From Pine View Farm

November, 2022 archive

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another random act of politeness claims the life of yet another child.

Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Twits who are not who they say they are.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0

. . . and they’re mailing it in.

Darryl Lelie, the owner of Seafood Kingz on City Island (in the Bronx–ed.) said he’s been trying to track down the person responsible for placing this unsettling cartoon depicting racial stereotypes in his mailbox last week.

(snip)

At least three businesses here (The Bronx–ed.) including Archie’s tap and table and Caliente’s seafood – another black owned business – were allegedly targeted.

The story goes on to say that, for all practical purposes, that particular neighborhood used to be a sundown town.

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QOTD 0

Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker:

TV has become nothing more than the petri dish where this country grows its idiots.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Courting Disaster 0

Robert Reich is less than impressed by the track record of Supreme Supremacist Court Chief Justice John Roberts. A nugget:

Since he became Chief on September 29, 2005, the Roberts Court has done more to reduce the voting rights of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the early 19th century.

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Portnoy’s Complaint 0

Case dismissed.

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“The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past.” 0

Uncle Sam lying on a psychiatrist's couch before Abraham Lincoln as the psychiatrist.  Above Uncle Sam, a speech bubble shows Donald Trump's face, an arm with a Nazi swastika tatoo, a gun, a nightstick, a KKK hood, a lynch noose, etc.

Click to view the original image.

Aside:

The post title is from Faulkner.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” is polite to his hunting companion.

Guns are instruments of death. They should be treated with caution and respect.

Words desert me.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Yet more hate-full frolics.

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All the News that Fits 0

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out Tucker Carlson:

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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QOTD 0

Anton Checkov:

Good breeding doesn’t mean that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice when someone else does.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Crybabies 0

At the San Francisco Chronicle, Anna Grzymala-Busse argues forcefully that we are at right of losing our democracy because of sore losers and their hurt fee-fees. Here’s how she starts her article; follow the link for the rest.

The litmus test for democracies is that politicians and parties who lose an election peacefully accept the decision of the voters.

Yet a slew of American politicians, overwhelmingly Donald Trump supporters, fail this basic test.

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Blind Justice 0

Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.

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Twits Own Twitter, Reprise 0

Sam and his crew discuss Elon Musk’s latest Twitter temper tantrum.

A long time ago, while I was doing yard work, I listened to an interview with one of the founders of Twitter; it was about the time that Twitter was being launched. I don’t remember who the interviewer was or which Twitter founder it was, but I do remember his prattling on about how this new thing would contribute positively to our discourse. He succeeded in convincing me to avoid Twitter like the plague it has proven to be.

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Twits Own Twitter 0

Title: Moving Forward.  Image:  Elon Musk, after chopping the Twiiter bird in two, says,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness does the turkey trot.

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Cashing Out 0

Above the Law’s Liz Dye examines Donald Trump and his Organization’s attempt to squirrel assets away from legal oversight and escape accountability accounting. A snippet:

Meanwhile, the Trump Organization has done everything but take out an ad in the paper announcing its intent to transfer property out of the jurisdiction of the court.

Follow the link for details.

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QOTD 0

Denis Diderot:

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.Deni

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