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 God In answer to Dinesh Dsousa's article
The God the atheists refute is not real, but is a ridiculous, impossible figure. God is real. God as He is revealed in the Bible is a fact. However, as ridiculous as the atheists arguments are, they are instructive. God made a bridge He could not cross (man's rejection of Him). God bridged that gap with Jesus. Thing is, atheists don't believe that that gap is real.
In my Sermon on a Miracle I describe how God gave a childless woman who could not bear children, prayed for children, family. He did that. And he did not use supernatural measures.
God is real. God does the impossible. God is not subject to our demands. God answers prayer. Sometimes bad people prosper for a time. All those statements are true.
God is worthy of praise. Atheists don't see it, but they have countless examples of it, from their own lives to the works of those they admire. In the Revelations of the Holy Spirit I underscore and outline some of what God does that even atheists call for.
We need god, but even in a world without God, there is a need for Him.
Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
The Believer’s Freedom
“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive. No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience? If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God— even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
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Wow: Let's Make This Guy A Hero
This video from one of our American heroes takes true guts. Check it out guys.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Americans Urged to Leave Kabul Airport Over Credible Terror Attack ThreatREAD MOREBiden Checks Watch During Transfer of Eleven of the Thirteen Service Members Killed in Kabul
State Department Handed Out Blank Visas in Afghanistan, Potentially Enabling Terrorists to Board U.S. Aircraft
Taliban Says They’re Ready to Retake Airport as U.S. in Final Phase of Evacuations
Pentagon Releases Names of All Thirteen U.S. Service Members Killed in Kabul Terror Attack
CDC Restarts “Gun Violence” Program to Combat “Firearm Epidemic”
As Biden Flounders, the U.K. Has Had No Trouble Getting Their Citizens Out of Afghanistan
Capitol Hill
Energy Sec Chartered Military Jet to Ukraine as U.S. Scrambled To Evacuate Americans From Afghanistan
Ronny Jackson: Biden’s Lack of Cognitive Fitness Is Getting Americans Killed
Pentagon Says Taliban and Haqqani Network Are Commingling While State Department Calls Them Separate Entities
Did Biden Fall Asleep During His Meeting With Israeli PM?
Rep. Donalds: We Have Dead Servicemen Because Biden Wanted A Photo Op for September 11
Lindsey Graham: Military Can Retake Bagram Airfield “Tonight”
Biden’s Approval Finally Starts to Dip Among Democrats
Rep. Swalwell Now Floating Conspiracy Theories About His Relationship With Chinese Spy
Culture War
DOJ Looks to Hire First-Ever Chief Diversity Officer
Mother of Slain U.S. Marine Unloads on Biden: A “Feckless, Dementia-Ridden Piece Of Crap,” “Treasonous”
CDC Demands Americans Use Woke “Inclusive Language” for Health
Woman Involved in Peace Talks With Taliban Blames Biden for Fall of Kabul
Christian Schools Have Vastly Outperformed Public Schools During Pandemic
Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Berenson
California Teacher Made “Uncomfortable” by American Flag Tells Students to Pledge Allegiance to Gay Pride Flag
Bill Maher Blasts the Woke Left for Losing Perspective on “Real Oppression”
Economy
Next Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment Likely to Be Record Breaking Due to Inflation
Infrastructure Bill Creates New Tax Reporting Requirements on Cryptocurrency Industry
Gulf of Mexico Oil Output Cut 91% Ahead of Hurricane Ida
Decline of SPAC Market Has Digital Media Companies Debating the Best Path Forward
China’s “People’s Bank” Announces Further Crackdown on Bitcoin
ESPN Looks to License Brand to Sports Betting Companies for at Least $3 Billion
Biden Plans 2.7% Pay Hike for Public Sector
Key Inflation Measure Jumps the Most Since the Early 1990s
Swamp Watch
Portland Mayor the Latest in Long List of Officials Caught Not Obeying Their Own COVID Rules
Disgraced Not-Gov. Cuomo Still Has $18 Million in Campaign Donations
Chicago Mother Separated From Son by Judge Until She Gets COVID-19 Vaccine
DOL to Spend $10 Million on “Advancing Gender Proportionality” in the Mexican Workplace
Questions Over Federal Renters’ Assistance Arise After Eviction Moratorium Is Tossed
Jan 6 Committee Wants Records From 15 Tech Platforms
Biden’s DOJ Closing Down NYC Jail Where Jeffrey Epstein Allegedly Killed Himself
National Security
The Legacy of Two Decades of War in Afghanistan
Biden’s Afghanistan Collapse Tanked Transatlantic Relations
The Real China Threat: A Massive Nuclear Weapons Arsenal?
Three More U.S. Military Bases to Take in Afghan Refugees
First Flight for Army’s Recon, Electronic-Warfare Capable Aircraft
China Is Angry: U.S. Warships Transited the Taiwan Strait Again
U.S. DoD Should Stop Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations
Pentagon Says Two “High Profile” ISIS-K Members Killed, But Won’t Release Names
Hurricane Ida Strengthens to Category 4
Marine Commander Who Blasted “Inept” Military Leadership Fired
Around the World
Turkey Expected to Recognize the Taliban
German State Calls for COVID Lockdown for the Unvaccinated
U.S. Begins to Withdraw Troops From Kabul
Olympics Will “Encourage” China to Commit More Genocide, Says Uyghur Group
Biden Says There Will Be Additional Strikes Against ISIS-K
With U.S. Evacuation Nearing Its End, Taliban Begins Preparing to Set Up New Afghan Government
UK, Germany Look to a Common Approach on Taliban
Thousands of Protesters Clash With Police in Berlin Over COVID Restrictions
Opinion
Newt Gingrich: Biden Surrendered in Afghanistan Just in Time for 9/11
David Harsanyi: Our Military and Our Allies No Longer Trust Biden
John C. Goodman: The Truth About Inequality
Deroy Murdock: Joe Biden Just Ruined America’s “Special Relationship” With Great Britain
Kevin Roberts: Afghanistan, Southern US Border Show Biden Uninterested in Defending America
Jackie Gingrich Cushman: The High Price of Politics Over Policy
Phillip Holloway: Finally! Sanity From SCOTUS Ends Illegal CDC Eviction Moratorium
Humberto Fontova: The Terrorists Next Door Congratulate the Terrorists in Afghanistan
Entertainment
New Walt Disney World COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Requires All Employees Present Proof Of Vaccination By October
Eric Clapton Rails Against Authoritarians Crushing Liberty in Anthem “This Has Gotta Stop”
Kanye West Says He’s Back With Kim Kardashian
Dog the Bounty Hunter Files for Marriage License
Jason Aldean Mourns Death of Guard Who Saved Him in 2017 Vegas Shooting
Did Stephen Colbert Just Have His Worst Week Ever?
UFC Star: I Know What Happens When You Make the Government God
Bill Maher Amazed by Greg Gutfeld, “New King of Late Night”: “Fox News Found a Good Thing”
Sports
Yankees’ Stephen Ridings Was a Substitute Teacher Just a Few Months Ago
Top Storylines and Matches to Watch for in U.S. Open 2021
Philip Rivers Wins First High School Game as Head Coach
Brad Snyder First U.S. Man at Paralympics or Olympics to Win Triathlon Gold
Video: LAPD Officers Use Stun Gun On NBA’s Jaxson Hayes
Ole Miss Softball Head Coach And Assistant Coach Under Investigation For Sexual Misconduct
Bills’ Isaiah Mckenzie Gets Vaccinated After Being Fined Almost $15k for Violating Mask Policy
Dolphins Emerge As Frontrunners in Trade Discussions For Deshaun Watson
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Newsmax tv
- Archbishop Leads Special Prayer as Ida Paralyzes New Orleans
- Packed with Virus Patients, Louisiana Hospitals Hit by Ida
- Ida Similar to Katrina, But Stronger, Smaller
- US Gulf Oil Producers, Refiners Shutting Ahead of Ida
- Gulf Coast Residents Flee 'Extremely Dangerous' Hurricane Ida
- A Hurricane Ida Wildcard: Effects on U.S. Energy Supply
- Louisiana Gov.: Brace for 'Strongest' Hurricane Since 1850s
- Kevin McCarthy Calls for Probe on Decision to Close Bagram Airbase
- Lindsey Graham: Biden Sets Conditions For Another 9/11
- Ex-DNI Negroponte: Problems Will Remain a Long Time
- Rep. Mast: US Weapons 'Inventory' Being Used by Taliban
- McMaster: Leaders Abandoned 'Sustainable Effort'
- McConnell: Biden Withdrawal 'One of Worst Decisions' in History
- US Struck ISIS-K Targets With Special Hellfire Missile |
- Biden Honors Troops Killed as Remains Return Home
- Rep. Tenney: HR-4 Dangerous Because it Federalizes Elections |
- Rep. McCaul: Afghan Partners 'Have Death Warrant' on Their Backs |
- Rep. Lee Zeldin: Hochul Just 'More of the Same' for NY |
- Dershowitz: Courts Now Siding With State Legislatures |
- Rep. Ronny Jackson: 'Bad Things Going to Happen' on National Security |
- Sen. Blackburn: 'Boots Win the War, Suits Lose the War'
Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, has had his COVID-19 symptoms subside and has been transferred to a rehab facility for "intensive occupational and physical therapy"... [Full Story]
Ed Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in [Full Story]
1. Covid. The case example of Vietnam, and what it might say about public health policy reaction to Covid. https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/vietnams-tale-of-covid-19-medicine
2. Legal. Alex Berenson contemplates a libel lawsuit against Twitter for their defamation and deplatforming of him. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/muzzling-the-truth
3. Economic. Stock trends point to slowdown more than rebound. https://www.wsj.com/articles/stock-market-turns-cautious-as-defensive-shares-surge-11630229580
4. Political. The perilous parallels with collapsed societies: "if you want to see a great country decline and crumble, it is enough to watch it cancel its culture and destroy its economy through an abandonment of values." https://americanmind.org/salvo/empires-fate/
5. Cultural. A white pill moment: parents finally waking up to public education perils. https://reason.com/2021/08/27/families-are-fleeing-government-run-schools/
*Bonus: Thanks to a very profitable English Premier League to offset disappointing Nebraska, those who took all the weekend's picks returned a healthy 15% profit to start the season. https://sportspicks.locals.com/post/1003118/free-picks-for-august-28-2021
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Here is a video I made Diary
Single released April 22, 1972
Bread was a rock band from Los Angeles, California. They placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977 and were a prime example of what later was labeled soft rock.
Baby I'm-a Want You was the fourth album by Bread, released in 1972. Its singles included the title cut (which reached #3 on the Billboard Top 100), "Everything I Own",(#5), "Mother Freedom" (#37),and "Diary" (#15). This was the first Bread album to feature keyboards player Larry Knechtel.
=== From 2018 ===
Scott Morrison deserves a chance as PM. An issue is being raised about Turnbull challenger Peter Dutton, who had been Immigration Minister. Dutton had acted on the issue of an au pair. He was allowed to do that, in fact he was supposed to. The issue has been investigated and Dutton has done no wrong. AFL supremo Gillon McLachlan had facilitated the issue being brought before Dutton. McLachlan has said he did no wrong and would do it again. He is happy to help those in need. Neil Mitchell, in interview with Mclachlan asked if McLachlan had raised the issue of Richmond player Dustin Martin's dad with Dutton. He had not, because the issue was already public and McLachlan had not campaigned for the au pair, Martin's dad was already known as an immigration issue. Meanwhile, News.com.au has posted an article conflating Dutton's responsible issue with that of an Afghan interpreter who is being hunted by Islamic terrorists for working with Australian forces in Afghanistan. That had been nixed by the ALP, and protocol prevents the Minister from revisiting that without significant new information. Dutton has done no wrong, but has responsibly exercised power which he cannot extend at public whim. The Afghan interpreter and their family should not be abandoned to the Taliban, but the ALP have made that difficult. I get the frustration, ALP have done the same to me on another issue. Thing is, Turnbull dirty tricks were harnessed when he was PM, and now just move undirected, as they used to.
Corbyn's Zionist remark, accusing British Jews of not knowing their history when he clearly does not understand the history of those he supports is telling. Corbyn seems to feel that the Palestinians, who were named in 1967 so as to persecute Jews, have no history before 1967. The name, Palestine was the Roman word describing Jewish administrators of Jewish lands.
From my article on Quora
How can Dandenong's Palm Plaza, McCrae St and Walker St be tiled or paved beautifully and cheaply?
Built on a mound of dirt, the promenade has been tiled for pedestrians, but council has approved trucks to access supply business over the tiles. The result is subsidence and every ten to fifteen years the tiles need to be relaid at a cost of millions of dollars. But the relaid areas quickly become pedestrian trip hazards.
Council needs to commission a site survey with a view to anchoring elements of the land and paving appropriately for land use.
Things have changed since that tower in Pisa was built.
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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. Workers around Palm Plaza have highlighted to me their desire for better lighting. The leave work after sun down and come to work before first light. The area is dim and with the issue of crime being high, people are naturally concerned. Council claims they have recently upgraded the lighting to be event friendly. I get it Greens are concerned with light pollution, but people have to be able to make a living. If I'm elected, my first act would be to cut all funding to Dandenong Observatory which allegedly is disturbed by ambient lighting which makes local workers feel safe at night in industrial areas. (Jokes, Dandenong does not have an observatory, just Green activists who seem to hate people).
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
How can Dandenong's Palm Plaza, McCrae St and Walker St be tiled or paved beautifully and cheaply?
Built on a mound of dirt, the promenade has been tiled for pedestrians, but council has approved trucks to access supply business over the tiles. The result is subsidence and every ten to fifteen years the tiles need to be relaid at a cost of millions of dollars. But the relaid areas quickly become pedestrian trip hazards.
Council needs to commission a site survey with a view to anchoring elements of the land and paving appropriately for land use.
Things have changed since that tower in Pisa was built.
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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. Workers around Palm Plaza have highlighted to me their desire for better lighting. The leave work after sun down and come to work before first light. The area is dim and with the issue of crime being high, people are naturally concerned. Council claims they have recently upgraded the lighting to be event friendly. I get it Greens are concerned with light pollution, but people have to be able to make a living. If I'm elected, my first act would be to cut all funding to Dandenong Observatory which allegedly is disturbed by ambient lighting which makes local workers feel safe at night in industrial areas. (Jokes, Dandenong does not have an observatory, just Green activists who seem to hate people).
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. Australia loses to Bangladesh at test cricket and the public reaction is of horror when it should be joy. The competition needs to be competitive. If it worries some old timers, let them think back to Kim Hughes captaining Australia, and smile for the memory. And Hope for the West Indies who defeated England. Cricket is the winner.
Tony Abbott sign got given coverage when Malcolm Turnbull gave $50 to a guy with a sandwich board calling the then PM a "c#nt" on each side of the boards. The sandwich board guy was charged, but a judge excused him. The guy had argued he had strategically placed a character to make it look like "can't" and the judge decided it was ok. It was lucky Andrew Bolt had not written it, because there are two laws in Australia. Meanwhile, someone in the Libs has leaked details of Mr Abbott's expenses. Abbott is a sitting MP who has campaigned for the Libs. The other former PM's only manage self interest.
Constitutional expert predicts that the high court will boot the government and deny a postal vote on gay marriage. It might too, but only because judges seem politically active. It would be absurd to boot Barnaby Joyce from parliament on a technicality when he immediately disavowed on discovery. But judges can read between the lines. They are that smart.
Trump in Texas. Press go wild denouncing Trump for going to Texas, and claim the clothes he wore promotes Trump products. Trump is worth $2 billion to Twitter. All anyone need do on Twitter to get an extra order of magnitude in likes and shares is to denounce Trump. That is why admins have not cashiered Trump's account. NYT 12% support from US readers. The paper is that bad, left wing partisan.
SSM and Safe Schools. What is the link between the two? Clementine Ford went to a school and refused to speak to male students. Ford is an appalling choice to showcase democracy or civic virtues. One feels that if they could, schools would invite Trump to Ford's theatre.
Tony Abbott sign got given coverage when Malcolm Turnbull gave $50 to a guy with a sandwich board calling the then PM a "c#nt" on each side of the boards. The sandwich board guy was charged, but a judge excused him. The guy had argued he had strategically placed a character to make it look like "can't" and the judge decided it was ok. It was lucky Andrew Bolt had not written it, because there are two laws in Australia. Meanwhile, someone in the Libs has leaked details of Mr Abbott's expenses. Abbott is a sitting MP who has campaigned for the Libs. The other former PM's only manage self interest.
Constitutional expert predicts that the high court will boot the government and deny a postal vote on gay marriage. It might too, but only because judges seem politically active. It would be absurd to boot Barnaby Joyce from parliament on a technicality when he immediately disavowed on discovery. But judges can read between the lines. They are that smart.
Trump in Texas. Press go wild denouncing Trump for going to Texas, and claim the clothes he wore promotes Trump products. Trump is worth $2 billion to Twitter. All anyone need do on Twitter to get an extra order of magnitude in likes and shares is to denounce Trump. That is why admins have not cashiered Trump's account. NYT 12% support from US readers. The paper is that bad, left wing partisan.
SSM and Safe Schools. What is the link between the two? Clementine Ford went to a school and refused to speak to male students. Ford is an appalling choice to showcase democracy or civic virtues. One feels that if they could, schools would invite Trump to Ford's theatre.
=== from 2016 ===
It is ok to die old and blessed. But Gene Wilder could have had better. Better memories and the consolation of family. Only, the wife he intended for children died of cancer and he succumbed to Alzheimer. But his life's work provided great joy. He died aged 83. He was an actor, screenwriter, director and author.
Clinton's quest to be the first doormat as President of the United States was highlighted when disgraced former congressman David Weiner was outed sexting again. This time to a Trump supporter. His wife, who was his doormat, is also a key adviser to Clinton. Clearly there is much in common. Weiner described his sexting as appropriate, but it includes an image of his erect penis next to his baby son, in bed. It might not have been his penis, being shielded by his boxers. It could have been a duck. That is the top level of Democrat talent. Those are the people who tell the US that they cannot possibly balance the budget or legislate responsibly.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
The Skaf rapes were a hate crime. There are many hate crimes that go unpunished because they are also other crimes. Rape is wrong. Aggravated rape is wrong. Gang rape is wrong. Threatening and intimidation is wrong. Abduction is wrong. Hate crimes are wrong. It is apparent that Skaf was jailed for the rapes, but not for the hate crime. A number of people have played down the nature of the hate crime. It isn't clear there really are laws against it. Sometimes, when people are heard to publicly abuse each other, they resort to race and ethnicity and gender and disability. It is almost unimaginable that the garden variety playground style abuse could be considered a hate crime on its own. Hate crimes are aggravating features of crime. Rape can also be a hate crime. In the case of the Skaf gang, by their own admission at the time of the rapes, it is apparent that that was exactly the case. And yet members of the press, and public servants, have acted to shield the criminals from their activity. And that may still be the case today.
Bart Cummings died old and blessed. He was Australia's greatest horse trainer.
From 2014
Last year, just prior to the federal election, Rudd was revealed as having lied to the electorate. He promised policies would be costed and he claimed they had been by treasury. But treasury said it hadn't. Rudd walked into the election without a policy platform, but assuring voters he would increase spending while simultaneously cutting it. And he had cut spending by not having declared income sources for the few policies he had, creating land mines for the new government in Education and Health. His successor has tried to exploit those land mines, claiming the government has cut spending on Education and Health as it increased .. because he knows years from now the policies have not been paid for and will have to be cut. The media have joined in the dance and have been quite successful, according to the polls, at making the electorate forget how bad the Rudd government was. But one reminder today was Garrett being named as responsible for three deaths in the Pink Batts debacle which also claimed over a hundred houses from house fires. If the judges hadn't blamed Garrett they would have had to point at Rudd, and no left winger wants that. Shorten has continued the bad agenda of the ALP, still having no policy beyond the reactionary tax and spend. The problem that poses in the future for Australia's children is obvious. The children will not be able to live as well as their parents, and will have to repay their parent's debts. Meanwhile, Mr Abbott is accused of saying that the sailing of the first fleet into Sydney Harbour is defining in our national character. Apparently the lobby groups want him to call it something else, like a holocaust. But Mr Abbott is correct.
The blood is still flowing in Syria and Obama dithers. Some say there is no peace when the US is at war, in which case there has been a year of peace in Syria, but those that make the claims of US aggression are often wrong. US are wrong to unquestioningly support Ukraine. Ukraine have questions that need to be answered. They have turned their cities into war zones where their people are ethnically Russian. This cannot be excused. The Ukrainian government is illegitimate. It would be impossible to hold a fair election at the moment. We do not know exactly what happened with the shooting down of MH17. Ukraine acted to prevent international police from collecting bodies. Ukraine has support from Washington, and Putin does not have support from Washington. Washington needs to explain her position. If Obama has backed the assassins of MH17 he needs to be impeached. Last year Obama wanted to bomb Syria in support of ISIS/ISIL/IS. This year he is bombing IS in Iraq. The only consistent thing is Obama wasting money. Meanwhile Putin is smeared as having said that Ukraine are like Nazis. What he had said was the the sieging of Russian Ethnic Ukrainian cities was as barbaric as the Nazis had been at Leningrad. Putin is right.
From 2013
A son of Syria's murderous leader wants the world to attack Syria. UK parliament says it wants peace. What would peace look like in Syria? Would the civilian population be shelled with a mixture of ordinary and chemical ordinance? Would the local population be threatened with sectarian violence? Would a new leader be worse? What is the path of hope? When Obama was running for President he said he would be better than President Bush. The only area Obama has excelled the previous President is in spending. Bush was strong and effective, even as a lame duck. NK and Syria would not have taken the liberties they have, under Bush. Suggesting Bush would have acted sooner than the dithering Obama, without escalating the affair. Thing is, Syria is bad without being the cause of the problem. Iran is the puppet master in this situation. And in this high stakes game, the threat is to the only place in the Middle East where Arabs can walk the streets unmolested, Israel.
Rudd's election plan is in tatters. He had apparently intended to run on the denunciation that the Liberal National Parties would cut responsibly into spending. Something Rudd would never do. However, in taking insurance out on unannounced policy by using treasury figures of worst case scenarios .. something the ALP have never done for themselves, losing over $107 Billion in shortfalls, Rudd made a mistake. He claimed Treasury had costed policies. Treasury have had to release to media the detail that it hadn't costed anyone's policies. Showing that Rudd is now a liar and called out as one by senior public servants. That would never happen if those public servants thought Ruddite ALP would be elected at any time prior to the end of their careers. So now we have senior public servants saying they expect the LNP will be in office for multiple terms of office. Maybe Mr Abbott will be the longest serving Australian PM? It is difficult to imagine anyone in the ALP with the talent to take office.
Update on the drugs in sport issue. It looks increasingly as if a young sportsman has been cornered into admitting he had done something wrong when he had done nothing wrong. The Canberra 23 year old is being offered a reduction in penalty if he confesses and names names before the election. Jason Clare should not be rewarded for this smear.
Former ALP minister is found guilty of corruption by the ICAC. They really need to look at sitting members too.
Rudd's election plan is in tatters. He had apparently intended to run on the denunciation that the Liberal National Parties would cut responsibly into spending. Something Rudd would never do. However, in taking insurance out on unannounced policy by using treasury figures of worst case scenarios .. something the ALP have never done for themselves, losing over $107 Billion in shortfalls, Rudd made a mistake. He claimed Treasury had costed policies. Treasury have had to release to media the detail that it hadn't costed anyone's policies. Showing that Rudd is now a liar and called out as one by senior public servants. That would never happen if those public servants thought Ruddite ALP would be elected at any time prior to the end of their careers. So now we have senior public servants saying they expect the LNP will be in office for multiple terms of office. Maybe Mr Abbott will be the longest serving Australian PM? It is difficult to imagine anyone in the ALP with the talent to take office.
Update on the drugs in sport issue. It looks increasingly as if a young sportsman has been cornered into admitting he had done something wrong when he had done nothing wrong. The Canberra 23 year old is being offered a reduction in penalty if he confesses and names names before the election. Jason Clare should not be rewarded for this smear.
Former ALP minister is found guilty of corruption by the ICAC. They really need to look at sitting members too.
Historical perspective on this day
526 – King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyangbegins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyangbegins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813 – First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835 – Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Arenas.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
1917 – Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyênpenitentiary against local French authority.
1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 – Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthurlands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagrebkilling 153 passengers.
1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industriesheadquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1992 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
1995 – Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serbforces.
1998 – Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
1999 – East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
2002 – Henri Kuprashvili swam the Dardanelles using the old Georgian military-training style "Mkhedruli Kolkhuri" (Military Colchian) i.e., with hands and feet bound tightly at four places. He swam 12 km in 3 hours and 15 minutes.
2014 – Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
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Today's reading: Psalm 126-128, 1 Corinthians 10:19-33 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Psalm 126-128
A song of ascents.
1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dreamed.
2 Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
"The LORD has done great things for them."
3 The LORD has done great things for us,
and we are filled with joy.
we were like those who dreamed.
2 Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
"The LORD has done great things for them."
3 The LORD has done great things for us,
and we are filled with joy.
4 Restore our fortunes, LORD,
like streams in the Negev.
5 Those who sow with tears
will reap with songs of joy.
6 Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.
like streams in the Negev.
5 Those who sow with tears
will reap with songs of joy.
6 Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 10:19-33
19 Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons. 22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
The Believer's Freedom
23 "I have the right to do anything," you say-but not everything is beneficial. "I have the right to do anything"-but not everything is constructive. 24No one should seek their own good, but the good of others....
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Morning
When Dr. Carey was suffering from a dangerous illness, the enquiry was made, "If this sickness should prove fatal, what passage would you select as the text for your funeral sermon?" He replied, "Oh, I feel that such a poor sinful creature is unworthy to have anything said about him; but if a funeral sermon must be preached, let it be from the words, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.'" In the same spirit of humility he directed in his will that the following inscription and nothing more should be cut on his gravestone:--
William Carey, Born August 17th, 1761: Died - -
"A wretched, poor, and helpless worm
On thy kind arms I fall."
Only on the footing of free grace can the most experienced and most honoured of the saints approach their God. The best of men are conscious above all others that they are men at the best. Empty boats float high, but heavily laden vessels are low in the water; mere professors can boast, but true children of God cry for mercy upon their unprofitableness. We have need that the Lord should have mercy upon our good works, our prayers, our preachings, our alms-givings, and our holiest things. The blood was not only sprinkled upon the doorposts of Israel's dwelling houses, but upon the sanctuary, the mercy-seat, and the altar, because as sin intrudes into our holiest things, the blood of Jesus is needed to purify them from defilement. If mercy be needed to be exercised towards our duties, what shall be said of our sins? How sweet the remembrance that inexhaustible mercy is waiting to be gracious to us, to restore our backslidings, and make our broken bones rejoice!
Evening
"All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk."
Numbers 6:4
Numbers 6:4
Nazarites had taken, among other vows, one which debarred them from the use of wine. In order that they might not violate the obligation, they were forbidden to drink the vinegar of wine or strong liquors, and to make the rule still more clear, they were not to touch the unfermented juice of grapes, nor even to eat the fruit either fresh or dried. In order, altogether, to secure the integrity of the vow, they were not even allowed anything that had to do with the vine; they were, in fact, to avoid the appearance of evil. Surely this is a lesson to the Lord's separated ones, teaching them to come away from sin in every form, to avoid not merely its grosser shapes, but even its spirit and similitude. Strict walking is much despised in these days, but rest assured, dear reader, it is both the safest and the happiest. He who yields a point or two to the world is in fearful peril; he who eats the grapes of Sodom will soon drink the wine of Gomorrah. A little crevice in the sea-bank in Holland lets in the sea, and the gap speedily swells till a province is drowned. Worldly conformity, in any degree, is a snare to the soul, and makes it more and more liable to presumptuous sins. Moreover, as the Nazarite who drank grape juice could not be quite sure whether it might not have endured a degree of fermentation, and consequently could not be clear in heart that his vow was intact, so the yielding, temporizing Christian cannot wear a conscience void of offence, but must feel that the inward monitor is in doubt of him. Things doubtful we need not doubt about; they are wrong to us. Things tempting we must not dally with, but flee from them with speed. Better be sneered at as a Puritan than be despised as a hypocrite. Careful walking may involve much self-denial, but it has pleasures of its own which are more than a sufficient recompense.
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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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