Fwd: GOODBYE*FAREWELL*AMEN* Part 2B

-----Original Message-----   Part One: "...atmospheric..." and Part Two "GOODBYE*
From: b rrdd3939@aol.com     FAREWELL*AMEN* Below. Although, reading in order
To: rrdd3939@aol.com                                 isn't absolutely necessary.
Sent: Wed, May 25, 2011 7:14 pm
Subject: GOODBYE*FAREWELL*AMEN* Part 2B

                                  Abbreviated title: "GOODBYE*..."

                                       by Richard DePersio

 

RD: "We're back"...Citizen Journalist: "We sure are"...RD: "Let's get to it"...

CJ: "It's nearly impossible for me to disagree with you."

Where were we?...We remember: As always, it is our wont to commence with

cosmos (meaning world) and then cover the world.

 

Back to the Future...Futurists come from many disciplines, especially,

sociology, science-fiction, physics. The genesis of the field can be traced

back to the late 1960's and one of its pioneers was sociologist Alvin Toffler.

He stated in "Future Shock" (1970, Bantam Book), "...In stagnant societies

there is a deep psychological need for novelty and stimulation. In a

accelerative society, the need may well be for the preservation of

certain continuities...ritual...surrounding birth, death, puberty, marriage,

and so on-helped individuals in primitive societies  to re-establish

equilibrium after some major adaptive event had taken place."

Even in our secularized urban society ritual continues in the "...

appearances of our heads of state, in religion, in business." The

exchange of Christmas cards "...is an economic monument to the

society's continuing need for some semblance of ritual."

     Your asking: "What does this have to do with cosmos?" CJ: "Be patient.

We're getting to it."

     "In the future, we can anticipate greater variety in the kinds of

rituals adhered to in family life." He talks about a nutty family who

does a secular grace thanking John Sebastian Bach, husbands and

waves speak of "our song" (soon husband and husband; we type while

limp of wrist). "...we need to mark off certain regularities for

preservation...we may even need to manufacture ritual." Less we lose

our heads.

     "In the United States, the arrival of spring is marked for most urban

dwellers not by the sudden greenness-but by the opening of the

baseball season...What ever happens in the stock market, or to

world politics, or to family life, the American League and

National League run through their expected motions."

     "As leisure increases, we have the opportunity to introduce

additional stability points and rituals into the society, such as

new holidays, pageants, and games...could...provide a backdrop

of continuity in everyday life, but serve to integrate societies,

and cushion them somewhat against the fragmenting impact

of super-industrialization...holidays to honor Galileo or Mozart,

Einstein or Ce'zanne." There is a method to our apparent madness.

You've been waiting with bated breath:

     "We might create a global pageantry based on man's conquest

of space...Even now the succession of space launches and capsule

retrievals is beginning to take on a kind of ritual dramatic pattern...

transfixed as the countdown begins...for a fleeting instant, they

share a realization of the oneness of humanity and its potential

competence in the face of the universe...by regulating such events

and by greatly adding to the pageantry that surrounds them, we

can weave them into the ritual framework of the new society and

use them as sanity-preserving points of temporal reference.

Certainly, July 20, the day Astronaut Armstrong took "one small

step for man" and "one giant leap for mankind," ought to be made

into an annual global celebration of the unity of man." (Due to an

editorial-demon the end of this section appears at the end!).

 

An A.D.D.ed Aside sponsored by Carnation Evaporated Milk:

Frontal Lobe: Controls many functions, including, movement,

MEMORY, language, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR, DECISION MAKING,

emotion and PERSONALITY.

 

Where were we? What distracted us? What? Our brain! Bad brain! And,

 Baloney - that our personality is in the genes. It's environment not

preprogramming. Damn it! And, go to hell!

Not many people exchange Christmas cards anymore, do they?

Back to the recent past: "...atmospheric..." Part One of this article, we

discussed the role of the fed gov and the limits thereof - "Enumerated

Powers" and "Amendment 10" in the Bill of Rights - at www.rickcmtsite.

blogspot.com and, if you had a technical problem with it, /group/

rickcosmos-eclectic. While our Founding Fathers didn't specify aeronautics

and astronautics, not even Ben, clearly NASA is a function that can

only be done, and only be done well, at the federal level and would

receive the blessing of George, John, Tom, Jim and the rest of the

Revolutionary gang.

       President Nixon called it the "Greatest day since the Creation."

humans working on a heavenly/celestial body for the first time. And, all

it merits is one of those semi-official national holidays called "Space Day"!

No wonder, we've lost our sanity! It should be a real full-fledged national

holiday observed and celebrated in home, bars and public places like

parks. Flags should be waving coupled with fireworks displays. We can go

with one of two options: 1) Celebrate the day of the moon landing: Apollo 11

Day or 2) with can pull out all the stops and go with Apollos' Day: Independence

from the bound of earth's gravity and Lee Independence Day (the day that the Lee

resolution was approved by the Second Continental Congress declaring our

 independence; it was on this day that John Adams wrote to his wife and

said that it - July 3 - should be celebrated every year with parties and

fireworks. July 3: Two Independence's and July 4: Verbal approval of the

Declaration of Independence ratified with a few members signing, including,

the President of the Second Continental Congress, John Hancock. Two

days of super-sized PATRIOTISM!!!

 

It's time for a pleasant break:

                           "I praised the myrtle and the rose at sunrise

                            in their beauty lyings,

                            I praised them at the start of the short day's close,

                            And both were dying."

                                               -Christina Rosetti, Age 7

 

As our regular readers know, we have compiled a list of 17 Constitutional

Crimes against Obama (and 3 borderline charges against President Bush).

New readers, please check out "A Bad Case of Treason" located at /group/

newfederalism, we believe - which contains most of the infractions. It

will give the House a leg up should they choose to inp....investigate.

We are confidant that moderates, not libs, will grant our list a fair hearing.

     There are allegations that Obama has violated the "War Powers Act."

It doesn't make our list. Virtually all presidents since and including

Nixon have considered it unconstitutional - as do we.

     We believe that our Founding Daddy's meant for the President as

Commander-in-Chief to initiate war or respond to an attack or provocation

or a potential threat immediately and not have to secure a "Declaration of

War" from congress unless, the president, in his judgement felt that

time permitted. Check-and-balances: The president has funds to

conduct war for a limited period of time; congress can cut off funds

after the war has commenced due to their power of the purse. It

isn't likely that it would undermine the president but it reserves

that right.

 

We supported the war in Afghanistan. We have 100,000 troops there,

we should reduce that number to 45,000 over the next three years

(not ironclad; subject to change). Such a plan shouldn't be released

publicly as the enemy would make use of such knowledge. Efforts

to help Afghanistan create a homegrown democracy, built its

infrastructure, train its security forces and humanitarian aid should

stop in three - if possible, two - years - at which time the useless

U.N. can be of minimum value to that country. We need three U.S. bases

to continue to capture and kill the member of al-Qauda and Taliban

and more. One base in the south, one base at the border with Iran

(we might have to surgically remove their nuclear facilities or

aid those seeking freedom in Iran - based on past performance

these are two things Obama is unlikely to do), one near NW Pakistan

(the enemy is located there and in the south).

     Cut off funds immediately to Pakistan. We hear you: "You can't

do that, Pakistan is our main entrance and exit points of troops

and supplies to Afghanistan."

     Our best friends in the world: 1) U.K.; 2) Israel (U.K. and Israel

have been offended and mistreated by the little 'o'); 3) Australia;

4) Japan; 5) India; 6) Canada; 7) Columbia; 8) Poland; 9) Czech

Republic; 10) Brazil.

     Pakistan is terrified of a nuclear attack from India (both are

nuke nations) - they're just being paranoid. We should capitalize on

it. We asked a Pakistani about Kashmir which is occupied by

Pakistan (50%), India (40%), China (10%) and he told us that he

didn't understand dispute because the area has no oil, natural

gas, coal, gold, silver, etc. The farmland is very poor in this

mountainous region. Let India have it. The U.S. should occupy a

portion of NW Pakistan along with India. Our third base would be

in NE Afghanistan/NW Pakistan; India would establish a base in NW
Pakistan. So what if Afghanistan and Pakistan object. We are

waging a war against terror; we must do everything within our power

to protect the U.S. and our true friends from evil muslims. We

would have access to Afghanistan from these bases plus over flights

of Pakistan from India. Muslim Pakistan is our enemy. We are

better with Indian intelligence on Southern Asia, including,

Afghanistan. We can trust India. Sometimes Pakistan assists us;

sometimes, it assists the enemy - duplicitous.

      What about the U.N.'s World Court and international laws?
We are the only super-power in the world, therefore, we must be

cut slack. Big bullies? We've rescued the world many times,

nurtured home-grown democracies, our gov and citizens have

done more humanitarian aid than virtually all other nations

combined, we protect most of the cosmos.

      Extremist? As the late senator Barry Goldwater

said (yes, he was indeed alive when he said it), "Extremism in

 the name of liberty is no vice." We've been reducing the number

of nuclear-tipped ICBMs in compliance with arms agreements, we

should replace those tips with conventional ones so that we

can act from a distance. Pakistan and other nations will pee

their national pants. President Bush removed bin laden's HQ and

training camps from Afghanistan and prevented them from

setting up shop in Sudan and Iraq. Over the past two years, they

have been establishing themselves in NW Africa and, more recently,

have been moving eastward. What is Obama doing about it!?!

 

What's old is new again or some things never change:

        "The Constitution was once an instrument by which the

          objective rights of individuals to use or abuse was

          generally secured. Now it is only an 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 school prayer, new electoral

          metaphysics (one man-one vote)....the Constitution is,

          at least temporarily, gone...."

Was this written during the past ten ears? Surprise!:

                   -Quotations from Chairman Bill (Bill Buckley), Sept. 20,1966

How the following two paragraphs got here when they belong

up there is one of the mysteries of the cosmos...

      It (Apollo 11) will barely, if at all, be mentioned by the media this

year as in most past years. Recently, we pointed out that the media and

 teachers had forgotten the 50th on the 5th at Facebook: NASA_Ares and

 in "The Devil Made Me Do It" Parts One and Two. The fiftieth anniversary

 on May 5th of the late (he was alive at the time) Alan B. Shepard

 becoming the first American to fly in space.

     By the Bye: Not many people know this but Neil actually said, "One

small step for A man, One giant leap for mankind." We didn't hear 'a'

because of static. The message got across though, And, we here, shall

always remember and be grateful that we are Americans.

 We forgot how do do Word Perfect. See you in the Funnies.

To be continued....

 

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