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Month: November 2008

  • Culture Collapse Continues

    George Rebane News report – Jdimytai Damour, 34, was crushed as he and other employees attempted to unlock the doors of a Long Island, New York, store at 5 a.m. Friday, police said.  “This incident was avoidable,” said Bruce Both, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, the state of New…

  • Ruminations – 28nov2008

    cap and trade, New Republic, 2030 GDP, Igor Panarin, America’s break-up, The Mom Song

  • A Tie That Still Binds Us

    George Rebane Jo Ann and I wish all of our readers a day of joyful reflection on all the received blessings of family, friends, and this wondrous land – Happy Thanksgiving.  

  • Politics and Ponzi Policies

    George Rebane Here all along I thought that California was going to be the first state to cancel its payment to its government employees pension fund CalPERS.  And now that uppity model of eastern fiscal responsibility, New Jersey, beat us to it.  NJ has lost so much in the collapsing markets this year that its…

  • Plan or a Goal, Which is it?

    George Rebane ‘Tis the season of planning on how to achieve goals, and setting goals that requires planning.  The politicians can be expected to confuse the two simply because precision in thought and word is not a job requirement.  But you would expect our journalists to be able to sort out the difference and report…

  • Ruminations – 24nov2008

    Nevada County unfunded liabilities, SESF, Mike McDaniel, KNCO, gun sales, NYC homeless shelters

  • Gold, Groceries, and Guns

    Federal liabilities, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, gold, groceries, guns, fiat dollar, runaway inflation

  • We All Fall Short

    George Rebane Jeff Pelline, the editor of our beloved Onion and self-anointed paragon of our community’s virtues, has recently riddled the comments of several local blogs with references to the celebrated Four Way Test of Rotary International.  A careful perusal of these entries reveals that Jeff believes himself to be an exemplar of the test,…

  • Going Green is Such a Deal

    George Rebane Steve Monaghan is a sober man and a good county department manager, but his recent piece in The Union left my head spinning. Therein Steve states – Nevada County now utilizes 11 hybrid vehicles to conduct business. It purchased its first all-electric, zero-emissions truck this month. This truck was 65 percent funded through a…

  • Journalist Jokers (24nov08 update)

    George Rebane Today the professional journalist is in a sorry state of his own making.  Polls show that the public holds the journalist in very low esteem indeed, somewhere down there with lawyers and politicians.  Perhaps it’s time to start a new department that highlights one or two of the abundance of follies they foist…

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