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Dual exhibitions from photographer John Divola examine social identity and the sublime
"STRATUM" and "Clive Wearing's Dilemma" are on view at the California Museum of Photography May 11-Sept. 8
Author: Jessica Weber
In addition to a robust range of curated exhibitions, artists are occasionally invited to engage with the collections at UCR ARTS' to produce an artist project — considering the space an extension of their own studios. Renowned photographer and University of California, Riverside, art professor John Divola is the latest to produce such a project for the California Museum of Photography, resulting in two exhibitions: one showcasing a personal photographic collection and the other a series from his own body of work.
Arkansas Maytagers, Maytag Spring Party in Newton, Iowa, March 28-29, 1955. Courtesy of John Divola.
The first of these exhibitions, "STRATUM," presents over 140 photographs ranging from 1912 to 1968 that Divola has been amassing since the mid-1980s. The idiosyncratic collection consists entirely of "banquet" photographs — commemorative images depicting groups of employees, tradespeople, and professional organizations at gatherings.
Divola found the first of these images by chance at an auction while looking for film set continuity photos from the early days of Hollywood moviemaking. There, he came across a photo of boxer Henry Armstrong at a dinner surrounded by promoters.
"The people sitting at the meal look like guys that have never been in a suit before in their life," he said. "They're just a bunch of mugs there; it was such a fantastic photograph."
He then began collecting similar banquet-style images including company gatherings for Coca-Cola, Buick Motor Company, and General Electric employees as well as conventions for cheese makers, horseshoers, and astrologers, among others. All the images in his collection are original photographic prints and serve as signifiers of decades passed.
"I'm interested in ones that are not pristine, that some of them have aged, or are a little damaged or faded," he said. "Now we've got these digital files that are like an equation; it never ages. These things are physical artifacts, imprints of time."
To Divola, these images — most of which were created from around World War I to just after World War II — are representative of American evolution and social identity in the 20th century.
"You're looking at a sort of cross-section, a material sampling from the past," Divola said. "They are very high-resolution photographs, so you can look at them and see every face and what people are thinking — if somebody's uncomfortable, or if someone is very proud — but then at the same time you get a sense of the group, so this kind of flow between individual identity and group identity is interesting to me."
Clive Wearing's Dilemma
John Divola, Untitled, 1990, gelatin silver photograph. Courtesy Gallery Luisotti.
Sharply contrasting the historical and information-heavy display offered in "STRATUM" is "Clive Wearing's Dilemma," an exhibition showcasing a body of untitled work created by Divola in 1990, shown in its entirety for the first time.
Consisting of 12 large black-and-white photographs, Divola photographed plumes of flour against what he describes as "shamelessly expressionistic backdrops," intending for the creation of these images to be "pathetic and obvious." The result is ethereal, cloud-like images.
"It ends up looking very much like dramatic weather, or aerial shots of landscapes, or cosmic skies, so there's this vocabulary of the sublime, but then if you look closely, you can see it's this dead industrial thing with this really simplistic approach," he said.
The name for the exhibition draws from famed musicologist Clive Wearing who, after a severe illness resulting in brain damage, became unable to form new memories and reduced his current memory to only lasting between 7 and 30 seconds.
"He could not generate long-term memories, so he's always in the present," Divola said. "That seemed to me a metaphor for what's going on in these images, which are about a kind of unattainable past and an insistence on manifesting something in the present."
In a broader sense, Divola is interested in how photography is used to articulate and document other forms of artmaking. Unlike other kinds of art in which each mark is an index of human interaction, Divola notes the inherent distance created by photography's mechanical processes.
"I've always been interested in the idea of how photographs collate the vocabulary of art in general, and that I could take those vocabularies and manifest them through certain kinds of actions and make photographs that appropriated those vocabularies," he said. "There's a vocabulary of abstract expressionism in these images, and there's some of the procedures of action painting and things like that."
Though separate, the presentation of the two exhibitions together offers visitors a dynamic experience. Divola notes the sharp juxtaposition of the two, with "Clive Wearing's Dilemma" serving as a marked counterpoint to "STRATUM."
"It allowed me to paint those two galleries dark, and then one light, and for you to go to this incredibly active, noisy, information-rich environment, into this darker, more contemplative existential space," he said.
"STRATUM" and "Clive Wearing's Dilemma" are on view at the California Museum of Photography May 11-Sept. 8. An opening reception for the exhibitions will be May 25 from 4-6 p.m. For more information, please visit ucrarts.ucr.edu.
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College Of Humanities Arts And Social Sciences
California Museum Of Photography
John Divola
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Wilton (TX) school district admits to violating Freedom of Information Act
Submitted by dbevarly on Thu, 12/28/2017 - 11:43am
Superintendent of Schools Kevin Smith recently testified at a Freedom of Information Commission hearing that the district "inadvertently" violated the Freedom of Information Act by failing to properly notice the public of preschool committee meetings.
The hearing was held on Dec. 12, in response to a complaint Alex Ruskewich filed in February against the district and Wilton Preschool Committee. The committee was formed in the summer of 2016 at Smith's request and was comprised of school staff, one Board of Education member and one parent.
Smith told the Board of Education at its general meeting Thursday he was not aware that non-Board of Education administrative committees, such as the preschool committee, require public notice for meetings.
At the time of the complaint, Smith said he called legal counsel and learned the requirements of the Freedom of Information law and directed appropriate personnel of other district committees to notice meetings thereafter.
"We're going to take the next couple of months to post all the agendas, and everything will be up on Board Docs," Smith said, referring to the Board of Education's website where the public can access meeting minutes, agendas and notices.
However, Ruskewich said there was no excuse for the district's inadvertent violation since there were Freedom of Information Act training sessions presented by Town Counsel Ira Bloom earlier this year and they were also videotaped. Read more...

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Meet the New Year, same as the old year...
Published Tuesday, January 01, 2013 @ 3:01 AM EST
KGB Report welcomes you to 2013: May this arbitrary, transient point in your solipsistic sense of the space-time continuum delineate the initiation of a series of random events which trend in a manner which you perceive to be favorable.
Categories: Barack Obama, Cartoons, Elections, History, Holidays, Mass shootings, New Years, Photo of the day, Politics, Second Amendment, The Big Bang Theory, U.S. Constitution, WTF?
The Wrath of the Whatever from High Atop The Thing
Published Tuesday, November 13, 2012 @ 12:55 AM EST
Failure to write a concession speech is what sealed Mitt Romney's fate:
(YouTube video: "Election Night" episode, The West Wing)
Sam Seaborn: You wrote a concession?
Toby Ziegler: Of course I wrote a concession. You want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?
Sam Seaborn: No.
Toby Ziegler: Then go outside, turn around three times and spit. What the hell's the matter with you?
Categories: Elections, Mitt Romney, Politics, TV, Video, YouTube
Published Monday, November 12, 2012 @ 8:10 AM EST
(Paul Noth, The New Yorker)
Categories: Cartoons, Elections, Politics, The New Yorker
Okay then...
Published Sunday, November 11, 2012 @ 9:52 AM EST
Categories: Animals, Elections, Photo of the day
In which I quote Ann Coulter, hold my nose, and press "publish."
Published Friday, November 09, 2012 @ 1:17 PM EST
Purist conservatives are like idiot hipsters who can't like a band that's popular. They believe that a group with any kind of a following can't be a good band, just as show-off social conservatives consider it a mark of integrity that their candidates- Akin, Mourdock, Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell- take wildly unpopular positions and lose elections.
It was the same thing with purist libertarian Barry Goldwater, who... nearly destroyed the Republican Party with his pointless pursuit of libertarian perfection in his vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
-Ann Coulter
(No, I'm not going to give a link to her site. I don't want kgbreport.com showing up in her server logs.)
Categories: Ann Coulter, Elections, KGB Opinion, Observations, Politics
This about sums it up...
Published Friday, November 09, 2012 @ 8:00 AM EST
Rob Ellsworth
(published on his Facebook page).
I'm seeing Americans post photos of our Flag hung upside down because the President won reelection. They're defending this action as a "Naval sign of distress". Let me tell you something: you are not on a battleship, you are a manager at McDonalds in Follansbee, WV, and you are in fact, a lunatic.
I've avoided "spiking the football" over a great night for the President and for common sense in the Senate - Richard Murdock and Todd Akin deserved more than a loss. But I've held off, because I respect, am friends with, and on certain issues agree with, many patriotic Republicans who work hard to make this country a better place and simply disagreed with who should be Commander in Chief. That's fair and healthy.
And, I also didn't spike the football because I've lost elections before and I know how terrible it feels.
It's called maturity and not enough people in either party have it.
The following jaw punch is not directed at common sense Republicans, nor does it condone radicals on the Left. It is directed at the right wing fanatics who put party before country, conspiracy before reality, and ideology before science and intellect.
To Tea Party Patriots and hardcore Religious Engineers:
Republicans lost because their party leadership and most candidates feared you, listened to you, and looked the other way on important issues as you picked the dumbest, craziest nominees in key primaries (Murdock and Akin), or converted otherwise sensible, experienced candidates to Crazy Town (Romney).
There's nothing wrong with wanting limited government. I do. There's nothing wrong with believing in God, the Golden Rule, or wanting to reduce abortions. I do, too. But you've taken it too damn far and scare the shit out of people you could otherwise persuade.
Yes, the message and messenger matter (you're failing at both, BTW), but no Madison Avenue PR firm, K Street lobbying firm, Fox News "analyst", or local chapter of "Freedom Works" can sell the flaming dung you're slinging.
Smart people can lose. But smart people always learn.
You didn't lose because you "weren't conservative enough" or because the country has become full of lazy "takers" who don't want to earn a living or just want America to "turn in to Europe".
You didn't lose because of Hurricane Sandy or because Chris Christie hugged the President on TV- they were both doing their jobs.
You didn't lose because of a liberal media, liberal college campuses, liberal polls that were "weighted to Democrats" (mostly because they were accurate), or because of "election fraud"... actually, that probably benefited you this time.
No. You lost because your policies, tone, conspiracies, rigid inflexibility and irrational rhetoric helped align enough moderates, swing voters, and minority groups whom otherwise could be persuaded by Republicans, to align with Democrats and a beatable incumbent.
It's not that you didn't get your message out, it's that we all actually heard it and threw up a little in our mouths.
There isn't a mandate for Democrats in this election. Liberalism wasn't rewarded in this election. However, calm pragmatism, compassion, working together, compromise and sincerity were rewarded. People may not have agreed with President Obama, but more felt he was sincere and that he understood their daily problems, fears, and dreams. If you don't trust what the polls say, take a look at who is sworn in on January 20th. I thought you'd at least believe in math when it came to counting to 270.
Sincerity is the only thing in politics you can't fake. You can't teach it. No matter how shiny a candidate's bio is, how smooth he is, or how perfect the gray hairs rest on his temples- any average Joe on the street can spot a bullshitter.
Mitt is a generous and good man, but he didn't know who he was or "needed" to be at any given time in that campaign. That's largely his fault for lacking core convictions or personal toughness (Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush possessed both traits- that's why they won).
But you, the right wing base of the party, who drove so many of us moderate republicans out the door years ago, were the main catalyst. Your inability to reason, compromise, or let new facts and evidence challenge your predetermined outcomes led millions of moderates to no longer be able to stand on stage with you.
Frankly, you're embarrassing- more so than a crazy family member at dinner, or having your mom drop you off at a high school dance.
You say stupid shit and look stupid saying it.
You pass amendments to ban flag burning and then hang it upside down and post it on Facebook when you lose.
You preach limited government in the economy when Democrats are in charge and then look the other way when you're in charge.
You want a government small enough to stay out of corporations and banks but big enough for bedrooms and hospital respirators (see Schiavo, Terri).
There's a hatred inside of you that burns in a way that scares normal people.
You made unlikely allies in large corporations who are more interested in tax breaks and loopholes even if the government has to cut your Medicare and Social Security or cut education to a point where states and local governments have no financial choice but to educate your children in portable trailer classrooms with 35 other students.
Would these corporations do this just to help pad their quarterly earnings reports with certain tax and regulatory policies? You bet your sweet ass they do. And you better believe they're happy to have you make the "freedom" argument as "concerned citizen patriots" on their behalf.
Yet, after those corporations spent billions on TV adds and herded you like sheep over the last half decade to discredit Barack Obama for everything from being a "Godless communist"- to his "being born in Kenya and hatching a secret plot to take down America"- to Obamacare's "death panels and job killing regulations"-
YOU still lost.
After having a Senate Republican Leader state that his party's top priority in Congress was to make "Obama a one term President" and a House of Representatives that blocked everything he tried to do and then had the brass to criticize him for "not getting anything done"-
After attacking gay people who want equal protection under the law (BTW, I'm referring to the 14th amendment to the constitution, I know you forget most of the amendments after the 2nd one)-
After attacking the Hispanic community who's tired of being spoken "at" like criminals, attacking low income women who rely on Planned Parenthood for services of which 98% have nothing to do with abortion, and attacking relatively trivial things like PBS that children and adults enjoy as "1" damn television channel that doesn't include Honey Boo Boo or a "Fox News Breaking Alert" announcing Obama's latest "Czar" appointment-
And after throwing all the red meat in your warped political base out to the rest of the country to eat, the majority of Americans weren't hungry for it and didn't trust ordering from your unhealthy, de-regulated menu-
You can read me the constitution, but you clearly don't have a practical understanding of what you've read, heard on television, or forwarded to your entire email list of like minded xenophobes.
This country is great because our founders were smart enough to limit the government's power and give the people enough freedom and authority to correct their own mistakes in pursuit of a "more perfect union" (it's in the first damn line of the Preamble, in case you can't find it in your Tea Party Constitution Cliffs Notes).
Our founders were utterly brilliant and sophisticated. I don't like to speak for them, but I doubt they would have been friends with Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin. Nah, they wouldn't have made the guest list at Mt. Vernon or Monticello.
But let's be clear, our founders weren't perfect. They owned slaves. Only white male property owners had a say in things. Women, blacks, native Americans, and other constituencies had to wait for an American dream and in many cases, are still waiting and working for it. Speaking of work, children were working 12-16 hour days with zero safety protections in statute. Zero.
The constitution, subsequent amendments and Supreme Court rulings and opinions since 1800 aren't perfectly clear (those who think they are tend to have had a healthy serving of Kool-Aid and have never watched oral arguments at the Supreme Court).
The founders knew that they, and the constitution they drafted, weren't perfect. This is why they added a Bill of Rights and why they created a Supreme Court and a process that has allowed us to add 27 amendments to their work of art.
Their imperfection is what led to a Civil War to prove that human and civil rights aren't a "states' rights issue" - they're endowed by our creator, not by legislatures in Mississippi or Alabama, and they're protected equally in our constitution, but also in our democratically passed laws.
I run from the Capitol steps to the Lincoln Memorial most mornings that I'm in Washington. I may not be fast or smart, but I can read what's carved in stone.
Please. I welcome a challenge to what I've said. If you think because I voted for President Obama that I'm a socialist or that I don't want a better America, I'm happy to take time from running a business I've co-founded and time from money I'm trying to raise for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to pause and give you a fresh one. At no charge.
But I do ask this: be a real Patriot. Look at that flag you've hung upside down. Look at what you've done to it and what that means. Thousands of our bravest men and women, braver than me, just lost limbs and in many cases their lives so that Iraqis and Afghanis could vote however they see fit. I did that on Tuesday and so did you. That's what that flag stands for- equal access to a process, not a guarantee for any of our desired outcomes.
A country that defeated Hitler, Mussolini, and bin Laden won't crumble because the guy you wanted to be President got beat.
You lost. Now learn from it.
A Proud American
Categories: Elections, Politics, Rob Ellsworth
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."
Published Thursday, November 08, 2012 @ 3:00 AM EST
That famous quote by Mythbuster Adam Savage is, simply, the reason why the Republicans were handed their lunch on Tuesday.
Here are two essays which address the issue in a sane, rational manner. The videos that follow, from last night's Daily Show, are a bit more... bombastic.
Ohio really did go to President Obama last night, and he really did win. And really was born in Hawaii. And he really is legitimately President of the United States. Again. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make up a fake unemployment rate last month. And the Congressional Research Service really can find no evidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy. And the polls were not skewed to over sample Democrats. And Nate Silver was not making fake projections about the election to make conservatives feel bad. Nate Silver was doing math. And climate change is real. And rape really does cause pregnancy sometimes. And evolution is a thing. And Benghazi was an attack on us. It was not a scandal by us. And nobody is taking away anyone's guns. And taxes have not gone up. And the deficit is dropping, actually. And Saddam Hussein did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction. And the moon landing was real, and FEMA is not building concentration camps. And UN election observers are not taking over Texas. And moderate reforms of the regulations on the insurance industry and the financial services industry in the country are not the same things as Communism.
Listen. Last night was a good night for Democrats and liberals for very obvious reasons. But it was also possibly a good night for this country as a whole. Because in this country we have a two party system in government. And the idea is supposed to be that the two sides both come up with ways to confront and fix the real problems facing this country. They both propose possible solutions to our real problems. And we debate between those possible solutions. And by the process of debate, we pick the best idea. That competition between good ideas from both sides about real problems in the real country should result in our country having better choices, better options, than if only one side is really working on the hard stuff. And if the Republican party and the conservative movement and the conservative media are stuck in a vacuum-sealed door-locked spin cycle of telling each other what makes them feel good, and denying the factual lived truth of the world, then we are all deprived as a nation of the constructive debate between competing feasible ideas about real problems.
Last night the Republicans got shellacked. And they had no idea it was coming. And we saw them in real time, in real humiliating time, not believe it as it was happening to them. And unless they are going to secede, they are going to have to pop the factual bubble they've been so happy living inside... if they do not want to get shellacked again. And that will be a painful process for them, I'm sure, but it will be good for the whole country, left, right and center. You guys, we're counting on you. Wake up. There are real problems in the world. There are real knowable facts in the world. Let's accept those and talk about how we might approach our problems differently. Let's move on from there. If the Republican party and the conservative media are forced to do that by the humiliation they were dealt last night, we'll all be better off as a nation.
And in that spirit, congratulations everybody.
- Rachel Maddow
If You're Surprised By The Election Results, You're The Reason You Lost, Or: A Plea for Useful Republicans.
Dear Republicans:
I know the despair you feel this morning, and sympathize, because I've been there. In 2004 my stiff, robotic millionaire lost to a President he should have soundly thumped, and I was so hurt I took a week off from the Internet afterwards. I am completely sympathetic with that slow terror that the country is now in the hands of an incompetent, and the voters don't even know it.
But I noticed a weird difference between the way Republicans and Democrats reacted to a losing candidate. In 2004, when the polls turned against Kerry and it was obvious he was going to lose, the Democrats asked "How can we fix that?" Oh, they asked in their glum, incompetent way, but when I personally talked to other Democrats both in real life and online, we were all pretty cognizant of the fact that Kerry was the underdog.
The Republicans of 2012, however, became increasingly convinced that Romney was going to win.
Everywhere I looked on Twitter and Facebook, I saw my Republican friends- not straw men, but actual people- talking about how terrible Nate Silver's methods were, how these Rasmussen polls showed Romney's real strength, and eventually you got the travesty of UnSkewedPolls.com, which cherry-picked the data and even today has their prediction of not just a Romney win but a landslide, Romney 311 to Obama 227. (Actual result: Obama 332, Romney 206.)
It all crystallized for me when my friend Brad Torgerson said, "Liberals and Democrats have Nate Silver and his 538 blog. Conservatives and Republicans have the U of CO guys. It's an epic cage match of predictive numbers geekery!"
Look there. Right at that post- one not too dissimilar from a thousand other dismissals of Nate Silver and the other aggregated polls. See what Brad did there? The way the guy bringing you news he didn't like was automatically assigned a partisan bias, and the only rational solution was to get a guy on your side with better numbers? As if reality was merely a function of getting enough guys on your side?
That's why you lost.
Stop confusing hard reality for partisan opposition.
It's time to step out of the bubble, dear Republicans, because we fucking need you. I don't trust the Democratic party to run the country single-handedly. I want a Republican party I can rely on for real solutions- and you've become lazy, voodoo-like, dismissing any data you don't like as partisan opposition.
Jay Lake is fond of saying, "Reality has a liberal bias." That's not because reality inevitably verifies liberal thinking, but because the Republican response to anything that challenges them is now to write off the data.
And let me repeat: we need you. I want a counterweight to Democratic power, not a deadweight that refuses to acknowledge the issues. I want a Republican party that will look at the numbers for climate change and not go, "I don't like what those scientists are saying, so I'll call it a silly liberal bias!" but say, "We're business experts, we know how to motivate rich people to do what we want, how do we fix this?" I want a Republican party that will realize while yes, we're spending far too much and should cut down, the results of thirty years of trickle-down theory and tax cuts won't actually provide enough revenue, because we are at the lowest effective tax rates we've had in thirty years.
And yes, you can argue all my statements here. But in that, smart person, you're like a driver with an SUV in Alaska. A person with a car in Alaska is going to get stuck in the snow eventually; that's a fact. But if you have an SUV, you're gonna get stuck way the heck out in the woods where no one can get at you, because you have the strength to do it and won't stop when common sense tells you to. I had a ton of Very Smart friends dissecting all the reasons why Nate Silver was wrong, why his methodology sucked, why these pollsters who said what they liked over here had better ways of slicing the data- and all that flurry of so-called "facts" amounted to was an elaborate justification of personal biases that had no basis in reality.
It's time to stop fighting the obvious. It's time to stop assuming that anyone who presents contradictory data is out to get you.
You should have won, guys. You had a President with an economy in the doldrums, a guy who'd lost a lot of his electoral mojo in the realities of politics. But instead of rising from the grave, you chose a candidate who never actually gave us firm numbers on what expenses he'd cut to fix the economy. You chose a candidate who said he'd get rid of Obamacare, but never actually named the parts he'd destroy. You chose someone who, though all politicians lie, lied a lot more than almost any modern Presidential candidate.
You had a guy who should have sliced Obama to ribbons- and he lost, in large part, because he said, "Trust me" instead of giving us a plan. And you let him get away with it.
You let him get away with it because you're indulging in a great deal of magical thinking. You let him get away with it because facts have ceased to matter; as long as someone tells you something you want to hear, you'll find a way to justify it with pseudo-science and trust and spit and baling wire. You don't like to hear how bad a candidate Mitt was, because you came so close this year, but it's true; the problem is that so much of the country has abandoned listening to reality that you can get massive votes and never touch a fact.
If you can't be honest today, in the aftermath of this great defeat, then you're never going to see the truth.
If you seriously thought that Romney had a good chance of winning, then you're part of the problem. Wake up. I implore you: learn from this. Look at your deepest beliefs, and see whether the numbers support them. Start thinking, maybe those people with data I don't like are right.
If you think the lesson to be learned is "We weren't conservative enough," then you're handing me a great victory in 2016. I want to have a real choice then.
T.F. (The Ferret)
Megyn Kelly teaches Karl Rove the power of scientific gobbledygook.
"If only President Bush could have been so lucky as to have a massive hurricane on his watch, then... oh, right..."
It's just arithmetic.
Categories: Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Chick-fil-A, Daily Show, Elections, Fox News, Hypocrisy, Jon Stewart, Karl Rove, Megyn Kelly, Mitt Romney, Nate Silver, News Media, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Palin, The Ferret, YouTube
Published Wednesday, November 07, 2012 @ 5:37 PM EST
(Credit: The Onion)
Categories: Dogs, Elections, The Onion
Published Wednesday, November 07, 2012 @ 10:55 AM EST
Forget economic policy, stances on social issues, lying and flip-flopping. On June 28, 2007 I realized I could never support this man.
Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
I predict no politician will ever tie a dog to the roof of his car again.
-KGB
Categories: Elections, Mitt Romney, Quotes of the day
Observations of the day
Published Friday, October 26, 2012 @ 9:06 AM EDT
Experts say the entire 2012 election could come down to just eight states. The states are: confusion, dismay, depression, apathy, shock, disbelief, despair, and anxiety.
-Jay Leno
After the debate... experts agreed that President Obama won on substance and I thought: Well, big deal, Lance Armstrong won on several substances.
-David Letterman
In fairness to Sarah Palin, "shuck" and "jive" are just two of the many thousands of words she doesn't know the meaning of.
-Andy Borowitz
One week after Election Day, the banks will be closed and the military will be marching in the street.
It's called Veterans Day.
I'm tired of every Republican politician being a medical supergenius on vaginas. I want to hear gynecologists talk about the national debt.
-Bill Maher
This campaign has dragged on so long Newt Gingrich is abandoning it for a younger, hotter, healthier campaign.
-John Fugelsang
Karl Rove said the Tea Party is "not sophisticated;" which is sort of like saying the Jonas Brothers are "not black.'
I have never been more ashamed for a candidate, Politicizing fallen Americans is pitiful and unacceptable.
-Colin Powell
Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama. Makes sense. They're both moderate Republicans.
-@Indecision
There's something wrong with our politics if we can't even agree about rape anymore.
I'll be glad when this election's over so I'll know for sure whom I should have voted for.
-Steve Martin
The audience at the debate was instructed to turn off their cell phones because they might interfere with Mitt Romney's circuitry.
-Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog
Categories: Andy Borowitz, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Colin Powell, David Letterman, Elections, Jay Leno, John Fugelsang, Sarah Palin, Steve Martin
Political joke of the day, Presidential edition
Published Thursday, October 25, 2012 @ 7:59 AM EDT
(YouTube video: President Obama answers Jay Leno's question, "What's this thing with Trump and you?" )
Categories: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Elections, Jay Leno, TV, Video, YouTube
Published Tuesday, October 23, 2012 @ 9:10 AM EDT
?Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. And so, the question is not a game of Battleship where we're counting ships, it's "what are our capabilities?"
Categories: Barack Obama, Elections, Mitt Romney, Politics, Quotes of the day
Observations, Debate-a-Palooza Edition
Published Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 11:39 PM EDT
From social media, collected in real time during the debate:
Elayne Boosler:
"Boca Raton." Mouth of the Rat. Just sayin'.
Maybe Mitt could fire Iran.
Mitt: "Gender equality for the middle east." But not for American women.
Wait. Is this a rerun?
He's gonna ask his parents for the money.
Blame the tumult of the middle east on Obama, because it started only four years ago.
Tumult, that's three! Can meshuga be far behind?
We owe China billions. They've kept us afloat. Let's threaten them!
Mali just declared war on Appleton Wisconsin.
Forget the flag pins. They should have worn squirting carnations.
Albert Brooks:
Romney won the coin toss so the line between them is white.
Romney can see Russia from two of his houses.
Even Syria is bored with this debate.
Romney's expression says "The afterlife is going to be so tough for you."
The Pentagon just turned to Monday Night Football.
A half hour in. What have we learned? They both don't like war and like peace. Wow.
I don't know who's winning but Iran has just gone to Def Con 4.
Okay. We're back home again. They couldn't talk foreign affairs for more than 30 minutes. That scares me.
Romney keeps bragging about the Olympics. I saw him. His figure skating was embarrassing.
This Christmas Neiman Marcus is selling maps without Israel.
Get tough on China. Make Walmart close at six.
If Romney sweats any more, I get a royalty.
Romney will call China a currency manipulator. China will laugh and sell him another flag pin.
Romney needs a binder full of kleenex.
John Fugelsang:
It's unfair to say Mitt Romney is politicizing the tragedy of Benghazi when he's actually exploiting it.
"The only way to deal with your enemy is to make him your friend." Abraham Lincoln, appeaser.
"We can't kill our way out"- Mitt Romney. "We need to kill them."- Mitt Romney, two minutes later
"We have to help these nations build civil societies"- Mitt Romney, previously opposed to Nation Building.
If Iran develops a nuclear weapon Romney/Ryan would respond with the strongest possible tax cuts.
Barack Obama just said the debate table was round & Mitt Romney said it's actually flat.
Mitt Romney will stand up to Iran, Syria & Putin and is also afraid to go on The View.
"Attacking me is not an agenda" Mitt Romney, whose foreign policy plan has consisted of attacking the president on Benghazi.
Romney strongly supports gender equality in middle east; and will get back to you with his opinion on Lily Ledbetter act here.
It's fitting that Mitt Romney resembles Reed Richards from Fantastic Four as his magic power is superhuman stretching.
Mitt just said we should've been more involved in Syria & also been less involved. Those Bush aides were worth every penny.
Mitt Romney believes our government has to solve problems in Syria while letting the Free Market solve problems here.
Romney is clearly winning on making the foreign policy debate not about foreign policy
Mitt Romney just found a way to bash teachers' unions during a foreign policy debate.
I want Bob Schieffer to grab Romney by the lapels and scream "WHERE'S THE MONEY, LEBOWSKI?!"
Mitt wants to repeal Obamacare and increase the Pentagon budget to defend Israel's right to universal (health) care.
Mitt just mentioned how he balanced the budget for the Olympics, leaving out the millions in government earmarks that balanced it.
Non millionaires who voted for Bush and support Romney deserve presidents like Bush and Romney.
Hey, Mitt- If you hate our tax system and want a religious conservative government with no abortion or gay marriage, Iran is waiting for you.
Mitt Romney is ahead on impersonating Albert Brooks' flop sweat from Broadcast News.
"The tightest sanctions must be tightened."- Mitt Romney. He said that.
Obama took out bin Laden but wait til President Romney takes out Oscar the Grouch
Somewhere in Hell Richard Nixon is embarrassed over Mitt Romney debate sweat
GOP blaming Obama for the slow recovery is like Lucy blaming Charlie Brown for missing the football.
Andy Borowitz:
Romney: "No one has more experience abroad than my money."
Romney: "I would bring all female troops home in time to cook dinner."
Both candidates' use of the numbers 1 through 5 underscores the importance of keeping Sesame Street.
If he loses, Mitt Romney has a bright future as a Clipart character.
Romney: "Across the Middle East, women are being kept in binders."
When Romney is listening he looks exactly like my dad did when I told him a lie.
We are now discussing the most pressing foreign policy issue facing America today, the reading tests of fourth graders.
Romney: "There's no place more important to me than Israel except Ohio."
Romney: "If the Prime Minister of Israel called me, I would do what I do whenever someone talks to me: interrupt him."
Romney: "Not only do I believe in drones, I am one."
Romney: "The greatest threat to the world is nuclear powered women."
Suddenly every schmo on Twitter is a foreign policy expert.
"That's a perfect segue into the next question which neither of you will answer."
"And now, a ridiculous question that allows each of you to dispense talking points to your base.
Bill Maher:
Trouble already: Mitt says he wants to impose sanctions on "Romnesia".
"Kill our way out of this mess" is the theme of every American movie not about talking animals or weddings.
Aside from talking points, Mitt doesn't know his Assad from a hole in the ground.
Mitt, you do know that most of America thinks Mali is one of Obama's daughters, right?
It's good they agree armed Americans should be involved with everyone, everywhere. We loved armed intervention like Paula Dean loves butter.
Aside from talking points, Mitt doesn't know his Assad from a hole in the ground
Mitt's entire debate strategy: What he just said, but from a white guy.
That's an amazingly specific number Mitt keeps pulling out of his ass, 12 million new jobs. But fellas, this is the foreign policy debate!
Jobs, teachers, education - gentlemen, please, can we get back to killing foreigners?
Bob Scheiffer, could you ask about what's IN the military budget? If people knew specifics,"I wouldn't cut nuttin'" wouldn't sound so good
I like hearing Mitt say how great he was for Massachusetts, the state that will never, ever, ever vote for him.
I can't be the only one who's surprised to find out Buster Posey is a white guy. Sorry, flipped to the game.
I've seen wider ideological differences between Jehovah's Witnesses.
Oh no he din't- Romney said his ultimate BubbleFact, "Apology Tour" right in front of the guy who NEVER WENT ON ONE.
To clarify, Mitt is for moving heaven and earth, but only in regards to mining.
You're losing, Mitt- bring up the fact that we have fewer knives and rocks than we did during the French and Indian War.
Shorter version of Romney: Me strong. Obama weak. Hulk smash.
OK Mitt, one more try: we have fewer catapults and barrels of boiling oil than we had in the crusades.
First debate, all agreed, Obama lost; second one, i say he won, but Romney not trounced. But this one? Only bubbledwellers can say Mitt won
Mitt keeps taking issue with being criticized tonight - did they tell him this is a debate?
OK, one last try: We have fewer Andrews Sisters and Ritz Brothers than we did in 1944. So glad we're done with THAT!
Wonkette:
"The audience has taken a vow of silence." But not celibacy, one hopes.
We are debating during the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is very important, because we are painfully aware that neither of these men is a Jack Kennedy.
Cutting Obamacare, which the CBO has projected will reduce the deficit, will save money, because MAGIC.
Mitt is in favor of crippling sanctions like the ones Barry has put in place. If elected, he will have the Doctor take him back to the Bush administration to put them in place sooner, and more crippling-er.
Mittens, again with the "tumult." Why does it sound like Yiddish when he says "tumult"?
You know all about shipping jobs overseas, don't you Governor? BOOM!
Mitt is pretending that he can feel empathy... Brent Spiner pulled this off a lot more convincingly.
Various fact checkers:
Politifact rated the claim that the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force are smaller than in 1917 and 1947 "pants on fire."
Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense that it didn't ask for it. True.
Obama 'promised' 5.4 percent unemployment? Mostly False.
The Onion:
Romney Pledges To Replace All Foreign Policy With Jobs Right Here In America
Categories: Albert Brooks, Andy Borowitz, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Elayne Boosler, Elections, John Fugelsang, Mitt Romney, Observations, Politics, The Beachwood Reporter, The Onion, The Wonkette
Understanding the Electoral College
Published Sunday, October 21, 2012 @ 2:41 PM EDT
(Mo Rocca on CBS' Sunday Morning, explaining how the Electoral College works, and a way to fix it without amending the U.S. Constitution.)
Categories: CBS Sunday Morning, Elections, History, Mo Rocca, Video
Published Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 2:48 PM EDT
(YouTube video in which The President of The United States offers hope to those suffering from "Romnesia")
Categories: Barack Obama, Elections, Mitt Romney, Politics, Video, YouTube
Déjà vu all over again...
Published Saturday, October 13, 2012 @ 8:44 AM EDT
From force of long habit I almost said, "My fellow delegates."
Tonight you and I join forces for the 1936 campaign.
We enter it with confidence. Never was there greater need for fidelity to the underlying conception of Americanism than there is today. And once again it is given to our party to carry the message of that Americanism to the people.
The task on our part is twofold: First, as simple patriotism requires, to separate the false from the real issues; and, secondly, with facts and without rancor, to clarify the real problems for the American public.
There will be- there are- many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings as they have always done- to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses.
This practice is as old as our democracy. Avoiding the facts- fearful of the truth- a malicious opposition charged that George Washington planned to make himself king under a British form of government; that Thomas Jefferson planned to set up a guillotine under a French Revolutionary form of government; that Andrew Jackson soaked the rich of the Eastern seaboard and planned to surrender American democracy to the dictatorship of a frontier mob. They called Abraham Lincoln a Roman Emperor; Theodore Roosevelt a Destroyer; Woodrow Wilson a self- constituted Messiah.
In this campaign another herring turns up. In former years it has been British and French- and a variety of other things. This year it is Russian. Desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose, individuals and groups are seeking to make Communism an issue in an election where Communism is not a controversy between the two major parties.
Here and now, once and for all, let us bury that red herring, and destroy that false issue. You are familiar with my background; you know my heritage; and you are familiar, especially in the State of New York, with my public service extending back over a quarter of a century. For nearly four years I have been President of the United States. A long record has been written. In that record, both in this State and in the national capital, you will find a simple, clear and consistent adherence not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the American form of government.
To that record, my future and the future of my Administration will conform. I have not sought, I do not seek, I repudiate the support of any advocate of Communism or of any other alien "ism" which would by fair means or foul change our American democracy.
That is my position. It always has been my position. It always will be my position.
There is no difference between the major parties as to what they think about Communism. But there is a very great difference between the two parties in what they do about Communism.
I must tell you why. Communism is a manifestation of the social unrest which always comes with widespread economic maladjustment. We in the Democratic party have not been content merely to denounce this menace. We have been realistic enough to face it. We have been intelligent enough to do something about it. And the world has seen the results of what we have done.
In the spring of 1933 we faced a crisis which was the ugly fruit of twelve years of neglect of the causes of economic and social unrest. It was a crisis made to order for all those who would overthrow our form of government. Do I need to recall to you the fear of those days- the reports of those who piled supplies in their basements, who laid plans to get their fortunes across the border, who got themselves hideaways in the country against the impending upheaval? Do I need to recall the law-abiding heads of peaceful families, who began to wonder, as they saw their children starve, how they would get the bread they saw in the bakery window? Do I need to recall the homeless boys who were traveling in bands through the countryside seeking work, seeking food - desperate because they could find neither? Do I need to recall the farmers who banded together with pitchforks to keep the sheriff from selling the farm home under foreclosure? Do I need to recall the powerful leaders of industry and banking who came to me in Washington in those early days of 1933 pleading to be saved?
Most people in the United States remember today the fact that starvation was averted, that homes and farms were saved, that banks were reopened, that crop prices rose, that industry revived, and that the dangerous forces subversive of our form of government were turned aside.
A few people- a few only- unwilling to remember, seem to have forgotten those days.
In the summer of 1933, a nice old gentleman wearing a silk hat fell off the end of a pier. He was unable to swim. A friend ran down the pier, dived overboard and pulled him out; but the silk hat floated off with the tide. After the old gentleman had been revived, he was effusive in his thanks. He praised his friend for saving his life. Today, three years later, the old gentleman is berating his friend because the silk hat was lost.
Why did that crisis of 1929 to 1933 pass without disaster?
The answer is found in the record of what we did. Early in the campaign of 1932 I said: "To meet by reaction that danger of radicalism is to invite disaster. Reaction is no barrier to the radical, it is a challenge, a provocation. The way to meet that danger is to offer a workable program of reconstruction, and the party to offer it is the party with clean hands." We met the emergency with emergency action. But far more important than that, we went to the roots of the problem, and attacked the cause of the crisis. We were against revolution. Therefore, we waged war against those conditions which make revolutions- against the inequalities and resentments which breed them. In America in 1933 the people did not attempt to remedy wrongs by overthrowing their institutions. Americans were made to realize that wrongs could and would be set right within their institutions. We proved that democracy can work.
I have said to you that there is a very great difference between the two parties in what they do about Communism. Conditions congenial to Communism were being bred and fostered throughout this Nation up to the very day of March 4, 1933. Hunger was breeding it, loss of homes and farms was breeding it, closing banks were breeding it, a ruinous price level was breeding it. Discontent and fear were spreading through the land. The previous national Administration, bewildered, did nothing.
In their speeches they deplored it, but by their actions they encouraged it. The injustices, the inequalities, the downright suffering out of which revolutions come- what did they do about these things? Lacking courage, they evaded. Being selfish, they neglected. Being short-sighted, they ignored. When the crisis came- as these wrongs made it sure to come- America was unprepared.
Our lack of preparation for it was best proved by the cringing and the fear of the very people whose indifference helped to make the crisis. They came to us pleading that we should do, overnight, what they should have been doing through the years.
And the simple causes of our unpreparedness were two: First, a weak leadership, and, secondly, an inability to see causes, to understand the reasons for social unrest- the tragic plight of 90 percent of the men, women and children who made up the population of the United States.
It has been well said that "The most dreadful failure of which any form of government can be guilty is simply to lose touch with reality, because out of this failure all imaginable forms of evil grow. Every empire that has crashed has come down primarily because its rulers did not know what was going on in the world and were incapable of learning."
It is for that reason that our American form of government will continue to be safest in. Democratic hands. The real, actual, undercover Republican leadership is the same as it was four years ago. That leadership will never comprehend the need for a program of social justice and of regard for the well- being of the masses of our people.
I have been comparing leadership in Washington. This contrast between Democratic and Republican leadership holds true throughout the length and breadth of the State of New York. As far back as the year 1910, the old Black Horse Cavalry in Albany, which we old people will remember, was failing to meet changing social conditions by appropriate social legislation. Here was a State noted for its industry and noted for its agriculture- a State with the greatest mixture of population- where the poorest and the richest lived, literally, within a stone's throw of each other- in short a situation made to order for potential unrest. And yet in this situation the best that the Republican leaders of those days could say was: "Let them eat cake." What would have happened if that reactionary domination had continued through all these hard years?
Starting in 1911, a Democratic leadership came into power, and with it a new philosophy of government. I had the good fortune to come into public office at that time. I found other young men in the Legislature- men who held the same philosophy; one of them was Bob Wagner; another was Al Smith. We were all joined in a common cause. We did not look on government as something apart from the people. We thought of it as something to be used by the people for their own good.
New factory legislation setting up decent standards of safety and sanitation; limitation of the working hours of women in industry; a workmen's compensation law; a one-day-rest-in-seven law; a full train-crew law; a direct-primary law- these laws and many more were passed which were then called radical and alien to our form of government. Would you or any other Americans call them radical or alien today?
In later years, first under Governor Smith, then during my Governorship, this program of practical intelligence was carried forward over the typical and unswerving opposition of Republican leaders throughout our State.
And today the great tradition of a liberal, progressive Democratic Party has been carried still further by your present Governor, Herbert H. Lehman. He has begun a program of insurance to remove 'the spectre of unemployment from the working people of the State. He has broadened our labor legislation. He has extended the supervision of public utility companies. He has proved himself an untiring seeker for the public good; a doer of social justice; a wise, conscientious, clear-headed and businesslike administrator of the executive branch of our Government. And be it noted that his opponents are led and backed by the same forces and, in many cases, by the same individuals who, for a quarter of a century, have tried to hamstring progress within our State. The overwhelming majority of our citizens, up-state and down-state, regardless of party, propose to return him and his Administration to Albany for another two years.
His task in Albany, like my task in Washington, has been to maintain contact between statecraft and reality. In New York and in Washington, Government which has rendered more than lip service to our Constitutional Democracy has done a work for the protection and preservation of our institutions that could not have been accomplished by repression and force.
Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, "Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the present Administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them- we will do more of them we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything."
But, my friends, these evaders are banking too heavily on the shortness of our memories. No one will forget that they had their golden opportunity- twelve long years of it.
Remember, too, that the first essential of doing a job well is to want to see the job done. Make no mistake about this: the Republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The Republican leadership is against the job's being done.
Look to the source of the promises of the past. Governor Lehman knows and I know how little legislation in the interests of the average citizen would be on the statute books of the State of New York, and of the Federal Government, if we had waited for Republican leaders to pass it.
The same lack of purpose of fulfillment lies behind the promises of today. You cannot be an Old Guard Republican in the East, and a New Deal Republican in the West. You cannot promise to repeal taxes before one audience and promise to spend more of the taxpayers' money before another audience. You cannot promise tax relief for those who can afford to pay, and, at the same time, promise more of the taxpayers' money for those who are in need. You simply cannot make good on both promises at the same time.
Who is there in America who believes that we can run the risk of turning back our Government to the old leadership which brought it to the brink of 1933? Out of the strains and stresses of these years we have come to see that the true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. The true conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.
Never has a Nation made greater strides in the safeguarding of democracy than we have made during the past three years. Wise and prudent men- intelligent conservatives- have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time. In the words of the great essayist, "The voice of great events is proclaiming to us. Reform if you would preserve." I am that kind of conservative because I am that kind of liberal.
Citation: Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, N.Y.," September 29, 1936. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15142.
Categories: Elections, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, History
Published Wednesday, October 03, 2012 @ 1:27 AM EDT
One of these things is not like the other,
Can you guess which thing is not like the other
Before I finish singing this song?
Categories: Elections, Mitt Romney, Photo of the day, Politics, Question of the day
Published Sunday, July 15, 2012 @ 5:22 PM EDT
Categories: Barack Obama, Elections, Mitt Romney, Photo of the day, Political Jokes of the Week, Politics
Published Saturday, July 14, 2012 @ 5:29 AM EDT
Quotes of the day- Adlai E. Stevenson II:
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent oratory, and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 and 1956; both times he was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination for a third time in the election of 1960, but was defeated by Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. After his election, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson as the Ambassador to the United Nations; he served from 1961 to 1965. He died on July 14, 1965 in London, England after suffering a heart attack.
His most famous moment came on October 25, 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis, when he gave a presentation at an emergency session of the Security Council. He forcefully asked the Soviet representative, Valerian Zorin, if his country was installing missiles in Cuba, punctuated with the famous demand "Don't wait for the translation, answer 'yes' or 'no'!" Following Zorin's refusal to answer the abrupt question, Stevenson retorted, "I am prepared to wait for my answer until Hell freezes over." In one of the most memorable moments in U.N. history, Stevenson then showed photographs that proved the existence of missiles in Cuba, just after the Soviet ambassador had implied they did not exist.
Stevenson was assaulted by an anti-United Nations protesters in Dallas, Texas, on October 24, 1963, one month before the assassination of Kennedy in that same city. A women struck him on the head with a sign, and a man spat on him and on a policeman. Amid the furor, Stevenson said of his assailants: "I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school." (Click for full article.)
A beauty is a woman you notice. A charmer is one who notices you.
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, except that a newspaper can always print a retraction.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
America is a country that can choke on a gnat, or swallow tigers.
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... But, strangely enough, my friends, this road has been a lonely road because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
I regret that I have but one law firm to give to my country.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
In matters of national security emotion is no substitute for intelligence, nor rigidity for prudence. To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man- and also a nation.
In quiet places, reason abounds.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man- not a color.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
The human race has improved everything except the human race.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
The important thing is not to believe your own propaganda.
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.
There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one's convictions and not tell the people the truth.
There is no evil in the atom, only in men's souls.
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety.
True Patriotism, it seems to me, is based on tolerance and a large measure of humility.
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyalty- so, obviously, thinking must be stopped. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
We inherited freedom. We seem unaware that freedom has to be remade and re-earned in each generation of man.
We must never delude ourselves into thinking that physical power is a substitute for moral power, which is the true sign of national greatness.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
When political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is wheeled into action.
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
You will find that truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Categories: Adlai E. Stevenson II, Elections, History, Politics, Quotes of the day
Super Tuesday Quote-A-Palooza!
Published Tuesday, March 06, 2012 @ 7:46 AM EST
A black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
-Buddy Watts, Sr.
A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last "make a wish."
-Garrison Keillor
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
A lot of people voting for Pat Buchanan say they are doing so to send a message. Apparently that message is, "Hey, look at me, I'm an idiot."
-Dennis Miller
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
-Dan Quayle
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
-Carl Sandburg
A society is not "free" merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
-O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
-John Quincy Adams
America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy- and won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
-Bill Vaughan
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
-George Eliot
And by the way, I've about had it with this "greatest generation" malarkey. You people have one stock market crash in 1929, and it takes you a dozen years to go get a job. Then you wait until Germany and Japan have conquered half the world before it occurs to you to get involved in World War II. After that you get surprised by a million Red Chinese in Korea. Where do you put a million Red Chinese so they'll be a surprise? You spend the entire 1950s watching Lawrence Welk and designing tail fins. You come up with the idea for Vietnam. Thanks. And you elect Richard Nixon. The hell with you.
-P.J. O'Rourke
Any sufficiently advanced coup is indistinguishable from an election.
-John Alejandro King (The Covert Comic)
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
-Gore Vidal
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
-Elmer Davis
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans... unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
-Karl Rove
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
-Bernard Levin
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-George J. Nathan
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
-George Bernard Shaw
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
-Robert Orben
Domestic policy can only lose elections. Foreign policy can kill us.
Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
-James Carville
Don't vote. It only encourages them.
-Unattributed
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
-Henry Adams
Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.
Elected officials should be limited to two terms: one in office and one in prison.
-Kinky Friedman
Election year is that period when politicians get free speech mixed up with cheap talk.
-J.B. Kidd
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
-Franklin P. Adams
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
-H.L. Mencken
Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.
-Dave Barry
Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market means they are on sale to the highest bidder.
-Arundhati Roy
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
-Frank Dane
Give voters a choice between a Republican and a Republican, and they will choose a Republican every time.
-Harry S Truman
Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.
-Vic Gold
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President- the same half?
Here's the thing about rights. They're not supposed to be voted on. That's why they call them rights.
-Rachel Maddow
I didn't vote for change, but that's all I have left.
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
-Claire Sargent
I voted for the Democrats because I didn't like the way the Republicans were running the country. Which is turning out to be like shooting yourself in the head to stop your headache.
-Jack Mayberry
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
-Maureen Reagan
I'll be glad to either reply to or dodge your questions, whichever I think will help our election most.
-George Herbert Walker Bush
I'm sorry, but voting for a presidential candidate because you like the choice for vice president is like getting married to a woman because you like her cat.
-Kevin G. Barkes
If elected, I will win.
-Pat Paulsen
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
-Orson Scott Card
If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates (book title)
-Jim Hightower
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
-Emma Goldman
If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.
-Jesse Ventura
If you make less than $50,000 a year and vote Republican, you are a moron.
-Rack Jite
If you voted for change, you better start counting it.
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons.
-Alice Cooper
In 1929 the wise, far-seeing electors of my native Hereford sent me to Westminster and, two years later, the lousy bastards kicked me out.
-Frank Owen
In a democracy, the votes of the vicious and stupid count. On the other hand, in any other system, they might be running the show.
-(from The Boston Globe)
In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
-Mogens Jallberg
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
-Lewis Black
In nature, stupidity gets you killed. In the workplace, it gets you fired. In politics, it gets you re-elected.
-Bill VanRemmen
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.
-Walter Mondale
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
-Charles de Gaulle
It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.
It makes no difference who you vote for- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
-Erich Fromm
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
-Larry Flynt
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.
-Christopher Hitchens
Never pass up an opportunity to appear on C-Span. C-Span viewers vote.
-Lamar Alexander
Never vote for the best candidate. Vote for the one who will do the least harm.
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
-Lily Tomlin
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
-Walter Lippmann
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-Mark B. Cohen
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President- and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
-Thomas Marshall
Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-Bill Stern
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-Otto von Bismarck
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything but against something.
-H.H. Munro (Saki)
Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.
-Jerry Rubin
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
-Oscar Ameringer
Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here.
-Sam Rayburn
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston Churchill
The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman thinks of the next generation.
-James Freeman Clarke
The difference between a real horse race an election is that in a horse race the whole horse wins.
The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.
The good news is I'm leading in the polls. The bad news is the election isn't tomorrow.
-George W. Bush
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
-Art Spander
The methods now being used to merchandise the political candidate as though he were a deodorant positively guarantee the electorate against ever hearing the truth about anything.
-Aldous Huxley
The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election.
The only difference between [George W.] Bush and [Adolf] Hitler is that Hitler was elected.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The only way to win an election by a greater margin than Saddam Hussein in Iraq is to be a Democratic candidate in Chicago.
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony.
-Paul Goodman
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
-Henry Cote
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work; then they get elected and prove it.
There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.
-Bill Gates
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't "stand for election", they "run for office."
-Jessica Mitford
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.
-Peter L. Kapitza
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
-Doug Gwyn
Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.
-Noam Chomsky
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
-Bernard Baruch
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
-Ambrose Bierce
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
-Richard M. Nixon
Voting is like driving... you choose "D" to move forwards and "R" to go backwards.
We already know the winners of the next election. They'll be old white men who don't care about you or your problems.
-Craig Kilborn
We elect Democrats to the Congress to give us stuff and we elect Republicans to the White House so we don't have to pay for it.
-Charlie McDowell
We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
-Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard
What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real.
-Ben J. Wattenberg
Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
Why take a chance on a candidate who might lose? You can always buy them after the election.
-Santo Trafficante, Jr.
Years ago, fairy tales all began with "Once upon a time..." Now we know they all begin with "If I am elected."
-Carolyn Warner
You know I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office. (In 1989)
You will never escape the will of the mob. About the best anyone has ever figured out to do is herd them into voting booths.
-Barry Shein
The people have spoken, the bastards.
-Dick Tuck
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Few composers, if any, pull music out of thin air. As Berio said, there's no tabula rasa. Most music is a reaction to something else. It could be another piece of music, but it could equally be an extra-musical stimulus: a landscape, a poem, a film, a performer, a painting.
What kinds of things stimulate Philip Cashian's imagination? Literature is important to him, and his tastes are wide ranging and often quirky. He has taken texts from playwrights, such as Lorca and Edward Bond, or poets, from Keats to Kevin Crossley-Holland by way of Baudelaire, Rossetti and Thomas Moore.
Words are important, but the visual arts have been an even richer source of inspiration. A recent string quartet, Samain, takes its title from a painting by Leonora Carrington and there is a set of piano pieces based on work by the reclusive English artist Ben Hartley. And there's more: Blue Circus, a little clarinet concerto, takes its title from Marc Chagall, Firewheel comes from Bryan Wynter and Strix was inspired by Graham Sutherland's painting, La Petite Afrique III. There's a bit of darkness and a bit of the surreal in these choices. Perhaps inevitably then Philip Cashian has turned to Goya, the master of the dark and the bizarre, for the inspiration behind his chamber work, Caprichos.
A glance at Cashian's titles give still more clues to his inner world. His favourite colours are dark: there's a Dark Flight (for six cellos) and a Dark Inventions. Black Venus, for guitar, takes its title from Angela Carter. Then there's night. No less than three of his orchestral pieces are nocturnes: Night Journeys (written for the LSO), The House of Night and Nightmaze.
These night pieces are sometimes disturbed by the noise of ticking mechanisms. His catalogue includes Settala's Machine (Settala was a 17th century Italian maker of automata), Pietro's Machine, Bone Machine and The Star Machine. There's a Forest of Clocks, a Musica Meccanica and a Mechanik (after a sculpture by Edoardo Paolozzi).
This mechanical imagery gives a clue to the kind of techniques Philip Cashian uses. His music is often built from musical mechanisms, number patterns, repetitions and ostinatos. Notes are often generated using Stravinsky's technique for rotating pitches, paragraphs are sharply contrasted and joins are avoided. Philip Cashian's music is not only replete with vivid images, it's also a world of ingenious devices.
John Woolrich
Aspen Festival, 2019
Philip Cashian was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied at Cardiff University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oliver Knussen and Simon Bainbridge. In 1990 he was the Benjamin Britten fellow at Tanglewood where he studied with Lukas Foss. He was awarded the Britten Prize in 1991, the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1992 and the PRS Composition Prize in 1994. His fast paced style of music has been described as "an uncompromising reflection of the modern world".
Cashian has collaborated and worked with many leading musicians, ensembles and orchestras. Performances include the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Riga Sinfonietta, Ensemble Profil (Romania), Arctic Philharmonic, the Esprit Orchestra (Toronto), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, Ergon Ensemble (Athens), Festival de Mùsica de Alicante, Bergen Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Ojai Festival (California), Musikmonat (Basle), Moscow Autumn Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Spitalfields Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the BBC Proms as well as recent performances in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Norway, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Australia, New Zealand and China.
In 2008 the London Sinfonietta commissioned Cashian to write The Opening of the House for their inaugural concert at Kings Place and later in the same year his first opera, The Cumnor Affair was premiered by Tête à Tête Opera Company at the Riverside Studios, London.
Recent commissions include Firewheel for Dark Inventions, Strix for the Britten Sinfonia Academy, the world's turning for the Esprit Orchestra (Toronto), Nocturnes and Dances for the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival, The Language of Birds for Tabea Debus and Scenes from the Life of Viscount Medardo for Richard Watkins. In 2017 his String Quartet No.2 was premiered in the St Magnus International Festival by the Gildas Quartet and Psappha gave the premiere of 'Leonora Pictures' in Manchester followed by three further performances in New York, Oberlin and Aspen. His second piano concerto, The Book of Ingenious Devices, premiered by Huw Watkins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oliver Knussen in the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival was described in The Times as 'mesmerising music'. In the 2019 Beijing Modern Music Festival the Guiyang Symphony Orchestra gave the premiere of his most recent orchestral work, Fanfaronades.
Cashian has also written extensively for young and amateur musicians: to date he has written six pieces for the ABRSM's Spectrum series as well as large scale works for Contemporary Music for All and the Centre for Young Musicians. Between 2010 and 2013 he was invited by the British Council to curate a series of concerts of contemporary British music in Bucharest during the course of which works by over sixty living British composers were performed.
He is also a sought after teacher and has been Head of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music since 2007. He is published by Chester Music and Composers Edition. Recordings of his music are available on the NMC label including the two portrait discs The House of Night and Dark Inventions.
The Cumnor Affair


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"Taylor" Made: Outfielder's Two Home Runs Lead Whitecaps to 7-4 Win in Home Opener
Chandler Taylor crushed two home runs and drove in four runs for the Whitecaps on Wednesday night (c) Marielle McLoughlin 2017
BREWSTER, MA- In their home opener on Wednesday evening, the Brewster Whitecaps used another comeback to propel themselves to a 7-4 victory over the visiting Falmouth Commodores at Stony Brook Field.
After trailing 4-2 in the sixth inning, Brewster used a four-run seventh frame to secure their third win of the season.
It was Whitecaps right fielder Chandler Taylor (Alabama) who played the hero, launching a three-run home run to left-center in the seventh, giving Brewster a 7-4 lead the team would hold.
"Just trying to see good pitches in the zone," said Taylor when talking to Whitecaps reporter Maura Sheridan about his approach. "Seeing stuff I can handle and putting good swings on them."
Taylor's three-run blast was his second of the game. In the sixth inning, the Crimson Tide outfielder hit a solo home run, this one to right field, to cut the Brewster deficit to just one run.
Taylor finished the day 2-3 at the plate with four RBI and also reached on a walk.
"Me and Coach Smyth have been working the past few days, past week probably," added Taylor. "Just trying to shrink the strike zone and getting pitches I can handle."
Brewster recorded four hits in the seventh, including Taylor's second homer.
After Nick Dunn (Maryland) led off the inning with a single and Pete Schuler (Kent State) was hit by a pitch, Whitecaps coach sent Michael Curry (Georgia) to the plate as a pinch-hitter.
Curry fell behind 0-2 in the count, but battled back to even it 2-2 before lining a single to right, bringing home Dunn and tying the score 4-4.
"We can hit. When we play defense and throw strikes, we can beat every team in the league," Taylor said.
Getting the start on the mound for the Whitecaps was Arizona State lefty Connor Higgins, who also got the ball in Brewster's opening day win in Orleans exactly one week ago.
Coming off being named the Coca-Cola Cape League Pitcher of the Week, Higgins threw five innings, while only allowing one earned run and striking out four in his second start for Brewster.
Despite struggling early with his fastball command, Higgins' performance puts his ERA at just 0.90 after his first two starts in a Whitecaps uniform.
Chris Machamer (Kentucky), in his Whitecaps debut, closed out the game with a scoreless ninth inning.
The newly-activated Machamer touched 95 miles-per-hour and struck out one Commodore, picking up the Whitecaps' first save of the season.
Falmouth, on the other hand, saw impressive hitting performances from Jacson McGowan (Purdue) and Alec Bohm (Wichita State).
McGowan went 2-4 on the day and scored two runs, while Bohm went 2-3 with a walk and a run scored for the Commodores.
Falmouth took the lead in the sixth inning when a triple from Marty Bechina (Michigan State) scored Bohm. Bechina would then score after a hard-hit single from designated hitter Willie Burger (Penn State).
Newly-activated outfielder Hunter Bishop (Arizona State) had a debut to forget for Brewster. The rising sophomore, who was named an All-Pac 12 Honorable Mention in his freshman season, went 0-5 with three strikeouts, but was surrounded by teammates ready to pick him up.
"He's going to be really good," said Taylor. "It's about making adjustments and I think he's going to make those adjustments and be fine."
The Whitecaps' home opener was originally scheduled for June 17th against the Chatham Anglers, but was postponed due to field conditions.
When asked about finally getting to play in front of their home fans, Whitecaps coach Jamie Shevchik was as happy as a clam.
"Great energy here in the ballpark," said Shevchik. "It's a tough start when you're playing all your games on the road."
WHAT'S NEXT: The Whitecaps look to build momentum as they host the Wareham Gatemen Thursday at 5 p.m.


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Richard Kandt, né le  à Posen (en province de Posnanie) et mort le  à Nuremberg, est un médecin prussien, explorateur de l'Afrique. Il est le fondateur de Kigali, l'actuelle capitale du Rwanda.

Biographie
Il poursuit ses études de médecine et exerce la psychiatrie à Bayreuth et à Munich. Entre 1897 et 1907, il explore le nord-ouest de l'Afrique orientale allemande. En 1908, il devient « résident » pour le gouverneur, chargé d'administrer la région du Ruanda et il fonde Kigali, où son souvenir est encore vif aujourd'hui. Sa maison, qui est aujourd'hui transformée en musée d'histoire naturelle, présente une salle entièrement consacrée à l'histoire de Kandt.

Il découvre en 1898 l'une des sources du Nil dans la forêt du Nyungwe donnant naissance au Nyabarongo.

Richard Kandt est l'auteur d'un journal de voyage, Caput Nili : eine empfindsame Reise zu den Quellen des Nils, publié en 1904, non traduit en français à ce jour. Il y décrit ses expéditions à la recherche des sources du Nil et ses explorations du lac Kivu.

Richard Kandt était ami depuis l'année 1900 de Richard Voss qui l'évoque dans ses Souvenirs de 1922.

Richard Kandt meurt le  dans un hôpital militaire de Nuremberg des suites d'un gazage subi à cause de la guerre.

Il laisse également des poèmes publiés de manière posthume.

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Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 , Ruanda im Lebensbild des Afrikaforschers, Literaten und Kaiserlichen Residenten Richard Kandt; publication trilingue en allemand, français et anglais. Selbstverlag der Geographischen Gesellschaft der Universität Trier [Autoédition de la Société géographique de l'université de Trèves] in Zusammenarbeit Ruanda Komitee Trier [en collaboration avec le Comité pour le Rwanda de Trèves], Trier 2008, .
Catherine Coquio, « Le Journal de voyage de Richard Kandt », in Rwanda : le réel et les récits, Belin, Paris, 2004, pp. 53-55

Articles connexes
 Kandt House Museum (anciennement Musée d'histoire naturelle de la maison Kandt)

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  Caput Nili, eine empfindsame Reise zu den Quellen des Nils (1904) (texte intégral)

Médecin prussien
Médecin du XXe siècle
Médecin voyageur
Explorateur prussien
Personnalité de l'histoire du Rwanda
Naissance en décembre 1867
Naissance à Posen
Naissance dans la province de Posnanie
Décès en avril 1918
Décès à Nuremberg
Décès dans le royaume de Bavière
Décès à 50 ans
Militaire allemand mort au combat lors de la Première Guerre mondiale

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Honesty is only possible if one agrees with oneself. If an inner conflict persists, one can only delay the truth, or lie. If we can befriend ourselves, speaking the truth becomes a possibility. Telling the truth consists in carrying the inside, out. Truth reveals what is of itself so, but which had prior to its showing remained hidden. We are honest when we reveal who we are without pretense, without prior deliberation with oneself. If we begin to deliberate, to debate with ourselves, truth has already been canceled. Conflict in the mind only conceals the truth, it reveals nothing save confusion.
Why does the truth need to be told before it is unveiled? Maybe because prior to its pointing out, we are unaware of our inner birth…?
Everything begins within, say the mystics.
Everything begins without, say the materialists.
An organism exhibiting intentional behavior is conscious. That means it has awareness. it not only moves, it senses. One does not come before or give rise to the other. The two arise together.
Sensation is not a byproduct of motor control. Consciousness is not secreted by the brain. The nervous system puts the inside on the outside, and the outside in. It allows our soul to feel with our body, and our body to think with our soul.