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Month: February 2008

  • Ruminations – 17feb2008

    George Rebane In The Union a gentleman commenting on Jeff Ackerman’s 12feb08 column ‘We need to hang together, or just plain hang’ posted the following remarks. Let’s Cut Back on Spending, by Corps, in the Form of Dividends Now there where there might be some real savings. If the corporations weren’t pumping out all the…

  • Darwin Awards in Maryland

    George Rebane A new batch of Darwin Awards were claimed in Accokeek, Maryland this weekend.  The candidates were required to report to a straight stretch of in-service highway in the wee hours of the morning.  There they had to assemble on either side of the road to watch two cretins in over-powered vehicles drag race. …

  • A Thoughtful View of Climate Change

    George Rebane The following came in an email from a learned friend and regular RR visitor who lives in New Hampshire.  I think these thoughts frame so well the complexities and unknowns of the anthropogenic global warming and climate change issues that I wanted to share them in their entirety.  My responses to specific points/questions…

  • The Screwing You Get For The Screwing You Got

    George Rebane This used to be the bawdy definition of ‘divorce’, but now, alas, it will have to do double duty for Social Security as well.  For those of you not yet retired or close to retirement and paying in to Social Security, be prepared for (drum roll please) The Entitlements Meltdown.  TEM is a…

  • Ruminations – 11feb2008

    George Rebane Super Tuesday in Nevada County – Take Two For Your Offline Friends Bill Gates’ ‘Creative Capitalism’ Super Tuesday in Nevada County – Take Two  On 7 February 2008 The Union published a glowing piece on Mr. Gregory Diaz, County Clerk-Recorder, and how smoothly and competently the county’s election was conducted.  This is available…

  • Ruminations – 9feb2008

    George Rebane Older Americans vs Illegal Aliens Thomson preparing to leave Nevada County? •  This from a correspondent.  Hard to believe that this will actually become a reality, but stranger things have happened. “5 million of our older Americans have not signed up yet for their Medicare, Part D, drug plan——they are old and confused.…

  • Jeff Ackerman Responds on DA Office Move

    George Rebane I invited Jeff to correct and/or expand on my ‘Hanging Chad’ post regarding the DA office move.  The following is from Jeff’s email that I received this afternoon.============ George: Good seeing you today. No other shoe to drop really. We asked questions that needed to be asked. To be clear (and you may…

  • Hanging Chad from the DA’s New Offices

    George Rebane I just returned from the weekly meeting of our Rotary Club at the National Hotel.  Today’s program was a talk by The Union’s publisher Jeff Ackerman.  Jeff gave us an update on the paper’s current fortunes as it implements a plan forward in this age of the internet that is sinking many newspapers…

  • Jeff Ackerman Call Your Office

    George Rebane Well, here’s a little egg on my face.  For the last couple of years I have been occasionally critical of The Union.  Jeff Pelline took me to task both publicly and privately on my transgressions, finally suggesting, in no uncertain terms, that such contributions on community matters should no longer grace the pages…

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