From Pine View Farm

February, 2017 archive

Help Wanted 0

Man reading newspaper stories about

And, in related news . . . .

Image via The Bob and Chez Show Blog.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Get a leg up on politeness.

Witnesses say one of the victims accidentally discharged a gun, striking himself in the leg. A bullet fragment then hit the other victim in the ankle.

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A Flair for the Obvious 0

Someone hasn’t been paying attention for the last three decades or so.

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The Persistence of the Tarheel Potty Police 0

Frame One:  Thomas Jefferson saying,


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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Reconstruction deconstruction.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

The fox is in the henhouse.

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Make TWUUG Your LUG 0

Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do. Learn how to use GNU/Linux and its plethora of free and open source software to get stuff done with computers.

It’s not hard; it’s just different.

Tidewater Unix Users Group

What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.

Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.

Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.

When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, March 2.

Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)

Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (JANAF Shopping Center). (Map)

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QOTD 0

Ringo Starr:

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses
Oh, Forget It, Reprise
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A doctor describes the results of being mean for the sake of mean.

I work at a health clinic in South Seattle, where the majority of patients are immigrants from Mexico and Central America. Recently, I had a 5-year-old come to my office whose mother was complaining that he was urinating on himself at home and at school. She also reported episodes of inconsolable crying and outbursts of rage, including kicking and punching other children. Upon further questioning, it was discovered that all of his symptoms started the week after his father was arrested in front of him and deported to Mexico. I was diagnosing a 5-year old with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Follow the link for more.

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The No-Show 0

Donald Trump, in a fit of pique (does he have any other kind of fits?) is skipping the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Dick Polman thinks this is a good thing. Here’s a nugget from his article:

In short, Trump and his propagandists want to break a constitutionally-protected institution that seeks to hold them accountable. This is a bid for unchecked power, the likes of which we’ve never seen before; this is why I warned all last year that Trump posed a clear and present danger to democracy.

Trump’s game plan (sold to him by his tutor, Steve Bannon) is to delegitimize the press. Attending the dinner would’ve legitimized it. Playing the good sport, being the butt of jokes about Russia (and so much else) would’ve legitimized the revelatory stories.

Do please read the rest.

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All that Was Old Is New Again 0

Pamela Grundy sees a parallel:

Enslaved African Americans (before the Civil War–ed.) were escaping a violent and immoral system that defined them as property. Those in bondage were required to peacefully accept their servile status. Today’s undocumented immigrants are escaping dead-end, often violent situations by coming to a country that needs their labor, but that has a broken immigration system that makes it virtually impossible for most of them to enter legally.

Follow the link for the rest.

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Where Eagles Fly 0

Another picture from my brother on Virginia’s Northern Neck:

Eagle in flight over creek

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Friends are polite to each other.

He and three other teenage boys took a family member’s firearm, said Shari Ireton, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

(snip)

Deputies were told the 15-year-old was handling the gun when it accidentally fired. A 17-year-old was struck in the arm. His injuries weren’t life-threatening.

The 15-year-old boy panicked, Ireton said. He dropped the gun and ran.

And another gun that fires itself . . . .

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“Ve Vere Just Followink Orders” (Updated) 0

The number of reports of gratuitous cruelty, mixed with a large dose of bigotry, by those charged with patrolling the nation’s borders during the last month has been staggering; I’ve noted a few of them in these electrons.

Innocent citizens and non-citizens, distinguished personages and ordinary persons alike have been detained solely because of the sound of their names or the color of their skin.

Will Bunch writes of this today; here’s a snippet from his article.

“The men and women who reportedly handcuffed small children and the elderly, separated a child from his mother and held others without food for 20 hours, are undoubtedly ‘ordinary’ people,” American University professor Chris Edelson wrote. “What I mean by that, is that these are, in normal circumstances, people who likely treat their neighbors and co-workers with kindness and do not intentionally seek to harm others. That is chilling, as it is a reminder that authoritarians have no trouble finding the people they need to carry out their acts of cruelty. They do not need special monsters; they can issue orders to otherwise unexceptional people who will carry them out dutifully.”

It was a striking piece, but now a few weeks later the situation seems actually worse than what he wrote, with these so-called “unexceptional people” actually finding “fun” in carrying out brutal policies for America’s new strongman in the White House.

Read the rest.

Addendum, Later That Same Day:

Yes, it can happen here.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

Shaun Mullin gives an example.

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Chipping Away 0

Man is chieseling an asterisk on the Supreme Court next to the phrase,


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QOTD 0

Charles M. Schwab:

You can never really get away–you can only take yourself somewhere else.

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Palate Cleanser 0

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Barefoot and Pregnant 0

Warning: Language and graphic imagery.

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Town Halls of Horrors, Reprise 0

Frankenstein's Monster wearing

Via Job’s Anger.

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