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  • Go Figger

    George Rebane Did you know that Pakistan’s primo intelligence agency ISI continues to inform and train the Taliban?  Well, apparently this has been going on for some time says the London School of Economics which just released a report on this little relationship (more here).  Meanwhile we have been pumping billions into Pakistan to buy…

  • Tea Party Scattershots (edited)

    George Rebane   We attended the little Tea Party Patriots gathering yesterday afternoon in Penn Valley.  As predicted by the lame stream media for such events, we all showed up with our guns and grenades wearing our knuckle pads so they wouldn’t get skinned.  Everybody felt good because they had recent appreciation checks from BP stuffed…

  • Which way now California?

    George Rebane [This is the submitted version of my column that appears today 12 June 2010 in the printed and online (here) editions of The Union.] Don’t you love it when everybody wins?  You know, when both sides claim victory or look at the same data, and come to exactly the opposite conclusions, only one of…

  • A Better Way to ‘Bomb the Oil Leak’

    George Rebane With all due respect, I strongly disagree with the Big Bomb approach to plug BP’s oil gusher as suggested by Franz Gayl, civilian scientist for the Marine Corps (here).  Gayl recommends “dropping” a version of the Air Force's giant 21,600 lbs bomb on the wellhead.  Wrong solution – exploding it at the wellhead would…

  • Obama Wants BP’s Scalp (and more)

    George Rebane Yes, I’ll come out and say it, President Obama wants to destroy British Petroleum PLC.   The reasons for this drastic objective are purely political; political in the sense of saving his political hide from the rabid left who have already called him on a number of ‘broken promises’.  He needs to look decisive…

  • Same ol’ same ol’

    George Rebane As you can see, we in Nevada County are still doing our part to hold down the deficit.  What about you guys where you live?

  • Patty Meckler votes in Nevada County

    George Rebane [I had breakfast with Mark and Patty Meckler yesterday.  Mark is one of the two national co-ordinators of the Tea Party Patriots.  The Rebanes are TPP members and supporters.  In our broader conversation Mark and Patty brought up Patty's experience at her polling place Tuesday.  The story was both sad and bizarre, but…

  • Experience Counts

    George Rebane Earlier in the day I heard of the great Nevada County voting machine debacle – apparently they don’t register the paper ballots because all of them were printed with identical registration numbers and no one checked the ballots or the scanning system with the ballots before voting started.  Who knows, there may even…

  • Vote Buying in June 2010

    George Rebane Obamacare’s chief salesman is on the road again selling what the progressives heralded was to be the universally celebrated solution to the nation’s healthcare ills.  Never mind that the Europeans and Canadians are now trying to figure out how to backtrack out of such programs without blood in the gutters.  But according to the…

  • Ruminations – 7jun2010 (updated 9jun2010)

    George Rebane – British PM blows socialism’s cover– The AB32 bamboozle under full steam– What if tornadoes were earthquakes?– Obama does something right?– The Dixon Cruickshank Celebratory Fishfry The new British PM David Cameron today announced “drastic cutbacks” in Great Britain’s budget.  This is the first revelation by a leading British politician that socialism is not sustainable in that island…

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