Editorial on Covid policy failure
It is apparent COVID policy is political, not health related. However health advice has been political and not health related. Public health has been corrupted. Media has failed. Judiciary is corrupt. Defence is incompetent. The thin blue line has been cut. And, elder abuse is apparent from the Presidential office through to the ordinary NYC retirement home. On the plus side, there is an emerging possibility of an empty gesture securing the white house for womyn.Dan Andrews' lockdown has cancelled AA meetings. Go the beers.
Editorial Biden's Afghan failure culminated from Obama's Afghan lies
Editorial on Biden's stunning 'success' in Afghanistan
Afghanistan under the thumb of the Taliban. Street lynching, political murder and freedoms quashed. That is Afghanistan as those who voted for Biden as President have achieved. A tarred man is lead with a noose down a street for a walk of shame. What was his crime? Or does it not matter if there was a crime, only that the terrorists can show their ability to assert their authority. Just like Biden locking up people who peacefully demonstrated on January 6th. How long will those peaceful demonstrators be detained? Eight months without a trial? They say justice delayed is justice denied. How long will Biden delay justice in Afghanistan?
I asked a colleague who liked Biden, what they thought God thought about Afghanistan. My friend said "God should never have been there"
Editorial on reimposition of Andrews Curfew
Australian news propaganda has Vic extension of lockdown as being necessary. And imposition of curfew, again, which failed last time. Why do left wing governments have to copy NAZI ideas on social organisation? From eugenics, family planning, public shaming, social isolation, removal of freedoms and environmentalism, it is almost as if some ageing NAZI is still funding their ideals world wide. Curfew and lockdown failed last time in Victoria, with over a hundred dying after being denied effective medication while crime tape was placed children's swings and roundabouts. The deaths were a direct result of Premier Andrews placing a bungling private security company over quarantine, a company closely connected with ALP and not subject to competitive bidding for the job. When asked about his decision, the Premier delayed answering for months, and then said he forgot.
Delta variant Covid is more transmissible than COVID 19, and less deadly, Less deadly than the common cold. And what is wrong with treating it with appropriate medication?
Editorial on Pell case and Deep state
Cardinal Pell had created the Melbourne Response into institutionalised pedophilia in the '90s in Australia. It was a world first, but hamstrung by laws of the day, giving victims compensation without forcing them to trial. There was a backlash and a party which had included many who were known pedophiles and had deep bureaucratic connections had had Pell face decades of litigation which over time crept to accuse Pell of being a pedophile, and had him jailed on a false pretext for over a year. He had been convicted by the Victorian high court after the chief justice took the case saying they would be impartial, but they weren't. In the mean time, Pell had been 3rd in power within the Catholic church and had restructured church finances world wide to root out corruption. Recently, senior church members who allegedly leaked against Pell are facing charges of embezzlement. I see no evidence Catholicism is more prone to pedophilia than elsewhere, and I know there are tragic examples. But a deep state issue within Catholicism has seemed to be in the mix and on both sides, Catholics are standing up. Tony Abbott was the first conservative Catholic in Australia (It could be argued Joseph Lyons was Catholic too, but the UAP founder had been ALP first). Malcolm Turnbull is catholic too. Deep state division within Catholicism dates over a thousand years. It is not solely responsible for US deep state issues, but it does seem a contributor.
Cardinal Pell had created the Melbourne Response into institutionalised pedophilia in the '90s in Australia. It was a world first, but hamstrung by laws of the day, giving victims compensation without forcing them to trial. There was a backlash and a party which had included many who were known pedophiles and had deep bureaucratic connections had had Pell face decades of litigation which over time crept to accuse Pell of being a pedophile, and had him jailed on a false pretext for over a year. He had been convicted by the Victorian high court after the chief justice took the case saying they would be impartial, but they weren't. In the mean time, Pell had been 3rd in power within the Catholic church and had restructured church finances world wide to root out corruption. Recently, senior church members who allegedly leaked against Pell are facing charges of embezzlement. I see no evidence Catholicism is more prone to pedophilia than elsewhere, and I know there are tragic examples. But a deep state issue within Catholicism has seemed to be in the mix and on both sides, Catholics are standing up. Tony Abbott was the first conservative Catholic in Australia (It could be argued Joseph Lyons was Catholic too, but the UAP founder had been ALP first). Malcolm Turnbull is catholic too. Deep state division within Catholicism dates over a thousand years. It is not solely responsible for US deep state issues, but it does seem a contributor.
Editorial on Friday 13th
There used to be a 13th month. It spawned the idea of a blue moon which happens once a year. Robert Graves interpreted artwork from pre literacy Greece found that woman were the initial leaders of the Greeks, and they had three powerful gods, Hera, Aphrodite and Athena. They were a kind of trinity, where Hera, cow eyed, was the older who saw wrongs when others didn't realise she was watching. Aphrodite was a mature, desirable woman. Pallas Athene was the child goddess, whose wisdom was like a sharp pre teen girl. Over time, Queens would adopt a king for a year. At the end of the year, the blue moon, the king would be sacrificed and his blood and bones would be fertiliser. Later still, prisoners might be sacrificed for the king.
The thirteenth month has disappeared from our calendar but still exists as a blue moon, sometimes defined as the month of the year with two moons.
The Code of Hammurabi left off the number 13 for reasons now unknown.
Apollo 13 came too late to be foundational, but my, it was inspiring.
The knights Templar were screwed before French King Philip stole their assets by accusing them of heresies and then torturing them to confess, beginning Friday 13th. They had lost everything when Jerusalem fell after 150 years when the language spoken there had been French. Jerusalem fell after Jerusalem's king's daughter was kidnapped, and so the king the left the safety of a fortress and was slaughtered in battle. The Knights Templar had the timeless duty of guarding Jerusalem and her antiquities. The Holy Grail legend may have been resurrected to impugn the Knights? I feel the knights were victims of a deep state within Christianity. Part of the chaff masquerading as wheat.
https://rumble.com/vl8jem-editorial-on-friday-13th.html
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From the Bible, 1 Corinthians 8
Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. But whoever loves God is known by God.
So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.
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https://rumble.com/vlpn1b-ep.-1592-explosions-at-kabul-airport-the-dan-bongino-show.html
Sadly, my predictions have come true. The Afghanistan cover-up is in full swing. In this episode, I address the scandal. I also address the stunning new data on coronavirus immunity.
ISIS Claims Responsibility for Kabul Attack
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? U.S. Officials Gave Taliban the Names of American Citizens
State Department Cancels Press Briefing Following Kabul Terror Attacks
White House’s Singular Focus On Domestic Priorities Contributed to Afghan Chaos, Former Official Says
More Attacks Expected as Hundreds of ISIS-K Terrorists Surround Kabul Airport
Rep. Stefanik Calls Out Biden as “Unfit” to Be President in Wake of Terrorist Massacre
Capitol Hill
Trump Offers Condolences to Families of Dead Service Members in Kabul as Biden Remains Silent
Biden’s Meeting With Israeli Prime Minister Delayed By White House Amid Kabul Airport Terror Attacks
U.S. Lawmakers React To Explosion At Kabul Airport As Horrific Photos Emerge
Joe Biden Set to Campaign for Gavin Newsom in CA Recall Election
Biden Facing Harsh Criticism, Wrath From Britain
Biden Administration Desperate to Get Praise From Media for Afghanistan Evacuation
White House Reportedly in Utter Chaos, Struggles to Keep the President on Schedule
Lawmakers Describe the Horrors That Our Afghan Allies are Facing
Biden: $3.5 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Bill Will “Transform America”
Culture War
Lol: Taliban Vow to Take on Climate Change
Mask Back Up, Illinois
Clarissa Ward’s Afghanistan Reporting a Testament to What CNN Used to Represent
YouTube Admits to Taking Down Over One Million Videos Since Pandemic Began for “COVID Misinformation”
CDC Says Schools With Mask Mandates No Different in Rates of COVID Transmission Compared to Schools With Optional Policies
A 40-Year-Old Warning About the Dangers Unbound Confidence in Science Poses and How It Can Undermine Reason, Lead to Collectivism
College Students Living in a Hysterical State of COVID Fear
Why Are Whites so Reluctant to Speak Out Against Critical Race Theory?
Jan 6 Committee Creates Blacklist of Conservative Media
Economy
Delta to Fine Unvaccinated Employees $200/Month
Nearly 90% of Federal Rental Assistance Funds Still Haven’t Been Distributed
Megacorps Push Woke: Verizon Teaching Its Employees USA, Capitalism are Racist
Ilhan Omar’s Financial Disclosure Is Raising Some Eyebrows
China Announces Major Shale Oil Discovery With Expected Reserves of 1.27 Billion Tons
World Bank Freezes Afghanistan Aid
Eyewear Company Warby Parker Says People Staring at Screens All Day Is Great for Business
New Home Sales Rebound Despite Prices Hitting Another Record High
Congress Just Approved One of the Biggest Welfare State Expansions in History
Swamp Watch
AZ Attorney General To Maricopa: Give Up Election Information Or Lose $700 Million In State Funding
Obama’s Ethics Chief Rips Into Hunter Biden’s Art Scheme, Calls it “Absolutely Appalling”
Defendant In Supposed Plot To Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Sentenced To Six Years
Cuomo May Lose All Book Profits if He Violated NY Law to Write It
GOP Rep. Mike Rogers Says Biden Either Senile or in Denial
Kamala’s Priorities Are Apparently Christmas Presents and Climate Change
Only 24% Believe Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Going Well
AOC Goes Off the Rails (Again), Says Biden Must Resettle at Least 200k Afghans in the U.S.
National Security
Taliban Now Blocking Westerners From Kabul Airport, Private Rescue Flights Facing “Obstacles”
Taliban’s Force Size May Be Twice the Biden Administration’s Estimate
Twenty States Are Fighting Back Against Joe Biden’s War on Guns
Reports: Suspected ISIS, Taliban Members Found Among Afghan Evacuees
U.S. Military To Build News Bases in the Pacific to Counter China
U.S., China Not Destined for War
U.S. Space Command Officially a “Warfighting Force”, Needs a Permanent Home
How Pyongyang Views the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Healthcare and Education Reform: How America Can Continue to Dominate China
Around the World
Reuters Photojournalist, Danish Siddiqui, Left Behind Enemy Lines Killed And Mutilated By Taliban
Taliban Say Their Fighters Are Not Trained To Respect Women, Warns Women To Stay Indoors
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Pledges Two-Year Ban On Foreign Home Buyers
Former Afghan Minister Syed Ahmad Sadat Works As Pizza Delivery Person In Germany
With Risky Bet On Taliban China Eyes Afghanistan’s $1 Trillion Of Minerals
Alexy Navalny Compares Russian Prison To Chinese Labor Camp
Niger Army Repels Boko Haram Attack, 16 Soldiers Killed
Opinion
Christian Toto: Spike Lee – Oscar Winner, Fake News Spreader
Byron York: Stranded in the White House
Tim Moore: As a Free Afghanistan Fades Before Our Eyes, We Must Fulfill Our Obligations to Our Veterans and Allies
John Stossel: Lessons From Georgia
Ann Coulter: Teaching Psycho Flinstones About Women’s Equality
Salena Zito: What Biden Doesn’t Understand
Ben Shapiro: Welcome to the Forever Pandemic
Andrew P. Napolitano: Looking for Monsters to Slay
Austin Bay: The Deadly Consequences of Biden’s Budget
Entertainment
Hollywood Movies Are Being Squeezed Out In China, What Happens Next?
David Spade Laments That Cancel Culture Is Destroying Comedy – “One Wrong Move And You’re Cancelled”
Daily Wire Announces New Movie With ‘Disturbia’ Director DJ Caruso, Coming In January
REPORT: Comedy Central Leaves Out “Diversity Day” Episode During Marathon Of “The Office”
Rolling Stones Touring Next Month In US After Charlie Watts’ Death
Warner Bros. Reveals “Matrix 4” Trailer, New Look at “The Batman” at CinemaCon
Star of “Dynasty” and “All My Children,” Michael Nader Dead at 76
Sports
NFL Agents Accuse League of “Bullsh*t” Race And Woke Diversity Push
Trail Blazers And Rose Quarter To Require Proof Of Vaccination
Notre Dame Defends Leprechaun Mascot After Survey Says Its “Offensive”
2021 Daytona Cup Full Starting Lineup
Yankees Sweep Braves, Push Their Winning Streak To 11
Aussie NBA Legend Andrew Bogut Says Athletes Are Being Paid Off to Promote Lockdowns: “I Refuse to Do That S**T”
Cris Carter Doesn’t Believe LeBron Has The “Toughness” To Make It In NFL
Teddy Bridgewater Named Starting Quarterback For Denver Broncos
American forces in Kabul were bracing for more Islamic State attacks while winding up their evacuation mission, U.S. officials said, as the number of U.S. troops killed in Thursday's suicide bomb attack rose to 13. A U.S. official told Reuters the number of U.S. personnel killed was likely to rise even higher. More than a dozen were wounded. [Full Story]
Newsmax TV
Sadly, my predictions have come true. The Afghanistan cover-up is in full swing. In this episode, I address the scandal. I also address the stunning new data on coronavirus immunity.
News Picks:
- As predicted, the Biden administration is blaming Americans left behind in Afghanistan.
- As predicted, the media is flipping the script and beginning to celebrate the Biden evacuation plan, despite the chaos on the ground.
- How Gavin Newsom could lose the California recall election.
- Police union threatens a lawsuit over vaccine mandates.
- The studies about then effectiveness of natural immunity are compelling.
- Americans want to live in Republican states. The facts are clear.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Biden Signals Weakness in Address Following Kabul Attacks – Says He Was “Instructed” to Call on Certain Reporters After READ MOREISIS Claims Responsibility for Kabul Attack
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? U.S. Officials Gave Taliban the Names of American Citizens
State Department Cancels Press Briefing Following Kabul Terror Attacks
White House’s Singular Focus On Domestic Priorities Contributed to Afghan Chaos, Former Official Says
More Attacks Expected as Hundreds of ISIS-K Terrorists Surround Kabul Airport
Rep. Stefanik Calls Out Biden as “Unfit” to Be President in Wake of Terrorist Massacre
Capitol Hill
Trump Offers Condolences to Families of Dead Service Members in Kabul as Biden Remains Silent
Biden’s Meeting With Israeli Prime Minister Delayed By White House Amid Kabul Airport Terror Attacks
U.S. Lawmakers React To Explosion At Kabul Airport As Horrific Photos Emerge
Joe Biden Set to Campaign for Gavin Newsom in CA Recall Election
Biden Facing Harsh Criticism, Wrath From Britain
Biden Administration Desperate to Get Praise From Media for Afghanistan Evacuation
White House Reportedly in Utter Chaos, Struggles to Keep the President on Schedule
Lawmakers Describe the Horrors That Our Afghan Allies are Facing
Biden: $3.5 Trillion Budget Reconciliation Bill Will “Transform America”
Culture War
Lol: Taliban Vow to Take on Climate Change
Mask Back Up, Illinois
Clarissa Ward’s Afghanistan Reporting a Testament to What CNN Used to Represent
YouTube Admits to Taking Down Over One Million Videos Since Pandemic Began for “COVID Misinformation”
CDC Says Schools With Mask Mandates No Different in Rates of COVID Transmission Compared to Schools With Optional Policies
A 40-Year-Old Warning About the Dangers Unbound Confidence in Science Poses and How It Can Undermine Reason, Lead to Collectivism
College Students Living in a Hysterical State of COVID Fear
Why Are Whites so Reluctant to Speak Out Against Critical Race Theory?
Jan 6 Committee Creates Blacklist of Conservative Media
Economy
Delta to Fine Unvaccinated Employees $200/Month
Nearly 90% of Federal Rental Assistance Funds Still Haven’t Been Distributed
Megacorps Push Woke: Verizon Teaching Its Employees USA, Capitalism are Racist
Ilhan Omar’s Financial Disclosure Is Raising Some Eyebrows
China Announces Major Shale Oil Discovery With Expected Reserves of 1.27 Billion Tons
World Bank Freezes Afghanistan Aid
Eyewear Company Warby Parker Says People Staring at Screens All Day Is Great for Business
New Home Sales Rebound Despite Prices Hitting Another Record High
Congress Just Approved One of the Biggest Welfare State Expansions in History
Swamp Watch
AZ Attorney General To Maricopa: Give Up Election Information Or Lose $700 Million In State Funding
Obama’s Ethics Chief Rips Into Hunter Biden’s Art Scheme, Calls it “Absolutely Appalling”
Defendant In Supposed Plot To Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Sentenced To Six Years
Cuomo May Lose All Book Profits if He Violated NY Law to Write It
GOP Rep. Mike Rogers Says Biden Either Senile or in Denial
Kamala’s Priorities Are Apparently Christmas Presents and Climate Change
Only 24% Believe Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Going Well
AOC Goes Off the Rails (Again), Says Biden Must Resettle at Least 200k Afghans in the U.S.
National Security
Taliban Now Blocking Westerners From Kabul Airport, Private Rescue Flights Facing “Obstacles”
Taliban’s Force Size May Be Twice the Biden Administration’s Estimate
Twenty States Are Fighting Back Against Joe Biden’s War on Guns
Reports: Suspected ISIS, Taliban Members Found Among Afghan Evacuees
U.S. Military To Build News Bases in the Pacific to Counter China
U.S., China Not Destined for War
U.S. Space Command Officially a “Warfighting Force”, Needs a Permanent Home
How Pyongyang Views the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Healthcare and Education Reform: How America Can Continue to Dominate China
Around the World
Reuters Photojournalist, Danish Siddiqui, Left Behind Enemy Lines Killed And Mutilated By Taliban
Taliban Say Their Fighters Are Not Trained To Respect Women, Warns Women To Stay Indoors
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Pledges Two-Year Ban On Foreign Home Buyers
Former Afghan Minister Syed Ahmad Sadat Works As Pizza Delivery Person In Germany
With Risky Bet On Taliban China Eyes Afghanistan’s $1 Trillion Of Minerals
Alexy Navalny Compares Russian Prison To Chinese Labor Camp
Niger Army Repels Boko Haram Attack, 16 Soldiers Killed
Opinion
Christian Toto: Spike Lee – Oscar Winner, Fake News Spreader
Byron York: Stranded in the White House
Tim Moore: As a Free Afghanistan Fades Before Our Eyes, We Must Fulfill Our Obligations to Our Veterans and Allies
John Stossel: Lessons From Georgia
Ann Coulter: Teaching Psycho Flinstones About Women’s Equality
Salena Zito: What Biden Doesn’t Understand
Ben Shapiro: Welcome to the Forever Pandemic
Andrew P. Napolitano: Looking for Monsters to Slay
Austin Bay: The Deadly Consequences of Biden’s Budget
Entertainment
Hollywood Movies Are Being Squeezed Out In China, What Happens Next?
David Spade Laments That Cancel Culture Is Destroying Comedy – “One Wrong Move And You’re Cancelled”
Daily Wire Announces New Movie With ‘Disturbia’ Director DJ Caruso, Coming In January
REPORT: Comedy Central Leaves Out “Diversity Day” Episode During Marathon Of “The Office”
Rolling Stones Touring Next Month In US After Charlie Watts’ Death
Warner Bros. Reveals “Matrix 4” Trailer, New Look at “The Batman” at CinemaCon
Star of “Dynasty” and “All My Children,” Michael Nader Dead at 76
Sports
NFL Agents Accuse League of “Bullsh*t” Race And Woke Diversity Push
Trail Blazers And Rose Quarter To Require Proof Of Vaccination
Notre Dame Defends Leprechaun Mascot After Survey Says Its “Offensive”
2021 Daytona Cup Full Starting Lineup
Yankees Sweep Braves, Push Their Winning Streak To 11
Aussie NBA Legend Andrew Bogut Says Athletes Are Being Paid Off to Promote Lockdowns: “I Refuse to Do That S**T”
Cris Carter Doesn’t Believe LeBron Has The “Toughness” To Make It In NFL
Teddy Bridgewater Named Starting Quarterback For Denver Broncos
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Newsmax TV
- Ex-Afghanistan Ambassador Crocker: 'War Is Yet to Come'
- Biden Vows to Hunt Down Those Responsible for Kabul Attacks
- Biden Presidency Shaken to Core by Kabul Bombings
- 13 US Troops, 60 Afghans Killed in Kabul Attack
- McMaster: 'What We Saw Today Is Just The Beginning'
- McCarthy: Delay US Afghan Withdrawal
- Sen. Graham to Biden: Retake Strategic Bagram Air Base
- ISIS Claims Responsibility for Deadly Kabul Airport Attack
- Trump: 'Would Never Have Allowed It to Happen'
- Ashli Babbitt's Husband: DC, Media Ran Cover for Officer Who Killed My Wife |
- MSG Jason Beardsley: US 'Morale, Prestige' Take Huge Hit |
- Rep. Mike Waltz: Biden Needs to 'Some Show Spine' |
- Rep. Reschenthaler: 'Swift Retaliation' Needed After Deadly Bombing |
- Barney Frank: 'Great Mistake' for US to Try to Fix Afghanistan |
- Rep. Burchett: Biden a 'Coward,' Blinken, a 'Liar' on Afghanistan |
The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and Dec. 1, according to the nation's most closely watched forecasting model. But health experts say... [Full Story]
Al Capone is infamous for having been a ruthless mob boss, but one of [Full Story]
Two of the country's largest states that didn't mandate masks [Full Story] | 
1. Covid. "The data also appeared to show a waning effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, however, with the vaccine only 16% effective against symptomatic infection for those individuals who had two doses of the shot back in January." https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/10/breakthrough-covid-cases-why-fully-vaccinated-people-can-get-covid.html
2. Legal. Technofog sees the same thing I do: the sham FDA approval of a COVID19 vaccine, which I will debrief and discuss further tonight on Bourbon w/ Barnes. I sit any surprise that "the same people who supported gain of function research at Wuhan are now in charge of approving the vaccines" and "If you want an “approved” dose of COMIRNATY – too bad. It’s not yet available." https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-suspicious-fda-approval-of-the
3. Economic. "Covid vaccines are emerging as a $100 billion-plus business in 2021." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-06/when-lifesaving-vaccines-become-profit-machines-for-drugmakers
4. Political. As I've been saying, people just don't like Kamala, and that keeps derailing Deep State plans. "Unprecedented" negative ratings. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-has-unprecedented-negative-rating/ar-AANJBCm?li=BBnb7Kz&pfr=1
5. Cultural. They tried to cancel Notre Dame's leprechaun. The "Fighting Irish" refused the woke effort. https://www.dailyadvent.com/gb/news/amp/99d39951d785871b2a66db06c4f67d34-Pluck-of-the-Irish-Notre-Dame-refuses-to-cave-to-woke-mob-after-its-leprechaun-mascot-is-deemed-one-of-the-most-offensive-in-college-sports
- Bonus: Another impossible case in the past that prevailed: the Amistad case. The Supreme Court ultimately accepted, despite all doom forecasts, the Amistad survivors' case that "born free, always free" holding there was no mutiny or murder since "it was the ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression, and to apply force against ruinous injustice." https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad#background
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Here is a video I made Don't Cry Out Loud
Peter Allen And Carole Bayer Sager song I liked, to test my ability to use Final Cut software
I am appalled at how Julia Gillard belittles actual victims with her politics. From parents, victims of rape, gender bias, through to victims of crime and corruption, Gillard has shown she is a bully, not a Prime Minister. She has shrunk in office, and shrunk the office. So I made this video to protest.
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Scott Morrison deserves a chance as PM. The Liberals will come together as conservatives or get slaughtered in the next election. If that happens, Tony Abbott can pick up the pieces. It is concerning that Morrison is not jettisoning Paris, as there is no positive from it. However, Morrison has backed the removal of clean energy targets that formed an impost on industry and acted like a tax, raising prices. The issue of Abbott is not going away yet. Also, Bishop, who is going to sit on the backbench and prevent the liberals from having a competent member in her blue ribbon seat. It is said Bishop is fuming because a WhatsApp conversation was posted showing her colleagues despised her for being incompetent. She had allegedly set up WhatsApp with colleagues to hurt Barnaby Joyce, not be attacked by colleagues. Is this misogyny?
RRPB wrote "Let's get this plain fact clear. Abbott lost his Prime Ministership because the NSW Division controlled faction ousted him. Had he focused on party politics as Menzies did, he would have maintained political.control of the largest division and we would never havr had to suffer this gross indignation. Run the party first. Then you can run the country."
Not true. Abbott ran a tight disciplined ship, ably supported by good people including Credlin and her husband. However things were tight because of Turnbull who leaked and got others to leak. Turnbull was not making headway. The independent senators were fracturing in opposition to Abbott and he was positioning them to be toast when things changed. The change was two things. One, Costello moved to end Turnbull’s wrecking ball from cruelling the chances of more state governments like QLD and Vic. Also, Turnbull got his former deputy to pay the Clinton Foundation with foreign aid money. This allowed a lot of foreign expertise and several ongoing campaigns to address the issue. for example Gillard's 'Women hate Abbott.' Bishop was outraged she needed a minder to go overseas. Victoria’s corrupt director of the time commissioned a poll for Turnbull showing no woman would vote for Abbott and Abbott could not possibly win without women. Party pollsters begged bed wetters to overthrow Abbott. Had Abbott survived and Hastie been elected the storm would have passed. Abbott would have gone to election on a positive agenda. It would have been a half senate election preserving gains made in 2013. Turnbull ended the positive policy agenda, breaking promises he made to the IPA. Turnbull chose a policy mix closer to ALP to become a small target, and so people who were conservative were denied a choice of party, and Libs lost a million votes to smaller parties.
Thing is, the Clinton Foundation don't have one policy, but a suite of them. So Hunt's almost responsible policy of subsidy for business to address climate change, through the prism of the Clinton Foundation becomes targets for renewables, save the barrier reef, money to Palestine, Rohingya attacked by Suu Kyi, McCain criticises Trump, Russia colludes with Trump and so on. Turnbull had to prefer Hillary to Trump. And he had.
RRPB wrote "Let's get this plain fact clear. Abbott lost his Prime Ministership because the NSW Division controlled faction ousted him. Had he focused on party politics as Menzies did, he would have maintained political.control of the largest division and we would never havr had to suffer this gross indignation. Run the party first. Then you can run the country."
Not true. Abbott ran a tight disciplined ship, ably supported by good people including Credlin and her husband. However things were tight because of Turnbull who leaked and got others to leak. Turnbull was not making headway. The independent senators were fracturing in opposition to Abbott and he was positioning them to be toast when things changed. The change was two things. One, Costello moved to end Turnbull’s wrecking ball from cruelling the chances of more state governments like QLD and Vic. Also, Turnbull got his former deputy to pay the Clinton Foundation with foreign aid money. This allowed a lot of foreign expertise and several ongoing campaigns to address the issue. for example Gillard's 'Women hate Abbott.' Bishop was outraged she needed a minder to go overseas. Victoria’s corrupt director of the time commissioned a poll for Turnbull showing no woman would vote for Abbott and Abbott could not possibly win without women. Party pollsters begged bed wetters to overthrow Abbott. Had Abbott survived and Hastie been elected the storm would have passed. Abbott would have gone to election on a positive agenda. It would have been a half senate election preserving gains made in 2013. Turnbull ended the positive policy agenda, breaking promises he made to the IPA. Turnbull chose a policy mix closer to ALP to become a small target, and so people who were conservative were denied a choice of party, and Libs lost a million votes to smaller parties.
Thing is, the Clinton Foundation don't have one policy, but a suite of them. So Hunt's almost responsible policy of subsidy for business to address climate change, through the prism of the Clinton Foundation becomes targets for renewables, save the barrier reef, money to Palestine, Rohingya attacked by Suu Kyi, McCain criticises Trump, Russia colludes with Trump and so on. Turnbull had to prefer Hillary to Trump. And he had.
But those hating Abbott are not moving on. Abbott has been extraordinarily gracious. He is willing to serve, and willing to serve more time on the back bench to allow healing, so long as a positive direction is made. People are still trying to beat up Abbott because they don't want to admit they had been wrong in 2015. But bedwetters were wrong in 2015, and if they continue to fight those battles, they will continue to hurt the Liberal Party and all of Australia.
From my article on Quora
What is the worst part about high school?
Schooling is ancient but not natural. One can point to Socrates observing that everyone agreed that the virtues should be taught, but no two agreed on what the virtues were. The same observation could have been made in 1900, or in 2000, or today. And because it is not a natural process, what happens does not *feel* right.
Children grow and and acquire individual identities. They make choices. Their choices go to creating and reinforcing their identities. Schooling allows children to act in groups and discover group identity. To deny them that is to deny them an ability to develop a sense. And within a group there are roles that they will be comfortable adopting. Not everyone leads, not everyone contributes the same way. Not everything is equal. And yet it is fair. It is efficient. It allows diversity even as it promotes conformity.
Schooling is confronting, daunting and sometimes enervating and frustrating. It is character building.
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A daily column on what the ALP have as a policy, supported by a local member, and how it has 'helped' the local community. I'll stop if I cannot identify a policy. Feel free to make suggestions. Contact me on FB, not twitter. I have twitter, but never look at it.
Gabrielle Williams was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Carers and Volunteers, working with the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing and the Minister for Families and Children. Williams was given those titles when elected in 2014. It is difficult to find what value she has been to Dandenong, but clearly the ALP see her as the future. How does Williams view harm minimisation on traffic infringements? Or does she prefer zero tolerance? It looks like police have a harm minimisation policy with appalling abuses on the road that could cause an accident but sometimes don't. Has anyone an anecdote they want to share? Bus drivers being cautioned from complaining, accidents unreported, or near misses. Contact me and I'll raise the issue.
As part of the November 24th Vic election campaign I have a petition I want to bring before the Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. I believe Matthew will be the next premier of Victoria and so I am petitioning him as I raise the issues of Employment, Crime and Education in Dandenong. I am also seeking money for my campaign. I don't have party resources, and so my campaign is on foot, and on the internet. Any money I receive that is not spent on the campaign will go to Grow 4 Life. I am asking questions like "What do you love about Dandenong?" and "If you could change something in Dandenong to make it better, what would it be?" I'm not limiting the questions to state issues. I'm happy to discuss anything, and get things done.
From my article on Quora
What is the worst part about high school?
Schooling is ancient but not natural. One can point to Socrates observing that everyone agreed that the virtues should be taught, but no two agreed on what the virtues were. The same observation could have been made in 1900, or in 2000, or today. And because it is not a natural process, what happens does not *feel* right.
Children grow and and acquire individual identities. They make choices. Their choices go to creating and reinforcing their identities. Schooling allows children to act in groups and discover group identity. To deny them that is to deny them an ability to develop a sense. And within a group there are roles that they will be comfortable adopting. Not everyone leads, not everyone contributes the same way. Not everything is equal. And yet it is fair. It is efficient. It allows diversity even as it promotes conformity.
Schooling is confronting, daunting and sometimes enervating and frustrating. It is character building.
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A daily column on what the ALP have as a policy, supported by a local member, and how it has 'helped' the local community. I'll stop if I cannot identify a policy. Feel free to make suggestions. Contact me on FB, not twitter. I have twitter, but never look at it.
Gabrielle Williams was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Carers and Volunteers, working with the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing and the Minister for Families and Children. Williams was given those titles when elected in 2014. It is difficult to find what value she has been to Dandenong, but clearly the ALP see her as the future. How does Williams view harm minimisation on traffic infringements? Or does she prefer zero tolerance? It looks like police have a harm minimisation policy with appalling abuses on the road that could cause an accident but sometimes don't. Has anyone an anecdote they want to share? Bus drivers being cautioned from complaining, accidents unreported, or near misses. Contact me and I'll raise the issue.
As part of the November 24th Vic election campaign I have a petition I want to bring before the Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. I believe Matthew will be the next premier of Victoria and so I am petitioning him as I raise the issues of Employment, Crime and Education in Dandenong. I am also seeking money for my campaign. I don't have party resources, and so my campaign is on foot, and on the internet. Any money I receive that is not spent on the campaign will go to Grow 4 Life. I am asking questions like "What do you love about Dandenong?" and "If you could change something in Dandenong to make it better, what would it be?" I'm not limiting the questions to state issues. I'm happy to discuss anything, and get things done.
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Five traffic violations in 2km were ignored as a bus driver went from McRae St Dandenong to Dandenong station last Wednesday. An exercise in harm minimisation, why prosecute when an accident did not happen? Friday, there was a near miss in Dandenong in which nobody was at fault, but had the road rules been routinely followed, would never have happened. Wednesday, firstly a car stopped in the 893 McRae st bus zone, preventing it from stopping. Then another cut in front of the bus, but still had to wait at a red light. Then another ran a red light and the bus which had had sufficient space had to cover a crossing for lights to change. Then a truck waited illegally to turn right outside Drum theatre, forcing the bus to miss another light. The Friday near miss involved the driver turning left into a blind bend on Langhorne St from the Pacific Highway while a car had done a three point u turn and was backing out of the Job Training Institute. Luckily the 901 bus driver was used to accelerating into red lights (and braking hard) and was able to brake hard enough. But the truth is laws are enforced or there are no laws. And Harm Minimisation fails, but Zero Tolerance works for all.
It is ok to 'ping' a transgressor. So long as the sanction is fair and proportionate with the offence. If cars were fined for bad behaviour around busses, their drivers would behave better. And there would be fewer accidents. That is how Zero Tolerance works. Dan Andrews has his police focused on issues like wearing purple to show solidarity with SSM. But gays, even married gays, are not generally law breakers. They don't need enhanced police appreciation. Instead, we need police to spray themselves with alcohol, nicotine and funny stuff and cuss like soldiers in plain clothes so they can get close to criminals who otherwise seem to own Victorian streets. And the gender of officers keeping the streets clean of crime does not matter.
How come Melbourne busses aren't monitoring their driver driving behaviour? There are signs about 'smooth rides' but there are many drivers who are accelerating and braking hard into stops and red lights. Some drivers in similar circumstances are not doing that. Technology is becoming available which can monitor driver awareness and general health. The public deserve to have the best at the price they pay their drivers.
It is ok to 'ping' a transgressor. So long as the sanction is fair and proportionate with the offence. If cars were fined for bad behaviour around busses, their drivers would behave better. And there would be fewer accidents. That is how Zero Tolerance works. Dan Andrews has his police focused on issues like wearing purple to show solidarity with SSM. But gays, even married gays, are not generally law breakers. They don't need enhanced police appreciation. Instead, we need police to spray themselves with alcohol, nicotine and funny stuff and cuss like soldiers in plain clothes so they can get close to criminals who otherwise seem to own Victorian streets. And the gender of officers keeping the streets clean of crime does not matter.
How come Melbourne busses aren't monitoring their driver driving behaviour? There are signs about 'smooth rides' but there are many drivers who are accelerating and braking hard into stops and red lights. Some drivers in similar circumstances are not doing that. Technology is becoming available which can monitor driver awareness and general health. The public deserve to have the best at the price they pay their drivers.
=== from 2016 ===
The corrosive nature of media has won government for the ALP in the Northern Territory. In token politics reversal, the first Aboriginal leader of a major political party looks likely to lose his own seat. Naturally, Adam Giles is a conservative. The party that monopolises tokens, the ALP, have not got a policy beyond tax and spend. The ALP have a divided leadership and have relied on the media to cover up their appalling policy which saw Aboriginal children beaten in custody. Prime Minister Turnbull seemed to blame Giles for the issue when he launched a royal commission.
The NSW Baird government is a safe one for conservatives to hit as they try to appear balanced to lefties who don't care about balance anyway. Two major decisions by the Baird government are being challenged by self interest groups and inflated by lazy political opposition. But the NSW government deserve kudos for bringing the state out of debt. Something the ALP said was impossible.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Hate crime perpetrated by mentally ill journalist on air. He had been sacked a few years ago. He felt inspired by psychotic killers. He felt he didn't have dignity. He killed some good people and then himself. Obama immediately exploited his atrocity in the hopes of weakening gun laws, making it harder for good people to obtain guns.
Corrupt ALP add more lies to the smear of Heydron hoping to force him to stand aside. It would be a dangerous precedent if he does, meaning any future Royal Commission could be derailed by smears and innuendo.
ALP lying about free trade with China threatens agreement.
CFMEU sued for $28 million.
Australia's parliament keeps using the word 'equality' and yet each member of the top 1% of earners pays the same as 70 Australians in the bottom quartile. Australia needs to be business and investor friendly to prosper.
Melbourne University illustrates anti semitism in her journalism course mock press conference
Gillard backflips over gay marriage. She opposed it as PM in '12.
Greens lie about dredging and Barrier Reef. Flannery lied about Dams never filling again.
Corrupt ALP add more lies to the smear of Heydron hoping to force him to stand aside. It would be a dangerous precedent if he does, meaning any future Royal Commission could be derailed by smears and innuendo.
ALP lying about free trade with China threatens agreement.
CFMEU sued for $28 million.
Australia's parliament keeps using the word 'equality' and yet each member of the top 1% of earners pays the same as 70 Australians in the bottom quartile. Australia needs to be business and investor friendly to prosper.
Melbourne University illustrates anti semitism in her journalism course mock press conference
Gillard backflips over gay marriage. She opposed it as PM in '12.
Greens lie about dredging and Barrier Reef. Flannery lied about Dams never filling again.
From 2014
A tenth Liberal Party member has stood aside after being fingered by the ICAC. The member denies the allegations which are not within three orders of magnitude of Eddie Obeid's property management which the ICAC passed without comment during the reign of Bob Carr and Iemma. It wasn't that the ALP corruption was hidden. One Liberal affiliated businessman was assassinated by ALP backers and it wasn't uncovered until a Liberal link was found. Earlier in the week the assassination of Donald Mackay was discussed with a previously dismissed alleged witness claiming to be ready to step forward. Thing is, the ALP are not clean over the issue, being too connected to drug crime and politically opposed to the victim. But the press are running with an allegation against Mr Abbott that he had claimed to have been late to a party function because he had to claim entitlements. ALP leader Shorten, who never notices if he has entitlements or other ALP do, said that it was telling someone within the Liberal Party was leaking to damage the Liberal Party. It is telling. It would never happen with the ALP, where gross corruption goes unreported and ignored. However, there appears to be no substance to the allegation against Mr Abbott. Even so, it would be nice for these allegations to be cleared regarding the Liberal Party. And it would be better to see them addressing extant issues, like the bizarre cover up of the death of Hamidur Rahman.
Palmer can say *anything* to anyone and none of it can be considered reliable. This is illustrated by his recollection of a trip to China in 1962 and notes taken at the time. Girls are raped in a British village and the (approximately 1400) victims are ignored because of the race and religion of their abusers. Say 'no' for the proposed change to the Australian constitution to introduce race. Race is not needed for the state to function. ASIO is asking for special laws to protect Australians. There is good reason for extraordinary rules in extraordinary times, and if they have a sunset clause, they sound worthwhile. Paul Keating has released a book about himself, and he reminds the world he was another incompetent who protected other incompetents while he was in government, so that no one knows who was the most incompetent.
Palmer can say *anything* to anyone and none of it can be considered reliable. This is illustrated by his recollection of a trip to China in 1962 and notes taken at the time. Girls are raped in a British village and the (approximately 1400) victims are ignored because of the race and religion of their abusers. Say 'no' for the proposed change to the Australian constitution to introduce race. Race is not needed for the state to function. ASIO is asking for special laws to protect Australians. There is good reason for extraordinary rules in extraordinary times, and if they have a sunset clause, they sound worthwhile. Paul Keating has released a book about himself, and he reminds the world he was another incompetent who protected other incompetents while he was in government, so that no one knows who was the most incompetent.
Historical perspective on this day
410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1172 – King Henry II of England crowns his heirs, Henry the Young King and Queen Margaret, but gives them no actual authority.
1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
1776 – Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
1172 – King Henry II of England crowns his heirs, Henry the Young King and Queen Margaret, but gives them no actual authority.
1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
1776 – Battle of Long Island: In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: The city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by the United Kingdom between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1881 – The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
1893 – The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000-2,000 people.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1914 – Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliersduring the Great Retreat.
1916 – The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
1922 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisarfrom the Kingdom of Greece.
1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
1933 – The first Afrikaans Bible is introduced during a Bible Festival in Bloemfontein.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1942 – First day of the Sarny Massacre.
1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1943 – World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh enters into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh.
1971 – An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.
1980 – A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured.
1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2009 – Internal conflict in Burma: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.
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Today's reading: Psalm 119:89-176, 1 Corinthians 8 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 119:89-176
89 Your word, LORD, is eternal;
it stands firm in the heavens.
90 Your faithfulness continues through all generations;
you established the earth, and it endures.
91 Your laws endure to this day,
for all things serve you.
92 If your law had not been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
93 I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have preserved my life.
94 Save me, for I am yours;
I have sought out your precepts.
95 The wicked are waiting to destroy me,
but I will ponder your statutes.
96 To all perfection I see a limit,
but your commands are boundless....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 8
Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols
1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that "We all possess knowledge." But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. 2 Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But whoever loves God is known by God.
4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that "An idol is nothing at all in the world" and that "There is no God but one." 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), 6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
7 But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do....
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Morning
The Lord's people delight in the covenant itself. It is an unfailing source of consolation to them so often as the Holy Spirit leads them into its banqueting house and waves its banner of love. They delight to contemplate the antiquity of that covenant, remembering that before the day-star knew its place, or planets ran their round, the interests of the saints were made secure in Christ Jesus. It is peculiarly pleasing to them to remember the sureness of the covenant, while meditating upon "the sure mercies of David." They delight to celebrate it as "signed, and sealed, and ratified, in all things ordered well." It often makes their hearts dilate with joy to think of its immutability, as a covenant which neither time nor eternity, life nor death, shall ever be able to violate--a covenant as old as eternity and as everlasting as the Rock of ages. They rejoice also to feast upon the fulness of this covenant, for they see in it all things provided for them. God is their portion, Christ their companion, the Spirit their Comforter, earth their lodge, and heaven their home. They see in it an inheritance reserved and entailed to every soul possessing an interest in its ancient and eternal deed of gift. Their eyes sparkled when they saw it as a treasure-trove in the Bible; but oh! how their souls were gladdened when they saw in the last will and testament of their divine kinsman, that it was bequeathed to them! More especially it is the pleasure of God's people to contemplate the graciousness of this covenant. They see that the law was made void because it was a covenant of works and depended upon merit, but this they perceive to be enduring because grace is the basis, grace the condition, grace the strain, grace the bulwark, grace the foundation, grace the topstone. The covenant is a treasury of wealth, a granary of food, a fountain of life, a store-house of salvation, a charter of peace, and a haven of joy.
Evening
How great the difference between Moses and Jesus! When the prophet of Horeb had been forty days upon the mountain, he underwent a kind of transfiguration, so that his countenance shone with exceeding brightness, and he put a veil over his face, for the people could not endure to look upon his glory. Not so our Saviour. He had been transfigured with a greater glory than that of Moses, and yet, it is not written that the people were blinded by the blaze of his countenance, but rather they were amazed, and running to him they saluted him. The glory of the law repels, but the greater glory of Jesus attracts. Though Jesus is holy and just, yet blended with his purity there is so much of truth and grace, that sinners run to him amazed at his goodness, fascinated by his love; they salute him, become his disciples, and take him to be their Lord and Master. Reader, it may be that just now you are blinded by the dazzling brightness of the law of God. You feel its claims on your conscience, but you cannot keep it in your life. Not that you find fault with the law, on the contrary, it commands your profoundest esteem, still you are in nowise drawn by it to God; you are rather hardened in heart, and are verging towards desperation. Ah, poor heart! turn thine eye from Moses, with all his repelling splendour, and look to Jesus, resplendent with milder glories. Behold his flowing wounds and thorn-crowned head! He is the Son of God, and therein he is greater than Moses, but he is the Lord of love, and therein more tender than the lawgiver. He bore the wrath of God, and in his death revealed more of God's justice than Sinai on a blaze, but that justice is now vindicated, and henceforth it is the guardian of believers in Jesus. Look, sinner, to the bleeding Saviour, and as thou feelest the attraction of his love, fly to his arms, and thou shalt be saved.
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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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