Still in my Cuomotine, but at least I’m home. It did take me a while to find my star charts, somehow I left them on the shelf where I keep my spare holsters.
This is the last week of MERCURY RETROGRADE, so Saturday will be nice.
As far as alignments go, this week is very strange. There are two of them and the both center on good ol’ Terra. The first one is MERCURY RETROGRADE – Earth – MARS RETROGRADE which should be terrible news, and we’d spend most of the time looking for clues as to how exactly things were going to be supremely fucked up. But… The other one is Sun – Earth – Moon which is an (obviously) common configuration; it’s so common that there’s vast amounts of data as to how it is good luck. The phrase used for it is “enthroned in power.” Because that is such a solid indicator of things being in control, predictable and felicitous, we have to go back to looking at the other alignment. Typically retrograde motion (like any other celestial abnormality) is a sign of Things Being Wrong. But it can also mean that the planet’s typical influence is reversed. So we could be looking at a week in which Mercury brings stability and a lack of news, and Mars brings peace.
Or this could indicate that someone slaughters their domestic abuser in a particularly grisly fashion.
Which do you think is more likely this week? No news and peace, or righteous murder?
Five signs to look at this week:
The sun is in Scorpio, but that’s it. Capricorn still plays host to Jupiter and Saturn, so expect continuing strife, but also that you will have particular success in either comedy or crushing rebellions. The moon is in Taurus, so if you encounter people being whiny, mopey, passive-aggressive or catty, deal with it or avoid them. You will not be able to change their behavior this week (unless you’re a Capricorn). Mars is retrograde in Aries, so expect an uptick in stupid people being loud, aggressive, self-righteous and destructive. Finally, we have MERCURY RETROGRADE and Venus in Libra. Things are going to be all catywumpus until Saturday and then BLAM! Instant happiness. That will be an excellent day for makeup sex.
This week’s cards are fucking terrible. The Hanged Man reversed, The Lovers reversed — fights, friendships broken; The Hierophant, The Devil, The Tower — an evil person comes to power and brings disaster; 5 of Swords reversed — property taken from you by force; 8 of Cups — abandoning good things.
Scorpio: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic
Sagittarius: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude
Capricorn: The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated, contrarieties of all kinds
Aquarius: 4 of Wands reversed – prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment
Pisces: 7 of Coins – money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation
Aries: The Tower – Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin
Taurus: The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness, inspiration
Gemini: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality
Cancer: 2 of Coins reversed – Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange
Leo: 2 of Cups – Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy
Virgo: 5 of Swords reversed – Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss
Libra: 8 of Cups – the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence
Up two minutes and I’m still First. It’s like you people aren’t even trying.
We aren’t.
No one wants to sit next to you on the special bus either, there’s a reason
Being First is lonely, but it has to be done.
How empty is your life that you wait around to be first on every comment thread?
A sad brokentard is sad.
Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality
I know I’m toast, but I went to Pennsylvania anyway – DJT45
Cancer: 2 of Coins reversed – Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange
?♂️?️?
If you’re gonna enforce gaiety, then I’m gonna simulate enjoyment. Probably.
Selfishness, the crowd, body politic
You can only sit in your basement so long – JRB46
Cancer: 2 of Coins reversed – Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange
Yes, I already kinda expected Thanksgiving to be a shitshow.
The ‘letters of exchange’ part is kind of interesting, in an ominous way.
Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness, inspiration
His money kinda grows on you – Melania
Fucking Christmas.—-MT45
I found myself liking her a bit for voicing that.
A lot, not that I ever had reason to dislike her. A gorgeous First Lady we’ve seen naked! Who’d’ve thought?
She’s a good Glib fit
Sagittarius: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude
I’m getting a new orfink? Sweet.
Watching Trump’s rally. Looks like he tricked out his hat with some new patches.
He should have restored dignity of the American gentleman by wearing a fedora.
A real one, not one of those gay-ass porkpie clown hats that wiggas wear.
Homburg? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047437/mediaviewer/rm3401255168
Am I the only person who finds Bogart kinda creepy looking?
He was kinda cute when young. I always thought Tony Bourdain resembled him.
I don’t see it.
But re Bogart, I say that as someone who finds Tommy Lee Jones hot at any age.
Something was needed to cover Kevin’s handiwork.
Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated, contrarieties of all kinds
I’m telling you: you’re all gonna die !!!!! – Fauci
Well played all the way down, sir.
this stuff just writes itself
someone recently acknowledged that I was using the signs correctly: okay, thanks I guess; that’s the only way it works and is funny . . . what else could I have been doing?
I hate both parties and think astrology silly, but I did notice that Gemini and Capricorn dominate this administration (I will not be running the ANOVA on that one). . . like it’s a requirement or something. The problem that creates, of course, is that you can’t use the same joke over and over throughout the Cabinet.
Where’s MY cabinet position?
Fuckin-a, man.
That hits all the talking points, for both sides…do not trust…
This was at the end of the dead thread, BUT I DEMAND recognition of my greatness:
Scruffy Nerfherder on November 1, 2020 at 10:59 am
Damn, he did not age well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVvb5giPcg&ab_channel=FujiRockFestival
Rhywun on November 1, 2020 at 11:00 am
Jeez, it might be time for a new look.
Count Potato on November 1, 2020 at 11:08 am
Maybe if he had normal hair and no make up?
CPRM on November 1, 2020 at 11:12 am
Well, it is Sunday.
And Sunday always comes too late
I don’t get it.
Friday you’re in hate.
Well, you’re in hate every day of the week.
Well, you wouldn’t, being a ruffian hard scrabble type, no way you would ever get The cure.
Not true I think that “world drags me down” song is a great rocker.
Do you think Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too?
Is it Thursday yet so I can stop caring about you?
There are much better Cure songs to quote than that.
Holy Mackerel! He looks like that Jessica Yanniv character.
“Degradation, destruction, revocation, infamy, dishonour, loss”
Or as I call it, any day that ends in a Y
Lying ass weatherman. It wasn’t supposed to start raining until later this afternoon.
TWMITE
But TWWIHAF?
The white women in Havana are fat?
The preferred term is Thicc.
LOL
This is why we need to get men out of the weather space.
In case the orphans don’t work out.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/31/business/costco-coconut-milk-monkey-labor-trnd/index.html
Will they stop selling Australian lamb because they use herding (slave) dogs?
I’m assuming ranchers still use horses too.
Anyone want to guess what happens to the monkeys now?
Eggs…omelet. we saved
grandma’sa monkey’s life.Welfare?
This must be true, because they took their jobs.
Needz moar monkey unionizing.
They get drafted into a monkey army led by Caesar?
Brad Pitt uses them to kill 99% of mankind.
But he was a Red Herring, it was really David Morse.
They enter the NFL?
With Howard Cosell on commentary:
“Look at that monkey run!”
“That little monkey cuts loose, doesn’t he?”
Bye-bye Howard…
Can I stay in bed all week? The election plus the reorganization at work plus this reading=Danger, Will Robinson!
OT: you’ll chuckle that I named my Model 3 “Kali Kamuri”. Combining its CA ubiquity with the Japanese name Toyota uses the Camry.
LOL!
Speaking of reorganization, I guess I’ll find out sometime after Tuesday if one of my big projects will actually happen! They’ve been radio silent since September.
Building the camps?
FAKE NEWS.
#CapricornsRpeople2
I was a Capricorn once, but I figured out that Capricorns don’t care about people and they’re just vindictive assholes. Now I’m sign-queer.
*hoists zodiac flag*
No we’re not. Stop lying.
THICC Samus.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.WytNJEK1PwpSi9D7ifilBQHaM1?pid=Api&rs=1
4 Tres.
The latest in inflatable bootyboobz suits?
Q, I may not be one who applauds your ‘work’, but good to see you around again. I take it this means the procreation trials are going well?
I prefer Lauren Southerns cosplay.
“Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment”
Sounds like some Cancers are going to be faking orgasms.
We TOLD you same sex marriage was a slippery slope, but you liber(al)tarians never listen!!!
Capricorn: The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated, contrarieties of all kinds
Huh. My marriage was not frustrated this morning. IYKWIMAITTYD
Instead of running pro trump ads all the time, I’d like to see anti Biden ones that are 100% truthful like:
A vote for Biden is a vote for gun confiscation, for reparations, for tax hikes, for censorship, for staying masked and quarantined, for adding DC and Puerto Rico as states, for more government in our personal lives. Dems certainly couldn’t deny that. Some would be proud.
I saw an ad that said Biden and Harris are fracking liars.
I thought I’d seen at least some of that, but it’s getting to be a blur.
I saw the “Republicans aren’t perfect, but democrats have gone insane” ad recently. It was probably the most effective one I’ve seen.
Just saw one that had the burning and looting and said “crazy left” and other things. The ad looked like a news broadcast of a war zone.
Chiefs.
squaws!
Chefs?
Chefs
Nice.
I made the same mistake with these guys once. In my defense, I was stoned.
*flutters eyelashes coyly*
Faked a punt, man.
Dustin Colquitt went to Tennessee and comes from a family of punters but is obviously not closely related to the Vol quarterback of the same name
Papoosi or papooses
Papodes?
You beat me to it.
Good thing I reloaded before replying
don’t just say weird random words
Football season.
Sunday.
Browns/Raiders game has been solid so far. Wind gusts up to 35 MPH are playing hell with kicks and passes.
Regardless the Chiefs/Raiders rivalry, I admire them highly for beating us. They brought it.
But because they are a hated rival, go Browns!
The Steelers and Ravens are playing today. It’s too bad they both can’t lose.
Both teams have gone full smashmouth football as the sleet moves in.
Sounds like something a guy in Maine would say to prove he’s not racist
https://twitter.com/marknorm/status/1322270544776044544
Women have an extra emotion no one talks about called ‘not mad’.
https://twitter.com/marknorm/status/1321914269563260928
Why the hell are the Vikings on my local DC Fox station? I suppose they thought it would be a game of consequence when they made the TV schedule.
Because everybody wants to watch the Packers, who are truly America’s Team.
I need a gaze-narrowing over here!
Saddest Lambeau leap ever
I thought the same thing.
So depressing
Also Michigan’s streak of 100,000 fans at the Big House ended yesterday. Nice legacy for Big Gretch.
Great thread – missed it yesterday but still timely.
https://twitter.com/moldbugman/status/1320724354984865792?s=09
Added “horrify” because he left it out, but the snark at Eichenwald makes it all worth it.
*with picture of Ben Shapiro*
I larfed.
Thanks for that. I enjoyed it.
Ditto!
You know what my problem with writing is? There’s absolutely no way for me to be objective about my own writing, so there’s no way for me to know if it’s complete garbage. So, then I send a sample to someone, but are they being objective? Or polite? And round and round I go.
Said every writer ever.
Y’all that put your stuff out there for public consumption have balls.
It’s weird, though, how I can asses someone else’s writing…I’m either drawn into the story or I’m not. I simply can’t do that when I’m reading my own writing.
It’s terrifying, honest to goodness. And yet, we feel compelled.
Yeah, I had this piece of my lizard brain expecting to see the first review read something like, “I don’t know who told Raven Nation he could write history but that person was sadly mistaken…” and get worse from there.
Yeah, non-fiction is not the same as fiction but I still have that fear.
Even writing here has that fear attached to it. No matter how much research I do, there are people here who have forgotten more about the topic than I have learned. It makes for a bit of heartburn each time I hit the submit button on articles. Fear of being transparently idiotic.
Yep.
I write something and wait a week before I read over it. If I read over too soon I see what I want to see, or what I am trying to see. I have to wait until that evaporates out of my head before I can do even a half-assed assessment and then it is always good to have someone else look at it.
Mrs. Suthenboy can be a ruthless critic. *thumbs up*
My critique of my stuff a week later
“Who wrote this shit?”
Ha ha, same here.
My writing is objectively awesome.
According to people I can fire if they offend me.
/lacks stones to write fiction
/lacks stones to illustrate my fiction
Bow chicka wow wow
LOL, yeah no. Not that.
I would love to do graphic novels of them but that is a skillset I don’t have and don’t know how to learn.
I’m taking a stab at it, but it’s still very “close to home” (it’s practically history, with a few fictional imaginings thrown in)
/lacks stones to write fiction
Try writing about your sex life.
Everybody embellishes their sexual prowess.
If you’re writing my bio please don’t interview my wife, what would she know?
that is why you put it anonymously o the internet so random strangers can shit on it
Ha, San Fran is putting an overplayed CEO tax on the ballot:
https://www.conservativereview.com/san-francisco-voters-to-decide-overpaid-ceo-tax-2648576537.html
Better put a business leaving town tax on there too while they’re at it.
How about a tax on “thingy”?
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/taxthing.php
Doesn’t California already have an exit tax?
make it 90% over 500k a year. That’ll how em
Strangest things I saw at the match:
1. Chinese guy with a huge confederate flag on the back of his jersey.
2. Guy competing in Carry Optics with a G26.
You know the cliche “an armed society is a polite society?” This was far and away the most polite event I’ve ever been to.
Another great thing is that all the women who decided to wear lycra pants were ones that should have been wearing lycra pants.
The Army and the Marines both sent teams. Only one of them was using an M18. The rest were running CZs
Most common guns (in descending order, by maker):
CZ
Tanfoglio
Glock
Sig
Beretta
Hey, I don’t think I asked you…of all the hardware we brought out, what was your favorite?
Good question.
Probably the P7. I did love hte 92X tho.
A Trump train is going down Broad street now. I heard the honking and train whistles so I went to see what was going on.
⬅
I thought it was Broad way
Holy shit. Just saw a Trump ad aimed directly at the black vote. Using Biden’s speech about locking them up.
it is very racist of a republican to assume he can get the black vote.
Y’all. I might have to turn the heat on. Tryna be macho here, but my hoofs are cold.
Did that 2 weeks ago. But I have a thermostat and I turn on the heat and set it to 18 degrees. If it goes under 18 in the house I want the heat to start especially in rainy humid autumn days, otherwise it is cold and clammy
I follow both DJT and Joe Biden on Twitter. I find it kind of iffy that the tweets in my feed are about 10 Biden to one Trump. Not that I care, but ya, that is a bit odd. Actually I do care because Biden is a fucking moron. Well, they are both morons but Joe is just a bigger piece of shit than Trump. Well maybe not but…….ah fuck it I hate them both.
I was talking with the wife about this. It’s the framing of this election as being an asshole against a decent person. There’s no decency here. Trump sucks, Biden sucks, Harris sucks (heh), Pence sucks. They’re all horrible people, and acting like Trump is the only asshole is an obvious gaslight
Every election is like this.
No shit. My son was thinking about getting into politics, then he changed is mind. I assured him he made the right decision.
“It’s a fucking snake pit. Who gets into a snake pit? Snakes, that’s who. “
Olivia de Havilland, that’s who. 😉
Snakes and lizards.
This new TCM schedule web page sucks. Ted, I don’t suppose you belong to Backlot?
AHAHAHAHA! No, I’m not paying that sort of money for a glorified fan club.
Oh, is it spensive? None around here anyway.
I miss Bob O.
I mentioned it before but , the generic pro Dem yard signs around here say something like, “Return honesty, decency and morality to Government.”………..or something like that. With Biden and Harris? Are you really that fucking stupid? Apparently some people are.
Pence? I mean, he’s as boring as weak tea and white toast, but he doesn’t seem to be much of an asshole. Maybe he’s smart enough to keep his asshole concealed.
That is my impression as well. If I had to live next door to a pol I would choose Pence. Of course I used to think that about Romney but he has turned out to be a super asshole.
I better stick with living in the woods next door to no one.
I was driven past R’s beach house by chance over a year after the election and was told by the driver we were being tailed for miles by private security. Go live in a gated community then, jackass.
Michigan crowd today: https://mobile.twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1322975233637261312
Nice crowd for a 1/2 hour notice..
Cold, ears covered, mixed masked. Serious Trumpsters.
I’d be wanting a mask in that cold. MAGA balaclava.
But Biden is ahead in the polls.
Sure he is. I dont think anyone in their right mind thinks Biden stands a chance.
“I dont think anyone in their right mind thinks Biden stands a chance.”
Huh. I think Biden will win fairly comfortably (although probably not a landslide) in the EC if not by a comfortable margin in the popular vote. I may well be wrong, but I do think I’m in my right mind.
there is really no relevance to crowd size.
My favorite part of these huge Trump rallies is that on twatter, every single lefty response is some variation of ‘and then they all died of covid!’.
Speaking of Michigan. Whitmer requiring restaurants to take down the names of customers:
https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1322948161502064652
“Jack Hoff, party of one? Mr. Hoff?”
That’s one way to kill off the restaurant business.
Britain is doing this* (or at least England, which has been less strict than Scotland or Wales), and sensible people / sceptics have been giving phony names a/o numbers.
*surely where Grinch-en got the idea
Pay cash.
Don’t take your phone in.
Or they can easily place you in the restaurant, and likely punish you for lying.
“…punish you for lying.”
Under what law?
Article XXXIV, Section 4, Subsection 1.78 – FYTW
Law F, Article Y, Section T, Clause W
“Or they can easily place you in the restaurant, and likely punish you for lying.”
Lying to who? I’d like to see them try to enforce that.
I think eventually the punishment is going to go in the other direction. It’s way overdue.
Either leave your phone at home, or drop it in a Faraday bag before you leave the house. You do carry a Faraday bag, right?
Or, fuck it, bring it on. Massive noncompliance can still work, and this looks like an easy way to non-comply.
Palestinian scholar Nidhal Siam at Al-Aqsa Rally: Macron, You Lowlife, Soon We Will Conquer Paris and Rome, Rule Europe with Islam
https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1322899322241953793
Importing that culture will be the end of Western Europe. Interesting, considering it was assumed that the Soviet Union would play that role for so long.
The Islamists have the same desire for the US but for the most part don’t say it outside their homes, mosques, and safe businesses.
Unless Europe decides their culture is worth saving it will be soon gone and Michel Houellebecq’s book “Submission” will move from the fiction to history aisle.
I think those days are over. Culturally and technically they have fallen too far behind. They can’t even rule Palestine.
” Macron, You Lowlife”
Shoulda stopped there
I have a Norwegian friend who is convinced that in 50 years, Europe will either be a demoralized caliphate or there will be statues of Anders Brevik in very single village on the continent.
I just ate a fried bologna and cheese sandwich. White trash achievement unlocked in spite of it needing coleslaw.
All out of your elitist bleu cheese again?
You forgot the Frank’s Red Hot.
Also missing, the crunch from adding potato chips or pork rinds to the sammich.
Bologna, American single, cayenne pepper sauce, mustard, dill pickles. The perfect I just made my own sammich.
Ha, that was too fancy for us growing up. *Maybe* store brand.
I see no mention of the required addition of hard salami
I’d eat that. Mustard, browned in butter on cast iron, hell yeah.
Wife’s favorite lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich, sometimes with bacon or hard salami. Tomato soup with tabasco and sweet basil.
I fix it for her at least once per week.
Damn, y’all are making me hungry.
ditto!
Mrs. Suthenboy inspired in the shower yesterday: “There was an old woman who lived near a slough who had so many dogs she didnt know what to do. She fed them shoe leather and sent them to bed. Be quiet! Be quiet! Be quiet she said.”
The new dog is still in his chewing stage and ate her Crock sandals and she is kinda pissed about that.
Still in my Cuomotine, but at least I’m home.
Fuck Gauleiter Cuomo.
Leo: 2 of Cups – Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy
I am feeling optimistic about how the election will shake out at the state level for New Hampshire, but not that optimistic.
Must be nice on that front. I have zero confidence that anyone I voted for will win, except for Trump. I’m pretty sure no non-democrat congress critter has won from this district in at least 60 years.
I saw one ad here for the local democrat candidate that said something like ‘get out there and vote for change!’. Yeah, by voting in the same person who’s been there for 40 years. That should really make some changes. It’s like they don’t even bother trying to lie well anymore.