Sunday, October 31, 2010

THAT'S LIFE ~ SO DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN FOR AS FUNNY AS IT MAY SEEM SOME PEOPLE GET THEIR KICKS STOMPING ON A DREAM... SO HAPPY HALLOWEEN

THAT'S LIFE...RIGHT THERE THIRD PARTY INDEPENDENT VOTERS
STUCK ONCE AGAIN OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS...
TWO PARTY DEMO MEENIE WEENIE & RUPUBLO WANKER YANKER
BUREAUCRACY LAND OF EVER MORE & MORE EVIL MESSES!
ONCE MORE BOTH OF YOU SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE!

SO ONCE AGAIN THAT'S LIFE... BUT I'M STILL NOT
BUYING INTO EITHER OF THEIR SNEAKY BULL-CRAP.
SO HERE WE ARE FOR HALLOWEEN WONDERING JUST ONE THING
~ HOW THESE UPCOMING ELECTIONS WILL GO?

But does it truly in the end really matter when
American politics is buffeted by turmoil — & persistent
questions about the motives of leaders on both sides of
this horrid, evil, nasty two party bureaucracy.

All these crises where made by them & they have let
a whole hell of a lot of people down & burdened.
For we're getting nothing done & thus it's high time
to start pointing fingers at the top, across the board.
Anxiety anger fear loathing are all on Americans minds
as they hit the polls in the next coming days.Time to cut the Gordian Knot and open the doors to dire
needed change not only in this country but globally.

They are angry voters this election and people who maybe
want a change, so if they see someone different, let's
give them a shot. I mean, these guys now can't seem to
get it right. Maybe somebody else new & different can.

For it's surely and sorely been the same old same old under
this evil two party stranglehold BUREAUCRATIC monopoly.

THEY HAVE TURNED ALL THEIR LIES AROUND TO FIT THE TRUTH.
& SO THERE IS A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT OF ANGER & MISERY...
SO MANY OF YOU ALL WILL NOW SUFFER THE COMING CONSEQUENCES.

But the bigger question mark that still will remain no matter
which of these so called American leaders wins in the upcoming
election will still be...

ARE THEY GOING TO BE DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR THE
AVERAGE AMERICAN & THEIR FAMILIES OR ARE THEY
GOING TO CONTINUE ON DOING JUST WHATS BEST FOR...

BIG BUSINESS, THEIR CONTRIBUTORS & THEIR OWN SELFISH
SELVES AS THEY HAVE BEEN CONTINUALLY DOING BY LIVING
IT UP LAVISHLY AND HIGH OFF THE HOG!

STILL THROUGH IT ALL ~ HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2010 ~
AS THE ON RUSHING SHADOW OF CHANGE ONE WAY
OR ANOTHER WILL CONTINUE TO CONSTITUTE THE DREAM.NOW AS FOR US THIRD PARTY INDEPENDENT CONSTITUENCIES
THE FUTURE HOLDS A TRULY DIFFERENT DREAM. SO FROM NOW
ON IN THIS 2010 AMERICAN ELECTION UNTIL THE 2012
BIG ELECTION YEAR... WE WILL THUS CONTINUE ON,
NOR WILL WE LET IT GET US DOWN... FOR THAT'S LIFE...
NOW IT'S TIME TO TRULY BUILD UP A VIABLE THIRD PARTY

THUS ONCE AGAIN...
MAY THE FORCE OF STRENGTH & HONOR BE WITH YOU

Signed Sadly Gladly & Tragically
At The PassionSword Blades Edge
We Bitter Sweet Over Bitter Gladiators
Of The Society Of The Sacred Arena PassionsWord

DEDICATED TO & IN MEMORIAM FOR FRANK SINATRA

Sunday, October 24, 2010

TIME FOR ALL "DWELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD" TO ARISE & AWAKEN EVEN IF YOUR FEELING A LITTLE MORE "UNDER PRESSURE" (2010-2019)

THE RETURN COMING OF AGES IS HERE
& IT'S FINALLY TIME FOR ALL UNDER PRESSURE
DWELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD TO ONCE AGAIN
ARISE & AWAKEN FOR...

It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'

Pray tomorrow - gets me higher high high
Pressure on people - people on streets
Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work

Keep coming up with love
but it's so slashed and torn
Why - why - why ?
Love love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking

Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
give love give love give love give love give love

Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night

And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
PressureI will walk out of the darkness
And I'll walk into the light
And I'll sing the song of ages
And the dawn will end the night

I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no more

I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I cross some burning ground
And I'll go down to the water
Let the great illusion drown

I'm a dweller on the threshold
And I'm waiting at the door
And I'm standing in the darkness
I don't want to wait no moreMARK THESE WORDS THAT SHALL BE BEFORE...

Chippin' around - kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours

BUT STILL WHY...
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love
give love give love give love give love give love

So...
EVEN IF MORE & MORE PEOPLE & MORE & MORE COUNTRIES
& GOVERNMENTS WORLD-WIDE ARE PUT "UNDER PRESSURE"
IT'S HIGH TIME TO CREATE SOME BETTER PLANNED AND
COORDINATED GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL POSITIVE ENERGIES,
PERSPECTIVES, TIES & INTERESTS EVEN "UNDER PRESSURE"MAY THE FORCE OF STRENGTH & HONOR BE WITH YOU

Signed Sadly Gladly & Tragically
At The PassionSword Blades Edge
We Bitter Sweet Over Bitter Gladiators
Of The Society Of The Sacred Arena PassionsWord

Monday, October 18, 2010

TWEETY'S 2010 "FUEL INJECTED" PREDICTIONS ON A NASTY EVIL TWO PARTY BUREAUCRACY OF SLIME BUCKETS & TRASH MONGERS

THUS "FUEL INJECTED" GLADIATOR TWEETY TWEETS IN...
"IF THE ROAD MAP IS A CONVINCING ONE,
THEN, THERE IS ROOM TO NEGOTIATE A COMPROMISE"...

BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER & NEVER FORGET THAT
EGOTISM, CAPITALISM, GREED & SELFISHNESS
~ "ONLY TAKES A MOMENT" ~

& DOESN'T IT SOMEHOW SEEM TO FEEL LIKE THAT THESE
~ UPCOMING SUPER-DUPER AMERICAN ELECTIONS 2010 ~
AS IF THESE QUALITIES ARE SADLY TAKING CENTER STAGE
& IT BE JUST ANOTHER ENDLESS CENTURIES OLD CYCLE OF
"JUST NOT GETTING IT YET" POLITICS AS USUAL...

~ BUT JUST PERHAPS ~
Swollen Members gunna make us stop...
take a minute and remember who takes the top
to the critics and the cynics your time is up
just admit it everybody knows this crime is up
its hot shiiiit...

Thus...whenever battle axe warriors come out to play
you can bet we gunna do it in a thousand way
and we sweating off the duel we resuscitate
members only rock...shiiit....muthafucka bait....
its hot shiiit...Yall aint got it so don't even think about it
Cuz I'm tough if ya know the top

AS TWEETY TWEETS BACK IN...
GOD HELP US ALL IN THE TWEENTY TWEENS (2010-2019)
CAUSE WHAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING IS...

A LOT OF MOUTH BUT NOT A WHOLE LOT OF SUBSTANCE
BEHIND IT, ALONG WITH THE ENDLESS RHETORIC OF EVIL,
LIES, DECEIT, CONTENTION & STUPIDITY.

FOR...
HAVE YOU BUT EVER SEEN AN ELECTION PERIOD MORE FILLED
WITH LOW DOWN BACK-BITING STUPIDITY, SHIT FOR BRAINS
DUMB-BING DOWN NASTINESS & ROTTEN MEAN RUDENESS THAN
THIS AMERICAN ELECTION PERIOD 2010. FOR THAT'S WHAT
EVERYBODY IS SURELY SAYING COAST TO COAST.

THUS FOR THE SURETY, SAFETY & SAKE OF OUR NATION
THIS EVIL TWO PARTY BUREAUCRATIC MONOPOLY OF...
LYING REPUBLICAN WANKER YANKER SLIM BUCKETS &
TWO FACED DEMOCRATE MEENIE WEENIES MUST END!

TWEETY ALSO TWEETS DAT THESE MEAN OL" PUTTY CATS
IN THE TWEENTY TWEENS (2010-2019) WILL BE TWYING
AWFUL HARD AS HELL TO RE-POSSES YOUR MINDS &
THUS FORE-CLOSE ON YOUR HEARTS & DREAMS.

All those banks who cut corners in the foreclosure
process with so-called "robo-signers" of legal
documents used to justify taking homes.

These action could highlight problems with other lenders that may have illegally driven homeowners out of their homes. It also offers a glimpse into an overloaded foreclosure process in desperate need of change.

SO LISTEN UP ALL YOU ELECTION BURDENED POOR SIMPLE
FOLK OUT THERE IN YUK-YUKSVILLE WITH ALL YOUR TRIED
& TRUE SIMPLE MINDED MIDDLE CLASS HOPES, DREAMS,
EXPECTATIONS, PLANS & VALUES.

YOU MUST START TO REALIZE THAT FOR THEM...
BANKERS, OIL EXECTS & POLITICIANS ECT.TO USE SHOTGUN CAPITALISM & CORRUPT BULLYING IN
WHICH TO CONTROL & MANIPULATE THE MISGUIDED
POPULACE WHICH THEY ALSO MISUSED & MISMANAGED.
THAT'S WHY FROM THE MID LATE EIGHTIES UNTIL NOW
ITS JUST GOTTEN WORSE & WORSE UNTIL LEADING UP TO
WHERE WE ARE AT NOW. NOT TOO HARD AN EQUATION TO
FIGURE OUT...

SO WE LETS "FIGURE IT OUT" GOOD AMERICANS ARE
MAD AS HELL ABOUT IT & ARE NOT ABOUT TO TAKE IT ANYMORE~
CAN THERE BUT BE A BASTION OF SANCTUARY FOR THOSE WHO
ARE DISSATISFIED, DISAFFECTED & DOWN TRODDEN?

Must these politicians promises just be ink on paper &
SO BOTH PARTIES ARE FULLY TO BLAME & BOTH ARE CAUSING
THE SURETY, SAFETY & SAKE OF OUR NATION TO BE DRIVEN
STRAIGHT DOWN THE PROVERBIAL TOILET!

THEY BOTH NEED TO BE PUT ON A SHORT LEASH AND THEY SHOULD
BOTH BE TRYING TO AMEND THEIR FORMER SELFISH EVIL WAYS
BUT INSTEAD LOOK WHAT WE GOT...

THE REPUBLICANS & THEIR TEA BAGGER KOOKS ARE LIARS &
SCAM ARTISTS, AFTER BEING BUSHWACKED ALL THOSE YEARS
BY THEM THEY SHOULD ALL JUST SHUT THEIR BIG F...ING MOUTHS
GO HOME WITH THEIR TAILS BETWEEN THEIR NASTY MEAN OL'
PUTTY CAT LEGS & TRY & JUST SHUT THE F UP FOR A BIT
& POSSIBLY JUST POSSIBLY LISTEN ALONG WITH OTHERS FOR ONCE!
YEAH... GOOD LUCK ON THAT ONE!BUT NO... THEY ARE OUT THERE RANTING RAVING
YELLING & SCREAMING ALL OVER THE PLACE ONCE AGAIN
MAKING THEMSELVES & THE NATION LOOK LIKE KOOKY
WEIRD PIECES OF AMERICAN CRAP-GARBAGE!

YOU ALL ENJOY THE POWER & BEING IN FULL CONTROL
THAN YOU GOT TO STAND UP & TAKE THE HEAT ALSO

WHAT TRASH HEAP PILE DID THEY BRING UPON US ALL?
Inflated income levels, fake home appraisals and other lies inserted into mortgage documents -- something Wall Street and Washington have long suspected, but never truly investigated -- could then be used to force big banks to buy back the garbage they peddled in the first place to unwitting investors.

THEY BELIEVE THAT BY HOLDING KNIVES TO YOUR THROAT &
TELLING YOU THAT YOU GOT TO DO IT THEIR WAY OR ELSE
IS A REAL WORKABLE DEMOCRACY. WOW WHAT A REAL
DEMOCRATIC CHOICE IN A REAL DEMOCRACY!

~ Thus perfected but not invented
rhymes from the ego driven self centered ~

AS FOR THE DEMO WEENIE FREAKY FRAUDS & BULL SHITTERS
THEY ARE APART OF IT THEN CLAIM THEY WEREN'T,
ACCUSE AND THEN REALLY DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
THEY LET THEM ALL INCLUDING & ESPECIALLY THEMSELVES
OFF THE PROVERBIAL HOOK. ONCE AGAIN A LEFT WING BACK STAB!

The Great Leftist Set Up & Backstab Final Abandonment

The Great Rightest Set Up & Backstab Final AbandonmentTurned Against their own People (english)
by Arena of sorrows 6:30pm Tue Aug 7 '01
http://www.indymedia.org:8081//front.php3?article_id=57832

Tactically take down the Tacticians of War and Greed
Strategically pin point the strategists of evil and selfishness!

The prophet asks again:
Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress? {Isa 63:2 NIV}

The warrior replies,
"I have trodden the winepress alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;
their blood spattered my garments,
and I stained all my clothing.
For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and the year of my redemption has come." {Isa 63:3-4 NIV}

LETS NOT TALK ABOUT ALL THE FORECLOSURE MESSES,
FANNY MAY FREDDIE MAC MESS, ALL THE "IN THE KNOW" BANKS
INVOLVEMENT SYNDROME IN EACH PIECE OF PAPERWORK LOST!
ALL THAT BUNDLE-ING AND BUNGLING.

Wall Street firms have packaged and sold trillions of dollars in mortgage-linked securities this decade. But in their rush to push paper through various levels, from the firm giving homeowners a mortgage ultimately to the investor, shortcuts were likely taken due to the large volume at play. More than $4.4 trillion in mortgages not guaranteed by the federal government were bundled into securities and sold to investors from 2003 through 2007, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, a leading trade publication and data provider.WHAT THEY ARE CONTINUING TO TRY TO DO IS...
MAKE SURE NO-ONE IS TRULY ACCOUNTABLE.
SO LETS NOW TALK BIS (BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS)
& ALL THE OTHER BANKS & DERIVATIVE BANKERS.

ALSO LETS NOT FORGET...
THE ANGELO MOZILO COUNTRYWIDE MESS
ALONG WITH THE SEC KNOWING INVOLVEMENT
(STEAL 139 million & pay pay back only 67 million...not a bad deal)
HELL HIS FAT EVIL ASS SHOULD BE IN JAIL
RIGHT ALONG SIDE BERNIE MADE-OFF WITH ALL THEIR LOOT.

HEY LETS NOT ALSO FORGET A PLUS TO ALL THOSE...
PAID OFF APPOINTED JUDGES TO RESIDE!!!

SO THEN THERE IS DEMOCREEPS & REPUBLO-WANKERS
THEY BOTH HAVE STOLE BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS!
HEY THAT'S OK, IT'S QUITE ALRIGHT, FOR THAT'S HOW THINGS
ARE ULTIMATELY DONE HERE IN A TWO PARTY BUREAUCRACY.HELL STILL READY TO TALK ABOUT SPECIAL INTERESTS...
LETS TALK ABOUT WHY GOP CANDIDATES ARE SURGING AHEAD
IN FUND-RAISING.

RECENT COURT RULINGS HAVE MADE IT EASIER FOR...
CORPORATIONS & WEALTHY INDIVIDUALS TO MAKE
UNLIMITED POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS, MUCH OF IT
CLOAKED IN SECRECY. THE FRENZY IS OF COURSE
BEING AS USUAL FUELED BY A RELATIVELY SMALL
NUMBER OF RICH DONORS - OIL & GAS INDUSTRY
CHIEF EXECUTIVES, CONSTRUCTION MAGNATES &
OTHER MULTI BILLION DOLLAR TYCOONS WHO ARE
ABLE TO EXERT ENORMOUS OUTSIDE INFLUENCE
IN SPECIFIC "SWOLLEN MEMBER" REGIONAL RACES.

BACKING YOU ALL IS ONE THING BUT BACKING ALL YOUR
EVIL LIES FRAUDS & CORRUPTION IS ASKING MUCH...

SO WHO ELSE DO WE HAVE TO VOTE FOR... SADLY NOBODY ...
NOW GO OUT AS AN INDEPENDENT CENTRIST AND VOTE!
YEAH RIGHT THERE TWEETY... FUEL INJECTED...!...SEE BEYOND JUST THE LOST PURPOSE THAT A
FALSE SENSE OF PRIDE & FEIGNED DUTY HAS BEEN BESTOWED
UPON WAY SO MANY IN SERVING OUR GRATEFUL TASK IN THESE
DIFFICULT UP-COMING "TRANSFORMATIONAL TIMES TO SURVIVE"

THUS THIS STORYBOOK TALE IS PRESENTED ETERNALLY
WITHOUT BEGINNING WITHOUT ENDING IN IT'S "ORIGINS"
JUST LIKE FROM "THE ORIGINS" IS OUR DIVINE TALE OF TALE

FOR...
THEN THERE IS OUR LOOMING FORGOTTEN WORLD UNDER*UNDER
WITHIN THE COMING NEEDED GATHERING OF GLOBAL PROPORTIONS
THAT WILL BRING ABOUT A HUGH DEFINING & RE-DEFINING PERIOD
THE TWENTY TEENS & TWENTY TWENTIES (2010-2029)

SO ENTER WITHIN AMERICA 2010 & THE HERE & NOW
OF ENDLESS BULLSHIT FAKERS & LAY TO WASTE TAKERS
ALL THESE CRAP BAD PERFORMANCES... GOT TO END NOW
& THUS UNTO THE THERE & THEN...& then...
BUT SEE WITHIN THAT WHICH LIES AWAITINGSO BE REAL & JUST ADMIT IT... FOR YA'LL KNOW THAT...
THROUGH IT ALL KNOW OUR WORD IS STILL GOOD...

That is why we
Arena Annhilatrix- Matrix Centrist Green Gladiators
Call forth out from the Shades of The Shadows of the Grave.

LET The Truth Be Known!Uncle Tom's Cabin
Warrant

Just for the record let's get the story straight
Me and Uncle Tom were fishin' it was gettin'
Pretty late
Out on a cypress limb above the wishin' well
Where they say is got no bottom say it take
You down to Hell.
Over in the bushes and off to the right
Come two men talking; in the pale moonlight
Sheriff John Brady and Deputiy Hedge
Haulin' two limp bodies down to the water's edge

I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin oh yea
I know a secret that I just can't tell
They didn't see me and Tom in the tree
Neither one believin' what the other could see
Tossed in the bodies let 'em sink on down
To the bottom of the well
Where'd they never be foundI know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin oh yea
I know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
Know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
Know who put the bodies in the wishin' well

Soon as they were gone me and Tom got down
Prayin' real hard that we wouldn't make a sound
Runnin; through the woods back to Uncle Tom' shack
Where the full moon shines throught the roof tile cracks

Oh my God Tom who re we gonna tell
The sheriff belongs in a prison cell
Keep your mouth shut that's what we're gonna do
Unless you wanna wind up in the wishin' well too.

I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
I know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
Know a secret that I just can't tell
I know a secret down at Uncle Tom's cabin
Know who put the bodies, know who put the bodies in the wishin' wellMomento Mori
IN MEMORIUM TO DANNY CASOLARO (english)
by Arena of Vengeance 7:32pm Fri Aug 3 '01
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=56969

& Thus we are resigned but never broken,
as we calmly stride into the arena to meet our fate.

ALSO THROUGH IT ALL WE STILL LOVE TWEETY'S
"FUEL INJECTED" AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
~ We are just independent with a different perspective ~

FOR IT'S STILL TRULY TWEETY'S LAND OF....
~ The same as always rising to the top ~
Sweet Lady Liberty's Passionsword Arena
of Independent Centrist Green Gladiators

Swollen Members gunna make us stop...
take a minute and remember who takes the top
to the critics and the cynics your time is up
just admit it everybody knows this crime is up
its hot shiiiit...

& So Once More...Go back & Connect The Bubbly World ...'s
That call all To once again "Come & See" & Thus
In The Bitter Sweet End Come Once Again On Down &
Finally Follow The Noble Path Into Divine Reason's
Lymen's Tunnel Of Late Lament Truth...As You Fade Now Out From All Your Big Well Rehearsed
Blown Up With a Lot Of Hot Air Wind Bag Bubbles
& Hear The Faint Call Of Even At The Sound Of A Plastic
Bubbly World Bursting Bubbles But Their Still Not Having Any
Second Thoughts Of Deeper Scrub Mc-Clueless Reflection Black..

AND SO BE VERY CAREFUL & SURE THAT...
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? (Benjamin Franklin)

SO WHAT DO YALL SAY... LETS JUST GO ON AHEAD &
FORGIVE THESE GUYS FOR ALL THEIR MURDERS OR WHAT?

Do they respect the legal system or have a
high level of “moral cynicism,” believing
that “laws were made to be broken”?

WELL NOW TWEETY TWEETS BACK IN...
THE SYSTEM IS ALREADY SHOWING SIGNS
OF INTELLECTUAL, MORAL & INTERNAL BREAKAGE...HELL ITS BROKEN ALL OVER THE PLACE EVERYWHERE ALL OVER
WITHIN THIS EVIL TWO PARTY BUREAUCRATIC BULL SHIT.

A HORRID TWO PARTY SYSTEM MONOPOLY!

AS WE AWAIT THE UPCOMING RETRIAL OF THE
ABRAMOFF LOBBYIST RING IN DISTRICT FEDERAL COURT
ON A CASE THAT COULD SERVE AS A BAROMETER OF THE
CORRUPTION FIGHT IN OUR NATIONS CAPITAL.

THEN THEY SAY WE INDEPENDENTS, GREENS, CENTRISTS,
LIBERTARIANS, SOCIALISTS ECT. SHOULD GO OUT & VOTE
FOR ONE OR THE OTHER OF THESE CORRUPT HIGH LEVEL CRIMINALS
AFTER DOING SUCH A TERRIBLY HORRIFIC JOB ALL THIS TIME.

NOW THAT ETHICAL LIMITS ON CONGRESS ARE ERODING...
BETTER YET HOW ABOUT THAT RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH GUY
ABOUT TIME TO GIVE OTHER PEOPLE, PARTIES, IDEAS A CHANCE.
TO BUT BE ABLE TO TRANSFORM THINGS FOR THE BETTER...MAY THE FORCE OF STRENGTH & HONOR BE WITH YOU

Signed Sadly Gladly & Tragically
At The PassionSword Blades Edge
We Bitter Sweet Over Bitter Gladiators
Of The Society Of The Sacred Arena PassionsWord

Thursday, October 07, 2010

So Enter ~ Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary ~

Our Lady of the Rosary (also Our Lady of the Holy Rosary or Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary in relation to the method of prayer known as the rosary, whose origin has been attributed to a Marian apparition to Saint Dominic in 1208 in the church of Prouille.

In 1571 Pope Pius V instituted "Our Lady of Victory" as an annual feast to commemorate the victory of Lepanto. The Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Spain (including its territories of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Venice, the Papacy, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and others, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire.The five-hour battle was fought at the northern edge of the Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, where the Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto (Turkish: İnebahtı; Greek: Ναύπακτος, Naupaktos or Έπαχτος, Épahtos) met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, Sicily.

Victory gave the Holy League temporary control over the Mediterranean, protected Rome from invasion, and prevented the Ottomans from advancing further into Europe. Lepanto was the last major naval battle fought almost entirely between oar-powered galleys, and has been assigned great symbolic importance since then.

The victory was attributed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as a rosary procession had been offered on that day in St. Peter's Square in Rome for the success of the mission of the Holy League to hold back Muslim forces from overrunning Western Europe. In 1573, Pope Gregory XIII changed the title of this feast-day to...
"Feast of the Holy Rosary". This feast was extended by Pope Clement XII to the whole of the Latin Rite, inserting it into the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1716, and assigning it to the first Sunday in October. Pope Pius X changed the date to 7 October in 1913, as part of his effort to restore celebration of the liturgy of the Sundays. In 1969, Pope Paul VI changed the name of the feast to "Our Lady of the Rosary".[1]

Prior to the battle of Lepanto, in thanks for the victory of the Battle of Muret, Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester built the first shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Victory.

THUS SO DEDICATED TO ALL OUR DIVINE MOTHERSR.I.P.

Thursday is also the ninth anniversary of the American invasion of Afghanistan. At least 2,007 NATO service members have died fighting since Oct. 7, 2001, according to an AP count.

MAY THEY ALL FINALLY REST IN PEACE

O DEATH DIVINE
AT WHO'S RECALL
RETURNETH ALL
GATHER THY CHILDREN
TO THY BOSOM STARRED
GIVE US BACK THE REST
THAT LIFE HATH MARRED
~ ALFRED VIGNY ~