Fwd: Mycroft Holmes Presents Goodbye-Farewell-Amen...

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    Mycroft Holmes Presents Goodbye-Farewell-Amen: The Demise of Citizen Journalist

    Subtitle One: The Final Problem

    Subtitle Two: Second American Revolution (Second American Revolution - Parts 1, 2, 3 follow)

                           by Citizen Journalist, Dr. Sidney Freedman and Richard DePersio

    Citizen 'Offending with Truth' Journalist: "...The hostilities will end twelve hours from

    now at 10 O'clock. The war is over!"

    We are known for our long prefaces. In this the finale article (new material is available

    at some of our other web sites), we shan't disappoint.

    The Final Preface (Just for You):

    Richard D.: "Well boys - it would be hard to call what we've been through fun, but I'm

    sure glad that we went through it together." Citizen Journalist: "Amen to that." RD:

    "Speaking of Robert Wagner, he's one of the few actors to star or co-star in three

    series - 'It Takes a Thief,' 'Switch' and 'Hart to Hart' - each of which lasted three years

    or more. And, he might have murdered his wife to boot! After all these years, suspicions

    about the death have resurfaced. And, he is now hawking reverse mortgages. What a

    career." CJ: "I can only think of one actor and one actress - we don't refer to females as

    actors. Although, some refer to themselves as such and want to grow balls too! - who

    starred in three series each of which lasted four years of more: Lucille Ball and Michael

    Landon." RD: "It's sad when traditions die. There are efforts to end fox hunting in the

    U.K. and bull fighting in Spain because a the minority libs find it offensive." CJ: "I'll

    give them offensive: There's nothing like a cold beer after a bull fight and a fox hunt.

    Long live traditions. I'll take a thigh." Dr. Sidney Freedman: "Well, it is cruel. CJ: "Stick

    it where the sun don't shine. Robert Blake actually claims that he coined that phrase."

    RD: "How do you feel about a Gingrich/Cane ticket?" Dago Red: "I like it." CJ: "What the

    hell is our ex-priest doing here?" DR: "I'm early for the closing of 'Citizen Journalist

    Comsats' party." RD: "That's all he wrote."

As is our wont, we start off with cosmos (meaning world) and, then, we deal with world. 'Offending

with Truth' when circumstances warrant.

       Our Galaxy is 100,000 light years long (one light year equals 6,000,000,000,000 miles) and

contains about 150,000,000,000 stars. It has six spiral arms with our sun in the Orion Arm and

about 26,000 light years from the center. In recent years, it was realized that we live in a barred

spiral rather than a regular spiral galaxy. Our Galaxy is swallowing the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy.

       Our readers know well that we oppose subsidies, including, subsidies to private companies

to carry astros and cargo to the space station. It now appears that companies like SpaceX

won't be able to return America to space by 2015; we will have to wait until 2017. Meanwhile,

our humiliating dependency on Russia - whom we beat in Moon Race - to get to the station, for

which we footed most of the bill, will continue.

       NASA is one of the few fed gov programs that work. Money which is going to private companies

should go to NASA (half, with the other half going toward debt reduction) for a heavy-lifter which is

on a state of limbo. Only a super heavy-lifter has been green-lighted. We want the latter to be

equipped with a nuclear thermal or ion third stage to double as an earth-transfer module to Mars and

an asteroid.

Diogenes Club: A place where men can read without distractions; as such, the number one rule is

no talking, club members can even be expelled for coughing.

"There are many men in London, you know, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no

wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not adverse to comfortable chairs and the latest

periodicals. It was for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now

contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the

least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances,

allowed, any three offenses, if brought to the attention of the committee, render the talker liable to

expulsion. My brother {Mycroft} was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing

atmosphere." -William Sherlock Scott Holmes.

      While visiting London, Citizen Journalist was honored by Mycroft having been made an honorary

member. Henceforth, he, like Mycroft, will rarely be seen outside of home, office and club.

There should be a study on the constitutionality of the president's executive order. Is it constitutional?

If so, what should be its length and breath? All too often, presidents, especially, those of the lib variety

have used EOs to circumvent the legislative process (usurp congressional authority). There should

be a Constitutional Amendment clearly defining EOs.

       Speaking of constitutionality...

       ...We interrupt this article for:

Alfred Hitchcock: "...you find yourself becoming glassy-eyed...run commercial." This A.D.D. break is

brought to you by Adderall and Christian Brothers Brandy - the better mixer. In our last article on the

Second American Revolution, we corrected the author of a 'Blunder Book' for blundering as regards

Sherlock. This time around (and it shall be the last time), we criticize the History Channel for

blundering on the Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving. Or, was it a blunder or a lib lie of the nature

being taught in public schools wherein children are indoctrinated instead of educated. The doc claimed

how wonderful it was that the Pilgrims pooled their food, water, seeds, tools, etc. And, how the land

would be owned collectively (a forerunner to the failed communist concept and further in that vein) and

that each individual output was his utmost - the best that he or she could do and how at harvest time

they all shared equally in the harvest. It was this and the Indians bringing food that made the First

Thanksgiving a success. The contribution of the ingins can't be underestimated but that of the Pilgrims

to the Party was meager. The truth: the policy failed miserably! The governor had to come up with a

new strategy (pre-capitalism). Some people had slacked off - doing minimum work, letting their

neighbor work to the utmost. Some stole food early in the harvest to secure more than their fair share

for their family. The replacement strategy: each family would OWN a plot a land and, thereby, work

 to their utmost and be certain to turn back trespasses. After a couple of years this strategy proved

extremely successful. What should we make of the situation? Either the History Channel doesn't know

history or they engage in lib propaganda! AH: "Let's daydream with our dear sponsor." This is the ideal

time to purchase stocks in "Citizen Journalist Comsats" - an insider's tip. AH: "I thoroughly enjoyed

my association with 'CJC.'

When our nation was founded there were four departments and a handful of fed agencies. Today, there

are sixteen major departments and over a thousand agencies (they write regulatory laws predicated on

legislative laws and enforce them).

        In theory, the president has control over departments and, even, chooses the secretaries (who

must be confirmed by Senate and only Senate). It is relatively easy for him to fire them and to get them

to fire those in upper and middle management. Presidents come and go. We said: "In theory." Career

bureaucrats sometimes undermine a president thinking that they know best having been around for a

long time unlike the president, the secretary, the deputy and under secretaries.

        Technically, fed agencies, such as, IRS are under a departmental head, in this case the Secretary

of the Treasury. The secretary determines how much oversight he will exercise.

        Presidents have the least control over semi-independent fed agencies , such as, the Federal Reserve

Bank. The members don't serve concurrently their four year terms with the president. In most cases, the

president doesn't get to choose their members until two years into office. Generally speaking, he has

to appoint (with Senate approval) an equal number of Republican and Democrat members plus the head who

is of his party. Some do the bidding of the president while others, such as, the Fed, do not. There have

been times in which the Fed is pursing a monetary policy that is not in sync with a president's fiscal policy.

        Our Founding Daddies might it clear that everything had to fit smack dab within one of the three

branches of gov. You can't have entities that are half way in and half way out.

        Presidents must exercise greater control over fed agencies. We need a Constitutional Amendment

here as well. Presidents should be weakened when it comes to EOs and strengthened when it comes

to decisions made by and regs created by agencies - subject to congressional oversight. Regs must be

in line with the letter and spirit of congressional laws. Regs can't be created where no corresponding law

exists. Let's return to the U.S. Constitution.

Citizen Journalist: "Goodbye from all of us at 'Citizen Journalist Comsats." (Dueling Sources: Google

Analytics and AddThis Analytics. We had up to 50 or 150 readers and up to 250 or 425 visits to our

comsats {web sites} per week. With no feedback at sites and little at Facebook and Twitter. Successful?

You be the judge).

Dr. Sidney: "You know, I told you people something a long time ago, and its just as pertinent today

as it was then, Ladies and Gentleman, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice."

 

Fwd: Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

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 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Second American Revolution Part 3 (Parts 2 & 1 follow)

                     by Citizen Journalist, Richard DePersio and Ho-Jon

 

Citizen Journalist: "This article is being taped before a live audience." Richard D."I'm

relieved that you chose to go with a live audience." Ho-Jon: "Why is an Englishman

presenting a Second American Revolution?" R.D.: He did become a U.S. citizen in 1956;

actually duel citizenship: he remained a subject (actually, they are subjects not citizens)

of the queen. The important thing being, he was making most of his money here and was

paying U.S. taxes upon become a citizen. Jolly good show. Pip, pip and all that bloody

good stuff. CJ: "I was remiss: it's being taped at the New Double Natural in Los Vegas."

R.D.: "You must be pleased. This is turning out to be a short preface; we haven't had one

of those in a long time." CJ: "I'm giddy!' R.D.: "Don't go sissy-boy on me!" Ho-Jon: "Can

I be an honorary Jew too?" CJ: "Yella, you gotta be kiddin'.

(Please see the two-part "Our Chosen People" at www.quasarpolitics.blogspot.com If you

have difficulty connecting directly, please connect via Facebook: Richard DePersio or

Twitter: @rickaddsite ).

 

   "The Constitution was once an instrument by which the objective rights of the

    individual to use and abuse their rights was generally secured. Now it is only

    am interesting intellectual challenge for bigthink sociologists who wrest from

    its Miltonic sweep and directness byzantine little sophisms that permit them

    to have their way in pioneering new civil rights, new prohibitions against public

    prayer, new electoral metaphysics (one man-one vote)...the Constitution is, at

    least temporarily, gone."

Was the above written yesterday? Last week? Last year? Shocker: it was written in 1966

by Bill Buckley ("Quotations from Chairman Bill: The Best of Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.,"

compiled by David Franke, Pocket Book, 1971).

Abortion became a right in 1973. By what contortions   did the U.S. Supreme Court find it

in the "Bill of Rights." !?!

        Our Founding Daddies considered Free Speech so precious and important that they

 placed it in Amendment One of the Bill of Rights. Further, they considered a particular right

 as something that a citizen could choose to exercise or not, abuse or not with very few

exceptions. The Constitution, including, the Bill of Rights existed to protect good people

from bad so that the good could pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (property)

without interference from the bad nor from gov.

       Thirty years ago, limits on free speech began with harassment, especially, of the sexual

nature in the work place; ten years ago, the process of limiting on hate speech and bullying

began. Good things, you say. Gov doesn't posses constitutional authority to place such

limits anymore than it does to place limits on stupid or incorrect or silly speech. The

so-called 'victums' have the right to respond in kind or get someone to do it for them. Peer

pressure can curtail such speech but not gov but it is doing it! Private companies and clubs

can place limits on expression if they so choose.

Give libs an inch and they will take a mile...More recently, they are trying to bring back the

so-called "Equal Time" Doctrine to limit the free speech of conservatives on TV and Radio.

This is spite of the fact that they control most TV networks, newspapers, movie studios, record

companies, as well as, all public schools - elementary, high and college. Only 20% of

Americans identify themselves as libs; talk about minority rule and a virtual monopoly on

thought. (For more, please see: "Expanded: Potpourri" (New) at www.rickcmtsite.blogspot.com -

connect from Profile Page: Facebook: Richard DePersio; Twitter: @rickaddsite ).

      More recently:Crimes: Hate speech/hate crime - assault on property, bullying, verbal abuse/

insults, offensive graffiti/letters, etc. Unconstitutional   to punish a person for what they might have

been thinking. Charging someone with assault and a hate crime, defacing property and a hate

 crime, etc. Wrong! Just charge with assault, defacing, etc.

      More recently, Obama initiated process of seizing control of Internet (puddle in front of your

house not enough, see Part One). If he is not stopped, this will lead to curtailing free speech and

monitoring who says what. In the future, we might not be able to write what we are writing right

now! Isn't it fascinating that libs in general and, the most dangerous lib org in existence, ACLU

profess to protecting rights! Behavior Control and Police might be in our future. Watch you

manners for Big Brother is watching!

      Frivolous lawsuits: alleging sexual harassment for man complimenting you on your new

dress (a guy should be flattered by compliment) spilling coffee on oneself on McDonald's and

claiming that you didn't know that coffee was hot; being hugged by host of "Wheel of Fortune"

and three years later complaining of   back    pain and suing Pat and show's Executive Producer.

California (yes; they did something right; get smelling salts for audience members) and Texas

require plaintiff to pay defendant's legal costs if judge judges case as having been of a frivolous

nature. All states should do the self-same thing. Our Constitution guarantees us a right to a

speedy trial - a right frequently denied because of a heavy backlog of cases - - mostly, due to

frivolous lawsuits.

Alfred Hitchcock: "Let's daydream with our dear sponsor." An A.D.D. break sponsored by

Adderall and Sex on the Beach (vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice, cranberry juice -

International Bartender's Guide-Cocktails). We recommend Sex and the Beach plus

Adderall. CJ, a real man, has his Adderall with just vodka!

         Citizen Journalist corrects author of blunder book for blundering when it comes to

our good friend Dr. Watson (If truth be told, correction was submitted by him but CJ is taking

credit - it's what friends do).

   "Sir Arthur Canon Doyle: In 'A Study in Scarlet," Sherlock Holmes's assistant, Dr. Watson,

is said to have suffered a wartime bullet wound in the shoulder, but in "The Sign of Four,"

the wound is said to be in the leg." ("The Blunder Book," M. Hirsh Goldberg, Quill, 1984).

   In the "The Problem of Thor Bridge," Watson writes to Sherlock: "My dear Holmes, today,

I walked fourteen miles across rough terrain with hardly a twinge from leg or shoulder."

       Clearly our friend was shot twice in the same battle or in the shoulder in one battle and

the leg in another! Let's nitpick: ...Holmes's assistant...Holmes' would suffice. Overall, the

book was entertaining and informative. (RD: You can't put anything past CJ!).

AH: "Last commercial, one for the road, no doubt just as effective as drink {above}." Citizen

Journalist Comsats (web sites): for moderates, conservatives and out-to-lunch undecided...and

for the few open-minded libs willing to face the truth!

Upon seizing control of House, Republicans passed a bill requiring that all future House bills had to

come with an attachment justifying the legitimacy of the bill, Constitutionally Speaking. We are still

waiting for Dem-controlled Senate to do likewise. If you think that it will come to pass, you are to

ignorant to be exposing yourself to material of this nature!

Real Federalist/Constructionist/Judeo-Christian/Classical-Market-Liberal (audience members fainting

again - get smelling salts again - - or better yet: Adderall and vodka {charge 'em!}; early name for

capitalism: more than laissez  faire  lessthan tons of laws and regs in the version of today;capitalism

during the first hundred years or so of our nation) vs. bogus progressive/secular 'living' constitution.

This constituted one of our best live articles. You needn't flash 'Applaud' sign for our fans. Thanks for

coming and as Benny Hill says, "We'll see you again, real soon."

        

 

 

 

 

Fwd: Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

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                 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Second American Revolution-LIVE

          by Citizen Journalist, Richard DePersio and Ezekiel (Me Lay)Marston V

             (Nominated for the "Stellar Award" for Best Live-Action Article in the

                           Political Science and Space Science Categories)

Stage Manager: "Testing: 1, 2, 3, 4...Double-Check the lighting...Place that prop

here...Move this chair 5 inches to the right." Director of Photography: "Camera 2,

move in on Host." Director: "Cue, the late Edward R. Murrow. Action...Live...and

Now..."

"Good Evening, I'm the late Edward R. Murrow, broadcasting to you live atop the

Launch Assembly Building, which hasn't seen, sadly, much activity of late, at the

Kennedy Space Center in Florida. We are gathered here today to witness the

marriage of Citizen Journalist to Lady GaGa...just kidding...to speak with some of

the members of "Citizen Journalist Comsats."

LERM: "If you were an advisor to the Romney Campaign what would you advise

him to do? {Camera 3 on Richard D.} Richard D.: "Do something unprecedented at

this juncture: Announce that if I secure Republican nomination, I will ask Newt

Gingrich to be my running mate. Of course, Newt would indicate that he wasn't

interested and was going all the way for the top spot. It is likely that he wouldn't

accept number 2. Nonetheless, it would win over conservatives who thus far are

reluctant to endorse him. It would constitute of stroke of genius on his part, if I may

say so myself. Of course, I'm totally committed, some no doubt think that I should

stop with the word committed...to the nomination of Citizen Journalist."

{Cue Al for commercial}

AH: "Now, turn your attention to where you will find our main attraction - the center ring.

But {before} we return to the main event, we must pause a moment, to allow one of our

hawkers to pass among you and peddle his wares..."

This A.D.D. moment is brought to you by Adderall and Kentucky Sipping Whiskey - the better

mixer.

AH: "For those of you who had forgotten sponsor's name, I'm glad that we did that. The

sponsor's name had slipped my mind too."

LERM: "What should NASA's next rocket move be?" Citizen Journalist: "We were

one of the first, if not the first, to suggest that a declassified-version of the Air Force's

X-37B should be given to NASA. Obama had done something right: allowing greater

cooperation between NASA and the military. This is one area were it needs to be

done in order to end our humiliating and expensive dependency on Russia to get

our astros to the space station for which we footed most of the bill. The X-37B

resembles an unmanned space shuttle and is a 'secret' program! No doubt, Air Force

is making significant progress to a manned-version. Working with NASA that objective

could be realized a lot sooner." LERM: "Do you think that there are more 'Solyndra'

-like cases?" Me Lay: "Who cares! We still maintain that the bigger story is 'LightSquared'

wherein pressure might have been placed on a general to lie about national security

to secure subsidy and that pressure might have come from Obama White House. This

story has been overshadowed by what we contend is a lesser story."

{Cue Al for commercial}

AH: We will get to article proper 'after a preview of a current attraction.'...Adderall - straight or

on the rocks in the evening. Aderall with whiskey and a raw egg for breakfast...The better pick-

me-upper.

As is our wont, we begin with cosmos (meaning world) and, then, we deal with world, Offending

with Truth, when circumstances warrant.

      Not a life-seeking mission...NASA"s 6-foot Curiosity Rover is set for a Nov. 25 launch to

determine if Mars contains or contained ingredients for life such as organic compounds. It would

be analogous to looking for flour, sugar, etc. rather than cake.

Where were we?...Yes; taking glass of water away from Obama (Part 1 follows for those misfortunate

 among you who haven't read it yet).

      In the past, we opposed a "Nullification Doctrine." Now, we think that it is absolutely necessary

to save our Federalist Constitution. We think that it should operate as follows: Every 5 years, each

state can propose a federal law or regulation that they feel violates U.S. Constitution and/or State

Rights and/or Capitalistic Principles and/or Citizen's Rights. You're not likely to have too many

states recommending for both houses of state legislature would have to concur on proposal. The

following would be exempt from state challenges: foreign policy; defense; national security; domestic

security; coining and printing of money; fed taxes and budgets; legitimate inter-state commerce regs.

States would have 5 years to render a decision. How? Both the governor and the state attorney

general would have to agree that law or reg is unconstitutional. It would take 38 states to render it such.

 Two-thirds of both houses of congress or two-thirds of states would have to agree to a

constitutional convention to pass a "Nullification Doctrine" Amendment to U.S. Constitution. We think

it extremely unlikely that  two-thirds of both houses would agree to "Nullification Doctrine" to be

approved by 38 states: Congress wouldn't weaken itself. The other method has never been done: two-

thirds of states call for a constitutional convention. Attempted twice, they couldn't secure required

two-thirds. We think that time is ripe and that nearly three-quarters of states would vote in favor. There

is unwritten rule: no more than 3 amendments should be considered at one time and in one sitting.

{Lights...Cue Al}

AH: "And, now for our short, short, short, short story. So short in fact, you'll scarcely have time to

miss me, thank goodness, before I return..."

Super-charge your concentration with Adderall in your Maxwell House Coffee.

     Interestingly, people forget the "Lee Resolution" passed on July 2, 1176. At the time, it was as

important as the "Declaration of Independence." The Lee Resolution declared our independence

from Great Britain and was short and sweet. The Declaration of Independence went into detail

explaining why we felt it necessary to sever ties.

     The delegates vote in favor of Lee was: 90, 81, 96, 96 = 383. The correct total is: 363. In the National

Archives exhibit there is this note: "The incorrectly added figures in the lower right are a mystery."

Part three will deal with other proposed amendments amongst other things.

Due to inflation, we have to raise our price from $1 to $1.50 for admittance to this web site. See cashier

at front door.

                                     Fade to black...

 

Fwd: SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION...

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                                          SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION

                                                     by Citizen Journalist

(Winner of the Sherlock Holmes Award for Best Actor in an Action Adventure Article)

                                          and Richard DePersio with Dago Red

                           (co-stars in the "Masterpiece" now appearing at www.quasarpolitics or

 www.quasarpolitics.blogspot.com; runner-up "The Article" at www.rickaddsite.blogspot.com)

Preface One: Swing/Moderate States: NV; CO; IA; OH; NH; VA; FL. Total Electoral Votes: 85

Preface Two: Number of Readers (visits) last week to our comsats (web sites): 257; we are

growing in a painfully slow fashion. Please tell family members (those with whom you are

and aren't on speaking terms, co-workers, friends (and enemies too) about Citizen

Journalist; add Richard DePersio as a friend, subscribe to updates and, remember, the best

way to get the latest is by connecting to comsats via Profile Page (All are welcome: American

Citizens, Legal Residences - even muslims; foreigners who are inside of their own sovereign

nations).

Richard D.: "Ellery Queen - who is on a retainer from Citizen Journalist - is on assignment."
Citizen Journalist: "Why are House Republicans so concerned with Solyndria? We pointed

out weeks ago that the bigger story is: LightSquared; though, subsidy not approved, it

involved pressure on a general to lie on a national security issue in an effort to secure

approval."* Dago Red: "Why do some people say 'prevert' instead of 'pervert.' What's that?
What you are before you become a 'vert' ?" CJ: "Here we go again! We're going to end up

with a preface or prefaces nearly as long as the article proper." RD: "I wonder if the smelly

Wall Street Occupiers want the brand of socialism enjoyed by the smelly French (Aren't we

nice? We capitalized the first letter, 'F' {see above}): no economic growth for years; unionized

army; decline in worker productivity." DR: "CJ, this one's for you: CITIZEN America's Candidate

JOURNALIST has More Proposals Original/Proposals Endorsed that all the other candidates

combined: 57! We are taking this opportunity, you graciously offered us, to reiterate the more

salient ones and, in some cases, improve upon the proposals that we have offered for your

consideration over the past two years.

As is our wont, we start off with cosmos (which means world) and, then, we proceed to the

world and Offending with Truth when circumstances warrant.

       Between 3 and 4 billion years from now, the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda

Galaxy will collide, separate and merge. The two spiral galaxies will become one elliptical

galaxy.

       NEEMO stands for Extreme Environment Missions Operations which includes Aquarius

underwater laboratory has been used by marine biologists and oceanographers since 1993.

Located in The Florida keys, it was used by NASA astronauts for the first time for the

purpose of testing equipment (battery-powered jet packs, booms with magnets, robotic arms,

etc.) for the planned manned asteroid mission.

Let's do Ourselves a Second American Revolution!!!...Fed gov has managed to usurp

state powers by subtly threatening withholding of some fed aid for failing to comply with

Uncle Sam's wishes and by violating the United States Constitution!

      The U.S. Constitution is explicit as to the role of fed gov: defense; foreign policy; coining

of money; regulating trade between the states and between a state and a foreign nation;

Indian affairs; mail. Those things best handled by our Uncle which can't be handled or

handled well by individual states and which benefit all or nearly all the citizens residing in the

states. The U.S. Constitution is also implicit: "...the general welfare of the people." General

meaning all or virtually all. Medicaid, for example, shouldn't be a responsibility of fed gov for

it doesn't concern even most people. We think that our Founding Fathers would find fed gov's

involvement in NASA and CIA as acceptable. They might even approve of fed funds flowing to

the states without strings and implied threats.

      We went from 4 departments and a handful of federal agencies, bureaus and boards at

our nation's inception to 15 departments and over a thousand agencies today. And, it isn't

because the nation got bigger and more complex. It's because distant Washington politicians

 and bureaucrats came to believe that they knew best: Uncle Sam became maternal and

paternal. The problem began around 1900 with progressivism which became liberalism circa

1950. The Federal Income Tax which took effect in 1914 (something that our Founders didn't

want fed gov to have) facilitated their efforts to seize state powers, business independence

and citizen's rights. Prior to 1914, fed gov was limited to funding itself with: tariffs on imported

goods; taxes on beer, wine and liquor producers and a licensing fee for retailers of alcoholic

beverages; fines paid for fed crimes. (FIT made Prohibition possible). As the decades passed

the progressive (punishing people for working hard by pushing them up to a higher tax bracket -

how un-capitalistic!) FIT would become bigger which made Uncle Sam hungry for more things

to do in an effort to satisfy its insatiable appetite.

Alfred Hitchcock: "Our thriller shocker {"Typos"} will appear on this program immediatly after a

preview of a current attraction:" An A.D.D.-ed break brought to you by Adderall and Irish Coffee -

the better mixer: "The Chinese scholar and writer Lin Yutang (1895-1976), in an essay on the

differences between Americans and Chinese, touched on the Chinese approach to errors in

books. Observed Yutang: 'An American editor worries his hair gray to see that no typograph-

ical mistakes appear on his pages. The Chinese editor is wiser than that - he leaves his

readers the supreme satisfaction of discovering a few typographical mistakes for themselves.'"**

"The Blunder Book" by Hirsh Goldberg, Quill, 1984.

AH: "And, now for our next {story} - a short, short, short, short story - - so short in fact, you'll

scarcely have the time to miss me, thank goodness, before I return." Citizen Journalist comsats

(web sites) are now virtually free! Please leave $1 at the entrance of each of the five comsats. AH:

"...I have seen {Citizen Journalist's} story for next week and it's well worth waiting for."

We believe that our Founding Fathers were divided on the issue of "Nullification." However, we

are confident that were they to arrive today via a time machine that after ascertaining the present

state of affairs that over 90% would favor such a legal instrument to rectify the top heavy state of

affairs. Before we proposal the nature of such a law...it would likely have to be in the form of a

constitutional amendment...we will propose a test case.

      The Commerce Clause gives fed gov the authority to regulate trade amongst the states. Some

goods are carried by water. Not long after taking office, Obama signed an Executive Order seizing

control of all water in and around the nation, including, the puddle in front of your house. Thus far,

according to our count, Mr. Obama has violated U.S. Constitution, 17 times!!! This represents one

of those cases. Fed gov has regulated rivers and lakes located in more than one state: inter-state.

Now, Obama is regulating intra-state rivers and lakes by invoking Commerce Clause in an

unconstitutional manner.

      We hope that a governor will violate this edict and have the state's attorney-general take the

state (wouldn't this be interesting!?!) to court. It would work its way up the state courts to the

federal courts, and, ultimately, no doubt in our minds, to the U.S. Supreme Court. Let's short-

circuit the process; let's establish a precedent assuming the Supremes rule in our favor. It

isn't likely that two-thirds of both houses of congress would approve of a "Nullification Amendment"

weakening itself by giving states veto power over fed laws and regs, especially, retroactively. All

27 amendments were approved by congress followed by the requisite approval by three-quarters of

the states. There is another method that has never been employed: two-thirds of state legislators

 proposing an amendment which must be ratified by three-quarters of the states or state legislators

 appointing delegates to a Constitutional Convention wherein an amendment could be sent to the

state legislatures upon approval of two-third of the delegates.

      Our best bet would be test case followed by method not involving congress. We have three

amendments in mind.

Citizen Journalist: "That's it? We've run out of space." RD: "We set a foundation. It necessitates

a part two, perhaps, three. Gripping stuff. Our readers will stick with us. Those with brains will offer

commentary...those with brains." DR: "Let's hope that they don't use their gray matter. People

think that our high functions are in the gray matter of the neocortex. It's gray when dead! Alive, it's

sought of pinkish.

*Learn more about this scandal in "Wasn't he the guy who Was in a buddhist temple but didn't know

Why he Was there - parts one and two" at

""If we misspell a word or fail to use spell-check, we can claim that we were doing it to give you the

supreme pleasure of discobering them for yourselves.

      

Fwd: RD's Wonderful Niece has Her say...

-----Original Message-----
From: b <rrdd3939@aol.com>
To: rrdd3939 <rrdd3939@aol.com>
Sent: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 7:59 pm
Subject: Fwd: RD's Wonderful Niece has Her say...

                                              NIECE SPEAKS:

          (You can consider this a companion piece to post that follows)

I will post: Last week, 314 readers. I respect your opinion but I don't agree with it.

Please respond to my email on bullying.

My wonderful niece responds:
Dear people of America,

i want everyone to realize that bullying is not right. people bully to become popular,

and if they are insecure about themselves.

people bully kids who are shy or the new kid and its not right. Students who are

getting picked on are too scared to stick up for themselves because they think there

 going to make the situation worse but it sometimes makes the situation go away

.telling an adult (teacher,dean,principal,parents) doesn't make you a scaredy cat it makes

 you a hero. Adults fix every problem.they can keep the bully away from you and make

 them apologize. Stick up for yourself and be a hero. Bullies are just insecure about

 themselves - know you are great just the way you
(Where does she get off addressing America! Whom does she think that she is:

Citizen Journalist!?!).
I phoned Mr. Ed after I emailed you. He asked me to send him oats; he hasn't

had them in a long time. They've only been feeding him hey and he is angry.

Joyceline is going to take the oats to the post office in a sealed container, otherwise,

they might not deliver it. Uncle Rick.