Southern Dispatch #1: Live From Natural Bridge

Location: Leon County

Campaign: Operations near St. Marks, Florida (1865)

Date(s): March 6, 1865

Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. John Newton [US]; Maj. Gen. Sam Jones [CS]

Forces Engaged: 2nd U.S. Colored Infantry and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry [US]; Kilcrease Artillery; Dunham’s Battery; Abell’s

Battery; 5th Florida Cavalry; 1st Florida Militia; Barwick’s Company Reserves; Hodges Company Reserves; Company A, Milton Light Artillery; Companies A, B, and F, Reserves and reinforcements from Georgia amounting to approx. 1,000 men [CS]

Estimated Casualties: 174 (US 148; CS 26)

Description: Maj. Gen. John Newton had undertaken a joint force expedition to engage and destroy Confederate troops that had attac

ked at Cedar Keys and Fort Myers and were allegedly encamped somewhere around St. Marks. The Navy had trouble getting its ships up the St. Marks River. The Army force, however, had advanced and, after finding one bridge destroyed, started before dawn on March 6 to attempt to cross the river at Natural Bridge. The troops initially pushed Rebel force

s back but not away from the bridge. Confederate forces, protected by breastworks, guarded all of the approaches and the bridge itself. The action at Natural Bridge lasted most of the day, but, unable to take the bridge, the Union troops retreated to the protection of the fleet.

Result(s): Confederate victory

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After months of negotiation, BDT and Vickskennel completed a trade sending Desean Jackson and Ray Rice to the BDT, for Matthew Stafford. The other players are throw-ins. For the second year in a row, BDT's hopes pin of Tony Romo. At first glance an ordinary eye would see BDT getting the better of the deal. Rice is a good RB, and DeSean Jackson is a good WR. But interestingly, BDT also dealt its #2 pick next year for a player (Rice) a majority would regard as a keeper. This author does not care either way, except for...

The Death of the Keeper League?

The end of the "Keeper-era" appears near, something both contracting parties were surely aware of before inking the deal. One of the central tenants of contract formation law is that ordinary terms will be given their plain, ordinary meaning. Thus a "second round pick" according to the Yahoo! simulation means, indeed, the second rounder from all players. This is a great boon for Vickskennel in 2012.

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The keeper league will go down as a failed idea on the commissioner's watch, but it is worth noting that the idea was born out of the Kennel, and was probably an attempt at subterfuge. It worked; the gift-wrapped grenade detonated in TTM's hands on draft day, during an event devoid of its usual excitement and primordial energy. The green Commish will have to learn his lessons the hard way. But other intel obtained from a school out west indicates that one team thinks the job is too big for "on the job training".

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Why now?

Why not nothing?

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To begin answering this question one must have an understanding of the primordial fourfold and its power that holds sway over the League. This is the Year of the Four. Year One was the Year of the One. Its Symbolic Sway was Earth. Year Two was the Year of the Two, its Symbolic Sway was Sky. Year Three was the Year of the Three. Its Symbolic Sway, was Mortals.

The Symbolic Sway of the fourth and final year of the four-fold is the gods. The Divinities.

At the end of the along, arduous journey that is the season, each Champion not only receives the laurel of the Championship, but also something even greater: a seat at the Table, as Part of the Four-Fold. It is akin to a Rushmore or to the Four Horsemen.

For you chocolate-lovers, there is only One Golden TIcket left.

Four has long been a number of completion, stability and predictability. It is ideation and self-expression, the creation itself, the finished idea. Four is the material manifestation of three, the actual physical realisation, order and systematisation of the idea. It is the making real of the dream represented by three.

Pictured: The four-fold of perfect spirals, as depicted from Chapter 4 of Pre-Socratic AllStarz Mythology, Volume 2.

Think about it: "on the earth" already means "under the sky." Both of these also mean "remaining before the divinities" and include a "belonging to men's being with one another." By a primal oneness the four-earth and sky, divinities and mortals-belong together in one. Earth is the serving bearer, blossoming and fruiting, spreading out in rock and water, rising up into plant and animal. When we say earth, we are already thinking of the other three along with it, but we give no thought to the simple oneness of the four. The sky is the vaulting path of the sun, the course of the changing, moon, the wandering glitter of the stars, the year's seasons and their changes, the light and dusk of day, the gloom and glow of night, the clemency and inclemency of the weather, the drifting clouds and blue depth of the ether. When we say sky, we are already thinking of the other three along with it, but we give no thought to the simple oneness of the four. The mortals are the human beings. They are called mortals because they can die. To die means to be capable of death as death. Only man dies, and indeed continually, as long as remains on earth, under the sky, before the divinities. When we speak of mortals, we are already thinking of the other three along with them, but we give no thought to the simple oneness of the four. The divinities are the beckoning messengers of the godhead. 0ut of the holy sway of the godhead, the god appears in his presence or withdraws into his concealment. When we speak of the divinities, we are already thinking of the other three along with them, but we give no thought to the simple oneness of the four. __________ By now it should come as no surprise that the vast majority of the PSAS has given no thought to the simple oneness of the four. That is to say, the Four-Fold that will come to completion and into perfect existence at the end of the Year of the Four.

Pictured: four-fold within complete circle, as seen through DMT trip.

The truth is that the Year of the Four is One Long Procession to determine the Fourth and Final place at the table of the pre-Socratic AllStarz four-fold.

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It is a violent struggle as time falls through the hourglass for the remaining players to secure the final slot and gain initiation to the One thing they want most, eternal belonging to the four-fold.

It is doubtful anyone has paid any mind to the origins underlying the franchise name BuildingDwelling Thinking. But the general manager is piously paying homage to the four-fold. In the work "Building, Dwelling, Thinking", there is expansive illustration of the four-fold and its holding sway-in-the-world-ness. He knows it, and is properly petrified at the thought of being left out of the Four-Fold forever. Thus, he is "all in" to drink the holy milk from the silver chalice of the gods this year. He is willing to do anything to be part of the Four-fold, knowing that once the opportunity is extinguished, there is no changing it.

Pictured: The silver chalice of the Year of the Equinox (five).

He is not concerned about next year. Not now. Because this is the year the New Order will be set in stone forever.

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The Maniacs, psychdog, and Vickskennel also know it, even if you don't. Why do you think Vickskennel gave away his two best players for a 2nd Rounder for next year? Why do you think the gods struck down the King before the season started? And the Maniacs struggles? Most will probably dismiss this as coincidence, but do so at your own peril.

It is because, as was Foretold in the Beginning, They are not to win the Championship this year. A New Champion must emerge. These three must simply bide their time in the background, under cloak, until the Fourth emerges to meet them, and all Four can Rise up together, AS ONE.

This will happen next year . . . Year Five: the Season of the Equinox.

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During this season, all balance will have been achieved. There will be 12 teams. Four divisions, "fiefdoms". Each member of the Four-Fold, will control their small Kingdom. And they will do this by literally carving up their kingdoms from a map. The Maniacs (symbolising the Earth) may take the Land of Elea. Psych dog (symbolising the Sky) may take the Land of Ephesus. The Kennel (symbolizing the mortals) may take the Land of Ionia. This will be achieved through negotiation during the offseason. But there is another Land that has emerged, and will come under the PSAS rule. This is the Land of Aethenae, or Athens. These four Lands will be ruled by the Four-Fold.

And like the Trail of Tears, the unfortunate eight will be ushered into these kingdoms by the wisdom of the four-fold.

This is what is Coming.

/End Dispatch.