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  • Scattershots – 22jul20

    George Rebane Our indigenous North American natives (aka Indians) may not have politically clean hands after all.  Now that it’s OK to go back in history to any desired time in order to dredge up the iniquities of our forefathers (and mothers), we have discovered that the most recent arrivals before the white man probably…

  • An African-American by any other name …

    George Rebane Why is someone designated ‘black’ when they clearly are not completely of African descent – e.g. they obviously have caucasian or oriental ancestors?  Assigning the black label to everyone with even a tinge of Negroid heritage makes it seem as if such ancestry is a blight.  A condition that once you have even…

  • This Young Collectivist’s Column is NOT a Caricature

    George Rebane Recent NUHS graduate Michael Sekerak is working hard to reshape our society and community.  He wrote the cri de Coeur ‘Time to elevate those marginalized in our community’ which The Union published in its 8jul20 edition.  What is remarkable about Mr Sekerak’s column is that it so exemplifies the education, indoctrination, and mentality…

  • Letters from the Revolution – 8jul20 (updated 9jul20)

    George Rebane Reports of the number of cumulative C19 cases in any given jurisdiction misses the point.  Nobody should care about cumulative cases, only the number of active cases, and maybe the number who have died.  It’s the active cases that communicate some measure of risk for those who are out and about.  The ones…

  • Scattershots – 5jul20 (updated 6jul20)

    George Rebane Division is caused by Trump’s speeches is now the steady narrative from the national propaganda outlets.  Specifically, it’s the speeches in which he mentions the protests cum riots that result in death and destruction that have now emerged as the daily visible signs that divide our country.  Were they not of evil intent,…

  • Letters from the Revolution – 27jun20 (updated)

    ‘Can the country confront its current problems with its traditional can-do spirit?  We have barely four months to figure out how.’  A.H.A. George Rebane ‘America Doesn’t Need a New Revolution’, so argues Ayaan Hirsi Ali, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution (married to Niall Ferguson, internationally prominent socio-political historian not to be confused with…

  • Scattershots – 25jun20 (updated 27jun20)

    “Black people are being murdered and brutalized by police with near impunity.” ACLU manifesto George Rebane Big Lies.  The demonic Democrats are hands down the purveyors of significant and impactive big lies that are issued daily by their political leadership and their lamestream media.  (see above tagline)  When lies in the public forum are considered, the…

  • Reflections on Racism – no time to decide (updated)

    George Rebane A barren desert is now the middle ground separating Americans from their woke and fundamentally transformed brethren. Racism has been an enduring theme on RR for years – e.g. back in 2010, through the years, and a more recent commentary in 2019.  With readers we have dissected it 20 ways from Sunday.  Even…

  • Pandemics are a Systems Management Problem

    George Rebane [After working on my epidemic spread and testing models, I cobbled together this structured draft on 7 May 2020, and have put off posting it due to other more compelling analytical problems having to do with the pandemic.  Now that I’m seeing other systems professionals coming to the same conclusion – e.g. ‘How…

  • Scattershots – 10jun20 (updated 13jun20)

    George Rebane Beware of people who need outliers to make their point, and then use these to cloud the big picture. Food prices are soaring even though plants are coming back on line and distribution problems have been solved.  The producers’ argument is that worker safety requires reconfiguration of work spaces and the introduction of…

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