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Month: January 2013

  • Black Helicopters over South Houston and Miami

    Smokey the Bear's rules for fire safety – keep it small, keep it in a confined area, and keep an eye on it – apply doubly so to government. George Rebane Here’s a 12 minute video taken by Houston’s KTRK news helicopter of a military drill involving what looks like Army H500 helicopters armed with…

  • Numbers get a (confused) boost

    George Rebane The importance and magnitude of EVERY social problem lies in its numbers.  If you don’t understand the numbers and how they relate, all you can do is emote about the problem. RR has argued from the start that applying the tools of the systems sciences is critical to the solutions of all social…

  • Climate Change – Another Asymmetric Dialogue

    George Rebane Bjorn Lomborg is an internationally recognized and much published environmentalist.  He even believes that AGW is a factor in climate change.  Recently he wrote an article that was critical of President Obama’s inaugural “three horsemen of the climate apocalypse” listed as the "devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful…

  • MOOCing a Bachelor’s degree

    George Rebane A quick update on a major developing theme in education – the massively open online course or MOOC.  I last reported on this progress earlier this month (here). While MOOCs are providing tens of thousands of online students with low cost education and certification in various areas, they have yet to be accepted…

  • Ruminations – 24jan13

    George Rebane The classical liberal fears the growth of government, and sees it as the prime source of society’s ills.  The collectivist celebrates and promotes bigger government, and sees it as the proper foundation for a proper society. Hillary ropadopes Congress.  The outgoing SecState’s testimony on Benghazi was political kabuki at its best.  The Dems,…

  • This President’s Second Term (addended)

    George Rebane Never confuse effort with achievement. The country is in shambles, and it’s time to think of historical legacies.  Fortunately, as Barack Obama formally starts his second term, the President can salve both through implementing the same set of policies. Over the last four years these pages have detailed the mistakes of this administration…

  • 3D Printing – Bigger and sooner than you think (updated 28jan13)

    George Rebane Additive manufacturing, now ‘3D printing’, has been around and evolving for years.  But with the introduction of the precision and automated control of lasers and CAD (computer aided design) encoding the design of the manufactured (‘printed’) part, the field has taken off.  Imagine having a device approximately the size of a refrigerator in…

  • Taxes, taxes, and more taxes

    George Rebane [This is the linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 18 January 2013.] OK, the so-called New Year’s fiscal cliff has been avoided, and now it seems that the national hysteria over the Newtown shootings is on the ebb.  We may be able to return our attention to the…

  • Ruminations – 17jan13 (updated 18jan13)

    George Rebane Do you notice that on all the media (Fox included) it’s a big no-no to piss off Muslims?  Now with all the action going on in Mali, Obama’s lie about Al Qaeda being on the ropes is exposed, and the reporters are again having to talk about “the war on terror” a lot. …

  • Debt Limit and Things Economical

    George Rebane [Cautionary note to innumerate readers, this post will require some facility in basic arithmetic and an attention span.] El Lider Fearless has issued his latest executive demand – no more congressional limits on accruing national debt.  “We are not a deadbeat nation,” Mr. Obama said. “And the consequences of us (sic) not paying…

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