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'King of Alarm' Eclipse of August, 1999
2008-01-21 01:35:00 The Aug 11, 1999 Solar Eclipse , aka the 'King of Alarm ' (or 'King of Terror') Eclipse was predicted by Nostradamus many moons ago and is published tonight by yours truly, your reluctant astrologer for this evening. The 1999 Solar Eclipse, which ushered in the New Millenium, is from the 1 North Series, given by Bernadette Brady in her Predictive Astrology as: fatigue or health problems; More About: August
What's for dinner, America? Soup!
2008-01-20 21:44:00 Leather-Sole-of-Shoe Soup is a thing of the past, you say? Only because in 2008 it will have to be Plastic Stew! A post from Oct 2007, Homelessness rising: Bush vs FDR, has a link to an earlier post, FDR: a test of our progress which I recommend. If you're a returning and homeless war vet or know one, if you're a family who bought into the America n Dream of home ownership--loudly promoted by a More About: Dinner
Martin Luther King Day: Monday, Jan 21, 2008
2008-01-20 20:47:00 If you'll scroll just below to Jan 17, you'll find my just-published post on the assassination of Dr. King , April 4, 1968, 6:01 pm CST, Memphis, TN. Click to enlarge the chart and you'll see a factor I neglected to mention in the text although it is marked on the chart...King's natal Nemesis 11Lib17 is rising at the moment of the attack. Nemesis' keywords: the unbeatable foe; overwhelming force. More About: Martin Luther King , Monday , Martin Luther , Luther
Moon, out-of-bounds Mars, and Nevada
2008-01-19 19:10:00 SpaceWeather News for Jan. 19, 2008: MOON & MARS: When the sun sets tonight, go outside and look east. The Moon and Mars are having a beautiful close encounter all weekend long. The best night to look is Saturday when the distance between the pair shrinks to less than 2 degrees. Campfire-red Mars so close to the silvery Moon is a sight wonderful to behold. Visit SpaceWeather.com for sky maps More About: Nevada , Bounds
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: April 4, 1968
2008-01-17 23:06:00 Never can I fully express the sadness and horror felt as I watched the TV news shouting out the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr. in 1968--another one gone leaving America once again an assassination nation oppressed by unnamed murderers and political fanatics...the chaos creators. One of my Gather friends, Andrew, has captured the times and feelings better than I ever could in his More About: April , Martin Luther King Jr
What Leo Strauss and Dick Cheney share
2008-01-17 19:39:00 A previous post of 2006 on Leo Strauss includes Strauss and Cheney 's shared personality blend and a link to an excellent article on Strauss who is considered to be the father of neoconservatism. Paul Spit-Comber Wolfowitz studied under Strauss (who died in 1973--Wolfie is still with us) and Strauss has been ID'd as the "ghostly mastermind of current US foreign policy" in similar fashion to More About: Dick Cheney , Share , Dick
Brown and Blair: this town's not big enough...
2008-01-16 22:45:00 ...for both of ya. News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government Jan 16, 2008 LegitGov Breaking News 'Al-Qa'eda death threat' to Gordon Brown : Intelligence services are investigating a threat on an 'Islamist' website to kill Gordon Brown, adding credence to warnings by the US security chief about the rising danger from home-grown European terrorists. [LOL.] Mr Chertoff said European More About: Blair
Feeling the pinch: Jupiter to US chart
2008-01-16 15:53:00 Economic slowdowns involve much more astrologically speaking than Jupiter 's influence. Although he prefers to bring us money, largesse, and abundance, jolly Jupiter can be something of a parsimonious culprit when making oppositions to natal planets. Such is 2008 for America's natal chart with her Venus, Jupiter, and Sun in Cancer, one of the 'business' signs. Beginning New Years' Day, and More About: Feeling , Chart
Rice inside the bubble
2008-01-16 15:37:00 Totally unencumbered by reality... Rice hails 'remarkable' progress in Iraq 15 Jan 2008: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday praised "remarkable" political progress in Iraq, saying during a surprise visit to Baghdad that it represented a time of hope for the country. "Iraq is moving forward in a way that is promising but still fragile," Rice told reporters after talks with Iraq's More About: Inside , Bubble
cyber spying on the way...
2008-01-14 21:34:00 ...careful what your blog doth say. Raw Story has today's update on plans for cyber security of the Bush Dy-nasty kind. More About: Cyber , Spying
a subtle message sent to John Edwards?
2008-01-14 20:31:00 News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government Jan 14, 2008 Breaking News: John Edwards ' daughter hit by alleged drunk driver Jan 14,2008 (NC): A alleged drunk driver crashed into a car driven by Cate Edwards in Chapel Hill on Friday afternoon. Cate Edwards is the older daughter of presidential candidate John Edwards (D). According to Chapel Hill Police investigators, Edwards was driving More About: Message , Mess
Mercury the Messenger gets fly-by from Messenger!
2008-01-14 16:13:00 In a spree of mythological perfection, NASA has named its Mess enger after the planet it intends to fly by today. Either that or there's an astrologer in the bunch! So where is Mercury in the zodiac as this "different approach" makes the news? Setting the chart for Cape Canaveral, FL and putting Mercury, planet of communications, planning, and travel (esp air) at MC--the Goal/Aspiration Point More About: The Messenger
Political Videos added: uh-oh
2008-01-14 05:13:00 From our 'Bout Time Dept: You may notice if you scroll toward the end of this page that I have added YouTube videos to Stars Over Washington. I've signed up for targeted content of Politics, Political Comedy, Washington DC, and Astrology, so let's see what Google AdSense and YouTube come up with! Please try it out--I'm in deep poo feathers if I click myself--so let me know how it works for you, More About: Videos
Plutocrats: Middle Class Warfare going dandily
2008-01-14 02:10:00 Video: John Edwards Senator Bernie Sanders: "Let's be very clear. A vicious and premeditated class warfare is being waged today against the American middle class." Oppressive, racist Pluto-Chiron's plutocracy vs America's once great middle class. Yep. The hourglass society hath returneth with a vengence...just the way the "elites" like it. Those are Bush's "base" you remember from his first More About: Middle , Class Warfare , Class , Middle Class , Middle-Class
Oops! who's got the missing oil?
2008-01-14 00:59:00 Must be around here somewhere! Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government Jan 13, 2008 All items are here: LegitGov.org/Breaking News Oil Crisis As 308,000 Barrels Go Missi ng , According to Audit 10 Jan 2008: How do you not notice when 308,000 barrels of oil go missing? That's the question government auditors were asking after they looked into the Department of
soothing and invigorating poetry?
2008-01-13 02:25:00 Do you think it's possible for a poem concerning America and her politics to be soothing AND invigorating simultaneously? I do, now that I've read American-in-Paris Tara Bradford's poem, Over the Horizon which I present to you for your consideration at Paris Parfait. Do Enjoy! And thanks, Tara, for your wonderfully graceful blog...graceful in spite of French bureaucracy! More About: Poetry
Hillary's emotionally appealing tearducts
2008-01-13 00:27:00 Hillary's gone all heart? Puh! Keith Olbermann will be straightening that craziness out soon enough. Okay, here's what I neglected to add to my previous post on Ben Franklin...the Sabian Symbol for the Moon's degree, "26Taurus"...and I'm looking at Lynda Hill's 360 Degrees of Wisdom and at Hillary Clinton's retooled campaigning style designed to tug at the heart strings of gullible voters. If More About: Emotional
Benjamin Franklin's Solar Return 2008
2008-01-12 21:04:00 Born of a humble family in Boston, MA on Jan 17, 1709 (exact time unverified--using *10:30 am LMT as shown at astrodatabank.com --other possible birth times listed at end of post) Ben Franklin's Solar Return for 2008 falls on Jan 17. This 15th child of 17 apprenticed to a printer when he was 12, and began his own printing company, age 17. The 10:30 am natal chart has shown links from the Solar More About: Benjamin
a Black Hole president
2008-01-11 16:10:00 That's what we have: a president and presidency full of Black Hole s. Alex Miller-Mignone's excellent article in the Daykeeper Journal on the Black Hole links to George Bush's natal planets (which includes America's Sun) shines light on seven years of Bush from his questionable (s)elections to the Oval Office, his propaganda cataputlin' (as he called it in a moment of unconscious truth telling), More About: President
Jan 10 in history: 1840--1997
2008-01-10 18:06:00 At Gather.com there's an article on Jan 10 from 1840--1997 published in Gather's Today in History Group.
Diebold-Premier: secret vote counting in N.H.
2008-01-09 23:13:00 NH: "First in the nation" (with corporate controlled secret vote counting) By Nancy Tobi Jan 7 2008: 81% of New Hampshire ballots are counted in secret by a private corporation named Diebold Election Systems (now known as "Premier "). The elections run on these machines are programmed by one company, LHS Associates, based in Methuen, MA. We know nothing about the people programming these More About: Vote , Secret , Counting
Paradox in New Hampshire
2008-01-09 15:47:00 Assuming the primary count was honest last evening, it seems a paradox that proudly independent New Hampshire went for Hillary Clinton who stood beside her husband on the Mall in Washington DC for the New Millennium Gala on Dec 31, 1999 knowing what they had in store for America. The promotion of one world government requires world wars and a world economy for their plans. As George Bush spreads More About: Paradox
Paper ballots before Congress next week
2008-01-08 23:14:00 If you'd prefer paper ballots in an effort to hopefully cut down on rigged elections--and we know Nov 4, 2008 will be fraudulent otherwise--here's the petition to sign which will be sent to Congress --the clock is ticking, m'peops! MoveOn's paper ballot petition...you won't hear about it from any candidate, so don't bother with them--sign for America's sake. More About: Week , Paper , Allo
Oil and the Betelgeuse: Jan 8, 1979
2008-01-08 22:41:00 Today I've been composing elsewhere concerning Neptune, Pluto, oil and gas, and the 29th anniversary of 1979's Betelgeuse incident at Jude's Threshold if you'd care to read it. Plus, Lim the Cat and I have posted something called Ganda Propping: a poem over at Lim's Limericks (cat photo included for the feline-inclined.)
Iranian gunboats mock US ships: Mars wins
2008-01-07 17:46:00 From LegitGov Hello, Pot? This is Kettle... Iran should avoid provocative actions: White House Jan 7 2008: The White House said on Monday that the harassment of US Navy ships by Iran was "provocative" and warned Tehran against taking such actions in the future. "We urge the Iranian s to refrain from such provocative actions that could lead to a dangerous incident in the future," White House More About: Mars , Ships , Wins , Mock
Stars Over Washington: Solar Return 2007
2007-11-24 23:43:00 Dual charts here--the chart on the left, lower, is the current Solar Return 2007 horoscope of this blog, with the natal chart Oct 16, 2005, 3:30 am edt, upper, right, as per Anne's request. SO'W is into its 3rd year now and although I've written some midpoints onto both charts, I'll not be spoon feeding you this evening. ;p Peeking Out! apparently the Redacting Monster has shown up to sex up More About: Stars , Washington , Washing
Nov 24: Full Moon, Snow Moon
2007-11-22 00:43:00 Crystal Pomeroy says that the upcoming Gemini Full Moon of Nov 24 is a chance to consolidate goals established 11 months ago! Her article on this Snow Moon (the last Full Moon in this solar year) is a must-read with its instructions for 'entering the portal to the Snow Moon.' I, however, don't actually do rituals myself, I just pass them on for others to do, if they like. Because if you were
Dear Santa: Toys for Christmas?
2007-11-20 23:59:00 This heads-up just received in my PIRG Newsletter: For the last 22 years we've released our report about unsafe toys: "Trouble In Toyland." Every November, we catalogue unsafe toys that we find on store shelves. It seems even more important this year, after so many recalls of toys, food and other products. And it's even more critical as we get closer to the busiest shopping day of the year. More About: Christmas , Toys , Santa
Noam Chomsky: sustain the pressure
2007-11-20 18:51:00 "If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time." --Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky was born Dec 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, PA (Rodden rating: A)
Comet Holmes 'swallows' Mirfak
More articles from this author:2007-11-19 15:45:00 Space Weather News for Nov. 19, 2007 Comet 17P/Holmes is swallowing a star! Not really, but it looks that way. Tonight, the exploding comet is passing directly in front of Mirfak, the brightest star of the constellation Perseus. Astronomers liken the view through a backyard telescope to a giant space-faring jellyfish gobbling a phosphorescent treat. Although Comet Holmes is now fading to the More About: Allo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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