I didn’t buy a new Tarot to use for you all, since my local witchcraft store was closed due to the snowpocalypse. Yes, you can buy decks on Amazon.com, but they don’t give you valid results unless the cards are sufficiently permeated by nag champa.
Anyway, the skies are speaking out of both sides of their metaphorical mouth this week. Kind of appropriate, I guess for the month of the two-faced god.
The first bit of seeming contradiction (because of course, there isn’t really any contradiction where the Celestial is concerned) are the two planetary alignments. We have Mars-Terra-Luna (waning) = “strife at home.” And we also have Terra-Sol-Mercury which means “good news from/about home.” Obviously the skies are speaking to two different groups of people. If you’re born between Libra and Aquarius (both signs that feature prominently this week) then you get the good news. Leo through Aries… I’m sorry, especially since I’m in that group. Pisces or Virgo? I have no idea I mean, “your destiny is cloudy and difficult to discern.”
The second non-contradiction is having the moon in Libra while Venus and Jupiter are in Sagittarius. We’ve talked about these before — having such a powerful change sign in the place of balance leads to instability and things generally going amok. While Sagittarius, when empowered by the two brightest planets brings about things going well. The clue here is that Sagittarius isn’t a lucky sign as much as it is a karma sign. Doing right this weeks brings great rewards, while cutting corners (in a metaphysical sense) subjects you to the pique of irritated stars.
Beyond that, we have Saturn in Capricorn making people act like doofuses (anything like that happen last week when this sign was also up?) and Mars in Aries giving its buff to getting buff (hit the gym, hit it hard). We also have something new — The Sun and Mercury are in Aquarius. This is a good omen for prosperity, return on investment, financial windfall, rewards for effort, crop yields and the like.
Taken all together, this is a very rewarding week if you show some self-discipline. Enjoy it.
wait don’t between Libra and Aquarius and Leo through Aries overlap?
Go the other way around the circle.
Virgos are always cloudy
I would have thought frigid.
Only when it gets below about 50degrees, otherwise I’m a firecracker
The Orville brought me here.
…if you show some self-discipline.
Pretty big ‘if’.
The stars can only show you. They can’t make you.
In Toluca lake, the position of the stars predict the eventual arrival of the paparazzi.
If I’m going to self- anything, the smart bet will be on self-love.
Wait, there’s an IFLA tag now? Woo Hoo!
Well you Are world renowned
I’m amused that there’s a “satire” tag. Is that checked by default for any new post?
Yes
Bisexual college sorority president films video with MILF
If you don’t have a side gig writing headlines, there is no justice in this world.
Needz sororiaty drunken lesbian porn video. Plus her mom.
Hellllloooooo mom
Concerning other blondes coming out of the closet, Meghan McCain just renounced her GOP membership.
If you can be talked out of your beliefs by Joy Behar…
Her dad did a long time ago.
“What’s missing, McCain said, is the decency that members of the party, including her father, once embraced”
Oh, OK, now I understand.
What’s missing is her father’s attempts at creating a warmonger musical.
“I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”
To be fair, there is something to be said for that. The GOP is hurtling ever-faster towards an “socially-conservative, economically-liberal” ideology. A coalition of ‘Hands Off My Medicare!’ retirees and perpetually aggrieved Millennials who grew up believing they were entitled to high 5 figures and a starter home right out of college is not with whom I’d stand ranks.
The Democrats, meanwhile, are hurtling towards a socially totalitarian, economically totalitarian ideology, and who would want to stand ranks with *that*?
No argument from me.
If only there were another option!
That’s what tears me up – the Republicans fucking suck, but Democrats are barely concealing their totalitarian impulses anymore. I used to say I’d never vote for either party and that we need one or more third party alternatives, but I’m not sure if I can believe that anymore. We have one party that wants to shred the Constitution, cripple the economy with taxes, and ban all types of practical energy production. Then we have a party that kinda-sorta adheres to the Constitution sometimes.
Something something Nash equilibrium.
If only there were another option!
The sweet release of death?
If “socially-conservative” means “prone to moralistic interference in the lives of others”, I’d say the two parties are running neck-and-neck on that one.
Which is my point. With the influx of Hard Hat Democrat-types into the Republican party post-2016 swinging a platform that at least paid lip service to fiscal responsibility to one that campaigns on infrastructure spending, when one pans one’s view out, there is increasingly very little actual difference between the two. What most of the screeching is about is trivialities, and thanks to the epistemological myopia induced by social media and cable news, these trivialities seem as large as Apatosauri.
You mean transgender bathrooms isn’t the defining issue of our generation!?! Balderdash, Sir! Balderdash I say!
Some Republicans (like Trump) don’t subscribe to identity politics. Though many do and rush to condemn a schoolboy based on the color of his skin and his hat.
Due process is alien to Democrats. Again some Republicans are better on this issue.
I consider neither identity politics nor due process trivial issues.
Socioeconomic class warfare isn’t identity politics? Rural vs. urban isn’t identity politics?
C’mon, son!
Can you give an example of Trump’s engaging in socioeconomic class warfare? He strongly criticizes the media–correctly from my point of view–but that’s about it. When did he demonize the urban population? Socioeconomically and culturally (in many ways), I’m firmly within the class that you imply that Trump is waging his class warfare against. But I don’t notice it.
You’re being obtuse, but I’ll play along. And while I don’t have time to construct the case study you requested, I’d say that crying that Amazon.com is taking advantage of the poor postal service is just one example. His ‘We’re going to say Merry Christmas again’ bullshit is another example, mutatis mutandis ad infinitum.
I mean, if you’re arguing that the white, non-college educated working class isn’t an “identity” then go right ahead, but I’m not going to board your train to Crazy Town. To claim that Trump’s success in no way stems from being the first politician in current times to explicitly construct this identity in political discourse and appeal to their collective grievances isn’t even wrong.
Oooh! Oooh! I’ll play!
HM, I think you’re stretching the concept of “identity politics” past the point where it has any meaning. If you’re claiming that “any group that I can define” is an “identity,” then congratulations, you’ve just proved everything that has ever existed.
Furthermore, I would say that the “white non-college-educated working class,” is NOT an identity, at least not from inside the purported group. The only way you can claim that assemblyline workers, farmers, framers, and retail grunts are a homogenous group is to beg the question that a particular ingroup exists and then claim that the outgroup is all one thing.
From a personal point of view, the only way I see commonality between the various clusters of non-college-educated working class whites is that a particular social unit which is overrepresented in media and governmental circles seems to hate them all. Of course, this is all of a piece with such concepts as “POCs” which inanely suggests that a black man from Detroit has more in common with a Mexican maize farmer man or a Mongolian yak herder than the white guy the next block over. It’s stating that White (or Urban) is the only thing that matters.
I’m disappointed.
I was wondering where this would lead. That’s funny.
Mom has a gummy-smile.
Still 10/10 would.
This is making me rethink my objections to the incest videos on PornHub.
“Taken all together, this is a very rewarding week if you show some self-discipline.”
Well this group is out.
I usually keep my self-discipline private but if the stars want I guess I can do it in front of the picture window, I’m not going outside though it’s way too cold for that.
To my credit, I saw pillsbury “break&bake” chocolate chip cookie dough at my Kroger for the manager’s special price of $1.50/ea, and I put them back.
Great. The first time (I remember) you mention Leo, and it’s shit news.
Why, I’m starting to think I might have to use other faculties to discern my fate!
*faints*
Cough it up, shitlord.
I found it interesting that Bezos’s parents were worth 30B from investing in Amazon.
And how dare Amazon expect that company property be returned when the employee separates! The nerve!
The quotes from the POS local politician are priceless. Not even attempting to hide his thuggery. At least muggers hide out in dark alleys at night.
Multiple auto-play videos?
Fuck that shit.
Various browser plug-ins which stop that are your friend.
Why do I get the feeling that they’re counting Bloomberg’s anti-gun bullshit (sometimes conducted with NYC government resources) as “charity”?
Is there a way to find out how liquid these billionaires are? You know, how much actual money Bezos has instead of what the stuff he owns is worth at current market values?
Are you telling me that he can’t just walk into a bank and withdraw 160 billion dollars?!
Also lost from his “worth” is the fact that if he tried to sell any substantial portion of his Amazon shares it would lead to a plummeting of the share price, making him by these calculations overall much poorer.
Any net worth based on ownership percentage of a single corporation is subject to wild volatility as well. So the calculations about how rich he is are meaningless in terms of his available funds.
If you taxed his ownership of Amazon at a 3% ‘wealth tax’, IOW, he would likely have to sell a ton of shares of the company to pay it, and given what such a sale would do to the price, he’d probably have to sell much more than 3% of his shares to pay the tax. And then, everyone else in the country, whose 401Ks, pensions and retirement accounts likely invest in Amazon or would be affected by an Amazon price drop, would end up suffering as a result.
No worries, I’m sure Fauxcahontas and AOC can find some friendly left-wing think tank to calculate the take from the Bezos of the world, and insist that there would be no effect on the economy other than new tax revenues, the same way they ‘calculated’ that tax cuts would only reduce tax revenue at exactly the percent of the cut from the current take, because you could never expect increased economic activity from tax cuts.
They ran same stories about Bill Gates at this point in his career. “Oooh, Bill Gates is worth 17 billion dollars and he didn’t give half of it to charity!”
A decade later he gave 60 billion to charity – more than anyone in history at that point, I suppose.
The guy is busy building businesses. Philanthropy writ large comes later.
This is a good omen for prosperity, return on investment, financial windfall, rewards for effort, crop yields and the like.
So, a bad time to work on my taxes?
Is there a good time?
No… not even when drunk.
I’m drinking Finally Legal. It’s not as good as I thought it would be.
Why, it’s everything I don’t want in a beer!
Sounds like maybe it’s trying to do too much.
Yeah, that was my thought. Piling on myriad different flavors doesn’t make for a good beer.
Chocolate, vanilla, bacon smoky beer? No thanks.
So, last week, IIRC, the stars said the week was supposed to be shit. However, this Taurus had a surprisingly good week. Tuesday was not a disaster (Tuesdays are almost always disasters). I have my shit together, although I still am balking on finishing my book.
Hoping it continues through this week while I am doing taxes, and I can pull my book across the finish line.
I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Not even Thicc ones?
Glad I’m not the only one with a bugaboo day.
Don’t Panic
I have a towel.
Well, you are a hoopy frood.
+1 DentArthurDent
Forget your Taurus, give me some good news for my Accent.
Taken all together, this is a very rewarding week if you show some self-discipline.
Aww, nuts.
Can the stars discern the probability of the the local pizza joint once again fucking up my delivery
(I said NO banana peppers in my calzone, dammit!)?
I’ll eat it!
I like banana peppers plenty, but in a calzone??
Gee, I didn’t know we were at war against China.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/marine-corps-might-have-new-way-kill-chinese-warships-thanks-f-35-42637
Pretty much all my Marine training in the 80’s was on how to kill Russians and their commie allies. Then I was sent to fight Iraq (who conveniently used Russian tactics and old Russian equipment).
that site is the buzzfeed of military stuff
This one weird trick to kill ruskies?
The kremlin hates it!
*fingers crossed*
Eh, that doesn’t bother me overmuch. You want the military to constantly be analyzing what potential threats lie ahead and how to mitigate them. Hell, we’ve developed plans in case we found ourselves in another war with Great Britain. All countries do this sort of thing, and I wouldn’t consider it to be saber-rattling.
Agreed. I rather suspect that China is doing the same.
We know they are. They have publicly announced that their entire military doctrine revolves around mitigating any potential threat from the U.S. – Be it by air, land, sea or cyberspace.
Google Earth the PRC test ranges and you will see outlines of US carriers, Anderson AFB and other targets. No surprise for both sides doing this.
Plans to fight GB… assault their PCs with knives while their comrades lock the car doors and spectate?
Anyone have a recommendation for a URL shortener for android?
Aren’t there websites that do it for you?
Since its Sunday afternoon: compulsory.
(this belongs at the bottom)
How about you just lengthen all the other text to make the Url seem shorter?
Works for midget porn stars.
Livestream from today’s Glibertarians meetup.
Thank you for the belly laugh. And here I was thinking I was deranged for clicking a HM link.
Well, you are. You just lucked out this time.
People who click on HM links are deranged? That’s news to me. Why are you all looking at me funny?
I don’t even know why that was so funny, but I too found a belly laugh in that.
Wait… I know. The presenter was Drax The Destroyer in a dark suit. It is as if Dave Bautista studied that tape to get his delivery down pat.
Those digs look a little too fancy.
Trump- murdering Americans to boost kkkorporations’ bottom line!
Last month, the AP revealed that the administration understated the advantages of installing better brakes on trains carrying crude oil and ethanol. Transportation Department officials acknowledged they miscalculated potential benefits by up to $117 million because they failed to include some projected future derailments.
In explaining its actions, the Trump administration said in some cases that the previous administration understated the price tag on new industry restrictions. In others, it said President Barack Obama’s administration had been overly expansive in how it defined benefits to society.
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Trump’s administration has stressed that savings for companies were greater than any increased perils to safety or the environment.
Savings for evil corporations are bad. It’s not like they get the money to fund regulatory compliance from their customers.
All I learned from that article is that Trump has a long way to go in “draining the swamp” if “his” administration is still feeding AP its Dem talking points for it.
Since its Sunday afternoon: compulsory.
Hey Mexican Sharpshooter – unable to find the Ninkasi you recommended yesterday at my local Total Wine, but I did track down this alternative. (BA says 15% but I think it “ranges” between 15% and 18%(!)).
Also picked up a few other new ones [to me] to try: Founders Blushing Monk, Left Hand Hard Wired Nitro Coffee Porter, Southern Tier Samoa This, James E. Pepper 1776 American Brown Ale
and some of the other “usuals”.
Oh yeah – The “Raison d’Extra” is about $10/bottle so I only bought one, not a 4 pack. Ouch.
I’ve had that before, several years ago. It’s pretty good.
I saw they were bringing that back, I didn’t realize that it would be so soon.
I’ve certainly enjoyed some Raison D’Extra. Haven’t seen it in a while, although I haven’t done any serious beer shopping for a few months. I’m drinking one of my favorite celebratory beers (the 14.1% 2013, not the 2009).
I bought three of ’em on my way to a friend’s birthday party (he just turned 50) yesterday evening. Got called on a search-and-rescue mission just before I got to his house. Knew I’d wind up playing backup hanging around (sober!), in a parking lot, but left the party immediately anyway and sure enough, that’s what happened.
I left one of the three with the birthday boy, but the upside is that I don’t have to share the one I just cracked.
Bloke on the Range on Swiss gun laws.
Last week was a doozie for me (Aries), especially Thursday. The problems at work, both technical and people related, piled up so quickly that it became comical.
Hopefully this coming week will see some relief, although it sounds like a toss-up from the IFLA interpretation above.
You can’t just blow up people when they become a problem?
I guess the Heinlein quote was wrong (surprise, surprise).
Well, technically it would be pretty easy to blow them up, but then the ensuing paperwork is a real drag.
I smoked a brisket a couple of days ago and wasn’t too impressed so for tonight, it’s getting chopped up into a homemade chilli. Soaked the three beans last night and it’s been simmering all day today.
Going to steam some anchillos soon
BEANS!! In Chili!?!? I kid, beans are fine just don’t add any cinnamon.
The Texas Chili Parlor in Austin uses beans. Which may or may not have caused Alex Jones to forget his kids’ names after eating there before a deposition.
It is is damn good chili and I’m sure all the Glibs who lived in Austin can testify.
Cinnamon in chili is a crime against humanity, chili and cinnamon.
Chiles and cinnamon are great… in Indian food.
Why would I add cinnamon? I’m confused
See below, Some WestPennsyltuckian hillbillies invaded lower Ohio, put that shit in a meat sauce, and called it chili.
akshully, “cincinnati style” chili has greek origins:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_chili
Jesus… I like cheese but a pound of it with dinner?
Me too. The pineapple alone adds enough flavor.
No banana peppers?
“Soaked the three beans last night…”
So you’re using the Chili recipe from the Stone Soup cookbook.
Using my brain for the recipe. I know what goes with what.
I put beans in my vegetaian chili, but I find they dull the flavor in my regular chili. Just don’t add anything crazy, like spaghettti.
*ahem*
Skyline chili is why Cincinnati will never be taken seriously as a city, that and Marvin Lewis.
YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!
well…I only get coneys. I dont really care for sketti in my chili either.
Thankfully, Marvin is gone.
I do like Cincinnati-style “chili” – especially the kind I make in my Dutch oven at home – but I do agree that it’s a bit weird to call it chili.
Exactly, One may as well call Bolognese Sauce “chili”. I think people get confused up here in the midwest because we conflate coney sauce with chili sauce on hot dogs.
You reminded me that I need to re-season my dutch oven.
Much obliged. I just set it out.
This.
When you realize Cincy chili is only called that because the Greek dish it
is based on has a similar sounding name.
Exactly
*shudders
Have a little broken pension promises porn.
As you can see, the national savings rate for the U.S. is only 4% of its GDP; whereas, for China, it’s close to 47%.
Now, some economists argue that a national saving’s rate of 0% is optimal as retirees are spending as much as others are saving, but only an economist would ignore the fact that people want to bequeath the fruits of their success to their children. Which is why they support policies to inhibit this sort of intergenerational wealth transfer.
The national savings rate is at least 12.4%.
/lockbox
My garbage senator Murkowski penned some ridiculous op-ed with Cardin (D-MD) demanding the Equal Rights Amendment be passed. It failed to mention a single right denied to women.
She’s fucking terrible. Her dad was a hack but at least honest about.
The fact that she ran – and won – after being primaried is a black spot on Alaska’s citizens. Why Q would say nice things about a state that did that is beyond me.
Also, aren’t they also the state that saw the defeat of a long term pol who was sunk at the polls because he was under indictment? And right after the election, it turned out that the indictment was totally bogus?
She got caught flatfooted when she was primaried. Short story is it was a non-presidential election and there was an abortion thing on the ballot that drew out a lot of conservative people who didn’t like her and they voted for her opponent.
RIP Uncle Ted. He got screwed. Bigly. At least his replacement was voted out after one term and lost the governor race this fall.
To be clear, the abortion initiative was on the August ballot that drew the conservatives. Good timing, politically speaking, to use the initiative timeline to get it on when nobody votes and for Murkowski’s opponent to capitalize on it.
Suppose ERA passed. What about the rights of the 50 or so other genders that aren’t men or women? Won’t they all need amendments too?
That is easy. All of the other genders are one step above white men.
When they say “ERA” what they really mean is the government gets to tell business owners how much they are allowed to pay every American.
I shudder to think what kind of crap they would foist on American companies if that amendment were passed. I can envision the government engaging in mafia-like shakedowns of companies that don’t have “enough” women in highly paid positions, even if there were no qualified female applicants. And I don’t think that’s a conspiracy theory at all.
Silicone Sunday bounces artificially onward.
http://archive.li/sk4Im
#3 show bobs and vagene.
Intelligent people can debate in good faith about the merits of a border barrier. Then you have people like this asshole poisoning the well.
Via Instapundit:
“I’m aware that the US has agreed to ban the use of landmines that do not discriminate between civilians and combatants, but putting that aside, why wouldn’t 10,000 to 20,000 motion-activated Claymores along the Southern border be an effective deterrent? If POTUS declared illegal wall-jumpers as enemy combatants (MS-13 and the like) wouldn’t that work?”
-Charles Glasser
Thanks for confirming the stereotype of the heartless immigrant hater.
Mine the desert? Kinky….
LOL.
https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1089185071490387969