tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post6411475088087435377..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Arty Farty Friday ~ Jaxon Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-63904529525645462262016-05-14T00:00:57.662-05:002016-05-14T00:00:57.662-05:00mike (again) ~ Crazy weather-wise? Same here, up...mike (again) ~ Crazy weather-wise? Same here, up and own, storm then calm, cool then hot. Hot today.<br /><br />Thanks for the link and info re Nader's words. It's nice to find someone giving Bernie his due - few have done so (probably all frightened of losing face with "Her Majesty").<br />:-(Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-31891717701809373962016-05-13T21:56:39.859-05:002016-05-13T21:56:39.859-05:00Primary election comment from Ralph Nader:
"W...Primary election comment from Ralph Nader:<br />"When asked what positive contributions Clinton has made to the 2016 campaign, Nader called her a 'corporatist, militarist Democrat' who would have been defeated by Sanders if every state held an open primary.<br /><br />'She's going to win by dictatorship. Twenty-five percent of superdelegates are cronies, mostly. They weren't elected. They were there in order to stop somebody like Bernie Sanders, who would win by the vote,' he says.<br /><br />To date, Clinton has captured 3 million more total votes than Sanders, but Nader argues the results would be different if independents were allowed to participate in each state.<br /><br />Nonetheless, he says Sanders' candidacy was meaningful because it simultaneously pressured and exposed Clinton.<br /><br />'I think he made very few mistakes. He raised a lot of money, so he was viable, from small contributions. He didn't back down on his record of 35 years. He wasn't given enough debates ... he couldn't do anything about closed primaries. And he couldn't do anything about the superdelegates. But he almost won and he would've won,' Nader says. 'He would've defeated Trump easily, much more easily than [Clinton] would've defeated him. He doesn't produce gaffes. He's very consistent and he's scandal-free. What politician 35 years in office is scandal-free?'"<br /><br />http://www.aol.com/article/2016/05/13/ralph-nader-donald-trump-has-done-some-good-hillary-clintons/21376809/mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-78668550500215646092016-05-13T10:51:59.252-05:002016-05-13T10:51:59.252-05:00Yes, meant to say Aquarius, not Pisces. I was see...Yes, meant to say Aquarius, not Pisces. I was seeing if you were fully caffeinated...you passed the test...LOL. Crazy day here (been peculiar for the past couple of months, actually).mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-66419295984098410222016-05-13T10:38:58.423-05:002016-05-13T10:38:58.423-05:00mike ~ I think you'd meant to type "eit...mike ~ I think you'd meant to type "either late Capricorn or early Aquarius" (not Pisces)?<br />Yes, he probably released those tensions via content of his satirical artwork - good way of doing it!<br /><br />I bet that line about being "a Texan's Texan" says more about the person who said/wrote it than the person it was describing. Jaxon spent a lot of his time in California among the arty and counterculture crowd, I doubt he'd have been able to retain much right-wing Texan nonsense there! ;-)<br /><br />Jaxon's historical graphic novel artwork reminds me, a bit, of Robert Crumb's work. Whereas Jaxon chose tp illustrate part of Texas' history, Crumb graphic-novelled the Book of Genisis.<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-33823697960997264582016-05-13T08:58:57.852-05:002016-05-13T08:58:57.852-05:00Mercury in Gemini is his final dispositor, so I...Mercury in Gemini is his final dispositor, so I'm sure he was mental-plus. As you noted regarding his Moon in either late Capricorn or early Pisces, his Moon squares either his stellium in late Taurus or Mercury-Venus in early Gemini...he probably had inner, emotional tension of some sort.<br /><br />"God Nose" doesn't appeal to me and I find it rather humorless, but others must have enjoyed it...LOL. I've read a number of articles about the benefit of graphic illustration, particularly in education, and a number of text books are utilizing the graphic approach. Also, there are a number of graphic novels being released now. Perhaps a reflection of the current interest in super heroes from the paperback comic era of my youth.<br /><br />The line, "[he]...was a Texan's Texan" is wide-open for interpretation...nowadays would mean one is Republican, conservative, and of family values. Could be a derogatory term depending on which side of the divide one is on. I assume he was a liberal, but reading his Wiki entry doesn't provide too many clues, other than his enjoyment of satire.<br /><br />The definition of "underground comics" is essentially without censorship, abetting a work-around of the Comics Code Authority of 1954, a part of the errant McCarthy era of conservative, American values:<br />"The United States underground comics scene emerged in the 1960s, focusing on subjects dear to the counterculture: recreational drug use, politics, rock music and free love. These titles were termed "comix" in order to differentiate them from mainstream publications. The "X" also emphasized the X-rated contents of the publications. Many of the common aspects of the underground comix scene were in response to the strong restrictions forced upon mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, which refused publications featuring depictions of violence, sexuality, drug use and socially relevant content, all of which appeared in greater levels in underground comix."<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_comixmikenoreply@blogger.com