link to Palin's RNC speech + LOE on McCain

The Washington Post website has about 9 minutes of Sara Palin's acceptance speech at the 2008 RNC in case you've been totally and completely out of touch.

Living On Earth is featuring the GOP-McCain-Palin stance on the environment with MP3s and transcripts of today's show. Check out Drill Baby Drill and more at one of my top three favorite radio programs, LOE.

Since Sara Palin doesn't believe human beings affect the environment, and McCain mysteriously disappears when important environmental votes come up in the Senate, I have to ask: these are 'conservatives'?

Conservatives should conserve! And we are to be, as Palin's Bible must surely say, stewards of the earth.

LOE's feature covers the GOP energy platform, Alaska and ANWR issues, McCain-supported cap and trade possibilities, alternative energies, James Woolsey's stint as energy and foreign policy advisor to John McCain+...this is the most comprehensive information on the GOP candidates and the environment you're likely to find anywhere.

Bravo, LOE!

Woodward's book and American state terrorism

Turning Away From American State Terrorism

By: Peter Chamberlin

In Pakistan we find the complete history of the American "war on terrorism,"from its Cold War origins nearly thirty years ago to its present incarnation in the illegal American aggression in Pakistan's Frontier region (FATA, Federally Administered Tribal Areas) and in American attempts to reignite the Cold War with Russia.

Read more here...

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US Spied on Iraqi Leaders, Book Says; Woodward Also Reveals That Political Fears Kept War Strategy Review'Under the Radar'

By Steve Luxenberg

During the interviews with Woodward, the president spoke of the war as part of a recentering of American power in the Middle East. "And it should be, "Bush said. "And the reason it should be: It is the place from which a deadly attack emanated. And it is the place where further deadly attacks could emanate."

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NPR at noon Sept 6: slain leader Benazir Bhutto's husband has easily won the vote as Pakistan's president.

Todd and Sara Palin: Wedding Day Astrology

Wedding Day Astrology: Todd and Sara Palin is now available concerning this political power couple if you'd like a starry peek into their relationship dynamics!

Carol Shepp McCain: left behind

Last night's acceptance speech by John McCain touted Republican respect for family values yet McCain never mentioned the wife he callously left behind, Carol Shepp McCain.

How could he? It would mar the RNC's morality narrative.

Here's my astro-analysis on the Shepp-McCain's Wedding Day Astrology of 1965.

You'll also discover articles on the weddings/marriages of John and CINDY McCain, Barack and Michelle Obama, George and Laura Bush, Jenna and Henry Hagger, and John and Elizabeth Edwards.

Guess the Palins will be next! And can the Bidens be far behind?

The rhetoric of 9/11

With the 7th aniversary of 9/11 coming up in a few days, you may wish to check out Rhetoric of 9/11, a special feature on American Rhetoric, a great resource for words right out of their mouths...transcripts, audio (including some MP3)...it's an excellent resource for walking down memory lane, for your historical research, for reviewing propaganda and slogans, or for keeping politicians honest - as if, right?

Drill Baby Drill!

The Sagittarian Jupiter of John McCain

Some notes on the natal Jupiter of John McCain have been published on my WordPress blog, if you're interested...

And since Jupiter is the planet of actors, it will be interesting this evening to see how candidate and political thespian McCain expresses himself as he touts his aspirations for the White House.

Palin views Iraq war as religious: video

Here's a link to the Palin video at Huffington Post where she gives shout-out to the Iraq war/occupation as holy crusade...God's plan.

Now God's plan is behind everything, I agree. It's the arrogance of those who think they have the right to tweak it that grumps me up.

And they do it for narrow political reasons.

Great. More of that with McCain. Is that what we want?

RNC's Romney calls on Big Brother

In his speech at the RNC this evening, Mitt Romney confused social programs for the needy with Orwell's concept of Big Brother which is the totalitarian dictator character in George Orwell's ground-breaking and prophetic book, Nineteen-Eighty-Four.

Romney, in an attempt to critique the Democrats' populist view of being one's brother's keeper (which in my Bible and an integral part of its teachings and which includes not letting Americans starve on our streets), said,

"It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of big brother."

We know the 'party of big ideas' is the Jupiterian GOP. And the party of Big Brother-NSA/Bush~Cheney spying on American citizens a la Orwell is...the GOP. Didn't you think George Bush looked like an Orwell character on that gi-huge screen at the Convention?

Well, sometimes political slogans don't quite work as intended - they simply say too much.

RNC 2008 horoscope 9.3.08

The horoscope for this evening's Republican National Convention in St. Paul Minnesota set for 10:00 pm cdt is being used here due to its correspondence with the US Inaugural Ascendant (Jan 20, DC, noon) for as you see, 14Tau59 rises in this chart as it does for US inaugurations.

Midheaven is approximately three degrees behind the Inaugural Midheaven, however, but as you see, tonight's positions of the Pluto/Chiron and the Pluto/NN midpoints are conjunct Mc, the point which represents The Goal of the chart.

The global elitist pair, Pluto/Chiron, has been much discussed on this blog and on Jude's Threshold so I'll not go into it's plutocratic/corporatism/oppression flavors; Pluto/NN = connections with the powerful; karmic links; exerting powerful influence upon the masses.

Pluto/NN = Mc: dependence of one's future upon associations which influence objectives and may cause setbacks.

The 10:00 pm chart represents the culmination of the R-Party's evening although speeches may continue past the hour, and VP nom Sara Palin is scheduled to speak this evening in her first major national shout-out.

I believe the trio of Venus, Mercury (young person = baby?), and Mars signify Palin's expectant daughter, baby, and her future son-in-law who is to be in attendance tonight. Venus/Mars is, of course, passion and love. Palin may make some mention of her family's situation (Mercury is also communications, oration.) However, this trio conjuncts a difficult star, Vindemiatrix.

An Earth Grand Trine between the 10:00 pm Asc (which is, as noted, the US Inaugural Asc, the office of the president), Jupiter at his Direct Station degree 12Cap34 Rx, and the Sun/Saturn conjunction (which perfects today), shows benefits to the Republican Party's plea to be returned to the White House.

Four More Years! Crazy!

Jupiter's Direct Station on Sep 8 (12:17 am edt, White House) will be squared, as Jupiter is here, by the Venus, Mercury, Mars trio, indicating the 'obstacle' nature of the Palin family's revelation of the pregnancy and the issues of abortion, personal responsibility, and values voting which the circumstances have brought forward in the 2008 campaign.

Around the chart, some of John McCain's natal placements have been highlighted (red) with Palin's in green.

That McCain's health may be or become an issue within his presidency seems possible and although we may use Sun-Saturn to indicate a highlighting of authority (which it is - and asteroid Apollo is with them as well, the hero, sun god, colony founder, etc) I believe McCain's health is or will be involved partially because the Sun-Saturn conj is bracketed by McCain's natal Sun 6Vir02 and his n Neptune 16Vir03 so we have:

Sun/Neptune = Saturn: unhealthy or impeded blood circulation; an emotional affliction; inhibitions through illness or physical debility.

Of course, McCain can't lift his arms above his head due to POW torture and his skin cancer bouts are well known, so perhaps that's all there is going forward, but given his advanced age (Sun-Saturn) his past and present health issues may crop up sooner than expected.

But not to worry, says the GOP - we've got Pluto/Chironians on our side - and there's the Uranus/Pluto lady, Sara Palin ready to take the reins of control and continue the revolution and its radical reforms!

Palin's natal Uranus 8Vir43 and Pluto 13Vir28 are actually being triggered by tonight's Sun-Saturn conj as well...

Uranus/Pluto = Sun: making the highest demands upon one's physical energy; over excitement; a breakdown; strong emotional tensions; revolution; the urge for independence and freedom. (There are questions about Palin and her husband's past connections to Alaska's Independence Party who'd like to secede from the state!)

Uranus/Pluto = Saturn egotism; tendency toward autocratic leadership; pressure from others; toppled from position.

(You know of the probes into Palin's leadership style in Alaska, and she's been described as 'brittle' when 'crossed' and as one who governs by the GOP-honed "loyalty test" model of firing and, one assumes, hiring.

Palin's natal Sun, Mars are being veiled by Neptune 22AQ20 Rx, although it isn't noted in my chart scribbles here (it's been previously discussed) and perhaps more importantly tonight is the Moon (a woman; publicity) 3Sco36 which is conjunct transiting asteroids, Demeter (the mother), and Atlantis (misuse or abuse of power; where one feels doomed. ) Atlantis also relates as a stand-in for America herself.

Atlantis's power issues are spotlighted by Palin's speech tonight - perhaps not by the lady herself, but by commentators, bloggers, and others.

Demeter, is the more spirtualized mother archetype (than Ceres) so religious concerns about her daughter's pregnancy are part of the RNC delegates' and operatives' conversations and concerns, as well as in the media (although as I've stated before: leave the babies alone!)

I wonder if Rovian strategists are somewhat disappointed that Barack Obama and other Dems didn't come out with guns blazing on the mother-daughter issue, but Rs are making as much lemonade out of it as possible with their base and melding it with abortion issues.

If you click to enlarge you can see quite a pile-up of midpoints upon Palin's natal Neptune 17Sco49 including zealous Mars/Pluto...

Mars/Pluto = Neptune: cunning strategies; plotting rebellion; subterfuge. (all midpt pics: Tyl; Ebertin.)

There's much more to say about tonight and about this chart but I must mosey for now...do drop by Jude's Threshold later on and on Thursday where I'll be posting more Political Astrology and where there's already some interesting Palin/RNC threads winding their way amongst the RNC nationalist slogans!

Signs of Hope and Change: the video