First Monday in September — the last holiday of the summer and traditional start of school.
My dad’s 86th birthday is tomorrow, today we’ll be gathering at the Click homestead for celebration – swimming, BBQ and general fun is on the agenda (especially with four great-grandchildren in attendance). Since hubby and I are putting on the feasting, I’ll be busy much of the day. I’ve been tied up earlier this weekend doing crash-course learning of Adobe Illustrator and getting used to drawing in vector images rather than the raster things I do in Photoshop. I apologize for the light posting.
So please share the interesting, note-worthy and/or tales of the weird in the comments.
Consider this, too, the unofficial start of Jeff’s blog fund raising — please hit the tip jar!
I do’ed it.
Also, on the topic of #GamerGate, which is still limping along two weeks later:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/01/Lying-Greedy-Promiscuous-Feminist-Bullies-are-Tearing-the-Video-Game-Industry-Apart
Out of curiosity, whence the surname “Click”?
My wife’s ancestry, IIRC, includes Clicks that were originally Glücks.
Just dug these babies out the ground (and off the vine).
Di, McGehee
Some “Clicks” are from Germany migrating from during the mid 1800’s
That’s not my branch. Mine were from England, sold out of debtor’s prison and brought here in 1697, who were then sold to a Virginia plantation.
My 2nd cousin has done a hell of a genealogy study — last count over 28K individuals, here.
Happy Laborious Day to all pw denizens!
(That’s offered “A day Late and a Dollar Short”, perfectly fitting our new American Life Under Leftists)
Speaking of Labor and Unions, we have a new NEA President, who on her first day accompanied Barack Obama’s Brain Valerie Jarrett on AF1, for to spend time schmoozing at the White House.
And to give Barky a book.
>who were then sold to a Virginia plantation. <
you should be the face for reparations;)
Descendants of Virginia indenturees are the best Americans.
The FBI just apprehended the hacker group Lizard Squad who shut down xbox Live, The Sony Entertainment Network, attacked Steam, and called in a bomb threat on a Jet with Sony employees on board.
In that spirit let us prey together.
Can Ah get an Amen?
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And a mulligan.
This is why anti-social is the way to be. Nobody can peer-pressure a hermit or misanthrope into believing the unbelievable.
And to keep one’s delusional subculture alive and growing a through system of required indoctrination is necessary.
Not to worry, all problems can be managed once we just get everyone organized correctly.
Somebody needs to inform President Peter Principle that the problems get a vote in any proposed solution.
And them problems vote early and often.
In today’s gallows humor:
Anyone want to lay wager on where those missing 11 Libyan jetliners end up on 9/11/14?
Di, there’s a big dealio in Wales starting tomorrow, but that’s just a golf outing. And a few days early to boot.
Since ISIS has these planes, and they hate practically everybody, I’m guessing targets might range from the towers in Dubai to Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to southern France and Italy, even to the Vatican.
If they can figure out how to fly them with those marked transponders onboard. If they just take off and fly as-is, every missile in the gulf will launch forthwith.
McGehee wrote: This is why anti-social is the way to be. Nobody can peer-pressure a hermit or misanthrope into believing the unbelievable.
I think we should form The Anti-Social Club.
There are no dues, we never meet, but we exchange bottles of whiskey.
Whiskey exchange!
Malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s way to man
all is well please remain calm news
Morphing Into ‘Conventional Army,’ Boko Haram Poised to ‘Explode Any Day, Like ISIS’
That’s the spirit, Steph!
scheme team news:
Justice for Dillon Taylor’ sought for white Utah man fatally shot by black officer
Justice Department to Investigate Ferguson Police for Pattern of Civil-Rights Violations
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
You can have my bottle of whisky when you pry it from my stone cold sober fingers.
‘Cause when I’m drunk, C-4 couldn’t pry it loose.
This goes far beyond any oddity that has come from J F’in’ Kerry before.
Then again the Greens and the “vulnerable Muslim majority counties” both have an interest in preventing the US from pumping more oil and NG by fracking. Reporting for “Christian duty” though is a bit much. Must be speaking out of his “magic hat.”
Link.
Host tipping?
Wait till he goes to sleep, that’s my advice…
Jeff sleeps on his feet?
Strategy? No problem son. Meet “Mr. Face.”
He’s a regular Crusader Half-Wit.
Sic it, Mister Secretary!
It’s Official: We’re living in a funhouse mirror.
Mobile wordpress login is fubared.
I am consistently mobile these days, again, and I haven’t been in a while. I am amazed at the number of logins that I have to remember now, and a little pissed off that my iCloud dick pics weren’t part of the big leak. Because they are amazing. Maybe even frightening.
Today’s my 20th anniversary so I’m going to spend money I don’t have on four days off. I’m pretty happy about that.
Hope Jeff gets his work done.
OT. I have had to rebuild or adjust the gearbox in my car four times since last June. Yesterday, my clutch grenaded. Pro tip. Don’t teach your 16 year old how to drive stick in your 45 year old car.
At least your ’69 has the shifter on the floorboard. These tree shifters make it harder to text and drive… )
My car’s supposed to let me text through the hands-free, but apparently my phone is too smart for the system. Hence the one time I’m more likely to make voice calls than text or email is when I’m driving.
The pre-listing work on our old house is about done. Now we’re making plans to get my mother-in-law’s house — three hours away — ready to go on the market (she lives with us now).
It might be easier to take that on if it still had furniture in it, but that was the first to go. Instead we’ll be having to stay in a hotel when we’re up there. And in many ways the work will be a repeat of the most tedious part of dealing with our place.
I did that myself at 16 to my own (used) car I’d just bought by trying to race a then new 1964 1/2 Mustang and losing. Waiting for Dad to come with a tow rope to tow me home was a long sad wait. Mom saved my ass by saying that the clutch felt a little funny to her when she drove it.
Law grenade: *** “We’ll now see whether the D.C. Circuit will apply longstanding principles of statutory interpretation or will acquiesce to the administration’s request that it be allowed to ignore the plain text of a duly enacted law,” Adler, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University, said in a statement. ***
What happy times together I’d be spending.
I’d wish that all the links were nehhhhhverendiiiiing.
Ah, wouldn’t I be nice.
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*putt*
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****The next president has to create a sophisticated and supple blend of soft and hard power to isolate the enemy, to fight where necessary, but also to create an ideological template that works to the West’s advantage over the long haul. There is simply no other candidate with the potential of Obama to do this. Which is where his face comes in.
[…]
If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.****
*putt*
I think we should form The Anti-Social Club.
I thought we already did: the protein wisdom comment section.
As for the fate of the stolen airliners, Glenn Beck this morning was fretting about them plowing into the Saudi oilfields.
Which, that would fix our wagon faster than just about anything else.
Folks, quiet on the greens, please.
Good point, Di, but my plan, at least, has an exchange of amber spirits.
re: stolen airliners, many have said that a stolen plane could be detected easily and shot down.
I was wondering if a rogue plane could follow behind on the flight path of an “authorized” airliner. I think a lot of confusion could result.
If its transponder is turned off, two planes flying close together can be hard to distinguish on radar.
But the flight crew of the “legit” plane might have to be in on it, lest they detect the other plane and snitch to tracon; likewise if a passenger spots it and breaks cell phone silence.
I’m going to assume that if they took over the airport along with the city that they also have the people who do maintenance on the avionics. As we saw with the flight that disappeared there are transmitters other than the transponder system, which is built on the assumption that the pilots are working with air traffic control, so turning all of these off would leave a plane which could only be seen on primary radar and where that coverage is, is known and could be avoided.
The other thing would be to fly it dark to another airport in some supportive country and then become a regular seeming flight out of there. Maybe a “charter.”
The US right now reminds me of one of those PCP stories where someone does awful things, hurts themselves really bad, and yet keeps walking around near exhaustion doing stupid dangerous stuff because they can’t understand anything correctly or feel all of the pain they are in.
If the shit doesn’t get out of our system soon we’ll pass a point beyond which any hope of recovery is unlikely.