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  • Ruminations – 17mar2009

    George Rebane Happy Saint Paddy’s Day to all!  Kinda wish folks from Estonia also had enough of a presence in America to have an annual celebration of our ethnicity and contribution to the country.  But we are such a minority that if we were to be recognized, so would the folks from East Timor - and…

  • There May Yet Be Hope

    George Rebane … and what skills will you have to offer for which someone will voluntarily pay? Young people today are beginning to wake up to the benefits of learning high-tech skills no matter what their career plans may be.  This discovery has been made through a survey sponsored by IBM and reported on here. …

  • Medpedia – the New Medical Wiki

    George Rebane Today Oogalabs launched Medpedia.com, its new web medical information website.  Medpedia promises to be for accessing medical information what Wikipedia is for web-based information.  Medpedia is designed to be used by both lay people and medical professionals, with content provided and edited only by medical professionals.  So, if you got a boo-boo or…

  • Another Bridge to Nowhere?

    George Rebane [This post is actually the continuation of a magnificent comment thread that started in response to ‘McClintock Visits Nevada County’.  That thread became an examination and debate between the economic policies of the Right and Left, especially in the context of what is happening today in Washington with the seeming sea change of…

  • Tied in Legal Knots

    George Rebane Today President Obama’s call for “a new era of responsibility” is stillborn.  Most well-read people have known for some decades now that we have tied ourselves into legal knots that kill the spirit of initiative and freedom.  Lawyer Philip Howard (chair of Common Good) in today’s WSJ writes ‘How Modern Law Makes Us Powerless’ …

  • We Believe What We Need to Believe

    George Rebane  I’m reminded by today’s Stratfor bulletin of a recent comment on RR regarding Islam’s crusade against the West.  Buzzing out Stratfor’s report, I wound up on the INRA site (Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency) to read that “Over 70,000 students sign up for martyrdom operation list”.  To quote that comment, many good-hearted people…

  • The Ultimate Ponzi Scheme

    George Rebane A correspondent sends the nearby cartoon and reminds us again that if we judge the government by the same standards that its citizens are judged, then the government would be the biggest crook of all.  All this comes under the growing time-bombs of unfunded liabilities which are set to go off across the…

  • Ruminations – 28dec2008

    George Rebane Emeritus Professor Robert Johnston, UC Irvine, will be presenting on land use and transportation modeling in the age of anthropogenic global warming.  This will be on 18 Feb 2009 in Incline Village (details here).  Of course, the whole presentation starts with the revealed truth that AGW is real as inscribed on the stone…

  • A Christmas View from the Left

    George Rebane     According to folks like Wiley, the borrowers were otherwise responsible people who thought that ARM was a body part when they signed the loan papers.

  • A Respite of Joy

    George Rebane Today Christians in the western tradition celebrate the mystery of the Incarnation.  Our Eastern Orthodox brethren maintain the old Julian calendar and will celebrate Christmas on 7 Jan 2009.  This lag has been in effect since the 16th century when our modern Gregorian calendar was adopted to great consternation in Europe.  In many…

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