Tiger, Say it Aint So!

Hello everyone,
Originally I did not want to comment on the news of Tiger Wood’s affair as matters of infidelity are messy subjects that under usual circumstances should remain private until it reaches the public divorce courts. However, I am somewhat troubled by those who are excusing his behavior as par for the course when it comes to the athlete or the rich man. Even more disturbing are the people who say all married men cheat or instead celebrates Tiger’s bad behavior. You can find such excuses lined on the message boards at ESPN.com among other sites.

Now as a fan of Mr. Woods I’m not asking for a public apology and the fact that he has taken responsibilities for his “transgressions” leave me with the impression and the hope that he wants to make things right for his family. (True its after the fact, but at least its something.) However, the measure of a man is not measured at the workplace or at the 18th hole of the Masters Tournament in Augusta; it is measured in his everyday life and how he deals honestly with those he cares about the most. As a businessman I understand the bottom line for EA Sports and Nike’s decision to stand by Tiger because his endorsements bring in an excessive amount of cash but as a man who was raised to treat the ones you love better than you treat yourself I am somewhat disheartened. Does character not matter anymore? Do we as a public excuse such behavior as infidelity because the guilty lives a privileged life, a life in the spot light? Have we’ve been numbed by all the celebrity mischief and accept that fame like power corrupts the heart? Or is it worse? Have post-modern America’s licentious or casual views on sex now warped marriage to where for many Americans the rights of marriage mean nothing?

Make no mistake this is not as simple as a matter of casual pre-marital sex. Its not just sex that is at issue here, but a matter of commitments made and broken, of betrayal of the heart, and the agony of loss. Only a truly heartless person would say of the cheated wife, “well she should have known what she was getting herself involved in.” Perhaps, she may have been warned but maybe his charm eased all skeptics. Regardless, she chose to trust the man who pledged himself solely to her; to forgo all doubt and put her faith in him. What is even worse in this affair is it appears that Tiger managed to turn some naughty side action into a harem as he apparently had three mistresses. Nothing can excuse this sort of betrayal. It is as if he tossed his marriage aside when it suited him in order to fulfill some selfish want or desire.

Nothing more really needs to be said or done on this matter by the public. There’ll be no lynch mob of strangers nor should there be. Although where Tiger Woods privacy is concerned; historically sexual indiscretions by A-list celebrities always become a public circus. Arguing rather that is fair or not is as mute a point to make, not to mention childish, as a kid complaining about his broken toy. Celebrity affairs are rarely ever kept locked in the bedroom. The simple truth of the matter is not only has he greatly profited from playing on the golf course but as well from his seemingly normal and likable facade in commercials, and has made himself a media darling as well as a humongous public target. If anyone should have know better (three times over) it was Tiger. However; as for the the wife and children, if they wish for it, the matter should quickly return to a private matter but only if it is for their benefit and not Tiger’s.

Lastly it gives me no great pleasure to chastise anyone or be critical of anyone. Nor do I come to a place where I can condemn any man for his sins by throwing the first stone.  True, adultery is not one of my sins but as the Lord forgives me of my faults I know it is not my place to judge a man’s soul.  However there is right and wrong and when that wrong affects others and changes perceptions of one’s character then people should be called out if for nothing more then for them to realize their misdeed and make things right.  I would also add that I do not wish to see Tiger’s greatness on the field humbled; after all, his dedication to golf has made the game exciting to watch. It is my hope that Tiger Woods steps away from the game for awhile, takes that same dedication to his game and tends to his family, builds them up, and returns to the greens as a better man with his wife by his side. Such sentiment may be pollyannaish but it is not unheard of for wives to forgive their husbands and husbands learn the value of a happily married life. One thing is for certain about the future of Mrs. Woods and that is the acclamation of big expensive jewelry, regardless rather she stays or gets a divorce. -Matt Thompson

a YouTube Christmas vol2: Garfield

Hello everyone,
and now that the turkey and cranberry is off the Thanksgiving table let me be one of the first, if not the first, to wish you a very Merry Christmas.

Continuing on now with the YouTube Christmas series; I present to you a classic CBS Christmas special from creator Jim Davis and company.  ”Garfield Christmas Special” is both humorous and heartwarming.  Garfield’s owner, Jon, along with Odie the dog and the fat feline himself travel to the family farm to celebrate Christmas. Despite his rural upbringing, Jon and Garfield at first seem like a couple city slickers.  In Garfield’s case it perhaps were the rather large Christmas scraps of food that “Grandma” was feeding him under the table that made the feline feel finally at home; meanwhile Jon was reintroduced to chores.

Really what makes this cartoon a special one is how well it depicts the interaction between family.  True its mostly an animated Hallmark card but there is a moment or two where the cartoon goes beyond mere sentiment of the season and generic family togetherness.  One such example is where “Grandma” seems at peace when rocking in her chair, stroking Garfield, and reminiscing of past Christmases spent with her late husband.  Not really certain why but I find that scene to be more endearing now having seen it for the first time since my grandparents passed away several years ago. There are of course, as well, plenty of funny cartoon gags and light hearted moments.

Garfield Christmas is one of the better Christmas specials out there.  In my book it ranks right up there with Charlie Brown and the Grinch.  Please enjoy the entire show featured in the embedded players below and once again… Merry Christmas.  (You can never say it enough.)

-Matt Thompson  (Also be sure to checkout the first YouTube Christmas installment, “Christmas Comes to Pac-Land“)

Garfield Christmas Part 1

Garfield Christmas Part 2

Garfield Christmas Part 3

Jolly-T’s Christmas Tshirts available at  jolly-tshirts.com or thompsonstshirts.com

Someone to be thankful for: Squanto.

On this Thanksgiving I’d like to share the story of Squanto.  A native brave of America who was captured by the English, escapes slavery, converted to Christianity, and became a godsend and friend to English Pilgrims upon his return to the new world.  The following is a brief summarization of his life.

Article courtesy of Wikipedia

Tisquantum (or Squanto) first came in contact with English explorers in 1605, when he and other Patuxet were captured by the party of George Weymouth. Exploring present-day Maine, Weymouth thought to take indigenous people back to England to show his sponsor as proof of his work. He returned with the Patuxet and turned them over to Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Tisquantum is believed to have been taught English to serve as a translator in New England. In 1612 he returned to North America with Captain John Smith, who after some service time released him to return to his village.

On his way back to the Patuxet in 1614, Tisquantum was kidnapped by another Englishman, Thomas Hunt. Hunt was one of John Smith’s lieutenants. Hunt was planning to sell fish, corn, and captured natives in Málaga, Spain. There Hunt attempted to sell Tisquantum and a number of other Native Americans into slavery in Spain for £20 apiece.^{[citation needed]}

Some local friars discovered what Hunt was attempting and took the remaining Native Americans — Tisquantum included — in order to instruct them in the Christian faith.^[1] Tisquantum convinced the friars to let him try to return home. He managed to get to London, where he lived with and worked for a few years with John Slany, a shipbuilder who apparently taught Tisquantum more English. Slany took Tisquantum with him when he sailed to Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland.^[2] To get to New England, Tisquantum tried to take part in an expedition to that part of the North American east coast. When that plan fell through, he returned to England in 1618.^{[citation needed]}

At last in 1619 Tisquantum returned to his homeland, having joined an exploratory expedition along the New England coast. He soon discovered that the Patuxet, as well as a majority of coastal New England tribes (mostlyWampanoag and Massachusett), had been decimated the year before by an epidemic plague, possibly smallpox.^{[citation needed]} Native Americans had no natural immunity to European infectious diseases.

Tisquantum finally settled with Pilgrims at the site of his former village, which the English named Plymouth. He helped them recover from an extremely hard first winter by teaching them techniques to increase food production: byfertilizing crops. He also showed them the best places to catch fish and eels. He was critical to their survival.

In 1621, Squanto was the guide and translator for settlers Stephen Hopkins and Edward Winslow as they traveled upland on a diplomatic mission to the Wampanoag sachem, known today as Massasoit. In a subsequent mission for Governor William Bradford that summer, Squanto was captured by Wampanoag while gathering intelligence on the renegade sagamore, Corbitant, at the village of Nemasket (site of present-day Middleborough, Massachusetts.) Myles Standish led a ten-man team of settlers from Plymouth to rescue Squanto if he was alive or, if he had been killed, to avenge him. Squanto was found alive and well. He was welcomed back by the Pilgrims at Plymouth, where he continued in his vital role as assistant to the colony.

Although he worked at alliances, Squanto ended up distrusted by both the English and the Wampanoag. Massasoit, the sachem who first appointed Tisquantum as liaison to the Pilgrims, nevertheless did not trust him in the tribe’s dealings with the settlers. He assigned Hobamok (whose name may have been a pseudonym, as it meant “mischievous”), to watch over Tisquantum and act as a second representative.^{[citation needed]}

On his way back from a meeting to repair damaged relations between the Wampanoag and Pilgrims, Tisquantum became sick with a fever. Historians speculate that he was poisoned by the Wampanoag because they believed he had been disloyal to the sachem.^[3] Peace between the two groups lasted for another fifty years. Squanto died a few days later in 1622 in Chatham, Massachusetts. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Plymouth’s Burial Hill cemetery.^{[citation ne}

Jolly T’s: Christmas T-shirts

Hi everyone,

I want everyone to know that I am not just the art guy at Thompson’s Originals but also a client. If you can’t love what you design then I just don’t see the joy in doing this sort of work.  So…yes I can be my biggest fan and therefore pardon my bias.

With that being said I recently purchased my Christmas wardrobe of T-shirts and the fine folks at Printfection got them printed and out to my door just in time for the Thanksgiving weekend.  In case anyone was wondering the quality of the t-shirt prints from Printfection, (my current choice of online printers) I decided to take a picture with my digital camera. As you can see that the shirts feature a large and bright, bold print and the colors come out flawlessly. True the colors on the darker T-shirts are not as vibrant as they are on the lighter T-shirts they still do stand out rather nicely from the darker shirt material.  (You can click on the image for a larger view.)

I invite everyone to have a further look at my Jolly-T’s Christmas store at www.thompsonstshirts.com or www.jolly-tshirts.com.

Well that’s all for now folks.  Wishing everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

Matt Thompson

a YouTube Christmas vol 1: Christmas Comes to Pac-Land

Hello everyone,

In recent years a new Christmas tradition has come about in my home; which is about locating on the web old Christmas TV episodes and movies, that time seemed to have forgotten.  YouTube has of course been the biggest provider of such Holiday entertainment with user provided videos from Bob Hope to Rudolph.  There is Christmas videos for just about every taste (even some for the more distasteful lot who would rather say Bah Humbug than Merry Christmas.)

I’d thought I share some of the shows I’ve come across over the past couple years on YouTube  in hopes it might brighten your Christmas sprit.  First off, we start with “Christmas Comes to Pac-Land.”  Yes thats right its a Pac-Man Christmas special.  As a kid this was one of my favorites.  Pac-Man + Santa teaming up?   Yes, in the 80’s this was a no brainer.  Back then Pac-Man was king and Santa well…what kid doesn’t love Santa.  In typical kiddy Christmas fashion the story is much like other specials. Something bad has happened on Christmas eve that causes Santa’ toy route to be jeopardized.  It is of course up to our hero, Pac-Man to come through for a distraught Santa, and save Christmas…as if Christmas is something that could ever be saved.  (God Bless Dr. Seuss for correcting that absurd notion in the “Grinch Who Stole Christmas.”)  Nonetheless, it is what it is and Santa’s the toy man/good will ambassador of the world and failure for the jolly elf is not an option.  Sure its silly, and somewhat retro…but hey the cartoon is just a nice piece of holiday nostalgia and if you’ve never seen it then its just a goofy, somewhat pretty, little animated Christmas card from Hannah-Barbara and Namco.

The following is the special separated in three parts.  Runs about 25 minutes.

Enjoy and if you haven’t already done so please visit my website (www.thompsonstshirts.com) for the coolest Christmas T-shirts on the net,  Thanks, Matt

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Thompson’s Original’s Jolly T-shirts Christmas Showcase!

Fresh Starts and Happy Returns

Hello everyone,

On this start to a new week I want to help start you off on the right foot and wish you a happy Sunday and a great week ahead.  Sunday, the fresh start we get once a week. Certainly things can carry over from week to week but I feel that personally as I grow into my thirties I need to separate and recommit, reaffirm and reload…etc…etc.. Sunday is the obvious day to do this because its the first day of the week, its the day before having to go back to work, its the day I can choose to spend time in worship and/or reflection.  I have the opportunity to admit my shortcomings of the week before and at the very least attempt to steer clear of them in the weeks ahead.  I can also review on the positives and be thankful and pray and look forward to future happy moments.

Life is resplendent of such reflective events.  They are not always just quiet moments but times of celebrations as well. Yesterday my parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. A truly monumental milestone in today’s culture as more and more marriages fail but here I must stress that my parents journey together does not end at such a milestone. We do not celebrate and say, “Here’s to the end of the road.” Certainly not!  Even more so in this day and age when people have the ability to live well into their hundreds we raised our glasses and toasted, “To another 40 years!”

So my friends I will tell you what I advise myself every week:  Don’t get caught up in the past.  No matter how rose color and scented those sweet memories are painted in your brain or how haunting a past error or tragedy may be to you.  At the same time honor what had come before in your life with careful reflection and use such time to look ahead and hope for brighter days for they surely will find you if you go looking for them.  Lastly age is but a thing.  Life is not about wear and tear on the body but the journey you make during your time on earth.  Life in general is a miracle and therefore so is your time on this earth.

Have a good week,

Matt Thompson

NY Post: Fort Hood’s 9/11

Hello everyone,

I want to thank you for your continued support of my blogs as this last week has turned more political than I had wanted  to, especially in the light of the upcoming Christmas season.  However I don’t think the issues dealing with the Muslim faith infiltrating our society, taking advantage of our tolerance and then using our rules and laws against us is a left or right issue but an issue important to every American who doesn’t want to live under Sharia Law or feel the wrath of an Islamic terrorist.  The Fort Hood tragedy is a tragedy on so many levels:

1. For the dead and the wounded servicemen,

2. For the fact that the murderer wasn’t shot dead but is being kept alive on taxpayer’s dollars,

3. The revelation of the deterioration of the United States Armed Forces due to the fact that political correctness has taken over its leadership,

4. The government’s and media’s reluctance to call Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist.  Instead the word here being used is “disgruntled”.  Yes, a disgruntled muslim who was bullied…as if this seasoned army officer was a school child.  The press from FOX NEWS to CNN has invited relatives and other Muslim pundits (on both TV and Web) to paint the picture of Hasan as a man driven to madness whose religion was only a side issue.

The only official I have heard make an ounce of sense in this matter is Senator Liberman, who called the slaughter an act of terrorism.  It is sad but there is a portion of this country who was more willing to tie the Oklahoma Bombings in 1995 to talk radio and Christian Fundamentalism then there are people willing to condemn Hasan as an Islamic terrorist and traitor to the US Army whom he served in a time of war.  The only problem with that loony logic is that the planes that were flown into buildings on September 11th weren’t, weren’t hijacked by Christians, or political shock jocks, but Islamic terrorists; neither is it Christian children running into crowded marketplaces blowing up innocent lives, and all though it is not our government official stance that we are fighting a war against Islam but of radical terrorists elements in the Middle East, it is muslim clerics who have justified attacks against America as well has sworn jihad against our nation.

An article was sent my way from the New York Post that clearly illustrates the tragedy of the mass murder and the absurdity of both the government’s and the media’s reaction.  I ask you to read this article as the columnist, Ralph Reed, goes into great detail on just how devious a person this Hasan was, and how inept the government leadership was when handling a soldier who clearly sent up multiple red flags during his tenure at both Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. and at Fort Hood.

Please read an excerpt from the article below or click here to go to the complete article at the New York Post.  And God Bless the men and women who serve not out of hatred, nor wage war against flesh and blood, but serve out of love of country and God, and fights against the tyranny and power of evil principalities that threaten all American’s freedom.  If not for their sacrifice we’d be no more free then the enemies we fight abroad.

As always, Thank You for reading this blog,

Matt Thompson

— article excerpt begins below—

Fort Hood’s 9/11 by Ralph Reed (New York Post)

Islamist terror strikes US again

Ralph Peters

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting “Allahu Akbar!” committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it’s an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as “Palestinian” in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit — well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an “Islamist terrorist.”

But the president won’t. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there’s no such thing as “Islamist terrorism” in ObamaWorld.

And the Army won’t. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism “terrorism.”

And the media won’t. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops — despite their crocodile tears.

Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn’t killed on the spot.

Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming “harassment” drove him temporarily insane. There’ll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn’t dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.

Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he’ll have the last laugh.

But Hasan isn’t the sole guilty party. The US Army’s unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.

Given the myriad warning signs, it’s appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.

Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would’ve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.

Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28 of them seriously. If heads don’t roll in this maggot’s chain of command, the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.

There’s another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with veterans who’ve been assigned to his care? And he’s not removed from duty? What planet does the Army live on?

For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I’m ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him.

Get ready for the apologias. We’ve already heard from the terrorist’s family that “he’s a good American.” In their world, maybe he is.

But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?

A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card, beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she’s becoming too Westernized.

Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we’re assured that “Islam’s a religion of peace.”

I guarantee you that the Obama administration’s non-response to the Ft. Hood attack will mock the memory of our dead.

Islam, Atheists and 2012, oh my!

Hello everyone,

Well it looks like the big movie this month is the Roland Emmerich picture known simply as “2012″.  Emmerich is known as a man who enjoys making disaster films such as “Independence Day”, “Godzilla”, and “The Day After Tomorrow”.  Where in past films he employed aliens, monsters and global warming to wreck the planet, now in his latest action extravaganza the culprit behind the devastation is a date on the calendar.  Yep!  That’s it, for some unexplainable reason the ancient Mayans got it right with their predictions.  Well that makes perfect sense.  I mean they only had human sacrifices and built stone pyramids in the jungle; they had to know more than the rest of the world. After all what is the invention of a complex device like an airplane next to a pyramid.  (Oh an no I don’t want to hear how they had primitive computers that figured out math. Sorry but no electricity, no binary code, no computer.) Now I don’t mean any disrespect.  The Mayans certainly had achievements as a civilization but they ceased to exist as a functioning one somewhere around 1000 years ago.  So I’m a bit skeptical that a date on their ancient calendar means anything at all.  In fact the whole ideal sounds like something out of a grade B disaster…flick…Oh and here is where Emmerich comes in.

Now in past interviews Emmerich has noted that he doesn’t hold any deep seated passions or belief in the subject matter that creates the disasters on screen.  He’s not watching the skies for any aliens as far as it has been reported.  The plot foil is simply a device to deliver big bangs for the buck.  So it is more than likely that “2012″ is simply another golden opportunity for Emmerich to act as the little kid in the sandbox that loves to wreck the sandcastles that he set up, and nothing more.   OK, that’s fine, so what’s the controversy.

Emmerich, this time does, however, seems to be making a point about the futility of all the world’s religions in light of an inevitable calamity that no one can explain.  Judging from Emmerich’s interview at Sci-Fi Wire he seems rather jubilant creating a scene where a massive crowd of Christian worshipers are crushed to death by St. Peters turning over on its side and rolling down the street.  As well there is the crumbling of the “Christ the Redeemer” statue that watches over Rio.  Now to be fair, disasters do befall on non-Christians as well, like when a tidal waves wipes out Buddhist monks on top of a mountain; as well, there are plenty of other secular landmarks being destroyed in this film, and no one is really upset over what is being shown.  If anything judging from the sneak peak clips and commercials that have been released reactions have ranged from awe-inspiring over the special effects to laughter over the absurdity of the film’s audacious spirit to reach new heights in destroying mankind on film. (Once again St. Peters doesn’t collapse…it rolls.)  However it is what the director has willingly omitted from the screen that has ginned up some controversy and it is worth noting that the director himself is pointing out what he omitted, perhaps to gin up some controversy that will sell tickets.

Apparently anything Islam is off the table.  No Mecca being destroyed, no Kaaba.  Emmerich said he wanted to but his co-writer wasn’t willing to be a recipient of a fatwa (Islamic death warrant) over a silly disaster movie.  Emmerich withdrew the idea of showing Islamic landmarks being destroyed and in hindsight said it was the right thing to do given the state of the world.  Now on one hand it is understandable to not want to cause the lives of people who work for you any unnecessary and preventable harm by filming a scene that will incense a radical population of people to violence but on the other hand it does looks rather cowardly and hypocritical.  Especially, given that the director has made it clear in interviews that he enjoyed seeing religious symbols fall because he’s against organized religion.  Well apparently there is still one religion that this “infidel” still has respect for.  True its respect out of fear but Emmerich seems predestined through intimidation to become subjected to Islamic Sharia Law.

Quite frankly the director, Emmerich, is proving to be quite a small man who likes to stir the pot where he knows he can get away with it. Typical of the type Hollywood employs these day. He may hate religion in general or more specifically, the Christian-Judea faiths, because the majority resist against homosexuality on the basis its a perversion of nature and a sin against God, and he is in fact a homosexual.  Yet is such hatred justified? Threatening the lives of innocent and lost souls is beneath us Christians regardless of offense, or any sinful lifestyle; it is however, not necessarily beneath the Islam faith.  Certainly Christians can have feelings; even strong feelings when their institutions and traditions are being attacked, and in heated moments some may even struggle to remember to turn the other cheek but our intention is not to cause harm to people, murder people or enslave them under a tyrannical law such as Sharia.  No we only want lost souls to find their way to salvation, become a brethren in fellowship and follow the Lord to a better life; lastly, to receive the joy that only comes from God’s promise of faith through the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Now the funny thing is I’d be called a radical, by many in Hollywood and the larger media world, for evangelizing on a blog and deemed a bigger threat than a religion that calls all outsiders infidels, and whose clerics justify sending children strapped with bombs into crowded markets of innocent people. Folks the choice is clear you can give your offering to Hollywood who lives largely without faith and bow in fear of tyranny or go to church and have blessed assurance that no one can harm the soul of a life saved by Christ.

Look I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade and I’m not pounding my chest calling for a boycott. Its a free country still and do what you want to do. I simply am raising a question that I have been asking of myself a lot lately when I do go to movies or buy some music or read a book. How much offense can I take, as someone who has pledged my faith and devotion to a loving and forgiving God before I simply say enough and refuse to pay; refuse to fund an entertainment industry that views Christians as the enemy.

Thank you for your time, – Matt

Funny 2012 Trailer Spoof

The Christmas Showcase

Hello everyone. This blog entry is really a follow up to last weeks announcing our new Jolly-Ts Christmas store. Now thanks to some rather splendid software I was able to come up with a video portfolio of the available Christmas designs and even throw some really excellent Christmas music (by the Boston Pops) behind it.

Hope you all enjoy this little piece of infotainment! And if you see something you like please come on over to our store at www.thompsonsoriginals.com or thompsonstshirts.com or even jolly-tshirts.com; (all addresses lead to the same store.) Thanks to our partnering with Printfection you’ll receive top quality prints on 100% cotton Tshirts! So don’t delay! Shop today and get yourself ready for a Jolly good time.

Sincerely

Matt Thompson

New in November!

Hello everybody.  I hope this final week in October is going very well for you all and you are getting ready for Halloween or some other fun Fall festivities.  Speaking of Halloween; yesterday, I visited a huge mall in Wellington Florida.  I was quite surprised, just days before Halloween, by what appeared to my wandering eyes; but, white snowflakes, garland, ornaments, and twinkling lights draped all across the mall in a beautiful festive display.  Now I’m quite accustomed to department stores starting to layout displays all the way back in July but to actually set up Santa’s workshop and his winter wonderland in the court area of the mall, before Halloween?!?  Its outrageous, its preposterous, it reminds me I better get my own Christmas line of t-shirts out!  Ha ha ha.

In all seriousness the crew has been working very hard this last month getting ready for our Christmas store to open, as well offer new merchandise that is seasonal, stylish and fun.  Jolly-T’s our new store has been open for the last few days now and so far we are off to a great start already taking orders. We have Christmas shirts that are festive with all the trimmings of the Holidays and shirts that remember and honor the sacred Reason for the Season, and shirts that are both festive and reverent…after all its Jesus’ Birthday! Christmas stars, candy canes, dogs in Santa hats, Frosty and a whole lot more.

Now you might be wondering about Thanksgiving?  Well we even have a shirt for Thanksgiving with happy Pilgrims and a shirt for New Years Eve?

Georgie the Bichon Frise is also back on a couple T-shirts. Featured in the Georgie-Ts store is our tribute to Cocoa Beach FL and the great surfing tradition of that fair city and tourist town. The shirt is entitled Cocoa Bichon, which, yes, sounds a lot like Boca Bichon, but instead of chilling out on the beach like he did in Boca, this time, this little moon doggy takes to the ocean waves and rides one in on his own surfboard. Gnarly!

The second shirt featuring our favorite Bichon is actually from my personal portfolio collection that I usually reserve for family Christmas cards and such. However; I thought it be nice to share one of my all time favorite pieces of Christmas art with my new friends. It features Georgie with one of my Toy Soldiers that I design every year about this time. The Toy Soldiers have become somewhat of a family tradition thats been going on for 15 years.  This one piece of artwork is from 2006.

Well thats about it now and we’ve got more coming. The wheels don’t stop turning at Thompson’s Originals.  We look forward to your visits and we thank you for your patronage.

http://www.thompsonsoriginals.com
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http://www.jolly-tshirts.com

Sincerely,

Matt Thompson