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
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}
