QUIT BLAMING GOD!... PEOPLE ARE JUST GREEDY AND STUPID

Portrait of God (detail)
By Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1512





In this panel of Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling painting, God is depicted creating the Sun, Moon, and planets… and in my opinion, the origin of astrology.

I’ve been following the progress of the official Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission… which I find a fascinating example of how the current squared forces of Saturn (government, authorities) to Pluto (corruption) work in a natural cycle to correct things… ruthlessly if necessary.

The great part about the Internet is we can all read a lot of different newspapers and other news sources from all over the planet… and it’s harder to cover things up these days. Today I use as my source of reference an excellent opinion column by a very smart guy, Paul Krugman of the New York Times,

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/opinion/15krugman.html

…and for more detail minutes and quotes, The Huffington Post,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/financial-crisis-commissi_n_421461.html

“…while Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein was trying to blame it all on the unpredictable hurricane seasons, Phil Angelides quickly interrupted: "Having sat on the board of the California Earthquake Authority, acts of God were exempt. These were acts of men and women. These were controllable” (emphasis mine)

Thank you, God!… for at least one man… Phil Angelides, in our government at the moment who has some common sense and a Bull Dog tenacity to get to the truth… greed and fraud… and the need to put the stock market regulations back where they were orginally put after the 1929 market crash… as a result of the 1930’s Pecora Hearings… Again, astrologically, planetary transits repeat… and people repeat the same mistakes…

…as Phil Angelides points out so well, “…These were acts of men and women…”

…and as another of our mythical wise men, Forest Gump, would say, “Stupid is… as stupid does…”

Since we're looking at Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling paintings... here’s an interesting bit of art history …Michelangelo and his boss at the time Pope Julius II didn’t get along that well …and Mike would put subtle, and sometimes not so subtle …protests in the painting. Like for instance, check out the figure on left side of the painting… it’s the back view of the same God figure on the right… centuries of cleaning and retouching has faded it out somewhat… but look closely, it’s there… on the left side, Michelangelo’s figure of God… is ‘Mooning’ …Pope Julius II, and the Church… and the world!





…with Photoshop you can add the detail back… turn up the contrast to +46… brigtness -46… and now it’s more like the way Mike originally painted it… try it… it’s riot! …sort of looks like a plumber with a low slung robe doing work under your sink, huh…




…and on the figure of the Devil, he painted the portrait of Pope Julius II… artists are always jokers and wiseacrers… trust me, I know how this guy Michelangelo thinks… I’m an artist.



The naked Devil figure… has Pope Julius II’s portrait …with pointy Mr. Spock ears …and a long wrap around tail… It’s no accident… Mike did it on purpose… and that’s what he thought of the Pope!

…another interesting current fact …if I were doing the QC on this picture at the studios for adult cable and satillite broadcast …technically, I would have to reject it …note the green snake has him by the genitals …and a snake …a reptile… that’s on the borderline of beastiality… also there is no model release from the snake or proof of age records that the snake is over 18… ergo, reject… no broadcast… not on my shift with my initials on it…

This x-rated painting show has gotten rave reviews since it opened at the Vatican Sistine Chapel in 1512… and has been held over for almost 5 centuries now!… now that’s a hit show!

Not only do I love Michelangelo’s art and genius… but he also had cast iron cajones…and he told the Pope and his church where they could step off… and got away with it! …and didn’t get burned at the stake for heresy!

…and on the more fun side …and just for the fun of it, I’m going with the Stonehenge oracle of Linus (Jan 6th blog)… I got a fiver that says the Dallas Cowboys make the spred or win over the Minnesota Vikings… Go Cowboys!