Taxation Without Representation Is Tyranny! -
Impeach Congress!
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Crumbs Cupcakes – Belly Bombers Take a Nose Dive in the Marketplace – boo hoo - 8 July 2014
The lucky to
be working white female office workaholic middle class of America are all beset by the
bankruptcy of some cupcake franchise nationally or at least in big cities.
The many
news services online are in mourning.
Where will the overweight office workers
of the big city and suburban hot spot America buy $4.00 cupcakes that were too
sweet with corn syrup (HFCS?) and too dry to the taste by most accounts in writing - hindsight?.
Success was
enough to make these 800 calorie cupcakes a symbol of future easy 401k
retirement by many foolish people.
Even an
article in the NYT (bow your heads) about the loss of these chubby making belly
bombers.
What’s the
elite over educated, over paid, white middle class to do?
Oh Sooth us NYT’s
article.
What’s next
in the headlines?
Homeless people criticizing the quality and quantity of
lettuce in stale two day old sammiches donated to the poor by Pret Manger???
Whatever.
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Friday, July 4, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Pandora's Box - Citizen's United - Hobby Lobby - Male Majority SCOTUS
With
apologies and thanks to Artist Frank Stuart Church (1842-1924) (Public Domain)
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Greedy Religionist Rick Warren Defends His Oxymoronic “Religious Liberty” "Rights"
Greedy
Religionist Rick Warren defends his oxymoronic “Religious Liberty”- is willing
(Liar) to go to Jail if necessary on the way to the bank. Put him in lockup
with all the refugee immigrant children, overfed pig at the government trough.
Religious
Liberty is an oxymoron as described by these government contractors that want
the money but not the true morality behind the government charity of the taxpayer’s
buck.
I think Jail
is the perfect place for evil greedy ministers like Rick Warren who want to
take Government Contract money handing out soup to the poor and in the process
discriminate against hiring blacks, women or gays and calling it “religious
liberty”
Hobby Lobby
is a Christian-owned company that is currently involved in a lawsuit before the
U.S. Supreme Court. The owners are asking the Court to protect its right to run
the company according to their religious conscience and Christian faith.
Warren
argued that religious freedom is "being attacked on all kinds of
fronts," citing Christian college groups, zoning laws and Hobby Lobby.
... religious
leaders formally asked to be exempt from an executive order prohibiting federal
contractors from discriminating against the LGBT community. The White House
announced the order last week.
The Atlantic
reports the letter was sent to President Barack Obama by 14 representatives on
Tuesday.
"Without
a robust religious exemption, this expansion of hiring rights will come at an
unreasonable cost to the common good, national unity and religious
freedom," they wrote.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Vatican Victory in Supreme Court Hobby Lobby Decision - Five Catholic Justices Putting Women in Their Place
Catholic Majority Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Kennedy -Waiting for their next marching orders from Rome.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Monday, June 30, 2014
S.T.A.R.K. - Catholic Supreme Court – Scalia/Thomas/Alito/Roberts/Kennedy - Strikes Again – June 30, 2014 - Hobby Lobby Holy Card
S.T.A.R.K. - Catholic Supreme Court – Scalia/Thomas/Alito/Roberts/Kennedy
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Strikes Again – June 30, 2014
Religious Patrimony Wins Over Freedom of Choice
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Friday, June 27, 2014
1937 Baseball All Star Game - Griffith Field Washington DC - July 1937
American League beat National League 8-3
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
Countess Annie Leary of New York City Evicted From Her Fifth Avenue Mansion – 1904
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Photo Source: Both Sides of Fifth Ave.
J.F.L.Collins 1910
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This is
perhaps a bit silly but there is so little available on the life of Countess
Annie Leary of NYC that a bit of gossip in a tattle mag of the time says a
lot about interest in the rich and famous even back then.
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Broadcast Weekly 14 April 1904 |
The way this
is written I am not certain if Countess Annie was evicted from her long term
home at 3 Fifth avenue, which I cannot find a picture of yet – or she first
left that perhaps childhood home at 3 Fifth Avenue when a 99 year lease, made
by her father James Leary the Merchant/Hatter, on the land it was built on
expired in 1902. That the two year lease is perhaps another rental further up
Fifth Avenue and that too became unavailable as developers were tearing down these
old brick or brownstone mansions and building apartment buildings in the teens
and 1920s.
In any case,
Annie seems to have been "homeless" for a few short years while she finally moved
into digs at 1032 Fifth Avenue between 84th Street and 85th
Street and in sight of the Metropolitan Museum of Art across the road, located
within the boundaries of Central Park.
The house at
1032 Fifth Avenue was a fixer upper, a renovation and re-clad in white stone of
a bunch of spec townhouses built in the 1870s. In the image of 1032 above, the
building next door at 1033 is still a brownstone as of 1910, and 1034 was being
converted at the same time with Annie’s 1032 in 1905 with the “rebuilt front wall” and
getting in Annie’s case a three story extension in back where the stables used
to be.
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| April 1905 |
The building progress report lists Countess Leary’s no doubt temporary address as 16 E 75th
Street.
1033 btw is still standing with a white stone re-clad and squeezed between two tall apartment buildings.
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| 1033 Fifth Avenue NYC Google Maps |
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Speaker Boehner to Sue President Obama - GOP Lynch Party? - Get Lawyer Atticus Finch to Defend the Prez
Speaker Boehner to Sue President Obama - GOP Lynch Party?
- Get Lawyer Atticus Finch to Defend the Prez.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Countess Annie Leary 1832 / 1919 - Forgotten Female Philanthropist of New York's Gilded Age - Bio Sketch
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| Papal Countess Annie Leary of NYC Photo by Theodore C. Marceau 1859-1922 (original copyright expired) |
http://www.smr.org/en/news.php?a=2&id=45
Annie Leary was born in
1832, the second of James and Catherine Leary’s six children. The Leary family
was originally from Ireland but had been established in New York for at least
two generations. By the time of Annie’s birth her father was a very successful
business man who could send his two daughters and four sons to the best private
schools. James Leary was an associate of
John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest men in the United States. Remarkably,
Leary and Astor amassed a fortune buying and selling beaver pelts that were
used to make the tall hats worn by gentlemen in Europe and America.
The demand
for beaver pelts was such that the beaver population in North America almost
became extinct. In addition, James Leary had a hat factory in which he employed
poor Irish immigrants; there he developed a process that revolutionized the
industry by making more affordable hats using less expensive napped nutria
pelts. When the European market began to favor silk in the manufacture of hats,
he was the first to introduce it in the U.S. market. His shop was the most
fashionable in New York’s Chatham Square and later in Hannover Square. He was
known as the “arbiter of hat fashion” in the city. At his death he left his
entire fortune to his unmarried daughter Annie and not one penny to any of his
other five children.
A search through the social
pages of the New York Times mentions Annie in every list of fashionable parties
and in every charitable board. She loved to entertain in her palatial home in
the city and during the summer in Paul Cottage, Newport, Rhode Island, which
she shared with her brother Arthur. Annie loved music and was a regular at the
opera. Her musical soirées featured the
best chamber music and the likes of Enrico Caruso.
Her homes were furnished
lavishly with Persian rugs, crystal chandeliers, antique Japanese vases, and
huge gilt-framed mirrors, 68 of them. The N Y Times, August 20, 1905 describes
her in formal attire: “Miss Leary is a conspicuous figure in her white satin
gowns cut high, having elbow length sleeves draped with rare old lace, and
wearing a small headdress of white ostrich plumes and white satin ribbon.”
When her brother Arthur, a
bachelor, described as a “Beau Brummell,” one of the best know men in business
and society, died in 1893, he left her a huge fortune. Her wealth was estimated
to be between five and twenty million dollars.
Mentioned many times in the
society pages for throwing lavish parties, Annie is many more times noted for
her generosity towards the Catholic Church, and for her efforts to alleviate
the plight of the poor and ill. Her love of the Eucharist led her to donate
altars to poor churches both in the States and abroad. After the death of her
brother Arthur she built a chapel in his name on the grounds of Bellevue
Hospital in New York, the oldest and poorest in the city.
She created the Arthur Leary Mission to care
for destitute patients, to assure them access to the sacraments, and to provide
them with books, toiletries, coffee and cigarettes. She was vice-president of
Stony Wold, a beautiful sanatorium for destitute tuberculosis patients in the
Adirondack Mountains and also vice-president of the Flower Guild, since she was
especially interested in the establishment of small gardens for children in the
poorer quarters of New York. Annie contributed a considerable sum of money to
provide for the establishment of the community of the Fathers of the Blessed
Sacrament in New York in 1900. Shortly after their arrival from Montreal,
Archbishop Corrigan entrusted to them the church of Saint Jean Baptiste which
served the French speaking Catholics. They continue their ministry there to
this day.
For all her good works, Pope Leo XXIII conferred on her the title of Countess on October 11, 1901; Pope Pius X later re-conferred the title.
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
Madison Square Garden - NYC - 1920s
The old
Madison Square Garden – just off Madison Square – NYC – circa 1920s
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Empire State Building - Start Up - 1929
SE corner
Fifth Avenue and 34th Street – 1929 – site of the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel from the Gilded Age.
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NYC Victory Monument - 1919
Before the
wrap around Grand Central Terminal highway, “Pershing Square”, Park Avenue (Fourth
Ave.) and 42nd Street NYC.
A Victory
Monument, a pyramid made of spiked German helmuts, 1919, the “War to end all
wars.” – WWI.
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Humanitarian Crisis in Middle East as Bush/Cheney Propped Up Iraq Dictatorship Falls Apart – Last Battle of Baghdad About to Begin – But Don’t Worry America – Big Oil Corps Still Control the Oil Fields
It was also
mulling air strikes against the militants, who are led by the jihadist Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant but include loyalists of now-executed Sunni Arab
dictator Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile, the United Nations warned Iraq is in danger
of disintegrating.
A relative
calm in Baghdad - ostensibly as militants have focused on their northern
assault - was shattered by a string of bombings that left 17 people dead, while
the bodies of 18 soldiers and police were found near the city of Samarra, all
shot in the head and chest.
Since the
insurgents launched their lightning assault on June 9, they have captured
Mosul, a city of two million people, and a big chunk of mainly Sunni Arab
territory stretching towards the capital.
The
offensive has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and sent jitters
through world oil markets as the militants have advanced ever nearer Baghdad
leaving the Shiite-led government in disarray.
Officials
said on Tuesday that militants briefly held parts of the city of Baquba, just
40 miles from the capital.
They also
took control of most of Tal Afar, a strategic Shiite-majority town between
Mosul and the border with Syria, where ISIL also has fighters engaged in that
country's three-year-old civil war.
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