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  • Bit by Slow by Plan?

    George Rebane Are they really going to string us out until the election season next year?  Admittedly, we do have short memories.  And if we get the money too soon, we’ll forget who all our benefactors were when we go to mark our ballots.  Ahh, the stratagems of vote buying – neither simple nor cheap.

  • Waiting for Your Flu Shot

    George Rebane The news about getting swine flu (H1N1) vaccine into your neighborhood has been all over the place lately – the bottom line is that most of us can’t get vaccinated for the next several weeks, if then.  If you read carefully, you’ll notice that the reports talk of the vaccine being imported from some…

  • ‘All is Well’

    [This editorial appears today (24 October 2009) in The Union’s print and online opinion sections.  In there it is retitled ‘Unfunded liabilities time bombs are ticking away’.  This is the submitted version. gjr] George Rebane Nevada County’s unfunded liabilities to its Calpers pension commitments total over $80 million.  By now most people know that Calpers…

  • Things are looking up …

    George Rebane … I think.

  • Ruminations – 22oct2009 (updated 23oct09)

    George Rebane – Soft-soaping the dollar.– The Sierra Bravos lose one (and then gain one). Ever since I can remember, at our house we always stuck the worn thin piece of soap to the new bar so that none of it would be wasted.  I guess all depression era families and European refugees learned that little trick…

  • “Wall to Wall Adulation”

    [PG-13, reader caution advised, some strong language – Martha, send the children from the room] George Rebane That’s actually a quote from Charles Krauthammer describing the MSM in their sad attempts at journalism, at least when it comes to reporting on the Obama administration.  This set me thinking about the state of journalism today in…

  • ObamaNation’s Big Question

    George Rebane This question has been asked by hundreds of millions of people of autocratic regimes over the last hundred years.  And sooner or later they all answered it for themselves.  Big hat tip to a loyal RR reader in SoCal.

  • Of Soda Pop and Bullets

    George Rebane Congress is now debating the next level of big brother laws in legislation designed to tax away our taste for soda pop and other drinks laced with sugar.  As a wordsmith, I dislike ‘nanny state’ to describe such encroachment of liberties, because nanny connotes someone who cares for you and has your best interests…

  • Contemptible Constituents?

    George Rebane ObamaCare’s progress through Congress illustrates the utter contempt Democrats have for the intelligence of the folks who voted them into office.  Their straight-faced ‘explanations’ of how health (or any other kind of) insurance works strains the credulity of anyone with more than two brain cells to bang together. As I listened yet again…

  • Sustainable Resilience

    George Rebane Resiliency has joined sustainability as desirable attributes that are getting a lot of attention these days.  It’s always been hard to pin people down on what sustainability means when we talk about conservation and communities, and I don’t think the job will be easier with resiliency joining the jargon jar. Why is a…

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