From Pine View Farm

June, 2016 archive

Class 0

Via Kos.

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Chemical Dependency 0

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A Jury Judge of His Peers 0

Via C&L.

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Men on the Lying Trapeze 1

Shaun Mullen wraps up the Presidential nomination campaigns and almost dislocates his shoulder patting himself in the back (every pat is deserved!).

As an aside, a while ago, I wrote that media attempts to make Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders opposite poles of the “on the one hand, on the other hand’ narrative, the farcical construct so loved by what Driftglass calls the “bothsiderists” in the Village, was a crock, that is was like (this is not a quote) protesting that Andrew Dice Clay and George Carlin were somehow equivalent because they both appeared on television.

Shaun, though, has found a similarity that I overlooked.

Both, in their own distinctive ways, are sore losers, and Sanders has become a sniveling crank, to boot . . . .

Follow the link to see to what the title of this post alludes.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Selfie-politeness is the politest kind:

A 15-year-old boy who fatally shot himself in the chest Friday was apparently trying to take a selfie when the gun accidentally discharged, police said Tuesday.

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Donald Trump, Method Actor 0

Man wearing


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Paging the Pervy Potty Police 0

Cynthia Dill has a message for Maine Governor Paul LePage regarding his joining (indicted alleged securities fraudster) Texas Attorney-General Ken Paxton’s suit to protect the potty police patrol.

Here’s a public service announcement to Gov. Paul LePage and the good ol’ boys he’s palling around with in the latest ideological lawsuit to deny civil rights: It’s not transgender women us girls are afraid of – it’s you.

Stay out of our bathrooms and our bedrooms. Keep your creepy hands off our Bibles, and stop snooping around in our doctor’s office. Instead of “protecting” us with your bigotry and sexism, spend our taxpayer dollars on something worthwhile. Learn the difference between a Republic and a Republican, for starters, and actually represent us for a change.

Follow the link for the rest.

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Cicero:

It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality.

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Geeking Out 0

QMMP playing music from the 1920s Radio Network and the Konsole terminal emulator on the KDE desktop enviroment in a VM of Devuan Jessie in VirtualBox on Slackware –Current.

Devuan_QMMP

Afterthought:

Yes, making this stuff work is my idea of fun.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

Thom interviews Dr. Michael Mann about climate change and media malpractice.

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Facebook Frolics 0

You will be assimilated.

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Plus Ca Change 0

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Primary Concerns 0

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“In the Hall of the Mountain Trump” 0

Via Joe My God.

Words fail me.

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The Yuge Tower 0

Picture of golden tower with a

Via Job’s Anger.

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Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Trumpled 0

Dick Polman considers the procedures as defined on Law and Order: Celebrity Apprentice. He takes Donald Trump’s complaints about the judiciary to its logical conclusion (emphasis added):

So basically, by process of elimination, the only judges that Trump deems fit to judge him are white males of the Christian persuasion.

More jurisprudence at the link.

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Priorities at Public Pedagogical Institutions 0

Rat:  Did you know the highest paid state employee in 39 states is a football or basketball coach?  Goat:  And what kind of message does that send?  Rat:  That baseball coaches are getting screwed.  Goat:  I mean, what are we teaching our kids?  Rat:  Not to be a baseball coach?

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QOTD 0

Henry van Dyke:

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

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In the Cards 0

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And You Thought “OPM” Meant “Office of Personnel Management” 0

Rick Holmes repeats some lessons he’s learned from Trump U. One learning:

One of the lessons taught at Trump University, for instance, is how to risk “Other People’s Money,” or “OPM,” its president, Michael Sexton, wrote. Trump uses OPM whenever he can. He brags about self-financing his presidential campaign, but the money he gave has been in the form of loans, not gifts, and a lot of it was paid to Trump businesses for things like office space and the use of his plane. Trump intends to get plenty of return on his investment.

More learning at the link.

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