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Month: August 2009

  • Ruminations – 19aug2009 (updated 20aug09)

    George Rebane Toyota wants to shut down their bay area assembly plant employing 4,600 for all the obvious (to non-socialists) reasons.  The state of California is trying to stop them by threatening to charge Toyota hundreds of millions of dollars for ‘clean up’ fees before they can move to a more business friendly climate.  And…

  • Wildfire Containment Percentage – Say What??!!

    George Rebane The newspaper’s headline blares that ‘The Yuba Fire 30% Contained’, you nod your head thinking that it is good news since yesterday the fire was reported to be only 5% contained.  But then you take a look at the published burn area maps for the last two days and see that today’s fire…

  • ‘Public Pension Ponzi’ – Some Reflections (updated)

    George Rebane I would like to offer a few observations on some comments that responded to my column ‘Public Pensions – a breakdown’ in the 15aug09 Union.  For openers, I don’t know any of the commenters either personally or as individuals in the public round.  Specific comments by people claiming to be or to have…

  • Public Pension Ponzi

    George Rebane [This is the full length piece the first part of which was published today in the 15jul09 Union under the less dramatic title ‘Public Pensions – a breakdown’, although the latter part could be taken as a double entendre.  (updated 16aug09) The full length version appears in the newspaper’s online edition.  gjr] Sophistry…

  • On Different Worlds

    George Rebane To maintain some perspective on the national debates, I regularly read, view, and listen to leftwing media.  Debate may be too fine of a word for the type of exchange that today goes on between conservatives and liberals.  In fact, we do live on two different worlds. This was again made clear in…

  • Song Without Words … or Money

    George Rebane

  • Schooling – Where to Send Your Kids?

    George Rebane Here are some local school ratings done within the context of California.  Not sure how these can be interpreted in a national context.  And here is a compilation of state public school rankings.  So at 46 out of 50, California is pretty much near the bottom of the pile.  Does that mean that…

  • Next Tea Party in Sacramento – Y’all Come!

    George Rebane As reported in the 6aug09 Union (details here), the next Sacramento tea party will be on 28 August 2009 with four busses leaving Nevada City at 10AM.  Bring chairs, vittles, and liquids; and, of course, the most communicative signs you can muster to get your personal message out.  Important to note that bus…

  • Stimulus NOT!!

    George Rebane And after the Postal Service, Amtrak, Social Security, the Fed, Fannie and Freddie, … , now these turkeys want to run how much more of our economy?  The stimulus beat goes on, but no one here with 12% unemployment can hear it. When this economy finally starts to recover, in spite of all the impediments that Obama and Congress…

  • Now Playing at ‘Townhalls’ Near You

    George Rebane When the schools no longer teach, you can feed their ‘graduates’ any garbage you want; they have no means to tell the difference.  The American townhall meeting is a piece of history still alive in a few places, but now totally distorted into national political theater.  A townhall meeting was where local people met…

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