Tuesday Zodiac October 11

This is not perhaps the best time to make important decisions that affect your living situation or life circumstances. Your thinking process may undergo some transformation or change at this time. There is a natural sense of growth and development. Concentrating and getting down to the important issues is the best path to take right now. There is a community affair this evening that will bring a positive end to a confusing day. You strive to attain ideals of the highest order. You bring imagination to group goals. You dream of what is best for all people. Inspired, you could be quite creative--even inventive. One of your most creative times begins this week. Your artistic talents are sure to be noticed, so now is the time to write, dance and create.

This is a significant day you can use to your best advantage. A day that is not too lazy or too stressful, a time for accomplishing tasks or setting things up to work in your favor. Delays and inconveniences may try your patience from time to time; proof your work and confirm appointments. This afternoon, you will find an item that has been lost from a long time ago. Short trips or a planned vacation can be enjoyed soon. Acknowledging a person's dilemma will encourage frankness. This communication could lead to ideas of ways you or this person could earn an income. There are present energies that will work in favor of putting together a few plans for a small business partnership. Tonight is your turn to cook and you concentrate on dessert.

If you need a loan, this is a good day to request one. This is a perfect time to be assertive and move forward in your career. You have all the energy you could want today and it should be easy to channel your energies in the right direction. The path you need to take is open and clear. Communicating and being understood is important to you and today seems to be a high point for you as you learn new communication techniques and skills. Being clearly understood and respected for your ideas frequently are important issues in your life. Your timing should be perfect today and you will remain focused but ever the type of caring person that can be flexible. People love to be around you and the young ones in your family bring much laughter tonight.

This may be a challenging day where you can use your skills and expertise to solve problems and feel successful. Any professional advice you might need is available. You value what is aboveboard and straightforward and have a particular aversion to what is secret, intense and private. Radical and inventive ideas hold the key to realizing your ambitions and advancing your status--a shakeup is in the works. This mood could carry into your living space--careful. Low-profile activities will help you adjust to any large changes just now. Allow your ideas about future development to germinate and bring others into your confidence. You and a friend draw close this afternoon. Sharing your thoughts and ideas helps you feel lighter.

You are very much like a genius. Some of the things you think and say are obviously brilliant. You have such an outpouring of insights that having a conversation with you can be a real experience. Your mind works like lightning. Words and thoughts take form, illuminating whatever subject is at hand. You really do have very different ideas and you express yourself in creative ways. There may also be a sustained interest in communication, computers, electronics and all that is electrical. This is a good day to start a diet, or perhaps, a new and positive habit. All the energies are working in your favor for this to be a successful endeavor. One example of favorable outcome is your method of investing--which is working out successfully just now.

Your public image has improved and you may find higher-ups are taking another look at your potential. The good life and all that is fine and luxurious is what you value. You could enjoy making your own way and finding solutions to whatever problems you have. Business decisions are straightforward and easy to make. You make your way through ideas, concepts and your ability to communicate and express yourself to others. Everything may be pouring in at once and it's all good news. Your career direction receives encouragement and life's difficult situations seem to flow past you with little frustration. A relationship with a difficult older person may become more positive now. Whistle a happy tune!

This could be a challenging day but it is one that opens up opportunities for improvement and positive changes. You may find that you have to look into unusual places for answers to current projects. Some sort of temporary obstacle may appear. There is an opportunity to pull on some past project and revise, revamp and refresh the old into something new. This is a time to re-build, improve and refine. New information about a physical complaint or hindrance is exciting and progressive. You want to know more and may be able to attend a lecture by the author or inventor to learn more. This may mean you know someone that can be helped by some forward-moving application. A friend will go with you if you ask. Tonight is a good time to socialize.

Outer circumstances tend to work in your favor today. You may find that you are more organized than before--able to reach new levels of self-discipline. This is a smooth time during which events seem to arrange themselves favorably. Sympathy and understanding are emotional qualities that take on greater importance. Everything seems to work together to bring out your unique qualities. You may find that someone close to you understands you and is supportive of your eccentricities. You could come up with new solutions or inventions; you certainly have the mind for achievement. Coming to grips with the past or getting in touch with the mystical and the spiritual are some of the things that give a sense of completeness--a new understanding.

This is a vital day with much energy and lots of action. You may feel focused and even a bit radiant. You could find yourself in the public eye with people gathered around you to find out the next project or answer to the present quandaries in the workplace. You are good at getting your ideas and instructions over to others. All sorts of financial or business opportunities are opening up to you at this time. You can demonstrate great understanding and sensitivity to the needs of others and are in a good position to guide and communicate. A fascination with some new idea or a person that pushes a new idea makes you want to expand your horizons and study new possibilities. Do not shrink back into the everyday concerns without making new plans.

You could find that you are appreciated for your ability to respond quickly when others need help. You may learn some new techniques that will teach others to help themselves. You will find that your time will not be your own if you agree too quickly each time someone needs your guidance or helping hand. Communications with others are positive and your friends and co-workers find you witty. Others value you for your independence. This is a very lucky day for making plans or decisions and finding your way through just about any problem you may discover. You feel successful today. It can be easy now to separate and get rid of that which does not advance your goals. The results are solid goals that support you.

Material things and the whole concept of value take on more importance for you now. Financial security and enjoying the finer things in life, appreciating and creating things others long to have are experiences that assume a high priority. You are at your most practical when it comes to dealing and working with others. There are opportunities available for you to improve your budget today. Your mind is clear and your thoughts are brought into a sharp focus. It is easy to organize your thoughts--communication of all kinds is furthered. Write that book--take that course. Your thoughts count now--so use your mind--communicate. Things are happening and your career depends upon your own attitude, which is positive.

George W. Bush Governor of Texas

Governor Bush with wife, Laura, and father, George H. W. Bush.

As Bush's brother, Jeb, sought the governorship of Florida, Bush declared his candidacy for the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. His campaign focused on four themes: welfare reform, tort reform, crime reduction, and education improvement. Bush's campaign advisers were Karen Hughes, Joe Allbaugh, and Karl Rove.

After easily winning the Republican primary, Bush faced popular Democratic incumbent Governor Ann Richards. In the course of the campaign, Bush pledged to sign a bill allowing Texans to obtain permits to carry concealed weapons. Richards had vetoed the bill, but Bush signed it after he became governor. According to The Atlantic Monthly, the race "featured a rumor that she was a lesbian, along with a rare instance of such a tactic's making it into the public record – when a regional chairman of the Bush campaign allowed himself, perhaps inadvertently, to be quoted criticizing Richards for 'appointing avowed homosexual activists' to state jobs". The Atlantic, and others, connected the lesbian rumor to Karl Rove, but Rove denied being involved. Bush won the general election with 53.5% against Richards' 45.9%.

Bush used a budget surplus to push through Texas's largest tax-cut, $2 billion. He extended government funding for organizations providing education of the dangers of alcohol and drug use and abuse, and helping to reduce domestic violence. Critics contended that during his tenure, Texas ranked near the bottom in environmental evaluations, but supporters pointed to his efforts to raise the salaries of teachers and improved educational test scores.

In 1999, Bush also helped make Texas eventually the leading producer of wind powered electricity in the US, by signing a state law obliging electric retailers to buy a certain amount of energy from renewable sources (RPS).

In 1998, Bush won re-election with a record 69% of the vote. He became the first governor in Texas history to be elected to two consecutive four-year terms. For most of Texas history, governors served two-year terms; a constitutional amendment extended those terms to four years starting in 1975. In his second term, Bush promoted faith-based organizations and enjoyed high approval ratings. He proclaimed June 10, 2000 to be Jesus Day in Texas, a day on which he "urge[d] all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need".

Throughout Bush's first term, national attention focused on him as a potential future presidential candidate. Following his re-election, speculation soared. Within a year, he decided to seek the Republican nomination for the presidency.