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JEFFERSON SMITH
I've written about Jefferson Smith and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" before. It's 60 years old but still the number one movie about Washington, DC. I imagine it's the number one because it's about the little guy and someone with nerve enough to stand up for what's right, someone trying to make a difference. The fictional character Jefferson Smith was an unlikely candidate to stand up as a filibuster. He was new to Congress, young, discouraged, and had everything to lose. He didn't nearly have the clout of a John Kerry or Ted Kennedy, however both of them have been badly marginalized by the media, the GOP, and in Kerry's instance, by his own party. No matter what Washington, the Democrats, the GOP, the Media, the late night comedians think of John Kerry, it's taken courage for him to continue to fight back this last year and now he is fighting what seems to be an uphill battle with Ted Kennedy pushing him from behind and as of today, the Filibuster is on. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/live-onair-filibuster-_b_14635.html The great thing about the grueling task of the filibuster is, win or lose, the information gets out there. The issue is forced into the press and mainstream media. John Kerry, with Uranus in a square to his Mars and activating his Mars/Pluto trine just might have the power to pull it all off if he gets a chance and thank god he has the skill of talking on and on because he will need that skill. You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked, and I'm gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody'll listen to me. Some... (from the Jefferson Smith filibuster as he was collapsing to the floor) He has already performed an amazing feat by getting some of his fence sitting, afraid to stand up Senate colleagues to take a poll of their constituents to see how we, the people, felt about a filibuster. And it appears WE want something done. While the Democrats dither over the conventional wisdom that's been adopted in the "leadership" of the Party about pushing too hard against this administration, signing on to the political "all hat and no cattle" rhetoric spewing out of politicians mouths, "we the people" have decided we want someone to put their money where their mouth is, no matter what the outcome. John Kerry and Ted Kennedy have decided if the Dems are going to lose, it's better to lose standing than lying down. Venus (what we value) is still retrograde giving all of us a chance to grab Democracy back from the abyss. Uranus sitting in an exact square to the US Natal Uranus, Pluto bearing down on the black hole of the Galactic Center, the Sun in iconoclastic Aquarius soon joined by the Moon (a demand for what's right and fair for all) Could Kerry and Kennedy's actions shut down Congress as George Bush/Karl Rove via Bill Frist throw their so called "nuclear" option? You bet the two K's can do this, and watch the GOP howl, and the MSM will give them the mike to howl through. Be prepared to write your favorite news source that you, as citizens, approve of democracy in action. Saturn is retrograding back to the US North Node signaling the opportunity to begin building a new Capricorn solid structure and John Kerry's progressed North Node is conjunct the US North Node making him a part of the struggle to create a new way for this country. Eventually, if we are to save enough of a Democracy to build upon, someone or several someones must stand up no matter the cost and hopefully there will be people in this country willing to "get their back." Kerry and Kennedy are trying to send the message "lead, follow, or get out of the way," the revolutionary volcano is rising.
Sally Cheyne McDonald on Jan 29 | Link
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Thank you, Sally. Thank you so very very much. You know how I feel. Speaking of over the moon, your words just sent me there. Over this new Aquarius Moon. I feel that this is an auspicious time. Astroworld knows. Posted by: on January 29, 2006 08:31 AMjm squeaking. Posted by: jm on January 29, 2006 08:32 AMYES.................. Hallelujah! Posted by: Pat C on January 29, 2006 11:45 AMhttp://www.buzzflash.com/index.php?story=Story The Myth of the American Political "Center" and the Nomination of Radical Sam Alito snip Many Americans do like the "image" of Sam Alito. Yes, that's true. He looks amiable and harmless enough. (See the BuzzFlash analysis: Governing by "Soap Opera": The GOP Fine Art of Demagoguery vs. the Dazed and Confused Democratic Leadership Appeal to Reason) But they would, by a large majority, disagree with his radical judicial perspectives and rulings. So let's do our own set of poll questions here and speculate how, if the American public had the actual information in their brains about Alito's positions, they might respond: 1) Do you believe that a President of the United States should be allowed to break the law? 2) Do you believe that the balance of powers enshrined in our Constitution should be changed to make the President much more powerful, giving him the right to interpret the law as he sees fit? 3) Do you believe in altering our Constitutional system of checks and balances? 4) Do you believe that the federal government should be prohibited from regulating the individual possession of machine guns? 5) Do you believe that the Federal Bench should inhibit voting rights? 6) Do you believe that the police can strip-search a ten-year old girl even though there is no warrant to perform such an action and the girl is not implicated in any legal activity? 7) Do you believe that the Federal and local governments have a right to violate your privacy? 8) Do you believe that the Federal government should be prohibited from enforcing laws that clean up our environment? 9) Do you believe that the Federal government should be prohibited from protecting the health, safety and welfare of its citizens? 10) Do you believe that a Supreme Court nominee who lies to or misleads Congress during his hearings should be confirmed? Now, we suspect that if you asked the above 10 questions, more than 75% of Americans would answer "No," meaning that they would oppose Alito. That's because Alito would answer "Yes" to all these questions, if he were to answer them truthfully in a confession booth. (See http://www.savethecourt.org/site/c.mwK0JbNTJrF/b.1359291/k.8C02/Alitos_Record.htm) 75% of the American public. It's pure speculation based on common sense, but that's a landslide against the judicial policies of Alito. The problem with polling that the media, Republicans and entrenched Democrats use to justify the "myth of the Center" is that they are polls based on misinformation. In most of the polls, when people are informed of actual positions or facts that they are unaware of, their responses shift dramatically away from the "perceived center" all the way over toward many of the positions advocated by the so-called "fiery liberals." Even on the question of choice and Roe v. Wade, 2/3's of respondents shifted against Alito when informed of his anti-choice judicial convictions in a recent poll. So, just what is the "center" that the Reid/Biden/Salazar (etc.) Democrats fear? The "center," if we mean a landslide majority of Americans, would be opposed to Alito if they ever got to know his actual rulings and positions on issues. It's an information gap, not a political reality. In fact, the political reality is that the Democrats could come out as champions of the vast majority of Americans if they stopped getting scared off by the bogeyman of the mythical, non-existent "conservative" center. In short, properly informed, the American "center" would overwhelmingly reject the reality of Alito's judicial and anti-Constitutional stances. In fact, they would be probably be appalled. Substance and the truth would triumph over fraudulent Republican image marketing. More.... Posted by: Pat C on January 29, 2006 01:11 PMOh, thank you so much for this, Cap'n Sally. I googled and found this interesting bit of information. These are supposedly the steps required to end a filibuster: Should be a very interesting week. Posted by: shylurker on January 29, 2006 02:21 PMObama on ABC This Week a bit a go NOT supporting filibuster. He wants to be bipartisan. Posted by: Pat C on January 29, 2006 03:06 PMObama wants to be bipartisan?? humph, what the heck does bipartisan mean anymore? Seems like it translates into my vote is for sale, come an get it...how about an oil tanker named for me? Do you wonder what the value of a vote for Alito equals? i ask myself what "token" do we the people have to dangle?, our power is choosing others to serve our will. Rather weakened at the moment. I've veen writing along with all of you to stop Alito's confirmation. A cruise around our powerbase the progressive blogworld has shown it to be too quiet the past few weeks. Thanks to you Sally for the inspiration maybe if we seed some more places courage will take root.
This, however, was in the days before deregulation, when the Federal Communications Commission was still perceived to have teeth, and its mandate that broadcasters operate in "the public interest, convenience and necessity" was enough to give each licensee pause. Network owners nurtured their news divisions, encouraged them to tackle serious issues, cultivated them as shields to be brandished before Congressional committees whenever questions were raised about the quality of entertainment programs and the vast sums earned by those programs. News divisions occasionally came under political pressures but rarely commercial ones. The expectation was that they would search out issues of importance, sift out the trivial and then tell the public what it needed to know. With the advent of cable, satellite and broadband technology, today's marketplace has become so overcrowded that network news divisions are increasingly vulnerable to the dictatorship of the demographic. Now, every division of every network is expected to make a profit. And so we have entered the age of boutique journalism. The goal for the traditional broadcast networks now is to identify those segments of the audience considered most desirable by the advertising community and then to cater to them. Most television news programs are therefore designed to satisfy the perceived appetites of our audiences. That may be not only acceptable but unavoidable in entertainment; in news, however, it is the journalists who should be telling their viewers what is important, not the other way around. Indeed, in television news these days, the programs are being shaped to attract, most particularly, 18-to-34-year-old viewers. They, in turn, are presumed to be partly brain-dead — though not so insensible as to be unmoved by the blandishments of sponsors. Exceptions, it should be noted, remain. Thus it is that the evening news broadcasts of ABC, CBS and NBC are liberally studded with advertisements that clearly cater to older Americans. But this is a holdover from another era: the last gathering of more than 30 million tribal elders, as they clench their dentures while struggling to control esophageal eruptions of stomach acid to watch "The News." That number still commands respect, but even the evening news programs, you will find (after the first block of headline material), are struggling to find a new format that will somehow appeal to younger viewers. Washington news, for example, is covered with less and less enthusiasm and aggressiveness. The networks' foreign bureaus have, for some years now, been seen as too expensive to merit survival. Judged on the frequency with which their reports get airtime, they can no longer be deemed cost-effective. Most have either been closed or reduced in size to the point of irrelevance. Simply stated, no audience is perceived to be clamoring for foreign news, the exceptions being wars in their early months that involve American troops, acts of terrorism and, for a couple of weeks or so, natural disasters of truly epic proportions. You will still see foreign stories on the evening news broadcasts, but examine them carefully. They are either reported by one of a half-dozen or so remaining foreign correspondents who now cover the world for each network, or the anchor simply narrates a piece of videotape shot by some other news agency. For big events, an anchor might parachute in for a couple of days of high drama coverage. But the age of the foreign correspondent, who knew a country or region intimately, is long over. No television news executive is likely to acknowledge indifference to major events overseas or in our nation's capital, but he may, on occasion, concede that the viewers don't care, and therein lies the essential malignancy. The accusation that television news has a political agenda misses the point. Right now, the main agenda is to give people what they want. It is not partisanship but profitability that shapes what you see. Most particularly on cable news, a calculated subjectivity has, indeed, displaced the old-fashioned goal of conveying the news dispassionately. But that, too, has less to do with partisan politics than simple capitalism. Thus, one cable network experiments with the subjectivity of tender engagement: "I care and therefore you should care." Another opts for chest-thumping certitude: "I know and therefore you should care." Even Fox News's product has less to do with ideology and more to do with changing business models. Fox has succeeded financially because it tapped into a deep, rich vein of unfulfilled yearning among conservative American television viewers, but it created programming to satisfy the market, not the other way around. CNN, meanwhile, finds itself largely outmaneuvered, unwilling to accept the label of liberal alternative, experimenting instead with a form of journalism that stresses empathy over detachment. Now, television news should not become a sort of intellectual broccoli to be jammed down our viewers' unwilling throats. We are obliged to make our offerings as palatable as possible. But there are too many important things happening in the world today to allow the diet to be determined to such a degree by the popular tastes of a relatively narrow and apparently uninterested demographic. What is, ultimately, most confusing about the behavior of the big three networks is why they ever allowed themselves to be drawn onto a battlefield that so favors their cable competitors. At almost any time, the audience of a single network news program on just one broadcast network is greater than the combined audiences of CNN, Fox and MSNBC. Reaching across the entire spectrum of American television viewers is precisely the broadcast networks' greatest strength. By focusing only on key demographics, by choosing to ignore their total viewership, they have surrendered their greatest advantage. Oddly enough, there is a looming demographic reality that could help steer television news back toward its original purpose. There are tens of millions of baby boomers in their 40's and 50's and entering their 60's who have far more spending power than their 18-to-34-year-old counterparts. Television news may be debasing itself before the wrong demographic. If the network news divisions cannot be convinced that their future depends on attracting all demographic groups, then perhaps, at least, they can be persuaded to aim for the largest single demographic with the most disposable income — one that may actually have an appetite for serious news. That would seem like a no-brainer. It's regrettable, perhaps, that only money and the inclination to spend it will ultimately determine the face of television news, but, as a distinguished colleague of mine used to say: "That's the way it is." Ted Koppel, who retired as anchor and managing editor of the ABC program "Nightline" in November, is a contributing columnist for The Times and managing editor of The Discovery Network. Posted by: wv on January 29, 2006 04:06 PM"Bi-partisian" thanks for the quote PatC and Tseka I could not agree more with your assessment of the word and Obama's response. I read and read some more of the articles and editorials that tell us where we are in this country. The astrology that continually show a fall for this administration, the scandals, the corruption but still they stand and they are standing all over the world. It's the multi-national Banking and Corporations pulling these strings, not this administration and it's the Bankers and Corps who are protecting this group of theives. As much as I want to believe it will soon be over, I know it won't and the astrological signature of this time period says it won't be over for several years to come. That's the bad news, the good news is it will be over and no matter what, it will be the "elite", the bankers and the corporations imploding because their plan has not been well thought out. It may not be fast enough for us, but slowly the people are awakening. The demand for a filibuster from the Democrats is not about the filibuster; people are asking if they are a viable party and if they are not soon there will be another party to take their place. We don't know who Obama is "selling" his vote to, it could be to the Dems to help them get off this uncomfortable hook they are on, or it could be to the GOP. Stay alert, because we truly don't know who or what are trying to keep and/or destroy this engine called America. Posted by: Sally on January 29, 2006 04:16 PMHola, everyone. I've spent more time recently over at Starlight News. So today the New Moon is at 10 Aquarius? That so happens to be my Natal Moon (I have it in the third) No wonder I've been writing and working so much on my website and feel inspired to work even more on it today. Check out my (admittedly incomplete) website: http://www.aquariusmoon.info This is my (admittedly incomplete) website. But my natal Moon is at 10 Aquarius, so this is a lunar return of sorts. I've never checked out lunar returns, so if you have some sort of understanding of them, please advise. One thing I've been thinking a lot about is that we need a new World Religion that's not sexist, racist or classist. While the founders of so many were not either, the current structures seem to be that way. Perhaps that is why I've been predicting that religion is about to go through the same transformation that politics is going through: back to the house and away from the megachurches. What do you think? I believe that the pagans have led the way in having people begin to think about worship without a huge building and expensive clergy, the meetups with the idea of being about to get together without having to be so formal about it. Posted by: Carol on January 29, 2006 04:22 PMI just signed the Kerry Petition. Maybe I can fax stuff from my computer without signing up for an expensive service. If it works, I plan to blast-fax every Senator I can...and I've never done this sort of thing before at all.... Posted by: Carol on January 29, 2006 04:33 PMIt's just beautiful Carol, good job. This new Moon is highly creative with the Jupiter/Neptune square and the last of the Mars energy to that square. Venus is sextile to Jupiter and wide trine to Mars emphasizing the creativity. The derth of fixed signs in this New Moon chart indicates a stubborn attitude toward your creation (but you are a fixed sign anyway and all of us who are fixed are used to our stubborn attitudes) by starting something "new" on this New Moon in Aquarius you will be able to fulfil a hope and dream and when Uranus comes to 17 Pisces I would expect a huge increase of activity. What do you hope to gain by this website? Is it for information? creativity? It's always a good idea on a New Moon to identify the intent of a project and especially this year because with the "stand-still" Moon energy you will likely receive whatever you focus your energy upon, whether it's positive or negative. Posted by: Sally on January 29, 2006 04:33 PMSally, thank you for your compliment. I've been working on this site for several years in several formations. At one time I t was going to be an astrology/weather site, but I got tired of all of the hand-coding. (I mentioned that I used to be on Web Tv, and had no text editing software). Now I have a computer (Uranus) and the best HTML editing program as freeware, but I can't really seem to focus as much anymore. I want to do politics, and music, and weather, and cats, and so much more..it's a personal site. Also, I've been increasingly attracted to the idea of web design, perhaps on a professional level. I did do a web site for one person whom I'm no longer on speaking terms with. (She's not either with the org that hosted the site, so I'm not sure it still exists) Did you check out my Howard Dean page and my (under construction) Gore page? Right now they seem to be the only pages that are really done now. Congratulations on your new Grandchild! May she be as beautiful and intelligent as her name. Posted by: Carol on January 29, 2006 05:02 PMPoll question from Senator Talent's (R-MO) website (currently 52% yes 48% no): Now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has supported Judge Alito, should the full Senate vote to confirm him to the Supreme Court? http://talent.senate.gov/Contact/default.cfm Posted by: Teresa on January 29, 2006 05:51 PMCarol Thanks all for the compliments about my site. It's gotten so few visitors (for good reason) that I wonder what people other than me think of it. So the cycle lasts 18 years...or until I'm 68. Hopefully then I'll have more to show for it than the last 50. Can the world accomodate a late bloomer? It took me so long to grow up..... BTW, Aquarius (though at 26 Degrees) is the Moon sign of the United States, so our approach to everything from women to family is inherently Aquarian in all senses of the word. We embrace technology in the home and adore labor-saving devices, form family units less united by blood and more by ideas, have had tons of communes since the very beginning (the Cancer/Aquarius tension means they don't last very long), and American women were the first to collectively organize for their own lib eration. Posted by: Carol on January 29, 2006 06:33 PMGreat website, Carol. Very admirable undertaking...I salute & support you in creating your dream :-) :-) :-) Can Sally or Tseka or whomever knows about it, please explain the "Standstill Moon" and what it means? Sorry if it's been explained and I overlooked it :-) Posted by: Sharon on January 29, 2006 07:03 PMYour website is very beautiful, Carol. And you sound like me in many ways. I've started a few websites over the years, but I think I was much better at coding HTML for the sake of coding HTML, than I have been at creating content on a regular basis. These days, I don't have the focus to keep my own blog going, or even to write a letter to the editor. With so many possible points to hit, I think I get too tangled up in the details. Maybe it would help us both to outline our thoughts a little and pick the ideas and points that stand out most? Posted by: NEOBuckeye on January 29, 2006 07:38 PMI think the US' natal Moon in Aquarius is the primary reason why we will never long tolerate a blatantly authoritarian regime here in this country. The people will simply rebel and revolt against it. Bad news for the powers that be who choose to go down that path, as the current administration must eventually come to learn. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on January 29, 2006 07:46 PMCongrats Sally on the new Grandchild! My first Grandchild (Kameron) was born January 16th. I share your joy! I just wonderd if the grand cross that's going on now will be a negative influence on them... Posted by: Dark Crystal on January 29, 2006 08:39 PMStay alert, because we truly don't know who or what are trying to keep and/or destroy this engine called America.
Avast the mail sail! We're headed out to sea. Uncharted territory...a trip to remember, for the ages perhaps. We will prevail in the filibuster, I believe. Andwe have begun the peaceful revolution and restoration process (click on my link to see when and where the Bunker Hill of this Revolution was). Earth is in the balance. It's more than Ality and the fradulent show he put on. We now have a new "management" fraud. Sally is right. The greedy thought that they could bleed us dry and do well. We buy their crap, no us, no them. Hmmm.... not too clever are they. DO NOT BUY THE TIPPING POINT GLOBAL WARMING THEORY. It's a perfect excuse to do NOTHING. Oh, it's too late. I hope the environmental groups check out who is touting this. It's such a ruse. It presumes static technology and ideas, discoveries, inventions. I was in NYC for the first gas crisis, the one with huge lines etc. whan that poluted metropolis had two weeks of minimal car traffic in the middle of the summer, the temperatur dropped from the 90's to the low 80's, the skies cleared, and you culd take a deep breath and meditate. GAIA has more power and adaptative ability than can be imagined. Stop worrying about the insanity of "the lizard people" and get ready to be part of the "2012 Response Team" Land ho! THE DEFEAT ALITO TOOL KID. A thread full of resources to get to your representatives and others. It's long but it's all there!!! Posted by: mike on January 29, 2006 09:51 PMObama and Biden have joined the filibuster. Posted by: jm on January 29, 2006 10:02 PMCongratulations DarkCrystal on your grandchild, it is fun isn't it. The fixed cross will have an effect on them, both positive and negative. Stubborn for one, self-critical for another (they will need lots of reassurance of their talents and abilities) determined and focused for a third. Unusually creative, there can be some great writers and film-makers out of this group. The world they have inherited will need their unusual creativity, they will have to "think out of the box" This group of kids (Saturn in Leo) will but a clamp down on the obscene amount of attention and money paid to entertainers no matter if it's hollywood or the sporting arena. That Mars/Jupiter/Saturn/Neptune fixed square will move this generation into environmental action because they could have real problems with allergies from the junk in the air. When their parents come to power (the 30 somethings) is when they will start work on the environment propelled by the physical problems their kids are having and their parents generation had Uranus and Pluto in Virgo, those people won't care what it costs to clean up this mess. The group right behind the 30 somethings, which would be the 20 somethings with their Pluto in Libra, they want some balance, let's just all play nice. Let's learn to like and understand each other. I am glad I am not a parent of one of these fixed grand cross babies because they certainly have their own mind, although all my children had a lot of fixed energy and yes indeed they all knew their own mind, now I can just sit back and say to my son "she'll be ok honey, just wait and see, she will just be fine." Posted by: Sally on January 29, 2006 10:10 PMHere is a place to send a free fax: Posted by: jm on January 29, 2006 10:14 PMLOL. Yes you can Sally. Isn't is sweet?? Congratulations Dark Crystal! And congratulations to you to Carol, for your new creation! ......................... http://www.slate.com/id/2129321/ http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/01/abramoff-and-lapin-dark-side.html I hope we all keep calling. tseka, good to see you again! Posted by: Pat C on January 29, 2006 10:39 PMI just sent the fax, jm. Mary Landrieu wasn't on the list - I guess she's alreay supporting a filibuster! I'm very surprised about Biden's support after what he wrote justifying why he's voting for Alito. He made such a strong case - I'm surprised he's not afraid to look foolish. But it's great news. This is really going to be a popcorn moment....shades of "Mr. Smith" indeed, Sally. (I saw that film while getting a graduate degree in film. It's so, so wonderful. Jimmy Stewart had such charisma and such fabulously detailed manerisms and expressions - when you throw in Frank Capra, you've got real, heart expanding patriotism -- the real thing for the right reasons. If anyone here hasn't seen it, it will make your heart explode with joy.) Posted by: Sharon on January 29, 2006 10:51 PMHere is a video, slightly American cornball, but tying in exactly with sally's article. http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1793#comments Posted by: jm on January 29, 2006 10:53 PMSharon, it's fascinating. Obama and Biden are guarded now, caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. The people's voice is being heard and they are torn between the establishment and the future wave. Their coming over is an indication of where this will lead. It's very important for many reasons to unite and speak up at this point. The outcome is not the important thing. It never is. The expression is vital and the result will come when ready. It's so important to be in the present. If you do the right things the future will take care of itself. I've always loved the concept of mindfulness. This is a great opportunuity and experiment. To stay absolutely focused in the present at this time and see if through mental concentration, the neural pathways can be influenced, the wave of the future, as Sally brought up, from the movie, "What the Bleep". Carol, Sally, Sally, apologies! The news item I read was dated Jan. 27th. Today is the 29th. Whew. Posted by: Beasley on January 29, 2006 11:36 PMhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/weekinreview/29levy.html?_r=1&8hpib=&pagewanted=print The New Corporate Outsourcing By CLIFFORD J. LEVY These days, don't expect to hear such talk in many corporate boardrooms. Under pressure from foreign competitors with lower labor costs, big companies have become more willing to pare away workers' health care and pensions, abandoning an informal social contract that existed for much of the 20th century. To do so without stirring the ire of the rank and file, companies have essentially tried to turn the responsibility for some of these benefits over to the government. Whether by default or design, government is stepping into the breach. Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, one of the most significant expansions in the program since its creation, has been a boon to companies eager to trim soaring drug costs for retirees. Airlines, auto-parts manufacturers and other besieged industries are jettisoning pension plans, forcing a federal agency to finance them, a bailout that carries echoes of the savings-and-loan debacle of the 1980's. In low-wage industries like retailing and fast food, companies have increasingly been able to sidestep demands for health coverage in part because some workers qualify for Medicaid, an antipoverty program once only for the poorest but now easier to obtain in many states. Over time, Big Business has learned how to love Big Government. Or at least some of it. "This is certainly a huge shift from the days when corporations lined up in an unbroken column to decry these programs as a threat to the American way," said Jacob Hacker, a political science professor at Yale and author of "The Divided Welfare State." Of course, corporate America is not exactly throwing in its lot with those who champion generous spending on housing, schools or other causes dear to liberals. Business typically distrusts expansive government and fears that more social programs spell more taxes. But it is also willing to accept help in easing labor costs, aid that, depending on your point of view, is either prudent government assistance or brazen corporate welfare. After Social Security was created, many companies not only learned to live with it, but realized that these benefits could help offset the cost of private pension plans, which businesses had begun to create to encourage a stable work force after World War II. More.... Posted by: Pat C on January 29, 2006 11:39 PMOn closet-gay homophobe/misogynist alito, I daresay that the most abject 60s-haters are the fundamentalists. By the 80s, there were laws in place to try & protect children/spouses from the abusive "King of his Castle" types. When I worked psych in Okla, I gathered stories that'd make your hair stand up--these mega-nutz who KNEW that children/spouses were his own private property to do with whatever he wished... by god. He didn't like the state coming in telling him that he couldn't. King-boyz are a real dissociated lot... doesn't want "authority" in HIS bedroom, but now wants them in the "lib'rul" & "gays" bedroom. And he DOES want to snoop, peer & peek at the "Other"... ;O) Anyway, HE wants to be the girly-one & projects. Wonder if he has a cached dominatrix someplace to punish him when he's bad. Bet so. Mebbe in the Mariana Islands. Posted by: JoannaOregon on January 29, 2006 11:39 PMOh. Looks like the dim-dems don't want to do a filibuster. Posted by: JoannaOregon on January 29, 2006 11:42 PMOh. Looks like they do. Beasley... you're driving me crazy! ;O) Posted by: JoannaOregon on January 29, 2006 11:43 PMA lot of the pages aren't done....I hope to work on it tonight, tomorrow, and whenever. look for changes and activated pages Posted by: Carol on January 30, 2006 12:07 AMSally, when you get a moment could you take a look at Jay Nixon's chart. I'd like to know what you think of him. Jay is currently Missouri's attorney general and is challenging Baby Blunt for governor. He was born 2/13/56 in De Soto, MO according to his website. Sorry, no time. Posted by: Teresa on January 30, 2006 12:22 AMHas anyone here seen "Brokeback Mtn"? The critics are raving over it and Ang Lee, the director, is winning all kinds of awards, but I have 2 female friends who have seen it (separately) and they said it wasn't that great. Posted by: Sharon on January 30, 2006 01:14 AMSharon - I saw "Brokeback Mountain" a couple of weeks ago and it was fantastic. It's not what you would think it would be. It's dark, thoughtful and very sad. The film style is very much like the guerilla films of the 60's and early 70's. The cinematography is excellent and really sets the mood. Heath Ledger's face says a million things that are not spoken. Posted by: Cybear on January 30, 2006 01:26 AMSounds good, Cybear. When you say the guerilla films of the 60s & early 70s, which ones are you thinking of? Posted by: Sharon on January 30, 2006 01:48 AMSharon, guerilla may have not been the right word to describe it as far as a film like "The French Connection" that was filmed without permits and what not. I would compare it to some of the great social statement movies of that era such as: Sally, may I echo the plea of the previous poster who asked for an explanation of the "standstill moon"... I'm starting two new home-based businesses in the next couple of months and would love to know if there's anything to expect or beware of with the moon energy. Also I'm working on wooing a new collaborator (I'm a writer) this year. Lots of new stuff for me - and while I feel super-positive about everything as I haven't for years, any advice about starting new partnerships would be greatly welcomed. Thanks... Posted by: Rose on January 30, 2006 03:07 AMDon't overlook Dog Day Afternoon. Posted by: shylurker on January 30, 2006 03:11 AMI hope this link works. It did for me. This is just nuts! Pat QP ...http://www.rense.com/general42/bshnazi.htm Rense article on the connection between Thyssen & B*** Sadly, I must concur with Sally about how frustrating it is and will continue to be when it appears that the varmints are getting away with their miscreant ways. Not from astrology (how do you chart the faceless bankers pulling the strings without knowing who they are?) but just from cycles of change. Nothing lasts forever exactly the same. Oh yes Shylurker, that one was excellent as well! Isn't it a shame that we do not have such films these days? The indie scene has been doing well covering social issues, but nothing like it was back then. Posted by: Cybear on January 30, 2006 03:35 AMYes, that was the era of great films, Cybear & Shy (thanks for reminding me) -- my favorite being "To Kill a Mockingbird." A little aside -- "Capote" is winning awards for Phillip Seymour Kaufman & I just found out the plot is about his epiphany of deciding to write about the murder in Kansas that became "In Cold Blood" to show that the drama of truth can surpass fiction, and guess who he takes to Kansas with him? No, not Dorthy, but Harper Lee! And go ahead and check into the Sundance entries this year if you think the era of political statement films is gone -- at least the documentaries are political as usual this year -- but I think there are statement-type fiction films too (I think, can't remember exactly). And tonight on the Screen Actor Gild's awards show, David Straithharn ("Goodnight and Good Luck") talked about the great breakthrough TV execs of the 50's who protected our constitution against McCarthy - particularly Edward R. Morrow (he kind of casually but meaningfully through that phrase in: "protected our constitution." Look for more of that at the Academy Awards - as it's much more of a political platform. Shirley Temple Black was honored tonight for the Lifetime Award ("Start early" she advised) and when she spoke of serving the U.S. Government in her capacity as ambassador to a few different countries, I could see the disapproval on the faces of everyone in the audience over anything connected with the U.S. government! But they overcame it and gave her the appreciation she deserved. Posted by: Sharon on January 30, 2006 03:58 AMLUNAR STANDSTILL Sally, Congratulations on your new status as Grandma!!!! I hope your son lives close enough that you will be able to spend time with that new little being. You have much wisdom to offer. And to all those who have been having recent birthdays - happy new year! On another note, I've been thinking about the impact the big corporations have on all of us. I wasn't able to access AW earlier so I posted this over on Starlight. Haven't had any responses yet, so thought I'd post it here too (thankfully your website is now loading) and see if any of you professionals care to comment. On the bigger picture, with all the talk of Pluto coming up to Capricorn and the speculated effect on corporate structure that that might have, has anyone ever looked at a chart of the first corporation? From what I have been able to tell (aside from the Catholic Church itself) permission for the first corporation, the East India Company, was signed by Queen Elizabeth I December 31, 1600. In that this was the forerunner for global exploration and trade, and the expansion of the influence of the British Empire, including corporate enterprises to settle the new land of America, and that date would give it Sun, NN, Ceres, Mars, Pallas & Mercury all in Capricorn, perhaps it might be worth exploring transits and progressions associated with that chart? Meanwhile, suffice it to say that politics here in NZ is as crazy as the rest of the world. Posted by: kiwijeanie on January 30, 2006 04:15 AMThis evening it occured to me that this year marks the end of Kofi Annan's term as SG of the UN. Mostly it appears to be men currently at Davos trying to negotiate their way into the top slot. But here are two longshots. AUNG SAN SUU KYI GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND So on this new moon new year night i plant this seed thought: a wise, compassionate woman shall replace Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the UN. Can we think of others? Posted by: tseka on January 30, 2006 04:20 AMTseka, speaking of Davos - a couple of nights ago I was up late flipping through the TV channels (here in NZ) The absolute contrast between an intellegent round table discussion from Davos about employment issues broadcast on the BBC, versus the tabloid style morning Faux "news" show (about the damn libruls and the aclu) from the US. Its no wonder so many Americans are so ignorant about what happens in the rest of the world. Posted by: kiwijeanie on January 30, 2006 04:29 AMI am always torn on how to explain a very complicated cosmic process such as the Moon stand-still. I am going to begin by giving you an article on Ley Lines,the earth's energy lines, it's pretty short but the impact on the Ley Lines, from the Moon Stand-still is really exciting. http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMLeyLines. The Moon doesn't actually "standstill" but it seems to as it reaches extreme highs and lows every 18.6 years. Sacred sites were seemingly built along the "ley lines" (named such by their recent re-discovery in 1921 by a photographer Alfred Watkins of England. In China they are called Dragon Lines, in Australia Songlines. Jonathan Cainer has an excellent article on Ley Lines and the Moon Standstill. http://stars.metawire.com/2006/index.html Cainer does repeat the old myth that they cannot be seen just observed and mapped. Recently, in the last few years, science have been mapping the world wide matrix that birds follow in their migratory patterns and it would seem they follow the same mapped ley line matrix. Throughout the world vortices and sacred sites lie in a straight line to each other, following a longitudinal and latitude pattern. The really odd thing is these lines widen out in the Moon Standstill years. Just in the observation of the powerful impact on our lives during a Full Moon, the Standstill period is like a year long full moon. It's important to spend this year in an attitude of meditation sending out positive vibrations for yourself and the world. The Ancients always believed great power to receive whatever a person expressed accompanied these standstill years. Posted by: Sally on January 30, 2006 04:49 AMKiwi Jeannie Ja Sally fascinating isn't it? Like an electromaganetic web that connects all-things. Years ago i read an astro-physicist who made a very good case for trees communicating along these lines as well.... Posted by: tseka on January 30, 2006 05:05 AMthe electromaganetic field is somehow changed or different on the ley lines. There has been a great deal of work done in the last 10 years regarding the use of the lines as direction finders for birds, fish, whales, dolphins, even the growth of trees. Humans have an Ethmoid Bone in front of the vertebrate skull that has been found to be able to sense magnetic fields. We long ago stopped using that tissue, but it's there. Kewijeanie I have long worked on the British East India Trade Company of 1600 and the Dutch East India Company as it relates to commerce and trade. I would be happy to do an article on it in a few days. It's all the Capricorn in the 1600 chart that has always made me think when Pluto went over that point there would be a fall of corporations, or at least an implosion. Posted by: Sally on January 30, 2006 06:22 AMCongratulations Sally on the new Aquarian addition to your family. Since it is said we learn most by the age of 2, I expect you'll be taking her outside to look up at the stars and giving her coloring books of charts and planets as soon as possible :D The ley lines are certainly fascinating - and the thought of the interaction with the Moon really something to be pondered. Posted by: Pallas1800 on January 30, 2006 06:22 AMCongratulations Sally on the new Aquarian addition to your family. Since it is said we learn most by the age of 2, I expect you'll be taking her outside to look up at the stars and giving her coloring books of charts and planets as soon as possible :D The ley lines are certainly fascinating - and the thought of the interaction with the Moon really something to be pondered. Posted by: Pallas1800 on January 30, 2006 06:22 AMHere's an article that explains the real reason B*** went to war in Iraq, and why he will attack Iran. It's not really the oil...... The liberation of the U.S. Dollar in Iraq Oil, that bubbling crude, Black Gold, Texas Tea; no matter which country’s buying or selling it, all oil purchases around the globe are made with U.S. dollars only. The greenback is the international currency of oil sales, all oil sales the world over. Since the dollar is the money needed to purchase oil, every country around the globe must hold U.S. dollars. By having to earn or borrow U.S. currency to purchase oil, the value of the dollar is artificially supported because of the demand for oil. Supporting the value of the dollar is vital to the economy of the United States. ...snip... If people refused the dollar in the United States and started trading in gold coin, the big losers wouldn’t be the people, although they would know hardship and lean times. It would be the banking cartel, the Federal Reserve, and the federal government, because it is the borrowing of fiat money from the Federal Reserve that allows the federal government to spend money it doesn’t have on things it should not need. ...snip... Part of the reason America is in Iraq is to re-establish the U.S. dollar as the only currency accepted to purchase Iraq’s oil. http://www.teamliberty.net/id199.html
This one's for Rose re standstill moon and starting a business http://www.predictweather.com/ In the past, lunar Standstill was regarded as a propitious time, bringing good fortune and holding promise. It was a cosmic catalyst long awaited for. Lunar Standstills follow an eighteen and a half year pattern. They are traditionally full of mysterious meaning. Our ancestors knew them to be energy releasing, tide driving, weather-pattern breaking, mood-changing clarion calls, heralding times of great awakening and transformation. To this day as of thousands of years ago, at the North West tip of Scotland, generations of islanders celebrated Standstill at their temple of the Moon at a stone circle called called Callanais (pronounced Callanish). It is older than Stonehenge and some say predates the Pyramids. In 2006, many will flock there once more to witness and celebrate the culmination of the Lunar Standstill Cycle. Others will make pilgrimages to Chimney Rock in Colorado - to the Pyramids of Egypt and to a host of other sacred sites all around the globe where the phenomena is marked by stone placements, shadow lines and artificial hills. The ancients believed that the time held exceptional energy and that lines of power play upon a grid system, the ley lines. The name was coined in 1921 by a Herefordshire photographer called Alfred Watkins. One day, while out riding in the hills, he looked out on the landscape and realised that many of the oldest local monuments were laid out along an absolutely straight line. Though the roadways and rivers wandered, the key man-made features appeared to have been placed with perfect precision along some invisible track. One of the most famous runs from the sacred springs of Carn Brea in West Cornwall all the way up to Glastonbury Tor and then along to the recently discovered Sea Henge, a bronze age timber circle on the coast of Norfolk. Another connects the Rollright stones of Oxfordshire with the Rosslyn chapel near Edinburgh via the Long Meg stones of Penrith. We also know now that these lines extend right across the planet. In China, they are known as Lung Mei or dragon’s pathways. To the Aboriginal Australians, they are Songlines. In Auckland there are stone placements along a line that runs right across the city from a groove in the Waitakeres to Stockade Hill above Howick, which used to host a stone circle. But sadly in NZ the traditions of a very distant past are lost today. Posted by: on January 30, 2006 10:35 AMJoannaOregon says: On closet-gay homophobe/misogynist alito, I daresay that the most abject 60s-haters are the fundamentalists. I guess we're on the same wavelength about Alito. I'm gay and everytime I see Alito I keep 'hearing'crossdresser. I don't think he's gay just kinky. I also got the vibe that Chief Justice Roberts is also a closet gay. Maybe I'm just a cynic but I think that he and his wife adopted their kids so that they would round out their family potrait because he knew that he would be eventually nominated to the Supreme Court. Posted by: Roderick on January 30, 2006 12:27 PM* Gwbush … had his 2nd Saturn return in [6/05]. Saturn returns are times to grow up, face responsibility, & possibly face the music. Transiting Saturn reached his Leo Asc in 9/05 & his Mercury/Pluto in 10/05. bush’s Pluto is in the same degree in Leo as cheney’s Sun is in Aquarius. This involves transiting Saturn with bush’s chart at the time of Libby’s arrest. By 12/05, bush is likely to encounter more problems because of libby/cheney. Irrational behavior on bush’s part at the end of 1/06 & 2/06 as transiting Uranus opposes Mars will likely make matters worse. He continues to be wounded by association in 3/06 as Chiron conjuncts his 7th house cusp. Saturn is back on his Asc, Mercury/Pluto in 6/06 & 7/06 & Chiron opposes his Asc once again. This brings more bad news for him, more accountability, & further problems based on his associates. Mars is active again in 9/06 & 10/06 as progressed Mars conjuncts the Moon & solar arc Mars squares the Asc. An attack on his life is possible. Further injuries to popularity with the public are likely, incl possible difficulties with his political base. http://www.trufax.org/general/astro.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on January 30, 2006 01:10 PMPoll, important poll (to the extent that any of these polls have any importance). Should the Dems fillibuster Alito? http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml Posted by: shylurker on January 30, 2006 01:27 PMCarol, Burn up the switchboards. http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/30/75418/0168 Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 02:20 PMhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11079547/site/newsweek Palace Revolt By Daniel Klaidman, Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas Feb. 6, 2006 issue - James Comey, a lanky, 6-foot-8 former prosecutor who looks a little like Jimmy Stewart, resigned as deputy attorney general in the summer of 2005. The press and public hardly noticed. Comey's farewell speech, delivered in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, contained all the predictable, if heartfelt, appreciations. But mixed in among the platitudes was an unusual passage. Comey thanked "people who came to my office, or my home, or called my cell phone late at night, to quietly tell me when I was about to make a mistake; they were the people committed to getting it right—and to doing the right thing—whatever the price. These people," said Comey, "know who they are. Some of them did pay a price for their commitment to right, but they wouldn't have it any other way." One of those people—a former assistant attorney general named Jack Goldsmith—was absent from the festivities and did not, for many months, hear Comey's grateful praise. In the summer of 2004, Goldsmith, 43, had left his post in George W. Bush's Washington to become a professor at Harvard Law School. Stocky, rumpled, genial, though possessing an enormous intellect, Goldsmith is known for his lack of pretense; he rarely talks about his time in government. In liberal Cambridge, Mass., he was at first snubbed in the community and mocked as an atrocity-abetting war criminal by his more knee-jerk colleagues. ICY WELCOME FOR NEW LAW PROF, headlined The Harvard Crimson. They had no idea. Goldsmith was actually the opposite of what his detractors imagined. For nine months, from October 2003 to June 2004, he had been the central figure in a secret but intense rebellion of a small coterie of Bush administration lawyers. Their insurrection, described to NEWSWEEK by current and former administration officials who did not wish to be identified discussing confidential deliberations, is one of the most significant and intriguing untold stories of the war on terror. More Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 02:31 PM
Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are privately bristling over Howard Dean’s management of the Democratic National Committee and have made those sentiments clear after new fundraising numbers showed he has spent nearly all the committee’s cash and has little left to support their efforts to gain seats this cycle, ROLL CALL reports. Congressional leaders were furious last week when they learned the DNC has just $5.5 million in the bank, compared to the Republican National Committee’s $34 million. Senate and House Minority Leaders Harry Reid (Nev.) and Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), along with the Senate and House campaign committee chairmen Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), have made their concerns -- directly or indirectly -- known to Dean, claims the paper. Emanuel was particularly upset last week upon seeing the latest DNC numbers. “A lot of people are scratching their heads as to what’s going on,” said one senior Democratic aide. Another Democratic source familiar with the party fundraising apparatus said there is “obvious displeasure” among the leaders. Developing... Posted by: wv on January 30, 2006 04:09 PMHmmmmmmmm..... http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Chafee_will_oppose_Alito_0130.html Posted by: Teresa on January 30, 2006 04:10 PMhttp://www.alternet.org/rights/31540/ Posted by: Teresa on January 30, 2006 04:35 PMWV ... mayber there are no funds in the DNC because people are saying why give money to the Dems in the first place? i sure stopped....mostly because I have NO money now....but philosophically because they haven't done anything to warrent getting money. Posted by: JudiG on January 30, 2006 05:30 PMJudi G., go to dailykos.com. This is a bunch of bull about Dean. Here's one little quote (much more at kos): "How many times do we need to call bullshit on this? I've done it here and here. Yet the cowards in this piece refuse to put their names to their criticisms. Nice way to show conviction. In fact, the two people cited by name (including our new friend Elmendorf) actually praise Dean."
Betcha Dean has directed the funds to the grass roots, local groups, rather then padding the fat cats warchest pockets. Too bad so sad fat cats get your own grass roots. Posted by: Morgana on January 30, 2006 05:39 PMOh GOOD! Judi, And then there's this! http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article341518.ece
January 30, 2006 Louisiana in Limbo It has been five months since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and for many the norm is still the claustrophobic new reality of tiny trailers and multiple families crammed into single apartments. Louisiana is trying. You can hear jackhammers pounding and buzz saws whirring on Canal Street in New Orleans. Dedicated workers endure a grinding daily commute from points north, like Baton Rouge, as they try to make the city and the region whole again. But the mission is far from complete and the challenge is beyond the scope of a broken city and a poor state. New Orleans's crisis has little relation to anything the nation has faced in modern memory, and traditional solutions will simply not help. Homeowners — many very poor people whose houses had been in their families for generations — had varying degrees of insurance before the disaster. When entire neighborhoods are devastated, their mildewed furniture and drywall piled on the roadsides, it's impossible to tell the people who are well insured to rebuild and hope that the houses all around them will somehow be reclaimed somewhere down the line. But the Bush administration refuses to support the plan of Representative Richard Baker, Republican of Louisiana, which would give everyone the capacity to rebuild and which had the backing of the mayor, the governor and the state's Congressional delegation. (To add insult to injury, two days after the White House shot down Mr. Baker's proposal, President Bush suggested at a news conference that Louisiana's problem was the lack of a plan.) Instead of an alternate solution, the president's Katrina czar, Donald Powell, has offered sleight of hand, touting $6.2 billion in development money for Louisiana passed last year by Congress as if it were somehow a substitute. And in an attempt to narrow the scope of the problem, Mr. Powell says the government first needs to care for the roughly 20,000 homeowners without flood insurance who lived outside the federally designated flood plain. The real tally of destroyed or damaged homes in the region is well over 200,000. And the real need is housing for residents, whether they were renters or owners, insured or uninsured, living above the flood plain or trusting the federal government's levees to protect them from storms. Perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on the wreckage of poor, low-lying New Orleans neighborhoods like the Lower Ninth Ward. That has sparked the unproductive, blame-the-victim debate revolving around whether people should have lived there in the first place. The Ninth Ward provides a misleading picture of the city, as do the relatively unscathed tourist areas like the French Quarter and the Garden District. Huge swaths of the city have the empty quality of a ghost town. Stores wait for residents to reopen; residents wait to see if neighbors will return. The city and surrounding parishes will not meet Mr. Powell's neat categories, when renters lived beside owners, insured next to uninsured. He is talking like an actuary when a leader is needed to rescue this region. Now, Congress has a responsibility to follow its own lead rather than the president's. We were outraged once, shocked at the images on our television sets, at the poverty in our collective backyard and at the devastation of a great city. As the disaster threatens to become permanent, we have every reason to remain so.
Any other sites on ley lines? I get a "not found on this server" message. I can find out where ours are, 2 of my art students studied it while they were working on historic restoration of a local mansion. BTW: That burning moon I wrote about, was fragmented by rising behind the big double tip spruce tree on the hill east of me. It made it kinetic by the branches until it cleared above the tree.
Exxon asks reduction of Valdez damage award Saturday, January 28, 2006 By DAVID KRAVETS SAN FRANCISCO -- Exxon Mobil Corp. urged a federal appeals court Friday to erase the $5 billion in damages an Alaska jury ordered the oil giant to pay for the 1989 Valdez oil spill. Exxon attorney Walter Dellinger told a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the company should be liable for no more than $25 million in punitive damages. Punitive damages are meant to deter and punish misconduct. Exxon, which reported third-quarter earnings of $10 billion, said it has spent more than $3 billion on cleanup work and to settle other federal and state lawsuits stemming from the spill. Posted by: wv on January 30, 2006 06:19 PMThanks for posting that, wv. It's pretty accurate insofar as the feds are concerned. The mayor said a few days ago that the redevelopment plan is complete. There is quite a lot of positive energy here that somehow will make a certain amount of positive things happen and we'll go from there but the process has to be slow at the begining for these reasons: 1) the Army Corp of Engineers has promised flood gates (primative at first) in the 3 main canals that breached by June but until that happens and we see how we fare this summer, not enough people feel secure. 2) FEMA is to release preliminary elevation surveys this summer with them finalized by the end of 2007 (?). If the studies show that homes in certain areas must be raised a certain amount to merit flood insurance, things become complicated. Rebuild now but incur extra expense later by the requirement to elevate? And how expensive would that be anyway? How many can afford it. The local gov. says that with or without the Baker Plan, there will be the funds to buyout those who cannot afford to rebuild, or elevate, or whose neighborhood is just too vulnerable to flooding. I tend to believe them. At the same time, the local gov. is encouraging rebuilding for those residents who feel their area can again be viable by suspending the need for city inspections as long as work is done by licensed, insured contractors. My husband feels that allows the possibility of lots of dangerous errors that can result in fires, etc. When one things about, New Orleans is slowly sinking, the oceans are slowly rising -- the historical areas should be preserved if possible, but how much population should be encouraged here? It can again be a great city but rebuilding definitely has to be on a smaller scale and the population will be smaller. One of the ideas is to rebuild denser housing, like Japan. Here's the N.O. planet placement based on 2/10/1718 (from astrobank I think). Obviously, transiting Neptune and Uranus are having their say, but Neptune has passed the sun, and a Pluto-Venus square and Uranus-Sat. opposition opposition is coming up. With the Aquarius sun/Pisces moon, we are a visionary, artistic, humanistic city that could easily embrace more technology. With Mars in Aries, we should have the drive. When Neptune reaches reach the moon in the next few years - will the people be fooled or will their visions be realized? Feel free to comment. 2/10/1718 Sun 13 Aq 39-14 Huffington Post - Donnie Fowler Why Does Impeachment Keep Coming Up? So, it is OK to have an impeachment and trial for a man who lied about sex, but it's not polite to discuss impeachment for lies about war or for deliberate, even arrogant and flagrant, flaunting of laws passed by Congress? Once again, the Mainstream Media and its twin sister Conventional Wisdom are being dragged kicking and screaming into inconvenient conversations about the direction our nation is headed. Most of you have seen the January Zogby poll that showed that 52% of Americans would now favor impeachment proceedings, up from 42% in a similar poll last June.
Excuse the errors - I didn't proofread. What I meant was..."when one thinks about it, New Orleans is slowly sinking..." and obviously there is no Uranus-Saturn opposition-opposition coming up...but there would be a tPluto-Uranus square and a tUranus-Uranus opposition. I'm having a Neptunian kind of day (nMercury in 16 Aquarius; Moon in 18 Leo)and my mind is kind of lazy in a pleasant way. Posted by: Sharon on January 30, 2006 06:38 PM
This year, the Oscar nominations and the State of the Union Address
"It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in Good God! The people have spoken loud and clear! Lieberman changed his vote to NO on Alito. how amazing. gives me chills. And Lautenberg now speaking on C Span 2 against http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013006J.shtml Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths Monday 30 January 2006 In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for some female American soldiers serving in Iraq. Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark. The latrine for female soldiers at Camp Victory wasn't located near their barracks, so they had to go outside if they needed to use the bathroom. "There were no lights near any of their facilities, so women were doubly easy targets in the dark of the night," Karpinski told retired US Army Col. David Hackworth in a September 2004 interview. It was there that male soldiers assaulted and raped women soldiers. So the women took matters into their own hands. They didn't drink in the late afternoon so they wouldn't have to urinate at night. They didn't get raped. But some died of dehydration in the desert heat, Karpinski said. Karpinski testified that a surgeon for the coalition's joint task force said in a briefing that "women in fear of getting up in the hours of darkness to go out to the port-a-lets or the latrines were not drinking liquids after 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and in 120 degree heat or warmer, because there was no air-conditioning at most of the facilities, they were dying from dehydration in their sleep." "And rather than make everybody aware of that - because that's shocking, and as a leader if that's not shocking to you then you're not much of a leader - what they told the surgeon to do is don't brief those details anymore. And don't say specifically that they're women. You can provide that in a written report but don't brief it in the open anymore." More.... Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 07:51 PM a democrat named Johnson just voted YES for who is he, where is he from? shouldn't he be receiving a lot of phone calls? and Landrieu hasn't voted yet Posted by: Pallas1800 on January 30, 2006 07:56 PMRE Alito: Maybe Uranus will do its thing, acting like a thunderbolt, nd bring in surprising results on this New Moon in Aquarius! Posted by: Jaycee on January 30, 2006 08:08 PMLandrieu's phone appears to be off the hook. I wish I knew who Johnson is. Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 08:21 PMOk, Johnson is the Democratic Senator from South Dakota. Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 08:35 PMTim Johnson SD 202-224-5842 Landrieu 202-224-5824 Posted by: on January 30, 2006 09:13 PMKerry and Kennedy both were brilliant, brought tears to my eyes!! Posted by: Laurie on January 30, 2006 09:17 PMoh & NYTimes did it again! U.S. Capitol Switchboard Kennedy's number busy , and Landrieu's and Johnson's Cant get through to anyof them Wanted to Bless Kennedy for his fight for us. Posted by: Pallas1800 on January 30, 2006 09:26 PMThe NSA, CIA and Pentagon are locating HQs for domestic spying programs in Aurora Colorado, Bill Arkin writes. http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/01/nsa_expands_its.html#more Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 09:29 PMHere's some humor for you folks from a Republican acquaintance. A driver is stuck in a traffic jam on the highway. Nothing is moving. "Terrorists have kidnapped President Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald The driver asks, "How much is everyone giving, on average?" "About a gallon."
Landrieu voted yes....... Looks like she's afraid of losing money to rebuild NOLA. Does she not realize she won't be getting much or any at all? Posted by: Cybear on January 30, 2006 09:52 PMSalazar changed no vote to yes. Posted by: Cybear on January 30, 2006 09:57 PMSay goodbye to democracy. We lost big time. Posted by: Cybear on January 30, 2006 09:58 PMSo did Liberman of course. Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 10:02 PMWE ARE THE SILENCED MAJORITY. Posted by: Cybear on January 30, 2006 10:10 PMFrom Salon Who's to blame for Samuel Alito? Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Page >> Democrats will never win battles against the Republicans if they continue to act as though they are a bunch of individuals who just happen to be grouped under a single heading, with no need to act in unison. The fact is, even when the Democrats had the majority in the Senate, they couldn't stop such obvious right-wing ideologues as Clarence Thomas and Anton Scalia, because some of their members broke rank, while Republicans held together. Much as we may despise and/or fear them, Republicans take their party affiliation seriously, behaving more like a parliamentary party, where Yes or No votes on important issues are expected of all members, or else. When they go into a confirmation battle, it's as if they're going to war: the only way to win is to pull out all the stops, and work together. Until Democrats learn to take their party affiliation as seriously as their opposition does, it's going to be like watching the NFL versus your local high school football team, over and over. And as they lose their contests against the Republicans, so, too, will they lose support amongst those of us who have stayed with them over the years, hoping against hope that the party will finally learn how to fight. My wife and I have been loyal Democrats for 40 years; but we are at our rope's end. Give us a new party that represents liberal and progressive points of view, and behaves as though it is determined to win, rather than just compete, and we are ready to bid the Dems adieu. -- coop1946 Posted by: wv on January 30, 2006 10:26 PMIt's all a grand show for the "Little Guy" anyway... time/time & money consumer... throwing out cheap suckers for the suckers in their monstrous parade imo. My friend, Spiny, is probably very correct... it'll take all the "Little Guys" getting out into streets & swamping the Evil Doers. Why should we be any different than the masses of "Little Guys" in say, Venezuala, who got in somebody they liked. (I detest that phrase--"Little Guys"--but sometimes find it convenient for sarcasm... it ain't Truth) Posted by: JoannaOregon on January 30, 2006 10:30 PMI think the filibuster attempt was a huge success. A week ago the idea was outside the furthest stretches of the imagination. Everyone thought he would sail in unobstructed. This was proven completely wrong. The uprising of the people is palpable and has gone to a new level. No one is resting easy now. Dangers lurk on all sides. We have to be patient. Efforts in behalf of justice must be rewarded in time. Maturity on our part is highly advised as these desperate people get more and more nervous. The battle is far far from over. The fact that Democrats don't rally together behind destructive acts is their ace. The downside is not rallying behind good things, but independence is the best way to go in the end. A lot of independent spirit was shown throughout this event. Be realistic. What do you expect? These people are politicians and their character is suspect. Politicians pander, rarely stand up for principle, and are tied in bondage to the entities that hold the purse, just like everyone. It's up to us. We are free. We can control where we put our money collectively. We can stand up for our beliefs and shout from the mountain. These people are a symbol of where our society stands right now. Removing them, hurling stones, advocating violence, etc. will not solve the problem. It will change in time. It already is. It takes knowledge, wisdom, and soul to endure the pain and continue with courage. We can do that. Posted by: jm on January 30, 2006 10:51 PM72 vote to end the debate. 72. Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 10:52 PMThe from a Canadian student... Blame Misplaced Allegiance As an avid (Canadian) student of politics and history, I cannot help but observe the ineptitude of the democrats and the ineffectiveness of their true constituency with fear and premonition about the future. People seem to continue to vote according to the fantastic version of their agenda as opposed to recognising that they are casting their lot with a party whose platform is at odds with what people's realistic agenda is. This is what creates the bizarre scenarios (played out in many districts during recent elections) of a lunch-pail neighbourhood voting in favour of a party that openly disdains advocacy of working people's issues. Just as absurd as misplacing allegiance (and misallocating one's franchise) is the generally accepted notion that a vote for the Greens or for a similarly honest aspirant is a wasted vote. On the contrary, what had been wasted (on the part of progressives and the so-called apolitical working class) are eight years of treading water or regression. Significant vote totals for the Greens and others would have sent uncontestable messages to the Democratic Party, which currently appears as indifferent to its irrelevance as its constituents to their fate. It's my biggest dream that we stop the National Enquirer type gossip hate fest, blaming people ad nauseum, and start to work on principle, right action, and responsibility, grace, and equanimity. We're dealing with precious life force and we need replacements. Every time we get involved in their game playing, we contribute. Rage and resentment can be powerful tools when mastered and controlled. Posted by: jm on January 30, 2006 11:04 PMSeventeen Democratic Akaka (HI), Baucus (MT), Bingaman (NM), Byrd (WV), Cantwell (WA), Carper (DE), Dorgan (ND), Inouye (HI), Johnson (SD), Kohl (WI), Landrieu (LA), Lieberman (CT), Lincoln (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Rockefeller (WV), Salazar (CO) Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 11:13 PMPat, that list of 17 should be posted everywhere. Posted by: Teresa on January 30, 2006 11:17 PMI realize we are a young and naive Cancer country, but witness now the howling, shrieking, whining, and crybabying that will mount to almost cosmic levels. Doomsday and all that nonsense. That's exactly why we are where we are. It starts with the initial reaction. By learning to let it slip, slide, and roll, understanding that it is circumstance, which is everchanging and not individually controlled. And that valuable information about how to deal with the future is in all these events. jm, I hope you'll help me do that. Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 11:23 PMFertik's recap http://www.democrats.com/alito-betrayal Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 11:27 PMI'm watching C-SPAN and I believe that Baucus of MT just gave a very detailed anti-Alito speech for at least 30 minutes, although Pat C noted him as one of the 17 Dems voting for cloure. Now Senator Dodd is voicing shock, saying that this is the first time in his 25 years of service that it's the first time ever a cloture vote has been invoked within 24-36 hours of a Supreme Court nomination. He said that if a debate went on for a few weeks, it would be understandable to invoke cloture, and implied this is being rushed through to accommodate a photo op due at tomorrow's SOTU speech. He is still speaking very well. Baucus made good points but he is not such a good speaker. Posted by: Sharon on January 30, 2006 11:32 PMJM, that's how we got in this position to begin with. We don't have the time to be patient any longer. This administration has done decades of damage in 5 years. What will they do next? We may be able to change the politicians out, but we are stuck with a lopsided SC now. Watch and see how radical the changes will be in their (the rightwingers and corporations) favor. As a gay man, I am furious. It may not effect you too much, but it sure as hell could be effecting me, my partner, friends and family very soon. Posted by: Cybear on January 30, 2006 11:35 PMI think you already do, Pat C. You move gracefully and quickly, here and there, in and out. I don't see you getting ensnared largely because of your mental agility and skill at going on to retrieve new information. Most of us are better than we know since we get so little positive feedback. This is certainly not the end of our hopes for any good experiences. I think we should remember to be extremely grateful for the few individuals who did stand up against these odds. We are actually the majority and as much as we are broken by the truth of our leadership, there are a few fighting for us. We should bank on them The more supprt they get, the less energy we give the hurtful ones, the sooner we will emerge from this conundrum. Posted by: jm on January 30, 2006 11:36 PMYou're kind jm, and I do appreciate your encouragement. Thank you. Posted by: Pat C on January 30, 2006 11:42 PMFirst of all, he's not on the court yet. By jumping to conclusions and putting an imprint of doom on an uncertain future, you are causing yourself pain. Awareness is necessary and fear is normal, but where is your confidence, Cybear? You're not so young and you've survived everthing up until now. It sounds like you are in pretty good shape. How can one man change everything so drastically? He could be dead tomorrow. He could contribute to a hurtful decision. He could not do much of anything. He could change. Why make a sure dire prediction? If he tries to hurt you, just be prepared. As I said, if he gets on the court, Pluto will be transiting his nodal axis soon and this will be powerful, maybe rendering him powerless during that time. The power balance might also change then, which will affect the political climate. Posted by: jm on January 30, 2006 11:46 PMAll- On the other hand, I urge you all to read the blog at this link....not saying this is good or correct or authentic or anything but it did give me another perspective, and sometimes that's all you have!!! http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/why-i-oppose-filibuster.html Posted by: Gary on January 31, 2006 12:05 AMI am emailing the 25 Senators who voted "No" on cloture--for the filibuster--and thanking each one for his/her vote For the Constitution. Because that is what it was. 25 is a start. When the people lead, the leaders will follow. Posted by: Barbara on January 31, 2006 12:06 AMIt took Goethe 30 years to finish his masterpiece, Faust. Sometimes good things come slowly. Pluto in Sagittarius is testing our faith now. After this, the work will begin in earnest. There is no way that Capricorn will allow anything but eventual construction...slowly, methodically, brick by brick. Don't you think this is related to our coming Pluto return? This destruction? And this post from the last thread by Jaycee deserves reposting here now: EVERYONE, THE next time we get FEARFUL OR ANGRY–Here are some thoughts to consider:
Some Calibration levels Shames - 20 Neutrality - 250 THE WORDS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION and the GETTYSBURG ADDRESS CALIBRATE AT 700. Progressions are logarithmic, so 300 is not twice 150; it is 10 to the 300th power (10300th). So an increase of just a few points represents a MAJOR ADVANCE IN POWER. “. . . Violence is force, but since Gandhi was aligned with power instead of force, he forbade all use of violence in his cause. And because he expressed universal principles (which calibrate at 700), he was able to unite the will of the people. When the will of the people is so united by and aligned with universal principle, it’s virtually unconquerable. Colonialism (calibrated at 175) is founded in the self interest of the ruling country. Gandhi demonstrated, for the world to witness, the power of selflessness versus the force of self-interest. The same principle has also been demonstrated quite dramatically in South Africa by Nelson Mandela.” “One characteristic of force is arrogance; power is characterized by humility. Force is pompous; it has all the answers. Power is unassuming.”
ONE person vibrating at level 500 (LOVE) can counterbalance 750,000 people of a lower vibration! And one person vibrating at level 700 can raise the consciousness of 70 million people! Each time one person shifts into a higher state of awareness, even if only a few points, it affects larger and larger numbers of people.
WE ARE NOT DEFEATED!!!!! REMEMBER THAT EVERYONE!!!! Posted by: Garry on January 31, 2006 12:11 AMhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/30/161653/776 Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 12:21 AMMay you be Blessed... http://www.mayyoubeblessedmovie.com/onemillionblessings.html Posted by: wv on January 31, 2006 12:30 AMtwo comments You realize while everyone was in an uproar about Someone ought to make a stink about this to the media and the newspapers. Why does it remind me of Nixon's firing Archibald Cox to stop his investigation? Same action, just slicker. 2) Either those 17 "moderates" should leave the By the way, after the vote this afternoon, an ounce of gold jumped from $561 to $570. And that is not the little people buying gold - it's the big boys. Tells you something about their confidence in the country, its leadership, and the dollar, doesn't it. Posted by: Pallas1800 on January 31, 2006 12:35 AMWhen the US began the bombing/invasion of Iraq on the last day of winter 2003, Mars/Chiron were about to form a conjunction. At the time, this seemed like an ominous aspect--& I devoted the 3/28/03 edition of Planet Waves Weekly to the subject. Here is that article, reprinted in its entirety. - e.f. WHAT DO the worst disasters of the Vietnam War, the downfall of a hawk president & the resignation of his distinguished, long-time sec of [offense] all have in common? The answer is Mars conjunct Chiron involved in the process. ... http://www.planetwaves.net/contents/saigon.html Posted by: JoannaOregon on January 31, 2006 12:50 AMThe good guys who stuck together. Bayh, Ind.; Biden, Del.; Boxer, Calif.; Clinton, N.Y.; Dayton, Minn.; Dodd, Conn.; Durbin, Ill.; Feingold, Wis.; Feinstein, Calif.; Kennedy, Mass.; Kerry, Mass.; Lautenberg, N.J.; Leahy, Vt.; Levin, Mich.; Menendez, N.J.; Mikulski, Md.; Murray, Wash.; Obama, Ill.; Reed, R.I.; Reid, Nev.; Sarbanes, Md.; Schumer, N.Y.; Stabenow, Mich.; Wyden, Ore. Posted by: Pat C on January 31, 2006 01:33 AMjm, you are such an inspired cheerleader keeping us all focused. Thanks so much for sharing your higher energy!! For anyone discouraged by the day to day shennanigans I would like to add this: It seems that before a new age can truly begin, the old corrupted structures must be torn down, disgraced, and replaced with a new ethical method of political interaction. And that won't happen until the majority learns to behave/react in an entirely new manner. By thinking that either of the existing major parties can bail us out, is like an addict thinking he can continue to imbibe just a wee bit and still change his life for the better. Remember that Edison said after inventing the light bulb, he learned 2000 ways that it wouldn't work before he found the one way that would. With the shaded and sometimes corrupted past links within the offical Democratic Party, I am surprised that there are so many who still think they can be the solution to the US and the globes woes. We are all entering the operating room for urgent political cancer surgery ready to go under the knife, but - oh no - the anesthetist hasn't shown up. Posted by: kiwijeanie on January 31, 2006 01:34 AMFirst – the downside. Check out the webcast by Professor Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at University of Ottawa, at www.globalresearch.ca , and his forecasts for the coming potential war. But then there’s the upside. Yesterday I was talking to a regular correspondent, who suggested that the reason the ‘dark’ seems to be getting more pervasive and stronger in the outside world is a reaction to the accelerating growth of the ‘light’ at the personal level in a large number of individual’s lives. You can’t have dark without light, stands to reason, but as someone who tries to get steadily lighter, I’ve realised you can’t get rid of the dark, you just have to incorporate and assimilate it, integrate it into oneself and become more wholesome as a result. And that’s us- those of us that acknowledge we’re not perfect, that 2% is corrupt, but that 98% of us is a really nice person. The warmongers are riddled with obsession of perfection to the point of madness, which in any natural system of evolution inevitably leads to extinction. Survival of the sane! ... http://www.stevejudd.co.uk/ Posted by: JoannaOregon on January 31, 2006 01:38 AMJust got a call from Tom Delay's office asking if I would vote for him. And of course I told them no way in hell would I vote for such slime. Posted by: Cybear on January 31, 2006 01:44 AMThat is hilarious, Kiwijeanie! Even though I was valedictorian of my class, it was the four years of cheerleading I loved the most. But thank you for your wonderful post. I had just crashed on the couch, thinking,"this is getting tough", when I read your words. You are absolutely right about the corruption in the Democratic Party that's always been there. It is evidence of our strength and good fortune that we have any joy at all in our lives with politicians at the helm. I've always detested them and have been uninterested in following the actions of people of this ilk. I carve my own path. However, Pluto is marching up to my Midheaven pulling me out into the world. And what a world it is! Of course, it contains individuals like you and I have the great sense to align myself with promising potential. I will never let cruel people steal my sense of the goodness of life. Instead of cowering we have to influence. They manipulate through fear so the best way to deal with that, is to not be afraid. Then they are finished. Watch as the Orwellian drama builds, swells, and then subsides and life goes on as usual. I certainly will not jump for the bone every time they snap their fingers, even though I might flinch just a tad. These repressive times come and go in a rhythm. Like the beauty of the ley lines which hold spiritual power, these rhythms in politics are guiding us accurately. It's just a matter of perceiving it. Posted by: jm on January 31, 2006 02:20 AMI for one, am not feeling defeated. I was a moderate-leftist when Bush first stole the election. Today, five years later, I am feeling more Radical than ever. I'm glad that Kerry, Kennedy, Boxer and the other Democratic senators mentioned above had the intestinal fortitude to oppose Alito and the Reich-Wing insanity. That said, I can't consider myself a Democrat anymore. Not if that means being Republican-Lite like Obama, Lieberman, or any of the rest of the Dems In Name Only who chose not to oppose another dream candidate of the NeoCons. We need a new movement and a new party that is at least ten times as radical and progressive as the NeoConservative Republicans are regressive and destructive. I don't know if that seed was planted today, but I do believe that the NeoCons are operating on borrowed time. And the more desperate they become to consolidate and hold onto their ill-accumulated power, the worse it will be from them when the people finally do emerge someday to snatch it back out of their hands. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on January 31, 2006 02:20 AM
In 1972 I got a call from the White House asking She hung up. I was audited by the IRS for 15 years. Posted by: wv on January 31, 2006 02:21 AMhey jm, I was valedictorian also....but certainly as far from a cheerleader as you could get, hiding in the art room.... I really like the interview Pelosi held with bloggers http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Pelosi_holds_first_blogger_conference_call_0130.html but still.....who are those people who are the Vichy Democrats? Are they the kind of people who founded this country? hahahahah....I am descended from both Loyalists and Revolutionaries...but not Vichy Democrats....is this too harsh? Well....I don't think these 17 (Inouye, for god's sake, a war vet) would be up to the fight. I guess Uranus hasn't had his way with them yet....makes me want to become an Independent. Funny ...my uncle in TX went from Repub to Independent....over how awful the Repubs in TX were....is it time for me yet? I am thinking yes...and at least there will be no money for any democrat nationally who handles him or herself the way these people have. Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 02:34 AMBTW ..... I think it is instructive that Hamas (Pelosi said Bush was a total fool not to realize they would win) would take the elections BECAUSE the Palestinian people liked that they were providing important services in health and education to them....and in return they said.....NO MORE TERRORISTS assaults.....we will vote for you if you stop this. And they did. And they were voted in....Bush new it could only happen if he allowed elections to take place, and he was the one saying 'elections good!" so was stuck ..... he could have stopped them by saying that US residents couldn't vote in the elections, and it would have invalidated the results.... So the people spoke. Too bad the people aren't speaking loudly here, huh? Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 02:38 AMthe arrogance of the oil execs....refusing to testify at the senate hearings....demanding a return of their 5 bil for cleaning up the Exxon spill....they are emboldened....they are arrogant...they are saying fuck you america, we'll do what we want, the president has our backs. it is truly disgusting. Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 02:40 AMHow weird is it anyway that pink-only temp workers decide whether or not our children die or are maimed, whether we have an income or health care, whether we get to travel or not, what/who we worship, have a home or not. As a temp worker myself many times for the personal freedom, I have often sensed a... well, you know... a certain distain for my "position" & certainly, noone ever offered me the Power Over Life N' Death or gave me the company's treasury or served me special lunches or gave me fancy cars or carte blanc on patho-lying. Mebbe my skirt just wasn't short enuf... or somethin'. Posted by: JoannaOregon on January 31, 2006 02:42 AMRight, judi. Money talks. Quite articulately. And please, my wonderful friends and compatriots. Don't go into paroxysms of anguish when that huched over ragdoll opens his disgusting mouth and tries to speak tomorrow. Just look at his drugged dry mouth and tongue and his upper lip stick out and try to get around those same words he always uses. It's quite ridiculous. JM, "I'm still an anarchist" You just brought me back down to earth and made me realize my true political colors. I stand with you and others that wear the cirlce A. But, I am a descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and it's still in my genes. That's why I get so fired up with the goings on of these idiots in control I guess. His name was Benjamin Rush. Check him out. Posted by: Cybear on January 31, 2006 03:12 AMWV - I wanted to say more, but I figured my mouth may get me into more trouble then I really want to deal with at this time. Posted by: Cybear on January 31, 2006 03:19 AMWHEN we do take back control of our country, the oil execs should be the very first criminals that we arrest and hand over to stand trial in The Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Oil corporations themselves ought to be Nationalized, have their assets stripped to the bare functional minimum and auctioned off with the proceeds going towards paying down the National Debt. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on January 31, 2006 03:20 AMI was trying to wind down and head out but you got me excited, Cybear. I came out of the womb unable to be governed. My parent's never even tried. I raised myself, made all my own decisions and grew up completely self disciplined. The politicians never bothered me because I perceived them as having no power over me. I've lived successfully way outside the system. When I come up against it, I fight it and usually win. But I appreciate the roads, national parks, firemen, and all the other practical parts of government. And I willingly pay taxes for these things. I never paid any attention to Bush until he got on the weapuns of mass deshtrucshin jag and really got on my nerves, since I couldn't listen to the radio without hearing it every day. Irritated the hell out of me. His needle is always stuck in some groove. Then the war and all of that were too much and I got involved. I'll check out your auspicious connection. We really do have an unusually strong spirit of independence in our American character and it will always surface and serve us well. Gotta go....later.... Posted by: jm on January 31, 2006 03:29 AMOh Is That It! Christian Amanpour is talking frankly on Larry King live. I think the kidnapped Jill Carol, and the injuries of Bob Woodruff & His photographer are going to have a big impact on the public. Wodruff was the Peter Jennings replacement anchor on the Entertainment channel. Disney! Someone mentioned "Brokeback Mountain" earlier upthread, and I just wanted to chime in and say how much I loved this movie. At first, I was rather nonplussed by it, because I had gone into the theater expecting a big, sweeping epic a la "The English Patient" or "Doctor Zhivago," but as one of you already mentioned, it's really a quiet, restrained, utterly sad film, just as much about loneliness as it is about love. It really creeps under your skin, so expect to be thinking about days or weeks after you see it. Speaking of movies, Heath Ledger (who plays Ennis in BBM) and Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote") appear to be the frontrunners for the Best Actor Oscar. Would any of you be willing to take a look at their charts and see which looks better for March 5, the night of the Oscars this year? Just a quick glance looks like Ledger's transit chart looks better, while Hoffman's progressed chart is more auspicious. Here's their birth data: Take heart, Cybear. The revolution has only just begun. As jm mentioned above, this is the day of the NeoConservative. And it is but A day. But every day must eventually come to an end. And the Reactionaries can no more prolong their reign than any of us possess the power to prevent the Sun from setting over the western horizon. The journey to take back our country is an ongoing struggle. And victory may not come without a cost, but together, we will someday know victory. And even then, must we continue to fight on. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on January 31, 2006 03:33 AMThe Aquarius moon ( Uranus/Anarchist) is crossing the USA moon ( the people) tonight isn't it? Maybe the expression "Turning in his grave" Gary, great post from you and everyone. I was struck by the fact that only 5 more democrats were needed to filibuster... Ya'll forget that they all bat for the same team (repubs & dems) ... they just need to create enough of a perception that they are opponents in order to continue the illusion. That's why the democrats are so "inept". They're not, it's just part of the game ... has to be. I can't believe that there are not reams and reams of brilliant people who'd be willing to give every last ounce of themselves in the cause of our democracy. The truth of the matter is the DLC and Democratic party shoot down anybody who'd be effective. They aren't winning because they're not supposed to win ... they're just supposed to look busy and act like the bumbling underdog. Don't forget that Kerry conceded before anyone even got to take a breath ... now he's the "hero". The knight in white shining armor. I don't buy it. I'm not saying that all democrats are in on the plan, the same way I don't think all republicans are "in" on it either ... but both sides are doing their very best to shoot down the best candidates and put forward the ones that can be controlled, bought or intimidated. Sorry state of affairs. Time for change. Since they're so preocupied with changing our democracy ... ok, let's start helping the change along instead of resisting it ... let's get rid of this two-party system, let's do public financing of campaigns, let's get rid of the Supreme Court (as we know it), most especially their lifetime appointments, and that's just a bit of what I'd like to see happen sooner rather than later. Have a great night! Here's Gary's post ... interesting read. On the other hand, I urge you all to read the blog at this link....not saying this is good or correct or authentic or anything but it did give me another perspective, and sometimes that's all you have!!! http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/why-i-oppose-filibuster.html
A commenter on Fertic's blog made a great suggestion. One of the great ways to make a point in this country is boycotting....whether it is a WalMart, or a record, or a movie....the Xians have been pretty good at scaring the bejesuuus out of businesses that way.....I say....do the same thing with those envelopes instead of throwing them away....like I do now. I gave lots of money in the beginning with Move On....helped elect Rush Holt (among others) by a thread (NJ) rep, although now I can't afford to support him just on a financial level. (He has been great)...so someone else step in now, please! Anyway....I love that Cindy Sheehan wants to take Di Feinstein's job...saying DiFi doesn't represent Californians...well...she DOES....the really wealthy ones.....! Oh...do we need election reform....as WV says, she's a repub in all but party. Mediocrity reigns in Washington, and that is why I know that eventually they will all go out to pasture somewhere....I only hope that in the process, a new bunch of revolutionary minds take over....and that they have the best interests of the country rather than their business cronies (or as Mitch McConnell said in his speech to the rich and famous at the Alfalfa Club dinner.....he was talking about the club and being funny, but it sure sounds like DC to me: I don't give a rip snort (as Paul Begala puts it) about whether the rich and famous have dinners and have private clubs....as long as they know that they are there to serve the people and not themselves....that is the problem...to them, it is all a rich club, these miners of government favors and riches...and the less fortunate and non members and the outsiders are to be jailed, brushed aside, allowed to die, used as cannon foder, and generally enslaved, then....revolution. Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 06:21 AMI think we should all become Republicans and run for office. Infiltrate from within. I am so tired of this, just like everyone else. What on earth are we doing? We live in an entirely different world than Washington, giving a distance and perspective they don't have and don't want. Some people out here still care what the Democrats have to say, but not many. Perhaps it's true, they completely lost their base today. What is it, is it money, power or both they are addicted to? I have friends in my state's Senate and House of Representatives (Dems) and they are always afraid, of big business, James Dobson, the far right, money for the next race, their constitutents, it goes on and on. The GOP hangs together like they think they are going to get the 50 Virgins upon their death. The amazing thing is nearly everyone of them, no matter what party seem to be willing to throw the country down the drain for something. Lord knows they've heard the scream from the populace every since the 2000 election, from the populace and the rest of the world. Someone has them by the short hairs. Posted by: Sally on January 31, 2006 06:29 AMOh good, a whole new generation of Rush Limbaughs, all mouth and no need for facts or truth. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11078887/site/newsweek/ Posted by: Sally on January 31, 2006 06:46 AMSally....because these people (dems) have lost faith in what they are doing....they've lost core values and passion, and have been brought down to the conservative blowhard mundane MONEY oriented life.....like the bully on the block who beats you up on the way home from school...every day. There is a point at which you fight or become pulp. I don't imagine our ancestors from the Rev War were heroes out of the box...not until they were brutalized by the British did many heroes become heroes....as their families were killed, sons lost, etc....in one of my cases, one of my many ancestors from that era was a Hessian soldier in the British Army, a press ganged soldier from Germany on that brutal march to Saratoga. He was imprisoned by the Americans, escaped from prison, and then signed up with the colonial army to fight the British...after all, what other choice did he have? So this is just beginning, I think. That line in the sand.....the rethugs keep moving it.....when is the moment when people say no to it? are we getting closer yet? Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 06:49 AMSally...that MSNBC article makes me think of all the cycles of religion this country goes through every 30 years or so.....and you can bet young people (the majority) will come up with something diametrically opposed to this! Maybe another generation of hippies will come along! Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 06:55 AMJudi, there have been a couple of dozen times I've thought "this is it, the people will be fed up and pull it all down" but we don't, partly because we are afraid too. I read the blogs and the majority talk about doing something beside make phone calls and write emails but we don't do anything. We try half-hearted boycotts, but we aren't organized. Some groups are trying to organize Moveon.org, but they are having to work within the system to try to change the system. I believe the revolution has already begun but it will take time. Most of us didn't see it all coming, we didn't see the ownership of the voting machines, the government agencies, the judiciary, the media, the whole ball of wax. It's going to take sometime to shift the momentum. I've been think about the stages of death and we are very close to the final stage "acceptance," and then there is hope for a re-birth. This spring (late) and then again early fall are times to watch and be prepared for a shift. But there have been shifts before and nothing seems to change. It's been a slow process I know, and patience isn't my best suit but it will take patience to move away from the slimy swamp they've created. What do we want the future to look like? We have to decide because we all have a different impression of what the past looked like, and we are finding out that the past wasn't what we thought. So do we want the future to look like our past illusions? For me, I have to keep moving forward and working toward the greater good for all, even in a small way. Posted by: Sally on January 31, 2006 07:08 AMSally...it is all a progression punctuated by cataclisms I guess...or defining moments. I think we will have some defining moments this year, and that you are right, it will be cumulative. But if we look at our own country's history, it is a series of fights each generation....this is ours. Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 07:17 AMNow here's a thought and a pretty good one on fighting back http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x411454 Posted by: Sally on January 31, 2006 07:17 AMI've found that the time near the end of a transit can increase in intensity. Pluto in Sagittarius will not leave us without new knowledge. As the guardian of wealth, Pluto often withholds riches until we've paid the required price. As we near the end of this time, I think Pluto will start dispensing the riches that Sagittarius holds...enthusiasm, belief in generosity and abundance, faith... for those who want them and can accept them. It might all be worth it to some. I think it's best to refrain from punishing ourselves for not taking action. What can we do until the way is revealed? Sally, I'm just hoping that Pluto moving from Sag to Capricorn in 2008-09 will be the figurative "buzzer on the clock" for the Fundies of all stripes, and that their movement will lose a great big chunk of its' sustained power and momentum. Can't happen soon enough for me. Doesn't help that I work in public education, either. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on January 31, 2006 08:14 AMPerhaps it is time to look to the Dalai Lama for example - develop the ability to maintain grace and humor, along with focus for the betterment of self and humanity, despite immense political opposition and hardship. For without that immense political opposition, his ideas would never have permeated the consciousness of so many people outside of tibet. We are all looking at the future through the lens of what we think we know today - there are so many unknown forces that may occur - we really do not know what path or form the wheel of fortune will lead us twenty years or so hence. And there is much wisdom in the eightfold path. For any DLC or DNC operatives out there: I plan to send money to whoever runs in the primaries, against the Democrats who voted yes in this Republican cloture vote. These are bad politicians who ignore their people, ignore voting machine ownership, cave to crooked elections and leave other Democrats twisting in the wind, regularly. These Democrats vote in bad "neocon" policy. These Democrats are bad for democracy. Their refusal to filibuster, along with their refusal to support Kerry and Kennedy, making them once again a laughing stock, was the last straw for me, and you can bet, you have lost I think I now understand why Gore went silent. Posted by: Pat C on January 31, 2006 02:47 PM
Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:39 AM ET King died overnight, the family said in a statement. She suffered a debilitating stroke and heart attack in August. Mrs. King's steely determination, grace and class won her millions of admirers inside and outside the civil rights movement. She was last seen in public January 14 at a dinner marking the Martin Luther King Jr., national holiday, where she received a standing ovation from the 1,500 people in the crowd. Posted by: wv on January 31, 2006 02:48 PMI thought Mrs. King to be a stately lady in the best of the term "lady." She was so focused and so loyal to the legacy of civil rights by maintaining the legacy of her husband. She will be missed and I certainly bow my head to the passing of a great lady. This speech tonight will be offensive to the American public. Posted by: Sally on January 31, 2006 03:25 PMSally - I have tried the infiltrate from within and I could not stomach being around those people long enough to do anything about. When I was in college I worked a few campaigns to get a different perspective and it was sickening. Your views are ignored by most if you do not come from money or are a xian. I for one cannot stay undercover around those people when I would hear some of the garbage and lies that they truly believe in. But, it could work with enough support. Kiwijeanie - The Buddha is what is keeping me sane these days. Staying in the moment is great, no future, no past, only now, but reality says we have to plan our future. I practice Loving Kindness and compassion everyday of my life and have been since the day I was born. It works. But, until the world is rid of false religions and gods we have a very steep path to climb. Maybe thats why all of us here are so upset with todays world. We have reached a level of enlightenment that others do not or will not obtain. Brainwashing the masses with religion has gotten us to where we are today. It will take generations to undo the death grip. You know, society is like school. You have preschoolers, elementary, jr high, sr high, college and grad school. I see the world these days as a bunch of preschoolers. And I see many here and elsewhere that are Grad School having a very hard time dealing with all of the snot nosed brats. One thing I can say is, those who are in control are racking up some serious bad Karma that they will have to answer to a some point in the future. Posted by: Cybear on January 31, 2006 03:35 PMCybear....yes, I agree with everything you're saying....I, too, cannot stand being around those people with their ideals of exclusion, judgement, insider pleasures, and extremist philosophies. It is sickening. It is so.....smarmy. I agree...some serious karma. But don't forget also that these people from the Xian, rightwing, republican, Federalist and neocon groups have worked for over 20 years getting their plans together. It looks to me as if the Dems are at the end of their plans, and we the people need to do some serious work. Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 04:05 PMFor those who do not know what the Buddhist 8 fold path is, here is a brief description according to Lama Surya Das: 1. Right View If anyone is interested in learning more about the eightfold path of the Buddha I highly recommend "Awakening the Buddha Within" by Lama Surya Das. Posted by: Cybear on January 31, 2006 04:08 PMGot a news clipping from a friend from the Detroit Free Press.....it says the current debt of the US is 8.1 TRILLION and we will be out of money in mid February. So they will raise the debt ciling once again. This is how they are going to ruin us....because there will be NO mONEY left to run gov....fund programs....or even support troops. Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 04:23 PMhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/energy_congress_gasoline_dc Oil execs refuse to testify at Senate hearing Officials from six major oil companies have refused to testify this week at a Senate hearing looking into whether oil industry mergers in recent years have made gasoline more expensive at the pump. With oil companies reporting record profits from higher energy prices, consumer groups have complained that mergers in the industry have stifled competition. Exxon Mobil said on Monday it earned $10.7 billion in the fourth quarter of last year and $36.1 billion for all of 2005 -- bigger than the economies of 125 countries. The Senate Judiciary Committee, which is holding the hearing on Wednesday morning, said it asked representatives from Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Valero Energy and the U.S. units of BP and Royal Dutch Shell to tell their side of the story. "All declined the invitation to testify," the committee said in a statement on Monday, without providing details. The companies, with the exception of Valero, took a beating at a Senate hearing last November on the industry's soaring profits at the time and high energy prices. Bill Kovacic, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, is scheduled to testify at Wednesday's hearing. The FTC is investigation whether oil companies manipulated gasoline prices and oil refining production levels. The agency plans to finish its probe and send its findings to Congress this May. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will also testify. The price for gasoline jumped 2.1 cents over the last week to a national average of $2.36 a gallon, up 45 cents from a year ago, the government said on Monday. Posted by: Pat C on January 31, 2006 04:27 PMI KNOW cybear that I can't stand being around them but a friend of mine did and she would be the best one for it, but she had to give up when her sole amusement became baiting them. I say let them go and make fools of themselves. They want the 50's? or the 30's? let them have it, it was out of those policies that the hippie movement was born. Posted by: Sally on January 31, 2006 05:44 PMJudiG, as a footnote to your 4:23 post above, here's a link that says the US has been in technical default since last week...... http://financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/2006/0127b.html Posted by: Garry on January 31, 2006 05:55 PManother linke to Barbara Hand-Clow--be sure to read the part under the January 29th New moon and the last paragraph, esp. this: "This month(Feb.) is worth watching because it will offer a good forecast on the success of Bushite agendas through May. Then the second half of the Fourth Night of the Galactic Underworld takes over, and the tide will turn against the Bushites regardless of the astrology. Right now, in relation to the Mayan Calendar, the Bushites have the upper hand, but not for long." YAHOO!!!! http://www.handclow2012.com/astroflash.htm Posted by: Garry on January 31, 2006 06:05 PMThanks Garry.....spending like a drunken sailor, Bush is fulfilling the plan to bankrupt gov't so that Norquist can then drag it down the drain.... Can't wait to read Barbara Hand Clow... Posted by: judiG on January 31, 2006 06:45 PMPS...big protest rally planned in Hollywood (boy, does that take me back to LA in the 1960's!) State of the Union Protests http://www.tenerifenews.com/cms/front_content.php?client=1&lang=1&idcat=8&idart=3267 Canary and US astronomers discover new planet A team of astronomers from the Canary Astrophysics Institute (IAC) and the USAS have announced their discovery of a new planet orbiting a young star outside our solar system. As always with such news, the figures tend to be relative- as well as mind-boggling. The “young” star, it turns out, is some 600 million years old (compare that with our own 5 billion year old sun), and the find is nearly 100 light years from Earth. To detect the new planet the astronomers have used a telescope of “only” a metre in diameter, but employing a new instrument and technique which works by hunting through the spectrum of starlight for the subtle so-called Doppler shifts that occur as the star and planet move toward and away from their common centre of mass. The new instrument is called the Exoplanet Tracker or ET. Located in the direction of the Virgo constellation, the new-found planet completes its orbit in less than five days, meaning it passes close to its parent star and is extremely hot. And that means, before anyone asks the question, that it’s too close to the star to lie within the “habitable zone” where there would be a possibility of life. Posted by: Pat C on January 31, 2006 07:41 PMhttp://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1522862/20060131/index.jhtml?headlines=true Alito sworn in. Posted by: Pat C on January 31, 2006 07:51 PMJust learned that the Dalai Lama will be in the US in september, speaking in LA, Denver, & Buffalo NY. Posted by: kiwijeanie on January 31, 2006 08:49 PMI've had time to think and the more I do, the more pleased I am with what just happened. From an arrogant shoo-in to what really came down is a big step. 25 Dems voted against cloture, more than half, and 42 senators against the nomination. That is major opposition in these times. The most tragic part is the Republicans, only one of which had the courage to vote with his convictions and do the right thing for the country. Many of them were aginst him. This will be their demise eventually. Their total inability to stand on principle. Something is wrong about this and the people sense it, marked by the public weeping of his wife. I think this lost soul is going to be a big disappointment to the right wing. It's very hard to get a rebellion going when people are fat and sitting pretty. It just doesn't happen. But there are enough people who are reading the signs and getting ready. The Democratic opposition was strong and Kerry contacted us and will be helping the rebellion on the streets of cyberspace. The greatest achievement of all would be to make this physically nonviolent. It's got to start somewhere. The mind is a good place. As far as the sad state of the union goes, I noticed that this sorry man will be attempting to speak about domestic issues. His war on terror just took a huge hit with the Palestinian elections. There's a lot of egg on his face now. A lot of chickens were called into lay. He hasn't a prayer when it comes to domestic problems. Posted by: jm on January 31, 2006 10:12 PMThe huge failure of his Social Security plan and Katrina are lurking in the psyche of America, only to be aroused by this attempt. I still believe that his real purpose here is to destroy the Bush dynasty. Posted by: jm on January 31, 2006 10:20 PMI also think that by repeating the groupthink King george crap and the Imperial Presidency garbage is feeding the illusion and his ego. I'm against saying these words over and over. It's false. As much as he would like to be, he is not a king and never will be. Posted by: jm on January 31, 2006 11:34 PMHello, Sally, Happy Grandmothering! I've been thinking it, but haven't posted it until now. Re tonight's SOTU, I'm not up to the subtleties, but some aspects sort of caught my eye. T Saturn at 7 Leo on the Resident's ASC--oops! I think tonight Bush will be both antsy (that Saturn like a headache & the poll numbers) and giddy (T Sun, Merc, & Neptune together--oh, the lies!) in PartyTime SOTU 5th House in free-wheeling Aquarius. Big money will be promised. (Expansive Jupiter in SOTU 2nd & Action Mars in SOTU 8th.) Remember all that treasure Bush was going to shower on the Gulf Coast? Money promises are soooo easy and don't cost a thing if there is now follow-through. But with a Scorpio SOTU 2nd & a Taurus SOTU 8th, both fixed no-nonsense signs, maybe somebody will notice if promises are not kept. And look at the same SOTU Jupiter sextile Venus (money, women) in the 4th House of Home, which is sextile the Moon (the people) in Pisces in the 6th House of health and service. Big promises of domestic spending--probably on healthcare, and maybe on children (loaded 5th house.) Also, plenty of anger & war talk. Bush's overlook-nothing Virgo Mars is opposite the SOTU Uranus in diffuse Pisces. The SOTU Mars in Taurus opposite the SOTU Jupiter forms a T with Bush's Leo Venus in his 1st House. (See how caring I am spening all this money for you--those against me must be evil.) Even with the help of the prompt box between his shoulder blades, I think some truly odd remark(s) will be made by Bush this evening. SOTU Uranus square Natal Moon; SOTU Saturn on Natal Mercury; SOTU Pisces Moon square Natal Uranus in Gemini; SOTU Pluto in the 3rd House inconj. natal Saturn in the 12th. Well, that's my biased opinion, anyhow. Posted by: Barbara on January 31, 2006 11:47 PM
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0131-35.htm I'm sure that the time will come, jm. But you know, some days, I admit that his family seems protected somehow, while everything else they infiltrate turns to ash. And no one can seem to get close enough even to scratch them without appearing to experience dire consequences. Just who (or what) exactly ARE these people? Vampires? Posted by: NEOBuckeye on February 1, 2006 12:55 AMNeo As Sally has said so often, they are protected by the international mob. But there seems to be trouble lurking there as the talk at Davos last week mentioned concern about the failing attempt at globalization. It appears that it hasn't met expectations and that some nationalism is returning. There apparently is disagreement among the ranks and this will eventually weaken them. Conflicts among the old oil people, the military industrial bunch, and others who are sensing new trends. Wolfowitz might be on the outs. So who knows? Maybe power will be shifting. I think we'll see something by '08. I think these people are just greedy businessmen, but in our love of mythology and drama, we've raised them up and given them more power than they actually possess. They're just symbols anyway. As Pluto shifts into Cap I would expect an eventual changing of the guard. Wealth shifting away from the churches and old and weak corporations. I expect a complete transformation of the corporate structure. That's why I'm putting force into it at this time. The more the merrier as we all are influencing the passage of earthly events. Posted by: jm on February 1, 2006 01:21 AMHere is a fascinating article on the possible collapse of globalism. http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/11/saul.html Posted by: jm on February 1, 2006 01:32 AMWhoo hoo, Alito got confirmed. It looks like one more strike against evil liberalism, and another win for Convervatism. Yet again, you liberals are on the wrong side of the issue. As I said before, with a track record like your's, everyone should take whatever you "predict" and basically realize that the exact opposite is going to happen. Silly libs, you always crack conversatives up with your idiocy. Posted by: Joe on February 1, 2006 01:35 AMjm, this is minor but last week was trying to google some info on shipping to a foreign country and noticed that the word "international" has given way to "global" on bank sites and shipping sites. Posted by: Barbara on February 1, 2006 01:40 AMThat's interesting, Barbara. An attempt to bolster the idea? Great chart analysis of the SOTU, BTW. Posted by: jm on February 1, 2006 01:46 AMCNN, Lou Dobbs & others talking openly about the country's funds......OUT! NADA! Even Wolf B & Jack Cafferty....calling a spade a spade ( this is new!) Also they now have a regular "blog report" Following up on the talk of the new moon energy of 1/29/06 earlier, here's a nice article To crash a party and throw rocks merely shows lack of good manners and breeding. Posted by: kiwijeanie on February 1, 2006 01:55 AMDigby is funny about what will Not be mentioned in tonight's SOTU. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com Posted by: Barbara on February 1, 2006 01:58 AMWell she had a banner she started to unfurl.................So the police are just going to hold her for an hour or so. Resident started speaking 9:12 PM This puts 3rd House Pluto just over 1 degree from IC. Wish I had seen the Cindy Sheehan incident. Posted by: Barbara on February 1, 2006 02:23 AMI can't bear to watch him - I never do any more (felt the same way about Nixon in '68 - just couldn't look at his face - in fact I felt much worse about Nixon, he seemed to be SO fake, a travesty of a man). Looking forward to hearing what all of you who watched the SOTU sppech thought. Posted by: Sharon on February 1, 2006 03:03 AMState of the Union – Cindy Sheehan was arrested for refusing to cover her tshirt that had an anti war message. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/sheehan.arrest/index.html Posted by: kiwijeanie on February 1, 2006 03:25 AMTalk is cheap! 9:12 pm it was indeed! PQ I got more of the Dems responses by watching ABC, though I'm sure the rest of MSM also filmed it. Cameras in cat town...MSM. Nothing new here. Foreign policy clear...globalization. Great strides in democratic statehood all over the world. Keep forcing ourselves down everybody's throat. Privately held medical savings accounts. No new taxes, just cut the hell out of anything that really matters to gladden the soul. Muddy reality. Befuddled view of the world. Now, 'bin Ladin is conjoined with Iraq ..."terrorists like 'bin Ladin are trying to take over Iraq..." implying that's why we are staying there...peachy, ok: so that's the NEW reason. (Never mind we created the vacuum.) Still, if we leave we will create hell on earth...more hell than even Israel could stomach. So there we are folks. US solar return looks like a big depression coming our way. Our 12th house in the 4th with Moon/Jupiter conjunct squared by none other than our old friend Saturn on a Leo ascendent. Happy July 4th. Jupiter/Saturn aspects often bespeak money fluctuations. This speech's angles 1/7 are mutable. In other words, wait a minute things are going to change. The rulers are Mercury/Neptune and Jupiter. Mercury and Neptune are conjunct in Aquarius in the 5th (creative lying, and idealism unfounded, like a child's)not far from the Sun which is also in the 5th conjunct Chiron. The angles square Pluto. Big transformations? Close-to-the-Galactic-Center transformations. Jupiter, the other ruler of the descendent is opposed to Mars. Big fight. Big money fight. (Scorpio/Taurus) Venus, mistress of money, is sitting sweetly in the 4th house conjunct Ceres. She hasn't gone direct yet. She is in Capricorn. I think, though not sure, she is still heliacal. She is ruled by Saturn which is opposed to the whole mass of the Aquarian stellium. Reality check, reality check. A cocktail of mutual reception...Sun/Saturn (Aquarius/Leo) and both in detriment. Watch Uranus. I think this planet will rule the whole show. And of course, there will be a lunar eclipse in Virgo within 1 degree of opposition to the vertex of this chart in the 6th, also square Pluto. Eat them words. Just my vague impressions at first glance. Pluto square the ascendent...Virgo...very manipulative. (Thanks, Nancy Waterman). Add to that the conjunction of Mercury/Neptune...hookay. Posted by: Beasley on February 1, 2006 04:19 AM"Cindy Sheehan was arrested for refusing to cover her tshirt that had an anti war message." Freedom of Speech? 1st, 4th & 14th Amendment? Welcome to 1938 Germany. Anderson Coopers hour reporting the Republicans The Democrats sat and sat and didnt't clap or stand up - except once. When junior mentioned his hopes for changing Social Security had not worked. Personally I think it would have been more effective if not one Democrat had shown up for Meanwhile the 17 who voted against fillibuster should hear louldly that they will not receive And by the way, did anyone see Landrieu sucking up to junior after the speech? Since I have a visceral reaction to his voice and appearance I didn't listen to him, but turned on Ted Kennedy was right. Unless one or more of the Alito Splits With Conservatives on Inmate WASHINGTON - New Supreme Court Justice Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas supported lifting the stay, but Alito joined the remaining five members in turning down Missouri's last-minute request to allow a midnight execution. Posted by: Jaycee on February 2, 2006 05:48 AMI agree with you .
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