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RPPS Election Day: November 2000 Edition
Cream Puff Campaign: Mushy Result
The issues facing the American people are well known:
(a) the tidal wave of immigration, (b) the place of the English language,
(c) adjustment to the cyber-age chopping down the number of available jobs,
(d) rising gas prices, (e) US forces stretched thin in wars of unclear purpose,
(f) spiriling expenses of health care, (g) shift in production to the Far East.
Bush and Gore managed to run campaigns which avoided all
the issues. Issues addressed by the Independent Candidates Buchanan
and Nader were ignored by the Establishment Press. "debates might
have had substance with the minor parties included and
the talking heads who tried to give meaning to the meaninglessness eliminated,"
many have said.
The substancelessness of the campaigns were poignantly
presented by a Snickers bar commercial which showed a
Jack-ass and a Woolly Mamouth in a childish argument
with a voter in between.
Small wonder the US Electorate failed to produce a clear result.
By a handful of votes, Bush apparently carried the Electoral college and
with that the White House. Gore refuses to stand aside.
With the prospect of Constitutional crisis,
Bush and Gore supporters have clashed in the streets.
The public is non-plussed. Most of the combattants are patronage aspirants.
"If you weren't in line for a political plum, why would you care?"
an onlooker observed.
The last major crisis of this type sprang from the 1960 campaign
when democratic machines in Texas and Illinois cast far more votes than voters
to send Kennedy to the White House.
In 1960 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 applauded the Establishment Press for
its "responsible journalism" in reporting the ever more frequent resort to police violence in the political forum.
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Fireworks in Washington
Forget
Holy Hill's quest to be Madam of the Big House
and from that to be big Mama Herself!
The fireworks have reached the capitol. Yes
Brookhaven Town Supervisor Felix Grucci, the heir
to the Grucci fireworks empire was elected to Congress.
Felix Grucci a newcomer to politics came to the limelight
several years ago when an explosion rocked the Grucci
plant and sent most of the other family notables
to the promised land.
Faced with hearings to shut the plant, Felix sky-rocketed into politics with the
fury of a roman candle.
Will Felix electrify the Halls of Congress with his dazzling lights? We hope to see him gleam for Suffolk County among the Greater lights.
Canadian general Elections: Ho-Hum
Dr Bill Loeppkey reports:It's a sad state of affairs
when we in Canada and you in the United States
reach a point of such huge voter apathy and indifference.
Our Federal
election is drawing very little attention. The main talk
on the street is,
get those arrogant Ottawa pols and try someone else for a while.
The media in this country, like yours, is trying to make an interesting
event out of something that is far from interesting. Add into
that
equation the big noises we hear from very small special interest groups and
we end up with government of the minority, not majority.
I am no better
than any other man on the street. I have lost faith completely
in
politicians and those senior bureaucrats who are and will for
the rest of
their lives feed from the public trough.
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.
Angelfire Rule Change: Hot Bot to Disappear
Lycos.com has announced that effective 31 January 2001
Hotbot.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.
Philipeans Impeaches Estrada
The Philipeano House of Representatives impeached The Philipeano
President, the American actor, Joe Estrada for official corruption.
Sources close to the politics of the former American province observed,
"Do you
think the United States is the only place that loves melodrama?"
In this issue
This is of course the RPPS Autumnal Festival issue.
November is the month when leaves fall in fluries and
the pols wind up the Electoral campaigns. As nature
starts its long winter rest, the US celebrates Thanksgiving.
Of course the Puritan forefathers in the US didn't need a specific
day to thank the Lord. In their Independent faith, every day is a day to serve the Lord.
The Thanksgiving myth attributed to them could never have
happened.
So where did the Turkey, the yams, and the cornacopia come from.
In the fall of 1864, the Confederate Army was repulsed in a break-out
attempt along the Petersburgh- Richmond line. Good fortune found the north
with a bumper crop of turkeys. Thus as the North celebrated the doom of
the starving South President Lincoln declared a National Day of
Thanksgiving for the deliverance of the nation.
That day became the national holiday celebrated today with the
Puritans imported as stand-ins.
Nothing is as it seems.
And that's the very theme of some new mysteries published in
Inditer by Grant Deman
Don Grant Deman: The Canadian O'Henry
"Who guards the guardian?"
Up in Canada on the pages of the nationally recognised
Inditer.com Press,
Grant Deman presents the classic question in
a Canadian setting.
In the
Bunco Billy, Grant grants us an insider
view at an undercover, industrial counter-intelligence operation
led by the most corruptable cop imaginable, a recently landed immigrant
(close your eyes O`Staves!) from Scotland.
The saga of Bunco Billy is another astounding, triumph of Grant. The concept of Bunco Billy is intriguing: Who protects (or guards) the custodians? Qui custodes custodiens - - The Latin maxim shows it not to be a problem of recent origin.
Bunco Billy is one of those memorable characters, a new comer, (
ASJ
fence jumper; Can. irregularly landed immigrant) who can take the smartest and the toughest. But can he out smart a wronged female? Well worth reading!
Well done Grant! (
ASJ: Hee-Haw!
Can.: Here-Here) where you once
challenged O'Henry (WS Porter) of Father Knickerbocker's rambunctious
New York you now dare Arthur C. Doyle's staid Victorian London!
Local colo[u]r from Ontario and Quebec provinces is exquisite.
Brook
Grant's Bronc
Bunco Billy at the Inditer.
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 announces
that she has published a collection of short stories
in an e-book edition! Entitled,
"Night Shift," 70 pages, price $4.50. To get a copy please go
to: http://www.ebooksonthe.net then click on the, "Catalogue of books,"
and go to page 2 of the "horror" section.
Night Shift compends quite a variety from
mystery to the bizarre inspired by
her years ago working the night shift..
Previously the talented Ms Brennan
released the poetry e-book, "Angels Are Dancing."
Her first book of poetry, "Read Me A Poem,"(82 pages, $12) went into print last year.
Her song
"Down by the Water will be recorded on Bill Scull's ablum in about a year.
Lisa reports that
Down by the Water is currently climbing the top 10
to #2 after 2 days on the chart.
For further information
Contact Lisa: Lisa Marie
Brennan, 160 Magnolia Street, Ukiah, Ca 95482 or e-mail her for more
info at: lisa@saber.net.
Versitile as a poet and songwriter, Lisa looks forward to the publication of a novel in the near future.
Loeppkey v US
The pause for Thansgiving reaches the fundamentals of democratic order.
The fur flies as Bill Loeppky the beloved editor of Inditer has
invited observers to debate the deadlocked US election.
visit The Inditer.com
Editors Choice: The Great Conservative Creed
For God, Society and Republic
This is the RPPS Election Edition and as we
see the end of political mush and face the realities
of the issues the pols avoided, we settle into a quiet Thansgiving
that Elections come only now and then.
Inditer carried the
IMPORTANCE OF BEING LIBERAL by Kimit Munson
bemoaning the liberal's dominance in popular culture.
The Dean Responds:
,, I try to avoid 19th century terminology and usage.
The words "right" and "left" are more descriptive ,,,
Frankly there is a cultural divide in America between
right and left,,,
In the us right wing people are independents,,, they aren't
groupie people
who depend on media splash or public acclaim for sustenance or personal worth.
A right wing person cuts his/her own path,,, thus
in groupie, social
situations a true right wing person could care less who
wears what or who's
talking to whom,,, a right winger sets his/her own standard AND
naught
what others think about it.
A right winger would salute that Canadian
anglican
bishop who when faced with lawsuits from
the indians engangering the church's wobbly
financial condition: What do
need a table, a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine?
Thus hollywood was long before the John Wayne fiasco
the Green Berets conceeded to the left,,, The left need
each other to assure each other that
they're correct.
THE DEAN ,
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
his jury service has been concluded. Sales of his newly released
book MARLOWE in the SOUTH SEAS have been brisk.
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
Lady Jane Grey
The Reformation
When whose pew you sat in could cost you your head.
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Lady Jane Grey
staring Helena Bonham Carter with
Cary Elwes, Michael Hordern, John Wood, Patrick Stewart
Even if the soldiers on the Kosovo front
are whistling the old commercial tune "Sooner or Later You'll
Need Generals," politics of yesteryear were far more
brutal in merrie olde England.
Yet only the English have that clinical
honesty about themselves to put out a film like
Lady Jane Grey.
After the death of King Henry VIII
his sickly young son Edward VI ascended the throne. During
Young Edward's short reign England veered toward a strict
form of Reformist Protestantism. Church lands and wealth fell
to the Greys and other nobles of the realm.
Helena Bonham Carter plays the young Jane brought up to a life of privilege in the resplendent House of Dorsett made magnificient throught the spoilage of the Church and the ruination of its social "safety net."
Yet trouble looms on the horizon. Frail Edward was according to good King Hal's
will to have been succeeded by Mary.
Jane is quickly married off to young Guilford Dudley, a nee're do well of the Sommersett line. It's a match of politics. The Duke of Sommersett is regent for the Protestant Prince.
But what started as a marriage of convenience blossoms unexpectedly. Could it be love for the bookish Jane who can match wits in both Latin and Greek with the wisest of Princess Mary's councillors?
When the young King died, politics rudely intruded upon Lady Jane Grey's life. Against her wishes, Jane emerged in a palace cabal
as the next monarch.
Patrick Stewart puts in an exquisite performance in his role as the enigmatic Marquis of Dorset whose machinations bring Jane to the Throne and whose vacillations cost Jane her life.
The conspirators vowed to keep the country Protestant, but
as soon as Lady Jane received the crown, against her will, the
conspirators faltered in a bloodless show-down with "Bloodly" Mary.
Jane's reign tottered after only nine days.
Henry's legitimate daughter Princess Mary
entered
London unopposed.
The part of Queen Mary is played with sympathy to Mary's religious beliefs. The villain of English history is portrayed not a ranting fuhrer or blood-crazed Soviet commissar but another human being caught
up in the turmoil of the struggle for power, however temporal that proves to be.
Imprisoned for treason in the Tower of London Jane and her young husband were sentenced to beheading.
The film is memorable for its fair presentation
of conflicting claims of Catholics and Protestants.
Prefer A Republic
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The Fullosia
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Talking Heads
self-crowned experts giving meaning to the meaningless.
Establishment Press
A transmission belt of
apparchik designed to sell the palp, sugar coated, official
version.
see Ostrich Effect in
Fullosia Dictionary
Empty Head, Open Heart
The media's view of the public.
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Fullosia Dictionary
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