Why are my iCal menus disabled?

I am having troubles with iCal.  Most of my menus are disabled:
iCal > File > New Event
iCal > Edit > cut, copy, paste, delete, select all, duplicate,
iCal > View > by day, week, month year, Go to date
... to name a few.
I find the iCal > Edit > copy, paste a tragic loss.  Many reoccuring events cannot be created within the "repeat" option because they follow no pattern (such as 2xweek, every Monday, etc).
I am slowly feeling the iMac and its applications being pushed to the end of the line. Excuse me, Apple, but my iMac doesn't have a touch screen (yet) and I would like to have some tried and true features (aka commands) survive.  Don't get me started on scroll up/down arrows lost with the Mountain Lion "upgrade."  I would have stayed happy with Snow Leopard except I had to "upgrade" for iCloud to work with my iPhone.
Oh, iRaspberry to you, Cupertino!!!
Can anyone clue me in:  Are the iCal menu features described above gone forever or do I need to tweak a setting?

Fixed my own problem.  Ultamately a user error but tied to the many threads about the month view defaulting events to "all day" vs. hourly increment.  I knew that was the case, so when editing events from month view I made sure to add/change the time, but negected to look at "To" date.  If my event was for an hour, simply adding the hour pushed the day to span across dates so the event was really 25 hours.  Looked OK in the month view (just showed as a dot) but the day and week were all filled and casued the event to appear twice on the second day in list view (iPhone).  In the case of repeat events, sometimes "To" date ended up as the end date for the repeat cycle... which really messed every thing up... I believe causing what looked like duplicates, etc.

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