From Pine View Farm

2013 archive

“It’s a Jungle Out There” 0

Andrea Straub issued a statement through Philadelphia attorney George Bochetto saying that her position with a local Prudential Fox & Roach office was terminated on Wednesday.

Straub, 34, and her husband, Jonathan, were accused of disorderly conduct and harassment, after surveillance video surfaced allegedly implicating them in a scheme to hamper the sale of a neighbor’s home. The video shows someone tossing dead mice and snakes on a next-door-neighbor’s driveway. The video also showed tree branches being cut down and ‘For Sale’ signs being kicked down.

It’s quite a tony area where such hijinks at least used to be Just. Not. Done.

When I lived in Narberth three decades ago, I used to cross over into Merion to jog or bicycle and I distinctly remember Booth Lane. It’s an attractive area with streets that are wide, mostly flat, and relatively lightly traveled, except when the servants are funning errands for the lords and ladies of the manse.

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QOTD 0

Gustave Flaubert:

Reason creates science; sentiments and creeds shape history.

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The Republican War on Women 2

Ohio Gov. Kasich, backed by a


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The Fee Hand of the Market 0

Innovations in theft “financial products.”

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News, Ripped from the Ticker: A Bridge Too Farce 0

More language than usual.

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A Picture Is Worth, Throwing Away the Key Dept. 0

Statistics on aging prisoners in jail.  More information here:  http://www.criminaljusticedegreehub.com/geriatric-prisoners/


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Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0

Slightly better.

Payrolls rose by 195,000 workers for a second straight month, the Labor Department reported today in Washington. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey projected a 165,000 gain after a previously reported 175,000 increase in May. The jobless rate stayed at 7.6 percent, while hourly earnings in the year ended in June advanced by the most since July 2011.

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Mean Girls 0

You can’t make this stuff up, and, as John Romano points out, sometimes there’s more to it than you see at first glance.

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Troll Time 0

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Via C&L.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Have a banging good time in Bangor on the Fourth.

A man in a Park Street residence (Bangor, Maine–ed.) who fired 70 or more rounds from a gun was taken into custody unharmed early Thursday afternoon, according to police.

Bangor police received a call at 8:30 a.m. for a report of a man firing shots at 47 Park St., said Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards after the man was in custody.

Raw Story reports that Bangor’s Fourth of July Parade had to be rerouted around the scene.

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QOTD 0

Benjamin Franklin:

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

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Susie Sampson Soberly Celebrates the Fourth 0

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Incongruously Assembled 0

Woman:  The people in Egypt are rising up against a dysfunctional democracy.  Man, looking at U. S. Capitol:  So what's our excuse?


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We, the People 2

Carnival:  Super Coaster booth:

Via BartCop.

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Freedom from Want 0

Satire:  Paul Ryan saying,

Via BartCop.

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Tea Time 0

Teabagger wearing Gadsden Flag teeshirt preparing to tread on you.


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“With Justice for All” 0

Statue of Klansman reading write entitled

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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“Give Us Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Huddled Masses Yearning To Be Free . . . . 0

GOP cactus to immigrants,

Via BartCop.

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“The Right of the People To Be Secure in Their Persons, Houses, Papers, and Effects . . . .” 0

The National Security States of America--graphic with states renamed, for example, North Decoder and South Decoder


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A Fourth of July Thought 0

Truman was right.

He was right then, and he’s right now.

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