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  • Tax and Bribe Programs

    George Rebane California is trying to come up with a budget that will fill a $15 billion budget shortfall.  The battle lines are the same ol’ same ol’ ones we have witnessed so many times before.  The voters are of little help in this mess since we stopped teaching civics in high school at least…

  • Ruminations – 21aug08

    George Rebane Some idle thoughts during a year of invasions, stimulus injections, climate change sacrifices, and elections promising hope-filled change. * A young Alan Greenspan made an audacious observation back in the early sixties.* Tonight PBS’s ‘Nightly Business Report’ again declared its true colors.* Today is the fortieth anniversary of the Soviets’ crushing of what…

  • Ruminations – 11aug08

    George Rebane *** How would you spend $10B to solve nation’s problems?*** “Obama’s Tax Plan Would Greatly Increase Budget Deficit”*** Maryland’s elected imbeciles were surprised again.*** Nevada County takes steps to reduce unfunded liabilities *** Recently the WSJ has been asking major national figures on how they would spend $10B to solve some of the…

  • Systems Science Rules (almost)! [edited]

    George Rebane I’ll step right out there and put my foot in it – there is not a single significant area of human endeavor that is not a strong subscriber to or totally transformed by systems science.  Yes, but how do you define ‘significant’?  I define it simply as the domains of knowledge that are…

  • Local Publisher Alerts Readers to Government Excesses

    George Rebane Jeff Ackerman, publisher of The Union (sometimes aka The Onion), finally vented his spleen this morning against the doings in Sacramento which have been going on for some time now, but apparently in the tolerable region of our local paper’s radar.  I was happy to see Jeff step out and paint a picture…

  • Los Angeles Times Gags Blogs

    George (the Banned) Rebane Slate has published a report about the LA flagship controlling the content of the blogs it serves.  This is another step down the path that MSM newspapers are taking toward oblivion (a related story on NC Media Watch).  Our beloved Onion just bans individuals (e.g. moi) and has yet to plumb…

  • Ruminations – 22jul08

    George Rebane Scope insensitivity!!??   Well now folks, the politically correct wordsmiths have presented us with a new use for the word ‘insensitivity’ – a person is no longer ignorant or stupid, he’s just insensitive.  So an illiterate is just lexicographically insensitive; that sounds much nicer.  And an innumerate person, get this, is one afflicted with…

  • Jazz Camp in the Sierras

    George Rebane Another one of the gems, or should I say golden nuggets, of this foothills community of ours is Jazz Camp presented by the Sierra Jazz Society.  Once a year this society, under Artistic Director Bill Douglas, assembles a group of professional jazz musicians from near and far to put on a five day…

  • How Elections Really Work

    George Rebane When the overwhelming fraction of voters consists of people indifferent, ignorant, or just plain stupid, how does a republican form of democracy work?  Why doesn’t it just collapse right away as such people cast ballots? Political scientists have studied this remarkable stability of democracies, and have noticed that somewhere in the 20th century…

  • Road Ruminations – 29jun08

    George Rebane We are definitely ready to head for the barn.  This is our last night in Estonia and tomorrow morning we drive to the airport, turn in our mud splattered Opel sedan, and fly to Frankfurt.  Yesterday afternoon we arrived back in Tallinn after a short drive from Muhu and Saaremaa, the country’s big…

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