Author: jude cowell

Jon Stewart explains Jan Brewer’s debate performance (video)

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cIndecision 2010 – Are You Ready for Some Midterms?www.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party

"Are you ready for some midterms?" asks The Daily Show with its Indecision 2010 coverage continuing with America’s most insightful political pundit, Jon Stewart.

Can the Democrats maintain their majorities in Congress in

The Natal Chart of John Boehner

On Thursday, November 17, 1949 John Boehner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected House Minority Leader for the Republican Party on January 4, 2007.Mr. Boehner’s birth time is unknown to me, but for the 24-hour period, the Moon remained in Libra (11:13 – 26:03) with Sun in Scorpio ranging from 24:31 to 25:32; Mercury in Scorpio 21:17 – 23:23.The following planetary positions are from his

Looking ahead to November midterms 2010

While Democrats pushed through a jobs bill that kept the doors open at local schools, hospitals, and senior centers, Republicans voted to lay off hundreds of thousands of Americans.While Democrats looked out for us, paying for this bill by eliminating corporate loopholes, Republicans looked out for CEOs who shipped jobs overseas.It’s a clear choice this November. Either we open doors to a better

Francis Bacon, Uranus/Neptune, and Pluto

If you like to read about America’s founding, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and other such mystical topics, you may be interested in a discovery I’ve just made of a site that has so many links and articles to check out, I’m just getting started. But I want to be certain you knew about it, too, though much investigation is required to find out how much it contains concerning America. As you know,

Newt Gingrich then and now: (im) peaches and tea

Newt Gingrich last won political office so long ago the chads have whiskers.And though he’s up to something GOP-ish with the big corporation Koch Brothers funded Tea Party movement, this article comparing him in his political heyday (think ‘impeach Clinton’) to his current machinations leaves me sputteringly speechless. Almost.As I like to remind people whenever necessary: Mr. Gingrich is not

Autumn Equinox 2010 on Capitol Hill

Horoscope: Autumn Equinox September 22, 2010 Capitol Hill, Washington DC; Hour Saturn; chart-ruler Mercury 12Vir49 in 4th house of Domestic Scene and Real Estate – unaspected; Sun 00Lib00:00 in 4th house conjunct US natal Midheaven (Sibly chart); Moon 27Pis11 in 10th house of Public Recognition, Status, and Career; MC 00Pis01 conjoins America’s Pre-Natal Eclipse 00Pis33 in the 12 South Series

Scott Simon encapsulates Labor Day 2010

No Astrology this morning, just a link to one of the best Simon Says features I’ve heard NPR Weekend Edition’s Scott Simon deliver in a long time. It gives an intimate picture of Labor Day 2010 in America – personal without being too personal – and the sorry unemployment rate that Americans and their families are dealing with.They’d Trade Labor Day for Days of Labor briefly but succinctly

Opinions: Obama’s ‘end of combat ops in Iraq’ speech

It was quite a dizzying tightrope he walked and perhaps President Obama’s multi-messaged speech with two-directional, murky Pisces Rising concerning the ‘ending of combat operations in Iraq’ didn’t go over very well among his more discriminating listeners. Here’s an article round-up of opinions for you including mention of one of my favorite topics when it comes to the US government – Orwellian

‘Stuff Alan Simpson Says’ about Social Security

From Daily Kos comes an email with a link to Stuff Alan Simpson Says in an attempt to keep Social Security cuts from beggaring the Americans who depend on it. Those with higher incomes and exalted positions are apparently blinded from appreciating the 1935 SS program’s benefit to society as a whole which keeps Americans from having to live out of shopping bags on street corners (and goodness