October Surprise – War with Iran Imminent – Gulf War III

The Brits have sacked the one possible dissenting voice in the Ministry of Defense, Nick Harvey.

And a multi-national task force (exercise) is heading into place in the Strait of Hormuz at this very moment, for the upcoming War with Iran.

Armada of British naval power massing in the Gulf as Israel prepares an Iran strike

An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme….

Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically important Strait of Hormuz in an unprecedented show of force as Israel and Iran move towards the brink of war.

Western leaders are convinced that Iran will retaliate to any attack by attempting to mine or blockade the shipping lane through which passes around 18 million barrels of oil every day, approximately 35 per cent of the world’s petroleum traded by sea.

A blockade would have a catastrophic effect on the fragile economies of Britain, Europe the United States and Japan, all of which rely heavily on oil and gas supplies from the Gulf.

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most congested international waterways. It is only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point and is bordered by the Iranian coast to the north and the United Arab Emirates to the south.

In preparation for any pre-emptive or retaliatory action by Iran, warships from more than 25 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, will today begin an annual 12-day exercise…

Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, reportedly met the Israeli prime minister and Ehud Barak, his defence secretary, two weeks ago in an attempt to avert military action against Iran.

But just last week Mr Netanyahu signalled that time for a negotiated settlement was running out when he said: “The world tells Israel 'Wait, there’s still time.’ And I say, 'Wait for what? Wait until when?’

“Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”

There is even a Facebook page for the upcoming War with Iran for the people likely to be on the frontline of that war in the field protecting the West's lazy crony capitalism addiction to Petroleum. How do you spell Electric Car? Duh!

https://www.facebook.com/IMCMEX12

How lucky that tensions are coming together as a long planned ago exercise - Armada - is coincidentally forming just in time in the Third Gulf War.

http://www.cusnc.navy.mil/IMCMEX/index.html

Paul Ryan’s Deadbeat Bishop Morlino Wants Names for Inquisition - Priests and Lowly Catholic Serf Subjects – Black Helicopters Ready to Roll on the Catholics in Madison after Election?

Black Helicopters - Practice Run - Madison Diocese

Paul Ryan’s deadbeat Bishop “Porkpie” Morlino commissioned a survey regarding his desired for quarter of a billion dollar cathedral, complete with underground parking and acres and acres of exclusive mausoleum vaults.

The firm that took confidential information from priests and Catholic Parishioners in the Madison Diocese refused to turn confidential information over to the diocese to see who hates Bishop “Pork Pie” as they call him behind his back.

There is a trend now among the White Trash American bishops these days, even a competition you might say, to build these proposed 60 and 70 million dollar new cathedrals with costs that mushroom out of control with construction costs and kickbacks in cash to the bishops and the Vatican that tithe payers are burdened with paying under penalty of losing their place in heaven. 

These New Cathedrals once built are cash cows on the indoor parking fees and the mausoleum vaults can also be used also to hide Cash, Cartel Drugs and Arms in the business related worldwide Vatican Bank money laundering empire.

He commissioned a confidential report. Stiffed (deadbeat) the Survey Taker for not surrendering confidential names and information and is now being sued for the Fascist Dictator he really is.

With his being a chaplain with the School of the Americas South American Military Training (and Torture) Institute, it will no doubt make it easy for the Black Helicopter division of that Institute to swoop down and disappear and silence his critics in Madison after Paul Ryan is elected Vice President.

Bishop Morlino BTW does not endorse Uber Catholic and Patriot Paul Ryan for Vice President.

A fundraising firm hired by the Madison Catholic Diocese to gauge support for rebuilding St. Raphael Cathedral says Bishop Robert Morlino insisted the firm turn over confidential information gathered from surveys and interviews, including the names of priests who complained about Morlino.

The firm, Phoenix Fundraising Counsel of Madison, says it refused to disclose the confidential data on priests and parishioners and now can’t get the diocese to pay its bill.

It has sued the diocese in Dane County Circuit Court for payment of at least $350,000, which includes work on a feasibility study and a planned capital campaign.

Bishop "Porkpie" Morlino of Madison Wisconsin

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Hideous Obscene Silence Fm B16 Re KC MO Church Cancer Continues - FYI - Finn/Ratigan Support Group Forming at USCCB – Sign up today Bishops!

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His Majesty - King of New York - Timothy Dolan - Obsolete - Irrelevant - Evil Silence of the USCCB on Bobby Finn!

Her Majesty - Chumbawamba Lyrics

Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she doesn't
have a lot to say Her majesty's a pretty nice girl
but she changes from day to day I wanna tell her
that I love her a lot, but I gotta get a belly
full of wine Her majesty's a pretty nice girl
someday I'm gonna make her mine Oh yeah, someday
I'm gonna make her mine

Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she never
does a thing for me Her majesty's a pretty nice
girl but she keeps the worst company All the lords
and the ladies in waiting all crawling in the dirt
like swine Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but I
hope she's the end of the line Oh yeah, I hope
she's the end of the line

Her majesty's living in a land of curtsies A world
of blue blood and Nazis, yeah

Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she
ought to call it a day Her majesty's a pretty nice
girl without one good reason to stay I'd like to
take her for a whiskey or two, but I've got a lot
of things to do Her majesty's a throwaway song
just short of a chorus or two Oh yeah, short of a
chorus or two

A world of corgies and inbreeding The royal corpse
is barely breathing

Her majesty's a pretty nice girl with a circus for
a family Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but
she's stuck with the royal We I'd like to show her
around the center of town but I haven't got a
carpet for her feet Her majesty's a pretty nice
girl but she's pretty much obsolete Oh yeah, she's
pretty much obsolete

Bishop Finn - Kansas City Missouri

His Majesty, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has not got a lot to say about exclusive fellow male club member "Pedophilia Bob" still running the Diocese of Kansas City Missouri - 

Typical Failed American CEO - 

Cover up and Play! - Cover up and Pay! 

Bonuses. Bonuses. Bonuses - to all his bugger priests!


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Coming World Tsunami of Ignorance through Religion – Crony Vested Mormon Ponzi Charity Etc.

I am wondering what is the real Jew deal is regarding the latest Ed Wood Hollywood flick “Plan 9 from Planet Mohammad” to incite riots in Egypt and force Obama’s political hand in a close election to let Israel INC. start a war for profit in Iran?

Religion really sucks on a world stage.

My number one rule for the global common culture thing is – Never let the common cultural (religion) context thing mix with the global commonality. It is of course a two way street.  Don’t be the UglyAmerican tourist type and come from a global cultural sphere and insult the isolated, insulated common cultural context. (Manufacture and or pretend some Respect.)

 

Nothing new in anything I am saying. It is just the old extinct for the moment American Town Square expanded onto a global grid. The town square has been with us since the beginning of the common human culture of the last 100,000 years or so. The virtual local and global town square of present day reality needs a lot of tweeking before it gets back to a classic scale of working right in the right balance of family, country and the religion thingy.

Whatever.

Hello! Earth to Romney. Earth to Romney.

There are people and lives and livelihoods down here on the ground aside from you Family, you Religion and you Business.

Yes Mitt. It is all about YOU!

Pssst.  Pssst.  The CEO job you are applying for is not just about You or You Family, You Religion, You Money. Mo’ Money. Mo’ Money. Mo’ Money.

The CEO or POTUS is about managing a government that has reign/rein over 310 million people.

To paraphrase Comrade Stalin’s famous quote. One person is real while a million is merely a statistic.

And that kinda brings me to Spreadsheets and Business and Profits.  You, like George W. Bush, never really worked a day in your life.  Jerking off on business spreadsheets, chopping benefits, chopping jobs, chopping up lives all in favor of the bottom line is something a robot can do but not a real man doing a real job BTW.

And the connecting factor to humanity is empathy and not social-pathy or narcissism.  Reality is Not a Spreadsheet.  That is the delusion all of humanity is trying to work their heads around at the moment in this transitional age from the local to the global and the future balanced local and global town square of all mankind. 

I am sorry that you think that paying Social Security to the elderly or the disabled is not like the Crony Charity Ponzi scam you Mo’mons practice.

I have heard and read how that all works. If you are heavily vested in the tithing thing for decades and so are all your relatives, you open up a warehouse full of Aldi Supermarket generic type dry and canned goods (all full of HFCS btw) and the unemployed or the temporarily disabled get a meal – Mormon Magic. 

The Mormon Meal Deal is all about profit for the church and all about doling out "charity" (dividend on investments) to your cronies should the need arise.

I have heard and read about Mormons, newly joined and in trouble, especially single wed or unwed mothers, and the answer is for the unvested Mormons to give up the kid and start over and this time get it right next time finding the right man to take care of you.

What does it cost for Mormons to give real charity to strangers or the unvested? Too much apparently Bishop Romney.

What does it Profit a Bain Man to gain the whole world and miss his rocket ship flight to the planet Kolob when he dies?

Your Joe Smith seafront property in Arizona land scam sounds a little bit like Ronny Hubbard’s swampland in Florida land for sale scam called Xenu.  Whatever.

Jesus said to love your neighbor. To feed and clothe and shelter the stranger. The Samaritan. That is the Christianity I sort of grew up with and or understood it to be once upon a time before the Age of Neocon American Bishops and the fundamentalist Right becoming vested, entitled with the government in the “faith” based charity racket for profit business of what MBA Bush set it up to be.

Bush for being an inbred idiot was not that stupid. He hired the right people. He hired Karl Rove, an atheist to get an inbred idiot into his “faith based” office and keep him there.

While it is not PC to say that most Mormons who married their half-siblings and first cousins for generations are a little bit inbred, I won’t say it Mitt.

You break the mold on that theory.  I am still scratching my head on how they got George W’s brain got into a male model’s body?

The secret is not so obvious when the empathy thing for humanity comes lacking in the package.

Whatever.

Have a nice day.

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Pig Shit Irish! - White Trash American Bishops – in Charge in America? – USCCB

"Silk Lace Irish"? - No! Pig Shit non-registered Missouri sex offender.

When did the American RCC get turned into a fascist arm of the Tea Baggers Party?

When did Chaff Farmers from the Midwest dare to come to the East or West Coast of America and soil the bishops’ chairs in the civilised parts of America?

There are three tiers of Irish BTW – Shanty – Silk Lace (Curtain) – and Pig Shit Irish.

Bishop Robert Finn lets “boys be boys” and let his BFF priest buddy father Ratigan keep his kiddie porn collection of “art” photos of little girls, and Finn only technically got convicted of aiding and abetting or something like that.

In most American States he would now have to be a “Registered Sex Offender”.  Which makes me think that Missouri does not register sex offenders or the wording of the crooked deal cut with Missouri Court officials saves “Silk Lace” Bobby from having to register as a sex offender.

The Vatican is Silent.

The Pig Shit Irish Archbishop of New York, President of the USCCB, is silent.

The pope may not be liable to lawsuits as Finn is not an “employee” in the eyes of the American Courts.

Which makes me think that maybe the World Court should start a case against the Bishop of Rome for aiding and abetting a convicted aiding and abetting child abuser.

Any Catholics in Kansas City that still contribute cash to Finn are obviously part of this criminal empire and are equal aiders and abettors of perversion.

Don’t lower my Shanty Irish status to Pig Shit (guilt by cultural association) just because crooked micks like Finn, Dolan and Burke are in charge of the American RC church!

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Knights of Columbus Protect Bishop Finn Kansas City? http://t.co/nqSq5HFHYP #knightsofcolumbus, #childabuse #KansasCity #RobertFinn #SNAP
— Mike McShea (@mc_shea1) October 29, 2013

Off to Visit President Romney and First Lady Ann

Finally a real A-merican back in the White House.

Just like us. 

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Philly Street Scene - 1897

Matthew Never Threshed Wheat – The Urban Gospels – “Chaff Farmers” – Cookie Cutter RC Bishops

I look at all the Chaff Farmers, American Bishops raised in farmland and the Midwest that now seem to dominate the once great RC dioceses on the East and West Coast of America.  

These Chaff Farmer/Clerics, had very few choices handed to them in their youth, their only meal ticket choice in Fly Over Country and or Nowhere USA was to either stay on the farm or to go to a seminary.

I am reminded by a comment elsewhere about all the really Chaff Farmers (my term) coming out of, or by their association with states like Wisconsin and Missouri.

I am reminded of my belief that the original gospels were probably not written by actual witnesses of the historic man and or myth of Jesus.

I am reminded that Jesus probably preached to the rural poor, to farmers, to itinerate day labor of farms, something I think Jesus did at one time or another.

I am reminded that Chaff is the part of the Wheat that is unwholesome and hard to digest and not being all that nutritious.

While the metaphor in the gospel of Matthew about God and or a Son of Man figure separating the wheat from the chaff, the unwanted part and throwing it and or they into fire is a metaphor that negates the idea that the very poor that Jesus preached to, like they had the luxury of wasting part of a food product in the day to day battle of survival.

Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Even if the chaff is a byproduct, it can be mixed with other animal feed to sustain those animals. It can be put back into the soil as a form of nutrient. It can also be burned but probably on a cold winter’s night in the corner fire place. It is not wasted. 

All in all, it fits into what I have previously said about the parable of the mustard seed, a product that something the poor of Palestine knew nothing about.  That up until the twentieth century with mechanized farming, modern transportation and marketing did mustard makes its way onto the middle class tables of the west as a cheap condiment.

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2012/01/fake-mustard-seed-parable-greco-roman.html

Indeed, I feel certain that the Jesus-y feel of the mustard seed parable has an overlaying stink of an urban scholar that knows all the aspects of primitive botany from books and also commodity profits of an earthy sounding farm product that Jesus must have had knowledge of, but probably did not.

In fact, in one of the synoptic passages, the mustard seed parable is preceded by a parable of weeds among wheat. While an urban dweller who wrote this mustard seed parable might stick his nose up at weeds, many weeds are indeed edible and the poor, the starving unentitled poor, Jesus’ poor, would have gathered up many of those weeds separated eventually from the wheat and ate them. Survival makes more sense than urban vested scholarship in the early church’s reconstruction of a holy man who few if any recorded any details about.

Not only eat the weeds, but dry the ones that were not edible and use them as fuel, not burn them up foolishly like waste in an urban middle class garden.

Which puts perhaps puts me at odds with the term Chaff Farmers. But in their case they seem to me of late a waste product interfering in politics and not understanding the delicate nature of the fabric of democracy.  

Indeed, for this modern crop of yokels, wearing thousands of dollars of silk robes they read rules out of a rulebook not unlike a Pennsylvania State Trooper on the Pennsylvania Turnpike but with less enthusiasm than the Trooper.

 

A cookie cutter class of cleric but one that are uniform in shape of their training and non-outlook in life, in their total lack of heart, since they only serve a kingdom not of this world, which might fool some unless they got to see the real balance sheet of the Vatican Bank.

God is not in a rulebook. Not 613 rules of the Torah or 613 odd pages of catechism. A richly dressed class of hypocritical Pharisees is still just a richly bunch of Pharisees in any time, place or culture.

Chaff yes. To be thrown out into fire? Useful? Hardly.

Moral? (rhetorical question) (more like a punch line) LOL

Have a nice day.

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Memory Gospel Dancers – Southland Tales

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Ragtime Philly

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Bishop Robert Finn to be Made Cardinal in Chicago (a rumor) – Why Not! – Hates Women – Hates Gays – Hates Kids Too!

Off the record Your Holiness…Yes Holy Father, I am happy to report that the American Courts are just as Corrupt as Ray Burke’s anything done for a bribe Vatican Court. --  Very good, my son. Very good indeed. 

In reaction to the locals in Kansas City Missouri on the Facebook page “Bishop Finn Must Go” and their retarded efforts to remove the pedophile protector and enabler Bishop Robert Finn from office a comment made by “I Sinton” in my recent article posted on that Facebook page:

I’m tired of all this requests for letter writing to the pope, respectful requests for Finn to step down and other rhetoric. The big guys who wear funny hats don’t care about the little people’s ( not leprechauns little people ) opinions. If you want Finn out of office, its simple.

Start a rumor, and all it needs to be is a rumor, that after he made the ‘Boys will be boys’ comment. He paused and said ‘If I could ordain women, I wouldn’t have this problem’. 

My bet is he will be gone by Wednesday.

How long have Catholics played the game ? You know the rules: 

Ordaining women = End of the world,

Children’s physical, emotional, spiritual welfare = who cares?

I’m from Philly. PA. We do things different than youse guys. Did you hear about the trial we had recently ? 

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The Pink Palace New York - Ghosts of 452 Madison Avenue - Franny Spellman - Politics of Blackmail

The Pink Palace - 452 Madison Ave - NYC

Cardinal Spellman's Dark Legacy

For years
rumors abounded about Cardinal Spellman being a homosexual. As a result, many
felt–and continue to feel–that Spellman the public moralist may well
have been a contradiction of the man of the flesh. Others within the Church
and outside have steadfastly dismissed such claims. Finally, to make an absolute
statement about Spellman’s sexual activities is to invite an irresolvable
debate and to deflect attention from his words and deeds.

The dutiful
Times then had another former U.S. ambassador to Ireland and friend of
the Church, William V. Shannon, review The American Pope for the Book
Review. Shannon’s review was scathing, attacking Cooney for even bringing
the subject up at all: “Prurient interest in the sex lives of public figures
serves no useful purpose.”

A Jesuit
priest wrote a letter to the Book Review, published a few weeks later:
“Cardinal Spellman’s sex life does not matter, but [his] homosexuality
does… It matters to thousands of people whose jobs, relationships and whose
very lives are threatened because of their sexuality, all the while being forced
to view and eat the hypocrisy of their church. And it enrages people that church
men and women can retain their jobs, hiding behind their clerical and religious
statutes while their own people suffer persecution, disease and discrimination.”

Sadly, the
Jesuit’s words still ring true today, almost 20 years later. While Spellman
has been long dead, his legacy of hypocrisy lives on: there are closeted homosexuals–often
condemning “sexual immorality” publicly while having gay sex privately–throughout
the uppermost echelons of the church today. The gay movement in the past 15
years has taken on the Hollywood closet and the Washington political closet,
both with dramatic success–and both those institutions have p.r. operations
far more sophisticated than the Vatican’s antiquated machine, which can’t
even seem to get the aging cardinals to attend a press conference. The media
these days also has a much greater appetite for exposing sexual hypocrisy, and
is no longer cowed by the Catholic Church. Going down this treacherous road
of increased gay-bashing and scapegoating, the Vatican perhaps doesn’t
realize what it may be unleashing upon itself. If I were a closeted bishop or
cardinal in America, I would be very afraid.

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Additional: Francis Spellman - Patron Saint of Closeted Clergy    

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Street Scenes - Philly - 1940s/50s

Walk home from "El" Train

Approaching "47" Trolley

Roosevelt Boulevard

Street laborer drinks from milk bottle filled with water.

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Philadelphia - Market Street Wharf With Ferry Boats "Baltic" And "Artic" Docked At the Pier – circa 1881

(click on image to enlarge)

…the "America," which was built on the flats then north of Market street, midway between Front street and Delaware avenue, and launched July 11, 1868. The "America" with the "Mechanic" and "West Jersey" constituted the equipment until the advent of the newer and more pretentious boats with which we are now familiar. The "Columbia" was built in 1876, the "Arctic" in 1879, and the "Baltic" in 1881. …

The rate of fare on all the ferry boats between Camden and Philadelphia was on January 1, 1880, reduced to three cents a trip, or nine tickets for twenty five cents. On August 26 1920 the fare was raised to four cents a trip, or eight tickets for thirty cents.

Old Ferries...



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