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Month: April 2011

  • The Kilogram and Judges’ Pay and …

    George Rebane The standard kilogram – ensconced under glass in Sevres, France – is losing mass, and the world of standards is all a-twitter, as it should be.  For you see, “its only purpose (is) constancy.”  As Seth Lipsky points out in his ‘The Floating Dollar as a Threat to Property Rights’ in a recent…

  • McClintock = Doolittle Redux ??? (updated 14apr2011)

    George Rebane At Tom McClintock’s 22mar11 town hall meeting our congressman 1) acknowledged my characterization of the spending cuts and related continuing resolutions as being insignificant pinpricks on the country’s fiscal gangrene, and 2) politely stated that my assessments were in error. Now that the mother of all CRs, citing $38.5B spending cuts, has been…

  • As We Talk About Taxes and Skin in the Game (updated 18apr2011)

    George Rebane   Why would the bottom 50% ever vote for lower taxes??  The Democrats know the answer. [18apr2011 update]  Russ Steele of NC Media Watch pointed me to the following little milestone that highlights the above graphic.  The sheeple are being prepared.

  • Singularity Signposts – Running out of processing matter/energy?

    George Rebane There was an interesting exchange on Ray Kurzweil’s website between Kurzweil and a reader with a “disturbing thought” about post-Sinularity trans-humans some day running out of ‘stuff’ on which to store their ever-expanding knowledge base and on which to do the ever more expansive ‘thinking’ that presumably we will then be able to…

  • The Fierce Fight over Flys*#t (updated)

    George Rebane From listening to all the talking heads this weekend going on about the $38.5B spending cuts in the FY2011 budget, we hear that both sides are taking full credit.  And both the Dems and Repubs have declared victory … but over what?? It is clear that the tea parties are the only ones…

  • Public Service Pension Sticker Shock

    George Rebane This was posted on 8 July 2008 by Bill Zettler (here and more here).  It is another of the ‘songs without words’ that are again reminding us of the rot which is even worse today.  But they do shine a light on how we got here.  (H/T to RR reader.  Click to enlarge table.) Top 100…

  • A Snowball’s Chance in Hell

    George Rebane [This the submitted form of my Union column for April.  It was submitted on 7 April 2011, and could not reflect the yet another “short-term funding measure” agreement reached late Friday 8 April that averted government shutdown as reported here in the WSJ.] The GOP’s federal budget – ‘The Path to Prosperity’ – for…

  • Deconstructing Obama and Journalism

    George Rebane The 2apr11 post – ‘Simon & Schuster’s Revenge’ – on American Thinker by Douglas Hackleman is a review of the recently published book Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President by Jack Cashill.   The review is a worthy read and will serve for many of us as a compelling preamble…

  • The first realistic budget – hallelujah! (updated 6apr2011)

    George Rebane The House Budget Committee submitted the first federal budget in years to deal with our fiscal crisis.  Under the leadership of Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI) the submitted budget will now have to weather the storms of Democratic opposition, for these are the people who think that liabilities in the tens of trillions will…

  • Supervisor Lamphier Revealed

    George Rebane Nevada County’s recently elected Supervisor Terry Lamphier published an extremely revealing, and therefore, welcome column last Saturday in the 2apr11 Union.  In that short piece (‘Re: It’s Time to Get Serious’, below in blue italics) he did an admirable job of telling readers his perceptions of our economy and understanding of American governance.…

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