From Pine View Farm

2019 archive

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness takes practice.

Around 1:30 p.m., Titusville police were called to Parrish Medical Center for a 9-year-old girl who was accidentally shot by an older juvenile sibling during target practice in the woods off of State Road 407, just east of I-95.

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QOTD 0

Tina Brown:

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

By the numbers.

Not to mention that we no longer have spring or fall in these parts. We just go right from summer into winter into summer again.

I fear we are well past the tipping point.

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The Privatization Scam Meets a Notion of Immigrants 0

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It Doesn’t Add Up 0

At the Hartford Courant, Thomas Cangelosi does the math. A snippet:

Indeed, in a case of life imitating art, I thought the Republican defense of the president seemed to come out of the pages of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.

In particular, when Ambassador Gordon Sondland said he “surmised,” based on the logic of 2+2=4, that President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into the 2016 elections, the President’s defenders that seemed to insist instead that 2+2=5.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Swan song.

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Standoff 0

Caption:  The irresistible force meets the immovably object.  Image:  Man pushing cart full of books labeled

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Running up the Score 0

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One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0

Image One, captioned

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QOTD 0

Sir Walter Raleigh:

It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

The Rude One dismembers Nikki Haley’s defense of the Stars and Bars. (Warning: Language, all of it warranted.)

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International Laughingstock 0

Trudy Rubin explains. A snippet:

I have watched the shift in attitudes in my travels since Trump was elected, including to Russia, the Mideast, Europe and a just completed trip to China. The president is seen as erratic, untrustworthy and interested in little beyond self-promotion or making a profit. And, oh yes, as easily manipulated by flattery, especially by the autocrats he admires unreservedly.

And so ill-informed that he could unintentionally drag America into a war.

Follow the link for more.

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Facebook Frolics 0

What is truth?

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Signs of the Times 0

Billboard of cow writing

Via Juanita Jean.

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“This Is Getting Ugly” 0

David reports on the rise of anti-Semitic behavior that he has witnessed related to the impeachment hearings.

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Raising the Barr 0

Shaun Mullen.

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Rewarding Honest Work in These Trumpled Times 0

Department of Agriculture says to woman,

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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QOTD 0

Michel de Montaigne:

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

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

The Hartford Courant tells a tale of a Trumpling and the protest against the Trumpling sparked thereby.

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Donald Trump Goes for a Constitutional 0

Donald Trump driving golf cart labeled

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