From Pine View Farm

May, 2023 archive

Foxy Shady 0

Another victim of a Fox News disinformation campaign has sued Fox for defamation of character.

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QOTD 0

Charles Kettering:

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Vidal muses on a proposal to deny MaineCare benefits to sick persons if they are not U. S. citizens. (MaineCare a form of insurance run by the state of Maine.) A snippet:

I don’t have a firm position on any of the bills before the Legislature; I’m not going to tell you how you or anyone else should vote. However, it does seem to me that denying someone who would otherwise qualify for MaineCare coverage, who meets income and residency requirements, purely on the basis of citizenship … doesn’t make a ton of sense.

I think a lot of the knee-jerk opposition to it comes down to racism and nativism . . . .

Methinks she makes some excellent points.

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Freedom of Screech 0

Frane One, title:  Return of the Selective

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Republican Family Values 0

Sam and his crew discuss Republicans’ reactions to the verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s civil suit against Donald Trump.

Much like “responsible gun owner,” “Republican family values” is an oxymoron.

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Bankrolling Bigotry, Crypto Con Dept. 0

From the SPLC’s Hatewatch:

A single benefactor made cryptocurrency donations worth more than $216,000 to extremists and hate groups between September 2021 and April 2022, according to an analysis provided to Hatewatch by the SPLC’s Data Lab.

Details at the link.

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The Loyal Subjugated 0

Caption:  Meanwhile, back across the Big Pond . . . .

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Courting Disaster 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice has a case of the freebie-jeebies.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner” exposes children to politeness.

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QOTD 0

Emile Durkheim:

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

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And Now for a Change of Pace 0

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Empty Gestures. Empty Hearts. 0

Man struggles in the ocean.  A second man, standing on a dock, says,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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Why Am I Not Surprised? 0

Going back to Philosophy 101, I’ll start by defining a term:

The FBI defines hate crimes as “criminal offense[s] against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.”

Romeo Vitelli, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, takes a look at the opposition of hate crime laws. Not surprisingly, he finds that those who oppose hate crime laws are motivated by (wait for it) hate. Here’s a tiny little bit from his much longer article:

. . . the researchers found an association between prejudice against Hispanic, Asian, and Black communities and opposition to hate-crime laws.

Follow the link for context.

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Disciples of the Portable Phallus, Reprise 2

Sam and his crew discuss the recent death toll in Texas and the implications thereof.

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A Contribution in Kind 0

Curtis walks into the barber shop.  Barber:  Look who th'wind blew in--Cassius.  Curtis:  Curtis.  Barber:  I just got a very interesting letter by snail mail asking for a donation towards a political party's fundraiser.  (Pause)  I'll sent 'em my thoughts and prayers.

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The Least Bad Choice 0

Methinks my old friend Noz may be onto something.

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The Viciousness Cycle 0

PoliticalProf.

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QOTD 0

John Kenneth Galbraith:

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

After hearing about the humiliating questions that attorney Joe Tacopina fired at E. Jean Carrol in an effort to undermine her claims against a failed former President, Mangy Fetlocks wanted to point out the absurdity of the old-school victim-blaming that was used in an attempt to get Donald off the hook AGAIN. My guess is, it won’t prove effective.

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