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This letter is addressed to Waitsfield voters.
On July 30, we have an opportunity to vote on a bond issue to support the construction of a new town office. I am voting yes, and I encourage others to do so. Waitsfield is the commercial center of our valley and our town staff, boards, commissions, committees and citizens manage a wide range of complex projects. The current space under the library has long been inadequate for this significant work for a variety of reasons: insufficient vault space, cramped office and filing space, limited public meeting space, flood vulnerability, and – most recently – failing septic.
The town has secured a grant of $750,000 toward construction of the Farm Stand site, available to us only if we secure the additional bond funds through public vote on July 30. The Town Office Task Force worked diligently to develop the most cost-effective option that meets the varied needs of a town office space – the Farm Stand option.
Do we all agree that new construction at the Farm Stand site is the ideal option? Nope. Do we need to redouble our efforts to care for and maintain the viability of our historic village? Absolutely. But in the meantime we have funding on the table to create the working space that our town has desperately needed for more than a decade, and the only way we can secure this funding and make this long overdue project happen is to vote yes on July 30.
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Wolfe (Rochester, NY/Irondequoit) had 9 kills (.320) and a team-high 10 digs while Sykora (Stow, OH/Stow Munroe Falls) passed for game- high 33 assists and added 5 digs and 2 blocks. Also hitting well for the Hawks was freshman Adam Weaver (Stow, OH/Archbishop Hoban) with game-high 21 kills in 42 attempts (.405). Sophomore Anthony Blasz (Eden, NY/Eden) contributed at the net with 4 blocks (9 digs) as did Fred Sickau (Eden, NY/Eden) with 4 blocks.
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The WSJ normally kisses Apple's ... Core ;)
Don't be so offended that they wrote about rumors reported by others and that also happened to mention a truth -- that Samsung DOES outsell Apple (margins completely aside).
More on the dumbassery -- or manipulation -- that was the Wall Street Journal story this past weekend alleging Apple was cutting iPhone 5 orders in the face of weak demand -- namely the questions the WSJ should have asked, and the logic they should have applied, before slapping the headline under their masthead, usually one of the most respected in the business. Particularly, the rah-rah Samsung tone taken in the article, and on many technology sites as well, that reported doom-and-gloom for Apple in the same feed they bolstered Apple's competitors. Mark Rogowsky from Forbes elaborates:
First, we heard "good news" from Nokia, which reported shipments of 4.4 million Lumia phones in the year-end quarter. Never mind that we are talking less than 2 percent market share for Nokia or that sales were boosted by heavy discounting, often down to $99 at retail — less than half what competing phones sell for.
In other words, if we just compare the last two generations of phones, Apple sold somewhere around 35-45 million last quarter while Samsung moved about 23 million. It's certainly true that Samsung has a number of less-expensive entry models and will outsell Apple in raw numbers. But when one looks at "profit share" and wonders why Apple will continue to earn more of it in smartphones than Samsung, those numbers tell the story.
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The WSJ normally kisses Apple's ... Core ;)
Don't be so offended that they wrote about rumors reported by others and that also happened to mention a truth -- that Samsung DOES outsell Apple (margins completely aside).
Column writers from WSJ... same as from BI and SAI are payed by Hedge Funds for those kind of" Reports" more then by those "journals"... which they are actually working for ... multiple times more... and all what the HF are after... is to sell tons of PUTS(sells options) and load tons of dirt cheap CALLS(buy options)... do not let them full you around... DUDES... there was a very similar article 2years ago... amazing how fast... do people forget and trust the same FUD again... Apple will report it's best QTR in history with over 60Bio in revenue... with over 30Mio iPads and over 40Mio iPhones... actually sold... and not just shipped... like Some Skunk !!!
BlackBerry and Nokia used to outsell Apple. The question of how something is reported absolutely matters, especially when it's the WSJ. People take the WSJ very seriously.
Damage control articles are a given. I knew I would find this here.
Let's say it is true that Apple and the iPhone are headed for a huge slump and that Samsung will dominate in the near future. Who cares? I was an happy, loyal Apple customer before the iPhone and before the iPod and will continue to be. I remember when people used to make fun of me or criticize my choice in computers because Apple WASN'T popular. Now I get the same thing because they ARE popular. Guess the only thing left is for Apple to be smack dab in the middle and be fairly popular but not ubiquitous then will people be happy?
...but the WSJ sentiment is sort of "truthy" even if it's not well reported. The next iPhone will probably be the one where LTE goes from being niche early-adopter thing to mass market normality when all of the 4s and remain 4 users upgrade... but after that, smartphones will be like iPods and tabelts will be the big fat middle of the market cash cow. iPhone is going to slump eventually: circle of life.
I don't own any Apple stock, nor ultimately does it matter to me whether Apple succeeds or fails. What does matter to me, in this case, is dreadful reporting from what is often considered to be a highly trusted name in traditional journalism.
If this story hadn't have been in the WSJ, how far would it have spread? If it had been reported in context, and if it had been reported in proportion, how far would it have spread?
I run an Apple site so I post about Apple news, but this story wouldn't be any less bad if it had been about another company.
(BTW- Kevin from CrackBerry has to field this kind of stuff way more than I do, at least for now.)
Believe me, I am getting hammered by clients asking about selling the stock. When it was 700, they wanted to buy. Its typical. Buy at the top, sell at the low, and the brokers are the bad guy. You should have seen the rejections when I tried to sell some of their positions in the 500's and 600's. (note, many of my clients own it from around 12 bucks or so, when Jobs came back and they bought NeXt) Point is, if a person thinks it might go down, they should sell a part. If they think its going up, they should buy a small amount, and see what happens on Jan 23. Thats going to be a MOST interesting day, not only from the earnings standpoint, but especially on the forecasts. I hope they address these rumors, saying they are true or false, to slap some analysts and news reporters in the face.
I sold mine shortly before the time the apple execs were cashing out and it was in the 700s. It's a buy right now as I didn't think it'd ever get this low. Especially back then. (I bought some more Apple late last year after selling and taking the gain of some others).
I don't see a slump coming. IMO, the only barrier to entry for Apple is screen size which iOS and their (designed for a specific resolution) apps kind of limit. I anticipate Apple will be doubling the res later (next year) for iphone removing this barrier and allowing for a bigger iphone that's easily past 1080p. Still, even this would have critics crying about innovation and Apple's need for a new product.
IMO though, companies get off track with too many new products or dabbling in categories they shouldn't be in too quickly. Part of what makes Apple a great company is saying no to bad ideas and sticking to what they know. In a way, Maps and Siri was veering from this. I'd prefer Apple to not compete with those who are best at certain services such as Maps, search, etc. Let Google have that. In the end, investors want to see hardware sales and margins. Not some attempt at stealing revenue streams from competitors with half baked services in businesses Apple doesn't belong in.
Apple should be partnering with google to integrate google fully into iOS. Get rid of the Apple Maps. Let Siri operate the device. Apple should be courting MS with favorable terms for Office. It's no coincidence that the slump (and much more criticism) started when they started removing Google from iOS.
and you were right to sell at 700 and all the people saying different would forgoing the profit you got. you can buy back in at a lower price now. That's how the market works. Far to many phone fanboy posts confuse a reason to lighten a stock position or reallocate money with the fanboy tone of "Apple sucks." Take Microsoft, It's stock didn't move for years. That didn't equate to the company was gonna fail. This is hysteria to me. I think it's an over reaction. It's taking every wall street correction as a personal slight. Even the title is sensationalistic "Apple is doomed." I mean seriously who actually said Apple is "doomed?" And isn't that so unrealistic that it doesn't need response? And honestly the opinion that demand is falling is just one guys opinion like the opinion of the Forbes article is a competing opinion. In fact i think really what Rene should have done is what the Forbes guy did, write that article, not this one linking to that article. If it's wrong, and demand isn't falling just write the article and destroy that claim. That's what i want to read. But this stuff is kinda petty to me.
The problem of rumors and how these rumors game the stock market does not just have an affect on the price of a companies stock. It has a knock on affect with sales. This is especially so when it comes to companies like tend to have a limited range of products such as the iPhone. In the case of Apple, we see it every time it becomes obvious that a launch of an updated model of the iPhone is imminent people hold off purchasing a new iPhone to replace their older model.
In the case of this rumor it has an effect of implying that they are cutting production of the iPhone 5 when the facts are that the yield of 'good parts' has been far higher than anticipated and they were able to get through the ramp up of production far faster, rather than have a glut of purchased components it is not good practice to carry a huge stock of parts, these are an effective loss as any product that is tied up and not sold is not a profit. It is merely good business practice to lower the orders and reduce this overstock of components.
The a reduction in the order of parts has little bearing on the actual sales of a product and the Wall Street Journal did, in true News Corp fashion, sensationalized the story and connected the two without gathering all the facts. Something that comes from the Heritage of Rupert Murdoch and his Tabloid background.
Having the next 'big thing' from Apple won't fix this issue. For many Analysts if a company is no longer in their favor they don't even have to supply factual information to the news media they can take the slightest rumor and utilize that to push the price down. It's also in their interest to make Apple more appetizing for the people they report to and having share prices pushed down and then have a footnote that says that the stock is a very good buy at the new lower price and that it will recover giving a great return on the purchase of that stock.


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Assam Glass Teapot by Bodum®, 4-cup
A modern twist on the traditional teapot, the Assam Glass Tea Pot is made from durable, heat-resistant and dishwasher-safe borosilicate glass and features Bodum's innovative tea press system. Its durable plastic filter and dual plunger/lid make it perfect for brewing up to 4 (8 fl oz) cups of loose-leaf tea. Just add hot water, brew to your liking, and then press down on the plunger. The press compresses the tea leaves below the infusion holes in the strainer, completely stopping the brewing process so you don't end up with over-brewed, bitter tea. There's no need to remove the filter, and there's no mess. Beautiful.
How to Prepare
Brewing loose-leaf tea is easy with the Assam.
Simply add your favorite black, green, or herbal tea to the infuser. Pour hot water over the tea, filling the pot. Allow the tea to brew to your liking and then press.
The patented press system separates the tea leaves from the water, completely stopping the brewing process and eliminating bitter tea.
Tea press holds up to 34 fl oz and is perfect for brewing loose teas or tea bags.
Heat-resistant borosilicate glass is durable and dishwasher safe.
Patented system with plastic infuser stops brewing when tea is plunged, so there is no need to remove the infuser.
Dishwasher-safe parts
Microwave safe glass body (not rod and lid)
- Dimensions: 5.6"D x 7.8"W x 6.1"H
- Capacity: 34 fl oz
- Construction: Glass, Plastic
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Love this teapot and you can see the brew. Easy cleanup too. Very stylish too!
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My favourite pot
Keeps the tea contained after brewing so no "stewed " taste. Glass keeps tea warm for a while . This is my 3rd bodum tea press and I like the metal sieve better than the plastic one . They look great.
Only dislike is eventually the rubber gets softer . Mind you I always throw it in the dishwasher every day and they last years...
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Like all glass products, it must be handled with care, but the two things it has going for it over other similar products is a strong handle and no long, breakable spout. The rubber ring around the top of the basket is a stroke of genius: not only does it hold the basket in place (no wobble), it's a convenient place to tap your spoon after you stir the tea leaves. The basket is very porous, so you won't have to stand there and patiently dribble hot water over the leaves. If this product has an Achilles Heel, it's the plunger. If you drop it, it will break at the connection point between the plastic plunger and the metal shaft. Once that happens, it cannot be repaired (believe me, I tried everything), and the manufacturer cannot (or will not) provide a replacement part. You must buy a whole new unit. Other than that, this is a great product and well worth the money if you shop around for the best price.
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It is very pretty, and easy to use. I love the fact you can brew a couple pots from one set of leaves. Plus I can take it with me into the other room to keep pouring a fresh cup while I work on the computer.
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It's perfect!! Just the right size!! No tea leaves left in your cup.
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Has a very nice metal basket, lovely design, and easy to use.
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Had a hard time finding an item like this in stores,
I searched all over. finally found on Starbucks Web site.
Works good, Should have a separate top to use after the tea infuser is removed. wish they had in there brick and mortar stores, but I couldn't find, had to order online. Shipping was quick. Would recommend.
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I was so excited to get this as I love a hot cup of tea before bed. As I only had tea bags at the time i put them in the filter and tried it that way. It was not as strong as a like it a felt that it could of used more bags. I think the problem is in the design of the filter itself. There are no holes at the bottom to let the brewed tea escape. I would rather just use a tea ball! So I ended up just putting the tea bags in first and then putting in the filter cylinder,because you can even use the pot without the cylinder in place. I think you would waste a lot of loose tea just using it. I am seriously considering send it back. Problem is it does hold just the right amount of water, is easy to pour and the handle does not get hot. It is also very nice looking. There was no warranty card or even a tea sample with the purchase. Good in theory but fails in practical use . Hope this helps someone!
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Having a removable piece for steeping tea is a great idea. However, when the piece is removed, the lid no longer fits on the pot -- it is too small. The tea holder must be rinsed and returned to the pot so that the lid fits. Very inconvenient.
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Excellent tea pot for loose tea. The size of the tea pot is also great for company or oneself.
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I finally dug out the scanner and went through my Drawer-O-Papers. Err, some of those really need to be in the fire safe, which is... er... empty. We bought it and it's sitting in the hall closet. Must do something about that.
Anyway, I set the scanner software to 300 DPI grayscale and scanned tax assessments, bills, and paid receipts, the titles to all the vehicles, procedure notes from hospital visits, my birth certificate, vaccination booklet (last stamped in 1970...) , copyright registrations for the books I sold, eyeglass prescriptions, my wife's living will (I need to do mine), C&R form, NFA forms, and voter registration. Came to 191Mb. The marriage license, deed to the house, and deed registration are all on legal-size paper. I'm going to take them down to the local copy shop and see if they can scan them directly to TIFF or JPEG.
Of all the stuff I thought of as "important papers", only about 10% needed to be scanned. About 25% went into the trash can, and the rest was stuff that didn't need to be backed up - manuals for appliances, correspondence, credit card statements, etc.
I *should* have found the paperwork on a few firearms I bought new, and I have the troubling feedling I'm missing some stuff. It'll come to me eventually, I guess.
My wife has a huge box of papers I need to go through, lots of it is medical stuff, so it'll probably go to over 1Gb by the time I'm done. It'll still rattle around on a cheap USB key or DVD-R.
I tried to give each image a descriptive name, like "tax - assessment 2010 real estate" or "tax - personal property 2009 paid receipt."
This stuff really needs to be protected somehow. I'm still thinking about that. Current thought is to encrypt each file separately with PGP. That way I can keep the descriptive names and the files can be read on anything that can see an ntfs or FAT-32 formatted key. Throw a copy of par2 and QuickPAR on there and generate PAR files to repair the files if some random bits fail.
I also have a pair of 3x5 spiral notebooks that lay by my keyboard. One has userIDs and passwords for forums, mail and usenet providers, etc. The other has MAC addresses and passwords for the routers and cable modem, logins for eBay, PayPal, one of my bank accounts, etc. That's all stuff I consider too valuable to be stored in a file on the computer, so it stays on paper. I started the notebooks... oh, 25 years ago, back when I was keeping track of logins to various BBSs. I guess there's no reason I can't key it all in to a file and encrypt it.
Put a DVD and a thumbdrive into my offsite backup site, one in my go bag, another in my wife's, and that ought to do it.


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Yet that first Valentine's Day together a single chocolate heart was placed atop my pillow with all the care of a newborn babe. One single chocolate heart filled with a thousand words, words that said "I love you" silently yet louder than if he had screamed them from the rooftops. With that one chocolate heart wrapped in shimmering silver foil he let me know that he understood that this simple gesture meant more to me than his contempt for the signs in shop windows and the ads on TV, the French adaptation of this very American faux holiday. He understood that expectation fluttered underneath my bold claim of agreement with him, my apparent disinterest for this special date, expectation fluttering like a schoolgirl heart as she places that shoebox decorated with pink crepe paper hearts and white doilies on the corner of her desk as she silently utters a prayer.
So many Valentine's Days have come and gone, 27 of them to be exact. 27 years filled with roses and tulips, carnations and peonies, stunning jewels and breathtaking adventure. And chocolates. One time I asked him, after a very long, arduous several months trying to slim down, if he could tell that I had lost weight, if I looked better in my snug skirts, and he looked at me with that look before saying, "You know, you always look the same to me… I see you through eyes of love and you are always perfect."
Lately, he has been dancing around the apartment making fun of us growing old together. "Maybe I'll start cultivating the "fat, old pépère look – you know, baggy clothes, crazy hair, slumped over in my armchair saying crazy things, walking Marty in my slippers and pajama pants?" And now I look at this man as he grows older, as his moods and tempers blow hot and cold, from stressed to panicked to gleeful, from utter joy to tempestuous moody and dark; I look at this man who can drive me absolutely nuts or rant and rave and make me feel like a disobedient girl, who can make me laugh so long and so hard that my sides hurt and tears course down my cheeks, who can woo me, whisper in my ear and make me feel so loved and I realize that 64 isn't that far away anymore.
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Finely ground stale bread or dry wafer-type cookies – plain white bread, Challah, brioche, ladyfingers or digestive biscuits – are used to bind these puddings in place of flour and are a fabulous way to use up stale bread. Unlike the Anglo-saxon/American style of pudding in which chunks of bread soak up custard, the bread and cookies used for a French pudding are undetectable; these puddings are velvety smooth, creamy, incredibly rich and intensely chocolate without the bitter edge. The addition of a bit of cinnamon, ground ginger or espresso, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, rum, cognac, coffee liqueur, there are so many possibilities for these deep, lusciously chocolate puddings. This is a recipe based on one found in Maisons Côté Nos 100 Recettes Tout Chocolat December 2012
5.3 oz (150 g) stale bread and/or plain wafer cookies or digestive biscuits
7 oz (200 g) dark semisweet or bittersweet chocolat 70% cacao
2 2/3 cups (600 ml) milk – I used 2% lowfat
½ cup (100 g) sugar
3 large eggs
½ tsp ground cinnamon, optional or replaced by another flavoring
½ tsp vanilla
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Lightly butter 10 muffin cups in a muffin tin or silicone mold or ramekins. These puddings will be baked in a bain-marie, so the muffin tin or the ramekins need to sit comfortably inside a larger baking pan that will hold water.
Finely chop the chocolate on a cutting board; place the cookies and/or stale bread in a robot mixer and grind to a fine powder.
Place the milk and sugar in a large saucepan and bring up to the boil over low heat; add the chocolate and stir until the chocolate is just melted then stir in the cookie/bread crumbs. Remove from the heat.
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Eduardo Moisés Peñalver March 15, 2013 - 11:34am
The Vatican has madea statement on the rumblings about Bergoglio's (in)actions during the Argentine junta, attributing the questions to "anti-clerical left-wing" forces who want to discredit the new Pope. The more things change, etc... Thinking about Margaret's post below, it seems to me that a little bit of historical perspective is helpful.As I said in my first post, Liberation Theology represented a sea change for a church in Latin American that had (for the previous five centuries) racked up a pretty consistent record of resisting any kind of social reform in the most economically and racially stratified region on the planet. Certain liberation theologians' openness to Marxism has to be understood in light of the fact that (1) Marxists were the ones working with the most urgency to try to change that reality and (2) non-Marxist nationalists and reformers were routinely branded as communists even when they were not, and were subjected to persecution (along with actual Marxists). Needless to say, this shared experience reduced the hostility to Marxism on the non-Marxist left. In places like El Salvador, Guatemala, and Argentina, right-wing military and paramilitary groups were routinely torturing and killing pretty much anyone who worked for political liberalization and economic reform, including many priests and even a few bishops.In this context, to choose to actively criticize Liberation Theology was not just to fail to take a prophetic stance against state-sponsored terror. It was very much to take sides -- to see departure from orthodoxy as a more pressing matter of concern than the abuses being perpetrated by the state on a daily basis. Indeed, deciding in that context to criticize Liberation Theology for being too political or too open to communism was (implicitly or explicitly) to adopt much of the point of view of the national-security states. From within that worldview, the political killings were unfortunate, but less problematic than the deeper, existential threat posed by global communism. Looking back, I can understand how it came to happen that John Paul II cracked down on Liberation Theology. Sitting at the Vatican, thousands of miles away, preoccupied as he was in the 1980s with the struggle against communism in his native Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, he seemed to view theologians in Latin America who were insufficiently hostile to Marxism primarily through the lens of that anti-Soviet project. They represented the possibility of the enemy within the gates. But for a bishop or provincial on the ground in Buenos Aires, or in Guatemala City, or in San Salvador, the impulse to view Liberation Theology in that light is somewhat harder to understand, if only because the complex reality of the situation was so much closer at hand and not as easily distorted in the haze of geopolitics.Was Borgoglio just adopting uncritically the priorities of the Vatican? Was he toadying up to his bosses? Did he actually share the regime's assessment of the political situation and the broad outlines of the extraordinary actions the regime justified on the basis of that assessment? Any of these possibilities is disquieting. And that is what is troubling to me about the stories about Borgoglio -- even on the versions most favorable to him. What all of this means for the prospects for his papacy, I have not the slightest clue.UPDATE: This story from the Guardian has some interesting details based on interviews with activists in Argentina and relatives of several people who disappeared who interacted with Borgoglio at the time. This postat New Republic by Michael Sean Winters defends Borgoglio's criticism of Liberation Theology. But it utterly fails to understand liberation theology's context or substance and therefore falls into a regrettable false equivalence between theocons writing about the wisdom of markets in North America and the opennesss to Marxism among theologians working with Marxists (and others) on the ground with some of the poorest people on the planet, subjected to constant threats of torture and death. Liberation Theology was always more than just a set of abstract theological ideas. It was a social movement rooted in the experience of the struggle against brutal violence and economic injustice. Say what you want about its theological purity, but it was not the mirror image of, say, Michael Novack's ideological musings on how entrepreneurism can foster virtue. At the end of the day, the question is one of priorities, and what we can learn about Borgoglio's by thinking about how he perceived Liberation Theology during a time of crisis in his country, a time when students were being thrown out of planes into the ocean and pregnant women were being warehoused so they could be killed after their babies were born and handed over to good Christian families. Remaining silent in the face of the obvious atrocities is one thing. The pressures were no doubt immense, and the stakes were high. It takes heroic courage to stand up to a government under those circumstances. But the decision, at that moment, from a vantage close to the killing grounds in Argentina (not from the Vatican or from 20 years later blogging for the New Republic), that the errors of Liberation Theology were a priority that merited vocal opposition, perhaps reveals something about a person's values.UPDATE II: I had not seen this until someone mentioned it in the comments, but this statement by Leonardo Boff is encouraging:
"I am encouraged by this choice, viewing it as a pledge for a church of simplicity and of ecological ideals, said Leonardo Boff, a founder of liberation theology. What is more, Mr. Boff said, Cardinal Bergoglio comes from the developing world, outside the walls of Rome.
FINAL UPDATE (I PROMISE): It seems clear to me from the comments that I was not careful enough in writing this post. My point is not to condemn the new pope, but just to clarify what I take the stakes to be of the questions about his involvement in the Dirty War. And I think his attitudes towards Liberation Theology are likely to shed useful light on these questions. That said, I only know that he is reported to have been critical of Liberation Theology (like most of those promoted by the Vatican in that era). I'd like to hear more about how critical he was and how that criticism manifested itself. I think picking as pope someone who was actively involved in Church leadership in Argentina at that time necessarily raises many troubling questions. That said, the data here is sparse and my mind remains open. Emphatically, I did not mean to suggest that the questions I raised in the last paragraph of the post were the only possible explanations of Borgoglio's behavior at the time, just that they are possible explanations and, if true, would be very troubling to me.
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The story is going mainstream. Eugene Robinson tries to strike a right balance in telling it: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/15/questions_from_a_di...
Thanks, Eduardo. Fair enough, and I appreciate your latest update.
Greg -- I would too. I have not yet found any. Rita -- I apologize for my lack of clarity. I've posted an update to the post to make clear that I really am asking questions. I do, however, come at this with some skepticism built in by (1) my generally favorable attitude towards liberation theology and (2) my generally critical attitude towards the hierarchy's role in Argentina at the time.
How neatly you've judged the motives of someone whom you don't even know. Anyone who criticized liberation theology, according to your account above, cannot possibly have a theological concern, but is either "toadying" to the bosses in Rome or agreeing with the regime on the ground. There are other choices. So sad that you don't believe that, and that you have already therefore condemned him.
Nope. I'm just trying to understand why he would choose to remain silent about a regime killing tens of thousands of people but speak out against a group of people working against that regime in order to criticize their theological purity. Students were taken into airplanes and helicopters and thrown into the ocean. Pregnant women were warehoused until their children could be born; then they were killed and their children given to the families of people close to the regime. Silence. But God forbid that a theologian fail to see the theological error in Marxist materialism. That must be condemned. I'm not judging him. I have no idea what he was thinking. I'm just asking the question and showing that it can come from someplace other than a left-wing anti-clerical desire to discredit the new pope, as the Vatican put it. In any event, my list was not meant to be exhaustive. Feel free to speculate in the comment thread about what motives he might have had. Even as you describe them in an attempt to defend him, I remain troubled.
Eduardo, I hope that you (and many others) will continue to ask questions. E.g., What is in the dossier compiled by Herranz? Has Francis read it yet? Could HE be vulnerable to blackwell? If so, by whom? (Could those who truly were complicit in the dirty war be using it against him, and, by extension, against the Jesuits in general?)
The Vatican statement did appear too defensive. "Left-wing and anti-clerical" are from an ecclesiastical lexicon that is now rather dated.
Link to a story on NCR: http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/argentine-priest-kidnapped-during-d... I stated in Ms. Steinfel's post below, would suggest that this was a complex and messy situation. As someone who worked in Guatamela, read and studied under Guiterriez and Boff, younger clerics with much passion saw liberation theology as a way to impact the *system* - in some cases, the system had been in bed with the local catholic hierarchy for years and lorded it over folks. But, like any civil war situation, it is not black and white; sides shift; folks have various motivations. From my understanding, Bergoglio was in his thirties as provincial and had a mission to keep his priests unaligned in the civil war - rather to serve and protect the people. Guessing that there are continued hard feelings among Argetine Jesuits who may have felt that Bergoglio was not sympathetic to their goals. In hindsight, Bergoglio may have actually served a purpose to keep his priests from being *politicized*.That being said, read the link - you will find a statement by a Nobel Peace Prize winner who states the Bergoglio was not complicit nor could he be identified with those bishops who were aligned with the military.Agree with Rita's sentiments above.
It may be helpful to keep in mind the nature of the pope's role. Let's recall the story of the Peter who he is supposed to be succeeding: he fell asleep repeatedly when asked to keep watch during Jesus' last hours, missed the point of Jesus' nonviolence, ran away when Jesus was arrested, and pretended not to know him at all when questioned despite vowing he would never do that a few hours earlier.In short, he cooperated with a military dictatorship when the going got tough. So should this new guy be expected to be any better than St. Peter? Is his role to be a heroic figure of moral perfection or a sort of failure that's willing to embarassedly point towards Jesus and do his honest best?But maybe you're willing to be understanding of his falling short of martyrdom in the face of a murderous government. Surely we can at least demand that he acknowledge his past failings and explicitly ask forgiveness? I'm not so sure when I think of the example of Jesus, who didn't seem to make that demand of Peter, other than to ask, "Do you love me?" and direct him to "Tend my sheep." Why didn't Jesus demand more accountability?I'm not saying that historical investigations aren't of great importance for learning how we can do better next time. (I'm also sensitive to the concern that the pope may be susceptible to blackmail if there are some skeletons there.)
Maybe Pope Francis should become his own official spokesman and retire Fr. Lombardi, S.J.
A simple thought experiment: Suppose we take our understanding of the Gospels as necessary asumptions. Now imagine that Jesus returned to the streets and byways of B.A. in those sdad days. Does Jesus align himself in any way with the military? Does He remain silent when he learns of people thrown into the ocean from helicopters, or infants stolen from their mothers to satisfy the desires of the rich and powerful. Does He remain faithful to the direction of the Sanhedrin? Or does He work to release the prisoners, to speak for those who have been silenced, to urge those solitary from fear to join together?If taking Isaiah 58 and Matthew 25 not just seriously, but as direction for my life makes me "left-wing and anticlerical", then I woud gladly wear the title.Mark
From the late 50s and into the 70s, from Cuba to Chile, Communists were on the rampage in Latin America, infiltrating and trying to co-opt everything from government, to schools, to social services and even the Catholic Church.It is clear to anyone that, once Communists take control (see Cuba), society is trapped and is really stuck for years, even generations, mired in ignorance, low economy, and senseless, often bureaucratic violence and murder. My wife was a child during Chiles 1973 golpa, and to this day she and her family claim that while in the end Pinochet went too far, the fact is that he saved Chile from following in Cubas sad steps. The result is that today Cube is a nightmare, and Chile while not perfect of course - is fine.Certainly ends do not justify means, and certainly any military dictator eventually goes too far and needs to be pushed out - as Pinochet was. However in the case of Argentinas Guerra Sucia, considering the nature and tactics of the Peronistas and their legendary rampages, not to mentioned those factions allied with Guevaras ideas and tactics, it is really breathtaking how todays leftists (in both the Anglo and Latino societies) still try to play the oh poor is me, the down trodden victims who just want a chance. In 1950, The USA and Argentina had very similar economies and similar prospects for bright futures - and then came old Juan and Eva Pern. The nonsense of those two, established, and indeed institutionalized, many if not most of the problems from which Argentina suffers to this day.And Eduardo, let's save the drama about regimes and "tens of thousands", for another time; everyone knows that for all the faults (there are many in fact) of right wing dictatorships, everyone knows that from Berlin to Moscow, from Beijing to Havana, Socialists and Communists have killed many, many more times the number of people, than any Latin American military junta.
I think people should be somewhat certain of their facts before accusing anyone of being complicit with a murderous regime.These allegations, which mostly seem to hinge on one journalist's book, allegations which seem to be countered and denied by a variety of sources, have been wholeheartedly embraced by some within hours of the announcement of the new Pope. Yes, lots and lots of news stories about it, but they all peg back to the one book. Not only have these questionable allegations been enthusiastically embraced, without consideration of all of the counter evidence, they are used to quickly judge the new Pope without taking into account the rest of the man's life; his proven, lifelong service to the poor.Color me skeptical.
Heres what I think. A young Jesuit provincial informed his men that he wanted them to continue to reside in their parish or chaplaincies rather than take up residence in the barrios where revolt was fomenting. Two of the Jesuits under his leadership decided that they would continue to live in the barrio, not as advocates of violence but in solidarity with the poor. They were in conflict with their religious superior. I think that Borgoglio saw that he could not protect his men if they were residing in the thick of the growing revolt. And events proved that. I do not believe there is any evidence at all that he was working directly with the junta. I think he was reacting, feeling out and finding his way. It was a time of violence, outrage and immense confusion in Argentina. The fall-out continues there, evidenced by the 2010 apology of the hierarchy for their failures during that time. Do I think that Borgoglio acted in a particularly heroic way? No. But I do think he was making the effort to be a responsible provincial and lay down boundaries that would allow him some control in a frightening and unpredictable time.
"Respected Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff said Thursday he did not believe that Pope Francis, acting in his capacity then as Jesuit provincial, could be implicated in connection to the acts of the Argentine junta, and that he in fact assisted some of the junta's intended victims." http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/15/opinion/clarke-pope-francis/index.htmlBoff also let everyone know that he is pumped for this papacy more generally. Odd that he would given that Pope Francis is supposedly "against" Liberation Theology.
The Guardian story linked above is at least the third story I've seen in the last couple of days on this topic. All stories are essentially regurgitating the same charges put forward by the same three people: Verbitsky, Bregman and de la Cuadra. I agree that these things need to be looked into. I would note that, in the case of Verbitsky, his most sensational charges have already been partially or fully discredited. Yet these at-least-partically-discredited charges continue to spread like a virus from one media outlet to another.The new Holy Father is already immersed in a public controversy, and based on Eduardo's and John Page's commentary, it looks like the Vatican media office may not be up to the task. The Vatican needs to adopt the sort of media reaction timetable that a well-run US presidential campaign does - quick and effective responses.
Sorry for not understanding this - what does the title of this post, "VLWC" mean?
"Maybe Pope Francis should become his own official spokesman and retire Fr. Lombardi, S.J."Yes! He can talk, can't he?
Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Since he is now our pope, I think we must try to figure out whether or not he is trustworthy. But how to do it? First, it seems to me we should wait for more evidence from more objective, reliable sources.I think that the testimony of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Escrivez (sp?) is most important. If we can't trust him, who can we trust? If he is not objective, who is? True, he might not know all the facts, but he probably has access to a lot more facts AND is a better judge of sources than the media. But again, we need to know something about his character too. Second, there are the findings of Amnesty International. Both sources are, on the surface at least, of the highest caliber.But we can also look at his apparent character, at his actions that are recorded by TV, etc. Certainly he *appeared* as a humble and kindly man when he appeared on the balcony and when he refused the fancy accoutrements. But ISTM there is a certain ambiguity about his going to pay his bill -- was that a bid for attention or an attempt to show that he is just one of us? If so, then it's not an attractive quality, but it certainly can't be taken as indicating that is the sort of person who conspires with murderers. Yes, this paragraph is about body language, but body language does reveal character at times -- unless we're dealing with a splendid actor.We also know he's a very intelligent man, but one who never deviates from the official Vatican line in matters of personal ethics. BUT did he also go along with the government on matters of social justice? Obviously, he went against the government when he concentrated on helping the poor, so we cannot say he was just a fascist fellow traveller bishop doing whatever the government told him to do. Given that fact, I think that it is extremely unlikely that he would easily tolerate torture IF he could avoid it. But in hellish situations like that, it might have been worse for other people if he had spoken out publicly. Complexity, complexity, complexity. complexity . . . . . . .
Tomorrow's press conference should be fascinating.
Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy.Not all that vast.
"Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who won the 1980 Nobel peace prize for documenting the junta's atrocities, takes a similar view. "Perhaps he didn't have the courage of other priests, but he never collaborated with the dictatorship," he told the Associated Press. "Bergoglio was no accomplice of the dictatorship. He can't be accused of that."This important statement by someone who documented the junta's atrocities, plus Boff's statement mean something. Eduardo chooses not to lay the emphasis here but on his own and others restructuring the probability of Bergoglio's complicity with the regime. This is troubling despite his reservations that he is open to all the facts.
Please show me where I say he was complicit with the regime. I am heartened by Boff's reaction.
Jesus commanded Peter, "Put your sword away!"Then Eduardo interrupted, "But the Romans have killed thousands of innocent people. This is no time for careful theological distinctions!"Seriously, though, what exactly was Bergoglio's criticism of liberation theology? Do we have any quotations in his own words? If he was criticizing cooperation with armed resistance (or that aspect of some forms of Marxism), then it is hardly fair to say he was "deciding in that context to criticize Liberation Theology for being too political or too open to communism." If your criticism is merely that he was wrong not to explicitly praise liberation theology, then say so.
I used the words "lay the emphasis." Here for example where you write: "Was Borgoglio just adopting uncritically the priorities of the Vatican? Was he toadying up to his bosses? Did he actually share the regimes assessment of the political situation and the broad outlines of the extraordinary actions the regime justified on the basis of that assessment? Any of these possibilities is disquieting. And that is what is troubling to me about the stories about Borgoglio even on the versions most favorable to him." Even tho you are asking questions they are what is called "leading" questions like a lawyer might posit. Whereas after you state that Michael Sean Winters defends Bergoglio you then criticize Winters understanding of LT which implies that you disagree with his criticism.
Margaret Hebblethwaite seems to like him, and she's rather unimpeachable I think:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/14/the-pope-francis-i-k... surviving priest from the kdnapping episode also seems good with Bergolgio:http://www.elnuevodia.com/jesuitatorturadoporlajuntamilitarestaenpazcone... facts are facts, and good to get all the info out.
I agree, David. It's part of the insanity of this process that the facts get revealed after the guy is appointed and when those who want to know them are accused of being anti-clerical leftists (I'll own to half of that equation though I won't say which half).
Agreed that the anti-clerical leftists claim is ridiculous.
"Im just trying to understand why he would choose to remain silent about a regime killing tens of thousands of people but speak out against a group of people working against that regime in order to criticize their theological purity."I'm usually on board with Mr Pealver on this blog. But I find his case not terribly persuasive.From what I read he opposed the activity of clergy in secular politics. As a liberal Catholic, I'm 100% on board with this. It's my job (with a billion or so others) to be involved with base communities, economics, political ideologies, and such. Priests and bishops, from Fr Fessio to Fr Berrigan, keep away. Not your fight. Not your vocation. Not your calling. Not as long as you are active priests.I'm a skeptic on the Pius XII wasn't a martyr front, and I am here too. Sure: Fr Bergoglio as a Jesuit priest, later a provincial, and as an archbishop, certainly had the opportunity to pull a Romero on the world. Heck, you could say that about any pundit. Why didn't I, for example, learn Pashto and move myself and my family to Afghanistan in 2002 if I was so steamed about the so-called War On Terror?If my sister and brother progressives want to hop on me for ideological impurity, I have no problem calling them out. I know we're in vast agreement on 98% of the agenda, more or less. But if I think someone's not on the right path, and it's serious, I'm not going to go lemming on them just for the companionship.So sure: let's keep gathering facts. Let's pay attention to the care taken with these "facts" as they are released. Bergoglio skeptics have already egged their faces with that vacation home. Mr Pealver has associated himself with journalists who are in dire need of a sharp editor. But he's been a comrade for years on dotCommonweal so I'm willing to cut him some slack on this. Show me something substantive. Please don't go Karl Rove on me.
3rd paragraph, "he" above = Fr Bergoglio
Is the Vatican statement the work of the Opus Dei fellow recruited from Fox news? That could explain a lot.
Grant has a tweet saying the pope set aside his homily from the secretary of state and gave his own off-the-cuff. Fact check?
And to quote a friend: "Can Pope Francis send curial officials to jug?"
Todd -- that's the best defense of Bergoglio's stance that I think can be made. If that turns out to have been his reasoning, I wouldn't agree with it, but I would be comfortable that he was not sympathetic to the goals of the regime or just playing the bureaucratic game. What we have right now, however, is a dearth of facts and few means to get them. I would love to hear him talk about it himself. And, again, the process seems backwards to me.
If you put on the trendy "no enemies to the left" spectacles always popular among some zealous progressives you only give license to the worst thugs (after all, they care so much - their heart etc., etc.). Bravo Bergoglio for challenging the simplisms of ideological politics. It would be refreshing if more, even among the academic left, would follow his example.
The question is not whether he had any enemies to the left. Could any person be elected Pope who did not? The question is whether he had any enemies to the right.
I have seen the Vatican statement elsewhere, but the link provided at the top of this thread doesn't work for me. Is it just me?Ann Olivier:Pope Francis's gathering with the press tomorrow will be a opportunity for him to thank the journalists who have come to Rome to cover the Conclave and the Inaugural Mass on St. Joseph's Day. Between five and six thousand journalists are in Rome to report on these events. The meeting will be held in the vast Paul VI Audience Hall. I doubt that there will be any opportunity for questions. But this is a pope of surprises, who so far seems to be eluding the control of the Vatican handlers. He will certainly make some remarks, and may address this controversy. But I tend to doubt it. It's not the right setting. Perhaps in time he will agree to one-on-one conversations with a journalist, as Benedict XVI has done with Peter Seewald.
Ms. Steinfels - are you asking about his first homily in the Sistine Chapel?Link: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/03/14/pope_francis:_1st_homily_(full_text)/en1-673526Appears that it was written out in latin but the pope chose to set that printed talk aside and talk to the gathered cardinals in Italian and without reference to any printed material.
For background information on how anyone could be critical of liberation theology, here is a link to the CDF statement: Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "Theology of Liberation"http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_... be critical is not to reject the goal of liberation. From the CDF document:"This warning should in no way be interpreted as a disavowal of all those who want to respond generously and with an authentic evangelical spirit to the "preferential option for the poor." It should not at all serve as an excuse for those who maintain the attitude of neutrality and indifference in the face of the tragic and pressing problems of human misery and injustice. It is, on the contrary, dictated by the certitude that the serious ideological deviations which it points out tends inevitably to betray the cause of the poor. More than ever, it is important that numerous Christians, whose faith is clear and who are committed to live the Christian life in its fullness, become involved in the struggle for justice, freedom, and human dignity because of their love for their disinherited, oppressed, and persecuted brothers and sisters. More than ever, the Church intends to condemn abuses, injustices, and attacks against freedom, wherever they occur and whoever commits them. She intends to struggle, by her own means, for the defense and advancement of the rights of mankind, especially of the poor."Personally, I think very highly of liberation theology. However, I think this statement from the CDF raises some fair critical questions. The alternatives are not so absolute as this post makes out. I agree with Bill Mazzella. Eduardo, you say you are merely asking questions, but they are leading questions. When I read your post, I understood it to say that the situation is black and white. That is, if anyone criticizes liberation theology, they must either be moral cowards, or out for their own advancement, or support throwing people out of helicopters. This seems unfair to me.
The question is whether he had any enemies to the right. I hope they don't poison him.
Here are another two paragraphs from the instruction quoted above that bear on this question:17. In this full presentation of Christianity, it is proper to emphasize those essential aspects which the "theologies of liberation" especially tend to misunderstand or to eliminate, namely: God and true man; the sovereignty of grace; and the true nature of the means of salvation, especially of the Church and the sacraments. One should also keep in mind the true meaning of ethics in which the distinction between good and evil is not relativized, the real meaning of sin, the necessity for conversion, and the universality of the law of fraternal love. One needs to be on guard against the politicization of existence which, misunderstanding the entire meaning of the Kingdom of God and the transcendence of the person, begins to sacralize politics and betray the religion of the people in favor of the projects of the revolution.18. The defenders of orthodoxy are sometimes accused of passivity, indulgence, or culpable complicity regarding the intolerable situations of injustice and the political regimes which prolong them. Spiritual conversion, the intensity of the love of God and neighbor, zeal for justice and peace, the Gospel meaning of the poor and of poverty, are required of everyone, and especially of pastors and those in positions of responsibility. The concern for the purity of the faith demands giving the answer of effective witness in the service of one's neighbor, the poor and the oppressed in particular, in an integral theological fashion. By the witness of their dynamic and constructive power to love, Christians will thus lay the foundations of this "civilization of love" of which the Conference of Puebla spoke, following Paul VI. [34] Moreover there are already many priests, religious, and lay people who are consecrated in a truly evangelical way for the creation of a just society.
According to the Google translation, three paragraphs toward the end of the article cited by David Gibson, (2:32 PM) (http://www.elnuevodia.com/jesuitatorturadoporlajuntamilitarestaenpazcone...) read as follows: The issue of alleged collaboration with the Board Pope Francisco was approached years ago by Argentine journalist Horacio Verbistky and now resurfaced after the election of the pope.Bergoglio himself replied to the accusations in 2010, in the book "The Jesuit" and rejected such collaboration.The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Prez Esquivel refused these days these charges from the British BBC television, where he said that there were bishops who were accomplices of the dictatorship in Argentina, but Bergoglio no.
Enemies to the Right? He'll certainly have them now. Will that be good enuf?
3,000 deaths by drone (the admittedly hazy consensus figure on Pro Publico) isn't tens of thousands, but we are on only the Beta version of the drones and just warming up. Does anybody here know Ellen Grady, Ithaca, NY, arrested three times so far for protesting the worldwide assassination program? (America, March 11.) Sen. Rand Paul noticed the program, but his compassion extends only to Americans and mostly only those in this country. Nothing about collateral civilians here and there. Our junta is still in power, though, chalking them up.Grady and Rand make one and a half on the side of the angels. And the opposition party applauds, so there is no hope there.I can't believe the balance of attention between Argentina 30-40 years ago and this country right now. I must look up motes and beams.
Eduardo, what I would love to see is links to stories about what Bergoglio did and said in the decades you are referring to. How did he criticize liberation theology? Did he recognize and distinguish between different theologians? Did he do so in the context of no criticism of capitalism? Why would Boff ever be saying what he is if Bergoglio were what you say he was? David Gibson's links are very helpful, especially The Guardian one. I really hope Francis is allowed to be pope for a while before he gets to boxed in, even by Vatican press officials. I think the "anticlerical left" comment was not helpful.
Thanks Eduardo for an interesting post. As strong supporter of liberation theology who helped organise protests against dictator Videla's visit to New Zealand at the time, I agree with you on the general context of marxism/communism and the need of the Church to work with Marxists, and others, for social justice. We need to be humble and open and work with others even if we may disagree on some things.There does not seem to me to be much of a case against Fr Bergoglio. He intervened to save the 2 Jesuit priests, he risked his own life by sheltering fugitives from the dictatorship in his own home and even gave his identify papers to one of them who looked like him so he could flee the country.There were valid criticism's of some liberation theology enthusiasts who were tempted to employ methods not in accord with the gospel - armed revolution and a certain tendency to try to transform the Church into a political party. I expect Bergogolio's reservations on liberation theology would have been along those lines. Would be interested to hear more.I would be very wary of suggesting that Fr Bergogolio wasn't outspoken enough without knowing everything he said and in what context (lots of pressure not just from the military dictatorship but also within the Church and possibly even from Rome). Fr Bergoglio may have been rather constrained in what he could say or do in such a context.God Bless
What seems very odd to me is that Bergoglio, a Jesuit and the Provincial, took the stance of the Vatican over the stance of the Superior General of his own order. Pedro Arrupe made clear that he supported the Jesuits working with the poor, even if it put them in danger from right-wing juntas .... "They may end up as martyrs, but my priests are not going to leave because they are with the people." I think of the courage and commitment of Jesuits like those killed later in El Salvador and of Oscar Romero - Bergoglio seemed to be the opposite of all that.
I hope this is not the Spanish version of The Onion. If this is true, the man is charging out the opening gate and heading in the right direction (Yes, I know this is not the subject of this discussion ... but it appears to be damned good news!):http://www.periodistadigital.com/religion/vaticano/2013/03/15/francisco-... site offers a pidgin English translation service.As se hace, Francisco!
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