Jesus visits the Vatican on this day in 1972... or did he?

Estevan

May 21, what a day, what a day. 

In 1539,  Native Americans kill Estevan, a black slave who was the first non-native to visit the pueblo lands of the American Southwest.  As a guide to the party of Fray Marcos de Niza, who had been searching for legendary cities of gold, Estevan apparently alienated the Pueblo people by demanding their woman for pleasure.   

Then, just three years later, the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto dies on the banks of the Mississippi River in present-day Louisiana.  So the native Americans would not know of his death, thus unmasking the lie that de Soto was a "god to be worshiped," the explorers buried his body in secret in the river.  

As if that wasn't weird enough, on this day in 1972, in the St. Peter's Basilica where worshipers and tourist came to see Michelangelo's "Pieta," a man jumps in and yells, "I am Jesus Christ," and commences to hammer the masterpiece.  The blows chipped off the nose of the Madonna, as well as,  gouged out her left eyelid.

What if it was Jesus?... 

You decide:

Mad Man With Hammer:                                           Jesus:

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In ancient Rome, Agnoalia was held annually on this date to honor the god Vediovis (or Vedius), who was Jupiter's counterpart in the underworld.  Vediovis was also a deity of swamps and volcanic activity.  At the Festival of Vediovis, a she-goat was sacrificed in an attempt to placate the eruptive forces of nature and the underworld. 

The Jesus co-inky-dink.

Sunday Sermon:

The Jesus co-inky-dink with the Son Gods of old:

(Reprinted from the most fabulous book titled: The Christian Conspiracy by Acharya S--with permission for a change.)

The sun "dies" for three days at the winter solstice, to be born again or resurrected on December 25th.

The sun of God is "born of a virgin,"  which refers to both the new or "virgin" moon and the constellation of Virgo. 

The sun's "birth" is attended by the "bright Star," either Sirius/Sothis or the planet Venus, and by the "Three Kings," representing the three stars in the belt of Orion.

The sun at its zenith, or 12 noon, is in the house or Fahter's work" at "age" 12.  All of Egypt offered prayers to the 'Most High' gods at noon. 

The sun enters into each sign of the zodiac at 30º and stands at the gate of Aquarius, the Water-bearer, or John the Baptist of the mystic planisphere, and here begins the work of ministry in the Palestine."

The sun is the "Carpenter" who builds his daily "houses" or 12 two-hour divisions. 

The sun's "followers" or "disciples" are the 12 signs of the zodiac, through which the sun must pass. 

The sun is "anointed" when its rays dip into the sea.

The sun "changes water into wine" by creating rain, ripening the grape on the vine and fermenting the grape juice.  

The sun "walks on water," referring to its reflection.

the sun "calms the sea" as he rests in the "boat of heaven."

When the sun is annually and monthly re-born, he brings life to the "solar mummy," his previous self, raising it from the dead. 

The sun triumphantly "rides as ass and her foal" into the "City of Peace" when it enters the sign of Cancer, which contains two stars called "little asses," and reaches its fullness.

The sun is the "Lion" when in Leo, the hottest time of the year, called the "throne of the Lord."

The sun is "betrayed" by the constellation of the Scorpion, the backbiter, the time of the year when the solar hero loses his strength. 

The sun is "crucified" between the two thieves of Sagittarius and Capricorn.

The sun is hung on a cross, which represents its passing through the equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter.

The sun darkens when it "dies": "The solar god as the sun of evening or of autumn was the suffering, dying sun, or the dead sun buried in the nether world."

The sun does a "stutter-step" at the winter solstice, unsure whether to return to life or "resurrect," doubted by his "twin" Thomas.

 The sun is with us "always, to the close of the age" (Mt. 28:20), referring to the ages of the precession of the equinoxes.

The sun is the "Light of the World," and "comes on clouds, and every eye shall see him."

The sun rising in the morning is the "Savior of mankind."

The sun wears a corona, "crown of thorns" or halo.

The sun was called the "son of the Sky (God)," "All-Seeing," the "Comforter," "Healer," "Savior," "Creator," "Preserver," "Ruler of the World," and "Giver of Daily Life."

The sun is the Word or Logos of God. 

The all-seeing sun, or "eye of God," was considered the judge of the living and dead who returned to Earth "on a white horse."

(Join us next Sunday when we look at the Serpent.)

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Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

                                                                                                                          Buddha
 

Tax The Shit Out of Them, Now!

Hypocrisy is as American as Apple Pie.   Take for instance this conservative plan to take away food stamps from those bastards who don't want to pull themselves up by their bootstraps like George Bush and Ivanka Trump did.   Seems the Republicans have now voted against it because it will hurt the US farmers.  What?   You mean it was never meant to feed the poor but support the farmers?   The Red State farmers who blame the US debt on me for living in a box on the side of a freeway!  Those gun toting, Jesus loving farmers who now even have their own dating website have been staying in business because of my food stamps?   I have only one word for them:  hypocrite. 

 Of course, we truth seekers know that the rich have disdain for us because we remind them of their family lies.  Most of them didn't do shit to earn a buck but be shot out the pencil-organ of a Trump, Rockefeller, or just a good-old-fashion bible thumbing: my daughter can have a secret abortion in Paris but you can't because you work for me, Upper-Upity-Middle-Class hypocrite (yes, ordinary, run-of-the-mill Republican). 

Ever really wonder why they have such disdain for the working class?   Have you ever really stopped to think about it?  No, you haven't because they got you taking anti-depressants and opium pills so you won't see the truth that they are The WELFARE PROBLEM IN THE USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

True That!

It's not the poor working sap who is tired of working three bullshit jobs to make ends meet and so goes down to the welfare office for help, or the single mother who's been told to Put-Out or Get-Out  because she has three kids and so goes down to the WIC  office for a free-meal ticket; or the punk-kid who's bullshit online-degree he got from some Republican millionaire doesn't even quality him for a restaurant management job and so he says Screw it and stands on the corner begging for handouts because, well, it beats minimum wage (Don't get me started on the minimum wage issues which has nothing to do with a companies profits and all to do with reminding you who you work for). 


No, these poor bastards being blamed for the national debt are the scapegoat being used so the hide the fact that the real welfare recipients are the well-to-do's.  

As previously mentioned, the Republicans have everything they want: the White House, The Senate, The Congress, Most Governorship's, most public school boards -- even thought their kids are going to private school -- most judge jobs not to mention... the Supreme Being Court!!!

Yes, they run it all!  They own most of the television news stations, the sports stations, and of course, every f'in AM radio station you ever heard of.  

Yes, dear people, they are running it all (actually have always been) and somehow if you talk to anyone, it's those damn liberals who got us in this mess?  

God, they are good.   It's so Orwellian, George Orwell himself wouldn't recognize. 

Here's the truth:   the wealthy get most of the government hands outs from the war machine/defense spending.   Yes, those cushion Koch Brother  -- who now require you take an oath to never watch another Jane Fonda film -- made their billions during the Vietnam War which still hasn't been paid for because, from Jimmy Carter on, the wealthy have received tax cuts instead of paying the debt they created from their profits with OUR taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Those bastards even have the audacity to blame the War Debt on the unwed mothers driving a bus to their three fast-food jobs because none of the jobs will give them  a fair wage, or 40 hours so they don't have to pay medical insurance.

The truth is that since the Vietnam War the defense spending has gone up and up, creating groovy middle class jobs while making the top 1% crazy wealthy and the matter has been complicated because they decided somewhere along the way to stop paying their taxes to cover Their!!! government handout. 

The solution is to tax the shit out of them until they pay back what they owe us!!!!!

Period!!!!

The Revolution Starts Now:  Demand More.   

And Buddha says:

Love my peace and freedom!

Buddha says:

Really rings the bell!

Buddha says:

Love my peace and freedom
don't know anything else I love so well.  

Osiris: A Washington Monument?

On this day in the year 1800, the House of Representatives suggested the building of a pyramid, 100 feet square at the base and "of proportional height."  The notion that a pyramid would best represent the idea of George Washington.   Hence, in accordance with Masonic practices, construction of the obelisk began on July 4, 1848, with a ceremonial laying of the enormous cornerstone, which had been donated by the Mason Thomas Symington who owned the quarries from which the monument's marble was taken.  The ceremony was conducted by Benjamin French, wearing the Masonic apron and sash George Washington had worn when he laid the cornerstone of the Capitol building in 1793.

Some say the obelisk was chosen because America wanted to look like it had been around for awhile, or as other's have suggested, "put down ancient roots" by chosing the ancient Egyptian symbol.   I don't know, looks pretty much like a male phallic symbol to me from all the male energy that founded this country.   Unfortunately, I have to break the news to ya'll here:  it's Pagan!  More precisely, Pan, the goat god of sensuality.  The word ‘obelisk’ literally means ‘Baal’s shaft’ or Baal’s organ of reproduction.”

Another story links the obelisk to a different phallic myth – Osiris’ golden phallus.

Osiris was a king of Egypt who married his sister Isis. His brother Set wished to usurp the throne and so plotted his death. He tricked Osiris into climbing into a golden chest. As soon as he was inside, Set nailed down the lid and flung the chest into the Nile. It was carried off to Byblos in Syria where it came to rest against a small Tamarisk tree or Acasia tree, with the dead Osiris still inside. Isis found out what Set had done to Osiris, so she set off to find her husband. A vision led her to Byblos, where she recovered his body and took it back to Egypt.

Set stole it again and tore it into fourteen pieces, which he scattered throughout Egypt to prevent Osiris from coming to life again. Isis recovered all but one of the pieces – the penis – and gave Osiris a fit burial. Their son, Horus, avenged him by slaying Set. Another son, Anubis, resurrected Osiris with the ‘lion grip.’

Having triumphed over the grave, Osiris now reigns as king and judge of the so called dead. The piece of Osiris that Isis never recovered was the penis, which Set had thrown into the Nile where it was eaten by fish. Ever resourceful, Isis manufactured an artificial organ (the golden phallus) around which the Egyptians eventually established a cult or festival they could pay tribute to.

From this it is a small step to the conclusion that the obelisk was itself meant to be a phallic symbol. 

Whether of Osiris, Baal, or fertility in general, it was a representation of fatherhood and patriarchy.

While the idea that the obelisk is a representation of the phallus may be a story that seems stranger than fiction, when you think of Washington as the founding father of the United States, and the obelisk being a representation of fatherhood/patriarchy, it makes a lot of sense. 

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 In 1908 the U.S. Congress adopted a law making the phrase "In God We Trust" obligatory on certain American coins.   It was placed there to replace the socialistic phrase put their by the framers of our constitution: "Out of Many, One" -- E Pluribus Unum.

Yes, it wasn't until 1908 that the political use of the word God found its way into politics.  So, the next time someone tells you this is Gods country and holds up a dollar bill to probe it, tell them to open a f*&king history book, bozo.

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Before the lies, on this day each year, we celebrated Apollon day, the Greco-Roman god of sunlight, medicine, music, poetry, and divination.  We rocked!

Thomas Boleyn could not have been soaring higher in the court of Henry VIII.  He was the king's father-in-law, after all, and enjoyed all the bounty that accompanied such an exalted position.  But in May 1536, ghastly accusations arose charging incest between his children:  Queen Anne Boleyn and George, Viscount Rochfod.  The queen, the salacious indictment against her read, had "tempted her brother with her tongue in the said Geoge's mouth and the said George's tongue in hers and also with kisses, presents and jewels."  Although most historians consider the charges absurd, no more than a silly little joke such as when Donald Trump joked about his attraction to his daughter on the Howard Stern show.   The siblings were duly condemned in separate trials held on May 15 and found guilty.  It was left to their maternal uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, to pronounce the death sentences.  Thus, Thomas Boleyn lost his only son to the headsman's ax on May 17, and his daughter Anne to a French swordsman two days later.

Ewwww, gross.

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On this day in 1792, the New York Stock Exchange is founded by 24 brokers, signing a two-sentence contract called the Buttonwood Agreement.  This took place under a button-wood tree on what today is Wall Street.

On this day in 1885, the fearless Apache Indian chief Geronimo, the last Native American to surrender to the United States, breaks out of an Arizona reservation for the second time.  For 30 years he and his followers had resisted attempts of white Americans to take away their homeland.  Oddly enough, the white-man would use Geronimo's name when they jumped out of planes to prove they had courage.   I tell you what would have been courageous of the white-man, but they won't let me.  

Also, on this day the Green Corn Dance of the Florida Seminoles takes place annually on this date.  A very old harvest ceremony, it is also celebrated by the Cherokee, Natchez, and Creeks.  In addition to the sacred dances, there are ball games, council meetings, a feast of barbecued beef, and a purifying black beverage made from a creek holly shrub.

Pictures of Chairman Mao and other May 16 events to attend.

So they want to do away with public school education.  Ever wonder why?  Think about this:

....on this day in in 1966, after nearly starving China to death with his failed "Great Leap Forward," Mao Zedong unleashed a brand-new misery upon his long-suffering people: a purification of communism meant to destroy every last vestige of ancient culture of western influence.  Worse, this so-called Cultural Revolution was enforced by teenagers, transformed into Red Guards--million of whom, reporter Robert Elegant wrote, "stalked across the vast nation like hordes of enraged soldier ants."

 

The traditional respect for elders was turned upside down in the decade-long spiral into insanity that began on May 16, 1966, with mere kids wielding ultimate control over life or death, personal property and human dignity.  With an approving wink from the supreme leader, it was a power sorely abused.  Zhang Hongbing, whose denunciation of his own mother led to her summary execution in 1970, was just one of the millions of blindly intoxicated teenagers left with the wreckage of their actions when China finally sobered up after Chairman Mao's death in 1976.

"I see her in my dreams," Zhang said in 2013, "just as young as she was then.  I knell on the floor, clutching her hands, for fear she will disappear.  'Mom,' I cry, 'I beg your forgiveness!"  But she doesn't respond.  Never one has she answered me.  This is my punishment."
 Bad Days in History, pg 184

Of course, liberals like you, me, and John Lennon know:  "If you go carrying pictures of Chariman Mao, you aint going to make it with anyone, anyhow...."

Don't you know it's going to be alright!

Revolution (lyrics)

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world

You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world

But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be
All right, all right, all right

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan

You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can

But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be

All right, all right, all right

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know

We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know

You better free you mind instead

But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

Don't you know it's gonna be
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right, all right
All right, all right

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

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So today is May 16.   Let's do the "people's" math for this day:

Voltaire

 In 1717 on this day, French writer Francois-Marie Arouet (known to you and me as: Voltaire) was imprisoned in the Bastille in Paris for his satirical attacks on politics and religion.  After a year in the French prison, he continued his epistles and was forced to flee to England.

Andrew Jackson

Fast forward to the year 1868, the Northern Democrats are still pissed about the Civil War and so want the South to pay retribution.   Abe Lincoln had decided not to go along with the plan to totally destroy the South, and so was assassinated.   Andrew Johnson was his Vice President and considered to be a weak drunk,  and so the Democrats tried to force him to do their dirty work and repeal Abe Lincoln's decision not to prosecute the South for war crimes and have them sell their land to payback the North’s war debt.  Lincoln, as well as Jackson, knew this would not be good for the "United" states, and historically, they were right; however, the Democrats tried to impeach Jackson to have their way and so had a vote of impeachment on this day in 1868.  Fortunately for having the great united country we have today was saved by one vote.  Yes, somewhere in the madness, one lone senator stood up to the madness.   The John McCain of the day.

Also on this day in 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto uprising ended as Nazi soldiers gained control of Warsaw's Jewish ghetto in World War II.  Disease and starvation had killed thousands every month in the enclave following the German occupation.  The uprising claimed many thousands of Warsaw Jews, compared to the loss of about 300 German soldiers.

Then, on this day in 1968, in Paris, the "left" felt the burn and stood up against the government by demanding educational reform and healthcare!   Sound familiar?  It should, it is the same f*&king thing we should be demanding on the streets today!   Get with it before they complete their dumbing down of us and we forget we ever had a choice.

Do it, now!   How?   Just put it on your heart and mind, the rest will follow: as the Dali Lama says, “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquiteo.”

Liberals with guns and crazy white people.

Think our government is out-of-control today, doing what it wants with no respect for the law?   Even the most Republican of Republican attorneys I know feel this... as they should:  trump speaks badly of our judges he doesn't agree with (even the Republican ones); he trashes a Republican hero in the name of John McCann who served in Vietnam for our country, but because he got "caught," draft dodger Donald Trump makes fun of him.  Not only this, he has admittedly called Republicans "idiots who would vote for anymore who said the right things," and they are surely proving him correct on this.   However, let me take you back in time, back to 1856 when the Gold Rush in California made San Francisco and its officials money-grabbing-law-breakers and the solution the people came up for this:  they formed a vigilante to combat the robbers and other crimes.  Some offenders were hanged, and others escorted out of town.

Hmmmm, maybe this is what we need.   Maybe liberals should start buying guns too!

What a wonderful world it would be.

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"Too often the story of the southern Negro deals exclusively with those who are time," wrote Roy Wilkins in Crisis magazine.  "But there are some...who dare to speak out and, if necessary, to act....Southern white people, almost unanimously, characterize such Negroes as 'crazy.'"

Such was the case on May 15, 1936, in Gordonsville, Virginia.  William Wales and his sister Cora, both in their sixties, held off a lynch mob of five thousand for six hours until a gasoline-soaked torch tossed into the house killed them and burned their home to the ground.  Gory details of the siege and subsequent killing of two "crazy" blacks filled local newspapers. Wilkins patched together a truer picture form Associated Press wires and the accounts of area residents.  But, what really transcends the brutality in Gordonsville is the courage under fire that the Wales and so many other African Americans have displayed at such terrible times.  From Wilkin's editorial:

Impatiently the mob waited for hours for the embers of the house to cool.  Them, the killers rushed in and chopped up the two bodies for souvenirs to carry home.  The story behind the slaughter is that...efforts had been made over a period of thirteen years to oust (the Wales) from their property.  They refused to sell.  The city condemned a part of their land to expand the cemetery.  (After) their final refusal to vacate their home...local whites were forced to fall back upon the time-worn device of dragging some white woman into the quarrel and charging Wales with threatening her, "(a charge) she vigorously denied--after Wales was dead.  Anyway, the sheriff swore out a warrant charging Wales with lunacy.  When the sheriff appeared to serve the warrant he was shot and killed.

Make America Great Again!

some white people...are shamed by Gordonsville.  They know there is more to the story than the killing of a sheriff and the destruction of a "crazy Negro."  Yes, the Crisis defends William and Cora Wales.  We think we understand them...We think we know the real criminals in these situations everywhere.  Crazy?  Wales was not crazy.  The two sane people in all that array were in the house.  It was five thousand outside who were mad.

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The Vestal Tuccia Carrying Water, by Hector Leroux (French, 1829-1900).

On this day in ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins performed an annual purification rite to ensure the water supply for the coming year.  It consisted of the "sacrifice" of twenty-seven straw puppets to the river god of the Tiber. 

Chinese Carrier

Indonesia Bomb Results

In today's news: Chinese launches a new aircraft carrier, another Isis suicide bomber blows up three Christian churches in Indonesia, and Donald Trump relocates the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Trump Writing on Wall in Jerusalem

These are just three of the many signs that a war is about to happen from one, Donald Trump's egotistic stupidity, two: the Republican/Democrat Greedy war-and-oil machines that surrounds him.  "Profits baby, profits!"  say the war machine.  "I got balls for brains," says Donald Trump.  

Shit, even UFO conspiracy believers have found proof that extraterrestrials are about to join in on the battle with alien tank from the moon!

Today is May 14th, 2018, in case you think we were just time-warped back to 1940.  Interesting enough, a lot of what was happening in the 1930 before WWII are happening now. 

To make matters worse, it was on this date in 1948 that the state of Israel was created by the waving of Winston Churchill's magic wong. 

 No matter what you've been told, the true reasons for wars is the struggle for markets, resources, and land, combined with tariffs, trade wars, currency wars, dumping, combined with Extreme Nationalism.  Here's the formula:

Resources/Land+Tariffs/Dumping+Extreme Nationalism=WAR.

We are seeing all of this today:  China is dumping, USA is doing the tariff dance, and Israel and the fanatical Christian are stealing land that doesn't belong to them.  

Combine this with the fact that Nationalism has gone crazy from England's, "Brexit exit," to Donald Trump's "Make America White Again," messages, there is little doubt that the powerful forces in the world have gone back to a nationalism not seen since Japan's Hideki Tojo ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor in his "Make Japan Great Again," war; and Italy's Benito Mussolini began his war on the free press by calling it, "Fake News,"; and Germany's  Adoofus Hitler decided to "Build A Wall" around a concentration camp and deport undesirable Germans to his Christian God/Satan....  I'll be damn if it isn't happening again right before our eyes. 

Fortunately, dear lover's of peace, tolerance, equity, and equality, if the aliens don't come in time to either save us or eat us, we will see a better distribution of wealth  come out of this which will definitely be kinder and friendlier to the planet.   What's left of it, that is. 

Feel the Burn yet, people?   You should!
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Ing

Dag

On this day in northern Scandinavia, the Festival of the Midnight Sun begins a ten-week-long celebration of daylight that pays homage to Dag, the ancient Norse goddess of the Sun.  This day is also sacred to Ing, male consort of the Earth-mother goddess Nerthus. His rune, the symbol of light, expresses the energy potential of the abundance of summer. 

“Nerthus” by Emil Doepler (1905)

Dag, substitute for God?  Why?

Like its equivalent quasi-euphemisms dog and dod, dag is used in a variety of mild oaths as a substitute for God. Typical examples include dag on, dag gone, dag-gum, dag nab and dagnabbit. All may be seen as replacements for Goddam or Godam(m)it.

You heard it here first sports fans!