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I see we're back to a non-capcha universe. Spam monkeys got ya down, George? I don't blame you, the Internets are presently an infestation of gross criminal opportunity, while also wallowing in the realm of indulgent shallowness and banality.
I think it was great when Syria turned off their Internets and I hope more failed nation states follow suit. No more riff-raff on the Internets, shall we?
Speaking of riff-raff, what a mess in the US Senate this week. Turning down the disabled treaty, what sadness and delusion! The good news is that the FEMA camps are almost ready now, and they will soon be open and available for new recruits to begin their crucial re-education process.
It's all about the healing. Welcome home...
http://www.kickthemallout.com/article.php/Story-FEMA_Camps_Executive_Orders
Beyond the Tipping Point – Obama’s Third Term? (updated 4dec12)
George Rebane Two intellectuals and students of the human condition – Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield and Yale’s Charles Hill – lend their considerable weight to the notion that we are beyond the tipping point to the promised “fundamental transformation” of America. By all accounts we have now fai...
Hey Walt,
Biden wins by default, since Bam-Bam is still in diapers, and Romney's 5 boys are so busy cruising the Conan O'Brien circuit that they don't have any extra time to serve their country in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or US Marine Corps.
Unlike Biden's son, who is an Army JAG officer. Money talks, bullshit walks folks. Romney's son's are bullshit walking, and it's pretty embarrassing. When I hear Romney and Ryan talk about foreign policy, it's like listening to another chicken hawk, Rush Limbaugh, discuss military issues. MONEY TALKS, BULLSHIT WALKS.
Get some skin in the game and get back to me, Romney and Ryan. F'ing pussies.
"'With all due respect, that is a bunch of malarkey,' Biden said when Ryan accused the White House of projecting an image of American weakness to the world."
I have no truck for hypocritical cowards...
Michael A.
Debate1 Thoughts (updated 8oct12)
George Rebane In presidential debates I haven’t seen a better performance than Romney’s since Reagan took the stage in the 1980s. While everyone and their brother is publishing voter sentiments on the debate, Gallup is strangely silent. It’s as if the debate never happened when you look at th...
Exactly, Earl.
Bam-bam and Mr. Green Jeans won't be seeing any live screen time at our house tonight.
Debate1 Thoughts (updated 8oct12)
George Rebane In presidential debates I haven’t seen a better performance than Romney’s since Reagan took the stage in the 1980s. While everyone and their brother is publishing voter sentiments on the debate, Gallup is strangely silent. It’s as if the debate never happened when you look at th...
Ryan,
Columbus does nothing for me. Way over-rated.
I'm much more of a Henry Hudson kinda guy.
Michael A.
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 rem...
I just wish the damn banks were open. But thank god it's no longer a school holiday. Progress!
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 rem...
I won't be playing in this arena (due to too many other current distractions) but I am enjoying the repartee. Thanks George.
My favorite line thus far:
"@Heminator That wasn't a debate so much as Mitt Romney just took Obama for a cross country drive strapped to the roof of his car"
Priceless...
Prognosticators – An invitation to the dance (updated 8oct12)
George Rebane Over the year’s RR has attracted a bevy of readers with keen minds and extraordinary abilities to peer into our collective futures. The certitude of some of these Que Sera predictions have most certainly been breathtaking to behold. In this election season these prognositcators ...
Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan: http://www.militaryaerospace.com/blogs/aerospace-defense-blog/2012/09/marines-experience-their-worst-air-disaster-in-nearly-half-a-century.html?cmpid=EnlMAESeptember262012
Blazing Skirt continued (updated 29sep12)
George Rebane I wonder if our UN ambassador Susan Rice will now resign after being told to go on five talk shows last Sunday and make a fool of herself. Team Obama sure hung her out to dry. The cause of last week’s murderous Benghazi consulate attack has again revealed how ineffective and fec...
Todd, I have no idea how to respond to your comment. So I will just move on.
George wrote: "Courage me lad, press on!"
Yes, and your addendum afterward is interesting. I will try to comment tomorrow on this subject.
What makes a good community? (addended 25sep12)
George Rebane It all depends on your definition of how is it ‘good’ for whom. The notion (meme?) of assessing and/or building a good community started as a thread in my ‘… = Sleazebag’ post. But it deserves its own venue, because the arguments from the Left and Right will reveal much of what ...
I totally agree Paul. And if you look at the trending graph for electoral votes on the right, Romney is taking a downward turn and Obama is heading up.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/
Virginia, Florida, Ohio -- these are the phat ones. And Ohio looks to be the phattest one again.
Todd Juvinall, call your office!
Ruminations – 25sep12
Gain the name of being a gentleman, for it is enough to make you loved. Courtesy is the stem of culture, a species of sorcery, and so gains the affections of everybody, just as discourtesy wins scorn, and universal hatred. Baltasar Gracian #118 George Rebane China commissioned its first carri...
Paul, criminal conspiracy doesn't count if you believe in God and Country. If your intentions are true, then everything is legal. It's only a crime if your enemy does it.
See how simple that is? And once America is reduced to a single conservative party, everything is going to be a lot simpler.
Blazing Skirt continued (updated 29sep12)
George Rebane I wonder if our UN ambassador Susan Rice will now resign after being told to go on five talk shows last Sunday and make a fool of herself. Team Obama sure hung her out to dry. The cause of last week’s murderous Benghazi consulate attack has again revealed how ineffective and fec...
I tried George. Then Todd claimed this was "his county," and all hope was lost.
What makes a good community? (addended 25sep12)
George Rebane It all depends on your definition of how is it ‘good’ for whom. The notion (meme?) of assessing and/or building a good community started as a thread in my ‘… = Sleazebag’ post. But it deserves its own venue, because the arguments from the Left and Right will reveal much of what ...
Thank you Todd, for leading the way in having good manners on the blogs. As someone who never goes personal and always sticks to the subject, I truly thank you for your excellent example.
What makes a good community? (addended 25sep12)
George Rebane It all depends on your definition of how is it ‘good’ for whom. The notion (meme?) of assessing and/or building a good community started as a thread in my ‘… = Sleazebag’ post. But it deserves its own venue, because the arguments from the Left and Right will reveal much of what ...
Todd, your rock beckons...the sun is up, time to return to the darkness underneath.
What makes a good community? (addended 25sep12)
George Rebane It all depends on your definition of how is it ‘good’ for whom. The notion (meme?) of assessing and/or building a good community started as a thread in my ‘… = Sleazebag’ post. But it deserves its own venue, because the arguments from the Left and Right will reveal much of what ...
"No, it is too onerous and anti property rights."
Whoops, wrong answer. And here we get to the onus of the boil (carbuncle?): the Hysterical District was the driver of the saving of Nevada City from boarded up hell. And yes, the building boom that resulted in Lake Wildwood, Lake of the Pines, Cascade Shores, Deer Creek I (and other smaller developments as well), was also a huge driver. A lot of things all came together to make it happen. And it is still a work in progress.
Then as now (now more than ever), the global economy and domestic demographics had a lot to do with our national success, as well as what drove the local success in Nevada County between 1962 and 1988.
I think this is a great discussion, and I would hope that everyone is willing to agree to disagree, as well as find whatever percentage of things there is that we can indeed agree upon.
One thing I would like to offer regarding the George v. Paul "hippies vs. GVG" meme is that I was in both worlds from 1988 till 1997. I was part of the local theatre scene from 1988 till 1996, founding the City Theatre Company on Commercial Street along with Karen Leigh in 1989 and eventually ending up on the board of the Foothill Theatre Company from 1992 till 1996. I was also a Systems Administrator for the Grass Valley Group during that same time frame, and came to appreciate the amazing gift that we have in our community with some of the top digital signal processing and communications protocol scientists in the world living here and raising their families. Actually, we're moving on to the second generation (at least) of that group.
We also have 2 generations of hardware and software engineers living here, from the same GVG jobs engine, probably living in quality homes that Todd and his brethren thankfully built.
I have more to add to the arts side of the discussion, but I'll let this comment stand as my beginning foray.
What makes a good community? (addended 25sep12)
George Rebane It all depends on your definition of how is it ‘good’ for whom. The notion (meme?) of assessing and/or building a good community started as a thread in my ‘… = Sleazebag’ post. But it deserves its own venue, because the arguments from the Left and Right will reveal much of what ...
Did I somehow stumble upon the Kumbaya blog? My mistake...
The real jobs problem – shhh! (edited)
George Rebane The importance and magnitude of EVERY social problem lies in its numbers. If you don't understand the numbers and how they relate, all you can do is emote about the problem. In these pages I have written an uncounted number of laments regarding the country’s dismal and deterio...
What if everyone's right? What if many of the protests across the Middle East were spontaneous + the attack in Benghazi was planned?
Blazing Skirt continued (updated 29sep12)
George Rebane I wonder if our UN ambassador Susan Rice will now resign after being told to go on five talk shows last Sunday and make a fool of herself. Team Obama sure hung her out to dry. The cause of last week’s murderous Benghazi consulate attack has again revealed how ineffective and fec...
Whooooops: http://www.theunion.com/news/2605458-113/lester-investors-lenders-gold
Blazing Skirt continued (updated 29sep12)
George Rebane I wonder if our UN ambassador Susan Rice will now resign after being told to go on five talk shows last Sunday and make a fool of herself. Team Obama sure hung her out to dry. The cause of last week’s murderous Benghazi consulate attack has again revealed how ineffective and fec...
D. King wrote: "...after I exfoliate!"
As an invertebrate, isn't that something you'd want to keep to yourself? Privacy man!
Blazing Skirt continued (updated 29sep12)
George Rebane I wonder if our UN ambassador Susan Rice will now resign after being told to go on five talk shows last Sunday and make a fool of herself. Team Obama sure hung her out to dry. The cause of last week’s murderous Benghazi consulate attack has again revealed how ineffective and fec...
I love you, Billy T.
Go Giants!
Journalist ≠ FUE = Sleazebag
George Rebane These pages rarely mention Jeff Pelline or comment on his work. The exception here is pursuant to an email I received this morning that contained the most recent egregious posting on Pelline’s blog that again misrepresented and attacked me. For newer readers not familiar with ...
Steve F. wrote: "...but that doesn't mean its smart for KVMR and The Union to provide every blowhard a megaphone."
I make it a policy not publish my opinions on people's business decisions on these blogs. If my fellow citizens want to know how I feel about those, they'll have to sit down with me and share a delicious hot or cold beverage.
I found the whole Rush Limbaugh/KNCO "debate" very distasteful. If people make unwise business decisions, eventually they find out about it via direct feedback from their customers when those customers stop showing up. Boycotts should be saved for life-and-death matters.
I was very vocal about my opinions regarding George's "Obamunism" screed. But I draw the line at telling The Union whether they should have printed it or not. The main reason? Because there is so much nonsense coming out of all media that that's all I'd be doing! Also, the non-value of screeds (from whatever direction) is self-evident; why beat a dead horse further by demanding its removal from public view?
Journalist ≠ FUE = Sleazebag
George Rebane These pages rarely mention Jeff Pelline or comment on his work. The exception here is pursuant to an email I received this morning that contained the most recent egregious posting on Pelline’s blog that again misrepresented and attacked me. For newer readers not familiar with ...
Since Todd asked: for the record, and I've written this before, I think it's great that George has a regular column in The Union and a regular radio commentary on KVMR. And as Steve F. mentioned, I could care less if his last "Obamunism" column was under the masthead. Todd and Barry have it right: more speech, not less.
Without George's column, I would never have heard of "Obamunism." Which, BTW, I still think is a ridiculous idea.
Journalist ≠ FUE = Sleazebag
George Rebane These pages rarely mention Jeff Pelline or comment on his work. The exception here is pursuant to an email I received this morning that contained the most recent egregious posting on Pelline’s blog that again misrepresented and attacked me. For newer readers not familiar with ...
That was funny, Todd. Thanks for the morning laugh!
Romney's 47% Assessment
A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be. Thomas Jefferson George Rebane Spontaneous truth can damage your political health. Gov Romney’s remarks about who gets government bennies and who is likely to vote for him are now echoing around the world. His core message may b...
It's called "irony" Todd. You can look it up on the Internets.
Romney's 47% Assessment
A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be. Thomas Jefferson George Rebane Spontaneous truth can damage your political health. Gov Romney’s remarks about who gets government bennies and who is likely to vote for him are now echoing around the world. His core message may b...
Barry, is that a Cubs uniform you're wearing? I am so very very sorry, my friend. At least you have Houston to keep you from utter dispair.
One of the things I have learned over the years is "change in self = change in others." This reflects somewhat Barry's sentiment.
Todd, OTOH, continues to portray a cartoon character. I don't want Todd to change. Ever. He is a museum piece, and an important icon in Nevada County history. Perhaps we can get him installed standing smugly next to the steam car at the Nevada County Railroad Museum.
Journalist ≠ FUE = Sleazebag
George Rebane These pages rarely mention Jeff Pelline or comment on his work. The exception here is pursuant to an email I received this morning that contained the most recent egregious posting on Pelline’s blog that again misrepresented and attacked me. For newer readers not familiar with ...
Nate Silver is the only place I bother looking anymore: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
What he tells me is that Obama had a great last couple of weeks of August and first week of Sept., and then Libya blew up and he's been losing ground ever since. The post-9/11 trend started to flatten out in the past day or so, and unless Romney can stop this new movement he's finished.
Ohio, Virginia, Florida -- these are the only states that matter. Only in Florida does Romney really have a shot, at least as of today.
As Steve Frisch says, this could all change in a heartbeat: an October surprise in the Middle East, Obama taking a dump in the debates, something else we can't even anticipate.
So, until I get any further info. from Nate that things are changing, I am planning on Obama having a 2nd term. And I am actively avoiding the 24/7 election news cycle since I have a lot better things to do with my time.
Romney's 47% Assessment
A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be. Thomas Jefferson George Rebane Spontaneous truth can damage your political health. Gov Romney’s remarks about who gets government bennies and who is likely to vote for him are now echoing around the world. His core message may b...
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