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RAGS TO RICHES AND AMERICA’S DESTINY
Thoroughbred racehorses are descended from just three stallions imported to England from the East some 300 years ago, although horseracing started much earlier than that. Organized racing in the US did not begin until after the Civil War, although thoroughbreds had been imported by the English to the United States in the middle 1600’s and the first racetrack laid out on Long Island around 1665. Racing was a popular pastime but not until After the Civil War and legalized gambling helped the sport grow by 1890. Racing had been the sport of Kings and the rich, but for a few cents the poor man could place a bet and maybe get lucky. In the last 100 years horses such as Man of War, Secretariat, Seattle Slew all great horses – and Seabiscuit, the poor man’s horse, springing up in the middle of the Depression, bringing hope and inspiration to the masses that they could rise above their “station” and succeed. Today, as we stand at the cross roads between multi-nationals, plunging wages, lost jobs an unlikely horse stepped up to win the Belmont Stakes; Rags to Riches, a filly, a historic filly. A filly has not won the Belmont Stakes for over 102 years and today she won. But that’s not the story here or the omen; it’s the name “Rags to Riches.” America is a rags to riches country. We started in rags, moved to riches and back to rags over and over again. There has always been the “elite” or America’s illusion of aristocracy and their desire to control the great “unwashed” keeps the “rags to riches” see saw going. Part of our US sage began in the 1600’s along with the horses when most of those finding their way to the New World were poor, even those with money didn’t possess a lot of money but they parlayed what they had into buying up all the land (just like their ancestors in England had done from the time William the Conqueror landed on the British Isles and quickly established who was rich and who was poor. The English brought that concept here and to this day, those who think of themselves as “aristocracy” here or on the “mother land” believe everyone financially or socially different is poor and beneath them. I don’t think they even acknowledge the Middle Class or realize they are there, everyone is simply beneath them. For the US our problem lies in the Sun squaring Saturn (the restrictive Daddy principle) and Mars square Neptune (illusions and corruption) With Mars in Gemini, we go back and forth from the best of the square to the worst of the square. Thank heavens Saturn and Neptune are coming to an opposition on GWB’s Venus, he will have the same opportunity Paris Hilton has been given and that is to look at himself. He won’t like what he sees and I don’t know if he will have the strength of mind to make those changes, as strange as it may seem Paris has a better chance at recovery (although she has a rough summer ahead) In one way or another the “elite” of the world have been working to control the “masses” completely. What they think, what they do, what they say. They’ve worked at it from the 1500’s at least. The East India Trade Companies when they lost that control in the 1700’s they went to the Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Nazism, the Bilderberger, and a few other secret powerful societies and companies such as the Carlyle Group. All with men at the top who believe the “masses” to stupid to grasp their “important issues.” Fear has been the subjugation of choice to keep all under control, and until Comedy Central, it has worked, but it’s working less and less and these people are becoming funnier and funnier not to mention irrelevant. More and more our nation’s leaders and world leaders seem to be completely out of touch with the changes in the world since 9/11. Bush is right when he talks about pre and post 9/11 and the world having changed. It has changed. It’s changed for everyone, individually and collectively; business, education and government has changed. As the months and years have gone on from 9/11 so have the people. We aren’t interested in business or politics as usual and are beginning to organize in an effort to move ahead and away from our past, but our leaders are stuck there, we are beginning to look for a kinder gentler world, a less toxic world and we don’t have one likely candidate in either party who has been able to capture that sense for people. I am tired of GWB and what he is doing because he keeps doing it and no one tries to stop him. Tony Blair is reported to be putting out a new law every three hours before he has to leave Number 10 Downing Street. This G-8 Summit is his last walk with the “guys” before he goes on speaking tours for $100,000 a pop. Even that doesn’t matter, the first 7 years following Bush and Blair out of office will be extremely difficult for them both. In fact, with Pluto in Sagittarius, Neptune in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces we are moving into our last hurrah for the extreme we’ve seen with money, stardom, elite etc. Saturn in Leo will make sure that “Kings” fall. The rest of the world who have been considered the poor, the dregs, the rags are getting ready to take it all. That was the omen today when the long shot won the race, and it was a girl to boot. February 2008 will be the last Clarion Call for those still living in the 50’s and 60’s mind set, and by December 2008 the door will shut on them as Pluto leaves Sagittarius for good and the clean up of the multi-nationals will begin. This kind of thing will be stopped Countries, businesses, people anyone who has considered themselves to be above others are in for a shock, a new chapter in the US never ending chronicle of Rags to Riches is about to be written. An Iraq update: It's about to get worse, more bombs and more kidnappings. The Green Zone and new American city/Embassy are not safe. GWB A fresh scandal and plummeting poll numbers beginning in 2009/2010 and lasting for 5 years GWB goes through one of the worst times of his life, he could lose everything. Paris Hilton Another 5 to 7 years of serious problems and then she could turn out to be a great humanitarian, depending on how she is able to handle the next 5 years. The USA: Shaky financially until at least 2012. Rising prices, lowered health care quality, lowered food quality, serious immigration issues creating an impossible load on the infrastructure. Hopefully some intelligent heads can come together with a workable plan for all. Don't know who, we are experiencing a serious drought of leadership ability at this time. The Queen Some serious issues, possibly her health as well as some additional financial losses. Monarchy will be in trouble, because she is the monarchy and she is having some problems that will intensify
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Thank you for all that uplifting news. I am looking forward to all that grief. However if it Sally - You give me hope tht things will finally turn. I'm so digusted with our politicians and their phony rhetoric and so disillusioned with the get along to go along attitude of the people right now it makes me want to scream. Have to admit I'm a little confused about something you wrote though - more scandel surrounding GWB in 2009/2010 doesn't surprise me (perhaps for the decisions he made while in office) but unless he is still in politics at that time - how will he have plummeting poll numbers? Posted by: fantasia on June 10, 2007 01:58 PMThings won't turn over night but they will turn and we will have to be a part of that turning whenever we can. All to often when things don't go the way we want we just drop out. Not just americans but people all over the world, we back away, we want it done for us we complain and things are not going back to the way they were in this country, not even on the earth. I am sick of George Bush he is going to be allowed to do whatever he wants to do no matter who says what or when. I am sick of this Congress, this president and the GOP keep spitting all over them and they just keep doing the same thing, running away. I am posting a short article a friend sent me, it's hilarious and I expect close to the way many in this administation feels. Condoleezza Still Awaiting Scandal Worthy of Her Resignation WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice continued her long wait Wednesday for some sort of scandal that will allow her to step down. The unlucky Rice has been with the Bush Administration the entire two and a half terms and has watched countless other administration officials come and go due to scandals. Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft, Colin Powel, George Tenet, and Scooter Libby among others have all been allowed to "get the hell out" due to scandals. Rice lamented that she, on the other hand, has felt stuck onboard the Titanic for the past several years. She said, "Even Alberto Gonzales could get out soon. It's not fair! What morally repulsive thing did he do that I haven't done ten times? Is it just because I'm a woman that they let me get away with this sh*t?" Rice said she may soon bang an intern or page in order to obtain her freedom.
WASHINGTON Be honest. Who would you rather share a foxhole with: a gay soldier or Mitt Romney? A gay soldier, of course. In a dicey situation like that, you need someone steadfast who knows who he is and what he believes, even if he’s not allowed to say it out loud. http://donkeyod.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/outing-the-out-of-touch/#more-3436
When soldiers protest at propaganda Published 07 June 2007 Print version Listen RSS What our squaddies really think of having to serve in Iraq and be tools of Bush's foreign policy An experienced British officer serving in Iraq has written to the BBC describing the invasion as "illegal, immoral and unwinnable", which, he says, is "the overwhelming feeling of many of my peers". In a letter to Newsnight and Medialens.org he accuses the media's "embedded coverage with the US army" of failing to question "the intentions and continuing effects of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation". He says most British soldiers regard their tours as "loathsome", during which they "reluctantly [provide] target practice for insurgents, senselessly haemorrhaging casualties and squandering soldiers' lives, as part of Bush's vain attempt to delay the inevitable Anglo-US rout until after the next US election". He appeals to journalists not to swallow "the official line/White House propaganda". http://www.newstatesman.com/200706110021 Posted by: wv on June 10, 2007 05:06 PM
Bush mantra: Be afraid, be very afraid By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17331908.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Oh, Cap'n Sally! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This is indeed hopeful news. We must keep movin' on up, take it back and do the best we can to address all the wrongs. Posted by: shylurker on June 10, 2007 06:00 PMSally, you are breaking my heart with these last two postings. I mean that in the best sense you know, as in when the shell cracks and light and love and hope comes in and goes out and the natural flow of hope and inspiration are restored. I saw a great short at the Brooklyn Film Festival yesterday. A kid in Toronto interviewed John Lennon. Sometimes predictions build up a false ego filled with desire for that outcome. When the outcome does not arrive, the hopefuls are devastated. I've seen this too many times in my short history with the blogging community. And it hinders the movement. Rather than getting healthier, more intuitive, people tend to stop relying on their own power and project it on to others or future outcomes. Hey. I read here too, but I do not ever think that predictions are written in stone. It pays to have a 360 degree outlook. Good article Sally.
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Your Money or Your Life By Joe Plummer
Do people deserve to die because they refuse to pay taxes to a corrupt and criminal government? When armed men, representing that corrupt and criminal government, show up on your property, with the intent to capture or kill you, do you not have the right to defend yourself and your family? Those who serve the system, those willing to kill nonviolent citizens for refusing to submit, are little more than mercenaries. They are hired guns; they become criminals themselves. There are an estimated 100 million armed Americans. The criminal elite are terrified of this fact. There is only so much money you can pay somebody – only so much that money will buy in the support of tyranny. The supply of willing servants dwindles with every ounce of justified lethal resistance. Posted by: wv on June 10, 2007 06:58 PMGreat update! Thank you Nancy. As soon as my husband gets back to work, I'm hitting your donation button. Posted by: abilene on June 10, 2007 07:32 PMBe sure to click on freeddom to Fascism in the text body of Your Money or your Life. I's a complete film, by Aron Russo......... Mustang Sally now baby, we gotsta' put our flat feet..on the ground! Such a clear heart you have Sally, I soooo agree with this article! Thank you so much for this one! ...... http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174808/dilip_hiro_a_catch_22_nuclear_world Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, A Catch-22 Nuclear World Here's the strange thing: Since 2001, our media has been filled with terrifying nuclear headlines. The Iraqi bomb (you remember those "mushroom clouds" about to rise over American cities), the North Korean bomb, and the Iranian bomb have been almost obsessively in the news. Of course, the Iraqi bomb turned out to be embarrassingly nonexistent; experts still consider the Iranian bomb years away (if it happens); and the North Korean bomb, while quite real, remains a less than impressive weapon, based on a less than spectacular nuclear test in October 2006. And yet these are the nuclear weapons that have taken all our attention. How many of you have ever heard of Complex 2030 or know that, as William Hartung and Frida Berrigan pointed out recently, the Bush administration is, on average, putting more money into our nuclear arsenal (over $6 billion this year) than went into it in the Cold War era? Or that, if all goes according to administration projections, this figure should hit $7.4 billion a year by 2012? And Complex 2030 -- aiming, as the name implies, at a thoroughly updated, upgraded American arsenal 23 years from now -- involves producing, among many other things, the Reliable Replacement Warhead, our first new warhead in two decades. (The Energy Department just selected its design.) In additi! on, the Bush administration has worked hard to break down the barrier between nuclear and conventional weapons, absorbing nuclear weapons into its plans for its new Global Strike force, supposedly able to hit any target on the planet "with a few hours' notice," and repeatedly leaking the news that it might consider using the "nuclear option" against Iran's nuclear facilities. As Dilip Hiro, Middle Eastern expert and author most recently of Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources, makes clear, there are not two nuclear worlds -- that of the nuclear "rogues" and that of the "nuclear club"; there is only one. Our nuclear world and theirs are intimately linked by an ever more volatile version of the old Cold War doctrine of deterrence. The more we invest in, and maintain, a vast nuclear arsenal, the more we slot those weapons into our strategic and tactical planning, the more such weapons will proliferate elsewhere. The Bush administration came into office ready to crush nuclear proliferators. Instead, when its history is written, it will undoubtedly be seen as a nuclear proliferation machine, threatening to bring its own nightmare scenario -- such weaponry in the hands of a terrorist band for whom "deterrence" would have no meaning whatso! ever -- ever closer to reality. Tom Nuclear Weapons Programs Are about Regime Survival The Iranian Bomb in a MAD world More... Posted by: Pat C on June 10, 2007 10:03 PMOver at salon.com there is now an article about how the Chinese government has launched yet one more effort to destroy what's left of the Tibetan people: "China is forcing nomadic Tibetan herders to settle in towns to clear land for development, leaving many unable to earn a living, a human rights group said in a report issued Sunday. "Herders have been forced to slaughter herds of yaks, sheep and goats and Communist officials have paid minimal compensation and failed to protect Tibetans' legal rights, Human Rights Watch said. It said tens of thousands, and possibly hundreds of thousands, of people have been affected. "Chinese authorities explained the changes as a response to overgrazing by Tibetan herds that was causing soil erosion, Human Rights Watch said." There's more. Heart breaker! Posted by: shylurker on June 10, 2007 11:19 PMI support many of the taxes listed in Freedom To Fascism. I am socialist and believe that this is the best approach to complex social survival. I am against the greed and megolomania of the right wing and frankly many left leaning groups end up going sharply to the right when challenged. The long held dream of globalization is going to happen, but it's not going to look the way they envision because of the greed and hidden agenda's and power trips, that's just some of the problems. Some think China will outstrip everyone within 10 years, I think it will be a bit longer and there will be a more universal mentality than what we have now in the world. Like many of you, if I have a serious illness I would just have to die unless we get universal health care. The world is splitting even further between the haves and have nots but that is one of the things that will eventually be healed and the "haves" won't like it. Through all this upheaval and chaos there is an underlying spirit of connectedness taking place, that will be what will dominate by 2025 (not too far away) Posted by: Sally on June 11, 2007 05:03 AMPluto will move into Aquarius, and Uranus will be in Gemini in 2025. Now THAT should be a rather interesting and uplifting period of time. I can see a new technological revolution and an ongoing series of surprising, paradigm-shattering breakthroughs. Cures for AIDS and Cancer, transporter beams (a la Star Trek) and Nuclear Fusion? Who can say for sure? Of course, Pluto will at that point be leaning hard on Aqua-ruled humanity to do something about global warming and the environment... or else! Posted by: NEOBuckeye on June 11, 2007 07:08 AMThough force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, ?consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of ?eternal peace. -Dwight D. Eisenhower "In one way or another the “elite” of the world have been working to control the “masses” completely. What they think, what they do, what they say. They’ve worked at it from the 1500’s at least. The East India Trade Companies when they lost that control in the 1700’s they went to the Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Nazism, the Bilderberger, and a few other secret powerful societies and companies such as the Carlyle Group. All with men at the top who believe the “masses” to stupid to grasp their “important issues.” Boy Sally, we need your words of wisdom to widen the narrow, but visible shaft of light we all see. I say that because the Star-Wars apocalyptic verion of Power Grab APPEARS predominate. (Appear because it is a carefully crafted sub-reality.) Globalization is the elite-body wet dream. But, it cannot stand against the forces of nature. Is part of the super secret HAARP an attempt to master that which cannot be mastered? Posted by: karen on June 11, 2007 01:16 PM Lieberman suggests strikes over Iran By Eric Pfeiffer http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070610-115444-9596r Posted by: wv on June 11, 2007 02:59 PM
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Predicting that Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon within three years and claiming to have a strike plan in place, senior American military officers have told The Jerusalem Post they support President George W. Bush's stance to do everything necessary to stop the Islamic Republic's race for nuclear power. Bush has repeatedly said the United States would not allow Iran to "go nuclear."
JPost special: US candidates talk tough on Iran http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181228588702&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter Posted by: wv on June 11, 2007 03:03 PM
Army radio said the exercises were taking place in the context of recent discussions between Israel and its main ally on the controversial nuclear programme of the Jewish state's arch-foe Iran. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070610224110.mpnfxtky&show_article=1
Lieberman: I could "definitely" support a Republican in 2008 Joe Lieberman, asked by Fox's Sean Hannnity whether he could see himself supporting a Republican presidential candidate in 2008: "I definitely could, Sean. I mean, I've got to tell you, just to be a -- talk straight to you and those who are listening, so far in all of the debates and public statements, it is certainly the Republican -- the leading Republican candidates for the presidential nomination that I am much more in -- consistent with on the defining issue of our time." Posted by: wv on June 11, 2007 03:18 PM
LIEBERMERDE shows his true self... what a pathetic SOB Posted by: wv on June 11, 2007 03:20 PM
By E.J. Mundell
Jun 8, 2007 9:03 pm US/Pacific Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb' (CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting. Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb." http://cbs5.com/politics/local_story_159222541.html Posted by: wv on June 11, 2007 04:20 PM
Exclusive: Office of Nation's Top Spy Inadvertently Reveals Key to Classified National Intel Budget By reverse engineering the numbers in an underlying data element embedded in the presentation, it seems that the total budget of the 16 US intelligence agencies in fiscal year 2005 was $60 billion, almost 25% higher than previously believed. Imagine what could be done for Medicare, the elders for the amount of $ 60 billion Posted by: Penelope on June 11, 2007 04:59 PM
We are what we think.
How can a troubled mind understand the way?
Gemini rules information: its gathering and dispensation. Gemini represents knowledge of the material, relative plane of existence, which is made up of binary information bits; a digital landscape of 0's and 1's. Gemini rules the mind and our thought processes. This is the New Moon for all of us to reclaim our mental space; to set limits on what gets our attention, and to carefully examine how our current diet of information is affecting our lives. As you may have noticed, our world is suffering from a bad case of close-mindedness fueled by fear. Concurrently, we are also suffering from information overload. Our lives have become a roller coaster of good news one day, bad news the next and a constant need to deal with the ensuing manic reactions that follow both extremes. http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisnewmoon.htm Posted by: wv on June 11, 2007 06:47 PMWell, Cap'n Sally, if there's going to be any hope at all for any of us, the current Chinese gubmint has got to be overhauled from the ground up by the Chinese people. Look at this latest: Today's Jeanette Rankin's birthday. Let us celebrate her wisdom and bravery (from dailykos.com)! Open Thread and Diary Rescue "There was only one person to vote against the United States entering WWII, and that was Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in Congress (she also voted against entering WWI, thus becoming the only person to vote against entering both wars. -ct). In casting her vote, she said: "As a woman, I can't go to war and I refuse to send anyone else. I vote 'NO'. This made her very unpopular, but she remained true to her principles throughout the rest of her life. She wasn't just anti-war though. She was a founding member of the ACLU and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. When she passed away, she left most of her wealth to charity on the condition that it be used to help unemployed women. She was born on this day in 1880. Happy Birthday Jeannette!" Posted by: shylurker on June 12, 2007 05:13 AMSkylurker, To change this in China is in my opinion impossible. In China it is all about material wealth, how you obtain it legally or illegally does not matter, as long as you do not get caught, it is even honorable!!! And then there is this story! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/world/europe/10resettle.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17861.htm
by Paul Findley http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0064805.html Posted by: wv on June 12, 2007 02:19 PM
Ed Pilkington in New York Guardian Unlimited One of the most rancorous disputes in American academia has ended with a prominent political scientist, with controversial views on Israel and anti-semitism, being denied tenure at one of the country's top-10 private universities. The decision came at the end of several months of wrangling, both within the Catholic university and within the wider academic and Jewish communities in the US. http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330008892-110878,00.html Posted by: wv on June 12, 2007 02:27 PM
U.S. arming Sunnis in Iraq to battle old Qaeda allies: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/africa/11iraq.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6546555.stm So, QOP, if this gains momentum, we may have some answers to the aituation with Thatcher and the mysterious plane in Africa or just a few years ago. Remember that? Great post, wv. So, let's see if I understand this. The US is arming the Sunnis, Iran is arming the Sunnis (shocker), and Saudi Arabia is arming the Sunnis. I know there's a moral in this somewhere and I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what it is, with little luck. Perhaps I should try scratching somewhere else. Posted by: shylurker on June 13, 2007 03:32 AMOh oh! Gorden Brown is a Pisces; Leo moon......... http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070612_war_and_censorship_at_wilton_high/ AMY GOODMAN ON SILENCING DISSENT "War and Censorship at Wilton High" -- Students at Wilton High School in Connecticut weren't allowed to discuss the war, unless it was with a military recruiter, so they wrote a play about it. "Voices in Conflict," which was quickly banned by the school, has made it to New York where it brought the audience to tears. Posted by: Pat C on June 13, 2007 01:29 PMI just had to comment on your quip, Shy. And, had to say that i almost spit out my coffee this morning i was laughing so hard. Now, just what were you thinking of scratching? Posted by: karen on June 13, 2007 01:59 PMYes SHylurker, the veracity & prescience NOT or!
Mercury retrograde starts Friday through July 10 Posted by: wv on June 13, 2007 04:13 PMWith the 2008 elections on the horizon it would be wonderful to understand what happened in 2004. This writer (Michael Collins) and Scoop in NZ have kept on top of this and all the figures, numbers, statistics from day one in Ohio 2004. Very interesting read. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00165.htm Posted by: Sally on June 13, 2007 04:29 PM June 13, 2007 They are the first subpoenas issued since the U.S. Justice Department dismissed the lawyers — all but one in December. More Justice documents also were being subpoenaed Wednesday. The Senate panel, chaired by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, was issuing a subpoena to Sara Taylor, former White House political director and a key deputy to Karl Rove, the top political adviser to President Bush. She resigned a few weeks ago. The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, was subpoenaing former White House Counsel Harriet Miers. The committees have tried, with no success, to get Rove to testify at the hearings on the investigation. A statement issued by White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: “We are aware of the judiciary committees’ plans to issue subpoenas. We will respond appropriately. The committees can easily obtain the facts they want without a confrontation by simply accepting our offer for documents and interviews. But it’s clear that Senator Leahy and Rep. Conyers are more interested in drama than facts.” – CNN’s Dana Bash and Ted Barrett Posted by: wv on June 13, 2007 04:30 PMWow! A Republican used the word facts!!!! Am I dreaming?! As in THEY know the facts?! And here they've been so proud of CREATING the facts on the ground while we get caught up analyzing them. Man! What's happened to the world?! (/sarcasm) "A statement issued by White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: “We are aware of the judiciary committees’ plans to issue subpoenas. We will respond appropriately. The committees can easily obtain the facts they want without a confrontation by simply accepting our offer for documents and interviews. But it’s clear that Senator Leahy and Rep. Conyers are more interested in drama than facts.” Posted by: lunaoscura on June 13, 2007 04:52 PMANd my old friend Ed Gillespy is going to relplace Dan Bartlett at the W H.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 My grandmother's face used to scrunch up as if she just stepped in dog droppings whenever she heard it. My own cherubic and supercute mother rarely used to say it but has become much more friendly with it over the years because, you know, who cares, and now whenever she launches an f-bomb or even an s-bomb she almost can't help but smile a little sheepishly afterward. It's as if her own mother is looking down from the heavens and making that face, or if my mother's really angry and the cuss is meant to be a serious exclamation, well, it's almost impossible not to smile yourself, like you just heard this really adorable squirrel pass gas. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/13/DDG3QQDKAT1.DTL&type=printable Posted by: wv on June 13, 2007 05:31 PM
Domestic farmed fish go under the microscope Wednesday, June 13, 2007 It should be the height of the salmon harvest now, but the May catch was desultory, and for the rest of this month, most of the coast of Northern and Central California is closed to salmon fishing. Last year, I lived in China for six months. The sections of the China coast that I saw were a churned-up dirty brown, likely from overfishing as well as from coastal discharge. Ocean fishing was forbidden for parts of the year. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/13/FDGIKQB1T51.DTL&type=printable Posted by: wv on June 13, 2007 05:43 PMhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070613/israel-president/ Shimon Peres Wins Israeli Presidency JERUSALEM — Elder statesman Shimon Peres was elected Israel's ninth president Wednesday, capping a campaign to extend his six-decade political career in a race marred by rape allegations against the sitting president. Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize winner of the ruling Kadima Party, won the support of 86 of parliament's 120 members in a second round of voting in which he stood alone, parliament speaker Dalia Itzik said. His two rivals, Reuven Rivlin of the hawkish Likud and Colette Avital of the centrist Labor, withdrew from the race after he seized a commanding lead in the first round. Peres, 83, who has held all of Israel's top civilian posts, will be sworn in July 15 for a seven-year term. In a speech to lawmakers following his victory, Peres said he saw his new role as a unifier of Israel's fractured society. more... Posted by: lunaoscura on June 13, 2007 06:29 PMPropaganda? "Open system: Open net pens and cages enclose fish in offshore coastal areas or freshwater lakes. This system is generally used for salmon and tuna. Fish and waste can escape into the wild, which is a drawback of this system." My question is this...who has the biggest lobbying group in Washington! Propaganda? "Open system: Open net pens and cages enclose fish in offshore coastal areas or freshwater lakes. This system is generally used for salmon and tuna. Fish and waste can escape into the wild, which is a drawback of this system." My question is this...who has the biggest lobbying group in Washington! Propaganda? "Open system: Open net pens and cages enclose fish in offshore coastal areas or freshwater lakes. This system is generally used for salmon and tuna. Fish and waste can escape into the wild, which is a drawback of this system." My question is this...who has the biggest lobbying group in Washington! OOOOps trifecta! http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=6647788&nav=3YeX Lieberman asked to resign from his own party Posted June 12, 2007 (WTNH) _ The Connecticut for Lieberman Party is calling on Senator Joseph Lieberman to resign from the U.S. Senate following his remarks made Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation regarding military action against Iran. Lieberman said on the national television program that, "we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians." The Connecticut for Lieberman Chair, Dr. John Orman, called for Lieberman's resignation saying that he "crossed the line" and "no longer represents the views of the citizens of Connecticut." Orman, a longtime critic of Lieberman, took control of the minority party back in January. Warning! Don't drink liquids when you click on the link or it might end up on your computer screen. Fashion conscious Prez wears a cap with his dog Barney on it, retro 70s shirt, very loose Bermuda shorts, dark ankle socks with the presidential seal and clogs. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/13/91413/2699 Posted by: lunaoscura on June 13, 2007 10:06 PMHee-hee, Lunaoscura, could we be witnessing a preview of Liarman's appointment with saturn/mars oppo his greasy sun? QOP, I'm a Pisces, Leo moon, born the same day as Gordon Brown, Feb. 20. Same year too?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2102531,00.html Posted by: wv on June 14, 2007 02:37 AM
Don’t you get it? It’s a jobs surge we need Camilla Cavendish on an overlooked blunder in Iraq Few of us can even bear to look at what is happening in Iraq. But I am told that a distinctive feature of the landscape is the concrete slabs that now protect every hotel and government office. Baghdad is becoming a city of “blast walls”, four metres high – and largely imported. In a country that is rich in clay, sandstone and limestone, its 17 cement factories stand virtually idle. Fixated on something called the “free market”, a luxurious anachronism in the current situation, the US State Department is determined to keep Iraq’s state-owned factories closed. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/camilla_cavendish/article1929254.ece Posted by: wv on June 14, 2007 02:57 AMAnd CNN is running an ad for Sicko! ( just like any other movie, scheduled to run!) I'm suprised! Food grease to fuel cars in California Wed Jun 13, 5:28 PM ET Supermarkets, cafeterias and restaurants like Kentucky Fried Chicken, are partnering with California biodiesel company Energy Alternative Solutions, Inc. to recycle food waste into alternative fuel. EASI said its restaurant-grease biodiesel will be sold at fueling stations in Central and Northern California as a blend of 20 percent biodiesel and 80 regular diesel known as "B20." According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, using B20 can significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions and smog, EASI said in a press release. more... Posted by: lunaoscura on June 14, 2007 05:50 AMWhat goes around, comes around, I guess. Just as we are "discovering" that we are destroying our planet, scientists are "discovering" that once upon a time Mars had water and oceans and other nice things conducive to life. http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2656032.ece Coincidences always fascinate, don't they? Posted by: shylurker on June 14, 2007 06:12 AMthat ONCE upon a time Mars had water and oceans and other nice things conducive to life. When I was a kid, the cheesy science fiction B movies were mostly about man's destructive use of the A-bomb. Monsters in rubber suits and giant ants and spiders were mutant creations of man's folly. In one movie I recall only a family survived because the father was smart enough to have seen that the planet was going to be destroyed by radioactive fallout and he took them to a valley where they were safe. Of course eventually a monstrous victim of the fallout went after the older daughter and the father had to kill it. The movies were laughable but they always had a message about man's destructive nature needing to be dealt with before it's too late. That or invasions from outer space. Posted by: lunaoscura on June 14, 2007 02:54 PM"We can always go to another planet if we ruin this one!" Wow! QoP, I have said we are planet hoppers for the past 30 years. The face and pyramid formations on Mars may be a clue. Did we or some other beings once populate that planet until it was used up, dried up and wasted? Smart Kid! Posted by: Cybear on June 14, 2007 07:21 PMThrowaway planets Posted by: lunaoscura on June 14, 2007 07:38 PMYou won't get ME up in a spacecraft! The films they took of the departing earth last week made me NAUSEOUS! Don't know about Pluto in Scorpio, but this Pluto in Libra says we've got just this one planet. Even if humanity survives and progresses (and I am still fairly confident that we will), the technology, energy and ability to seriously terraform Mars, Venus or any other planet into another Earth is perhaps two to three centuries away at best. In other words, it is not the magic-bullet, quick-fix "solution" that Americans are so terribly fond of. Nothing other than a fundamental shift in how we collectively view life and our world is going to save us. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on June 14, 2007 11:02 PMCongratulations Grandma Sally!!!! This afternoon Sally bedcame the proud grandma of twins, a boy and a girl. What a New Moon! Congratulations! Doubly blessed! Posted by: lunaoscura on June 15, 2007 01:49 AMCongrats, Sally. ;-) Two more excellent reasons why we need to keep fighting to save THIS world. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on June 15, 2007 01:51 AMSPlendid Grandma Sally! And on a Gemini moon too. how sweet! congrats Sally! two times. Posted by: bhakti on June 15, 2007 02:25 AMSally, may your two new arrivals have live in peace and be free from suffering! Congratulations! Posted by: Cybear on June 15, 2007 03:23 AMOh! Sally!! congratulations for your little New Moon Gemini twins. Imagine what little truth tellers these little ones will be. Happiness for your family and health and well being for the little ones and their mother. Posted by: clymela on June 15, 2007 03:32 AMTwins!?! Oh, blessings do come multiplied some times, don't they? Wonderful news, Cap'n Sally. Congratulations to you and your family and long and happy lives to the twins. Posted by: shylurker on June 15, 2007 03:40 AMYes, congratuations, Sally, double Gemini twins - how cool. I wish them happiness & health always. BTW, Happy Belated Birthday to JudiGem and any other Geminis who may have had them, including Jo. -------- I checked Gordon Brown's date of birth and he's born the same day & year as me. For one thing, we both have sun, jupiter, mars & venus in Pisces at about 0, 15, 22 & 24 degrees. Good chance it's the Uranus factor that's propeling him, as well as things the astrologers here would know about. Saturn (just leaving my moon in Leo in the second. opp. Mercury in Aquarius in the 8th - hasn't been too, too bad) is also about to oppose our sun sign degree in Sept. when it reaches Virgo. Posted by: on June 15, 2007 04:53 AMOh my goodness, thank you so much. This made me cry, I had no idea Morgana would post about the twins, I came on to put something up and found this. Bless all of you. It's been a wonderful and a kind of hard day. The little boy is having lung problems and extreme difficulty breathing plus a little heart problem. The girl weighs 3 lbs but seems to be the stronger. My daughter is badly hemorrhaging and can't be moved so she hasn't seen them at all. The doctor is cautiously optimistic about the boy and my daughter. I'll be going back to the hospital in the morning very early. So you can see why all your good wishes made me cry. A funny thing on this new Moon, it's in Gemini and it's ruler (on the twins birthchart) Mercury is at the mid-heaven. They will never be quiet and my daughter and her husband are quiet. The Moon squares Uranus. These will be very curious, active, mischievious kids and smart. Venus in Leo, (show-offs and dramatic) Mars in Aries, (very energetic) I can hardly wait for them to be up and running. Now I have an Aquarius granddaughter, and Gemini twins. These are people for the 2020 Grand Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius, moving us into the Air modality and away from the earth. These kids and all born with air energy will fill us with a new consciousness after 2020, that is if we can survive those who are trashing the earth around us. Posted by: Sally on June 15, 2007 06:37 AMSince there appears to be some interest in fellow Scot Gordon Brown Here's some links I've just plugged the data into my AstroDienst data base and as usual check out the Astro*Carto*Graphy maps for a quick fix and feel for what he's like and where he's going. What's in store for him in Washington DC? And the biggie with the big bang Pluto IC line so close to Baghdad you can hear the bullets being fired. But wait there's more. And finally how about this. Well now, twins! Gemini Twin Twins! Awesome, Sally, and congratulations. Pray your daughter and the twins are recovering and robust this morning. Posted by: karen on June 15, 2007 12:47 PMThe Real Cost Of Offshoring U.S. data show that moving jobs overseas hasn't hurt the economy. Here's why those stats are wrong Whenever critics of globalization complain about the loss of American jobs to low-cost countries such as China and India, supporters point to the powerful performance of the U.S. economy. And with good reason. Despite the latest slow quarter, official statistics show that America's economic output has grown at a solid 3.3% annual rate since 2003, a period when imports from low-cost countries have soared. Similarly, domestic manufacturing output has expanded at a decent pace. On the face of it, offshoring doesn't seem to be having much of an effect at all. But new evidence suggests that shifting production overseas has inflicted worse damage on the U.S. economy than the numbers show. BusinessWeek has learned of a gaping flaw in the way statistics treat offshoring, with serious economic and political implications. Top government statisticians now acknowledge that the problem exists, and say it could prove to be significant. The short explanation is that the growth of domestic manufacturing has been substantially overstated in recent years. That means productivity gains and overall economic growth have been overstated as well. And that raises questions about U.S. competitiveness and "helps explain why wage growth for most American workers has been weak," says Susan N. Houseman, an economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research who identifies the distorting effects of offshoring in a soon-to-be-published paper. More... Posted by: Pat C on June 15, 2007 04:42 PMI just stopped by for a quickie. Awesome news about the twin grandbabies! Congrats Sally!! Posted by: Peg on June 15, 2007 05:52 PMCongratulations on the twins, Sally. I hope your daughter and her son are doing better today. Posted by: Teresa on June 15, 2007 06:32 PMHi all, thanks for the birthday wish from anonymous, I know it is one of you who forgot their name tag....and of course, happy birthday wishes to all you other Gems.... Sally, congrats on the little twins, and I hope that today brought improvements on all fronts....as a Gemini, with both Mars in Aries and Venus in Leo, I will tell you the Mars in Aries will save them and the Venus in Leo will attract them to the beauty in life... I also send some healing energy to your daughter. Yesterday, Thursday, the new moon, my daughter, me and my two grandchildren and their dog Junior took an excruitiatingly annoying journey from San Bruno to Walnut Creek to adopt a sweet and beautiful brindle boxer, a petite girl who had given birth shortly ago and was on the euthanaisa list down in central CA, when she was brought up to Tony La Russa's ARF (animal rescue foundation). She was thin, had just been spayed, kennel cough, but so sweet....and she turned down every other dog and owner who came in to demand that they wanted her. She turned her nose up at all of them, until she met us and Junior (a boxer, also...a male). She came home with us....the worst heat (102), power outages from the heat, even the air conditioning in the car not working at a speed of 1 mile per hour crawl, no traffic lights, huge rushhour traffic both ways, and the Bay Bridge under construction for what seems like eternity...we made it back, despite my granddaughter getting sick in the car, and missing her graduation from kindergarten today. Little Khashi is now with a good mate, great home, on her way to health and long life. May your journey be the same, Sally. Posted by: judigem on June 15, 2007 10:30 PMI should add that since May, and even before that, I had been in school (painting) and just had no time to post. Other things have happened, including doing illustrations for the first children's book I've done (it came to me, I didn't go after it, as I've never considered myself a children's illustrator), and then a ton of work came my way. No time for astrology...or politics, other than to observe how surreal this all is, how 'over' the political environment is, and how ready it is to burst into a new form (which will undoubtedly produce its share of surreal events, also.) I'm sure there is something astrological in that.....hahahahah. Posted by: judigem on June 15, 2007 11:05 PMI just heard that the fabulous veterinarian locally whom everyone here goes to had a son on June 5, also two months early. He is still hospitalized. The Pisces squares to Gemini energies are kicking things up a little too much. Posted by: judigem on June 16, 2007 01:37 AMHere is a reminder from previous times, some of you will remember....the website Fire the Grid...the date is approaching which has been signified by 'the light': Blessings on you Grandma Sally and your daughter and those two new little rabbits in your bunny hutch! Patb, I wonder if the high percentage of cacao and caffeine in the chocolate acts to shrink the blood vessels? I was taken with Karen Bishop's latest energy alert: JudiGem! Oh, JudiGem! You've been missed and it's nice to read of your new "job". Happy, happy birthday! Posted by: shylurker on June 16, 2007 04:15 AMI want to profoundly thank you all for your many prayers and white light, as you can imagine it's been a difficult 48 hours it seems like a lifetime ago. My daughter is better although her body wasn't ready to deliver and there is a lot of fluids left and they will be working on that over time. The babies will be in the hospital for three to four weeks although the baby in the most distress seems to be stablizing tonight, the early morning hours will be some kind of milestone for him. I don't energetically feel the danger around my daughter and grandson that I did last night and this morning and I never felt a serious danger around my granddaughter. Their names are Braden Ryan and Cassidy Riley Again, thank you so much for all your help and kindness toward these little lives, just trying to get started. Bless all of you and Judi, Happy Birthday to you and a very lovely year. Posted by: Sally on June 16, 2007 05:11 AMAwwwww! Braden Ryan and Cassidy Riley. May the luck o'the Irish be with them always and carry them through many long years. Oh, please, someone do post that wonderful Irish sayin' about the wind bein' at yr back and all. Blessings to all. Good rest and best health. Posted by: shylurker on June 16, 2007 05:29 AMOH GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE FAMILY SALLY! I found this straw poll...........interestingly, Mike Gravel is in 2nd. or first place! I don't know iof my vote was recorded, the scrambled letters of confirmation wouldn't go thru! QOP Posted by: on June 16, 2007 11:37 AMCongrats, and best prayers and wishes for your Gemini Twin grandkids. My best friend was a Gemini, and what I remember best was her love of art and culture. Kennedy was also keen for art and culture (how else would Jackie have married him?) and great with words. My suggestion would be to make sure they go to the art museum, opera, and ballet as soon as they are old enough to go. They will love it all, the music, the dialogue and the sheer variety of everything. And they will be little scribblers and drawers and knitters and cookers and just about anything else they need to do or be with their hands.... Posted by: Carol on June 16, 2007 04:07 PMIrish Blessing May the road rise up to meet you. traditional gaelic blessing Posted by: Morgana on June 16, 2007 04:13 PMAwww, thanks Miz Morgana! Posted by: shylurker on June 16, 2007 06:29 PMHas anyone seen Mike Gravel's U tube ad?
Dame Edna, housewife superstar, CBE
The actor and author who once greeted the Queen's arrival at a golden jubilee concert with the joyful cry "the jubilee girl is here, possums!", heard the news as he came off stage in Australia. "I'm deeply honoured," he said. "At last I can address Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna Everage on an improved footing." Posted by: wv on June 16, 2007 09:15 PM
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/enter.cfm?l=eng Posted by: wv on June 17, 2007 01:11 AMIf you haven't seen this Jason Leopold interview on Truthout, the video and the written word, see it now...with John McKay, fired Seattle Federal Prosecutor....dynomite...http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061207J.shtml Posted by: judigem on June 17, 2007 02:04 AMBoy, I do hope this is a big wave of the future: Oh you gotta love this! AN elder's rock group! A special prayer today for Braden Ryan and Cassidy Riley and their mother. Love to them and to everyone here. This is completely off topic but a spectacular moment of triumph. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0dzZTPWrSM&feature=active_sharing This one brought tears to my eyes. ....... Sally, I hope all is well with the new people in your family, and their parents. Congratulations! Posted by: Pat C on June 17, 2007 09:54 PMCongrats on your new grandkids Sally! What wonderful news, and many healing prayers for your daughter to have a swift recovery. My daughter is due to have her second child in Dec, grandparenting has been one of the biggest joys of my life. Another great post, I watched the race and naturally rooted for the filly and then jumped up off the couch thrilled when she won. A good omen indeed. Posted by: Shez SpiritEye on June 18, 2007 05:43 AMThe twins passed a couple of important milestones and the doctor said they were stable in their instability (meaning preemie state) My daughter is getting stronger every day. So this is all good news. I cannot thank all of you enough for your prayers and positive energy. I hope every baby who comes to this earth of travail has that around them as well. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Saturn oppose Neptune has arrived and the underbelly of illusions are being exposed and people are beginning to give up on this country being what it was or what we thought it was. I was talking to a man from the Ukraine and I was talking about the chaos there, and he said "oh we are just waiting for the next master" he said "the US power is passing just like all other empires and it's their turn for power to pass, their karmic turn." 2008 is going to be a "pit bull" fighting year with Saturn/Uranus and Pluto lining up to a pretty volatile T-square as a world waits for whom they perceive as the "mighty" to fall. Just as we are waiting for whom we perceive as "mighty" to fall as well. This country, all countries need to take their power back from those we believe to be the most powerful. People all over the world, in every country are waiting for a leader who isn't corrupt, who isn't a liar, who can lead "the people" out of the wilderness, the darkness, but it's still us, the people who must be those leaders and we are struggling to figure out how. It seems to me as if the world has arrived at a place it's been to before. Energy doesn't move in a straight line, it circles around and around always coming back to the beginning in some fashion with another opportunity for humanity to learn and grow and perhaps handle the negatives in a different manner. So this is our chance to do that. I look at all the babies in the neo-natal unit at the hospital and they aren't reacting to the world around them at all. They can't grasp your finger, they don't look around at their world, they don't even have a "sucking" instinct yet. They are spending all their energy just trying to live, to survive, to keep breathing and some primitive hope that they can. Where does that hope and faith come from within us to keep working at life? I just don't know but I do know it's our greatest asset. Posted by: Sally on June 18, 2007 02:03 PM
Sometimes the bad poetry muse lands upon my shoulder before taking off for parts unknown--and there are folk who assert that she leaves more than verse as she goes. Be that as it may, in studying the 2007 chart for the moment that the Sun 'reaches' 00Cancer00, this political Solstice rhyme appeared uninvited:
An "I DO" Redo? Mercury Retrograde in June Today's Chicago Tribune had an article today noting that wedding season is almost upon us and calling for couples to re-evaluate their wedding ceremonies and submit essays of 200 word or less by May 30. Re-evaluate. Tell us what they would redo. Sounds retrogradish to me. This year's wedding season includes a Mercury retrograde period from June 15 to July 9, in Cancer, the sign of home and family. I wonder when the essays will be published. And Venus will be retrograde from July 27 to September 8. I cringe at the thought of a marriage during Mercury or Venus retrograde although I don't know of enough specific examples to offer any dramatic warnings. Although synastry and the composite charts tell the tale of the relationship, Mercury rules contracts of all kinds, and marriage is indeed a contractual relationship. Venus, of course, rules relationships, love, and marriage itself. http://keyongardendoor.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-there-changing-of-guard-in.html Posted by: wv on June 18, 2007 03:52 PMSound familiar?? The bank's failures began in the early 1980s, when, under the ideological sway of President Ronald Reagan and prime minister Margaret Thatcher, it tried to get Africa and other poor regions to cut back or close down government investments and services. For 25 years, the bank tried to get governments out of agriculture, leaving impoverished peasants to fend for themselves. The result has been a disaster in Africa, with farm productivity stagnant for decades. The bank also pushed for privatisation of national health systems, water utilities, and road and power networks, and grossly underfinanced these critical sectors. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeffrey_sachs/2007/05/chinas_lessons_for_the_world_b.html Posted by: Pat C on June 18, 2007 04:09 PMIn conjunction with the article posted above by Pac C, this article is too sounding the bells, whistles and alarms for the US economy. http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5964 Posted by: Sally on June 18, 2007 07:18 PMRegarding the link that Sally posted above. This is how the article ends! ******* What is likely to happen? I’d suggest four possible scenarios: The latter is the only sensible solution. There are monetary reformers who know how to do it if anyone gave them half a chance. Posted by: lunaoscura on June 18, 2007 11:36 PMLunaoscura, I'm thinking the picture is going to play out a lot differently. I'm more inclined to think the United States will fracture regionally. Back in the 60's when the boomer generation lost it and broke all the rules. There were groups of people of the esoteric persuasion who 'thought' they had anticipated and could control the reaction of the peoples. They of course could not. I'm more inclined to believe The People will find away. Just as in the 60's don't under estimate us. It is very disturbing that Horrible Jorge is idling the Hurricane Hunters, absorbing the NWS into NASA taking a budget loss of $$$$ and going into obsecurity, plus letting the GOES satellite go bye bye thus leaving the East Coast and Gulf Coast regions with their derrieres in the air. Why? There could be a massive loss of life. Or are they gambling that the People will ante up to the Private Sector to put up another satellite? Ah, but those who have buckeroo's can get out of town and eventually rebuild, the others? Poof all gone living in a Halliburton complex. Or how the US gov't has dumbed down the education of our children and grandchildren, the generations behind us, at a time when they need an edge the most we're lagging way behind the third world countries these days, how scary is that? The infant mortality rate in this country is horrendous. I mentioned recently to a friend, that I really sense that there is a thin veneer to the US of A and that illusion is wearing thin. You take a look beneath it at the ugliness in our country, the hatred, intolerence, violence, and abuse. We far outstrip that of other industrialized nations, but we don't see it. Rather we see Hollywood's version of what we'd like to see, rather then what is there. Posted by: Morgana on June 19, 2007 02:29 AM Ugly is right, Sally. As I've said before let's keep an eye on Vermont's movement to secede. Speaking of seeds, mebbe time to store some away. Posted by: patb on June 19, 2007 04:30 AMInteresting tidbits. Global Poll also J W analysis on Nancy's Starlight News newest article Posted by: Penelope on June 19, 2007 09:47 AMWell Mike is trying...wonder who is squelching his efforts? For reasons that remain unclear, Michaud withdrew the legislation the next morning. According to Castellanos, it was purely a logistical snafu: “Key supporters had to be in their districts.” But sources close to the issue tell a different story: The legislation, an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, with bipartisan support, was dropped by a Democratic leadership unwilling to go to bat for pro-choice issues. Despite Michaud’s confidence that the votes were there, Democratic leadership wasn’t so sure, and they didn’t want to hang around long enough to find out. The legislation might not have sunk, but they jumped ship anyway. http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3221/democrats_shy_away_from_emergency_contraception/ THE MILITARY DOES STOCK LEVITRA FOR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION! A comment posted on CommonDreams .org Personally, I have to laugh to keep from crying or going insane. Thanks for the therapy. Sally, i was so relieved to read your post this morning. I needed to hear this good news, for it is these life triumphs that give me hope and faith. This year we've witnessed a horrific drought, and wildlife life/death battles most visible with the geese on our small lake. Very few nest here. The environment is hostile -- dogs, yahoos with guns, fox, snapping turtles grown prehistoric large. One pair had eight goslings which are now full sized. Earlier they had adopted a single goose and her three brood. Herocially, the single goose (and adopted family) tried to watch the goslings. Tragically, all were eventually lost. Flight training began for the eight. They are in and out. Most every morning we find them in our yard picking at the tall grasses by the shoreline. This morning we see that one of the goslings is injured. We suspect a neighbor of shooting it, after hearing the pop-pop of a pistol last evening. I'm sickened by this wanton disregard for life. It has seeped into the cracks and crevices of those minds that have lost their receptivity to life-enhancing energies. And, it seems to excelerating everywhere. So, i look for those rays of light, those joys and you shared one, Sally. And, i am so thankful. Pat QOP. . .good question on the Levitra. Do women have something at their disposal as well? Maybe to dull the poison of rape? I remember reading an article about women serving in the Iraq cauldron who must take a partner with them to the outhouses. To avoid that they were eliminating fluids, which in turn had other consequences. Posted by: karen on June 19, 2007 02:12 PMKaren,
Don't ask, don't tell!!! Posted by: wv on June 19, 2007 04:18 PMI picked up a toy held together by various springs to make the parts move in tandum. I don't know what happened but one of the springs "sprung" and all the parts started flying in all different directions. That's the picture I have of the US and we are flying in different directions, coming apart at the seams. The circular planets going around and around aspecting and setting off different energies around the world seem to be uncovering another broken spring that hadn't been seen before. The energies flying around the US specifically have roots in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, the Depression, WWI and WWII, Nazis, Fascism; any or all of those things seem to be being brought to the table for us to see resulting in a change of consciousness (hopefully) Other things are there too, the rising prosperity of the US, great inventions, medical advancements, spiritual advancements etc. So the US toy has everything on the table for this new century and it will be a challange to bring forth the best of the energies. There are pundits, astrologers, psychics seeing the worst and they are right, but there is also the best. Out of the depression as an example, the last struggle between the rich and the poor, a redistribution of wealth happened that led to economic prosperity and a middle class it even helped Europe pull back from a third world status to growth for most countries. The worst of all this is the corruption of this government and most governments opening the door to war, poverty, disease and death of the human spirit. It's corruption in the most vile form that must be broken and it's the hardest to break. Looking at the human race I think the best we can do is stand up to it and try to beat it back, history shows us that there have been some success around the world in this effort, at least from time to time. The world has seen the best and the worst of humanity throughout the ages, I believe in the best and I acknowledge we may not always be able to give our best but billions of us keep trying and we have some success in our efforts. I believe we will again. Posted by: Sally on June 19, 2007 04:26 PM Sally, tho usually I avoid woo-woo sites, we could use a little cheering up here. For those who know this site as a redundancey read again!: read 6-2 entry. QOP, them grackles are mean vicious birds and to recount what they do to other birds is too grisley to repeat here. Though never in my life have I considered I am shocked I am considering BB's as a solution. They are the Avian Occupiers to our area as the U.S. is to Iraq. Posted by: patb on June 19, 2007 06:59 PMhttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061807S.shtml He's Impeachable, You Know If Alberto Gonzales will not resign, Congress should impeach him. Article II of the Constitution grants Congress the power to impeach "the president, the vice president and all civil officers of the United States." The phrase "civil officers" includes the members of the cabinet (one of whom, Secretary of War William Belknap, was impeached in 1876). Impeachment is in bad odor in these post-Clinton days. It needn't be. Though provoked by individual misconduct, the power to impeach is at bottom a tool granted Congress to defend the constitutional order. Mr. Gonzales's behavior in the United States attorney affair is of a piece with his role as facilitator of this administration's claims of unreviewable executive power. A cabinet officer, like a judge or a president, may be impeached only for commission of "high crimes and misdemeanors." But as the Nixon and Clinton impeachment debates reminded us, that constitutional phrase embraces not only indictable crimes but "conduct grossly incompatible with the office held and subversive of that office and of our constitutional system of government." More... Posted by: Pat C on June 19, 2007 08:35 PMhttp://salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/19/halliburton/ What Ted Stevens, Bolivian cocaine and Halliburton have in common Or, how the Alaskan Inupiat Eskimos got a no-bid contract in South America from the U.S. government. Posted by: Pat C on June 19, 2007 08:38 PMAstrologers! Take a look at Hawaii for the fast few days. Oy. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php Posted by: Pat C on June 19, 2007 09:04 PMJudiGem, here's another one for your list (Repugs being bad, though this one doesn't cover sex):http://www.thestate.com/136/story/96446.html Also, Mayor Bloomberg apparently has quit the Repugs. Anybody got astro info on him. This is interesting. Just saw it over at DU. We won one! Our Constitution still holds! At least in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Our Constitution: Long may it reign! http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/19/17391/5752 Posted by: shylurker on June 19, 2007 11:57 PMPat C., those tremors in HI are probably about new land mass rising in the island chain and not serious. But, ya never know. veh. Posted by: patb on June 20, 2007 12:04 AMOooh, JudiGem, here's another one (Repugs being bad): I haven't read all the posts here yet, so I hope I'm not out of sync with what's being discussed, but I just want to say that I picked "Rags to Riches" to win in the Belmont stakes. No, I'm not a betting person, and I had no prior knowledge of the horses running. I was sitting looking at the telly with a friend, and he kept goading me to pick a winner. I looked at the names, and I liked the"Rags to Riches"connotation, then I heard she was the only filly in the race, but when I saw her strutting around, holding her head high, looking strong and proud, I said there's a sure winner, and I won the bet with my friend. On another topic. What is the purpose of erecting such an imposing American Embassy in Iraq? What message does this send to the Iraqi people? Looks more like an American fortress, and in very bad taste at this time. I just see it inspiring more hatred for America. I think it would be made better use of, if it were turned into a hospital or a morgue for the thousands of Iraqis who are maimed and killed everyday. And by the way, my wages have retrograded back to what I used to earn in the 80s, and I work twice as hard. Has this been happening to anyone else? I thought it was because I moved from NY to FL (a lousy state to earn a living), but I have seen so many articles stating that it is a nationwide occurence - that employees are stressed out because of the high demands of the workplace,and low wages, but they stick with their jobs because it is the only way they can get health coverage, so it becomes a vicious circle. Most likely, if they didn't have all that on the job stress, they wouldn't need health insurance....but the most troubling thing is that the powers that be are very well aware of all this, but choose not to do anything about it. Posted by: Crystal on June 20, 2007 03:15 AMPatC & patb; Hawaii Island always has lots of earthquakes, frequently dozens of small ones a day - (less than 3-4) There are seismograph monitors all over the volcano national park area to pick up magma tremors flowing within the volcano system. Tremors like this are usually the indicator of a pending eruptive phase - sometimes ending with fountaining lava, but more often just flowing lava somewhere on the surface. I used to think of them sort of like the island's heartbeat. I can tell you something about those tremors in Hawaii as I live probably about three miles from the epicenter of the earthquake swarm. I was awakened by a jolt about 2:30 early Sunday morning. I didn't pay too much attention to it as one sort of gets used to a little jostling by Pele now and then. I tried to go back to sleep and a few minutes later there was another little snap that left the windowpanes rattling. Well now that's odd I thought, two three pointers close together like that. I tried to go back to sleep but then there was another, then another, and another. So now I've got the lights on and the radio on but I'm not hearing anything about anything unusual going on though I've never felt anything like this in the five years I've lived here. I ended up not going back to sleep at all and counted what felt like 15 3.0 quakes through the night. They ended up closing down much of the park and evacuated a number of campers as the swarm raised concerns about a possible new eruption somewhere along chain of craters. They are not calling the "episode" over yet but it appears to have settled down to smaller tremors in the past 24 hours. Apparently the main crater at Kilauea deflated and the current eruption at Pu'u O'o has paused. This is curious as the Kilauea deflation would suggest lava moving down toward Pu'u O'o. I wonder if we are perhaps still feeling some aftershocks of the March 29, 2006 solar eclipse. That eclipse found Pluto exact by arc minute on the Ascendant for the Big Island. Since that time we had the big shaker last fall off Kona and a very active time here in Volcano the last month or so (a 4.7 a few weeks ago). If we are still in the wake of that eclipse then September 21 might be a day to watch out for as Mars will be opposite Pluto just as Pluto, just recently having stationed direct, sits back where it was at the time of the eclipse on the Ascendant of the eclipse chart for the Big Island. Posted by: Timothy on June 20, 2007 03:24 AMHeheheheheh. WV I agree with the name LIEBERMERDE. The last 5 letters especially suit him. Posted by: Crystal on June 20, 2007 03:30 AMHi kiwijeanie. Yes we're hoping just for a little fountaining. That would be nice to see. I went to the observatory yesterday and the rangers were saying that the last time there was a swarm like this was in 1997, which did produce a small eruption at Napau crater. By the way, I took a hike to the Napau overlook a couple of weeks ago with a friend. Its about a ten mile roundtrip hike and when you get to the turnaround point you are on the edge of Napau looking directly at Pu'u O'o only 2.3 miles away. (Believe me, after this latest episode I won't be doing that hike again soon.) I sat and watched the eruption for about an hour and one thing I noticed was how the plume did not come forth in one continuous flow but rather in little puffs leaving an arc of dots across the sky. It made me think for a moment that the volcano was breathing or that the lava or Pele does indeed have a heartbeat. Posted by: Timothy on June 20, 2007 03:40 AMHello Downunder..haven't heard from you in a while! If you can spare the time to be uplifted, do click on the video: I do so resonate. Big "Howdy!!" to Timothy and Kiwijeanie!!! Posted by: shylurker on June 20, 2007 04:31 AMThank you all for responding to my concern for Hawaii. I was truly concerned. ............... Ladies and Gentlemen, Digby http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/06/19/ladies-and-gentlemen-digby/ Excellent speech! Posted by: Pat C on June 20, 2007 04:54 AMShy looks like you and Pat C got here at the same time with "Digby" speech. You are right it was uplifting. Hawaii has a 28 degree Leo Sun and could indeed be "shake rattle and rolling" this summer. More intensity around that in August and September. I don't see a huge danger, like breaking in half, but it will be a pretty bumpy ride I believe. Posted by: Sally on June 20, 2007 07:36 AMOh my gosh. I came straight from Firedoglake with such enthusiasm I didn't read other posts. My apologies Shy! Sally thank you for looking at Hawaii. So appreciated. Posted by: on June 20, 2007 02:59 PMOh, Hawai'i shakin it up again? Well, having been born and raised there, and having been thru tidal waves and seeing erupting volcanos (from Maui), I have to say...never experienced an earthquake there. Only here in SF and LA....and once in NYC. I did walk thru the caldera at Kilauea back in 1987, before it returned to bubbling brew. But that new little Hawaiian Island off the coast of the Big Isl. might be having some growth, too...have fun, Timothy...I'll still take an earthquake over tornado or hurricane anyday. Crystal, I would verymuch like to retrograde in pay back to the 1980's...I was making a lot of money then. However, now it has retrograded back to when I first started working...and thought I was making good money....in the 1970's in the 20-30 grand area. I had to take early retirement to pay the rent....and haven't had any medical insurance at all for years. AND I live in one of the most expensive places to live in the country. AND it is now taking something like 4 MONTHS to get paid as a freelancer, something like double the amount of time of even one year ago...and I say that means real trouble, not to mention an impending meltdown financially. Shy, hey thanks for the story...I've been reading Gregg Braden's book (Hey, Sally, was Braden named after him ?) from 1994 or so on Zero Point time...I didn't understand it then, now I am 'getting it'....we are really in this period of time when it is as if the lid came off Pandora's box big time, and all the crappy stuff is coming out....and all these perps thought the world was only THEIR oyster, well...that kind of 'magical thinking' gets people in trouble... eventually. And this guy was a spoiled rich kid...who could have seen it? ha....hahahahah...right. Hey Clymela, thanks for the thoughts...I have been reading all the posts backwards, just got to yours...and Pat C...long time passing, but my focus just changed so dramatically in the last few months...haven't been around. Don't even have a landline phone anymore... Posted by: judigem on June 20, 2007 03:49 PMTimothy, All, visit Richard Nolle's site at: He's the Man with to two fingers on the pulse of Gaia's wrist. http://electionfraudnews.com/LegDoc/LegDoc/ZeroGuarantee.pdf E-voting Vendors Commonly Refuse to Promise That Their E-Voting Machines Even Work on a Basic Level ZERO GUARANTEE FROM VENDORS FOR ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS’ PERFORMANCE Posted by: Pat C on June 20, 2007 09:36 PMhttp://www.observer.com/2007/times-undertakes-multi-bureau-rupert-murdoch-investigation Times Undertakes Multi-Bureau Rupert Murdoch Investigation The New York Times is currently undertaking a major news investigation, led by managing editor Jill Abramson, into News Corp.’s business dealings throughout the world, according to a source with knowledge of the project. More... Posted by: Pat C on June 21, 2007 12:42 AMEveryone go watch and rewatch All the President' Men...it was on PBS the other night again. Follow the money, follow the money, follow the money. Then follow the money. Saturn/Neptune, where were they in relationship in August of 1973? My ephemeris is gone...well, that means I just can't find it. This little rant was sparked by the evil Electronic Voting machines zero guarantee... There was a kind of lame discussion of blogging/jounalism/etc on PBS news Monday night...but at least they are talking about it. Murdoch needs investigating. The book I'm reading is Zero Point Awakening...Gregg Braden. I litterally went to sleep trying to read it 12 years ago....just got to a part on the magnetic resonance frequencies changing when I got an email from a friend about Isaac Newton's personal papers, which are in an Israeli library in Jerusalem, but I don't have the URL, it might be googled, though: Fascinating map, all: QOP, what in the world is going on in New England? Posted by: shylurker on June 21, 2007 04:40 AMVery insightful and ispiring address from Jason Alexander: Shylurker, Oh yes..........in Sept. 1973, Nixon cut the funding for the Arts in the public school system! BIG BAD! The Bushites Have Outsourced Our Government to Their Pals Wednesday 20 June 2007 This phenomenal change is the product not of managerial rationality, but of nonsensical anti-government ideology. Like the Iraq invasion, which was on the international agenda of the rabid neocons from Day One of Bush's tenure, privatization has long been on the domestic agenda of the laissezfaire ideologues. A January 10, 2001, report from the right-wing Heritage Foundation provided the roadmap. Titled "Taking Charge of Federal Personnel," it showed the Bushites how to storm into office and seize control of every agency. It stressed that they "must make appointment decisions based on LOYALTY FIRST and EXPERTISE SECOND," that "the whole governmental apparatus must be managed from this perspective," and that they should use "contracting out as a management strategy."
Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress. This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994. Congress is now nestled at the bottom of the list of Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions rankings, along with HMOs. Just 15% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in HMOs. (By way of contrast, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military, which tops the list. More on this at galluppoll.com on Thursday). New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all time low This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time 1991 to 1994. Congress is now nestled at the bottom of the list of Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions rankings, along with HMOs. Just 15% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in HMOs. (By way of contrast, 69% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the military, which tops the list. More on this at galluppoll.com on Thursday).
By: Roger Simon Ralph Nader says he is seriously considering running for president in 2008 because he foresees another Tweedledum-Tweedledee election that offers little real choice to voters. "You know the two parties are still converging -- they don't even debate the military budget anymore," Nader said in a 30-minute interview. "I really think there needs to be more competition from outside the two parties." Even the possible entry of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg into the race as an independent might not dissuade Nader. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=4B3A3E21-3048-5C12-00045A2417073C85 Posted by: wv on June 21, 2007 03:01 PM
Could Hillary's presidential video be any more tragic? Ben Marshall http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2007/06/could_hillarys_presidential_vi.html
You spend six months trawling the net for comedy, drama, politics and TV, and suddenly they all come at once. Last night presidential front-runner, Hillary Clinton, broadcast what has to be one of the weirdest and singularly ill-advised advertisements in the history of modern politics. Within minutes of it being broadcast US networks and newspapers were chasing their tails attempting to make sense of it. Mrs Clinton, along with Bill and Chelsea, allowed themselves to be filmed imitating - moment for moment and shot for shot - the very final scenes of the Sopranos. Yep, that's right. The long running mafia drama has been afforded a calamitous post-modern tribute. Is this just a typically crass piece of political propaganda? By the standards of political propaganda this is neither typical nor indeed crass. It is thoroughly mad though. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2007/06/could_hillarys_presidential_vi.html Posted by: wv on June 21, 2007 03:20 PMhttp://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheney_tells_agency_that_Vice_Presidents_0621.html Cheney tells agency that Vice President's office is not part of the executive branch The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney told an agency within the National Archives that for purposes of securing classified information, the Vice President's office is not an 'entity within the executive branch' according to a letter released Thursday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, you exempted the Office of the Vice President from the presidential executive order that establishes a uniform, government-wide system for safeguarding classified national security information," Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the Committee's chairman, wrote in a letter to Cheney. "Your decision to exempt your office from the President's order is problematic because it could place national security secrets at risk. It is also hard to understand given the history of security breaches involving officials in your office." Waxman noted that Cheney's office had declared itself not affected by an executive order amended by President George W. Bush in 2003 regarding classification and declassification of government materials. More... Posted by: Pat C on June 21, 2007 04:35 PMWhat Americans Need to Know About Who’s Running America http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/066 Posted by: Pat C on June 21, 2007 05:27 PMhttp://salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/06/21/bush_torture/ Imperial presidency declared null and void Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit's stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality. In private, Bush administration sub-Cabinet officials who have been instrumental in formulating and sustaining the legal "war paradigm" acknowledge that their efforts to create a system for detainees separate from due process, criminal justice and law enforcement have failed. One of the key framers of the war paradigm (in which the president in his wartime capacity as commander in chief makes and enforces laws as he sees fit, overriding the constitutional system of checks and balances), who a year ago was arguing vehemently for pushing its boundaries, confesses that he has abandoned his belief in the whole doctrine, though he refuses to say so publicly. If he were to speak up, given his seminal role in formulating the policy and his stature among the Federalist Society cadres that run it, his rejection would have a shattering impact, far more than political philosopher Francis Fukuyama's denunciation of the neoconservatism he formerly embraced. But this figure remains careful to disclose his disillusionment with his own handiwork only in off-the-record conversations. Yet another Bush legal official, even now at the commanding heights of power, admits that the administration's policies are largely discredited. In its defense, he says without a hint of irony or sarcasm, "Not everything we've done has been illegal." He adds, "Not everything has been ultra vires" -- a legal term referring to actions beyond the law. The resistance within the administration to Bush's torture policy, the ultimate expression of the war paradigm, has come to an end through attrition and exhaustion. More than two years ago, Vice President Dick Cheney's then chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and then general counsel David Addington physically cornered one of the few internal opponents, subjecting him to threats, intimidation and isolation. About that time, the tiny band of opponents within approached Karen Hughes, newly named undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, hoping that the longtime confidante of President Bush, now assigned responsibility for the U.S. image in the world, might be willing to hear them out on the damage done by continuation of the torture policy. But she rebuffed them. Two weeks ago, Hughes unveiled her major report, extolling "our commitment to freedom, human rights and the dignity and equality of every human being," but making no mention of detainee policy. The action part consists of another of her campaign-oriented rapid-response schemes, this one a Counterterrorism Communications Center, staffed by military and intelligence officers, to rebut the false claims of terrorists. Asked whether the administration's policies might be a factor contributing to the problem, Sean McCormick, the State Department spokesman, replied, "You're always going to get people criticizing policy." More.... Posted by: Pat C on June 21, 2007 09:12 PM
Norman Podhoretz casually calls for the slaughter of countless Iranians, and suggests that they be bombed to "smithereens". Jun. 21, 2007 | Neoconservative icon Norman Podhoretz followed up his Commentary article titled "The case for bombing Iran" -- excerpts of which were re-published in The Wall St. Journal -- with an interview elaborating on why he "hopes and prays" that we bomb Iran and how he envisions the bombings. Though he generously acknowledges that such an action would likely "unleash a wave of anti-Americanism all over the world that will make the anti-Americanism we've experienced so far look like a lovefest" -- consequences to which he is transparently (and revealingly) indifferent -- he goes on to suggest that Europeans and even the Muslim world might be grateful for our attack; the bombs will be greeted as Bombs of Liberation and Protection: It's entirely possible that many countries, particularly in the Middle East -- the Sunni countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, who are very worried about Iranian influence and power --would at least secretly applaud us. And I think it's possible that other countries in Europe, for example, and elsewhere, would be relieved to see the Iranians entirely deprived of the capability to build nuclear weapons, or at least have that ability retarded for five or 10 years or more. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/21/podhoretz/print.html
A letter from a group of psychologists to the American Psychological Association charges psychologists with responsibility for abusive interrogations. Jun. 21, 2007 |
Well, I'll swan. According to the Vice-President, his office is not part of the Executive Branch. Our hero, H. Waxman, seems to remember the arrangement of the various branches more along the lines that I do, however. Should get interesting. Any insights re the astrology of all this? Cap'n Sally, I know you are a long-time observer of Mr. Waxman, so hope you have a few minutes to share your thoughts. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/21/114532/124 Posted by: shylurker on June 22, 2007 01:22 AMSo, what about all that Executive Privilege Cheney has been hiding behind? Posted by: lunaoscura on June 22, 2007 03:17 AMlunascura: Shhhhh. You don't want to impose logic on this bunch. Just go with the flow. But, then, you can't, because you don't like the smell, feel, taste, etc., of sewage. These people are NUTS!!! Posted by: shylurker on June 22, 2007 05:25 AMI expect Henry was as nonpulssed as most of us were including Keith Olbermann at "the Dick's" announcement of not being part of the executive branch. His aide, a slimy rogue if there ever was one, Mr. Fielding crafted that bit of fast shuffle. Olbermann said it pretty much made Cheney a rogue nation and we should invade. I say if he isn't part of the executive branch then let's abolish the office and send him home. For the time being Waxman is going to be thwarted in doing anything but by next week or after the 4th he will be crafting a move to Cheney's "check" in this game of chess they are playing. Cheney's Moon is at 22 degrees Pisces and his progressed Mercury is conjuncting that point and it opposes Waxman's Neptune. Waxman could have something up his sleeve that Cheney doesn't see coming and Waxman has a whole year of opportunity in front of him to play his hand out. I don't know what parallel universe Cheney is on but it's not what he thinks. The guy is certifiable but there is less of a chance of Cheney seeing the inside of a prison than Bush. It's not his ego that has pushed him against a wall, it's his horrific fear and insecurity. Did you ever stop to think that we really don't know anything about his childhood or what he was as a young adult. He has wrapped himself up in fear and anxiety. What a horrible life he must lead. Posted by: Sally on June 22, 2007 06:15 AMWoot! Woot! Cap'n Sally has spoken. But you know what, Cap't Sally, not only do we not know the sources of all his fears and anxieties, but he is determined to make them OURS as well. One way or another. Oh, he is nuts all right. Go Henry! And thank you, Cap'n Sally. Indeed, Sally. Cheney is raging against his own demons in a hell on earth of his very own making. And yet this disturbed man has also been permitted without serious challenge to wield such enormous power in a destructive manner. It sure doesn't say much for the quality of leadership in the United States these days, does it? Posted by: NEOBuckeye on June 22, 2007 07:02 AMOn the bright side, even the "dummest, may "GET IT" about Cheney, without Limpaw to lead the way! In a recent astrological musing ( must have been a link from this thread) the writer was speculating re: Hillary, that no president so far has had a pisces moon. Guess she overlooked Dick! One interesting story about the Cheney's is they have been dating since they were 14. Lynne was the most popular in High School, far more popular than her boyfriend. Her chart (Aug. 14, 1941 Noon Chart in Casper, Wyo.) completes two yods of destiny for Dick. I would say that Lynne has been very instrumental in pushing him forward throughout his career. As a Leo, she is far more addicted to the spotlight and fame. The one interesting thing about their charts, individually they do not have money aspects, but as a couple they do, makes me wonder if one would lose everything if something happened to the other. I don't know. As a couple they are also very, in fact highly, wrapped up in their importance. It could possibly be Lynne that convinced him he was above the law, above Congress, above Bush, above heaven and earth. Posted by: Sally on June 22, 2007 02:23 PMI imagine that Chaney is at this moment proceding to destroy any records that "we" want to see. These people are and have been monsters who planned to take over the world-don't leave out Blair and all the damage he did in Great Britain-really I don't think they will twitch about destroying evidence. OOPS! please read Cheney for Chaney-too early and rushing to get out the door and down the walk. A bit of humor to start your day:
Well Paul Potts made it to the Today show! Britain's Got Talent champion Paul Potts conquers America Britain's Got Talent champion Paul Potts is still pinching himself - this time in a television studio in America. The former Carphone Warehouse manager told NBC's TODAY audience that he cannot believe he was able to overcome his lack of confidence to win the TV talent show. Posted by: on June 22, 2007 04:14 PMWell the web tried to fool me into posting twice.............I outsmarted it by opening another window to check! Through the Buzzflash article about Brian Lamb's (of Cspan,) failure to play the DVD of Svage receivng an award..........I had a look at a whole "other world" in Politico.com & Michael Savage .com. QOP Posted by: on June 22, 2007 04:42 PMNo surprise here, but a little reminder that we're not alone and not all crazy in our puzzlement about why Bush is still in office. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19352087/site/newsweek How Low Can He Go? June 21, 2007 - In 19 months, George W. Bush will leave the White House for the last time. The latest NEWSWEEK Poll suggests that he faces a steep climb if he hopes to coax the country back to his side before he goes. In the new poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday nights, President Bush’s approval rating has reached a record low. Only 26 percent of Americans, just over one in four, approve of the job the 43rd president is doing; while, a record 65 percent disapprove, including nearly a third of Republicans. more... Posted by: lunaoscura on June 22, 2007 04:50 PMhttp://consortiumnews.com/2007/062007.html Bush's Mafia Whacks the Republic In years to come, historians may look back on U.S. press coverage of George W. Bush’s presidency and wonder why there was not a single front-page story announcing one of the most monumental events of mankind’s modern era – the death of the American Republic and the elimination of the “unalienable rights” pledged to “posterity” by the Founders. The historians will, of course, find stories about elements of this extraordinary event – Bush’s denial of habeas corpus rights to a fair trial, his secret prisons, his tolerance of torture, his violation of Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches, his “signing statements” overriding laws, the erosion of constitutional checks and balances. But the historians will scroll through front pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post and every other major newspaper – as well as scan the national network news and the 24-hour cable channels – and find not a single story connecting the dots, explaining the larger picture: the end of a remarkable democratic experiment which started in 1776 and which was phased out sometime in the early 21st century. How, these historians may ask, did the U.S. press corps miss one of history’s most important developments? Was it a case like the proverbial frog that would have jumped to safety if tossed into boiling water but was slowly cooked to death when the water was brought to a slow boil? More... Posted by: Pat C on June 22, 2007 06:19 PMUS Missile Defense System in Eastern Europe is a de-facto declaration of war on the Russian Federation, warns Putin This is what you all should worry not if a Democrate or Republican will be the next President. There is no difference in the parties and how they ignore the People! You are so right, P! ( that's as in correct, not politically!). That was me above, it posted before I typed my name and then tried to get me to post it again! I think so much of our inaction and apparent cluelessness about where we are right now is indicated by all of this Pisces/Neptune energy currently floating around. The mutual reception between Uranus in Pisces and Neptune in Aquarius, plus the US Progressed Sun is now in Pisces -- and will be until 2034. Mass delusions and escapism (i.e. the Rapture) affecting the people. Pisces often lives in dreams and wants to escape into a world of fantasy, rather than face up to and deal with reality. None of this is really helped with Pluto in Sagittarus, entertainment and beliefs being pushed to the extreme, which can also suggest an aversion to facing the facts and the amount of critical issues that seem to be steadily stacking up. All of the Pisces energy though might account for the significance of individuals like Cheney and Hillary on the national public stage, both with natal Pisces Moons. Both have rather vivid ideas and imaginations, though those ideas and imaginations don't for the most part seem to be checking out well versus reality. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on June 22, 2007 08:10 PMAfter enabling Bush and his policies for 6 years the poor aides of his administration are leaving now, after they've trashed the country. If they feel burnt out now they ought to be in our shoes! Poor them! Destroying the US is such HARD WERK! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/09d0e1c8-1f60-11dc-ac86-000b5df10621.html Bush aides quit amid little sense of purpose At least 20 senior aides have left important posts in the White House, Pentagon or State Department over the past six months, as chaos has deepened in Iraq. “There’s a real sense of fatigue and very little sense of purpose,” said a senior official, who asked not to be named. “My guess is you’re going to see a lot more departures.” more... Posted by: lunaoscura on June 22, 2007 08:14 PM‘I find it hard to imagine that there’s a story more wonderful than being driven by the desire to worship freely, to set off across that ocean, to make a home out of this wild, inhospitable land.’ Sally, given her relatively low profile in the public eye, somehow I can't help but see Lynne Cheney continuing to arrogantly cause trouble in some way, shape or form, even long after her other half is removed from the Naval Observatory, hopefully in exchange for a brand new "office" in The Hague. She has long been involved in education "reform" though not of the sort that this country really, truly and desperately needs. Google "American Council of Trustees and Alumni" which she co-founded in 1995 with none other than our wonderful Senator Joe LIEberman, using it as a cover for her criticism of colleges and professors critical of Imperialistic-Corporate America. She's also a member of the right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute. She's played her part well, to the extent that she has been involved in the purposeful and destructive dumbing down of education and public pursuit of knowledge, understanding and enlightenment. Put another way, shunning open inquiry and promoting abject stupidity and ignorance aren't crimes that I am aware of, but if they were, she deserves an "office" of her very own somewhere in the same "correctional" compound with her criminally insane husband. Her ideas in effect by themselves have contributed much to our national decay. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on June 22, 2007 08:54 PM
If Dick Cheney won't cooperate with National Archives personnel assigned to ensure that classified national security information is being kept secure -- if, indeed, he has tried to abolish the government agency assigned to that task -- then shouldn't we be a little worried that the vice president's office isn't doing everything it's supposed to be doing to protect sensitive information? Nope. At least that's the word from the White House, where spokeswoman Dana Perino responded to questions from reporters today by saying, essentially, that Americans will just have to trust the president and his vice president to do what's right. Perino declared Bush the "sole enforcer" of the executive order setting forth the classified-information procedures, and things went downhill pretty fast from there. Reporter: So [the vice president] is exempt from reporting; you support that? Perino: Under the E.O., the president, in the performance of executive duties, and the vice president are treated separately from agencies. The president did not intend -- and I went back and looked into this -- the president did not intend for the vice president to be treated separately from how he would treat himself. Agencies are to report to ISOO [Information Security Oversight Office], and they do. I don't think there's any suggestion that no one else is complying. And the vice president was not intended to be separate from the president in this regard ... http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2007/06/22/cheney/ Posted by: wv on June 22, 2007 09:28 PMLegal? This is capitalism gone wrong and how to cheat Americans out of jobs in their own country. http://www.ichblog.eu/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&id=56011 Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week. Posted by: Pat C on June 23, 2007 02:43 AMSally, Cheney was never a child. I just wish Waxman would start snapping out those cards one heckuva lot sooner. Fresh from the DailyKos, a little Be-In with Senator Dobbs about National Service for our kids, and $1000 bonuses for the young and old alike. Have a visit to the embryonic budding of enslavement, with equality for all. Posted by: on June 23, 2007 07:50 AMSally, Cheney was never a child. I just wish Waxman would start snapping out those cards one heckuva lot sooner. Fresh from the DailyKos, a little Be-In with Senator Dobbs about National Service for our kids, and $1000 bonuses for the young and old alike. Have a visit to the embryonic budding of enslavement, with equality for all. Posted by: patb on June 23, 2007 07:52 AMPat C, Charles, Pat C ,Legal? This is c-a-p-i-t-a-l-i-s-m gone wrong and how to c-h-e-a-t Americans out of j-o-b-s in their own country. I think this is a typical PR action again to redirect the frustration of American people about the job situation and also make them aware of the threat these dangerous foreigners represent.
The summer solstice, the longest day of the year, marks the end of the ascendancy of daylight and the beginning of the return to darkness. The astronomical solstice occurs when the Sun enters Cancer, one of the four cardinal points (the others being Aries, at the Spring Equinox; Libra, at the Autumnal Equinox; and Capricorn, at the Winter Solstice). For ancient pagan cultures, and for those of us that attempt to attune to nature today, the cardinal points of the year are energetic turning points. Like the cardinal signs, they initiate action and are a force for change. In Cancer, the emotional nature is stimulated and is a major facet of the individual identity. The astrological chart for the solstice includes not only the conjunction of Pluto to the Galactic Center discussed yesterday and the nearly exact opposition from Saturn to Neptune, but also three very tight trines: An exact trine from Mars in Aries to Pluto in Sagittarius The Summer Solstice is a time for celebration, and for experiencing the beauty in the natural world. Posted by Lynn Hayes :: 6:25 AM :: Comments (2) | Trackback QOP, we left the US in 1989 because we decided America is moving the wrong direction. It was decision time either we give our children up to the US System or let them be their own individuals. We loved our life in America up to that time ,but moving to Virginia gave us the death throw. How do you explain to your children, the others will not play with you because you are a dam foreigner even so they are Austrian&British and Green card holders.
"Astrological Musings: Astrology that expands the mind" - Lynn Hayes
As Saturn and Neptune make their final opposition next week, the CIA will release records on its illegal activities that took place from the 1950s to the early 1970s, including illegal domestic spying on journalists and other civilians, "unwitting" drug experiments in mind control, and plots to assassinate foreign leaders. Gee, that all sounds eerily familiar, but the CIA claims it's a different organization now. The Saturn/Neptune cycle is closely associated with the revelation of secrets and scandals so this correlates nicely with the astrological imagery.
TBR News.org – June 18, 2007 “In the last four years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the unreported death toll of American military personnel is in excess of 20,000 (20, 871) and the wounded who had to be evacuated from the combat areas for out-of-theater hospitals are in excess of 56,000. This is from a highly classified report sent by the Pentagon to the White House and is of a severely restricted circulation. This is entirely logical based on the number of troops engaged in both theaters and the duration and increasing deadliness of the bombings, snipings and clandestine mortar and rocket attacks. There is growing public disbelief in the 3,000 plus figures given out by the Pentagon and their paid bloggers but the press steadfastly refuses to even question this issue or even dare to hint at the truth. Eventually, it will break and when it does, Bush will join Blair in Tanzania and raise elephants. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=6746 Posted by: wv on June 23, 2007 02:35 PM
Video: WSMV: Thompson Announcement Set For Nashville A source close to the campaign planning tells WSMV that that Thompson planned to announce his candidacy on the steps of the historic Fall School Building Tuesday, but Thompson campaign officials deny that Tuesday's announcement is an official run for the White House. The source tells WSMV report says that the Thompson campaign has obtained the lease for that building to turn it into a national campaign office. "Everything's in place for tuesday," the source told WSMV. "There are three major events built around his announcement." But Bob Davis, the Tennessee Republican Party Chairman, and Thompson's former Chief of Staff says "There will not be an annoucement Tuesday." The Fall School is Nashville's oldest still-standing school building. It currently houses office space, including a local office for U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander.
Outgoing PM seizes early opportunity to convert free of dilemmas of public role Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent Guardian His spiritual awakening goes back at least 30 years, to his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, but due to political considerations Tony Blair's conversion to Catholicism has been a long time coming. More than 10 years ago Mr Blair was slipping into Westminster cathedral and occasionally taking communion, until the late Cardinal Basil Hume told him to stop because it was causing comment as he was not a Catholic - an injunction that bemused him at the time. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330064441-124804,00.html Posted by: wv on June 23, 2007 03:15 PM
Anne Karpf Guardian It was one of those "you couldn't make it up" days. Poland was demanding more votes in the running of the EU on the grounds that, if Germany hadn't murdered 6 million Poles, then the population would be almost double what it is today. One thing is clear: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland's ultra nationalist president and prime minister respectively, have blasted "Don't mention the war" to smithereens. http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330070178-103677,00.html Posted by: wv on June 23, 2007 03:45 PMCharles, your across-the-board tidy-toned subjective sweep includes two unrelated issues. How uncompassionate of you, what snobbery and gall to imply that well, foreigners get the jobs because they're smarter and more well educated. So there you sit in judgement with your dry behind upon a society that is being stripped clean of all we value. You'd fit right in with the ignorance and destructive aggression of the so-called New World Order. Prepare for irony, my friend. Egos always lose and you are more fragile than you know. Posted by: patb on June 23, 2007 07:25 PMWho's more delusional: He who says it or those who listen and agree? http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014780.php Posted by: shylurker on June 23, 2007 07:57 PMOne more thing, Charles. Et tu Charles? May you return from where you came. Posted by: Pat C on June 23, 2007 10:19 PMBoo-hoo. If the Dems carry through on this next week, Dick "Dick" Cheney may no longer have an official office from which to wreak havoc and destruction: Here's a fine little Sat night musical...called "George the Musical"! I read that too, shy. I wonder if we can just make it permanent and abolish the VP entirely? This would be a great opportunity to do it, as honestly, what is the office even good for? It's little more than just a back-up for the President, really, since the constitutional change ending promotion of the first runner up in a presidential race to the office. Maybe the Vice Presidency should just be an honorary 1 year term that rotates between each of the 50 state governors? Similar to the EU Presidency? Of course, with that in mind, maybe we could just go on ahead and abolish the Presidency as well, as it's not exactly worth "a warm bucket of spit" either, these days, to paraphrase the late John Garner. Posted by: NEOBuckeye on June 24, 2007 07:11 AMUNCIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE EMPIRE'S WAR ON ITS CITIZENS Posted by: Pat C on June 24, 2007 03:18 PMhttp://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/index.html The CIA and Drugs Narco-colonialismin the 20th Century "For decades, the CIA, the Pentagon, and secret organizations like Oliver North's Enterprise have been supporting and protecting the world's biggest drug dealers.... The Contras and some of their Central American allies ... have been documented by DEA as supplying ... at least 50 percent of our national cocaine consumption. They were the main conduit to the United States for Colombian cocaine during the 1980's. The rest of the drug supply ... came from other CIA-supported groups, such as DFS (the Mexican CIA) ... [and] other groups and/or individuals like Manual Noriega." (Ex-DEA agent Michael Levine: The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic) Former Congessional Investigator Jack Blum, on the structure of CIA narco-colonialism: "For criminal organizations, participating in covert operations offers much more than money. They may get a voice in selecting the new government. They may get a government that owes them for help in coming to power. They may be able to use their connections with the United States government to enhance their political power at home and towave off the efforts of the American law enforcement community." (Prepared October 1996 statement of Jack Blum (former special counsel to the 1987 "Kerry" Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations) for the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by Senator Arlen Specter) "We also became aware of deep connections between the law-enforcement community and the intelligence community. I, personally, repeatedly heard from prosecutors and people in the law-enforcement world that CIA agents were required to sit in on the debriefing of various people who were being questioned about the drug trade. They were required to be present when witnesses were being prepped for certain drug trials. At various times the intelligence community inserted itself in that legal process. I believe that that was an impropriety; that that should not have occurred."(Jack Blum, speaking before the October 1996 Senate Select Intelligence Committee on alleged CIA drug trafficking to fund Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s, Chaired by Senator Arlen Specter). More... Posted by: Pat C on June 24, 2007 03:40 PMThe WaPo's multi-part blast of Dick "Dick" Cheney has begun. Part I is here: Gonna be an interesting week, NeoB. Whew! I'm tired already. Posted by: shylurker on June 24, 2007 04:44 PMhttp://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=119833&ran=88794 BLACKWATER FORMING PRIVATE INTELLIGENCE COMPANY Posted by: Pat C on June 24, 2007 04:50 PMWhat do Dick Cheney's transits look like now? I imagine he is not happy with suddenly being found out. It must feel like someone took the rock he lives under away, leaving his sluggy pink dough-boy body exposed. Speaking of pink, where's JoannaO? I've miss her. Posted by: lunaoscura on June 24, 2007 05:49 PMMaybe he wil just bake in the sun, as happens to exposed slugs! Here technology is wonderful when it works. The kids are on their way up 295 thru Portland, calling on the cell phone, Mom sitting here with DSL and Map Quest giving directions. Pat B and C, I think you thoroughly misunderstood me and the issue. So how would you feel for example when an American Company buys majority shares of a company of another nation, whose research and highly advanced technology was funded by the taxpayers of that nation. After the purchase all employees were send home for a 3 week vacation. After coming back to work, all secret developments, computers, paper works, plans etc., that were not part of the deal, have been stolen during the 3 week closure by that company. Oooooh, Ceres and Vesta up close: This one's for you Charles. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062407G.shtml World history is saturated with this kind of horror. Posted by: Pat C on June 24, 2007 09:12 PMWinston Churchill was broke when he left office. He even had to put Chartwell, his country house, up for sale. (The owner of the Daily Telegraph started a subscription and raised £55,000 to buy it, with the proviso that the Churchills could live there to the end of their lives and then it would be presented to the nation.) But Tony Blair doesn't have to worry. Blair will receive a severance package from the state worth some £300,000 a year. [...] Blair will get a car, a police driver and round-the-clock special branch protection. Blair's meeting with the Pope on Saturday is one key to what he plans to do. Pat C you still do not get it. Cheney is a marionette too, to do the dirty work for certain people. He can be replaced! And if a person who does not represent their goals should be president he will be eliminated. 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