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[ Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:18 ]

Legacy Journal:080808: The China Olympic Games

Section:
Sports

Summary:
So far the media as covered its own version the first Olympics to be conducted in China. That version has been built around contrived controversy from the start: human rights, minority protests, security suffocation, environmental pollution, demonstrations, disruptions, displacement, performance enhancement, the presumed pressure of “representing one’s country” on poised 16 female gymnasts.

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For example:

* More NBC coverage was given to a former minor U.S.Olympian who had his passport revoked by China when he stated his goal of using the occasion of the Games as a
global podium for protesting Sudan human right violations in Darfur.

* A recently nationalized black African will be he standard bearer for the U.S. team at the Games opening ceremonies.

* Today, prior to entering China to attend the ceremonies, President Bush made public statements pointing to the PRC’s unsatisfactory record on rights.

* Some U.S. cyclists deplaned into the country wearing filtering air masks.

* Local food sources have been suspect and frozen Tyson’s chicken has been imported from Arkansas.

* We can only speculate on the source of water for locally bottled Coca Cola, of McDonald’s hamburger, of piazza in the Village, and Phelps breakfast fuel--- pancakes.

* Meanwhile, it has been announced that China is the second leading auto market in the world, that Chevys are flying off the show room floors, and the Marlbaro man is alive and well in China. But, Viagra has not replaced rhino horn in the traditional Chinese medicine shops.

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[ Sunday, July 13, 2008 12:03 ]

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

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
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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[ Sunday, June 15, 2008 12:20 ]

Legacy Journal: Defending the First Amendment

Section:
Legal

Summary:
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic” --- Justice Holmes

The ACLU, the Press, Madison Avenue, and Libertarians are among the most vigorous defenders of freedoms of speech and the press. However, there are clearly limits that involve the law, abuse of the privilege, and notable ethical lapses, if not double standards, by prominent journalists.

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The word of Holmes speak for themselves. Clearly, the recent case of the new Chief Judge of the 9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, the colorful, libertarian Romania born resident of Rancho Palos Verde, is an example of an abuse of judicial power, privilege and public trust. Even the venerated Tim Russert, a blue color sports fan from south Buffallo, was among many who failed to call shock jock Don Imis to task for his intemperate ad hominum radio slur against black members of a NCAA championship woman’s basketball team.

The facts in the Kozinski case are ,as they say , “in dispute”. What appear to be so it that the Judge had access to a server, a registered vanity internet domain name, and that he frequently uploaded and accessed files of questionable taste and origin from his judicial court offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. What he did and did not do while at home and on the road is unclear. What is not is dispute is that the Judge is colorful, even flamboyant, writes frequently for the popular press, and claims to have more than a passing interest and knowledge of computers.

What the folks at the gym and the water cooler expect is that the judicial entitlements that come with even the narrowest and most partisan of Senate approvals nominees, carries with it the responsibility of at least the public appearance of judicial probity by the high priesthood of the Federal Courts.

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[ Tuesday, June 03, 2008 07:20 ]

Legacy Journal: Water: the Wilds of Wyoming and Beijing, China---A western perspective.

Section:
Sports

Summary:
What do the sparse wastelands of Wyoming and the Olympic architecture of urban Bejing, China have in common?

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Well, to some folks based in and writing for publication from New York City, both places are foreign, exotic, strange, and not easy to understand, a visit not withstanding.

* Take the current report about a spring of wet weather in Wyoming. The nytimes finds that newsworthy and a bit unusual. So, now it is now possible for trees to grow, meadow larks to sing, prong horn antelope and cattle to graze. Meanwhile, there may even be a hay crop from down by the creek. No wonder Jackie Kennedy wanted her son to get out of town for the summer and get some seasoning and common sense experience on a friend’s working Wyoming cattle ranch.

* And then there is the story of the National Aquatics Center, “The Water Cube” in Bejing the site of the 42 swimming events over two week during the 2008 Olympic Games. The place cost over $100 million in contributed funds from non mainland Chinese sources, was designed by an Australian firm, seats 17,000 and has a light weight, semi-translucent, petroleum based ,Teflon like ceiling. So, what is not to like about that?. A writer for the current New Yorker magazine finds much to comment on including the Chinese way of doing urban planning and residential relocation.

Apparently, some writers need to take a lesson from Frederick West Lander and get out of town and into the field of battle more often.

BTW: Frederick West Lander was an eastern engineer who went went west with the Army and later surveyed for the railroads as they snaked their way across the county’s arrid and hostile trans Mississippi frontier in a series of fits and starts.

Ball’s Bluff ( The Battle of Ball’s Bluff during the Civil War on the Potomic River near Washington.)
(by Frederick West Lander)

Aye, deem us proud, for we are more
Than proud of all our mighty dead;
Proud of the bleak and rock-bound shore,
A crowned oppressor cannot tread.

Proud of each rock, and wood, and glen;
Of every river, lake and plain;
Proud of the calm and earnest men
Who claim the right and the will to reign.

Proud of the men who gave us birth,
Who battled with the stormy wave
To sweep the red man from the earth,
And build their homes upon their grave.

Proud of the holy summer morn
They traced in blood upon its sod;
The rights of freemen yet unborn;
Proud of their language and their God.

Proud that beneath our proudest dome
And round the cottage-cradled hearth
There is a welcome and a home
For every stricken race on earth.

Proud that yon slowly sinking sun
Saw drowning lips grow white in prayer,
O’er such brief acts of duty done,
As honor gathers from despair.

Pride, it is our watchword; “clear the boats”
“Holmes, Putnam, Bartlett, Peirson-Here”
And while this crazy wherry floats
“Let’s save our wounded”, cries Revere.

Old State—some souls are rudely sped --
This record for thy Twentieth Corps --
Imprisoned, wounded, dying, dead,
It only asks, “Has Sparta more?”

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[ Sunday, June 01, 2008 10:15 ]

Legacy Journal: Pops Music at the Eastman in Rochester

Section:
Music

Summary:
The Rochester Pops musical series, sponsored by Wegman’s is now complete. The last performance of the season at the Eastman Theater was a classy warmup to the upcoming Rochester International Jazz Festival. Featured was fun from the stage and toe tapping music from the streets if New Orleans, the stages of New York, and music scores from Hollywood. Armstrong, Gillespie and Gershwin flowed from the performers backed by big sounds from the augmented orchestra. The big bass, voice, percussion, and acoustic bass guitar were particularly outstanding.

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One personal flashback memory was from a live performance by Peter Nero at a Gill Coliseum in Corvallis Oregon in the spring of 1964. Gershwin and Rhapsody in Blue were put into play at Oregon State University.

* Other memories of live music performance venues include the Boston Pops in the Charles River, the Hollywood Bowl, Albert Hall in London, the Monvavi Center for the Performing Arts, the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall, Stern Grove in The City, Lincoln Center, the Dorothy Chandler, and others

The lesson is this. All world class performers relate to their audience, take their craft seriously, practice and improve incrementally, and have fun doing what they do.

Meanwhile see you at Tanglewood, Aspen, the finger lakes, or .....

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[ Saturday, April 19, 2008 07:57 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday West timeline, first Native American “fossil” and Tracktown.

Section:
None

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* Fossils: A Fecal Trail in the Oregon Desert near Paisley Caves and Summer Lake . Cressman and the UofO Museum of Culture and Natural History.
Rock Hounds in the Great Basin.

A 1840-50 Western time line.

* Duel track meet in Eugene, Oregon, Track town USA

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: To quote Larry McMurty on poet Janet Lewis after the death of her husband: “she did go back to the desert, to the places of the pueblo peoples, the Hopi and Navajo, peoples who appear to live in harmony with the eternal simplicities: sun, stone, sky. She ponders a fossil:”

In quiet dark transformed to stone,
Cell after cell to crystal grown,
The pattern stays, the substance gone….

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::: If it is a Saturday in the spring in Eugene, it is time for a classic retro duel track meet between the men of UCLA and the Tiger Ducks of the UofO

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[ Saturday, April 12, 2008 06:38 ]

Legacy Journal:Ranch Memoires

Section:
Sons and Daughters

Summary:
* Mission Ranch, Carmel, CA

“Make my Weekend !”

* The sea side Gathering Place.

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