Looking Back At Lisboa And Fátima Now From Blighty. By Uncle Monty.

Looking Back At Lisboa And

Fátima Now From Blighty.
Story By Uncle Monty.
Lisbon and Fátima
Photos By Alex Albion.

Caption Translation

By Miguel Bataglia.
...
There is so much that I can now write about

Portugal after spending the last 10 days during

my rather consistantly-rainy stay at Lisbon and
Fátima. I’m now back at Blighty and still drying out,

finally. And thus, I have also promptly started to

write about what I saw and heard and did at

Portugal. I am already looking back as I begin to

compose at least four short stories that will focus

on the Lisbon homeless, Fátima’s religious reality;

also giving a pictorial overview of the lovely and

historic ceramic tiles that adore both downtown Lis-

boa and pilgrim-based Fátima, and finally, select-

ing some of my photos of both places to share

with you all of my Portuguese encounters.
...
The wet weather did not stop me, of course, from

coming face-to-face with the faces of homelessness

at the capital of Portugal nor looking closely at be-
yond the public surface of Holy Fátima and then

wondering, while there, whether such was indeed

a sacred shrine or more like a religious roadshow.

...

Plus, I will in the upcoming series I write in-

clude, as usual, some of my many photographs

that speak for themselves in showing, if you

will, some of the life and character of today's

modern Portugal. Here then, are the caption

titles of the four-part series that I will pre-

sent in the course of this week and next.

...

1: Caras dos Sem Abrigo em Lisboa

or "Faces of Homelessness at Lisboa."

...

2: Fatima : Local Sagrado ou Festival Religioso
or "Fátima: Sacred Shrine or Religious Roadshow?"
...
3: Algumas fotos que tirei de Lisboa
or "Some Photos I Have Taken of Lisbon."
...
4: Azulejos tradicionais Portugueses
de Fatima e Lisboa or
"Ceramic Tiles of Fátima and Lisboa."

...

My good Portuguese buddy Miguel Bataglia
kindly translated the above story titles from

English to Portuguese for me. Thankz ever

so much, pal. He now works at Africa's

Angola after his London stint at where we

knew each other for quite awhile at Long

Acre until he left unannounced around

Christmas, 2oo8. Oh, and for those who

maybe curious, Miguel is in the esoteric

business of military submarines. Wooow.

...

Greetings from Blighty, Uncle Monty.
+Thomas a'Kempis, 2oo9.

...
Hi Monty,
Unfortunelly i m not in Lisboa , i m already

in Angola... I hope you enjoy my country .
Keep in contact please. Cheers Miguel

...
From: Miguel Bataglia

To: thebiggerissue@k.st
Subject: Re: i'll be in lisboa

Date: Sun 02/01/09 03:51 PM
...

Fatima Pilgrims. By Uncle Monty at Fatima.

Fatima Pilgrims.

By Uncle Monty at Fatima.

+

No matter the religious season, millions of people

become pilgrims around the world, of one kind or

another, in their personal quest of various and differ-

ing spiritual kinds for themselves. The huge number

of pilgrims each year is of staggering dimensions, but

the non-spiritual public at large seem totally unaware

of that and have little or no interest themselves in

pilgrimages of any kind. Yet, from the Hindus at The

Ganges (some 10 million Hindus flock there) to the

Muslims of the Haggai at Mecca (again millions at

a time) to the Catholics of Faitma (thousands upon

thousands every year) and to the hundreds upon

thousands of various Christians pilgrims visiting

Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the Holy Land, at such

times as Eastertide and Christmastide. The busi-

ness of pilgrimage is a multi-million dollar in-

dustry that thrives all on its own. The world,

then, is in a constant flux of pilgrims at each

religious season or marked anniversary

according the faith of those who take part.
+
Fatima Pilgrims are, therefore, like all pilgrims
around the world. They first come to seek spiritual
comfort, healing, benediction and confirmation of

their religious belief and of their Christian identifi-

cation. The same is true, if they’re at any another

Holy Catholic Shrine like at France’s Lourdes or

at England’s Anglican-Catholic Shrine at Holy

Walsingham.
+
I am at Fatima, though, as an Anglican first to

seek spiritual comfort in a devoutly Christian

and religious setting that is witnessed here with-

out a doubt at Portugal’s world famous shrine

for all faithful people like me aside from my

own personal Anglican faith.
+
- Inside Fatima -

+

After my religious retreat here, I shall venture

to write about it on my blog for those who may

want to take a pilgrimage of some kind themselves.
Or who may be just curious about what a place like

Fatima is really like. I will try to do that later with

my upcoming piece about what I saw and exper-

ienced at Holy Fatima after I journey back to my

home base at secular Blighty. I will also, as usual,

include some of my photos of my first visit here

at astounding Fatima to freely and happily

share with you all …
+
God Bless, Uncle Monty.
St. Clement, 2oo9.
+

So This Is Lisboa? I'll Take It. By Uncle Monty.

So This Is Lisboa? I’ll Take It.
By Uncle Monty at Lisbon.
…
Lisbon is correctly called Lisboa. And
here in the capital of Portugal, I now am.
…

The photo model shown above represents all that

is exciting about today’s Lisboa after coming here

again at an absence of 45 years to now spend

alittle time in winter retreat. When I was last here,
the Antonio de Oliveira Salazar regime was in full

semi-Fascist swing. But not so anymore. For Lisboa,

like Portugal herself, is now part of the leftist-leaning

New Europe that rejects the old politics of old
for the new socialistic kind. For me, however, I
much prefer new woman over new politics. But
that is neither here nor there right now as I bask in
what feels like an early springtime here compared

to England’s freezing and long dreary winter days

and always rain ever upon rain, sooner or later.
…

From Lisboa, I then go onto Fatima at where

the Holy Roman Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of

Fatima - Nossa Senhora do Rosário da Fátima –
has brought millions to pray and to seek spiritual

comfort of every kind they may so seek. As an avid

Anglican myself, I will spend for the first time in
my unremarkable life a little time at Fatima itself.

I shall enter there a three-day religious retreat

after my “secular” and winter stay at Lisboa.

...

As for The Shrine of Fatima, the ongoing contro-

versy and public condemnation of interreligious

dialogue has been widely expressed by many

Catholic ultatraditionalists who oppose, and who

want to torpedo, what they see as the “mingling”

of other faiths – including those who are Anglican

like me – out of their fear and phobia of a rapid

dilution of strictly out and out Roman

Catholicism at Fatima.

...
As an openly-known affirming Anglican, I

go to Fatima not to harm or dilute Catholicism

but rather with great respect for those of other

faiths other than of my own. I am no threat to the

ultratraditional Catholic creed and dogma no matter

what they fear or say. Nor are they a threat or fear

to me. If one is secure in one's faith, then there should

be no fear of others with differing creeds or beliefs.

In any event, I shall be quite happy to lay my sinful

Anglican eyes on Portugal’s world-renowned

Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima.

...
I shall write on my blog from Fatima a short

introductory piece upon my actual arrival

there later this week at Fatima itself.

...

A Technical Rendition of Portugal’s Modern Lisboa.
...
At Fatima I will dropout, if you will, for awhile and take
a rest, too, from such earthly matters as trotting around
taking my photographs and chatting up new women folk
or doing my blog so that I may absorb my need for
spiritual comfort over say the physical pleasures of
encountering by fantasy such an exciting Lisboa photo
model as the one shown in the caption above. I wish I
could have photographed her myself in that provocative
"corset" outfit of her's, but not a chance sadly in hell
for me and my cameras. But while she is who she is,
and she’ll come and go just like the rest of such eni-
gmatic women, my faith stays intact and strong un-
like any one night stand or the physical pleasure
of such an exciting and seductive woman that she
is. That's why she an outstanding photo model.
Most guyz think seduction only means the physical,
but I have news for them. Seduction takes on many
forms – seduction of money, seduction of greed,
seduction of pornography, seduction of violence,
seduction of avarice, and even artifice, and so and
so forth. While, on the flip side, religious seduction
is also quite possible for some folks like me. So se-
duction isn’t just of the sex kind. So wake up
little guyz, if you please …
...
Must run off now to Lisboa’s Rua S. Jorge
to visit Castelo de São Jorge and then Parque
Eduardo VII. I’ll then touch base again with you
all via my blog next at Fatima. Then, I'll dropout
until my safe return to my home base at Old
Blighty. I should then be ready, shouldn't I,
to be considered for the next Archbishop
of Canterbury? Who knows?
…
But first, so this is Lisboa? I’ll take it …
…
Faithfully, Uncle Monty.
+Eve of Candlemas, 2oo9.
...
- SUSSIE. Ah, Sussie -
...
Sussie interviewed me at length, she did, on
Friday with her electronic tape recorder at Wing’s.
She wanted to know all about me. Wooooooow. Nothing
much there. At the end of the one hour recorded interview,
she wanted 10 copies of the mag (shown above with her),
but I only had 8 left. So she took those anyway and then
I was sold out. Sussie even kindly paid me for 10 copies,
nevertheless. So made myself abit of profit, didn't I?
And, why not? Such was topped-off earlier with a nice
big cuppa of tea and a tasty slice of lemon cake bought
by her for me at Wing’s at London’s famous Drury
Lane. Sussie wants to be a high-paid news reporters
or feature writer with some major national news
organisation one day, so I guess. She sure could write
fast as she jotted down notes and spoken quotes like
a growing skilled writer, which undoubtedly she
is becoming. I am looking forward to reading
whatever she actually writes about me.
It was so nice to meet Sussie, too ...
Kudos, Uncle Monty.
...

Yom Ha-Shoah: Part Two. By Uncle Monty. Photos By Alex Albion.

At The Yom Ha-Shoah

Ceremony: Part Two.
Story By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Alex Albion.
~~~
In my previous article on The Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, I

stated I would perhaps present more photos of the ceremony
at the Soviet War Memorial that marked yesterday’s Holocaust
Memorial Day, 2oo9. I also indicated that I might perhaps write
more about the actual ceremony of distinguished participants
and the Order of Remembrance to "The Holocaust Jews" of
WWII. So, I thought it would be best to present more of my
photographs of some of those distinguished participants at
at the Yom Ha-Shoah Ceremony rather than simply writing

more at length to describe what happened. I think the eight

photographs here helps to describe what did happen and

to give the overall depth of feeling and respect, if you

will, at the ceremony itself.
~~~
So this, which I present as Part Two, of my story and

images of the Yom Ha-Shoah Ceremony, will give you

a pictorial view, rather than a written view, of what

took place just only yesterday.

~~~
The caption picture above is of Rabbi Alan

Greenbat of the Chief Rabbi’s Office of Great

Britain. He, the good rabbi, officiated over the

impressive one-hour long ceremony. As I men-

tioned else where, Rabbi Greenbat was a delight

to meet and to chat with at his very youngish

80 years of age. And, he also holds an

O.B.E from The Queen herself.
~~~
Front Row L-R: Mayor Eliza Mann, Simon

Hughes, M.P., Ambassador Yury Fedotov,

and Belarus Military Attachè.

~~~
The British Presence: L-R – Archdeacon

of Southwark, Major Simon Kidd and

Capt. Simon Cook at Public Prayer.

~~~

His Excellency Yury Fedotov, Russian

Ambassador to the Court of St. James

~~~
Some at The Gathering at The

Ha-Shoah Ceremony, 2oo9.

~~~
Some Good Active Members
of The Royal British Legion.
~~~
The Laying Rightly of Memorial Wreaths.
~~~
In Memory of the Soviet People who
gave of their lives against The Nazi Terror.
~~~
After the close of the ceremony, I was invited to
have lovely refreshments at the invitation-only
brunch held inside The Boardroom of the Imperial
War Museum. The Imperial Boardroom was impre-
ssive and so was also the people present for me to
meet, photograph and chat with has we lunched on
fine hot coffee and superb English tea with delicious
sandwiches, baked fancy cakes and good round
British sausage pies along with elegant long stem
glasses of fresh orange and gratefruit juice. Very nice,
thank you very much and such was very welcome …
and all thankfully free, too … nice again. Thankz.
~~~
The refreshments, I think, helped to provide an
ideal anticlimax to the solemn and sombre Yom
Ha-Shoah Ceremony. After which I also first met
Ralph Gibson, Hon. Secretary of The Soviet
Memorial Trust Fund, former Labour mayors
Peter Cather and Charles Josie, and retired
fellow news photographer Ernestine Wilson.
She's worked at UPI, AP, l'Agence Française
Presse, Reuters, U.S. Capitol Press Corps, etc.
She also happens to be a Canadian Jew. So end-
ed my terrific and long day despite the sadness
and anguish of Holocaust Memorial Day, 2oo9.
~~~
Again Shalom, Uncle Monty.
+China's Lunar New Year, 2oo9.
~~~
Pope’s Gesture to Catholic
Traditionalists Outrages Jews
By Philip Pullella.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE50O0TD20090125

One of the Catholic prelates in question is British-born Richard Williamson,
who has made statements denying the full extent of the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews. He has been called an Holocaust denier. In comments to Swedish television broadcast last Wednesday and widely available on the Internet, Williamson said "I believe there were no gas chambers" and only up to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, instead of 6 million. "I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler," he said. My question to him as an Anglican Gentile is simply what does it matter if such entailed the slaughter of say 300,000 people or six milion people? What matters is that such slaughter happened and the numbers are unimportant per se against the hideous deed of such open inhumanity that the Nazi pogrom is so evidenced beyond all doubt to all sanely thinking people. Case, now closed ... period.
Your's, Uncle Monty. +St. Richard, 2oo9.

^^^

Yom Hashoah Ve-Hegevurah. By Uncle Monty.

Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah.
Story By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Alex Albion.
~~~
They stood respectfully gathered to remember
"The Holocaust Jews" did the ambassadors,
military officers, noted politicians of the most

liberal kind, old diehard communist party

members, ex-soldiers of past wars, and
a few hundred various representatives
of the public along with the rabbi, the bishop,
the mayor and the town crier. Bold bodyguards
and groomed chauffeurs also stood stiffly by in
the shade of the bright mid-morning sunlight.
~~~

All there had come to sombrely and solemnly
mark Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah at the

Soviet War Memorial on what is known as

Holocaust Memorial Day, 2oo9, held this year

at London’s evergreen garden of Geraldine

Mary Harmsworth. I was glad that I could

be present there, too. The invitation to me to

attend the one-hour Memorial Ceremony was

more than welcomed by me. And, I suspect

did others who were so invited to attend.
~~~
People Gathering for the start

of the Yom Ha-Shoah Ceremony.

~~~

It was my first ever encounter with the Yom Ha-Shoah

Ceremony. It was also my first encounter with important

CIS ambassoadors and Russian Military and Defense

Attachès to the United Kingdom. I was also glad to meet

there again such old acquaintances of mine like Peter

Moore, London’s noted and official Town Crier; and

yet again the urbane Rt. Rev'd Christopher Chessun,

Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, who has the potential of

perhaps being a future Archbishop of Canterbury. I

do hope so. While Lib-Dem and openly gay Simon

Hughes, M.P. was a good bet to meet him again

like I did. He was one of the speaker, too, at the

ceremony in remembrance of the millions of

Holocaust Jews that died by the evil deeds

of pure German Nazism.

~~~

Old Acquaintances of Mine: Town Crier
Peter Moore and (r) Bishop Christopher.

~~~
As for Rabbi Alan Greenbat, O.B.E, of

The Chief Rabbi's Office of Great Britian,

he and I had lovely chats both before and

after the impressive ceremony that began

with singing Psalm 23 - The Lord's My

Shepherd. It was our first personal en-

counter and it was so delightful ... He re-

minisced with me about his childhood and

of his chemist father at Kennington Road,

which is just a stone's throw from where

the Yom Ha-Shoah ceremony actually

took place. The rabbi also lived for awhile

at Pittsburgh in America, so he told me.

Rabbi Greenbat, now a very youngish

80 year-old, also officiated at the

ceremony so well indeed.
~~~
My Graphic of Russian Defense Attachès.

~~~

I am unable right now to finish this piece

for the day has been a very long one for me

with two other events taking me else where

for much of the day. So come tomorrow, I

hope I can tell you more about the actual

ceremony and perhaps present a few more

of the many photographs that I took of

those present at today's sombre and

solemn Yom Ha-Shoah.

~~~

:: UPDATE ::

After what is now yesterday's ceremony,

I have today uploaded a new set of eight

photographs taken by me during the

Yom Ha-Shoah Ceremony. Therefore,

please see Part 2 of my complete story.

~~~

Shalom, Uncle Monty.

Holocaust Memorial Day, 2oo9.

~~~

On Pages 16 and 17, Is She. By Uncle Monty.

On Pages 16 and 17, Is She.
Story By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Alex Albion.
<<>>
She is but one speck among the millions of
specks that exist in the anonymity of the urban
jungle. She also talks and walks and lives and sleeps
on the forgotten city streets of one of the world’s

biggest and most expensive cities that is

more than a thousand years old.
<<>>
Yet, just for one little moment last week, she

was no longer a faceless or unseen or voiceless

or an unheard of speck as she was publicly and

photographically-spread on pages 16 and 17 of

the UK nationwide street paper called The Big

Issue. There she was for all to see in the Judith
Erwes photograph that showed her all
wrapped up against the bitter cold snap and

street squalor that makes London a fearsome

experience when you’re a rough sleeper and

homeless like she is at her age of almost

half-a-century old.
<<>>
To then first meet Anne Marie Hodgson is

like coming face-to-face with the harsh and
grinding reality of all that’s wrong with being

marginalized and ostracized like she is in to-

day's modern socialistic and recession state

of the ever impersonal and morally

dying England of old.
<<>>
She spoke to me softly while her crutches stood
as oblique testimony to her poor health and physical
deterioration as she spends her life to freely drown,

and ultimately die, in quiet silence on the cold streets

of which she has bedded down of long years ago now.
<<>>

With only a day or two after the photospread, she

by chance stopped by to ask me for a quid to help

her out. I more than happily obliged by giving her

more than what she asked for of me. What was I

suppose to do? Just ignore her or say “no” to her

like the daily London masses regularly do?

Of course not, stupid …

<<>>
Anne Marie Hodgson’s old tattooes

on her hands, arms and neck.

<<>>

Old tattooes are her personal identification

(shown above) that marks her weathered neck

and her ageing arms and her ringless, rough hands.

Her courseness is oddly not course. And, her lack

of physical beauty is strangely attractive. Im-

prisoned, too, at London's infamous women's

prison of Holloway for a past stretch or two has

also been part of Anna Marie Hodgson's rather

luckless life from what she told me of herself.

<<>>
Our public face and our private face oftentimes

contradicts each other. But not the face of Anne

Marie Hodgson for her face is always a public

one with no place to take her private face to a

place called home like do most of us daily do.

Her "home" is simply the cold streets of London.

It is a choice she has made more through circum-

stances of her own life that leaves little for her to

freely choose from until she is forced off the streets

by perhaps medical mishap or sheer old age or

stupefied tiredness. By that time, she may indeed

have already withered away with yet another

rough sleeper to fill her wornout place and her

free Salvation Army shoes.
<<>>

Asked if The Big Issue photospread, along with

the few lines written about her by Daisy Green-

well, had helped her in anyway or improved her

circumstances by its publicity of her Covent

Garden rough existence on the streets, she

bluntedly expressed her complete negativity

of seeing no results from her 15 seconds of

very limited fame or public recognition, if

in fact, the story about her even came

close to that.

<<>>

Fame is fleeting, especially today from what

was once called 15 minutes of fame that's

down now to 15 seconds in the world of the

mass media. So here today in print and gone

by tomorrow's edition and then completely

and absolutely forgotten. That's what has

happen to Anne Marie Hodgson already,

despite her being on pages 16 and 17 of

The Big Issue, that she was just last

week ... But that's now old wash and

a long time ago ... Sorry, baaaaby.

<<>>

So it seems best for her to gather happy

dreams that life will be better one day for

her and for all of those who dwell and

ache on the city streets of anonymity.

<<>>
Good luck Anne Marie, Uncle Monty.

+Royal Winsdor Day, 2oo9.

...
:: Skeleton Skater ::

<<>>

Voices From The Edge. Notes By Alastair Murray. Edited By Uncle Monty.

Voices From The Edge.

Starring Simon Callow

and Louise Jameson.

Notes By Alastair Murray.

Edited By Uncle Monty.

Graphic By Alex Albion.

-=-

“Voices From The Edge” is a stage play about the

homeless written by Christine Bacon. The drama

is based on the first hand testimonies of people

who are living today with homelessness and

deprivation in the British Isles.
=-=
“Voices From The Edge” is presented in active

support of this year’s 2oo9 Poverty and

Homelessness Action Week.

=-=

"The Edge" includes stage stars Simon Callow

and Louise Jameson, along with Actors for

Human Rights.

=-=

The performance is set for Friday, Feburary 6th,

2oo9, at 8:00 pm (Doors open at 7:00 pm).

=-=
The venue will be held at The Union Chapel,

Compton Street, London N1. Tickets in advance

are £10.00/£12.00 on the day at The Union

Chapel.
=-=

Please visit us at www.unionchapel.org.uk/

and/or Housing Justice for further details

at http://www.housingjustice.org.uk/.

.

:: Simon Callow ::

.:: Louise Jameson ::
-=-
“Voices From The Edge” is one of many great perform-
ances and special events taking place around the UK in
churches, arts venues, community centres and schools
during P+H Action Week.
-

.

Concessions for low/unwaged and free tickets for people

who are homeless. Complementary tickets are available for

people who currently attend homeless services like hostels or

day centres, but you must register as a group which includes a

member of staff. Also reduced priced tickets for low/unwaged.
Call Alastair Murray at Housing Justice on 020 7723 7273.

-=-
:: YOM HASHOAH VE-HAGEVURAH ::

By Uncle Monty.
...

I have now been invited to attend the 2oo9

Anglo-Soviet Ceremony to solemnly mark

"Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah." I will write

soon about the ceremony itself after I attend

it and of the top diplomatic, military, political

and governmental dignitaries there set

to be present.

...
Photo Below is of the Czech Terezin (Teresienstadt)

and Litomerice Nazi Concentration Camp of which

"Yom Ha-Shoah" forever remembers.

...

Now All Agog With All Things Called Obama. An Opinion By Uncle Monty.

Now All Agog With All Things Called Obama.

An Opinion By Uncle Monty.

~~~

Some folks are already sick and tired of hearing his name,
which also includes me. And, for the next couple of days
the world’s news media will ram down our throats even

more that’s all agog with all things called Barack Hussein

Obama as the American capital of Washington, D.C.,

prepares for perhaps as many as 2 million swooning

Obama fans to flock to his presidential 3-day

celebration and inauguration that began today. It's

going to be by far a predominantly black affair of

the like that White America has never before seen.

~~~

His actual legal swearing-in as president under oath

is set for Tuesday – January 20th, 2oo9 - as the first

African-American to become U.S. President. On that

same day, the most detested U.S. President of modern

times - George W. Bush - finally leaves The White

House after eight long years of his murderous and

ignorant assault upon the world.

~~~

As cowboy Bush's vile name rides off into the

Texas sunset, Obama’s own name rises to new

heights that even overshadow the historic and

respected black name of America's assassinated

civil rights leader The Rev’d Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr., whose national birthday is coincident-

ally marked tomorrow on the eve of Obama's

presidential swearing-in.

~~~

Many African-Americans, and other Africans in
such far flung places as their ghettoised enclaves

of Europe, and those in Africa itself, are now

joyously claiming they’re some how related by

family or ancestry to Obama when they’re no

more related to him than I am a white monkey

owner or a Chinese zoo keeper. Whatever, blacks

around the world are proud and excited at seeing

"their" Obama in the Oval Office. So, too, are

open leftists, Muslims, abortionists or baby

killers, gayboyz, liberation artists, democrats,

human rights activists, trade union leaders,

anti-neocons, anarachists, anti-racist agitators,

and an assortment of oldball internationalists.

Almost every other leftwinger seems to have now

come out of the woodwork to declare his or her

firm allegiance and adoration to all things Obama.

Such is so sick and so scary for folks like me, who

don't buy, nor ever will, into Obamamania

of any kind.
~~~

~~~

Such glee for Obama is really pitiful since his
meteoric rise is based more on his nation’s and
the world’s “anti-Bushism” than on knowing

who Obama really is. Since his election last Nov.

4th, the black gentleman has been portrayed
by the mass media as an expert on just about
anything that comes his political way. Yet, in

reality he is an expert on nothing other than

beating the Republican spectre of the ogre

and detestable George W. Bush and the then

lack lustre and elderly Republican John

Walker McCain III, 72, who was Obama's

2oo8 presidential election rival.

~~~

Other than that, we know sweet nothing about

how Barack Hussein Obama will finally turn

out as the nation's 44th President. Who knows?

He could be even worse than the Bush night-

mare despite all the present public glow of

Obamamania seemingly all around the world.
~~~
Just Who In The Hell Is He?

~~~

Under the real or imaginary fear stemming from the

result of Bush’s contrived and created “War on Terror,”

all the paranoid Federal law enforcement agencies
from the U.S. Secret Service to the FBI to the ATF

have now put Washington under virtual siege to counter

any threat, no matter how small or unreal, to the nation's

capital and U.S. Capitol and to Obama himself. The Yan-

kees have now done much like what the Chinese Comm-

unist apparatus did at last year’s Olympic Games inside

Beijing – sweep the streets of all who might somewhow

be considered “undesireable,” including those Dupont
Circle homeless at where I myself once was homeless
just a few weeks after Bush’s final 2005 and 2nd

inauguration that cost $40 million while the

Washington homeless shivered literally to death on

the downtown streets just a few blocks away from

The White House itself. I once sat very early in the

morning almost frozen myself on a public bench at

Dupont only to realise that the homeless man next

to me was already frozen to death – period. It made

me sick inside my empty and cold stomach. I was

then taught a real lesson about the Real America,

wasn't I? Sure thing. Ah, and yes, the Obama Cir-

cus in D.C. today is costing $100 million to per-

form against Bush's "poultry" $40 million ...

~~~

The lineup for the Obama Inauguration also

includes an ungodly "Dollop of Gayness" by the

invited gay Episcopal cleric V. Gene Robinson,

who I myself met and photographed at last

year's Hay Festival in Wales after I also met

and photographed there ex-U.S. President

Jimmy Carter. The Robinson fellow has helped

to put aslunder the whole worldwide Anglican

Communion of which I am a standing member

by virtue of being an avid and open Anglican

who happens to also unequivocally oppose all

things regarding the immoral New Hampshire

bishop that is the scandal of today's quivering

Anglicanism. Gay Gene was called upon after

many Obama party loyalists roundly condem-

ned the earlier selection of the conservative

Evangelist Rick Warren in doing the invocation

at the inauguration. Perhaps instead of coming

in his bishop's dress, Gene Robinson will feel at

liberty to fiddle instead with his "married" gay

lover at the nation's Washington Mall before or

after his "Episcopal blessing" to Obama and his

adoring crowd? Nothing would surprise me now

about Gene, unless he suddenly dropped dead.

I wouldn't blink an Anglican eyelid, if he so did.

~~~

Outside the Washington Beltway, with or with-

out the Obama Inauguration now underway, the

Deep South and in the back country of America,
there is a seething and swelling anti-black brigade

of staunch Repubicans, Prairie white folks and

“anti-Obamarists” who now detest and loathe him

for being the first African-American to enter The

White House and to presumably now sleep, when-

ever he wishes, in even the sacred Lincoln Bed-

room itself at where only white presidents have

hitherto slept. The thought of a black man now

there adds to their utter dismay and visual

hatred of him. While on the other hand, demo-

crats the world over are falling over themselves

at the “aura” of Obama and his clean sweep of
all things Republican or of any thing politically-

tainted by those who are seen as grossly or

midly pro-Bush or steadfast rightwing. Thus,

America and the world is now all agog with

all things called Obama, except for

some of those other good folk.

~~~

:: Barack Obama Background ::

http://pewforum.org/religion08/profile.php?CandidateID=4

~~~

As challenges mount, ardor for Obama cools abroad

By Associated Press

http://hawk.heraldinteractive.com/news/international/general/

~~~

But the honeymoon will soon be over for

Barack Hussein Obama as very sticky

situations must be dealt with like

Israel's recent outrageous slaughter at Gaza

against Hamas and the Palestinian innocent;

the American domestic economic freefall and

downturn that sees more Americans becoming

increasingly jobless and homeless; the nuclear

configuration regarding Iran and North Korea,

of which I have both visited, will continue to

beckon on the world stage; the terrible horror

of Bush's unilateral invasion and occupation,

along with the help of his hideous fellow war

criminal Anthony Blair of Britain, of Iraq at

now trillions of wasted dollars along with the

umpteen thousands of the innocent so maimed,

detained, tortured and/or insanely killed off

by his vicious and vile U.S. military that is now

moving slowly toward somekind of disengage-

ment of Almighty America from Iraq under the

political promise of Obama. These are only a

few headaches of many that will test the new

president almost immediately after his Tuesday

Inauguration. How he deals with them must not

be Obama window dressing, but rather substantial

innovation from whatever the nasty George W.

Bush has left him and the nation to heal now for

the future good of America and the world. "Now

all agog with all things called Obama" must be

more than just niffy words from here on out, Mr.

Obama. Personally, however, I cannot see right

now how your promise is all that promising.

Whatever, good luck to you for sure ...

~~~

Crowds complicate Obama inaugural security
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50F1LF20090116
~~~
Man charged with threatening Obama on

website: Steven Joseph Christopher is charged
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE50G07920090117
~~
Venezuela's Chavez says Obama has "stench" of Bush
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE50G2F420090118
~~~

Iraq occupation Bush's "mother of all mistakes"
By Ulf Laessing and Rania El Gamal
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50H19H20090118

~~~

Feeling really good, Uncle Monty.

+The 2nd Sunday after The Epiphany, 2oo9.

~~~

An added afterthought:

If Barack H. Obama should come to any harm at any

time during his Black Presidency, America should ex-

pect to see the "Mother of All Race Riots" take place

there that could lead to a permanent state of siege

between the races that could well turn the

whole country inside out like nothing else

before seen at the US of A.

~~~

Now Just Alittle Bit About My Birthday Today ...
I want to first send my many thankz to those who
have kindly given me their thoughtful presents on

this my January 18th birthday of today. They inc-

ludes fine Jan Mol of The Netherlands, the retired

ambassador, I believe, to the UK. He came and

gave me his generous and belated-xmas-cum-his-

birthday gift of £200.00- for me. Jan is one of the

kindest and most generous of my many kind and

generous friends. Then durable and always very

dear Jill Ferguson came by and thoughtfully gave

me her lovely birthday gift of the profusely and
exquisitely-illustrated 368-page Anglican
Book of Common of Prayer by the renowned
Ebury Press. Jill's gift to me is based on the
original text of the 1662 BCP. I just love read-
ing it ... I really do. Dare I also mention lovely
Elizabeth Middleton? She has been away quite
along time after she returned home to Durban,
South Africa, to take care of her ailing father
who recently died after all of Elizabeth's 10
months of close loving care of him before his
own death just weeks ago. I was sad to hear
of her sad news, but was so happy to see her
again and quite unexpectedly, too, along with
her birthday gift of the hard-to-find South
African five shilling Crown pieces in solid silver
dated from the Boar War. How Elizabeth rem-

embered my birthday beats me and how she

also knew I am fond of collecting old and rare

coins, too. But she did. Thank you, my dear.
To Jan, Jill, and three or four others like
Karen Young, Bill and Catherine Oglivy,
Jackie DeLaney, and James York, I also

again say thank you ever so much ... And, I

do feel younger today than I did yesterday.

Really? Oh, Blimey ... Later today, I have

been invited to my Birthday Dinner with

my good friends The Dawson Family.

Enjoy such, I indeed will.

~~~