This is looking to be a pretty good week all around, with one possible exception.
The Sun in Cancer enhances preventative measures you may be taking this week, and it will help with emotional stability. Not I’m saying that you should slack off on your meds (This horoscope has not been approved by the FDA to diagnose or treat any condition or illness). Leo is enjoying a conjunction of Mercury and Venus. Leos should look forward to good news and good lovin’. The moon in Taurus brings additional strength and resiliency to your romantic and domestic relationships. The potty-training Glibs will see real progress. Now we get to the wild card in the sky: Mars in Aquarius. It’s been a clear and obvious (honestly, waaay to literal for me to ever give to a paying customer) sign of the World Cup. But now Mars has gone retrograde. It’s going the wrong way. It’s going up the down staircase. It’s going in through the out door… you get the picture. Mars, much like the oiled up warriors of 300 that are used to represent it in popular media, is just brimming with “subtext.” So how do we apply this fact? Obviously, someone is going to be coming out. Someone is going to be a blazing beacon of tabloid fodder. I’m afraid I can’t see any names in the stars, otherwise I’d make a killing at Ladbrokers.
Mars is really happy to see you
As for alignments, there aren’t any. The remnants of that double-opposition construct from last week are still there, so there may be some continuing reverberations from it, but neither arm is aligned any more.
Hey, while we’re on the subject, can you recommend a good phrenologist?
Calvin Candy?
Ick no. Phrenology is a good way to get lice. Stay away.
Not surprising. Get your popcorn ready.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/08/report-kethledge-now-leading-contender-scotus-thanks-mcconnell/
As predicted here.
Ray-ray!
“But now Mars has gone retrograde. It’s going the wrong way. ”
How do you know where Mars is going?
Has anyone alerted Ziggy Stardust?
No. Just the spiders.
Makes sense to me
YES!
KentuckyWoman tries to out-Florida FloridaWoman® !
That’s a pretty solid performance, however she lost points for not having her kids with her.
The 15′ swan-dive by her accomplice into a shallow creek should score extra-credit for determination.
I used to pass through Salyersville, KY on my way to test a medical waste incinerator in Prestonsburg. That area just seems ripe for that type of behavior.
Damnit I missed that part. That actually bumps this up to 4.3 meth crystals out of 5.
*fills out Florida Man Certification applications*
Yo Brett or Florida Man! you can go ahead and sign off on these guys.
Nicely done
Indiana’s lax gun laws strike again:
Damn you, Daisy! How many more children need to die?!
Why do the white trash losers all have the stupid dumbo ears?
I mean, she’s alright, but those dudes look like they could fly.
I was talking about dudes. Yeah, she must be new to meth.
To ask the question is to answer it.
I never see any advice about Pisces, so I just sit in my house and stare out the windows for fear that I’ll do something against the stars. But then I wonder, what if the stars want me to leave the house and do something? I don’t know what to do!!!!!!11!!!
I know. Not Adahn never mentions Gemini’s either. I think he does it on purpose so we just sit and wonder what the stars have against us.
As for alignments, there aren’t any.
Big O begs to differ. Word on the street is you get a free alignment with the purchase of a new set of tires.
Greenwald is back on his meds.
“Needless to say, MSNBC is not the only cable outlet that acts as an arm of a political party and encourages its on-air personalities to lie and smear critics of that party. I have spent years documenting lies told by certain Fox News employees, and denounced the willingness of some of their hosts to do exactly that while on Fox News itself.
But you can’t be a credible critic of lies – whether told by other cable outlets or politicians – if you not only permit but clearly encourage and reward your own on-air personalities when they do the same. And in the case of MSNBC, they not only do this, but they practice one of the most historically destructive versions of it: fabricated allegations that their critics, including journalists, are treasonous agents of a foreign power.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/08/msnbc-does-not-merely-permit-fabrications-against-democratic-party-critics-it-encourages-and-rewards-them/
While I don’t agree with his positions, I can still respect his honesty. There are a number of other honest lefties and left-leaning individuals, but they are very much the exception and not the rule. The pendulum of mass hysteria is currently planted on the left and a lot of otherwise sane people aren’t calling it out.
Exactly this. I think his economic views are seriously misinformed if not dangerous. But when it comes to Greenwald reporting the facts as he knows them, he does a first class job.
Student organizers of “pro-gun” rallies disappointed by low turnout.
That’s what happens when you are actual students trying to organize these things yourselves compared to puppets of various activist groups bankrolled by mega donors of a particular political party. And, yea, it also doesn’t help that the media fucking hates you and doesn’t want your deplorable message heard.
It’s always easier to summon outrage! against shit we already (largely) have.
I remember these a-holes. Unfortunately 8 years means maybe 2 or 3.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/ringleader-gets-8-years-for-facebook-live-beating-of-disabled-teen/1289149925
Are you sure? In California, and yes I know this is Illinois, most felonies result in half the time served for good behavior. However, “serious felonies” result in a 15% good behavior discount so the convicts actually serve 85% of their sentence.
At least they were consistent about the hate crime bit. I still think the concept of hatred as a criminal offense is repugnant, but if you’re going to be Orwellian at least be fair.
Visited TOS. Ghost town. Sad.
I almost linked to their article about the libertarian chair election (the Miss Caucus lost big and Welch was giddy about it) but I figured it’s old news that wouldn’t interest anyone. I perused the comments as long as I was there…..they are a total shit-show of idiots screaming past each other and monkey’s flinging poo. Even a lot of the old trolls seem to have wandered off, except Hihn of course.
Yeah, its devolved pretty rapidly.
David Hogg hits the big time
All members of Congress, who have an obligation to look out for public safety, should be morally outraged by the gun violence that rages in our streets, schools, churches and workplaces. What causes all this senseless violence? Is there a certain video game or movie only Americans have access to? Ah yes, the answer: Far too many officials care more about their powerful friends in the gun lobby than actually voting for the well-being of their constituents. “Stop that, Hogg. You are besieging the Constitution.” The classic comeback against dissent.
A Rolling Stone byline for his empty headed blabbering.
That kids stupid face triggers me. He reminds me of the preacher kid from There Will Be Blood. I can’t wait to never see that punchable suck again.
“Dissent”. What a fucking asshole.
So, if you’re a person who listens to the autistic screeching of an uneducated teenager, what does that make you? Seriously, this kid is a hostile, caustic, self-centered idiot. He’s like a hysterical dog barking himself into a frenzy over a squirrel that’s long since moved on. And yet, there are people who see this and think, “Well, that makes perfect sense to me!” He’s a snake-oil salesman, but I guess there are always plenty of suckers lining up to buy. God that’s depressing.
Snake oil Saleman profit from seeing garbage to ignorant rubes. This kid is something worse, he’s promoting himself riding on the backs of his dead classmates. It nihilistic and vain in the same way serial killers are.
*selling…….still not good at that whole proof reading thing
Yeah, maybe snake oil is being kind. There’s something dictatorial about this kid, and the fact that so many people are encouraging him is unsettling.
He’s a sociopath the same as the kid who shot up his school. Only difference being Hogg would rather be a steps or two removed from doing violence to others.
What I find the most disheartening about all this is that this kid is given license to be a gibbering baboon, shredding any attempt at civil, rational discourse, slandering people he disagrees with, and basically just letting his id run wild, and there are a bunch of people who are letting themselves partake vicariously of that because, when it comes down to it, that’s how they’d behave if they thought they could get away with it. Supporting David Hogg’s nonsensical ranting gives them cover to indulge in their own despicable behavior.
David Hogg is a walking caricature of “the teenager who knows everytihing” with a multi-million dollar enablement machine backing him.
The fall is going to be Greek-tragic spectacular.
Americans want stricter gun laws, says Bloomberg, but Congress won’t pass any.
How long can absurd policy responses crowd out rational ones? Indefinitely, if that’s how the politics breaks. There’s no magic wand here; no level of objective reality that will turn things around by itself.
But that doesn’t make things hopeless. Political organization and mobilization can work wonders. It’s always been difficult with guns, because it’s always been a classic case of an intense minority against a relatively indifferent majority, and the U.S. political system is set up to reward intense minorities.
Maybe the U S political system is set up to keep an emotional majority from trampling the rights of a minority. Since it’s not actually a “democracy”.
That’s so disingenuous I fear for their immortal souls.
What do these three people have in common: a person who believes that you can walk out of Bass Pro with a gun without a background check of any kind and thinks you should at least be checked for felonies or outstanding warrants; a person who believes that private ownership of any firearm should require a specific license per firearm, and; a person who believes that when someone is treated for certain mental illnesses they should be prohibited from owning firearms?
Yep. They all check “yes” when asked if they want stricter gun laws. Fuck off, Bloomberg.
“Americans” do not want stricter gun laws. A vocal minority wants them to oppress their political opponents.
If gun owners trended blue as a demographic David Hogg would be involuntarily committed, just like if hipsters trended conservative there’d be a 400% tariff on coffee. This is all about culture and politics.
And, of course, the NRA is a front for Big Gun, and all those members are just hapless dupes, victims of some sort of mass hypnosis.
They dance when the puppetmasters at Remington and Smith & Wesson and Colt pull their strings.
the whole “NRA is in the pocket of Big Gun and they buy off all the politicians” argument is idiotic.
the entire civilian firearms industry, combined, is fairly tiny in $ terms.
$13bn annually.
by contrast – hollywood box office revenues is ~$50bn. the “carbonated soft drink industry” (coke, pepsi, other) is worth over $150bn; the pharma industry is in the hundreds-of-billions.
in terms of lobbying power they’re peanuts. vs AARP? ActBlue? like C-grade lobbying. they’re like a pimple on the ass of American industry.
what terrifies pols is the fact that NRA supporters are single-issue-voters. that’s it. its nothing to do w/ anything except “gun owners vote, and vote in large #s”.