5/30/09

Susan Boyle didn't win and '2 Hours' relaxes



Update Monday June 8: over the weekend I heard some news that American Idol voting had some squirelliness attached for viewers who intended to vote for Susan Boyle - which means she probably should have won - my intuition exactly!

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Spending some time updating blogs including this one...added Google's Search This Blog feature at top of the sidebar column but it slows down loading so the search box will be moved lower in column to see if it speeds things up.

Hopefully, both readers of this blog will alert me if they have problems with its loading or with other tech things around here!

And Susan Boyle didn't come in first in the Britain's Got Talent competition. Was she robbed as was Adam Lambert on American Idol? Both have the stronger, more enticing voices in their respective contests, but sometimes there are other mysterious considerations...just like in Washington DC where things often work out in weird and unexpected ways in spite of all common sense.

After the search box is relocated, it will be break time since it's the weekend and a lovely one for weather in Georgia, it must be said. Today was as perfect as it could be and it's very very green here from recent rains!

Perhaps I'll take a nap like Grace you see in the photo - catchin' some zzz-z-z...

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Sunday's Quick Astrology Update: see sidebar column under image: 'A Large Disappt'd Audience' for 2Hrs' new feature: 'Mythology of Astrology's smaller bodies' in time for Pres. Obama's historic journey to Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009, and you may want to check today's post on his trip at Jude's Threshold where I sassily bring up the topic of shamanism or priesthood in relation to the president's trip to mysterious ancient lands.

5/29/09

Innovating email: the Google Wave

An innovation is to be unveiled later this year: the Google Wave for emailing, instant messaging, and more.

Considering the email problems I'm having lately, can I stand to wait? Probably. Because it's usually a touted 'upgrade' that plops my pc into a mess like it's in now!

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Heads-up if you like the Art Form they call paper collage...you may wish to view Secret Moon Art's latest post, Cat Archaeologist and do click to enlarge for more detail!

Fed should agree to curb overdraft fees

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Yeah, well you know the time has come when the over-strapped US consumers' turnip blood is in short supply, so the Fed and their vampirish banking/credit buds should agree to curb overdraft fees on credit card accounts.

And though they'll never see the inside of a prison cell, credit lenders and other loan sharks have garnered years of ill-gotten, sneaky profits and now it's time to give up the profitable scam of padding balances with arbitrary fees that snowball out of all proportion to one's projected lifetime income. As the French say: impossible!

Is a massive grassroots movement needed to prod the cattle on Capitol Hill into mooing legislation that sets up fairer bargains for the long-unprotected (by them) American consumer?

The National Bossy is dry, Shylocks everywhere.

Where is an online petition to sign and send to Congress when you need one?

Bet if I toss my browser right or left I'll kick into a wave around here somewhere...



Now here I am in my varmint days pulling a heist on a shifty-looking if unsuspecting spaniel...but as you see, I was a child. These financial and political brigands are adults who presumably knew better, didn't care, and heisted as long as they could get away with it...and with nary a paw print or speck of evidence to mar the stories they're stickin' to.

In fact, given the world's 24/7 opportunities, some of them are heisting as I type!

5/28/09

Young TARP how you've grown

Information Clearing House has alerted me to an article by Andy Kroll which appeared May 26 in Mother Jones, The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold about the ongoing raid of the US Treasury.

Any resemblance to Hitler's coup of the German banking system in the build-up to the Third Reich is not accidental. For more on these issues check out The August Review for excellent articles.

And I know I keep repeating it (especially on Stars Over Washington and elsewhere): this heist is being perpetrated on purpose, you know, to collapse the financial system and 'build' it back as the global totalitarians who engineered it direct.

Synchronistically, the Solar Eclipse of July 22, 2009 will aid them: 'systems fail, new methods and ideas are needed in order to deal with events brought by the Eclipse; need for sudden reforms.' (Brady's Predictive Astrology.)

This Eclipse from the 11 South Series manifests at a crisis-laden 29th degree of Cancer (29:26), sign of America's natal Venus, Jupiter, and Sun. And transiting Pluto, the secret hand, has been opposing the US Cancerian planets and will continue to do so for a while...not good for our standing in the world, or for finances.

'29Cap' also puts the Eclipse opposite US progressed Pluto, and near natal Pluto 27Cap33 Rx. And the '15Cap' Lunar Eclipse of July 7, 2009 will affect America's Sun (the leader) through our president and thus the country in Cappy matters like government, politics, business, and law.

Saturn to US natal Neptune in Virgo, sign of Work, isn't helping either unless facing cold reality is considered a plus (actually, it is.) But it is also the 'dreams (Nep) into form (Sat)' transit so the question is: exactly whose dreams are coming into reality now and do we want them to? The next conj of Saturn to n Neptune is in August, 2009 - during the shank of the July Eclipse season.

So with the Eclipse degree, if we round up for the Sabian Symbol to '30Can' we get: "A Daughter of the American Revolution"...INHERITANCE - pos: an infectious pride in leadership through which a group is able to act as a unit; neg/unconscious/shadow side: the ultimate betrayal of selfhood by a false assumption of superiority. (The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Marc Edmund Jones.)

The people seem to have the 'false assumption' and the ruling elite the 'infectious pride' with which they act as a unit, and I surmise that Timothy Geithner's insistence on lack of transparency in the distribution of TARP funds is no accident either and is quite necessary because when you're up to no good, you prefer darkened conditions. We had a lot of wealth to transfer into powerful hands.

Yet power-wielding Pluto's opposition to US planets suggests that the current attack on the US financial system may have come from abroad, a concept which casts my mind back to Pres. Andrew Jackson's argument in the 1820s/30s that our banks should be kept under American control and not be gifted into foreign hands bwo central (world) banking.

Now that was a president with great understanding! Yet some folk say it was Jackson's presidency that marks the overtaking of the US helm by big banking interests (the reason he was sensitive to its dangers - see above-linked article.)

That US financial 'wizards' are in league with Pluto is a distinct possibility, of course, for the illusion of American 'independence' has long been a favorite myth of ours, hasn't it? Monarchist Alexander Hamilton's English banking system won the day in America, after all.

And while Pres. Jackson put up some roadblocks to the bankers' plans way back when, we see now the fruits of the power elite's labors and control agenda paying off big-time with the Big Heist and perpetual war begun under the auspices of Bush and Cheney - and continued apace under the patronage of Pres. Barack Obama.

All of which makes the American saga's footnote...

5/27/09

A Cat Oh So Cynical and an Abandoned Garden

It's quite an event when the spycat known as *Mr.A.Cat sends along a new political limerick to my roommate Lim, so today's brief verse A Cat Oh So Cynical is now published as per Mr. A.'s instructions...forthwith and unadulterated.

Now here's a Spring-inspired drawing for you: Abandoned Garden with Peonies imported from Secret Moon Art...




*a pseudonym to disguise his whereabouts and cloud his true identity which he's probably forgotten by now...but pesky foreign agents would love to know!

5/26/09

Astrology of Sotomayor and her SCOTUS nom 5.26.09

Today at 10:15 am edt, Pres. Obama announced his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court bench. Click link for a few of her natal Astrology details as well as details of today's nomination announcement during a Mercury Rx period, uh oh!

Remember that in Jan 20, 2009's Inauguration chart set for Noon, Mercury (oaths, announcements, nominations) was Rx, and because of Justice Robert's glitch, Barack Obama took a second oath, just in case. Will he have to make a alternate nomination for David Souter's vacated seat?

GOP opposition is pre-heated since her name had been mentioned often in recent weeks or months, and with transiting Pluto 2Cap40 Rx opposing Sotomayor's natal Sun in Cancer, her confirmation is in doubt by this particular, if reluctant, astrologer.

That said, any contact of natal Sun with powerful Pluto may indicate her connection being completed with the power elite, yet an opposition with the manipulating ('dwarf') planet will be fraught with conflict even if Sotomayor manages to be confirmed...unless she's willing to play the game their way.
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5/25/09

Lemonade Awards: Top Ten Astrology Blogs!

Now published is my Lemonade Awards List of Top Ten Astrology Blogs and I am grateful that Julie Demboski named both my blogs for her List of noms for this attitude-or-gratitude honor...the Lemonade Awards!

Yes, Jude's Threshold and Stars Over Washington received nods from the gracious Julie, and she's an excellent astrologer, too. Check out her May 25th - 31st article for this week's Astrology if you haven't yet by clicking her name just above.

Image: 'Flowers of India' by jude cowell 2009+

And the Top 5 Movies at the Box Office are...

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As a gadget experiment on this blog, a Top 5 Movies at the Box Office feature has been added for your curiosity's sake and to see how it performs.

Scroll to the end of this page to find out who's raking in the dough!