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Quatrain:

               "It's Sherlock's Eighteen-ninety-five

                A future man is giving jive

                He only offers Potemkin

                He will not gain re-election."

                                                       -Citizen Nostradamus Journalist

 

                           PLATO Presents Calliope Speaking Through Citizen Journalist

                             Also by: Richard DePersio, Dago Red and Dr.John Watson

                   "And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge

                   knowledge is the food of the soul."                      -Plato

 

RD: "Did you hear the latest joke - the 5% atheist in the military want atheist chaplains!?!"

They claim that it is a matter of equality." DR: 'It is reminiscent of the 1970 U.S. Supreme

Court decision that atheists can be conscientious objectors. Who's laughing? This

is one of our live articles but not the type with a live audience; taped." JW: "Members of the crew

find it quite humorous." DR: "Jocularities, jocularities." RD: "It is perfectly clear that our

Founding Daddies wanted a Republic not a democracy for in the latter one or more bill of

rights can be taken away from those in the minority, including, those with a minority

opinion. They didn't want the minority unduly inconvenienced. However, they did not desire

minority rule! Nor, the minority curtailing the rights of the majority. There is no justification

for the expense of having atheist chaplains for the defined purpose of a chaplain is to assist

with spiritual needs! Please connect to the web sites 'Citizenj' and 'rickadd' via Facebook-

Second American Revolution or Twitter- @rickaddsite to learn how

military traditions going back to our founding and even older ones are being unceremoniously

discarded in the new hyper-sensitive PC military. DR: It's absurd! As was the 1970 Supremes'

decision for a conscientious objector is defined as someone who can't wear a uniform due to

their religion or can wear a uniform but can't fight, therefore, must serve as support soldiers.

To steal from Al Gore: these are inconvenient truths! JW: "I would like to interrupt this live

on tape - I'm still not quite sure what that is - article by saying that I'm having a good time. I'm

more active at CJCS Comsats then ever before. Just last week, I contributed to 'OFFENDING

with TRUTH' at rickadd." Plato: My 'Man in the Cave' series appears at www.comsat-ak.blogspot.com

This constitutes my first appearance at the flagship web site. I should be offended that I haven't

be invited to work here before: the offices and dressing rooms are spectacular and there's even a

studio. Is rather shabby at the other venues in comparison - no bad, just comparatively so."

RD: "Black - I reiterate, we at CJCS will never say African-American because the Reverend

Jesse Jackson ordered everyone to do so in '88, we don't take orders from J 'little Dynamite' J. -

leaders and lib politicians claim that more blacks are arrested than whites because of bigotry.

According to U.S. Census/FBI/Police reports blacks are 13% of the population and are responsible

for over 50% of murders, rapes, assaults, armed robberies, robberies, domestic violence, muggings.

And, to make 'em look worse over 60% of their crime is black-on-black! Rank-and-File blacks

are elated when there is higher police presence in their neighborhoods. Leaders and libs out-of-

touch. Over the past ten years, the percentage of incarcerated blacks has declined by 8%. We

hope this isn't the result of white cops becoming less aggressive for fear of being accused of

racism and black cops being reticent for fear of being called uncle toms. RD: "What did you say,

Edgar Cayce...what...Ron Paul is going to be the next president. Stay out of trouble: Go back to

sleep*. No, wait! Stay awake. You're known as the sleeping prophet!" Plato: "Are you prefaces

always so long." RD: "You're more talkative than are other producers. Plato: "May I have the honor

of ending the preface." RD: "Go for it!"

                "He was a wise man who invented beer."                      Plato

Osiris: "Hold you pyramids. I did! And, I'm a god not a man. I'm the god of beer amongst other

things." Plato: "You're the Egyptian god who is credited." "I hereby order beer for all!" RD: "You

weren't invited but I'm glad that you came. Osiris: "I, Osiris, end the preface. Everybody take five.

I've been learning modern lingo, man, since I been here. I was consulted for article about me at

comsat-ak."

As is our wont, we start off with cosmos (which means universe) followed by cosmos (which means

 world) and Offending with Truth when circumstances warrant.

       In docs, articles and books, we are told that the first extra-solar planets were discovered in the

mid-'90s. Yet, we have the '69 edition of "Exploration of the Universe" by George Abell (Holt,

Reinhart, Winston; Abell with its revised editions was considered the bible of astronomy by many,

if not most, college professors from the mid-'60s to the mid-'80s) states, "...invisible members

whose presence is revealed only be their gravitational effects ...In a few cases these unseen stars

have very small masses; a companion of the star 61 Cygni, for example, has a mass that is only 1/60

that of the sun, and Barnard's star has a companion with a mass not much greater than Jupiter's...

Unfortunately, our most powerful telescopes can not reveal an object as insignificant as the earth

revolving around even the nearest other star. We may never know, then, whether worlds similar to

the earth exist beyond the solar system." (Of course, we now have the Kepler Space Observatory doing

just that...Ah, you can't beat a traditional library). Do you have an explanation? Drop me a line at

Facebook- Richard DePersio or twitter- @rickaddsite

      The shuttle Enterprise never flew in space but was used for testing components and experiments on

the ground and in the air. A personal note by Rick (RD): In 1977, my younger sister, Diane, and I saw it

from NYC during a test. In April, she saw it again riding piggyback on a modified Being 747. The circle

was complete --- for her - as I was ill.

Japan enjoyed the dubious distinction of being Number One: Highest Corporate Income Tax in the World.

Recently, they lowered it making the U.S.A. Number One. Yippee!

      Barney Frank's Fannie and Freddie began issuing mortgages to people who couldn't afford them

under Clinton - it was a firm of redistributing the wealth.

     BO wants to raise the Capital Gains Tax for the rich to 30%. Kennedy and Reagan lowered it to get

out of recessions, create jobs and increase R & D. We want the rich investing more in corporate stocks

and bonds. Kennedy-Reagan-W lowered income tax rates for everyone and eliminated some of the

deductions enjoyed by the rich. The rich wound-up paying less %-wise but more $-wise but didn't

complain because they were making so much more. BO wants to raise the top rate during this on-going

recession.  Not only will it hurt the economy, libs won't use money for debt reduction: they will spend more!

Increase revenue to fed gov by lowering rate and eliminating deductions and make certain additional

funds are used to deal with the Debt Crisis!

     We said it before and it is worth saying again: we should return to the days when citizens didn't directly

choose U.S. Senators. We interrupt citizens for...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents...This A.D.D. Moment is brought to you by Adderall, Kentucky Sipping Whiskey and

Mozart, Edison Einstein.** Al: "{Here is} some irrelevant comment by our host." {run commercial} CJCS

Comsats best enjoyed with cold beer, cold pizza and an X-rated presentation at YouTube: Rickaddsite. Al:

"Brothers and sisters, this evening's story is concerned with higher education, specifically, for members of

Greek letter fraternities....{this fraternity} paddle...they apparently have very small canoes."

 It is said the Einstein didn't speak until age 4 and construct complete sentences until 8. It has been widely

reported that little Albert was a poor student. Is this true?  Three biographies; Three stories. "The Blunder

Book" by M. Hirsh Goldberg (Quill, 1984): "From 'The Drama of Albert Einstein (Doubleday, 1954) by

Antonia , who knew Einstein personally over many years: 'All the members of the family who knew Albert

as a child or heard his elders speak of him described him as almost backward...{He} revealed a deliberate

slowness in all that he did which irritated his teachers.' Later after he became interested in Euclidean

geometry because of a gift of a book, he 'made great progress in mathematics at school but was backward

in most of the other subjects. There was nothing to draw attention to him...His former teachers, in fact, did

not even remember having him in their classes.' 

"From 'Einstein: The Life and Times (World Publishing, 1971), a 718-page biography by Ronald W. Clark

(editor's note: this book is part of our collection): '...Einstein's son Hans Albert...says his father was withdrawn

from the world even as a boy --- a pupil for whom teachers held out only poor prospects.' According to Clark,

Hans related the story that a teacher, asked by Albert's father about the boy's future, remarked, 'It doesn't

matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.' Clark further writes: 'Einstein became, as far as

the professional staff of the {Swiss Federal Polytechnic School} was concerned, one of the awkward scholars

who might or might not graduate but who in either case was a great deal of trouble.'"

"From 'Subtle is the Lord...: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein' (Oxford University Press, 1982) by Abraham

Pais, who, himself an eminent physicist, worked alongside Einstein in the years after World War II: 'At about

age 6 he attended public school...He did very well. In August 1886,  Pauline wrote to her mother; "Yesterday

Albert received his grades, he was again number one, his report card was brilliant.'...The infant who was

slow to speak...becomes number one at school (the widespread belief that he was a poor pupil becomes

unfounded)..."*

*The dispute about about Einstein's scholastics abilities as a young student appears to have been resolved

by the acquisition in 1984 of Einstein's academic records from Swiss archives. As reported in the New

York Times of February 14, 1984, the records 'confirm that Einstein was a child prodigy conversant in college

physics before he was 11 years old, a brilliant violin player who got high marks in Latin and Greek.' His one

problem area was French, which could have caused him to fail his college entrance examination.'"  

Al: "...I shall be back again with another story. Until then, goodnight."

We are finished with the king of the science gods and now we return to mere citizens, the rabble, if you will. The

Theory: Founding Daddios had a plan in which the president chosen by electors would focus on exercising his

fed powers to the ultimate - at least, attempt to do so. Representatives chosen directly by the people would be

most interested in the rights of the people and businesses. Finally, U.S. Senators would be indirectly chosen

by the people - the people would directly elect members of state legislators who in turn would chose the two

U.S. Senators from their state. They would be most interesting in protecting state rights from fed encroachment

and trying to get fed gov when exercising its powers to do so in the best interest of the states, especially, their

state. The Seventeenth Amendment which was approved by the requisite numbers of states in 1913 changed all

that. Superficially, it might seem a good idea. It too is part of the so-called Progressive Era (which included

sterilization - go one and two floors down). Now, a senator would vary from year to year, even issue to issue:

fed interests; state interests; citizen's interests. The balance desired by our Founders would be out of kilter. Do

you think that fed power would have expanded under Wilson, FDR, LBJ and BO if U.S.Senators were still obligated

 to state legislators. We have witnessed an unconstitutional expansion of fed power. Revoke Amendment

Seventeen! Why doesn't Mitt talk about big things like that. Newt talked big but not 17.

      Hey!-Where the moderate (?) conservatives guys who support the mid-middle class, the lower-middle class

and the working poor having to pay at least a scintilla of their fair share of fed income taxes - so that libs stop

treating them like children (three floors down for details)!

Plato: "As is my wont, I shall deliver the prologue." RD: "You have appeared more often than other producers. are

you sure that you don't understand the concepts of camera and live-on-tape!?!

                     "How can you prove whether at this moment, we are sleeping, and all are thoughts

                       are a dream; or, whether we are awake, and are talking to each other in the walking

                       state."                                                                                                                                       Plato

DR: "Like some Hindu's who ask if Brah created by Brahman is dreaming universe, other gods, humans, etc, or if

we are dreaming universe, etc. Or, the question: Did the gods create us or is the converse the case. Plato: "Holy

Pantheon, you're not getting the last word!" As Al is fond of saying 'goodnight." And, earlier Al was talking Greek. I

choose to end by saying: Now, we shall enter the arms of the Greek god Morpheus."*

**These smart people are suspected of having had A.D.D. And, Dustin Hoffman too - well maybe those with A.D.D.

rather not mention  an actor when talking about intelligent people with A.D.D.

RD: "As Colombo was fond of saying: 'Just one more thing.' Please read articles on pages 1, 2 & 3 as they contain

 important info; I personally guarantee it."

                   "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

                                                                                                                                                                         Plato: Goodnight!