Next week, we will be looking at, on the eve of the U.S. elections, the progressed charts of John McCain and Barack Obama. This has been a hard election to call for astrologers, because all of the parties involved have been reluctant to release accurate birth data. Obama's birth certificate was only obtained a couple of months ago and McCain's just last week.
In the pub afterwards, contrary to the optimistic predictions of the media and most of my friends, my elegant astrologer pal Bethea and I call the election for McCain. I do not think Obama's race is the real problem. If Colin Powell were running, he'd walk it.
In the pub afterwards, contrary to the optimistic predictions of the media and most of my friends, my elegant astrologer pal Bethea and I call the election for McCain. I do not think Obama's race is the real problem. If Colin Powell were running, he'd walk it.
But it occurred to me that Oscar-winning black actress/singer Jennifer Hudson's tragedy, as sad news emerged that her missing nephew is likely dead, alongside the brutal murders of her mother and brother, will not help Obama's cause, reinforcing stereotypes about black people even when they are affluent and successful. I'm sticking my neck out and saying McCain will win.
Christopher Hitchins-love this guy.
Bethea noted, during this credit crunch, that it is now 'Thatcherism's ' Saturn return, 28 years on. Hard lessons to be learnt. Milton Friedman's economic lunacy reassessed.
There is debate as to whether Thatcher will get a state funeral (see link), the first civilian since Winston Churchill. I remember watching his funeral on black and white TV. It seemed to last for days. I became obsessed with death for months after that, pestering my parents and anybody else who would listen with questions: "So are you going to die? Am I going to die? Are you sure?". I found the whole concept extraordinary.
