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Month: June 2010

  • Go Figger

    George Rebane Did you know that Pakistan’s primo intelligence agency ISI continues to inform and train the Taliban?  Well, apparently this has been going on for some time says the London School of Economics which just released a report on this little relationship (more here).  Meanwhile we have been pumping billions into Pakistan to buy…

  • Re Jeff Pelline – For the Record

    George Rebane RR does its best to avoid referencing the self-aggrandizing postings on Mr Pelline’s blog, nor do I respond to his incessant and ongoing vitriol extended to me personally.  Perhaps the time has come for a short response. This morning I received an email from a reader who sent me the latest example of the…

  • Tea Party Scattershots (edited)

    George Rebane   We attended the little Tea Party Patriots gathering yesterday afternoon in Penn Valley.  As predicted by the lame stream media for such events, we all showed up with our guns and grenades wearing our knuckle pads so they wouldn’t get skinned.  Everybody felt good because they had recent appreciation checks from BP stuffed…

  • Which way now California?

    George Rebane [This is the submitted version of my column that appears today 12 June 2010 in the printed and online (here) editions of The Union.] Don’t you love it when everybody wins?  You know, when both sides claim victory or look at the same data, and come to exactly the opposite conclusions, only one of…

  • We Can Dream, Can’t We?

    George Rebane Long ago Congress became the largest, best armed, corrupt, and most powerful crime syndicate in the nation.  For years we voters have been the compliant lackeys of the self-aggrandized ‘Capitol Honorables’, sending one morally myopic after another to Washington on the promise that they will somehow be clever enough to return us more…

  • The Generosity of Americans Under Assault

    George Rebane [This commentary was broadcast today 11May 2010 by KVMR FM85.9 as the latest of my regular bi-weekly contributions.] In times thick and thin we Americans are world champion philanthropists – by any measure our voluntary contributions to charities and worthy causes have been unbeatable.  But our federal and state governments are working hard to…

  • A Better Way to ‘Bomb the Oil Leak’

    George Rebane With all due respect, I strongly disagree with the Big Bomb approach to plug BP’s oil gusher as suggested by Franz Gayl, civilian scientist for the Marine Corps (here).  Gayl recommends “dropping” a version of the Air Force's giant 21,600 lbs bomb on the wellhead.  Wrong solution – exploding it at the wellhead would…

  • Obama Wants BP’s Scalp (and more)

    George Rebane Yes, I’ll come out and say it, President Obama wants to destroy British Petroleum PLC.   The reasons for this drastic objective are purely political; political in the sense of saving his political hide from the rabid left who have already called him on a number of ‘broken promises’.  He needs to look decisive…

  • Same ol’ same ol’

    George Rebane As you can see, we in Nevada County are still doing our part to hold down the deficit.  What about you guys where you live?

  • Patty Meckler votes in Nevada County

    George Rebane [I had breakfast with Mark and Patty Meckler yesterday.  Mark is one of the two national co-ordinators of the Tea Party Patriots.  The Rebanes are TPP members and supporters.  In our broader conversation Mark and Patty brought up Patty's experience at her polling place Tuesday.  The story was both sad and bizarre, but…

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