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Month: July 2009

  • California 1849 – 2009

    [The following anonymous contribution, a la the Michael Jackson hoopla, was forwarded by a colleague and east coast correspondent.  Word has gotten out.  gjr] Fans Flock to Mourn California, 1849-2009 LOS ANGELES – Millions of fans from around the globe gathered along Sunset Boulevard to pay final respects to California today, as a slow moving funeral procession…

  • ‘Is it Time for the Turing Test to Retire?’

    George Rebane Definitely not.  This question is asked by Dr. Aladdin Ayesh in a brief but serious article with the above title.  I presume Dr. Ayesh is a computer scientist, but he seems to be confused about how Alan Turing proposed his test for machine intelligence or, if you wish, AI almost sixty years ago.…

  • Nevada County ARRA Still on Ice

    George Rebane Well, the ARRA – aka SP787 – stimulus is performing sorta like history predicts (cf. FDR’s alphabet soup programs during the 1930s) – late, expensive, and ineffective.  Now, after launching TARP(SP700) and SP787, they’re starting to talk about “stimulus two”.  What again was that definition of insanity? Meanwhile here in the woods we’re…

  • Early ARRA Results

    George Rebane USA Today reports ‘Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ’08’, specifically – Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year’s presidential election. (emphasis mine) The counter argument to…

  • ‘Culture and Creativity at the Edge of Nature’

    Gil Mathew There were those who scoffed at that tag line, ‘Culture and Creativity at the Edge of Nature’, when it was first crafted at the ERC, and some with good reason.  However at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Vages last month, it was a phrase that rang true.  In the Broadcast…

  • Glenn Beck’s Uncommon Sense

    George Rebane Glenn Beck’s Common Sense – The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government has been #1 on NYT’s best seller list for several weeks.  In it he outlines the excesses of a rampantly growing government and exhorts his readers to apply common sense so that they can clearly see that things in our Republic are…

  • … and then, where’s Hillary?? (updated)

    George Rebane Things are getting curiouser and curiouser.  Today everyone is hyper-ventilating on the portents of Sarah Palin’s resignation, President Obama making nice with the Russians, the Dems are on the air talking down the abject failure of stimulation, Iran is confirming it’s a totalitarian state, Madman Kim Jong Il is cutting back North Korea’s…

  • Flyover Fourth (6jul2009 update)

    George Rebane This Fourth was a special treat for me.  After launching our celebrations last night at the outdoor Music in the Mountains July 4th concert with friends Ellen and Russ Steele, I was invited to fly second seat today in friend and neighbor Jim Booth’s bright yellow ‘MYT-6’.  We were scheduled to do to…

  • Obama’s Numbers and the Austrian School

    George Rebane Team Obama must finally agree with Ludwig von Mises, famed economist and founder of the Austrian School of Economics.  As reported here numerous times, von Mises advised in an economic recession like ours, that the government should “do nothing – sooner!”  Now with White House numbers standing embarrassed in the light of real…

  • NC Stimulus Trickle Stalled

    George Rebane This week our Congressman Tom McClintock met with county leadership on Monday and was requested to find out what’s keeping our stimulations so low.  McClintock promised to get right on it, and the appropriate information for follow-up was forwarded to his Washington office.  It will be worth watching if that and $5 will…

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