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Month: January 2011

  • States Busy Strapping on Bankruptcy Kneepads

    George Rebane Regular RR readers are not a bit surprised by the big news heading into this weekend – the states are getting ready to march to Washington, on their knees, and beg for new legislation allowing them to renege on their debts, especially on the $2.5 trillion (unfunded liabilities) they owe to their own…

  • Healthcare, One More Time

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my bi-weekly KVMR-FM commentary broadcast on 21 January 2011.] The dodgy passage of Obamacare last year, its rejection by most Americans, and the results of last November’s election have ushered in a new season of healthcare debate.  It is doubtful that repealing that abominable legislation will come to…

  • Ruminations – 21jan2011

    George Rebane – New Muslim threat, offensive Jihad – American GIs killed by their trainees and combat ‘comrades’– Dog training – Pelline on Rebane and KVMR– Denial of pension problems – New Mexico pulls out of capntax– Prevalent illegal alien attitude? Offensive Jihad.  The latest development on the terrorist front, unreported in the lamestream media,…

  • Our Elected Dummies

    George Rebane RR and its conservative commenters are constantly taken to task by the left for their disdain of the intellectual level of our elected officials.  By their work product they are known.  But that is not enough for our progressive brethren who dismiss that criticism of government to be an attribute of (far?) right…

  • Whouda Thunk It?! (updated 19jan2011)

    George Rebane I don’t recall a sitting President ever writing an op-ed piece in a newspaper.  This has changed with President Obama penning ‘Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System’ in today’s (18jan11) WSJ.  Yes, in the Wall Street Journal and not the New York Times or any of the other national liberal rags.  We must recall that…

  • Bob Crabb Paints With a Broad Brush

    George Rebane RL ‘Bob’ Crabb, Nevada County’s keen observer of foibles and follies, has taken the local blogosphere to task.  His cartoon below appeared in the 15jan11 issue of The Union where he holds the chair as the newspaper’s regular apolitical cartoonist.  A compendium of his work was recently published in Once Upon a Village…

  • Upload me Watson!

    George Rebane IBM’s Watson supercomputer has bested humans at the TV game Jeopardy.  Furthermore, it promises to give a definitive performance on 13, 14, 15 February.  Big deal?  Yes it is; and please don’t confuse this advance in machine intelligence with the 1997 victory over chess master Gary Gasparov by IBM’s then hotshot Deep Blue.  The…

  • Arizona loses to California

    George Rebane Associated Press reports on a Mexican study on the disposition of Arizona’s illegal aliens (aka “migrants”) since SB1070 became state law.  It turns out that about 100,000 Mexicans left the state with fewer than 25% returning home.  The rest presumably crossed the Colorado River to California that has the most lenient laws about…

  • The Light from Tucson

    George Rebane People instinctively try to draw some compensating outcomes out of the Tucson massacre.  What they take away and how their ongoing lives are informed by the senseless carnage there illuminates who they are. The reaction of the broad left to this tragedy has been instant and, in my view, maniacal.  I see no…

  • Ruminations – 12jan2011

    George Rebane China has announced that it is on the path to making the yuan (aka renminbi) a global currency (more here).  In short, the yuan will then take its place beside the euro and the dollar as a currency in which international accounts may be settled – in other words the yuan will become…

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