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Month: July 2009

  • Healthcare Lies – Volume 1 (updated)

    George Rebane The President’s ‘news conference’ last night was Orwellian.  The man can lie with a straight face so well it is scary, and the sheeple just believe.  Here’s an interview that former Senator Fred Thompson had on his radio show with former New York Lt Gov Betsy McCaughey.  You can download a copy of the bill…

  • California’s Budget Agreement

    George Rebane Not to worry for a wee bit longer.

  • The Descent of Obama

    George Rebane The White House announced yesterday that it will withhold from Congress key economic information that it generates and distributes in the normal course of affairs.  The Heritage Foundation reports that – The White House … would be delaying release of updated financial and economic forecasts until the middle of August. In other words,…

  • Now Everyone is Starting to Talk About It

    George Rebane The government employee compensation and pension crisis is beginning to come up on everyone’s radar.  Well, perhaps everyone except some very closeted socialists here in our neck of the woods.  I am always amazed when I read and sometimes participate in the comment thread of an article either published on a blog or…

  • Singularity in Ten Years?

    George Rebane The rise of conscious machines has become an active focus of study in the artificial intelligence community.  Consciousness and intelligence can and should be viewed as independent attributes of a biological critter, and therefore by extension, of a sentient (conscious) and sapient (wise viz intelligent) machine.  RR readers are familiar with my view…

  • Walter Cronkite, RIP

    George Rebane Walter Cronkite defined the television journalism of my youth.  All this after he educated me with the ‘You Are There’ series that was “filled with the events that alter and illuminate our times.”  I was maximally impressed by Uncle Walter, he was reliability, goodness, and truth embodied. And then came the dark days…

  • Dear Government Employees

    George Rebane [The following piece was submitted to The Union and appears today (here) as my Other Voices column for July.] Dear Government Employees – These are difficult times for all, times that now shine a bright and revealing light on things hidden and unmentioned in our communal life.  Governments at all levels are broke and broken. …

  • Nevada County ARRA Funding – Ho Hum

    Weekly update of local fortunes from the American Restribution and Re-election Act of 2009.  For all the folks out there holding firm that government is the solution – what’s wrong with this picture?   “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those…

  • Public Employee Pension Tsunami (developing) (updated)

    George Rebane The unfunded public pension disaster is picking up speed.  Municipalities are beginning to eye how to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The public employee unions in California are determined to keep milking the dying cows to the very end by trying to pass a law that (fasten seatbelts) would make it illegal for municipalities…

  • No Hope or Change from Sacramento

    George Rebane “death spiral” is how a learned correspondent characterized the latest Democrat rejections of starting a two-tiered Calpers program for government employees (as reported in the SacBee here).  The second tier was supposed to offer a bit more reasonable package to new state employees – not a chance with this crowd.  Their argument is that…

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