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[ Saturday, January 19, 2008 15:37 ]

Legacy Journal: Real Cold in Carolina, Coal, and ABR

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
* Some media pundits are predicating that the weather in the northwest corner of South Carolina may effect the Huckaby turnout. They may not be aware of the North Dakota effect. A National Geographic writer made the mistake of appearing to dis the state in a recent article. The temperate response of the state’s citizenry and leadership prompted Charlie Gibson of ABC News to name the state “Person of the Week” Have a good weekend.

Scots have been using coal for a long time. Coal, iron and willing workers helped build the railroad lines that allowed the for the rapid and reliable delivery of mail, newspapers and people a throughout the British Isles. Books publishing flourished and station book sales boomed as a result.

* Meanwhile, look for a ABR movement early this year. It will have stealthy and crafty anti-Mormon tone. But, it is a dangerous and unpopular tactic. Recently, the grandson of M. Gandhi, a resident of Brighton, NY was asked to resign his position with a University of Rochester affiliated peace and non-violence foundation after he wrote a web piece offensive to local Jews with holocaust sensitivities.

Main:
: Folks in most parts of the country are not intimidated by weather. Nor are they fearful of cyclic ice age climate change that moves at a glacial geologic creeping pace.
A recent biography of van Allen of Iowa has a picture of him and other scientists working on defense related missile and satellite research at the South Pole in 1958 where the average temperature was reported as - 58 degrees. His former grad student, James Hanson of NASA Goddard is not mentioned in the book.

:: The slums of Glasgow, Scotland were fertile recruiting grounds for early Mormons including Brigham Young. The Eccles family is one example. Mariner Eccles was in the FDR administration and was part of the first draft of the Federal Reserve System.

::: And yes, there is a small book out on the life and record of Mitt Romney. Predictably, it is modest, polite, and plain spoken.

:::: And aside. The Swedish firm, MySQL will become part of Sun Micro of Silicon Valley. To the best of our knowledge, the deal is Carbon Neutral.

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[ Monday, January 07, 2008 09:32 ]

Legacy Journal: Mormonism, Coal, and New Hampshire Polls

Section:
Politics

Summary:
“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.” ---- Abe Lincoln.

Mitt Romney is drawing media attention in New Hampshire. One New Hampshire newspaper editorial has labelled him a phoney, a nytimes reporter, Noah Feldman, is compelled to ask provocative questions and then call attention to Mormon polygamy and the “ idiocycracy” of clean living by avoiding tobacco, caffeine and alcohol. Does he also consider the lack of gambling and lotteries in Utah (and Hawai) as troublesome as the Judaic kosher food tradition? In addition, Romney is also enviromental “inconvenient”. He calls for a national energy stategy that includes liquid coal, increasing the supply of heating oil by building refinery capacity, and investing in nuclear energy. The voters of New Hampshire are concerned about the winter price and availability of fuel oil, and the future costs of electricity.

Main:
The good news is that the media, including the press, is much more restrained than in the political days of Lincoln and cartoonist Thomas Nast. Journalism is also sophisticated, subtile, and scientific in the arts of advertising, influencing, and choice making

* For example, GMA today reported from New Hampshire on a mind mapping “truth” gizmo that records a graphic image of emotional responses to messages and images of events, products, and people. Is this the new brave world of political “science”?

One of the world’s most costly construction project will be done by a Canadian firm. It is a gas pipeline from the north to the hub in Calgary, Alberta.

* Meanwhile, fear mongering, narrow mindedness and group think is alive and well in the free, but not cheap, mass media.

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[ Saturday, December 29, 2007 07:58 ]

Legacy Journal: Year End Clear Winners.

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
* In Random Order, here is a personal Thank Your list of 2007 winners.

Main:
: David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist for the nytimes. Best Advice: “Interview three people every day.” Solid writing, grounded, funny, and smart. A pleasure to read and watch as a regular panelist participant on the Friday edition of the PBS Lehrer News Hour and even ABC News on Sunday mornings..

: The August 7th picture perfect Carmel, CA wedding of Damon Fisk and Rebecca Welch at the Mission Ranch. Great timing. Good going. An outstanding all family happening. Thanks for the memory treasure chest photo album.

: The summer relocation of the California Littles to The City of Rochester,NY and the town of Brighton. Jon, Erika, Emma and Tessa have been the perfect host and hostesses for a parade of visitors from across the U.S. MCC and URMC have also benefited from their work. Christmas in western upstate New York has been part of a special holiday season.

: A cross country road trip thru the Heartland of the Country was a 2007 highlight. the Ruby Mountains of NE Nevada, the upper Salmon River of Idaho, the Grande Teton and Yellowstone NPs of Wyoming, Paradise Valley and Cisco in Montana, the Bad Lands Lakota Buffalo Grass Lands country out of Rapid City, Sturgis, and Wells South Dakota, Egan, MN Park and Skating Rink, the Minnesota-Wisconsin Interstate Park along the St. Croix River Dalles , the DePaul University district of Chicago and Niagara Falls were all new territory for this traveler.

More than three “locals” were interviewed a each stop. Their stories added rich context to the experience. I thank them all from the local journalist, historian, and fellow hospital breakfast clubber in St Croix, Wisconsin along the National Ice Age Trail to the weather aged and well preserved ranch woman, Mrs Cuny at the end of dusty road in one the most remote table islands in of the Bad Lands Lakata Sioux Reservation of Pine Ridge, the former home of Chief Red Cloud and U.S.M.C.Olympian, Billy Mills.

: Thanks to the great community of Davis, CA , the Davis Senior Center Staff, DAM swimming club, and UCDavis for first rate programs that support senior fitness. The Aggies MBB vs UCLA at Pauley/Wooden Arena this weekend. You must be kidding.

: Thanks to the Raleigh Bike Company of England and the UCDavis Aggie Bike Barn for my restored machine. It is fast, light, safe, comfortable, fun and even tracks well in the new snow. It is also fuel efficient and relatively nonpolluting. BTW, wow many of 15,000 in the Climate Brigade who jetted to and from Bali, Indonesia for the recent UN IPCC tribal gathering and pep rally use a bike daily for personal transportation or pleasure?

: Thanks for JCC. It is a welcoming and healthy bit of Brighton and Rochester Jewish life and culture.

: Thanks to George Eastman and the Kodak Company. Rochester institutions and Hollywood are not their only legacies.

: Thanks to Wegman’s. A great place to refuel. Supermarkets will never the same.

: Thanks to all that made holiday music. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra with Sissel on PBS was especially fine.

: Thanks to many friends, family and neighbors along the trail. 2007 has been a memorable ride. BTW, the Internet techies at Sonic, Expression Engine, URMC , JCC, and the Brighton Senior Center continue to impress. Apple, Google, and open source applications continue to Rock and Rule as part of the exclusive PMASS Club .

Finally, one has the sense that the anti-natalist views of the eco Malthusians fear promoters are wearing thin. Prof David Pimental, a bug guy who bio morphed into a global guru at Cornell Ag, the politically active Directors and executives of the Sierra Club, and the carbon climate crowd have tried to temper their message. But, bottom line, it is still old wine, new label. “More people means Disaster” is the staple standard; “Carbon is Poison” is on the label, even the Champagne. So, the sober message for the Holidays if you must drink to enjoy yourself, be responsible and please, do not drive. Brake for Bikers. To have a really Happy 2008, make a baby, but do not mix up the bottles.

Q: What is more dangerous, birthing a baby, performing your own appendectomy, believing that mankind can override Nature and control the enormous forces that drive what we call Climate, serving with the military in Iraq, living in Richmond, California, or driving a vehicle under the influence of drug or alcohol several times a month? Think about it.

BTW, some are still worried because during the summer of 2005 , the Arctic Ocean ice pack was down to a meager 1,500,000 square miles, ten times the area of California. The good new for the concerned is that as of 29 December, 2007, it is really cold and really dark in that Polar region as ice is rapidly being reformed. Because of the polar winter blackout, photos are not available. But, alcohol abuse remains real, reoccurring , and year around problem among the native population.

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[ Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:39 ]

Legacy Journal: The Sunday Funnies and Surprises

Section:
Business

Summary:
This morning, Maureen Dowd, the catty Op-Ed Columnist at the nytimes opines that Mitt’s No J.F.K.. Apparently, shameless, she borrowed the phrase from Woodward, a recent 0p-Ed Contributor. As previously noted here, he borrowed it from the late LLoyd Bentsen of Texas.

Main:
“ To borrow a cup sugar from a neighbor without permission is stealing. To borrowing someone writing without attribution is plagarism and may get you kicked out of school. To borrow ideas from everyone is called research.” --- a olde mentor and others.

“ Never look back in business, if you do, you’ll lose your nerve.” ---- Robert O. Anderson nytimes obituary

: We note that Dowd did a phone interview with, and quoted fellow writer , Jon Krahauer, author of Under the Banner of Heaven. Both seem to find the 1820 upstate New York roots of Mormonism, the role of Brigham Young in the settling the West and the founding of the Beehive state., the presence of Mormon Temples in places like Washington, D.C., and presidential candidates that do not feel compelled to publicly discuss their undergarments as, well, troubling to some at best and dangerous to the rest of us at worst. Those narrow views are also shared by some towards observant members of the Jewish faith and about the possible role of Boston’s Cardinal Cushing during the early 1960’s American advisory “involvement” in Vietnam --- one of many JFK presidential high risk “courageous” adventures. In the end, MS Dowd, is correct. At age 60, Mitt Romney is not the forever 46 years young JFK of her youth. BTW, LDS, founder, Joseph Smith was killed by a mob at the age of 39 while in jail in a small town in Missouri.

We also note the the First Amendment to the Constitution devotes more space to the establishment and expression clause, than to the freedom of press and speech clause.

:: To many, Robert Anderson was a conservation hero. To others, he was the personification of the Environmental Movement’s worse nightmare. A Los Angeles based oilman and Arco founder, he drilled early and often in New Mexico and Alaska, refined in California, supported Republican candidates, and owned large ranches that ran cattle by the thousands. Five strikes and you take a protester’s pie to the face. Anderson was also an early contributor to the Muir Institute housed at UCDavis. Early on, he was acutely aware of the risk’s involved in the counties growing dependence on foreign sources of oil, and he was an active participant and supporter of the summer think tank gathering at the Aspen Institute in Colorado.

::: Finally, what if the writers went on strike and there was not late night performers? Would Oprah take her show on the road? Would Hillary gaffs go unnoticed? Would comedy, satire, and fiction be found only in print?

Meanwhile, one can expect a blizzard of climate news this next week from Oslo and Bali.

BTW, could it be that some Catholics are cranky with the Mormons because of a MBB BYU victory over the Notre Dame Irish? Maybe it was just a cold cup of coffee at Marriott’s.

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