Editorial, an Easter Message
Nothing lasts forever. My time is nearly up. I have relied on a 2013 era laptop to get through my 28 published books and online work. My ERTAON keys are all faded to smears as opposed to letters, and I only recognise them by position. This morning, I dropped my computer and now the screen is partly obscured by crisscrossing bands. I'm taking it to maintenance, but have little hope it won't be expensive. A comparable modern computer would cost me over $8k Australian, without insurance. I need to upgrade my phone, my iPad, my refrigerator and my calculator too, to be of a work standard for school. I can do without the latter for a time, but the loss of my computer is a blow. I went to Centrelink to organise a loan. They could loan me $500. I can't get a loan from a bank. The end comes with a rush, and a little whimper. I am proud of what I have achieved. I believe I can still follow through with daily postings to complete my video projects of Bible Reading, Bible Quotes and Morning and Evening. I will leave behind my 28 books. I explain to my students that to tell the truth, one must sometimes lie. The truth is I love God. I understate my issues, so as to not detract from my message of love for God. But in understating my issues, I am lying. The fact that I will eventually fail, falling from my stage, does not mean God is not working powerfully in my life.
I tell people not to fight the Devil, but resist it. The Devil is fought by God, and has lost, The Devil has no future, but a black pit from which there is no escape. But, if one tries to fight the Devil, they can end up dancing to its' tune. It is not my job to be immortal. But it is my job to do my best. I thank Jesus for my life.
It is ok to fail, but better to be successful. MyHeritage had DNA linked me to a US based cousin. We have separate trees without common ancestors, but Ball is prominent in each. MyHeritage used generic trees to link us, providing me with a map. A common ancestor, it turned out, was the Potomac Ball line which includes George Washington. I immediately set about disproving the link in the hopes I would be unsuccessful. But I succeeded!
My family 'Ball' line goes to Salford, Manchester in the mid 1800's. We believe the line originated in County Cork, Ireland. However, Potomac Ball line originates in Manchester circa 1600. I'm confident, if I can research that far, I'll find a Potomac Ball before their migration to the New World as tobacco farmers. My Salford line includes a James Ball in mid 1800's whose father I've not yet found. It may have been a George Ball. The Potomac line includes a mid 1800 George Ball. However the Potomac George Ball would have been 9 years old when his first son was conceived. Unlikely. More likely is that my DNA linked cousin could not find their match and searched the Potomac way as a possible compromise.
My search continues for family.
Tucker Carlson absolutely destroyed Juan Williams in this must-see video. In this episode, I discuss the fireworks. I also address the outrageous push for “vaccine passports,” and the pushback by this conservative Governor.
News Picks:
- Liberal media networks go all-in on gun confiscation messaging.
- Governor Ron DeSantis fights back against vaccine passports.
- Why are liberals going all-in on racism?
- Nancy Pelosi is still trying to steal an election.
- Red States are leading in economic growth, again!
- More on the corporate boycotts plaguing America.
- Coyotes tell Univision that business is booming thanks to the hapless Joe Biden.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Psaki Attempts to Explain Why Migrant Kids Are Getting In-Person Schooling Before AmericansChina Strengthens Control Over Hong Kong
Dems’ Background Check Gun Control Bill Already Tanking
Kayleigh McEnany to Co-Host “Outnumbered”
Biden Courts Far-Left to Advance Agenda
Biden Admin Spends Nearly $100M on Hotels for Illegals
Capitol Hill
Kamala Laughs Maniacally About Parents Who Can’t Send Kids to School
Biden Announces First List of Federal Judicial Nominees
Trump Establishes New ‘45’ Website
Amazon Started a Social Media War With Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Because Jeff Bezos Got Mad: Report
White House Attempts to Quell Confusion About What Exactly Kamala Harris Does as “Border Czar”
Brian Kemp: Stacey Abrams Making Money Off Election Bill Disinformation
Sen. Schumer Explores Ways to Pass Biden’s Next Spending Package Without Republicans
SCOTUS Denies Bid for Hillary Clinton Deposition About Emails
Biden Touts Progress on Fighting Coronavirus While CDC Chief Warns Sky Is Falling
Eric Greitens Leads Big in Missouri Senate Primary
Culture War
Trump Rips Birx and Fauci in Scathing Statement
SCOTUS Takes Up Dismemberment Abortion Case
Gina Carano Slams Former Dem Senator Heidi Heitkamp for Accusing Her of Being a Nazi on TV
U.S. Church Attendance Falls Below 50% for the First Time
Oxford to Possibly Remove Sheet Music From Music Curriculum, Citing Colonialism Concerns
Oregon Bill Would Force Teachers to Be Subject to “Anti-Bias Training” Propaganda
Journalists Attack the Powerless Then Play the Victim
Legal Activists Take Fight Against Critical Race Theory to the Courts
Kristi Noem Vetoes Bill That Protects Women’s Sports – Signs Two Executive Orders Aimed at Protecting Them
Economy
One of World’s Largest Hidden Fortunes Wiped Out in Days
Thirteen States Aren’t Offering a Tax Break on Unemployment Benefits Received Last Year
Free States Are Doing Much Better Than Lockdown States
Ex-Blackrock Exec Says Green Investing “Definitely Not Going to Work”
Result in Alabama Amazon Unionization Vote Likely a Week Away
Little-Known Hedge Fund Archegos Causes Chaos on Wall Street
Volkswagen Accidentally Leaks New Name for U.S. Operations
GOP Lawmakers Take Stand Against Vaccine Passports
The Income Tax Filing Deadline for Every State
Facebook and Google Plan to Build Subsea Cables Between U.S. and Southeast Asia
Swamp Watch
Judge Drops Terrorism Charges for Men Accused in Alleged Michigan Gov. Kidnapping Plot
CCP-Linked Peter Daszak Has Long-Standing Relationship With Dr. Fauci
Vox Attempts to Prove That America Has a Gun Problem, Ends Up Doing the Opposite
WHO Report Led By China On Chinese Lab Expected to Say Exactly What China Wants It to Say
Border Crisis Sees Family Groups Crossing Border in Record Numbers
Amazon Shows Its Dedication to Exploiting Blue-Collar Workers With Its Weak Attempts to Correct Dangerous Labor Conditions
Chinese Propaganda Machine in High Gear Over Xinjiang Cultural Genocide
Head Fact Checker at WaPo Spreads Disinformation About Georgia’s New Election Reforms
Insane Yale Professor Fired After Diagnosing Trump as Insane
Amazon Workers Who Praise the Company Reap Rewards
Memos: Hunter Biden and Business Partner Attempted to Assist Fugitive Ukrainian Oligarch Indicted by Obama Admin
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Biden Presidency
Moderate Dems Assail Progressives' Biden Access
Mark Morgan: 30K Migrants Released Into US Since January
Blackburn Seeks Answers on $89.6M Migrant Hotel Contract
Rep. Mike Turner: Biden Putting 'Blackout' on Border Crisis
Congress Seeks to Limit Biden's War Powers
Biden Court Picks Include First Muslim-American Federal Nominee
Spec Ops Diversity Czar Reassigned for Divisive Posts
Newsfront
Olympics-USOPC Sets Rules for Protests at US Olympic Trials
Athletes competing in the U.S. Olympic trials can protest, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) said on Tuesday, including kneeling or raising a clenched fist on the podium or at the start line during the national anthem.In a detailed document, the USOPC...... [Full Story]
3rd Suit Filed Challenging Georgia Election Overhaul Law
A third federal lawsuit challenging Georgia's new election law has [Full Story]
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Here is a video I made Clancy of the Overflow
"Clancy of The Overflow" is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 21 December 1889. The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works.
The music is from Albert Arlen's setting in 1955
https://rumble.com/vbglnj-clancy-of-the-overflow.html
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. One has to be proportionate in all things or one loses proportion. For example, Andrew Bolt correctly calls out the egregious error in MamaMia when they call out an all white panel on Sunrise for correctly noting that much that has been denounced as a stolen generation is the result of aid. Andrew also correctly points out that ball tampering is wrong in international cricket. But it is the weight Bolt puts on these issues that suggests a lack of proportion. Underpinning support for hysteria over the alleged stolen generation is racism. We don't do things today we used to. But it is not wrong to save an aboriginal child now or then. There is no evidence supporting the allegation of a stolen generation based on ethnic cleansing. There is a lot of evidence that aid is diverted from Aborigines because of the myth of a stolen generation. Mamamia would place rape victims into the hands of their abusers. Because of race. That is wrong and the enormity of it must never be accepted. Bolt then addresses Australia's ball tampering in cricket in South Africa. Ball tampering is wrong and needs to be addressed. It is on the scale of slow over rates, mankadding or falling over for no reason in soccer, hoping to attract a penalty. It is a bad part of sport and must be stamped out. It is not the same as gambling, insider trading or ethnic cleansing. Administrative penalties like a percentage of a match fee apply. But the career ending penalties thrown at young players for a professional foul do not deserve the weight Bolt attributes to them. It is not the fault of Steve Waugh being successful. It was alleged by the persecutor, James Sutherland, an isolated incident. Like Ian Meckiff removed from the sport for throwing. But since then rules were changed to allow Muttiah Muralitharan. In some ways it may be argued Smith, Warner and Bancroft were guilty of being the wrong race in South Africa. It is lucky they don't farm. === from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Government is not a good innovator. The NBN project, which is costing Australia $40 billion, will deliver slower speeds than competitors would offer if they weren't banned. People defending restrictions on free speech make erroneous claims regarding what amendments to the legislation would do. They claim rude people would be able to speak. The problem is decent people who have not been rude are being silenced. The current legislation does not protect Jews from being vilified, but will prevent a journalist from highlighting abuses of power and corruption. Does your local member oppose free speech? The entire ALP, Greens and some independents are very outspoken in opposing free speech. Today, electric power became scarcer in Victoria with the shutting down of a coal powered generator that provided about a quarter of energy needs. South Australian type brownouts can be expected to follow.
=== from 2016 ===
Mismanagement by Malcolm Turnbull is making the upcoming election close. ALP Leader Bill Shorten is not a credible alternative, and so voters, who are compelled to vote, have little choice. They want a conservative government, but Turnbull is not offering that. Do we vote for the incompetent Turnbull, or the corrupt Shorten? It is Hobson's choice where the only option isn't worthwhile either. The best outcome for Australia would be every electorate to vote Liberal, except, Turnbull's electorate to vote Green.
Get Up are complaining that Turnbull has promised to end federal funding for public schools. They are already funded by the state governments. Federal funding has merely placed extremely expensive plaques with ALP names in school halls. No expense has been spared. The taxpayer has funded immortality of ALP corruption, and Get Up! want it to continue.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
Get Up are complaining that Turnbull has promised to end federal funding for public schools. They are already funded by the state governments. Federal funding has merely placed extremely expensive plaques with ALP names in school halls. No expense has been spared. The taxpayer has funded immortality of ALP corruption, and Get Up! want it to continue.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
In 2014, a 'man' who had married a 16 yo girl when he was 46 years old, killed her eight years later after she questioned his manhood. Henry VIII did much the same with Catherine Howard after two years. Today, it is alleged a Lebanese ethnic man, aged 58, returned a day early from a holiday in Lebanon to 'surprise his wife.' This morning, before 7am he stabbed her to death and wounded his teenage daughter, before turning himself into police. There is something very wrong with these so called men. Did this latest victim question his manhood? And so what if they did? Couldn't the 'man' do something more traditional, like have an argument? Call out Expecto Patronum? Divorce? Gamble the money away?
In the last year of the dying Gillard Government, a desperate Home Secretary, Jason Clare, announced that cheating and drugs in sport was endemic. It had nothing to do with his love of sport, Clare was fighting to prevent Rudd from coming back. And his lever was to cast an aspersion on two codes, AFL and ARL through the agency of ASADA. But although both codes have been terribly affected by the desperate manoeuvre, nothing has panned the way it was hoped. Cheating and drugs are not endemic to sport in Australia, Rudd Gillard ALP governments are in the past. Their murderous policies are still promoted by a fawning press.
QLD is reeling after their minority government is found to contain a member who hasn't declared a past. But that member is very close to senior ALP members. How much was known of Billy Gordon before it became public, post election? QLD Premier is demanding a bye election. Maybe a general one would be better? Already it is apparent that the population had been hoodwinked by the press into a protest vote they didn't want.
ABC is reeling as a lone conservative got into their Q and A Audience. It won't happen again, but was very embarrassing for Senator Wong. Wong is famous for losing over $100 billion while being finance minister. But she is currently better known as a liar claiming $100k degrees are the price of reform to higher education, when in fact no degrees would be the result of not reforming.
On this day in 1492, the Alhambra decree from Queen Isabella of Castille ordered 150,000 subjects who were Jewish or Muslim to convert to Christianity or be expelled from Spain. In 1717, a Sermon on the nature of the Kingdom of Christ threw England into disarray. Generally the church had been subservient to the state, but with the theology espoused by Benjamin Hoadly suggested that kings were not divinely appointed, so much as equal with any faithful member of the state, as the Kingdom of Christ was not the world. It was called the Bangorian controversy and came too close to the unsettled throne for the comfort of royalty. In 1774, Britain closed the port of Boston for being too unruly. In 1822, an attempted rebellion against the Ottomans by the Greek Island of Chios resulted in the massacre of tens of thousands on the Island, resulting in world wide support for a free Greece. The uprising had been depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. In 1854, Japan opened to trade internationally when Commodore Perry signed an instrument of the Treaty of Kanagawa. In 1889, the Eiffel Tower official opened. In 1913, Skandalkonzert, where the Vienna Concert society rioted during a performance of modern music. 1918, daylight savings went into effect in the US for the first time. In 1942, Japan invaded Christmas Island. In 1945, a defecting German pilot gave the allies a jet. In 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama was granted asylum after crossing into India.
In the last year of the dying Gillard Government, a desperate Home Secretary, Jason Clare, announced that cheating and drugs in sport was endemic. It had nothing to do with his love of sport, Clare was fighting to prevent Rudd from coming back. And his lever was to cast an aspersion on two codes, AFL and ARL through the agency of ASADA. But although both codes have been terribly affected by the desperate manoeuvre, nothing has panned the way it was hoped. Cheating and drugs are not endemic to sport in Australia, Rudd Gillard ALP governments are in the past. Their murderous policies are still promoted by a fawning press.
QLD is reeling after their minority government is found to contain a member who hasn't declared a past. But that member is very close to senior ALP members. How much was known of Billy Gordon before it became public, post election? QLD Premier is demanding a bye election. Maybe a general one would be better? Already it is apparent that the population had been hoodwinked by the press into a protest vote they didn't want.
ABC is reeling as a lone conservative got into their Q and A Audience. It won't happen again, but was very embarrassing for Senator Wong. Wong is famous for losing over $100 billion while being finance minister. But she is currently better known as a liar claiming $100k degrees are the price of reform to higher education, when in fact no degrees would be the result of not reforming.
On this day in 1492, the Alhambra decree from Queen Isabella of Castille ordered 150,000 subjects who were Jewish or Muslim to convert to Christianity or be expelled from Spain. In 1717, a Sermon on the nature of the Kingdom of Christ threw England into disarray. Generally the church had been subservient to the state, but with the theology espoused by Benjamin Hoadly suggested that kings were not divinely appointed, so much as equal with any faithful member of the state, as the Kingdom of Christ was not the world. It was called the Bangorian controversy and came too close to the unsettled throne for the comfort of royalty. In 1774, Britain closed the port of Boston for being too unruly. In 1822, an attempted rebellion against the Ottomans by the Greek Island of Chios resulted in the massacre of tens of thousands on the Island, resulting in world wide support for a free Greece. The uprising had been depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. In 1854, Japan opened to trade internationally when Commodore Perry signed an instrument of the Treaty of Kanagawa. In 1889, the Eiffel Tower official opened. In 1913, Skandalkonzert, where the Vienna Concert society rioted during a performance of modern music. 1918, daylight savings went into effect in the US for the first time. In 1942, Japan invaded Christmas Island. In 1945, a defecting German pilot gave the allies a jet. In 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama was granted asylum after crossing into India.
From 2014
Putting religion aside, if indeed it involves religion, I don't understand why a 46 year old man would marry a 16 year old girl. The world view is completely different for both. The guy is probably particularly rich or immature or both. I get it that some women are forced into bondage, so maybe the girls hasn't much choice. But in this particular case, there was choice and in eight years, she gave him three children. She was 24 years old when he stabbed her repeatedly. He killed her. And then called emergency and said there was a problem with his wife. It is worse than Prince Charles and Diana. The older man chose a mate and then mistreated her. In Australia, one feels that such a situation would be treated fairly, and the man who committed such a crime would get murder. However, in Australia this happened, and the man was only convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter. The judge accepted the defence that the man had been provoked by having his manhood questioned. If that is the case, perhaps a new charge can be brought against the man under 18c? Or does 18c mean that the woman could have been charged had she lived? Maybe I misunderstand 18c, but with due respect, he was provoked. Something happened. Surely a law which protects people should, um, protect people? Maybe he wasn't able to resort to 18c ("I'm suing you because you are provoking me") and just used the knife instead. So, what was the problem with the wife which required an emergency call? She would never again cook a meal or clean the dishes .. in his defence, she was 24 years old, and so not the same girl he married. Clearly someone does not understand what marriage is. There is no evidence he is gay. If he was a religious man, it would be good to hear his religious teachers speak up and denounce his actions.
There is a western history of women marrying young. Fausta, daughter of Emperor Maximian, was betrothed to Emperor Constantine age 4 in 293 AD. She married him on this day in 307 age 18 after he had divorced his first wife. He had her killed, smothered in a bath when she was 37 years old. The accusation is she had had an affair with a stepson. Maybe she had questioned Constantine's manhood? Even so, as a Christian, I will say Constantine was wrong to kill his wife. But I felt the same way when I was an Atheist too. I'm not saying that the 54 year old should be put to death for the murder of his wife, we don't do that in Australia. But I feel he should be charged with her murder EVEN IF HE WAS PROVOKED. Considering the young age at which he married his wife, I feel that prisoners should be made aware of his pedophile nature too.
There is a western history of women marrying young. Fausta, daughter of Emperor Maximian, was betrothed to Emperor Constantine age 4 in 293 AD. She married him on this day in 307 age 18 after he had divorced his first wife. He had her killed, smothered in a bath when she was 37 years old. The accusation is she had had an affair with a stepson. Maybe she had questioned Constantine's manhood? Even so, as a Christian, I will say Constantine was wrong to kill his wife. But I felt the same way when I was an Atheist too. I'm not saying that the 54 year old should be put to death for the murder of his wife, we don't do that in Australia. But I feel he should be charged with her murder EVEN IF HE WAS PROVOKED. Considering the young age at which he married his wife, I feel that prisoners should be made aware of his pedophile nature too.
Historical perspective on this day
In 307, after divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine married Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian. 627, Battle of the Trench: Muhammad underwent a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan. 1146, Bernard of Clairvaux preached his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII was present, and joined the Crusade. 1492, Queen Isabella of Castille issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. 1561, the city of San Cristóbal, Táchira was founded. 1717, a sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy. 1774, American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain ordered the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
In 1822, The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry signed the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. 1866, the Spanish Navy bombed the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile. 1877, the family with samuraiantecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels. 1885, the United Kingdom established a protectorate over Bechuanaland. 1889, the Eiffel Tower was officially opened. 1899, Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
In 1901, 1901 Black Sea earthquake. 1903, Richard Pearse allegedly made a powered flight in an early aircraft. 1906, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) was established to set rules for college sports in the United States. 1909, Serbia accepted Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also 1909, Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic began. 1910, six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent. 1913, the Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert. 1917, the United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands. 1918, Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis was committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims were killed. Also 1918, Daylight saving time went into effect in the United States for the first time.
In 1921, the Royal Australian Air Force was formed. 1930, the Motion Picture Production Code was instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years. 1931, an earthquakedestroyed Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000. Also 1931, TWA Flight 599 crashed near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne. 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps was established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States. 1942, World War II: Japanese forces invaded Christmas Island, then a British possession. 1945, World War II: a defecting German pilot delivered a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. 1949, the Dominion of Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation and became the 10th Province of Canada.
In 1951, Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. 1957, Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta were held. After the elections PDU and MDV formed a government. 1958, in the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, won the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum. 1964, a coup d'état in Brazil established a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco. 1966, the Soviet Unionlaunched Luna 10 which later became the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. 1970, Explorer 1 re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. 1979, the last British soldier left the Maltese Islands. Malta declared its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
In 1980, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operated its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors. 1985 the first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), took place in Madison Square Garden in New York. 1986, six metropolitan county councils were abolished in England. 1990, approximately 200,000 protestors took to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax. 1991, Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters supported the country's independence from the Soviet Union. 1992, the USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned in Long Beach, California. 1994, the journal Nature reported the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. 1995, end of the US military campaign in Somalia 2004, Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractorsworking for Blackwater USA, were killed after being ambushed.
In 1822, The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry signed the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. 1866, the Spanish Navy bombed the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile. 1877, the family with samuraiantecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels. 1885, the United Kingdom established a protectorate over Bechuanaland. 1889, the Eiffel Tower was officially opened. 1899, Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
In 1901, 1901 Black Sea earthquake. 1903, Richard Pearse allegedly made a powered flight in an early aircraft. 1906, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) was established to set rules for college sports in the United States. 1909, Serbia accepted Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also 1909, Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic began. 1910, six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent. 1913, the Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert. 1917, the United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands. 1918, Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis was committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims were killed. Also 1918, Daylight saving time went into effect in the United States for the first time.
In 1921, the Royal Australian Air Force was formed. 1930, the Motion Picture Production Code was instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years. 1931, an earthquakedestroyed Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000. Also 1931, TWA Flight 599 crashed near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne. 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps was established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States. 1942, World War II: Japanese forces invaded Christmas Island, then a British possession. 1945, World War II: a defecting German pilot delivered a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. 1949, the Dominion of Newfoundland joined the Canadian Confederation and became the 10th Province of Canada.
In 1951, Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. 1957, Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta were held. After the elections PDU and MDV formed a government. 1958, in the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, won the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum. 1964, a coup d'état in Brazil established a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco. 1966, the Soviet Unionlaunched Luna 10 which later became the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. 1970, Explorer 1 re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. 1979, the last British soldier left the Maltese Islands. Malta declared its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
In 1980, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operated its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors. 1985 the first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), took place in Madison Square Garden in New York. 1986, six metropolitan county councils were abolished in England. 1990, approximately 200,000 protestors took to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax. 1991, Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters supported the country's independence from the Soviet Union. 1992, the USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned in Long Beach, California. 1994, the journal Nature reported the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. 1995, end of the US military campaign in Somalia 2004, Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractorsworking for Blackwater USA, were killed after being ambushed.
=== Bible Reading ===
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Today's reading: Judges 9-10, Luke 5:17-39 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible Gateway
Today's Old Testament reading: Judges 9-10
Abimelek
1 Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother's brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother's clan, 2"Ask all the citizens of Shechem, 'Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal's sons rule over you, or just one man?' Remember, I am your flesh and blood."
3 When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, "He is related to us." 4 They gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers. 5He went to his father's home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding. 6 Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo gathered beside the great tree at the pillar in Shechem to crown Abimelek king.
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 5:17-39
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralyzed Man
17 One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."
21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
Why did Jesus suffer himself to be enrolled amongst sinners? This wonderful condescension was justified by many powerful reasons. In such a character he could the better become their advocate. In some trials there is an identification of the counsellor with the client, nor can they be looked upon in the eye of the law as apart from one another. Now, when the sinner is brought to the bar, Jesus appears there himself. He stands to answer the accusation. He points to his side, his hands, his feet, and challenges Justice to bring anything against the sinners whom he represents; he pleads his blood, and pleads so triumphantly, being numbered with them and having a part with them, that the Judge proclaims, "Let them go their way; deliver them from going down into the pit, for he hath found a ransom." Our Lord Jesus was numbered with the transgressors in order that they might feel their hearts drawn towards him. Who can be afraid of one who is written in the same list with us? Surely we may come boldly to him, and confess our guilt. He who is numbered with us cannot condemn us. Was he not put down in the transgressor's list that we might be written in the red roll of the saints? He was holy, and written among the holy; we were guilty, and numbered among the guilty; he transfers his name from yonder list to this black indictment, and our names are taken from the indictment and written in the roll of acceptance, for there is a complete transfer made between Jesus and his people. All our estate of misery and sin Jesus has taken; and all that Jesus has comes to us. His righteousness, his blood, and everything that he hath he gives us as our dowry. Rejoice, believer, in your union to him who was numbered among the transgressors; and prove that you are truly saved by being manifestly numbered with those who are new creatures in him.
Evening
The spouse who fondly loves her absent husband longs for his return; a long protracted separation from her lord is a semi-death to her spirit: and so with souls who love the Saviour much, they must see his face, they cannot bear that he should be away upon the mountains of Bether, and no more hold communion with them. A reproaching glance, an uplifted finger will be grievous to loving children, who fear to offend their tender father, and are only happy in his smile. Beloved, it was so once with you. A text of Scripture, a threatening, a touch of the rod of affliction, and you went to your Father's feet, crying, "Show me wherefore thou contendest with me?" Is it so now? Are you content to follow Jesus afar off? Can you contemplate suspended communion with Christ without alarm? Can you bear to have your Beloved walking contrary to you, because you walk contrary to him? Have your sins separated between you and your God, and is your heart at rest? O let me affectionately warn you, for it is a grievous thing when we can live contentedly without the present enjoyment of the Saviour's face. Let us labour to feel what an evil thing this is--little love to our own dying Saviour, little joy in our precious Jesus, little fellowship with the Beloved! Hold a true Lent in your souls, while you sorrow over your hardness of heart. Do not stop at sorrow! Remember where you first received salvation. Go at once to the cross. There, and there only, can you get your spirit quickened. No matter how hard, how insensible, how dead we may have become, let us go again in all the rags and poverty, and defilement of our natural condition. Let us clasp that cross, let us look into those languid eyes, let us bathe in that fountain filled with blood--this will bring back to us our first love; this will restore the simplicity of our faith, and the tenderness of our heart.
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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.
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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 (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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Other Stuff
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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