Editorial Myth of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Aboriginal deaths in custody has been a substantial political issue for over thirty years. Press have campaigned for ALP on the issue, raising the issue of deaths in custody under conservative administrations, while giving free passes to ALP over the issue. Kevin Rudd was lauded for 'saying sorry' and for ending the intervention. Kevin Rudd was given a free pass over the Heiner Affair. But with all the mud being thrown, the basic truth that Aboriginal peoples are less likely to die behind bars than anyone else exposes the lie.
Deaths in custody are not common anyway. They shouldn't be. The lie about Aboriginal deaths in custody being the result of Australian racism has claimed lives, like those of TJ Hickie who ran from police who weren't pursuing him and died as a result of an accident. I covered that in my Picking Cotton series.
How many have escaped justice because of the myth of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody? What has been the cost in addressing the non issue? How can we address the naked racism involved in promoting the myth? Should we expect the media who were wrong to apologise for it? Will they say 'sorry?'
Editorial Tuesday 13th April Media confused by math?
The headline "Maths professor stumped by seven year old's difficult homework" is believable and sad.
The activity that stumped the professor was a concrete block exercise. The task was to divide a reservoir of blocks depicting hundreds, tens and units into quantities matching a minimum
“a) Can she make two equal three-digit numbers? If so, draw the counters to show them.
“b) Can she make two equal three-digit numbers if she had to use all her counters? If so, draw the counters to show them.”
Because the counters are physical, they are different to abstract numbers. The number 486 can be divided equally, but the physical blocks cannot. Two physical expressions of 188 is possible. But what of 243? The constitution of 243 would be different (2x100, 4X10, 3X1 vs 1x100, 13X10, 13X1) but the number achievable. More impressive is the children (parents?) having to draw the blocks.
Editorial Monday 12th April Bad dad myth takes lives
There are terrible, murderous fathers who seemingly act with impunity. There are also upstanding, decent fathers whose acts of love are denigrated and despised by popular press and activists. The result is preventable tragedy.
John Edwards had been a bad dad. He killed two of his children before killing himself in 2018, but he was a bad dad before that. He had had a 24 year history of domestic violence over seven partners and ten children. He only had had one apprehended violence order against his name, but a number of times came close to more. On one occasion, in 2016, the mother of two children who would be killed by Edwards went to police after a violent episode. It had followed Edwards receiving weekend custody and the inexperienced officer taking the complaint wrote that the complaint might have been an ambit claim against the custody. A lot of focus is on how Edwards obtained a gun legally. Not much has been focused on how Edwards tracked his estranged children illegally before killing them. It is apparent he tracked his daughter from her school.
But what about good men who raise their children right? What about men impugned for being .. male? Men denied sexual gratification because of political correctness, so that a sexual consent app is discussed in NSW parliament, and yet even such as that is declared not fool proof. Not all males tell off colour jokes, but is telling off colour jokes related to rape? Can a child be disciplined by a male parent? What if the parent is Boris Johnstone or Donald Trump? Can a single, conservative male have paid sex? Would it be different if they owned a social media company?
Was it the case Edwards got a free pass because, at other times, good men have been harangued?
The issue is particularly sensitive to me because I was badly raised by my father, who beat me until I begged my mother to remove his custody from me, and then he beat me some more. I told a teacher about him while I was in kindergarten and so he moved me to another school. On occasions when we were alone together I feared for my life. His second family had him named Father of the Year in NSW. In one of our last conversations, he asked "David, you do know how difficult it was to raise you?"
My father was not Edwards. I do not know Edwards, or what drove him. But I do understand parts of my father's problems with raising me. My mother was awful, and had wilfully removed cultural assets which promote family. None of her four children had children. Simply too damaged.
Cultural assets are under siege wherever totalitarian leftists rule, but they are also under siege where totalitarian leftist supporting media and complicit useful idiots work to overthrow good government.
How good was the parenting of Joe Biden? Hunter Biden?
===Explosive new video emerges that lays out in detail the media’s plan to take down Trump, and advance environmental propaganda. In this episode, I discuss the video and the evidence that we’re all being lied to.
News Picks:
- Project Veritas strikes again. CNN gets caught on tape.
- More than 35 conservative organizations sign a pledge to reject big tech money.
- A school teacher speaks out about the radical indoctrination going on in our schools.
- Liberal news networks pledge to call “climate change” a “climate emergency.”
- Biden is bringing back Obama’s plan to destroy the suburbs.
- Inflation is here. And it’s going to get worse.
- Anti-free speech Muslim group sues Facebook to crush dissent.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
CNN Insider: We Hyped COVID to Boost Ratings – Hoped More People DiedSenate Confirms Gary Gensler to Head the SEC
Kamala to (Finally) Travel to Guatemala and Mexico Amid Border Crisis
Officer Who Shot Duante Wright Faces Second-Degree Manslaughter Charge
U.S. Now Spending Tens of Millions Per Week on Unaccompanied Minors
Border Sector Sees 380% Increase in Attempted Crossings by Convicted Criminals
Capitol Hill
Rep. Kevin Brady to Retire After Nearly a Quarter Century in Congress
DOJ Closes Investigation Into Death of Ashli Babbitt – No Charges Filed Against Officer
House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Says U.S. Sending Wrong Signal by Traveling to China to Discuss Climate Issues
Pelosi Claims to Have Been Ready to Personally Engage in Hand to Hand Combat on January 6th
Nebraska Gov. Turns Down Federal Government’s Request to House Migrant Children
Biden to Address Joint Session of Congress on April 28
CCP Tops List in DNI’s Annual Threat Assessment Report
Who Controls the Democrats, AOC or Pelosi?
Biden Calls for Summit With Putin, Warns Him to “Respect the Territory of Ukraine”
McConnell Wants Troops in Afghanistan Forever
CNN Director Admits Matt Gaetz Coverage Is “Democrat Propaganda”
Culture War
James O’Keefe Appears on Hannity to Break Down Latest “Expose CNN” Video
Officer in Jacob Blake Shooting Cleared of Wrongdoing
Prosecution Rests Case in George Floyd Trial
Many Corporate Critics of Georgia Election Law Are Incorporated in Delaware – Which Has Similar Laws
Survey Finds White Liberals Want to Punish Racism More Harshly Than Blacks
Costco Stops Selling MyPillow Products
Marxist BLM Co-Founder Earned $20k Per Month as Chairwoman of Jail Reform Group
Big Corporations Deploy Woke Ideology as a Disguise
Marxist BLM Co-Founder Says It’s “Terror by White Supremacists” That She Got Exposed as Wealthy
Violent Crime Continues Rising in New York City
Chris “Fredo” Cuomo’s Ratings Fall 45%
Economy
Coinbase Soars in Market Debut
Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff Dies in Prison at 82
IRS Chief Says $1 Trillion in Taxes May Be Going Uncollected Each Year Due to Error, Fraud, and Lack of Resources
Mortgage Refinance Demand Reaches Lowest Level in Over a Year
Corporate Socialism Is on the Rise
Future Inflation Is a Major Threat to the U.S. Economy
U.S. Sanctions on Russian Debt Become Possibility Following Buildup on Ukraine Border
GOP Senators to Introduce Act to Reopen Cruise Industry
IRS Says New $3k Child Tax Credit Will Start Payments in July
IRS Struggles to Hire Customer Service Reps as People Choose Unemployment Over Working for IRS
People Keep Googling “When Will the Housing Market Crash”
CPI Increases 0.6% in March vs. 0.5% Expected
Swamp Watch
Psaki Said It Was a “Bit of Garble” That Biden Pitched Increasing Gas Tax
Scientific American to Begin Using Term “Climate Emergency” Because Major News Networks Told Them To
Duante Wright Was Accused of Choking and Robbing Woman at Gunpoint – Had Arrest Warrant When Killed
CNN Host Complains About Lack of “Vaccine Selfies” From Fox Hosts – Gutfeld Torches Him
Gov. Cuomo Allegedly Compared Himself to the Godfather
Amid Baltimore Murder Spike, Dems in Maryland Kill Crime Bill
Another City Approves Vote of No Confidence in LA County District Attorney
Crime and No Punishment in Minneapolis
Rural Republicans Already Live in the Safe, Tolerant Utopia Leftists Claim to Want
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Manslaughter Charge for Ex-Officer in Fatal Minnesota Shooting
Former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer Kim Potter is being charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright, 20, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput announced Wednesday. [Full Story]
Related Stories
City Manager Fired Over Cop's 'Due Process': 'Still Have My Integrity'
Officer, Chief in Fatal Minnesota Shooting Resign
60 Arrested in 3rd Night of Violent Minnesota Shooting Protests
Top Dems Distance Themselves From Squad's Call to Abolish Police
Biden Presidency
Scalise: WH Isn't Reaching Out for a Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Senate Votes 53-45 to Confirm Gary Gensler as Biden's SEC Chief
Biden to Address Congress Under Security, COVID Restrictions
VP Harris Planning to Visit Mexico and Guatemala
Biden Rushes to Protect Power Grid As Hacking Threats Grow
Biden's 'One-Sided' Supreme Court Commission Could Signal Change
Biden Invited to Address Joint Session of Congress on April 28
Biden Sends Unofficial US Delegation to Taiwan
WH: First Lady to Undergo 'Procedure'
Texas Sues Over Biden Scrapping Trump’s Stay-in-Mexico Rule
Newsfront
Capitol Cop Not Charged in Fatal Ashli Babbitt Shooting
The Justice Department has closed its investigation into the death of Ashli Babbitt, 35, and will not charge the officer who shot her during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying there was no evidence to prove the officer violated her civil rights.... [Full Story]
===
===
===
===
===
===
===
===
===
===
Here is a video I made Finis
Walter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 -- 17 September 1864) was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equaled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament.
https://rumble.com/vbigp5-finis-poem-by-oddball.html
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Some people are privileged and highly lauded, when really, they are mere egotists, who are too needy to function right. One such is Syria's Assad, who celebrates his survival, when he was not targeted, by denouncing international efforts at preventing his cultivating, and possibly using, WMD. Obama drew a red line, then let him overstep. Trump does not. But despite the international hubris, Trump's response has been considered and proportionate. Obama just gave up. If Syrians are to enjoy a great future, they cannot be allowed to be bad neighbours, or developers of WMD. Allegedly their enemies have WMD too. Meanwhile Malcolm Turnbull says he stands by Trump's action, but, demands Russia attack the rebel bases devoted to WMD. Turnbull is a highly privileged and lauded egotist too. Another highly lauded egotist is an activist lawyer who suicided 'for the environment.' Most of David Buckel's adult life was devoted to gay activism, but he recently branched out to the environmental brand too. He suicided by pouring petrol on himself in a park in Brooklyn and lighting it. The NYT gave him a loving tribute, but maybe, if they had been correctly critical of his activism, instead of feeding it, Buckel might have learned to correctly address criticism. The world is not in pain or dying. The world needs to be prepared as any farmed item is. Self immolation won't help.
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Schoolchildren are good at being schoolchildren. They can learn, act as a class, be an individual, and discover how to function in society. Or they can be recipients of educational fads which obscure rights and responsibilities and promote selfish ideologies. Some of the best lessons were taught two thousand years ago. We have new material, but it should not be separated from the old. Kids learn through activity. Computer games may help with math knowledge, but math activities can be fun too. Playing a game of cards without an iPad can be a great learning experience. Role playing gender types is a lousy idea. Because gender types are discovered, not imposed. They are not revealed by activity so much as by many choices involving the ordinary. The external pressure to conform to gender fluidity is an assault on students where they are weak, and have doubts, not where they are strong and grow. Let children be children. Keep sexual predators away from our children.
=== from 2016 ===
Lies told on the ABC and Fairfax press make it very hard to judge some issues for the average person. For example, claims of torture carried out by armed forces on detainees. Claims of rape, suicide, mental illness and murder, none of which stand scrutiny over time, but all of which get inflated around election time. Like now. So claims that a woman was raped while having an epileptic fit may be discounted simply because it is the usual sources crying wolf. But tragedies do happen in detention. And the current problem is the fault of the former Green and ALP government that irresponsibly weakened Australian borders and led some 3000 to their deaths, not all in Australian waters. The issue of terrorism is a serious one, and somehow led to a NZ father who had served time and was no threat to the public, being detained, and dying in detention. It wasn't fair. It wasn't just. It is as outrageous as section 18c of the racial vilification code. But the lies that ABC and Fairfax have spread make the issue cloudy.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Tax cuts from big business of 1.5% were never going to happen. Reducing tax for big business reduces their desire for tax avoidance and a substantial cut is a good idea but the numbers don't yet stack up. Australia is very high taxing for business and red tape compliance costs are high for all businesses. A GST does the heavy lifting, it is very hard to avoid. But, because the Senate won't allow cuts in spending, even waste, then choices have to be made regarding tax to increase the take. The miracle of lowering tax and increasing the take is not effected by a mere 1.5% out of 50%. The relief for families of maternity leave would be good and would stimulate spending, but the senate won't allow that. That does not mean business get to keep the 1.5% after campaigning against maternity leave. Small business would do with a stimulatory 1.5% cut.
ICAC pursuing Cunneen highlights how inept and partial the ICAC are. They are not independent and they don't seem to oppose corruption, so much as try to copy it. Cuneen is a respected magistrate who has been unfairly tagged by the ICAC following a personally motivated attack against her that was clearly not true. Naturally the media repeat the lie and say Cunneen denies it. It looks like the ICAC is begging to be wound up before they are forced to investigate the ALP for historical abuses under the ICAC watch. Just as the sadist refuses to hit the masochist, it is important that the ICAC are forced to do their duty, no matter how unwilling.
Living long is a likelihood. Many people born do not die of old age. Soon, it may be feasible that no one will. To live indefinitely as a thirty year old is not a terrible thing. There is a cost to such prosperity. People need to be productive, to be useful. The insane Green activists opposing growth will not be thanked in a future where many are poor and many have a long memory of how the Greens conspired to keep them poor. Time to cut spending now, so we don't have to then.
WHO is bullying women into dying to give birth. The World Health Organisation claims that Australia has too many C-Sections. That judgement is not based on the health of Australian women and children, instead it s by comparative studies with nations that aren't as good. Abusing the word 'natural' doesn't help the issue. There is a list of things that are desirable for birth. It is good if the child is immunised by passing through the birth canal. It is good to naturally breast feed. But not everyone can do it. And not every wonderful birth which is blessed matches the ideal.
In 754, the Council of Hieria was created near Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine V who wanted the body to support his opposition to icons. Only the council did not have any patriarch heads or representatives and in 769, the Lateran council which was raised to correct the processes which had brought about antipopes, also condemned the council of Hieria's findings. They liked icons.
ICAC pursuing Cunneen highlights how inept and partial the ICAC are. They are not independent and they don't seem to oppose corruption, so much as try to copy it. Cuneen is a respected magistrate who has been unfairly tagged by the ICAC following a personally motivated attack against her that was clearly not true. Naturally the media repeat the lie and say Cunneen denies it. It looks like the ICAC is begging to be wound up before they are forced to investigate the ALP for historical abuses under the ICAC watch. Just as the sadist refuses to hit the masochist, it is important that the ICAC are forced to do their duty, no matter how unwilling.
Living long is a likelihood. Many people born do not die of old age. Soon, it may be feasible that no one will. To live indefinitely as a thirty year old is not a terrible thing. There is a cost to such prosperity. People need to be productive, to be useful. The insane Green activists opposing growth will not be thanked in a future where many are poor and many have a long memory of how the Greens conspired to keep them poor. Time to cut spending now, so we don't have to then.
WHO is bullying women into dying to give birth. The World Health Organisation claims that Australia has too many C-Sections. That judgement is not based on the health of Australian women and children, instead it s by comparative studies with nations that aren't as good. Abusing the word 'natural' doesn't help the issue. There is a list of things that are desirable for birth. It is good if the child is immunised by passing through the birth canal. It is good to naturally breast feed. But not everyone can do it. And not every wonderful birth which is blessed matches the ideal.
In 754, the Council of Hieria was created near Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine V who wanted the body to support his opposition to icons. Only the council did not have any patriarch heads or representatives and in 769, the Lateran council which was raised to correct the processes which had brought about antipopes, also condemned the council of Hieria's findings. They liked icons.
From 2014
A lot can happen in a day or a moment. William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, went for a walk on this day in 1802. They saw a long belt of Daffodils and William wrote "I wandered lonely as a cloud." The first time I heard those words was when Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins sang the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. And so a simple walk inspires, hundreds of years later.
On this day in 1817, the first school for the deaf in the US was founded. On this day in 1861, Abraham Lincoln asks for 75000 to fight for the Union. Four years later, on this day, he died, having been assassinated. In 1922, a congressman called for an investigation into GOP oil funding bribery known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. Over ninety years on, there are still finger pointers desperately afraid lest someone make a profit. 1923, and Insulin became generally available to people with diabetes.
On this day in 1945 Bergen Belsen concentration camp was liberated. 1947, Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1955, McDonalds was founded. 1970, during a civil war in Cambodia, 800 ethnically Vietnamese peoples bodies flow down the Mekong from Cambodia to South Vietnam. In 1989, Hillsborough, 96 Liverpool fans die in a crush. Last year, 2013, two terrorists kill 3 people and injure 264 others at the Boston Marathon. It was good to liberate the inmates of Bergen Belsen. It would be better to never again promote such terrorism as which put good people in that camp.
On this day in 1817, the first school for the deaf in the US was founded. On this day in 1861, Abraham Lincoln asks for 75000 to fight for the Union. Four years later, on this day, he died, having been assassinated. In 1922, a congressman called for an investigation into GOP oil funding bribery known as the Teapot Dome Scandal. Over ninety years on, there are still finger pointers desperately afraid lest someone make a profit. 1923, and Insulin became generally available to people with diabetes.
On this day in 1945 Bergen Belsen concentration camp was liberated. 1947, Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1955, McDonalds was founded. 1970, during a civil war in Cambodia, 800 ethnically Vietnamese peoples bodies flow down the Mekong from Cambodia to South Vietnam. In 1989, Hillsborough, 96 Liverpool fans die in a crush. Last year, 2013, two terrorists kill 3 people and injure 264 others at the Boston Marathon. It was good to liberate the inmates of Bergen Belsen. It would be better to never again promote such terrorism as which put good people in that camp.
Historical perspective on this day
In 769, the Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematised its iconoclastic rulings. 1071, Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, was surrendered to Robert Guiscard. 1395, Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeated Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, was razed to the ground and Timur installed a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escaped to Lithuania. 1450, Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attacked and nearly annihilated English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
In 1632, Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empireduring the Thirty Years' War. 1642, Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia was routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempted to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army. 1715, the Pocotaligo Massacre triggered the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. 1738, Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel received its premiere performance in London, England. 1755, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in London. 1783, preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) were ratified.
In 1802, William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. 1817, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deafstudents, in Hartford, Connecticut. 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War 1865, PresidentAbraham Lincoln died after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, became President upon Lincoln's death. 1892, the General Electric Company was formed. 1896, closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
In 1900, Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launched a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and began a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines. 1907, Triangle Fraternity was founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1912, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survived. 1920, two security guards were murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy. 1921, Black Friday: Mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England. 1922, U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which led to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. 1923, Insulin became generally available for use by people with diabetes. 1924, Rand McNally published its first road atlas. 1927, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, began.
1935, Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C. 1936, first day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine. Also 1936, Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) was founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland. 1940, the Allies began their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which was occupied by Nazi Germany. 1941, in the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attacked Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people. 1942, the George Cross was awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI. 1945, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated. 1947, Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
In 1952, the maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress 1955, McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois 1957, White Rock, British Columbia officially separated from Surrey, British Columbiaand was incorporated as a new city. 1960, at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker led a conference that resulted in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organisations of the African-American Civil Rights Movementin the 1960s. 1964, the first Ford Mustang rolled off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide. 1969, the EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shot down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
In 1970, during the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority resulted in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam. 1984, the inaugural World Youth Day was held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. 1986, the United Stateslaunched Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. 1989, Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurred at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans. Also 1989, upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 began in China. 2013, Two bombs exploded near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others. 2014, more than 200 female students were declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria. Also 2014, a total lunar eclipse occurred, producing a Blood Moon.
In 1632, Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empireduring the Thirty Years' War. 1642, Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia was routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempted to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army. 1715, the Pocotaligo Massacre triggered the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. 1738, Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel received its premiere performance in London, England. 1755, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in London. 1783, preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) were ratified.
In 1802, William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. 1817, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deafstudents, in Hartford, Connecticut. 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War 1865, PresidentAbraham Lincoln died after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, became President upon Lincoln's death. 1892, the General Electric Company was formed. 1896, closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
In 1900, Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launched a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and began a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines. 1907, Triangle Fraternity was founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1912, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survived. 1920, two security guards were murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy. 1921, Black Friday: Mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England. 1922, U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which led to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. 1923, Insulin became generally available for use by people with diabetes. 1924, Rand McNally published its first road atlas. 1927, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, began.
1935, Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C. 1936, first day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine. Also 1936, Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) was founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland. 1940, the Allies began their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which was occupied by Nazi Germany. 1941, in the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attacked Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people. 1942, the George Cross was awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI. 1945, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated. 1947, Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
In 1952, the maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress 1955, McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois 1957, White Rock, British Columbia officially separated from Surrey, British Columbiaand was incorporated as a new city. 1960, at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker led a conference that resulted in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organisations of the African-American Civil Rights Movementin the 1960s. 1964, the first Ford Mustang rolled off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide. 1969, the EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shot down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
In 1970, during the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority resulted in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam. 1984, the inaugural World Youth Day was held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. 1986, the United Stateslaunched Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. 1989, Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurred at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans. Also 1989, upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 began in China. 2013, Two bombs exploded near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others. 2014, more than 200 female students were declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria. Also 2014, a total lunar eclipse occurred, producing a Blood Moon.
=== Bible Reading ===
=
Today's reading: 1 Samuel 25-26, Luke 12:32-59 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Samuel 25-26
David, Nabal and Abigail
1 Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.
2 A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. 3 His name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings--he was a Calebite....
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 12:32-59
Luke 12
32 "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also....
=== Morning and Evening ===
=
Morning
Mockery was a great ingredient in our Lord's woe. Judas mocked him in the garden; the chief priests and scribes laughed him to scorn; Herod set him at nought; the servants and the soldiers jeered at him, and brutally insulted him; Pilate and his guards ridiculed his royalty; and on the tree all sorts of horrid jests and hideous taunts were hurled at him. Ridicule is always hard to bear, but when we are in intense pain it is so heartless, so cruel, that it cuts us to the quick. Imagine the Saviour crucified, racked with anguish far beyond all mortal guess, and then picture that motley multitude, all wagging their heads or thrusting out the lip in bitterest contempt of one poor suffering victim! Surely there must have been something more in the crucified One than they could see, or else such a great and mingled crowd would not unanimously have honoured him with such contempt. Was it not evil confessing, in the very moment of its greatest apparent triumph, that after all it could do no more than mock at that victorious goodness which was then reigning on the cross? O Jesus, "despised and rejected of men," how couldst thou die for men who treated thee so ill? Herein is love amazing, love divine, yea, love beyond degree. We, too, have despised thee in the days of our unregeneracy, and even since our new birth we have set the world on high in our hearts, and yet thou bleedest to heal our wounds, and diest to give us life. O that we could set thee on a glorious high throne in all men's hearts! We would ring out thy praises over land and sea till men should as universally adore as once they did unanimously reject.
"Thy creatures wrong thee, O thou sovereign Good!
Thou art not loved, because not understood:
This grieves me most, that vain pursuits beguile
Ungrateful men, regardless of thy smile."
Evening
It is well with the righteous always. If it had said, "Say ye to the righteous, that it is well with him in his prosperity," we must have been thankful for so great a boon, for prosperity is an hour of peril, and it is a gift from heaven to be secured from its snares: or if it had been written, "It is well with him when under persecution," we must have been thankful for so sustaining an assurance, for persecution is hard to bear; but when no time is mentioned, all time is included. God's "shalls" must be understood always in their largest sense. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, from the first gathering of evening shadows until the day-star shines, in all conditions and under all circumstances, it shall be well with the righteous. It is so well with him that we could not imagine it to be better, for he is well fed, he feeds upon the flesh and blood of Jesus; he is well clothed, he wears the imputed righteousness of Christ; he is well housed, he dwells in God; he is well married, his soul is knit in bonds of marriage union to Christ; he is well provided for, for the Lord is his Shepherd; he is well endowed, for heaven is his inheritance. It is well with the righteous--well upon divine authority; the mouth of God speaks the comforting assurance. O beloved, if God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict him. It is, says the Word, at all times well with thee, thou righteous one; then, beloved, if thou canst not see it, let God's word stand thee in stead of sight; yea, believe it on divine authority more confidently than if thine eyes and thy feelings told it to thee. Whom God blesses is blest indeed, and what his lip declares is truth most sure and steadfast.
=== Bible Quote ===
BQuote
“Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,” - 1 Corinthians 15:1,3-4===
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. This chapter begins with this verse. The missing one from the quote is the second, which reads "By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain." Paul is not doubting his message, but highlighting the firmness of his position.
=== Message ===
===
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.
===
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)
===
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
===
Other Stuff
===
I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
===
I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
===
No comments:
Post a Comment