Thursday, August 22, 2013

Horse Framed Through Train Station Entrance Ways







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Henry Disston Mausoleum







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Old NYC Post Office





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DeSoto Plastic Medallion - Interior Car Door Ornament





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Cornelius and Baker





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Yes Lucy - Yes Desi - No Joke - This Is The Face Of Cuban America - Ted Cruz - (lol)





No joke, this the face of modern Cuba America.(right) (extreme right)

Eeeewwwww.


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Obama to Seize All White Country Clubs Per Agenda 21 - Ted Cruz and Glenn Beck Tin Hat Conspiracy





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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Rafael Cruz, Pastor of a Purifying Fire Religion Franchise in Carrollton Texas – Part of the Benny/Suzanne Hinn “Christian” Worldwide Tax Racket Empire


Pastor Rafael Cruz of Purifying Fire Ministries Carrollton Texas

When the media uses the word “pastor” to describe the grifter, once illegal immigrant, father of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, they are no doubt not going into any church building but merely quoting some checked mark, or line from one of his tax returns claiming tax exemption for his “religious” efforts to launder cash for the poor and needy? – with his mail order minister’s certificate???

So there was no "discussion" when Cruz accused the entire Democratic Party of "assaults on the church itself." 
 To Cruz, requiring faith-based hospitals and schools to match secular employers' insurance is about punishing churches and charging them for "violating their faith." 
 He talked about his religious liberty work in Attorney General Greg Abbott's office defending a Ten Commandments monument and the words "under God" in pledges. 
 "It is astonishing how frequently our religious liberty is under assault," Cruz said. 
 He introduced his father, Cuban immigrant Rafael Cruz, an evangelist with Carrollton-based Purifying Fire Ministries. 
 When it was Krause's turn, Ted Cruz described the young graduate of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University School of Law as a "warrior" and "extremely strong" in Austin. 
 Krause called for a state constitutional amendment upholding religious liberty. That's something voters elsewhere already defeated over concern about child abuse cases. 
 His comment on science included a remark about how many young adults support gay rights because they lack education in the "important role the traditional family has played in our culture." 


A Million Dollar Used Thrift Store Sofa and Chair for the Poor???

Purifying Fire International's Ministries *** (see Tweet below)


Our vision is to minister God's love to the widows, the orphans and the poor in a practical, as well as spiritual way, and to raise up an Army of Intercessors with 24/7 "Houses of Prayer" around the Nation. We minister and equip the youth with practical and spiritual ways of growth because they are the next generation that God is raising up. 
 PFI recently purchased a living room set for a single mother who did not have furniture for her and her small child. Thank you for your donations that helped in a spiritual, as well as practical way. The mother was overwhelmed and overtaken with tears of gratitude.




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*** November 22, 2013 AM EST (below)








Senator Ted Cruz’s Vision for Immigration – A Future Cash Cow of Bribes for the GOP – Dad’s Illegal Path to U.S. as a Model




I know all this “I knew Fidel” barroom talk can get out of hand. Like with Ted’s dad Rafael Cruz saying how he fought with Fidel Castro but left Cuba after he found out Castro was a Communist even before Castro knew he was a communist. And in 1957. 

Rafael Cruz left Cuba like a bat out of hell and I have to wonder if it was Fidel Castro Chasing him or someone or something else?

One has to wonder if Rafael Cruz was part of failed assassination attempt on President Batista on March 13, 1957 by students and such and associated and such with Fidel Castro in the countryside.

Leaving Havana in 1957 with a bribe and a forged visa to the United States was the perfect grifter’s path to wealth in the United States and not bothering to seek U.S. Citizenship until 2005.

A fifty dollar bribe and a forged Visa, a fifty dollar airfare to Miami and the rest is history. And let's not forget the revealed extra detail of "$100" shown into Rafael's underwear. The Cruz Dynasty of Texas to stand next to the Bush Dynasty of Texas etc. 

All other illegal immigrants (now) to pay cash like Pop Cruz?



… how Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) father shaped his vision on immigration, his father, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, an immigrant from Cuba, said that while he “came to this country legally,” he basically bribed an official to get to the United States. 
“A friend of the family -- a lawyer friend of my father basically bribed a Batista official to stamp my passport with an exit permit,” the elder Cruz said.
  


At 3:24 two automobiles and a red delivery truck that carried the first assault group stopped near the Colon Street entrance. The guards paid no attention  A minute later the men jumped from the vehicles, carrying rifles, automatic weapons, and hand grenades.

Firing point-blank at the soldiers, they burst into the building and raced up the stairs. One of them Luis Goicoechea, remembered later: "It was just like in the movies." In Batista's office they found only the remains of his lunch and two coffee cups. In a panic they searched the other rooms and the hallways but could discover no way to the third floor. 
The elevator, the sole access to that area, was still up there. From the roof the guards raked the interior patio and adjacent streets with machine gun fire, and the frustrated attackers began to withdraw. 
A few escaped, but most were killed inside the palace. In the streets, as motorists hid under their cars, the shooting continued for hours. One American tourist on the balcony of the Hotel Parkview, two blocks away, died when he was struck by a stray bullet.


Devil’s Dictionary (Revised) – Ambrose Bierce – Definition of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas





Definition of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas:

Joe McCarthy in Penny Loafers. (lol)







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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas Was Quite the Fashionista Back in His Salad Days at Princeton



“It was my distinct impression that Ted had nothing to learn from anyone else,” said Erik Leitch, who lived in Butler College with Cruz. Leitch said he remembers Cruz as someone who wanted to argue over anything or nothing, just for the exercise of arguing. “The only point of Ted talking to you was to convince you of the rightness of his views."

"In addition to Mazin and Leitch, several fellow classmates who asked that their names not be used described the young Cruz with words like “abrasive,” "intense," “strident,” “crank,” and “arrogant." Four independently offered the word “creepy,” with some pointing to Cruz’s habit of donning a paisley bathrobe and walking to the opposite end of their dorm’s hallway where the female students lived."

“I would end up fielding the [girls’] complaints: 'Could you please keep your roommate out of our hallway?" Mazin says.





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Monday, August 19, 2013

Wanda Sykes Comments on Republican Hatred of all Things and People Black





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Cardinal Dolan Does Not Judge Anthony's Weiner




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Queerskaters Hollande, Cameron, Obama Will Not Corrupt The Perfect Morals Of King Vladimir’s Russia – Pravda Editorial – Bring on the old Cold War Baby!


"Well, the rainbow legions, led by two bit and defamed politicians, are at it again. Unsatisfied with the murder of their own culture, the perversion of their own societies and children, with the cover up of numerous homosexual pedofile crimes and hate crimes against Christians, they are on the march.
"These are the modern equivalent of the Crusaders or Jihadist legions of old, wrecking havoc as they go, but lead by a new wave of would be tyrants. On an interesting side note, some of the most vicious, murderous tyrants of old have been homosexuals.
"From the Boy King of France, Hollande, the worst and least popular president of any of the 5 republics, to the mental light weight and political deadwood of the UK's Cameron, to the First Gay President of America, Obama, the Three Queerskaters are on the march, leading their legions of perverts on to the world.

"At home they have cowed their own peasants. Some were bought out by government graft. Others by threat of reprisals. 

"In France, when millions of Catholics took to the streets, the police beat and gassed them. Yes, the same police that cower in incompetence when the Islamic third worlders riot, is all to happy to slap the French serfs back down to their place. 

"After all, Socialists are ever the representatives of the people's will, its just that they are the only ones who know the people's will and definitely not the unwashed ignorant people. Yes, perfumed French unwashed serfs count just as much...."





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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Cardinal Dolan Endorses Banker Carl Anderson K-of-C Supreme Knight’s Marketing Plan to Sell Catholic Burial Insurance to Undocumented Illegal Aliens?


Licensed (?) NYS Insurance Salesmen Tim Dolan and Carl Anderson

Fresh from a “Free Get Out of Jail” Card from Federal Judge Randa, Catholic Bush 41 appointee, who signed off on Timmy’s Cemetery Fund Scam to cheat Clergy abuse victims in Milwaukee, his holiness Cardinal Dolan’s latest blog is an unqualified endorsement of the Knights of Columbus Insurance business and plans to sell cheap life insurance to immigrants, the great non-white hope of the American RC church to survive depleated membership among Generation (M) Millennial.


All of us are gratefully aware of the “K of C,” as we call them, observing them with admiration at parish, community, and archdiocesan events.  We especially appreciate their unflagging devotion to pro-life work, Catholic schools, vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life, physically and mentally handicapped, and youth work.  As most bishops and parish priests will tell you, “If you want something done, go to the Knights of Columbus.” 


In addition to all of this work — they are the largest volunteer organization in the world! — they run the best insurance program around, loyal to the goal of their founder, Father Michael Mc Givney, to care for the widow and orphan of poor, immigrant Catholic workmen.   


To promote the dignity of the immigrant was especially appropriate with the K of C.  Why?  Well, they were founded precisely to offer fraternity and care for Catholic immigrant workers of 130 years ago, who were then, as now, the victims of prejudice, and whose families were so vulnerable if the breadwinner died or was injured; and two, the Knights themselves are of all nations and ethnic backgrounds, so are naturally free of the nasty nativism that sadly characterizes anti-immigrant sentiment today.


That was some gathering in San Antonio with Cardinal Wuerl celebrating Mass and Cardinal George giving the homily and Supreme Chaplain Knight Archbishop Lori looking on and seeing to VIP guests such as Cardinal Dolan and Supreme Knight Carl Anderson.

The blog gives the usual boilerplate explanation on the origins of Knights of Columbus insurance and as the only social safety net available in the nineteenth century for Irish immigrants. Of course with modern government social safety nets making some insurance needs redundant, the idea of “Burial Insurance” as we used to call it in the Irish ghetto because it was usually only a few hundred dollars, was only enough for a cheap funeral and train tickets for mom and the kids to move to grandma’s in the next state for the sake of survival.


With an industry as deregulated as insurance, not paying income tax on life insurance benefits etc., I can only assume that it is not illegal to sell Knights of Columbus Life insurance to undocumented illegals etc. 






(NY Archdiocese members (those left) - Hide your Kids and just try and ask for an Audit of the NY Archdiocese Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund. LMAO)



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Bush 41 Federal Judge Randa Protects Dolan’s Cemetery Scam Slush Fund with "Religious Liberty" Special Elitist Federal Bankruptcy Protection



Judge Rudolph Randa, the lame duck Republican judge for the Eastern Federal District of Wisconsin signed off on Archbishop’s Burial Insurance Perpetual Care Cemetery shell game Scam recently. 

I say lame duck as Judge Randa resigned his seat in 2008 on condition of it being filled only by a Bush 43 appointment before 2009. The appointment never happened, so Republican Hack Toady Federal Judge gives lives on in federal court to give a figurative free bl*wj*b to his fellow Republican friend and fellow Catholic Archbishop Timmy Dolan as well as a potential free get out of jail card protecting him from federal prosecution, helping him to continue to screw for a second time Milwaukee’s Catholic Clergy abuse and rape victims.


A federal judge in Wisconsin handed down an opinion yesterday granting the Catholic Church — and indeed, potentially all religious institutions — such sweeping immunity from federal bankruptcy law that it is not clear that it would permit any plaintiff to successfully sue any church in any court. While the ostensible issue in this case is whether over $50 million in church funds are shielded from a bankruptcy proceeding triggered largely by a flood of clerical sex abuse claims against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Judge Rudolph Randa reads the church’s constitutional and legal right to religious liberty so broadly as to render religious institutions immune from much of the law.


Friday, August 16, 2013

Riddle of the Sphinx - Martin Rowson - Guardian UK





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Athlete Elena Isinbaeva – Ice Hate Queen(?) – Official Greeting Ambassador of Sochi 2014 – From Russia Without Love


Go Russia Go!

Isinbayeva is an ambassador for the games and will be welcoming athletes as a "mayor" of the Olympic Village at Sochi. 

As such she endorses the law no matter what and no doubt plans to spy on all Foreign Gay Athletes on Lockdown in Sochi in 2014.

By default her kiss ass “Russia is Number One!” Ra-Ra-Ra endorsement of Russia's new “Get the Gays” gateway law by default (by her own patriotic blind logic) thinks that is okay, unlike typical Western like“Gays”, for Russian traditional Heterosexuals only to (?) :

…wish to trade in filth, show pornographic images to children and indulge in perversion, in public, sit in parks watching homosexuals kissing each other tongue-in-mouth or lesbians cavorting on the grass in public parks like bitches in heat, then that is their business…

…As we can see, there is nothing discriminatory against the LGBT community in this law…


It is the old “I Love the Gays to Death” kind of Janus faced public PR spiel to the masses (Wink, Nod).


The Russian Volk People are healthy, althletic, Pure and Heterosexual?


Welcome to Sochi 2014 - Perfect People Only


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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Changing American Demographics that Make Some Old White Men Sh*t!




There was I think some 14 minutes (literally) fuss and or phony grass roots Koch fed “controversy” regarding a cute little Cheerios “heart healthy” TV advertisement with a very subtle visual subtext and what appears to be an interracial couple, white and black, with an interracial female offspring.


Some phony “million moms against everything modern” group with 3,000 odd (emphasis on the word odd) actual moms and an obsolete E-Mail spam list from Newt Gingrich’s most recent tax set up and or political campaign protested in vain.


The so-called controversy petered out in 14 minutes no doubt because of modern demographics and the young who yawn or wonder why Scarlet O’Hara’s antebellum world still has any meaning whatsoever in the modern global culture.


So too recently, a cute car insurance TV advertisement with an apparent interracial couple, Asian and Black with both a talking mime and a talking baby.




No controversy there. Apparently in Scarlet O’Hara’s Miss Havisham nightmare like existence of old white men and old white women in the south, color matters, the color of the penis that is. 

This no doubt because adultery and fornication between the races of old sometimes left proof of the hypocrisy that that dying old local culture would try to preserve forever without rhyme, reason, purpose or contraception. 


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The Symbolism of the Bas-Relief Sculptures of a Pelican and a Phoenix Over the Entrance Doorways to the Saint Joan of Arc Church Harrowgate Philadelphia


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From childhood I always wondered why there were sculptures of birds and not saints over the doorways of my church in Philly. Nobody seemed to know. Nobody wanted to ask.

Just two doorways as an entrance. One left and one right. The two door configuration seemed to work alright but I always thought not very symmetrical when a bishop came for Confirmation or the May Procession proceeded through one door or the other and not a central third door.

The Priest who founded Saint Joan of Arc seemed to be of very moderate Protestant tastes in that he was born in Wales, educated in London, Canada and Wisconsin before becoming an Episcopalian priest at the turn of the last century.

The Church is a very simple early Romanesque with little adornment or fancy stained glass.  The one rather chic addition to the interior was a dozen mosaics about four foot in circular medallions in between round Roman arches. These Icon style mosaics of the twelve Apostles have backgrounds of gold backed glass mosaic tiles. Impressive if you focus on them but rarely notice them as they are so high up. 

At this point in time I am speculating and going on some historic research and oral tradition that these twelve Apostles Mosaics are recycled from an historic lineage downtown church of St. James once located at 22nd and Walnut Streets and by the Philadelphia artist Nicola D’Ascencio more famous for this stained glass than his mosaics.

The altar area of Saint Joan’s is also a rather plain sparse area. Even the unmarried Jesus is clean shaven on the Cross there. 

I have also further speculated at this point in time that the altar and altar screen of that defunct Episcopal Church of St. James may have also been on a wish list of Monsignor Edwards Hawks as he built his dream church to cap a career of writing, lecturing and converting to the RC church from the Episcopal early in his career. 

The altar and altar screen of St. James remained in storage until after Msgr. Hawks’s death and was sold to another Episcopal church in the suburbs. Have to wonder if it is one thing to sell iconic mosaics to a Catholic church but maybe the idea of an altar and altar screen was a bit too ecumenical for the times in the middle 1950s.




Back to the doorways. And the decorative bas-reliefs of a Pelican in a nest feeding its young over the left front door and a Phoenix rising from ashes above the right side door.




Having done some cursory research, I see no major issues in dogma regarding RC church design and the use of left and right. There is a distinction in that the left hand side of the church is called the pulpit and or gospel side in terms of the reading of sacred text. The right hand side is referred to the as the lectern and or epistle side of the church and of course refers to the reading of lesser sacred text from that side. 

Also of note, the left side is the pulpit side where the priest reads the gospel aloud and the right hand side is considered more the lay side in that the laity many times read the epistles rather than a priest.

Also from tradition, the bride and groom side of the church is left to right with any reason lost in history. And as a child the children’s mass at 9:00 AM on Sunday morning had the girls side on the left and the boys on the right. 

Secular and or pagan traditions put the left side as the female side and the right side as the masculine side. So too with ancient non-Christian or pre-Christian tradition has the female side associated with the moon and the male side associated with the symbol of the sun.

With all this minor background, I found that the Pelican is a basic Christian symbol of Charity and loosely based on the sacrifice of a parent to feed its young.




Better than that:
Elizabeth I of England adopted the symbol, portraying herself as the "mother of the Church of England". Nicholas Hilliard painted the Pelican Portrait in around 1573, now owned by the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. A pelican feeding her young is depicted in an oval panel at the bottom of the title page of the first (1611) edition of the King James Bible. ~~~ - “Pelican” – Wikipedia

Pelican Detail of Above Portrait





The Phoenix has a long cultural basis going back to ancient times and even before the Greek and Romans to the Egyptians to the Bennu bird as part of Egyptian god mythology and a creature representing rebirth for the dead, a creature that came into its own being at or as part of the first creation scenario and as a symbol of the sun.



In a way the Egyptians worshiped or honored the Bennu bird as a symbol of the everyday sun dying at night and being reborn each morning.

Other cultures have the whys and wherefores of the Phoenix bird in slightly different capacities and in lengths of time in terms of the cycles of a Phoenix’s never ending life. 



The Romans used the Phoenix on their coins to symbolize the supposed indestructibility of their empire.

The Pelican and Phoenix above Saint Joan's doorways are of course framed within a triangle, symbolic of the Christian Trinity and the three fold purpose of one God.

So, in short I believe that Msgr. Hawks put a piece of his life history into the stone of Saint Joan of Arc Church in Harrowgate. 

First with the Pelican as his beginning in the Episcopal church, American offshoot of the Church of England after the American Revolution with England, and second with a Phoenix rising out the ashes of his old life as an Episcopalian priest and his rebirth as a RC priest. 



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