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[ Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:25 ]

Legacy Journal: Iowa caucus Populists meet the world of realpolitic & the Pakistani Peaple’s Party

Section:
Politics

Summary:
“ To understand the game of basketball, watch the action away for the ball.” —a literate Knick fan.

?Q?: Who initiated Pakistan’s Nuclear Strategy? What are the two “official languages of Pakistan?

Iowa voters are courted and recharacterized every four years. The state’s early system of caucus primaries is highly unique, a bit curious, not quickly explained, and more than a little quixotic. That brings us to presidential candidate Mike Huchabee of Arkansas, the Bhutto’s, and the People’s Party of Pakistan in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Faith, Family, and Freedom is the Huchabee calling card . The PPP creed is: “Islam is our faith; democracy is our politics; socialism is our economy; all power to the people.”

Today, we learned that Mike Huckabee appears to relatively uniformed about Pakistan, some basic facts on immigration, and the pressing need to control nuclear power. We also learned with the reading of the will of the martyred Benazir Bhutto, self proclaimed, PPP “Chairperson for Life”, that the family political fiefdom founded by her father, aristocrat, Zulifair Ali Bhutto, will be continued in the person of a 19 year old son, Bilawali Bhutto Zurdai, a first student at Oxford University in England. His father, a well connected, cafe society, polo playing and convicted 10% fee taker, Asif Ali Furdai, will be a placeholder. Meanwhile, back in Switzerland, the snow slopes and boarding schools are being prepared for the return of the rich and famous.

Main:
So, Iowa prepares to be the lead off state in the fast paced and daunting task of winnowing the field from which the leader of the free world will be determined. Is Mike Huchabee of Arkansas that man?

Meanwhile, in the world’s 6th most populated nation, the clans, the Khans, the imams, the elites, the media, the military, the civil service, the feudal tax collectors from peasant farmers in provinces like Sindh with 60 million people in the south east Indus Valley bordering the Indian Ocean, and expatriots, including the estimated 500,000 in the United States, are attempting to participate in a byzantine power politics arena where nuclear power and technology are part of the volatile mix. Not to be missed is the question of were oil pipe lines from the Caspian region are going to cross on their way to ports and China markets.

Q&A: * PPP founder, and former Prime Minister, the father of Benazir Bhutto. English and Urdu.

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[ Saturday, December 22, 2007 08:39 ]

Legacy Journal: Mitt Romney: the HD Man

Section:
News: National

Summary:
Mitt Romney is emerging one the authentic HD primary candidates for president.

Main:
The PBS Lehrer News Hour has gone HD just in time for the political candidates to send out their videos. Christmas messages. The critics and pundits who life and die covering domestic campaign and elective politics have been quick to weigh in. Some spots appear spontaneous, authentic, and smart. Others are judged to be contrived, scripted, and dumb.

We think that Huckabee and Romney will both benefit in the dawning HD video world.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/22 at 08:39 AM
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[ Monday, December 17, 2007 09:43 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Previews

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FrontPage

Summary:
“Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?” --- Richard Feynman

* This morning, national ABC TV Weatherman Sam Champion was forecasting from snow storm central, Rochester, NY. The area is 300% above normal snow fall for this date in the season. One third of the normal seasonal quota has already been filled and winter has not officially started! But, raw numbers can be misleading. At 0800 the sun was out and the sky was cloudless. Some schools closed, others were open. Folks were out to work, clearing, shoveling, plowing and shopping.

During the last week, there was one day without a US troop death. Is the surge working? At the John Wooden Classic MBB in Indianapolis, Purdue hosted and defeated rated Louisville and Rich Patino while starting four freshmen. Therefore, are rankings misleading? Wooden is reported to have graduated 19th in his class at a time Purdue had 4,000 students. His first job after graduation was as a classroom English teacher at a small high school.

* Meanwhile, billions of dollars are being pledged to help jump start a new state of Palestine, new species have been discovered and described regularly in remote, barely explored places like the highlands of New Guinea, and the quality of life and the choices available has never been better for more people.

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Meanwhile, guilt, uncertainty, and fear continue, as usual. Understanding positive parts of the three News Summaries are part of the antedote.

: Above and below normal or average is common and not a cause for concern. Take the weather. Complex system events like winds, ocean currents, cloud formation, precipitation patterns and temperature variation are like many events in the natural world where change and chaos are in play. Predication and forecasting are difficult even with real time monitoring, massive computer modeling by the NWB, and constant updating of data. General patterns do exist, but the action on the ground is usually very locale specific and novel. What is true in downtown Rochester, or next to Lake Ontario may well not apply a mile south over the hill in Brighton’s Summit Dr. neighborhood. Furthermore, preliminary results reported by numbers like 1/3 d and 300% do not indicate trends that will continue for the remainder of the season. The same is true of the early season non-conference road record of the basketball Cardinal team.

:: And that brings us to Coach Wooden and sport. To the best of my knowledge, he has never run for public office, been appointed to a position of power and privilege, lived a life of ease and luxury, or been paid for a product endorsement. He has written a simple book of Wooden Wisdom. So, what makes him and others different from many in the current Y generation?

::: So, some critics and cynics focus on the failures of the past, others chose to travel the tough, slow, uncharted road to peace in the Middle East. One such traveler is football fan, the U.S. Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Another person of character is the ant guy, E. O. Wilson. He has written that fewer than 25% of the worlds species have been discovered, described, named, archived and studied.

And finally, who can fail to be impressed by the demonstrated virtue of Charity and giving by the American public.

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[ Friday, December 14, 2007 07:00 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Summary: Testing standards for steroids, HGH, and carbon dioxide.

Section:
Commentary

Summary:

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”

Question?:

#1: What is the “best quess” average surface land temperature of the continental United States?

#2; What is the absolute increase over 50 years in the the carbon dioxide concentration in ppm as measured by Keeling and displayed by his Curve at Mauna Loa, Hawaii?

The UN IPCC Bali fest is over and without significant results. No Highs. No Lows. No Home Runs. Blame the U.S and the current administration, feed the press predictions of corral extinction and island flooding, release baby turtles into tide pools, and return to the snows storms of New York City if your jet can get clearance to land. But, the jet trails from Bali are a sign of more meeting over the next two years to put meat on the bones and numbers on the Road Map. Rest assured that no meeting will be held in a midwest Interstate truck stop diner.

The stats of climate sceptic Bjorn Lomborg continue to be fairly report by the press in his native country, Denmark.

Main:
Revkin of Dot Earth blog site at the nytimes stayed home in NYC while colleagues covered Bali and the San Francisco meeting of the American GeoPhysical Union. Coral reef bleaching by warm acidic tropical ocean waters is one of Revkin’s concerns. He also covers the Arctic region ---during the summer. Beware of pictures of Polar bears in full sunlight in winter time articles.

Meanwhile, the Mitchell Report has been released. The position of the Unions that represent most American Professional Athletes is now clear. They oppose using blood to test for performance enhancing drug, some of which could be used for filling criminal charges. Urine testing for metabolic products has become more sophisticated, but if you want the unfiltered truth, go for the serum. That is were the action is. For an accurate, precise and definitive result, your doctor will order a blood test. Diabete? Pregnacy? Hepatitis? Hypothyroid? Malaria? Menopause? The tests quick, inexpensive, automated, and widely available. Tests for HGH was available now; more are on their way to the marketplace.
90% certainty by be good enough for the UN IPCC. Blood test for pregnancy are > 99.9%. Welcome to the world of black or white, yes or nor, right or wrong, eat or west, up or down. Get over it.

Answer: #1:

54 degrees F. The average temperature would be lower if you included Alaska, Canada and their ice masses and the surface temperatures of their contiguous waters.

#2: 50-70 ppm. The average is less than one ppm per year. The initial 1958 reading was 320 ppm. That is an absolute interval change of 0.007% ! Remember we a talking parts per million here. Water vapor is the primary atmospheric driver in maintaining a remarkably stable average temperature of planet Earth. The earth’s orbit, tilt and the Sun’s radiant output are of course dynamic external variables.

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[ Monday, December 10, 2007 12:37 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Outlook

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
By all accounts, on this Monday the World seems to getting on with the business of get on.

* Al Gore and Rajendra K. Pachauri accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today in cold and snowy Oslo, Norway. Both will be departing by jet to attend the two week long Climate Crisis IPPC conclave on the beaches of balmy Bali, Indonesia.

The Boston Patriots continue to shine for the NFL and their New England fans in the night chill of their home field. Average NFL attendance was over 65,000 per contest. It could have been worse as ice and snow continue to make headlines. The Sunday NYtimes travel section was filled with ads for trips west to the ski reports in Aspen, Colorado, Taos, New Mexico, and Park City, Utah.

* Today’s stock market opening was Strong, jobs are available in Rochester, NY and elsewhere, U.S troop casualties in Iraq continue to decline, credit for consumers and home buyers is available, charitable giving and donations remains robust, and many a kid seems to be infected with the spirit of the Holiday Season.

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Meanwhile, we note that:

: Maureen Dowd’s, Mitt’s No J.F.K. Friday nytimes Op-Ed article is on Popular list, ranking just ahead of an article on Squash for Kids Who says nytimes readers do not have their priorities straight?.

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