The world economy is jittery as China's growth appears exaggerated. If only Australia had not thrown away $600 billion when ALP were in government, the Abbott government could responsibly manoeuvre against a bubble burst. The loss to the world economy of some $50 billion in a day is not as bad as the $2 trillion thrown away to appease global warming hysterics. Typically, it will be the poor who suffer most.
ABC QandA publishes a foul #AbbottPhobia tweet. Then apologises for her failure to maintain a standard. If the ABC hadn't a low standard they'd have no standards at all.
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A great actor from the golden age has passed. He was old and blessed. Richard Attenborough began acting age 18 in an uncredited role for the movie "In which we serve" (1942) and he was typecast, for a time, as a coward. But he also acted on stage and he broke the mould with Brighton Rock (1947) as he had previously played the role on stage. By 1963 he was part of the large ensemble cast of the Great Escape. In 1971 he played a serial killer in 10 Rillington Place. Young fans will remember him from Jurassic Park (1993). He was also director and producer of the C S Lewis biopic Shadowlands. He is lauded for his work in Ghandi, but a better film was Cry Freedom, about Steve Biko. One substantial tragedy in his life was the death of his oldest daughter and a grandchild on the boxing day tsunami of 2004. In 2008 he was struck down with stroke, retaining his sense, but confined to a wheelchair. Then his wife got dementia. A hard ending for one who rose so very high. ABC are still attacking the budget, saying that savings are not necessary, but despising the government;s efforts to procure cuts, devoting serious air time on the 7:30 report with Sabra Lane. It is a lie to say that there is no argument for cuts in the budget, but a reasonable viewer on the ABC would not be aware of it. They fail in their charter. A reasonable person watching the ABC would not be aware that Israel is the rightful landholder of Jerusalem and her surrounds. But, closer to home, few know the extent of the depravity of successive ALP administrations. They have defended the corruption by denouncing people like Hollingsworth, Pell, Howard, or Abbott. And so a bureaucrat who orders the destruction of evidence regarding the gang rape of an aboriginal child in detention is excused because he is ALP. An alleged pedophile who was facing serious allegations is tipped off and suicides before he embarrasses the ABC for covering for him. The corruption of Brian Burke for the ALP in WA is segued into multiple allegations against the Libs for knowing Burke by the ABC. When they are successful in a smear campaign, they transfer it, and so the party trick they did with Burke works with Tripodi.
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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.
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.
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.
1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, currently the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was formed by Royal Charter from King Henry VIII.
1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope, a device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass refracting telescope, to Venetian lawmakers.
1950 – Althea Gibson entered into the U.S. Tennis Championships, becoming the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour.
1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.
2001 – American singer Aaliyah and various members of her record company were killed when their overloaded airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in Marsh Harbour, The Bahamas. Keep the powder dry. Look before you leap. Be competitive. Remember, to discover, you should first observe. If you have everything, try not to put it all on a light aircraft.
===1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope, a device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass refracting telescope, to Venetian lawmakers.
1950 – Althea Gibson entered into the U.S. Tennis Championships, becoming the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour.
1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.
2001 – American singer Aaliyah and various members of her record company were killed when their overloaded airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in Marsh Harbour, The Bahamas. Keep the powder dry. Look before you leap. Be competitive. Remember, to discover, you should first observe. If you have everything, try not to put it all on a light aircraft.
- 1530 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler (d. 1584)
- 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)
- 1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1909)
- 1903 – Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player, created the Elo rating system (d. 1992)
- 1905 – Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic, and saint (d. 1938)
- 1917 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
- 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer
- 1936 – Giridharilal Kedia, Indian businessman, founded the Image Institute of Technology & Management (d. 2009)
- 1937 – Virginia Euwer Wolff, American author
- 1938 – Frederick Forsyth, English author
- 1949 – Gene Simmons, Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, (Kiss and Wicked Lester)
- 1952 – Geoff Downes, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (The Buggles, Yes, and Asia)
- 1954 – Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1958 – Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1962 – Vivian Campbell, Irish guitarist and songwriter (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio, Thin Lizzy, and Sweet Savage)
- 1965 – Mia Zapata, American singer-songwriter (The Gits) (d. 1993)
- 1968 – Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model and race car driver
- 1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef, author, and television host
- 1970 – Claudia Schiffer, German model and fashion designer
- 1977 – Masumi Asano, Japanese voice actress
- 1981 – Clare Oliver, Australian activist (d. 2007)
- 1987 – Blake Lively, American actress
- 1987 – Luka Šulić, Slovenian-Croatian cellist (2Cellos)
- 1987 – Liu Yifei, Chinese-American actress and singer
- 1988 – Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer
- 1992 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress (Berryz Kobo, Aa!, and Buono!)
- 1992 – Alex Roots, English singer
- 1998 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
Deaths
- 79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman commander and philosopher (b. 23)
- 383 – Gratian, Roman emperor (b. 359)
- 1554 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)
- 1776 – David Hume, Scottish historian and philosopher (b. 1711)
- 1819 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (b. 1736)
- 1867 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)
- 1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
- 1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American biologist (b. 1894)
- 1965 – Moonlight Graham, American baseball player (b. 1879)
- 1968 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b. 1910)
- 1984 – Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
- 2000 – Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule) (b. 1955)
- 2001 – Aaliyah, American singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1979)
- 2009 – Ted Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
Abbott can win
Andrew Bolt August 25 2015 (5:30pm)
Newspoll this week had the Abbott Government very far behind Labor - 46 per cent to 54.
A very different picture from the Essential poll:
I still believe Tony Abbott can win the next election for the following reasons:
===A very different picture from the Essential poll:
I think Essential exaggerates the Coalition vote, but I don’t quite believe the Coalition is as far down as Newspoll has it, either.
I still believe Tony Abbott can win the next election for the following reasons:
- He has offered credible positions on two issues on which Labor hoped to hurt him and split the Liberals - global warming and same-sex marriage. Indeed. his plan for a people’s vote is very popular, and turns a weakness into a weapon.But:
- Labor has tacked too close to the union movement, especially in sliming royal commissioner Dyson Heydon. It is starting to look like a protection racket for corrupt unions, and truly scary.
- Labor remains vulnerable on it planned carbon tax, doubling of the refugee intake and weakness on boats.
- Labor still has its record of mad spending to live down, and is promising even more spending. I don’t think the times suit spendthrifts.
- The talk is coming back to Liberal strengths - notably the economy and national security.
- The Left have overreached with more smears, this time against Captain Andrew Hastie. If that helps Hastie to hold Canning with relative comfort in next month’s by-election, that should give Abbott a real lift.
- Abbott is a very able campaigner, battle-hardened and very disciplined.
- Bill Shorten.
- Unemployment at 6.3 per cent needs to come down fast. I suspect it will. Last month’s figure seemed a bit of an anomaly. Jobs, jobs, jobs.
- The Government needs to work out a credible way to pay for its mooted tax cuts without adding even more to the deficit.
- Joe Hockey needs to dominate the debate, and not go AWOL at times.
- There must be a reshuffle near the end of the year, and smoothly done. It shouldn’t involved the expected two, but at least three. The Government needs a younger and more female and fresher face. It also needs some fighters. It needs to be three to include the almost mandatory two women, one left and one right, plus the most deserving and hard-edged man. And I would not want to see Andrew Robb sail into a cushy posting elsewhere, since he has been such a huge success in a critical area that will need promoting.
- There needs to be more mongrel in the Government, and more mongrels on the front bench. Why wasn’t Bill Shorten torn to pieces? Why were the attacks on Tony Burke called off?
- The members need to be excited. More should have been done to help them show support for Hastie.
- Dyson Heydon must resist the calls for him to step down as royal commissioner. I understand he will feel terribly bruised, but the politics of personal destruction must not be allowed to succeed. This protection racket for the crooked and the shady must be defied.
Labor left us dangerously exposed. Now the day of reckoning comes
Andrew Bolt August 25 2015 (7:12am)
More losses to come on Australia’s stock market today after another bad day on Wall Street overnight:
One further point should be noted. We’re in even greater danger for two reasons: Labor plunged us deep into debt by splashing cash on trash, and has spent the past two years sabotaging the Abbott Government’s attempts to cut spending.
This is what Hockey should be stressing.
Simon Benson:
===Investors rattled about China sent U.S. stock indices almost 4-percent lower on Monday in an unusually volatile session that confirmed the S&P 500 was formally in a correction… Monday’s drop followed an 8.5 percent slump in Chinese markets, which sparked a selloff in global stocks along with oil and other commodities.Terry McCrann says Joe Hockey is promising tax cuts with money he sure doesn’t have now:
Share markets all around the world are going over a cliff — more than $100 billion of shareholder savings are shredded in Australia alone in just three days…
But ... on a day when the prospects of his Budget ever getting within a distant cooee of a surplus evaporated into the global gloom, Treasurer Joe Hockey thought it was a good idea to get up to promise future tax cuts.
Yeah, not so much “say it ain’t so, Joe”; but more a case of “yeah, right Joe”; or “in your dreams Joe” ...
Knock, knock, apart from anything else, is anyone home, Joe? Last time I looked, the sign on your door said “treasurer of Australia”. It’s not only your call, but your job to deliver. Stop commenting — again and again, incidentally; do…
But, the meltdown is ... driven by fears that the Chinese economic miracle is over. That far from China growing at a more subdued, say 6 per cent, it might end up barely growing at all, by 2-3 per cent. Or worse, actually shrinking.
This collides head-on with the reality of grossly inflated global share values — with stock markets at the levels they are only because of the massive monetary stimulus and interest rates at zero.
This leads on to the further fundamental worry — precisely because of that all the major central banks have no bullets left to fire if the world economy slows or worse, slides back into recession.
And governments around the world have built up huge debts and have budgets still in deficit because of all the money borrowed and then thrown at the GFC.
Imagine for example if our Joe unveiled at the midyear Budget update a string of endless, say $60-80 billion deficits — and announced he was having tax cuts to boost the economy.
In what is still this universe, just, that is unimaginable.
One further point should be noted. We’re in even greater danger for two reasons: Labor plunged us deep into debt by splashing cash on trash, and has spent the past two years sabotaging the Abbott Government’s attempts to cut spending.
This is what Hockey should be stressing.
Simon Benson:
JOE Hockey has flagged cutting personal income tax rates no less than three times. Good on him. But he has yet to say by how much, by when and how he is going to pay for it. Considering the price tag is estimated at around $2 billion a year, many of his colleagues are wondering if this is yet another thought bubble from a Treasurer who doesn’t have billions to throw around.
But make no mistake it is not only a good idea, it is imperative.
Cursed as he may be with a felonious debt and deficit legacy bequeathed by Labor, Hockey must commit to liberating hard working Australians from the yoke of an ever increasing tax burden. His tax burden…
Australians are now lashed with the most punitive income tax rates the country has seen for more than 30 years — and one of the highest marginal tax rates in the known world.
And this has all happened under Hockey’s watch. Since he has been in the job he has pushed the effective marginal tax rate for high income earners to 49 per cent. This rose even further when a 0.5 per cent increase in the Medicare Levy kicked in last financial year to help pay for the NDIS…
And he could make a good start by immediately jettisoning his 2 per cent debt and deficit repair levy on people who earn more than $180,000. By his own admission yesterday, this is a disincentive to work harder to earn a better salary. Yet he imposed it.
Green with envy
Andrew Bolt August 25 2015 (6:57am)
Something gives me the impression that the Greens won’t be happy until the wealth of the rich is confiscated. Sure, destroying the rich just leaves everyone worse off - ask Stalin - but it sure appeals to the chronically envious and stupid:
===Politics of envy, anyone? Adam Bandt media release, also yesterday:
The Treasurer proposes that wealthy people pay less tax.Shame about the facts. Sinclair Davidson, Catallaxy blog, May 1:
Earlier this week the ATO released the latest version of their taxation statistics. As I have done for the last 10 years or so, I have calculated the distribution of the tax burden. The bottom 50 per cent of individual taxpayers paid 12.4 per cent of net income tax (that’s after deductions etc, but before welfare and the like) … the top 1 per cent paid 16.01 per cent.
O’Neill: Gay marriage isn’t about freedom but state control
Andrew Bolt August 25 2015 (6:50am)
Brendan O’Neill:
===So that’s my beef with gay marriage: it allows the state to increase its already considerable clout over both our personal/family lives and our consciences. The ugly tactics of the loudest gay-marriage proponents are no accident: they speak to this illiberal heart of gay marriage. There’s one question I’ve asked every liberal I’ve encountered in Australia, all of whom harangue me for my views on gay marriage: why are Western governments that are so allergic to freedom and autonomy passionately embracing gay marriage? They’ve all struggled to answer. I think it’s because gay marriage chimes brilliantly with these governments’ insatiable desire to diminish the sovereignty of the family and intervene more in our personal lives, and to police what we think.
Time to fight
Andrew Bolt August 25 2015 (6:30am)
I fear Tony Abbott has as little as three months left - five at most - to turn these polls around again:
===Based on preference flows from the last election, Labor’s two-party preferred lead was unchanged at 54 per cent to the Coalition’s 46 per cent - a 7.5 per cent swing since the September 2013 election. This is the 29th consecutive Newspoll survey in which Labor has been ahead in two-party terms.
- promising tax cuts again without a plan to achieve them does not persuade.Fight.
- spending a week out with Aboriginal communities out in the Torres Strait takes Abbott almost literally out of circulation, fighting an issue of zero relevance to most voters.
- where is the onslaught against Shorten for running a protection racket for crooked unions and trying to shoot the sheriff?
- where is the Liberals’ YouTube clip of Andrew Hastie giving it to the media snipers (UPDATE: the clip is up on Hastie’s Facebook site https://m.facebook.com/hastieandrew?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhastieandrew&_rdr), or a Deploy Hastie to Parliament donations site? Where is the onslaught against Labor’s politics of smear?
Why is Shorten’s Labor running a protection racket for this union?
Andrew Bolt August 25 2015 (6:22am)
No wonder Labor and the CFMEU are trying to destroy Dyson Heydon and close down his royal commission:
===Police in three states are investigating the most senior leaders of the CFMEU for allegations ranging from receiving secret commissions to blackmail as a result of evidence gathered by investigators working alongside the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption.Labor, in smearing Dyson Heydon and blocking the reinstatement of the watchdog Australian Building and Construction Commission, is effectively running a protection racket for the CFMEU. And if the polls are right, this protection racket will next year be your government.
A Fairfax Media investigation can reveal the CFMEU’s national president and Labor factional boss Dave Hanna has quit the union as a major criminal investigation examines allegations that he took secret commissions.
Hanna, who until his resignation this month was also the CFMEU’s Queensland president and was previously a state ALP vice-president, is the subject of a joint state and federal police inquiry into allegations concerning kickbacks and the operations of a union fund…
A Victoria Police taskforce, Heracles?, has recently taken witness statements from multiple construction industry figures as detectives attempt to charge Victorian CFMEU secretary John Setka and his deputy, Shaun Reardon, with blackmail in connection to the union’s campaign against concrete firm Boral.
Police witnesses have been advised by detectives that a criminal brief against Mr Setka and Mr Reardon has been completed and that police are waiting to receive legal advice before laying charges.
The CFMEU’s NSW secretary Brian Parker is also being investigated by police after phone taps were recently aired at the union royal commission, which revealed his close relationship with organised crime figure, and allegedly crooked labour hire firm boss, George Alex.
The police investigations are now effectively targeting the CFMEU’s most powerful figures across three states and, if they result in charges and convictions, could be fatal to the union’s hope of avoiding being deregistered or placed into administration…
In a statement to Fairfax Media, Mr Hanna said he had taken “no benefits” and was involved in “no mismanagement” of any union fund. He claims to have stepped down from the union due to health reasons arising from a motorcycle accident.
ABC republishes another foul anti-Abbott tweet
Andrew Bolt August 25 2015 (5:47am)
The ABC’s Q&A keeps fishing in the Twitter sewer:
UPDATE
The tweet was published during a discussion between five panellists of the Left and just one conservative. The Abbott Government is paying the ABC $1 billion a year to promote the Left and vilify conservatives.
===It’s no longer just a question of bias but of barbarity. The ABC is out of control.
UPDATE
The tweet was published during a discussion between five panellists of the Left and just one conservative. The Abbott Government is paying the ABC $1 billion a year to promote the Left and vilify conservatives.
SINCERE APOLOGIES TO MY MUSLIM FRIENDS
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (7:13am)
Before we get to my big apology, let’s review recent events.
Continue reading 'SINCERE APOLOGIES TO MY MUSLIM FRIENDS'SAD PEOPLE ARE SAD
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (6:35am)
In the most compelling argument ever made for urgent action against climate change, a bunch of scientists haveposed for sad photographs:
Will Steffen, Lesley Hughes and Tim Flannery being sad recently. In super-sad monochrome.
Here’s the background to this devastating initiative:
Photographer Nick Bowers, Art Director Celine Faledam and Copy Writer Rachel Guest have teamed up to bring attention to the issue of climate change in a completely novel and frankly terrifying way with their portrait/interview project Scared Scientists.The title, in a way, says it all.
Yes. Yes, it does. Readers are invited to send their own earnest concern faces to blairt@dailytelegraph.com.au – you may prefer to shoot black and white images, indicating the full extent of your desperate grief.
QUITE SO ESCAPED
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (6:25am)
In Australia, the final words of this European GT series crash commentary would result in a Press Council investigation.
ANXIETY ANNOUNCED
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (6:08am)
Scientists and academics are typically seen as measured, sober types, diligently pursuing their interests in thoughtful, deliberate ways. This is one reason why climate change became such a big issue – because the subject was pushed by science-minded scholars.
It now emerges that these people are every bit as hysterical as your common global warming basket case at a coal seam gas protest. Canberra student and “science communicator” Joe Duggan recently published a range of pieces from various sciency/academic identities describing their “feelings”.
They are hilarious.
Continue reading 'ANXIETY ANNOUNCED'SUPERDAN
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (5:59am)
Three wins to Australian F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo in 2014:
Our guy is absolutely nailing it. This is similar to Alan Jones’s late-1979 winning streak, except that Ricciardo is achieving victories using inferior machinery.
Our guy is absolutely nailing it. This is similar to Alan Jones’s late-1979 winning streak, except that Ricciardo is achieving victories using inferior machinery.
EXPENSIVE MEAL
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (5:44am)
Andrew Brown examines the Richard Dawkins atheist cult:
The Richard Dawkins website offers followers the chance to join the ‘Reason Circle’, which, like Dante’s Hell, is arranged in concentric circles. For $85 a month, you get discounts on his merchandise, and the chance to meet ‘Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science personalities’. Obviously that’s not enough to meet the man himself. For that you pay $210 a month — or $5,000 a year — for the chance to attend an event where he will speak …The neophyte passes through the successively more expensive ‘Darwin Circle’ and then the ‘Evolution Circle’, he attains the innermost circle, where for $100,000 a year or more he gets to have a private breakfast or lunch with Richard Dawkins …The website suggests that donations of up to $500,000 a year will be accepted for the privilege of eating with him once a year: at this level of contribution you become a member of something called ‘The Magic of Reality Circle’.
Seems kinda … religious.
FROM D-DAY TO TODAY
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (4:14am)
D-Day zones then and now, via Andrew S. I’ve visited many of those areas. At a Normandy hotel, within sight of the beach, I was eating oysters and trying as best I could to speak with the hotel owners – hugely patriotic Nazi-hating Francophiles. Their beautiful daughter then joined us.
Her name is Victory.
JERSEY JUICE
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (3:30am)
“I’ve found the wine for your next visit,” emails New Jersey’s Mr. Bingley. Er … perhaps not.
COMEDY IS EASY
Tim Blair – Monday, August 25, 2014 (1:13am)
Bryan Cranston is terrific:
His bad back. Our soft heads
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (7:55pm)
We really do keep pensioners in style:
===A DANDENONG disability pensioner admits he was stunned to become Melbourne’s newest millionaire after sensationally snaring almost $3 million playing Keno at his local pub.Overseas trip? A $50 bet? Pokies? The pub?
Friends say Kenedi, who quit work after injuring his back 13 years ago and does not want his surname revealed, is a true “Aussie battler” who has been living off a meagre pension since 2001… The part-time punter had been back from a trip to Macedonia for only a day when he dropped into the Jim Dandy Hotel and outlaid $50 on fifty $1 10-number Keno games and then went to play a poker machine.
But the ABC won’t allow the most important diversity - of opinion
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (11:57am)
How about addressing the most glaring lack of cultural diversity - of conservative opinion?
===THE ABC will next month introduce an in-house “cultural diversity tool” across its news and current affairs operations in a bid to ensure its reporting more fully reflects Australia’s ethnic and cultural diversity.There are other important points to make about this story but free speech is not possible under our current laws.
Don’t mention the books!
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (9:47am)
Tim Blair reviews criticism of an article in which he discussed the startling contents of a bookshop in Lakemba:
===Imagine the reaction if Sydney stores sold books containing these lines:The most important thing Blair’s critics overlook, though, is not that an Islamic bookshop sells books so full of hatred. It’s that these books, written by Muslims and sold by an Islamic bookshop, says this hatred is the true message of Islam.
- “Is it allowed to support and love Muslims? No, it is not allowed.”Just a hunch, but that sort of thing might lead to a protest or two. When an Islamic store presents identical slurs against women and Jews, however, the PC crowd is absolutely silent… The ABC’s Jonathan Green performed an impressive leftist two-step, first describing my Islamic Bookstore criticism as a case of “book burning” then urging censorship of images showing the imminent Islamic State beheading of US journalist James Foley. Consistency isn’t exactly his strong suit – unless you’re talking about consistent cowardice in the face of Islam.
- “Men’s perfection is because of various reasons: intelligence, religion, etc. At most, four Muslims have this perfection.”
- “No one can deny the fact that the Muslims are the worst kind of barbarian killers the world has ever known!!! The decent great Adolf Hitler of Germany never killed in the manner of the Muslims!!! Surely only mad people or those who love killing infants, pregnant women and the infirm will think differently.”
Triggs must resign from this witch-hunt
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (7:17am)
THE Human Rights Commission president must resign after turning her inquiry on children in detention into a political witch-hunt last week.
Gillian Triggs’ behaviour was unforgivable for someone with semi-judicial powers, able to force witnesses to appear under threat of jail.
We cannot have the head of an inquiry showing such bias, heckling witnesses and making false and emotive claims from the bench to make the Christmas Island detention centre seem a hellhole.
Nor can we have an inquiry head giving media interviews attacking witnesses and summing up the issues before hearing all the evidence.
We also cannot have an inquiry head refusing to correct explosive claims about suicide attempts in detention when they’ve been debunked.
It is now impossible to have confidence in Triggs’ impartiality.
(Read full article here.)
===Gillian Triggs’ behaviour was unforgivable for someone with semi-judicial powers, able to force witnesses to appear under threat of jail.
We cannot have the head of an inquiry showing such bias, heckling witnesses and making false and emotive claims from the bench to make the Christmas Island detention centre seem a hellhole.
Nor can we have an inquiry head giving media interviews attacking witnesses and summing up the issues before hearing all the evidence.
We also cannot have an inquiry head refusing to correct explosive claims about suicide attempts in detention when they’ve been debunked.
It is now impossible to have confidence in Triggs’ impartiality.
(Read full article here.)
Dawkins: “immoral” not to kill Down’s syndrome baby
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (6:38am)
This is becoming very dangerous. We’ve gone from believing it’s immoral to kill the unborn to some insisting it’s immoral not to if they aren’t, you know, perfect:
(Thanks to reader Seth.)
===Richard Dawkins has apologised for the “feeding frenzy” triggered by his tweet claiming it would be immoral to carry on with a pregnancy if the mother knew the foetus had Down’s syndrome.Dawkins is upset:
The geneticist’s latest Twitter row broke out after he responded to another user who said she would be faced with “a real ethical dilemma” if she became pregnant with a baby with Down’s syndrome. Dawkins tweeted: ”Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice.”
Dawkins said accusations of “Nazism, vile, monstrous fascistic callousness” and “fireballs of hatred” had been hurled his way.Normally Godwin’s law applies - the first in an argument to invoke the Nazis loses. But analogy sometimes really is analogy and not mere abuse:
The Nazis destroyed “life unworthy of life” (lebensunwertes Leben) as they termed it, not as an act of mercy, but as part of a strategy to murder that part of the population least able to defend itself… The fundamental tenet of the eugenics movement was that restricting the ability of “inferior” people to procreate whilst maximizing that of “superior” individuals, would benefit society. Attention was focused on the feebleminded (an inaccurate term covering everything from mental retardation to alcoholism), labelled as idiots, imbeciles, or morons.Once you concede some humans are too imperfect to deserve life you’re down to arguing who we should kill. “We”, of course, may not include you.
(Thanks to reader Seth.)
Stop treating us like idiots with your “asylum seekers”
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (6:26am)
Fairfax takes up the case of single male “asylum seekers” in Nauru, despite most being university-educated family men from Pakistan, a democracy, where their families still live:
===Fifty-one men – 44 Pakistanis, six Afghans and one Iranian – are living at the isolated “Fly Camp” on Nauru. The men are Shi’ite Muslims, most of whom fled Taliban violence or religious persecution in their homelands. Most speak Pashto as a first language, but the majority are university educated and also speak English.Feel we’re being gamed, and not just by the “asylum seekers”?
While they are classified as “single men” for their refugee status, almost all have wives and children in their homelands.
Brother-in-law has invention
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (6:25am)
My brother-in-law swears that he and a bunch of academics have figured a great way to work out the true value of the home you’re thinking of buying, relying on the wisdom of crowds.
===Muslim leaders betray us by siding with extremists
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (6:20am)
AS news broke of the beheading of US journalist James Foley, 80 of Australia’s Muslim representatives issued a statement denouncing the extremism of ... Tony Abbott.
Last week’s statement is the most frightening yet from our Muslim “leaders”.
It attacks the Prime Minister for proposing anti-terrorism laws it falsely claims “specifically target Muslims”.
It ludicrously claims the threat from Muslim jihadists returning from Iraq or Syria is “trumped up” and then savages the true villains — the West and the Jews.
(Read full article here.)
===Last week’s statement is the most frightening yet from our Muslim “leaders”.
It attacks the Prime Minister for proposing anti-terrorism laws it falsely claims “specifically target Muslims”.
It ludicrously claims the threat from Muslim jihadists returning from Iraq or Syria is “trumped up” and then savages the true villains — the West and the Jews.
(Read full article here.)
Victorian Liberals face wipeout in three months
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (6:02am)
Bring back Jeff:
===For the first time, Dr Napthine’s net satisfaction rating has dropped into negative territory, a troubling result for the government as Labor leads 55 per cent to 45 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis.
Bryce resented pushy Rudd, too
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (5:41am)
I did indeed think Quentin Bryce was politicising the role of Governor General. I did not know that she was also becoming concerned by what a megalomaniac was forcing her to do:
One thing, though: not all the fault lay with Rudd.
===FORMER governor-general Quentin Bryce made a series of complaints to Kevin Rudd as prime minister about his treatment of the office, his controlling attitude towards her and his lack of support when she was attacked for decisions imposed upon her by Rudd.I am just surprised so few other commentators then did not protest against the abuse of Bryce’s office.
Relations between Bryce and Rudd were frequently unhappy, with Bryce at one point deciding she could not proceed on a proposed African trip required by Rudd that had ignited public attacks on the goverrnor-general.
My book Triumph and Demise reveals that when Rudd rang Bryce at 5.40pm on March 13, 2009, she said she was “willing to postpone or cancel the trip” because it had become an issue of political dispute.
The journalistic critics mentioned in their discussion were Andrew Bolt, Piers Akerman, Glenn Milne and Greg Sheridan.
Rudd told Bryce these journalists were “right-wing, rat-pack misogynists”.
That was scant compensation for Bryce, who told Rudd she was deeply concerned.
One thing, though: not all the fault lay with Rudd.
A very healthy union for Jackson
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (5:32am)
I had no idea being a union official did not stop you from becoming wealthy:
===THE divorce settlement of corruption whistleblower Kathy Jackson is likely to be drawn into a royal commission investigation because she paid her ex-husband large sums of cash from the union she controlled after their separation.
Ms Jackson’s ex-husband, Jeff Jackson, will be called as a surprise witness at the royal commission into union corruption in Sydney later this week.
Questions to Mr Jackson are expected to focus on why union members’ money was transferred to him by his former wife from her Health Services Union No 3 branch in Victoria — including payments of $50,000 in March 2009 and $58,000 in April 2010…
Ms Jackson ... is believed to have reached a divorce settlement with Mr Jackson in the first few months of 2010 — after the couple separated in March 2008 — that involved making payments to him over time.
Under the divorce deal, Ms Jackson kept the couple’s home in the Melbourne suburb of Balwyn, which she sold in July last year for $1.8 million. Mr Jackson is understood to have kept the couple’s investment property in Box Hill, Victoria, which he sold in 2010 for $855,000. He also received a cash component believed to be about $300,000 and kept his Mercedes-Benz car.
Beheader “identified”. Save the usual excuses
Andrew Bolt August 25 2014 (12:14am)
Can we drop the usual excuse about being ”marginalised” by Western society?
===THE British security services MI5 and MI6 have reportedly identified a British hip-hop artist as the key suspect in the hunt for the killer who beheaded American journalist James Foley…
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary ... is the son of an Egyptian-born militant who is awaiting trial on terror charges in New York tied to the deadly 1998 bombings of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania…
Bary — who recently tweeted a photo of himself holding up a severed head — ... was an aspiring rapper known as “L Jinny,” whose music was played on BBC Radio 1.
Bary also appeared in music videos posted on YouTube for songs titled Overdose, Flying High and Dreamer. But he ... walked out of his family’s plush West London home last year, saying he was “leaving everything for the sake of Allah.”
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Pastor Rick Warren
#Workouts can help you "work out" grief or depression. Intense activity raises serotonin and nor-epinephrine in your brain.
===SCENES FROM A CRIME SPREE: On May 23rd, 1934, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were spotted by a group of armed officers driving 80 mph in a stolen Ford vehicle. A police chase ensued, resulting in a fatal shoot out and demise of the outlawed couple. To uncover more unique facts about #BonnieAndClyde, watch the epic movie premiering this fall on HISTORY, Lifetime and A&E Television Network!
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I saw the one I love. She looked lovely in red. But tell her? Whoa. That is very hard. I realised some years ago how I felt and I thought of what I wanted .. and realised I had to embrace God if I was to have the relationship I wanted with her. So I got myself baptised (invited her, she didn't go). I heard a sermon how a Minister got his children to embrace the faith by sharing each morning a devotional by Charles Spurgeon (Morning and evening) so I read that and posted it online. And I read the bible and posted that on line too .. I am so eager to share these devotionals with her .. but years pass .. and it gets hard to break the ice .. to share when you aren't used to sharing .. and it is a dream, a powerful dream .. but maybe not her dream .. It isn't complicated .. but it isn't easy either. Because I have to accept the rejection, and if I don't bring it to her, then she doesn't reject it, and I can keep the dream. - ed
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Tony Abbott's official campaign launch speech delivered today. Strong. Decisive. Inspirational. Will annoy leftists.
<On day one of an incoming Coalition government, I will instruct the public service to prepare the carbon tax repeal legislation.
I will give the directions needed to commence Operation Sovereign Borders.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation will cease making non-commercial loans with taxpayers’ money.
And the motor industry will be saved from Mr Rudd’s $1.8 billion tax on company cars.
From day one, it will be obvious that Australia is under new management and once more open for business.>
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The liberals in Hollywood are at it again. They cast of all people "Hanoi" Jane Fonda in the movie "Butler" to play one of the greatest first ladies ever in Republican Nancy Reagan in that movie.
The Tea Party
Click LIKE if you think Jane Fonda is a traitor to the USA for siding with the Communist North Vietnamese during the war.
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So, friends...inside scoop into the “Palin World.” This is Todd’s airplane hanger (under ANOTHER autumn double rainbow tonight!) where he parks his bush plane to transport us to our commercial and sport fishing grounds. And as importantly, it houses extra space for our “big kids” and their needy buddies to set up temporary “home” and also houses our FOX camera and equipment that allows convenient FOX hits way up here in the Far North! (Thank you, Roger Ailes and Bill Shine, for making it happen.) Tonight, please catch the re-run of Judge Jeanine's show on FOX. I just listened to her profound commentary and watched her superb guests (you can't argue with Ann Coulter!) educate and inspire us to defend our republic. She re-runs in a few hours, then again tomorrow. Please tune in to “Justice with Judge Jeanine.” Thank you!
- Sarah Palin
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Though black unemployment, at the end of the Bush administration, had broken a long-held pattern of being twice that of white unemployment, it has returned to its former trend under President Barack Obama.
According to a Pew Research report, the unemployment rate among African-Americans is now at 13.4 percent.
The report is released as the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech is about to be celebrated.
According to Pew:
Much has changed for African-Americans since the 1963 March on Washington (which, recall, was a march for ‘Jobs and Freedom’), but one thing hasn’t: The unemployment rate among blacks is about double that among whites, as it has been for most of the past six decades.
As Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner reports:
The trend broke at the end of former President George W. Bush’s administration as the recession hit whites more, temporarily boosting their unemployment rate.But as the recession has eased, whites have picked up more jobs. Currently, Pew said white unemployment is 6.7 percent, exactly half the black rate.
As Breitbart News reported Wednesday, Gallup showed a jump from a 7.7 percent overall unemployment rate on July 21st to 8.9 percent on August 21st. This increase represents an 18-month high.
In addition, Gallup showed a sharp increase in the number of underemployed. During the same period, the number of those with some work who are seeking more has jumped from 17.1 percent to 17.9 percent.
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Political Values
David Daniel Ball
Radicalism 33.5Socialism 0
Tenderness 78.125
These scores indicate that you are a tender-minded moderate conservative; this is the political profile one might associate with a sincere clergyman. It appears that you are trusting of religion, and have a compassionately humanistic attitude towards humanity in general.
Your attitudes towards economics appear laissez-faire capitalist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as right-wing.
To round out the picture you appear to be, political preference aside, an idealist with few strong opinions.
This concludes our analysis; we hope you found your results accurate, useful, and interesting.
Unlike many other political tests found on the Internet which base themselves on untested (and usually ideologically motivated) ideas, this inventory is adapted from Hans Eysenck's own political inventory which was developed after extensive empirical investigations in the 20th Century.
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Larry Pickering
ABBOTT’S PPL SHOULD GO... at least for now
Company tax reduction from 30% to 28.5% does not represent a 1.5% saving, particularly for multi-nationals, simply because companies have never paid 30%.
BHP Billiton in a good year pays around 17% and has paid as little as 8%. Other major companies pay as little as 3% and a growing sector pays no tax at all.
Telstra has 20 registered “subsidiaries” in tax havens... in the British Virgin Islands, Jersey, Bermuda, Mauritius and the Cayman Islands. Meanwhile it passes on to customers its $25 million carbon tax bill.
For the argument’s sake let’s say the average company tax paid is one third of the set rate (it is actually much lower than that).
Digital creative accounting with a raft of deductions, research and investment breaks, offshore phantom subsidiaries and transfer pricing mean if a government wants another 1% of company profits it needs to lift the rate by 3%.
Works the same in reverse... therefore Abbott’s 1.5% reduction in company tax to compensate for his PPL has a mere 0.5% nett benefit, yet the nett cost of his PPL remains the same.
Thus his belated admission that this overly generous scheme is only partly funded.
Labor’s claimed loss to shareholders of franked credits is a furphy because any increase in company profits due to a decrease in company tax, no matter how small, is directly reflected in increased shareholders’ franked dividends.
Apologies if that appears complicated but the fact is that all taxes are eventually paid by the people.
The burden can be shifted and the goal posts shifted but eventually, no matter how a government dresses it up, we must pay for what we get... and we must pay for the disadvantaged plus the bludgers.
Abbott’s costings will add up. He won’t release them if they don’t but it will all come down to savings and there are tens of billions available just within the Public Service.
One example is the proliferation of over 5,000 QUANGOs that suck the life out of the Federal budget. They can be halved.
Among the many duplicitous and incompetent Government departments due for pruning is Treasury that spends most of its budget on private sector advice.
The CSIRO has become a Green infested ghetto and five separate security agencies, none of which knows what the other is up to, can also be combined and halved.
There are hundreds of must-cuts but one that should be cut, or at least deferred for years, is the Paid Parental Leave scheme. There are a few seats in that decision.
As for buying Indonesian boats, that’s a thought bubble best permanently forgotten.
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Craig Kelly.
<YOUR PAYING FOR IT …………….
Despite continuing to run up deficit after deficit, over the last 3 years, the Labor government has given $416.4 million to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
And last week it was announced that the same Socialist Republic of Vietnam purchased 12 Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighter aircraft from Russia for $450 million.
Perhaps we should just cut out the middleman, and use money from Australian taxpayers to buy advanced fighter jets from Russia, and give them directly to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam - and Vietnam could fund their own roads & bridges.
And remember, we are giving away this money, at a time when Labor has cut Australia’s defence spending to the lowest levels of GDP since 1938.
And lets not forget that these 12 advanced Sukhoi fighter aircraft will add to the 20 Socialist Republic of Vietnam have purchased since 2009. And that in recent years Vietnam has also ordered from Russia 6 new Russian Kilo Class submarines costing approx US $3 billion and 4 new Russian built Gepard Class Stealth Frigates costing $350 million each.
If foreign countries can afford to buy expensive military weaponry, at a time when Labor needs to borrow billions from overseas, and Labor have slashed our military spending to the lowest levels of GDP since 1938 - does the Socialist Republic of Vietnam really need Australian taxpayers to pay for their roads and bridges etc?>
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Long-time liberal commentator Margaret Carlson said Friday, “We’ve gone from Martin Luther King to the Reverend Al Sharpton, and as a leader, as he is trying to be this weekend, it’s very dispiriting.”
Bloomberg News’ Carlson was appearing on PBS’s Inside Washington to discuss the 50th anniversary of MLK’s epic “I have a dream speech.”
Sharpton, on the other hand, was busy insisting that the murder off 22-year-old Christopher Lane by two black teens [one of which tweeted hours before the killing how he hated "nasty white people."] was not “racial.” A third teen, who was white, was charged as an accessory to murder – after the fact.
Yeah, I’m sure Martin Luther King would be proud.
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NEW Zealand Prime Minister John Key says he is "very proud" of his daughter Stephanie's nude photos.
Ms Key, who is studying at the Paris College of Art, will next month debut a series of provocative self-portraits at Paris Design Week.
The images include one of the 20-year-old covering her breasts with hamburgers and another with her body covered in pieces of sushi and octopus. In one more, Stephanie poses topless with a cherry in her mouth, brandishing a fake handgun.
We presume there is some sort of deep meaning behind the pictures. To us, they just seem a bit strange.
"The photographs were part of her curriculum work, and we are very proud of the work she is doing," Mr Key said.
Britain's Sunday Times said Ms Key was "not exactly a chip off the old block".
In 2011, Mr Key's son Max, then 15, brought attention to the family when a photo emerged of Max lying plank-like across the sofa in the prime ministerial residence.
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<Although I undermined and backstabbed her at every turn, leaked on my party and was an all round prick the past 3 years, I hold no hard feelings against Julia and respect her decision. Gotta zip folks! >
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August 25: National Heroes' Day in the Philippines (2014)
- 1580 – War of the Portuguese Succession: The army of the pretender to the Portuguese throne, António, Prior of Crato, was routed in the Battle of Alcântara, ending his short-lived reign.
- 1825 – The Thirty-Three Orientals, a revolutionary group led byJuan Antonio Lavalleja, declared Uruguayan independence from the Empire of Brazil.
- 1920 – Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War.
- 1942 – Second World War: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.
- 1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach toNeptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of theplanet's rings (pictured).
- 357 – Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum).
- 766 – Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios.
- 1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
- 1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
- 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1580 – Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
- 1630 – Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1825 – Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- 1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
- 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
- 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
- 1883 – France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
- 1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
- 1898 – Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
- 1912 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
- 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
- 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
- 1921 – The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
- 1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
- 1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
- 1942 – World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
- 1942 – World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
- 1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
- 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
- 1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
- 1950 – President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
- 1961 – President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
- 1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated.
- 1980 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
- 1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
- 1988 – The Chiado area in Lisbon is partially destroyed by a fire.
- 1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
- 1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female Cabinet Secretary.
- 1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
- 1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November, during the Croatian War of Independence
- 1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
- 1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
- 2003 – The Tłı̨chǫ land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
- 2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
- 2013 – Six people die and 22 are injured when a train derails in Huimanguillo, Tabasco, Mexico.
- 1530 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler (d. 1584)
- 1561 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1632)
- 1624 – François de la Chaise, French priest (d. 1709)
- 1662 – John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1724)
- 1707 – Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)
- 1719 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
- 1724 – George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
- 1741 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and author (d. 1792)
- 1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1803)
- 1758 – Franz Teyber, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1810)
- 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (d. 1794)
- 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel, English admiral (d. 1853)
- 1786 – Ludwig I of Bavaria (d. 1868)
- 1796 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder (d. 1876)
- 1802 – Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet (d. 1850)
- 1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (d. 1880)
- 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (d. 1898)
- 1819 – Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (d. 1884)
- 1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1909)
- 1836 – Bret Harte, American author and poet (d. 1902)
- 1840 – George C. Magoun, American businessman (d. 1893)
- 1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
- 1845 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)
- 1850 – Charles Richet, French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
- 1867 – James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (d. 1951)
- 1869 – Tom Kiely, Irish decathlete (d. 1951)
- 1878 – Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (d. 1935)
- 1882 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (d. 1966)
- 1891 – David Shimoni, Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator (d. 1956)
- 1893 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (d. 1962)
- 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician and academic (d. 1975)
- 1898 – Arthur Wood, English cricketer (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Paul Herman Buck, American historian and author (d. 1978)
- 1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- 1902 – Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and educator (d. 1972)
- 1903 – Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player, created the Elo rating system (d. 1992)
- 1905 – Faustina Kowalska, Polish saint, the Secretary of Divine Mercy (d. 1938)
- 1906 – Jim Smith, English cricketer (d. 1979)
- 1909 – Michael Rennie, English actor and producer (d. 1971)
- 1910 – George Cisar, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1910 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Dorothea Tanning, American painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 2012)
- 1911 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (d. 2013)
- 1912 – Erich Honecker, German politician (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Don DeFore, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
- 1913 – Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (d. 1973)
- 1915 – Walter Trampler, American viola player and educator (d. 1997)
- 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor and singer (d. 2008)
- 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- 1916 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
- 1917 – Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress and director (d. 2011)
- 1917 – Lou van Burg, Dutch-German singer and game show host (d. 1986)
- 1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
- 1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (d. 2010)
- 1919 – George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (d. 1998)
- 1921 – Monty Hall, Canadian-American actor, singer, and game show host
- 1921 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Hungarian tennis player (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Brian Moore, Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Allyre Sirois, Canadian judge (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Thea Astley, Australian author (d. 2004)
- 1925 – Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
- 1927 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (d. 2003)
- 1928 – John "Kayo" Dottley, American football player
- 1928 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2004)
- 1928 – Karl Korte, American composer
- 1928 – Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 – Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
- 1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer
- 1930 – György Enyedi, Hungarian economist and geographer (d. 2012)
- 1930 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian-American actor (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Crispin Tickell, English academic and diplomat
- 1931 – Hal Fishman, American journalist and actor (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Peter Gilmore, German-English actor (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Regis Philbin, American actor, singer, and television host
- 1933 – Patrick F. McManus, American journalist and author
- 1933 – Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet and Weather Report)
- 1933 – Tom Skerritt, American actor and director
- 1933 – István Gaál, Hungarian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Lise Bacon, Canadian politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
- 1934 – Eddie Ilarde, Filipino television host and politician
- 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet and academic
- 1937 – Virginia Euwer Wolff, American author
- 1938 – David Canary, American actor
- 1938 – Frederick Forsyth, English author
- 1939 – John Badham, English-American actor, director, and producer
- 1939 – John Bardon, English actor (d. 2014)
- 1940 – José van Dam, Belgian opera singer
- 1940 – Wilhelm von Homburg, German boxer and actor (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Marshall Brickman, Brazilian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1941 – Mario Corso, Italian footballer and coach
- 1942 – Nathan Deal, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia
- 1942 – Howard Jacobson, English journalist and author
- 1943 – Harry Manfredini, American film score composer
- 1944 – Conrad Black, Canadian historian and author
- 1944 – Jacques Demers, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician
- 1944 – Anthony Heald, American actor
- 1944 – Andrew Longmore, English lawyer and judge
- 1945 – Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2011)
- 1945 – Hannah Louise Shearer, American screenwriter and producer
- 1946 – Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
- 1946 – Charles Ghigna, American poet and author
- 1946 – Charlie Sanders, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
- 1947 – Michael Kaluta, American author and illustrator
- 1948 – Ledward Kaapana, American singer and guitarist
- 1948 – Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemist and biologist
- 1949 – Martin Amis, English author
- 1949 – Ross Davidson, Scottish actor (d. 2006)
- 1949 – Rijkman Groenink, Dutch banker
- 1949 – Fariborz Lachini, Iranian-Canadian composer and producer
- 1949 – John Savage, American actor and producer
- 1949 – Gene Simmons, Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, (Kiss and Wicked Lester)
- 1950 – Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, Georgian son of Petre Gruzinsky
- 1950 – Charles Fambrough, American bassist, composer, and producer (d. 2011)
- 1951 – Rob Halford, English singer-songwriter (Judas Priest, 2wo, Halford, and Fight)
- 1951 – Bill Handel, Brazilian-American lawyer and radio host
- 1952 – Ann Abraham, English public servant
- 1952 – Geoff Downes, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (The Buggles, Yes, and Asia)
- 1952 – Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1952 – Vijayakanth, Indian actor and politician
- 1954 – Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1954 – Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, Scottish politician, First Minister of Scotland
- 1955 – John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Magazine, Visage, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd, and The Armoury Show) (d. 2004)
- 1955 – Gerd Müller, German politician
- 1956 – Takeshi Okada, Japanese footballer, coach, and manager
- 1956 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (d. 1986)
- 1957 – Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster
- 1957 – Simon McBurney, English actor and director
- 1957 – Frank Serratore, American ice hockey player and coach
- 1958 – Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1958 – Sterling Harwood, American lawyer, author, and academic
- 1958 – Christian LeBlanc, American actor
- 1959 – Ian Falconer, American author and illustrator
- 1959 – Steve Levy, American politician
- 1959 – Lane Smith, American author and illustrator
- 1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano
- 1960 – Ashley Crow, American actress
- 1960 – Georg Zellhofer, Austrian footballer and manager
- 1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1961 – Ally Walker, American actress, producer, director and screenwriter
- 1962 – Māris Bružiks, Latvian triple jumper
- 1962 – Vivian Campbell, Irish guitarist and songwriter (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio, Thin Lizzy, and Sweet Savage)
- 1962 – Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer
- 1962 – David Packer, American actor
- 1962 – Michael Zorc, German footballer and manager
- 1963 – Miro Cerar, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia
- 1963 – Shock G, American rapper (Digital Underground)
- 1963 – Tiina Intelmann, Estonian diplomat
- 1963 – Christine McGlade, Canadian actress and producer
- 1964 – Maxim Kontsevich, Russian-American mathematician and academic
- 1964 – Vasilios Kotronias, Greek chess player
- 1964 – Marti Noxon, American screenwriter and producer
- 1964 – Blair Underwood, American actor, director, and producer
- 1964 – Joanne Whalley, English actress
- 1964 – Azmin Ali, Malaysian Politician
- 1965 – Cornelius Bennett, American football player
- 1965 – Sanjeev Sharma, Indian cricketer and coach
- 1965 – Mia Zapata, American singer-songwriter (The Gits) (d. 1993)
- 1966 – Albert Belle, American baseball player
- 1966 – Robert Maschio, American actor
- 1966 – Tracy-Ann Oberman, English actress and screenwriter
- 1966 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Planet X, Dream Theater, and Black Country Communion)
- 1967 – Tom Hollander, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967 – Jeff Tweedy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Wilco, Loose Fur, and Uncle Tupelo)
- 1967 – Nobuyuki Hiyama, Japanese voice actor
- 1968 – Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1968 – Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model, and race car driver
- 1968 – Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer-songwriter (Belle and Sebastian)
- 1968 – Spider One, American singer-songwriter and producer (Powerman 5000)
- 1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef, author, and television host
- 1968 – Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player (The Mad Capsule Markets)
- 1969 – Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
- 1969 – Vivek Razdan, Indian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
- 1969 – Rachel Shelley, English actress
- 1969 – Olga Konkova, Norwegian/Russian pianist
- 1969 – Steve Staley, American voice actor and singer
- 1969 – John Witt, American baseball player and actor
- 1970 – Doug Glanville, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1970 – Debbie Graham, American tennis player
- 1970 – Robert Horry, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1970 – Adrian Lam, Papua New Guinean-Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1970 – Jo Dee Messina, American singer-songwriter
- 1970 – Claudia Schiffer, German model and fashion designer
- 1970 – Helena Seger, Swedish model and actress
- 1971 – Mike Lockwood, American wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1972 – Marvin Harrison, American football player
- 1972 – Bryan Stoltenberg, American football player (d. 2013)
- 1972 – Gülben Ergen, Turkish singer and occasional actress
- 1973 – Fatih Akın, German director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1974 – Eric Millegan, American actor
- 1974 – Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
- 1975 – Brad Drew, Australian rugby league player
- 1975 – Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer
- 1976 – Jensen Atwood, American actor
- 1976 – Damon Jones, American basketball player
- 1976 – Javed Qadeer, Pakistani cricketer and coach
- 1976 – Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish-American actor
- 1977 – Masumi Asano, Japanese voice actress
- 1977 – Sophie Cadieux, Canadian actress
- 1977 – Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
- 1977 – Andy McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani murderer
- 1977 – Jonathan Togo, American actor
- 1978 – Kel Mitchell, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1978 – Robert Mohr, German rugby player
- 1979 – Marlon Harewood, English footballer
- 1979 – Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (d. 2015)
- 1979 – Deanna Nolan, American basketball player
- 1979 – Masato Wada, Japanese actor and singer (D-Boys)
- 1980 – Neal Musser, American baseball player
- 1981 – Rachel Bilson, American actress
- 1981 – Jan-Berrie Burger, Namibian cricketer
- 1981 – Jean-Julien Rojer, Curaçaoan-Dutch tennis player
- 1981 – Clare Oliver, Australian activist (d. 2007)
- 1981 – Camille Pin, French tennis player
- 1982 – Jung Jung-suk, South Korean footballer
- 1983 – James Rossiter, English race car driver
- 1984 – Florian Mohr, German footballer
- 1985 – Hendra Setiawan, Indonesian badminton player
- 1986 – Rona Nishliu, Kosovo-Albanian singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
- 1987 – Ollie Hancock, English racing driver
- 1987 – Velimir Jovanović, Serbian footballer
- 1987 – Blake Lively, American actress
- 1987 – Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1987 – Logan Morrison, American baseball player
- 1987 – Luka Šulić, Slovenian-Croatian cellist (2Cellos)
- 1987 – Justin Upton, American baseball player
- 1987 – James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
- 1987 – Liu Yifei, Chinese-American actress and singer
- 1988 – Alexandra Burke, English singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer
- 1988 – Ray Quinn, English actor, singer, and dancer
- 1989 – Keegan Joyce, Australian actor
- 1989 – Amber Le Bon, English model
- 1989 – Hiram Mier, Mexican footballer
- 1990 – Aras Bulut İynemli, Turkish actor
- 1992 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress (Berryz Kobo, Aa!, and Buono!)
- 1992 – Alex Roots, English singer
- 1994 – Edmunds Augstkalns, Latvian ice hockey player
- 1994 – Josh Flitter, American actor
- 1997 – Holly Gibbs, English actor
- 1998 – Abraham Mateo, Spanish singer and actor
- 1998 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer (McClain)
Births[edit]
- 79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman commander and philosopher (b. 23)
- 383 – Gratian, Roman emperor (b. 359)
- 1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
- 1270 – Louis IX of France (b. 1214)
- 1282 – Thomas de Cantilupe, English bishop and saint (b. 1218)
- 1482 – Margaret of Anjou (b. 1429)
- 1554 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1473)
- 1632 – Thomas Dekker, English playwright (b. 1572)
- 1688 – Henry Morgan, Welsh admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1635)
- 1699 – Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
- 1711 – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1656)
- 1742 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1704)
- 1774 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
- 1776 – David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1711)
- 1794 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)
- 1798 – Mikiel'Ang Grima, Maltese surgeon (b. 1729)
- 1819 – James Watt, Scottish-English engineer (b. 1736)
- 1822 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738)
- 1867 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)
- 1882 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (b. 1803)
- 1886 – Zinovios Valvis, Greek politician, 35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791)
- 1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)
- 1904 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
- 1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
- 1924 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)
- 1925 – Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian field marshal (b. 1852)
- 1930 – Frankie Campbell, American boxer (b. 1904)
- 1938 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (b. 1870)
- 1938 – Johannes van Dijk, Dutch rower (b. 1868)
- 1939 – Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)
- 1940 – Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874)
- 1942 – Prince George, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
- 1945 – John Birch, Indian-American soldier and missionary (b. 1918)
- 1950 – Earl Caddock, American wrestler (b. 1888)
- 1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and academic (b. 1894)
- 1965 – Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (b. 1879)
- 1967 – Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
- 1967 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-American actor and singer (b. 1895)
- 1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American commander, politician, and activist, founded the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
- 1968 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b. 1910)
- 1970 – Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886)
- 1971 – Ted Lewis, American singer and clarinet player (b. 1890)
- 1973 – Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875)
- 1976 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1977 – Károly Kós, Hungarian architect, ethnologist, and politician (b. 1883)
- 1979 – Stan Kenton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1911)
- 1980 – Gower Champion, American actor, director, and choreographer (b. 1919)
- 1981 – Nassos Kedrakas, Greek actor (b. 1915)
- 1984 – Truman Capote, American author and playwright (b. 1924)
- 1984 – Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast (b. 1921)
- 1984 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1899)
- 1985 – Samantha Smith, American actress and activist (b. 1972)
- 1988 – Art Rooney, American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (b. 1901)
- 1990 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1903)
- 1995 – Doug Stegmeyer, American bass player and producer (b. 1951)
- 1997 – Camilla Spira, German actress (b. 1906)
- 1998 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American jurist (b. 1907)
- 1999 – Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (Naked Eyes and Climie Fisher) (b. 1956)
- 2000 – Carl Barks, American author and illustrator (b. 1901)
- 2000 – Frederick C. Bock, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
- 2000 – Jack Nitzsche, American pianist, composer, and producer (The Wrecking Crew and Crazy Horse) (b. 1937)
- 2000 – Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule) (b. 1955)
- 2001 – Aaliyah, American singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1979)
- 2001 – Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
- 2001 – Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
- 2001 – Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver (b. 1924)
- 2001 – Üzeyir Garih, Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor (b. 1929)
- 2002 – Giannis Gionakis, Greek actor (b. 1922)
- 2002 – Dorothy Hewett, Australian author and poet (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Tom Feelings, American author and illustrator (b. 1933)
- 2005 – Peter Glotz, Czech-German politician (b. 1939)
- 2005 – Moondog King, Canadian wrestler (b. 1949)
- 2006 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Benjamin Aaron, American lawyer and scholar (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
- 2008 – Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
- 2008 – Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer and photographer (b. 1959)
- 2009 – Ted Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Mandé Sidibé, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Esther Earl, American blogger and activist (b. 1994)
- 2012 – Florencio Amarilla, Paraguayan footballer, coach, and actor (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, Croatian archeologist and museologist (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Roberto González Barrera, Mexican businessman (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Donald Gorrie, Scottish politician (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Angkarn Kalayanapong, Thai poet and painter (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Pontus Schultz, Swedish journalist (b. 1972)
- 2013 – Ciril Bergles, Slovene poet and translator (b. 1934)
- 2013 – António Borges, Portuguese economist and banker (b. 1949)
- 2013 – William Froug, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Bobby Hoff, American poker player (b. 1939)
- 2013 – Liu Fuzhi, Chinese politician, 3rd Minister of Justice for China (b. 1917)
- 2013 – Raghunath Panigrahi, Indian singer (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
- 2014 – William Greaves, American director and producer (b. 1926)
- 2014 – Marcel Masse, Canadian politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1936)
- 2014 – Uziah Thompson, Jamaican-American drummer (The Revolutionaries and Black Uhuru) (b. 1936)
- 2014 – Enrique Zileri, Peruvian publisher (b. 1931)
Deaths[edit]
- Christian feast day:
- Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while August 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in August. (South Sudan)
- Earliest day on which La Tomatina can fall, while August 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Wednesday in August. (Buñol)
- Day of Songun (North Korea)
- Independence Day (Uruguay), celebrates the independence of Uruguay from Brazil in 1825.
- Liberation Day (Paris)
- Soldier's Day (Brazil)
Holidays and observances[edit]
“I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.” Psalm 116:1-2 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
Inasmuch as Jesus has gone before us, things remain not as they would have been had he never passed that way. He has conquered every foe that obstructed the way. Cheer up now thou faint-hearted warrior. Not only has Christ travelled the road, but he has slain thine enemies. Dost thou dread sin? He has nailed it to his cross. Dost thou fear death? He has been the death of Death. Art thou afraid of hell? He has barred it against the advent of any of his children; they shall never see the gulf of perdition. Whatever foes may be before the Christian, they are all overcome. There are lions, but their teeth are broken; there are serpents, but their fangs are extracted; there are rivers, but they are bridged or fordable; there are flames, but we wear that matchless garment which renders us invulnerable to fire. The sword that has been forged against us is already blunted; the instruments of war which the enemy is preparing have already lost their point. God has taken away in the person of Christ all the power that anything can have to hurt us. Well then, the army may safely march on, and you may go joyously along your journey, for all your enemies are conquered beforehand. What shall you do but march on to take the prey? They are beaten, they are vanquished; all you have to do is to divide the spoil. You shall, it is true, often engage in combat; but your fight shall be with a vanquished foe. His head is broken; he may attempt to injure you, but his strength shall not be sufficient for his malicious design. Your victory shall be easy, and your treasure shall be beyond all count.
"Proclaim aloud the Saviour's fame,
Who bears the Breaker's wond'rous name;
Sweet name; and it becomes him well,
Who breaks down earth, sin, death, and hell."
Evening
"If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution."
Exodus 22:6
Exodus 22:6
But what restitution can he make who casts abroad the fire-brands of error, or the coals of lasciviousness, and sets men's souls on a blaze with the fire of hell? The guilt is beyond estimate, and the result is irretrievable. If such an offender be forgiven, what grief it will cause him in the retrospect, since he cannot undo the mischief which he has done! An ill example may kindle a flame which years of amended character cannot quench. To burn the food of man is bad enough, but how much worse to destroy the soul! It may be useful to us to reflect how far we may have been guilty in the past, and to enquire whether, even in the present, there may not be evil in us which has a tendency to bring damage to the souls of our relatives, friends, or neighbours.
The fire of strife is a terrible evil when it breaks out in a Christian church. Where converts were multiplied, and God was glorified, jealousy and envy do the devil's work most effectually. Where the golden grain was being housed, to reward the toil of the great Boaz, the fire of enmity comes in and leaves little else but smoke and a heap of blackness. Woe unto those by whom offences come. May they never come through us, for although we cannot make restitution, we shall certainly be the chief sufferers if we are the chief offenders. Those who feed the fire deserve just censure, but he who first kindles it is most to blame. Discord usually takes first hold upon the thorns; it is nurtured among the hypocrites and base professors in the church, and away it goes among the righteous, blown by the winds of hell, and no one knows where it may end. O thou Lord and giver of peace, make us peacemakers, and never let us aid and abet the men of strife, or even unintentionally cause the least division among thy people.
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Today's reading: Psalm 116-118, 1 Corinthians 7:1-19 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 116-118
he heard my cry for mercy.
2 Because he turned his ear to me,
I will call on him as long as I live.
3 The cords of death entangled me,
the anguish of the grave came over me;
I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
4 Then I called on the name of the LORD:
"LORD, save me!"
the anguish of the grave came over me;
I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
4 Then I called on the name of the LORD:
"LORD, save me!"
5 The LORD is gracious and righteous;
our God is full of compassion.
6 The LORD protects the unwary;
when I was brought low, he saved me....
our God is full of compassion.
6 The LORD protects the unwary;
when I was brought low, he saved me....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Corinthians 7:1-19
Concerning Married Life
1 Now for the matters you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman." 2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 3The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that....
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Aaron
[Aâr'on] - a mountain of strength orenlightened. The son of Amran and of Jochebed his wife, and of the family of Kohath, who was the second son of Levi, who was the third son of Jacob. Miriam was Aaron's elder sister and Moses was his junior brother by some three years. Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Naashon, and by her had four sons - Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar (Exod. 6:16-23).
[Aâr'on] - a mountain of strength orenlightened. The son of Amran and of Jochebed his wife, and of the family of Kohath, who was the second son of Levi, who was the third son of Jacob. Miriam was Aaron's elder sister and Moses was his junior brother by some three years. Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Naashon, and by her had four sons - Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar (Exod. 6:16-23).
The Man Who Was an Excellent Speaker
It is somewhat fitting that Aaron should not only begin the list of men under the letter A - one of the longest lists of all - but also of all the men listed alphabetically in the Bible.
The first glimpse we have of this great Bible saint is that of an eloquent speaker, and because of this fact he was chosen by God to be the prophet and spokesman of his brother Moses in his encounters with Pharaoh. The fame of his oratory was known in heaven, and recognized by God. A great orator has been defined as a good man well-skilled in speaking, and of such capacities was Aaron. When Moses protested against appearing before Pharaoh, pleading that he was not eloquent, but slow of speech and of a slow tongue (Exod. 3:10; 4:11, 12) did he refer to a defect of speech he suffered from? "Not eloquent" means, not a man of words and "slow of speech, and of a slow tongue" means heavy of speech and heavy of tongue.
There are those authorities who suggest that Moses had a stammer or lisp, a physical impediment of speech necessitating a spokesman of Aaron's ability. It would seem as if God's promise that He would be with his mouth and was able to help him overcome any disability as a speaker, bears out the thought of an actual defect of speech. This we do know, Aaron must have spoken with great power when he addressed Pharaoh on the signs and plagues of Exodus four through eleven.
Aaron plays an important part in the inauguration and development of priestly functions, all of which are prescribed in Leviticus. Among the mature males of Israel there were three classes:
From the tribes of Israel came the warriors.
From the tribe of Levi came the workers.
From the family of Aaron came the worshipers.
Aaron became the first high priest of Israel, and in Aaron and his sons we have a fitting type of Christ and His Church. The ministry of Aaron in connection with the Tabernacle with all of its services is referred to by the writer of the Hebrews as a figure of the true ministry of the High Priest who is Jesus.
Yet in spite of his high and holy calling. Aaron suffered from the murmurings of the people (Exod. 16:2; Num. 14:2). He was persuaded by the people to make a golden calf and was reproved by Moses for his action (Exod. 32 ). Aaron's penitence, however, was complete, and his service faithful. Perhaps Aaron could be placed at the head of all Old Testament penitents, for his own sins as well as for the sins of others. While Aaron was Jesus Christ in type and by imputation, he yet remains Aaron all the time, Aaron of the molten image and of many untold transgressions besides. With Moses, Aaron was excluded from the Promised Land (Num. 20:12). He died at the age of 123 years on Mount Hor, in the land of Edom, and was buried there (Num. 20).
A profitable meditation on "The Priestly Calling" could be developed along the line of the following suggestions.
I. Aaron was a type of Christ, the Great High Priest.
A. Both were chosen of God. Christ is the only mediator between God and man.
B. Both had to be clean, seeing they bore the vessels of the Lord. Aaron was a sinner and needed cleansing - Christ was sinless.
C. Both are clothed - Aaron with his coat, robe and ephod; Christ robed in garments of glory and beauty.
D. Both are crowned - Aaron with his mitre, or holy crown, Christ with His many diadems.
E. Both are consecrated or set apart - Aaron was blood sprinkled and had his hands filled for the Lord (Lev. 8:24-27); Christ is sanctified forever (John 17:16, 17).
F. Both feed on the bread of consecration (cf. Lev. 22:21, 22with John 4:32).
G. Both are blameless. No man with a blemish could come nigh to offer a sacrifice unto the Lord. Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled.
A. Both were chosen of God. Christ is the only mediator between God and man.
B. Both had to be clean, seeing they bore the vessels of the Lord. Aaron was a sinner and needed cleansing - Christ was sinless.
C. Both are clothed - Aaron with his coat, robe and ephod; Christ robed in garments of glory and beauty.
D. Both are crowned - Aaron with his mitre, or holy crown, Christ with His many diadems.
E. Both are consecrated or set apart - Aaron was blood sprinkled and had his hands filled for the Lord (Lev. 8:24-27); Christ is sanctified forever (John 17:16, 17).
F. Both feed on the bread of consecration (cf. Lev. 22:21, 22with John 4:32).
G. Both are blameless. No man with a blemish could come nigh to offer a sacrifice unto the Lord. Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled.
II. Aaron's sons were types of the Christian. What a precious truth the priesthood of all true believers is.
A. They had names closely associated. "Aaron and his sons" appears ten times. Aaron's sons were called in him. We were chosenin Christ from the eternal past. Priests because sons, is true in both cases.
B. They had the same calling. Aaron and his sons were priests. Christ and ourselves are priests unto God.
C. They had the same anointing. Aaron and his sons were accepted by the same blood and anointed with the same oil. Christ entered the veil by His own blood, and we enter by the same blood. Head and members alike are anointed with the same blessed Spirit.
D. They had their hands filled with the same offering, ate the same food, were under the same authority. How these aspects are likewise applicable to Christ and His own!
A. They had names closely associated. "Aaron and his sons" appears ten times. Aaron's sons were called in him. We were chosenin Christ from the eternal past. Priests because sons, is true in both cases.
B. They had the same calling. Aaron and his sons were priests. Christ and ourselves are priests unto God.
C. They had the same anointing. Aaron and his sons were accepted by the same blood and anointed with the same oil. Christ entered the veil by His own blood, and we enter by the same blood. Head and members alike are anointed with the same blessed Spirit.
D. They had their hands filled with the same offering, ate the same food, were under the same authority. How these aspects are likewise applicable to Christ and His own!
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