The Biden Administration declared their drone killing of terrorists might have been of aid workers. Just like that capital policeman on Jan 6th who shot and killed an unarmed woman to show a crowd he was in control.
https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1069095/democrat-bomb-dropping-for-peace
My name is David Daniel Ball I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence.
I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. I had reported the issue responsibly and had not known I'd blown the whistle. The embarrassed left wing government had responded by imposition of a nationwide ban on the use of peanut butter in canteens, despite failing to address the issue of peanut allergy appropriately.
I've been de-platformed on Facebook and twitter despite not being an activist. Twitter did not like me asking for Obama to face justice in 2011. FB gave no specific reason for removing me following Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC where a policeman killed an unarmed woman, so a crowd would know he was in control.
https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1018405/intro-to-locals-for-the-conservative-voiceA successful withdrawal was what was engineered at Gallipolli, where, over three days troops pulled out of defended positions and left on ships .. nobody died. That was war. Nobody was left behind. Because of the failure, WW1 was prolonged another two and a half years, Russia collapsed etc etc. The price of failure was big. But the retreat was a success. In contrast, Biden's retreat was utter failure in Afghanistan.
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 on behalf of one raised in Canada. Dan Andrews' lockdown has cancelled AA meetings. Go the beers. Playgrounds have been shut down state wide and even a curfew has been re-imposed. There is no science showing any such measure addresses COVID, but we know it allows the government to assert authority.
https://rumble.com/vlxs1g-editorial-on-covid-policy-failure.html
1762 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
1795 – Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declareindependence from Spain.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskissonbecomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia(present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1918 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian Front.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Forceshoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Divisionand the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholmis hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 – The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse(Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica)
1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
2000 – The opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in Sydney, Australia.
2001 – President George W. Bush gives his first post September 11th weekly address.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Editorial Biden's Afghan failure culminated from Obama's Afghan lies
Afghanistan is in flames as Biden begins bombing runs on terrorists as he seeks to negotiate with them. US soldiers have been killed after a strategic error left an exposed airport the only means of Americans and their allies to flee. Biden says those that remained behind wanted to, after fleeing Afghans clinging to a wing and fuselage of an aircraft plummet to their deaths. After Biden had said the Afghan government would stand following US withdrawal. US left behind billions of dollars of weapons Chicago gangs look on with shock and awe. The Taliban will not use a fleet of Blackhawk helicopters. China will.
So who is responsible for the failure? According to Biden, the buck stops with him, and he views it as a Dunkirk like success, when he is not looking at his watch waiting for mourning to end of soldiers that died in his service. Biden also feels any mistake was made by Donald Trump as NK begins nuclear weapons work. The US military have included critical junior officers in their lists of personal pronouns for enemies. What is a personal pronoun for a failed President?
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.
=== From 2018 ===
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.
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.
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. A bridge has been built allowing direct access from the housing estate I reside in Dandenong to a Mosque. residential traffic has increased ten fold. I was walking to the local railway station and was passing this throughway when I spotted a scared looking guy, ethnically middle eastern, driving a scooby mobile. He spotted me, and slowed. I was waiting for him to pass, because I hate standing or walking in front of cars. Their rears don't hit you if they are moving forward. And he kept slowing, until he crawled past. I was thoroughly irritated, and stepped behind his vehicle as he went past. I hadn't seen the car behind him, with a driver waiting impatiently to get past the scooby mobile. Had the second driver not been driving defensively, I'd probably be dead. All because I was irritated by a driver trying to be considerate and failing. I had no right of way.
It was raining, so the trains weren't running on time. Then the bus from Springvale to Glen Waverly got caught in traffic and was filled to standing capacity. A guy at the back, in high visibility gear, was calling out to ethnically Asian students, telling them where to stand so the bus could stack passengers optimally. He was taking up two chairs and drinking Crown Lager cans from a four pack he emptied before alighting near Lennox Catholic school for girls. I should have taken video of his activity, but didn't. He could have been a shop steward for the Transport Worker's Union. I am sure he likes Dan Andrews Facebook Page.
It is enlightening to compare landmarks. Two years of Tony Abbott compare brilliantly to the dithering and incompetent Malcolm Turnbull. Eight Months of Trump compare brilliantly with the first eight months of Obama, but Trump hasn't been given a Nobel Peace Prize. I'm pretty sure that whomever is given the Nobel Prize this year, will not spend the next year in jail while Trump wines and dines the jailers. Obama did that.
It was raining, so the trains weren't running on time. Then the bus from Springvale to Glen Waverly got caught in traffic and was filled to standing capacity. A guy at the back, in high visibility gear, was calling out to ethnically Asian students, telling them where to stand so the bus could stack passengers optimally. He was taking up two chairs and drinking Crown Lager cans from a four pack he emptied before alighting near Lennox Catholic school for girls. I should have taken video of his activity, but didn't. He could have been a shop steward for the Transport Worker's Union. I am sure he likes Dan Andrews Facebook Page.
It is enlightening to compare landmarks. Two years of Tony Abbott compare brilliantly to the dithering and incompetent Malcolm Turnbull. Eight Months of Trump compare brilliantly with the first eight months of Obama, but Trump hasn't been given a Nobel Peace Prize. I'm pretty sure that whomever is given the Nobel Prize this year, will not spend the next year in jail while Trump wines and dines the jailers. Obama did that.
=== from 2016 ===
Dams are flood mitigating.
It was horrible and predictable. An ice addict was booted from a share house, and he blamed a fellow tenant (me) who had nothing to do with it. Police were called after he threatened my life. But they were toothless. He assaulted my door while drunk on Saturday of a long weekend (Easter) and emergency were called at 10Pm. and 11:30PM, and 1AM, and 3AM. When the police arrived at 4:30 am my door was broken and my possessions unsecured and I was thoroughly terrorised. They asked me "Why did you keep calling emergency when we hadn't shown and he hadn't killed you in the first hour?"After the damage he had done, they could not protect me, or evict him, and so I was required to take what I could and go to emergency accommodation. Meanwhile, the Ice addict went berserk dismantling the house until SWAT took him into custody on the Tuesday. When I finally got to see the court the following week, he had not killed me, but he had damaged my few remaining possessions. And it turned out the landlord was not insured. And the court insisted on temporary mediation. And the landlord took half my bond because he could not access the ice addict's bond.
Niki reminds me of the Iraqi defence spokesperson who claimed Bush was losing the second Iraq war. She cannot be paid enough for this trashing of her own reputation.
I have no problem with Hanson speaking. But she isn't helpful in addressing the issues. But neither is the ALP or Greens.
Australian Jewish leaders who support 18c have failed in their duty to their own people and family. It is as if they had tried to convert their own family to another religion, to multiculturalism, in place of their faith.
Freedom of speech is important. I thought Neville Wran should have been jailed for corruption. I had no problem with what he said. I didn't agree with him much. I objected to what he did. Under Wran, it was like druggies and killers got leniency. It didn't begin or end with nifty.
I criticised her speech years ago. I still do so. But her concerns have validity. I wish she would talk with more precision. There are good people that are targeted by her mistakes. However, there are good people targeted by Greens mistakes too. And NXT are planning to be obstructive in senate. The dog's breakfast is entirely down to Turnbull's hubris.
Was the perpetrator a 'child' Dan Andrews previously released? Was it Wran?
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
It was horrible and predictable. An ice addict was booted from a share house, and he blamed a fellow tenant (me) who had nothing to do with it. Police were called after he threatened my life. But they were toothless. He assaulted my door while drunk on Saturday of a long weekend (Easter) and emergency were called at 10Pm. and 11:30PM, and 1AM, and 3AM. When the police arrived at 4:30 am my door was broken and my possessions unsecured and I was thoroughly terrorised. They asked me "Why did you keep calling emergency when we hadn't shown and he hadn't killed you in the first hour?"After the damage he had done, they could not protect me, or evict him, and so I was required to take what I could and go to emergency accommodation. Meanwhile, the Ice addict went berserk dismantling the house until SWAT took him into custody on the Tuesday. When I finally got to see the court the following week, he had not killed me, but he had damaged my few remaining possessions. And it turned out the landlord was not insured. And the court insisted on temporary mediation. And the landlord took half my bond because he could not access the ice addict's bond.
Niki reminds me of the Iraqi defence spokesperson who claimed Bush was losing the second Iraq war. She cannot be paid enough for this trashing of her own reputation.
I have no problem with Hanson speaking. But she isn't helpful in addressing the issues. But neither is the ALP or Greens.
Australian Jewish leaders who support 18c have failed in their duty to their own people and family. It is as if they had tried to convert their own family to another religion, to multiculturalism, in place of their faith.
Freedom of speech is important. I thought Neville Wran should have been jailed for corruption. I had no problem with what he said. I didn't agree with him much. I objected to what he did. Under Wran, it was like druggies and killers got leniency. It didn't begin or end with nifty.
I criticised her speech years ago. I still do so. But her concerns have validity. I wish she would talk with more precision. There are good people that are targeted by her mistakes. However, there are good people targeted by Greens mistakes too. And NXT are planning to be obstructive in senate. The dog's breakfast is entirely down to Turnbull's hubris.
Was the perpetrator a 'child' Dan Andrews previously released? Was it Wran?
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
None for 2015 .. because of Melbourne promotional trip
From 2014
Food and fellowship at Islamic and Australian community BBQ and a headline and glowing article desperately call for hope. But hope is frequently dashed by pathetic Islamic leadership which undermines attempts to create a historical state where Jews, Christians and Muslims worked together in favour of a state where terrorists rule. By the bye, secular rule is the compromise medieval christians embraced, while the Ottoman's system was dismantled by young Turks who embarked on genocide from the mid nineteenth century through to the early twentieth century. There had been an Islamic kingdom that had had enlightened rule in which brilliant jewish or christian peoples prospered and the basic principles of such a state in modern time underpin nations like Australia, Israel and others, but demonstrably excludes every nation that claims to be Islamic. There are many examples when christians failed in the secular rule. Meanwhile Senator McCain has been howled at for suggesting that arming some vetted rebels in Syria would be a way forward. There is no worthwhile alternative that has been put forward. Obama has dithered for more than a year, and doing nothing has failed the region.
The US President has a role speaking for the US peoples, not lying about them. Dr Ben Carsons "I know the President has said we are not a judeo-christian nation. But, guess what? He doesn't get to decide that, we get to decide that." The issue is confusing for some confused about the role of religion in a secular state. An administration may have every member who is religiously devout in some way, but secular means that they follow the constitution in addressing the needs of their people. It was said once that President George W Bush had prayer before making important policy decisions. That is ok, because the policy decisions could be defended on secular grounds and in many ways prayer is related to thought, in fact atheists might not observe a difference. Bad policy can't be defended on secular grounds. It is outrageous when some arrogant declares that God endorses some act of secular policy, as when the Uniting and Anglican churches in Australia spoke out in favour of medical cannabis or saying 'sorry.' The arguments are not clear. Similarly on abortion. There is a conscience issue the individual makes, not the state. But the US has a constitution based on principles of fairness that were established by peoples who were chosen and trained by God. Truths that are self evident. That all are created equal (US Constitution is different to the Australian one in referring to rights as the Australian document instead solely refers to the operation of the states in federation). Meanwhile, Australia is approaching a referendum that could divide her on race .. apartheid always fails. A state might kill a person for any number of secular reasons. Religions should not make that decision.
In choosing a President who fails in their duty, who would vote for Hilary? It is certain that some day a woman will be President of the United States. It would be good if that woman embodied many ideals that made the US great. Many women do. Hilary does not. The doormat which convinced the US that her husbands philandering ways would not interfere with his office and then excused the behaviour when he did is not a good person. The Secretary of State that failed in Benghazi while Obama was dancing with Beyonce is not fit to be commander in chief. But Australian journalist Clementine Ford doesn't worry about quality when gender ticks all her boxes. Tim Blair has his way with those who are blind to reason. Certainly Hilary is one guaranteed to fail in her duty.
Cartoonist Larry Pickering is a long time ALP supporter and he feels betrayed at the way the ALP have drifted policy wise to the hard left. He has an article coming out soon regarding the victim of Shorten's rape allegation. Shorten has to deal with five particularly weak ALP members who endorse jihadis. Thing is, the ALP are so weak in so many ways regardless. It isn't as if they are planning to go to the middle east in support of jihadis, but clearly they feel they can be a point of difference with sensible border protection laws. There is an orchestrated attack on conservative government by media and ALP and it makes strange bedfellows. Church leadership endorsing medical cannabis is less related to belief or God than the fact that the government of WA is conservative. Similarly the ABC has raised an extraordinary unfair allegation of war crimes based on no evidence. It seems as if the producers are lying about how the allegation came to be made.
Record ice in antarctica points to an old lie by AGW hysterics. Liuzho Chen at age 19 is admitted to legal practice in Victoria. She studied at Bond University, having begun schooling early in China and arriving at Australia as a young teen. She still has a lot to learn about the compromise that exists in legal practice, but everyone should applaud her achievements. A Dutch girl faked a trip to Asia from Face Book as a university assignment. Well done.The truth is FB is a tool, not a life. A goat is accused of robbery in Nigeria. Superstitious villagers claim the goat is actually a sorcerer who stole items and turned themselves into a goat. One effective disproof is to make a goat curry and see if it is delicious. Meanwhile a headline refers to an ancient computer being found. The headline is very misleading. In fact the item was a very useful item for looking at stars and measuring time. It will be fascinating learning how it worked.
The US President has a role speaking for the US peoples, not lying about them. Dr Ben Carsons "I know the President has said we are not a judeo-christian nation. But, guess what? He doesn't get to decide that, we get to decide that." The issue is confusing for some confused about the role of religion in a secular state. An administration may have every member who is religiously devout in some way, but secular means that they follow the constitution in addressing the needs of their people. It was said once that President George W Bush had prayer before making important policy decisions. That is ok, because the policy decisions could be defended on secular grounds and in many ways prayer is related to thought, in fact atheists might not observe a difference. Bad policy can't be defended on secular grounds. It is outrageous when some arrogant declares that God endorses some act of secular policy, as when the Uniting and Anglican churches in Australia spoke out in favour of medical cannabis or saying 'sorry.' The arguments are not clear. Similarly on abortion. There is a conscience issue the individual makes, not the state. But the US has a constitution based on principles of fairness that were established by peoples who were chosen and trained by God. Truths that are self evident. That all are created equal (US Constitution is different to the Australian one in referring to rights as the Australian document instead solely refers to the operation of the states in federation). Meanwhile, Australia is approaching a referendum that could divide her on race .. apartheid always fails. A state might kill a person for any number of secular reasons. Religions should not make that decision.
In choosing a President who fails in their duty, who would vote for Hilary? It is certain that some day a woman will be President of the United States. It would be good if that woman embodied many ideals that made the US great. Many women do. Hilary does not. The doormat which convinced the US that her husbands philandering ways would not interfere with his office and then excused the behaviour when he did is not a good person. The Secretary of State that failed in Benghazi while Obama was dancing with Beyonce is not fit to be commander in chief. But Australian journalist Clementine Ford doesn't worry about quality when gender ticks all her boxes. Tim Blair has his way with those who are blind to reason. Certainly Hilary is one guaranteed to fail in her duty.
Cartoonist Larry Pickering is a long time ALP supporter and he feels betrayed at the way the ALP have drifted policy wise to the hard left. He has an article coming out soon regarding the victim of Shorten's rape allegation. Shorten has to deal with five particularly weak ALP members who endorse jihadis. Thing is, the ALP are so weak in so many ways regardless. It isn't as if they are planning to go to the middle east in support of jihadis, but clearly they feel they can be a point of difference with sensible border protection laws. There is an orchestrated attack on conservative government by media and ALP and it makes strange bedfellows. Church leadership endorsing medical cannabis is less related to belief or God than the fact that the government of WA is conservative. Similarly the ABC has raised an extraordinary unfair allegation of war crimes based on no evidence. It seems as if the producers are lying about how the allegation came to be made.
Record ice in antarctica points to an old lie by AGW hysterics. Liuzho Chen at age 19 is admitted to legal practice in Victoria. She studied at Bond University, having begun schooling early in China and arriving at Australia as a young teen. She still has a lot to learn about the compromise that exists in legal practice, but everyone should applaud her achievements. A Dutch girl faked a trip to Asia from Face Book as a university assignment. Well done.The truth is FB is a tool, not a life. A goat is accused of robbery in Nigeria. Superstitious villagers claim the goat is actually a sorcerer who stole items and turned themselves into a goat. One effective disproof is to make a goat curry and see if it is delicious. Meanwhile a headline refers to an ancient computer being found. The headline is very misleading. In fact the item was a very useful item for looking at stars and measuring time. It will be fascinating learning how it worked.
From 2013
The left have strange ideas about success. Obama has found more dithering over Syria, by putting off a resolution until halfway through next year. UN like that delay. Syrian victims of violence might not feel it is acceptable, but you can't please everyone. In Australia, the PM elect has elected to stay in barracks with his security detail while the PM's ACT residence is being maintained. Deputy Liberal Leader Julie Bishop has cancelled first class airfares in favour of business class flights on ministerial journeys. Rudd hasn't said that he would resign yet, but his heart doesn't seem to be in it with the perks gone. Antony Lowenstein despairs that the GFC did not deliver enough pain to keep his people in office. Gillard recognises that the Copenhagen junket hurt the AGW lobby, but hasn't yet worked out how.
People said the Australian economy was being destroyed by the left. In fact, it was being badly damaged. Good policy can address it, but the lost opportunity for all of Australia is difficult to accurately describe .. a Bradfield scheme could have been funded several times over permanently lowering the temperature on very hot days and watering the central Australian desert with fresh water. But instead we have corruption issues we have to negotiate. The federal pedophile investigation began in NSW, without the inquiry looking into Education at this time .. what has schooling to do with young people?
People said the Australian economy was being destroyed by the left. In fact, it was being badly damaged. Good policy can address it, but the lost opportunity for all of Australia is difficult to accurately describe .. a Bradfield scheme could have been funded several times over permanently lowering the temperature on very hot days and watering the central Australian desert with fresh water. But instead we have corruption issues we have to negotiate. The federal pedophile investigation began in NSW, without the inquiry looking into Education at this time .. what has schooling to do with young people?
Historical perspective on this day
668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
1530 – Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Sorianoin Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644-1912.
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
1530 – Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Sorianoin Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644-1912.
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1762 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
1795 – Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declareindependence from Spain.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskissonbecomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia(present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1918 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian Front.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Forceshoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Divisionand the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholmis hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 – The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse(Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica)
1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
2000 – The opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics was held in Sydney, Australia.
2001 – President George W. Bush gives his first post September 11th weekly address.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
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668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
There is now considerable evidence that Gilles was merely a Democrat who tried to be progressive, but was misunderstood.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
It had been a clumsy mistake on Huskisson's part. He had been sick following surgery and been told not to attend the meet. When faced with the approaching train Huskisson panicked and crossed and recrossed the train lines, before being hit. He was mortally wounded, his legs mangled, but he didn't die for hours. He still completed a will before dying.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1918 – World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian Front.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1963 – 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
It seems gun control had nothing to do with the actions of Charles Whitman. Whitman was a problem gambler with an amphetamine dependency issue and undiagnosed brain cancer.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
When the Soviets made it into space with Sputnik, US media panicked in support of Democrats and announced education needed to be fixed in USA. New Math was born. New Math had been the belief that kids could learn math by abstract forms which adults understand. If it could be shown subtraction and division were related operations, then children could do both. Only, that is not how children learn, generally, or within the diverse expressions that learning takes. Press did not care. They praised 'forward thinking' Kennedy for panicking and successive administrations spent big on Math and Science. The result being that high schools got physics and chemistry laboratories and Math courses were tested against international standards.
A curious thing happened early in the first Reagan administration. Bad measurement which supported the media narrative of falling education standards resulted in $billions of dollars going to new science facilities and stricter math standards. Only, a rates illusion obscured the fact that standards had risen.
We need to be blind to race, but racists insist on racist discrimination so as to measure inequity. The idea of addressing inequity through any other measure than race, or gender, doesn't seem to register on those racists. So standards were reported over all, and by ethnic subgroups Black, Hispanic, White, Asian, Indigenous and other. Over all standards had fallen, but every single subgroup had improved. Even 'other.' We may never know the specific measures which addressed the needs of 'other' students best. It is probably wrong that we don't do it more. I believe I could measure and address the shortfall if only I were paid better than Gore, Clinton, Obama, Fauci, Biden, Pelosi, Warren etc etc.
The reason for the illusion is to do with the math rule of never adding rates of unlike measures. Black and hispanic students had improved, but their populations were rising from a lower base than Asian and White students, and the number of Black and Hispanic students had increased disproportionately. So even though every subgroup had improved, because there were more of students who were from back grounds which had had lower achievement, the over all results fell. It was not a complete loss. The needs of 'other' students were met better than any Democrat administration has managed since.
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