Quiet wind-turbine
Bob Morris @ 23:09 Category: Renewable energy, Wind turbines;
These new wind turbines can be mounted on homes and produce a mere 35 decibels of noise. Plus, they can turn in any direction to face the wind.
October 27, 2008
Lieberman: I Respect Obama
Bob Morris @ 18:33 Category: Unfiled Tags: Lierberman;
Chameleon
In Winter I’m a Buddhist
In Summer, I’m a nudist
In Jerusalem, Talmudist
With Hell Fire Club, the crudest
Chameleon, chameleon- The Fugs
What Lieberman clearly doesn’t understand is that to be effective, a chameleon must change colors when no one is looking. Also, to be effective politically, a chameleon’s color must always match the newly dominant trend, not oppose it.
Perhaps he should seek advice from the Master Chameleon, he who is never early, but always on time, and who apparently always backs the winning team, Colin Powell. I mean, in impossibly treacherous territory, Powell seemingly never makes a misstep, does he? Unlike Holy Joe, who is tripping over himself trying to make kissy with Democrats again.
Skinheads arrested in plot to kill Obama
Bob Morris @ 16:27 Category: Unfiled Tags: Obama;
SPLC has the definitive information on the two dimbulbs arrested in the plot.
I’m happy ATF was on the job and nailed them. Given the cluelessness and stupidity of the skinheads, their plan had virtually no chance of success anyway. I mean, they planned to first steal the guns, then go a shooting spree ending in somehow killing Obama. While wearing white tuxedos and top hats and firing from a speeding car. Right…
The plot did not appear to be very advanced or sophisticated, the court documents showed.
Thankfully.
I expect they will squeal like stuck pigs in informing on their compatriots and that will be the end of one more hate group. As well it should be.
Driver follows GPS directions into lake
Bob Morris @ 16:23 Category: Unfiled;
He ignored signs saying the road was closed because the GPS told him to drive on. Which he did. Right into a lake. But technology did help him after all. He called emergency services from his cell phone while the van was sinking.
Targeted advertising
Bob Morris @ 09:49 Category: Credit crisis;
From a Silicon Valley Insider post about the effect of the stock market crash on online advertising.
Syria attack as partisan Republican election tactic
Bob Morris @ 09:41 Category: Election 2008 Tags: Syria;
It seems to me more likely that the attack was aimed at making sure that what the administration calls “al-Qaeda in Iraq” did not have the means to mount a spectacular bombing or assassination campaign that would hurt McCain and help Obama.
Scott McClellan has already told us that the Bushies are in campaign mode 24/7. I’d say that every single thing they are doing, whether raiding Pakistan or raiding Syria, is intended in some way to help the Republican Party in the election, in addition to whatever local military goal the action had.
Of course, by now the Bushies and Republicans are so demoralized that the wheels are falling off their once polished machine.
Let’s make sure it stays that way and that McBush doesn’t get elected. Obama is a moderate pragmatist, not an extremist ideologue and as such, our chances of getting out of Iraq are much better under an Obama presidency.
In the remaining days of the election, let’s do everything we can to elect Obama. Full tilt. No mercy.
Foreclosures soar despite government programs
Bob Morris @ 09:18 Category: Credit crisis Tags: foreclosures;
2,800 homes a day were lost to foreclosure during July-Sept 2008, up from 1,200 a day in the previous year. Yikes.
One bright spot: The BofA / Countrywide settlement takes effect Dec. 1 and 400,000 homeowners will get much lower interest rates.
Obama stocks?
Bob Morris @ 05:30 Category: Election 2008, Renewable energy;
Maybe it’s time to think about what stocks might be good to own when (and it is “when” now) Obama wins. Renewables, cleantech, etc. could all take big jumps.
While thinking about this, I discovered MEMC Electronic Materials (WFR). They make silicon wafers for chips and starter materials for solar power panels. Very low P/E. No debt. Appears very healthy. There are probably many companies like them out there that have had their stock prices decapitated lately for no particular reason.
Caveat: Stocks may well continue to get clobbered, so consider cleantech stocks as long-term holds, not trades. (Do your own research and please don’t squawk at me if you buy a green stock and it goes kersplat!)
