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"the moldy oldies that the Republicans have scared up who are then bused in to protest and disrupt Town Hall Meetings, all of them are on Medicare!"
They probably need the paycheck!
Good article Morgana.
Phil Bailey, today is his birthday, is now coordinating the state's Change That Works campaign.
On August 18 an ambulance will arrive in Washington County and visit
the weekly newspapers in Calais, Eastport and Machias as well as a
stop in Milbridge. Change That Works staff will be bringing the
message that we need health care reform Now not Someday and that
Reform that isn't affordable isn't reform. Today's health care system
is profit driven instead of care driven. There is a solution, it's
before Congress now and we, the people, will make a difference. We'll
be visiting the newspapers and we would like to have at least a few
people come with us and possibly share their story. It can be denial
of care by an HMO, underinsured or uninsured, concern about the rise
in healthcare costs threatening Medicare, having to choose between
basic needs, etc. Our visit to the paper will be far more effective if
we can raise up a local health care story and have even a small group
go with us.
This is a direct spin off of the 50 states campaign! That has certainly made a great change in the political dynamics up here.
He was meting with Sen Snowe today one of the "flexible" players in the health care debate.
I doubt the"powers" woll bus those teabaggers up here......there aren't enough of us to make a big difference.............Unfortunately!
I posted this on the earlier thread..........
If the news carries Sybil Edmund;s testimony,it might cast a slant on the hwole situation, Major players were fingered today!
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7347

Forgive the typos above..I am punchy!

The sabian symbol for 13 ♒ is A Train Entering a t Tunnel.
For the Full moon chart ASC. 29o♒ is Deeply rooted in the past Of a Very Ancient Culture, A spiritual Brotherhood in which many Individual mionds are Merged into the Growing Lightof a Unanimus Consciousness is Revealed to One who has Emerged Successfully from his/her Metamorphosis

And Frank Rich adds to it!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09rich.html?th&emc=th

"the change has come and must come for us to evolve as a nation."

Morgana that whole paragraph preceeding this sentence is brilliant and inspired. Of course this is what is happening to this country, the vehicle may not be one I would choose but it's one that will ultimately bring this government and corruption down so we can begin a new chapter. We are so moving in that direction and "Rahmbo" nor Obama will be able to stop the wave of change. Sadly this administration has placed themselves between a rock and a hard place. Obama will soon have Neptune on his SN along with Jupiter, it will be his one chance to wash the "sand" from his eyes.

qop, I enjoy reading Frank Rich. I wonder if Obama had to keep the mongoose to go after the cobras in the financial world. Frank Rich is calling this the Great Recession, and the morning financial talking heads are saying we're in recovery, projecting an optimistic attitude...the next segment had the worry warts and handwringers and the ooohhhh scary Obama will have to tax the Middle Class, Obama will tax the Middle Class, Obama is going to tax the Middle Class. I did not hear President Obama say that he would tax the Middle Class, I heard something very different from candidate Obama. Next straw man please.

What is really lost is truth you cannot believe any one of them. Not the journalists, teevee talking heads (hmmm maybe Rachel Maddow is an exception), not newspapers, or some blogs. The old adage 'don't believe everything you read' becomes a mantra. In the end though with Obama it will come down to 'the proof is in the pudding', or the long form thereof, 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'.

Morgana, I am going to be gone tomorrow AM to the dentist but need to talk to you and emails are bouncing back, don't know if you're down on your end. I will try to call you after I get back but it's important.

Jeeze, is everyone on vacation?

No vacation here..worked 'till 10;30 PM......

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/opinion/10krugman.html?th&emc=th
So it seems that we aren’t going to have a second Great Depression after all. What saved us? The answer, basically, is Big Government.

Morgana, this is excellent and fits of late with many of my thoughts which i expessed in a comment in the previous thread.

The contrasts in so many of the so-called "debates" miss any central point whatsoever. And, it seems that discourse has devolved into fist-to-cuffs screaming matches.

The media is not performing its function, getting to the bottom of the story but rather reporting on the grandstanding, etc.

This is intense harvest time, canning, wood cutting, splitting, and stacking time. I give myself over to this life-affirming practice of providing for family and community on an elemental level. In fact we finally have a community food bank who thankfully receives bushels of tomatoes.

Sally, what are you experiencing on a personal level? I'm guessing you're experiencing daily challenges. When i read your posts i just smile knowing the power of the spirit is vivid!

Morgana-thank you again for this wonderful article. I love your particular way of taking the pulse to get just the correct reading and with poetic timing at that.
Hey Sally-good to hear you. I am so grateful that you have the energy to kavetch-what a good sign.
Steve and I knocked down by something wicked-gatrointestinal with some brain effect as well-overrwhelming depression that only lsted hours.
August-a really harsh month. I can't believe how effective the insurance companies have been at stirring up a certain segment of our brothers and sisters. Palen on the tube saying that Obama plans to kill her son born down syndrome is just over the top although I do know where this comes from. It is not in the bill but rather from the European philosopher-animal rights crusader vegetarian who does go on for some length about the damage done to families by disabled children who should probably be killed at birth.God I can't get his name to come up but I will get back to you on this as soon as the name appears on my mental screen.

Radio audiences are turning to the soothing properties of classical music as a means of coping with the traumas brought on by the economic downturn, gloomy weather and summer exams, according to official listening statistics released yesterday.
According to Mathew.....it is the harmonious music of the Universe!

Just a quick note, I see Japan had 7.1 quake today and the Andaman Islands had a 7.6 in the previous blog about the Solar Eclipse there were the earthquake predictions for Japan. Interesting.

http://tinyurl.com/ch6ard

Excellent article, Morgana!

This is a kick!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,641547,00.html
During World War II, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse weren't just about entertainment. Film studios used animated characters to spread propaganda and educate Americans about their enemies. And the animators themselves were employed to make insignia for military units and equipment.
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"Blitz Wolf," a short by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, features a big bad wolf (sporting a Hitler mustache) unsuccessfully trying to vanquish three little (American) pigs. The movie begins with a "Foreword" reading: "The Wolf in this photoplay is NOT fictitious. Any similarity between this Wolf and that (*!!*//--%) jerk Hitler is purely intentional!" At the end of the film, the defeated "Adolf Wolf" finds himself in hell.

On an emotional level Karen you are right some pretty dramatic ups and downs. I have Neptune squaring my Sun and Venus right now, while I don't think I'm in denial, neither do I think I am actually facing everything, particularly the effects of chemo over time. Everything I've read or anything anyone has said wants me to know I have to "fight" this. I don't know what that means exactly, because other things say to just accept whatever and with my Scorpio Sun and Mars and Aries Moon I have to say I approach most things as something to be conquered and with my Moon opposing my Neptune I am fairly spiritual about these things and fairly accepting so confusion is pretty standard. I have a dry English sense of humor and can find humor in nearly all situations including this one and I am a doer. So I make jokes to make people who feel afraid for me comfortable and to make myself laugh, I am more of a "ok, let's go and plough through this." I'm not afraid right now but I was in the hospital and absolutely not ready to let go.

I have not been angry or questioned 'why me" maybe that will come after neptune gets off my Sun and Venus or maybe not, this kind of thing is life. My focus is on myself and my healing and real shift in focus for me. I am looking at life in a very different way these days that's for sure. Those are some of my challenges and I can't sleep.

"My focus is on myself and my healing and real shift in focus for me. Yes!!!

I am looking at life in a very different way these days that's for sure."
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Morgana, seems this entire period through August holds that kind of kinetic "earthquake" energy. It also seems to manifesting in those rabble-rousing townhall meetings.

My Scorpio daughter has a saying she uses frequently, Sally. I've adopted it. "It is what it is." Finding the meaning behind the "is" is another question altogether. Each one of us give serious thought to the transition of body. When faced with serious health challenges, those thoughts must become highly focused. Fear and faith shake hands.

My sister decided not to seek any treatment for her liver cancer diagnosis. She was quite firm about it, stoic even. Caring for her was a privilege. She left my care -- after a month -- for institutional hospice (her nasty husband's doing). Another sister and I became live-in residents making sure she was cared for, that her pain was managed properly. Both of us were eventually kicked out because we questioned the poor care she received. And so, she died alone. Her alcoholic husband -- and absent children -- too busy with their own superficial lives to be with this beautiful, talented being. She visits on occasion, and i'm filled with the wonderful "light"ness of her being.

Sally god I love you. Didn't know that you are Scorpio/Aries-both my parents Aries and alomost all of my beloveds are either Scorpio or have Scorpio highlighted. I love your honesty and faithfulness-don't worry about what people say you should or shouldn't do-you know in your heart what you "should do".
Karen- (((((Karen)))))- I know someone going through very similar life things right now. Leaves my mouth agape seeing how insulated people can become re: your sisters children and spouse even death itself cannot melt their igloos.
I don't get "visits" from those I love but who have passed including my oldest daughter,my parents and my "brother" (brother-in-law in the 70's)but I do find that as time passes for me I have learned so much in my review of our time together- Jupiter in Scorpio in the 7th only planet above my horizon- learn so much through love, sex and death.
Really happy to see so many posts this AM. Love to you all- hope I am not boring everyone with my subjective take on everything.

Call me nutty but I think passing the "Great Divide" without all the hullabaloo of many times "guilty" family members and friends with all their own agendas would be great! Alone with one's Greater Power... peaceful, quiet, silent, sacred... nothing better imo. Another attending person of like respectful/calm would probably be all right as well.

I once or twice read that Saturn, the "hard taskmaster" with the face of a death skull, actually has an incredibly beautiful compassionate angelic face full of great strength. I believe that and I plan on experiencing this Being when crossing over... again.

Dearest Seesta Clymela... "subjective take" away imo. According to new physics, there's no such thing as "objective" anyway. How could there be? ;O)

It's also my opinion that there's no duality... I had to train my mind out of that one as it was once trained INTO it.

Oh joannaoregon I love you so. I too have "seen"that there is no duality although i often slip back into my old ways for just the reason you deliniate: I was taught to see things that way and heavy Saturn influence I have always loved seeing things the same way my fellows do.
Interesting what you wrote about Saturn-I had come across just that image of Saturn and I was thinking that is only when we give in to our spiritual side usually after life's patient tutoring,(lol), that we can accept death and then see beyond the curtain of duality. Meaning I think that at last we experience enough of life that we can give up on what the "grownups"said.

Joanna, throughout life i have had the honor of sharing a deep friendship with two of my sisters. The sister who experienced the trauma of both pain and the carelessness of her immediate family was, herself, experiencing a quandry about how she raised her daughters. She was also waiting for her abusive spouse to exhibit some sign of unselfish Love. This did not happen. And yes, perhaps her other two sisters who loved her deeply weren't meant to be there, but it was and remains sad to me. And, there are questions unanswered.

I would prefer to share my own passing with those i Love, not some impersonal nurses aid in an institutional setting.

This ( paid for by Pingree for Congress ) Maine's 1st distr. Rep. is hysterical.
Wellstone was her mentor.......
Hit replay to see the Chellie Pingree segment.

You just triggered an incredible memory, Karen. There was a young in-hospital minister who attended during my mom's passing... he had these absolutely beautiful large luminous eyes. Special beings that go where saturn calls them? They must be found everywhere and in all settings. What a "blow-my-mind" thought!

http://chelliepingree.com/colbert-report.html
there's the video............
Perhaps there was someone like that in the hospice facility for your sister, karen? There was a male nirse inthe 1st floor facility where my sone was. ( for elders in posession of their minds, but neede physical care.) He would come up stairs to visit my son, when ever he got a break.
Actually...........a week before he died, my soulmate who had passed 11 years prior, ( & until then we had an esp connection) came to me and let me know that he would be there to greet my son. I passed on the information to my son............
I wasn't there...I had come home to meet my Daughter who had driven over from NY State......
and he slipped away then.............his choice?
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Thye have all been here recently cheerleading me on with the paintings...................

Two days after I got home from the hospital a colleague stopped by to tell me her brother had died two weeks before of the same type of cancer I had. She told me in vivid detail of the agony, fear and pain he went through the last six months, and of the pain his family felt and every detail of his funeral. Then she went on to tell me of her first husband who had died of cancer when he was 27, also in vivid detail. I knew she needed to talk and I sat with my hands folded in an attempt to fight down the anxiety threatening to envelop me.

Then I thought your mother is dead, your father is dead, beloved friends are dead, my adored grandmother, cousins, aunts uncles ancestors are all gone. One day I will die,and my children as will my siblings, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and it won't be long before we are "ancestors." I wrapped my mind around that and then thought of my grandmother and the strength she brought while she was alive.

She had horrible Rheumatoid arthritis, her body bent and knarled, in horrific pain all the time, she never ever complained about the pain. When I was six or seven I was over at her house and my mother, aunt and doctor were gathered in her room and my grandmother was in bed stareing at the ceiling, just stareing and there was a wheelchair parked in the corner.

The doctor was talking in soothing low tones to my mother and aunt and kind of talking around my grandmother (Momma Cheyne was her name). He said "she will be bed ridden the rest of her life and she can never ever walk again, must never walk." This was in 1949 and she was about 80 years old. She never said a word and just kept stareing at the ceiling. The three of them walked out of the room and down the stairs taling in quiet tones of her ill health and struggles.

When she was sure they were gone and could not hear her, whe looked at me and said "Sally get me out of this bed and help me up, I am going to walk again and you are going to help me" Oh, my God it scared me to death because my aunt was a formidable and mostly controlling woman who would fly into a rage with anyone who defied her. But I loved my grandmother more than fear, so I helped her out of bed and said "Momma, we are going to get in so much trouble if they catch us," Aunt Mary will kill me. At that exact moment I didn't realize how determined she was, so determined she was willing to put this precious thing her legs in my hands because I was all she had and she was going to walk.

I did get her up and I went every day to walk her around her bed, watching those painful crooked hands gripping the bed posts from the pain until they were white knuckles and never a sigh or wince, until she could stand on her own and walk around the whole upstairs. She did walk again and walked almost until she died 5 years later of a stroke and I did get into powerful trouble from my aunt when she realized what my grandmother and I had done but my Mom protected me and I didn't care.

For the rest of my life in the worst of my problems I have remembered her words and used them for myself "Sally get out of this bed, we are going to walk." I only hope I can walk through this with the grace and strength she had, I want not to whine (although I fall short somedays) I want not to stumble in spite of pain on any given day. I want my children and grandchildren to see rength,determination and faith in the face of adversity and challenges.

WE are alive today doesn't matter when our energy and spirit is pulled to another direction, we are alive today and we are walking.

Your story leaves me wordless Sally.
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a heroine & role model!
I hope, & pray you weren't battling pain and ill effects of chemo to bring us this story!

Thank you, Sally. Thank you for your grace, and your insight. Each of us have experienced the passing of someone(s) we love, but are unable to express our observations or feelings until we are sharing them with someone experiencing the same thing.

Death is not a part of our cultural discourse. It should be, but the illogical and impudent kings of temporal power have held sway for as long as memory allows.

Were death a part of our cultural discourse, would we live with greater sincerity? I think so. Would we live our with greater appreciation of the Earth? No doubt. Would we live with greater Love of and for one another? Yes, without a doubt.

Joanna, Beautiful!

Thank you dear heart for your words and thoughts. I woke up thinking of you this morning and then qop left a message telling me to read your latest post.
that you live in the places you live is the reason I have always loved you and have followed you from the days of DDD. thank you sso much.

Well I have been on a transcendant journey........
see Lynda Hill's.................
http://sabiansymbols.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/06/flying-high-or-trying-to-escape-reality-the-cancer-new-moon.html
"you are probably in a state of heightened awareness and have a broad overview of the situation, which can give you an opportunity to plan for future action. Try to accept any positive opportunities that are offered, but allow yourself time to put these opportunities into perspective."
"This Symbol can speak of out-of-body experiences, dreams, seeking transcendence, astral projection," ( ABSOLUTELY!)
"Smack opposite this new Moon is Pluto on Capricorn 2. ( MY POF IS CAP. 1o) This aspect (the Sun and Moon opposite Pluto) asks us to practice forgiveness and compassion, to make changes in our lives that reflect love, beauty, tolerance and acceptance, to put aside the differences that can cause war between people, especially those who really belong together or who should be living in harmony. It promises a new beginning - the possibility of rising from the ashes phoenix-like, to make big changes in our lives. Healing what's been split apart is a very necessary part of this, not only because of the Sun-Moon-Pluto aspect (which is extremely dynamic), but also because the Sabian Symbol for Pluto is Capricorn 2: Three Stained Glass Windows in a Cathedral, One is Damaged by Bombardment. This degree was the degree of Mars in the September 11 attacks in NY. We can see the 'damage by bombardment' that was caused by the planes literally going through the windows. As I've mentioned elsewhere, the World Trade Center was on Trinity Place (Three Stained Glass Windows in a Cathedral), right next to Trinity Church. Trinity Church was completely undamaged - which is astounding and something to be remembered. ( MY ANCESTERS ARE BURIED THERE SOME OF THEM & THEY ENABLED THE BUILDING OF THE CHURCH WAY BACK)
The carpet has come back to earth now...........
but the enlarged perspective remains a part of me.

There was another time in my life when I was figuratively flying........back in 1971,last week of July first weekof Aug. ( can't remember exactly except that we were in Miami to do a mural for most of August that year..)
& I can't see any corresponding strong planetary catalyst for that experience. ( at least not as textbook as the recent solstice new moon this year.) Jupiter was 3o past a conjunction of my N Scorpio moon in the 6th H,
We were staying at a lodge on the coast of Maine, my husband and the children went out daily to learn sailing,and I took a box lunch from the kitchen, and went out onto the adjacent island, accessable at low tide by a sand bar, to sketch & photograph tide pools.I was ecstatic, free, in tunw with the tides, and had to remind myself...."no you can't leap from this rock over to that one, because you will hit the barnacles and seaweed, and go falling not flying. No you really can't fly , you just feel that you can!
My first real role model & patroness........( a PITHY Boston, blue stocking from an Irish Catholic family,biology teacher, Scorpio,) ( So that's where I got it! credit where credit is due!) came over & rented one of the cottages with a fellow teacher friend........and because the University of Maine Biology students were there too that week, labeling their sea shore samples on display in the dining hall......the talk was all marine biology.
Teacher John, ( forget his name) decided that since the tide pools were the beginning of all life, and he could draw a direct line from them to his home in NJ, he should run in the Democratic Presidential Primary. ( which was a mess at the time with Nixon in the W H and McGovern, Musky, and George Wallace..... competing for the nomination.)
He got my mentor to drive him to the Bangor airport, ( in spite of the fact that his car was in HER driveway back in VT.) She reported LATE the next day that he had her drive him all over Hancock & Penobscot counties.and she finally called his girlfriend to meet him in Pa. and got him on a plane.) It turned out to be a high blood pressure issue with him...........
The unrealistic side of Lynda Hill's magic carpet ride!
And I and got a respectable portfolio of sketches that I am working from now, 38 years later!

Hahahaha.......
This planet must be the ruler of the teabaggers!
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090812-backward-planet.html

"I would have to say this is one of the strangest planets we know about," said Sara Seager, an astrophysicist at MIT who was not involved in the discovery."
The bloated planet can be explained by a highly elliptical orbit, which brings it close to the star and then far away. Like exaggerated tides on Earth, the tidal effects on WASP-17 heat and stretch the planet, the researchers suggest.
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The tides are not a daily affair, however. "Instead it's creating a huge amount of friction on the inside of the planet and generating a lot of energy, which might be making the planet big and puffy," Seager said.

We've got our first wild fire this season here in our neck of the woods. It's called the Lockheed fire it is due west of us burning toward the ocean. If the wind changes directions we will be ready to flee.

Oh I hope the wind doesn't change.......

Hey Morgana thinking of you today with the news. Yes lets hear it for that wind to the sea- may it continue and may all the brave souls who work with these fires be strong and smart and all our four footed and slinky companions find their way to safety. The pictures on the tv are VERY dramatic really glad to hear from you.
Any word from or re: Sally?? She has been on my mind yesterday and first thing today.

I haven't heard from Sally for a few days but she had chemo earlier in the week so I hadn't expected to hear from her.

We're keeping an eye on the fire so far it is burning away from us. Some of our neighbors have gone up to the fire area to help evacuate 100 alpacas (related to llamas) and other live stock. About 2000 people have been evacuated so far. I'll keep you posted.

Even MSNBC is airing updates wow.

Be careful out there, Morgana!

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It seems the big paradigm-changing techno-breakthroughs are finally starting to arrive. Big Oil's days of energy dominance truly are numbered...

New battery could change world, one house at a time
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/article_b0372fd8-3f3c-11de-ac77-001cc4c002e0.html

In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago.

The prize is the culmination of 10 years of research and testing -- a new generation of deep-storage battery that's small enough, and safe enough, to sit in your basement and power your home.

It promises to nudge the world to a paradigm shift as big as the switch from centralized mainframe computers in the 1980s to personal laptops. But this time the mainframe is America's antiquated electrical grid; and the switch is to personal power stations in millions of individual homes.

--snip--

The battery breakthrough comes from a Salt Lake company called Ceramatec, the R&D arm of CoorsTek, a world leader in advanced materials and electrochemical devices. It promises to reduce dependence on the dinosaur by hooking up with the latest generation of personalized power plants that draw from the sun.

Solar energy has been around, of course, but it's been prohibitively expensive. Now the cost is tumbling, driven by new thin-film chemistry and manufacturing techniques. Leaders in the field include companies like Arizona-based First Solar, which can paint solar cells onto glass; and Konarka, an upstart that purchased a defunct Polaroid film factory in New Bedford, Mass., and now plans to print cells onto rolls of flexible plastic.

The convergence of these two key technologies -- solar power and deep-storage batteries -- has profound implications for oil-strapped America.

"These batteries switch the whole dialogue to renewables," said Daniel Nocera, a noted chemist and professor of energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who sits on Ceramatec's science advisory board. "They will turn us away from dumb technology, circa 1900 -- a 110-year-old approach -- and turn us forward."

--snip--

"I can't imagine anything more secure than generating my own energy with the sun at my house, and now I'll have a way to store it. It's the ultimate in security, and the ultimate in control."

With small-scale electrical generation taking place at millions of individual homes -- as opposed to today's large-scale power generation from a handful of giant power plants -- there would be less worry about what's called "point failure" on the grid. That's when a single component gets knocked out and shuts off power to a whole region. California-style rolling blackouts would be history.

The threat of terrorism has heightened the worry. But wide distribution of batteries in homes would virtually eliminate it.

Much more... http://www.heraldextra.com/news/article_b0372fd8-3f3c-11de-ac77-001cc4c002e0.html

That's interesting Neo..because I went to the Salmon Federation's ice cream social today in Machias.
A company showing there has a (Danish, bird safe windmill for only $9,000. It is hooked into the grid, but they are working on technology to free it from that and direct the energy straight to the household. An adapter would make the change over once it is perfected!

Praying for the wond to stay..........I will go see if I can get some news on the web, just got home.

I found this wonderful magazine! I downloaded the pdf file and think I will print it out & keep it it's that good!
http://www.innerchangemag.com/index.php

Great posts qop and Neo! The solar sheeting was a huge breakthrough, and now the battery! I've been hoping for quite some time that power production comes from individual households. Maybe now we'll see that occur.

Morgana, we haven't heard from you, and i'm a concerned.

I just checked out the map, latest ABC news update on the lockheed fire........
Morgana gave me her co-ordinates yesterday..&^ the fire is moving away, north & west of her!
Thanks Goddess!
Here's an upbeat report from Morford!

Dick Cheney rolls in his grave
Of course, he's not actually dead. He just wishes you were

Read more:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/08/14/notes081409.DTL&nl=fix

Sorry that I didn't check in with you wonderful astrology friends yesterday.Mars on natal Uranus which is the fulcrum of the big painful squares in my chart. Wheee! did I ever get a taste of what is going on right now-and ended up taking yesterday off!! Doing much better right now.
I am amazed by the news stories of the ORGANIZED attack on Obamma. I imagine since I saw the decorated touring bus moving through the heartland that the racism, the threats, all are organized just that the organizers don't arrive in "town" on big buses. That bus seems more like Pluto's mighty chariot than anything else. Trying to stay away and get back to beginning the day with prayer and meditation.This activity to destroy Obama and the Democrats is horrible and I could fall off into some dreadful paranoid nightmare. I guess I will never again say that these times remind me of the history of Nazi Germany in the beginning, not now that I have heard Obamma and the Democrats called Nazis

I don't have time for a long story..but I attended the Blackfly Costume Ball last night in Machias Maine..........( this is the weekend of the traditional blueberry festival there.)
8 or 9 years ago, several young gypsy,knit cap, dreadlocks, "drifters" came here to harvest seaweed, bought the old Grange Hall and settled down in town. They produce leftist propaganda posters about corporate malfeasance.....leave to attend G-8 protests, one spent the winter in Columbia to get a first hand look (TRUTH) of the political situation there. It was in their bathroom ( magazine rack)that I became aquainted with Mother Jones Mag, The Nation & other alternative publications..........(I knew them before finding AW)
They put up a sign saying NO drugs or alcohol, hung a big sheet for showing alternative films, and attracted college kids for summer internships.
They promised to keep the original purpose of the Grange Hall...free for community gatherings.
Well they have succeeded brilliantly! LAst night was a completely diverse gathering, little girls in gowns & tiaras from their costume box ( big girls too) gays in dresses, guys in top hats & bowlers, University Professors & lobstermen, ( even "shudder" NewJersyites!), conservative older community members lining the walls of the ballroom in the chairs watching the festivities.......It could have been a harvest dance from 150 years ago!
It was fabulous...............................
so all of America isn't digesting the koolade!
And this was my AmeriCorps Community 9 years ago.............I was sceptical that this could happen!

My email has been down a couple of days and I tried to call Morgana and there was no answer (and there always is an answer) So I don't know if she's ok, if the fires got her lines or if the wind shifted and they had to go, sure wish we could hear from her.

qop, your "ball" sounds wonderful, would make a great water color.

The health care debacle seems to be getting worse and worse. Pluto will go over the US Venus in an opposition (Venus rules the 6th house of health in the US Chart) and I think we can expect real crisis then, as well as job security for folks or a further fall and the military is facing some issues, while the US will feel in crisis, it's a good time to be thinking of alternative work and new companies.

Hold Morgana in some good thoughts

Love the "inner changing" mag qop, very nice and timely for all that's going on these days. I talk to people all over the country and it's so different everyplace and everyone you talk to. I think the US is made up of little pockets of different countries. I think Malcolm Gladwell's new book the "Outliers" is accurate.

Morgana is OK Sally, I've been keeping tabs on her & the fire & she posted on my facebook, last night. Maybe the fire has taken out phone lines?
Re: Blackfly Ball /watercolor...........When I was 9 or so..The Saturday Evening Post came in the mail with it's Norman Rockwell Cover. I remember lying on the floor on my stomach studying it. The one where the little dog is sitting in the middle of the alley preventing a huge moving van from
proceeding forward, people hanging out of the windows of the houses and running from around the side of the houses.....
Sat. nite he Orange COunty marching Band cam pouring down the stair at the Grange playing their lungs out, some dressed as Blackflies, people hanging out of the Ballroom windows upstairs to watch, running around the side of the house to see, mercury vapor light from the park across the street illuminating the scene. Earlier in the evening, several huge trucks had come through, carrying blueberries to the plant up the hill from the Grange Hall. The tight 95o turn of the road, ( made for horse & wagon not tractor trailers,) drove the crowd, sprawled across the road back up on the porch........
The Beehive Collective worker Bees had placed big orange road barrels along the curve to remind the crowd ^& trucks of the need to 'share " the road. this group works in a very Pluto in Capricorn style, the postive side of it.
Check out their activities!
http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm

OK, I am completely without email right now and probably for another couple of days, so if any of you received bounce backs, I'm sorry. My Qwest provider has changed systems and it's a mess.

On another note, Neptune and the Sun are opposing the next couple of days, foggy confusion, but Mars is sexitling Sun and in a trine to Neptune/Chiron and squaring Uranus. The next couple of days are going to be wild and I wonder when all is said and done if the illusion of Neptune will win out in the end, the fog will clear and all will have changed and be well. Watch for it and don't get involved emotionally with whatever you see or hear.

This is an article I picked up in the Guardian and it's excellent, a first hand account of the falsity of the US Medical System.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/16/nhs-us-healthcare

Jeez!!! I love you all. Whewww! Everyone that I love is impacted one way or another by these mutable happenings. I have people coming and going, rising up and down (can one rise down??) karma free floating,tickets due, whewww!! I am hunkering down being real quiet-mother cannot resolve all of this.
At any rate just checking in here brought so much a feeling of well being.
Sally-so good to hear from you.

I got out my falling apart 20th Century ephemeris..and took a look back..................... 1963.........the ☼ 14o ♉ was conjunct N ☼ 13o♉opposed to T ♆14o ♏ ( 2 days after my 23rd birthday) One of my dear friends now, was only 3 1/2 months old then............
There was a solar eclipse July 20 '63 @ 28o ♋on my N pluto @ 29o♋; as in 1990 the eclipse on that position.........rent my life asunder, although it took another 10 years to recognize the symptoms and make, pro-actively the change! ( divorce)
Then of course Nov 22 that year JFK was asassignated............changing the course of everyone's life!
But that was the summer I discovered Maine tidepools which I am just NOW painting!
And when was T ♆❏to my N ☼13o ♉?? Why just 4 weeks after bush's shock & Awe April 2003!I experienced excellent clarity of vision then!
It's all in the perspective!
I am 70..........still here, have survived ALL THAT, and am happier than I have ever been! The July eclipse was again a DIRECT HIT on my N ♇ this year......... hope the 3rd time is the charm!
AS they say here in Maine, If you don't like the weather, wait an hour, it will change."
BTW; Sally You could have a hotmail e-mail accountsooner than 3 days I think. That 3 1/2 month old baby in 1963, took one out for me 10 years ago and called me on the phone to give me the password. I was able to use it immediately!

Another really nice one from Mark Morford...

* Dick Cheney rolls in his grave
Of course, he's not actually dead. He just wishes you were

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/08/14/notes081409.DTL

Sally,

Yahoo.com has free email you might want to get yourself an emergency email account that is not dependent on your service provider.

So does Juno... have free email. Juno.com.

or gmail.com
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gmail.com&btnG=Google+Search
hotmail.com
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hotmail.com&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10

Well send good thoughts my way tomorrow @ 12:30 EDT. I am going to mount the soapbox in the Market parking lot, when the Maine Change that Works, healthcare ambulance rolls in. I do so hope that the angels will put the golden phrases on my tongue to roll out effectively. Hopefully I can enlighten a few minds....
Merc & Sat are both conjunct my N Nept. in the 4th house.......T Jupt. Nept. Chiron are sq my moon in the 6th house.
I will read the Guardian Article as I drink my coffee tommorow morning Sally.......

Having been checking in much as I've had a guest in town. It makes my heart glad to see you posting so much, Sally. I pray that you energy gets stronger and STRONGER and STRONGER!

Thanks for the information. The vibes really are kind of hair today - I'm picking up some erratic energies.

May Morgana's neighborhood be surrounded by protective White Light and Love. Fires, like hurricanes, are ultimately cleansing. May the cleansing be over and all the fires go out.

Clymela, thanks for all of the positive, hearfelt things you post. May God Bless You.

QOP - You will do fine tomorrow. You are a Gemini!!!!!

May God Bless Us All -
xoxoxoxoxo
Sharon

From tarot.com in my e=mail this AM.
The Moon enters lively Leo at 9:57 am EDT to bring a new wave of drama as we move toward Thursday's New Moon. The excitement builds as today's rock-and-roll square between warrior Mars and destabilizing Uranus sends shock waves through our lives. Meanwhile, an irritating Sun-Uranus quincunx makes it difficult to trust our own judgment. If we acquiesce to the demands of others, we set ourselves up to overreact when attempting to reclaim our power.
.................................
Sharon, I am a Taurus sun 13o , BUT do have Gemini ASC. 20o conjunct the USA mars 21o Gemini!
Sabian Symbol for my 10o Venus in Aries is : "A Ruler of A Nation"..........that should carry me through!

OK, my sopabox firmly glued to the soles of my feet for the day..............here are 2 articles I printed out from the NYT to take with me this afternoon.
The first: Test begin on Drugs that May Slow aging.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18aging.html?th&emc=th
Yuh! Just what we need, a chance for the priviledged few to live longer to enjoy their ill gotten gains., while the masses still die of untreated/too expensive, illness!
The 2nd. This is Reform??? By Bob Herbert.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/opinion/18herbert.html?th&emc=th
THERE IT IS IN BLACK & WHITE THE YIN & THE YAAAAAAANG OF HEALTHCARE!

And here is us.

Health care reform road trip begins in state
By Jen Lynds
BDN Staff
http://tinyurl.com/n668m2
The Service Employees International Union recently launched “Change That Works,” a state-by-state effort to support President Obama’s efforts to fix the nation’s health care system, and to guarantee that workers have a voice in the effort.

Under the initiative, officials with Maine Change That Works set out Monday morning on the Health care ’09 Tour “We Need Reform-STAT.”

The tour began in Madawaska and traveled along U.S. Route 1 to gather health care stories from residents in order to build support for reform.

The ambulance they are traveling in stopped in Caribou and Presque Isle and was scheduled to make a stop in Calais on Monday. Stops also are planned in Eastport, Machias, Milbridge and Ellsworth on Tuesday, Aug. 18; in Bucksport, Belfast, Rockland, Boothbay Harbor and Newcastle on Wednesday, Aug. 19; in Rumford, Farmington and Skowhegan on Thursday, Aug. 20; and in Portland, Lewiston-Auburn and concluding in Bangor on Friday, Aug. 21.

qop-I read about the ambulance beginning the country wide journey in Maine and thought of you immediately. Oh Yes I know that the words will come as beautiful and powerful as your paintings. wish I was there-yesterday was so depressing with the administration putting out the word that thee Public Option was not necessary. At one point someone on the tv said that they thought this action was an effort to get the "liberals" to demand "the Public Option". Sure was depressing listening to Kathleen Sibelius.
yep!! Sally so good to "hear" from you. I continue with prayers for love and light to guide you during this time of chemo,etc.

Thanks clymela,
I am about as peppy as a jellyfish this AM!~

Well. dear one, here is a spine for you. I know you know what to do with it. May I also suggest strong coffee. Really though love to you and I know that we are all richer because you are there today.

* Political columnist Robert Novak, a diehard con, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker, died Tue after a battle with brain cancer that was diagnosed in July 2008. He was 78.

His wife of 47 yrs, Geraldine Novak, told The Associated Press that he died at his home in Wash early in the morning.

A household face as co-host of CNN's "Crossfire," Novak had been a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times for decades. The brain tumor diagnosis came less than a week after he struck a pedestrian in downtown Washington with his Corvette and drove away. ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/18/robert-novak-dead_n_262073.html

* The economic indicators are starting to look good: France and Germany, for example, have just moved out of recession, and Japan is also set to show growth in the last quarter, after 4 successive quarters of contraction. Some of the banks are showing big profits again, and with that we are seeing a return of the big bonuses.

The financial system is putting up strong resistance to new rules designed to avoid a repeat of the credit crunch, and in the UK at least, the govt seems to be caving in. So it looks like we are gradually moving back to business as usual, with very little of substance having changed.

BUT astrology tells a different story. We are in the middle of a series of 5 Saturn-Uranus opps, the first 2 of which were responsible for the prolonged financial chaos we saw from the Autumn thru to the Spring. The unexpected events that Uranus brings are probably at their most chaotic in Uranus’ current sign of Pisces. ... http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.com/2009/08/zeitgeist-update.html

Be still my heart....

BREAKING: CNN reporting Dems going it ALONE on health care!

http://tinyurl.com/lpzuw5

Waiting to hear about your yesterday, qop.

Thanks for the links, Joanna and Morgana. To me, the current healthcare debate is a non-debate, and staged for the stooges. What we seem to be "negotiating" is how many more people are we going to "deliver" to the insurance companies. I'm on the rampage about this. It dawned on me that one of the insurance companys' tactics include the "loss of jobs" should we enact a public healthcare system. Actually, it's the CEO's who would lose their jobs, not those who actually process claims. Their experience would be transferred to government oversite.

Too much multi tasking.I posted on facebook not here!
It was HOT (scorching) mid day. so we went into the A C market to the coffee shop corner, soapbox left behind...but we went quietly from table to table conversing, every one was in agreement; no dissent.,I gave my stories to a reporter for the MAchias Valley Observer.and the basic premise of the rally was to gather individual's opinions on a
"medical record" sheet to be put in a folder and presented to our 2 Senators on Fri. in Bangor.
This was followed later in the day, by several positive stories
( like Morgana's post above) about the turning tide as a result of constituants opinions,activism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/19/public-option-fundraiser_n_262955.html

The effort is being driven by FireDogLake.com

A fundraiser launched by progressive bloggers as part of an increasingly aggressive response to White House backsliding on health care reform has out-raised any such effort in the past.

Donations in support of Democrats who back a public insurance option as part of health care reform have topped $100,000 from more than 1,500 donors in 24 hours and counting.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/19/ubs-to-divulge-4450-accou_n_262957.html
WASHINGTON — Swiss banking giant UBS AG agreed Wednesday to turn over to the IRS the details of 4,450 accounts suspected of holding undeclared assets by American customers, piercing Switzerland's long-standing tradition of banking secrecy.

IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the accounts held $18 billion in assets at one time. Many have since been closed, he said.

Here you go.............I had faith in the man!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6341387
John Stewart was right.

You're a fucking Jedi Knight ten steps ahead of everybody fucking else.

You KNEW what was going to happen at those town hall meetings during the slow news month of August.

You KNEW the Republicans would start feeling confident that they could knock you out while they had you on the ropes.

"staged for the stooges" you are so right Karen, I could not get over this last week that it has all been scripted for the benefit of the Am. people. This is not the only issue or the first time I have felt like that, it's like they go so far and then they shift on que. I first noticed it between the Dems and Republican's during the GWB 8 year mess. We have let these people emotionally abuse us for decades to the point where we emotionally abuse ourselves, we vote against our best interest when we can figure out what our interests are. Well the Neptune/Jupiter/Chiron transit is right now setting us all up for the lies and and confusion we have grown accustomed to and seemingly embrace. (US Mars square Neptune influence)

Tom Delay is high on my list for odious people however I did hear him say that guns at a Presidential event or any event is not a right of the first admendment or a law, it's a security issue and they should not be allowed. Why isn't the secret service or FBI taking these guns away? That is just a piece of the confusion surrounding our world right now.

oh, and a PS, China is buying up our mortages

http://www.opednews.com/articles/China-Investing-in-U-S-Mo-by-Dustin-Ensinger-090818-694.html

Eleanor Holmes Norton Agrees with you Sally....
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/d.c.-delegate-calls-for-ban-on-guns-near-obama-2009-08-19.html
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) called on the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday to provide tighter restrictions on citizens carrying weapons, openly or concealed, while in the vicinity of President Barack Obama.

Norton, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee, made the request after numerous news reports have shown groups of people brandishing firearms while outside of events held by Obama over the past several weeks.

And another revelation too little, too late!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/tom-ridge-i-was-pressured_n_264127.html

And I once thot that the pluto in cancer generation were whacked. Ain't nothin to the psychosis of the pluto in leo group.

AAmen........ O!
Although ther are some VERY wonderful pluto in leos too.........

Yea verily, qop... surely someplace, wandering around somehow...

But they might not be the uranus-cancer sq to neptune-libra subgroup. No... that's a very challenged mass of hominids... not that they couldn't be highly... um, creative... with that dynamic.

They might radically reject the "touchy-feely" & empathy of cancer.

Hi, AW, I almost never post altho have lurked here for ? 5 years. As for plutos in leo, even uranus cancer/neptune libra people, you are talking about me: June 17, 1949, about l:26 am in Atlanta. So I have about 11 degrees Aries rising, 7 degrees pluto at midheavean, etc., etc. Am I "wonderful" or a challenged hominid?

Actually I am a scared hominid at the moment. I have uranus at 0 cancer and pluto is sitting opposite it. Funny, I have 25 Gemini sun and 0 uranus cancer, and my daughter has 25 Sagittarius sun and 0 degrees capricorn uranus. She is 20, born 12/18/88 (about 24 degrees Sag rising, and a host of Cap planets there in her first house). She has a court date on 8/25 out of state for shoplifting (!! just learned about it, along with a lot of other not so good deeds by her recently), and I read that 8/25 is a date bad for accidents, explosions. Yipe.

I'm sorry for this personal stuff, rather than political, and your eyes probably glaze over reading about our planets. But i've been reading so long and feel like I know all of you. (Hi, Sally. Been thinking so much about you.)

Hey, posting actually worked! I've tried before without success. (And I'm going with her to the court date. Taking the bus, because I never want to drive on Long Island again.)

Really high tide today after the new moon. Very unusual for August, but it has been really rainy this year & Bill is coming up the coast.
Good luck with your daughter's court date Marcia, that a tough one.

Hi Marcia, glad you decided to post after lurking for so long! Sally, sending you hugs and best wishes.

Been there, done that with my only child, a son, Marcia. Alanon saved my bacon more than once by teaching me (even tho I knew that!) to let go of the strangle hold I had increasingly tried on him in my fear. I learned something of "let go let god"... which also worked on other issues. HE wasn't the problem... I was. Part of my spiritual journey for sure... excellent for a know-it-all such as meself.

Oh... my son turned out to be a very responsible loving individual, plus he thinks he's now my parent after the stroke. The nerve of him! ;O)

Hi folks! It's been awhile since I posted. My adrenal hormonal imbalance has relapsed and my intellect has suffered. 8th house moon in Gemini is experiencing Secondary Progressed Lunar return. My theory is I am re-experiencing birth trauma. Finger of God their too. I never have figured that one out. It seems there is little writing on it. OK, whining over!............. My cycles guy, Martin Armstrong, over at http://www.scribd.com/kzuur58 is saying if the DOW doesn't make it to 11,000 and hold there through September, we will not have a recovery. The economy will just continue to disintegrate. My guess is we will be a third world country for awhile, then the Phoenix.........Sally how is your chemo confusion? I have a REIKI cure for that if it is too awful. Just add @yahoo.com to captainbws to write me.....XOXO for ya'll, Timmy J

Hi Timmy, glad to see you. Is that moon in aspect right now (trine from Neptune and or Jupiter) pretty creative period for you. I'm holding my own with chemo and feel pretty happy about it (holding my own that is)

Hi Marcia, I sure as heck know what it is to fear for a child and the choices they make, and Pluto is all about letting go and transformation. Joanna is right, it's a tough process but helps you breath and helps them too. It's a long road and I've been down it more than once, in fact am on it now with yet another transformation opportunity, can't say I feel yipee skipee about it but no choice but walk into it. For sure all that Capicorn sitting in your daughter's first house will mean a transformation for her too and over several years, I think you might be amazed at how she turns out when she stops being her own worst enemy. With all that Capricorn she will eventually get the point of it all, the Sag will help her. You keep hanging on to yourself and I hope you come back.

My email is back up with a new address
sammcd@q.com

Yup, Timmy... so glad to see you posting!

What's up with all our glands is what I want to know!?! Gland probs seem to be epidemic. I know some other folks with gland probs. I'm under a naturopath's care for the thyroid "gland." Mebbe the increased Light is working them into a tizzy. Mebbe they're changing radically for other changes. Don't know.

New Message from Matthew... http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=105&z=2

* Make it so

Considering that these are the final lazy days of summer, the last few have seen me jumping around like a flea at the dog pound; I’ve landed for the moment, with apologies for ignoring you. You, and politics, were never far from my mind. I will compensate now with a big fat stuffed weekend collection. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

2. The higher vibrations surrounding and within you are producing physical and emotional anomalies, and in previous messages we have offered suggestions to deal with those. It is what fear produces that merits greater attention. People who are fearful about what they think is occurring and what may be ahead will experience severe jolting in numerous aspects of their lives during this final phase of third density on the planet. If they knew that the ages-old dark control of life on Earth is ending, they would rejoice with lightworkers and lightwarriors throughout the universe, but they aren’t remembering their elation at being chosen to embody and participate in this transformation into the glorious Golden Age.
................................................
I think I am remembering.............in the face of so much to deal with currently, I can't help being a "cockeyed optimist!" I can see this transformation happening!

That paragraph came from where, qop?

O.....mathewbooks that you posted just above!
I thought it was important to emphasize it.
I DO KNOW that the ages-old dark control of life on Earth is ending. I can feel it!

Ohps... not much retention/comprehension obviously. (sigh) Thank you, qop.

Just saw "Julia & Julie" this evening. My friend & I really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed watching some of the characters "losing it" once in a while. Well, I did.

Anyone talk with Miss Sally today?

I'm eagerly awaiting Julie & Julia, coming to Town!
Did you ever read her book about building a vacation cottage with Mr. Childs and the help of friends? Right over on Mt Dessert Isle down the coast from me a bit. Funny as her TV shows!
I am going to hazard a guess that Miss Sally is catching up with her e-mail, having been without for a week or more.
Hope you had time to meditate and jut "BE" Sally.

{ juSt be}

Okay Dear Ones,fellow workers, fellow Light celebrators. I so agree with what the Matthew tapes had to share and gained so much from them, so much courage and support and gratitude that the grip of darkness is loosening.
I want to share something that I experienced yesterday but that I didn't feel ready to share until I read you entries this morning.
I walked outside just before the sun was up over the hills to the east but when there was already light. I love to walk outside at that time to be with the plants and the early day. Well yesterday I felt in the wind or something a return greeting from the "world", from the "earth", from "Life" itself saying "good morning, Clymela, love to you and we are always here with you,you are not alone,we are one with you. I was so surprised that I was filled with joy. I noticed a streak out of my left peripheral vision and when I followed it I saw a large, shiny healthy black cat running fast across the boulevard in the front of our complex. When I got to the sidewalk the black cat stopped on the sidewalk across the road and turned and looked at me solidly, stood there on those strong four legs and looked at me so that I would never forget and then took off trotting on those strong and fast four legs.
I am sharing this because I know that life has shared knowledge with me and freed me from the loneliness that my early ego training created-it was nature that did this and I know that this is available for everyone when we are ready to "know" ,to feel it.
Love and LIght to you all

Yes clymela,I am feeling it too.......I sat at the table in my backyard for break, ( right angled to the meadow, with moose ) drinking in the tall spruce& pine trees at the end of my neighbor's yard that line her stream. The birds (catbirds) were raucus and the smaller ones, warblers I think flitting around in the choke cherry trees laden with deep red berries and entwined with pink wild morning glories, & was at one & in peace.
I hope next summer I can help people to find this peace through art classes..................
yes Love and Light to you all.

And I just found this quote on my facebook, by a frined who just graduated from the University..
( a Mother & nontraditional student)
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." Marie Curie

qop is right I am catching up on a weeks worth of emails and my sister is visiting from KC. I loved the Matthew post from Joanna and qop is right we can feel it as the change gets closer and closer, just like Clymela's traveling cat.

The "Republic" of the US is winding down too and something different will be taking it's place in a few years, we won't like the first of it as it changes but we will be part of changing it into something new and positive.

The thing I don't get about the money for health care and medicare and social security is the other countries, smaller and poorer countries supplies all this for their residents in the western world. Oh I know the problem, the other coountries don't have the majority of their money going to the military/industrial complex. Other countries have caps on excessive profits, other countries in the western world are more balanced than America.

* Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

Least surprising news item of the week: former Dept of Homeland Security director Tom Ridge's admission that he was pressured to raise the terror alert at the end of the 2004 campaign to help Bush win re-election. In his new book, Ridge says he felt the politically motivated manipulation was worth resigning over. But, of course, he didn't, saying nothing and staying on until after Bush won. Ridge thus joins the long line of key Bush[aholic] adm officials who only come clean when it's time to cash in on their "honesty." Elsewhere, Bernie Madoff's mistress warmed the hearts of Freudians everywhere with her revelation that the famous felon "had a very small penis. Not only was it on the short side, it was small in circumference." Is that why he needed to sport the biggest Ponzi in history? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Youbetcha! Law of compensation... or something like that. ;O)

This is part of somthing different!
I want to bring attention BACK to the post I made on Aug. 16 about the Blackfly Ball. It was great fun and a social time BUT it is also VERY representative of Pluto in Capricorn! The positive side.
They have been almost "militant" in their approach to creating their collective. NO DRUGS NO ALCOHOL, means just that! In 9 short years they have gathered in, the entire MOSTLY CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN COMMUNITY, helped a lot of kids, produced their anti-corporate artwork for a more viable life style for ALL!
Working to change the community as ONE lone VISTA Volunteer with a handful of teachers & other community organizers, was really carrying heavy buckets uphill! My final dinner ( FREE) was a real coup, 28 people came! ( out of aprox 9,000.) NO ONE RSVP'd I had to call them all the night before so I could tell the College kitchen how many dinners to prepare! There were minimum 300 people at the Ball 8 years later.
Here is their website. They are looking for votes to get a grant to publish the True Cost of Coal poster they are just completing. Go vote and read more about them!
http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/front.htm

Yea, verily, Miss Sally... amd perhaps they don't have PinkoMachos running their countries either. I'm acutely embarrassed about the ultragreedy USian penis-compensators. They're not really happy with the dynamic & neither are the rest of us.

qop... you amaze me with your energy in the service of others!

Jeez I love this site, all of you. I think that we are our own collective here even if we do live literally all over the US. wish we could be close enough to have pot lucks and decide what community need we want to focus on.
Sally so good to hear from you.QOP always love to you. joannaoregon please never give up your kvetching-we need the reminders of just how crazy things have gotten. Morgana i know this last fire got too close and this is really only the beginning of fire season-are you never the less working on a new article for us to ponder?
Sally-I am struggling with Obama-what is this thing about continually appeasing the Repus? I was so disgusted with him last week. sometimes I think that he is a Trojan horse and I really hope not-really hope not.

Mark Morford hits one out of the ballpark again.

* Down with crab cakes! Ban Whole Foods!
On the ludicrous outcry against a brilliant, oddball CEO and his unfortunate opinion

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/08/21/notes082109.DTL#ixzz0P2WdmULa

Ohps! Surely I didn't use a sport's metaphore, did I? ;O)

Philip Sedgwick has some interesting things to say this month in his Galactic Times.

http://www.philipsedgwick.com/

You sure did, next thing we know you will be announcing on CNN!
I have Queen Anne's Lace in my yard...FINALLY!
It was all over in NJ & I loved it. But over the 18 years I have lived here, I have planted seeds, transplanted the occasional wild plant I found by the roadside...............NOTHING.
But this year, there it is huge and beautiful on the wild meadow hill.
It means sanctuary!

I'm so happy for you & the Queen Anne's Lace, qop. I love the flower, too. And, is it not medicinal. I'll have to check into that.

Didn't study it thoroughly but saw in passing that it as been used as a contreceptive!

WhaddaHOOT! gop... never would've crossed what's left of MY mind. teehee taha

sanctuary = not pregnant!

Here is some more stuff to ponder.........
http://www.infinitebeing.com/free
The world is changing. People need this kind of information in
order to support what they can now see is the way ahead into
humanity's tomorrow. We are entering a new era. It is one of
peace, enlightenment and mutual support. The days of control
and institutionalized servitude are melting before our very
eyes. The emerging new world is one of peace, mutual
cooperation, and freedom for all.

Your efforts count in building tomorrow. Remember that life is
a journey in consciousness and that the map for that journey is
described in detail in this e-book, "Follow the Yellow Brick
Road: A Journey in Consciousness."

The entire e-book is now available online. As a service to the
spiritual community, this e-book is available at no charge at:

fantastic site qop, I downloaded the book and am getting so much out of it. Thanks

I am so happy that it is useful to you Sally.......
funny I have been getting the infinite Wisdom e-mails for several years,
( from a post here in AW years back?)
but it just began to vibrate and demand my attention!

Good Morning! everyone- those who post and those who "lurk". So much beauty unfolding around me these days,so much love.
Thank you for the link to the Infinite Wisdom site. Just what I am looking for at this time.
I have even turned off some of the politics wanting to find a way to support those who support the "Public Option" yet stay out of the ugly coming from the corporate conservatives.I am close to hatred of the parading of guns strapped on people. I am so ashamed of Americans. I imagine that this sort of thing is the result of the nightly news always full of murder and mayhem but I can't help but believe that this is also a direct threat to Obama-I mean can you imagine this happening at a Bush/Cheney rally?
Oh there I go-obviously the news of these incidents was traumatic to me. I was actually shocked just as I have been shocked by the news of drone bombings,torture and the building of military bases around the world which is the real reason Americans "cannot" afford universal health care. Well I know you all share this with me so I will release it again and return to supporting those who are acting for the whole and who understand that health care is a human rights issue.

It's impossible for me to imagine bushaholic/cheney-shotgun having ANYTHING to do with health care for ANYBODY 'cept themselves, Clymela.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.dwarf.planet/index.html
It was three years ago Monday that the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet, a decision that made jaws drop around the world.
obviously the minority who voted for this didn't have any Scorpio friends!

LOL qop-no Scorpio and also no Pluto tightly conjunct other planets. I as a "superstitous" type just go on using Pluto as I always have-works for me.
One thing that I have noticed or believe I have noticed is that scientists are as vulnerable to mood and group thinking as any other social group.

ya, verily. clymela

As Mathew said......."the ages-old dark control of life on Earth is ending."
One small step towards that effort.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/25/court-rules-federal-reser_n_267960.html
The Federal Reserve has been ordered to reveal the names of companies that received emergency loans during the financial crisis, after losing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Bloomberg News.
Presiding Judge? LORETTA A PRESKA a woman!

An excellent piece from the wsws on California's rape by the phallic pinko boyz... same cyclic thing they've done all over the planet... for 6000 years. Rise n' fall, rise n' fall, rise n' fall... anything to "get the feel good excitement" sustained. What do you think, AW posters? HAH!

* California braces for new round of budget cuts

... Once again the word “reform” is being used as a euphemism for cutting benefits and, in this case, stripping retirees of their hard won pensions. One plan being proposed by the CA Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility would require state workers to work, on average, 6 add'l years in order to qualify for benefits. ... [but that won't be the end of it you know]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/aug2009/cali-a25.shtml

The CA refugees have been swarming up to Oregon for a few years now. Sold their homes for huge bucks as many saw the hammer coming, then bot up several properties here... where they either "flipped" the new abodes or, more rarely, lived in them. At any rate, most of them are settling in to become good citizens of their host state. ;O)

Ok dokey O...............Ranting to the Senators again!
I am thinking maybe I should join Cindy Sheehan....She could lament that the country cost her her son....I, my small business!
The likes of Mike Enzi, Blanche Lincoln & Olympia Snowe are making decisions that keep me in a straight jacket business wise!
Kennedy's absence from that Committee is really being felt!

Mighty fine article...

* Mary Dejevsky: A mean streak in the US mainstream
The US tolerates more inequality, deprivation and suffering than is acceptable here

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mary-dejevsky/mary--dejevsky-a-mean-streak-in-the-us-mainstream-1776795.html

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7374
Sibel Edmund's Deposition, video & transcript!
Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly on the record. Twice gagged by the Bush Dept. of Justice's invocation of the so-called "State Secrets Privilege," Edmonds has been attempting to tell her story, about the crimes she became aware of while working for the FBI, for years.
0o libra, cancer, capricorn..spits out the poison!

Ted Kennedy (Feb. 22, 1932, 3:58am, Boston, MA) passed away tonight. The Great Liberal Lion has fought his last battle, and he fought it well. Everything we the people have gained in the last 30 years has been due to Ted Kennedy. School lunches, family leave, vacation leave, higher wages, women's rights, school grants for the under funded, expanded civil rights, he helped Lyndon Johnson fight for Medicare in the Senate, the CHIP Program and the list goes on and on. He has buried more family members with dignity than most of us can possible count, he's mostly responsible for electing the first Black President in this country because he said "the torch has been passed" and there are certain citizens amoung us of the Kennedy generation that those words meant a great deal, because Ted Kennedy said them.

Transiting Venus was opposing his Saturn tonight and his progressed Mars was less than a degree away from a square to them both helping him to let go, so his passing was calm and easy for him and I am glad. He was certainly not a perfect man and there were alot of scandals around him, some real, some were made up by those who hated the Kennedys, but he was a constant champion for the people of this country and many of us loved him for that reason, he cared about us.

Poetically I always thought of the Kennedy's as a family riding out of the mists of Ireland to fight some of the battles the people could not fight themselves. I always believed they a Karmic family giving their best, leaving a dream behind for the rest of us. Not even a real dream until we can make it real ourselves, it's a dream born in a mist and it still lays out there to be picked up by us all.

Ted Kennedy dead at the age of 77, and I like to think he's with his brothers Joe, Jack, Robert and now Teddy. Rest in Peace all of you.

And his sisters Kathleen, Rosemary, & Eunice.
Family Statement........
We thank everyone who gave him care and support over this last year, and everyone who stood with him for so many years in his tireless march for progress toward justice, fairness and opportunity for all. He loved this country and devoted his life to serving it. He always believed that our best days were still ahead but it’s hard to imagine any of them without him.”
Seattle Times ( first newspaper to reach my e-mail with the news./ 5 am here)
Now WE must carry the Dream forward!
I wonder if President Obama was able to visit him?
I heard Secret Service members made the trip to Hyannisport.

Unfortunately...the msm will latch on to this story like fleas on a dog and ignore Sybil Edmunds testimony completely!

My Steve woke me up (he is the chronic insomniac) to tell me that MSNBC had announced Kennedy's passing. I am sad with tears in my eyes. What a servant of the people I don't see the like of him any where right now. A prince in the truest Piscean sense.
I was thinking that even now there is some little girl or boy who is growing up to be a giant for the times-the King is dead long live the King sort of feeling.
He brought me the gift of mercy: I was caught up in the talk of the scandals-Chappaquiddick had really turned my stomach. At any rate one night he came to mind and I started my usual turning away from that thought and then I "saw" all that he had done and was doing in spite of the flawed, rickety vehicle he had to use to bring to fruition his dreams and ideas ,truly the dreams and ideas of "the people". My heart burst wide open and I "forgave " him his failures and celebrated his willingness to carry on and get things done.
Thank you Sally for your words and yes!! to your image of the Kennedy's riding out of those mists'riding out today to welcome home their "little brother"

QOP- lets "see" someone at FIREDOGLAKE posting regarding Sibel Edmond's testimony. I am sure the corporate media will post it as a little rectangle deep in the front page but many people are turning to FDL these days for real news and the story could get legs there. Love to you for keeping us awake on this issue.

The videos are riveting! The first 55 minutes long...........I was going to save it for today, but wound up watching until almost midnight! There are m 4 more videos of testimony to go!
Can you post it at FDL, I am not registered there.
Also I heard from a very reliable friend, that a friend who had been at the party at Chapaquidick,
stated that it was a set-up to discredit Ted politically since he had survived the small plane crash.
My friend waited until her friend (of the party) had died, before telling the story so she wouldn't cause her trouble! She thought I was worthy of carrying the story forward!
Makes sense to me.....WHO stood to gain???

The commentor rants on bushaholic in this piece just made me burst into gales of laughter. I needed that. I like feeling that there are folks just as dismayed/angry as I was/am & made my brain pop. We (particularly women) are told that anger is bad stuff. (For whom?) http://blog.buzzflash.com/lindorff/269

My friend of 40 yrs, Mary, has been an xian cultivated doormat for her family and community. Since she's an Aries (with her sun in the 7th mirrored by my libra sun in the 1st), she's been in the past couple of years showing signs of extreme rebellion. Most recently, she's been political activist for Obama. Her thus far disappointment in him & all that represents has begun to fan all that banked fire into flames! Her kids are now out of the nest. This will be more than interesting. And her family might well put themselves on notice! (but probably instead will push to get her back to her "old self" again. Woe! Woe! Woe! ;O)

A very mystical Mark Morford...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/08/26/notes082609.DTL

VP Biden, gives a textbook summery of the BEST of Neptune & Saturn, in his eulogy for Kennedy!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/bidens-emotional-kennedy_n_269331.html

http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Kennedy%2C_Ted

Rest in peace, Senator Kennedy.

Hello All! The Lion of the Senate set a high bar, his progressive acts and strident words shame those who would sell their souls, and probably their sisters and mothers for an extra dime. Passing a wide-sweeping single-payer healthcare bill would be the greatest honor Ted could possibly receive. Let's hope he's remembered come voting time.

Current astrological events seen to be jamming a mix of country/jazz/indy/rock-wild music. We're all dancing. The last time these confirgurations were orchestrating behaviors was in the 60s. Perfect time to see the musical Hair, which i just did with my daughter. We both dressed appropriately. hahahahahahahahahaha. And boy, oh boy, did we have fun.

Perfect Morford, Joanna. Another illustration of what we're experiencing en masse. I observed the same schizophrenic sexuality in New York city. Further, it seems as though the city is sinking into a greater abyss of self-absorbtion. I've been a regular visitor for the past 8 or so years. Each time, the vacant eyes, concentration of filthy air, dirty streets, and drumming noise become more pronounced. (Could just be me, but my husband experiences the same thing.)

Another great summation of current events:
http://stariq.com/Main/Articles/P0009708.HTM

I experienced something soo different karen. I attended a party of old fading gentry last night, out here in the country in a grand spacious Victorian house, a reminant of the "Tom & Daisy" F Scott & Zelda, Dorothy Parker on the upper west side group of people. Interestingly the men seem to be fading faster then the women. There were conservatives & progressives there but that wasn't divisive. Talk was of art etc.
One Gentleman, from an old monied family whose ingrained gentlemanly behavior was programed in by his Mother while he was still in short pants.....
has been critical of T Kennedy in the past, (his womanizing drinking behavior not his politics) Joan K was frequently his tennis partner & he defended her side of the story... was overheard last night, praising and defending Ted rather than the unconscionable bashing coming from the new clueless right!
He walked me to my car at the end of the evening even tho there are no muggers within 300 miles of here!
I made & took crackers out of bread dough as per your recipe karen.

Oh qop! I noted also that elderly NYers were far more gracious than their young counterparts. Civility is the word i would use in this regard. In fact, my positive -- in fact shiny -- encounters were with those white hairs (I can say so, because mine is white as well.) who graced me with smiles.

You can't believe how excited i was to hear about the crackers! How did they turn out? Did you dress them with sesame seeds? What dough did you use? There are so many things you can do, add cheese, for instance, etc.

I used my standard Ego BAtter Bread from a LHJ or G H mag in the 60's. 2 C hot water, 2pkg yeast, 2TBSP sugar, 1 TBSP salt, 1/4 C veg oil, 6- 6 1/2 C flour. knead rise, form loaves bake 400o for 35 min.
I used 1/2 King Arthur white & 1/2 Pillsbury whole wheat flour and added 1/4 C wheat germ and about 1/2 C of chopped mixed nuts; pistachio, cashew, hazelnut brazil, peanuts almonds......
One pan of crackers I sprinkled with sesame seeds.....I managed to get the dough rolled out pretty flat. Last try the crackers were too fat & puffy!
Now if I could just get my pepper jelly to jell!
I used 1 box of powdered pectin ( forgot & added it to the pureed peppers, sugar & vinegar, before I brought it to a boil. It has boiled and simmered for 5 min. & it is sitting there.......as runny as pancake syrup!???????
ANy suggestions?

qop, prick your crackers with a fork and they will remain fairly flat.

Your pepper jelly may set up after you've canned it. My peach -- what was to be syrup -- became jelly after canning and then sitting for awhile. It should be fine.

Good Morning/Afternoon Dear Ones-don't know what to say qop about the jelly but I would second what karen wrote. Actually if there is any thickening at all that could be a sign for after it sets up a bit.
I just made vegie chile for the crowd here today and I can hear a crow calling outside-still summer and one of our five or six hot days but the chili and the crow bring turning leaves and misty walks to mind.
I have really been grieved by Kennedy's passing. Someone wrote that the Dems will now get a spine-oh I pray but I fear that they will turn even more craven, wiggling on their bellies to do what the money guys want. The talk of the co-op approach is disgusting and so is Obama.
I have heard so many beautiful speeches that Kennedy gave that were NEVER broadcast oh no!! we get the literal poop from the right wingers! I am afraid that the brain washing of this huge country is so successful that there is no hope of change short of a massive upset that knocks folks back to their knees and they are left with no choice other than to truly love their neighbors.

Oh good, thanks karen!
I not only pricked the crackers, I precut them in squares.
Ted Kennedy is not gone......."the Dream begins anew." It is now up to us, with his oversight!

You are right..it does gel up!'
Here is my spot on the MAine Illustrators Collective Blog
http://mecollective.blogspot.com/search/label/Pat%20Sharp

Pat, your remarkable water colors -- so organically sensual -- evoke a deep magic. Thank you, this is a feast for the eyes, and spirit.

More coming up! ( well not tomorrow) I just went to the beach and got very close to those dear little shore birds.....have to look thme up inthe bird book then, download the pix!

qop-your watercolors are glorious-there is a fullness, a fatness in your work that I just love.
Also, so glad that your pepper jely did in the end set-up.
A friend mentioned Teddy Kennedy's years of drinking and carousing-she is still judging him in the manner of the right wing propaganda even though now we have learned that the right-wing even encourages sexual license in "leaders"-thinking of C St. here. I remember my mother complaining about Dr. King's poor morals and having to point out the ridiculous position of worrying about sex in light of his murder. My mother bless her heart "got it" immediately and was ever after that more comfortable living in the world of mystery.
Chris Hedges piece in the Nation should be a book-maybe someone will at last tell the story of Senator Frank Church whose unexpected death in the airport changed the direction of history.
Teddy Kennedy gone now and Frank Church once again thought about-what a week.

FORGIVE ME PLEASE:I thought that it was Sen. Frank Church who dropped dead in the airport on his way home to report his findings in Vietnam but I was wrong. See I am guilty of planting misinformation because I looked up his biographical info AFTER I sent the email.
Now I will try to find out which lawmaker I was thinking of-I think that he had a brother who was also a lawmaker.

{If they knew that the ages-old dark control of life on Earth is ending, they would rejoice with lightworkers and lightwarriors throughout the universe,} from mathewbooks
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told a Massachusetts audience at a recent town hall that the House will pass legislation this fall mandating a "complete audit" of the Federal Reserve.

The bill to audit the Fed, H.R. 1207, was introduced by libertarian Fed critic Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and is backed by well over a majority of the House. Frank's comment suggests it won't just be left to languish in committee.
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Some interesting pairings working together here............................Frank, Paul, & Kucinich,- Saunders, & De Mint!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/28/frank-bill-mandating-comp_n_271384.html

http://tedkennedy.org/pages/live
watching Kennedy's memorial service...........
How we shall miss him!
Neptune spirit personified! The very best of it the burned clean & purified ability to merge..........

Here's something for your files everybody... better than an advanced directive only & doesn't cost. http://www.seriousillness.org/lane/decisions/polst.html

Oh... one of the staff here showed it to me.

entertaining read!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/28/tom-wolfe-the-rich-have-f_n_271649.html
Wolfe assumes the voice of a commodities trader who laments the loss of his company's prized private jets. Rhapsodizing about pre-Bailout era, the narrator salutes his CEO Robert J. McCorkle ("Corky"), who led offsites that were, well, memorable:

President Obama's eulogy for Sen Kennedy, leaves no doubt in my mind of his intentions!
Let us not forget, that Kennedy passed the dream on when he endorsed Obama, for President 1 1/2 years ago (was it 2 years?)
I believe that he is doing his best to kick away the impediments blocking him.
A boy who grew up without a Father ......... adopted & mentored by Kennedy...no way does Obama have a hidden agenda!
Did you see the tears on his cheeks?

Pluto at 0 Capricorn is poised to go direct on September 11th and begin our long journey of a fight against big business and the people, a new revolution if you will. First however we will have to come to grips with what we are losing and how we lost it and who will keep up the good fight. This is the most recent article showing the way of the future for Europe and the US. Japan has already shown the direction they are headed with their newly elected conservative party.

Claudia Dikinis said years ago that when Pluto went into Capricorn we would see just how much corporations own us and I said they would be doing their best to take us back to the feudal system of government, they've been working on it for years. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/aug2009/acad-a31.shtml This is happening in this country as well in education, health care, military, all manner of things the corporations are slowly taking us over, not so different than it was in the 1700's.

I'm more sure than I have ever been that there will be another revolution in this country when Pluto gets to it's 1776 placement, I'm just not sure whether it will be from the right or left of this country. As Ted Kennedy was fond of saying "the dream lives on," and so it does, the dreams of what we thought we were and what we wanted to be from the beginning of this country.

No matter what people thought of Ted Kennedy, everything that has improved our lives the last 25 years has come from Kennedy's fight for the people and there will be new ones rising to remind us of the dreams, the hopes, the possibilities but there will be an uphill battle for it all but it will be there and we will need to continue our support for our own communities in everyway we can.

Oh, I remembered with the passing of Ted Kennedy that I said Dennis Kucinich star would be rising this next year, this just could be his opportunity to stay his course and raise his voice, like Kennedy did as the 80's unfolded.I don't believe this is an end to an era because Teddy died, I believe the voices will go on and rise, lots of Kennedy's out there and lots of people inspired to pick up his mantle. The Kennedy's excited us, inspred us, challenged us and changed us in time, they will rise from the mists again, Maybe their name won't be Kennedy, maybe it will but their ideals will rise again.

A chilling article, Sally, and an example of the corporate-induced coma the world is in; the lies perpetuated to ensure greater control.

Right now the "tea baggers" are raising the roof with loud animal bleats, anger fueled by those same corporate programmers. All of us, to one degree or another, have been programmed to believe false notions fed to us by a corporate-led media pandering to our fears.

Will the careful images constructed by numerous corporate entities be demolished during Pluto's transit? Would that, in turn, lead to a national mental breakdown? Our lives are are bound by the tentacles of treacherous despots. Small things like fresh food have become more expensive than "prepared." Corporate farms, corporate schools, corporate government, meaningless lives.

We need Dennis Kucinich and others like him to open the curtain on Oz. It's dangerous work, as it is for all those who speak the truth.

I posted a couple things yesterday and when I tried to check & see if there was a discussion. I couldn't open AW. Today it seems to have dropped several posts.?
On DU ( post also gone this AM) someone observed that Teddy had had the last laugh in planning his own funeral. ( I am hampered here because I am not familiar with Catholic ritual) His Grandchildren did the statements ALL quotes from Ted's speeches through the years, ALL concerning empathy for the less fortunate: requiring the congregants to respond " In God's name" concluded with Teddy Kennedy III reciting his Grandfather's speech from the convention last year ending with "and the dream will go on".

I set aside the day, discovered how to enlarge the livestream to my full 20" monitor, and watched the entire funeral service, and procession to Arlington.
I think this has been a transformative moment for both his sons, Patrick & Ted Jr. and I predict that they will both grasp the torch and carry it forward, with very young and adorable Teddy III, and Max Allen ( Kara's boy), following their footsteps in time!
We have focused on JFK and Bobby's kids for this.... but it will be Ted's line that continues!
Yes I got this e-mail from Dennis Kucinich.:
I wanted to share with you a comment that I wrote and subsequently was published in Time Magazine, some 40 years ago. I wrote this comment about Ted Kennedy as a private citizen before I began my public career.

Time News Magazine, January 24, 1969, Vol. 93, No. 4: Ted v. Teddy - Sir: Senator Edward Kennedy’s victory in the contest for Democratic majority whip (Jan. 10) is a significant event in the Democratic Party’s move toward effecting a liberal stance in the formulation of party positions on key issues. As majority whip, Kennedy will do much to accomplish a rapprochement of liberal factions alienated in the travesty at Chicago. This is a good Ted Kennedy, for the Democratic Party, for the people. Dennis J. Kucinich - Cleveland

Re: Health Care

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x476043
They're Still Dangerous While They're Dying-- But They ARE Dying

I think that we are going to get health care reform within the next eighteen months.

Yup... same old same old... nothing new. Now "princes, kings, counts, etc." are called CEOs. Nothing new, nothing different & too, too bad. Same old battles to not suffocate but to breathe. Same old supercontrolling torturing dualistic mega-self-centered coots/vampires of patriarchy.

"Teddy Kennedy III reciting his Grandfather's speech from the convention last year ending with 'and the dream will go on'".

Don't want any more freakin' dreams... want a REAL world of free creative spirit without a smidge of deadening fear/terror for ANY Being.

After reading your link on the UK school system, Sally I read this.....very interesting!
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/art1-a21.shtml
The future of art in an age of crisis—Part 1
By David Walsh
21 April 2009

"I'm more sure than I have ever been that there will be another revolution in this country when Pluto gets to it's 1776 placement,"

Pluto reaches 27o ♑, in Feb2022.
Any ideas on what we can do........?

And I will try this again..........vanished last night!
Andrea Mitchell said very specifically, I think more than once, " All who attended the funeral service in Boston, were there BY INVITATION."
ONE was missing!.............

This is VERY INTERESTING!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/30/AR2009083002473.html?hpid=artslot
But the biggest jolt comes from the woman in the executive chair: Arison -- billionaire ($2.7 by Forbes's most recent estimate), perhaps the richest woman in the Middle East, a major force in Israeli philanthropy -- claims that she can see the future. This is much bigger than a parlor trick. In her new book published this summer in Israel, the 51-year-old Miami native says she felt the Indonesian tsunami sweeping over the land two months before it happened and sensed Hurricane Katrina pummeling New Orleans.

Jeeze I think my ex did some mural work for him in Miami! His name was so familiar to me, that I called it out before it was revealed inthe artoicle about his daughter!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Arison

This is pretty late, but Thanks, everybody for the support and perspective you gave me when I was writing about my daughter’s shoplifting charge. I still feel a little like I should be defending my Pluto-Leo, Uranus-Cancer, Neptune-Libra generation since we seem to have such a bad rep, and myself even (Pluto-Leo, in the 5th yet, equals horrible mom?) but I’m going to try to resist getting into all that. Except to say---I’m nice, really.

I know I should be more on topic, and less personal, here, but usually don’t feel like I have anything much political to add---I enjoy everybody’s posts, whether I totally agree or not. And don’t know enough about astrology to contribute on that subject. (Altho, I’m interested in how some facial features seem to go along with some signs. Scorpio eyebrows? Virgo noses? Am I crazy?)

I live in the DC area. I’m a longtime marcher here, in marches against the war since 2002, and marches for Palestinian rights. I would like to do something else---write letters to the editors of out-of-state papers? Does anybody here do that? People who write letters to WaPo are usually with it, and in fact experts in something who really have something to add. I think maybe papers in my home state could benefit from being enlightened by me (!) but I haven’t done anything about it. (That’s Georgia. Actually AJC prints a fair amount of left-leaning viewpoints. Augusta paper is too rabid right to print me.) Then again, maybe letters to the editors are too old-fashioned and I should be blogging.

Marcia, How did you make out at the court hearing? Hope it went OK, and your Daughter learned a life lesson.
The AJC is left leaning I get their daily multiple e-mails.......how that started I don't remember,.....but they are like the Phila Inq used to be.
How about sending letters to the Savannah & Charleston papers? Cerainly SC could use some enlightenment!
How about blogging on Huffington Post. I have been comenting there for several years They e-mailed me last year to invite me be a regional poster during the election.
AZ, TX, & mid western states need education too so they'll start voting differently. Why ot? WHat have you got to lose?
Have fun!

WHy Not!

Marcia, where did you get that Pluto in 5th constitutes a bad mom? Pluto in Leo says a powerful impact on your children for good or for ill. Your daughter is still a little young to determine you were a bad mom or for you to listen to her. She has to grow up first, see herself first, have some time for reflection. In time she may discover that you were a powerful Mom for good in her life. Have a little faith in her and yourself and let the magic of time heal her wounds or what she sees as wounds.

I'll tell you, I have 4 kids and I learned ever so early that no matter what happens to them it's Mom's fault. My youngest is 29 on his first Saturn return and he's just starting to figure it out but I am still to blame for ever so much, like I didn't try to stop him from going to a state where he didn't know anyone and didn't have a job and the state was all Morman and he got sick (a bad cold) he's just getting over that "it somehow must be Mom's fault. My older children from 33 to 40 are now looking at me as a person and even asking my opinion and they've been wonderful during my illness, even the youngest son.

No one is all good or bad and you don't need to beat yourself up, we do the best we can on any given day and I can tell from your posts that you certainly did try to do your best every day.

* "Thank you..."

That’s what over 50,000 people called out, over and over, standing in the rain as Ted Kennedy's body moved thru the streets of his state on its way to Wash. They knew him and he knew them; they knew he cared for their problems, worked tirelessly and often personally on their behalf and they wanted the opportunity to show their appreciation, one last time.

How many of us feel the same way about our Senator? Ted was the most liberal of the Kennedy boys — Jack had mind, Bobby had soul … Teddy had heart. It was tested and stretched during his long years; and he used it to make this a better nation.

Teddy knew how to throw a wake and produce a funeral; he had lots of practice. What we saw yesterday was orchestrated by none other than Himself, its political subtleties … and some, like the not so subtle g'children’s offering … by design. The televised 3 hr tribute to Ted was genuine in its emotion, solemn in its grandeur and extraordinary in its humanity … with Obama deftly sidestepping overt politics which would have raised cries of Wellstone, creating another shitstorm … and I cried thru the whole thing — no, not cried; I wept, slow, steady tears. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

This writer is wonderful. After the eulogizing, she gets down to bidness.

* FBI memo, photo link Bush Sr to JFK Dallas murder scene

“Actually, however, Congress was being manipulated. This is how the war machine operates. Behind the seeming concern for national security are the busy [monsters] with the bulging briefcases hurrying form the Pentagon over to Capitol Hill, the tight-mouthed [monsters] hurrying from CIA hqts over to the Pentagon; it is eventually a game. It is an op designed to produce for the warfare sector and its military hardware supporters billions of dollars annually and unlimited power in the affairs of the nation.”

“Since the end of WWII, the US has spent a 1000 billion dollars—one trillion dollars—furnished by the American people, who have been colonized by these [monsters] and their hunger for power. Could the CIA kill a President to keep such an operation going? Kings have been beheaded for infinitely less.” New Orleans Dist Atty Jim Garrison, “Heritage of Stone” (1970) ... http://tomflocco.com/fs/FbiMemoPhotoLinkBushJfk.htm

How the Pink Boyz love their boom-booms, & slaughters...

* Gordon Brown reaffirms UK commitment to Afghan war

British PM Gordon Brown reaffirmed the UK's commitment to the war in Afghanistan during a surprise visit to the country Sat. He did so in the face of mounting popular opp to the war, with polls indicating that 2/3s of respondents want Britain to leave Afghanistan immediately. ... http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/brow-s01.shtml

JoannaO, here's another piece of news that should make your day - Jenna Bush Hager hired by NBC Today. I wonder what special qualifications she has apart from being the daughter of Bush.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/30/royalty/

ANd with all that..............my lovely work stint is threatened!
SOmehow the America's only supplier of pig thyroid, can't keep up to the demand.....and we have RUN OUT of Armour Thyroid!
I grabbed the last 2 months supply in he area!
I'm good thru Nov. hopefully something will be resolved b then. My Dr. getting meds from Ca, we start a pig farm here in Wash CO to produce pork thyroid, for Forrest Labs..................
We COULD use the jobs!
( In the Pharma reproduced synthroid, generic. the geniuses deem it un-necessary to reproduce T 2 ( element in the natural thyroid ) that aids CRITICAL THINKING! Hypthyroid people have been but into "slow learner classes" until they have discovered the correct medication. (Some never ever make it out of the slow learner box!)

OK Don't we have NAFTA? Forest Laboratories, maker of Armour Thyroid, can't buy from a Canadian firm,must buy from the ONLY producer American Laboratories, who is failing to produce suffie cient for the GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO NEED IT>
because they only distribute in USA..........
Is this ever a case study in the Shock DOctrine.
Maybe we are being unkind in calleing the voters who vote wrong stupid? Maybe they only need their thyroid dose improved?
BAH..........

Linda Schurman doesn't seem to have much faith in the Obama administration:

My take is that President Obama is a Faustian figure; a man who has made a deal with the Devil in order to attain this high office. The Devil, in this case, is composed of the financial “cabal” of bankers and corporations who have controlled America for a long time. The Roosevelts had their own money and historic stature as did the Kennedys. Obama, who, relatively speaking, came out of thin air, has defined himself by marching through the established corridors and pathways to success – top student at Harvard and Columbia Universities, being popular with everybody and stirring up no controversy. If he had been in any sense “controversial” as an African American in the U.S., he probably would not have gotten to first base. He paid his dues and has also paid a big price.

http://www.soothesayer.com/index.html

Thanks for the newspaper info Pat. I will look into those papers. Oh, court was just a 30-second arraignment and not-guilty plea. She has to go back there and take a day-long course about shoplifting, and then the bigger court date is 9/24.

Sally, you said: “where did you get that Pluto in 5th constitutes a bad mom?” Well, “horrible” was an exaggeration. But I thought it might mean power struggles with children, and I’m not sure that really characterizes my relationship with my two. My kids aren’t really giving me a “bad mom” message, and I’m not particularly kicking myself. It’s just a hard situation with our daughter, with one blow after the other this summer.

Guess I’m responding to comments that a nice Pluto-Leo, Uranus-Cancer, Neptune-Libra would be hard to find. Why? Do people think we Pluto-Leos were so numerous that we got all full of ourselves? Well, we had some nice music, but it ain’t all beer and pretzels being from a large generation---there is so much competition for valuable things, like jobs. I’m interested in demography and have read that, and it certainly has been true of me. Anyway, I’m interested why some of y’all don’t go for this combination of planets.

It’s a beautiful day here in my Maryland neighborhood. Maryland is so pretty. Such nice, moderate weather. And I read it is the 3rd most liberal state. Does that sound right? Well, the 4 or so populous counties vote liberal. The rural ones are red.

Crapola wildfire about a mile from us. Tons of fire trucks, helicopters, planes and pickups full of firemen. Keep your fingers crossed.

Jeeze...Like a hole inthe head you need this!
Fingers crossed, sending light!

For Morgana and her neighbors: Light and love to you and peace to your woods.

Good news fire is pretty much out and they're mopping up. They stomped that bugger fast! It's still smokey around here but I can relax now.

Good! Thank you Goddess!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/opinion/03smith.html?th&emc=th
This was not true of Franklin Roosevelt and the Democratic Congresses that enacted the New Deal. With the exception of the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 (which gave the president authority to close the nation’s banks and which passed the House of Representatives unanimously), the principal legislative innovations of the 1930s were enacted over the vigorous opposition of a deeply entrenched minority. Majority rule, as Roosevelt saw it, did not require his opponents’ permission.

I'm so darned glad you let us know what's going on in your neck of the woods, Morgana. I've been thinking of you a great deal and hoping you and yours were spared. I just cannot imagine picking up, leaving and perhaps returning to nothing.

* Seventy years since the beginning of WWII

The outbreak of WWII 70 years ago today set in motion a chain of events that was to result in the deaths of up to 70 million people. Over the next six years, the war saw the eruption of barbarism on an unimaginable scale—the horrors of the Russian front, the fire-bombing of Tokyo and Dresden, the mass murder of 6 million European Jews, and the dropping of the atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are some of the events that immediately come to mind.

It is often said that in war, truth is the first casualty. Seven decades on, all the official organs of public opinion are still working overtime to cover up the causes of the war and the lessons to be drawn from it. ... http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/pers-s03.shtml