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During the webinar, OCLC staff and members of the Global Council Advisory Group on Incentives engage with librarians at member libraries on the topic of OCLC cataloging credits and incentives, to provide background on the current credits model, share findings and recommendations of the OCLC Global Council Cost Sharing Models Task Force, and gather input and feedback from member libraries.
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A spokesperson for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was unable to comment to several specific questions related to the operation of the center, but GEO administrators were able to clarify the situation and respond to specific concerns.
GEO officials said the unit, which has for the past two years housed about 500 adult males, most of which have been undocumented immigrants from Central America, is being converted to house single-parent families with children where the sole parent is the mother. GEO has a contract to operate the facility under the direction of ICE.
Undocumented immigrant families where there is both a father and a mother are being detained in different ICE detention facilities across the U.S., GEO officials said during a presentation to the Karnes City Rotary Club on July 24. There will be no adult males housed in the facility, only adult women and their children.
Unaccompanied children who have been taken into custody are planned to be housed in the San Antonio area, GEO officials said.
Local people expressed concerns about possible health risks to the community as a result of housing the detainees at the detention center, but GEO officials said there would be no greater health risks to the general public with the new residents than there were when adult males were being detained in the center.
During an interview with The Karnes Countywide Monday, ICE Spokesperson Nina Pruneda said, "On July 11, 2014, ICE modified its contract with Karnes County, Texas, in order to transition the Karnes County Civil Detention Center (KCCDC) from a facility housing adult males to a female adults with children residential facility.
"This was done in order to expand the agency's capacity to house Central American female adults with children who've been apprehended while attempting to cross the border and placed into expedited removal proceedings. It is anticipated that KCCDC will begin housing Central American female adults with children within the next several weeks."
While the exact number of detainees that will be housed at the facility is at this time undetermined, Pruneda said that the facility has a maximum capacity of 532 detainees.
Pruneda declined to comment when asked if the contract could be modified without approval from the county.
GEO officials said the contract, with the new modifications, had been recently signed by Karnes County Judge Richard Butler.
The $32 million center opened its doors in 2012.
Late last week, GEO officials said the name of the facility has been changed to the Karnes County Family Residential Center.
There are no expected adverse effects to the local community as a result of the changes, GEO sources emphasized. They confirmed that the children living at the facility would not enter the public schools. A charter school will be set up inside the facility where the immigrant children will receive classroom instruction while they are being detained.

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By Tom Philpott: CNJ columnist
Department of Defense actuaries have discovered significantly higher mortality rates among active duty retirees compared to reserve retirees, and the disparity stretches back decades.
In any given year, looking at populations of non-disabled military retirees age 60 and older, the death rate for active duty enlisted retirees is 20 to 25 percent higher than for reserve enlisted retirees. Active duty officer retirees who are 60 and older die in numbers roughly 10 percent higher than retired reserve peers.
All retired officers, and retired reserve enlisted members, still live a few years longer, on average, than the general population. But for retired active duty enlisted, it's about even with other Americans.
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You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be - I had a mother who read to me. --Strickland Gillilan
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. --Washington Irving


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A-Rod at the Plate
I remember listening to NPR while driving to work one spring morning and hearing a wonderful rendition of the famous poem, Casey at the Bat. It was read by James Earl Jones and the recitation was accompanied by some orchestra. Sure enough, it was Opening Day and it felt like the perfect way to start the baseball season.
But that was a different time. That was spring of 2002 when maybe we weren't quite as naive as we had been but we were far enough removed from the strike and still unaware of the steroid scandal. I'm afraid that if I were to tune in my radio on Opening Day this year, the poem would be quite a bit shorter and might go something like this:
The outlook wasn't brilliant for most baseball fans that day;
Canseco had become a sage with allegations of tainted play,
And when McGwire admitted using, and knowing Bonds had done the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought with optimism that was waning as of late,
"The game might still have purity now, with A-Rod at the plate."
But, the sneer has fled from A-Rod's lip, the eyes are filled with tears;
He sports a shirt and sweater as his soul to us he bares.
And now Gammons forms the question, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of A-Rod's blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout;
But there is no joy in baseball — mighty A-Rod has struck out.
Only this time it's not just the Mudville nine that lose. It's all of us.
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That was really good, Allen! Thanks for sharing your twist on a classic. Now I really wanna hear James Earl Jones read it!
Have you offered yourself up as Obama's poet laureate, Allen? I think you have a shot (unless you have a tax problem).
James Earl Jones will be reading it — he's one of our most loyal fans (I'm lying).
Jane, Allen is invisible so he doesn't worry about little things like taxes and morals.
I loved that…..it's sad, but true! Hopefully this problem with steroids will only make the true athletes shine brighter than ever before, without the use of drugs, but I guess we'll have to see.
Can James Earl Jones do the Darth Vader voice with the heavy breathing and all when he reads it? :O) I think that totally makes the poem.
I can just imagine James Earl Jones reading Casey at the Plate with epic music in the background. What a great way to start out the season.
You have also written a great parody of the poem– it's brilliant. You should send it somewhere, to help show the disappointment of us fans.
Somehow though, I think baseball will save us, and itself.
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."-Babe Ruth
To paraphrase Babe Ruth "The way (a union lives) as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world (as its members) but if they don't support each other and work together to correct their mistakes, the union won't be worth a dime." Thus, the fans suffer. I thought the real blame lies in those that did not destroy the results from 2003.
Only blame those who still use after the testing was enforced. Check out my thoughts at http://mlbtribefan.mlblogs.com
Keep the faith!
Well said, Allen. And you're right, we are all the biggest losers in this mess. I'm afraid it's just going to get worse before it gets better.
I think we should all take a moment and soak in the moment you read this post. It was simply amazing…


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ROTONDA WEST, Fla. U.S. Army retired Col. Obel H. Obie Wells, 83, of Sportsman Road, died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at the Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, Fla.
Born May 10, 1929, in Sayre, Okla., he was the son of Thurmond and Inez Wells. In 1948, he graduated from Coachella High School in Indio, Calif., and received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration in 1965 from St. Benedicts College in Atchison, Kan., and later his masters degree in political science at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala.
On Aug. 4, 1948, he entered the U.S. Army in Sacramento, Calif., and attended Army Officer Candidate School at Fort Riley, Kan., being commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry on March 23, 1951. He was inducted into the Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame at Fort Benning, Ga., in 2011.
In 1965, he graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. A distinguished combat officer, he served as an infantry unit commander in Korea and was a helicopter unit commander while serving for 20 months in Vietnam.
Among his many decorations, he was awarded the Combat Infantrymans Badge with star, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Air Medal five times and the Purple Heart. His foreign service was recognized by the Korean government, and he had received several awards because of his distinguished service in Vietnam, from their government.
During his military career, he became a master parachutist and master aviator and was discharged as a full colonel at Fort Devens, Mass., on Aug. 31, 1978. An assignment prior to his discharge was being the aviation capability adviser to the Shah of Iran, and he became a recognized expert on Middle Eastern affairs.
Being a soldier model for the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C., he was a distinguished guest at the dedication ceremony there.
He and his family moved to their home on Ridgewood Terrace in Barre Town, Vt., in 1978, and he began his career as a stockbroker and financial adviser in 1979. Following his retirement, he and his wife, Suzie, built their home in Rotonda West, Fla.
He was first married to Catherine Sortis, and they later divorced.
On May 16, 1964, he married Pauline M. Suzie Burrell at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. They had resided at several military installations before moving to Barre Town in 1978 and later to Rotonda West, Fla. Suzie died July 7, 2001, in Berlin, Vt.
Traveling, reading, golf, writing, coin and currency collecting and entertaining his friends were his special interests. He was an active member of the Barre Rotary Club and past president, and belonged to the Barre Country Club, the Rotonda Golf Club and St. Monica Catholic Church.
Survivors include his daughter, Elizabeth Blake, and her husband, Courtland, of East Walpole, Mass.; and his son Michael Wells and his wife, Helen, in Goldens Bridge, N.Y.; and his daughter-in-law Voula Wells, of Greenwich, Conn.; as well as seven grandchildren, Calvin and Julie Blake and Steven, Nicholas, Andrew, Konstantine and Katrina Wells; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He also leaves two sisters, Uneida Burt and Arthula Kennard; and stepbrothers Jack, Joel and Donald Wells; and stepsister Ramona Coffer.
Besides his parents and his wife, Suzie, he was predeceased by his son George; his sister Orpha Ferguson; and brothers Seaburn and Lloyd Wells; and stepbrother Dean Wells.
Obie was a 24-year survivor of his heart transplant in 1989 and was a great supporter and fundraiser for the American Heart Association in the Washington County area.
Col. Wells Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Thursday, March 14, 2013, at 11 a.m. in St. Monica Catholic Church in Barre.
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Idaho holds off Roadrunners on Saturday night, 74-70
MOSCOW, Idaho — Michael Hale III posted his third consecutive game with 20-plus points, but Kyle Barone registered a double-double of 25 points and 16 rebounds to help Idaho hold off UTSA, 74-70, on Saturday night at the Cowan Spectrum.
Barone was a perfect 10-for-10 from the floor and he made 5-of-6 at the free-throw line to help the Vandals improve to 8-11 overall and 4-5 in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).
Hale III, who scored 66 points combined in his last two contests, drained five 3-pointers en route to 21 points to help the Roadrunners (5-14, 1-8 WAC) rattle home a season-high 13 shots from beyond the arc. The senior point guard also dished out seven assists and was joined in double figures in scoring by Kannon Burrage (16), Edrico McGregor (career-high 10) and Hyjii Thomas (10).
Playing their fourth game in a row without starting forward Jeromie Hill (knee injury), the Roadrunners used their outside shooting to help offset a size disadvantage that helped contribute to a 38-24 Idaho edge on the glass.
Hale III gave UTSA a 55-53 advantage with a long 3-pointer from the top of the key at the 7:34 mark, but Idaho responded with a 7-0 run capped by a pair of Barone free throws to reclaim the lead, 60-55, with 5:03 left.
Jordan Sims and Thomas connected from downtown over the next two minutes to help trim the deficit to 63-62 with just over three minutes remaining.
Sims, who pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds, drained another three from the wing to put UTSA up, 65-64 with 2:09 on the clock, but Idaho answered with a Stephen Madison layup at the 1:49 mark.
Mike McChristian then came up with a huge 3-pointer from the corner for the Vandals with a minute to play to make it 69-65. Barone then blocked a UTSA 3-point attempt and finished off a fast break with a reverse layup to put Idaho up by six.
After Burrage connected on a short jumper with 25.2 ticks left, the Roadrunners sent Connor Hill to the line, where he made the first but missed second, giving the ball back to the Roadrunners with 20.8 seconds left.
Hale III connected from long distance on the right wing to make it 72-70 with 8.9 seconds on the clock.
Hill was sent to the line once again and this time he made both to help ice the victory in the first-ever meeting between the two schools.
Hill totaled 15 points on the strength of four treys, while Madison added 13 for the Vandals, who shot 52 percent (26-of-50) and made 9-of-20 (45 percent) from downtown.
Idaho led for the majority of the first half and took a 36-28 lead on a Joe Kammerer layup at the 2:25 mark. The Vandals made five of their first 10 3-point attempts and shot 53.6 percent from the field overall in the frame.
UTSA caught fire from outside late in the first, as Burrage knocked down a fast-break jumper in the lane to kick-start a 10-2 run to close the half. Hale III then found Thomas for a dunk after a steal by Larry Wilkins before Burrage connected from downtown to pull the Roadrunners to within three at 38-35 with 25 seconds left. Wilkins came up with another theft and Hale III drained a long trey at the buzzer to knot the score at 38.
The Roadrunners shot 40.4 percent (23-of-57) from the floor and was 13-for-28 (46.4 percent) from behind the 3-point line and 11-of-13 (84.6 percent) at the charity stripe. UTSA also turned 11 Idaho turnovers into 17 points.
The Roadrunners return home to host Denver (11-8, 7-2 WAC) on Thursday, Jan. 31. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Convocation Center.


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Polymathic Ponderings
Ever since the accident (see comments), I've been having difficulty focusing my thoughts; but don't worry. I will still find a way to express them in a brilliant, informative manner as is always expected here at RSBS. I am many things, but a quitter without an opinion I am not.
Picture it: October 2008. The first round of the MLB playoffs are in full stride and not a Red Sox or Yankee is anywhere to be found. Yes. It could happen, folks. For the first time in recent memory, both the Yankees and the Red Sox may find themselves sitting out during the important games. The Rays and Angels look to be locks and it seems that the Twins and White Sox are in a tussle for the other two spots in the AL. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but it's hard to dismiss the possibility. Think of the chaos, the madness, the tantrums that would follow. At least emergency rooms in the northeast would be more quiet than usual.
Imagine my horror. Finally over the disappointment of not being able to see Allison Stokke vault her majesty in the Olympic games, I found myself settling on Swedish hurdler Susanna Kallur to satisfy my propensity for body-gazing during female competitions. Yes. My mind was made up. She was going to be the one. And then she knocked down the very first hurdle, fell to the ground and didn't finish the race, further proving my theory that the combination of beauty and athletic prowess is more rare than me having somewhere to go on a Saturday night.
Envision the face of Barack Obama's Vice President. Is it male? Female? White? Black? (doubt it) Latino? (double-doubt it) In any case, we should know soon and I have a feeling it will be someone whom we never even thought of. (No, silly, it won't be me. I'm too busy blogging and raising cain, but thanks for the thought).
Think about it. Wouldn't that USA/China baseball spat have been more exciting and more newsworthy if some real punches had been thrown? Look, I get it. The Olympics is all about class and sportsmanship but this isn't the floor exercise we're talking about here: this is baseball. Our sport. Our way. And we fight. Robin Ventura, Nolan Ryan, Michael Barrett, A.J. Pierzynski… those guys would have tore heads off — they would've brought bloody pride to the Red, White and Blue. A knockdown at home plate, some bean balls here and there… jeesh. I was really disappointed.
See the world the way my colleague Allen Krause sees it and see a world that revolves around the wonders and blunders of one irksome Venezuela. Yes, dear readers, I ask the same question you do: What the hell is up with all of these Venezuela posts? This one and this one and this one… I understand that Venezuela is quickly rising the ranks to be the proverbial pebble in US America's shoe, but come on… Mr. Krause is talking about the degrees of handsomeness between Miguel Cabrera, Magglio Ordonez and Ozzie Guillen. That's crazy. That's just plain crazy.
And you know it's crazy. You know you've had enough. And you know there's no reason to hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Excellent post. But the first one-that's just crazy talk. I won't have anyone to madly root for or anyone to double-madly root against. I guess I would go against the Angels and Rays, but hey! Here's a thought. I could be a Dodgers fan for the playoffs. That would be interesting. But should Yankee and Red Sox Nation fail, steer clear of those blogs, because the fans that spiral into a pit of depression will probably lash out at you for even commenting, and the ones who get angry will definitely lash out at you. Those who do both (e.g. me) won't be too happy either. But for now and forever, I BELIEVE!
Haven't been on in a while. Been really busy, however, no one is too busy to read RSBS. My bad! I can't root for the swedish, even if she is hot. I have to stick with the red, white and blue. I would have rooted for her demise, but enjoyed watching it.
I am picturing the face of Obama's VP and I see the hair plugs and caustic smirk of our esteemed senator from Delaware, Joe Biden. And he's a solid choice for his foreign policy experience and to be the hatchet man on the campaign. Any man who comes up with the line about Rudy Giuliani that all of his statements contain a noun, a verb and 9/11 is alright with me.
Can't get into the Swedish chick though; my fiancee's Finnish and there's a sort of friendly rivalry between the two countries; the Finns think that the Swedes are, shall we say, delicate. Is it my imagination or does the guy I would presume to be Allison Stokke's boyfriend look like a capital J, capital O, Jerk Off?
For ogling, you can't beat the Chinese women's volleyball team😉
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Neal — Believe me, if that happens, I'll watch my back when I trash talk them😉
Tim — You know me, I'm behind US America all the way; but beauty knows no border.
Prince — Signs point to Biden, but I think the Obama camp wants us to think that so when he comes out with the real choice, we'll all be pleasantly surprised. I just don't see Biden as being the go-to guy on this one. Oh, and I think Finns and Swedes are great. What's wrong with delicate?
Michael — Been there, done that… you're right though.
I always assumed that the Venezualan posts were coded messages to CIA Operatives working to overthrow the Government.
Don't know if I would say that the Rays are locks – they have not played well in Boston or NY, and their September schedule is brutal (tons of division games, esp. against those two – actually, I think they play six in a row against the Sox at one point – that alone could turn that race around quick). They also have one more game against the Angels and then a series against the White Sox, while the Red Sox play the Orioles and then goes to Toronto. The Red Sox also have more home games remaining, I believe. I will be very interested to see how the Rays do as the games go by and the pressure really starts to mount. In the end, I think that Boston will end up squeaking by, but the Rays will take the wild card.
I am pretty close to saying that the race is pretty much between Boston and Tampa, though. I never like to count out the Yankees, given what they've done in the past, but 11 games out – if it's more than 10 at the end of the month, it's between Boston and Tampa for sure.


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State business development body lost track of $56M in loans last year
Serious but fixable problems have been uncovered in Wisconsin's 17-month-old quasi-public economic development agency, which lost track last year of $56 million in loans to businesses.
Leaders of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. told board members the initial findings that the organization made "some missteps" in a memo released Friday.
The memo is a status update on the agency's efforts to address problems that led to losing track of the loans.
While no evidence of any misconduct has been uncovered, interim WEDC Secretary Reed Hall and Deputy Secretary Ryan Murray said in the memo that they found isolated problems related to internal documentation and reporting processes.
Murray said there were a number of what he called "disjointed" efforts to address the tracking of the loans, but the issue wasn't pushed.
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The director of the camp appeared before the planning board on March 1 to seek a special use permit to build a modest laundromat. The unusual part of the process was that the proposed facility was meant to replace a smaller one that was built last summer without notification to the town or the required permits.
At an earlier meeting of the Liberty Planning Board in December 2010, the camp director, Meir Frischman, said the people who were staying at newly build duplexes didn't want to carry their laundry to another part of the camp. "It was something you had to do," he said. He added that he had seen similar violations of code in the past, and the permits were always granted.
The planning board attorney, Walter Garigliano, categorized the significance of the matter by saying the laundromat was small enough that "I could move it with one of my tractors."
This reporter's lives across the street from the camp, and has been actively trying to prevent its further expansion; the camp has been granted 19 building permits since 2000.
At the public hearing on March 1, this reporter argued that the camp is on a street which is zoned residential settlement, and a laundromat is a prohibited use in this zoning district.
Garigliano said that the laundromat was considered an accessory use for a nonconforming use [the camp], and is therefore permitted. Therefore, while a camp is allowed to build a laundromat in the neighborhood, a homeowner would not be permitted to do so without a zoning variance, which is more difficult to obtain than a special-use permit.
Like other land use issues, such as the expansion of the landfill in Monticello, the resurrection of the race track in Bethel, the firewood production facility near Jeffersonville and gas-drilling operations proposed for multiple locations, the camp expansion has brought a share of controversy.
Several of the neighbors on the street have expressed frustration over the camp because since 2002 four large buildings and additions have been built close to the road and, according to records obtained in a Freedom if Information Law request, they seem to have been built in violation of town code. Three of the buildings had no site plan review, public hearing or public comment, and one had a public hearing that was held after the foundation had already been poured.
Anne Hart, this reporter's wife, said, "Because of the segmented manner in which these 19 applications have been presented for review and approval, there has been no overall review of the total cumulative adverse impacts that these projects have had on the neighborhood."
In April 2010, a Sullivan County real estate agent testified that a house near a camp is worth 30% less than the same house not near a camp. At the March 1 hearing, this reporter, a former Sullivan County real estate agent, testified that the buildings that went up since 2002 have reduced property values on the street by about $70,000, which would ultimately result in lower tax payments to the town, school district and county.
A man who identified himself as a real estate agent from Fallsburg said the buildings did not reduce property values because people who would like to walk to the synagogue at the camp would want to buy the houses.
The NY State Court of Appeals has written of nonconforming uses, "the highest priority of zoning is their reasonable restriction and eventual elimination." The board and Garigliano have indicated in the past that the current town code does not allow them to say no to the expansion of nonconforming uses.
The board will again consider the permit request at a meeting on April 5.


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Sitting at this particular computer, I am faced with a map of the northern New Mexico Mountains; the southwestern point is Albuquerque, and the northern border is about ten miles over the Colorado state line.
As the map is topographical, it provides a great opportunity for placing oneself into the experience, with an imaginary journey through that beautiful area of our state.
Having driven through much of that area, at one time or another, and having been able to explore at least pieces of it on foot, it is easy to imagine the chance to explore further, to go hiking, riding, and otherwise enjoy this scenic and historic block of our state.
As you hopefully are aware of by now, 2012 is the centennial of New Mexico's statehood, and a landmark therefore in our story. It would be a great time to become acquainted with some of the area in the map.
Growing up in western Pennsylvania, it was one of my goals to hike, or hike in part, the Appalachian Trail. Like many fluid goals in life, this one was achieved precisely in part; I was able to see and hike significant sections of the trail, but not all of it.
In the same manner, I believe it would be a great experience to walk, bike or drive as much of the Santa Fe trail, where it still is attainable, as possible.
I realize, as would anyone who looks at this or other maps, that the trail as it now exists is a compound of walkable, bikable, and places where a car would be a necessity, not a neatly groomed and specifically designated hiking trail like the Appalachian or Seacoast.
Nonetheless, I believe it would be do-able.
We have not had much winter, despite its auspicious start. At such times, or under such conditions, I get discouraged pretty quickly with the prospects of anything happening. In other words, my mind quickly jumps ahead to — "If we're not going to have snow, then let's get on with it." (No, there really hasn't been much snow in the northern area of the state, either, in the big picture.)
So — let's get on with it. Celebrate the centennial by exploring the historic route into our state. Oil the hiking boots, gas up the car, graphite the bicycle gears, and get ready to discover.
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Mrs. Vivian Jacobson, 96 formerly of Northville, NY died peacefully on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at the Sarah Jane Sanford Home for Women in Amsterdam. Born in Brooklyn, NY on May 20, 1916 she was the daughter of the late Emanuel Engel and Beatrice Stern Engel.
On April 4, 1937 she was united in marriage to Henry "Hank" Jacobson. That union lasted 69 years until his passing on November 14, 2006.
She leaves her many devoted family and friends.
Vivian was a member of the Congregation Sons of Israel Synagogue, Amsterdam Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and the Northville Public Library. Her greatest joy in life was reading and surrounding herself with the company of friends.
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Seven Steps to Overhaul Counterproliferation
March 17, 2004
Author: Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Preventive Defense Project
Written Testimony
Seven Steps to Overhaul Counterproliferation
Statement of
Ashton B. Carter
Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
The House Armed Services Committee
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Armed Services Committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. Today I would like to step back a bit and look beyond today's proliferation hotspots – North Korea, Iran, the A.Q. Khan network, the "missing" WMD in Iraq – to the underlying policies and programs of the United States for counterproliferation (CP). I was deeply involved in launching the Pentagon's CP Initiative almost ten years ago, when there were few of us hawks on this subject. The way you have framed this hearing is a reminder that dealing with the so-called "rogues," though vitally important, is not the totality of the CP policy we need.
No Silver Bullets: A Comprehensive Approach to Counterproliferation
A clear indication that our approach to countering proliferation should not begin and end with the rogues is that most of the nearly 200 nations on earth have not, in fact, resorted to weapons of mass destruction (WMD). There are but a few rogues, fortunately. In one of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novels, Sherlock Holmes sees a vital clue in the fact that a dog at the scene of the crime did not bark. In a similar way, we should see a clue to one aspect of a successful CP policy in the fact that such countries as Germany, Japan, Turkey, South Korea, and Taiwan have not resorted to WMD. They have not because they were dissuaded from doing so by a stable alliance relationship with the United States that offered better security for them than WMD. This is something the United States has been doing right and should keep doing right; later I will return to this point, because I have some concerns about the health of our alliances and partnerships.
Other nations have foregone WMD as part of a disarmament agreement like the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that ensures them that if they forego WMD, their neighbors will also. If disarmament regimes can be strengthened and updated so they offer credible protection, they too can play a vital role in CP.
When dissuasion and disarmament fail and a nation heads down the road to WMD acquisition, focused diplomacy by the United States can sometime reverse its course. Recent decades give many examples: Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus after the collapse of the Soviet Union; South Korea and Taiwan in the 1980s; Argentina and Brazil in the 1990s; perhaps Libya in recent years.
Some proliferators cannot be turned back. At that point our approach must be to deny them the means to make WMD: keeping the worst weapons out of the hands of the worst people, to paraphrase President Bush. Export controls, covert action, the new Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), and the highly successful Nunn-Lugar program all contribute to the strategy of denial.
Sometimes dissuasion, disarmament, diplomacy, and denial don't work, and despite our best efforts proliferation occurs. It was important to me during the time I served in the Defense Department that US efforts to counter WMD not end when nonproliferation had failed, and that is one reason we coined the word "counterproliferation". At that point we need to offer protection to our forces, people, and allies against use of WMD. Elimination of hair-trigger alert postures, improved permissive action link (PAL) type technology, and other defusing measures can reduce the chances of accidental or unauthorized use of WMD – from Russia, for example, or between India and Pakistan. With respect to deliberate use, the United States should continue its current policy of threatening "overwhelming and devastating" retaliation against anyone who uses nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons against us, since in at least some cases deterrence might be effective. Where deterrence fails, defenses – ranging from chemical suits, inhalation masks, and vaccines to ballistic missile defense (BMD) – are needed. Finally, where the risk of use of WMD is imminent, preemptive destruction of hostile WMD might be a necessary last resort.
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: dissuasion, disarmament, diplomacy, denial, defusing, deterrence, defenses, destruction – what the Department of Defense calls the "8 D's," are the tools of a comprehensive counterproliferation policy. Besides being an easy jog to the memory, the 8 D's are a reminder that there is no silver bullet for counterproliferation – not preemption (destruction), not arms control (disarmament), nor any other single tool. From listening to the public debate one might come to believe that one of these tools holds the key to protection against proliferation. But the dynamics driving proliferation in different countries are different enough that no single label or doctrine can cover them all. One might also infer from the public debate that the 8 D's are competing, alternative "doctrines." In fact we need them all.
Ingredients of a Needed Overhaul of Counterproliferation
Today a CP "hawk" should be trying to strengthen all tools in the toolbox – all 8 D's. Many of them are in need of fundamental overhaul. One problem is that some date to the Cold War, when counterproliferation was a "B list" problem compared to the "A list" confrontation with the Soviet Union. Another problem is that we have not heeded a lesson of the attacks of 9/11: counterproliferation and counterterrorism are inseparable in the 21st century. We must be concerned not only about what Kim Jong Il might do with nuclear weapons he obtains from the plutonium he is reprocessing, but also about the other hands into which North Korea's nukes might some day fall – either through sale or in the chaos of a collapse of the North Korean regime. The half-life of plutonium 239 is 24,400 years; surely the North Korean regime will not last that long. Today's proliferation threat is tomorrow's catastrophic terrorism threat. Who among us would not give a great deal now to return to the 1980s and stop the Pakistani nuclear program, which might be "talibanized" sometime in the future – truly a nightmare scenario?
9/11 should have caused us to overhaul our approach to counterproliferation as fundamentally as our approach to counterterrorism. But so far the "worst people" have gotten more attention than the "worst weapons."
The counterproliferation hawk's agenda would have seven priorities, which together cover all of the "8 D's."
1. Strengthen alliances and partnerships. I indicated earlier that the prospect of being embedded in a stable security relationship with the United States has been critical to preventing proliferation in such countries as South Korea, Turkey, Taiwan, and Ukraine. This underappreciated benefit of America's security partnerships is another reason to avoid the temptation to make a virtue of an Iraq war necessity, the so-called "coalition of the willing." Compared to standing partnerships and alliances, such coalitions do not serve US interests well. Alliance partners train together to interoperate, so when they go to war they are not only willing but able to make a contribution to combined operations. Alliance partners routinely exchange threat assessments, making them more likely – not certain, to be sure, but more likely – to share our view when we believe use of force is necessary. And finally, alliance partners stably tied to the US for their defense are unlikely to adopt a drastic, purely national approach to their defense like acquisition of WMD. For all these reasons, we should reject the notion that the United States can operate effectively through "coalitions of the willing" and use that concept only as a last resort when we have no success in leading our allies in our direction.
2. Expand the scale and scope of Nunn-Lugar. Nunn-Lugar is now recognized to be not just a DOD program focused on the former Soviet Union, the way it began a dozen years ago, but a novel approach to eliminating WMD of wide applicability. At the time the United States formed a coalition against al Qaeda after 9/11, it should have formed a parallel coalition against WMD based on the Nunn-Lugar approach. In fact, such a Coalition Against WMD Terrorism was proposed at the time by none other than Senators Lugar and Nunn. The United States missed a major opportunity to transform counterproliferation while it had the attention and sympathies of the world.
It is not too late to expand the scale and scope of Nunn-Lugar. The expansion would plan for and fund: the final and complete safeguarding of all former Soviet fissile materials, in weapons and non-weapons forms; bolder inroads into former Soviet biological and chemical stockpiles and facilities; collection of all significant caches of highly enriched uranium worldwide, eliminating these "sleeper cells" of nuclear terrorism; complete and verifiable elimination of WMD programs in Iraq, Libya, Iran, and North Korea as and when circumstances permit; promulgation and adoption of world-class standards for inventory control, safety, and security for all weapons and weapons-usable materials; strengthening border and export controls; and devising cooperative international responses (NEST teams, radiological public health measures, forensics, and so on) in the event of an incident of nuclear terrorism.
Nunn-Lugar is much praised but little funded in Washington and other capitals. Here in Washington there are tenacious opponents in Congress and even in the administration – two and a half years after 9/11's unmistakable wake-up call, and despite the fact that President Bush has voiced his support for the program.
3. Update and upgrade the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The NPT is sometimes disparaged because, it is said, the "bad guys" can ignore it with impunity (since it has inadequate verification and enforcement provisions) and the "good guys" would be good with or without an agreement. This contention is wrong for two reasons.
First, the world does not divide neatly into "good guys" and "bad guys" in regard to proliferation behavior: there is a substantial "in-between" category. This group has been represented over time by Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus (which chose to forsake the nuclear weapons they inherited from the Soviet Union); Argentina and Brazil (which mutually agreed to give up nuclear their nuclear programs); Taiwan and South Korea (which chose U.S. protection over nuclear weapons); and South Africa (which changed regimes and thus its sense of external threat). In all these cases, the allure of greater international acceptance if they abandoned their nuclear ambitions and signed the NPT was one of the deciding factors.
Secondly, it is important to note that agreements like the NPT are, in fact, useful even in dealing with the "bad guys," in an indirect way. When it becomes necessary for the United States to lead action against the rogues, the international consensus against WMD embodied in arms control agreements provides a framework for the United States to marshal the support of other nations.
While the NPT has great value in its current form, its provisions can and should be strengthened. One problem is that the concept of a so-called "peaceful atom," dating to the 1960s when the NPT was negotiated, constitutes a huge loophole in the regime that must be closed. A short time ago, the New York Times published an op-ed authored by William J. Perry, Brent Scowcroft, Arnold Kanter, and myself proposing a way to plug this loophole. I have attached that op-ed to this statement. My co-authors testified with me before the Senate Armed Services Committee, and we elaborated our recommendation for this policy change at that time. I was pleased that President Bush included this concept in his recent speech at National Defense University, and I hope he follows up vigorously to implement it. A second problem with the NPT is the weaknesses of its verification and enforcement provisions, which also need to be addressed.
Arms control plays a limited role in the counterproliferation toolbox. But in this it is not different from all the other tools. Each tool has its limitations, but also its place. The United States should be taking the lead in fixing the NPT, not in disparaging it.
4. Make counterproliferation an integral part of Pentagon Transformation. In the 1990s the term "counterproliferation" was coined in the Pentagon to signify that contending with WMD was an important DOD mission in the post-Cold War world. A number of counterproliferation programs were created within DOD to try to focus research, development, and acquisition on producing non-nuclear counters to WMD on the battlefield. Nuclear retaliation for use of WMD against US troops was always an option, but not all opponents will necessarily be deterred in this way, and in the event of WMD use against us the President deserves better options than firing US nuclear weapons.
Over time, the counterproliferation programs were expanded to protecting rear areas – ports and airfields in the theater of war – against chemical and biological weapons attack. Subsequently, the technologies for protecting allied rear areas were recognized to be applicable to protection of the US homeland from WMD attack. Thus, by 9/11, DOD was recognized as the lead agency in the federal government for developing and fielding technology for countering WMD wielded by both state and non-state actors, both on foreign battlefields and on US territory. Examples of counterproliferation programs, both research and acquisition, were chemical and biological warning sensors, improved vaccines against bioattack, individual and collective protective coverings, special munitions for attacking and neutralizing enemy WMD, radiochemical forensics, and active defenses such as ballistic missile defense.
Today the Pentagon is quite rightly devoting a portion of its growing budget to "transforming" the military to anticipate future threats and field dramatically new technologies. But the core of the effort remains long-range precision strike, close integration of intelligence information with operations, and closer working of Army, Navy, and Air Force units together in "joint" operations. These worthy transformation goals for conventional warfare have not been matched by any comparable counter-WMD emphasis. DOD's counterproliferation programs remain small and scattered among the Services, OSD, "joint" program offices, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Excluding missile defense, these programs amount to only a few billion out of the $400 billion defense budget, far too small a fraction given the importance of the mission. Counterproliferation needs more resources and a clearer management structure in DOD.
5. Increase focus on WMD terrorism within the Homeland Security program. A similar observation can be made about the priority given to WMD in the new homeland security agencies and budget. If the worst kind of terrorism imaginable is WMD terrorism, why is so small a fraction of the new homeland security program devoted to innovative efforts to prevent and respond to WMD terrorism?
6. Weigh carefully the pros and cons of further innovations in the US nuclear arsenal. An important question for counterproliferation is whether or not US deployments and doctrine for its own nuclear arsenal influence the spread of WMD elsewhere in the world. For the most part, the influence is marginal, both pro and con.
It is unlikely that Pyongyang's or Teheran's calculations, let alone al Qaeda's, are significantly dependent on whether the United States has 6000, 3500, or 2200 deployed strategic weapons (these are the numbers permitted under the last three rounds of U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control), retains tactical nuclear weapons deployed in Europe, researches or develops earth-penetrating or other new types of nuclear weapons, or has a doctrine that either threatens or forswears nuclear retaliation if chemical or biological weapons are used against the U.S. or its allies.
On the other hand, countering North Korean and Iranian WMD ambitions can be assisted with the support of other nations. Defeating al Qaeda absolutely depends upon cooperation by foreign governments in intelligence and law enforcement; in this area a unilateral option is not available. International support for these US-led efforts against WMD is influenced, again perhaps only at the margin, by US nuclear policy. To the extent that the United States suggests a growing reliance of its own on nuclear weapons for security, it makes the job of marshaling international cooperation in a coalition against WMD terrorism or an overhaul of WMD arms control more difficult.
Also, as described previously, we need to worry not only about the "rogues" but about the "in-betweens." Their decisions about nuclear weapons are probably more strongly influenced by their perception of the nuclear "order" that we represent and lead, and that is reflected in our own conduct.
The fear that the United States would or could use nuclear weapons is a deterrent against use of WMD by proliferating governments, and a means of destroying WMD before it can be used against us. But the United States has another tool of deterrence and destruction besides nuclear weapons – its unmatched conventional military power. Terrorists, for their part, are likely not deterred by threats of punishment at all.
The marginal costs of emphasizing the role of US nuclear weapons in its own security should therefore be weighed against the marginal benefits of modification of the US nuclear posture to strengthen our capabilities for deterrence and destruction. Recently the United States has embarked on three changes that do not meet this test.
One adjustment has been to combine nuclear weapons, missile defenses, and long-range conventional weapons into a "new Triad," replacing the traditional nuclear "Triad" of land-based missiles, submarine-based missiles, and strategic bombers. This construct accomplishes little in practice, but it has the detrimental and misleading effect of suggesting to the outside world that US presidents will regard use of nuclear weapons and use of conventional weapons as differing only in degree rather than in kind.
Another change with little obvious benefit is to accelerate the schedule for the resumption of underground nuclear testing. The new schedule allows weapons scientists to test at the earliest time they can be ready to gather useful data from the detonation. Given the stakes involved, the primary driver of the schedule for resuming underground testing should be military necessity, and on this score, the case for the change has not been made.
The third important modification is to embark on research and development of a new type of earth-penetrating nuclear warhead, ostensibly to destroy deeply buried WMD facilities. Again, the military rationale for this move is not strong, since the United States already has earth-penetrating nuclear weapons and the focus on munitions begs the larger question of finding such targets in the first place. The political enormity (and much of the fallout contamination) of a decision to cross the nuclear divide would not be much reduced by changing the design of the nuclear weapon. The benefit of this innovation in US nuclear programs is therefore modest.
The optimal US military strategy would be to seek to widen and prolong the huge gap between US conventional military capabilities and those of any other nation, to strengthen DOD's counterproliferation programs to give the President better non-nuclear counters to WMD, and to use transformational technology to narrow rather than widen the range of circumstances in which this nation would have to resort to use of nuclear weapons.
7. Overhaul WMD Intelligence: The Specter of Policymaking in the Dark. No policy tool – neither preemptive destruction, nor disarmament arms control, nor missile defense, nor denial – can be effective if the existence and nature of WMD efforts is unknown or imprecise.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld became convinced in the course of his work on ballistic missile proliferation before he took office that adequate intelligence on WMD programs is unlikely to be present in most cases. Given the stakes, he concluded, the US must assume the worst in formulating its policy responses. This logic, encapsulated in the maxim "absence of evidence [of WMD] is not evidence of absence," was the main intellectual argument in the Rumsfeld Commission report leading to the deployment of a National Missile Defense. According to this maxim, intelligence regarding the timetable for the development of an intercontinental ballistic missile threat originating in Iran or North Korea was uncertain enough that it was deemed imprudent for the United States merely to be prepared to deploy a missile defense within a few years (the Clinton administration policy), but instead necessary to undertake deployment immediately.
I myself applied the same logic to the need for a preemptive war in Iraq. I believed it was safer to assume Saddam Hussein was trying to fulfill his long-demonstrated quest for WMD than to interpret the scanty intelligence available as evidence of a scanty WMD program. I still believe my judgment to support the invasion of Iraq was sound on the basis of the information available at the time. But we now know that the overall picture that information painted was incorrect.
The matter of pre-war intelligence on Iraq's WMD is the subject of several ongoing inquiries, and my purpose in raising it is not to anticipate their results but to point to the larger issue of how to improve WMD intelligence in general.
WMD activities are inherently difficult to monitor. It is comparatively easy to monitor the size and disposition of armies, the numbers and types of conventional weaponry like tanks and aircraft, and even the operational doctrines and plans of military establishments (since these generally need to be rehearsed to be effective, and exercises and training can be monitored). By their nature, WMD concentrate destructive power in small packages and tight groups. Both the manufacturing of chemical and above all biological weapons can take place in small-scale facilities. The plutonium route to nuclear weapons requires reactors and reprocessing facilities that are large and relatively conspicuous, but the uranium route can be pursued in facilities that are modest in size and lack distinctive tell-tale external features.
A profound question bearing upon all of the 8 D's is therefore whether adequate intelligence is likely to be available to make any of them effective; or, alternatively, whether WMD spread is by its nature too difficult to monitor. If the latter is true, the world is doomed to a perpetual situation reminiscent of the "missile gap" of the 1950s, where uncertainties outweigh certainties and policymaking is forced into worst-case scenario mode.
The uncertainties of the 1950s missile gap were substantially dispelled by the invention of satellite reconnaissance. The Soviet Union's missile silo construction and flight tests were visible from space. Today, there are some emerging intelligence technologies that will potentially make a substantial contribution to the collection of quality intelligence on WMD. They are "close-in" technologies as opposed to "from-the-outside-looking-in" like satellite photography. They are described in rough outline in an article I wrote for Technology in Society, which will be published soon and which I have appended to this statement.
But no technology in the offing holds the promise of lifting the veil of WMD activities completely the way satellite photography lifted the veil from the Soviet Union's nuclear missile and bomber programs. Accurate intelligence on WMD would therefore be enhanced by four additional ingredients, two that are matters of policy, and two that are matters of intelligence community management.
The first ingredient is active cooperation by the parties under surveillance. Just as the Soviet Union allowed overflight of its territory by satellites, governments around the world will have to allow greater access to their territory, facilities, and scientists if there is to be any kind of accurate underpinning of counterproliferation. At a minimum, governments that wish to avoid suspicion (and thus coercion and even preemptive attack) will need to allow the kind of access promised to U.N. inspectors in Iraq before the 2003 war. Access involves the ability to inspect facilities by surprise, take material samples for forensic analysis, install monitoring equipment, and other physical means. It must be complemented by required data declarations, document searches, and interviews of scientists. These are tall orders, since they involve compromises with sovereignty and legitimate military secrecy for the nations inspected, but they are the only way North Korea's WMD ambitions will be verifiably eliminated, or Iran's nuclear power activities fully safeguarded.
The second ingredient must be the shifting of the burden of proof from the international community to the party under suspicion. To make an inspection system of carefully managed, if not totally unfettered, access based on active cooperation succeed, it must be the responsibility of the inspected party to dispel concerns, and not the responsibility of the United States or the international community to "prove" that dangerous WMD activities are underway.
Third, since proliferation is essentially a scientific activity, we also need to increase the number and level of technical training of the scientists and engineers in the intelligence community, as well as the linkages between the intelligence community and the broader scientific community.
Finally, a great spur to quality and motivation of an intelligence effort is a clear link to action. Since 9/11, as you know, the counterterrorism intelligence effort has become more "actionable." To simplify somewhat, the counterterrorism effort has moved from producing papers characterizing terrorist groups to supporting operations to interdict terrorists. As the counterproliferation efforts gets more operational through covert action, the PSI, expanded Nunn-Lugar, and verifying WMD elimination in Iraq, Libya, and hopefully elsewhere, the demand for "actionable" intelligence will increase. If history is any guide, the intensity and quality of collection and analysis by the intelligence community will increase in response.
Taken together and with urgency, I am optimistic that such steps to overhaul our WMD-related intelligence effort can provide accurate intelligence to undergird all of the 8 D's.
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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, the war on terrorism and the war on proliferation are strongly linked in the 21st century. But they are not identical. So far we are waging the war on terrorism much more vigorously than the war on WMD, attacking the "worst people" much more than the "worst weapons." I hope this hearing contributes to an overhaul of counterproliferation that is as far-reaching as the overhaul of counterterrorism that began on 9/11, and that the measures I have recommended provide an agenda for action.
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I already posted earlier about my concern about Paget's disease of the nipple.
I went to the IBCLC and she took a skin sample and gave me an anti-bacterial cream. The skin sample came back all-clear. And the anti-bac cream beautifully healed the crack & flaking.
But now here we are again!
The thing is that for the past couple of days the skin of my left nipple became thinner & thinner and started to get very dry & flaky. This strangely coïncides with my ovulation (I chart).
Could the hormones cause the skin on my left nipple to react like that? Why is it on one side only then?
On the 31st I have an appointment at the gyn. I'm sick of worrying..
If any of you has something similar, let me know... 'cause I can't deny that I am scared - again!


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Skip to comments.Conservatives not happy with Pope Francis.Catholic Caucus
Posted on 09/21/2013 5:54:44 PM PDT by fatima
i was just taking a poll,no-one is happy with him.Who is tired of explaining a Pope.Who will be at the Red Mass in Washington to see who receive's Communion.Besides the usual suspect's who else do you think.
I'm happy. Neener neener.
I have no problem with him.
Thank you verga.
liberals love him today but will hate him tomorrow...they all think he's going to say the church is okay with homosexuality and abortion- never going to happen...
fact that he said Catholics should not judge gays is a good thing- he never said he was accepting of homosexuality;
hate the sin, love the sinner- sound familiar???
Thank You little jeremiah ((((Hugs))))
:) Thank you God luvs America ((((Hugs))))
how do you feel.
Really? I thought your religion was Christianity.
All so well. It always never ceases to amaze me how much liberals seem to hope for a uniform society, when they say pluralistic or diverse so much, doesn't it?
I reject the contention that "conservatives" must all think the same thing about everyone. That's fascist.
Beep,not in the poll.
He has his way of looking at the world, and that's nice. And if the nonbelievers, and those of other faiths, like it, fine. Great.
But he's where he needs to be on doctrine. Everything else is organization and window dressing.
When saying not to obsess about 3 or 4 topics, I responded, "Yeah, he's concerned with A LOT MORE than JUST those. Not that he's NOT concerned with those, or that's he's relaxing anything."
People will take anything they like out of context and say that their definition of the man defines the man. No, Francis will define himself, and he'll do that more and more every day.
Funny, not too many people seem to be in my face about his abortion speech a day after saying we should obsess over it. Go figure.
Oh, well. I reject polls, too.
Thank you (((Hugs)))
Conservative or not.
I was conservative in the 70's and 80's. These days I run more towards the "reactionary" end of the spectrum, i.e. "Rush Limbaugh is a squishy moderate."
I'm kinda tired of some of the stuff I see flying around between different groups of Christians. Kinda silly given the fact that Christianity is under the gun around the world, including here at home in the US.
Eventually, and I think very soon, Francis will clarify his statements and they will prove completely consistent with Catholic teaching and not a "wonderful, hopeful change."
For the first time in their unthinking lives these same people, who could barely contain their enthusiasm only yesterday, are going to have to use reason to defend their positions, positions they "felt" their way to rather than having arrived at them by reason.
I suspect almost all will go away sad like the wealthy young man who wouldn't sell all his possessions to follow Christ.
*Okay, that's probably not the right term but I can't think of a feint that suckers the opponent into thinking he's got he's got his opposition on the ropes only to have the tables turned on him.
why would it amaze you?? communists, socialists, nazi's, liberals, progressives- they all have a masters degree in lying...its a requirement since they have no results to fall back on....
Conservative or not?
but I must tell you that it's years since I could use the terms conservative/liberal, or Right/Left, without a conscious sense of irony.
I always list my political principles as "Catholic." If the Pope votes "Catholic" too, that's all I ask.
This is a poll stick with the question.
i think your initial post is understandable as many people cherry picked what Pope Francis said and liberals are jumping for joy...fact is the Pope has not deviated from Church doctrine as many are hoping, nor will he...
Truth is truth... There shouldn't be any political leanings attributed to any pope.
At this point the Pope defies categorization, nor do I trust any of the information I have read about him. Too often I read of some outrageous statement or policy only to find that words were twisted or distorted.
I'm going to wait a while.
After his election the MSM was amazed to learn he was actually Catholic. He is his own man with his own style. JPII had his style BXVI had his and Francis has his. And they are all Catholic.
How do you vote,conservative or not.
The way of the Cross is not subject to polling maneuvers, but appears as folly. To the extent the Pope is faithful the Sacred Scriptures, he will be subject to bad polling results and more. In this he may rejoice.
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I'm not much of a Major League Baseball fan any longer, but the news stories of the last few days have caught my attention. Last night the Dodgers and the Giants put it in very poignant words. Rivalry on the field of play is one thing. Rivalry off the field is not appropriate.
There are fans of many different drivers here, and I try to respect that. It is difficult to hold my standard when someone gets on this blog and bad mouths SHR drivers, but I try. Fans of other drivers who also support SHR I welcome here, and wish to have exchanges with them.
As of late, however, the slinging of slurs has gone past drivers and other NASCAR people, and has become personal. This activity has me concerned and it seems demoralizing for the blog. I do not want to see our site go downhill.
I hope some of you will agree with me enough to keep our comments respectful.
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Ruvell Martin
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