From Pine View Farm

A Notion of Immigrants 0

Two masked ICE agents taking a grandmotherly woman into custody.  Passerby labeled

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Aside:

Back when I was a road warrior, I spent a lot of time in Chicago. I loved my time in Chi Town.

Chicago is a toddling town that won’t let you down.

Maybe those folks who are disparaging it should stop listening to Fox News and give it a visit

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Trumponomics 0

Seth runs the numbers.

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How Stuff Works: Republican Health Reform 0

Frame One:  First man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

More neighborly politeness.

So many guns. So much stupid.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Full of itself? Overflowing, baby.

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QOTD 0

Vilfredo Pareto:

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Congressional Impunity 0

Two Congressmen are standing on the steps of the Capitol.  One reads from his phone to the other,

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Vaccine Nation 0

Via the Hartford Courant, physicians Daniel Tobin and Anthony Yoder express their concern that the Trump maladministration is hazardous to our health A snippet:

With the CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) essentially sidelined, we now find ourselves in a leadership vacuum and faced with misinformation that frequently contradicts itself and is void of scientific basis. We have witnessed seasoned subject experts forced to leave or resign key positions and panels rather than promote false information or misguided recommendations, only to be replaced with known opponents of vaccination that cite “facts” not rooted in data and research which have appeared in official CDC documents alongside those borne from rigorous scientific investigation. This only sows the seeds of confusion and without the ongoing guidance of true experts, the problem is only going to worsen, to the detriment of everyone.

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The Wartime President 0

Donald Trump wearing buttons that read,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Courting Disaster 0

Chris talks with civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill abour recent rulings by the Supreme Supremacist Court.

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The Sound of Silence 0

About this time 24 years ago today I was out back of my workplace in the smoking area with my boss and several other persons. (As an aside, he was one of the best bosses I ever had and no, I no longer smoke.)

We were listening to the silence–silence because the building was under one of the approaches to Philadelphia International Airport directly across the river, but, that day, no planes were flying.

I remember my boss saying, “I’m glad there’s a Texan in the White House.”

How wrong he was.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness continues.

One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

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QOTD 0

Galatians 6:7 (KJV):

. . . whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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Drawn to the Topic 0

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme in tango time.

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*Mark Twain.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

There’s no politeness quite like neighborly politeness.

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DOGE Bull 0

Ring of Fire discusses a whistleblower’s report that DOGE compromised almost every living American’s social security number by uploading them to the cloud.

Afterthought:

Just because someone knows how to make computers dance jigs, it doesn’t mean he or she knows how stuff works in the bigger wider world.

Q. E. D.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Title:  Supreme Court Guide to Use of Race in Admission.  Image One:  University, captioned

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Republican Thought Police 0

The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun finds it distressing that the Trump maladministration is coming after an honorably-discharged veteran for having the unmitigated gall to peacefully stand up to Donald Trump’s not-so-secret police. Here’s a tiny bit from their editorial:

Yet now, the nation he nearly lost his life defending is trying to put him behind bars. His “crime”? Attending a protest in June in which he peacefully locked arms with fellow Americans and blocked a driveway to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

Take note that Mavalwalla is not accused of striking officers, vandalizing vehicles or destroying property. While some other participants were arrested at the time of the protest, Mavalwalla wasn’t among them. Nor is he accused of participating in any violence or property destruction. Instead, weeks later, on the day he was moving into a new home with his girlfriend and children, the FBI arrived at dawn, shackled him in front of his family and charged him with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers.” He now faces the possibility of a $250,000 fine, up to six years in prison and an additional three years of supervised release.

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