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(Double) Editor's Note: Bizarre!?! This constitutes a 3-part series (all material updated and expanded).                It gets tricky to follow...Part One sans article proper followed by an update followed by a hybrid:      all                concerning economics, including NASA's role in it; American history; missile defense; other things.

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                                                          PREFACE:

EDITOR'S NOTE: rickcosmos' (Richard DePersio) high school teachers and college professors

would have a field day with article and supplement and utterly relish giving him a BIG FAT 'D' and

he would enjoy it immensely!! He wrote articles back then and not book reports and term

papers to their dismay and frustration. They would turn the BIG FAT 'D' into a BIG FAT 'F' because

of the supplement with a preface and a game. Let the A.D.D. good times roll. He hated school and

driving teachers up the proverbial wall but took great proud in his self-education.

       Let the games begin...There is a contest at group site: groups.google.com/group/rickcosmos-eclectic     The three questions are:1) Who was the Patron Saint of hookers; 2) Who remembers Topper and Harvey; 3) What odd couple is alleged to be members of the "Illuminati" (Saw movie "Angels and Demons" but that                 won't help you with question)?

      The prizes: a BIG WET KISS for one correct answer, two BIG WET KISSES for two correct

answers and five BIG WET KISSES for three correct answers (by reservation only). Everyone is

eligible except homos and you must be a female between the ages of 18 and 70. (Answers at

end of supplement; don't peek; honors system: you can only collect your prize if you can refrain 

from peeking - which is hard for girls to do!). (The end of preface shouldn't be 'red' Just realized it

and too lazy to rectify it (memories of school days!).

"Journey from the Earth to the Moon" Western Europeans, especially, the smelly French have

 always looked down at us (The British are true friends). Yet, Jules Verne, Frenchman, was a

visionary and science prophet (he and the Englishman, H.G. Wells, are called the "Fathers

of science fiction; although, there are those who only recognize one - it has been a raging debate                    for decades. Wells was a science teacher and Verne was self-educated in science and had

many friends who were scientists. They were 'science' science-fiction writers. Is your ADDed

reporter going off on a tangent!) who chose a site in Florida not far from today's space center.                       Why would he think that the first flight to the moon would take place from the U.S. and

not his beloved France. How unlike a Frenchman not to be a snob!. He believed that the U.S.                          had great potential and would soon be number one in science, technology and economics. He

penned his book in the 1860's. It was around 1870 to 1900 that we began our move to number one. We          won the trophy in '20 and held it to '29 and regained it between '43-'46. Verne was indeed a science           prophet! In a fit of madness they gave us the Statue of Liberty circa 1880 for our growth as a nation, 

in the hope that we would remain true to our ideals and that France would move in our direction                        (of course, they didn't; they even have a unionized army! Wait! The way things are going that could happen here!).  So un-Frenchy! Our growth  in the '40's - atomic age, the '50's - the television age and the '60's - the space age. Problems began in the '70's when we reduced spending on the space agency - a unique           federal program which benefited so many of the sciences and was at the cutting edge of developments in electronics, computer technology, micro miniaturization, engineering (other government programs are           limited to just one thing) which enabled our enemies in World War 2 - Germany and Japan - which we          rebuilt after the war (what a strange thing for the WINNERS? to do after a war) and set them on the                         right path in science and technology so that they could begin breathing down                                                 our economic necks by the '70's. Germany and Japan were tied for second by the '80's. Japan fell                   due economic crisis in Japan in '90's - tried to spend their way out of it - - sound familiar?: FDR before               and Obama now. Rebounded after 2000 with sound policies and was replaced by China in 2005 which       placed. (An economic miracle begun by China in '85. Today, we still have the world's richest and biggest economy but it is shrinking .China is number two while Japan shows. China (our banker) is expected to take      trophy off of our         mantle courtesy of Obama by or before 2015. Science and technology

have been the engines of the economy since the Industrial Revolution and now we are number

one in very few areas - one of which is improving existing and creating new medications(new regs                 could change that Japan is now number one in the most important area: computer/robotic technology.          China was a third-world nation until '85 when it began to become a developing nation. They are now an industrialized nation. They will be a post-industrialized nation (or service economy) within 5 years but with a strong industrial base which we failed to do thanks to growing outlandish demand of unions. China makes       you dizzy. They moved through the phases even more rapidly then us! 

       It is broke but can be fixed. NASA only receives 1/2 of 1% of the federal budget. It

should have the budget that it enjoyed in the '60's adjusted for inflation. Obama wants to cancel Orion -      Version one to replace space shuttle, version two return Americans to the moon and version three take     humans to Mars!.Instead, thanks to the un-American we will have to beg the Russians for a ride to the 'International Space Station' international my foot! It was largely built with American money - when                   our money was worth something internationally! With it's usual collateral benefits in other areas -                unlike other government programs - medicine, solar energy, ion energy, nanotechnology and               applications from home to car to office to factory to farm to hospital.Once again, there will be a                   couple of nations in the world in second place but third or fourth place for U.S. or worse with India's               horse on a sprint! Obama is unwilling to take broken and put in that thing that they use to crush cars.              We must invest in grey energy - using heat generated in the process of making something...say, steel...           to turn turbines to produce electricity for the plant. It's what's done at traditional and nuclear power              plants where nothing else is produced in the process - say: steel. Grey plants which produce comparatively    little in the way of pollutants don't receive subsidies and have an astronomically high number of regulations    most of which are silly or unnecessary or duplicates or expensive or stifle innovation. They shouldn't           receive un-capitalistic subsidies but deregulation.    We must assume that certain plants are eyesores while solar and wind plants are pretty to explain     discrepancy in treatment by green fed gov.NASA could           directly or indirectly help develop grey.               More importantly, it could play a dramatic role regarding    nuclear thermal and ion (see articles at rickscisite.(and rickaddsite)blogspot.com). Experts predict                  that we will have nuclear fusion plants between 2030-35.           NASA could accellerate that process with   proper funding for ion and nuclear thermal propulsion and             power-generators. Nuclear fusion                 will be more effective, safer, efficient, cost-effective and bring us closer to energy Independence and for         cattle farters and hockey           pucks less greenhouse-producing gases then coal, natural gas and oil.      During 2008, T. Bone Pickens, oil magnate, ran a lot of radio and T.V. PSAs            promoting using all domestic energy sources to achieve energy independence  instead of purchasing energy from countries with lower environmental standards then ours (strange: it doesn't bother  libs -wait: George Soros  has a lot of Brazilian oil stock!). He was willing to put his money where his mouth was by promising to build                  wind-generators across a whole state. Recently, he reconsidered declaring it wasn't viable but might be             in an indeterminate numbers of years. Not surprisingly, story was ignored by lib mainstream media.      Hypocrite? No. Shrewd businessman? YES.                                                                                                                                                        Obama will continue to spend your green on green! The red-white-blue will                  soon be yellow!

HOOKERS AND OTHER THINGS...Hint: December. Santa Claus - more precisely, Saint

Nicholas, who amongst other things purchased 6 hookers from a pimp (or whatever, they

were called about 1600 years ago. There is no truth to the rumor that he was a party guy.

Although, there is no record of what became of the 6 pros! Catholics - Roman and Orthodox -

are angry with me. Wait a minute, didn't the Pope demote him in the '70's. No compromising

photos surfaced - there was no photography back then. What about the Shroud of Turin.

I don't want to get in trouble was all Christians.

       There were a movie and a sequel in the '40's about Topper and a T.V. series in the '50's.

 people have bad memories and think Topper was the ghost - the ghost were Merriam and George.

       Harvey was a 6' tall invisible rabbit in the movie "Harvey" starring Jimmy Steward in the'40s.

       According to Wikipedia, the Illuminati, "is the name a several groups, both historical and

modern and both real and fictitious." Further, it is rumored that members of this 'secret society'

include Bush and Obama!

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