tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post419425793257559500..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: TrumpilyTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-87569923206893142472016-08-15T00:08:23.966-05:002016-08-15T00:08:23.966-05:00RJ Adams ~ As someone said in a movie we watched t...RJ Adams ~ As someone said in a movie we watched the other night (not exact quote but near enough): <br />"when government is owned by corporations it is no better than being ruled by the mafia."<br /><br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-54521694796092943492016-08-14T16:10:27.578-05:002016-08-14T16:10:27.578-05:00Clinton is the Establishment's favorite. The E...Clinton is the Establishment's favorite. The Establishment owns the U.S. media - never mind that it's Fox News or MSNBC or CNN. They're desperate to ditch Trump so, of course, they crucify him every chance they get. Meanwhile, Clinton benefits from staying in the background and letting her Establishment buddies and their Big Media do her dirty work for her.R J Adamshttps://sparrowchat.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-68096814127996163962016-08-10T16:19:36.442-05:002016-08-10T16:19:36.442-05:00Sabina ~ Good one, yes! :-D
A Pearls before Swi...Sabina ~ Good one, yes! :-D<br /><br />A Pearls before Swine contribution:<br /><br />http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2016/07/24 Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-9796896935807668522016-08-10T15:16:19.122-05:002016-08-10T15:16:19.122-05:00Rather good cartoon, I thought -
https://www.thes...Rather good cartoon, I thought -<br /><br />https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2016/08/09/theo-moudakis-support-for-trump.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-9086657164779463422016-08-10T00:17:32.140-05:002016-08-10T00:17:32.140-05:00Sabina ~ Many thanks for these observations. :-)...Sabina ~ Many thanks for these observations. :-)<br /><br />Re man's self-made future - that idea fits, in a slightly different way, with what several writers have said about Trump: that he is the result of what we, or many of us (as USA-ans) have become, he is simply a mirror of our communal ugliness.<br /><br />Bernie Sanders said in more than one of the Dem debates that climate change should be at the top of the "to do" list for the next president. Nobody took much notice, however. I'd have liked Al Gore to have come to his aid, but sadly Al Gore is of the establishment - I was once a great fan of his, after "Inconvenient Truth", but he has proved to be another broken reed. :-(Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-19987168882442021142016-08-09T19:38:09.586-05:002016-08-09T19:38:09.586-05:00Below, my earlier remarks which wretched Captcha (...Below, my earlier remarks which wretched Captcha (sp?) wouldn't let me load some hours ago.<br /><br />But first, funny you should mention Hillary's health as that is a meme I saw flying about online the past few days, with examples of stumbling and so on. <br /><br />mike, I don't know about 'unknown ether defying prognostication' as last year I came across a Christian prophetess who had some mighty strange dreams she believes in - I know, whatever - until last month when Robert Phoenix - I know, whatever - made the same 'prognostication' - strange doings these days.<br /><br />My earlier screed - <br /><br />Yes, Gore Vidal, sadly missed. (I was trying to find the source of that very quote a few days ago - no luck. And it was precisely to discover if he said it before Doug Adams - which I suspect is true.)<br /><br />Twilight's remarks just so describe Pluto en route to the USA return; not to mention the global political/economic situation. There is so much personal astrology online, it is easy to forget that these outlier planets are actually generational. <br /><br />And, as I may have mentioned here before - and certainly have elsewhere - the longterm effects of the generational major aspects (Ptolemaic) can continue to roll out a decade or more after such aspects 'perfect' - see good old 'Cosmos and Psyche' for example after example.<br /><br />Only a couple of days ago I saw the upcoming Saturn/Pluto (Jupiter) conjunction described online in positive terms! Well, you can put a cherry on top of dog doo, but that don't make it dessert.<br /><br />Yes, Twilight, the mad obsession of virtually all the western MSM with Trump is quite something to observe. I have naively remarked that surely this is not the way to undercut the man's hold on the public imagination: that old saw - quite true - that any publicity is good publicity. Any lingering notions about a free and objective press have long since bitten the dust.<br /><br />mike - About John Townley's view, I consider that we collectively imagine the future and then act to materialize it. Scifi offers many examples of this. It's why my call for a new cosmology. As was observed in Lawrence of Arabia, 'Nothing is written', or Khayyam's, 'The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on...' For years now, I have had this awful awareness of, as I put it, the future coming true. But it is a future we ourselves craft day by day, second by second, with every decision we make and every action we take.<br /><br />And, oddly to me, outside of a cursory piece in The Guardian or The NYT, the quite literal gathering storms of climate change continue for the most part unremarked and unacted upon. That coming 'weather pattern' will prove our feeble political twitterings to be the tempest in a teacup they really are in the scheme of things.<br /><br />Yes, the Tyrant, hell, even the Triumvirate never worked; while three legs may stabilize a stool, three heads are no better when two conspire against one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-50546645132834611892016-08-09T12:42:55.949-05:002016-08-09T12:42:55.949-05:00mike ~ Roulette-like - yes indeedy! If many vot...mike ~ Roulette-like - yes indeedy! If many votes otherwise reserved for Republican or Democrat swing to Stein and Johnson, all bets, and prognostications have to be off.<br /><br />There are so many unknowns, and around 3 long months yet to go. <br /><br />There's chat/gossip at naked capitalism, this morning, about Hillary Clinton's (and Bill's) health. I've noticed that she looks great at times, then at other times she looks quite different, not sick exactly but not quite right. Perhaps that happens when the Botox application or a good hairdresser wasn't around, and a photographer caught her in poor angle/light. <br /><br />As someone pointed out, perhaps we should be looking at Mike Pence and Tim Kaine as likely presidents, in view of speculation about Clinton's (Clintons') health and Trump's overall issues which could, eventually, lead to implosion, or withdrawal.<br /><br />Terry Pratchett always had words for these situations. A shrewd, sharp, always funny wordsmith!<br /><br />Another of that ilk was Douglas Adams who expanded on what Gore Vidal had to say:<br /><br /><i>“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.<br /><br />To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.<br /><br />To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”</i><br />― Douglas Adams, <i>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.</i><br /><br />Overall, a phrase I jotted down when coming across it in one of John Galsworthy's novels, months ago, might fit the occasion:<br /><br /><i>... the chrysalis of faint misgiving becomes so readily the butterfly of panic.</i><br /><br />But then, Douglas Adams had a famous antidote quote:<br /><br /><i>"DON'T PANIC!"</i>Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-9827044568418014382016-08-09T10:41:08.300-05:002016-08-09T10:41:08.300-05:00As above, so below...the astrology of now is playi...As above, so below...the astrology of now is playing right before our eyes. Many would say that the Uranus-Pluto square is behind us, but January, 2017, brings them within 3* of square (POTUS inauguration). The current Saturn-Neptune square is reflected in Andrew O'Hehir's statement you provided:<br />"America is experiencing a health crisis on an enormous scale — a crisis that is simultaneously physical, psychological and spiritual and is hardly ever understood in holistic terms."<br /><br />I'm enjoying the POTUS wannabe show...better than fiction and I'm thinking Gore Vidal or Terry Pratchett. As anyjazz mentioned in some comment a while back, haven't seen this since Goldwater. Bernie is out, so I have no vested interest in either Hillary or The Donald. I'd prefer Trump succumb to failed-attempt status, but the same can be said for Clinton, but with slightly less conviction...a no-win situation, unfortunately. I do like that the frayed Republican Party has truly imploded and that the egalitarian Democratic Party revealed its non-egalitarian, vulture-picked, skeletal remains. Not bad for one election season.<br /><br />The roadshow only has three more months on tour and we in the USA will have our own version of Brexit, regardless the outcome. I suspect the election results will resemble roulette, as there are so many factors. Trump may at this moment be low-scoring, but there are enough independent and anti-Hillary voters, directionless Bernie supporters, Jill Stein and Gary Johnson voters, to sway this election into the unknown ether defying prognostication.<br /><br />John Townley's view of the future constantly drawing us forward may be appropriate for this era, with the upcoming Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto conjunctions four years from now and the concurrent USA's Pluto return.<br /><br />“The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods <br /><br />“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.” Gore Vidalmikenoreply@blogger.com