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  • Valemaxes for Nevada County?

    George Rebane The so-called Valemax bulk carrier ships at 400,000 tons deadweight are among the largest vessels on the world’s oceans, each being almost 1,200 feet long with 200+ foot beam and drawing about 75 feet fully loaded.  The ship class was chartered by Vale SA, a Brazilian mining company, to carry iron from Brazil…

  • Ruminations – 8mar16

    George Rebane Lord Keynes famously asked a critical journalist, 'When I get new information, I change my mind.  What do you do?'  Rebane Rule – A politician 'flipping' his views is welcome only when accompanied by what new information was received when which then caused the change. The Union has invited Ms Hilary Hodge to be their new liberal columnist.  Ms…

  • Dr Hauck Responds – for the record

    George Rebane Today The Union published the following letter as the latest chapter in what appears to be an ongoing dialogue between Dr Paul D. Hauck and me.  The exchange started with his reading of my Other Voices column ‘Swansong from an Alternate Universe’ (and here), to which he responded with his own OV piece –…

  • Progressivism and the Certainty of Ignorance

    George Rebane One of the unambiguous tenets of a conservetarian is that collectivism, in any of its forms, is a gateway to human suffering and eventual tyranny.  Collectivists, under whichever banner they assemble – progressive, liberal, national socialist, international socialist (communist), … – will first seek to silence their foes by whatever means they are…

  • Ruminations – 23feb16 (updated 28feb16)

    Look to him who comes in with another’s concern in order to go out with his own. … Gracian #193 George Rebane No debate about replacing Justice Scalia should proceed before the Democratic precedents denying a sitting Republican president the same privilege receive full airing. At that time the debate should commence with the Dems…

  • Does Trump’s Advocacy of Torture Disqualify Him From the Presidency?

    [This is an invited post by my longtime friend and colleague Dr Wayne Hullett that expands on his comment under the 16feb16 Sandbox.  gjr] Wayne Hullett "Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish." – C.P. Snow "Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism." – John…

  • March of the Mini-minded Millennials (updated 20feb16)

    George Rebane [This is the addended and linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 February 2016.] In this election year the millennials are going to make their mark, and both parties are doing their best to woo them.  Why?  The simple reason is their numbers; but that’s not the whole story.  The…

  • 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…

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