Queensland Premier Newman has given Queensland a gift of a short election with a stark choice. Striking Victorian Tramways illustrate that choice. Sensible, responsible government which operates within its means, or corrupt ALP governments which promise more than they can deliver and spend more than they have. Daniel Andrews praised industrial peace under his government. A little unfair as his party had supported the industrial action against a good Napthine administration. And then ALP addressed Victorian strikers complaints by offering the same as what Napthine had. Perhaps Queenslanders have forgotten how Bligh had forgotten to pay for insurance before drowning some Queenslanders in her purpose made flood that was never supposed to happen under AGW theory. Queenslanders are supposed to be good with crushing cockroaches. Curious to see where ALP money goes? Check out Quentin Dempsters winged house in Tasmania. Built by money sourced entirely from child labour? ALP are panicking about being locked out of the senate for six years and are aiming for a double dissolution to break the nexus. Independents have so far played to that rule. The longer the conservatives can hold off calling one, possibly not calling one, the better it will be long term for all of Australia. Neo-Nazis marching in Germany. They make claim to represent Judeo Christian values .. probably shouldnt have killed so many, then. One demands of the leaders of Islam they disown jihadists. One also hopes that Christian leaders despise the Neo-Nazis too. One Times journalist who was pregnant went to Palestine and had to be scanned on leaving or searched. She objected to both, clearly not believing in the terrorism media encourage and got upset after she was scanned three times. Some people claim that there are reasons to not vaccinate their children. They are liars that should not be trusted and should possibly be jailed if they fail to vaccinate. Vaccines are a public health issue which affects the entire community. Failing to vaccinate will allow the spread of disease. So called Libertarians who oppose vaccination on Libertarian ideals are no different to anarchists of the nineteenth century. Still, one must be reasonable about things and should not over regulate. So, turning our backs while anti vaccine campaigners commit seppuku is an acceptable alternative. Otherwise they will vote ALP or Green. Media campaign against conservative government is ever present. One article has the members chosen book purchases for member libraries as including AGW skeptic volumes, and so the media claim that the government is charging taxpayers for skeptic campaigns. By way of contrast the AGW movement has misdirected over $2 trillion from tax payers world wide. That would buy a lot of books which could have informed debate. In Northern Ireland a two million pound windmill failed in light winds. Australias BOM Claims this year was the hottest ever .. In NSW. Proof again that the world is not warming. Another article about the end of the world coming from rogue stars in the Milky Way Galaxy coming to our local neighbourhood. The first such menace is predicted to arrive in under a million years from now. Luckily the Greens have a plan to push us to the stone age and get us to smoke pot. The twelfth day of Christmas has passed. And an inflatable Santa was shanked in New Hampshire. 2014 The Guardian headline reads Whos Less Free: Andrew Bolt or Children in Detention? It then lists facts like there are over 1000 children locked up and asserts they are in need of an Australian Human Rights Commission, more so than a powerful commentator. The article is better than that, but the issues surrounding the headline deserve to be explored and fallacies exposed. I will not entertain abuse of the writer, but focus on the rhetoric. It is a false comparison between Bolt and children in detention who have come to Australia by boat without going through migration channels. The children are not responsible for their parents choices. So they should not be jailed. Luckily they arent. They are detained pending UN immigration processing. As should be the case because it is important to maintain strong borders so as to have a fair immigration program. The exploitation of people by people smugglers is modern piracy and unacceptable. Also, it is wrong to drown people who merely wish to lead a better life. Also, Bolt is neither jailed nor detained, but he has had his right of free speech removed. Also, others have been restricted in their free speech too. This is intolerable in a modern democracy that requires free and fair and fearless investigation. To suggest Bolt has had less freedom lost than children in detention is to admit that he has been aggrieved, an admission that demands that wrong be removed. Historical perspective on this day In 1066, Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) was crowned King of England. 1118, Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquered Zaragoza. 1205, Philip of Swabia became King of the Romans. 1322, Stephen Uroš III was crowned King of Serbia. 1355, Charles I of Bohemia was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan. 1449, Constantine XI was crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras. 1492, the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella entered Granada, completing the Reconquista. 1540, King Henry VIII of England married Anne of Cleves. 1579, the Union of Arras was signed. 1661, English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London, England. 1690, Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, became King of the Romans. 1721, the Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble published its findings. 1781, in the Battle of Jersey, the British defeated the last attempt by France to invade Jersey. In 1809, Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces began the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars. 1838, Alfred Vail demonstrated a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this was the forerunner of Morse code). 1839, the most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin. 1853, President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family were involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierces 11-year-old son Benjamin was killed in the crash. 1870, the inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. 1893, the Washington National Cathedral was chartered by Congress. The charter was signed by President Benjamin Harrison. In 1900, Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attacked it, but were driven back by British defenders. 1907, Maria Montessori opened her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy. 1912, New Mexico was admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state. 1912, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of continental drift. 1921, formation of the Iraqi Army. 1929, King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspended his countrys constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship). Also 1929, Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta, India to begin her work among Indias poorest and sick people. 1930, the first diesel-engined automobile trip was completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York. 1931, Thomas Edison submitted his last patent application. 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address. 1947, Pan American Airlines became the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world. In 1950, the United Kingdom recognised the Peoples Republic of China. The Republic of China severed diplomatic relations with the UK in response. 1951, Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers were slaughtered in what became the Ganghwa massacre. 1953, the first Asian Socialist Conference opened in Rangoon, Burma. 1960, National Airlines Flight 2511 was destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida. Also 1960, the Associations Law came into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties. 1967, Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launched Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong River delta. 1974, in response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commenced nearly four months early in the United States. 1978, the Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) was returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II. In 1992, President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia fled the country as a result of the military coup. 1993, Indian Border Security Force units killed 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol. 1994, Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan. 1995, a chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, led to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. 2000, Celia, the last Pyrenean Ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her. 2005, American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen was arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. Also 2005, a train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, released about 60 tons of chlorine gas. 2009, Israel conducted an assault on Gaza. Operation Cast Lead === 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 https://createspace/4124406 or at Amazon amazon/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 https://change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball Or the US President at https://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 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 its like until theyve been there. Keep heart David take care. I have begun a bulletin board (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.
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