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Feast today for our patron Saint Anthony of Padua

The horns of a marching band pushed past the breeze in my front room tonight but I wasn’t concerned until the impatient yellow cab horns started to over power the music. Out my window I see a slow procession of a hundred or so elderly lead by white pickup with a statue in the bed and a 10 person band dressed in festive Italian green, white and red.

I went down stairs after hearing it again 20 minutes later and they were proceeding back up Sullivan St to St. Anthony’s Church. I learned from a reveler today that on June 13th, the feast for the Catholic Saint Anthony of Padua is celebrated. From Wikipedia:

One of the most beloved of saints, his images and statues are ubiquitous. Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on January 16, 1946, he is sometimes called the “Evangelical Doctor.” He is especially invoked for the recovery of things lost; as well as against starvation, barrenness; patron of amputees, animals, boatmen, Brazil, diocese in Beaumont, Texas, domestic animals, the elderly, expectant mothers, faith in the Blessed Sacrament, Ferrazzano, fishermen, harvests, horses, lower animals, mail, mariners, oppressed persons, Padua, paupers, Portugal, sailors, scholars, sterility, swineherds, Tigua Indians, travel hostesses, travelers, and watermen.

St. Anthony is attributed by The Book, bread, lilies and of course lil’ baby Jesus. I caught a few pictures before it went dark.


“Dear 8 pounds 6 ounces baby Jesus, new born, not even spoken a word yet…”

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My New York Ages is 25

Apparently living here I’m still out and about like I’m just out of college. I guess that happens when you run a pub crawl group, go out to clubs to here you fav DJs …still, and are constantly looking for better living situations.

This New York age puts you-generally speaking-into the young category. That’s what you were hoping for, right? Run and tell your friends. Then get drunk (as usual). Then sleep it off. Then pop an Adderall. Then come back and consider experimenting with a more mature type of New York life (just once in a while). Have you ever been to the Village Vanguard or the Living Theatre? Eaten at Elaine’s? Taken a date to Michael Feinstein? Before you laugh, check ’em out and see what old-school NYC experiences you can add to the new.

What’s your New York age? Take the Time Out New York quiz and find out!

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Credibility of JFK terror case questioned

Let me preface this story to say that I think this country has great intelligence organization, probably some of the best in the world. The primary problem I have with them is their lack of communication between each other, the government body of the US (electoral and congressional) as well as the divulging of factual information to the public in a timely manner. I abhor the way our current administration manipulates the information presented to them, by either omitting actual details, embellishing plausible threats to us citizens and all people around the world – either with the full knowledge that the information presented has not been authenticated or knowing authentication and hyping the plausibility to foster fear and further their own agenda – or even creating their own reality from their own information or unsubstantiated claims.

There was a story yesterday about the capture of Trinidadians who planned to set destruction in motion at America’s largest airport: JFK. The plot originally released to the public as detailed in this video by U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf on CNN news (youtube and google video have been scrubbed of all coverage, you can view these on AOL video):

However, after fact checking and reviewing the suspects, their capacity to execute such a plan and their backgrounds, the credibility and even plausibility of this plot ever being executed has been called into question. And now we should all listen very carefully to understand if this was a possibility and were Americans in danger, or is this another plot by the GOP, right and current administration to coral Americans into believing they are still insecure, vulnerable and encourage further governmental stranglehold on our rights and liberties.

Credibility of JFK terror case questioned

“When U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the alleged terror plot to blow up Kennedy Airport as “one of the most chilling plots imaginable,” which might have caused “unthinkable” devastation, one law enforcement official said he cringed.

The plot, he knew, was never operational. The public had never been at risk. And the notion of blowing up the airport, let alone the borough of Queens, by exploding a fuel tank was in all likelihood a technical impossibility.

And now, with a portrait emerging of alleged mastermind Russell Defreitas as hapless and episodically homeless, and of co-conspirator Abdel Nur as a drug addict, Mauskopf’s initial characterizations seem more questionable — some go so far as to say hyped.

‘I think her comments were over the top,” said Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland. “It was a totally overstated characterization that doesn’t comport with the facts.’ “

“The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”
:Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address