7 Days until 97th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima - Ukraine Burns

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Would you believe that 97 years ago, May 13, 1917, Our Lady made the first of 6 straight monthly appearances to warn the world of the dangers of Communism and telling us how it could be voided.

Of course most of us, like the people long ago in Portugal, refused to believe that the Mother of Jesus would come back, and that she would appear to poor village children, with such a momentous message.

In fact the people did everything they could to keep the truth from being known including holding the children at a jail one month so they would not be present.  You see, in spite of the efforts of the authorities to keep people from the truth word of mouth was more powerful than government censorship.

In the end she promised a miracle visible to all who would attend and on October 13, 1917 she delivered.  After raining all night before and raining when nearly 70,000 people showed up the 13th, The Lady had the Sun appear through the clouds and then come spiraling toward the earth and the crowd.

Personal accounts from the crowd indicated they thought it was the end of the world but suddenly the Sun stopped it's mad descent and returned to a clear sky.  When the people realized they were not going to die they looked around and discovered their drenched clothes were dry as well as the entire formerly rain soaked countryside.

There were no more unbelievers although some refused to allow themselves to attribute the events to a miracle.  What a shame to have been saturated with the Grace of God and to reject it but alas, such is human nature.  Too many of us have forgotten how to believe.

Still, the Pope and Bishops refused to do the little things she asked of them, to have every Bishop in the world consecrate Russia and to encourage the people to say the rosary every day.  It seems such a small price to pay for world peace and it cost not a cent to do it.

Just 5 weeks after the miracle the Bolsheviks started the November Revolution that murdered the Czar and his family and brought the rein of Hell to Russia in the form of Communism and the Soviet Union.

It would be 75 years before Communism would be stopped, the evil empire brought to an end, and the greatest killing machine in world history shut down.  The legacy of Lenin and Stalin left over 62 million people dead and more than half of the poor souls were the very citizens of Russia, demonstrating unequivocally the depth evil had penetrated this mad movement.

The Soviet Union with it's rabid atheism by design set out to destroy God and in the end the Soviet Union lost.  Yet the constant warnings over the nearly century since she appeared of the Holy Mother to fulfill her requests to consecrate Russia and encourage people to say the rosary continued to fall on deaf ears.

For more on the prophecy see this link to an earlier story.

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2014/04/our-lady-of-fatima-warned-of-dangers-of.html

For those into the Kabala try this for irony.

Jesus died in the year 33 AD at 33 years old after preaching for 3 years.  There were 3 people directly involve in killing Jesus.

The 3 major players in the death of Jesus were Caiaphas, head of the Jewish Sanhedrin, the powerful court of justice in Judaism that legislated for the souls and bodies of men and the only court able to rule on religious matters.

Mary showed Sister Lucia this vision

Second was Pontius Pilate who was the fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judea during the trial of Jesus and served under Roman Emperor Tiberius.  Also known as Governor of Judea, Pilate is best remembered as the judge at the trial of Jesus charged with carrying out the wishes of the Jewish Sanhedrin.

The third major player was Herod of Antipas, son of Herod the great, the most evil of the kings of the Holy Land.  Herod Antipas was ruler of Galilee and Perea which he ruled as client states of the Roman Empire.

All 3 served during the reign and at the pleasure of Roman Emperor Tiberius.  Just 3 years after the death of Jesus at 33 AD and during the next 3 years all 3 plus Tiberius would die.  And about 37 years after the death of Jesus the City of Jerusalem was attacked by the Romans and after 3 years the City and the Second Temple of Solomon were destroyed with over 1 million Jews killed.

By the way, the Fatima anniversary in 7 days is just 3 years from the 100th year since Our Lady came to warn us.

Today the Ukraine people are at the mercy of Russian forces as the world stands by one again and does nothing.  Don't we ever hear the warnings?

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Oh the Games People Play Now

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Every night and every day now

Never meaning what they say now

Never saying what they mean now

Now in order to understand the degree we the people are being played by those we have entrusted with our future, we must first understand the real players playing those games.  You see, our system of capitalism includes a host of what I call the Fallen Angels of the universe.  They had to have somewhere to go when they screwed up eons ago.

They come in many sizes, shapes and disguises and are embedded in institutions we rely on for money management, legal advice, federal and state government services, news sources, media outlets, communication managers, advertising agencies, medical help, government regulators, non-profit organizations, banks and brokers, a whole lot of people who think they know what is best for you.

Those groups all represent multi-billion or trillion dollar industries whose greed is dependent upon your pocketbook participation and whose methods long ago made deception palatable to us unsuspecting suckers.  In truth you-we are all the victims of brainwashing, eaves dropping, mental manipulation, psychological molding, egotistical inflation, spiritual distortion and a host of other means that have made us Americans the richest people in human history with the least to show for our wealth since, well, our fore fathers who occupied and then destroyed the Lost Continent of Atlantis.

Today I intend to expose the underbelly of the beast so we can at least identify some of the puppet masters pulling your strings.  My hope is that you will then question these institutions and the role they have played in your lives.

If we wake up it may still be possible to save humanity from yet another round of self-destruction.  If we don't, then the prophecies of the Bible, the Holy Mother Mary, Nostradamus, Cayce, the Hopi Original Americans and others will come true and that may not be so pretty.

Before you decide that I am some Dooms Day prophet or conspiracy advocate let me make a couple of things clear.

First, I am no more of a conspiracy advocate than those who believe;

the Bible of Christianity,

the Hanged Stones or Koran of Islam,

the Talmud, Kabbalah, Midrash or Zohar of the Hebrews,

the Tao-Teh King of China,

the Kojiki of Japan,

the Palermo Stone, The Pyramid Texts, Inscription of Unus, Tales of the Magicians, Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, Coffin Texts, Budge's Book of the Dead (Ani), Prayers of Ikhn-aton, The Book of the Breaths of Life of ancient Egypt,

the Gathas,  Shah-Nameh,  Khayyam's Rubaiyat to the Yussuf and Zuleika of Jami of Persia,

and all the other so called religious and spiritual texts of the metaphysical world including the world of magic, Druids, witches and wizards.

One thing the long history of man has produced in this life cycle is a wealth of colorful, fantastic, forbidding, and terrifying stories to explain our foundation and reason for being and if truth is found in all those sacred texts then truth can be found in the wonders of Greek mythology, the adventures of King Arthur and Merlin, and fairy tales of all lands.

My point is this, only a fool would claim to know the true truth of God but we are all free to speculate and endorse whichever of these truth we so choose, provided we respect the right of others to select their own truths.

Second, we must be open to a higher truth than mankind has so far discovered and this point extends to definitions, laws and all the other techniques mankind has used to force conformity of all people to some arbitrary standard.  I did not say to reject what is but just to be open to what isn't known.

The Secret Domicile of the Fallen Angels

If I were God and watched as a bunch of Angels were seduced by the temptations of the human existence which they could never be part of, the last place I would ever exile them to would be the scene of the crime, Earth.  But God did exile them to Earth according to the Bible so there must have been some higher purpose in the exile than mere punishment.

Perhaps they were not punished at all but the whole Fallen Angel story was intended to mask the fact they were sent here to play roles not associated with the "Goodness of God" or the purpose of angels.

Maybe the Fallen Angels were sent here to make sure we are prepared to get back into Heaven.  More like Drill Sergeants than bad guys.  Think of them as the intelligence agents for God, the celestial oxymoron.

Yet they can also be bad, at least in terms of eternal salvation.  In many cases they are the agents of evil, the soul snatchers or even the soul less so committed to their path there is no element of justice, grace or empathy in their countenance.

You will find them penetrating every single one of the institutions or organizations I outlined above and the most astonishing thing of all is they actually believe they are doing good though they could care less how many people are hurt in the process.

Within the bowels of every institution are these fallen angels who live to destroy the spirit and sabotage the soul of every one they encounter through their callous actions that are intended to break - not heal, to control - not help, and to tear down - not build.

Our major financial institutions are riddled with such fallen angels dedicated to using any means necessary, legal or otherwise, to make certain the profits from the engine of our capitalist system serves a select few at the expense of the vast majority.

They control all stock markets, all high speed computer manipulation of the markets and they create wave after wave of illegal stock and investment packages to bilk the consumer with the promise of quick profits.

These parasites make sure you, the public, will never have access to new stock issues and they know what your pension fund is doing before it has been done, then use computer buying to undercut your dwindling assets while profiting from your losses.  Often they are the same ones managing your money while milking the markets for every cent of profit.

Long ago they discarded ethics as a viable concept and instead rated it a nuisance.  They buy and sell politicians to protect their tax breaks and hoodwink the federal regulatory agencies from the SEC to FDA to the U.S. Attorney's Office into pitiful fines for gross wrongdoing.

So complete is their control that the thousands of banking and home mortgage executives involved in bringing about the greatest economic crash of our nation since the great depression virtually all escaped jail, even when their firms paid fines which amounted to a small fraction of the damage they did.

As if that was not enough they had the Treasury Department, SEC, IRS and many other federal agencies agreeing to allow them to pay fines without admitting guilt, thus allowing them to write off the expenses for the legal fees and fines against the corporation from their tax liabilities, often amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions on occasion.

And then they had the audacity to pay themselves tens of millions of dollars in bonuses for minimizing the damage to the corporations for the crimes they committed, paid fines for, but didn't admit to doing thanks to government loopholes that still remain in place under Obama.

Sound confusing?  Try this simplification.  If you stole $100 from the collection box at church and got caught after you spent the money here is what would happen to you.  You would agree to pay back about .01 cent for every dollar you stole.  You would not agree you were guilty.  The few cents you paid in fines plus your legal fees would be deducted from your taxes next year.  And you would give yourself a bonus, maybe $20 of the $100 you stole for getting away with the crime.

Anyone who thinks crime doesn't pay, at least white collar crime in the ivory towers of our revered and hallowed business suites and board rooms around the nation, is on the take, or insane.  But you don't have to be.

Stay tuned for more details on The Games People Play at your expense.

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What do the odds mean?

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SNOW?

Ever since time began and men showed up they have been trying to figure out how much they win based on the odds.

I mean, if the odds were ten to one that Moses dropped the Ten Commandments, then how much did you win?

So here is exactly what you will win if you bet $2.00 on a horse to win the Kentucky Derby.

ODDS	PAYS		ODDS	PAYS		ODDS	PAYS
1-5	$2.40		8-5	$5.20		6-1	$14.00
2-5	$2.80		9-5	$5.60		7-1	$16.00
1-2	$3.00		2-1	$6.00		8-1	$18.00
3-5	$3.20		5-2	$7.00		9-1	$20.00
4-5	$3.60		3-1	$8.00		10-1	$22.00
1-1	$4.00		7-2	$9.00		15-1	$32.00
6-5	$4.40		4-1	$10.00		20-1	$42.00
7-5	$4.80		9-2	$11.00		30-1	$62.00
3-2	$5.00		5-1	$12.00		50-1	$102.00 .

 

 

 

 

 

The Day Before Derby Day - The Greatest Bluegrass Thoroughbred to Never Win the Derby - Man o' War

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If the millions and millions of fans around the world think they have it bad trying to pick the winner of the Derby and then sweating out the fastest two minutes in sports as the horses pound around the track tomorrow, just think what the horses went through to get on the track.

They are the result of generations of breeding and bloodlines.  Of the two greatest horses in thoroughbred racing history, Lexington, Kentucky bred Man o' War set the standard for all time to come.

The other greatest thoroughbred of all time was Secretariat (March 30, 1970 - October 4, 1989), an American Thoroughbred racehorse that in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years.  He set records in all three events in the series - the Kentucky Derby (1:59 2/5), the Preakness Stakes (1:53), and the Belmont Stakes (2:24) - records that still stand today, 41 years later.

He is considered to be one of the greatest Thoroughbreds of all time. In 1999, ESPN ranked Secretariat the 35th best athlete of the 20th century, the highest ranking racehorse on the list. He ranked second behind Man o' Was in The Blood-Horse's List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century.

But a lot less is known about Man o' War, the greatest Kentucky horse to never run in the Kentucky Derby, so here is his story.

Man o' War came close to perfection

By Larry Schwartz

Special to ESPN

When thoroughbred racing needed a boost, Man o' War unleashed his blazing speed and came to the rescue.  Though he competed for only two years, he energized a reeling sport.

   

Let's look at the world of racing that Man o' War entered in 1919: Racing in New York had been eliminated in 1911 and 1912 because of anti-gambling legislation led by Gov. Charles Hughes. Other states had taken up Hughes' crusade. Many stables had folded and some of the bigger ones had moved to Europe.

While racing was legalized again in 1913, World War I soon dominated the public's attention. Attendance and pursues were at record lows when Man o' War made his debut on June 6, 1919.

By the time he retired 16 months later, he was a national hero, joining Babe Ruth as the first shining stars of the Roaring Twenties.  The charismatic horse's popularity had brought fans back to the race track.

Man o' War went to the post 21 times and won 20 races. He won one race by an incredible 100 lengths and triumphed in another carrying 138 pounds. He whipped a Triple Crown champion by seven lengths in a match race.

He brought international recognition to Kentucky breeders and made the United States the racing center of the world. When he retired, he held five American records at different distances and had earned more money than any thoroughbred.

In a mid-century Associated Press poll, he was overwhelmingly voted the greatest thoroughbred of the first half of the 20th century.

Not only did Man o' War perform like a superstar on the track, the chestnut-colored horse (though he was nicknamed "Big Red") looked like one. At 3, he was a strapping 16.2 hands (about 5-foot-6) and weighed about 1,125 pounds with a 72-inch girth. His appetite also was huge, as he ate 12 quarts of oats every day, or about three quarts more than the average racehorse. He ran in big bounds as well, with his stride measuring an incredible 25 to 28 feet.

Bred by August Belmont II, son of the founder of Belmont Park and for whom the Belmont Stakes was named, the future champion was foaled on March 29, 1917 at Nursery Stud near Lexington, Ky. His sire was Fair Play and his dam was Mahubah, the daughter of Rock Sand, the 1903 winner of Britain's version of the Triple Crown (the 2,000 Guineas, the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger). He was 15 generations removed from the Godolphin Arabia, one of three Arab and Barb stallions considered to be the founders of the thoroughbred line.

Originally, Belmont's wife named the horse My Man o' War, after her soldiering husband, who was stationed in France during World War I, but the "My" was later dropped.

Belmont's military involvement prompted him to sell his entire 1917 yearling crop. Sportsman Samuel Riddle, owner of the Glen Riddle Farm, was the beneficiary of this decision. Accepting the judgment of trainer Louis Feustel, Riddle purchased the rangy colt, who seemed too large for a yearling, for $5,000 at the Saratoga yearlings' sales. "As soon as I saw him, he simply bowled me over," Riddle said.

At the beginning, Man o' War's aversion to the bridle and saddle caused problems. "He's nice and he's smart, but don't ever try to force him or you'll come out second best every time," a stable boy said. "Ask him and he'll do what you want. Push him and it's all off."

Under Feustel's training, patience paid off, and the energy of Man o' War was harnessed. His debut, in a five-furlough maiden race against six other 2-year-olds at Belmont, was no contest. The fans reportedly screamed and pounded the rail as jockey Johnny Loftus tightened the reins at the stretch, slowing Man o' War to a virtual canter. But the horse still won by six lengths.

"He made half-a-dozen high-class youngsters look like $200 horses," wrote the turf editor of the New York Morning Telegraph.

Following his smashing debut, Man o' War won three stakes races, at three different New York tracks, in the next 17 days.

His winning streak was at six when Man o' War raced in the Sanford Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 13. It is Man O' War's most remembered race -- because it is the only one he would lose.

Starting gates were not yet used, and horses were led up a tape barrier. A fill-in starter had difficulty getting the horses ready and they milled around. While Man o' War apparently was backing up, the tape was sprung. Man o' War "was almost left at the post," the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

After a slow start, Man o' War was third as the field headed for home in the six-furlough race. Blocked by close quarters, he had to go to the outside in the final eighth. Though he gamely made up ground, he missed by a half-length of overtaking the winner, who at 115 pounds carried 15 fewer pounds than the 11-20 favorite. The winner was named, rather appropriately, Upset.

Big Red, who beat Upset in their six other meetings, finished the year with easy victories in the Hopeful and Futurity, giving him nine victories in 10 races.

In 1920, Man o' War won all 11 of his races, with Clarence Kummer aboard nine times. Big Red didn't race in the Kentucky Derby because Riddle believed that a soft-boned 3-year-old should not have to run 1¼ miles in early May. Instead, he set his sights on the Preakness (Man o' War held off an Upset charge to win) and Belmont (a 20-length victory in a two-horse field).

After winning the Travers against two horses at Saratoga, only one colt challenged Man o' War in his next race. Well, it wasn't exactly a challenge as Big Red, the 1-100 favorite, defeated Hoodwink by 100 lengths in the 1 5/8th-mile Lawrence Realization at Belmont Park.

He was 1-100 again in winning the Jockey Cup at Belmont Park, and then he was saddled with the excessively high weight of 138 pounds for the Potomac Handicap. After being a bit fractious at the post, he assumed command and won easily.

Man o' War's last race was against Sir Barton, who in 1919 had become the first to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Like most match races, it was hardly competitive. At Kenilworth Park, in Windsor, Ontario, Man o' War won the $75,000 purse and $5,000 Gold Cup by defeating the older Canadian-owned horse by seven lengths.

When Riddle was informed that Man o' War would have to carry even more than 138 pounds as a 4-year-old, he retired his horse to stud. Man o' War held American records for the fastest mile, 1 1/8 miles, 1 3/8 miles, 1½ miles and 1 5/8 miles. His total earnings were $249,465, a record at the time.

Don't feel sorry for Man o' War because he stopped racing so young. He proved to be quite a stud. In 1926, his issue won $408,137, breaking a 60-year-old record.

Following his undefeated season of 11 straight wins, Man o' War traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, to enter at stud at Elizabeth Daingerfield's Haylands and later moved to Riddle's Faraway Farm. Man o' War was a top sire who produced more than 64 stakes winners and various champions. Though many believe that Riddle did not breed the stallion to enough good mares after the first five seasons, he still sired many leading horses.

Man o' War sired American Flag and Crusader, who won successive Belmont Stakes in 1925 and 1926. Although there were no official champions in America at the time, both colts were generally considered the best three-year-old colts of their year, and Crusader was also largely accepted as the best racehorse of 1926.

Among Man o' War's other famous offspring were 1929 Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen, Battleship (who won the 1938 English Grand National steeplechase), and War Admiral, the 1937 Triple Crown winner and the second official Horse of the Year. Another of his offspring, Hard Tack, sired Seabiscuit, who was Horse of the Year in 1938. Man o' War's most successful sons at stud were War Admiral and War Relic, and War Relic's branch of the male line survives today.

Tiznow, Honor and Glory, and Bertrando are also all sire-line descendants of Man o' War. According to Kent Hollingsworth, 37 per cent of all stakes winners in 1966 were descendants of Man o' War. Despite not covering more than 25 mares in any season, Man o' War sired 379 named foals during 22 seasons at stud. His daughters kept Man o' War listed in the 10 leading broodmare sires list for 22 years.

In 1921, a Texas oil millionaire, William Waggoner, offered $500,000 for Man o' War. Riddle turned him down, as he did when Waggoner increased his offer again, first to $1 million and then a blank check. "The colt is not for sale," he said.

Although Man o' War spent most of his life in Kentucky, he never raced there. He died there, though, at the age of 30 of a heart attack on Nov. 1, 1947 in Lexington.

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