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Month: February 2016

  • Response to Jim Hemig (updated 27feb16)

    George Rebane Yesterday I responded to Union publisher Jim Hemig on his ‘January challenge’ editorial about the NCRWF’s ongoing ideology audit of the newspaper’s op/ed items.  Mr Hemig’s challenge was accepted by two respondents – a liberal lady and Jo Ann Rebane, my wife who is the NCRWF auditor.  Mr Hemig waxed philosophical about The…

  • Justice Antonin Scalia, 1936 – 2016

    Our country’s loss, the magnitude of which we will soon suffer.  Thank you, and rest in peace Justice Scalia

  • Bob Crabb, Mardi Gras Grand Marshal!

    George Rebane Congratulations and kudos to our friend and community icon RL ‘Bob’ Crabb for being most appropriately selected to head up this Sunday’s Mardi Gras parade in Nevada City. He and his lovely wife Mary Ann are featured on the front page of today’s Union.  In addition to a large photograph, the print edition also…

  • Scattershots – 10feb16 (updated 12feb16)

    George Rebane NPR reported this morning that the state’s Legislative Analyst Office has concluded that California’s housing shortage is primarily caused by an insufficient number of “market priced” (i.e. low cost) houses being built due regulatory impediments and the state’s mandates for requiring ‘affordable houses’ that must integrated into regular developments and subsidized with non-existent…

  • Sandbox – 9feb16

    [Lest we forget Obamacare, that federal monstrosity has managed to get another of its tits in a wringer – mandated health insurance for California farmworkers.  The monthly cost for 50 or more workers starts at over $30K which their hiring companies can't afford, so they have to deny it and pay the fine.  But now the workers denied…

  • Responding to Paul D. Hauck (updated 17feb16)

    George Rebane Scientism – the misuse of science-like arguments to prop up unfounded propositions, policies, and propaganda. The 8feb16 Union published, as its lead op-ed piece, an Other Voices commentary – ‘An alternative alternate universe’ – by Mr Paul Douglas Hauck of Penn Valley.  In it Mr Hauck responds to my 16jan16 Other Voices commentary…

  • How well do we predict? (updated 10feb16)

    George Rebane In the months leading up to this election year these pages have recorded a lot of predictions, some more vehement than others.  Predicting, estimating, forecasting, …, all of them are hard and involve some level of risk depending how well these efforts are carried out.  We spend almost every waking moment taking some…

  • Predicting with Expressed Beliefs – a formal approach

    George Rebane We’ll start by skipping the famous Yogism about predicting.  But living life successfully requires us to constantly predict the future – events that may or not happen in a time yet to come.  It’s necessary to do that because we have to prepare for various futures by deciding what actions to take right…

  • Ruminations – 6feb16 (updated 9feb16)

    George Rebane Our ongoing theme on the nation’s economic stagnation – Depression2 – led by California is abetted by Linda Erdmann’s piece – ‘Fleeing the Golden State’ – in the 6feb16 Union print edition and a couple of cogent ZeroHedge links (here and here) sent by Russ Steele on the dissimulation that Team Obama and his…

  • Reinette on Voting

    A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be. Thomas Jefferson George Rebane For those new to Nevada County our Ms Reinette Senum (pictured) needs a bit of an introduction. She is the former mayor of Nevada City and a local liberal activist who has promoted many collectivist causes hereabouts.  I have worked with…

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