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Month: May 2009

  • Ruminations – 10may2009

    George Rebane   Few picked up “We are sure that any aggression against our citizens (italics added) will be given a worthy reply,” President Dmitry Medvedev said in a speech in Red Square side-by-side with powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.  In this ‘Victory Day’ celebration reminiscent of the old days of Cold War Communism, Russia is…

  • America on the Fast Track (updated)

    George Rebane I am astonished at the growing pace of federal diktaats – they are now gushing out of Washington daily.  And ‘We the Sheeple’ raise neither hew nor cry. California is on its collective butt fiscally and sinking deeper.  Its government is looking high and low for ways to bring its spending deficits under…

  • Ruminations – 8may2009

    George Rebane HR1207 is a widely supported bill to put in place a law that finally after 96 years will seek an audit of the deep dark ongoings at our Federal Reserve.  Here’s an open letter that appeared in the 7may09 Washington Times.  And you wanna see some real first rate blather at a Congressional…

  • Grow Government, Grow!

    George Rebane Unbelievable, but believe it.  The following report from WashingtonTechnology.com is reprinted here in its entirety.  Our liberal friends continue to scoff at us “rightwing extremists” when we point out that government is already the employer of last resort and intends by every means, overt and covert, to increase its role as such.  Here…

  • Ruminations – 6may2009

    George Rebane Amazon to save newspapers with its new large-screen Kindle, so reports the 05may09 NYT. Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor, in the form of portable reading devices with big screens. And just in the nick of time, judging by the looks of…

  • Ruminations – 5may2009

    George Rebane I am not alone.  Being a commentator with a definite conservative-libertarian bias and some hard miles under my belt, it sometimes gets a bit lonely when I read about the widely celebrated happenings in Washington.  And as a student of history I am more than dismayed at what I see in the universe…

  • Sixty Years Ago Today – 4 May 1949

    George Rebane   At first light on 4 May 1949 the USS General Harry Taylor (above) had already slipped through the Verrazano Narrows by the time my father and I joined the other men and boys on the deck of the troopship.  We all wanted to see the Statue of Liberty and the lights of…

  • Singularity Signposts – 3may2009 (8may09 update)

    George Rebane Stephen Wolfram may just be on to the next big thing on the internet.  He and the boys and girls at Wolfram Research, Inc. are scheduled to launch Wolfram Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” for the web.  This engine is designed to “compute the answer to all factual questions”, questions the answer to…

  • Cognitive Radio??!!??!!

    George Rebane With the recent explosion of mobile intelligent devices, cell phones, PDAs, laptops, netbooks, etc, etc, all speaking wirelessly to each other through various networks (clouds), the airwaves have become very crowded.  The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is pretty much fixed by the design of our universe, so it looked like we were going to…

  • Nevada County Update on Swine Flu

    George Rebane Leann Whitaker, the county’s Administrative Services Associate, sent out three documents this afternoon that provide a good view of what’s happening with this epidemic.  For RR readers living elsewhere, most of this information is still important, at least so that you can use it as a stake-in-ground to assess what your own local government…

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