Rebane's Ruminationstag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14948582009-11-30T21:12:22-08:00Observations and interpretations of events from this last great century of Man.TypePadRuminations - 30nov2009 (updated 1dec2009)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330120a6ecc03e970b2009-11-30T21:12:22-08:002009-11-30T21:14:00-08:00George Rebane - raw Earth temperature data destroyed intentionally - another view of the White House security fiasco The 29nov09 London Times now confirms (here) that the original (raw) temperature data that was collected from thousands of realworld sources has...George Rebane'What Does the Public Know?' (Updated)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad8833012875ec324b970c2009-11-29T08:50:54-08:002009-11-29T10:50:55-08:00George Rebane That question was asked recently by the Pew Research Center of a random sample of Americans who answer phones. The survey contained a 12 multiple choice question questionnaire. The questions were pretty vanilla about the current world. There...George RebaneRuminations – 27nov2009tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330120a6e28a64970b2009-11-27T12:03:10-08:002009-11-27T12:28:00-08:00George Rebane Piracy on the high seas – another symptom of a dysfunctional society of nation-states. Just heard SecState Clinton blather about working to develop “appropriate 21st century means of controlling piracy.” Historically pirates were the original international terrorists –...George RebaneWe continue holding our breathtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad8833012875e1a207970c2009-11-27T01:27:00-08:002009-11-27T01:27:00-08:00George RebaneGeorge RebaneThank You for This and Moretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330120a6dde1da970b2009-11-26T09:37:06-08:002009-11-26T09:37:06-08:00George RebaneGlobal Fraud, Round Twotag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330120a6d0f616970b2009-11-24T12:20:47-08:002009-11-24T15:38:04-08:00George Rebane OK, by now most people not tied to the MSM mammary are aware of the global warming hockey stick hoax. RR summarized the fraud issue here and offered links for those interested in more detail. More detail has...George RebaneAnnotated Global Fraudtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad8833012875cb5f1f970c2009-11-23T10:48:53-08:002009-11-23T11:02:02-08:00George Rebane Britains’s Climate Research Unit hack, noted here and elsewhere on the blogs, is beginning to unravel the position of the True Believers more and more. Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That) published the latest discoveries from the ‘global...George RebaneBanana Squash - A Fond Farewell (updated 24nov2009)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad8833012875c77563970c2009-11-22T16:36:51-08:002009-11-24T15:58:16-08:00George Rebane Now I don’t claim to be any kind of an expert in cooking. But over the years I have demonstrated that I can whip up a dish or two that requires more than a piece of dead cow...George RebaneRuminations - 21nov2009tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad8833012875c2c8e2970c2009-11-21T11:38:04-08:002009-11-21T15:24:23-08:00George Rebane Science meddled, not settled. The big buzz on the climate change is the hacking of Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU). If confirmed, it turns out that the much celebrated scientists behind the famous ‘hockey stick’ temperature curve committed...George RebaneNew Study on States in Periltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330120a6b91a97970b2009-11-20T04:38:00-08:002009-11-20T04:38:00-08:00George Rebane The venerable Pew Charitable Trusts’ Center on the States has just released a new report ‘Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril’ (more summary material here and here.) The report documents what students of the American scene (that includes...George RebaneHitting a Flat Spot?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330120a6b92212970b2009-11-20T02:47:00-08:002009-11-20T02:47:00-08:00George Rebane I think we may have hit a flat spot in all the "jobs created and saved" until election year. It's not called the American Re-election and Redistribution Act for nothing you know.George RebaneTime for a 28th Amendment tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330120a6b879af970b2009-11-19T15:55:48-08:002009-11-19T15:57:10-08:00George Rebane When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson The following was forwarded by an RR reader. Please think about it, and do something. Amendment 28 Congress...George RebaneStupid or Evil – Pick One or Bothtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad8833012875b2e081970c2009-11-18T10:36:10-08:002009-11-18T10:49:02-08:00George Rebane Boy, are we getting what we deserve. The USSR in the depths of the Cold War could not have prescribed a more draconian regimen of self-destruction for the United States than the one we ourselves are putting in...George RebaneInternet Conversations – Sackheads & Scattershotstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad8833012875ae9b44970c2009-11-17T14:58:12-08:002009-11-17T15:18:17-08:00George Rebane The comment thread under my recent column in The Union’s online edition started out normally – with the usual acrimony, vitriol, and inanities - and then morphed into a disjointed discussion on ‘handles’ and ‘sackheads’ and privacy, and...George Rebane