George Rebane
Christmas 2022. Jo Ann and I were again blessed to be in the bosom of our family on Christmas eve and Christmas day. The whole affair took place at daughter Teine and Dave’s house (head of our Southern Tribe) in Alta Sierra. Teine organized and put on dinner on the eve, Christmas brunch, and big Christmas dinner. In attendance were also granddaughter Fiona (with child) with hubby Shawn and their daughter Maybelle, grandson Sean and wife Bella (with child) who arrived late on Christmas eve, driving in one day from snowbound Denver where they live (as part of our Eastern Tribe) along with granddaughter Claire, hubby, and four more great-grandchildren. Throw into that mix two male dogs and a Maine Coon cat, and you get a rough idea of all the goings on in the house and yard. Our Northern Tribe, headed by daughter Sini and hubby Roland, was snowbound in their Seattle area home along with their timely assembled kids Elizabeth, Lucas, and Catherine with hubby. Needless to say, a lot of inter-tribal texting and sending of pics went on the whole time.
‘Into each life some …’ The regular reader will have noticed a drop-off in the frequency of RR posts. As reported before, Jo Ann and I came down with Covid during Thanksgiving week. And that malady has lingered with us, mostly me, over the last month. I had some health issues (inevitable in your 80s) start earlier in the year which Covid compounded. So anyway, we’re getting tested for this and that, and dragging a mite in the process. Hope to be back online sooner than later.
[28dec22 update] Our beloved Union is in the hands of junior varsity journalistic philistines. Their new managing editor Elias Funez showed his hand in today’s edition by writing a very long, self-adulatory op-ed (here) that leaves no doubt the man either failed Introduction to Composition 1A, or never even gave it a try.
Given my extensive history covering wildfires over my now 17 years of newspaper reporting, It didn’t take me long for me to connect the dots between my penchant for producing breaking news coverage, live video, and print photography.
And I was finding out that not just her, but many many others as well. My live feeds had now have become a resource where folks were exchanging information in real time, and with many other members of the community.
There’s much more to lament about this man’s talents in running a newspaper. I also recommend RR readers take a look at the newspaper’s completely revised website (here). This monstrosity is basically broken – e.g. it will not accept former account holders, and does not even feature the paper’s Opinion (op-ed) section. It appears to now start focusing on syndicated writers with a distinct leftward lean. More about this later.
[29dec22 update] ‘ICE Admits It Has ‘No Records’ For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Immigrants Released With Electronic Monitors’ The evidence of government incompetence and criminal fraud pours in daily. The Biden administration has assured their various departments and agencies fomenting and promoting the illegal alien invasion that they will not be touched by the formerly ‘long arm of the law’. Future favors accrue to the bureaucrats enabling the now bulging pipeline of future Democrat voters. (more here)
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