So…
Funny thing about star charts. You can use them during the day or when it’s overcast or to cast horoscopes about the future (or the past). They’re wonderfully convenient for the on-the-go lifestyle of the modern Astrologer. But it’s possible — theoretically possible mind you — that you might put your ruler a bit off and read where the planets are for a different week than intended. Fortunately, you’re all more interested in what the cards say than the stars, so if you ever were to get the wrong horoscope, you won’t be affected by it. While I won’t say it’s absolutely impossible to draw the cards incorrectly, I’m having a difficult time figuring out how. Unless you had the deck upside down so all the cards were drawn reversed with respect to how they should have been or something.
Anyway, this week (for real this time) Mercury is aligned with Jupiter and Saturn retrograde, indicating something wonderful coming to an end. Fortunately, this is in isolation, and not at all related to the Venus – Sun – Moon line which is auspicious for women. More details about this auspicity might be found in the fact that Venus is in Leo (comfort, luxury, sex) and the moon in is Aquarius (travel by water, distilled spirits) which all together gives us the unavoidable conclusion that if you’re a woman on a cruise this week, you will fall in love. Or at least get some lovin’ which is almost as good. I think all the cruises have been cancelled, but the stars are not responsible for the stupidity of maritime regulators.
Virgo: 10 of Cups – Contentment, repose of the entire heart, perfection of human love and friendship
Libra: 10 of Wands – Fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy.
Scorpio: 2 of Wands – Riches, fortune, magnificence, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification
Sagittarius: The High Priestess reversed – Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge
Capricorn: The Hanged Man – Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy
Aquarius: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin
Pisces: Queen of Swords – Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation
Aries: The Hermit – Prudence, circumspection, treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption
Taurus: Page of Coins – Application, study, scholarship, reflection, news, messages, management
Gemini: King of Wands reversed – A good, tolerant but severe person. Austerity
Cancer: 3 of Coins – Trade, skilled labor, nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory
Leo: 6 of Cups reversed – The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently
Dammit. That doesn’t look good. I bet my humours are all out of balance, too.
You should find a barber to bleed you.
I think I have too much yellow bile. How do I fix that?
Oh, wait, I forgot – the answer to that almost always has something to do with leeches, doesn’t it?
That sounds like a lot of work. What do the stars say about hookers and
blowbeer?I guess I missed you were a fellow Taurus.
Lies and Slander! I’ve said no such thing! I have never…oh, you’re talking that hippy star shit…
Libra: 10 of Wands – Fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy.
Libra birthdays began last week so this checks out.
Yes I’ve stopped counting
OT – yet another reason I try to buy dumb products whenever possible.
This thing is a security disaster. And totally unnecessary to be connected.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/how-a-hacker-turned-a-250-coffee-maker-into-ransom-machine/?amp=1
That’s not a ‘thought experiment, that’s just an experiment.
I would have to agree.
I remember 25 years ago when networked appliances were a lark project.
There was a funny article somewhere called “Alexa, please burn down my house” about what could happen if IoT got hacked and Siri/Alexa “told” your WiFi instant pot to turn on maximum and ignore the “burn” warning.
I love my instant pot and my coffee maker, but they don’t need to join forces. Add the car into the mix and I’m pretty sure my house could murder me if it were all on the web.
IoT hardware in general is a complete security disaster area. Worse, it’s a disaster area with no practical upside. What’s the benefit of having a smart coffee maker? Being able to tell your friends that you have a smart coffee maker. It sure as fuck doesn’t make better coffee than my Baratza, electric kettle, and french press…
Agreed.
We finally bought a coffee maker with a start timer. My wife loves it, but if the model came without one I would have bought it instead.
In ten years maybe my coffee maker will be “vintage” and I can sell it for a mint.
The older Melita holder was enclosed at the base so the coffee doesn’t cool off when passing through. I wish I could get those again. Have to use a ceramic version when the old one wore out.
I have a ceramic one arriving from Amazon next week. My plastic one is all beat to shit unlike the one in that picture. Hadn’t considered anything about the base since the temp was always fine by me.
That’s what happened to the ones we had after years of daily use.
LOL that’s great. I think I’ll let this “innovation” pass me by.
Sagittarius: The High Priestess reversed – Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge
Reversed? I’m not into that back door stuff.
Lies.
Looked at Aries and thought “nah”. Then I thought maybe Pisces since I’m close to the Pisces/Aries cutoff. And thought “double nah”.
And my power just went out, so that’s fun.
Although…could Pisces mean menopause has finally arrived? That would be amazing!
*attempts to stifle chuckles*
I have a buff picture for you.
here
SFed
ARRGH!
Ah! Plane porn!
What did you expect?
Well, you DID say “buff,” so…I was hoping…
Yeah, BUFF – Big, Ugly, Fat… Fellow
I was expecting a floor buffer.
I wouldn’t do that to KK.
You, maybe.
Needs moar elephant walk and MITO.
I don’t know what that means.
This?
No; this.
OBE has it below. Minimum interval takeoff. Just like it sounds, taking off as soon as possible after the bird in front.
Elephant walk is the bunched up taxiing. Looks like a parade of circus elephants. The B52’s wings are long enough and the end bogies are short enough that it can bounce up and down when rolling.
MITO
Oooooh baby!
(I’m a big fan of Air Boyd, BTW)
Baby Elephant Walk
LOL I linked that last night in the Zoom.
ooooh baby!
Its 9am…water is a bit cool, beer is colder…Lake Day. Teens are off somewhere on the shore fishing. Happy Sunday glibbies
Well that link didnt work. Still a nice day.
Capricorn: The Hanged Man – Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy
I’m at the office working on taxes. Seems apropos.
So, what are you going to buy with the tax return? #TheWayStupidPeopleThinkOfTaxes
Not stupid. Ignorant, and kept that way deliberately by those who don’t want people to understand.
Cancer: 3 of Coins – Trade, skilled labor, nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory – I’ll take the aristocracy part, pass on the trade and labor. I would rather have large guaranteed passive income
“Cancer: 3 of Coins – Trade, skilled labor, nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory”
Yay.
Biden was just on tv giving a live speech. Holy fuck, he looked rough.
I thought he was sequestered until the debate. I’m surprised they let him out of the basement.
Me too.
He looked rough.
I snapped a couple pics with my phone.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/9A0yYF-xRvOfW11IlGy5og.6Cwr8IISyI5ega5bUV_5ZA
I don’t think they convey it properly though.
He looks like he’s about to wager 100 quatloos on the human.
What’s the exchange rate to pressed latinum? *rubs earlobes*
He looks like Morbo from Futurama, an old and decrepit Morbo. Seriously though, he looks really bad.
The middle pic made me do a literal Eek! in my head.
Mr. Freeze?
“Libra: 10 of Wands – Fortune, gain, any kind of success, and then the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy.”
I’m starting to think this astrology stuff is bullshit.
Only because he’s not licenced. If he were properly licenced by the government, we would know we could trust this scientific consensus.
But it’s possible — theoretically possible mind you — that you might put your ruler a bit off and read where the planets are for a different week than intended. Fortunately, you’re all more interested in what the cards say than the stars, so if you ever were to get the wrong horoscope, you won’t be affected by it. While I won’t say it’s absolutely impossible to draw the cards incorrectly, I’m having a difficult time figuring out how. Unless you had the deck upside down so all the cards were drawn reversed with respect to how they should have been or something.
I believe this is called “SCIENCING THE SHIT OF OUT IT!!1!!!!”
Leo: 6 of Cups reversed – The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently
So… shit right?
So, what are you going to buy with the tax return? #TheWayStupidPeopleThinkOfTaxes
Uncle Sam’s Christmas Club!
Apropos of nothing (other than I m inundated with “Daines/Bullock for Senate” ads.
Bullock is really pushing the free unlimited health care for all crap. Also wealth envy (“Daines got RICH!”) and evul kkkorporashunz, especially insurance parasites.
If I were running Daines’ campaign, I’d be running an ad saying “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” nonstop.
*I think Daines is going to get smoked if he doesn’t start putting out something positive about what he believes and what he wants to do. Oogaboogah terrorism and communists isn’t likely to get him re-elected. Especially in Socialist Shithole, Montana. Maybe the people in the eastern flatlands and the high line will save him, but I’m not optimistic about his chances around here.
Claire Daines or Sandra Bullock?
Yes please.
Leo: 6 of Cups reversed – The future, renewal, that which will come to pass presently
Hmm. I kind of like it!
I could use a good week for my skilled labor, nobility, etc…
I’ll take funny money for $10,000, Alex
It’s not entirely clear how the government will pay for Trump’s $200 Medicare cards
It’s a mystery, it is.
TrumpCare! Socialism for America, by America, to America!
I’m curious what $200 in Medicare gets you. A Tylenol?
A vote?
I heard he was slipping among the senior set.
So we have money for “free” healthcare for all but can’t support $200 gift cards for all. I guess free healthcare costs < $200 per year.
Claire Daines or Sandra Bullock?
I wish.
Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin
* clutches pearls * – ACB
Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation
Why don’t we wait for the stars to move!? – Mitch
Revival meeting tent show a-coming!
Former aides of President Donald Trump are being urged to speak out about concerns over his presidency as the countdown to the election gathers pace.
Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said now was the time for ex-Trump officials to step forward and help sway undecided voters by revealing their worries to help snatch victory from his grasp.
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Taylor launched The Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (REPAIR) group to bring together concerned ex-aides and said they now had a “moral” duty to speak out and deny Trump a second term.
Taylor said: “It’s now or never. Those who witnessed the president’s unfitness for office up close have a moral obligation to share their assessment with the electorate.”
Testify, sisters and brothers! Tell your story. Confess your sins and be redeemed. Be healed!
Former Trump aide rocks the boat with his testimony:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJq7J2uzSlc
I cannot figure this out…Trump’s appointees, in my experience, have been good to excellent. Obama’s appointees were absolute shit.
We had these two guys at my State Dept job that came from the White House (i.e. they were unloaded onto us from the WH). These guys were in charge of the healthcare.gov debacle. In our first meeting with them, they were laughing about it, calling it a “clusterfuck”. They were the ones in charge of building and launching it
“We want our cushy swamp jobs back and electing the Team who wants a thousand years of socialism will get us there.”
It just gets better and better.
Obama was briefed on the Flynn investigation and Biden suggested charging Flynn under the Logan Act violation.
Crazy how obsessed they were with Flynn. His plans to revamp the NSA obviously freaked out the deep state. For that reason alone, Trump should implement those changes.
IIRC Flynn wanted to end the wars, as well.
Fucking peacenik hippie.
Disban the FBI. The thin blue line crowd always likes to claim a few bad apples. but we now see many agents knew the Flynn case was a bunch of crap and politcly motivated and did nothing. Fire them all and shut the doors.
So what are the odds Biden is faking it with all the weird things he sais and he will come to a debate sharp and crush trump using the element of surprise?
None
Now do the odds on if he strokes out during the debates.
25% chance of heart attack – seriously. He’ll be loaded on speed and aderral. Asking a lot from a heart that old.
Adderal is basically speed. I hope these ADHD kids don’t try tripping…
I don’t see him faking it and playing rope a dope. He’s always been a gaffe machine. It’s possible he’ll be on enough drugs and prepped enough to be ok. The other problem I see is that Biden will be showing the signs of dementia and Trump not being able to help himself, tear into Biden when he should show compassion to the old man and not be seen as a bully.
Tyrus, the enormous former pro wrestler who is a fixture on the Greg Gutfield show, warned of the rope-a-dope approach, and i guess he would be as familiar with it as just about anyone. Even 8 years ago people were saying Paul Ryan was going to easily top Biden in the VP debate, but Biden outdid him. Biden has enough experience in these forums to pull off a good showing if he can hold it together long enough. Trump better be getting coaching not to be overconfident for this debate, because Biden undoubtedly has enough brain cells left to pull off a decent performance, especially with a sympathetic media to highlight his best lines and bury his mistakes.
But he used to be to run his mouth for hours without notes. Now he can’t finish sentences.
What’re the odds Jo Jorgensen tweets her support for Biden at some point?
She’s not Weld.
She has TDS and she’s strongly in support of the Burn, Loot and Murder crowd.
So Armenia and Azerbaijan are going to war apparently. I blame Turkey.
I saw a tweet from an Armenian-American blaming Trump. /smh
The next episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians should be interesting.
Well, shit. There go two of the countries I deal with at work. At least Kosovo & Serbia are friends now (also two countries I deal with at work)
Azerbaijan has my second-favorite national anthem so I’m rooting for them.
Everything old is new again. It’s like the last thirty years didn’t happen.
2020 weirdness matches on.
https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/27/joe-montana-malibu-house-home-property-trespasser-snatches-baby/
*marches
Bruno Hauptmann?
Straight men, the internet has a question for you: Why do you hate astrology so much?
Because I read these damn posts every week and never get rich from it
Relevant
For the same reason we hate nonsense like homeopathy?
Because it’s stupid? And stupid things annoy me? As do stupid people, and stupid questions?
There is a bright line here, though, between being interested in astrology, and thinking seriously that the positional relationships of astronomical objects can be analyzed in order to predict the future. The first is silly but relatively harmless. The later is untreated mental illness that will eventually manifest itself in other, less silly, ways.
^science denier.
Astroscience denier
Because FYTW. /right answer
OFFS.
I was doing a virtual date and said I was a Trump voter if not necessarily a Trump supporter. That was pretty much the end of that. Should I lie next time?
No.
No way. The girl you meet who understands the difference may be a keeper.
+1
When I first met my wife, I told her that Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get one dime from the government. After I explained to her that any private organization shouldn’t, get any funding from the government, while she still disagreed with me, she understood that just because I don’t want government to fund something doesn’t mean I want it banned.
Bastiat Feed and Grain Company
Do they have a catalog?
?
did you take a screenshot you can share? was it hot?
Depends.
Are you looking for a quick fling or something long term?
Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin
So the glass is half full.
I was doing a virtual date and said I was a Trump voter if not necessarily a Trump supporter. That was pretty much the end of that. Should I lie next time?
Why? It’s not like you’re going to lose out on any of the good stuff.
I don’t see why politics would need to come up.
…
Ayyyy!!! Finally!!!
Oh. Of course.
I think you need a Constitutional amendment for this.
LOL
They’re like animals chasing their own tail. 4 years of this and they’ve finally snapped for good.
Watching a Big Jet TV show for the first time since March. I guess that means I’m starting to get over my cancelled trip to the UK. That country is pretty much dead to me, unless they get their shit together (yeah, right)
Big jet TV? As common folk, I only get to see the little tiny one on the back of the person’s seat 2 inches in front of me.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkQef3Fidr7tm3gNuXgGKPw
I’m not sure if they gave Joe the wrong meds, or he’s just finally lost what little mind he had left.
He’s a big government socialist!
The dems are running the absolute worst presidential campaign I’ve ever seen. I hate to keep dwelling on that. It’s just that it’s really bizarre.
“ALSO special shoutout to everyone in 2016 who stayed home or voted 3rd party. You all can eat my ass. “
Read this from a friend’s FB. It’s absolutely disturbing to see people who I respected become these irrational hateful creatures.
I sat 2016 out. Tell him not to worry though, I’m voting for Trump this time.
It’s not. It’s a she who represents the worst kind of suburban Mom who just discovered politics and has decided to become this harpy on the internets.
I don’t think you can be part of the resistance without being unhinged, hysterical, and vulgar. It’s a prerequisite.
TEAM BLUE carried my state by 20-plus points in 2016. It wouldn’t have made a difference which candidate I voted for.
Same here. I’m voting regardless this time. And there could be a miracle in which my vote for the US House actually wins. There’s a one in a million chances, but it’s there. The only vote I’ve ever cast here that counted was for fatty Hogan.
I’m considering it. I don’t actually remember if I sat out 2016. I’ve voted maybe twice in the last decade.
But I might do it this year just for the lulz.
I’m gonna do it just because I’m sick of this “popular vote president” shit. They want it to matter? Let’s make it matter, then.
Ah, good point.
I’m stunned by the amount of “are you registered?” information I am seeing, and I can only assume it is pro-leftist.
The honestly believe that they lost because:
A. Russian interference
B. Dark money
C. Low voter turnout
D. Third party voters.
They never seem to pick up that their bullshit antics turns people off.
That’s only because they rigged the thing so strongly, it’s amazing that they lost.
My city is going to strongly discourage actual voting like they did last time. I’m going to try, but I don’t think I make it through a 4 hour line. They want the harvested ballots to count more, so they scare off actual votes with crazy wait times. I can wait an hour, but four?
Seriously? I have never waited more than ten or fifteen minutes, and that’s in NYC.
Yes, the scam is that for every vote they discourage, it doubles one that they harvest. Pure evil.
Yeah somehow Hillary managed to carry Cali with no help from me.
Whatever happened to Cali seceding? I thought they were doing that the last time they lost?
The movie stars first have to figure out if they want to secede or just move to Canada. So the plebes just wait to be told what to do.
Reply with this
This might be better.
Apparently the anti-corruption party guy won mayor of Bucharest bating the incumbent corrupt party woman who was utter shit as mayor. I have high hopes of the same shit for 4 more years and nothing really changes. In 4 years the mayor will explain he could not beat the system the local equivalent of the deep state
You need more excitement, Pie. Move here and enjoy a civil war with us, coming up sooner than later.
I’ll have to see if I can find my green card in the attic
Just fly into Northern Mexico and walk across the border like all foreigners. I volunteer a Glib to pick you up on this side.
And end up where? Arizona? No way thay aint no place for a person to live
What the everliving fuck??
https://youtu.be/DP0pJ-nhlas
Better start a course of instruction on making field expedient surrender flags. I always thought the stress cards were a myth that old timers told to explain why it was harder when they went through.
There is a man who knows how to rant.
yo my peeps. Another update from Humungus-Flashman land.
I went to the bar today with my mom (yeah, she’s cool like that, and it is also a Italian restaurant).
And CNN was on. I do not have cable, and have no interest in watching it. But, all I could notice from CNN was the extreme sycophancy happening toward the Biden campaign.
Boy oh Boy CNN you do love slurping some Dem dick. Luckily this only lasted 15 minutes or so until all TVs were changed to some NFL game or other.
Next, but much more importantly, LH took his future into his hands this week and decided to leave his 18+ year employer. It’s an event that has been a long time coming, to be honest. I’m so glad for him. My advice for him was : don’t look for new work yet, you have to detox first.
So we are also thinking of other ways to live like we are in our 20s (or 30s) again. Like, let’s refinance the house! Let’s put a price tag on groceries to figure out a price per meal (mac n cheese, iykwim)!
Have a lovely week glibs and gliberinas.
Great to hear from you guys! Eat good and be merry, the end times might be just around the corner!
Ha, I just re-signed to my old employer of 4 years (or 19 years and 50 weeks if you include the acquisition that got me there). Considering I haven’t worked this year I’m kind of enjoying it. Getting a paycheck again will be nice.
Best of luck in your adventures too.
Woo hoo! Congratulations to LH! I remember him talking about that some time ago.
EF! So glad to see you and may I say how much I miss you and LH.
Congrats on the venturing out from under an onerous employer. What a relief!
Sorry about the mac & cheese, but #protip: use evaporated milk.
Liar! Use heavy cream and butter.