And a Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2011 to you and to NASA whose space probe Messenger is to go into elliptical orbit around speedy Mercury tonight and for one Earth year after.Here’s a Timeline of the 6-year+ project to investigate Mercury.NASA’s Messenger page has lots of info (apt for anything to do with Astrology’s mental planet, Mercury!) and says that Orbital Insertion begins tonight at 8:45 pm
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Midas to US n Uranus with gold prices ballooning
This economic news from Thursday with gold on the rise; transiting asteroid Midas continues to affect by conjunction US natal Uranus 8Gem55, America’s totem planet; 2010’s Great Conjunction/s of Jupiter (money) and quirky Uranus may have something to do with it since their June 2010 conjunction occurred at Aries Point upon US natal Ic in the Sibly chart:Posted: 14 Oct 2010 08:59 PM PDTHints of
Graphing the National Debt
Supply-siders revealed! Voo Doo Economics don’t work! Trickle Down is poppycock! There’s more behind America’s National Debt situation than most people care to admit – especially the GOP who rail against it only when Democrats are in charge.The graph begins with Ronald Reagan and morphs into his virtual sidekick, George W. Bush, which in my opinion is a very good place to start.Which reminds me:
The fake news of Jon Stewart
Unless I misunder-remember, it was in 1999 that Jon Stewart took over hosting duties on The Daily Show which was already a favorite program at my house. Jon was familiar to us from his stints on M-TV and from his comedy routines so my daughter and I in particular were thrilled that he joined and subsequently turned the show into a fake news report each night. News anchor Stewart helps the
Deja-vu: the Lehman Brothers collapse 2008 – 2010
September 15, 2010: it’s been two years since the stupid mistake was made to let the venerable Lehman Brothers firm crash into bankruptcy. This morning NPR did a 4 minute interview with Peter Chapman who’s written a book on the subject. The interview is worth a listen, if you missed it.Now here’s a post I wrote in September 2008 which details, among other things, the Lehman Brothers crisis of
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