The Initiatives
Given the power and the opportunities to cement the actions of a `Hero's journey.
The Education of Governance
A Tragic-Docudramedy
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The Lyrical Tragedy; of Tactical, Strategic, and Thoughtful `Nationalistic Preservations.
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We have decided to spend our hard-earned ink here on the subject of Washington D.C., Not only because of the descriptive standing of such a glorious and splendid beacon of~ Erect-Neo-Classical-Architecture, Moral-Model-Structured-Cause, or possibly moreover- Purpose of Pater-Reverence. `We only need a reason, mentioning its namesake to stir a `Nation's souls to a festive holiday celebration.
Spending winter prose in the great District of Columbia;
The flowing, blowing white snow's weather covering is bitterly and wholly delightful. Yet, a tourist from the urban population will find the climate year-round is conducive to fervent mental exertion. As I need not refer to the work `of, and hallowed halls of Congress. The people's house.
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The opportunity for Congress to familiarize itself with the Constitution and procedural methods of legislative bills is a speculative sporting adventure worthy of the coliseum of antiquities. `As we all know! Their `Three ambitions are Law, Politics, and remaining in power.
Under the most favorable library circumstances, must, I think, command that the business of the urban-type folks from the cities-and-rural districts be placed upon the mantle of "the three" or replace the "one" of many in need of short order.
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And so, Sir. While you are serving your country from the Senator's bench, with pride swearing in and `swearing on our Constitution and principles, I will offer support for your declining years. Furthermore, I will expand upon the subject that the slacks you wear one day will show their true colors, whether they be read-red, wanton-white, or borrowed-blue; You, Sir. Are the out-house-door-open-idiom-wearing-glass-trousers... tourist who won't leave!
And not be wholly hidden or outdone by your britches clinging ample folds; I hope one day upon your retirement that reconstruction can occur and dress its body in non-paled sanguine garments of black-silk worthy of its body; P.S- Harlequined and Petticoated.
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Senator;
The loss of such an ardent jockish supporter of duty and honor, a size of which is known only to one's self-illusion, a wit, of character intelligence, artificial and partially compensated by the knowledge that; elected by, and for;
A representation you say you so nobly held,
we ask of you;
Relieve yourself in privacy, as in time, your grunt will land; In the annals of your dirty old diaper history.
You, Sir, Lie-and-Lye. ...
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"A-"White-Washing" Order, must, I think?"
Regards, JohnMichael
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THE ALLEGORIST
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The Initiative: A Kaleidoscope! of Educational! Docudrama Topics: Underlining- "Our" Washed 'Historical InFidelity:-The `Core-Curriculum-Centering-About-Comedy. ...
A "Fertile-Festive-Flowering-Ménage à Trois of Metaphors:-A-Mayhem-Mayday-Extravaganza!
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A'Comically-Created-Conceived-Contraceptive!
Where-We-Indiscreetly-Insert-Jester-Laying-Journals!
Intoxicating-Indecent Irony-idioms!-Socratic-Seeking-Symbolisms!-Allegory-Lamenting-Lyrical-Literature-Lores!
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A:-`Doggerel-Dishabile-Dramedy-Documentary!
~The Magnum Opus~
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The Indignant Ignobles, or as we refer to them, are "The Immortals." Exploit a "Noble `Double Entendre,"
A Homophone ambiguity, conveying classroom antics worthy of the patriotic prowess of a Revolutionary Rebellion.
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Our Curriculum:
A Profound Paradox of Pen, Poetry, Prose.
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We Find Our:-Piece of Peace in Parody.
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WILLIAM JAMES:
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It is high time to urge the use of a little imagination in philosophy. The unwillingness of some of our critics to read any but the silliest of possible meanings into our statements is as discreditable to their imaginations as anything I know in recent philosophic history. Schiller says the truth is that which "works." Thereupon he is treated as one who limits verification to the lowest material utilities. Dewey says truth is what gives "satisfaction"! He is treated as one who believes in calling everything true, which, if it were true, would be pleasant.
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The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William James
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~ MUDVILLE ~
The 1888 Project~​
Proudly presents~ An excerpt from the Lampoon.
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The Lampoon aims to be instructive as well as amusing. The following is therefore offered, gratis, in the hope that it may, be serving as a model to afford valuable assistance to our readers & spectators of:
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Was George Washington the Father of his Country?
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Mr. Washington, whether: he was the father of his country or he was not.
Yet, on the other hand, the truth of one of these statements does not preclude the truth of the other. For, granting that George was paternal of our glorious country, yet there must have been a time, i.e., viz., to wit, before the birth of the aforesaid country, when the about-to-be-father was not yet the father de facto; unless, indeed, the birth of the child, i.e., the country, took place simultaneously with the birth of the father.
Inductive reasoning, deductively applied, shows that this last either may or may not have been the case.
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Let us consider the arguments in favor of the belief that G. W. was not the father of his country. In the first place, it is natural to suppose that if the country had a father, it had a mother also.
But as a matter of fact, neither Mrs. Washington nor anyone else claimed to be the mother of this illustrious offspring.
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Following out this same line of argument, who has ever heard of this country having aunts or uncles, any third cousins twice removed, or any paternal or maternal grandparents. This last fact, indeed, proves that the country could never have been born in Boston; a Bostonian without a grandfather being, as is well known, a contradiction in terms.
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Then again, the country never has had a mother-in-law, for is it not an undisputed fact that the country really enjoys life on the whole? All of which fact, viz., that the country is apparently without relatives and family connections, go to disprove the assertion that the country ever had a father. But granting that it did actually have a male parent, why is it reasonable to suppose that George was that man? There is certainly no parish record supporting this belief. On the other hand, the claim is not disproved by any record showing that the honor belongs to anyone else. Yet there is no documentary evidence to show that any one of the million or so men in the colonies at the time of the birth of this country may have not been its father.
Further, what reason is there to exclude him from the list of possible fathers, even the Noble Red Men, then living?
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Mr. Washington himself never claimed to be the father of his country. Still, he never denied the same.
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His failure to claim the honor, even if it did belong to him, may be accounted for by the fact that during its earlier years, whatever may be the case now, the country was an unruly youngster and somewhat hard to manage. Mr. W. naturally might have preferred to wait to see whether it was going to turn out good or bad before acknowledging it as his offspring.
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Suppose you stop a man in the street and ask him, “Who was George Washington?”
What answer will you get? That, “He was first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Note carefully that no mention is made of any family relationship between aforesaid Washington and his country. Yet suppose the question is put in this form “who was the father of his country? “George Washington; he did it with his little hatchet”; such is the invariable reply.
A popular tradition that strongly urges us to answer our original question in the affirmative.
For can it be supposed that a belief which has mingled with the bone and marrow of everyone for nearly a century is, after all, wrong? But on the other hand, it must be remembered that this belief is founded on hearsay entirely, as indeed also is the idea that the country ever had any father at all.
Hearsay may lie. Or it may not.
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Therefore, it has been conclusively proved that Mr. G. Washington.
{Was, was not?}.
The Father of his Country.
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