Rebane's Ruminations tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1494858 2012-01-27T09:40:50-08:00 Observations and interpretations of events from this last great century of Man. TypePad From Lysenko Loonies to Climate Change Clowns tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330163003ab6c5970d 2012-01-27T09:40:50-08:00 2012-01-27T09:40:50-08:00 George Rebane The 27jan12 WSJ publishes a major piece ‘No Need to Panic About Global Warming’ signed by sixteen science and technology heavyweights. From my perspective as a systems scientist, I long ago joined the once lonely voices that pointed... George Rebane From Lysenko Loonies to Climate Change Clowns tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad883301676130013d970b 2012-01-27T09:39:47-08:00 2012-01-27T09:39:47-08:00 George Rebane The 27jan12 WSJ publishes a major piece ‘No Need to Panic About Global Warming’ signed by sixteen science and technology heavyweights. From my perspective as a systems scientist, I long ago joined the once lonely voices that pointed... George Rebane SESF Launches TechForum tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330168e62500b2970c 2012-01-26T15:45:05-08:00 2012-01-26T15:46:56-08:00 George Rebane TechForum is a new program from the Sierra Economics and Science Foundation that will feature distinguished speakers and prominent industry professionals to talk about advances in technology that will impact Nevada County businesses, industry, governments, and education. These... George Rebane A TPP Evening with Mark Meckler tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330163002ad6b3970d 2012-01-26T10:29:47-08:00 2012-01-26T15:46:03-08:00 George Rebane A vision cannot be imposed on a people, it can only be inspired. After a good dinner at the GV Cirino’s, the Steeles and Rebanes hightailed it to the fairgrounds for the monthly evening gathering of the Nevada... George Rebane Homeland Security’s fundamental transformation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad8833016761025a0e970b 2012-01-24T11:29:11-08:00 2012-01-24T11:56:13-08:00 George Rebane As reported here, LA and other American cities are the new training ground for our military. They’re not exactly saying who the enemy is, but you have to be pretty dense not to figure it out. Prominent LA... George Rebane Ruminations - 23jan2012 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad883301630000ca41970d 2012-01-23T10:36:39-08:00 2012-01-23T19:21:47-08:00 George Rebane The Fresno Bee reports that its largest public service union SEIU will lead its 4,100+ county worker members out on strike today. The walkout is scheduled to last three days and protest pay cuts that the union says... George Rebane The Value of Stereotyping tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330168e5ef8d69970c 2012-01-22T14:38:45-08:00 2012-01-22T17:31:12-08:00 George Rebane Stereotyping is the use of a template of characteristics that are thought to belong to members of a particular class more frequently than members of the general population of which the class is a subset. The template of... George Rebane Responding to Mr Fred Perry (updated 24jan2012) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330168e5e691be970c 2012-01-21T12:02:11-08:00 2012-01-24T20:46:39-08:00 George Rebane Too bad that The Union has erected a paywall around its online edition that also includes their op-ed pages. Usually newspapers going to that source of revenue leave their op-ed pieces as free content so that it will... George Rebane Our Mobile Politicians tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330168e5cf7fa1970c 2012-01-19T10:52:37-08:00 2012-01-19T13:50:59-08:00 George Rebane Our California Assemblyman Dan Logue just announced that he “changed his mind” and will no longer represent us. He is moving out of our community – into which he moved just last year – to another city in... George Rebane Log entry on the road to ruin (aka fundamental transformation) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330162ffcddf19970d 2012-01-18T14:17:48-08:00 2012-01-18T16:17:49-08:00 George Rebane As usual I woke up to National Propaganda Radio and heard a mind-numbing hit piece on income inequality that for openers confused tax fraction, tax rate, paid taxes beyond any means of recovery. But they did manage not... George Rebane Ruminations – 17jan2012 [updated] tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330168e5b64357970c 2012-01-17T16:20:46-08:00 2012-01-17T18:56:59-08:00 George Rebane We have long heard that ‘stupid is forever’, and now we have indelible proof of that proposition. Moonbeam has no clue that California has a systemic fiscal disaster on its hands. His proposed budget for FY2013 is $95.4B... George Rebane Science still says, ‘Creation occurred.’ tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330168e56fa581970c 2012-01-15T02:49:00-08:00 2012-01-15T02:49:00-08:00 George Rebane The best brains in cosmology ranging from Stephen Hawking of Cambridge to Alan Guth of MIT have been trying to munge the equations and the data to come up with some/any kind of support for the proposition that... George Rebane The Devil in Democracy tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330162ff9073ff970d 2012-01-14T07:52:28-08:00 2012-01-14T08:15:13-08:00 George Rebane [This is the linked form of my regular Union column which is published in the newspaper’s 14jan12 edition.] When progressives start to talk about democracy again, it is time to get a real firm grip on your wallet... George Rebane Taxing Your Assets Off tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54f86f2ad88330162ff77b7f0970d 2012-01-13T18:30:00-08:00 2012-01-13T18:30:00-08:00 George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 13 January 2012.] Most people know that governments fund themselves by taxing income, profits, consumption, and assets. The first three we have become used to at least... George Rebane