From Pine View Farm

September, 2016 archive

If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One:  White Man Criticizes America:  Donald Trump says,


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Some Things Never Change 0

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Inclownpetent 0

No doubt you’ve noticed that the evil clowns are back. At Psychology Today Blogs, Robert Bartholomew grapples with the phenomenon. A snippet:

Since the early 80s, there have been several localized rumor-panics in North America and Europe involving sightings of phantom clowns attempting to kidnap children. They have also been referred to as Killer Clowns and Kidnapping Clowns. At first glance, it would be tempting to think that there may be a group of criminals dressing up as clowns. Yet, when you examine the reports, a curious trend appears: they are almost never caught, and vanish into the shadows. There is also a lack of tangible evidence. All police have to go on is eyewitness testimony, which is notoriously unreliable, especially given that most witnesses are children. Another curious fact is that the children always seem to get away. The clowns appear totally incompetent.

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The Snaring Economy 0

Gypsy cabs.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has upheld an $11,364,736 fine, the largest in its history, against Uber for running an unlicensed taxi operation and obstructing attempts to investigate the firm.

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“We do not take lightly the fact that the civil penalty imposed in this case is the largest in this Commission’s history,” the chairman and vice chairman of the PUC said in a joint statement. “However, the reason the penalty is so large is because we were faced with an unprecedented number of violations committed by Uber.”

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QOTD 0

Joanna Lumley (as Dolly Bantry in There’s a Body in the Library).

Men do rather think that the world revolves around them. It gets so exhausting pretending they are right.

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Black Swallowtail 0

Black swallowtail butterfly head on

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Immovable Objects 0

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

NC GOP:  Our research shows more black voters do  not have photo ID; our research said that more black voters use early voting; our research showed that more black voters use same-day registration; but our voter ID bill wasn't meant to discriminate against blacks.  It was just a way to make our elections more open and honest.  Our research said that was the best way to spin it.


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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Cleanliness is next to politeness.

The unidentified 30-year-old father told deputies that he was cleaning his gun about 6:40 p.m. on the family’s porch when it misfired after he sat on it, according to the incident report and Lott.

The bullet that struck the toddlers in the upper body also grazed the father’s hand, according to the report and a news release. The 4-year-old required surgery, but her injuries are not life threatening, Watts said.

One of the children died.

Afterthought:

When I had a rifle, I also had a cleaning kit and cleaned it regularly. As best as I can remember, sitting on the gun was not part of the procedure.

Unloading it first was.

Post-Afterthought:

You do realize all these bozos who claim that they are “cleaning” their guns as they kill innocent bystanders are doing no such thing.

They are fondling them, and cleanliness is the farthest thing from their tiny ammosexual minds.

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Dis Coarse Discourse (Updated) 0

Tom Levenson gives the New York Times’s latest episode of Clinton Derangement Syndrome a thorough and well-deserved fisking.

Addendum, Just a Bit Later:

Josh Marshall tries to figure out why the NYT seems so fixated on the Clintons, while seeming not to subject Donald Trump to similar scrutiny. A nugget:

The other two reasons are different. Many reporters and editors simply take it as a given that Trump’s a crook. So stories about Trump’s corruption amount to what journalists call dog bites man stories – not really news because it’s the norm and wholly expected.

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Left Untaught 0

I never ran across this in any of my history classes.*

H/T to BadTux, who’s been on a roll this week.

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*My degree is in history, with a focus on U. S. Southern. I did know that many persons thought that “America, the Beautiful” would have been a better choice, but I was unaware that “The Star-Spangled Banner” had a history of being sung at lynchings.

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A. Twenty Dollars 0

Q. What is the difference between “food” and “cuisine”?

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A Kinder, Gentler Trump 0

Title:  Softening

In related news, Josh Marshall explains why Trump’s rhetoric is, by any measure, hate speech. A snippet:

But it’s (using specific ethnic slurs–ed.) not hate speech. Hate speech is rants meant to inflame, inspire fear or rage or violence against a particular class of people. The precise vocabulary is not the heart of the matter. There’s no question that what Trump’s Wednesday night speech was was hate speech, a tirade filled with yelling, a snarling voice, air chopped to bits with slashing hands and through it all a story of American victims helpless before a looming threat from dangerous, predatory outsiders.

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Everybody Must Get Fracked 0

Suffer the children.

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QOTD 0

Adam Smith:

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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Take a Break 0

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Jackie Addresses a Moving Topic 0

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Donald Trump: Model Employer 0

Via Raw Story.

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The Privatization Scam 0

BadTux has a theory.

If true, it is more disturbing than anything I’ve come up with, and, as my two or three regular readers know, I’m no Pollyanna. Even more disturbing in this time in which white supremacists feel free to let their filthy flag fly, it is too plausible for comfort.

I’m not saying I buy it, but I find the fact that it is plausible quite chilling.

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The Trouble with Education 0

This pretty much sums up what’s wrong with public schools. It’s not the schools, it’s Republican-controlled governments that do not believe in the public good.

My daughter is a high school teacher. She (we . . . I) bought those supplies so she could give them to her students, who cannot afford them.

After we stuffed her basket with folders and paper for her students, she started looking at office supplies like staplers and paper clips. “Doesn’t your school give you those for your classroom?” I asked innocently. “No,” she replied, literally shaking her head.

The night before her first day of school, she received an email stating that the school is no longer able to supply ink for her classroom printer. So now she must purchase that as well.

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