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Month: March 2009

  • There May Yet Be Hope

    George Rebane … and what skills will you have to offer for which someone will voluntarily pay? Young people today are beginning to wake up to the benefits of learning high-tech skills no matter what their career plans may be.  This discovery has been made through a survey sponsored by IBM and reported on here. …

  • Our New Course is Declared (22mar09 update)

    George Rebane Obama could not spell it out more clearly than in his third book, this one just submitted to Congress and entitled ‘A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America’s Promise. The President’s Budget and Fiscal Review’ (2.8MB pdf)  It is a declaration of class war on life as usual in these United States.  Team Obama…

  • Ruminations – 11mar2009

    George Rebane Ending ‘Market-Based Government’ is a banner for Obama’s reform of government procurements from the private sector – especially in the defense sector.  The media elevated ‘outrages’ by service contractors like KBR and Blackstone in Iraq during the Bush years made a big impact on an electorate historically constrained.  Nobody remembers or has read…

  • Our Disastrous Brain Drain Continues

    George Rebane The Washington Post recently reported (‘They’re Taking Their Brains and Going Home’)  on one of the many unnecessary travesties sweeping our country.  While printing money and debating amnesty for illegal aliens who violate our borders and immigration laws, there is a valuable cohort of legal aliens who are going home in droves after…

  • Nevada City Fog

    George Rebane What a bunch of unmitigated crap!  According to Nevada City mayor Barbara Coffman (reported in the 9mar09 Union), “It is council’s fiduciary responsibility to make the policy decisions concerning finance and to monitor the budget.  We can’t give this responsibility to anyone else.”  This patronizing pabulum is clearly intended to bamboozle the uncritical…

  • Net Access Nevada County (20apr2009 update)

    George Rebane In this day of internet and broadband, it is really frustrating to sit somewhere in the built-up areas of Nevada County and not be able to get online.  Last I looked this is the 21st century, and we all agree that more than less connectivity is better.  And the kind I am recommending…

  • Nevada City Treasurer – RIP (Resigned in Peace)

    George Rebane George Foster, elected Nevada City Treasurer, resigned last night.  His surprise resignation should not have been a surprise to anyone on the city council paying attention to what George has been trying to accomplish in revamping what has passed for the city’s financial management.  The real surprises in the recent past have been…

  • Ruminations – 5mar2009

    George Rebane People in Washington state are considering making divers state funded commissions – e.g. Commission to Rehabilitate Cross-Eyed Returning Salmon 😉 – to re-justify their purpose, reason for existence, and therefore getting funded this year.  In happier times these do-nothing-but-impede outfits just got their annual stipend, and went about their busybody business.  Now someone…

  • Economic Development a la BoS

    George Rebane This morning the Nevada County Board of Supervisors continued their latest foray into promoting economic development.  This was the latest episode in a process that actually started in 2007, and now continues across a new chasm that has opened up in the country’s economy.  Supervisors Hank Weston and Ted Owens were tasked to…

  • Ruminations – 2mar2009

    George Rebane The nation’s pace toward a socialistic state picked up speed with the release of Obama’s budget.  One of the telltales of this is that our friends on the left are going to great pains to deny the use of the s-word in the public media.  To them socialism can only be used when…

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