2009 JanuarySome Good WeadJanuary 29th, 2009—Calvin Luther Martin, PhD David Minnich, Director of the Wead Library, was honored this week by a gift of books from Dr. Nina Pierpont (my better half). Pierpont made the gift to celebrate Mr. Minnich’s century of service as Librarian. (If not a century, it sure feels like one. And it’s felt good. Mr. Minnich has run a splendid community library.) Obama & FDR: “Are we becoming the United Socialists of America?”January 29th, 2009—Mike Fournier, Guest Editor
In his essay on “FDR and the Great Depression,” reprinted below, Russell Baker says, “Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he [Roosevelt] was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change.” I think it is important not to overlook the fact that Messiah Obama is also following a failed Democratic Congress. (More pathetic ratings than Bush. Surely the past two years were the worst.) I sure as hell hope the worshippers remember to vote for change when those elections come around.
FDR and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Revolutionary PresidentJanuary 27th, 2009—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books The following article appeared in the NY Review of Books 2/12/09 issue, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Russell Baker. As America plunges into a deep recession which leading leading economists (including Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman) believe could resemble the Great Depression in severity, it’s worth taking stock of the President who grappled with that disaster. President Obama is reported to be reading FDR’s biography. Perhaps many of us should be reading this man’s biography. If there are lessons to be drawn from the 1930s, Baker’s article is a useful beginning for discovering what they might be. The Editor. Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn’t know. National Wind Watch supports European call for wind energy moratoriumJanuary 16th, 2009
Rowe, Mass., Jan. 15, 2009 — On the morning of October 4, 2008, before the second national protest against industrial wind energy development in Paris, several groups from France and other European countries agreed to form the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW). Dirty truth about “clean” windpower? What the critics are sayingJanuary 13th, 2009—Eugene Goodrich (New Brunswick, Canada) RiverCityMalone was sent this essay by a reader. It’s a concise correction to many of the exaggerations and half truths routinely expressed by the wind developers and slavishly repeated by the newspapers in Franklin & Clinton counties. Anyone who has attended a town meeting over the past four years, where wind salesmen were pitching the benefits of their product, will resonate to Mr. Goodrich’s essay, which we reprint with appreciation. “She didn’t count on the noise”January 4th, 2009
—Calvin Luther Martin“I recently spoke with a homeowner who lives on the Number 5 Road in Chateaugay, NY. Her farm is surrounded by the newest crop of turbines.” So begins a letter by a lady named Flossy Powell. Ms. Powell submitted her letter to RiverCityMalone around Christmas time. Flossy’s letter is disturbing. It describes the experience of an acquaintance in Chateaugay (NY) who now finds herself surrounded by (what appears to be) the Noble Chateaugay Windpark. |
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