Tennis Collage

If the match doesn't get rained out, I will be shooting (photos) Midlothian High School Women's Tennis team today.

Nazi Stuff for Memorial Day--Photos Added

 Albert Speer

Baldur von Schirach

A couple of Nazi fun facts to honor our dead, who fought against that evil regime.  At the Nuremburg trials after WWII, only two Nazi leaders denounced Hitler:  Architect, Albert Speer and Hitler Youth Leader and Gauleiter of Vienna, Baldur von Schirach.

German officer's joke after D-day; if you see a white plane, it's American, a black plane, it's British, but if you see no planes at all, it's the Luftwaffe.

According to the diary of Goebbels, one of Hitler's worst character traits was procrastination.  Never in a million years would I have suspected that without reading it from a source who would be in a position to know.

Lebanese Food Festival

Me and my new pal, Congressman Dave Brat, just chillin' at the Lebanese Food Festival

Collage of Allen Searson of Atlantic Christian College

I am hoping that some of the other basketball players from the last reunion will see this and want one just like it.  I made this one using images that were a long way from pristine condition.  They were from sources like yellowed newspapers from the 1970's, scans from old yearbooks, etc.  I also noticed at the last reunion that most of the former players were wearing nicer shoes and driving newer cars than me.  So come on guys, contact me to request one just like it, and I'll figure out a way to charge you too much money for one.  Start looking in the closet and digging up those old glory photos of yesteryear.  I look forward to hearing from you.

Captain Sally Tompkins

I posted a few facts about Captain Sally LouisaTompkins, CSA, earlier today on Facebook.  I stated that she was the only woman commissioned as an officer of the Confederacy.  Since publishing that post this morning, I found another source to claim that she was one of only two, the other, going by the name of Lucy Otey.  At any rate, Sally Tompkins was 28 years old and living in Richmond, Virginia when the Civil War started.  Once it began, a  gentleman named Judge John Robertson moved his family to the seemingly safer counrtyside and offered his Richmond home as a hospital for Sally to run as she saw fit.  As a member of St. James Episcopal, Sally worked lock-step with other ladies from the church, who volunteered their services and money to the newly christened, Robertson Hospital.

For the duration of the war, Robertson Hospital under the command of Captain Sally Louisa Tompkins, maintained the lowest mortality rate of any hospital, North or South.  Early on, Confederate President Jefferson Davis mandated that Confederate hospitals operate under the authority of the Confederate States government, and so he commissioned Sally Tompkins as an officer to enable the Confederacy to retain her ability to save more lives than anybody else.  It should be noted that while Captain Tompkins accepted the commission, she refused any pay for her nursing labors.  Scholars believe that her success rate was so great because of almost fanatical sanitation practices and liberal applications of turpentine to open wounds.  This is very interesting in light of the fact that bacteria had not yet been discovered.  Famous diarist, Mary Chestnut called Captain Sally "Our Florence Nightingale".  Captain Sally Tompkins remained in Virginia until the end of her life in 1916 and was buried at Christ Church in Matthews County.

Return of the Moops: Nazi Fun Facts

Return of the Moops: Nazi Fun Facts: You know that obtrusive, yellow, six-pointed, Star of David that every Jew in Nazi Germany had to wear?  Of course you do...everybody does. ...

Nazi Fun Facts

You know that obtrusive, yellow, six-pointed, Star of David that every Jew in Nazi Germany had to wear?  Of course you do...everybody does.  Turns out that the practice did not start in Germany during the 1930's at all.  Nope, King Edward I of England, nicknamed the Longshanks, (yep, that king portrayed in the movie "Braveheart") started that practice after coming to power in 1272.  Ironic since there were only about 3,000 Jews in England at the time.  Longshanks rounded up all the heads of each Jewish household to boot and had them executed.  According to one source that number was "about 300" and to another source, "269".  Longhanks for good measure didn't mind torturing Jews or more importantly, extorting money from them to finance his military exploits against the Scots.  He eventually kicked them out of the country, foreshadowing practices of Hitler's Germany. This time frame is right in the middle of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, that period of history in Spain that Obama keeps lying to us about, refering to the benevelent rule of Isam on the Iberian peninsula, or Islam's Golden Age, but that's another story for tomorrow.

The Right to Bear Arms

The Right to Bear Arms

A friend of mine, Jim Rogers, posted somthing on Facebook about "the Right to Bear Arms" and then talks about shoelaces.  Now, I don't know what shoelaces have to do with the price of tea in China, but, I'm 61 years old, and been runnin' around every pig path North of the James River for all that time, and ain't nobody from the government offered me no free bear arms in all that time.  I been faithfully payin' my taxes and everything, but ain't nobody said "boo".  My wife and son's ain't seen squat from the government either and they are all here legally too.  It's supposed to be a right we have from the second amendment, sure as God made the night dark.  Now, I've never eaten bear arms, but I'm willing to try if someone from the government will show me how to skin 'em just once.  Donald keeps promising us that he is going to protect the second amendment, while Hillary keeps promising to abolish it, along with the coal industry.  I don't know about you, but free bear arms and cheap coal are better than no free bear arms and no coal.  I can't stand either one of those politicians but from where I'm standin', cheap coal and free bear arms are better than none.  Maybe it's like the French benefits I keep hearing about all my life.  At every new job I start, somebody from the HR department tells me about how good the French benefits are, but in all my years, I ain't never seen no check from the French government either.  Maybe they send that money to somebody else.  I'm sure I would've known the check was from France, because I think they would write the check out in French numbers and letters.  I guess we borrow French money or something, or don't qualify unless we hit some kind of quota at each company.  Anyway, I ain't never seen neither one.  If anyone from Facebook has gotten their free bear arms, please let me know how to do it.  Even if I don't like the taste, I can make necklaces with the claws like the old guy in "Jeremiah Johnson".