From Pine View Farm

January, 2018 archive

Light Bloggery (Sticky) 0

Update 2018-02-14: I am advised that the problem accessing this site has been resolved, but I will leave this sticky post in place until I am certain.

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Tools for the Times 0

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Mouser 0

Cat watching computer mouse pointer

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On the Town 0

Donald Trump at Apple

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Broken Dream 0

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., enters U. S. Customs, sees two signs:

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QOTD 0

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Shorter Bill Nemitz: Remember, Hogan was the good guy.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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All the News that Causes Fits 0

Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, comments on the times:

Blackout: If ever there were a sign of the times, it’s the decision by LifeTime Fitness to ban cable news from the TVs in its 128 gyms. The “negative and politically charged content” goes against the company’s “healthy way of life” philosophy. Agreed. Of all the ways of raising your blood pressure at the gym, dropping a dumbbell on your foot is better for you than listening to toxic political palaver.

As I soak up political news every day, I can attest that nothing is more refreshing than getting away from it.

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Signs of the Times 0

Donald Trump stands before the base of the Statue of Liberty thinking,

Via Job’s Anger.

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W. C. Fields:

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

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Down at the Farm, If You Can See This Dept. (Updated, Kicked to the Top) 1

Shaun Mullen informs me that this site has been flagged by Google as having some bad stuff. Google says it “has been reported” as having links that lead to bad places. I have been unable to duplicate the problem on any of my machines, but I was able to do so on my friend’s Win10 computer.

I will be troubleshooting this afternoon, so expect weirdness.

Addendum:

I took a look at the site from the backroom and nothing untoward leapt out at me. Then I discovered my most excellent hosting provider offers a for-a-fee clean-up service. I signed up for it. There will be no further activity here until they are done.

I could play golf. That would be a much more expensive hobby.

Addendum Again:

Progress is being made.

Addendum-a-go-go:

My hosting provider found and cleaned or deleted a number of suspicious files and added some security measures. They inform me that it may take a while for Google to respond to the request to recheck the site. So I’m just going to sit tight for a while.

So far, Google is the only outfit that has flagged the site.

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QOTD 0

Martin van Creveld:

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

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The Hood Is Off 0

And this surprises you how?

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Just can’t stand the uppity.

A Georgia couple attacked a gas station clerk and used racial slurs because they thought the attendant had looked admiringly at the woman.

Michael Tippins accused the attendant of ogling his girlfriend, Lexie Muffett, as they paid for their items Tuesday night at a Rome gas station, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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The Court Is in Sessions, Selective Enforcement Repression Dept. 0

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Person holding sign reading,

Via PoliticalProf.

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Rex Stout:

Courtesy is one’s own affair, but decency is a debt to life.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Cooks (New York: Pyramid, 1963), p. 71

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Geeking Out 0

Debian Sid with KDE. Sid calls itself “Debian Unstable,” but it’s unstable only in comparison with Debian Stable. By any other standard, it’s rock-solid.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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