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                                             Rod Presents The Return of Citizen Journalist L-I-V-E

                                              by Richard DePersio, Dago Red, Sherlock Holmes,

                                                      Number Six, the Cartwrights and Topper

                          A CJCS (Citizen Journalist/Cayuga Productions/Shamley Productions)

                                Director: Al Hitchcock/Director of Photography: Reggie Lanning

Al: "Lights, camera, action!" 

{Camera 1: Give the ham the close-up that he graves}

Richard D.: "It is always an honor and a pleasure to introduce Rodman Edward Serling."

{Audience roars and gives Rod a Standing 'O.' Camera 2: Shoot audience} 

{Rod approaches podium, fag (as the Brits say) in hand; Camera 3 on Rod}

Rod: "I shall quote from an episode of TZ that I didn't compose* with minor alterations and apply

 it to the guest-of-honor Citizen Journalist who is expected momentarily." (Rod whispers to Dago:

"Where the hell is he?). "As long as they talk about you, you're not really {gone}. As long as they

speak your name, you continue. A legend never {leaves us}, just because the man does." {Rod and

 Sherlock are engaged in intense discussion causing uneasiness amongst the assembled}.

Rod: "I shall now introduce the editorial board at CJCS Comsats seated at the dais. The

Cartwrights...Little Joe has a comment after having entered from stage door left on horseback

 which is his wont, "We would mount our horses usually succeeding in mounting quicker than

 pa. The three horses in the lead upsetting his and making his more difficult to manage. We got a kick

 out of it. We would go left around the side of the barn where the stage door was, which you couldn't

 see for the barn; exit and dismount. When on the range we connect with CJCS Comsats via FB

Second American Revolution - as do our ranch hands."

Rod: "George, John, Tom, Jim; The Mavericks; Topper, Marion, George; George and Gracie - we

have lots of Georges; Dago Red,  'Me Lay,' Duke Forrest, Ho Jon...                                                                                                                                            

Rod: "We now have a word from Number Six. Number Six: "I shall paraphrase something I once said

which is presently apropos to Citizen Journalist. I spoke with him yesterday and he

approved of this message: I will not make any deals with you...I will not be pushed, filed,

stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. my life is my own. {Don't force me to} resign."

Rod: "You might benefit from re-reading the last three articles. William Sherlock Scott Holmes and Dr.

John Hamish Watson who located our wayward friend  wish to comment. {To be here is}

 'Wonderful!' I {Dr. Watson} ejaculated. 'Commonplace, said Holmes. {'Citizen journalist'} says

 Watson. 'Wonderful' responds Holmes}. Rod: "I had hoped that you would have shed new light

 on the recent events regarding CJ." Mycroft: "This article shall contain a revelation heretofore which has

 failed to make an imprint on our brain cells. Look for it."

Rod: "Doyle and DePersio communicated across the Einstein/Rosen Bridge to create a one-of-a

kind masterpiece: "Citizen Journalist is Missing" at www.comsat-ak.blogspot.com Is there more?"

Sherlock: "Loose ends; always loose ends."

Rod: "We shall now proceed to Preface Two." {Camera 2 on Richard D., Dago Red and Topper}

RD: "I would like to quote our Brit friend Winston Churchill, 'If you have ten thousand regs, you

destroy all respect for law.'" DR: "Thus far, BO has created 20% more regs than Bush. Wait

until most of the Dodd/Frank Financial Reform and Obama-Care kicks in in 2014 - little of these

regs have been implemented yet -- BO timed for after election. Topper: "The longest running

crime drama was Hawaii 5-0 - 1968-80.  RD: The fed gov now completely or largely controls

over 20% of the economy, of course, banking is now largely controlled by Uncle Sam. Dodd/Frank

and Obama-Care will increase that to 37% - and we all know how well gov manages things that

it isn't constitutionally suppose to manage. And, 37% spells socialism (which is actually about

33%) and, we are well on our way to communism! Topper: "Desi Arnaz is largely responsible for

virtually all sitcoms in the 50s and since using the 3-camera method." RD: "I would now like to

quote our voluptuous Italian friend Sophia Loren, 'Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.'" {Sherlock

whispers to Duke: "Where is Citizen Journalist? I found him. He is being honored tonight. By the Bye,

Have you ever seen Citizen Journalist and Richard DePersio together?"} RD: "Did you hear about

the school which seized the brought-from-home-lunch of a child and made him pay for the

cafeteria lunch because school felt that his lunch lacked nutrition. Most would say that his lunch was

superior to school's. Libs as parents. Before the first and biggest teacher's union formed in

early '60s, teachers thought that parent's were the bosses." Topper: "Prior to '66, CBS had no shows

in color because RCA owned NBC and RCA was biggest seller of color TVs; CBS didn't want to

help RCA sales. DR: "Utah wants its land back! Over two years ago, we stated that fed gov

owned between 3 and 70% of the states for federal parks and the land on which government facilities,

 such as, military installations are located. Utah just wants land that is presently serving no purpose -

 they want to be it to use. We stated that fed parks should become state parks; states should decide

which land can be used for development without fed approval. If fed parks become state parks, they

might want to turn some of it over for development. Fed gov shouldn't own states! How can this be

constitutional!?! One hundred years ago, fed gov promised to return some land. States are still waiting!

Rod: "Citizen Journalist is live on the monitor from an unknown location. No; old TV.Transmission is poor.

His face isn't clear. {Studio audience is shouting: "We want CJ, We want CJ, We want CJ...} Rod: "Calm

down. He will be with us soon. We must continue with article."

As is our wont, we start with cosmos followed by cosmos (which means world) and Offending with

Truth when circumstances warrant.

       Let's continue talking about asteroids. Jupiter and Saturn can gravitationally perturb them causing

them to leave the Asteroid Belt. There is a slim possibly of an asteroid being hurled in the direction

of the inner Solar System striking earth. Perturbations can cause asteroids to collide with pieces

going any which way with some going toward the inner Solar System. Again, the possibility of

colliding with earth unlikely - but possible! Slightly more likely is an asteroid or piece acquiring an

orbit and becoming a near-earth asteroid with a greater chance of one day striking our planet.

      Meteors are pieces of asteroids that fall to earth. The iron meteors (about 80% iron and 20%

nickel) come from the core of a larger asteroid (which broke up due to collisions) while stoney

asteroids come from the outer part of a larger asteroid or from a piece of a smaller asteroid or an

intact smaller asteroid. An asteroid or a piece of an asteroid with a diameter of .6 miles or greater

would cause a mass extinction.

      NASA upgrading with a grant of $4.1 million the Catalina Sky Survey based at the University of

Arizona in Tucson. The project searches the sky for new comets and near-earth asteroids. In 2011, CSS

discovered 586 near-earth asteroids - 65% of the total discovered.

Rod: "I have a major announcement: Citizen Journalist will appear again on the old TV. We

still expect him to appear in-person here later. There he is...We aren't receiving audio and the image is

poor...Here and quickly gone. We resume the article." Audience member: "Citizen Journalist's only

public appearances are during live articles." Rod: "We are doing a live article." AM: "He only appears

on a monitor during those live articles when RD isn't present and usually appears with Dago Red. We..."

Dago Red: "This constitutes a live article and not a forum. Please..." Audience member in the back

shouts: "Democracy. Free speech." Dago Red: "This is an article not an open discussion." AM: "We have

questions. We..." RD: "Take camera off of audience. Security, we shall not tolerate interruption and

 rudeness. You are hereby instructed to escort the guilty out." Rod: "Escort the guilty to Twilight Zone. I'll

deal with them there. Article resumes after bizarre comments from audience."

Let's return to our friend Adam Smith. You need not go back to the beginning of our series on AS. Although,

you might if you want to get more out of it. Genesis is easy to locate a few articles back - the section that

follows the section which begins with: "As is our wont..." You will find the genesis of Adam, if you will.

      Before advertising as we know it, Adam suggested increasing sales by increasing productivity. Increase

the output of the workforce: Improve the division of labor...Just a reminder: Older articles are completely

or largely not time-dependent: can't get out-of-date - we swear to NASA. Do read as we worked hard

on them and do move on to page two and three at web sites...The growing wealth (or production) of a nation,

he illustrates with the following:

"One man draws out the wire, another straits it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for

receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a

peculiar business; to whiten it another; it is even a trade in itself to put them into paper...I have seen a

small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed and where  some of them

consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were poor, and therefore but

indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could when they exerted themselves

make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four

thousand pins of middling size. These ten persons, therefore, could make among them upward of

forty-eight thousand pins in a day...But if they had all wrought separately and independently ...they could

certainly not each of them make twenty. perhaps not one pin in a day."

      Of course, in Adam's day, there weren't large factories. It illustrates the blessings of the factory (small and

large) system of the Industrial Revolution over the small shop. Further, unions were largely illegal. Hooray! Those

were the days.

       How does one enhance division of labor? Machinery is the key. When the tasks of production can be taken

over or assisted by machines. The market system becomes an immense force for the accumulation of

capital, mainly in the form of machinery and equipment. The market as its own regulator. Business expands,

needs more workers. Would wages increase to the point of eating up profits. Wages would increase as

employers competed for workers but only moderately. As wages rose and better food was provided for the

household, infant and child mortality would decline. The larger workforce would hold back a dangerous

increase in wages. Also improved machines would curb too much of a demand for more labor. The Invisible

Hand at work.

     Just a word about John Maynard Keynes. Mr. Keynes (naturally, we aren't on a first name basis with this hero

of libs) asserted that gov spending might be an essential economic policy for a depressed capitalism

trying to recover its vitality. Mr. Keynes failed when FDR employed it and failed again with BO.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents...Al: "{This might turn out to be one of the longest articles not counting two-parters.

Then again, section two is a multi-parter....The tax collector...and now for something equally frightening - the sponsor.

{run commercial} This A.D.D. moment brought to you by Adderall and Principe Strozzi Chianti (since 994 A.D.).

Signals vs. language: Other animals make gestures and sounds which are innate, instinctive, in-born,

self-evident while language is creative and developed and can even talk of things not present and of things

past and future. Al: "There is much that has no bearing on tonight's {topic} - the following for example." {run

commercial} CJCS Comsats: The best in Internet fare. Al: {Back to our program} NYC and coming to a lib city

near: A DNA profile made on everyone arrested even for the most minor infractions except possession of a small

quantity of mary jane; teachers and students communicating via Facebook and Twitter - sure some teachers

are pervs -- libs must throw out the baby with the bath water ---it might enable the good teacher to get through

to a child by way of media that they enjoy, libs must regulate outside of classroom, libs must be everyone's parent

because a small per cent of parents are bad; tests can no longer use offensive words like: birthday (Jehovah Witnesses

don't celebrate), dinosaur (because of religious fundamentalists), wealthy (because some kids are poor and

might get upset by the word) and plenty more -- PC and Mayor Bloomburg run amuck. Preparing students for the real

world. Al: "We seem to have run out of commercials so that's all {from me} for tonight."

Rod: "Drum roll, please. Spotlight. Citizen Journalist has arrived. {Audience on their feet. Women tossing slips of

paper on stage with their phone numbers. Women bearing their breasts. Women fainting. Audience member

hollers: "Where did RD go!?!...CJ orders items to be brought to him. What are they?...Goggles! for everyone...

Blinding flash of light...She has returned to him: Calliope hovers above our CJ...Is it a hologram?: CJ is in an

old-fashioned telephone booth in a drug store. CJ: "Dago, I'll dictate my contribution to live article over the phone...

inaudible conversation...Operator: "Please, insert 3 cents." CJ:"Dago, I'll be right back. I need to get change from

the jerk..At counter: man drinking coffee and eating a sandwich and women sipping a soda. CJ gives jerk a dime and

receives a nickel and five pennies, promptly deposits in slot and dictates article}

Subsidies are bad. Governments should not be in the business of attempting to provide incentives to people to do

things that would not otherwise make sense. Libs maintain that solar and wind need to be subsidized for a few

years in order to jump start these industries and to make them eventually attractive to investment bankers. Fed gov has

been subsidizing them since Jimmy Carter!!!

Global warming is caused by an increase in the energy output of the sun. The Sun Spot Cycle: Maximum to minimum to

maximum. There is about an eleven year period between maximums (year of largest number of spots). Between

1645 and 1715, there were years of no spots and years of few spots. Europe cooled. Winters were severe. Rivers and

lakes froze over - they haven't done so since. Between 1000 and 1200, solar activity was very high: Years of an

extremely large number of spots and years of a moderate number with no minimum years. There were even many active

settlements in Greenland. After 1200, there have been from communities. It returned to being largely covered by ice.

There were no cars and factories in those days!!!

Congress only has seventeen powers called enumerated powers. It had no reason to use inflation as a vehicle to fund

its programs. The meant that the dollar was more or less steady in value most years between our founding and FDR.

We began the process of devaluing the dollar in order to finance unconstitutional programs. Since Republicans

regained control of the House bills must have an attachment justifying it on constitutional grounds. The Senate has

yet to follow suit - do you think that lib-controlled Senate ever will!?!

Vincenzo Galilei (you know whose father) was a musical theorist, lutenist, composer, singer, teacher and author.

Pythagoras, amongst other things, discovered (are we A.D.D.-ing?) the musical harmonies that for the next few

thousand years, western composes based their scores on the Pythagorean harmonies. Enter Vincento. He wrote a

book critical of the status quo. He was one of the major revolutionary musical figures that set west on a new path

leading to Barque music and, eventually, today's classical music with more than a passing influence on music in general.

 In particular, he had a largely modern conception of dissonance.

Bring back Amendment Ten in the Bill of Rights. Any power not explicitly given fed gov should be considered a state

or people power.

Look to the right: CJ is again on the monitor...CJ has left the building.

(*A Game of Pool" by George Clayton Johnson)

{Reggie camera direction: fade to black}