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Month: December 2010

  • The quiet is deafening

    George Rebane Gold is now comfortably at above $1,400 an ounce and rising.  It has risen over 28% in 2010 and over 170% in the last five years.  The other precious metals – silver, platinum, palladium – have done even better.  The official word is that there is nothing to worry about.  The world economies…

  • Pleasant surprise on the long drive home

    George Rebane We got back this afternoon from a Christmas visit to our ‘Northern Tribe’ in the Seattle area.  The ‘Southern Tribe’ (from SoCal) was able to join in to make a big family get together with our kids and grandkids.  Jo Ann and I said our good-byes on Sunday morning and drove away into…

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  • Laughing at Laffer Again

    George Rebane Oregon’s sheeple voted to increase taxes on the rich a couple of years back to solve their budget woes.  Their dimwits with the eyeshades figured if nothing changed (the everlasting curse on a mind in stasis), that the higher tax would bring in an additional $180M.  Instead it brought in only $130M, and…

  • Scattershots – 20dec2010 (updated 21dec2010)

    George Rebane FCC commissioner Robert McDowell concludes his 20dec2010 WSJ piece on ‘net neutrality’ with – “On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of…

  • Lovers in a Foxhole

    George Rebane Yesterday the Senate passed a bill to revoke the longstanding ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy banning gays serving openly in the military.  Senator and combat veteran John McCain pronounced the passage a “sad day” for the military, adding "I hope that when we pass this legislation that we will understand that we are…

  • The Liberal Mind – Government Subsidies

    George Rebane Most people consider government subsidies to be the transfer of some form of assets – cash/stuff/services that the government owns - from the government to the subsidized entity.  Not so the liberal of whatever coloration.  In their book the government effectively owns everything, and we the people are allowed to husband and use some…

  • Jobs and Schools – we may be too late

    George Rebane [This is the 17dec10 transcript of my regular bi-weekly commentary on KVMR-FM 89.5.  I have provided links to the Compton school and Governor Pawlenty’s public service union references.] Remember the story of John Henry, the steel drivin’ man, celebrated in legend and song.  He was extremely strong and fast at chiseling holes into…

  • California’s Purple Cargo Cults

    George Rebane CARB met yesterday to establish California’s cap n’ tax carbon trading program.  RR readers are aware of how people who passed Econ 101 feel about this mournful event.  (For details and analysis of its larger impact, see Russ Steele’s report on NCMW.) Meanwhile, the progressives are besides themselves with glee.  Half of them…

  • County fails to deliver Diaz documents – cost $20,250? (updated 21dec2010)

    George Rebane My sources tell me that – “On December 9, 2010, Magistrate Kimberly Mueller ordered Nevada County to reimburse AtPac for fees incurred in the amount of $20,250 for failing to produce documents as required by law. Magistrate Mueller found that AtPac was diligent in its attempts to obtain the documents, but that Nevada…

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