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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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[ 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?

Main:
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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[ Thursday, May 15, 2008 08:06 ]

Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.

Section:
Watercooler

Summary:

A run up to the Olympic Games 080808

Main:
I do not recall a time that I have not regarded water from a mostly positive point of view. Maybe it it the surname Fisk, Swedish for fish; maybe it is a vestigial DNA remnant from a former Chinook salmon tree of life ancestor.

Oh, there was a little chop along the way. I recall the time I had to pull my two year old sister out of the deep freeze drink when she fell through an ice bridge while crossing a rushing Strawberry Creek that ran through Grandpa’s place where we were otherwise spending a traditional, safe , cozy, kid centered eastern Oregon Christmas. Today, she has no recollection of the event.

Come to think of it, I have experienced some seasick moments crossing the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River at Astoria, and rolling with the waves in a storm while waiting to dock at the lime stone cliffs Dover after an English Channel ferry crossing on. But, those were mostly no harm - no foul events.

Water for me is all about fun, motion, beauty and power.

My Rites of Passage included climbing up Horsetail Falls with a full pack into the Desolation Wilderness Area above Lake Tahoe to the granite moonscape of the high Sierra that is the snowy source of the American River, fishing behind beaver dams on the Klamath Indian Reservation, SCUB diving solo in mile high alpine Lake Strawberry, spring time water skiing on Lake Shasta with all of my 34 Malin H.S. senior classmates, and carving a pattern of syncopated 15 ft rooster tails behind a single fiberglass slolom ski while skimming across glassy smooth surface of Lake-of-the-Woods during quiet midweek evening after work at the Klamath Fall molding plant.

Watching white water pound over the spillways at Grande Coulee, Bonneville, and Hoover Dams was also part of my experience exploring the American west .

Another part of my expanding experience included the waves of the warm Atlantic in Southern Florida. Even the wind driven, poison laden Portuguese Men-of-War cast up on the beach could not deter youthful curiosity.

The lure of water adventuring matured into vacations to Makaha Beach for viewing the Surfing Championships and weekend sailing in western San Francisco Bay from a berth in Sausalito, and bare-boat cruising in the the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. Free diving the reefs, challenging the surge of the surf and tides among the lava flows and cavorting with the dolphins around the Capt Cook Memorial in Hawaii’s Kialakekua Bay was part of the fun and part of the adventure challenge.

However, the best was yet to come with a two year experience with the DAM swimming club in Davis, CA. A local, the non Marvel comic character, Ironman Triathlete Dave Scott, was the founding coach of that group, now largest Masters Club in the U.S.A. For two years on a 0545 and 1000 AM x 7 day x 52week schedule, I learned about the power of swimming, I had missed watching Johnny Weismuller on Tarzan B-W films, taking summer polio season swimming lessons at the Redmond Community Pool , or later doing after work laps in the Malin Community pool in hopes of making a University frosh swimming team.

What I had previously missed was the power of good technique, proper coaching, disciplined practice and group support. Much of my group support came from charter Davis DAM members and workout regulars like Steve Watson, Harry Colvin, Susan Munn, and Lucille Richards. They, and others, were youthful beyond their seventy plus years. One result was a trip to St. George, Utah, the Huntsman Senior Games, and a swimming event metal.

Among our group, there was a running debate as to who or what had launched our shared love of the water. Truth to be told, in the men’s dressing room, the usual winner was the ever youthful Esther Williams. I can not speak to the conversations in the women’s dressing room.

However, I can guarantee that the DAM dressing room chatter will be focused on Olympic Swimming times and records come August, 2008 in Bejiing China

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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

Section:
Environment

Summary:

“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson. Chandler Hereford’s of Baker, Oregon agrees.

Main:

Going Green at Sixteen by Doug Fisk, May 2008

For the Fisks and the Forrests mid-July in the fifies was a time for three generations to gather and Go Green.

On working cattle ranches in the upper John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, haying season was and is serious business and a heck of a lot of fun.

The Forrest ranch is 4,000 acre spread located just up river to the east of the pioneer village of Prairie City. In its “hayday” “the ranch” was a cow and calf operation that shipped 1200 lb, lean and meaty 2year old grass fat steers to the Portland market or to a buyer from Safeway markets. The deal was usually make on a handshake,

One square mile of the ranch was green irrigated wild natural meadow grass that was mowed, sun dryed, winnow raked into rows, bucked up in bunches, and piled into loose two story high mounds using an overshot stacker. It was kind of a 2 weeks blitzkrieg that was hopefully free of thundershowers. The harvest result became winter fodder and the only feed for the herd of carefully bred Herefords. Home grown, individually selected, broad beamed cows, their gestating calves to be, range bulls imported from Red Bluff, CA, this year’s weaners, and last year’s yearlings were all the beneficiaries of open field winter feedings that were hand pitched daily from a low-rider hay wagon. It was a cycle that was self sustaining, season driven and largely powered by machines that had replaced the preWWII one, two, and four horse powered teams hitched to primitive iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopied WWII jeep pulled the winnow rack, and the power hay bucks, pickup victims of road kill that were rescued, repaired and given new life in the winter shop. darted about the field like hounds fetching rabbits. A big green stationary John Deere diesel was outfitted with a long ponderosa pine fork received the catch for overshot loose hay stacking in the field

The machine operators were mostly family high schoolers who gathered from around the state to bunk out at Uncle Orrin’s ranch, help in the kitchen, feast and put on weight around Auntie Christina’s huge table, man the equipment, and shoot some spirited pool in the basement after the evening chores were finished. My red haired teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the youthful annual gathering of the youthful hay crew.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a Prairie City townie, and I were the designated power hay buck jockeys. We had a spirited racing competition. Our cockpit perches were open air, the wind was in our unprotected faces, the bugs between out teeth , and our saddle-like seats were unbelted. The game was to see who could deliver the most hay to the stacker from soggy and slippery ditch banks and from the far fences bordering the fields. The hazards included the ignomy of getting stuck in the mud or running a fork down a gopher hole. The competition continued after dinner around the green felt pool table in ranch house basement with Uncle Orrin quietly and approvingly looking on.
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His ancient fiddle and his player piano was by that time mute and unused upstairs in the parlor where Strawberry Mountain to the south was framed in a picture window.

The times, they do change. The ranch was a major part of my uncle’s life. He had passed on college to inherit the property from Grandpa Clyde. That was the verbal bargain they made made many years prior and he had no regrets. However, were he alive today, he would be saddened, if not despirited, by recent news. The ranch has been sold by the third generation to the Consolidated Indian Tribes of the Warms Springs out of Madris on the Deschutes River near Billy Chinook Resevoir. The tribe is now the largest private land owners in the state.

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[ Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition: Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
* George Will recently brought to our attention that Compassionate Conservatives a better givers than Liberals

That reminds us of a recently passed health insurance coverage mandate in Arizona. It is for an expensive, intense, and unproven treatment for early childhood autism. This is an example of a non-evidence based public policy favoring a small group at the expense of others including rate payers and those denied benefits of expensive but clinically effective treatments like organ transplants.

* This week a group of global warming gurus are meeting in Aspen, Colorado where the ski season has been spectacular. One story has been on large sea ice sheets become detached and exposing the face and underbelly advancing glaciers. One Stanford based “Climate Scientist” with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering appears to be concerned about the heat generated by the rock on rock rubbing at the glacial - gravel interface. The result is water that lubricates and accelerates the glacially march to the sea where may tend to change local salinity and raise ocean levels over centuries. Hum.

Main:
: It appears that Conservatives contribute both time and treasure to causes that are often faith based. Yes, Mormons are expected to tithe. Environmental
preachers are not.

:: Special interest insurance mandates are an example of an economic moral hazard. In the case of mandating coverage of chest spiral CT for screening smokers for early lung cancer appears to also included an unknown financial conflict of interest on the part of at least one Columbia University Weil Medical Center radiologist.

::: Meanwhile, the temperature in Aspen last night was a cool 29.

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[ Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:56 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
Early Indian Affairs in the Far West: California Missions, Exploration of the Oregon Territory, Fremont and Carson, the California Connection, and the Klamath Basin Tribes.

Main:
The Hudson Bay Company, Coastal Exploration, Astoria, and the War of 1812

Junipero Serra: Spain, Mexico and the Californios of Monterey

* Peter Ogden and the fur traders

** The Bear Flag Rebellion

* Dr. John Marsh and General Marianna Vallejo of Sonoma

Captain Jack and the Modoc Indian War http://www.klamathtribes.org/

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