From Pine View Farm

May, 2024 archive

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness is a family value.

We are a broken society.

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Numbers Gamers 0

Kyle Mantyla runs the Establishmentarians’ numbers and finds that they just don’t add up.

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QOTD 0

John Henry Newman:

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

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The Voter Fraud Fraudster 0

Warning: Short promo at the end.

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Decoding De Code 0

Rat:  Where are you going, Pig?  Pig:  To a politician's rally.  I'm talking my magic translation box.  Rat:  He doesn't speak English?  Pig:  He speaks politicianish.  This translates it into the truth.  Come see.  (At the rally.)  Politician:  In conclusion, if you send me to Washington, I'll clean up this corrupt system and fight for you everyday hardworking Americans.  God bless you, God bless the troops, and God bless America.  (Pig pushes the button the translation box.)  Translation:  I am given millions of dollars by the rich and the powerful to keep this rigged system exactly as it is.  Until you change that, none of this will ever change and we'll keep hoping you're too distracted to notice.  (Two security guards appear.)  Security guard:  We're going to need a word with you.  Translation box:  This is too much truth for one comic strip.  Prepare to be disappeared.  Rat:  I don' know him.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0

. . . where movies come to life.

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Horror Story 0

Horrified woman reading Time's edition about what will happen if Trump wins.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Kaitlin Collins calls out J. D. Vance’s hypocrisy.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler recounts some Facebook Frolics with Meta’s AI chatbot.

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Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0

PoliticalProf.

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QOTD 0

Douglas Adams:

A learning experience is one of those things that say, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.”

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A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy comments at the Youtube page:

Mangy Fetlocks never ceases to be amazed at the depths to which Republican politicians will go to curry favor with a twice-impeached, pussy- grabbing multiply-indicted failed ex-president. For a party ostensibly waving the flag of “real men”, “honor”, “independence” and “patriotism”, they seem to display NONE of those traits.

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Courting Disaster 0

Writing at the Charlotte Observer, law professor Gene Nichol is less than sanguine about the actions of our current Supreme Supremacist Court.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Thom talks with David Pepper about a new tactic in Republican efforts to gut out the vote.

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A Choice, Not an Echo 0

Two political yard signs.  One reads

Via Balloon Juice.

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The Louse Always Wins 0

Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro runs the numbers:

BetVirginia has announced that the March sports betting handle was up 16.6% over February. “State coffers,” a press release notes, “benefitted (sic) from both college and professional basketball wagers.” As for the cost to the plungers who throw good money after bad picks or the long-range societal damage of young men getting hooked on easy online gambling, that’s not the state’s problem, right? Not for now, anyway.

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Courting Disaster 0

Imaage of Supreme Court bearing motto:  No one is abover the law.  Conservative Justices are removing the word

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Just a little passing case of politeness.

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QOTD 0

Tacitus:

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

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Recommended Viewing 0

Peter Gunn.

I liked it when it was new, the few times I got to see it when I was a young ‘un, and I like it now that it is old (as am I). It was easily one of the best noir series of early American television.

I’m watching it on Tubi.

Aside:

Noir has not gone away. We are living it today.

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