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  • ‘American capitalism gone with a whimper’

    George Rebane That is the title of a piece by Stanislav Mishin which appeared in the 27apr09 issue of Pravda, a few months after Obama’s inauguration.  It was then already clear to many of us in the US and also around the world that our new communist-nurtured president had every intention of fulfilling his promise…

  • CARB – open-loop idiots

    George Rebane For robust and reliable operation, both natural and man-made systems use feedback – monitoring output to determine how to control the system.  Open-loop systems – those not using feedback – are not very common in either nature or in the affairs of man.  The one common exception in the latter being governments which…

  • Ruminations – 2oct12

    George Rebane We add solyndra and solyndrize to the RR G&S lexicon.  Both in lower case, the first is a noun, the second a verb.  Other forms of modifiers like ‘solyndrizable’ will be readily formed and used as needed.  A solyndra is a government picked and supported enterprise foisted on the taxpayer as a private…

  • Prediction Competition 2 – Electoral College Outcome

    George Rebane The post ‘Prognositcators – An invitation to the dance’ introduced a methodology for scoring quantitative predictions so that our prognosticators may compete on record, and donate their losings to the 501c3 ‘charity’ of the winner’s choice. This is the second competition in which our sharp-minded readership is asked to predict the outcome of…

  • Headwinds for the American worker

    George Reban e [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that was broadcast on 28 September 2012.   To this transcript I have added some obvious links not included in the broadcast commentary.] Jobs and the economy are on everyone’s mind as we hear that our GDP growth was again downgraded – second quarter…

  • Ruminations – 25sep12

    Gain the name of being a gentleman, for it is enough to make you loved.  Courtesy is the stem of culture, a species of sorcery, and so gains the affections of everybody, just as discourtesy wins scorn, and universal hatred.  Baltasar Gracian #118 George Rebane China commissioned its first carrier to begin projecting power far…

  • The real jobs problem – shhh! (edited)

      George Rebane The importance and magnitude of EVERY social problem lies in its numbers.  If you don’t understand the numbers and how they relate, all you can do is emote about the problem. In these pages I have written an uncounted number of laments regarding the country’s dismal and deteriorating job situation.  Various organizations…

  • Blazing Skirt continued (updated 29sep12)

    George Rebane I wonder if our UN ambassador Susan Rice will now resign after being told to go on five talk shows last Sunday and make a fool of herself.  Team Obama sure hung her out to dry.  The cause of last week’s murderous Benghazi consulate attack has again revealed how ineffective and feckless this…

  • The Employment Picture – Who’s on first?

    George Rebane A correspondent from up north sent me this thoughtful dialogue that puts currency on a comedy routine some of us remember from the golden age of TV. COSTELLO:  I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America .ABBOTT:  Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 9%.COSTELLO:  That many people are out of work?ABBOTT:  No,…

  • Romney’s 47% Assessment

    A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.  Thomas Jefferson George Rebane Spontaneous truth can damage your political health.  Gov Romney’s remarks about who gets government bennies and who is likely to vote for him are now echoing around the world.  His core message may be lost if he attempts to…

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