Look at the old tombstones in the Orthodox cemeteries in the Valley. You’d see TONS of union logos, especially, those of the Wobblies (IWW). The owners treated the Russians, Rusniaks, Poles, Hunkies, Slovaks, Ukies, Serbs, and Lithuanians who worked in the mines and mills worse than animals, like pigs and cattle. The Anglos and the Irish looked down on us. Even the Irish-dominated unions treated us like dirt. However, the IWW came, stood up for ALL the working people, but the Irish-controlled Uniates “excommunicated” anybody that joined it. That’s because they served the rich man… that’s where they got their money from, dontcha know. Because of that, many of the po-nashemu people “went Orthodox”… it was one of the reasons for people leaving the Unia. In the old country, the Unia was a creature of the Polish and Magyar landlords… in America, it was a tool of the Irish politicos (who were puppets of the Anglo bosses). St Aleksei Toth ENCOURAGED our people to join the IWW, to FIGHT the bosses with every means possible. So, when you joined John Ireland‘s arrogance with the Uniate clergy’s subservience, many of the Rusniak people chose to go back to the Church (along with the fact that many were Russophiles in the Old Country, but couldn’t leave the Unia because of Habsburg laws). When they came “back home”, they also found the courage to stand up and fight for their rights in the workplace, too.
Don’t listen to National Review, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Rod Dreher, and all the other apologists for the Moneyed Class. They’re all well above the average in income… no wonder that they defend the present set-up! Keep the faith. This era won’t last forever… it’ll just seem that way. HONOUR OUR LABOUR HERITAGE… they who forget their past, forget who they are. Keep it focused…
BMD
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Christ was the carpenter’s son… not the son of the professor… not the son of the businessman… not the son of the priest. Puts the rants of the Evangelical gospellers in a different light, doesn’t it? Do attend to the fact that He drove out the money-grubbing merchants from the Temple… and that most duplicitous “preachers” today defend capitalism and its bestial depredations bareheaded in the pulpit. I think that He’d bring out the ol’ cat o’ nine tails, yet again, don’t you think?
BMD
Comments Off on 30 March 2012. Something to Think About From Mother Jones… Our Lord Christ is NOT About “Pie in the Sky When You Die”
A man cleaning a statue of Christ in Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar District. Uttar Pradesh) INDIA. That’s we have to do… we have to clean off all the noxious filth put onto Our Lord Christ by the unhinged haters of the Moral Majority, by the deluded “March for Life” participants, and by the bloviating Rightwing political preachers… make no mistake, we’ve been spattered by this rubbishy twaddle, too. We have clergy and believers contaminated by the likes of Regent University and ORU… we need to get back to what Our Lord taught… not what some crackbrained tin-tabernacle preacher dribbles at a Pat Robertson rally. It’s up to us…
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Mother Jones told a preacher, “There was a man once who walked among men, among the poor and the despised and the lowly, and he agitated against the powers of Rome, against the lickspittleJews of the local pie counter; he agitated for the Kingdom of God!”
The preacher asked her, “Are you speaking of Jesus Christ?”
She replied, “I am. The agitator you nailed to a cross some centuries ago”.
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You can have His Holiness, who supports state subsidies for unwed mothers, the continuance of the state healthcare system, and is friends with Gennady Zyuganov, or, you can have Jonas Paffhausen, who opposes state healthcare, who doesn’t want state subsidies for anybody (let alone unwed mothers), and is friends with oddbod Mormons and loony Moonies. You can have Christ’s Way, or… need I say more? His Holiness is RIGHT… Paffhausen’s WRONG… and that’s all that there is to say on the matter.
BMD
Comments Off on 24 March 2012. Mother Jones Speaks… on Christ… and how “Christians” Would Tack Him Up Yet Again If They Had Half a Chance to…
Read this. So, the voice of the robot is no more. No more “Danger, Will Robinson, danger!” or “It does not compute!” YOUCH… does that mean that I’m on the cusp of babahood? Must I wear black and chase the goats, as a good iaia should (“You are going to HELL…”)? Well… no matter what, I’ll be Mother Jones, not Mother Teresa. There’s nothing wrong with Mother Teresa, but I’m not that sort. “I’m not a humanitarian; I’m a hell-raiser”. Although I can bake a mean loaf of bread…
BMD
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1 September 2013. On the Eve of Labour Day… Remember Our REAL Heritage…
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Look at the old tombstones in the Orthodox cemeteries in the Valley. You’d see TONS of union logos, especially, those of the Wobblies (IWW). The owners treated the Russians, Rusniaks, Poles, Hunkies, Slovaks, Ukies, Serbs, and Lithuanians who worked in the mines and mills worse than animals, like pigs and cattle. The Anglos and the Irish looked down on us. Even the Irish-dominated unions treated us like dirt. However, the IWW came, stood up for ALL the working people, but the Irish-controlled Uniates “excommunicated” anybody that joined it. That’s because they served the rich man… that’s where they got their money from, dontcha know. Because of that, many of the po-nashemu people “went Orthodox”… it was one of the reasons for people leaving the Unia. In the old country, the Unia was a creature of the Polish and Magyar landlords… in America, it was a tool of the Irish politicos (who were puppets of the Anglo bosses). St Aleksei Toth ENCOURAGED our people to join the IWW, to FIGHT the bosses with every means possible. So, when you joined John Ireland‘s arrogance with the Uniate clergy’s subservience, many of the Rusniak people chose to go back to the Church (along with the fact that many were Russophiles in the Old Country, but couldn’t leave the Unia because of Habsburg laws). When they came “back home”, they also found the courage to stand up and fight for their rights in the workplace, too.
Don’t listen to National Review, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Rod Dreher, and all the other apologists for the Moneyed Class. They’re all well above the average in income… no wonder that they defend the present set-up! Keep the faith. This era won’t last forever… it’ll just seem that way. HONOUR OUR LABOUR HERITAGE… they who forget their past, forget who they are. Keep it focused…
BMD