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Month: December 2009

  • Obama’s careful calculations

    George Rebane With the overwhelming amount of the $787 billion left to be distributed from the American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009, it will be interesting to see how much vote buying will be done in Nevada County in 2010.  We should be getting most of the $6.1 million that has been promised to…

  • The California Plan

    Dear Governor Schwarzenegger – The 12+% California unemployment rate has been on all of our minds, but an idea occurred to me as we drove home from visiting our kids in the Seattle area over Christmas.  You see, when I pulled into a filling station in Oregon a nice young lady wearing an international orange…

  • Ruminations – 28dec2009 (updated 29dec09)

    George Rebane – Obama gets an ‘A’ from me– Nigerian bomber underlines the government employee– Washington’s double taxation of investment gains Never mind the fruitless foreign policy escapades and stimulus packages that have not stimulated.  Candidate Obama promised one and all a “fundamental transformation” of the country into European type redistributionist socialism.  Many people didn’t pay attention or…

  • Where is the moral fiber?

    George Rebane Where indeed?  In responding to my Christmas post, a reader emailed me about a grocery store incident in which a man, with daughter watching, helped himself to some mixed nuts from a bin.  She reminded him that that was stealing, and he reminded her that it wasn’t stealing at all since he was…

  • Christmas 2009

    George Rebane The two main events in the Christian calendar are celebrations of the Promise and the Fulfillment.  Christmas calls on us to reflect on the Promise delivered – the arrival of Emmanuel, God with us, that made real what had long been promised.  By His appearance among us, the Promise of the good news and a…

  • Christmas in Stettin, 1944

    George Rebane Sixty-five years ago we celebrated Christmas 1944 in a small uninsulated cabin the Germans called a Behelfsheim, a ‘temporary accommodation’.  The Third Reich built these to house the tide of refugees fleeing the Red Army then rapidly advancing from the east.  Our cabin was in a long row of such cabins next to…

  • Congressional Crapola

    George Rebane Some people maintain that it is only the ignorant, mostly minority populated congressional districts that send similarly endowed idiots to represent them in Congress.  A poster child for this thesis is the notorious Maxine Waters who recently and inadvertently blurted out the Democrats’ intent to socialize the country (video here).  I contend that…

  • Surprise! Copenhagen ends with a deal

    George Rebane Well, it was touch and go there for almost two weeks and that prepared us for the cliff hanger.  The legions of naifs around the world wondered how it would all end.  Of course, it ended with a “meaningful agreement” precisely as scripted.  RR readers should be issuing a collective yawn tinged with a…

  • Remember, when the Sky Was Falling

    George Rebane Today memories hearken back to last February when the new Obama administration was screaming that $787,000,000,000 was required for all the "shovel ready" jobs in order to save the economy.  The American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 had to be passed immediately if not sooner to accomplish salvation.  Well about 12% of it…

  • Lights At Both Ends of the Tunnel

    George Rebane Have you ever felt that you were in a tunnel with lights approaching from both ends?  That is how it seems that our country is situated with Obamacare rushing in from one end and Cap n’Tax (aka Waxman-Markey) coming from the other.  Both are powered by the biggest government frauds launched in modern times. …

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