Saturday, March 4, 2017
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Humpty Dumpty - Trumpty Dumpty Queria Una Pared - Wanted a Wall
Trumpty Dumpty
wanted a wall,
lining the border 20 feet tall.
The Mexican people agreed
with the lout,
"We will pay for the thing
if it keeps Trump out!"
Trumpty Dumpty quería
una pared,
bordeando la frontera
de 20 pies de altura.
El pueblo mexicano estuvo
de acuerdo con el burro,
"¡Pagaremos por la cosa si
mantiene a Trump fuera!"
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery Vandalized in Philly
I used to
have a photo(s) of ourselves, family, in fuzzy unfocused "Baby
Brownie" Black and White, of ourselves on Memorial Day or the 4th of July
picnics at Wissinoming Park in Philly of over fifty years ago. (Wissinoming -
Lenni-Lenape word of "duck creek").
The photos
might still exist but are in the hands of my gay brother in Phoenix who refuses
to share them with me. Still victimizing his younger sibling after all these
years and him pushing 70 - whatever. No love lost there.
Wissinoming
Park is a nice little plain stretch of ground with big trees and a dried out
impression or small creek bed that runs through the property, all that is left
of some 19th century Philly robber baron's country estate. The mansion in the
middle of the property is long gone.
The
significance of this park was that my father and his childhood family also
picnicked there as a child, his childhood home nearby and now under I-95 across
from the old Frankford Arsenal.
In a small
corner of this very tranquil piece of real estate was a tiny crowded cemetery,
a Jewish cemetery with grave stones carved in English but mostly Hebrew. I say
crowded because the whole scene is also surrounded by Cedar Hill Cemetery, the
major secular cemetery that dominates the landscape north of the old town of
Frankford. Some of my great-grandparents buried in there I was told by my wasp
grandmother. I have yet to look up that Scots/Welsh branch of my family tree.
The town
dates back to the Swedes before the Dutch and the English and the cemeteries
were built post Civil War out in the farmland and countryside of Philadelphia
County before all this was absorbed into a dense urban center full of factories
and now a decaying hulk of a place. But the cemeteries escaped the fate of a
lot of once country and then urban cemeteries that were condemned, disemboweled, and moved on mass in boxed
bones to other resting places further out into the outer suburban counties of
Philly.
The
condemned cemeteries usually ended up as things desperately needed in the urban
sprawl as playgrounds or supermarkets or supermarket with parking with other
small stores, laundromats in what even in an urban setting is the traditional
American Strip Mall.
But
surprising there is a hill or higher land setting above the old town of Frankford
which now ends as a terminus of the Frankford to downtown to Upper Darby
elevated train. The old Frankford Road splits into a fork in the road at the
entrance to Cedar Hill Cemetery into Bustleton Pike to the left and on the
right old Bristol Pike now Frankford Avenue. - (The road to Bristol Pa. and
Trenton N.J. beyond - and the oldest road - originally an Indian footpath in
the state.)
Long intro
to the Hebrew Cemetery. and the recent tragic event in the news. I say this
because between the decay of the old Frankford town and the fancy row houses
that went up from the 20s to the 50s of post WWII Mayfair on farmland beyond is
this brief land of cemeteries and a park that gives a welcome and calming shade
of trees and green to the urban setting.
Surprising
to hear of the vandalism of the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery. There always
through the years were acts of terrorism vandalism - some spray paint or the
turning over of a gravestone or two in Cedar Hill or Mt. Carmel representing
IMO more as act of teenage angst on a Saturday night with a couple of buds from
the neighborhood sharing a six pack.
While there
were pockets of anti-Semitism in Philly, it was nothing what I see on TV or
read about in Irish Catholic places like South Boston where the sub-culture
there is no doubt back bay Brahmin in direct conflict with working class Irish
American and somehow the Jews in between.
I have tried
in the past few days to talk to some ppl on Twitter who use the desecration of
the Mt. Carmel cemetery as part of some great political plot under the current
Russian Junta running the White House.
I am in the
middle working with memories of older than forty years from Philly, is the
memory that the Quaker subculture was always unique in that tolerance was
preached if not always practiced in Philly town square, i.e. the Know Nothing
Riots of the 1840s that inspired the RC archdiocese to build a separate and in
many ways superior school system for children of that particular belief system.
But alas that RCAD only has a few token minority catering high schools left in
the inner city to supplement its premiere in the suburb rich white Catholic
education business.
I should say
that Mr. Carmel was built on a tiny lot, photo below and a text of sort in
comment of the current political situation - daily ten minute 1984-style Fake
Hates out of the Trump Whore White House. The tiny plot seemed overcrowded in
the number of stones per square inch and always seemed to me to comply with the
European concept of "ghetto".
I grew up
near one of these forgotten and condemned Jewish Cemeteries in Harrowgate,
Harrowgate and or the German Cemetery and or Jewish Cemetery on old urban maps.
I grew up not even knowing that it was and or once was there. I in a way am a
very minor contributor to not letting forgotten Philly and or Harrowgate
history slip away into the nothingness of dumbed-down American nothing
recognition of the past. Those who do not know of or understand the past are
condemned to relive the worst parts of that past etc.
My sometimes
hobby is making up a Find a Grave entry for forgotten Philadelphians. I ran
into the fact of the old Harrowgate Jewish Cemetery and resurrected the memory
of a rabbi once buried there before being moved elsewhere. At the time I did
not know that the Cemetery did not still exist. The spot on the map in a Google
satellite image is still green etc. I am not perfect but it bothers me that
some ppl in Philly died after their children or never married and people who
made major contributions to the history of the area are forgotten to the
present. So below one of my grave
entries and that in some cases get adopted and managed by others more
enthusiastic than moi on the person and or subject matter. Doing my part as
part-time amateur historian.
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
Animal Farm (quotes) - George Orwell
"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades."
Animal Farm ~~ George Orwell
"Napoleon is always right."
Animal Farm, Geo Orwell
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Saturday, February 25, 2017
Citizens United 2 Donald Trump = 7 Years - Disaster of Biblical Proportions
Citizens United*
2
Donald Trump*
(21 Jan 2010 ~ 20 Jan 2017)
=
7 years
=
democracy
2
*DISASTER*
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Thursday, February 23, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Friday, February 17, 2017
The Incredibly Disappointing HBO Series "The Young Pope"
Since I am already a cultural Christian and have twelve years of Catholic education I could get into the language and concepts that this extremely well written series presented in the Roman Catholic Pagan traditions and ritual that go back to the sun god Alexander the Great several hundred years before the common era on the calendar.
Being a distant none-Catholic makes it easy to understand what the actors in their impeccable dress and fabulous stage sets were attempting to do with "The Young Pope" starring actor Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII and his search, a learning curve (really), for God even after he has been elected the youngest pope in centuries of the crusty old Vatican business HQ.
The opening premise has all the old men, the cardinals, wondering how they elected such a young, and American pope (British actor Law doing this w/an American accent) as Lenny Belardo, a cardinal somehow of one of the dioceses of NYC. In episode nine, the best episode of the series, Belardo had somehow at one time "Shared power" with pedophile archbishop Kurtwell of Queens. (Queens is not a diocese but part of the Brooklyn-Queens Diocese) Kurtwell now under investigation for the Vatican in New York in the person of almost falling down constantly drunk Monsignor Father, soon to be cardinal, Gutierrez, one time rector of St. Peter's Basilica and its passages and crypts below. It is Gutierrez who Pius XIII befriends and talks and walks around at night in the basilica to find out the down and dirty of everything political in the Vatican.
Pius imports Sister Mary to be his gatekeeper. Sister Mary was the nun who was in charge of Lenny in the orphanage when his hippy parents dumped him there in order to travel lighter on a "trip to Venice". This is a background theme of the whole series episodes 1-10 - both the separation anxiety of being dumped by his parents and the floating protection of the substitute mother figure of Sister Mary, played beautifully by actress Diane Keaton.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Kremlin Gate - A love story - Forbidden love - Treason - Trump - Putin
Kremlin Gate - A love story - Forbidden love - Treason - Spying - Trump - Putin
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Monday, February 13, 2017
Open Letter to David O'Reilly, The Inquirer Regarding Abp Chaput's Unconditional Support of Trump
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| A Real Bishop of Philadelphia - John Neumann 1852-1860 |
Mr. David O'Reilly, Correspondent Philly.Com The Inquirer
BTW Grats on your long and no doubtless rewarding meal ticker career!
I am writing this as an open letter because Charles Chaput complains about the media not fawning like they should be in a Fascist Slave Nation that Trump and his cadre of Nazi haters envision for the USA.
“I don’t want to be partisan in my comments here, but it seems to me if we are really serious about our common responsibilities, we support the president,” Archbishop Charles Chaput told the California-based talk show host Hugh Hewitt, a Catholic conservative.
I think your boutique journalism piece above about Chaput latest whining about something or other is more an infomercial for the California Hewitt Radio show than it is about the media or Trump.
That Chaput is the force behind the California Fascist Catholic / "Christianist" organization of The Napa Institute promoting secret functions where church as state are one in the Fascist Vision of a future or is it now America.
I have been watching your topic Charles Chaput since he tossed two first graders into the street in Denver in Father Breslin's parish because the two kids moms were moms and or lesbian.
He ranted and raved I believe more about MSNBC and probably on Fox News in 2011 to say that the American Media were anti-catholic for not reporting on a World Youth Day in Spain that year.
That was the cover story that I believe after some research was a response to some so-called desecration of a state owned chapel in the State Controlled Complutense University in Madrid.
That the background on lesbians making political points in a political theatre of a state owned and supported chapel was a response in fact that an anti-gay Gang(s) of devoted Catholic Fascists patrolled the campus at night with clubs to make certain no gays would meet in public in a public university after dark. Gay reactions to violence against gays and ignored/endorsed by the police was the other half of that Chaput story. Chaput is only interested in half truths IMO. etc.
I am also not fond of "Chief Outtatown" my terrible non-PC label for this carpetbagger archbishop in Philly. If the media can ignore personal insults like "Pocahantas" by a warped mental case of a so-called President for the female senator Elizabeth Warren, why am I wrong in calling this bigot a name that fits his so-call heritage.
But I really disliked this dude when he came up with a political agenda to attack JFK in the grave for his separation of church and state stance and in lines with the upcoming 2012 elections. Something about attacked dead Dem Prezs by the GOP like FDR with the 22nd amendment. Irony with that was that Eisenhower, Nixon if he had cleaned up his act, and Reagan could have probably gone for though not done third terms, but not in St. Ronny's case. RIP
Sorry that BXVI had to retire for senility and sorry that Chuck did not get his red hat as promised because of this new possibly more moderate pope F1.
As I remember the local newspapers, TV and radio in the day would fawn at the sight a Philly archbishop deigning to step half a foot out of the old 10 acre Cardinal Dougherty 61 room Bishop's Palace on City Line Avenue to give the media their 30 second soundbite or half a column hardcopy interviews. I believe that lent as much to the recent Philly unpleasantness of abuse by clergy thingy as much as internal Catholic hierarchy mismanagement. Whatever.
Regards,
Mike McShea
@areligionist
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
History Begins to Repeat Itself with Pence's Tie Breaking DeVos Vote
With VP Pence Tie Breaking DeVos "Education" Vote - There can be no doubt that the USA is a "Christian" nation.
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION
FEBRUARY 1, 1933
...The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life....
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Sunday, February 5, 2017
Do Russian Citizens Have to Pay American Income Taxes?
Where is the certificate of his Russian citizenship granted in secret by Putin. Benedict Trump?
RICH ppl refuse to pay their fair share of taxes worldwide.
Except when they have several passports and national loyalties.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Monday, January 30, 2017
President Bannon in Charge - of Big Boy Trump and Executive Hate Orders against Refugees!
New York City took it in the ass on 911 because of bad American foreign policy.
America expect the same from now on because of the hate filled morons in the White House.
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Friday, January 27, 2017
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Churchianity (Holy Card) - The New GOP Religion of the United States
"The world used to believe in the divine right of kings," Father Ducey said in one of his sermons. "Today we have a, substitute—Churchianity.
Churchianity today believes not much in kings but it does believe in a golden rule, the rule of gold in the church as well as in the state. It tries to influence the work of God and secures the passage of unjust laws—laws not for good, or freedom or liberty, but in the interests of injustice, oppression and wrong."
"Churchianity covers wealthy sin with the mantle of gold. With Churchianity money is king and the king can do no wrong. The poor unfortunate criminal, the creature of wretched circumstances is avoided, despised and outcast, and the depraved, malicious sinner is honored and received by Churchianity and society without any show on his part of repentance."
Churchianity today believes not much in kings but it does believe in a golden rule, the rule of gold in the church as well as in the state. It tries to influence the work of God and secures the passage of unjust laws—laws not for good, or freedom or liberty, but in the interests of injustice, oppression and wrong."
"Churchianity covers wealthy sin with the mantle of gold. With Churchianity money is king and the king can do no wrong. The poor unfortunate criminal, the creature of wretched circumstances is avoided, despised and outcast, and the depraved, malicious sinner is honored and received by Churchianity and society without any show on his part of repentance."
Daily Inner Mountain - Butte Montana March 18, 1899
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| Father Thomas J. Ducey 1846-1909 |
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017
My Latest on Kindle - Joe the Deuce and the Vampire Priest of Gay Nineties New York
Backstairs gossip about forgotten bigger than life rich Irish Micks of the New York Gilded Age centering on the politics and lives of several generations of Irish immigrants from the Revolution through the Irish Famine and onto the gilded age, intermingled with Tammany Hall, the Civil War, Mrs.William Astor's "400" society circle and the decades long building of one gothic style cathedral on Fifth Avenue. Meet infamous lawyer James T. Brady, Judge John R. Brady, independently wealthy priest of St.Leo's Father Thomas Ducey, eccentric Countess Annie Leary, John Eno the immature embezzler banker who almost brought on a stock market crash in 1884 along with elements of religion, the supernatural, demons and much more.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N9SQQBV
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Thursday, January 12, 2017
Russian Journalists Murdered 2000 - 2009
Now that Trump like Putin and Putin likes Trump let's share some of the more scary aspects of interspecies friendship (bromance).
https://allantoin.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/murder-of-russian-journalists/
Photos,
top row: Natalya Skryl (Novoye Vremya), Valery Ivanov (CJES), Igor Domnikov (Novaya Gazeta)
second row: Anna Politkovskaya (Novaya Gazeta), Vagif Kochetkov (CJES),
Paul Klebnikov
third row: Vladimir Yatsina (CJES), Telman Alishayev (CJES), Natalia Estemirova
fourth row: Eduard Markevic (CJES), Aleksei Sidorov (CJES), Pavel Makeev (CJES)
fifth row: Yuri Shchekochikhin (CJES), Magomedzagid Varisov (CJES), Anastasiya Baburova (Novaya Gazeta)
sixth row: Maksim Maksimov (CJES), Magomed Yevloyev (CJES), Ivan Safronov (Kommersant)
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Monday, January 9, 2017
Friday, January 6, 2017
Threat - Cultural Rape of the Poor - Repeal of ACA - White Male Entitlement
Looking at the powers of the corporations, the evil corporations to drain the blood and soul out of us for the next quarterly profit and CEO mandated bonuses - I look at the recent election of White Ethnic Neanderthals to turn back time. I realize that I can do nothing to stop the about to happen shit storms resulting from putting a mentally (Caligula level) ill creep in as chief executive of the American government...
A guy you just want to rape an underage ... with is the new having a beer with standard of the GOP? *
(The Roman Church way ahead on that learning curve btw.)
That I thought that having an inbred wasp idiot like George W Bush the ideal man for the moron in the street to have a bud lite with as a standard for the sale of one's worthless soul to excellence on the Wharton Global Spreadsheet that values humans as zero or less than zero on that new standard of man's "worth" - less than zero... thought that was a new world low in the evolving global culture. Talk about going down low(er)...
That the dying embers of the white male entitlement going back to the hatred and division of humanity with the newly minted King James christian justifiable hate book in the seventeenth century planting the two roots of American evil stemming out from the Puritans in New England, stealing land from and killing natives, and the Cotton Exchanges / slave marts of the South.
... that the dying embers of the old world order thinks it can epoxy it's way back to life entombed in clear plastic, stagnant and an iconic relic for all to worship or suck on like a relic of John Paul II etc...
That the implied gratification of white men to rape their slaves, black and white, male and female, poor mostly, these Obamacare creatures... that this political and moral threat regarding basic human rights to healthcare is not unlike a pending real Cultural Rape of the Poor on a metaphoric scale.
That the number of men and women willing to sell their souls to the new ball washer GOP Great NEW "christianity" is not unlike a bunch of malformed privileged teenage boys, addicted to too too much porn, and with the world and or its once moral teachers etc. out to tea. So PC...
* White Male Entitlement
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Bigot Sessions Mobile Alabama Senate Office Hit with Protects by NAACP against Massa Jeff
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/naacp-president-arrested-at-protest-of-sessions-for-ag.html
The protest began around 11 a.m., when nearly two dozen activists occupied Sessions’ office, accusing the senator of being “hostile” to the Voting Rights Act and other civil rights issues. The demonstration was part of a larger action by the Alabama NAACP, which held press conferences opposing Sessions at his other district offices on Tuesday. Demonstrators in Mobile vowed to remain in the office until the senator’s nomination was pulled or they were arrested.
“We are asking the senator to withdraw his name for consideration as attorney general or for the President-elect, Donald Trump, to withdraw the nomination,” Cornell William Brooks, the national president of the NAACP, said during the sit-in. “In the midst of rampant voter suppression, this nominee has failed to acknowledge the reality of voter suppression while pretending to believe in the myth of voter fraud.”
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Monday, December 19, 2016
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