From Pine View Farm

December, 2019 archive

A Boxing Day Wallpaper 0

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Thus endeth the season of self-indulgent screenshots.

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Pantheon 0

Title:  Mount Impeachment.  Image:  President Johnson says,

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Facebook Frolics, Elevating Evil Dept. 0

I find the DOD’s action particularly repulsive, as my father’s unit was captured during the run-up to the Battle of the Bulge and spent the rest of the war in German POW camps.

Like most soldiers who actually see combat, my father seldom alluded to his experiences during the war, much less actually talked about them, but I recall one time: As we watched the opening of The Great Escape on television, he said, almost to himself, “That’s exactly what it looked like.”

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Celebrate Christmas with politeness.

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A Picture of Trumpling 0

Two Republican Elephants, one holding a paint brush, stand before a marble Monument titled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Medicine, Republican Style 0

Title:  The Obstetrician Inquisition.  Caption:  True:  An Ohio bill would force doctors to re-implant a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy into the womb--a procedure that does not now exist.  Image One:  Rough drawing of an ectopic pregnancy, in which the egg is lodged in a fallopian tube.  Man says,

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Tilting at Windmills 0

Yastreblyansky marvels at Donald Trump’s fact-free feud against wind power.

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Mean for the Sake of Mean 0

Paul Krugman marvels at the Republican Party’s embrace of cruelty, suggesting that comparing it to Ebeneezer Scrooge libels Scrooge. A snippet:

. . . while Dickens portrays Scrooge as a miser, he’s notably lacking in malice. True, he’s heartless until he’s visited by various ghosts. But his heartlessness consists merely of unwillingness to help those in need. He’s never shown taking pleasure in others’ suffering, or spending money to make the lives of the poor worse.

These are things you can’t say about the modern American right. In fact, many conservative politicians only pretend to be Scrooges, when they’re actually much worse — not mere misers, but actively cruel.

Follow the link for examples.

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QOTD 0

Marie Brennan:

The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.

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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 0

If you have not done so, I highly recommend that you read Lena Horne’s autobiography.

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Joy 0

Our next number is dedicated to all the boys and girls at Fox News.

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Excess 0

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A Christmas Wallpaper 0

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QOTD 0

Matthew 7:12 KJV:

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Afterthought:

It’s a damned shame that so many folks who call themselves “Christian” don’t seem to have noticed this verse.

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A Christmas Wallpaper 0

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A Christmas Carol 0

Joe Patrice parses a Christmas carol (no, not that Christmas carol) so as to render it comprehensible to practitioners of the legal profession.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Image of Christmas ornament bearing the Great Seal of the President of the United broken and shattered on the floor.

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