From Pine View Farm

2019 archive

Just the Vaxx, Ma’am 0

David reports on teens in Australia who are defying their anti-vaxx parents in order to get vaccinations.

I’m old enough to remember images on my telly vision of children stricken with polio in iron lungs.

I have no patience with the stupidity and gullibility of anti-vaxxers.

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The Molten Pot 0

Title:  Many White Americans Fail To Assimilate.  Frame One:  Some self-segregate into homogeneous neighborhoods (Image:  Gated community with sign saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness takes a break.

Marquez Grajeda was shot at close range on Feb. 4 at 12:45 p.m. at a home at 1347 W. 2320 South. Both the Grajeda and the 14-year-old were on a lunch break from school at the time, according to police. The 14-year-old told police that he pointed the gun toward the victim and pulled the trigger, but that the shooting was an accident.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.

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Russian Impulses 0

Donald Trump is holding a Valentine's Day card.  Aide says,

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Twits on Twitter 0

Mean for the sake of mean twits.

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QOTD 0

H. L. Mencken:

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

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Eagle 0

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

Eagle resting on branch

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Manafort Destiny 0

Shaun Mullen takes a deep dive into what he refers to as the “twisted saga” of Paul Manafort.

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Originalist Sin 0

Brian O’Neill writes of the connection between the Second Amendment and slavery and the farcical Supreme Court ruling, authored by “Constitutional originalist” Antonin Scalia, that resulted from Scalia’s willfully ignoring the origins said amendment.

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The Art of the Con 0

Trump in 2016 to three supporters:  What have you got to lose?  Trump in 2020, holding a wheelbarrow full of money bags before a devastated environment, to three supporters who are now wearing barrels:  Got anything else?

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Fill up on the politeness.

A 24-year-old man is in critical condition after an accidental shooting Monday night in the parking lot of the Pal Express 1 gas station on South Greenwood Street.

According to a LaGrange Police Department press release, the victim was filming Alaeza Carr, 22, playing with a handgun when it went off and struck the victim in the face sometime around 1 a.m.

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Playing the Trump Cards 0

More here.

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QOTD 0

George Henry Lewes:

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Dick Polman skewers Donald Trump’s “red scare” tactics, in which anyone to the left of the far right is getting tagged a “socialist.”

Indeed, the fright-wing freakout about “socialism” likely has little salience in our current era; the Trump-GOP plutocracy has widened the gap between the rich and everyone else and has done nothing for the anxious middle class. Trump at this point is arguably the worst person to champion capitalism and equate it with freedom.

Aside:

I suspect that Donald Trump has no idea what “socialism” is other than a great bogey word.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

Caption:

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Inquiring Minds Don’t Want You To Know 0

Will Bunch tries to make sense of the Jeff Bezos-Saudi Arabia-National Inquirer-Donald Trump, Jr., connections.

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

School house Trumpling.

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Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Thursday 0

Start your Valentine’s Day evening with us.

When: Thursday, February 14, 6 p. m.

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

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Trumpling Accountability 0

Matthew Whitaker testifying before the House subcommittee.  His name place reads

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(Broken link fixed.)

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to your friends.

The shooting happened about 4 a.m., on Tradeport Driver near Orange Avenue, police spokesman Sgt. Eduardo Bernal said. The victim was sitting in the driver’s seat of a car when his friend, who was in the back, accidentally shot him, the friend told police.

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