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  • Patently Problematic

    George Rebane President Obama’s program to ‘Win the Future’ includes patent reform.  The current system implemented by the Patents and Trademarks Office (PTO) awards a patent on the basis of who can demonstrate that he invented it first, regardless of who first filed a patent application for the gizmo.  Obama claims that it will create…

  • Workers’ Rights and Attack on the Middle Class

    George Rebane Unionists in Wisconsin and their sympathy demonstrators across the country have been taught new slogans to shout.  These are various forms of ‘violating workers’ rights’, and that cutting back the power of public employees unions is ‘an attack on America’s middle class’.  Both are false, but both are powerful since most listeners don’t…

  • Report from Hind Tit Road (updated 28feb2011)

    George Rebane I’m sure we here on Cement Hill aren’t the only ones in Nevada County who think they live on Hind Tit Road.  But we think of it often enough that we might as well grab the name while it’s still available.  After another freezing night without power, our thoughts turn to Pacific Gas…

  • ‘We Have No Guns’

    George Rebane That was the lament from a businessman and demonstrator on NPR’s morning coverage of the Libyan crisis.  He told of the government hired mercenaries riding through the streets of Tripoli, machine gunning anyone caught in the open.  The death toll is over a thousand with thousands more wounded.  And this is not even…

  • The New Nevada County Brand – Really! (updated)

    George Rebane Today the Board of Supervisors accepted the proposal by Switchback Public Relations + Marketing Inc to develop a county tourist promo website and spread the word that henceforth the following image will indelibly remind the prospective visitor of Nevada County and its manifest pleasures.  This shall be the case in perpetuity, or until…

  • Ruminations – 22feb2011

    George Rebane The role of public employee unions in the sacking of America has long been denied by the socialists.  This is the political crowd that is regularly elected to office through the support of these same labor organizations.  They are the closest thing the left has to a franchised criminal class in our society.  …

  • Russ Steele makes the New York Times

    George Rebane Russ Steele, pre-eminent Nevada County blogger and author of NC Media Watch , was prominently featured in a NYT article about the impact of social media on blogging.  Russ, who has been an inspiration to many of us lesser lights in Nevada County, spoke for those of us who have not chosen to use…

  • Assaulting Public Sector Unions (updated 21feb2011)

    George Rebane The Wisconsin teachers union imbroglio promises to get uglier before it is resolved.  The left is accusing Republicans of launching an “assault on the unions”, as if that were akin to committing some kind of sacrilege.  Given what public sector unions have done to the nation and its several states, it seems appropriate…

  • Additive Manufacturing and its Aftermath

    George Rebane Another quiet revolution is taking place that will impact all of our lives in ways known and unknown.  Its big name is additive manufacturing (AM), but we used to know it as 3D printing.  Stereolithography, the technology behind AM and 3D printers, was first invented by Charles Hull in 1984.  These printers take…

  • The Suicide of Jeopardy

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my 18feb11 commentary broadcast bi-weekly on KVMR-FM 89.5.  A related post 'Epochal My Dear Watson' was posted on 17feb11.] We Americans have always loved winners, and see ourselves as winners, especially in this age of universal self-esteem.  Oh yes, there is that phase we sometimes go through when…

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