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[ Thursday, September 11, 2008 08:14 ]

Legacy Journal: Thursday Time for Truth Telling: 9/11, the Magazine, and the True Myth Makers.

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Commentary

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* On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, it is time this morning to pause and soberly reflect on the significance of that tragic day. The story is partially told by the rapid repair of the Pentagon and today’s dedication of the victim memorial at that site.

Joel Klein has written a Time profile on Palin people from his east coast perch. The mythology of the longstanding American Story or small towns and small people who do big things because of their Western getup and go is the target of Klein’s revision for those of us to used to religiously subscribe to the magazine. Kleinists have a new reality: it is cosmopolitan, urbananist, globally focused, secular, pro-Israel, and not a little over-the-top intellectual. We do not see Klein doing any serious hunting, fishing or fact finding in Alaska any time soon.

* Meanwhile, Klein, like Obama, uses a mistimed and misappropriate metaphor in a Palin political context. ”Rocket propelled grenade“ has now jarringly replaced” lipstick on a pig” as the explosive image of the moment. So, today, Sara Palin joins other Alaskan who are sending their warriors off to Iraq to doing what have been going on for 7 years: Continuing the push back military response against middle eastern extremists who wish the likes of Joel Klein, and many of the rest of us, more than a little ill will and bad action.

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[ Wednesday, September 10, 2008 06:02 ]

Legacy Journal: Wednesday Time to Weed out the Word Wars.

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Commentary

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“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” --- George Orwell

* If it is Wednesday, it is time to be clear as to your message by weeding out the weasel words and the demeaning metaphors. ”Implied Racism” and “lipstick on pigs” come immediately to mind. Meanwhile, Per Diem Gate is percolating and whose kids attend the fight kind of schools is the stuff of watercooler chatter.

Tuesday night at WXXI PBS Rochester,NY, featured a repeat of the Frontline production on “Bush’s War” and the second night of a pledge drive. The first team of phone bank volunteers included members from RIT OLLI. WXXI President and CEO, Norm Silverstein was also aboard. There is a connection, in that the CEO of the Bernard Osher Foundation is Mary Bitterman, formerly of KQED, San Francisco.

* Sarah Palin is now under the lights and on the dissecting table. Apparently, while serving as mayor, she asked The City librarian about her general guidelines use to expend public funds including the purchase of new books. The former librarian is not currently making comments except to confirm that no specific book titles or topics were discussed with her boss. However, the community has a history of public comments about books by and for “ the gay community.

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: Now, now boys and girls, it is time for the campaigns to cut the crap and talk straight. Orwell ( Erik Blair) had it right.

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[ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 06:55 ]

Legacy Journal: Tuesday Tipoff

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Columns

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* Palin continues to redefine the conventional copycat wisdom

The 4th installment of 8 years covering the Bush Administration from inside the White House, Bob Woodward’s latest book “The War Within: ---” is thin gruel.

* So why all the concern about summer time melting around the sea ice cap in the Arctic Ocean?

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: According to the latest polls, the presidential candidates are running dead even among those most likely to vote in November. The reason seem to be the Palin effect on what the media continues to mischaracterize as working class Wal-Mart mom like, well, a “hit them where it hurts” westerner like the Alaska Governor. So, Palin is not a solid middle class college graduate who lives in the suburbs? Think again ----- Please!

Meanwhile, voter registration and turnout in the 3-5 key battleground states appears to be on the front burner for both campaign camps. who are counting their new cash accounts and pressuring their contributors

:: What has Bob Woodard, the assistant editor of the Washington Post, told us that we do not already know in his Simon and Schuster/CBS/Redfield book? We have long known that there was a internal National Security debate as to the deployment of US power across the globe, and that the U.S. has advance technology that supports the intelligence gathering institutions, operatives, and analysts.

::: We are informed by Dot Earth, nytimes blogger, Andrew Revkin that as of this fall “theoretically, the Northwest Passage in now open to shipping.” To the best of our knowledge, no commercial shipper has taken the risk to vessel, cargo, or crew at risk to test the “Revkin Theory” in fact. Having recently visited the submarine base, Submarine Force Museum and the docked Nautilus in New London Connecticut, one thought comes easily to mind: What nuclear submarines have done, what reporters and some scientist theorize can be done, if far from what prudent engineers, investors, and businessmen are willing to chance on the high seas.

While the summer ice melt numbers make good quotes, the amount of Arctic sea ice that remains is many fold larger and formidable to sobering to open minds. Remember, as we learned in the fifth grade, for every numerator, there is a denominator. And beware of the numerator quoter who attempts to make it a free standing argument. Resently, data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) indicates that Arctic summer sea ice melt season is over and that 6 million square kilometers was the summer average inventory. 12 million square kilometers was the number at the state of summer That is 16% over the average in 2007. Is there a trend here? Stay tuned if you have the time. The current trend has been underway since the end of the last Ice Age.

BTW the average thickness of a single modern era winter Arctic sea water freeze is about 3 feet, according to the experts.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/09 at 06:55 AM
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[ Saturday, September 06, 2008 06:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Samplings

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Briefs

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* The eastern press continues to be confused and conflicted as it tries to get its collective self around the Alaskan state of mine. The latest is a stakeout on several churches in Wasilla

Meanwhile, the political investigative press has no problem in dissecting and digesting the latest new on NYC Dem Congressional Committee Chairman Charlie Rangle. He failed to report income from his Dominican Republic ocean side resort hideaway. Plus, it was purchased with a nice interest free loan.

* Vice President Cheney is in the republic of Georgia as aid is delivered by U.S. naval ships via an eastern Black Sea post that is close to the loading terminus of a trans Georgia oil pipeline.

** Bob Woodward has a new tome on the workings of the outgoing administration. Surprise, that administration was interested in what world heads of state were saying. Most schools of Journalism call that good reporting; others brand it spying.

* The Obama campaign and the DNC are recruiting a paid army of voter registration workers. Unregistered young, mobile, poor, and new US residents are the targeted demographic. It is well known in California that that profile means Hispanic LA Raza power at the polls.

Professional political pollsters do not work for free, but have a worse record of predicting reliable results than the local weather forecasters.

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Yes, we know it all along:

- Childhood immunizations to not cause autism.

- As many as 20% of Hillary Clinton spring primary voters are leaning to the McCain ticket in the fall.

- Extreme weather, like hurricanes, is always newsworthy and is used to come without a political conventional wisdom label.

- Lehman Bros, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac and People’s Bank of China play in the same league and have the same needs. Quick cash and credit equivalents.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/06 at 06:47 AM
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[ Wednesday, September 03, 2008 05:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Wicked Wednesday

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Commentary

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The mood this Wednesday should be positive: the citizens of New Orleans, Louisiana have been spared another hurricane lashing, smiling kid are returning to the nation’s class rooms, a bright sun is shining in upstate Rochester, NY, the war in Iraq is winding down, yet another successful Olympic Games have been competed and completed, and the country has two fine candidates for the soon to be vacated office of Commander in Chief.

So, why all the doom and gloom from the pages of the nytimes?

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Today, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, and Andrew Revkin are at their dypeptic drumbeat worst as they continue their respective personal rants formed by their pessimistic views of the state of the world. Tom is increasingly bitter about the state of the environment and the prospects for peace, Maureen continues to mischaracterize and denigrate the national political change agents with her wicked literary prose, and Andrew continues to slog on in his blog about the SAD state of research and policy in the emerging science of global weather and climate studies.

What is to be done? Some have suggested a boycott of the various messages from the “Anger Liberals” of the old Left. There are good reasons that the circulation and the readership of the nytimes is falling like a rock. The popularity of the press is low and sinking because of it writers and pundits. The nytime’s own David Brooks has said it best: on the PBS News Hour coverage of the RNC from St. Paul , Brooks opined “ The public does not like or trust us.”

Unfazed and without reflection , Brooks’ partisan commentary colleague, 71 year old, Mark Shields previously upstaged by David Gergen and Paul Gigot, continued to prattle on about the obligation of professional press people like himself to vett the background and suitability of the children public service folks Sarah Palin to stand proudly in the public kleg lights.

I am reminded of the time some Santa Rosa public high school civic teachers( one was a former small time journalist) picketed and harassed the chairwoman of the local School Board at the beginning of a new school year. Their labor issue and the public’s right/obligation to know trumped a single citizen’s right to privacy and sanctity of her home. When was the last time you felt good about having your home picketed by noisy advocates ?

Meanwhile, tonight Sarah Palin, the 44 Y/O PTA mom and soon to be grandmother from Wasilla, Alaska, will Stand and Deliver on state in St. Paul, Minnesota. Levi Johnston is also said to be a standup kind of person. For 38 minutes on stage Palin accepted the nomination of her Party, defined herself to the nation, chided the live mic, trip wire prone national media, defended her “little state”, exposed the lack of executive experience of the other candidate team, skewered those who pretend to objectively perform live “dissections” of new faces on the national political scene.

In prime time, Palin ran the table set up a series of bright, forceful, articulate, and funny warmup speakers and left folks like the embarrassing Mark Shields of PBS to slowly twist, turn and trip on his own misanalysis.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/03 at 05:47 AM
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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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“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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 07/24 at 10:13 AM
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[ Saturday, March 29, 2008 06:29 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance

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Almanac

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“ It is we who are trouble. The earth is OK.” ---- Bad news. Good News.

* Somalia is unraveling, East Africa is in tribal turmoil, Tibet is troubled, diesel fuel and rice are up, the dollar is down, and global warming is starving the eco-tourist’s long suffering friend, the migrating grey whales.

The good news comes from the NCAA MBB tournament site in Detroit is that the number 10 seeded Davidson College Wildcats, Stephen Curry, and Coach Mc blindsided the Badgers of Wisconsin.

Daniel Boone is part of the North Carolina heroic story.

* Meanwhile, for an MIT chemistry professor, all is worry and woe on the energy war frontiers as reported from the Aspen Institute and National Geographic conference in Colorado. The whine is “ we need funding to do the research that will save the World from ourselves.” UofR will be hosting alum Stephen Chu from California at an energy big picture update on 17 April.

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