Flashback

Reilly, Ace of Spies - Episode 01 1901; An Affair with a Married Woman Been ages since I saw this series on PBS.

What's in a name ...

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A scholarly endeavor  ... Maryland was most likely named after Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. SCROLL I was doing some research on the origin of Maryland as the first colony to espouse religious freedom for a talk to 7-8 grades. I came across this distortion on Google when searching for the origin of the state name: THE STATE NAME: The charter that Lord Baltimore received from King Charles I of England specified a name for the new colony. It was to be called Maryland to honor King Charles' wife Queen Henrietta Maria (Queen Mary).Jul 28, 2017 But wikipedia says this: ... since the original capital of Maryland was St. Mary's City on the north shore of the Potomac River – and the county surrounding it, the first erected/created in the province,[56] was named St. Mary's County – Maryland was most likely named after Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. The great seal of Maryland also supports this conclusion. The obverse side of the seal reads TERRÆ MARIÆ,[57] which translates in Latin as "Land of Mary" instead of TERRÆ MARIA, which would acknowledge Henrietta's middle name. Officially, the new "Maryland Colony" was named in honor of Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I of England.[55] Alternatively, Some Catholic scholars and historians believe Maryland may have been named after Mary, the mother of Jesus, by George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore prior to his death in 1632. His original intent may never fully be known. The specific name given in the charter was phrased Terra Mariae, anglice, Maryland. The English name was preferred due to undesired associations of Mariae with the Spanish Jesuit Juan de Mariana, linked to the Inquisition. In addition, Henrietta was never referred to by both her first and middle name. Scholars also agree that under no circumstances was a territory ever named after someone's middle name. Many agree[who?] that since the original capital of Maryland was St. Mary's City on the north shore of the Potomac River – and the county surrounding it, the first erected/created in the province,[56] was named St. Mary's County – Maryland was most likely named after Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. The great seal of Maryland also supports this conclusion. The obverse side of the seal reads TERRÆ MARIÆ,[57] which translates in Latin as "Land of Mary" instead of TERRÆ MARIA, which would acknowledge Henrietta's middle name.[58] I sent Google this feedback comment with the link: look at wikipedia which properly explains Maryland named after Mary the mother of Jesus. Thus the first sate capital was St. Mary City in St, Mary county Thought you might be interested in this Gee, guess I was throwing spit balls when we were taught about Maryland. Our Holy Mother must be hurt by the state of Maryland today, Reparations to her are needed for this outrage... Wally Ruzek *In 1974, during halftime at a Maryland-Virginia  football game, in College Park, Virginia's pep band outraged us  homeboys. An announcer read from an oh-so-discourteous script, while the band - a Mack Sennet inspired ramshackle - played tunes like "Maryland, My Christmas Tree" (Maryland's anthem, "Maryland My Maryland," shares its melody with "O Christmas tree).  There were easy targets, like our about to be jailed Governor - Marvin Mandel (D), and erstwhile Gov. Spiro Agnew (R). I was in the crowd, and was way pissed .. then.  Now, it appears that the Cavalier pep band was onto something.

Fascinating

It's June 26, 1942. Extrapolate

Trump Skips Ramadan Dinner For The First Time In Nearly Two Decades "I guess Trump had actual work to do and didn't want to waste his day virtue signaling" How nice to have a president who actually represents Americans."

Hillary Clinton's Life So Far

Hillary Clinton's Life So Far This is without doubt the finest, most complete, and historically accurate capsule of Hillary Clinton's public life I've yet seen.  I have several times wanted to do a similar compilation, but it was just too much work.  I know, in this age of ala-carte truth, it will be almost impossible to get her supporters to watch, but it's least out there.

Coal and Water Crimes

Different players; Same tune Obama seizes 582,578 square miles area off the coast of Hawaii Last Friday, President Obama ordered that well over half a million — 582,578 — square miles off the coast of Hawaii be seized as property for the federal government. Now a “national marine monument,” large swaths of the Hawaiian coast are off limits to commercial fishing. This is a huge blow to commercial fishermen in Hawaii, who are not happy that they will be barred from fishing in over 60 percent of the water off of the islands. The Associated Press talked to Edwin Ebiusi Jr. of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, who said “Today is a sad day in the history of Hawaii’s fisheries and a negative blow to our local food security.” “Sean Martin, president of the Hawaii Longline Association, said his organization was disappointed Obama closed an area nearly the size of Alaska without a public process,” the AP reports. Martin’s point is on the money: When the president seizes huge tracts of land or water in the name of “public good,” the American people get no say and merely limited access to that land. [FULL] *Note: It's speculated that Obama's motivation here is to keep hidden his buried immigration records.  Just sayin'. Which brings to mind  "The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff " perpetrated by our last criminal administration (which, btw, included one Hillary Rodham Clinton).  Ahem.

Singing Dixie as High Art

DIXIE DOO-DAH

The Hastings College Choir prepared this classic setting for a 'command performance' at the 2009 dedication of the Morrison-Reeves Science Center on campus. Dr. Fritz Mountford, conductor. They are, of course, racist hate filled bastids. Now read WhenRucker called the roll—A Soldier’s Story

Indians - and we liked it that way

Century-Old Photos Of American Indians Bring History To Life

LBJ's Mistress Blows Him ... away

Let's Throw This Into the Mix

Living Lincoln

a major award

Living With Lincoln View More: Entertainment News|Live News|More News Videos When I was 11-years old our family—me, sister, mom, dad, and Granny Schultz,  piled into our black '52 Chevy.  The cheap model.  So cheap it didn't have an ashtray, so mom had a little bean bag ashtray on the dash.  No radio.  And man was it hot. We  drove to New Salem, Illinois and the restored village where Abraham Lincoln spent his early adulthood.  We stayed in a motel, on site, a first for me.  The room was knotty pine; I can still smell it.  After  taking the tour I took off  on my own to investigate.  Walking down a dirt trail I, for some reason, turned onto a little unmarked path and came upon an as yet unrestored building with a marker "First Lincoln house," or some such.  Wow.  Why had I walked with seeming purpose to this house?  Possibly influenced by the Bridey Murphy story that was dominating the news, I decided that the reason was that I was Abraham Lincoln reincarnated.  Really. I've been  a Lincoln scholar without portfolio ever since.  This documentary really rang my bell.  It's so good that I'm kind of shocked it's an HBO product (HBO, in my mind, is a haven for leftists who were fired for cause from their real jobs, and other perversions (but did you see that last Game of Thrones ending?!)   Anyway, this isn't so much about Lincoln as it is about a family's collective five generation journey as caretaker of just about everything Lincoln.  Yes, Peter Kunhardt's great-grandfather began collecting photographs of Abraham Lincoln, but also tracked down the photographs of every Union, and all but three Confederate Great Rebellion officers. Wow! And that was just the beginning.  FIVE STARS.

Black Propaganda

Abreast of History

During WWII the British Political Warfare Executive wanted a way to make Germans read the psyop leaflets they dropped over Germany and Nazi troop formations.  Was there a way to not only increase readership, but have them saved, and shared with friends and comrades. Hmmmm.  Can you think of a way?

When Hillary was fired for unethical conduct ...

"She was is a dishonest, unethical lawyer ..." Lots of folks have forgotten about this, not to mention all those who never knew about it in the first place. Should you pass this on? My recommendation is that you do it now.  Or, you can wait until she is the President. Cheers,  Stu T & Eddie Marcano  I don't think anybody who knew about Hillary Clinton's discraceful performance during the Dem's attempt to impeach  President Nixon can possibly forget.  However, the greater truth is (I'll guess) that 99% of living Americans don't have a clue.  By the by, here's the Fact Check. Aside:  Washington Post legend Bob Woodward, one-half of the reporting team that uncovered the Watergate scandal, said Monday that the tens of thousands of emails Hillary Clinton erased have a familiar ring to them.  'It, in a way, reminds me of the Nixon tapes',' Woodward said on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' program, referring to 'thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that Nixon thought were exclusively his.'

Leonore Goldschmidt

Hitler's Mustache

Steven Spielberg famously documented Oskar Schindler's defiance of Nazi Socialism (Schindler's List), and there have been others, like Leopold Socha's story (In Darkness).  I recently watched another—Smithsonian's documentary ("Goldschmidt’s Children – The Teacher Who Defied Hitler”) about German school teacher Leonore Goldschmidt.  Riveting stuff.  Surviving students recount how they were sent home from class for praying in class, or wearing tee-shirts emblazoned with the American flag ... wait—sorry; that's another story.  Anyway, after the Nazis decreed that all Jewish teachers be fired, Leonore pretty much "loopholes"  the Nazi bureaucracy and starts a school for Jews. She then cunningly stays one step ahead as the Nazi noose tightens.  You can watch all 42 minutes here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DKO50viOBg).

Cobwebbed but still good

" ... nations always progressed through the following sequence:" I was looking for something else in the attic and tripped over this article that I apparently never posted.  It's from 2009.  I've included some of the pics that were in the same box.  That's right; I don't throw anything away. CLICK BIG Two centuries ago, a somewhat obscure Scotsman named Tytler* made this profound observation: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy”. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the Beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 Years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage. The Obituary follows: "United States of America",  Born 1776, Died 2016 It doesn't hurt to read this several times. Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning The last Presidential election: Number of States won by:   Obama: 19   Romney: 29 Square miles of land won by:    Obama: 580,000      Romney: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million  Romney: 143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:                               Obama: 13.2             Romney: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of Democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population Already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s - and they vote - then we can say Goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years . *There's some debate about whose profound observation this was, but for our purpose all that matters is that it still swims.

Inside The Jerry Can

History of Great Stuff You Didn't Know was Great Stuff  A very fascinating piece of WW II history - The Little Can that could The jerry can! During World War II the United States exported more tons of petroleum products than of all other war material combined. The mainstay of the enormous oil-and gasoline transportation network that fed the war was the oceangoing tanker, supplemented on land by pipelines, railroad tank cars, and trucks. But for combat vehicles on the move, another link was crucial—smaller containers that could be carried and poured by hand and moved around a battle zone by trucks. Hitler knew this. He perceived early on that the weakest link in his plans for blitzkrieg using his panzer divisions was fuel supply. He ordered his staff to design a fuel container that would minimize gasoline losses under combat conditions. As a result the German army had thousands of jerry cans, as they came to be called, stored and ready when hostilities began in 1939. The jerry can had been developed under the strictest secrecy, and its unique features were many. It was flat-sided and rectangular in shape, consisting of two halves welded together as in a typical automobile gasoline tank. It had three handles, enabling one man to carry two cans and pass one to another man in bucket-brigade fashion. Its capacity was approximately five U.S. gallons; its weight filled, forty-five pounds. Thanks to an air chamber at the top, it would float on water if dropped overboard or from a plane. Its short spout was secured with a snap closure that could be propped open for pouring, making unnecessary any funnel or opener. A gasket made the mouth leak proof. An air-breathing tube from the spout to the air space kept the pouring smooth. And most important, the can’s inside was lined with an impervious plastic material developed for the insides of steel beer barrels. This enabled the jerry can to be used alternately for gasoline and water. Early in the summer of 1939, this secret weapon began a roundabout odyssey into American hands. An American engineer named Paul Pleiss, finishing up a manufacturing job in Berlin, persuaded a German colleague to join him on a vacation trip overland to India. The two bought an automobile chassis and built a body for it. As they prepared to leave on their journey, they realized that they had no provision for emergency water. The German engineer knew of and had access to thousands of jerry cans stored at Tempelhof Airport. He simply took three and mounted them on the underside of the car. The two drove across eleven national borders without incident and were halfway across India when Field Marshal Goering sent a plane to take the German engineer back home. Before departing, the engineer compounded his treason by giving Pleiss complete specifications for the jerry can’s manufacture. Pleiss continued on alone to Calcutta. Then he put the car in storage and returned to Philadelphia. Back in the United States, Pleiss told military officials about the container, but without a sample can he could stir no interest, even though the war was now well under way. The risk involved in having the cans removed from the car and shipped from Calcutta seemed too great, so he eventually had the complete vehicle sent to him, via Turkey and the Cape of Good Hope. It arrived in New York in the summer of 1940 with the three jerry cans intact. Pleiss immediately sent one of the cans to Washington. The War Department looked at it but unwisely decided that an updated version of their World War I container would be good enough. That was a cylindrical ten-gallon can with two screw closures. It required a wrench and a funnel for pouring. That one jerry can in the Army’s possession was later sent to Camp Holabird, in Maryland. There it was poorly redesigned; the only features retained were the size, shape, and handles. The welded circumferential joint was replaced with rolled seams around the bottom and one side. Both a wrench and a funnel were required for its use. And it now had no lining. As any petroleum engineer knows, it is unsafe to store gasoline in a container with rolled seams. This ersatz can did not win wide acceptance. The British first encountered the jerry can during the German invasion of Norway, in 1940, and gave it its English name (the Germans were, of course, the “Jerries”). Later that year Pleiss was in London and was asked by British officers if he knew anything about the can’s design and manufacture. He ordered the second of his three jerry cans flown to London. Steps were taken to manufacture exact duplicates of it. Two years later the United States was still oblivious of the can. Then, in September 1942, two quality-control officers posted to American refineries in the    Mideast ran smack into the problems being created by ignoring the jerry can. I was one of those two. passing through Cairo two weeks before the start of the Battle of El Alamein, we learned that the British wanted no part of a planned U.S. Navy can; as far as they were concerned, the only container worth having was the Jerry can, even though their only supply was those captured in battle. The British were bitter; two years after the invasion of Norway there was still no evidence that their government had done anything about the jerry can. My colleague and I learned quickly about the jerry can’s advantages and the Allied can’s costly disadvantages, and we sent a cable to naval officials in Washington stating that 40 percent of all the gasoline sent to Egypt was being lost through spillage and evaporation. We added that a detailed report would follow. The 40 percent figure was actually a guess intended to provoke alarm, but it worked. A cable came back immediately requesting confirmation. We then arranged a visit to several fuel-handling depots at the rear of Montgomery’s army and found there that conditions were indeed appalling. Fuel arrived by rail from the sea in fifty-five-gallon steel drums with rolled seams and friction-sealed metallic mouths. The drums were handled violently by local laborers. Many leaked. The next link in the chain was the infamous five-gallon “petrol tin.” This was a square can of tin plate that had been used for decades to supply lamp kerosene. It was hardly useful for gasoline. In the hot desert sun, it tended to swell up, burst at the seams, and leak. Since a funnel was needed for pouring, spillage was also a problem. Allied soldiers in Africa knew that the only gasoline container worth having was German. Similar tins were carried on Liberator bombers in flight. They leaked out perhaps a third of the fuel they carried. Because of this, General Wavell’s defeat of the Italians in North Africa in 1940 had come to naught. His planes and combat vehicles had literally run out of gas. Likewise in 1941, General Auchinleck’s victory over Rommel had withered away. In 1942 General Montgomery saw to it that he had enough supplies, including gasoline, to whip Rommel in spite of terrific wastage. And he was helped by captured jerry cans. The British historian Desmond Young later confirmed the great importance of oil cans in the early African part of the war. “No one who did not serve in the desert,” he wrote, “can realize to what extent the difference between complete and partial success rested on the simplest item of our equipment—and the worst. Whoever sent our troops into desert warfare with the [five-gallon] petrol tin has much to answer for. General Auchinleck estimates that this ‘flimsy and ill-constructed container’ led to the loss of thirty per cent of petrol between base and consumer. … The overall loss was almost incalculable. To calculate the tanks destroyed, the number of men who were killed or went into captivity because of shortage of petrol at some crucial moment, the ships and merchant seamen lost in carrying it, would be quite impossible. After my colleague and I made our report, a new five-gallon container under consideration in Washington was canceled. Meanwhile the British were finally gearing up for mass production. Two million British jerry cans were sent to North Africa in early 1943, and by early 1944 they were being manufactured in the Middle East. Since the British had such a head start, the Allies agreed to let them produce all the cans needed for the invasion of Europe. Millions were ready by D-day. By V-E day some twenty-one million Allied jerry cans had been scattered all over Europe. President Roosevelt observed in November 1944, “Without these cans it would have been impossible for our armies to cut their way across France at a lightning pace which exceeded the German Blitz of 1940.” In Washington little about the jerry can appears in the official record. A military report says simply, “A sample of the jerry can was brought to the office of the Quartermaster General in the summer of 1940.” metzger Fascinating enough that I read it all ... via metzger

Easter Fare

cinema à la carte

Easter Cinema AUDIO BOOK Yesterday I watched Mel Gibson's The  Passion of the Christ on my iPad; the first time since seeing it at the cinema in 2004 (even though we've owned the DVD).  It is unparalleled film making, IMO.  Because of it, Gibson was targeted by Hollywood for neutering.  Upstairs, I learned, MoSup had been watching the movie version of Bill O'Reilly's book "Killing Jesus."  I Googled it up on the iPad, but of course Apple does not accept Flash, or whatever the hell format the civilized world use, but I found something better on YouTube.  The full 6 hour+ Audio Book read by O'Reilly.  Just finished the first two chapters, and what a treat.  In that time the book has covered an introductory birth of Jesus replete with a short political history of the area and then into a broader—and captivating—history of Caesar's Rome itself.  What an unexpected treat.  I've paused now (at 1:09), after the account of Casca shoving his shiv into Caesar's sack left me ... queasy. ASIDE: I can appreciate that Jews were fearful that The  Passion of the Christ might have the power to rekindle old hatreds.  It did not.  But the Sanhedrin, led by high priest Caiaphas, which demanded his crucification was the earlier equivalent of General  Pétain's lackey Vichy government under the Nazis.  Rome controlled the Temple, and who ran it.  Hell, they erected a statue of Caesar inside of the Temple!   Many  learned and pious Jews of the time reacted to this  abomination by forming splinter groups having nothing to do with that ilk.  Of course Jesus, his apostles, and most early converts were Jews.  As a Roman Catholic I have come to view the church as a Jewish sect, and myself a member.  For me, this is riveting history.

500 +/- People

Meet the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time A new, special issue of Smithsonian magazine attempts the impossible: to list out the most significant people in United States history Trailblazers Rebels & resisters Presidents First Women Outlaws Christopher Columbus Henry Hudson Amerigo Vespucci John Smith Giovanni da Verrazzano John Muir Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Sacagawea Kit Carson Neil Armstrong John Wesley Powell Martin Luther King Jr. Robert E. Lee Thomas Paine John Brown Frederick Douglass Susan B. Anthony W.E.B. Du Bois Tecumseh Sitting Bull Elizabeth Cady Stanton Malcolm X Abraham Lincoln George Washington Thomas Jefferson Theodore Roosevelt Ulysses S. Grant Ronald W. Reagan George W. Bush Franklin Delano Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson James Madison Andrew Jackson Pocahontas Eleanor Roosevelt Hillary Clinton Sarah Palin Martha Washington Hellen Keller Sojourner Truth Jane Addams Edith Wharton Bette Davis Oprah Winfrey Benedict Arnold Jesse James John Wilkes Booth Al Capone Billy the Kid William M. “Boss” Tweed Charles Manson Wild Bill Hickok Lee Harvey Oswald John Dillinger Lucky Luciano Artists Religious figures Pop icons Empire-builders Athletes Frank Lloyd Wright Andy Warhol Frederick Law Olmsted James Abbott MacNeill Whistler Jackson Pollock John James Audubon Georgia O’Keeffe Thomas Eakins Thomas Nast Alfred Stieglitz Ansel Adams Joseph Smith Jr. William Penn Brigham Young Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Jonathan Edwards L. Ron Hubbard Ellen G. White Cotton Mather Mary Baker Eddy Billy Graham Mark Twain Elvis Presley Madonna Bob Dylan Michael Jackson Charlie Chaplin Jimi Hendrix Marilyn Monroe Frank Sinatra Louis Armstrong Mary Pickford Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford John D. Rockefeller J.P. Morgan Walt Disney Thomas Alva Edison William Randolph Hearst Howard Hughes Bill Gates Cornelius Vanderbilt Steve Jobs Babe Ruth Muhammad Ali Jackie Robinson James Naismith Arnold Schwarzenegger Ty Cobb Michael Jordan Hulk Hogan Jim Thorpe Secretariat Billie Jean King Read more: As significant as who's on the list is who is not

Jews Flee France

Hitler's Mustache                “ Return Engagement The American Thinker article The Ominous Implications for the West of Jews' Exodus from France  is about the exodus from France of French Jews, who are fleeing violence perpetrated by Muslims and apparently tolerated by the French government.   For anyone who's been paying attention, this isn't really news. But, as is often the case with American Thinker, there's more revealed in the Readers' Comments; jumping from anti-Semitism in France to anti-Semitism in America, we learn this: ArmyAviator: There is a new wave of anti-Semitism in America that I continue to be amazed at. In the army, it really began after the First Gulf War. I witnessed officers, even senior officers go from admiring Israel and the Israeli armed forces, to cursing them as "those damned Kikes." Mostly, this has happened due to our culture crashing and burning. Wide scale recruitment of Blacks and other minorities, brought their prejudices and bigotry toward Whites in general and Jews in particular to the army. A Jew in the army is a double target. First, he's White and second he's a Jew. That really irks the Bros and the Hoes! To maintain any possible standard of discipline, the leadership has had to adjust and accept the prejudice and bigotry of the ranks. Consequently, we have the most hostile environment possible for Jewish soldiers, on a scale not seen since before WW2. As the army grows smaller, due to defense cuts, reduction in mission requirements, or whatever, the cadre that remains, will be more and more "politically reliable" and will serve as a tool of the Liberal Socialist movement. This will be accomplished through selective retention, not necessarily of the best and most talented officers and soldiers, but through their dedication to (Liberal Socialist) Democrats! 0bama has had six years already, to weed out politically unreliable General Officers, and the weeding is extending its way down as far as possible, as the army shrinks. If the next president happens to be a Republican, he/she will have a disloyal General Staff, not necessarily interested in "obeying the orders of the President of the United States," but more in tune with advancing Liberal Socialist causes and objectives. Ridding the army of Jews is one of them.  skoonj  @ George Santayana ”