From Pine View Farm

September, 2018 archive

Suffer the Children 0

It’s not scripture; it’s Republican pollcy:

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“Man Trump” 0

Image of computer monitor displaying a Linux man(ual) page reading as follows:Trump.  New Command 2017.  Name:  Trump--replacement for systemd.  Description:  On an en-US locale:  tries to harden firewall rules to prevent non-ASCI data entering the machine for .ir, .ly, .so, .sy, .ye domains.  Creats a firewall to block entry from .mx domains (note:  those are all internet country codes--look them up).  Changes database collations such that queries always return

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Aside:

Man(ual) pages are extensive help files present on all *nix operating systems. To see one for [some command], enter “man [some command]” on the command line and the man page will display.

Some of them are much better written than others. Like encyclopedias, they are lousy for learning, but useful for reference.

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Trumpling the Testimony 0

Witness in court with hand on Bible to Bailiff:  Whoa, whoa, whoa.   the whole WHAT? . . . and nothing but the WHAT!? . . . Sounds like a perjury trap too me.

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QOTD 0

Bill Keller:

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A Trumpled elevator ride.

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Fear Itself 0

From the web page:

Seth takes a closer look at President Trump calling for an investigation into the New York Times’ anonymous op-ed and slamming Bob Woodward’s book about the chaos in the White House.

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UnPresidented 0

Edwin Yoder, Jr., comments on Donald Trump’s manner of governance. A snippet:

The White House gossip may not be reliable and may or may not signal mental pathology. But the common denominator is a monstrous egotism and chronic bad manners. It seems not to occur to Trump that McMaster, one of several discarded National Security advisers, as a lifelong public servant may not be able to afford thousand-dollar suits, or that Deep South drawls don’t necessarily signal dimwittedness.

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Everybody Must Get Fracked 0

From the website:

A new report, again, concludes that fracking is causing earthquakes, more and more earthquakes around the globe. And now lawsuits are helping hold the frackers liable for their action. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss the issue.

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Wind Bags vs. Wind 0

Shorter Will Bunch: Outlawing discussions of climate change won’t keep the seas from rising.

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Smear Campaign 0

Donald Trump watching Barack Obama's speech and saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“Running the Government Like a Business” 0

Headline of the Day:

Opinion: If Trump were a CEO, his board would have fired him by now

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QOTD 0

John Moffat, as Hercule Poirot:

If le bon Dieu had intended man to fly, he would have provided him with a stronger stomach.

Death in the Clouds, at MysteryShows.com (membership required to listen
to the show, a “lifetime” membership is only 10 bucks and it’s well worth it).

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“The history of the present King . . . is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations” 0

Founding Fathers writing Declaration of Independence as Donald Trump says,

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Get Me Rewrite! 0

Suggested New Title for Bob Woodward's book,

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“Still in Slave Patrol Mode” 0

From the web page:

Dr. Crystal Fleming has some ideas on how we can be less stupid on race, namely to stop thinking about them as simply individual acts but as part of larger systems of power. Dr. Fleming and Thom Hartmann bring up the recent Serena Williams scandal to document how discussing issues as acts of individual prejudice instead of as acts of power limit our understanding and ability to fight racism.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Officer at a desk in the Pentagon holding a phone to colleague:  It's the President.  He wants to know whether he can use waterboarding to find out the author of that Op-Ed in the New York Times.

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“Lessons Learned . . .” 0

. . . and, as Shaun Mullen points out, they were the wrong damned lessons.

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(Sticky) (Unstuck) Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Hurricane Delay (Updated) (Updated Again) 0

The Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally gathering will be delayed one week until Thursday, September 20, because of Hurricane Florence.

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It’s Karmalicious 0

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QOTD 0

Paul Theroux:

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

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