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Month: July 2009

  • The Public, Healthcare, and Politics – Scattershots

    George Rebane It was bit mind boggling to watch the news last night.  Hard to tell who is more expert at playing Pander the Public. 1. Reid and Pelosi are now vilifying the health insurance industry as being terminally evil for having their profits increase 450% over the last decade.  That’s it, just that their profits…

  • Stimulus Shortfall and Local Contributions

    George Rebane The above chart is getting a little boring as the weeks roll by.  Nevertheless it continues to be more and more revealing – ‘We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.’ To add a little interest to this weekly stimulus posting, I thought that a vignette or two from real life might be…

  • Let’s Not Forget Global Warming

    George Rebane Obamacare is on everyone’s mind these days.  Having more time to look at the five (yes, five) separate bills going through congressional committees makes most people now start holding their noses – the longer we look at it, the more it smells.  But we can’t overlook the other source of perhaps an even…

  • Pension Pranks and Ponzis – Part 1

    George Rebane OK folks, here’s the drill.  Today, almost all government and union pension plans are in trouble.  Bottom line, they are under funded.  And having heard that explanation, you are supposed say, ‘Oh, alright.’ and act as if you understand whether you do or don’t.  Since all institutional pension plans sooner or later become…

  • Ruminations – 27jul2009

    George Rebane Isn’t the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office wonderful the way it diplomatically exposes the lies of Obamacare.  Team Obama and the congressional Dems keep rolling out the bull pucky on how national healthcare will not increase deficits and actually be a “stimulus” (Pelosi) to the economy.  Then the CBO sits down in front of the…

  • Singularity’s Apprehensive Approach

    George Rebane ‘Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man’ is the title of an uneven yet revealing piece in the 25jul09 NYT by John Markoff.  The article was apparently motivated by a quiet (‘secret’ sounds too sinister) conference at Asilomar on Monterey Bay sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence last February.  It…

  • American Sharia – Progress Report (updated)

    George Rebane The Muslim presence in North America and the US is assuming the trappings of Muslim penetrations into other western lands.  Primarily this means that the new comers are beginning to behave as settlers and not as assimilating immigrants.  We recall that settlers take and transplant their culture into the lands that they settle. Americans…

  • Nevada County ARRA Funding – or Not

    George Rebane ‘A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.’  Thomas Jefferson

  • Cato on Obamacare Lies

    George Rebane Sometimes we small town commentators are viewed as holding extreme views.  And maybe we do when compared to people who are too busy to pay attention.  But what’s coming down from this socialist cesspool in the District of Columbia has not been seen in generations, perhaps ever.  The lies are historic and they…

  • Suffering from AB32? Take one AB118

    George Rebane AB32 is California's chronic killer as most RR and NCMediaWatch readers know.  Recently our Assemblyman Dan Logue along with 28 co-authors introduced AB118 as an antidote.  Russ Steele has an update and lots of contact information for the relevant electeds.  Please take a look here.

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