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Month: September 2011

  • Wrong Rights (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the addended and linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 September 2011] It looks like we’re entering into the season of rights again.  Wisconsin judge Patrick Fiedler has informed the nation that we don’t have and never had any rights to either our cows, our crops, or our…

  • DARPA’s Alpha Dog – The Latest Generation

    George Rebane On these pages we have been following the remarkable technological advances in all-terrain walking pack robots of the Big and Little Dog programs (here).  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding this program at Boston Dynamics, the development contractor.  Alpha Dog is the latest generation in this program, and shows a mule…

  • AtPac Suit Cost Update

    [The following reports Nevada County resident and RR reader Bob White’s progress in his investigation into the cost impact of the AtPac suit which the county fought for almost two years and then settled.  The EIA mentioned below is the agent administering the insurance pool for member jurisdictions like counties and municipalities.  RR’s reporting on…

  • Another Silly Coincidence, Right?

    George Rebane A correspondent sent me this YouTube video of Idaho House (District 10) representative Curtis Bowers (R) talking about the communist agenda in America.  Apparently his surprising statements got some traction, and a lot of people were riled up about his connecting such dots for an obvious series of coincidences.  Then again, others thought…

  • ‘Investors sell …’ – What a crock!

    George Rebane Time to vent.  One of today’s financial reporters again comes out with – “U.S. stocks sank in afternoon trading as investors worried about policymakers’ ability to contain Europe’s debt crisis.” (28sep11 WSJ)  You read this kind of pabulum constantly in the financial press.  ‘Investors believe X, therefore they sell’, ‘Investors look forward to…

  • Civil Discussion of Issues with Paul Emery (updated 2oct2011)

    George Rebane I want to remind everyone that KVMR News Director Paul Emery and I will be having a “civil discussion of current events that spans the political divide” featured as The Great Dialogue by the Nevada County Tea Party Patriots.  This event will held be at the Nevada County Horseman’s Club in Grass Valley…

  • Klamath Claptrap Continued (updated 26sep2011)

    George Rebane Congressman Tom McClintock has delivered some eloquent and incisive critiques in opposition to the intent of California environmental fanatics’ plan to demolish dams on northern California rivers.  These dams provide critical watershed control, agricultural water supply, recreation, and electrical power generation.  The congressman’s article ‘Klamath Claptrap’ is required reading in order to understand…

  • Ruminations – 25sep2011

    George Rebane Some thoughts on violence and the blind. Harvard psychologist Professor Steven Pinker asks, “Why has violence declined so dramatically for so long? Is it because violence has literally been bred out of us, leaving us more peaceful by nature?”  In his recent book (as reported in the 24sep11 WSJ, ‘Violence Vanquished’) Pinker cites…

  • “… they can only build the gates so high.”

    George Rebane On these pages I have predicted that there will be blood in the gutters when the government destroys the economy (which they insist on characterizing as “the private sector”) to a level where new jobs are non-existent and savings are gone.  The usual liberal response in the attendant comment streams has been that…

  • Klamath Claptrap

    Tom McClintock [On the floor of the House our Congressman delivered an indictment of the current environmental radicalism that is part and parcel of the forces destroying California.  This article summarizes his speech. It is printed with permission.  gjr] This generation is facing spiraling electricity prices and increasingly scarce supplies.  Californians have had to cut back…

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