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  • AtPac Lawsuit – the Greg Diaz Deposition (updated 5sep2011)

    George Rebane Regular RR readers are familiar with the lawsuit filed by local software company AtPac naming as defendants Nevada County, NC Clerk-Recorder Greg Diaz, and Aptitude Solutions, a Florida software company.  For months the community has been asking the county’s Board of Supervisors to reveal the whys and wherefores of what led to the…

  • Islamophobia – a rational response? (updated 1sep2011)

                            Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.  R. Clay Reynolds George Rebane As these pages long attest, for me the answer to the title question is a resounding YES.  And our western governments aid and abet that as being the reasonable response.  The progressive tsunami of proscribing anyone who evinces fear of Islam ranges from Mayor…

  • Ruminations – 28aug2011 (updated)

    George Rebane Irene, our second politicized hurricane, has failed to deliver on its pre-show publicity.  With the President rushing back to the White House situation room (shades of 'Dr Strangelove') to direct the national response to the advertised Armageddon Minus One, meanwhile the damn thing up and turns into a big rainstorm.  So there he…

  • Singularity Signposts – Cognitive Computing Milestone

    George Rebane Yesterday IBM announced the first fruits of its cognitive computing initiative.  It’s a processor chip with an architecture that mimics some of the neural net topology (how neurons hook up to other neurons) of a human brain.  The cognitive computing chip (CCC) from IBM Research shown here is not to be programmed in…

  • Do Our Schools Really Suck? (Working Title)

    George Rebane I don’t know whether that overstates the case, but in any event it’s not that far off.  Reading this morning’s lead piece ‘STAR tests’  in the 18aug11 Union, I was a little put off by the reporter’s opening attempt at logic. Despite efforts across western Nevada County to improve student test scores, money still matters in…

  • An Evening with the Tea Party Patriots

    George Rebane Mr Paul Emery – KVMR news director, musical personage extraordinaire, bringer of arts, and erudite RR discussant – and I have been invited by the Nevada County TPP to engage in a moderated ‘civil discourse’ on issues of current interest as their featured special program for September.  The event will be held on the…

  • Decline and Fall of Europe and the West

    George Rebane Progressive organs around the world are starting to hyper-palpitate about the EU economy, sovereign debts, and unexpected violence in the streets.  The Economist and Time are in general agreement that Europe is “about to blow”.  And it’s all due to the planned and announced budget cuts because their governments are rapidly running out…

  • Our Painfully Uninformed Young People (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the corrected form of my Union column for August.  In the submitted form I mistakenly assigned PM Cameron to the Labor Party.  However, due to a glitch, it did not appear today but will instead publish next Saturday 20aug11 here, hopefully in the corrected version as below.  Thanks again to readers for pointing out…

  • Ruminations – 11aug2011

    George Rebane - The Left’s American Dream movement- UK riots have an unmentionable cause- California’s popular vote law Led by Van Jones, our favorite self-declared communist and former Obama staffer, the American Dream Movement “announced the Contract for the American Dream, a new agenda for economic recovery supported by a grassroots movement that progressive leaders say will rival…

  • Bernanke’s ‘non-Keynesian’ QE3 (updated)

    George Rebane This is just a little stake in the ground so I can keep the audacious prognostication momentum going on RR (and put myself at your mercy if I’m wrong).  The Fed under The Bernank has put out the message that there will be no QE3 as the previous two quantitative easings (aka printing…

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