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Pentagon veils true casualty numbers
2007-11-18 20:34:00 Pentagon Cover Up: 15,000 or more US casualties in Iraq War By Mike Whitney The Pentagon has been concealing the true number of American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it. Read Whitney's article here thanks to Information Clearing House. More About: Pentagon , Numbers , True , Casualty , Penta
Freemasons of Washington DC
2007-11-18 16:51:00 In Washing ton sits the southern home of Freemasonry, the House of the Temple of the Scottish Rite where you can walk a curving mahogany corridor and view the likes of their I-didn't-know-he-was-a-Freemason portrait collection of members including: Arnold Palmer, Sam Ervin, John Glenn, Will Rogers, John Wayne, J. Edgar Hoover, and Harry Truman--are only some of the enlightened bunch. Well, More About: Freemasons
astrology of a gaseous odor in Newark
2007-11-17 20:24:00 Perhaps you've read of the strange gaseous odor at the Newark Airport today. Here's the chart of the time a natural gas odor was noticed by people in Terminal B, Newark, N.J. today, Saturday, at "around 11:00 am." With all apologies to the goddess of pristine charts, the image you see here (which may be clicked to enlarge) has a bunch of my chickenscratch notes upon it. Quite a big bunch, More About: Astrology , Rolo
Comet now bigger than the Sun
2007-11-15 15:55:00 Space Weather News for Nov. 15, 2007 GIANT COMET: University of Hawaii astronomers have measured the diameter of Comet 17P/Holmes: 1.4 million kilometers. This makes the exploding comet bigger than the sun and now the largest object in the solar system. Not surprisingly, the comet is visible to the naked eye; with only a backyard telescope you can watch its gigantic debris cloud expand from
the jewel of public liberty
2007-11-14 16:11:00 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined....O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people!" --Patrick Henry (1736-1799) US Founding Father (and now one of The More About: Jewel , Liberty , Public
Sept 11 Eclipse: calling all chickens!
2007-11-13 16:40:00 Breaking News White House ordered to keep backup copies of e-mail 12 Nov 2007: A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the White House from destroying back-up copies of deleted e-mails. The order by U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy came in a lawsuit by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a private watchdog group, which claims the White More About: Calling , Eclipse , Sept , Clipse
Condi and Pervez: caught on tape?
2007-11-11 17:42:00 Everyone knows that bugged hotel rooms are a constant vexation to music-lovin' politicians everywhere--how and where to have a private...conversation? Watching Condi Rice's mash note to Pervez Musharraf this morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulos has caused the muse of romance to light upon my left shoulder, sparking a scene in my imagination--a scene which Condi and Pervez probably More About: Caught
heard about 'the Army copters of winter'?
2007-11-10 07:38:00 Avoid the Army copters of winter if you can. More About: Winter
shake your Comet Tail feathers
2007-11-10 03:38:00 Space Weather News for Nov. 9, 2007 COMET TAIL: Exploding Comet 17P/Holmes continues to amaze onlookers. On Nov. 8th and 9th part of the comet's blue tail broke away in view of many backyard telescopes. Visit SpaceWeather.com to see photos of the "disconnection event" and speculation about what might have caused it. TAURID METEOR SHOWER: The annual Northern Taurid meteor shower caused by More About: Feathers , Tail
Moon in My Room: cool!
2007-11-09 15:39:00 Have you seen the Moon in My Room ? And have you been thinking about that NWO and wondering how it's coming along? So have I, and here's my New World Order Lament for the world, and for the formerly known America. More About: Cool
About-Face! US' 'Nuclear Posture Review'
2007-11-07 16:22:00 In April 2002, expert astrologer Maya del Mar wrote Where Is the U.S. Headed? concerning the US' natal Mars/Neptune square = fantasies of aggression; media glamorizing violence (and Hollywood, too--jc); and the Jan 8, 2002 about-face in nuclear policy titled, the Nuclear Posture Review which was signed by Donald Rumsfeld and surreptitiously delivered to a rubber-stamping, anthrax-threatened More About: Face
New Moon in Scorpio, Friday, Nov 9
2007-11-06 18:38:00 Here's a link to my current post on the New Moon in Scorpio this Friday , Nov 9, which gives the Sabian Symbols for both degrees, "17Sco" and "18Sco." The New Moon occurs in Washington at 6:03:02 pm est, in 6th house of Work and Health. Transit Pluto 27Sag19, has recently conjuncted al Qaeda's natal Saturn (when ambitions must be tempered with patience and control), but is now triggering n
War and John Quincey Adams July 11, 1767
2007-11-05 17:59:00 Here you see the natal chart (Rodden rating: C, data in question) of our 6th president, John Q. Adams . Outer notations in orange are positions for his last Lunar Return which occurred on his day of death, actual time unknown; place: the Capitol Building. Lunar Return chart Feb 2, 1848, 10:21 pm, Capitol Bldg, has both Moon 18Cap40 and Jupiter 12Can10 Rx Angular, common for a death chart. Also More About: July
Brooklyn invitation: The Monuments! Nov 10
2007-11-04 16:33:00 Join the celebration and remembrance of Kurt Vonnegut's unique vision and work on Nov 10 at the Evening of Champions, 7:00 pm, 135 Plymouth St, Suite 208, Brooklyn , NY. As you know, Vonnegut loosed his earthly bonds on April 11, 2007. Here's a previous post on Vonnegut with link to his natal chart. I am tres honored to be invited to the celebration by Gabriel Berezin of the musical group, The More About: Invitation , Monuments , Monument
Nov 15: Mars Rx on US/Bush natal Suns
2007-11-03 20:20:00 The Nov 15 chart for Mars ' first moment of retrogradation (3:24:28 am est when set for Capitol Hill) has Mars 12Can27 at MC 12Can06 and chart-ruler Venus 7Lib01 just risen (ASC 10Lib37) squaring Mars Rx, both planets angular. Venus rules 8th house of shared resources, insurance, debt, credit, transformation, the occult, with 7Tau44 on 8th cusp. This places Dick Cheney's natal Jupiter/Saturn conj More About: Bush , Natal
limming Turkey
2007-11-02 17:16:00 Though on a secret mission far away, former agent to our nation, Mr.A.Cat has sent us a dispatch containing a new political limerick, Kittens from Turk ey to which I have added a smidge of art, Cat in a Very Green Chair. Back later--this will be a blogging weekend and I can't wait to catch up on reading my favorite blogs!
Sen. Whitehouse and the Spanish Inquisition
2007-11-02 00:03:00 In the news: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse 's statement on Mukasey's nomination. Read Whitehouse's official bio here. Born Oct 20, 1955 into a diplomatic family in NYC, Junior Senator from Rhode Island, Sheldon Whitehouse (D) may have the perfect Washingtonian name...you can hear it, I know...Pres. Whitehouse of the Whitehouse. Too pat bordering on freaky, isn't it? Whitehouse's natal Sun Libra/Moon More About: Spanish , Nish
NYSE plunge, Bernanke, and Eclipses
2007-11-01 15:44:00 Stocks plunge on oil, credit worries while the transiting Saturn/Pluto midpoint (cruelty; hard work; loss) is still within orb of Fed head Ben Bernanke 's natal Mars/Neptune conjunction. Saturn/Pluto = Mars: assault; ruthlessness; violence; fighting battles to keep things going; a gun with a cork in its barrel; enormous undercurrents of frustration. (midpoints: Tyl; Ebertin.) Saturn/Pluto = More About: Eclipses , Clipse
a balking Bush
2007-10-31 04:45:00 News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government Breaking News: To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders 31 Oct 2007 The White House plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can by administrative order (dictatorship) while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with Congress after concluding that President [sic] Bush cannot do much business with the Democratic
Laura Bush Nov 4, 1946
2007-10-30 17:24:00 Laura Bush , in an attempt to defend her husband's SCHIP stance and his oily foreign policy says she's more involved in policy than previously known which is no comfort considering how things have gone since Bush coup'd the White House. Since my move-along needs to get along, there's no time for much, but here's Mrs Bush's natal chart (rating: B) with its out-of-bounds and Rx Venus as More About: Laura Bush , Laura
Capricorn Full Moon June 30
2007-06-27 15:51:00 Friday's Full Moon 8Cap25 isn't a barrel of monkeys and I wonder if Apple used Astrology to choose the time for their iPhone launch (Electional Astrology.) If so, it's because anything that you want publicity for should be unveiled a few hours before a Full Moon for maximum exposure. A lot is riding on the new $500--$600 iPhone. There is a Hard Rectangle configuration involving the Full More About: June , Capricorn
Atlanta's Impeach 07 workshop
2007-06-25 18:34:00 Impeach 07 Impeachment Workshop at US Social Forum in Atlanta Thursday, June 28, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Inman Park United Methodist Church DOT-ADA Community Room Marta Stop- Inman Park 1 block from the station on Edgewood Dr. This workshop will focus on Bush’s impeachable offenses and bring out the full array of crimes committed by the Bush administration. Speakers will also address the need More About: Impeach , Peach
plea from the Vatican
2007-06-25 17:27:00 With abuse victims now speaking out in Italy, you've heard by now of the Vatican 's silly diversion, the wacky ten commandments of driving or some such nonsense. This issuance is "flippant" and "not sacriligious", the Vatican assures us. But what would cause this sad plea for attention, this pathetic attempt to become more relevant to people's daily lives, this diversion from the woes of More About: The V , The Vatican
James Madison on tyranny
2007-06-23 18:21:00 "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." -James Madison , 4th US president and Architect of the Constitution (1751-1836) Here is Madison's natal chart with the last message he penned to America. And here are a few of his words about war which continue to be instructive. Will they ever learn? More About: Tyranny , Tyra , Ames
that flicko, SiCKO
2007-06-23 00:59:00 Did you read in Mother Jones about the premiere of Michael Moore's film, SiCKO on Capitol Hill of all places? Note to A.V.--yes, I agree and do think the CIA's release of their past secret and semi-secret ploys and mayhems is at least in part for diversion purposes. It'll be interesting to see if the mainstream media--and/or alternate media--spend lots of time on the revelations some of which More About: Sicko , Sick , Flick
Bush pick for Justice says uh...no thanks
2007-06-23 00:14:00 It's all about packing the Bench! More Federalist Follies: The White (Frat) House doesn't want Mercer answering questions under oath about the US Attys General firings so his nomination has been withdrawn with a no oath-taking for me, thanks and a fare-thee-well, my family comes first. Mercer would've been testifying Tuesday, June 26, but he's outta here with his big ole interim self and his More About: Bush , Justice , Pick , Thanks , Hank
Ashcroft soars like he's never soared before
2007-06-22 06:06:00 Ashcroft: officials fought over Snoopy ...oh wait a minute--that's Snooping--officials fought over snooping...my bad as usual. John Ashcroft has a Sun Taurus-Moon Pisces personality which recommends him as a practical dreamer, a creative poet, and a nature mystic. At its best, this combo has a social conscience--which may help identify why he (supposedly) wouldn't "sign off" on Bush's illegal More About: Like , Fore , Soar
la Mansion Blanche
2007-06-22 03:57:00 Tient Le Premier Role Washington Fini is a page from a French translation of the English (of SO'W)--and it's for sure that my sprinkling of French is rusty enough to limit me to understanding only parts of it--so have at it if you wish! Yet the Summer Soltice poem that begins the post sounds amusing en la Francais (to its author, moi--well at least I'm claiming it as my own.) So...is More About: Mansion , Mans , A Man
Congress enables Bush's further law-breaking
2007-06-21 16:06:00 Corrupt Congress Helps Bush from Chris Lloyd's Empire Burlesque tells the tale--America is toast and the Constitution is trashed while Congress is content to let the clock run out on Bush's above-the-law policies which they enabled in the first place. Guess the x-treme pocketlining possibilities in Washington keep Capitol Hill's outrage in check...short-term gain trumps long-term consequences, More About: Breaking , Brea , Breakin
Saturn-Neptune: Mideast Peace Summit
More articles from this author:2007-06-21 15:44:00 Egypt is wrangling up a Mideast Peace Summit on Monday--the day the Saturn /Neptune opposition is exact for the last time. Interesting sense of timing they've got there. More About: Tune 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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