From Pine View Farm

August, 2022 archive

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another responsible gun owner discharges his responsibility.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better, Reprise 0

Man:  Biden's plan to forgive student debt is an outrage!  Sparky:  Well, sure, it should have gone further--but it's still going to help a lot of people.  Man:  That's not what I mean, and you know it.  It's an insult to everyone who ever worked hard to pay off their student own student loans.

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Twits on Twitter 0

A twit with no self-awareness (and that surprise you how?).

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QOTD 0

Thomas Dewar:

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open.

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When the Truth Hurts . . . . 0

Methinks he doth protest too much.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini highlights the hypocrisy.

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Mongers of Fear, What’s in a Word? Dept. 0

What’s in a word? The short answer is, well, “fear.”

Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

Via Job’s Anger.

Aside:

You can see the full quotation at Wikiquote.

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Sauce for the Gander? 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At NJ.com, Michael A. Gottesman argues convincingly that DEI is the new CRT.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Large catapult filled with persons and labeled

Via Juanita Jean.

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Danse Macabre 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Susanna Newsonen tries to figure just what was the big deal about the Prime Minister of Finland’s daring to dance at a party with her friends.

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QOTD 0

Harry Truman:

I don’t believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

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The Box Boy 0

Title:  Boxed In  Image:  Donald Trump screaming

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In Translation . . . . 0

Frame One, titled

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. . . which is why, when we needed a new stove and dishwasher earlier this year, I told the salesman, “I don’t want any ‘smart’ appliances. Google doesn’t need to know when I turn on a burner . . . .”

Afterthought:

Yes, they both decided to fail on the same week, but they had served us well for many years.

(Broken link fixed.)

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The Republican Inquisition 0

Woman standing before a panel of inquisitors dressed in Pilgrim garb.  The desk behind which they sit reads,

Via Juanita Jean.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another responsible gun owner proves that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

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Karen Karen-Like 0

They just can’t seem to help themselves.

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Suffer the Children 0

Words fail me.

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Happy Birthday to Me 2

As of today, this blog has spent 17 years chronicling the decline of the American polity.

Of course, that was not the original intent.*

But that seems to be what it has become.

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*The original intent was to simply self-host a website from a server in my guest room and learn stuff because I could, after an acquaintance told me that, by using Linux, I could self-host my website. I moved my existing website from members.aol.com to my home web server, one of the original IBM Pentiums which a coworker had given to me, and, on a whim, I added a blog. I brought the site live from my guest room with the help of noip.com on Slackware v. 10.x 17 years ago today.

Of course, I no longer self-host, and the blog is all that remains of my original site, as the rest of it became so outdated as to be no longer relevant to anything. But I shall keep the blog relevant . . . .

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QOTD 0

Rolf-Dieter Heuer:

If you don’t invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

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