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The marriage of money with politics in the U.S. traces back to the colonial days. In 1759, George Washington employed rum punch, money and a fiddler to bolster his election to the House of Burgesses. There was an understanding, in those days, that men of means and education assumed leadership positions in the government. Over time, however, the political process changed and politics became big business. This article covers the progression of events and legislation that shaped and influenced today's political environment.
History In the early days of the republic, politics as we know it didn't exist. There were no formal campaigns and the process was primitive and relatively inexpensive. The method for federal elections was very different than it is today. For example, senators were chosen by state legislatures up until passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913.
At the presidential level, there was an unwritten rule that campaigning was beneath the dignity of the office. That philosophy worked in the beginning, but quickly changed with the rise of political parties and the start of the Industrial Revolution. As communications and transportation improved, economic and social changes brought more people into the process. Politicians had to make the leap from personal persuasion to convincing large groups to support them at rallies, caucuses and conventions.
In the early 1800s, a Midwest or Mid-Atlantic congressional campaign could cost up to $4,000. The bill was typically less in New England and the South. The big money applied to state-level offices, where five-figure sums were spent on friendly newspaper ads, pamphlets and other campaign items. Floats, slogans, songs, coonskin caps and revival meetings were all used to capture the imaginations of voters.
National political committees were spending up to $100,000 on presidential campaigns by the mid-1800s. As the size and cost of government grew, more businessmen were attracted to it as a means of furthering their business interests. Patronage translated into loyalty and a means of extracting donations in exchange for generous political favors. Regular contributions to those in power were expected if you hoped to hold onto your job.
The assassination of President Garfield in 1881 prompted a major change in the political climate and passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, two years later. It required competitive exams for federal government jobs that would be awarded based on merit, not on political affiliation or financial support.
Real-World Politics As the influence of money took over the political process, the amount required to win an election grew enormously. Some reforms have had unintended side effects. For example, when the primary process was first implemented, it was designed to take power away from political insiders and into the hands of everyday voters. However, the primaries extended the election cycle and significantly increased the need for additional funding.
Reforms have not had the desired effect of reducing the costs of running for office, because candidates devise ways to work around them. Creative accounting and "soft money" have combined to circumvent the national party infrastructure.
Soft money fundraising, unlike its hard money counterpart, is not subject to federal campaign finance laws, because it's not controlled by the candidates or their election committees. That opens the door for contributions from a wide array of entities and anyone who has otherwise been banned from directly funding campaigns. This includes labor unions, corporations and wealthy individuals whose contributions would normally be limited.
Political Action Committees (PAC) represent specific labor, business or ideological interests, and raise money to help elect and defeat targeted candidates. These PACs must register with the Federal Election Commission and can donate $5,000 per individual election. They can also give $15,000 to any national party and receive up to $5,000 from an individual or organization per year.
Political Figures and Scandals In the post-revolutionary period, "generous gentlemen" were expected to spend their own money to aid their runs for office. James Madison failed in his bid for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates because he didn't think it proper to combine money with politics.
Abraham Lincoln awarded patronage jobs in exchange for millions of dollars in Civil War contracts for northern businessmen. The businesses were expected to contribute to his campaigns and kick back 5% of officeholders' salaries. During his campaign for a second term, his agents were reportedly "paying out money like water," to sway the vote his way.
During the construction of the transcontinental railway, the Union Pacific Railroad gave discounted stock to influential politicians in exchange for their continued support of additional project funding. Known as the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1872, one of those tainted was Representative James A. Garfield of Ohio, who went on to become president.
Tammany Hall (or the Tammany Society) was a Democratic Party machine that controlled New York politics up to the 1930s. It derived its influence from government contracts, job kickbacks, patronage and the power of corrupt leaders like William "Boss" Tweed.
When Standard Oil pumped $250,000 into William McKinley's campaign coffers, it noted that its contributions were equivalent to "taking out an insurance policy." In one of the most sensational incidents, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes from oil companies, in exchange for low lease rates on the petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome. The scandal damaged the reputation of then-president Warren Harding.
Louisiana was well-known for its corruption under former Governor Huey "Kingfish" Long. His son Russell, a former senator, once said, "The distinction between a large campaign contribution and a bribe is almost a hairline's difference." Scandals such as these continue to this day, upping the ante with more money being tossed into the fold and larger earmarks doled out.
Campaign Finance Legislation Listed below is a summary of the major laws and court rulings that have dealt with campaign fundraising and financing:
1907 - Tillman Act: Prohibited national banks and corporations from making contributions to any elections for political office.
1910 - Publicity Act: Required national committees and parties to file campaign reports for all receipts and expenses.
1911 - Publicity Act amended: Required reporting by candidates in all federal elections and established spending limits of $5,000 for a house seat and $10,000 for a senate seat.
1921 - Newberry v. United States: The Supreme Court struck down the spending limits set in the Publicity Act, saying that Congressional authority to regulate elections did not extend to nomination exercises and party primaries.
1925 - Federal Corrupt Practices Act: Extended coverage to multi-state parties and election committees, and set up reporting framework for receipts and expenses. Raised the spending limit for senate campaigns to $25,000.
1939 - Hatch Act: Barred federal employees from collecting campaign donations and participating in politics. Set individual contribution limit for a federal campaign at $5,000 and major party spending at $3 million per calendar year.
1943 - Smith-Connally Act: Prohibited labor unions from making contributions to federal campaigns.
1941 - United States v. Classic: The Supreme Court ruled that Congress has the power to regulate and limit spending on primary elections in cases where state law made them a part of the election process and they effectively determined the outcome of the election.
1943 - Tillman Act extended: Prohibited contributions from corporations and unions, leading to the creation of PACs.
1971 - Federal Elections Campaign Act (FECA): Established disclosure requirements for political committees and federal candidates. Set limits on how much a candidate could spend on media and the campaign.
1974 - FECA amended: Set up Federal Election Commission (FEC) and a voluntary public financing system for presidential elections and matching funds for presidential primaries. Replaced media spending limits with total campaign limits for both congressional and presidential elections. Established federal contribution limits for individuals, political committees and national parties.
1975 - FEC permitted corporate PACs to solicit stockholders and employees.
1976 - Buckley v. Valeo: The Supreme Court ruled that money is speech and protected by the First Amendment. Spending limits are therefore unconstitutional. Only ads that advocate a candidate (rather than issues) are subject to regulation. Spending limits can apply to candidates who accept public financing.
2002 - Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold): Increased individual contribution limit from $1,000 to $2,000 with inflation adjustment. Eliminated soft money contributions to national parties and prohibited corporations and unions from paying for federal candidate ads within 30 days of a primary/convention or 60 days from a general election.
2010 - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: The Supreme Court ruled that limits on corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections, violate the First Amendment.
The Bottom Line The intersection of money and politics often starts right at the top. In a well-publicized example, the Clintons sold Lincoln bedroom sleepovers starting at $100,000 a night. They also conducted 98 White House gatherings where $50,000 bought you three danish and a cup of coffee.
It's impossible to remove money from politics, especially since it enjoys constitutional protection affirmed by the Supreme Court. Without voluntary limits, the price of a political office will continue to rise. Politics is about power, and money buys power. The reality is that the money has to come from somewhere and most efforts to control it haven't work, haven't been enforced or have been overturned by the Supreme Court.
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With speed and DPS superior to the Adamantite Rifle, this gun is a very good choice for hunters. Crafted with the Engineering skill. This should not be confused with the fairly similar Fel Iron Musket.
This item is created by Engineers with a skill level of 360.
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It is taught by [Schematic: Felsteel Boomstick] which drops from a Doomforge Engineer in Blade's Edge Mountains. Note that the schematic is Bind on Pickup and will only be seen by people who have the Engineering skill. You DO NOT need to have the required skill level as well.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Vortex: Giving Some Misstatements A Pass??
First, he seems to think that the only ones noticing the miscues of Pope Francis are "extreme left" and "extreme right". That's simply not true; every now and then Voris intimates that he himself has noticed them (See 2:58-3:03, 3:10-3:13, 4:30). In artificially dividing them into two camps of either progressive liberals or sedevacantists without acknowledging any honorable motives on the part of us who also see the problems, he demonizes us.
He correctly states the reactions of "the right" and "the left". The "right" (and he seems to be lumping faithful Catholics and sedevacantists together) are displeased with various misstatements on the part of the Holy Father. He rightly says that these same misstatements cause jubilation on the part of the "left". Then he says "both camps are wrong". Does it not dawn on Voris that they are reacting to the very same misstatements? Both camps are having their typical reactions precisely because they have the same understanding of the Holy Father's pronouncements. And just why, oh why, do these folks of widely differing perspectives read Pope Francis in the same manner? Is it logical to assume that all these vastly differing people have identical perspectives on the Holy Father? Or does the cause for such "interpretation" lie in the message itself?
So poor Pope Francis is just so misunderstood (see 5:50)? Funny! As I said in a previous post, I don't recall the previous two pontiffs having such a difficult time making their messages plainly understood. In fact, the left hated these two men precisely because there was no hint of ambiguity (or nuance as Cdl Dolan calls it) to their words. They also knew better than to give interviews. Now why does this Pope continue to give interviews, after all the debacles that have resulted in this first year alone? That's a fair question and I offer it for consideration.
At 3:48-4:15, Voris launches into those on "the right", stating that all in this group attack the Holy Father as a person. That's simply not true. In artificially lumping people into two categories, Voris seems to be accusing those of us voicing concern over the Holy Father's imprudent utterances and who pray for the pope and plead with him to do what it takes to ensure that no obstacles to the Faith arises from his pronouncements. The Holy Father has had a year now to get the proper Vatican staff in place and yet the gaffes continue to emanate from the Vatican. It is not an "attack on the Pope" to state plainly that this buck stops at his desk. I don't know about these emails to which Voris alludes; I trust what he says is the case - but that is no cause to demonize us all. And yes, he does so precisely because he doesn't acknowledge that those of us who take issue with the Holy Father's pronouncements may have the good of the Church at heart.
Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia. That is the truth - and therein lies a key problem. If billions of people are hearing garbled messages from the Pope, they will understandably believe that the teachings of Jesus Christ are likewise incomprehensible. We know that there are different levels of papal pronouncements and that interviews don't rise to the level of pronouncements at all. Still that is the image that an uncatechized world sees. I join with thousands of other faithful Catholics in loudly urging the Holy Father to tidy up his presentation and pointing out to him the havoc he wrecks by his careless utterances. If Michael Voris cares not to join us in this effort, I've no problem with that. I do take issue with Vortexes such as this that undermine our message.
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- AnonymousMarch 14, 2014 at 4:50 PM
Cardinal Burke recently wrote in L'Osservatore Romano a piece friendly to Pope Francis. I think, Burke, is, as Fr. Z. put it, engaged in talking people off the ledge. Voris loves and trusts this holy priest Cardinal Burke. I suspect that he is taking his stance from Cardinal Burke and following his consolations. http://www.news.va/en/news/american-cardinal-on-the-message-of-this-pontificaReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you. I saw that article and I addressed it here http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.com/2014/02/cardinal-burke-tries-to-explain-some.html.Delete
In the Cardinal's article I did not detect one hint of the condescension that Voris heaps upon those of us who simply refuse to turn a blind eye to the many verbal missteps of the current Holy Father. In this respect, Michael is taking no cues from His Eminence.
is there any way you could be seeing the Pope as the Pharisees saw Jesus? as one not observing the Law as They understood it. According to their understanding of the Law Jesus should have allowed them to stone the woman caught in adultery to death. that what the Law said after all. But that was reading the letter of the Law and not the Spirit of it as Jesus taught. In fact they thought because of His many failures of keeping all of the Law they were justified in condemning Him to death. As did St. Paul before his conversion. the Apostles just never could follow the Law either. Be very careful in what you think you know. Jesus came to tell those who think they see that they are blind!ReplyDeleteReplies
My friend, surely you jest, no? We don't need to "speculate" on anything in Catholicism because it is the truth. the truth, as you and I know, does not change. How can it, if it's the truth? Before you imply that those Catholics who are able to see clearly the divergence between the last 2,000 years and the last 60-70 years are being Pharisaical I would respectfully suggest you delve deeper into the history of the Church.Delete
The Holy Father is speaking and acting in ways that are not merely "different" from previous Pontificates, but is speaking in contradiction of them. The trap that so many Catholics fall in today is that they confuse Infallibility with impeccability. The Pope is only infallible on matters of faith and/or morals when he uses his supreme authority to speak "ex cathedra". That is the only time he is infallible. And, additionally, he is certainly not impeccable, and can make disastrous errors of judgment on a thousand other matters concerning the Church, be they disciplinary or whatever. The truly amazing thing about the Church during the last twenty centuries is that it has survived some pretty awful Popes.
You ask, "Is there any way you could be seeing the Pope as the Pharisees saw Jesus?" Well, no.
Papa Alex, your interpretation of the various Scriptures is flawed imho, but I won't delve into that now for that is not the main issue. You asked a hypothetical question, yet the following comments had absolutely nothing do do with your question. So indeed, is there basis to your question? Do you not see how many of us who seek for clear guidance from the Holy Father, are instead getting "nuance" (as Cdl Dolan puts it)? You urged me to "be very careful in what you think you know". Again, what motivates that statement? Are you just throwing these innuendos out there, hoping that I'll take the bait on one of them? If you cannot state your case clearly, I must conclude you have none.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2014 at 9:27 PM
Papa" Alex: Jesus NEVER failed to condemn sin. He said to the scribes and Pharisees, "Let him who is W/OUT SIN go first." He said to the woman: "Go and SIN NO MORE." [He sought out the man at Bethsaida to tell him: "Sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee." John 5:14)ReplyDelete
Jesus never said: "You can't follow the law" ("Nothing is impossible W/GOD" Luke 1:37 – Hail Mary full of GRACE!)! "Who then can be saved? Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Matt 19:25-26. In regard to the Law, He said: "Do not think that I am come to destroy the law... For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matt 5:18-19
Possibly these scribes and Pharisees were "legally" divorced so in God's eyes adulterous themselves. This is how the DISCIPLES responded to Jesus' equation of divorce w/ adultery: The disciples said to Him, "If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry(!)" (Matt 19:10)
You say the scribes, priests, and Pharisees condemned Jesus because of their conception of the law. But then why didn't they stone Herod and Herodias? They considered Herod and Herodias 'faithful' Jews in GOOD STANDING (powerful Temple donors)! Nor did they defend John the Baptist and vehemently accused Jesus to Herod! (Luke 23:10) The High Priest SAID he was killing Jesus expediently. (John 11:50)
Jesus condemned the scribes and Pharisees for their corruption and distortion of God's law—Count the number of times "woe" and "blind guides" occur in Matthew 23, wrapping up: You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar. Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not? Behold, YOUR house shall be left to you, desolate. [Empty of God]
In regard to your blind quote again it has to do w/SIN: And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him. And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world; that they who see not, may see; and they who see, may become blind. And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said unto him: Are we also blind? Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth. John 9:38-41
"If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." 1 John 1:10
There's a psalm priests used to pray in the Mass PF suppresses: "Set a watch before my mouth, oh Lord, and a door round about my lips. May my heart not incline to evil words--to make excuses for SINS."
anonymous. herod was not a Jew.I am not speaking of Jesus treatment of the women but how the Pharisees hated Jesus cause he didn't follow the Law as they understood. the pharisees hated Jesus because he didn't keep the Law according to their literal interpretations. The law of Love is the only law. Your arrogance about your knowledge of Christianity is Pharisical at best. Jesus died for the people you hate, the sinners. He condemned only those who were holier than thou jews who wouldn't touch the man dying on the side of the road or eat with Smaritans because they didn't keep the Law or the Law forbid touching anything unclean. Charity is over the Law. the Holy Father is like Jesus in the scriptures, you are like the ones he condemned who found fault with everyone. It seems no one but yourselves can keep the commandments. Most of us need the grace of God to live it not legalism to please God.ReplyDeleteReplies
"The people you hate"? How do you presume to tell anonymous whom he/she hates?Delete
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2014 at 11:47 PM
You are as psycho as Carol of Tenth Crusade.ReplyDeleteReplies
If you're saying my mindset is similar to that of Carol, I take that as a high compliment! Thank you!Delete
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2014 at 4:36 PM
If we fail to charitably correct error, misstatements, or misleading comments made by the Holy Father, then we do not love him enough to offer respectful fraternal correction. We also do not love the Church enough to protect Her from statements and actions that can harm the Church regardless of the intentions of the statements and actions.ReplyDelete
Remember that Paul criticized the actions of Pope Peter because Pope Peter's actions did not properly reflect what the Church stands for. Similarly, we can imitate Paul in critcizing the Holy Father for his actions (these include loose or misleading statements) when they do not properly reflect what the Church stands for. Such criticism can help Pope Francis exercise more prudence in the future when making any kind of public statements. On the other hand, putting our heads in the sand a la Voris is not helping the Pope, and not helping the Church.
- MariettaMarch 17, 2014 at 8:04 AM
Dear Restore DC,ReplyDelete
Thank you for this article. It hits the spot. The Holy Father himself has been lumping faithful Catholics with the sedevantists and schismatics and calling them all sorts of vile names and seems not to care how that hurts. Not very charitable for a Pope. This article is so comforting.
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2014 at 4:01 PM
"Papa" Alex – you make no sense: "The law of Love is the only law… Charity is over the Law." According to Jesus: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and thy whole soul and thy whole mind. This is the greatest of the commandments, and the first. And the second, its like, is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments, all the law and the prophets depend. Matt 22:37-40ReplyDelete
You say: "the Pharisees hated Jesus cause he didn't follow the Law as they understood. the pharisees hated Jesus because he didn't keep the Law according to their literal interpretations... He condemned only those who were holier than thou…" But Jesus invited those holier than thou to stone the woman – his exact words, "Let him who is w/out sin cast the first stone." But they slunk off. Did they slink off because they thought they were sinful? Or did they slink off because they never had any intention of stoning the woman any more than they said a word about Herod, but wanted to trap Jesus into condoning NOT stoning her. It was Jesus and John the Baptist who were speaking AGAINST the lax interpretations and practices of the Priests, Pharisees and Scribes.
You say the Pharisees hated Jesus because he didn't go w/their literal interpretation of the law but the Pharisees do NOT love the law or seek its literal interpretation: they do all their works to be seen by men; they love the best places at feasts, the best seats at the synagogue, greetings in the marketplace and to be called by men, Rabbi. (Matt 23:5,6,7)
They are not going to heaven and they ensure no-one else is going to get there (Matt 23:13)
They relax and distort the law: allowing people to not support their parents by declaring money a gift to God when the Law commands them to honor mother and father (Matt 15:4-5) and allowing people to get out of oaths (sworn obligations) by changing the parameters (Matt 23:16-22)
You say justice and mercy oppose each other, but Jesus said: you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law; justice, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone. (Matt 23:23)
Here's Jesus' problem w/Pharisees in a nutshell: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!...inside full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Matt 23:25, 28
You say: "Jesus died for the people you hate, the sinners" – I am a sinner and Jesus died to redeem me, but He never said salvation was easy-- disciple comes from "discipline". Jesus began to make it known to his disciples that he must go up to Jerusalem, and there, with much ill usage from the chief priests and elders and scribes, must be put to death, and rise again on the third day. Whereupon Peter, drawing him to his side, began remonstrating with him; Never, Lord, he said; no such thing shall befall thee. At which He turned round and said to Peter, Back, Satan; thou art a stone in my path; for these thoughts of thine are man's, not God's. Jesus also said to his disciples, If any man has a mind to come my way, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me. The man who tries to save his life shall lose it; it is the man who loses his life for my sake that will secure it. How is a man the better for it, if he gains the whole world at the cost of losing his own soul? For a man's soul, what price can be high enough? The Son of Man will come hereafter in his Father's glory with his angels about him, and he will recompense everyone, then, according to his works. Believe me, there are those standing here who will not taste of death before they have seen the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. (Matt 16:21-28)
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2014 at 5:17 PM
Papa Alex, You say the holy father is like Jesus, but he and his bishops are far more like scribes and Pharisees who have twisted the law so that anything difficult can be gotten out of and one can still be "faithful" or "sinless". Some of the current twists off the top of my head:ReplyDelete
You don't want to take care of your parents (or your relatives) call it KORBAN - see Bishop Lynch/Teri Schiavo.
Life is sacred from the womb to the tomb, but outlawing the death penalty for criminals means you have checked your prolife box and you don't have to LIFT A FINGER to save the lives of the 1.2 million INNOCENT BABIES murdered each year in their mother's womb -- vide letter from Archbishop O'Brien to Gov O'Malley - no mention of 35,000 babies murdered annually in Maryland, but request to end the death penalty – five (5) executed since 1961!
"Archbishop O'Brien said it is "especially hard to fathom" O'Malley supporting same-sex "marriage" legislation, given that "our requests last year for you to sponsor legislation to repeal the death penalty and support students in Catholic and other non-public schools were unheeded." ...According to The Washington Post, Gov. O'Malley often attends daily Mass, and his four children attend Catholic schools."
Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/archbishop-obrien-asks-catholic-gov.-omalley-not-to-support-same-sex-marria/#ixzz2wBR7rv39
Life is "sacred" from the womb to the tomb, but if you only have three months to live, if you only have 7 days to live, or if you have a "chronic" bladder infection, you can deprive yourself of pacemaker, all medication and food and water or your relatives can do it for you--and you can do it in a Catholic nursing home for no reason at all except you want to--and Catholic Hospice will assist you and the Catholic priest will absolve (and encourage) you! http://www.holyredeemer.com/Main/HospiceServices1.aspx
You can't give morphine to assist someone to die, but if you are giving it to "relieve their pain" – it's okay! Cardinal [Just say it's for PAIN!] Pell
Artificial contraception, abortion and sterilization are all against Church Law and the bishops will fight to the last U.S. court to protect their consciences from the Contraceptive Mandate (passed by Catholic Politicians). But Voris and many others have chronicled Catholic hospitals passing out contraception, also sterilization and abortion. Dolan has been paying for health care plans that cover abortion and contraception for years due to "union contracts". Many universities have also been covering in their health care plans. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/nyregion/new-york-archdiocese-reluctantly-paying-for-birth-control.html?_r=0
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2014 at 5:18 PM
Part II: Artificial contraception, abortion and sterilization are all against Church Law but so many church members are engaging in these practices that blind guide bishops after turning blind eye for 40 years now using practice to justify CHANGING God's law!ReplyDelete
Homosexual acts are mortal sins, but Catholic Colleges have LGBTQ majors and clubs!
Homosexual acts are mortal sins that will send you to hell, but no need to object to same sex "civil unions" even if that means that children will be taught to role play homosexual acts in school and all be exposed to constant homosexual culture!
Voris just did a special on the Religious Ed Conference, where those who teach our children the faith are being 'educated' by the Catholic Church to be pro-abortion, pro deviant sex and to teach our children FILTH! [see other post on this site]
In the face of changing technology and Protestant mores, the Catholic hierarchy could have continued to teach the Biblical truth, "women will be saved through childbearing, assuming they continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty" (1 Tim 2:15), but led by John 23 and other "modernists" like Ratzinger, the hierarchy decided to "open to the world". Not only was primary purpose of marriage changed to "unitive" from "procreative" (setting up de facto approval of divorce (annulments from 100s to tens of thousands), birth control, abortion and homosexual marriages), women no longer had to dress modestly (fornication) or remain silent and outside the sanctuary in Church. All were taught that Protestants believe the same as we do (basically), no need to be afraid of worshiping with them or that they are going to hell if they don't recant. We assumed that meant we could get married on a beach and divorced and remarried too! Hey, if protestants can go to communion w/out going to confession (and not go to hell!), we don't believe in confession either! If Protestants can go to church whenever they feel like it, so can wee! Basically, according to the past three holy fathers it really didn't matter whether you believed on Jesus Christ or not--you were saved! It's reasonable to hope that hell is empty! Death and judgment are a creation of the Pharisees! And what you have here is the same distorting and twisting of the law/oaths to keep people happy so that the only ones who are crucified/stoned are those who protest.
$17 trillion (the biggest lie: lay hirelings (and priests and religious) who work for (large $million) salary are the same as those who gave their lives to Christ) and 60 million dead babies later (and that's just U.S. (us)), you might see Jesus (?!), but I see a generation that is going to go down in history as the most wicked, evil, stupid generation ever!
wow anonymous. r u ok? So no Pope is good enough for your church. you must be a protestant since you are your own pope. I'll pray for you to see clearly as St. Paul was ab;e to on the road to Damascus.ReplyDelete
Restore. believe me your hate for others and these commenters hate can be seen from outer space. No one would believe in the Jesus you have concieved. you are all eating each other up in your bid to scrutinized everyone according to your legalistic thinking of Church teaching and the scriptures. the audacity you all have about your own knowledge and understanding can only be found in scripture by those who kept trying to trip up Jesus for NOT following the Law of Moses exactly. He must have really been blind not to follow the letter of the Law instead of the Law of Love and understanding.ReplyDeleteReplies
You complain about OUR audacity? Papa Alex, with this post you have crossed an unacceptable line in accusing us of hate and holding yourself as our judge. I hope you've enjoyed being published here, for that has come to an end. Perhaps an apology might move me to publish future comments, but for now - good bye.Delete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2014 at 8:37 AM
One distortion just slipped my mind: Murdering babies is a horrible crime and terrible injustice against humanity, automatically excommunicates you from the Church - oh Pope Francis (and ST JPII etc) are soooo PROLIFE and such sons of the church, Church teaching is so clear they don't need to mention it let alone obsess about it - BUT if you are PERSONALLY opposed to abortion, you can VOTE FOR OTHERS to have free choice to murder babies! Now how about if you were personally opposed to murdering POPES or BISHOPS, but voted FOR a law that made it legal for others to murder bishops and popes - I wonder if these politicians would get free passes to papal masses?ReplyDelete
Papa Alex- funny how when you can't address substance, you call names. But there have been 266 popes - if I say three have distorted Church law, it leaves 263. Ratzinger himself said VCII was a counter syllabus to the teachings of previous popes. If you want to follow these popes, you may - but to imagine 60 million dead babies, $17 trillion debt inheritance to our children, 50% divorce, 50% illegitimacy, 27% Catholics having abortion, assisted suicide, organ harvesting from live people and organ trafficking, euthanasia, a society drowning in porn, schools teaching sado-masochism, slut walks, men marching around naked in the street or dressed like women in PRIDE parades, same-sex marriage, pedophile and homosexual priest scandal that has cost billions of dollars that were to be spent on the poor is the fruit of those who worship Jesus Christ, or "love" as you say, and not the work of Satan and those who love sin just shows how blind, deaf and dumb Catholics have become from the teachings they have absorbed at "church"! Be careful as you throw around "hater", that you don't crucify Christ like the Pharisees, scribes and priests did. Jesus Christ will be your judge and he sees into your heart. I pray it's clean because where you spend eternity depends on it -- and if you lead ONE little one astray, better for you to be thrown into the sea w/a millstone about your neck. Same goes for Pope Francis
In all fairness to "Papa Alex", since I've banned his presence from these com-boxes, I ask that you direct no remarks to him as he has no forum to reply.ReplyDelete
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1864: Jose Maria Chavez Alonso, governor of Aguascalientes
April 5th, 2017 Headsman
On this date in 1864, the French executed the governor of Aguascalientes.
Elected to the post during early months of the unfolding French intervention in Mexico, Jose Maria Chavez Alonso (English Wikipedia entry | Spanish) was deposed by the invaders in December 1863 — to be succeeded by a different Chavez who met an equally violent fate.
Alonso formed a popular militia and continued a short-lived resistance against the French but was captured early in 1864, and although this was still some months before the dirty war's notorious "Black Decree" the French determined to make an example of him.
Alonso aside, the Mexican adventure proved a right catastrophe for France and its adherents.
On this day..
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Chavez, or Chavez Alonso. Where a Spanish speaker has more than one surname, the first is the one used by default. Exceptions, such as Pablo Ruiz Picasso, are by personal choice. The opposite applies with Portuguese speakers.


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Drinking beer is way better than installing drywall
The weather report was magnificent for this past weekend so on Friday morning, I headed up to the mountain. I want to get the drywall up so I can finish the interior and actually start using the cabin. I stopped at Lowe's and loaded up the truck with 11 sheets of 1/2″ drywall, joint compound, trowel, screws plus the utility connecting stuff I need, out the door for $158!
Before I put up the drywall I needed to mount the phone and electric outlet boxes on the outside. To keep the cabin "street legal" as a storage shed, it can NOT be attached to any utilities. I'll get around this by using a male power inlet for a hookup to the generator (eventually solar panels).
These 2 exterior boxes back right up inside to the interior outlets, each required only a small hole drilled through the siding to minimalize critter and insect access. A touch of caulk and it be done.
The concept of sheetrock is simple. Lay out the full sheets on the open expanses of wall and then cut and fill-in the rest. News flash…drywall is easy to cut in theory but rarely cuts cleanly in the field. It's heavy, dusty, chips and breaks easily, never fits the first time, and is never flush with the adjacent pieces.
Full sheets seem easy enough to hang as long as your studs are on 16″ centers. A 4×8 sheet should just fit perfectly against the studs. This is a lie. None of my sheets fit as they were intended. While all my studs were 16″ on center, the ends of the framed walls ran past the perpendicular walls so that my alignment was always off by an inch or two. I was forever shaving and adjusting sheets so I could share the studs with each adjacent sheet. In other words, a gigantic pain-in-the-a**.
I used 1 5/8 course-thread drywall screws. This was the easiest and most reliable part of my task.
The angled ceiling presented me with the opportunity to cut long, angles sheets to fill in the gaps above and simultaneously hate that my walls were not all 8′ high.
Once all the gypsum was up, I needed to test the ports. I plugged the generator into the outside power inlet and my circular saw ran beautifully off of the inside plug!
By the time I was finished with the installation, I decided I never want to see another piece of drywall as long as I live. This grouchy-pants attitude prevented me from taping and spackling the seams. Screw it. This will have to wait for another day. For now, I hate sheetrock and love Stella Artois.
While sipping my third Stella, I noticed that my once gorgeous siding boards on the back wall had warped and were separating. I guess my experiment in using the cheapest fence boards possible has ended in failure. Combine this developement with the fact that the tar paper on the front window wall is staring to fray tells me I better get the exterior siding finished stat.
Installing cedar shiplap siding on the front and back walls before the sun burns the tar paper off. Woohoo, sounds like a party!
I put the word out to my buddies. in 2 weeks, be there or be square.
bring Stella.
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Congradulations on the major step. I know that any form of finish work in a major PITA.
One thing I would suggest. If you truely want to go solar, or even get the most of your generator, put a extra utility box up with heavy duty 12V connectors. Get used to 12V power useage. Anything with a wall wort can be replaced with an automotive type general adaptor, and lights can be bought as 12V. Even putting a good deep cycle battery or a pair of golf cart batteries between your loads and your generator will let you use your genny sparsly, and at maximum effecentcy, while still giving your a solid 24H/day of use. If/when you do go solar, you'll still need the batteries, and stepping up to 120V causes a lot of conversion waste, especially if you go back down on the other side of the wall. Also, remember that automotive type 12V plugs are limited to about 10Amps, or 120 watts, so at least to go into the space, you'll want something a little more solid.
April 20, 2010 at 7:01 am
Most awesome cabin. An unfortunate insulation gap next to your outlets, however. Ceiling drywall usually goes up first unless you were planning on a different sheathing.
N.B. I'm not criticizing, I'm just a straight shooter. I apologize if it sounds like the former.
April 20, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Doing it again, would you go for t&g on the walls as well?
April 20, 2010 at 3:16 pm
I have used fence boards(reclaimed)successfully, I used them in a rain screen siding system – http://www.josephsandy.com/content/projects/petaluma-studio/ – Let me know if you have any questions about using this approach.
April 20, 2010 at 5:08 pm
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Dear sir , I really hope you answer this. I have a second baby on the way and have nowhere in the house to store my music equipmet. I can"t afford to employ someone to build or buy a kit for a garden room. I live in the city just by a tube station. But I am also surrounded by industrial estates where I can easily find materials. I was looking into building a house out of pallettes or reclaim. When you get into it there is loads on the net but they are mostly with pitch roofs and are not the shape I want . I was going through sites again today and up pops yours which is exactly what I have been drawing (or trying to) myself. I have built a few strutures in the that have worked ok but what really daunts me is the roof (and yours looks amazing. I don't know the best way to get the angle in or or how to properly finish the edges for run off and leaks etc. Do you have any plans or drawings for the structurs you built I would happily send you some money through paypal if you can help.Kind regards. Leigh.London.UK.
January 3, 2012 at 9:27 am
Where did you find the male power inlet for your shed?
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Very interesting concept It's mind boggling how much is actually going on in the Bitcoin ecosystem It's actually hard to keep track of So I'm going to be talking about Bitcoin and a two tiered network Um, where is my???laughter Ah, here we go
Perfect So, I'm Evan Duffield, I'm a software engineer I've been programming since I was 15 (years old) And as a little bit of background, I'm really interesting in finance, economics, machine learning, and these types of things So when I got into Bitcoin, it was just fascinating it captivated my interest And what I wanted to do was I wanted to tinker with Bitcoin at like a really low level I wanted to mess with the protocol and I wanted to test things that you really can only do with your own currency
And so, what we've been doing is really adventurous things that you know you could never get into the Bitcoin project Because they're just too dangerous But with a small little network like this you can do things, because we can be really nimble with what we do And so, what have we been doing? Um, some of the projects have been what we call a two tiered network, As opposed to a single tiered network on the Bitcoin network and then decentralized funding and decentralized governance
So how does that work exactly? Well, if you think of Bitcoin like a job network, I would argue that it's actually the first truly decentralized job network But there's only really one job, and it's mining currently And so, what we did was we added a new job And we call these people Masternode Operators and they run our infrastructure for us And basically what we do is we require that they run specific types of hardware, and then we can actually rely on that hardware
So, how has it been working for us? I would say amazingly well We've added hundreds of these Masternodes which are full nodes, which service the network over the past 12 months We have 3400 currently and about 4500 full nodes As opposed to the Bitcoin network which has about 5800 And so we have a comparable infrastructure to the bitcoin network, which is pretty amazing because we are at about 1/400 of the size
So how do you run one of these Masternodes on our network? (audio fades) Well, all you do is buy some coins these nodes are collateralize, which means that they can not be faked
And all you do then is you configure your whole node and then join the second tier And you get paid, so you get compensated and you use that money to pay for the cost of the server And, the neat thing about the collateralize second tier is that you can do really cool things
Based off of that collateral, there is 1000 dash and that has a public key And the public key has a private key that only you know So you can sign messages to the network You have a secure communication protocol on the second tier and we implement decentralized voting with that With the decentralized voting (sorry mic issues) Yah, good to know – (laugh) It is on, Ok, so With the second tier, we have a collateralize full node network There we go, that's a lot better Now I can hear it (laughs) And basically, we have thousands of these full nodes and each of them have 1000 dash collateral tied to them That collateral has a public key and a private key
And so the public key is known by the network The private key is only known by the person running that full node, which is running as a Masternode So what do you do with this? You can do interesting things, such as implementing decentralized voting, So imagine thousands of these collateralize nodes voting on topics on the network Then you can do even more interesting things like, you can build decentralized funding So what if you allocate a piece of the block reward and then you have people that are running these nodes voting on where to send the money to and so, you could propose things to the network and get them paid
Um, and then you can also govern the network And, you could answer questions, pretty much instantaniously, about what direction the network should go in So here is our decentralized governance and funding system And we've only had this for 3 months now And over the 3 months, we've funded 3 different conferences, one in Mexico, one in Florida and one in the Netherlands
And it actually paid for our airfair, for the hotels, and things like that because the people that are promoting the currency or doing work for it shouldn't have to bare the cost of doing it themselves And this stuff is actually paid directly from the blockchain Also, we bought a new website, dashorg, from the blockchain itself I think it's actually the first domain to ever be purchased directly from a blockchain
And we fund our business development with this method So, how could you apply something like this to Bitcoin? Well, I think first you've got to imagine what makes the perfect bitcoin? And I don't know the answer to how the bitcoin developers or the community would want to use this technology, but I just want to open a conversation about, you know, what would it be like if they had decentralized funding and decentralized governance It could be pretty neat There's definitely an issue with the full node relationship and the transaction volume that the network is doing As transaction volumes rise, the full nodes actually fall off
And with a second tier, you automatically fix this issue And so then, what else do you get? We want to scale the Bitcoin ecosystem and we want to be able to support millions of mobile devices So I've come up with a couple of strategies of doing this with a two tiered network So you want to support millions of these mobile devices and you could actually do it with a decentralized SPV installation What if you had all of the second tier nodes running SPV? And then you point a round robin DNS at this second tier? And then now, you have thousands of them bearing the load of the entire network
And then you could also have decentralized funding like we're using, or decentralized governance You could probably even implement Bitcoin Lightening in a similar fashion I was also thinking about governance What if you proposed the BIPs to the network via the second tier and have the vote on them? So then we would have an instantaneous way of telling how the network feels about individual proposals And, this, this could be
it's sybil proof because the second tier is collateralized It's instantaneous and then the network has an immediate direction that it can go in They could also have a funding system like we have and they could actually pay for the core development directly from the blockchain
Currently it's financed by grant money and it used to be financed by donations and from a foundation So I can see this as being a vast improvement Here is the decentralized SPV idea All you do is you point that round robin DNS at the second tier, and then you have the mobile wallets point at the second tier And then, it should scale, because it's thousands of servers
So how would they do this? I don't really know, they would have to plan and implement it and these are some of the smartest people I've ever met, so I'm sure they could do an amazing job It does require that part of the block reward gets allocated for the second tier so that it compensate them, and it requires that part of the block reward would get allocated to decentralized funding as well And then you trustlessly detect and pay the Masternodes that are on the system And then you should be able to scale rather efficiently So, what's the conclusion? I would say that we should start talking about this and see what the Bitcoin community thinks about adopting something like this on the Bitcoin network
As a short announcement, we're opensourcing Dash Evolution today which it's basically what I've been talking about times 100 We want to implement something like a decentralized paypal on top of our decentralized currency Where you could basically log into your mobile wallet and then it would connect to the second tier
We would store all of the needed information that you use on the second tier encrypted, such as friends lists, and things like that So I could friend somebody, and I would send them 5 of my next public keys to use, and they would send me 5 of their next public keys, then I could literally just click their name, click, I want to send you 2 dash, and then click send And I think that's a pretty powerful feature if it's completely network wide And that's the type of stuff that we're building into Dash Evolution So if you're interested in that, go to dashevolution
com and check out the new papers That's it, thanks, thanks alot (clapping) (host) I will do, like, try to summarize because all of these are very like high level, or very complex ideas But, my remarks, and then I will give the microphone to you so you can correct me or expand my assumptions, but um Well, Evan, you have developed a consensus model, ah, a governance model for a cryptocurrency and an incentive model that is governed by that consensus model that you created, and I think that's amazing and that's something that Bitcoin is lacking in terms of giving incentives to full nodes that are the auditors of the network so I think you're finding or trying to find a solution to a very big systemic risk of Bitcoin, so I think it's very interesting, very exciting to see what you have done And that consensus also applies to the development and to the evolution of your own platforms So that's my summerizing of you and then you will expand on it Alexandre, you were talking about doing a secure, like a cold storage using an old smart phone, a not just smart but an old phone (Alexandre) "Airplane Mode phone!" Yah, like a Nokia 1100, something like that? That's interesting, the hacker in me craves for it
And then, I realize what your doing Louis, you're creating a layer, you're creating a layer on top of the cryptocurrencies layer I think this layer (stuff?) concept is growing everywhere, I mean we are wondering that Bitcoin is just one layer but we have to build like in the OSi model I mean, we have to build layers on top of it whether it's Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency but stop trying to make Bitcoin do everything (Luis) exactly (Host) Relying on Bitcoin for what it does well (Luis) The ecosystem is growing from down like in several layers of protocols that's started from the top down
with the idea of the strong segmentation – that's why we build all this stuff with plugins so as to (Host) Yah, let me summerize, then you will talk I have the power now! (laughter) So, as I was saying, I think what was exciting about you is your project is this concept of building a layer on top of the layers that exist and bringing more functionality and I think you share with Ira this concept of bringing in (a) framework
That's something we will see more and more happening, I mean building frameworks so others can focus on the last layer that is the one that interacts with users So I think that's very interesting, I will read deeper into your platform, I really like fermat And finally, what Ira is saying, I live it in my own flesh Because Rootstock is the kind of project that everybody wants, everybody loves, but it's difficult to fund Because, the business model is a complex one I mean there is a business model but it's a very complex one
So I think we have to find a solution to keep creating the tools that bring more value to the ecosystem, to the decentralized ecosystem and find a way, so maybe, and that's maybe a long shot, but taking something of what Evan did, and putting it into what you're building, we can find a solution So I think, that's my summarizing, I hope it helps the ones that are not so technical because I think it's difficult to grasp (what) all these guys were talking about And now you have 30 seconds to wrap up, to correct me, to expand (Ira) I'd like to use my 30 seconds to agree with you I think we're all working on very similar things, we're all definitely working towards the same goals, and I'm very excited to I didn't know about any of your well, I've known about Dash for a while, but I learned a lot more, and I'm just excited to work more with you guys we're making it happen, so
(Evan) It's, It's been interesting meeting everybody because I've found the same project being run by different people multiple times so we're all after the same thing, just in completely different ways and I think now is the time that you figure out the best possible way to do it, and then we follow that path And I think that's really the end goal (Alexandre) Yah, I think we are reaching the end of the beginning where the infrastructure will be completely ready
And we're very very close now And it's still- this is something I used to talk about back in 2010, I mean people thought I was talking about like a "Farmville" money And still, that's what the public thinks we're talking about, Farmville money You know, we buy a new house for Farmville, they still don't understand the military grade cryptography, and the infrastructure that's been built silently over these years (Luis) Ok, I will agree with you
Basically, what we had in mind was to build something to enable a strong segmentation in order to give each possible user a custom tailored solution Not done by ourselves, but by letting other people by reusing these components to find niches of user interfaces or functionality that any segments in the world can use Basically, so we build from the top down, until we find the protocols that we need, yah, down there We, we find kind of an empty space within the ecosystem (host) Ok, thank you very much, a big applause for the panel


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A quick funny story before diving into this review, when I went to see this movie with a group of friends I was under the impression I was seeing a different movie. I am always well informed about the movies coming out, and new trailers being released, but we all have our dumb moments and seeing this movie was one of them for me. I got the movie Midnight Sun mixed up with this movie, Every Day. Midnight Sun is another young adult romance movie about a girl who can't go outside in the sunlight but falls in love with a guy and for some reason I thought for sure it was called Every Day. So you can imagine my shock and surprise to see the trailer for Midnight Sun play in front of Every Day. I thought to myself, well I've never seen that before, a trailer playing for the movie you're about to see. Then, the title card came on the screen and my friends looked at me with the looks of shock, anger, and confusion…yep, I messed up.
So what was I watching? Every Day is about a girl named Rhiannon that falls in love with a "spirit" (of some sorts, I'm not sure exactly how to describe it) named A, that wakes up every morning in a different person's body and lives that one day for that person to the best of his/her ability. By chance, A, wakes up Rhiannon's boyfriend's body and falls in love with her as well and the pair has to figure out how to make this relationship work.
I don't believe I am exactly the target audience for this movie (as if you couldn't tell by my movie mix up) but I enjoy good high school movies from time to time (a very different movie but I love 10 Things I Hate About You). I think the premise of Every Day is actually pretty unique and potentially very interesting. There is potential for commentary on relationships, genders, sexuality and all sorts of other topics. Regardless of commentary (a movie or story doesn't need it to be good), the premise does add a new spin on the typical young adult teen romance movie we've seen 100 times by now. But, if this movie adds a new layer to the teen romance genre why does it feel so generic?
Every Day has a few things going for it, an interesting premise and an excellent casting director who got an abundance of young actors that are able to feel and act like they are the same character despite having an abundance of males and females, actors, playing A. In that sense Every Day is pretty impressive.
Every Day lacks a stylistic direction. This is the type of movie that shows two characters are in love by having them running around in a montage filled with catchy pop music, quick shots of smiles and holding sparkles (as if they are begging for you to see how in love they are). Director Michael Sucsy doesn't do much with the material and resorts to lazy clichés as a shorthand for character development. There are even some moral dilemmas that A faces and Sucsy doesn't spend time with it at all and even undercuts them by having the movie being very inconsistent for how A lives as the new person every day.
The movie is led by Angourie Rice and this is a good example of how a good director can make the difference between a good and bad performance. Rice is very good in Shane Black's The Nice Guys being able to hold her own against the likes of Ryan Gosling and Russel Crowe. Here, she overacts in a performance that is at times too exaggerated and other times too restrained.
There are a number of problems in Every Day from a really bad dialogue, painfully awkward scenes set up, and lazy direction. Every Day did have an interesting premise but the movie fails to do anything with it. How does a movie with this type of premise feel like any other teen young adult romance movie? As a movie, this lacks a real sense of effort. I'm sure there was effort behind the scenes (film crews work hard to bring a movie to life) but the movie is devoid of any sign of that effort.


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LONDON — Vaughan Smith leaned forward in his chair and winced as a scene from "Baghdad E.R.," a documentary film about an American Army hospital in Iraq, rolled across the screen. "It's pretty gory," he said as the camera zoomed in on a soldier's eye, from which a surgeon was about to remove a bit of shrapnel.
While some people look away from the effects of war, Mr. Smith prefers to examine them more closely. A former officer with the Queen's Guards, an elite British military unit, he went on to become a founder of Frontline Television News, a group of British cameramen who gained a reputation for taking extraordinary risks to bring back film from Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans and other war zones.
After the deaths of two of the three other founders of the agency, Mr. Smith set up the Frontline Club in London. Since it opened in 2003, the club has become a popular way station for war correspondents, as well as a busy forum for screenings of films like "Baghdad E.R." and discussions of current affairs and journalism issues, including the safety of reporters.
''We saw friends get killed in the course of their work," said Mr. Smith, 43, who was shot twice himself while covering the Balkan wars. ''We thought their work was undervalued and wanted to stimulate debate about the role of journalists."
That makes the Frontline Club very different from the London clubs of legend, where gentlemen sip port in the company of like-minded souls. In the 1980's, journalists gravitated toward the Groucho Club, which developed a notorious reputation for the number of drinks and scoops that were spilled within. In the 1990's some media types peeled away to Soho House, which has a New York outpost as well. The Wig & Pen Club, the London watering hole where lawyers and reporters mingled in the glory days of Fleet Street, closed in 2003.
But while the denizens of these drinking dens whisper about the latest affairs between members of Parliament, the Frontline Club is the place to go to eavesdrop on a conversation about, say, the political situation in Kyrgyzstan.
While the club's bar is reserved for members, who chat in English, French or Arabic, work on laptops or sip Laotian beer, there is also a Frontline restaurant, where the public can dine on Welsh mountain lamb rump or line-caught plaice, against a backdrop of photos of London during the blitz.
In a small auditorium upstairs, the Frontline Forum, supported by proceeds from the restaurant and a charitable trust, organizes film screenings, book introductions and panel discussions on current events and journalism issues. In September, for example, the forum plans a discussion of coverage of the conflict in Lebanon, focusing on the difficulties journalists face in sorting out fact from spin at a time when both Hezbollah and Israel, and their supporters, are getting better at the propaganda war.
"A lot of people won't talk about these things, but we think it's better to air them, in a neutral way," Mr. Smith said.
So, while the forum has played host to executives of Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite broadcaster loathed by the Bush administration, it has also screened a documentary that casts doubt on allegations of a massacre at Jenin on the West Bank by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002.
The Frontline Club has about 850 members, who pay annual fees of £250 ($475), though freelancers receive discounts. About 70 percent of the members are in the news media business, although bullet wounds are not a prerequisite for joining.
While mementos from former Frontline agency cameramen killed in the line of duty are displayed in glass cases, Mr. Smith insisted that the club does not seek to capitalize on the glamour of war reporting.
"Yes, it's sexy and I see the appeal," he said, "but we're serving a community and meeting a need, not using that community."
Mr. Smith set up Frontline by borrowing £3 million ($5.7 million) against his family's estate in Norfolk, England, and has received financing for its events from the Open Society Institute, a philanthropic organization set up by the billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros. Though Frontline has yet to break even, Mr. Smith is weighing the possibility of opening a club in New York or Washington, perhaps with a local business partner.
A more definite move is into Russia, where Frontline plans to start a series of events this autumn, in partnership with local organizations promoting press freedom, like the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations and Internews Russia. Press freedom has become a sensitive issue in Russia as the government of President Vladimir V. Putin has expanded its influence over the news media and curbed the activities of nongovernmental organizations.
"It is important because modern Russian journalism is only starting to be formed," Oleg Panfilov, director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, said in an e-mail message from Moscow.
While Mr. Smith keeps busy for now managing the restaurant and club, which he refers to as the ''family farm," he said he missed going into the field. He is thinking about ways to use Frontline's Web site as a vehicle to distribute independent journalism, perhaps through blogs or video clips from television freelancers.
And, while running a restaurant is surely a safer way to make a living, it creates headaches of a different sort.
"From news cameraman to restaurateur is quite a learning curve," Mr. Smith said. "One thing I have learned is how motivated people are in journalism."