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Month: June 2015

  • Agnosticism vs Atheism

    George Rebane [The is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 June 2015.] Our secular humanist brethren misconstrue Darwin as having claimed and conclusively demonstrated that the cosmos was uncreated, and that life arose by chance from the primordial muck.  In fact, Darwin made neither claim, but did present compelling evidence…

  • The Liberal Mind – More examples of Reason Denied

    George Rebane In the 11jun15 sandbox a left-leaning reader pointed out the recent speech (here) of a California conservative assemblywoman who believes that God has intervened to bring drought upon our land as a corrective to punish us for our legalized practice of infanticide and abortions.  Another similarly leaning reader weighed in with his opinion…

  • Scattershots – 14jun15 (updated 16jun15)

    George Rebane The general circulation models (GCMs) still aren’t worth a crap.  For most of us able to read the literature, that fact has been known for well over a decade.  And looking at how GCM errors have remained large and unchanged, the models haven’t gotten any better.  But that makes no never mind to…

  • ‘They didn’t create that …’

    George Rebane Late yesterday afternoon Jo Ann and I were at the annual company picnic of a recent high tech start up.  It was a jolly event held in a local park with well over a hundred people in attendance – the employees brought their families and significant others, their kids were running around and bouncing…

  • Sandbox – 11jun15

    [Have no idea how the last sandbox overfilled so quickly.  The foreign trade issues under the trifecta of initiatives now boiling – TPA, TPP, and the EU Services Agreement – got everyone exercised.  It was edifying to watch how the barn was circled again and again.  I come away wondering how much, if any, common…

  • The Conservatarian Manifesto

    George Rebane Years ago as my socio-political outlook took shape, I had a hard time fitting myself into the well-defined boxes labeled Conservative and Libertarian.  When I started writing RR and sought to spell things out as unambiguously as possible – my penchant for ‘operational definitions’ – I ran into the problem of what to…

  • Rich Ulery on Our Unfunded Liabilities

    [This 9jun15 email from my friend Rich Ulery is reprinted here with permission.  Mr Ulery is active in local affairs, is the former chairman of the Nevada County Republican Party, and now serves on its Executive Board.  He also chairs the Citizens Oversight Committee of NCCFD. This report is germane to reignite discussion of the county’s unfunded pension…

  • Reflections on Directions

    George Rebane We are told that the Internet is forever.  The global system today is already so vast and complex that no one can map it, and no one knows what comprises all of its processors (aka bit shifters) and data storage repositories (aka bit buckets).  So we can think of entries like these as…

  • Sandbox – 7jun15

    [Whew!  The 4jun15 sandbox got a bit rowdy.  All good thoughts from there can be continued hereunder. gjr]

  • Sandbox – 4jun15

    [As most RR readers have seen, the sandbox 'all topics welcome' forums (fora?) in these pages have been more than well received – their comment streams quickly fill with multiple topic threads discussed among multiple participants.  Recently these sandboxes have begun 'filling' more rapidly – e.g. the 1jun15 sandbox garnered over 200 comments in three…

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