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Month: June 2009

  • Ruminations – 30jun2009

    George Rebane We read a lot around this house.  Breakfast invariably includes the WSJ and our local Union.  Periodically I get on my high-horse about the asinine columns written by financial reporters, and this morning WSJ’s Mark Gongloff piqued my ire with his ‘no information’ piece on the movement of bond and stock prices yesterday.  Like…

  • Congressman McClintock Comes to Our House

    George Rebane Where but in America can a poor immigrant boy just off the boat (in 1949) have the privilege of hosting his Congressman, along with many friends and neighbors, for a lunch at his house?  That is where over forty of us welcomed Congressman Tom McClintock and some of his staff for an al fresco…

  • The Department of Peace

    George Rebane There is a bill (HR808) before Congress to create a cabinet level Department of Peace (DOP). The movement to expand the Executive Branch in this direction is quietly gathering steam among the country’s progressives.  Their social theoretician is a Howard Rosenberg, a journalist and social critic who appears to be a cartoon of the…

  • Ruminations – 27jun2009 (updated)

    George Rebane Federalization of states is starting to pick up speed (background here).  California is being joined by fourteen other states in the line-up at the Treasury loans window (more here from Reuters).  They too have run out of money to pay for various obligations, and must now start studying the considerable Owner’s Manual of…

  • NC ARRA Funds Start to Trickle

    George Rebane Folks, we are stimulated at last!  The county received $60K during the last week.  Thanks to Leann Whitaker of CEO Rick Haffey’s office, who called to explain that the funds will be used to implement low-energy measures for low income housing in Nevada County.  But sonuvagun, the American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 is finally beginning…

  • Michael Jackson, RIP

    George Rebane I was not a fan of Michael Jackson, but I celebrated his rise from lower middle-class beginnings to international stardom and fame – the former because I am not able to understand his music or its performance; the latter, because his life is yet another testimony to the unique magnificence of this land of…

  • Hockeystick Hansen Hesitates

    George Rebane   Washington, DC – NASA scientist James Hansen, perhaps the most vocal voice in the U.S. warning of a man-made global warming crisis, has declared he hopes Congressional efforts to pass a cap-and-trade climate bill fail. “I hope cap and trade doesn’t pass, because we need a much more effective approach,” Hansen said…

  • Obamacare vs Healthcare

    George Rebane While Congress is crafting climate and energy rationing legislation (HR2454) destined to cripple and/or destroy our country’s economy (see NC MediaWatch), there is yet another blow on the way – Obamacare.  As the old song sang – ‘If the right one won’t a-getcha, then the left one will!’ (A physician tends to a…

  • Ruminations – 24jun2009 (updated)

    George Rebane Barney Frank almost surprised me tonight.  He actually said he was against appending “unrelated issues” to bills going through Congress.  But then I forgot, the sumbich is a liar.  He proceeded to tell Bill O’Reilly that he plans to pay for Obamacare by 1) reducing the DOD budgets, 2) eliminating our military presence in…

  • Singularity Signposts – 24jun2009

    George Rebane Forbes.com has an excellent extended survey of the current state and portents of AI and robotics.  ‘The AI Report’ is comprised of 24 short articles for the intelligent non-technical reader.  They range from descriptions of how machine or artificial intelligence is currently being developed and embodied, to how AI and robots are being used…

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