Old Trooper

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Toby the Wonderdog's dad. Uxorious hubby. Vietnam vet. Retired fed. Great-grandpappy. Civil War buff. Hater of GOPtards.

Pictures of mechanical car odometer as the milage rolls over from 99,999.9 to 100,000.0.
My Vietnam Veteran cap with an "I Voted" sticker on the bill of the cap.
Photo of the Nazi German cruiser Prince Eugen.
4 National Guard soldiers stand at one end of the Reflecting Pool, with the Washington Monument at the other end while tourists walk and stand around the Pool.
Photo of Vietnam Veteran cap with an "I Voted" sticker on the bill.
Photo of Vietnam Veteran cap with an "I Voted" sticker on the bill.
Screen cap from Seinfeld episode. Jerry is telling an immigrant woman "I will show you the Stooges."
Photo of chonky chihuahua Toby staring into the camera.
Text: Condoms became a universal prophylactic not for sexual activity, but for protecting rifle barrels, gunsights and radio and telephone mouthpieces from the relentless precipitation.
US Constitution
Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed at white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. Also referred by the euphemistic contraction C-word, it is commonly a pejorative, though is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida
Trump with small models of his proposed Triumphal Arch.
Photo of 6-month-old baby who was tear gassed by ICE in the family car.
Toby, our chihuahua mix, 8 pounds of aggression, staring straight at the camera.
A dummy in a Santa Claus costume crucified like Easter Jesus.
Brand name logo for "Miracle Ear"
Store display of Claxton Fruit Cake. Made in Claxton, Georgia.
Photo of General Eisenhower talking with 101st Airborne Division troops before the D-Day invasion.
US Army claymore mine, with one side reading "Front Toward Enemy."
Picture of a guillotine
Amazon ad with picture of flat tire and caltrops spikes. Caltrops are four-pronged spikes fashioned so that a spike always points up. Ad reads, "1.8 inch Anti Bird Spikes, Metal Tire Spikes for Vehicle Security & Garden Bird Deterrent...Pigeon Spikes for Balcony Fence..."
From the Seinfeld episode "Serenity Now" where George Costanza is a salesman for his dad's garage-based computer business. Original text read "Mr. Farneman? You wanna buy a computer?", a line from the episode. Followed by a picture of George above a caption reading "This is George. He sells computers." At the bottom is another episode line, "You wanna sell computers? I will show YOU how to sell computers." In this meme, the word "computer" ha been replaced with "soybean" throughout.
From the Seinfeld episode "Serenity Now" where George Costanza is a salesman for his dad's garage-based computer business. Original text read "Mr. Farneman? You wanna buy a computer?", a line from the episode. Followed by a picture of George above a caption reading "This is George. He sells computers." At the bottom is another episode line, "You wanna sell computers? I will show YOU how to sell computers." In this meme, the word "computer" ha been replaced with "soybean" throughout.
Two slices of Butterbread from two separate loafs. The one on the left is about 30 percent larger than the one on the right.
Photo shows the widow of James Longstreet using a pneumatic rivet gun on an aircraft part during World War 2. She is 80 years old.
My parents' 1942 wedding portrait . She wears a pale half-sleeve dress with a matching bow in her hair and holds a large bouquet. He wears his Navy sailor's white uniform. Her smile shows joy and contentment. His shows "look what I got!"
A large black bear wandering between aisles inside a Dollar General store.
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Loyalists, many with claymore swords and wearing kilts, advance on the Patriot position hidden in dark woods.
Portrait of a younger-than-we-normally-picture-him George Washington in his colonial Virginia officer's uniform.
Statue of Von Steuben in Washington, DC. He is shown standing, pointing ahead with his right arm extended while his left hand grips the hilt of the sword by his side. He wears full uniform from riding boots to tricorn hat with his cloak billowing behind him.
Drawing of von Steuben in full uniform mounted on his horse while his staff members ride behind him.
Portrait of von Steuben poised in his uniform as an American Lieutenant General. He wears his German and American medals and decorations.
Illustration of von Steuben training Patriot troops. They stand before him in their rank, with rifles at "present arms" while he is facing them, holding his sword up as if making a point. Behind him are other troops in their ranks and in the background tents neatly aligned in good military order.
Photo of stage magician James Randi sitting staring at the camera with a skeptical frown.
Roman legionnaire gathering seashells on the orders of mad Emperor Caligula. He stands at the edge of the surf in his full armor, picking up shells from the sand and putting them in a basket. Far down the beach are other Roman soldiers doing the same.
Painting of the attack on Redoubt Number 10 at Yorktown. The American troops are coming over the wall with their flag as the British troops try to repel them.
Sketch of Confederate soldiers standing with bayonets fixed shouting defiance at the Yankee enemy.
Photo of columnist Art Buchwald at his typewriter, smoking his trademark cigar.
My chihuahua mix Toby
AI response to question of where the National Guard is being deployed in DC lists National Mall, Washington Monument, tourist sites and "Urban Centers."
Canned "hope you are doing well" chat post from Sen Tim Kaine. Reply goes into detail about how, in fact, we are not doing well in this authoritarian environment, wonders why the Dems can't fight it better, and thanks him for asking.
Pic of Trump on roof at White House.
Photo of scale model of 1 of architect Albert Speers' massive buildings. It would have been the largest building in the world. Decorated with eagles and swastikas, it would be the home of the Fuhrer.
Photo of World War 2 era Volkswagen-manufactured "kubelwagen". The German army equivalent of the US Army jeep.
My handsome half-chihuahua half-God-knows-what laying under the furniture feeling poorly.
Women in Handmaid dresses sitting together. Caption reads, "I know. But I just didn't like Hillary."
Screenshot of video of Trump speaking that wouldn't play. Overlaid message says "Error Loading."
US enlistment oath
Picture of reconstructed face of homo erectus. Dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes, wide-set nostrils, prominent brow ridges, sloping forehead, obvious chin.
Map of China with large areas outside current borders shaded to show Chinese claims to the Russian Far East, eastern Siberia, all of Mongolia, eastern portions of Central Asia and Himalayan borderlands.