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                                 Edward Hopper Presents Nighthawks Diner

                                                         by

                          Manager: Richard Hooker; Cook: Citizen Journalist;

                  Cook: Richard DePersio; Waitress: Bridget 'Knocko' McCarthy*

                                         Bartender: Alfred Hitchcock

 

MENU:

Appetizer: Citizen Journalist: "We wish to welcome the newest member of our

staff: Knocko; she is one tough cookie!" It's great to be here. It's like a class

reunion, I know so many of the staff members." CJ: "All this talk about venture

capitalists. They invest in new companies and new products. They should be

investing in companies like SpaceX and not Uncle Sam. They might demand that

a company downsize before they are willing to invest which could mean selling

off asserts and laying off workers. If successful, the company will later be in a

position to hire new workers and, perhaps, exceed the number of workers that it

originally had. It is so high risk that banks won't grant a loan. It is good capitalism

unlike crony capitalism: bailing out banks and sparing union bosses and workers

any pain in auto industry: stock holders and corporate execs did all the suffering

because of an unconstitutional bankruptcy judge - Obama!" Richard D.: "I think that

 'Leave it to Beaver' was the first series to have a series' finale' (a special final

episode), as opposed to, a final episode (indistinguishable from any other episode).

Knocko: "The U.S. Supreme Court has told the Obama Administration to butt out

when it comes to the hiring and firing of ministers and educators at religious

institutions. Obama having wanted to apply employment laws and regulations.

They were told that religious orgs were exempt: they could hire and fire whomever

they pleased. It should be extended to private sector." CJ: "Knocko, that was a

knocko and Richard D. that was an A.D.D."

(This article is being co-produced by CJCS {Citizen Journalist/Cayuga Productions/

Shamley Productions} Studios).

First Course: As is our wont, we start off with cosmos followed by cosmos (meaning

world) and Offending with Truth when circumstances warrant.

      There are three basic types of asteroids: stony; stony-iron; iron. Asteroids in the

outer part of the belt contain water.

      "Originally, astronomers thought that asteroids were remnants of a planet that had

been destroyed; now they believe asteroids to be material that never became a planet,

possibly because it was affected by Jupiter's strong gravity."** (See articles downstairs

for more info on asteroids).

      Recently, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden gave his stamp of approval for Lockheed

Martin Space Systems Co.'s test-version of the Orion. The next version Orion is slated for

an unmanned mission to high orbit and back in 2014.

Entree': The U.S. was a minor industrialized nation in 1870. Miraculously, in a mere

30 years, we were tied with England as the world's leading industrialized powers. By

1920, we occupied that position solo.

      During this period, while it centered around manufacturing, the Industrial Revolution,

included, Rockefeller in oil, Carnegie in steel, Morgan in banking, Armour in meat

packing. There were the contributions of the independent inventors in the U.S. as well.

Edison, Bell, Westinghouse and others inventing: the skyscraper, cable car, telephone,

light bulb, air brake, refrigerated rail road car, phonograph, fountain pen, Kodak camera,

movie camera and, let's not forget, the zipper.

      We became a post-industrialized or service economy in the '80s but failed to retain

a strong industrial base. During the last few years manufacturing is returning. Does

Obama deserve credit? It's returning to the southern states without unions. Obama is a

union puppet bent on destroying American jobs. American companies want to hire

American workers for patriotic reasons. Naturally, that isn't their prime motivator. In

terms of output, American employees are the best in the world. An advantage negated by

outlandish unions demands. In non-union, right-to-work states, workers are compensated

far more than workers in foreign plants but less than those in union states. Of course,

American companies which aren't international have no choice which can lead, eventually,

to bankruptcy. This can even be the case for American-based international companies

with most or all of their factories here. Companies can wind up owing the union pension

more than what the company is worth. In the end, stock/bond holders and creditors get the

shaft while pensioners get their pensions and many workers' early retirement

packages after assets are sold.

      Students are taught about the glorious unions beginning in first grade but they aren't

taught the truth, for example, it was fed, state and local govs a long with unions that

promoted discrimination. While the big bad corporations didn't for the past 100 years. Their

motives weren't all that noble - they desired expanding markets.

      Retaining the world's second highest corporate income tax of 35% (only Japan is

higher - coming in at 38%) and creating new regulations on a daily basis will only force

American headquartered companies to open up more factories in foreign countries.

      We're going to say what others, including, conservative politicians are afraid to say:

the super-rich, the rich and the upper-middle class pay more than their fair share of

taxes! The 1 % wealthiest Americans pay 38% of federal income taxes and the 10%

richest 67%. It's the mid-middle class, the lower-middle class and the working poor who

fail to support their fed gov (much of which is unconstitutional but that's another story).

They pay little or nothing or receive a small to large refund! Most of the non-working are

parasites!

Drinks: This A.D.D. Moment is brought to you by Adderall and 7 Up - the better mixer.

"...When I got home I {Alan Alda, age 7} had to throw up. They held my head as I leaned

over the toilet. My knees buckled and I nearly fell into the bowl. They caught me and held

me up. I could hear my mother whisper to my father, 'He has polio.' My father whispered

hoarsely, 'Come on, will you. You always think the worst.'...She had been reading about

polio in magazines...At the hospital they stuck a long needle in the spine...I had polio...I

wasn't allowed out of the house {largely limited to his room}...No friends...The country was

on the throes of an epidemic {circa 1940}. People were afraid to go to public swimming

pools or theaters for fear of the contagion."*** He grew up to be a feminist.

Alfred Hitchcock: "One more commercial for the road. Upon my return, I shall add just the

chaser." {run commercial} Citizen Journalist articles are well-preserved having been kept in

a sealed mayonnaise jar on CJ's back porch. Do read articles on pages 1 and 2. AH: "...if you

have no contagions, our commercials will create them for you...Goodnight."

Dessert: "Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan (W.W. Norton and Co.,2010). "...

Individuals don't get the bill for this behavior, but society does - in the form of air pollution,

global warming, and urban sprawl. The best way to deal with this growing problem is not the

stuff of laissez-faire conservatives usually talk about. It is higher taxes on gasoline and cars.

...will the cost of climbing behind the wheel of a car reflect the real social cost of that

activity. Similarly, large subsidies for public transportation would properly reward those

commuters who spare the rest of us by not getting into their cars."

      Where to begin!?! He is wrong on so many levels: 1) Liberal U.N. global warming science

was discredited in 2006; 2) Fed Gov punishing and rewarding citizens! The Founding Fathers

believed that people could say anything that they wanted - positive or negative, smart or stupid,

kind or hurtful (hate speech and verbal sexual harassment laws are unconstitutional). They

felt that people had a right to act properly or recklessly, in their self-interests or for the benefit

of others - so long as they didn't violate laws of which they wanted few. Fed Gov manipulating

behavior!; 3) More spending equates to more taxes. When people have less of their hard earned

money, they are less free.

Prices: Two weeks ago: Visits: 713, Readers: 385 (Average of AddThis Analytics and Google

Analytics); Last week: Visits: 833, Readers: 427. Thank You, Please Come Again.

*Back when Bridget was a Captain in a MASH unit "was maybe thirty-five years old, five feet

eight inches of solid maple, and she did not ordinarily tolerate lip from the Swampmen or her

immediate superior...Houlihan, either. This last endeared her to the Swampmen who did not call

her 'Knocko' for nothing, for they knew she could take out any one of them in a head-on..."

**"The Handy Science Book," Visible Ink Press. 1994. ***"never have your dog stuffed," by Alan

Alda, Random House Trade Paperback, 2006.