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[ Friday, September 12, 2008 06:39 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fish Wrap.

Section:
Book Reviews

Summary:
Aristotle. ...’"Homer has taught all other poets the ART of telling lies skillfully”

* Thomas Friedman is out with a breezy new book. It is about his view of the Environment and what needs to change to save the World. His paper, the nytimes, has brought in a sober reviewer, David Victor of Stanford University

We like PBS, The Evening News, and Jim Lehrer and his fellow reporters ---but. Last night’s segment on the meaning of 9/11 was a flop. Poets are fine writing about the meaning of life, but not on the language that is appropriate for reflecting on meaning of the loss of loved ones and the response to continuing radical terrorist threats from parts of the Muslim world aimed at the life blood Republic.

* Meanwhile, SP, the VP candidate in training , is coming into the brass knuckles arena of national campaigning by degree. Consider the snide skewering of Cindy McCain by Ariel Levy in the current issue of the New Yorker.

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[ Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition: Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies

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Almanac

Summary:
* George Will recently brought to our attention that Compassionate Conservatives a better givers than Liberals

That reminds us of a recently passed health insurance coverage mandate in Arizona. It is for an expensive, intense, and unproven treatment for early childhood autism. This is an example of a non-evidence based public policy favoring a small group at the expense of others including rate payers and those denied benefits of expensive but clinically effective treatments like organ transplants.

* This week a group of global warming gurus are meeting in Aspen, Colorado where the ski season has been spectacular. One story has been on large sea ice sheets become detached and exposing the face and underbelly advancing glaciers. One Stanford based “Climate Scientist” with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering appears to be concerned about the heat generated by the rock on rock rubbing at the glacial - gravel interface. The result is water that lubricates and accelerates the glacially march to the sea where may tend to change local salinity and raise ocean levels over centuries. Hum.

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: It appears that Conservatives contribute both time and treasure to causes that are often faith based. Yes, Mormons are expected to tithe. Environmental
preachers are not.

:: Special interest insurance mandates are an example of an economic moral hazard. In the case of mandating coverage of chest spiral CT for screening smokers for early lung cancer appears to also included an unknown financial conflict of interest on the part of at least one Columbia University Weil Medical Center radiologist.

::: Meanwhile, the temperature in Aspen last night was a cool 29.

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[ Friday, December 21, 2007 12:11 ]

Legacy Journal: The Russian Bear Facts, Competing California Style, and Romney Substance.

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News: International

Summary:
“Beware of the Russian Bear! “—Winston Churchill.

Question: ? What country led the world in petroleum product exports before the beginning of the 20th century? Who was Karl Popper?

* Time Magazine has name Russian turnaround artist, Vladamir Putin, as its Man of the Year. It is widely assumed that he was the compromise choice. Al Gore was a runner-up. General Petrais, the architect of successful miliary the Surge Strategy in Iraq was an also ran. Putin is portrayed as news worthy, smart in his marathon interviews, fearless, feisty, a pragmatic and proud nationalist, and combative at the age of 56. Gore come across as --- well more concerned about a global human population that quadrupled in the past 100 years and is now collectively overheating the planet. Meanwhile, Putin is putting cash in the cribs of new Russian citizens, building a fleet to ply ice free summer sea lanes in the Arctic Ocean, negociating gas pipe lines out of largely Muslim states of the former USSR, signing uranium deals with Australia, visiting Indonesia, working with neighboring Iran, working strategically for access pipeline and shipping access to warm water ports across a dozen time zones. Worry about AGW? Bring it on. Alcohol as a Fuel? Foolish. Putin is blunt, quick, and on his game—winning were and when it matter for Russians.

Barbara Boxer (D) Senator CA,, Chairperson, Committee on the Environment and Public Works responded angrily on the PBS News Hour to the EPA’s refusal to grant its 51st exemption request and waive federal law and allow California to continue authoring its own standards for tailpipe exhaust pollution.

* The Charlie Gibson ABC Evening News interview with candidate Mitt Romney was generally well received. With Tancreto of Colorado dropping out of the race, Romney has now begun the first in what may be a slow and long series of former candidate endorsements. The last man standing at the time of the Republican National Convention will be progressing in the national polls and in the song book of the media chorus. Will that be the case when the last woman standing is crowned with a Stetson at the Democratic National Convention in Denver?

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: Putin is diminutive, a fitness buf, and a Judo expert.

:: Senator Boxer is diminutive, aggressive, and supported by the nytimes Opinion Page Editorial writers. Arrogance and Warming is today, characterization of the issue. Who has this one right. Gore? Boxer? the nytimes? Putin? It depends on your point of view. If you are Russian, you have already place your short term bet, your future security, and your place in history on realpolitic men like Putin.

::: Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is in a classic turnaround position. Time, momentum, vigor, experience and teamwork are on his side. Witness the Jon Huntsman
Holiday giving factor. Once again, insular, arrogance and myopic views of the world is not limited to one individual, one group or one institution. The evidence: an ad hominem, anti-endorsement attack on candidate Romney in the Editorial Pages of a Concord, NH paper.

Answer: Russia. No, we are not smarter than a 5th grader, but Popper was wise in the ways of Science.

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[ Sunday, December 16, 2007 07:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Views and Snooze from Rochester

Section:
Editorial

Summary:
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.” ---- Brooks Atkinson

Q?: Who is credited with the line, “Follow the money.” ? What Ivy League college did Bob Woodward graduate?

* The Editorial Room: Sea Change: The Redford-Woodward “All the President’s Men” the investigative reporter political docu_drama film view of Washington Post D.C circa 1970’s view plays out against the Reality at today’s Des Moines Register in Omaha, Nebraska.

Hanna Montana beats the winter snow storm in Rochester, NY.

* The Tom Friedman’s predictable view from Bali.

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: In the movie version set in the newsroom of the Washington Post, Ben Bradley and the hard core guys run the Editorial show with the “Graham family” in the silent background of the party circuit. Today, the six members of the Des Moines Register Editorial Board have endorsed candidate Hillary after rounds of paper sponsored polls, candidate interviews, lunches with beverages included, and “exhausting” closed door deliberations. In the end, the women ruled.

:: In upstate western NY, the snow storm has threatened to cancel Sunday Services, Monday schools, and this evenings Hanna Montana. Place your bets. Hanna will perform to a packed house and the Bills will play in Cleveland.

::: Meanwhile, Tom Friedman dispatches his column from Bali. Again he uses an unnamed report in Science to make is shopworn Sierra Club and Carl Pope “Now or Never” Dooms Day 20xO forecast. It is an old story with a few updates. The old story is the AGW is the result of ignorance, greed, consumption, and uncontrolled human population growth. The new lines are now green: the rain forests of Central Africa Brazil , Indonesia, New Guinea, and SE mainland Asia can help save species, prevent island flooding, and sequester dangerous polluting carbon dioxide. In the end, it warmed over eco stylized Green Gush.

The good news is that citizen fact checkers are compiling real-time lists of factual errors that are perpetuated in print and some well known modern day docu_dramas.

One example http://www.ecoworld.com/home/articles2.cfm?tid=446 has a list of 35 errors, including nine that were included in a British magistrate’s ruling that prevented the free distribution of Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth” to kid’s classrooms in England.

A: William Goldman, film script writer for All the President’s Men. The line was spoken by actor Hal Holbrook who played the part of FBI agent, and “ Deep Throat” source Mark Felt. Woodward, who’s father was a longtime attorney and judge in Illinois , attended Yale on an NROTC scholarship. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. Today, he seems to favor Navy and Yale blue in wool as his personal clothing choices. Robert Redford’s movie character wore a more plebian and workman-like coarse tan corduroy suit and open tie at the neck. Ernest, wide eyed, hard working, idealistic, but unwise in the ways and players of Washington, D. C. he is the personification of the All American, Stover. On the other hand Woodward had served Naval Officer duty on the staff of the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. During that time, he met and remembered attorney Mark Felt, an experienced field officer and a senior G-man at J. Edgar Hoover’s fiefdom, the FBI.

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