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Junior and Susan Bobbitt of Hamptonville proudly announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Elizabeth Bobbitt to Benjamin Michael Baity, the son of Michael and Jackie Baity of Yadkinville.
Courtney is currently attending Surry Community College. Ben graduated from North Carolina State University with a bachelor of science degree in technology education and is employed with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system.
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Who today is leaving the island? Can social networking bring them "back"?
I was at TEDx San Juan this week — the first such event in Puerto Rico — and one of the dominant threads was "exiles." For a territory so small, the notion of an exile population might seem laughable. But when you consider the range of people who have left the island — and why — the topic becomes a whole lot more interesting.
I was inspired to write this short post (will try to write something longer soon) after listening to Larry La Fountain speak at this event. The University of Michigan professor talked about Puerto Rico's LGBT community, and its creative attempts to assert itself through art, song, and writing (his queer rendition of "Over the Rainbow" was one of the best moments of the entire event). Larry cleverly calls this community "sexiles." Then there's the growing community of Puerto Ricans who have fled the island for better economic opportunities (an old story, made Hollywood-famous with West Side Story). Then there's the surprising range of people — surprising for me — who may be leaving the island today because it's difficult to get fresh food, difficult to get good schooling, difficult to actually navigate the island — all topics that were discussed yesterday at the TEDx conference. I call this class of people the accidental exiles of new Puerto Rico. They are leaving not because they must. They are leaving reluctantly because they feel there are better choices.
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For Puerto Rico, there are at least two problems with the exile effect.
The first, of course, is the loss of people who might play a role in fixing the problems that send people packing. It's not simply a brain drain, but a general talent drain of many dimensions. This of course is a problem today for many Latin-American countries, but for Puerto Rico — whose people can use their US citizenship to easily make the move to Miami, New York, Chicago, or wherever — it's a special problem. For years, many folks have viewed the "too easy to leave" phenomenon from another lens: how the frictionless border doesn't make Puerto Ricans work hard enough to make it in the US. I can sympathize with this POV, but I think it fails to address the problem that the big drain includes so many different kinds of people, including those who can make it anywhere. And if you consider the complexity of the modern workforce where specialization is required to make the economy hum, Puerto Rico cannot afford to lose the long tail of talent.
Second, Puerto Rico appears to lack the infrastructure to make better use of the exile network and tap people in the US and other countries (the US today is not the only destination), even those people who choose to remain abroad. In fact, it's hard to see that there even is a network. While there are several organizations that have done great work to improve communication between the mainland and the island, they aren't visible to many people who can benefit from the network. My talk at TEDx San Juan yesterday focused on the recent emergence of Hispanics in social media and some of the possible applications for social media in the Puerto Rican societal context. One application could be the development of a diaspora network dedicated to clear and specific action. While a number of immigrant communities have succeeded without the benefit of social technology — take for example the Indian community in Silicon Valley — the astonishing ascent of Latinos in social networks and the adoption rates (Latinos outnumber other ethnic groups on several social networks) suggest there could be something here.
But technology will not be enough. As we are learning more and more, successful movements of any kind require cooperation and coordination with numerous players in the social mix — federal and local government, stateside and island business people, leaders in academia primary/secondary school education, and NGOs. Puerto Rico faces a wide range of challenges, and they require the collective will of so many people.
The point of this article is not to make the case that exiles should physically return to the island. But with a well-developed network, exiles can return virtually and work with islanders to create conditions that make life better for Puerto Ricans everywhere. And here's where the learnings of social technology — or to be more precise, social engagement — can make a difference, especially at the beginning of the effort. There's a saying in my business: "think big, but start small." Most social tech projects that succeed start with small, experimental efforts to connect people who can actually get things done and then later teach others how to do it. We call them early adopters, and the really good ones later become mentors. It would not take too much to get a network of exiles and islanders going on a small scale and then bring others in. The only real questions are, who will get it started and what will they need to start?
At the conference yesterday, I joked that a White House initiative I am assisting with is like a parranda, the Puerto Rican Christmas ritual were groups of people go door-to-door pulling others into the revelries. I was only half joking — my point is that Latinos in general and Puerto Ricans in particular know a lot about socializing. In fact, our history of moving back and forth between the US and the island may have sharpened our senses and stoked our needs to stay connected. Now might be a good time to flex those social muscles. And with Christmas coming round the corner, it might be time to reimagine the parranda and ask who is knocking on the door and who is on the other side. Call it Parranda 2.0, call it what you will, but let's get the party started.


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BRADFORD, PA – Hilbert College's second-half rally fell short as they lost a 70-56 AMCC road game to Pitt-Bradford in women's basketball January 9. Sarah Lorusso finished with 16 points and nine rebounds after distributing four assists in the Hawk loss. Bradford's Carly Dalton lead all scorers with 18 points as the Panthers jumped to 4-2 in conference standings. Junior Natalie Whitman provided game high rebounds (15) and added 11 points to earn her 5th double-double for Hilbert (1-6).
Bradford forced 21 Hilbert first-half turnovers to build a 35-15 advantage by intermission. Whitman led the Hawks with five points (after attempting only two shots) and grabbed five rebounds. Bradford shot 37 percent from the floor and made eight of 13 foul shots while Hilbert made only five field goals and five free throws.
Bradford padded their lead with five quick second half points before Hilbert found their shooting touch. Back-to-back 3-point shots by Lorusso and Jenah Labuski started the come-back run. After closing the gap by nine points, both teams traded baskets for several minutes until Hilbert broke the ten point difference at 2:49. When the Hawks needed their run to continue, the ball didn't fall through the net yet Bradford knocked down free throws (5 of 8) and scored layups extending the score by the final horn.
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So what do you think of your iPad mini? [Poll]
It's been just over a week now since Apple launched the iPad mini and while many of us are still waiting for our cellular iPad mini's to ship, others have had a chance to really give Apple's newest, smallest tablet a go. So what do you think?
Does the lack of Retina display bother you? Is it a deal-breaker? Do the things you do on your iPad mini make no Retina a non-issue, or a constant source of consternation? Is the smaller screen size a portability boost or a usability loss? Can you still read easily? Can you still tap easily? Does the smaller size mean you're carrying the iPad mini around a lot, in pockets or purses? Or does it just make it harder to get more serious work done?
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It's funny. When I pick up my iPad2 now, I just can't handle how gargantuan it feels. It's just unbelievable that they crammed all of that down into something so small, yet so usable.
I'm not a fan of Retina, I just don't think the cost is worth the benefit. So, it is a no-brainer for me. Best iPad EVER!
With Photoshop touch for iPad I do a lot of graphics work for my company actually! We do a lot of detailed graphic artwork for scenery for Pixar
If you don't know how to do serious work on an iPad then you should not have one. Because for everything that needs to be done " there's an app for that" :-p
I type all my university papers on my iPad and have recently made a few songs (with vocals, not just fugging around with the tracks) in GarageBand. Not that those are particularly intensive, but I think it gets the job done very well, at least on the 9.7 inch display. I sure the same goes for the smaller one as well.
I'd love to own it but for what it is ... it's just too expensive. I've yet to buy a tablet & this was Apple's chance to win me over as a tablet customer. The thing costs ~$185 to make, yet it's still $329. It should be $229. Google, which I'm not a huge fan of, made a tablet with better resolution & only makes around $15. I might be forced to buy the Nexus 7.
My wife has always thought iPads were pointless, but the iPad mini has won her over. It's mainly the form-factor/size that she likes. Much more portable, fits in more places, is lighter, and not too small. We'll be buying one when we find one in stock.
I have owned each model of the iPad. My wife thought they were cool, but was never that excited about any of them. Until the iPad mini. I opened the box and she said "oooooh". Then I handed it to her and she was instantly in love. That's probably the biggest surprise I've had from the mini. Just how much my wife loves it. If she is any guide (and I expect she is) the iPad mini is going to be a huge hit with women.
In fact, she loved it so much she instantly claimed the iPad mini as "hers". Now I have to use the "heavy" iPad until my mini arrives in December. :(
You make good points. I bought an iPad 2 this year when the "new iPad" arrived, thanks to the price drop. I can't see spending close to what I paid for the iPad2 to get the same screen rez, slight camera upgrades, a lightening port that does nothing for me, and not much more. Had Apple priced it at $229 or even $249, it would've been a home run. It's just not worth it to pay nearly the same and get not much more than an iPad2 mini.
The results are interesting, but I'd love to know how many of the people who voted "Not getting it. No interest" would vote that way for any Apple product and therefore shouldn't be counted. On a similar note, discounting votes from the people who will buy anything and everything Apple would also improve the validity of the results. Too bad this kind of data cleanup isn't possible :(
For me, I'm NOT an Apple fanboy. I own an original iPad and it works fine for what I want a tablet for. I haven't seen a need to upgrade it yet. My first iPhone was the 4. I skipped the 4S and upgraded to the 5. (By the way, I also currently own two 7" Android tablets which I used as my eReader and for traveling when I needed the SD card expansion to carry lots of movies for the road.) I swore I wasn't interested in the Mini, but I became more and more curious about it so I ended up pre-ordering one to try out. I used it for a week and really liked the size and feel of it. For me, it was very portable, the non-retina display still looked very good for games, videos and eBooks, and it was plenty fast enough. I decided I was going to keep it until I saw the offer from AT&T for a $100 discount off any tablet with a 2-year commitment. I wouldn't pay an extra $130 for cellular on it when I could use my iPhone 5 as a hotspot when needed, but for an extra $30 I felt it was worth it to commit to a 2-year contract at only $10/month additional on my MobileShare plan. So I returned my WiFi Mini and now I'm waiting for the cellular Mini to hit AT&T so that I can pick one up with the discount.
Just my thoughts as a fairly impartial player in this game.
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So -- at this early stage in the poll, anyhow -- retina-lack seems not to be much of an issue for those who actually own one. This suggests to me that Mini sales may accelerate dramatically as word-of-mouth spreads, especially in the holiday buying season, but possibly in January as well, as gift-recipients spread word to their own circles of friends.
I bought the iPad 3 in March. I don't really have an interest in the Mini. Not because of the lack or Retina, or the slower processor. But I like the size of a bigger tablet. For me, 9.7 inches is the perfect size. Especially when you get a little older and your vision is not what it once was. But what really surprises me is the number of people (not just on this comment thread, but in general) complain about the iPad 3 or iPad 4 being too heavy. It's a little over a pound. How weak are you people? I've read about people complaining that when reading an e-book they can't hold the iPad with one hand for very long. But really, when you're reading a hard cover book, how many of you hold that with one hand? Pretty much no one. When I read an e-book I'm usually sitting down, so I hold the iPad in my lap. I have no problem with the size or weight of the iPad 3, or the 4. And the Retina display is really quite astounding, especially when reading articles on, say, Flipboard. The text is incredibly sharp and well defined. And the colours you get on the Retina display is really something to behold.
Oh and one other thing about the Retina display. In the olden days when I'd download an iPhone app to my iPad it would be scaled to fit the bigger screen much to the detriment of the resolution. But with the retina display I can download all the iPhone apps to my iPad I want because the resolution is so much better that the edges of the images and text on the iPhone apps aren't pixelized when it's scaled up to the bigger screen.
My daughter bought the iPad Mini with her own money that she saved up. I have an iPad 3. She says she loves her Mini and uses it for school work and fun. It is a great size for kids and for travel. I looked at the screen and could see the difference, but I knew what to look for in the display. For a normal user (Non Techy), you really can't tell the difference. My wife looked at the screen and thought it looks great. If my daughter loves it, then it is fine with me.
If you think the tablet market has taken off, you haven't seen anything yet. I believe thin and light iPads will accelerate tablet adoption.
The first iPad was thin and light for its time. The iPad 2 got thinner and lighter, which was noticeable and nice. But then Retina iPad came out. It wasn't much thicker or heavier, but every time I picked it up I could feel the difference from the iPad 2. The screen was beautiful and LTE was incredibly fast, but your average joe didn't appreciate the Retina display. (Pearls before swine.)
And that was the state of the iPad until the mini. The iPad mini is incredibly thin and light, especially compared to other iPads. It's even thinner than the iPhone 5 and almost as thin as the iPod touch, a device famous for its thinness. My wife and kids will ALWAYS choose the iPad mini over the "big" iPad because it is so much lighter.
Because my wife and kids are constantly using the mini I find myself using our iPad 2 a lot, and I find that for a lot of things the larger screen is really nice! Now I want a "full size" iPad, but much thinner and lighter. It took apple a few years, but they managed to get a Retina Display into the full size iPad. I think their next major engineering challenge is to continue making it thinner and lighter. Until the 9.7 inch iPad gets close to the thinness of the current iPad mini (7.2mm) I predict the mini will outsell the regular size by a large margin.
That is what has me the most excited about the iPad right now. The current models are nothing to sneeze at, but imagine how popular a full size iPad will be when it's much thinner and lighter. And how popular the mini will be when it has a Retina Display.
If you think the iPad is popular right now, just wait until the next few iterations of it.
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It's the New Year! Have you resolved to get in better shape? How about the shape of your business? Are you going to keep trudging along at the same pace with the same old hardware clogging up your data center? Don't you think it's time to look to the future and get a head start on your competition by moving to cloud computing?
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Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) Body Structure
The Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure is a Honda-exclusive body design that enhances occupant protection and crash compatibility in frontal collisions. The ACE design utilizes a network of connected structural elements and high-strength steel to distribute crash energy more evenly throughout the front of the vehicle. This enhanced frontal crash energy management helps to reduce the forces transferred to the passenger compartment and can help to more evenly disperse the forces transferred to other vehicles in a crash.
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[1] FCW cannot detect all objects ahead and may not detect a given object; accuracy will vary based on weather, speed and other factors. System operation affected by extreme interior heat. FCW does not include a braking function. Driver remains responsible for safely operating vehicle and avoiding collisions.
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Honda reminds you and your passengers to always buckle up. Children 12 and under are safest when properly restrained in the rear seat.
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A small camera mounted at the top of the front windshield tracks lane markings on the road, and it can detect when the driver is making an un-indicated lane departure[1]. Visual alerts will light up on the driver's instrument panel and the system also can provide an audible warning.
[1] LDW only alerts drivers when lane drift is detected without a turn signal in use. LDW may not detect all lane markings or lane departures; accuracy will vary based on weather, speed and road condition. System operation affected by extreme interior heat. Driver remains responsible for safely operating vehicle and avoiding collisions.
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Odyssey models are available with up to five Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren (LATCH): three in the second-row seating positions (EX and above) and two in the outboard third-row seat positions. The LATCH system provides two lower anchors and an upper tether anchor. When used with a compatible child seat, the LATCH system provides attachment points between the child seat and the vehicle seat.
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The side curtain airbag module is positioned along the side of the headliner. In the event of a sufficient side impact or rollover, this system is designed to activate to help provide protection for front and outboard rear occupants.
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This system monitors the pressure in all four tires, and alerts the driver when pressure loss in any tire becomes significantly low[1].
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Working with ABS and the Drive-by-Wire throttle system, Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA®) with traction control[1] enhances stability by detecting oversteer or understeer, and by then braking individual wheels and/or reducing throttle to help restore the driver's intended path of travel.
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If you're like me …okay, okay, I didn't mean to insult you … you are still decorating for Christmas. Why? Because you can never be too tacky when celebrating the birth of Baby Jesus. Now, Jesus didn't go in for a lot of frills, he was more concerned with feeding the hungry, healing the sick and being a thorn in the side of the establishment. However, in today's world we chose to honor him with dancing reindeer, smiling snowmen and elves of suspect gender.
Although the Mistress of the Manor and I keep our inside decorations tasteful and refined, when it comes to the outside of the manor, we attempt to be as tacky as everyone else. Our outside decorations this Christmas season … that's right, Christmas season, not holiday season… began with an unexpected adornment – our normal inside tree. After retrieving the tree of my outbuilding, we proceeded to decorate like a couple of elves high on Santa sugar. When we were done, the tree was absolutely beautiful.
However, we soon noticed a strange odor in our beloved abode. What was it? Well, anytime there's a strange odor in the house, the Mistress of the Manor immediately claims there's a dead mouse behind the refrigerator. Why it's always the refrigerator, I don't know. Possibly, because when a mouse knows it's dying, its natural instincts tell it to seek solace behind the hardest to move object in a house, or the Mistress of the Manor likes to see the veins pop out on my forehead. It could be either. Anyway, the smell became rather unpleasant, something akin to a dead mouse (not my words) or the afterbirth of an elf-reindeer hybrid.
We began narrowing the possibilities after looking behind every object in the house (I found no dead mice), and soon realized it was our most beautiful Christmas tree that was releasing the pungent odor. It had been stored in the same plastic box that it has been stored in for 10 years or so, so why it decided to start stinking things up is anybody's guess. It could have something to do with mice, refrigerators or gender-challenged elves, I just don't know. So, we dragged it outside to our front porch, ornaments and all, and there it still resides. We did move the ornaments to our new inside tree, but left the lights on the old, stinky tree so as to add a festive spirit to the porch.
However, that wasn't enough. We then added garland to the porch railings, as well as red ribbon to produce a candy cane effect. To emphasize that theme, we hung giant candy canes from the railing. Oh yes, we have two deer that light up, wreaths on the front and back, and there may be more to come. Now, we're not trying to go for any record here. I mean there are homesteads in this little burg that make us look like a one-bulb wonder. Now, whether you have enough decorations to create an electric bill that surpasses that of Bangladesh or a small amount like me, they have one thing in common. All decorations look much better after dark.
Yes, at night, all those pretty lights look so beautiful, so dazzling. The more lights you have, the bigger the bang. However, when the sun rises, it's a different story. The less decoration of the lighted variety you have, the better off you are. While the front of our home may look like someone spilled a box of lights and giant candy canes on our porch, some homes look like Christmas drank way too much spiked eggnog and threw up on them. Those lighted reindeer look great at night, but in the light of day they resemble assembled skeletons. Those lights that encircle the house, lighting it up like a magical castle at night, scream Tennessee in July during the bright sun.
Therein lies the conundrum. Is the beauty of the night worth the tackiness of the day? Are the high electric bills and long hours of physical labor worth the oohs and aahs of passersby? Is that elf Santa was spotted with at Club Naughty really his niece? So many questions, so few answers. However, when in doubt, don't spare the juice. Light it up, and light it up big. Tackiness is as much a part of Christmas as belligerent relatives who drink too much, gaudy sweaters that scream "shoot me, now!" and, yes, stinky Christmas trees.


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I've been MIA for a while.. Moving, settling in, etc..
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I feel like I should be overjoyed at my daughter's first birthday, and I am, but I just have all of these horrible memories that are just now resurfacing. I've been so weepy and so anxious, I went to the doc today and got a script for Celexa.
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The White House is making it more difficult for groups of citizens to petition the government.
Yesterday, they announced that they're raising the signature threshold for responding to petitions from 25,000 to over 100,000 signatures within 30 days.
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As we've seen overall use skyrocket, more petitions are crossing the threshold — and doing so much more quickly.
In the first 10 months of 2012, it took an average of 18 days for a new petition to cross the 25,000-signature threshold. In the last two months of the year, that average time was cut in half to just 9 days, and most petitions that crossed the threshold collected 25,000 signatures within five days of their creation. More than 60 percent of the petitions to cross threshold in all of 2012 did so in the last two months of the year.
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There is no chance in hell that Jake Shields will ever be in a "good position" in the UFC's welterweight division again.
Shields is a pretty tough match up for Maia. If there is one guy in the WW division that has better submission grappling then him it would be Shields. Shields' also has underrated takedown defense. I think this fight turns into a boring kick boxing match and Shields does just enough to earn a decision. We will all bitch and moan about it the next day but the record will state Shields beat Maia.
But no, Shields would have to tear it up for a bit to get a title shot. A win over Maia will not be enough for him.
Dude, Im a wrestler. Im the best wrestler in MMA. Wrestling IS, was and always has been the most dominate form of mix martial art on the planet. Thats all there is to it. We all know it, some people want to fight it, some people want doubt it but wresters rule the MMA world. -
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Shields goes from "he can beat GSP" to "he can't even beat Maia"
Oy vey!
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I think this will be a stand up match as the ground may be too dangerous for either of them. Maia is much looser on his feet than Shields who may be the stiffest fighter in MMA history. If it does turn into a kickboxing match, Maia wins. If it goes to the ground, Shields has a better chance but I still think Maia wins.
"He aint got to worry about retiring. When they get through with his ass, he will be retired. He will be retired fucking with them motherfuckers. They would love to fight him. This aint no fucking boxing; aint none of these motherfuckers scared of his ass"
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Prolifer: Spare abortion doc's life
Paul Moses April 15, 2013 - 12:27pm
One of the many things that make the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell interesting is that if convicted of murdering any of seven newborns allegedly delivered live in his West Philadelphia clinic, he would face the death penalty. Indeed, capital punishment plays an important part in the case since the district attorney allowed cooperating witnesses-- those who admit killing their tiny victims with scissors -- to plead guilty to lesser charges that don't carry the death penalty.Would Dr. Gosnell's execution by lethal injection be a concern for those who call themselves prolife? It turns out that the answer is yes -- at least for one prominent anti-abortion advocate, Princeton University Professor Robert P. George. In a post at First Things, he writes:
Kermit Gosnell, like every human being, no matter how self-degraded, depraved, and sunk in wickedness, is our brothera precious human being made in the very image and likeness of God. Our objective should not be his destruction, but the conversion of his heart. Is that impossible for a man who has corrupted his character so thoroughly by his unspeakably evil actions? If there is a God in heaven, then the answer to that question is no. There is no one who is beyond repentance and reform; there is no one beyond hope. We should give up on no one.
It will be interesting to see the reaction George gets, including from the substantial number of Catholic bishops who hold his conservative views in high esteem. A call to spare Gosnell's life would make a powerful prolife statement, steeped in gospel values. George's column anticipated resistance to that:
I do not myself believe that the death penalty is ever required or justified as a matter of retributive justice. Many reasonable people of goodwill, including many who are strongly pro-life (and whose pro-life credentials I in no way question), disagree with me about that. But even if the death penalty is justified in a case like Gosnells, mercy is nevertheless a legitimate option, especially where our plea for mercy would itself advance the cause of respect for human life by testifying to the power of mercy and love.I do not expect my request to be met with universal acclaim.
The comments on his post so far attest to that -- most are thumbs down for sparing Dr. Gosnell's life.
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Theyre not morally equivalent. In the case of the death penalty, I believe distinctions and nuance are in order that mitigate against a simple, binary for/against stance.Jim,They may not be morally equivalent, but certainly they are morally related. I think Catholics who take John Paul II's position (as quoted in Claire's post) to be only his personal opinion are engaging in the kind of rationalizing that they brand "Cafeteria Catholicism" in others. John Paul II didn't articulate a simple "for/against" stance. I think the vast majority of those who oppose capital punishment (and I include myself) would not object to the execution of a dangerous person if there were truly no other way to protect society. We just don't feel the situation ever arises in the United States. It would be bizarre to maintain that our death-row inmates are so dangerous they must be executed, but nevertheless keep them alive for fifteen years while appeals drag on. I have no doubt that a significant percentage of people who call themselves pro-life are ardent supporters of the death penalty. For those who are Catholics, I think they are being inconsistent in following Church teaching.
. . . for purposes of defending society, whatever that means.Jim,The meaning seems clear to me. "Defending society" in this context is keeping a person who has committed a serious crime from continuing to commit additional crimes of the same nature. I do not think it can be stretched to cover such things as deterrence.
"It is about Robert George trying to influence the pro-life movement and to present a certain image of the pro-life movement to those not in it."I apologize, I was confused. You are making an ad hominem argument about Prof. George and the "pro-life movement". I mistakenly thought you were concerned about the execution of the now decaseed Mr. Threadgill or the 10 other criminals on the schedule to be executed thorugh July in Texas.
I fear that this discussion is circling back to comments that have been made many times before. To look for new ideas, let's see what Cdl Bergoglio said on the subject. He related the two subjects:http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/13/new-pope-francis-called-abortion-the-...He once called abortion a death sentence for unborn children, during a 2007 speech and likening opposition to abortion to opposition to the death penalty.
I wrote, regarding abortion and the death penalty, "Theyre not morally equivalent." David replied, "They may not be morally equivalent, but certainly they are morally related."It seems to me the extent of their overlap is that a human being is killed in each case. At the risk of stating the obvious: that's an important commonality, and not one to lightly be set aside. At the same time, we shouldn't let this commonality overshadow the moral differences between the two, which seem substantial. Abortion always involves killing a human being who is innocent, who is being killed for reasons unrelated to his/her agency, and whose death has been decided for reasons that we deem personal and private (to the mom). It is never a just outcome.The death penalty, at least as it is practiced in the US, is thought to involve killing a human being who is guilty of a heinous crime, who is being killed for crimes that resulted from his/her agency, and is being killed in order to achieve justice, and after a process that is public and involves the extension of numerous rights to the convict and only after several layers of additional scrutiny. It is always a just outcome (to the extent that humans can reasonably ensure just outcomes).
Jim, what you say about the death penalty being just is your opinion, but it does not match JP2's encyclical - your reasons have nothing to do with his exception, namely, the defense of society when it has a dysfunctional penal system. But I'm not one to claim that you should follow an encyclical when it doesn't make sense to you. But, setting aside JP2 for the moment, I also think that, factually, it is incorrect to say that the death penalty is "always a just outcome". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution
You are making an ad hominem argument about Prof. George and the pro-life movement. MAT,I find Robert George to be a very political person, and to a certain extent, I think his call for mercy for Gosnell was political (in a broad sense). As I said above, I think it is a little disingenuous to appeal for mercy for Gosnell when he is not in fact in any danger. However, on balance, in this case I think George is doing a good thing. So I am not making an "ad hominem" argument against George, or an argument against the pro-life movement.
It is always a just outcome (to the extent that humans can reasonably ensure just outcomes).Jim, So you disagree with Pope John Paul II? In 2012 in the United States, 43 people were executed. Was there no other way to protect society from these people than to kill them? I simply don't believe that. You are disagreeing with Pope John Paul II, at least as I understand him. Of course, I disagree with the Church and the recent popes on any number of issues, and I also think that "orthodox" Catholics have a right to disagree, at least where no dogma is concerned. I do not think John Paul II is right on the death penalty because he is the pope and papal encyclicals are authoritative. I think he was right because he agrees with me!
I think abortion and the death penalty are morally equivalent.I think trying to make a distinction between an innocent life and a not-innocent one is bogus.The Ten Commandments say:Thou Shalt Not Kill". That is an absolute. I understand the idea of necessity; when taking a life is the only way to protect another life. I don't think it comes into play in any way in capital cases in the US.
Claire and David - I don't know that I am disagreeing with JP II in the argument I've made here, but I am approaching the death penalty from a different point of view. JP II, in EV, refers to the death penalty as a "problem". By this term, I believe he refers to the conflict or contradiction that our conversation is bringing to the surface: from one point of view (the "culture of death" POV he advocates in EV), human life is sacred, and so there should be very few circumstances in which it can be taken. But from another point of view, some crimes are so horrible that no lesser punishment can adequately address the disorder and restore the disorder to communities and societies that the crimes have inflicted upon them. He solves the "problem" by favoring the culture-of-death approach. I don't really have an issue with that; but it's helpful to understand how he came to where he arrived, and where it may take us in the future.
But from another point of view, some crimes are so horrible that no lesser punishment can adequately address the disorder and restore the disorder to communities and societies that the crimes have inflicted upon them.Jim,It seems to me that is exactly what John Paul II is rejecting.
Public authority must redress the violation of personal and social rights by imposing on the offender an adequate punishment for the crime, as a condition for the offender to regain the exercise of his or her freedom. In this way authority also fulfils the purpose of defending public order and ensuring people's safety, while at the same time offering the offender an incentive and help to change his or her behaviour and be rehabilitated.It is clear that, for these purposes to be achieved, the nature and extent of the punishment must be carefully evaluated and decided upon, and ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society. Today however, as a result of steady improvements in the organization of the penal system, such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent.
Texas has executed Texas 495 people since 1976, 3 so far this year, 15 in 2012, 13 in 2011,and 17 in 2010. That is not "very rare, if not practically non-existent." I have heard people argue that with a population of 26 million, 10 or 15 executions a year can be considered "very rare." I am quite sure JPII would not agree with that reasoning. You certainly couldn't make that argument about something like lynching.
Jim, I don't think you can take a single word from JP2's encyclical, "problem", and comment on it alone. The context, I believe, (as quoted by David), shows that your POV is in disagreement with JP2. Why does it bother you so much to be in disagreement with him anyway? Plenty of people agree with you, and your reasoning is very natural for humans.
In fact let me quote the entirety of paragraphs 55 and 56 of Evangelium Vitae, so that it's crystal clear. (Again, I do not find it objectionable that you would disagree with it, but I wish you recognized that you are in disagreement with it!)http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_.... This should not cause surprise: to kill a human being, in whom the image of God is present, is a particularly serious sin. Only God is the master of life! Yet from the beginning, faced with the many and often tragic cases which occur in the life of individuals and society, Christian reflection has sought a fuller and deeper understanding of what God's commandment prohibits and prescribes. 43 There are in fact situations in which values proposed by God's Law seem to involve a genuine paradox. This happens for example in the case of legitimate defence, in which the right to protect one's own life and the duty not to harm someone else's life are difficult to reconcile in practice. Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defence. The demanding commandment of love of neighbour, set forth in the Old Testament and confirmed by Jesus, itself presupposes love of oneself as the basis of comparison: "You shall love your neighbour as yourself " (Mk 12:31). Consequently, no one can renounce the right to self-defence out of lack of love for life or for self. This can only be done in virtue of a heroic love which deepens and transfigures the love of self into a radical self-offering, according to the spirit of the Gospel Beatitudes (cf. Mt 5:38-40). The sublime example of this self-offering is the Lord Jesus himself.Moreover, "legitimate defence can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State".44 Unfortunately it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose action brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason. 45 56. This is the context in which to place the problem of the death penalty. On this matter there is a growing tendency, both in the Church and in civil society, to demand that it be applied in a very limited way or even that it be abolished completely. The problem must be viewed in the context of a system of penal justice ever more in line with human dignity and thus, in the end, with God's plan for man and society. The primary purpose of the punishment which society inflicts is "to redress the disorder caused by the offence".46 Public authority must redress the violation of personal and social rights by imposing on the offender an adequate punishment for the crime, as a condition for the offender to regain the exercise of his or her freedom. In this way authority also fulfils the purpose of defending public order and ensuring people's safety, while at the same time offering the offender an incentive and help to change his or her behaviour and be rehabilitated. 47It is clear that, for these purposes to be achieved, the nature and extent of the punishment must be carefully evaluated and decided upon, and ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society. Today however, as a result of steady improvements in the organization of the penal system, such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent.In any event, the principle set forth in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church remains valid: "If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority must limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person".48
Claire - I admit that it does bother me to disagree with JP II, just as I know, from talking with people who do hospital ministry, that it bothers them to disagree with another controversial thing he taught: that hydration and nutrition are always to be considered ordinary (rather than extraordinary) care. I see his view on the death penalty as propounded in EV as a parallel case: a rather unilateral exercise in his teaching office that reverses a long and generally-accepted tradition in Catholic moral thought and that has not been "received" by a substantial group of the faithful charged with living and breathing these teachings and actually making them "real" on the ground. In the case of the hydration-and-nutrition rule, those are the pastoral ministers in healthcare that counsel patients, families and healthcare workers; in the case of the death penalty, it is prosecutors, judges, law enforcement officials, legislators and citizens.In the case of this death-penalty teaching, my view is that it has been pretty carefully considered by those stakeholders, and they don't find the reasoning or the conclusion persuasive. That is not to say that JP II is wrong; but it does mean that the conversation continues.Let me add that I'm not a huge proponent of the death penalty. I accept to at least some extent the view that we have, if not a full-blown culture of death, at least a culture whose fabric is is marred by threads of death. (This description of contemporary culture as a "culture of death" is another statement by JP II that I know a number of pastoral workers disagree with, as it seems to gloss over the many life-giving things in our culture). I don't want to see Gosnell executed, and if the death penalty were abolished in all fifty states, I'd be ecstatic. I certainly agree that the risk of the death penalty being misapplied is too large to ignore. But as I've tried to explain here, I think the equivalence of abortion to the death penalty is a superficial and even false equivalence, and I don't think it's indefensible that a Catholic can simultaneously oppose abortion and support at least some applications of the death penalty - and in fact, I think it's a thoroughly respectable Catholic position that doesn't even contradict EV.And to push back just a bit to my liberal friends here: what I do find extremely problematic is to simultaneously *approve of* abortion and *oppose* the death penalty in all cases. And that's pretty much the views of large segments of the Democratic Party.
I stand 100% with Professor Robert George. Pro-life is as much (or more) about the right for every soul to have eternal life as it is about human life. God wishes every soul saved, period. To cut short the life of anyone, be it a person of great evil like Gosnell or an end-stage cancer patient, is to deny that person the full mercy and grace (often for repentance) willed by God. The reality is, abortionists like Gosnell get a lot of prayers said for them, and converting isn't as far fetched as some might think. One of the best articles IMO, ever written on that subject was also by Robert George, on the conversion of abortionist Bernard Nathinson, who went on to be one of the greatest defenders of life in America. Truly, this is a great read, regardless of anyone's politics on abortion or the death penalty.http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/02/2806/Paul Moses I wasn't aware of the Mother Teresa connection with the SCOTUS. Thank you the reference and the opportunity to have this much needed discussion.May we all have the grace to recognize the value of every human life, here and for all eternity.
I think the equivalence of abortion to the death penalty is a superficial and even false equivalenceI actually also think that those are not equivalent, because the death penalty is always applied to a person, while abortion, in the early stages, is applied to what I would call a potential person - not yet a person. But, like you, I also find it illogical to approve abortion even in egregious cases (say, at or near the limit of viability outside the womb) while opposing the death penalty in all cases.
while at the same time offering the offender an incentive and help to change his or her behaviour and be rehabilitated.But if nothing concentrates the mind like the idea one will be hanged in a fortnight, isnt it possible the death penalty offers the offender the best incentive? Im not sure Blessed JPII fully considered that. What if the longer we live the more we have a chance to fall away?
while at the same time offering the offender an incentive and help to change his or her behaviour and be rehabilitated.This is all well and good but it doesn't do a damned thing about the requirements of justice.
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Paul Moses, a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College/CUNY, is the author of The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace (Doubleday, 2009).