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[ Friday, September 26, 2008 05:14 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Friday: Family First

Section:

Personals

Summary:

If it is Friday, it is Family First.

Main:



* So, when is the snapshot on the ice going to turn into a slapshot hockey goal?

** It is a good day when the OSU Beavers defeat the USC Trojans on the football field.

*** It may be a good day when members of the do nothing congress want to get out of town and go back home where their friends, families and supporters can message their easily bruised egos and polish their images by pretending to listen to the voters.



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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/26 at 05:14 AM
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[ Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:57 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Thursday Two Step: Fire Alarm or Frozen by Fear

Section:

Editorial

Summary:

Washington, D.C. and the White House have not witnessed so may leader limos at midday in midweek since the returning Olympians were in town for a Rose Garden photo op.

Main:

Congressional leaders, presidential candidates, and the administration are in common cause not to be upstaged by the Wizard of Omaha.  Warren Buffett of Nebraska, and others like BofA , MorganChase, Barclay’s, and Mitsui think big, act decisively, and make fast moves while others posture and talk of taxes, compensation caps, economic justice in the bankrupt courts,  the bad business of bailouts, and protecting the interests of taxpayers.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/25 at 12:57 PM
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[ Monday, September 22, 2008 12:37 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Monday, the First Day of Fall

Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/22 at 12:37 PM
Calendar: • Monday: • Climate: • Climate Noise: • Forecasting: • Environment: • Advocacy: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Lists: • Voice: • Dooms Day: • Humor: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Sunday, September 21, 2008 09:10 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: The Sunday Sermon: Economist Moral Hazard

Section:

Business

Summary:

If it is Sunday is must be time to roll out the interviewees for national television network news programs.  New York, Wall Street, financial services now have Washington’s and the country’s attention.  Elective national politics has temporarily been bumped off the screen by economic events, Sunday NFL Football, and the Emmy Awards.

Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson is the guy in the hot seat.  He appears to accept the economic moral hazard of recent pragmatic institutional rescues by the federal government.  In addition, he seems to affirm that the financial risks and the current value of instruments like nonliquid mortgage backed derivatives are both currently unknowable to even best of financial professionals.

Main:

Tom Brokow retired from NBC has returned to calmly fill the Meet the Press seat vacated by Tim Russert.  His most interesting guest today was a Mayor, Michael Blomberg of NYC. However, on this day, the usual group at This Week on ABC were in over their heads when attempting to unravel and explain the economic facts at play.

The Mayor was cool, clear, concise, balanced and analytical.  He is not a man in search of a job, but he may be a candidate for the role of mortgage, bond, and derivatives Czar.  Markets, governments and legislators would be both informed and reassured by his high profile presence.

He apparently listens as well as he thinks.  Another thought, he may be a candidate for a major post in the new administration.

Meanwhile, he and NYC are facing a 12% reduction in tax receipts over the next fiscal year.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/21 at 09:10 AM
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[ Saturday, September 20, 2008 06:30 PDT ]

Legacy Journal:Laidback Saturday

Section:

Environment

Summary:

While some fixate on the Gorey details of Climate Change and the coming Collapse of world civilization, others are living the dream in paradise places like Hawaii.

Main:



Daughter Tiffany lives in Kona coffee, Captain Cook area on the western side of the Big Island of Hawaii.  Her view perch from the historic Greenwell Family Farm is nearly 1,500 feet above the shoreline of the blue Pacific Ocean. 

Within hiking distance are the Captain Cook Memorial and great surfing at Kealakekua Bay, Kona Coffee plantations, the Amy Greenwell Bishop Ethnobotanical Native Plant gardens, and the local Kona Historical Society site.

The hippy refugee and breakfast site, the Manago Hotel, is just around the corner. The ocean side City of Refuge National Park is a short distance down Naapoopo Rd

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/20 at 06:30 AM
Calendar: • Saturday: • Cherry Picking: • Climate: • Climate Chronicles: • Culture Clash: • Environment: • Family: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Perpetual Green: • Weather Watch: • Wow Factor: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Friday, September 19, 2008 09:18 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final

Section:

Commentary

Summary:

The past week has been eventful:

*  The New York City bases financial services market has experienced a case of the chickens coming home to rest as a combination of problems like “borrowing short and lending long” based derivatives, lack of credit, and lack of trust have impacted both the locals and the globals.


**  Osher Senior Life Long Learning at RIT has started its new academic year with a host of new class offering including Sherlock Holmes, Vermont History, the exploration of the West, local bird watching, female jazz singers, the ART of story writing and story telling, computer basics and the Collapse of societies.  Current events continues to be popular.

***  The start of the fall season in Rochester, New York.

Main:

Meanwhile, it is political campaigning in high gear.

:    The Seniors of Rochester are nervous about their economic future.

::    Senior are also uneasy about the national tickets.  They are general resolved to accept change and a historic first: either an African-American or a woman will be be part of the new team elected to national office.

:::    Global Climate change has fallen of the public concern worry bead chain.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/19 at 09:18 AM
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