to draft Al Thornton for The T-Wolves the deal collapsed. Unable to reach Warrior GM, Chris Mullin, Charlotte Asst. GM and former Warrior, Rod Higgins drafts the wrong guy (Branden Wright) and the deal stalls. Then, their one, true, star, Baron Davis does the unthinkable and opts out to sign with The LA Clippers. But that's ok, because they had their new rising star, young Monta Ellis in tow to replace Baron. Monta signs a $60 million deal and then proceeds to crash some sort of cycle (verboten in his contract) and rips his ankle to shreds. He's on the shelf until February and may never be the same again. Now that my friends is the heavy hammer of Mercury Retrograde and how it has destroyed the very nucelus of the franchise, year after disappointing year. If Only Chris Cohan had consulted with me.
Jumping off the sports nostalgia bullet train into yesterday, and addressing the very real, Mercury Retrograde about to take place any deal that's done right now, HELLO CONGRESS AND SENATE will not stand up, hold water, add your own cliche. It's just not going to work. If I could sit down with Chucky Baby Schumer and his congressional chums, I'd say "tell Ben and Henry to just chill until the beginning of November." You see Libra rules contracts, law and negotiations. So making a deal and signing contracts when Mercury is Retrograde in Libra is a double no. It's high stakes, negative, witchcraft.
In the upcoming debate between McCain and Obama, we'll no doubt see both candidates dredge up the others past. Obama hasn't said much about McCain and his dirty work for
Charles Keating and The Keating Five. Well that silence is about to end--especially with the 900 pound gorilla in the room also known as the economy. He'll steer clear of calling out McCain out for whatever he did or didn't do as a POW, but that might be it. John McCain's life and past will be brought to judgement by Barack Obama. McCain will do the same. He's been very light on Obama and his relationship with known mobster,
Tony Rezko. I would be very surprised if that wasn't brought up either, especially since it involved Obama's involvement through the law firm that represented Rezko. It won't be who comes out the winner, but who is going to be the lesser of the losers.
It won't be pretty.
But I still think the big Mercury Retrograde effect will be the replacement of Joe Biden by Hilary Clinton on the ticket . . . unless The DNC knows that with the gale force of the economic maelstrom about to hit, the election and who runs, might actually be irrelevant.
One last note regarding Mercury Retrograde. Back on the 18th of June, thousands of gay partners legally married in California under a Mercury Retrograde sky. Guess what's on the ballot in November for California? Proposition 8, The Challenge To Gay Marriage. A nuclear economy, a pissed off Queer Nation could lead to a very nasty Fall.
