No Cake For Hitler!

(And remember, Nazis aren't Right Wingers.  They're frikkin' Socialists!!)



And if he does get his way:

Me, I'd just find another bakery.

(Both from the ever-vigilant Gerard!)

The Feast of St. Football

The more I think about it, the more it seems that Super Bowl Sunday is like a Catholic "Holy Day of Obligation".  On feast days like the Feast of the Assumption, Catholics are required (under pain of mortal sin) to attend Mass.

Similarly, true followers of St. Football are required to observe the Solemn High Secular Ceremony of Super Bowl. (NTTAWWT.) 

The parallels are striking: dressing up in Sunday best (team regalia), more candles on the altar (team /game decorations at the house/bar), hymns (cheering), moral debates (disputed calls), and Communion (wings & beer).
OK, so, generally no one is screaming "Go! Go! Go!" during the Consecration, and there is no analog that I can think of for the half-time show.

(This, of course, from a sports agnostic, and fallen-away Catholic.)

Trek vs Wars...

...another shot fired.

Q. E. D.

Via the boys at Powerline.

Short Suits

I thought that was something in bridge?

Oh, well...

Happy Star Wars Day

May The Fourth Be With You!

Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons...

 

 My daughter wrote: "Jake carved the face.  I helped shovel snow and spray the body blue.  I've got to figure out how to build a minion  :)"

I'm thinking trashcan full of snow, flipped over, round up the top.  Paint and decorate as needed!

What is best...

</Anhuld>

I have nothing else to add.

From The H2

Happy...

...Broderick Crawford Day!

When I saw this:

I thought of Sip.

I guess I'm going to see how his sense of humor is...

Spam du Jour!

Lucky me!!

Hello

I am Mrs. Suzanne.. the wife of the former Egyptian leader, Hosni Mubarak who is currently on house arrest and facing a retrial on charges of complicity resulting from political turmoil during the 2011 uprising which was fabricated without evidence. the government has seized everything we have here and prevent us from traveling out of Egypt.

As a result of this, I need somebody outside Egypt to represent my interest to manage our reserved funds value (150,000,000.00 U.SD) in long-term business venture especially in public and private business (including real estate investment,

I am willing to negotiate with you how much i will offer you to handle this for me after your acceptance.And the legality and movement of the (150,000,000.00 U.SD) shall or will be duly follow in due course.

Yours Faithfully,

 I figure 10% sounds about right, no??

Conversation With A Friend Updated: Instructional Video

This started out as an email to some friends about this scale-model B-17 that's about the size of a Cessna 140.

As it happens, our exchange makes for an interesting post (reversed to chronological order:)

On August 9, 2013 at 10:58 AM rob  wrote:

Which leads me to a question, do you have any current hobbies? I guess the blog keeps you busy, but do you do any traditional hobbies (e.g., model building, stamp collecting, wood working, sewing, book club, etc.)? What are you in to these days?

To: rob
Subject: RE: Here is something you can do in your spare time....

My first answer would be "computers", but that is fading some.  Much less of a need to stay up with the curve these days.  Before the back detonated, I was teaching some basic computer classes at the library.  I'll probably e-start those in a month or so.  I've been gardening - just picked about 2 gallons of tomatoes yesterday.  And, I'm catching up on my fun reading.  Read a book called "Jack 1939" by Francine Mathews.  She re-works JFK's summer before senior year trip to Europe to research his senior thesis in to quite the spy/adventure novel.  Discovered she writes as mumble Barrett, doing a series of mysteries with Jane Austin as the detective.

 

I start PT 2 - 3X next week, so that should be a boost in getting me back to some sort of regular physical activity.  (Somehow, without trying, I've dropped 40 pounds since my melanoma removal!  275 => 235)

 

I read the internet a lot.  And yes, I'm a little B.F. stir crazy.  Need to explore the countryside some more.  Also want to get a shooting range membership.  Did I tell you that I now own a Springfield Armory Stainless Steel 1911 .45, and a Hi-Point .45 ACP carbine.  I have shooting to do!!  One can get a permit to use the target ranges at some of the state hunting grounds, but between the back and the weather ("mostly overcast, chance of showers and thunder storms"), that's not happening.  Doc doesn't want any sudden jarring on my spine, and .45 ACP has a habit of doing that.  Especially, I think, coming out of the carbine.  Sigh.

 

Oh... and I'm working on a plan to overthrow the government.  It involves lobotomies for just about all current office holders, reduction of the number of Cabinet positions, and a return to basic free market principles.  For starters.

   

How you two doing?? 

 On August 10, 2013 at 11:13 AM rob wrote:

It's really interesting to hear what you are up to. I'm still into programming and actually doing much more of it than I was at Boeing, where management is less about management and more about brown-nosing. Carole is still keeping her hand in real estate, but backing out slowly. Her daughter and her partner just had twins so Carole is getting more into that.
 
I admire your willingness to teach at the library. I just don't have the patience to teach, but I keep thinking that I should find something I could at least volunteer at.

After your PT is done we should talk. Your congressional lobotomy idea could fit into the killer robot idea that I'm working on. I was going to use a death ray in my robot but a lobotomy ray might be more humane after all.  (Let's see, we've mentioned death, killer, congress and guns. If the word "al-qaeda" shows up in this email it's bound to be picked up by the NSA.)

Deny everything.

My response this morning:

Dude, congress was just a start.

 

I think we could get by with a cabinet of DOD, DOJ, State, Transportation, and maybe Interior.  Make the idiots at TSA US Marshals, (real ones, with training and everything), put a couple on each flight originating in the US, one ICE agent every 1/4 mile along the Mexican border, w/ air and mechanized support.

 

Lots of training input from the Israelis.  In Costa Rica, *ALL* bags are searched, in front of you, before they can be checked in.

 

Oh, and listen when the Russians have something to say about potential terrorist activity, and follow up on it. 

Saw two Warthogs fly over this morning.  No big booms, so I guess everything was OK,

He responded:

Now you've done it. Expect to get audited next April.

And then, Mr Bingely takes the proverbial cake with this instructional video!

Biden Tee (Updated!)

Allahpundit at Hot Air remarked that, like Hillary, Biden needed a tee shirt.  So, here it is:

Update - found a picture I liked better:

(Found at heavy.com)

(Original First effort below the fold...)

FLOTUS...

...appears to have gotten herself a new gig:

Via Drudge, of course!

A Day Without...

Found at the NeatoShop

Destroying Childhood Memories...

...one swimsuit at a time.

Via Gerard

Hilarity Ensues...

...watch until the very, very end!

Kind of reminds me of Team Obama and all of these "alleged" scandals.

Heh.

Found at The Coalition.

(5/5/2013)--

(Found at Gerard's)

This Should...

...pretty much wipe out all of my Lenten points.

Memory Check

Found this in my in-box this AM.  My cousin in Montana is retired, too, and likes to pass this kind of stuff along.

This is a test for us 'older kids'!

The answers are below the fold, but don't cheat.

Comment to let me know how you did

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset,the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man?  Invariably,someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind.

What did he leave behind?________________.

02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we allwatched them on The ____ ___________ Show.

03. 'Get your kicks, __ _________ _______.'

04. 'The story you are about to see is true.The names have been changed to ___________________.'

05. 'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.'

06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we 'danced'under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the '_____________.'

07. Nestle's makes the very best . .. . . _______________.'

08. Satchmo was America 's 'Ambassador of Goodwill.'

Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us.

His name was _________________.

09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.

10. Red Skeleton's hobo character was named __________________

and Red always ended his television show by saying,

'Good Night, and '________ ________... '

11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War

did so by burning their______________.

12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the

trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names

did it go by? ____________ &_______________.

13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about,

'the day the music died.' This was a tribute to ___________________.

14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit.

The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.

15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large

plastic ring that we twirled around our waist.

It was called the __________  ______________.

16. Remember LS/MFT _____ _____/_____ _____ _____?

17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It's _____ ______ _____!

18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men?

The _____ Knows!

19. There was a song that came out in the 60's that was

"a grave yard smash". It's name was the ______ ______!

20. Alka Seltzer used a "boy with a tablet on his head"

as it's Logo/Representative. What was the boys name? _____ __________!

(I missed the name of Red Skelton's  clown character, and the Don McLean question)

Classic Movie...

...revisited!

(Brought to you by Power Line!)