Elvis, Jesus on Toast – Mary on a Mountain – Hand of Mohammed

Mary on the Mountain?

It has taken some time to write this. It was coincidence or serendipity that the topic of seeing Jesus or Elvis on a piece of toast kind of thing came up recently for me.

I can remember meditating on my lunch hour, sitting on a low wall behind Wal-Mart in some little shade on the recreational walkway, bike, park trail along the Rillito (little river) River in Tucson about fifteen years ago.

I was meditating trying to relieve middle age and work stress.  I opened my eyes and then I focused on a distant peak, part of the Santa Catalina mountain range.  I was looking specifically at the large smudge like area on Big Horn Mountain.

In the noon day sun, a summer Arizona sun I should add, I saw what appeared to be the Christian Icon of Mary on the side of the mountain. As I wrote previously, only a Christian is likely to see Christian iconography and iconic images in the abstract darks and grays of a mountain side. That and only mad men in the noon day desert sun are crazy enough to see God and or start world religions sometimes.

With some additional lunch time meditation sessions, I began to make out more of the total image surrounding the Mary iconic image that I imagined that I saw connecting the dots on a mountain side.

It was then that the words of Revelation 12 seem to take shape before my eyes:

Revelation 12 - A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. ² She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.  ⁵ She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. ⁶ The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of…

¹³ When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. ¹⁴ The woman was given the two wings as of a great eagle (angel), so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time…

Along with the opening words of Psalm 121:

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth.

Of course all this was against a backdrop of being in bible study with my local pastor.  And seeing Mary, which was more so a Catholic Icon than a Protestant Icon, and as then being Protestant, I discounted the Mary image seen and kept it to myself. No point in running around sounding like a lunatic and saying there was a giant image of Mary on some mountainside in Tucson.

Though I must recall and admit that my local pastor at the time on our group study of Luke sparked a certain chemistry and or electricity within the group that I file mentally under the category of Holy Spirit (whenever two or more are gathered in my name...).

Fast forward, we move back east for some years and I keep the image, the Jesus, Elvis image on toast, Mary on a mountain thing in the back of my mind.

Some years later I go visit my son in college at Tucson and again am seeing Christian Iconography on a mountain.  From the second floor balcony of his dorm apartment I show him the outline of the smudge on the mountain and tell him what I think I see.  He does not see the image of a woman and child. He says he sees what looks like five fingers on a hand.  Shadows can be so tricky.  I look again and yes I guess you might also see a hand.

And of course since I am so steeped in esoterics and religious lore, I see both images, of Mary and also of the hand.  I see what I choose to see.  What I have in confidence and or in faith am willing to see.

And of course looking, connecting the dots on the image of a hand, I am reminded of the Hand of Mohammed, whose original handprint is said to be imprinted on a charter of protection to the ancient St. Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai Desert.

What is in a name? Or an image? The global reality of the present global culture  is to try and see with all the eyes of all cultures and see what best results in image or form evolve out of all those local cultural and religious contexts of the planet. 

So it goes.

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Pedophile Bonus Bishop Timmy Dolan to Bless GOP Convention - Paul Ryan his kind of “Boy”, Ayn-Ryan Catholicism

Happy with your bonuses Guys? I aim to please.

Pedophile Bonus Paying Archbishop Timmy Dolan to Bless the GOP Convention.

Dolan has been curiously silent since his Bonuses to Perverts Program in his salad days in Milwaukee scandal broke in the Press recently.  Off to Ireland for an official Church conference and not a peep since in the media until present when he announces his love of the property party – Angry White Man’s Party – the GOP.

While he has not officially given the Papist Seal of Approval to the Romney Ryan Ticket, Timmy has expressed his approval of Catholic Paul Ryan as his kind of “boy”.

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Judge Head Lubbock Texas – Slave Rebellion about to Attack Massa’s Plantation House – and other Shit His Father Told Him

Lubbock Texas, a shit hole, in the middle of nowhere is about to be attacked by a Nigra Slave Rebellion aka Civil War if the Nigra President Barack Obama gets reelected – according to Judge “Massa Tom” Head in Lubbock Texas.

Some of this paranoid old shit that has been passed around the family campfire of the Head Family since before the War Between the States is getting quite old.

Indeed, Representative Todd Akin of Missouri is still talking down the rules, justification for his great great grandfathers raping the slaves in the day back before the Civil War.

The Civil War happened. You Lost! They freed the Slaves! GET OVER IT!

All this ancient recycled paranoid town square horse shit verbiage in the "current" Tea Party culture should be separated for reality from the shit your fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers etc. said to you over a hundred years ago.

Judge Head and Representative Akin are two embarrassments to us real Americans in the 21st century to the rest of the planet and our common global culture. 

GET A LIFE Judge Head.  GET A LIFE Lubbock!

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Medicare Vouchers – Redeemable only at an I.M.A. Bain Capital Crony Healthcare Company Store

Medicare Voucher System – take the worthless piece of scrip government I.O.U. and present it at your local office of the I.M.A. Bain Captial Crony Healthcare Company Store.

Old story of the 19-th century done all over again with a modern scrip(t).

The “Medicare Voucher”, “Scrip”, “Trade Token” “Food Stamp” healthcare will be inferior and cost much much more than the value delivered.  No Bang for the Buck. No competition. Take it or leave it old people.

A Con Job of the Man, the Robber Baron Man who wants your soul at His (Bain Capital) Company Store. 

Todd Akin – The Mind of a Serial Rapist? – GOP = Angry White Man’s Party

Representative Todd Akin’s 13^th century wives’ tale about “Legitimate Rape” being good birth control up there with abstinence and wishful thinking makes me wonder what sort of cocoon this man has been living in all these decades.

 

It makes me wonder what kind of mind, a delusional mind, minds that surround him in the Angry White Man’s Party in Congress aka the GOP.

And you have this young guy Paul Ryan standing next to Todd Akin and sponsoring legislation that defines “forcible rape” and you know Paul has never had an original thought in his entire life. All his life he has poll parroted the official Party Line of the Angry White Man’s Party and gotten handsomely rewarded for it in politics.  

The only black men I imagine Paul Ryan has even seen, being from pure white Nordic Wisconsin, are the security guards in the Capitol. (Or when he is so resentfully in the Oval Office?) I doubt he has ever even said a “Hi, how are you?” to those guards, that wage slave servant class of the Congress. 

So, in a way the definitions of rape that so easily roll off the lips of Todd Akin are the words of complete and total ignorance or they are the words from the mind of a serial rapist? Or of a long standing serial rapist mentality as part of some subculture? Not that Todd has ever raped anyone that we know of.  But one has to wonder the way he treats women verbally, he must have learned at an early age that women were automatically inferior to himself based solely on the fact that he was born with the first class unquestionable male entitlement of a penis.

A culture of (male owned) property entitlement and not people entitlement is what America is currently all about I think.

And I have to say, I am tired of all the outrageous coded talk of the Angry White Man’s Party and the kkkristian fundamentalists who spend 110% of the time talking about nothing useful for the economy or the day to day life in any American community.

I realize of late that so many men in American Politics of the GOP are reitierating the same shit their father said, their grandfathers said, their great grandfathers said etc.

The stupid utterances of Todd Akin went global.  They are talking about that ignorant man and base level, corrupted level, of human sexuality framed in eternal superstition and ignorance in America.  They are talking about this in Africa and even undemocratic China.

The GOP of course is denying complicity in the Serial Rapist mentality of so many in the Angry White Man’s Party AWMP and for Todd Akin letting the cat out of the bag so to speak that excuses most rape within the realm of white male entitlement.  

The rest of us are supposed to live with these, their bizarre outrageous lies about human sexuality.

And in a way, the Southern Strategy of Richard Nixon and raising the South and its mongrel culture of religion, guns and rape (male entitlement) to the forefront of American Culture is what we have to live with at this moment in time until a lot of these Angry White Males die off and the rest of us can get on with living a diverse tolerant life together as a nation.

I do not think that Rep. Akin left the cat out of the bag last week so much as he metaphorically published pictures (lightbulbs went on ! across America in a visual brain epiphany) of the secret room out behind the barn where Massa Todd secretly (in his mind at least) rapes his slaves, both male and female or was it that his great great grandfather did such in the good old days before the Civil War. And the sins of the father are troubled upon the generations to come in any family. 

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Otters on the Thames - Greenwich

President Michael D Higgins of Ireland Rant – Against White Trash War Mongering Tea Party in United States – May 2010

Michael D. Higgins

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Christopher Wren - Saint Paul's Cathedral London

Christopher Wren - 1632 ~ 1723

Interior - Saint Paul's Cathedral London - 1708

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Broad Street - Philadelphia - 1895

Broad Street South - from City Hall

Broad Street North - from City Hall

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Chateau Chaput - Philadelphia -16 Room Cottage to Be Sold

Archbishop Chaput's "16 Room" Mansion

The archbishop's residence, a 16-room mansion, was purchased by Cardinal Dennis Dougherty in 1935 and has been the home of Philadelphia's archbishops ever since. It is expected to be sold in a private sale in the near future.

Egerton House - 1882

Egerton House – 1882 – Built for Mrs. Edward Scull, architect Addison Hutton – before 1925 expansion, additions on both sides.

Bought by Cardinal Dougherty in 1935 for $117,500. Present day residence of Philly RC Archbishop. Presently listed in the media as 16 rooms?

5700 E City Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.

8.69 acres, $718,000 estimated value, 12,627 sq. ft. interior (?)

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Rapist Daddy Parental Rights Protected – Todd Akin, Paul Ryan Sponsored Laws – Real Men Don’t Rape

31 states in the United States give unrestricted Parental Rights to all Rapists.

That’s 18 years and 9 months of Rapist Daddy calling up for his weekend visitation rights to His Child.

That’s 18 years and 9 months of begging Rapist Daddy for child support payments.

And if a Todd or the Romney or a Ryan rich type rapes you and hides his assets offshore, well go on welfare bitch.

“Your honor, the mother of MY CHILD is a WELFARE QUEEN and I want 100% custody and My Child’s entitlement, his or her welfare check.”

“Granted!” (you poor man)

Oh those sluts that tease men to rape them.  Oh those welfare queens who drop kids at the drop of the hat just to get onto welfare.

God save our pure white male Republican Family Value system!

(Cringe!)

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Catholic Deer Killer – Paul Ryan and the Perfect Shoot

The perfect shot - deer and photo

There is something too annoyingly perfect about both the Romney and the Ryan families.  I have already stated some of my opinions on the Romney Tribe.

Paul has stated that he is a Catholic Deer Hunter. Wow! How Macho! How Alpha Male!

And that is what annoys me in the perfect image that closeted business welfare queen Paul Ryan presents to the world as the normal Paul.

Living in a modest, big by the 1920s professional standards, house with eight bathrooms. Wow! People need to pee in that house. Or they don’t have to walk down the hall a few feet to pee.  Or water is dirt cheap in Wisconsin and the Ryan family don’t have to share a bathroom with anybody else including their spouse.  A good Catholic household like the Ryans will never see a parent or sibling naked in that house. 

Catholics are so uptight about nudity and sex etc.  It is of course their own business.  It is their owned religion.

The thing about all the perfect things about alpha male Paul Ryan is that he reminds me of a high school alpha male jock type who probably was popular with the girls and a bully to all the nerds.

All well and good.  But most people go beyond their high school images and social functions of themselves.  If Ryan was not Republican and an aging jock type, I would have guessed he would have gone through a Metrosexual phase as a young adult prior to marriage in that he would have dressed perfectly, had his hair done perfectly etc.

Ryan’s hair does seem to be glued in place without even a single hair out of place.

I know that the Deer Killer photo above was not photo shopped but it seems too perfect to me and it was probably selected no doubt from many others for official Ryan press release to the little people of the public realm.

One thing different from myself and Paul and all my male relatives who I remember as a child going off to and back from the male honored food gathering killing fields of the forests.

I am glad that Paul thought to shave just prior to his perfect Catholic Deer Killer photo op.

My relatives never shaved when they went off to shoot some deer meat to feed their families.  Paul obviously has got a compulsive obsessive need to look perfect even while shooting deer.

So perfect.

Whatever.

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Trust Me - Two Words Romney and Ryan Have In Common With Bernie Madoff

Nothing says trust better to the little people than wearing Dockers. 

Closet Tax Cheating Business Welfare Queens Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan out on the campaign trail selling the classic Bernie Madoff "Trust Me" lie to the American People.

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Is Janna Ryan’s Name on the Missing Romney Tax Returns as His Tax Attorney?

As I am a timeline historian of sorts, I have to wonder when was the first time Mitt Romney met Janna Ryan, wife of buff U.S. Representative Paul Ryan? 

Was it at Norfolk Virginia ten odd days ago in front of the U.S.S. Wisconsin floating museum?

Or was it in 1998, in the Washington DC office of tax attorney Janna Little, with Mitt looking to hide cash offshore to avoid taxes?

Of course Janna is now a stay at home mom and no longer dabbles in the tax thingy even for friends and or relatives out the family home office mentioned on tax returns?

But knowing cautious, paranoid, secretive Mormon Mitt Romney, it is likely he wants to keep the Vice Presidency in the family, tax family that is?

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Janna Ryan’s Black Sheep Uncle by Marriage – Governor David L. Boren of Oklahoma

Janna Ryan’s press releases mention her red neck granddaddy Reuel W. Little who ran unsuccessfully for Governor.  Grandad Little supported George Wallace by forming his own John Bircher type third party in Oklahoma, the American Party, so that Wallace could be on the ballot in OK in 1968.

Her uncle by marriage to her aunt Janna Lou Little is David L. Boren, who did successfully run for Governor of Oklahoma 1975-1979.  And was Democratic Senator from Oklahoma 1979-1994.

Governor Boren is not mentioned directly in the Janna Ryan press releases.  Was it because he endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and is not likely to endorse him a second time around, family connections as all that? Or that her aunt divorced Boren and divorce is a sin in the Ryan Catholic household?

The Democrats are strangely silent too on this Black Sheep of the Little/Ryan family/dynasty. Perhaps it was because Senator Boren defied the Teddy Kennedy wing of the Dem party by voting for Robert Bork on the Supreme Court?

In any case, it sure helps for a struggling young Wellesley graduate with a law degree in tax avoidance to set up shop in digs like Washington DC where her uncle, black sheep or not, knew a few important people.  (Wink, nod)

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Janna Ryan, An Average Lawyer, Lobbyist, Trust Fund Baby, Stay At Home Mom / Oil Business Welfare Queen

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Paul Ryan's little woman stays at home and takes care of the kids.  Unlike the majority of women in America who have to juggle a job outside the home to make ends meet for their families, some moms can afford to stay at home and clip coupons and count the cash in the “blind” trust from mumsy and daddy in the oil industry and benefit from a Congressman husband who can make laws that gives gifts, subsidies, privileges, tax breaks to all your family in Oklahoma, an oil state economy, and in oil related businesses.

Oil heiress Janna Ryan, besides the trust fund thingy, is leveraged to the gills in oil speculation, fracking and any other petro dollar scams, scams that drive gasoline prices in this country half a dollar to a dollar more than it should be at the pump. Just an average stay at home mom with hubby Paul Ryan driving the station wagon to church on Sunday and praying that the poor will just go away and die and stop demanding bread and shelter on the Ryan’s hard earned tax dollars.  They are going to be billionaires one day and all on real taxpayers' dimes. 

Big Business Welfare Queens, the Ryans of Janeville Wisconsin.

7. Ryan supports $40 billion in subsides for big oil. In 2011, Ryan joined all House Republicans and 13 Democrats in his vote to keep Big Oil tax loopholes as part of the FY 2011 spending bill. His budget would retain a decade’s worth of oil tax breaks worth $40 billion, while cutting “billions of dollars from investments to develop alternative fuels and clean energy technologies that would serve as substitutes for oil.” For instance, it “calls for a $3 billion cut in energy programs in FY 2013 alone” and would spend only $150 million over five years — or 20 percent of what was invested in 2012 — on energy programs.
8. Ryan has ownership stakes in companies that benefit from oil subsidies . Ryan “and his wife, Janna, owns stakes in four family companies that lease land in Texas and Oklahoma to the very energy companies that benefit from the tax subsidies in Ryan’s budget plan,” the Daily Beast reported in June of 2011. “Ryan’s father-in-law, Daniel Little, who runs the companies, told Newsweek and The Daily Beast that the family companies are currently leasing the land for mining and drilling to energy giants such as Chesapeake Energy, Devon, and XTO Energy, a recently acquired subsidiary of ExxonMobil.”

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Comedian Kate Hendricks as Ann Romney and not Janna Ryan (right)

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2013/08/kate-wasp-kate-hendricks-nyc-comedian.html