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It was a verdict that outraged the African American community in Los Angeles. The acquittal of four LA police officers for the beating of a young black man, Rodney King, 20 years ago, split the city's racial divide wide open and set off a wave of race riots in Los Angeles. Some said the verdict was like lighting the fuse of a bomb.
"People just don't say 'one day I'm going to start a riot'. It doesn't happen this way. It's a long train of conditions and abuses and pent-up resentment and that's what we saw."
- Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and author
Years of racial tension boiled over and the wave of looting and violence that followed shocked many in the US and around the world. The epicentre of the riots was the notorious neighbourhood of South Central Los Angeles. The six days of unrest saw first the California National Guard and then US Marines deployed on the streets of South Central LA in an attempt to bring calm. Dozens of people died and thousands more were injured.
The LA riots brought into sharp focus the actions of the Los Angeles Police Department and its interactions with the city's ethnic minorities. Race relations throughout the country also came under the spotlight once more.
And recent cases such as the shooting dead of black teenager Trayvon Martin prove that, 20 years on, the issue is still a source of tension.
What fuelled the outrage that led to the riots two decades ago? Could it happen again? What has changed between US police forces and the country's minority groups? What progress have the police and the US made to heal the country's race wounds?
Joining Inside Story Americas to discuss this are: Hubert Williams, the president of the Police Foundation and one of the special advisers to the LA police commission in the wake of the riots; Horace Cooper from Project 21, a group that promotes the views of African American conservatives; and Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and author who specialises in race and politics.
"We have race problems in America, but all Americans don't have race problems. Some Americans get along quite good with everybody. But there are Americans that have these racial issues. When they put on a uniform and a badge it gives them a sense of power, they can do things that other people can't do. And that's why there's got to be a strict accountability .... Police have to be held accountable when they violate rules, when they breach the standards of the law."
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General Moly, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE MKT: GMO) (TSX: GMO), a U.S.-based molybdenum mineral development, exploration and mining company, announced that the Company has signed a binding agreement with Hanlong (USA) Mining ("Hanlong") to provide a $125 million subordinated debt facility supplementing a previously announced $665 million Chinese sourced term loan that is being negotiated with China Development Bank ("CDB"). The Company had previously announced a letter of intent related to this facility with Hanlong on August 1, 2012.
Bruce D. Hansen, Chief Executive Officer of General Moly, said, "The Company continues to receive tremendous support from Hanlong in funding the Mt. Hope Project, and we look forward to continuing our work with Hanlong in completing the senior term loan with China Development Bank. We are pleased to have completed this very important component of our Mt. Hope Project finance plan."
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DETROIT — There is so much to look forward to when considering what Avisail Garcia, a 22-year-old five-tool prospect who already has played in a World Series, might bring to the White Sox.
Scouts, former teammates and coaches love his talent, upside and makeup. The
Detroit Tigers hated to see him go, but general manager Dave Dombrowski cut him loose in the three-team trade involving Jake Peavy because he needed shortstop Jose Iglesias.
Let's get the knocks against Garcia out of the way first. It won't take nearly as long as discussing what he can do well. His plate discipline could be better, and his weight — 240 pounds — will have to be watched.
Besides that, what's not to love about a right fielder who can hit for average and power, throw, catch and run well for a big man? Especially for a franchise that had no prospects in his class, there is plenty.
''His power,'' Tigers first-base coach Rafael Belliard said. ''You see him in batting practice, the way he hits the ball, it is similar to Miguel [Cabrera]. He has a lot of talent. He is going to be a great player someday — and not too far from now.''
Garcia, who was called ''Little Miggy'' as a Tiger because of his resemblance to the reigning American League most valuable player and because he shadowed Cabrera last September and during the postseason, has spent most of this season in the minor leagues. He was hitting .380 with six home runs, seven doubles and three triples in a combined 39 games with Class AAA Toledo and Class A Lakeland (on a rehab assignment for a bruised heel). In 30 games with the Tigers, he hit .241 with two homers and 10 RBI.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland liked what he saw when his team was chasing down the Sox and winning the AL Central last September. Garcia batted .319 and was 6-for-23 with three RBI in the postseason, including 5-for-11 against the New York Yankees in the AL Championship Series. Against the Oakland Athletics in the AL Division Series, he showed off his arm by throwing out Coco Crisp at home plate.
''He's a great kid,'' Leyland said. ''He's got a huge upside. I'm happy for him. If we're not good enough to get him out, shame on us.''
Garcia has a tendency to swing early in the count and expand the strike zone, but he is working on being more disciplined. He's still young.
''I'm trying to be better disciplined at the plate,'' he said on a conference call Sunday. ''At the same time, I'm trying to be consistent because this is a game where you have to be consistent. I work hard on all that stuff, everything. I've got to be disciplined at the plate.''
The Sox assigned Garcia to Class AAA Charlotte after
the Peavy trade, which also brought them three prospects from the Boston Red Sox. Sox manager Robin Ventura hinted Garcia might join the Sox this week.
''[General manager] Rick [Hahn] wanted to see what was going to happen through [July] 31st,'' Ventura said. ''But we'll see what happens [Monday].
''No, I don't see a move [to the majors]. But once we get home and everyone gets together and starts discussing what's going to happen from here on out, you never know what's going to happen.''
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The Cristeros: 20th century Mexico's Catholic uprising
tratto da: The Angelus, January 2002 , Volume XXV, Number 1
The 20th century was the bloodiest century in history, the "century of massacres,"1 "hell's century,"2 the century of martyrs-just like all the others? No, not just like all the others; it was the great century of martyrs, infinitely more than the others... Never had there been so many martyrs in the space of 100 years, not even in the space of 1,000 years.3 And these tens of millions of Christians, the victims of a century in open revolt against God, remain unknown and unsung. Today I would like to recall for you the Mexican Catholics who, some 70 years ago, rose up against Freemasonry for the social reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. They were called the Cristeros.
March 1929. Between battles with the Federales,
the Valparaiso regiment attends the Mass of the Military Chaplain.
A Century of Religious Persecutions
From the time its independence was declared in 1821, Mexico had a troubled history: civil wars, dictatorships, coup d'états, revolutions (1876-1911)... Maximilian's Empire (1863-67) was but a brief and very imperfect4 parentheses in the persecutions endured by the Church once the Spanish left: property despoiled, priests imprisoned, assassinations plotted, bishops expelled... Why so many misfortunes? A proverb provides the answer: "Poor Mexico! so far from God and so close to the United States..." The United States did not want a great Catholic power at their door. At the time of Mexican independence, they worried about this potential rival whose land mass roughly equaled their own, and whose population, though less numerous (6.5 millions of inhabitants versus 9.5 millions) had become, thanks to a very lively Catholic faith, a true nation, while the United States remained, and remains even now, the "Salad Bowl."5
In the 1830's, war broke out. Betrayed by Masonic generals,6 Mexico lost its northern territory, California, Texas, New Mexico (1848), and was placed under United States political and economic hegemony.7
The puppets successively made presidents of Mexico were all corrupt Masons who immediately enforced the orders issued from Washington to "defanaticize" the country, that is, to destroy its Catholicism which dated from the 16th century when the Spanish (especially the Franciscans8), had evangelized Mexico; the order also demanded defiling the memory of its European heritage by exalting the pre-Columbian era9 and the "marvelous" Aztec civilization where the wheel and the vault were unknown, but where slavery, human sacrifice and cannibalism were practiced on a grand scale even in the 16th century!10
Here are just two examples of this policy: The first official act of President Juarez was to transform St. Francis of Mexico Church into a Protestant temple (1867),11 and the publication of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Humanum Genus (1884) was prohibited (it condemns Freemasonry) even in the seminaries!12
In 1914, President Carranza, put in place by the US, inaugurated a period of open persecution: priests were massacred (160 were killed in Mexico in February, 1915). John Lind, one of Woodrow Wilson's advisors, rejoiced over the news: "Great news! The more priests they kill in Mexico, the happier I shall be!" An American pastor, indignant about the outraging of the nuns in Vera Cruz, received this reply from Wilson's personal representative: "After prostitution, the worst thing in Mexico is the Catholic Church. Both must disappear!"13
Calles's Offensive
In 1924, Plutarco Elias Calles became President. For this descendant of Spanish Jews,14 a 33rd degree Mason, "the Church is the unique cause of all Mexico's misfortunes." For him, too, she had to disappear.15 With the complicity of a Masonic priest, Fr. Perez, proclaimed by the government "Patriarch of the Mexican Catholic Church," Calles founded a schismatic "patriotic Church," as the Communists were to do later in China.16 The wine used in the Mass was replaced by mescal. But the maneuver was met with widespread contempt. The government could finance the opening of 200 Protestant schools and Calles could smooth the way for heretical sects (already well financed by the US), but the Mexican people remained stubbornly attached to Rome!
In 1926, the president and his clique launched a new offensive which they hoped to be definitive: "Now there must be a psychological revolution," Calles declared. "We must penetrate and take hold of the minds of the children and the youth because they must belong to the revolution." The Catholic schools were shut down, the congregations expelled, Christian trade unions forbidden, numerous churches confiscated and profaned (turned into stables or halls) or destroyed. Public school attendance became mandatory, atheism was officially taught, and religious insignia (medals, crucifixes, statues, and pictures) were forbidden, even at home. God was even chased from the language! The use of such expressions as Adios, "If God wills," or "God forbid," was subject to a fine. Lastly, the priests were "registered": some states (Mexico is a federal republic) required them to swear not to proselytize, others tried to command them to marry if they wished to continue in their function! Msgr. Carvana, the Apostolic Nuncio, protested; on May 12, 1926, he was expelled. Throughout the country, Catholic public figures were assassinated, girls coming out of church were kidnapped, imprisoned, raped. Msgr. Curley, the Archbishop of Baltimore, vented his indignation: "Calles persecutes the church because he knows that he has Rome's approval. Our government has armed Calles's killers. Our friendship has encouraged him in his abominable enterprise: to destroy the idea of God in the minds and hearts of millions of Mexicans."17
On May 28, Calles received the Masonic medal of merit from the hands of the Great Commander of the Scottish rite in Mexico. On July 12, the following communique appeared in the press: "International Masonry accepts responsibility for everything that is happening in Mexico, and is preparing to mobilize all its forces for the methodic, integral application of the agreed upon program for this country."18
On July 26, an elderly shopkeeper was coldly struck down by two policemen in civilian clothes. His crime? In his shop he had posted a sign reading Viva Cristo Rey! Long live Christ the King! The Mexicans peacefully reacted to the persecution: they boycotted state-owned enterprises (tobacco purchases and railroad traffic were reduced by 74%, and in just a few weeks, the national bank suffered a 7 million peso loss), and they also circulated a protest petition signed by 2 million (out of a population of 15 million).
But Christians have something even better than that, they have prayer, and the country was crisscrossed by gigantic penitential processions: 10,000, 15,000 faithful, barefooted, crowned with thorns, implored God for their country. The powers that be could not tolerate that; their heavy machine guns dispersed the processions, and the first martyrs fell, singing.
Public Worship Suspended
On July 24, 1926, Cardinal Gaspari sent a telegram from Rome to the Mexican episcopate: "Under no condition we will accept the registering of priests." The bishops decided to suspend public worship throughout the land starting July 31: all the places of public worship would be closed, there would be no Masses offered nor sacraments administered throughout the country except in private chapels. This was an unheard of, inexplicable decision, unless by it they intended to push the Mexicans to revolt, for the one thing they could not bear was to be deprived of the sacraments. During the final days of July, people thronged the churches day and night, going to confession, getting baptized, marrying...
And then the terrible hour came...
From the first days of August, the Mexican people, deprived of their priests (only 200 remained with their faithful) and of their bishops (only 1 remained out of 38) used force to resist the inventorying of the closed churches and the accompanying sacrileges. Their rallying cry was that of the Mexican shopkeeper: "Long live Christ the King!" To keep from hearing it, the soldiers had only one solution: cut out the tongue of those whom they were going to kill, of those whom, because of these cries, they named the Cristeros. One of them wrote before dying: "We are going to perish. We will not see the victory, but Mexico needs all this blood for its purification... Christ will receive the homage which is due Him." Blood flowed... Ireland broke its diplomatic relations with Mexico... No other state followed suit.
On September 18, 1926, Pius XI published the encyclical Iniquis Afflictisque:
In October the Holy Father declared: "The blood of martyrs has always been the seed of blessings from heaven." How could one fail to understand that one year after Quas Primas, the Cristeros were signing with their blood this text on the social reign of our Lord Jesus Christ? Freemasonry understood it, and in its American journal The New Age of December 1926, it expressed its stand:
The Rising
In January 1927, Catholic Mexico rose: 20,000 combatants (30,000 by the end of the year, and 50,000 in 1929); few arms (a few rifles and carbines, but mostly hatchets, machetes, and sometimes simply sticks); few horses; but all the people supporting them, offering them their money, and necessaries. A Cristero peasant recounted how they set out with songs and prayers on their lips:
The old men and children, unarmed, followed behind the troops, in the hope of martyrdom. "The parents of Nemesio and Isidro Lopez did not want to see them depart for the war for fear that their flesh would go to feed coyotes and eagles; but they replied, "The coyotes may indeed eat our flesh, but our souls will ascend straight to heaven."22 Against them were 100 mobile columns of 1,000 men each, veritable "infernal columns" financed by the US (light armored cars, tractor-drawn artillery, combat aircraft...). The first clashes were bloody massacres. An officer of Calles wrote: "They are more like pilgrims than soldiers. This isn't a military campaign, it's a hunting party!" The president himself predicted: "It will be wrapped up in less than two months."
But when a pilgrimage takes up arms, it becomes a crusade! The Cristeros were able to equip themselves from the adversary, profiting from their cowardice or their corruption. The "Federales" were more like pillagers, drunk on tequila and marijuana, rather than soldiers worthy of the name. On March 15, 1927, they were defeated at San Julian; at Puerto Obristo, they left 600 dead. In November, the military attache of the US began to worry about the success of the "fanatics," 40% of whose troops were now equipped with excellent Mausers recuperated from the enemy. How was it possible?
The Miracle
The Cristiada was a succession of miracles. One was when the consecrated hosts flew into the sky before the very eyes of the squad that was getting ready to shoot them; it led to the conversion of the Masonic officer who commanded it, and who ended the war as a Cristero general. But there are very many more: God does not let Himself be outdone in generosity. I will just recount two.
A Christian general told how he arrived with 350 men who had been fasting for two days in a miserable hamlet of only 11 straw huts. He retired to write his report. Coming out, he saw his soldiers eating with gusto and an old woman with tears in her eyes saying over and over; "I just had a few biscuits, and yet there is enough for everyone, and what is left over is more than I had to begin with!"
A Cristero spy had spoken with the Federales:
The spy added:
Marvelous Cristeros! While the Federal army recorded an average of 30,000 desertions annually, they did not experience a single case of treason. A cobbler, become sector chief, was contacted by the enemy who offered to spare his life and make him a colonel, answered: "I am not fighting for a rank. I am fighting for the Church and for Christ the King. As soon as the victory is won, I shall return to my shoes." He was killed in combat in March 1928.
With diabolic tenacity, Calles's men tried to make their prisoners apostatize, but in vain. Fr. Reyes was tortured for three days and two nights. This pastor of Totolan, born in very poor circumstances (as a child he hawked newspapers) had decided to remain at his post. That was enough to unleash the hatred of the Federales, who tormented him with fire. "You say that God descends into your hands, well then, let Him descend and deliver you from ours!" his torturers taunted. They finished him off with bullets on the evening of Holy Wednesday. One of them testified: "We had already lodged three or four bullets in him when he roused himself to cry out once more: 'Long live Christ the King!'" Sabás Reyes Salazar was canonized on May 21, 2000.23
Valencia Gallardo, a Cristeros leader, was tied to a stake and tortured but only cried out throughout: "Long live Christ the King!" They tore out his tongue; he freed one of his hands from the bonds and pointed to heaven. They cut it off, and then split open his skull with their rifle butts.
Admirable Cristeros! The Cristiada was not a counter revolution with its share of exactions: it was the opposite of a revolution. Read the order of the day of one of its generals (killed in combat in 1927):
Their awareness of the supernatural character of their fight did not lead the Cristeros to neglect temporal realities: "Fight and organize; fight and moralize" was one of their mottoes. In the liberated territories, "administrators" were appointed, Catholic schools were opened (more than 200), public sins (drunkenness, prostitution) were suppressed.
Universal Resistance
Who were these new crusaders? They were the people. As one Federale wrote: "We run no risk of making a mistake (by massacring one and all): they all resist." They were 95% rural folk: peasants, artisans, miners, muleteers, or rural landholders. There was, for instance, Luis Navarro Origel, with a degree in philosophy and a third-order Franciscan: in 1926, he took the lead of the men of the village where he was mayor. He declared: "I am going to kill for Christ those who kill Christ, and perhaps die for Him if need be; I am going to offer the blood of redemption." He fell at the head of his troops on August 10, 1928, at the age of 30.
The city folk who joined them were especially students and the women involved in the St. Joan of Arc Brigades. Some of these 25,000 heroines were only 14 years old. They acted as liaison agents or scouts, nurses, collectors of money or munitions in the arsenals where they infiltrated as workers! Woe to those who fell into the clutches of the Federates' hardened soldiers... But they never betrayed any information.
Beautiful youth of Mexico. José Sanchez was 13. In February 1928 he was surrounded by the Federales. He gave up his horse to the group leader who was wounded and covered his retreat. Running out of ammunition, he was captured. "Know it well," he said, "I am not surrendering, I have merely run out of ammo." He was slaughtered. A note was found in his pocket: "My dearest Mom: Here I am a captive, and they are going to kill me. I am happy. The only thing that troubles me is that you are going to cry. Don't cry. We shall meet again." Signed, José, killed for Christ the King.
Tomasino was a member of the executive committee of the ACJM (Mexican Catholic Youth Association) and prefect of the congregation of Mary. Arrested, he was offered his freedom if he talked. "Really, you would be making a mistake: free, I would continue to fight for Christ the King. For us, the fight for our freedom of worship is not optional." In August 1927, he was hanged. He was 17.
Manuel Bonilla, a student, kept a daily diary:
He was shot at 22 years of age, on Good Friday, 1927, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. In 1942, his body was discovered perfectly intact.
The Mystery of Iniquity
The year 1928 was terrible: the infernal columns had received the order to deport the rural population to "concentration camps"26 where famine and epidemics decimated them. At the least show of resistance, the Federates would massacre them. Harvests and flocks were seized, grazing land burned, and villages destroyed by the thousands. Despite this scorched earth policy, the Cristeros stood fast like latter-day Machabees.
In 1929, the government renounced its policy of governing the countryside. Three-fourths of inhabitable Mexico was in the hands of the troops of Christ the King, victory was in reach especially as the riffraff in Mexico were fighting each other, and in the United States Hoover, who was not a Mason, was elected! Then they learned that the secret negotiations between the Mexican government and the Vatican had resulted in an accord. On June 21, the Mexican episcopate (except for one of its members, His Excellency Jose de Jesus Manriquez y Zarate) signed a "resolution" of the conflict with the ruling power on bases "negotiated" by a US Jesuit, a Fr. Walsh. The accord provided for: (1) immediate, unconditional cease fire; (2) the resumption of public worship beginning the next day (June 22).
That was all. It restored them to the same situation that prevailed in 1926 with all the anti-Catholic laws then in effect, including the registration of priests! In the text, the Cristeros are called fanatics directed by a few third-rate priests; their revolt was an error, an imprudence, even a sin: they must lay down their arms under pain of excommunication...
Jésus Degollado, commander in chief of the Cristeros, addressed his troops, his voice breaking from sorrow:
Six thousand Cristeros obeyed, and were immediately massacred. In three years, they had only lost 5,000 men in combat! The Mexican episcopate decreed the excommunication of the Cristero priests, but those who had not been killed during the war (180) had already been martyred...All was lost.
The new president, the Masonic lawyer Fortes Gil, rejoiced. At the summer solstice banquet, he acknowledged his astonishment at the unconditional capitulation of a victorious army, and his intention to continue the fight: "The fight did not begin yesterday. The fight is eternal. The fight began 20 centuries ago." Indeed, but the novelty was that the Vatican was not on the right side. Freemasonry, condemned by all the popes from the 18th century (Clement XII, in 1738) to the end of the 19th (in 1892, Leo XIII equated Freemasonry with Satanism), had infiltrated the Church at the highest levels of the hierarchy: Were not G. della Chiesa (the future Benedict XV) and A. Ratti (the future Pius XI) the "proteges" of Cardinal Rampolla? In 1926, was it not Pius XI who condemned Action Frangaise in accordance with the sect's desires. In 1928, was not Fr. Vallet expelled from Spain and his work suppressed by a hierarchy that preferred to favor the Opus Dei.28
When, from 1934 to 1937, a new Cristiada was launched, Pius XI let the Mexican episcopate excommunicate the Cristeros and then waited until they were all dead before daring to write (in his Letter to the Mexican Episcopate, 1937):
The same year, in Divini Redemptoris, he blamed Communism for the atrocities perpetrated against the Christians of Mexico...but he did not mention Freemasonry.
Another Vendée
The saga of the Cristeros reminds us of the famous rising of the Vendée during the French Revolution, and the two epics have many points in common:
These similarities should not, however, mask an essential difference: the sole motive of the Cristiada was religious. The defense of the faith was not mixed with any other cause, be it political, social, economic, or particular (as the refusal of the draft by the Vendée).
This single-mindedness explains the remarkable homogeneity of the Mexican counter-revolutionary movement, its purity and its efficacy. It is a lesson worth meditating on.
1. Eugenic Corti, La Responsabilite de la culture occi-dentale dans les grands massacres du XX'' siecle, Atlantide, Europe No. 2, L'Age d'Homme (Lausanne, 1998). By "Western culture," the author means the "Enlightenment."
2. French title of the book by Gustave Corçao, O Seculo do nada.
3. Jean Madiran, preface to Siècle de I'Enfer (Ed. Sainte-Madeleine, 1995), p.5.
4. Maximilian, who became a Freemason as early as 1864, readily showed toleration to Protestantism and Judaism.
5. "The Salad Bowl": a simile used by geographers to show how the different "ingredients" of the population are juxtaposed without blending. It would be useful to study the role of Protestantism in maintaining this state of affairs.
6. A. Sanders, "La preuve par le Mexique," Présent, July 19-22.
7. A. Sanders (article cited, July 22, 2000) lists the masters of the Mexican economy in 1914: Rockefeller (rubber), Goblentz (textiles), Guggenheim (mines), Hearst (alias Hirsch) who owned 3 million metric arces, and the Kuhn-Loeb bank, which financed Lenin.
8. Beginning in 1529, the Franciscans opened eight colleges for the young Indians, as well as upper level technical schools. Financed by the king of Spain, in 1536 they opened, for the Indians alone, the Superior College of Holy Cross in Mexico (Latin, rhetoric, philosophy, music, medicine). In 1551, the University of Mexico was founded, open to Indians as well as Spanish. See La Vraie contro-verse de Valladolid by Jean Dumont (Paris: Criterion, 1995), pp. 130-131.
9. Cardenas, president of Mexico from 1934-1940, named his son Cuauhtemoc, after the name of the last Aztec emperor. Having become a politician like his father, he was named the "Aztec sphinx" by the leftist media.
10. Human sacrifices were offered almost daily. The number of victims, who had their hearts cut out still beating before being dismembered and eaten, have been estimated at 20,000 a year on the average (more than 50 a day!). The inauguration of the temple at Mexico was the occasion of massacring 20,000 victims in four days (some sources speak of 80,000). See "Croisades, Inquisition...: Faut-il demander pardon?" Savoir et Servir 60, 73-74.
11. A. Sanders, art. cit. July 21 and 22 , 2000.
12. Ibid.
13. A. Sanders, art. cit., July 26, 2000.
14. Ibid.
15. A. Sanders names Calles's entourage: Aaron Saenz, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Moses Saenz, Vice Minister of Education; the US advisor Habermann (an agent of the Soviet GPU); Hirschfeld, Master of the Mexican Grand Lodge (art. cited, July 27, 2000).
16. According to M. Reboul (Monde et Vie, Oct. 19, 2000), 15 priests and 1 bishop of the Chinese "Patriotic" Church visited seminaries and parishes in France and Belgium in 1994. They concelebrated Mass with the priests and even bishops of the places visited without provoking the least protest (p. 14). Cardinal Etchegarray is also reported to have concelebrated with the functionary-priests of the Patriotic Church last October in the Marian sanctuary of Sheshan (Libre journal, Oct. 27, 2000).
17. A. Sanders, art. cit., July 27, 2000.
18. La Tribuna, July 12, 1926, quoted by F. M. Algoud, " 1600 Young Saints, Young Martyrs," 1994.
19. J. Meyer, Apocalypse et Révolution au Mexique, 1926-1926 (Archives Gallimard-Julliard, No. 56, 1974), pp.54-55.
20. Ibid.
21. A. Sanders, art. cit., July 28, 2000.
22. J. Meyer, Apocalypse et Rèvolution, p. 175.
23. The biographical information on the Mexican saints comes from the internet site http://www.sanctus.com/Paginas/SanctosMexi-canos.html
24. J. Meyer, ibid., p. 172.
25. Most of the 20 martyred priests of period (canonized in 2000) were of rural origin, and half of them of very humble circumstances (shepherds like St. Atilano Cruz Alvarado; newspaper hawkers like St. Sabas Reyes).
26. J. Meyer, "Les Cristeros," L 'Histoire, 86, February 1986.
27. A. Sanders, art. cit., July 29, 2000.
28. N. Dehan, in Sel de la terre, 11 (1994-1995), 126.
29. The letter of Msgr. de Mercy, Bishop of Lucon, in exile in Italy, deserves mention. On June 1, 1793, he wrote: "For a long time I hoped to be able to save the furniture I left...at Luçon. I might have...but the troubles in the Vendée harmed my cause, even though I do not take their side." Quoted by X. Martin, Sur les Droits de I'homme et laVendée (DMM, 1995) p.75, n.269. Absent from his diocese from 1789, he only returned from exile in 1802, and was named Archbishop of Bourges...
30. J. Meyer, Apocalypse et Révolution, pp.173-174.
31. Ibid.,p.175.
32. He was dismissed. See the Madrid daily ABC, Dec. 14, 1996.


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The government has been at pains to defend Andres Bautista's proposal to scrap the Presidential Commission on Good Government, and for good reason. Bautista, head of the PCGG, made his proposal known on New Year's Day. The hunt for the Marcoses' ill-gotten wealth, he said, would now go to the justice department.


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The new design will feature bigger photos and links on the News Feed for all, including advertisers. The feed can also be streamlined to feature particular posts like music or posts from particular friends.
At a new conference yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network has been designed to be "the best personalized newspaper in the world." According to Zuckerberg, the "front page" will be more engaging just like an actual newspaper. The changes were also rolled out for the network's mobile apps, a major focus of the company's business plan.
Overall the design of Facebook has not been effected but in the background improved algorithms will bring improvement to the personalization of the social network and connect people with information they want and even information they were not looking for but should have.


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Obituaries Feb. 6, 2014
Richard H. Davis
High Point — Richard H. Davis, 89, a former resident of Oakview Road., passed away Tuesday, February 4, 2014, at Westchester Manor. Richard was born in High Point, April 14, 1924, a son of the late David F. Davis and Lena Turner Davis. An Army Air Corp veteran of WWII, he worked in banking and real estate until his retirement in 1990 at which time he spent many hours on the golf course and playing gin rummy with friends at the Elks Lodge. Richard was preceded in death by his wife, Hester Davis and two brothers, Charlie and Jeff Davis.
Surviving are a daughter, Priscilla Reagan and husband Mike of Palm Beach Gardens, FL; a brother, Raymond Davis and wife, "Nomy," of Winston-Salem; a grandson, David Long and wife, Janna, and great-granddaughter, Taylor, of Hobe Sound, FL; and many nieces and nephews.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staff at Westchester Manor who cared for him for the past three months, and to Piedmont Christian Home where he spent many happy years prior to entering Westchester.
A memorial service will not be held at this time. Memorials may be directed to the charity of the donor's choice. Online condolences may be made at davisfuneralsandcremations.com.
Kenneth Ray Elliott
HIGH POINT — Kenneth Ray Elliott, 71, passed away on Feb.2, 2014. Ken was born on Nov.21, 1942, in Thomasville. He was preceded in death by his parents Edgar and Allene (Hughes) Elliott, and a brother Bobby Elliott (Sara) of Charlotte.
Ken enjoyed fishing, collecting Native American artifacts, and anything to do with history. He was a former Boy Scout Leader at First United Methodist Church in High Point. He assisted many young men in obtaining their Eagle Scout Award. Ken received the distinguished service award of The Silver Beaver, for his many years of service to the Boys Scouts. He was a Civitan Citizen of the Year.
Ken was a graduate of Denton High School. He retired from Cedar Creek Hosiery Mill in High Point.
Ken is survived by his wife Kim Sparrow Elliott, and stepson Taylor Sparrow; daughter, Andrea Elliott Walker of Thomasville and husband Mark, and grandsons Brantley and Brayden Walker. Brothers: Jimmy Elliott (Melanie) of Denton; James Elliott, of Dallas, NC; Wayne Elliott (Fran) of Jacksonville, Fla; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Visitation will be held on Saturday, Feb.8, from 5-7 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 380 S. Main St., Denton. A memorial service will follow at 7 p.m. at the church.
Memorials may be made to Boy Scout Troop 55, First United Methodist Church, 512 N. Main St. High Point, NC 27260.
Robert England
LEXINGTON —Mr. Robert Kelsey England, 67, of Curtis Drive, Lexington, NC, died Wednesday, February 5 at Hinkle Hospice House. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, February 7 at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Parklawn Memorial Park in Winston-Salem. The family will see friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at Davidson Funeral Home.
Dewey George Black
THOMASVILLE — Mr. Dewey George Black, 73, a resident of Thomasville, died Sunday afternoon, February 2, 2014, in the Thomasville Medical Center. He was born November 14, 1940, in Davidson County, a son of the late James Wilson Black and Janie Sally Smith Black. Mr. Black was a veteran of the U.S. Army and U.S. National Guard. He was a member of Southgate Baptist Church.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by sisters, Lillie Frances Black and Janice Kay Southards and a brother-in-law Hoyt Southards.
Surviving are a daughter, Lori Ann Black Newton and husband Randall of High Point; a brother, J.W. Black and wife Pat of Thomasville; a granddaughter, Brittani LeAnn Newton and fiancée Zachary Earnhardt; and his special feline companion of fourteen years "Peanut."
A graveside service will be held Friday, February 7, 2014, at 11 a.m. in Holly Hill Memorial Park Cemetery with Rev. Chuck Garner officiating. There will be no formal visitation.
In lieu of flowers the family requests any memorial contributions be made to the Randolph County Animal Shelter, 1370 County Land Road, Randleman, N.C. 27317.
Online condolences may be sent to the Black family at www.jcgreenandsons.com.
The family would like to thank special friends: the Hill family, the Moore Family, the Pope family and the Wood family, for their kindness and consideration.
Ann "Sissie" Warwick Boles Mattox
November 3, 1961 – February 3, 2014
ARCHDALE — The family of Ann Warwick Mattox is sad to announce her passing on February 3, 2014, at her home in Archdale. Ann had been in declining health for several years. She was of the Baptist Faith. Ann was preceded in death by her father Alvin M. Warwick Sr. Surviving of the home is Phillip Mattox along with her faithful dog and constant companion Abby. Also surviving is one son Christopher Boles of Thomasville, a stepdaughter Elizabeth Mattox of Greensboro, her mother Elizabeth Warwick of Thomasville, and two brothers, Alvin and Bill Warwick along with their families.
Visitation will be held Thursday February 6, 2014, at Sechrest Funeral Service, 1301 East Lexington Ave. in High Point between the hours of 6 until 8 p.m. Graveside service, conducted by Reverend Mark Hollar will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Floral Garden Park Cemetery.
The family requests in lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to The Humane Society or a charity of your choice.
Rosie Salmons
WINSTON-SALEM — Rosie Cobler Owens Salmons, 89, died Tuesday, February 4, 2014. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, February 7, 2014, at Davidson Funeral Home, Hickory Tree Chapel. Davidson Funeral Home, Hickory Tree Chapel is serving the family. Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.
Marie N. Myers
LINWOOD — Marie Norman Myers, 80, of Linwood, died at Hinkle Hospice House on February 4, 2014. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Davidson Funeral Home Lexington Chapel.
Andre Taylor
GREENSBORO — Andre' Ofallon Alvin Taylor died on Sunday, February 2, 2014. Cremation services entrusted to Triad Cremation Society & Chapel.
Beverly Benson
HIGH POINT — Beverly A. Benson, 64, died on Tuesday, February 4, 2014. Cremation services entrusted to Triad Cremation Society & Chapel.
Sallie Mitchell Allgood
HIGH POINT — Mrs. Sallie Mitchell Allgood, 97, of High Point died Tuesday, February 4, 2014, at Shannon Gray Rehabilitation Center. Mrs. Allgood, daughter of James and Viola Rash Mitchell, was born March 25, 1916, in Iredell County.
She graduated from Union Grove High School and married Rev. J.D. Allgood, Jr., in 1944. Rev. and Mrs. Allgood served the Redbank Baptist Church in Germanton for ten years and East Grimes Chapel in High Point for over 22 years. Mrs. Allgood was active in WMU, taught Sunday School and sang in the choir. She also worked in 20 Vacation Bible Schools and taught the Laubach Literacy Course. Mrs. Allgood was a member of Green Street Baptist Church and a member of the Helen Bowman Sunday School Class. One of her blessings was working in the 24-hour Prayer Room at Green Street Baptist Church. Also, she was blessed by being a member of the Widows Might Prayer Ministry sponsored by GuideStone of the Southern Baptist Convention.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Rev. J.D. Allgood Jr. and one sister, Delia Mae Holland.
Surviving are one daughter, Nancy Hassell and husband, Calvin of High Point; two granddaughters, Michelle Stone and husband, Stan of Laurens, SC, and Jennifer Vaught and husband, Shane of Archdale; three great-granddaughters, Chesney Grace, Sallie Frances and Elizabeth Parker Stone of Laurens, SC: two great-grandsons, Samuel Chase and Haden James Vaught of Archdale; a niece, Ramona Golden and husband, Clark of Lewisville; two nephews, Medford Holland of Statesville and James Holland and wife, Saundra of Olin; and one cousin, Gerry White of Statesville.
A funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday, February 7, 2014, at Green Street Baptist Church with Rev. Frank Hensley officiating. A visitation will be in the foyer one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at Forsyth Memorial Park, Winston-Salem.
Memorials may be made to Green Street Baptist Church, 1701 Westchester Drive, Suite 620, High Point, NC 27262.
Condolences may be left on Mrs. Allgood's memorial page at www.cumbyfuneral.com.
Arrangements made by Cumby Family Funeral Service, High Point.
Bobby Helbert, Jr.
GRAHAM — Bobby Joe Helbert, Jr., 44, died on Tuesday, February 4, 2014. Cremation services entrusted to Triad Cremation Society & Chapel.
Margaret W. Deese
LEXINGTON — Mrs. Margaret W. Deese, a resident of Lexington, NC, died on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by J.C. Green and Sons Funeral Home in Thomasville.
Floyd Caulder
REIDSVILLE —Floyd Andy Caulder, 47, died on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Cremation services entrusted to Triad Cremation Society & Chapel.
Shirley R. Casper
PLEASANT GARDEN — Ms. Shirley Ruth Casper, 68, of Pleasant Garden, died Wednesday, February 5, 2014. A funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, February 7, 2014, at Ridge Funeral Home Chapel. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m .Thursday, February 6, 2014, at Ridge Funeral Home and other times at the home. Arrangements by Ridge Funeral Home & Cremation Service.
Henry H. Nance, Jr.
HIGH POINT – Mr. Henry Hoover Nance, Jr, 55, resident of High Point, died Tuesday, February 4, 2014. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cumby Family Funeral Service in High Point.


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Gingrey congratulates SHAPE Honor Roll schools
Today in the Congressional Record, Congressman Phil Gingrey, M.D. honored Governor Deal's recently announced recipients of the SHAPE Honor Roll program awards. Below are his remarks.
"Mr. Speaker, today I rise to congratulate 19 schools in Georgia's 11th District for being awarded medals in the SHAPE Honor Roll program."
As a former member of the Marietta school board, it is a great source of pride to see students back home working hard to create healthy habits that will last them a lifetime."
Under the leadership of Governor Deal last year, the SHAPE program began as a statewide initiative in Georgia to help combat childhood obesity and create lifelong healthy habits through physical activity, nutrition, and wellness. Since then, a dedicated network of partners, agencies, and athletic teams have joined forces in their commitment to helping Georgia's youth achieve a greater level of fitness and commend public schools that help them do so."
This year's esteemed award-winners include public institutions from the elementary to high school level across the state of Georgia. Students, parents, administration officials, and instructors have gone above and beyond their duties in ensuring that their youth understand the mental and physical benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and should look upon this accomplishment with great enthusiasm."
Mr. Speaker, this distinguished group of awarded educational communities has established a benchmark of excellence which schools across the nation should aspire to. On behalf of Georgia's 11th Congressional District, I congratulate these educational communities on this achievement, and extend my deepest thanks for their dedication to the youth of our community."
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In one of the coolest stories I have read in quite some time, Community Bible Church of San Antonio Pastor Robert Emmitt felt the Holy Spirit calling him to take a huge step of faith. After hearing about a fire that destroyed Childress Memorial Church of God in Christ he felt led to give the church $100,000 towards rebuilding efforts.
We hear a good bit of negative press about churches and money, churches fighting against one another, or church scandals… it is stories like this that reminds me why I love the church, and how cool it can be to see the church step up and be The Church.
Have you ever been a part of something like this?
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Earlier this month a lawsuit in Colorado saw a hospital involved in a lawsuit with the husband of a lady who died from cardiac arrest while waiting for treatment in the lobby. Lori Stodghill was twenty-eight weeks pregnant, carrying twins, when she passed away, and her husband Jeremy is suing the hospital for the wrongful death of all three.
In response, the hospital's defense team argued that Colorado law states that an embryo is not a person until it is born alive.
Many would consider this to be a perfectly logical defense… except for one small fact: St. Thomas More Hospital is owned and operated by Catholic Health Initiatives.
While church leadership has spoken out about the lapse of judgement on the part of the legal team, this makes for an excellent case study in what happens when your team is not united around the basic beliefs of your organization… and the disastrous consequences that result from that lack of unity.
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Great post by Carey Nieuwhof this morning… Carey writes:
It bothers me that Christians continually express shock, disapproval and judgment at the way non-Christians live.
You've seen it, and maybe even done it:
Doesn't anyone believe in marriage anymore?
I can't get over how many people today smoke weed.
Can you believe they just sleep in instead of coming to church?
Did you hear they moved in together? That's so bad!
What's wrong with our government? Why don't they uphold biblical values?
Whenever I hear that, I I feel like saying "Do you seriously expect non-Christians to behave like Christians?"
Think it through.
Most people in the West no longer consider themselves Christian.
Or even if they use the term "Christian" to describe themselves, few believe in the authority of scripture or profess a personal faith in Jesus Christ.
So why would we expect them to behave like Christians? Why would we expect people who don't profess to be Christians to:
Wait until marriage to have sex?
Clean up their language?
Be celibate when they're attracted to people of the same sex?
Pass laws like the entire nation was Christian?
Seriously? Why?
They're not pretending to be Christians. Why would they adopt Christian values or morals?
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I agree with Carey. As Christians, many times it is much easier to belly ache about how bad things are in our culture, and how evil the world is.
Truth is… we really can't expect the world to live 'Christianly'. Can we?
If you weren't a Christian… if you didn't know Jesus… would you NOT live differently?
Why wouldn't you?
So… rather than crying foul all the time, maybe we should just get back to work, and make the changes one life at a time.
This article's title caught my attention:
"Employees leave managers, not companies."
I wondered if the same was true with churches and pastors.
Do church employees leave pastors, not churches?
Think back… most of us have served local churches in positions other than the senior pastor position (even if you're a senior pastor now).
Have you ever left a church's employment because of the pastor?
Or was it because of the church in general?
(Either way, I bet you told everyone that God was 'calling you elsewhere'). :)
I'd love to hear your story. Please leave a comment below.
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Interesting. This morning I found two articles posted at nearly the same exact time.
The first, by Nathan Finn, was entitled "Why I Observer Lent" Nathan writes:
I choose to observe Lent is because it affords me an opportunity to disengage a bit from the culture of what Tim Suttle calls satiation—"the absolute satisfaction of every human need to the point of excess." As a relatively affluent American evangelical, at least compared to most believers in the world, I'm particularly prone to satiation. And the more I'm satiated, the easier it is for my affections to become dulled to the most important priorities—the kingdom priorities—that ought to animate my life. So, if you want to think about this way, I'm making an Edwardsean argument for my own Lenten observance. (Recognizing, of course, that Edwards himself would not have been a fan of Lent.) I want to unplug for awhile (metaphorically speaking) in order to redirect my affections towards the One whose infinite beauty and worth surpasses all the good, but fleeting pleasures of this life.
The second, by A Pilgrim's Progress, says this:
I don't observe/celebrate/take part in Lent because it's not in the bible. It's that simple.
Two different ranges on the spectrum, I guess.
Where are YOU on that spectrum?
I'd love to hear how you 'do' or 'don't do' lent.
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Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, recently announced that he will be starting a new radio show. The show, thirty minutes in length, will be broadcast Monday through Friday in the top twenty-five radio markets in the nation. The show is being launched in order to combat the rise of rudeness, and war on religious freedom in the United States. Rick has spoken several times of late on talk shows about the lack of civility in our country, and was quoted in the story saying:
"People are far more rude now than they used to be… Our civilization is losing its civility. We just don't know how to be nice to people."
This is a pretty radical departure for Rick, who up until now has stayed away from hosting his own tv or radio show.
What do YOU think?
Are you comfortable with Rick Warren becoming a more public voice of Christianity?
Is there someone else that you would rather see doing this?
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Dr. Ed Welch suggests that a young leader should walk alongside a leader who's been doing this ministry gig for a while. When they see their friend struggle with the difficulties of ministry, it will change the way the look at their work and ministry:
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How long did it take to cure you? And what broke you of your cockiness?
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Imagine if you could somehow really tell if all the leadership books you are reading and the seminars you are attending are paying off.
Is it possible? Can you actually measure the effectiveness of your leadership development?
In fact, measuring your progress is not only possible, it's imperative."
In this edition of Ministry Briefing, we talk about how to measure leadership performance, how to know if you are succeeding as a leader, and why this is so important.
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A recent blog post from Michael Perkins encourages us to stop wasting time. In it, he points out how easily distractible we are, how easy it is for us to get caught up in the fluff of the world around us, and to waste time that we should be spending focusing on the important things going on in the world today:
Everyday people are dying and literally going to hell.
Everyday the poor goes without the necessities to live.
Everyday people die of a treatable disease.
Everyday people are sold and abused in sex slavery.
We have all gotten engrossed in a story here or there, we have all gotten distracted by current events, but where do we draw the line between being completely unengaged in the world around us, and being so up to date on pop culture that we have lost all of our redemptive influence?
How do you create a healthy balance?
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I think eliminating the Top 24 is a bad idea. Nigel may have been bored – but its the only way in the show's structure to get to know some of the contestants and start to establish favorites. Its a risk move to go right from Hollywood to a set in stone Top 12. Previously America voted to reduce Top 24 to Top 12 – what is the process now?
I like the idea of learning to promote themselves and work with the band. I'm not too sure about the video aspect. I'm ok with loosing the top 24 (who cares!) but they better spend a lot of time letting people get to know who the top 12 are before we have to for/against them.
Nigel should take his own advice and get rid of the unwieldy 24 dancers on SYTYCD.
Good move getting rid of the top 24. It dragged on for three weeks then, they sometimes had a second chance as well.
Don't care, just stop the unlimited text voting.
Actually, you are quite right. All of these changes won't make a bit of difference if unlimited voting continues to skew the show results away from performers who could actually be successful.
AI's winners have become nothing more than the guy who gets the most votes in a televised popularity contest. Winning AI does not translate into chart or even solo touring success because the people who are invested in sending thousands of free text messages are not investing their money in buying music or concert tickets.
If they don't do away with unlimited voting, they should change to a format in which the winner basically gets a cash prize and a chance to headline the tour and that's it. The various record labels can make their own decision about whether to sign a winner or not. So no guarantees, which means less loss of credibility for the show.
Kiki…more importantly, I think that more people who don't normally vote would be willing to do so. I don't bother. My 2 or 3 votes(that's all Ihave the patience and time to send in) mean very little. If the voting was limited, I wouldn't hesitate to send a few in.
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Backup dancers? WTF – I guess they want to eliminate any rock oriented singers who have no need for dancers.
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I'm sure the dancers are going to be style appropriate. The stage would get crowded if there were a band and dancers all at once!
Wow, if that's the case, Crystal Bowersox and Lee Dewyze should be thankful they were on the last season where this curriculum wasn't required. They never would've made it. I think that is kind of a limiting factor considering folks like Daughtry, David Cook, & Kris Allen (who!? LOL) aren't acts that benefit from back-up dancers. Simon's gone folks, that was the final nail in the coffin…just let it rest in piece.
- sarah d
So does that mean the judges pick the top 12 instead of viewers? I'm not crazy about this. Without that middle roung,we would have missed out on people like Bo Bice, David Cook, Alison Iraheta, Latoya London, etc. who were not originally high on the judges list. We wouldn't of had Kelly Clarkson who we never saw or heard from until the night of her semifinal performance.
Wow they're taking all the ideas from X-Factor. Making them work with background dancers and making the show flashy. It will be nice to see them promote themselves that might change the dynamic.
Without the top 24, they now have 3 weeks on the schedule they have to fill somehow. I shudder to think that means even more auditions episodes or prolonged Hollywood week episodes.
The show needs sme new material to keep the interest. Dancers are fabulous but will they take away from what is really suppose to be happening? A singing contest…..
The show was never supposed to be a singing contest. It was a contest to find a Pop star, and that generally does include, to some extent, backup dancers.
- Jeremy
whether they are stealing ideas or not, at least they're shaking it up a little. i have a feeling they may eliminate instruments too. they tried so hard to find an "artist" they ended up with the MOST boring people ever. and look at who's topping the cahrts, not people who write their own songs or play instruments. i'm not saying that's a good thing, because it's not, but that's why idol artists are failing, well the new ones anyway. i like the video idea, we can see how REALLY hard they suck in the charisma department.
God this show is so far over the shark it's not funny.
I agree.
Yeah, I hesitate to even use the "jump the shark" comment these days because the actual expression has jumped the shark lol But in Idol's case…it couldn't be more appropriate. This sounds really bad! Of course, I won't be able to stop myself from tuning in to see the trainwreck maybe just not EVERY episode of the trainwreck anymore lol
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I'm on the fence about this season, I think I might just wait for The X Factor in the fall.
But we'll still be forced to endure the same lame theme weeks and hear "Black Velvet" for the umpteenth time, right?
Here's an idea: don't wait 8 months to release the first album. Ride the mo', people, ride the mo'!
I haven't watched this show in seasons, and hearing these changes I don't know if I'll be watching this time around either. Maybe I'll give the first couple of episodes a chance, but I'm going to have say that X-factor sounds much more interesting at this point.
nice move stealing ideas from X factor. kind of stealing Simon's thunder before he comes over here with the show. now it won't be "new" and different if idol does it first. niiiiceee.. lol
I thought nygel wanted to expand the 24 — because he thought a lot of talent was getting lost. This already seems like a show i no longer want to watch. changing the judges is one thing, changing the format is another — at the same time?!
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Editor says, what if Robert E. Lee had continued to serve the Confederacy after the Civil War? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1867, on this day in Richmond, Virginia, Robert E. Lee officially began his term of office as the second Vice President of the Confederate States.
Robert E. Lee
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March 4, 1867 - October 12, 1870Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870) was a career United States Army officer, a combat engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history. He served as the second vice president of the Confederate States of America, dying in office on October 12, 1870. One of the very few generals in modern military history to ever be offered the highest command of two opposing armies, Lee was the son of Major General Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (1756-1818), Governor of Virginia, and his second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773-1829).
A new article from the "Two Americas" thread on Althistory WikiaA top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S. Army for thirty-two years. He is best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
In early 1861, President Abraham Lincoln invited Lee to take command of the entire Union Army. Lee declined because his home state of Virginia was seceding from the Union, despite Lee's wishes. When Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state. Lee's eventual role in the newly established Confederacy was to serve as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. Lee's first field command for the Confederate States came in June 1862 when he took command of the Confederate forces in the East (which Lee himself renamed the "Army of Northern Virginia").
Lee's greatest victories were the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the Battle of Cold Harbor but both of his campaigns to invade the North ended in failure. Barely escaping defeat at the Battle of Antietam in 1862, Lee was forced to return to the South. In early July 1863, Lee was decisively defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. However, due to ineffectual pursuit by the commander of Union forces, Major General George Meade, Lee escaped again to Virginia.
From that point on, Lee would not lead an invasion force into the United States. For the next three years he would command his forces to vehemently defend all of Virginia and points south of the line extending from its southern border to California. The border states of Kentucky and Missouri, claimed by the Confederacy, but with occupying forces, became the main battlefield in the latter half of the war. As a result, it was from the western front that US General William T. Sherman was called in the spring of 1865 to begin his assault on the southern heartland. Though US General Grant had sent his best men into Virginia in 1864, he had been repelled time and time again. In December of 1863, Lee had begun training slaves to fight the invading armies, with battalions from Virginia and North Carolina on the field in April of 1864. These brave soldiers, fighting for the freedom of their homeland as well as themselves and their families, were pivotal in the eventual decision to call for a ceasefire. The ceasefire was declared on August 8, 1866.
After the ceasefire, outgoing vice president Alexander Stephens became the assumed successor of Jefferson Davis. With the fighting over, Stephens drafted Lee into political service as his running mate. The Stephens-Lee ticket proved unbeatable, leading to a post-war team that set the course for recovery that would result in the Confederate States surpassing the United States as an international military power
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