I say - The bible now. The bible Tomorrow. The bible Forever.
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Monday, November 17, 2014
Muslim Prayer Service at National Cathedral Washington DC – Friday November 14
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| photo: Guardian UK |
The monotheistic religionists like the Episcopalians are way ahead of the curve in sharing church property
with other faiths. It is a diverse country last I heard.
Planners had said they
hoped Friday’s service at the historic cathedral would foster more
understanding and acceptance between Christians and Muslims around the world.
The prominent Episcopal
cathedral often hosts national events, such as presidential funerals, and has
hosted Muslims at various interfaith services in the past. But planners say
this is the first time the cathedral has invited Muslims to lead their own
prayers there, which they call a “powerful symbolic gesture”.
As the service continued,
Rizwan Jacka of Islamic Society of North America called the cathedral a house
of prayer for all people.
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.Starbucks Joins Monsanto’s Suit to Queer Up Food Labeling Law in Vermont
The
legendary rocker announced that he's boycotting Starbucks over the coffee
monolith's alleged involvement in a lawsuit in Vermont regarding the labeling
of genetically modified ingredients.
"I
used to line up and get my latte everyday, but yesterday was my last one,"
Young wrote on his website earlier this week. "Starbucks has teamed up
with Monsanto to sue Vermont, and stop accurate food labeling."
Young's
referring to a law Vermont passed last spring that will require food labels to
specify whether they're made with genetically modified ingredients by July 1,
2016.
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Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
New Ted Cruz Coloring Book Falsely Depicts Him as Right Handed - Out or Still a Closet Leftie?
There is no
shame in being left handed. Long gone are the days of left handed people being
verbally abused as using the (Left Hand) “hand of Satan”.
Or is the comic book / coloring book image a false bearded one since it prominently displays his ring finger on the left hand, implying right handedness. Watch on right wrist - another leftie indicator.
This, when in fact the ring finger he uses is on his right hand in real life (in photos) indicating left handedness - (a closet leftie perhaps? - with all these false depictions and in the minds of little children no less - shame shame).
This, when in fact the ring finger he uses is on his right hand in real life (in photos) indicating left handedness - (a closet leftie perhaps? - with all these false depictions and in the minds of little children no less - shame shame).
Coded image
of just another bible belt redneck “false messiah”?
…the
firebrand Republican senator from Texas is depicted as a kid-friendly
“passionate fighter for limited government.”
This
week, the publisher released a new eight-page supplement to the original
children’s book. It’s titled “Ted Saves America” and includes images of the
tea-party darling flying like Superman and riding an eagle.
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Monday, November 10, 2014
Countess Annie Leary Burial Vaunt - Under Old Saint Patrick's Cathedral NYC
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| Old St. Patrick's Cathedral and Graveyard NYC |
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| Papal Countess Annie Leary 1832-1919 |
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| Leary Family Burial Vault Under Old St. Patrick's Cathedral NYC |
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| One of Several Corridors of Burial Vaults Under Old St. Patrick's Cathedral http://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/take-a-photo-tour-of-the-crypts-underneath-st-patricks-old-cathedral-slide-show. |
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Countess Annie Leary - "Summer Cottage" - Newport Rhode Island
"Park Gate" - Pelham Street and Bellevue Avenue
The Leary Summer "Cottage" from the Gilded Age of Countess Annie Leary and her brother Arthur - now an Elks Lodge meeting hall in Newport Rhode Island.
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| Image: Countess Annie Leary NY Tribune 17 Sept 1911 (copyright expired) |
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.George P. Bush (Texas) Not a Scientist - Code? For “I Am A Moron” (Just like Uncle Georgie [W. Bush])
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| George P Bush of Texas - "I Ain't No Scientist" |
(Cobert)
then turned his ire — and jokes — to Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush,
nephew of George W. Bush. The new Bush on the block had pulled the classic “I'm
not a scientist” line during an interview about global warming, something that
didn't sit well with even the conservative character.
And when the
land commissioner was asked how much man has contributed to the rising sea
levels, he punted.
“Everywhere
from no impact at all, to 100 percent,” Bush said.
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Friday, November 7, 2014
Politically Correct Storm Troopers Like Ben Affleck Have Destroyed Democratic Party with PC POISON
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| "I am PC Pure!" - "You are a moron Ben," |
I stopped writing over at Daily Kos because one day
I did not know the lexicon of 100% liberal culturally pure words. And with the
use of one politically incorrect (unacceptable word in any circumtance) word which I used metaphorically “Rothchild” in
a, theoretically I thought, discussion of nineteenth century economics related to
the American Civil War – I was attacked instantly by dozens of Kos Nazis or “Kossacks”
– attacked instantly and totally accused of “anti-semitism” in dozens of comments rendered in a matter of tens of seconds.
If you think you are liberal or progressive or
believe in science, if you don’t believe any of that the KOS way, you are an
outsider and eliminated or shunned, voted rated down down or commented to death by 100% politically
correct lefties – the pure or purist wing of that party that just lost so badly
in Congress.
Ben Affleck, to protect his politically perfect
version of limousine liberal PC, regarding the fanatic ragheads in the east and their war on the
west, attacked Bill Maher as a act of loyalty to his own ego and the PC niche he
has carved out regarding Politically Correct Fantasy Arab Interpretation
Hollywood style history.
The Republicans have the poor, the ignorant. The
poor will always be with us. Their base is secure forever.
The politically correct minefield, mindfield that
the left has to go through to prove oneself and or one’s cause pure and correct
and abstract and not real to the man or woman in the street - college professor PC ideal classroom model - is the problem the
Dem Morons like Ben Affleck have until the Dems can crawl back into power as a
politically party of real people and not PC clones.
Movie-Book Deal Worth Millions to Glory Seeking Navy Seal Robert O’Neill
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| Photo: Associated Press |
Traitor, disloyal to his oath and comrade Seals is worth
it to this greedy "patriot" Robert O’Neill. That and a target painted on his back to
half of Islam. I sure hope the American Taxpayer does not have to pay money to
protect this disloyal sad sack of human shit.
Robert O’Neill, 38, told The Washington Post in an
interview that he fired the two shots that killed bin Laden. He first recounted
the story in February 2013 to Esquire magazine, which identified him only as
“the shooter.”
One current and one
former SEAL confirmed to The Associated Press that O’Neill was long known to
have fired the shots that killed the leader of the international terror group
responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.
Defense Department
officials confirmed today that O’Neill was a member of SEAL Team Six and was
part of the bin Laden raid. But they said they could not confirm who fired the
fatal shot, noting that other SEALs on the mission also fired at bin Laden.
If O’Neill
discloses classified information during the interviews he could be subject to
an investigation or action by the Justice Department, the Defense Department
officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to discuss the matter by name.
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Pastor Rafael “Catfish” Cruz Feeds Lies to The Sheep At Hagee’s Cornerstone Tax Dodge Church at Secret Gathering in San Antonio
A lot of people like to read the Bible with a pair of scissors, cutting out the parts they don't like. -Rafael Cruz
— Cornerstone Church (@SACornerstone) November 3, 2014
Pastor Rafael “Catfish” Cruz, a Cuban Exile, son of the possibly born out of wedlock, born in Canada Rafael Eduardo “Ted” Cruz of Texas, with many anti-American agendas, secretly snuck into fatboy Pastor John Hagee’s Tax Dodging Cornerstone Church and Gun Store in San Antonio on November 2nd and delivered his secret address to the Christian troops assembled, waiting for the longest delayed Bay of Pigs II assault on Washington DC.
What’s the big secret Pastor Rafael and John? What have you two darlings got to hide?
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Average Penis Size - Can 114th Congress Measure Up 2 to the 113th Circle Joke Congress?
Looking at
the wood (when, if, erect) added to the 113th, the 114th does not IMHO
measure up to the infamously virile 113th Congress.
2.5 inches =
6.35 centimeters BTW
Down .25
inches I would guesstimate.
Where have
all the good men gone? LOL
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Saturday, November 1, 2014
Year 155 A.D. (After Darwin) - Happy Celtic New Year
Happy New
Year. Happy Celtic New Year. It was the global New Year long before
they moved it to January 1.
The world
seems to be changing very quickly. Arab Spring. Occupy Everywhere.
Out of Iraq soon? I’ll believe that when I see it. The great
non-Depression. Etc.
It is the
Celtic New Year. The traditional New Year before the Church of
Constantine hijacked the date and turned it into the Feast of the
Circumcision. (Boy, what's that all about?)
Anyway.
I am Areligionist, without religion and dogma. It saves on the brain
cells, avoiding too many brain games etc.
Of this, I am
proud in my designating a proposed new global calendar system to reflect the
reality of Darwin. Even if On The Origins of the Species was first
published on November 24, 1859, I am starting or setting in motion a Cultural
Christian non-religious, non-dogmatic sacred tradition and merging Nov 24 with
today Nov 1, a sacred day to me because I am a Celt, in this, the new New Year's day of the year 155 A.D. (after Darwin). Cute.
Organized religion seems to be obsolete in western culture. Schools,
hospitals and government are mostly secular and here in the USA the separation
of church and state has been the cornerstone law of this land for over two
centuries.
It is not that God is dead in so much as ancient myths and logics are misunderstood and or incompatible with this modern age. In any case – God is God; man is religion.
I pray that all of Islam wakes up one day soon. I pray that it is able to think independently of the state and the evil fascist rulers controlling the local mosque. That awakening will be Islam’s Reformation and gift to the world.
The harder the extremists of Islam and Christianity fight for a place at the table of a fascist rulers’ feast – the greater the awakening to moderates who do not want to be told what God wants.
Who knows what God wants ? Only madmen!
The secular sunshine of tomorrow will shine on all cultures on all continents.
It is not that God is dead in so much as ancient myths and logics are misunderstood and or incompatible with this modern age. In any case – God is God; man is religion.
I pray that all of Islam wakes up one day soon. I pray that it is able to think independently of the state and the evil fascist rulers controlling the local mosque. That awakening will be Islam’s Reformation and gift to the world.
The harder the extremists of Islam and Christianity fight for a place at the table of a fascist rulers’ feast – the greater the awakening to moderates who do not want to be told what God wants.
Who knows what God wants ? Only madmen!
The secular sunshine of tomorrow will shine on all cultures on all continents.
Other than that, my Cultural Christian Sensibility knows that in fifty
years time – all of humanity will look at all things including God and religion
as either “B.D” or “A.D.” – either “Before Darwin” or “After Darwin”. - - (April 29, 2009)
I have some New Year's Resolutions and will be devoting more time to
some postponed projects.
Happy New Year. Happy 155.
Treasure (not bless) Darwin.
Samhain!
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Countess Annie Leary Philanthropy Lives on At Bellevue Hospital Catholic Chapel NYC
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Father Marani standing in front of the Leary Family Donated Stained Glass “Christ Healing the Sick” from the original Bellevue Hospital RC Chapel (1897-1938)
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Salvage
these days would seem to be a good business. I am glad that parts of beautiful
buildings live on in other architecture. Off topic I am poised with bated breath to hopefully follow some Salviati Venetian Glass Mosaics into their third home out of two defunct churches in Philly.
While
researching a lot of dead ends, no direct flow of info, on the Internet regarding the lost Leary Chapel
at Bellevue Hospital 1897-1938 I have found out that some of the Stained Glass
out of Miss Annie Leary’s so-called million dollar RC chapel at Bellevue lives on in
the present Catholic Chapel at the Bellevue Hospital complex in NYC.
"Chapel Hall
opened in the newly built administration building in 1940. In its coverage of
the consecration of the Catholic chapel, The New York Times reported that “the
ceremony brought to Bellevue the distinction of being the first hospital in the
world to have separate houses of worship for each of three major faiths.” (The
Muslim prayer room was added in recent years.)
The new
Catholic chapel, resplendent with stained-glass windows salvaged from the
demolished one, was placed in the center of the hall...."
The popular repeated over and over again from some one source meme is that the Arthur Leary Chapel at Bellevue Hospital 1897-1938 cost something like one million dollars to build. I don't see much bang for the buck when I look at old photos.
Doing some other research on some other gilded age micks like Annie Leary and her brother Arthur, one (one of the very few Catholics) of Mrs. Astor’s “400” in the day, I have to say that if Miss Annie Leary paid a million dollars for the little stone building on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital in 1897, she was sold a barrel of goods by the Archdiocese or the Architect William Schickel – a pig in a poke – or the press (MSM) of the day - perhaps using her grief for her older brother with exaggerated value in dollars - by using her charity work for filler and to sell copies of news to the masses or to orchestrate downright theft from the aging heiress.
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| NYPL - Bellevue Hospital - 1938 |
Doing some other research on some other gilded age micks like Annie Leary and her brother Arthur, one (one of the very few Catholics) of Mrs. Astor’s “400” in the day, I have to say that if Miss Annie Leary paid a million dollars for the little stone building on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital in 1897, she was sold a barrel of goods by the Archdiocese or the Architect William Schickel – a pig in a poke – or the press (MSM) of the day - perhaps using her grief for her older brother with exaggerated value in dollars - by using her charity work for filler and to sell copies of news to the masses or to orchestrate downright theft from the aging heiress.
That if Annie Leary paid
more than $200K max for this modest chapel, she paid too much, she got ripped off by the architect,
contractor or the RC archdiocese, depending on who was cashing Annie’s bank
drafts.
In searching
for this magnificent piece of superior European style workmanship that the New
York Times Article implies, I was greatly disappointed to see what
looks like a plain exterior stone chapel on the corner of First Avenue and
Twenty-eighth street in Manhattan.
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| Image: Catholic World, Volume 65 - 1897 (Original Copyright Expired) |
The Catholic
World illustration architectural drawings (above) of William Schickel is set in their
publication almost as a last minute thing and after the footnotes without any
of the NYT hype about the rich woman’s generous gift to the Catholic sick at
Bellevue Hospital who would not touch a secular or non-Catholic place of
worship in the perhaps W.A.S.P. controlled medical facility. That stays in the
hospital back then lasted days and perhaps weeks for things like pneumonia that
needed antibiotics by modern standards.
That the
Catholic World publication and its editors may not have cared about gilded age
New York and its narcissism even in the building of a Catholic chapel right on
First Avenue at arm’s length for the great new city institution.
That William
Schickel had already perhaps done a spec drawing, not according to Annie
Leary’s desire to memorialize her dead banker broker, but the spec watercolor
and some basic spec plans were perhaps already on hand to fit the needs of
Archdiocese trying to weedle its way into the Protestant ruling class
controlled institution of Bellevue Hospital, the city supported hospital. A lot of campaigning and negotiating there
and no doubt through the Tammany crowd on that. The project was envisioned but not financed at
this point?
A guest at
Annie Leary's Stag Breakfast after the Chapel's dedication by the Cardinal lists John
Crimmins as one of the select 40 males to dine in the nearby Waldorf Astoria
banquet hall. Crimmins was known for both his Catholic charity work and his
business was of course construction. And he was associated with the architect
on other projects, Crimmins' upper east side mansion in particular.
Here is an
excellent link to one of William Schickel’s masterpieces of Most Holy Trinity /
St. Mary’s in Williamsburg Brooklyn btw.
Also cursory
reading on the internet has Schickel’s name not only associated with noteworthy
New York church buildings but hospital buildings in NYC such as Lenox Hill
(German) Hospital as well as with Bellevue.
Schickel
changed his company name according to Wikipedia in 1895 which is why I think
the Spec Illustration of W. Schickel and Co. was painted long before Authur
Leary went to his reward in 1893. Leary's sister somewhere along the timeline
probably got conned into footing the bill for the Catholic archdiocese plans to
plant the Catholic flag on Episcopalian Bellevue and with its Christ the Consoler Chapel as the
only place of worship on the premises.
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As for cost
of the Leary Chapel, as far as I can tell the land was donated by
Bellevue. The stained glass was made in
Munich, which was the architect’s native region. Do not know if this is a
preference for homegrown workmanship or for cost effectiveness.
Going back to the deadends in terms of tracing salvaged stained glass windows at a secular medical facility.
Going back to the deadends in terms of tracing salvaged stained glass windows at a secular medical facility.
With all the
hype of the Chapel in the elite New York Times of the Elites of Society
honoring a dead knight of "the" Mrs. Astor's "400", it all lost its luster very quickly in time.
By 1915, a
publication by Bellevue has the "Leary Memorial Chapel" reduced to
the Roman Catholic Chapel and Miss (later Papal Countess) Annie Leary's
Catholic charity reduced to a marble altar within that RC chapel at
Bellevue. This within 18 years of
dedication - willful ignorance - bureaucratic indifference - or both?
Whatever.
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| Image: A Short History Of Bellevue Hospital And Of The Training Schools – 1915 (Original Copyright Expired) |
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| NYPL - Bellevue Hospital - 1938 |
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| Bellevue Hospital - First Avenue and 28th Street NYC (Jan 2013 Google Maps) . |
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Arthur Leary Memorial Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament - Bellevue Hospital NYC - 1897 - W. Schickel & Co. Architects
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| Image: Catholic World, Volume 65 - 1897 (Original Copyright Expired) |
“The first Roman Catholic
Chapel at Bellevue Hospital was the gift of Miss Annie Leary in memory of her
brother, Arthur Leary. Designed in the French Gothic style, the chapel was
built of stone quarried from the banks of the East River. The interior was finished
in hand-carved oak that was executed under the personal supervision of Miss
Leary. Walls were hued in an old rose shade, while the ceiling was pale blue,
darkening in color as it neared the arch above the altar. Within the chancel
rail were three marble altars, and above the altar was a window representing
Christ healing the sick. Nine additional windows, executed in Munich,
represented patron saints. The chapel was dedicated on February 27, 1897, in
impressive ceremonies officiated by Archbishop Corrigan. Music was furnished by
a double quartet led by William Pecher, organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Miss Leary sent invitations to 300 friends, and after the service gave a very
handsome breakfast in the banquet room of the Waldorf Hotel. The two-hour
breakfast was attended by forty gentlemen, including clergy who had officiated,
friends of Mr. Leary, and others who had been interested in the building and
dedication of the chapel. Guests were received by Miss Leary, assisted by Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish, Mrs. John Dahlgren Drexel, and Mrs. Charles Oelrichs, but when
breakfast was announced Miss Leary and her female friends left to have
breakfast in the restaurant downstairs.
The chapel was razed in 1938…”
The chapel was razed in 1938…”
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| Image: A Short History Of Bellevue Hospital And Of The Training
Schools – 1915 (Original Copyright Expired) |
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
A Christmas Dream - By James Topham Brady - New York 1860
James T. Brady, one of
America’s most famed jurists of his time.
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Friday, October 17, 2014
Ted Rafael Cruz Defends Privileged Class - “Free of Tax” Class Religionists and Right to Discriminate
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| Ted Cruz Defending Discrimination Right of Privileged TAX-FREE Religionists in Houston Texas |
The city of
Houston wants to subpoena “sermons” urging discrimination in Houston against minorities,
women, gays, coloreds – and Cuban / American White Trash (via Canada) Texas Senator "Ted" Rafael
Cruz-Darragh steps up to bat and defends his favorite class of people, rich “untaxable”
religionist Texans. No separation of church and state when a greedy illegal
immigrant “constitutional” lawyer defends privilege over democracy.
In May, the
City Council passed the equal rights ordinance, which bans discrimination of
gay and transgender residents among businesses that serve the public, private
employers, in housing and in city employment and city contracting. Religious
institutions are exempt, but city attorneys subpoenaed five pastors, seeking
all speeches, presentations or sermons related to the petition, the mayor,
homosexuality or gender identity.
Christian
activists sued after city officials ruled they didn’t collect enough signatures
on petitions to put a referendum on the ballot to repeal the ordinance backed
by Houston Mayor Annise Parker, who is gay.
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Ebola - Don't Tread on Me - TEAbola Monster
No ACA funds to Texas, Ted Cruz's sequester, no Surgeon General... It's TEAbola. #inners pic.twitter.com/RStWUI4Ank
— larry dimaio (@larrydimaio) October 17, 2014
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
National Epidemic - Who Ya Gonna Call? - Wayne LaPierre - NRA
National Epidemic -
Who Ya Gonna Call? -
Wayne LaPierre - NRA?
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Bill Donohue / Catholic League – Wet Dreams for Actor Tom Selleck No More?
I have been trying for the sake of my own physical and mental health from commenting on anything related to religion lately. My good. But this I think is more a grown man’s attraction for another man and closeted (suppressed) in the name of superstition and or religion (RC religion to be exact). Not quite legitimate religion I think.
While traveling down low so to speak to try and find how tortured souls, closeted homophobes like Bill Donohue at the Catholic League Mimeograph machine website might be commenting (not thinking) on the recent headlines of kind words for gays from the pope and his crew or tortured souls, closeted homophobe bishops I ran into Bill’s disgust at an actor Tom Selleck.
In another article BTW at the CL site is an article about how “Confused” both the Pope and the Media are about leaked unfinished kind words for “gays” at the current “Synod of Bishops” in Rome…
Well I confess to a certain prejudice. I stopped watching anything the actor Tom Selleck was in long ago once I found out he was a big contributor and card carrying member of the GOP. Mediocre actors need mediocre audiences?
I had to look up what Blue Bloods is as a TV show. See commercials. But don’t want to have to waste any of the precious time I have left on earth in watching a grade “B” Hollywood actor actor like Selleck on a TV Cop Soap Opera show. The grade “B” Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan comes to mind when I think of Selleck and guess what.
That is the name of the fictional character that Bill Donohue has been getting off on in the past five seasons of “Blue Bloods” of a family of Irish Catholic Cops doing their stuff in New York City with get this, overseen by dad, Commissioner “Frank Reagan” (Tom Selleck) – a load of pre-cum on that fictional name and load of brute power as chief of Police. AHH! Release! (Oh Bill).
Well anyway, Chief Frank Reagan says something nice about da “gays” on his TV show and Bill Donohue wants CBS to cancel the show. Great wet dream if you can pull it off Bill. Have a nice bigoted life.
Masturbation Foreplay (in words):
We’ve (the royal we? Bill and little Willy?) been impressed with the underlying positive message of “Blue Bloods” over the years, as well as its welcome treatment of Catholicism. But after last Friday’s show, we’re now wondering whether CBS is turning on its audience. We’ve been bombarded with complaints following the last episode.
Police Commissioner Reagan cannot defend the Church’s teachings on homosexuality, so when Catholicism is branded an “anti-gay faith,” he replies, “Well, I do believe the Church is a little behind the times on this.” Indeed, he goes so far as to say, “I do believe the Church is backwards on this. And of all the stands to hold onto. In the midst of the scandals of the past decade.” Viewers also meet a conflicted Cardinal Brennan, and a proud lesbian, Sister Mary.
The Bible is “anti-gay.” That is the logical conclusion that unfolds in this episode. The show also misrepresents the sexual abuse scandal: almost all the molesting priests were practicing homosexuals. Moreover, the scandal ended in the mid-1980s, thus showing how far behind the times the show’s writers are. As for the wavering cardinal and the wayward nun—it is what we would expect from writers who have decided to pivot….
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