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Month: August 2010

  • OBAMACARE – The Left View

    George Rebane RR readers are very familiar with my thoughts on socialized medicine.  Here is a summary of how our friends on the left look at Obamacare.  This was forwarded by a correspondent and friend who views himself as a 'New Deal Democrat'.  I found the inclusion of Jesus Christ especially heartening. Ten Terrible Things are…

  • Sucking on the Federal Tit, Teat, … whatever

    George Rebane The picture of the deficits over the last eight years is a telling story.  The graphic shows the deficits with the cost of the Iraqi war broken out as tallied by the US government.  For those keeping up, we have to add the shown amounts to about another $3 trillion dollars to come…

  • Social Scaling

    George Rebane Another one of those delightful, disorganized, and sometimes disjointed discussions has erupted in the comments following ‘The Reverends Beck and Sharpton Hold Meetings’.  The topic area has migrated from that of the original post on the Beck/Sharpton rallies in Washington, to the related area of types of governance that were actually the underlying…

  • AB32 and Prop23 discussion on KVMR

    George Rebane This coming Wednesday from 6:20 to 7:00 pm KVMR-FM 89.5 will hold a moderated discussion of AB32, the attempt to suspend the remainder of the law through the passage of Proposition 23, and the relevance of the whole effort to us in Nevada County.  AB32 is also known as California’s ‘Global Warming Solutions…

  • The Reverends Beck and Sharpton Hold Meetings

    George Rebane This morning’s gathering at Washington’s Lincoln Memorial was something to behold.  We had breakfast watching C-SPAN’s broadcast of the event that drew somewhere in the neighborhood of 400,000 people.  The occasion was definitely in the style of a revival meeting with unabashed appeals and praises to God and Jesus Christ.  Billed as an…

  • Schwarzenegger on State Employee Pensions

    George Rebane California’s governor published a strong appeal for pension reform in the 27aug10 WSJ op-ed section.  In a piece titled ‘Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future’ he lays out a case for why we are headed for disaster.  None of the arguments are foreign to regular RR readers.  They may come as a surprise…

  • Happy Days Are Here Again?

    George Rebane Nah, it’s just that November’s mid-term elections are finally getting close.  The big news hereabouts is that Nevada County received another tranche of federal cash from the vaunted American Redistribution and Re-election Act (ARRA).  Yes indeed, another $2.82 million and change rolled in this week.  This almost tripled our take so far.  We…

  • Dollar for dollar, you get chazzerai

    George Rebane A couple of nights ago Jo Ann and I attended an NID meeting of the Cement Hill Rd water project held at the Elks Lodge.  We sat with NID board member Nancy Weber who also spoke at the gathering.  The meeting was pretty much a waste of time for most of the attendees,…

  • Some Governance Druthers

    George Rebane California’s AB32 (cap n’ tax) controversy and the impending opportunity to suspend a good part of it through passage of Proposition 23 has given rise to discussions on better approaches to governance.  Here is a partial list of my druthers, some of which may even be doable, and, I’m sure, there’re one or…

  • Steven Frisch responds on Proposition 23

    George Rebane On 20 August last, KVMR aired one of my bi-weekly commentaries ‘Is Prop23 Relevant to Nevada County?’ in which I argued 1) for the support of Proposition 23 to suspend CARB’s implementation of AB32 which is now California law, and 2) that the county’s Board of Supervisors should take a stand on the…

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