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[ Monday, August 25, 2008 13:46 PDT ]

Legacy Journal:Trifecta: Olympic Games, Democratic Convention, Quad State visit

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Briefs

Summary:

The 080808 Beijing Olympics Games are history, the Democratic Convention is beginning in Denver, Colorado, and a quick trip to Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut from Rochester, New York is in the books

“To wrest from nature the secrets which have perplexed philosophers in all ages, to track to their sources the caused of disease, to correlate the vast stores of knowledge, that they may be quickly available for the prevention and cure of disease—these are our ambitions.”—- Sir William Osler.

“Geography is destiny”—- John Gilman Coit and many others.

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*  The results: Michael Phelps is a swimming phenom; the U.S.A women gymnists are too cute for words; the men’s volleyball team is toughness personified; and the Chinese are on the march to modernity using the serious game rules of economic hardball.

**  Eastern upstate New York, southern Vermont,  mid Massachusetts and eastern Connecticut were on the week long circuit.  Ct. is cute, traditional, and Congregational to the core.  The Deerfield area, the lower Connecticut River, and the Long Island Sound “Shore” around New London and Groton were cool, clear, correct.

UConn at Avery Point has a Department of Marine Science with a picture window marine view.  But,  Scripps, Woods Hole, or Bar Harbor it is not.  The U.S.C.G. Academy and the Nuclear Submarine facility are small national treasures with free open to the public museums.  Shipping, trade, and freedom of the seas are the themes of the area that includes Mystic Sea Port.

The amount of ferry traffic across the sound is impressive.  The Native American Indian’s have seized the opportunity of transporting gamblers and gamers directly by water from NYC to their Connecticut reservation casinos. So, the core of the area is culturally mixed.

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***  Meanwhile, the country has yet another opportunity to get to know ” the Obama story”.  This time the stage setting is Denver, Colorado.  Not too shabby for a man with roots stretching from Kenya, to Indonesia, to Kansas, to Bainbridge Island, WA, to prep school in Hawaii, to Occidental College in California, to to Chicago, to Harvard.  The national election is Obama’s to lose.  He has the money, the media friendly charismatic presence, the image of a outsider with a photo op family, a wife from central casting,  youthful vigor, and the Kennedy family endorsement.  Time will tell if he, his staff, his advisers, and his volunteers can sustain their collective post convention momentum. 

Further more, the marathon fact squad is in town. No, that team is not led by the certifiably silly members of the 4th estate—- but by the serious and bright Mitt Romney, fresh from the Olympic Games.  Meanwhile, Bill Clinton stands ready to step onto center stage and continue to make his case for ?—-?.  Let is be noted that the role of Commander and Chief of the U.S. military is no small matter.  President Harry Truman, a WW I combat veteran, desegregated the Armed Forces by executive command in 1948.



The news from Dayton, Ohio is that the McCain choice for the Republican VP slot is Sarah Palin, the 44 y/o tough, straight talking, photogenic first term governor of Alaska.  Her policy strengths are energy, ethics, and national security.  An athletic, out-of-doors person, hockey Mom, she is the ultimate Washington D.C. outsider.  She is now part of the “A-A Maverick team” and is running a deep route pattern for the end zone.  BTW, basketball in Alaska qualifies as a contact sport contact sport.  The candidate’s husband is a native of the state, a blue collar union oil worker. The couple are gun owners who hunt and fish.  The NYC-Wash D. C. set will not be pleased. But, the Twin Cities will be welcoming.

In addition, SFGATE.COM reports that native son,  Bernie Ward, former Roman Catholic priest, Cardinal Newman High School theology teacher,  KGO God Talk radio host, and 3 year legislative aide to Barbara Boxer,  has be sentenced by a federal judge to 7 years of jail time for the crimes related to a long history of events around charges of child pornography. Boxer, the liberal Democratic Bay Area attack dog is one of the most strident first responders to the news of the Sarah Palin selection.  Boxer has recently called Palin “arrogant”, “radical” and “dangerous”.  Who is the pit bull attack dog here?

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