From Pine View Farm

April, 2019 archive

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Cicero:

Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.

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Rest Your Mind 0

Another picture from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.

eagles in flight over a creek

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Now You Know How He Got Rich 0

’nuff said.

A week after paying $8 million for a private island in the Florida Keys, a real estate developer was arrested for stealing $300 in merchandise from a department store, police report.

Andrew Lippi, 59, was busted Saturday on a felony grand theft rap for allegedly swiping coffeemakers, linen, and light bulbs from a Kmart in Key West.

The most surprising item in this story, as far as I am concerned, is that this took place at a Kmart.

There are still Kmarts?

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Donald Trump as a rat eating the Constitution:

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The Vice of the Turtle 0

Shaun Mullen.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Expose your children to politeness at an early age.

A 6-year-old Dallas girl was in serious condition today at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta with a gunshot wound to the head after what investigators believe was an accidental shooting by her 4-year-old brother Monday, April 8.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Two Secesh in custody for vandalism at UNC.

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Real Big Men 0

Vehicle approaches intersection.  Sign says,

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Dorothy Sayers:

They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting.

Sayers, Dorothy, Murder Must Advertise in a double volume with
The Five Red Herrings (New York: Harper and Row, year uncertain), p. 309.

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Welcome Mat 0

Title:  Gatekeeping at Mar-a-Lago.  Image:  Two attendants looking at Trojan Horse at Mar-a-Lago gate.  One says to the other,

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“Brotherhood” 0

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Aside:

When I was in college, I had no interest in joining a fraternity.

I could get drunk quite nicely on my own without having to pay dues to do so.

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Job Search 0

Donald Trump to Kirstjen Neilson, who is wearing a hockey mask, carrying a bloody sword labeled

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“What Do You Mean, ‘We’?” 0

That’s the punchline of a really terrible joke about the Lone Ranger and Tonto.

It’s also the topic of a recent column by Leonard Pitts, Jr.

You won’t be surprised to learn that, in the mouths of some, “we” is a remarkably exclusive term.

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Drinking Liberally Virginia Beach Thursday 0

Celebrate April’s Fools with us.

When: Thursday, April 11, 6 p. m.

Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)

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Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop To Drink 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to your friends.

After his best friend Eric Apisa dropped by his home Tuesday with some friends, Zachary Hammond offered to show the 19-year-old a pistol he had for sale, KRQE reported.

Hammond , 18, removed the magazine and jokingly pointed the gun at Apisa’s face in the driveway of his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

“Zach stated in the past he and Eric have pointed guns at each other multiple times just to mess around,” police said, according to the publication. “According to Zach the gun just went off.”

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R. H. Tawney:

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

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Republican Family Values 0

Shorter Dick Polman: Kirstjen Nielsen fired for being insufficiently sadistic.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“Daydream Believers” 0

Will Bunch.

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