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[ Wednesday, September 10, 2008 06:02 ]

Legacy Journal: Wednesday Time to Weed out the Word Wars.

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” --- George Orwell

* If it is Wednesday, it is time to be clear as to your message by weeding out the weasel words and the demeaning metaphors. ”Implied Racism” and “lipstick on pigs” come immediately to mind. Meanwhile, Per Diem Gate is percolating and whose kids attend the fight kind of schools is the stuff of watercooler chatter.

Tuesday night at WXXI PBS Rochester,NY, featured a repeat of the Frontline production on “Bush’s War” and the second night of a pledge drive. The first team of phone bank volunteers included members from RIT OLLI. WXXI President and CEO, Norm Silverstein was also aboard. There is a connection, in that the CEO of the Bernard Osher Foundation is Mary Bitterman, formerly of KQED, San Francisco.

* Sarah Palin is now under the lights and on the dissecting table. Apparently, while serving as mayor, she asked The City librarian about her general guidelines use to expend public funds including the purchase of new books. The former librarian is not currently making comments except to confirm that no specific book titles or topics were discussed with her boss. However, the community has a history of public comments about books by and for “ the gay community.

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: Now, now boys and girls, it is time for the campaigns to cut the crap and talk straight. Orwell ( Erik Blair) had it right.

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[ Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 ]

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

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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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[ Wednesday, January 09, 2008 06:41 ]

Legacy Journal: Minority Report: Polls, Elections, and Climate Policy

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Commentary

Summary:
* Today, we again learn from New Hampshire that political polls are poor forecasts of election results. Why? Clearly many polls are badly done, many at intended to influence the results, and many voters and consumers disconnect their thoughts, from their verbal reports, and from their actions. The easy analysis is that Granite state voters are independent and make there decisions in the secrecy of the voting booth.

It is not widely reported, but Mitt Romney corralled one third of the New Hampshire Republican vote in a five candidate field led by a maverick hero. That is not a loss. The contest moves on.

* Bjorn Lomborg , the climate change maverick from Denmark is interviewed in the Canadian press. His analysis is worth reading.

Main:
* The national presidential campaign is a marathon race. The 71 year old McCain is impressive, but youth must be put into service in the international area.

Put the pollsters and pundits on the sidelines.

* Meanwhile, Lomborg , a young and thoughtful social scientist, is not pandering to backyard gardeners when is come to policy. He is numbers and data focused.

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[ Thursday, January 03, 2008 07:32 ]

Legacy Journal: Changes are 100 % that Alarms will sound.

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None

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Natural Disasters make for arresting images and a cascade of TV time for was are called “ availability entrepreneurs” by science blogger., Jon Tierney of the nytimes, in his popular and timely New Years piece, “ In 2008, a 100 Percent Change of Alarm.”

(Carmel California, see more at Carmel Scenes.).

* Freezing oranges, tomatoes and strawberries in Florida. No problem for AGW scientists to explain away.

9 degrees Rochester,NY, zero in Des Moines, Iowa. Wait for the warming next week.

* No hurricanes this season. Wait until the next Big One.

Meanwhile, what about the science? Is the tide turning in favor of evidence that is not currently popular, accepted, funded or published?

Main:
A show of hands among the regular gang at the gym shows that most are unconcerned about carbon in the air. They drive to the gym from their fossil fuel heated homes to swim in 83 water, take a steam bath, a sauna, a whirl pool and have some hot coffee and soup while planning their upcoming winter trip to Arizona or Florida or the latest ice hockey scores.

So, what is missing here? Tierney says there is massive misinterpretation of weather.

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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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[ Tuesday, December 18, 2007 07:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Solid Tuesday Knowledge Base

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Commentary

Summary:

“ Many admire, few know.” ---- Hippocrates.

Q: Each member of the U.S. House of Representative is given an allocation for paying the expenses of their offices. What is that amount? What are the restrictions on how these funds are spent?

Useful knowledge sits on a solid time_tested foundation. David Brooks of the nytimes, Robert Betts, MD of URMC, and some physical anthropologists have shed some interesting light on our past, present, and possible future.

* Brooks quotes Isaiah Berlin on politics. That is a good thing.

Betts quotes the medical literature on candida sepsis . That is an instructive thing.

* Scientists examine TB lesions fossilized bones and draw conclusions about vitamin D, sunlight, melanin and patterns of human migration out of Africa. So what does SAD have to do with it?

Main:
: According to Brooks, there may be more to this Clinton vs Obama political primary contest than appeared on the first reading. His essential points are that personal resilience, constancy of character, and a solid world view are necessary for success in office.

:: Robert Betts notes the clinical setting defines the important distinctions between yeast colonization, contamination, and dangerous disease. Most of us carry small amounts if non invasive yeast. Yeast frequently contaminates bladder catheters in women, particularly those on antibiotics. Compared to bacteria, invasive yeast disease is an infrequent cause of death. It is mostly a threat to those on chemotherapy for cancer or post organ transplant immune suppression

::: North bound human migration out of African may have been favored by those mutants with the fewest melanin pigments in the skin. The reason, they were the most efficient vitamin D producers in the low sunlight of the northern latitudes. Interesting, but what about diet as a source of Vitamin D ? What about snow reflected light? For example, cod liver has long been a dietary choice among hunters, gatherers and fishermen in the north.

Meanwhile, scattered sun is forecast this afternoon for Rochester, NY. And, the Russians are doing nuclear deals in Iran. Will the race go the Isaiah Berlin’s metaphorical Hare or to the Hedgehog? Who in congress knows or cares? Pelosi? Boxer? Hunter?

A: One million dollars per year. ??.

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[ Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:39 ]

Legacy Journal: The Sunday Funnies and Surprises

Section:
Business

Summary:
This morning, Maureen Dowd, the catty Op-Ed Columnist at the nytimes opines that Mitt’s No J.F.K.. Apparently, shameless, she borrowed the phrase from Woodward, a recent 0p-Ed Contributor. As previously noted here, he borrowed it from the late LLoyd Bentsen of Texas.

Main:
“ To borrow a cup sugar from a neighbor without permission is stealing. To borrowing someone writing without attribution is plagarism and may get you kicked out of school. To borrow ideas from everyone is called research.” --- a olde mentor and others.

“ Never look back in business, if you do, you’ll lose your nerve.” ---- Robert O. Anderson nytimes obituary

: We note that Dowd did a phone interview with, and quoted fellow writer , Jon Krahauer, author of Under the Banner of Heaven. Both seem to find the 1820 upstate New York roots of Mormonism, the role of Brigham Young in the settling the West and the founding of the Beehive state., the presence of Mormon Temples in places like Washington, D.C., and presidential candidates that do not feel compelled to publicly discuss their undergarments as, well, troubling to some at best and dangerous to the rest of us at worst. Those narrow views are also shared by some towards observant members of the Jewish faith and about the possible role of Boston’s Cardinal Cushing during the early 1960’s American advisory “involvement” in Vietnam --- one of many JFK presidential high risk “courageous” adventures. In the end, MS Dowd, is correct. At age 60, Mitt Romney is not the forever 46 years young JFK of her youth. BTW, LDS, founder, Joseph Smith was killed by a mob at the age of 39 while in jail in a small town in Missouri.

We also note the the First Amendment to the Constitution devotes more space to the establishment and expression clause, than to the freedom of press and speech clause.

:: To many, Robert Anderson was a conservation hero. To others, he was the personification of the Environmental Movement’s worse nightmare. A Los Angeles based oilman and Arco founder, he drilled early and often in New Mexico and Alaska, refined in California, supported Republican candidates, and owned large ranches that ran cattle by the thousands. Five strikes and you take a protester’s pie to the face. Anderson was also an early contributor to the Muir Institute housed at UCDavis. Early on, he was acutely aware of the risk’s involved in the counties growing dependence on foreign sources of oil, and he was an active participant and supporter of the summer think tank gathering at the Aspen Institute in Colorado.

::: Finally, what if the writers went on strike and there was not late night performers? Would Oprah take her show on the road? Would Hillary gaffs go unnoticed? Would comedy, satire, and fiction be found only in print?

Meanwhile, one can expect a blizzard of climate news this next week from Oslo and Bali.

BTW, could it be that some Catholics are cranky with the Mormons because of a MBB BYU victory over the Notre Dame Irish? Maybe it was just a cold cup of coffee at Marriott’s.

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