Sorry Sally
Not for the first time you've just posted a new article as I was compiling the following.
According to my world clock for your location you should have been in bed long ago:-)

Got really excited today
America Loves Obama: Beats Hillary in Primary Fundraising
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Likewise if you can get a wee bit excited here's some astro info you might be interested in.
OBAMA THE REDEEMER
http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.com/search/label/president
Warning: Don't go here if you want the really bad news possibilities

Creating his profile in AstroDienst www.astro.com using Aug 04 1961 13.05 Honolulu was an interesting excercise.
Looking at the "important long-term influence"
Saturn cjn Mc
"This is the time when all your past preparations for the future will have their most important consequences. This influence represents an important life pinnacle for you, but it also entails very important duties and responsibilities..."
He's also got Jupiter trine Mc but like the Saturn transit it runs out around Nov 2007

As an Astro*Carto*Graphy freak I just had to go see what places have that "in your face" significance for him. I've never seen so many zenith points so close to a person's birth place.
Also given that Iraq is a major player in the political scene it's a bit of a worry to see Pluto going so very close to Baghdad on his A*C*G for the 13.05 birth time.
Nuf said when you aware of how Pluto/Dallas impacted on JFK.
Have a Happy Easter

PS I kinda like the 13.05 time however even a stubborn Taurean Scot has been known to be persuaded to change his mind. Persuade me you've got a more accurate time.

Here are some photos of Nancy being greeted on her trip by kings and Royals, and somewhat surprisingly by women too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x577478

Great article Sally!
It's like the sun coming out after a terrible, hurricane, tsunami, earthquake volacano eruption, tornado !!!!
Great pix lunaoscura!
The Middle Easat TV stations gave much more air space to Pelosi's visit than ours!
((((((((((((((((Karen))))))))))))))) My thoughts are with you. It's difficult enough losing someone with out family difficulties on top of it.
QOP

Lotta worth while reading on waynemadsen's report today.
Bono; part ownership in a violent video game depicting pinks killing Venezuelans.
Kuchinich has clear evidence of treason for impeachment.....Nov. 2 2001 Admin. choice to secretly film Osama, rather than capture him, ( that's, scroll down to April 3)

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
QOP

Sally, such a vivid portrait of a women who seems to have clear personal direction. Someone needs to spank the out-of-control bad boys in the WH and Nancy has the cojones to do it. The photos were perfectly timed, Lunaoscura.

Thank you all for your hugs, kind words and for helping me grieve. My rhetorical questions cannot be answered in this lifetime, yet i have faith they'll be answered. I also have faith that my sister is now home. There was so much joy upon her arrival. I could feel it.

Death is a magnifying mirror. Looking into that mirror clarifies life's beauty, but equally its flaws. In all aspects death offers a profound opportunity to transcend and/or rid yourself of life aspects that are no longer useful. I am deeply honored that my sister wanted me to share this part of her journey. Because of it, i too have been transformed.

Oh, hot diggity-dog, Cap'n Sally! Wonderful article about Ms. Nancy. I am "happy dancing" all over the place to read that she's only just warming up and her Isis-Diana conjunction is sitting right on Smirky's south node. Sort of a goddesses in boxing-gloves image, huh? I'll bet Demeter is around there too somewhere. Many, many thanks!

Great character portrait, Sally - I'm eager to see what else she has in store for us. She is definitely not dull! She may be a granite lady but what a bright light!

Sincere condolences to you Karen on your loss. You & your sister seem to have a strong connection and my feeling is that she is continuing to reach out. (The way you write about this experience - as well as everything else - is beautiful.)

Death is the great teacher that allows us to let go of all of the ego dross, see and recognize truth but be compassionate towards people's foibles (and our own). Move into that positive energy and distance from the negative, feeling compassion.

With love -

Sharon

Most curious and beautiful..............
It's been snowing all morning,
( almost to my knees, 2' +) I had to go out 1 door to shovel the snow away from the other 2, so I could open them.
When I shoveled into it,it was the loveliest tranlucent aqua: agua: water! When you pile it up it glows aqua from inside through the air spaces......!
The only other time I've seen snow like that, is walking inside a glacier in Switzerland!
VERY NEPTUNE! ( it must be Nancy's doing!!!)
QOP

Karen, I am so sorry about the loss of your sister. No matter how grateful she may have been to slip over, it's ever so painful for those left behind. I am sure she was a wonderful loving person and how fortunate she had you as her sister, to love, cry and share her life with her. I figure you both were lucky. Take care and always look for her light because it's there.

Sorry to be a dissenting voice but I believe dissent to be healthy.

A leading Australian sceptic of man-made climate change is Ian Plimer, a professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide. The fact that the Earth's atmospheric temperature is rising at the same time as humans emit more greenhouse gases is a correlation, and not a causation, he points out: "The Earth's temperature rose by 0.7 per cent in the 20th century, but there was also an increase in piracy. Does that mean piracy causes global warming?"

If Al Gore calls climate change an inconvenient truth, Plimer asks unfashionable questions.

"There is new work emerging even in the last few weeks that shows we can have a very close correlation between the temperatures of the Earth and supernova and solar radiation. What if global warming has nothing to do with human activity?

"What happens if the astronomers are right, and the world is actually entering a cooling period?"

Plimer thinks the climate scientists are in the grip of groupthink and that other branches of science can lend perspective: "We geologists have seen climate change for 4500 million years. Tell us something new."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/cool-heads-missing/2007/04/05/1175366406378.html?page=2

People here in the U.K. are becoming increasingly skeptical about climate change which is rapidly becoming an industry here with the full collaboration of the Blair governmentl, GWBs mates.

A recent documentary on Channel 4(UK) pretty much disproved Gore's theory of carbon generated global warming. Far more likely to be caused by sun spots/solar activity which causes carbon to be released by the ocean. If I can find a link to the program I will post it.

Take it easy!

April 5, 2007

Bush Uses Recess to Fill Envoy Post and 2 Others

By JIM RUTENBERG

FORT IRWIN, Calif., April 4 — President Bush used the Congressional recess on Wednesday to push through his choice to be ambassador to Belgium and to fill two domestic policy positions, provoking Democratic ire with all three appointments.

The ambassadorship will be filled by Sam Fox, a major Republican donor who had withdrawn his name for the job in late March when it became clear that Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee were lining up against him.

Mr. Fox donated $50,000 to the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that opposed Senator John Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign. The group attacked Mr. Kerry’s record in the Vietnam War with advertising that included unsubstantiated accusations that he had not earned his war medals.

“It’s sad but not surprising that this White House would abuse the power of the presidency to reward a donor over the objections of the Senate,” Mr. Kerry said Wednesday in a statement. “Unfortunately, when this White House can’t win the game, they just change the rules, and America loses.”

Recess appointments let a president install people into jobs requiring Senate confirmation when Congress is out of session. In the current cases, the appointees can stay in place without Senate confirmation through 2008.

The White House announced the appointments as Mr. Bush visited an Army training base here and called upon Congress to drop a push by Democrats to attach timetables for withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq to approval for emergency war spending. Though Mr. Bush and the new Democratic leadership in Congress pledged just three months ago that they would work cooperatively, they are now on a collision course over the role of Congress in foreign policy and the administration’s dismissal of eight United States attorneys.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/washington/05bush.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1175790843-bzs+W9bFpL/NdLVfgxN4qw

Liberty, whenever extreme positions are taken that are black/white, yes/no, this/that there is really nothing to say other than perhaps it's both. A natural trend accelerated by man's unprecedented habit of sh*tting where he eats.
Nature will correct this regardless of what we "think".
Guess we'll have to 'work around' one another's conceptual gymnastics.

Liberty, so? Conserving energy, reducing dependence on fossil fuels,pesticides, etc that lead to greed wars, living cleaner and better is just smart. Whoever said "Live simply so others can simply live" said it so well.
Sorry, but I bought into Gore's message hook line and sinker. He makes sense. He's been involved a very long time. Naysayers are going to have to pack a lunch to destroy his credibility.

I hope no one will find his/her mortgage lender on this link
http://www.ml-implode.com/

One more thing, Liberty. I think out of love for this gorgeous planet and knowing the unspeakable pain we cause irreplaceable wildlife and the ecosystems which are vanishing beneath and over them. My heart won't allow me to desecrate their world in any way I can prevent it and so recycle every damn thing possible and wear sweaters and walk. Yeah, Liberty, Creatures of the earth FEEL
it when we suffocate them with our garbage and douse them with oil and tons upon tons of poison.
(Using a fantastical amount of restraint here!)
For god's sake Liberty use your head!!!!!!!!!!

http://ww.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/24/49/

Calling Out Idiot America
by Scott Ritter
The ongoing hand-wringing in Congress by the newly empowered Democrats over what to do about the war in Iraq speaks volumes about the level of concern (or lack thereof) these “representatives of the people” have toward the men and women who honor us all by serving in the armed forces of the United States of America. The inability to reach consensus concerning the level of funding required or how to exercise effective oversight of the war, both constitutionally mandated responsibilities, is more a reflection of congressional cowardice and impotence than a byproduct of any heartfelt introspection over troop welfare and national security.

The issues that prompt the congressional collective to behave in such an egregious manner have more to do with a reflexive tendency to avoid any controversy that might disrupt the status quo ante regarding representative-constituent relations (i.e., re-election) than with any intellectual debate about doing the right thing. This sickening trend is bipartisan in nature, but of particular shame to the Democrats, who obtained their majority from an electorate that expressed dissatisfaction with the progress of the war in Iraq through their votes, demanding that something be done.

Sadly, Congress’ smoke-and-mirrors approach to the Iraq war creates the impression of much activity while generating no result. Even more sadly, the majority of Americans are falling for the act, either by continuing their past trend of political disengagement or by thinking that the gesticulation and pontification taking place in Washington, D.C., actually translate into useful work. The fact is, most Americans are ill-placed intellectually, either through genuine ignorance, a lack of curiosity or a combination of both, to judge for themselves the efficacy of congressional behavior when it comes to Iraq. Congress claims to be searching for a solution to Iraq, and many Americans simply accept that this is this case.

The fact is one cannot begin to search for a solution to a problem that has yet to be accurately defined. We speak of “surges,” “stability” and “funding” as if these terms come close to addressing the real problems faced in Iraq. There is widespread recognition among members of Congress and the American people that there is civil unrest in Iraq today, with Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence tearing that country apart, but the depth of analysis rarely goes beyond that obvious statement of fact. Americans might be able to nod their heads knowingly if one utters the words Sunni, Shiite and Kurd, but very few could take the conversation much further down the path of genuine comprehension regarding the interrelationships among these three groups. And yet we, the people, are expected to be able to hold to account those whom we elected to represent us in higher office, those making the decisions regarding the war in Iraq. How can the ignorant accomplish this task? And ignorance is not something uniquely attached to the American public. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the newly appointed chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, infamously failed a pop quiz in which journalist Jeff Stein asked him to differentiate between Sunni and Shiite. Reyes has become the poster boy for congressional stupidity, but in truth he is not alone. Very few of his colleagues could pass the test, truth be told.

More...

"We geologists have seen climate change for 4500 million years. Tell us something new."

Incredible egoism here. Among other problems in this pov is the "seeing" in the first place. The geologists are assuming that they are seeing correctly. I highly doubt that. I'll also bet it's a group of pink supremacist geologists... whatever they think is absolute truth just because they think it is. TaHA!!

Nancy Pelosi's Speaker contact website.

http://www.speaker.gov/contact/

Saying man-made global warming is non-existent is the same as claiming that we've never polluted the skies with factories belching waste, or never eroded the soil through lousy farming. Are these idiots going to claim that the Amazon forest isn't being destroyed after years of neverending forest fires set by humans? Or that the Arctic and Antarctic are not melting or breaking apart? Do they think photos of Kilimanjaro without snow and the Glaciers melting are lying?

It's hard to believe that anyone has that kind of ignorance and still thinks they can make some point in an argument that has been won already.

I think if there is a geologist who has "seen" climate changes for 4500 million years he/she would be newsworthy for their sheer immortality. Hmmmm 4500 miliion years vs. 45 year-old ? I think Earth is wiser. Earth is the witness. Like Gore said, " you're never going to make someone understand something his paycheck depends upon his misunderstanding".

Exactly, Raven & luna! These supremacist boyz are too much.

Yes, these white men think that their uneducated and simpleton 'opinions' are equal to facts, as if they can just brush away what is real by saying "I don't agree."

Bush does that all the time. Generals say the military is broken, and he says "I don't agree" and that's supposed to be the winning argument.

Damn! I want intelligent discourse, fact based opinions and logic to make a come back! Let these fanatics go disappear in shame!

Well said Raven.

Just had a good belly laugh after watching all the broad smiles in the Nancy Pelosi pictures, then finally there's that picture of Bush. His facial expression is in such striking contrast to the faces in the previous pictures. Just burst out laughing at the sight of it.

Cap'n Sally, somewhere way back there in our Major Despairing Times, you mentioned something about the possibility of our having a woman for president. Frankly, the times were so dark that I wasn't particularly cheered by that (though normally I would have been)--plus at that time there was only one likely prospect (who's out there campaigning today) for whom I have ho-hum support. I have lots of enthusiasm and appreciation for Pelosi though, and I'm wondering if her chart fits the prospect. Thank you.

Do I smell a global warming troll?

Yup... great pics that make the heart smile. Then, at the end, is the petulant, prissy, spoiled, bratty, omnicidal wargeezer in the sticky bloody blob of bushaholic.

Sally, swear upon a 'contact high' after your brilliant and exciting Pelosi Prognosis.
Maybe we mustn't overlook how sensitive she is and the price she pays for what she does as well.
We've all seen her pisces mercury retrograde happening when she's speaking under pressure, a real challenge for a merc that sits behind her aries sun.
Suspect she's feelin' it when her moon in scorpio is under fire with the natal and transiting squares from neptune and saturn, along with oppo to mars (in leo, ven/ur/sat)!
Mama Mia! She's being tested on so many sides and know she can do it. But Yowza, is she ever paying a price. Gotta feel for her.

Sally,

What a brilliant, beautiful, deeply electrifying and truly uplifting article on Nancy Pelosi. Thrilled to know that Isis and Diana both trine her Jupiter, and sit on The Predator's South Node. I'm sure Durga is not far ....

Thank you Sally...you gave us a great gift in your astro-analysis.

Woot! Woot! There's more 'n more 'n more 'n more 'n more 'n more . . .
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013470.php

I just added "LATE NIGHT ADDITIONS' to the above article regarding Mars moving into Pisces. It's a gonna be a rip roaring April and May, a real LOOK OUT BELOW period of time.

"Yup... great pics that make the heart smile. Then, at the end, is the petulant, prissy, spoiled, bratty, omnicidal wargeezer in the sticky bloody blob of bushaholic." Joanna you crack me up, what a way with words you have.

Holo's thank you for the lovely compliment and I love your "Durga not far off" observation. Great call.

Shylurker, when I saw a woman moving into a power position in 2008 or 2012, I kind of had Hillary in mind, but the reality is there aren't any names in an astrological chart and yes, Nancy Pelosi could fit that bill. She is very very stubborn, and too tied to the Israel Zionist lobbyists but she might change that. Fact is male or female they are all tied to Israel making our foreign policy.

I don't have her birthtime and I have looked everywhere, but I have hope it will show up. Anyone out there who works for medical records in Baltimore where she was born. I doubt if it's been hidden, just no reason to produce it, but I think if she keeps climbing the way she is climbing Lois Rodden's site will find it eventually.

Patb, she is going to hit a wall of critics by August, somehow however, I think she will just keep going, I don't think it will intimidate her.

Shylurker, what a wonderful find, this is too funny. Rachel Paulose was born (born March 12, 1973, Kerala, India) oh my, oh my, so much mutable and there we have Mars slipping right into Pisces, not his favorite spot to reside.

Thank you, thank you Shy, I might have missed this one and it's just toooooooooooo delicious. I agree with Josh Marshall, we just might hear more and more of this one.

Questions Linger About Bush, Bin Laden And BCCI.

Analysis by Lucy Komisar

The link between Hussein and Bin Laden was their banker, BCCI. But the link went beyond the dictator and the jihadist -- it passed through Saudi Arabia and stretched all the way to George W. Bush and his father.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17488.htm

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Senator Feinstein's War Profiteering

Democratic Blood Money

By Joshua Frank

Here's a brief rundown of the Feinstein family's blatant war profiteering.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17485.htm

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Hang Up on War

By Amy Goodman

If you are upset that Congress won't defund the war in Iraq, there's something you can do: Stop paying a tax. Legally.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17486.htm

Cheney hits out at Pelosi visit

US Vice-President Dick Cheney has accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of "bad behaviour" for holding talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Mr Cheney also told a radio station that Ms Pelosi bungled the delivery of a message from Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.

Ms Pelosi told Mr Assad Israel was "ready to engage in peace talks". Israel later said this was contingent on Syria ending "support for terror".

A spokesman for Ms Pelosi said she had made it clear the issues were linked.

The top Democrat met Mr Assad in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Wednesday, before moving on to Saudi Arabia.

'Nonsensical statement'

After the talks, Ms Pelosi said she was pleased with assurances that she had received from the Syrian leader.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6532045.stm

Sally, you said what I was feeling that things are changing fast but it is not getting better
fast.
In www.sciencedaily.com, there is a photo and story of an event on a magnetstar. This star has been directing x-rays at the earth which are received here every 10 seconds for the last year we have been aware of it and may have been doing it for a lot longer.
Last September, the magnet star had an event and began sending 3 bursts of x-rays directly to Earth in a little less than 10 seconds and began spinning a little faster.
Do you think there might be something to that astrology stuff after all?

Karen, I have had a similiar experience with my family. Drop me an email if you would like to talk.

The pollution and weather changes will be real problems for all. I have the feeling that more earthquakes in the oceans with rising sea levels. I think that the conteninets are moving faster and some of the deeper, hotter magna will bubble up in the Pacific.
Well, Good night from Xi'an.bjt

Overnight, two more things emerged from the bottom of their barrel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/education/06loans.htm...
Federal Official in Student Loans Held Loan Stock (and there are others)

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/5/191831/8642
Last year Dragon Skin, a potentially -and reportedly- improved life saving body armor entered a testing phase at the Pentagon, under the direction of Col. John D. Norwood. Testing was "abruptly stopped less than a third of the way through the tests. No reason was given. The testing has not been resumed."
The company that made out on that decision (with a $360 million contract last year) was Armor Holdings whose armor "shatters" when impacted, while the lighter weight Dragon Skin "has been shown to be capable of stopping multiple rounds fired from close range without significant damage to the armor".
According to this article, Norwood is now working for Armor Holdings

We need Henry Waxman clones to keep up with all this and follow it all through to a just end. Sheesh!

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=128088&ntpid=1

Federal appeals court tosses out “Travelgate” conviction linked to Doyle—evidence called “beyond thin,” charges unfounded

..........

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=181653

Elizabeth de la Vega, Karl Rove’s Danse Macabre

.............

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/
Goodlings_lawyers_fire_back_at_House_0404.html

Goodling’s lawyers fire back at House Dems, compare Conyers, Leahy

http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/574

Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

Noam Chomsky

http://www.commonblog.com/story/2007/3/23/104750/843
Rove-Gonzales-Bush Administration-Voting Rights Scandal Grows

http://www.commonblog.com/story/2007/3/30/94434/6490
More on the Dept. of Justice and the Hunt for Voter Fraud

"Astrological Musings: Astrology that expands the mind" - 1 new article

Pluto trine the Libra Full Moon - a new kind of diplomacy?:

I can't help but look at Nancy Pelosi's renegade trip to Syria in light of the recent Full Moon in Libra. Libra is the sign of diplomacy and relationship building, and the Full Moon, of which we are still basking in its shadow, made a trine to Pluto which generates transformation and powerful change.

The foreign policy of George Bush consists of ignoring nations that you don't agree with and bullying those that you do agree with, and most thinking people agree that this has not been an effective strategy. The contrast between Nancy Pelosi's trips to the Middle East, where she encouraged a dialogue between nations, and that of Condoleeza Rice which consisted more of bullying and criticism, was striking.

Also under the Full Moon, the British government quietly handed back to Iran a political prisoner in exchange for the release of British Sailors by the government of Iran. In my view, this was a lovely example of how a little give and take can solve an immediate issue and make everyone look like heroes.

MSNBC beginning the demonization of the English sailors. Calling them meatheads and betrayers!

Col. Jack Jackobs, US Army Ret. speaking as an expert, moderator nodding in agreement.

Nancy Pelosi’s Katrina Problem

By: Steve Kornacki
Date: 4/9/2007
Page: 17

The outcry from Congressional Democrats was justifiably loud when conservative members resorted to procedural chicanery to kill their latest effort to give the District of Columbia a vote in the House of Representatives.

After all, the district’s 580,000 residents are subjected to the same federal income tax that everyone else is: Didn’t we decide a couple of centuries ago that taxation without representation is tyranny?

And yet the moralizing of the majority Democrats doesn’t feel as sincere when you consider Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s seemingly peremptory attitude toward the voters of Louisiana’s Second Congressional District, who—like their counterparts in the nation’s 434 other districts—went to the polls last fall and chose their representative to “the People’s House.”

It has been three months since the 110th Congress was sworn in, but Ms. Pelosi still refuses to keep her word and seat that district’s duly elected representative on the Homeland Security Committee—despite the obvious value of such a committee assignment to the Second District, which was decimated by Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=14493&ic=Wiseguys

Betsy, I don't know if I am up to the task of articulating the correctness of your observation of the magnet star and how it affects earth. Do you know the name of the "star" you mentioned? There are million of stars, asteroids and yes planets affecting us, not only in our solar system but the solar systems from beyond us as well as solar flairs, etc. etc. etc.

Those electrical impulses (along with the impact of other plantary aspects) are sort of like baking a cake. On top the cake still seems the same but it is baking from the bottom up, it just doesn't look done yet, plus when it is finally done, there will be those who don't like the cake and those who do. Those who think it should have more sugar or less sugar, those who complain that their slice isn't big enough or who don't want a big slice and thinks no one else should have a big slice either, the important thing is the cake is baking right now.

We are subject as a people first and a member of the animal kingdom to all the influences of other people, other animals, plants, fish etc. and those influences come from our solar system and we all react to those influences. It is significant that there are increased electrical impulses coming toward earth, the increased solar flairs are significant too in their impact on events on earth and our response to those events.

Well, is it possible that we could have BOTH viewpoints represented here? As a matter of fact, someone I respect is saying the same thing about global warming not being man made, and I said, well, it is more likely that the sunspot and solar flare activity which has been MASSIVE recently, is doing its thing also...it was just a guess, but what Liberty wrote is what I was saying. The problem is, these scientists have to trash the opposing views, as they are doing to Gore. When in fact, having lived in LA in the 1960s when smog was so horrifying that it made you SICK, I also know that man has and is making the planet unihabital .... we do our thing, the solar system does its own. Both views are CORRECT....no need to trash each other...

One thing I haven't been able to look up because I keep forgetting (damn senior moments) is another thing that this gentleman mentioned....about 20 years ago scientists discovered that on the top of Jupiter is some kind of invisible structure of a hexagram which is blowing solar winds in perfect 60 degree corner shifts...zip, 60 deg...zip 60 deg., etc all around the 6 sides. ....was that when Voyager flew by? I haven't had time to check it out.

Baraka, I don't think Liberty is a troll....but I have heard the same things....

That was saturn with the hexagonal "winds"... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034

Link to the magnetstar...
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedaily.com%2Freleases%2F2007%2F04%2F070405094045.htm

Too bad this star isn't hiccuping on this administration...or IS it?

Joanna, you are a dear! not to pink supremist types of course, but thanks for finding that....

Illegal Diplomacy By Robert F. Turner

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may well have committed a felony in traveling to Damascus this week, against the wishes of the president, to communicate on foreign-policy issues with Syrian President Bashar Assad. The administration isn't going to want to touch this political hot potato, nor should it become a partisan issue. Maybe special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, whose aggressive prosecution of Lewis Libby establishes his independence from White House influence, should be called back.

The "Logan Act" makes it a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to three years for any American, "without authority of the United States," ...

• THE FULL WSJ.com ARTICLE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Pelosi steps out of bounds Fri Apr 6, 6:56 AM ET

Democrats in Congress have been busy flexing their foreign policy muscles almost from the moment they took power in January, for the most part responsibly. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) crossed a line this week by visiting Syria, where she met with President Bashar Assad. She violated a long-held understanding that the United States should speak with one official voice abroad - even if the country is deeply divided on foreign policy back home.

Like it or not (and we do not), President Bush's policy has been to refuse to negotiate with Syria until it changes its behavior. That behavior is malignant. Syria has long meddled destructively in neighboring Lebanon and is widely seen as the bloody hand behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Syria has aligned itself with Iran and supports the violently anti-Israel groups Hezbollah and Hamas. It foments violence in Iraq by allowing suicide bombers and jihadists to cross the Syria-Iraq border.

to the above article...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20070406/cm_usatoday/pelosistepsoutofbounds&printer=1;_ylt=A0WTcVQpbxZGHyMBIRP8B2YD

wv, why all the negative articles on Pelosi? I was so dang proud of Nancy for being courageous and I think the Democrats need that now more than anything! And I'm also very proud of Harry Reid just lately!

Sally, immensely enjoyed your article and the late night addition too! Thank you so much for your wisdom and creativity.

Laurie, I don't think WV is "bashing" Nancy, I think he is just putting the articles from MSM that are bashing her and there is a lot of that today and I think with her Saturn transits going on she will continue to be slammed but I believe she will be able to turn it around. She's an Aries and will pretty much ignore what MSM is saying and will do her thing another day.

WV is very good at research, as are many others on this site, and let's us know what is going on without agreeing with what's written.

And you are right about being proud of her, me too. MSM is having a hard time with a woman who stands for herself and her country.

I think we can be very sure that the Saturn coming to Nancy Pelosi will come in the form of neocons demonizing her. So what if they sent Richard Perle to demolish the almost complet middle east agreement under Clinton. So what if they sent Hastert to South America. So what. It's ok if you are a republican. Law applies and is magnified only on Democrats. No group of people have abused power more horribly than the GOP. I want to see them prosecuted for this legal harrassment they have continually conducted for so many years now.

Oops, cross post with Sally.

From Glen Greenwald's site on Salon:

The Media Lost Me In The Winter of 64/65

It happened in the short space of a just a few minutes listening to KGO radio in San Francisco, and had to do with the coverage of the Free Speech Movment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement
There was a large public meeting held by the Free Speech Movemnent, which had had to exert considerable pressure on the administration to secure. KGO radio covered the meeting live--which was scheduled to go for an hour. The speakers spoke, and when they finished, there was something like 10 minutes or so left. So they decided to open the microphone to anyone who wanted it.
Who wanted it first was a representative of the administration--I don't remember who, but it was someone of high stature, such as the vice-chancellor. There was a brief debate (about 20-30 seconds) about whether to let him have the mic--after all, the administration could get its words out to the media any time they wanted--after which it was given to him. At which point, he said, "This meeting is over, turn off the mic."
Naturally, the meeting organizers wanted the mic back, because he really had nothing to say, he was simply trying to prevent anyone else from speaking--which, of course, is what the whole Free Speech Movement controversy was about from start to finish. There were sounds of scuffling and confusion, cries of chaos and outrage, and eventually the station's on-the-scene commentators describing what had happened. Even though anyone listening had heard the whole thing for themselves, there was already a bit of revisionist history going on, although I don't remember precisely how it was spun.
They then returned to their studio for their local news broadcast. The spin at that point I do remember--the hypocritical Free Speech Movement tried to take the mic away from an administration official--although they did explain that it was at a Free Speech Movement meeting.
Next, they went to West Coast Monitor News, out of Los Angeles. And the spin spun even further. A brave University of California official was giving a speech, when members of the hypocritical so-called "Free Speech Movement" tried to take the microphone away from him. Though not successful, they prevented him from speaking further. (Completely gone was any mention of the fact that it was, after all, a Free Speech Movement meeting, and the microphone was legally theirs for the duration of the meeting.)
Now, all this--from the end of the formal presentations to the Monitor news--took no more than 15 minutes or so. That's how long my media education took. A little over 42 years ago.
Prior to that, I had been profoundly vexed by trying to understand how things like McCarthyism and Hitler's Big Lie were possible. Suddenly, in a flash, I understood: plain old bald-faced lying. It was so simple, I felt like an idiot for not realizing it all along.
Of course, I'm sure that those telling it would have denied it. The first lie is always the lie you tell yourself.

-- Paul R...

Here's an excellent Olberman video on Bush's very bad week. It has video of Rove's car getting pelted by a dozen students, of Bush's speech in front of a backdrop of soldiers, only this time when Bush paused in his usual places for cheers and clapping, no one made a sound.
Then there's some video I truly enjoy of Pelosi leading a lot of men down a carpet in Syria and her comments when she returned, and video of Bush telling Democrats they must come off their 'vacation' (it is actually a working recess so the reps can go home to stay in touch with their constituents).

Yes Indeed, Bush has had a bad week.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677

click on 'Bush disconnected?

Nancy gives an emotional edge to Saturn (diplomacy, hard work, patience, perserverence = positive Saturn energy). She opens the door to the sacred male within us all. All we have had to witness is the profane use of the energies. Breath of fresh air. The look on GWB is quizzical and dumb(!)foundedness as all the women he surrounds himself with are his ego strokers and syncophants: Pickles, Condi, Harriet, Gonzo,Alito, KKKarl. He's not used to independant, intellegence as an equal (well not really for him since he is so dim) in the female form.

Get used to it *.

LOL! Look at the latest freeway sign against Bush!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x584208

Bad climate prognosis for those who live in major cities in the Southwest US.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37239

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Southwestern U.S. Becoming a Dust Bowl
Stephen Leahy

BROOKLIN, Canada, Apr 5 (IPS) - The severe seven-year drought in the Southwestern United States is just the beginning of a new and even drier climate for the region due to climate change, scientists say.

The infamous "dust bowl" conditions of the 1930s will be the norm, with the possibility that the aridity will be unlike anything in the past, according to research published Thursday in Science -- one day before the release of another key report by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, which also warns that drought-prone areas are likely to become even drier due to global warming.

According to Ming Fang Ting, a senior research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and co-author of the Science study, the current drought in the U.S. Southwest is not part of the natural variability in climactic conditions.

"The causes of drought now, and in the future, are different with climate change," Ting told IPS.

Using 19 computer climate models, researchers determined that the U.S. Southwest and parts of Northern Mexico are expected to become much drier. Unlike previous historical droughts that were caused by changes in sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, the models reveal that climate change will dramatically increase the size of the sub-tropical dry zone around the planet.

These expanding dry zones will be unlike anything seen in the past 150 years and future droughts will be far worse than any since medieval times, the report says. The big difference compared to the past is that many more people are living in these areas, notes Ting.

Despite its water shortages, the Southwest region includes Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, which are among the fastest growing states in the U.S. Millions live in large cities such as Phoenix and Denver that are nowhere near rivers and exist only because of enormous water projects that dam rivers or pump deep aquifers and route water through canals and pipelines.

On the topic of "meddling" by Syria and Iran in the Middle East - in their defence, I would say that they are more entitled to meddle, since they are all neighbors in the same region, but what about the meddling of Great Britain, and the U.S.? They have done more meddling, and created more discord by drawing and re-drawing the map of the ME, not to mention venturing into a region where they are for the most part ignorant, and disrespectful of the culture. It was the U.S. and the U.K. who aided and abetted the formation of the state of Israel above the protestations of the Arab world, even while they themselves were denying entry to Jews at that time to their own countries! Cuba ended up taking in the Jews who were denied entry to the U.S.

There is more meddling by the West(particularly the U.S.)both covertly, and overtly, and not limited to the ME region, but all over the world. They are responsible for overthrowing governments in other countries that don't do their bidding (as in S.A.), and replacing them with cruel dictatorships (so much for their hypocritical concern for human rights), as long as their interests are protected. Just another case of the coalpot calling the kettle black.

A problem I see already is that as people who aren't poor in the cities in the Southwest move away from the hottest areas they'll be flooding and overwhelming the rest of the cities in the more temperate climate zones. The poorest in the world will suffer the worst, but how will countries and cities in the Northern areas survive influxes of millions of people who are forced to move because the water is no longer there in the Southwest?

http://www.daykeeperjournal.com/murray.shtml

America in Transition:
The Saturn-Neptuene Opposition

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Those familiar with planetary symbolism know that trying to integrate Saturn and Neptune, even as concepts, is like meditating on a Buddhist koan. Where is the meeting ground between the planet of mists and fairies and the planet of rocks and corporations, for heaven’s sake? What we have here is a paradox—a tricky proposition for the linear Western mind.

The best way to approach the task is to examine each of the two symbols separately at first, on its own terms. Saturn has traditionally been associated with hard things—in both senses of the word (physically dense; difficult). It is said to govern whatever is solid or solidifying, whether conceptually so (rules and regulations; gravity) or literally so (cement, lead, glue). And Neptune has been associated over the centuries with energies that are maddeningly elusive and intangible: fog and poisons, inscrutable longings, untraceable ailments. What are we to make of the fact that two archetypes so different are opposing each other in the sky?

More...

In S.F., Kerry blasts critics of Pelosi's Mideast trip

Senator defends speaker's visit as fact-finding mission

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Friday, April 6, 2007

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry came to the strong defense of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday for her trip to the Mideast, saying in San Francisco that a high-profile critic of the trip, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has little credibility on the issue.

Romney's "knowledge of foreign affairs extends to briefing papers -- not experience,'' Kerry said of the former Massachusetts governor. "I'd rather have Nancy Pelosi's input than his."

Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, visited San Francisco on Thursday to talk about their new book, "This Moment on Earth: Today's Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future.''

But the couple also weighed in on current political issues.

On the Democratic speaker's Mideast visit, which included a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, Kerry said, "It's terrific that she went to Syria. We are a separate branch in the United States Congress, and the administration needs to remember that.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/06/MNGJOP41AE1.DTL&type=printable

http://www.therandirhodesshow.com

Randi Rhodes Show is currently reporting that Dick Chaney is saying that Presidential lawyers are looking into a way to repeal the 22nd Amendment. Just a reminder, the 22nd Amendment limits the President to 2 terms or 10 years in office. So now they are trying to stay in office. Dictatorship anyone?

Disturbing, PatC, but doubtful it will fly and it would take longer than Bush has time in office (probably). Although I wouldn't put it past them to try to ram it through. Dems control the House and technically control the Senate plus 3/4 of the states would have to agree.

Guess what? "Their" Monica just resigned. I wonder if she wore a blue dress to work today.

Snarly is as delusional as they come. Repealing the 22nd Amendment so BushCo could be in power for yet another four years is beyond the pale. Any attempt would probably result in millions of people in the streets banging pots and pans.

I would cheerfully have voted a 3rd term for Clinton. I googled the 22nd amendment. Found this from 2003.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/000176.html

Oh, I forgot the link to the article about "their" Monica:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17986525

Here's an endearing look at "their" Monica.
http://web.archive.org/web/19991008153443/home.regent.edu/monigoo/

And, yeah, this is getting old so I'll go find something else to fixate on.

In reference to Pat C's earlier post, Neptune rules all things liquid and fluid, most especially the sea, and oil; so I think we will most likely see confrontations, and problems stemming from these, as in the most recent incident between Iran and the British soldiers. Also, that cruise ship that ran into the barrier reef, and sank off the coast of one of the Greek islands.

From another perspective, Saturn represents anything concrete, or based on scientific fact, whereas Neptune is usually associated with the abstract mind, anything mystical, dreams, deception, magic, the psychic plane, etc.

In their current transiting positions, Saturn,(according to traditional astrology)is in its detriment in Leo, because it cannot express its full potential here. We can also see the tug of war in the opposition of the two planets manifested in what is taking place between the U.K., and Iran right now in the battle for one upmanship. Fact vs. propaganda, truth vs. lies. Will Neptune trump Saturn, or vice versa?

Monica Goodling should get the same treatment as
some reporters. She should go to prison until
she decides of cooperate. 85 days in jail may
give her a different perspective. She worked for
the taxpayers and obviously broke the law.
Clinton was impeached for having sex with someone
who seduced him.

I don't find "either/or" fruitful or workable; I try & do "both/and" because that's the way the Universe operates. An example, perhaps, is the apparent opposite of day/night. But they aren't... they are both how one experiences "time" & they both occur at the same "time"... depending in what time zone one is standing. Off the Planet, perhaps neither one is applicable till one settles on another planet with a central sun-ball... perhaps. But we all know that.

"Goodling" reminds me of prefacing names during the USia puritan era. Women were referred to as "Goody Heathrow" or "Goody Winthrop". Then there's "Monica," a name that a great many folks connect to the pornopuritans' impeachment of clinton... a very expensive fiasco. Apparent "opposites" again w/o it actually being opposites imo.

(I wonder how much Monica Lewinski made on that little bit of seduction, & from whence it was paid. Could he have really been that stupid... that he actually thot he was in control of who seduced him? ...or that it would be accidental?)

Robert Fisk: The true story of free speech in America

This systematic censorship of Middle East reality continues even in schools

Published: 07 April 2007

Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me, it would be difficult to telephone her father. At the medical facility of his North Carolina prison, he can only make a few calls - monitored, of course - and he was growing steadily weaker.

Sami al-Arian is 49 but he stayed on hunger strike for 60 days to protest the government outrage committed against him, a burlesque of justice which has, of course, largely failed to rouse the sleeping dogs of American journalism in New York, Washington and Los Angeles.

All praise, then, to the journalist John Sugg from Tampa, Florida, who has been cataloguing al-Arian's little Golgotha for months, along with Alexander Cockburn of Counter Punch.

The story so far: Sami al-Arian, a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian, was a respected computer professor at the University of South Florida who tried, however vainly, to communicate the real tragedy of Palestinian Arabs to the US government. But according to Sugg, Israel's lobbyists were enraged by his lessons - al-Arian's family was driven from Palestine in 1948 - and in 2003, at the instigation of Attorney General Ashcroft, he was arrested and charged with conspiring "to murder and maim" outside the United States and with raising money for Islamic Jihad in "Palestine". He was held for two and a half years in solitary confinement, hobbling half a mile, his hands and feet shackled, merely to talk to his lawyers.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2430125.ece

JoannaO, just imagine how much Linda Tripp was paid.

Not enuf apparently, shy, as she did nothing but complain & moan dreadfully about her professional & monatary "abused" personhood. Oh yes (boohoo)... she suffered terrible mistreatment by her treaters. TaHA!!

I'm glad that John Sugg is getting the story out. The private fascistic USian govt has got to be destroyed & recreated... as our Constitution says we must.

She's wearing PANTS!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x595874
and the men have their heads covered. Hahahahahahaha.

Ok. Ok. I'll try and gather my dignity about me now and become, you know, a shyer person. Sowwy.

...& the saudi guys are wearing dresses as well as have their heads covered. And Madam Pelosi has head uncovered & wearing the pants (in the family). Excellent observation, shy. Symbolically, this is lovely. Now we need to get a pic of fashionable bushaholic wearing his dress & his black leather hood (that he projected onto the Iraqi population) on its haid don't you think? Then the circle will be complete... or at least on its way.

"...The idea that world leadership should be in the hands of women gets heard more & more frequently these days. Whether the 21st C prime ministers & presidents will be biological women, [and] men who have repudiated destroy-&-conquer methods, Pallas Athene may be our model for the new face of governance. ..." http://www.mothersky.com/writing/05_wr_hidden_faces.html

* Of Swallows and Ravens - Israeli Sexpionage: The McGreevey, Condit and Clinton Affairs http://www.aztlan.net/israeli_sexpionage.htm

There just ain't no monolithic "jew" or "jewish" any more than there is such a condition in any other race/religion/nationalist.

To answer your question, lunaoscura, about the eventual and probably unavoidable mass-migration away from the Southwest back to the Midwest and Northeast, perhaps well underway by the time Pluto rounds out Cap in the early 2020s and starts challenging humanity itself to survive against extremes in Aquarius, truth be told, the latter regions are already home to massive amounts of infrastructure that, with some necessary upgrades and overhauls, could once again accommodate millions more than what they currently do.

Most of the Rust Belt cities, for instance, have lost anywhere from roughly 30% to 65% of their peak populations. Cleveland's city limits in the 1950s were home to 915,000 people. Today that's down to about 420,000, and still declining, but the city still retains its' infrastructure for 915,000. Detroit in its' heyday was as big as Dallas is now -- at 1.4 million. Now they are down to about 900,000. Youngstown at 175,000 in the 1930s has been hit the hardest over the years, losing more than half its' population to have fallen down to just under 80,000. There are so many vacant houses there, the new mayor recently announced a program to allow people to claim one or more of the house plots around them, and the city would step in and tear the house down so that one can have a much larger yard.

Put another way, as my uncle once said, "I don't know why everybody is running South and West. We've got all the water here, so they'll just be running back up here anyway." I think that was just his way of saying that The Midwest is going to be the next Saudi Arabia because of the fresh water Great Lakes. Don't know if that is necessarily a good thing, but the governors of the Great Lakes states plus the Premier of Ontario recently formed a pact to protect and preserve the Great Lakes from the sort of efforts that might eventually lead to large pipelines running across the plains and up through the Rocky Mountains into burgeoning places like Las Vegas and Phoenix, just to keep the taps running.

Maybe as all this Pluto in Sag-driven massive, irrational suburbanesque expansion really starts to wind down, with Pluto going into Capricorn next year, and Saturn in Virgo later this year, we can get into the practical matters of our infrastructure and move into more appropriate directions. Cleveland, for instance, is now talking about multi-county regional governance and consolidation. As beliefs, religious fervor and celebritydom all finally die down, I think we'll be hearing a lot more about matters such as this.

Interesting post JoannaO!
And Shy, don't retreat into lurking...that was a funny post!
The more "pants wearing" women we have leading us, the less vulnerable we may be to sexpionage...............
( as long as we don't elect any of these school marm temptresses, who get involved with their students.) Are they for real or are they being framed? I can't comprehend the concept!
QOP

As for Bush getting a third term, only by martial law, and then he'd better be prepared to answer to a VERY infuriated American People for it. It would also be difficult to see the rest of the world tolerating the US at that point without enacting formal sanctions to further contain Bush.

I don't know how Cheney thinks he would benefit from this, except to maybe hold off the Wilson-Plame civil suit against him and Rove, and the other litigation against him that is in the works. His health, however, remains his biggest problem, and that's not going to improve.

If he and Bush did manage to pull such a coup, and it lasted through mid-decade, I don't think it would go any further. The years 2014-2016 see Pluto opposing the US Natal Sun in Cancer, not to mention Bush's own natal Sun and that of the GOP. The amount of resistance to Bush, the US and the Republican Party, attracted by their own entrenched resistance to change, would by then be at a such a tremendous level that all the former would surely be uprooted and swept away in revolution.

At any rate, I'm obviously hoping that it all won't come to that. But I would like to see the Presidency totally abolished, if for no other reason than for the fact that it has just too much potential for the great harm and abuse we have seen under Bush. I think we would do much better if we just made the Speaker of the House our Head of Government, akin to the British Prime Minister. Madam Speaker Pelosi certainly gave us a rewarding glimpse in Syria as to what that might be like.

'Britons Could Attack Us'

Updated: 11:38, Friday April 06, 2007

The man charged with protecting Americans from terrorist attack has told Sky News he is worried radicalised Britons could try to mount an assault on his country.

Michael Chertoff, the Head of Homeland Security, said the US needed further protection from so-called "clean skins" in Britain or Europe.

That is the name given by the intelligence community to those people who feel alienated but have not come to the attention of the authorities.

Mr Chertoff confirmed America had foiled some terrorist attacks but warned his countrymen not to become complacent.

The interview on Sky News came on the eve of the politician's first meeting with Home Secretary John Reid.

Sky's Anna Botting Mr Chertoff spoke to presenter Anna Botting about the threat of terrorism, the foreign policy of the West and the contentious Passenger Name Records system.

He said the US was "not hysterical but not complacent" about the terror threat and claimed the enemy was "focused".

The anti-terror chief also defended plans to check all 10 fingerprints of visitors to the US.

He said it was the "best tool" against terrorism and denied it was next step to taking DNA from passengers.

from Sky News (Murdoch)

NeoBuckeye, thanks for such an educated and knowledgeable response to my thoughts. Your words made me suddenly remember that during the Senatorial hearings on global warming Gore mentioned in passing that one of the things to think about doing will be the re-structuring of the cities as part of the process.

The Twelfth Amendment changed the Vice Presidency to a team as opposed to the losing candidate becoming Vice President. Maybe it's time to take a second look at that, and once again make the Presidential Loser the VP? Can it be done without mischief-making to make the VP President? Certainly having a formal opposition presence in the Executive Branch may help matters.

I say keep the Executive-the President. It served us well with Lincoln, Clinton, and FDR. But I would link warmaking with funding. Unless the United States was directly attacked, no further war would be possible without a direct Declaration of War which would have Congress fund it. No Declaration, no money. I would also have the Judges, US. Attorneys, et cetera be appointed by this:

One third, the President.
The second third, Congress.
The last third would be professionals hired by Civil Service, who would compete with other professionals like any other job. Citizens would also be invited to make suggestions for appointments.

In short, I would expand the Civil Service. Only the Cabinet Heads would be appointed. All the underlings would be career people. Notice that it was the political appointees that were corrupt, not the career people, who take pride in being non-partisan and professional.

There would be a Cabinet post- A Department of Science and the Environment that would handle science policy overall.

I would create a satellite Capitol so that Congress could meet elsewhere in the nation from time to time, and have a satellite White House as well. This might allow the long-suffering people of Washington DC a chance for real home rule and a chance to be really represented, a chance for more people to respond to and see Congress in action.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/07/wiransoc07.xml&page=3

http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/oil/oil1.html

History of Oil

You gotta love it! Pelosi knows how to do the constructive smack down. Slap them good with one hand and then sweetly invite them to act with maturity. Every mother knows this!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/washington/07diplo.html?_r=2&ref=washington&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

As One Syria Trip Draws Fire, Others Draw Silence

[snip]
Ms. Pelosi, in a telephone interview from Lisbon on Friday, said she could not account for the Bush administration’s assault, which she at one point equated to a tantrum. (She said her children were teasing her about Mr. Cheney’s accusation of bad behavior.) Defending her trip, Ms. Pelosi said that members of Congress had a responsibility to play a role in national security issues and that they needed to be able to gather information on their own, and not be dependent on the White House.

“I am used to the administration; nothing surprises me,” she said. “Having said that, I hope we can have the opportunity to convey to the president what we saw.”

Hahahaha, Joanna, another streak of genius - "pornopuritans". Yes, I agree with you about the words joined together conveying exactly what is meant, even though appearing to be contradictory when they stand alone, and you are absolutely right about opposites really being the same - something to do with the physical universe being subject to the laws of duality, as opposed to seeing with single vision once the consciousness is raised to the Universal level.

I wonder if that's how the phrase "Goody Twoshoes" came about?

Howard Dean on Iraq & The Bully-in-Chief

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/7/115650/1499

I thot a very interesting question, too, Crystal... googling a bit came up with "Re: Goody Two-shoes" http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/437.html

and

"Goody Twoshoes: Morality through Amusement" (another interesting thot) http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ139268&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b800e192f

And I'll bet "Goody Two-Shoes" stretches back into English history.

Couple of centuries anyway, JoannaO:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_291a.html

Ah! Goody-goody, shy... now we also see how this all connects to rt-wring pseudo-wives, help-meets & cloudy-consorts such as "monica goodling," "monica lewinsky," "condi rice," & new US Atty bible-quoter, "rachel paulose." It's surely a cast of many hundreds by the time they are all crowbarred out of govt.

Fascinating analysis. Much food for thought (sorry for the pun):
http://www.counterpunch.org/castro04072007.html

The United Methodist Church isn't all too happy with their Methodist man GWBush and his infamous library being housed in their Southern Methodist University. Is there anyone left who likes him anymore?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-library_bdapr08,1,4598170.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Plans for Bush library stir Texas-size tempest

By Mark Silva
Tribune national correspondent
Published April 8, 2007

DALLAS -- For Southern Methodist University, the alma mater of First Lady Laura Bush and a proud, nearly century-old institution, the prospect of housing the George W. Bush Presidential Library would seemingly be an honor.

Yet the possible advent of the Bush library—and especially an ideological think tank planned as part of it—has split the SMU faculty, feeding a debate that simmers beneath the serenity of the leafy campus. At an institution dedicated to scholarly achievement and academic freedom, many fear the work of the Bush Institute would forever associate SMU with a right-wing political agenda.

The vision of a Bush-backed think tank at a campus owned by the United Methodist Church has exposed emotional rifts within a church already divided over the war in Iraq. Bishops and other clergy critical of the pre-emptive war and the administration's treatment of enemy combatants are protesting what they view as a memorial to Bush, a Methodist whose policies they say are "antithetical" to their teachings.

Rev. C. Joseph Sprague, a recently retired Chicago-area Methodist bishop, summed up the sentiment of several bishops protesting the Bush Institute.

"I am hesitant to see Southern Methodist University welcoming the institute of a Methodist who has been so contrary to the teachings of the Methodist Church," he said. "It will do nothing but perpetuate the kind of neocon thinking of this administration which has taken both this nation and the world in the wrong direction."

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No comment, other than to say don't miss this:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/7/144437/2705

Shylurker, I'll abstain from the obvious remark and just say that I envision a lot of mentally challenged people blowing themselves up in the future while 'plugging' their cars in.

How fortunate for him Shy, and what a horrible accident that would have been. I am always struck by how energy patterns come and go and come again, such as being accident prone for awhile. Certainly Mars in Pisces wouldn't help our President over the next few weeks and this could have been a warning for him to be a bit careful of where he walks, what he does and where the actual plugs are, think how much the car he could have potentially blown up might have cost. Goodness, what a loss for corporate.

Yessum, Cap'n Sally.

Privateer#575 von Bill Buckler
(www.the-privateer.com):

The “Haves” vs The “Have Nots”:
In the context of the modern “fiat” (backed by nothing but government decree) money and the credit based financial system it has spawned, the “haves” are those who either have the power to create money out of thin air or who benefit from the practise. The “have nots” are those who don’t have this power.

A “have not” - like you or me - must either put up a tangible economic good (like a house) or pledge a portion of future production (a wage or salary) in order to borrow money. A “have” - like a bank or any type of lender connected with a bank - has no such obligation in return. Ultimately, the loan is literally “created” in the form of a book entry “crediting’ the “have not” with the amount of the loan.

The trick here is to continually entice the “have nots” to go on borrowing in ever increasing amounts. There are many ways this can be done. The obvious one is to lower the interest rate on the loan. The portion of the price of the asset which the loan is going to finance can also be lowered. In the “old days”, borrowers had to come up with 20 percent of the cost of the house they were borrowing to buy. At the height of the real estate bubble, they didn’t have to come up with any of it. The servicing cost of the loan can also be disguised with a very low interest rate initially which reverts (in the fine print) to a much higher one later on. There are many other methods, from the overtly blatant to the ephemerally obscure.

But all of them have the same core purpose. A financial system which relies on the creation of “credit” in order to function must create that credit in ever accelerating amounts. That is so for the simple reason that the continual increase in the debt level requires ever accelerating new borrowing so that the amount of “money” created by the new borrowing is sufficient to service the increasing debt level.

Any slowdown of the acceleration of credit creation results in a “recession”. Any large slowdown or even reversal results in a “depression”. And in today’s financial world where there is no collateral behind the money at all, any marked reversal in the level of credit creation results in a systemic financial failure. In a system like ours where debt IS money, the “haves” who literally “make” the money rely on the “have nots” who have to earn or borrow it to keep the system functioning. The “have nots” must continually increase their demands to borrow. And even more important, the “have nots” must never waver in giving their “full faith and credit” to the “haves” who are providing the money.

We Don’t Want To Foreclose!:
Here is a typical recent quote from a large US mortgage lender: “The larger the loss of value and the greater the likely loss will be, the more flexible we are. We may waive past-due amounts. In extreme situations, we may even waive principal, if need be.”

Right now, mortgage lenders all over the US are engaged in a frantic scramble to “modify” the terms of their existing mortgage contracts. If you want to see the contrast between a system which has collateral underlying its debt obligations and one which does not, compare this reaction to the reaction of banks in the 1930s Depression. Back then, the stereotype was the “evil banker” rubbing his hands together with glee while repossessing the house from the poor borrower who fell behind by even the smallest amount on the mortgage payment. Today, those same bankers are bending over backwards to AVOID such a fate.

Joanna and Shylurker..

If you are wondering where some of these idiots
originated, do yourselves a favor and watch "Jesus
Camp", a frightening documentary about what they
are doing to children...and getting away with it.
Worse than pedophelia! They are 'screwing minds'
for life!

Happy Easter one and all. Just like the Christmas
that wasn't when Jesus was born, this is the Easter that isn't when he died but it's what we celebrate and I think of it as an oppotunity to Resurrect.

The new Frank Rich column is out and out calling Bush a liar and he is. I thought things have improved, a few years ago even the people who thought he was a liar wouldn't actually say it.

What was that? Why was everyone so afraid? Something in our collective psyche told us that this buffoon of a president was to be feared. Something tells us that he could do something to us that would be harmful.

Remember how Ari Flescher said "watch what you say" and it seemingly shut down the press corps from asking questions.

They call the Repugs the "Daddy" party and the Dems the "Mommy" party. Well the concept of "mommy and daddy" is changing. Look for women to emerge this month, the progressed US Venus in in Aries and being trined by Saturn and Jupiter. Powerful Aries type women will rise and maybe men will finally get that "mommy" doesn't just bake cookies and bandage wounds. Mommy make you clean your room, demands the truth, holds kids accountable, runs the schools, the hospitals, the cultural institutions, the churches etc. "Mommie" only lets the Daddy's think they have control.

What men and women TOGETHER, bring to the table of conflict or construction is important. Without the respected and valued input of women in the world we are only getting half a brain and if men want to get out of this mess, they will have to bring strong women to the table.

Take the IRS's War Tax Refund Offer
By Amy Goodman
King Features Syndicate

Thursday 05 April 2007

If you are upset that Congress won't defund the war in Iraq, there's something you can do: Stop paying a tax. Legally.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving a rebate this year on a telephone war tax. This is one of those line items at the bottom of your phone bill. The tax was instituted in 1898 to help the United States pay for the Spanish-American War. Individuals and businesses have one chance to obtain a refund on this telephone war tax, by asking for it in their 2006 income tax returns.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040707F.shtml
GREAT IDEA..READ UP & DO IT!
QOP

April 8, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist

Sunday in the Market With McCain

By FRANK RICH
JOHN McCAIN’S April Fools’ Day stroll through Baghdad’s Shorja market last weekend was instantly acclaimed as a classic political pratfall. Protected by more than a hundred American soldiers, three Black Hawk helicopters, two Apache gunships and a bulletproof vest, the senator extolled the “progress” and “good news” in Iraq. Befitting this loopy brand of comedy — reminiscent of “Wedding Crashers,” in which Mr. McCain gamely made a cameo appearance — the star had a crackerjack cast of supporting buffoons: Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who told reporters “I bought five rugs for five bucks!,” and Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, who likened the scene to “a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime.”

Five rugs for five bucks: boy, we’ve really got that Iraq economy up and running now! No wonder the McCain show was quickly dubbed “McCain’s Mission Accomplished” and “McCain’s Dukakis-in-the-Tank Photo Op.” But at a certain point the laughter curdled. Reporters rudely pointed out there were 60-plus casualties in this market from one February attack alone and that six Americans were killed in the Baghdad environs on the day of his visit. “Your heart goes out to just the typical Iraqi because they can’t have that kind of entourage,” said Kyra Phillips of CNN. The day after Mr. McCain’s stroll, The Times of London reported that 21 of the Shorja market’s merchants and workers were ambushed and murdered.

http://wordpress.com/tag/troops/

Sally,

You said:"Look for women to emerge this month....What men and women TOGETHER, bring to the table of conflict or construction is important. Without the respected and valued input of women in the world we are only getting half a brain and if men want to get out of this mess, they will have to bring strong women to the table.

May I second- multi-praise and support your words to Goddess's ear....

This is the time of Durga (Spring Equinox to April 20th). Hindu legend calls upon Her when Evil has grown too stron; and once again we have an Emperor of Evil threatening our world.

According to this legend,only a woman can take down the Emperor of Evil, and calling upon Durga's fierce archetype to do this now w/ least amount of repercussion/disruption I feel is a plea/call we must
make before it is too late....

Holos,

One woman, many women, the feminine energy or the yin energy, whatever we call it, it's asserting itself and manifesting right now. and it's about time! It's needed to balance the out of control yang energy which is so prevalent.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Army_warns_it_cant_try_criminal_0406.html

Army warns of 'jurisdiction gap' for criminal contractors

A presentation prepared by the US Army shows that there still exist situations in which the military may not be able to prosecute private contractors who commit crimes.

This slide, with explanatory documentation, was publicized today by Secrecy News, a publication of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy.

More...

Is this Ms Goodling?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/8/132527/5110

These people!!

It's good to be dazzled from time to time:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070408.html

Speechless!

http://salon.com/news/feature/2007/04/09/injured_soldiers/

Injured troops shipped back into battle

Salon has uncovered further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.

http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/04/paul-krugman-sweet-little-lies.html

Essential Krugman: The Busheviks and the Hum of Little Lies. "Ms. Pelosi has responded coolly, dismissing the administration’s reaction as a “tantrum.” But it’s more than that: the hysterical reaction to her trip is part of a political strategy, aided and abetted by news organizations that give little lies their time in the sun."

http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/577

The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (Hardcover), Just Released, Already a Bestseller - By Ali A. Allawi

The Great Shift in Consciousness, which many of us are not only awaiting, but participating in is evidenced by the physics of discovery (one of my very favorite subjects :) ). This little tidbit
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9433495
is to be followed by another installment tomorrow (Tuesday).

That reality of embracing other dimensions will ireevocably shift our thinking and behavior. It is my fervent hope that we make through this hellish time in order to truly incorporate this breakthrough into our collective psyches, to see the sticky glue holding matter in place as well as the rich unmatter that is the very breath of life.

Rigid and misogynistic laws and traditions will -- of necessity -- burn away in the clarifying light of the inner connectedness of life matter. The synapses of our brains will fire on wholy new cylinders of creative thinking. Ever the optimist, i'm looking forward to the implosion of hatred, bigotry, and power used in a vacuum of self glorification.

Wow and I thought California would be first to say hasta...

Vermont has good reason for leaving the Union

http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070409/REPOSITORY/704090334/1028/OPINION02

Wow.

Holy cow, Vermonters! And what a find, Morgana! Maybe they'll dump maple syrup via helicopter over the whitewash house and followed by a load of hungry ants. Now there's an invasion i'll support!

Doonsbury

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2007/db070409.gif

Anybody got a clue as to what's up with this? Why finish now? What have they finished? Etc.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Halliburton_winds_up_Iran_work_04092007.html

Interesting synchronicity since Iran announced its' nuclear progress today. Me thinks they're giving Bushco the high sign that they're out of there and won't loose any assets if one were to set off some fireworks. Course that's after they help build everything.

Great summary and reporting on Ms Pelosi's trip to Syria and possible WH attempts to embarrass her:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013525.php

And, yes, Ms Morgana. It is all sooooooo interesting. But I still want to know what it was they were doing there that is now "finished".

Yeh! Vermont!
I sat in a little cafe bar in a tiny crossroads community in VT. back in 1968, listening in to a spirited conversation about the merits of succession!
( Vietnam!)
QOP

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/9/115749/7533

The coming Justice Department disaster

"Pat Robertson's Law School" Lord a mighty, again years before these people are out of there. If there was ever a first class scum bucket it's Pat Robertson and Rev. Moon can you imagine what their schools are like.

Good article PatC

IMHO I think Halliburton is finished building the "embassy" and the other three huge military bases and now they are decamping to Dubai so that they cannot be served with subpoenas and the American public can just eat sh--.
We have invaded Iraq, conquered Iraq and we are in the process of selling all the loot to the western petroleum companies..
We are not fighting "terror" we are murdering the Iraqi people who did not have the money to run.
Does anyone have ideas about the town Blackwater is trying to buy in So, California? Is this related to the loss of habeus corpus? Are the neocon fu--s setting up their own military? The evil spread around the world in our names coming home to us?

So many people working so hard to get rid of personal freedoms, Sally.

Clymela, I don't know about the town Blackwater is trying to buy, but I do know that there are 30 to 50 thousand mercenaries under the neo-cons and the Bush family. Their own private army so to speak, there could be even more. We need to take note of the fact that inspite of all the posturing with the GOP and Dems in this group, nothing is stopped. We can look forward to an almost manical obsession for war in Iran from this group. It's very strange.

That could very well be the ugly side of the U.S. Progressed Mars going Rx and our Pluto Return, clymela. In some sensem the U.S. situation is not unlike Ouroboros, the snake of legend that devoured its' own tail, representing the cyclicality of time and nature. The United States as a political entity, has become the very intolerable, aggressive and oppressive, imperialistic menace that it once fought Britain to liberate itself from.

In many ways, it always was that way, but now we may collectively have the opportunity to see and experience this reality for ourselves, more and more so in the near future, just as so much of the rest of the world already has. How will -we- respond?

We are beginning to face to the possibility that the U.S. Federal government may have become so corrupted by the insatiable greed and lust for power by the Bushites, the NeoCons, the MegaCorps and the Military-Industrial Complex that it may be impossible to repair by "conventional procedures."

If a president and congress elected by the will of the people to clean house and address our problems willingly does all that it can to try and fulfill the wishes of the people, but cannot meaningfully do so, then the present government structure of the political entity we know as the United States is, for all intents and purposes, finished.

The Bushes and NeoCons, wanting total control over everything, seek to render the US government totally ineffective as anything other than a mechanism to augment and maintain their own power. They would have the entire population of the US at their mercy, as pitiful wage slave consumers, heavily in debt and living only to consume more worthless trinkets and throw-away garbage goods. Oh, and they must watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh 24/7/365 days of the year. For the people, Bush shall be GOD, and there shall be no way but the Republican way.

Or so THEY think. I think Vermont may already have an answer, or at least a part of it. For all of the supposed power of the fascist reactionaries now in control of our government, they still owe every bit they have to our collective complacency and trust in the present system. When that trust is removed, they lose power. When it is all gone, they will be rendered impotent and helpless.

So the best way around the fascist NeoCon corruption of the federal government may very well be a "re-localization" and strengthening of state goverments that are much closer to the people and are therefore easier to scrutinize and repair from corruption. Also, we know that they derive such a tremendous amount of their power from control of non-renewable resources such as oil and coal. Bring on alternative, renewable energy! We need lots of wind, solar and hydrogen, as well as railways to replace so much needless car and fossil-fuel usage.

Anyone else starting to notice signs of emerging themes? The very sobering Global Warming report? Our infrastructure and governmental troubles? But also, and more positively, technological breakthroughs in solar and wind generation, as well as mounting public grassroots action, building towards impeachment, and as in Vermont, relocalization? It's only just beginning to come into orb (<15°), but the Uranus-Pluto Square is already having a major impact upon our landscape, and the pressure for action and change is building.

From a discussion I participated in on the News Blog...Astrology is not a cult, folks. Astrologers read the celestial signs but leave it up to the individual to decide what to do with the information. And not only that, but no astrologer would ever start a cult. And there is no evidence that an astrologer would ever do so.

Why the hostility? Some of it is because other more nebulous groups are hard to find and harder to understand. Heaven's Gate was inaccessible. Fundamentalist churches demand so much that few researchers can really understand all of the nuances. Not to mention the political clout many groups have through donations. But astrologers have no church that gives donations to politicians, no lobby, no nothing-and shares the same esoteric world as the other groups. So astrology gets dumped on unfairly. Unfairly, because astrology says "the stars impel-they do not compel". This is you life pattern-but what you do with it is up to you.

Our world misses the elders who used to be around, giving advice and lending an ear to troubled people. Grandma and Great Uncle and the tribal elders are now in the nursing home, leaving their children to fend for themselves in getting their life together. The old lodges are gone, where lodge brothers and sisters could join in mutual assistance and advice and gaining a sense of purpose through shared work in the community.

So fundamentalist churches step in to try to bridge the gap-but unlike the elders who tried to get you to think, the church tries to command and order changes by formula. But change comes from insight and courage. Fundamentalist religion deals with fear.

-- Carol
-- # Apr 09 2007, 07:35 pm

"Astrology is not a cult, folks. Astrologers read the celestial signs but leave it up to the individual to decide what to do with the information. And not only that, but no astrologer would ever start a cult. And there is no evidence that an astrologer would ever do so."

whether astrology is a cult is not the issue. whether astrologers exhibit cult-like behavior is not the issue. who astrologers are or how many of them exist or what they do is not the issue.

what is at issue is that astrology, like alchemy and palmistry and hundreds of other bygone belief systems and proto- and pseudo-sciences, is just an outdated collection of empirically unproven and unprovable claims. astrology has no more validity than the heaven's gate cosmology.

so to paraphrase voltaire: those who can make you believe bunk, can make you do real stupid stuff.

because bunk is still bunk no matter who believes it, how many believe it or how functional they may appear.

-- heaven can wait
-- # Apr 09 2007, 08:06 pm homepage

Heaven can wait-the statements that they are unproven are boilerplate hostility from atheists. The truth is that nobody has ever really tested these things and seen them for the psychology they are. When I was learning astrology way back when-I learned that it was a language. My further belief is that its applied psychology and philosophy.

But I'm digressing. The real issue is authoritarian religion that deals with fear, fear, fear. It usually rises during times of social stress and the breakdown of old ties. But it usually burns out after a while because nothing is ever as bad as predicted, and because people tire of living in a state of fear all of the time.

Esoteric teaching of the ancient variety try to tell people they themselves have God/Gods/Goddess within them, and stress the symbolic/allegoric nature of religious and spiritual teaching. The modern stuff like the UFO stuff has yet to realize that aliens are not literal beings coming to get us, but manifest the state of being alien. Besides real aliens should they, or if they have already arrived, would be far too busy with other matters to save the likes of us. I mean, where would they even start?

-- Carol
-- # Apr 09 2007, 08:58 pm

Besides, the Heaven's Gate people should have realized if their vision had somehow come true, that they would have simply taken all of their troubles with them aboard that spaceship-along with new ones dealing with their aliens. That's always a surprising discovery for apocalyptic groups from time immemorial. The Pilgrims came to the New World to start a new Promised Land...and it became just like the old one with all of the old problems and some new ones besides. The Y2K people ran to the hills, only to find that after a while, the world had adapted quite nicely. There may be a world ending, but people, stubbornly resilient, fight through it all.

I remember Y2K, and people fearing that the world would come to an end if the lights went out. I tried telling people that people managed to survive without all the stuff we have been accustomed to, that we were descendants of people who were quite resilient.

And is it the aliens job to renew earth? At least Jesus wants the job....

-- Carol
-- # Apr 09 2007, 09:20 pm

"Heaven can wait-the statements that they are unproven are boilerplate hostility from atheists."

you appear to be projecting your own insecurity on the doubters.

to those who embrace superstitions or any sort of unproven claim, those that argue on the merits (or lack thereof) of the available evidence, are often accused of harboring "hostility" towards them.

just citing basic psychology, since you bring it up.

-- heaven can wait
-- # Apr 09 2007, 10:52 pm homepage

I'm not insecure. After 30 years I've seen this stuff work quite well. If I were insecure I would have long ago left it alone. The thing is, I've seen all the arguments-religious and scientific. I've stuggled through fundamentalism myself and those arguments. (Raised Baptist and all of that) I've read the skeptics-and nothing has changed there either. The same arguments I've heard 30 years ago.... This stuff is what it is-philosophy, psychology, whatever. I don't even ask if it has a physical basis anymore. Perhaps the seasons themselves imprint themselves on people as far as I know, and that's what people react to.

Whatever. But what I've seen is clearly non-apocalyptic. Life is cyclical-and while the specific events don't repeat-the ramifications do-according to cycles, cycles, and more cycles. The numbers turn out to be events, to be states of mind, to be whatever they are.....The world that is predicted to end does end-for those who believe it does-and the next day starts again in another form for the rest of us who look at the rising sun and turn the covers over.

-- Carol
-- # Apr 10 2007, 01:35 am

Shhhh! Let's all secede. We'll all meet later to reorganize. No one leave a forwarding address.

Original Content at
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_070409_bush_s_monica__no_bl.htm

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April 9, 2007

Bush's Monica- No Blowjob-- Just Screwing

By Rob Kall

Monica Goodling could be the straw that breaks the camel's back for the Bush/Cheney whitehouse. But instead of giving Bush a blowjob, she spread her legs, integrity-wise, and screwed American justice. She helped set up, plan and coordinate the firing of at least eight US attorneys who were engaged in investigations of Republican corruption.

Goodling at a Regent U
gathering

Now, as far as we know, there was no sex-- no penile or vaginal or other orifice antics. The screwing was metaphorical, involving American justice and the integrity of the separation of the three branches of government.

The Republicans brought about impeachment hearings against Clinton because he lied about a blowjob from his Monica.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_rob_kall_070409_bush_s_monica__no_bl.htm

April 8, 2007

TPM: Is This Monica Goodling?

By F. Vyan Walton

Crossposted from Dailykos and Truth 2 Power Blog)

On Friday Josh Marshall released a video blog that investigates whether former Justice Dept Official Monica Goodling had been part of the Bush Opposition Research Team during the 2000 debates based on video and documents from that time.

Click to View Video

I think to most people with decent eyesight, the answer to that question just might be "Hell, Yes!"

Based on a year 2000 BBC documentary on oppo-research head Tim Griffin (who was selected as one of the recent replacement U.S. Attorney's) TPM breaks down the scene frame-by-frame then compares the image of a blonde woman to various pictures of Monica Goodling which are still available from Pat Robertson's Regent University.
Tim can even be heard saying "Hey, Monica..."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_f__vyan__070408_tpm_3a_is_this_monica_.htm

The Bush Administration
Texas Chainsaw Management
Spinning the revolving door between government and business as never before, the White House has handed more than 100 top environmental posts to representatives of polluting industries. The author provides a biographical sampler–and describes a devastating rollback of three decades of progress.
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. May 2007 The verdict of history sometimes takes centuries. The verdict on George W. Bush as the nation's environmental steward has already been written in stone. No president has mounted a more sustained and deliberate assault on the nation's environment. No president has acted with more solicitude toward polluting industries. Assaulting the environment across a broad front, the Bush administration has promoted and implemented more than 400 measures that eviscerate 30 years of environmental policy. After years of denial, the president recently acknowledged the potentially catastrophic threat of global warming, but the words have no more meaning than the promise to rebuild New Orleans "better than ever."

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/revolvingdoor200705?printable=true¤tPage=all

Liberalism Is In

Americans have grown more concerned about the gap between rich and poor. Support for the social safety net has grown too, while our military appetite has shrunk, according to a recent Pew survey of public opinion.

More Americans agree with the assessment that "today it's really true that the rich just get richer while the poor get poorer." Today, 73% feel that way, up from 65% five years ago.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/index.html

Heads Up, NEO

Teens take Prayer to new Heights...

Ten private planes will be circling over Ohio this afternoon filled with people praying for the state's 11 million residents. "You see rows and rows of houses, and you know they are full of people you are praying for," says Samantha Ciminillo, 18, a member of Teens for Christ. It's one way to get closer to God, who occasionally comes down to earth, but spends most of His time sitting on clouds, ordering angels around, His beard blowing in the wind.

Teenage Holy War

Jesus is really, really pissed -- at Hollywood, at the media, even at most Christians. But BattleCry, the nation’s largest and most radical youth crusade, is recruiting a new generation of Christian soldiers to fight back.
JEFF SHARLET
Page 1 2 3

>> See it now! Judge America's crusade yourself: Watch footage from a recent BattleCry rally and see one teen's haunting testimony.

>>This is an excerpt from the new issue of "Rolling Stone," on newsstands until April 19th, 2007.

This is how you enlist in the Army of God: First come the fireworks and the prayers, and then 4,000 kids scream, "We won't be silent anymore!" Then the kids drop to their knees, still but for the weeping and regrets of fifteen-year-olds. The lights in the Cleveland arena fade to blue, and a man on the stage whispers to them about sin and love and the Father-God. They rise, heartened; the crowd, en masse, swears off "harlots and adultery"; the twenty-one-year-old MC twitches taut a chain across the ass of her skintight red jeans and summons the followers to show off their best dance moves for God. "Gimme what you got!" she shouts. They dance -- hip-hop, tap, toe and pelvic thrusting. Then they're ready. They're about to accept "the mark of a warrior," explains Ron Luce, commander in chief of BattleCry, the most furious youth crusade since young sinners in the hands of an angry God flogged themselves with shame in eighteenth-century New England. Nearly three centuries later, these 4,000 teens are about to become "branded by God." It's like getting your head shaved when you join the Marines, Luce says, only the kids get to keep their hair. His assistants roll out a cowhide draped over a sawhorse, and Luce presses red-hot iron into the dead flesh, projecting a close-up of sizzling cow skin on giant movie screens above the stage.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14021621/teenage_holy_war

Says more than I want to know about McCain...

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, whose presidential candidacy has been backed by Imus on the air, said he would still appear on Imus' program.

"He has apologized," McCain said. "He said that he is deeply sorry. I'm a great believer in redemption."

OpEdNews

Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_070410_congress_must_cut_of.htm

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April 10, 2007

Congress Must Cut Off Bush Family War Profits

By none

On Monday, April 9, 2007, the Boston Herald reported that the US military had announced the Easter weekend deaths of 10 more American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday. The Associated Press reports that, since the war began in March 2003, over 3,000 members of the US military have been killed in Iraq, as of April 8, 2007.

The military reported the deaths of four more US soldiers on Tuesday.

Its nearly impossible to estimate the number of deaths of civilians in Iraq, but the Herald reports that at least 47 people were killed or found dead in violence on Easter Sunday, including 17 execution victims dumped in the capital.

News releases out of Iraq also report that a woman wearing a black veil and strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a police station in Iraq on Tuesday, killing 16 people.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=genera_evelyn_p_070410_congress_must_cut_of.htm

Actually its a really good thing Bush was prevented from blowing himself up...whoever stopped him saved the planet....otherwise can you imagine the toxic fumes that would have turned the earth into The Pit of Eternal Stench?????
If Cheney makes the same mistake....Gods help the galaxy...

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-enemy-of-people.html

Another Enemy of the People?

The latest from Karen Bishop at "What's New On Planet Earth." http://www.whatsuponplanetearth.com/latest.htm

I read her words with a shaker full of salt, but upon my word, she is astonishingly absolutely on-the-money with her "growing pains" & "new awareness" descriptions. I receive a good hearty laugh & a sense of "okay... everything's going along all right" feeling which... again, I don't know about you... is always gratefully received with a sigh of relief.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/29/60minutes/main2625305.shtml

Under The Influence
60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Reports On Drug Lobbyists' Role in Passing Bill That Keeps Drug Prices High

If you have ever wondered why the cost of prescription drugs in the United States are the highest in the world or why it's illegal to import cheaper drugs from Canada or Mexico, you need look no further than the pharmaceutical lobby and its influence in Washington, D.C.

According to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity, congressmen are outnumbered two to one by lobbyists for an industry that spends roughly a $100 million a year in campaign contributions and lobbying expenses to protect its profits.

One reason those profits have exceeded Wall Street expectations is the Medicare prescription drug bill. It was passed three-and-a-half years ago, but as 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft reports, its effects are still reverberating through the halls of Congress, providing a window into how the lobby works.

The unorthodox roll call on one of the most expensive bills ever placed before the House of Representatives began in the middle of the night, long after most people in Washington had switched off C-SPAN and gone to sleep.

The only witnesses were congressional staffers, hundreds of lobbyists, and U.S. Representatives like Dan Burton, R-Ind., and Walter Jones, R-N.C.

"The pharmaceutical lobbyists wrote the bill," says Jones. "The bill was over 1,000 pages. And it got to the members of the House that morning, and we voted for it at about 3 a.m. in the morning."

Why did the vote finally take place at 3 a.m.?

"Well, I think a lot of the shenanigans that were going on that night, they didn't want on national television in primetime," according to Burton.

"I've been in politics for 22 years," says Jones, "and it was the ugliest night I have ever seen in 22 years."

More...

House Committee on Judiciary (Conyers) issued subpoenas for DOJ documents related to the US Attorneys' scandal:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x617879

More info, including what type subpoenas, etc.
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/10/breaking-rep-conyers-issues-subpoena-duces-tecum-for-doj-docs/

THANK YOU SHY!!

U R WELCOME, PAT C.

Plus, the Senate Judiciary may issue subpoenas if they don't get what they want this week. PLUS, Gone-zales has a new Chief of Staff. Hmmmmm.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x618729

Thanks, wv. They can pray all they want for me, but I've already taken the "red pill". At least they're not flying graphic "anti-abortion" banners this time.

JoannaOregon: Have you heard anything about the Earth's frequency changing from 7.8 hz to around 12 hz?
I've been feeling alot like Karen describes, but I always thought if you were going to get to another dimension it should look different. And a higher frequency? I expect more refined intuition, deva sightings, or something....not an energy drag. Any thoughts, insights to share?

I see/hear this quasi technical stuff, Raven... I put it on a mental shelf... mebbe to come in handy one day. Don't think in terms of "higher/lower" frequency... but in quicker/slower frequency. Slow frequency is a denser world to experience I think. Anyway, it seems to me that none of "these newer worlds" are what I thot they'd be but they make sense after all is said/done. You either apparently. Adjust, adjust... change, change... still probably less traumatic than going thru most of the traditional physical deaths that we're used to seeing/hearing about... mebbe. ;O)

Sally,

As you said earlier:"Look for women to emerge this month." From Michael Wolfstar using a Scorpio rising US chart:NewsScope for April 10, 2007

American Women Ready to Assume Power

Two major news stories last week highlighted an emerging trend that is re-shaping American culture. First, Senator Hillary Clinton reported taking in some $26 million in campaign contributions, topping all candidates and far surpassing the previous first quarter record of $9 million. Second, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi riled the Bush administration by traveling to the Middle East to meet with Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad.

A major astrological indicator shows that these two political developments are only the most obvious cases of a much larger sea change taking place in the United States: women are assuming power. In the U.S. Scorpio Rising horoscope (July 4, 1776; 2:21 pm; Philadelphia), progressed Venus is forming a trine to the Midheaven, a very favorable configuration bridging women (Venus) and the nation's reputation and international standing (Midheaven).

Since progressed Venus is in pioneering Aries, women who assert their talent and vision have the best chance of advancing. Manifesting this trend just below the radar is the record number of women currently serving in Congress (74). And as this progression becomes exact this month, we also learn that a record number of women (22) were just appointed to corporate boards.

Over the next five months, the U.S. progressed Moon is heading toward a conjunction with the Midheaven and a trine to progressed Venus. This describes an interval when women can be expected to outperform men in many categories—especially since progressed Mars has recently turned retrograde. Retrograde Mars implies the weakening or turning back of male-dominated hierarchies. The ultimate takeover arrives as progressed Venus opposes progressed Mars in 2009.

The Michael Wolfstar link is:
http://www.stariq.com/Main/Articles/POOO7814.htm

Thanks Holos,
My new book project is about feminine energy, about the celebration of nature. It will be released next year.
I always had this gut feeling that it represents the energy described in the M Wolfstar article. I've intergrated alot of my male energy over the years by doing the hard work it takes to be a professional in my business, yet with a female edge by being warm and emotionaly available with my clients. There's been many years of male authors and illustrators getting most of the awards and honors by inconsistant ratios to the women who comprise 3/4 of my industry. No fooling, juvenile books is a man's world. I've been awaiting a change so it can even out to a balance.

At this moment, I cannot find the words to express my outrage:
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2054146,00.html

"to be used as furniture, floors and doors" are they kidding? They are stripping a rainforest for that? Outraged? Did you say "outraged" Shy? I can't even think of any words to describe the feelings about this, it's the depth of depravity to me, beyond, way beyond the pale.

From Maureen Dowd...NYTimes 4/11/07

Hillary has been wielding Bill as a bludgeon on support and money. If you were ever behind him, you’d better fall into line behind her. But doesn’t that undermine her presentation of herself as a self-reliant feminist aiming to be the first Madame President? If you can only win by leaning so heavily on your man for your muscle, isn’t that a benign form of paternalism?

Cap'n Sally, I think my greatest outrage about this is that there are so few legal protections for the planet. Instead, we are blinded by the concept that he with the most wealth wins. No question about it. And when it comes to nature, why just buy what you want and do what you like with it. Reminds me of Abramoff who described the trusting Creeks he ripped off as "troglodytes". Apparently, the ones who "sold" the rainforest are the same to the ones who bought it and will now destroy it, bringing the planet even closer to collapse.

Yessum, unbelievable!

Shy, the movie Devil's Advocate -- though somewhat sophomoric -- is dead-on. Greed is its own god.

Our government, like Great Britain's (and many others) have been sold to the highest bidder. The teak profits will be used in part to keep the law blind.

My heart also thought of the wildlife and their loss of habitat.

But, here we go again. We can kill and maim millions of children and women in a foreign country and say we've done so because we know what is best for them, including our cockeyed notion of freedom.

Whenever i hear someone suggest something "that would be good for me," I respond politely, "I will determine what that is." I'm always suspicious that whoever's "suggesting" is doing so for their own personal motive.

Thanks, Karen. Interesting how these things happen. Here I am so enraged I can barely speak/type, and what falls out of a stack of books and loose papers I was transferring to another bookcase?

YOKUTS PRAYER

My words are tied in one

With the great mountains

With the great rocks

With the great trees

In one with my body

And my heart

Do you all help me

with supernatural powers

And you, day

And you, night!

All of you see me

One with this world!

They are a unique language group. http://www.fourdir.com/yokuts.htm

I wish I had written the source down years ago when I copied the prayer, but, alas, I did not.

Fred Thompson, the latest person from the GOP to jump into the presidential fray, has treatable lymphoma, John McCain has "treatable" cancer and so does Rudy Giuliani. It would seem as an omen of the sickness of the GOP right now, a representation of the "cancer" eating away at this government.

Sally, they are the cancer. I've come to think of them as termites.

Global Shia Information Center...

http://www.al-shia.com/?rnd=20073312835

From Qom, via a server in Santa Clara, emanates www.al-shia.org, the most widely read source of Shiite proselytizing in the world. Also in Qom is the worldwide communications hub for Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's leading Shiite cleric, www.sistani.org, and for Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, www.leader.ir.

For years, many of Iran's clerics resisted a new age's preference for video screens over ancient Quranic calligraphy. They sanctioned the removal of satellite dishes from rooftops, called for Web site filtering to guard against pornography and peered at the nation's budding blogging craze as if it were a bizarre insect that would require new poisons. ("Blogging, due to its mundane nature, has the capacity to nurture the spirit of vulgarity ... [and is] a destructive plague," Sayed Reza Shokrollahi wrote a few years ago.)

Then they got it.

From SFgate.com

Iraqis united now -- U.S. get out

Robert Scheer, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

YOU HAVE to hand it to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., for having the chutzpah to cite the fiercely anti-American rally that dominated the anniversary of Iraq's fourth year of U.S. occupation as evidence that the troop "surge" is working. As opposed to Lieberman, who continues to act as President Bush's over-eager lapdog, his masters in the White House knew better than to celebrate at this depressing moment.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/11/EDGTLOS7RU1.DTL&type=printable

Empty-calorie campaign

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

WITH a year and a half to run, the race for the White House amounts to diet soda -- fizzy and nutrition-empty.

Here are the much-advertised ingredients on the can: How much money has each candidate raised and from whom, whether Fox News is legit enough to sponsor a debate, and whose Web site is good, better or best.

The serious contenders haven't road-tested health care, immigration or trade policies, to pick a few big-timber items that either will lift or wreck their candidacies. Maybe these topics are the last things a politician wants to bring up before tire-kicking voters on an Iowa hog farm or poolside in Portola Valley. But a podium-pounding fight to underline differences and substance is what's needed.

There are other reasons this presidential race is maddening. It will be the most expensive in history, thanks to a quiet choice the candidates made to ditch federal subsidies that would have controlled spending. The media underlined the point by lengthy coverage of the winners and losers in the first-quarter fundraising this year.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/11/EDGTLOS7SA1.DTL&type=printable

Pelosi is open to Iran trip

Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that brought sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that the two may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip -- to open a dialogue with Iran.

The Democratic speaker from San Francisco and Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, were asked at a news conference in San Francisco on Tuesday whether on the heels of their recent trip to the Middle East they would be interested in extending their diplomacy in the troubled region with a visit to Iran.

"Speaking just for myself, I would be ready to get on a plane tomorrow morning, because however objectionable, unfair and inaccurate many of (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's) statements are, it is important that we have a dialogue with him,'' Lantos said. "Speaking for myself, I'm ready to go -- and knowing the speaker, I think that she might be.''

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/11/MNGPNP68IO1.DTL&type=printable

Lantos and his wife are Jewish and the sole survivors of the Holocaust in their respective families. A trip to Iran could prove very interesting since Ahmadenijed has made some bizarre allegations about the Holocaust.

Lunaoscura

Lantos was one of my Professors when I went to
San Franciso State in the late 50's. He had just
escaped Hungary after the revolution.

Bilderberg's next get-together in Istanbul, which runs from 31st of May to June 3rd..
Look who is a invited guest
http://www.prisonplanet.com/images/april2007/100407wolfowitz2.jpg

Wolfowitz describes Bilderberg as a "a valuable opportunity to meet many people and make acquaintances."
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/100407bilderbergmeeting.htm

What were the bizarre allegations about the holocaust? And are we really, really sure that "our" seeing of the holocaust is absolutely accurate? Anyway, Ahmadenijed sees like a Sufi sees... which isn't exactly linear & certainly isn't incorrect.

wv,

Lantos going to Iran on a diplomatic mission is a huge development. When Pelosi was talking to the press after she returned from Syria Lantos was standing behind her in support with the rest of the Democrats. When I saw him there I knew that the interests of Israel were involved in the Syrian visit in some way, so when the Bushies said that Israel didn't ask Pelosi to pass on a message I knew they were lying.

I do know there's a huge difference between the anglo jews (Bilderberg et al) & the semetic jews. The anglos get to do the killing &, like bushaholic, apparently nobody's told them they couldn't.

JoannaOregon,

There's quite a bit about Ahmadinejad's Holocaust statements. He's claimed it's a myth. Here's the google web page I got when I did a search.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Ahmadinejad+and+the+Holocaust&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

My thoughts about him are that he's another mirror image of Bush. They are each other's shadow projected outwardly as each other's enemy.

Shy, the outrage should go further. The reason the "rich and super rich" individuals and companies are bying the rainforest up ist for purpose of water rights. They only buy regions with large aquifer. The future is water-- not oil. We are all to late AGAIN-- DESTINED TO STAY SLAVES.

Not to me... Ahmadinejad has a long ways to go before he's on my "sh*t list." Of course, what I "know" about any of these politicians is more than second-hand & hear-say & to be always regarded with a bowl full of salt.

Ohps! A freudy slip... I meant to say was "...what I "know" about any of these politicians is NO more than 2nd-hand & hear-say at best..."

There're always different ways to "see" things in spite of the conventional mustn't-ever-cross-the-conventional-knowledge line. ;O)

Sent to my email...

* THREE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT: COWS; THE CONSTITUTION; THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

1. COWS - Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our govt can track a cow born in Canada almost 3 yrs ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Wash? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million ["illegal aliens"] wandering around our country. Maybe we shld give them all a cow. [To me, the "illegal alien" in the americas is ol' el pinko]

2. THE CONSTITUTION - They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 yrs & we're not using it anymore.

3. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse... You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" & "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a bldg full of lawyers, judges & politicians--it creates a hostile work environment.

Now this is a rant from someone who has a voice.

http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=wherehavealltheleadersgone

Oh, mercy me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAxQzK_FrO4

You knew that didn't you Shyurker?....................
It has more impact with visuals!
Blessed Goddess; I can watch U tube with the new computer!
QOP

Impeach George Bush...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/%20f.c

Shy, QOP, good UTube explanation....I've been posting the link to the information in that video here for at least 5 years...I discovered it by the weirdest connection, genealogy. I then went to a reporter/researcher, Jock Gill who was associated with democrats.com, and he sent someone to the Nat'l Archives, and confirmed everything I had read. I will post the info again for anyone interested in actually reading this stuff....Webster Tarpley's Unauthorized Bio of GHWB....

My heart hurts. We lost a champion today: Kurt Vonnegut Jr has died.

Thanks fpr te reminder Judi/ I had that tunauthorized bio bookmarked 2 computers ago!
Do you have a link Shy?
QOP

Sidney Blumenthal is dishing it out for all he's worth tonight. Go to salon.com, watch their little commercial and check out Sid on the Mayberry Machiavellians. It's a beaut!

QOP. Did you mean Vonnegut link? Here's one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

"In which it is said (so true, so true):
Mr. Vonnegut wrote plays, essays and short fiction. But it was his novels that became classics of the American counterculture, making him a literary idol, particularly to students in the 1960s and ’70s. Dog-eared paperback copies of his books could be found in the back pockets of blue jeans and in dorm rooms on campuses throughout the United States."

The places where his books could be found also included student backpacks in numerous SDS meetings. Yep.

When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

“It is done.”

People did not like it here.

WOW!

Thanks for the link Shy
QOP

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/12/bush_destruction/

Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis

It’s up to Congress to save the executive branch from Bush’s and Rove’s radical experiment to transform it forever.

By Sidney Blumentha

On Jan. 26, J. Scott Jennings, the White House deputy political director working for Karl Rove, delivered a PowerPoint presentation to least 40 political appointees, many participating through teleconferencing, at the General Services Administration, which oversees a $60 billion budget to manage federal properties and procure office equipment. Jennings’ lecture featured maps of Republican “targets” for the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2008 election. His talk was one of perhaps dozens given since 2001 to political appointees in departments and agencies throughout the federal government by him, Rove and Ken Mehlman, the former White House political director and Republican National Committee chairman. Rove and Co. drilled polling data into the government employees and lashed them on the necessity of using federal resources for Republican victory. “Such intense regular communication from the political office had never occurred before,” Los Angeles Times reporters Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten wrote in their book, “One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century.”

More…

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/11/white.house.emails.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest

White House: E-mails on firings may have been killed

Another Rose Mary Woods Alert: White House Says Shadow RNC E-Mail Alerts About Prosecutor Firings Accidentally Deleted. Oh, Yeah, The Dog Ate My Homework. When Will the Dems Grow Some Chest Hair and Impeach These Crooks? They are Going to Bomb Iran Soon, So Get Started Now.

Thank you, thank you for the" youtube link". I had managed to pick up the info in bits and pieces over the years but now I can have it in one place by ordering the book.
I will miss Vonnegut. I know that he was old and that his "time" was near but he taught me more about redemption and how to carry that grace back to my starving world than anyone else and I will miss him.
Oh my this power in the time of Neptune/Saturn opposition has really shaken me- I am reminded of the "old ones" and the fear of God. I imagine that even Bush is afraid now. Talk about rolling thunder.
My prayer is that "we" the citizens are equal to the opportunity we have now.

* Help Wanted

We find ourselves at an interesting juncture regarding the occupation — the Dubby knows the Dems want out & they’re not going to give up on the lege attempts to cut him off at the knees. He’s invited the high-ranking Blue’s to the WH to “discuss, not negotiate” — they’ve turned their noses up, calling that a waste of time. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has decided to extend the tour of every serviceperson in Iraq/Afghanistan [145,000 in all] from a year to 15 mos. The early estimates on bush’s “surge” have been exceeded, & we’re coming up on 30,000 “fresh” soldiers in Iraq, not counting the 13,000 soon-to-be snatched home guard I mentioned yesterday. There is no end to the black hole of sacrifice bush intends to drop us into.

Without too much exaggeration [& do take note of the newly issued Gonzales subpoenas], the only thing Dub has firmly in his control at the moment is his status as Commander in Chief — & now we learn that he’s been taking apps for a War Czar to keep tabs on all the fronts … just can’t find any takers [if a few more NeoCons were actually warriors, this wouldn’t be a problem; the only guns they’ve ever cleaned were used to shoot birds, rats & old friends.]

Early on in his first [rez] campaign, I became aware that bush would govern by delegation in CEO fashion … but when the last thing he has to do needs to be sloughed off to somebody else, you’ve got to wonder what the hell he IS good for. [Rhetorical, don’t answer that … he’s breaking a paradigm & teaching us the error of ego, power manipulation & greed.] Ironic, isn’t it? The bushies are in a mood to hire — & the public is in a mood to fire.

Here’s articles on his Czar search & the 4-Stars that respectfully declined — Robert Fisk tells us about the “new” strategy — Juan Cole shares a plan for escape — last piece tells us why the Dubby might think he needs a Czar for his ambitious multi-fronted NeoCon dreamscape. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

"War Czar"... of all the idiot pink supremacist boyz notions, this takes the tart! Po' po' lil booby prize bushadruggie... it just wants to find a nice bar somewhere... pool table, topless pool boys n' girls, lossa drinks with some bags of coke to snort, & a super-duper karaoke set-up. ;O)

My feeling is that they WILL find some monstrous ego, who'll think he's just the czaraholic to fill the blackjack boots. The other title for it might be "The Truly Final Nail In bushaholic's Coffin."

...you know... since the last pass of the neptune/saturn opp is about to occur.

Good news!!

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2007/04/johnson_aides_rebuilding_offic.html

Johnson Aides Remodeling Office for His Return

Aides to Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) have begun making structural changes to the space in his Hart Senate Office building suites in anticipation of his return to the Capitol following a serious illness. They are widening walkways so that the offices will be accessible by wheel chair.

More….

Clinton suffers virtual defeat in MoveOn vote on Iraq

By Klaus Marre

April 12, 2007

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, lagged behind her main competitors, as well as some lower-tier candidates, in a straw poll taken after a virtual town hall meeting on Iraq.
Seven Democratic White House hopefuls participated in the April 10 event, sponsored by the influential MoveOn.org Political Action PAC, and MoveOn members picked Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) as the candidate who “would be best able to lead the country out of Iraq.”

Obama received 27.87 percent of the vote, followed closely by former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards with 24.84 percent. A total of 42,882 MoveOn members participated in the vote.

Clinton finished a distant fifth with 10.7 percent, also trailing Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) with 17.18 percent and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson with 12.26 percent.

The vote could indicate trouble for Clinton, who is criticized by liberals for not having been more outspoken about the war when Congress authorized it.

www.thehill.com

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/12/12320/4682

GWB43.com -- Now Disappearing

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/is-the-ap-trying-to-erase-gop-bad-behavior-from-the-news/

Is The AP Trying To Erase GOP Bad Behavior From The News?

Imus Got His Trash Talk Pass Yanked, Now Yank it for Blacks Who Talk The Same - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media

http://www.alternet.org/story/50407/

"Can U Control Yo 'H.'" The video commercial of the high priest of gangster rap Snoop Doggy Dogg demands on his CD "R&G: (Rhythm and Gangsta)." Then Dr. Dre in the cut "Housewife" on his 2001 CD "Dr Dre 2001," says, "Naw 'h' is short for honey." Next rappers Beanie Sigel says, "Watch Your 'Bs'" on his def Jam release, and 50 Cent commands, "'B' choose with me" on his 2003 top ten track P.I.M.P.

That's just a light sampling of how gangster rappers, some black filmmakers, and comedians routinely reduce young black women to "stuff," "Bs," "H's" and "MFs." Their contempt reinforces the slut image of black women and sends the message that violence, mistreatment, and verbal abuse of black women are socially acceptable.

Despite lawsuits, protests and boycotts by women's groups, gangster-themed films and rap music continue to soar in popularity. Hollywood and the record companies rake in small fortunes off of them, and so do the rappers.

Now enter shock jock Don Imus. He's the latest white guy to be transformed into a racially and gender incorrect punching bag for his Michael Richardsesque racial and gender tirade against a group of young black women. He, of course, has been verbally mugged, battered, abused, and momentarily dumped from his radio and TV show.

Imus has genuflected, no groveled, to the Reverend Al Sharpton, civil rights leaders, the Rutgers women's basketball team, begging forgiveness. Imus certainly deserves the kick in the shins that he's getting. In his very public self-flagellation, even he admitted that he rocketed way past the line of what even by the raunchy and low road standards of shock jockism is considered acceptable.

But again, Imus, as a white man that spewed racial bile, is the softest of soft targets. The same can't be said for the black rap shock jocks. They made Imus possible. They gave him the rappers bad housekeeping seal of approval to bash and trash black women.

In many ways, their artistic degradation has had even more damaging consequences for young black women. Homicide now ranks as one of the leading causes of deaths of young black females. A black woman is far more likely to be raped than a white woman and slightly more likely to be the victim of domestic violence than a white woman.

More...

They are LYING....again.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013591.php

There wouldn't BE any "black shock-jocks" had there not been FIRST pink supreamcist jock-blockheads. Women to this day are prey in malebot world cultures... 365 days/yr is the season for this hunting, bagging, & slaughter. Seems that "wars" in which males are subject to similar fates are an attempt to balance the cosmic books... which it doesn't... for anybody.

War Czar is just as absurd a label as Ho, Bitch and MF used to describe women. Where are we? Russia? Just plain stupid use of language. All little boys acting out like they are big. Stupid and painfully telling of our society and it's attachment to ego.

Cannot wait for the female energy shift.

Well, the shift may be happening. Imus has been fired by CBS. One down....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070412/imus-protests

CBS Fires Don Imus From Radio Show
AP | April 12, 2007 05:02 PM EST

NEW YORK — CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters.

Imus initially was given a two-week suspension, to start Monday, for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air last week, but outrage continued to grow and advertisers bolted from his programs.

"There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. "That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision."

Rutgers women's basketball team spokeswoman Stacey Brann said the team did not have an immediate comment on Imus' firing but would be issuing a statement later Thursday evening.

Time Magazine once named the cantankerous broadcaster as one of the 25 Most Influential People in America, and he was a member of the National Broadcaster Hall of Fame.

more...

Sally there is some talk that McCain is planning to drop out of the race, and that Jeb Bush is stepping into his place.

???

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/12/215638/519

Executive Privilege Claims Just Got Waaaay Bigger

Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 06:59:26 PM PDT

Ah, executive privilege. It’s not just for ... well ... the executive anymore. Apparently it covers a political party as well, at least according to White House Counsel Fred Fielding:

Fielding also appears to be trying to head off an attempt by Conyers to obtain e-mails and documents from the Republican National Committee regarding the firings. ...Fielding also said that "it was and remains our intention to collect e-mails and documents from those [RNC-controlled] accounts as well as the official White House e-mail and document retention systems" as part of a broader deal with the two committees on staffer testimony.

John Conyers gave a stern harrumph:

Conyers immediately countered Fielding's letter, dismissing it as an attempt by Fielding to extend executive-privilege protection to e-mails sent by White House officials on RNC servers, which Conyers suggested was legally suspect.

"As I stated in my earlier letter to the Republican National Committee today, the Judiciary Committee intends to obtain the relevant emails directly from the RNC," Conyers said in reaction to the Fielding letter. "The White House position seems to be that executive privilege not only applies in the Oval Office, but to the RNC as well. There is absolutely no basis in law or fact for such a claim."

Law? Fact? Since when did that stop The Gang That Couldn’t Govern Straight?

More...

http://www.shepherd-express.com/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2007-04-12&-token.story=176890.113121&-token.subpub=

Making Sense of the Georgia Thompson Ruling
EDITORIAL

April 12, 2007

Thursday’s ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, which immediately freed former state worker Georgia Thompson, was a stunner. Not only did the three federal judges immediately give Thompson her freedom, but they also delivered a smack-down to the Milwaukee office of U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic, calling the evidence in the case “beyond thin.”

So how did that happen? Why would a prosecutor, working on the taxpayers’ dime, press charges when the evidence was negligible? Why did a jury convict based on that same evidence? And why was Thompson given the unusual punishment of going to federal prison while her case was being appealed?

Why? Because the political climate—in George W. Bush’s America, in Wisconsin and in Milwaukee, in particular, where the case was decided—is so poisoned by political games that the jury sent a message that wasn’t based on the evidence introduced in the courtroom.

Once the case was heard by three neutral judges, two of which were appointed by Republican presidents, who only looked at the facts in the case and not the screaming headlines about Gov. Jim Doyle’s alleged corruption, the court made the right call. And in doing so the appeals court revealed much about what’s happening behind the scenes at the Department of Justice under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Believe it or not, there was once a time when the Justice Department was supposed to be removed from politics; fortunately, the appeals court judges didn’t realize that times have changed.

More...

Eeeewwwwwwww! Oh puke! When she kisses him doesn't Wolfowitz's girlfriend know what's been in his mouth! He's beyond disgusting!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/world/13wolfowitz.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&hp&oref=slogin

Turmoil Grows for Wolfowitz at World Bank

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: April 13, 2007
WASHINGTON, April 12 — Paul D. Wolfowitz’s tenure as president of the World Bank was thrown into turmoil on Thursday by the disclosure that he had helped arrange a pay raise for his companion at the time of her transfer from the bank to the State Department, where she remained on the bank payroll.

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Wow Pat, don't you just love how astrology shows us how to observant of the trends? All the filth and corruption, the poisonous piles beneath the landfill of lies heaving to the surface? I have to thank you, wv and all the other AWers (and especially Sally for this forum) for keeping the focus on the truth bneath all the sordid grandstanding and grandiosities. But Jeb Bush? That one won't see the light of day, i'm thinking unless his chart says otherwise. Now there's a big stinking pile of *hit waiting to hit the fan.

As I've said many times, "there aren't any names on an astrology chart, it's only a mapping of the energies around a person or situation." That said, I am surprised Jeb Bush hasn't already come into the race, and looking at his chart I think there is a better than even chance he will run for President, Pat C. McCain, doesn't want to step down but he might have to realistically, however this is still way early in the election cycle to make that decision, anything can happen to elevate him to number 1 over the next few months.

The people of both parties are still looking for a "leader" they don't feel they have one yet and will jump on the bandwagon of anyone new. Although not completely admitted, the right is over the Bush family and the only way they can keep it is to fix the elections or declare martial law and do away with elections. With an even playing field, Jeb Bush doesn't stand any better a chance than what is on the scene now, and he has a tough summer ahead of him.

Where we are politically right now isn't good for both parties, and it's a perfect set-up for a truly evil person to take over the US. We will have to see who emerges from the "pack" this fall because they all have a difficult summer ahead of them. I'm watching Hillary as Saturn conj. her Pluto and squares her Mercury in June, that's when she could come face to face with reality and so could her supporters. I'm not going to do too much political astrology on individual candidates until fall, the summer and early fall are just too tipsy for the candidates we have now. Who knows, Nancy Pelosi could be a front runner by January if she decides to run.

http://www.alternet.org/story/50492/

Pending Election Reform in Congress Doesn't Give Citizens Right to Sue

A law regulating voting machines making its way through Congress lacks a provision allowing voters to sue -- a right that was a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.

TAP TAP. TIME TO WAKE UP.

Leaked document reveals bulk water exports to be discussed at continental integration talks
OTTAWA, April 13 /CNW Telbec/ - The leaked document of a prominent Washington-based think tank obtained by the Council of Canadians reveals that government officials and business leaders from Canada, Mexico and the United States are scheduled to discuss bulk water exports in a closed-door meeting at the end of the month as part of a larger discussion on North American integration.
Titled the "North American Future 2025 Project," the initiative being led by the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Conference Board of Canada and the Mexican Centro de Investigacisn y Docencia Econsmicas calls for a series of "closed-door meetings" on North American integration dealing with a number of highly contentious issues including bulk water exports, a joint security perimeter and a continental resource pact.
According to the document, a roundtable on the "Future of the North American Environment," is planned for this Friday April 27 in Calgary, and will discuss "water consumption, water transfers and artificial diversions of bulk water" with the aim of achieving "joint optimum utilization of the available water."
"This is just the latest in a series of closed-door meetings that grant the business sector privileged access while shutting out the public," says Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians. "The document is damning not just because it outlines a process that lacks transparency and accountability," says Barlow, "but also because of what is being discussed by governments and so-called corporate stakeholders."
The document also reveals that "trilateral coordination of energy policy" and the development of "North American security architecture" are being discussed by high-level government officials from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
The Council of Canadians is demanding that the Canadian government cease all further participation in such talks on North American integration until there is parliamentary debate and meaningful public consultation on the issue.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2007/13/c4857.html
UPDATE: The Vancouver Sun is covering it at length.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=ed8a30ad-053f-4b31-bae7-f1692dbcd156&k=36445

From the Vancouver Sun article linked above.

Canada has 20 per cent of the world's water "if you drained every lake and river" - but actual available supply amounts to only about seven per cent, she said.
The outline notes that "fresh water is running out in many regions of the world," particularly the U.S. and Mexico, while "Canada possesses about 20 per cent of the Earth's fresh water."
It goes on to say Canada, the U.S. and Mexico must discuss such solutions as bilateral agreements on "water transfers" and the diversion of water.
The outline notes "the overriding future goal of North America is to achieve joint optimum utilization of the available water."
Pressure on Canada from the U.S. will be intense, according to the UN report.
It warns that drought might cut by 40 per cent a key Texas aquifer that supplies water for 2 million people, and decimate the Ogallala aquifer, which underlies eight U.S. states.
The Ogallala Aquifer (click on accompanying image)

CAPTION: "The Ogallala aquifer underlies portions of eight states. This image documents the decline in the level of water in many areas for the period 1980-1995. Source: USGS"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer

Maybe we will someday go to war with Canada after all. Over water.

Revenge of The Birds!:
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_103114213.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/water/bolivia.html

Sell the rain

How the privatization of water caused riots in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Pat C

As a Canadian born, I have told my relatives
many times that one day the US would attack
Canada over water.

California and the South West is the US in is
desperate need of water this year as the snow
pack was not very large.

Alberta is the Texas of Canada, and Calgary is
it's Dallas. The current Prime Minister who emulates Bush at every turn is from Alberta and is
about as bright as his hero. Canada stopped a huge
Hyrdo project in Northern Quebec as all the power
was scheduled for the States.

Cheney is keeping close eye on the oil, as Canada
is the largest source of oil for the USA, most of
the oil from Alaska goes to Japan.

The Germans are buying water companies all over
the world. As President of a HomeOwners Association in Northern California in the 1975 I
researched water, as our system was pathetic. We
could have had it done for free by the Government
then but the members wouldn't go along. 10 years
later it cost them $30,000,00 to have it repaired.
I made sure it was tied into the local town's water company and they would be responsible of
billing and repairs and quality of the water.
They are still paying on it, but have great water
underground lines, fire protection, and new roads
as a result of laying the lines.

here in California we're being asked to voluntarily lower our use of water. Even though the reservoirs are full the mild winter and lack of rain has melted a lot of the snow which is what is used after the water in the reservoirs is used. They're not claiming drought yet, but the future water isn't there either.

How I'd LOVE to participate in a World where some of the inhabitants didn't act like hateful violent greedy childish idiots to the other inhabitants & the Planet. The time taken up for such behaviors could so be used for loving, learning, exploring, finding out what one is truly capable of creatively being/doing. It just drives me mad... none of the theological theosophical metaphysical philosophical meditational prayerish whys work for me... (snarl spit-spit growl roar whaaah)

You did some good work wv. They were lucky to have you. I wish there were more like you out here.

We've got to get this information out. The journalists aren't touching this and this kind of question must be posed to Presidential candidates, along with these "quiet" plans to NAFTA and CAFTA the entire continent. As I understand it NAFTA and CAFTA will subvert the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, not to mention health standards.

This is truly a drak plan being done without the permission of the people.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/13/pat_robertson/

Say it loud: I'm elite and proud!

Why is the country run by people who celebrate mediocrity and recruit from Pat Robertson's law school? Because the right-wing crusade to demonize elites has succeeded.

By Bill Maher

* [bushadruggie] keeps low profile in days of high anxiety - gw is the [chimp] who isn't there this spring in Wash.

Oh, you can easily glimpse him on TV, his increasingly troubled visage close to obsessive as he repeats the same old msg that we will win in Iraq & then ... But it is becoming increasingly clear that no one pays attn to the Texan with the destructive ambitions anymore--& that the nation's view of Iraq has undergone a massive/important transformation. ... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0704120651apr13,1,5704895.story

* A DEATH

I’m just finishing a book called 'The Leopard' by Guiseppe di Lampedusa, about a Prince of Sicily in the 19th C who is the last of his line & the last of a way of life. I’ve just read the chapter that describes his death:

"Don Fabrizio had always known that sensation. For a dozen years or so he had been feeling as if the vital fluid, the faculty of existing, life itself in fact & perhaps even the will to go on living, were ebbing out of him slowly but steadily, as grains of sand cluster & then line up one by one, unhurried, unceasing, before the narrow neck of an hour glass... the sensation was in no way disagreeable; this continuous whittling away of his personality seemed linked to a vague presage of the rebldg elsewhere of a personality (thanks be to God) less conscious & yet broader. Those tiny grains of sand were not lost; they were vanishing, but accumulating elsewhere to cement some more lasting pile. Tho 'pile,' he had reflected, was not the exact word, for it suggested weight; nor was 'grain of sand' either for that matter. They were more like tiny particles of watery vapour exhaled from a narrow pond, mounting then into the sky to great clouds, light & free."

On his final day, emerging from an exhausting train journey, "..it was then that he heard the crash of the cascade." And a few hours later, as the end nears: "Now it was not a river erupting over him but an ocean, tempestuous, all foam & raging white-flecked waves."

Don Fabrizio, the Leopard, is an astronomer, & earlier in his life we had seen him, outside at night after a ball: "At the cross roads he glimpsed the sky to the east, above the sea. There was Venus, wrapped in her turban of autumn mist. She was always faithful, always awaiting a Don Fabrizio on his early morning outings... Don Fabrizio sighed. When would she decide to give him an appointment less ephemeral, far from stumps & blood, in her own region of perennial certitude?"

Finally we see him on his deathbed, in a hotel overlooking the sea, surrounded by relatives: "Suddenly amid the group appeared a young woman; slim, in brown travelling dress & wide bustle, with a straw hat trimmed with a speckled veil which could not hide the sly charm of her face. She slid a little suede-gloved hand between one elbow & another of the weeping kneelers, apologised, drew closer. It was she, the creature forever yearned for, coming to fetch him; strange that one so young should yield to him; the time for the train’s departure must be very close. When she was face to face with him she raised her veil; & there, chaste but ready for possession, she looked lovelier than she ever had when glimpsed in stellar space. The crashing of the sea subsided altogether." ... http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.com/

* Bob Herbert: The crucial issue goes well beyond Don Imus’s pathetically infantile behavior. The real question is whether this controversy is loud enough to shock Americans at long last into the realization of just how profoundly racist & sexist the culture is. ... http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/04/bob-herbert-paying-price.html

Hear! Hear!
(response to JoannaO's quote from Bob Herbert)

Something for us all to enjoy!
Ann Coulter toilet paper with her smiley face printed just right!
http://gigglesugar.com/186658

enjoy the laugh Happy Fri 13th everyone. Pls let me know when the Karl Rove/Buschcon roles are available LOL

http://politicalhumor.about.com/?once=true&

Great Vonegut quotes -

Podvin is back!

By David Podvin
February 26, 2007

When George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13303 that effectively transferred Iraqi oil into American custody it constituted history’s greatest acquisition of wealth. Iraq contains proven oil reserves of 115 billion barrels, and geological surveys indicate that a similar amount of unconfirmed petroleum deposits exist. At current prices, the oil that lies beneath the Iraqi sand is worth approximately fourteen trillion dollars.

If America were to leave Iraq it would constitute history’s greatest forfeiture of wealth, so America will not leave. Although the Democrats are saying the United States must withdraw sooner and the Republicans are saying the United States must withdraw later, it is performance art worthy of Oscar consideration. The American military isn’t going anywhere. Not sooner. Not later. Not ever. America’s exit strategy is to stay, which explains why hugely expensive military bases are being constructed throughout Iraq. The world’s only superpower did not build its financial juggernaut by being the type of impetuous nation that repudiates fourteen trillion dollars.......................
http://makethemaccountable.com/index.php/2007/02/27/david-podvin-exit-strategy/
Thus the discussion re: the draft! Charlie Rangel is a "good ole boy!"
QOP

Yes... oil won't/wouldn't be worth this "fourteen trillion dollars" if nobody wanted it as was "his" reality before the 1900s. Alternative enegy would put an end to petroleum snatching. Naturally, that doesn't mean the boyz wouldn't dream up some other "just have to have" article or thing for hisself that would "justify" mass omnicide. Why? Because he LIKES killing, sexualized torture, & making children cry.

Well Yes...................................water!
QOP

QOP, thank you so much for this link. I have been going crazy that the dem's keep talking about an exit strategy but they won't talk about what has really been going on there.
Beginning with the news about the embassy it was apparent that there is no intention of ever leaving. I think that is when I really grew up and faced the truth about what is going on in this world. Gemini sun/Leo moon terminal good will? Never gave up on this power structure until I read about the embassy and then later the military bases. OH MAMA!! Hard rain is gonna fall. The coming Pluto return will be a b--ch for those who think that they deserve the privelge we have extorted from others.

...And meanwhile we continue stripping the rainforests and creating emissions. It's enough to make you want to stop driving! Either mother nature or alients just have to intervene to turn the focus and/or get big business out of this picture. Learn how to be as self sufficient as possible and get off the grid.

Leno asked Pelosi whether she had thought about running for higher office.

"No, I like speaker of the House," she said. "I think there are people who want to do that, and I wish them all well."

MANAGING CALIFORNIA'S NATURAL RESOURCES

Water more precious as state grows
Strong feelings over dams: Not everyone agrees with governor that new reservoirs are best way to prepare for dry years -- some experts wonder if they'll even be needed
Tom Chorneau, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau

Saturday, April 14, 2007

More...
(04-14) 04:00 PDT Maxwell, Colusa County -- From a ridge overlooking bucolic Antelope Valley, rancher Bob Alvernaz can almost make out the banks of the Sacramento River about 15 miles to the east.

Somewhere in the distance, he said, the state wants to build a canal and pumping system to bring the river water across the rice fields and up the hills to the valley, creating California's next big reservoir.

Although the Sites Dam project has been in the planning stage for years, it is still hard for the 76-year-old cattleman and rice farmer to visualize the whole length of the valley -- including his 5,000-acre ranch -- under nearly 2 million acre-feet of water.

And even after one of the driest winters on record, he doesn't see the sense of it.

"The water won't be for us," he said. "It will be too expensive. It's for the cities down south.

"And they say it will generate power, too -- but what about all the power it takes to get the water up here? There's got to be more sensible places to build more storage."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/14/BAGT9P8QB51.DTL&type=printable

CALIFORNIA'S NATURAL RESOURCES

Water more precious as state grows
Marine reserves: State wildlife board creates 29 refuges off Central Coast where fishing to be banned or restricted

Glen Martin, Chronicle Environment Writer

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Fishing will be banned or restricted in almost 20 percent of the Central Coast waters, under a decision Friday by a state wildlife commission. The move creates the nation's most ambitious marine reserve system.

The refuge program, which will ultimately span the entire coast, is designed to revive California's depleted near-shore fish stocks.

"With this action, California has embarked on something extraordinary," said Richard B. Rogers, president of the California Fish and Game Commission. "We've taken the first step to returning California waters to fully sustainable abundance."

Environmentalists largely hailed the decision as a landmark step to protect dwindling fish species, such as rockfish. Fishing groups, however, said the program was too restrictive and would limit what commercial fishermen could catch and what consumers would be able to buy.

The 1999 Marine Life Protection Act directed the expansion of the state's marine refuge system with the goal of enhancing marine ecosystems and restoring fisheries. The commission tentatively approved the refuges in August and agreed to implement them Friday at a meeting in Bodega Bay.

Friday's action established 29 protected marine areas along California's Central Coast, between Pigeon Point in San Mateo County and Point Conception north of Santa Barbara. The reserves cover approximately 204 square miles, representing 18 percent of Central Coast waters.

About 94 square miles will be designated as "no take" preserves, where all commercial and recreational fishing and kelp harvesting will be forbidden. Limited fishing and kelp harvesting would be permitted in the remaining reserves.

Under the 1999 act, the state will hire extra Department of Fish and Game wardens to guard the reserves. Nine new wardens will patrol the Central Coast reserves.

The commission will designate reserves for the coast from Half Moon Bay to Point Arena, excluding San Francisco Bay, by 2008. Reserves for remaining coastal state waters -- including San Francisco Bay -- will be chosen by 2011.

The designation process has been long, arduous and often acrimonious. Environmentalists, sport anglers, commercial fishermen, spear fishers, recreational divers and kelp harvesters all jockeyed for favor with the commissioners -- and against each other.

"I think the commission took the big picture and picked an alternative that was good for the environment and good for the people of California," said Karen Garrison, the oceans program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

"As a diver, I can verify that California's underwater places are as spectacular as Yosemite and King's Canyon," Garrison said. "But we're playing catch-up with the ocean."

Warner Chabot, vice president of the Ocean Conservancy, said he favored more rigorous protections than those authorized by the commission.

"We think of this as a compromise of a compromise." Chabot said. "But on the whole it's fair and balanced. It allows for ample recreational and commercial fishing while establishing more protected areas to restore the ocean's biodiversity."

Fishermen were not so sanguine. A spot-prawn trapper said the decision will drive him out of business, because it prohibits prawn trapping at Soquel Canyon, a prime fishing spot in Monterey Bay. Spot prawns are one of California's most highly esteemed -- and expensive -- seafoods.

And Doug Neumann, a salmon troller from Ocean Cove (Sonoma County), described the reserve plan as extreme.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/14/BAGT9P8IGB1.DTL&type=printable

Swamp, a full line of bushwhacked goods is available for your perusal at http://www.wipeyourtushwithbush.com/

A friend of mine gifted me with two rolls this past holiday season; quite the hit!

New Moon in Aries

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
4:36am PDT
27º 05'

Because Aries is the youngest of the signs, this is the New Moon for fresh starts, turning over a new leaf or starting a new phase. Aries represents the inner child; that amazingly trusting, innocent soul that lives within each of us. Even in the worst of times, it is important to be aware of the ever-present humor that exists in the darkest moments of our lives. After all, the greatest comedy does arise from the deepest tragedies.

I realize childlike innocence may be hard to conjure up when the world is in such disarray, but this is the only New Moon of the year when we get to start all over again. If this past year has left you feeling beaten down, depressed, and physically or emotionally wounded, this is the New Moon to start anew. When darkness comes into our lives, we must remember that the dawn will eventually come. This New Moon is the rising sun, the light at the end of the tunnel, the beginning of your journey back to wholeness. It is a refreshing and joyful New Moon. Winter is over! Renewal has arrived!

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

26-27 deg Aries

Through Imagination A Lost Opportunity Is Regained
27-28 deg Aries

A Large Audiences Confronts The Performer Who Disappointed Its Expectations

Looks like the new moon can go either way!
QOP

27degrees 05 minutes is 28 Aries-the 28th degree of Aries.The degree is a meditation on how we carry on when we realize that we didn't have everything completely together. Also, how we respond to other people's opinions.
Wonder what this new moon will mean to the administration? Also, bet Wolfowitz resigns-he was almost whining in a clip I heard. I get a shameful joy in observing the complete, utter failure of the Neocon creeps. What a bunch of mean, shallow, stupid rich people. I thought that they were stronger than they have turned out to be. Real creeps.
Re: the new moon: I bet Wolfowitz resigns and cries. And isn't his lady love a piece of cake? She's the victim? Oh my god!!!

* Joe Francis, Osama bin Laden, & Perez Hiton are all loathsome as is, but the Boston Phoenix would like you to know something else: they're downright unsexy, too. All 3 made the cut (#79, #92, & #8, respectively) on the mag's "100 Unsexiest Men 2007" list. Ann Coulter rounded out the bottom 4th at #80, just barely edging out "bloggist" Nick Denton (#81).

The men were rated for their aesthetic shortcomings & boorish behavior. We're not sure we'd agree with Bob Dylan (#9) being less sexy than Dustin Diamond (#28), but we won't argue with Donald Trump taking over the top slot from last year's champ, Gilbert Gottfried. http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/04/boston-phoeonix-gets-ugly.php

* WMR first reported World Bank Prez Paul Wolfowitz's girlfriend issues last Sept. Wolfowitz is now under pressure to resign for favoritism he has shown in landing his girlfriend a job in violation of World Bank rules. Wolfowitz's flame landed a job at the State Dept at an annual salary of $193,000.

Last Sept we reported, "Shaha Aliriza, who has managed to antagonize every office in Wash DC in which she has been specially assigned by her boyfriend/boss [Wolfowitz], is now serving as a World Bank liaison in S America, according to World Bank sources. Aliriza is divorced from Bulent Aliriza, a Turkish Cypriot who she met at the London School of Economics. Wolfowitz is legally separated from his wife, Clare Selgin. After taking over at the World Bank, Wolfowitz met Aliriza, then the acting mgr for the Bank's External Relations/Outreach for the Mid East & N Africa Region. After complaints by employees about Wolfowitz's conflict of interest with an employee, Aliriza was transferred to a joint World Bank/US Agency for Internatl Dev (USAID) multinational investment project. After similar complaints, Wolfowitz transferred his friend to S America duties.

World Bank sources report that altho the Tunis-born Aliriza grew up in Saudi Arabia & is a British citizen, she has Tunisian Jewish roots. Aliriza honed her neo-con credentials as a veteran of Ronald Reagan's Natl Endowment for Democracy & she has been pressuring Wolfowitz to use his position to help 'democratize' the Mid East." ... http://waynemadsenreport.com//

Oooooh! Eye-candy wonderment:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21547338-2,00.html

It is amazing, there is always more to find out about the Bush family clan.
Bush family does a Moon dance
By Bill Berkowitz

OAKLAND, California - When former president George H W Bush takes the stage to deliver the keynote address in honor of the 25th anniversary of the ultra-conservative Washington Times newspaper in mid-May, it will not be the first time he has spoken in support of one of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's enterprises.

And whatever fee Bush will realize from his appearance is only one aspect of what author Kevin Philips has termed Moon's "close" relationship with the Bush family.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/ID14Aa01.html

Did anyone wach Tim Russert this AM? JUST AMAZING..CHENEY IS STILL RUMINATING THE SAME GARBAGE ABOUT THE "DANGER" TO US FROM THESE EVILDOERS????????????????????
I GUESS HE DOESN'T READ ANYTHING EITHER!?
ANd that harmless Hawaiian singer with the pacemaker just died!

I'm reading the Unauthorized bio of GHW Bush, by Tarpley,
Who else had mercenaries? .............................Hitler!
We have 20,000. private mercenaries in Iraq! Their widows get $104.000. per year as compared to widows of our volunteer armies, $40,000.!
But Imus is a truley BAD person!
QOP

Is this one of those warm, smoking guns?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013646.php

Oh, Glorious, Glorious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpKlCRfvjjU

Thank you What a treat on a gray day waiting for the storm!
QOP

Prince William suddenly split with his girlfriend, and this too:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,21519257-5003402,00.html?from=public_rss

I'm pretty sure these happenings are a direct result of March's solar eclipse at 28 Pisces which exactly squares his 28 Sag Asc., and his 7th house sun at 0 Cancer. Transiting Pluto is also conjunct his Asc. at this time. He himself was born at the time of a solar eclipse.

That's very interesting, Crystal. Not only does William have the same charming tilt of the head as did his mother, they were both cancer suns with sag ascendants. http://www.astrologyweekly.com/natal-charts/princess-diana.php

Home-loving & roaming-loving at the same time. Talk about some people living out archetypes! http://www.astrologyzine.com/princess.shtml

Thanks for that Joanna. Here's William's chart. I wish I had time to do more in depth studying of these charts. I'm sure there's a wealth of information to uncover here. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to devote to it, but some things stick out like a sore thumb, and don't take much looking for. I read somewhere that the ancient astrologers used only new moons, full moons, and of course eclipses to make predictions, and they were very accurate. I have observed this to be true, and it applies equally to places. Eclipses, especially if they are total, and closely aspect a sensitive point in the natal, or progressed chart, pack a powerful wallop!

Not a little strange that Mother Teresa died just a few days after Diana (9/5/1997).

http://www.astrosoftware.com/pwilliam.htm

Oh the irony!
"`The [government] must put the most modern medical means in the service of this knowledge....
Those who are physically and mentally unhealthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their suffering in the body of their children.... The prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over a period of only 600 years, would ... free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune.''

``The per capita income gap between the developed and the developing countries is increasing, in large part the result of higher birth rates in the poorer countries.... Famine in India, unwanted babies in the United States, poverty that seemed to form an unbreakable chain for millions of people--how should we tackle these problems?.... It is quite clear that one of the major challenges of the 1970s ... will be to curb the world's fertility.'' G H W Bush
What pity he didn't act on his own words!
http://www.tarpley.net/bush3.htm

I'm on Chapt 3...it's stomach turning! WWII was ginned up too!
QOP

The most important American political event in those preparations for Hitler was the infamous `` Third International Congress on Eugenics, '' held at New York's American Museum of Natural History August 21-23, 1932, supervised by the International Federation of Eugenics Societies.@s9 This meeting took up the stubborn persistence of African-Americans and other allegedly `` inferior '' and `` socially inadequate '' groups in reproducing, expanding their numbers, and amalgamating with others. It was recommended that these `` dangers '' to the `` better '' ethnic groups and to the `` well-born, '' could be dealt with by sterilization or `` cutting off the bad stock '' of the `` unfit. ''
QOP

For the What Have We Become? Dept. A commenter over at talkingpointsmemo made these observations:

“Implicit in all the coverage is the assumption—by Democrats and Republicans alike—that the Attorney General is going up to Capitol Hill to lie. As far as I can tell, this is a universal assumption. . . .
“I’m sure that if Gonzales makes it through his testimony [next Tuesday] without being totally discredited, Fred Barnes and Brit Hume will be all over Fox news boasting that the Senators “never laid a glove on him.” But no one seems the least bit concerned about his truthfulness, just his tactics. . . .”

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013655.php

This is a very interesting article (though longish) and gets to some of the issues with corporations, the WTO, destruction of the US middle class, etc., that face us and threaten to overwhelm us. Here's a quote which I hope whets your appetite to read more:
. "He [Gomory] wants to re-create an understanding of the corporation's obligations to society, the social perspective that flourished for a time in the last century but is now nearly extinct. The old idea was that the corporation is a trust, not only for shareholders but for the benefit of the country, the employees and the people who use the product."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070430/greider

Hang on, QOP! That thing looks horrible (saw it over at NOAA). Pls keep us posted about your well-being.

* Saturn Direct

Saturn starts moving forward again (Direct) on 19th Apr, after 4 mos of going backwards (Retrograde). As usual, the effects of this change have been visible already, a week or two before the actual change. There are lots of people I know, including myself, with significant pts around mid to late of the fixed signs – ie approx 15-25 degs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aqaurius – where things are just starting to shift after mos of being apparently stuck.

One person I know with Mars at 23 Leo in the 10th House has just applied for a new job that would move her career forward; a young man with Sun at 20 Leo looks like he might be starting to take responsibility for his life after several mos of experiencing the consequences of not doing so; a woman with Moon in Scorpio square to Uranus seems poised to break free of a stifling relationship after mos of indecision; ... http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.com/

The "weather storm", is no big deal here! Just heavy winds, ( frequent on the coast here. During the perfect storm, it blew in a temporary window covering in my loft and I was up there at 11pm, nailing a board up against the 60 mi per hour winds! Duct tape didn't work!)
Last summer the ( heavy) trellis bench I bought blew over 4 times ( no storm just wind as usual!) This year I will cement it to metal rods in the ground!
Now I have a new roof and replacement windows, slept blissfully through the night, not even needing the thermos of hot water placed on the register in case of power outage!
I m on a 50 ' bluff above the water. so even the worst case scenario of global warming, won't cause havoc in my household............
should I live that long!
Yaah! Bring back the Hershy's concept! ...
QOP

I am so glad Saturn is turning direct, it is stationary in an exact square to my Mercury and I've been struggling with 1. foot in mouth disease (in fact if I could get my mouth open wider, I could get both feet in) and 2. suffering from a mental "DUH" and 3. a bad case of frustration.

The storms this last week in Texas and weekend in the North East should continue for a couple of days as well as the increased violence in Iraq. Don't know what will break but something sure will, with Mars coming to a square to the US Uranus, the Inaugural 2005 Moon and opposition to GWB's Mars. T-Jupiter squares T-Uranus. Lots of unrest this next week. Wolfowitz and Gonzales will not resign unless outside pressure is continued to be placed on them, if Gonzales resigns or is impeached by the Senate it will all come to a head in May or June.

Bless your heart, Miss Sally... have been there, done that & so heartily empathize &, as you know, somehow great good will come out of it.

Here's a sometimes delightful saturn's "stick a fork in it, it's done" it seems to me as long as it isn't... you know, oneself. ;O)

* "I see dead people." So Nora Ephron told me earlier this week. And no, she wasn't having a supernatural experience. She was talking about people like Don Imus, Alberto Gonzales, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, Isiah Thomas, & John McCain. Of course, now you don't need a 6th Sense to tell you that Imus is--at least as far as his radio show goes--pushing up the daisies. ... But there are other dead men walking these days. As Haley Joel Osment said, "They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead." Topping the latest dead pool are Paul Wolfowitz & Alberto Gonzales. ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/i-see-dead-people_b_45939.html

There're some pretty funny comments addressing the piece. Then there's "Cons to Bush: Fire Gonzales," some pink supremacist guys who don't want "embattled AG Alberto Gonzales on the eve of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee," singing his lil operatic bit concerning where the bodies are buried. "...[A] group of influential cons & longtime bush supporters has written a letter to the WH to call for his resignation." ... http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1610738,00.html

In the adolescent "I dare you" game between the dems & necroporns, looks like the necros blinked first! Could be a Hoot!

We knew this was going to happen.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,476324,00.html

AL-QAIDA RELOADED
Five Years After 9/11, Bin Laden's Network Is Back

By Yassin Musharbash
As Western intelligence agencies are discovering, al-Qaida is by no means finished. Training camps have reappeared in Afghanistan and now in Pakistan, as Osama bin Laden's terrorist network regains its strength.

The news is alarming. US and French intelligence agencies are convinced that terrorist network Al-Qaida has reorganized, and even that it has developed new training camps, both in Afghanistan and the remote tribal regions of northern Pakistan. They believe that a new generation of terrorists has come of age, and some are suspected of planning attacks in the West.

Five and a half years have passed since Sept. 11, 2001 and the beginning of the war against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The physical presence of Osama bin Laden's network was largely destroyed at the time, with the terrorist camps which had trained an estimated 20,000 men quickly reduced to rubble. Two years ago, the White House crowed that two-thirds of Al-Qaida's leadership had been eliminated. "We're winning," US President George W. Bush claimed recently. "Al-Qaida is on the run."

"...Two years ago, the WH crowed that 2/3 of Al-Qaida's leadership had been eliminated. 'We're winning,' US [rotten-rez] bush claimed recently. 'Al-Qaida is on the run.'"

The only "frightening" thing I can see is the technicolor spectacle of 7-8 year-olds playing cowboys n' indians passing theyselves off as grown adults.

The only "frightening" thing I see is the everpresent spectacle of what are suppose to be grown men still playing cowboys n' indians as one would expect of 7-8 year-olds.

I suppose everyone's heard about the latest (VA Tech) school shooting...the conspiracy theorist in me can't help but think it was a CIA action to get Imus(supposedly fired not for the racist remarks, but for threatening to blow the whistle on 9/11) and Abu Gonzales/Attygate off the front pages.....meanwhile, check out the story at this link for some fresh outrage.....

http://www.silkiechickens.com/usda_registration_program.htm

namaste and love y'all
GLT

By all means Go to Garry's www.silkiechickens.com AND TAKE ACTION! Write your Congresspeople!
THIS IS CARGILL & MONSANTO'S EFFORT TO KEEP US FROM KEEPING POULTRY FOR OUR OWN CONSUMPTION, IN OUR OWN YARD!
I had chicken legs so bad tasting, last week that I called the WH & complained, that the USDA isn't doing it's job properly! Allowing "frankenchicken" into our foodchain!
This means that within 24 hours of the neighbors dog killing one of her chickens, my daughter will have to FILE A FORMAL GOVT. REPORT! They are basically family pets, although producing organic
eggs like troopers!
This means my friend will have to do paperwork EVERYTIME, she takes her goats or chickens to a small county fair, or the vet!
This is the most egregious loss of our freedom!!!
QOP

* Tragedy in Virginia

No avoiding this story — CNN is announcing 31 dead, 29 wounded on the Virginia Tech campus & we don’t have final counts. A crazy visited the college early this morning, shooting in two locations over a 2-hr period—both teachers & students were his victims. This will be the deadliest such shooting incident [school or non] in US history. GW’s televised harangue about the traitorous withholding of war money was preempted earlier to report these details, when the body count was only 2. The shooter is dead, details are limited & the numbers of dead/wounded change frequently as the columns shift, reported from 4 local hospitals.

Dubby will address the nation later this afternoon, face squinchy, no doubt—in case you think I’m being harsh to mention, read the press report, second, below … a nice time to make comment on the right to bare arms, eh? Political animal, that Dubby … never misses a chance to make partisan hay. Meanwhile, the House & Senate both paused for a moments silence.

As terrible as this is, it serves as a reminder that in this country, such as incident brings everything to a halt … while in Iraq & Afghanistan, in Sudan & Darfur, such an incident is just another day in Hell.

Life is personal. We still don’t get that those senseless deaths are as poignant as these; the lines we draw on a map indicate the borders of our heart. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

Bush says he's horrified by the Virginia Tech rampage. I guess that's somehow different than the "rampage" he started in Iraq. I don't mean to diminish the Virginia Tech tragedy in any way, but death is death regardless of where it takes place and who is behind it. Bush needs to keep his mouth shut.

Published on AfterDowningStreet.org

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Record of Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS

By David Swanson

Bill Moyers has put together an amazing 90-minute video documenting the lies that the Bush administration told to sell the Iraq War to the American public, with a special focus on how the media led the charge. I've watched an advance copy and read a transcript, and the most important thing I can say about it is: Watch PBS from 9 to 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25. Spending that 90 minutes on this will actually save you time, because you'll never watch television news again – not even on PBS, which comes in for its share of criticism.

While a great many pundits, not to mention presidents, look remarkably stupid or dishonest in the four-year-old clips included in "Buying the War," it's hard to take any spiteful pleasure in holding them to account, and not just because the killing and dying they facilitated is ongoing, but also because of what this video reveals about the mindset of members of the DC media. Moyers interviews media personalities, including Dan Rather, who clearly both understand what the media did wrong and are unable to really see it as having been wrong or avoidable.

It's great to see an American media outlet tell this story so well, but it leads one to ask: When will Congress tell it? While the Democrats were in the minority, they clamored for hearings and investigations, they pushed Resolutions of Inquiry into the White House Iraq Group and the Downing Street Minutes. Now, in the majority, they've gone largely silent. The chief exception is the House Judiciary Committee's effort to question Condoleezza Rice next week about the forged Niger documents.

I Agree Neo.. & I called the WH to say so!
What do we expect??????
The kids have no future except nursing, the "me generation" into their twilight. Violence is promoted at every turn. Riches & "GET" is dangled in front of them all the time!
Hopefully more will not isolate this "DAY" as a tragedy, but link it to the tragic decline of the country! Those who died today are as they are called in the ME "martyrs"!
Jack Cafferty actually said."he can't think of any similar incident in any other country!" And he is old enough to cover a rather large time span!
I had white caps, and breaking waves on my 6' wide stream that makes 2 -45o turns coming in from the bay, before it comes into my yard................an amazing display of nature!
QOP

Re: David Swanson..........
Reid and Pelosi aren't exactly what I would call silent!
QOP

Any particular reason why this week in history would produce so many mass killings in the US? Columbine, April 19, 1999. OKC bombing April 20(?)1995. Siege in Waco, same day as OKC bombing, 93 - planned as a response to Waco. Then there's Hitler's b'day, same day as Columbine I believe. Then today.

Leahy rescheduled Gonzo's appearance to Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/pl_nm/usa_prosecutors_gonzales_dc_1

Steve Judd...

16 April

Forecasting, predicting, guesstimating – who’d be mad enough to do it? Well, I note that the coming Jupiter/Pluto conjunction in early Dec will be on top of both Wolfowitz’s Sun & Prince Williams Asc, so both of them will feature very strongly indeed at this time… Now – here’s the good news. The boys are back in town! Earlier than ever! Go here. http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2007/oliverscastle/oliverscastle2007.html

14 April

I just signed my first ever on-line petition, calling for the sacking of Paul Wolfowitz for his shameless favouritism in promoting his girlfriend. What does his chart show? If he was born after 1pm then he’s a Capricorn as opposed to a Saggie, but regardless of this he’s got a very duplicitous Mars/Uranus conjunction in Gemini, showing evidence of the hypocrite/chameleon/trickster. And what will happen to him? Well, in the short term I’m hedging my bets, because I don’t have a birth time for him (anyone?). But irrespective of birth time, the coming Jupiter/Pluto conjunction in mid December will sort him out one way or another. Another neocon bites the dust. Next!

http://www.stevejudd.com/home.html

Does anyone know when the moon goes into Pisces from Aquarius? Is it tomorrow, or the day after?
If someone got back to me I would appreaciate it.
Thanks. :)

What hateful comments.

I'm appalled and sickened by this.

Vic