Ok, so this is weird.
There is an extremely rare, extremely powerful, extremely good sign in the Heavens at the beginning of the week, the likes of which The 5th Dimension would have used if they needed to write a sequel song that was bigger in every way: A Planetary Sophrosyne. In this case, you’ve got Mercury in the core, with the balances provided by Mars, Venus, and the Sun. While this is not the theoretically best one, it is very, very good. In fact in true astrological tradition, you could even say that the absolute best one isn’t as good as this one, because if you ever live to see the Ultramagestis Magnus, you’d know that every other moment of your life from that point forward was going to be lesser than that which you had already experienced. At least with this one, the future can (possibly) get even better.
So what’s weird about that?
Well, starting on Thursday, with that sophrosyne still in effect, we get an alignment of the Sun and Earth with Jupiter retrograde, which represents either the misuse of power, government incompetence in general, or sadness. The stars can be inscrutable at times.
Not one of Yusef’s
What isn’t inscrutable is it’s a particularly great week for Virgo, containing almost all of the sophrosyne, and snatching the last of the inner planets from Leo. Things are still good on the whole for Leo, but diminished from what they were in previous weeks. The moon in Scorpio is an omen of accidents, so be a bit more careful out there.
What do you mean, “bathtime?”
Leo: 6 of Swords – Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.
Virgo: Knight of Cups – Arrival, approach, advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement.
Libra: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Scorpio: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels and domestic disputes
Sagittarius: Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
Capricorn: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
Aquarius: The Sun – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Pisces: Justice reversed – Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.
Aries: 6 of Coins reversed – Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
Taurus: 7 of Cups reversed – Desire, will, determination, project.
Gemini: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, heartbreak
Cancer: 5 of Cups – loss, but something remains, inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations
Lily discovers a frog. She does not attempt to eat it, because she has previously discovered toads.
Well, that’s just Taurus in general, dude.
I think “stubborn stupid” is a more apt description in my case.
No one ever accused Taurus of being easy-going and laid-back.
“TH, how do manage to stay so thin?”
“I’m a tightly wound ball of stress and worry that can burn through calories just thinking.”
“Mojo, how do you manage to stay so not-thin?”
“I’m a self-indulgent sensual hedonist and since I don’t drink, I have sugar.”
Oh, no judgements here. I’m a unapologetic hedonist who can’t even out my crazy unless I heavily self medicate…it does help that I usually don’t consume much sugar. More of a salt guy.
Fox reporting the Embassy personnel have been evacuated. Americans left are advised to shelter in place, not to go to the airport or embassy. Airport taking fire.
*insert lesley nielson everything is fine meme*
Not this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
No pushing helicopter off the decks of carriers to make room for refugees?
Waiting for the president to give the word, after he finishes his fruit cup .
Jesus, what a fuckup.
No one seems to be re-running the video of the idiot mouthing how this would never happen.
Congratulations to everyone who voted Biden. You got what you voted for.
Yes, yes, enough about California. What about Afghanistan?
Scorpio: 8 of Wands reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels and domestic disputes
I thought my eviction moratorium appplied to Ghani – JRB46
“Guineas? Love ’em! Their food is fantastic! Used to play stick ball with a bunch of them as a kid! Every time I got a hit I yelled ‘Wop!’…they love that!”
/JRB46
This guy pretty well sums it up.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/082/074/096/original/f14224404427cb45.jpg
Leo: 6 of Swords – Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.
Huh.
“…The stars can be inscrutable…”
No shit.
“Making predictions can be hard, especially about the future.” – You know who.
Man plans, God laughs.
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”
—Dwight D Eisenhower
Grilled the ribeyes and some halloumi cheese. Topped the cheese with pizza sauce.
#lazycook
Strips for dinner. Yay Sunday!
‘halloumi cheese’
Goat or cow?
Goat milk based cheeses put me off.
Blended. Goat, cow, sheep.
I….would at least try it.
Just like a middle-eastern dating lounge.
Hey, Chuck, no pigs here tonight!
Well, we’re scrubbing pretty much any sign of our existence in Afghanistan. On top of that, Haiti had a 7.2 earthquake, and are about to get a tropical storm.
“Lily discovers a frog. She does not attempt to eat it, because she has previously discovered toads.”
Heh.
Sagittarius: Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
Does this mean I’m gonna get lucky?
STEVE SMITH STOPPING BY…
Sorry, but no.
LOL
https://twitter.com/KananVitolo/status/1426954931504881664
?
Well that’s a relief!
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/14/republicans-claim-to-fear-left-wing-authoritarianism–but-theres-no-such-thing/
When you’re this deep in the revolution, plausibility and the straight face test become utterly irrelevant
Virgo huh, it aint been that great a week, heres hopin!
I know fuck all about the subject but have you tried inversion therapy for your lower body issues? I can only speak anecdotally but I know a few people who swear by it.
Aquarius: The Sun – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment.
Maybe the money the government stole from me and has promised to refund will show up soon. Its only a few months late.
I was in a similar situation this year. After failing to break the impenetrable wall of i. d. verification I had to request a tax transcript. Discovered that the IRS lost my return (or had not gotten through their mid April inbox) .
I refilled and it was processed in about 3 weeks.
Just another day in modern America…
Well that’s a relief!
Everybody knows Pol Pot was a republican.
https://www.axios.com/scoop-biden-braces-for-brutal-loss-7012efe9-c4cd-48df-8c2b-7484e2f17231.html
He’s not too worried. He lost the election… that didn’t seem to stop him.
“The Biden administration is preparing for the fall of Kabul and a retreat from any U.S. diplomatic presence in Afghanistan — a stunning reversal of expectations.”
Who could have seen that coming? I cant say it is a bad thing, we really needed to get out of there, but…this could have been handled a lot better. Again, congratulations to every idiot that voted for Biden. Even the dead ones.
Is it too early for OT?
My friend MAY be able to go home next weekend. For her, I will wear a mask.
That’s good news – I hope she continues on that trajectory.
Sounds like she’s trending better. Great news!
I’m so happy for her and you. I was feeling kind of dejected. It’s good to hear some good news. Thanks.
This is good news.
I’m glad to hear that. I know we poo-poo the subject here in general but Commie Cough can kill people. I think kinnath has had a few close family members die from it as well as few others here. Has the response to its existence been a classic example of power hungry people in governments and/or juiced in wealthy people taking advantage of a hugely overblown situation? Of course…*it still exists.
*Via government, no less. Funny how that worked out.
Huzzah! Good news is never OT.
“The big picture: The U.S. embassy in Kabul wasn’t just a diplomatic building. It also was a major intelligence center with paper records and equipment there that the U.S. will remove or destroy. Protocols are in place for just such an emergency.”
LoL… like there weren’t protocols in place before?
+1 Argo.
Although as I understand it documents are pulverized now, not shredded.
They’re usually burned…in DC, people with Top Secret clearance put classified info in burn bags, which are collected & sent to wherever the incinerator is. I imagine Kabul has such a system.
Back before the digital photo era really took off, annually I’d test the classified materials incinerator at Wright-Patterson AFB. Lots of film from “overhead flights”.
…and alien body parts?
+ Hanger 18
Burned? That’s not eco-friendly. Let’s just leave the documents there while we commission a $20 million study on carbon-neutral disposal methods.
We seem to have really figured out how to absolutely eradicate any hint of certain facts lately. I guess this is one of the few times it’s coming in handy.
This weekend has been fun, exhausting, and depressing. I’m gonna need that 5 hours’ comp time I earned.
“The big picture: The U.S. embassy in Kabul wasn’t just a diplomatic building. It also was a major intelligence center with paper records and equipment there that the U.S. will remove or destroy. Protocols are in place for just such an emergency.”
BIIIIIIG badaboom.
Some time set fire bombs ought to do the trick nicely. Then just drone bomb the building every day for a week for good measure.
I’d drop MOAB Utah on it.
Anyone looking for a temporary gig?
https://www.daybook.com/jobs/APjftrJrSCTJyTqBL
I’m going to play The Sims to take my mind off how awful everything is right now.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/city-shock-taliban-enter-kabul-us-starts-evacuating-embassy-china-mocks-biden-over-complete
“We give the last word for this latest update to FT op-ed writer Gideon Rachman who presciently notes:
If Donald Trump were presiding over the debacle in Afghanistan, the US foreign policy establishment would be loudly condemning the irresponsibility and immorality of American strategy. Since it is Joe Biden in the White House there is instead, largely, an embarrassed silence.
One thing of note – which we are sure Fauci and Biden will quickly clamp down on – none of the evacuees appear to be wearing masks!!”
Almost exactly 20 years later from 9/11. The timing isn’t a coincidence. I think that Joe’s team thought everything would go great and they had some publicity stunt lined up for the 20 year anniversary. These idiots really don’t have a clue how the world goes around.
That was something that always struck me about Team Obama (of which Team Biden is essentially a carbon copy): for being “the adults in the room” they were staggeringly parochial and incompetent.
My kid has to get a “daily pass” to go to 3rd grade. He tested positive about 6 weeks ago, so he had to wait out the ten days and now he is exempt from testing for 90 days, I assume because he can still test positive but is presumed not contagious after the ten days. Of course, the pass printing system will not allow a positive test to generate a pass. Despite having been told to do it this way. Apparently, it’s difficult to rapidly institute a Nazi like bureaucracy, especially for uneducated simpletons like the school staff.
“Your papers, comrade?”
The S/C will rule it’s OK, because there’s precedent. Both the Jim Crow south and the Nazis restricted segments of society from participating in certain aspects of it. Must be totes legit.
I forgot, the Italians and Japanese were interred in camps and prevented from participating too, back in the ’40’s. Amazingly, all three examples were perpetrated by leftists. And the modern fourth example as well.
It’s not just us, Canada has a robust history of locking people away too.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/internment
Look who ran Canada during WW2.
Virgo: Knight of Cups – Arrival, approach, advances, proposition,…
Well, pretty sure I’m getting laid. Not a bad start to the week.
Is that how it works? Then yippee!
Tall Cans Tres!
My couch pulls out, but I don’t.
Why would you? Something something the willing?
I’m joking. On a 1st date, I like to play Jenga with the girl just so she know my pull-out game strong af.
Skeet x3.
So a Prick, tease?
I especially like the “Plague Rats” thrown in.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/antifa-agitators-clash-with-anti-mask-protesters-in-bloody-skirmish-1-stabbed
The brown shirts will be with us always.
1 man was stabbed, 20 feet from cops by an antifa asshole, but no arrests were made. It’s on film and the guy had long blond hair. If the cops cared at all he’d be behind bars right now.
1960’s South again.
Now lets watch the PLAN invade Taiwan, and see if Joe blinks, the timing is perfect, from an optics POV
From Q’s link:
“Anti-vaxxers have been holding violent protests attacking innocent bystanders in the process,” a Twitter account linked to Antifa posted earlier this week along with a flyer encouraging others to protest against the anti-mask crowd. “Now they want to hold a rally downtown, this directly puts the unhoused communities who live in the area in danger. We say no more!”
Fucking Maoists.
Antifa, believers in government coercion to force people to wear masks and get vaccines. Aren’t they supposed to be anarchocoms?
Hell no, they’re the enforcement arm of the Dems.
It sure looks that way.
I thought that was the FBI (and every other alphabet agency)?
And the national guard? And the capital police?
Those are the enforcement arms of the Deep State.
1 man was stabbed, 20 feet from cops by an antifa asshole, but no arrests were made. It’s on film and the guy had long blond hair. If the cops cared at all he’d be behind bars right now.
The FBI will not rest until the perpetrators have been identified and brought to justice! Those who provoked the peace loving anti-fascists must pay. Even now, citizen volunteers are poring over the images in an all out effort to identify the evil anti-mask terrorists.
This kind of stuff is largely why organized crime and gangs come into existence; MS-13 was started by Central American immigrants to “protect” against Mexicans, La Cosa Nostra to “protect” Italians, Undzer Shtik to “protect” Jews, etc. etc.
The moneymaking and crime comes later but the gangs always offer protection against real or perceived adversaries first. Proud Boys forms some kind of quasi analogue for wrongthinkers, but they’re clumsy and stupid. As long as the “authorities” keep turning a blind eye to this kind of shit, the more likely it is, IMO, that a true cadre of badasses comes to the rescue… for a price.
I love Lily.
Leo: 6 of Swords – Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.
Sounds like I’m supposed to go fishing!
Ummm, why are you two still together?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15870074/boyfriend-says-im-bad-in-bed/
It’s like pizza, as long it has no pineapple on it, it’s pretty good even if it’s bad.
The same logic applies to blowjobs. Even the worst one I had was still allright.
Yeah, I imagine a pineapple blowjob would be a little weird.
Hey- when in Hawaii…
Gotta get lei’d somehow.
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2021/08/att-becomes-latest-dallas-employer-to-mandate-vaccines-for-some-employees/
“The requirement doesn’t apply to unionized employees, but AT&T told the Wall Street Journal that it is talking things over with union reps. The company is also requiring essentially all of its employees to wear face masks.”
Get the shot you don’t want to get. Oh, and you’ll still have to wear a mask. What a sales pitch.
Safe and effective!
…depending on the effect you’re after…
Heard about it at the end of the week. CWA is a political union and will fold after some perfunctory objections. The snowball is growing.
My company’s mid level execs are way too familiar with the percentages of companies requiring vax currently and a set period ago. Like they’re getting briefings from HR on the coming decision that ? says hasn’t been decided.
It’s coming, and it’s coming soon. As I wrote last night, I fully expect to be confronted with the decision to get the shot or get the boot when I return from leave in November.
Now’s the time for all of us in corporate ‘Murica to get our affairs in order. Unemployment is coming.
Dunno if this is accurate or not, but it confirms my biases.
It’s true. Only half of our 4k employees submitted vax info when it was mandated to do so. They are all going down as “decline to state” meaning whatever punishment the unvaxxed get, they get it too. Our management is very harsh about all of it, so standing up to them is serious business.
I do think that not all of the refuseniks are unvaxxed. There are some naive fools who still think their medical records are not of HR’s fucking business.
Just spit balling here, but I think 70% of the 35% unvaxxed knuckle under when jobs are on the line. That leaves right around 10% unvaxxed. Add in a handful of principled objectors who have gotten the jab, and we’re talking what? 15-20% of the citizenry?
And that’s before the demonization campaign really kicks off.
Biden only needs 70% to have kept his “promise.” By the time the virus is on the wane, he’ll just pronounce that achieved and this will all quietly fade. Of course there will be plenty of rulings that it’s totes OK to force people to get injections you think they need and to close their businesses and whatnot, too. Always remember, the numbers are adjustable to say whatever they want. They have lots of experience with adjustable numbers.
I dont think this is just some cynical ploy to get a PR win. Way too much effort. Way too much compulsion when they could’ve just deep sixed any cultural memory of the promise using their sycophantic media apparatus.
There’s something more going on. Whether it be financial, a power struggle, or other, there’s more than just regular day to day politics going on here.
I think that’s gonna be pretty close to the truth.
Absolutely true. My brother got the shot but refuses to play their game. He may end up fired over it, but he’s so pissed about the vax misinfo he doesn’t care anymore.
https://www.wgal.com/article/live-surveillance-as-thief-breaks-in-has-a-beer-and-robs-his-home-1628985072/37309145
There was live surveillance of the 2020 election. It made no difference then.
Not the brightest bulb on the tree…
Truck can be replaced. Even the tools can be replaced. Shame about the inherited firearms though.
Also the feeling of violation. Some guys broke into my garage 20 years ago while I was at home working! The garage was detached but it still scared the stuffing out of me.
In honor of… nothing, really