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  • Ruminations – 23may16 (updated 27may16)

    George Rebane Yesterday we returned from a couple of weeks in Europe with friends visiting Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary.  Somewhere I picked up massive cold augmented by the Hungarian Hack that I brought home on a miserable return from Budapest to SFO in three draining hops.  Air travel (we traveled first and biz…

  • A burning election year question for Americans (updated)

    George Rebane In this year of 2016AD, is not the disjunction of our communal knowledge remarkable when it informs a goodly portion of us that capitalism and free enterprise are evil and the prime causes of misery and suffering wherever they are practiced; when in reality these are and continue to be the ONLY social…

  • The Candidates on Abortion

    George Rebane Chris Matthews interviewed Donald Trump and asked how the pregnant woman should be treated if she sought an abortion in a jurisdiction wherein it was illegal. His off-the-cuff answer was that the woman should be held responsible in some manner.  Everyone on and off the campaign trail went ballistic. Offline and at his…

  • ‘The Great American Disconnect’

    George Rebane Government is an intrinsically evil collective, cynically organized, incompetently operated, and staffed by people not all of whom are evil.  For this reason alone, citizens must keep their governments small and always on a short leash. World history is powered by the strong urge of like-minded people seeking and protecting land on which to…

  • Ruminations – 14mar16 (updated 20mar16)

    George Rebane We’ve reported what outfits like Pew Research have discovered about the mental acumen of millennials.  Today we hear from online news services targeting millennial audiences some characteristics of their aggregate behaviors that explain away why this generation is not our nation’s swiftest (Bernie call your office).  The Independent Journal Review is perhaps the leading…

  • 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…

  • Scattershots – 20feb16 (updated 22feb16)

    George Rebane Consider that it is the progressive college administrators who back public policies that let them raise tuition costs to levels out of reach of the same poor whom they cynically claim to champion. Pope Francis’ latest foray into politics on his Mexican visit includes his now familiar socialist screed of demanding “justice for undocumented…

  • Clashing Cultures Count

    George Rebane We read George Boardman’s 'Nevada County's supervisors cede leadership to sheriff on medical marijuana' in today’s (18jan16) Union on last Tuesday’s BoS MJ prezo by Sheriff Keith Royal et al. Generally it was a good piece, we had some inevitable nits because the changing face of MJ production and consumption in CA is a…

  • Harbingers of Our Demise (updated 7jan16)

    George Rebane Reports of Muslim men assaulting western women in Europe over the recent holidays have been minimized and dismissed by the lamestream media and leftwing pundits. Their meager reporting has even been characterized as being racist since the evidence all points to Islam in the growing episodes of culture clashes in European countries, and…

  • Taqiya on Steroids? (updated 4dec15)

    George Rebane The San Bernardino massacre investigation continues.  Given the evidence to date, the authorities still cannot decide whether it was just ‘workplace violence’ or the latest attack by Islamic terrorists.  What is reported by the news services – Associated Press, WSJ, … – is pretty compelling (more here).  We do know that – 1. The…

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