Bairnsdale Conservative: March 2013

Happy birthday and many happy returns Jenny Trinh. Born on Easter Sunday. I promise you, today, you feel better than He felt ..
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Roll on September and end of Gillard

Piers Akerman – Sunday, March 31, 2013 (12:56am)

ALL the polls are now pointing to a Labor wipeout (can we have a song, Craig Emerson?) in September and a return to some sort of normality.

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Bob Geldof is a big Irish blarney artist

Miranda Devine – Sunday, March 31, 2013 (12:53am)

WERE (Sir) Bob Geldof and his sidekick David Jones having a lend of us when they appeared on Lateline?

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An Easter message of hope

Miranda Devine – Sunday, March 31, 2013 (12:52am)

THE Catholic Church has had some bad publicity lately. If it’s not paedophile priests, and dishonest priests, it’s bitter and twisted ex-priests like Paul Collins trying to take revenge on Cardinal George Pell, with defamatory smears during the conclave to choose the new Pope.

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BIG DIPPER

Tim Blair – Sunday, March 31, 2013 (4:11pm)

Fairfax’s Mark Kenny believes the Prime Minister to be indestructible:

The extreme heat of the leadership crisis has established beyond doubt that Gillard, like the liquid-metal cyborg in the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, is unstoppable.

Hmm. Kenny may have forgotten how that movie ends:

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TARGET PRACTICE

Tim Blair – Sunday, March 31, 2013 (3:42pm)

Animal Liberation plans to launch a perv drone on Australian farmers:

The group says the drone can film from as low as 10 metres above the ground to gather potential evidence of animal abuse.

Spokesman Mark Pearson says the practice will not contravene trespass or privacy laws …

“Farming practices, whether they be illegal or whether they be common farming practices which are to be put into question, such as mulesing and leaving animals without shelter in extreme temperatures, then that is in the public interest,” he said.

“If there is public interest, then that is not an invasion, it is a service to the community.

“The High Court has already dealt with the issue of privacy.

“We’re not interested in people’s personal lives and what’s happening in their homes, but if you have a business which uses animals then that is of public interest, and that’s been dealt with by the High Court.”

Thanks for the legal lesson, bunny cuddler. Now put down your law books and consider this overriding argument from Northern Territory Cattleman’s Association boss David Warriner:

“It wouldn’t be hard to shoot a drone down with a shotgun, would it?”

UPDATE. Shooting drones is easy and fun.

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AN EXXON VALDEZ EVERY YEAR

Tim Blair – Sunday, March 31, 2013 (12:54am)

According to the American Wind Energy Association, some 500 birds hit the rotors in the US every single day:

The National Wind Coordinating Collaborative, a collaboration of government officials, conservationists and industry representatives, more accurately estimates, based on actual data collected from over 100 wind farms nationally, the loss to be 200,000 birds annually.

That’s close to the number of birds estimated to have been killed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill – but wind fans believe this level of avian munching to be “most benign”.

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Andrew Onassis

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (1:50pm)

I dreamed of one day having fabulous wealth. Now I fear that Labor thinks I’ve succeeded:

LABOR has no plans to lift taxes on the superannuation of ordinary Australians, but the super savings of the “fabulously wealthy” should be debated, Trade Minister Craig Emerson says.

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Not preconceived Aboriginal elders

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (11:36am)

Free speech, The politics of race

They are right about the preconceptions. After-conceptions, too.
But, of course, it is too dangerous for me to discuss further.
(Thanks to reader Carolynne.)

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The Bolt Report today

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (11:12am)

Say it here.
The Budget is Julia Gillard’s next big hurdle after running out of cash - and already the Rudd camp are digging in.
Banking guru David Murray, the former Future Fund chairman, warns: “The triple A credit rating fundamentally is being put at risk.”
Peter Reith and Belinda Neal in a fiery debate over boat people. Does the Gillard Government have blood on its hands?
Academics celebrate Easter with readings from the Gospel of St Marx.
UPDATE
Clips to appear here. Some already up.
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Transcript:

THE BOLT REPORT
31 MARCH 2013
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID MURRAY.
ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: David Murray headed the Commonwealth Bank, before becoming first chairman of the Future Fund, in charge of more than $70 billion of the nation’s savings. David, thanks for joining me.
DAVID MURRAY: Thanks Andrew.
ANDREW BOLT: Labor in the May Budget is expected to deliver its fifth deficit in five years, up to $20 billion. How worried should we be?
DAVID MURRAY: Ah, well, I - my concern about it, Andrew, is that the Government itself was taking incredible steps to promise a surplus when there’s a lot of pressure from many sectors on them not to need to do it. And, therefore the Government themselves knew there was an important reason to do it. And that’s got to do with the shape of government finances in Australia generally.
ANDREW BOLT: But Labor’s now gone in six years from a net surplus - surplus of $45 billion - to a net debt of probably $160 billion by the next Budget. Now, what is causing this blowout?
DAVID MURRAY: The main reason for it was the budget deficits, probably from about 2008, 2009 onward. Essentially the spending during the crisis was far too large, and spent on the wrong things, and spending has not been sufficiently well reined in since, and the spending that the Government does undertake is mostly spent on things that are nice and not spent on things that are valuable. In short, the Government in Australia is spending too much money on consumption-related items, and not enough money on investment-related items.

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The Torbay myth collapses

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (6:04am)

The unravelling of Richard Torbay. From Independent hero MP and Speaker to a possible person of interest.

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Demetriou protests the big sports smear

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (5:58am)

I’ve said the AFL boss, Andrew Demetriou, should publicly protest at having been used as a prop by the Gillard Government to smear the big sports codes as riddled with drugs, matchfixing and organised crime.
Demetriou now reveals he did make a protest, but a private one:

Demetriou indicated the AFL had expressed its displeasure at the game and clubs being linked to doping allegations when the ACC had publicly presented very little evidence.
“You shouldn’t assume we haven’t said something, James, and you shouldn’t assume that we haven’t done privately,” he said when asked by North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw if the league felt entitled to defend itself on integrity issues to the ACC.

A reminder: not a single athlete has yet failed a drug test in this investigation.

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Voters ought to be able to sort that out

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (5:46am)

Everything else having failed, Mark Kenny suggests Labor try out a new campaign theme:

Simply put, it is that Gillard is indestructible.

The election should test that.
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Speaking of things indestructible. can someone please, please help me deal with this. I’m at my wits end after three years of trying.
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Reader Peter:

I find the herbicide glyphosate - the strong stuff, 360g/L - applied regularly keeps it in check. And for an area that can be blanket sprayed, can kill it off completely. Best time is in spring, when it starts to grow vigorously. Use a strong mix, 1:20, best in morning or late afternoon, never in middle of hot day, as it relies on the plant being its most active to work. Good luck.

But what of the plants next door, my camelias and azaleas?
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Reader Dr Chemical:

Glyphosate is too weak. Go to Bunnings and get a product called “once a year” weeder. The chemicals are simazine and ???. It won’t hurt your other plants if it’s not applied to them.

Reader Joel B1:

Don’t use it on a “spray” setting, instead do as Peter(?) said and use a “jet” setting more like a water-pistol.With care you can get real close to your wanted plants without killing them off too.If you’re really keen you can use a small artists paintbrush to paint it on individual leaves, and the undersides of the leaf too.Try to ensure a good coverage, glyco is systemic so as long as each plant gets a good wetting on a few leaves it’ll kill it.(plus if you’ll have forearms like Popeye if you’re doing more than a few meters!)

Reader Maggie:

It looks like “Wandering Jew”. Super dose of roundup may do the trick but you will need to follow up several times.This will not harm azaleas or camellias unless you spray them directly.I would use a very thick layer of newspaper plus thick layer of mulch to prevent the curse from getting sunshine This will help. By the way an looks very effective in hanging baskets but not over or near garden beds because as Michael Smith says every touch leaves a trace.Persistence will pay off, it is akin to killing a cockroach.

Reader John Bull:

I think thats Wandering Dew. Horrible stuff, I’m always asked to get rid of it.
Is better to spray spring to late summer, but I usually do it all year round. Get some Zero Concentrate from Mitre10. Get some Omo laundry detergent. Mix 1 measured spoon, (spoon is in the box). With 500ml of water. Shake well, leave over night.
Next morning, pour off the watery top part, not the bottom, throw the bottom down the sink, will clean it out, bubbles for miles and makes the wife tizzy. And then you explain you where trying to help, and they smile and think oh he’s wonderful, but he needs me. Mix watery top part with “Zero” (Glyo salts ) 1/10 Ratio. Place in hand held sprayer, and spray gently over the wandering dew.
Wandering dew doesn’t die, because nearly everthing washes off it. Shiney leaves, it’s got like a wax coating. The Omo allows the Glyo Salts to sit on the leaves et cetera.... and do their job, Omo wash off top part will allow it to bind to the plant.14-18 Days dead. Respray twice over the next two - three months......Goodbye Wandering Dew. It’s the only way I have found in 10years.
NOTE: If you happen to spray your camelias and azaleas, well, just be careful. Get some plastic, Mitre10, clear plastic. Drap it over the area to close it off, you only need to worry about the leaves, 1/10 isn’t strong enough to kill the stems by simple light overspray, as both are softwoods .If you do, water it down, with water. After use,wWash plastic, give to a homeless guy, winter is coming. Or build small frame, staple plastic over it to protect orchids over the coming autumn & winter. Or Winter Tomatos / herbs.
The Bull.

(Oops. Weed link fixed.)

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The high price of policing the drunk

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (5:40am)

We really are drowning in booze:

The NSW Police Commissioner says that dealing with alcohol and its effects consumes about 70 per cent of a frontline police officer’s time…
Of the nearly 3000 assaults on police each year, seven out of 10 are related to alcohol.

Mr Scipione - a teetotaller - is a severe critic of Australia’s drinking culture. ‘’As a nation, we need to fall out of love with the booze,’’ he said.

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Who doesn’t make you laugh?

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (5:33am)

So far Rod Quantock leads in the voting, with the Chaser second and Charlie Pickering third. Vote, vote, vote.

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Birds slaughtered in a good green cause

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (5:28am)

Green energy in the US kills around the same number of birds each year as did the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989.
Why aren’t greens so silent about this slaughter?

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Importing a violation of our rights

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (5:20am)

We’ve reached the very limit of multiculturalism as we realise what we’ve imported:

FORCED child marriage, life-threatening domestic violence and dowry abuse are rife in Greater Dandenong and Casey, a welfare agency has warned.
Shakti Migrant and Refugee Women’s Support Group Melbourne, which champions the human rights of women of African and Middle Eastern origin, only opened locally in April, but already is overrun with requests for assistance. Spokeswoman Hiba Casablanca said the system was failing women of multicultural backgrounds…
“We need a specialist refuge catering for the needs of women of colour, run by people who can speak their language and who truly understand and connect with what we’re saying, when we talk about cultural practices that violate our rights.”

I wonder whether a “specialist refuge” will do much to combat “cultural practices that violate our rights” - practices we are importing into the community.
And if it does indeed fail, what is the cost?
(Thanks to reader David.)

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More millions burned on the warmist altar

Andrew Bolt March 31 2013 (5:09am)

Global warming - general

Green water will drive you broke:

A parliamentary committee has heard it will cost about $15 million more each year to power Adelaide’s desalination plant with renewable energy than it would with fossil fuel.
SA Water has confirmed the use of green energy to power the plant will cost $43.7 more over the next three years.
Under the plant’s operating arrangements, some of its carbon footprint is offset by the purchase of renewable energy certificates.

That’s $15 million a year extra demanded by warmists to make no difference to the climate.
And by 2015, the plant will be one of four mothballed around the country, thanks to the return of rains the warmists said would dry up:

SA Water admitted in October the plant will be switched-off at the beginning of 2015 as soon as its warranty period expires.

UPDATE
Warmists demand a high price to pretend to make a difference:

The Germans are spending about $110 billion on subsidies for these solar panels… The net effect of all those investments will be to postpone global warming by 37 hours by the end of the century.

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Yet global warming just isn’t following the script:

Met Office figures show that from 1 March to 26 March the UK mean temperature was 2.5C (36.5F) – three degrees below the long-term average.
This makes it the joint fourth coldest in the UK, in records going back to 1910.

(Thanks to readers Hmmm and watty.)

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Oswin Oswald - now fully converted into a Dalek - struggles to accept that she is no longer human, before advising the Doctor to run for his life. Memorable scenes from Asylum of the Daleks, Doctor Who series 7.

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Temple of Poseidon, Sounion Athens - GREECE
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WHAT TYPE OF SICK GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES A NEW TAX TO FORCE UP THE COSTS OF KID'S SWIMMING LESSONS ? Craig Kelly

Photo - At Menai Swim Centre with owner Noel Harris and Ian Macfarlane Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources.

Labor’s Carbon will add $10,000 to the electricity bills of Menai Swim Centre this year alone.

And remember, under Labor’s punishing plans, their Carbon Tax increases every year.

Therefore using Labor’s own modelling, Menai Swim Centre will be forced to pay $100,000 in Carbon Tax charges between now and 2020 to stay open.

So either they increase the costs of children’s swimming lessons(with families in the Menai area being slugged an additional $100,000 to pay for the Carbon Tax on kids swimming lessons) or they close their doors.

Last year 284 Australians drowned - and the 'Australian Water Safety Strategy' is to reduce drowning deaths by 50% by 2020.

But with Labor’s Carbon Tax increasing the costs of swimming lessons for children – this will simply result in less children being able to afford to attend swimming lessons, undermining The Australia Water Safety Council’s target of reducing deaths by drowning in Australia.

So what type of sick Government introduces a new tax to force up the costs of kids swimming lessons ?

Answer – the Gillard Labor Government; the worst, the most dishonest, the most dysfunctional and most divided Government in our nation’s history.

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March 31: Easter (Western Christianity, 2013); King Nangklao Memorial Day in Thailand; Cesar Chavez Day in various U.S. states

1146 – French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at Vézelay, with King Louis VII in attendance, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade.
1492 – The Catholic Monarchs of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering all Jews to convert to Christianity or be expelled from the country.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower (pictured) was inaugurated in Paris, becoming a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
1942 – Second World War: Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, Japanese troops captured Christmas Island without any resistance.
1995 – American singer-songwriter, Selena, known as "The Queen of Tejano music", was murdered in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar.

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Events

307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to Americantrade.
1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
1877 – The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
1885 – The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1899 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for collegesports in the United States.
1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
1931 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 – A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
1965 – An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
1986 – A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 167.
1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1990 – 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1994 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1995 – TAROM Flight 371 crashed, killing all of the 10 crew and 50 passengers on board.
1995 – Selena, an American singer, was murdered by her friend and employee of her boutiques Yolanda Saldívar who was embezzling money from the establishments. The event was named "Black Friday" by Hispanics.
2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.

[edit]Births

250 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
1360 – Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal (d. 1415)
1425 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
1499 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
1504 – Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
1519 – King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
1536 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
1576 – Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (d. 1644)
1596 – René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician and writer (d. 1650)
1621 – Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678)
1651 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)
1675 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
1718 – Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain (d. 1781)
1723 – King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
1747 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German musician and composer (d. 1800)
1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
1778 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
1794 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852)
1809 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883)
1809 – Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist (d. 1852)
1809 – Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864)
1819 – Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German statesman (d. 1901)
1823 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (d. 1886)
1847 – Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (d. 1904)
1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
1855 – Alfred E. Hunt, American entrepreneur (d. 1899)
1871 – Arthur Griffith, Irish politician (d. 1922)
1872 – Alexandra Kollontai, Russian stateswoman (d. 1952)
1872 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario, founder of the Ballets Russes (d. 1929)
1876 – Borisav Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
1878 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
1885 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
1890 – William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1891 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (d. 1976)
1893 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
1893 – Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian (d. 1982)
1895 – Vardis Fisher, American author (d. 1968)
1900 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974)
1903 – John Harron, American actor (d. 1939)
1906 – Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1907 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
1908 – Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1911 – Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
1912 – William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009)
1913 – Etta Baker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2006)
1914 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1915 – Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
1915 – Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese sergeant (d. 1997)
1916 – Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (d. 2012)
1916 – John H. Wood, Jr., American jurist (d. 1979)
1919 – Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
1920 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
1921 – Peggy Rea, American actress (d. 2011)
1922 – Richard Kiley, American actor (d. 1999)
1923 – Shoshana Damari, Yemenite-Israeli singer (d. 2006)
1923 – François Sermon, Belgian footballer (d. 2013)
1924 – Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998)
1924 – Charles Guggenheim, American director and producer (d. 2002)
1925 – Jean Coutu, French-Canadian actor (d. 1999)
1926 – John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
1926 – Rocco Petrone, American engineer (d. 2006)
1927 – César Chávez, American activist (d. 1993)
1927 – William Daniels, American actor
1927 – Elmer Diedtrich, American politician (d. 2013)
1927 – Bud MacPherson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
1928 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
1928 – Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer (d. 2007)
1929 – Bertram Fields, American lawyer
1931 – Miller Barber, American golfer
1932 – John Jakes, American writer
1932 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director (d. 2013)
1933 – Anita Carter, American singer (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (d. 1999)
1933 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
1934 – Richard Chamberlain, American actor
1934 – Shirley Jones, American singer and actress (The Partridge Family)
1934 – John D. Loudermilk, American singer-songwriter
1934 – Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1935 – Herb Alpert, American trumpet player and bandleader
1935 – Judith Rossner, American author
1936 – Marge Piercy, American writer
1936 – Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 – Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
1937 – Willem Duyn, Dutch musician (Mouth & MacNeal) (d. 2004)
1938 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian statesman
1938 – Joel Godard, American television announcer
1938 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1938 – Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
1938 – Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
1938 – David Steel, Scottish politician
1939 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician (d. 1993)
1939 – Israel Horovitz, American playwright and screenwriter
1939 – Volker Schlöndorff, German director
1939 – Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer
1940 – Barney Frank, American politician
1940 – Patrick Leahy, American politician
1941 – Franco Bonvicini, Italian comic book artist (d. 1995)
1942 – Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
1942 – Michael Savage, American radio host
1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor
1944 – Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
1944 – Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople and Bad Company)
1945 – Edwin Catmull, American computer scientist
1945 – Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer
1945 – Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
1945 – Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (d. 1995)
1946 – Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
1947 – Kristian Blak, Danish musician and recorder executive (Yggdrasil)
1947 – César Gaviria Trujillo, Colombian politician
1947 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt Israeli author of the Theory of Constraints (TOC)
1948 – Gary Doer, Canadian politician and diplomat
1948 – David Eisenhower, American author and professor
1948 – Al Gore, American politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel laureate
1948 – Rhea Perlman, American actress
1948 – Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist
1949 – Gilles Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 – András Adorján, Hungarian chess player
1950 – Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
1951 – Frankie Sabath, Puerto Rican singer and actor
1952 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)
1954 – Laima Vaikule, Latvian actress, singer, director, and choreographer
1955 – Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
1955 – Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist (AC/DC and Marcus Hook Roll Band)
1957 – Alan Duncan, British politician
1957 – Marc McClure, American actor
1957 – Kyle Secor, American actor
1958 – Tony Cox, American actor
1958 – Sylvester Groth, German actor and tenor
1959 – Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator
1959 – Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers and Friction Groove)
1960 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
1961 – Suzanne Westenhoefer, American comedian
1961 – Gary Winick, American director and producer (d. 2011)
1962 – John Taylor, American football player
1963 – Paul Mercurio, Australian actor and dancer
1964 – Brad Slaight, American actor, comedian, and writer
1964 – Fez Marie Whatley, American radio host and comedian
1964 – Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
1965 – Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player
1965 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
1965 – Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
1965 – William McNamara, American actor
1966 – Roger Black, English athlete
1966 – Nick Firestone, American race car driver
1968 – Naoya Ogawa, Japanese wrestler
1968 – J.R. Reid, American basketball player
1969 – Samantha Brown, American television host
1969 – Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician
1969 – Steve Smith, American basketball player
1970 – Damon Herriman, Australian actor
1970 – Patrick Lachman, American singer and guitarist (Damageplan and Halford)
1971 – Demetris Assiotis, Greek-Cypriot footballer
1971 – Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Craig McCracken, American animator
1971 – Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
1972 – Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish director
1972 – Andrew Bowen, American actor
1972 – Ze Frank, American comedian and composer
1972 – Luca Gentili, Italian footballer
1972 – Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
1972 – Evan Williams, American businessman, co-founded Twitter
1974 – Benjamin Eicher, Swiss director
1974 – Adrian Holmes, British actor
1974 – Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
1975 – Emma Atkins, English actress
1975 – Prodromos Dreliozis, Greek basketball player
1975 – Adam Green, American director
1976 – Rich Clementi, American mixed martial artist
1976 – Ashton Moore, American porn actress
1976 – Josh Saviano, American actor
1977 – Garth Tander, Australian race car driver
1977 – Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1978 – Stephen Clemence, English footballer
1978 – Daniel Mays, British actor
1978 – Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
1978 – Tony Yayo, American rapper (G-Unit)
1979 – Josh Kinney, American baseball player
1980 – Trenyce, American singer
1980 – Dean Clark, English footballer
1980 – Kate Micucci, American actress, comedian, and singer-songwriter (Garfunkel and Oates)
1980 – Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
1980 – Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
1981 – Ryan Bingham, American singer-songwriter
1981 – Gerard McCarthy, British actor
1981 – Pa Dembo Tourray, Gambian footballer
1981 – Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
1982 – Audrey Kawasaki, American painter
1982 – Ryland Blackinton, American guitarist (Cobra Starship and This Is Ivy League)
1982 – Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
1982 – Lennon Murphy, American singer-songwriter
1983 – Hashim Amla, South African Cricketer
1983 – Anthony Lewis, English actor
1983 – Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
1983 – Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
1983 – Melissa Ordway, American actress and model
1984 – Jack Antonoff, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steel Train and Fun)
1984 – Dario Bova, Italian footballer
1984 – Alberto Junior Rodríguez, Peruvian footballer
1984 – David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Eddie Johnson, American soccer player
1984 – James Jones, American football player
1984 – Yanin Vismistananda, Thai actress
1985 – Stephanie Bendixsen, Australian television personality
1985 – Jessica Szohr, American actress
1987 – Nordin Amrabat, Dutch footballer
1987 – Hugo Ayala, Mexican footballer
1987 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
1987 – Georg Listing, German bass player (Tokio Hotel)
1987 – Eros Pisano, Italian footballer
1988 – Hogan Ephraim, English footballer
1988 – Louis van der Westhuizen, Namibian cricketer
1989 – Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer
1990 – Kylie Bisutti, American model
1990 – Sandra Roma, Swedish tennis player
1990 – Bang Yong Guk, South Korean rapper
1991 – Rodney Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1994 – Thomas Batuello, American actor and musician (The Naked Brothers Band)

[edit]Deaths

1074 – Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
1340 – Ivan I of Russia (b. 1288)
1547 – Francis I of France (b. 1494)
1567 – Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504)
1621 – King Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
1631 – John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
1671 – Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (b. 1637)
1703 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
1723 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-American governor (b. 1661)
1741 – Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
1783 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
1797 – Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian slave (b.1745)
1837 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
1850 – John C. Calhoun, American politician and political theorist, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
1855 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
1877 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
1880 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
1885 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819)
1913 – J. P. Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)
1915 – Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
1917 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
1924 – George Charles Haité, English designer, painter and illustrator (b.1855)
1929 – Pablo de Escandón, Mexican polo player (b. 1856)
1930 – Ludwig Schüler, German politician (b. 1836)
1931 – Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
1935 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian prince and diplomat (b. 1885)
1935 – Concordia Selander, Swedish actress (b. 1861)
1944 – Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1945 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1945 – Anne Frank, German Holocaust victim and author (b. 1929)
1945 – Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (b. 1884)
1952 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
1956 – Ralph DePalma, Italian race car driver (b. 1884)
1968 – Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1972 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
1975 – Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897)
1976 – Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b. 1890)
1978 – Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
1980 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
1980 – Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
1981 – Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
1983 – Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
1984 – Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
1986 – O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
1986 – Jerry Paris, American actor (b. 1925)
1988 – William McMahon,Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1993 – Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
1993 – Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
1993 – Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
1995 – Selena, Mexican-American singer (b. 1971)
1996 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
1998 – Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
1998 – Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
1999 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
2001 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2001 – David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967)
2002 – Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
2002 – Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist (b. 1924)
2003 – H.S.M. Coxeter, English geometer (b. 1907)
2003 – Anne Gwynne, American actress (b. 1918)
2003 – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (Sir Henry and his Butlers) (b. 1949)
2004 – Scott Helvenston, American Navy SEAL and Blackwater contractor (b. 1965)
2005 – Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
2005 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
2005 – Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
2005 – Terri Schiavo, American figure in right-to-die case (b. 1963)
2006 – Angela Devi, American model (b. 1975)
2006 – Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931)
2007 – Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1921)
2008 – Jules Dassin, American director (b. 1911)
2008 – Bill Keightley, American basketball equipment manager (b. 1926)
2009 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (b. 1943)
2009 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine lawyer, politician and statesman, President of Argentina (b. 1927)
2009 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (b. 1911)
2010 – Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)
2011 – Tony Barrell, English writer and broadcaster (b. 1940)
2011 – Gil Clancy, American boxing trainer (b. 1922)
2011 – Alan Fitzgerald, Australian author, journalist and satirist (b. 1935)
2011 – Oddvar Hansen, Norwegian footballer and coach (b. 1921)
2011 – Claudia Heill, Austrian judoka (b. 1982)
2011 – Tom Kelleher, American football official (b. 1926)
2011 – Vassili Kononov, Russian war criminal (b. 1923)
2011 – Ishbel MacAskill, Scottish Gaelic singer and activist (b. 1941)
2011 – Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2011 – Bosko Radonjich, Serbian nationalist (b. 1943)
2011 – Edward Stobart, British entrepreneur (b. 1954)
2011 – Henry Taub, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
2011 – Judith Adams, Australian politician, midwife, nurse, and farmer (b. 1943)
2012 – Dale R. Corson, American physicist, author, and educator (b. 1914)
2012 – Bernard O. Gruenke, American stained glass artist (b. 1914)
2012 – Zoran Romich, Croatian-Australian musician (Chocolate Starfish) (b. 1965)
2012 – Halbert White, American economist and educator (b. 1950)

[edit]Holidays and observances

Christian Feast Day
- Abdas of Susa
- Acathius of Melitene (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Anesius and companions
- Benjamin
- Balbina
- March 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Freedom Day (Malta)
King Nangklao Memorial Day (Thailand)
Thomas Mundy Peterson Day (New Jersey)
Transfer Day (US Virgin Islands)
César Chávez Day (United States of America)
Geologists Day (in the Soviet Union)

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He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God (Rom 4:25, NLT).
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So David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather; and you shall eat bread at my table continually.”—2Sam 9:7

When the people in the palace heard that King Saul and his son Jonathan had died in battle, they panicked, fearful that David was coming to seize the throne. In the hurry to escape, Mephibosheth, Jonathan’s five-year-old son, fell and became lame in both his feet. If only the people had known that David actually loved Jonathan and Saul!

Now, Mephibosheth became lame because of bad news that was based on a lie. Likewise, many believers today are suffering needlessly because they believe the wrong things about God—they do not believe that God is a good God who loves them.

Beloved, God is not out to get you. He knows all about your sins and still loves you—He sent Jesus as the payment for your sins. He says to you, “Don’t be afraid, I will surely show you kindness. I will restore all to you and you shall always eat at My table!” http://josephprince.com/