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  • Ruminations – 14apr17 (updated 15apr17)

    George Rebane Judge Andrew Napolitano was right in his report about Obama’s backdoor use of foreign intelligence intercepts of Team Trump’s communications.  An astute reader (cf fish 857pm comment here) alerted us to the now emerging news also confirmed by CNN that the US does indeed trade intelligence, including communications intercepts, in this case to…

  • A Sea Change at MIM

    George Rebane Last night Jo Ann and I attended an all-Beethoven concert at the Amaral Center.  It was the launch concert of a new series put on by Music in the Mountains that featured the Sacramento Philharmonic and violin virtuoso Chee-Yun Kim.  Those who arrived early got to hear MIM Artistic Director Pete Nowlen detail…

  • A Holy Day not a holiday

    Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.  Matthew 1:23 George Rebane A merry and joyous Christmas wish from the Rebanes to all who read these pages – God’s annual promise reissued.  And to that we…

  • Counting Our Blessings

    George Rebane Looking forward to a family gathering at Casa Rebane, Jo Ann and I wish all of our readers and their families a most happy and meaningful Thanksgiving.  We live in a land still blessed.  Here are a couple of related readings appropriate for the holiday – ‘The Desolate Wilderness’, ‘And the Fair Land’.

  • On Evil and the Amoral – a brief consideration

    George Rebane Recently a thoughtful RR reader disputed my ascription of a university that he reported had “illegally paid the expenses for students to participate in an anti-Trump rally, … .”  I characterized the people behind such institutional and institutionalized behavior as ranging “between amoral and evil”.  My assessment was dismissed as being not “even…

  • ‘Immigration in 1958 vs. 2016’

    [Under the same title this piece by Ms Annamaria Sauer was published in the 8oct16 edition of The Union.  Ms Sauer emailed the article and at her request it is happily posted here as received.  The Sauers are friends, and as an ethnic Estonian I share an ancient relationship with Annamaria the ethnic Hungarian for…

  • Web Handles – their use and abuse

    George Rebane The topic of anonyimity in web comment streams has risen again in these pages.  The most recent instigation was the advent of a commenter who signed himself  “XXXXX” that set off a stream of responses from other commenters some of whom also use a ‘nom de web’.  Under ‘Hillary’s First Loyalty’ I questioned XXXXX’s…

  • MIM Summerfest 2016

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 22 June 2016 and posted early to get the word out.] Dear listeners, today let’s take a break from politics and terror and capitalist greed, and talk about happier things.  This year our very own Music in the Mountains is celebrating its…

  • Administrivia – RR joins the social networking melee

    George Rebane Our daughters – Sini and Teine – have urged me to link RR to some of the popular social network servers for a number of reasons which have not always been an attractant for me.  RR's numbers have increased over the years, and that has kept this labor of love going.  But finally I relented…

  • A Holy Day not a holiday

    Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.  Matthew 1:23 George Rebane A merry and joyous Christmas wish from the Rebanes to all who read these pages – God’s annual promise reissued.

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