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Month: May 2025

  • California’s $8 gasoline

    George Rebane With most of the state’s refineries already gone, and two more packing up to leave, and with more planned refinery exits in the works, the state is heading for a transportation disaster.  The oil companies are uncertain about the reality of CA’s 2035 ban on internal combustion engines now being litigated.  Other states…

  • President Trump’s Memorial Day Message

    [In addition to the fine Memorial Day speech the president delivered at Arlington Cemetery yesterday, he went on truthSocial.com earlier and unloaded the message below that apparently reflects his true feelings, but on second thought was considered not appropriate for the polite company attending the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown. gjr]…

  • Memorial Day – 26 May 2025

  • Scattershots – 22may2025 (updated 26may25)

    We must now take seriously the possibility that it will be the resurrection of a shared culture, not its abandonment, that will make possible our continued survival and cohesion.  The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West (2025) George Rebane The Big Beautiful Bill is now on a rocky road…

  • Sandbox – 19may25

    [Thoughts on the new 'Executive Branch' exclusive club in Georgetown started by Donald Trump Jr et al that has a membership fee of $500,000 which will allow members to network and mingle with administration officials out of the public eye?  (more here) gjr]

  • Scattershots – 15may25

    George Rebane “California’s poverty rate has increased significantly, with disproportionate impacts on Black and Laninx residents” during the Biden years (2021-2024).  The California Budget & Policy Center reports (here) on the continuous disaster foisted on our formerly golden state by the double dummy Democrats who inhabit Sacramento at all levels.  And it is getting worse…

  • The Matter of Abrego Garcia

    George Rebane Democrat lies abound in all sizes and shapes; they wash over us daily during our consumption of the news, be it from conservative or progressive outlets.  The lies about the deported gang member and wife beater Abrego Garcia have gotten a lot of mileage, and proivdes a lot of holier-than-thou comments on blogs…

  • Triangle Problem

    George Rebane Two circles of areas A1 and A2 are embedded in an equilateral triangle as shown below.  What is the area of the triangle? ©2025 GJ Rebane  

  • Scattershots – 4may25 (updated 7may25)

    George Rebane Today the Rebanes landed on these shores 76 years ago (here).  It was the most fortuitous and wisest move by my parents to accept America’s 1948 invitation to the Balts then ensconced in displaced persons camps all over West Germany.  It has been documented many times since by historians and journalists that the…

  • Sandbox – 1may25

    [Apologies for letting the last sandbox become a little overused and festered.  Here's some fresh sand that I'm sure will be welcomed.  gjr]

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