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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Monday, June 16, 2014
Season Finale - Father's Day - Game of Thrones - Spoiler Alert
#GamesofThrones Spoiler Alert - What did # 2 son Tyrion Lannister give to his DAD on Father's Day? - - More heartache.
— Mike McShea (@mcshea33) June 16, 2014
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Dave Brat’s “Christian Economics” Course at Randolph Macon Funded by Wall Street Bank BB&T Worshipping the Ayn Rand Selfish Money (Greed) Goddess /Idol
David Brat's work at Randolph-Macon College gives one more clue to who he is.
Aside from chairing the economics department, he is director of the BB&T Moral Foundations of Capitalism program. In this program, underwritten by the bank BB&T's charitable foundation and inaugurated in 2008, colleges teach a curriculum that promotes free-market economics, and notably, the ideas of Ayn Rand.
The man behind the program, former BB&T chairman and CEO John Allison has described the curriculum as a way of helping save America from economic decline:
"Unless students (i.e., future leaders, teachers, professors, etc.) learn the principles that underlie a free society, the United States will continue to move toward statism and economic decline. The believers in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" must retake the universities, or America will ultimately become a second-tier country with a dark future."
That is the context in which BB&T began its program "The Moral Foundations of Capitalism."
The BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking & Trust) is one of the largest financial services holding companies in the U.S. with $184.7 billion in assets and market capitalization of $28.9 billion, as of March 31, 2014. Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., the company operates 1,824 financial centers in 12 states…
Since 2009, BB&T has outsourced it's back-end operations to Proview Global Administration Inc., a small BPO company located in Manila, Philippines. With around 150 employees, Proview Global Administration Inc. provides premium billing and reconciliation; benefits enrollment; COBRA administration and other financial-related services to BB&T. The officers of Proview Global Administration Inc. are former BB&T employees.
David Brat's work at Randolph-Macon College gives one more clue to who he is.
Aside from chairing the economics department, he is director of the BB&T Moral Foundations of Capitalism program. In this program, underwritten by the bank BB&T's charitable foundation and inaugurated in 2008, colleges teach a curriculum that promotes free-market economics, and notably, the ideas of Ayn Rand.
The man behind the program, former BB&T chairman and CEO John Allison has described the curriculum as a way of helping save America from economic decline:
"Unless students (i.e., future leaders, teachers, professors, etc.) learn the principles that underlie a free society, the United States will continue to move toward statism and economic decline. The believers in "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" must retake the universities, or America will ultimately become a second-tier country with a dark future."
That is the context in which BB&T began its program "The Moral Foundations of Capitalism."
The BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking & Trust) is one of the largest financial services holding companies in the U.S. with $184.7 billion in assets and market capitalization of $28.9 billion, as of March 31, 2014. Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., the company operates 1,824 financial centers in 12 states…
Since 2009, BB&T has outsourced it's back-end operations to Proview Global Administration Inc., a small BPO company located in Manila, Philippines. With around 150 employees, Proview Global Administration Inc. provides premium billing and reconciliation; benefits enrollment; COBRA administration and other financial-related services to BB&T. The officers of Proview Global Administration Inc. are former BB&T employees.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
ABC This Week - Pundit Wallpaper - Donna Brazile - Bill Kristol - BLAH BLAH - BLAH BLAH BLAH
Donna Brazile - Bill Kristol - ABC This Week - Pundit Talking Wallpaper - Blah Blah - Blah Blah Blah
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Saturday, June 14, 2014
Pope Francis Announces the End of Wall Street’s Global Style Power and Greed With Its Imminent Collapse – A “House Built on Sand” – Not Humanity
The Royal Houses of Europe of a century ago in 1914 were willing
to sacrifice a whole generation of its young to keep their corruption in power. These days,
a band-aid fix up of a Trillion Dollar Student Loan Debt situation shot down in
the Senate only illustrates how the people in power are willing to sacrifice a
whole generation of young America just to keep their corruption and villainy in power. Only something like education would be could be turned into a commodity for profit in a place like America, whose soul lately is so heavily mortgaged to the "Big Banks".
Pope Francis said the global economic system is at risk of
breaking down because of inequality and rising youth unemployment, in an
interview with Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia.
“We’re excluding an entire generation to sustain a system that
is not good,” La Vanguardia cited the Pope as saying. “Our global economic
system can’t take any more.”
The pope said the difficulty with the global economy is that it
puts “the god of money” at the center, rather than men and women, the newspaper
reported. He said that globalization works when it brings together different
ways of thinking, rather than eliminating them, La Vanguardia added.
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Friday, June 13, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Dominionist “Dave” Brat Beats Eric Cantor in GOP Primary - Eric BTW Who Was Not White Enough or “Christian” Enough for the Ruling Elites of States’ Rights Virginia
With a
half-assed Masters in Theology from Princeton – a real Theology degree is a
Ph.D. btw imho – and preaching the obscure political agenda Orwellian like “economics”of
Libertarian politics, the Tea Party is far from dead and its candidates are
far less “Kook” like in a push for “States’ Rights” and the coming theocracy,
the media is scrambling for dumbed down explanations of why Eric Cantor lost to "Dave" Brat.
Myths of
David brings down Goliath with a minimal budget to beat mainstream GOP soldier
Eric Cantor are being pumped out by the lamestream media with ignoring all the free network of
Christian foot soldiers stuffing and mailing political propaganda, like with Dave Brat’s
local chapter of the Knights of Columbus located and sponsored in his rich burb
Richmond Virginia Roman Catholic church of St. Mary’s.
A convert to
Catholicism (?) and after a Ph.D. at American University, a traditionally linked
Methodist institution. Go where the power and money is. And the RCs always have
the big global bucks?
Apparently
mixing religion with economics is the new politics of the new Right and or
Orwellian Big Brother visionaries that put Ronald Reagan in power via the
vision of the Liberty Fund.
A quote in
Liberty Fund Publishing Economics, of obscure voodoo economist Paul Heyne’s
manifesto like quotes in a letter to “David Brat”, the same as in the Cantor
Brat Primary Race? [1. ] Paul Heyne, letter to David Brat, 31 July 1998. http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/the-economic-and-ethical-thought-of-paul-heyne
Thursday, June 5, 2014
George Henry Story – Bohemian Resident of Greenwich Village 1860s – Artist Regular at Pfaff’s
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| Walt Whitman at Pfaff's Beer Cellar - 1856 (Public Domain) |
Per my
earlier piece of Mrs. G. H. Story (Eunice Emerson Kimball Story) being a
childhood friend of the American Humorist “Artemis Ward”, I have since found a
connection of George H. Story to a documented regular at the famous artist
hangout of the 1860’s Beer Cellar – Pfaff’s.
It is little
wonder Story’s connection to that Bohemian art scene of writers, actors, artists
and poets, the most famous of them being Walt Whitman is lost. Not a lot of historical references to check out. Just a lot of collateral evidence of who used to frequent this once popular scene in antebellum and postbellum NYC.
And having an art studio a few doors away is not proof but I can say with certainty Story was no teetotaler.
A who’s who of young and artsy New Yorkers or “Bohemians”
as some of them were called happened around that happening place of Broadway
and Bleecker Street in Manhattan.
From that
period of “Bohemia” around Pfaff’s beer cellar, artist G.H. Story has his studio
located at "643 Broadway" near two addresses identified with Pfaff’s as 647 and
653 Broadway.
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| 1865 NYC Directory |
George H
Story’s home address is listed as “18 Cottage Place” which is no longer there.
It was located between W. Houston and Bleecker and west of MacDougal and
absorbed into the Sixth Avenue extension linking uptown with downtown in the
1920s. Part of it exists as part of a small triangle of a park in front of the “Little
Red School House” complex – the original older building on the corner still
exists and part of the east side of Cottage Place now part of Sixth and or “Avenue
of the Americas”. The west side of Cottage Place where the Storys resided in now in the middle of busy Sixth Avenue. I don’t know if those apartment
buildings in the picture below go back to the 1860s btw.
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| Google Maps |
One poet who
has some documented connections to the Storys is the poet William Winter,
quite famous in his day and a key player in his youth at the Pfaff’s art scene.
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| William Winter - 1876 (Public Domain) |
The first
connection is some name cards of George and Eunice Story being mailed to the
Winter family in acknowledgement of the death of Winter's son William, aged 14 in
early 1886.
1886 - Jan -
William Winter age 14
A visiting
card of George H. Story with a manuscript note: "With heartfelt sympathy
my dear Mr. Winter." With accompanying envelope addressed to Winter at No.
17 Third Avenue, Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Also with a visiting card of
Mrs. George H. Story and a small clipping on Arthur Winter's death. Date from
postmark on envelope.
The other is
a later in life testimonial to William Winter with a regret posted on not being
able to attend the ceremony by an aged, reclusive and infirmed G.H. Story of
1909, the year after the death of his wife following a long and lingering illness.
(typo –
George Henry Story lived at 230 W. 59th Street and or Central Park
South at The Hubert Co-op Apartments. Even the NYT obit on Story misspelled his
residence as the “Huber”, the French pronunciation, without the correct English
spelling.)
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| Google Maps |
The address
of 17 Third Ave in Tomkinsville in Staten Island NY of William Winter in 1886 has changed to Alden Place
and number 17 is acknowledged by Google Maps but I cannot attach that number to
any property at the moment with any certainty. The address is the end of a
street entering a park on the top of a hill overlooking New York
Harbor. Winter in later life also had a
Staten Island home on the top of a hill further east on the north shore overlooking
the Verrazano Narrows toward Brooklyn, half a century before they built the
Verrazano Narrows Bridge there.
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