Lily and Ginger, trying to take each other to the ground
Adultery.
It’s Bad. And like everything else that’s bad, there is an astrological sign for it. As you might expect, it involves the conjunction of the adulterous lovers Mars and Venus. So on Friday, we’ve got the two of them aligned with the moon. The moon is a decisive feature of this construction; it indicates a transitory state, so this is neither the beginning nor the ending of an affair even though it occurs on a Friday. If anything since Saturn is nearby, it would be more likely to indicate a one-off rather than an episode during a longer-term relationship. The moon being in Virgo indicates that there is something special about the feminine half of this coupling, and the conjunction itself being in Capricorn indicates that it is an unstable situation already alluded to earlier, and involves one or more of: old people, high-end leather, and bad skin. While the alignment is at it’s most perfect on the 25th, it reaches it’s closest conjunction on the 27th.
Happiness is a cold belly.
Aquarius: King of Swords reversed – Cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention.
Pisces: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb.
Aries: 4 of Cups reversed – Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations.
Taurus: 7 of Cups – Fairy favors, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, some attainment but nothing permanent.
Gemini: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
Cancer: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection, news, messages, rule, management.
Leo: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Virgo: Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest, great force in love as well as in hatred.
Libra: Justice reversed – Law, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.
Scorpio: Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
Sagittarius: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion.
Capricorn: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
She’s a light sleeper, it’s hard to get nap pics
Scorpio: Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.
The woodchuck saw his shadow, so two more years of federal emergency! – JRB46
LoL! Mine is spot on. Let’s just hope that Justice does prevail!
Gemini: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, puerility, pettiness, weakness.
But enough about J6…..what is desperately needed is a Saudi golf tour! – DJT45
Capricorn: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
2024……….looking good! – Ron deSantis
Yay, Lily!
I enjoy these pictures of Lily
Me too. What a lovely doggo.
Enjoy this picture of Lily.
I did!
I’m pleased someone picked up that hanging curveball I tossed out.
I was going to write something similar, but figured there’d be 4 other replies on top of mine.
The Hillary/Huma story will finally make mainstream news?
: old people, high-end leather, and bad skin.
I don’t know about the last one, but the first two could be any number of Glibs.
Lily’s probably looking forward to mud season.
We went hiking for a couple of hours through Moreau this morning/afternoon. The way she moves through the snow and the happiness she projects while doing it makes her look like it’s her native terrain.
We hiked a pretty steep one yesterday and there was a 10 month old Golden who practically flew up the mountain. Then at the top she wrestled with a bunch of other dogs.
Their joy is real and it’s so fucking good for our mental health.
Officially, I’m supposed to keep her on a leash at all times in a state park. I’m always holding on to the other end of said leash if there are other people around. If there aren’t, and I accidentally drop my end of it… whoopsie?
Unfortunately the last quarter mile I caught up to a couple of ice fishermen dragging their gear back, so she couldn’t move freely.
From the dead thread about ACUs (or whatever they are now) vs civies. Noticeably absent, wearing the fucking service uniform, either class A or B (and class B is with a fucking tie, you fucking fucktards).
And this isn’t a Class B.
https://www.army.mil/article/244791/army_announces_update_to_class_b_army_green_service_uniform
This is ‘I just came out of the general’s office after some one on one counseling and extensive dictation’.
At our schoolhouse I did 2 years on duty wearing khakis – and every “first Friday” was either blues or whites (seasonal) so the junior students could get some familiarization. Nothing but cammies these days….maybe a change after COVID? Who knows.
I can recall 25 years ago old farts bemoaning in Army Times and elsewhere the wear of utility uniforms to offices including the Pentagon. Now I’m the old fart. At least BDUs could be starched and boots polished for a more professional image.
Polishing your boots and starching BDUs isn’t professional. It’s shows you don’t have a real job and slant thing better to do.
I love dogs, would like to have one, but have so many things going on I really couldn’t spare the time to be fair to one. Nice to see Lily here though!
The amount of time it takes when you live alone is not minor. My MMO habit has gone from 20+ hours a week to zero. I stopped going to Bullseye and weekday evening IDPA practice.
My wife and I stress the time commitment to people who are thinking about a dog. Especially if they don’t have a fenced back yard (which helps but isn’t sufficient)
And the impact on travel, especially spur of the moment travel.
I have begun taking her on longer car rides. If I can drive her to TX in October, I’ll consider her a travellable dog.
My vet, whom we had boarded with in the past, has put it on hold due to Covidicy. I have no idea why, and when I overheard the girl at the front, she didn’t seem to either.
Dogs need your attention. They require more time than a lot of people realize.
Borrow one or more occasionally?
Gordilocks is on Gettr and just
tweetedgettr’d(?) a great write up on the class dived being exposed by COVID restrictions and the Convoy Movement.Excellent essay. Thanks!
Good stuff.
“Socialists Condemn Workers Of The World For Uniting”
LOL!
Yeah, that was a rabbit hole, given the links embedded. Great stuff tho’!
This is an interesting and insightful take on the issue. I’m a Virtual, for sure. I’m surrounded by people in a bubble of abstraction. People who spend all day exercising control over human made processes and lamenting that those processes can’t be made even more abstract. It creates a certain type of personality. One that is very susceptible to the allure of technocracy. If we just get the right person in there, they’ll be able to design the perfect system and resolve all our problems. Then we can build an AI to operate the system and we can go live off our UBI payments.
I thank God and my family that I was exposed to hard work as a child. There are many lessons that are convenienced away in the city and the suburbs. Some are simple, like “water has to go somewhere when it rains, and usually it’s not where you want it” and “it doesn’t matter how much you want the rusted bolt to come out if you don’t have a breaker bar it’s not coming out.” Some lessons are more complex. Lessons about fulfillment and the value of honest work and community.
When the primary factor dictating your future wage and employment status is whether you can convince some uninterested middle manager that you’ve justified your cost, that shit’s all out the window. Why work honestly when you can convince Mr. VP to measure you on bare minimum competency? Why bother doing unrewarded work that you really should do? You have no stake in the end result, and you probably couldn’t change the company’s outcomes even if you tried.
One aspect of the article that I think should be stressed even more is that the virtual fall for this postmodern crap because it is what they experience every day of their lives. They work postmodern jobs, and live postmodern lives, and it’s hard to blame them individually for believing postmodern lies. They live in the Matrix and don’t know any better. They see the “red-pilled” out there talking about masks and mandates and liberty and faith and truth and wonder what the hell they’re getting on about. It’s almost a foreign language at this point.
Ginger looks cagy. Careful, Lily!
Leo: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
It’s only missing verisimilitude.
I mean, it doesn’t sound all that bad except for the whole tomb thing.
Perfect tribute to O’Rourke with a current twist.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/099/320/893/original/25d8bc226bf249c8.jpg
thwack!
Re Make America Indigenous Again, saw this billboard on the roadside recently:
https://www.klamathlandback.com/
Appears to be a work of a sold gold grifter who has an extensive wiki page for an absolute nobody.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Ball
Ball is trespassing on Chinook land. She is not welcome; she does not have permission to be there; she is participating in the decline of Chinook lands.
I thought that Chinooks could land pretty much anywhere.
I think she lives near Portland, so she’s trespassing on Kalapuya land. The Chinook were more along the Columbia and coast.
Or the Clackamas or Mollalas’ lands.
I imagine they were constantly slaughtering each other so it was probably a moving target who was “native” to what.
No way! They were peaceful peoples.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20610522
And specifically her own people
https://escholarship.org/content/qt3793q75r/qt3793q75r_noSplash_bee433ed446bb01d884018abb42333e8.pdf
Looks like it’s time to revoke the treaties again.
That’s quite the derp compilation. I’m sure she lives by her principles and doesn’t use a car, computer, or natural gas.
as long as she smells like burning bison dung, I’m good with her
Wrong side of the Continental Divide. She should smell of rotten salmon oil, and decomposing shellfish.
When I was in graduate school I had some blonde haired nitwit claim in class that the bison were “sacred” to her people. I asked which people those might be, and she said the Maricopa. I immediately called bullshit on her claims since no bison had lived in Arizona since the end of the Wisconsonian ice age.* I never called her out as a fake, I just calmy dissected the BS and pointed out the history of the tribal period of AZ history. She started crying for disrespecting her heritage. I pointed out that it seemed I knew it better than she did. After class ended the prof asked to speak with me and told me that I came down on her pretty hard. My response was that I had pulled punches. He asked me to just “cool it a bit” but liked that I saved him questioning the bison claim. (She gave me the stink eye for the rest of the semester but never tried the bullshit claims.)
Luckily this encounter was over 30 years ago. Today I would have been defenestrated.
*Yes, there are a number of transplanted bison that live on the Arizona Strip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_bison_belt#/media/File:Bison_original_range_map.svg
Why not Arizona? Heck, if they lived on the llano estacado and big bend AND eastern Oregon, then why not central California and eastern Washington?
It looks like the Snake/Columbia limited movement northward in Eastern Washington. There was also the Missoula Floods a couple thousand years prior that scoured eastern Washington. Maybe that had something to do with it?
I am not sure the ranges shown are correct.
Why would plains bison live on northern half of the Colorado Plateau but not the southern half? If the ranges are accurate why are there no Anasazi or Fremont, or Basketmaker petroglyphs of bison? The Holocene is almost 11,700 years long and I am no expert, so I have no knowledge in the immediate aftermath of the glacial retreat of the bison range at that time. But in the period of known habitation of the Colorado Plateau there are plenty of bison, deer and elk depicted, but no bison. I suspect it is because the habitat is wrong for bison, they are grazers and there is precious little to graze on. To answer your question, absent a way to get across the inhospitable habitat there was no way to spread into California or eastern Washington.
The Maricopa culture has been centered on the Gila and Salt Rivers which are in central AZ and so even farther away.
read, “plenty of bighorn, antelope, deer and elk depicted”
Has anyone asked the native populations whether they want the land back? I mean, they would get a bigger rez, but no GI Joe bucks.
I see NASCAR is determined to become F1. ?
NFL has managed to make their product more appetizing to more people in emerging demographics.
Everyone else seems to be alienating their traditional base to appease people who will never pay to watch their sport anyway.
What’s a great sport with great institutions and traditions? I might end up doing something a bit eclectic like SEC women’s soccer or some such.
Happiness is a cold belly.
Belly rubs are better.
She’s pretty adorable when she wants belly rubs.
Sagittarius: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion.
So what you’re saying is I should definitely invade Canada.
I see NASCAR is determined to become F1.
Independent rear suspension isn’t the end of the world.
help me with the semantics; to me, the rear suspension of a 1963 Chevy pickup is independent, so NASCAR was there already 60 years ago
But does it have positraction, or is that only on the ’64?
And was it available in metallic mint green paint?
The left and right wheel move completely independently and have no influence or each other.
On your pickup they are independent of the chassis, but not each other.
here’s a cool picture: https://www.factoryfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/A1-CAM10191.jpg
I never thought much about it, but I’ll stipulate that this axle lay-out is a bit more independent that my mom-and-pop formula
thing about racing: changing the rules and formats seldom makes for better racing….indeed: racing is more exciting when the vehicles are harder to drive and less reliable; the whole point, to me, is to be the guy who doesn’t stall, doesn’t spin out, doesn’t miss a shift, doesn’t push through the handling envelope……a car that fixes and manages all that for you turns driving into a video game
Yeah, we’re the good guys.
Trump was the totalitarian, these guys are just fighting the good fight against his brownshirts across the border.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU&list=RDowI7DOeO_yg&start_radio=1
Just sub in the RCMP maple leaf.
Just posted an update in the forum and I’ll repost later here too – can we get confirmations from which Glibs expect to be at the Gourmeltz meet on Saturday the 26th? Would help if we can confirm time and approx numbers in the next couple of days just in case – indoors, etc.
Thanks
In terms of Russia/Ukraine, finally got around to listening to Jon Gabriel (the king of stuff) interview Gray Connolly – https://ricochet.com/podcast/king-of-stuff/gray-connolly-on-russia-and-ukraine/ – a few weeks old but still relevant at the moment.
Gray’s had a good mind for realpolitik and I’ve posted pieces by him here before – although he’s been sadly an individual liberty squish when it comes to covid – particularly in Australia – still brings some solid historical context to this whole question.
Although to be fair…historicity aside, there is always the factor of the current inhabitants of said country as well…
Whelp, the most convenient to me drugstore has closed. This is not a smash’n’grab neighborhood but I suspect the lower-performing franchisees are going to be victims anyway. There’s a bigger copy of the same chain in the other direction but still it sucks. I needed a few things on the way home from the supermarket.
Looks like a case for Super Amazon. Jeffy will solve your problems, if you have to secure area ’til you get home from work.
I have used Amazon a good bit this winter, for routine things, since it’s much easier than driving into town. At the price of gas a trip to Walmart is about an extra $15. We have to load up to make it worth while.
Yeah, now I’m more likely to just purchase my mouthwash and paper towels from Jeff. My mouth and hands will thank me in five days.
Go to CVS and use the receipt as a week’s supply of hand towels?
This is one of those experiences I had in America to which the response was “wow they weren’t kidding”.
Off to race in a bit. Have a great day everybody!
Win the race.
At the price of gas a trip to Walmart is about an extra $15. We have to load up to make it worth while.
I still don’t worry much about the Honda, but the cost of joyriding in the truck or Suburban is pretty much prohibitive.
I may find myself riding the motorcycle a bit more this year, if I have to start driving to the office.