From Pine View Farm

March, 2015 archive

TSA Security Theatre 0

Honest to Pete, couldn’t they see that this was dripping in racism?

Two black women who said their hairstyles made them targets for airport security pat-downs said on Thursday the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had agreed to stop singling out women for screening based solely on their “sisterlocks.”

Words fail me.

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Support the Troops, GOP Style 0

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The Blame Game 0

Steven M. is keeping score.

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QOTD 0

Klaatu:

Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting it uphill.

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On Watch 0

From my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.

Eagle in pine tree

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The Crux of the Cruz 0

Newscaster reading report about Ted Cruz announcing his candidacy at Jerry Falwell's Liberty so-called University.  Report ends with

Via the Bob and Chez Show Blog.

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Louis Black: It’s 1956 All Over Again Once More 0

Warning: Commericial.

Via Raw Story.

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Jim Jeffries Goes Gunning for Gun Nuts 0

This is brilliant. Listen to it all the way through.

Warning: Language.

Via Southern Beale.

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Freedom of Screech 0

Texan wearing stars-and-bars tee shirt pointing at license plate frame of pick-up truck decked out with more stars and bars saying,


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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Filial courtesy is de rigeur.

An argument over food turned fatal Wednesday evening when a 13-year-old boy shot and killed his 6-year-old brother before turning the handgun on himself, according to preliminary information from Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco.

Before killing himself, the 13-year-old also shot and wounded his 16-year-old brother, Nocco said. The 16-year-old called authorities at 6:19 p.m. and was transported from his Hudson home to a hospital with a gunshot wound that is not considered life-threatening.

NRA paradise is just around the corner.

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Lies and Lying Liars 0

Ted Cruz doubles–nay, triples, perhaps quadruples and quintuples–down.

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Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0

Somewhat better.

Jobless claims fell by 9,000 to 282,000 in the seven days ended March 21, the lowest level since mid-February, a Labor Department report showed Thursday in Washington.

(snip)

The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly numbers, declined to 297,000 last week, from 304,750. . . .

The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 6,000 to 2.42 million in the week ended March 14. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.8 percent, where it’s been all year. These data are reported with a one-week lag.

The Republican Party has not yet revealed its plans for reversing this trend. Oh, I forgot.

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QOTD 0

Gene Fowler:

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

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Visions Delusions of the Fall Foul 0

It seems that one of the constructs of the racist right way is something called “white genocide,” which, as near as I can figure out, means not getting their racist right-wing way and therefore not returning, if not to slavery, at least to Jim Crow.

Don’t believe me? Listen to the audio at the link.

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Xed-Files 0

I didn’t watch the X-Files the first time around and intend to maintain that record.

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A. Both Sides Now 0

Q. What side of his mouth does Ted Cruz talk out of?

Dick Polman explains, as he takes sardonic delight in Ted Cruz’s signing up for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act. A snippet.

By the way, when Cruz was asked on CNN how he squared his hate-Obamacare mantra with his decision to buy from Obamacare, he said this: “I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with.” Which is hilarious, because back in the fall of ’13, when conservative groups were actively working to dissuade young people from enrolling in Obamacare – urging them to defy the law and pay the fine for noncompliance – I don’t ever recall Ted Cruz saying that the tactic was wrong. I don’t ever recall him taking the high road and urging Americans to follow the text of the law.

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“Looks Like We Got Us a Convoy” 0

Title:  Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan.  Image:  Army trucks driving on endless figure-8 course.


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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another polite playtime . . . .

According to TPD spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Bay, Joahana Martinez was with a group of friends, including her boyfriend, at a house in the 300 block of East Thoroughbred Street, near South Nogales Highway and Irvington Road, when someone pulled out a gun.

Witnesses told police they believed the gun was unloaded when the boyfriend was holding it, Bay said. Witnesses say the gun accidentally discharged, striking Martinez.

. . . and yet another passel of gun nuts unable to tell whether their toy is loaded.

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War and Mongers of War 0

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Opportunity a la “Right to Work” 0

Plutocrat in cart full of money holding carrot out to dead horse labelled

Via Job’s Anger.

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