Rachel was a woman with a beautiful face. One look at her could attract any man. Because she lacked nothing, she could always be bold and confident. On the other hand, Leah lacked much and had nothing but shame. She always lived feeling small. From a human perspective Rachel excelled in everything while Leah was lacking. But this made it difficult for Rachel to become close to God, but it allowed Leah to come close to God.
During Jesus' time, people such as scribes, Pharisees, and priests were people who were good from a human perspective. On the contrary, people like the publican, the woman taken in adultery, or harlots were dirty, useless people. The important thing is that the scribes and Pharisees may be better and more righteous than the publicans or harlots, but they cannot stand before God with that.
Many people today have their standards of spiritual life set upon man rather than God because they are unable to meet God. People think, "My spiritual life is better than his," and assume that their spiritual lives are great. However, God said that all of man's righteousness must crumble down because there is wickedness inside of man. Therefore, human goodness does not help in having faith, but rather deters it. Apostle Paul said that He considered everything he knew to be a loss. He knew knowledge and experience to be good things in the past, but now he saw that those things were distractions keeping him from relying on God.
Rachel and Leah lived together with their husband Jacob. Because Jacob loved Rachel, Rachel lacked nothing. However, she could not have a child. Thus, she threw a fit telling her husband to give her a son and used human methods to try to gain a son through her hand maid. There was nothing Leah could hope for herself, thus she relied on God. In the end, ugly Leah had many sons, while the beautiful Rachel ended her life in darkness.
Today I will talk about Rachel's death. Rachel wanted a child very badly. She finally had one, and named him Joseph. "Joseph" means, "The Lord shall add to me another son." Afterwards, Rachel had her second child. How happy she must have been! However, she went into labor as Jacob's family was moving and was traveling along rough roads. When a woman is badly bleeding in her labor, she will in most cases die if the doctor is unable to control the bleeding. There were no doctors with this knowledge in Rachel's time and perhaps that was why her bleeding could not be stopped, and she was dying.
Fortunately, she gave birth and it was a son. Her midwife said, "Don't worry. It's another son." That was how she had a son, and she should have been very happy. But Rachel began to think.
When she thought of her son's future, it was so miserable so she named her son "Benoni (son of sadness)" and passed away.
Jacob saw all of this taking place. Rachel trusted herself so she thought it would be the end with her death. However, in Jacob's heart was God. God promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would give them many children like the stars in the sky and the sands of the sea. Therefore, this son was also part of the process of this promise becoming fulfilled.
Had the name of the son of sadness remained as Rachel had given, that child would have always carried that title of sadness in his name.
In the eyes of Rachel, it was true that he is the son of sadness. His mother died through his birth, he cannot be breastfed without his mother, and so how will he grow? But from another perspective, why is he the son of sadness when God is with him?
People of faith do not only look through their own eyes. Our view is crooked because it was formed through our ancestors Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Even if we clearly see and confirm through our own eyes, it is completely different from seeing through the eyes of God. Therefore, it does not mean that just because you have clearly seen and known it that it is accurate. But there are many people who with eyes different from God's boast aloud that what they have seen is right.
As we have lived in this world, Satan has planted distrust in us. As we were deceived many times by people around us, we have lived believing only in ourselves. We believe our experience, our knowledge, and believe what we have seen. We think whatever fits those things are accurate. However, this is different from the viewpoint of God.
Afterwards, there were many problems. Once, some students ran away, stole a woman's purse, were arrested, and put in jail. The principal had to go there and beg to get them out. That was how the time passed. About 10% of them left the school, but all those who remained changed. These students saw a new world. Before attending this school, they liked the life without discretion so they lived without wanting to throw it away. That was how in darkness they lived, but as they saw a new world, their hearts changed.
It is difficult for us to try to change ourselves because we try while trusting our own thoughts. The eyes we see through must be changed. We must distrust what we see, hear, and experience. We must trust Jesus. In my eyes I cannot walk when I am a paralytic, but I can walk if Jesus tells me to walk. In my eyes, someone may be a leper, but he is clean if Jesus says he is. In my eyes it is water, but it is wine if Jesus calls it wine. That is not believing in yourself but in Jesus.
People believe themselves rather than Jesus. Because people believe in their own experience, knowledge, and methods, they do not follow the Word of God when it does not fit their heart and when it seems that a loss will come about. That is why God becomes small and powerless in their lives. When we accept Jesus in our hearts as savior, as Lord, when Jesus is higher than our thoughts God begins to work in our lives. He works when we accept through faith into our heart the fact that Jesus' thoughts are right rather than how I see things to be. When God works, amazing things we could never have imagined start to be accomplished.
Many people today live having fallen into the pit of believing in themselves. Because they have been deceived so much by the people around them, they trust no one and try to only trust themselves. The more hardhearted a person's heart becomes, the more he is unable to trust others. Drug addicts never listen to anyone. The mentally ill have weak hearts and do not listen to others, but only exert their own words. People who have enough space in their heart have the heart to listen and understand the words of people with opinions different from their own. But people who have shallow and hardened hearts continually exert only themselves.
Clearly this was a son of sadness to Rachel. But he, like the name Jacob had given him, became Benjamin (the son of the right hand) and served as the son of the right hand to free his brothers when they were captured by Joseph.
Faith is not trusting yourself, but Jesus. God said, "My thoughts are different from your thoughts." If you trust yourself, you are living your life. People who trust God do not live their lives but God's life. If you live the life of yourself, it seems that your goodness and your efforts to live righteously will go well, but not long afterwards all those things fail and end in emptiness. You may try tithing and keeping the Ten Commandments to establish yourself. If you truly try these things, you will realize how vain this is. Then you become able to follow the Lord's thoughts rather than your own.
A lady was making kimchi, and her mother-in-law came to her and said, "Honey, don't do it like that. Try it like this," and taught her how to make it. The daughter-in-law wanted to do it her own way, but when she followed her mother-in-law's advice, the kimchi was indeed very delicious. From then on, the daughter-in-law's methods began to resemble the methods of the mother-in-law. We should also not just live with our methods, but for once look to Jesus' heart. Surely Benjamin was a son of sadness in Rachel's eyes, but he was the son of the right hand in the eyes of Jacob. The circumstances were pain, sadness, and suffering when Paul was locked in prison at Philippi. However, Paul had new eyes and thus praised and thanked God. Then that place changed into a glittering place of glory.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
God says that He has laid all our sins upon Jesus. God says this in Hebrews chapter 10, verse 17.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Rachel named her son as she died, "You are Benoni," meaning the son of sadness. But Jacob changed his name to Benjamin, saying, "No, you are the son of the right hand." Was he the son of sadness? No. According to Jacob's faith, he became the son of the right hand.
In our eyes it is true that we are sinners. We have sinned, committed evil, and have lived filthy, lustful, deceitful lives. We have also sinned every day. But how are we in God's eyes? The blood Jesus shed on the cross washed our sins away and in God's eyes we are whiter than snow. Therefore, God says that He does not remember our sins. He called us righteous. Therefore, now, is our judgment of what we've seen correct, or is God's judgment correct?
Many people do not incline their ears to the Word of God, but instead follow their thoughts and call themselves sinners. They think that doing so and praying for forgiveness and doing good deeds is being truthful. It may seem so, but objectively put, such things come about from distrusting the Word of God.
You must throw your thoughts away to live true spiritual life. When you stand with sadness or misery, think, "God, is this the case in your eyes also?" Go to God and ask, "God, is this misery? Is this sadness? Is this pain?" Then if God does say that it is sadness, it is. But even though it looks like misery in your eyes, if God calls it joy, do not believe yourself and believe that it is joy. This is believing God.
Because God's heart is different from your own, you cannot believe God if you follow your own heart. Many people go to church and are agonizing over sin. It is because they cannot believe that Jesus took care of their sin. Jesus shed His blood on the cross to free us from sin so that we may not agonize over it. The blood of Jesus lacks nothing in washing our sins away. No matter what dirty sin it is, He washed all the sin of mankind clean at the cross.
Satan deceives our hearts to make us think that Jesus could not forgive our sins. That is why there are many people who, with darkness in their hearts, live tied down to sin.
Now I hope that you will change your heart. In your eyes surely you are a sinner, but the Bible says that you are righteous. It says that He does not remember your sins anymore. It says that your sins have been blotted like the clouds that disappear and the fog that disappears. If so, your sins truly are blotted out. When you do not believe in yourself, but believe in the Word of God and live freed from sin, the Holy Spirit will work with power in you.
Loving folks, until now you have believed in yourself, but now I hope you will become people who can believe in God. Deny yourself and accept the Word of God. So regardless of what your thoughts are, say, "If God says that I am righteous, I am righteous. God has called me clean. My sins are washed as white as snow. God does not remember my sins anymore." Throw away the many thoughts that follow along. I hope that you can establish this heart in you to be able to live the blessed life through faith.


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Horror-Movie Marathon: The Brilliant, Not-So-Scary Classics
Works like Nosferatu may have lost some of their fright factor over the years, but they still fascinatingly show the birth of a genre.
Joe Reid
Having decided to spend all of October taking a tour through the various kinds of horror film, it only seemed to make sense to start at the genre's beginning. Early in the month is the best time to binge on horror classics, both to learn about the roots of the movies that would come later, and also to save the biggest scares for as close to Halloween as possible.
Here's the thing with the horror classics: They're not that scary. They can be disturbing, of course. Or unsettling. Or artfully macabre. They can still be great movies. But their ability to frighten on an elemental level may well be lost to the intervening decades, papered over by our collective raised tolerance for adrenaline. So what, then, is the point of a marathon of horror classics?
We don't all have to be film students, of course, but the value of a movie like Nosferatu (1922, directed by F.W. Murnau) is, for horror fans, akin to the value of knowing the circumstances surrounding the Declaration of Independence. The fact that 90-year-old movies can't still frighten in the way they once could is made up for by how unusual and unsettling silent films seem today. The broad gesticulations of the acting, the shadowed negative space in the corners of the frame, and the fact that movies look absolutely nothing like this anymore—all of this gives the film an undeniable air of gothic malevolence, even during the most benign scenes. This is the quality that makes Max Schreck's proto-Dracula such a singularly creepy creature. The 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire takes a fabulist view on the film, speculating that Schreck was indeed a vampire and used by Murnau to make his film, at the cost of a few victims in the cast and crew. A ridiculous, darkly comedic conceit, sure, but one that plays on the sheer surreality that Nosferatu presents onscreen.
Still, though, by modern standards, Nosferatu moves at a snail's pace. As does the Bela Lugosi-starring Dracula (1931, directed by Tod Browning). Here, the horror is merely in the story, pretty similar to the thrill you'd get from reading Bram Stoker's novel. Whole sequences from the book happen entirely offscreen, with onscreen characters narrating the spooky goings-on you're not seeing. That Lugosi's incarnation of Dracula has endured over the years as iconic is a testament to the visual statement he makes. This is classic Count Dracula, all cape and widow's peak, white skin and stealthy fangs. Lugosi's now-campy physical movements represent one of the more resonant throughlines of classic horror. Even if the scares aren't there, the horror villain as a grand, over-the-top figure is a trope that connects Leatherface and Freddy, to say nothing of the era of Vincent Price.
To watch Price's lead performance in House on Haunted Hill (1959, directed by William Castle) is to watch the horror villain in transition. He retains all the unsubtle, extroverted villainy of Lugosi—and of Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter for that matter—and he mixes in a kind of sibilant deadpan that lets the audience in on the beginnings of a joke. It's an early example of the kind of horror movie that knows it's dealing with an audience that's familiar with how these stories go. Price never explicitly winks at the audience, but he might as well. There's a Jack Benny streak to his haunted-mansion party-thrower, all "My, my, what could have made dear Nora quite so hysterical?" Lots of classic horror looks more comical now than it did at the time, but with Price was always in on the joke.
The turn of the decade from the 1950s to the 1960s was hugely momentous for horror films:
The Mummy (1959, directed by Terence Fisher) offers a nice counterpoint to the Vincent Price winky/verbose villain, instead giving us Christopher Lee as a kind of silent, unstoppable menace. This is a mantle that would later be assumed by your Michael Meyerses and Jason Voorheeses, though the men behind those masks were never required to have a fraction of Lee's screen presence.
Black Sunday (1960, directed by Mario Bava) was a very early entry in an Italian horror genre that would eventually skew much brighter, bloodier, and more extreme. Much of Black Sunday verges on the dull if you're wanting big scares, but look closer and you'll see the beginnings of a kind of viewer-participation horror that persists to this day. You know the kind: Audience members howl at the clueless protagonists not to go up that staircase. Or open that door. Or remove that sacred jewel from the skull they just found in that cave. There's a witch's abandoned tomb in the first half-hour of Black Sunday, and that tomb gets explored, poked at, and prodded by a doctor and his assistant. They don't know any better, but we who just got finished watching that witch promise to avenge her death (an opening scene involving a spiked mask that surely pushed the boundaries of blood in black-and-white cinema) certainly do.
Peeping Tom (1960, directed by Michael Powell) gets credit for inventing the slasher genre, and rightfully so. It also proudly jumps into the deep end of psychological horror, laying out the deep-seated traumas that made our titular photographer/serial killer who he is today. This is ground that Peeping Tom's 1960 classmate Psycho would till far more notably. Between all the Freud and phallic imagery, though, Peeping Tom is probably most daring for making its killer not just the focal point of the story but also its protagonist. You're complicit in his crimes because you're right there with him.
Reducing horror to a simple tally of scares will always be a limited method of judging its excellence. Taking in the film classics that have lost their ability to jolt us upright can force us to focus on the skeletons beneath (Vincent Price would be so proud!). And if nothing else, they've prepared us well for the next wave of horror films we're going to tackle: the world of cult favorites.
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Joe Reid is a former staff writer at The Atlantic and the former entertainment editor at The Wire.

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The AIM NetworkNews and PoliticsDay to Day Politics: Where did it all go wrong? Part one.
Day to Day Politics: Where did it all go wrong? Part one.
Written by: John Lord
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Where the Rod Laver Tennis Centre now stands, in Melbourne, the area was once occupied by massive Elm trees under which fierce political debates once took place. Rather like Hyde Park in London. It was there that as a teenage boy I spent many a Sunday afternoon. Politics has been for most of my life something that sort of ties things together. Other than what one might do in bed I can think of little that politics doesn't invade in one way or another.
I like to think that I am wise enough to know that in a democracy the party I don't support has as much right to power as the one I do. I am of the left because social injustice, inequality, unfairness and prejudice are anathema to me. They abducted my early life.
There was a time when I had a guarded tolerance for things Liberal and got on with life. But somewhere along the way things went wrong. Like rust finding its way, hate and untruth insinuated its way into the Australian body politic. It has become a cesspool of lying ideological corruption where politicians have forgotten what public service means. The turn to the right with its focus on capitalistic individualism at a time when the world is screaming for collective answers to complex problems might just prove disastrous.
I have developed a particular loathing for this self-righteous attempt to corrupt the business of government.
What follows is an attempt to explain where it all went wrong. My thoughts are random and I hope they come together to form some sort of explanation at the end.
Where to start. Undoubtedly the rise of the right, imported from the United States, has been the major and most worrisome aspect in the decline of the Liberal and National Parties. Where once small 'L' Liberals had residence, little exists today. Neo Liberalism/Conservatism aided by an inheritance of lying as a political weapon from the US, infiltrated the Coalition and gave birth to extremism.
Once there was a time when the seats of the houses of Parliament were occupied by people of countless and varied backgrounds. From farmers to lawyers. Now there is a tendency for both sides of politics to select from within their ranks. The party 'hangers on', union officials, academics and researchers etc. The consequence being that it is unrepresentative of a real Australian Community.
The Senate was once truly a house of review where a few independents, or minor parties resided with a controlling number. With a degree of compromise they got what they wanted. Usually around a state self-interest issue. Now we have minor parties and individuals, some of who have interest's way outside the mainstream of conventional thinking. As Paul Keating once said, "They are an unelected swill who put their rather anomalous beliefs before the good of the country".
Women have not advanced as a cohort in the political sphere. The Coalition remains an old man's male club uninterested in the advancement of women. While most of the world has moved on in many areas of equality, right-wing conservatives seemingly want to remain in or regress into the past as if it were the de facto future. Know your place has been shouted on the floor of the House of Reps. The Left of politics to its credit seeks to advance women with virtuous zeal.
Lying has and will probably always exist but it reached its zenith during the 2012 Presidential Debates. In the first Obama was said to be unprepared. Having watched it and read the reviews I concluded that he was taken aback by the outright lies that Mitt Romney was telling.
Lying in American politics is now part of the cut and thrust of it. In that campaign, Romney was reported to have told over 2000 individual provable lies.
We have inherited it. Lying in Australian politics has reached an unprecedented level. The current Prime minister and his cabinet is taking lying to such depths that it is not disingenuous to suggest that they no longer have a moral compass or understanding of truth. Some time ago I wrote the following in a piece titled, 'Abbott Tells Another One':
"If this means I am saying he is a pathological liar then so be it. It's not a nice thing to say about anyone but we are dealing with truth here. It's not so much that he is a serial offender, he is. I think the electorate knows that and factors it in. The fact that he lies can and is easily supported by volumes of readily available, irrefutable evidence. (I can provide it if need be) However what is of equal concern is that the main stream media (the so called forth estate) who are supposed to be the people's custodian of truth, condones it". More on that later.
Some time back Tony Abbott told us that the best way to understand the truth of what he was saying was to have it in writing. Otherwise what he was saying was just idle chatter for an audience. My take on that was this..
You see, now he is saying that what I thought he said is only a figment of my imagination. That what I think I thought he meant is not what he meant at all. That when he says something and I take it to mean one thing, he has the option of saying that what I thought I heard was not what I heard at all. It was only my interpretation of what he meant. I mean, did he say what he meant or did he mean to say what he meant or was what he meant really what he meant. I know that I am 76 and I have the odd senior moment but usually I know what I mean and what is meant by what I say. I also know that people understand what I'm meaning.
Ministers also seem to have carte blanche to follow his example and tell as many as they like. George Brandis, Greg Hunt, Peter Dutton and Christopher Pyne lie with monotonous regularity.
Truth is the victim.
In the first instance the best way to turn the profession of politics on its head in this country and create a new democracy would be to demand they tell the truth.
You can shape truth by telling lies for your own benefit and you can use the contrivance of omission to create another lie. However, the ability to admit you are wrong is an absolute pre requisite to discernment and knowledge. It requires truthfulness. If we are to progress as a country we must accept that there can be much pain in admitting we were wrong but there is no harm in it.
If a political party is not transparent in supplying all the information the public has a democratic right to be aware of, it destroys the very democracy that enables it to exist.
And if humility is the basis by which intellectual advancement is made then it is only on the basis of truth that we obtain human progress. Telling the truth should not be delayed simply because we are not sure how people might react to it. It is far better to be comforted by truth than to be controlled by lies.
It is often difficult in politics to distinguish a broken promise from the convenience of a change of mind, but with Abbott there were no shades of hue. It takes courage to change one's mind for the greater good. It requires the telling of truth. I saw no capacity for it in Abbott nor do I in our current Prime Minister.
It was so ingrained in Abbott's persona that distinguishing between truth and lies was beyond his private and public morality. He had little trouble merging his faith into his political philosophy but eliminated a cornerstone of his faith, ''truth'', when applied to his politics.
Of all the things that have caused the disintegration in the public's trust in the body politic. it is the lack of truth that defines it.
My thought for the day.
"Honesty isn't popular anymore. It doesn't carry the weight of society's approval it once did".
Part two tomorrow.
Terry2 September 22, 2016 at 6:26 am
I am astonished that we have taken our standards of truth manipulation to new heights at the UN by trying to defend, justify and embellish the failed policy of boat turn backs and offshore processing and indefinite detention.
Turnbull now tells the UN that he will increase our refugee intake by a generous 5000 to 18,750 : what he failed to tell the UN was that the previous intake was 20,000 and was reduced by his predecessor to 13,750.
By the way, I think it was 'unrepresentative swill' rather than 'unelected swill' that Keating was referring to in the Senate.
Glenn K September 22, 2016 at 6:45 am
Turnbull has finally come out from under his cover and bared his true soul. The conviction which which he promoted the LNP's refugee strategy in NY should end the speculation of when the "true" Malcolm will come out. He's out and he's a definite Abbott v.2
A slicker more skilled liar
stephengb2014 September 22, 2016 at 7:05 am
Don't forget the most stupidest of lies, first told; a lie that gave license to politicians the world over, to be absolutely bare faced when telling lies
"I did not have sex with that woman"
nurses1968 September 22, 2016 at 7:29 am
It all went wrong when the Media became the driving force in politics and the opposition forces to the Liberal machine going into denial when decisions didn't meet their criteria.Treating Pauline Hanson as a joke rather than a dangerous politician and thinking Abbott and Turnbulls refugee strategy was only supported by those on the far right instead of looking at the underlying issues has allowed those policies to gain support in the broader community as Essential Polling illustrates.
The race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, says Pauline Hanson is stoking division and appealing to xenophobia as new polling suggests 49% of Australians support One Nation's call for a ban on Muslim immigration.
Asked whether they would support or oppose one of Pauline Hanson's most provocative propositions – a ban on Muslim immigration – 49% of those polled in the Essential survey agreed with the ban, while 40% opposed the idea.
Support for banning Muslim immigration is highest among Coalition voters at 60% and non-major party voters at 58% – but the ban also has substantial support from progressive voters.
According to the survey 40% of people identifying themselves as Labor voters support a ban on Muslim immigration, and there is 34% support among Green voters.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/21/progressives-can-attract-hanson-supporters-but-not-by-insulting-them
Möbius Ecko September 22, 2016 at 7:40 am
Glenn K the only difference between Abbott and Turnbull is that Abbott openly admitted he lies. Turnbull would have you believe he's honest whilst telling the same lies Abbott admitted were lies. Turnbull never admits to lying whilst blatantly doing so.
In both cases they do it because outside of ignored social media, they are rarely if ever held to account for the lies they so openly tell. They would slow or stop if every time they told one someone in the MSM would pull them up on it and keep pulling them up every time the lie is told.
George Brandis, Greg Hunt, Peter Dutton and Christopher Pyne
Why stop at just them?
Barnaby Joyce. Red faced liar. Now there's on open barefaced liar for whom facts are either meaningless or to be distorted to suit any given agenda on the day. He lies with impunity on just about everything whilst saying it's the absolute truth or an undeniable fact that can be easily contradicted by anyone with the gall to say so to his face.
Scot Morrison. Talk faster and louder liar. There's no end to the untruths this man tells with impunity. The stuff he comes out with is so glaringly false that some reporters and interviewers just have to pull him up. His response is to talk faster through the lie, the bigger the lie the faster he talks and if still challenged to get louder as well as faster.
Michaelia Cash. Neck and facial muscle strainer. For me she is the biggest lie of them, outside of Abbott. She's not the prolific but tells the largest most glaringly obvious untruths that even leave the interview or press gasping. Her neck and face visibly strain with telling the lie, it takes that much effort, and when pulled up she goes on telling it as though an insignificant insect buzzed past her ear. She then goes on to tell the same enormous lies no matter how many times the untruth of them are revealed to her.
That's the other characteristic of all the L-NP liars, and it's extremely hard to find an honest one amongst them, they keep telling the lie and may embellish it further even when the fact it's a lie is revealed to them. Honesty is that inconsequential to them to the point it's become a bête noire to be excoriated and repressed at every turn by any corrupt method available.
The liars in the LNP are hiding behind their religion and that's what I find so appalling. Thou shall not lie and yet they do. It's almost like they are so deluded they don't know what the truth is. I read once that this country is about 5 years behind America, where lying in politics in the Neo cons is part of their dna. If this is true then we are going to be in deep trouble if Trump becomes President! He lies so much he is obviously deluded and quite likely a mentally ill psychopath, to behave like the orange skittle he is. Lying became deriguer with Howard. Then we got the mad monk who took it so far he wouldn't be able to lie straight in bed. Turnbull is just a suaver version of the monk. It's like putting lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. The lnp are white collar criminals and we are stuck with them for as long as the media and the idiot's who vote for them continue to be lied to and they believe every word that dribblems from their politicians gobs.
Kaye Lee September 22, 2016 at 8:26 am
Malcolm's generous concession to increase the humanitarian intake was announced in 2014.
Recent changes to the Migration Act 1958
On 4 December 2014, Parliament passed the Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014 (RALC Bill). Part of this Bill specified the size of the Programme:
• 2015-16: minimum of 13,750 places
• 2018-19: minimum of 18,750 places.
The 2018-19 offshore component of the Programme will see Australia's largest intake from overseas in 30 years. This recent increase to the offshore component of the Programme demonstrates the Government's commitment to a strong humanitarian intake focused on those most in need of resettlement.
https://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/discussion-papers/discussion-paper-humanitarian-programme_2016-17.pdf
Let's not forget……Under Labor…. Total Humanitarian Programme grants 2012–13: 20 019
Malcolm is trying to take credit for restoring a fraction of what was cut. Talking about giving more money when the Coalition slashed billions from foreign aid etc. Talking about addressing the causes of displacement as we bomb the crap out of Syria and Iraq and refuse to reduce emissions.
And this idea that we take refugees from South America while we leave 2,000 languishing in our own hellholes.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Klaus September 22, 2016 at 8:32 am
Turnbull is standing in front of the UN, telling lies as we speak. This morning I heard him blaming Labor for Nauru/Manus. The intervening 3 years of enhanced torture didn't happen. All Labor, always Labor. His additional intake of refugees, the 3rd most generous program in the World. And on and on it goes.
Not one MSM reporter (they are not journalists, they are government propaganda mouthpieces) is questioning any statement.
Max Gross September 22, 2016 at 8:48 am
Well said, John. But I think the reason the LNP lies is not so much pathological as strategic. They know the lackadaisical MSM will let them get away with it. And so the lie acquires precedent, remains untested and is built upon by further lies. And it is for that reason i believe the ALP should refuse to negotiate or cooperate with the Turnbull government. Whatever is agreed will simple be turned on its head by the LNP whenever it suits them anyway. Labor has every right to "disrupt, degrade and ultimately destroy" the LNP government in the best interest of Australians generally. After all, an Opposition's job is to oppose, right?!
Jaquix September 22, 2016 at 8:58 am
Thanks John for drawing attention to the amount of lying going on these days. Like Klaus, I just watched a bucolic Turnbull passionately blaming Labor for putting the poor souls on Manus and Nauru. Unbelievable. No wonder he looks terrible these days, gone is the good looking relaxed and confident personage of old. He ranted and raved, furiously blaming Labor, as if he had no control over the fact that they were there – despite being part of a government in its 4th year of using them as pawns in their "border protection" game. Just say the word, Malcolm, just say the word, and let them free. AMNESTY is the word.
helvityni September 22, 2016 at 9:06 am
…and the Coalition can never-ever right Labor's wrongs, mistakes, whatever you want to call them..? They don't even keep their own election promises.
I am trying to erase Turnbull's 'prime-ministerial' appearance in NY out my mind; how low can the Libs sink.
Max Gross, after all that's all Abbott did in Opposition, he OPPOSED.
"I'm not afraid to accept responsibility and I'm not afraid to be accountable. We will own it from day one. We will be responsible for the Australian economy."
Joe Hockey – 6 August 2013
The following are Abbott quotes…
"I think that what we want are governments and prime ministers who tell the truth and this prime minister just has not told the truth."
-Doorstop interview, Parliament House, Canberra, 31 May 2010
"It's high time we took the prime ministership out of the back room and put it into the full light of day."
-21 March 2013
"In the end I want the government to be upfront with people."
-2 May 2013
"One way or another, we will get full disclosure to the Australian people."
-9 August 2013
"The last thing we want to do is to hide anything from the Australian people."
"There will always be some issues that are contentious, but the best way to deal with them is openly, candidly and that is what I propose to do."
-14 November 2013
"We will not impugn the motives of our political opponents. We will not trash the reputations of Members of Parliament."
-9 November 2013, soon after winning the election and becoming prime minister.
townsvilleblog September 22, 2016 at 9:42 am
As I have stated in this forum many times whether or not many of us like it or not 49% of Australians support One Nation's call for a ban on Muslim immigration. I have suggested this in the past and the messenger has been well and truly shot, called a racist, a bigot and some unmentionables. All of which I am NOT I was merely trying to deliver the message of overheard supermarket conversations being had by others.
I overhear one last week, suggesting that under the Labor years we had taken 50,000 Muslim's and today the Muslim population was 500,000 now I do not know the authenticity or otherwise of the statement, but what is being implied is that each family is having 10 children which Australian infrastructure could not cope with if the supposed rate were to continue.
Again as I have previously stated Australia being the driest continent on Earth has a sustainable population of 22 million, meaning that we are already over populated by 2 million people. We need a population enforceable policy of no more than 3 children per family. Any more than 3 and the family would lose 'all' government benefits. These days with modern contraception there is no excuse, it simply must be done for the continuation of life human/animal on this continent. I can feel the howls of protest arriving already, however many modern responsible families are self-limiting the number of children they have because of the expense. My family included.
Kaye Lee, maybe the South Americans are Christian, or pagans, anything but Muslims, and after all the polls (2) tell us that only half of the Aussies want them here…
I wonder where the poll was taken.
Why are they not taking the numerous polls favouring SSM seriously….?
Archaic September 22, 2016 at 9:51 am
While I have my reservations about the Internet, some developments are very positive. I found myself yesterday exploring the Wikipedia page for "Post-truth politics" which seems relevant to this discussion. The definition of this phenomenon includes making the truth of secondary importance, with political debate instead "framed by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy". Abbott's campaign against the carbon pricing is listed as an example.
The page for "Bullshit" was likewise very relevant and illuminating, as it references the work of philosopher Harry Frankfurt on bullshit in the domain of the philosophy of truth and rhetoric. He is worth quoting:
"It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose."
I think that the issue is less a matter of politicians lying, but rather that our politics and media have devolved to a state of "post-truth". I submit that the term "bullshit" is a pithier alternative that describes the same phenomenon. Our politicians are not lying, so much as making up what they say as they go along in terms of what will produce the effects they are after. The truth is of secondary importance, if not irrelevant, to the effect of getting into power and reaping the rewards that go along with it.
I suspect that we are vulnerable to such states in this era because we no longer have a single grove of Elm tress, but are rather swamped by a multitude of information sources. Moreover the pace of information flow inhibits critical analysis. Within the media the problem also arises of "false balance" where rather than differing opinions being treated fairly – that is, commensurate with their legitimacy and degree of supporting evidence – they are simply treated equally; in giving equal air time the impression is given of a matter being more contentious than it actually is, and one argument is given more credence than it deserves based on the facts. The best example I can think of illustrating this point was when John Oliver addressed the climate change debate in a "mathematically representative" way. He started with one guest on each "side" of the debate (including Bill Nye) before deciding that in order to have a properly balanced debate he would bring in 2 more climate sceptics/deniers, and 96 more scientists arguing for the existence of anthropogenic global warming, to represent the 96% consensus. Even knowing this statistic, the visual spectacle was still compelling, and made the sceptics/deniers seem or he more ridiculous than if they had received the same 5 minute in the name of "balance". As John Oliver himself put it "This whole debate should not have happened".
I really like John Oliver's work, can only think that this represents the only way forward for us; to have media that use clever and engaging ways to educate us about difficult issues.
Adrianne Haddow September 22, 2016 at 9:56 am
The biggest lie of all in the LNP catalogue is that they are actually governing. The only achievements they have made are the destruction of institutions and services that have served the public well, that is, the achievements of previous governments.
Underpinning this lie is the fact that they are the machine that drives the agenda of that inglorious charity, the IPA. Our hidden government led by the likes of Gina Rhino, Rupert Mudrake and the other 1%, sitting like fat spiders in their webs of deceit and raking in the profits, that the LNP hand them.
It's time for a review of parliamentary salaries and entitlements in light of the fact that they don't govern for us, the public, yet we pay them handsomely to screw us over.
nurses1968 September 22, 2016 at 10:02 am
helvityni
The polling by Essential polls which happens to be the one most readers on here seem to trust raised questions with the pollsters themselves. To ensure the validity of the poll they redid it and got the same results.See story in link provided above
Kaye Lee September 22, 2016 at 10:04 am
townsvilleblog,
Firstly on sustainable population – it is a meaningless question because it is very dependent on lifestyle. Under our current profligate greedy waste, even the current population is unsustainable but if we did as we will sooner or later be forced to do and rein in that waste then resources will last much longer. That is NOT the fault of Muslims – it is our greed where 16% of the world's population use 80% of the resources.
As for taking in too many Muslims, refugees come from places where there is war and oppression. While we keep deciding to invade and bomb foreign countries, there will be displaced people. Our refusal to take action on climate change will displace many more. Once again, that is NOT the fault of Muslims. Our humanitarian intake is not based on religion but on need and we are adding to the need by destroying Muslim countries.
This crap about having 10 children really annoys me. My family is largely Catholic and most of them had kazillions of children – I have more cousins than you can poke a stick at. Educating and empowering women and lifting people out of poverty leads to less children. The Pope could help out here by agreeing it is ok to use contraception.
The fertility rate in Australia is below replacement value (1.9 from memory) so immigration is important in increasing the working age population as our population ages.
I know you are trying to be constructive.
Möbius Ecko September 22, 2016 at 10:11 am
…we take refugees from South America…
And what a crock that's turned out to be. It seemed as though these were going to be additional refugees, but no, they will displace those from the existing numbers.
So all Turnbull is doing is replacing some from one ethnicity with those of another. No net gain for the world's refugees at all.
keerti September 22, 2016 at 10:12 am
with the lieberals latest attack of people on benefits we seem to have a concerted effort beginning to be ramped up in the muckduck papers. This mornings australian and the northern star (Lismore) both carried cartoons putting forward that other great lie ,, so beloved of lieberals..that the reason that the unemployed don't have jobs is because they are lazy and don't want to work.
Andreas Bimba September 22, 2016 at 10:15 am
John, thanks again for another worthy view of our decrepit political landscape. In part 2 could you please give LNP lite a bit of a serve as well, as they richly deserve it for chasing the swinging voter in the swinging seat, being economically neo-liberal such as supporting all the FTAs and the TPP, allowing all the corporate tax rorts and concessions for the rich, for also taking bucket loads of corporate money, for allowing the mining & energy sector to pay bugger all tax and royalties while receiving billions in subsidies, for privatisation of everything such as the recent sell off of the Port of Melbourne, presiding over the destruction of our once great manufacturing sector, for allowing high unemployment by abandoning Keynesian fiscal stimulus, for being half hearted with environmental protection and global warming for example still supporting coal mining, fracking and clear felling of virgin native forests, only ever part restoring any massive cuts to healthcare, social support and education inflicted by the truly appalling LNP ultra conservatives and I could go on and on.
Where is the ALP's Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders. This is what people now want, not more neo-liberalism and Monetarism.
Bring on the green and orange revolution as the red flag is blue and has been for at least four decades.
This government's attack on Gonski has started in earnest. I bet their overhaul significantly reduces funding.
And they way they are going about it is SOP for them. Pick out, distort or exaggerate the negative aspects, play down and ignore the positives, start a propaganda campaign (aided and abetted by the MSM) and then destroy the whole on the back of that.
Keitha Granville September 22, 2016 at 10:23 am
Politicians lost their basic humanity at the same time as they lost any idea of being truthful. Theoretically, we the people are in charge as the electors, but for many it can be difficult to choose who to vote for when none of them gives you the truth about their values, their plans, their ideology.
Does it matter how many Muslims live here ? Why aren't we counting the numbers of all the other religions ? Do we know how many Jews, how many Buddhists, how many Catholics ? How many any other belief systems ? And for that matter, how many atheists. I am sick and tired of people going on and on about Australia being a Christian country. We may have been in the past, but the behaviour of politicians on all sides is chasms away from Christian values.
How about we support and care for everyone in our country, no matter what faith, with love and compassion. And we bring in those fleeing persecution in war zones in which we have participated. Or anyone who needs help, what happened to that ?
Love thy neighbour – one of the two great commandments. Fail.
helvityni September 22, 2016 at 10:39 am
…is Hanson Mal's latest adviser ? On the Menzies story he told us that he had learned from Johnny, who in his turn had learnt from young Pauline.
My head is hurting…
Aortic September 22, 2016 at 10:52 am
At 72, I have seen them all since Menzies. As I look around the so called developed world I don't think I have ever seen a period of such appalling so called political vision. From the USA, UK to here, with the possible exception of Canada and NZ, the utter dearth of people with anything but tunnel vision is extraordinary. The USA in particular is expending billions of dollars with a huge loss of life defending and proposing a system that only exists in their imagination. Unless people start to reject ideology for rational thought, I cannot see a bright future for our kids and grandkids.
Steve Laing - makeourvoiceheard.com September 22, 2016 at 10:58 am
I was thinking the same thing on Sunday watching Insiders. The journo from the West made a comment about the recently backbench forced changes to Super not being part of what was taken to the people at the election (you know, that promise/mandate thing), but this was essentially downplayed by Tingle and Taylor, two journos whose musing I usually find not too polluted. It seems we have come to the point that politicians lying is now simply accepted behaviour and no longer worth being called out by the journos of the Press Gallery. It is a club that has just got a little bit too cosy.
amethyst3009 September 22, 2016 at 11:36 am
Möbius Ecko,
Oh, yes this has been the plan all along. (Gonski was a mere Labor abberation!), In 2000, at a high school in Queensland there was a conversation about the plan for Private schools and "Residual' schools.
I believe this is still the plan.
Michael Faulkner September 22, 2016 at 11:37 am
It is time we began to refer to the three year or longer asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus, as Australia's political prisoners, for that is exactly what they are.
The Government uses their incarceration politically, professing to seek to deter ' people smugglers' , while at the same time using detained refugees as political hostages for an indefinite time in abusive spirit-breaking conditions, with the view to seeking to deter other desperate asylum seekers from taking boats to this country.
Domestically, the asylum seeker prisoners are used by the LNP Government to scare the Australian population about the fantasy of an Labor's open doors policy and, to condition citizens towards a particular political view, using carefully crafted strategies of de-personalisation with respect to those incarcerated, prison-like conditions, high levels of secrecy, and narrow slogan-based military-style public discourse.
Meanwhile, as a serial violator of UN Human Rights Conventions with respect to refugees, the LNP government eschews working with the UNHCR in any thorough-going way in our region.
This is partly because of a fear that such an approach might prove to be successful and serve to undermine the rationale for the off-shore detention gulags that have helped Abbott/ Turnbull Inc. stay in power. Instead, billions are paid to security corporations to reassure the Australian people of ' our strength and generosity as a nation' , a lazy but highly cynical platform of politically inspired policy-making.
Turnbull's comments in New York this week, as John suggests, are profoundly cynical lies.
Australia maintains several thousand political prisoners under conditions of indefinite ongoing detention.
Let's call it for what it is.
bobrafto September 22, 2016 at 11:40 am
tve blog
Just shows how much hate and division that Howard, Abbott, Hanson et al have caused in 15 or so years, there was never any mention of Muslims prior to Howard.
Now all of a sudden they're a threat, our biggest fear when in reality there is nothing to fear and you have been sucked in successfully by these fear mongers for their advantage and profit not yours.
Now you have a fear that they're fcuking like rabbits and they will overpopulate the country, hark back to Costello when he said have one for mum and dad and one for the country. The other reality is that the population has to increase every year, it's the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.
I could go on and on.
Terry2 September 22, 2016 at 11:58 am
there is an interesting class action going on in the Victorian Supreme Court on behalf of detainees held on Manus Island : http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/manus-detainees-claim-false-imprisonment-in-class-action-20160817-gquusw.html
This could be quite instructive considering that the government has gone to extraordinary lengths to take these people beyond the jurisdiction of the Australian courts.
The Commonwealth will fight tooth and nail to avoid this case being heard as the outcome, particularly the charge of unlawful imprisonment, could bring about substantial damages which, of course, we as taxpayers would have to pay : ironic !
Matters Not September 22, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Australia's been threatened by so many including the Irish, the Chinese and the Jews.
As late as 1937, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon, asked his Australian counterpart Joe Lyons: 'Tell me, Lyons, have you many Catholics in Orstralia?' 'Oh' said Lyons 'about 25 per cent.' Craigavon: 'Good God! Watch 'em, Lyons, watch 'em. They breed like rabbits'.
Lyons forbore to mention that he was a Catholic himself, and with (Dame) Enid, had thirteen children romping around the lodge in Canberra.
As for the Jews:
as late as 1939 the Australian representative, Sir Thomas White, at the Evian (Switzerland) Conference, called by President Roosevelt to discuss the question of German Jewish refugees, refused to increase the Australian quota, saying proudly: 'Australia has no racial problem and does not intend to import one'. Hitler loved it, and used it to great effect in a speech to the Reichstag three months before his invasion of Poland and the killing of the European Jews began in earnest.
For my part, I think the biggest problem we face in the future comes from those people with two copies of a recessive allele on chromosome 16 which produces an altered version of the MC1R protein. While they only constitute 1 – 2% of the population they should be isolated because of the dangerous ideas they spread among the populace.
http://johnmenadue.com/blog/?p=7722
Michael Faulkner September 22, 2016 at 1:18 pm
Thanks Terry 2,
I was aware of this Victorian Supreme Court development and will watch with interest.
Yes if the Commonwealth loses, we the tax payer will pay, as we should, for the massive violation of human rights we have inflicted on these refugees.
Remember the Howard era when Phillip Ruddock was Minister for immigration, and the Government was charging destitute asylum seeker boat arrivals, fees of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for their months of enforced detention stay.
Ruddock these days is now, courtesy of the Turnbull Government, a free range special human rights envoy representing us internationally. That man has no sense of shame for the violations against refugees he engineered.
helvityni September 22, 2016 at 1:57 pm
Ruddock, another heartless Immigration Minister, so harsh that even his own daughter found it unacceptable, is now our international human rights envoy…
diannaart September 22, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Not too many years ago there was a popular idiocy called "The Secret" (http://www.thesecret.tv/) which basically meant that if one spoke in a positive manner, focussed only on what was desired, for example, a Maserati, promotion at work, that guy on the bus, to "manifest" into your life. In short, tell yourself any old rubbish and pretend you can think your way to prosperity. It also was very good at placing blame on those hapless enough to be raped or hit by a car or anything bad experience at all – because a person wasn't thinking the 'right' way. Victim blaming.
Now, positive thinking does help when facing difficult situations, however, "The Secret" and its ilk have contributed to a trend (whether conscious or unconscious) that lying is acceptable.
If Trump is made US president – lying will become cemented into the zeitgeist, if it isn't already. We no longer have a journalistic code of fact checking – in fact 🙂 fact checking is now highlighted as something a bit above and beyond that only happens for special occasions like election campaigns if at all.
John Lord is correct to point out the deterioration of political responsibility and accountability – but who is listening?
Kyran September 22, 2016 at 3:26 pm
It seems there is a tale of two cities occurring right now.
In Melbourne, the state government has leased the port and claimed a rebate under the Asset Recycling Agreement. This has led to a bunfight. That paragon of stupidity, O'Dwyer, is leading the charge.
"There was no business case attached to it, there was no way to properly assess it against the criteria, and it was something that they had already committed the funds to do themselves.
It's simply a case of the Victorian Government trying to cost shift."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-21/commonwealth,-vic-fight-over-$1.5b-bonus/7866290
Apparently, the state government is required to justify the dictate of the federal government.
Meanwhile, in Brisbane, there is another bun fight. The paragon of idiocy, deputy PM, bananas, is saying the state government asked him for money, which he threw at them, without propriety, assessment or criteria. Luckily, it was only $3mil. Luckily, the recipients were parakeet's (ie liberal recipients of taxpayers money).
"The $3 million for the Urannah Dam study came from National Water Infrastructure Development Fund. The fund called for applications late last year, with a panel of technical experts assessing the bids.
But the fund guidelines state "the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources [Barnaby Joyce] will be the final decision-maker".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-22/company-run-by-lnp-members-linked-to-group-awarded-federal-funds/7865950
Apparently, the federal government is required to throw money at its mates.
"Of course we're reckless spenders. But we're good liars, so we'll blame labor."
Both cities are in labor control. It must be their fault. It couldn't possibly be any other way. Just saw two pigs flying away.
Thank you, Mr Lord. Take care
Zathras September 22, 2016 at 3:40 pm
Most people are unaware that the era of alcohol prohibition in the USA was largely started in response to the perceived social threat posed by increased alcohol consumption as promoted by the emerging German Beer Gardens and Irish Whisky clubs.
So it was mainly driven by racist fears and the demonisation of their own recent immigrants.
Likewise, our own national independence was driven by our dislike of the Chinese and there were protests on the wharves to stop them disembarking. Once anybody set foot on pre-independent Australia they came under the protection of the British Crown but Nationhood provided the power to exclude people.
It's always been the same old story, retold generation after generation and there have always been opportunistic politicians ready to scapegoat and cash in on fear and loathing.
However it was Howard that broke convention and specifically played the "race card" and Labor's "me too" strategy saw them trapped and today's leaders prefer to continue hatreds rather than challenge them. This was even before the "drownings" excuse could be used and was intended to win back One Nation votes and nothing else.
Now they have to maintain their original lies and even build on them and have left themselves no way back out of this mess they have created.
Terry2 & Mr Faulkner, there is another case playing out in PNG.
"The Papua New Guinea Government has applied to dismiss an application by asylum seekers on Manus Island for compensation and repatriation by Australia."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-21/png-government-applies-to-dismiss-manus-island-compensation-bid/7865766?section=world
Not sure which case is precedent, or which one is antecedent, in terms of 'the law'. In legal terms, my guess is that the lawyers want to quantify the damages. In moral terms, my guess is that their clients seek nothing more than asylum. In economic terms, 'warehousing' is costing a truckload, likely to be exacerbated by the lawyers quest for compensation.
FFS! What is the problem? Bring them here. In legal terms, we may mitigate the damages. In moral terms, we may assuage our conscience. In economic terms, no brainer.
If, in the afterwash, politicians get prosecuted for things like torture, child abuse, etcetera, I have no problem. There should be some islands we can let them enjoy their sentences on.
Politicians held accountable for their actions? – nothing wrong with that. And we have the infrastructure, as you say, offshore island residences with hot and cold running wardens I mean care-workers.
Stephen Brailey September 22, 2016 at 6:27 pm
…and of course the new ABC Liberal stacked board closed down the ABC fact checker. Did anyone notice how pretty much all statements made by LNP politicians turned out to absolute crap. The death of journalism is this country is why these "guys" get away with lies, lies, lies.
Mr Turnbull was very rattled in New York yesterday as he tried to talk up Australia's sovereign borders strategy as being the best in the world and made a play for a seat on the UN Human Rights body, he was constantly asked by the media 'what about Manus and Nauru, what have you done on your watch to resettle people held on these islands in the past three years ?'
His response was to ………………blame Labor !
Terry2, they have no problems getting rid of Gonski, but they could not change anything regarding asylum seekers. Did Mal tell the world how much we paid Cambodia to take four (4) asylum seekers….
JeffJL September 23, 2016 at 7:56 pm
Very good John. Keep up the work.
Bobi Magee October 7, 2016 at 11:05 pm
My Grandmother would caution that 'the essence of a lie is the intent to deceive' it is sad to see this become t he norm in politics especially with right wing neoliberalism
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Starting with the spring 2017 semester, the teaching supplement will be disbursed in monthly installments, paid at the beginning of the month, starting with the first month of the semester. For fall 2016 only, the monthly installments will start with a double installment in early October, and regular monthly installments thereafter.
Students receiving a teaching supplement may earn up to $3,000 from additional teaching/research each semester without any reduction to that semester's supplement.
While the original intention of the teaching supplement was to ensure that GSAS students with guaranteed teaching are funded at the same level as graduate students in the G1 and G2 years, the program had the unintended consequence of disincentivizing additional service in roles such as tutorial leader and undergraduate thesis adviser. Under the new policy, only payments in excess of $3,000 in a single semester will trigger a dollar-for-dollar reduction to the top-up.
Your financial aid officer will be happy to discuss how these changes may impact your particular situation. For full details about these changes, including related terms and conditions, refer to the financial aid section of the GSAS Student Handbook.
Departments affected by package enhancements
African & African American Studies
Celtic Languages and Literatures
East Asian Languages and Civilizations*
Film and Visual Studies
Germanic Languages and Literatures
History of Art and Architecture
Human Evolutionary Biology
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Romance Languages and Literatures
Slavic Languages and Literatures
*For students in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the standard funding package includes two sections of guaranteed teaching for three terms during the G3/G4 years.
Photo by Anibal Martel
Humanities, Social Sciences


You are bidding on a genuine early Beech wood washing posser/dolly.
It stands 37" in height with a handle span of 13". It has five udder-shaped legs and is constructed entirely using wooden pins. The handle insert at the base still retains it's original early repair where the busy Mother has inserted a wooden clothes peg, in order to restore a much needed washing tool.
As can be seen in the photos, the Dolly has numerous ancient woodworm holes. However, this item has been fully treated against woodworm as an extra precaution. It has been lightly waxed.
It is in very good condition conducive with age and use, making it perfect for display purposes.


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William Hotz Jr
March 23, 1949 — May 8, 2022
William Alexander Hotz Jr. was born to William Augustus Hotz and Maria Magdalena Gallegos on March 3, 1949 in Pagosa Springs, CO. William, known as "Billy" to most, grew up working hard and loving the outdoors. He was an avid hunter and loved every aspect of it. Billy joined the Army after graduation and upon his return home as a corporal he landed in Denver, CO where he met his future wife Connie Marie Profitt, who was selling bibles. They became friends and later married on March 17, 1973 on St. Patrick's Day. Every anniversary they would go get green ice cream to celebrate. They were blessed with a daughter Magdalena Alexandra Hotz on Jan.12, 1983.
Billy's strong work ethics and accountability working for the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service has been noticed by the public. He was awarded numerous certificates of merits for improving facilities in campgrounds, fighting fires, including that in Yellowstone and being an accomplished blaster. Less than a year after his grandson was born, Billy said he was retiring to become a full-time grandpa. Hunting and family were Billy's life. Magdalena was beside her father as he left on Mother's Day, May 8, 2022, to be reunited with his wife.
Billy is preceded in death by his parents, sibling, and wife.
He is survived by his only child Magdalena (Emory Draper) and grandson Gabriel Dean Hotz Draper.
There will be a graveside service for Billy at Hilltop Cemetery, Pagosa Springs on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 10am, with a reception/memorial to follow.
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of William Hotz Jr, please visit our flower store.
Hilltop Cemetery
Cemetery Rd, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147