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Thursday, October 27, 2016

CURSES

Curse of the United States Presidency: Curse of Tippecanoe (also known as Tecumseh's Curse) is used to describe the regular death in office of Presidents of the United States elected or re-elected in years evenly divisible by twenty, from William Henry Harrison (elected in 1840) through John F. Kennedy (1960). Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980, was wounded by gunshot but survived; George W. Bush (2000) survived his terms in office, despite at least one close assassination attempt.

Sports-related Curses

2016 World Series - Curse of the Billy Goat

Cubs win Game 2 tying the series 1-1 NBC - October 27, 2016

Backstories ... Saturday the Chicago Cubs won the National League championship. Sunday the Cleveland Indians became the American League champs. What made all of this so special? The Cubs had not won the World Series in 108 years, and they had not won the National League pennant in 71 years - record droughts in Major League Baseball. The "Curse of the Billy Goat" was supposedly placed on the Cubs by a disgruntled fan long ago becoming a legend.The Indians last won the World Series in 1948. That year's team featured the first black players to be part of a major league championship - Satchel Paige and Larry Doby.

Burial slab that Christians believe once held body of Jesus Christ
is uncovered for the first time in centuries

October 30, 2016

New Moon 7° Scorpio

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Evolution of a Blog

October 30, 2016

New Moon 7° Scorpio

October 26, 2016

Pumpkin Day

October 26, 1947

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton Google Videos

Hillary Clinton is a former U.S. Secretary of State,
U.S. Senator, and First Lady of the United States
who as you know is running for President.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of
making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Rodham Clinton Quotes 1

Hillary Rodham Clinton Quotes 2

Witchcraft

Samhain

Halloween Files

Harry Houdini Died October 31, 1926

Reality is Magic and Illusion. It's all a staged trick.

My brain is the key that sets my mind free.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions
of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition
(Christianity) one redeeming feature.
They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

Thomas Jefferson

When the human race has once acquired a superstition
nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

Allow me to make the superstitions of a nation and
I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
Mark Twain

Superstitions

Curses

Curse of the United States Presidency: Curse of Tippecanoe (also known as Tecumseh's Curse) is used to describe the regular death in office of Presidents of the United States elected or re-elected in years evenly divisible by twenty, from William Henry Harrison (elected in 1840) through John F. Kennedy (1960). Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980, was wounded by gunshot but survived; George W. Bush (2000) survived his terms in office, despite at least one close assassination attempt.

Sports-related Curses

Curse of the Billy Goat

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

2016 World Series
Journey to the Pennant

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

It all started when the Chicago Cubs won the championship Saturday night. Sunday, the Cleveland Indians became the American League champs. What made all of this so special? Here's the back story ...

The Cubs have not won the World Series in 108 years

To win the pennant, the Cubs must defeat the Cleveland Indians, who last won the World Series in 1948. That year's squad was notable for its roster featuring the first black players to be part of a major league championship, Satchel Paige and Larry Doby for those who remember or know their have baseball history.

Game 1 begins at Progressive Field in Cleveland. Here's the schedule

Want to buy a ticket? Chicago Cubs Win Sets Stage For Most Expensive World Series Tickets In Baseball History. And I thought the Broadway show "Hamilton" was pricey.

Play ball ...

Decision 2016

Hillary turns 69 tomorrow (October 26, 2016) - I can hear the celebrations now. "Let them eat cake," she exclaimed. Hillary reminds me of how people feel about cats - you either love them, or you hate them. Interesting though - didn't Trump tell Billy Bush he likes pussy?

Trump will not go down without a fight and if he loses will continue on in media as he has a huge audience who believe in him. "Let there be revolution!" said the Don. It makes you wonder if there is a large part of the electorate who turn up on election day - and in this reality of unpredictability - Trump wins. His loose cannon behavior typifies reality. Huffington Post reported he is seeking investors for his media adventure. Rule #1 - never use your own money.

Two weeks to go ... November 8 ... Election Day.

By November 9, the votes will have been cast and counted, there will be a winner and a loser, and the country will begin a new chapter. Historians will have their say on the outcome, but all of us who have lived through this election will carry away indelible memories of a shocking year in American history: of a handful of ordinary people, swept up in the rush of history; of a series of moments on which the fate of the nation seemed, at least briefly, to turn; and of places on the map that became symbols of a divided nation.

Obamacare ... Makes me want to vote for Trump ...
Obamacare enrollment: A sneak peak at 2017 plans and what they'll really cost you CNBC - October 25, 2016
If you get a bad case of sticker shock when you check out the prices of Obamacare plans for next year, there's medicine available for a lot of you to ease the price pain. Window shopping for health plans sold on the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov began Monday, with retail prices of those plans up significantly higher on average than in past years.

October 25, 2016

International Artists Day Home Page

International Artists Day

October 25, 1881 - April 9, 1973

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Google Videos

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and
one of the most recognized figures in 20th century art.
He is best known as the of co-founder Cubism.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso Quotes 1

Pablo Picasso Quotes 2

October 25, 2016

Pasta Day

World Pasta Day 2016 Google News

Pasta: History, Evolution, More Wikipedia

For the pasta lovers of the world ... Mangia

Monday, October 24, 2016

The Immigration Crisis at
Home and Abroad

Calais migrants: France begins to clear 'Jungle' camp BBC - October 24, 2016
More than 1,200 police and officials in France have begun an operation to clear the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais. The camp has been housing at least 7,000 people in squalid conditions. Migrants queued peacefully to be processed, and the first of some 60 coaches that will carry them to refugee centres across France have now left.

Decision 2016

Two weeks to go and Trump support is falling away (if you believe some polls).

October 24, 2016 (Sundown)

Simchat Torah

Simchat Torah is a Hebrew term - "rejoicing with or of the Torah".
It is one of the happiest days in the Jewish calendar and is marked
with festivities in synagogue that include singing and dancing.

World Series

Chicago Cubs Win Sets Stage For Most Expensive World Series Tickets In Baseball History Forbes - October 24, 2016
The average sale price for the first World Series game at Wrigley Field since 1945 on the secondary market is $4,080, according to TicketIQ data.

Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs. The last time they reached the world series I was two years old, my family got its first (black and white) TV, WWII had just ended, and humanity's "alien" adventures were about to change everything. The article below mentions 1989 a keynote year in our alien journey ... In my book Sarah and Alexander - on September 3, 1989 - Sarah planted a seed (blue-white shimmering microchip) that when full bloom would signal the evolution of human consciousness in the alchemy of time.

Chicago Cubs: City parties as baseball 'curse' ends after 71 years BBC - October 23, 2016
Chicago has been celebrating after the Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking the team into the baseball World Series for the first time since 1945. They partied outside Wrigley Field stadium after the Curse of the Billy Goat - supposedly placed on the Cubs by a disgruntled fan - was finally lifted. The team's decades in the wilderness had become the stuff of legend. In the 1989 film Back to the Future II, a 2015 World Series win for the Chicago team was dubbed a "long shot". That long shot came one step closer on Saturday when the Cubs beat the Dodgers in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series.

This video was made on "September 3", 2013

Inside the Cubs' vast Wrigley Field clubhouse Chicago Tribune - April 8, 2016

Alien Clubhouse

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Baseball

Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs. The last time they reached the world series I was two years old, my family got its first (black and white) TV, WWII had just ended, and humanity's "alien" adventures were about to change everything. 1989 was a key year in our alien journey ... In my book Sarah and Alexander - on September 3, 1989 - Sarah planted a seed that would grow into the next symbolic tree - representing the evolution of humanity in the alchemy of time.

Chicago Cubs: City parties as baseball 'curse' ends after 71 years BBC - October 23, 2016
Chicago has been celebrating after the Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking the team into the baseball World Series for the first time since 1945. They partied outside Wrigley Field stadium after the Curse of the Billy Goat - supposedly placed on the Cubs by a disgruntled fan - was finally lifted. The team's decades in the wilderness had become the stuff of legend. In the 1989 film Back to the Future II, a 2015 World Series win for the Chicago team was dubbed a "long shot". That long shot came one step closer on Saturday when the Cubs beat the Dodgers in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series.

Friday, October 21, 2016

Orionids

October 21, 2016

Orionids

Orionids Google Videos

The Orionids are annual meteor showers located near the constellation Orion.

Space weather.com - October 21, 2016

October 22, 2016

Sun in Scorpio

Happy Birthday to the Crystalinks readers born in Scorpio.

Scorpio is a fixed water sign ruled by Mars (ancient) and Pluto (current).

Changing Sleep Patterns

Going to bed and waking up later? Your body could be adjusting to the
return to Eastern Standard Time on Nov. 6. This goes along with the
decrease in sunlight and for many the onset of SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder.

October 22, 2016

Make a Difference Day

The desire to find your purpose and make
a difference is encoded in each of us.

This takes us to healing and helping others.

24 hours later in the game ...

Thursday, October 20, 2016

I will keep you in suspense

Thursday October 20, 2016

I watched the final debate in which Trump tried to control his behavior and stifle his nervous sniffles - but underneath it all the real Trump waits for the time he will show whatever his true agenda is. Moderator Chris Wallace met the challenge in keeping the candidates focused on substantive issues. Going in we already knew where the candidates stood on most issues though Trump has vacillated on his plans to Make America Great Again - and on Hillary - it's not great here depending on who you ask. It's layers of endless corruption camouflaged through the centuries and now coming to the fore.

"I will keep you in suspense" defines our reality and may be the words Donald Trump will best be remembered for as spoken at the end of the third and final debate last night. That remark was his answer to whether he will accept the election results if he loses. Of course, he won't and will say it was rigged ... but by who and to what end Donald? The American people need to know as we have all become conspiracy buffs.

His words feel like the prime directive in our reality to keep players (souls) engaged. But alas, change in the dynamic of the algorithm is creating the end. On some level, we all feel Trump - in his crazy way - might be the person to bring it. At 70, Trump has achieved most things on his bucket list so what does he have to lose in trying to take down a corrupt system. His voters can easily rebel when he loses and the country faces four more years of the same old same old run by the Clinton Machine and whoever backs them. Isn't a part of you rooting for Trump to take them down? I know ... You're worried about collateral damage.

Trump thumbed his nose at pretty much every known political tradition during this wacky campaign, so should we be surprised that he refused to say whether he'll accept the election results if he loses? Wednesday night, Republicans were horrified and many scared as we know he is going to lose. So who takes the fall with him and what is he planning next? He would definitely take it to media buying a station of his own and continuing the fight which could cause riots and all sorts of chaos across the country. Actually, the thought of four years of Hillary will probably have the same reaction.

Along with this, we have WikiLeaks trying to take down the system while those in power try to stop Julian Assange by cutting his internet access - another global conspiracy. Was this accomplished through blackmail? brokering a deal? threats? something else? Are Russian hackers assisting? Aren't you rooting for Assange to reveal everything about the Clintons and more? Why isn't it all online by now? Do you still wonder why many foreign countries hate Americans and want to see us fail? Is anything safe these days? Apparently not. So many conflicting agendas ...

Do you consider yourself patriotic? Time to redefine "Patriotic". How about Patriarchy?

Polls show that Clinton won the debate but that was predicted - not that any of it matters - the stage is already set for the winner. Unless something drastic happens - she will win in November.

The best post debate report as always was Colbert's take which should be on YouTube later today to post here.

Prophecies

You have to wonder if Trump's candidacy is implied somewhere in Nostradamus' Quatrains or in other prophecies throughout the millennia. We used to follow these prophecies and try to adjust them to our timelines but when nothing happened - that we're aware of - on December 21, 2012 - we moved past that research - making our own predictions as we all have intuitive abilities. What would any of these prophets say today?

Conspiracies on TV

I found an interesting new espionage drama television series called Berlin Station. Tonight on Blacklist Red faces the truth when Elizabeth shows him the results of the DNA test. The Backlist reveals many Secret Government Conspiracies. Then there's Homeland an American political thriller television series that turns in January, among others. Quantico returned for it's second season but I'm losing interest as the series again goes from the past and merges it with present storylines.

"Stand By Your Man" - Melania Trump

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Final Showdown at the
Las Vegas Corral

Las Vegas is a playground often connected with Donald Trump. Hillary is the odds on favorite going in but this is been an unpredictable campaign. How will Trump size up to his opponent? Who will be victorious? Place your bets ...

It's make it or break it time for Donald Trump tonight as he self-destructs before our eyes yet promising not to go down without a fight. History will remember and explore the rise and fall of Donald Trump - before, during, and after the election. He started as a candidate no one believed would win the nomination and yet he defied all odds defeating 16 other presidential hopefuls. His statement is to take down the establishment that has ruled American politics since the beginning and is another hierarchy in governmental control. They say it's not over till it's over so let's see if Trump can pull a rabbit out of the hat and what the algorithm of our holographic reality has in mind for the "future".

About the election being rigged ... Not only is the election orchestrated and rigged so is everything else in politics. The fact that Donald Trump behaved as he has in recent months shows that something is either wrong with his mind or something is going on behind the scenes that we can only speculate on but is obvious.

Presidential debate: What to watch for in the last Clinton-Trump face-off CNN - October 19, 2016
For Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it's time to begin the closing arguments. Both nominees enter Wednesday's presidential debate - the final showdown of the election season - with historically high unfavorability ratings, and need to convince undecided voters why the country would be worse off with their opponent in the White House. The match-up also comes as Trump is making perhaps his most outlandish argument yet -- that the 2016 election is rigged to help Clinton win. Clinton, meanwhile, will have a fresh set of questions to answer around newly released hacked emails and fresh revelations about her use of a private email server at the State Department. If the last two debates are any indication, Wednesday night promises to be contentious, theatrical, and unpredictable. Here's what to watch ...

The Stock Market in October

Based on past history many expected a crash this month. I don't see it.

October 19, 1987

Black Monday -- Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.

Black Thursday October 24, 1929 stock market crash

Stock Market Crashes

Stock Market

The stock market has hit near-record heights this year, despite myriad reasons for anxiety: the U.S. presidential elections, Brexit, China's economic slowdown. But some analysts warn that a severe fall could be coming. They see a worrisome parallel in the current highs to the run-up to Black Monday, the global crash that sent stocks plummeting on this date in 1987.The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points in New York, a 22.6 percent decline that remains the largest in the index's history - even outstripping the 1929 plunge that heralded the Great Depression. Investors in U.S. stocks lost an estimated $1 trillion. Computerized trading systems were new, enabling a sell-off at a scale not seen before. More than 600 million shares were traded in New York. The American Stock Exchange's disk drives ran out of storage space. High-speed trading and communications amplified the crash around the world. Japan took record losses. Hong Kong stopped trading for the rest of the week. Europe's markets were in free fall. "We've never had anything like this," a European trader said. But a crisis on the scale of the Great Depression did not materialize. The drop, in the end, was far more modest than that of 2008. And the markets fully recovered within two years. - New York Times - October 19, 1016

Where was I when the stock market crashed in 1987? During the day my BFF Louise and I were teachers who took part time jobs in a bank in Queens two days a week after school. What I remember most about this day is ... it's my daughter Nikki's birthday.

Moving to the presidential campaign and Wall Street ... Which candidate has been most criticized due to her connections? Bought and paid for by who? to what end? Sniff ... sniff ... No, I'm not Trump at a debate. I smell a conspiracy ... that has its roots in history.

Revolution 2016

Full Circle, New World Order, Old World Themes, Trump, Hillary, Michelle Obama

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Changing Sleep Patterns

Going to bed and waking up later? Your body could be adjusting to the return to Eastern Standard Time on Nov. 6. This goes along with the decrease in sunlight and for many the onset of SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder.

"Stand By Your Man"

Yesterday, Melania Trump responded to her husband's accusations as one would expect - but as a woman you know what she is feeling and saying behind closed doors. Her interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper was her opportunity to "stand by her man" - kind of like Hillary in 1992.

Trump is one of those men who plays the role of the loving doting husband and dad at home - but away - as he often is - we find the cliche player with money and power. We know how families defend these men for any number of reason. Years ago women would stay in a marriage like this - today if they can get out they leave.

With Trump's track record it's doubtful Melania, at 46, buys into his behavior, and will leave - or the marriage will change when this fiasco is over. She never appeared interested in politics or being the First Lady - seemingly shocked when the media unraveled things about her past.

This is one of the reasons many family men won't run for office. Everyone has a skeleton or two in their closet - when they come out and the story is embellished - life is never the same. Most have concluded that political office is not worth the sacrifice unless driven like Hillary for all of her life. She'll finally win and then what?

State Dinners

As the age of Obama draws to a close - the long goodbye continues tonight when the Obamas host their last state dinner.

From gate crashers to fashion statements, an Obama state-dinner retrospective Washington Post - October 6 2016

As the White House staff polishes the silver for the last state dinner of the Obama administration, it's worth taking a look back at how the first couple - the youngest to occupy the White House since JFK and Jackie - has shaped the institution of the state dinner. The Tuesday evening affair will be their 14th state dinner, which is less than Bill Clinton (28) but more than George W. Bush (11). Rather than blowing up the state dinner, replacing it with a cocktail-dress-code event or maybe just one of the dance parties they have thrown for friends and family, the Obamas modernized it in subtle ways.

In most ways, they left the tradition that began well over a century ago - the most formal of Washington entertaining, with its black-tie dress code, heavy-stock invitations and high diplomacy - intact. Even as some observers have called such pinkie-fingers-crooked entertaining outmoded (former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders once boasted that he does not own a tuxedo and argued that black-tie dinners are not constitutionally mandated) and expensive, the Obamas preserved its formalities.

Monday, October 17, 2016

Super Moon

Spooky Full Super Moon over the Verrazano Bridge ... Halloween is two weeks away.

The October 16 Full Moon kicks off three straight months of supermoons - you can also catch them on Nov. 14 and Dec. 14. The November moon is set to be a real show-stopper: According to NASA, it is "not only the closest full moon of 2016 but also the closest full moon to date in the 21st century." It won't be this close to Earth again until 2034. Read more ...

I'm not sure what this Super Moon is stirring up but I woke up to endless email and invitations, etc. It all started when I looked out early this morning and saw the Super Moon smiling at me so I had to take a pic and video. Just getting around to updating here. So here we go ... Wait ... I just remembered ... It's almost Scorpio which brings stirs things up for me every year.

Wacky weather in Brooklyn ... Also sleeping later which means the clocks go to Eastern Standard Time soon ... Checking ... Nov. 6

This week we continue the election saga with another debate on Wed. - DVR not set. It's almost over. Taking time to make videos and play with friends, family, and clients. Wed. night is the next presidential debate, but I don't plan to watch or record it. Will get the highlights Thursday on the news. The way it looks Trump loses - starts a media enterprise and Americans face life with Hillary Clinton as president Ð not a pretty picture of the future and will definitely cause chaos of the physical kind.

Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces inflict 'heavy losses' on ISIS CNN - October 17, 2016

This reminds me of the invasion of Normandy ... After months of planning, the Iraqi government began a battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State this morning. About one million people remained in the city, the second-largest in Iraq, which lent credence to the militant group's claim of ruling a fledgling nation. Separately, Syrian rebels say they have forced ISIS fighters out of a village where the group had promised to fight an apocalyptic battle with the West.

North Carolina -- The police in North Carolina are investigating the firebombing of the Republican Party headquarters in Hillsborough, along with graffiti warning its members to flee town. A week after the storm passed, the slow motion disaster is still dumping misery. The US death toll now stands at 46, 26 in North Carolina alone. 200 residents of an apartment complex rescued themselves from the floodwaters when help didn't arrive.

Numerology Personal Years

Sunday, October 16, 2016

SUPER Full Moon 23° Aries

October 16, 2016

This kicks off three straight months of supermoons - you can also catch them on Nov. 14 and Dec. 14. The November moon is set to be a real show-stopper: According to NASA, it is "not only the closest full moon of 2016 but also the closest full moon to date in the 21st century." It won't be this close to Earth again until 2034. Read more ...

October 16-23, 2016 - Sukkot, Feast of Booths and Tabernacles

The sukkah is intended as a reminiscence of the type of fragile dwellings in which the Israelites lived during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. Throughout the holiday meals are eaten inside the sukkah and many sleep there as well.