Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2015 10:06:01 GMT
Haters have no sense of humour. After the Charlie Hebdo assault, an Israeli MLK wrote
"My condolences to the families of those killed in the Paris terror attack.More importantly, this attack only underscores the need for France to immediately engage in negotiations with French Muslims that will result in the creation of two states for two peoples, living side by side in peace and security, with Paris as a shared capital...I suggest the Israeli Knesset vote on this resolution."
The words of the joke have been shared far and wide. In one site with strong patronage of the Australian Defence League, some of the haters took the suggestion seriously, expressing anger and saying it would never work. A bit like their brains. Very recently, the world has made the same demand of Israel, and it was not a joke.
Charlie Hebdo were staunchly socialist and not all agreed with them all the time. Jihadists are Islamic by name, and disturbingly, responsible Islamic leaders do not distance themselves from terrorists. Consider the tweets of some who claim that Charlie Hebdo insulted their prophet, but consider the policeman, who was Islamic, should not have been killed. Charlie Hebdo did not insult the prophet. It is hard for impotent Islamic leaders to understand it, but the magazine did not insult the prophet. The magazine published comics showing comics of Mohamed in compromised positions: Kissing a man; using a bomb; being foolish. Also, believers are depicted in extraordinary ways which resembled the activity of some Islamic peoples. Even so, it is no insult to any living God. And there is the rub. It isn't that Charlie insulted Allah and deserved to die. It is that faithless jihadis don't want to be embarrassed. They don't believe in Allah. They believe in appearances. And so they bring Islam into disrepute and their impotent leaders don't call them out. The policeman deserved a long, blessed life. So did the other victims. And Islamic peoples who don't recognise that, are bringing Islam into disrepute.
Bigotry tends to begin for a reason. Usually, a bad reason. In 681 the Twelfth Council of Toledo issued diverse measures against Jews in Spain. The reason for it is not known, but may be guessed at. Presiding King was Erwig of the Visigoths. He was really weak because of how he got the throne, and the Bishop of Toledo was a staunch anti semite. Erwig had come to the throne after the previous king had joined a monastery and named Erwig as successor. The previous king had thought he was dying, but recuperated. Then was poisoned to death. The speed with which Erwig assumed the throne suggests a coup. So a weak king went to a council and the bigot ran free. The restrictions placed on Jewry did not benefit the kingdom. Six years later, Erwig fell ill, retired to a monastery and named his son in law, Ergica, as successor king.
In 1349 in Basel, Jews were massacred. They were accused of being behind the Black Death because they had had a lower mortality rate. The city fathers of Basel tried to protect the Jews, but local guilds demanded they be handed over. They were shackled and locked in a barn, on the Rhine, which was set on fire. The few survivors, orphans, were converted to Christianity. Then it was decreed no Jew should enter Basel for the next two hundred years. Possibly that was to protect them.
2014
In the aftermath of the Harding v Kerrigan assault, where Harding's ex contracted a guy to hit talented figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan' knee. It worked, Kerrigan did not win gold at the '94 olympics. But it backfired too, with Harding's first place in US championships denied by decree. Things were hysterical, with one wag announcing that NATO air strikes had been approved against Harding. The sad element of that joke was the vacillating President Clinton who had effortlessly achieved a million deaths in Rwanda, and was wondering how to bomb people in former Yugoslavia. One might question the commitment of left wing peoples to their espoused causes. History shows us that NATO hit a Serbian command tent. It was empty at the time, as NATO had told the Serbian terrorist command what they were going to do. And so justice is blind. Which is helpful when looking at what the compassionate middle class person does in sponsoring a World Vision child.
The children, World Vision collect money for, need it and benefit from it, but not as much as World Vision benefits from it. There are options World Vision offers to ensure payments go to the sponsored child, but it does not seem to be encouraged. The cost of feeling good.
What does one have to spend to feel good about their past? I am a bitsa. Bits from China, Ireland, Russia, Jew, Scotland, England, Netherlands, Aboriginal Australian .. and I was born in the US. I like the 1788 landing and what has happened since. I like 1901's start with Australia as a federation. But there is a lobby of hate claiming to represent my bits. They use emotive words like 'invasion' to frame the founding of Sydney. But cultural pluralism gave my mother her maiden name, Shying. No where else in the world had that name, it began in Sydney, thanks to '88. Those that claim '88 was bad weren't there. They don't know, or care. It is unsporting, like a strike to the knee of a figure skating rival.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 475, Byzantine Emperor Zeno was forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gained control of the empire. 681, Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiated a council in which he implemented diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. 1127, Jin–Song wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besieged and sacked Bianjing(Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abducted Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty. 1150, Prince Hailing of Jin and other court officials murdered Emperor Xizong of Jin. Hailing succeeds him as emperor. 1349, the Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, was rounded up and incinerated. 1431, Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc began in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. 1760, Afghans defeated Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to be admitted to the United States. 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1799, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1806, Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson received a state funeral and was interred in St Paul's Cathedral. 1816, Sir Humphry Davy tested his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. 1822, the Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decided to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1857, the Fort Tejon earthquake struck California, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9. 1858, Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, committed suicide. 1861 American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurred near Charleston, South Carolina. It was considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War". Also 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. 1863, American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman began in Arkansas. 1878, Umberto I became King of Italy. 1880, the Great Gale of 1880 devastated parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow. 1894, New England Telephone and Telegraph installed the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
In 1903, Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia. 1909, Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, planted the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. 1914, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, was founded. 1916, World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concluded with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces were evacuated from the peninsula. 1917, World War I: the Battle of Rafa was fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine. 1918, Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. 1921, Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskişehir in Anatolia. 1923, Juan de la Cierva made the first autogyro flight. Also 1923, Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. 1927, a fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, killed 78 children.
In 1938, Paul of Greece married Frederica of Hanover in Athens. 1941, World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster. Also 1941, World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sank the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. 1945, World War II: The United States invaded Luzon in the Philippines. 1947, Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, was last seen alive. 1957, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigned from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty. 1960, President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opened construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. 1964, Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths tried to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians. 1965, the Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
In 1991, Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 1992, the Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaimed the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia. 1996, First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. 2004, an inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements killed 28. 2005, Mahmoud Abbas won the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaced interim president Rawhi Fattouh. Also 2005, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone. 2011, Iran Air Flight 277 crashed near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people. 2013, a SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashed into the dock, injuring 85 people. 2014, an explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, killed at least five people and injured 17 others.
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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 or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4
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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.
"My condolences to the families of those killed in the Paris terror attack.More importantly, this attack only underscores the need for France to immediately engage in negotiations with French Muslims that will result in the creation of two states for two peoples, living side by side in peace and security, with Paris as a shared capital...I suggest the Israeli Knesset vote on this resolution."
The words of the joke have been shared far and wide. In one site with strong patronage of the Australian Defence League, some of the haters took the suggestion seriously, expressing anger and saying it would never work. A bit like their brains. Very recently, the world has made the same demand of Israel, and it was not a joke.
Charlie Hebdo were staunchly socialist and not all agreed with them all the time. Jihadists are Islamic by name, and disturbingly, responsible Islamic leaders do not distance themselves from terrorists. Consider the tweets of some who claim that Charlie Hebdo insulted their prophet, but consider the policeman, who was Islamic, should not have been killed. Charlie Hebdo did not insult the prophet. It is hard for impotent Islamic leaders to understand it, but the magazine did not insult the prophet. The magazine published comics showing comics of Mohamed in compromised positions: Kissing a man; using a bomb; being foolish. Also, believers are depicted in extraordinary ways which resembled the activity of some Islamic peoples. Even so, it is no insult to any living God. And there is the rub. It isn't that Charlie insulted Allah and deserved to die. It is that faithless jihadis don't want to be embarrassed. They don't believe in Allah. They believe in appearances. And so they bring Islam into disrepute and their impotent leaders don't call them out. The policeman deserved a long, blessed life. So did the other victims. And Islamic peoples who don't recognise that, are bringing Islam into disrepute.
Bigotry tends to begin for a reason. Usually, a bad reason. In 681 the Twelfth Council of Toledo issued diverse measures against Jews in Spain. The reason for it is not known, but may be guessed at. Presiding King was Erwig of the Visigoths. He was really weak because of how he got the throne, and the Bishop of Toledo was a staunch anti semite. Erwig had come to the throne after the previous king had joined a monastery and named Erwig as successor. The previous king had thought he was dying, but recuperated. Then was poisoned to death. The speed with which Erwig assumed the throne suggests a coup. So a weak king went to a council and the bigot ran free. The restrictions placed on Jewry did not benefit the kingdom. Six years later, Erwig fell ill, retired to a monastery and named his son in law, Ergica, as successor king.
In 1349 in Basel, Jews were massacred. They were accused of being behind the Black Death because they had had a lower mortality rate. The city fathers of Basel tried to protect the Jews, but local guilds demanded they be handed over. They were shackled and locked in a barn, on the Rhine, which was set on fire. The few survivors, orphans, were converted to Christianity. Then it was decreed no Jew should enter Basel for the next two hundred years. Possibly that was to protect them.
2014
In the aftermath of the Harding v Kerrigan assault, where Harding's ex contracted a guy to hit talented figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan' knee. It worked, Kerrigan did not win gold at the '94 olympics. But it backfired too, with Harding's first place in US championships denied by decree. Things were hysterical, with one wag announcing that NATO air strikes had been approved against Harding. The sad element of that joke was the vacillating President Clinton who had effortlessly achieved a million deaths in Rwanda, and was wondering how to bomb people in former Yugoslavia. One might question the commitment of left wing peoples to their espoused causes. History shows us that NATO hit a Serbian command tent. It was empty at the time, as NATO had told the Serbian terrorist command what they were going to do. And so justice is blind. Which is helpful when looking at what the compassionate middle class person does in sponsoring a World Vision child.
The children, World Vision collect money for, need it and benefit from it, but not as much as World Vision benefits from it. There are options World Vision offers to ensure payments go to the sponsored child, but it does not seem to be encouraged. The cost of feeling good.
What does one have to spend to feel good about their past? I am a bitsa. Bits from China, Ireland, Russia, Jew, Scotland, England, Netherlands, Aboriginal Australian .. and I was born in the US. I like the 1788 landing and what has happened since. I like 1901's start with Australia as a federation. But there is a lobby of hate claiming to represent my bits. They use emotive words like 'invasion' to frame the founding of Sydney. But cultural pluralism gave my mother her maiden name, Shying. No where else in the world had that name, it began in Sydney, thanks to '88. Those that claim '88 was bad weren't there. They don't know, or care. It is unsporting, like a strike to the knee of a figure skating rival.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 475, Byzantine Emperor Zeno was forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gained control of the empire. 681, Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiated a council in which he implemented diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. 1127, Jin–Song wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besieged and sacked Bianjing(Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abducted Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty. 1150, Prince Hailing of Jin and other court officials murdered Emperor Xizong of Jin. Hailing succeeds him as emperor. 1349, the Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, was rounded up and incinerated. 1431, Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc began in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. 1760, Afghans defeated Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to be admitted to the United States. 1793, Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1799, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
In 1806, Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson received a state funeral and was interred in St Paul's Cathedral. 1816, Sir Humphry Davy tested his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. 1822, the Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decided to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1857, the Fort Tejon earthquake struck California, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9. 1858, Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, committed suicide. 1861 American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurred near Charleston, South Carolina. It was considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War". Also 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. 1863, American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman began in Arkansas. 1878, Umberto I became King of Italy. 1880, the Great Gale of 1880 devastated parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow. 1894, New England Telephone and Telegraph installed the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
In 1903, Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia. 1909, Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, planted the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. 1914, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, was founded. 1916, World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concluded with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces were evacuated from the peninsula. 1917, World War I: the Battle of Rafa was fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine. 1918, Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. 1921, Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, began near Eskişehir in Anatolia. 1923, Juan de la Cierva made the first autogyro flight. Also 1923, Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. 1927, a fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, killed 78 children.
In 1938, Paul of Greece married Frederica of Hanover in Athens. 1941, World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster. Also 1941, World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sank the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. 1945, World War II: The United States invaded Luzon in the Philippines. 1947, Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, was last seen alive. 1957, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigned from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty. 1960, President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opened construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. 1964, Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths tried to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians. 1965, the Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
In 1991, Representatives from the United States and Iraq met at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 1992, the Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaimed the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia. 1996, First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launched a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turned into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. 2004, an inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalled near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements killed 28. 2005, Mahmoud Abbas won the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaced interim president Rawhi Fattouh. Also 2005, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone. 2011, Iran Air Flight 277 crashed near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people. 2013, a SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashed into the dock, injuring 85 people. 2014, an explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, killed at least five people and injured 17 others.
===
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 or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4
===
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.