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[ Wednesday, April 29, 2009 14:48 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Wednesday Wisdom

Section:

Almanac

Summary:

* A thoughtful and vocal senior group in Rochester is of the opinion that public high schools should risk the loss of federal funds directed to special needs kids and not allow federal employees access to school groups to offer scholarships, training or , job opportunities to students preparing for graduation.  That of course includes possible candidates of university and college ROTC stipends, state National Guard, the U.S. Coast, and perhaps even the Merchant Marine Academies.

** Others think that politicians who change party affiliation while in office should face a new election.

*** Still more are of the opinion that individuals have long been ignored by their elected representatives.

Main:

#  So who is helped and who is threatened by students being exposed to recruiters in uniform on campus?

##  Would this idea pass Constitutional inspection?

###  Would not a well written, respectful letter and a thoughtful reply not act a balm to voter frustration.

More:

Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/29 at 02:48 PM
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[ Monday, April 27, 2009 13:38 PDT ]

Legacy Journal:Monday Meanderings

Section:

Book Reviews

Summary:

At least in Rochester Claims are made, but reality has a way of weighing in on the local Climate Change debate.  For example:

*” Local campus students are passionate about sustainability, air quality, conservation, and the immediacy of the predicted dire consequences of man made global warming.”

**  “Locals vote green.”

*** “The Europeans have got it right on energy and the need for population control.”

Main:

The facts are:

#  The students are more concerned about the opposite sex, getting a job after graduation, and paying off their education debts.

##  The Green Party and Green candidates do not even appear on the ballot in upstate New York.

###  Rochesterians are not disposed to having the Europeans interfering in American issues, politics, foreign policy, or popular culture.

More:

Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/27 at 01:38 PM
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[ Saturday, April 25, 2009 07:23 PDT ]

Legacy Journal Saturday Sidelights

Section:

Almanac

Summary:

Spring is in the Rochester air:

Brighton and Summit Dr.Granddaughters and their friends are putting the finishing touches on Spring Break with a train trip to NYC, sleepovers, and garden plantings.  CRP and the corner yellow bus stop ritual rush restarts Monday morning.  The neighborhood parents are ready.

Main:

*  Rochester is preparing Highland Park for the annual Lilac Festival.  However, yellow, not lavender, seems to predominate around the newly refurbished Arboretum.

**  Hot and humid is the forecast.  Time to hit the JCC pool is the afternoon.

*** Meanwhile, we assume the Professor Schneider is safely back in Stanford.  There we can safely assume that hoards of rival modelers in Palo Alto and Berkeley are hard at work forecasting the results of the 2009 “Big Game”

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/25 at 07:23 AM
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[ Friday, April 24, 2009 11:15 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Update

Section:

WebWise Review

Summary:

” Trust, but Verify”

Postings at the address have been on vacation because of a server technical glitch and a possible unauthorized invasion.

Main:

Hats of the Sidney in Auckland, New Zealand who graciously supplemented tech support at our IPS, Sonic of Santa Rosa in Sonoma CO. California.

Meanwhile:

* Obama has been on a 100 day run.  He is cool on the outside, controlled on the inside, confident to his detractors, and fascinating to his admirers and the media types.  At the end of the game, he appears to want the ball in his hands

He will not open up the investigative and divisive can of worms containing the politically potent issue of terrorist interegation and possible violation of judicial standards by lawyers who rendered requested legal opinions that later supported the use of Presidential authority directed against ongoing state supported threats to national security.

**  Climate change is now in last place on a recent poll of issues the concerns the U.S. voting public.

*** Congrats to the Oregon State Beaver men’s basketball team.  First year Coach Craig Robinson and his orange and black team just did not want their season to end.  Theirs was a class act.

****  On the other hand, today, Stephen Schneider,PhD was at the University of Rochester, from his post at Stanford University, to give the 3d in this month’s Climate Change and Sustainability lecture to Earth Science staff, faculty and students.  He waxed philosophic, but was not informative.  He offered some insights into his participation in one section of the 2007 IPCC report, reviewed his understanding of ice and Viking colonization from having visited Greenland, and generally have a jaundiced view of the state of science and the formulation of U.S. public policy. He was particularly harsh on science reporting, save A. Revkin of the nytimes.  Summary: A sunny afternoon in upstate NY wasted by most of the attendees.

More:

Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/24 at 11:15 AM
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[ Monday, April 13, 2009 11:43 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Monday Military Milestone

Section:

Commentary

Summary:

TR, Bob Kerrey, the White House, and the folks in Vermont hare happy and relieved that the Merchant Marine Captain who volunteered himself as a pirate hostage off the coast of Somalia has be rescued by three Navy SeAL snipe bullets.  The risky shots were deliverd at sea during dusk hours with the aid of
s with the aid of night scopes.

Main:

Piracy is no longer a low risk, high reward undertaking for the young men of the region.

They should also know:

#  They are likely to be stung by armed guards placed on tempting decoys.

##  The Omama administration will use deadly force.

###  They are regarded as small time bandits with boats.

#### some my cheer them from the safety of shore , but none will come to their aide.

Have a good day.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/13 at 11:43 AM
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[ Thursday, April 09, 2009 13:48 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: The Status of Affairs at State

Section:

Book Reviews

Summary:

Foreign Policy as viewed by the Council on Foreign Affair is the focus of the 2009 edition of the Great Decisions series underwritten by the Starr Foundation in cooperation with the University of Delaware.

Main:

The second chapter in the text and DVD material is on the FATA border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

* Sadly, non of the class participants are up to speed on the long term geopolitical strategic interests of the United States and her allies in the region. Chief among those interest is the goal of a secure petroleum pipeline from the states to the north , crossing Afghanistan, and ending at warm water ports in southern Pakistan near Lahore, the political base for the country’s current President.

** Meanwhile Global at Yale has on online site that includes international trade.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 04/09 at 01:48 PM
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