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Month: January 2010

  • Tea Party Patriots Under Cover of Night

    George Rebane Tonight we made it to a gathering of the local Tea Party Patriots (aka teabaggers) in the Grass Valley Elks Lodge.  I estimate that over three hundred of Nevada County’s rightwing extremists packed themselves into that hall.  It was advertized as a celebration of the movement’s success here and across the country –…

  • Our New Subsidized Economy

    George Rebane Speaking to us while still wearing his kneepads from the meeting with the feds (Pelosi and gang), Governor Schwarzenegger reminded us that California gets back only 78 cents on every dollar it sends to Washington.  Then why don’t we instead just send them 22 cents and call it even?  

  • Ruminations – 21jan2010 (updated)

    George Rebane open letter to the President interview with Dr Anna [update] Glenn Beck special  After Massachusetts, the leftwing of the progressive movement is exhorting President Obama to do better in 2010 lest we witness “the re-emergence of a vicious, feudal corporatism.”  It is instructive for all, especially those not wedded to socialism, to read…

  • Repudiation

    George Rebane Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts yesterday should send a clear message to all progressives in the country, especially of the Democrat ilk.  But I doubt that it will.  The true believers will just hunker down and figure out how to recast the socialist revolution they are trying to pull off.  Fundamental transformation of…

  • Ruminations – 19jan2010

    George Rebane • Avatar – the screenplay• Haiti and foreign aid I was reminded of my naivete by an email from a RR reader with a link to an article that discussed the message delivered by the film Avatar.  This blockbuster raises the bar for producing movies rich in very realistic computer graphics and extends all this into…

  • Avatars Lauren and Bogie, Together Again

    George Rebane In the early 1980s my firm in Los Angeles had just bought and installed the most advanced computer graphics system available.  It was the second one on the west coast (the other one belonged to a big aerospace company) and we used it to create multi-media images and videos for the then new…

  • Haiti – After the Dust and Tears

    [This post by Mr Steven Frisch is an expansion of the comment thread for ‘Haiti and Compassion’.  Steve is the president of the Sierra Business Council and frequently offers a more progressive perspective to RR posts.  Here he kindly accepted my invitation to post his more comprehensive thoughts on post-disaster US policy toward Haiti.  gjr]…

  • Singularity Signposts – 17jan2010

    George Rebane Here is a flurry of recent developments and advances that serve as ever more rapidly passing milestones as we approach the Singularity.  Their relevance to everyday life is sometimes hard to see for the non-technician, but they all have an impact on how most of us will be able to earn a living…

  • Jobs Gone … and Coming

    George Rebane [This editorial appears today (16 January 2010) in The Union’s print and online (here) opinion sections.  This is the submitted version.] Some people around here have given up on real economic development for our county.  They see that the federal trough has been slopped and ready for all the little piggies who can recite…

  • ARRA for China? (updated)

    George Rebane It’s been about a year down the pike since the $787 billion American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 was passed to claim the award as the greatest Congressional bum’s rush in history.  I wonder how this all strikes those holding their breath for the new green industries to be funded by such means.    …

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