Mountain Astrologer reports finding birth time on Assange

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1. That’s his solar arc Uranus in the outer wheel, not natal. The natal chart is the inner wheel. But Uranus does square his sun. Also his natal Mars is in Aquarius conjunct his north node and rules his Scorpio ascendant. So you still get the Uranian vibe coming through.

2. not too surprised to see uranus on assange’s ascendant. that explains the hair, at least. ha!

3. OT – It’s just been reported on TPM that Elizabeth Edwards, former wife of John Edwards, has passed away.

4. hahaha

   let’s see….my second article of the day was this one —

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   Many Dollars and No Sense

   Editor:

   We live in a time when government policy is shifting away from debt and taxation as solutions to all of our problems and the basis of our former bubble economy.

   In last week’s Kingston Times, Kevin Quilty, who heads the Kingston Uptown Business Association (KUBA), makes an interesting point in a sideways manner. He suggests that the cost of any cost overruns for the proposed Pike Plan renovation should be spread out over the whole city, and not just 44 business addresses that are likely to bear the full burden of any new bond issue.

   While the mayor has recently said that there are no plans for additional bond issues “at this time,” the city has already bonded the renovation’s architectural plan for $100,000 against the 44 businesses without seeking their consent first. That sets two precedents — the bond itself, and the lack of input from the building owners before attaching it to their properties.

   For those new to the issue, I will offer a bit of background. In the mid-1970s, the city constructed a canopy covering one block at the top of Wall Street and one block of N. Front Street. The idea was to freshen things up against the urban blight that was prevalent at the time. Original estimates for the project were from $600,000 to $1 million, but the final cost came to $3 million (about $12 million in today’s dollars). That included a near-teardown and rebuild three years later because the construction was so shoddy.

   Today, the city says it can renovate the ailing structure for about $1.6 million, using city, state and federal funds set aside for the project. Renovation really isn’t the right word, though — according to the contract, it’s more like a tear-down and rebuild, which includes fixing bluestone sidewalks, restructuring the street to remove bumpouts and repairing buildings where the old canopy did damage. That could get expensive; many of the buildings that the canopy covers are historic structures, beautiful old Victorians, or in the alternate, buildings that need a lot of work. Does the contractor know that all this repair work is involved, for a mere $1.6 million?

   It is Hanukkah season, where the oil in the lamp lasted eight nights when it was only supposed to last for one night. But can we really expect this kind of miracle with a city construction project?

   I did a little math last night, and I discovered that for every $1 million the project runs over, the owners of these 44 properties could each face an additional $2,300 per year in taxes, paid over 15 years. This would be added onto their special Pike Plan assessment, the amount charged for repair work that the city has not kept up with. That is the cost per $1 million in overruns, if the costs are bonded back to the 44 properties. That works out to a total of a $34,000 lien against each property, per $1 million in overruns. At this stage, a million in overruns seems like it would be a best case scenario.

   This breaks down to seemingly modest $189 a month, per property — every month until 2025. This is a bargain equivalent to a condo time share in the Bahamas. Some have suggested that we do fundraisers to come up with the funds. Do we really need to spend this on an awning?

   There are other problems with the “renovation” plan — too many to get into here. But to give one example, the project requires $150,000 for a supervisor, who will work for six months. This is not in the budget. While the city is threatening (again) to lay off hard-working police officers to save far less than that amount, where is this money going to come from? Well, we’re not in Afghanistan, so it’s not laying around in a suitcase; it’s likely to be bonded against the businesses.

   It’s true, we could bond the whole city for all this work, and raise everyone’s tax rates just a little (more). But does the whole city benefit from a canopy over two blocks? Indeed, a canopy that blocks visibility that is essential to retail. And it’s an addition that does not add to the historical value of the structures, and which one local artist described as an architectural “folly.” That’s a term for something from one era or style attached to a building of another era or style, kind of like sticking a triple-wide trailer on the Disney World castle.

   A majority of the owners and many of the businesses under the canopy are now organizing in objection to this project, which is a folly in more ways that one. We don’t want to be taxed like this, or even to face that possibility. We don’t want debt to mount against our properties and we don’t want a thing that blocks the fronts of our businesses and detracts from their historical and architectural value. And for all of this, we don’t think it’s prudent or responsible for the city or anyone to pile up debt like a teenager on a few martinis with daddy’s credit card.

   We have better ideas for uptown Kingston.

   Eric Francis Coppolino
   Book of Blue Photography & Planet Waves Astrology
   dreams@planetwaves.net

5. ok eric: breathe breathe PUSH!

   😉