From Pine View Farm

2020 archive

Maskless Malarkey 0

Two men sitting on bench, one wearing a mask and one not.  The one without a mask says,

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In related news, my local rag ran an article yesterday about how to counter arguments advanced by those who willfully endanger others refuse to wear masks.

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QOTD 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero:

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Don’t be packing when you’re tacking.

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“Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV” 0

Donald Trump holds up paper dolls which he has cut from the U. S. Constitution as doctor checks off block on a

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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“Smart” Homes, Dumb Home Owners 0

I wouldn’t have one of those “smart speakers” in my home on a bet.

If Big Data wants to spy on me, they can do it the old fashioned way and peer through my windows, but I will damned if I voluntarily invite their monitoring devices into my house. Heck, it’s difficult enough to fend them off in my web browser.

(I learned of this news story because I listen to Le Show and you should to.)

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Tales from the Front 0

A caller tells Thom of her experiences at the demonstrations in Portland, Oregon. (It should come as no surprise that her story differs from the picture painted by Attorney-General Lowering the Barr.)

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The Reopening 0

Some Georgia cities are running out of hospital beds in these viral times.

Not that anyone could have predicted . . . .

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Twits on Twitter 0

A toxicity of twits.

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Car. Thief. 0

Why does this not surprise me?

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QOTD 0

Ulysses S. Grant:

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Under the hood frolics.

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Shirker Bee 0

Donald Trump putting on the golf course says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Shoot the Messenger 0

Experiments fail, even noble ones.

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Trump Smash! 0

Title:  The Unbelievable Trump.  Frame One:  Trump as the Hulk says,

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Lowering the Barr, Russian Impulses Dept. 0

Nancy LeTourneau investigates Donald Trump and Bill Barr’s tactic of selective deception. A snippet:

But while the attorney general demonstrates that he is more interested in punishing Trump’s accusers than he is in this country’s national security, it is important to keep in mind that this whole charade is based on a lie. From the beginning, efforts to defend the president have been based on convincing everyone that the entire Trump-Russia investigation was based on the Steele dossier. Therefore, Trump and his enablers believe that if that document can be discredited, it shows that the whole thing was a hoax—or even an attempted coup.

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The Reckoning 0

Line of persons approaching the Pearly Gates.  Man says to woman about the person directly in front of them,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness takes practice.

Read more »

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QOTD 0

Sam Keen:

A society that trains us to specialize in making, doing, performing, and producing neglects to educate us in wonder and appreciation.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

Via KCEA.

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Still Rising Again after All Those Years 0

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton don’t cotton to no truth tellin’ about dem ole cotton fields back home.

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