How the progressive blogosphere gets co-opted by the Democratic Party

TalkLeft continues their discussion of “the transformation of the once Left blogosphere into the Democratic blogosphere” wondering how this could have happened. It’s because that is a primary function of the Democratic Party. They play good cop to the Republican Party bad cop. Come on in kid, we’re reformists here too. You’ll fit in [...]

FedEx debuts all-electric delivery trucks

They designed this new EV to do a full 8 hour shift, 100 miles, in an urban area without needing a recharge. They are also testing 1,800 other alt-fuel vehicles, including 300 hybrid-electric vehicles.

Cow manure to biogas becoming mainstream business

Hi. Myself and the wife & kids will be powering your home today.

Agribusiness giant Cargill has announced another biogas project, this on a farm with 6,000 cows. Enough electricity to power 1,000 homes will be produced from methane created by anerobic digestion of cow manure.

What once was a liability and business expense, [...]

Sinead O’Connor on the coverup by the Catholic Church

Eighteen years ago, she tore up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live. Her reasons for doing so seem much more understandable now, especially considering she was sent to one of the now-infamous Magdalene Laundries as a teenager.

Benedict’s infamous 2001 letter to bishops around the world ordered them to keep sexual abuse [...]

Firedoglake PAC money spending probed

Rogers Cadenhead of Drudge Retort, a liberal answer to Matt Drudge, says PACs run by Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake have raised $474,000 and appear to be a major source of income for FDL. He’s been digging into the filings to determine how the money was spent.

The FEC reports show that Hamsher’s PACs are a [...]

Extremists on right echo left-wing extremists of 1960′s

Nine members of a Michigan-based Christian militia group have been indicted on sedition and weapons charges in connection with an alleged plot to murder law enforcement officers in hopes of setting off an anti-government uprising.

It’s the same deranged logic, that violence against the system will cause the sheeple to arise from their slumber [...]

Will O’ The Wisp

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Democratic blogosphere replaces progressive blogosphere

Talk Left opines that the once feisty progressive blogosphere has increasingly been co-opted by the Democratic Party and too often now functions as mere cheerleaders.

How did this come about? I think it is pretty easy to answer – the progressive blogosphere has adopted the Democratic Party Establishment as its home team. The issues have [...]

Energy Star ratings found vulnerable to fraud and abuse, says GAO

A covert investigation conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that Energy Star, the EPA’s 18-year-old energy efficiency program, will put its seal of approval on just about anything — as long as the necessary paperwork is filled out.

Apparently it’s mostly a self-certification program – which apparently worked out about as [...]

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