Otis Spann Is The Blues!!!

Submitted by Roanman on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 07:48

 

I don't know by whom, where or when this was recorded, but I am thankful it was.

Dead at 40 from cancer, Otis Spann was among the greatest and most influential musicians of the twentieth century.

Having spent most of his career playing piano in Muddy Water's band, he left in 1969 for a far too short solo career.

This is the great Otis Spann.

Spann's Blues

 

 

The Cardinal Cross of 2010

Submitted by Roanman on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 06:02

 

In the interest of full disclosure, I'll begin this post by stating unequivocally that I only sort of know what I'm talking about here.

And ......

Let me continue by offering the following two words to those of you who find yourselves reflexively reaching for your telephone.

Caller ID.

You will remember from previous discussions having to do with the Bradley Model, found here, here, and of course over there.

The summer of 2010 reeks of doom.

And so far, considering a monumental ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, not one, but two active volcanos thinking about erupting in Iceland, an extremely impressive meltdown of the world's #2 reserve currency, the governments of the eighth and twelfth (I think) largest economies in the world (California and New York) teetering on the brink of bankcrupcy, and ..... as a sweetner a couple of carrier groups and a nuclear armed submarine either heading for or already in the Persian Gulf ...

 

I'm giving the thing high scores for accuracy.

 

So ... just what exactly is the Bradley Model ... ummmm ... modeling ... viewing ... following ... I dunno ... doing.

As I explained once before.

It is simply charting the sum (positive or negative) of a set of mathematical values Mr. Bradley attached to the angles of relationship between the Sun, the Moon, and the planets within an astrological chart.

Planets in relationship of or near 0, 60, 90, 120 and 180 degrees were considered and a value (again positive or negative) was assigned each.

The positive or negative values were assigned on the basis of the historic consensus having to do with the benefic, or malefic qualities of each planet within each angular relationship between the planets.

Got it this time?

Don't worry about it.  Here's all you gotta know.

Up is good, down is bad.

Here it is again.

 


Here's the Bradley Model for 2010 from Amanita.

 

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The following is the daily astrological chart taken for exactly 12 noon of June 19, 2010 at Chicago illinois,USA.

It is a chart exactly like the following from which the calculations were created/taken to create the above charts.

Got that?

Don't worry about it.

Green is good, Red is bad, Purple isn't terrible, but it ain't all that helpful either..

Why noon? Why Chicago?

Just being arbitrary.

 

 

Now .....I know exactly what you're thinking here.

Huh? ... or worse.

I understand completely and I am here to help you.

If you want to, you can safely ignore everything from here, all the way to ......

To begin with, you need to know the planets.

The purple 4 at about 9 o'clock is Jupiter.

On the positive side, Jupiter represents prosperity, growth, expansion.

On the negative side, Jupiter is inflation, over eating (spiritual, economic or physical) mistakes from overconfidence.

The light blue oval also wearing a crown at also at about 9 o'clock is Uranus.

Uranus is sudden, unexpected, explosive happenings, accidents.

Uranus is also genius, intuition, vision and breakthroughs.

The dark green th looking thing at 3 o'clock is Saturn. 

On the positive side, Saturn is common sense, practical, steady, discipline, structure.

On the negative side, Saturn is hard lessons, limits, obstruction, it's the ass kicking you typically get when you screw up.

The pink cup holding a ball is Pluto.

Pluto is endings and new beginnings, death and birth, upheaval, transformation, destruction, power struggles, revolution, crime, secret police, spies, hidden things, mines and wells.

The purple pitchfork at about 10 o'clock is Neptune.

Neptune is inspiration, spirituality, sensitivity, idealism, self sacrifice, utopia, collective society, dreams, glamor, fantasy, illusion, delusion, deceit, fog, fumes, drugs, alcohol and addictions.

The golden dot within a circle at about 6 o'clock is the Sun.

The Sun is the individual, the authentic self, the will and the ego.

It also represents the national leader, power, authority.

The silver crescent is of course the Moon.

The Moon is the unconscious mind, that which you know without thinking.

In mundane astrology it is the people, the masses and women.

The red sign of the male is of course Mars, the god of war with all that implies.

The sign of the female is Venus, the goddess of love.

The little brown horny looking thing at about 6:30 is Mercury.

Mercury is thinking, communication, transportation.

Mercury is also writers, agents, public speakers, travelers, and tricksters.

..... here.

Planets sharing the same point of the circle tend to cooperate, or excite one another.

Planets at in opposite points of the circle conflict with each other (Red Lines).

Planets at 90 degree angles create friction between themselves (Red Lines).

Planets at 60 or 120 degree angles tend to assist one other (Green Lines).

Got all that?

At the risk of becoming redundant, don't worry about it.

Green is good, red is bad, purple isn't terrible, but it ain't all that helpful either.

We continue (all the while pushing the boundaries of Drupal).

The Cardinal Cross of 2010 continues

Submitted by Roanman on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 06:01

 

All right, here's June 26, 2010, still noon in Chicago.

The reds thicken as the planets cluster in squares and opposition.

 

 

June 29, 2010, green disappears.

 

 

July 2, 2010 the greens return as the Moon makes nice with the Sun and Mercury, and the Sun and Mercury make nice with Mars (always a good thing).

 

 

 On July 23, 2010 the Moon plays nice with Neptune, while Uranus and Jupiter spend some quality time with the Sun who continues to make nice with Mars (still a good thing).

 

 

By July 27, 2010 much of the niceness is tapering off, leaving lots af opposition, friction, exciting and little else.

 

 

Red lines thicken as green lines disappear.

 

 

Until on August 6, 2010 all niceness disappears again as Uranus and Jupiter stand together in opposition with Venus, Saturn and Mars (never a good thing).

 

 

Until on August 7, 2010 the formation becomes complete as the Moon and Pluto also oppose each other while squaring everyone else.

The "Cardinal Cross".

It's Cardinal because of a bunch of stuff I don't have the energy to go into right now, but you can trust me on this one.

To quote Fred Fenster once again,

"This is very bad."

 

  

There remains much opposition and friction until the end of August.

 

 

 

Feel free to think me nuts.

Gold and Cash.

Maybe oil.

Short something else if you have the cajones.

I have ... a little.

 

A letter to the WSJ from a guy in Eastpointe

Submitted by Roanman on Wed, 06/16/2010 - 06:12

 

I like it a lot when the local guy steps up.

The letter below from Mark Maisonneuve of Eastpointe (formerly East Detroit, formerly Halfway) Michigan, was written in response to an op-ed written by Daniel B. Klein and published in the Wall Street Journal a week or so ago under the following title.

The original op-ed is recommended.

I liked the letter even better.  

 

Who is better informed about the policy choices facing the country—liberals, conservatives or libertarians? According to a Zogby International survey that I write about in the May issue of Econ Journal Watch, the answer is unequivocal: The left flunks Econ 101.

  

Prof. Klein's survey results provide an important insight into the reason liberals and progressives, including President Barack Obama, are so obsessed with fairness over growth.
They truly do not understand how wealth is created and therefore believe it is largely a matter of luck.
In that case, it is only reasonable to transfer wealth from the lucky to the unlucky.
Relentless education about the idea that luck is only a small part relative to hard work, ingenuity and rewards is a desperately needed antidote.
Mark Maisonneuve,  Eastpointe, Mich.
 

To quote Eric Hoffer

Submitted by Roanman on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 06:37

 

I had forgotten about Eric Hoffer.

Shame on me.

I first read Eric Hoffer because a girl I wanted to do, wanted me to (read the book, not necessarily the other thing).

I was 19 ... shut up!

As an aside, to this day, some of the stuff I do for the Little Wiffer, I do for exactly the same reason.

Anyway .....,

Eric Hoffer to my way of thinking, was arguably one of the greatest essayists of the 20th Century, if not the entire history of American thought.

The self educated longshoreman, published his first book "The True Believer" in 1951, a book that is almost universally considered to be a classic in the study of mass movements and fanaticism.

 He was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom for Literature in 1981.

He published many of his 10 books and hundreds of newspaper columns while keeping his day job as a longshoreman at the Port of San Francisco.

He finally retired from the docks in the middle 60's at the age of 65.

This excerpt from an LA Times column he wrote after that retirement published May 26, 1968

 

Israel's Peculiar Position 

The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
 
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem.
 
Russian did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman.
 
Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees.
 
But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees.
 
Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab.
 
Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
 
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms.
 
But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
 
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
 
Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed.
 
Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
 
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.
 
There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia.
 
But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him.
 
The Swedes, who are ready to break of diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews.
 
They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
 
The Jews are alone in the world.
 
If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources.
 
Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally.
 
We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us.
 
And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
 
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us.
 
Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us.
 
 
Thanks again to David Michaels for sending this one through.
 
 

Supergrass

Submitted by Roanman on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 16:14

 

Supergrass plays their last show tonight in Paris.

A stalwart of the Britpop era, and in my mind one of the better singles bands ever, Supergrass never really got over in the U.S.

The band earned their first of probably 20 English top forty singles in 1995.

Their 2004 greatest hits package "Supergrass is 10" is as far as I'm concerned one of the best "Power Pop" albums ever released.

Although I'm still a little crabby about Cheapskate not being included.

This is Gaz Coombs on guitar, Mick Quinn on bass, Danny Gaffey on drums and Rob Coombs playing keyboards.

Supergrass.

Pumping On Your Stereo and Grace.

 

 

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