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Month: October 2009

  • Bit by Slow by Plan?

    George Rebane Are they really going to string us out until the election season next year?  Admittedly, we do have short memories.  And if we get the money too soon, we’ll forget who all our benefactors were when we go to mark our ballots.  Ahh, the stratagems of vote buying – neither simple nor cheap.

  • … and now on two legs

    George Rebane Recall the four-legged pack mule robot (here) that clambered up the hillside and could recover from strong shoves.  Well, technology continues to accelerate and Boston Dynamics has now developed its two legged cousin Petman whose walk is eerily human.  (Control and estimation theory rules!) Can you see it all coming together?

  • A Disconbuberated Boob at the Rood Center

    George Rebane This is a hard post to write.  I have been agonizing since leaving the Board of Supervisors meeting at the Rood Center a little after mid-day.  This was the day when Nevada County’s CFO Joe Christoffel gave his scheduled quarterly report on the county’s fiscal health to a full chamber.   Everyone had come…

  • Waiting for Your Flu Shot

    George Rebane The news about getting swine flu (H1N1) vaccine into your neighborhood has been all over the place lately – the bottom line is that most of us can’t get vaccinated for the next several weeks, if then.  If you read carefully, you’ll notice that the reports talk of the vaccine being imported from some…

  • ‘All is Well’

    [This editorial appears today (24 October 2009) in The Union’s print and online opinion sections.  In there it is retitled ‘Unfunded liabilities time bombs are ticking away’.  This is the submitted version. gjr] George Rebane Nevada County’s unfunded liabilities to its Calpers pension commitments total over $80 million.  By now most people know that Calpers…

  • Things are looking up …

    George Rebane … I think.

  • Ruminations – 22oct2009 (updated 23oct09)

    George Rebane – Soft-soaping the dollar.– The Sierra Bravos lose one (and then gain one). Ever since I can remember, at our house we always stuck the worn thin piece of soap to the new bar so that none of it would be wasted.  I guess all depression era families and European refugees learned that little trick…

  • “Wall to Wall Adulation”

    [PG-13, reader caution advised, some strong language – Martha, send the children from the room] George Rebane That’s actually a quote from Charles Krauthammer describing the MSM in their sad attempts at journalism, at least when it comes to reporting on the Obama administration.  This set me thinking about the state of journalism today in…

  • ObamaNation’s Big Question

    George Rebane This question has been asked by hundreds of millions of people of autocratic regimes over the last hundred years.  And sooner or later they all answered it for themselves.  Big hat tip to a loyal RR reader in SoCal.

  • Stuck Again

    George Rebane It looks like the much bally-hooed American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 is, like the song says, a sometime thing.  Wonder if we have to apply for some more again?  Smart money is riding on the major releases to come next year as the mid-term elections get closer.  

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