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                                                          PREFACE:

EDITOR'S NOTE: rickcosmos' (Richard DePersio) high school teachers and college professors

would have a field day with article and supplement and utterly relish giving him a BIG FAT 'D' and

he would enjoy it immensely!! He wrote articles back then and not book reports and term

papers to their dismay and frustration. They would turn the BIG FAT 'D' into a BIG FAT 'F' because

of the supplement with a preface and a game. Let the ADD good times roll. He hated school and

driving teachers up the proverbial wall but took great proud in his self-education.

       Let the games begin...There was a New Year's contest at group site: groups.google.com/group/rickcosmos-eclectic The three questions were: 1) Who was the Patron Saint of hookers; 2) Who remembers Topper and Harvey; 3) What odd couple is alleged to be members of the "Illuminati" (Saw movie "Angels and Demons" but that won't help you with question)?

      The prizes: a BIG WET KISS for one correct answer, two BIG WET KISSES for two correct

answers and five BIG WET KISSES for three correct answers (by reservation only). Everyone is

eligible except homos and you must be a female between the ages of 18 and 70. (Answers at

end of supplement; don't peek; honors system: you can only collect your prize if you can refrain 

from peeking - which is hard for girls to do!). (The end of preface shouldn't be red' Just realized it

and too lazy to rectify it (memories of school days!).

"Journey from the Earth to the Moon" Western Europeans, especially, the smelly French have

 always looked down at us (The British are true friends). Yet, Jules Verne, Frenchman, was a

visionary and science prophet (he and the Englishman, H.G. Wells, are called the "Fathers

of science fiction; although, there are those who only recognize one - it has been a raging debate for decades. Wells was a science teacher and Verne was self-educated in science and had

many friends who were scientists. They were science science-fiction writers. Is your ADDed

reporter going off on a tangent!) who chose a site in Florida not far from today's space center. Why would he think that the first flight to the moon would take place from the U.S. and

not his beloved France. How unlike a Frenchman not to be a snob!. He believed that the U.S. had great potential and would soon be number one in science, technology and economics. He

penned his book in the 1860's. It was around 1920 that we began our move to number one and 1946 when we achieved  the trophy! Verne was indeed a science prophet! In

a fit of madness they gave us the Statue of Liberty circa 1880 for our growth as a nation, 

in the hope that we would remain true to our ideals and that France would move in the direction that we had chosen. So un-Frenchy! Our growth  in the '40's - atomic age, the '50's - the television age and the '60's - the space age. Problems began in the '70's when we reduced spending on the space agency - a unique federal program which benefited so many of the sciences and was at the cutting edge of developments in electronics, computer technology, micro miniaturization, engineering (other government programs are limited to just one thing) which enabled our enemies in World War 2 - Germany and Japan - which we rebuilt after the war and set them on the right path in science and technology to began breathing down our necks in a close second. Germany fell after it reunited in 1990 and was replaced by China in 1990s. Today, we still have the world's richest and biggest economy but it is shrinking .Japan is number 2. It is expected to be replaced by China by 2012. China was expected to replace us in 2025 - now, courtesy of Obama could occur in 2015. Science and technology

have been the engines of the economy since the Industrial Revolution and now we are number

one in very few areas - one of which is improving existing and creating new medications.

Japan is number one in the most important area: computer/robotic technology. China was a

third-world nation until 1990 when they became a developing nation. They are now an industrialized

nation. They will be a post-industrialized nation (or service economy) within 5 years. It makes you dizzy. They moved through the phases even more rapidly then us! 

       It is broke but can be fixed. NASA only receives 1/10th of 1% of the federal budget. It

should have the budget that it enjoyed in the '60's adjusted for inflation. Obama wants to cancel Orion - Version one to replace space shuttle, version two return Americans to the moon and version three take humans to Mars!.Instead, thanks to the un-American will will have to beg the Russians for a ride to the 'International Space Station' international my foot! It was largely built with American money - when our money was worth something internationally! With it's usual collateral benefits in other areas - unlike other government programs - medicine, solar energy, ion energy, nanotechnology and applications from home to car to office to factory..Once again, there will be a couple of nations in the world in second place but a distant second place. Obama is unwilling to take broken and put in that thing that they use to crush cars. He'll throw good money after bad instead of reorganizing social programs. The red-white-blue will soon be yellow!

HOOKERS AND OTHER THINGS...Hint: December. Santa Claus - more precisely, Saint

Nicholas, who amongst other things purchased 6 hookers from a pimp (or whatever, they

were called about 1600 tears ago. There is no truth to the rumor that he was a party guy.

Although, there is no record of what became of the 6 pros! Catholics - Roman and Orthodox -

are angry with me. Wait a minute, didn't the Pope demote him in the '70's. No compromising

photos surfaced - there was no photography back then. What about the Shroud of Turin.

I don't want to get in trouble was all Christians.

       There were a movie and a sequel in the '40's about Topper and a T.V. series in the '50's.

e people have bad memories and think Topper was the ghost - the ghost were Merriam and George.

       Harvey was a 6' tall invisible rabbit in the movie "Harvey" starring Jimmy Steward in the'40s.

       According to Wikipedia, the Illuminati, "is the name a several groups, both historical and

modern and both real and fictitious." Further, it is rumored that members of this 'secret society'

include Bush and Obama!

      WINNERS CAN COLLECT THEIR PRIZES OVER THE WEEKEND!!!