Bairnsdale Conservative: Wed Jan 21st Todays News

On Bolt Report a new policy is that any Islam post can only be on the pinned leader. Normal rules apply in that if it is merely foul and abusive it will be deleted. Otherwise comments are welcome.
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Many congratulations to Timothy Ly on the upcoming ABC comedy drama series Maximum Choppage. He was eighteen years old when, over a decade ago, he made a short film locally, and then a motion picture length film on no budget engaging the local community. Australia has culturally diverse talent, but a monocultural ABC focused entirely on some minorities have prevented such drama reaching our screens. So that the absurd situation has arisen whereby girls from any of many diverse ethnicities don't see role models in potential mates of their own ethnicity, only white. That goes against the ABC charter. There were many hurdles that Tim needed to complete before he could get the ABC to back this. And he has done so. It is now paid, but a team effort where creative control has been surrendered .. but hopefully the lead has been followed. An interesting backstory to Tim, who has devoted his adult life to movies and production, his family are Chinese Cambodian who fled the killing fields. Before then, his dad had used to spend his spare time going to the local movie theatres. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

On this day in 1931, the first Australian Governor General who was Australian born was sworn in. Sir Isaac Isaacs was also Jewish. Much is made of Isaac's anti Zionist position. He did not favour Israel. However, it is telling as to why he didn't favour Israel. Because he didn't consider Israel would become the great modern state she now is. He didn't see her democracy. He didn't know how great and trustworthy his people are, although he clearly loved them. Isaacs was under the misapprehension the Balfour agreement meant that Jews would be as Palestinians are now .. monocultural, xenophobic, driven to survive through lowest common denominator politics like terrorism. Isaacs trusted Great Britain to be an umbrella she had failed to be. It wasn't his fault, or a character flaw, The King had treated Jews badly in a way that could not be anticipated. But as Governor General, and as a Jewish man, Isaacs was a leader. A good leader. Australians should be proud.

Sometimes people ask for more government. NYC aldermen gave more government to the city of New York by banning women from smoking in public places on this day in 1908. The Mayor, who clearly wanted to be reelected, blocked the measure.

2014

It is close to Martin Luther King Day in the US, celebrated Jan 20th in 2014. He was born Jan 15th, 1929. He lived by his words and died because of them. So to celebrate, I will highlight my opposition to racist bigots collecting under the banner of the Australian Defence League and the Australian Tea Party. I have been schooled by some to note not every member of ADL is a racist bigot. I do not know who individual members are, and so do not know who the exceptions are. But I will outline what I know.

The ADL is not unique. It is right wing reactionary and not conservative, but tends to social conservatism on some issues. It is named after counterpart organisations in UK (EDL) and US (ADL) and North Ireland (UDL) and maintains loose friendships with them, including hosting senior members. The ADL in Australia is often connected with sympathetic members of the armed forces and people who would like to be. There is nothing wrong with military types being involved in civil organisations, that is a healthy thing. However, it is preferable if those organisations are cultural assets, like RSL, Lions, Apex, Masons, electoral commission .. but a survey of EDL publications shows that there is more invested in race relations, equivalent to KKK.

EDL is well known for drunken gatherings that turn violent. It was founded by members of the British far right nationalists calling themselves neo Nazis. Far more benign is the US Tea Party, which is not affiliated with the Australian Tea Party. ADL leader (Australian) began the Australian Tea Party in the hopes of tapping into the US political donation cycle.

There is something politically naive and stupid in the stance taken by the ADL on public issues. They are for protectionism economically. They connect themselves with loopy left wingers who suspect government administration. They try to unite Islamo Fascist terrorists with Islamic peoples who are preyed on by the terrorists. They support failed political movements at the expense of conservatives like the LNP. They hate the ALP and Greens when they would be wiser to oppose their policy.

ADL may take exception to what I have written about them, but it is criticism they might learn from and benefit from. Feel free to find exceptions to what I have written and treasure them.

Historical perspectives on this day

In 763, the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ended in a decisive Abbasid victory. 1525, the Swiss Anabaptist Movement was founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptised each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. 1535, following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants were burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris

In 1720, Sweden and Prussia signed the Treaty of Stockholm. 1749, the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754. 1774, Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. 1789, the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, was printed in Boston, Massachusetts. 1793, after being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine. 1840, Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered Adélie Land, Antarctica. 1861, American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigned from the United States Senate. 1864, the Tauranga Campaign began during the Maori Wars. 1887, 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain fell in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city. 1893, the Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, was formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana. 1899, Opel manufactures its first automobile.

In 1908, New York City passed the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. 1911, the first Monte Carlo Rally took place. 1915, Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit, Michigan. 1919, Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopted Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. 1925, Albania declared itself a republic. 1931, Sir Isaac Isaacs was sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. 1941, Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews. 1948, the Flag of Quebec was adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.

In 1950, American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury. 1954, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States. 1958, the last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator. 1960, Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. Also 1960, Avianca Flight 671 crashed and burned upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It was the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca. 1961, 435 workers were buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapsed. 1968, Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicised and controversial battles of the war began. Also 1968, a B-52 bomber crashed near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptured. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation was complete. 1971, the current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, began transmitting UHF broadcasts. 1976, Commercial service of Concorde began with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. 1977, President of the United States Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.

In 1981, production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car began in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. 1997, the U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined. 1999, War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepted a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board. 2000, Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress was seized by indigenous organisations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas deposed President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez was later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigned and allowed Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad. 2003, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless. 2004, NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceased communication with mission control. The problem lay in the management of its flash memory and was fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. 2005, in Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupted into riots.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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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

Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball

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.

I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.

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Happy birthday and many happy returns Chris Heins, Charmaine Lawton and Justin Ly. Born on the same day, across the years, along with

1338 – Charles V of France, French king (d. 1380)
1610 – Elizabeth Fones, English-American settler (d. 1673)
1735 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, German pianist and composer (d. 1809)
1738 – Ethan Allen, American military leader (d. 1789)
1820 – Joseph Wolf, German illustrator (d. 1899)
1879 – Joseph Roffo, French rugby player (d. 1933)
1882 – Pavel Florensky, Russian theologian and mathematician (d. 1937)
1905 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer, founded Christian Dior S.A. (d. 1957)
1913 – William Ungar, Polish-American author and philanthropist, founded the National Envelope Corporation (d. 2013)
1922 – Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1924 – Benny Hill, English comedian (d. 1992)
1938 – Wolfman Jack, American radio host and actor (d. 1995)
1941 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor and conductor
1972 – Cat Power, American singer-songwriter and actress
1974 – Rove McManus, Australian comedian, television host, and producer
2004 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

January 21: Feast Day of Saint Agnes (Christianity); Flag Day in Quebec

1789 – The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel, was published.
1840 – The French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered Adélie Land, Antarctica.
1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs (pictured) became the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1968 – Cold War: A B-52 bomber carrying four nuclear weapons crashed onto sea ice near Thule Air Base, Greenland, causing widespread radioactive contamination.
2011 – Demonstrations in Tirana to protest the alleged corruption of the Albanian government led to the killings of three demonstrators by the Republican Guard.

You have my sympathy. Things have gone south. Our names repeat. We bomb. But our guard is sufficient. Let's party.
Matches

763 – The Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ends in a decisive Abbasid victory.
1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris
1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1749 – The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
1774 – Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1840 – Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 – The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars.
1887 – 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile.
1908 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 – Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.
1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1941 – Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
1948 – The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
1950 – American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1958 – The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
1960 – Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca.
1961 – 435 workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapses.
1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1968 – A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
1971 – The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHFbroadcasts.
1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 – President of the United States Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1981 – Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
1997 – The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2000 – Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
2003 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
2004 – NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 – In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.

Hatches

1338 – Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1610 – Elizabeth Fones, English-American settler (d. 1673)
1721 – James Murray, Scottish general and politician, Governor of Minorca (d. 1794)
1735 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, German pianist and composer (d. 1809)
1738 – Ethan Allen, American general (d. 1789)
1804 – Eliza R. Snow, American poet and hymn-writer (d. 1887)
1813 – John C. Frémont, American general, explorer, and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona (d. 1890)
1815 – John Bingham, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 1900)
1820 – Joseph Wolf, German illustrator (d. 1899)
1823 – Imre Madách, Hungarian poet, lawyer, and politician (d. 1864)
1824 – Stonewall Jackson, American general (d. 1863)
1827 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 – Oscar II of Sweden (d. 1907)
1846 – Pieter Hendrik Schoute, Dutch mathematician (d. 1923)
1848 – Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1860 – Karl Staaff, Swedish lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1864 – Paul Troje, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1942)
1867 – Ludwig Thoma, German author (d. 1921)
1867 – Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
1878 – Vahan Tekeyan, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1948)
1879 – Joseph Roffo, French rugby player (d. 1933)
1882 – Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician and theologian (d. 1937)
1882 – Francis Gailey, Australian-American swimmer (d. 1972)
1883 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
1883 – Eulogio Rodriguez, Filipino politician, 7th President of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 1964)
1884 – Roger Nash Baldwin, American author and activist, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (d. 1981)
1885 – Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian (d. 1961)
1885 – Umberto Nobile, Italian engineer (d. 1978)
1887 – Maude Farris-Luse, American super-centenarian (d. 2002)
1887 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1895 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (d. 1972)
1897 – René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1898 – Avery Claflin, American composer (d. 1979)
1899 – Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 1977)
1901 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1904 – Puck van Heel, Dutch footballer (d. 1984)
1905 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer, founded Christian Dior S.A. (d. 1957)
1905 – Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
1907 – Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (d. 1980)
1909 – Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (d. 2004)
1910 – Albert Rosellini, American politician, 15th Governor of Washington (d. 2011)
1910 – Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1912 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1913 – William Ungar, Polish-American author and philanthropist, founded the National Envelope Corporation (d. 2013)
1914 – Lally Bowers, English actress (d. 1984)
1918 – Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
1918 – Richard Winters, American soldier (d. 2011)
1919 – Eric Brown, Scottish captain and pilot
1921 – Lincoln Alexander, Canadian politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d. 2012)
1921 – Howard Unruh, American murderer (d. 2009)
1922 – Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1922 – Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
1923 – Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1995)
1924 – Benny Hill, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
1925 – Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-English author (d. 2010)
1925 – Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and manager (d. 2007)
1926 – Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1995)
1926 – Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
1927 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby player (d. 1985)
1928 – Gene Sharp, American political scientist and academic
1930 – Mainza Chona, Zambian politician, 3rd Vice President of Zambia (d. 2001)
1932 – Bill Bell, English businessman (d. 2013)
1932 – John Chaney, American basketball player and coach
1933 – Joseph W. Eschbach, American physician and academic (d. 2007)
1933 – Norman Willis, English trade leader
1934 – Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1935 – Masamichi Noro, Japanese-French martial artist (d. 2013)
1935 – Eleftherios Veryvakis, Greek politician (d. 2012)
1935 – Ann Wedgeworth, American actress
1936 – Koji Hashimoto, Japanese director (d. 2005)
1937 – Nushiravan Keihanizadeh, Iranian-American journalist and historian
1937 – Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1937 – Ursula Owen, English publisher and activist
1938 – Sandy Barr, American wrestler and referee (d. 2007)
1938 – Ken Maginnis, Irish politician
1938 – Nicholas Phillips, British judge, President of The Supreme Court
1938 – John Savident, English actor
1938 – Wolfman Jack, American radio host and actor (d. 1995)
1939 – Abdul Jolil, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2013)
1940 – John J. McGinty III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2014)
1940 – Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor and conductor
1941 – Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
1941 – Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1941 – Mike Medavoy, Chinese-American film producer, co-founded Orion Pictures
1941 – Ivan Putski, Polish-American wrestler
1941 – Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (d. 2013)
1941 – Elaine Showalter, American author and critic
1942 – Mac Davis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1942 – George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, English politician
1942 – Edwin Starr, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1943 – Rosemary Butler, English-Welsh politician
1943 – Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek singer-songwriter and actor
1945 – Martin Shaw, English actor
1945 – Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull, English civil servant
1946 – Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
1947 – Jill Eikenberry, American actress
1947 – Pye Hastings, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Caravan)
1947 – Michel Jonasz, French singer-songwriter and actor
1947 – Jonathan Meades, English journalist and author
1950 – Gary Locke, American politician and diplomat, 36th United States Secretary of Commerce
1950 – Billy Ocean, Trinidadian-English singer-songwriter
1950 – Agnes van Ardenne, Dutch politician and diplomat
1951 – Eric Holder, American jurist, 82nd United States Attorney General
1952 – Marco Camenisch, Swiss activist
1952 – Cyril Hellier, American soprano
1952 – Libbye Hellier, American soprano
1952 – Louis Menand, American author and academic
1953 – Paul Allen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
1953 – Glenn Kaiser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Resurrection Band)
1954 – Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkinabé director, producer, and screenwriter
1954 – Phil Thompson, English footballer and coach
1955 – Jeff Koons, American sculptor
1955 – Leslie Hoffman, American stunt performer, stunt coordinator and actress
1956 – Robby Benson, American actor
1956 – Geena Davis, American actress
1957 – Greg Ryan, German-American soccer player and coach
1958 – Gareth Branwyn, American journalist and critic
1958 – Frank Ticheli, American composer
1958 – Michael Wincott, Canadian actor
1959 – Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1960 – Toxey Haas, American businessman, founded Haas Outdoors, Inc.
1960 – Mamoru Nagano, Japanese designer
1962 – Tyler Cowen, American economist and academic
1962 – Brian Hildebrand, American wrestler, referee, and manager (d. 1999)
1962 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1963 – Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-American basketball player
1963 – Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
1965 – Jam Master Jay, American rapper and DJ (Run–D.M.C.) (d. 2002)
1966 – Robert Del Naja, English singer-songwriter and DJ (Massive Attack and The Wild Bunch)
1967 – Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess player
1968 – Sundar C., Indian actor and director
1968 – Charlotte Ross, American actress
1969 – Eduard Hämäläinen, Finnish-Belarusian decathlete
1969 – M. K. Hobson, American author
1969 – Karina Lombard, American actress
1969 – Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese illustrator
1970 – Ken Leung, American actor
1971 – Tweet, American singer-songwriter (The Dresden Soul Symphony)
1971 – Adia Chan, Indonesian-Hong Kong actress and singer
1971 – Sergey Klevchenya, Russian speed skater
1971 – Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1971 – Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
1972 – Alan Benes, American baseball player
1972 – Rickard Falkvinge, Swedish businessman and politician
1972 – Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 – Cat Power, American singer-songwriter and actress
1973 – Rob Hayles, English cyclist
1974 – Malena Alterio, Argentinian-Spanish actress
1974 – Rove McManus, Australian comedian, television host, and producer
1974 – Alex Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver
1975 – Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 – Thomas Castaignede, French rugby player
1975 – Yuji Ide, Japanese race car driver
1975 – Ito, Spanish footballer
1975 – Willem Korsten, Dutch footballer
1976 – Aivaras Abromavičius, Lithuanian businessman and Ukrainian politician
1976 – Emma Bunton, English singer-songwriter and actress (Spice Girls)
1976 – Patrick de Lange, Dutch baseball player
1977 – Al Baxter, Australian rugby player
1977 – Phil Neville, English footballer
1977 – Matt Perry, English rugby player
1977 – Jerry Trainor, American actor
1978 – Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
1978 – Bryan Gilmore, American football player
1978 – Nokio the N-Tity, American singer-songwriter and producer (Dru Hill)
1978 – Phil Stacey, American singer
1978 – Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1979 – Byung-Hyun Kim, South Korean baseball player
1979 – Spider Loc, American rapper and actor
1979 – Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player
1980 – Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 – Nana Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress
1980 – Mari Possa, Salvadorian-American porn actress
1980 – Brie Rippner, American tennis player
1980 – N. Santhanam, Indian actor
1981 – Gillian Chung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress (Twins)
1981 – Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1981 – Ivan Ergić, Serbian footballer
1981 – Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Andy Lee, South Korean singer and actor (Shinhwa)
1981 – Izabella Miko, Polish actress and model
1981 – Michel Teló, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1982 – Nicolas Mahut, French tennis player
1982 – Simon Rolfes, German footballer
1982 – Go Shiozaki, Japanese wrestler
1982 – Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1983 – Alex Acker, American basketball player
1983 – Niels de Ruiter, Dutch darts player
1983 – Maryse Ouellet, Canadian wrestler and model
1983 – Peter Philipakos, American-Greek soccer player
1983 – Moritz Volz, German footballer
1984 – Raymond Gutierrez, American Filipino actor and television host
1984 – Richard Gutierrez, American-Filipino actor
1984 – Alex Koslov, Moldovan-American wrestler
1984 – Robert Ray, American baseball player
1985 – Salvatore Giunta, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
1985 – Justin Ingram, American basketball player
1985 – Adrian Lewis, English darts player
1985 – Álex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1985 – Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
1985 – Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1986 – Peyton Hillis, American football player
1986 – Jonathan Quick, American ice hockey player
1986 – Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor
1987 – Ioannis Athanasoulas, Greek basketball player
1987 – Brandon Crawford, American baseball player
1987 – Henrico Drost, Dutch footballer
1987 – Darren Helm, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Maša Zec Peškirič, Slovenian tennis player
1988 – Rapsody, American rapper
1988 – Ashton Eaton, American decathlete
1988 – Vanessa Hessler, Italian-American model
1988 – William C. Woxlin, Swedish author and composer
1989 – Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Armenian footballer
1990 – Jacob Smith, American actor
1991 – Martin Dorbek, Estonian basketball player
1993 – John Cofie, English footballer
1993 – Ben Meehan, Australian rugby player
1994 – Laura Robson, Australian-English tennis player
1994 – Booboo Stewart, American actor, singer, and dancer (T-Squad)
1994 – Simone Pasa, Italian footballer
1994 – Kang Seung-yoon, South Korean singer and actor (Winner)
1997 – Jeremy Shada, American actor
2001 – Jackson Brundage, American actor
2004 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

Despatches

496 – Epiphanius of Pavia, Italian bishop (b. 438)
917 – Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (b. 880)
1118 – Pope Paschal II
1519 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 – Juan de Grijalva, Spanish explorer (b. 1489)
1546 – Azai Sukemasa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1491)
1609 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French historian and scholar (b. 1540)
1638 – Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. 1570)
1683 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (b. 1621)
1699 – Obadiah Walker, English academic (b. 1616)
1706 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
1710 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
1722 – Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. 1661)
1731 – Ignjat Đurđević, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1675)
1766 – James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1773 – Alexis Piron, French playwright (b. 1689)
1774 – Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1717)
1775 – Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel (b. 1742)
1793 – Louis XVI of France (b. 1754)
1795 – Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1809 – Josiah Hornblower, American engineer and politician (b. 1729)
1814 – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French botanist and author (b. 1737)
1823 – Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentinian cleric, journalist, and poet (b. 1761)
1831 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
1836 – Ferenc Novák Hungarian-Slovene priest and author (b. 1791)
1851 – Albert Lortzing, German composer and actor (b. 1801)
1862 – Božena Němcová, Czech author (b. 1820)
1870 – Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher (b. 1812)
1872 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (b. 1791)
1881 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss politician (b. 1802)
1891 – Calixa Lavallée, Canadian-American composer (b. 1842)
1901 – Elisha Gray, American engineer, co-founded Western Electric (b. 1835)
1914 – Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter (b. 1857)
1919 – Gojong of the Korean Empire (b. 1852)
1924 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
1926 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1928 – George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
1931 – Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
1932 – Lytton Strachey, English author and critic (b. 1880)
1933 – George Moore, Irish author (b. 1852)
1937 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1938 – Georges Méliès, French actor, director, and producer (b. 1861)
1940 – Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (b. 1888)
1940 – John Duha, American gymnast (b. 1875)
1945 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian activist (b. 1886)
1948 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
1950 – George Orwell, Indian-English journalist and author (b. 1903)
1955 – Archie Hahn, German-American runner (b. 1880)
1956 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
1959 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1881)
1959 – Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
1961 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (b. 1887)
1963 – Acharya Shivpujan Sahay, Indian author (b. 1893)
1963 – Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish artist (b. 1881)
1965 – Gwynne Evans, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
1967 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
1968 – Will Lang, Jr., American journalist (b. 1914)
1977 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
1978 – Freda Utley, English scholar and author (b. 1898)
1984 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek playwright and poet (b. 1893)
1983 – Lamar Williams, American bass player (The Allman Brothers Band and Seal Level) (b. 1949)
1984 – Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (Billy Ward and His Dominoes) (b. 1934)
1985 – James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
1985 – Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
1987 – Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
1989 – Carl Furillo, American baseball player (b. 1922)
1989 – Billy Tipton, American pianist (b. 1914)
1993 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1993 – Dimitris Nikolaidis, Greek actor (b. 1922)
1994 – Bassel al-Assad, Syrian colonel (b. 1962)
1994 – Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (b. 1889)
1996 – René Marc Jalbert, Canadian sergeant (b. 1921)
1997 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (b. 1909)
1998 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
1999 – Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (b. 1920)
1999 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
2001 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (b. 1921)
2002 – Peggy Lee, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1920)
2003 – Paul Haines, American-Canadian poet (b. 1933)
2003 – Paul Kuusberg, Estonian author (b. 1916)
2004 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian playwright (b. 1929)
2005 – Theun de Vries, Dutch poet (b. 1907)
2005 – John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
2005 – Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer, and pastor (b. 1921)
2006 – Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
2006 – Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo politician, 1st President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2007 – U;Nee, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1981)
2007 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (b. 1977)
2008 – Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
2008 – Marie Smith Jones, American speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
2008 – Kenneth Parnell, American sex offender (b. 1931)
2009 – Krista Kilvet, Estonian radio journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1946)
2009 – Veatrice Rice, American nurse and security guard (b. 1949)
2010 – Paul Quarrington, Canadian author, playwright, guitarist, and composer (b. 1953)
2011 – Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American costume designer (b. 1922)
2011 – Dennis Oppenheim, American sculptor and photographer (b. 1938)
2011 – E. V. V. Satyanarayana, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1958)
2012 – J. R. Boone, American football player (b. 1925)
2012 – Roy John Britten, American biologist and geneticist (b. 1919)
2012 – Cliff Chambers, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2012 – Ernie Gregory, English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1921)
2012 – Gerre Hancock, American organist and composer (b. 1934)
2012 – Jonathan Idema, American soldier (b. 1956)
2012 – Irena Jarocka, Polish singer (b. 1946)
2012 – Jeffrey Ntuka, South African footballer (b. 1985)
2012 – Jodie-Anne White, Australian dancer and choreographer (b. 1967)
2013 – Alden W. Clausen, American banker (b. 1923)
2013 – David Coe, Australian businessman, founded Allco Finance Group (b. 1954)
2013 – Jean Giambrone, American journalist (b. 1921)
2013 – Zina Harman, English-Israeli politician (b. 1914)
2013 – Donald Hornig, American chemist and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Ahmet Mete Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and academic (b. 1941)
2013 – Inez McCormack, Irish union leader and activist (b. 1941)
2013 – Jake McNiece, American sergeant (b. 1919)
2013 – Chumpol Silpa-archa, Thai politician (b. 1940)
2013 – Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2014 – Manfred Bleskin, German journalist (b. 1949)
2014 – G. Thompson Brown, American missionary, theologian, and author (b. 1921)
2014 – Jocelyn Hay, Welsh-English journalist (b. 1927)
2014 – Tim Hosley, American baseball player (b. 1947)
2014 – Warren Lamb, English businessman and educator (b. 1923)
2014 – Wilford Moore, American football player and coach (b. 1919)
2014 – Dick Shrider, American basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
2014 – George C. Wortley, American politician (b. 1926)

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2015

Christian Feast Day:
Errol Barrow Day (Barbados)
Flag Day (Quebec)
Lady of Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic)
National Hug Day (United States)

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The horror of the boutique baby scandal

Miranda Devine – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (7:53am)

THE horrendous surrogacy story of Baby Gammy seems to have reached a happy-ish ending with the announcement yesterday the rejected Thai twin has been granted Australian citizenship. But, despite the alarming consequences of the commodification of children, the global baby industry just keeps churning out more product to satisfy a booming market, especially for gay couples.

Continue reading 'The horror of the boutique baby scandal'

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Terribly tacky aftermath to terrifying situation

Miranda Devine – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (7:58am)

IT’S sad that the Lindt siege victims have sold their stories to the media. Prices as high as $400,000 have been reported. We’ll all watch with interest but the idea that they would profit from a terrorism attack which left two of their fellow hostages dead is distasteful.

Continue reading 'Terribly tacky aftermath to terrifying situation'

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Labor pays a debt

Miranda Devine – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (7:59am)

THE Abbott government has emerged in 2015 with more than its fair share of self-inflicted problems. But before you declare a pox on all their houses, it’s worth remembering the sheer awfulness of the last mob. It was in a class of its own.

Continue reading 'Labor pays a debt'

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RESIST FREEDOM! RESIST DEMOCRACY!

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (2:00pm)

“I want to look at the issue of the cartoons very quickly,” says Hizbie jabberer Wassim Doureihi. Several minutes and many blathering evasions later, Wassim finally gets around to it, leading to his interesting definition of the “struggle” between Islam and the west:

“It is a struggle to resist the imposition of values like freedom and democracy.”

Pro tip: it’s a lot easier to resist freedom and democracy if you don’t live in a free democracy. Wassim also offers this comparison:

“In the modern world, Muslims are effectively the Jews prior to World War Two.”

Readers with any historical awareness may dispute that point. Previously, immediately following the Paris murders, my friend Jason Morrison dealt with a panel of weasels on Al Jazeera English:

I am not going to sit here and listen to people stupidly suggest that the French or the magazine or anyone brought this on themselves. Are you for real? We have a dozen people dead, killed in the name of a religious belief and you are seriously going to even slightly justify this?

Do read on.

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JUST IN TIME FOR AUSTRALIA DAY 2015

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (1:20pm)

Look who’s back in Canberra:

Julia Gillard’s former media adviser, the man who helped spark a violent Australia Day protest in 2012, has taken up a new job for ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr.

Tony Hodges resigned as the then prime minister’s adviser after it was revealed he had tipped off protesters from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to the whereabouts of then opposition leader Tony Abbott.

On Australia Day in 2012, a group of Aboriginal protesters surrounded a restaurant in central Canberra, angered by reports that Mr Abbott had said it was time to pull the Aboriginal Tent Embassy down.

Those reports, of course, were completely wrong. Further on Hodges’s return by Miranda Devine.

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EXPLAIN THIS, SCIENTISTS

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (11:46am)

It turns out that global warming causes private jets.

(Via A.R.M. Jones)

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LUVVIES AGAINST FOREIGNERS

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (11:20am)

Australia’s creative types are just fine with thousands of illegals arriving by boat, but it’s a different matter entirely when a few actors and film industry workers turn up:

Actor Michael Caton has joined with the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) and the Labor opposition in warning that proposed changes to the Temporary Worker (entertainment) visa poses a threat to Australian film and television workers.

The so-called subclass 420 visa is used to bring in overseas actors and crew to Australia and the government quietly announced a review of it last week …

“It has been working really well for about 20 years, so why fiddle with it? And if you are going to bring in whole casts, what are we doing subsidising what are supposed to be Australian movies?” [Caton] said.

“And why would you bring in sound engineers and special effects people, when you have Australians up for Academy Awards in these categories?”

“It’s a fairly precarious industry as it is, all this will do is make it harder to get work for everybody, crews, actors, whatever. It will hurt our work prospects.”

They took our jobs!

Labor arts spokesman Mark Dreyfus said the Abbott government had “begun a process by stealth to undermine Australian actors, performers and the workers who support them” as the review had been launched with no notice from the arts or immigration ministers …

The director of the MEAA’s actors’ equity section, Zoe Angus, said the union would campaign to protect opportunities for local actors and crew.

Utter hypocrites.

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Post by The Galileo Movement.

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Post by Stylish Eve.

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Post by Nicky Romero.

I name you Odin ..
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Wed Jan 21st Todays News

Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball

Miranda Devine – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (7:53am)

Miranda Devine – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (7:58am)

Miranda Devine – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (7:59am)

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (2:00pm)

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (1:20pm)

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (11:46am)

Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (11:20am)

Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 21, 2014 (3:22pm)

Andrew Bolt January 21 2014 (7:53am)

Andrew Bolt January 21 2014 (7:03am)

Andrew Bolt January 20 2014 (6:23pm)

Today's reading: Genesis 49-50, Matthew 13:31-58 (NIV)

Today's Old Testament reading: Genesis 49-50

Jacob Blesses His Sons

Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 13:31-58

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast

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