From Pine View Farm

September, 2022 archive

Precedented 0

Michael in Norfolk sees a similarity.

It is almost impossible to distinguish between the Pharisees of the Bible and today’s evangelicals and “conservative” Christians who in America have rallied to support Donald Trump . . . .

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Nor Any Drop To Drink . . . . 0

Noz thinks we need to follow the money.

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The Good Wife 0

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Lies and Lying Liars 0

Florida Man.

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They’ve Got the Tapes 0

Door labeled

Via Juanita Jean.

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The Graham Cracker 0

Yet another cookie crumbles.

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QOTD 0

Clare Holman, in the voice of Dr. Laura Hobson:

You’re only young once, and that was a long time ago.

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A Case of Projection 0

Donald Trump leaving the White House in January 2021 carrying a box of top secret documents while saying

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American Taliban 0

Via C&L.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another responsible gun owner . . . .

We are a broken society.

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“It’s No Secret . . . .” 0

Document entitled

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“Franklin Roosevelt Was Right, and Ronald Reagan Was Wrong” 0

Thom discusses why government is the answer, not the problem.

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Joy Ride 0

Florida Man.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Yet more fraudulent frolics.

It continually amazes me that folks will fall for stuff they read on a computer screen just because they read it on a computer screen.

Unfortunately, this same gullibility extends to what persons “share” as “news” on “social” media, dodgy websites, and Fox News.

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QOTD 0

Eric Schmidt:

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

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Echoes of Sexism 0

I was listening to a mystery novel and the reader read

The stenographer was busy with his papers . . . .

I must confess, I was mildly surprised that the stenographer was a he, because, when I was a young ‘un, stenographers were assumed to be shes.

We may not be able to shed the prejudices with which we grew up, but we can certainly make ourselves aware of them and thereby liberate ourselves from their blinders.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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Originalist Sin 1

Mark W. Schwiebert points out that the concept of Constitutional Originalism is, in fact, contrary to the thoughts of those who originated the Constitution.

Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.

. . . the Founders themselves disapproved of the idea. James Madison, commonly considered to be the “Father of the Constitution,” described his understanding of constitutional purpose as follows: “In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes that ages will produce.” He elsewhere declared: “No axiom is more clearly established in law, or in reason, than that wherever the end is required, the means are authorized; wherever a general power to do a thing is given, every particular power necessary for doing it, is included.”

Aside:

To be blunt, the motivating factor behind “Constitutional Originalism” it to restore the 3/5s clause, if not de jure, at least de facto. All the rest is smoke screen.

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Suffer the Children 0

It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.

Aside:

The percentage of the population that is transgender is minimal, almost infinitesimal. I don’t get the right-wing furor about it.

Oh, wait a minute.

I get it.

It’s red flag for the haters.

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