For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
Sport hooliganism is bad, but not as bad as in Constantinople in 532. Chariot races had been regulated to teams for centuries, and four colours were strongest: blue, red green and white. By the time of 532, blue and green dominated. Emperor Justinian I favoured blue. In 531, some Blues and Greens supporters had been arrested for murder. They were hanged. But a Blue and a Green hid in a church begging sanctuary from an angry mob. Justinian was in a delicate phase of a peace treaty with Persia. Justinian was also taxing highly. Acting to minimise the damage, Justinian commuted the sentences of the two to imprisonment, but their supporters demanded a pardon. Justinian ordered that chariot races be run. On this day in 532, Justinian was in the safety of his viewer's box in the hippodrome for the race. But insults were hurled at him and riots broke out. Then some senators, who seemed motivated to oppose the high taxes and Justinian's alleged lack of respect for them promoted the previous emperor's nephew, Hypatius as the new emperor.
Justinian despaired and sought to flee, but his wife persuaded him to do the manly thing instead. She said she would rather die than lose her title. So Justinian hatched a plan with his generals and eunuch. The eunuch walked into the middle of the murderous mob in the Hippodrome and, talking to the Blues, mentioned Justinian was their supporter, and gave Blues leaders a bag of gold. The unity for Hypatius was lost .. Blues left the Hippodrome and the generals let troops in, killing thirty thousand rioters. Hypatius was executed. Half of Constantinople was in ruins and the Hagia Sophia had to be rebuilt. Not too dissimilar to a term of ALP government.
In 1547, Henry Howard, first cousin to Catherine Howard who had been beheaded for adultery on order of Henry VIII, was sentenced to death by the sickly king. Henry VIII feared Henry Howard had plans on usurping the throne from his son, Edward. Henry Howard's father was also sentenced to death, but Henry VIII died before the sentence was carried out. Henry Howard was executed on January 19th. His father remained in jail. Henry Howard is considered a founder of renaissance poetry, having created the sonnet.
In 1607, The Bank of Genoa failed after Spain was declared bankrupt. Not too dissimilar to a term of ALP Government. In 1842, Dr William Brydon, an assistant surgeon, became the sole survivor of 4500 men and 12000 camp followers when he staggered into the garrison at Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Years later it inspired Rudyard Kipling to write The Man Who Would be King. 1898, writer Émile Zola's J'accuse exposed the Dreyfus affair. In 1910, the first public radio broadcast was made of an opera. In 1939, the Black Friday bush fires of Australia claimed twenty thousand square kilometres and 71 lives. In 1942, Henry Ford presented a plastic automobile and Germany first used an ejector seat in an aircraft. In 1968, Johnny Cash performed in Folsom State Prison. In 2012, the Costa Concordia modelled ALP Government.
Reports are coming in former Queensland ALP leader and pedophile Keith Wright has died in Vietnam at age 72. Important to note the QLD ALP have not reformed since his leadership.
Justinian despaired and sought to flee, but his wife persuaded him to do the manly thing instead. She said she would rather die than lose her title. So Justinian hatched a plan with his generals and eunuch. The eunuch walked into the middle of the murderous mob in the Hippodrome and, talking to the Blues, mentioned Justinian was their supporter, and gave Blues leaders a bag of gold. The unity for Hypatius was lost .. Blues left the Hippodrome and the generals let troops in, killing thirty thousand rioters. Hypatius was executed. Half of Constantinople was in ruins and the Hagia Sophia had to be rebuilt. Not too dissimilar to a term of ALP government.
In 1547, Henry Howard, first cousin to Catherine Howard who had been beheaded for adultery on order of Henry VIII, was sentenced to death by the sickly king. Henry VIII feared Henry Howard had plans on usurping the throne from his son, Edward. Henry Howard's father was also sentenced to death, but Henry VIII died before the sentence was carried out. Henry Howard was executed on January 19th. His father remained in jail. Henry Howard is considered a founder of renaissance poetry, having created the sonnet.
In 1607, The Bank of Genoa failed after Spain was declared bankrupt. Not too dissimilar to a term of ALP Government. In 1842, Dr William Brydon, an assistant surgeon, became the sole survivor of 4500 men and 12000 camp followers when he staggered into the garrison at Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Years later it inspired Rudyard Kipling to write The Man Who Would be King. 1898, writer Émile Zola's J'accuse exposed the Dreyfus affair. In 1910, the first public radio broadcast was made of an opera. In 1939, the Black Friday bush fires of Australia claimed twenty thousand square kilometres and 71 lives. In 1942, Henry Ford presented a plastic automobile and Germany first used an ejector seat in an aircraft. In 1968, Johnny Cash performed in Folsom State Prison. In 2012, the Costa Concordia modelled ALP Government.
Reports are coming in former Queensland ALP leader and pedophile Keith Wright has died in Vietnam at age 72. Important to note the QLD ALP have not reformed since his leadership.
From 2014
Waddle AGW alarmists think up next? Ice bound penguins means global warming according to (insert highly paid alarmist here). A certain drawing is the real deal, according to a former Christian who used to worship God, but now worships left wing theory. I've not been given the snorkel training that I may need to help me survive the warmest future. Some can bet their careers and never be held accountable. That and more articles are covered in today's report.
Historical perspective on this day
In 532, Nika riots in Constantinople. 888, Odo, Count of Paris became King of the Franks. 1435, Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, was promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was sentenced to death. 1607, the Bank of Genoa failed after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain. 1666, French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived in Dhaka and met Shaista Khan. 1793, Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome 1797, French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ended with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
In 1815, War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state. 1822, the design of the Greek flag was adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. 1830, the Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana began. 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. 1840, the steamship Lexington burned and sank four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives. 1842, Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India CompanyArmy during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. 1847, the Treaty of Cahuenga ended the Mexican–American War in California. 1869, national convention of black leaders met in Washington, D.C. 1893, the Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom held its first meeting. Also 1893, U.S. Marines landed in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. 1895, First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurred; it was an Italian victory. 1898, Émile Zola's J'accuse exposed the Dreyfus affair.
In 1908, the Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania killed 171 people. 1910, the first public radio broadcast took place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York. 1913, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University. 1915, an earthquake in Avezzano, Italy killed 29,800. 1934, the Candidate of Sciences degree was established in the Soviet Union. 1935, a plebiscite in Saarland showed that 90.3% of those voting wished to join Nazi Germany. 1939, the Black Friday bush fires burned 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people. 1942, Henry Ford patented a plastic automobile, which was 30% lighter than a regular car. Also 1942, World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
In 1951, First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen began, which would end in a major victory for France. 1953, an article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.1958, the Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushed a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. 1960, the Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union was officially abolished. 1963, Coup d'etat in Togoresulted in assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio 1964, Anti-Muslim riots broke out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths. 1964, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland. 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American Cabinet member when he was appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 1968, Johnny Cash performed live at Folsom State Prison 1972, Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana were ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. 1974, Seraphim was elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. 1978, U.S. Food & Drug Administration required all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
In 1982, Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. 1985, a passenger train plunged into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa. 1986, a month-long violent struggle began in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties. 1988, Lee Teng-hui became the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China. 1990, Douglas Wilder became the first elected African American governor as he took office in Richmond, Virginia. 1991, Soviet Union troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000. 1993, Space Shuttle program: Endeavour headed for space for the third time as STS-54 launched from the Kennedy Space Center. 2001, an earthquake hit El Salvador, killing more than 800. 2012, the passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy. There were 32 confirmed deaths amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.
In 1815, War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state. 1822, the design of the Greek flag was adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. 1830, the Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana began. 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. 1840, the steamship Lexington burned and sank four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives. 1842, Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India CompanyArmy during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. 1847, the Treaty of Cahuenga ended the Mexican–American War in California. 1869, national convention of black leaders met in Washington, D.C. 1893, the Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom held its first meeting. Also 1893, U.S. Marines landed in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. 1895, First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurred; it was an Italian victory. 1898, Émile Zola's J'accuse exposed the Dreyfus affair.
In 1908, the Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania killed 171 people. 1910, the first public radio broadcast took place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York. 1913, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University. 1915, an earthquake in Avezzano, Italy killed 29,800. 1934, the Candidate of Sciences degree was established in the Soviet Union. 1935, a plebiscite in Saarland showed that 90.3% of those voting wished to join Nazi Germany. 1939, the Black Friday bush fires burned 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people. 1942, Henry Ford patented a plastic automobile, which was 30% lighter than a regular car. Also 1942, World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
In 1951, First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen began, which would end in a major victory for France. 1953, an article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.1958, the Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushed a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. 1960, the Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union was officially abolished. 1963, Coup d'etat in Togoresulted in assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio 1964, Anti-Muslim riots broke out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths. 1964, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland. 1966, Robert C. Weaver became the first African American Cabinet member when he was appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 1968, Johnny Cash performed live at Folsom State Prison 1972, Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana were ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. 1974, Seraphim was elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. 1978, U.S. Food & Drug Administration required all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
In 1982, Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. 1985, a passenger train plunged into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa. 1986, a month-long violent struggle began in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties. 1988, Lee Teng-hui became the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China. 1990, Douglas Wilder became the first elected African American governor as he took office in Richmond, Virginia. 1991, Soviet Union troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000. 1993, Space Shuttle program: Endeavour headed for space for the third time as STS-54 launched from the Kennedy Space Center. 2001, an earthquake hit El Salvador, killing more than 800. 2012, the passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy. There were 32 confirmed deaths amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.
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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.
Happy birthday and many happy returns Margaret May Whipps, Aloese Seumanutafa and Nathan Nguyen. Born on the same day,across the years, along with
- 1334 – Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
- 1562 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)
- 1596 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
- 1749 – Maler Müller, German poet, painter, and playwright (d. 1825)
- 1893 – Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer (d. 1963)
- 1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, New Zealand-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
- 1954 – Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Yes, Rabbitt, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
- 1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress and producer
- 1964 – Bill Bailey, English comedian, actor, singer, and guitarist
- 1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
- 1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor
- 1995 – Qaasim Middleton, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Nat & Alex Wolff)
January 13: St. Knut's Day in Finland and Sweden
- 896 – Emperor Zhaozong appointed Li Keyong as the Prince of Jin, who began his reign as first emperor of Jin following the collapse of the Tang Dynasty in China.
- 1815 – War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- 1898 – "J'accuse...!", an open letter by French writer Émile Zola (pictured) to President Félix Faure of the French Republic, was published by the Parisian newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the highest levels of the French Army in covering up the truth of the Dreyfus affair.
- 1915 – About 30,000 people in Avezzano, Italy—96% of its population—were killed when an earthquakestruck the region.
- 1972 – Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup d'état to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana.
Deaths
- 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
- 533 – Saint Remigius, French bishop (b. 437)
- 614 – Saint Mungo, Scottish bishop and saint
- 703 – Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
- 858 – Æthelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
- 888 – Charles the Fat, Carolingian emperor (b. 839)
- 1151 – Abbot Suger, French historian and politician (b. 1081)
- 1177 – Henry II, Duke of Austria (b. 1107)
- 1330 – Frederick the Fair, Austrian husband of Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany (b. 1286)
- 1363 – Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)
- 1599 – Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
- 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
- 1630 – Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese general (b. 1584)
- 1658 – Edward Sexby, English soldier (b. 1616)
- 1691 – George Fox, English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (b. 1624)
- 1717 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647)
- 1775 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
- 1790 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
- 1796 – John Anderson, Scottish philosopher and educator (b. 1726)
- 1797 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (b. 1715)
- 1832 – Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founded Lord's Cricket Ground (b. 1755)
- 1838 – Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
- 1864 – Stephen Foster, American composer and songwriter (b. 1826)
- 1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer, co-founded the The Mauser Company (b. 1834)
- 1907 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (b. 1839)
- 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
- 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (b. 1848)
- 1941 – James Joyce, Irish author and poet (b. 1882)
- 1943 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)
- 1978 – Hubert Humphrey, American politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
- 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
- 2002 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1916)
- 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2009 – Nancy Bird Walton, Australian pilot (b. 1915)
- 2014 – Waldemar von Gazen, German general and lawyer (b. 1917)
CLIMATE OF XENOPHOBIA, TERRORISM AND BURNT KALE
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 13, 2016 (5:20pm)
Further to that new lamb commercial, social justice warriors are now calling for a ban because they think it is violent and racially insensitive:
The latest Australia Day lamb ad, which brings together Lambassador Sam Kekovich and legendary SBS newsreader Lee Lin Chin, is based around a mission to save Aussies abroad from having to go without a lamb barbecue on Australia Day.One of the people Chin’s army brings home includes a vegan whose apartment is set on fire.It is this scene that has sparked complaints … Others have complained about the use of the term “boomerang” arguing it is insensitive to indigenous Australians, especially leading into Australia Day.
Specifically, they are upset that the fictional mission in the ad is called “Operation Boomerang”. Seriously. Among those offended is (of course) Fairfax vegan Jennifer Duke, supported by her delicate friend Vincent, whose demand for decency appears in the Age:
Great argument, son. Meanwhile, nobody will buy me a new Alfa Romeo Giulia; in a climate of xenophobia and terrorism, this is alarming. Anyone else get the impression that Vinnie isn’t exactly the type who’d be in the front row at a cripple fight?
Replace the vegan with someone from an ethnic minority and the joke wouldn’t work. At which point this ends, because explaining jokes to vegans is harder than Derek Randall’s head.
Great argument, son. Meanwhile, nobody will buy me a new Alfa Romeo Giulia; in a climate of xenophobia and terrorism, this is alarming. Anyone else get the impression that Vinnie isn’t exactly the type who’d be in the front row at a cripple fight?
Replace the vegan with someone from an ethnic minority and the joke wouldn’t work. At which point this ends, because explaining jokes to vegans is harder than Derek Randall’s head.
QUALITY SCHOOL WITH QUALITY SPELLING
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 13, 2016 (4:24pm)
Social justice warriors tend to get it all wrong about punctuation, which is not an apparatus of elitist repression, but a system of information, at the disposal of all. There can be no reliable clarity without it. The great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, who was a social rebel in almost every way, was firmly conservative on the subject. “To have touched the feet of Christ,” he said, “is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.”
Exactly, and that’s why this site requires proper punctuation from commenters. I’m saving all of you from becoming social justice warriors. You’re welcome.
INCIDENT OCCURS AT MYSTERIOUS REMOTE LOCATION
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 13, 2016 (2:57am)
The Sydney Morning Herald believes its readers need a map to find Penrith:
A police officer and a security guard have been shot and injured during an altercation with a man at Nepean Hospital in Sydney’s west late on Tuesday night, after the man stole the police officer’s gun during a struggle.NSW police confirmed they were called to the hospital in Penrith just before 10.30pm on Tuesday night after receiving reports a man, aged 39, was threatening a doctor with scissors.
The SMH’s report is illustrated with a helpful graphic, as though this attack occurred in a distant foreign land rather than just 50 kilometres from the centre of Sydney:
Well done, SMH. By comparison, the Daily Telegraph‘s coverage contains remarkable detail:
Well done, SMH. By comparison, the Daily Telegraph‘s coverage contains remarkable detail:
Another patient at the hospital dragged the injured male police officer away from the area after he was shot in the left thigh. The patient said the attacker took an officer’s gun during a scuffle on the floor and fired two shots. The security guard was injured in the left calf.
The condition of the injured pair is unknown. Click for updates.
SAME TEAM, SAME TACTICS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, January 13, 2016 (12:13am)
Some of the strategies employed by left-wing feminists to excuse or diminish Islamic responsibility for the Cologne sexual assault frenzy are remarkably similar to strategies used by Muslims to excuse or diminish other Islamic atrocities. This is Clementine Ford’s version of Mustafa Abu Yusuf’s celebrated “what about the British in Malaya in the 1950s” gambit:
No concern for the hundreds of complaints from Oktoberfest every year?
Ford is attempting to downplay the 516 criminal complaints arising from Cologne’s New Year’s Eve by comparing them to what she imagines must be a similar number of complaints emerging from Munich’s massive annual beer carnival. J.F. Beck sets her straight:
6.4 million people attended Oktoberfest 2013, of which at least 3 million would have been males. Had these male Oktoberfest attendees sexually assaulted woman at the same rate as the 1,000 Cologne predators, 510,000 women would have been assaulted. The actual 2013 figures: 16 alleged sexual assaults. Your typical German male appears to be more interested in drinking beer than assaulting woman; for many of the asylum seekers it’s the other way round.
Next, here’s our old mate and Dame Edna sound-alike Jane Caro offering her unique variation on the time-honoured “just a tiny minority” defence:
Truth is maybe 1000 men behaved very badly. Thousands & thousands more did not.
Readers are invited to apply their own version of Caro’s dumb deflection to other scenarios. For example: “Truth is one Australian man murdered Jill Meagher. Millions & millions more did not.”
MO SHOW
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (1:22pm)
The ABC – along with several more reputable Australian media outlets – displays the latest Charlie Hebdo cover, complete with forbidden Mo toon:
The latest front page of Charlie Hebdo has been released, showing the Prophet Mohammed holding a Je Suis Charlie sign under the banner “All is forgiven”.
This represents a welcome change of policy since 2006.
WALKED RIGHT INTO THAT ONE
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (4:06am)
Academic and Guardian columnist Jason Wilson:
It’s adorable that Tim Blair thinks his blog still commands attention and that his positions demand a response.
That would be Jason’s response. To my blog. To which he still pays attention.
NON-TERROR OPEN THREAD
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (4:00am)
Let’s give ourselves a momentary break here. Please comment on any topic other than Islamic terrorism. Oh, and an administrative note: commenters have lately taken to signing off with either several full stops or none at all. One will do.
NOT TO MENTION THE BRITISH IN MALAYA IN THE 1950s
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (3:54am)
Hizb ut-Tahrir pleads for “perspective” following last week’s Islamic terrorist attacks in France:
People are killed every day around the world in numbers and in circumstances that should put the events in France in perspective.
True. More people are killed every day in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria and Egypt. And they are all killed by Islamic extremists. Stupid Hizbies didn’t really think this through.
FACT FACED
Tim Blair – Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (3:24am)
British culture secretary Sajid Javid, who is of Islamic background, slams the lazy and wrong:
There is no getting away from the fact that the people carrying out these acts – what we have seen just horrifically this week in Paris, what has happened in London and Madrid – these people call themselves Muslims.The lazy answer would be to say that this has got nothing whatsoever to do with Islam or Muslims and that should be the end of that. That would be lazy and wrong. You can’t get away from the fact that these people are using Islam, taking a peaceful religion and using it as a tool to carry out their activities.
Not for the first time, Andrew O’Keefe (shown here researching global geopolitics) is on the side of lazy wrongness. By contrast, Paris terrorist Amedy Coulibaly is extremely direct on the connection between Islam and murderous violence. So too is Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who earlier this month called for Islam to face its terror addiction – and reform:
Deception or clever marketing? Should a political party be able to insinuate that the AEC is advocating voters to rid Newman on Jan 31?
I'll call it deception. MM
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Chris Turney now blames warming for trapping penguins in ice, too
Andrew Bolt January 12 2014 (3:45pm)
Professor Chris Turney, who got stuck in the Antarctic ice he’s convinced is melting away, now warns that too much ice is killing Adelie penguins and global warming is to blame:
===Read more about the ice-bound penguins struggling @DouglasMawson’s Huts, Cape Denison, Antarctica.Turney links to a post by a member of his expedition which claims:
In normal years the Adelie penguins that nest at Cape Denison can feed in the open waters of Commonwealth Bay, but now they must walk over 60 km across the ice in order to find food. This giant iceberg has set up a natural experiment that tests the resilience of Adelie penguins to major iceberg calving and stranding events that we expect to become more common with climate change.Strangely enough, not three years ago we were told that Adelie penguins in Antarctica were actually being killed by too little ice, and, yes, global warming was to blame:
If global temperatures continue to rise, however, the Emperor penguins in Terre Adélie, in East Antarctica may eventually disappear, according to a new study by led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)…Is there any evidence at all that would change Turney’s conviction that global warming is causing the ice to melt, grow or whatever?
“Over the last century, we have already observed the disappearance of the Dion Islets penguin colony, close to the West Antarctic Peninsula,” says Stephanie Jenouvrier, WHOI biologist and lead author of the new study… Like in Terre Adélie, Jenouvrier thinks the decline of those penguins might be connected to a simultaneous decline in Antarctic sea ice due to warming temperatures in the region.
Unlike other sea birds, Emperor penguins breed and raise their young almost exclusively on sea ice. If that ice breaks up and disappears early in the breeding season, massive breeding failure may occur, says Jenouvrier…
Disappearing sea ice may also affect the penguins’ food source. The birds feed primarily on fish, squid, and krill, a shrimplike animal, which in turn feeds on zooplankton and phytoplankton, tiny organisms that grow on the underside of the ice.
WORLD VISION: THE DRAWING IS GENUINE
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (12:21pm)
Following last week’s Obvious controversy, World Vision Australia CEO Tim Costello responds to criticism – and reports that a certain drawing is the real deal.
“EVERYTHING IS SWEET”
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (12:19pm)
The magistrate who took down Russell Packer.
LEFTOID LEAP
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (11:59am)
Recently I upset Twitterists of the left by … well, we could just leave it there, couldn’t we? It doesn’t take much to offend social media’s eternally outraged panty bunchers, hissy fitters and tantrum tossers. There’d still be angry reactions even if I filled this page with recipes for your gluten-intolerant children.
Continue reading 'LEFTOID LEAP'CRANK UP THAT OLD MISOGYNY SPEECH
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (6:20am)
Spare a thought for Julia Gillard, who is in for an extremely busy week.
Continue reading 'CRANK UP THAT OLD MISOGYNY SPEECH'SNORKEL TOWN
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (5:28am)
Much of the international media followed the BBC’s lead on global warming. But who led the BBC?
The BBC has spent tens of thousands of pounds over six years trying to keep secret an extraordinary ‘eco’ conference which has shaped its coverage of global warming, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.The controversial seminar was run by a body set up by the BBC’s own environment analyst Roger Harrabin and funded via a £67,000 grant from the then Labour government, which hoped to see its ‘line’ on climate change and other Third World issues promoted in BBC reporting.At the event, in 2006, green activists and scientists – one of whom believes climate change is a bigger danger than global nuclear war – lectured 28 of the Corporation’s most senior executives.Then director of television Jana Bennett opened the seminar by telling the executives to ask themselves: ‘How do you plan and run a city that is going to be submerged?’
I was in London last year. The lack of snorkel preparedness was disturbing.
PERFESSER PERSISTS
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (4:29am)
Back in 2007, psychologist Steve Biddulph bet his career on Labor solidarity:
Rudd and Gillard are not in power for power’s sake. I am willing to stake my 30 years as a psychologist on this, but I think many observers have also come to this conclusion. Kevin and Julia, as Australia already calls them, want to make this country a better place for the people in it. In the coming times of deprivation, they have the value systems that will be needed to care for the sudden rise in poverty, stress, and need. They also have the unity.
That unity quickly vanished. So, might you expect, would Biddulph’s wagered credibility as a shrink. Seven years later, however:
Steve Biddulph is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology …
SHORT CAR SHORTENED
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (4:08am)
Observe as a temper-fuelled tiny car becomes tinier with every collision.
WADDLE AGAINST WARMING
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (4:00am)
The amazing life of a Sydney Morning Herald climate screamer:
Wow, found an old photo of Ben Cubby at Walk Against Warming 07 when I was dressed up as a penguin!
ARIEL SHARON
Tim Blair – Monday, January 13, 2014 (1:38am)
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===Lost in America - By Isaac Stone Fish
John Tran The irony was not lost when he called his left-liberals communist, or puppets of the communist state.
John Tran This just shows left leaning politics is so insular, so self obsessed, so petty, they can't work or support in a bipartisan way to tackle an issue bigger than them.. and that's the problem, the issue is never bigger than them, it has to be about them first..===
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Frank Severino
Art, by definition, has to travel from the grip of the artist. Whether given or sold, it must seek a home beyond the authorial grasp. Accordingly, those fingers should willingly unfurl.She had me where she wanted me. She wouldn't loosen her grip. I told her, with sweat beading, that she was an artist .. ed
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It used to be a yr 8 science experiment to light a flame and make an observation. One apparently correct answer is "I see the world's atmosphere heating" - ed===
www.spectator.co.uk
Smearing Francis by likening him to Obama ..ed
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why can't any 2 people share a living space without other people assuming that they are a couple?
My parents did it .. ed
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Michelle Malkin
Cute pic of Piper Palin inflames Palin Derangement Syndrome ==>http://twitchy.com/2014/01/11/
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Wer nicht mit Fremdwörtern umgehen kann, der muss halt die Frequenzen tragen ...
I stopped wearing frequencies years ago .. I now wear clothes. I accept my lack of knowledge and embrace it. Now I use Google translate to confuse me. - ed
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- 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.
- 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
- 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
- 1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
- 1666 – French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived in Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
- 1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
- 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
- 1815 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- 1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- 1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
- 1833 – United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
- 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
- 1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
- 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
- 1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
- 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- 1895 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
- 1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
- 1908 – The Rhoads Opera House Fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
- 1913 – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
- 1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- 1934 – The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
- 1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
- 1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
- 1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
- 1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- 1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
- 1953 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- 1958 – The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
- 1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.
- 1963 – Coup d'état in Togo results in assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio
- 1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
- 1964 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland.
- 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
- 1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison
- 1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
- 1974 – Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
- 1978 – United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
- 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
- 1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- 1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
- 1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
- 1990 – a seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
- 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000.
- 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
- 2000 – Bill Gates resigns as CEO of Microsoft.
- 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
- 2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 32 confirmed deaths among the 4,232 passengers and crew.
- 2012 – The opening ceremony of the Winter Youth Olympics takes place in Innsbruck, Austria.
- 1334 – Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
- 1505 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
- 1562 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier (d. 1601)
- 1596 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
- 1610 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1665)
- 1616 – Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic and author (d. 1680)
- 1651 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1694)
- 1683 – Christoph Graupner, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1760)
- 1720 – Richard Hurd, English bishop (d. 1808)
- 1749 – Maler Müller, German poet, painter, and playwright (d. 1825)
- 1787 – John Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
- 1804 – Paul Gavarni, French illustrator (d. 1866)
- 1805 – Thomas Dyer, American politician, 18th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
- 1808 – Salmon P. Chase, American jurist and politician, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
- 1812 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
- 1832 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American novelist and journalist (d. 1899)
- 1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer and academic (d. 1896)
- 1857 – Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (d. 1935)
- 1858 – Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (d. 1931)
- 1859 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1943)
- 1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist and academic (d. 1959)
- 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
- 1865 – Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)
- 1866 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian bassoon player and composer (d. 1901)
- 1869 – Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (d. 1931)
- 1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist and anatomist (d. 1959)
- 1872 – Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (d. 1928)
- 1878 – Lionel Groulx, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1967)
- 1878 – Geert Lotsij, Dutch rower (d. 1959)
- 1881 – Essington Lewis, Australian engineer and businessman (d. 1961)
- 1883 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)
- 1883 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (d. 1967)
- 1884 – Sophie Tucker, Ukrainian-American singer and actress (d. 1966)
- 1885 – Alfred Fuller, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Fuller Brush Company (d. 1973)
- 1886 – Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1964)
- 1887 – Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946)
- 1887 – George Gurdjieff, Russian-French mystic and philosopher (d. 1949)
- 1890 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1945)
- 1892 – Ermanno Aebi, Italian-Swiss footballer (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Charles Arnison, English airman (d. 1974)
- 1893 – Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer and coach (d. 1963)
- 1893 – Clark Ashton Smith, American poet, sculptor, painter, and author (d. 1961)
- 1893 – Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter (d. 1943)
- 1898 – Kaj Munk, Danish pastor and playwright (d. 1944)
- 1898 – Carlo Tagliabue, Italian opera singer (d. 1978)
- 1901 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian,(d. 1991)
- 1901 – Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian (d. 1978)
- 1904 – Richard Addinsell, English composer (d. 1977)
- 1904 – Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-American violinist and composer (d. 1992)
- 1905 – Kay Francis, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1968)
- 1905 – Jack London, English sprinter and pianist (d. 1966)
- 1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist and academic
- 1909 – Helm Glöckler, German racing driver (d. 1993)
- 1909 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch anarchist (d. 1934)
- 1910 – Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter and illustrator (d. 1989)
- 1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1914 – Osa Massen, Danish actress (d. 2006)
- 1914 – Ted Willis, Baron Willis, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Stephen Dunne, American actor and radio host (d. 1977)
- 1919 – Robert Stack, American actor and producer (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Necati Cumalı, Greek-Turkish author and poet (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Dachine Rainer, American-English author and poet (d. 2000)
- 1922 – Albert Lamorisse, French director and producer (d. 1970)
- 1923 – Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch runner (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Georgi Kaloyanchev, Bulgarian actor (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Rosemary Murphy, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1925 – Ron Tauranac, Australian engineer and designer
- 1925 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
- 1926 – Michael Bond, English soldier and author, created Paddington Bear
- 1926 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Melba Liston, American trombonist and composer (d. 1999)
- 1926 – Shakti Samanta, Indian director and producer (d. 2009)
- 1927 – Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 – Liz Anderson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1928 – Gregory Walcott, American actor (d. 2015)
- 1929 – Joe Pass, American guitarist and composer (d. 1994)
- 1930 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress
- 1931 – Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
- 1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and director (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Chris Wiggins, English-Canadian actor
- 1932 – Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (d. 1994)
- 1932 – Bearcat Wright, American wrestler (d. 1982)
- 1933 – Tom Gola, American basketball player, coach, and politician (d. 2014)
- 1934 – Rip Taylor, American actor and singer
- 1935 – Mauro Forghieri, Italian engineer
- 1936 – Renato Bruson, Italian opera singer
- 1937 – Guy Dodson, New Zealand-English biochemist and academic (d. 2012)
- 1938 – Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Daevid Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Soft Machine and Gong) (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Richard Anthony, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1938 – William B. Davis, Canadian actor and director
- 1938 – Dave Edwards, American captain and politician (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Tord Grip, Swedish footballer and manager
- 1938 – Anna Home, English screenwriter and producer
- 1938 – Shivkumar Sharma, Indian santoor player and composer
- 1939 – Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director
- 1939 – Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach
- 1939 – Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940 – Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist, and essayist
- 1941 – Pasqual Maragall i Mira, Catalan academic and politician, 127th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- 1942 – Carol Cleveland, English actress
- 1943 – William Duckworth, American composer and author (d. 2012)
- 1943 – Richard Moll, American actor and singer
- 1945 – Gordon McVie, English oncologist and author
- 1945 – Peter Simpson, English footballer
- 1946 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (d. 2004)
- 1946 – Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish saxophonist, composer, and conductor
- 1947 – John Lees, English guitarist (Barclay James Harvest)
- 1947 – Jacek Majchrowski, Polish historian, lawyer, and politician
- 1947 – Carles Rexach, Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
- 1948 – Gaj Singh, Indian politician
- 1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Indian commander, pilot, and astronaut
- 1949 – Brandon Tartikoff, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
- 1950 – Clive Betts, English economist and politician
- 1950 – Bob Forsch, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- 1950 – Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
- 1950 – John McNaughton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1951 – Bruce Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer
- 1951 – Kim Manners, American producer, director and actor (d. 2009)
- 1951 – Frank E. Peretti, American author, actor, and producer
- 1952 – Stephen Glover, English journalist, co-founded The Independent
- 1953 – Silvana Gallardo, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1954 – Richard Blackford, English composer
- 1954 – Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1954 – Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer
- 1955 – Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer and manager (d. 2015)
- 1955 – Ran Ito, Japanese actress (Candies)
- 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1955 – Jay McInerney, American novelist
- 1955 – Anne Pringle, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia
- 1956 – Janet Hubert, American actress
- 1957 – Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
- 1957 – Mary Glindon, English politician
- 1957 – Lorrie Moore, American short story writer and novelist
- 1957 – Mark O'Meara, American golfer
- 1958 – Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1958 – Ton du Chatinier, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1958 – Tasha Voux, American porn actress
- 1959 – Ernie Irvan, American race car driver
- 1959 – James LoMenzo, American bass player
- 1960 – Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1960 – Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director
- 1960 – Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach
- 1961 – Suggs, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1961 – Jeremy Bamber, English murderer
- 1961 – Wayne Coyne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1961 – Kelly Hrudey, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress and producer
- 1962 – Trace Adkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1962 – Paul Higgins, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player
- 1963 – Kevin McClatchy, American businessman
- 1964 – Bill Bailey, English comedian, actor, singer, and guitarist
- 1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
- 1964 – Ronan Rafferty, Irish golfer
- 1964 – Gloria Siebert, German hurdler
- 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver
- 1966 – Shelagh Fogarty, English journalist and radio host
- 1966 – Leo Visser, Dutch speed skater
- 1967 – Annie Jones, Australian actress
- 1967 – Paul McCarthy, Australian actor and screenwriter
- 1967 – Reno Riggins, American wrestler
- 1968 – Chara, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
- 1968 – Traci Bingham, American model and actress
- 1968 – Antonio Tartaglia, Italian bobsledder
- 1968 – Mike Whitlow, English footballer and coach
- 1969 – Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier
- 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player and journalist
- 1969 – Christopher Karpowitz, American political scientist
- 1969 – John Kronus, American wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1970 – Keith Coogan, American actor
- 1970 – Frank Kooiman, Dutch footballer
- 1970 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
- 1970 – Shonda Rhimes, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1970 – Shinya Yamada, Japanese musician and media personality (Luna Sea)
- 1971 – John Mallory Asher, American actor and director
- 1971 – Phil Whyman, English paranormal investigator
- 1972 – Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer and sportscaster
- 1972 – Nicole Eggert, American actress
- 1972 – Yukiko Iwai, Japanese voice actress
- 1972 – James O'Brien, English journalist and radio host
- 1972 – Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, founded JYP Entertainment
- 1972 – Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-American journalist
- 1972 – Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast
- 1973 – Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1973 – Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actress and singer
- 1974 – Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player and coach
- 1975 – Rune Eriksen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
- 1975 – Mailis Reps, Estonian academic and politician, 31st Estonian Minister of Education and Research
- 1976 – Michael Peña, American actor
- 1976 – Bic Runga, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1976 – Tania Vicent, Canadian speed skater
- 1976 – Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
- 1977 – William Ash, English actor
- 1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor and producer
- 1977 – Elliot Mason, English trombonist and keyboard player
- 1977 – James Posey, American basketball player and coach
- 1978 – Ashmit Patel, Indian actor
- 1978 – Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA
- 1979 – Katy Brand, English actress and screenwriter
- 1980 – Krzysztof Czerwiński, Polish organist and conductor
- 1980 – María de Villota, Spanish race car driver (d. 2013)
- 1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
- 1980 – Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer
- 1980 – Argo Meresaar, Estonian volleyball player
- 1980 – Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
- 1980 – Mirko Soltau, German footballer
- 1981 – Reggie Brown, American football player
- 1981 – Shad Gaspard, American wrestler and actor
- 1981 – Darrell Rasner, American baseball player
- 1981 – Yujiro Takahashi, Japanese wrestler
- 1982 – Kamran Akmal, Pakistan cricketer
- 1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentinian tennis player
- 1982 – Constantinos Makrides, Cypriot footballer
- 1982 – Mason Ryan, Welsh wrestler
- 1982 – Ruth Wilson, English actress
- 1983 – Ender Arslan, Turkish basketball player
- 1983 – William Hung, Hong Kong-American singer and actor
- 1983 – Imran Khan, American-Indian actor
- 1983 – Sebastian Kneißl, German footballer
- 1983 – Trina Michaels, American porn actress and director
- 1983 – Julian Morris, English actor
- 1983 – Mauricio Martín Romero, Argentinian footballer
- 1983 – Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
- 1983 – Alan Webb, American runner
- 1984 – Lourdes Arévalos, Paraguayan model, Miss Paraguay 2006
- 1984 – Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Kamghe Gaba, German sprinter
- 1984 – Aya Hirayama, Japanese actress
- 1984 – Nathaniel Motte, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1985 – Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer
- 1985 – Luke Robinson, American wrestler
- 1986 – Laura Ludwig, German volleyball player
- 1986 – Josefine Preuß, German actress
- 1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
- 1987 – Stefano Del Sante, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Florica Leonida, Romanian gymnast
- 1987 – Daniel Oss, Italian cyclist
- 1987 – Alexandre Pliușchin, Moldovan cyclist
- 1987 – Lee Seung-gi, South Korean singer and actor
- 1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Sven Wetzel, German rugby player
- 1988 – Josh Freeman, American football player
- 1988 – Daniel Scheinig, German footballer
- 1989 – Bryan Arguez, American footballer
- 1989 – James Berrett, English-Irish footballer
- 1989 – Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
- 1989 – Tim Matavž, Slovenian footballer
- 1989 – Beau Mirchoff, American-Canadian actor
- 1990 – Vincenzo Fiorillo, Italian footballer
- 1990 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
- 1991 – Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
- 1991 – Rob Kiernan, English-Irish footballer
- 1992 – Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
- 1992 – Dinah Pfizenmaier, German tennis player
- 1993 – Larry King, American murder victim (d. 2008)
- 1993 – Xénia Krizsán, Hungarian heptathlete
- 1993 – Max Whitlock, English gymnast
- 1995 – Qaasim Middleton, American actor, singer, and guitarist
- 1997 – Connor McDavid, Canadian hockey player
- 2004 – Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru, Italian conjoined twins
Births[edit]
- 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
- 533 – Saint Remigius, French bishop (b. 437)
- 614 – Saint Mungo, English-Scottish bishop
- 703 – Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
- 858 – Æthelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
- 888 – Charles the Fat, Carolingian emperor (b. 839)
- 1151 – Suger, French historian and politician (b. 1081)
- 1177 – Henry II, Duke of Austria (b. 1107)
- 1330 – Frederick the Fair, Austrian husband of Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany (b. 1286)
- 1363 – Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)
- 1599 – Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
- 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
- 1658 – Edward Sexby, English soldier (b. 1616)
- 1691 – George Fox, English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (b. 1624)
- 1717 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647)
- 1775 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian and author (b. 1693)
- 1790 – Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
- 1796 – John Anderson, Scottish philosopher and educator (b. 1726)
- 1797 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (b. 1715)
- 1832 – Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founded Lord's Cricket Ground (b. 1755)
- 1838 – Ferdinand Ries, German pianist and composer (b. 1784)
- 1853 – Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest and philosopher (b. 1783)
- 1860 – William Mason, American surgeon and politician (b. 1786)
- 1864 – Stephen Foster, American composer and songwriter (b. 1826)
- 1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer, co-founded the The Mauser Company (b. 1834)
- 1885 – Schuyler Colfax, American journalist and politician; 17th Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
- 1889 – Solomon Bundy, American lawyer and politician (b. 1823)
- 1894 – Nadezhda von Meck, Russian businesswoman (b. 1831)
- 1905 – George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
- 1906 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1859)
- 1907 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (b. 1839)
- 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish-Nigerian missionary (b. 1848)
- 1923 – Alexandre Ribot, French academic and politician; Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
- 1924 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (b. 1834)
- 1928 – Mara Buneva, Bulgarian activist (b. 1902)
- 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (b. 1848)
- 1929 – H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1851)
- 1932 – Sophia of Prussia (b. 1870)
- 1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (b. 1860)
- 1937 – Antoine Védrenne, French rower (b. 1878)
- 1941 – James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (b. 1882)
- 1943 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)
- 1950 – Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
- 1957 – A. E. Coppard English short story writer and poet (b. 1878)
- 1958 – Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880)
- 1962 – Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host (b. 1919)
- 1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese politician; President of Togo (b. 1902)
- 1967 – Anatole de Grunwald, Russian-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
- 1971 – Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
- 1973 – Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (b. 1908)
- 1974 – Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1906)
- 1974 – Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (b. 1904)
- 1976 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
- 1977 – Henri Langlois, French archivist, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
- 1978 – Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician; 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
- 1978 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
- 1979 – Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1945)
- 1979 – Marjorie Lawrence, Australian-American soprano (b. 1907)
- 1980 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- 1983 – René Bonnet, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1904)
- 1985 – Carol Wayne, American actress (b. 1942)
- 1986 – Abdul Fattah Ismail, Yemeni educator and politician; 4th President of South Yemen (b. 1939)
- 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician; President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
- 1990 – Alan Woods, Australian public servant (b. 1930)
- 1993 – Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
- 1995 – Max Harris, Australian journalist, poet, and author (b. 1921)
- 2001 – Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (2ge+her) (b. 1985)
- 2002 – Ted Demme, American director and producer (b. 1963)
- 2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban sailor and fisherman (b. 1897)
- 2002 – Frank Shuster, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Norman Panama, American director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian businessman and mountaineer (b. 1937)
- 2004 – Harold Shipman, English serial killer (b. 1946)
- 2004 – Zeno Vendler, American philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
- 2005 – Earl Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Nell Rankin, American soprano and actress (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Frank Fixaris, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1934)
- 2006 – Marc Potvin, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1967)
- 2007 – Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
- 2007 – Danny Oakes, American race car driver (b. 1911)
- 2008 – Sergej Larin, Latvian-Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
- 2008 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Mary Ejercito, Filipino mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
- 2009 – Cousin Junior, American wrestler (b. 1960)
- 2009 – Dai Llewellyn Welsh humanitarian and politician (b. 1946)
- 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
- 2009 – Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese poet, composer, and producer (b. 1925)
- 2009 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Nancy Bird Walton, Australian pilot (b. 1915)
- 2009 – Hortense Calisher American novelist and short story writer (b. 1911)
- 2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
- 2010 – Jay Reatard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1980)
- 2010 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Albert Heijn, Dutch businessman (b. 1927)
- 2012 – Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician; 1st President of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Artie Levine, American boxer (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Miljan Miljanić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Richard Threlkeld, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Diogenes Allen, American philosopher and theologian (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Jacki Clérico, French businessman (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
- 2013 – Jerry Sisk, Jr., American gemologist; co-founded Jewelry Television (b. 1953)
- 2013 – Balagangadharanatha Swamiji, Indian religious leader (b. 1945)
- 2014 – Bobby Collins, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer (b. 1927)
- 2015 – Hillel Zaks, Rabbi founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Knesses Hagedolah in Kiryat Sefer (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Gary Grimshaw, American graphic designer (b. 1946)
- 2014 – Ronny Jordan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
- 2014 – Randal Tye Thomas, American journalist and politician (b. 1978)
- 2014 – Waldemar von Gazen, German general and lawyer (b. 1917)
- 2015 – Mark Juddery, Australian journalist and author (b. 1971)
- 2015 – H. Wesley Kenney, American director and producer (b. 1926)
- 2015 – Hara Patnaik, Indian actor and director (b. 1958)
- 2015 – Ronnie Ronalde, English singer (b. 1923)
- 2015 – Robert White, American soldier and diplomat; United States Ambassador to Paraguay (b. 1926)
Deaths[edit]
- Democracy Day (Cape Verde)
- Korean-American Day (Korean-American community)
- Liberation Day (Togo)
- Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, Republic of Macedonia)
- Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14):
“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” - Galatians 3:26-28
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 12: Morning
"Ye are Christ's." - 1 Corinthians 3:23
"Ye are Christ's." You are his by donation, for the Father gave you to the Son; his by his bloody purchase, for he counted down the price for your redemption; his by dedication, for you have consecrated yourself to him; his by relation, for you are named by his name, and made one of his brethren and joint-heirs. Labour practically to show the world that you are the servant, the friend, the bride of Jesus. When tempted to sin, reply, "I cannot do this great wickedness, for I am Christ's." Immortal principles forbid the friend of Christ to sin. When wealth is before you to be won by sin, say that you are Christ's, and touch it not. Are you exposed to difficulties and dangers? Stand fast in the evil day, remembering that you are Christ's. Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter." When the siren song of pleasure would tempt you from the path of right, reply, "Thy music cannot charm me; I am Christ's." When the cause of God invites thee, give thy goods and thyself away, for thou art Christ's. Never belie thy profession. Be thou ever one of those whose manners are Christian, whose speech is like the Nazarene, whose conduct and conversation are so redolent of heaven, that all who see you may know that you are the Saviour's, recognizing in you his features of love and his countenance of holiness. "I am a Roman!" was of old a reason for integrity; far more, then, let it be your argument for holiness, "I am Christ's!"
Evening
"I have yet to speak on God's behalf." - Job 36:2
We ought not to court publicity for our virtue, or notoriety for our zeal; but, at the same time, it is a sin to be always seeking to hide that which God has bestowed upon us for the good of others. A Christian is not to be a village in a valley, but "a city set upon a hill;" he is not to be a candle under a bushel, but a candle in a candlestick, giving light to all. Retirement may be lovely in its season, and to hide one's self is doubtless modest, but the hiding of Christ in us can never be justified, and the keeping back of truth which is precious to ourselves is a sin against others and an offence against God. If you are of a nervous temperament and of retiring disposition, take care that you do not too much indulge this trembling propensity, lest you should be useless to the church. Seek in the name of him who was not ashamed of you to do some little violence to your feelings, and tell to others what Christ has told to you. If thou canst not speak with trumpet tongue, use the still small voice. If the pulpit must not be thy tribune, if the press may not carry on its wings thy words, yet say with Peter and John, "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee." By Sychar's well talk to the Samaritan woman, if thou canst not on the mountain preach a sermon; utter the praises of Jesus in the house, if not in the temple; in the field, if not upon the exchange; in the midst of thine own household, if thou canst not in the midst of the great family of man. From the hidden springs within let sweetly flowing rivulets of testimony flow forth, giving drink to every passer-by. Hide not thy talent; trade with it; and thou shalt bring in good interest to thy Lord and Master. To speak for God will be refreshing to ourselves, cheering to saints, useful to sinners, and honouring to the Saviour. Dumb children are an affliction to their parents. Lord, unloose all thy children's tongue.
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Laban
[Lā'ban] - white or glorious.
The son of Bethuel and grandson of Nahor. Laban was the brother of Rebekah and father of Rachel and Leah. He lived in Padan-aram (Gen. 24:29, 50; 27:43; 28:2, 5).
The transactions between Laban and Jacob are well known, and speak of cunning on both sides. After twenty years Laban was reluctant to part with Jacob, whose presence was an assurance of divine blessing. "In character Laban is not pleasing," says T. A. Moxon, "and seems to reflect in an exaggerated form the more repulsive traits in the character of his nephew, Jacob: yet he shows signs of generous impulses on more than one occasion, and especially at the final parting with Jacob."
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Today's reading: Genesis 29-30, Matthew 9:1-17 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 29-30
Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram
1 Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. 2 There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. 3When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well's mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
4 Jacob asked the shepherds, "My brothers, where are you from?"
"We're from Harran," they replied.
5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?"
"Yes, we know him," they answered.
6 Then Jacob asked them, "Is he well?"
"Yes, he is," they said, "and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep...."
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 9:1-17
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
1 Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. 2 Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, "Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven."
3 At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, "This fellow is blaspheming!"
4 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? 5 Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? 6 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." So he said to the paralyzed man, "Get up, take your mat and go home." 7 Then the man got up and went home. 8 When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man....
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