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  • Ruminations – 11sep13

    George Rebane 9/11 – Today some of us remember that we are at war with a civilization whose belief system – evil by our standards – cannot survive along ours in an open and inter-connected international community.  And yet others believe that 11 September 2001 happened because of some fundamental misunderstanding between two peer cultures…

  • The Larger Train Wreck Still Looms

    As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.  On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron. –…

  • Your data coerced and co-opted

    George Rebane The Guardian, NYT, and NPR report the latest disclosures from Snowden’s cache of purloined NSA documents.  It now appears that the feds are decrypting reams of internet data from Americans in an “opportunistic” manner.  This means that they just gratuitously grab it, convert it into clear text, and then store it for later…

  • Reason and Rationality (updated)

    George Rebane California’s Siskiyou County is the latest jurisdiction in the land to voice its opposition to the growing de facto condition of regulation and taxation without representation.  Their stated desire to secede from California is but another cri de coeur in the growing national chorus that laments growing statism.  The success of such movements…

  • The Reprobate Republicans

    George Rebane This forum has highlighted Obamacare’s atrocities, visited and pending, since before it became law of the land.  Today there are serious rumblings of attempting to defund/delay Obamacare as part of the next continuing resolution Congress will take up on extending national debt.  The Republicans have been the leading rumblers who have received on…

  • Slap a wrist to extract a foot (updated 9sep13)

    George Rebane As we prepare to launch some sort of punishing strike against the Assad regime in Syria, the question of WMDs comes up again.  We recall that 1) no significant WMDs were found in Iraq after Gulf2, and 2) that our military reported large convoys of trucks headed to Syria in the weeks before…

  • The test after you thought you were done

    George Rebane The higher education bamboozle continues.  “Only one in four employers think that two- and four-year colleges are doing a good job preparing students for the global economy, according to a 2010 survey conducted for the Association of American Colleges and Universities.” So what to do?  A new non-profit is offering a post-graduation test…

  • Ruminations – 13aug13

    Do not engage with him who has nothing to lose.  It is to fight at a disadvantage, for the other enters without encumbrance, because unaccoutred even of shame; and having auctioned off everything, he has nothing more to lose, and so may allow himself every insolence; …  Gracian #172 George Rebane As we continue our…

  • Oh, those damn Republicans! (updated 15aug13)

    George Rebane My friend RL Bob Crabb, a man with a considerable trumpet hereabouts, put up this cartoon in today’s (10aug13) Union.  As I’ve opined in the past, Bob is a self-declared middle roader who nevertheless has a pronounced list to port, as is evident from his excellent double entendre offering during our county’s elephant…

  • Common Core Test Results – ‘Schools Get an F’

    George Rebane My 21jun13 KVMR commentary ‘Common Core is Coming’ invited an intense and long debate in the comment stream of its transcript posted here.  Well, time has passed and the early results of Common Core testing are beginning to come in, and the results aren’t pretty.  The kids are scoring markedly lower on the…

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