On Lakota Independence…
Bob Morris @ Dec 26th 2007 11:05 - Category: Unfiled Tags: Lakota;
It wasn’t just Russell Means but it wasn’t all Lakota either, as Homeless on the High Desert explains.
Archive for December 26th, 2007
Solar Tree streetlight
Bob Morris @ Dec 26th 2007 07:12 - Category: Energy conservation Tags: solar tree;
Elegant and innovative, solar-powered LEDs provide the light for solar tree streetlights.
Defense contracting. Hide the money
Bob Morris @ Dec 26th 2007 00:15 - Category: Politics Tags: corruption;
The Spy Who Billed Me questions why DoD is claiming national security in withholding data about their outsourced contracts.
Well, lookie here.
22% of the $537 million of unclassified DIA contracts were subject to “full and open competition.” 30.6% of their unclassified contracts had only one bidder.
The situation at the NGA is similar, although their $6 billion of contracting dwarfs the DIA.
After examining the data and finding nothing even remotely of interest to potential evildoers, she concludes.
Again, I challenge anyone to show me how this data could help the enemy. It can’t. Unless, of course, in this case the enemy is the American taxpayer.
Flipper flopped
Bob Morris @ Dec 26th 2007 00:08 - Category: Credit crisis Tags: real estate flipper;
New condos in this development are priced from low $500’s to high $600’s, yet this owner is selling for $425,000 and says ‘never lived in.”
Sounds like a flipper in trouble, and there are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands in similar straits. In debt over their head with an investment that is losing value, maybe with an ARM about to reset higher.
