Old Broad Street Terminal Station - Train Shed - Pennsylvania Railroad - Philadelphia - 1912

Evil Symbolism of the Confederate Flag that American Redneck Racists Cling To In Comfort

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Uppity Charleston Church Pastor Dead Because He Packed No Heat – Knuckle Dragger Charles Cotton NRA

This is too disgusting to be respectful about. This asshole at the NRA knows it all. People in Churches without guns deserve to die at the hands of domestic terrorists???

NRA Board Member Charles Cotton says that Rev. Pinckney deserved to die because he voted against concealed carry in church.

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/19/nra_board_member_blames_charleston_pastor_clementa_pinckney_for_his_own_death/

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Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to Close Soon – In Desperate Need of Tourist Bucks to Survive – Cultural Rape Cash Fire Sale

Franklin wept!
(Massive Enormity Blog)

Franklin Institute is Morally Bankrupt – Premier American Secular Science Institution Co-opted into Superstition Display of Roman Catholic Church Objects and Black Magic emanating from across the way at 222 North 17^th Street, Satan’s Local HQ in Philly. (Too late in Philly to hide your children. btw)

Using the excuse of a big papal crowd in September with a papal visit to reinforce Duggar Family Values and the need to welcome the dripping ice cream tourist / faithful mob from across the Square from the ugliest Cathedral in America, The Franklin Institute, once America’s first and foremost institution for science learning among young adults has opted into the dark side of the force and will display many evil and superstitious objects and relics of the Roman Catholic Church to get cash from that crowd.

I am sorry to hear of the Institute’s financial woes. Better to die a good simple Quaker death as an institution in Philadelphia instead of becoming a minor whore in the great Whore of Babylon’s Royal progress in September 2015.

No doubt the demons and black magic and or “inquisition” era prayers of the “good” cardinal Charles Chaput across the street has led to this cultural rape and soon total demise of a once great civil secular American institution.

http://thechristians.com/?q=content/franklin-institute-display-vatican-treasures-while-pope-visits

Visitors coming to Philadelphia to see the pope this September will also be able to view treasured art from the Vatican.

“Vatican Splendors” opens Sept. 19 at the Franklin Institute. It will include artwork by Michelangelo, embroidered silk vestments, religious relics, and bone fragments of Saints Peter and Paul, and a touchable cast of Pope John Paul II’s hand.

The exhibit traces the evolution of the Roman Catholic Church over 2,000 years through 11 galleries that include objects such as mosaics, frescoes, maps, and documents. Galleries aim to recreate environments such as catacombs and the papal chambers. Organizers say they want the exhibits to be a multisensory experience.

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Circle Jerk Pizza by Pizza Hut a Winner - Says Jon Stewart on the Nightly Show 16 June 2015

Pizza Hut's latest orgasmic treat:

"looks like a circle jerk of uncircumcised Italian men jacking off on a pizza"




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Jeb! 2016 -"W"Squared - "W"2 - Bush Fourth Term

Chris Christie's Corn Dog Campaign Moment (Nightmare)

http://massiveenormity.blogspot.com/2015/06/chris-christies-corn-dog-moment.html

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Gustav and William Dentzel Carousell Factory – 3635-41 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia

3635-41 Germantown Ave. Phila. 
(Google Street View Map)

Phila. Geo History 1910 Bromley Map

Property in back is now a parking lot on Elder Street.

There is the lost Hunting Park Carousel, something I rode on as a child, that the city sold off in 1967 rather than preserve a unique part of Philly industrial history.

The people who write history books say that the factory was in Germantown.  Just south of Erie and Broad and above W Venango, not too sure if that is Germantown.  Germantown Avenue starts way near downtown and not everywhere along that street is Germantown. Whatever.

http://www.carouselnews.com/component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,10001/extid,236/extmode,view/

Portable Fair Carrousell by Dentzel circa 1895

http://antiquecarousels.com/team/dentzel-company/

Entertainment in America used to be seasonal in many aspects of the some industries.  Gustav Dentzel took his portable carousell out on the road to street fairs and state fairs as a cash flow asset to carry the factory business back in Philly. 

Advertisement - Billboard - April 1910

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State of the Globe - American Spotting

Which Came First? The Chicken Egg or the Mutant Spider Like Chicken?

Latest meme / rumor about the leading fried chicken vendor in the world = extra legs and wings, extra bread crumb coating etc.  LOL


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Religion Alert: Shireen Baratheon on Game of Thrones Burned at the Stake to Appease God of Light.

They’ve been killing off a lot of characters on the HBO fantasy soap opera Game of Thrones set in some sort of game of dungeons and dragons past tense, this in order to not write good scripts.

Season Five has been a bust what with a Rape Wedding of Eddard Stark’s daughter Sansa to some loser Marat like S/M creep Ramsey Snow Bolton.

People named Snow are bastards but Ramsey managed to kill and torture his way into dad’s heart to be named legitimate for the sake of succession of the rising House Bolton. (minor plot line with even more minor acting and or actors.)

The real star of the show is John Snow, bastard son of Eddard Stark stuck away on duty until death as part of the Night’s Watch on a large Wall of China like structure protecting the south from the Scots people on the other side of the wall.  (It is a place most nobles send their bastard sons to get rid of them btw.) John Snow not at top of family tree in link below btw, but way down at the bottom as a footnote so to speak.

Game of Throne family tree rapidly depleted since first season below.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/04/13/game-of-thrones-family-trees/7399299/

Well, Shireen Baratheon (actress Kerry Ingram) is a child in remission of some leprosy like disease that covers your body in scales before you die. Her father Stannis Baratheon who is laying a claim to the Iron Throne once held by his fat drunkard brother Robert, who got killed off in the first few episodes only to be replaced by Queen Cersai’s and her brother Jamie’s incestuous offspring King Joffrey, a real loser and or monster in terms of human potential that Queen Cersai had to keep in check by manipulation until somebody poisoned the bastard at his wedding – poisoned by his Grandmother-in-law. In-laws, can’t live them in Joffrey’s case. LOL

Eddard Stark, played by Sean Bean, who dies in almost every movie he makes, played the right hand man of his friend King Robert Baratheon, only to discover that Robert’s royal bloodline was tainted by the House Lannister incest of Queen Cersai and brother Jamie, and loses his head for his curiosity.

So the whole show is really about a civil war of sorts starting up amongst the various houses of power that once served the king on the Iron Throne. Rather bloody and now the religion, magic and superstition is setting into the plot with the torching of a little girl to appease some sky god etc. Only going to prove that all religion sucks. 

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Secretariat’s Triple Crown Prize

The Triple Crown Trophy is a modern three sided metal affair giving the particulars of the three races won to achieve the award: The Kentucky Derby, The Preakness, the Belmont Stakes.

On a lazy Sunday drive south of Tucson in the early 1990s, we ran into a one building shopping mall in a barn shaped building off of highway AZ82. 

Google Maps

The nearby intersection in the middle of nowhere and surprisingly Arizona Wine Country in Elgin Arizona, is a pit stop, a gas station, and a strip mall with a café to get a burger and fries for lunch and the then barn shaped tourist trap on the side of the road. 

Google Maps

In there in a plexi-glass box mounted on the wall was the Triple Crown Trophy of Secretariat. A rather curious setting for that very famous but elusive prize. Found a story below to back up my tale of surprise in the very big sky county of Arizona.

The building I understand has been converted into an INN and I don’t know where the trophy is housed these days, but for a few minutes I was inches away from it and admiring it. Such is life sometimes, full of little surprises.

Google Maps

http://www.nogalesinternational.com/the_bulletin/opinion/story-of-secretariat-margaret-and-sonoita/article_2bd07ac4-5274-5571-a879-6256bba68448.html

One day, Margaret told me of a unique shopping mall she once saw in Connecticut. It was a large barn converted into a group of shops. She wanted to build one like it in Sonoita. So we did. She described it, and I sketched it out for the architect.

Karl Eggers of Five Star Construction in Nogales was selected to build it. It was a shopping mall, first El Prado, then La Pradera, until Margaret died in November 1993. I managed the building, and many locals, including Wilma with her Lazy G Western Wear” store were tenants. 

Then Mike Wystrach bought it for an inn. So, that’s the true story of Secretariat, Margaret Carmichael and Sonoita, as Dr. Oates and a good many others requested.

There was never any intention of the barn being a retirement home for Secretariat, not ever.

I close on a tender note. Shortly after the word was released that Secretariat had been, put down, three lovely young ladies came into La Pradera , walked to the glass case on the south wall that held Secretariat's Triple Crown trophy, laid three red roses on top of the case, stood in silence a few moments, then turned and walked out.

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Bush Family Legacy - Blood on Sand - At Taxpayer's Expense

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Good Christian Moms? A Good Fast Buck! - Michelle Duggar - Tammy Faye Baker

GOP Family Value Grifters.



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Not a Nice Thing-the Rafael Cruz Father/Son Act. One Playing the Politics Con - the Other the Religion Con

“You know the nice thing? You don’t need a punch line.” Rafael “Ted” Cruz, Howell Michigan, 3 June 2015.

Senator's Cruz's lack of empathy and decorum resulting in his use of boilerplate political remarks regarding Vice President Joe Biden in the middle of mourning the loss of his son Beau, made Ted apologize on Facebook, written no doubt by an unpaid intern.  If you want to make fun of people as old, senile and stupid, you don't have to look too far Teddy from your own feathered roost in Texas.

You know from a buffoon like Ted Cruz from Canada you get a concrete social example about how you can’t buy class or learn sensitivity from Princeton. 

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Chauveau - 1029 Chestnut Street - Philadelphia - 1895

Zeisse's Hotel and Restaurant - 818-822 Walnut Street - Philadelphia - 1895

The Lorraine Hotel - Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue - Philadelphia - 1895

The Bartram Hotel - 3308-20 Chestnut Street - Philadelphia - 1895

Gladstone Apartment Building - 11th and Pine Streets - Philadelphia - 1895

Bush Cheney Bastard Child Christened as ISIS ISIL DAESH. Child is healthy and well.

http://massiveenormity.blogspot.com/2015/06/we-call-her-isis.html

Bush Cheney Bastard Christened as ISIS ISIL DAESH. Child is healthy and well. 

http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2015/03/daesh-isis-caliphate-bastard-child-of.html

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Changing American Demographics - St. Joan of Arc School Harrowgate Philadelphia - 1957

In a changing American demographic from white to moca, from urban to suburban, from blue collar to white collar and or pajama (work from home), the boomers have been on a ride of a lifetime.

Saint Joan of Arc in Harrowgate Philly is defunct. It as a building designed by famed British architect George A. Audsley as his last project, in his eighties, the building still functions as a “charter” school, whatever that is.

The church, the parish was officially dissolved in 2013, merged with 3 or 4 other ethnic enclave churches, just as much for lack of attendance and or interest in the ancient Christ myth as the fact that celibacy and a lack of numbers in the priesthood make serving in the sheep with good shepherds impossible. That and the AD of Philly had millions to pay for decades of corrupt buggery hidden from view etc. Needed to sell a lot of R/E.

In looking back this photo is the first grade class of boys circa 1957 and there is 62 kids reporting this day for the photo, probably the official - take your kids photo day marketing thing. The nuns, the catholics were always nickeling and dime-ing the inmates in order to finance and survive, getting their cut on the promotions, Chocolate Bars, Half and Half lottery tickets on Bingo night, even shoes at one point but rather unsuccessfully I might add. The Nuns, women married to Christ and their faith, devoted their lives to us children. For that I am grateful but somehow the picture looks strange to me. It came into view the other day on some Facebook page and the comments there reflected re-awaking to memories, of childhood connections reconnected across the vastness of America now where many of these children and their sisters, siblings now live.

There are probably ten or so kids not present, out sick with sniffles etc. in this photo.

My first grade class numbered in the nineties for students, the baby boom yet to peak, in a latter first grade class, my own.

They used to bolt two of these old cast iron and wood desks together and sit three of us across. If you took a few sick days, you lost your place in the three across temporary daily seating thing. Lost your pencils and boxes of cardboard letters and numbers used as a teaching aide too etc. Lost in the shuffle of life.

Have to wonder in retrospect what was the effect of the baby boom on class size in the local public schools. But for us factory working, Irish Catholics and Italians mostly in this photo, parochial school was the only way to go. 

No PTA meetings and you did what you were told. And if you got out of line with a little ADHD? That was what the wooden ruler, wooden chalk board pointer was for - to crack over your knuckles on break over your back to get your attention – to focus. That did happen once with the chalk board pointer but at a higher grade level, bigger boys etc., but luckily not to me. Sounds terrible. LOL. But considering the memories I see mentioned in comments on Facebook, few remember the discipline.

The only thing I notice greatly between then and now, besides the numbers thing, size of the class, physical size of the room, was how white lower middle factory working class Harrowgate was in 1957.  

The demographics, they are a changin’.

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They Hate Us for our Freedoms - To Torture and to Bugger

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Mark Foley cover up makes sense now these years later and Clinton's Impeachment - needs epic movie - Dennis Hastert

http://massiveenormity.blogspot.com/2015/05/from-producers-of-19-kids-counting.html

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Rep.Sam Johnson 3rd Texas - Key Player in Handing Over Social Security to Wall Street

Rep Sam Johnson 84 - 3^rd Texas 84 refuses to retires on full Congressional Pension – too much money and favors to be had from Wall Street Cronies? War on the American Middle Class.

Banruptcy of Social Security began on January 20, 2015.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/republicans-target-social-security-114382.html

It all sounds like “good government,” but the politics are rich.

House Democrats were not consulted on the rules change, and liberals accuse the GOP of trying to cull the weak from the herd, pitting the disabled against pensioners to undermine the larger Social Security coalition.

In fact, the new rule’s fine print leaves an escape hatch for Republicans to move tens of billions into the disability fund if this gambit fails. Still, the upshot could be a one-two punch Democrats most fear: a first-round debate over disability funding in 2016 followed by a bigger battle over all of Social Security in 2017, when Republicans hope to control both Congress and the White House.

“They’re looking for a new weapon,” said Michigan Rep. Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on Ways and Means. “What they’re doing in this rule is to use any problems within disability as a way to attack the whole system. It’s dangerous doubletalk when they have been the problem, not the answer.”

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