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Month: January 2016

  • Sandbox – 30jan16

    [Was interested in reading The Union’s editorial position on SoJ today (here).  The SoJ steering committee is preparing a response.  IMHO, it's important to keep in mind two items regarding the opposition to SoJ – 1) the opposition offers no alternative to the formation of North California (my preferred name) than the lame same ol’…

  • AI masters Go – time to apply brakes? (updated 30jan16)

    George Rebane A couple of days ago Google’s parent Alphabet (actually its DeepMind division) announced that their AlphaGo deep-learned software system has mastered the ancient Chinese board game Go.  This is a very big deal during these pre-Singularity years and marks a milestone toward intellectual peerage with humans.  AlphaGo is not just a souped-up version of…

  • ‘Pelline Protocol’ – exposed again (updated 29jan16)

    [Our friends Nancy and Eddie Garcia have been founders and leaders of several organizations favored by Nevada County conservatives, among them the NC Tea Party and the State of Jefferson movement. This week the local SoJ supporters assembled to celebrate having gathered well over 5,000 signatures to petition the Board of Supervisors to put on…

  • The Pope and the Raghead (updated 28jan16)

    George Rebane A few years back when first I had a chance to see the bragsheet on Pope Francis, I voiced some concerns about his political naiveté. The man seemed to have avoided any education in economics, finance, governance, and what social mechanisms actually generate the wealth that he’s so keen on redistributing.  His speeches…

  • Ruminations – 25jan16 (updated 29jan16)

    George Rebane A couple of quick points to which we’ll add later. Hillary in an orange jumpsuit?  That was never supposed to happen if we recall our liberal cadres here assuring us that her email imbroglio was a baseless Republican dust devil that would soon be forgotten.  At a lunch today with people who have…

  • ‘The Affordable Plumbing Act’

    [This little dissertation was forwarded by a friend, and I post it for both its humor and explanatory power of the progressive mind.  Well, maybe it’s not all that humorous, but it does provide a change of pace hereabouts, and perhaps, just perhaps, may give rise to an awakening.  gjr] Only weeks after leaving office on…

  • Sandbox – 21jan16

    [Does anyone have an idea about what the FBI is still doing in its investigation of Hillary.  With the IG's finding it would appear that there's now an overwhelming amount evidence to indict her for multiple crimes.  The investigation itself could continue.  But shouldn't Director Comey take what he has to DoJ and get them started…

  • ‘Mother May I’ Defense Policy

    George Rebane Did you know that until today American forces fighting in Afghanistan could not initiate operations against ISIS fighters in that country.  By standing orders from Washington our GIs could only attack Al Qaeda and the Taliban.  ISIS’ presence in Afghanistan has been growing for months, yet we could only shoot at them if…

  • Clashing Cultures Count

    George Rebane We read George Boardman’s 'Nevada County's supervisors cede leadership to sheriff on medical marijuana' in today’s (18jan16) Union on last Tuesday’s BoS MJ prezo by Sheriff Keith Royal et al. Generally it was a good piece, we had some inevitable nits because the changing face of MJ production and consumption in CA is a…

  • Ruminations – 15jan16 (updated 16jan16)

    George Rebane Former AG Mukasey on MSNBC drew our attention to certain paragraphs of US Code, Title 18. Section 2071. a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other…

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