From Pine View Farm

May, 2016 archive

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Michel de Montaigne:

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

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And Now for Something Completely Different 0

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Peter St. Onge.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

It’s just another routine school day in NRA paradise.

A student told the Greenville News he saw two other students who appeared to be playing with a gun and then heard a shot and saw one of the students get up holding his bloody stomach.

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“Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match . . . .” 0

Unity:  Republican Elephant and Donald Trump with arms on each others' shoulders, both wearing tee shirts that say,

Via C&L.

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I Believe Psychologists Call It “Projection” 0

Picture of Donald Trump with zig-zag body saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Help Me Out Here 0

I’m working on song to propose to North Carolina for a new state song. I’ve managed to come up with the first few lines, but now I’m stuck.

Golden showers fill my dreams.
I am preoccupied with streams.
Sleep, Pretty Baby, do not cry,
I will ensure that you stay dry.

I’m not really into golden showers, not being a North Carolina Republican, so assistance is appreciated.

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Ryan’s Derp 0

Paul Ryan comes out of office to see staffers gathered in a group.

Click to see the image at its original location.

TPM thinks that Mr. Sacks may have nailed it.

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Susie Sampson Samples the Sentiment 2

Words fail me.

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Philip K. Dick:

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Frolics in the servants’ quarters.

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More Tales of the Tarheel Potty Police 0

The stupid, it burns.

Elsewhere, Daniel Ruth marvels at the loo loonies.

Meanwhile, The Bob and Chez Show Blog offers a pictorial representation of North Carolina’s golden showers fetish:

Picture of NC Governor McCrory peering up from inside a toilet bowl saying,

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“Governor McCrory, Your Car Is Ready” 0

Image One:  Loretta Lynch in business suit holding US DOJ suit against North Carolian.  Image Two:  NC Gov. McCrory in clown suit holding NC's counter-suit.

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Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0

Not great, but still under 300k.

Initial jobless claims rose by 20,000 to 294,000 in the week ended May 7, a report from the Labor Department showed Thursday.

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The four-week moving average of claims, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, increased to 268,250 from 258,000.

The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 37,000 in the week ended April 30, the biggest increase since the end of November, to 2.16 million.

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Trumping around the World 0

Job’s Anger travels the world rounding up editorial cartoons about Donald Trump.

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Anointed with (Snake) Oil 0

I never trust persons who say that God is on their side.

I sometimes will trust persons who say that they are trying to be on God’s side.

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Mel Brooks:

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

One more time, politeness is child’s play.

The girl, who was with two younger children, was playing with the weapon when it discharged about midnight, according to police. She was fatally wounded.

Her grandmother, who was cooking downstairs at the time of the shooting, was later questioned by police and released, said Detroit Police Officer Jennifer Moreno. The investigation into the tragedy continues and no charges have been filed.

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The Trumpling of America, Reprise 2

At the Bangor Daily News, William J. Murphy is less than sanguine.

And, yes, it can happen here.

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