I like dogs. I like snow. I like dogs that like snow.
We make a big deal out of MERCURY RETROGRADE, but that’s not the only way that the (generally) closest planet to every other planet can cause havoc. This week we can see its penchant for dropping into and out of alignments causing piggeldy for every available higgeldy.
The week starts off with it aligning with Mars, bringing unexpected conflict, belligerence, and news about war. Then on Saturday it’s moved on to its partner in suck (Saturn) bringing catastrophe, disaster, utter failure, that sort of thing. Is this amplified because it’s happening in Saturn’s day? Actually no, that naming happened after the principles of Astrological Science were discovered and the Norse were never very good astrologers. One positive sign is on Friday the Moon and Venus align, so have a date night then. Or swipe right or whatever the cool kids are doing these days.
Pisces: on Tuesday you’ve got a double-edged sword thing going on. This is an ideal day to use your influence directly in your favor, with a possibility of it either going wrong or of things going wrong if you fail to act. Otherwise, it’s a lucky week. Remember what I said about setting up something romantic for Friday? That goes double for Aries.
St. Lily forgives all you anti-doggite heathens out there.
Pisces: The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
Aries: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Taurus: The Moon – Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
Gemini: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb.
Cancer: 8 of Cups – Joy, mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence.
Leo: 6 of Coins reversed – Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
Virgo: Queen of Swords – Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.
Libra: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. This can also mean someone really good at their job deciding to oppose you.
Scorpio: The Tower – If Scorpio is the scorpion, this represents a scorpion with an unusually large building dropped on it.
Sagittarius: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension.
Capricorn: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Aquarius: Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law.
WTF is purgation? It doesn’t sound favorable
I don’t suppose it would do any good to hid under the bed, would it? 😳
Gemini: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb.
The whole GOP sucks! all those clowns! look at me over here, huge hands and all, still relevant! – DJT45
Aries: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
I told you I didn’t pull the trigger – Alec Baldwin
St. Lily forgives all you anti-doggite heathens out there.
I identify as dognostic.
Sagittarius: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension.
“Is this a game of chance?”
“Not the way I play it, no.”
St. Lily is a better person than me.
Leo: 6 of Coins reversed – Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
Fun.
“St. Lily….”
How high is the bar? Asking for your Maplegrove friend?
Extremely high but I think he’s got a shot!
Slept in this morning to wake up to snow. Come to Glibs, snow is here too.
Firsting is the antithesis of obnoxious. It is the celebration. The greatness that makes life worth living.
If St. Lily bit Bro in the ass, I’d forgive her.
Dogs are seconding animals by nature.
Now I’m very conflicted.
What would there to be to forgive?
I thought that was how she earned get sainthood.
Today’s dilemma: do I make the sensible decision and park in the plowed lot and carry everything, or the lazy one and drive a couple hundred yards through a foot of snow in a car? OTOH, WRX STI. OTOH, it’s still a Subaru.
AWD and snow tires, bitchez!
Go for it, you’ll make it. Besides you have your snow shovel with you, right? Right? Even it you don’t make it make sure no one can get by you so they’ll have to help.
Fluffy snow? Sure
Heavy wet snow? I wouldn’t, but you should video it if you decide to.
That was an impressive start to the IndyCar season. They made it all the way to about turn four.
HE – great Jones Act link.
Actually had a mini-debate with an MSC reserve officer about it a couple weeks ago (he was giving us training on American Bureau of Ships shipbuilding standards) – his main issue was that it protects shipbuilders – and we both agreed that we need a lot more shipbuilding capability – obviously the shipyard facilities are constrained by gov’t environmental standards IMO.
Granted as I posted in my previous articles – it’s not just the Jones Act but a few other acts as well that act in conjunction to make it a lot worse. But yeah – we don’t even have the shipyard capacity for our naval vessels much less new cargo vessels – just no way to build new cargo capacity in any realistic way without more shipyards – so the Jones act is just an albatross on industry in general. We could have a strong domestic merchant marine service even on Korean built merchant vessels, etc.
I used most of Stossel’s points in the discussion I had come to think of it. Just enraging at this point. Another good example of sunsetting items on every single law passed.
Desire, cupidity, envy, jealousy, illusion.
Mixed bag? Sufficiently shitty? Not sure.
State legislature is once again considering the dipshit lane splitting nonsense. My modest compromise is allow it as long as smearing bikers into the pavement under any circumstances is completely legal.
A motorcyle – he’s ridin’ between.
He’s splittin’ lanes, if you know what I mean.
This cuttin’ in line, that’s an act of war.
I saw him coming. I opened my door.
I knocked him over, pulled out my pistol, and blew him away.
I am in awe of Glibs ability to pull things like this out out on demand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgRE6BPhN2I
I don’t ride anymore, but lane splitting is one of the great benefits of a motorcycle. Gets you through traffic and is safer.
Filtering, the Brits call it.
Like Idaho stops, it sounds good in theory but puts the onus on everyone else and upends normal expectations.
But California does it, so isn’t it like mandatory that your state does it, too?
In fact, I think we ought to just pass a law that everything California passes becomes law in the entire NW. There’s no real need for all those different states to just do what California does at a slightly slower pace. It’s not fair to the people of Portland and Seattle, after all, that they have to live in a less enlightened state.
*starts McCall’s Militia*
First time I saw a motorcycle splitting lanes was in Australia. That was a bit disconcerting. Driving on the left and lane splitting is allowed?
If traffic is stopped or just moving in fits and starts I have no problem with splitting. When traffic is moving at a decent, if reduced, pace then I regard splitting as a self removal activity from the gene pool. When splitting is done at normal highway speeds then I wish them no good will.
If I remember correctly, traffic was moving rather slowly at the time.
In any event, damn, that was unexpected.
Population reduction method #23.
Sloopy will be happy tomorrow ManU stinking up Anfield. And Everton snatched a draw from the jaws of victory.
I smiled.
Speaking of… I find it interesting that there is now more EPL on cable television than MLS. Thanks, Apple.
Jeebus Christmas. They’re going to be laughing in Liverpool for a while.
Today the 2023 Cal20 season starts. The first day of racing will be wet from the sky and rather light winds. Doesn’t matter since we’ll be on the water.
Cheers and good luck!
This comedy skit from 2013 is our sad woke reality just 10 years later
Funny and not funny at the same time.
A depressing reality now.
Why I quit watching Portlandia several years ago.
Yeah, I don’t know whether it started to suck because it became a documentary, or the documentary started to suck.
Yee haw!
Is that intended as a generalized exclamation about life, or does it have – how do you say – context?
Re Murdaugh. Don’t think he was railroaded at all. If it had worked out like he intended, the local cops, solicitor, and judiciary, through a combination of assumptions and willingness to turn a blind eye, would have left him free. Wouldn’t have solved his long term fraud problem that was snowballing.
VIRGO: yikes.
But Lilypics are fab as always!
Leo wasn’t fun, either, but probably better. Agreed on doggie pics.
My wife and I went to church this morning and there was a 175th anniversary celebration for the church. The Chaplain of the Senate was the guest speaker.
We knew that was happening, but didn’t expect our Senator Lindsey Graham to be there. Bob Jones III also there but stayed well away from the Graham.
If they want to celebrate their love for each other, that’s OK.
Lindsey Graham goes to your church? Does he half-advocate worshipping Satan? I get the sense he’d take a soft line, unless he could get contractors to get paid to bomb hell.
Did Lindsey Graham talk about how he was at the groundbreaking for the church in 1848?
No, Graham is not a member of the church and did not speak. Our Pastor did talk about the time a local minister was on a mission to Turkey when he got arrested and jailed. Graham apparently helped get him out. 29 minutes in if you really care.
https://www.firstpresgreenville.org/watch/livestream/traditional
Sorry if already posted, but Jeremy (from Jeremy’s Razors) is now taking on Hershey’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5Lf97hXQM
I dig this cover.
SA got famous for the wrong stuff.
Is that intended as a generalized exclamation about life, or does it have – how do you say – context?
IndyCar opener in St Pete. Quite a show, quite a show.
Flipped over to FOX/NAPCAR. They were talking about Chase Elliot; apparently he crashed his snowboard and busted his laig.
Tisk-tisking evidently ensued.