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Just out of curiosity, what is the number of people who enter the job market each month or year? I'm thinking of those who get out of a high school, trade school, college etc. Are they counted in the jobless numbers?
Dave Cranfield
Commented Nov 4, 2012 on Cueing the Luddites - The October Jobs Report (updated 5nov12) at Rebane's Ruminations
Cueing the Luddites - The October Jobs Report (updated 5nov12)
George Rebane Productivity growth is the engine of an economy's wealth generation, and the bane of the poorly educated/skilled worker. [The following commentary on the October 2012 jobs report is also the latest installment of the RR series on employment and the economy. These are viewed from ...
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Dave Cranfield
Commented Oct 26, 2012 on Administrivia - 26oct12 at Rebane's Ruminations
Administrivia - 26oct12
Re logging in for comments. Recall that TypePad had a problem with that a couple of weeks ago, and many of you could no longer log in. I communicated that to TypePad and changed logging in to optional, but you had to prove you were not a robot. 'Kimberly' at TypePad now informs me that the log...
I would like to know what percentage of GM vehicles sold were to the government. If I were a big business and loaned GM a truckload of money, I would certainly throw business their way.
Dave Cranfield
Commented Sep 7, 2012 on Biden opens, Obama has the middle, Cardinal Dolan wraps (updated 7sep12) at Rebane's Ruminations
Biden opens, Obama has the middle, Cardinal Dolan wraps (updated 7sep12)
George Rebane Well, the Democrats wound up their quadrennial bash with a big night of Joe Biden who kept both feet firmly on the floor and out of his mouth. I thought his was the best speech of the night. Timothy Cardinal Dolan did the anchor leg with a closing prayer that could easily have p...
Amazing! The Big E is still commissioned. She has to be the oldest ship in the task force.
Dave Cranfield
Commented Aug 2, 2012 on Carrier Task Groups Converging at Rebane's Ruminations
Carrier Task Groups Converging
George Rebane Note that today's Stratfor fleet update shows that in a few days there will be three of our five deployed (eleven total) carrier task groups in place to support any US/Israeli plans with regard to contingencies having to do with Syria and Iran. This will be a rare concentration of...
Or the county building inspector who takes a tour of the interior of a home looking for code violations, after the homeowner pulled a permit to upgrade electrical in a detached garage.
Dave Cranfield
Commented Jun 8, 2012 on Silencing and Suppressing the Right at Rebane's Ruminations
Silencing and Suppressing the Right
George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that will be broadcast early next week due to this week being the station’s regular late spring pledge week.] The debate about who is trying to silence whom continues. Over the past decades the evidence has favored the Right ...
I guess I was one of the lucky ones who had that “ah-ha” moment with high school math. I took the requisite algebra and geometry in my frosh-soph years, got C’s but never really grasped the subjects. They were boring classes. Nothing more than solving equations or looking at two dimensional planes or solids on the blackboard, text book or smelly mimeographed paper and being instructed to find the area, volume, angle or unknown.
That “ah-ha” moment came in my junior year when my parents made me take an elective class called Applied Engineering for one semester.
This class taught a practical approach to mathematics and engineering. Building a simple cantilever bridge (from an Erector Set, no less), then having the instructor explain mathematically how the angles of the support structure serve to compliment, cancel or enhance the total structure. Or, a counterbalanced drawbridge and learning a simple equation like weight times arm equals moment. The crowing moment was when we were introduced to a trig table. To me, the trig table became the answer key to any equation involving an angle. The rest is (math) history.
Dave Cranfield
Commented May 11, 2012 on Prelude to an American Spring? at Rebane's Ruminations
Prelude to an American Spring?
George Rebane Last night after supper I spent several hours with a Nevada County high school teacher talking about the state of education here and across the country. He told of how top students, some of them brilliant, appear directionless with no focus or fire to go and do some definite thin...
Some one educate me. Is this an all or nothing deal for SCOTUS?
When SCOTUS delivers their decision, must they throw out all provisions of Obamacare, accept all provisions of Obamacare or can they toss out or amend portions of the law?
Dave Cranfield
Commented Mar 28, 2012 on As SCOTUS tackles Obamacare at Rebane's Ruminations
As SCOTUS tackles Obamacare
George Rebane Looking at the various reports and coverage of the ongoing oral arguments presented to SCOTUS on the future disposition of Obamacare, I notice a distinct logical disconnect between how the Right argues their case to repeal Obamacare, versus how the Left defends the rationale of ma...
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