Biscuit crumbs

[Stephen Morgan]

Overcrowded rats demonstrate higher levels of sexual aggression, tail nipping (very sneaky violence), gang rape and homosexuality.

763,000 homes are empty in Britain.

[Stephen Morgan]

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a
man was allowed to
beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb.
Hence we have "the
rule of thumb"

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a
great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

Thumb not true. Julius Caesar not king, consul. Proconsul. Pontifex Maximus. Tribune. A few other elected positions. Augur, I think. Predicting the future, reading the augurs, being an elected role in Rome.

The one about the honey not going off it true. Some found in Pharaonic tombs, you know.

SNOPES

[Joe Hillshoist]

My grandad was a carpenter, he used the rule of thumb.

From the knuckle to the tip of your thumb (when you are an adult) is approximately an inch. If you want you can measure which of the wrinkles on your thumb is exactly an inch from the tip, tho its still going to end up an approximation. Also, if you know the right technique, you can form a right angle with your thumb. Again its an approximation, but its useful as a quick approximate measurement.

My grandad died when I was 5, I didn't hear that wife beating reference till nearly 15 years later.

And in Australia domestic violence was condoned, at least tacitly. A guy I knew once told me about the ads he saw on tv as a kid - the ones that hinted some women deserved a beating if the hubbie came home and the house wasn't clean and dinner ready. This in a culture where pubs often shut at 6 pm, working men would knock off, go to the pub, drink enough beer to last them the night in the hour to hour and a half before 6 and then go home for dinner. It was known as "the 6 oclock swill". Its hard to believe the ad was real, and I haven't tracked it down yet but there you have it.

Come home pissed (drunk) then get annoyed cos dinner isn't ready/perfect/lobster, and your wife hasn't scrubbed the carpet then got her lingerie on for you after dinner. And that ad comes on - I wonder what will happen?

So even in a culture that seemed set up to promote domestic violence that "rule of thumb" = diameter of beating stick thing - well I'd never heard it till I'd left school, tho I'd used it plenty of times before that to quickly measure something approximately.

[Allegro]

From Rachel Maddow’s interview of Elizabeth Warren wrt to 15 months into TARP:

[Warren]“...Basically, 176,000 families have gotten into some kind of [mortgage foreclosure] modification that we hope will turn out to be permanent… Every single month, 200,000 families are posted for foreclosure...”

Interview: possibly April 13, 2010

.
edit: I found the interview date on TRMS was
actually on the date noted above as Tuesday, April 13.

[stefano]

Europe should engage Sudan as a priority ahead of a southern referendum on independence, despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, a Norwegian minister said on Tuesday. "We are approaching a referendum on secession, we could end up with a secession and we could end up with something which will have implications for all of Sudan's neighbours, for Africa and beyond," he added.

[stefano]

Farsi is the fourth most common blogging language in the world.

[Occult Means Hidden]

On the morning of June 11 Mercury is near the Moon which occults the Pleiades cluster.

http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/

Pleiades refers to the seven sisters of Greek mythology.

"Ladies night at the ballot box"
In an election season marked by voters' desire for outsider candidates, the true story of the primaries is the women who won.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/09/jonathan-alter-on-what-the-june-primary-results-mean.html

Which makes sense because exactly seven women are mentioned in this front-page article. "The true story", is of course, "the message(r)", which is of course, Mercury.

[norton ash]

Harper's Index November 09

Amount that Israel's foreign ministry has budgeted to create an "Internet Fighting Team" : $150,000

Don't mess with the e-Zohan.

[Occult Means Hidden]

On the morning of June 11 Mercury is near the Moon which occults the Pleiades cluster.

http://astroblogger.blogspot.com/

Pleiades refers to the seven sisters of Greek mythology.

"Ladies night at the ballot box"
In an election season marked by voters' desire for outsider candidates, the true story of the primaries is the women who won.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/09/jonathan-alter-on-what-the-june-primary-results-mean.html

Which makes sense because exactly seven women are mentioned in this front-page article. "The true story", is of course, "the message(r)", which is of course, Mercury.

Ok - get this - The sun makes it's closest approach to Pleiades May 20-21, 2010.

May 20-21, 2010 is when the Japanese spacecraft IKAROS was launched. IKAROS is epic because it is the first spacecraft to use a solar sail as it's main mode of transportation. Another meaning for Pleiades is "sail". IKAROS deployed its sail June 11th.

So what else happened around June 11th? That quoted above (also World Cup in South Africa). But also more specifically front-page news of Miss Abby Sunderland "lost" at sea. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/11/national/main6570719.shtml The lone young sailor attempting to break a world record.

She was lost / hidden / occulted as per above moon (she radioed a 'message' for help - this is Mercury). Then found as per the sun. Coinciding with a "star"'s action - IKAROS. By the way - she departed from Cape Town (South Africa), May 21st. How perfect is that?

Cape (sail) Town. She started from South Africa. World Cup starts in South Africa when the sail unfurls when she is rescued. Icaros in mythology fails, so does she. The seven women of the ballot box. and so on...

How the hell do you explain all that? Synchronicity, occult ritual or both?

I'm sure there's a hint in IKAROS's Cape image also...



May 20-21st

Abby leaves South Africa. IKAROS launched.

June 9-10th

Seven Sisters article/event. Pleiades.

June 10

Abby lost satellite phone contact (occulted) Activates radio beacons - Mercury messenger.

June 11

Mercury and the moon (female) occult Pleiades in nightime sky. The sun conjuncts Pleiades during the day. Abby is found. World Cup starts in South Africa. IKAROS unveils it's sail.

too perfect to not be some sort of communication?

[Allegro]

.
BP oil spill response isn’t handled by BP; BP uses this nonprofit outfit, Marine Spill Response Corp., to research oil spill response. How ’bout you guess the budget for oil spill response at Marine Spill Response Corp.?

ZERO. The MSRC is an operational company, not a research and development company. See Maddow’s report as of June 28, 2010.

[stefano]

Amazon.com, one of the United States’ largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition.

In Q2 2010 Apple sold nearly as many iPads as Macs: 3.27 million iPads and 3.47 million Macs.

[stefano]

With 62 of its alumni now billionaires, Harvard tops Forbes’ list of ‘Billionaire Universities’, followed by Stanford that boasts of 28 billionaire graduates. The number of Harvard alumni who are billionaires swelled to 62, up from 54 in 2009, “more than any other American university by a long shot,” Forbes said. Harvard’s billionaire alumni are an accomplished group. They include Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and media tycoon Sumner Redstone. Stanford University came second on the list of schools that have turned out the most billionaires. Among its 28 billionaire graduates, up from 25 last year, prominent are Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

[jam.fuse]

Sean Connery on the finepoints on striking a female. Baba Wawa practically gives it the thumbs up at the end.

[Occult Means Hidden]

Overwhelmed with requests for exorcists, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are holding a special training workshop in Baltimore this weekend to teach clerics the esoteric rite, the Catholic News Service reported.
The church has signed up 56 bishops and 66 priests for the two-day workshop that began on Friday, seeking to boost the small group of just five or six American exorcists that the church currently has on its books.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_romancatholic_exorcists

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Goldman Sachs' saw the effective tax rate on it's profits drop from 34.1% to only 1% in 2008. It paid only $14m in taxes worldwide, compared with $6bn in 2007.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=news

Don't know what they pay now. Less?