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Month: June 2010

  • Experience Counts

    George Rebane Earlier in the day I heard of the great Nevada County voting machine debacle – apparently they don’t register the paper ballots because all of them were printed with identical registration numbers and no one checked the ballots or the scanning system with the ballots before voting started.  Who knows, there may even…

  • Vote Buying in June 2010

    George Rebane Obamacare’s chief salesman is on the road again selling what the progressives heralded was to be the universally celebrated solution to the nation’s healthcare ills.  Never mind that the Europeans and Canadians are now trying to figure out how to backtrack out of such programs without blood in the gutters.  But according to the…

  • Ruminations – 7jun2010 (updated 9jun2010)

    George Rebane – British PM blows socialism’s cover– The AB32 bamboozle under full steam– What if tornadoes were earthquakes?– Obama does something right?– The Dixon Cruickshank Celebratory Fishfry The new British PM David Cameron today announced “drastic cutbacks” in Great Britain’s budget.  This is the first revelation by a leading British politician that socialism is not sustainable in that island…

  • Congress, the Hurdle to Recovery

    George Rebane   Rahm Emmanuel is not the only one who does not want to waste a good crisis.  Businesses across the country have attempted to use this recession like no other one to get rid of deadwood employees and reconfigure themselves to be more competitive in the marketplace.  With galloping technology allowing fewer people…

  • Remembrances of John Wooden – RIP

    George Rebane John Wooden, a gentleman, mentor, and a teacher of character, died today aged 99.  John Wooden was also the legendary basketball coach at my alma mater UCLA, and a man revered by all who were fortunate enough to know him. My high school basketball coach Sy Korach was a friend of John Wooden,…

  • Friday’s Federal Fiscal Follies

    George Rebane The growth of central government is now at a gallop.  Anti-capitalism that was rampant is accelerating even more.  Some of us are quietly observing the anniversary of the arbitrary abrogation of contract law when Obama took over Chrysler and gave all its corporate bondholders a haircut.  For those not familiar with lending money…

  • DARPA’s Little Dog (4jun2010 update)

    George Rebane The ability of autonomous quadruped robots to cross very difficult terrain has taken another leap forward.  The Defense Advanced Projects Agency sponsored work at Boston Dynamics in developing Little Dog is reported on in the video below.  RR readers were introduced to Big Dog in 2008 (here).  Think of the possibilities that this technology will enable in…

  • A New Socialist Manifesto

    George Rebane If one doubts the separation between the American conservative and progressive, then doubt no more.  Henry A. Giroux lays it all out in no uncertain terms as to where the country is today and where it should be heading.  He does not do it on some backwater channel, but as the leading essay…

  • Scattershots – 2jun2010

    George Rebane Minimum wage and American Samoa bailout; Taxpayers bailing out union pensions; David Crane (Arnold’s adviser) – diversify energy sources by diktat; And more … All conservatives and the progressive elite know that the minimum wage is a populist ploy for buying the votes of the ignorant.  Them that use it, get elected.  And them that…

  • Nanofoods Are Coming

    George Rebane … and not a minute too soon to suit this pudgy commentator who always licks his platter clean.  Many food research outfits have been working on modifying our favorite foods and condiments so as to increase their nutrition, taste, and satisfaction while reducing their harmful effects – starting with how much we want…

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