Over in Europe they're being treated to an America campaign to follow suit on Paulson's bailout plan for saddling US taxpayers with Wall Street's debts but "bareknuckled criticism" has so far been Europe's response.
German Chancellor Andrea Merkel has accused the US government of failure to regulate and I know of no one here or abroad who could possibly disagree on these deregulating bandits and crooks.
Short end of the stick hardly describes what our Goldman Sachs "Secretary of the Treasury" has in mind for the American people with his 'hurry up and screw yourselves' legislation which Congress had better not pass so quickly, if at all.
If this sounds like the Bush-Cheney build-up to war with its 'hurry up' quality, it's not our ears gone bad. It's Terror Promotion at its finest as spearheaded by Hank Paulson.
Sep 22, 2008
Sep 21, 2008
110th Congress in final days
In a spate of nostalgia, I looked for my first post about the current 110th Congress for which so many held such grand hopes - that they would end the Iraq occupation above all.
Well, the first minimum wage increase in Ten Years was passed with Republicans kicking and screaming, gas mileage standards were raised (were they? you tell me), ethics reform to rein in sorry politicians was passed (although they may have papered the break room with it - but after all, you can't legislate morality - my mama coulda told 'em that), plus, hundreds of hearings were held at taxpayers' expense, of course.
Which means that much stalling, diverting, and talking was done by all, with questions left unanswered and challenges neutralized.
And the Iraq war? The House, thanks to the Democrats, went 'on record' and out on a short limb as disapproving of the Bush-Cheney war. Well, me too - and my opinion's free.
So now, because the 110th Congress is coming to a close in a while, I have sentimentally (with a salty tear in my eye) reached back into 2006's blog bowels to find my very first post about the victorious 110th, titled, Dawn of a New Day: Nov 8, 2006, a hopeful if semi-realized shout-out to the Bush enablers of Capitol Hill.
You'll find a few Sabian Symbols of the day but with no updates in the post. Even so, I cordially invite you to take a brief stroll down memory lane with me, if you wish, because the Temple on Capitol Hill awaits.
Well, the first minimum wage increase in Ten Years was passed with Republicans kicking and screaming, gas mileage standards were raised (were they? you tell me), ethics reform to rein in sorry politicians was passed (although they may have papered the break room with it - but after all, you can't legislate morality - my mama coulda told 'em that), plus, hundreds of hearings were held at taxpayers' expense, of course.
Which means that much stalling, diverting, and talking was done by all, with questions left unanswered and challenges neutralized.
And the Iraq war? The House, thanks to the Democrats, went 'on record' and out on a short limb as disapproving of the Bush-Cheney war. Well, me too - and my opinion's free.
So now, because the 110th Congress is coming to a close in a while, I have sentimentally (with a salty tear in my eye) reached back into 2006's blog bowels to find my very first post about the victorious 110th, titled, Dawn of a New Day: Nov 8, 2006, a hopeful if semi-realized shout-out to the Bush enablers of Capitol Hill.
You'll find a few Sabian Symbols of the day but with no updates in the post. Even so, I cordially invite you to take a brief stroll down memory lane with me, if you wish, because the Temple on Capitol Hill awaits.
Low marks for Paulson's bail out plan
Everywhere I look today, Hank Paulson's power grab, er...I mean 'bail out plan' is getting low marks.
Even his performances this morning on Meet the Press, Face the Nation (how could he? oh but he did!), and This Week with George Stephanopoulos, haven't swayed the doubters or calmed the "bail out foreign investors?!!" crowd. Confidence is showing itself to be hard to come by as taxpayers are expected to rescue Wall Street gentry who made "bad choices."
Yep, that's what compassionate conservatives once loved to say to anyone down on their luck: all through life, you made choices. Now the biggest of bad choices are nestled on the secret ledgers locked in the hidden drawers of bank executives' desks.
Then there's columnist Paul Krugman who says no deal to the Fed's massive bail out of Wall Street culprits.
Little Did I Know
You know back on Aug 26, 2006, when I was looking at Paulson's natal chart and publishing it here, I wrote that given Mr. Paulson's genius, he could probably run the White House himself.
Seems now he's making a power play for the opportunity to run the country.
Experts in finance and government once told us ad nauseum that if government "got out of the way," life would be peachy and all boats would rise.
It should be quite a while before we listen to those crocks again.
~:~ a further note on Paulson's chart:
the current Solar Eclipse Series (10 South) which manifested on August 1 (9Leo32) conjuncts/triggers Hank Paulson's natal Pluto, planet of power, transformation, and coping ability. And 9Leo+ is also conj the natal Mercuries of George Bush and the Republican Party.
Keyphrases for 10 South:
breaking out of a very negative situation where no hope can be seen for more options; a worry will suddenly clear - the cosmos shows the solution which must be taken up without too much delay. (Brady's Predictive Astrology.)
Annnnd...this is the Pre-natal Eclipse Series of candidate John McCain.
Even his performances this morning on Meet the Press, Face the Nation (how could he? oh but he did!), and This Week with George Stephanopoulos, haven't swayed the doubters or calmed the "bail out foreign investors?!!" crowd. Confidence is showing itself to be hard to come by as taxpayers are expected to rescue Wall Street gentry who made "bad choices."
Yep, that's what compassionate conservatives once loved to say to anyone down on their luck: all through life, you made choices. Now the biggest of bad choices are nestled on the secret ledgers locked in the hidden drawers of bank executives' desks.
Then there's columnist Paul Krugman who says no deal to the Fed's massive bail out of Wall Street culprits.
Little Did I Know
You know back on Aug 26, 2006, when I was looking at Paulson's natal chart and publishing it here, I wrote that given Mr. Paulson's genius, he could probably run the White House himself.
Seems now he's making a power play for the opportunity to run the country.
Experts in finance and government once told us ad nauseum that if government "got out of the way," life would be peachy and all boats would rise.
It should be quite a while before we listen to those crocks again.
~:~ a further note on Paulson's chart:
the current Solar Eclipse Series (10 South) which manifested on August 1 (9Leo32) conjuncts/triggers Hank Paulson's natal Pluto, planet of power, transformation, and coping ability. And 9Leo+ is also conj the natal Mercuries of George Bush and the Republican Party.
Keyphrases for 10 South:
breaking out of a very negative situation where no hope can be seen for more options; a worry will suddenly clear - the cosmos shows the solution which must be taken up without too much delay. (Brady's Predictive Astrology.)
Annnnd...this is the Pre-natal Eclipse Series of candidate John McCain.
Sep 20, 2008
Pat Buchanan on the financial crisis
As he blames the credit habits of the baby boomer generation for the current economic crisis, Pat Buchanan names names on Capitol Hill, in the White House, and complains of the speculators of Wall Street and the Fed.
You know, the credit card was invented in the 1950s, when most of us boomers were tykes if we were yet born. While the fluffy credit economy was hyped and sold as we gahh-gahhed in front of our television sets (also invented by a previous generation), we grew up to comply with credit card living as our way of life after much media-based mind control had been used against our better natures.
In fact, those who shied away from using credit cards and ratings were given little leeway for establishing themselves, as I remember. Years ago my young family was denied gas service because we didn't have a credit rating - we owed no one, and that was considered a no-no!
We didn't condone it, we simply suffered from it and learned to play the game Mr. Buchanan now blames us for.
That the piper has to be paid eventually has been a well-worn mantra on the web for years, and it's good to see that the pre-baby-boomer Mr. Buchanan has caught on.
Not all us have ascribed to George Bush's "go shopping" mindlessness. Nor have we condoned much else that Washington DC has palmed off on the American people during the last decades of graft and greed.
I never voted for Mr. Buchanan, didn't vote for Reagan or for George H.W. Bush. To me, his son, (Bush43, for whom I also did not vote) is little more than a Rovian dirty trick sneaked into the backdoor of the White House, and my opinion of him has only lowered since 1999. That it could sink lower is an impossibility.
Gelding of America?
Still, I do find the above-linked article to be of some value or I wouldn't bother with its link here.
And perhaps it's too bad that Pat Buchanan didn't make his economic brilliance more well-known before the stallion$ left the horse trader's barn.
That Buchanan could single-handedly stop the worldwide economic meltdown, the precursor to a one-world-government, is another impossibility; that he is unaware of what's been going on behind closed doors for decades is completely impossible to believe.
You know, the credit card was invented in the 1950s, when most of us boomers were tykes if we were yet born. While the fluffy credit economy was hyped and sold as we gahh-gahhed in front of our television sets (also invented by a previous generation), we grew up to comply with credit card living as our way of life after much media-based mind control had been used against our better natures.
In fact, those who shied away from using credit cards and ratings were given little leeway for establishing themselves, as I remember. Years ago my young family was denied gas service because we didn't have a credit rating - we owed no one, and that was considered a no-no!
We didn't condone it, we simply suffered from it and learned to play the game Mr. Buchanan now blames us for.
That the piper has to be paid eventually has been a well-worn mantra on the web for years, and it's good to see that the pre-baby-boomer Mr. Buchanan has caught on.
Not all us have ascribed to George Bush's "go shopping" mindlessness. Nor have we condoned much else that Washington DC has palmed off on the American people during the last decades of graft and greed.
I never voted for Mr. Buchanan, didn't vote for Reagan or for George H.W. Bush. To me, his son, (Bush43, for whom I also did not vote) is little more than a Rovian dirty trick sneaked into the backdoor of the White House, and my opinion of him has only lowered since 1999. That it could sink lower is an impossibility.
Gelding of America?
Still, I do find the above-linked article to be of some value or I wouldn't bother with its link here.
And perhaps it's too bad that Pat Buchanan didn't make his economic brilliance more well-known before the stallion$ left the horse trader's barn.
That Buchanan could single-handedly stop the worldwide economic meltdown, the precursor to a one-world-government, is another impossibility; that he is unaware of what's been going on behind closed doors for decades is completely impossible to believe.
Obama: Uranian change or Saturn's status quo?
With Barack Obama's natal Saturn (authority) in its sign of traditional Capricorn (politics, law, business) I've been wondering repeatedly whether Obama-as-president would bring us Uranian change or Saturnian status quo, despite campaign rhetoric.
And as both readers of this blog know, Saturn opposes Uranus on Nov 4, 2008...US Election Day, as the universe echoes the importance of this election and the world's future direction - As Above, So Below!
Of course, Saturn may operate as a slower agent for change - Uranian change is quicker and more revolutionary and startling (like the attacks of 9/11/01.) These last several years have been of the Saturnian variety of change once 9/11 was accomplished, and a long-time coming, too. We might ask Bush, Cheney, Rove, and the power elite about that.
So with Barack Obama's change slogan rattling in my brain, I turned to one of my favorite Political/Mundane Astrology writers, Jessica Murray, and found that she's on Obama's case with Stepping Outside the Bubble: The Election of 2008 where the Saturn-Uranus opposition, America's natal chart, campaign politics and propaganda, the 'lesser-of-two-evils' approach which we-the-people so often remark upon from the voting booth, Rovian tactics, the entrenched power elite, the Age of Aquarius vision, and other important issues are analyzed as only Ms. Murray can do.
Is Uranus stronger than Saturn for the US? Well, I agree with Jessica that government by-of-and-for the People IS Uranus incarnated. It is what makes We-The-People worthy of capitalization!
Perhaps 2008's grassroots organization of Americans will win the day for our beset nation whose power elite care not a fig for our hopes, wishes, livelihoods, or futures. Disregard what they say - it's what they do and have done that counts (see Wall Street bail-outs while family businesses and individuals sink. That this is a massive Take-Over is apparent and explains the queasy feeling most Americans are having...and should.)
Wall Street gentry (and the status quo government) may be seen as Saturn and the individual as Uranus, so the Saturn-Uranus opposition describes the current financial crisis as well...we vs them.
Massive grassroots organizing of the individual into a strong, power-wielding group (AQ) is the only way we'll come out of this important election time with measureable change for the better, and with government on our side again, if indeed it's possible at this late date.
And so I ask: which side are you on?
And as both readers of this blog know, Saturn opposes Uranus on Nov 4, 2008...US Election Day, as the universe echoes the importance of this election and the world's future direction - As Above, So Below!
Of course, Saturn may operate as a slower agent for change - Uranian change is quicker and more revolutionary and startling (like the attacks of 9/11/01.) These last several years have been of the Saturnian variety of change once 9/11 was accomplished, and a long-time coming, too. We might ask Bush, Cheney, Rove, and the power elite about that.
So with Barack Obama's change slogan rattling in my brain, I turned to one of my favorite Political/Mundane Astrology writers, Jessica Murray, and found that she's on Obama's case with Stepping Outside the Bubble: The Election of 2008 where the Saturn-Uranus opposition, America's natal chart, campaign politics and propaganda, the 'lesser-of-two-evils' approach which we-the-people so often remark upon from the voting booth, Rovian tactics, the entrenched power elite, the Age of Aquarius vision, and other important issues are analyzed as only Ms. Murray can do.
Is Uranus stronger than Saturn for the US? Well, I agree with Jessica that government by-of-and-for the People IS Uranus incarnated. It is what makes We-The-People worthy of capitalization!
Perhaps 2008's grassroots organization of Americans will win the day for our beset nation whose power elite care not a fig for our hopes, wishes, livelihoods, or futures. Disregard what they say - it's what they do and have done that counts (see Wall Street bail-outs while family businesses and individuals sink. That this is a massive Take-Over is apparent and explains the queasy feeling most Americans are having...and should.)
Wall Street gentry (and the status quo government) may be seen as Saturn and the individual as Uranus, so the Saturn-Uranus opposition describes the current financial crisis as well...we vs them.
Massive grassroots organizing of the individual into a strong, power-wielding group (AQ) is the only way we'll come out of this important election time with measureable change for the better, and with government on our side again, if indeed it's possible at this late date.
And so I ask: which side are you on?
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