there. You came to the blood of sprinkling with no merits of your own. Guilty, lost, and helpless, you came to take that blood, and that blood alone, as your everlasting hope. You came to the cross of Christ, with a trembling and an aching heart; and oh! what a precious sound it was to you to hear the voice of the blood of Jesus! The dropping of his blood is as the music of heaven to the penitent sons of earth. We are full of sin, but the Saviour bids us lift our eyes to him, and as we gaze upon his streaming wounds, each drop of blood, as it falls, cries, "It is finished; I have made an end of sin; I have brought in everlasting righteousness." Oh! sweet language of the precious blood of Jesus! If you have come to that blood once, you will come to it constantly. Your life will be "Looking unto Jesus." Your whole conduct will be epitomized in this--"To whom coming." Not to whom I have come, but to whom I am always coming. If thou hast ever come to the blood of sprinkling, thou wilt feel thy need of coming to it every day. He who does not desire to wash in it every day, has never washed in it at all. The believer ever feels it to be his joy and privilege that there is still a fountain opened. Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians; a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort. This morning let us sprinkle our door-post fresh with blood, and then feast upon the Lamb, assured that the destroying angel must pass us by.

Evening

"We would see Jesus."
John 12:21

Evermore the worldling's cry is, "Who will show us any good?" He seeks satisfaction in earthly comforts, enjoyments, and riches. But the quickened sinner knows of only one good. "O that I knew where I might find Him !" When he is truly awakened to feel his guilt, if you could pour the gold of India at his feet, he would say, "Take it away: I want to find Him." It is a blessed thing for a man, when he has brought his desires into a focus, so that they all centre in one object. When he has fifty different desires, his heart resembles a mire of stagnant water, spread out into a marsh, breeding miasma and pestilence; but when all his desires are brought into one channel, his heart becomes like a river of pure water, running swiftly to fertilize the fields. Happy is he who hath one desire, if that one desire be set on Christ, though it may not yet have been realized. If Jesus be a soul's desire, it is a blessed sign of divine work within. Such a man will never be content with mere ordinances. He will say, "I want Christ; I must have him--mere ordinances are of no use to me; I want himself; do not offer me these; you offer me the empty pitcher, while I am dying of thirst; give me water, or I die. Jesus is my soul's desire. I would see Jesus!"

Is this thy condition, my reader, at this moment? Hast thou but one desire, and is that after Christ? Then thou art not far from the kingdom of heaven. Hast thou but one wish in thy heart, and that one wish that thou mayst be washed from all thy sins in Jesus' blood? Canst thou really say, "I would give all I have to be a Christian; I would give up everything I have and hope for, if I might but feel that I have an interest in Christ?" Then, despite all thy fears, be of good cheer, the Lord loveth thee, and thou shalt come out into daylight soon, and rejoice in the liberty wherewith Christ makes men free.

=== Bible Quote ===

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“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” - 1 Corinthians 1:18
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A problem with academia is the promise of the sure result, is not matched with the truth, that every result must be continuously defended. And ancient Greece was the home of academia. Paul went to Corinth and shared his life as a Christian. And Paul returned. Frustrated. Hurt. Explaining again and again what he had meant as Corinthians split hairs.
But the result is a pure distillation of Paul’s message.
Prior to this verse, Paul was discussing the divided leadership of Corinth. But there is no division within the body of worship. Christians disagreeing aspects of worship, but not certain aspects of worship. This is confusing to outsiders, and ought to make sense to followers. In modern terms, there is the issue of jargon. Outsiders have a different understanding of prophecy to worshippers. It is upsetting to outsiders when worshippers speak prophetically about things concerning their worship. What if a child especially blessed is not to be 'a success'? Or, what if there is observable failure to the prophetic word? But what the outsider does not see is it is not about what they think, but the communion between the worshipper and Him. And He has acted mightily in everyone's life, and blessed everyone, and, one day, all the terrible things that happen, will be made right.

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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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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