The Skies have something to say this week, which is good because I didn’t get many puppy pics.
You’ve probably already gone out and seen the conjunction of the moon with Saturn and Jupiter, here’s how that’s going to work out over the course of the week. On Wednesday, Jupiter retrograde and the moon will be at their maximum astrological significance, so expect some sordid domestic scandal involving a government official to hit the news then. On Friday, Saturn retrograde gets into the act so be careful then — this often presages something heavy falling on to your house. The next day we see an unusual arrangement of Jupiter retrograde with the moon and Mars — more fuckups involving ruling caste types, but this has a meaner edge. Less entertaining, more horrifying.
Beyond that, it’s a good week for women, with lots of double-feminine visitations (the moon in Aquarius, Venus in Virgo) and of course Leos will be enjoying having Mars in their corner. On Thursday, they’ll get an extra luck bonus as Mercury falls under their influence as well.
What this? I’ve always had this. You don’t remember me owning this? Well, that’s on you.
This week’s draw is suspiciously good. The bad cards like Death and the 3 of swords re reversed, ots of royalty, nd Justice. And the Fool for a laugh.
Leo: 9 of Cups – Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage, satisfaction
Virgo: 6 of Wands – Triumph, great news, hope
Libra: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science
Scorpio: Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, in love as well as in hatred
Sagittarius: Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.
Capricorn: Queen of Cups reversed – distinguished woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonour, depravity.
Aquarius: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Pisces: Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law.
Aries: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb
Taurus: The Fool – Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
Gemini: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
Cancer: 2 of Cups reversed – Dissolution of a partnership, a quarrel between friends or lovers.
Some days, you just need a good mud puddle
Sagittarius: Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.
That was last week.
I thought it was just me.
“Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.”
So, normal week.
Me, to wife: “See, not age related at all, it’s in the stars! What? Who are you and what are you doing in my house?”
I might be going to hell for laughing at that, thanks.
Taurus: The Fool – Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
Challenge accepted.
No. Oh, no. No, no, no. That’s the LAST thing I need. Especially since Mr. Mojeaux and I suspect we made a grievous error in judgment a few months ago, but we will never know. I guess not that grievous. One good thing versus one better thing, and we don’t know which one was better.
But I want no more of those kinds of errors.
I just call it Saturday.
Sounds like maybe I should go get my balls waxed?
Can’t hurt.
I mean, it will but…
Wow, and MLB complains about a little spit.
Btw, I read up on the Frank Church dude from the AM links and he was actually pretty cool. He pulled a Snowden all the way back in ’75. In very serious tones. Warning of tyranny and everything. Not bad.
I think the upshot of the famed Church Commission was much sound and fury, ultimately signifying nothing because they didn’t kill the beast, they reformed it.
Local news
Fox News host Tucker Carlson got a lot more than he bargained for when he walked into a store in Livingston, Montana to stock up on gear for a fly fishing trip. While in the store he was confronted by a local fly fishing guide, Dan Bailey, who apparently didn’t want to miss the opportunity to give the Fox News host a piece of his mind. “Dude, you are the worst human being known to mankind,” Bailey can be heard saying in the video. “I want you to know that.” Carlson kept his voice down and only replied “I appreciate that.” The video quickly went viral.
The 22-second video starts when the confrontation had already started and it seems Bailey is talking to Carlson about something related to his stance on vaccines. It appears Carlson at one point asks him to keep in mind he is with his child. “I don’t care, man,” Bailey replies. He went on to say: “What you have done to this state, to the United States, to everyone else in this world. What you have done to families, what you have done to everybody else in this world. I don’t care that your daughter is here. What you’ve done to people’s families…” Carlson keeps whispering and replies: “Settle down, son.” Bailey tells Carlson to not call him son, but the Fox News host walks away and that’s where the video ends.
Bailey posted the video to his Instagram account on Friday and wrote that he felt he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to give Carlson a piece of his mind. “It’s not everyday you get to tell someone they are the worst person in the world and really mean it!” Bailey wrote. The confrontation took place at Dan Bailey’s Outdoor Company, which, strangely enough, has nothing to do with the man who confronted Carlson even though they share a name.
Much brave.
PROTECT THE HIVE.
CWAPA
Dan Bailey is an asshole and Tucker is a calm and rational person. Breaking news at 11:00.
I guess the new theme is that the unvaccinated are evil people because vaccinated people catch the virus from unvaccinated and end up in hospital.
Except on alternate days when everyone hospitalized is unvaxxed. (Still evil, though.)
Local fly fishing guide
I’m sure business has been booming for the past year and a half, Dan-O. That’s Tucker’s fault, right?
I don’t care that your daughter is here. What you’ve done to people’s families
OK, this has to be the Bee.
When looking for a place to retire in Montana we specifically didn’t look for a place in Livingston despite the beauty of the location. It was just too cute. Sort of a Rocky Mountain Sausalito. Lovely to look at but, full of the uber woke.
a Rocky Mountain Sausalito
Eh, I think I just threw up a little, in the back of my mouth.
Speaking of the stars I foretold a month back that the next stage of Vid panic would be related to asses and flatulence. I predicted that the CDC would recommend that underwear and pants were not enough to stop the sneaky virus and that you would need a buttplug to really be safe. And no letting the plug slip half out, that sucker has to be right up in there to really be safe.
Life really will be like prison…
Get your prison-wallet ready!
That’s where you keep your pen to shank people with.
Why would I need a shank? As one of the unvaxxed I can spread the plague just by standing within 6 feet of them.
As one of the unvaxxed I can spread the plague just by
standing within 6 feet of themfarting in their general direction.I love that driving guitar riff.
Damnit, misthread. Replying to Blackjack.
Really? I thought blackjack farts a driving guitar riff.
I’m expecting a run on assless chaps for the extra virtuous to demonstrate to all how tightly plugged they are. Otherwise bars, restaurants and indoor events spaces should have compulsory trouser drop to make sure the buttplug is adequately entrenched so flatulent transmission can be avoided. Stay safe, plug up!
Aren’t all chaps, by definition, assless? Otherwise they’d just be leather pants.
Yes. And, these guys are not sure where in this town the jailbreak might occur. Maybe the jail?
I thought that was one of their initial claims early on, surfaces and feces spread the vid.
High-flying frogs soar to victory
First thing that jumped to mind was a lack of wokeness on the part of Team USA. Not so sure, though – those frogs were really hot. Boiling, even.
HEY! That’s my horoscope!
Huh, I thought you were dipping into local news (for me at least).
Heh. Although I did think that TeamUSA should have been recruiting in Calaveras County.
Virgo: 6 of Wands – Triumph, great news, hope.
Nice try, but I ain’t falling for that shit again.
Fight the good fight! every moment.
Prison colony
Australian police said they are searching for thousands of “very selfish boofheads” who attended protests against COVID-19 lockdowns across Sydney and other major cities.
At least 3,500 protesters gathered in Sydney’s Central Business District Saturday afternoon to protest government lockdown orders and mask mandates, with many carrying Australian national flags and signs calling for “freedom” and “the truth.”
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New South Wales (NSW) Police Minister David Elliott said 22 detectives have now been assigned to track down the remaining “very selfish boofheads” who attended the rally.
“I’m hoping we issue 3,500 infringement notices, I’m hoping we have people before the courts,” Elliott said, reported the Herald. “If you don’t want to be in lockdown, obey the rules.”
How dare you raise your eye to your betters?
Nice scare quotes, Newsweek.
Release the dingos!
All said with a prison colony accent, mate.
Set your belts for dingo.
DINGO’S[sic] STOLE MY BABY
If you don’t want to be in lockdown, obey the rules
I’ve heard this idiocy before and it makes me want to slap the imbecile saying it. The rule people are protesting is “be in lockdown”. So, effectively, what they’re saying is “If you don’t want to be in lockdown, be in lockdown.”.
And seriously, “boofheads”? What the hell are these guys, in kindergarten?
“Two weeks to flatten the curve.”
It is so easy, why can’t you just comply, then everyone gets what they want.. 😉
“If you don’t want to be in lockdown, be in lockdown.”
Do I have that right?
Dammit!
So damn cute!
Leo: 9 of Cups – Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage, satisfaction
That works.
My family does not like the smell of grilling sauerkraut. What is WRONG with those people?!
Probably smells like the battle of Berlin.
How do you get it from going though the grates!
/Remembers old joke about Mexican Barbeque
…cause they fall through the slats in the grill !
(Should I cancel myself for knowing the punchline ?)
They don’t like the smell of burning rotted cabbage? Indeed, what is wrong with them…
Assuming it’s going on a reuben sandwich, I’ve got your back.
You bet.
When looking for a place to retire in Montana we specifically didn’t look for a place in Livingston despite the beauty of the location. It was just too cute. Sort of a Rocky Mountain Sausalito. Lovely to look at but, full of the uber woke.
I just happened to stumble upon exactly what I was looking for: 20 acres with no house, just a pole barn. In other words, a shop I could live in. I used to really really like living here. Now- I can’t wait to get out.
Like Agent Sloper.
Sloper’s Theme Song
Spot on.
We’re really screwed if even Montana is woke.
You’d be hard pressed to find a state, no matter how Red, that doesn’t have at least one uber woke small town. Sedona, Taos, Marfa, Asheville … And any big city is gonna have their artsy hipster section. Hell, even Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City have their hipster enclaves.
It takes the magic potion or gets the banishment.
Dumb and Dumber 2.0
Gerontocracy forever.
related
Age doesnt seem to have much to do with it. I get nothing but blank looks when I say “You dont vote for people, you vote for policies.”
It is morons all the way down.
Age doesnt seem to have much to do with it
Suppose not, I’m less concerned about Biden’s age than I am about his mental state. And a craven media which doesn’t bat an eye when this drooling moron says he plans to run for re-election. And a large number of citizens (and others) who would vote for him if he did run (News flash: he won’t make it through his first term).
I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016, because I thought he was simply running for self-aggrandizement. I did vote for him in 2020, because I’d seen him do his best over the past 4 years at getting policies (I often agreed with) implemented.
I voted for him for the policies he advocated. He and I aint going fishing or having a bbq together. FFS the guy is from New York. We arent gonna be pals. How I feel about him personally is irrelevant.
FFS the guy is from New York. We arent gonna be pals
/Puts on Hank Williams sobs uncontrollably
But… but Trump is uncouth! Wouldn’t it be better to give up all your rights than have a guy who says naughty words be president?
So you’re not going to have a barbecue with Rhywun, either? :-p
I voted for the cake Nazi and his Clinton slurping sidekick in ’16, just out of habit. Once I saw what Trump did and tried to do, I voted for him without reservation. For his policies, certainly not because I think he’s cool (although, he seems cooler than most of the rest of the various presidents of late.)
He ruins steaks and doesn’t drink. We’ll never be friends.
America first is a great policy.
6 months of China first has really set us back. Three and a half more years?
Keep buying ammo…
Well done steak and ketchup is delicious.
You misspelled “pot roast.”
Why not both?
Steak and bachelor relationships … more than 5 minutes and they’re overdone.
Yeah, well, look what we get when we vote for “hope” or “change”. ?
You get Spare Change (NSFW)
I don’t care that your daughter is here. What you’ve done to people’s families…
This is why the transition of our society from an honor culture to a dignity culture is not an unqualified good. The proper response on Carlson’s part would be to punch Bailey in the mouth and keep punching him in the mouth until he leaves (and then everybody claps). But, that isn’t really something that is acceptable in a dignity culture. And guys like Bailey essentially leverage that to their advantage. What they’re doing isn’t (and shouldn’t be) a crime. That said, by any sane standard, it’s not in any way acceptable. People should be, yes, afraid to act like that. But a dignity culture ultimately tells them that there’s no reason to be.
I’m starting to think that a dignity culture doesn’t last unless there’s an undercurrent of an honor culture backing it up.
^^^^
So, we’re back to dueling?
I’ve said it before but dueling that allowed you to inflict serious pain, but not death, would get rid of A LOT of the assholery and dipshittery.
Combat by cheese graters!
Culture of violence?
It could do us all a lot of gouda.
We’ve already established that cutting the cheese spreads covid.
Where’s Swiss?
Holed up in his bunker?
Aging in a cave?
Really, you only need to go back a generation or two to when someone acting like a complete douche might well be challenged to “take this outside”. That was a challenge to a non-lethal duel. And it did seem to have the effect of enforcing some degree of civility. Acting like a complete asshole is one thing when it might lead to a black eye or a couple of missing teeth is one thing. It’s another proposition when there’s no real risk to it.
Exactly. In the 70s, my old man would have let someone cuss in a restaurant in front of us once, maybe twice, depending upon what it was. Then he would have made sure to catch the guy’s eye and give him a glare. If that didn’t fix the inappropriate behavior, dad would say something out loud to the guy – in such a way as to make clear that the behavior would need to stop – or else.
That always fixed it (unsurprisingly, if you knew my old man).
Who would be the losers in a more physical violence world? Soy boys and women.
It’s the same thing with the Antifa/BLM insurrections. None of that would have continued if once they stepped over the line, they got a wooden shampoo on the first night.
Well, you don’t need many duels (or beatdowns) to have the social norms change. Just enough to establish some degree of risk to the behavior.
LOL, I’m just waiting for the state of California to add Montana to the list of states where all business is forbidden because they allow Tucker to buy equipment there.
“We thought Montana was one of the good flyover states.”
Don’t forget cutting off non-essential government travel!
So… all of it?
That’s a happy, muddy, puppy. Good job!
“If you don’t want to be in lockdown, obey the rules.”
Ropes and lamp posts.
“I don’t care that your daughter is here. ”
I agree with wdalasio, without honor cowards are allowed to pretend they have courage.
DO NOT read the comments on douchebag’s Instagram feed! I almost weighed in, I was so offended. But, then I’d have mercenaries trying to set fire to my house and all of that stuff. No thanks.
I have absolutely zero interesting in Instagram, either what’s posted or what is commented upon. If it is nothing but sewage, then there’s nothing for me to gain, and everyone there can wallow to their heart’s content.
I’m at that awkward age where I’m too old for IG and too young for LifeAlert.
I buy and sell motorcycle parts there, sometimes. Otherwise, I’m right with you on that.
If you don’t want to be in lockdown, obey the rules
“Look, mate. We shouldn’t have to explain this to you. If you don’t want to have to do exactly as we tell you, you need to do exactly as we tell you, and pretend it was what you were going to do all along. Simple, really.”
I’ve said it before but dueling that allowed you to inflict serious pain, but not death, would get rid of A LOT of the assholery and dipshittery.
A slap to the cheek with the tip of a carbon fly rod would serve the purpose nicely.
Why would the store owner not kick that asshole out? Fucking harass my customers and you’re not ever welcome here again.
I guess the new theme is that the unvaccinated are evil people because vaccinated people catch the virus from unvaccinated and end up in hospital.
And, of course, the unspoken assertion is that anyone “not vaccinated” is “infected and contagious”. Positively swarming with deadly virus-osity
Yeah, this whole get the vaccine because vaccinated people are getting sick thing, seems like an odd way to convince people to get vaccinated.
That is not what they are saying.
OBEY.
DO NOT read the comments on douchebag’s Instagram feed!
I have no doubt the gang down at the Murray are still high-fiving him and buying him drinks.
It looks like NA needs a carwash style dog wash.
wdalasio – to pick up on your point. I think almost all of us here are old enough to have concrete memories of the 70s. I try to explain to my children that in the 70s violence was (still) commonly used to settle disputes – like, all the time. At least in my neighborhood. Kids had fistfights regularly and the adults would even monitor it just to make sure it didn’t get out of hand.
Adults fought less often (than kids), but it was not uncommon for there to be lots of talk, pushing and shoving, and maybe even someone taking a poke.
I couldn’t even count the times I witnessed people bowing up in a pizza parlor over a guy staring at another guy’s girlfriend a little too overtly, or someone snickering at the wrong time and someone else taking offense, etc. And then, next thing you know, we’re all “going outside” at the owner’s insistence and we’re going to “settle things the old-fashioned way.”
Hell, even in the early 90s, we had a designated area at the end of our squadron spaces where Staff NCOs or Sgts would occasionally take recalcitrant troops to “square things away.” (The military, particularly the Marine Corps, usually tracked a few decades behind broader society in its mores, IMO, which made it seem rather normal).
And none of that was a bad thing.
https://www.scribd.com/document/43480022/FM-22-102
https://www.templateroller.com/template/1728752/da-form-imt-wf-1-hurt-feelings-report.html
Well, it’s not a good thing. In an ideal world, people would solve their disputes reasonably. It’s just less bad than the alternative. Because we don’t live in an idealized world.
Some things don’t rise to the level of a crime or even an NAP violation. They’re nonetheless unacceptable. Some guy leering at your girlfriend isn’t something you should be complaining to the police about (for what, looking the wrong way?). But, it’s certainly something that isn’t acceptable and should be something that even assholes are afraid to do.
I understand there were downsides to the arrangement. It let big, tough guys act like bullies. It had people getting into fights over little BS slights. But, the progression to a world where this is unacceptable has come at a cost. That imagined world where people solve their disputes reasonably doesn’t show up. The new bullies are the guys who take things right up to the line and stay there. And when someone reacts, they play the victim.
It’s like I said, I don’t think dignity culture can be maintained without some undergirding of honor culture. Without it, it devolves to victimhood culture.
I need to reread the Screwtape Letters again (just picked up another copy of it). The progressives remind me very much of Screwtape talking about the person who just wants their tea made “just right”.
As a short, fat, shy, introverted, book nerd, I didn’t find the violence culture of the 70s a particularly good thing.
As I said, it had its downsides. But, there aren’t solutions. Only tradeoffs. Is what we’ve moved to better? Maybe. If you’re a social butterfly adept at playing the crowd to your side. If you’re socially awkward? I don’t know. You’re the one who gets to be the target of the Twitter mob. You’re the one who winds up in the wrong, even when you know you’re right. You’re the one who violated the social code, even though you were trying to do the right thing.
Well, had I been able to open carry a 1911, high school may have been a bit less worrisome.
Ditto, except skinny. It turned me into an expert at avoiding violence, though.
It does teach you to be hyperaware at all times.
kinnath – I was three of the worst things possible (in combination) up through 9th grade: one of the smartest kids in school, and one of the smallest – with a smart mouth.
I wouldn’t go through it again for anything, BUT – I have no doubt that what we’ve “evolved” into as a culture is vastly worse.
The woke believe they are righteous and can say anything they want without consequence. They believe they can confront anyone, anytime, and any place.
And the government will back them up on that.
So yes, we have devolved into terrible times.
And I suspect these assholes would never have ascended if along their journey they had met some pushback in the form of a few ass-beatings by their peers.
I was one of the smallest kids. I got bullied. I also got enough of that shit. 8th grade…with a bloody nose I pulled a dead limb out of a live oak on the school grounds and gave a bully back 10X what he gave me. No one ever fooled with me again.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/07/25/fauci-bringing-back-mask-mandates-is-under-active-consideration/
I’m done playing fake apocalypse.
I’m looking forward to seeing Fauci’s mask here
* Note to NSA, CIA, DHS, and Sloper – this is not a serious sentiment, and there are no current plans to make this happen (unless the FBI is involved)
I don’t think a lot of people who are enjoying their first taste of freedom in sixteen months are going to willingly strap on a damp feed-bag again.
Nope.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/nQpgJrj9QX-V-pOOdd26ug.NN7BAv0yybCMG-40npAL4M
#lazycook
Throw it all in a pan and done.
A cup of rice, two chicken leg quarters, two cups of water and one can of cream of mushroom soup, condensed. Simmer for an hour.
I survived college on that.
FFS the guy is from New York. We arent gonna be pals.
As a NYC refugee, I has a sad. 🙁
You dont vote for people, you vote for policies.
I once explained to a friend of mine that, when you vote for a candidate, you’re voting for their organization. The candidate is just the front man, the brand.
And sometimes the front-man deceives many of his followers by pretending at one platform and delivering another.
*cough* Joe *cough*
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/former-chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-says-must-create-reward-punishment-system-vaccines/
“There’s a lot of things we can do without calling it a mandate. Just make it almost impossible for people to live their lives without being protected and protect us,” panelist Margaret Hoover said.
These fucking people.
Ok, I retract my joke about not being pals with people from New York. The fact is I happen to like a lot of people from NY. I have always found that a bit surprising considering how different the lifestyle is from where I grew up, but there you have it.
Fuhgeddaboudit.