Celebrities inspire people. Cate Blanchet says a good actor can change gravity. Leonardo DiCaprio didn't need to change gravity while lying about AGW threat to the world in years to come. He needed to change the facts which show the world hasn't heated in 18 years despite substantially more plant food in the atmosphere. Cate's advocacy didn't help Rudd either. The German foreign minister has declared that there is no end in sight to the Ukrainian impasse with Russia. Nobody seems to know how to stop Russia from winning. The North Korean leader apparently has gout from cheese. It is a terrible affliction, but treatable. So long as he hasn't killed all the doctors that know how.
from 2013
The mainstream media's role in society and culture is vital, and sadly lacking. A strong media would not accept the very tantrums they model .. and so it somehow has become acceptable to heckle the PM over the deaths of boat people when his policy would end what the opposition began. At the ABC (Australian one) the program Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries portrays another slack culture attack the media models, the persistent lie, when it portrayed a 20's era Aboriginal mother dealing with stolen generation issues. The lie was well addressed by Bolt when he took on Noyce's portrayal of Rabbit Proof Fence eleven years ago.
In the US, the GOP don't have the Presidency, so the media can seize on the unpopularity of the President and claim 'nobody can do a good job in administration.' However, that lie gets shown up often when effective GOP administrations take office. So the media tend to take on a role of scold when conservatives are in office, as it is, in Australia. And they can claim *anything* so long as it serves their leftist politicians.
Obama speaks as President. But what he says is factually wrong. The US has never had a policy of killing Muslims. Further, the US army does not kill many .. and when she does she is accountable. The accusation that the US has killed millions of Muslims is rhetoric. In fact, the US has prevented the deaths of many Muslims threatened by Islamic terrorists. What Obama says is offensive, and not something I can support. Maybe the article linked is a joke .. ? Way too close to the bone from a President who identifies with thugs.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
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1493 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (d. 1910)
1861 – Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (Jimmy & Johnny) (d. 2011)
1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress and singer
1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Drifters)
1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
2000 – Frankie Jonas, American actor
- 48 BC – Pompey the Great was assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt following a decisive defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus.
- 1542 – Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, the first European to travel along the coast of California, landed at what is now the city of San Diego.
- 1924 – A team of U.S. Army Air Service aviators landed in Seattle, Washington, to complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the world.
- 1978 – Pope John Paul I died only 33 days after his papal election due to an apparent myocardial infarction, resulting in the most recent Year of Three Popes.
- 1994 – The ferry MS Estonia (pictured) sank while commuting between Tallinn, Estonia, and Stockholm, Sweden, claiming 852 lives in one of the worst maritime accidents in the Baltic Sea.
Matches
- 48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
- 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
- 351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
- 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
- 935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
- 995 – Members of Slavník's dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
- 1066 – William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
- 1106 – The Battle of Tinchebray – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
- 1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
- 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
- 1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1542 – Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
- 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
- 1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
- 1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
- 1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
- 1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
- 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
- 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland.
- 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
- 1924 – First round-the-world flight completed.
- 1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- 1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 1941 – The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
- 1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
- 1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
- 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- 1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
- 1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
- 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
- 1962 – The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1963 - Whaam!, now considered Roy Lichtenstein's most important work, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery that lasted until at October 24.
- 1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser's temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.
- 1971 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
- 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
- 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
- 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
- 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 1996 – Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
- 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 2006 – Suvarnabhumi Airport opens in Amphoe Bang Phli, Samut Prakan Province from Don Mueang International Airport after the older airport ceased international commercial flights.
- 2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
- 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed, and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
- 2012 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port city of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
- 2012 – A Dornier Do 228 light aircraft crashes on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, killing 19 people.
Hatches
- 616 – Javanshir, Albanian king (d. 680)
- 1494 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
- 1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1694)
- 1681 – Johann Mattheson, German composer, lexicographer, and diplomat (d. 1764)
- 1705 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Leader of the House of Commons (d. 1774)
- 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
- 1746 – William Jones, Welsh philologist and scholar (d. 1794)
- 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (d. 1870)
- 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
- 1819 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan engineer (d. 1885)
- 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (d. 1874)
- 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
- 1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic (d. 1897)
- 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (d. 1910)
- 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (d. 1929)
- 1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
- 1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (d. 1923)
- 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
- 1861 – Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
- 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
- 1877 – Walter Thijssen, Dutch rower (d. 1943)
- 1877 – Albert Young, American boxer (d. 1940)
- 1878 – Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
- 1881 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
- 1882 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1963)
- 1885 – Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler (d. 1974)
- 1887 – Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
- 1889 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (d. 1973)
- 1891 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
- 1893 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 1984)
- 1898 – Carl Clauberg, German physician (d. 1957)
- 1899 – Alice de Janzé, American-Kenyan heiress (d. 1941)
- 1900 – Joe Falcon, American accordion player (d. 1965)
- 1901 – William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (d. 1990)
- 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
- 1903 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general (d. 1988)
- 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
- 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
- 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
- 1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
- 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
- 1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1942)
- 1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2014)
- 1916 – Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)
- 1916 – Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1983)
- 1918 – Arnold Stang, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Doris Singleton, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Tuli Kupferberg, American singer, poet, and author (The Fugs) (d. 2010)
- 1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish politician (d. 2007)
- 1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
- 1925 – Frank Latimore, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
- 1928 – Koko Taylor, American singer and actress (d. 2009)
- 1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer-songwriter
- 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist
- 1932 – Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish BBC executive and Royal Opera House director
- 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 1973)
- 1933 – Joe Benton, English politician
- 1933 – Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (d. 2006)
- 1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (Jimmy & Johnny) (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress and singer
- 1934 – Janet Munro, English actress and singer (d. 1972)
- 1935 – David Hannay, British diplomat
- 1935 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (d. 1991)
- 1935 – Heather Sears, English actress (d. 1994)
- 1936 – Emmett Chapman, American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick
- 1937 – Alice Mahon, English politician
- 1937 – Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (d. 2003)
- 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Drifters)
- 1939 – Elbridge Bryant, American singer and dancer (The Temptations) (d. 1975)
- 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
- 1939 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-English actor
- 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician, Minister President of Bavaria
- 1942 – Marshall Bell, American actor
- 1942 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1942 – Tim Maia, Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 1998)
- 1942 – Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
- 1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman
- 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player (Steppenwolf, The Mynah Birds, The Sparrows, Blue Cheer, and World Classic Rockers)
- 1943 – Win Percy, English race car driver
- 1943 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Matthew Cowles, American actor and playwright (d. 2014)
- 1944 – Marcia Muller, American author
- 1945 – Marielle Goitschel, French skier
- 1945 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2011)
- 1945 – Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army
- 1946 – Tom Bower, English writer
- 1946 – Peter Egan, English actor
- 1946 – Jeffrey Jones, American actor
- 1946 – Helen Shapiro, English singer and actress
- 1947 – Bob Carr, Australian politician, 37th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Australia
- 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1948 – Panagiotis Adraktas, Greek politician
- 1949 – Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1950 – Laurie Lewis, American singer and fiddler
- 1950 – John Sayles, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1950 – Paul Burgess, English rock drummer (10cc, Jethro Tull, Camel, Magna Carta, and The Icicle Works)
- 1951 – Norton Buffalo, American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, producer, and actor (Steve Miller Band) (d. 2009)
- 1952 – Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball player and coach
- 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model, actress, and singer (d. 2012)
- 1952 – Andy Ward, English drummer (Camel)
- 1953 – Otmar Hasler, Liechtensteiner politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
- 1954 – Steve Largent, American football player and politician
- 1954 – George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter (Dokken, Lynch Mob, Souls of We, and Tooth and Nail)
- 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
- 1955 – Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (d. 1998)
- 1957 – C. J. Chenier, American singer-songwriter and accordion player
- 1957 – Andrus Rõuk, Estonian painter and poet
- 1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
- 1959 – Steve Hytner, American actor
- 1959 – Dantes Tsitsi, Nauruan politician
- 1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer and manager
- 1960 – Kamlesh Patel, British politician
- 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American singer-songwriter
- 1960 – Socrates B. Villegas, Filipino archbishop
- 1961 – Helen Grant, English politician
- 1961 – Gregory Jbara, American actor
- 1961 – Quentin Kawānanakoa, American politician
- 1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – Dietmar Schacht, German footballer and manager
- 1962 – Chuck Taylor, American journalist
- 1963 – Steve Blackman, American wrestler
- 1963 – Eric Comas, French racing car driver
- 1963 – Greg Weisman, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1964 – Laura Cerón, Mexican-American actress
- 1964 – Gregor Fisken, Scottish race car driver
- 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter
- 1964 – Paul Jewell, English footballer and manager
- 1964 – Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian politician (d. 2012)
- 1965 – Jens Melzig, German footballer
- 1965 – Christopher Evan Welch, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1966 – Scott Adams, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1966 – María Canals Barrera, American actress and singer
- 1966 – Ginger Fish, American drummer
- 1966 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966 – Leilani Sarelle, American actress
- 1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress and producer
- 1967 – Moon Zappa, American actress and singer
- 1968 – Francois Botha, South African boxer and mixed martial artist
- 1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
- 1968 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (d. 1990)
- 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer
- 1969 – Manuel Benitez, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1969 – Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
- 1969 – Ben Greenman, American author
- 1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1969 – Sascha Maassen, German race car driver
- 1969 – Masafumi Ōura, Japanese volleyball player and coach (d. 2013)
- 1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
- 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
- 1970 – Mike DeJean, American baseball player
- 1970 – Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver
- 1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lonely Astronauts, Fistful of Mercy, and RNDM)
- 1971 – A. J. Croce, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1971 – George Eustice, English politician
- 1971 – Alan Wright, English footballer and manager
- 1972 – John Light, English actor
- 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American dancer, model, and actress
- 1973 – Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish DJ and producer
- 1973 – Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
- 1974 – Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager
- 1974 – Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
- 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
- 1974 – John Light, English actor
- 1974 – Shane Webcke, Australian rugby player and coach
- 1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager
- 1975 – Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
- 1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer
- 1976 – Ali Asel, Kuwaiti footballer
- 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician
- 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
- 1977 – Se-Ri Pak, South Korean golfer
- 1978 – Bushido, German rapper and producer
- 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman
- 1979 – Taki Tsan, Greek music producer and rapper
- 1980 – Marlon Parmer, American basketball player
- 1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
- 1981 – Melissa Claire Egan, American actress
- 1981 – Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress
- 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1981 – Greg Anderson, American pianist and composer
- 1981 – Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian bass player (CSS)
- 1982 – Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
- 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian target shooter
- 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director
- 1982 – Nolwenn Leroy, French singer-songwriter
- 1982 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
- 1982 – Dustin Penner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Aivar Rehemaa, Estonian skier
- 1982 – Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
- 1982 – St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Polyphonic Spree)
- 1983 – Brooke Banner, American Pornstar
- 1983 – Stefan Moore, English footballer
- 1983 – John Schwalger, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984 – Luke Pomersbach, Australian cricketer
- 1984 – Naim Terbunja, Swedish amateur boxer
- 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
- 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
- 1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
- 1985 – Shindong, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Super Junior)
- 1985 – Alina Ibragimova, Russian-English violinist
- 1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
- 1986 – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (d. 2013)
- 1987 – Pierre Becken, German footballer
- 1987 – Gary Deegan, Irish footballer
- 1987 – Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1987 – Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
- 1987 – Viktoria Leks, Estonian high jumper
- 1988 – Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
- 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer
- 1990 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
- 1990 – Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player
- 1992 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1992 – Adam Thompson, English-Irish footballer
- 1992 – Koko Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
- 1993 – Jodie Williams, English sprinter
- 2000 – Frankie Jonas, American actor
Despatches
- 48 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
- 935 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)
- 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
- 1213 – Gertrude of Merania (b. 1185)
- 1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia (b. 1394)
- 1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish and scholar (b. 1506)
- 1596 – Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (b. 1540)
- 1618 – Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
- 1687 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian theologian (b. 1623)
- 1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French scientist (b. 1618)
- 1702 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, French-English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1640)
- 1742 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
- 1829 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (b. 1771)
- 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
- 1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
- 1891 – Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
- 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
- 1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
- 1915 – Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
- 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
- 1918 – Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
- 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)
- 1938 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861)
- 1943 – Sam Ruben, American chemist (b. 1913)
- 1949 – Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (b. 1881)
- 1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
- 1956 – William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (b. 1881)
- 1957 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and composer (b. 1888)
- 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
- 1962 – Roger Nimier, French author (b. 1925)
- 1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1888)
- 1966 – André Breton, French author and poet (b. 1896)
- 1970 – John Dos Passos, American author (b. 1896)
- 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
- 1972 – Rory Storm, English singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- 1978 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
- 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
- 1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
- 1982 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
- 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
- 1990 – Larry O'Brien, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (b. 1917)
- 1991 – Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (Miles Davis Quintet) (b. 1926)
- 1993 – Peter De Vries, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
- 1993 – Alexander A. Drabik, American sergeant (b. 1910)
- 1994 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (Propeller and Ruja) (b. 1953)
- 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1946)
- 1994 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (b. 1915)
- 1999 – Escott Reid, Canadian diplomat, academic, and author (b. 1905)
- 2000 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
- 2001 – Irene von Meyendorff, German-English actress (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Patsy Mink, American politician (b. 1927)
- 2002 – Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (b. 1907)
- 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Elia Kazan, Turkish-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
- 2003 – George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)
- 2004 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
- 2004 – Scott Muni, American radio host (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1921)
- 2007 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (b. 1913)
- 2009 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian politician, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
- 2010 – Kurt Albert, German mountaineer and photographer (b. 1954)
- 2010 – Arthur Penn, American film director and producer (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Avraham Adan, Israeli general (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian politician (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Larry Cunningham, Irish singer (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Chris Economaki, American sportscaster (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Joe Habie, Guatemalan businessman (b. 1956)
- 2012 – Abdul Ghani Minhat, Malaysian footballer and manager (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Ahmed Ramzy, Egyptian actor (b. 1930)
- 2012 – M. S. Shinde, Indian film editor (b. 1929)
- 2013 – James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Anatoli Parov, Russian footballer (b. 1956)
- 2013 – Walter Schmidinger, Austrian actor (b. 1933)
- 2013 – George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (Cathedral Quartet) (b. 1945)
2014
- Christian Feast Day:
- Czech Statehood Day (Czech Republic)
- National Day of Awareness and Unity against Child Pornography (Philippines)
- Teachers' Day (Republic of China and Chinese-Filipino schools in the Philippines), ceremonies dedicated to Confucius are also observed.
- World Heart Day (World Heart Federation)
- World Rabies Day (International)
- Ask a Stupid Question Day (United States)
- Freedom from Hunger Day (United States)
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===Islam needs a credibility makeover
Piers Akerman – Saturday, September 27, 2014 (11:18pm)
FOR a great world religion, some of whose many followers are engaged in savage war with each other while others wish to take on the world, Islam needs a credibility makeover.
Australia has thus far been extremely fortunate to have security agencies that have thwarted plots to target the 2000 Olympics, major sites including the Opera House and the MCG, and more recently, individuals.
The notorious sheik had just returned from Lebanon, where the Arab press reported he had visited Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, then head of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah, and quoted him saying: “I blessed Hezbollah for liberating the prisoners and the bones of the shahids (suicide bombers) and I praised it and its sacrifice. Hezbollah has become a model for all the mujahideen in the world. Most of the Australian people do not support the policy of the Australian government, which has placed Hezbollah on the terror list out of submission to the US, and the Australian Prime Minister will pay the price for this in the next elections ...”
When challenged, his first response was to claim that he hadn’t spoken to the Arabic media and that he’d never issued a call to arms against any nation but he admitted to sentiments that “support the resistance”, though he said he condemned the targeting of civilian targets.
In a subsequent interview in Arabic with SBS radio, translated for me by Trad, the mufti did say he didn’t regard members of Hezbollah as terrorists.
Hezbollah was listed as a terrorist organisation by the Australian government less than a year later.
Subsequently, Al-Hilaly achieved increased notoriety with his comparison of women to raw meat and the revelation that he had been caught vandalising his own mosque.
Thus was the Mufti, hitherto the go-to spokesman for Islam in Australia, gradually brought down.
Australia now has the new Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammad.
He spoke earnestly for the cameras on Wednesday just after the attempted murder of two policemen and his translator said he had declared the calls for a jihad against Australians had no religious authority.
But when Islamic religious authorities are so obviously in bloody disagreement with each other, who do we believe?
Last week a young Muslim woman, who doesn’t wear any head cover and who had written a book about burqas and niqabs, told an ABC audience that she was an Alawite, an Islamic sect that permits women greater public roles than almost any other sect. Though she was sympathetic to those who did cover up, she admitted she would be targeted in certain Australian suburbs if she, as a Muslim, didn’t wear at least a scarf.
This may seem a petty issue when security agencies believe major crimes are being contemplated but the arguments about the burqa and chador and niqab are literally in our faces.
Those women who publicly argue most fiercely for the burqa have so far been either Muslim converts or women who don’t cover up. If there has been a woman in a burqa arguing for the burqa she appeared on an SBS channel I wasn’t watching.
In July, the European court of human rights upheld the right of France to ban the burqa to preserve the notion of “living together”.
France’s law, introduced in 2010, also covers balaclavas and hoods but has been seen as targeting Muslim women.
According to a report in The Guardian on July 1, Isabelle Niedlispacher, representing the Belgian government, which introduced a similar ban in 2011, declared the burqa and niqab “incompatible” with the rule of law.
Aside from security and equality, she added: “It’s about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing.”
The French and Belgian laws were aimed at “helping everyone to integrate”.
If Muslims complain about a sense of alienation, dumping the alienating burqa and niqab would go a long way to making them feel more at home here.
Australia has thus far been extremely fortunate to have security agencies that have thwarted plots to target the 2000 Olympics, major sites including the Opera House and the MCG, and more recently, individuals.
The notorious sheik had just returned from Lebanon, where the Arab press reported he had visited Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, then head of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah, and quoted him saying: “I blessed Hezbollah for liberating the prisoners and the bones of the shahids (suicide bombers) and I praised it and its sacrifice. Hezbollah has become a model for all the mujahideen in the world. Most of the Australian people do not support the policy of the Australian government, which has placed Hezbollah on the terror list out of submission to the US, and the Australian Prime Minister will pay the price for this in the next elections ...”
When challenged, his first response was to claim that he hadn’t spoken to the Arabic media and that he’d never issued a call to arms against any nation but he admitted to sentiments that “support the resistance”, though he said he condemned the targeting of civilian targets.
In a subsequent interview in Arabic with SBS radio, translated for me by Trad, the mufti did say he didn’t regard members of Hezbollah as terrorists.
Hezbollah was listed as a terrorist organisation by the Australian government less than a year later.
Subsequently, Al-Hilaly achieved increased notoriety with his comparison of women to raw meat and the revelation that he had been caught vandalising his own mosque.
Thus was the Mufti, hitherto the go-to spokesman for Islam in Australia, gradually brought down.
Australia now has the new Grand Mufti Ibrahim Abu Mohammad.
He spoke earnestly for the cameras on Wednesday just after the attempted murder of two policemen and his translator said he had declared the calls for a jihad against Australians had no religious authority.
But when Islamic religious authorities are so obviously in bloody disagreement with each other, who do we believe?
Last week a young Muslim woman, who doesn’t wear any head cover and who had written a book about burqas and niqabs, told an ABC audience that she was an Alawite, an Islamic sect that permits women greater public roles than almost any other sect. Though she was sympathetic to those who did cover up, she admitted she would be targeted in certain Australian suburbs if she, as a Muslim, didn’t wear at least a scarf.
This may seem a petty issue when security agencies believe major crimes are being contemplated but the arguments about the burqa and chador and niqab are literally in our faces.
Those women who publicly argue most fiercely for the burqa have so far been either Muslim converts or women who don’t cover up. If there has been a woman in a burqa arguing for the burqa she appeared on an SBS channel I wasn’t watching.
In July, the European court of human rights upheld the right of France to ban the burqa to preserve the notion of “living together”.
France’s law, introduced in 2010, also covers balaclavas and hoods but has been seen as targeting Muslim women.
According to a report in The Guardian on July 1, Isabelle Niedlispacher, representing the Belgian government, which introduced a similar ban in 2011, declared the burqa and niqab “incompatible” with the rule of law.
Aside from security and equality, she added: “It’s about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing.”
The French and Belgian laws were aimed at “helping everyone to integrate”.
If Muslims complain about a sense of alienation, dumping the alienating burqa and niqab would go a long way to making them feel more at home here.
Continue reading 'Islam needs a credibility makeover'Don’t cancel the Australian passports of aspiring Islamic radicals — just let them go
Miranda Devine – Saturday, September 27, 2014 (11:13pm)
HOW smart is it to cancel the passports of wannabe jihadists and keep them in Australia like angry little pressure cookers?
Denied the opportunity of “adventure jihad” in Syria and Iraq, aspiring radicals may just turn their attention to homegrown terrorism, as we saw on Tuesday night in Melbourne.
Denied the opportunity of “adventure jihad” in Syria and Iraq, aspiring radicals may just turn their attention to homegrown terrorism, as we saw on Tuesday night in Melbourne.
Continue reading 'Don’t cancel the Australian passports of aspiring Islamic radicals — just let them go'PRAISE CHEESES
Tim Blair – Sunday, September 28, 2014 (12:11pm)
North Korean fatboy dictator Kim Jong-un is the rumoured victim of a dairy disaster.
BEST ARGUMENT EVER
Tim Blair – Sunday, September 28, 2014 (2:45am)
Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’ah Association of Australia spokesman Mustafa Abu Yusuf:
“The beheadings, it’s an abhorrent act, don’t misunderstand me. But what about the British in Malaya in the 1950s?”
I wish I’d thought of that when I lost my licence. “The speeding, it’s an abhorrent act, don’t misunderstand me, officer,” I might have said. “But what about the British in Malaya in the 1950s?”
All charges instantly dropped!
Readers are invited to use Mustafa’s brilliant Malaya gambit as an excuse for their own choice of current and historic atrocities.
The Bolt Report today, September 28
Andrew Bolt September 28 2014 (6:18am)
On The Bolt Report on Channel 10 today at 10am and 4pm.
Editorial: This is no time for the Left to remind Muslim radicals why they should hate Australia
My guest: Labor’s Anthony Albanese.
The panel: Australian columnist Judith Sloan and former Gillard Minister Craig Emerson.
NewsWatch: Gerard Henderson on the ABC programs promoting Muslim radicals and sneering at anti-terrorism raids.
And lots more.. like, should the former Governor-General really be launching Julia Gillard’s memoirs and fawning over her?
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
I should point out this was taken after the show. Debate is always healthy:
From my interview with Anthony Albanese, Labor’s spokesman for infrastructure, transport and cities, on his policy for managing population growth:
Continue reading 'The Bolt Report today, September 28'
===Editorial: This is no time for the Left to remind Muslim radicals why they should hate Australia
My guest: Labor’s Anthony Albanese.
The panel: Australian columnist Judith Sloan and former Gillard Minister Craig Emerson.
NewsWatch: Gerard Henderson on the ABC programs promoting Muslim radicals and sneering at anti-terrorism raids.
And lots more.. like, should the former Governor-General really be launching Julia Gillard’s memoirs and fawning over her?
The videos of the shows appear here.
UPDATE
I should point out this was taken after the show. Debate is always healthy:
UPDATE
From my interview with Anthony Albanese, Labor’s spokesman for infrastructure, transport and cities, on his policy for managing population growth:
ANDREW BOLT: But listen, at least you have delivered a policy, which is terrific. Bill Shorten, though, has adopted the small target strategy, and we haven’t actually seen many policies. Should Labor be giving more policies like you’ve just delivered?Full interview:
ANTHONY ALBANESE: Well, look, we’re just one year into a three-year term, and Bill was very supportive of my release of this policy. I think you’ll see, progressively, the alternative options rolled out, over the next couple of years.
ANDREW BOLT: Is that what you want to see?
ANTHONY ALBANESE: Absolutely.
ANDREW BOLT: No, not just a couple of years, as in now. Just - you see, I think, Anthony, what Labor’s done is - under Bill has been a block, block, block, block, block, define by no, being negative. You’ve now come out being positive. Is it time for that switch?
ANTHONY ALBANESE: Well, I think you will see it. And an effective opposition has to hold the government to account, but it also has to be in the business of ideas. And one of my criticisms of the current government was that they had a plan to get into government, they didn’t have a plan to govern. We need to be better than that, and we need to start preparing policies, getting out there, getting engaged in ideas....
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ANDREW BOLT: And just quickly before we go, are you in the leadership hunt? I was - I ask because you did run before. But I was struck by this incident in Question Time, where Bill Shorten, your leader, gets up to ask a question, and you virtually shoulder him out instead.
BRONWYN BISHOP, SPEAKER: Well, I was going to give the call to the Leader of the Opposition, but he’s just been pushed out of the way. The member for Grayndler?ANDREW BOLT: Will you be pushing Bill Shorten out of the way later?
ANTHONY ALBANESE: I was focused very much on Bronwyn Bishop, and how could you not be?
Continue reading 'The Bolt Report today, September 28'Alerting more people to care less
Andrew Bolt September 28 2014 (5:53am)
Nicely put:
===The United Nations has an awkward habit of using celebrities to give voice to its key concerns, at once amplifying its messages and somehow diminishing their significance.I have a little something for DiCaprio on today’s The Bolt Report.
At this week’s General Assembly the key concern was global warming and the celebrity mouthpiece was actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
No hiding: in the end we must decide if this culture is worth defending
Andrew Bolt September 28 2014 (5:46am)
Kevin Donnelly, senior research fellow at the Australian Catholic University:
===At its extreme, multiculturalism championed the view that all cultures are equal and that embracing tolerance and respect meant that it was impossible to discriminate and argue that some beliefs or practices are un-Australian…(Thanks to reader Kat.)
Cultural relativism is inherently contradictory – if it is impossible to argue that any one particular view of culture is preferable or superior, then on what basis can advocates of cultural relativism argue that their version should prevail?
Will egos stop the rise of Morrison?
Andrew Bolt September 28 2014 (5:40am)
Sam Maiden on the resistible rise of Scott Morrison:
===(P)redictions Defence Minister David Johnston will prove collateral damage in a future cabinet reshuffle to elevate new talent neglect three important equations.(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
First, the Prime Minister is hardly about to dump his defence minister in the middle of a war in Iraq.
Second, Tony Abbott’s clear preference is to shrink his 18-strong cabinet possibly down to 16, not elevate new ministers.
Third, Johnston’s critics would need to go through his chief protector Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to dump him.
It’s true that a consensus has emerged in recent weeks that the Prime Minister Office wants to create a new streamlined counter terrorism role, likely to be headed by Scott Morrison.
In practical terms, it would not involve David Johnston or Julie Bishop losing responsibilities however. The likely targets of the changes would be a loss of responsibilities for Attorney-General George Brandis and Justice Minister Michael Keenan…
Johnston, Brandis and Justice Minister Micheal Keenan are not wildly enthusiastic about the idea of handing responsibility for national security to Morrison.
Charming boy taught to praise jihadists
Andrew Bolt September 28 2014 (5:17am)
His father is a fan of the extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir:
All of nine years old, he stands at the front of a gathering in Sydney reciting passages from the Koran and lecturing followers on the importance of sacrifice in Islam.
The little boy, who according to his father’s social media profile enjoys trips to McDonald’s and dinosaur exhibitions when he’s not giving sermons, heaps praise on “martyrs” and “mujahideen” engaged in bloody jihads throughout the Middle East…
“The mujaheens in Syria and Afghanistan and in Palestine and all around the Muslim lands who know that only Islam can bring mercy to mankind,” he preaches in an Australian accent.
“Let us take this opportunity, in this month (Ramadan) … by sacrificing everything for the sake of Allah.”
Fears for commandos’ families back home
Andrew Bolt September 28 2014 (5:09am)
The battlefield of wars in the Middle East now stretch to our suburbs:
===It is understood mysterious strangers have visited Defence Department homes in suburbs near the military barracks in Holsworthy and nearby Steele Barracks in Moorebank with vague or implausible excuses.
Soldiers believe radical Islamic splinter groups have been trying to identify potential targets with a high propaganda value. The word “stalking” has been used to describe it, one source said…
In the normal course of events, families safe at home worry about loved ones serving overseas....
The truth is, Australian soldiers in the Middle East have almost as much reason to worry about the safety of their families as the families have to worry about them after IS posted an online fatwa calling on followers to target not just Australian troops but also citizens.
Army sources said the anti-terrorist raids came after Middle Eastern men visited military homes using implausible excuses. Military sources working with police have linked some of them to violent groups involved in the Cronulla riots in 2005.
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IT”S NOT TOO LATE.John 11: 21 - 22.
Turn to your neighbor and repeat these words after me say neighbor it’s not too late. God encourage our heart that it is not too late. A lot of times the enemy tries to convenience us that we missed our blessing. The devil will play with your mind. He will say if we would have done this at this time I will be further ahead and I would have my blessing a long time ago. So we will feel defeated due to the fact that we should have done that 3years ago. Well while that might be true in some sense, it’s not too late. God has a time for all of our lives.
God's time is not your time. I use to say God I want you to come right now quick fast and in a hurry. And most of us really want him to come right now. But isn’t it something when God delays his coming. He delays it for a reason. Some of us can not handle a right now blessing. So He makes us wait. In our waiting He works out our patience. In our waiting He has to bring our attitude under control. Some of us have a bad attitude. We are mean and clean. It bothers me when I see saints that are claiming to know God with a bad attitude, it bothers me. Even with our attitude we want God to come quick fast and in a hurry. Saints are to be so sweet until we are dripping syrup. When I see you I should not have to wonder if you are saved and sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost. I should see the attributes of the spirit. I should see love, peace, joy, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperest and faith.Be patient and wait for Him.He can not fail.God bless you.
Turn to your neighbor and repeat these words after me say neighbor it’s not too late. God encourage our heart that it is not too late. A lot of times the enemy tries to convenience us that we missed our blessing. The devil will play with your mind. He will say if we would have done this at this time I will be further ahead and I would have my blessing a long time ago. So we will feel defeated due to the fact that we should have done that 3years ago. Well while that might be true in some sense, it’s not too late. God has a time for all of our lives.
God's time is not your time. I use to say God I want you to come right now quick fast and in a hurry. And most of us really want him to come right now. But isn’t it something when God delays his coming. He delays it for a reason. Some of us can not handle a right now blessing. So He makes us wait. In our waiting He works out our patience. In our waiting He has to bring our attitude under control. Some of us have a bad attitude. We are mean and clean. It bothers me when I see saints that are claiming to know God with a bad attitude, it bothers me. Even with our attitude we want God to come quick fast and in a hurry. Saints are to be so sweet until we are dripping syrup. When I see you I should not have to wonder if you are saved and sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost. I should see the attributes of the spirit. I should see love, peace, joy, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperest and faith.Be patient and wait for Him.He can not fail.God bless you.
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Father God, I come to You today giving You thanks and praise for Your faithfulness in my life. I choose to receive Your Word which is life and strength to my soul. I choose to serve You with my whole heart all the days of my life. Help me to love others the way You love me. Give me opportunities to be a blessing everywhere I go. Help me to keep my heart focused on You. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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If you believe, you will receive.(Matthew 21:22, NIV)
Christianity is about believing.All through the Bible, there are so many promises of what God has already done for us. It says in Ephesians that “God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing.” It says in Colossians that “God has made us worthy.” There is mercy for any mistake we will ever make. It’s already been taken care of. He paid the ultimate price through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son, Jesus. He’s done His part. Now it’s up to us to do our part. We have to start believing so that we can receive.
In the natural, when someone gives you a gift, what’s the first thing you usually say? “Thank you.” When you give thanks, it’s a sign that you are receiving the gift. Today, start receiving what God has given you by saying, “Father, thank You for Your mercy. Thank You for supplying all of my needs. Thank You for Your goodness in my life.”
As you learn to give Him thanks, you are learning to receive from Him. Open your heart by faith today and thank Him for all the blessings He has prepared for you.God bless you.
Christianity is about believing.All through the Bible, there are so many promises of what God has already done for us. It says in Ephesians that “God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing.” It says in Colossians that “God has made us worthy.” There is mercy for any mistake we will ever make. It’s already been taken care of. He paid the ultimate price through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son, Jesus. He’s done His part. Now it’s up to us to do our part. We have to start believing so that we can receive.
In the natural, when someone gives you a gift, what’s the first thing you usually say? “Thank you.” When you give thanks, it’s a sign that you are receiving the gift. Today, start receiving what God has given you by saying, “Father, thank You for Your mercy. Thank You for supplying all of my needs. Thank You for Your goodness in my life.”
As you learn to give Him thanks, you are learning to receive from Him. Open your heart by faith today and thank Him for all the blessings He has prepared for you.God bless you.
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Father God, I humbly come to You today. I choose to let go of the past. I choose to release those who have hurt me so I can embrace the best that you have for me. Help me to forgive, help me to love, and help me to stay on the good path You have for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead
(Philippians 3:13, NIV).
Oftentimes, when we see someone who has hurt us, that pain and offense is stirred up, and we start thinking about what happened again. But in that moment, you have a choice to make. One of the best things you can do, instead of rehearsing the hurt, is to pray for that person and speak blessing over them.
Remember that forgiveness is for you. Letting go of bitterness is for you. Don’t let the past hold you back from what God has in store for your future any longer. Get past the past by choosing right thoughts because God has victory and blessing in store for your future.God bless you.
(Philippians 3:13, NIV).
Oftentimes, when we see someone who has hurt us, that pain and offense is stirred up, and we start thinking about what happened again. But in that moment, you have a choice to make. One of the best things you can do, instead of rehearsing the hurt, is to pray for that person and speak blessing over them.
Remember that forgiveness is for you. Letting go of bitterness is for you. Don’t let the past hold you back from what God has in store for your future any longer. Get past the past by choosing right thoughts because God has victory and blessing in store for your future.God bless you.
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Father, today I choose to release every care and concern into Your loving hands. I refuse to worry and choose to trust.Do not pass me by. Fill me with Your peace. Show me Your ways as I surrender every area of my heart and life to You in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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How do you turn things over to God? Start by making the choice and declaring your resolve. Simply say, “Father, I choose to let You be God of this situation. I take my hands off. I trust You.” Then, choose to worship Him. Worship is one of the best ways to set your heart and mind in the right place. You can’t worry and worship at the same time. Worship is a sign that you are trusting God; worry is a sign that you are trying to control things.Let God be God.The Scripture says,“Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him.”(Psalm 37:7, NKJV)
Today, take the pressure off yourself and turn things over to God. Give Him control and let Him take your setbacks and turn them into comebacks. Remember, the God who holds the universe holds you in the palm of His hand. Trust Him and let God be God in every area of your life.God bless you.
Today, take the pressure off yourself and turn things over to God. Give Him control and let Him take your setbacks and turn them into comebacks. Remember, the God who holds the universe holds you in the palm of His hand. Trust Him and let God be God in every area of your life.God bless you.
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Pass me not, O gentle Savior,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
[Chorus:]
(I'm calling)
Savior, Savior,
(Why don't you)
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Let me at Thy throne of mercy
Find a sweet relief,
Kneeling there in deep contrition;
Help my unbelief.
[Chorus]
Trusting only in Thy merit,
Would I seek Thy face;
Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
Save me by Thy grace.
[Chorus]
Thou the Spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Whom in heav'n but Thee?
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
[Chorus:]
(I'm calling)
Savior, Savior,
(Why don't you)
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
Let me at Thy throne of mercy
Find a sweet relief,
Kneeling there in deep contrition;
Help my unbelief.
[Chorus]
Trusting only in Thy merit,
Would I seek Thy face;
Heal my wounded, broken spirit,
Save me by Thy grace.
[Chorus]
Thou the Spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
Whom have I on earth beside Thee?
Whom in heav'n but Thee?
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LEARN FROM LIFE’S TESTS. Throughout life God puts people to test to help them grow in faith and obedience to His will. The Lord put Abraham to test in order to determine how mature was his faith and obedience. In order for God to use us He first requires that we completely yield our mind, emotions and will to Him. For this reason God said, “To obey is better than sacrifice.” Once the Lord knew that Abraham would obey Him in the most extreme ways, He knew that the man of God could use him as a model for many others to follow in the faith. God only multiplies those people who are faithful in little things before He uses them to accomplish great things for His kingdom’s purposes. Abraham’s willingness to offer Isaac as a sacrifice is a foreshadowing of how God offered Christ as a supreme sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. No wonder Jesus said, “Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for His friends.” (John 15:13) God bless u.
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There are times when God’s commands may not make human sense to our way of thinking, but we should trust and obey His will in all situations. Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience that God want from us, delayed obedience is disobedience. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from Grace.
After the Lord had miraculously given Abraham a son named Isaac, the Lord tested Abraham and said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.” (Gen. 22:1,2)
Because Abraham had committed himself by covenant to obey the Lord and had consecrated Isaac to the God by circumcision, he did as he was instructed. When we trust and obey the Lord we can be sure that God will bless us. Moses wrote, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our people forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” (Deut. 29:29) Obedient to the Word is the key to success.God bless you.
After the Lord had miraculously given Abraham a son named Isaac, the Lord tested Abraham and said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.” (Gen. 22:1,2)
Because Abraham had committed himself by covenant to obey the Lord and had consecrated Isaac to the God by circumcision, he did as he was instructed. When we trust and obey the Lord we can be sure that God will bless us. Moses wrote, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our people forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” (Deut. 29:29) Obedient to the Word is the key to success.God bless you.
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WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF ARABIA, EURABIA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD.
THERE ARE MANY MUSLIMS WHO WILL NEVER APPPRECIATE " NATIONAL MUSLIM APPRECIATION MONTH " BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN KILLED BY MUSLIMS.
AS FOR THE REST OF US INFIDELS AND KAFIRS WE APPRECIATE NOT BEING KILLED BY MUSLIMS.
THE APOSTATE MUSLIM POTUS CALIPHATE BARRY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT SHARIA HAS NOT CONDEMNED HIM TO THE SAME FATE AS OTHER APOSTATES THEREFORE HE TOO WOULD APPRECIATE THE LENIENCY EXTENDED TO HIM BY THOSE WHO ARE COMMANDED TO KILL APOSTATE MUSLIMS.
http://nationalreport.net/obama-declares-november-national-muslim-appreciation-month/
Washington, DC — President Barack Obama held a press conference to announce that he is declaring the month of November ‘National Muslim Appreciation Month’.
“The Muslim community deserves our full acceptance and respect,” Obama told reporters. “We have killed millions of Muslims overseas since the September 11th attacks. They are not all bad. In fact most of them are good. So from now on, November will be a month to celebrate the Muslim community, the Sunnah and the Quran.”
Khaled Matei who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood‘s Freedom and Justice Party told CNN he is pleased with Obama and his actions. “I spoke with President Obama by telephone yesterday and personally thanked him for what he is doing for the Muslim community,” Matei said. “This is definitely a step in the right direction I explained to him. Praise Allah.”
Obama informed reporters about his future plans for helping Muslims around the world. “I will be working with Congress in making it easier for Muslims to earn a Green Card and achieve American citizenship,” Obama said. “Currently as it stands, obtaining a Visa or Green Card for a Muslim is very difficult. There are too many background checks in place and I plan to fix that.” Obama continued, “Muslims are hardworking people who are just looking to live the American Dream like the rest of us. Mr. Matei of the Muslim Brotherhood assured me they want to come to this country to help us, not harm us.”
Obama finished the press conference by explaining to reporters how happy he is with America. “Folks, there is no way we could have had a ‘National Muslim Appreciation Month’ 20 years ago. That really says a lot about the growth and progress of this great country.”
‘National Muslim Appreciation Month’ begins November 1st and will end at midnight on November 30th. For any questions or comments please contact the 24-hour National Muslim Appreciation Hotline at (785) 273-0325.
- See more at: http://nationalreport.net/obama-declares-november-national-muslim-appreciation-month/#sthash.JT50joqc.dpuf
But what he says is factually wrong. The US has never had a policy of killing Muslims. Further, the US army does not kill many .. and when she does she is accountable. The accusation that the US has killed millions of Muslims is rhetoric. In fact, the US has prevented the deaths of many Muslims threatened by Islamic terrorists. What Obama says is offensive, and not something I can support - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Standing in a grocery story line just now, I saw PEOPLE magazine's interview of Kay and me. I pray it helps others who struggle with depression, mental illness, or suicide, but when I saw the photos of Matthew, I broke down and sobbed
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This weekend I am really eager to share a message called "HOW TO BE HAPPY NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS" based on Philippians 1:12-30. It's Part 2 of my series "The Habits of Happiness" as we go verse-by-verse through Philippians. Join us at one of our 8 campuses or online athttp://www.saddleback.com/
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So many people are miserable because they think happiness come from self-gratification. It actually comes from self-sacrifice.
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Dumped? You need to forget about the one who forgot about you. Refocus on God. "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted." Psalm 34:18
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Depression teaches us that we cannot always trust our emotions or our thoughts. In darkness, we learn that only God can always be trusted.
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Scientists stumble on a form of matter that is like a light sabre.
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Devil at the Crossroads
Sometimes you are the chaser, and other times you are chased...
This was one of those other times...
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LUMEN GENTIUM
SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS
POPE PAUL VI
ON NOVEMBER 21, 1964
THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH
1. Christ is the Light of nations. Because this is so, this Sacred Synod gathered together in the Holy Spirit eagerly desires, by proclaiming the Gospel to every creature,(1) to bring the light of Christ to all men, a light brightly visible on the countenance of the Church. Since the Church is in Christ like a sacrament or as a sign and instrument both of a very closely knit union with God and of the unity of the whole human race, it desires now to unfold more fully to the faithful of the Church and to the whole world its own inner nature and universal mission. This it intends to do following faithfully the teaching of previous councils. The present-day conditions of the world add greater urgency to this work of the Church so that all men, joined more closely today by various social, technical and cultural ties, might also attain fuller unity in Christ.
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IMMIGRATION Minister Scott Morrison has finally responded to questions over an asylum seeker boat which sank off the coast of Indonesia.
Mr Morrison said Australian authorities were initially in charge of the search for the asylum seeker vessel after receiving a phone call about the incident yesterday morning.
Initial reports placed the vessel 25 nautical miles off the Indonesian coast, inside the Indonesian search and rescue region, but a Border Protection Command aircraft and a merchant vessel responding to an all ships broadcast were unable to find it.
The search and rescue operation is now being handled by Indonesian authorities, Mr Morrison said.
"Australian Government officials in Jakarta are seeking additional information from their Indonesian counterparts, including seeking to confirm where the vessel foundered. It is believed to have gone down in Indonesian territory."
He said Australian authorities would continue to provide whatever help was required by the Indonesian government but could not say what assistance was currently being offered.
Initial reports placed the vessel 25 nautical miles off the Indonesian coast, inside the Indonesian search and rescue region, but a Border Protection Command aircraft and a merchant vessel responding to an all ships broadcast were unable to find it.
The search and rescue operation is now being handled by Indonesian authorities, Mr Morrison said.
"Australian Government officials in Jakarta are seeking additional information from their Indonesian counterparts, including seeking to confirm where the vessel foundered. It is believed to have gone down in Indonesian territory."
He said Australian authorities would continue to provide whatever help was required by the Indonesian government but could not say what assistance was currently being offered.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Tony Abbott ignored reporters seeking information on up to 90 deaths after an asylum boat sank off the coast of Indonesia.
Up to 70 asylum seekers are still missing, feared drowned, after their boat broke up and sank en route to Australia.
At least 22 people, mostly children, are confirmed drowned after the boat, which was believed to be carrying about 120 passengers, struck rough seas on Friday off the coast of Java.
One of the passengers, a Lebanese man, had reportedly lost his pregnant wife and eight children in the disaster.
Just 25 of those aboard had been rescued before efforts to locate survivors were postponed last night due to failing light. The remainder were still in the water.
The boat broke up after it began taking on water about 6pm AEST.
The tragedy unfolded as the government sought to return two rescued groups to Indonesia.
Prime Minister, Mr Tony Abbott, ignored reporters when asked about the tragedy shortly after he addressed a sporting function this morning.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/abbott-flees-reporters-after-asylum-seekers-drown-on-way-to-australia/story-fncynjr2-1226728862846#ixzz2gBCbImkG
ALP refuse to apologise for more deaths - ed===
Students at Universities and Colleges all over Canada have come together to denounce Zionism and the State of Israel at an event called Israel Apartheid Week or IAW.
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Swans supporting Hawks this year? - ed
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Sky Sculpture
While looking forward to future storm chases, I also look back at past ones. This storm was between Boise City and Guymon, Oklahoma back in 2010.
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I call this one "puffy little clouds"
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In an ideal world, I’d spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland. It’s a dream of a place. In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner. My chihuahua, Max, will come with me. He has to do 10 steps to every two of mine but he is super-sporty and can easily run up to 2,500m. I’ll pack us both jumpers, just in case we get lost, and I’ll spend the evening taking photographs of the Matterhorn. Every day that mountain looks different.
I’ve been skiing since I was four years old – the same length of time I’ve been playing violin – and my boyfriend, [Lionel Catelan, a wine dealer], is a big skier too. He’s very patriotic towards the ski resort of Val d’Isère in France, because that is where he is from, but we both fell in love with Zermatt when we came here on a ski trip in 2005. It wasn’t an altogether positive experience. We got robbed at the train station and found the people a little unfriendly, but the stunning natural scenery and the Matterhorn more than made up for this. After that we came back to Zermatt whenever we could, summer and winter.
I’d wanted to live in the mountains since I was 14 and in 2009, I finally thought “what the heck” and bought a place in Zermatt. I’d been renovating a house in London for about four years and it still wasn’t finished. It still isn’t. Every weekend I’d walk past it and feel depressed. Given I didn’t have children to think about, I figured I didn’t have anything keeping me there.
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Yasmine Lebbe
When He made the world, He made two ways to repair each thing: With harshness or with compassion. With a slap or with a caress. With darkness or with light.
“And G‑d looked at the light and saw that it was good.” Darkness and harsh words may be necessary. But He never called them good.
Even if you could correct another person with harsh words, the One Above receives no pleasure from it. When He sees his creatures heal one another with caring and with kindness, that is when He shines His smile upon us.
-From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of righteous memory.
Your Daily Dose of Wisdom from Chabad.org
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“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Matthew 6:33 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!"
Deuteronomy 33:29
Deuteronomy 33:29
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to his enemies, and reserve all the mourning for his own family? Shall his foes have mirth and joy, and shall his home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our inheritance, for we "have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the "people saved of the Lord," will joy in the God of our salvation. We are married unto Christ; and shall our great Bridegroom permit his spouse to linger in constant grief? Our hearts are knit unto him: we are his members, and though for awhile we may suffer as our Head once suffered, yet we are even now blessed with heavenly blessings in him. We have the earnest of our inheritance in the comforts of the Spirit, which are neither few nor small. Inheritors of joy forever, we have foretastes of our portion. There are streaks of the light of joy to herald our eternal sunrising. Our riches are beyond the sea; our city with firm foundations lies on the other side the river; gleams of glory from the spirit-world cheer our hearts, and urge us onward. Truly is it said of us, "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord?"
Evening
"My Beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him."
Song of Solomon 5:4
Song of Solomon 5:4
Knocking was not enough, for my heart was too full of sleep, too cold and ungrateful to arise and open the door, but the touch of his effectual grace has made my soul bestir itself. Oh, the longsuffering of my Beloved, to tarry when he found himself shut out, and me asleep upon the bed of sloth! Oh, the greatness of his patience, to knock and knock again, and to add his voice to his knockings, beseeching me to open to him! How could I have refused him! Base heart, blush and be confounded! But what greatest kindness of all is this, that he becomes his own porter and unbars the door himself. Thrice blessed is the hand which condescends to lift the latch and turn the key. Now I see that nothing but my Lord's own power can save such a naughty mass of wickedness as I am; ordinances fail, even the gospel has no effect upon me, till his hand is stretched out. Now, also, I perceive that his hand is good where all else is unsuccessful, he can open when nothing else will. Blessed be his name, I feel his gracious presence even now. Well may my bowels move for him, when I think of all that he has suffered for me, and of my ungenerous return. I have allowed my affections to wander. I have set up rivals. I have grieved him. Sweetest and dearest of all beloveds, I have treated thee as an unfaithful wife treats her husband. Oh, my cruel sins, my cruel self. What can I do? Tears are a poor show of my repentance, my whole heart boils with indignation at myself. Wretch that I am, to treat my Lord, my All in All, my exceeding great joy, as though he were a stranger. Jesus, thou forgivest freely, but this is not enough, prevent my unfaithfulness in the future. Kiss away these tears, and then purge my heart and bind it with sevenfold cords to thyself, never to wander more.
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Today's reading: Isaiah 3-4, Galatians 6 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 3-4
Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah
1 See now, the Lord,
the LORD Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
both supply and support:
all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
2 the hero and the warrior,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty and the man of rank,
the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.
the LORD Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
both supply and support:
all supplies of food and all supplies of water,
2 the hero and the warrior,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty and the man of rank,
the counselor, skilled craftsman and clever enchanter.
4 “I will make mere youths their officials;
children will rule over them.”
children will rule over them.”
5 People will oppress each other—
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honored....
man against man, neighbor against neighbor.
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honored....
Today's New Testament reading: Galatians 6
Doing Good to All
1 Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.3 If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. 4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, 5 for each one should carry their own load. 6 Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.
7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers....
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Abimelech
[Ăbĭm'elĕch] - father of the king.
[Ăbĭm'elĕch] - father of the king.
1. A king of Gerar in the time of Abraham (Gen. 20; 21:22-32; 26:1-16, 26-31).
The Man Who Rebuked Another for Lying
Abimelech would have taken Sarah, Abraham's wife, into his harem, but learning that she was the wife of another, returned her uninjured. Abraham appears here in a bad light. He deceived Abimelech, but when found out was justly rebuked by the God-restrained Abimelech. Certainly the righteous should rebuke the ungodly ( 1 Tim. 5:20), but how sad it is when the ungodly have just reason for rebuking the righteous. What a degradation it was for Abraham, then, to be rebuked by a heathen king!
Abraham sought to palliate his deception by claiming that Sarah was actually his half sister, daughter of the same father but not the same mother (Gen. 20:12, 16).
A lie if half a truth
Is ever the worst of lies.
Abraham was the more blameworthy because he had done the same thing before ( Gen. 12) and had suffered much in the same way as upon this occasion. How grateful Abimelech was for the dream warning him of his danger! The covenant made with Abraham is somewhat significant -
I. It was proposed by Abimelech who, although knowing how Abraham had failed God, yet saw how favored he was of God (Gen. 21:22).
II. It revealed certain distrust of Abraham. Abimelech requested Abraham not to be tempted to sin in such a direction again (Gen. 21:23).
III. It was meant to secure Abraham's good will. The king desired the favor of the wandering pilgrim who had failed to act kingly. Abraham consented to the king's request (Gen. 21:24).
IV. It gave Abraham the opportunity of rebuking Abimelech. The matter of the stolen well had to be put right. Wrong had to be repudiated before a covenant could be agreed upon (Gen. 20:9; 21:23, 26).
V. It secured for Abraham the inheritance of Beer-sheba, "the well of oath," which possession the patriarch sanctified ( Gen. 21:27-33).
2. The son of Gideon by a concubine in Shechem who belonged to a leading Canaanite family (Judg. 8:30, 31; 9; 10:1).
The Man Who Was Bramble King
This Abimelech, who made the first attempt to set up a monarchy in Israel, is known as "The Bramble King." But his violent and ill-fated reign over Israel only lasted for three years. After the death of Gideon his father, Abimelech took seventy pieces of silver from his mother's people with which he hired vain and light persons to follow him. He slew seventy persons of his father's house. Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, who is also called Jerubbaal, hid himself and when Abimelech was proclaimed king by the men of Shechem, he revealed himself and warned the Shechemites against Abimelech in a parable about trees, from whence he received his nickname as "Bramble King." What a tragic death this would-be king of Israel suffered (Judg. 9:53, 54)! A fitting end, surely, for one who sowed a Biblical city with salt (Judg. 9:45).
3. Son of Abiathar, the high priest in David's time (1 Chron. 18:16). Also known as Ahimlech.
4. A name given to Achish, King of Gath (according to Ellicott), to whom David fled (1 Sam. 21:10).
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