About the RPPS
The Rockaway Park
Philosophical Society was formed by three friends in 1971. Its mission is
to spead the true
philosophy expressed in the Fullosia. The Society says
it exaults the mundane and ridicules the exalted in conformance with the
teachings of Rene Chateau Briand who scorned philosophers who prattle
about life but don't know how to act in a dime store." The Society
encourages and promotes American culure and a new national language
American Standard Jive. Read more about The Society
|
|
RPPS Year End Wrap Up: December 2000 Edition
Garbage-In Garbage Out
- Florida electors were certified to George W. Busch Jr, allowing the
Texas Governor to proclaim himself President-Elect and assemble
a cabinet including the well-loved General Colin Powell, but will the winds and waves obey him?
- President Clinton has refused to recognize Busch and will not
premit a transition team to take over the government. Gore the apparant loser
in the presidential sweepstakes vows to fight on in the courts.
- The cloudy results steam up from a muddled campaign.
Despite pressing issues facing the American people, ranging from
tidal wave of immigration to the endangered status of
the English language, Bush and Gore locked horns
only in avoiding all points of controversy relying on talking heads
to give meaning to the
meaninglessness. Notwithstanding the lack of
focus in either campaign, electorate divided evenly and regionally
into polarized hostile camps, with Bush support concentrated
in the church and farm states of the midwest and
Gore support entirely in anything goes New York
and other eastern cities. In Florida at the cross-currents of change
the state split almost equally down the middle. Bush and Gore supporters have
now clash in the streets.
- Divisions are not new nor are impasses and irreconcilable alternatives ....
they have happened in the past.
- Thomas Jefferson defeated in the election of 1796 served as
the victor's John Adam's vice-president.
- No one would have voted for Alexander Hamiliton the most Tory
of the Patriots, but Federalist Hamilton broke a deadlock in the House that put the
Republicans in power.
-
Andrew Jackson cheated out of the presidency in 1824 merely utilised Tammany
democrats more effectively four years later. Though a popular war hero, he
did not call for military intervention. He said of the Presidency, it calls
the man not vice versa.
- His nemis Henry Clay said he'd rather be right than President and he lost
three times. He was plenty right. So did J.C. Calhoon who may have smoked
secession but would have swatted any who tried. Then there's W.J. Bryant
cheated out of it at least twice when robber barons threatened to lock out
their workers if they voted for Bryant. Bryant the friend of the worker
never called for a General strike, though many in his time would have
welcomed it. But lets talk of some other folks with big disappointments.
- As recent as 1960 Kennedy apparantly
outstuffed the ballot boxes. Yet President Eisenhauer interceded
with VP Nixon and constitutional crisis averted.
There is no Ike around with the prestige and moral authority
to resolve the dispute. On the sidelines, President Clinton
seemingly applauds the invitation to anarchy .
- For all the evil
said of them, Nixon and Kennedy were different styled, maybe
unlike the classless Bubba Bill they had the touch of elegances that invites
men to the Presidential chair. Let it be remembered that
Nixon announced the Kennedy victory in the Senate in
imitation of no lesser a lesser man than Stephen Douglas
`100 years earlier. With the country rent
asunder, the defeated Douglas stood on the platform holding
the new president's stove
pipe hat while the inaugural address was delivered.
- "If I can't be president," said
Stephen A Douglas, "at least I can hold
the president's hat."
- In 1864 though Douglas was dead, the Republicans returned the favor.
Andrew Johnson a loyal democrat from the volunteer state
was selected as the republican candidate for Vice-President.
- A Nixon in 2000 would have filed a civil rights suit. A Douglas in 2000
would have wallowed in self pity and laughed at his opponent becoming elected
president of nothing.
- Certainly we don't expect Bubba Bill to exercise
the type of moral authority which came naturally
In 1960 to President Eisenhauer or the grace and bearing
of Stephen A. Douglas. In fact
we could expect Bubba to fuel the flames of discontent
as effectively as he has.
- The thought of compromise as in 1796, 1800, and 1860 (between Douglas and
Lincoln at least) seems to have escaped Busch, Gore and Clinton.
- But we have neither time nor energy for civil rights suits nor self pity.
In the British Isles even divides are decided by coin flips....I say flip the
coin!
- Coin flips are certainly cheaper than
all these appeals, less deadly than duels, and more gentlemanly than continuing the standoff.
-
Yet the seemingly simple expedient solution
is avoided by all who must by 21 January 2001 decide
by more drastic means
whom shall the winds and waves serve January 22nd?
-
Holy Hillery!
-
BRAVE OLD ARMY TEAM
BRAVE OLD Red ARMY TEAM
The Russian parliament has decided to restore the Russian
Army's Title to it:
The Red Army. This done in an effort
to improve morale recognizes the Army's supreme sacrifices
for Mother Russia during the German invasion. The Red Army's tank
commanders in its halycon years of the Great Patriotic
(Second World) War were rated second to none. Perhaps only
General Patton and later his son George Paton, jr. could have stood toe-to-toe with Red Armor.
Dr Bill Loeppkey Reports
Dr Bill Loeppkey reports: That he still ails
after his hospital stay but is continuing postings on the Inditer.
Bill Loeppkey the witty, hard hitting editor of
the Internet's leading literary Ezine
THE INDITER
was previously named
Prince Regent of the RPPS in Canada and
beleaguered philosopher of 1999
and was granted the high and extraordinary degree
Doctor of Fullosophical Studies.
Bibliotek
Nationale du Canada
has archived Inditer.com as part of its permananent collection.
Shrinking Internet Empires
The web has been jolted by the recent fall out in the stockmarket
which some attribute to the muddy backwash of the inconclusive election.
Many servers are discontinuing or curtailing services.
Lycos.com has announced that effective 15 December 2000
TheDoghouse.com will fade into history. Email addresses and webpages will
be discontinued. Lycos.com recommends that webpage holders
move their pages by the transloader to Angelfire.com
and that E-Mail subscribers transfer their accounts to Mailcity.com.
This major change follows on the heels of
Angelfire's prohibition of linking its images to sites on other servers. Where an images link is established to another site, including other
Lycos.com servers, the message image hosted by Angelfire.com
appears.
The timely poem by Jim DeWitt seems to sum up the Internet Blues.
OBSESSION ELECTRONIQUE
BY: Jim DeWitt
- I've got the dot-com fever
- peckity-peck-peck
- goin crazy/insane these days
- peckity-peck-peck
- with stuff state-of-the-art hi tech
- till finally all fingers'll self-destruct
- but what the heck...
Jim DeWitt is editor of ESCHEW OBFUSCATION REVIEW and has been published in
1714 different journals. Snail mail only:
2546 Chatham Woods Grand Rapids Mich 49546
Adieu Monsieur Clinton
According to legend, Charles (Le Grand
Charles alias Big Charlie) DeGaulle after receiving
all the power he requested from the President of
The Fourth Republic (La Quatrieme Republique) went
with the ancien president to the Arch de Triomphe
and expressed his thanks to Rene Cody the outgoing head
of state: "Aurevoir M. Cody." Cody faded from the tour de ceil
(political scene) almost unremembered in Gaulist Gaulic circles.
It may be vain to hold such a hope for Mr Clinton who now
speaks of running for Mayor of New York City
and becoming Secretary General of the so-called
United Nations.
Regrettably Mr Clinton may back door his way back into
the US power circle. The UN has been frequently dismissed
as an unwieldy body with its hot-air General Assembly passing
meaningless resolutions and its Security Council stale-mated by
"Big Five" Power Vetoes. Yet in recent years US Presidents particularly Busch I
frequently used the United Nations
Security Council as an alternative to the US Congress.
US Leftists have been in past years clamoring for UN posts so that
they can lead boycotts of US products abroad.
Clinton it would seem will not fade into the sunset.
In this issue
This is of course the RPPS Year End Festival issue.
The RPPS watching the civic calander become polluted with
overlapping holidays which serve the same purpose simplified
the civic calander by limiting it to four festivals linked
to the seasons. The Society thus celebrates the shortest day of the year, but
not specifically Christmas.
The American Puritans abolished Christmas altogether.
They correctly recognized that Christmas
though celebrated as the birth of Christ
had started out as a Pagan holiday.
There is no Biblical authority which shows a conclusive date for the birth
of Christ. It was a crime
in colonial Massachusetts to celebrate Christmas.
The tune The World Turned Upside Down
said to have been played by the British Army Band at Yorktown
satirized the English Puritan's attempt to
suppress Christmas in merrie olde.
Not so in colonial Virginia where until the one pence case, the Anglican Church was the
Established Church and carried over many Catholic customs.
In New York where the Dutch settled December 6th was the main
solestice holiday. Somehow it escaped the attention of the reformist Dutch
that they had too retained the feast of St Nicholas of Palmyra,
the patron saint of children for having prosecuted one of the
earliest child abuse cases. Jolly Old St Nick's day came
from the religious calander of the Orthodox faith of Constantanople.
But who wants to abolish Santa Claus?
Pope John and Pope Paul tried to, generating a firestorm of criticism
from collegues in the Anglican and Orthodox faith as well as co-religionists.
So how did December 25th become the birth of Christ?
The reign of the Emperor Diocletian brought the last and most terrible
wave of persecution of the Christian faith that the Roman Empire attempted.
Concerned with the resultant growth of total atheism in the wake
of the purges, Diocletian directed all Romans to celebrate the rebirth of
the sun on December 25th. What Christians remained might be put to
death if they refused to join into the festivities.
Many of the surviving Christians decided to call the sun feast
the son feast. It's not as much a play on words in Latin as it would have been
in some German dialects. Thus the beleagured minority enjoyed the
holiday as well as the ruse on their overlords.
And the joy of the holiday however celebrated is the very magic
in the air as we are elegantly told in Canonball published
in Inditer by Grant Deman
Don Grant Deman: The Canadian O'Henry
"What does Christmas mean to you?"
Up in Canada on the pages of the nationally recognised
Inditer.com Press,
Grant Deman presents the classic Christmas Carol in
a Canadian setting.
In the
Canonball Express, Grant grants us
a little boy's view of Christmas juxtapositioned against the
scarcity of war.
The Canonball is another astounding triumph of Grant as he rivals
"The Gift of the Magi" and "The Homecoming" for delicacy
and grace.
Local colo[u]r from Victoria is exquisite.
Board
Grant's Canonball at
the Inditer station.
With typical modesty Don Grant Deman replies: To be the Canadian Chocolate bar or to just have the muchies!
Lisa Marie Brennan
Lisa Marie Brennan lisa@saber.net.reports her song
"Down by the Water will be recorded on Bill Scull's ablum in about a year.
The single
Down by the Water continues to climb the chart.
Loeppkey v US
Does US democracy have any order?
The fur still flies in the former Hudson Bay Trading Post as Bill Loeppky
the beloved editor of Inditer manages a furious debate
over the deadlocked US election.
visit The Inditer.com
In The Zines
Gunvor Skogsholm: Poetry Form
Gunvor Skogsholm, MA gave the Poetry Forum's Golden Award to
JD Collins poem in short story forum
Time Passages.
A short version of Time Passages appears in The Inditer on Line Press.
Poetry Forum/Short Stories Bi Monthly 5713 Larchmount Dr, Erie PA 16509
PTP Pubs:Perry Terrell
Perry Terrell the recipient of the RPPS Beleaguered Philosopher Award in 1996
when several months of jury duty forced PTP to suspend operations annouces
The 2000 PERRY TERRELL PUBLISHING POETRY ANTHOLOGY:"ELOQUENT MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SOUL" -
Volume 2 - Number 2?
The deadline is: postmarked by November 01, 2000.
Sorry Perry,,, we held this edition for election results
Contact
Perry ASAP: With my Apologies.
Iconoclast:Phil Wagner
Phil Wagner of The Iconoclast writes that
MARLOWE in the SOUTH SEAS have been favorably
reviewed.
Read the review by
Ben Pastore: Marlowe:Asea
Phil does not believe in the world of Bill Gates. snail mail address:
1675 Amazon Road Mohegan Lake NY 10547-1804
Rev - o -lution
The Revolution
"A revolution is the
completion of the earth's orbit around the sun."
---Thomas Jefferson in "Revolution"
|
Revolution
staring Al Pacino
It's the end and a beginning.
The last Royal Governor is being deposed and there's
a big party going on in New York City. Is a Revolution
just a big parade and hoary speeches?
The world may have turned upside down but the
British Army probably played Minstreal Boy as shown
in the well-choreographed drama.
Revolution is a movie which deserves a second glance.
Click Here
Revolution: A Second glance
Compare to
The Patriot Counter Attacks
|
-
The Fullosia
From The FULLOSIA
RPPS FULLOSIA
Dictionary
|
Wool Gathering
Floridian Electoral re-count.
Wool Making
Illinois Balot Box
see Bullology in
Fullosia Dictionary
Wool Laundering
The nice story for benefit the public.
read
Fullosia Dictionary
|
|
RPPS-Fullosia Press
A publication of the gentlemen of the RPPS
@2000 by the RPPS Corp All Rights Reserved
 RPPS Soc E-mail Fullosia Press Guidelines
Fullosia Press Front Page
|
