Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power
ICAC might now be successful in getting itself dissolved before it chooses to investigate the broad range of ALP corruption. The trigger has been the investigation of Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC over a malicious complaint made against her. While the ICAC has claimed two Liberal Premiers and ten Liberal members on an issue of election funding irregularities, it has turned a blind eye to ALP corruption which involves officers hiring hit men and funding jihadists and corrupt property deals worth many billions of dollars. The watch body that oversees the ICAC has reluctantly moved after Cuneen engaged it to force the ICAC to account for its decisions. The ICAC has declined to list its reasons for its behaviour, and now an investigation is to be opened by the overseer into the watchdog.US Mid term elections have been completed and results show a healthy win by the GOP. Obama will retain a veto for the next two years, but the direction he has taken the US will change.
Former Chief Scientist misspoke when she claimed the world would end in five years. She meant we would all be dead, but Gaia would not have done the deed yet.
Mike Carlton, caught on a left travelling current, has been invited by his former employer SMH to get closer to their left wing journalists. By subscription.
Milne shown to be an incompetent Green leader. She has been incapable of working with tactically capable workers and engaging them with her strategic positioning on policy issues, according to former Green staffer Tim Hollo who still admires her.
Whitlam funeral. He was flawed, and it is difficult to point to anything he achieved as worthwhile. The funeral was touching if one ignored the boos for Liberals and the cold shoulder for Rudd. And the cheers for the questionable former PM Gillard. Gough gave Cate Blanchett a free tertiary education? Taxpayers paid for it.
PUP Senator Jacqui Lambie, who has refused to pass cuts to stabilise the budget, has called on Australians to turn their backs on remembrance day. She argues troops should have larger pay rises than beneath inflation. It seems inappropriate that a day to remember war dead is abused over a pay dispute.
Senator Muir struggling to retain staff. The Motoring Enthusiast is struggling to stand on any principle.
Two Islamic groups brag of raping women they captured through violence. ISIL and Boko Haram. How will mainstream media glorify it for young Islamic men?
Greens gone soft on Islamic state. As Andrew Bolt points out, quoting Bertrand Russell "Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power." It is an international problem for secular idealists embracing hatred ideology.
Thank you Australia
Medical volunteers have an arrangement to fight Ebola thanks to the Australian Government doing a deal with the UK to care for them if they succumb to the illness they help treat. Australia is too far away to have guaranteed that treatment.from 2013
Horse dribble funding anti social activism? If it is, they are welcome to drown in it, but not use it. Today was the Melbourne Cup. A horse won a race. Some people are happy, some disappointed. What is disappointing is Anglican church billboard from Gosford which seems to suggest that it is wrong to prevent desperate people from being subject to piracy and drowning. Shame on them. Apparently the horse race attracts people because of the money. So it isn't only the dribble.
If irresponsible kids in your area are throwing a party, it could be a global warming panic party. ABC and Fairfax may have written and spoken about it, but it is unlikely you heard or read it from them .. not many people do. Plain packaging seems to be working to expand the black market. We don't know who they are, inheriting the Al Capone riches, but my bet is they are ALP.
New York is better for having cleaned up. Australia is worse off for those wind mills. I didn't watch it, but apparently Q and A was abysmal. One bite from what I have seen .. after the fighting is over. When the dead drape the scenery in their struggle over oppression and adversity. When the cost is clear in the wasteland of what was once homes to many with dreams of a better future. The post modernist will ask "Who gets to define success? Who gets to say what is right or wrong" Something worth pondering as you survey those tyrannies which killed millions of people and were supported by communists and socialists.
Guardian article claiming Bush family funded Hitler. Meh, over stated on the Bush connection .. Bush's grandad stopped when it became apparent what Hitler was doing. Unions seemed to like what the Nazis had done, and what the Japanese had done. There is a western concept socialists don't get. It is the idea that a man is responsible for their own actions. Not their families. So at the end of the civil war, General Lee was allowed to live his life. His family was unmolested. His garden was made a graveyard .. Arlington. But, Lee's grand daughter, Harper Lee, wrote "To Kill a Mocking Bird" .. vindicating those who stopped short of eliminating the family, behind the deaths of millions, and in favour of slavery.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or http://wh.gov/ilXYR
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
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- 1271 – Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- 1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
- 1715 – John Brown, English author (d. 1766)
- 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
- 1885 – Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
- 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (d. 1961)
- 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist (d. 1964)
- 1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (Sons of the Pioneers) (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Vivien Leigh, British actress (d. 1967)
- 1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Kings of Rhythm and Ike & Tina Turner) (d. 2007)
- 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
- 1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
- 1605 – The arrest of Guy Fawkes(pictured), found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foiled Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.
- 1838 – The collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America began with Nicaragua seceding from the union.
- 1967 – A train derailed near Hither Green maintenance depot in London, killing 49 people and injuring 78 others.
- 1984 – Morning Ireland, Ireland's highest rated radio programme, was broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 for the first time.
- 2009 – Major Nidal Malik Hasan of the United States Army went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base.
Matches
- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
- 1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
- 1530 – The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
- 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
- 1688 – William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham, Southwest England.
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
- 1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
- 1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
- 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
- 1838 – The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
- 1854 – Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
- 1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
- 1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
- 1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
- 1914 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1914 – Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity founded at Syracuse University.
- 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- 1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
- 1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
- 1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
- 1940 – World War II: The British Armed Merchant Cruiser, HMS Jervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
- 1943 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
- 1945 – Colombia joins the United Nations.
- 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
- 1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
- 1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- 1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
- 1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
- 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
- 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
- 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- 2003 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.
- 2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
- 2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
- 2009 – U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
- 2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
Hatches
- 1271 – Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
- 1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
- 1549 – Philippe de Mornay, French author (d. 1623)
- 1592 – Charles Chauncy, English-American clergyman and academic (d. 1672)
- 1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
- 1615 – Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
- 1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729)
- 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
- 1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
- 1705 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (d. 1770)
- 1715 – John Brown, English author and playwright (d. 1766)
- 1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (d. 1798)
- 1739 – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (d. 1819)
- 1742 – Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
- 1789 – William Bland, Australian politician (d. 1868)
- 1816 – Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary (d. 1885)
- 1818 – Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
- 1835 – Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist (d. 1902)
- 1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
- 1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Charles Dupuy, French politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
- 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
- 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and socialist politician (d. 1926)
- 1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
- 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1944)
- 1870 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian freedom fighter and politician (d. 1925)
- 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (d. 1935)
- 1878 – Max Ammermann, German rower
- 1879 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (d. 1963)
- 1881 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1961)
- 1884 – James Elroy Flecker, English author and playwright (d. 1915)
- 1885 – Will Durant, American historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1981)
- 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist (d. 1961)
- 1889 – Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (d. 1994)
- 1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1977)
- 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
- 1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
- 1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and author (d. 1960)
- 1895 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)
- 1895 – Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956)
- 1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
- 1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1901 – Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
- 1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
- 1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
- 1905 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
- 1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944)
- 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
- 1910 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (d. 1997)
- 1911 – Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (Sons of the Pioneers) (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-English actress and singer (d. 1967)
- 1913 – John McGiver, American actor (d. 1975)
- 1914 – Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
- 1918 – Alan Tilvern, English actor (d. 2003)
- 1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar, and critic (d. 1978)
- 1919 – Myron Floren, American accordion player (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
- 1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German journalist (d. 2002)
- 1926 – John Berger, English author, poet, painter, and critic
- 1928 – Donald Madden, American actor (d. 1983)
- 1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
- 1931 – Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (d. 1971)
- 1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Kings of Rhythm and Ike & Tina Turner) (d. 2007)
- 1932 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
- 1934 – Victor Argo, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (d. 2014)
- 1935 – David Battley, English actor (d. 2003)
- 1935 – Lester Piggott, English jockey
- 1935 – Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter
- 1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
- 1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer
- 1937 – Chan Sek Keong,Singaporean lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
- 1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor
- 1938 – Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
- 1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1938 – Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator
- 1939 – Lobsang Tenzin, Singaporean religious leader, 5th Samdhong Rinpoche
- 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
- 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress and singer
- 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
- 1942 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (d. 2007)
- 1943 – Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper
- 1943 – Sam Shepard, American actor and screenwriter
- 1945 – Peter Pace, American general
- 1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek politician
- 1945 – Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
- 1946 – Herman Brood, Dutch singer, actor, and painter (d. 2001)
- 1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and International Submarine Band) (d. 1973)
- 1946 – Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player and songwriter (Help Yourself, Ducks Deluxe, and Man) (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Quint Davis, American director and producer
- 1947 – Rubén Juárez, Argentine singer-songwriter and bandoneon player (d. 2010)
- 1947 – Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Herman's Hermits)
- 1948 – Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
- 1948 – Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Van der Graaf Generator)
- 1948 – Hridayananda Dasa Goswami, American guru
- 1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
- 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
- 1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
- 1950 – Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
- 1950 – James Kennedy, American psychologist and author
- 1952 – Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager
- 1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
- 1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1953 – Florentino Floro, Filipino lawyer and judge
- 1953 – Joyce Maynard, American author
- 1954 – Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University
- 1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic
- 1955 – Kris Jenner, American businesswoman
- 1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist
- 1955 – Nestor Serrano, American actor
- 1956 – Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter
- 1957 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American model and actor (d. 1984)
- 1957 – Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (A Flock of Seagulls)
- 1958 – Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Spirits Burning)
- 1958 – Mo Gaffney, American actress
- 1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor and producer
- 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1959 – Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
- 1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer
- 1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress and producer
- 1961 – Intesar Al-Sharah, Kuwaiti actress
- 1961 – Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1961 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2012)
- 1962 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager
- 1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist
- 1963 – Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer
- 1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
- 1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
- 1963 – Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter (Tesla)
- 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager
- 1964 – Helga van Niekerk, Zimbabwean-South African radio host
- 1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
- 1965 – Kubrat, Prince of Panagyurishte
- 1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer
- 1966 – James Allen, English journalist
- 1966 – Georgia Apostolou, Greek model and actress
- 1966 – Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager
- 1967 – Marcelo D2, Brazilian rapper (Planet Hemp)
- 1967 – Judy Reyes, American actress
- 1968 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian businessman (d. 2013)
- 1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor
- 1968 – Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Italian-Spanish actress
- 1969 – Pat Kilbane, American actor
- 1970 – Javy López, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress
- 1971 – Chris Addison, Welsh-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1971 – Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter (Radiohead)
- 1971 – Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
- 1971 – Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer
- 1971 – Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Big Four)
- 1971 – Corin Nemec, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1971 – Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
- 1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player
- 1973 – Peter Emmerich, American illustrator
- 1973 – Malcolm Naden, Australian criminal
- 1973 – Gráinne Seoige, Irish television presenter
- 1973 – Danniella Westbrook, English actress
- 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager
- 1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Whiskeytown, The Finger, Pornography, and Ryan Adams and the Cardinals)
- 1974 – Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter (Arch Enemy)
- 1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
- 1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter and dancer (Steps)
- 1976 – Sebastian Arcelus, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1976 – Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist
- 1976 – Jeff Klein, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (My Jerusalem, The Twilight Singers, and The Gutter Twins)
- 1976 – Samuel Page, American actor
- 1977 – Brittney Skye, American porn actress and director
- 1977 – Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
- 1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
- 1978 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
- 1979 – Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
- 1979 – Colin Grzanna, German rugby player and surgeon
- 1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
- 1979 – Keith McLeod, American basketball player
- 1979 – David Suazo, Honduran footballer
- 1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian race car driver
- 1980 – Eva González, Spanish model and actress, Miss Spain 2003
- 1980 – Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman, and politician
- 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
- 1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian rules footballer
- 1981 – Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
- 1982 – Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Pendulum and Knife Party)
- 1982 – Bryan LaHair, American baseball player
- 1983 – Alexa Chung, English model and television host
- 1983 – Andrew Hayden-Smith, English actor
- 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
- 1983 – Juan Morillo, Dominican baseball player
- 1983 – David Pipe, Welsh footballer
- 1984 – Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
- 1984 – Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1984 – Nick Folk, American football player
- 1984 – Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
- 1984 – Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- 1984 – Nick Tandy, English race car driver
- 1985 – Michel Butter, Dutch runner
- 1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter (Young Divas)
- 1985 – Alo Dupikov, Estonian footballer
- 1985 – Rimo Hunt, Estonian footballer
- 1986 – BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1986 – Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
- 1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
- 1986 – Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
- 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Jonas Brothers)
- 1987 – O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
- 1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
- 1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
Despatches
- 1370 – Casimir III the Great, Polish king (b. 1310)
- 1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
- 1559 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (b. 1476)
- 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (b. 1591)
- 1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (b. 1599)
- 1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1659)
- 1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
- 1752 – Carl Andreas Duker, German jurist and scholar (b. 1670)
- 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (b. 1686)
- 1828 – Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
- 1872 – Thomas Sully, English-American painter
- 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish-English physicist and mathematician (b. 1831)
- 1923 – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)
- 1928 – Arnold Rothstein, American businessman and mobster (b. 1882)
- 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- 1931 – Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (b. 1866)
- 1933 – Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1884)
- 1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
- 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (b. 1905)
- 1942 – George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, playwright, and composer (b. 1878)
- 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
- 1951 – Reggie Walker, South African runner (b. 1889)
- 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
- 1956 – Art Tatum, American pianist (b. 1909)
- 1960 – Ward Bond, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
- 1960 – August Gailit, Estonian author (b. 1891)
- 1960 – Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
- 1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
- 1964 – Buddy Cole, American pianist and orchestra leader (b. 1916)
- 1964 – Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
- 1968 – Christina Kalogerikou, Greek actress (b. 1885)
- 1971 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 1972 – Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1898)
- 1974 – Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1975 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
- 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
- 1975 – Lionel Trilling, American author and critic (b. 1905)
- 1977 – René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
- 1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
- 1981 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)
- 1985 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1898)
- 1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
- 1986 – Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- 1986 – Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters and The Robins) (b. 1925)
- 1987 – Eamonn Andrews, Irish-English radio and television host (b. 1922)
- 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (b. 1903)
- 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (b. 1923)
- 1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
- 1997 – James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1946)
- 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (b. 1909)
- 1999 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 2000 – Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1899)
- 2000 – Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b. 1926)
- 2001 – Roy Boulting, English director and producer (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Milton William Cooper, American broadcaster, author, and activist (b. 1943)
- 2001 – Barry Horne, English activist (b. 1952)
- 2002 – Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936)
- 2003 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)
- 2005 – John Fowles, English author and educator (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (b. 1912)
- 2005 – John Rice, American actor (b. 1951)
- 2005 – Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Michael Crichton, American physician and author (b. 1942)
- 2009 – Félix Luna, Argentinian lawyer, historian, and academic (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
- 2010 – Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, Mexican drug lord (b. 1962)
- 2010 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Joseph Oliver Bowers, Dominican bishop (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Charles V. Bush, American soldier (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (b. 1908)
- 2012 – Stalking Cat, American body modifier (b. 1958)
- 2012 – Leonardo Favio, Argentinian actor, singer, director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Bob Kaplan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Sikandar Sanam, Pakistani actor and singer (b. 1960)
- 2012 – Jimmy Stephen, Scottish footballer (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
- 2013 – Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Abdou Nef, Algerian footballer (b. 1995)
- 2013 – Bobby Thomason, American football player (b. 1928)
- 2013 – Charlie Trotter, American chef (b. 1959)
- 2013 – Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2014
- Christian Feast Day:
- Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador), and its related observances:
- Kanakadasa Jayanthi (Karnataka)
The ICAC inquiry finally forgot itself
Miranda Devine – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (12:32am)
AT last the sleeping giant has stirred. The ICAC inspector, which oversights the powerful anti-corruption commission, has long been regarded as a useless rubber stamp, so irrelevant the role was left vacant for four months last year, much to the disquiet of current incumbent David Levine QC.
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Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (1:20pm)
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BLANCHETT EXPLAINED
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (12:55pm)
Come on, Cate. Let’s not play the blame game:
Cate Blanchett, who was three when Whitlam was swept to power in 1972, paid tribute to his initiatives that shaped her generation.“When I heard that Gough Whitlam had died, I was filled with an inordinate sadness, a great sorrow,” she said.“The loss I felt came down to something very deep and very simple: I am the beneficiary of a free tertiary education.”
FIVE YEARS, TEN YEARS, FIFTEEN YEARS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (4:19am)
Angry academic Patricia W. takes exception to Monday’s column:
I’m afraid you have misrepresented the prediction of our former Chief Scientist, hopefully through ignorance, not deliberately. The point (hers and other scientists 5 years ago) was that this would be the “tipping point”, when the world could no longer prevent temperatures from increasing beyond 2 degrees higher. She was not predicting (nor was anyone else) that total disaster itself would be happening in 5 years.
SYDNEY MORNING HATERS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (3:20am)
Poor Mike Carlton is being tormented by his former employer:
I wonder if the opening line was “Air hellair!”
I wonder if the opening line was “Air hellair!”
HOLLO MEN
Tim Blair – Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (1:56am)
Former Greens staffers turned Australia Institute gabblers Ben Oquist and Richard Denniss are trying to destroy Greens leader Christine Milne, according to Milne loyalist (and former Greens staffer himself) Tim Hollo:
Why has [the Australia Insititute] allowed the personal animosity that Richard Denniss and Ben Oquist hold towards Christine Milne to take the Australia Institute into dangerous territory, attacking the Greens … ?Denniss has been writing op-ed after op-ed, doing interview after interview, attacking Milne’s political strategy …Denniss’s attacks on Milne, painting her as the obstructionist head of a protest party, go beyond policy critique. By casting the Greens’ party room decision as belonging to Milne alone and hurling invective, Denniss turns it into a very deliberate tactic to undermine her leadership.
Hollo is left to wonder what might have been:
The real question here is, with Milne’s strategic mind and Denniss and Oquist’s tactical nous, how much could be achieved if the Australia Institute swallowed its pride, got over its bitterness, and agreed to productively collaborate with the Greens on the many issues on which they agree?
Here’s an example of Milne’s great strategic mind at work. Prospective usurpers Sarah Hanson-Young and Raggedy Ann-faced rapper Scott Ludlam might now be considering their options.
The Whitlam funeral
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (11:13am)
Nice touch at Gough Whitlam’s funeral - the full-throated singing of Advance Australia Fair, which Whitlam announced in 1974 was our new national anthem.
Interesting observation: standing ovations for Paul Keating, Bob Hawke and Julia Gillard. Not for Kevin Rudd.
A concern: the state-funded ABC, Australia’s biggest media outlet, is again giving the funeral lavish and even loving coverage. The family’s representative on the podium, giving the first speech, is ABC presenter Kerry O’Brien, a former Whitlam press secretary.
UPDATE
The music chosen is wonderful: now the final chorus from Bach’s Matthew Passion. You can see why Whitlam inspires love. For many in the cultured Left he could reconcile high art with Australian identity. Think also Blue Poles. This, curiously, is something the Liberals have struggled to do, despite allegedly being the party of the upper classes.
UPDATE
Cate Blanchett praises Whitlam for giving her a free education and free medical care (huge cheers), but spoils the effect by saying it gave her more money to spare for going out to clubs or something. Then credits Whitlam for changing the culture to make possible her film Little Fish, actually made 30 years after Whitlam fell. The film gets a very long plug. The film, this tribute to Whitlam’s legacy, involves drug addicts from broken families lying to each other and then planning a drug deal that goes badly wrong.
UPDATE
Howard and Abbott were booed by the mob outside the town hall. Ugly.
Gillard, of course, was cheered.
UPDATE
Pearson then speaks in the biblical tones and cadences he’s now adopted for his oratory.
He savages Joh Bjelke-Peterson, and waves aside Whitlam’s chaotic mismanagement as simply the price to pay for inspiring reform. The crowd loves that.
He then says Whitlam had “not a bone of ethnic or gender prejudice in his body” and Pearson can “scarely point” to any leader since of whom that could be said. In front of him sit Bob Hawke, Malcolm Fraser, Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, who are all entitled to feel grossly insulted. Indeed, Abbott may well feel betrayed, having devoted so much time to working with and for Pearson and his Cape York initiative, and having adopted Aboriginal advancement as his most passionate social cause.
UPDATE
Tony Whitlam spoke with great dignity and warmth. One of the truest measures of a man is the love and respect given by his children.
UPDATE
More booing from the mob as Abbott leaves. There is a tendency among all collectives to not be satisfied with love. They also need to hate. Thus do trash boo at funerals.
Disgraceful.
UPDATE
The funeral was a great tribute to Whitlam. As a statesman he fell badly short. As a kind of poet, though, he was grand.
UPDATE
A funeral devoted to a Prime Minister praised for being more compassionate and tolerant than any other to come to mind. Yet the admirers boo and heckle conservative leaders who come to show respect.
Seeming, not doing.
The defining flaw of the Left.
UPDATE
Classiest performances:
Tony Whitlam for reminding those there the funeral was for a loved father as well as a politician.
Tony Whitlam for singling out Tony Abbott for praise for granting a state funeral. After hesitation, a partisan crowd applauded.
Bob Hawke for very publicly standing up in front of the crowd to talk with apparent friendship and intimacy to Abbott.
Many said Pearson’s speech was grand and inspiring. Even sceptics would have had some better appreciation of why Whitlam mattered to Aborogines.
Whitlam himself, for having a hand in selecting such fine music.
===Interesting observation: standing ovations for Paul Keating, Bob Hawke and Julia Gillard. Not for Kevin Rudd.
A concern: the state-funded ABC, Australia’s biggest media outlet, is again giving the funeral lavish and even loving coverage. The family’s representative on the podium, giving the first speech, is ABC presenter Kerry O’Brien, a former Whitlam press secretary.
UPDATE
The music chosen is wonderful: now the final chorus from Bach’s Matthew Passion. You can see why Whitlam inspires love. For many in the cultured Left he could reconcile high art with Australian identity. Think also Blue Poles. This, curiously, is something the Liberals have struggled to do, despite allegedly being the party of the upper classes.
UPDATE
Cate Blanchett praises Whitlam for giving her a free education and free medical care (huge cheers), but spoils the effect by saying it gave her more money to spare for going out to clubs or something. Then credits Whitlam for changing the culture to make possible her film Little Fish, actually made 30 years after Whitlam fell. The film gets a very long plug. The film, this tribute to Whitlam’s legacy, involves drug addicts from broken families lying to each other and then planning a drug deal that goes badly wrong.
UPDATE
Howard and Abbott were booed by the mob outside the town hall. Ugly.
Gillard, of course, was cheered.
UPDATE
Pearson then speaks in the biblical tones and cadences he’s now adopted for his oratory.
He savages Joh Bjelke-Peterson, and waves aside Whitlam’s chaotic mismanagement as simply the price to pay for inspiring reform. The crowd loves that.
He then says Whitlam had “not a bone of ethnic or gender prejudice in his body” and Pearson can “scarely point” to any leader since of whom that could be said. In front of him sit Bob Hawke, Malcolm Fraser, Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, who are all entitled to feel grossly insulted. Indeed, Abbott may well feel betrayed, having devoted so much time to working with and for Pearson and his Cape York initiative, and having adopted Aboriginal advancement as his most passionate social cause.
UPDATE
Tony Whitlam spoke with great dignity and warmth. One of the truest measures of a man is the love and respect given by his children.
UPDATE
More booing from the mob as Abbott leaves. There is a tendency among all collectives to not be satisfied with love. They also need to hate. Thus do trash boo at funerals.
Disgraceful.
UPDATE
The funeral was a great tribute to Whitlam. As a statesman he fell badly short. As a kind of poet, though, he was grand.
UPDATE
A funeral devoted to a Prime Minister praised for being more compassionate and tolerant than any other to come to mind. Yet the admirers boo and heckle conservative leaders who come to show respect.
Seeming, not doing.
The defining flaw of the Left.
UPDATE
Classiest performances:
Tony Whitlam for reminding those there the funeral was for a loved father as well as a politician.
Tony Whitlam for singling out Tony Abbott for praise for granting a state funeral. After hesitation, a partisan crowd applauded.
Bob Hawke for very publicly standing up in front of the crowd to talk with apparent friendship and intimacy to Abbott.
Many said Pearson’s speech was grand and inspiring. Even sceptics would have had some better appreciation of why Whitlam mattered to Aborogines.
Whitlam himself, for having a hand in selecting such fine music.
Lambie trashes November 11
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (11:10am)
No class:
In the meantime she should reflect on whether a day to remember the fallen should really be hijacked for a pay dispute.
===In a move condemned by the RSL, PUP senator Jacqui Lambie has called on Australians, including veterans, attending November 11 ceremonies to “show their disgust” and turn their backs on any government MP delivering a speech in memory of Australia’s war-dead.If Lambie really wants more pay for soldiers how about she help find the savings to put the budget back in the black?
Senator Lambie invoked the spirit of the Anzacs to back her campaign while acknowledging “I know ANZAC Day should never be politicised”.
“I have one message to all Australians that will help our ADF receive a fair pay rise – with the spirit of the ANZACs, turn your backs,” Senator Lambie said in a statement.
In the meantime she should reflect on whether a day to remember the fallen should really be hijacked for a pay dispute.
Warmist predicts “mass-death events” in 10 to 15 years
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (10:07am)
Hold on to this prediction:
Indeed, world temperatures have not actually risen for some 16 years or more. They might rise again, but I’d be checking the computer models in the meantime - models which the very same IPPC report which Hanna worked on admits are so faulty that for “the period from 1998 to 2012, 111 of the 114 available climate-model simulations show a surface warming trend larger than the observations”. That is: they exaggerated,
So who is Hanna to sow such alarm? A climate scientist? Meteorologist? Astrophyisicist?
Er, no. Her expertise:
===Tony Abbott’s declaration that coal is good for humanity has been attacked by Australian National University academic Elizabeth Hanna, who warns thousands of people will be sentenced to death if Australia keeps exporting it.As it happens, we have already had some over-50 days already since records were kept - but the worst of them occured 54 years ago, before man-made warming allegedly took off. It is silly assume we won’t get more such days in future, and it’s just as silly to assume the only reason we will is man-made warming.
Dr Hanna, whose research was included in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, predicted Australia faced days hotter than 50C within 10 or 15 years under continuing global warming and this would dramatically increase the number of heat-related deaths.
If that happens, “we are at risk of mass-death events in Australia, similar to the death tolls due to extreme heat overseas”, she said.
Indeed, world temperatures have not actually risen for some 16 years or more. They might rise again, but I’d be checking the computer models in the meantime - models which the very same IPPC report which Hanna worked on admits are so faulty that for “the period from 1998 to 2012, 111 of the 114 available climate-model simulations show a surface warming trend larger than the observations”. That is: they exaggerated,
So who is Hanna to sow such alarm? A climate scientist? Meteorologist? Astrophyisicist?
Er, no. Her expertise:
Environmental And Occupational Health And SafetyYes, Hanna is an alarmist who takes as a given that man is catastrophically heating the planet, and our safety lies in denying the poor cheap and sometimes life-saving power:
Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified
Environmental Impact Assessment
Epidemiology
Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative)
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Intensive Care
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Dr Hanna, the president of the Climate and Health Alliance, ... dismissed the argument that if Australia did not export coal then competitors such as Indonesia would fill the market gap. “So they would prefer the deaths on Australian hands rather than those deaths on Indonesian hands,” she said.
Republicans poised for control over Congress. UPDATE: Win
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (9:23am)
The same is true in Australia. The further voters are from power and the media’s microphones, the more they support the parties of smaller government:
UPDATE
And with Iowa falling to a Republican woman, the Republicans have more than enough. They win big in the Senate.
And how good is this?
Obama’s magic has gone. All the media hype about negative Republicans counted for nothing.
UPDATE
Obama has added lustre to the Bush name:
===Oh, and the map of Senate poll predictions also shows Republicans should finish today with control of both the Senate and the House, which at least gives Barack Obama an excuse for being such a lame duck:
In all, there are 13 states where Senate seats might change from one party to the other. Republicans need to win nine of them to attain a 51-seat majority in the Senate for the first time since 2007. On Monday, Republicans seemed to be leading, by a lot or by a little, in eight of those races.From the Washington Post:
If the GOP wins all eight, they will need just one more win — one of the tossup races in Alaska and Kansas, or perhaps the runoff race that’s expected in Louisiana.
The week after his reelection, President Obama was a man full of promise and promises: His job-approval rating stood at 54 percent, the 2010 tea party wave that had knocked his first term off balance appeared to have receded, and he seemed as sober about the future as he was hopeful....If the Washington Post paid closer attention to Australia - or even just the red states - it might seem less surprised by the failure of global warming policies to impress voters.
Obama acknowledged the dangers of “presidential overreach in second terms,” but he put forward an expansive, legacy-building agenda: a major fiscal deal, immigration reform and action on climate change.
Two bruising years later, he has registered progress only on addressing climate change, and a president who once boasted of a barrier-breaking liberal coalition is under fire from his own party as his Republican rivals are poised to make gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections…
“This is an administration that is very good at articulating some of its plans and responses and has delivered good speeches, but translating that into action has been a problem for the past six years,” said David Rothkopf, the author of “National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear.” “Right now, the vast preponderance of evidence is that management is not one of the strong suits of this administration.”
Obama’s list of second-term leadership crises is a formidable one: the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov; long waits at Veterans Affairs hospitals; Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the National Security Agency’s secrets; a pileup of foreign children along the southern border; Islamist terrorists marauding across Syria and Iraq and beheading foreigners, including Americans; and the arrival of the Ebola virus in the United States.
UPDATE
And with Iowa falling to a Republican woman, the Republicans have more than enough. They win big in the Senate.
And how good is this?
South Carolina voters have sent Republican Tim Scott back to the U.S. Senate, making him the first black candidate to win a statewide race since just after the Civil War.Senate.
Obama’s magic has gone. All the media hype about negative Republicans counted for nothing.
UPDATE
Obama has added lustre to the Bush name:
Another George Bush is an election winner in Texas. George P. Bush, the son of potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush and nephew of former President George W. Bush won the land commissioner’s office in a landslide.
Two Islamist groups boast of enslaving captured women
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (8:54am)
A video, apparently from the Islamic State, that should attract hundreds of rapists to join up:
Note particularly how the Koran is quoted to legitimise the enslavement and rape of the Yezidi women.
Same pattern with the Islamists of Nigeria’s Boko Haram:
(Thanks to reader doc molloy.)
===The footage was posted online by AlAanTV and claims to show IS fighters talking about ‘buying and selling Yezidi slaves”.
While it can’t be independently verified, it appears to be shot on a mobile phone and shows dozens of men packed into a small room talking excitedly about the slave girls they will own, saying things like “today is the distribution day, god willing each one takes his share.”
“I swear I am searching for a girl, I hope I find one,” the unnamed men say to the camera.
“Where is my Yezidi girl? Everyone is free to do what he wants with his share,”
“I buy her for a pistol, the price differs if she has blue eyes,” says one.
Note particularly how the Koran is quoted to legitimise the enslavement and rape of the Yezidi women.
Same pattern with the Islamists of Nigeria’s Boko Haram:
The leader of Boko Haram, a terrorist group that kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolkids in April, ..., taunted the girls’ relatives in a video released Friday night.I can imagine only too well the kind of young men attracted by this version of Islam.
“If you knew the state your daughters are in today, it might lead some of you . . . to die from grief,” Shekau said.
Wearing a camouflage tunic and pants, and flanked by masked militants holding anti-aircraft weapons, Shekau continued with a sneer that the girls have all been converted to Islam and married off.
“The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off,” he said with a revolting laugh.
(Thanks to reader doc molloy.)
Five staff abandon Ricky Muir’s car
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (8:44am)
Ricky Muir has an astonishing record of having staff quit:
===A fifth political operative [Fiona Marshall] has quit the office of Motoring Enthusiast senator Ricky Muir, marking an almost total exodus of staff in just three months.(Thanks to reader Baden.)
And former staffers have revealed Senator Muir is frequently undermined by Motoring Enthusiast Party founder Keith Littler, who repeatedly calls his party’s sole parliamentary representative “an oxygen thief"…
A number of people who have worked in Senator Muir’s office have told Fairfax Media they believe Mr Littler is actively planning for a time when he will take over the Senate seat won by the Motoring Enthusiast Party.
Why the Greens are soft on the Islamic State - and must be resisted, too
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (7:44am)
Communism, fascism,
jihadism and even the eco-extremists - all are manifestations of a
totalitarian instinct that appeals particularly to the vain, the
selfish, the frightened, the romantic, the stupid and the thuggish.
Some might protest that these are actually causes appealing to idealists, but as Bertrand Russell said:
Note how some of the most hostile questioners of Attorney-General George Brandis on Monday’s Q&A were converts with a clearly Leftist world view. Note also how the far-Left makes common cause with the Islamist Hamas terrorists against free Israel.
The Turkish Nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has noted this kind of sympatico:
===Some might protest that these are actually causes appealing to idealists, but as Bertrand Russell said:
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.The far Left understands best the appeal of the Islamic State because both search for the great single cause that releases them from the agonies of doubt and choice, and licences their lust for power over others. That is why the far Left’s criticisms of this death cult are muted - muted, that is, by an unacknowledged respect or envy.
Note how some of the most hostile questioners of Attorney-General George Brandis on Monday’s Q&A were converts with a clearly Leftist world view. Note also how the far-Left makes common cause with the Islamist Hamas terrorists against free Israel.
The Turkish Nobel prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has noted this kind of sympatico:
Pankaj Mishra:… There is also a character in the book [Snow] who makes the journey from being a leftist to being a fundamentalist.This may explain what puzzles former ACT chief minister Gary Humphries:
OP: That’s someone who would probably be in Erdo?an’s party today.
PM: This is a journey a lot of people in Muslim countries have made.
OP: Especially poets. So many poets who were very harsh Marxists in their youth, who were admirers of Western civilization, switched to Islam.
PM: The pattern seems to show that secular ideologies had been exhausted. And at some point, a lot of these people made the decision to embrace—
OP: The nation, the culture, history, the idea of belonging.
The moral hectoring has gone into overdrive over Australian involvement in the international coalition against Islamic State, or ISIS. Despite acknowledging the “medieval barbarity” of ISIS, the Greens oppose Australian intervention in Iraq, saying the issue should be dealt with “diplomatically, cutting off the supply of weapons and money to ISIS”.All preachers of totalitarianism and The One Great Answer pose a danger. And in a famous essay Isaiah Berlin explains why:
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This preference for staying out of the fight certainly fits the Greens’ pattern of reflexively siding with critics of the Coalition. But it is not consistent, I contend, with Greens philosophy.
Every fibre of a true Green’s nature ought to be calling for action against the depravity of what ISIS is perpetrating at the moment in the Middle East. The inhumanity, the cruelty of what these madmen are doing makes any other injustice the Greens have condemned in the last decade pale into insignificance. And yet, strangely, their recommended response to this is, in effect, do nothing.
If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it, then you and your followers must believe that no price can be too high to pay in order to open the gates of such a paradise. Only the stupid and malevolent will resist once certain simple truths are put to them. Those who resist must be persuaded; if they cannot be persuaded, laws must be passed to restrain them; if that does not work, then coercion, if need be violence, will inevitably have to be used—if necessary, terror, slaughter. Lenin believed this…(Thanks to reader MarkS for reminding me of Berlin’s fine essay.)
The root conviction which underlies this is that the central questions of human life, individual or social, have one true answer which can be discovered. It can and must be implemented, and those who have found it are the leaders whose word is law…
This is the idea of which I spoke, and what I wish to tell you is that it is false.... Men have always craved for liberty, security, equality, happiness, justice, knowledge, and so on. But complete liberty is not compatible with complete equality—if men were wholly free, the wolves would be free to eat the sheep. Perfect equality means that human liberties must be restrained so that the ablest and the most gifted are not permitted to advance beyond those who would inevitably lose if there were competition. Security, and indeed freedoms, cannot be preserved if freedom to subvert them is permitted… Justice has always been a human ideal, but it is not fully compatible with mercy…
My point is that some values clash… So we must weigh and measure, bargain, compromise, and prevent the crushing of one form of life by its rivals. I know only too well that this is not a flag under which idealistic and enthusiastic young men and women may wish to march—it seems too tame, too reasonable, too bourgeois, it does not engage the generous emotions. But you must believe me, one cannot have everything one wants—not only in practice, but even in theory.
The denial of this, the search for a single, overarching ideal because it is the one and only true one for humanity, invariably leads to coercion. And then to destruction, blood—eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.
Treatment guaranteed. Medical volunteers to be sent
Andrew Bolt November 05 2014 (7:12am)
A more responsible way of responding than the send-and-hope rush-rush promoted by Tanya Plibersek:
===Tony Abbott ... will back the deployment of Australian doctors and nurses to a new field hospital in Sierra Leone.
The Prime Minister has resisted pressure to send medical personnel when there is no means of direct evacuation to Australia should they contract the Ebola virus. It is understood the government has reached agreement with a private contractor to manage the deployment, reportedly to a treatment centre to be built by the British in Sierra Leone, one of the nations at the centre of the emergency.
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Clearly it is UK/US farming method that is deficient High levels of arsenic in rice: why isn't it regulated? http://t.co/lBBEKxKzsx
— David Daniel Ball (@DaOddBall67) November 4, 2014
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also, money spent on education :( Loose wallets, lose money - ed
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Would you try the Twinkie Burger? Hear from the owner of the Philadelphia restaurant who created it: http://tinyurl.com/mk2nsdo
.. it doesn't even sound like it could work .. ed
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So here's my "small" contribution to the Cakenweenie Project...
Meet General Bonesapart...a dwarf Napoleon-inspired skeleton from Corpse Bride. Having never watched the movie before this project, I chose him simply because I thought he would be a challenge to create...plus I really loved his ornate uniform and feathered hat!
He is a cake topper, all hand modelled from fondant. He has wires inside his legs and neck for support and the grey and black shadows were dusted and painted with edible colours for added depth and dimension. The gold piping around his coat and hat was hand piped with royal icing and later painted with edible gold lustre. He stands about 7 inches tall from his teeny tiny feet to his beautiful gold feathered hat!
He really was a challenge to create (his oversized hat gave me so much grief to dry in position!!) but I enjoyed every minute of it! I am so proud and honoured to be a part of this project with so many wonderful cake artists from across the world!
Please visit www.cakenweenie.com to view all 100 edible pieces!! You will be blown away!!
AND please don't feel left out...if you have an edible creation inspired by Tim Burton to share, please submit your photos through the website atwww.cakenweenie.com and your creation could be featured also!! #TimBurton #Cakenweenie
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She did not come here to argue and bicker while her people fought and died for their freedom - ed
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Good Day Sunshine... — at The Golden Gate Bridge.
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In my dream, it is River Tam, Slash and Bender .. ed
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Caroline Glick.
One of the as yet unremarked aspects of Obama's second term foreign policy is that all of his goals are antithetical to Israel's interests.I consider this and related issues in my column in tomorrow's Jerusalem Post, which was just posted online.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Its-time-to-reassess-Israels-strategic-assumptions-330602
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The California Endowment, a private foundation, recently provided a $500,000 grant to ensure TV writers and producers have information about the Affordable Care Act that can be stitched into plot lines watched by millions.
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We're hugely excited to announce that the Tenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote is now in stock! (Remember we have Free Delivery Australia wide!) http://bit.ly/170m6nr
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“I’m killing myself, every day, little by little.” Will Michelle agree to get help -- before it’s too late?http://bit.ly/DRP110413
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G'day,
This is my Melbourne Cup effort for this year.
Good luck if you have a horse in the race.
Godspeed
Zeg
Freelance Editorial Cartoonist/Caricaturist
0414293765
www.facebook.com/zegtoons
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TheBlaze
Woman with cancer reacts to losing her 'world-class' coverage: "Take away people’s ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that’s a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that’s the point."===
'It was so much better than real life.'
Check out BBC News' interview with the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, who talks about playing the iconic Time Lord and the 50th special, The Day of the Doctor. Read the full interview here:http://bbc.in/1ebeENK
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Is someone you know struggling with an eating disorder? Click here for the warning signs:http://bit.ly/
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Despicable: White House smears cancer survivor who is losing her insurance plan and doctors due to Obamacare ==> http://twitchy.com/2013/
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Sunset, California Style!
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11/04/2013
It’s Time to Reassess Israel’s Strategic Assumptions
By CAROLINE B. GLICK “All of Obama’s second term foreign policy goals are harmful to Israel. Everything that is good for Obama is necessarily bad for Israel”
http://www.jpost.com/
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Hamas cries economic hardship, no gas for electrical power. Gaza cities are without the basis of electrical needs , yet Hamas is in a military buildup phase
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This is a nice way to thank our soldiers. Henri Sebbane and his family have worked tirelessly for these wonderful men and women.
http://www.tsahal-pizza.com/
http://www.tsahal-pizza.com/prestashop/
===Titled (in translation), “With Names, Identities, and Roadmap… El Watan Exposes Brotherhood Cells in America,” it’s written by investigative journalist Ahmed al-Tahiri,
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“He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” 2 Corinthians 3:6 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"For my strength is made perfect in weakness."
2 Corinthians 12:9
2 Corinthians 12:9
A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God's warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, "I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory," defeat is not far distant. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength. He who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned wrongly, for "it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." They who go forth to fight, boasting of their prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and their armour stained with disgrace. Those who serve God must serve him in his own way, and in his strength, or he will never accept their service. That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth he casteth away; he will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love. God will empty out all that thou hast before he will put his own into thee; he will first clean out thy granaries before he will fill them with the finest of the wheat. The river of God is full of water; but not one drop of it flows from earthly springs. God will have no strength used in his battles but the strength which he himself imparts. Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give thee victory. Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
"When I am weak then am I strong,
Grace is my shield and Christ my song."
Evening
"In thy light shall we see light."
Psalm 36:9
Psalm 36:9
No lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart till Jesus himself shall speak within. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Immanuel reveals himself within, the soul sees him not. If you would see the sun, would you gather together the common means of illumination, and seek in that way to behold the orb of day? No, the wise man knoweth that the sun must reveal itself, and only by its own blaze can that mighty lamp be seen. It is so with Christ. "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona:" said he to Peter, "for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee." Purify flesh and blood by any educational process you may select, elevate mental faculties to the highest degree of intellectual power, yet none of these can reveal Christ. The Spirit of God must come with power, and overshadow the man with his wings, and then in that mystic holy of holies the Lord Jesus must display himself to the sanctified eye, as he doth not unto the purblind sons of men. Christ must be his own mirror. The great mass of this blear-eyed world can see nothing of the ineffable glories of Immanuel. He stands before them without form or comeliness, a root out of a dry ground, rejected by the vain and despised by the proud. Only where the Spirit has touched the eye with eye-salve, quickened the heart with divine life, and educated the soul to a heavenly taste, only there is he understood. "To you that believe he is precious;" to you he is the chief corner-stone, the Rock of your salvation, your all in all; but to others he is "a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence." Happy are those to whom our Lord manifests himself, for his promise to such is that he will make his abode with them. O Jesus, our Lord, our heart is open, come in, and go out no more forever. Show thyself to us now! Favour us with a glimpse of thine all-conquering charms.
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 32-33, Hebrews 1 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 32-33
Jeremiah Buys a Field
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.
3 Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. 4 Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the Babylonians but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes. 5 He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not succeed.’”
6 Jeremiah said, “The word of the LORD came to me: 7Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative it is your right and duty to buy it.’
8 “Then, just as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself....’
Today's New Testament reading: Hebrews 1
God’s Final Word: His Son
1 In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. 3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
The Son Superior to Angels
5 For to which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son;
today I have become your Father”?
today I have become your Father”?
Or again,
“I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son”?
and he will be my Son”?
6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God’s angels worship him.”
7 In speaking of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels spirits,
and his servants flames of fire....”
and his servants flames of fire....”
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Sacar
[Sā'cär] - hired or merchandise.
[Sā'cär] - hired or merchandise.
- Father of Ahiham, one of David's heroes (1 Chron. 11:35). Called Sharar in 2 Samuel 23:33.
- A son of Obed-edom, a Tabernacle gatekeeper in David's time (1 Chron. 26:4).
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