A different point of view…

This post is part of my semi regular semi series on aspect patterns…it comes with a technical post warning for non astro bods. So anyways, I should have posted this piece on yods yonks ago…boy, I don’t want to say…Read more →

Are Food Stamp/Meals On Wheels cuts due to "useless eaters" philosophy?

Only a link for you this rainy night in Georgia which leads to rense.com’s The Philosophy of the "Useless Eaters" which I ask you to consider, if you can, as the calls for "entitlement" reform and sequester cuts continue to threaten the weakest, oldest, and youngest among us…actual people whom some elitists believe do not deserve to live. Oh yes, it’s ugly but that’s all the more reason for

Rachel Maddow with Senator Elizabeth Warren: Expand Social Security! (video)

Click to watch Rachel Maddow interview Senator Elizabeth Warren on how we need to expand Social Security benefits, not reduce them which would thereby increase poverty levels in America.

Unexpectedly I had to miss the original msnbc broadcast of this discussion so I’m embedding its link here. The page includes information on signing a pertinent petition recommended by Senator Warren along with a

11.21.13: Senate nuclear option has Sun Scorpio-Moon Cancer vibes

Today in the Washington Post, Greg Sargent writes that No, the nuclear option will not make Washington partisanship ‘worse’. It’s difficult to see how the US Senate could get much worse yet I fret that there are those on Capitol Hill who will give ‘worse’ their best try now that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has actually followed through.

Is this change in the Senate another signpost on the

Dream Incubation

Hygeia by Gustav KlimtImagine that you are a citizen of Ephesus. The time is just over a two thousand years ago. You’re rather well off and everything in your life is just super — except that you get these terrible headaches every now and then. So you…