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Month: January 2009

  • President Barack Hussein Obama

    George Rebane Mr. Obama was not my candidate, but he is my President.  He comes to office during a critical time for America and brings with him, many of us believe, an erroneous social philosophy and promised programs equally flawed to get us back on an even keel economically and geo-politically.  Nevertheless, I cannot and…

  • Ruminations – 19jan2009

    George Rebane The MSM (aka mainstream media), God love ‘em, but what are we going to do with them?  Russ Steele on NC Media Watch keeps us up to date (I had to bag the nearby image from his link) with MSM developments, especially as it involves our local media.  My modest contribution here is from…

  • Jeff Pelline Resigns (corrected)

    George Rebane My sources tell me that Mr. Jeff Pelline, the recent editor of our beloved Onion, has “resigned”, and is moving on to bigger and better things.  I wish Jeff Pelline success on his next project.  Publisher, Jeff Ackerman, is slated to fill in, at least for the interim.  Perhaps soon we may even…

  • Trifecta – The Perfect Socialist Storm Rising

    George Rebane The confluence of the three international hysterias – war on terror (i.e. Islam vs West), global warming, financial crisis – with the advent of our first openly socialist president marks the start of a new epoch.  The masses and media have converged in Washington DC, and the show of shows is about to…

  • Ruminations – 16jan2009

    George Rebane We may be living in a hologram, in fact the entire universe may be a hologram.  The GEO600 project in Germany is geared to detect noise in the gravity wave background (think of the cosmic microwave background noise that points to the Big Bang) that would up the granularity of spacetime by about 20…

  • Singularity Signposts – 14jan2009

    George Rebane Two developments, one hopeful and one scary.  Japanese researchers concerned about their aging population of farmers are developing a machine-assisted-man (MAM) suit to assist frail bodies do hard work.  The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) reports that Researchers at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology recently demonstrated the suit by having someone…

  • Imported Dollar Multipliers and Local Economies (14jan09 update)

    George Rebane With the worldwide economic downturn that is being amplified by the mavens in Sacramento, there is a lot of interest and attention paid to local economies.  Here we are trying hard to keep existing businesses (by buying locally) and at the same time attract more firms or cash importers to our community.  In…

  • Nevada County Economic Development Revisited (11jan09 update)

    George Rebane Small counties across the state are going through hard times.  Nevada County is both blessed by its geographic location and burdened by its political location.  In today’s WSJ California Congressman Devin Nunes writes in ‘California’s Gold Rush has been Reversed’ (this link will be open to non-subscribers tomorrow) that “entrepreneurs are fleeing heavy…

  • Nevada County Responds to California’s Financial Crisis

    From the CSAC press release  – "SACRAMENTO – Many California counties will be unable to continue providing state and federally required services for California residents as the budget stalemate continues and the state ultimately runs out of cash." Nevada County senior executives are giving up pay increases to help the county weather the current financial storm.  County Executive…

  • Ruminations – 8jan2009 (updates 9jan09)

    George Rebane It turns out we really can have two Presidents at a time.  As President-elect Obama was holding his next news conference and giving a “very important speech” exhorting Congress to pass his economic stimulus package (more on that insanity below) before he gets sworn in, the BBC World observed sagely that “Obama knows…

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