Yes I know it’s not the original.
This week the skies are dominated by interactions with Venus. It starts off well enough, with Venus and the moon working their hawt magic over coupled individuals, but over the course of the week she shows her other face. Specifically, on Tuesday she goes station retrograde, so all that peace and love changes to spite and rage. Coincidentally or not, this happens with a Jupiter-Moon mediated change of leadership. By Friday things will have devolved into full-blown fights when Mars and Mercury (’cause why not?) get involved.
Cosi fan Tutte would have also worked here.
Pisces: King of Wands reversed – A person is good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.
Aries: 2 of Coins reversed – Simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
Taurus: The Hermit reversed – Prudence, circumspection, treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption.
Gemini: The World reversed – Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Cancer: 5 of Coins – Material trouble, love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities.
Leo: 7 of Coins reversed – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Virgo: Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman.
Libra: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord.
Scorpio: 4 of Coins reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition.
Sagittarius: Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest.
Capricorn: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude (rectitude? Nearly killed the dude!).
Aquarius: 6 of Coins – Presents, gifts, gratification another account says attention, vigilance, now is the correct time.
Have some Pisces music:
Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest.
Somebody’s set up for a helluva Mardi Gras. Too bad it’s not me.
I have 4 hockey games next weekend. Rock on. 🔥
“ Cancer: 5 of Coins – Material trouble, love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities.”
Sounds like I should set up the camera. Or does that mean I’ll have trouble with the camera?
🤔
🎶 I’m your Beavis
How hard did the Delta CRJ land in Toronto?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RD4ySH5uSg
Interesting video.
Lies…its Trump. News and hivemind said so. Hell I may be responsible too
Good video…proper use of the Internet outside of cat videos
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/norway-fuel-company-us-navy-gunnar-gran-b2707546.html
Someone got taint slapped.
El. Oh. Fucking El.
Which means now they won’t get ANY US contracts. Nice own goal, guys.
Nothing says much brave so solidarity like a bold statement on social media that you then delete. 🙄
Greetings from North Nowhere Vermont. I planned on taking today and tomorrow off (ie. Staying at the cabin and keeping the wood stove burning.) because the forecast was for unseasonable cold. It is in fact unseasonably cold but nothing like last month. The NWS has raised tonight’s predicted low from -12F to -3F. I blame Trump’s decimation of the NOAA.
Tuesday is Vermont’s traditional Town Meeting Day. 30+ years ago when I first moved to my small Vermont town important business was discussed and voted on at the Town Meeting. Now most voting happens the day after in what is locally termed an “Australian Ballot”. Now the only time real genuine voting happens at Town Meeting is when the school budget is in danger or there’s an expensive proposition. Then the proposition’s proponents can pack the meeting and get it passed without too many actual taxpayers futzing it up.
“ . I blame Trump’s decimation of the NOAA.”
Fair.
I mean, a whole 6% of NOAA has been DECIMATED!! How can they survive without probationary employees who haven’t been there even 2 years? How can any of us survive?
Hey, now. I saw that it’s more like a 7% RIF. We’re talking bodies rotting in the streets type stuff.
I approve of the NOAA, certainly the National Weather Service division, and the NOAA’s efforts at technology such as weather satellites. It’s not a constitutionally mandated department of the government but that’s because it was beyond the comprehension of the Founding Fathers. Had they known I think it would be constitutionally mentioned like the National Post Office which, despite local scorn hereabouts, I also approve.
Richard, I suspect the bits of NOAA you approve of could be uncontroversially funded at no more than 20% of the current amount.
I no longer approve of the USPS in its current state. I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s a bloated, out dated institution filled with commies and incompetence.
R C Dean:
I admit I have no numbers. I assume that most of the data supplied to the NOAA’s expensive supercomputers come from expensive satellites. I do enjoy the once or twice a year extensive analysis from the Burlington VT’s NWS office about the latest local weather excitement. The expertise is obvious. But I wonder if those analyses are the only thing that that they ever make public, or make at all.
Richard: Ben Franklin was starting to work things out. He and his pen pals around the country would record dates and weather and exchange data with each other. Franklin was the first to propose what we now consider obvious – the patterns of weather fronts and how they move.
Well, the USPS could certainly be helped by 1) stop pricing junk mail cheaper than letters 2) cut down the number of regular mail deliveries to once or twice a week 3) up the number of “it fits, it ships” package sizes with corresponding delivery to regular mail 4) 10% force reduction across the board* and 5)Japan market Jeeps as delivery vehicles 6)point to point tracking with carriers scanning all incoming mail at point of pickup and delivery
-No Employee Should Touch a Piece of Mail In Any Way Without it Being Recorded-
This is logistics industry standard, and the PO should adopt these principals immediately.
Do all of that and a lot of the cost issues would go down. Also, be ruthless going forward as to hiring, with strong firing abilities needed*
*the entire gov’t needs this, but the PO especially.
How excellent that you popped in today. I made pancakes this morning and the wife wanted me to convey our thanks again for the syrup.
Maple sap will flow Tuesday. In Vermont it’s traditional that “Sugaring starts on Town Meeting Day” and this has been a very Traditional Winter. I’m already decided this year’s source of maple syrup to send to Honey Harvest. It’s the best of the best. I had the privilege of being at sugaring one year when the proprietor did a taste test fresh from the boiler. His syrup commands a premium because, while he has to guarantee that the sugar content is the legal minimum, everyone knows it’s better than that.
The HH Glib attendees all left with big smiles and a jug of genuine Vermont Maple Syrup and a jar of the wildest Wildflower honey that some even participated in the capture. Thanks for making HH even better, Richard.
Virgo: Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman.
Homosexual? No, but I suppose I am willing to learn.
“so all that peace and love changes to spite and rage”
*nods knowingly*
Sleeping on the couch tonight?
Sagittarius: Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, conquest.
So what you’re saying is I should invade Poland/
Why not? Everybody else has.
It’s become goddamn exhausting on synth sites I frequent. I can’t read a single topic without someone talking their shitty anti-Trump nonsense. Everything revolves around Trump. It’s the one place that’s become WORSE since the election. Most everyone else in polite society got the message. We’re tired of their fucking whining. But that sense of relief after the election is completely eroded around these self-important fucks. It’s a goddamn bubble filled with the dumbest sort of over-educated idiots.
My problem is that I’ve cultivated an audience over the last year+ amongst the only group of people who like the sort of music I make at all. They’re nice and helpful people, until they find out you believe totally normal beliefs that everyone believed until about 5 years ago. And if I speak out, or simply leave, that audience disappears. I don’t want to lose that. But it might be worth it in the long run.
Sounds like it’s just a matter of time before that audience disappears, Woody. Sad, but I just don’t see political obsessive who will change their beliefs 180 degrees when instructed to as a stable community.
Likewise, the continuing hammering of Biden is getting old. We know, we understand but it’s time to move ahead and start on the corrections. We want different and positive results.
Can only use the blame game so long.
My favorite moment was when I went to discuss some piece of gear, only to be greeted by someone begging for donations to a GFM so they can get their “surgery”* so they can finally be their true self! This followed, of course, by a cadre of “You’re so brave” bullshit.
But it’s not just Trump alone. It’s every progressive cause (even if somehow tied to Trump). Mention inadequate packaging that uses fucking paper in place of something more substantial like foam or bubble wrap, and you’re accosted by an army of eco-warriors who want to sermon about sustainability. It’s truly gross when all you want to do is talk about gear and how to use it.
*Or self-mutilation. You choose.
Was it Logan’s Run where people willingly sacrificed themselves at some age while the populace cheered them on and celebrated?
This is pure insanity.
IndyCar race 1 in the books. Palou snuck up on them via pit strategy and stole their lollipops.
Next up, NAPCAR on a road course (Texas).
Just talked to my mom. Sounds like Evan’s family. She’s worried about losing her social security and Medicaid, and that all the millionaires are getting a huge tax break and the rest of us will pay more. Completely out of touch with reality. MSNBC can’t go out of business fast enough.
You know, some people just like being scared by the media/politicians. You can chase away all of the current players, but plenty of people will find a new source.
all the millionaires are getting a huge tax break
They’re plundering the Treasury!
It’s so obvious but my mom says I’m the one who needs to watch the news.
Instead of reading the actual bills?
So sorry. I don’t think anything you say will change her mind.
The legacy news needs to die faster.
The news, for those who grew up when the news was the only way to get any news, is hard to quit.
But I can see the entire meeting in the WH between Trump and the short man. I’m not reliant on the snippet the news chooses to show me.
I personally think Trump should now have Elon publicly take a back seat, but he could very well be using Elon as a squirrel for the Democrat dogs who can’t resist another unsuccessful chase, while he flies through other issues incognito.
“There’s no time to read the bills! We need to get this done now!”
Excuse me, but if you haven’t read the bill, who wrote it?
Yep. Nothing is quite as fucking stupid as the “we have to pass it to see what’s in it” mentality when we’re talking about sending hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and weapons to a propped up state in open war with a nuclear power, and no chance to win.
Their ONLY hope was not only American money and weapons, but eventually American soldiers. They’re going to run out of cannon fodder at some point, and will need someone to fill in the line. I’m glad Trump is cutting that off at the pass before it’s too late. If the Euros want to start WW3, they can leave us the fuck out of it.
What’s even more ridiculous is that the vaunted Russian Army has been held to a stalemate, and yet people are still trying to whip up hysteria about them over-running Europe.
Okay, I suppose all of you could be that ginormous a bunch of pussies, but seriously, I don’t think they’d even be able to handle the logistics of getting there to accept your surrenders.
I suspect the Russians wouldn’t have insurmountable problems with the soft underbelly of Western Europe (France, Germany), but Eastern/Central Europe (Poland, etc.) is a nut they can’t crack.
Somehow Mr. Dean, I actually can imagine the Germans (at least the establishment politicians there) stabbing the Poles in the back the moment the Poles were kicking Russian ass.
“There’s no time to read the bills! We need to get this done now!”
“…. because we made it so. Sure, we could have spent the last months before this well-known deadline negotiating a budget, be we find it’s a lot easier to get our personal pork projects funded if we manufacture a crisis and rush through a bucket of slop at the last minute.
I really don’t see the Wehrmacht invading Poland again. Short of that, what would the Germans do that could matter.
Well, the political ads have started again. Now those dastardly Repubs are going to cut Medicaid to give tax cuts to billionaires.
If I was running a political ad campaign, I think I’d start every ad with “You are being lied to, again”.
The problem is the only thing the Republicans can agree on is cutting taxes. I really don’t want taxes cut right now, I want SPENDING cut. Republicans are not going to cut spending. I’m sure even the USAID budget will be restored, and maybe redirected to some grifters on the right. Maybe.
That means the recent bill will likely pass – but the D’s will succeed in their messaging similar to Trump’s original tax cuts which according to them ONLY benefitted the rich…
I don’t know. The powers that have been relied on for Democrat messaging have taken a massive hit. I’m not sure they have enough sway anymore.