The Return of Ninja Cat

Note the technique. The cat only moves when the prey is not in sight.

Mish doesn’t think Goldman is doing “God’s work”

Click through for his “Lloyd’s Prayer”

Here’s his “Pledge of Subservience”

I pledge Allegiance to the Fed of the United States of America and to the corruption for which it stands, one nation under Goldman, easily divisible, with criminal acts against all.

Mormon Church now supports gay rights. You read that right

Salt Lake City approves gay rights measures after historic Mormon church backing

The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment.

A reader on Andrew Sullivan comments

It is [...]

AES WindJet 5 vertical axis wind turbine

Jetson Green

The twin-rotor turbine is rated at 5 kW and was designed to increase efficiency by up to 54% over existing designs. With a slow rotor speed, the turbine is quieter, more durable, and less likely to create problems with birds.

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Another day, another billion dollar investment scam

An alleged fraud in Florida by lawyer Scott Rothstein may have exceeded $1 billion.

Are You Sure Honest Folks Do It This Way (Apologies to Waylon Jennings who, while he may have been an outlaw, was certainly an honorable one)

It’s the same old game, fixing and grifting Where do we take it from [...]

Energy Secretary. US could double hydropower with minimal changes

More efficient (and fish-friendly) turbines, increased pumped storage, better intakes and other refinements means much more power can be generated from existing hydro installations, all of it virtually carbon free.

Plus, we’re barely using what we have.

Hydropower accounts for 6 percent of the U.S.’s electricity consumption and nearly 75 percent of renewable power, according [...]

Oil industry sinkhole could take part of Carlsbad NM with it.

National Cave And Karst Research Institute / via AP

The sinkhole, which could swallow several businesses, was formed by decades of oil companies pumping fresh water into a salt layer, then extracting the brine water.

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CalPERS financial explosion

The CalPERS [The mismanaged, incompetently-run State of California pension fund] financial bomb has gone off. The blast wave hasn’t arrived to knock us all down is all.

A deficit of $7.4 billion is projected for CalPERS by the end of the year. Look, I like unions and believe people deserve good pensions. But the [...]

Gourmet mushrooms from coffee grounds

Peets’s Coffee and Tea and BTTR have teamed up in a unique venture. Peet’s provides coffee grounds (that otherwise would be dumped in landfills) and BTTR uses them to grow different varieties of mushrooms.

They use about a ton of coffee grounds every two weeks, which is composted by local farmers when they’re done [...]

Investment banks as economic parasites

And I’m telling you It can’t happen here Oh darling, it’s important that you believe me (bop bop bop bop) That it can’t happen here

Anatomy of an economic parasitic. The Times talks with the gray men of Goldman Sachs. Remember: When the loyalty of the USSR’s elites (the bureaucracy or nomenklatura) shifted [...]