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Month: October 2012

  • Columbus Day 2012

    George Rebane Today we observe Cristofo’s grand achievement in 1492 that started the European conquest of the Americas – the Vikings blew their attempt about 500 years earlier.  This national holiday is specifically eschewed in Hawaii, Nevada, and, of course, California.  Nevertheless, I was reminded by a reader that RR would be remiss in not…

  • Agenda21 – Exhibit A on display locally (updated 7oct12)

    George Rebane The Left and their supporters deny the existence of UN's Agenda21 and their part in promoting its precepts.  That's to be expected of global collectivists to whom local control is anathema.  What is more insiduous is when such precepts under the "sustainable development" banner of the ICLEIs – the regional and local Agenda21…

  • Ruminations 6oct12 – 8oct12

    George Rebane [Administrivia – ‘Ruminations’ postings will now be labeled by the interval from which they draw their items instead of sporting an ‘Updated xx’.  The subsequent addenda will include content annotated with the date of their appearance.  Hope this makes it easier to peruse.] To the astute observer of the political scene, the real…

  • Debate1 Thoughts (updated 8oct12)

    George Rebane In presidential debates I haven’t seen a better performance than Romney’s since Reagan took the stage in the 1980s.  While everyone and their brother is publishing voter sentiments on the debate, Gallup is strangely silent.  It’s as if the debate never happened when you look at their website.  I was hoping to use…

  • ‘American capitalism gone with a whimper’

    George Rebane That is the title of a piece by Stanislav Mishin which appeared in the 27apr09 issue of Pravda, a few months after Obama’s inauguration.  It was then already clear to many of us in the US and also around the world that our new communist-nurtured president had every intention of fulfilling his promise…

  • CARB – open-loop idiots

    George Rebane For robust and reliable operation, both natural and man-made systems use feedback – monitoring output to determine how to control the system.  Open-loop systems – those not using feedback – are not very common in either nature or in the affairs of man.  The one common exception in the latter being governments which…

  • Ruminations – 2oct12

    George Rebane We add solyndra and solyndrize to the RR G&S lexicon.  Both in lower case, the first is a noun, the second a verb.  Other forms of modifiers like ‘solyndrizable’ will be readily formed and used as needed.  A solyndra is a government picked and supported enterprise foisted on the taxpayer as a private…

  • Prediction Competition 2 – Electoral College Outcome

    George Rebane The post ‘Prognositcators – An invitation to the dance’ introduced a methodology for scoring quantitative predictions so that our prognosticators may compete on record, and donate their losings to the 501c3 ‘charity’ of the winner’s choice. This is the second competition in which our sharp-minded readership is asked to predict the outcome of…

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