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Phallic symbol

Is a penis considered a phallic symbol? and if there wasn't such a thing as a penis would we have to invent one.

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Overheard from my Sister

I'd rather be a black with dimples

Then white with no dimples.

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Overheard from my Sister

I'd rather be a black with dimples

Then white with no dimples.

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The Laid-Back Kanji Learner and his Kanji Linked List.

Starting from フク and currently at ぼ:

The way to learn the Japanese is not to be too strict with it. They need loves, not discipline. I'm at ぼ... a slight misstep going in order... but that's good! I don't know why, but that's good too! This is the list of General Use Kanji at ぼ:

ぼ ぼ ぼ ぼ ぼ ぼ

母 募 墓 慕 暮 簿

That's It! Six ぼ!!! 6 General Use ぼ.

Ma, Recruit, Grave (I think), Pinning (or is Pining?), Livelihood and Register. I'm not sure the specific meaning of Register. Okay, let's look... Yes, it can also mean bookkeeping as in: ぼき簿記. (Or Journalization - which is not even considered a word!) 簿 is best remembered as "off the books" books" ぼがい or 簿外. That's a good way to remember this "register": off the books. Memory is an interesting thing. If you find something interesting, you are more likely to remember it. If 外 were rare I'd just tell you to use this to mean "off" or even just remember the Kanji Kompound 簿外. I know! Gauche. So 外 would be recalled as 簿外. "Off the Books". It would help to reinforce the meaning with a bit of nuance and I think off the books does the job. Yes, I said that twice for memory reasons. 外 is not just the very vague "Outside". Outside? What the hell definition is that. Exception is better. But being part of off in "off the books" is MUCH BETTER!

/* (莫募幕驀) */

募 墓 慕 暮 is terrific. It's fantastic! The 募 (recruiter) from the 墓 (grave) was 慕 (pinning) for a different 暮 (livelihood). That's the mnemonic for these guys.

But what about THESE 2 guys: 莫 幕 . Well 幕 is pronounced ばく or まく and 莫 is ばく. Actually, 莫 (which means vast) has the On: バク、 ボ、 マク. Amongst others. But ボ makes it official. 幕 is Shogunate. So it's a superior kanji that doesn't adhere to the rules. But it's still part of these guys here. Why would you want to separate them from their "leader"? (No this is not for the sake mnemonics. Well, maybe.) Plus the all important opening and closing of curtains. It's curtains for you. It's used in the beginning of the play (or movie) and at the end. 幕府 is バク---yes, I don't have fu. Oh, wait! ばくふ. Sorry. As already suggested or implied or directly stated by me: まくあ幕開け is the opening of blah blah blah and まくぎ幕切れ-the the end, curtains. So バク is for official sounding stuff. まく is the aesthetically pleasing sound that refers to cultural stuff. But of course. Like the opening and closing of the play. Now I think it likely that the 幕府 would enjoy watching plays from his balcony reserved just for him - yes, I think they have those things in Japan (could be wrong) - I kind of wonder if the emperor was allowed to watch plays. It might or could be construed as some sort of political statement of some sort so maybe he was forced to avoid such activities. Maybe he had to go to plays incognito. Maybe I should look this up. Maybe I shouldn't.

It's all the same, though, really.

To please the Regedit people I decided to group all this in one category. It's the ボ&まくばく category. (Yes, it's true what you've heard: they really like to categorize over there.)

ボ&まくばく

母 募 墓 慕 暮 簿 and (莫 幕)

The shame in all of this is that we leave 母 (Ma) out in the cold!!! Is that where we get Bo-Bo?

Ma could be the Ma of the Bakufu. Her child she lovingly called Baku!!!

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"Readings" Mnemonics

Category: フツ&ブツ

払---フツ, 沸---フツ ///\\\ 仏---ブツ, 物---ブツ

mnemonic: I 払(paid) good money to see you 沸(seethe!) && 仏(Buddhists) are really into 物("things")! It's possible to combine these two... of course.

By the way, 仏 and 払 are of the same ilk, they are 佛 and 拂 respectfully. The odd kanji out is just 物.

The right variants of 物 and 沸 might share better resemblance if they were both standing upright!)

3 to 1. General Use Kanji use= 4.

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Category フン: (Yes, Category FUN!!!)

粉 紛 雰

噴 墳 憤

奮

奮 is the odd one out. If this looks "interesting" it might be because they are actually all in proper stroke order!

(Mnemonic: He was 紛(distracted) because he was 憤(aroused) due to the 粉(flour) 噴(erupting) from the 墳(tomb) and into the 雰(atmosphere). [If you can imagine flour erupting from an open tomb and into the air you've got it.]

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Conspiracy Theory has the "They" in it

If there is no "They" why hasn't there been a band called "The They"???

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The secret, perhaps, is to not save

６

歳

以上の

子供は

学校に

通わなければならない。

Maybe it's best to remember Japanese by having them chopped up, like above. You could make it into a game by randomizing all these guys using several sentences, so it taxes the brain a little bit. First, have the sentences in regular form, and scroll down a little to see that the sentences have been chopped up and then scroll down some more and see them chopped up and randomized. Then attempt to put them back together. Then when you go to save, don't. Leave everything exactly the way it was. So, when you go back to it, the whole thing gets a little easier to put together.

通わなければならない。Is a tough no, by the way. (It means here "I have to pass.) But the sentence above means kids 6 and above need to be in school. Or something close to that.

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Kanjiman Learning Japanese

Maybe we could put songs into dialogue form. Songs are memorable and dialogue is memorable. Combine the two. And then just turn them Japanese. (The last part is not so easy since you've got to use Google Translate and though it works well it's just not the same.)

Switchback City, it's all so pretty, I'll meet you on the rest of the way.

What the hell does that mean.

It's only one line, must everything make perfect sense...

Line Two: The last thought got lost in my head.

Is that a lyric?

Yes.

Is "line 2" part of the lyric?

No. It's the words that come after that. Although, I feel like I missed a line. Maybe that should be line 3. Maybe line 2 could be "Fast gun motives like no others struck me out in my way."

"You have too many 'in my'. There is one (so-called) 'in my' for the last got in my way. And then there is 'in my head'".

Hmmm... I've got to think on this...

Yes. And let me know. Tell me if you figured it out. I like the grammar part more than the song part.

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参

参 Yes. I'm still 参 by this kanji. It's nonplussed, of course. But I say of course as in no way should it be defined as nonplussed. Denshi Jisho, by far the best Kanji Dictionary, still has 参 top meaning as nonplussed. (By the way, nonplused is okay too. Two spellings!!! One with two s's and one with one "s". That's 三 s's!!!) Anyway, why do we not think of this 参 as participation since it is easily the best meaning for it. OR:参加 Nonplussed & add. 加. This is "add". And it means participation with "NON-Plussed." Nonplussed and Add means participation. I think I've solved the riddle. (Better is just to remember the sound which is さん, which is the same pronunciation as this guy 三.) And this guy too: 惨. Which, by the way, is better suited for Nonplussed since it has the "emotion" radical on the left. 惨 means wretched. As in, "I'm so wretched I'm starting to feel nonplussed."

Oh, and if you don't know, nonplussed means bewildered. Confused. Taken aback.

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機械

Well, at least one of my theories seems to be true. 機械 and just remembering these as both being machines was easier to remember them individually. I've bumped into those a couple times. And remembered that. So, naturally, when I saw this: さんぎょうきかい産業機械 I remember this: 機械 as the Machine in Industrial Machinery.

The 産業 part is a "production" and "business". Maybe if I remember both as "Industrial?"

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Evil Empire

Somehow, I think the cliche "the road to hell is laid with best intension" is applicable in the case of Google. Or the path to evil - or something around those lines.

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What to do with a radical

一-->二-->三-->王-->全--> 金-->✗-->又-->文-->六-->父-->交-->亥-->人-->大-->天-->矢-->医-->口-->日-->旧-->工-->左-->右-->石-->不-->卜-->上-->止-->

We are here on our quest to get to 2136. And actually the way to get there is not just necessarily using the official 2136. But I already digress. (You don't have to be so demanding and such a by the book type if you're not that way.)

This is from Kiki's Kanji Dictionary. Most of them will be scooped up in the 400 plus links: meaning that they link well with that particular kanji node. Like say, 鈑 will be part of 反. And yes, 鈑 is pronounced ハン as is 反 and all the rest of the 反. Sheet metal is 鈑 .

Metal that might not be linked and might go in 金 perhaps, these guys: 欽 鉛 銛 銀 鋏 録 鋒 錦 鏡 鐘 鑿. But that's just a guess. But it's not worth guessing. We will have to wait until we get to the end. 鋏 I would place there since it's such a good one (and it's not General Use, either.) Scissors mean 鋏. Record means 録. A church bell means 鐘. Chisel means 鑿. (and is an awe inspiring kanji.) Best to move it along, though. I'll just come back when I'm almost finished.

鉛 - a stray kanji. It's a GUK! (General Use Kanji.)

金 釘 針 釣 鈎 鈑 欽 鈍 鉗 鈴 鉋 鉢 鉛 鉱 鉄 鉾 鋩 銛 銑 銭 銘 銅 銃 銀 鋏 鋒 鋤 鋭 鋳 錘 錫 錠 錐 錆 鋸 録 錯 錬 錦 鋼 鎹 鍍 鍋 鍼 鍵 鍛 鎖 鎌 鎮 鎔 鏡 鐘 鑄 鑑 鑠 鑿 --- this is all the metal you need to know according to Kiki's Kanji Dictionary. Note that a lot are not part of the GUK. A lot are totally not worth memorizing, in my opinion (as far as it seems to me it seems like a stretch you'd ever run into some of these.) That was it.

If you want a larger this of the Kanji Linked List let me know!

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Ruby Ruby Ruby

Apologies for all the writing here. Like I said, first and foremost I'd like to write a book of some type. Something that holds me interest enough that I can follow through on it. You can follow along if you want. It's about the Kennedy Assassination, so I don't totally expect anyone to be happily reading along. It's just me thing. And I've given it a great deal of thought and I have a "novel" idea about what was going on behind the scenes.

Well, there was a guy that just so happened to visit the Dallas Morning News that Morning.

Really?

Yes. So, he went there to congratulate them on a wonderful ad they had plastered on the front page of their paper.

Wouldn't this make more sense if he was angry at the newspaper for allowing such an ad to be placed on its front pages. "...and on the front page too!" Like he's all mad, but he says something like if it was on the fifth page or the last page or whatever - that this ad was somehow forgivable, but to have it on the FRONT PAGE!!!

That's just plan craziness, I know. But see, I don't think the CIA worries about the finer points that you are making. What they worry about is whether or not the advertisement is enough to make a man so incensed that he goes to the Newspaper to complain in person.

But he's agreeing with the Newspaper's ad.

Again, I don't think that logic is really something that is given much pause by the people at Langley. The media can mention it, but they could simply say something like "how strange the mind works when deep passions are stirred up."

Well, in this scenario The Media would be taking on itself here. Something I don't think they particularly DON'T enjoy. I mean, they would like this angle. Some person, someone with some cognitive disabilities, perhaps, is angry and incensed and doesn't know how to express his feelings.

Why does he have to have cognitive disabilities?

Well, that's what he has... yes, I have someone in mind. Now, the Dallas Morning News is just down the block from Dealey Plaza coincidently enough. It's like a five-minute walk from there to the plaza. A person that is at the Dallas Morning News to complain about the ill treatment of Kennedy is likely to still have something of a temper about his encounter at the Dallas Morning News. And he gets turned totally around and kills the person that he actually loves.

I don't know about that one.

I know you don't know about it; I'm just saying that it is plausible. And the media would have "a field day" crucifying one of their own for allowing such a ridiculous advertisement to go through.

Well, and rightly so.

Remember: this is just a story. It didn't actually happen. It was a story that they would use and could distract from the Assassination.

Well, now that's a stretch, I think. Well, if I am thinking correctly on this. Be less vague please.

Yes. Fine. But all of this talk would be seen as a healthy alternative to focusing on the Assassination. And in keeping with the media relationship with the government they could move a lot of Senators and such to pass legislation that limited Newspapers from printing such provocative stories. They'd even come down on them for printing a story about LBJ being tossed aside in 64. This too would be considered in bad taste. People would debate that and perhaps the debate was heated as it might suggest and people would generally think that the advertisement went too far, but that ultimately the scoop was within the boundaries of acceptability.

You've got this all figured out, huh? But you don't even have a person. Or do you.

Yes. I've already said that. I do have a person in mind. But wait on this just a tiny bit more. So, he's gone in to the newspaper of the Dallas Morning News, but the reason he's gone in there is not because his outrage over the advertisement, nor the grand disappointment that Kennedy was letting LBJ go in 1964. By the way, perhaps, it was that reason. Maybe he claims that he held deep admiration for LBJ and it was such a crass thing to do to such an outstanding person meant his indignation was targeted at Kennedy himself. Maybe the humiliation over such a thing and the fact that LBJ now had to go through the whole ritual of this motorcade was too much of an embarrassment for him to bare.

Cause number two.

Yes. Very different. And the last one is possibly a harder sell since it was just the paper that was writing up a story that was breaking. I'd almost forgotten that one. But why settle for just one. These are all contributing factors. He has all these emotions and it seems he is incapable of surviving with all these feelings. He needs to act on them and, in his mind, he only has one thing that will express his feelings properly. Violence. He needs to commit some act of violence. Did you know that in 1963 there were more murders then then there are today.

I find that hard to believe. This was the era of Camalot. Or was Texas such an outlier.

Well, sort of. But really the whole nation was undergoing some bizarre plague of violence, which continued up till maybe the early 90s. If I remember correctly, the number of homicides in Dallas that year was just slightly above or below 900.

900 HUNDRED! You are certainly kidding me.

No. Do you want to know how many murders there are in 2020 - in ALL of Texas? -

God. I wouldn't have a clue.

Well, I think the number is something like 440.

I don't believe that. That it's that much lower.

Don't believe all you want, but that's kind of the loose and reasonable way to look at the numbers. Do you want me to look further into these numbers.

No. That's okay. That's just spun my world around and upside down... Hold on, let me check... Well, it's not that crazy. No. Today there are more murders in Dallas than in 1963. Let's see, in 2003 there were a ton of murders. Sort of its high-level mark. 1960 actually had MORE murders than in 1963, so you could argue there was something like a Camelot effect.

Oh. Dallas was sort of the exception. In the early 60s Dallas' murder rates were lowering. But, yeah, if you told me this in 2004 or so, then you'd be right. Although, it's not 900. Dude, where do you get your statistics!

But I've made my point, though, right? I mean, we think of 1960 as an innocent time. But in Dallas it was pretty high. Higher, in fact then the - what sounds to be - the early 2000s.

Yes. They've really spiked these past couple of years.

Not that any of this is on point since it has to do with the Assassination of a President, not the murder of some average Joe on the street.

Yes, but my point is that murders happened a lot more than we think and it was moreso in Texas. Dallas being the worst in turns of murders. So, this would suggest that people had a much lower threshold when it came to acting out violently.

Yes, such as an article in a newspaper.

Yes. Now, I'm not saying that people would have to be convinced of this and that it would probably take Americans a great deal longer to accept this premise of having two lone nuts, however, there are some upsides to this.

For instance...?

Well, for instance, it explains why the heck Ruby shot Oswald. If I remember correctly, the last reason given on why Ruby shot Oswald is that he wanted Jacklyn to not have to endure the experience of going to trial and having to testify. What the HELL kind of reason is that! And yet we accept that. Okay, we really don't accept it, but in the Two Lone Nuts, Ruby can be portrayed as a real psycho and prone to his violent temper he had. And there is a lot of proof that Ruby had a violent temper. At least, there are some nuggets that suggest things. Again, downplayed, but there for ---

Wait a second. Who said anything about Ruby?

Oh. Yeah. It was Ruby that I was referring to.

You're telling me that Ruby is the Crazed Lunatic?!

Yes. He was the guy that just so happened to be at the Dallas Morning News that morning.

Wow!

The official story today on that aspect of the assassination is he was there making his own advertisement. He wasn't there yelling and screaming and carrying on about the advertisement that was in the paper that morning. He was making his own advertisement. He claims that he had a new "master of ceremonies" and that he needed to change his usual advertisement to mention this. Apparently, he usually just phoned in the advertisement since it didn't change all that much. But with a change in the master of ceremonies he needed to go in and redo his ad.

Okay, well, there's your explanation. A little coincidental, but there you go. Ruby had a reason to be there.

I think that's fair, but has anyone investigated such a thing? My guess is not really.

You think he wasn't going to have a change in the master of ceremonies.

I sort of doubt he had one. I don't know. It would be easy enough to conjure up an excuse to change you advert. But my guess is that this would be one of the things the FBI would have looked into if the Plotters were going with the Crazy Lunatics story. My guess, is that the whole "master of ceremonies" could easily be unmasked, so to speak. This would be wholly debunked. However, if they weren't going this particular direction, it would be a lot harder to debunk - of course - and there might be a lot of maybe he was making this up and maybe he wasn't making this up.

What about his time at the Morning News? Is there anything about him exploding on someone or even that some person saw him in a highly agitated state.

Well, that's where the mixed emotions are useful. He was an immature fellow - you can get that just by reading his testimony - and when he got there he headed straight for the advertising department and was going to make a scene, but when he got there he was sort of embarrassed by it all and decided to not mention it.

Hmmm.

You really should read his testimony. It's a big eyeopener. It was for me, at least. I had no idea that he was mentally disabled. He was obviously very high functioning, but he would have been considered "special" by his family and friends... and the mafia. It's actually a really funny testimony. And Ruby has this way of talking that is really funny but it's mostly the fact that he keeps on saying that his story needs to be told and that its terrible that he can't get himself heard and all the while Warren is letting him talk on and on about what happened that lead up to the Assassination and all that happened post assassination. And every time he checks back Warren says "you're doing great" and "most people aren't able to recall events with such detail." Blah blah blah.

So, what does he say?

Well, he says he was at the Dallas Morning News to update his advertisement.

Anything incriminating?

No. Not really. Except perhaps the use of the word "abutment".

Abatement? What the heck would be incriminating about that?

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The JFK Saga Continues, Part, say 10

Well, you guys are going to have to take me at my word that I'll get to the two incidents. I don't feel up for it.

What a disappointment. But I think WE can wait.

Sorry, I didn't mean to refer to you in the plural.

Yes, but it's a royal plural. Is there any excuse you wish to have shared?

No. Except that I need to go over the incidents I referred to earlier. I've sort of forgot a bit of it, here and there. Well, mostly there, in Mexico. One of the incidents leads to Mexico.

Mexico? Why in the name of our contiguous states would we need to go to Mexico?

Well, because it's where a lot of conspiracy theories go to die. Or, actually, contradictorily, it is where there is dirt from which their theory can grow. And in the case of the Assassination, Mexico has some fertile grounds Any missing logic to your theory can be found in Mexico. Just about everything is better in Mexico. It works as a sort of black hole is what I'm saying.

Okay. So, if you're going to discuss not discussing it, how do you want to play this?

Well, we have a couple of the scenarios: we have Oswald being Framed. That's a biggie. We have Oswald the Mastermind, sort of. We didn't get to the two incidents, but we did discuss George De Mohrenschildt. I think the next one should be Oswald and the Lone Nut.

Oswald and the Lone Nut. Oswald IS the Lone Nut, not AND.

Yes.

So, two lone nuts, that doesn't sound very believable.

Yes. But it is actually. This one, if used, would have - ironically - dropped our dependence on coincidences. This one has a lot of cause and effect.

That is very ironic, I have to admit. Surely you jest.

No, I don't. As a point of interest, perhaps, this is the official reason the government gave for continuing propping up Oswald as Lone Nut: that they couldn't rule out the concept of two gunmen who were completely unrelated. Like neither of them knew about the existence of each other.

So, in other words, there just happened to be two Lone Nuts shooting at Kennedy at the same time. That's... risible.

Yes! Risible, indeed. Well, what's more risible - or not more risible, but - you know what I mean -

No. I don't.

Uggh. What I'm getting at is that the 1979 House on Assassination Committe, or some such entity - which is the last official word from the government is there is, by definition, a conspiracy. I think they defined it as being just about anything.

What was their definition of a conspiracy?

I don't know. I'll have to look it up. It's pretty funny though.

Oh my God!!! You need to go back to researcher school. Or you need some practice in not saying something is funny when you don't even remember what is said about it.

Well, I do remember it. I remember it being very funny. I just don't remember the details of what is said.

Maybe you want to look into that when looking up Mexico.

True. Anyways... So, in this third scenario: we have two lone nuts. Remember, this is a scenario that the Plotters have already worked out. This is not something I made up. It is something the Plotters concocted and did their bast to make believable so that if they needed to use it, they could fall back with some confidence. And, in this case, it would be deployed IF Kennedy had made it through the crossfire.

That he survived all those bullets.

Yes.

Well, according to you.

According to the facts.

If you have evidence, please put them on display. Please. And move it along.

Okay. Let's see. Well, what is seen as a sort of political landscape that is going on in Dallas, and Texas in general is that it is already a dangerous place.

Yes. Which makes you wonder why Kennedy is even there.

Well, hindsight is 20/20.

I don't think you needed 20/20. A blind man could have determined that it wasn't safe for Kennedy to go to Texas.

Well, he did stay in Texas for a couple of days so, perhaps, seeing that nothing unusual happened it felt safe to drive through downtown Dallas. And yes, nothing happened there. I think he was in El Paso. Or somewhere. A couple days before.

Another brilliant insight. So, the plotters used El Paso as a nice cushion to soften the insanity of going through downtown Dallas.

I guess.

Don't fear for your life in Dallas, remember you are first hanging out in El Paso.

Yes. You have a problem with that?

To be continued....

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全: 詮 栓

Going through the linked-list and taking names and remembering faces.

全: 詮 栓=>(検 倹 剣 険 験 for later) I wanted to get a lot in, but maybe its best to wait. Maybe it's best to put it in a separate post. This guys 検 倹 剣 険 験...

せんぬ栓抜き--- if you're into memorizing things - and really who isn't - you might just want to think of this as a corkscrew. I mean, it practically means corkscrew. It's not an entirely bad meaning on its own. And it does not need to be clarified - unlike the other of the two kanji. Perhaps you could just have it as under "inquiry" or "詮", But this is a Corkscrew. Or some ear plugs. Which kind of answers why I didn't have it's down quite well. 栓 should be either a cork or an earplug. And yes, 栓抜き verifies that. Corkscrew. みみせん耳栓 (ear plug). みっせん密栓-seal tightly.

For Yucks, guess what じどうすいせん***自動水栓*** is and けっせん: 血栓.I've sort of given away this せんぬ栓抜き...せんぬ:栓を抜く is more explicit.

Summation: forget the 詮. Yes, it's in N1, but it really doesn't have much purpose. It has a nice KUN-YOMI: AKIRAKA. But so don't 3 or 4 others.

I mean, all for all of its meanings: discussion, methods called for, selection, result seems like a waste. There are already kanji with those exact meanings.

せんさく詮索 is inquire. But it is a "せん". Might as well keep. After all, 栓 is also せん. 全 is ゼン.

全 ゼン, まった.く, すべ.て, まさ

全 ゼン, まった.く, すべ.て, まさ

Although, 詮索 has inquire - which they tell me is common.

せんさくず詮索好き - which is a nosy person.

But this is a pretty unimportant kanji. And its definition is redundant to a lot of the "investigation" kanji. It does have a KUN reading that is the same as "obvious" or "clear" even though it is not "clear". 明あきらか. This kanji is better known as the second Kanji in "explanation". It is also the first kanji used in tomorrow. 明あきらか which makes no real sense, it seems, except that it could be for pronunciation purposes.

あきらかにする is make clear.

あきらかになる is to become clear.

Also 哲学 【テツガク】 philosophy. 哲 is あきらか, too.

ろうほう---朗報 means "good news". Alone this あきらか means

melodious, clear, bright, serene, cheerful

So, 明哲朗顕 (this means microscope 顕微鏡)

Clear and obvious and philosophy - which is about the most unclear thing I can think of.

Kun: あき.らか. It's On: ロウ. The pronunciation of ロウ has about 9 kanji in it that four of them have the same "varient".

郎 son ロウ 朗 郎

朗 melodious ロウ、

浪 wandering ロウ

廊 corridor ロウ

plus 老 old manロウ、お-いる、ふ-ける 労 labor ロウ 弄 tamper withロウ、もてあそ-ぶ 楼 watchtowerロウ 漏 ロウ uggh...

籠 ---attack?

He was wandering around the corridors with his wonderful and melodious son! (It seemed the sentence needed a wonderful.)

appear, existing けんびきょう顕微鏡

ろうどく 朗読 reading out loud

哲 philosophy, clear

Kun: さとい、 あきらか On: テツ

Oh, and if I didn't say already: he missed the entire discussion due to his earplugs. (They needed a corkscrew to get them out.)

Perhaps I should have done a better job あきらかにする

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Catcher in the Pie

Is it only me, but have all become way too touchy to enjoy a simple pie in the face gag??? I blame it on the 50s and President Eisenhower. Salinger, recognizing that America had lost its way created "Catcher in the Rye" and thought it good. Unlike the rest of the literary world who took offense to his book for reason that were more about them, then about the book. At first, I believed it was Holden who was the least touchy. But then I enjoyed a hypothetical custard pie in the face by some bloke in Academia. He was right, though. Holden was only reflecting back at people about what he did not yet fully understand. He was still regurgitating his pie. (I figured this all out because "Catcher in the Rye" was originally titled "Catcher in the Pie". )

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George De

"Okay. So, what is the whole point of New Orleans anyway?"

"Ahhh, I see you have fallen into my trap."

"Uh oh."

"Yes. It took me a while to figure out. Not that I consciously went about such things, but it was that question that was sort of a thorn in my side."

"When was he there. He wasn't there for a whole long time I don't think."

"I'm not totally sure how much time passed between his being let go at Stovall and New Orleans, but I'm assuming it wasn't that long."

"Well, and the supposed assassination attempt on General Walker?"

"Oh yes, which came first. Being canned at Jaggar's Chiles and Stovall and the attempted murder - allegedly - of a General."

"Wait. I will look it up."

"..."

"April 10, 1963 was the date when he attempted to murder or assassinate the General. I'm assuming he was fired before that time, so it would give him "cause" to get into such mischief."

"April 1st, believe it or not, was the date Oswald was fired. By the way, don't you think it interesting that his being canned from Stovall is sort of downplayed?"

"So, just nine days later... No, it's by design though. Well, indirectly. To hype up his firing would mean hyping up his "incident" of shooting at a General, which is totally underplayed. That part is definitely by design. Maybe not at the time."

"What do you mean not at the time."

"Like they wanted to have this attempted shooting to establish his credentials, but they thought better of it. Or, did they know it wasn't going to go over well, but they thought it necessary to, in fact, establish some credentials for Oswald."

"I would say it's probably some of both."

"Yes, I agree."

But Oswald probably left soon thereafter to New Orleans. And this, and I figure I'm like a lot of researchers, I'm not to clear on the details of Oswald's time in New Orleans. Like when did he start handing out flyers?"

"Ha! Yes, the Fair Play For Cuba."

"And when did he start "infiltrating" these secret Communist meetings?"

"You mean, meetings that he attended as a member, or soon to be member."

"No. I mean infiltrated. He was CIA and he was devoted to the cause. His only purpose - if he did in fact attend any communist meetings - was just for show. Well, I guess he could have been there to appear a member. Yes, you're right. He wanted to appear a communist so yes he would have been attending these meetings."

"With the insinuation of something more."

"Right again. Yes, he would be posed as somebody that could have been communist or he could have been a spy. It would be a source of confusion."

"And he wouldn't have been able to do such things in Dallas."

"Right! He would have been lynched handing out Communist materials and such. Or he wouldn't have been taken seriously at all."

"By the way, not that this is a stunner - unless one was easily stunned - is that the Plotters are sort of admitting... Wait! I lost my thread!"

" Well...

"Hmmm...Well, it couldn't have been all that important. Anyway, in this case, I think your right. But do you want me to tell you why he was in New Orleans?"

"Sure?"

"It's not as clever as I'd thought, now that I think on it, but so it be: he went to New Orleans to be reborn."

"No. That's not very clever. Not an altogether impressive an insight."

"Thanks. But I will add to this. He went to New Orleans so he could become a sort of messiah. And that, my dear boy, is why George DeMorhenschildt is taken out of the picture and not to be seen again., except after Oswald was already dead."

"Why would that matter? George being there or not."

"Well, because he already thought him a strong personality. He couldn't bring this any higher. If Oswald was now a Messiah type figure, George would have been his slave."

"You mean, George couldn't go much higher?"

"Yes. So, he abandons him Oswald by going to Haiti; something that always kind of bothered me. Which is another reason why the plotters would highlight - and with bold letters - treat De Morhenschildt as both important to Oswald and to them."

"And why's that?"

"Well, to give De Morhenschildt more importance to Oswald than he deserves, which is probably the most obvious reason in the world (that George De was important), looking back at it."

"You mean his two-day or whatnot appearance before the Warren Commission?"

"Yes. That and him being the first person to appear before the Warren Commission."

"I thought you weren't sure on that part."

"Now, I'm sure. I've convinced myself. Not only does DeMorhenschildt give Oswald his Magnetism but that he was very important in Oswald's life."

And that is the reason for New Orleans?

"Yes. Sort of. Well, and those two incidents: one at a voter drive and one on the front steps of a pretty girl from Cuba."