Paul Barry is paid for his credibility. He is now on three month vacation. Maybe he will learn to read? Great tyres are worth the cost. More on the slaves to marxism. I am waiting for Andrew to pay me. ABC fact checkers mistake on fact. Abbott solves ALP problems. AGW hysteria dying more slowly than Iago in Othello. Jenna Price gets snippy. Mark Scott, ABC guy, should resign.
An argument has been made claiming that Israel is partly responsible for some of the terrorist activity against it. The argument employed scans to the ignorant eye. A person who knew little, might feel it is balanced and Israel may in fact bear some responsibility. The truth is simple, that Israel is exemplary as a modern democratic nation deserving a prosperous future. But the lie excusing the atrocities committed by generations of terrorists is tempting to the ignorant because the alternative is that the ignorant have been complicit. And they have been. Ignorant people are responsible for terrorist activity. Including the Christians who become victims and some left wing Jews. Calling Iran's attempt to make an atom bomb 'peaceful' will not make it so. One of the few positives I can see from the agreement is that there is apparently bipartisan support (in the US) opposing it. Kerry isn't Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was a conservative who chose a path of least resistance because he didn't anticipate evil. Kerry is duplicitous. Kerry supports a socialist ideal. Israel doesn't fit in that ideal.===
Happy birthday and many happy returns Binh Nguyen, Noel Southidet, Nathan Lam and Greg Smith. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 1436 – Infanta Catherine of Portugal (d. 1463)
- 1604 – Johannes Bach, German composer and musician (d. 1673)
- 1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
- 1858 – Katharine Drexel, American nun and saint (d. 1955)
- 1895 – Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
- 1902 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (d. 1971)
- 1919 – Frederik Pohl, American author (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1938 – Rich Little, Canadian-American comedian and actor
- 1939 – Tina Turner, American singer, dancer, and actress (Ike & Tina Turner)
- 1993 – Erena Ono, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
Matches
- 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
- 1476 – Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
- 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
- 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
- 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
- 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, andToronto Arenas as its first teams.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
- 1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers
- 2008 – 2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Despatches
- 399 – Pope Siricius (b. 334)
- 1836 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (b. 1756)
- 1974 – Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (b. 1903)
PAUL BARRY CAN’T TYPE
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 26, 2013 (5:03pm)
An attempted sledge from the ABC’s $191,259 media expert Paul Barry:
Sadly, Barry doesn’t know how to work the internets. In the fumble-fingered tradition of ABC boss Mark Scott, Barry mistakenly aimed that message, along with several others, at a digital cinema producer in Brooklyn rather than thepopular local Sky host.
Sadly, Barry doesn’t know how to work the internets. In the fumble-fingered tradition of ABC boss Mark Scott, Barry mistakenly aimed that message, along with several others, at a digital cinema producer in Brooklyn rather than thepopular local Sky host.
UPDATE. According to Jonathan Holmes, Barry “is paid for his credibility.”
PAUL BARRY CAN’T READ
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 26, 2013 (4:44am)
Media Watch host Paul Barry demands answers over the Daily Telegraph‘s Nathan Rees sex scandal coverage:
We … asked if they’d actually spoken to the unnamed lover … Sadly, the Tele has not answered those questions, or confirmed that it actually spoke to the woman …
Sadly, it turns out that taxpayer-funded $191,259 15-minutes-per-week ABC host Barry, his six researchers, two post-production editors, producer’s assistant, production executive, director, supervising producer, story editor, and $146,000 executive producer Lin Buckfield can’t read. Here’s the Telegraph‘s November 21 report:
Mr Rees’ 40-year-old former lover broke her silence, saying she regretted becoming involved with him … his former lover said yesterday: “I deeply regret my involvement in any of this,” adding she wanted to leave the issue behind her.
A couple of clues there that the Telegraph did indeed speak with the woman. Paying just $1.20 for last Thursday’s paper should have been sufficient for Media Watch to be aware of this. A correction from Barry would be nice, but he’s now on holidays for three months – during which he’ll receive $47,814 of your money.
LINES CROSSED
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 26, 2013 (4:39am)
Upset English cricketers and others who are offended by Australian aggression ought to be reminded of this, from 2005:
In the opening Test of that year’s Ashes series, Ricky Ponting was hit in the face by a Steve Harmison bouncer. As Ponting bled and English fans cheered, not a single England player approached the injured Australian captain. This was deliberate. The English that year adopted a policy of hostility towards their opponents. Harmison later admitted:
In the opening Test of that year’s Ashes series, Ricky Ponting was hit in the face by a Steve Harmison bouncer. As Ponting bled and English fans cheered, not a single England player approached the injured Australian captain. This was deliberate. The English that year adopted a policy of hostility towards their opponents. Harmison later admitted:
‘I regret that part,’ said Harmison, who went on to take 17 wickets in the Ashes win. ‘I hit Ricky and cut his cheek and none of us went to see if he was OK. That was wrong.‘At the other end, Langer said to Andrew Strauss, “Are we in a war or something?”. There is a line you don’t cross and we crossed it that morning. Just.’
By comparison, a few unfriendly words here or there don’t amount to much. Meanwhile, the current sledging controversy should remain separate from English batsman Jonathan Trott’s decision to abandon the tour and return home. His problems are clearly greater than any pitch disputes, and he deserves time to recover.
CLASSIC MUSING
Tim Blair – Tuesday, November 26, 2013 (3:26am)
NOTHING TO LOSE BUT THEIR CHAINS
Tim Blair – Monday, November 25, 2013 (7:07pm)
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Marxism is still holding prisoners:
A couple suspected of holding three women captive for 30 years in a London home were introduced to two of the victims through a Marxist political “collective”.Detectives have revealed that the man arrested last week met the two older victims “through a shared political ideology”.Separate sources said the couple and the two women were members of a Marxist-Communist group that lived together in the capital in the 1970s.
According to one of the women enslaved by the pair:
“These monsters are absolutely evil and racist.”
That’s Marxism for you.
(Via Robert Elliott)
UPDATE. The UK Telegraph:
Two cult leaders suspected of enslaving three women for more than 30 years at a house in south London targeted vulnerable overseas students who were struggling to adjust to life in Britain, it has been claimed.Aravindan Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda, who ran a Maoist collective in the 1970s, recruited mainly women who shared their far left ideology.
The Guardian:
The 73-year-old man arrested on suspicion of holding three women captive in a south London flat for 30 years is a one-time Communist party activist who was well known within far-left circles in London during the mid- and late 1970s as the leader of a separatist party-cum-commune.Aravindan Balakrishnan, known as Comrade Bala, had been a senior member of the Communist party of England (Marxist-Leninist) – a member of the party’s central committee – but according to a history of the movement he split from the party in 1974.His new organisation, described as “characterised by the ultra-left posturing and Mao worship”, was called the Workers’ Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.
Make that “the Workers’ Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought and Slavery.”
I believe the mess, but heard the promise
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (3:36pm)
If the model for the Gonski cash splash on schools was unworkable, Education Minister Christopher Pyne should have said so before the election - and his promise:
UPDATE
Pyne has explained his case very badly. First should come the revelation. Later should come the Government’s response. That response must be credible.
But Pyne has presented the revelation as an excuse to what seems a serious broken promise, and I’m not sure how anything fits together.
Is Gonski unworkable because Labor quietly scrapped $1.2 billion of the promised money? Is it unworkable because the funding formula is wrong? Should $1.2 billion of cash returned to central revenue make any difference to the Coalition’s promise, given the Coalition had its own costings on its promises? And will the core Coalition promise - that no school would be worse off under a Coalition Government than it would have been under Labor over the next four years - to be broken or not?
Pyne in his press conference today said the problem was that Labor quietly ditched $1.2 billion of funding:
But what of the crucial promise to preserve the funding each school was promised by Labor? If that is not kept, that represents a very serious broken promise. I suspect Pyne should have known before the election he was making a promise he could not keep.
Now, however, there is only one thing the Government can do to avoid seeming liars themselves - and that is to ensure that whatever funding model it now devises, no school will lose money.
If not, big problems.
And I again I suggest: why doesn’t Abbott get himself a very, very senior and trusted communications chief. Today’s announcement was a schemozzle.
===Just over a week before the September election, Mr Pyne promised: “You can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school.”I suspect the disability scheme will prove to be another me-too promise that simply cannot be delivered.
Today, he conceded that might not be the case.
“We will have exactly the same funding envelope available, and we will work through with the states and territories to ensure that is equitably distributed,” he said.
Mr Pyne, who claimed to be on a “unity ticket” with Labor on school funding before the election, today said the Gonski model was a “shambles” and “unimplementable”.
UPDATE
Pyne has explained his case very badly. First should come the revelation. Later should come the Government’s response. That response must be credible.
But Pyne has presented the revelation as an excuse to what seems a serious broken promise, and I’m not sure how anything fits together.
Is Gonski unworkable because Labor quietly scrapped $1.2 billion of the promised money? Is it unworkable because the funding formula is wrong? Should $1.2 billion of cash returned to central revenue make any difference to the Coalition’s promise, given the Coalition had its own costings on its promises? And will the core Coalition promise - that no school would be worse off under a Coalition Government than it would have been under Labor over the next four years - to be broken or not?
Pyne in his press conference today said the problem was that Labor quietly ditched $1.2 billion of funding:
CHRISTOPHER PYNE: …the unfortunate revelation that the previous government when Mr Shorten was the education minister cut $1.2 billion from the school funding envelope for the next four years. In the economic statement of 2 August 2013 the Government ... revealed on page 57 that treatment of payments for non-participating states and territories was NFP which stands for not for publication…Pyne also said the problem was the funding formula:
Then unfortunately in the PFO document on page 36 the ... the department made it very clear through Treasury and Finance – that the Better Schools treatment of payments for non-participating states and territories would be cut by $1.2 billion. And on page 36 it’s broken down year by year adding up to one-point-two-zero-three and $300 million – $1.2 billion. Now this of course presents a real problem for the Government because that money was taken from the education budget and returned to consolidated revenue.
And the implications for the new school funding model are that the funding envelope is now $1.6 billion as opposed to the $2.8 billion that Labor promised in the budget last year.
We now know that 900 schools in the independent sector will have what you might like to describe as the pure funding model. But the other – 90 per cent of schools around Australia – will have a hybrid model which differs from every state and territory and the Catholic sector. So it’s an incomprehensible mess.Pyrne also said another problem was that some states and the Catholic schools hadn’t formally signed up - although states say it shouldn’t matter. (Note: Catholic schools, however, do support a review.):
Not only have Victoria and Tasmania been revealed not to have signed bi-lateral agreements – in effect making them non-signatory states to the new school funding model. But of course the National Catholic Education Commission have revealed that they never signed a written agreement with the Government.Pyne promised before the election the same “funding envelope” for the next four years, and claims that will stay:
Secondly we said we’d have exactly the same funding envelope as the Labor Government and that’s exactly what we will achieve. Our funding envelope over the forward estimates will be precisely the same as Labor’s so we are keeping our promise.What’s not clear from his press conference is whether Pyne considers the “funding envelope” to be the original amount promised or the amount with the $1.2 billion deducted.
But what of the crucial promise to preserve the funding each school was promised by Labor? If that is not kept, that represents a very serious broken promise. I suspect Pyne should have known before the election he was making a promise he could not keep.
Now, however, there is only one thing the Government can do to avoid seeming liars themselves - and that is to ensure that whatever funding model it now devises, no school will lose money.
If not, big problems.
And I again I suggest: why doesn’t Abbott get himself a very, very senior and trusted communications chief. Today’s announcement was a schemozzle.
Symons really believes that?
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (1:27pm)
He seriously said this? Can anyone confirm it? From a reader:
If I did pay someone to comment, it would surely be Big Ted or Mr Jordan. It’s terrific to have someone consistently object to what you’ve just posted without offering any coherent argument against it. I prove I’m tolerant of debate and that those who argue against me have no feathers with which to fly. And other blog readers get so upset that they post comments, too.
Curse that Red Symon for seeing through my cunning plan.
===Andrew,UPDATE
Is it true that you pay people to write comment on your blogs as stated by Red Symons on ABC Radio 774 this morning at approx 5.50am?
If I did pay someone to comment, it would surely be Big Ted or Mr Jordan. It’s terrific to have someone consistently object to what you’ve just posted without offering any coherent argument against it. I prove I’m tolerant of debate and that those who argue against me have no feathers with which to fly. And other blog readers get so upset that they post comments, too.
Curse that Red Symon for seeing through my cunning plan.
ABC Fact Checkers fall for Clive Palmer’s spin
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (11:40am)
Hedley Thomas and Andrew White fact-check the ABC’s Fact Check unit and ... oh dear:
===After what was described as a forensic and lengthy investigation of the Palmer United Party leader’s companies, the ABC Fact Check unit yesterday issued a detailed report titled: “Doing the sums: how much is Clive Palmer worth?”
The report, which claimed that Palmer was worth $1.13 billion, made a number of false statements and errors...
The unit reported that one of Mr Palmer’s major companies, QNI Resources, “holds most of Mr Palmer’s leisure and nickel businesses”. “This includes the Palmer Coolum Resort, Coolum Country Club and Palmer Nickel and Cobalt Refinery in Townsville,” it said. “It also includes the dinosaur park which is located at Palmer Coolum Resort”.
This assertion is wrong. This month, The Australian revealed that Mr Palmer had “pulled his Sunshine Coast tourism resort and dinosaur park from the corporate ownership structure of his failing Queensland nickel refinery, which has been racking up increasingly heavy losses of tens of millions of dollars a year"…
Another mistake by the ABC Fact Check unit was in its statement that “Mr Palmer owns shares in 27 Australian private companies; in some of them, he is the sole shareholder.” Searches show that Mr Palmer owns shares in more than 60 Australian private companies.
The ABC Fact Check unit concluded that Mr Palmer was a billionaire with wealth of $1.13 billion.
According to the ABC Fact Check unit, more than 80 per cent of Mr Palmer’s purported $1.13 billion wealth comprises his investment in his beleaguered Townsville nickel refinery, which is owned and controlled by two of his companies, QNI Resources and QNI Metals…
Mr Palmer is ascribed this QNI-related wealth of $865m based on his valuation of his nickel companies last year. However, in 2009, when the nickel price (and potential profitability of the nickel companies) was higher than it is now, BHP “sold” Mr Palmer the refinery for, effectively, zero dollars. This is omitted from the Fact Check report. None of Mr Palmer’s major businesses is profitable, nor do they provide royalties or positive cash flow…
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Neither the accounts nor the explanatory analysis by Fact Check reflect the impact on Mr Palmer’s paper wealth due to a slumping nickel price and a collapse in the real value of his loss-making nickel refinery in Townsville. Nor do they reflect the threat to his paper wealth raised by a Supreme Court battle with Citic Pacific, which rejects his claim to be owed hundreds of millions of dollars a year in iron ore royalties.
Imagine if Gillard had been in charge instead
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (11:16am)
Tony Abbott is fixing
the damage caused by the ABC leak quietly, methodically and calmly -
and with a useful little leak of his own that shows his media strategy
may be shifting slightly:
Greg Sheridan reports:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===Greg Sheridan reports:
TONY Abbott commissioned retired Australian Army chief Peter Leahy as his special envoy to hand deliver his letter to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono…Good stuff.
Mr Abbott is believed to have played a big role in writing the letter himself. It runs over two pages and seeks to address the Indonesian President’s concerns directly, while proposing a range of new consultation mechanisms between the two nations, especially on intelligence.
Mr Abbott believes that one key to solving the problems that recent disclosures have triggered is a more intimate, and more institutionalised, intelligence relationship between Canberra and Jakarta. Mr Abbott’s letter is also believed to contain proposals for wider consultation arrangements for the two nations, beyond intelligence…
General Leahy...was selected to hand deliver the letter to underline to the Indonesians the seriousness with which Mr Abbott took the President’s concerns…
Dr Yudhoyono has not yet responded to Mr Abbott’s letter. Indonesia watchers believe the President wants to consult several of his senior ministers before formally responding… The intensity of feeling and media coverage within Indonesia seems to have abated slightly in the past 48 hours, although the formal response of the President remains both critical and unpredictable.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
What? No warming lecture?
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (11:04am)
Usually the ABC can’t discuss ice at the ice-caps without mentioning global warming.
Not today:
===Not today:
The summer Australian Antarctic Division program will have to be modified because its icebreaker the Aurora Australis has been delayed in heavy ice.Of course, one season doesn’t measure climate change, any more than does one fire in NSW or one typhoon in the Philippines. You really need to check long-term trends of Antarctic sea ice:
(Thanks to reader Mick.)
Hypocrite of the week: Jenna “please be polite” Price
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (10:53am)
Collectivists tend to defend a side, not a principle, which makes them prone to hypocrisy.
Collectivists also tend to see opponents as evil, which makes them prone to what-ever-it-takes meanness.
And, of course, collectivists of the Left tend to crowd academia.
Take Jenna Price, active in campaigns to attack critics of Julia Gillard. Price claims to be outraged by abuse:
Hmm. Recent tweets from Price, owner of a potty mouth and a complete absence of self-awareness:
===Collectivists also tend to see opponents as evil, which makes them prone to what-ever-it-takes meanness.
And, of course, collectivists of the Left tend to crowd academia.
Take Jenna Price, active in campaigns to attack critics of Julia Gillard. Price claims to be outraged by abuse:
The Canberra Times columnist and academic Jenna Price says ordinary people are finally standing up to media bullies.Rudeness is revolting?
Price is one of the founders of the Destroy the Joint Facebook page ... credited with helping stir the massive online backlash against [Alan] Jones after he said last month that Julia Gillard’s father had died of shame because of the Prime Minister’s lies…
‘’The audience is talking back for the first time in its entire life, and how exciting is that?’’ Price said yesterday. ‘’I don’t think they ever believed that we ordinary people ... would say, we’ve had enough of the way you speak to us, stop it now.’’…
Price said she had encouraged only respectful behaviour from people involved in Destroy the Joint, describing rude or thuggish behaviour as revolting.
Hmm. Recent tweets from Price, owner of a potty mouth and a complete absence of self-awareness:
(Thanks to reader Pierre.)
Albrechtsen: Scott should quit. Torney: we at the ABC do censor, after all
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (10:26am)
Janet Albrechtsen:
Kate Torney, director of ABC News:
The ABC itself concedes it does not publish information it considers is a danger to our national security. The question is whether it drew the line in the right place.
Torney, who I respect, also argues:
UPDATE
There was once another story involving people in power and questionable conduct which the ABC last year thought not worth covering:
===MARK Scott should resign. When the managing director of the ABC chose to publish information criminally obtained by Edward Snowden about Australia’s signals intelligence operations in Indonesia, he also chose to undermine Australia’s relationship with our most important neighbour.UPDATE
He chose to fuel tensions and nationalist sentiments in a fledgling democracy. He also chose to undermine an immigration policy aimed at preventing deaths at sea.
These consequences were entirely foreseeable. Despite Scott’s flimsy arguments to the contrary, in the end, the ABC - and Scott - were willing to risk Australia’s national interest for no discernible public interest.
The call for Scott to resign is not made lightly. Moreover, I am not the only former ABC board member who believes the managing director of the ABC ought to go or be relieved of his duties for failing to lead the ABC as a responsible editor-in-chief.
Kate Torney, director of ABC News:
THESE are strange days indeed when elements of the media are arguing that stories legitimately questioning the use of power should remain hidden because they may have too great an impact. This is not an argument you normally hear from journalists.Yet further in the same article Torney says the ABC did exactly what she deplores - it kept hidden aspects of a story because it may have had too great an impact:
We did not publish everything we had access to. We took advice from Australia’s intelligence authorities on the matter and redacted sensitive operational information that might have compromised national security.So the issue is not, as Q&A host Tony Jones falsely implied last night, whether we believe in a free press or not, or one that censors or not.
The ABC itself concedes it does not publish information it considers is a danger to our national security. The question is whether it drew the line in the right place.
Torney, who I respect, also argues:
It is easy to forget that it is the original act that is the problem and not the fact it was brought to light.That is not exactly true. The “original act” - monitoring of the phones of Indonesian leaders - may not be a “problem” but a vital tool. Or put it this way: the ABC redacted information about other operations on the grounds that it would have hurt our security. Weren’t those other operations also a “problem”, and, if so, why not just go ahead and publish them, too?
UPDATE
There was once another story involving people in power and questionable conduct which the ABC last year thought not worth covering:
THE ABC’s Canberra news editor says he does not regard the controversy over the union slush fund Julia Gillard set up for her then boyfriend Bruce Wilson to be newsworthy, and he does not have the resources to cover it anyway.(Thanks to reader Steve B.)
John Mulhall, who once defended the ABC’s decision not to cover Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech, also took a swipe at The Australian for having “an abiding interest in events 17 years ago” when Ms Gillard was a lawyer at Slater & Gordon.
Mulhall’s remarks originated in an email response to an aggrieved viewer who this week used the ABC’s website to make a complaint.
The daily Abbott-hate in The Age
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (8:56am)
Never again let The Age
storm about the bias of Murdoch papers when it day after day serves up a
menu like this of stories attacking Tony Abbott and his government:
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Beware more Hurricane Katrinas, Gore thundered. And then there was silence
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (8:38am)
The global warming
scare was turbo charged by Al Gore’s error-riddled film, which made
Hurricane Katrina the symbol of the warming destruction to come:
===Seven years on from An Inconvenient Truth, Hurricane Katrina is the symbol of Gore’s deception after the quietest hurricane season in the US for 30 years ... and counting:
Warming to Warner
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (8:27am)
David Warner seemed
for a long time to have too much the big mouth, made to seem even bigger
by the not so big performances. But today we’re told of a side of him that I sure like:
===For all his millions, Warner has not severed his working-class roots. A day after playing a key role in Australia’s first-Test hammering of England, where he thumped 49 and 124, he was back at Matraville RSL enjoying a quiet beer with his old man.Appreciate the admission that his sledging probably went too far, and hope that the rest of the series shows us more sportsmanship:
“People don’t see the real side to Dave,” Warner Sr says.
“David has come a long way. I remember he was packing shelves at Woolies. He used to finish shifts at midnight and I would pick him up. He was only 15. He used to keep asking for pocket money and we just didn’t have any money, so he got his own job.
“He grew up with very little. When you grow up hard you appreciate it more than if you have money all your life.
“If you are filthy rich you don’t bloody appreciate anything. David has toiled on his own. We never thought he could earn such big dollars but he is working his guts out and it is paying dividends now.”
Warner’s gift to Howard, 60, and Lorraine, 57, is that they will never have to work again.
“We have always been battlers, it’s been a struggle at times,” says Howard, a hardware salesman.
“He’s looked after us, he’s a bloody good boy. I’m so proud of him. To be honest, Dave has got us out of debt. We weren’t in huge debt but we had credit cards and he’s paid them all off for us.”
Don’t just show us, Tony. Tell us
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (8:09am)
Tony Abbott believes his deeds will eventually speak for themselves. But deeds don’t speak in politics. Politicians do.
Or as Steve Kates puts it so well:
I suspect this is aggravating to proud and ambitious people and gives too much of the stage to Labor.
Abbott’s “no mistakes” and “no dramas” approach also suggests fear. There’s been a fear to confront the ABC, a fear to confront the Governor-General, a fear to confront - in rhetoric at least - the global warming scaremongers.
Let go. Have fun. Enjoy yourselves. Embolden your supporters. You’re in power now, guys, and can make a difference to the culture.
Well, make it. You won’t want to look back at your fleeting time in government and say you had the chance and dared not grab it.
UPDATE
Dennis Shanahan says Abbott has avoided mistakes - but also avoided explaining himself:
===Or as Steve Kates puts it so well:
I expect people who rise in the political process to know a thing or two about politics but they often don’t know how things look from out here. And the biggest issue from where I sit is the absence of good news stories, how things are being done and Labor is being raked over the coals for the harm the last six years have done. The fact that Julia Gillard feels capable of commenting shows just how little shame Labor feels about the damage they did.Abbott has some very capable and articulate ministers, but to assert his control and communicate discipline he has put them on a very short leash.
Government is not admin. It is not just fixing things up behind the scenes. It is not only about doing, it is also about explaining. It is about maintaining your support. If you are going to govern against the grain of the zeitgeist, which every conservative government must do, there needs to rhetoric to go with the action.
The only stories I see really being carried in the media have been about rorting travel allowances and a major blue with Indonesia. We already knew about the NBN, the budget black holes, the deficits and the boats. But I worry that the government may think quiet competence will do the job, and people will notice.
I suspect this is aggravating to proud and ambitious people and gives too much of the stage to Labor.
Abbott’s “no mistakes” and “no dramas” approach also suggests fear. There’s been a fear to confront the ABC, a fear to confront the Governor-General, a fear to confront - in rhetoric at least - the global warming scaremongers.
Let go. Have fun. Enjoy yourselves. Embolden your supporters. You’re in power now, guys, and can make a difference to the culture.
Well, make it. You won’t want to look back at your fleeting time in government and say you had the chance and dared not grab it.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;I overstate the problem, it’s true. There is indeed some action. But the crowd, untold, would know little of it.
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
UPDATE
Dennis Shanahan says Abbott has avoided mistakes - but also avoided explaining himself:
.... there is post-election let-down after years of excited expectation, exacerbated by a government too intent on command and control of the news agenda.Abbott has staff great at executing an agenda. Now it’s time to hire some who can explain it. A very senior and seasoned communications strategist as trusted and capable as Peta Credlin is a chief of staff would prove very useful.
It’s one thing to avoid the vacuous tyranny of 24-hour news cycle but it’s another to allow your opponents to frame the impression of what you are doing.
In the first weeks of parliament, Joe Hockey’s attempts to raise the debt ceiling have been portrayed as the Coalition simply raising debt to $500 billion; the refusal to speak about boat arrivals, to deprive the people-smugglers publicity, seen as confirmation they are still coming; and the staunch defence of Australia’s interests over spying on Indonesia seen as Abbott damaging the relationship with Jakarta.
It’s all very well to appear as a calm and serene duck on the surface while furiously paddling underneath, but it is another thing altogether to allow yourself to be set up as a sitting duck.
Just as Chairman Mao did to millions…
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (7:58am)
Big surprise. Followers of a totalitarian ideology are totalitarians at home:
===The couple who allegedly beat and brainwashed three women for 30 years in a south London home were leaders of an extremist Maoist collective, it has been claimed…
Mr and Mrs Balakrishnan, now confirmed to be aged 73 and 67, were well known to police and security authorities in the mid 1970s after setting up an extreme left wing squat in a bookshop called the Mao Zedong Memorial Centre in Brixton.... Balakrishnan, who was known as Comrade Bala, was a former member of the national executive committee of the Communist party of England (Marxist-Leninist)...
Only 53 per cent?
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (7:55am)
He lied, and now pays in the polls:
===Only four out of 10 Americans believe President Barack Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll.
And a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday morning also indicates that 53% of Americans now believe that Obama is not honest and trustworthy, the first time that a clear majority in CNN polling has felt that way.
Next: Fairfax goes sniffing baby Abbott’s old nappies
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (7:43am)
Fairfax newspapers
long thought it almost illegitimate to question Julia Gillard on a slush
fund she helped her then boyfriend and client to create less than 20
years ago - a slush fund he used to scam money meant for his union
members. (Gillard said she did nothing wrong and knew nothing of what
her boyfriend did with the slush fund.)
But Fairfax newspapers are very interested in the marks Tony Abbott got at university, and sneer that they weren’t the very best:
===But Fairfax newspapers are very interested in the marks Tony Abbott got at university, and sneer that they weren’t the very best:
Tony Abbott was not the best student at Oxford university when he was enrolled there as a Rhodes Scholar in the 1980s, but he did finish…
The young Mr Abbott’s academic transcript, obtained by journalist James West, reveals a student somewhere in the ruck…
His results, published on the website Junkee and in the Guardian, show Mr Abbott struggled to gain the highest marks for his efforts in the the philosophy, politics and economics program in which he was enrolled.
Newspoll: Coalition 52 to 48 ahead
Andrew Bolt November 26 2013 (7:12am)
Yesterday’s Neilsen
poll in Fairfax - showing Labor way ahead - does indeed seem a wild
outlier, although the Coalition has lost a little of its lead:
===According to the latest Newspoll survey, conducted exclusively for The Australian on the weekend, the Coalition’s primary vote went from 45 per cent two weeks ago to 43 per cent as Labor’s rose from 32 per cent to 35 per cent. Greens’ support went from 12 per cent two weeks ago to 10 per cent…
Based on preference flows at the 2010 election, the Coalition’s two-party-preferred lead is now 52 per cent to Labor’s 48 per cent - a slight narrowing in the past fortnight.
Paul Barry really is a fool and Media Watch a disgrace
Andrew Bolt November 25 2013 (9:28pm)
On tonight’s show Paul Barry trashed the standards his program is meant to police.
- Barry falsely suggested I believed the Guardian and ABC had sat on the story of Australian spying on the Indonesian President for five months just to damage Tony Abbott. He cited a column in The Age by his Media Watch predecessor Jonathan Holmes making the same false claim. The Age has so far failed to publish my letter of correction, which the ABC should now publish, too:
Barry misrepresented my argument. In fact, he invented it.
Once again I’ve been misrepresented by Jonathan Holmes (Opinion, Nov 23).
No, I have never “agreed” with a claim Holmes mocks: that The Guardian deliberately waited for five months to reveal Australia spied on the Indonesian president, just to embarrass Tony Abbott.
Indeed, the quote Holmes uses to frame me comes from a column in which I did not mention that delay at all.
Will Media Watch cover this deceptive reporting by its former host?
- Barry completely misrepresented my argument that Abbott hatred was driving the coverage of the Indonesian dispute. He suggested my case rested on the conspiracy theory that the Guardian and ABC had deliberately sat on the story for five months to embarrass Abbott. I have never made that claim. My argument - backed by quotes - is that some Leftist journalists wish Abbott to fail, are urging Indonesia to hurt him, are implying the fault lies with Abbott and not Kevin Rudd or the ABC, and are denouncing Abbott for not surrendering to Indonesia. Barry completely misrepresented my argument.I am genuinely shocked that Media Watch could screen such a deceptive, error-riddled program, clearly driven by ideological malice.
- In discussing the leak of ABC salaries, Barry revealed his own and challenged me to reveal mine. In doing so he deliberately overlooked a critical distinction: that his salary is paid for by taxpayers, who are entitled to know how their money is spent. Mine is not. Again, Barry misrepresented my argument.
- In discussing the ABC salaries link, Barry completely avoided discussing the hypocrisy I raised in the article he mocked: that the ABC felt entitled to publish stolen intelligence secrets damaging to Australia’s interests but damned the publication by the Australian of a secret of its own, the salaries of its stars. Barry misrepresented my argument.
ABC boss Mark Scott once claimed it was irrelevant that every host of the Media Watch was of the Left. Indeed, he claimed he could not detect their ideological leanings, and, besides, they would not let those leanings show.
Utter nonsense. Exhibit A: tonight’s disgraceful show.
UPDATE
When the story first broke I asked these questions:
Why were these stolen documents leaked five months later? Why did the Guardian Australia wait until now - the election of the Abbott Government - to reveal Australia spied on Indonesia? The timing of its joint story with the ABC on Monday could not be more damaging.Those legitimate questions were then answered by the Guardian Australia and ABC managing director Mark Scott in Senate estimates hearings. I have never “agreed” with the theory that these media organisations sat on the information deliberately. For now I accept the answers given, which is why I did not mention the pause again in the article Holmes quoted.
Let me put it to Barry very simply: I asked the questions about the delay that he, for this show, also asked the Guardian Australia a week later.
UPDATE
Reader Sue of St Kilda:
A small point but if Barry wishes to contrast his salary with yours he would have to declare all his earnings and possibly his wife’s from all sources since he is not concerned with the fact that the taxpayers cover a part of it. He would then have to face the comparison of what you cover in a year with what he does. Let him put that up on the screen. You are not required to divulge your income. He offered.UPDATE
We could then discuss productivity. ABC and the rest. The stupidity of his argument was breathtaking.
Tim Blair discovers Paul Barry did not read all of a Daily Telegraph article he criticised.
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Back home in Alaska after a great few weeks on our “Good Tidings and Great Joy” book tour! Had to jump on Todd's SkiDoo with Trig to eliminate jet lag. Thanks so much to all who came out to visit, share recipes, and give us the chance to say an early Merry Christmas! Click this link for the most uplifting recap of one book tour visit:http://youtu.be/
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Timothy Ly
Having the most weird Feeling. Auditioning for a role on maximum choppage. My little baby has grown up and is now calling the shots! #pumped!
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Presiden SBY mempelajari kembali surat balasan dari PM Abbot untuk bahan rapat kabinet terbatas pk. 3 sore ini. pic.twitter.com/fZjKEzYXiJ
— S. B. Yudhoyono (@SBYudhoyono) November 26, 2013
https://twitter.com/sbyudhoyono/status/405229749468815360
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They were precious in God's eyes before they were born, and at their lowest. I could cheerfully torture those who exploit them. But I'd rather they had a life offering hope, not vengeance. This evils what Francis works so hard to end. - ed
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"Train your brain to get happy" .. is it a good book? - ed
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Aprille Love
#OMG CANNOT CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT! SUPER EXCITED TO HAVE MET WITH ONE OF MY ENTREPRENEUR IDOLS #DORRYKORDAHI AND RECEIVE HIS NEW BOOK #POWERTOACTPERSONALLY SIGNED!!!!! #inspo #entrepreneur#iliveforthatshit #bestday
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.. they wouldn't do that if she could fight back. They have ethics - ed
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Turbulence
Seen around the area of Paul's Valley, Oklahoma over a lush field of poppies just before the tornado that hit Moore did it's work.
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http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/is-bitcoin-more-than-a-passing-fad-20131126-2y79p.html
Anything that is valued is valuable - ed===
http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life/the-little-known-benefits-of-masturbation-20131125-2y571.html
As advice goes, it smacks of Rudd's governing style. - ed===
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This is a diamond with a garnet inclusion from Siberia. Unfortunately it's only 2mm in diameter.
This kind of stone is of special interest to scientists, as they give chemical clues to their age, how they were created, and how the earth's crust behaves over massive timescales.
Look my love, this stone is well, stoned - ed
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/brendan-oconnor-attack-undermines-labor-stance-on-indonesia-spying-affair-20131126-2y6wz.html
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Aprille Love
Morning! #inspo #dream 2 weeeks to go until my charity event! #letsdothis
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Feeling blessed. Such a beautiful way to end my day with a beautiful view and great company#sydney #pyrmont
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Turkey Day in T-minus...
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The hit man's report of success brought a smile to my face .. ed===
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Aprille Love
With Justin Mulder, advisor to the premier.#parliament #dinner
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With Her Excellency Belen F. Anota and the lovely Consul General Anne Jalando-on Louis#philippineconsulategenera
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With the Hon. Victor Dominello MP
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister for Citizenship and Communities #dinner #parliament
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Dinner at Parliament House with the Honourable Premier Mr Barry O'Farrell #parliament #dinner
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Bad management .. the girl is only a symptom. - ed
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Omar M Nasr
At la ferminia reaturant havana
The club fumadores de Cuba their monthly event it was great
gathering and dinner kudos to the Malaysian ambassdor, Nick and other ambassdors club members friends
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New Cakes have arrived... Come in for a surprise treat everyday...
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Larry Pickering
FIGHTING A FIRE WITH A WHITE FEATHER
The UNHCR reports the number of "asylum seekers" in Indonesia seeking their assistance has increased from 385 in 2008, when Kevin Rudd dismantled our borders, to 7,218 last year. Yesterday, Indonesian police chief, General Sutarman, said his officers “would not prevent” asylum seekers on boats from reaching Australia via Christmas Island.
All blue-blooded Australians (except of course the Greens, Fairfax and the ABC) will interpret this to mean Indonesia intends to facilitate illegal immigrants breaching of our borders.
The truth is that Indonesia intends to continue exactly what it has been doing for 5 years. It also intends not to respond to distress calls from sinking boats, preferring to rely on Australia to prevent further drownings, even within their own waters.
Nothing new there.
The cyclone season is now under way and the Indonesians appear to have about as much respect for human life as they have for our sovereignty.
They know where the boats leave from, they know who the crews are and they know exactly who intends to enter Australia illegally. After all, those prospective illegals have only recently passed through their Immigration Department at Jakarta airport and have been given the all clear, with the appropriate bribe of course, to depart to Oz.
Tony Abbott’s craven soft-shoe-diplomatic-shuff
Like most Australians Tony Abbott has not lived in third-world countries where corruption is a way of life. Meek submissiveness will only embolden the dragon.
The boat problem will only be solved by grabbing a few coat lapels, bumping a few heads and explaining that we will not tolerate this sort of crap.
President Yudhoyono is on the front foot, gloating at the public outrage he has fostered against Australia. He intends to humiliate us further, gaining popular support by degrading his southern neighbour.
Never before has Australia shown this degree of weakness.
Abbott, Bishop and Morrison need to re-jig their tactics if they want this boat problem solved quickly. We are by far the more powerful and dominant nation... we should act like it.
Show the Islamic dragon your weakness and it will devour you, show it your strength and it will cower in concession, where you can debate its diet.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God (Philippians 4:6)
PRAY.
Heavenly Father, today I choose to be anxious for nothing. I choose to set aside my worries and concerns. I thank You for Your faithfulness to meet every need in my life. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
PRAY.
Heavenly Father, today I choose to be anxious for nothing. I choose to set aside my worries and concerns. I thank You for Your faithfulness to meet every need in my life. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you...and give you peace(Numbers 6:24–26, NIV)
All throughout the scripture, we see that there is tremendous power in our words. You can speak life or death, blessing or cursing over your future. When you choose to speak the Word of God, you are activating His power in your life. When you speak life and blessing over others, you are sowing seed for the harvest in your future.Right now, I speak blessing over you. It’s a blessing that I declare over our congregation every week.You are blessed highly as you are reading this message,in Jesus Name,Amen.
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you...and give you peace(Numbers 6:24–26, NIV)
All throughout the scripture, we see that there is tremendous power in our words. You can speak life or death, blessing or cursing over your future. When you choose to speak the Word of God, you are activating His power in your life. When you speak life and blessing over others, you are sowing seed for the harvest in your future.Right now, I speak blessing over you. It’s a blessing that I declare over our congregation every week.You are blessed highly as you are reading this message,in Jesus Name,Amen.
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PRAY ALONG.
Father,I thank You for victory in store for my future. Thank you that “after this,” I’m rising higher. I’m coming out stronger. I’m more prepared for my future. I’m better equipped and empowered to fulfill the destiny You have prepared for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Father,I thank You for victory in store for my future. Thank you that “after this,” I’m rising higher. I’m coming out stronger. I’m more prepared for my future. I’m better equipped and empowered to fulfill the destiny You have prepared for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Your life is not over because you had a setback. God has an “after this” in your future. He has another victory planned. He wants to take you further than you ever dreamed possible.The Scripture says,“And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them.”(2 Samuel 8:1, KJV)
When you go through tough times, don’t be surprised if the enemy whispers in your ear, “You’ll never be as happy as you used to be. You’ve seen your best days. This setback is the end of you.” No, let that go in one ear and out the other. God is saying to you, “After the bad break, after the disappointment, after the pain, there is still a full life." God has an “after this” in your future. He’s not only going to bring you out, He is going to bring you out better than you were before.God bless you.
When you go through tough times, don’t be surprised if the enemy whispers in your ear, “You’ll never be as happy as you used to be. You’ve seen your best days. This setback is the end of you.” No, let that go in one ear and out the other. God is saying to you, “After the bad break, after the disappointment, after the pain, there is still a full life." God has an “after this” in your future. He’s not only going to bring you out, He is going to bring you out better than you were before.God bless you.
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Life is short But eternity lasts forever!
Life is too short to live carelessly and foolishly. Make the most of every day, and the Word teaches us how to do that.Psalms 39.This entire Psalm is about the brevity of life. The Psalmist pauses in the midst of a busy existence and begins to meditate on his life, his Lord, and the length of his days. As he sits quietly, he begins to consider how short life is; furthermore, he considers how important it is for man to know how short life is (v. 4-7). It is in the brevity of life that he discovers that there is no real hope outside of the Lord, for he is eternal. He begins to call on God for forgiveness of sins and goodness of days.
LIFE IS TOO SHORT.
I want to share some verses with you.Gen 18:27, Abraham said, "I am but dust and ashes.” I Sam 20:3, David admits, “there is but a step between me and death.”
II Sam 14:14, “For we must die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person.” I Chron 29:15, “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” Job 7:6 & 7, “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.” “O remember that my life is wind.”
Job 8:9, “(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)”
Job 14:1-2, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”
Job 17:1, “My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.”
Ps 22:29, “none can keep alive his own soul.”
Ps 103:14-16, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.”
Ps 144:4, “Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.”
Prov 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”
James 4:14-15, “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”
LIFE IS TOO SHORT: This message is for you to think of your life.There comes a time when God can not tolerate sin any more and His wrath will come upon man.The danger is now.Please repent,the message has not change,still the way John the Baptist started it.Repent.God bless you.
===Life is too short to live carelessly and foolishly. Make the most of every day, and the Word teaches us how to do that.Psalms 39.This entire Psalm is about the brevity of life. The Psalmist pauses in the midst of a busy existence and begins to meditate on his life, his Lord, and the length of his days. As he sits quietly, he begins to consider how short life is; furthermore, he considers how important it is for man to know how short life is (v. 4-7). It is in the brevity of life that he discovers that there is no real hope outside of the Lord, for he is eternal. He begins to call on God for forgiveness of sins and goodness of days.
LIFE IS TOO SHORT.
I want to share some verses with you.Gen 18:27, Abraham said, "I am but dust and ashes.” I Sam 20:3, David admits, “there is but a step between me and death.”
II Sam 14:14, “For we must die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person.” I Chron 29:15, “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” Job 7:6 & 7, “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.” “O remember that my life is wind.”
Job 8:9, “(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)”
Job 14:1-2, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”
Job 17:1, “My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.”
Ps 22:29, “none can keep alive his own soul.”
Ps 103:14-16, “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.”
Ps 144:4, “Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.”
Prov 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”
James 4:14-15, “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”
LIFE IS TOO SHORT: This message is for you to think of your life.There comes a time when God can not tolerate sin any more and His wrath will come upon man.The danger is now.Please repent,the message has not change,still the way John the Baptist started it.Repent.God bless you.
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From Caroline Glick:
" I was on the Steve Maltzberg Show today, talking about the Iran deal.
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/abject-surrender-united-states_768140.html?nopager=1
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11/25/2013 21:52
Our world: The goal of Obama’s foreign policy
By CAROLINE B. GLICK
http://www.jpost.com/
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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1113/phillips_1938_again.php3#.UpNMjD-SJ5o.facebook
Except Obama isn't really Chamberlain. Chamberlain was a decent person facing evil. Obama is getting what he wants, just like When Gillard was forced to lie about a carbon tax for Greens .. even afterwards, without Green alliance, she held to her lie. - ed
http://newsblaze.com/story/20131124161327nurg.nb/topstory.html
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First thought that came to mind when I heard about the agreement was George Orwell's line: "The quickest way to end a war is to lose it."
More in my Tuesday Jerusalem Post column.
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America just had its Neville Chamberlain moment. We lifted sanctions on Iran in return for...basically nothing. This will not end well. Read more: http://allenbwest.com/?p=1545
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- 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, opened.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb (burial chamber pictured) of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
- 1950 – Korean War: With the battles of Chosin Reservoirand the Ch'ongch'on River, China launched a massive counterattack against United Nations forces.
- 1983 – Six robbers broke into the Brink's-MAT warehouse at London Heathrow Airport and stole three tonnes (6,612 lb) of gold bullion, much of which has never been recovered.
- 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing a total of 173 people and wounding more than 300 others.
Events[edit]
- 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
- 1476 – Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
- 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
- 1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
- 1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
- 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
- 1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
- 1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
- 1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
- 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
- 1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy Schooner is defeated by a Chilean Corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile.
- 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, andToronto Arenas as its first teams.
- 1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
- 1922 – Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between is the first film to do so but it is not widely distributed).
- 1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
- 1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihaćin northwestern Bosnia.
- 1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
- 1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
- 1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
- 1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
- 1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean andUnited Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
- 1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
- 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
- 1977 – An unidentified hijacker named 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain'sSouthern Television for six minutes at 5:12 pm.
- 1983 – Brink's-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
- 1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
- 1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
- 1991 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
- 1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
- 2000 – George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
- 2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
- 2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou,China.
- 2004 – The last Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
- 2008 – 2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba.
- 2011 – 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
Births[edit]
- 1436 – Infanta Catherine of Portugal (d. 1463)
- 1604 – Johannes Bach, German composer and musician (d. 1673)
- 1607 – John Harvard, English-American minister (d. 1638)
- 1609 – Henry Dunster, English-American clergyman and academic, 1st President of Harvard College (d. 1659)
- 1657 – William Derham, English minister and philosopher (d. 1735)
- 1678 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771)
- 1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and playwright (d. 1758)
- 1727 – Artemas Ward, American major general in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1800)
- 1731 – William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
- 1792 – Sarah Grimké, American activist (d. 1873)
- 1827 – Ellen G. White, American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (d. 1915)
- 1828 – Robert Battey, American surgeon (d. 1895)
- 1828 – René Goblet, French politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1905)
- 1832 – Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
- 1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American physician (d. 1919)
- 1847 – Maria Fyodorovna, Danish wife of Alexander III of Russia (d. 1928)
- 1853 – Bat Masterson, Canadian-American sheriff and journalist (d. 1921)
- 1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
- 1858 – Katharine Drexel, American nun and saint (d. 1955)
- 1864 – Edward Higgins, English 3rd General of the Salvation Army (d. 1947)
- 1869 – Maud of Wales (d. 1938)
- 1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (d. 1953)
- 1878 – Marshall Taylor, American cyclist (d. 1932)
- 1885 – Heinrich Brüning, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1970)
- 1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (d. 1976)
- 1891 – Scott Bradley, American composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1977)
- 1894 – James Charles McGuigan, Canadian archbishop (d. 1974)
- 1894 – Norbert Wiener, American mathematician (d. 1964)
- 1895 – Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
- 1897 – Wim Hesterman, Dutch boxer (d. 1971)
- 1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Richard Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
- 1900 – Reinhold Kesküll, Estonian sprinter (d. 1942)
- 1901 – William Sterling Parsons, American naval officer and weaponeer on the Enola Gay (d. 1953)
- 1902 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (d. 1971)
- 1904 – Armand Frappier, Canadian physician and microbiologist (d. 1991)
- 1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1907 – Ruth Patrick, American botanist (d. 2013)
- 1908 – Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group (d. 2007)
- 1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and coach (d. 1998)
- 1909 – Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1909 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (d. 1994)
- 1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
- 1911 – Samuel Reshevsky, American chess grandmaster (d. 1992)
- 1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
- 1914 – Charles Breijer, Dutch photographer (d. 2011)
- 1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Patricio Aylwin, Chilean lawyer and politician, 31st President of Chile
- 1919 – Frederik Pohl, American author (d. 2013)
- 1919 – Ram Sharan Sharma,Indian Historian(d.2011)
- 1920 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian-American director (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1923 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
- 1923 – V K Murthy, Indian Cinematographer,Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner
- 1924 – Michael Holliday, English singer (d. 1963)
- 1924 – George Segal, American painter and sculptor (d. 2000)
- 1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Rabi Ray,Former Indian Parliament Speaker
- 1927 – Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian television host (d. 2001)
- 1928 – Nishida Tatsuo, Japanese academic (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Betta St. John, American actress, singer and dancer
- 1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer and philanthropist, founded Berthold Leibinger Stiftung
- 1931 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine painter, sculptor, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 – Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Dutch archbishop
- 1933 – Robert Goulet, American-Canadian singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Richard Holloway, Scottish writer and former Bishop of Edinburgh
- 1933 – Stanley Long, English director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor
- 1936 – Margaret Boden, English researcher of artificial intelligence and psychology
- 1937 – John Moore, English politician
- 1937 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet physician and astronaut (d. 1994)
- 1938 – Porter J. Goss, American politician, 19th Director of the CIA
- 1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
- 1938 – Rich Little, Canadian-American comedian and actor
- 1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- 1939 – Wayland Flowers, American actor and puppeteer (d. 1988)
- 1939 – John Gummer, English politician
- 1939 – Mark Margolis, American actor
- 1939 – Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish former politician and chairman of the Arts Council of England
- 1939 – Art Themen, English jazz saxophonist and former orthopaedic surgeon
- 1939 – Tina Turner, American singer, dancer, and actress (Ike & Tina Turner)
- 1940 – Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician
- 1940 – Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (d. 2007)
- 1940 – Quentin Skinner, English professor of humanities
- 1941 – Susanne Marsee, American mezzo-soprano
- 1942 – Olivia Cole, American actress
- 1942 – Dang Thuy Tram, Vietnamese doctor (d. 1970)
- 1943 – Paul Burnett, English disc jockey
- 1943 – Bruce Paltrow, American director and producer (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Marilynne Robinson, American author
- 1943 – Dale Sommers, American radio host (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Jean Terrell, American singer (The Supremes)
- 1944 – Joyce Quin, English politician
- 1945 – Daniel Davis, American actor
- 1945 – John McVie, English bass player (Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)
- 1945 – Jim Mullen, Scottish jazz guitarist
- 1945 – Michael Omartian, Armenian-American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and producer (Rhythm Heritage)
- 1945 – Björn von Sydow, Swedish politician
- 1946 – Art Shell, American football player and coach
- 1946 – Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli historian and author (d. 2012)
- 1947 – Roger Wehrli, American football player
- 1947 – Susanne Zenor, American actress
- 1948 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
- 1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish journalist
- 1948 – Marianne Muellerleile, American actress
- 1948 – Galina Prozumenshchikova, Ukrainian swimmer
- 1948 – Peter Wheeler, English former rugby union player.
- 1949 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 – Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1949 – Martin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Brotherhood of Man)
- 1949 – Vincent A. Mahler, American academic
- 1949 – Mari Alkatiri, East Timorese politician, first Prime Minister of East Timor
- 1950 – Honey Wilder, American pornographic actress
- 1951 – Ilona Staller, Hungarian-Italian porn actress, singer, and politician
- 1951 – Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian politician
- 1953 – Hilary Benn, English politician
- 1953 – Harry Carson, American football player
- 1953 – Desiré Wilson, South African Formula One driver
- 1954 – Roz Chast, American cartoonist
- 1954 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (d. 2009)
- 1955 – Gisela Stuart, German born English politician
- 1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
- 1956 – Don Lake, Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer
- 1956 – Keith Vaz, Aden-English politician
- 1959 – Jerry Schemmel, American sportscaster
- 1960 – Chuck Eddy, American journalist
- 1960 – Harold Reynolds, American baseball player
- 1961 – Karan Bilimoria, Indian born British entrepreneur, co founder of Cobra Beer
- 1961 – Lisa Moretti, American wrestler
- 1961 – Marcy Walker, American actress
- 1962 – Chuck Finley, American baseball player
- 1963 – Mario Elie, American basketball player
- 1963 – Matt Frei, German born English journalist
- 1963 – Joe Lydon, English former rugby union player
- 1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
- 1965 – Scott Adsit, American actor
- 1965 – Des Walker, English former foorballer
- 1966 – Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian-American actress and singer
- 1966 – Fahed Dermech, Tunisian footballer
- 1967 – Ridley Jacobs, Antiguan cricketer
- 1968 – Edna Campbell, American basketball player
- 1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
- 1969 – Kara Walker, American painter and illustrator
- 1970 – John Amaechi, American-English basketball player
- 1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian and radio host
- 1971 – Vicki Pettersson, American author
- 1971 – Ryan Robbins, Canadian actor
- 1971 – Winky Wright, American boxer
- 1972 – Christopher Fitzgerald, American actor and singer
- 1972 – Helger Hallik, Estonian wrestler
- 1972 – Chris Osgood, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
- 1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
- 1973 – Kristin Bauer van Straten, American actress
- 1974 – Tammy Lynn Michaels, American actress
- 1974 – Roman Šebrle, Czech decathlete
- 1975 – DJ Khaled, American rapper, DJ, and producer
- 1975 – Patrice Lauzon, Canadian figure skater
- 1976 – Andreas Augustsson, Swedish footballer
- 1976 – Maven Huffman, American wrestler
- 1976 – Brian Schneider, American baseball player
- 1977 – Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist
- 1977 – Paris Lenon, American football player
- 1977 – John Parrish, American baseball player
- 1977 – Campbell Walsh, Scottish slalom canoeist
- 1978 – Matthew Taylor, American bass player (Motion City Soundtrack)
- 1978 – Jun Fukuyama, Japanese voice actor
- 1979 – B. J. Averell, American reality show contestant, winner of The Amazing Race 9
- 1980 – Jason Griffith, American voice actor
- 1980 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor (Arashi)
- 1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer
- 1981 – Natasha Bedingfield, English singer-songwriter
- 1981 – OJ da Juiceman, American rapper (1017 Brick Squad)
- 1981 – Natalie Gauci, Australian singer
- 1981 – Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby player
- 1983 – Chris Hughes, American publisher and businessman, co-founder of Facebook
- 1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
- 1986 – Konstadinos Filippidis, Greek pole vaulter
- 1986 – Kanae Itō, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1986 – Bauke Mollema, Dutch cyclist
- 1986 – Trevor Morgan, American actor
- 1986 – Alberto Sgarbi, Italian rugby player
- 1987 – Georgios Tzavelas, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Blake Harnage, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (VersaEmerge)
- 1988 – Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model
- 1990 – Chip, British rapper
- 1990 – Avery Bradley, American basketball player
- 1990 – Rita Ora, Yugoslav-English singer-songwriter
- 1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer
- 1991 – Manolo Gabbiadini, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Louis Ducruet, Monegasque son of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
- 1993 – Erena Ono, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
Deaths[edit]
- 399 – Pope Siricius (b. 334)
- 1504 – Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
- 1621 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor (b. 1540)
- 1639 – John Spottiswoode, Scottish archbishop (b. 1565)
- 1651 – Henry Ireton, English general (b. 1611)
- 1661 – Luis Méndez de Haro, Spanish nobleman, political figure and general
- 1688 – Philippe Quinault, French playwright (b. 1635)
- 1689 – Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. 1635)
- 1717 – Daniel Purcell, English composer (b. 1664)
- 1719 – John Hudson, English scholar (b. 1662)
- 1780 – James Steuart, Scottish economist (b. 1712)
- 1836 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (b. 1756)
- 1851 – Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French marshal (b. 1769)
- 1855 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
- 1857 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German poet (b. 1788)
- 1872 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
- 1876 – Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
- 1882 – Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian statesman (b. 1805)
- 1883 – Sojourner Truth, American activist (b. 1797)
- 1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b. 1813)
- 1892 – Charles Lavigerie, French archbishop (b. 1825)
- 1895 – George Edward Dobson, Irish zoologist (b. 1848)
- 1896 – Coventry Patmore, English poet (b. 1823)
- 1912 – Joachim III, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1834)
- 1919 – Felipe Ángeles, Mexican general (b. 1868)
- 1926 – John Browning, American weapons designer (b. 1855)
- 1928 – Reinhard Scheer, German navy officer (b. 1863)
- 1934 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian historian and politician (b. 1866)
- 1938 – Flora Call Disney, American mother of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (b. 1868)
- 1941 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (b. 1861)
- 1941 – Ernest Lapointe, Canadian politician (b. 1876)
- 1943 – Edward O'Hare, American pilot (b. 1914)
- 1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer (b. 1865)
- 1954 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (b. 1891)
- 1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1905)
- 1959 – Albert Ketèlbey, English pianist, conductor, and composer (b. 1875)
- 1962 – Albert Sarraut, French politician, 106th Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
- 1963 – Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
- 1971 – Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (b. 1884)
- 1973 – John Rostill, English bassist and composer (b. 1942)
- 1974 – Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (b. 1903)
- 1977 – Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (b. 1920)
- 1981 – Pete DePaolo, American race car driver (b. 1898)
- 1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer (b. 1884)
- 1985 – Vivien Thomas, American surgeon (b. 1910)
- 1986 – Betico Croes, Aruban political activist (b. 1938)
- 1987 – Thomas G. Lanphier, American pilot (b. 1915)
- 1987 – J. P. Guilford, United States psychologist (b. 1897)
- 1989 – Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician (b. 1919)
- 1991 – Ed Heinemann, American engineer (b. 1908)
- 1991 – Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (b. 1931)
- 1994 – David Bache, English car designer (b. 1925)
- 1994 – Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
- 1994 – Arturo Rivera y Damas, Archbishop of San Salvador (b. 1923)
- 1996 – Michael Bentine, English comedian and actor (b. 1922)
- 1996 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Marguerite Henry, American children's author (b. 1902)
- 1998 – Jonathan Kwitny, American journalist (b. 1941)
- 2001 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish author (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Polo Montañez, Cuban singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
- 2002 – Verne Winchell, American businessman, founded Winchell's Donuts (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
- 2003 – Stefan Wul, French surgeon and author (b. 1922)
- 2004 – Philippe de Broca, French director (b. 1933)
- 2005 – Takanori Arisawa, Japanese composer (b. 1951)
- 2005 – Stan Berenstain, American author (b. 1923)
- 2005 – Mark Craney, American drummer (b. 1952)
- 2006 – Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos, Portuguese painter and poet (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Dave Cockrum, American writer and illustrator (b. 1943)
- 2006 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1975)
- 2006 – Raúl Velasco, Mexican television host and producer (b. 1933)
- 2007 – Silvestre Herrera, Mexican-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Mel Tolkin, Russian-Canadian screenwriter (b. 1913)
- 2007 – Herb McKenley, Jamaican athlete (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks:
- Gavriel Holtzberg, Israeli rabbi (b. 1979)
- Ashok Kamte, Indian police officer (b. 1965)
- Hemant Karkare, Indian police officer (b. 1954)
- Tukaram Omble, Indian police officer
- Vijay Salaskar, Indian police officer
- 2008 – Edna Parker, American super-centenarian (b. 1893)
- 2008 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)
- 2008 – Vitaly Karayev, mayor of Vladikavkaz (b. 1962)
- 2010 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)
- 2012 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Peter C. Myers, American politician (b. 1931)
- 2012 – P. K. Venukuttan Nair, Indian actor (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Martin Richards, American theater and film producer (b. 1932)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Days:
- Day of the Covenant (Bahá'í Faith)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mongolia from China on July 11, 1921.
- Constitution Day, India. A day to honour the Constitution of India
“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” Colossians 3:17NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"To preach deliverance to the captives."
Luke 4:18
Luke 4:18
None but Jesus can give deliverance to captives. Real liberty cometh from him only. It is a liberty righteously bestowed; for the Son, who is Heir of all things, has a right to make men free. The saints honour the justice of God, which now secures their salvation. It is a liberty which has been dearly purchased. Christ speaks it by his power, but he bought it by his blood. He makes thee free, but it is by his own bonds. Thou goest clear, because he bare thy burden for thee: thou art set at liberty, because he has suffered in thy stead. But, though dearly purchased, he freely gives it. Jesus asks nothing of us as a preparation for this liberty. He finds us sitting in sackcloth and ashes, and bids us put on the beautiful array of freedom; he saves us just as we are, and all without our help or merit. When Jesus sets free, the liberty is perpetually entailed; no chains can bind again. Let the Master say to me, "Captive, I have delivered thee," and it is done forever. Satan may plot to enslave us, but if the Lord be on our side, whom shall we fear? The world, with its temptations, may seek to ensnare us, but mightier is he who is for us than all they who be against us. The machinations of our own deceitful hearts may harass and annoy us, but he who hath begun the good work in us will carry it on and perfect it to the end. The foes of God and the enemies of man may gather their hosts together, and come with concentrated fury against us, but if God acquitteth, who is he that condemneth? Not more free is the eagle which mounts to his rocky eyrie, and afterwards outsoars the clouds, than the soul which Christ hath delivered. If we are no more under the law, but free from its curse, let our liberty be practically exhibited in our serving God with gratitude and delight. "I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds." "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"
Evening
"For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
Romans 9:15
Romans 9:15
In these words the Lord in the plainest manner claims the right to give or to withhold his mercy according to his own sovereign will. As the prerogative of life and death is vested in the monarch, so the Judge of all the earth has a right to spare or condemn the guilty, as may seem best in his sight. Men by their sins have forfeited all claim upon God; they deserve to perish for their sins--and if they all do so, they have no ground for complaint. If the Lord steps in to save any, he may do so if the ends of justice are not thwarted; but if he judges it best to leave the condemned to suffer the righteous sentence, none may arraign him at their bar. Foolish and impudent are all those discourses about the rights of men to be all placed on the same footing; ignorant, if not worse, are those contentions against discriminating grace, which are but the rebellions of proud human nature against the crown and sceptre of Jehovah. When we are brought to see our own utter ruin and ill desert, and the justice of the divine verdict against sin, we no longer cavil at the truth that the Lord is not bound to save us; we do not murmur if he chooses to save others, as though he were doing us an injury, but feel that if he deigns to look upon us, it will be his own free act of undeserved goodness, for which we shall forever bless his name.
How shall those who are the subjects of divine election sufficiently adore the grace of God? They have no room for boasting, for sovereignty most effectually excludes it. The Lord's will alone is glorified, and the very notion of human merit is cast out to everlasting contempt. There is no more humbling doctrine in Scripture than that of election, none more promotive of gratitude, and, consequently, none more sanctifying. Believers should not be afraid of it, but adoringly rejoice in it.
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Today's reading: Ezekiel 24-26, 1 Peter 2 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Ezekiel 24-26
Jerusalem as a Cooking Pot
1 In the ninth year, in the tenth month on the tenth day, the word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, record this date, this very date, because the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. 3 Tell this rebellious people a parable and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“‘Put on the cooking pot; put it on
and pour water into it.
4 Put into it the pieces of meat,
all the choice pieces—the leg and the shoulder.
Fill it with the best of these bones;
5 take the pick of the flock.
Pile wood beneath it for the bones;
bring it to a boil
and cook the bones in it.
and pour water into it.
4 Put into it the pieces of meat,
all the choice pieces—the leg and the shoulder.
Fill it with the best of these bones;
5 take the pick of the flock.
Pile wood beneath it for the bones;
bring it to a boil
and cook the bones in it.
6 “‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“‘Woe to the city of bloodshed,
to the pot now encrusted,
whose deposit will not go away!
Take the meat out piece by piece
in whatever order it comes....
to the pot now encrusted,
whose deposit will not go away!
Take the meat out piece by piece
in whatever order it comes....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Peter 2
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
The Living Stone and a Chosen People
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion,a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame....”
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Naaman [Nā'aman]—delight, pleasant or agreeable.
- A son of Benjamin and founder of a tribal family (Gen. 46:21).
- A son of Bela, son of Benjamin (Num. 26:40; 1 Chron. 8:4).
- A son of Ehud, or Abihud, grandson of Benjamin (1 Chron. 8:7).
- A Syrian captain in the army of Ben-hadad, king of Damascus. This able commander was cured of leprosy by Elisha the prophet ( 2 Kings 5;Luke 4:27).
The Man Who Was Valiant But Leprous
What a blight Naaman’s leprosy must have cast on his path! Successful, valiant, noble, yet a leper. His loathesome disease must have haunted him day and night. As there was no physician in Syria who could help him, he had the dread of going to the grave with his foul ailment. But God has a way of using little things to achieve His beneficent purpose. Among the captives brought from Israel to Syria was a girl chosen to act as maid to Naaman’s wife. This slave maiden loved the Lord and was not ashamed to own Him. Thus when her mistress bemoaned the disease and despair of her husband, the girl sang the praises of Elisha. We can imagine how she would relate the miracles of the prophet, and, since her life was consistent with her testimony, the captive girl was believed.
With faith in the witness of the maid, Naaman went to Samaria, but felt rebuffed when Elisha would not see him, and instead sent his servant to the captain with the order: “Go wash in Jordan seven times.”
How angry Naaman was to be told to wash himself in the muddy Jordan! Away he went in a rage, simply because his pride had been hurt. Elisha was indifferent to Naaman’s honor and wealth, and also to the virtue of the better rivers in Damascus. But Naaman’s excellent servant wanted his master cured of his dread disease, and influenced by him, Naaman obeyed the word of Elisha and was made whole. For the minister this old-time miracle bristles with forceful application.
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