Northern Exposure

My, my! I'm sitting here eating my Caribou Coffee bar pondering where to grab a mooseburger for lunch. I can hardly believe that Mr. McSame picked the Alaskan "MooseChick" Governor, Sarah Palin, for his running mate. Wow! At first blush, it might seem that wild women like myself might enjoy this and consider voting for the newly formed ticket. No how, no Way! As soon as you investigate this gun-totin', Moose huntin' mama, you find out she's Ultra Conservative. Pro-life and NRA lifer (an oxymoron), pro oil drilling (right into the northern nature preserves), anti-gay, extreme religious right -- the hits just keep on coming. So, forget Sarah, Plain and Tall.
What I do like is that my oddball collection of Northern Exposure videos and DVDs will increase in value. I can have a lot of fun with this, like why not download the Northern Exposure theme song to your cell phone? I might ;) (at least have a listen, it's GREAT!) Don't remember this show? Best bone up on all things Northern!

Labor Day (sic) Moose Mama Update: Thankfully the wild web stories that little Twig (or is it Trig) is Palin's baby and not her grandson were false. Her teenage daughter is pregnant. These people breed like rabbits and that's my concern with the famous Pro-Life stance. What if we all wanted 5 - 10 kids and they were all procreating as soon as their hormones allowed? The planet is too crowded now. More of us need to be as responsible with human offspring as we are with our pets. The real immorality is allowing humanity to increase exponentially when we don't have the resources to manage what we have now.

And, finally, open message to big mouth James Carvelle: Shut Up! Let them run her for VP. Wish I could play poker against you (showing your hand.) If you force her out, McSame might wise up and get a real contender. duh!

Infinite Galactic Gateway

Only those who know me really well will know what I mean when I say "my contract has expired." I felt it was my Mission - my life's purpose to publish my PKD/ "end times" novel on this auspicious date.
It's extremely difficult to watch this date pass by and my important message remains unfinished.

My novel starts with Doomsday hype surrounding the Great Cosmic Alignment of 1982 and ends with some ideas about the Solstice of 2012: which is 12-21-2012 and the end of the Mayan calendar. Why can't I complete this project? I struggle constantly with my resistance. (Maybe it's not yet time?)

The mystical and mysterious meaning of these dates will be included in the story -- because I'm not tossing in the towel or giving up yet. The concepts in AKS just become more complex and more crucial. Sigh -- it will emerge eventually, and in time to reveal 11:11 and 2012 prophecies. It must!

So, this date (in '08) belongs to the Olympics and Clay Aiken (America's singer) whose son was born at 8:08 AM on 08-08-08. And, to my tragically tainted John Edwards whose entire exceptional career is now ruined over the personal intimacy he shared with a documentary producer. In the future only cloistered, emotionally impoverished prudes (or Mother Theresa and the Dalai Lama), can qualify for US President. Now that is tragic. We'll never have another handsome, passionate John F. Kennedy in this tabloid climate. Our paranoid population prefers McSame, and is too ignorant to see that the likes of him and Bush are the reason for wars and why terrorists hate the USA. Yes -- my Galactic Gateway to Infinity is tarnished and thankfully, now it's gone.

Total Solar Eclipse

From Canada to Outer Mongolia, millions of people observed a Total Solar Eclipse today. For those of us in the US, who could only enjoy in Second Life, here's a fun page with a video replay.

Total eclipses (solar or lunar) have always been considered omens. But, regardless of your beliefs or thoughts, it's an awe-inspiring phenomenon. It's amazing that the earth is just the right distance from the sun and moon so the moon can appear to perfectly eclipse the sun. Any variation in those distances would not create the perfect obscured effect. (You can observe demonstrations of this fact on the various sites here.)

I thought I remembered a total Solar Eclipse from my childhood, but according to this map there would not have been one where I grew up (in the Midwest) since before I was born. The one in 1991 passed sort of close to New Mexico, and I recall going out on the plaza during the day using the "pin hole in paper" method to view it on a piece of cardboard, since we didn't get the total effect here.

If you want to plan for the next total Solar Eclipse visible in the US, here you go. (It's not until 2017, so you have some time ;)