Oil Blackmail and George Bush

Today in some of his stumpy speechifying--a little on the slurred side, mind you--Bush admitted a connection between his Iraq "policy"--specifically his Iraq War misadventure--and OIL.

Is this, as an NPR commentator just intoned, an admission that his administration's energy policy is bankrupt? Bush said that if the US leaves Iraq, the terroists get the oil.

Now I would point out along with others that terroists and Mid-Eastern governments already have the oil. And I've always said that breaking up the blackmarket in oil between Saddam (and perhaps others) and certain European nations (and perhaps others) was part of the Bush-Cheney dice-rolling in their rush to invade Iraq.

If Bush is on the ropes and stuck in the mud as he's been acting recently, his admission may be the first step in his recovery toward reality (just kidding.)

Or he could be careening off the wagon...the truth of the bottle slurring out.

Either way, he's shown himself to be the big f*ck-up that 50% of the American people said he was back in 1999 and 2000.

And with only one nag in the race--named America--it's no cause for S'OW to celebrate as Bush stumbles and falls. As he goes so goes the nation.

So thanks, Andrew Sullivan and the rest of you who are johnny-come-latelys to the Bush-is-a-f*ck-up party. Sullivan says he began to doubt Bush "3 weeks in" to the Iraq War at his Mission Accomplished hubristic display. Funny, but I'm a con-prog myself--a progressive with traditional Christian values--and Bush didn't fool me at any time.

After all, the Corporatism train has been on track for years, and Chiron/Pluto will have their way, even if it kills several thousand underlings.

The divide-and-conquer "Rs vs Ds" is and has been illusory and harmful to this nation. And it's erudite, influential people like Mr.Sullivan who have enabled Bush and Co to have their way with the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the military industrial complex, the finances...and with the truth.

"..putting Bossy at the helm was not so smart", said Lim over at Lim's Limericks so even a limerick-writing cat coulda told ya.

But hey--join the party now that it's painfully obvious to all but the grossly gullible!

America's only hope for restoring the checks and balances that have served her so well is with tomorrow's election, and I PRAY she--or 51% of her--won't be fooled again by these self-serving, short-sighted fools...Trickster Rove's treachery notwithstanding.


11.6.06 8:20 pm est

tags: Bush Oil America Political Astrology

midterm fever: Zell backs Perdue

Yes, it's true! Wacky Zell Miller is backing Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue for re-election.

With well-produced tv ads, sword-wielder Zell, who fancies himself Zorro, touts Perdue against Mark Taylor. I watched their televised debate yesterday, and wasn't impressed with either candidate in the ethical department, but I can say this: if Zorro Zell is under the impression that his support can sway anyone, he's goofier than I previously thought.

Just thought I'd mention my home state elections since my ancestors moved here from VA before the Revolution (the Barnett and Crawford crowd)--my point being that I care about rubber-stamper Perdue's Republican connections to Washington and his self-enriching land deals with their reach-around legislations--and isn't it amusing that Zell still insists he's a Democrat? Can a pack have two jokers?

note: apologies if I've misspelled Sonny's name (P-U-rdue?)...it's because all his ads use "Sonny" to give him that down-home flavor. Well, at least he uses Sonny, not Sunny.


SO'W Reminder: VOTE!! bin Laden prefers Republicans--it justifies his life's work-- which is a good enough reason to VOTE them out. Rs could've caught him but they let him escape--now we have perpetual war, not justice for 9/11--is this what you want for your children? War-mongerers and deficit spenders?

And the financial situation is much worse than most of the American public knows or wants to know--but don't let the hard decisions keep you from facing the music. Yes, I know that many of the Ds are enablers and more, but they're our only hope for a better course and a New Perspective...please VOTE Nov 7.


11.6.06 10:41 am

tags: midterm elections Sonny Perdue Georgia Political Astrology

Mercury Transit and Rx for midterm elections

TRANSIT OF MERCURY: On Wednesday, Nov. 8th, Mercury will pass directly in front of the sun. The rare transit will be visible from the Americas, Hawaii and all around the Pacific Rim. It begins at 2:12 p.m. EST (11:12 a.m. PST) and lasts for nearly five hours.

Because Mercury is so small, only a tiny fraction of the sun will be covered. So don't stare at the sun on Wednesday; it will be as blinding as ever. Instead, try to view the event through a properly-filtered solar telescope. Mercury's tiny, jet-black silhouette passing in front of solar prominences, filaments and sunspots should be a marvelous sight.

Visit Spaceweather.com for observing tips and links to live webcasts. #


Looking at the Mercury Transit chart for Nov 8, 2:12 pm, Capitol Building:

we see a rising Uranus 10Pis52 Rx = technology, Rx = recounts?; change and reform? rebellion and disruption? *Power outages, since Uranus = lightening and electricity?

ASC 11Pis30 with MC 19Sag43, transformative Pluto 25Sag08, direct in 10th house of Career and Public Status.

I'm relating this fairly rare Transit of Mercury across the Sun (leader) to the midterm elections for obvious timely reasons. And Mercury relates to paper "trails", agreements, and as such, esp since only a hapless dolt can expect smooth running from this highly contentious melee with its hackable voting machines and its win-at-all-costs participants.

North Node, with its connection to the Public (bwo the Moon) is in first house and rising, NN 23Pis56. In horary charts, NN in first house would be considered a fortunate thing!

2:12 pm: At this Moon Hour of changes, an out-of-bounds Moon is able to act of her own accord without interference from the other energies--so will the Public hold sway? Moon is also at a critical 29th degree, 29Gem41, and as you know, communicative Gemini is often of two minds, which expresses mightily our polarized population...polarized by the "divide and conquer" model of politicians everywhere.

Wherever we find Gemini we find multiplicity (many many ballots to count?) and sometimes duplicity. In our dualistic world--also signified by Gemini, sign of the Twins--energies will express, if not within ourselves, then in our outer environment.

Sounds like good times , doesn't it?

With the 29 degree Moon vibrating at high frequency and anxious to reach Cancer (home), and with 00Can00 being a World Point, the implications for the midterm elections and symbolism of Mercury (young person, as well as messenger or communication) "crossing" the Sun (leader) in Scorpio, sign of big business, secrets, hidden organizations, and The Eagle (USA), we may expect interesting developments between now and the end of the year.

And that's not even counting 2007's Saturnian Scythe which seems to be "After" Rumfeld at the moment. And perhaps that's some of the meaning of the first-time-in-our-history US natal Mars' retrograde station now in effect--since this past July--military (Mars) problems with perhaps the head Martian--Rumsfeld--being stalemated, as we're now witnessing.

Will the young people of America desert the Republican tugboat-to-nowhere but military service and perpetual war?

Plus, Monday, tomorrow, the active-duty officers' article comes out in several military journals calling for Rummy's ouster.


Now here are the Sabian Symbols for some of the pertinent degrees in the Mercury Transit chart and their shadow/unconscious/Illumination Point pictures as well...first from Marc Edmund Jones, then Dane Rudhyar's info:

(MEJ) Moon "30Gem": "Bathing beauties upon a beach"> CHARM =

pos: a special capacity for bringing the familiar desires and interests to an enduring representation of worthiness;

neg: regression to childish vanities.

(DR) "30Gem": "A parade of bathing beauties before large beach crowds">

keynote: The setting of social standards through personal excellence and competition;

keywords: The SHOW is over. Now comes the hour of decision (yep.)


Illumination Point (the opposite degree), "30Sag": "The Pope"> SANCTITY = an effective and spectacular sacrifice of self in some enduring service to the race at large;

neg: inordinate love of self-display and surrender to a lust for power (in politics? Go on!)

(DR) "30Sag": "The pope blessing the faithful">

keynote: The need to pay homage to traditional values upon which the Invisible Community of the spirit is built;

keywords: PERSONALIZED WORSHIP. It can be a blessing, or in some cases, a curse.


Mercury's Transit degree which is also the Sun's degree obviously:

(MEJ) "17Scor": "A woman the father of her own child"> NUCLEATION =

pos: an illimitable self-potentiality with effective spiritual or ideal as well as practical or everyday orientations;

neg: a characteristically anarchistic self-sufficiency.

Illumination Point: "17Tau": "A battle between the swords and the torches"> RESOLUTION =

pos: high organizational skill and an ability to bring the magic of understanding to any specific difficulty;

neg: a loss of self-competence through the conflicting compulsions of necesity and desire.

(DR) "17Tau": "A symbolical battle between "swords" and "torches">

keynote: Refusing to depend upon the past, the seeker turns warrior, fighting anew the "Great War."

keywords: This is the dharma of this stage of human evolution: a stage of POLARIZATION OF VALUES...salvation is attained through the emergent individual's readiness to face all issues as if there were only two opposed sides. #


Well, we've had gracious plenty polarization of late, but that's what the Symbols are saying...kind of reminds me of the ongoing shifting of the magnetic poles which may just be part of the global warming issue...and magnetism relates to that progressive Uranus again!


11.5.06 10:41 pm est

tags: midterm elections Mercury Transit Sabian Symbols Political Astrology

"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

(US politicians are tradesmen all right.)


*power outages may handily describe those who will lose their seats of power, too.


The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones; An Astrological Mandala, Dane Rudhyar; both available from Amazon.com

Oh SNAP! Cheney on ABC Sunday

Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview taped for airing Sunday on ABC, conceded the war may not be popular with the public. Still, he said, "It doesn't matter in the sense that we have to continue the mission and do what we think is right.... We're not running for office. We're doing what we think is right."

WHAT THEY THINK IS RIGHT? Is that right? If they tell it, it's no lie, if you will. Puh. Antinomianism simply drips from his snarl, doesn't it?

And after speechifyin' Bush called upon God Almighty to save his biscuits, it should come as no surprise--and I know it does not--that Cheney can actually say out loud in a tv interview that it doesn't matter if the war is popular with the people who are paying for it--you know--the ones for whom Dick waged war in their name? (sic.)

A question: HOW could a war be popular with anyone but those who are not in harm's way (Dick and his family) and with those making millions and millions more from war-profiteering? (That would be his nibs again.)

Well, I'll just have to look for Dick this Sunday, on ABC. I want to hear it out of the horse's orifice.

And have you seen Tavis Smiley's interview with Scott Ritter? Seems that anyone who prefers that Bush & CO NOT BOMB Iran should vote the Rs out of office asap, aka November 7 midterms upcoming. So put on your coat, get out there and Vote...perhaps it's not too late to restore a glimmer of sanity to Washington.

Sheesh, I miss living there, for all its problems, woes, and craziness.

11.3.06 11:57 pm est

tags: Cheney ABC interview Midterm Elections Political Astrology