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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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[ Sunday, September 07, 2008 07:51 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Surprises

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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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[ Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:49 ]

Legacy Journal: Walking with Religion---Walking with Nature

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By my light’s Americans are tolerant about religion and like to get up close to the wonders of the Natural World.

There are to recent examples that illustrate the point. First is the from a study commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust part of the $ 300 billion dollar a year American philanthropy community. Second is Rochester, NY’s Maplewood area along the lower Genessee River Trail

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* The finding the Pews Study of Religion in America includes the fact that Americans tend to be believers, and that they are tolerance of the idea of that there is more than way to practice a religious life.

A recent glorious morning among fellow bikers, hikers, stroolers, and exercisers was spent by a group of senior Oscher Life Long Learning Institute at RIT class members who were led by Hal Schuler. The area is the Center of Catholic Rochester on the bluffs above the gorge of the lower Genesee that for 10,000 years has been exposing a stratified geologic history of more than 400,000,000 years before ending it winding way to Lake Ontario.

What is striking is the juxtaposition of nature and the revolutionary power of technology to change the both the landscape and the human environment and culture.
Yankee enterprise was at work in land deals, shipping by sail, steam and modern barge, building bridges and the Erie Canal, dams, water systems, hydroelectric generating plants, and global companies like Eastman Kodak.

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[ Friday, April 11, 2008 12:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Mustang- Myths, Mascots and Machines

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Essays

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“The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.” --- An Arab Proverb.

“Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances ... The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action ...” ----- D.H. Lawrence

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”
------ Winston Churchill

: “The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.”
------- J.Frank Dobie- Texan Folklorist, of the Mustangs

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: The mustang is a feral horse with Spanish roots that has ranged the western part of the North American continent for more than 500 years. In the north western Spanish empire in the New World, Native American tribes valued the trained “Big Dogs” and acquired them as the opportunity presented itself. Failing that, they did domesticate the feral fall out and leavings. The horse has evolved and adapted to the conditions of the west: dry deserts, rocky and steep terrain, harsh winters, and scant grass and browse.
Today, BML land in Harney County and the Steens Mountain south east of Burns, Oregon is the home of the Kiger Mustang, the model for the animated movie Spirit of Cimarron.

:: The mustang is the mascot of SMU, UCDavis, Cal State at SLO, and the former Malin, H.S. , Oregon state “B” champions in football and basketball.

::: Ford Mustang automobile, the Mustang fighter aircraft, and various power speed boats are example of compact high performance machines.

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[ Saturday, April 05, 2008 05:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Science Session

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Science and Technology

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“I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science.” - From a letter to Asa Gray, Harvard biology professor, cited in Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation, N.C. Gillespie, p.2)

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections,—a mere heart of stone”

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children”

--------- Charles Darwin

The preserved collection of the voluminous correspondence of Charles Darwin fills volumes and is the source of much of the current spate of publications on the man, his methods and his motives. Part of that legacy can be found in the UK at the Darwin Correspondence Project.

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: Asa Gray, Born 1810 in Oneida C. NY ,Fisher Professor of natural history, and Herbarium Director, Harvard University, 1842–88. Wrote numerous botanical textbooks and works on North American flora. President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1863–73; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1872; a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 1874–88. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1873. One of his collectors was John C. Fremont.

The Herbarium is part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History which shares its site with the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnography. The botany department, museum and medical school have graduated the drug culture cult hero, Andrew Weil of Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Arizona.

Recently, part of the Gray Darwin correspondence, quote #2) has been lifted from Gillespie and used to attack the scientific (hypothesis, theory) of evolution and elevate the “theory of Creation Science”.

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[ Monday, March 03, 2008 14:19 ]

Legacy Journal: William F. Buckley

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Politics

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William F. Buckley, Jr and John F. Kennedy both visited Eugene and the University of Oregon in 1959-60. Both were impressive men to those of us who were young sophomores and unsophisticated, small town country rubes. We knew we has seen the elephant.

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We did read the newspaper and watch B&W TV so were were aware of the that writer Buckley was tilting the windmills of Godless Yale University. Kennedy was preparing his bold move from the Senate to the White House.

Both were tall, tanned, elegant, articulate, and to the manor born. The Ivy League was part of their shared pedigree.

WFB’s UofO forum was the Fishbowl in the Student Union where he spoke without notes in patrician tones about what, I do not recall. But his style was memorable. His tailored suit was without a crease, the knot of his tire was just right, his posture and diction were perfect, his message was cool, clear and logical.

JFK’s college appearance was a quick Q&A with a small campus group gathered at the cramped studio of the campus radio station.

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[ Saturday, February 16, 2008 08:23 ]

Legacy Journal:Weather Futures

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Environment

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* Apparently, there is uncertainty and market risk in the weather. Using the Chicago Exchange, snow shovel manufacturers are able to hedge their inventory by purchasing a form of insurance called a weather future. Business is reported to be brisk.

Meanwhile, snow and cold continues across the county.

* The flag at the local Mormon gathering place is still a half mast with the passing of the LDS leader.

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