These guys are crazy, but the videos are really cool:
How Unions or Their Allies Could be Stealing November’s Election Right Now
Obama’s labor secretary and La Raza
Blog Focus: Progressives Caught in Intimidation, Lies, and Smears
Tea Party: Beware “The Web of Deceit”
Retro Video/DOS Games For The Weekend
Video: Robots Now Guarding Nevada Nuke Site
True unemployment breaks 17% again – Obama’s jobless recovery continues
Vending machine watches you, offers drink advice
You know, I’m really glad America’s worst Governor, Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) is bullish on green energy, because the markets aren’t. Via the Guardian.uk:
Vestas, the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturer, has spread a dark cloud over the renewable energy sector by turning a sizeable second-quarter profit last year into a €120m (£99m) loss over the past three months.
Shares in the company plunged more than 20% on the Copenhagen stock market as analysts took fright, despite claims by Vestas that the financial turnaround was just a delayed reaction to the credit crunch, which had led to delayed orders.
Vestas, which closed down its Isle of Wight manufacturing facility last summer, said it was going to chop 600 more jobs – half of them short-term contracts – in Denmark, its home base.
The unexpectedly poor financial results come amid recent warnings from the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) that the previously buoyant US wind market was in precipitous decline and desperately needed positive new policies from the White House.
The global renewable energy sector has become increasingly fearful that governments are now more concerned about cutting public spending than keeping the green energy revolution on track.(emphasis added)
Yep, green energy doesn’t work without subsidies and need ‘positive policies‘ from the US Federal government to survive.
Wind Turbine In Northern Michigan
Going forward, Vestas has lowered its ‘earnings’ (from government subsidies) forecasts from a 11-10% range to a 6-5%.
It doesn’t seem right that a company such as Vestas, from Denmark, derives its profits from the heavy subsidies funded by US tax payers then moves those profits home to Denmark. This wouldn’t be so bad if we were gaining some sort of benefit from the windmills, however, in reality we are not. All windmills have provided to date is a small amount of sporadic, expensive electricity. They have not replace one traditional power plant anywhere in the world and they will not replace one in the United States since wind power needs a backup (and the load balancing is very difficult due to the intermittent nature of wind power i.e. the weather).
In a truly free market, companies such as Vestas would fail because they do not provide any economic benefit to consumers.
Lastly, it seems the public is becoming less willing to subsidize ‘green energy’ because they are starting to catch on to the fact that Global Warming is a hoax.
The recent lack of progress in wider global climate change talks in Bonn has led to a lowering of expectations that the next summit at Cancun in Mexico can make progress after the failures in Copenhagen last December. Recent opinion polls suggest the public in many countries have become more, rather than less, sceptical about global warming in recent months.
This combines my inner Star Wars Geeky-ness with my obsession with Guitar Music. Via Make: Online…
Custom electric guitar build by Travis S., incorporating an original Millennium Falcon toy over a hard maple backing block attached to a purchased neck blank. I especially like the light-up engine blocks. More details are available here.
I wonder how it sounds-
Don’t Kid Yourselves, Republicans Suck Too
When Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) was on Chris Matthews’ show the other night, he refused to answer what he’d cut out the federal budget. Matthews played clips of elitist Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL) too, neither of which could name a cut they wanted either. All they had to say was, “blah, blah, blah … “
Cars (Redux): King Shamus Made me do it (kinda keeping with the whole guitar theme tonight)
Is pink the best color for a union thug?
And So It Begins… Limbaugh Transcript of ObamaCare Ending Private Health Insurance
US sanctions against North Korea provoke Chinese anger
Nice: Liberal journalists wanted government to shut down Fox News
JournoGate: More tales from the dark side
Robert Plant covering The King:
Now they tell us:
Congressional Budget Office estimates released Tuesday predict the health care overhaul will likely cost about $115 billion more in discretionary spending over ten years than the original cost projections.
The additional spending — if approved over the years by Congress — would bring the total estimated cost of the overhaul to over $1 trillion.
However, this is not surprising.
via CBO ups health care cost projections – Jennifer Haberkorn – POLITICO.com.
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If this wasn’t such a serious issue, it would be funny.
Michigan’s other dynamic duo in Washington (in the House Of Rep’s) Mark “I voted for the flop stimulus bill” and Gary “I thought I was voting for a jobs bill” Peters are now trying to position themselves as deficit hawks. Even the Detroit News isn’t buying this one.
Pelosi and the Democrats will go to great lengths to protect Peters and Schauer, AKA dependable rubber stamp votes for the big government Democrat agenda.
LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm tonight issued the following statement on passage of the health care reform legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives: “The passage of health care reform is historic for Michigan. After decades of failed attempts, this legislation will give Michigan families and businesses more control over their own health care, will give them the security and stability that come with health care coverage, and will reduce overall health care costs. No state has needed reform more than Michigan, and I applaud and thank the members of our congressional delegation who voted for this legislation.”via michigan.gov’nuff said…
