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[ Thursday, May 01, 2008 09:59 ]
Legacy Journal: May Day Musings: Muddling through the Maize
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Climate Change
Summary:
Sacred Cows seem to be falling and reinvented by the Hour. Consider the evidence:
* Gas was first too cheap and polluting, then it too scarce and taxes on diesel fuel was taking bread and tacos off the table of trucker’s kids.
* Americans was being going crazy and driven to the grave because of a diet of corn products; now it is time to wear hair shirts because of an global shortfall in stable cereals in the Third World, due partly because of drought, climate change, agricultural protectionism, and an emerging plague of wheat rust from Uganda.
* First there was the separation of church and state; the a presidential primary candidate from Chicago publicly divorces his pastor of 20 years after a voluntary and consensual association that included conversion, church membership, marriage, children’s baptisms, and Sunday service attendance.
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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.
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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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[ Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:49 ]
Legacy Journal: Wacko Wednesday
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Markets
Summary:
Tom Friedman continues his nytimes column on his view of the future of technology, energy, and the role of 700 million Indians in the coming Brave New Green World of carbon trading derivatives.
Currently, some very smart executives and Wall Street players are paying the heavy price of not knowing the fundamental value of “ Junk “ home mortgage backed financial instruments. Derivatives if you will. General Motors and Bear Stearns are the latest in the lineup. More accounting standards enforces write offs against current profits are anticipated. The future of carbon trading is murky and shares a built in flaw with other “derived” finance instrument. That would be a lack of accepted standards and mechanisms for pricing, valuing, measuring and enforcing accountability of carbon based credits and debits.
One wag has proposed color coding electrons so that electricity meters in say, the elevators of NYC high rises could sort out the source of the power used. Now, there is an opportunity for some smart E2K programmers.
Dot Earth blogger, at the nytimes weighs in with more Wednesday Wackiness. A Foster City California project is setting sail to play Captain Pirate of a scheme to capture the rights to carbon trapping plankton on the high seas. Some folks must be spend far to much time watching reruns of Johnnie Deept movies.
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The mood of the Heartland was measured by yesterday’s election results:
* Utah rejected a proposal to provide state wide vouches to public school students.
* Oregon rejected a proposal to add to the state tax on cigarettes to provide medical care to poor kids not covered by Medicaid.
* In New York, the State Legislature and the Monroe Count Legislature remains Red.
* A town in the western upstate NY county of Wyoming voted against a proposed large commercial turbine based Big Wind Farm project in their neighborhood. The proposal is thought to be based downwind in Massachusetts.
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* Injured race horses and other ill animals are humanly and regularly “put down.” Yet, it appears that is not technically possible according to the sources for those legal reporters covering death penalty issues before the courts.
* Important legal and political issues in Pakistan continue to be reported without context as though events in the street are being played out in some small town in Louisiana.
* The temperature today in Rochester is 10 degrees below “normal” and there is light snow on some home roofs that are on rises in the southern part of Brighton, Monroe County, NY
* The local paper has been recognized by an independent trade group is accessing over 80% of its potential market within its service area. That is a # 1 ranking. Among those serviced are a large and growing number of foreign born, young professional east Indians, Asians and Europeans. The University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital and affiliated groups, Xerox, Eastman, and Bauch and Lomb are continuing talent magnets.
* Speaking of snow, USA Today reports that the National Park Service is considering closing the eastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park for the winter. A 8,550 ft. pass west of Cody, Wyoming is used by outfitters for really hardy and fit high mountain skiers, trekkers, and snowshoers.
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