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Category: The Rear View

  • ‘They Can’t Take That Away from Me’ – 2013 style

    George Rebane [I’m not sure that much of this is comprehensible to younger generations, but many of us older people do hearken back to some grand years in the good old US of A.  Granted, time has worn off some of the rough edges.  Nevertheless, here’re some ramblings to mark another milestone that we pass…

  • Columbus Day 2012

    George Rebane Today we observe Cristofo’s grand achievement in 1492 that started the European conquest of the Americas – the Vikings blew their attempt about 500 years earlier.  This national holiday is specifically eschewed in Hawaii, Nevada, and, of course, California.  Nevertheless, I was reminded by a reader that RR would be remiss in not…

  • Local Control of Business Development – we’re basically screwed

    George Rebane Last Friday I attended a part of what has now become institutionalized as a biennial ceremony that passes for efforts to develop business in Nevada County.  I think I have attended about five of these during the years we’ve lived here.  This one featured the elected city councils and the county’s Board of…

  • An apology for all occasions

    George Rebane [In my long working career I was privileged and very lucky to have worked with and under some truly remarkable and very smart people.  One of these was an older systems engineer extraordinaire and a complete gentleman by the name of Skip Case.  I was technically his peer, but I never considered myself…

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    George Rebane   Ellen Rebane (1914 – 1990)  

  • Ruminations – 8may12

    George Rebane Happy VE Day!  On 8 May 1945 the Rebanes were in Liederberg – a small German farming village that just a few days ago was firmly brought under the control of Patton’s Third Army (more here) – and ready to be carted off to Augsburg and four years of internment in post-war displaced…

  • A Cut at ‘Rational Optimism’

    George Rebane A friend and correspondent who shares many of my worldviews sent me a link to science writer Matt Ridley's hopeful piece on "seventeen reasons to be cheerful".  RR readers of these pages know that I am of the opinion that the western world is now beyond the tipping point, that we are headed…

  • Socialism’s trail of tears, long time coming

    George Rebane A reader sent me this little blast from the past, published in the year I first set foot on these shores.  The ode below was composed as it became clear that the nation’s flirtation with communism in the Great Depression had not been fully purged by Truman’s partial efforts to sunset some of…

  • How We Got Here – Looking at the Bush2 Record

    George Rebane On these pages I have argued long and hard that the permissive environment in which mortgage lenders made subprime loans was carefully constructed and energetically promoted by the congressional social engineering programs of the Democratic Party augmented by a klatch of RINOs. Yesterday’s announced retirement by Rep Barney Frank (D-MA), one of the…

  • Ruminations – 27nov2011 (updated 28nov2011)

    George Rebane Communist spying and influence on our national policies have long been denied/diminished by our Left.  The public experience in uncovering these activities within our government was not sufficient to change any minds in our unions, mainstream media, or the halls of academe.  Things should have changed when the USSR collapsed in 1991, and…

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