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That said, Grothman is a weenie.
Glenn Grothman's incredibly stupid war on Kwanzaa
Eugene Kane's blog was part of our Purple Wisconsin project. Kane, a former full-time columnist for the Journal Sentinel, also wrote a weekly column for the Crossroads section.
By Eugene Kane
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Kwanzaa would be much better received if there were more presents, food, candy and Kwanzaa themed cocktails involved.
That said, Grothman is a weenie.Hide replies
DrewH - Yesterday at 4:31 PM:
"Jesus was convicted of crimes too. In fact, they executed him for those crimes."
Drew, I normally try to avoid idiotic comments but in your case I'll make an exception. First Jesus was not convicted of a crime (Luke 23:4). Secondly he was not executed, he was murdered by a mob. An execution normally refers to ending a person's life in accordance with the law; since Jesus was not convicted of a crime....his death should be considered murder.
Whether Karenga is a convicted criminal doesn't seem to have much to do with Kwanzaa itself. They sure ain't worshipping Karenga as part of it.
I was thinking along the same lines as Drew, in that Grothman is obviously bringing up Karenga's convictions and prison term as a way to discredit the holiday; while comparing Grothman's slam to what the Romans tried to do to Jesus is getting outrageous, it is what came to mind.
As I posted above, this isn't the first time that Grothman has launched a broadside on Kwanzaa. An earlier screed wasn't as polished in the way of praising "tens of millions of honorable black Americans" as this latest one was.
Come on, Fred. I've been reading your posts for quite a while so I know you're sharp.
Karenga's felony convictions, his radical activist background, etc should be factored into the Kwanzaa equation for the same reason Grothman's history should be factored into the things he says & does.
Here's what I think: ( I have no way of proving any of this, it's just what I think, based on what I know about the two men, which I readily admit is not everything.)
1. I think Grothman is a racist. He tries to be careful about it, but I think "black stuff" just cuts him to the core.
2. I think Karenga is a racist, too. (By today's all-ecompassing standards, anyway.) He tried to cloak the Kwanzaa thing in fuzzy, feel-good rhetoric about cultural unity, but I think it was rooted in racism & black separatism.
FredCity - Yesterday at 8:40 PM:
Whether Karenga is a convicted criminal doesn't seem to have much to do with Kwanzaa itself. They sure ain't worshipping Karenga as part of it.
Kwanzaa is not a deity, as such I doubt that anyone worships it. As for the founder's sordid past; I believe that anyone that is convicted of torturing a woman has some severe psychological issues and anything that person might be involved with should be scrutinized.
Jim, Jack, thanks. I enjoy our debate. Grothman is certainly giving people reasons to suspect his intentions toward blacks.
As for Karenga, well, there's lots we could do. We could excavate his court case and find out just how bad a man he was... and dig through his course curricula and published works and find out what his deal is today. I'm sure there's lots that could possibly raise eyebrows about his conduct as a man.
BUT, the homework wouldn't be done until we researched Kwanzaa itself, and how it's celebrated. The five-second soundbite on the news last night from that nice-seeming fella, with those specific Kwanzaa values hanging on banners in the background, suggests to me that this is an observance that values the community and one's contributions to it. (Whether that community happens to be nearly exclusively black may be a consequence of factors well beyond the celebrants' control.)
If Karenga's past dictates that Kwanzaa must be scrutinized, well, fair enough; but then scrutinize we must.
I bet there's nothing really wrong with the holiday. If there were something offensive about it, I would think that Grothman would have aired that in his press release, rather than just slamming Karenga exclusively.
And, btw, happy holidays (you know, Christmas, New Years', etc.) to you guys. I'm feeling positive coming into this new year.
Aren't these "religious" fanatics a bit touchy about this FAKE holiday....Hide replies
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 4:57 PM - Report Abuse@drew - grothman doesn't care and those who like to defend, directly or indirectly, his brand of bs, are concerned with finding every angle to dismiss kane's valid points and rationalize grothman's covert nonsense....he was looking for attention and once again sharing a dumb opinion about something that isn't controversial at all.... I'll look forward to grothman's comments about why the greek orthodox church can't celebrate Christmas on the 25th like the rest of the "good" christians....
You're quick to defend Kane's points as "valid", but there's no evidence to support them.
In fact most (if not all) of what Mr. Kane said here is either speculation, conjecture, his own personal opinion or a veiled misrepresentation of the facts.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that -- this is an on-line opinion blog, after all, not an encyclopedia -- but facts are still facts and opinions are still opinions, and just because you personally agree with Mr Kane's opinions does not automatically mean they're correct.
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 6:44 PM - Report Abuse@bigj - yup...kane admits that it is simply a "hunch"....I simply think his hunch, regarding grothman's typically biased motives, are absolutely correct....there is most certainly something wrong with incorrect speculations....the point is though, Kane's aren't correct and his logic and statements are based on grothman's history of saying completely dumb things, only to have GOP apologists defend and rationalize them...and yet none of these apologists, including you, can ever explain why you can always rationalize (even when you talk out of both sides of your neck, trying to pretend you're objective) bs when it's from someone who happens to be conservative....like I said earlier...classic responses here....
If I got my undies all bunched-up every time some politician said something stupid or wasted my taxpayer dollars......
I see two things here:
1. A stupid politician. (Nothing new, there.)
2. An opportunistic media eager to label him -- and by association, every other member of the GOP -- racist. (Nothing new there, either.)
This is essentially a non-story, but because it involves a white man saying something about a black-centric "holiday", and because the white man just happens to be a republican politician, it's national news.
The problem with the democrats' Obama-era obsession with All Things Racial, which has reached DEFCON 5 and is now officially out of control, is that they've unwittingly backed themselves into a Cry Wolf corner. Being labeled a "racist" for making seemingly innocuous comments (or daring to disagree with President) has resulted in the racist label itself carrying a LOT less weight now than it did before Obama took office.
Take the health care bill, for example:
Nancy Pelosi, in yet another display of her infinite "wisdom", suggested that much of the opposition to the bill was "probably" rooted in racism -- over half the people in the country opposed it -- and the next thing we knew the brainless sockpuppets in the media were in some way or another parroting her words . (As if being highly skeptical of a gazillion-page bill written largely behind closed doors is evidence of racism.)
That's not journalism. It's propaganda. It's a highly partisan media doing everything in its power to villify the other "side".
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 8:16 PM - Report Abusebut you continue to tap dance around the fact that this white man who is a republican has a history of making stupid comments about minorities...and he does this because he's a bigot for sure, perhaps a racist too...you can twist and turn this into yet another chance to scapegoat "the media" for creating "propaganda" but in actuality it's news...news, as in the reporting of exceptions...so you can dither around the fact that in most cases, when something stupid *and* something that has racial or gender or sexual preference at it's core, you can safely bet that some member of the GOP will behind the statement....that was the point that kane was clearly making, not sure why so many willing miss it...and while you try to deflect away from the point of this topic, which is not the health care bill, why not answer the simple question as to why this white man, who is a republican decided it necessary to take issue with an innocuous celebration???? for a non story, you sure have a lot to say....must not be such a non story then, huh???
OK, then how/why is it newsworthy when a republican with a long history of saying stupid things says something stupid?
I think the answer is obvious:
Because it's politically expedient for the leftwing media (inclduing the J-S) to make a big deal about it.
As far as making excuses is concerned -- I have no way of knowing for sure (and I'd be willing to bet you'll claim otherwise), but I suspect your first reaction to Joe Biden's racially insensitive remarks was to look for ways to rationalize and/or excuse them away, which is exactly what you're accusing me of doing here.
FWIW: I have no dog in this hunt and absolutely no reason to try to defend Grothman. The man is clearly a fool.
I most definitely have a dog in the race relations hunt -- a fairly big one, actually (which is 95% of the reason I've even commented on this non-story) -- but I don't have a dog in the Grothman hunt one way or the other.
Lastly, there was really nothing racist or bigoted about Grothman's comments to begin with. At face value, they're an objection to what many people would agree is a racially-exclusive "holiday" invented by a radical racial activist under the guise of cultural unity. You can speculate about hidden meanings and question Grothman's motives all you want -- almost all of which will be probably done for political reasons and cleverly cloaked in flowery feel-good nonsense about "embracing black culture" or something like that -- but at face value there is nothing racist about what he said.
Some white Wisconsin republican doesn't like Kwanzaa.
Oh, the humanity! Stop the presses!
We must put a stop to this racially insensitive madness and restore order!
And for god's sake, someone call Ed Schultz, pronto!
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 10:34 PM - Report Abusebigj - really??? you talk out of both sides of your neck and I think you actually believe it...listen - you are trying to convince me (and everyone else) that grothman's statements, though foolish, really shouldn't matter and that "the media" is to blame for reporting this as news....good for you...I'm not trying to convince you of anything...it isn't simply my opinion that grothman is a bigot, his words have demonstrated this time and again, as he's insulted everyone from single women to black people....so you can write as many carefully deflective, dismissive statements as you like and you can try to divert attention away from the fact that in most cases (not all), is some sort of unecessary, blatantly ignorant comment is made about women, gay people, black people, or hispanics (all minorities), you can safely bet that the statement was uttered by some white, republican who is still trying to get his america back...now, if that's OK by you and if you want to give grothman a "pass" because, even though you talk out of both sides of your neck, trying to appear objective, you absolutely are not....but keep pretending, apparently you've convinced your agnostic, atheist self that you really aren't as biased as you really are....keep up the fine work...
What I'm saying is that a "story" of this non-magnitude should not and does not merit the amount of attention it's being given by the J-S.
There are at least three different columns about this -- three separate pieces written by three different people, all on the same day -- which is probably more attention than was intially paid to Susan Rice's White House-endorsed lies on the Sunday talk shows.
I watched one of those shows and knew IMMEDIATELY she was lying, but I also figured she had been fed those lies by the White House for reasons too obvious to even mention. (This ain't rocket science, it's politics. And at the time, it was two-weeks-before-the-election politics.)
But evidently the story-tellers at the J-S and countless other mainstream media outlets were too preoccupied with their hunt for racist republicans to notice what I and millions of other people noticed, which was a blatant, agenda-driven dereliction of their journalistic reponsibilities to this country.
If someone needs to watch Fox News to get a reasonable assement of important political stories -- which was unfortunately the case during the early stages of Ricegate -- something is terribly wrong.
Oh, and one more thing:
If you think it's a "safe bet" that insulting, racially insenstive remarks come only from white republicans, how do you explain Joe Biden & Harry Reid? ( I won't even get into the racially-motivated garbage that's come from the likes of Bobby Rush, Carol Mosely-Braun, etc over the years or the blatantly antisemitic remarks from Cynthia McKinney, not to mention the foil hat-worthy nonsense from Jim Clyburn about how criticism of Susan Rice was laced with secret racial "code words".)
Anyway, two of the four most powerful democrats in this country -- the Senate Majority leader and the Vice President of the United States -- have made blatantly ignorant, racially insensitive comments on the recent record, yet your shorts are all bunched-up about some obscure Wisconsin state senator?
EK states the following and suggests that most African-Americans hold this holiday near and dear to their heart; whereas the below link suggests that the vast majority of African-Americans don't celebrate this holiday. It's funny how facts and the left's views don't always correspond.
"Why Grothman decided to display his disregard for Kwanzaa based on his clearly inaccurate opinions on how the holiday is viewed by most African-Americans is a mystery to me."
"According to Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has "leveled off" as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans."
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Well, to be fair, I don't celebrate Hanukkah or Ramadan, either, but that doesn't mean I "don't care" about them. (Actually, maybe it does.)
Anyway, bottom line: Grothman, as a state senator, should not have been flapping his yap about stuff like this, even if he's factually correct. It was a no-win situation from the git-go and does little more than provide fodder for the far-left, which has been on a full-blown racial witch-hunt since about 14 seconds after President Obama was inaugurated.
BigJim - Today at 5:07 PM:
"Well, to be fair, I don't celebrate Hanukkah or Ramadan, either, but that doesn't mean I "don't care" about them. (Actually, maybe it does.)"
Big difference. Hanukkhah and Ramadan are religious events....Kwanzaa is not! Kwanzaa was started by an ex-con convicted of torturing a woman for the sole purpose of racial division. And yes you're right, the fact that you don't celebrate them is an indication these religious holidays are not near and dear to your heart. The fact that you're aware of these events is meaningless. I'm aware of many holidays and events that I could care less about.
CommentsToday - Jan 03, 2013 12:52 PM - Report Abusejack - have you even taken 30 seconds to look up the seven principles of Kwanzaa?
Racial division? Bringing together a group of people as a community is racial division in your mind? Show me anywhere it says that the races should be divided.
It was started as a way to bring African Americans together as a community, but the seven principles are things for which all HUMANS should strive.
"Why Grothman decided to display his disregard for Kwanzaa based on his clearly inaccurate opinions on how the holiday is viewed by most African-Americans is a mystery to me."
OK, I'll bite. How IS it viewed by most African-Americans, Mr. Kane?
Has anyone done a study or taken a poll?
If we walk down the street in a predominately African-American community and ask 100 random people what Kwanazza is about (the history behind it, etc), when it's celebrated, what it personally means to them, how it's celebrated (traditions, icons, symbols, etc) and whether they anually partake in Kwanazaa-related festivities, how would they respond?
I mean, if you claim to know Grothman's comments are "clearly inaccurate" then what's the actual truth?
If I were a betting man, I'd bet Grothman is correct in saying "almost no black people care about (Kwanazaa)". Course that depends largely on how we define "almost no" and "care about", but I think my point is clear.
It was certainly a politically incorrect thing for him to say, which is why the usual people are clamoring to label him a racist, but that doesn't mean it's factually incorrect by default.Hide replies
LMAO... politically incorrect? How delusionally cute. You've really gotta love how Eugene Kane's comment sections are always full of suburbanites who are too scared to visit MKE for anything but Brewer games, yet are such poignant experts on black culture and inner-city life in the comments
How about it's just plain NONE OF THE BUSINESS of Grothman how AFRICAN-AMERICANS celebrate an AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOLIDAY. Especially when Grothman represents a district that's 97% white and probably doesn't actually know any black people.
Labeling me a "delusional suburbanite too afraid to visit MKE" might make you feel better about yourself, even though its about as far from the truth as you can get -- not that you're interested in facts -- but it does nothing to refute my points.
Furthermore, I submit that Kwanzaa has very little to do with "black culture" and/or inner-city life, and the widespread lack of participation/recognition within the black population seems to bear that out.
Look, if Kwanzaa is such an integral part of black culture in this county, how come less than 5% of black people even celebrate it?
Do 95% of black people not even understand their own "culture"?
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 4:51 PM - Report Abusewell stated eugene...and this sums up what this holiday is about: "Kwanzaa is a holiday created by a black activist in the 1960s that has taken hold in some segments of the black communities - but not all..." the key phrase is "not all" and I would add, not as many as say 10 years ago....the point is, grothman is yet another example of a long list of GOP politicians in this country that say really stupid, unnecessary things only to have the GOP apologists lining up to defend the nonsense.....some of these comments, taking kane's words completely out of context, are classic!!!Hide replies
The only data that's been posted here (one way or the other) suggests less than 5% of black Americans celebrate Kwanzaa.
Mr Kane has taken issue with Grothman's comment that "almost no black people" care about Kwanzaa -- calling that a "clearly inaccurate opinion" -- but evidence suggests it IS accurate.
Look at it this way: If I said "almost no black people voted for Romney", which is essentially the truth, would it create any sort of uproar?
Would people be labeling me a racist?
At the risk of repeating myself - politically correct and factually correct are not necessarily the same thing. And quite often they're not.
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 6:39 PM - Report Abusegot it....the point is though: why Kwanzaa??? at the risk of repeating myself, why not question the validity\need for the greek orthodox church celebrating Christmas in January, instead of December???? why is grothman's attacks usually on non issues???? you can ramble on about politically correct and factually correct, the bottomline still remains: grothman's comments are frequently (if not always) aimed at minority groups....why is that??? and why is the GOP so afraid of these groups??? and no, I'm not just talking about racial minority groups either....
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 8:22 PM - Report Abuseso if they're not afraid, then why focus solely on them??? grothman has an issue with this holiday, why??? it was news because yet another member of the GOP removed any doubt that far too many (not all) are way out of touch *and* far too many are just plain bigots....simple as that...not sure why you support, rationalize bigotry but have at it...
I don't support or rationalize bigotry.
Just because I think Mr Kane is misrepresenting the facts here and just because I may not agree with you does not mean I support bigotry.
What is it with today's liberals, anyway? Why does their (your) first reaction to nearly everything include name-calling and false accusations?
Furthermore, I submit that there are probably just as many racists & bigots within the democratic voting ranks as there are within the GOP's, but for some reason black-on-white bigotry is rarely addressed in the media and remains almost a taboo subject in the national discourse. Same with anti-christian bigotry.
For the record:
I'm an atheist/agnostic who rarely votes republican. But I do know hypocrisy, double standards & selective outrage when I see it, and I can assure you that neither party can claim the high road when it comes to ANY of those.
One more thing:
I don't know where you get your information (although I could probably guess), but the GOP does not focus solely on minority groups.
The leftwing propaganda machine has done an outstanding job convincing minority groups that the republicans hate them, but then again it's done an outstanding job convincing people that a Gerorgetown law student who was too ignorant/lazy to figure out she was paying ten times more for birth control than she needed to is some sort of heroic poster child for republican misogyny, too, so never underestimate the power of propaganda.
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 10:38 PM - Report Abuseright...selective outrage... got it....you right a few sentences calling grothman "foolish" and several chapters on the perils of those pesky liberals...yes indeed, you are such a well rounded, objective, bias free individual....oh...wait, now you "flip" what I said back at me and toss in some other issue that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic because you want to continue to deflect from the fact that you approve of bigotted, narrowly focused criticism....or, please refer me to a post where you've written post after post, giving "liberals" the benefit of the doubt on steroids.....by the way, as a self admitted liberal, I haven't insulted you and I haven't falsely accused you of anything...
I never claimed to be (or even pretended to be) a well-rounded, objective, bias-free individual. I have my warts, just like you have yours.
As far as those "pesky liberals" are concerned:
Baseline ideology aside, I see absolutely no difference between a hardcore liberal and a hardcore conservative these days. They both rely on selective, programmed outrage, win-at-any-cost myopia, blatant hypocrisy, a self-righteous holier-than-thou attitude and seriously dumbed-down talking points to validate themselves, their positions and their respective parties. And neither of them seem capable of having a discussion about anything without ragging on the other guys.
Watching politicians (and the political media) these days is like watching people try to out-stupid each other.
Look, if it bothers you that I don't see this Grothman-Kwanzaa thing as an indictment of the GOP, I'm sorry. I just don't. Just as I don't see Nancy Pelosi's ongoing idiocy as an indictment of the democratic party. All I see here is a fool -- perhaps a racist fool -- who does not know how to pick his battles (or how to fight them) combined with a politically opportunistic media that tries to make the news instead of reporting it. And the latter bothers me much more than the former.
By the way: You accused me of "supporting & rationalizing" bigotry in your 8:22 post above, which is the same thing as calling me a bigot. (For future reference, it might help if you actually remember what you posted. It will save us both some time.)
If I think I'm a bigot, that's fine. I actually don't care what you think of me. But I don't think you do. I think you called me a bigot because you thought it would somehow help bolster your points, which is a disturbingly common tactic among the left these days.
Whether it actually did bolster your points is up to the other readers of this thread to decide.
One last thing:
Why are you asking ME why Grothman says what he says and does what he does? How in h*** would I know?
If you're trying to goad me into saying "he does them because he's a white republican and white republicans tend to be racist" -- the current DNC mantra -- you're wasting your time.
Grothman himself might be a racist, or not, but I do not for once second believe white republicans are any more inclined toward racism/bigotry than any other sociopolitical demographic....which is probably why I never get invited to democratic fundraisers or social events.
For example: The NAACP, which in recent incarnations morphed into one of the most racist organizations in the entire country, passed a resolution to "condemn extremist (racist) elements within the Tea Party"...all this after setting up a special web-based "hotline" where people could report incidents of racism (real or imagined) involving the Tea Party.
Aside from the obvious issues with that, witch hunt much?
You can not make this stuff up. It's impossible.
portableremote - Jan 03, 2013 2:36 AM - Report AbuseBigjim - suggestion: go to bed...you are proving my points and quite frankly, your posts are sounding more and more desperate for attention, not too mention completely illogical....by the way, for someone who continues to claim this is a non issue, you sure are ranting about it...is that in the same line of thinking as voting democrat more than republican, and then suffering from voter remorse?? If not, waste your vote much?? who in their right mind votes for something or someone that they constantly rail against??? like I said earlier, you are hilarious....now go to bed...the rest will do you good.
Like I care what you think I should do, what you think I'm "proving" or how you think I "sound".
One more time: My issue is NOT with Kwanzaa and it's NOT with Grothman. It's with the sockpuppet media and the racial witch hunt they're waging against the republicans, which in my opinion is serving to further fracture race relations in this country. (As if they weren't bad enough before.)
And for what? To help democrats win elections?
I'm sorry you can't seem to get a handle on that, but it's not like I haven't tried to explain it...about 15 times.
Race relations are near & dear to my heart, for reasons that are none of your damned business, and it disturbs me that the democrats and their media lapdogs are treating the election (and re-election) of this country's first black President as a license to both fuel and politically exploit racial divisiveness, which is precisely what they've been doing for the past four years.
It's disgraceful.
portableremote - Jan 03, 2013 11:19 AM - Report Abusebigjim - on this topic, *you* happen to be the only one here who is accusing grothman of being a racist....did you know that?
as far as race relations are concerned, I agree the media certainly fuels divisiveness but nonsense, divisive statements, made by anyone, for no apparent reason other than to create an issue, where one doesn't exist, based on race, is just AS ridiculous and unacceptable...and that's exactly why this sort of out of left field comment, made by grothman, under the guise of "just saying", is just plain race baiting silliness....which is all the more reason why this is news and deserves every bit of scrutiny it's receiving....
Wow! Three different writers at the Journal feel compelled to blog regarding this topic within two hours and 45 minutes of each other! Politicians (Grothman included) say all kinds of silly things, but this comment is the one that gets Kane and company hyperventilating. The Journal is in dire need of some diversity amongst it's writers.Hide replies
Stuff like this is a hanging curveball.
OF COURSE they're gonna hit it.
The leftwing media is engaged in an ongoing racial witch hunt -- desperately searching for evidence of racism within every nook & cranny of the GOP (sometimes they even just invent it) -- so this is easy pickins.
Perhaps Mr. Kane could blog about the newest Senator, and only black Senator - Tim Scott. He could discuss the warm welcome afforded this Senator by Kane's fellow press - you know, where they called him a "token" and an "Uncle Tom".
Or he could discuss the fiscal cliff and the irony of the Dems finally admitting that 98% of the Bush tax cuts benefitted the middle class.
OK, fair enough. But how much weight do you really think these words will actually carry?
I think the gist of Grothman's comments is that he doesn't want Kwanzaa promoted in public schools, and at face value (political correctness aside) he probably has a point.
Look at it this way: If some radical rightwing ex-skinhead who was convicted of felony assault & imprisonment invented a "holiday" ostensibly based on the concept of White Unity, should it be promoted in public schools?
My guess is that he'd be run out of town as a racist and people would be actively DISCOURAGED to participate, and rightly so on both counts. In fact the "holiday" itself would probably die a very quick death and almost immediately become an obscure footnote.
Jim, I think Eugene here has Grothman pretty well nailed here as an attention seeker. All Grothman's comments did here for me was to pique my interest in learning a little bit about Kwanzaa.
In spite of how Grothman wants to portray the idea of the holiday, I think Kwanzaa really is a lot different than some white supremacist's vision. Without even getting into a discussion on how Kwanzaa is a minority's alternative, and the "white unity" stuff is nonsense because whites already dominate the national culture, we can see that Kwanzaa is different enough from some supremacist's pipe dream because it is still around, four decades later. It appears the values of Kwanzaa are good, and not oriented toward kicking other groups out of the country, as white supremacists values' always are. (As for Karenga's conviction, it doesn't seem to have a had poisonous effect on the values observed during Kwanzaa.)
Ironically, and not surprisingly, real white supremacists are pleased with Grothman's press release. Their only beef with our state senator is that he is not anti-Jewish as well: http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t936136/ <-- *Not* safe for work. In fact, don't even bother.
One more thing -- I don't see anything to suggest that Kwanzaa is being "promoted." I'm willing to bet it's part of a curriculum including other holidays, including those that are religious.
State involvement with the visibility of religious (or in this case, alternative) holidays usually requires recognizing several of them. For example, it's frowned upon for a city to put up a Nativity scene alone, but if it includes other symbols -- or uses non-religious symbols -- it will generally steer clear of case law on religious freedom.
Ya know, I don't have a problem with Kwanzaa. In fact I don't really care one way or the other. People can and should celebrate whatever they want. ('Course I feel the same way about Christmas, too, but that's another story.)
But I am tired of double standards, "reverse racism" and the notion that blatant black-on-white bigotry, separatism or exclusionism can and should be tolerated or excused-away because white people supposedly "dominate the national culture".
That's just an excuse to foster racial hatred, resentment and divisiveness -- too often for political reasons alone (see: this particular story) -- which is tragically short-sighted & counterproductive as far as race relations are concerned. Yet the media actively feeds it.
The root/basis of Kwanzaa may not include racially-exclusionary language, but I think you're kidding yourself if you think it' has anything to do with race-neutral "cultural unity". It's about black unity. Period.
Whether race-centric "holidays" are a good thing for this country is largely a matter of opinion, and I know what mine is.
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 10:42 PM - Report Abuse@bigjim- you're 9:04 post....a brilliant study in walking on virtual eggshells and creating a brilliant circular logic based argument, whereby you are trying to convince yourself that you "don't have a problem with Kwanza"....listen, I don't have a problem with a lot of things and I certainly don't require multiple paragraphs to tell you what's wrong with what I don't have a problem with....you are hilarious!!!
1. I don't tell you how to post, so I would appreciate it if you extend me the same courtesy.
2. If you're trying to read my mind -- as in, how I'm somehow trying to "convince myself" of something -- you're not very good at it.
3. If you have been paying even the slightest bit of attention, which I can only conclude you have not, you would realize that I have not spent paragraph after paragraph arguing the merits of (or my issues with) Kwanzaa. And I didn't do it in my 9:04 post, either. My main issue is with agenda-driven racial double standards and selective outrage, particularly in the media, and the three different columns in the the J-S today about this supposed "story" is a perfect example of it. .
4. If you don't like what I post, then don't read it.
Problem solved.
portableremote - Jan 02, 2013 11:48 PM - Report AbuseBigjim- read your mind?? dude, I've read enough of your posts to know you like to appear objective by tossing in statements that suggest that you feel that both sides do this or that but then you proceed to go on and on about liberals, or in this case, your perception of what's acceptable news to report....you deflect better than most here....as far as ignoring what you post, please review who initiated this discussion.....hint: It wasn't me.....I was ignoring you because you talk in circles....and then get passive aggressive when told you aren't as clever as you think....
I do rag on the democrats, dude, but It's a guilt by association thing.
It's personal. I can't help it.
I vote (D) far more often than (R) -- I voted for Obama twice - and it bothers me to be politically lumped-in with a bunch of brainwashed talking-point parroters who do nothing but whine about evil racist republicans all day and think taxing the rich is The Answer to everything -- which, near as I can tell, is a fairly accurate assessment of what the democratic voter base has become in recent years.
For example: when my republican/conservative friends get on me for things like Clyburn's ridiculous "secret racial code" thing, I can't even INVENT excuses or explanations for that. And I can't invent excuses for the Obama White House throwing Susan Rice under the bus, either.
I understand WHY they did it but I can't make excuses for it and don't understand how anyone with even a modicum of self-respect could.
You and I may vote the same way, but I'm not the least bit inclined to make excuses for anyone who gets my vote. Quite the contrary, actually.
I expect MORE from them, not less. So when the christian right goes off on rants about how being pro-abortion is akin to "killing children" I do NOT expect and nor will I excuse it when the pro-choice left counters with the notion that being anti-abortion is akin to "killing women", as if being pregnant is some sort of fatal condition or something. (Yeah, yeah, I get the dangerous preganancy thing. But being being pro-choice and/or against the subsidization of birth control is not the same as "hating women", despite what the "heroic" Sandra Fluke has to say about.
That's just fighting stupid with stupid, and I want no part of it.
Speaking of Ms. Fluke:
What does it say about the mindset of the democratic party when an obviously helpless Gerorgetown law student gets elevated to celebrity status because she was too stupid to shop around for birth control pills.... and thinks federal taxpayers should be paying for them anyway?
That being clueless & dependent is the new American Way?
I do have to laugh at the Sandra Fluke thing. When I asked my liberal women friends what they thought about her, all I heard was "Are you kidding me? If I could afford to pay for the pill in the 80's as a student at UW-Oshkosh (or Point, UWM,etc) I think a law student at Georgetown can afford it today. Why is she even in the news??". The really funny part of the whole Sandra Fluke thing is that in about 10 to 15 years, she will most likely be earning about $500,000 a year and will then be one of the evil rich folks that the Dems love to hate. Now that would be a great follow up story for 2023!
Lots of lawyers don't make jack. If Fluke stays in public interest lawyering, I don't see how she'll *ever* get to $500k a year. Am I wrong?... cuz if so, the thought of taking on $100k in student loan debt for three lousy years of lectures and do-or-die exams suddenly looks appealing after all. (I admit it, I don't know exactly what the deal is with oral-contraceptive pricing; but before blowing off Fluke -- who still has a point anyway -- I'd want to know about branded vs. generic pricing, insurance coverage, etc.)
Back to BigJim and divisiveness: it seems to me that no one in this discussion seems really offended about blacks celebrating Kwanzaa. The only person trying to "divide America," to use his oft-repeated phrase, is Grothman himself.
Somebody needs to tell that goofy, but vaguely affable guy from West Bend that playing the warrior is not his strong suit.
Interestingly, this isn't the first time Grothman has issued a press release slamming Kwanzaa. An undated press release from grothman.org, cited by Wikipedia as being retrieved in March 2011, makes many of the same claims he aired a day or two ago.
In closing the above: "Hallmark sells
Kwanzaa cards. The Post Office sells Kwanzaa stamps. The rest of us should treat Kwanzaa with the
contempt it deserves before it becomes a permanent part of our culture."
Glenn Grothman is a hateful man.Hide replies
If some black folks want to celebrate Kwanzaa, who cares? If they aren't bugging anybody, just leave them alone. I'm a die hard Republican but that was a dumb statement by Grothmann.
Peace and a belated Happy Festivus to all!
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#95274 - 02/11/03 05:55 PM more
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anthophilous: loving or frequenting flowers
anthropoglot: animal with human tongue; animal capable of speech
anthropophagous: eating humans
antichresis: enjoyment of mortgaged property in lieu of interest payments
antilegomena: books of the New Testament not part of early Christian Bible
antinomianism: doctrine of the rejection of moral law
antipudic: concealing private parts of the body
antonomasia: use of descriptive phrase or epithet instead of proper name
anzactile: army biscuit
apatetic: of an animal's coloration or markings
apheresis: taking away a syllable at the beginning of a word
aphrasia: inability to speak
#95275 - 02/11/03 08:51 PM Re: more
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Posts: 6943
Loc: Worcester, MA
anzactile: army biscuit
Is this for real, or just the sardonic comment of disgruntled GI in the Pacific theater regarding the inedible nature of his rations? (ANZAC tile?) Is there a derivation for "anzactile"?
#95276 - 02/11/03 08:56 PM Re: more
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Anzac is the name of a yummy oatmeal biscuit, cherished on both sides of the Tasman, but I've never heard anzactile before.
#95277 - 02/11/03 09:38 PM Re: more
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Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 13858
Army rations seldom get praised. I remember a couple lines from WWII song"
....The biscuits they serve us they say are mghty fine,
One fell of the table, and killed a pal of mine.
#95278 - 02/12/03 08:09 AM Re: more on army rations
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I was born in 1949; my brother, in 1953. When we were about five and nine years old, we went up into the attic and rifled through my dad's WWII army stuff. We found some army rations and took bites from some of what we found! A decade after the war had ended, the rations still tasted as horrible as my dad had reported, so aging did them no good. But we didn't die.
#95279 - 02/12/03 09:12 AM Re: more on army rations
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Posts: 13858
Dear WW: I don't know if I posted this before, but not all the rations were bad.
One night when I was on duty in what had been the pistol range at the University
of Santo Tomas, and had been converted into the Pathology morgue. A body was
brought in to be autopsied. On the stretcher was the remai;ns of a Major, with
about eight bullet holes in his back. I could tell that they had been made by US .45 cal.
bullets. Out of the corner of my mouth, so officer in charge of the ambulance could
not hear me, I asked one of the stretcher bearers "What did he do wrong?"
"Took all of the canadian Bacon out of the "C" rations for himself."
#95280 - 02/12/03 09:27 AM Re: more on army rations
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Are you pulling my leg, wwh? You know I'm gullible.
#95281 - 02/12/03 09:35 AM Re: more on army rations
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 13858
Dear WW: my faults are many, my virtues few. I would however scorn to tell such a tale
if it were untrue. Imagine those guys for weeks on end having nothing better than the
"C" rations to eat, and then having that bastard take the only really enjoyable part all
for himself. I would have probably been glad to be one of the executioners he so richly
#95282 - 02/14/03 09:07 PM Re: more on army rations
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Posts: 6943
Loc: Worcester, MA
...not all the rations were bad...
As I recall the LRRP rations (short for Long Range Reconniassance and Patrol, and pronounced "lurp rations") weren't bad at all. They were dehydrated entreés in a sealed heavy plastic bag, just boil up some water and mix, and presto -- a hot meal ready to eat. Rather on the salty side, but quite tasty otherwise. There was chili, and beef stew, and something with noodles, and a few others. This was 1969, and I think a civilian version went along with the astronauts, including to the moon.
#95283 - 02/15/03 06:23 AM Re: antinomianism
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Posts: 6296
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In reply to:
antinomianism: doctrine of the rejection of moral law
Is this a form of moral anarchy? This term, antinomianism, rings a bell...from literature perhaps?
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Python is a multipurpose programming language: it is object oriented, is dynamic, can accomplish much in few lines of code, is syntactically clean and elegant, "fits the brain well," and is an excellent language for programmers of all ages and skill levels. These characteristics have contributed to building a loyal, knowledgeable, and vibrant community. In addition to the language syntax and the community, a benefit of using Python is its interactive interpreter. The standard interactive interpreter that ships with Python allows a user to type Python code at a command prompt and have it execute while the user watches, and allows various levels of introspection into the source code. (Python's introspection is its ability to inspect code objects at runtime; determine information about them such as their type, attributes, and defined methods; and make that information available to the user.) The Python interactive interpreter is useful for testing pieces of code, such as algorithms or getting acquainted with a particular library, or for accomplishing specific tasks, such as creating 500 directories named dir_000 through dir_499.
The standard Python interpreter is unquestionably a highly valued item in
the toolbox of many Python programmers. However, the IPython developers have taken the
fundamental ideas found in the standard interpreter and improved upon them so
considerably that they have created a tool of amazing utility. The project's
web site describes it as "an enhanced Interactive Python shell." This
description is far too modest. IPython is elegant, thoughtfully crafted, and
extremely extensible. Some of the thoughtfully crafted features that make
IPython so useful are tab completion, object introspection, a powerful history
mechanism, inline editing of source code, integration with the Python debugger,
%run mechanism, macros, the ability to create multiple
profiles, and system shell access.
IPython began life with Fernando Pérez attempting to unify his own work, IPP by Janko Hauser, and LazyPython by Nathan Gray. Pérez cites Stephen Figgin's article on IPP and LazyPython as inspiration. Fernando is currently the sole developer for the IPython project.
While Fernando likes to emphasize that IPython is "meant to be a highly configurable tool for building problem-specific interactive environments," this article will focus almost exclusively on its ability to replace the Python standard interactive interpreter.
For this article, I assume you already have Python 2.2 or higher installed. I created and tested all examples using IPython 0.6.6, Python 2.4, and Fedora Core 3 Linux.
In order to run IPython, you must first download and install it. At the time
of this writing, IPython 0.6.6 was the latest. Download an
appropriate version and format for your system. (For example, because I
installed Python 2.4 from source, IPython-0.6.6.tar.gz was best for me.) Windows users should probably download the .zip file and
unzip it. In another week or so, another alternative for Windows users is to
download the Python Enthought
Edition, which will contain IPython as one of its default shells. If you
installed an RPM, it should be as simple as
rpm -Uvh
<filename>. Otherwise, unpack the compressed file and change into
the resultant directory, which should contain a setup.py file.
Installation should be as easy as typing (as root):
python setup.py install
If on a Unix system, this will put an executable file named
ipython in the same directory as your
executable. Installation on Linux systems will put documentation in
/usr/share/doc/ipython/<VERSION>. Running
for the first time will create a configuration directory at
$HOME/.ipython containing several configuration files
(ipythonrc, ipythonrc-math, ipythonrc-numeric,
ipythonrc-physics, ipythonrc-pysh, ipythonrc-scipy, and
ipythonrc-tutorial) for different profiles:
[jjones@cerberus ~]$ /usr/local/python24/bin/ipython
Welcome to IPython. I will try to create a personal configuration directory
where you can customize many aspects of IPython's functionality in:
Successful installation!
Please read the sections 'Initial Configuration' and 'Quick Tips' in the
IPython manual (there are both HTML and PDF versions supplied with the
distribution) to make sure that your system environment is properly configured
to take advantage of IPython's features.
Please press <RETURN> to start IPython.
In summary, for installation:
python setup.py install.
As mentioned above, in order to start IPython, execute the installed
ipython executable. That will yield a prompt that may appear
unfamiliar to those who already work with the standard Python shell prompt:
[jjones@cerberus ~]$ /usr/local/python24/bin/ipython
Python 2.4 (#2, Nov 30 2004, 09:22:54)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 0.6.6 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction to IPython's features.
%magic -> Information about IPython's 'magic' % functions.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
In [1]:
To exit IPython (from Linux), type Ctrl-D (which will request
confirmation before editing) or either
Exit or
(note the case), both of which exit without prompting.
IPython has several "magic" keywords:
%Exit, %Pprint, %Quit, %alias, %autocall, %autoindent, %automagic,
%bookmark, %cd, %color_info, %colors, %config, %dhist, %dirs, %ed,
%edit, %env, %hist, %logoff, %logon, %logstart, %logstate, %lsmagic,
%macro, %magic, %p, %page, %pdb, %pdef, %pdoc, %pfile, %pinfo, %popd,
%profile, %prun, %psource, %pushd, %pwd, %r, %rehash, %rehashx, %reset,
%run, %runlog, %save, %sc, %sx, %system_verbose, %unalias, %who,
%who_ls, %whos, %xmode
IPython works by checking the command issued to it against its list of magic
keywords. If the command is a magic keyword, IPython knows what to do with it.
If it's not a magic keyword, it lets Python figure out to do with it. If
automagic is on (the default), you don't need to prepend the
% symbol to magic keywords. If
automagic is off, you
need to prepend them. Type
magic at the shell prompt to see a list
of all magic keywords and some words of help with their usage. Good
documentation is a key feature of any piece of software, and between the IPython user manual
and the inline documentation (
%magic), IPython certainly does not
lack in this area.
A very powerful feature in IPython is tab completion. If you are familiar with Python, you may be thinking, The standard Python interactive shell has tab completion. All you have to do is:
[jjones@cerberus ~]$ /usr/local/python24/bin/python
Python 2.4 (#2, Nov 30 2004, 09:22:54)
[GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import rlcompleter, readline
>>> readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')
That's correct. Both the standard Python interpreter and IPython support "regular" completion as well as menu completion. To use completion, type a pattern you would like the shell to match, followed by the Tab key. When in "regular" completion mode (the default), the Tab key will:
For example:
In [1]: import os
In [2]: os.po<tab>
os.popen os.popen2 os.popen3 os.popen4
In [2]: os.popen
os.po followed by the Tab key expands
out to
os.popen (as shown at the
In [2]: prompt) and
displays all the modules, classes, and functions under
os that
begin with po, which happen to be
popen3, and
Menu completion has a slightly different behavior from regular tab completion. In order to change from the default tab completion behavior to menu completion, edit the ipythonrc config file located in $HOME/.ipython/. Comment out:
readline_parse_and_bind tab: complete
and uncomment:
readline_parse_and_bind tab: menu-complete
Rather than display a list of matches for the current command, menu-complete cycles through each matching item in the list with each press of the Tab key. For example:
In [1]: import os
In [2]: os.po<tab>
will result in:
In [3]: os.popen
Each subsequent press of the Tab key will cycle through to the next matching
item in the remaining list of
popen4, and back to
po. To see a list of all items
matching the specified pattern while in menu-complete mode, hit Ctrl-L:
In [2]: os.po<Control-l>
os.popen os.popen2 os.popen3 os.popen4
In [2]: os.po
Python has several built-in functions that facilitate introspection. IPython
has access to all of the standard Python functions as well as some extras built
into the shell. A typical introspective technique with the standard Python
shell is using the built-in
dir() function:
>>> import SimpleXMLRPCServer
>>> dir(SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer)
['__doc__', '__init__', '__module__', '_dispatch',
'_marshaled_dispatch', 'address_family', 'allow_reuse_address',
'close_request', 'fileno', 'finish_request', 'get_request',
'handle_error', 'handle_request', 'process_request',
'register_function', 'register_instance',
'register_introspection_functions', 'register_multicall_functions',
'request_queue_size', 'serve_forever', 'server_activate', 'server_bind',
'server_close', 'socket_type', 'system_listMethods',
'system_methodHelp', 'system_methodSignature', 'system_multicall',
Well, that's nice. Very helpful, in fact. I have done just that for years
now and have been very pleased with it. This is a nice list of all of
SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer's methods,
classes, modules, and so on. Because
dir() is a built-in function, IPython can do the same
thing, but its
? and
?? operators are more
In [1]: import SimpleXMLRPCServer
In [2]: ? SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer
Type: classobj
String Form: SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer
Namespace: Interactive
File: /usr/local/python24/lib/python2.4/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
Simple XML-RPC server.
Simple XML-RPC server that allows functions and a single instance
to be installed to handle requests. The default implementation
attempts to dispatch XML-RPC calls to the functions or instance
installed in the server. Override the _dispatch method inherited
from SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher to change this behavior.
Constructor information:
Definition: SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(self, addr,
SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler at
0xf6b2c5cc>, logRequests=1)
If long strings are present, the
? operator will trim them.
?? will not trim long strings, and it will display syntax
highlighted source code if the source is available.
After interactively entering commands, statements, and so on into the IPython shell like this:
In [1]: a = 1
In [2]: b = 2
In [3]: c = 3
In [4]: d = {}
In [5]: e = []
In [6]: for i in range(20):
...: e.append(i)
...: d[i] = b
you can quickly view everything you typed like this:
In [7]: hist
1: a = 1
2: b = 2
3: c = 3
4: d = {}
5: e = []
for i in range(20):
d[i] = b
To view the history without the input numbers (here, 1 through 6), use
hist -n:
In [8]: hist -n
a = 1
b = 2
c = 3
d = {}
e = []
for i in range(20):
d[i] = b
hist -n makes it easier to paste commands into a text
editor. To search the history, type a pattern to search for and press Ctrl-P.
When something matches, a subsequent Ctrl-P will search backward in your
history, and Ctrl-N will search forward.
When testing an idea at a Python prompt, it is sometimes helpful to edit
(and, more importantly, to reedit) some lines of source code with a text
editor. Type
edit from an IPython prompt to bring up the editor
defined by the
$EDITOR environment variable, or
vi on
Unix and Notepad on Windows if you don't have
$EDITOR defined. To
return to the IPython prompt, exit the editor. Saving and exiting will execute,
in the current namespace, the code entered into the editor. If you do not want
IPython to execute the code automatically, use
edit -x. To reedit
the last code that you edited, type
edit -p. In the previous
feature, I mentioned
hist -n making it easier to paste code into
an editor. An even easier way of putting code into an editor is using
edit with Python list slice syntax. Suppose
In [29]: hist
1 : a = 1
2 : b = 2
3 : c = 3
4 : d = {}
5 : e = []
6 :
for i in range(20):
d[i] = b
7 : %hist
To export lines 4, 5, and 6 into an editor, type:
edit 4:7
Another feature within IPython is its access to the Python debugger. Type
pdb magic word from the IPython shell to toggle automatic
debugging upon hitting an exception. With automatic pdb calling enabled, the
Python debugger will start automatically when Python encounters an unhandled
exception; the current line in the debugger will be the line of code on
which the exception occurred. The IPython author states that sometimes when he
wants to debug something at a certain line of code, he will put
1/0 at the point he wants to begin debugging, enable pdb, and run
the code in IPython. When the interpreter hits the
1/0 line of
code, it raises a
ZeroDivisionError exception and drops
him into a debugging session at that particular line.
Sometimes, when in an interactive shell, it is helpful to execute the
contents of a Python source file. Issuing the
run magic command followed by a
Python source file will run the file in the IPython interpreter (for example,
run <run options> <python source file>
<options>). The following run options are available:
-n prevents the
__name__ variable from being
set to
"__main__" for the Python source file. This prevents the
execution of any code in an
if __name__ == "__main__":
-i runs the file in the current IPython namespace rather
than a new one. This is helpful if you want the Python source file to have
access to variables defined in the interactive session.
-p runs and profiles the file using the Python profiler
module. This option does not bring the executed code into the current
Macros allow a user to associate a name with a section of Python code so the
code can be run later by referring to the name. As with the
magic word, the list slice notation also works with macro definitions. For
example, for a history such as:
In [3]: hist
1: l = []
for i in l:
print i
you can define a macro with:
In [4]: macro print_l 2
Macro `print_l` created. To execute, type its name (without quotes).
Macro contents:
for i in l:
print i
Execute it via:
In [5]: print_l
Out[5]: Executing Macro...
In this case, the list
l was empty, so it did not print
anything. However, and here is a powerful feature of macros, binding the list
l to something and then executing the macro again produces a
different result:
In [6]: l = range(5)
In [7]: print_l
Out[7]: Executing Macro...
It is as if you retyped and executed the code contained in the macro
print_l when calling the macro again. It had access to the new
binding of the variable
l. While macros are absent from Python
syntax (and probably always will be), it is certainly a useful feature in an
interactive shell.
As mentioned earlier, IPython installs multiple configuration files for several different profiles. The configuration files have a naming convention of ipythonrc-<profile name>. In order to start IPython with a specific profile, execute IPython with:
ipython -p <profile name>
One method of creating your own profile is to create an IPython configuration file in the $HOME/.ipython directory named ipythonrc_<your profile> where <your profile> is the name with which you will refer to your profile. This can be useful if you have several projects you work on and each project requires the use of specific, different libraries. You can create a profile for each project and import the modules you frequently use for that project in the configuration file for each project.
In the default IPython profile, the Unix shell commands (on Unix, of course)
pwd, and
ls all work like they do
from a bash shell. To execute any other shell commands, prepend a
! or
!! to them. Use the
%sc and
%sx magic words to capture the output from shell commands.
pysh profile is intended as a shell replacement. Starting
IPython with a
-p pysh flag will cause IPython to accept and execute
any commands in the user's
$PATH, while at the same time allowing
access to all Python modules as well as all Python keywords and built-in
functions. For example, to create 500 directories named d_0_d through
d_500_d, start IPython with a
-p pysh and do something
like this:
jjones@cerberus[foo]|2> for i in range(500):
|.> mkdir d_${i}_d
This will create 500 directories:
jjones@cerberus[foo]|8> ls -d d* | wc -l
Notice the mix of the Python
range function and the Unix
mkdir command.
Note, however, that while
ipython -p pysh can provide a
powerful shell replacement, it lacks proper job control. Pressing Ctrl-Z
while performing some long-running task will stop the IPython session rather
than the running subprocess.
While the Python replacement shell is excellent overall, two things provided a small amount of trouble for me. To the credit of the IPython developers, both items are configurable with clear documentation.
The first item was the coloring. On one of my systems, I use xterms with a
white background. When requesting information from an object or module with the
? and
?? operators, the object definition line
appeared, but it looked like the arguments were missing. That was because the
arguments in the constructor displayed in white by default. I resolved this by
colors LightBG at the IPython shell.
The second item was the combination of autoindent and pasting code. With autoindent enabled, IPython double-indented a section of code I pasted that already had indentation. For example, the following code:
for i in range(10):
for j in range(10):
for k in range(10):
for i in range(10):
for j in range(10):
for k in range(10):
which really was not a problem in this case, because the indentation was
consistent among itself. In other circumstances (examples of which elude me
just now), it may present a real problem. Invoking the
magic word toggles autoindent so it will not add extra indents--similar to
set paste in vim.
IPython is not revolutionary, nor is it entirely novel. Tab completion, searchable history, profiles, and config files have existed in other shells for years, and Python has had levels of introspection for quite some time now. However, IPython has unified some of the most powerful features of mature Unix shells, the Python standard shell, and the Python language into one utility. The result is an unbelievably powerful performance-enhancing tool that I will likely use for years to come. To paraphrase Archimedes, give me a powerful and flexible text editor (vim), interactive shell (IPython), and language (Python), and I can move the world.
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Gov. Jerry Brown displays a playing card with a chart showing how high deficits follow balanced budgets, during his annual State of the State speech Wednesday.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday delivered dual messages in his annual address to the Legislature: Californias resurgence is well underway but is threatened by economic and environmental uncertainties.
Chief among those uncertainties is that the severe drought gripping the nations most populous state and already forcing water cutbacks among farms and cities eventually could exact a financial toll on the states improving finances.
In the State of the State address, Brown said it was not clear what role heat-trapping gases have played in creating three years of dry weather, but he said the excessively dry conditions should serve as a stark warning of things to come.
This means more droughts and more extreme weather events, and, in California, more forest fires and less snow pack, he said, a week after declaring an official drought.
He urged conservation among the states 38 million residents and said water recycling, expanded storage and better management of groundwater supplies will be needed. The states budget reserves will be tested if the wildfire season explodes and communities run short of water and need emergency help.
Some relief could come from an $11.1 billion water bond scheduled to go before voters in November, but the measure is filled with problems, including the price tag. Lawmakers have delayed it twice and are considering major changes, including lowering the price.
The current version has been criticized for including too many unessential, special interest projects and for not guaranteeing money for building dams to create new reservoirs.
The drought also complicates one of Browns top public works priorities, a $25 billion plan to build two 30-mile tunnels to ship water from Northern California to Central Valley farms and Southern California cities.
The lack of rain and snow, as well as Browns own statement on Wednesday that California is likely to see diminished Sierra snow packs in the future, have raised questions about whether its smart to build a project that is designed to send even more water south.
Brown, who has given more State of the State addresses than any other governor in California history, delivered a restrained speech that was largely without surprises.
He touched on the states financial turnaround after years of budget deficits, and noted his continued efforts to reduce the states prison population and equalize public school funding.
Brown touted the one million new jobs that have been created in California since 2010 and said the state faces budget surpluses in the billions of dollars for the foreseeable future, thanks to a rebounding economy and tax increases approved by voters in 2012.
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Phlashback to 1973
Lacking much in the way of compelling blog topics lately, I've decided to borrow an idea from Jenn at Phillies Phollowers, and take a look back at the past. Hope you don't mind, Jenn!
For this first installment, I've unearthed a Phillies magazine/program from 1973. The cover is appropriately pop-art-ish:
And look at that bargain price – only 50 cents!
Paging through, it's interesting to note the various advertisements for tobacco products (Salem/Camel/Winston, Dutch Master/El Producto, Kent/Newport/True, Marlboro) and alcohol (Seagram's whiskey, Jacquin's vodka, Cutty Sark, Schmidt's beer). In contrast, a more recent copy of the magazine/program contained a single ad for Bud Light.
Going to a Phillies game back then was affordable family entertainment, based on these prices:
A family of four would have paid only $17 for box seats! Today, $17 won't even get one person into the ballpark – the lowest priced seats are $20. Using an online inflation calculator, one can see that the ticket prices have increased much more drastically than just inflation alone would explain. I suppose part of that can be explained by the fact that the Phillies of the early 70's were not very good, averaging just over 18,000 fans per game, whereas the current Phillies have made it to the playoffs three straight seasons, and averaged over 40,000 fans per game the past two seasons. Good old "supply and demand".
Another interesting feature is the "Phillies Family Album," a collection of obviously staged photos on the last few pages. Here's a sample:
In case it's hard to see, they are:
Susie and Billy Wilson (what are they looking at? certainly not the camera);
Rosemary and Jim Lonborg (probably hoping that seagull doesn't poop on them);
Terry and Kay Harmon (bet she's wondering why the other two wives got first billing and she didn't).
The Phillies' rotation that year included Steve Carlton, Wayne Twitchell, Ken Brett, Jim Lonborg, and Dick Ruthven. Position players included Bob Boone, Willie Montanez, Denny Doyle, Larry Bowa, Greg Luzinski, Del Unser, Bill Robinson, and in his first full season, Mike Schmidt.
I'd never seen a photo of Schmidt without his mustache before – it looks a little odd!
Neither Schmidt nor the Phillies fared too well in 1973. Schmidt ended the season with a .196 batting average, and the Phillies finished last in the six-team NL East with a 71-91 record.
In upcoming posts, I'll take a look at 1974, 1975, 1978, and 1979. Not sure why there is a two year gap – these all came from my husband's formative years, so I'll have to ask him what happened to 1976 and 1977.
Happy Blogiversary!
Today marks the one-year anniversary of this blog. Last year, in a fit of extreme boredom, I decided to unleash my random thoughts upon the unsuspecting MLBlogs community. My very first blog was actually rather cringe-worthy (wherein I mostly complained about the month of February), so I won't force you to read it again by reposting it here.🙂
Since then, I've electronically "met" a lot of great baseball fans, not only of the Phillies, but other teams as well, even the dreaded Yankees (sorry Jane!). I'm looking forward to another year of great blogging, and I hope you are too!
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A big congratulations on your one year anniversary!!!!! Does time fly or what? I know you'll continue to put your personal, always entertaining spin on the Phillies, so keep it up! Btw, I had no idea Jim Lonborg was with the Phillies. I always think of him with the Red Sox.
Happy "blog birthday"!
When you look back, even a few years…prices go up absurdly. Even $20 seems kinda cheap to me, I guess because I live in New York…
Happy Blog Birthday!!! Nice blog you have here! I'll sure be coming back here in the future!!!
Happy Blogiversary, Sue!😉
Mike Schmidt? Who's he?😉 Kinda funny to see some of the "prophetic" commentary, like "…He will hit with power… 3B is his best position…" Oh, really, doctor?😉
And yeah, seeing Schmidt without the moustache is kinda odd now.
Happy 2010 blogging! Take care, Sue.
Sweet! Happy Blog Birthday too, Sue. Looking at that cover of the program I can just hear the music too.. something disco-ish, with lots of horns. Man. $2.25 a ticket. Phlash me back.
Jane – Thanks! Yes, you're right, it's hard to believe a year has passed already. Lonborg was with the Sox prior to the Phillies – you probably stopped paying attention to him once he changed leagues.
Caroline – How do New Yorkers actually afford to go to games these days? Your prices are astronomical, so I guess I shouldn't complain about ours.
23gonzalez – Thanks for stopping by! I'll check your blog out as well.
Greg – Thanks! I'd never realized Schmidt played second in the minors before digging this up. And a friend of mine saw the picture and said he looks "icky".🙂
Jeff – I'd love to phlash back to those prices, but not the clothes or the music! Well, some of the music was OK…
I have just one question: What is Kay Harmon wearing?
Congratulations on your one year Blogiversery!
Indians, Cardinals, and Tigers! Oh my!
I love that magazine cover! Oh I would hear the music along it!
That is funny seeing Mike Schmidt without his 'stache.
Congratulations on your one year Blogiversary! My one year will be Saturday Feb 13th, a day before Valentine!
Happy Blogbirthday Sue.
Man, makes me wished that I'd kept all of the programs and yearbooks and tickets that I picked up in the '70s and early '80s, instead of trashing them when I'd moved to my apartment in 2000.
Melissa – Thanks! Aren't 70's fashions totally cringe-worthy? It looks like some sort of pantsuit, which I think were pretty popular then.
Emma – Early congrats to you too! I can see why Mike decided to go with the mustache.
Stanley – You threw them out!? As you can probably tell, I have a hard time throwing stuff away, and apparently so did my husband.
Kaybee – It's hard to believe it's been a year already – it went very fast! Those ticket prices are unbelievable; I didn't realize how little they cost back then.
Happy birthday to your blog!! That's so cool that you've been here a whole year. And I can't believe those prices on tickets!! That's insane.
Of course I don't mind :O) I have some from the 70's too but have been trying to get my husband to dig them out of the garage. He is so slow…men. What can ya do? LOL Get to it some day…
Wow, Sue, one year! That's so great! We all come so far in a year, it's amazing to see what an amazing community we have developed. Very cool magazine, I love the pop-art. I bet it'd be worth a lot more than 50 cents now.
Happy BirthDay R3…Hope the next year is just as bloggerful.
This was a hell of a post. 70s flashbacks always kill.
Jenn – You're probably going to have to get them yourself, unless you want to wait till next year.🙂
Elizabeth – Thanks! It IS a great community here – so glad I found it!
BTB – Glad you stopped by! I have a few more years to go through, so I hope you check them out as well.
Cat – Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it – it was a lot of fun for me too, looking back through the old program and seeing how different things were at that time.
I dunno… "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" still gets me fired up. LOL.
congrats on maing it to a year! im coming up on my first year in March. i loved memorobilla from the past. at PirateFest i came home with some old posters and programs from the 80s.
You do not want to know the amount of books, magazines, yearbooks, board games, I had to get rid of when I moved into my original studio apartment, with my brother. I'm still kicking myself for the World War II reference books I had to let go. (One on the U.S. Army Divisions and related unions, one of U.S. Weapons of the war, and two on uniforms (One British and One all countries. I especially miss the last one. AAAArrggghhhhh!!!!!!)


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stock futures were trading cautiously Wednesday as investors remained on edge on increasing signs of support for U.S. military intervention in Syria.
Futures for the S&P 500 were down 2.25 points, or 1.32 points below fair value, to 1,636.75. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were falling 30 points, or 23.96 points below fair value, to 14,797. Futures for the Nasdaq were up 4.75 points, or 0.06 points below fair value, to 3,091.25.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee members on Tuesday evening negotiated a proposal to implement a deadline of 60 days for U.S. military strikes against Syria. It also includes the possibility of one extension of 30 days. The panel is expected to vote Wednesday on the draft resolution allowing U.S. military action in Syria. If it is passed, the full Senate will cast votes the following week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, said in a TV interview in Moscow that he hasn't ruled out supporting a U.S.-led military strike provided there is more evidence of chemical attacks carried out by Bashar al-Assad's government.
In economic news, the U.S. trade deficit widened to $39.1 billion in July from a downwardly revised $34.5 billion in June amid higher non-petroleum imports, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.
"Overall, despite the disappointing headline print, the improvement in non-petroleum imports offers an encouraging glimpse on the tone of domestic demand and U.S. economic activity more generally," Millan Mulraine, a senior economist at TD Securities in New York, wrote in a note. "Nevertheless, the weakness in global demand continues to underscore the weak global backdrop that continues to be fairly unsupportive to U.S. growth."
U.S. mortgage applications rose by 1.3% in the week of Aug. 31 from the previous week thanks to a dip in interest rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
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August auto and truck sales numbers are expected at 2 p.m. from the Commerce Department.
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Beginning at 8 p.m., Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota will appear at a town hall forum in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
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Opportunities to experience a BioBlitz abound in our region these days, offering a wonderful chance to learn about the natural diversity of a given site. A BioBlitz is an event where scientists and other volunteers gather to collect, identify, and catalogue every living thing on a demarcated property in a 24-hour period. The results are typically made available to the public following the collection period, along with various workshops and talks.
Lackawanna State Park near Scranton, PA, was the site for a BioBlitz last weekend, which catalogued 400 species. The upcoming two weekends will offer the chance to explore two additional sites.
Closest to home is the Upper Delaware BioBlitz, now in its second year. The inaugural event occurred last June on property owned by the Norcross Wildlife Foundation in Starlight, Wayne County, PA. Over 50 scientists and naturalists participated, serving on nine teams, including birds, fish, fungi, aquatic macroinvertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, mammals, mosses and lichens, terrestrial invertebrates and plants.
During the event, 1,022 distinct species were collected and identified. I had the pleasure of serving as a judge for the associated photo contest, whose winners will be announced at the 2014 Upper Delaware BioBlitz.
One goal is to alternate site selection between PA and New York, in order to create a more complete picture of the region's diversity. This year's event will be conducted on June 28-29 within the Ten Mile River Scout Camp in the Town of Tusten, NY. The site encompasses a stretch of the camp from the Delaware River to and including Maul's Pond, Indian Cliffs and Grassy Swamp Pond, one of the only quaking bogs to be scientifically authenticated. The center of activities will be at the head of Rock Lake on Cochecton Turnpike.
The public portion of the event will occur on June 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be activities for families including nature walks, demonstrations and programs. The public can view the collected specimens and talk to the experts. (Learn more at www.upperdelawarebioblitz.com [2] and www.facebook.com/UpperDelawareBioBlitz [3]).
The Upper Delaware BioBlitz was modeled after the Monroe County BioBlitz, which compiled the fourth of its biannual inventories, with over 1,078 different species of plants, insects and animals catalogued in 2012. This year's event will take place at the Austin T. Blakeslee Natural Area in Tobyhanna Township, PA on June 20-21. The site is just over an hour's travel time from our region. It will be the first in-depth study of the 117-acre park.
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Roberts said the officer would not only be a presence on the campuses to deter misbehavior, but work to teach students about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
Last year there were 32 drug and alcohol incidents at the middle school alone.
"We need to start educating our children," Roberts said.
TRISD Superintendent Kenneth Rohrbach told the council that having the officer would go along way toward reducing problems.
"When we had a resource officer in the past, incidents went way down," he said.
Rohrbach also alluded to the changes in the community as a result of the Eagle Ford boom.
"We're getting a different kind of kid in here than we used to," he said. "These are not our homegrown kids."
The council discussed the expense of hiring an officer in the middle of the fiscal year, but City Secretary Rosie Forehand said, "If it's necessary, the money's there."
Alderman Sam Garcia asked that the school district try to help support the officer, either by paying part of his salary or buying equipment.
In the past when the district has helped pay the salary of the resource officer when it has had one, but Rohrbach said the district's financial situation is tight.
Roberts said TRPD Officer Ray Medrano would be the school resource officer. He is currently undergoing training in Houston. A new officer will be hired to take Medrano's place as a patrol officer.
The council also approved renaming Three Rivers Municipal Park to Hilbert H. Kopplin Memorial Park.
Kopplin was a Live Oak County Commissioner for more than 32 years. He was still in office when he died in April 2002 at age 74.


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im trying to be objective.
listen i like melo. i like his game. but i also like and care about this team n i know how this thing needs to look.
melo only needs to dominate for stretches on this team, w this system n the type of talent we have man. if he does too much he disrupts the chemistry, balance n flow of the offense. plain n simple.
i know this disappoints team melo, but he has not taken that next step yet in the league.
he doesn't play D well enough and he hasn't shown the ability to make teammates better yet.


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