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[ Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:11 ]

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[ Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:13 ]

Legacy Journal: Thursday Thoughts: Twitter, Triathlons for Horses, and Obama One on Tour

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Commentary

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“Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend itself” D. Cal. Senator, Dianne Feinstein.

* Twitter seems to be a kind of miniblog for quick social networking for device packing mobile professionals who expect instant access to ....?

Eventing at venues like the recent Stewart Equestrian Trials in western upstate New York, on the other hand, is basic athletic competition. Dressage, Cross Country, and Stadium Jumping are the three classic events spread over three days. That level of horse and rider interaction is the real deal. Animated mustang cartoon fantasy fiction like Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron out of Dream Works by Hollywood, is at best misleading, at worst, childish. The stock characterization of pure wild mustangs, pristine noble natives, and profoundly evil wranglers, cavalrymen and railroad builders is standard drivel.

* Stock characterization and standardized drivel has been the story of the early U.S. national campaign to date. The pace will quicken after the party conventions.

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The Obama camp may use Twitter, but do not expect to see the campaign abandon the jet, O one , for time on horse back any time soon. Meanwhile, the candidate is taking a quickie course in geopolitics , international security, and global trade. Attempts to correct and clarify misstatements ( “poor choice of words) on Jerusalem, the recent success of the U.S. military in Iraq, and an over simplification of American interests in the Middle East are not reassuring to those who have long worked these and other issues.

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[ Monday, July 14, 2008 08:33 ]

Legacy Journal: High Finance, Bad Loans, and Banking Reform

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Depression Era hybrid twins that were originally created to extend easy housing credit to individuals, create construction jobs, and bring the power of the federal government to the needs of the poor. Reduced regulatory and reporting standards, minimal reserve requirements, access to low interest funds, no taxes on “profits”, and a presumption of federal protection, if necessary lead to a powerful competitive advantage and a dominant home mortgage market share. Years of increasing size, a Washington, D.C. power base of lobbyists, administration appointments, Congressional inaction , and a looming economic moral hazard contributed to a stock market meltdown of their share prices.

Raines and other friends of Angelo Mozilo, including Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, and James Johnson, are reported to have received favorable loans from Countrywide. A California Mozilo company, IndyMac is today officially “failed” and in Fed hands.

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Meanwhile, former Freddy MAC chairman and CEO Franklin Raines and his ilk appear to have escaped tainted but largely beyond the reach of the law. Raines, of Harvard, Oxford, the Clinton OMB, and Lazar Freres, had his mismanagement errors and losses partially covered by insurance.

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[ Sunday, July 13, 2008 12:03 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Chatter x 3: ABC, NBC, and CBS

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Commentary

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The silly summer season of Sunday network election talk TV is again upon us. Today, the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was front and center for the first one third of ABC’s This Week with George Stephenopoulos. What ever the California connection to Disney, natives would agree with Arnold that California is the most important state in the union, and McCain should not dismiss the state as a lost cause in his general election campaign. This week McCain will address both LA Raza group in San Diego and the annual NCAA meeting. How quixotic is that? Or is good politics now that Steve Smith is now driving the McCain Express bus and serious funds are starting to fuel the political machine.

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Meanwhile George and his wife, Alexandra Wentworth, can spend serious time hanging out with their friends, like the Steinfelds and playing with the kids and the crabs at the Hampton beaches while others summer on ranches in Montana, music festivals in Aspen or Vail, attending media conferences in Sun Valley, Idaho or fly fishing in Jackson Hole Wyoming. Arnold and wife are on Senior Senator watch and have the Gulf Stream on standby near their Santa Monica home. Little of significance will be happening in Sacramento or Washington, DC between now and Labor Day.

As of today, Arnold’s sense of political realism is that:

* The Governator is on top of the early, numerous, and wide spread lightning cause fires in his state. Regional and Federal help has been sufficient to date and the weather is cooperating.

* There will be not drilling for oil off the coast of California. Off shore oil is a states rights issue.

* Global Climate Change is a reality in the minds of California voters, so why should the Terminator stand in front the Green train that has already left the station?

* Political gold is still to be mined in California.

* At the age of 61 year this month, he has a stake in and appetite for future National Service that does not necessarily include national elective office.

* Learning for experience an changing one’s mind is not flip-flopping, it is what smart people, successful business executives and long term survivors do everyday.

* Arnold may have come the United States knowing little English, but puts many crossover journalists, including Time editors, to shame when it comes to putting ideas and opinions into understandable sentences.

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[ Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:27 ]

Legacy Journal: Monroe County: Politics, the Carousel, and the Onterio Beach

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Feature

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Today, the RIT-OLLI summer senior strider group was out for a stroll and local history lesson focusing on Charlotte and the Port of Rochester,NY on the lower Genesee.River. Points of interest included the cemetery, the lighthouse, the boat basin, the yacht clubs, the Ferry Building boondoggle, the secret walk between Beach St. and Lake Ontario, and the pristine carousel at the Ontario Beach Park run by Monroe County.

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* Monroe County’s historic Dentzel Menagerie Carousel at Ontario Beach Park in Charlotte is open for the 2008 Season. This year is the carousel’s 103rd continuous season at the Park, where it first opened in 1905.

The carousel was carved and created by the firm of G.A. Dentzel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was installed at Ontario Beach Park in 1905, and has remained in its original location, ever since. The carousel is a menagerie model and consists of 52 riding animals. Rides are one dollar, or unlimited all day for five dollars.

Smaller versions exist in Davis and Santa Barbara, California. Carousel restoration is done in Albany, Oregon.

Meanwhile, out west in Sun Valley, Idaho, Allen & CO is sponsoring its annual media smoozefest and flyin for the rich and famous. For my money, I far prefer the thrill of floating with friends, fishing, camping, and watching the Big Horn Sheep watering along the banks of the Salmon River to the north of Sun Valley. But, that is a story for another time.

* Oh yes, Politics. Legacy N.Y. State Senator Rep Joe Robach of Monroe’s 56th District is in a dog fight to keep his seat in Albany.

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[ Tuesday, July 08, 2008 09:05 ]

Legacy Journal: 50th Malin High School Reunion

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Events & Meetings

Summary:
I will miss my 50th high school reunion this month. Some of the hearty remaining Malin Mustang Class of 1958 will be gathering for the event in the California border ag, railroading, lumber and Kingsley AF Base region of Klamath Country, Oregon.

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Some of us left, others left and returned, others stayed, more than a few have passed on, or simply vanished. What endures is the power of place and the experience of coming of age in a “Heartland” community of significance and substance. Malin is a continuing presence inscribed in memory and recorded in fact. For me, the frozen memories have become even sweeter and more meaningful with the mellow passage of the years.

My first message to my classmates was a short and long forgotten high school graduation ceremony farewell address in the Mustang’s small gym in 1958. The second was a note send from Viet Nam in 1968 for the 10th anniversary gathering. The Fisk family with four kids made the Malin Community Park gathering in 1978. Now, in 2008, it is time for an update.

After four years in Eugene, four years in Portland, a year in Los Angeles two years in the U.S.Army, four years at UCSF, thirty years in Santa Rosa, CA, and four years in Davis, CA, I am retired and now live in Brighton, NY near Rochester in the western Lake Ontario region of the Empire State and near the best of attractions ---- two young bright, beautiful, active, healthy and loving granddaughters.

The Eire Canal, Eastman Kodak, Xerox, the University of Rochester, and the Eastman School of Music are still past of the fabric of Monroe County. Biking the canal towpath, touring the old Eastman Home and Gallery, attending concerts and recitals, participating in Rochester Institute of Technology- Athenium-Osher Lifelong Learning Institute classes and daily workouts with a lap swimming emphasis are currently part of the routine.

Internet, Information and Instructional Technology are at the core of my weekly volunteer contributions at several local senior activity services including a health and exercise emphasis . And, what is not to like about Digital Photography, image editing, and Web Publishing. It is a great way to keep up with friends and family. The latter group includes sisters Mary Jayne in Talent, and Kathy in Eugene; kids include Erika Lindsey at the URSM medical center, Tanya Ashley of Cottage Grove, Tiffany Danielle of Hawaii, and Damon Marshall of San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Malin memories, friends, mentors, and rites of passage continue to sustain, refresh, and inspire me daily.

Fondly.

Doug Fisk

BTW, my tough and trusty Orange and Black Mustang jacket bite the dust just two years ago.

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[ Tuesday, July 01, 2008 08:51 ]

Legacy Journal: 2008 mid-point

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Commentary

Summary:
At the mid-point of 2008 where have we been and where are we going? &#8734 is not the answer.

* At the 4th of July break, it is time for BB, BBQ, and Root Beer.

The Olympic Trials are underway and the summer rec programs, including swimming lessons for the kids are underway.

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Meanwhile, there is really little new News.

The politicians are traveling abroad; western wild rivers are benefiting from record snow packs in the the Sierra, the Cascades, and the Rockies. The babies, the mail, and FedEx packages are still being delivered, strawberries are in the fields and markets, people are mowing their lawns and going about their business, and the U.S. continues to be the destination of choice for the world’s young, mobile, and talented elites. Life is good.

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