Obviously I have too much free time

I recently learned that Zodiac signs are very week to week. My friend Jashin had a thorough Zodiac book and I read the description of my zodiac birth week which is on the Cancer/Gemini Cusp, known as the cusp of magic. It noted that I possess an interesting combination of logic and feeling and that I am forever 21 years old.

Here's an overview I found online (this website places the beginning of the cusp at the 20th, but Jashin's book started it at the 19th, my birthday) :
-- Possess the flighty and energetic traits inherent in Gemini --
-- Possess the deep feeling inherent in Cancer --
-- Often categorized as inspired individuals --
-- Intensely devoted to loved ones --
-- Find it difficult to keep an eye on the desired goal --
-- Prone to drift --
-- Apt to repress feelings --

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Notable Gemini/Cancer Cuspians Include:
Cyndi Lauper; Errol Flynn; Meryl Streep; Kris Krisofferson; and Phylicia Rashad (absent from the list: Jean Paul Sartre, born June 21, 1905).

Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death

Nytimes:
A crazed horde of shoppers looking for post holiday bargains shattered the doors to a Walmart at 5am Friday morning and trampled an employee to death.

Butttub:

Black Friday Earns its Name

some possible good news

Obama might choose Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer, to lead the EPA.

more griping

Obama's Economic Policy People:

Robert Rubin, an economic adviser to Obama, oversaw the risk management at the recently collapsed super bank Citigroup. Larry Summers, soon to be the director of Obama's National Economic Council, the Treasury Secretary under Clinton "championed the law that deregulated derivatives, the financial instruments — a k a toxic assets — that have spread the financial losses from reckless lending around the globe." Larry Summers also worked at the IMF, along with Geithner, the current president of the Federal Reserve and Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary. Each one of these picks represent an ideology of deregulation and neoliberalism that fueled our current economic crisis; And these are the people that are supposed to steer the ship of state toward its salvation with policies of 'change' and 'spreading around the wealth????'

Obama's (dis)appointments

Naomi Klein from yesterday's democracy now:

"..what we can expect from Summers and Geithner, I think it's clear that there's going to be a major departure from the idea logy that the government can't do anything...we're going to see a lot of investments in infrastructure...but the key issue and this is where I think we want to concentrate our energies because...we all want to be optimistic, but I think part of what got us into this situation where we've seen these very disappointing appointments has been that we have not been honest about the legacy of the Clinton years. So much mis-information has been spread during the election campaign because it was a nice message to present the '90s as these wonder years in contrast to the Bush years, and that is exactly the situation when you have a Summers [Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton, and recently picked by Obama to head the National Economic Council] going down as some sort of wise man instead of going down with Allen Greenspan."


Also check out Jeremey Scahill's piece on Alternet highlighting the 'liberal hawks' behind Obama's foreign policy team.