Well, well, well… what have we here?
Pull out your star charts boy and girls, we’ve got something very interesting going on this week.
Yes, yes, we’ve still got that Jupiter-retrograde-in-Scorpio, old news. But see that Mercury-Sol-Venus alignment? Change in relationships? Well, this week, it’s moved in opposition to us. And if that’s not enough we also have the moon in opposition to that opposition. Double Opposition. What does it mean? This week, your relationships are going to be rock solid. You can take advantage of this, as we can see from another alignment concurrent with the double opposition. We have Venus (love) aligned with Mars (war) and Saturn (endings) retrograde (not). So a fight this week will not end your relationship. Having said that, while you can get away with having a spat this week, there’s no indications that you should. There’s nothing here indicating that the makeup sex will be good, and with Venus having moved out of Gemini, there’s no indication to look up Heather and Holly on facebook to see if they are conveniently available this weekend. Mars moving into Aquarius indicates “trouble with the provider,” so maybe it’s a good thing you’ve got a little stellar stability helping you out.
One last alignment in this week’s very busy sky: Sol – Jupiter retrograde – Luna. Literally, good news for queens. Elizabeth II is not going to die. I don’t know if this also extends to drag queens, but it just might because:
Both the Moon and Venus are in Cancer. And of course, we’ve already mentioned how Luna has rulership of Cancer, but with Venus in the mix we literally have (almost) all the most feminine influences possible coming together and amplifying each other. Indulge in your wildest stereotypes. Eat ice cream while watching rom-coms. Cry every now and then for no reason whatsoever.
People born under the sign of Taurus will receive good news this week. Also, a new speed record for a racing cow will be set.
If you are kidding this week, it will go successfully. Both mother and child will be fine, but it won’t be twins.
This week is also auspicious for naval forces.
I have an Aura
But I haven’t had a 1st in a while
Maybe i need a Saturn?
Yusef drives a Saturn?
This week, your relationships are going to be rock solid. You can take advantage of this, as we can see from another alignment concurrent with the double opposition.
So… it’s the time to try again for those sex acts your significant other won’t do?
“and with Venus having moved out of Gemini”
The only way that happens is if Venus or both are trannies.
You’ve been talking about that a lot today. You and Four thinking about swapping roles?
Nah, it was triggered by a story out of Canada I just saw recently.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/30807/transgender-woman-sues-muslim-amanda-prestigiacomo
Muslim versus tranny. This is going to require popcorn.
More like birth of cankles amirite.
Mom had a print hung up in the living room when I was a teenager. Somehow I never noticed the creepy feet and awful toes. I wonder why.
More armchair psychiatry.
How do you really feel, “journalist”?
California politician, dopey? Pull the other one pal.
Well, she’s dopey for not realizing that sharing her thoughtcrimes with the Twitterverse would backfire, I’ll give her that.
“Kanye is in the throws,” she told the crowd, adding “I think that mental illness is something that is so real.”
Filed under “Takes One to Know One”.
Test
A+
Grade inflation out of control around here.
They’re all afraid of getting bad reviews on ratemyopressors.com
My sister-in-law gives my brother chili pepper every year around his birthday. The students are appalled that he gets one.
Man, these euphemisms.
*checks SP’s profile*
“Cruel, but harsh.”
Oh great Mango Goddess I humbly beseech thee to give me 48 hrs without ripe mangoes in the tree (or on the ground). You are a very fruitful goddess who has blessed me greatly this year, but come on give me some breathing space. I have 27 mangoes on my counter that I need to peel, slice, freeze and bag and yet you keep producing. I am thankful to you but drink some beer by the pool for a couple of days and chill. Amen.
Oh yeah, Apple Banana God I have my eyes on you as well. Do NOT have that stalk of bananas come ripe this week.
I am spared your troubles by being allergic to mangos – took me until my late 20’s to realize that not everyone felt like their tongue was being scratched by glass when eating mangos. I was really confused as to why anyone liked them.
I love mangos.
/even the Ohio kind
I never really liked them until I had one in the Philippines. I gues having them ripen while in a crate on a boat doesn’t make them tast better.
If you really have any pull maybe you could speak to the goddess of the muscadine for me….
My sister calls pear harvest time “Pear Fest” and we all pitch in to get them peeled, sliced and turned into pear cake, pear tart, pear crisp, pear butter, etc. I thought about getting pears for my yard. She told me not to do it, then sighed.
Pears are the Nick Gillespie of fruits.
Pears are one of those things that when perfectly ripe are a direct connection to the mind of God, but if not perfect, are pretty much garbage.
Also included in this category are tomatoes and avocados.
Avacados…food for squirrels
Nuts to that.
My pear tree is going through an infestation of leaf tunneling mites. Nothing for it but dormant oil next winter. I’m expecting the pears this year will totally blow. **HEAVY SIGH**
Get your sister a partridge.
Welp, Trump pulled the trigger. Hm.
he finally shot someone in 5th ave?
I wonder how Jeff’s weekend was going.
I trimmed my Hayden mango last year so it’ll be a couple of seasons before I get fruit again. My other mango tree is smaller and it was trimmed right before I bought the place. I had hundreds of mangoes in the tree. In the few week long ripening season, I’ll probably eat 2-3 a day, bag and freeze 200 for use during the year, make several into rum drinks each week, bake some mango bread (another 8-10 really ripe) and give away 50-70. I shudder to think of 2-3 years from now when both trees are producing full bore. The only thing that will be saving me is that the two types of trees ripen 2-3 months apart.
It is pretty amazing gardening in Hawaii. Almost every thing grows very well here. Hell in the winters I can even grow great potatoes. I get tomatoes 10 months a year and haven’t had to buy seeds in years. I just crush the over ripe tomatoes, snow peas, cucumbers etc into the soil and let them come up. Of course my garden has almost no lines with that planting strategy but that is some of the fun of it. I now have enough crushed egg shells throughout that the snails stay away and am getting a handle on the damn nut sedge.
Have a great day all! I am off to sail in a bit.
I don’t like mango, but I like rum drinks. Tell us more please about the rum drinks.
“It is pretty amazing gardening in Hawaii. Almost every thing grows very well here.”
It would be that way here if we didn’t have below freezing weather for just a short time in the winter. Oh, and the soil is rife with vicious fungus’. I can grow most things but some that I want to grow just wont. I tried for years to grow banana and macadamia. neither will take. Drive 20 miles south and the bananas will grow but not on my place here.
I saw footage of the lava creeping down the big island the other day and it broke my heart to watch it bulldoze someone’s macadamia orchard. What a shame.
You must not have squirrels or raccoons there. Our mango tree produced pretty well, but I only got about 20% of the fruit because the critters would start eating them long before they were semi-ripe enough to pick.
It’s not a problem anymore because we lost our tree (along with every other tree in the yard) to Irma last year. I have replanted a few new trees but it will be a few years before they start to produce.
Saviour
Britain will tackle “the Wild West elements” on the internet from cyberbullying to online child exploitation by introducing new laws for social media companies, digital minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday.
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“Digital technology is overwhelmingly a force for good across the world and we must always champion innovation and change for the better,” Hancock said in a statement.
“At the same time I have been clear that we have to address the Wild West elements of the Internet through legislation, in a way that supports innovation. We strongly support technology companies to start up and grow, and we want to work with them to keep our citizens safe.”
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But when asked whether the government would stop companies from allowing children to spend hours on the internet, Hancock told ITV television: “We want to have a broad consultation.”
Totally doable. Just wave your magic wand.
How long before they try to prosecute us over here for saying double plus ungood things in forums where their subjects can read it?
Twenty years ago?
Britain, a destination for “libel tourism”
Both the Moon and Venus have cancer? The horror!
Every fucking minute of every fucking day.
Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting nearly six years ago in Newtown, Conn. — when this generation’s high school students were of middle-school age or younger — there have been more than 200 school shootings nationwide, including the recent rampage in Parkland, Fla., which inspired a youth-led movement to reform gun laws.
Shootings are so common that students talk in frighteningly practical terms about the location of doors and windows in their classrooms as risk factors. They calculate escape routes. And they ponder hiding spots in wide-open rooms.
“It’s like the front lines of a war,” said Emily Rubinstein, a sophomore at a New York high school. “Being seated in front of the classroom could be what makes you live and what makes you die.”
Emily has given a great deal of thought to her safety as she moves through her school day. She considers her English classroom the safest. It has just one door, and it’s down a hallway that makes it hard to find. Also, the room has an unusual cutout corner, with no desks in it. That would be one of the best places to hide if someone started shooting at Stuyvesant High School, in Lower Manhattan.
Math class is where she is most exposed. She sits in the second desk of the second row, in a direct diagonal path from the door. On lockdown drills, she has learned that the safest place to be is pressed up against the wall where the door is, so that if a shooter looks into the room, it will appear empty. But in math, she has calculated that her chances of reaching that position are low.
Say- I have an idea for something you can do instead of whipping yourself into an hysterical paranoid frenzy in that math classroom. Why don’t you calculate the real world probability of a “terroristic” shooting spree in your school? Just for fun, you could study up on ballistics and lethality.
And I’m going to need to see a list of those “200 school shootings” with detailed explanations of the circumstances.
You cant have my guns. Keep yammering until your jaw falls off. You still cant have them.
“It’s like the front lines of a war,”
That’s gold.
She considers her English classroom the safest. It has just one door, and it’s down a hallway that makes it hard to find. Also, the room has an unusual cutout corner, with no desks in it. That would be one of the best places to hide if someone started shooting at Stuyvesant High School, in Lower Manhattan.
Math class is where she is most exposed. She sits in the second desk of the second row, in a direct diagonal path from the door. On lockdown drills, she has learned that the safest place to be is pressed up against the wall where the door is, so that if a shooter looks into the room, it will appear empty.
Good thing the likeliest school shooter, in the event of a lottery odds shooting, is some stranger parachuted in without any knowledge or experience of your school. Or never goes after specific targets first.
Calysta said the school officials “could and should” make the campus more secure. The front doors open directly onto the commons area. “If someone was to come in, they could take out 15 people in a matter of two seconds,” she said.
Somebody watches too many movies.
That’s the most obnoxious thing about gunslinger movies. Fuck’s sake, you shoot a guy once and he falls over dead before he’s had a chance to decide whether he was hit.
Holy shit, a (mostly) sane person:
Jon Dreyer
Lexington, MA16m ago
Times Pick
Every school shooting is a terrible tragedy, and we definitely need to wrest the country from the NRA and their murderous politics.
However, I’m a bit surprised that, in an article about risk and high school students, there is no mention of the word “probability,” a subject taught in high school math classes that is the single most important word when discussing risk. I count 84 deaths from school shootings since the beginning of 2015, or about 25 per year. There are about 50,000,000 kids in school in the US, which works out to a probability of dying in a school shooting of about 5/10,000,000 per year. That’s 5/10,000,000 too much, but it’s a minuscule risk. Almost any other risk we normally think about has a much higher probability.
American innumeracy causes us to read headlines without thinking of numbers, meaning we worry more about terrorist attacks than cancer, or more about school shootings than auto accidents. This article would have been a great opportunity to give a quick numeracy lesson to Americans while reducing the current hysteria about school safety.
Williamson’s line about sharks vs. deer is a pretty good one, imo.
Have to ask the good man, though, how man people have been murdered by NRA members.
we worry more about terrorist attacks than cancer, or more about school shootings than auto accidents. This article would have been a great opportunity to give a quick numeracy lesson to Americans while reducing the current hysteria about school safety.
we definitely need to wrest the country from the NRA and their murderous politics
So close… so close..
An example somewhat more representative of the overall trend:
Barking Doggerel
America1h ago
Times Pick
America. Insanity. I’ve written this sentiment over and over again, but it bears repeating. The focus on school safety, school security and lock down or active shooter drills is a useless distraction. Students gather outside schools at arrival and dismissal. Students go on field trips. Students attend athletic events. Students have recess on playgrounds. A boy or man intent on mayhem has no shortage of vulnerable targets. This madness will not end until we have severe restrictions on gun possession. This madness will not end until we have an honest discussion about masculinity in our culture. Boys are steeped in violence and the country is steeped in weapons. Boys are absorbing violence in video games, films and sports, particularly the ugly mixed martial arts. The message is “get even.” When boys are isolated, lonely, bullied, shamed, shunned or marginalized, the narrative they fall back on is “get even.” Boys need love and acceptance. Schools must teach empathy, not competition. Our society is ill and our pathetic response is to quarantine and pray without addressing the disease.
Ban men, and guns will have no one to hold them.
The focus on school safety, school security and lock down or active shooter drills is a useless distraction. Students gather outside schools at arrival and dismissal. Students go on field trips. Students attend athletic events. Students have recess on playgrounds. A boy or man intent on mayhem has no shortage of vulnerable targets.
Well, that part is correct. He/She/Ze/It of course isn’t bright enough to take the next utilitarian step and realize that argument can be made about guns as well. No guns? Fine, bombs, machetes, poisons… there’s no shortage of ways to make weapons.
One might wonder whether it’s not guns what has one’s dander up. One might think one worries more about men, and their deconstruction. One might think men are the problem, not guns. One might think gun control is simply an excuse to talk about masculinity and the fundamental reformation thereof.
Make no mistake. Gun control is about making you defenseless. I assure you that no one in the history of the world has wanted to make you defenseless for your own good. You can take that to the bank.
A boy or man intent on mayhem has no shortage of vulnerable targets.
But women do?
One might think men are the problem, not guns.
One might, Rabbit. One might.