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[ Saturday, September 20, 2008 06:30 ]

Legacy Journal:Laidback Saturday

Section:
Environment

Summary:
While some fixate on the Gorey details of Climate Change and the coming Collapse of world civilization, others are living the dream in paradise places like Hawaii.

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Daughter Tiffany lives in Kona coffee, Captain Cook area on the western side of the Big Island of Hawaii. Her view perch from the historic Greenwell Family Farm is nearly 1,500 feet above the shoreline of the blue Pacific Ocean.

Within hiking distance are the Captain Cook Memorial and great surfing at Kealakekua Bay, Kona Coffee plantations, the Amy Greenwell Bishop Ethnobotanical Native Plant gardens, and the local Kona Historical Society site.

The hippy refugee and breakfast site, the Manago Hotel, is just around the corner. The ocean side City of Refuge National Park is a short distance down Naapoopo Rd

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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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[ 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.

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
“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

Section:
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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[ Sunday, September 07, 2008 07:51 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Surprises

Section:
Briefs

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* Google is 10 years old.

The 18th ranks Ducks of Oregon scored 66 points using 88 plays and 27 minutes to compile 688 yards of offense. That is efficient, entertaining, fast paced football.

* Tom Friedman has once again declared the world flat and crowded. He also knows the reason and the solution.

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- Baby Google is fast becoming the 800 lbs gorilla on the Internet playground. Like the Ducks, the Chrome browser sticks to the basics and is shockingly fast. In addition, Google has announced a pending agreement to digitalize and, make available for searches, the print archives of major newspapers. The carrot: Click ad revenue will be shared by the partnership. The stick is falling print readership.

-- The Ducks can spread the field, keep the same defensive 11 in the game run, the ball, and pass to any eligible receiver.

--- Demographics is just one Demons that frightens the sober, sane, and rational Friedman. He is right about one demographic parameter: Islamic extremists and Palestinian nationalists are growing thorns in the garden of committed Zionists. Their growth rates are like weeds that threaten the future status of a democratic Jewish Israel.

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[ Friday, September 05, 2008 06:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fifth: Change, Cultural Divide, B&B, Google Chrome, and Arctic Drilling

Section:
Briefs

Summary:
What is in the Air?

* Change is coming. So is __

Google Chrome browser

* Drilling for Oil in the Arctic

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* It seems there are two big glitches in the T. Boone Picken’s plan to put wind generated electrical power onto the national grid: distance and capacity. Electrical power is best used immediately close to the site of generation. The electrical grid is not designed for high volume, long distance transmission. Natural gas lines are.

The post conventional wisdom of the professional national press and pollsters continues unchanged. The powerful B & B attorney partnership charisma machine continues to be fueled by mega bucks. The mass of volunteers, like families with kids with special needs working for the other side, are given no reckoning. Further, Alaska is far from the Boston, NYC, Washington, D.C. axis of power. Talk about a change challenge to the continuing cultural divide between the east and the West!

So, Google is now on the the desktop with a browser and it works well with Vista. Fast is good. Google apps will continue to flow from the Lab to the rest of us.

* It appears that the widely reported melting of the Polar Arctic Ice Cap is not quite the sure evidence of global warming a once advertised by the advocates of the theory. New interpretation of satellite images say “OOPs, not so fast.

It seems that shallow water pooled on top of the floating ice pack has been misinterpreted a open sea water. In addition the prospect of using the long fabled NorthWest Passage that shortens the freighter run from Rotterdam to Yokahama by 5,000 mile is still a bit of a pipe dream. Shifting summer ice continues to a formidable Arctic hazard for most surface ships. So, the Arctic Polar Ice Cap is almost a floating island just as we begin a long winter of refreezing as the Polar bears continue to thrive.

Meanwhile, the Siberian version of the Northwest Passage appears to have a significant choke point for summer time open water freighter traffic.

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