"For things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
A media journalist in the US, speaking discourteously to a GOP Presidential contender, denounces the contender for calling Hillary Clinton a liar. The contender points out he did not say that. He said she had lied and he described how. The disbelieving journalist disbelieved the public record and said it was a terrible accusation to make that Clinton had lied to help Obama at election. Quite so.
The media narrative does not explain why it is bad to drown people who want to migrate to Australia, or Europe. It does not explain why it is wrong to deny refugees places when desperate people can choose to be exploited by pirates. It does not explain why it was wrong for Clinton to blame a film maker for a jihadist attack when she had known Al Qaeda had assaulted a diplomatic mission and she had denied them help. Instead, media excuse such atrocities. They claim it is compassionate to siren call the drownings. They claim it is the law that allows pirates to exploit the desperate. They claim the CIA made Clinton dither and lie. Things don't have to change much to be totally different.
Will the new PM, Turnbull stand for what is right, as Mr Abbott habitually did?
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
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Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring
Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun
Now the jingle hop has begun
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet
That's the jingle bell rock
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bell chime in jingle bell time
Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air
What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jinglin' feet
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle...
David Daniel Ball calls himself the Conservative Voice.
I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence.
I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections.
I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. ...
