Harry wrote of a silent girl in the Bulletin
When the sklll'd fashioner of female faces
Designed your mask, he wrought with cunning fist,
And made a mouth expressly to be kiss'd -
Not for shrill utterance nor pert grimaces.
The curved, ripe lips-above the rounded chin -
He dyed the hue of summer's reddest rose,
Then placed a smile upon them to disclose
A glimpse of white and even pearls within.
Those lips are silent, sweetheart! - but your eyes
Are eloquent, and they love's lesson teach
Better than other woman's aptest speech -
In their soft light the tend'rest language lies.
In womankind - the world has long confess'd -
A silent mouth and speaking eyes are best.
First published in The Bulletin, 30 September 1893.Today is also the anniversary of Lincoln's Cooper Union Address which is credited with earning him the Presidency. It is a celebration of libertarian values, by the day's standards, and Lincoln's debate with Douglas over the issue of slavery is an echo of Abbott's debates with Shorten over the direction of Australia. It is that embarrassing for Shorten, who has shown he is incapable of modelling an agenda which supports workers, as ALP has as a reason for existence. Powerless and inept, Shorten can only support the slave trader like people smugglers and their murderous activity on the grounds that it was the policy that few voters supported.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns David Bowles. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
- 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775)
- 1691 – Edward Cave, English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine (d. 1754)
- 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons (d. 1842)
- 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
- 1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d. 1928)
- 1890 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (d. 1933)
- 1891 – David Sarnoff, Belarusian-American businessman and journalist, founded RCA (d. 1971)
- 1902 – John Steinbeck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1923 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (d. 1990)
- 1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Ralph Nader, American lawyer, author, and activist
- 1936 – Ron Barassi, Australian footballer and coach
- 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer
- 1957 – Robert de Castella, Australian runner
- 1979 – Andreas Voss, German footballer
- 1994 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
Matches
- 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
- 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: the House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
- 1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county ofNottinghamshire.
- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1902 – Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
- 1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
- 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
- 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
- 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
- 2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- 2007 – The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
Despatches
- 640 – Pepin the Elder, Frankish Mayor of the Palace (b. c. 580)
- 1706 – John Evelyn, English author (b. 1620)
- 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
- 1902 – Breaker Morant, English-Australian soldier (b. 1864)
- 2002 – Spike Milligan, Indian-Irish comedian, actor, and author (b. 1918)
TIM vs THE POLAR VORTEX
Tim Blair – Thursday, February 27, 2014 (9:32am)
Earlier this week, in a tribute to heroic climate change geologist Chris Turney, I became completely trapped by several feet of snow and ice.
This was no simple accomplishment. My trapping required serious lack of planning, massive ignorance of local conditions and a great amount of sheer reckless arrogance. In other words, I perfectly duplicated the mission of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, except in a rented VW Touareg.
Continue reading 'TIM vs THE POLAR VORTEX'Sack this Climate Change Authority now
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (1:10pm)
You’d think the economy
was booming. You’d think we had so many jobs we wouldn’t mind closing a
few more factories. You’d think the rest of the world really was making
similar sacrifices. You’d think the planet had warmed these past 16
years. You’d think cutting Australia’s emissions would make a difference
to temperatures.
But then you’d also have to think the Climate Change Authority wasn’t staffed by extremists and fantasists:
UPDATE
You wonder which fools could propose something both so expensive and so pointless? These fools:
Tell me why it includes militant warmist David Karoly, with his history of predictions?
Why does it include John Quiggin, a warmist who had to admit to having grossly exaggerated the difference our carbon tax could actually make?
===But then you’d also have to think the Climate Change Authority wasn’t staffed by extremists and fantasists:
THE Climate Change Authority will today recommend the nation increase its target for cuts to carbon emissions from 5 per cent below 2000 levels to 19 per cent below, a move that will spark a political storm over how much the nation should do to combat climate change.Sack it now.
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You wonder which fools could propose something both so expensive and so pointless? These fools:
Tell me why the authority members include Clive Hamilton, a professor of public ethics who is a former Greens candidate and absurd catastrophist? Why on earth should we listen to him?
Tell me why it includes militant warmist David Karoly, with his history of predictions?
Why does it include John Quiggin, a warmist who had to admit to having grossly exaggerated the difference our carbon tax could actually make?
Of course the leave scheme is too costly
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (9:48am)
I hope the Government uses this excuse to change its mind:
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
===The Commission of Audit has criticised the government’s proposed paid parental leave scheme as excessive at a time when fiscal restraint is needed.If the Government does back down, it will want to do so later in its term to avoid for as long as possible the taint of promise-breaking.
The Australian Financial Review understands the commission’s interim report, delivered to the government 13 days ago, supports the concept of paid parental leave but finds that Mr Abbott’s scheme is too generous given the state of budget… The finding will complicate plans within government to release the report as early as possible before the May 13 budget so the public can be educated on the need for cuts.
(Thanks to reader Peter of Bellevue Hill.)
Hannan speaks
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (9:09am)
Don’t miss British politician Daniel Hannan’s talk in Melbourne tomorrow:
===In the last few years, Daniel Hannan has been recognised all over the English-speaking world as one of this generation’s most eloquent voices for freedom. Hannan has a scholar’s mastery of the history of liberty and a politician’s grasp of the powerful forces vying to determine our future.To book.
Now Hannan brings his urgent and invigorating message to Australia.
Read his conversation with Nick Cater here
If I called for Mark Scott to be beheaded would the ABC still laugh?
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (9:07am)
Why is a national broadcaster publicising such grossness?
UPDATE
Triple J removes the tweet. No apology is offered.
(Thanks to reader Daniel.)
===The ABC: out of control.
UPDATE
Triple J removes the tweet. No apology is offered.
(Thanks to reader Daniel.)
Brandis denies white-anting Abetz. No one believes it
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (8:45am)
Not good for the government:
===Senior Liberal MPs are alarmed at the divisions between Attorney-General George Brandis and [Senate leader Eric Abetz], who form the Senate leadership team.No, it’s not, and, no, it isn’t.
Senator Abetz’s supporters are accusing the Brandis camp of destabilising Senator Abetz, with the medium-term ambition of seizing the Senate leadership from the Employment Minister…
Senator Brandis has denied any breakdown in his relationship with Senator Abetz, emphatically rejecting claims of leaking against his colleague.
“Senator Abetz and I have had for almost four years an excellent working relationship,” Senator Brandis told The Australian. “We are a close and mutually supportive team as is known to all the senior people in the government.”
The ABC tidies up after Steve Conroy. UPDATE: And again
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (8:45am)
ABC Radio National’s Breakfast show this morning applies a big bucket
of whitewash to Steve Conroy’s disgraceful and damaging attack on
Lieutenant General Angus Campbell.
Commentator Paul Bongiorno says Conroy raised a “valid point” and the issue should be pushed. Host Fran Kelly says this army does indeed have a “culture of secrecy” and wonders if the Government “brought this on itself” by appointing a military man to handle Operation Sovereign Borders. She praises Bill Shorten’s weak, irrelevant and deceptive speech as sounding strong.
Nothing is said in their discussion to damn Conroy’s attack on a general who was merely following orders, and executing them well. Nothing is said about the damage done by Conroy’s selfish refusal to apologise to the general. Nothing is said about Shorten’s telling inability to make Conroy apologise. Nothing is said about Conroy’s (in)ability to function properly as Labor’s shadow defence minister after such a political attack on a general - and one that earned him the public rebuke of the head of army.
Where is the balance on the ABC? What is the Abbott Government going to do about it?
UPDATE
The ABC’s 7.30 last night also chose to ignore the Conroy fiasco, preferring to go over yet again the trivial fuss over Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash’s now-ex chief of staff. And it manages to file a whole new piece on that despite this admission:
UPDATE
Barnaby Joyce on 7.30 tries to explain why the Government cannot give more than five years of drought relief for farmers, only to be treated like a naughty schoolboy:
UPDATE
More whitewash from The Age, which thinks the Conroy uproar is of almost no interest when there’s more stale fuss to present over the Liberals’ sinister Fiona Nash, the Liberals’ boat people meanness and the Liberals’ nasty penny-pinching:
Meanwhile, Bill Shorten just digs himself a deeper hole:
===Commentator Paul Bongiorno says Conroy raised a “valid point” and the issue should be pushed. Host Fran Kelly says this army does indeed have a “culture of secrecy” and wonders if the Government “brought this on itself” by appointing a military man to handle Operation Sovereign Borders. She praises Bill Shorten’s weak, irrelevant and deceptive speech as sounding strong.
Nothing is said in their discussion to damn Conroy’s attack on a general who was merely following orders, and executing them well. Nothing is said about the damage done by Conroy’s selfish refusal to apologise to the general. Nothing is said about Shorten’s telling inability to make Conroy apologise. Nothing is said about Conroy’s (in)ability to function properly as Labor’s shadow defence minister after such a political attack on a general - and one that earned him the public rebuke of the head of army.
Where is the balance on the ABC? What is the Abbott Government going to do about it?
UPDATE
The ABC’s 7.30 last night also chose to ignore the Conroy fiasco, preferring to go over yet again the trivial fuss over Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash’s now-ex chief of staff. And it manages to file a whole new piece on that despite this admission:
CONOR DUFFY: For all the noise, no new revelations or resignations emerged, but the minister refused to reveal if she’d offered to quit.No new revelations, but here’s a big report anyway on a bad Liberal.
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Barnaby Joyce on 7.30 tries to explain why the Government cannot give more than five years of drought relief for farmers, only to be treated like a naughty schoolboy:
SARAH FERGUSON: But there are lots of farmers, including in particular cattle farmers, who say it’s going to take more than five years to rebuild their properties; five years isn’t long enough.Is it only on the ABC that explaining an inability to actually pay for a grand scheme under discussion is seen as off-topic?
BARNABY JOYCE: Well I understand that, and in a perfect world we wouldn’t be heading towards $660 billion in gross debt and $123 billion in combined deficit.
SARAH FERGUSON: Just stick to the subject.
UPDATE
More whitewash from The Age, which thinks the Conroy uproar is of almost no interest when there’s more stale fuss to present over the Liberals’ sinister Fiona Nash, the Liberals’ boat people meanness and the Liberals’ nasty penny-pinching:
UPDATE
Meanwhile, Bill Shorten just digs himself a deeper hole:
Bill Shorten has apologised for mistakenly telling Parliament that Liberal frontbencher Michael Ronaldson called the former Chief of Army Ken Gillespie a ‘’coward’’.(Thanks to reader Dan.)
The Opposition Leader apologised on Wednesday night, after receiving a letter from Senator Ronaldson demanding to see the evidence for his ‘’coward’’ claim..
Trying to deflect attention from Senator Conroy’s attack on General Campbell, Mr Shorten told the House on Wednesday: ‘’What I also know is that . . . when Chief of Army General Gillespie was at estimates it was Senator Ronaldson who called him a coward,’’ during debate on a motion to admonish Senator Conroy.
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‘’I’m sure that, given his time again, Senator Ronaldson might have chosen his words differently,’’ Mr Shorten said.
Anglican tells Muslims they’re not
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (8:35am)
The judge, educated in a Church of England school, tells two Muslim men they do not follow the real Muslim faith:
That SMH report takes eight sentences before mentioning the killers were Muslim. The caption to the photograph identifies the alleged ideology only of the protesters:
(Thanks to reader Maurie.)
===The two men who hacked to death a young soldier in Woolwich in south London last year have been sentenced to life in prison…UPDATE
Adebolajo started shouting ‘‘Allahu akbar’’ and Adebowale called out ‘‘that’s a lie’’ as the judge told them their extremist views were ”a betrayal of Islam”.
That SMH report takes eight sentences before mentioning the killers were Muslim. The caption to the photograph identifies the alleged ideology only of the protesters:
RAW VISION: Family of murdered British soldier Rigby arrive at court for the sentencing of his Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale while right-wing protesters demonstrate outside.
(Thanks to reader Maurie.)
Thank Scott Morrison for saving lives instead
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (8:30am)
IN the six years Labor ran our border policies one boat person — on
average — died every two days. The death toll was horrific — at least
1100.
But where were the GetUp candlelight rallies then to match the one we saw last week for the one boat person, Iranian Reza Berati, who died last week under the Abbott Government?
Where was the wall-to-wall ABC coverage? Where were the demands then for the resignation of the politicians behind the deadliest mistake of any peacetime Australian government — to weaken our border laws in 2008 to seem more “compassionate”, only to put people smugglers back into business?
What we are seeing now is not just the hypocrisy of the Left. It is also an illustration of a key difference between them and conservatives: the Left judging by how things seem; conservatives by how things work.
It is the difference between children and adults.
(Read full article here.)
===But where were the GetUp candlelight rallies then to match the one we saw last week for the one boat person, Iranian Reza Berati, who died last week under the Abbott Government?
Where was the wall-to-wall ABC coverage? Where were the demands then for the resignation of the politicians behind the deadliest mistake of any peacetime Australian government — to weaken our border laws in 2008 to seem more “compassionate”, only to put people smugglers back into business?
What we are seeing now is not just the hypocrisy of the Left. It is also an illustration of a key difference between them and conservatives: the Left judging by how things seem; conservatives by how things work.
It is the difference between children and adults.
(Read full article here.)
The mystery is why Tim Flannery is still a guru
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (8:22am)
PROVING Tim Flannery wrong on global warming is too easy. Explaining why he’s still a guru is the hard one.
This week the University of Canberra honoured our former Chief Climate Change Commissioner by letting him give its annual Krebs Lecture.
Strange. Shouldn’t warmists distance themselves from a man whose astonishing record of dud predictions has so hurt their cause?
(Read full article here.)
===This week the University of Canberra honoured our former Chief Climate Change Commissioner by letting him give its annual Krebs Lecture.
Strange. Shouldn’t warmists distance themselves from a man whose astonishing record of dud predictions has so hurt their cause?
(Read full article here.)
What Qantas needs now, and it isn’t more bloody-minded unions
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (8:11am)
Terry McCrann:
How stupid does that damaging 2011 industrial dispute look now? How many of the unionists today losing their jobs fought three years ago against the cost cutting the airline clearly needed?:
===QANTAS needs both things it is asking the Government for — a debt guarantee and the freedom to copy Virgin Australia in seeking major foreign shareholders.McCrann is right to challenge the critics of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce to come up with an alternative plan that did not involve falling market share, increasing losses and fewer jobs.
The results from Qantas today are also going to show with brutal clarity that even with that help, it will still face a fundamental struggle to survive…
Now, there’s an important qualification to government help. The debt guarantee should operate in a strictly limited way — just to bridge the gap to the repeal of the Qantas shareholder restrictions.
Once Qantas is able to get major foreign shareholders, as does Virgin, it would be completely inappropriate for that company to continue to be guaranteed by the taxpayer.
Of course, all that is in the hands of the uncertain Senate after June.
How stupid does that damaging 2011 industrial dispute look now? How many of the unionists today losing their jobs fought three years ago against the cost cutting the airline clearly needed?:
When independent arbitrator Fair Work Australia invoked national interest in terminating all industrial action between Qantas and striking aviation unions at 2 a.m. Monday, it brought an end all industrial action in a bitter dispute that has dragged on for 14 months…
Make no mistake: this was an industrial war that struck at the heart of nationalism, protectionism and old-school political divides…
The long-running labor dispute at the world’s second-oldest airline reached its boiling point during the Qantas Annual General Meeting on Friday, October 28.
Chief executive Alan Joyce ... accused the unions of “slowly crippling our business and trashing our brand."…
His restructuring plan to make Qantas more competitive in the international market received near unanimous support from shareholders… The plans were the catalyst for two unions—the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU)—to implement rolling strikes this year. A third union, the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA), made unauthorized, in-flight announcements to vent their concerns…
With the ongoing dispute already costing Qantas $70 million, Joyce threatened an employee lockout, and promised to ground the airline at a cost of $20 million a day by way of forcing the government’s hand in ordering arbitration.
This is exactly what happened.
Barry backs down, but his sources seem dodgier than ever
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (7:32am)
A mistake is admitted by Media Watch - but that’s at least one admission too few:
What else did Barry get wrong, given how heavily he relied on this “insider” - or perhaps two of them - for his claims against a media organisation he clearly hates?
As Gerard Henderson notes:
===MEDIA Watch moved yesterday to correct its inaccurate reporting of The Australian’s financial position, just hours after the newspaper lodged a complaint with the communications watchdog about the ABC program’s coverage.Too high is right:
After nine days of stonewalling, Media Watch host Paul Barry finally admitted he had put to air false information, writing on the program’s website that “Media Watch accepts that the insider’s figure of $40 million to $50 million was too high”.
[Australian editor Chris] Mitchell, the nation’s most experienced newspaper editor, said he should not need to point out to Barry that the claims by Media Watch that his newspaper was losing $50m were 3 1/2 times more than The Australian’s actual loss.This mistake Barry still needs to apologise for:
“Paul Barry shows an edited clip of Sharri Markson’s interview with me,” Mr Mitchell said.And there is this: exactly what kind of News Corp “insider” was Barry relying on? How much of an “insider” was this anonymous source really when he could get the Australian’s losses so wildly wrong?
“The full interview on The Australian website shows my quote was specifically rejecting the $50m figure.
“This quote was edited [by Media Watch] in a deliberately dishonest way to make it look like I was admitting something I was specifically denying...”
What else did Barry get wrong, given how heavily he relied on this “insider” - or perhaps two of them - for his claims against a media organisation he clearly hates?
As Gerard Henderson notes:
When discussing News Corp publications [this week], his sources included “one former News Corp editor”, an “ex-News Corp editor”, “another ex-News Corp executive”, an “ex-News Corp executive”, “insiders”, “one former News Corp editor”, “another former News Corp executive” and “a former executive”, along with “industry insiders” and the catch-all “some”. In any decent university course such a dissertation would have earned a fail mark or, at best, a requirement that the piece be rewritten.Henderson will be my guest in my new NewsWatch segment when the Bolt Report returns on Network 10 on Sunday at 10am and 4pm.
Morrison hiding in plain sight
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (7:26am)
Niki Savva is as puzzled as I am by the attempts by Labor and friendly journalists to claim Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has somehow been caught in a cover-up of the Manus riot:
===Morrison’s sin was to show too little scepticism in relaying information later found to be inaccurate. He is also, gasp, rude to reporters. He caused particular offence on Saturday when he released his statement at 8.44pm, even though the 24-hour news cycle was invented a few years ago. Late edition Sunday papers reported it, Sunday’s television talk shows were full of it and it has received saturation coverage ever since. Some cover-up.Savva also puts the essentially inconsequential fumbling of assistant health minister Fiona Nash into context:
This is a rough patch for the government, which is bound to get worse, but what tends to be forgotten is just how rocky it was in the Howard years, especially in the beginning.
Howard lost two frontbenchers in his first six months, and in 18 months, hit a grand total of seven.
Is Elizabeth Farrelly really in Australia? Or even on this planet?
Andrew Bolt February 27 2014 (6:44am)
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Elizabeth Farrelly says she lives in Australia but I fear there has been some mistake:
“Credibly”? China to Farrelly is now a “credible” arbiter of human rights, and we are not?
Does Farrelly truly have an audience for such bizarre fantasising? How fashionable is this torrent of hatred and fear of this country?
Or maybe she should just check her passport. Is she really in this country or in, say, China’s Tibet?
===Say there was civil war here. Say some West Australian mining despot took power and began censoring news, jailing journalists, disappearing opponents. Say you were dragged from your bed, interrogated at midnight, your kids threatened with rape and torture. It’s not so far fetched.Er, it’s not? If so, shouldn’t Farrelly actually devote her entire column to explaining why we are on the brink of this tyranny, just so we have time to pack or to fight? Which mining despot does she suspect as likely to become dictator in this “no so far fetched” future?
Now Hanson has gone but the hate-wells are still open, gushing red like the earth we refuse to share, and the blood we spill defending it.Wow. Where are all those people we’re killed to defend this land? Does she mean boat people? Which ones? Where?
Fear makes us harsh, as in 1930s Germany and any populace that accommodates an inhumane regime.So we’re like Nazis now? And Abbott like Hitler? Gosh. So why are “refugees” fleeing towards us and not from? And seeing that Manus was Kevin Rudd’s idea in the first place, shouldn’t his “regime” be criticised, too?
There’s probably some guilt in there too, since many asylum seekers are from countries we have helped destroy.We helped to destroy the lands of the Manus men, who reports tell us are from ”Afghanistan, Sudan’s Darfur region, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Somalia, and Syria”? Really? We destroyed Afghanistan by toppling the Taliban and pumping in aid? We’ve destroyed Iran? Syria is our fault, too? Pakistan?
Yet in this whole immigration shemozzle three things are abundantly clear. One, that we are all boat people.We are? My parents flew here on an invitation from the government. How does that make me a “boat person”, trying to get here illegally? Are we all illegally here, then?
Many of our ancestors came explicitly as criminals. Most of those, having arrived, colluded in what would now be war crimes.They did? Not my parents or my wife’s ancestors, lady, or those of my closest friends. So define “many”. Identity the “war crimes”. While we’re at it, identify the “war”.
We know this when even China can credibly critique our human rights record.
“Credibly”? China to Farrelly is now a “credible” arbiter of human rights, and we are not?
Does Farrelly truly have an audience for such bizarre fantasising? How fashionable is this torrent of hatred and fear of this country?
Or maybe she should just check her passport. Is she really in this country or in, say, China’s Tibet?
This Herald headline is a lie
Andrew Bolt February 26 2014 (6:03pm)
The Sydney Morning Herald yet again misrepresents the Prime Minister:
Of course not. From much deeper into the story, Abbott’s real words:
(Thanks to reader Sandi.)
===Jacqueline Maley’s copy gets dangerously close to the wild misrepresentation of her sub-editor’s headline:
In the hunt for the high moral ground in politics, the defence of ‘’Hey, at least we’re not as bad as Thommo!‘’ is not usually one’s first stop.So did Abbott honestly use the phrase - twice put in quotation marks - that is ascribed to him: ‘At least we’re not as bad as Thommo’?
And yet, in a press conference on Wednesday, when defending the actions of his Assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash, Prime Minister Tony Abbott deployed the unusual tactic of comparing his government’s conduct to his predecessor’s in relation to the erstwhile member for Dobell Craig Thomson.
Of course not. From much deeper into the story, Abbott’s real words:
And then, he launched Thommo defence: ‘’I’d ask you to compare the way this government has dealt with this with the way the former government dealt with the scandal involving the former member for Dobell who was, let’s face it, protected for three years.’’And as Maley then acknowledges the truth of the words her paper mocks:
True, of course.Pretty despicable stuff.
(Thanks to reader Sandi.)
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- 907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, was enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China.
- 1812 – Manuel Belgrano (pictured) raised the Flag of Argentina, which he designed, for the first time in the city of Rosario, during the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1962 – Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bombed the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.
- 1989 – A wave of protests, riots and looting known as the Caracazo resulted in a death toll of anywhere between 275 and 3,000 people in the Venezuelan capital Caracas and its surrounding towns.
- 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about theCatholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, was released.
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- 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
- 425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
- 907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China.
- 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
- 1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
- 1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
- 1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
- 1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: the House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
- 1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1812 – Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
- 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county ofNottinghamshire.
- 1829 – Battle of Tarqui took place.
- 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
- 1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
- 1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1881 – Battle of Majuba Hill, The last major battle of the First Boer War.
- 1898 – George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
- 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
- 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
- 1902 – Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
- 1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
- 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- 1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
- 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
- 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
- 1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- 1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
- 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1955 – Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
- 1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
- 1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
- 1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
- 1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1988 – Sumgait Pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was in the target of a violent pogrom.
- 1989 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
- 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
- 2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
- 2002 – Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
- 2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
- 2007 – The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
- 2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
Births[edit]
- 272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
- 1572 – Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1632)
- 1575 – John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1616)
- 1622 – Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
- 1667 – Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł, Prussian-Lithuanian wife of Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1695)
- 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775)
- 1691 – Edward Cave, English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine (d. 1754)
- 1702 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer (d. 1762)
- 1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Ottoman ruler (d. 1769)
- 1767 – Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, French politician, 24th Prime Minister of France (d. 1855)
- 1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons (d. 1842)
- 1789 – Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and military leader (d. 1818)
- 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
- 1809 – Jean-Charles Cornay, French missionary (d. 1837)
- 1831 – Nikolai Ge, Russian painter (d. 1894)
- 1846 – Franz Mehring, German historian and politician (d. 1919)
- 1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d. 1928)
- 1848 – Hubert Parry, English composer and historian (d. 1918)
- 1850 – Laura E. Richards, American author (d. 1943)
- 1856 – Mattia Battistini, Italian opera singer (d. 1928)
- 1859 – Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-German activist and author (d. 1936)
- 1862 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek target shooter and architect (d. 1937)
- 1863 – Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter (d. 1923)
- 1863 – George Herbert Mead, American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1930)
- 1864 – Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish politician (d. 1935)
- 1867 – Irving Fisher, American economist (d. 1947)
- 1869 – Alice Hamilton, American academic (d. 1970)
- 1870 – Louis Coerne, American composer and educator (d. 1922)
- 1871 – Gustav Waldau, German actor (d. 1958)
- 1872 – Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, Romanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1950)
- 1875 – George Rodocanachi, English-Greek physician (d. 1944)
- 1875 – Manuel Ugarte, Argentinian politician (d. 1951)
- 1877 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American businessman (d. 1952)
- 1877 – Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (d. 1952)
- 1878 – Alvan T. Fuller, American politician, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
- 1878 – Teodor Ussisoo, Estonian pedagogue and furniture designer (d. 1959)
- 1879 – René Lefebvre, French businessman (d. 1944)
- 1881 – Sveinn Björnsson, Danish-Icelandic politician, 1st President of Iceland (d. 1952)
- 1881 – L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician (d. 1966)
- 1886 – Hugo Black, American jurist and politician (d. 1971)
- 1887 – Pyotr Nesterov, Russian pilot and engineer (d. 1914)
- 1888 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
- 1888 – Earl Caddock, American wrestler (d. 1950)
- 1888 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (d. 1976)
- 1888 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (d. 1965)
- 1890 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (d. 1933)
- 1891 – David Sarnoff, Belarusian-American businessman and journalist, founded RCA (d. 1971)
- 1892 – William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1895 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
- 1897 – Marian Anderson, American singer (d. 1993)
- 1899 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian scientist (d. 1978)
- 1899 – Ian Keith, American actor (d. 1960)
- 1901 – Marino Marini, Italian sculptor (d. 1980)
- 1902 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
- 1902 – Ethelda Bleibtrey, American swimmer (d. 1978)
- 1902 – Lúcio Costa, French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed Gustavo Capanema Palace (d. 1998)
- 1902 – John Steinbeck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1903 – Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and sketcher (d. 2005)
- 1903 – Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
- 1903 – Reginald Gardiner, English-American actor (d. 1980)
- 1903 – Gustave Wuyts, Belgian tug of war competitor and shot putter (d. 1979)
- 1904 – James T. Farrell, American author (d. 1979)
- 1904 – Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- 1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
- 1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1905 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
- 1907 – Walter Wolf, German politician (d. 1977)
- 1907 – Momčilo Đujić, Serbian-American priest and commander (d. 1999)
- 1909 – Aleksander Ansberg, Soviet Estonian politician (d. 1975)
- 1909 – Väinö Myllyrinne, Finnish world's tallest man (d. 1963)
- 1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Peter De Vries, American author (d. 1993)
- 1910 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
- 1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990)
- 1910 – Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Oscar Heidenstam, English bodybuilder (d. 1991)
- 1912 – Kusumagraj, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1999)
- 1912 – Lawrence Durrell, Indian-English author (d. 1990)
- 1913 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish politician, President of Poland (d. 1989)
- 1913 – Irwin Shaw, American author and screenwriter (d. 1984)
- 1915 – Olavi Virta, Finnish singer (d. 1972)
- 1915 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian soldier, businessman, and author (d. 2001)
- 1917 – John Connally, American politician, 61st United States Secretary of Treasury (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Theodore Van Kirk, American pilot and navigator
- 1922 – Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch historian, author, and scholar (d. 1977)
- 1922 – Massinet Sorcinelli, Brazilian basketball player (d. 1971)
- 1923 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist, composer, and actor (d. 1990)
- 1925 – Samuel Dash, American politician (d. 2004)
- 1925 – Hardrock Gunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1926 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Jimmy Halliday, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Peter Whittle, New Zealand mathematician and staticisian
- 1928 – Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian painter and sculptor (d. 2009)
- 1929 – Bella Flores, Filipino actress (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Stefan Kudelski, Polish engineer, invented the Nagra (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Peter Stone, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
- 1930 – Martin Lönnebo, Swedish bishop and author
- 1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
- 1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (d. 2011)
- 1933 – Raymond Berry, American football player
- 1934 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
- 1934 – N. Scott Momaday, American author
- 1934 – Ralph Nader, American lawyer, author, and activist
- 1934 – Van Williams, American actor
- 1935 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
- 1935 – Alberto Remedios, English tenor
- 1935 – Uri Shulevitz, American author and illustrator
- 1936 – Ron Barassi, Australian footballer and coach
- 1936 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal
- 1937 – David Ackles, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
- 1937 – Barbara Babcock, American actress
- 1937 – Aslan Usoyan, Georgian-Russian mobster (d. 2013)
- 1938 – Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2002)
- 1939 – José Cardona, Honduran footballer (d. 2013)
- 1939 – Don McKinnon, New Zealand politician, 12th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1939 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (d. 1974)
- 1939 – Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnamese-American poet (d. 2012)
- 1940 – Pierre Duchesne, Canadian politician, 28th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
- 1940 – Howard Hesseman, American actor
- 1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Paddy Ashdown, Indian-English politician
- 1942 – Michel Forget, Canadian actor
- 1942 – Jimmy Burns, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1942 – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German footballer (d. 2011)
- 1942 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
- 1943 – Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
- 1943 – Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian footballer and manager
- 1943 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer and conductor
- 1944 – Ken Grimwood, American author (d. 2003)
- 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer
- 1944 – Mal Ryder, Welsh-Italian singer
- 1944 – Roger Scruton, English philosopher and author
- 1945 – Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
- 1945 – Arnold Kanter, American politician, Acting United States Secretary of State (d. 2010)
- 1947 – Alan Guth, American physicist and cosmologist
- 1947 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist and conductor
- 1949 – Rosalinda Galli, Italian voice actress
- 1950 – Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, English rabbi and politician
- 1950 – Gilla, Austrian singer
- 1951 – Lee Atwater, American politician (d. 1991)
- 1951 – Janet Steinbeck, Australian swimmer
- 1951 – Steve Harley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cockney Rebel)
- 1952 – Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
- 1953 – Yolande Moreau, Belgian actress and director
- 1953 – Gabriela Svobodová, Czech skier
- 1953 – Gavin Esler, Scottish journalist
- 1953 – Ian Khama, English-Botswanan lieutenant and politician, 4th President of Botswana
- 1954 – JoAnn Falletta, American conductor
- 1954 – Neal Schon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Journey, Santana, Bad English, and Hardline)
- 1955 – Peter Christopherson, English keyboard player, songwriter, and director (Coil and Throbbing Gristle)
- 1956 – Anne Veski, Estonian singer
- 1957 – Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator, screenwriter, and producer
- 1957 – Adrian Smith, English guitarist and songwriter (Iron Maiden, ASAP, and Psycho Motel, and Urchin)
- 1957 – Robert de Castella, Australian runner
- 1957 – Timothy Spall, English actor
- 1958 – Naas Botha, South African rugby player
- 1958 – Max Crivello, Italian illustrator
- 1958 – Maggie Hassan, American politician, 81st Governor of New Hampshire
- 1958 – Nancy Spungen, American murder victim, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
- 1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Zant)
- 1959 – Vardan Petrosyan, Armenian-French actor and screenwriter
- 1960 – Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
- 1960 – Carson Yeung, Hong Kong businessman
- 1961 – James Worthy, American basketball player
- 1962 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
- 1962 – Grant Show, American actor
- 1962 – Robert Spencer, American author and blogger
- 1963 – Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
- 1964 – Todd Bodine, American race car driver
- 1965 – Noah Emmerich, American actor
- 1965 – Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
- 1965 – Joey Calderazzo, American pianist
- 1965 – Pedro Chaves, Portuguese race car driver
- 1966 – Donal Logue, Canadian actor and director
- 1966 – Baltasar Kormákur, Icelandic director, actor and producer
- 1967 – Jonathan Ive, English designer of Apple Inc
- 1967 – Dănuț Lupu, Romanian footballer
- 1968 – Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
- 1969 – Stuart MacBride, Scottish author
- 1970 – Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
- 1970 – Matthias Lechner, German set designer
- 1970 – Goran Markov, Macedonian footballer
- 1970 – Patricia Petibon, French soprano
- 1971 – Derren Brown, English illusionist
- 1971 – Roman Giertych, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
- 1971 – Paul Hudson, English meteorologist
- 1971 – Rozonda Thomas, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC)
- 1972 – Jennifer Lyon, American contestant on Survivor: Palau (d. 2010)
- 1972 – Richard Coyle, English actor
- 1973 – Peter Andre, Australian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1973 – Ali Tabatabaee, Iranian-American singer-songwriter (Zebrahead)
- 1973 – Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby player
- 1974 – Colin Edwards, American motorcycle racer
- 1974 – Movlud Miraliyev, Uzbekistani-Azerbaijani martial artist
- 1974 – Carte Goodwin, American lawyer and politician
- 1975 – Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
- 1975 – Christopher B. Landon, American director and screenwriter
- 1975 – Evgenia Manolidou, Greek composer and conductor
- 1975 – Nikita Gross, Russian glamour model and pornographic actress
- 1976 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player
- 1976 – Yukari Tamura, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1976 – Sergei Semak, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
- 1977 – Lance Hoyt, American wrestler
- 1977 – Ji Sung, South Korean actor
- 1977 – James Wan, Malaysian-Australian director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1978 – James Beattie, English footballer
- 1978 – Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer
- 1978 – Innar Mändoja, Estonian cyclist
- 1978 – Emelie Öhrstig, Swedish skier
- 1978 – Yelena Vasilevskaya, Russian volleyball player
- 1979 – Andreas Voss, German footballer
- 1980 – Bobby V, American singer-songwriter (Mista)
- 1980 – Brandon Beemer, American model and actor
- 1980 – Chelsea Clinton, American journalist
- 1980 – Scott Prince, Australian rugby player
- 1980 – Don Diablo, Dutch singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer
- 1981 – Evi Goffin, Belgian singer-songwriter (Lasgo)
- 1981 – Josh Groban, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1981 – Cameron Ling, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Élodie Ouédraogo, Belgian sprinter
- 1981 – Alessandro Rottoli, Italian footballer
- 1982 – Bruno Soares, Brazilian tennis player
- 1982 – Ali Bastian, English actress
- 1983 – Duje Draganja, Croatian swimmer
- 1983 – Devin Harris, American basketball player
- 1983 – Hayley Holt, English actress and singer
- 1983 – Kate Mara, American actress
- 1983 – Mohammed Nabbous, Libyan journalist (d. 2011)
- 1983 – Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower
- 1984 – David Noel, American basketball player
- 1984 – Anibal Sanchez, American baseball player
- 1984 – Lotta Schelin, Swedish footballer
- 1984 – Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
- 1985 – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
- 1985 – Vladislav Kulik, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
- 1985 – Braydon Coburn, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Yovani Gallardo, American baseball player
- 1986 – Jonathan Moreira, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Sandeep Singh, Indian field hockey player
- 1987 – Kristian Marmor, Estonian football and beach soccer player
- 1987 – Sandy Paillot, French footballer
- 1988 – Iain Ramsay, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Xiao Xun, Taiwanese singer and actress (Hey Girl)
- 1989 – David Button, English footballer
- 1989 – Matt Lapinskas, English actor
- 1991 – Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer
- 1992 – Ty Dillon, American race car driver
- 1992 – Meyers Leonard, American basketball player
- 1992 – Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer
- 1992 – Ioannis Potouridis, Greek footballer
- 1993 – Alphonse Aréola, French-Filipino footballer
- 1994 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
Deaths[edit]
- 640 – Pepin the Elder, Frankish Mayor of the Palace (b. c. 580)
- 956 – Patriarch Theophylact of Constantinople (b. 917)
- 1659 – Henry Dunster, English-American clergyman and academic (b. 1609)
- 1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. 1625)
- 1706 – John Evelyn, English author (b. 1620)
- 1720 – Samuel Parris, English-American minister (b. 1653)
- 1735 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician (b. 1667)
- 1795 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
- 1844 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker (b. 1786)
- 1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
- 1892 – Louis Vuitton, French businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
- 1902 – Breaker Morant, English-Australian soldier (b. 1864)
- 1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
- 1931 – Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist (b. 1906)
- 1932 – William Southam, Canadian publisher (b. 1843)
- 1936 – Joshua W. Alexander, American politician (b. 1852)
- 1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
- 1941 – William D. Byron, American politician (b. 1895)
- 1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (b. 1859)
- 1956 – Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian Politicians(b.1888)
- 1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
- 1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (The Teenagers) (b. 1942)
- 1969 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer (b. 1883)
- 1970 – Marie Dionne, Canadian quintuplet (b. 1934)
- 1972 – Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 1973 – Bill Everett, American writer and illustrator (b. 1917)
- 1975 – Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (b. 1906)
- 1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
- 1978 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
- 1980 – George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1981 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
- 1985 – Ray Ellington, English singer and drummer (b. 1916)
- 1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American politician and diplomat, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1902)
- 1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
- 1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
- 1987 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921)
- 1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
- 1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
- 1989 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
- 1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
- 1990 – Josephine Johnson, American author (b. 1910)
- 1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
- 1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1998 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- 1998 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Horace Tapscott American pianist and composer (b. 1934)
- 2002 – Spike Milligan, Indian-Irish comedian, actor, and author (b. 1918)
- 2003 – John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Fred Rogers, American television host (b. 1928)
- 2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (b. 1928)
- 2004 – Paul Sweezy, American economist (b. 1910)
- 2005 – Jessica Lunsford, American murder victim (b. 1995)
- 2006 – Otis Chandler, American publisher (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American general and author (b. 1908)
- 2006 – Linda Smith, English comedian and author (b. 1958)
- 2007 – Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German army officer (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Bobby Rosengarden, American drummer (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931)
- 2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and journalist, founded the National Review (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Boyd Coddington, American motorcycle designer (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Myron Cope, American sportscaster (b. 1929)
- 2010 – Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian activist (b. 1916)
- 2010 – Madeleine Ferron, Canadian author (b. 1922)
- 2011 – Frank Buckles, American soldier (b. 1901)
- 2011 – Duke Snider, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2013 – María Asquerino, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Henri Caillavet, French politician (b. 1914)
- 2013 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kick-boxer (b. 1969)
- 2013 – Stéphane Hessel, German-French diplomat and author (b. 1917)
- 2013 – Mido Macia, Mozambican–South African taxi driver (b. 1985)
- 2013 – Richard Street, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations and The Monitors) (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Roy Stuart, American football player (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Adolfo Zaldívar, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Imants Ziedonis, Latvian poet (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- National Day, celebrates the first independence of Dominican Republic from Haiti in 1844.
- The second day of Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith)
- George Herbert, pastor and poet, 1633 (commemoration, Anglican Communion)
- First Equirria (Roman Empire)
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.” - 1 John 4:9
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
February 26: Morning
"Salvation is of the Lord." - Jonah 2:9
Salvation is the work of God. It is he alone who quickens the soul "dead in trespasses and sins," and it is he also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both "Alpha and Omega." "Salvation is of the Lord." If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful; if I have graces, they are God's gifts to me; if I hold on in a consistent life, it is because he upholds me with his hand. I do nothing whatever towards my own preservation, except what God himself first does in me. Whatever I have, all my goodness is of the Lord alone. Wherein I sin, that is my own; but wherein I act rightly, that is of God, wholly and completely. If I have repulsed a spiritual enemy, the Lord's strength nerved my arm. Do I live before men a consecrated life? It is not I, but Christ who liveth in me. Am I sanctified? I did not cleanse myself: God's Holy Spirit sanctifies me. Am I weaned from the world? I am weaned by God's chastisements sanctified to my good. Do I grow in knowledge? The great Instructor teaches me. All my jewels were fashioned by heavenly art. I find in God all that I want; but I find in myself nothing but sin and misery. "He only is my rock and my salvation." Do I feed on the Word? That Word would be no food for me unless the Lord made it food for my soul, and helped me to feed upon it. Do I live on the manna which comes down from heaven? What is that manna but Jesus Christ himself incarnate, whose body and whose blood I eat and drink? Am I continually receiving fresh increase of strength? Where do I gather my might? My help cometh from heaven's hills: without Jesus I can do nothing. As a branch cannot bring forth fruit except it abide in the vine, no more can I, except I abide in him. What Jonah learned in the great deep, let me learn this morning in my closet: "Salvation is of the Lord."
Evening
"Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague." - Leviticus 13:13
Strange enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This evening it may be well for us to see the typical teaching of so singular a rule. We, too, are lepers, and may read the law of the leper as applicable to ourselves. When a man sees himself to be altogether lost and ruined, covered all over with the defilement of sin, and in no part free from pollution; when he disclaims all righteousness of his own, and pleads guilty before the Lord, then he is clean through the blood of Jesus, and the grace of God. Hidden, unfelt, unconfessed iniquity is the true leprosy; but when sin is seen and felt, it has received its deathblow, and the Lord looks with eyes of mercy upon the soul afflicted with it. Nothing is more deadly than self-righteousness, or more hopeful than contrition. We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth; and if the Holy Spirit be at work with us, convincing us of sin, there will be no difficulty about making such an acknowledgment--it will spring spontaneously from our lips. What comfort does the text afford to truly awakened sinners: the very circumstance which so grievously discouraged them is here turned into a sign and symptom of a hopeful state! Stripping comes before clothing; digging out the foundation is the first thing in building--and a thorough sense of sin is one of the earliest works of grace in the heart. O thou poor leprous sinner, utterly destitute of a sound spot, take heart from the text, and come as thou art to Jesus--
"For let our debts be what they may, however great or small,
As soon as we have nought to pay, our Lord forgives us all.
'Tis perfect poverty alone that sets the soul at large:
While we can call one mite our own, we have no full discharge."
"For let our debts be what they may, however great or small,
As soon as we have nought to pay, our Lord forgives us all.
'Tis perfect poverty alone that sets the soul at large:
While we can call one mite our own, we have no full discharge."
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Today's reading: Numbers 12-14, Mark 5:21-43 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Numbers 12-14
Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses
1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2 "Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?" they asked. "Hasn't he also spoken through us?" And the LORD heard this.
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
Today's New Testament reading: Mark 5:21-43
Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman
21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23 He pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live." 24 So Jesus went with him....
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