As part of the November 24th Vic election campaign I have a petition I want to bring before the Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. I believe Matthew will be the next premier of Victoria and so I am petitioning him as I raise the issues of Employment, Crime and Education in Dandenong. I am also seeking money for my campaign. I don't have party resources, and so my campaign is on foot, and on the internet. Any money I receive that is not spent on the campaign will go to Grow 4 Life. I am asking questions like "What do you love about Dandenong?" and "If you could change something in Dandenong to make it better, what would it be?" I'm not limiting the questions to state issues. I'm happy to discuss anything, and get things done.
Coles and Woolworth shopping bag policy is being criticised by many inconvenienced. They are profiting from it, and they are not helping the environment. I'm ok with business profiting. I note checkout times are increasing as inconvenienced customers need to rearrange shopping. Another issue is being raised by environmentalists in the form of plastic straws. Environmentalists are too concerned at how you live, but not concerned at the consequences of their actions. The straws and plastic bags issue is directly a result of failed recycling policy. It is true that Australia has not the plastic problem of China, Indonesia or Vietnam, but the fact is that environmentalist noise is directly a consequence of failed policy in recycling. To address the need, we should end inefficient recycling now. For the short term, we should direct rubbish to landfill until we know how to deal with it right.
Malaysia's former PM Najib Razak is up on corruption charges, relating to over $4 billion of misdirected donations to a charity he established. In his defence, he didn't know he would get caught.
A Newsweek report on an Iranian General with conspiracy theory on Israel thieving rain clouds. Apparently Israel are only taking the silver linings. Why is the article worthy of international attention? There is drought in the region atm. Were Iran not led by bigots, Israel could help them with a range of technologies allowing Iran to prosper despite drought. Israel is not holding that technology out of reach from bigots. It is bigots that prevent Iran from being helped. Bigots, like Newsweek journalists, who promote anti semitism.
The refugee crisis in Europe is abating. It is really poor analysis to blame Merkel for the problem and the solution. Greece and Italy opened the tap with socialist governments. Italy elected an anti immigrant government to turn the tap off. Hungary's response was effective, building a wall and keeping the illegal migrants out, but their problem was a different order of magnitude to Germany's problem at the time. As RL points out, Merkel was the architect of the open door policy. But at the time, it was the only response open to Merkel, and tellingly, socialists are pointing at Merkel too. Because Merkel took leadership when they set off the bomb and ran.
I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. is the debut album by folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, released October 19, 1964. It was produced by Tom Wilson and engineered by Roy Halee. It initially flopped, but was re-released in January 1966 to capitalize on their newfound radio success and reached #30 on the Billboard pop charts. It is perhaps best known for the acoustic version of "The Sound of Silence". In several concerts, Art Garfunkel related that during the photo sessions for the album cover, several hundred pictures were taken that were unusable due to the "all-familiar suggestion" on the wall in the background, which inspired the song "A Poem on the Underground Wall".
Seriously awful lyric writing must be celebrated
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Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. is the debut album by folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, released October 19, 1964. It was produced by Tom Wilson and engineered by Roy Halee. It initially flopped, but was re-released in January 1966 to capitalize on their newfound radio success and reached #30 on the Billboard pop charts. It is perhaps best known for the acoustic version of "The Sound of Silence". In several concerts, Art Garfunkel related that during the photo sessions for the album cover, several hundred pictures were taken that were unusable due to the "all-familiar suggestion" on the wall in the background, which inspired the song "A Poem on the Underground Wall".
Seriously awful lyric writing must be celebrated
I can hear the soft breathing
Of the girl that I love
As she lies here beside me
Asleep with the night
And her hair, in a fine mist
Floats on my pillow
Reflecting the glow
Of the winter moonlight
She is soft, she is warm
But my heart remains heavy
And I watch as her breasts
Gently rise, gently fall
For I know with the first light of dawn
I'll be leaving
And tonight will be
All I have left to recall
Oh, what have I done,
Why have I done it?
I've committed a crime,
I have broken the law
For twenty-five dollars
And pieces of silver
I held up and robbed
A hard liquor store
My life seems unreal,
My crime an illusion
A scene badly written
In which I must play
Yet I know as I gaze
At my young love beside me
The morning is just a few hours away
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Radio station 3AW in Melbourne is discussing unpaid work, like internships. Internships are great providing opportunity for even the poorest to display their skill sets. Naturally the ACTU is opposed to such an idea. The Australian Council of Trades Unions wants it that anyone who gets opportunity must do so through a union. When the ALP aren't in government, their hangers on get paid through trade unions. When conservatives are not in government, their supporters do not get paid, or work. Internships are important. Foreign students face a barrier against accessing internships, unless they are independently wealthy. Foreign students have to work for income to secure university fees and accommodation. Internships for students are free to universities, but they still charge some $12k a semester. I'm not for slave labor, but volunteer positions are not that. Volunteer positions are far more flexible than Centrelink. But one impost on society is paid activism. Trade unions do not have enough checks and balances, leading to corruption.
In 324, Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeated Licinius, who fled to Byzantium. 987, Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792. 1035, William the Conqueror became the Duke of Normandy, reigned until 1087. 1767, Pitcairn Island was discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. 1775, American Revolutionary War: George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1778, American Revolutionary War: British forces killed 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
In 1819, the Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opened. 1839, the first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opened in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students. 1844, the last pair of great auks was killed. 1848, slaves were freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans. In 1863, American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminated with Pickett's Charge. 1866, Austro-Prussian War was decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. 1884, Dow Jones and Company published its first stock average. 1886, Karl Benz officially unveiled the Benz Patent Motorwagen: The first purpose-built automobile. Also 1886, the New York Tribune became the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
In 1913, Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenacted Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they were met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. In 1940, World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, was bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perished. 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. 2013, Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country called for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour was declared acting president.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
In 324, Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeated Licinius, who fled to Byzantium. 987, Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792. 1035, William the Conqueror became the Duke of Normandy, reigned until 1087. 1767, Pitcairn Island was discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. 1775, American Revolutionary War: George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1778, American Revolutionary War: British forces killed 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
In 1819, the Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opened. 1839, the first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opened in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students. 1844, the last pair of great auks was killed. 1848, slaves were freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans. In 1863, American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminated with Pickett's Charge. 1866, Austro-Prussian War was decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. 1884, Dow Jones and Company published its first stock average. 1886, Karl Benz officially unveiled the Benz Patent Motorwagen: The first purpose-built automobile. Also 1886, the New York Tribune became the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
In 1913, Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenacted Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they were met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. In 1940, World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, was bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perished. 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. 2013, Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country called for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour was declared acting president.
=== from 2016 ===
Halle Yaffa Ariel rests in the arms of the Lord. She deserved a long full life. And she was denied it by cowards who hide from reason in their safe spaces. Killed by those who gave Muslim extremists a free pass. She was Jewish, and so after a dance recital seen by 150, she went to her home and went to sleep. A 17 year old extremist Islamic broke into her home while she slept, and stabbed her to death. The so called Palestinian (Muhammad Nasser Tarayrah) had entered the house while both parents and two younger sisters were elsewhere. He later stabbed a security guard and was killed. Some two hundred so called Palestinians have been killed trying to commit similar atrocity since October 2015. They have succeeded in claiming some 33 innocent Israeli lives. It is what Obama and Kerry call 'Peace.' Some would say the cowardly Muhammad was not really Islamic, but many claim that in killing an innocent sleeping child he represents the Islamic ideal. Palestinian leadership have repeatedly called for similar attacks, and the UN endorses it.
Turnbull's legacy is assured and eternal. He could attempt to stab a Muslim woman and fail, when it turned out to be an umbrella. Police could seize him and no one would think less of him.The speech matched Turnbull as PM. Divisive, desperate and incapable.Bill Shorten had not campaigned to win, but to get back the ALP heartland that had deserted ALP when it became apparent that they lied and were corrupt in 2013, but even so did not reflect true ALP values which are also selfish and spiteful. Shorten's lies about Medicare weren't believed by ALP heartland, but were examples of Shorten connecting with those who want to believe we will all go down together come the revolution. Or evolution. Or something. On radio 3AW, in Melbourne, one caller post election said she believed the ALP lies because she had once heard a reporter say the Libs were planning to privatise Medicare. When it was explained to her that privatising Medicare could not be done as it was loss making, but privatising the fiscal collection aspect had been discussed and shelved, she said she knew the truth and liked Bill Shorten. Heartland.
Turnbull's legacy is assured and eternal. He could attempt to stab a Muslim woman and fail, when it turned out to be an umbrella. Police could seize him and no one would think less of him.The speech matched Turnbull as PM. Divisive, desperate and incapable.Bill Shorten had not campaigned to win, but to get back the ALP heartland that had deserted ALP when it became apparent that they lied and were corrupt in 2013, but even so did not reflect true ALP values which are also selfish and spiteful. Shorten's lies about Medicare weren't believed by ALP heartland, but were examples of Shorten connecting with those who want to believe we will all go down together come the revolution. Or evolution. Or something. On radio 3AW, in Melbourne, one caller post election said she believed the ALP lies because she had once heard a reporter say the Libs were planning to privatise Medicare. When it was explained to her that privatising Medicare could not be done as it was loss making, but privatising the fiscal collection aspect had been discussed and shelved, she said she knew the truth and liked Bill Shorten. Heartland.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
AFL coach Phil Walsh stabbed to death, allegedly by his son. His son is 26 years old, his daughter is 22 years old and he is survived by his wife who was also stabbed. The Adelaide Crows, the entire code and Australia mourn the loss of a dedicated, hard working and kind man. Mr Walsh had had a near death experience in 2012 which sparked him to focus on things. Earlier this year, Walsh admitted he had lost a connection with his son, and begun surfing with him and his daughter to reconnect. We have not been told if drugs were involved. The match scheduled for Sunday with the Crows has been cancelled.
Typical of the left wing, the issues facing Greece are met with calls claiming it is not possible to run Greece well. All that is required is a cut in spending. The Greek government claims it can still find other people's money to spend. Ten years ago Greece did not have a problem. Those pointing to historical issues have got it wrong. Greece needs to cut spending, to live within her means, and to repay her debts. It will be better for Greece than try to steal more money.
ALP member for Wollongong, Noreen Hay, has stepped down over allegations of voter fraud.
Typical of the left wing, the issues facing Greece are met with calls claiming it is not possible to run Greece well. All that is required is a cut in spending. The Greek government claims it can still find other people's money to spend. Ten years ago Greece did not have a problem. Those pointing to historical issues have got it wrong. Greece needs to cut spending, to live within her means, and to repay her debts. It will be better for Greece than try to steal more money.
ALP member for Wollongong, Noreen Hay, has stepped down over allegations of voter fraud.
From 2014
Some terrorists, possibly from those who were released by demand from Obama for 'peace,' murder three Israeli boys. Then an honour killing of a gay Islamic boy is blamed on Israel by media. Turns out US money is funding terrorist operations but no one is blaming a military official as Oliver North was blamed .. this ugly situation is at the feet of world leaders like Obama and the UN secretary General. And neither of them is denying it. Meanwhile, Iran has apparently been granted permission to build an atomic bomb. When will the madness end? 2016?
Today, in 1035, a supposed descendant of Rollo, reputed brother of the semi mythical Ragnar Lothbrok, became Duke of Normandy. He was also an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II. The French royal line was also founded on this day in 987, with Hugh Capet crowned. For equivalent US royalty, George Washington committed his only surrender in 1754, and took command of the US army in 1775. But it was a royal stuff up by General Lee to order Pickett's charge at Gettysburgh in 1863. Wasting the lives of 50% of his men in a futile charge. Years later, when interviewed about the cause of the defeat, a confederate officer remarked that the Union forces had a lot to do with it. Touchingly, 50 years later, to the day, opposing forces met and held hands at the high point of the charge. And there is the majesty of royalty, that so many die for the state. But it is no explanation for the deaths of four youths in Israel at the hands of terrorists.
Born on this day in 1943 was Judith Durham, a Seeker. Jim Morrison passed through a door on this day in 1971, and the carnival was over.
Today, in 1035, a supposed descendant of Rollo, reputed brother of the semi mythical Ragnar Lothbrok, became Duke of Normandy. He was also an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II. The French royal line was also founded on this day in 987, with Hugh Capet crowned. For equivalent US royalty, George Washington committed his only surrender in 1754, and took command of the US army in 1775. But it was a royal stuff up by General Lee to order Pickett's charge at Gettysburgh in 1863. Wasting the lives of 50% of his men in a futile charge. Years later, when interviewed about the cause of the defeat, a confederate officer remarked that the Union forces had a lot to do with it. Touchingly, 50 years later, to the day, opposing forces met and held hands at the high point of the charge. And there is the majesty of royalty, that so many die for the state. But it is no explanation for the deaths of four youths in Israel at the hands of terrorists.
Born on this day in 1943 was Judith Durham, a Seeker. Jim Morrison passed through a door on this day in 1971, and the carnival was over.
Historical perspective on this day
In 324, Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeated Licinius, who fled to Byzantium. 987, Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792. 1035, William the Conqueror became the Duke of Normandy, reigned until 1087. 1608, Québec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain. 1754, French and Indian War: George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity to French forces. 1767, Pitcairn Island was discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. Also 1767, Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, was founded and the first edition was published. 1775, American Revolutionary War: George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1778, American Revolutionary War: British forces killed 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
In 1819, the Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opened. 1839, the first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opened in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students. 1844, the last pair of great auks was killed. 1848, slaves were freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans. 1852, Congress established the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
In 1863, American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminated with Pickett's Charge. 1866, Austro-Prussian War was decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. 1884, Dow Jones and Company published its first stock average. 1886, Karl Benz officially unveiled the Benz Patent Motorwagen: The first purpose-built automobile. Also 1886, the New York Tribunebecame the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. 1890, Idaho was admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. 1898, Spanish–American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, was destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
In 1913, Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenacted Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they were met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. 1938, World speed record for a steam railway locomotive was set in England, by the Mallard, which reached a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h). Also 1938, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lit the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
In 1940, World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, was bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish. 1944, World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. 1952, the Constitution of Puerto Rico was approved by the Congress of the United States. Also 1952, the SS United States set sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship took the Blue Ribandaway from the RMS Queen Mary. 1967, the Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retook the Crater district following the Arab Police Mutiny. 1969, Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurred when the Soviet N-1 rocket exploded and subsequently destroyed its launchpad.
In 1970, the Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" began in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. 1988, United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. Also 1988, the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey was completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus. 1995, Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party won the general elections and was restored to power after being in opposition for 15 years. 1996, Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland. 2013, Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country called for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour was declared acting president.
In 1819, the Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opened. 1839, the first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opened in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students. 1844, the last pair of great auks was killed. 1848, slaves were freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans. 1852, Congress established the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
In 1863, American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminated with Pickett's Charge. 1866, Austro-Prussian War was decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. 1884, Dow Jones and Company published its first stock average. 1886, Karl Benz officially unveiled the Benz Patent Motorwagen: The first purpose-built automobile. Also 1886, the New York Tribunebecame the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. 1890, Idaho was admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. 1898, Spanish–American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, was destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
In 1913, Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenacted Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they were met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. 1938, World speed record for a steam railway locomotive was set in England, by the Mallard, which reached a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h). Also 1938, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lit the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
In 1940, World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, was bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish. 1944, World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. 1952, the Constitution of Puerto Rico was approved by the Congress of the United States. Also 1952, the SS United States set sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship took the Blue Ribandaway from the RMS Queen Mary. 1967, the Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retook the Crater district following the Arab Police Mutiny. 1969, Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurred when the Soviet N-1 rocket exploded and subsequently destroyed its launchpad.
In 1970, the Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" began in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. 1988, United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. Also 1988, the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey was completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus. 1995, Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party won the general elections and was restored to power after being in opposition for 15 years. 1996, Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland. 2013, Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country called for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour was declared acting president.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Annie Nguyen, Freedom Gt and Emmanuel D'Annunzio. Born on the same day, across the years. Independence Day in Belarus. In 1844, The last known pair of Great Auks, the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, were killed in Eldey, off the coast of Iceland. 1863, Pickett's Charge, a futile Confederate infantry assault against Union Army positions, occurred during the final and bloodiest day of fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg, marking a turning point in the American Civil War. 1970, The Troubles: The British Army imposed the Falls Curfew on Belfast, Northern Ireland, which only resulted in greater Irish republican resistance. 2005, Same-sex marriage became legal in Spain. Not everything is futile. Party long enough and you will see that. Cheers.
1423 – Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1590 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist, and composer (d. 1662)
1789 – Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (d. 1869)
1846 – Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer (d. 1919)
1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-German author (d. 1924)
1893 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d. 1976)
1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
1921 – François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1928 – Evelyn Anthony, British writer
1935 – Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (Fania All-Stars) (d. 2014)
1937 – Nicholas Maxwell, British philosopher of science
1943 – Judith Durham, Australian singer-songwriter (The Seekers)
1947 – Top Topham, English guitarist (The Yardbirds)
1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1958 – Didier Mouron, Swiss-Canadian painter
1960 – Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly, Erasure, and VCMG)
1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-American actress
1971 – Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
1981 – Aoi Tada, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1985 – Keisuke Minami, Japanese actor and singer (PureBoys)
1991 – Tomomi Itano, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1991 – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
1993 – Roy Kim, Korean singer
1997 – Mia Mckenna-Bruce, English child actress
1442 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1590 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist, and composer (d. 1662)
1789 – Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German painter (d. 1869)
1846 – Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer (d. 1919)
1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-German author (d. 1924)
1893 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d. 1976)
1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1966)
1921 – François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1928 – Evelyn Anthony, British writer
1935 – Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (Fania All-Stars) (d. 2014)
1937 – Nicholas Maxwell, British philosopher of science
1943 – Judith Durham, Australian singer-songwriter (The Seekers)
1947 – Top Topham, English guitarist (The Yardbirds)
1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1958 – Didier Mouron, Swiss-Canadian painter
1960 – Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly, Erasure, and VCMG)
1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-American actress
1971 – Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
1981 – Aoi Tada, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1985 – Keisuke Minami, Japanese actor and singer (PureBoys)
1991 – Tomomi Itano, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1991 – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
1993 – Roy Kim, Korean singer
1997 – Mia Mckenna-Bruce, English child actress
Deaths
- 458 – Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople (b. 449)
- 710 – Zhong Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 656)
- 1642 – Marie de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henri IV of France (b. 1575)
- 1863 – Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
- 1888 – Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1822)
- 1969 – Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
- 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (The Doors and Rick & the Ravens) (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian terrorist, planned the Munich massacre (b. 1937)
- 1608 – French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City.
- 1767 – Midshipman Robert Pitcairn sighted Pitcairn Island (pictured), subsequently named after him, during an expeditionary voyage led by Philip Carteret.
- 1844 – The last known pair of great auks, the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, were killed in Eldey, off the coast of Iceland.
- 1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
- 2013 – Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to remove the President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, from power and suspended the Egyptian constitution.
Andrew Bolt 2018
DEFEND BERT!
Gerard Henderson defends entertainment giant Bert Newton for a joke made about Graham Kennedy at the Logies. From The Bolt Report.
ABBOTT IS RIGHT: GLOBAL WARMING MIGHT NOT HURT, BUT WARMING POLICIES DO
Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister is giving us a kind of carbon tax. And Tony Abbott, who as Prime Minister scrapped Labor's carbon tax, has had enough. He today calls for Australia to scrap the Paris agreement that forces us to cut emissions - and which forces up your electricity bills. My editorial on The Bolt Report.
DANES TELL IMMIGRANTS: GIVES US YOUR CHILDREN
Deep concern about Muslim integration in Denmark has led to extreme measures: "Starting at the age of 1, 'ghetto children' must be separated from their families for at least 25 hours a week, not including nap time, for mandatory instruction in “Danish values...” Noncompliance could result in a stoppage of welfare payments."
CHINA TESTS LOYALITES OF A MILLION CHINESE AUSTRALIANS
Former Prime Minister John Howard has raised a real security concern that few politicians - other than Pauline Hanson - have dared even hint at. Australia has 1 million people of Chinese ancestry, and the Chinese police state is now counting on using the divided loyalties of some. My editorial from The Bolt Report:
SCRAP THIS WITCHHUNTING COMMISSION
Another fake claim of racism shows the Human Rights Commission cannot be reformed. It must be scrapped. Any witch hunter we hire must find witches, and in a country so short of real racists, the commission's Race Discrimination Commissioner has a dangerous record of inventing more. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
HANSON-YOUNG IS WRONG ABOUT ROSS AND ROWAN
On radio and TV last night I condemned comments Senator David Leyonhjelm made about the Greens' Sarah Hanson-Young, which she on the ABC this morning denounced as "slut shaming". But Hanson-Young then accused two Sky News hosts, whom she accused of "sniggering" as Leyonhjelm spoke. This is false, unfair and - it seems to me - opportunistic.
United by disappointment
Piers Akerman – Sunday, July 03, 2016 (12:56am)
THOUGH the votes have long been cast and the seemingly interminable election campaign has finally ended, there is no real sense of relief.
Continue reading 'United by disappointment'ELECTION 2016 – THE COUNTENING CONTINUES
Tim Blair – Sunday, July 03, 2016 (1:06pm)
Malcolm Turnbull’s surly speech was an appropriately calamitous way to end a catastrophic evening. Caroline Overington reviews Malcolm’s midnight meltdown:
If there has been a worse speech than the one Malcolm Turnbull delivered shortly after midnight, I’d like to hear it.No, I wouldn’t.It was a bad speech. An angry speech, the bulk of which was spent with Turnbull whining about the result.The police would probably have to investigate, he said.Oh boy, we all know the definition of a sore loser. Now it seems bruised winners are just as charmless.
As for the election outcome, which will remain unknown for some time, the Herald Sun‘s Rob Harris quotes a senior Liberal: “This result puts into question the strategy of Malcolm Turnbull, his office, Tony Nutt, Mark Textor and Lib HQ.”
Yes. Yes, it does.
UPDATE. With good reason, Andrew Bolt calls for Turnbull to resign.
UPDATE II. Political supergenius Malcolm Turnbull is now reduced to pleading with lefties:
Malcolm Turnbull has contacted Tasmanian Independent Andrew Wilkie this morning to sound out the MP’s position on a hung parliament.Mr Wilkie told ABC24 that his conversation with Mr Turnbull contained ‘no remarkable substance “ …Independent member for Indi, Cathy McGowan, has confirmed she also has received a phonecall from Coalition leader Malcolm Turnbull this morning ...South Australian Senator turned potential kingmaker Nick Xenaphon says he’s prepared to talk to both sides in the event of a hung Parliament.
Labor currently holds 72 seats to the Coalition’s 66. Let’s take one more look at that Turnbull speech:
The real election winner? Pauline Hanson
Andrew Bolt July 03 2016 (9:11am)
The biggest winner yesterday? Not Bill Shorten or even Nick Xenephon. Try Pauline Hanson:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===Early Senate counting suggests Pauline Hanson’s One Nation could hold up to four seats in the new Senate and the Nick Xenophon Team may win three seats…How many of Hanson’s voters were conservatives who just couldn’t stomach Turnbull? Now check what support she has, despite virtually no positive media coverage to match the high-octane taxpayer-funded support given to Nick Xenophon and the Greens by the ABC, which it should now be a Coalition project to cut to a less dangerous size.
(A)t least four of the eight crossbenchers in the previous parliament are facing defeat. Glenn Lazarus looks unlikely to return while Ricky Muir, John Madigan and Zhenya Wang look to have been defeated.
Bob Day remains a chance if he gets preferences and David Leyonhjelm is struggling but can’t be ruled out. Only Nick Xenophon and Jacqui Lambie are guaranteed of being returned to a Senate crossbench that is set to be larger than in the previous parliament despite some Liberal desires to clean out the “ferals”.
Hanson’s One Nation could hold the balance of power in the Senate with the party guaranteed one seat in Queensland and a chance to win a second in that state and polling strongly enough to be a chance of winning seats in NSW and Western Australia…
Of the 76 seats the early numbers suggest the Coalition looks to have at least 29, Labor 25, the Greens 9 and a crossbench of 9 with four other seats in doubt....
In NSW ... Hanson’s One Nation has 4 per cent of the vote and half a quota. [Liberal Democrat] David Leyonhjelm [with] 2.6 per cent of the vote ... may be fighting [for a seat with] the Christian Democrats who have 2.7 per cent of the vote and the Shooters, Fishers, Farmers with 2 per cent.
In Victoria the Coalition ... Derryn Hinch has 6.1 per cent of the primary vote and appears likely to be elected on preferences…
In Queensland Hanson has 9 per cent of the vote and 1.2 quotas, which guarantees her a seat and may deliver a second senator depending on preferences… The Katter party is an outside chance with 3.8 per cent of the vote ... Family First has 2 per cent and the Australian Liberty Alliance appears to have failed to meet high expectations with just 1 per cent.
In South Australia the Xenophon Team has 22 per cent of the vote and could snare three senators… Family First senator Bob Day’s primary vote is 2.8 per cent and he will need favourable preferences to be returned. Hanson also has 2.8 per cent in SA. In Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie’s party has won 8.6 per cent of the vote and will get at least one seat ... Hanson has 2.6 per cent of the vote in Tasmania. In Western Australia ... Hanson [is] on half a quota [and] not out of the running but it will depend on preferences.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Turnbull’s pathetic win leaves him destroyed
Andrew Bolt July 03 2016 (6:31am)
MALCOLM Turnbull has lost everything except his job as Prime Minister — and that could be next.
I doubt he’ll last to the next election. Yes, the Coalition has won the election, but by a disastrously small margin that leaves it almost powerless, Turnbull humiliated and the country damned.
Tony Abbott as prime minister had only a hostile Senate blocking everything he tried. Turnbull faces not just that, but possibly a hung parliament as well, or at best one in which he’s clinging to power by only a seat or two.
Early counting last night suggests the Coalition could even be forced into a minority government, possibly with new kingmaker Nick Xenophon, whose anti-gambling party is favoured to pick up its first lower house seat.
The Coalition could lose as many as 15 seats, which would force Turnbull to rely on the vote of the Xenophon MP or other crossbenchers to form government.
The Coalition will certainly face a hostile Senate, dominated by Labor, the Greens, possibly three Xenophon senators and Pauline Hanson, back in parliament after 18 years.
For Turnbull, this will be almost as devastating as losing the election: he will be PM with almost no authority, no mandate and no popularity.
(Read full column here. Scroll down from top story.)
UPDATE
Terry McCrann:
UPDATE
Peta Credlin:
UPDATE
The Press Gallery which cheered Turnbull into the job will now jeer him out of it:
Not listening, still hectoring.
UPDATE
No, not listening at all, which makes him temperamentally unsuited to the task of the next three years to listen not just to his team but to a gaggle of hostile Senators who have his tiny agenda in their hard hands.
Michelle Grattan:
===I doubt he’ll last to the next election. Yes, the Coalition has won the election, but by a disastrously small margin that leaves it almost powerless, Turnbull humiliated and the country damned.
Tony Abbott as prime minister had only a hostile Senate blocking everything he tried. Turnbull faces not just that, but possibly a hung parliament as well, or at best one in which he’s clinging to power by only a seat or two.
Early counting last night suggests the Coalition could even be forced into a minority government, possibly with new kingmaker Nick Xenophon, whose anti-gambling party is favoured to pick up its first lower house seat.
The Coalition could lose as many as 15 seats, which would force Turnbull to rely on the vote of the Xenophon MP or other crossbenchers to form government.
The Coalition will certainly face a hostile Senate, dominated by Labor, the Greens, possibly three Xenophon senators and Pauline Hanson, back in parliament after 18 years.
For Turnbull, this will be almost as devastating as losing the election: he will be PM with almost no authority, no mandate and no popularity.
(Read full column here. Scroll down from top story.)
UPDATE
Terry McCrann:
ONE thing is absolutely clear: Malcolm Turnbull has crafted a Triple-A disaster — for himself, for the Liberal Party and most of all, for the country.Read full column here.
Whatever the final outcome proves to be, we are now officially ungovernable.
The balance of power in the lower, the supposed house of government, will be on a knife edge. The balance of power in the Senate will be split between the Greens, the Nick Xenophon Party and Pauline Hanson senators, in both cases, plural.
One way or the other, Turnbull is going to suffer — the entirely well-deserved — humiliation of being prime minister for an even shorter period than both Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. We are in for even worse political instability than in the Gillard hung parliament days. And our economy and our national finances are in much worse shape now than they were back in 2010.
UPDATE
Peta Credlin:
Even if it is a narrow win for the Coalition this is a disaster for Malcolm Turnbull, who justified his leadership coup with the promise of an election win with an economic plan; a triumph for Bill Shorten, who has defied the pundits with an energetic but fiscally flawed campaign based on spending more on schools and hospitals; and a catastrophe for the country because it guarantees that there will be no serious attempt to get government to live within its means…The Government may well scrape back with a margin of a couple of seats. That would make every Liberal and Nationals backbencher very powerful, and Turnbull’s move to the Left will be crippled.
Following last night’s vote count, the first challenge will be actually coming up with a final result and a prime minister and this could take days.
As the incumbent, Mr Turnbull would seem to have an advantage but his authority has been badly, perhaps fatally, undermined within his own party…
Turnbull might be the left’s ideal Liberal leader but his own party is more likely to junk him than its principles, even if it means losing office — so I expect a Shorten prime ministership to be the most likely outcome of a hung parliament…
If Turnbull can somehow win over the independents without losing his own party, the risk is that it would be a government that’s in office but not in power…
In opposition, the Liberal Party would swiftly elect a new leader. It probably won’t be Tony Abbott who wouldn’t relish the prospect of having to save his party twice. It probably won’t be current deputy Julie Bishop who is now, after three leaders, seen to have had her go if comments from her colleagues last night are anything to go by. Scott Morrison, despite his diffidence as Treasurer, is probably the party room’s likely option but others claim his rumoured involvement in last year’s coup has hurt his standing with conservatives/
UPDATE
The Press Gallery which cheered Turnbull into the job will now jeer him out of it:
Nine News Political Editor Laurie Oakes has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, calling his post-election speech “pretty pathetic” and warning Australian is in for a nasty few years.I thought that speech pathetic - a ramble in which Turnbull seemed to be trying all his exhausted campaign lines as if to persuade us we were wrong.
Oakes said Mr Turnbull delivered an “angry, bitter speech"… “It’s the first time I’ve seen a bloke who’s probably won the election say ‘we was robbed’. I thought that quite frankly was pretty pathetic,” Oakes said… In his speech, which was delivered post-midnight ... took a swing at Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, declaring Labor was not capable of leading a stable government.
Not listening, still hectoring.
UPDATE
No, not listening at all, which makes him temperamentally unsuited to the task of the next three years to listen not just to his team but to a gaggle of hostile Senators who have his tiny agenda in their hard hands.
Michelle Grattan:
Turnbull ... in his speech, he did not accept any blame for the bad result or suggest he would make any changes as a result…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Despite Turnbull calling the double dissolution to clear out small players in the Senate, the new Senate will contain a plethora of micro players. They will include three South Australian senators from NXT. Pauline Hanson has been elected to a Senate seat in Queensland. Broadcaster Derryn Hinch has claimed a Victorian Senate seat. Independent Jacqui Lambie has been returned in Tasmania.
Who are the DelCons now?
Andrew Bolt July 03 2016 (6:19am)
We were told that DelCons were delusional conservatives with “the delusion that Tony Abbott was a conservative warrior cut down in his prime by leftie treachery, and that he will return to reclaim his throne once Malcolm Turnbull fails”.
But they were not the true DelCons at all. As I said two months ago:
===But they were not the true DelCons at all. As I said two months ago:
Mind you, the truly delusional conservatives are those who think Turnbull is conservative, too, and that making him Prime Minister was a great idea.So, looking at the wreckage Turnbull has wrought, ask yourself which definition is right.
Even more delusionally, they praise his worst mistakes as the masterstrokes of a fox.
Planet cooling after hot flush
Andrew Bolt July 03 2016 (5:39am)
Roy Spencer, head of the UAH satellite measure of global warming, notes arapid cooling from the El Nino conditions that once again had scaremongers preaching doom:
===With the rapid cooling now occurring in the global average tropospheric temperature, my previous prediction of a record warm year in the satellite data for 2016 looks…well…premature.
Here’s an update of what the average temperature trend would have to be in the next 6 months for 2016 to tie 1998 as record warmest year in the 38 year satellite record:
Malcolm Turnbull - you are finished
Andrew Bolt July 02 2016 (10:07pm)
Malcolm,
You assassinated a Liberal Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who’d won an election by a huge margin.
You promised to do even better than him.
You then treated the Liberal base like dirt, smashing it with a huge super tax, refusing to speak to conservative journalists, repeatedly humiliating Abbott.
You referred to the colonial settlement of Australia as an “invasion” and even held an end-of-Ramadan meal with known Muslim bigots.
You called an early double dissolution election on the excuse of needing new laws to tackle rogue unions with a building and construction commission, but with the true aim of getting rid of crossbench oppositionists in the Senate.
You went to the election with basically only one policy to sell - a pathetic 10-year promise to cut company tax.
And now look. Almost everything turned to ruin.
You have lost so many seats that you could even be forced into minority government, if pre-polling and Western Australia go against you.
You have, if anything, lost ground in the Senate, which will block most of your plans.
You will be unable to get the numbers to get your building and construction commission through in any joint sitting of parliament.
You have asked for no mandate for real reform, and will have almost no power to undertake any.
Your popularity, already plummeting, will fall further.
There is no way you can seriously claim that this result is better than anything Abbott could have achieved.
Abbott picked up seven seats at the 2010 election and another 15 in the 2013 election. You have lost between 10 and 15 seats and dumped key Liberal values in doing so.
You have been a disaster. You betrayed Tony Abbott and then led the party to humiliation, stripped of both values and honour.
Resign.
===You assassinated a Liberal Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, who’d won an election by a huge margin.
You promised to do even better than him.
You then treated the Liberal base like dirt, smashing it with a huge super tax, refusing to speak to conservative journalists, repeatedly humiliating Abbott.
You referred to the colonial settlement of Australia as an “invasion” and even held an end-of-Ramadan meal with known Muslim bigots.
You called an early double dissolution election on the excuse of needing new laws to tackle rogue unions with a building and construction commission, but with the true aim of getting rid of crossbench oppositionists in the Senate.
You went to the election with basically only one policy to sell - a pathetic 10-year promise to cut company tax.
And now look. Almost everything turned to ruin.
You have lost so many seats that you could even be forced into minority government, if pre-polling and Western Australia go against you.
You have, if anything, lost ground in the Senate, which will block most of your plans.
You will be unable to get the numbers to get your building and construction commission through in any joint sitting of parliament.
You have asked for no mandate for real reform, and will have almost no power to undertake any.
Your popularity, already plummeting, will fall further.
There is no way you can seriously claim that this result is better than anything Abbott could have achieved.
Abbott picked up seven seats at the 2010 election and another 15 in the 2013 election. You have lost between 10 and 15 seats and dumped key Liberal values in doing so.
You have been a disaster. You betrayed Tony Abbott and then led the party to humiliation, stripped of both values and honour.
Resign.
NEVER SPEAK OF IT
Tim Blair – Friday, July 03, 2015 (1:56pm)
According to this Fairfax profile, Q & A executive producer Peter McEvoy has absolutely no identifiable political leanings at all. Instead, he’s variously:
Stubborn. Naughty. Brave to the point of foolhardiness. A wildcard. A visionary … a symbol for all that’s wrong with “their ABC” … a martyr being crucified for the crime of airing confronting views … “He does like gotchas” … a “knockabout bloke” … “willing, determined and to my mind absolutely fair”.
Would it have killed them to mention that McEvoy is a leftist? It’s not exactly a secret. Piers Akerman has had enough:
Two weeks ago, I accepted an invitation to appear on next Monday’s Q & A program. I have now withdrawn that acceptance …I shall review my position when and if the ABC shows it understands why it is subjected to criticism and indicates that it has undergone some redemption.
Might be a long wait. Incidentally, Anne Aly appeared on last Monday’s Q & A billed as “a counter-terrorism expert”. In fact, she’s an expert on deconstructing counter-terrorism. There’s quite a difference, as Roger Franklin points out. He also calls into question Aly’s claim that white supremacists have taken more lives in the US than extremist Muslims.
MAYBE THEY JUST LIKE BITING PEOPLE
Tim Blair – Friday, July 03, 2015 (1:53pm)
Among National Geographic‘s reasons for increased shark attacks off North Carolina:
Global warming
Curiously, we’ve had two shark attacks in two days here in NSW. And it isn’t warm at all.
(Via Roger B.)
CROWDFUNDING FOR GREECE
Tim Blair – Friday, July 03, 2015 (12:17pm)
Earlier this week:
As the Greek government and its creditors are locked in talks ahead of a deadline for the country to meet a £1.6bn debt repayment, an online crowdfunding campaign started by a London shoe shop worker is aiming to break the impasse by collecting a Greek bailout fund of his own.Thom Feeney, 29, launched the campaign to raise the money, calling on all Europeans to “chip in a few euro” and end the standoff. As of Tuesday afternoon more than €250,000 had been pledged from almost 15,000 people, or around 0.01% of the total amount. By Tuesday night it was edging towards half a million euro.
A few days later the figure was closer to €1,000,000. And now it is beyond €1,500,000, or around $2.3 million Australian dollars – still less than one per cent of the total required:
The sheer pointlessness of this exercise is absolutely magnificent. It’s like a skateboard moon launch. Or, for that matter, like trying to change the weather with a tax.
The sheer pointlessness of this exercise is absolutely magnificent. It’s like a skateboard moon launch. Or, for that matter, like trying to change the weather with a tax.
DUMB BAND ACTUALLY SMART
Tim Blair – Friday, July 03, 2015 (12:13pm)
Van Halen’s no brown M & Ms demand was one of the finest legal moves in entertainment history.
THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO RIVET
Tim Blair – Friday, July 03, 2015 (11:40am)
Pure truth from Iowahawk:
No one who has ever worn a ‘Rosie the Riveter’ t-shirt actually knows how to rivet.
PHIL WALSH
Tim Blair – Friday, July 03, 2015 (10:59am)
Horrific news about Adelaide Crows coach and former Collingwood player Phil Walsh:
Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh has allegedly been murdered in his Somerton Park home by his 26-year-old son.Police were called to an address on Bungey Ave at 2am on Friday morning where they found the body of the 55-year-old, who was in his first season as Adelaide coach after a 20-year career as an assistant. He had received multiple stab wounds.Police later confirmed the son, Cy Walsh, had been charged with his father’s murder.
The Crows are scheduled to play Geelong on Sunday. Understandably, that match is now in doubt.
UPDATE. Sunday’s game is cancelled. Points to be split between Adelaide and Geelong.
No, the ABC isn’t biased, and only conservatives would say so
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (5:59pm)
Of course the ABC isn’t biased. Sure, the only people boycotting Q&A are conservatives - Kevin Andrews, Alan Tudge, Nick Cater, Jennifer Oriel, Rita Panahi, Miranda Devine - but that’s just because, er, conservatives don’t like arguing?????
Whatever. Add Piers Akerman to the list:
===Whatever. Add Piers Akerman to the list:
Two weeks ago, I accepted an invitation to appear on next Monday’s Q & A program. I have now withdrawn that acceptance … I shall review my position when and if the ABC shows it understands why it is subjected to criticism and indicates that it has undergone some redemption.Hope you’ve stocked up on a crate of two of Grange to last you out that wait, Piers.
On The Bolt Report on Sunday, July 5
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (1:17pm)
On Channel 10 on Sunday at 10am and 3pm.
Editorial: The slip that confirms we can’t trust Shorten with our borders.
My guest: Social Services Minister Scott Morrison: what we must do to avoid becoming another Greece..
The panel: former NSW Labor Treasurer Michael Costa and Georgina Downer, former diplomat and member of the Victorian Liberals’ admin committee.
NewsWatch: Gerard Henderson, Australian columnist and head of the Sydney Institute. On the media pushing same-sex marriage, Hockey’s defamation case and the ABC’s rigged inquiry into Q&A’s bias.
So much to talk about, including Tony Abbott’s battle with same-sex marriage, Bill Shorten’s moment of truth and one of the Islamic State’s scariest attacks yet;
The videos of the shows appear here.
===Editorial: The slip that confirms we can’t trust Shorten with our borders.
My guest: Social Services Minister Scott Morrison: what we must do to avoid becoming another Greece..
The panel: former NSW Labor Treasurer Michael Costa and Georgina Downer, former diplomat and member of the Victorian Liberals’ admin committee.
NewsWatch: Gerard Henderson, Australian columnist and head of the Sydney Institute. On the media pushing same-sex marriage, Hockey’s defamation case and the ABC’s rigged inquiry into Q&A’s bias.
So much to talk about, including Tony Abbott’s battle with same-sex marriage, Bill Shorten’s moment of truth and one of the Islamic State’s scariest attacks yet;
The videos of the shows appear here.
Politician shocked: warming alarmism costs jobs
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (1:10pm)
Former British Labour leader Ed Miliband is another Leftist who claims to be stunned when global warming alarmism actually costs workers their jobs:
(Thanks to reader Tim.)
===Ed Miliband has said the government’s failure to provide more funding for a South Yorkshire colliery is “wrong”.Why would Miliband want government handouts to keep open exactly the kind of industry that the global warming policies he supports are designed to put out of business?
Hatfield Colliery near Doncaster announced on Monday it would close unexpectedly at the end of the week ... with the loss of 430 jobs.
The colliery said the closure was brought forward by low coal prices (currently £35 a tonne), a switch to renewable energy, large coal stocks and the doubling of carbon tax.Miliband should be cheering, not crying crocodile tears, if he really believes his warming alarmism.
(Thanks to reader Tim.)
Q&A speaks through an Islamist’s mouth
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (1:00pm)
How rigged is the ABC’s Q&A?
Islamist Zaky Mallah on the gotcha question he asked parliamentary secretary Steven Ciobo:
(Thanks to reader Peter H.)
===Islamist Zaky Mallah on the gotcha question he asked parliamentary secretary Steven Ciobo:
The producers called me back up and got back to me and said ‘look we are going to restructure your question, take some things out, add some things in’.Which kind of puts a big question mark against Q&A’s boast:
Q&A is about democracy in action – the audience asks the questions.In fact, the audience asks only the questions Q&A permits and only in the form Q&A dictates.
(Thanks to reader Peter H.)
Why won’t Labor back the border protection that even Europe envies?
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (12:59pm)
Labor still won’t back boat turn-backs, when even Europe now admires what Tony Abbott has achieved:
Another Abbott policy supported in Europe:
===Senior European migration officials have judged Australia’s "robust and co-ordinated’’ communications strategy, underpinned by uncompromising action to stop asylum-seeker boats, a “more effective model’’ than those in place overseas.UPDATE
A confidential cable, sighted by The Australian, details a high-level meeting this year in Sydney at which European officials, wrestling with the tragedy of refugee drownings in the Mediterranean Sea, “sought detailed information on the elements of Australia’s successful strategy to address illegal maritime arrivals’’.
The group, which included European and non-European nations, was briefed by the secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Michael Pezzullo, and Roman Quaedvlieg, then Customs and Border Protection chief executive officer and now head of the new Australian Border Force agency....
A cable from Canberra to diplomatic posts of the April 30 Intergovernmental Consultations for Migration, Asylum and Refugees roundtable with European counterparts on Tony Abbott’s border protection policies reveals keen European interest in Australia’s operations…
“Switzerland noted that while the EU had implemented communications strategies, the actual messages and treatments were weak, undermining their effectiveness,” the cable said. “Many commented that Australia’s robust and co-ordinated approach was a more effective model...”
Another Abbott policy supported in Europe:
Sam Mansour, who has been dubbed ‘The Bookseller from Brønshøj’ and ‘al-Qaeda’s PR man in Denmark’, on Wednesday became the first ever Dane to have his citizenship revoked for illegal activity....(Thanks to readers Peter of Bellevue Hill and Frank.)
The 55-year-old Danish-Moroccan was convicted for posting online threats, screeds, photos, links and messages that praise Osama bin Laden and call on his readers to join al-Qaeda’s al-Nusra front. Mansour has also posted videos of soldiers being executed in Syria and Iraq.
Nine people murdered. Gunman’s sister complains her wedding is ruined
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (12:47pm)
A perfect symbol of our narcissistic age:
===The older sister of Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine people in a Charleston church last month, was seeking a “fresh start.” So she tried raising money online to cover her wedding and honeymoon expenses.(Thanks to reader David.)
Amber Roof’s wedding to Michael Tyo was scheduled for June 21 in Charleston; but four days earlier, authorities say, Roof’s brother entered Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and committed a racially motivated massacre.
“As many of you know Michael and I had to abruptly cancel our wedding day, due to the tragedy that occurred in Charleston,” Roof wrote on her since-removed GoFundMe page… Roof said that she and Tyo are seeking donations to cover lost wedding costs, pay bills and finance a honeymoon. “We would like the chance to start our lives on a postive [sic] note,” the post said.
Cut the middle man at news.com.au and let 7-year-olds write it instead
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (10:26am)
Why does news.com.au think the apocalyptic babbling of a primary school child of green parents is worthy of an article?
Is it because the child’s thinking just matches the staff’s own? In which case, how very sad:
===Is it because the child’s thinking just matches the staff’s own? In which case, how very sad:
“IF YOU stop being selfish and thinking of yourself, then you might survive as well and people might stop telling you to leave Earth.”(Thanks to reader Nick.)
That’s the message to Tony Abbott from a precocious seven-year-old, who has identified himself as “Zen” in a video message posted to YouTube ... by the seven-year-old’s mother, Hannah Powell…
Thinking ahead, the clever seven-year-old urged the Prime Minister to “stop chopping down trees” in order for “everyone to survive” in the next thousand years. “If you don’t stop making stupid things now, like houses and taking over the Earth, well, we’ll survive...”
Labor bashes cop for touching union toughs
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (9:46am)
Labor attacks the umpire blowing the whistle on its union mates:
===Labor frontbencher Brendan O’Connor has launched a blistering attack on the royal commission into trade unions less than a week before his party leader, Bill Shorten, is due to be questioned…(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Although O’Connor and other Labor figures have previously directed criticism at the Coalition for setting up the inquiry as a “political witch hunt”, he went further on Thursday by questioning the conduct and integrity of the officers of the commission…
“Any independent observer would conclude to date that this commission ... has been prejudicial, it has acted in a sensational manner about matters that are not proven, it has made findings against people who have not been called and has not made findings against those where there is damning evidence already given,” he told ABC News 24.
When asked by the interviewer to provide evidence, O’Connor said: “There are findings against people in the interim report and yet those people have not even been called to give evidence. There are denials of natural justice."…
[A spokesman for the royal commission] rejected “every allegation in the interview"…
The spokesman ... sought to respond to the claims that persons who were criticised did not give evidence. He pointed to a portion of the commission’s interim report that said the CFMEU and officials John Setka and Shaun Reardon “chose not to contest any of the evidence” relating to Boral. “Having made that tactical decision, and having chosen in their own interests not to go into evidence, they cannot contend that there should be no findings against them in the interim report,” the report said.
The dangerous denial of Ali Kadri
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (8:08am)
A very worrying rebuttal from Ali Kadri, president of Brisbane’s Holland Park mosque:
And, sure enough, Kadri blames the West instead:
And then false analogies:
Kadri, I’m afraid, is in denial. That makes him part of the problem, not the solution.
===IN THE past few days the world watched in horror as the atrocities committed by extremists in France, Kuwait and Tunisia unfolded. Once again the majority of victims of this senseless violence were Muslims and once again a 1400-year-old religion with 1.6 billion followers was blamed for the atrocities committed by a minority.False. Nowhere in my article did I say the atrocities had “everything to do with Islam”. Kadri is quoting a picture caption written by a sub-editor on the website which ran my column.
In his opinion piece ("It’s misleading to claim attacks have nothing to do with Islam” C-M, 29/6) Andrew Bolt so easily claimed these atrocities have “everything to do with Islam”.
I agree with Bolt that these terrorists justify their actions on the basis of some interpretations within Islamic jurisprudence. However, to argue that the overwhelming majority of 1.6 billion Muslims live by the same interpretation is ludicrous. And the implication that the majority are silent because they embrace the notion that Islam must prevail over all other religions and so the violence is tolerable to them, is a terrible slur.False. In my column I specifically said: “Yes, the vast majority of Muslims hate the horrors we now see. We must never forget that and make enemies of moderates. Muslims are also the main victims ...” I instead quoted scholars of Islam who suggest that moderates cannot easily criticise what terrorists do because the terrorists find their legitimisation in the Koran.
In my view, the explanation that ISIS and other terrorist groups have gained some following is not to be found within Islam but rather the geopolitical situation of the countries in which they operate.Uh oh. And now the denial and blame shifting starts. From falsely claiming I said the terrorism has “everything” to do with Islam, Kadri now argues they have nothing to do with Islam - denying the undeniable.
And, sure enough, Kadri blames the West instead:
The recent developmental history of many of these extremists can be readily traced to Afghanistan where, after its invasion by the former USSR, the US… engaged in establishing and funding madrasses where mujahideen (those who struggle for the sake of Allah and Islam) not only received military training to take on the Soviets but schooling in interpretations of the Koran heavily biased toward battlefield struggle (jihad).This is seriously misleading. How does blaming the US explain the murderous rage of Boko Haram in Nigeria? The jihadist war in Syria? Al Shabaab’s attacks on Kenya? The rise of extremism in Yemen? The Islamist terrorist groups in Indonesia and the Philippines? Islamist attacks in China? The centuries of slaughter of Shiites by Sunnis, and vice versa?
Of course, when the Soviets left, defeated, by these CIA-trained jihadists, the once-hailed freedom fighters faced a bleak future in impoverished and war-torn Afghanistan where, much like in Iraq, in the wake of the 2003 invasion there, the body politic was destroyed leaving a power vacuum…
The March 2003 decision by the George W. Bush-led Coalition of the Willing to invade Iraq – on the now well discredited pretexts – left what remained of that country’s polity shattered and its society divided, rendering it vulnerable to infiltration by extremists still armed and spreading their perverted interpretation of the Koran.. For commentators to blithely airbrush this recent history and wash the West’s hands of any responsibility for the rise and practice of extreme interpretations of the Koran is dishonest.
And then false analogies:
Islam is innocent of the crimes committed by Muslim terrorists in the same way Christianity is innocent of the sexual abuse by some clergy, and not all white people are Neo-Nazis.Muslim terrorists quote the Koran and sacred Surah to justify their deeds and even the way they kill, as Kadri himself admits. But no pedophile priests can quote the Bible to justify their crimes. Nazis could not quote the Bible to justify their own violence, and in fact declared war on Christianity.
Kadri, I’m afraid, is in denial. That makes him part of the problem, not the solution.
BBC impartial in the battle with the evil that would slit the throats of its journalists
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (7:39am)
The BBC isn’t impartial about global warming, even though the planet’s atmosphere hasn’t really warmed for 18 years and probably would not cause overall harm if it did.
As the BBC Trust notes:
===As the BBC Trust notes:
One of the key findings of the report [on the accuracy and impartiality of BBC science coverage] which still resonates today is that there is at times an:How that policy is applied:
“… ‘over-rigid’ (as Professor Jones described it) application of the Editorial Guidelines on impartiality in relation to science coverage, which fails to take into account what he regards as the ‘non-contentious’ nature of some stories and the need to avoid giving ‘undue attention to marginal opinion’. Professor Jones cites ... the existence of man-made climate change as [an] example of this point.”
Alasdair MacLeod..., head of editorial standards and compliance for BBC Scotland, sent an email on February 27 to 18 senior producers and editors, which has been obtained by The Mail on Sunday.Yet the BBC is impartial when it comes to the Islamic State, which does indeed cause lethal harm and is unambiguously evil:
It reads: ‘When covering climate change stories, we should not run debates / discussions directly between scientists and sceptics. If a programme does run such a discussion, it will… be in breach of the editorial guidelines on impartiality.’
The head of the BBC has refused demands from 120 MPs to drop the term Islamic State on the ground that its coverage of the terrorist group must be impartial. Director-general Tony Hall warned that an alternative name for the militants was “pejorative” and said that the broadcaster needed to “preserve the BBC’s impartiality”.
What to tell the children about the suspect in their mosque?
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (7:20am)
This seems a most unwise decision:
===A MAN accused of recruiting young Australians to fight with IS will be allowed to live on the grounds of a Western Sydney primary school after the Supreme Court bailed him to live at a local mosque that is part of the same complex as the school.There are four parts to this decision that seem very questionable: letting the suspect near children; letting him near children in a context which makes him devout; not informing at least some of the directors of the mosque and school; and reinforcing in at least the suspect’s mind that his actions are those of a devout Muslim.
Hamdi Alqudsi was successful in an application to vary his bail yesterday, which will allow him to reside in the Minto mosque — one used for daily prayer meetings and assemblies by students of Qibla College — until the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The mosque and the school share the same address and are run by the company Suburban Islamic Association.
SIA directors were yesterday mortified when told by The Daily Telegraph the alleged terror agent had won the right to live on the Westmoreland Rd grounds…
“How can a court allow him without approaching us?” director Abdul-Kariem Salie asked. “It’s the first time I’ve heard of it. It’s not something that should happen. We don’t want the kids to be influenced by this sort of stuff.”
Elizabeth Farrelly’s paranoid vision, wilder than the movies
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (5:59am)
The Sydney Morning Herald Elizabeth Farrelly writes a lot of crazy things, but few crazier than this:
(Thanks to reader John.)
===“Why?” The great actress Christa-Maria Sieland uses the deadpan tone of someone delivering a vile, intractable truth. “Because they decide what we play, who is to act and who can direct.” CMS (to the listening Stasi) is explaining to her lover why, each Thursday afternoon, she submits to rape by the toad-like Minister for Culture.That’s some lurid vision of Australia that’s unspooling in Farrelly’s mind. Its relationship to reality is virtually non-existent, yet this SM fantasy is presented as serious commentary in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Ten years ago this brilliant German thriller, The Lives of Others, sounded a sombre song of gratitude for the free West. Now it resonates differently, underlining just how close we are to losing these very freedoms in the name of their protection…
In truth, the Abbott government’s intemperate interventions hugely augmented the impact of this Q&A episode… Why? ... Fear-mongering wins elections…
But this is not about Zaky Mallah, his IQ or his threat-status. Far more serious is whether this regal, random ministerial intervention – “offensive!” “betrayal” “heads should roll!” – is in any way acceptable.
Here we hit the broader issue of ministerial discretion. I understand Brandis’ disquiet about arts-money allocation. I get Turnbull’s suspicions of media bias, although “objectivity” is not just halfway between Labor and Liberal (small playspace indeed!). I acknowledge Dutton’s concerns about returning jihadists. But the answer is not to rip jurisdiction from the courts and institutions. If the system is flawed, fix it. Ripping its guts in favour of the big guy’s personal delectation will have us all routinely raped in the back of the ministerial car, and unable to breathe a word. For fear. For fear.
(Thanks to reader John.)
Crows coach murdered
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (5:06am)
ADELAIDE Crows coach Phil Walsh has allegedly been murdered in his Somerton Park home by his 26-year-old son.
Police were called to an address on Bungey Ave at 2am on Friday morning where they found the body of the 55-year-old, who was in his first season as Adelaide coach after a 20-year career as an assistant.
Good hearts
Andrew Bolt July 03 2015 (12:20am)
Here’s how it started:
===Amanda Cole Richardson, a marketer expecting her first child in August, was taking her neighbour’s dogs for an unusually early walk when my car banked up the footpath and stopped a couple of metres away. Such driving wasn’t off the charts by Sydney eastern suburbs standards; I’ve seen worse and written it off to drink, drugs or stupidity. But Amanda saw the driver shaking and drooling and realised this was more than a bad moment with a GPS.Most people are good. What followed proves it.
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DARE NOT SPEAK OF HIM
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:50am)
An unusually-shy Vanessa Badham can’t bring herself to mention a certain name:
I discovered that a male blogger from a rival news organisation had turned me into a bat at a most inopportune time.I was in rehearsals for a theatre production in Hobart …
Not a bad intro, but for frightbat bragging points it can’t beat Elizabeth Farrelly’s “I was in Africa …”
I may be no bat, but I am a tough broad. I came of age in Wollongong, where you can learn through direct observation that police separately bag the parts of a dismembered body after an axe-murder, as I did one sunny morning, on the way past the house of the very dead ex-mayor, Frank Arkell. Your perspective on human cruelty somewhat deepens after moments like that.
Firstly, Arkell’s killer used an ashtray and a lamp rather than an axe. Secondly … what the hell?
Everyone on the internet knows not to feed the trolls. What not everyone may realise is just how well the trolls are fed suggested targets by the “frightbat” blogger and his ilk, and how a silent masthead can lend legitimacy to that persecution.
That’s non-mention two.
Everyone who gets into commentary does so with vigorous eagerness for debate. Our role here is to provoke a conversation.
Here are a few examples of Badham’s gently provocative conversational gambits. It’s just eagerness for debate, people!
To attack 10 women with the ancient stereotypes of “shrieking”, “hysterical” woman-hating betrays to me an obviously gendered problem – not merely of the blogger, or his audience.
Non-mention three.
Whether the dogwhistling is deliberate or not, what possibly motivates a news-blogger to publicly denigrate his female colleagues?
Non-mention four, plus a bizarrely collegial plea from Vanessa, who never, never denigrates her journalistic colleagues, be they male or female. Never.
A decade ago, it would’ve been fanciful to imagine a tabloid commentator could name so many feminists …
That’s now five non-mentions. Vanessa clearly believes me to be some kind of reverse Candyman. If you don’t say his name five times, he won’t appear!
What was actually surprising about the “frightbat” poll was the number of feminist commentators who didn’t appear.
I didn’t say their names five times. Worked a charm.
There are dozens more influential Australian media feminists who meet the political criteria of “frightbat” … Where was Eva Cox, Wendy Harmer, Karen Pickering, Stella Young or Amy Gray? Where the hell was Celeste Liddle, Nareen Young, Nakkiah Lui or Kelly Briggs?
Beats me. Making sandwiches, probably.
One name suggests ten more; the sheer size of this community is perhaps the reason why the “frightbat” poll rebounded on its creator so quickly, with the named “frightbats” campaigning for votes, memes created, hashtags trending within a matter of hours.
Don’t forget your frightbat t-shirts, Vanessa. You know, the ethically sourced t-shirts you made with one of the most sexist, misogynist clothing companies out there. Anyway, this is the headline on Van’s non-naming attempted shaming:
When they call us ‘frightbats’, they make us fair game
I might have used a friendlier, more conversational phrase, but “F--KING SELF SERVING S—TTIPEDES”, “ARSEHOLE KNOB GREASER S--TBUCKET C--T FARM C--T C--TS”, “F--KING IDIOTS”, “F--KING ARSEHOLES”, “STUPID PACK OF C--T ARSEHOLE S--TS”, “ MOTHERF--KER DIMB C--T WANK F--K S--TS”, “MAGGOT F--KING LUNATICS” and “DUMB C--TRAGS” were already taken.
FOR A START, NO BLUE DRESS
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:44am)
Monica Lewinsky reflects on the media attention following her affair with Bill Clinton:
“To be in the vortex of this media maelstrom was quite alarming, and frightening, and confusing.” Lewinsky said.“I think a lot, too, had to do with the fact that I was a woman.”
Well, of course. The media wouldn’t have had any interest in President Clinton’s affair with a man. Where’s the news value in that?
THEY LOVE (CERTAIN) AMERICANS
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:34am)
This site, last month:
Australian leftists … usually dismiss all US authority until they meet any left-leaning American academic. Then they meekly roll over like so many supplicant client states obeying the great hegemon.
And here’s the latest example. A recent Daily Telegraph editorial dealt with interloper Joseph Stiglitz.
NICK FITZED
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:12am)
SCOTUS BOGUS
Tim Blair – Thursday, July 03, 2014 (5:11am)
Twitter people aren’t very smart.
Beware the cries of “racist”. Some seem fake
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (5:10pm)
Some racism exists, and is vicious. It needs to be fought:
===THE woman filmed unleashing a racist tirade at an Asian commuter on a train to the Central Coast has apologised for her behaviour.Other cries of “racism” are far more suspicious, and seem more a tactic to gain advantage:
The clip shows the woman, identified as 55-year-old Sue Wilkins, harassing children and making racist remarks at an Asian woman ... and a man who stood up for her.
“Who is this little jerk off he can only get a gook, he can’t even get a regular girlfriend — it is so sad,” she said. “Is it really that small that you can’t get an Aussie girl? Poor man. Look at this bogan he has got a gook — look at it. She probably thinks he is rich.”
OWNERS of a Melbourne restaurant are fuming at being branded racist over the treatment of a customer and are considering legal action for defamation.It is not the first time I’ve thought the anti-racism movement is underpinned by racism, from the insistence on racial division and the creation even of Aboriginal courts to the hatred of our Western civilisation and history.
Their legal plans come as the African-Australian woman at the centre of the claims, which were published in The Age, has openly admitted that she hates white people.
The comments made by Tabotu Teklemariam, 21, on social media emerged after she claims she was turned away from Melbourne’s Il Pom restaurant for racial reasons.
“I’m going to bring you whites so down you wouldn’t know what’s coming,” Ms Teklemariam told social media followers on June 22.
“I don’t care if you think I’m being a racist cause (sic) I’ll openly admit it, I hate whites with a passion.”
Ms Teklemariam later apologised for the comments describing them as a single mistake in a “heated” moment, and vowed to continue her fight against racism.
A report published in The Age described Ms Teklemariam’s humiliation at being “attacked for being black” at the restaurant last Friday.
But Il Pom said it was 9.30pm when the woman and her boyfriend sat down and the kitchen was closed…In a Facebook post last year, referring to an ABC report on DNA evidence about Europeans’ heritage, [Ms Teklemariam] wrote that Africans are “pure” and that “everybody outside of Africa is a mongrel”.
If Palestinians celebrate child-murder, they are not fit for a nation
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (3:18pm)
Bret Stephens says the culture of many Palestinians make them unfit for statehood:
UPDATE
It is too early to claim the Palestinian youth was the victim of Jews:
UPDATE
Police suspect the revenge motive:
===IN March 2004 a Palestinian teenager named Hussam Abdo was spotted by Israeli soldiers behaving suspiciously as he approached the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank. Ordered at gunpoint to raise his sweater, the startled boy exposed a suicide vest loaded with nearly 8kg of explosives and metal scraps, constructed to maximise carnage....An allegation:
“I blame those who gave him the explosive belt,” his mother, Tamam, told The Jerusalem Post, of which I was then the editor. “He’s a small child who can’t even look after himself.”
Yet asked how she would have felt if her son had been a bit older, she added this: “If he was over 18, that would have been possible, and I might have even encouraged him to do it.” ...
I’ve often thought about Mrs Abdo, and I’m thinking about her as I hear on the news that the bodies of three Jewish teenagers, kidnapped on June 12, have been found near the city of Hebron…
What about their killers?… Less innocent was the view offered by Abu Aysha’s mother.
“They’re throwing the guilt on him by accusing him of kidnapping,” she told Israel’s Channel 10 news. “If he did the kidnapping, I’ll be proud of him."…
Here’s my question: What kind of society produces such mothers? Whence come the women who cheer on their boys to blow themselves up or murder the children of their neighbours?…
I just have yet to meet the Israeli mother who wants to raise her boys to become kidnappers and murderers — and who isn’t afraid of saying as much to visiting journalists… As for the Palestinians and their inveterate sympathisers in the West, perhaps they should note that a culture that too often openly celebrates martyrdom and murder is not fit for statehood, and that making excuses for that culture only makes it more unfit.
Tensions mounted in Jerusalem as a local Palestinian teenager was found dead early Wednesday in what some fear may have been a reprisal attack for the killing of three Jewish Israeli teenagers abducted in the West Bank..Even assuming this is the work of Jews, where is the mother boasting that her son is a murderer? Where is the celebration of the killing? Every society has its killers and misfits. It’s health is measured by how it reacts to them - by denouncing or honouring.
The burned body of the victim, identified by family members and police as 17-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair from the Palestinian neighborhood of Shuafat in north Jerusalem, was found in a forested area west of the city. Police began searching for the teen after his family reported him missing when he hadn’t come home early Wednesday morning, Israeli media reported. Separately, police received a call from friends who said that the teen was forcefully shoved into a car.
UPDATE
It is too early to claim the Palestinian youth was the victim of Jews:
Though the cause of death remains unknown, Rosenfeld said the boy’s body sustained significant burn marks. The spokesman added that police are also investigating previous kidnap attempts of members of the family to which the victim belonged, stemming from a personal dispute…The ABC, of course, is giving the “revenge” attack angle a lot of play.
Speaking to Arutz Sheva on condition of anonymity, A senior retired police official noted that the family of the murdered 16-year-old was well known to police sources in Jerusalem, adding “it’s a problematic family with internal clashes that have been ongoing for many years. I have no doubt that as time passes it will be clarified that the murder was criminal and nothing more.”
UPDATE
Police suspect the revenge motive:
Israeli police have become increasingly convinced that 16-year-old Jerusalem resident Muhammad Abu Khdeir was murdered Wednesday morning as revenge for the killing of three kidnapped Israeli teens, officials said Wednesday evening.(Thanks to reader David.)
According to the testimony of local residents, Abu Khdeir was seen being forced into a car by three Israelis in East Jerusalem late Tuesday…
Security camera footage from the scene of Abu Khdeir’s kidnapping strengthened investigators’ suspicions that Jewish extremists snatched the teen, Channel 2 reported.
Police are still looking into the possibility of a criminal motive for the attack, or even an honor killing, but sources told Channel 10 that the family has no criminal history. The sources also said rumors claiming that Abu Khdeir was killed because he was gay, or because he’d had sexual encounters with local girls, are baseless.
Why is Labor cuddling up to a union like the CFMEU?
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (10:29am)
The bruvvers at work:
===A Melbourne developer has accused Victoria’s powerful construction union of demanding he employ union boss John Setka’s brother-in-law and his best friend on $70,000 a year jobs in return for securing industrial peace.Setka and the union deny impropriety.
Fairfax Media obtained CCTV and other recordings, along with an interview with Peter Chiavaroli, a builder and developer of the old Pentridge prison site in Coburg, which provide an insight into the backroom dealings of union officials, figures aligned with Melbourne’s underworld and bikies.
The royal commission into trade union corruption is likely to examine these activities at hearings into the CFMEU in Melbourne next week, including evidence that:
- Victorian Labor Party official and industrial consultant Ken Hardy allegedly told Mr Chiavaroli to work with gangland boss and union fixer Mick Gatto.
- Underworld associate Mario Amenta saying he was dispatched by Mr Setka to “sort out” problems on the old Pentridge prison site.
- Union officials abused non-union workers, employers were pressured to “give a kicking” to non-union members, and Mr Setka describing one as a “f---ing dog, Turkish painting piece of shit”.
- Subcontractors threatening to use Comanchero bikies to collect a disputed debt. The Pentridge allegations add to previous claims by building companies Boral and Grocon and industry whistleblowers that the CFMEU threatens companies unless they cede to union demands, and will increase pressure on Labor leader Daniel Andrews over Labor’s close ties to the union.
The Liberals should buy their advertising at Woolies
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (10:18am)
How come the TV ad with the best conservative message about the dignity of work is put out by Woolworths and not the Liberals?
===Scott Morrison could be a week away from sealing the deal on his boats triumph
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (9:47am)
The Abbott Government faces a great challenge - but also a great opportunity - with thetwo boats from India and Sri Lanka:
There is also this difficulty: that the Government probably cannot return to Sri Lanka any of the Tamils who actually left from India, although this admittedly confused reference in reports today suggests some of those on boat the vessel which sailed from Pondicherry may actually have joined it from Sri Lanka:
But…
But activists haven’t heard from the boats since the weekend. That already suggests the boat people have had their phones confiscated by the navy and are being returned, not brought to Christmas Island.
If this is done, the message sent to people smugglers will be powerful. That message: even if you sail from Sri Lanka or India, you will not succeed. Those on board will have risked plenty and spent a lot for zero result.
I’d suggest that some time next week immigration Minister Scott Morison will have a new success to announce that will seal the deal on the government’s boat policy.
===The Australian understands the transfer of as many as 50 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers, intercepted by Australian authorities near Cocos Islands at the weekend, will take place in international waters, though closer to Sri Lanka’s extended economic zone.Returning the passengers will not be easy, given the distance and given, too, that India does not as yet have a history of cooperation on boat returns.
The Sri Lankan navy’s official spokesman, Commodore Kosila, confirmed late on Tuesday that a Sri Lankan asylum boat had been intercepted and would be transferred into Sri Lankan custody, though he would not confirm how, or where, the handover would take place.
But another senior Sri Lankan navy official said yesterday: “They expect to rendezvous tomorrow...” The whereabouts of as many as 153 asylum-seekers on board a second boat [from India] spotted near Christmas Island last Friday, is unknown.
There is also this difficulty: that the Government probably cannot return to Sri Lanka any of the Tamils who actually left from India, although this admittedly confused reference in reports today suggests some of those on boat the vessel which sailed from Pondicherry may actually have joined it from Sri Lanka:
Indian authorities have confirmed that a fishing trawler containing an estimated 153 Tamil refugees left the Indian union territory of Pondicherry on June 13 bound for Australia.Meanwhile the Left are gearing up for a huge fuss over these boats. It’s their best chance in months to destroy the Abbott Government’s so-far successful policy to stop the boats.
Authorities believe the 25-metre long vessel was being piloted by a former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam naval commander with the expertise necessary to navigate a direct route to Australia, bypassing other countries such as Indonesia. It is understood that after leaving India, the trawler rendezvoused with a boat from Sri Lanka at which point the remainder of passengers joined the vessel.
But…
But activists haven’t heard from the boats since the weekend. That already suggests the boat people have had their phones confiscated by the navy and are being returned, not brought to Christmas Island.
If this is done, the message sent to people smugglers will be powerful. That message: even if you sail from Sri Lanka or India, you will not succeed. Those on board will have risked plenty and spent a lot for zero result.
I’d suggest that some time next week immigration Minister Scott Morison will have a new success to announce that will seal the deal on the government’s boat policy.
Why Friends of the ABC shouldn’t give a Gonski about Albrechtsen’s appointment
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (8:43am)
Hyperventilation by the Guardian and (Left-wing-Only-Please) Friends of the ABC:
If Gonski, active in political business with Labor and active in commercial business with a Labor leader’s wife, can be trusted to act impartially then so can Albrechtsen and Brown.
Besides, given that overwhelmingly Leftist bias of the ABC, can it seriously be argued that there is no need of a rebalancing?
By the way, note that these appointments are made by Abbott’s department and not Malcolm Turnbull’s.
(Thanks to reader johnthepom.)
===The Abbott government has installed the conservative commentator Janet Albrechtsen and the former Liberal politician Neil Brown to the nomination panel that appoints board members to the ABC and the SBS.Strange that the Friends of the ABC never complained about Labor’s appointment of Gonski to the same panel, given Gonski was chairman of the company owned by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s wife and was appointed by Labor to design Labor’s spend-spend-spend “Gonski reforms”.
Albrechtsen, a columnist for the Australian newspaper and a former member of the ABC board, is a vocal critic of the ABC and recently called for its managing director, Mark Scott, to resign.
Brown has called for the ABC to be privatised and has labelled the ABC’s news and current affairs coverage as having “an endemic lack of objectivity and balance"…
Along with two other panellists, Albrechtsen and Brown will now decide who gets to sit on the public broadcasting boards until June 2017.
A spokeswoman for the Friends of the ABC, Glenys Stradijot, said the decision to appoint the pair had totally undermined the integrity of the ABC board appointment process… “It appears we are in for a return to the bad old days when the Howard government stacked the ABC’s governing board with its political supporters.”
If Gonski, active in political business with Labor and active in commercial business with a Labor leader’s wife, can be trusted to act impartially then so can Albrechtsen and Brown.
Besides, given that overwhelmingly Leftist bias of the ABC, can it seriously be argued that there is no need of a rebalancing?
By the way, note that these appointments are made by Abbott’s department and not Malcolm Turnbull’s.
(Thanks to reader johnthepom.)
Palmer is tearing down everyone, Abbott included
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (8:35am)
Niki Savva on Tony Abbott, trampled by a Palmersaurus:
===Normally, governments dictate agendas and messages. Not now. This one is hostage to a beast, a Palmersaurus, and when one of the main stories out of the first Liberal federal council meeting post magnificent victory is a public tiff involving two of Tony Abbott’s closest colleagues, George Brandis and Christopher Pyne (ostensibly over party rules, but really over the re-election of Tom Harley as party vice-president, whom the Prime Minister and Education Minister failed to dislodge) it has all got too weird…
Stepping off a plane on Thursday night to be confronted by news footage of a joint appearance by Clive Palmer and Al Gore was like crossing over into the Twilight Zone… Palmer as usual was having a lend of everyone, doing his sick PUPpy act, pretending to support things he believes will never happen…
It must be so liberating for a politician to feel free to treat everyone like mugs. His debasing influence on the body politic is such that no one — not Abbott, not Bill Shorten, not even Christine Milne — is game to criticise him over reports of dubious business practices and erratic behaviour. He has bought political immunity with the votes he controls.
Palmer’s antics suck up political oxygen, so that it matters little what the Prime Minister says or does…
Palmer ... has usurped Shorten as Opposition Leader, although Shorten is benefiting temporarily from the lack of scrutiny, but right now it is Abbott who is suffering the most. People have a mental picture of prime ministers which Abbott was already struggling to fill. Palmer has made Abbott’s task that much harder by smothering him. Palmer disses Abbott and rubs his nose in his dependence.
These boats are just part of an armada
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (7:41am)
THE Greens this week proved they’ve learned nothing about asylum seekers and the lethal cost of “kindness” to them — particularly children.
Our Navy on the weekend intercepted a boat that left India with 153 Tamils on board.
India, a stable democracy with a free press and the rule of law, should not be a source of a single refugee. Any Tamils there, including those who left Sri Lanka, are safe and do not need to flee to Australia.
So this boatload of alleged “asylum seekers” actually seems part of a vast movement of people travelling from poor countries to rich ones in the West in search of wealth, and the Abbott Government is right to try to negotiate their instant return.
The Government is even more correct to be militant in stopping boats. Around the world, Western countries are finding their borders under siege from poor immigrants like never before — well, not since the cataclysmic migration of German tribes into the Roman Empire.
The US now has more than 25,000 Latinos illegally crossing over every month, twice the rate of last year. It already has around 11 million undocumented or illegal immigrants, mostly Latinos likely to form another underclass.
(Read full article here.)
===Our Navy on the weekend intercepted a boat that left India with 153 Tamils on board.
India, a stable democracy with a free press and the rule of law, should not be a source of a single refugee. Any Tamils there, including those who left Sri Lanka, are safe and do not need to flee to Australia.
So this boatload of alleged “asylum seekers” actually seems part of a vast movement of people travelling from poor countries to rich ones in the West in search of wealth, and the Abbott Government is right to try to negotiate their instant return.
The Government is even more correct to be militant in stopping boats. Around the world, Western countries are finding their borders under siege from poor immigrants like never before — well, not since the cataclysmic migration of German tribes into the Roman Empire.
The US now has more than 25,000 Latinos illegally crossing over every month, twice the rate of last year. It already has around 11 million undocumented or illegal immigrants, mostly Latinos likely to form another underclass.
(Read full article here.)
See no jihadists, speak of no jihadists
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (7:38am)
GOOD news. Six imams on Wednesday told the federal Attorney-General they would help stop Muslims joining terror groups.
But just six?
Finding apologists of Islamist extremism is easier, and they aren’t all Muslim. Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, for instance, invited a Muslim radical to give a lecture titled “Honour killings are morally justified”.
And 3AW broadcaster Neil Mitchell was last week asked by a caller why he didn’t mention Islam in discussing Iraq.
(Read full article here.)
===But just six?
Finding apologists of Islamist extremism is easier, and they aren’t all Muslim. Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, for instance, invited a Muslim radical to give a lecture titled “Honour killings are morally justified”.
And 3AW broadcaster Neil Mitchell was last week asked by a caller why he didn’t mention Islam in discussing Iraq.
(Read full article here.)
The madness of the warmist Age
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (6:02am)
Terry McCrann on the madness of The Age - captured in a single sentence - when it finally figured Clive Palmer’s plan for an emissions trading scheme came with impossible conditions:
===.... its lament was that such a scheme would have no effect because there’d be no price on carbon until Australia’s major trading partners implemented their own schemes.
Then the sentence: “That might occur next year, next decade, or never.”
A rational sentient human being would have then said; exactly, and thank you Clive. For there is absolutely no point in Australia going down the aggressive ETS path, cutting our emissions of carbon dioxide, unless precisely our major trading partners were doing the same.
To argue otherwise is to argue for Australia to unilaterally hurt both its industries and its citizens, to send industries and jobs to ‘our major trading partners,’ for absolutely no point. Our pain would have not the slightest effect on the global or even the local climate.
That lamenting sentence is so revealing; that to The Age rationality has absolutely nothing to do with the issue. It is all about religious fervour.
Quite irrespective of what the world does, quite irrespective of whether our CO2 cuts would achieve anything at all, we have to cut; we have to flagellate like a 12th century penitent, to exculpate our sins, to pay penance to Gaia. The sentence is deeply revealing on another level. For The Age is also admitting that in its collective hearts of hearts, it really knows that the operative word in that sentence is “never”.
Could Sulayman just fight Cerantonio in a cage match?
Andrew Bolt July 03 2014 (12:10am)
The only good thing about these crazies is that they’re no longer living here - and are now more interested in killing each other:
===AN Australian spiritual leader of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organisation in Syria has slammed fellow Sunni group the Islamic State, denouncing it for “breaching Islam” in its claim to have established a caliphate.
Sheik Abu Sulayman, a 30-year-old from southwest Sydney who now serves as a senior sharia official for the al-Qa’ida group, said the “proclamation” of a caliphate — an Islamic state — may be used by to justify killing other Sunnis.
The warning comes as another influential Australian cleric, self-described Islamic State “soldier” Musa Cerantonio, said he was about to enter the war zone.
Both Sheik Sulayman — whose real name is Mostafa Mahamed — and Mr Cerantonio, 29, were prominent speakers in Australia and were regulars at Sydney’s al-Risalah Islamic centre. Sheik Sulayman accused Islamic State — formerly known as ISIS — of “stealing the right” of senior Islamic figures to be consulted on the establishment of a caliphate in Syria… “Only difference I see is there is a stronger ‘Islamic’ justification for them to kill Muslims. Stealing the right of the scholars … (and) the leaders to be consulted is a clear breach of Islam!”
Ricky Muir’s new minder
Andrew Bolt July 02 2014 (9:05pm)
Ricky Muir has a strange choice of staffer - a man I saw today actually pushing his “boss” in the back to get him to the doors of Parliament:
===Peter Breen, ... a human rights and media defamation lawyer, entered the NSW upper house in 1999, representing the Reform the Legal System party before joining Labor from the crossbench in 2006.
Just 74 days later, then premier Morris Iemma dumped him from Labor after a media storm erupted over comments Mr Breen had made in a book he was writing about feeling a compassionate ‘’form of love’’ for one of the three killers convicted of the rape and murder of Cronulla bank teller Janine Balding.
Mr Breen has fought for years to overturn the life without parole sentences for the killers - one as young as 14 years old - who were locked up in 1990 and remain behind bars. During his time in Parliament, Mr Breen also protested the innocence of Phuong Ngo, the man convicted of murdering state MP John Newman.
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The Deputy Prime Minister, photographed one hour visit to a Thai massage provider operating an unlicensed Sex Services Premises in his electorate
===You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose. But, you shouldn't pick your friend's nose. A reminder that not all learning should be from experience.
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James Calore'
The sentence "Are you as bored as I am?" can be read backwards and still makes sense.
===Holly Sarah Nguyen
God can use a crisis or a time of confusion to result in a blessing! What the enemy meant for bad, God can turn it around for good!
===Andreas Herrmann
Es gibt keinen Weg zum Frieden, denn Frieden ist der Weg. Mahatma Ghandi
===Don Kramer's status.
- 324 – Roman emperor Constantine the Greatdefeated former colleague Licinius in the Battle of Adrianople.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washingtonsurrendered Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania, the only military surrender in his entire career.
- 1844 – The last known pair of great auks, the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, were killed in Eldey, off the coast of Iceland.
- 1940 – Second World War: The British Navy attacked the French fleet(French destroyer Mogador pictured), fearing that the ships would fall into German hands after the armistice between those two nations.
- 1970 – The Troubles: The British Army imposed the Falls Curfew onBelfast, Northern Ireland, which only resulted in greater Irish republican resistance.
- 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
- 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
- 1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
- 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
- 1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
- 1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Iroquois allied to Britain kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
- 1819 – The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
- 1839 – The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
- 1844 – The last pair of great auks is killed.
- 1848 – Governor-General Peter von Scholten emancipates all remaining slaves in the Danish West Indies.
- 1849 – France invades the Roman Republic and restores the Papal States.
- 1852 – Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
- 1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgrätz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
- 1884 – Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
- 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
- 1886 – The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- 1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
- 1898 – A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
- 1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
- 1938 – World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h).
- 1938 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
- 1940 – World War II: To stop ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and French battleship Bretagne. 1,200 sailors perish.
- 1944 – World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
- 1952 – The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the United States Congress.
- 1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
- 1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1967 – The Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retake the Crater district following the Arab Police mutiny.
- 1969 – Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
- 1970 – The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
- 1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
- 1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
- 1995 – Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party wins the general elections and is restored to power after being in opposition for 15 years.
- 1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
- 2013 – Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president.
- 321 – Valentinian I, Roman emperor (d. 375)
- 1423 – Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
- 1442 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
- 1518 – Li Shizhen, Chinese physician and mineralogist (d. 1593)
- 1530 – Claude Fauchet, French historian and author (d. 1601)
- 1534 – Myeongjong of Joseon, Ruler of Korea (d. 1567)
- 1550 – Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (d. 1591)
- 1569 – Thomas Richardson, English politician and judge (d. 1635)
- 1683 – Edward Young, English poet, dramatist and literary critic (Night Thoughts).(d. 1765)
- 1685 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal and politician (d. 1768)
- 1728 – Robert Adam, Scottish-English architect, designed Culzean Castle (d. 1792)
- 1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
- 1778 – Carl Ludvig Engel, German architect (d. 1840)
- 1789 – Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German-Italian painter and engraver (d. 1869)
- 1814 – Ferdinand Didrichsen, Danish botanist and physicist (d. 1887)
- 1823 – Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Greek-Ottoman statesman, diplomat, playwright, and translator (d. 1891)
- 1844 – Dankmar Adler, German-born American architect and engineer. (d. 1900)
- 1846 – Achilles Alferaki, Russian composer and politician, Governor of Taganrog (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Charles Bannerman, English-Australian cricketer and umpire (d. 1930)
- 1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and theorist (d. 1928)
- 1860 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (d. 1935)
- 1866 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1906)
- 1869 – Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor (d. 1933)
- 1870 – R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
- 1871 – William Henry Davies, Welsh poet and writer.(d.1940)
- 1874 – Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (d. 1928)
- 1875 – Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon and academic (d. 1951)
- 1876 – Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (d. 1957)
- 1878 – George M. Cohan, American songwriter, actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1942)
- 1879 – Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (d. 1950)
- 1880 – Carl Schuricht, Polish-German conductor (d. 1967)
- 1881 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator (d. 1962)[1]
- 1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian author (d. 1924)
- 1886 – Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (d. 1969)
- 1888 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1963)
- 1889 – Richard Cramer, American actor (d. 1960)
- 1893 – Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d. 1976)
- 1896 – Doris Lloyd, English actress (d. 1968)
- 1897 – Jesse Douglas, American mathematician and academic (d. 1965)
- 1898 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1982)
- 1900 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
- 1901 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (d. 1953)
- 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1992)
- 1905 – Johnny Gibson, American hurdler and coach (d. 2006)
- 1906 – George Sanders, Russian-born British actor (d. 1972)
- 1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American author (d. 1992)
- 1908 – Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1990)
- 1909 – Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate (d.1996)
- 1910 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1954)
- 1911 – Joe Hardstaff Jr., English cricketer (d. 1990)
- 1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, actress, and author (d. 1965)
- 1916 – John Kundla, American basketball player and coach (d. 2017)
- 1917 – João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (d. 1990)
- 1918 – S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1974)
- 1918 – Johnny Palmer, American golfer (d. 2006)
- 1919 – Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Gerald W. Thomas, American soldier and academic (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (d. 1978)
- 1921 – Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
- 1921 – François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
- 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Theo Brokmann Jr., Dutch football player
- 1924 – Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-Mexican film actress and dancer
- 1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)
- 1925 – Terry Moriarty, Australian rules footballer (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Danny Nardico, American professional boxer (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Philip Jamison, American artist
- 1926 – Johnny Coles, American trumpet player (d. 1997)
- 1926 – Rae Allen, American actress, singer, and director
- 1926 – Laurence Street, Australian jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (d. 2018)
- 1927 – Ken Russell, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2011)
- 1927 – Tim O'Connor, American actor (d. 2018)
- 1928 – Evelyn Anthony, English author
- 1929 – Clément Perron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1929 – Joanne Herring, American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and television talk show host
- 1930 – Pete Fountain, American clarinet player (d. 2016)
- 1930 – Carlos Kleiber, German-Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Tommy Tedesco, American guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1932 – Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman (d. 2014)
- 1933 – Edward Brandt, Jr., American physician and mathematician (d. 2007)
- 1935 – Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American geologist, astronaut, and politician
- 1936 – Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician
- 1936 – Baard Owe, Norwegian-Danish actor
- 1937 – Nicholas Maxwell, English philosopher and academic
- 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-English playwright and screenwriter
- 1938 – Jean Aitchison, English linguist and academic
- 1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German soprano and director
- 1939 – László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1939 – Coco Laboy, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1940 – Lamar Alexander, American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Education
- 1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Polish engineer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Poland
- 1940 – Lance Larson, American swimmer
- 1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1941 – Gloria Allred, American lawyer and activist
- 1941 – Liamine Zéroual, Algerian politician, 4th President of Algeria
- 1942 – Eddy Mitchell, French singer-songwriter
- 1943 – Judith Durham, Australian folk-pop singer-songwriter and musician (The Seekers)
- 1943 – Kurtwood Smith, American actor
- 1943 – Norman E. Thagard, American astronaut
- 1945 – Michael Cole, American actor
- 1945 – Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
- 1946 – Johnny Lee, American singer and guitarist
- 1946 – Leszek Miller, Polish political scientist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Poland
- 1946 – Michael Shea, American author (d. 2014)
- 1947 – Dave Barry, American journalist and author
- 1947 – Betty Buckley, American actress and singer
- 1947 – Mike Burton, American swimmer
- 1948 – Paul Barrere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1948 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish author and illustrator
- 1949 – Susan Penhaligon, English actress
- 1949 – John Verity, English guitarist
- 1949 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American R&B/funk singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
- 1949 – Bo Xilai, Chinese politician, Chinese Minister of Commerce
- 1950 – Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer
- 1950 – James Hahn, American judge and politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
- 1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (d. 2014)
- 1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer and footballer
- 1952 – Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
- 1952 – Lu Colombo, Italian singer
- 1952 – Andy Fraser, English singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2015)
- 1952 – Carla Olson, American singer-songwriter and music producer
- 1952 – Wasim Raja, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2006)
- 1952 – Amit Kumar, Indian film playback singer, actor, director, music director and musician
- 1953 – Lotta Sollander, Swedish alpine skier
- 1954 – Les Cusworth, English rugby player
- 1955 – Claude Rajotte, Canadian radio and television host
- 1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host and television personality
- 1957 – Poly Styrene, British musician (d. 2011)
- 1958 – Matthew Fraser, Canadian-English journalist and academic
- 1958 – Charlie Higson, English actor, singer, and author
- 1958 – Siân Lloyd, Welsh meteorologist and journalist
- 1958 – Didier Mouron, Swiss-Canadian painter
- 1958 – Aaron Tippin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1959 – Julie Burchill, English journalist and author
- 1959 – Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer
- 1959 – Stephen Pearcy, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist
- 1959 – David Shore, Canadian screenwriter and producer
- 1960 – Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
- 1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor and producer
- 1962 – Thomas Gibson, American actor
- 1963 – Tracey Emin, English painter and photographer
- 1964 – Tom Curren, American surfer
- 1964 – Joanne Harris, English author and academic
- 1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-American actress and voice artist
- 1965 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
- 1965 – Connie Nielsen, Danish-American actress
- 1965 – Komsan Pohkong, Thai lawyer and academic
- 1965 – Christophe Ruer, French pentathlete (d. 2007)
- 1966 – Moisés Alou, American baseball player
- 1967 – Katy Clark, Scottish lawyer and politician[2]
- 1968 – Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo-Albanian soldier and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo
- 1970 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
- 1970 – Audra McDonald, American actress and singer)[3]
- 1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1971 – Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, and activist, founded WikiLeaks
- 1973 – Paul Rauhihi, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1973 – Ólafur Stefánsson, Icelandic handball player
- 1973 – Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1976 – Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer and sportscaster
- 1976 – Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian-American mixed martial artist
- 1976 – Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean-South African rugby union player
- 1977 – David Bowens, American football player
- 1978 – Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese runner
- 1979 – Jamie Grove, English cricketer
- 1980 – Mazharul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2013)
- 1980 – Roland Schoeman, South African swimmer
- 1980 – Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
- 1983 – Edinson Vólquez, Dominican baseball player
- 1984 – Manny Lawson, American football player
- 1984 – Churandy Martina, Dutch sprinter
- 1984 – Corey Sevier, Canadian actor and producer[4]
- 1986 – Marco Antônio de Mattos Filho, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Kisenosato Yutaka, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German race car driver
- 1988 – Winston Reid, New Zealand-Danish footballer
- 1988 – Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater
- 1988 – James Troisi, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Mitchell Dodds, Australian rugby league player
- 1990 – Nathan Gardner, Australian rugby league player
- 1990 – Bobby Hopkinson, English footballer
- 1990 – Lucas Mendes, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
- 1992 – Will Smith, Australian rugby league player
- 458 – Anatolius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch and saint (b. 449)
- 710 – Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (b. 656)
- 896 – Dong Chang, Chinese warlord
- 964 – Henry I, Frankish nobleman and archbishop
- 1090 – Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen (b. c. 1060)
- 1288 – Stephen de Fulbourn, English-born Irish cleric and politician
- 1503 – Pierre d'Aubusson, Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes (b. 1423)
- 1570 – Aonio Paleario, Italian academic and reformer (b. 1500)
- 1642 – Marie de' Medici, French queen consort and regent (b. 1573)
- 1672 – Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (b. 1635)
- 1749 – William Jones, Welsh-English mathematician and academic (b. 1675)
- 1790 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1736)
- 1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French scholar and author (b. 1714)
- 1795 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, astronomer, and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
- 1809 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
- 1863 – George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
- 1863 – Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
- 1881 – Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1811)
- 1887 – Clay Allison, American rancher (b. 1841)
- 1888 – Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1822)
- 1904 – Édouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
- 1904 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist and playwright (b. 1860)
- 1908 – Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)
- 1916 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman and financier (b. 1834)
- 1918 – Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (b. 1844)
- 1921 – James Mitchel, Irish-American weight thrower (b. 1864)
- 1927 – Gérard de Courcelles, French racing driver
- 1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian educator and politician, 19th President of Argentina (b. 1852)
- 1935 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded the Citroën Company (b. 1878)
- 1937 – Jacob Schick, American-Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (b. 1877)
- 1940 – Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan businessman and politician, Mayor of Chișinău (b. 1882)
- 1941 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (b. 1871)
- 1954 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician and general (b. 1895)
- 1954 – Reginald Marsh, French-American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1898)
- 1957 – Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
- 1957 – Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (b. 1904)
- 1958 – Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1867)
- 1969 – Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1942)
- 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1974 – John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (b. 1888)
- 1977 – Alexander Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1891)
- 1978 – James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1979 – Louis Durey, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)
- 1981 – Ross Martin, American actor and director (b. 1920)
- 1985 – Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1893)
- 1986 – Rudy Vallée, American singer, saxophonist, and actor (b. 1901)
- 1989 – Jim Backus, American actor and voice artist (b. 1913)
- 1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1936)
- 1994 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1934)
- 1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
- 1995 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
- 1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer (b. 1949)
- 1999 – Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1952)
- 2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 2001 – Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1929)
- 2005 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Gaylord Nelson, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
- 2008 – Clive Hornby, English actor and drummer (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler, composer, and producer (b. 1956)
- 2009 – Alauddin Al-Azad, Bangladeshi author and poet (b.1932)
- 2009 – John Keel, American journalist and author (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian terrorist, planned the Munich massacre (b. 1937)
- 2011 – Ali Bahar, Bahraini singer and guitarist (b. 1960)
- 2012 – Nguyễn Hữu Có, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Yvonne B. Miller, American educator and politician (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian engineer and politician (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Richard Alvin Tonry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Roman Bengez, Slovenian footballer and manager (b. 1964)
- 2013 – Francis Ray, American author (b. 1944)
- 2013 – PJ Torokvei, Canadian actress and screenwriter (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Radu Vasile, Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Bernard Vitet, French trumpet player and composer (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1948)
- 2014 – Jini Dellaccio, American photographer (b. 1917)
- 2014 – Tim Flood, Irish hurler and coach (b. 1927)
- 2014 – Volkmar Groß, German footballer (b. 1948)
- 2014 – Ira Ruskin, American politician (b. 1943)
- 2014 – Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Diana Douglas, British-American actress (b. 1923)
- 2015 – Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader and educator (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Wayne Townsend, American farmer and politician (b. 1926)
- 2015 – Phil Walsh, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1960)
- Christian feast day:
- Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
- Independence Day, celebrates the liberation of Minsk from Nazi occupation by Soviet troops in 1944 (Belarus)
- The start of the Dog Days according to the Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures
- Women's Day (Myanmar)
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”” Jeremiah 17:9-10 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God's countenance; they have a buoyancy about them which keeps their head always above the water, and helps them to sing amid the tempest, "God is with me still." To whom shall the glory be given? Oh! to Jesus--it is all by Jesus. Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with it to the believer, but the presence of the Son of God in the fiery furnace with him fills his heart with joy. He is sick and suffering, but Jesus visits him and makes his bed for him. He is dying, and the cold chilly waters of Jordan are gathering about him up to the neck, but Jesus puts His arms around him, and cries, "Fear not, beloved; to die is to be blessed; the waters of death have their fountain-head in heaven; they are not bitter, they are sweet as nectar, for they flow from the throne of God." As the departing saint wades through the stream, and the billows gather around him, and heart and flesh fail him, the same voice sounds in his ears, "Fear not; I am with thee; be not dismayed; I am thy God." As he nears the borders of the infinite unknown, and is almost affrighted to enter the realm of shades, Jesus says, "Fear not, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Thus strengthened and consoled, the believer is not afraid to die; nay, he is even willing to depart, for since he has seen Jesus as the morning star, he longs to gaze upon Him as the sun in his strength. Truly, the presence of Jesus is all the heaven we desire. He is at once
"The glory of our brightest days;
The comfort of our nights."
Evening
"Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit."
Psalm 28:1
Psalm 28:1
A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and his ability to aid, we shall see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but our Rock attends to our cries.
"Be not silent to me." Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will--they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little of God's silence. God's voice is often so terrible that it shakes the wilderness; but his silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant. When God seems to close his ear, we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief, he will not long deny us a hearing. What a dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become forever silent to our prayers? "Lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit." Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our agitated minds, for he never can find it in his heart to permit his own elect to perish.
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Today's reading: Job 22-24, Acts 11 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Job 22-23
Eliphaz
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 "Can a man be of benefit to God?
Can even a wise person benefit him?
3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?
What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
4 "Is it for your piety that he rebukes youCan even a wise person benefit him?
3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?
What would he gain if your ways were blameless?
and brings charges against you?
5 Is not your wickedness great?
Are not your sins endless?
6 You demanded security from your relatives for no reason;
you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
7 You gave no water to the weary
and you withheld food from the hungry,
8 though you were a powerful man, owning land--
an honored man, living on it.
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 11
Peter Explains His Actions
1 The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, "You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them."
4 Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: 5 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds. 7 Then I heard a voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'
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