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WhiteHouse.gov Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system. Excellent news. Our ancient [...] Martha Stewart did five months for $44,000. That standard needs to be enforced now for everyone. During the collapse of AIG, their credit default swap unit was negotiating with banks who had bought $62 billion in CDS and CDOs from them. AIG wanted the banks to accept discounts of up to 40%. Instead, the [...] The Bay Bridge is the primary bridge between SF and the East Bay / Oakland / Berkeley. No estimates yet on when it will open. Traffic will be impossibly clogged at the other bridges as well as on BART. The first photo was on Twitter, of course. SFist says this is the perfect time [...] Gosh, bundling up toxic glop worked so well the first time that it only led to an economic crisis. Now the FDIC wants to bundle the glop again, only on a larger scale? Ouch. That makes my brain hurt. California State Assemblyman and early gay rights activist Tom Ammiano recently heckled Gov. Schwarzenegger at a fundraiser, yelling “kiss my gay ass.” Arnold has responded, vetoing an Ammiano bill. Some SF blogs are aghast by this, but really, it’s just payback. Hint. Read the letters in the first column, going straight down. (If you’re [...] Not only can clean-burning ethanol be made from sewage waste, cattail marshes are superb ways to filter sewage, and provide biomass for ethanol too. Two men hired to save a home from foreclosure were tortured and robbed by five people who thought they were scamming them, say prosecutors. Banker looking for his next government paid-for blood transfusion Jim Kunstler The scene in the White House these days must be a sort of Opera Bouffe, in which an earnest and rather grave young man moves from one roomful of lesser officials to another in which all agree to pretend that they have [...] Agency paid home-buyer tax credit to taxpayers as young as 4 How could this be, you ask? The IRS does not make people claiming the homebuyer tax credit prove they bought a house Are we just pretending to have a government now? Urban village. What could be $100 homes. Retirees supplementing their income by selling raccoon to eat. Artists moving in and creating de facto new communities. People growing their own food. All of this is heppening in the ‘urban prarie’ that much of Detroit has become. Detroit is now the test case for new ideas [...] |
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