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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
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.
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From the Bible, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33
Paul Boasts About His Sufferings
I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting. In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool. Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast. You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face. To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that!
Whatever anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast about. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham’s descendants? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying. In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me. But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.
===Ep. 79: Nunes Defamation; Mohamed Noor; Canada Election; Vaccine Lawsuits & MORE! Viva & Barnes
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"Funny Face' is a 1972 single written and recorded by Donna Fargo. "Funny Face" was Fargo's follow-up release on the country chart after "The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA". Like its predecesor, "Funny Face" hit number one on the country chart and was a Gold Record. "Funny Face" remained at number one for three weeks and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the chart. "Funny Face" would also cross over to the pop chart, peaking at number five.
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I remembered the song being Monkey Face, and I searched for it recently. So I thought I would record it as I remembered it, rather than as it was. A former student had a monkey face as a FB profile pic, but I was inspired to do this by a young woman who rejected me and blocked me from FB. I have to respect her wishes. I can and do petition God on the matter. He has said no too. But my heart is hedging, saying the no God is telling me is 'not now' and possibly not 'not ever.' Whenever I see her she is in the centre of my field of vision, and when I see her friends I look to see if she is nearby. And I know it isn't really possible. But if God says yes, anything is possible.
http://conservativeweasel.blogspot.com/2011/10/monkey-face.html
So long as Turnbull is in the position of leader, Liberals will underperform.
Why are the left wing trumpeting their diversity using intolerance as a tool?
My father did not drink much ever. He suffered from gout. Yet he was called too old for a kidney transplant and died before he should have. Hinch is taking much for granted.
I stand for free speech. But I seem to be in opposition to the leader of the Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull.
Thing is, Trump described the culprit before he was known. Trump was right. Hillary and the NYC Mayor prevaricated over the identity and motive of the perpetrator before he was known. They were wrong. Hillary Clinton is campaigning on her skill of making decisions seem hard. It keeps her in touch with youth.
Hockey is leaving politics and some in Cabinet have been sacked by twitter. That isn't classy either. Turnbull now has an opportunity to do something right. The IPA have published a list of a hundred ideas that Turnbull could do to improve Australia. Some of them have already been done by Mr Abbott, but the senate, with Turnbull's encouragement, have opposed many of them. We need cuts to spending which will cripple us if they aren't made. We need to stop funding the NBN and let market forces run the internet. We need transport infrastructure and water from the northern rivers sent inland. We need state governments to run curriculum. We need freedom of speech. We need to maintain secure borders. We need to decide who comes to Australia. We need Japan to build our submarines so our forces have the world's best equipment. We need to stop funding left wing opposition through the ABC. We need to end union corruption. We need work choices. We need the judiciary to be independent of the ALP. We need to remove the climate change commission and the human rights council.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived in Medina
1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
1066 – Battle of Fulford, Viking Harald Hardradadefeats earls Morcar and Edwin
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1260 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).
1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1792 – French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalitionat the Battle of Valmy.
1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperialprovince of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in Crimea.
1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits Canada and the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: The conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy, ending de facto the temporal power of popes.
1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
1941 – The Holocaust in Lithuania: Four hundred three Jews (128 men, 176 women and 99 children) were murdered by Einsatzkommando 3 and the local police in Nemenčinė.
1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German einsatzgruppenmurders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1979 – A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
2003 – Maldives civil unrest: The death of prisoner sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
2011 – The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
Devin Nunes defamation suit reinstated. Mohamed Noor conviction overturned. Canada election updates. Pregnant women sue for vax mandates.
Dems to Launch Assault on Texas’ Abortion Law
Search Resumes for Gabby Petito and “Person of Interest” Fiance
SpaceX’s Inspiration4 Civilian Crew Completes 3-Day Mission
One Photo Sums Up the “Far-Right Rally” Liberals Were Fearmongering Over
Biden’s Two Major Economic Agenda Items Hang in the Balance
No Disciplinary Action Expected for “Anti-ISIS” Drone Strike That Killed Innocent Afghan Civilians
Capitol Hill
Gov. Abbott Signs $1.8 Billion Border Security Bill
Florida Free Speech Law Sees Support From 11 States
Biden Admin Claims the Border Isn’t Open as it Sees Record Crossings
Book Claims Biden Aides Have Created a “Wall” to Shield Him From Unscripted Events
Job Creators Network to Sue Biden Admin Over Private Sector Vax Mandate
Police and Journos Outnumber Protesters at “Justice for J6” Rally Trump Told Supporters Not to Attend
Rand Paul: Was Drone Strike That Killed Innocent Afghans Personally Approved by Biden?
Biden Admin to Expel Thousands of Haitian Migrants Crossing Border in Del Rio
Seven Ways Dems Are Set to Break Biden’s Pledge Not to Raise Taxes on Those Earning Below $400k
Culture War
Colorado School Shooter Who Targeted “Transphobic” Classmates Sentenced to Life in Prison
Texas Dr. Openly Breaks New Abortion Law
Judge Rules There’s No Evidence Kyle Rittenhouse Has Ties to Far-Right Groups
American Left Behind Who Lost 18 Family Members in Kabul Bombing Says “Biden Admin Broke Me”
French Government Accuses Biden Admin of “a Major Breach of Trust and Contempt”
Parents Force Resignation of NY School Superintendent Who Pushed Teaching Critical Race Theory Propaganda
Bill Maher Comment’s on AOC’s “Tax the Rich” Dress: Let’s Not Lie, the Rich Pay a Lot of the Taxes
University Cancels Segregated “Anti-Racism” Seminar
Economy
Combined Social Security Trust Fund 13 Years From Insolvency
Percent of Americans Who Think It’s a Good Time to Buy a Home the Lowest Since 1982
FTC to Crackdown on Loopholes Protecting Big Tech’s Unreported Acquisitions
Designer of AOC’s “Tax the Rich” Dress Wanted for Not Paying Taxes
China Defends Crackdown on Tech Companies
Median Home-Sale Price Role 16% Year-Over-Year in August
Federal Reserve Surrounded by Controversy
Blue States’ Economic Recovery Continues Lagging Red States’
Biden’s Vax Mandate Exacerbates Labor Shortage
Swamp Watch
Texas Storms Border to Secure Area Amid Biden’s Failures
NY’s New Governor Lets 191 Criminals Out of Jail
Report: Terry McAuliffe’s Plans Would Cost Each Virginia Family $5,400
Judges Strike Down North Carolina Voter ID Law, Falsely Claims Its Discriminatory
Americans Biden Left Behind in Afghanistan Go Into Hiding
Sec of State Deletes Tweet Criticizing China and Supporting Hong Kong
Dan Bongino: What Did Hillary Clinton Know About the Collusion Hoax Her Team Fostered, and When Did She Know It?
California Only Spent $2 Million of $316 Million of COVID Relief for the Homeless
National Security
Flashback: Gen Milley Referred to Drone Strike That Killed Civilians, Children as “Righteous”
Will the SR-72 Live Up to the Legacy of the SR-71?
Mass Production of Russia’s Su-75 Stealth Checkmate Fighter to Begin in 2025
U.S. Military Sale to Saudi Arabia Moves Forward
U.S. Generals Planning for What They See As an Inevitable Space War
GOP Rep. Wagner: U.S. Homeland Less Safe Than it Was, “Over-the-Horizon” Security in Afghanistan is a Myth
North Korea Is Expanding Its Uranium Enrichment Facility
A Look at DARPAs 6th-Generation Fighter Technology
Around the World
Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral Now Sufficiently Secured for Rebuild to Begin
French Envoy Says Australia Made “Huge Mistake” By Cancelling Sub Deal
English Court of Appeals Says Doctors Can Put Children as Young as 10 on Trans Drugs
While Some Afghan Girls Return to School, Others Face Anxious Wait
Gab, the Free Speech Media Platform, May Be Forced Out of Germany
Greece Enacts Tougher Policy, Opens New Migrant Holding Camp on Island
Hundreds Arrested in Melbourne as Anti-Lockdown Protests Heat Up
Mexico’s President Says Latin American, Caribbean Countries Should Form a Regional Block Similar to EU
Opinion
Wayne Allyn Root: The Radical Communist Takeover of Our Country: America is Finished … Unless We Move Quickly; Here’s a Solution
Jennifer Stefano: How Right-Leaning Entrepreneurs Became the Champions of Equity for Low-Income Students
David Harsanyi: Sorry, AOC: The Rich Already Pay Their Fair Share
Humberto Fontova: The 9-11 Anti-Communists Celebrate
Salena Zito: How Justin Trudeau Went From Liberal Darling to Possibly Endangered Species
Kathryn Lopez: The Realities of Abortion
Kyle Smith: Nicki Minaj Exposes How Anti-Vaxxers Aren’t Always Who Liberal Media Says — And the Folly of Biden’s Hectoring
Elliot Resnick: Time to Take the Initiative
Entertainment
Comic: TikTok Censorship Is Not Funny
Barely One In Four See Hollywood’s Influence As Positive
Shang-Chi Star Simu Liu Responds To Old Posts On Reddit Where He Allegedly Once Compared Pedophilia To Being Gay
Maher On Met Gala: Do Germs “Know Who The Good People Are?” — Making Just The Servers Wear Masks Is “Not Liberal”
Today’s “Hypersensitive Society” Leaves Emmys 2021 Host Cedric The Entertainer With Hesitancy As A Comedian
Candace Cameron Bure Explains Why She Would “Never Want A Permanent Seat” On “The View” Again
Family Guy Leaves Adult Swim For FXX
Conan Says NBC Tried To Ban Norm Macdonald From Late Show
Sports
NBA Hall Of Famer Isiah Thomas Blasts NFL “Black National Anthem”: It “Emphasizes Our Separateness”
SoFi Stadium Now Requires Proof Of Vaccination Following LA County Ruling
Several NFL Players Are Attempting To Get Fake Vaccine Cards
White Sox’s Pitcher & Manager Suspended After Throwing At Shohei Ohtani
Marcus Semien’s 40th Home Run Lifts Blue Jays Into Playoff Spot
NFL Fines Browns’ Ronnie Harrison Thousands For Shoving Chiefs Assistant Coach
44 Year Old Zdeno Chara Returning To Islanders For 1-Year Contract
Video: Padre’s Fernando Tatis Jr. & Manny Machado Involved In Heated Dugout Exchange
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=== Bongino Headlines ===
“Why Aren’t You Here?” – Democrat Del Rio Mayor Slams Biden as Border Crisis Worsens READ MOREDems to Launch Assault on Texas’ Abortion Law
Search Resumes for Gabby Petito and “Person of Interest” Fiance
SpaceX’s Inspiration4 Civilian Crew Completes 3-Day Mission
One Photo Sums Up the “Far-Right Rally” Liberals Were Fearmongering Over
Biden’s Two Major Economic Agenda Items Hang in the Balance
No Disciplinary Action Expected for “Anti-ISIS” Drone Strike That Killed Innocent Afghan Civilians
Capitol Hill
Gov. Abbott Signs $1.8 Billion Border Security Bill
Florida Free Speech Law Sees Support From 11 States
Biden Admin Claims the Border Isn’t Open as it Sees Record Crossings
Book Claims Biden Aides Have Created a “Wall” to Shield Him From Unscripted Events
Job Creators Network to Sue Biden Admin Over Private Sector Vax Mandate
Police and Journos Outnumber Protesters at “Justice for J6” Rally Trump Told Supporters Not to Attend
Rand Paul: Was Drone Strike That Killed Innocent Afghans Personally Approved by Biden?
Biden Admin to Expel Thousands of Haitian Migrants Crossing Border in Del Rio
Seven Ways Dems Are Set to Break Biden’s Pledge Not to Raise Taxes on Those Earning Below $400k
Culture War
Colorado School Shooter Who Targeted “Transphobic” Classmates Sentenced to Life in Prison
Texas Dr. Openly Breaks New Abortion Law
Judge Rules There’s No Evidence Kyle Rittenhouse Has Ties to Far-Right Groups
American Left Behind Who Lost 18 Family Members in Kabul Bombing Says “Biden Admin Broke Me”
French Government Accuses Biden Admin of “a Major Breach of Trust and Contempt”
Parents Force Resignation of NY School Superintendent Who Pushed Teaching Critical Race Theory Propaganda
Bill Maher Comment’s on AOC’s “Tax the Rich” Dress: Let’s Not Lie, the Rich Pay a Lot of the Taxes
University Cancels Segregated “Anti-Racism” Seminar
Economy
Combined Social Security Trust Fund 13 Years From Insolvency
Percent of Americans Who Think It’s a Good Time to Buy a Home the Lowest Since 1982
FTC to Crackdown on Loopholes Protecting Big Tech’s Unreported Acquisitions
Designer of AOC’s “Tax the Rich” Dress Wanted for Not Paying Taxes
China Defends Crackdown on Tech Companies
Median Home-Sale Price Role 16% Year-Over-Year in August
Federal Reserve Surrounded by Controversy
Blue States’ Economic Recovery Continues Lagging Red States’
Biden’s Vax Mandate Exacerbates Labor Shortage
Swamp Watch
Texas Storms Border to Secure Area Amid Biden’s Failures
NY’s New Governor Lets 191 Criminals Out of Jail
Report: Terry McAuliffe’s Plans Would Cost Each Virginia Family $5,400
Judges Strike Down North Carolina Voter ID Law, Falsely Claims Its Discriminatory
Americans Biden Left Behind in Afghanistan Go Into Hiding
Sec of State Deletes Tweet Criticizing China and Supporting Hong Kong
Dan Bongino: What Did Hillary Clinton Know About the Collusion Hoax Her Team Fostered, and When Did She Know It?
California Only Spent $2 Million of $316 Million of COVID Relief for the Homeless
National Security
Flashback: Gen Milley Referred to Drone Strike That Killed Civilians, Children as “Righteous”
Will the SR-72 Live Up to the Legacy of the SR-71?
Mass Production of Russia’s Su-75 Stealth Checkmate Fighter to Begin in 2025
U.S. Military Sale to Saudi Arabia Moves Forward
U.S. Generals Planning for What They See As an Inevitable Space War
GOP Rep. Wagner: U.S. Homeland Less Safe Than it Was, “Over-the-Horizon” Security in Afghanistan is a Myth
North Korea Is Expanding Its Uranium Enrichment Facility
A Look at DARPAs 6th-Generation Fighter Technology
Around the World
Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral Now Sufficiently Secured for Rebuild to Begin
French Envoy Says Australia Made “Huge Mistake” By Cancelling Sub Deal
English Court of Appeals Says Doctors Can Put Children as Young as 10 on Trans Drugs
While Some Afghan Girls Return to School, Others Face Anxious Wait
Gab, the Free Speech Media Platform, May Be Forced Out of Germany
Greece Enacts Tougher Policy, Opens New Migrant Holding Camp on Island
Hundreds Arrested in Melbourne as Anti-Lockdown Protests Heat Up
Mexico’s President Says Latin American, Caribbean Countries Should Form a Regional Block Similar to EU
Opinion
Wayne Allyn Root: The Radical Communist Takeover of Our Country: America is Finished … Unless We Move Quickly; Here’s a Solution
Jennifer Stefano: How Right-Leaning Entrepreneurs Became the Champions of Equity for Low-Income Students
David Harsanyi: Sorry, AOC: The Rich Already Pay Their Fair Share
Humberto Fontova: The 9-11 Anti-Communists Celebrate
Salena Zito: How Justin Trudeau Went From Liberal Darling to Possibly Endangered Species
Kathryn Lopez: The Realities of Abortion
Kyle Smith: Nicki Minaj Exposes How Anti-Vaxxers Aren’t Always Who Liberal Media Says — And the Folly of Biden’s Hectoring
Elliot Resnick: Time to Take the Initiative
Entertainment
Comic: TikTok Censorship Is Not Funny
Barely One In Four See Hollywood’s Influence As Positive
Shang-Chi Star Simu Liu Responds To Old Posts On Reddit Where He Allegedly Once Compared Pedophilia To Being Gay
Maher On Met Gala: Do Germs “Know Who The Good People Are?” — Making Just The Servers Wear Masks Is “Not Liberal”
Today’s “Hypersensitive Society” Leaves Emmys 2021 Host Cedric The Entertainer With Hesitancy As A Comedian
Candace Cameron Bure Explains Why She Would “Never Want A Permanent Seat” On “The View” Again
Family Guy Leaves Adult Swim For FXX
Conan Says NBC Tried To Ban Norm Macdonald From Late Show
Sports
NBA Hall Of Famer Isiah Thomas Blasts NFL “Black National Anthem”: It “Emphasizes Our Separateness”
SoFi Stadium Now Requires Proof Of Vaccination Following LA County Ruling
Several NFL Players Are Attempting To Get Fake Vaccine Cards
White Sox’s Pitcher & Manager Suspended After Throwing At Shohei Ohtani
Marcus Semien’s 40th Home Run Lifts Blue Jays Into Playoff Spot
NFL Fines Browns’ Ronnie Harrison Thousands For Shoving Chiefs Assistant Coach
44 Year Old Zdeno Chara Returning To Islanders For 1-Year Contract
Video: Padre’s Fernando Tatis Jr. & Manny Machado Involved In Heated Dugout Exchange
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Here is a video I made Monkey Face
https://rumble.com/vb8ydj-monkey-face.html"Funny Face' is a 1972 single written and recorded by Donna Fargo. "Funny Face" was Fargo's follow-up release on the country chart after "The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA". Like its predecesor, "Funny Face" hit number one on the country chart and was a Gold Record. "Funny Face" remained at number one for three weeks and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the chart. "Funny Face" would also cross over to the pop chart, peaking at number five.
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I remembered the song being Monkey Face, and I searched for it recently. So I thought I would record it as I remembered it, rather than as it was. A former student had a monkey face as a FB profile pic, but I was inspired to do this by a young woman who rejected me and blocked me from FB. I have to respect her wishes. I can and do petition God on the matter. He has said no too. But my heart is hedging, saying the no God is telling me is 'not now' and possibly not 'not ever.' Whenever I see her she is in the centre of my field of vision, and when I see her friends I look to see if she is nearby. And I know it isn't really possible. But if God says yes, anything is possible.
http://conservativeweasel.blogspot.com/2011/10/monkey-face.html
=== From 2018 ===
Scott Morrison deserves a chance as PM. Manus Island is now strategic in facing China's expansionism in the Pacific. Obama had created a new Cold War to prosecute his failing foreign affairs. China is engaged in it as she should be. Unfair things happen in cold wars, and Australia has to negotiate it as best she can. The United States is Australia's friend. China is an important trading partner. Australia is not at war with China. Or Russia. Palestine was created as the evil monster it has become as a result of the earlier cold war. Palestine is a 1967 creation of Jordanian separatists who lost their civil war. The recent killing of Ari Fuld, an Israeli father of four who was stabbed to death by a terrorist is a continuation of cold war problems. And the terrorist's family is being pensioned for it because of cold war issues. And Europe and Australia is paying for the evil, by giving money to those who pay terrorists.
Following my Sydney excursion I was off to work. A Polynesian woman saw me waiting for a bus, and came up to talk to me. She said she wanted me to know Jesus loved me. I thanked her, telling her I was an Evangelical Christian, and asking her about her church. She said she was a grandmother from Brisbane and she was visiting her grandchildren. Then she told me the world was ending in three and a half years. She asked if I knew of Daniel and prophecies and I said it was not something laid on my heart. She noticed I had Pokemon Go running on my phone, and she spoke of the evils of computer screens. I smiled pleasantly and she wandered off, wishing me well. For a person of faith, she does the work of the Devil. It is disappointing that some church leaders encourage such behaviour. But, part of the success of the Christian church is from hell fire sermons. July 8th, 1741 had one such sermon where the preacher spoke on sinners in the hands of an angry god. Only that sermon was based on scripture whereas the babbling grandmother just wanted to bully people that listened to her. Pokemon Go is not my salvation, nor my condemnation. I'm saved. I have every confidence in that, and am happy to say why. I thank Greg Sheridan and the IPA for their talk on Tuesday night in defence of faith and freedom. She did not tell me her church. It might have been JW, but it might not have been. I've heard evangelicals at churches I attend say such absurd, hurtful things. But, even were church leadership competent, and the church everywhere, such people would still exist, convinced of their own importance.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/09/20/14/54/uk-schoolboy-dies-after-classmate-puts-cheese-down-his-shirt?app=applenews
The case of a school child dying from anaphylaxis after cheese was shoved down their shirt raises the issue of risk management. In Australia, parents are supposed to declare allergies to schools, and the school has a management plan. This is partly a result of the death of Hamidur Rahman in 2002. Aspects of the plan to limit risk are often unrealistic, and the result has been children die.
Anaphylaxis is serious and tragedies result from it. That is inevitable. It would be wrong to isolate children. But risk management cannot be placed in the hands of learning institutions at the expense of parental decision making. Children behave in ways with unexpected consequences, and for similar reasons, we don’t send kids to school with knives or guns, even though most could be responsible with their handling.
Since the death of Hamidur in NSW, children have died despite the new measures brought it. Because the new measures don’t work perfectly. Schools and churches don’t have peanut butter available, but what about eggs? Or wheat? Or dairy? Schools have management plans, but what of temporary employees? I’m a teacher at a few learning institutions where there are plans and kids have allergies. I’m aware of issues, having known Hamidur. I’m in the habit of offering chocolate or sweets to kids. One child says “I can’t have egg whites.” “What can I get that doesn’t have egg whites?” “Lindt!” (They aim high).
Thing is, the arrangements are not about helping children with allergies manage their risk, it is about politicians and public service covering up their culpability over the death of Hamidur. The coroner had investigated, and come to the erroneous decision that the parents had contributed to the tragic accident by not informing the school of the issue. Only the parents had. The school was aware because the right people had been told (Welfare head teacher and responsible Deputy Principal), but the coroner chose not to ask them after the death happened at a camp, and a year adviser took the lead in welfare. Subsequently, the Principal retired.
The Education Department became aware of the truth of Hamidur’s death and took steps to prevent the coroner finding out. In recent years the school involved has been sold off and moved from city to country. In order to address the issue, without admitting culpability over the child’s death, recommendations were made which cover the learning institution’s failure and make tragic accidents something that parents cannot address.
Parents need control of the fate of their child until their child reaches majority. A better way of addressing the growing issue is to involve the parent with an advisory panel of specialists and professionals for such children showing options, which may include mainstreaming, or home schooling, or special arrangements. This is preferable to draconian legislation and banning wholesome produce from mainstream schools.
Following my Sydney excursion I was off to work. A Polynesian woman saw me waiting for a bus, and came up to talk to me. She said she wanted me to know Jesus loved me. I thanked her, telling her I was an Evangelical Christian, and asking her about her church. She said she was a grandmother from Brisbane and she was visiting her grandchildren. Then she told me the world was ending in three and a half years. She asked if I knew of Daniel and prophecies and I said it was not something laid on my heart. She noticed I had Pokemon Go running on my phone, and she spoke of the evils of computer screens. I smiled pleasantly and she wandered off, wishing me well. For a person of faith, she does the work of the Devil. It is disappointing that some church leaders encourage such behaviour. But, part of the success of the Christian church is from hell fire sermons. July 8th, 1741 had one such sermon where the preacher spoke on sinners in the hands of an angry god. Only that sermon was based on scripture whereas the babbling grandmother just wanted to bully people that listened to her. Pokemon Go is not my salvation, nor my condemnation. I'm saved. I have every confidence in that, and am happy to say why. I thank Greg Sheridan and the IPA for their talk on Tuesday night in defence of faith and freedom. She did not tell me her church. It might have been JW, but it might not have been. I've heard evangelicals at churches I attend say such absurd, hurtful things. But, even were church leadership competent, and the church everywhere, such people would still exist, convinced of their own importance.
From my article on Quora
How should public authorities treat anaphylaxis in school students?https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/09/20/14/54/uk-schoolboy-dies-after-classmate-puts-cheese-down-his-shirt?app=applenews
The case of a school child dying from anaphylaxis after cheese was shoved down their shirt raises the issue of risk management. In Australia, parents are supposed to declare allergies to schools, and the school has a management plan. This is partly a result of the death of Hamidur Rahman in 2002. Aspects of the plan to limit risk are often unrealistic, and the result has been children die.
Anaphylaxis is serious and tragedies result from it. That is inevitable. It would be wrong to isolate children. But risk management cannot be placed in the hands of learning institutions at the expense of parental decision making. Children behave in ways with unexpected consequences, and for similar reasons, we don’t send kids to school with knives or guns, even though most could be responsible with their handling.
Since the death of Hamidur in NSW, children have died despite the new measures brought it. Because the new measures don’t work perfectly. Schools and churches don’t have peanut butter available, but what about eggs? Or wheat? Or dairy? Schools have management plans, but what of temporary employees? I’m a teacher at a few learning institutions where there are plans and kids have allergies. I’m aware of issues, having known Hamidur. I’m in the habit of offering chocolate or sweets to kids. One child says “I can’t have egg whites.” “What can I get that doesn’t have egg whites?” “Lindt!” (They aim high).
Thing is, the arrangements are not about helping children with allergies manage their risk, it is about politicians and public service covering up their culpability over the death of Hamidur. The coroner had investigated, and come to the erroneous decision that the parents had contributed to the tragic accident by not informing the school of the issue. Only the parents had. The school was aware because the right people had been told (Welfare head teacher and responsible Deputy Principal), but the coroner chose not to ask them after the death happened at a camp, and a year adviser took the lead in welfare. Subsequently, the Principal retired.
The Education Department became aware of the truth of Hamidur’s death and took steps to prevent the coroner finding out. In recent years the school involved has been sold off and moved from city to country. In order to address the issue, without admitting culpability over the child’s death, recommendations were made which cover the learning institution’s failure and make tragic accidents something that parents cannot address.
Parents need control of the fate of their child until their child reaches majority. A better way of addressing the growing issue is to involve the parent with an advisory panel of specialists and professionals for such children showing options, which may include mainstreaming, or home schooling, or special arrangements. This is preferable to draconian legislation and banning wholesome produce from mainstream schools.
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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. ALP are announcing spending more money on Dandenong High School, as part of a policy to spend more money. I have a program that would improve achievements of most schools in Australia at no cost. But the ALP money will go to placing plaques on monuments, which is important for the ALP in the lead up to the election. What would you prefer, students improving at no extra cost, or ALP grand standing and waste?
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. ALP are announcing spending more money on Dandenong High School, as part of a policy to spend more money. I have a program that would improve achievements of most schools in Australia at no cost. But the ALP money will go to placing plaques on monuments, which is important for the ALP in the lead up to the election. What would you prefer, students improving at no extra cost, or ALP grand standing and waste?
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 ===
Don't give up on hope. A local butcher asks "Do I stay or do I go." Australia has some of the highest regulatory costs for business in the world, thanks to ALP. Electricity prices will only go up as a result of moving to expensive renewables which don't achieve anything worthwhile. $100 trillion taken from the world's poorest peoples will lower world temperatures by a fraction of a degree in a hundred years. But businesses are struggling now, and need solutions now.
A gay Danish couple has successfully won the right to get married in churches that don't want them to marry. One wishes them well, but to what end is it that they marry in a church that is against their union in marriage? The churches already accept their civil union on secular grounds.
The US is engaged with solving the threat posed by the UN, Iran and NK to world peace. Trump threatens to tear up the Iran nuclear agreement of 2015. Trump has challenged the enemies of freedom at the UN to get out of his way. Trump has tweeted against Kim Jong Un and in reply, Un has allegedly called Trump a tiny dancer. One feels that Trump is much better equipped to deal with Un than Obama ever was.
Unseasonably high temperatures threaten the eastern seaboard of Australia because the Bradfield scheme has not yet been implemented. But the hundred dams will change things, when they are complete. Instead of sun baked earth reaching 40c, watered fields will max out at 30.
A gay Danish couple has successfully won the right to get married in churches that don't want them to marry. One wishes them well, but to what end is it that they marry in a church that is against their union in marriage? The churches already accept their civil union on secular grounds.
The US is engaged with solving the threat posed by the UN, Iran and NK to world peace. Trump threatens to tear up the Iran nuclear agreement of 2015. Trump has challenged the enemies of freedom at the UN to get out of his way. Trump has tweeted against Kim Jong Un and in reply, Un has allegedly called Trump a tiny dancer. One feels that Trump is much better equipped to deal with Un than Obama ever was.
Unseasonably high temperatures threaten the eastern seaboard of Australia because the Bradfield scheme has not yet been implemented. But the hundred dams will change things, when they are complete. Instead of sun baked earth reaching 40c, watered fields will max out at 30.
=== from 2016 ===
My name is David Daniel Ball. I am an evangelical Christian but I am running on a secular platform, wanting all to prosper. I am running for Greater Dandenong, Redgum Ward. I am not a Liberal Party person, but an independent Conservative with Libertarian leanings. Unlike some Libertarians, I am for zero tolerance on drugs. That means I feel that drug users should not have access to illegal drugs, and need and deserve appropriate support in getting off drugs. Not the same philosophy as the Philippine President. But my 'compassionate' colleagues vying for local council seats are willing for people to die or be killed through risk minimisation which fails to address the actual scourge.
I am Libertarian, and I am for free speech. Not because I enjoy abuse, but because I know I can face criticism and address it in debate. I am uncomfortable with restrictions on free speech which prevent open debate but instead promote group think. I proudly wear a name tag with IPA (Institute of Public Affairs) badge I got from a conference because they stand for free speech. I don't agree with the IPA on everything, but I don't have to.
I wish that my home were open for business. I want local business to employ local people. They want to. But they want their costs to be cheaper to allow them to trade. I want forklift drivers to go to work and not face OHS failures from corruption. When council fails through inappropriate legislation everyone suffers. We have inappropriate recycling procedures that are expensive and problematic. We have at least one neighbourhood which cannot get internet access unless individual households negotiate with Telstra. We have a need for better and more parking. The Greens are claiming they are opposed to overdevelopment. Yet nowhere is Dandenong overdeveloped, but there are needs. Public transport is good, and problematic too. Local Council has a role in making public transport better through better routing and better, more appropriate facilities.
Facilities for worship are needed. Churches don't raise commercial amounts of money, but are good citizens. Or can be. One evangelical church, New Life, is looking for a new home and better facilities. Chisholm on Cleeland St has been a good host, but now needs the territory New Life has used for the better part of a decade. Three hundred members may not have a place for worship, yet they are an international church with a presence all around the world. If there is not a place that is available (without handouts) then clearly local council has failed in her planning duty to her constituents. Worth thinking about on voting day, when Greens claim that land is over developed and they are needed to prevent more.
Why are the left wing trumpeting their diversity using intolerance as a tool?
My father did not drink much ever. He suffered from gout. Yet he was called too old for a kidney transplant and died before he should have. Hinch is taking much for granted.
I stand for free speech. But I seem to be in opposition to the leader of the Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull.
Thing is, Trump described the culprit before he was known. Trump was right. Hillary and the NYC Mayor prevaricated over the identity and motive of the perpetrator before he was known. They were wrong. Hillary Clinton is campaigning on her skill of making decisions seem hard. It keeps her in touch with youth.
=== from 2015 ===
Now that Turnbull has stopped undermining the Liberal Party, he is finding it hard to change. There needs to be healing and the impetus to move forward. By hitting Knights and Dames, Turnbull does neither. The criticism of Mr Abbott's 'Captain's picks' was hysterical and unedifying. The order of Knights and Dames was relatively free and had the virtue of being cultural assets. We need cultural assets. Mr Abbott knew that. Mr Turnbull saw it as a cheap shot. And it still is a cheap shot. By delegating it to cabinet, Turnbull is rubbing the noses of the cabinet in it. Another act which isn't healing.
Hockey is leaving politics and some in Cabinet have been sacked by twitter. That isn't classy either. Turnbull now has an opportunity to do something right. The IPA have published a list of a hundred ideas that Turnbull could do to improve Australia. Some of them have already been done by Mr Abbott, but the senate, with Turnbull's encouragement, have opposed many of them. We need cuts to spending which will cripple us if they aren't made. We need to stop funding the NBN and let market forces run the internet. We need transport infrastructure and water from the northern rivers sent inland. We need state governments to run curriculum. We need freedom of speech. We need to maintain secure borders. We need to decide who comes to Australia. We need Japan to build our submarines so our forces have the world's best equipment. We need to stop funding left wing opposition through the ABC. We need to end union corruption. We need work choices. We need the judiciary to be independent of the ALP. We need to remove the climate change commission and the human rights council.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
An impudent journalist keen to inflate claims by terrorists that detaining any of them is a crime against Islam was smacked down by Mr Abbott who took the microphone from a policeman who had been given the question. Abbott reminded the journalist of Churchill circa 1926 "I refuse to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire." Mr Abbott continued to remind the journalist of the true situation. Two minutes from ignominious beginning to glorious end. And the truth is that brilliant, hard working people are working over time to make sure that terrorists don't follow through with their plans. They do a great job and we are lucky to have them. It must be confusing to journalists as Obama launches a war that could take decades to finish. Obama has failed to support friends or engage responsibly or with much thought on foreign affairs. Some academics who speak for Islamic peoples and advise their leaders feel that terrorists are Islamic. Meanwhile an Islamic leader is heard making a terrorist bomb threat.
The bad nightmare of Scotland leaving the union is not completely over. Having promised too much, the Scottish First Minister is resigning, but there are street riots among those confused by the lies given in support of separation. Meanwhile Bob Ellis, who has a perfect record of not calling an election correctly, continues with Scotland. Ellis is a highly respected ALP adviser and dumb drunk. It is a salient reminder when eight members of a team trying to raise ebola awareness have been killed by local villagers tired of being told what to do. People resent socialist tendencies to big government overriding personal freedoms. Al Gore's microphone failed while invoking God. Even He dislikes socialists overplaying regulation.
Lambie abuses an image of a dead woman by tweeting a generic burqa image of a policewoman with gun and claiming all such women are oppressed. Only the policewoman was murdered in '08 and was not oppressed by the dumb uniform, but by the Taliban who killed her for being an employed woman. Lambie found an iconic woman she should have supported but instead cheaply disparaged her. It highlights yet again that a constitutional apartheid involving Australian Aboriginals is not a good idea. Meanwhile institutionalised corruption involving the ALP and unions must be opposed. We cannot accept protection rackets in public service or private practice.
The bad nightmare of Scotland leaving the union is not completely over. Having promised too much, the Scottish First Minister is resigning, but there are street riots among those confused by the lies given in support of separation. Meanwhile Bob Ellis, who has a perfect record of not calling an election correctly, continues with Scotland. Ellis is a highly respected ALP adviser and dumb drunk. It is a salient reminder when eight members of a team trying to raise ebola awareness have been killed by local villagers tired of being told what to do. People resent socialist tendencies to big government overriding personal freedoms. Al Gore's microphone failed while invoking God. Even He dislikes socialists overplaying regulation.
Lambie abuses an image of a dead woman by tweeting a generic burqa image of a policewoman with gun and claiming all such women are oppressed. Only the policewoman was murdered in '08 and was not oppressed by the dumb uniform, but by the Taliban who killed her for being an employed woman. Lambie found an iconic woman she should have supported but instead cheaply disparaged her. It highlights yet again that a constitutional apartheid involving Australian Aboriginals is not a good idea. Meanwhile institutionalised corruption involving the ALP and unions must be opposed. We cannot accept protection rackets in public service or private practice.
From 2013
Four people are dead from three house fires. We will have many reminders of the abysmal ALP government for years to come. But the media are spinning now, hoping people will forget. Saying there is no need to further punish the ALP who have learned their electoral lesson. But there is no evidence the ALP have learned why it is they are not in government. On election night, Rudd claimed pride in his efforts which resulted in the lowest primary vote for the ALP in over a hundred years. Gillard took pride she hadn't campaigned against the incompetent government. The two campaigning for leadership have no plan to change policy on any issue, claiming the party needs healing. Trumpeting a campaign of ideas, neither Shorten nor Albanese differ. Each claim the other is all right should they lose their bid. Some are concerned in the press that Shorten does not pronounce Albanese' name very well. Neither does the Albanese supporter whom Shorten would make deputy.
One clear divergence from ALP policy which the public wants and voted for is an end to the climate change shenanigans the ALP carried. Flannery was sacked from his $180k a year part time job. It is likely that had that not happened on Abbott's first day as PM, Flannery would have been diligently exercising his duty by claiming the fires were related to Global Warming. It is apparently the scientific method to claim anything that happens as supportive of personal belief. In many ways, twelfth century monks had much to teach scientists of today. Flannery is a throwback to such mastery. It is doubtful he will become poor, despite the loss of his part time job. It is also doubtful he will be silenced, often offering opinion for free.
On the world front, a broad focus is coming to Iran and US relations. Some say Iran has a moderate in charge. The moderate has asked for more time to develop nuclear weapons without prying eyes. Obama is dithering.
One clear divergence from ALP policy which the public wants and voted for is an end to the climate change shenanigans the ALP carried. Flannery was sacked from his $180k a year part time job. It is likely that had that not happened on Abbott's first day as PM, Flannery would have been diligently exercising his duty by claiming the fires were related to Global Warming. It is apparently the scientific method to claim anything that happens as supportive of personal belief. In many ways, twelfth century monks had much to teach scientists of today. Flannery is a throwback to such mastery. It is doubtful he will become poor, despite the loss of his part time job. It is also doubtful he will be silenced, often offering opinion for free.
On the world front, a broad focus is coming to Iran and US relations. Some say Iran has a moderate in charge. The moderate has asked for more time to develop nuclear weapons without prying eyes. Obama is dithering.
Historical perspective on this day
1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
1066 – Battle of Fulford, Viking Harald Hardradadefeats earls Morcar and Edwin
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1260 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).
1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1792 – French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalitionat the Battle of Valmy.
1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperialprovince of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in Crimea.
1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits Canada and the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: The conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy, ending de facto the temporal power of popes.
1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
1941 – The Holocaust in Lithuania: Four hundred three Jews (128 men, 176 women and 99 children) were murdered by Einsatzkommando 3 and the local police in Nemenčinė.
1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German einsatzgruppenmurders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1979 – A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
2003 – Maldives civil unrest: The death of prisoner sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
2011 – The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: Ecclesiastes 1-3, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Ecclesiastes 1-3
Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full....
Today's New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 11:16-33
Paul Boasts About His Sufferings
16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting. 17 In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool. 18 Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast. 19 You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! 20 In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face. 21To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that!
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
This "liberty" makes us free to heaven's charter--the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, "When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee." You are free to that. Here is another: "The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee"; you are free to that. You are a welcome guest at the table of the promises. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance. Come in faith and you are welcome to all covenant blessings. There is not a promise in the Word which shall be withheld. In the depths of tribulations let this freedom comfort you; amidst waves of distress let it cheer you; when sorrows surround thee let it be thy solace. This is thy Father's love-token; thou art free to it at all times. Thou art also free to the throne of grace. It is the believer's privilege to have access at all times to his heavenly Father. Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before him. It matters not how much we may have sinned, we may ask and expect pardon. It signifies nothing how poor we are, we may plead his promise that he will provide all things needful. We have permission to approach his throne at all times--in midnight's darkest hour, or in noontide's most burning heat. Exercise thy right, O believer, and live up to thy privilege. Thou art free to all that is treasured up in Christ--wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. It matters not what thy need is, for there is fulness of supply in Christ, and it is there for thee. O what a "freedom" is thine! freedom from condemnation, freedom to the promises, freedom to the throne of grace, and at last freedom to enter heaven!
Evening
Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God's especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, "asked of God," they will be as dear to us as her child was to Hannah. Peninnah had many children, but they came as common blessings unsought in prayer: Hannah's one heaven-given child was dearer far, because he was the fruit of earnest pleadings. How sweet was that water to Samson which he found at "the well of him that prayed!" Quassia cups turn all waters bitter, but the cup of prayer puts a sweetness into the draughts it brings. Did we pray for the conversion of our children? How doubly sweet, when they are saved, to see in them our own petitions fulfilled! Better to rejoice over them as the fruit of our pleadings than as the fruit of our bodies. Have we sought of the Lord some choice spiritual gift? When it comes to us it will be wrapped up in the gold cloth of God's faithfulness and truth, and so be doubly precious. Have we petitioned for success in the Lord's work? How joyful is the prosperity which comes flying upon the wings of prayer! It is always best to get blessings into our house in the legitimate way, by the door of prayer; then they are blessings indeed, and not temptations. Even when prayer speeds not, the blessings grow all the richer for the delay; the child Jesus was all the more lovely in the eyes of Mary when she found him after having sought him sorrowing. That which we win by prayer we should dedicate to God, as Hannah dedicated Samuel. The gift came from heaven, let it go to heaven. Prayer brought it, gratitude sang over it, let devotion consecrate it. Here will be a special occasion for saying, "Of thine own have I given unto thee." Reader, is prayer your element or your weariness? Which?
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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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