From Pine View Farm

March, 2016 archive

Trump, the Victim 0

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QOTD 0

Rex Stout:

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

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Facebook Frolics 0

None dare call it profiling.

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ImmunityImpunity 0

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Cowboy Cosplay 0

Old West Gunfighter
Republicans in Congress want to play with their Fanner 50s too, by taking take the “Federals” out of Federal lands.

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Northern Disclosure 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Scatter politeness where ye may,
Concern ye not who’s in the way.

The 19-year-old woman who was unintentionally shot and killed Tuesday was hanging out with friends before a planned camping trip, her uncle said today.

Carly Ellis was killed when Aaron Randal, 22, unintentionally discharged a weapon in a home on Lewis Street and shot Ellis through a wall around 1 p.m. Tuesday. She was hit in the neck and mortally wounded.

Via Southern Beale.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Welcome to the Literacy Test 2.0.

It’s a Republican thing.

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How Stuff Works, Trickle-On Economics Dept. 0

Via Raw Story.

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The Galt and the Lamers 0

BadTux discusses the difference between “libertarians” (that is, persons who believe in protecting civil liberties) and “Libertarians” (that is, persons who believe Ayn Rand had a clue, easily spotted by the little copy of the U. S. Constitution which they whip out of their shirt pockets and misinterpret at the slightest pretext).

It’s short, pithy, and on target.

Read it.

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Jonathan Swift:

The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

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Empty Suit 0

No, not one of the usual empty suits–an empty lawsuit.

This is trolling of the highest order.

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Psyched Out 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Elliot Cohen puts Donald Trump on the metaphorical analyst’s couch. His conclusions are neither pleasant nor surprising.

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Flint-Hearted 0

Picture of water cooler that looks like Michigan governor Rick Snyder saying,


Click to see the original image.

Aside:

What happened in Flint is what happens when you “run the government like a business.”

The business model of choice amongst those who would “run the government like a business” is invariably Enron.

Afterthought:

The cartoonist left out “racism.”

This is America.

Never leave out “racism.”

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Droning On 0

Dragnet drones.

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“Don’t Get Sick. If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly.” 0

A story of health care in Republican World.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Inculcate politeness from a young age.

Police believe a 2-year-old boy found a gun inside his mother’s purse and accidentally shot and critically injured himself in the stomach area early Monday in DeKalb County.

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Levying the Syntax 0

Attack of the grammar police.

I am no Miss Grundy, but I am a proponent of using acceptable grammar.

Grammar is the rules of the road for communication. It is wise to drive on the correct side of the road; it careen from unwise lane to lane is to.

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Nor Any Drop To Drink 0

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G. K. Chesterton:

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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