Eduard Shevardnaze R.I.P

On 7/8/14 a voice for decency ,restrained and freedom from the past died,believe or not,a soviet official who was more like prince is no longer with us for Eduard Shevardnadze is die.The man  who saw evils of it's ways of the Soviet and alone with Boris Yeltsin try to bring demonica force of communism to it's heels and free the people's souls but good work is unnoticed today and much of good work has been revised.Mikhail Gorbachev(who Shevardnadze was his foreign Ministry)try saved the Soviet Union by putting a human face it,but the face was too ugly and Yeltsin and Shevardnadze saw that it was time for the Soviet Union to go,unfortunately Putin believes this was great lose for man. 

Is Sarah Palin a moron or is she trying to get back in spotlight?

A few days ago,on Sean Hannity T.V show Sarah Palin said Obama should be impeached! I said,to myself(the most wise man I know) Palin is either a moran or she trying to get back spotlight! Just discussing impeaching Obama is stupid,it save Obama from himself,like the Clinton impeachment and like Senator Flake(who unlike Palin is no flake) said it would be distraction.These people on the Right never from their mistakes.This strategy of charge of Light Brigade,may be very romantic and fire in people's bellies,at the end of day your soldiers are dead! You now I admirer Ronald Reagan very much,he did so many remarkable and one was keeping the Right-wing loonies off the radar screen,unfortunately because talk radio they have reappear,hence,hurting the Republican Party and Conservative movement,which is now confused with populism.
But maybe Sarah Palin care about anything but herself? Maybe she just wants to get back in the spotlight? Norman Podhoretz-once Lefty,now a Righty- wrote in his memior "Making It"(published in 1968) you say outragous things to get notice.I mean,media will follow any fool for sensationalism because it sells.

A letter to the editor I got published today(7/8/14) in NY Post on great Presidents.

Today 7/8/14 I got letter to the editor published in the New York Post on great presidents.This is what appeared in the paper:"Reagan is not only the greatest president since World War Two,but of the 20th century.The only presidents greater than Reagan are George Washington,Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson-plus James Polk,because when you win a war without firing a bullet,that's a pretty remarkable thing.
I think both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower should rated higher than either Clinton or Kennedy.Eisenhower,William McKinley and Polk are most underated presidents in history."

My letter was in respond to poll asking who was greatest president since World War Two.Reagan come in first,than Clinton and Kennedy.

A letter to the editor I got published in the NY Daily News on 7/4/14 about words,stirring word from Calvin Coolidge

I got a letter to the editor,published in the New York Daily News,today 7/4/14 about words,stirring words from Calvin Coolidge.This is what apeared in the paper:On this Fourth of July,our nation's birthday,I think the words of a former President born on July 4,Calvin Coolidge,define what we hope to be as Americans.
On Jan. 17, 1924 in front of the American Society of Newspaper Editors,Coolidge said these stirring words:
"It is only those who do not understand our people who believe that our people who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives.
We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth,but there are many other things that we wantvery much more.
We want peace and honor and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization.
The chief idea of the American people is idealism.I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists."
Wow.Where have idealists gone in America? Politics seems to be dominated by cynicism today.   

The same people who predicted peak oil are the same people who are predicting global warming?

I wonder are same people who predicted peak oil are the same people who are now predicting global warming? I remember the energy crisis of the 1970's,long line at gas stations,high inflation and we told by the smart America's days in sun are over.But then come sunny Ronald Reagan as President and America's seems so bright,he decontroled the price oil,and after a sharp the price drop palpability,the price of barrel of oil drop to about 10 barrel,of course expert put much gloom market,indeed,stocks like Exxon were down to 30 dollar share with a dividend 3 dollar that 10 percent yield so I told mom to buy some Exxon and she did and also I first thought before recommending the purchase of Exxon,this company mut paid much of it's income to the dividend,but it wasn't case there paid about 25 percent earning in dividend,also I thought this company must have a lot,but wasn't ,indeed,at that time Exxon had no debt.30 then it's spilt a couple time it's now about 100 and it raises it's dividend every year.Best advice I ever got to mom.
Anyway back peak prediction that turn so wrong today the U.S.A is a float in oil and gas some maybe next year we will be net exports of oil,far cry from 1970's and prediction that all was lost.
Now we hear the same certainty from wise,smart people about global warming.Well,if wrong about peak oil maybe they are wrong about global warming.

Got a letter to the editor published in NY Daily News on 6/17/14 on the soulmates Clinton and Limbaugh

Got a letter to the editor published in the New York Daily News on 6/17/14 on Hillary's Limbaugh's protray of freedom in Cuba.Here is what I wrote:"Hillary Clinton and Rush Limbaugh are kindred spirits when it comes to the Cuban embargo.For Limbaugh cigars are more important than freedom-hence,Limbaugh is full of it,and full of smoke too! Hillary is a different story,for she is,in a way,our Lady Macbeth.Indeed,power is her aphrodisiac.Henceforth,Queen Hillary is worried about that Indian princess Elizabeth Warren,whose tribe is a powerful force within the Democratic Party."  

Saw last Sunday on CNN 41 on 41 was surprised to learn Bush and Pressman were friends.

Last Sunday CNN had a program 41 on 41 it was 41 people who knew President Bush(41 the elder) and there thoughts on the great man.To my surprise one 41 was Gabe Pressman,long time newsman for T.V in the New York Area.First I although thought Pressman was liberals,but a lot liberals seem to like President,for example not only President Clinton was on 41 but so was Obama was maybe that wasn't such a surprise,but Pressman is such New York guy,as he put his background was so diffrent then Bush's,Pressman was Jew from the Bronx,a working class rump,while Bush an Ivy League guy,father U.S Senator from the upper class.So what drew these opposites together? Well,it seems in nineteen seventies,when Bush was over ambassador to the U.N. A reporter write a piece for magazine the 10 most overrated New Yorkers and both Bush and Pressman made the list.So George Hebert Walker Bush invited the others to a party and that's how Pressman Bush struck a friendship.Years later when George H. W. Bush become Vice-President he sent Pressman note and ended by writing he was just lucky to made list,you(Pressman) earn it.
Got to love George H. W. Bush what a man,indeed,he is what America use to be great but didn't have to prove it!