Hanging on a Philly Street Corner - July 1925 - 21st and Market

http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p15037coll5&CISOPTR=464&CISOBOX=1&REC=12

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Arizona - Tin Foil Hat State - LOL

Who pulled the plug on the Air Conditioning in Arizona?


The Birthers and the G.O.P.?


(Rumor has it that Geronimo just broke out and is off the reservation again. Get yer shooting iron out.)


LOL

Mormon Ken Bennett – Arizona – Refusal to Rebaptise Obama / African Ancestors aka Arizona Ballot Issues

Mormon "Ju-Ju" Protection Charm

Mormon Ken "Broom Stick" Bennett’s refusal to rebaptise Barack Obama’s African ancestors in the one true Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Lunatics seems to be at the very heart of the whole birther movement.

Without a birth certificate, no baptism for the African ancestors of Barack Hussein Obama to get into heaven.  Which means no valid ancestors cheering the Prez on from Mormon Paradise.  Less Mormon approved karma and less political mojo to defeat the white race candidate of Mitt Romeny (bow your head)  in the general election.

And of course there are those Mormons willing to rebaptise Obama and his African Ancestors in the one true church, but they seem to be a definite minority.

To think that all this birther, birth certificate nonsense is nothing more than black magic mixed with dogma in the basements of secret temples all across America.  A Mormon magic thing - the Birther movement?

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Sister Joan Chittister’s truly Interesting Article on Girl Scouts and Jesus’ Gospels

http://ncronline.org/blogs/where-i-stand/attack-girl-scouts-shows-current-law-isnt-working

...But isn't that exactly why a nation's bishops must have a heart for the national culture and tradition and values and respect for the workings of the society itself in which we are attempting to evangelize?

The American tradition comes out of a commitment to freedom of speech, freedom of thought and democratic participation in the political process, which, admittedly, the Vatican has always suspected; indeed, has never liked. To ask Americans to take on not simply a European or Eastern European or Asian or African approach to "obedience" or governance or women, but a medieval one at that, is asking for what no law can provide. It is easy, of course, to force obedience; but, never doubt, it is impossible to force belief.

The effects here are beginning to show, as they did in Pacelli's Europe. The second-largest religious denomination in the United States, after Catholic, is now ex-Catholic....

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When Did Catholic become the new Stone Age Ignorant?

We ain't igorant. We is college edgicated. 

Forgive me but I just read about some Franciscan College in Ohio that is so racist and anti-anything-Obama that it is dropping Health Care Coverage for its students.  Like duh!

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/16/college-drops-health-care-plan-over-religious-objections-to-new-law/?hpt=hp_c2

The Franciscan University of Steubenville just dropped off the edge of the flat world defending the ignorance and superstition of its First Amendment Right to Insanity.

"Beware of Dragons and Unicorns" Warning signs on campus will remain for the sake of student safety.

Duh! LOL. Dinosaur Shite!

What would Saint Francis of Assisi do without heath care coverage?  Die quickly I believe.

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Mormon Hate Art - Jon McNaughton

The New York upstate inbreds started in the 1840's hating my Irish Immigrant ancestors.  Joesph Smith came up with the perfect whites only bible and the rest is delusional history since then.

In some of Jon McNaughton art, Jesus has a pituitary problem so common with inbreeding, but of late his customized to his own Mormon Hate themes are selling well like the one above with all the white guys including the white founding fathers begging the uncompromising mean negro president not to trample the Constitution.  Get a life Mormons!

Quid pro quo guys.

WARNING: Hate Art protected under the First Amendment right of free speech.
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Holy Shite - Monsignor Lynn Trial - Philly

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/trial-church-ignored-complaints-on-philly-priest-until-donor-complained-about-rival-business/2012/05/15/gIQADGfjRU_story.html

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua promoted McCarthy the next year to lead a parish in Norristown. Before long, a travel agent whose husband had donated $25,000 to the archdiocese complained about McCarthy running a travel business that had robbed her of parish bookings.

And priests were complaining about McCarthy’s temperament, and about sexually-charged speech, underwear catalogs that came in the mail and gay pornography found in his bedroom. While McCarthy was away, a raid of sorts turned up pornography and a homoerotic poster on his wall.

McCarthy was sent for a psychiatric evaluation, and deemed a “homosexual ephebophile,” someone attracted to adolescent boys. He was put on a “health leave,” where he remained until he was defrocked in 2006. He spent some of that time working the graveyard shift as a cashier at an Atlantic City casino, according to one letter he sent Bevilacqua.

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W Endorses Mittens for Prez

The former president offered a four-word endorsement of Romney as the doors of his elevator were closing after a speech Tuesday in Washington.

Bush said: "I'm for Mitt Romney."

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/05/15/george_w_bush_offers_tepid_endorsement_of_romney/

All rich preppy bully inbred idiots should stick together.  Peanut and butter.  LOL

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Bank Panic - Bank Run in Greece

The average Greek Citizen sees the Worldwide Economic Apocalypse coming.  Handwriting on the wall regarding the German dictated Economic Holocaust planned for the Greek Economy.

Close to one Billion withdrawn from the unstable worldwide banking system on Monday.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303505504577406310678151998.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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Culture Wars - Philly - 1971

Billboard, 3rd and Market, "Abortion is Murder".


Propaganda costs money.


Your tax free church dollars at work.



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Corner Grocery Store - Philly - 1961

Side Window - Local Signs from bottom - Frank's, Triple Cola, Abbott's (Dairy)


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Bishop Kevin Rhoades’ Holy Witch Hunt on the Evil Girl Scouts of America

Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the USCCB Bishop’s committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth is routing out the enemies of our country vested in the Girl Scouts of America.

These bishops have far too much time on their hands if a “War on Little Girls” is the important work of their catholic Christ.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/first-nuns-and-girl-scouts-next-dora-the-explorer/

According to NPR, the Bishop’s committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth is conducting an inquiry into whether the Girl Scouts have “problematic relationships with other organizations.” NPR says that’s code for Planned Parenthood. 

The alleged Planned Parenthood-Girl Scouts connection, call it the axis of feminism, is actually something of a conservative talking point.  In February, an Indiana legislator conducted “a small amount of Web-based research” and concluded that the Girl Scouts are a front for Planned Parenthood. He said the Scouts encourage the girls to have sex and to respect unsavory role models who endorse communist and homosexual agendas. 

He noted disapprovingly that the First Lady is the organization’s honorary president (the First Lady is always the honorary president), and took exception to the fact that a Colorado troop allowed a transgendered child to join up.

It is Okay to Hug a Tree

Why? Because God made trees. 


If you hug a tree, you are indirectly hugging God. 


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Facebook Co-Founder to take his IPO money and run away from America - Billionaire Deadbeat

Tax Dodging Billionaire Deadbeats - Zuckerberg and Saverin

Okay so this guy born in Brazil was raised in the U.S.A., educated here and found golden opportunity here.  But days before the overpriced IPO offer of Facebook to rob America's Pension Funds, it has been announced that Eduardo Saverin has renounced his American citizenship to save on taxes.  


My taxes have been supporting this billionaire deadbeat all his life. Fuck him and good riddins to his new country of tax free Singapore.  


So much for loyalty and humanity from yet another billionaire.


Has to make you wonder what country Zuckerberg goes off to hide in once this Facebook IPO Ripoff scam is complete?


http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-eduardo-saverin-20120512,0,5844322.story


But many in the online world this week are outraged at the perception that Saverin is trying to dodge the tax man. Americans feel personally ripped off, according to comments posted across a variety of social media platforms. Saverin made his riches off Facebook-loving U.S. taxpayers and is now defriending the country that made him rich when it comes time to add some of that money back to U.S. tax coffers.




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1950 DeSoto

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Bend in the Road - Philly - 1962

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Mitt Romney – He Man – Macho Man

Some of you guys look like you need a hair cut. Conform!

Manly he-man Mormon man Mitt Romney don’t take no shit from no gays.  Yeah right.

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Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover is Disturbing

I don't know what this article is about other than breastfeeding. Common decency might dictate that the image be inside the cover.  


Is this child abuse?


What next Time?  John Travolta masturbating on the cover?


This rag's time I think has passed.  Time (no pun intended) to shut down operations I think. 


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Mitt Romney - Hair Care Specialist

"I have no recollection of having cut Seamus' hair." - - Mitt Romney

Huh? Did that moron say hair cut?

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Santa Karmita - Patron Saint of Karma

Santa Karmita is the patron saint of Karma.

What goes around come around. 

Quod vadit circa venit circa.

And Karma can sometimes be a bitch!

Prayer request here (                                                  ).

Amen


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Civil Rights - Equality - LGBT

No More Gay Jim Crow in America!


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Romney Bullies Gays in High School – Prequel to coming GOP Inquisition in America

If you don’t conform like us real male dudes and act like the rest of us, we’re gonna come and get you.

Snotty rich kid! Bully! Domestic terrorist. Yellow rat bastard.


Best of the best of the GOP - Mitt Romney.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-la-pn-romney-apologies-after-bullying-incidents-in-high-school-revealed-20120510,0,3734346.story

"...The Washington Post story, by Jason Horowitz, detailed a 1965 incident, witnessed by at least five Cranbrook students, in which Romney, incensed by the dyed blond locks of a fellow student, led what the Post described as a “posse” of students in a charge against the boy, threw him to the ground and hacked off his hair. “He can’t look like that,” Romney told a close friend at the time. “That’s wrong. Just look at him!”

No one was punished for the incident, according to a number of witnesses, who the Post tracked down and interviewed.

The Post also detailed incidents where Romney said “Atta girl,” in class to a closeted gay student, and deliberately held a door closed while an sight-impaired teacher walked into it.

But it is the story involving John Lauber, described as “a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney…walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye” that may cause problems for Romney. After Romney rounded up some friends, including Matthew Friedmann, who gave his version of the story to the Post, “they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a  pair of scissors.”

Lauber, who died in 2004, was traumatized by the incident, according to a witness who bumped into him years later at a bar in Chicago O’Hare International Airport. “It was horrible,” Lauber reportedly told David Seed, a witness to the event, who apologized to Lauber for not helping stop it, the Post said...."

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Fork in the Road - Secular vs. Religious Morality

The Prez and the VP came out in favor the a civil rights issue on Marriage Equality in the past few days.

The Prez did so a day after the redneck bible thumpers in North Carolina had to reinforce their own "religious" POV which goes with the Old Testmament and for lack of more civil words, the male penis right to fuck his property, whether it be woman, slaves or other "chattels".

It is amazing what I have seen in my lifetime of the far right religious nuts taking on the absolute authoritarian Roman model of the guys in silk and lace at the Vatican.  Of taking over a political party and wearing a false mask of Jesus.

That model makes no apology and exploits any human being male or female, straight or homosexual, or "priest-like" sexual (question mark ?) persons who by birth or accident wander into the precincts of religious stone age authority.

It is a day when the fundies are pushing gay hate in Africa as a means to slide into the socio-economic scheme there as a moral factor in the growing future wealth of that continent.

The old are bankrolling the current propaganda war in the west, Europe, North America and parts of South America against the idea that someone might be born with a sexual orientation different than the majority tribe POV.  The young already cherish their freedom to choose life the way they see fit and as God intended.

It is a great day when an African-American President of the United States can interject a secular moral idea based on individual introspection based on a pro-Jesus POV onto the world stage.

While traditions in Africa will not likely to change.  From this day forward another global morality base idea is brought into sharp focus to the rest of humanity.  While the Muslim world is not likely to follow on the merits of same sex marriage, the idea, the seed of change, of a diverse global POV is planted.

It is remarkable when the old men in the Vatican in the sixties put all their prestige and money so to speak on the Craps Table and based the whole future of a dying church on trying to monopolize an individual's right to choose and or to deny their right to live out freely what God has imposed on them as an individual in terms of his or her animus, animal nature.

The spiritual power, the "higher angels of out nature", is the goal, the evolution of the species to achieve over the baser forms of our shared lesser nature.

It is to be remembered that the words of the arch-villian of humanity, archbishop Wojtyla's advice and prejudice to Paul VI on birth control, took a biased view of Protestantism and the rights of individuals by stating that the "holy spirit" was exclusively with the Roman Catholic POV.

Well maybe the "holy spirit" now speaks on matters of human sexuality directly to the individual, a very Protestant concept, and the old fashioned generally corrupted religious POV is growing obsolete in the new global arena of thought.

The Enlightment, though blockaded and detoured through the recent past, is on a clear path to the future.

Human morality and human sexuality are no longer properties owned by the state and or state religion in this new dawning global age.

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Truth - Kindness - Necessity - Missing Ingredients in the Present State of Public (non) Civility

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/13/824661/-Is-it-true-Is-it-kind-Is-it-necessary-

My best friend when I was small was a Friend. Her parents were birthright Quakers active in prison reform and nuclear disarmament. As a child I saw the homelier side of Quaker practice - the silent meetings, the delicious treats at the annual bazaar and an early introduction to the three-fold sieve.

THE THREE SIEVES 

A LITTLE boy one day ran indoors from school and called out eagerly: "Oh, mother, what do you think of Tom Jones? I have just heard that ——" 

"Wait a minute, my boy. Have you put what you have heard through the three sieves before you tell it to me?" 

"Sieves, mother! What do you mean?" 

"Well, the first sieve is called Truth. Is it true?" 

"Well, I don't really know, but Bob Brown said that Charlie told him that Tom ——" 

"That's very roundabout. What about the second sieve — Kindness. Is it kind?" 

"Kind! No, I can't say it is kind." 

"Now the third sieve — Necessity. Will it go through that? Must you tell this tale?" 

"No, mother, I need not repeat it." 

"Well, then, my boy, if it is not necessary, not kind, and perhaps not true, let the story die."

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Poor Clares Monastery Philadelphia

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