From Pine View Farm

May, 2019 archive

On the Other Side of the World . . . . 0

Does this sound familiar?

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Russian Impulses 0

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Numbers Don’t Lie . . . 0

. . . but people do.

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Phishing Expedition 0

Woman on cell phone.  Man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Plus ca Change 0

Much to his astonishment, Curtis has learne that his father can rap.  Afterwards, Curtis's father says,

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Trump, Catalyst of Crazy 0

David argues that Donald Trump is a symptom, not a cause, but that he has served as rallying point for racism and the far right.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Leave the gate open for politeness.

Whenever (sic) deputies arrived at the scene, they saw a 16-year-old male suffering from a gunshot wound to the lower back.

According to statements received on the scene, officers learned two young men fired a couple of rounds, they returned home. The victim walked through a partially opened privacy gate followed by the second young man. When the second young man attempted to open the gate fully, the weapon discharged, striking the victim in the lower back.

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QOTD 0

Ethan Allen:

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

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Facebook’s Frolicking Falsehoods. 0

Caption:  Facebook refuses to take down a reality-warping video of Nancy Pelosi.  What if Facebook had existed through history?  Image One, 1863:  Lincoln gives the Gettysburg address holding a Confederate flag and sayinf

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

A Stars and Bars Trumpling.

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Denying a Different Stormy 0

Image of the White House surrounded by rising seas, tornadoes, and wild fires.  Voice from inside says,

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“Those Who Forget History Are Condemned To Repeat It” 0

So too are those who falsify it.

Also, too.

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Mulling Mueller 0

Shaun Mullen mulls.

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Teed Off 0

Donald Trump in golfing outfit with golf club sitting on huge bag labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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“Information Superhighway” 0

PoliticalProf explains the traffic snarl snarling traffic.

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QOTD 0

Ogden Nash:

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.

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Facebook Frolics, No Old Guy Need Apply Dept. 0

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Deseg 0

It was my junior year in high school when my school district decided that integration was inevitable. One I’m certain carefully picked black girl joined the senior class. The next year, when I was a senior, in a bold step, eleven I’m certain just as carefully picked black students joined the senior class. (Simultaneously, two seg academies sprang up and the prom was canceled).

I know of no incidents among the students, at least not at school, and, had there been any outside of school, I probably would have heard of them; it was a very small school (there were 70 in my graduating class). I do know that many of the older white teachers retired or moved to the seg academies rather than face the advent of “full integration,” in which, as in many Southern school districts, the former black high school became a junior high and the former white high school became a senior high, because school spirit or something.

I recall that one of the older lady teachers was mortified when, in a photo of the track team, the local paper switched my name with that of one of my black team mates. (I got the full story from my mother, who was a math teacher.) Me, I didn’t care–he and I got along just fine.

This is by way of commending to your attention an article in my local rag about the “Norfolk 17,” the first black students to attend a previously all-white high school in Norfolk, Virginia, and the reception they faced. Here’s a bit:

But it’s one thing to read about something. It’s another to meet Patricia Turner, one of the 17, and hear her describe how white teachers wore gloves to avoid touching her papers, how classmates taunted her and people spit in her hair.

The springboard for the article was that four students won an award for their documentary about the Norfolk 17. As a footnote, one of the things that struck me was the names of the four student documentarians: Javier Miranda-Castro, Kaleem Haq, Jacob Hill, and Kobe Nguyen.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Frolicking falsehoods.

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

A lakeside Trumpling.

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