From Pine View Farm

September, 2016 archive

“Free To a Good Home” 0

The Undomesticated.

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QOTD 0

Homer:

(Zeus, speaking to the Council of Olympians) See now, how many men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Butler, Samuel, trans., The Iliad and the Odyssey (San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2011), p. 376.

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Bees 0

Bumblebee on flower

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Twits on Twitter 0

Resurrecting Reagan.

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“Secret Plans” 0

BadTux spills the secret:

The last time a Presidential candidate said he had a secret plan to end a war, it cost 25,000 American lives, the lives of half a million Laotians, Cambodians, and Vietnamese, roughly a trillion dollars in today’s money — and we lost anyhow . . . .

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The gunnularity draws closer, as yet another gun mysteriously fires itself . . . .

“I was advised a Ruger LC9s semi automatic 9 mm pistol was lying in the console area of the vehicle as (the man, the child and the grandfather) were sitting in the vehicle,” Hatton said in a report. “At some point, the pistol discharged and passed through the console, striking (the child) in both legs and striking (the father) in the left leg approximately three inches above the knee. The bullet lodged in (the father’s leg).”

(Yeah. Right.)

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Lies and Lying Liars 0

Donald Trump says,

Via The Bob and Chez Show Blog.

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How Stuff Works, Conservative Classification Dept. 0

Juanita Jean explains the difference between Trump supporters and Libertarians.

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Their Day in Court 0

The Bundy Bund goes to trial.

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The Apprentice 0

Matt Lauer says,


Click to see the image at its original location.

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QOTD 0

John Steinbeck:

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

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And Now, a Musical Interlude 0

Via KCEA

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If You Do Not Have an Attorney . . . 0

. . . and you live in Louisiana, you are SOL.

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Signs of the Approaching Winter 0

Forebodings of frost are in the forefront.

Thieves drove a U-Haul truck up to a Brunswick dealership that sells power equipment late Sunday, loading up the cargo box with a dozen snowblowers – each weighing hundreds of pounds and worth a total of about $30,000 – before fleeing.

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Facebook Frolics, Too Trifling for Words Dept. 0

From time to time, the stupidity, venality, and shallowness of the Zuckerborg leaves one speechless.

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His Word Is His Bondi 0

Via Raw Story.

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“A Field Guide to Lies” 0

Thom and Dr. Daniel Levitin discuss how to separate the “wheat from the digital chaff.” The substantive portion of the discussion starts at about the 3:24 mark.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Get a loan of a politeness at your friendly local hollow-core pawn.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Seth Meyers dissects the disparate treatment.

Via Raw Story.

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Drunk on Bircher Beer 0

Werner Herzog’s Bear details the resurgence of the Birchers.

Fun fact: The Koch Brothers come by it honestly. Their daddy was a big wheel in the John Birch Society.

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