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Month: May 2008

  • Ruminations – 31may08

    • Sue Horne for State Assembly• Al Gore challenged by Vaclav Klaus• Will we Napa Grass Valley?• Sad exit for longtime Nevada City merchant• I soloed yesterday Sue Horne for State Assembly – Jo Ann and I are financial supporters of Sue’s campaign and have already cast our absentee ballots for her.  We did so…

  • Voter Managed Growth in San Francisco

    George Rebane Grass Valley and Nevada County in the small may look to San Francisco in the large when it comes to managed growth mediated by the voter vicissitudes.  The 27may08 WSJ report on Lennar’s Hunters Point project outlines the travails of both the developer and a supportive city government to build a milestone addition…

  • Ruminations – 27may08

    George Rebane * Second annual TechTest Survivor’s Breakfast* Killing frost tonight on the Great Plains* Gas prices, nationalizing oil industry, and ‘cap and trade’ in Congress* Michelle Obama is a terminal racist Last Friday Jo Ann and I had the pleasure of attending the second annual Survivor’s Breakfast for TechTest2008 sponsored by the Sierra Environmental…

  • Singularity Signposts – 25may08 (updated)

    George Rebane Have you heard of cognition-enhancing drugs?  Well, if you drink coffee, then you’ve been taking one probably for years.  But now we’re getting into some serious new drugs coming to you from big pharma that promise to keep you alert, focused, and improve your concentration and memory by leaps and bounds. The technology…

  • Ruminations – 22may08

    George Rebane The services and plans of Hospitality House were described to the Nevada City Rotary Club last Thursday by Janice O’Brian, one of its leaders and founders.  The HH co-ordinates the efforts of Nevada County churches to provide food and shelter to any of the approximately 280 of the county’s homeless who are willing…

  • “Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain”

    George Rebane Today’s New York Times article (‘Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain’ by Sara Reistad-Long) on brains of a certain age is glad tidings for all of us of the Happy Days generation long dissed by the younger set.  The bottom line of recently published research says that the reason we older…

  • Ruminations – 19may08

    George Rebane *** According to the Associated Press, Warren Buffett said the presidency was not unlike running a business.  The Oracle of Omaha stated that, “They say in the stock market, ‘Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot could run it, because sooner or later, one will,’ … The U.S. is sort…

  • Obama in Portland Rising

    George Rebane The image of an estimated 75,000 people is scary to those who can think and ponder the survival of our Republic.  It reminds students of history of the compelling pictures of speeches made in Russia and Germany before their absolute leaders were enthroned.  In such throngs it is hard to evaluate and assess…

  • Investing while Inflating

    George Rebane Attempting to hang on to your money today is very hard, and it’s about to get harder.  Your greenback dollar is being destroyed at a prodigious rate, and destroyed it must be since at its present value there is no way that our government can meet its commitments to all those whose votes…

  • Ruminations -15may08 (Updated)

    George Rebane * The Environmental Cost of Running Climate Models* The lunacy of the ‘endangered’ polar bear The Environmental Cost of Running Climate Models.  A recent MIT Technology Report states that supercomputers running today’s climate models chalk up an annual electricity bill of $150 million and with new technology they are trying to reduce this…

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