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It is ok to die old and blessed, and Richie Benaud achieved it. But then he had often achieved much in the world of competitive, team sports. His father had once taken all ten wickets in a first grade match. Taken to the SCG to watch Don Bradman bat, Richie saw Clarrie Grimmet claim 7 wickets in an innings and became enamoured with spin bowling. Richie was often selected in his younger days as a specialist bat who could bowl, he finished as a world class leg spin bowler who could bat. But at the age of 34, in 1964, Benaud retired. He had a shoulder which had worn over the years and medicine wasn't up to keeping him playing. But the imaginative, aggressive captain turned to the BBC and journalism. Showing the dedication, flair and hard work which underpinned his playing career, Richie became the voice of cricket. Early in his test career, Richie hit the third fastest test century to the date (in terms of time, not balls faced). He captained Australia against Frank Worrell's West Indies in the first ever tied test. He finished his career with Australia's then record highest test tally of 248 wickets. He loved cricket.
But from blessing to tragedy in Leeton, NSW, where a popular high school teacher who had left work for another teacher, relieving them of duty, as she prepared for her wedding, was instead murdered by what seems to be a school cleaner. The wedding was scheduled for tomorrow, but last Sunday she disappeared after 1pm at the school. The cleaner apparently has a photo on his phone of her dead body. Also it is said he had the keys issued to her to open the classroom at the school on a Sunday. The cleaner has been arrested. Nothing is known of his past history suggestive of this tragedy. Her car is missing. And if it is ok to die old and blessed, the enormity of tearing away life from a young person is a higher measure.
A US cop is still being pursued mercilessly by a racist crowd convinced he should be convicted of murder. No evidence yet shows why. He shot a man 8 times as they were running from him. That isn't proper behaviour of a policeman. But we don't yet know why or what happened. There was nothing in his past suggesting he would. And so it could be in the line of duty. What is clear is that it is dangerous to resist arrest. If it is the case the deceased had resisted arrest and proven a threat, then the policeman needs to be exonerated.
2014
It was a throw away line from me during class but it really offended a few students who insisted on getting their opinion out there. One trenchant Islamic apologist had made comments like "The US is collapsing like Rome did," "Australia is terrible with her treatment of refugees," and "America is chasing oil money engaging in war in Iraq." It was 2002, and President Bush had remarked how it was strange that when the world had clear examples of the triumph of Capitalism over Communism, yet still socialist advocates denied reality and embraced fascism. So I pointed to the example of Vietnam and said she was a great people with a despicable government and that the government would not last forever, but their people would prosper. Not a Mathematics related topic, but my kids did well enough in that, so that it would not be productive of me to push that harder, but hearing balanced debate on current issues wouldn't harm. One Chinese ethnic girl said "What about China? Those people are great too." I replied "Yes, but Chinese bureaucracy is a different thing altogether. A great people, but as Tiananmen Square has illustrated progress would be slower than Vietnam."
The US certainly resembles the last days of Rome under Obama, but that is temporary. Soon, he will be a lame duck President. Then there will be rebuilding. Australia was generous with refugees under Howard, and the Pacific Solution is clearly fairer than the ALP alternative. The US clearly did not pursue Iraq for oil, but those that hate America will continue to make the claim. They have claimed the US should not have toppled Hussein. When it comes to that debate I know the side of reason. But a tragedy happened on this day in 2010 which illustrates the greatness and resilience of a people long subjugated by communism. Margaret Thatcher died yesterday last year, but the tragedy of the death of Lech Aleksander Kaczyński and company will be long felt. He was President of Poland, and many serving people from the administration died alongside him in the crash at Smolensk in Russia. Kaczyński was a conservative and he had left a vision of a free and fair Poland that has not been forgotten. They have worked hard to address the endemic corruption which was part of the Soviet era. They make stupid mistakes at times, like the one where they opposed male circumcision, but it is a dumb mistake that is their own, not imposed by a foreign dictator bent on socialism. Conservatives don't agree on everything everywhere, that is something the left try to do. But Conservatives tend to those vital areas which foster freedom and bolster cultural assets. The king dies, but the kingdom goes on. And a great people will not be denied. It is my hope that the great people of Poland will not forget their Jewish peoples. They cannot raise the dead, but they must allow all their people to prosper, not merely a few.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 428, Nestorius became Patriarch of Constantinople. 837, Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). 879, Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks. 1407, the lama Deshin Shekpa visited the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He was awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma". 1500, Ludovico Sforza was captured by Swiss troops at Novara and was handed over to the French. 1606, the Virginia Company of London was established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. 1710, the Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, came into force in Great Britain. 1741, War of the Austrian Succession (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843): defeat for Austria at Mollwitzon this date.
In 1809, Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began when forces of the Austrian Empire invaded Bavaria. 1815, the Mount Tambora volcano began a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately killed 71,000 people and affected Earth's climate for the next two years. 1816, the Federal government of the United States approved the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. 1821, Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople was hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body was thrown into the Bosphorus. 1826, the 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi began leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survived. 1856, the Theta Chi fraternity was founded at Norwich University in Vermont. 1858, after the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it was recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry. 1864, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg was proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico. 1865, American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addressed his troops for the last time. 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York City by Henry Bergh. 1868, at Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeated an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians were killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops died. 1872, the first Arbor Day was celebrated in Nebraska. 1887, on Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorised the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
In 1904, British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribed the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law. 1912, RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage. 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) was created in New York City. 1919, Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. 1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1941, World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from the Birkenau death camp. 1953, Warner Bros. premiered the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. 1957, the Suez Canal was reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. 1959, Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, married Michiko. 1963, one hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sank at sea. 1968, New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine foundered and sank at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
In 1970, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. 1971, Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosted the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit. 1972, twenty days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro was murdered by communist guerrillas. Also 1972, Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, were accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. Also 1972, Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly began bombing North Vietnam. Also 1972, seventy-four nations signed the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons. 1973, a British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashed in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people. 1979, Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado landed in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
In 1988, the Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast. 1991, Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collided with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. Also 1991, A rare tropical storm developed in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. 1998, Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement). 2009, President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced he would suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. 2010, Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashed near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials 2014, Kathleen Sebelius resigned as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in light of fallout from the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov.
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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.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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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 www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
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.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===
It is ok to die old and blessed, and Richie Benaud achieved it. But then he had often achieved much in the world of competitive, team sports. His father had once taken all ten wickets in a first grade match. Taken to the SCG to watch Don Bradman bat, Richie saw Clarrie Grimmet claim 7 wickets in an innings and became enamoured with spin bowling. Richie was often selected in his younger days as a specialist bat who could bowl, he finished as a world class leg spin bowler who could bat. But at the age of 34, in 1964, Benaud retired. He had a shoulder which had worn over the years and medicine wasn't up to keeping him playing. But the imaginative, aggressive captain turned to the BBC and journalism. Showing the dedication, flair and hard work which underpinned his playing career, Richie became the voice of cricket. Early in his test career, Richie hit the third fastest test century to the date (in terms of time, not balls faced). He captained Australia against Frank Worrell's West Indies in the first ever tied test. He finished his career with Australia's then record highest test tally of 248 wickets. He loved cricket.
But from blessing to tragedy in Leeton, NSW, where a popular high school teacher who had left work for another teacher, relieving them of duty, as she prepared for her wedding, was instead murdered by what seems to be a school cleaner. The wedding was scheduled for tomorrow, but last Sunday she disappeared after 1pm at the school. The cleaner apparently has a photo on his phone of her dead body. Also it is said he had the keys issued to her to open the classroom at the school on a Sunday. The cleaner has been arrested. Nothing is known of his past history suggestive of this tragedy. Her car is missing. And if it is ok to die old and blessed, the enormity of tearing away life from a young person is a higher measure.
A US cop is still being pursued mercilessly by a racist crowd convinced he should be convicted of murder. No evidence yet shows why. He shot a man 8 times as they were running from him. That isn't proper behaviour of a policeman. But we don't yet know why or what happened. There was nothing in his past suggesting he would. And so it could be in the line of duty. What is clear is that it is dangerous to resist arrest. If it is the case the deceased had resisted arrest and proven a threat, then the policeman needs to be exonerated.
2014
It was a throw away line from me during class but it really offended a few students who insisted on getting their opinion out there. One trenchant Islamic apologist had made comments like "The US is collapsing like Rome did," "Australia is terrible with her treatment of refugees," and "America is chasing oil money engaging in war in Iraq." It was 2002, and President Bush had remarked how it was strange that when the world had clear examples of the triumph of Capitalism over Communism, yet still socialist advocates denied reality and embraced fascism. So I pointed to the example of Vietnam and said she was a great people with a despicable government and that the government would not last forever, but their people would prosper. Not a Mathematics related topic, but my kids did well enough in that, so that it would not be productive of me to push that harder, but hearing balanced debate on current issues wouldn't harm. One Chinese ethnic girl said "What about China? Those people are great too." I replied "Yes, but Chinese bureaucracy is a different thing altogether. A great people, but as Tiananmen Square has illustrated progress would be slower than Vietnam."
The US certainly resembles the last days of Rome under Obama, but that is temporary. Soon, he will be a lame duck President. Then there will be rebuilding. Australia was generous with refugees under Howard, and the Pacific Solution is clearly fairer than the ALP alternative. The US clearly did not pursue Iraq for oil, but those that hate America will continue to make the claim. They have claimed the US should not have toppled Hussein. When it comes to that debate I know the side of reason. But a tragedy happened on this day in 2010 which illustrates the greatness and resilience of a people long subjugated by communism. Margaret Thatcher died yesterday last year, but the tragedy of the death of Lech Aleksander Kaczyński and company will be long felt. He was President of Poland, and many serving people from the administration died alongside him in the crash at Smolensk in Russia. Kaczyński was a conservative and he had left a vision of a free and fair Poland that has not been forgotten. They have worked hard to address the endemic corruption which was part of the Soviet era. They make stupid mistakes at times, like the one where they opposed male circumcision, but it is a dumb mistake that is their own, not imposed by a foreign dictator bent on socialism. Conservatives don't agree on everything everywhere, that is something the left try to do. But Conservatives tend to those vital areas which foster freedom and bolster cultural assets. The king dies, but the kingdom goes on. And a great people will not be denied. It is my hope that the great people of Poland will not forget their Jewish peoples. They cannot raise the dead, but they must allow all their people to prosper, not merely a few.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 428, Nestorius became Patriarch of Constantinople. 837, Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). 879, Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks. 1407, the lama Deshin Shekpa visited the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He was awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma". 1500, Ludovico Sforza was captured by Swiss troops at Novara and was handed over to the French. 1606, the Virginia Company of London was established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. 1710, the Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, came into force in Great Britain. 1741, War of the Austrian Succession (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843): defeat for Austria at Mollwitzon this date.
In 1809, Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition began when forces of the Austrian Empire invaded Bavaria. 1815, the Mount Tambora volcano began a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately killed 71,000 people and affected Earth's climate for the next two years. 1816, the Federal government of the United States approved the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. 1821, Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople was hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body was thrown into the Bosphorus. 1826, the 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi began leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survived. 1856, the Theta Chi fraternity was founded at Norwich University in Vermont. 1858, after the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it was recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry. 1864, Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg was proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico. 1865, American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addressed his troops for the last time. 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York City by Henry Bergh. 1868, at Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeated an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians were killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops died. 1872, the first Arbor Day was celebrated in Nebraska. 1887, on Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorised the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
In 1904, British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribed the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law. 1912, RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage. 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) was created in New York City. 1919, Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. 1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1941, World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power. 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escaped from the Birkenau death camp. 1953, Warner Bros. premiered the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax. 1957, the Suez Canal was reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. 1959, Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, married Michiko. 1963, one hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sank at sea. 1968, New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine foundered and sank at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
In 1970, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. 1971, Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosted the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit. 1972, twenty days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro was murdered by communist guerrillas. Also 1972, Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, were accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. Also 1972, Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly began bombing North Vietnam. Also 1972, seventy-four nations signed the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons. 1973, a British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashed in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people. 1979, Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado landed in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
In 1988, the Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast. 1991, Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collided with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. Also 1991, A rare tropical storm developed in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. 1998, Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement). 2009, President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced he would suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. 2010, Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashed near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials 2014, Kathleen Sebelius resigned as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in light of fallout from the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov.
===
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.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
===
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 www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
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.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.