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"As for … the idea that we could lose our freedom by succumbing to a wave of religious hysteria, I am sorry to say that I consider it possible. I hope that it is not probable. But there is a latent deep strain of religious fanaticism in this, our culture; it is rooted in our history and it has broken out many times in the past.
"It is with us now; there has been a sharp rise in strongly evangelical sects in this country in recent years, some of which hold beliefs theocratic in the extreme, anti-intellectual, anti-scientific, and anti-libertarian.
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. This is equally true whether the faith is Communism or Holy-Rollerism; indeed it is the bounden duty of the faithful to do so. The custodians of the True Faith cannot logically admit tolerance of heresy to be a virtue.
"Nevertheless this business of legislating religious beliefs into law has never been more than sporadically successful in this country — Sunday closing laws here and there, birth control legislation in spots, the Prohibition experiment, temporary enclaves of theocracy such as Voliva's Zion, Smith's Nauvoo, and a few others. The country is split up into such a variety of faiths and sects that a degree of uneasy tolerance now exists from expedient compromise; the minorities constitute a majority of opposition against each other.
"Could it be otherwise here? Could any one sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country? Perhaps not — but a combination of a dynamic evangelist, television, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday's efforts look like a corner store compared to Sears Roebuck.
"Throw in a Depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negrosim, and a good large dose of anti-"furriners" in general and anti-intellectuals here at home, and the result might be something quite frightening — particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington."
— Robert A. Heinlein,
"Concerning Stories Never Written" (the afterword to Revolt in 2100)
It is worth noting that Heinlein wrote those words in the 1950s. And also that in his "Future History" cycle of science fiction stories, which includes Revolt in 2100, he pegged the late 20th century and much of the 21st as "The Crazy Years" when America becomes a puritanical theocracy, and spaceflight and other technological and scientific advancement all but ceases. With today's Supreme Court decision not to put a stop to partisan gerrymandering, anti-abortion and "freedom of religion" laws springing up all over the place, Mitch McConnell's heavy-handed and nakedly obvious power plays, and of course a president who has made it plain he'd rather rule as a dictator than govern as an elected official bound by rules and procedure, I fear we are living through the early phase of The Crazy Years right now…
It Is Not Okay
Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat from California and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, responded today to Republican calls that he resign for supposedly spreading conspiracy theories against the man in the White House. His defiant words are nothing short of inspiring:
My colleagues might think it's okay that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what's described as the Russian government's effort to help the Trump campaign. You might think that's okay. My colleagues might think it's okay that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the president's son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help — no, instead that son said he would 'love' the help with the Russians.
You might think it was okay that he took that meeting. You might think it's okay that Paul Manafort, the campaign chair, someone with great experience running campaigns, also took that meeting. You might think it's okay that the president's son-in-law also took that meeting. You might think it's okay that they concealed it from the public. You might think it's okay that their only disappointment after that meeting was that the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasn't better. You might think it's okay. I don't.
You might think it's okay that, when it was discovered a year later that they had lied about that meeting and said it was about adoptions, you might think it's okay that the president is reported to have helped dictate that lie. You might think it's okay. I don't.
You might think it's okay that the campaign chairman of a presidential campaign would offer information about that campaign to a Russian oligarch in exchange for money or debt forgiveness. You might think that's okay. I don't. You might think it's okay that that campaign chairman offered polling data, campaign polling data, to someone linked to Russian intelligence. I don't think that's okay.
You might think it's okay if that the president himself called on Russia to hack his opponent's emails, if they were listening. You might think it's okay that, later that day, the Russians in fact attempted to hack a server affiliated with that campaign. I don't think that's okay.
You might think that it's okay that the president's son-in-law sought to establish a secret back-channel of communication with Russians through a Russian diplomatic facility. I don't think that's okay.
You might think it's okay that an associate of the president made direct contact with the GRU through Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks, that is considered a hostile intelligence agency. You might think it's okay that a senior campaign official was instructed to reach that associate and find out what that hostile intelligence agency had to say, in terms of dirt on his opponent.
You might think it's okay that the national security adviser-designate secretly conferred with a Russian ambassador about undermining U.S. sanctions, and you might think it's okay he lied about it to the FBI.
You might say that's all okay. You might say that's just what you need to do to win. But I don't think it's okay. I think it's immoral, I think it's unethical, I think it's unpatriotic and, yes, I think it's corrupt, and evidence of collusion.
Now, I have always said that whether this amounts to proof of conspiracy was another matter. Whether the special counsel could prove beyond a reasonable doubt the proof of that crime was up to the special counsel and that I would accept his decision, and I do. He is a good an honorable man and he is a good prosecutor.
But I do not think that conduct, criminal or not, is okay. And the day we do think that's okay is the day we will look back and say, that is the day America lost its way.
And I'll tell you one more thing that is apropos of the hearing today. I don't think it's okay that during a presidential campaign Mr. Trump sought the Kremlin's help to consummate a real estate deal in Moscow that would make him a fortune. According to the special counsel, hundreds of millions of dollars. I don't think it's okay that he concealed it from the public. don't think it's okay he advocated a new and more favorable policy towards the Russians, even as he was seeking the Russian's help, the Kremlin's help, to make money.
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All of that happened. It's real. It's on the record. Like I said the other day, maybe Mueller couldn't connect the dots to make a legal case (or maybe he wasn't given the time he needed to make the connections, which is what I strongly suspect), but that doesn't mean the dots aren't there, or that they don't stink.
See, here's the thing: I make no secret of the fact that I'm a liberal Democrat. Many people would take that fact and assume that my feelings about the man currently occupying the Oval Office are simply partisan, that I must hate Trump because he is a Republican. Not so. I would despise Donald Trump regardless of what party he ostensibly belonged to, and in fact I did despise him long before this national nightmare ever began. I despise him because he is so transparently corrupt, so transparently hungry for power, so proudly ignorant, and so thoroughly lacking in empathy or anything resembling grace, class or dignity.
But you know what? I think I despise the Congressional Republicans who are defending him even more. Because they know what he is and what he's doing, and they don't care. These same Republicans who genuflect to the Constitution, who weep at the sight of the flag, these upstanding "family values" people who are so quick to weaponize the smallest transgression made by a Democrat and who will not ever let go of anything… these same people turn a blind eye to the sins of Donald J Trump. They claim that any question at all about the man's behavior is all "conspiracy theories" and sour grapes for a lost election. "Trump Derangement Syndrome," they call it.
Nope.You've got that wrong, guys.
What has us liberals so angry is the goddamn double standard that Republicans so easily traffic in… that, and the stink of corruption that Donald Trump has carried into the White House like dogshit on his shoes, and the stench of decay that's growing stronger day by day as it oozes across our entire nation.
I try to be optimistic about the future, about the institutions and ideals that knit this scattered collection of populations and geographies into the thing we call America, but I have to be honest: I just don't know how we're going to come back from this. The America I thought I knew when I was young began to die when those idiots drove their planes into the towers. The bleeding accelerated when Americans cheered at the invasion of a country that hadn't attacked us, chuckled at the images of people being tortured and scoffed at the thought that the Geneva conventions actually applied to us. I naively thought the fever might be breaking with the election of Barack Obama and the strides toward a more truly equal nation that were made under his administration. But then came the backlash. Then came Trump. Then came the racists and the homophobes and the gun-nuts and god-knows how many other kinds of reactionaries and regressives. And now the gleeful nihilists who read Ayn Rand in their teens and took her warped selfishness to heart are knocking out the pillars that hold everything up and half the population actually thinks it's a good idea.
I've said it before many times, usually in reference to my feelings of having taken a wrong turn in my own life, but I'd really like to know just when and where I stepped through that wormhole into a parallel universe. And how the hell can I get back?
I want my country back.
No comments on this one. Not that I ever get any these days, but… yeah. No comments.
Today the president's supporters are practically orgasmic with their gloating and trolling, while Democrats are rending their garments, shaking their fists at the unfair heavens, and crying out, "Why? Why?!" But the truth is, nothing has really changed. No, really, it hasn't. We still don't know what's actually in the Mueller report. We've just been given a summary of what it supposedly contains, a summary that was crafted by a political appointee who got the job after writing the president a letter about how terrible the Mueller investigation was. So… yeah. Not the most trustworthy intermediary, in my opinion. Until the American people actually see the full report with our own eyes, I'm not changing my opinion that, for someone who's supposedly done nothing wrong, the president certainly acts like a man with something to hide. Consider these reminders from Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo:
Based on the publicly available information, the President betrayed his country and serially lied about his involvement with Russia and his knowledge about the Russian interference campaign. We know that despite all denials, throughout the campaign the President was trying to land a multi-hundred million dollar real estate deal that required the assistance of the President of Russia, one that required the end of sanctions. We know his campaign manager was handing over campaign data to a man the FBI judged was a Russian intelligence asset. We know his campaign had a back channel to Wikileaks and appears to have coordinated the timing of the leaks. We know that his top campaign officials had numerous contacts with Russian officials and intermediaries offering campaign assistance and welcomed the assistance. Finally, we know the transition [team] worked with Russia to undermine the sanctions intended to punish the interference campaign.
By any standard, simply these known facts are profoundly damning and constitute a massive national betrayal. The Trump campaign knew about, profited from and encouraged Russian assistance. Putin also appears to have been dangling a massive payoff in front of him the whole time. Russia helped Trump; Trump helped Russia; they were in contact via intermediaries throughout the campaign.
Presumably the report explains the details of these dealings and how they did not constitute either conspiracy or coordination. That is the information, the analysis we need to see. I'd suggest we know very little until we see this information, which is to say, until we see the report.
Mueller may not have been able to connect all the dots within his mandate, but there's no doubt in my mind that Trump is sitting in the Oval Office (when he bothers to go into work, that is) because of the Russians. Yeah, yeah, Hillary was a less-than-ideal candidate, and Democratic infighting, gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the vagaries of the electoral college all played a role, but the thumb on the scale that tilted things over the line belonged to Putin. Whether he made an actual deal with the Russians or not, they did everything they could to install him in the White House, either in hopes that he'd quid-pro-quo away those sanctions or just because they knew he'd generate so much barking chaos that it would tear the U.S. to pieces. Well, mission fucking accomplished, comrades.
The Work Goes On
The votes are still being tallied around the country as I write this, but it appears that the Democrats have at the very least retaken the House of Representatives and scored a few gubernatorial wins.
Over on social media, some of my liberal friends are lamenting that this isn't good enough, that we needed that legendary "blue wave" to decisively show that this country isn't what Donald Trump represents, and they're disappointed it didn't happen at the scale they hoped for.
Their negativity is irritating the hell out of me, to be honest.
Considering how gerrymandered so many states are, a blue wave was never likely. Perhaps it wasn't even possible. But we did pretty damn well winning the House in this environment. The House is a start. The House means investigations, and it means applying the brakes to Trump and the Trumpist GOP's corrosive agenda of undoing everything progressives have fought for over the past century.
Look, the ugly reality is that America is a land of bigots and know-nothings, and it always has been. Also, this nation was founded on blood and cruelty and it has never lived up to the ideals of its founding documents. That's just the way it is. The mistake that progressives keep making over and over is believing that a single big win is somehow all it takes to overcome that reality. Remember how many people honestly believed that electing Obama meant we were now a "post-racial society?" Such naivete now seems heartbreakingly quaint.
The last two years — not to mention all the nasty bullshit Obama endured during the preceding eight years — have been a slap in the face to remind us that the work must go on. It will go on, and it is going on. Because the ideals we haven't managed to live up to are as baked into the American makeup as the cruelty. Yin and yang, constantly struggling with one another, rocking back and forth but slowly, bit by bit, rolling forward. This country is about the aspiration, not a finished thing in itself. At least that's how I've come to see things over the past decade.
It's worth noting that many of those new representatives who will be seated come January 2019 are women, and many of them represent "firsts": the first Muslim woman, the first Native American woman, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. And all of them were elected tonight, in 2018, with Donald Trump in the White House. That's America.
That's the work going on…
"Let Me Tell You What I Believe"
"We now stand at a crossroads — a moment in time at which two very different visions of humanity's future compete for the hearts and the minds of citizens around the world. Two different stories, two different narratives about who we are and who we should be. How should we respond?
"Should we see that wave of hope that we felt with [Nelson Mandela's] release from prison, from the Berlin Wall coming down — should we see that hope that we had as naïve and misguided? Should we understand the last 25 years of global integration as nothing more than a detour from the previous inevitable cycle of history — where might makes right, and politics is a hostile competition between tribes and races and religions, and nations compete in a zero-sum game, constantly teetering on the edge of conflict until full-blown war breaks out? Is that what we think?
"Let me tell you what I believe. I believe in Nelson Mandela's vision. I believe in a vision shared by Gandhi and King and Abraham Lincoln. I believe in a vision of equality and justice and freedom and multi-racial democracy, built on the premise that all people are created equal, and they're endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. And I believe that a world governed by such principles is possible and that it can achieve more peace and more cooperation in pursuit of a common good. That's what I believe.
"And I believe we have no choice but to move forward; that those of us who believe in democracy and civil rights and a common humanity have a better story to tell. And I believe this not just based on sentiment, I believe it based on hard evidence.
"The fact that the world's most prosperous and successful societies, the ones with the highest living standards and the highest levels of satisfaction among their people, happen to be those which have most closely approximated the liberal, progressive ideal that we talk about and have nurtured the talents and contributions of all their citizens.
"The fact that authoritarian governments have been shown time and time again to breed corruption, because they're not accountable; to repress their people; to lose touch eventually with reality; to engage in bigger and bigger lies that ultimately result in economic and political and cultural and scientific stagnation. Look at history. Look at the facts.
"The fact that countries which rely on rabid nationalism and xenophobia and doctrines of tribal, racial or religious superiority as their main organizing principle, the thing that holds people together — eventually those countries find themselves consumed by civil war or external war. Check the history books.
"The fact that technology cannot be put back in a bottle, so we're stuck with the fact that we now live close together and populations are going to be moving, and environmental challenges are not going to go away on their own, so that the only way to effectively address problems like climate change or mass migration or pandemic disease will be to develop systems for more international cooperation, not less.
"We have a better story to tell. But to say that our vision for the future is better is not to say that it will inevitably win. Because history also shows the power of fear. History shows the lasting hold of greed and the desire to dominate others in the minds of men. Especially men. History shows how easily people can be convinced to turn on those who look different, or worship God in a different way. So if we're truly to continue [Mandela's] long walk towards freedom, we're going to have to work harder and we're going to have to be smarter. We're going to have to learn from the mistakes of the recent past. … "
— Barack Obama, speaking in Johannesburg, South Africa, to honor the late Nelson Mandela, July 17, 2018
(italics mine; complete transcript here)
This was President Obama's first major speech since leaving office. As usual, he articulated the same vision of the world and of the future that I have, the one that I'm trying very hard not to lose faith in.
I really miss this man.
A Poem for the Fourth of July
The crackle and thunder of the fireworks is finally beginning to wind down, the traffic jam that's been creeping past my house for an hour is breaking up, and a pall of smoke hangs over everything. Independence Day 2018 is nearly over. Am I the only one who feels sort of… relieved? Let's be honest: It's been a weird one this year.
Our country is a mess. It's been a mess before, many times, but this mess, this year… this feels different, doesn't it? The partisan divide is wider than I've ever seen it in my lifetime, and that's saying something given the past 20 years or so. Tensions are high, and I'm willing to bet a dollar that there will be bloodshed before this long hot summer is over. Or at least before election day. Not exactly a celebratory sort of time, is it?
I'd like to share a poem I ran across recently that I think is worth your time and your thought. It's by a gentleman named Langston Hughes, an African-American writer who was at the forefront of the artistic and social movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote this poem written in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, when the forces of fascism were on the rise in Europe. That world would look familiar to us in some respects and yet also be stunningly removed from our daily experience here in the 21st century. It's a world 83 years in the rear-view, a time that was closer to the muzzle-loading, pre-industrialized Civil War than it is to our current-day social-media struggle to define the soul of America. Nevertheless, what Hughes is saying here remains true and relevant today: that America is what it has always been… not a tangible thing that we once had and somehow lost, but an ideal to strive for… an ideal we've never managed to completely obtain, which has never been shared equally among all our peoples, but which we still promise ourselves is within reach. That comforts me on this long, hot summer night when the air is as thick with tension as it is the smell of gunpowder…
LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
Tough Times for Truth, Justice and the American Way
I've been thinking for a week or so that I need to write something that will capture my thoughts about where we are as a country right now and where we appear to be headed, but you know what? Screw it. My heart's just not into rehashing the rage, frustration, fear, contempt, shame, and, most of all, disappointment I've been feeling toward the old US of A lately. Not to mention that there are likely people reading this right now, people I know, friends and family members, who have exactly the opposite opinion about what's going on. Who are maybe even elated by the very same things I find so utterly repugnant. And that's really… discouraging.
I need some inspiration, some reassurance about the very concept of America. I need to look to one of my heroes, a symbol of everything that's best about this country, the embodiment of our ideals and aspirations, a comforting mythical figure who…
Ah, shit. Doesn't that just figure?
Make sense, though. That's certainly where my America seems to be right now.
Pity The Nation
One of the blog entries that got obliviated last week was simply a poem that I'd run across and appreciated. I've decided to put it up again because, if anything, it's even more relevant now than when I first posted it a couple weeks ago. Alas.
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerers
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture
Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To Be Hopeful…
Here's something I've been needing to hear recently:
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
— Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
"We Wouldn't Deserve To"
I never thought I'd be quoting John McCain, of all people, but when you're right, you're right:
"To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,
"We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did.
"We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don't. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn't deserve to."
Well said, sir.


Sony has kicked the PS4 marketing machine into gear with the release of a new TV spot during US prime time and a spiffy new community-focused website.
The new commercial is live action and has shades of several major releases; not sure where Sony is going with the Skyrim vibe, given the lack of fantasy RPGs in the PlayStation 4's launch line up; maybe it's supposed to the The Elder Scrolls Online, which is due on the console sometime in 2014. Killzone: Shadow Fall and DriveClub are definitely launch titles representin', though; check it out below.
Sony has also launched a new website called PS4: Greatness Awaits. Users are invited to contribute their own little slices of greatness – tweets, Instagrams, and so on – to be featured on the site.
The PlayStation 4 launches on November 15 in North America and November 29 in Europe.


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Category: Groucho Marx
Die, My Dear Doctor! That's the Last Thing I Shall Do
Groucho Marx? Lord Palmerston? Old Bishop? John Cordy Jeaffreson? Söndags-Nisse? Robert Lee Bullard? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: A famous person lying on their deathbed overheard distraught visitors discussing mortality. The stricken but still lively individual sat bolt upright and declared:
Die? That's the last thing I'll do.
This humorously redundant statement has been attributed to U.S. comedian Groucho Marx and U.K. statesman Lord Palmerston. Would you please explore this topic?
Quote Investigator: The phrasing of this quip has evolved over time. Here is a sampling with dates:
1866 Jun 28: Dying was the last thing a man should think about.
1866 Dec 01: Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I think of doing.
1867 Mar 01: As for my dying, that is the last thing I shall do.
1886 May 22: Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do.
1901 Mar 25: Die? That's the last thing I'll do.
1925 Jan 18: Die . . . That is the last thing I intend to do.
1933 Oct 12: The last thing that I intend to do, brethren, is to die.
Lord Palmerston (Henry John Temple) died on October 18, 1865. The quip was attributed to him by December 1866. He suffered from gout during his final years, and he reportedly delivered the line to a doctor while suffering from the ailment. Lord Palmerston is the leading candidate for crafter of this quip based on current data.
There is one complication. A variant joke was ascribed to an "old Bishop" by June 28, 1866. This date was after Palmerston's death but before he received credit. Hence, it is possible that an existing anonymous joke was simple reassigned to Palmerston posthumously.
Groucho Marx was born in 1890 and died in 1977. The joke was ascribed to him by 2008. This is very weak evidence, and QI believes the attribution to Groucho is spurious.
Below are selected citations in chronological order.
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Posted on April 25, 2021 May 12, 2021 Categories Groucho Marx, Lord PalmerstonTags Groucho Marx, Lord Palmerston, Old Bishop, Robert Lee Bullard, Sondags-Nisse
"I Am My Own Worst Enemy" "Not While I'm Alive"
Groucho Marx? Ernest Bevin? George S. Kaufman? Cotton Ed Smith? Franklin P. Adams? Alan Hale? Walter F. George? Oscar Levant?
Dear Quote Investigator: A comment which acknowledges criticism has been coupled with a harshly comical riposte. Here are three examples:
"I'm my own worst enemy. " "Not while I'm in the room."
"She is her own worst enemy." "Not while I am around."
"He is his own greatest enemy" "Not while I'm alive, he ain't."
Would you please explore the provenance of this type of exchange?
Quote Investigator: The earliest instance of this schema located by QI appeared in a 1933 article by Franklin P. Adams in the "New York Herald Tribune". Adams was reviewing a book filled with abbreviations, informal language, and flexible spelling; hence, he decided to retain that style in his analysis. Boldface added to excerpts by QI:[1]1933 March 12, New York Herald Tribune, Section: Books, Life Is Just a Game of Baseball by Franklin P. Adams, (Book Review of "Lose With a Smile" by Ring Lardner), Quote Page 4, Column 1, … Continue reading
. . . only the other night when I said I am my own worst enemy 4 fellows rushed in to say loyaly not while they was alive.
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1933 March 12, New York Herald Tribune, Section: Books, Life Is Just a Game of Baseball by Franklin P. Adams, (Book Review of "Lose With a Smile" by Ring Lardner), Quote Page 4, Column 1, New York, New York. (ProQuest)
Posted on April 25, 2020 April 25, 2020 Categories Franklin P. Adams, George S. Kaufman, Groucho Marx, Oscar LevantTags Alan Hale, Cotton Ed Smith, Ernest Bevin, Franklin P. Adams, George S. Kaufman, Groucho Marx, Oscar Levant, Walter F. George
Television: It's Called a Medium Because It's Never Well Done
Groucho Marx? Fred Waring? Ed Gardner? Goodman Ace? Jane Ace? Fred Allen? Ernie Kovacs? Deane Binder? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: The number of scripted television shows has grown dramatically in recent years and so have the plaudits. Yet, from its earliest days the medium has always attracted scorn. Here are three examples of lacerating word play:
Television is a medium where if anything is well done, it's rare.
Television: We call it a medium because nothing's well done.
Television is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
Would you please explore the provenance of this humor?
Quote Investigator: The earliest match known to QI occurred in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune" of Illinois in May 1949. A concise definition of television appeared in a small box. The singer and show business personality Fred Waring received credit for the wordplay. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:[1] 1949 May 15, Chicago Sunday Tribune (Chicago Tribune), Definition (Filler item), Part 6, Section 2, Quote Page 2, Column 5, Chicago, Illinois. (ProQuest)
"Television: A new medium—rare, if well done!"
-Fred Waring.
Continue reading Television: It's Called a Medium Because It's Never Well Done
1949 May 15, Chicago Sunday Tribune (Chicago Tribune), Definition (Filler item), Part 6, Section 2, Quote Page 2, Column 5, Chicago, Illinois. (ProQuest)
Posted on July 24, 2019 July 26, 2019 Categories Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Groucho MarxTags Deane Binder, Ernie Kovacs, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Groucho Marx
We Both Were Crazy About Girls
Groucho Marx? Apocryphal?
Dear Quote Investigator: Groucho Marx apparently once said that he pursued the affections of a woman for two years until he finally discovered that the woman was doing exactly the same thing: pursuing the affections of a woman. Would you please investigate this claim?
Quote Investigator: The 1967 collection of correspondence titled "The Groucho Letters" included a 1955 missive that the comedian sent to playwright and screenwriter Harry Kurnitz. Groucho included the following parenthetical quip:[1]1967, The Groucho Letters: Letters From and To Groucho Marx, Chapter: Friends Abroad, Letter Date: March 28, 1955, Letter From: Groucho Marx, Letter To: Harry Kurnitz (Playwright and Screenwriter), … Continue reading
Many years ago I chased a woman for almost two years, only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: we both were crazy about girls.
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1967, The Groucho Letters: Letters From and To Groucho Marx, Chapter: Friends Abroad, Letter Date: March 28, 1955, Letter From: Groucho Marx, Letter To: Harry Kurnitz (Playwright and Screenwriter), Quote Page 249, Publisher: Michael Joseph, London. (Verified with scans)
Posted on January 29, 2019 Categories Groucho MarxTags Groucho Marx
A Black Cat Crossing Your Path Signifies That the Animal Is Going Somewhere
Groucho Marx? Jack Oakie? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Encountering a black cat may bring you good luck or bad luck according to a complicated rule dictated by superstitious beliefs. The nature of the omen depends on whether the cat was traveling from left to right or the reverse. It also depends on whether the cat was moving toward you or away. I prefer the simple analysis credited to the famous comedian Groucho Marx:
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Did Groucho really say this? I have been unable to find a solid citation. Would you please help?
Quote Investigator: This question is difficult to resolve. The earliest citation found by QI occurred in January 1931 when the quip was ascribed to the popular actor Jack Oakie. Yet, in July 1931 the joke was credited to Groucho Marx. Currently, Oakie is the leading candidate for authorship although future research may switch the attribution.
"The Marion Star" of Marion, Ohio published a piece about Oakie in January 1931 that included six jokes about superstitious beliefs. Here were three of them. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:[1] 1931 January 15, The Marion Star, Theater News and Reviews: Jack Oakie Spends Pleasant Pastime Kidding Gangsters by Hallie Houck, Quote Page 16, Column 4 and 5, Marion, Ohio. (Newspapers_com)
Oakie, you know, doesn't believe in signs and superstitions and has drawn up a list of good and bad signs which can't fail. Here are a few of them:
"A black cat crossing in front of a person signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
"Throwing salt over one's shoulder is likely to give the impression that the wearer has dandruff.
"Thirteen is unlucky at a dinner when the host has only twelve chops.
The original phrasing of the black cat joke differed a bit from the common modern version.
Continue reading A Black Cat Crossing Your Path Signifies That the Animal Is Going Somewhere
1931 January 15, The Marion Star, Theater News and Reviews: Jack Oakie Spends Pleasant Pastime Kidding Gangsters by Hallie Houck, Quote Page 16, Column 4 and 5, Marion, Ohio. (Newspapers_com)
Posted on January 22, 2019 January 22, 2019 Categories Groucho MarxTags Groucho Marx, Jack Oakie
To My Embarrassment I Was Born in Bed with a Lady
Mark Twain? Groucho Marx? Wilson Mizner? Sydney J. Harris? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: A funny man once said that he was embarrassed to discover that his behavior had always been scandalous; he had been born in bed with a lady. This line has been connected to Mark Twain, Groucho Marx, and Wilson Mizner. Would you please explore this topic?
Quote Investigator: The earliest match known to QI occurred in the 1930 book "Beds" by Groucho Marx. One section contained letters sent by Groucho in response to questions. The ellipsis in the following appeared in the original text:[1] 1976 (Copyright 1930 on original edition), Beds by Groucho Marx, Quote Page 70 and 71, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana. (Verified on paper)
It is Wilson Mizner, and not I, who recalls his embarrassment when he first came into the world, and found a woman in bed with him. . . . I wasn't embarrassed.
Thus, Groucho credited the playwright, rogue, and wit Wilson Mizner. This citation is listed in the valuable reference "The Yale Book of Quotations" edited by Fred R. Shapiro.[2] 2006, The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro, Section: Wilson Mizner, Quote Page 526, Yale University Press, New Haven. (Verified on paper)
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1976 (Copyright 1930 on original edition), Beds by Groucho Marx, Quote Page 70 and 71, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana. (Verified on paper)
2006, The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro, Section: Wilson Mizner, Quote Page 526, Yale University Press, New Haven. (Verified on paper)
Posted on October 21, 2018 October 31, 2018 Categories Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, Sydney J. Harris, Wilson MiznerTags Groucho Marx, Mark Twain, Sydney J. Harris, Wilson Mizner
Who Ya Gonna Believe Me or Your Own Eyes?
Groucho Marx? Chico Marx? Popular Song? Peggy Hopkins Joyce? Dorothy Dix? Ace Reid? Apocryphal?
Dear Quote Investigator: According to legend when the wife of a famous comedian caught him in bed with another person the entertainer was unperturbed and denied that anything improper was occurring:
Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?
This remark has been attributed to Groucho Marx. Some say the line was employed in a movie. Would you please examine its provenance?
Quote Investigator: The 1933 movie "Duck Soup" included a scene containing a similar quip without the word "lying". The remark was spoken by Chico Marx who was playing the character Chicolini. He was imitating the appearance of the character played by Groucho Marx causing other members of the cast to confuse their identities.
The following exchange occurred between the actress Margaret Dumont playing Mrs. Gloria Teasdale and Chico Marx. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:[1]YouTube video, Title: "Chico Not Groucho: Who Ya Gonna Believe, Me or Your Own Eyes – Duck Soup – Firefly Chicolini", Uploaded on Jan 23, 2017, Uploaded by: James Schneider, … Continue reading
Teasdale: Your Excellency, I thought you left.
Chicolini: Oh no. I no leave.
Teasdale: But I saw you with my own eyes.
Chicolini: Well, who ya gonna believe me or your own eyes?
QI believes that Chico's humorous interrogative evolved over time, and the genesis can be traced back to the early 1900s. Here are additional selected citations in chronological order.
Continue reading Who Ya Gonna Believe Me or Your Own Eyes?
YouTube video, Title: "Chico Not Groucho: Who Ya Gonna Believe, Me or Your Own Eyes – Duck Soup – Firefly Chicolini", Uploaded on Jan 23, 2017, Uploaded by: James Schneider, Comment: Scene from 1933 movie "Duck Soup", (Dialog starts at 9 seconds of 20 seconds) (Accessed on youtube.com on July 31, 2018) link
Posted on July 31, 2018 September 24, 2019 Categories Chico Marx, Groucho MarxTags Ace Reid, Chico Marx, Dorothy Dix, Groucho Marx, Peggy Hopkins Joyce
What Has Posterity Ever Done for Us?
Groucho Marx? John Stuart Mill? Joseph Addison? Thomas Stafford? Boyle Roche? Adam Neale? Samuel Goldwyn? Bill Nye?
Dear Quote Investigator: Making sacrifices now for the people and environment of the future is difficult. This challenge has been encapsulated with a humorous remark. Here are two versions:
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Why should I care about future generations? What have they ever done for me?
Groucho Marx often receives credit for this quip, but I have been unable to find a proper citation. Would you please explore the provenance of this statement?
Quote Investigator: Groucho Marx died in 1977, and an instance of this jest was ascribed to him near the end of his life in 1975, but the quip can be traced back to the 1700s.
A close variant appeared in "The Spectator" magazine in 1714. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele founded and operated the magazine, and both were significant literary and political figures. The passage below was reprinted in the works of Addison. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:[1]1721, The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; Volume 4 of 4, The Spectator, Number 583, Issue Year: 1714, Issue Date: "Friday, August 20", Start Page 105, Quote Page 107, Printed … Continue reading
I know when a man talks of posterity in matters of this nature he is looked upon with an eye of ridicule by the cunning and selfish part of mankind. Most people are of the humour of an old fellow of a colledge, who when he was pressed by the society to come into something that might redound to the good of their successors, grew very peevish, We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Addison disclaimed credit for the joke which he attributed to an "old fellow of a colledge". The most likely candidate is Oxford scholar Thomas Stafford.
The Oxford Historical Society has published material from the papers of Thomas Hearne, an English diarist and antiquarian. An entry dated February 27, 1722/3 stated that on that day a great bell was sounded at Magdalen College, Oxford to honor Thomas Stafford, Fellow of the College, who had died that morning. Hearne then presented an anecdote from Stafford's past:[2]1907, Oxford Historical Society, Volume 50, Hearne's Remarks and Collections: September 23, 1722 to August 9. 1725, Volume 8, Entry Date: February 27, 1722/3, Quote Page 50, Oxford Historical … Continue reading
He was a Man that lov'd to get Money, but was, however, very kind to his poor Relations. There is this Story going of him, that some of the College talking once of doing something by way of Benevolence or Generosity, upon some publick Account, & he asking for what reason, it was answered, to do good to Posterity. Posterity, says the Dr., What good will Posterity do for us?
Continue reading What Has Posterity Ever Done for Us?
1721, The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; Volume 4 of 4, The Spectator, Number 583, Issue Year: 1714, Issue Date: "Friday, August 20", Start Page 105, Quote Page 107, Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's-Head, London. (Google Books Full View) link
1907, Oxford Historical Society, Volume 50, Hearne's Remarks and Collections: September 23, 1722 to August 9. 1725, Volume 8, Entry Date: February 27, 1722/3, Quote Page 50, Oxford Historical Society, Printed for the Society at Clarendon Press, Oxford, England. (HathiTrust Full View) link
Posted on May 9, 2018 April 15, 2021 Categories Bill Nye, Boyle Roche, Groucho Marx, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Addison, Samuel GoldwynTags Adam Neale, Bill Nye, Boyle Roche, Groucho Marx, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Addison, Samuel Goldwyn, Thomas Stafford
I Spent a Good Part of Last Evening Laughing at a Very Bad Play
Walter Kerr? Groucho Marx? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: Comedies rarely win prestigious awards. Critics are unaccountably hostile to works that make them guffaw. Groucho Marx once described a critic who laughed heartily and repeatedly during the performance of a play, yet crafted and published an excoriating newspaper review the next day using the barbed phrases "tasteless and tatterdemalion" and "very bad play". Do you know the critic's name?
Quote Investigator: Walter Kerr was an influential theater critic for the "New York Herald Tribune" in the 1950s and 1960s. After that newspaper closed he continued his efforts at "The New York Times". In 1958 Kerr evaluated a comedy from Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore:[1] 1958 October 30, The Cincinnati Enquirer, This Is No Review; It's a Confession by Walter Kerr, Quote Page 9B, Column 1 to 4, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Newspapers_com)
This is not so much a review as a confession. I spent a good part of an evening laughing at a very bad play—"Make A Million."
. . . tawdry, tasteless, and tatterdemalion as the evening is, "Make A Million" is—as often as not—stubbornly funny.
. . . "Make A Million" isn't respectable by any standards I can think of; but it does have an unexpected, and just about inexplicable funnybone.
Below are two additional selected citations in chronological order.
Continue reading I Spent a Good Part of Last Evening Laughing at a Very Bad Play
1958 October 30, The Cincinnati Enquirer, This Is No Review; It's a Confession by Walter Kerr, Quote Page 9B, Column 1 to 4, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Newspapers_com)
Posted on September 10, 2017 December 29, 2020 Categories Groucho Marx, Walter KerrTags Groucho Marx, Walter Kerr
I Have Just One Day, Today, and I'm Going To Be Happy In It
Dear Quote Investigator: Reportedly, Groucho Marx once described his philosophy of life. He stated that each day he had the power to choose to be happy or unhappy, and he would select happiness. Are you familiar with his statement on this topic? Would you please help me to find a citation?
Quote Investigator: Groucho Marx was 86 when he died in 1977. In 1972 Rufus W. Gosnell who was a columnist in an Aiken, South Carolina newspaper ascribed the following to Groucho. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:[1] 1972 August 30, Aiken Standard, Here's Rufus by Rufus W. Gosnell, Quote Page 1-B, Column 5, Aiken, South Carolina. (Newspapers_com)
Each morning when I open my eyes, I say to myself; "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." That's a system that has worked for Groucho Marx for a long time; try it.
This statement apparently was assembled from fragments employed by others as suggested by the citations listed in chronological order below. Continue reading I Have Just One Day, Today, and I'm Going To Be Happy In It
1972 August 30, Aiken Standard, Here's Rufus by Rufus W. Gosnell, Quote Page 1-B, Column 5, Aiken, South Carolina. (Newspapers_com)
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FLYNN: The Iraq War is not really over
Veterans need our care and help to reintegrate
By Christopher Flynn - The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Troops in Iraq will complete their withdrawal by the end of the year. They may no longer be stationed there, but they carry a piece of the war with them everywhere they go. While the nation may be moving on, for our troops, the Iraq War remains an ongoing battle as some work to overcome their injuries while others struggle to assimilate back into the workforce and with their families.
If you've turned on the television this month, you've seen the videos, sometimes more than once. A group of service members proudly marches into a gymnasium, salutes the U.S. flag, and then the troops are overwhelmed by the cheers and hugs of their friends and family members. For many Americans, this will be the image they hold of the end of the Iraq War. With thousands of troops scheduled to return home by the end of the month, the perception is that this long and difficult military conflict is finally coming to a close.
This is only partly true. As a military engagement and a public-policy issue, the Iraq War definitely is moving from the news pages to the history books. But for these troops, the ongoing battle isn't a chapter they can close quickly. It's an inflection point that will affect everything moving forward. It's part of who they are now.
The videos of the troops returning home are heartwarming, especially during the holiday season, and a lot of us will find this satisfying after a long war. But they don't tell the whole story.
What we don't see is video of the next day and the day after that. The day a veteran has trouble learning to walk again at a Veterans Affairs hospital while also figuring out how to provide day care for his or her children. The father struggling to pay the monthly bills as he looks for a new job. The family that burned through its savings while mom was overseas and needs an emergency loan. The family working to re-connect after putting lives on hold for a year or more.
The problems of returning troops aren't on the top of Americans' minds these days. A recent CBS News-New York Times poll showed most think the biggest problem the country is facing is the economy and the poor jobs market. The wars in Iraq and Afghan-istan, once among Americans' top concerns, didn't even make the list. Yet as Americans turn to more domestic priorities, we should not forget that those affect our returning troops just as much, if not more. A poor economy makes it hard for a veteran to find a job.
The Iraq War will continue to have an effect on our veterans for years to come. Those who have fought have been injured physically and mentally. Just because they are no longer physically in Iraq doesn't mean they no longer carry the conflict of Iraq inside them. Just as these troops left their mark on Iraq, the country left its mark on them, and they will carry their experiences with them, mentally and physically, for the rest of their lives.
That is why it's important for us to make a commitment to helping these troops get back some of what they lost, restart their lives and recover from their injuries. Consider making a donation this holiday season to one of the many nonprofits working to support returning troops and their families to show that we care.
The more than 30,000 troops injured in the Iraq War over the past nine years will need ongoing care, some for the rest of their lives, and those who were lucky not to sustain an injury still need help picking up where they left off. So let's make one of our New Year's resolutions to help the thousands of troops who are returning home from Iraq and give them the care and support they need and deserve.
Christopher Flynn is president of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation (PenFedFoundation.org).


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Home Home About Town Four to receive honorary plaques from Perry Historic Preservation Commission
Four to receive honorary plaques from Perry Historic Preservation Commission
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James R. Haas, shown here with his family in the 1950s, will be honored with a Perry Historic Preservation Commission plaque at a 2 p.m. ceremony May 2 at Spring Valley Assisted Living.
The Perry Historic Preservation Commission has announced the four recipients of its 2015 commission plaques of honor. The plaques will be awarded at a ceremony May 2 at 2 p.m. at Spring Valley Assisted Living in Perry.
Three of the plaques will be awarded posthumously and accepted by family members of the honorees, with the fourth plaque going to James R. Haas of Perry. Born in 1922, Haas is a 1940 graduate of Perry High School who distinguished himself during World War II as a bombardier in the 398th Bomb Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Haas has participated in the "Timeless Voices of Aviation" project as well as many Perry High School Veterans Day programs. He retired after 40 years as the senior vice president and trust officer at Perry State Bank. A longtime supporter of Perry High School athletic and cultural programs, Haas is a well-liked and highly respected lifetime resident of Perry.
A posthumous plaque will be awarded to the family of George P. Soumas (1915-1994), one of Perry's great benefactor. Since his family arrived in Perry in 1924, Soumas brought honor and improvement to the town.
From Captain Soumas' Distinguished Service Award in World War II to his multiple terms as Perry mayor, his contributions to Perry Underwater Rescue modernization, his work to establish Iowa Highway 141 as a four-lane highway between Granger and Perry and his years as a successful attorney and judge, George Soumas has long been one of Perry's most popular citizens.
Clarence L. "Jack" Hawn (1918-2004) will also be honored posthumously with a Perry Historic Preservation Commission plaque. Hawn was a second-generation filling station owner and operator well known as a businessman of honesty and integrity.
Hawn served the Perry community on the Perry City Council for several years and through promotion of the construction of the McCreary Community Building in 1983. He also had a passionate interest is supporting the athletic and cultural programs of Perry High School.
The last posthumous plaque will honor the Marckres family, which has been active in Perry's civic and commercial life for more than 150 years. Honored will be Sam Marckres (1843-1902), Charles D. Marckres (1874-1933) and Harry P. Marckres (1877-1937).
The Marckres family has been operating successful businesses, constructing new buildings, supporting local athletic and civic organizations and promoting Perry from the time before Harry Marckres' part in making Perry's first motion picture in 1924 right on through the family's lumber, coal, shoe, ice cream and Spring Valley Wireless businesses.
The May 2 awards ceremony if free and open to the public. The Perry Historic Preservation Commission's 2014 honorees were Paul Graves, Bill Simmer, Tom Quinlan and Bill Graney. Commission members include John Palmer, Ronda Onken, Judy Marckres, Jeanette Peddicord, Eugene Peel, Gary Martin and Jim Von Behren.
Captain George P. Soumas' long and distinguished career as a Perry lawyer and judge will be honored by the Perry Historic Preservation Commission May 2 at 2 p.m.
The family of Clarence L. "Jack" Hawn will receive the posthumous honor on behalf of their father at a 2 p.m. May 2 ceremony at Spring Valley Assisted Living in Perry.
The Harry, Sam and C. D. Marckres families will be honored by the Perry Historic Preservation Commission May 2 at 2 p.m.
Jim Haas celebrated his 93rd birthday Jan. 10, 2015 at the Spring Valley Assisted Living facility in Perry. He will be honored there May 2 at 2 p.m. at the annual Perry Historic Preservation Commission Awards Ceremony.


Presenting Paul Hardcastle's biography or discography would be like carrying coals to New Castle. Everybody knows this famous musician and his music.
One of his tremendous hits is Rainforest, reaching #1 on the 12" sales chart in the USA in 1984. A first highlight of his terrific sense for melody and rhythm. Decades later Hardcastle revisits this classic theme with Rainforest/What's Going On on his new album Paul Hardcastle VI (2011). The ingenious combining of Rainforest with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, a critical song about the ghetto youth, gives this song a new direction, an anti-war declaration.
Neon Adventure conjures up a breath of exotic woodwinds, electronic and sax. The hypnotic song allows saxophonist Rock Hendricks enough space for free improvisation. The slow paced Lost For Words presents the eye-catching singer Biggins for the second time in a sensory experience.
"Get Down, Get Down!" Dc Boogie evokes the dance floor time of the '70's. Becki Biggins and Rock Hendricks kick the groove. A chill mix of Rainforest/What's Going On adds a spherical note to the album.
Appealing melodies like Easy Come Easy Go keep up the good mood. Smooth to the point. With the love ballade Let This Love Begin Becki Biggins returns to the root of emotion. A softy song underlined with furry sax and Hardcastle's omnipresent beat.
Blew My Mind Ibiza Mix has that bumping vibration, excelled by Rock Hendricks' sax to the max. If you get lost in sounds like Into The Blue, don't worry, you are not alone! More romantic stream with the instrumental version of 1000 Miles From Nowhere. Becki Biggins' divine vocals bathes in a pool of spherical sounds. And if you cannot get enough from the Rainforest theme, Paul Hardcastle offers at the end of the album his Forest Echoes (The Conclusion).
Never change a winning team. Paul Hardcastle keeps his style in flow and he is stunning perfect in doing the Hardcastle.


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Tarzan actor Joe Lara among 7 presumed dead in US plane crash, United States News & Top Stories
WASHINGTON (AFP) – All seven passengers aboard a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his diet guru wife, are presumed dead after it crashed into a lake near the US city of Nashville, said the authorities.
The small business jet crashed at around 11am local time on Saturday (May 29), shortly after taking off from an airport in Smyrna, Tennessee, for Palm Beach, Florida, Rutherford County Fire and Rescue (RCFR) said on Facebook.
The plane went down into Percy Priest Lake, about 19km south of Nashville.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that seven people had been aboard the plane, CNN reported.
By Saturday night, operations had switched from search and rescue to recovery efforts, RCFR incident commander Captain Joshua Sanders told a press conference.
"We are no longer in an attempt to (look) for live victims at this point, so we're now recovering as much as we can from the crash site," he said.
On Sunday afternoon, RCFR said on Facebook that recovery operations had found "several components of the aircraft as well as human remains" in a debris field about half a mile wide.
Operations would continue until dark and resume on Monday morning, RCFR wrote.
Lara played Tarzan in the 1989 television movie Tarzan In Manhattan. He later starred in the television series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, which ran from 1996 to 1997.
His wife Gwen Shamblin Lara, whom he married in 2018, was the leader of a Christian weight-loss group called Weigh Down Ministries. She founded the group in 1986, and then in 1999 founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood, Tennessee.
She is survived by two children from a previous marriage, according to a statement posted on the church's website.
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Q: spark standalone cluster: how to limit number of workers? Example:
spark standalone cluster add 1 machine(16 cpus) as worker

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*commit application not setting spark.executor.cores then it will create
1 worker with 16 cores

*commit with spark.executor.cores=15 then it will create 1 worker with 15 cores

*commit with spark.executor.cores=5 then it will create 3 workers with 5 cores each worker
Now i want to limit cpu usage, only want 5 cores to be used
my question is:
how to set only 1 worker with 5 cores

A: Check this question please. I think it's a similar problem: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39400195/7779865
I think you can try to set spark.executor.cores=5 and spark.cores.max=5 or use spark.deploy.defaultCores=5 instead of spark.cores.max
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Q: ExactTarget - How would I link back to the GroupDefinition from the CustomerKey given in the AsyncActivityStatus CustomerKey object I am trying to take a AsyncActivityStatus return object and get the GroupDefinition based on the CustomerKey it returns for a Group Refresh (4 digit number). I've tried looking up by ID, no result. The Group API Object doesn't allow retrieving the CustomerKey but when I look for this Group in the account, this is not the CustomerKey.
Any ideas how I can take the below AsyncActivityStatus object and get back to the resulting GroupDefinition object?
(ObjectExtension){
         PartnerKey = None
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Act As If You're Not Being Judged « Performance Rules!
You're not being judged. Accept it, even if it's not true. Pretend, if that's what it takes. In fact, it will probably take some pretending, since we're being judged most of our lives. But just do it – pretend you're not being judged.
How often is your behavior impacted by what you think others think of you, or how they judge you? My bet is that most of what you do, especially within the workplace, is because of what you think is the "right" thing to do. You do what you think others want you to do or how they want you to be. Admit it, because it's true. You don't act true to yourself.
Is this a bad thing? Would you be better off behaving as if no one was judging you?
Imagine an entire day where you do only what you think is right, rather than what you believe others think is right. Give it a try. Act as if you are not being judged, and just do.
Some authors and management gurus will advise you to act as if you're always being watched, as if you are constantly being evaluated. On the surface, I like the idea of that. It certainly has a chance of keeping you focused on being on your game. But it may hold you back from being who you really are. And maybe being who you are would result in you being on your game.
What's the worst thing that could happen by simply being yourself – by acting as if no one is judging you? Could it be that you, being you, are a better performer than the you that you think you should be?
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This thread triggered a chain reaction in my brain, that I had to write here. I built a cobra replica car for a customer who was in metal construction business and he could see right away, if a piece was a 1 mm off somewhere. That made me think with every detail that I made, that this detail must be perfect, because Mart will come and see with one glance, if it is perfect or not. In that sense it was good for the quality that I knew somebody with eagle eye look will come to judge me. This had me putting a lot of effort into making very precise parts and consequently I can now see myself, whether a part is 1 mm off, or is the edge straight or curved. So now I don´t have to worry about someone judging me on my works quality anymore, because if I am myself happy with it, then it is already very much OK.
Also, if you work in creative sector, then fear of being judged is something that kills the creativeness right away. The only way to being creative, is to get into the "zone", where subconscious part of brain will start to play randomly the program that you have got, in order to come up with something new. Everything new still holds most parts from some old things, or something that has already been done, only with a little something new added to it. In music there are 7 notes and 5 halftones, so all possible combinations have been used thousands of times already, yet people still write new music every day. Yet, if in that process, when you are in the zone and just let the fingers play what ever they want to play and your conscious mind is sort of like following this procedure from another room and when something interesting comes along, it triggers a replay button, to save this riff or tune, or work further with it. If you then think of judges, the whole zone program hits a delete key. But in a later phase, when you have the base tunes already worked out, then you start thinking of judges or public, because you want these pieces of music to make a one song, that people would love. Then you start arranging it, add strings and horns and whistles.
Now I´ve written two examples from my own experiences that are opposites how they work, but still contain the fear of being judged, that leads to better quality outcome, but also the importance of being free of the fear, to get creative or to just enjoy the work process, without fearing others.


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Rainer Fischer (born September 14, 1949) is a Canadian retired judoka, who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the men's middleweight division (– 80 kg) and a bronze medal at the 1974 Pan American judo championships in Panama. He won six national titles between 1972 and 1976 including three Middleweight (-80 kg) and three Open Weight titles as a middleweight.

Fischer was born in Hamburg, Germany.

See also
 Judo in Ontario
Judo in Canada
 List of Canadian judoka

References

1949 births
Living people
Canadian male judoka
Judoka at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka of Canada
German emigrants to Canada
Sportspeople from Hamburg
Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
Pan American Games medalists in judo
Judoka at the 1975 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
20th-century Canadian people
21st-century Canadian people


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Phil Abraham
Instrument(s) Trombone, Vocals, Composer
Date of birth June 2, 1962
Current residence Brussels
© Marcel Vanhulst
From Jazz to Baroque (Phil Abraham) (Leader) Phil Abraham Trio (For four brothers + 1) (Leader)
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After studying the classical piano, the guitar and harmony, Phil Abraham was seduced by jazz and the trombone, on which he is self-taught. His stylistic evolution is parallel to the history of jazz, and even if he is a modern soloist today, he has worked with a wide variety of great musicians.
Phil has taken part in more than sixty albums, eleven with his own group, with which he won many prizes. He has often been invited in big bands as a soloist. He took part in many recordings and concerts of the big band of the Belgian Radio (BRT). Phil Abraham also devotes his career to teaching, training courses and master-classes. He was a teacher of vocal improvisation in Antwerp and Brussels. He is now a trombone teacher at the Brussels Royal Conservatory, at the National Conservatory in Metz (France) and at the National Conservatory in Douai (France).
Has played with
Michel PETRUCCIANI, Charles AZNAVOUR, Claude NOUGARO, Clark TERRY, Hal SINGER, Toots THIELEMANS, Klaus IGNATZEK, John SURMAN, Art FARMER, Michel HERR, Andy EMLER, Paolo FRESU, John ENGELS, Dusko GOYKOVICH, Benny BAILEY, Bart VAN LIER, Henri TEXIER, Klaus WEISS, Deborah BROWN, Maria SCHNEIDER, John LEWIS, Lou BENNETT, Claudio RODITI, William SHELLER, Didier Lockwood, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Michel LEGRAND, Lucky PETERSON ...
1988 : first Prize at the International Jazz Contest in Sorgues (France) 1989 : Prize of the Best Soloist at the "Concours de la Défense" in Paris 1998 : chosen as the best Belgian and European trombone player by the listeners of the Belgian radio and the Belgian critics 1999 : elected once again the best Belgian and European jazz trombonist 2000 : second Prize at the International Contest of jazz soloists in Monaco. 2016 : Los Angeles Akademia Jazz Award for his recording of the tune « Scoot » (Neal Hefti).
His Quartet record "Stapler" (Igloo IGL 091), with Michel HERR, Jean-Louis RASSINFOSSE and Stéphane GALLAND was chosen as the CD of the month by the Belgian jazz magazine "Jazz In Time". His CD "En Public" (Lyrae records, LY9703007) was selected as the CD of the month by the French "Jazz Magazine" in October '97.
Was chosen by the Belgian Radio (BRT) to represent Belgium in the Big Band of the European Broadcasting Union in Strasbourg (France). Was invited in 1994 as a soloist at the Moscow Concert Hall for a TV concert with the Moscow Big Band. Was the first Belgian Jazzman to be a member of the "Orchestre National de Jazz" in France, that he joined for 3 years with Laurent CUGNY, then stayed with Didier LEVALLET for additional 3 years. Replaced Bob BROOKMEYER in Michel PETRUCCIANI sextet, with Victor JONES (drs), Anthony JACKSON (bass), Flavio BOLTRO (tp) and Stefano DI BATTISTA (sax). Participated (1998) in the album "Jazznavour" of the French singer Charles AZNAVOUR, in which he played all the trombone parts. Other participants include Jacky TERRASSON (p), André CECCARELLI (drs), Remy VIGNOLO (b).
Arrangements are by Pierre DREVET (p) and there are other celebrity guests like Michel PETRUCCIANI, Diane REEVES, Richard GALLIANO and Eddy LOUIS ...
Was a member of the International Dusko GOYKOVICH Big Band (February 2004) for a big TV-concert in Belgrade supported by the Minister of Culture.
Has developped a new jazz trombone for the Courtois Company, the Xtreme AC 430T model.
Was invited in Seattle in May 2013 for concerts and master-classes and recorded a new album in New York in February 2014 with Sylvain Luc (g), Hein van de Geyn (cb) and Mino Cinelu (perc) + Bria Skonberg (tp) - guest.
Crystal Feel Phil Abraham Quartet
Jazz Me Do Phil Abraham Trio
Phil Abraham Trio Phil Abraham quartet
Phil Abraham Quartet Phil Abraham Trio
Wal House Of Jazz Ten-Tamarre
Fabrice Alleman / Jean Warland The Duet Olivier Collette Quartet (former 2)
Michel Herr & Life Lines Brazz
B.C.B.G. Act Big Band


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package net.bytebuddy.dynamic.scaffold.inline;

import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
import net.bytebuddy.ClassFileVersion;
import net.bytebuddy.description.method.MethodDescription;
import net.bytebuddy.description.type.TypeDescription;
import net.bytebuddy.dynamic.scaffold.MethodGraph;
import net.bytebuddy.implementation.Implementation;
import net.bytebuddy.implementation.bytecode.StackManipulation;
import net.bytebuddy.implementation.bytecode.member.MethodInvocation;
import org.objectweb.asm.MethodVisitor;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * An implementation target for redefining a given type while preserving the original methods within the
 * instrumented type.
 * <p> </p>
 * Super method calls are merely emulated by this {@link Implementation.Target} in order
 * to preserve Java's super call semantics a user would expect when invoking a {@code super}-prefixed method. This
 * means that original methods are either moved to renamed {@code private} methods which are never dispatched
 * virtually or they are invoked directly via the {@code INVOKESPECIAL} invocation to explicitly forbid a virtual
 * dispatch.
 */
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
public class RebaseImplementationTarget extends Implementation.Target.AbstractBase {

    /**
     * A mapping of the instrumented type's declared methods by each method's token.
     */
    private final Map<MethodDescription.SignatureToken, MethodRebaseResolver.Resolution> rebaseableMethods;

    /**
     * Creates a rebase implementation target.
     *
     * @param instrumentedType        The instrumented type.
     * @param methodGraph             A method graph of the instrumented type.
     * @param defaultMethodInvocation The default method invocation mode to apply.
     * @param rebaseableMethods       A mapping of the instrumented type's declared methods by each method's token.
     */
    protected RebaseImplementationTarget(TypeDescription instrumentedType,
                                         MethodGraph.Linked methodGraph,
                                         DefaultMethodInvocation defaultMethodInvocation,
                                         Map<MethodDescription.SignatureToken, MethodRebaseResolver.Resolution> rebaseableMethods) {
        super(instrumentedType, methodGraph, defaultMethodInvocation);
        this.rebaseableMethods = rebaseableMethods;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new rebase implementation target.
     *
     * @param instrumentedType     The instrumented type.
     * @param methodGraph          A method graph of the instrumented type.
     * @param classFileVersion     The type's class file version.
     * @param methodRebaseResolver A method rebase resolver to be used when calling a rebased method.
     * @return An implementation target for the given input.
     */
    protected static Implementation.Target of(TypeDescription instrumentedType,
                                              MethodGraph.Linked methodGraph,
                                              ClassFileVersion classFileVersion,
                                              MethodRebaseResolver methodRebaseResolver) {
        return new RebaseImplementationTarget(instrumentedType, methodGraph, DefaultMethodInvocation.of(classFileVersion), methodRebaseResolver.asTokenMap());
    }

    @Override
    public Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation invokeSuper(MethodDescription.SignatureToken token) {
        MethodRebaseResolver.Resolution resolution = rebaseableMethods.get(token);
        return resolution == null
                ? invokeSuper(methodGraph.getSuperClassGraph().locate(token))
                : invokeSuper(resolution);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a special method invocation for the given node.
     *
     * @param node The node for which a special method invocation is to be created.
     * @return A special method invocation for the provided node.
     */
    private Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation invokeSuper(MethodGraph.Node node) {
        return node.getSort().isResolved()
                ? Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation.Simple.of(node.getRepresentative(), instrumentedType.getSuperClass().asErasure())
                : Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation.Illegal.INSTANCE;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a special method invocation for the given rebase resolution.
     *
     * @param resolution The resolution for which a special method invocation is to be created.
     * @return A special method invocation for the provided resolution.
     */
    private Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation invokeSuper(MethodRebaseResolver.Resolution resolution) {
        return resolution.isRebased()
                ? RebasedMethodInvocation.of(resolution.getResolvedMethod(), instrumentedType, resolution.getAdditionalArguments())
                : Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation.Simple.of(resolution.getResolvedMethod(), instrumentedType);
    }

    @Override
    public TypeDescription getOriginType() {
        return instrumentedType;
    }

    /**
     * A {@link Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation} which invokes a rebased method
     * as given by a {@link MethodRebaseResolver}.
     */
    protected static class RebasedMethodInvocation extends Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation.AbstractBase {

        /**
         * The method to invoke via a special method invocation.
         */
        private final MethodDescription methodDescription;

        /**
         * The instrumented type on which the method should be invoked on.
         */
        private final TypeDescription instrumentedType;

        /**
         * The stack manipulation to execute in order to invoke the rebased method.
         */
        private final StackManipulation stackManipulation;

        /**
         * Creates a new rebased method invocation.
         *
         * @param methodDescription The method to invoke via a special method invocation.
         * @param instrumentedType  The instrumented type on which the method should be invoked on.
         * @param stackManipulation The stack manipulation to execute in order to invoke the rebased method.
         */
        protected RebasedMethodInvocation(MethodDescription methodDescription, TypeDescription instrumentedType, StackManipulation stackManipulation) {
            this.methodDescription = methodDescription;
            this.instrumentedType = instrumentedType;
            this.stackManipulation = stackManipulation;
        }

        /**
         * Creates a special method invocation for the given method.
         *
         * @param resolvedMethod      The rebased method to be invoked.
         * @param instrumentedType    The instrumented type on which the method is to be invoked if it is non-static.
         * @param additionalArguments Any additional arguments that are to be provided to the rebased method.
         * @return A special method invocation of the rebased method.
         */
        protected static Implementation.SpecialMethodInvocation of(MethodDescription resolvedMethod,
                                                                   TypeDescription instrumentedType,
                                                                   StackManipulation additionalArguments) {
            StackManipulation stackManipulation = resolvedMethod.isStatic()
                    ? MethodInvocation.invoke(resolvedMethod)
                    : MethodInvocation.invoke(resolvedMethod).special(instrumentedType);
            return stackManipulation.isValid()
                    ? new RebasedMethodInvocation(resolvedMethod, instrumentedType, new Compound(additionalArguments, stackManipulation))
                    : Illegal.INSTANCE;
        }

        @Override
        public MethodDescription getMethodDescription() {
            return methodDescription;
        }

        @Override
        public TypeDescription getTypeDescription() {
            return instrumentedType;
        }

        @Override
        public Size apply(MethodVisitor methodVisitor, Implementation.Context implementationContext) {
            return stackManipulation.apply(methodVisitor, implementationContext);
        }
    }

    /**
     * A factory for creating a {@link RebaseImplementationTarget}.
     */
    @EqualsAndHashCode
    public static class Factory implements Implementation.Target.Factory {

        /**
         * The method rebase resolver to use.
         */
        private final MethodRebaseResolver methodRebaseResolver;

        /**
         * Creates a new factory for a rebase implementation target.
         *
         * @param methodRebaseResolver The method rebase resolver to use.
         */
        public Factory(MethodRebaseResolver methodRebaseResolver) {
            this.methodRebaseResolver = methodRebaseResolver;
        }

        @Override
        public Implementation.Target make(TypeDescription instrumentedType, MethodGraph.Linked methodGraph, ClassFileVersion classFileVersion) {
            return RebaseImplementationTarget.of(instrumentedType, methodGraph, classFileVersion, methodRebaseResolver);
        }
    }
}

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THE SENATE
S.B. NO.
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
relating to YOUTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that youth suicide is a serious public health problem and is the third leading cause of death in the United States for people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four. Feelings of stress, confusion, self doubt, pressure to succeed, financial uncertainty, or other fears may cause some teenagers to feel that suicide is a solution to their problems and stresses. The rate at which Hawaii teens and young adults are taking their own lives has more than doubled over the past five years. Compared nationally, Hawaii's suicide rate is significantly higher among fifteen- to nineteen-year-olds, but drops below the national average for ages twenty to twenty-four.
The legislature further finds that according to data from forty-two reporting states in the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Hawaii high school students had the seventh highest self-reported prevalence of considering suicide, the seventh highest for making a plan to commit suicide, the seventh highest for attempting suicide, and the fifteenth highest for being treated for a self-inflicted injury. These statistics mean that suicide is killing more teenagers than anything except for serious illness.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2015-2016 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2016-2017 for anti-bullying and suicide prevention efforts in Hawaii's public schools.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.
Youth Suicide Prevention; Anti-bullying; Appropriation
Appropriates funds to support anti-bullying and suicide prevention efforts in Hawaii's public schools.
The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.