I’m satisfied it’s not a hoax. Among other things, as pointed out above, Wikipedia lists him as an astrologer.

Astronomists are engaging in a discussion of what constitutes a planet. If something as small as Pluto counts (and modern astrology has had to re-work the assumptions of ancient astrology which knew of far fewer planets), then other objects recently discovered in the solar system may also qualify as planets. Which would require astrologists once again to re-calculate the effect of the planets on human personality.

Meanwhile, having been ex-communicated by astrology for disbelief and having my sign taken away, I’ve had to live my life solely according to free will. Its been tough, but I prefer it be being controlled by rocks and collections of gases orbiting the sun.

How about this from MYDD (yesterday):

“Another Update [2006-6-25 14:13:39 by Jerome Armstrong]: Oh yea, on the astrological stuff. I have done the new age type things over the years—life’s never boring that way. Down that line, I dabbled with planets and predictions in the most abstract manner, as one of several different predictive mathematical disciplines, when coming out of finances and into politics during my early blogging days (nobody is surprised that remembers the early 2001 days here), and since then have completely tapered out of it over time. So yea, the cons got me on this one being a little out of the ordinary… It has nothing to do with what I consult with in online political strategy. But hey, like JP Morgan once said, “millionaires don’t use astrology, billionaires do!” I hope to see those wingnuts that are obsessed with every little thing I do at the next bikram yoga or vipassana meditation session in DC– but fair warning that I believe we evolved from monkeys!”

No … wait … Karl Rove has hacked into MYDD and posted this pretending to be Jerome Armstrong.

I’m still looking for the smoke, much less the fire. The citation is a right-wing blog that has already alterned the cover of Armstrong’s book (probably infringing the copyright, but who knows these days). There’s also a Jerome Armstrong listed under IMDB as the screenwriter for “Volcano.” Same guy? Beat me; there’s no way of knowing short of further investigation. Googling “Jerome Armstrong” gives half a million hits. Bet they aren’t all the same guy! You’re evidence is thin at best. If I were allocating money to investigate further, I’d want something a whole lot more substantial than a coincidental name identity, a Wikipedia article, and a right-wing joke.

If the other questions are that much more serious–maybe they are; maybe they aren’t; at the time Armstrong is alleged to have touted stocks I knew plenty of people on the left who were saying the market would boom forever, that EnRon had discovered a new energy model, etc. for me to be really judgmental about people who look foolish in retrospect–why even bring it up?

You’re right, the link isn’t a redirect, my error. If you’re saying this one article was hacked by the Right, that Wikipedia, as well as other ancedotal evidence has to be wrong, I say there’e enough smoke that looking for the fire is warranted.

The posts, via Rogers Cadenhead, address much more serious questions, and he’s not right-wing, more of a liberal, and started the Drudge ReTort.

On the subject of urls, http://astroworld.mydd.com takes you to http://mydd.com. That proves absolutely nothing. Try typing “http://politicsinthezeros.mydd.com” or “http://imafraud.mydd.com” or anything else. It all goes to mydd.com itself, because the server is set up to capture *.mydd.com as simply mydd.com.

I still haven’t seen any serious proof of this claim.

Aside from some astrologer writing in 2003 about somebody named Jerome Alexander who’s an astrologer, any other independent source for the attribution? The web can be very handy, but it can also be extremely misleading.

type paparianforcongress.com

and you will go to

paparian4congress.com

There’s a redirect on the first site sending people to the second site.