First commercial cellulosic ethanol plant coming to US

The Iowa plant will process corn leftovers that pass through combines during harvesting and will produce up to 25 million gallons of ethanol a year. In addition, it will use biogas created during processing to run itself and a nearby plant. Nice.

Due for release as conscientious objector, wanted to make bombs instead?

The accused Fort Hood plotter had a bomb making recipe from Al Qaeda magazine and yelled “Nidal Hasan” in court. (Hasan is accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009.)

He was arrested for possession of child porn before being released as a CO and then went AWOL. He was caught with ample bomb [...]

Obama called for Social Security cuts, not Republicans, say Rep. Conyers

“The Republicans, Speaker Boehner or Majority Leader Cantor did not call for Social Security cuts in the budget deal. The President of the United States called for that,” says Democratic Rep. Conyers, who is calling for a protest at White House.

Some fool here will probably call this jihad training

800 person squirt gun fight in Tehran. Tehran Live has lots more photos. And a fun, soggy time was had by all!

U.S. may be entering years of political deadlock

Reuters

President Barack Obama’s ability to get any significant legislation passed before next November’s election is all but gone and whoever sits in the White House in 2013 will likely face a Congress unable to tackle major issues.

Business Insider

That raises questions about what would happen if we faced a military or [...]

Polizeros Radio. Peasants with pitchforks, Obama, debt ceiling, Afghanistan

We had a wide-ranging show last night, with Keith Boyea joining Steve Hynd and myself.

Listen to the show on BlogTalkRadio or on iTunes.

Topics:

Both parties are quite willing to fund-raise off the debt ceiling kabuki, oblivious and uncaring of the consequences, which could include a government shutdown, mortgage rates spiking, and a [...]

California deluged with proposals for renewable energy projects

California has mandated that 33% of power by 2020 must be from renewable sources. This has created a huge surge in applications to build renewable energy plants as developers have rightfully determined that Californians will have to buy power from them by 2020.

The state needs 20 GW (20,000 MW) more in renewable energy [...]

26 years unjustly in prison. Receives award for courage

The Innocence Project specializes in freeing inmates in prison for murder and sex crimes based on modern DNA evidence which proves they were innocent. They helped free Dewey Bozella by referring the case to a major law firm after discovering all the evidence had been destroyed.

Bozella took up boxing while he was [...]

Polizeros Radio podcast returns tonight

Tonight Steve Hynd and I welcome our new co-host, Keith Boyea, who blogs about national security, veterans issues, and current affairs. (Josh Mull, who had the original idea for the podcast had to drop out due to work commitments. Big thanks to Josh for getting this started and rolling!)

Show topics tonight

Steve says, [...]

John McCain on Tea Party ‘hobbits”

He says the GOP Tea Party strategy is default followed by a shutdown, which somehow would blamed on Democrats not them and then magically lead to a balanced budget amendment, at which point “the Tea Party hobbits would return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.” Heh. (Even if “the Hobbits defeated Sauron in Mordor, [...]