Let us just say, I was forced to go inside Wartmart today because the line for the garden dept. was into the store. I have all the black mulch I will ever need. I will never return. I shall pretend that corner simply doesn't exist. Shudder. I have changed my mind. Please stop all government funding of public everything. PLEASE! I was in Tea Party Headquarters where most of them are disabled, paying with government food stamp cards and incapable of limiting themselves to under 3 kids while trying to buy tickets for NASCAR. I kept hoping I was on another planet. Let us not discuss the fashion statements. I think the onlything keeping me from being lynched was the Levi T-shirt I was wearing.
Anyway, the mailbox bed is completed and now I move to the inside yard. The tomatoes are producing. I have a bumper crop of herbs and I am quiting for the day. Oh, the worldwide tomato crop is puny. The corn belt is bracing for floods and will have low harvests this year. Oil prices are being artificially jacked up causing the price of everything to go up and fresh food shortages are already beginning. I really love my garden. My peppers will be ready next. Just remember, Corporate America is taking care of you. Sleep well.
Today's Tarot Card is the Ace of Swords reversed. There will not be much action today and it will be difficult to start anything.
The only aspects this morning are in the morning when tantrums at limitations abound. It will hard to get the kiddies ready for school.
Have a nice day!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Forecast for Saturday, 03/05/11
Remember, Today, Saturday, is Mineral Day at the Cosmic Salamander and do we have a selection out for you. Diamonte Laser Wands or Singing Crystals, Tibetan Crystals...Apple Jasper....Some spelled pieces for magickal workings. Come by and see us tomorrow after 2 PM to 9 PM.
I will even help you pick a mineral that is attuned with your aura and normally....that would cost you money. Today, I will do it for free. Did I mention jewelry? Oh, I have put out new pendants.....
Mineral skulls are used to move you from the end of one thing and on to the next thing. The type of mineral they are made from signifies what is ending and beginning. Pictured are a Tiger Iron (creative endeavours and protection) and two Fluorite (clarity and decision making) skulls.
Today's Tarot Card is the Knight of pentacles reversed and the Eight of Pentacles Reversed. An independent woman seeks way more money than she is worth or working for, so be careful what you buy.
The Morning Hours bring good news and a lot of talk. The afternoon and evening are aspect free, so enjoy the relaxed feeling. The Moon goes void of course at 11:34 PM EST, so call it an early night and get a good night's sleep. However, the Moon enters Aries after midnight so the it is a short void of course, but it may be hard to get to sleep after midnight.
See you tomorrow!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Forecast for 03/04/11
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| Fluorite pyramids are on the left in background. |
Napoleon and Fionna are upset I have left the house again. They planned on spending my birthday on my lap. Fionna, leaned back and looked up at me with those little eyes with such love and devotion. Then again, she had my sausage for breakfast and part of my fish for dinner.....
We harvested our first tomato today. More will follow as after that one set, the tomato plant went a little crazy. The Sweet 100 has one cluster of tomatoes started. In case you don't know, that is a very sweet cherry tomato that just keeps on growing and producing until the heat does it in. I will have more tomatoes than I know what to do with off that plant. The Homestead has one tomato growing and a bunch setting.
Today's Tarot Card is the Ten of Pentacles reversed. This is day when you can get your hands on money.
The New Moon is at 3:46 PM EST in 13Pisces03. Great ideas occur overnight and unfortunately your energy is up so sleeping is difficult.
This new moon makes us really emotional for be careful. Later tonight the limitations kick and you just can't seem to get anything right including your hair and dress.
One of my favorite minerals is Fluorite. It is known for its ability to soak up negative electromagnetic energy and thus, it is the perfect stone to keep around appliances and computers. Mostly I use purple or green and purple. I love the fact that it naturally forms double pyramids making it easy to place and aim. It definitely clears energy fields and placing a piece at all four major axis of your circle will provide extra protection when working. Since it also helps with clarity of mind and decision making, a piece on your desk is a must!
The City of Coconut wins the double speak award of the day with the newly coined phrase: car calming devices. Personally, I think if you buy those skittish foreign sports cars, you should provide your own valium for them. We can't wait to find out exactly what these devises are. I haven't had so much fun since I was translating technical journals from German to English....the machine that prints on the paper with the heated mechanical head. I loved that one. Unfortunately, it made more sense.
ALERT COCONUT CREEK RESIDENTS
There is a notice of a public meeting in the Sun Sentinel today, Section B page 5 and I am going to copy the BS word for word. It is designed to confuse you and convince you not to attend the meeting and challenge the ordinance:
"The City of Coconut Creek proposes to adopt the following Ordinance:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COCONUT CREEK, FLORIDA AMENDING CHAPTER 13, CODE OF ORDINANCES, ENTITLED "LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE," BY AMENDING ARTICLE 11 THEREOF, ENTITLED "SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS," BY AMENDING DIVISION 5 THEREOF, ENTITLED "SUBDIVISION DESIGN STANDARDS," BY AMENDING SECTIONS 13-237 AND 13-237.1 RELATED TO REGULATIONS FOR TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY (sic); PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE"
Are your eyes crossed yet? Okay, read just the last phrase and let me translate it for you. This clause is setting the rules, fines and effective date for something they are calling "TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES" which I bet are TRAFFIC CAMERAS and making these laws citywide.
The first reading of the ordinance is on March 10th at 7 PM and YOU need to call 954-973-6774 and find out what this TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE is, what the fines are and what the fines will be for, get yourselves on the agenda and SPEAK.
First off, these cameras are in court and it has been shown that NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY RUN RED LIGHTS. They are throwing cases out right and left because "enhancement" software must be used to see what the license plate might read and they cannot prove where the photo of the license plate was taken. THESE CAMERAS ARE EXPENSIVE. WE ARE LAYING OFF SCHOOL TEACHERS, POLICE, FIRE AND EMERGENCY PEOPLE. WE ARE CUTTING OUR SCHOOL BUDGET TO THE BONE. ISN'T ANY ONE OF THESE JOBS WORTH THE PRICE OF THIS INEFFECTUAL BOONDOGGLE CALLED A TRAFFIC CAMERA?????
Our local governments are still on a spending spree. The implementation and purchase of these bells and whistles should have already been chopped on the block rather than necessary services. Let me ask you, what was the first thing you cut from your budget this year? Was it food or Cable TV? Do we want a cop or a traffic camera? The choice is obvious to the average person but apparently the local politicians are not average and I didn't mean that in a good way.
On the other hand, 76 Place is on 441 and under the jurisdiction of Coconut Creek. You will get a ticket at that light. There is no doubt if the camera is activated, you will be ticketed and you will have done nothing wrong. There are accidents at that intersection almost every night. George was almost killed at that intersection. WHY? Because the lights are timed wrong and the government disagrees with me. I saw a metro bus, doing less that the speed limit hit the final line going into the intersection with its front tires just as the light turned yellow. There was no way it could stop. If it had, it would have come to a stop IN THE INTERSECTION. The light turned red before the last half of the bus crossed the first line on the other side of the intersection. It would have been ticketed for running a red light. This light has been this way since Hurricane Wilma and even before. You can stand there and see it is wrong with no stopwatch, no fancy electronic equipment. People are rear ended trying to stop because they don't know if the camera is active or not almost every night. These cameras are not saving lives, they are causing accidents. Time the lights and fix the system if you want to save lives and it will not require a SINGLE TAX DOLLAR, JUST LETTING THE PEOPLE YOU ALREADY HAVE HIRED DO THEIR JOBS.
I am not a resident of Coconut Creek. Trust me, they do not want to see me at City Hall. They probably have my picture up somewhere on the "unfriendly list". The Salamander actually sits in unincorporated Broward County. You are going to have to this yourselves. I have given you the ammunition. These cameras are not administered by the cities. A private company does the analysis and sends out the tickets. The city PAYS the fee for each ticket sent out and license plate analyzed whether it holds up in court or not.
Now, as my grandma would say: "A really fart fellow would know that it is in the company's best interest to send out as many tickets as possible and provide the most convincing statistics on making money. And a really fart fellow would know not to believe a word of it." BOONDOGGLE!
"The City of Coconut Creek proposes to adopt the following Ordinance:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COCONUT CREEK, FLORIDA AMENDING CHAPTER 13, CODE OF ORDINANCES, ENTITLED "LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE," BY AMENDING ARTICLE 11 THEREOF, ENTITLED "SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS," BY AMENDING DIVISION 5 THEREOF, ENTITLED "SUBDIVISION DESIGN STANDARDS," BY AMENDING SECTIONS 13-237 AND 13-237.1 RELATED TO REGULATIONS FOR TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY (sic); PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE"
Are your eyes crossed yet? Okay, read just the last phrase and let me translate it for you. This clause is setting the rules, fines and effective date for something they are calling "TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES" which I bet are TRAFFIC CAMERAS and making these laws citywide.
The first reading of the ordinance is on March 10th at 7 PM and YOU need to call 954-973-6774 and find out what this TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE is, what the fines are and what the fines will be for, get yourselves on the agenda and SPEAK.
First off, these cameras are in court and it has been shown that NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY RUN RED LIGHTS. They are throwing cases out right and left because "enhancement" software must be used to see what the license plate might read and they cannot prove where the photo of the license plate was taken. THESE CAMERAS ARE EXPENSIVE. WE ARE LAYING OFF SCHOOL TEACHERS, POLICE, FIRE AND EMERGENCY PEOPLE. WE ARE CUTTING OUR SCHOOL BUDGET TO THE BONE. ISN'T ANY ONE OF THESE JOBS WORTH THE PRICE OF THIS INEFFECTUAL BOONDOGGLE CALLED A TRAFFIC CAMERA?????
Our local governments are still on a spending spree. The implementation and purchase of these bells and whistles should have already been chopped on the block rather than necessary services. Let me ask you, what was the first thing you cut from your budget this year? Was it food or Cable TV? Do we want a cop or a traffic camera? The choice is obvious to the average person but apparently the local politicians are not average and I didn't mean that in a good way.
On the other hand, 76 Place is on 441 and under the jurisdiction of Coconut Creek. You will get a ticket at that light. There is no doubt if the camera is activated, you will be ticketed and you will have done nothing wrong. There are accidents at that intersection almost every night. George was almost killed at that intersection. WHY? Because the lights are timed wrong and the government disagrees with me. I saw a metro bus, doing less that the speed limit hit the final line going into the intersection with its front tires just as the light turned yellow. There was no way it could stop. If it had, it would have come to a stop IN THE INTERSECTION. The light turned red before the last half of the bus crossed the first line on the other side of the intersection. It would have been ticketed for running a red light. This light has been this way since Hurricane Wilma and even before. You can stand there and see it is wrong with no stopwatch, no fancy electronic equipment. People are rear ended trying to stop because they don't know if the camera is active or not almost every night. These cameras are not saving lives, they are causing accidents. Time the lights and fix the system if you want to save lives and it will not require a SINGLE TAX DOLLAR, JUST LETTING THE PEOPLE YOU ALREADY HAVE HIRED DO THEIR JOBS.
I am not a resident of Coconut Creek. Trust me, they do not want to see me at City Hall. They probably have my picture up somewhere on the "unfriendly list". The Salamander actually sits in unincorporated Broward County. You are going to have to this yourselves. I have given you the ammunition. These cameras are not administered by the cities. A private company does the analysis and sends out the tickets. The city PAYS the fee for each ticket sent out and license plate analyzed whether it holds up in court or not.
Now, as my grandma would say: "A really fart fellow would know that it is in the company's best interest to send out as many tickets as possible and provide the most convincing statistics on making money. And a really fart fellow would know not to believe a word of it." BOONDOGGLE!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Forecast for Thursday, March 3, 2011
I even typed the wrong date trying to to forget but there is no getting around the fact that I am 60 years old today. The funny thing is, I am younger than most of the people claiming to be younger than me, chronologically. Technically, my solar return starts tomorrow with the New Moon. This should be an interesting year.
Don't forget, Saturday is Mineral Appreciation Day at the Cosmic Salamander and I will be here from 2 to 9 PM to answer your questions, help cleanse any stones that need it and we will have a charging station set up for your stones. So, bring your mineral babies with you. This is my favorite event because I am very in tune with the mineral kingdom.
Today's Tarot Card is the King of Cups and the Ace of Swords reversed. A man who claims to be taking care of you is actually doing nothing and nothing has been started. Get out there and do it yourself!
The Moon is void of course from 9:36 AM to 11:47 AM EST shooting the morning for most of us. It starts with a conjunction to Neptune which can create several conditions. At its best, it enhances your spirituality and psychic ability. In the mid range, it makes the time pleasant, romantic and rife with day dreams. However, at its worst, it is deceptive and causes nothing to be clear. It is hard to tell with a conjunction which will manifest and it really depends on your chart and your planetary aspects to it.
By mid afternoon a lot of teachers are talking about how it used to be and waxing nostalgic. Okay, my mother went to school in a one room cottage with grades 1 through 7 in the same room with the same teacher. She wrote her lessons on a little chalk board because no one could afford paper... Nostalgia is really nice when viewed from the proper distance and as the myth it often turns out to be.
The big influence for the week is a one in which a weak Mars in Pisces sextiles a strong Pluto in Capricorn. Emotional pleas meet with polite nods and not much more from authorities and elders.
The picture is of my favorite piece of Black Kyanite. To me, it looks like a Hawk with its wings outstretched in full attack mode. It is an extremely protective piece with just the right edge of violence. The black form of Kyanite is grounding when you are balancing your chakras. As I can state, some times when working with others to balance your chakras, you get a little disconnected and I even saw someone levitate once, so grounding is very good. It never needs cleansing or clearing because it does not absorb negative energy or vibrations. It automatically aligns the chakras, so you can just hold it and feel your energy come into alignment. It is rather nice to hold while sitting in a pyramid for meditation. It will unblock your chakras automatically. It is also the stone for past and future life exploration. This piece is pretty expensive as it is considered a specimen, but I have several small pieces that will work just a good.
How do you make a mistake while thinking you are winning? Actually, it is easy if you are short sighted. The business interests that control the big players in government thought it would be a brilliant idea to send all those expensive jobs overseas and get huge tax breaks for doing it. They began the collapse of the American economy. They figured this new class of high tech workers would fit in nicely at Micky D's while they drove by showing off their new Rolls. Heck, I bet they even got those fast food restaurants all excited by telling them they were going to get employees that could read and make change.
What they forgot to notice, never having eaten at one of those places, was its customers tended to be overworked techies and their children who had no time to cook. With no money coming in and plenty of time, those same people had no choice but to learn to cook and stay home as food stamps don't cover fast food. The fast food places were going broke and not hiring, jobs became scarcer than hen's teeth (hen's don't have any teeth, just a beak.) and suddenly the audience in the day time that had eaten up "who's the daddy shows" and any fake news they threw at them was replaced by actual intelligent, thinking people who are suffering. That my friends is a very bad combination because when the question is asked: "Could you do a better job?" they are talking to out of work personnel directors, accountants, lawyers, builders, engineers, etc. and the answer is: "YES!"
The letters to the editor this week have proved that people are thinking. They seeing this news bit crap as the lies it is and these "solutions" make no sense. A law suit is already filed by both Democrats and Republicans in the Florida Senate to stop our new goobenor from turning down the money for the high speed rail based on...are you ready.....possible overruns in cost. You have a large retired population down here that remembers the solution to the Great Depression was public works projects, the very projects the GOP/Tea Party is trying to scuttle. Unfortunately, that was pretty much the last time a bridge or levee was ever worked on....but never the less...we could start repairs tomorrow. BY the Way the main thrust of the lawsuit is to remind our goobenor we actually have a democracy in Florida and not a Monarchy. Seems he broke a few laws with the refusal of a proposal that was already passed and voted upon before he took office but then again, Him breaking a few Laws...is that really news or business as usual????
Yup, an educated, intelligent out of work populace with no hope of finding a job is how most revolutions get started.Vive Anonymous! Well, some of you know what that means.....
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| Black Kyanite Hawk |
Don't forget, Saturday is Mineral Appreciation Day at the Cosmic Salamander and I will be here from 2 to 9 PM to answer your questions, help cleanse any stones that need it and we will have a charging station set up for your stones. So, bring your mineral babies with you. This is my favorite event because I am very in tune with the mineral kingdom.
Today's Tarot Card is the King of Cups and the Ace of Swords reversed. A man who claims to be taking care of you is actually doing nothing and nothing has been started. Get out there and do it yourself!
The Moon is void of course from 9:36 AM to 11:47 AM EST shooting the morning for most of us. It starts with a conjunction to Neptune which can create several conditions. At its best, it enhances your spirituality and psychic ability. In the mid range, it makes the time pleasant, romantic and rife with day dreams. However, at its worst, it is deceptive and causes nothing to be clear. It is hard to tell with a conjunction which will manifest and it really depends on your chart and your planetary aspects to it.
By mid afternoon a lot of teachers are talking about how it used to be and waxing nostalgic. Okay, my mother went to school in a one room cottage with grades 1 through 7 in the same room with the same teacher. She wrote her lessons on a little chalk board because no one could afford paper... Nostalgia is really nice when viewed from the proper distance and as the myth it often turns out to be.
The big influence for the week is a one in which a weak Mars in Pisces sextiles a strong Pluto in Capricorn. Emotional pleas meet with polite nods and not much more from authorities and elders.
The picture is of my favorite piece of Black Kyanite. To me, it looks like a Hawk with its wings outstretched in full attack mode. It is an extremely protective piece with just the right edge of violence. The black form of Kyanite is grounding when you are balancing your chakras. As I can state, some times when working with others to balance your chakras, you get a little disconnected and I even saw someone levitate once, so grounding is very good. It never needs cleansing or clearing because it does not absorb negative energy or vibrations. It automatically aligns the chakras, so you can just hold it and feel your energy come into alignment. It is rather nice to hold while sitting in a pyramid for meditation. It will unblock your chakras automatically. It is also the stone for past and future life exploration. This piece is pretty expensive as it is considered a specimen, but I have several small pieces that will work just a good.
How do you make a mistake while thinking you are winning? Actually, it is easy if you are short sighted. The business interests that control the big players in government thought it would be a brilliant idea to send all those expensive jobs overseas and get huge tax breaks for doing it. They began the collapse of the American economy. They figured this new class of high tech workers would fit in nicely at Micky D's while they drove by showing off their new Rolls. Heck, I bet they even got those fast food restaurants all excited by telling them they were going to get employees that could read and make change.
What they forgot to notice, never having eaten at one of those places, was its customers tended to be overworked techies and their children who had no time to cook. With no money coming in and plenty of time, those same people had no choice but to learn to cook and stay home as food stamps don't cover fast food. The fast food places were going broke and not hiring, jobs became scarcer than hen's teeth (hen's don't have any teeth, just a beak.) and suddenly the audience in the day time that had eaten up "who's the daddy shows" and any fake news they threw at them was replaced by actual intelligent, thinking people who are suffering. That my friends is a very bad combination because when the question is asked: "Could you do a better job?" they are talking to out of work personnel directors, accountants, lawyers, builders, engineers, etc. and the answer is: "YES!"
The letters to the editor this week have proved that people are thinking. They seeing this news bit crap as the lies it is and these "solutions" make no sense. A law suit is already filed by both Democrats and Republicans in the Florida Senate to stop our new goobenor from turning down the money for the high speed rail based on...are you ready.....possible overruns in cost. You have a large retired population down here that remembers the solution to the Great Depression was public works projects, the very projects the GOP/Tea Party is trying to scuttle. Unfortunately, that was pretty much the last time a bridge or levee was ever worked on....but never the less...we could start repairs tomorrow. BY the Way the main thrust of the lawsuit is to remind our goobenor we actually have a democracy in Florida and not a Monarchy. Seems he broke a few laws with the refusal of a proposal that was already passed and voted upon before he took office but then again, Him breaking a few Laws...is that really news or business as usual????
Yup, an educated, intelligent out of work populace with no hope of finding a job is how most revolutions get started.Vive Anonymous! Well, some of you know what that means.....
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Forecfor Wednesday, 03-02-11
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| Crystal Day is Saturday |
It has not been the day I planned but then again, when are they ever. After Costco, we stopped at Home Depot. On the way out a cart full of the huge retaining wall stones hit the holes where they close the chain doors and started toppling over on me. I managed to balance it until George and the clerk could get it upright and not get squished. I thought I was alright until around 2 AM when I awoke with the Hemmies! I must have really strained myself because not even the cream would stop the pain and thus, today I have managed to do nothing but sit on one foot to keep myself at an angle and whimper a lot.
The front finally arrived and we have really gotten some rain, for which we are very grateful. Hopefully all the brush fires were put out. Now to move the orchids and house plants back to their normal locations after their bath this afternoon.
Today's Tarot Card is the Seven of Wands. Expect to defend both yourself and your ideas today.
The way out of limitations becomes clear but no one will agree. Venus is now in Aquarius and the nostalgia is over. Women want to move froward and out of the past. Social events are moving forward at lightning speed. The more modern, the more likely your party will be the one attended.
There are two excellent letters to the Editor in the March 1st Sun Sentinel. If you can pull them up on line, you have to read them. Jeff Zeitlin, hits the nail on the head in a humorous manner about how the country is tyring to get out of debt. I applaud him. All the emphasis in government is on cutting expenses and no one has stopped to say: how about we get more revenue? I loved Robert Caruba Jr.'s counter offer to the new goobener's prison plan. I think it might just work, particularly the last line! BRAVO!
I also have to report that a politician actually said something intelligent. I know you probably either passed out or spit coffee all over your key board and of course, most of us have been saying this for years but here goes:
"It amazes me that we have to walk into a venue, show an identification card, and walk over into a booth (to vote)....when I can transfer money from one account to another worldwide with a push of a button." State Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach.
It has amazed the rest of us for years.....but we just figured it was a way to reward certain special people with lots of money for printing paper ballots, non-working and totally insecure voting machines and let's not forget the nationwide joke: the hanging chad. Most people didn't even know what a chad was, so chalk one up for expanding vocabulary.
I also don't believe this happened because intelligence in government is seldom used in the same sentence and that goes triple if the Broward County Board is involved in the sentence, but a Commissioner is actually balking at buying the infamous boat anchors known as "RED LIGHT CAMERAS". He suggested that to reduce accidents from red lights we should just add two seconds to the time after the light turns red before the other light turns green to clear the intersection. That's simple and effective. Let me make another suggestion...add the right number of seconds to the bloody yellow light. I saw a Metro bus run a red light tonight at 76 Place in Coconut Creek simply because the light turned yellow as the bus hit the line going into the intersection, was doing the speed limit, had no possible way to stop and the light turned red before it made it through the intersection. With a Red Light Camera, that would have been a ticket. So how about getting these stupid lights fixed before you buy any bells and whistles?
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