Bless the human spirit and the need to contribute to the productivity of the Community@!
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Monday, March 24, 2014
The Human Touch and Purpose - 85 years Young and Still Going - Blasius Chocolates Harrowgate Philly
Bless the human spirit and the need to contribute to the productivity of the Community@!
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Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen – Cardinal Burke Out of Fashion in Pope Francis’ New Vatican Season
He was
yelling about being arrested by Obama in 2011, persecuted for his faith and
expecting martyrdom. Little did he expect a shiv in the back from his own kind
of the priestly class. His guy – Benedict XVI retires – and all his latest line
of fashion rags are oh so no chic no more.
Well maybe next season Ray for a
comeback?
One of the
most conservative voices in the American Catholic Church, and one of the least
forgiving, Burke must have thought the world had turned upside down on the
morning of December 16.
That day he
learned he was losing his influential role in the appointment of bishops – in
the same week that the nations most prominent gay rights magazine The Advocate
was choosing Pope Francis as their Person of the Year.
It wasn't a
coincidence. The new pope has said he wants to move away from the 'obsessive
focus' on divisive social issues, and to do that he has begun to muzzle some of
the most prominent conservative cultural warriors. So bye bye Cardinal Burke.
You're going the way of shoulder pads and leg warmers….
But times
change and so does fashion. The fashion under Pope Emeritus Benedict was to
relentlessly hit hot button social issues and the people who promoted them.
Benedict didn't tailor his conscience to the fabric of the times, but instead
remained hopelessly, often hilariously anachronistic. He governed like it was
1406, not 2006. He was a man after Cardinal Burke's heart but in tone and
substance, and especially in style, Benedict was a PR disaster for the Church.
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Napoleonic Complex – How Tall Is Canadian Senator Ted Cruz? – 5’7” – 2 to 3 Inches Taller With Heels
I cannot
help it. People come to me when they want real answers about the Canadian
Citizen Currently from Texas Senator Rafael Cruz Jr.
Will all the
bullshit on the Internet about Canadian Senator Ted Cruz, nothing about his
short stature and standing next to the wee senator Lee from Utah to look
taller, I pulled a number out of a hat to start the bidding war and historic
cultural archive, probably all lies from FOX NEWS about how tall midget of a human
being Ted Cruz really is.
A lot of
wanna be Napoleons running around the planet lately.
God protect
us from all these scrimp losers@!
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
Friday, March 21, 2014
James “Diamond Jim” Buchanan Brady – Interiors – 7 West 86th Street Brownstone Residence
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Jean-Léon
Gérôme
“Fortune
Crowning the Winning Horse” Bronze – Sold for $1,600 at Estate Auction
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ETC:
Summer
Cottage, Shore Road, Bay Ridge Brooklyn, Bought 1895
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Atlah Brownstone Storefront Church Harlem Offers to Stone all Lesbians and Gays In Name of Jesus – Free
Rumor has it that the congregation will vote Sunday in favor of renaming the storefront enterprise - the Fred Phelps Memorial Temple of True Christian Love.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/20/lesbian-stoning-anti-gay-church_n_5000239.html
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Alien Abduction? – Malaysia Flight MH370 Harvesting Jet Airliner Spare Parts and Human Organs?
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| Cosmic Fast Food? Cheap |
Based on a dream I had nine days ago, at least a third of the passengers of Malaysia flight MH370 were being held in an unused building in a desert like landscape outside the building.
As good as these other theories that the High Technology fails miserably to explain at this point in time.
Of course maybe the used parts on a $260 million jetliner would bring in maybe $25-50 million in a good black market.
But probably less than harvesting the body parts of 250 people on the used body part - black market.
It that theory political as in terrorist or merely capitalist as in free market capitalism?
That or the Aliens have read the infamous Rod Serling Cookbook – To Serve Man. LOL
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Ted Cruz / Sal Cordileone – Strange Political Bedfellows Redefining the Size of States’ Power over COTUS
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| I won't lie to you BFF Sal, it is this big. |
State’s
Rights – the failed but never repealed Articles of Confederation are superior
to the COTUS (Constitution of the United States) per Representative Randy Weber’s
H.R.3829 and Senator Ted Cruz’s S. 2024 legislature bills in the U.S. Congress.
Archbishop
Sal Cordileone is Orgasmic in finding a BFF in Sen. Ted Cruz and States to
define redefine delusions of marriage, slavery, tax breaks and discrimination rights
for religions etc.
“Your bill would remedy this problem by requiring the federal government … to defer to the marriage law of the state in which people actually reside when determining whether they are married for purposes of federal law,” added the prelate, who endorsed similar House legislation in January.
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Heineken Beer Pulls Sponsorship on NYC – Boycotts Bigoted St. Patrick’s Day Parade
In an statement to CNBC on Friday, Heineken said it would not participate in New York's upcoming St. Patrick's Day celebration.
"We believe in equality for all. We are no longer a sponsor of Monday's parade," the company said.
Representatives of the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade committee declined to comment.
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Saturday, March 15, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
7 West 46th Street New York City - Former Residence of Diamond Jim Brady
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| 7 West 46th Street - Google Maps |
Many,
many, years ago I passed this building and there was a plaque next to the front
door that “Diamond Jim Brady” had lived here. The main floor shortly thereafter
was turned into a Japanese Restaurant and the plaque disappeared somewhere
along the way. I think also that the present façade is colored faux-stone
designed stucco and not the original brownstone.
It is
amazing sometimes the buildings that manage to survive in NYC.
3/17/14
Urban Legend Alert –
Have been
informed that Diamond Jim Brady did not live here by a reliable source. A typo
in a 1952 New York Times article had a typo regarding 7 West 86th
Street NYC etc.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Cold Hearted Global Spreadsheet Charlie Chaput in Philly Cuts Off Financial Tuition Aid to the Children of Clerical Sex Abuse Victims
I must say
the stooges running around 222 N 17th Street in Philly are kissing
tail, chasing their own tails, closing parishes, funding Pope Parties on the
Parkway and stiffing the children of Sex Abuse Victims out of free tuition at
Archdiocese schools.
Of course,
this not so well known program had to stop. Money to victims? A quarter million and Spreadsheet
Charlie, cheap, mean, tight, in on his temporary assignment, hatchet job before promotion, on the
assets of the Philly Archdiocese, that and trying so hard to get that Red Hat,
to enjoy forever in Hell, the floor of hell is covered in the skulls of bishops
etc.
Well who
would want to send their children to a Catholic school anyway after being raped
by the priest cult of this Christian sect is beyond me???
After some
attention in the press, the few that knew about this program have gotten a
temporary reprieve for the generosity of the faithful of the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia for the many sins of its so-called chast celibate hierarchy.
Whatever.
With that aid cut off, he faced the prospect of uprooting his teenagers in the midst of their high school years.
Church officials rebuffed months of repeated requests to plead his case with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, he said.
But after The Inquirer began asking questions about the tuition-relief program - and Woodruff's case in particular - church officials told him they would continue to cover his children's costs through graduation.
Ken Gavin, a spokesman for the archdiocese, said Chaput had been considering "for some time" the decision to grandfather Woodruff's children and those of other participating victims through the tuition relief program's closure.
The decision to end the program in June came last year as the archdiocese struggled to dig itself out of a financial hole that has prompted layoffs, property sales, and the closure of parishes and schools.
Gavin said a financial review of the archdiocese had prompted a reevaluation of how money set aside for victim services was spent.
"The core mission of the [Victim's Assistance Program] is to provide for healing of the individual," he said. "As such, resources were directed toward modes of assistance directly related to that goal."
He stressed that the school payments were just one of the myriad efforts the archdiocese's Office for Child and Youth Protection has made to combat sexual abuse and help victims, including offers of therapy and counseling to victims and mandatory training for its thousands of clergy and lay employees.
To Woodruff, that explanation is lacking.
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Pennsylvania Political Whores Corbett Nutter and Chaput Off to Rome to Woo Pope Francis for Expensive TaxPayer All-Expense Paid Visit to Philly in 2015 – Tuppence to the Poor
I know that
whenever a major dignitary, head of state, comes to New York for a major state
visit, the price tag to the taxpayers is usually in the tens of millions of
dollars. The Fed usually kicks in some funds under the table because New York is
host city to the United Nations.
And the
price tag for such events goes up all the time. Benedict’s Trip to Madrid Spain
in 2011 cost an estimated 72 million dollars that cash strapped Spain forked
out for a Catholic event in a “Catholic” country.
I know that
Francis is popular at the moment and all that, meaning he does not seem to be half the prick
that Benedict is and or John Paul was in real life but get a life Catholics.
Governor
Corbett who cuts back on school aid, food stamps and everything else
non-white-surburban middle class wants to drum up a visit of Francis to a
Catholic Family Conference in Philly in 2015.
Benedict had already promised and
hey it will bring an estimated 100 million dollars into the local economy but
it will probably cost 100 million in overtime for police, added security,
barriers, patrols, electronic scanning devices etc.
The Catholic
Governor who protected the Sandusky child abuse set up at Penn State for years as Attorney General
says that they are not going to use tax payers money to fund costs of this Pape Fest. Yeah right.
Pennsylvania
taxpayers are about to get screwed for a Catholic Party on the Parkway in Philly.
Off to Rome
with Governor Corbett, Mayor Nutter and Charles Chaput in search of his red hat, kissing up to the pope and hoping for a Catholic party at taxpayers’ expense
for the cash strapped Philadelphia Archdiocese that must close parish after
parish to make up to the devil may care spending like a Drunken Sailor in Rome
outside a male brothel of the, of late, not so great Cardinal Justin Rigali of
Philadelphia/Rome, retired now to a palace in Knoxville Tennessee.
The last Holy See to visit Philadelphia was Pope John Paul II in 1979. His outdoor mass along Benjamin Franklin Parkway drew more than 1 million.
If Francis were to come to Philadelphia, it would be his first trip in to North America, Corbett said. The city's large media market and geographic location, halfway between New York city and Washington, D.C., makes it the perfect designation for Francis to make the cross-Atlantic trip, the governor said.
In June 2012, when Benedict named Philadelphia as the host site for the family gathering, Chaput admitted he was nervous. The archdiocese was going through a tough period, he said, alluding to the prosecution of Monsignor William Lynn, whose conviction on child endangerment charges related to covering up sexual assaults of children recently was overturned. In January, Lynn was freed on bail pending an appeal.
But Chaput said his confidence grew after the region's and state's business and religious communities reached out to him to offer assistance. Catholic, Protestant and Jewish leaders have come together to join the host committee, chaired by Nutter, a Democrat ,and Corbett, a Republican, Chaput said.
"It's a miracle," he said.
The committee has raised $5 million so far, Chaput said. More is needed to help offset the cost of the event and give a donation to the poor.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Quakers Protest Keystone XL Oil Sludge Pipeline at Green Federal Building Philadelphia
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When the
Quakers won’t turn the other cheek, maybe something is wrong. Like an oil
sludge pipeline from Canada to Texas shipping dirty petroleum energy to third
world countries desperate for energy.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police in Philadelphia are starting to arrest a group of activists staging a protest over the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
About 40 environmentalists Monday have risked arrest by blocking an entrance to the William J. Green Building, near Independence Mall.
Approximately 100 others are on hand to support the Earth Quaker Action Team protest.
The demonstrators say the planned 1,100-mile pipeline from Canada to Texas poses serious environmental hazards.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Charles C W Cooke – NRO Blogger - Harry Reid’s Two Minute Hate on the Philanthropist Koch Brothers
British Atheist – (Christopher Hitchens wannabe?) – Charles C.W.
Cooke continues to comment on Tory Conservative American politics.
I never really thought about how hate of the Charity of the
Koch Bothers is what is making the Democrats jealous enough to cripple the
democratic process in the Congress.
An atheist defending the Koch’s Charity is a bit much on the
ass kissing even for a Brit Twit Oxford elitist mis-educated Royalist Charlie
Cooke.
The answer was there all along. Good closeted Christians like
the Kochs are being persecuted for their charity and faith by the evil atheists
of the Democratic Party. Who would of thought it except maybe the son of a peer
from Britain.
Oh us dumbed down stupid colonials. Give us back a rational
government. Give us a Queen (not in drag of course)? lol
Charles C.W. Cooke Defending the Koch Brothers From Democrats and Their Unjust Hardcore Political Hate…
“But the Kochs are not as simple as the hysteria would have them be. Indeed, even the lightest of research reveals them to be in favor of gay marriage, of drug legalization, of reforming and expanding the immigration system, of withdrawing troops from the Middle East, of cutting defense spending, of curbing the NSA’s overreach, and of helping to balance the budget by raising (some) taxes…” NRO March 6, 2014
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372803/harry-reids-two-minutes-hate-charles-c-w-cooke#comment-1276408402
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Religious Freedom Sign Post
This here
establishment reserves the right to refuse service to all Bigots and similar creatures of little or no soul.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
Consensus Avenue - Global Town Square
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Old time
religion was about a cohesive social unit. It was not particularly political.
The rural past of America and going back to the middle ages centered around the
local church building. Families were neighbors and also members of the
community church.
The local
town square, if the town was big enough for such a thing, was on the secular
end of the same avenue facing the local church. Sacred or secular decisions for
the community got discussed, a consensus found and decided on Main Street USA.
It is the
main street in the Disney theme parks that harkens back to the idealized late
nineteenth century era and up until WWI American world. Here, the separation of
church and state, more or less worked as a blueprint for the stabilization of
the community and the nation. We all have a fixed idea in memory of an ideal
setting from youth. Walt obviously had his too.
What does
the global town square (G.T.S.) look and feel like? It is as varied and diverse
as the Internet is right now. What it stabilizes into, is recognized as, gels
into universal perception as, will slowly happen in the next decade or two or
three. It will depend on the flow of culture and history in that as yet
unpainted future.
The global
culture idea is at this moment, and in my opinion, about bogus “global village”
concepts, decades old, that put ideas out on the airwaves and onto the
Internet. That old time touch me, look me in the eyes, and trade me your horse,
town square sense of cohesion is missing or has gaps in it.
Before we in
America get to the future, we should more fully understand who we are, consider
where we have been and where we are going. We need consensus. We also in many
ways need compromise. If we do not know or try to understand our neighbors
locally or globally, then we fail as Christians and we fail our community as
well.
“We” is the
important part of the preceding statement. Nationality may disappear in the
next decades in some corners of the globe but geography and local-ness will
not.
We either as
a group become more local and or more universal. Whatever factor dominates our
future thinking needs a balanced approach to dealing with reality. If the local
culture is important, then the universal global culture has to be recognized
and respected but not necessarily served blindly.
The
globalists have to recognize and respect local customs – period! Culture in the
global age has to be a two way street.
I may sound
more secular than cultural with my Christianity here but look at the world of
Jesus. You had the Romans and Herod and the Temple Priests and their politico
crony parties. You had the dispossessed in the new Romanization of the Holy
Land. It was a global situation and after the time of Jesus, it failed. It
failed miserably.
Jesus coped
with and inspired a local flock that included all levels of that local and
global community. The words, teachings and message of Jesus are now as
important as ever. I believe that he among the many facets of his unique
character and mission – I believe that he truly was one of the first to act
locally and think globally. Turn your cheek, go the extra distance, love you
neighbor (even if he is a Roman).
Communication
and consensus in local matters and looking over your shoulder at that global
thing coming at us is something I as a cultural Christian give consideration to
everyday. I hope we all, of many belief systems, are doing the same.
- mm 17/06/08
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