Via Matt Christiansen Media, comes the story of a New Mexico police officer, Darian Jarrott, gunned down (Feb 4th 2021) after making a routine stop of a vehicle which happened to have a wanted fugitive (Omar Felix Cueva) being tailed by the federal police. Immediately following the shooting of the policeman, federal agents were on hand to give aid to the dying officer and to chase down the fugitive, killing the fugitive an hour later in a shoot out.
Video footage of the officer making the stop suggests the officer is unaware of the nature of what he is facing. He even asks the fugitive for their firearm shortly before the officer was gunned down. However, the watching federal government agents had known that the fugitive was an armed threat.
It used to be said only doctors could bury their mistakes. Was this a mistake? Are any federal agents responsible for the tragedy? What about the Biden administration? The fallen officer was a young father, and his family will miss him dearly.
It used to be said only doctors could bury their mistakes. Was this a mistake? Are any federal agents responsible for the tragedy? What about the Biden administration? The fallen officer was a young father, and his family will miss him dearly.
Editorial Parents stumped by NAPLAN test
Media campaigning against cheap, effective tests are not new. NAPLAN is such a test, being straight forward to mark and providing important assessment data which allows government to track student achievement from years 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. The results could also be reverse engineered to track teacher performance, but unions won't allow that. The results allow schools to target weaknesses in student learning, and for government to address needs of schools. The results have no bearing on subsequent employment achieved by students in life.
Here, a question that 'stumps' adults is a two card trick. The purist view is that commas are not employed to separate phrases in a sentence, where they might in practice. Or, where they might, in practice. The math question is less of a challenge. One day, the illiberal press will achieve the end of having this eleven year old test removed. The loss of analytical data won't achieve further dysfunction. Just as COVID did not create election fraud.
Editorial Beijing exploits poor US Cold War policy
Now that Trump is not pursuing bilateral relations, Biden's renewed Cold War regionalism policy is failing to address world needs. The Phillipines President is isolated and weak and unable to address China's invasion of the South Sea. That is how regionalism works. The long term goal of China is to dominate the Pacific so as to contain India. In the future, US may have to cede Hawaii.
Illiberal media are authoritarian and Australian PM Scott Morrison has belled that cat in declaring social media 'The work of the Devil.' Mr Morrison was at a Christian Convention on the Gold Coast and his words are being reported by press as if they were a press release. However, Mr Morrison's words do not presage a government decree regarding social media. However there is a need for government to address the abuse of power of technocrats running social media. Social media banning of conservative politicians is unacceptable. Likewise social media banning of conservative content. Election fraud is not isolated to the US.
TESLA executives have claimed that there is evidence that a crash involved human error. Local authorities claim it was a TESLA vehicle under auto control which crashed inexplicably. It seems like someone among local authorities has an axe to grind?
Clear evidence is that woke corporatism is unpopular and results in poor outcomes for shareholders. Trump is right again.
It was woke corporatism that endorsed voter fraud which underpins Biden's Cold War policy. USA is suffering as her democracy crumbles.
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Dems Appear Open to Concessions on $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
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Kubla Khan is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing the Tartar king Kublai Khan. Upon waking, he set about writing lines of poetry that came to him from the dream until he was interrupted by a person from Porlock. The poem could not be completed according to its original 200-300 line plan as the interruption caused him to forget the lines. Although the specific details of Coleridge's Preface are debatable, he most likely composed Kubla Khan during autumn 1797 but left unpublished and kept for private readings until 1816 when, on the prompting by George Gordon Byron, it was made available to the public.
So called independent people have a tendency in public office to be partisan in favour of the ALP and pursue left wing politics. One example is Mark Scott, a so called businessman who headed The Age, The ABC, and now heads the NSW Department of Education. Scott uses weasel words to defend his organisations when they hold the left wing course, as when he said he did not know how a left wing journalist voted when they held a partisan position on a public issue. Right now, Scott heads the NSW Dept of Ed and also gives advice to NSW Ed Minister Rob Stokes. Subsequent to Gonski 2, Stokes has called for NAPLAN to be replaced with a different evaluation regime for students. The argument Stokes is quoted as using is that "I am all for transparency, but this is not transparency, this is actually dishonesty," he told Fairfax Media.
"You now have an industry that's grown up alongside it, where teachers are being encouraged to teach the test rather than curriculum."
Mr Stokes said NAPLAN had become a vehicle for "edu-businesses" to extort money from desperate students and their families.
"When you now have private schools marketing their NAPLAN success, that points to the failure of NAPLAN, and it's time we had discussions about replacing it," he said."
Only, NAPLAN is an effective and fair test which maps to standards and provides an excellent source of material evaluating school effectiveness, school needs, teacher performance and student aptitude and progress. There is nothing wrong with teaching effectively. There is nothing wrong with private schools proclaiming their achievements. NAPLAN could be used to help the middle third of students improve and progress. The nock on effect from students improving lifts standards. In failing to engage in the culture wars, NSW conservatives fail their people utterly.
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Here is a video I made Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing the Tartar king Kublai Khan. Upon waking, he set about writing lines of poetry that came to him from the dream until he was interrupted by a person from Porlock. The poem could not be completed according to its original 200-300 line plan as the interruption caused him to forget the lines. Although the specific details of Coleridge's Preface are debatable, he most likely composed Kubla Khan during autumn 1797 but left unpublished and kept for private readings until 1816 when, on the prompting by George Gordon Byron, it was made available to the public.
Kubla Khan
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Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Andrew Bolt raises the question as to why Cathy McGowan did not correct the public record regarding the defamation of Sophie Mirabella. Mirabella was a former Liberal frontbencher who had been falsely accused of pushing an opponent during campaign. McGowan was in a position to let the truth be known. McGowan calls her self an independent conservative but she has a voting record in parliament favouring the ALP. So called independent people have a tendency in public office to be partisan in favour of the ALP and pursue left wing politics. One example is Mark Scott, a so called businessman who headed The Age, The ABC, and now heads the NSW Department of Education. Scott uses weasel words to defend his organisations when they hold the left wing course, as when he said he did not know how a left wing journalist voted when they held a partisan position on a public issue. Right now, Scott heads the NSW Dept of Ed and also gives advice to NSW Ed Minister Rob Stokes. Subsequent to Gonski 2, Stokes has called for NAPLAN to be replaced with a different evaluation regime for students. The argument Stokes is quoted as using is that "I am all for transparency, but this is not transparency, this is actually dishonesty," he told Fairfax Media.
"You now have an industry that's grown up alongside it, where teachers are being encouraged to teach the test rather than curriculum."
Mr Stokes said NAPLAN had become a vehicle for "edu-businesses" to extort money from desperate students and their families.
"When you now have private schools marketing their NAPLAN success, that points to the failure of NAPLAN, and it's time we had discussions about replacing it," he said."
Only, NAPLAN is an effective and fair test which maps to standards and provides an excellent source of material evaluating school effectiveness, school needs, teacher performance and student aptitude and progress. There is nothing wrong with teaching effectively. There is nothing wrong with private schools proclaiming their achievements. NAPLAN could be used to help the middle third of students improve and progress. The nock on effect from students improving lifts standards. In failing to engage in the culture wars, NSW conservatives fail their people utterly.
=== from 2017 ===
IPA Review April 2017 has a piece on Criminal Justice Reform. NSW has fewer police (per capita) than Victoria, but crime in NSW is going down while Victorian crime rates climb alarmingly. The difference is that NSW police are able to do their job, while Victorian police are hamstrung by corrupt and incompetent judiciary and feeble laws protecting criminals. IPA mistakenly feel that that means jails are too full and emptying jails will address spiralling costs of criminal justice. In fact, tougher sentencing will probably result in fewer in jail just as lower taxes can increase the overall tax take. And less crime over all. Zero tolerance works, Libertarians.
Some things should not happen, but they do. Gillian Triggs has been given a Voltaire award for Free Speech. It is a bit like giving Pol Pot an award for community organising. Or Mao an award for promoting cultural differences. Or Hillary Clinton for participating in the US elections for President. On a day when a major news franchise in Australia sacks a quarter of its staff and still it won't be readable because its news is too one sided. They will keep the furniture. Staff at Fairfax are striking for a week, including the week of budget announcements and replies. But it doesn't really matter. We know what they would have said anyway. They don't feel the Libs are spending enough. And it is bad the Libs haven't cut enough too. Libs need to be like ALP. The media have been dead for decades. Malcolm Farr needs to go too. What would Voltaire have said about a free speech award going to a person who killed a cartoonist and ruined the lives of children while denying them free speech?
Some things should not happen, but they do. Gillian Triggs has been given a Voltaire award for Free Speech. It is a bit like giving Pol Pot an award for community organising. Or Mao an award for promoting cultural differences. Or Hillary Clinton for participating in the US elections for President. On a day when a major news franchise in Australia sacks a quarter of its staff and still it won't be readable because its news is too one sided. They will keep the furniture. Staff at Fairfax are striking for a week, including the week of budget announcements and replies. But it doesn't really matter. We know what they would have said anyway. They don't feel the Libs are spending enough. And it is bad the Libs haven't cut enough too. Libs need to be like ALP. The media have been dead for decades. Malcolm Farr needs to go too. What would Voltaire have said about a free speech award going to a person who killed a cartoonist and ruined the lives of children while denying them free speech?
=== from 2016 ===
I have moved to a good home. I leave behind the ice house. Dan Andrews would rather I lived with an ice addict, and that you should too.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Princess born, sister to George, daughter to William and Kate.
Nepal earthquake Nepalese disappointed that local politicians aren't appearing as people die from secondary issues, like a lack of drinking water. International politicians are high profile.
Floyd Mayweather won a dance contest, Manny Pacquiao was the better, more dangerous fighter. The private dancer won on points.
Australian Kangaroos played Kiwis in Australian Rugby League. It was a game of two halves. In the first half, Kiwis were a brilliant attacking team. In the second half, New Zealand were a brilliant defensive team. The 26-12 score flattered Australia. NZ deserved winners.
On this day Mayan King Bird Jaguar IV assumed the throne, ten years after the death of his father, suggesting he needed to fight to claim the throne. When he passed, building works ceased. In 1715, Edmund Halley predicted a total eclipse within 4 minutes accuracy. In 1808, Sweden lost her fortress of Seaborg to Russia. It later became part of Helsinki. On the same day, Madrid Rebels who had arisen on May 2nd were executed by French. Hundreds of Madrid citizens were shot, and Francisco Goya painted the scene, titled Third May 1808. In 1830, the Canterbury and Whitstable railway opened, being the first steamed hauled passenger service to offer season tickets and a trip through a tunnel. In 1877, Labatt park, the oldest continually operated baseball field in the world had her first game. In 1913, the first full length Indian feature film was released, named Raja Harishchandra. It was a film about sacrifice.
In 1915, the poem In Flanders Field was written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. John, a Canadian, had just buried a friend. He dropped the poem, but others picked it up, and it became the best recited poem of the war.
Nepal earthquake Nepalese disappointed that local politicians aren't appearing as people die from secondary issues, like a lack of drinking water. International politicians are high profile.
Floyd Mayweather won a dance contest, Manny Pacquiao was the better, more dangerous fighter. The private dancer won on points.
Australian Kangaroos played Kiwis in Australian Rugby League. It was a game of two halves. In the first half, Kiwis were a brilliant attacking team. In the second half, New Zealand were a brilliant defensive team. The 26-12 score flattered Australia. NZ deserved winners.
On this day Mayan King Bird Jaguar IV assumed the throne, ten years after the death of his father, suggesting he needed to fight to claim the throne. When he passed, building works ceased. In 1715, Edmund Halley predicted a total eclipse within 4 minutes accuracy. In 1808, Sweden lost her fortress of Seaborg to Russia. It later became part of Helsinki. On the same day, Madrid Rebels who had arisen on May 2nd were executed by French. Hundreds of Madrid citizens were shot, and Francisco Goya painted the scene, titled Third May 1808. In 1830, the Canterbury and Whitstable railway opened, being the first steamed hauled passenger service to offer season tickets and a trip through a tunnel. In 1877, Labatt park, the oldest continually operated baseball field in the world had her first game. In 1913, the first full length Indian feature film was released, named Raja Harishchandra. It was a film about sacrifice.
In 1915, the poem In Flanders Field was written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. John, a Canadian, had just buried a friend. He dropped the poem, but others picked it up, and it became the best recited poem of the war.
In Flanders fields the poppies blowIn 1921, West Virginia became the first state to legislate a sales tax, but they didn't implement it for many years because they hadn't worked out the detail. In 1928, Japanese atrocities were noted in Jinan, China. In 1937, Gone With The Wind won a Pulitzer for fiction. In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable. In 1951, the United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees began their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. In 1952, the Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. 1957, Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agreed to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California. In 1960, the Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opened in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time. Also 1960, the Anne Frank House museum opened in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Also 1960, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established. 1963, the police force in Birmingham, Alabama switched tactics and responded with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression were transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
From 2014
Another historical and special mention to birthday girl Mary Hopkin (1950). Those were the Days was one of my favourite songs as a child. If you loved Blade Runner, remember, she was on the sound track. Her vocals were a tad higher and fuller than birthday boy Frankie Valli (1934), but she was born in Wales and I was raised in New Jersey. Also, special mention to David James Ball, born on this day in '59. Dave produces synth pop. I told my friends I did too, but my wife said "No dear, you fart"
Studying is not the same as understanding. That was driven home to me a few decades ago when a young senator Natasha Stott Despoja tortuously pronounced birthday boy's Niccolò Machiavelli's (1469) name. It should be pronounced [nikkoˈlɔ makjaˈvɛlli]. But Natasha went for the Matchyvelly direction. The poor guy's life's work has been diminished and abused for too long. No need to mistreat his name. Maybe it is a South Australian thing? Some say a strong prince is preferable to a weak one justifies brutality by thesis of The Prince, but that is a terrible diminution made by intellectual lightweights like Adolf Hitler. The Prince addresses the issue, but you need to read the work to find how. Reading is not the same as studying and admiring from a fan point of view .. of Adolf Hitler. But the left seem well sympathetic to such creatures as Adolf. I side with the innocent peoples. But then Shakespeare noted with his character Biron in Loves Labours Lost
Studying is not the same as understanding. That was driven home to me a few decades ago when a young senator Natasha Stott Despoja tortuously pronounced birthday boy's Niccolò Machiavelli's (1469) name. It should be pronounced [nikkoˈlɔ makjaˈvɛlli]. But Natasha went for the Matchyvelly direction. The poor guy's life's work has been diminished and abused for too long. No need to mistreat his name. Maybe it is a South Australian thing? Some say a strong prince is preferable to a weak one justifies brutality by thesis of The Prince, but that is a terrible diminution made by intellectual lightweights like Adolf Hitler. The Prince addresses the issue, but you need to read the work to find how. Reading is not the same as studying and admiring from a fan point of view .. of Adolf Hitler. But the left seem well sympathetic to such creatures as Adolf. I side with the innocent peoples. But then Shakespeare noted with his character Biron in Loves Labours Lost
"So study evermore is overshot: While it doth study to have what it would It doth forget to do the thing it should, And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost."
Historical perspective on this day
In 752, Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico assumed the throne. 1481, the largest of three earthquakesstruck the island of Rhodes and caused an estimated 30,000 casualties. 1491, Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga was baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I. 1715, a total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy. 1791, the Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) was proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In 1802, Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city. 1808, Finnish War: Sweden lost the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. Also 1808, Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 were executed near Príncipe Pío hill. 1815, Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples was defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war. 1830, the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway was opened. It was the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. 1837, the University of Athens was founded in Athens, Greece. 1849, the May Uprising in Dresden began – the last of the German revolutions of 1848. 1855, American adventurer William Walker departed from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua. 1860, Charles XVof Sweden–Norway was crowned king of Sweden. 1867, the Hudson's Bay Company gave up all claims to Vancouver Island. 1877, Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world had its first game.
In 1901, the Great Fire of 1901 began in Jacksonville, Florida. 1913, Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film was released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. 1915, the poem In Flanders Fields was written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. 1920, a Bolshevik coup failed in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. 1921, West Virginia became the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but did not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues. 1928, Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China. 1937, Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 1939, the All India Forward Bloc was formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
In 1942, World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. 1945, World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay. 1947, New post-war Japanese constitution went into effect. 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemerthat covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable. 1951, London's Royal Festival Hall opened with the Festival of Britain. Also 1951, the United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees began their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthurby U.S. President Harry Truman. 1952, Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States landed a plane at the North Pole. Also 1952, the Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. 1957, Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agreed to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
In 1960,the Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opened in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time. Also 1960, the Anne Frank House museum opened in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Also 1960, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established. 1963, the police force in Birmingham, Alabama switched tactics and responded with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression were transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement. 1973, the 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago was topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. 1978, the first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") was sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANETaddress on the west coast of the United States. 1979, after the general election, Margaret Thatcher formed her first government as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
In 1986, twenty-one people were killed and forty-one were injured after a bomb exploded in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. 1987, a crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. 1999, the southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produced the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). 2000, the sport of geocaching began, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. 2001, the United States lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. 2002, a military MiG-21 aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight. 2003, New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapsed.
In 1802, Washington, D.C. was incorporated as a city. 1808, Finnish War: Sweden lost the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. Also 1808, Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 were executed near Príncipe Pío hill. 1815, Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples was defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war. 1830, the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway was opened. It was the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. 1837, the University of Athens was founded in Athens, Greece. 1849, the May Uprising in Dresden began – the last of the German revolutions of 1848. 1855, American adventurer William Walker departed from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua. 1860, Charles XVof Sweden–Norway was crowned king of Sweden. 1867, the Hudson's Bay Company gave up all claims to Vancouver Island. 1877, Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world had its first game.
In 1901, the Great Fire of 1901 began in Jacksonville, Florida. 1913, Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film was released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. 1915, the poem In Flanders Fields was written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. 1920, a Bolshevik coup failed in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. 1921, West Virginia became the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but did not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues. 1928, Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China. 1937, Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 1939, the All India Forward Bloc was formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
In 1942, World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. 1945, World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay. 1947, New post-war Japanese constitution went into effect. 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemerthat covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable. 1951, London's Royal Festival Hall opened with the Festival of Britain. Also 1951, the United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees began their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthurby U.S. President Harry Truman. 1952, Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States landed a plane at the North Pole. Also 1952, the Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. 1957, Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agreed to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
In 1960,the Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opened in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time. Also 1960, the Anne Frank House museum opened in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Also 1960, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established. 1963, the police force in Birmingham, Alabama switched tactics and responded with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression were transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement. 1973, the 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago was topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. 1978, the first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") was sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANETaddress on the west coast of the United States. 1979, after the general election, Margaret Thatcher formed her first government as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
In 1986, twenty-one people were killed and forty-one were injured after a bomb exploded in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. 1987, a crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. 1999, the southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produced the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). 2000, the sport of geocaching began, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. 2001, the United States lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. 2002, a military MiG-21 aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight. 2003, New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapsed.
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Today's reading: 1 Kings 12-13, Luke 22:1-30 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Kings 12-13
Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam
1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt. 3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: 4 "Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you...."
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 22:1-30
Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
1 Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, 2 and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people. 3 Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. 4And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus. 5 They were delighted and agreed to give him money. 6 He consented, and watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to them when no crowd was present....
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Morning
It is a sweet and blessed event which will occur to all believers in God's own time--the going home to be with Jesus. In a few more years the Lord's soldiers, who are now fighting "the good fight of faith" will have done with conflict, and have entered into the joy of their Lord. But although Christ prays that his people may eventually be with him where he is, he does not ask that they may be taken at once away from this world to heaven. He wishes them to stay here. Yet how frequently does the wearied pilgrim put up the prayer, "O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away and be at rest;" but Christ does not pray like that, he leaves us in his Father's hands, until, like shocks of corn fully ripe, we shall each be gathered into our Master's garner. Jesus does not plead for our instant removal by death, for to abide in the flesh is needful for others if not profitable for ourselves. He asks that we may be kept from evil, but he never asks for us to be admitted to the inheritance in glory till we are of full age. Christians often want to die when they have any trouble. Ask them why, and they tell you, "Because we would be with the Lord." We fear it is not so much because they are longing to be with the Lord, as because they desire to get rid of their troubles; else they would feel the same wish to die at other times when not under the pressure of trial. They want to go home, not so much for the Saviour's company, as to be at rest. Now it is quite right to desire to depart if we can do it in the same spirit that Paul did, because to be with Christ is far better, but the wish to escape from trouble is a selfish one. Rather let your care and wish be to glorify God by your life here as long as he pleases, even though it be in the midst of toil, and conflict, and suffering, and leave him to say when "it is enough."
Evening
Behold the epitaph of all those blessed saints who fell asleep before the coming of our Lord! It matters nothing how else they died, whether of old age, or by violent means; this one point, in which they all agree, is the most worthy of record, "they all died in faith." In faith they lived--it was their comfort, their guide, their motive and their support; and in the same spiritual grace they died, ending their life-song in the sweet strain in which they had so long continued. They did not die resting in the flesh or upon their own attainments; they made no advance from their first way of acceptance with God, but held to the way of faith to the end. Faith is as precious to die by as to live by.
Dying in faith has distinct reference to the past. They believed the promises which had gone before, and were assured that their sins were blotted out through the mercy of God. Dying in faith has to do with the present. These saints were confident of their acceptance with God, they enjoyed the beams of his love, and rested in his faithfulness. Dying in faith looks into the future. They fell asleep, affirming that the Messiah would surely come, and that when he would in the last days appear upon the earth, they would rise from their graves to behold him. To them the pains of death were but the birth-pangs of a better state. Take courage, my soul, as thou readest this epitaph. Thy course, through grace, is one of faith, and sight seldom cheers thee; this has also been the pathway of the brightest and the best. Faith was the orbit in which these stars of the first magnitude moved all the time of their shining here; and happy art thou that it is thine. Look anew tonight to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith, and thank Him for giving thee like precious faith with souls now in glory.
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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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