Protestors are about to become enemy combatants so to speak. Neptune trine Mr. Bush's Jupiter, progressed US Mars becoming stationary retrograde on his Jupiter and also trine Neptune. America is about to become white washed by Neptune all will be lovely in Pleasantville.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/11/212726/954

Could it be that Alito's daughter will became pregnant & need an abortion, with pluto sq. his mars & moon? ( or after 9 months, will have a "little sister or brother" to care for: as in the old fashioned solution to that age old problem?)
Do you see a possibility for him to change his position in the future? Such as supporting Impeachment?
And....attention rivited on the hearings are distracting from the alarming Iran stance now.
PQ

daughter abortion is possible, as is a nasty divorce or public disclosure of family abuse, any of those possibilities exist. Pluto square Mars, Moon, oppose Uranus is not only an extremely violent thrust of energy, the opposition to Uranus can sometimes spell a change in careers. His Uranus is in the 8th house and that is also a change in resources. As to supporting impeachment, I'm not sure he would do that, I'm not sure any of them would do that including the more liberal judges, but I do look at the Supreme Court's chart and wonder about their ability to hold on to the court when Pluto and Uranus square and oppose the Sun at the mid-heaven, certainly in the late 60's early 70's when Uranus and then Pluto crossed over their Libra Sun, there was upheaval in the court's manner of addressing cases involving activitists and hippies and whistleblowers.

Recently, almost all their actions since 2000 have actually weakened the court as a spotlight has been shined into those hallowed halls. Scalia's lectures has not helped their reputation, not to mention their rulings.

I do think either Roberts or Alito turns out to not be what was thought in the beginning, or one of them so rattles those on the right now that there is a shift of beliefs on the court, a turning if you will.

 Washington, DC - In the first hours of Samuel Alito's Senate confirmation hearings on Monday, Judiciary Committee member Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, may very well have irreparably compromised himself.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011006Q.shtml
PQ

Thanks Sally,
I don't wish ill on the family, they do seem very nice. But then so are we....ALL
PQ

PQ, I don't wish ill on anyone, however the planetary energies just keep rolling around the sky without judgement. Sometimes the sun shines on us and sometimes it doesn't, Pluto square a Mars/Moon conjunction and oppose Uranus is not sunny aspects. I have a Sun/Venus exact conjunction in an exact trine to Jupiter, when Pluto conjuncted the Sun/Venus it also trined Jupiter. I gave myself a glowing reading on those aspects, I was wrong. The best thing to happen to me is I didn't die, outside of that I went through one of the worst periods of my life, if not the worst.

I have studied over 70,000 charts in my career and have done personal readings on over 10,000 people in my 38 years of being a professional astrologer, I have never seen a difficult outer planet aspect to one's personal energy that has not been challenging, particularly if you have a difficult aspect Natally. Now, these are also opportunities to develop our own authenticity, to move toward the spirit of ourselves, develop honesty and a deeper spirituality and oneness with others.

If Jack Abramoff and his friends were my friends I might feel badly for them that they were caught, I might even feel it was unfair (if I were his mother) but on one level or another, whether we are a world leader or the poorest of the poor, the planetary energies throws out their energetic rays and individuals will be under those rays and each and everyone of us will, at one time or another, feel it's unfair.

Anyone * chooses is a scary choice. A choice chosen by a scary, unaware human. Did anyone listen to Mike Malloy last night, He did alot of his show with a fake crying voice ala Senora Alito. I got that her hubby's bigotry is also a reflection of her and it was hard to swallow in front of the whole world.

NICE??????? There's that word again that let's theives and cons off the hook. 'He's a good man' that's the * mantra. Believe it at your own risk. (I do not). It's way too Neptunian we are the world crapola.

BTW, a miracle occurred in my family. I let it rip about my fundie sister in SC to my father. Let him know I now consider her off limits as she is a Neo-Conartist and always aligned to that conciousness since we were young (sneaky, lying, blaming) and I was no longer her 'Clinton'. All the lies I was trying to have him become aware of are now all out in his face. He has since been extremely apologetic to me and has confessed how crazy dysfunctional it is where he lives. My neice and nephew in their 30's listen to whatever their Big Mommy (I call her the 'Don') tell them. They are not allowed to watch CNN in her home, only FOX. CNN is not 'fair and balanced' like FOX. My father confessed they are dumb. I took it a truthful step further and said 'pathetic'.

The country has become pathetic. Those who worship money over life and nature are in for a big wake up call. The Shakti as Kali Durga is no airy-fairy goddess. Lies always come back to bitch slap the liar.

http://salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/01/12/alito_bush/

Meek, mild and menacing

"If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?"

"No treaty," replied John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who wrote the crucial memos justifying President Bush's policies on torture, "war on terror" detainees and domestic surveillance without warrants. Yoo made these assertions at a public debate in December in Chicago, where he also espoused the radical notion of the "unitary executive" -- the idea that the president as commander in chief is the sole judge of the law, unbound by hindrances such as the Geneva Conventions, and possesses inherent authority to subordinate independent government agencies to his fiat. This concept is the cornerstone of the Bush legal doctrine.

Yoo's interlocutor, Douglass Cassel, professor at Notre Dame Law School, pointed out that the theory of the "unitary executive" posits the president above the other branches of government: "Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo" (one of Yoo's memos justifying torture). "I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that," said Yoo.

Unquestionably, Judge Samuel Alito's self-professed "strong" belief in executive power was one of his greatest if not paramount credentials for Bush's nomination of him to the Supreme Court. The "unitary executive" is nothing less than "gospel," declared Alito in 2000, a theory that "best captures the meaning of the Constitution's text and structure."

In his manner before the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings this week, Alito has been punctilious, prosaic and dutiful in repeating the talking points his political handlers have drilled into him. He seems like an understudy for the part of Willy Loman. But behind the façade of the supplicant, who wants to be liked, well liked, seethes a man out to settle a score.

Few public figures since Richard Nixon have worn their social resentment so obviously as Samuel Alito does. In his opening statement, trying to paint his self-portrait as a self-made man, the bland Alito made a brush stroke of hostility. The son of a middle-class civil servant in New Jersey, he attended Princeton and Yale Law School, which provided him a glide path to success. "Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas," he testified. "But this was back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving irresponsibly." Despite all the "turmoil" around him, by all accounts Alito spent his university years undisturbed; there was no transforming incident in which he was rebuffed or insulted.

Alito further explained himself in his job application to the Reagan Justice Department. His interest in constitutional law, he wrote, was "motivated in large part by disagreement with Warren Court decisions," "particularly" in the area of "reapportionment." In fact, the Warren Court decisions in that area established the principle of "one person, one vote." Alito's career in the law has been a long effort to reverse the liberalism of the Warren Court.

When Alito served in the Justice Department, he argued that the federal government had no responsibility for the "health, safety and welfare" of the American people (a view rejected by President Reagan); that "the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion"; that the executive branch should be immune from liability for illegal domestic wiretapping; that illegal immigrants have no "fundamental rights"; and that police had a right to kill an unarmed 15-year-old boy accused of stealing $10, a view rejected by the Supreme Court and every police group that filed briefs in the case. He also wrote a memo arguing that it would be legal for employers to fire and for the federal government to exclude from any of its funded programs people afflicted with AIDS because of "fear of contagion whether reasonable or not."

As a judge, he has ruled consistently for employers against individual and civil rights, and for unbridled executive and police power. Against the majority of his court and six other federal courts, he argued that regulation of machine guns by the federal government was unconstitutional. He approved the strip search of a mother and her 10-year-old daughter although they were not named in a warrant, a decision denounced by then federal Judge Michael Chertoff, now secretary of homeland security, as a "cliché rubber stamp." Alito ruled in favor of a law requiring women to notify their husbands if they plan to have an abortion, which was overturned by the Supreme Court on the vote of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who stated, "A State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."

Alito's decisions and dissents predictably flow from his politics. On the Supreme Court, as O'Connor's replacement, he will codify the authoritarianism of the Bush presidency even after it is gone.

-- By Sidney Blumenthal

WOW Bhakti that is some message you delivered. I heard a woman on NPR say "this is not the time to step down and be polite, we absolutely must speak out." I think you sure did that quite passionately and well. As for Mrs. Alito, I thought "there are millions in this country crying Mrs. Alito, for lost jobs, lost homes, not able to pay their heating bill, lost children to this war, lots of tears and I wasn't not moved by hers."

Another excellent thread Sally. We couldn't be more concerned about Strip Search Sammy if we tried. Yes Mrs. Strip Search, I'm sure that little 10 year old girl is still crying over that to this day and forevermore.

What are your feelings about the CAP papers that they don't want released?

I'm always vaguely surprised when I see the notion of "having rulers" put out in the general collective mind. I certainly don't have any "rulers," but if I were to decide to have one, it certainly wouldn't be a closet gay homophobic/mysogynist one such as alito et al. Whooo boy no!! Them's the mind-field trippers what has ALWAYS owned/operated inquisitions, torture chambers of the churches/courts in eras of sado-sexual patriarchies for their personal fun n' profit.

Them "rulers" always have to be the Pretty One. ;O)

A friend, GSD, has given permission to post a great rant he just put up:

There will be no tears for you.

From this time on, very little that comes in ways of law, presidential actions, congressional overreach or judicial fiat should surprise anyone anymore.

Tom Delay has successfully shamed, threatened and browbeat his local media from playing ads that contain FACTS about Delay. Sorry Mrs. Kerry, all that crap and bile about your husband being a murderer, coward, war criminal and a traitor based on innuendo and not on hard truthful documentation? Suck it up.

George W. Bush is traipsing the nation saying that it is important for everyone to argue issues on his terms, or else. Although it was OK to challenge Clinton as a rapist and a murderer, a dope smoker, an opportunist, a draft-dodger. The same for Al Gore, even though he went to Vietnam, he was still a chickenshit to be challenged and questioned on every minutae that possibly could've been imagined.

The national media, like large swathes of Americans, have proven to be unable to analyze and dissect complex issues. The media have proven that they can be rolled, tricked, lied to repeatedly and treated with disdain and impunity and will keep returning to the masters as long as they keep the ad money revenues flowing like cold beer at a golf junket.

The DOD has been stonewalling courts for months and months and will likely set precedent for the ability to withhold public information, Abu Ghraib photos.

Knaves like Arlen Specter are allowing a right-winger with a known agenda of curbing reproductive rights to steathily slip into the Supreme Court to activate an activist agenda that places corporations over humans, pooh-poohs minorities, gays and womens' isssues, and above all is deferential to the whims, paranoias, and desires of the all-powerful King.

Although people don't want the debate to be about "abortion only", it is. Because a government that can tell 50% what they can or can't do with their own bodies can tell the other 100% percent what they can do or can't do with thier bodies, money, land and ideas.

It is also apparent that the worst thing anyone can do is to challenge, insult, stand-up to, and not simply agree with, in an obseqious manner, anyone who the ruling elite have chosen to bring their message. Just the thought of a challenge is unbearable and causes the wives of these elites to break down in tears, and that is the most grievous offense ever.

If you are not an elite, you can watch your 10 year old daughter get stripped and patted in public and you have to suck it up. No tears for you. You have to subject yourselves to random public frisks(Hello Christie Whitman) and there are no tears for you. You can watch your family stuck on rooves in floods, beg for rescue, water, life and ultimately die and rot on a streetcorner and be left for weeks as troops and mercenaries walk past your corpse as though it were roadkill. No tears for you. You can watch your son get tied to a fencepost and beaten to death because he is gay. No tears for you. You freeze in the winter because you don't have money for heat. No tears for you. A slow racking death because you can't afford medicine. No tears for you. No tears for you. Rodney King style beatings aren't enough for tears. Death by white phosphorus and errant bombs. No tears for you. Extraordinary rendition to dark gulags for sexual humiliation. No tears for you. Forced pregnancy as the result of a rape, from a stranger, a brother, a bible thumping, God fearing stepfather. No tears for you.

No, these people only have tears for themselves and for their own and for their money and agendas.

No tears for you.

-GSD

Bush to criminalize protesters under Patriot Act as "disruptors"

http://www.bushflash.com

Bush wants to create the new criminal of "disruptor" who can be jailed
for the crime of "disruptive behavior." A "little-noticed provision" in
the latest version of the Patriot Act will empower Secret Service to
charge protesters with a new crime of "disrupting major events
including political conventions and the Olympics."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/
AR2005121201448.html

Secret Service would also be empowered to charge persons with
"breaching security" and to charge for "entering a restricted area"
which is "where the President or other person protected by the Secret
Service is or will be temporarily visiting." In short, be sure to stay
in those wired, fenced containments or free speech zones.

Read More, here... Because the linked version contains more hyperlinks.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/11/212726/954

Thanks Sally! Lies have many faces, Truth has one.
The political scene has been healing my family issues. Go figure, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Lot's of crazy families, living out the propaganda and the lies probably think they are sane and normal.

Boo hoo! Sympathy? She sleeps next to that creep, Slippery Strip Search Sammy. He is a master of double-talk. She is his consort. YUK!

Oh JoannaO, if beauty were a criteria for kingship none of the current people who rule would ever have a chance. Their ugly agendas are all over their physical bodies. Any open third eye can see this. Plus they have no style.

Retro Venus in my 10/11H. I am reconnecting in a big way to my CBook community after a few years of hiding out and establishing my marketing/bookselling skills. Love the CBook organization I belong to and have been doing more service for them, which in turn is like getting a graduate degree.

"Sometimes the sun shines on us and sometimes it doesn't"

That's such a simple phrase, Sally, and yet it is so profound.

This is the day of Bush and the NeoCons, and the sun seems to be shining on them.

But it won't always, and that is what they fear more than anything.

Speaking of circuses and clowns, don't miss this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x119738

"Protestors are about to become enemy combatants so to speak. from Sally"

this is in direct conflict with the Constitution and the 1st, 4th and 14th amendment.

And with someone like Alito, although he is definitely brilliant and adept, but with his govt. bent, it's a done deal.

The Senators and the rest of us can kiss those little books "The Constitution" they're showing off, goodbye.

That is the final gutting of American's civil rights and freedoms.

Another, appalling, communication gaffe, from W. Sitting at the table with Mayor Nagon and other NO leaders, he ACTUALLY said " New Orleans, it's a heck of a place to visit"
Of course 3/4 of the money he has grandiously allotted to rebuild and make this possible isn't forthcoming. ("It's Congress;s fault!")
Sally I didn't mean to imply that you wished anyone ill! It's an inner struggle I'm having wiht myself!
Way to go Outspoken Bhakti!
PQ

Those pix are priceless.
Needless to say the CNN photographer stood well to the left of B & missed the backdrop.
So much for the liberal media!
PQ

January 12, 2006

Senate Minority leader Harry Reid statement on conclusion of the Alito nomination hearings: "I have followed the Alito hearings closely. ...Unfortunately, Judge Alito’s responses did little to address my serious concerns about his 15-year judicial record. I have not forgotten that Judge Alito was only nominated after the radical right wing of the President's party forced Harriet Miers to withdraw. The right wing insisted that Justice O'Connor be replaced with a sure vote for their extreme agenda. Four days of hearings have shown that Judge Alito is no Sandra Day O'Connor. Senate Democrats will meet next week to discuss the nomination.”

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/003465.html

Did anyone catch Sleaza and Dumbfeld rattling their swords at Iran? Looks like we'll be there in a couple of months unless Israel decides to take matters into their own hands. Then it really won't matter....

My Nuclear vision is manifesting faster then I would like.

Look for some sort of draft....no, make that look at all of those sheeple out there that we have brainwashed. They'll do anything. Just tell them that they will go to heaven for their sacrifice. You know god is on our side.
Sounds like the 72 virgin promise.

The clowns are HYSTERICAL, shy... thank you so much posting that. I've passed it on everywhere! ;O)

A couple of weeks ago I attended a holiday celebration at my local musician's union. I met a handful of warm, humble, enthusiastic, politically engaged people, among them a charming and sprightly bassoonist with the symphony. He told me that the one consultation he had with an astrologer in his life did more than years and years of therapy. It was unforgettable and he thinks about the accuracy all the time, trying to apply it to his experience on an ongoing basis.

Remember that our country has a Saturn in Libra. If an imbalance occurs on the Supreme Court now it will be corrected, along with other breakdowns in equilibrium. The greater the imbalance the stronger the urge toward this equilibrium. Mars turning retrograde by progression soon and headed back to this Saturn with a long haul in Libra ahead, will add to this urge.

A group of people can't destroy the republic and it's laws and traditions. Whatever breakdown occurs is because of fundamental weakness in the system itself that must be addressed. We're due for a long debate and eventually reconstruction crews. Where the rocks fall can't be predicted, but they can be circumvented as we do our best in our own lives and eventually end up with a better structure for our country.

Ahhh Fiore, he's brilliant!

http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/

The Impeachment of George W. Bush: .

People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush--not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so.

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060130&s=holtzman

US army in Iraq institutionally racist, claims British officer :

A senior British officer has criticised the US army for its conduct in Iraq, accusing it of institutional racism, moral righteousness, misplaced optimism, and of being ill-suited to engage in counter-insurgency operations.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1684561,00.html

'I'm a door kicker-inner,' one young Marine blurted out:

"WHY can't we live together in peace?", read the graffiti written on a wall in Fallujah by a weary American soldier. Next to it a colleague had scrawled: "Die ragheads die!"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1981556,00.html

The Times January 11, 2006

Well he would say that, wouldn't he?
Foreign Editor's Briefing by Bronwen Maddox



PAUL BREMER wins the Mandy Rice-Davies prize for predictable self-justification.

He blames the worst mistakes of the US occupation of Iraq on (in order): the Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon, the White House, the Turks and the British. Anyone but him, that is, in his role as America’s top official in Iraq in the year after Baghdad fell. He has been made the fall guy, he suggests, for Washington decisions.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1979651,00.html

sierraclubtv.org
Just watched a documentary on the WTT heros. Many who lost their jobs are uninsured,
( remember how many firehouses closed?)
These people fell through the cracks with ALL THAT MONEY that was given, & it has been taken back! They are badly diabled from the bad air @ ground zero.
PQ

Sally,

Sent you an email. No response. What up?

bob

Sally,
I think he's meaner than most, and a bigger liar than most. Have you looked at Alito's 90 degree dial? EEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!

PQ I guess I didn't articulate very well, I didn't think you were inplying that, I thought you were saying "you didn't wish anyone ill" and I was agreeing with you that I didn't either. Sorry if I caused you any guilt over my reply. Written words can sometimes do that and I am pretty bottom line and too blunt in my response without thinking of PC. Sorry.

Bob, I just got home from work and just replied to your email, sorry to be so late. I didn't think I would be working until 8:30 and just didn't get the email early enough.

Beasley: I have noticed that an awful lot of the Bush appointments had a tendency to be meaner than most or at least the energy for it. It's in my nature to look for aspects that would mitigate the harsher aspects and Alito's Venus/Jupiter in Aquarius seemed to be it for him. I always hold out hope.

I had hopes that he would do much to help his people, and he seems to be and I hope he will continue to do so. It is a positive that he is willing to sell their oil to help people out here so they will not freeze to death. And certainly he can criticize governments for policies and actions with which he disagrees. But, if this is reported accurately, he has crossed a line into the totally unacceptable.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04386817.htm

Poll up on Alito needs help: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
It's on your right, click on "Vote" under Hearings topic.

With thanks to Art Gianfermo who drew this chart of Justice Samuel Alito:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5741/1274/1600/SamAlitoChart.gif

It's a most interesting chart - and it's true that
Alito's rulings will not be good for women and children with his natal Venus quincunx natal Moon and his natal Pluto trining natal Chiron in the 5th house of children, (wounding of children as can be seen with his ruling affirming the strip search of a 10 year old female child).

In actuality, the Judge is brilliant (legally) and I attribute that to his Neptune in Libra opposite Mercury in Aries in the 10th house; but warped, and I think the warped opinions come from the South Node being conjunct his Neptune. He is getting his legal information intuitively, but it's the wrong information.

In case you think all lawyers or judges speak off the cuff in such detail, they don;t. His performance in the hearings has been astonishing for his legal knowledge and memory, assisted by
Uranus in the 12th squaring Mars in the third. It comes to him quickly...and somewhere along the way I suspect he learned to be more careful because that south node conjunct Neptune has caused him problems.

It will cause him more problems and problems with the Supremes behind closed doors and problems for the country.

Frankly, if the Judge does not begin to use his Jupiter/Venus in Aquarius trine Uranus to the benefit of the little people and in the humanitarian way it was meant (unlikely)his oppressive rulings on this court with his natal Saturn/Moon/Mars/South Node in the third house further limiting the people's freedoms and psychological rights may hasten the American people's rebellion (his natal 12th Uranus squaring
third house natal Mars conunct the South Node and squaring the USA's Uranus.

I wish I could say his Uranus in the 12th would bring his handlers surprises - but the trine to the Aquarian money planets in the 8th seem to say to me he'll continue to benefit the bottom line of the corporations and the government.

He's brilliant, but the wrong man at the wrong time for this country.

And the pRez. stated again yesterday, that he ( Alito)would bring "class" to the court. Bet all those homeless people, in the meanest cities will be so impressed!
Re: Chavez. Could he have a mercury aspect
that has caused him to become too expansive verbally?
Why, I won't run for political office! Sometimes my merc in aries, gets out of hand, and I say harsh things, that I would never follow up with action! His emissary did personally accompany the $100. fuel delivery to an elderly couple in Windam Me. yesterday.
My computer is now messed up! I have to open the Internet thru a file on the desktop that was disgarded into the trash & dragged out saved. Wonder if that is because of the e-mails I sent to Kyle & Coburn the other day?
WIth sun, moon, & mercury, conjuncting my mars in the 8th, I will direct my focus to producing artwork today.
Happy Fri. the 13th!
PQ

Many "little people" vs few "Big Rulers" is pushed a lot in the collective mind, too. ...another one I don't buy. We can do better imagery than that, yes? ;O)

PQ...if you are running older software on your Mac, it might not be all your fault....I am having trouble sending attachments to people with Windows....they just don't show up, even as jpgs or pdfs, when they used to with no trouble (AOL has blocked me completely from sending to anyone on AOL)....and Microsoft just dropped all support for the IE for Mac browser as of 1/1/06....so if you run anything before Mac OS X, look out for glitches taking place. I have to upgrade myself.

The only thing I want to say is that I keep getting suchg message that in 2008, the smirking chimps will host a big party....a coup d'tat party. I am picking up on something (I keep thinking my head is a damn broadcasting station)....anyone else out there on that wavelength?

I was interupted from my post here, by a message to update my software! I've been ignoring it for a while because it didn't list which software, but today I had nothing to lose, so I went for it! Applescript & Carbon Library updates! Let's see if it makes a difference.
Reporting a volcanic eruption in Alaska! Not sure where...........
And Zahn Vergee's interview with Laura Bush, who is going to the inauguration of the Female President of Liberia. Who sympathized with Martha Ann Alito, for bursting into tears, but stated "Our family has been in politics for a while; you develop a tough hide. It doesn't bother me!"
She talked up the need for more independant women in politics; and how wonderful Sam Alito is! No dot connecting going on there!
Eagerly waiting to see the news report on W with Merkel.
PQ

Kim Jogn Il has gone missing! Wonder if he is hiding from a CIA black -op???
PQ

Alito doesn't impress me with his brilliance. I see a man who's a dilligent and hard worker. For sheer legal brilliance, Lawrence Tribe simply blew me away. I saw his appearance before the committee today and was left wondering why he isn't sitting on the high court. I guess he simply dosen't want the job.

I missed the Lawrence Tribe testimony.
Wasn't he involved in some scandal with Nixon/Kissinger?

Alito should withraw. He has no business taking on this job and I don't know what he's doing there. He has the detached chart of an engineer or an accountant, not someone whose life is so entwined with a whole nation of people. He doesn't have the understanding, the scope. His Sun conjunct the North node in Aries speaks of a solo destiny and if he gets the job he is headed for big trouble trapped with the other justices and overwhelmed. He would not fare well. His life is about himself.

I think there is a huge gender identification problem and issues with women. He is very possibly a homosexual, which is fine if he were clear about these things. The Moon/Saturn/Mars(retrograde) is not good. He has too much internal conflict to work out. He is in no position to judge for others as far as I can see.

The biggest problem overall I think is his profound confusion. He doesn't know what to think. Doesn't have clear ideas. A lot of weakness. The Neptune conjunct the South Node in the packed third house is the worst. This is a horrible addiction to approval and following others' ideas, then struggling to find his own. A tendency to compromise too easily, thus he would follow like a wounded dog the more forceful and warped men on the court.

He should go off on his own and forget the whole thing. Find himself.

Yup, jm... then there's that "His life is about himself." Mebbe that's the real reason why his wife was crying. ;O)

jm,

"I think there is a huge gender identification problem and issues with women. He is very possibly a homosexual, which is fine if he were clear about these things. The Moon/Saturn/Mars(retrograde) is not good. He has too much internal conflict to work out. He is in no position to judge for others as far as I can see."

Yes!

* The Dance of the Planets: 2006-2007

by Christine Broadbent

Perhaps the "Music of the Spheres" is literal, rather than just a charming metaphor. Likewise, the dance of the planets may be an accurate description of the cyclic interactions of planets in motion. When two planets conjoin via their zodiacal alignment, then proceed to form sextiles, squares, trines, & culminate in an opposition, cosmic magic is at work. Dancing, like transits, is all about timing: The right pause or "station" can facilitate climax, backward motion can extend a finale, & well-matched partners create powerful results.

If, as Rob Hand suggests, "the natal chart has to be understood as a statement of intention by the soul," [1] are transits the curving path along which those intentions unfold? Distant Neptune is the lead dancer in the series of fixed squares & oppositions that dominate 2006 & May-June 2007. Neptune's long voyage through the sign of human community & intellectual ideals is slowly giving rise to a new Aquarian vision for our times. The anima mundi--literally, the "world's soul" or "world's breath--engaged with a new rhythm in 1998 when Neptune entered Aquarius. The nervous system of the global community reverberates with a wake-up call in Aug 2006, when Saturn in Leo begins its opposition to Neptune. The opening act has already started with Chiron in Aquarius, Jupiter in Scorpio, & Mars in Taurus highlighting essential problems & necessary changes.

In Greek mythology, Neptune (Poseidon) was dubbed "Earth Shaker," & we certainly live in shaky times. Areas designated as Neptune-ruled, like the world's oceans, oil, the petrochemical industry, toxins, & intoxicants, are all linked to crisis situations around the globe. Since Neptune also signifies the spiritual impulse, the search for unity in all its varied guises, & the quest for redemption, these are of critical concern now. ...

Under "Articles of Interest" left hand side http://www.trufax.org/general/astro.html

Speaking of Venus retrograde and values re-evaluation, please check out The Independent, Online Edition, news.independent.co.uk, January 14, 2006. "Shop Until They Drop: UK Stores Shocked By Conditions In Their Chinese Factories" reads, in part:

"A three-year investigation into booming export factories for companies such as Marks & Spencer and Ikea discovered the human cost of China's 'economic miracle'. It found an army of powerless rural migrants toiling up to 14 hours a day..."

What an incredible expose.

Oh, Dawn, from your post to America's ear! (or eye). How do we get more people to recognize the suffering and tragedies our "consumerism" causes?

For those who don't get Democracy Now.......they talked about the 1984 case Alito argued; FCC v League of Woman Voters.
read it here...............
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/13/152255

Merkel seemes to have charmed W today, particularly with her tales of childhood in Eastern Germany. ( Totally new input into his bubble??? I think so)
Deutsch World Journal did an in depth report about the visit, including the traditional trade, friendship relationship. New energy out there???
DIdn't hear it on CNN, Cooper made a mention of the trial of the German cannibel, that started yesterday!!!!!!!!
Link TV also had a panel dicussion @ Barnes & Nople on Feet to the Fire. WithPaul Krugman, & 3 other journalists ( sorry there were no visuals to get their names!)
jm, That assesment of Alito should be sent out to the entire Judiciary Committee.
And Joanna O the Dance of the Planets is lovely!
PQ

Gee we kiled Al Zahwarii again today! This guy must have 9 lives. Funny Mosaic News ( from the Middle Eastern COuntries, didn'' mention it at all!
PQ

Well, I guess, Pat QOP, that death in some bubbles is more permanent than in others. Here? Hey, here we just choose our own reality. And you better like the one we choose for you.

Pat QOP, over at americablog they are quoting the Pakistanis as saying Al-Zahwari was not among the dead from that bombing. Amazing.

"Gee we kiled Al Zahwarii again today!"

Thank you to who ever wrote the above comment. When I heard this on the news this AM I thought "I believe that's the third time I've heard it in the last 5 years." Does anyone know if it's just a similar spelling or haven't we done this before several times with Al Zahwarii?

My neighbor down the Valley's recent article:

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_409.shtml

Patricia

jm

funny you should say that about Alito. I said
to someone yesterday that he looked like a tailor
.All that was missing were a tape measure around his neck and pins in his mouth.
Maybe W will intoduce him to Jeff Gannon.

Full Moon in Cancer
Saturday, January 14, 2006
1:48am PST
24° 05'

Love is the answer with a Full Moon in Cancer and emotional connectedness is the goal. Even with Venus retrograde in Capricorn, and Saturn retrograde in Leo, we can all find some reason to celebrate the love in our lives. This is the Full Moon to swim in the unbounded ocean of love that connects us with the rhythm of life and all other sentient beings. Cancer pulsates with the energy of caring, compassion, and nurturance. This is that once a year when the Full Moon is posited in the astrological sign it rules, making the force of love and trust so abundant, that we must open our hearts; even with a retrograde Venus in the hard-reality sign of Capricorn . Those of you who feel alone and seek love, you too are surrounded by love. Love is everywhere, in every particle, in every wave. It is the glue that binds us to our planet and all existent life upon it.

http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisfullmoon.htm

Killing, and killing, and killing of the Z guy reminds me of this soap opera that I watch. I found out that my granddaughters had been watching it also and when they went to college, I decided to keep them informed of the high lights.
One week I was writing Sussie was killed, then the next Sussie has been found alive. And there would be these bazare explnations of how she was killed, buried (funerals are big hits in soap operas. almost as big as weddings) but found alive, saved of course by the hunk of the moment.

Same script just with different costumes and sets. When things get slow or the ratings go down they pull out the kill the hero or the villian. But he has to come back as long as he is useful to the script.

Thoughts after listig to the ALito hearing
Or why even the most ardent right wing pro life etc should vote "no" on his sitting on the Supreme court.
The constitution is in 2 parts. The body or orginal part reflects the wishes of the majority as it sets out how to choose our gov with voting of people who reflect the views of the majority.
But then they realize that they left out the minority views. So they includuded the Bill or Rights so they would not be trampled by law by the majority or the minority could not trample the rights of the majority.
Now I think I know this group well enought to know that we do not just think of ourselves or even our selves and our children but also about the life that our grand children and greats grand childern mostly to come. And those of our neighbors, even our neighbors thousands of miles away.
Now it is a law of physics that the pendalum will swing if given a push and will swing as far one way as the other. If you push it to the right then it will swing to the left to aprox the same amount. It wil keep swinging and with each swing it slows until it reaches an equilibirem and stops. And then it must be pushed agin to get it to swing again.
Governments do the same swiging back and forth and if swinging high one way it will swing almost equally the other way and history proves this. Now usually it is not one big push but little pushes till it swings higher and higher. And as long as it is being just nudged by one way or another it does not swing so high that it is going to reach that point that it swings completely the other way.
The constitution was written so that honest government would not swing the pendulem too high but just a few nudges to keep it from standing still.
But when either side the majority or minority pushes too hard away from a realisttic reading of the constitution, considering the difference in the technology advancements and way of life then the gov. swings too far as is bound to swing in the other direction and changes our values completely. History of nations proves this out.
Now why should even the most right wing vote not to elect Alito is that it swings the pendulem too high. It is bound to go the other way, it may be tomorrow or the next century, but it will swing the other way. Just like Russia and China, etc.
In Russia it definately was the minority ( the king) who pushed too high and swung it too high and the majority took over. But they swung too high on the other side. Do you think that the parents, grands and greats would have imagined that one day the government would not allow them to worship any God. Do you think in China that the parents, grands, or greats would have imagine that their young women would have forced abortions, I don't think so.
Russia's pendulum is slowed down and China will too some day until someone pushes too high again.
If you take away the rights of one side then in the future your rights will be taken away in the opposit direction. Just kind of natural law. Probably not today but some day.
Those who, no matter what they say, but in their hearts want this country to have the laws of their religion instead of the rights of all, if they push too hard -their right of worship will be taken away. Those who do not want anyone to have an abortion will someday face forced abortion. That is the way the world works.
So our contitution and Bill or Rights was the bedrock of our country and if whiddled away, then the pendulem will swing too high.
So we need to have a supreme court judge that protects the rights of all, as the constitution set out. Right to do what you will as long as it hurts no other ( I think this is a paraphrase of the White Witches Creed, by the way) And needs to do so to a 99.99% degree, not just to an 85% which the supporters of Alito are touting.

OOPS! The CIA and Military missed yet again. er our bad, sorrrrrrry

Friday morning's strike killed eight men, five women and five children, Pakistani intelligence sources told CNN. Three homes were targeted.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/14/alqaeda.strike/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

How incredibly disgusting, life has no meaning to GWB and his cronies. Poor Pakistan can't stand up to us, we go ahead and bomb innocent civlians anyway, to get what, one man? Ooops missed him, indiscrimantely killed 18 people.

And America doesn't give a damn.

My loathing for this administration grows exponentially every day, and I don't think I'm alone in that boat!

Morgana

I am a strong believer in Karma, what ye sow so
shall ye reap. Only problem is that I want to see
instant karma in my lifetime.

Jean

American Indians believe that you should look to
the effects of your actions to the 7th generation.

'Zawahiri' strike sparks protest

Locals are angry at the strike

A missile strike apparently targeting al-Qaeda's deputy leader in a village in Pakistan has prompted Islamabad to protest to its American allies.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was not in the village on the border with Afghanistan, Pakistan officials said. But the attack left at least 18 local people dead

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4613108.stm

2006: Bush's Waterloo?

From Iraq to Plamegate to an angry bureaucracy, the coming year holds mortal dangers for Bush. But he still has some cards to play.
By Tom Engelhardt

Jan. 13, 2006 | 2006 is sure to be the year of living dangerously -- for the Bush administration and for the rest of us. In the wake of revelations of warrantless spying by the National Security Agency, we have already embarked on what looks distinctly like a constitutional crisis (which may not come to a full boil until 2007). In the meantime, the president, vice president, secretaries of defense and state, various lesser officials, crony appointees, acolytes, legal advisors, leftover neocons, spy-masters, strategists, spin doctors, ideologues, lobbyists, Republican Party officials, and congressional backers are intent on packing the Supreme Court with supporters of an "obscure philosophy" of unfettered presidential power called "the unitary executive theory" and then foisting a virtual cult of the imperial presidency on the country.

On the other hand, determined as this administration has been to impose its version of reality on us, the president faces a traffic jam of reality piling up in the environs of the White House. The question is: How long will the omniscient and dominatrix-style fantasies of Bushworld, ranging from "complete victory" in Iraq to nonexistent constitutional powers to ignore Congress, the courts, and treaties of every sort, triumph over the realities of the world the rest of humanity inhabits. Will an unconstrained presidency continue to grow -- or not?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/01/13/engelhardt/print.html

Hey hey hey, looks like Al Gore is going to let it fly on Monday. Whoohoo! Love that firebrand too bad he didn't run like that in 2000!

John Nichols: 'Gore to address 'Constitutional crisis''

John Nichols, The Nation

It sounds as if Al Gore is about to deliver what could be not just one of the more significant speeches of his political career but an essential challenge to the embattled presidency of George W. Bush.

In a major address slated for delivery Monday in Washington, the former Vice President is expected to argue that the Bush administration has created a "Constitutional crisis" by acting without the authorization of the Congress and the courts to spy on Americans and otherwise abuse basic liberties.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=24398&mode=nested&order=0

More on the Gore speech.

Al Gore Speech: Unchecked Presidential Power
Join us at noon
Monday, January 16th
DAR Constitution Hall
1776 D St NWWashington, DC Map [Get tickets now]

Former Vice President Al Gore will deliver a major address Monday on the threat posed by policies of the Bush Administration to our constitutional system of checks and balances. The speech will specifically point to domestic wiretapping and torture as examples of the Administration’s assertion of executive power in disregard of Congress and the courts. Sponsored by the Liberty Coalition and the American Constitution Society, this speech highlights concern from across the political spectrum. Vice President Gore will be introduced by former Georgia Congressman, Bob Barr.

Here's the link to the location and time and where to get tickets if you're in the DC area.

http://www.current.tv/studio/community/thread/1401774.htm

http://www.news-journalonline.com/ColEssays.htm

The disclaimer appears ahead of most movies formatted for television: "This film has been edited for content and modified from its original version to fit your TV." A similar disclaimer should apply to the Bush administration infomercials drugging up newscasts about the economy. In black and white, the recent surge of statistical exuberance looks good indeed. Four million jobs created in the past two years. Unemployment below 5 percent. Inflation relatively in check. Still cheap interest rates. Economic growth between 3 percent and 4 percent, better than every Western economy but Denmark's. "It's getting pretty hard for the critics to make the case that the tax cuts weren't good for the economy," Vice President Dick Cheney told workers at a Harley-Davidson plant in Kansas City last week. Actually, it's never been easier to show why the tax cuts were closer to the worst thing for the economy, if it's ordinary Americans' well-being you're worried about (as opposed to shareholder comforts).

DEBKAfile reports: Hadassah is preparing to move prime minister Ariel Sharon still in deep coma to long-term hospitalization facility

January 14, 2006, 5:03 PM (GMT+02:00)

The hospital has cut down its bulletins on the prime minister’s medical condition to terse “critical but stable” reports. Even after the reduction of sedation, he shows no sign of rousing from his deep coma. The specialists of the neurological department’s intensive care unit report they have completed his treatment and done all they can to contribute to his recovery from the massive stroke he suffered on Jan. 4. Some suggest recovery would be a miracle. For as long as he remains in a coma, the hospital has other departments for patients requiring long-term care. In one, a commodious suite is being prepared to accommodate the prime minister. A small space will be made available for his security guards.

DEBKAfile adds: The change in the prime minister’s hospital arrangements and reduction of the security detail attending him enable the attorney general to advise the government that Ariel Sharon is incapacitated and therefore incapable of taking up his duties at this time. This opens the way to formally transferring his functions to acting PM Ehud Olmert..

The prime minister’s office has already announced that normal government business will be resumed Sunday, Jan. 15.

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Likud ministers fold to Netanyahu and quit cabinet
By Mazal Mualem

The Likud ministers yesterday caved in to party leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu and one by one announced their resignation from the cabinet.

Ministers Yisrael Katz, Limor Livnat and Dan Naveh, who had objected at first, submitted their resignation letters before noon yesterday.

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, who had refused and said he would resign on Sunday, finally folded as well. After a tense meeting with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv yesterday evening, the two agreed that Shalom would step down today. Shalom consented not to attend Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting, although his resignation would only come into effect on Monday.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=669817

There are two Al-Z's, I think. One is the Egyptian physician. He's the Al-Zawahri that they killed/oops!/didn't-kill in Pakistan yesterday. The other Al-Z has a 'q' in his name somewhere and he's the one who had his leg amputated in Iraq (ah-ha!!), later showed up hopping nimbly back-and-forth while killing poor Nick Berg, and escaped bullets not too long ago by jumping out of a car and running off somewhere. Al-Zw is always shown with the turbanesque head-gear and usually with eye-glasses. Al Zq wears some kind of scarf that fits tightly around his head and falls to his shoulder--or that's what that one famous picture of him seems to show.

WV, here's my conspiracy theory after reading this article. "Welcome to the Mars Express"
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=16902006
The oilmen/carmakers assasinated T H Moray and stole his papers and inventions. But didn't begin working in earnest on perfecting his non-combustible engine until after they realized that the oil is running out! They can squeeze our wallets dry with high oil prices now because they know full well they will have a monopoly on the next transportation systems too.

Is everyone depressed? Seems that way in my circle. Are we ever going to be able to laugh again? Is it time for me to go back under the bed? Help!

Looking at the Alito nomination, I can see the unfolding of some astrological trends coming in the future in the US chart.

THough I am scared to death of this man, Alito will become a supreme court judge. From what I understand, there is just not enough democrats to vote against him.

While the institutions of the government become more and more fascist, the American public is becoming more and more liberal. Lets face it, younger Americans in their thirties and younger are more liberal. I have read more and more polls that show that they are less racist, support gay marriage, and support more liberal candidates (i.e. Dean). As the baby boomers step aside and the younger generations take control of the executive and legislative branches, the right wing will still have the courts. This can only lead to a showdown, not just a political polarization, but a cultural and social one. Maybe that is the Uranus squared Pluto in 2012? I don't know.

Haven't read all the posts yet, but just wanted to mention a possible answer to the "killed him again" comment.
Dr. Zawahiri (egyptian) is/was Bin Laden's inspiration and right hand man - initially motivated by his outrage over unfair treatment of the poor, then propelled by his torturous sojurn in an Egyptian prison following the assassination of Sadat. I think over the years his mind became very twisted. I suspect he is the real brain behind alqaida in afghanistan; bin laden the money links and marketing charisma. To me Zawahiri is/was more dangerous than binladen.

Similar in name but a different animal is Zarkawi (sp?) He is Jordanian and has been linked over many years to international criminal elements - allegedly killed in Iraq a few months ago.

The important thing is to not give up hope, Shy. As it says in the Bible, there's a time to go under the bed and nurse ourselves, and there's a time to fight the good fight. I hope I don't sound too shallow and uncaring, but don't let others get you down with negative thinking if at all possible. Let's all try and stay in the moment and keep alive everything that God created that's good.

Thanks so much, Sharon. I guess it's the full moon that has so many down right now. I know that for every thing there is a season. Just seems so gloomy today. Mebbe I should drag out my old Pete Seegar tapes. Take care.

My Dad used to say I had "black" humor - meaning I laugh at and think of things others don't immediately see.

The report that the German PM charmed and mesmerized W with her stories of growing up in East Germany hit me just that way.

If he was attentive, he was taking in more ways of torturing and 86'ing American civil liberties
and thinking how creative the East Germans were.

!

JoannaOregon,
Thanks for the link to truefax. I was pretty upset after reading it. Especially after he said the Republicans will win the 2006 Congress, and then the 100th monkey dynamic will start to over boil. (not his words, mine).
My question: are his predictions known to be accurate? I sincerely hope he is wrong.

HA,ha,ha!
I like that viewpoint Pallas1800!
Ever the optimist, ( when I'm not being pessimistic) I had hoped that she may have touched his "compassionate" side!
Shylurker,
Don't go under the bed yet! I just watched a panel discussion with The Dali Lama, Dennis Kuchinich, Al Sharpton, & other learned, concerned people, dicussing among other things, A Dept of Peace! They recognized that people all over the world are sharing the same value systems, and working toward the same goal.
And now the National skating championships and narrowing down to which 3 represent the USA at the Olympics. Peggy Fleming keeps commenting on how slow & languidly they are skating. The full moon in cancer?
I love skating BUT! It's a corporate supported, HUGE use of energy.....................politically incorrect sport!
PQ

Oh, thank you, Cap'n Sally for clearing the air in here.

Pretty amazing editorial in tomorrow's NYT, available here:
http://georgia10.dailykos.com/

Thank you so much for the alert, all your eyes and ears are so helpful. Thank you

Beasley, if it will make you feel any better about the "truefax' predictions, he doesn't have the last conj. of Pluto with the Glactic Center correct. He said 1745, but it was 1760 when Pluto last arrived at 26 Sag. So his timing could be off if he is taking the 1745 time frame

My mother-in-law (age 84) and her sig. other are off to Cape Canaveral tomorrow to watch a launch on Monday of an expedition to Pluto. Louis's cousin works for NASA - it is his baby and he's been planning for it for years.

I just thought it was an interesting thing to metnion in light of Pluto's arrival at the Galactic Center.

Glad you mentioned that about Truefax's predictions, Sally, as reading them made me feel ill yesterday. I kept reminding myself that we can never know what's going to happen, miracles occur, etc., but I still felt sick. The "Dance of the Planets" article seemed nice, though, Joanna.

I'd say he's quite the pessimist. If you go by his predictions, the present Pluto transit of Sag is the very last one humanity will ever experience: Humanity will be a non-factor on Earth in another 248 years.

Maybe I just subscribe to the Gene Roddenberry school of thought? Though I admit that we are teetering on the brink of global disaster in many ways, I still believe that we will somehow pull together and pull through whatever challenges lies ahead, and come out even better for it.

He does at least suggest a final rejection for NeoConservatism in 2012, after which, the Rovian/Faux style attempts at deception will prove so futile as to be laughable. I dearly hope so.

Well the Moon is in its "Lunar Stand-Still" pattern (every 18 and a half years) activating the Ley Lines. Jonathan Cainer has a nice piece on it and I am posting the Ley Lines articles. What we put out we get back ten fold, if we put out generosity we get prosperity, if we put out fear we get terrorists, watch your emotions if possible this year and don't give way to negative ones. Try bio-feedback or meditation. Stay away from fear, hatred, selfishness, greed etc. Do what every you have to do to stay centered. This is absolutely a year of "what you fear will come upon on you." The last time we had the Moon Standstill was in 1993/1994 and there was a shift in consciousness for many, this will be another shift. Although I thought the Truefax articles interesting and there is a firm astrological base there, I believe the planets can work the other way as well. Whenever I see a challenging chart the first thing I look for is the "ease" out of those challenges because they are always there. There is no doubt that the next four to six years will be a challenge to us all but I also believe we have the strength to face those challenges and not only survive but thrive if we wish to do so.

I do recommend reading truefax because it gives the worse case possibility and it's good to face the worse case and then go beyond to the best case, it has a great effect of eliminating fear.

http://www.skepdic.com/leylines.html

"I do recommend reading truefax because it gives the worse case possibility and it's good to face the worse case and then go beyond to the best case, it has a great effect of eliminating fear."

Exactly so, Miss Sally. ;O)

I'm all for eliminating fear. Diminishing it will even do.

Civilization isn't going anywhere. It's just getting started. I think life enjoys us.

Watching our mental patterns is a fantastic idea. Neural pathways reroute lightning fast according to our feelings and thoughts. This can become habitual and eventually outside circumstance reflects our perceptions. We should all concentrate on it a bit every day. Breaking the addiction to bad news and suffering. It's just learning and the human mind is so eager. Life is neutral and will respond to what we make of it. We have a creative carte blanche. It's our personal habitual thought and response patterns that thwart our fulfillment and well-being. Good and bad events occur in our environment just like weather patterns and some of it can do with little or no response sparing us some agony.

wv, it's mighty interesting. The phrase that triggered the torrent of tears was "closet bigot". I'm sure it wasn't the bigot part she was crying about.

Shy...It's just sober Capricorn time with a big fat moony Cancer moon and all its liquid and sadness. No wonder there was a..ahem...trail of tears. We Cancers are masters of the Blues.
Pretty soon it will be Aries time, elections coming, and things will get exciting. Even fun.

Jill wrote a good piece about equilibrium upthread and I think we are approaching a swing back. With our Saturn in Libra soon to get another return, the Mars going retro in Libra, and the interesting Mercury in Libra at '08 election time that Sally mentioned tying into the retrograde in 2000, all point to balance. If this doesn't do it I don't know what would. I'm looking forward to it, since I think this is our major problem now. Our natural character will assert itself and restore this equilibrium.

Squares aren't altogether bad since they share the same modality. We've been in a mutable phase and this is a tendency to be flexible, go with the flow, and roll with the punches. That could be why no action is being taken as yet. But when Pluto goes into Capricorn, Uranus into Aries, in the Cardinal modality we should see plenty of action since that's what Cardinal does. It will trigger all of our Cardinal placements in the USA chart, and most of all, the Saturn in Libra ruling the Capricorn. No matter what happens, when Uranus squares Pluto we will be going in new directions. There is so much innovation waiting in the wings and Uranus will set it in motion while Pluto is rooting out the decay in the status quo and preserving what we still can use. In that way, the Cardinal square should work together, albeit, with tension and struggle.

We should be able to pull out of this phase quite easily now. Everything the current administration does is wrong. It's ludicrous. The end is nigh. They just went crazy with their games when they saw how the public was over-reacting and making them into Hollywood type monsters. They ran with it. Started believing the myth. But I think they are about out of gas.
This so called "constitutional crisis" we are reprtedly experiencing is actually a good sign. Crisis means change..a crucial turning point. I read it literally.

Well, I just mailed a letter to each of my senators asking them to vote against Alito's confirmation. They are both Republican (touch-screen machines in every precinct--no paper trail). One senator is called a "moderate." He is right-wing. The other is called a "conservative." He is a complete reactionary.

I appealed to their love of country. Probably it won't do any good, but as the woman who wanted to give chicken soup to the man reported dead remarked, "It can't hurt."

hey there ya'll. I spent some time catching up on my Astroworld reading & just thought I'd wish you all a very belated happy, HAPPY 2006.

I came across this (from Mark Krueger) & was reminded again of the Saturn in Leo transformations discussed here, so I thought I'd post it as a kind of addendum to the predictions threads (which I LOVED, btw):

"Mars squares Neptune on the 18th at 5:54 am PST. This rounds out the Grand Cross which leads us to the next stage: Sun enters Aquarius on the 19th at 9:16 pm PST. Now the Sun will be in another corner of the Cross for a month. Shocking events will be prevalent. Next week the Sun will oppose Saturn. Lots of death, big bunches coming up, this year in general and in the weeks ahead. The portal for leaving this world is very greased/graced for the next month. It's an easier time to leave than usual. Let 'em go. If it's you, let yourself go."

Hello, Sally, I'm mailing you a contribution to Astroworld--in response to troll activity. Hope you get many more contributions. Keep up the good work.

:-)

Barbara

Interesting post with link to the entire article:
"from The Scotsman makes sense. We shouldn't be so pessimistic and concerned about these lunatics in power.
Consider: Libby - is under indictment; Feith - has been forced out of the government; Wolfowitz - has fled the scene, now plundering the World Bank; Perle, AEI, and AIPAC - are
under investigation for espionage and bribery; Bolton - is a castrated, ostracized barking dog; Krauthammer, Kristol, and the Chimp - are howling at the moon; and Darth Vader Cheney - is considering how to stay alive (in many different senses). Hallelujah!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x144965

Hi everybody!
Just wanted to remind everyone that being an anonymous nuisance online is now a crime thanks to President Bush and here's a link to a story about it!!!

Peace and be careful what you say, esp. if you're just posting here to be annoying!

Let's see how quickly our troll disappears...remember, we can track your ip address

http://news.com.com/2010-1028-6022491.html?tag=orbHQ

Ignore the creep. He probably is an obese 'small endowed' man that has no life and wants everyone else to be as miserable as he is.

Cybear, your comment reminds me of a very funny true story--but I can't tell it here.

I have a friend who is a type-setter and a graphic artist. She has given me some nice fonts, but I don't have astrological fonts. Would love to be able to use them in posts.

Does anybody know where I could find some?

Sally,

what date did you say if the decision on the hearings were delayed to, there might be a change?

my initial feelings were that he might not get in by one vote, then it changed to in, now it's back to maybe not.

There is a week's delay to re-read the transcripts, questions have been issued and must be answered... I don't think it's a sure thing yet-it's see-sawing.

I was taken in by Specter, expected more from him and find it disappointing that he is playing shill for the administration. And he's doing it again about the violations of the Constitution that he will hold hearings on. Whitewash. The appearance of being fair, but it's being first to hold hearings so he can control and negate the demands for impeachment.
m

Pallas, I remember the first time Specter came to my attention was during the Clarence Thomas hearings. I was incensed--then discovered that most of the men on the judiciary committee hadn't a clue about sexual harassment in the workplace. PP in Pennsylvania said that Specter voted pro-choice. But I think that was him being aware of his constituency. Does anybody have Specter's birth data?

I figured wv had posted this from votwh already, but if so, I can't find it:

“In the past two days, I have received the following message from two sources that I consider to be very accurate. The sudden weeping exit by the wife of Supreme Court candidate Alito from his confirmation hearing was duly noted but no one in the media seems to understand it. No outrageous questions were being asked and the Congressional questioners of the Judge were balanced and reasonable.

The following story does not come as a surprise either to myself or to others who have specific knowledge of the persona involved. It is a subject that, while often talked about on the inside, has never seen the light of day. The reasons for this are quite obvious.

I have a cousin who is a psychiatrist and I made up a resume of the President’s persona, without any identifying information. My cousin read it over carefully and told me that it was his professional, but off the record, opinion that the subject was what is known as a repressed homosexual. Indications of a strong lack of self-worth coupled with obvious self-hatred, the lashing out at perceived establishment types who might be seen as condemning voices, being surrounded by known homosexuals, feelings of rejections and disapproval from his father (the male parent is far more critical of homosexuality in his son than the mother) excessive and petty vindictiveness and a number other less important points are all consistent with such a diagnosis. To this detached and professional opinion, I add the whispered and very snide remarks one hears on a daily basis both inside the disillusioned White House and in places where the elite gather to eat and drink, and I am not bothered by discussing it in public.

‘It seems that Judge Alito has a good-looking son, Philip, and when the family was at the White House recently to meet with Bush and his wife, the President somehow got the son alone and tried to kiss him!

The boy was outraged and told his father that Bush smelled like booze. The father said nothing, wanting the Supreme Court job, but the mother complained to Laura Bush.

Laura told her that ..."George is under so much stress these days, trying to protect America from terrorists that he 'slips' once in a while...."

I immediately passed this to a British newspaperman (Guardian) who shot back that a similar incident had transpired when Bush was visiting in England and it was a subject Not to be Discussed!

Well, gosh, Peg, this certainly explains the Jeff Gannon sleep-overs at the White House. Not to mention Bush's remarks to the Canadian Prime Minister, "your Scott is better looking than my Scott", other odd ball remarks, and the penchant for dressup that a less obtuse and less homophobic society would have picked up on by now.

Has anybody anything to say about Mercury being retrograde (again!) during the Nov. 2006 Congressional elections?

I guess I don't look forward to another Florida or Ohio or where ever...have been agitating to get paper receipts of voting for several years now. I should thing that HONEST Americans both Republicans and Democrats would welcome the verifying paper record. We really don't need more divisiveness spawn out of voting results.

Peg,
Your story makes sense to me.
Having spent 16 years married to a closet homsexual, ( and drunk) I recognized those qualities, in B during the 2000 election campaign!
Been waiting patiently for the evidence to surface!

Yup... alito would happily sacrifice his son on the alter of his supersized ambitions. As for bushaholic, so many to sex on, so little time.

Gee... President Ahmadinejad of Iran is pretty good-lookin'! Bet bushadruggie wld like to get its hooked into him! http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=68662006&format=print

Hmmmm, yes... well, try these on for size. http://www.rense.com/wtcsplshpage.htm

The day the music died

Author and critic Nik Cohn has been obsessed by New Orleans for more than 30 years, and has been involved in the rap scene there for the last five. Six months after Hurricane Katrina he revisited the city and was stunned by what he found. In this compelling despatch he describes communitites struggling to piece together their lives as they watch their city being ripped apart by politicians and planners with designs on a very different New Orleans.

Nik Cohn
Sunday January 15, 2006

Observer

Brandon McGee is a rapper and survivor. His rap name is Shorty Brown Hustle but most people call him B. He is 30, not much over five foot, has a shaved skull and two gold teeth, wears sagging jeans and a hoodie. He never stops talking.
The day before Katrina hit New Orleans, B was leaning towards staying put. Few in his world watch TV news or read papers, so he didn't know how serious the situation was. Hurricanes didn't bother him. Almost every season brought a false alarm. Katrina was almost on the doorstep by the time B's mother, who lived outside the city, called and told him to get the hell out. Still he hesitated. His cousin Terence, who lived in New Orleans East, refused to shift. B stopped by his house and tried to talk sense into him. Terence, trying to impress his girlfriend Vonda, chose bravado over reason. They were still arguing at dawn when the power went out and the wind hit.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5374532-102280,00.html

Arlen Specter (Feb. 12, 1930 Wichita, KS N/T)

I was asked what might be the outcome if the hearings were held a week later, I didn't say they would be held a week later. I think someone at Nancy's blog suggested they might be held this next week. They weren't, I didn't think they would be. If the Dems can hold the vote off for a week, there may be a chance he won't make it, but that's doubtful, something would have to really rise to the front and then it would have to be covered by the media. The Democrats do not have the votes to Filibuster and I don't know if there will be a change in that next week. The DLC seems to have a choke hold on their throat.

And Ney has just stepped down!
PQ

Well, Cap'n Sally, some are trying to do something about that. Dean's going to give a rousing speech at Taft's office on Wednesday, I heard. Al Gore is supposed to deliver an awe-inspiring one tomorrow night. And, apparently, some of the other Dems are going to be making speeches at various places around the country. Whether that will have any effect on the confirmation process is, of course, unknown. I think the Senate is to vote on the 24th, but don't hold me to that until I check my source.

IMO, getting Dean involved in the party is about the only smart thing the dems have done for quite some time. It's unfortunate that they seem to be embarrassed by him, rather than give him credit for the good work he's doing for the party.

Dean can't do it alone, though. He needs all of our help. We have to get a choke hold around the DLC's throat by supporting non-corporate-backed, progressive and liberal grassroots candidates who also aren't afraid to stand up to and go on the offensive against the NeoCons.

There will be plenty of "Dean's Dozens" running again in 2006. We have to back as many of these people as possible. As Sally mentioned above, this is a critical year for the energy that we put out into the world. Even if the Dems come up short in November 2006, for whatever reason, we are still laying the groundwork for a movement that will ultimately face up to and vanquish the plague of NeoConservatism from power. Win or lose, if we fight hard this year, in 2008, 2010, 2012 and thereafter, we will come back even stronger against the Right-Wing extremists.

You're 100% right, Neo, can't wait to hear about the candidates backed by Dean and/or his brother's group. Please let us know if you get any email from them :-)

I think just delaying the vote on Alito a number of times is a good idea.bjt

More on the Jordanian Al-Zarqari is in today's Parade Mag. They're implying he's still alive but they've backed off the leg amputation in Iraq tale.

Woot! Woot! Ney's toast:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10857676/site/newsweek/

Culture of corruption on parade. I can't imagine what it's like to watch all this march past on your tee vee screen. Kinda like watching a tennis match, your head going left (exit), right (incoming), left (exit), right (incoming)?

Shylurker,
Woo woo woo, the pathetic Repugs can't figure out who to put up to replace Delay, too many are on Abramoff's list of "friends". Cosmic oxymoron; they've got to find a good republican to replace him!

I cannot imagine what they have on Ney, just what has been leaked about the Ralph Reed emails and he hasn't even been called to testify yet, they must have a ton on Ney and the Abramoff scandal is just heating up, they haven't even gotten to the Voting Machines that he was involved with or Russia, the UK, Scotland, India. Ney and Delay will end up being small potatoes if they honestly go after this, but I don't know about theperson in charge now, she may not be vigorious about the complete investigation. At this point it's Delay and Ney being thrown to the wolves by their beloved party.

Sally, I hope this is what eventually ties back into the corrupt, GOP-dominated Ohio Government and cleans house. You mentioned a couple of articles back that we would be seeing some sudden, Uranus-induced upheaval when Uranus crosses Ohio's natal Sun in a couple of months. Maybe it will take down Ohio's Secretary of State, Ohio Bush-Cheney re-election chairman and current gubanatorial candidate Ken Blackwell too? If I remember correctly, his natal Sun is around 9 or 10 Pisces.

If he kept Kerry out of office in 2004, against the will of Ohioans, then he has very much to answer for. My fingers are crossed.

Incidentally, I believe that Ohio's natal Sun (March 1, 1803, Chillicothe, Ohio) is at 11 Pisces. Can't seem to dig up my chart for it.

I got an e-mail from the DCCC, with set-up for writing your local paper re: corrupt Repugs. & list of their connection to Abramoff
Maine wasn't on the list of states! Nor was VT. or NY!
Neo B,
Maine is a Pices state too. As is Fla. SO we really need to look at astro configurations involving aspects to Neptune around elections. AND Uranus is IN Pices.....so there shld be abrupt change! ( Still more to come I mean)
Are there a lot of foot injuries in Ohio? MAine 101 ways....ice, rocks, lobster trap winches.....
I lived for 58 years with feet intact, ( Including toe dance!) until I moved here & injured my foot!
PQ

January 14, 2006 -- Serious questions remain concerning Col. Westhusing's "suicide" in Iraq. Army's chief ethics expert was murdered, according to Carlyle Group insider.

" While he was in Iraq training Iraqi police and overseeing the USIS contract to train police as part of the Pentagon's Civilian Police Assistance Training Team, Westhusing received an anonymous letter that reported USIS's Private Services Division (PSD) was engaged in fraudulent activities in Iraq, including over-billing the government. In addition, the letter reported that USIS security personnel had murdered innocent Iraqis.

http://waynemadsenreport.com/
PQ

* Shock to the solar system: a new planet

A US astronomer has announced the discovery of a 10th planet in the outer reaches of the solar system that cld force a redrawing of the astronomical map. If confirmed, the discovery - by Mike Brown, a prof of planetary astronomy at the respected CA Institute of Technology - wld be the first new planet since Pluto was IDd in 1930 & wld shatter the notion that 9 planets circle the sun.

"Get out your pens - start rewriting textbooks today," said Professor Brown, announcing what he called "the 10th planet of the solar system", larger than Pluto. "It's the farthest object ever discovered to orbit the sun," Professor Brown said of the planet, said to be covered in methane ice & which lies nearly 15 billion kilometres from Earth. "It's probably 1½X the size of Pluto."

About 97X further from the sun than Earth is, the celestial body (tentatively called "2003-UB313") is the farthest known object in the solar system & the 3rd brightest among the Kuiper Belt objects. It was first spotted in 2003, but not IDd as a planet.

The new planet, which looks very much like Pluto, will be visible over the next 6 mos & is almost directly overhead in the early-morning eastern sky, in the Cetus constellation. http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/shock-to-the-solar-system-a-new-planet/2005/07/30/1122144056364.html?oneclick=true#

Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11

By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Friday 13 January 2006

The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified document.

The NSA's vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret executive order authorizing the NSA to monitor a select number of American citizens thought to have ties to terrorist groups.

In its "Transition 2001" report, the NSA said that the ever-changing world of global communication means that "American communication and targeted adversary communication will coexist."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306Z.shtml

Today is an historic day. For the first time in
both Africa and South America women have been elected President. Today a woman was sworn-in in
Liberia, and elected in Chile. Time we had one
here.

SALLY FOR PRESIDENT!

Neo, Marc Penfield has Ohio March 1, 1803, Chillicothe at 9:30am (source the Ohio State Historical Society says the legislature first met on 03/01/1803 at 9:30am) That places their Sun at 10 degrees Pisces in the 11th house. Ohio thrust themselves into the limelight with their 2004 voting irregularities and I would think at this point they wish they had never thrown that gauntlet down. Mr. Blackwell should never have called a terror alert in a very small county, raising "say what" reactions across the country, that put the spotlight on them and with the aspects they had coming in the houses those aspects fell, you simply would not want the spotlight on you.

I said on election night 2004 that Ohio wasn't done yet and it's still not done. There have been and will continue to be an attempt to shut down information coming into or out of Ohio, but it won't work. The people there are going to find their anger level raising after their 2006 return. And I will continue to say "Ohio isn't done yet."

Monday, January 09, 2006

With Intent to Annoy

by Clinton Fein

On today's C|Net, Declan McCullagh commented on congress' newly passed law, insidiously buried in the Violence Against Woman and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act, which criminalizes the sending of annoying email messages without disclosing your true identity.

Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy."

For the last nine years I have owned and run Annoy.com, which among other things contains a postcard service that allows people to send postcards without being required to furnish their identity. Not unlike most news organizations that allow you to use "Send to a friend" features to distribute their content and enable you to include a message (possibly an annoying one) or the United States Postal Service, which allows you to send any content (even annoying to some people) by simply requiring a stamp. No identity checks at the local corner post box. Yet.

http://annoy.com/editorials/doc.html?DocumentID=100761

Thank you thank you WV, and I promise not to appoint cronies. However, my cronies have a very high BS meter and I will be calling upon them to let me know when Rove, Rummy, Condi or Hillary have passed that BS meter. Oops, they already have.

You got my vote, Cap'n Sally! Hands down.

Very very interesting article. Please read if you possibly can. Wish we could make it required reading in Washington DC:
http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=so05uhler

Two polls:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

The one about what's wrong had results that surprised me (and I'm in the majority, too, believe it or not).

Here is the C-SPAN link to watch Al Gore at noon.

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30

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Portuguese elections hit by phone-tapping scandal
By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid
Published: 16 January 2006

An illegal phone-tapping scandal in which more than 60 politicians and judges are embroiled has overwhelmed campaigning for Portugal's presidential elections next Sunday. ....

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article338855.ece

It CAN happen here..

Interesting new organization...

http://www.bandofbrothers2006.org/

We're mobilizing for you Sally

Gore on C Span speaking on Bush breaking law right now

Monday 12:30 - not a word about it on the other channels.

Pallas1800,
I was able to watch it via streaming video about 13 minutes into his speech. He cemented what we already knew. He called us to arms, yet didn't tell us what we can do. He laid it on Congress, which if I miss my mark is already corrupt, morally bankrupt and isn't likely to clean up it's act, (spineless wimps which includes Kucinich and the rest of the Dems). Nor did I hear Al offering himself up as a leader to spear head this drive. Motivate the people to what holler at their spineless congress person (mine's a dem. woman who'll never put the country through another impeachment)?

I'm disappointed, he should have ended with standing up and saying he'd run again and start the march of the White House now.

Ya'll ever feel like we're spinning our wheels and going nowhere ?

I think it was a historic speech...filled with greatness. He left no doubt about the crimes being committed by Bush, and he embraced Bob Barr's words that Bush is daring us to do something about it, and he hope that we will. He said it would embarass the founders for us to think we are in any more danger than they were when the wrote the Bill of Rights. It was an astounding speech.

C-SPAN TELEPHONE NUMBER
Main Number: (202) 737-3220

Please call and ask them to rebroadcast along with providing a complete transcript.

Not a word of it on MSM has been said. No surprise there.

For anyone who missed it..

rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/ter/ter011606_gore.rm

Just copy and paste it to your address bar.

I'm not sure that was the appropriate place to announce candidacy. I do think we should take it upon ourselves to make him be our leader, leading to candidacy announcement in the future. Let's see: Murtha last evening, Gore this morning, Dean on Wednesday and others are planning to try and rally those who revere our Constitution & Bill of Rights throughout the week. I'm hoping this is the start of something big. No, something huge!!!! Take back the country, which of course Dean was screaming several years ago. (Pls excuse pun.)

firedoglake:

Al Gore has given a scorcher of a speech today on the FISA end-run and the need to re-commit this nation to the cause of liberty. You can read the whole of the speech here, but one segment of it spoke to the heart of the importance of checks and balances and shining sunshine into the dark places of the current Administration:

"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Our Founding Fathers were adamant that they had established a government of laws and not men. Indeed, they recognized that the structure of government they had enshrined in our Constitution - our system of checks and balances - was designed with a central purpose of ensuring that it would govern through the rule of law. As John Adams said: "The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men."

An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution - an all-powerful executive too reminiscent of the King from whom they had broken free. In the words of James Madison, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

Gore for President..........AGAIN!
What a fantastic speech! He built a historic, political frame of reference; as a basis for understanding...and then launched into the passionate appeal to correct the theft of our Democracy, leaving "no citizen behind"! And to enact stronger Whistleblower laws! Whether the career legislators will listen to him is anbody's guess! Interestingly, he was careful to connect the Unitary Presidency to some future "unknown President, rather than accuse the current pRez. ( As was Spector when he mentioned the I word in the context of Pres. being above the law. That aired on CNN.) That's smart strategy, given the number of people who have been eliminated from the political scene in the last 1/2 century!

I have to wonder what was the technical problem that prevented Bob Barr from giving his planned introduction??? Shades of Tobin blocking Dem phone lines during the NH Primary!
I agree it wasn't the time to announce a run for President! It would have been pounced on by the R W Wurlitzer & "Deaned" him to death!
Yeh..the rest of the country watched Days of our lives, All My Children,or some innane hypocritical MLK Day parade in anytown USA!
I'll be curious to see what Wolfgang Blitzcraig does with it later today!
PQ

Thanks for the link Pat C. Don't get your hopes up about him running again.
I've heard Gore say elsewhere that he is a "recovering politician" and that he doesn't want to run for office ever again. Can't say I blame him, in 2000 the USA was in glorious shape, now it's in the pits.

You're most welcome Jill G.

Al Gore: 'America's Constitution is in Grave Danger'

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011606Y.shtml

Former Vice President Albert Gore Jr. delivered a major policy speech today that assailed the President for abusing executive power. Gore argued that "whenever power is unchecked and unaccountable it almost inevitably leads to mistakes and abuses. In the absence of rigorous accountability, incompetence flourishes. Dishonesty is encouraged and rewarded." The former Vice President went on to say, "Republican as well as Democratic members of Congress should support the bipartisan call of the Liberty Coalition for the appointment of a special counsel to pursue the criminal issues raised by warrantless wiretapping of Americans by the President.

That was me above.

.......

"Al Gore's incessant need to insert himself in the headline of the day is almost as glaring as his lack of understanding of the threats facing America. While the President works to protect Americans from terrorists, Democrats deliver no solutions of their own, only diatribes laden with inaccuracies and anger." --Tracey Schmitt, RNC Press Secretary

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=59313

From Gore's speech:

The founders of our country faced dire threats. If they failed in their endeavors, they would have been hung as traitors. The very existence of our country was at risk.

Yet, in the teeth of those dangers, they insisted on establishing the Bill of Rights.

Is our Congress today in more danger than were their predecessors when the British army was marching on the Capitol? Is the world more dangerous than when we faced an ideological enemy with tens of thousands of missiles poised to be launched against us and annihilate our country at a moment's notice? Is America in more danger now than when we faced worldwide fascism on the march-when our fathers fought and won two World Wars simultaneously?

It is simply an insult to those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they. Yet they faithfully protected our freedoms and now it is up to us to do the same.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011606Y.shtml

The web sites flashed on the screen "for more information" after his speech:

http://www.libertycoalition.net

http://www.acslaw.org

I don't think Gore will run again - he knows what kind of enemy he is up against and probably doesn't have the stomach to deal with their lack of ethics. I believe he has found his calling as a voice crying out in the wilderness.

I also don't think the country is sufficiently aroused yet, but hope that it will be by the end of this year, after the Abramoff scandal, Rove and any other indictments take place, and further acts of immorality and corruption are revealed. This is a slow process, folks, and I believe it is because of the Neptune factor. 911 did a number on the minds of the people in this country. I am sure that many are still afraid of terrorism (and now "plagues") and want to be protected, in a sense, no matter what it takes. The eyes of the country are beginning to be opened but people are not yet sure. A lot hangs in the balance and there is a tension between whether the next big catastrophe will allow the president to protect us and look good once again (as he did not do during the Katrina aftermath), or whether the Republican leadership is just too eroded to be effective again.

My plan is, as Neo Buckeye advised, to support Dean's dozens, contribute, advertise, and make my position known. I have also signed onto the Band of Brothers group (www.bandofbrothers2006.com) that wv linked us to above as military people with the right intentions should have the discipline and integrity to be great leaders. I am not great at campaigning verbally but I will do everything I can to work towards further Democratic victories. The Dems may seem wimpy but right now we just don't have the power yet. Let's see what we can do when we have the power again. I am old fashioned in my belief that goodness and truth triumph over corruption and evil. Bide your time, Morgana, I don't think we will be disappointed when the right time comes.

Ok Wolfie on CNN runs with Gore as his lead, ABC, AP, and Reuters covering him. My my TM is giving him voice.

Barbara

Astrological fonts - always check google...

http://www.widgetsworld.co.uk/font.php

Mars is in exact opposition to that Jupiter in Scorpio today and the Moon is in Leo. It looks like the avengers have surfaced, along with the truth. Gore is so totally justified in declaring the criminality of this administration. There is no better spokesman. I know it, you know it, they know it, and deep down the public knows it. 9/11 happened the day the truth was supposed to be revealed about his victory so it never came out publically.
I expect a lot more of this as Jupiter forges ahead with his bolts of illumination. Pluto plumbing the depths along with him. Slow, steady, and complete is my recipe.

" He called us to arms"

Yes he did. He's saying wake up Americans, you are part of the Constitution too. He's practically endorsing an uprising.

And he definitely is endorsing that the boy king-which he kept referring to :" we fought to be free of a king", be investigated for criminal action.

The problem is that his whole speech should have been televised on CNN and the others - not just soundbites - and I e mailed them this afternoon, "why not one word on Gore's speech".

But he's getting play alright on the 6 o'clock news!

There could always be a "write-in " for him as president.

And I think he wasn't just calling the people to arms, but kicking the congress, republicans and democrats, in the ass to wake up and get some guts!!

The White House"s answer? The President is acting legally. That will either put it in the Congressional Judiciary or in the Supremes.

Therefore, the only way they will impeach him is if we harrass our congress people.

From Someone's post above, a link to the "Liberty
Coalition".

Maybe that's the third party, the third choice for voters.

His entire speech is on the site:

http://www.libertycoalition.net/

Al Gore: 'Restoring the Rule of Law'
Submitted by jplummer on Mon, 2006-01-16 20:07. Govt surveillance & datamining
This was the prepared text of remarks today by Sen. Albert Gore, Jr., the former Vice-President of the United States. Mr. Gore spoke in DAR Constiution Hall at an event co-sponsored by Liberty Coalition and the American Constitution Society. The speech focused on the unchecked growth of executive power in the federal government, with a spotlight on the NSA domestic spying scandal.

Direct link to C-SPAN's RealVideo file of the speech.

I never thought I'd sign up for ANYTHING that had that sleaze Bob Barr's name on it.

more on Gore's Liberty Coalition:

Liberty Coalition mission statement

The Liberty Coalition works to help organize, support, and coordinate transpartisan public policy activities related to civil liberties and basic human rights. We work in conjunction with groups of partner organizations that are interested in preserving the Bill of Rights, personal autonomy and individual privacy.

The Liberty Coalition is concerned about the threat to Americans' fundamental and inalienable rights. The Coalition is dedicated to upholding and protecting our basic rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In order to accomplish our task, we seek to protect those freedoms as articulated in the Bill of Rights. We base our concerns on the fundamental values and principles of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, particularly the separation of powers and federalism, and Bill of Rights. These are also embodied in the 14th amendment, especially the due process and privileges and immunities clauses."

Also, the entire script of his speech is here:

http://www.libertycoalition.net/gore-speech

Unfortunately, I think the Republican party nowadays suffers from a severe lack of talent. While Albert Gore is speaking eloquently, and truthfully about the state of our nation, and John Kerry is discussing nuclear proliferation with Asian leaders, the White House is killing more children and pummeling, wringing, squeezing, thrashing, whipping, stabbing, and repeating the word "terrorist" until it's lifeless. The others are stepping down in shame with half baked attempts at personal justification.

What on earth has sprung from the loins of this group? The Republican protoplasm.

Fixing the numbers....exposed.

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1347483

The Impeachment of George W. Bush
by Elizabeth Holtzman

"Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush--not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman

Interesting. Now it seems the Religious Right movement backing none other than Ohio Sec. of State J. Kenneth Blackwell for governor could be coming under investigation by the IRS -- thanks to the Religious Left.

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Churches could face IRS probe
Pastors Parsley, Johnson exploited pulpits to play politics, ministers’ complaint alleges
Monday, January 16, 2006
Mike Harden and Joe Hallett
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Eric Williams, senior pastor of North Congregational United Church of Christ, tallies up petitions that ask the IRS to investigate political-campaign activities of two central Ohio churches.
The complaint alleges church sponsored events have showcased Republican gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell.

More than 30 local pastors last night officially accused two evangelical megachurches of illegal political activities.

In a rare and potentially explosive action, the moderate ministers signed a complaint asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate World Harvest Church of Columbus and Fairfield Christian Church of Lancaster and determine if their tax-exempt status should be revoked.

The grievance claims that the Rev. Rod Parsley of World Harvest Church and the Rev. Russell Johnson of Fairfield Christian Church improperly used their churches and affiliated entities — the Center for Moral Clarity, Ohio Restoration Project and Reformation Ohio — for partisan politics, including supporting the Republican gubernatorial candidacy of Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell.

The complaint asks the IRS to seek a court injunction "if these churches’ flagrant political campaign activities do not cease immediately." It was signed by 31 pastors from nine denominations during a meeting last night at the North Congregational United Church of Christ in Columbus and was to be faxed late last night to IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson.

"For me, it’s church and state, not church in state and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line," said Eric Williams, senior pastor of the host church. "The law allows church involvement in issues. This goes beyond issue-involvement to partisan politics and we’re simply asking the IRS to uphold the law."

Williams and the other signers stressed that they were acting individually and not on behalf of their congregations, whose affiliations include: The American Baptist Churches/USA; the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); the Episcopal Church in the USA; the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Judaism; the United Church of Christ; the United Methodist Church; Presbyterian Church, USA; and the Unitarian Universalist Association.

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Why don't Smirky&Co support our troops?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/16/133331/558

* Kingapalooza

In the clap-happy kumbayah that color celebrations of what [Martin Luther] King stood for, the govt & the media must not forget what he stood against. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20060116/kingapalooza.php

But, of course, that's exactly their intent. MLKing has been transformed into a commercial whore by the "elite" pink supremacists... jes like Jesus.

Tonight t he not quite full moon, in leo ( fire) rose fast, like a spaceship comet or planet, fragmented and burning in space.

It rose through clouds and behind a great spruce tree that fragmented and rendered it kinetic!

Wow, just saw on Yahoo that Alito's vote comes on Jan 24th, my 43rd birthday--well, as a present, I'd like a filibuster please--well, that and all trolls locked up in Gitmo under that new anonymous internet nuisance law signed by "the greatest president ever".

LOL sorry AW'ers but it's just so much fun....

Good idea, Garry... but, saaaay... we don't want them just merely "locked up," do we? ;O)

AG Gonzales on Larry King stating again and again that many administration lawyers looked over the "spying" laws and the president hasn't broken any laws therefore no special prosecutor needs to be named.

(Do we really expect the man who helped write "new rules" for the executive, which break the rule of law, to say otherwise?)

He must recuse himself from this decision. And he needs to be told he has to recuse himself.
Now , whose duty is it to tell him? The Judiciary committee ? Americans? who?

Wow! I appreciate the images!

Tonight the not quite full moon, in leo ( fire) rose fast, like a spaceship comet or planet, fragmented and burning in space.

It rose through clouds and behind a great spruce tree that fragmented and rendered it kinetic!

Oh, Sharon, I'm taking that as an omen. Thanks so much for sharing. Now let's just get that energy shake, rattlin' and rollin' amongst our populace.

Venus went heliacal (sp?) 3 days ago. That's the time when Venus rises before the Sun. That's when the Mayans used to cover their windows and head for cover for a heliacal Venus is very bloody. She will not be subdued until sometime in February.

She is Capricorn. She is ruled by Saturn. More Sh%%5%%%%% coming up for disgorgement. Hang on.

Sally,
Knowing what you know about the Repug natal chart and US history. What do you think is their real rising sign? How do you think the upcoming (March/April) transiting Gemini Mars making a Yod with the natal Capricorn Jupitar and Scorpio Moon are going to hit them (especially while opposite tPluto). Their mean Jupitar and Moon being pounded by Mars and Pluto could be Republican's-eating-their-own time. I find Yod power fasinating to watch and would appreciate any input.

Oh, and by the way, it went heliacal on the near exact opposition of the 2005 Saturn position of the 2004 Innauguration. Saturn was at 23 Cancer. Venus went heliacal on the 13th of January 2006 at 23 Capricorn.

Thanks, Shy, but I didn't come up with those beautiful images - I was just appreciating them. Leo is the sign of true royal qualities like honor & integrity - may the qualities of a true Leo reign!

Beasley,

The full moon is at 24 Cancer and Venus and the Moon appear to have done their jobs.

The payoffs are coming to light - the money spread around: Abramoff + 20 other congressmen in the sights, as well as the IRS (Venus=money) being asked by fairly normal churches to investigate the looney churches and remove their exemption, now if the payoffs to fix the election machines will just come out also......

Problem is too many things coming out at once, dividing the attention of the sheeple.

Nancy Pelosi on C Span doing a great speech.
10:17 PM EST

Pallas,
Add the Sun into that equation. Venus is also law. Lawsuits...money and lawsuits. Venus is also justice...in Capricorn...in the Innaugural Chart, the 9th house. Hmmm....may the swearing in Alito is going to be....how should I say....delayed for some reason or another....? :)

Will watch Pelosi. Thanks.