So the planets have retreated once again, waiting until we’re lulled into complacency to spring their next ambush (I’m guessing there’ll be something big in July, but haven’t confirmed that. )
Instead what we have is Aries hoovering up all the good stuff — Mercury, Venus, the Sun and the Moon. So if this is you, you don’t need any advice. For everyone else, we should emulate the characteristics of The Goat — tenacity, directness, initiating action, courage, climbing on stuff, eating everything, screaming, headbutting, communal voiding. I’m not sure about that last one. I’m not a goatherd, but I do have nieces in 4H and I dated a redneck girl for a few weeks who’s goats climbed on top of my Z3. Aries in general is the sign of beginnings, so this is an excellent week to begin something new.
Aries: Ace of Cups reversed – House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.
Taurus: Eight of Wands – Activity, swiftness, great haste, great hope, that which is on the move; also the arrows of love.
Gemini: Three of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion
Cancer: King of Wands – Dark man, friendly, countryman, honest and conscientious, grandfather
Leo: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery, co-operation in business,
Virgo: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
Libra: 8 of Cups – Mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence, abandoning the past
Scorpio: The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated
Sagittarius: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections
Capricorn: 3 of Cups – The conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing, bitching about how you always get terrible predictions
Aquarius: Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy; also speedy intelligence; gold.
Pisces: Six of Swords – Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.
“King of Wands – Dark man, friendly, countryman, honest and conscientious, grandfather”
Sounds better than most of the recent ones.
Yes. Last week was spot on unfortunately.
That’s because you’ve been identified as a man of color.
Only BIPOC can be friendly, honest, and conscientious. The rest of us are white supremacists.
I definitely suspect that I’ll be imprisoned for doubting the expertise of experts, which is reasonable considering that I’m not ashamed about not masking.
From the dead thread:
It’s a good sign to see positive pushback against the circus show.
These hearings have been little more than opportunities for pols to display their complete ignorance with their attempts to make monkeys dance. It’s fucking grandstanding of the worst kind.
Good on Apple for having the balls to tell them to eat shit.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust-apple-idUSKBN2BW2NX
Apple probably owns most of Congress, so it takes no balls at all to tell them to eat shit.
Sagittarius: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections
Imperfections?
MEEEEEEE?
(I’m guessing there’ll be something big in July, but haven’t confirmed that. )
You don’t know about FreedomFest 2021 in South Dakota?
I’m going.
Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery, co-operation in business,
Not sufficiently shitty. I want my money back.
we should emulate the characteristics of The Goat
Goats smell bad, are ignorant and do whatever they want. Ok I’m in.
Also goats.
Aww
You’ve got to be kidding.
Meh
Shouldn’t that be Meheheheh?
Goats are cool. And they taste good.
You and I obviously have eaten completely different goats.
Yours was hot and gamey?
Yep. And Kurdish.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan eats hot wings:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQ-6prInz8
That dude, Sean Evans, made $40m interviewing celebrities and eating hot wings. Mad respect.
Sean is a good interviewer, though. The wings are a hook, but he asks some good questions.
Oh for sure. The show definitely loses something with the remote interviewing too.
Agreed, it’s not as good remotely.
We’ll always have DJ Khaled beclowning himself.
On the plus side, I don’t have a very slow leak on one of my bike tires. On the minus side, I need to spend an afternoon working on the hybrid bike this week.
At least I still have the road bike to tide me over.
“Scorpio: The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs, marriage frustrated”
We’re never going to be safe unless we triple mask and get rid of every glockstock – JRB46
‘Bout time.
I AM SHOCKED!
“The goal was and still is to create a great pillow that is sustainably produced in domestic unionized factories and have a percentage of those profits benefit progressive social causes.”
IOW, Communism is really going to work this time!
Heh.
So how much funding did he pay out to himself?
But the biggest mistake Hogg’s pillow company made was announcing its brand name without trademarking it. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database, “Good Pillow” was registered as a trademark the day after the company’s big feature in the Washington Post… by someone unconnected to the company.
???
I hear “Dumb Pillow” is still available, though.
Excellent trolling
My wife just baked another sourdough loaf. It smells so good! She started a sourdough starter last August, and has been making some really excellent bread.
I’m going to toast some pieces and turn them into bread crumbs in the blender. Then the bread crumbs are going into some meatballs. With ground beef, ground pork, ground veal. Roast in the oven with evoo to get a nice carmelization on the outside, but still tender (uncooked) inside.
Sunday gravy. Slow cooked in butter and evoo: onions, garlic, carrots, celery. Chicken bouillon, tomato paste. White wine to deglaze and a big can of S&W diced tomatoes. Add a bay leaf. Simmer on the stove top for three hours. Remove the bay leaf. Place small amounts of sauce in the blender and blend till smooth. Return all the smooth sauce to the stove top.
Put the meatballs in the simmering sauce and let them simmer for another hour. I’ll also throw some chopped parsley, sliced mushrooms and sliced olives at the end and let it all simmer for 15 minutes.
Serve up a bowl of sauce/meatballs with melted mozzarella on top. Slices of fresh sourdough for sauce sopping.
Red wine or bourbon for drinking.
It’s not particularly carb friendly. But the carbs are freaking delicious. Sunday is a good day.
I’m just baking some chicken before I reach its “cook or freeze” date.
You had me until you olvied it up.
That sounds great!
I am making this today. With bacon.
Oh wow.
Nice. That’s gonna be good.
Wow. That’s way too much effort for me. #Lazycook
Sounds delightful though! Well, except for the mushrooms. I don’t do mushrooms.
Left over bbq for lunch and strip steaks for dinner.
It’s not alot of effort. Just slow. But I’m sipping bourbon, watching kung fu movies and have all the time in the world.
@Tulip, THANK YOU! for building a medieval castle. Perfect viewing for stitching. I wish I’d seen this when I was writing my medieval. I didn’t get anything WRONG, but I could have used some of these details. Pottery, pot, pothole. Language is amazing.
Aside: I love watching people create. Creation is magic, of the divine. Destruction, not so much. (Creative destruction excluded.)
@UCS, in case you missed it, thank you for the acetone tip. Works perfectly for my needs.
I missed it, and you’re welcome.
I love those shows. I especially like that they show historians and archeologists, and it’s not a reality show.
“The goal was and still is to create a great pillow that is sustainably produced in domestic unionized factories and have a percentage of those profits benefit progressive social causes.”
Bullshit. The goal was to feed your tiny fragile ego, you pathetic attention whore.
I went to the sporting good store this morning. A wood stocked 10/22 followed me home.
Nice
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Was in and out in about a half hour, which wasn’t too shabby. Clerk was telling me if the approval isn’t granted immediately, they’re currently running about 3 weeks for a decision. And the fucking Dems running this state want to stretch it out indefinitely with zero recourse. Rights delayed, rights something something…
Yeah, I bought a .22 target rifle not long ago, and it took around 3 weeks.
Sucked big time.
I’m sure you’ll give it a good home.
A wood stocked 10/22 followed me home.
Awwww.
Scrapping out the line of grout between the backsplash and the kitchen counter, to be replaced with color matching caulk. Not as hard as it sounds, which is one of the reasons for doing this. After three years that line was cracking do to odd gaps from when originally done. Never an easy day in a 100+ year old house.
Due, not do.
Heh, I said due do.
Zing!
From the d-e-d ded thread:
Pope?
Baffling Republican push in the culture wars
Even for veterans of the culture wars like Hutchinson, this year has been a jarring one in Republican-controlled statehouses from South Carolina to South Dakota. Fueled by an influx of hard-right lawmakers echoing former President Donald Trump and the backing of outside groups, Republican legislatures are pushing the bounds in already deeply Republican states on issues such as gun rights, access to abortions, and increasingly, protections for transgender people.
The bills reflect the larger mood of the Republican Party, which nationally has struggled to define Democrats in the post-Trump era. Instead, the focus has been on issues that drive the party’s base and that Republicans use to portray Democrats as out of touch with average Americans.
“Republicans’ frustration with an inability to move policy at a federal level trickles down to more action in the states,” Republican strategist Alex Conant said. “I think a lot of these state legislatures are responding to the demands of the conservative base, which sees the culture wars headed in the wrong direction nationally.”
This just came out of nowhere. Those Democrats were just minding their own business, doing regular old mundane Democrat stuff, and all of a sudden Trump’s robot culture war army swarmed out of their trenches in a kamikaze attack.
“… the focus has been on issues that drive the party’s base and that Republicans use to portray Democrats as out of touch with average Americans.”
Ridiculous! Just look at the polls. Everybody wants gun control and gender affirmation surgery and racial quotas.
And reparations. Don’t forget those.
You have to frame it differently. Just as “I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon!” became a meme, you need this:
“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want gun control / gender affirmation surgery / racial quotas / (pick your favourite hobbyhorse of the Left)!”
Gemini: Three of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion
And me with my IBS acting up. Farg.
GO CAPS!
Not Adahn, why you always say “goat” about Aries? Isn’t Aries the Ram (sheep) and Capricorn is the goat?
They aren’t the same thing…
Music to eat ass by.