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  • Ruminations -7may08

    George Rebane * VE Day remembrance* Ethanol realities come home to roost* Vallejo’s Bankruptcy* Some Left-wing Views on Illegal Aliens* Repairing the family washing machine VE Day.  Sixty-three years ago my mother, father, and I watched elements of Patton’s Third Army roll into a small farming village near Monheim, Germany.  We had walked into this…

  • Global Warning (sic)

    George Rebane Sometimes I wish that there would pop out two Earths so that we could give one of them to the True Believers lead by Team Gore, and then compare how each would work out.  The True Believers share most of the same ideas about how humanity should be governed as do the socialists. …

  • Road Ruminations Concluded – 3may08

    George Rebane We got home yesterday about noon.  Leo the cat was released from solitary confinement in the garage and spent the first hour following us around registering grievances about being left in long and undeserved incarceration.  This is a well-practiced routine perfected over a span of thirteen years.  In this post I will conclude…

  • Road Ruminations – 27apr2008

    George Rebane Las Cruces is a city of about 70,000 in southern New Mexico.  It is a modest bedroom community for the various government facilities (White Sands Missile Range, Holloman AFB, …) hereabouts and is also within commuting distance of El Paso, Texas.  For us it is a rest stop on the way to visit…

  • Road Ruminations – 25apr08

    George Rebane For the Steeles and Rebanes this was the last day together on our RV trip without an RV.  We decided to do a little research on community development from an historical perspective and took a trip to the Bandelier National Monument.  There we were promised the opportunity to discover and examine the lifestyles…

  • Road Ruminations – 24apr08

    George Rebane Our visit to Santa Fe was made this morning when we visited the Santa Fe Institute.  SFI is a non-profit institute of learning in the systems sciences with an international reputation.  Russ and I, being systems techies, just wanted to go to the mother temple and genuflect a little.  When with our brides…

  • Road Ruminations – 19apr08

    George Rebane We just pulled into Flagstaff, Arizona.   This morning we left from Laughlin, Nevada for the short trip here.  Our friends Russ and Ellen Steele were first on the road with their Airstream and GMC2500 prime mover.  For Jo Ann and me this is our RV trip without an RV.  We were supposed tag…

  • Cancelled Flights and Codaphobia

    George Rebane This week’s cancellation of over three thousand flights for safety inspections is a political flap where the FAA is over-reacting to Congress accusing it of being too cozy with the airlines.  What makes it all possible is the established public mentality of codaphobia, now nationwide and growing in direct proportion to the country’s…

  • Ruminations – 7apr2008

    George Rebane Collateral Carbon Credit Damage.  This morning I awoke to a NPR report of gushing young lawyers in WashDC all atwitter about getting into the carbon credit business and making a ton of money; oh yes, they’re in it to also save the environment.  This is one of many unknown collateral catastrophes that occur…

  • Economic Development – Once More With Feeling

    George Rebane The electeds of Nevada County had a two day joint meeting to continue their dubious path toward some or any, for that matter, approach toward economic development (ED).  It was marvelous to see an amicable meeting where the city councils of Truckee, Grass Valley, and Nevada City joined with the county supes to…

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