From April 2009. Deserves a rerun because I have something to add.

I have T-Mobile as a carrier for my cell phone. The last time I replaced my phone I paid full price rather than extend my contract.

I have been happy with them. They have that @home service which allows unlimited calls at from home or other T-Mobile hotspots for $10 additional a month so it’s been a very good deal but I got an even better deal.
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It occurred to me that people may begin to speak freely when Saturn leaves Virgo.  I was momentarily relieved before I realized I would not be one of them considering Saturn will transiting my 9th towards conjunction with Mercury.  I am going to have to continue to watch my mouth for sure however I do feel like making some remarks about this opposition.

I was reading the comments on some news site, I really don’t remember which one but someone wrote that  he has ceased traveling to what he considered to be the liberal states.  This hit me hard because I believe the guy.  People are so disgusted with the other side (in both directions) they simply do not want to fraternize with them at all.

Continue reading Saturn’s Last Gasp In Virgo, The Opposition To Uranus And The Polarization Of Society

Re-posting this with an update because 81 banks have failed this year and analysts say 150-200 more will probably fail.
About the failing banks, mine (Netbank) failed in 2007. I was with Netbank for about 9 years and one day I signed on and was gone. As soon as I saw the (government) notice, I knew two things:
Continue reading Speaking Of Failed Banks, Mine (Netbank) Failed In 2007: Business, Banking, And Predicting The Rescession - Update in 2009

I’m sorry to be morose but this blog has always been about what I see and experience on a daily basis. At the moment I watching my city die.  Not a week goes by that I don’t find myself confronted with yet another, “going out of business sale”.
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From the Financial Times: Men bear the brunt of US jobs lost

Sarah O’Connor writes:

“The US recession has opened up the biggest gap between male and female unemployment rates since records began in 1948, as men bear the brunt of the economy’s contraction.

Men have lost almost 80 per cent of the 5.1m jobs that have gone in the US since the recession started, pushing the male unemployment rate to 8.8 per cent. The female jobless rate has hit 7 per cent.”

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mudlikesubstance writes on Pluto in Capricorn - Business Closing…

“I’m not seeing it in my neighborhood or nearby but the outer subburbs are closing up shop like no-body’s business - bye bye strip malls.”

Today I had to get a book for Vid and as we drove to the local Barnes and Noble I realized the days I may be able to do this are probably numbered and if so this will be a sorry situation. This was the scenario:
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This morning I called Sportsman’s Warehouse to see what time they opened because the soldier wanted me to pick something up there. The phone picked up and there was a recorded message, “Come to our store closing sale…”

We lost a circuit city, we lost 2 grocery stores, and too many small businesses around here to count.
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By now you know I’ve got my eye on the growing black market. This news came to me, it’s separate but related I guess you could say.

Included in the stimulus package is incentive for a specific industry to hire new workers. To be eligible for the government money the business has to hire someone new and employ them for 90 days.

The stimulus will also pay to train the person so they are gearing up for this as well and while it appears this is an on ramp to employment it is anything but.
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Vivian and I rooted for each other but from a distance because when you are in a whirlwind, sort of vortex it takes everything you have. You just can’t get too near another person’s whirlwind vortex or you’ll get sucked up but you can connect via the eyes so this is what we did and time passed the way it does.

Eventually the soldier moved here and Vivian and I had more in common than ever. We were both with men we loved, who we met when we were teenagers. Both men were ultra-masculine and devoted to their families and while neither of our daughters were healed things had calmed dramatically. We had a few months like that and then Vivian told me her husband had lost his job.
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L. asked on How Popular Is Real Love Anyway?

“I’ve wondered in general about the individual challenging aspects that one is supposed to be able to work with somehow, and whether they can equally be ‘worked with’ positively in a composite.”

I think everything can be worked with positively but many people don’t like to work! Consequently like make little of their gifts never mind their hardship and the consequences for this increase exponentially. This is as true for the individual as it is for the collective and I’d offer the current state of the US economy as proof. But aside from that, this comment made me take a look at the composite chart of the soldier and I which believe it or not, I’ve not bothered to do since getting proper birth data for him.
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